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__label__wiki	0.859109	0.859109	Adults at kids prices! opens 8 August opens 8 August Book Opens 15 August Opens 15 August Book now playing Book Fundraising with Light House Opens 25 July Opens 25 July More Coming soon more ADULTS AT KIDS PRICES! CG-animated re-imagining of the 1994 Walt Disney classic The Lion King. Simba idolises his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his... Rory's Way stars acclaimed British actor Brian Cox as Rory MacNeil, a rugged old Scotsman who reluctantly leaves his beloved isolated Hebridean island and... Camino Skies is a walking meditation on life, love and loss. Exploring themes of spirituality, wellbeing and religion, this is the inspirational journey of six... ADULTS AT KIDS PRICES! Following the events of Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man must step up to take on new threats in a world that has changed forever. Starring... 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__label__wiki	0.922517	0.922517	Bell Aliant to bring FTTH to Nova Scotia JUNE 2, 2010 -- Bell Aliant, with the support of the Government of Nova Scotia, has announced that it will deploy its FibreOP fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network in Nova Scotia. The company also announced the availability of premium Internet speeds -- 170 Mbps download and 30 Mbps upload -- on the new network. Jun 2nd, 2010 JUNE 2, 2010 -- Bell Aliant (TSX: BA.UN), with the support of the Government of Nova Scotia, has announced that it will deploy its FibreOP fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network in Nova Scotia. The company also announced the availability of premium Internet speeds -- 170 Mbps download and 30 Mbps upload -- on the new network. Bell Aliant predicts FibreOP services will be available in Sydney, Nova Scotia, as early as this fall. Bell Aliant will be investing CAN$15 million in the Sydney area to bring FibreOP services to more than 30,000 homes and businesses. This investment is part of Bell Aliant’s previously announced 2010 capital program, which includes approximately $65 million for FTTH. Bell Aliant expects to pass 140,000 homes and businesses with FTTH by the end of 2010. The Province of Nova Scotia is contributing $2 million to the project. "This investment is the right decision for families in Cape Breton," Premier Darrell Dexter said. “By way of this loan the Province and Bell Aliant together will ultimately help Nova Scotia stay competitive in the global economy. Now, more than ever, we have to ensure that we have the right telecommunications infrastructure in place to create good jobs, grow the economy, explore new business opportunities and make life better for families in every region." Earlier in May the company also announced an additional $350 million investment to be made in 2011 and 2012, which will bring the total investment in FTTH to almost a half billion dollars, expanding FibreOP services to more than 600,000 homes and businesses (see "Bell Aliant to accelerate FTTH efforts"). FibreOP services will be available to residential and business customers in Sydney, Sydney River, North Sydney, Sydney Mines, Glace Bay, and New Waterford starting in the fall of 2010. FibreOP Bundles will also be available in the area at the same time. Visit Bell Aliant PON/Systems Tellabs offers FlexSym Series for 10G passive optical LANs Maquerie’s MEIF 6 Fibre to buy UK service provider KCOM FTTH/B Consolidated Communications offers gigabit broadband via FTTP in Nashua, NH Cables & Enclosures Openreach chooses OFS InvisiLight Solution for UK MDU deployments East Central Oklahoma Electric Cooperative deploys Calix AXOS GPON for FTTH An unexpected error occurred: Timed out after 10000ms	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755233
__label__wiki	0.902357	0.902357	Home » Entertainment » Watch MOTAB’s First Ever Facebook Live Watch MOTAB’s First Ever Facebook Live Aleah Ingram May 19, 2017 Entertainment For the first time, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sat down for a Facebook live video to discuss their latest album, Mormon Tabernacle Choir & Friends. Choir director Mack Wilberg and associate director Ryan Murphy were interviewed by Kim Farah in front of the world-famous Tabernacle organ at the Salt Lake Tabernacle on Temple Square in Salt Lake City. You can watch the entire video below. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir has collaborated with some of the most legendary vocalists and performers over the years. For this album, the Choir has assembled an unprecedented collection of recordings taken from standout performances over the past 15 years. Most of these performances were recorded live at the 20,000+ seat Conference Center in Salt Lake City. In addition, some real gems were uncovered or created specifically for this album, including a performance recorded live before millions of viewers at the start of the 2002 Winter Olympics (Sting & Yo-Yo Ma performing “Fragile”) and new recordings such as Amy Grant’s “Thy Word,” The King’s Singers’ “I’m Running On,” and Santino Fontana’s “He Lives in You.” It is available here. Tags mormon tabernacle choir About Aleah Ingram Aleah is a graduate of Southern Virginia University, where she studied English, Creative Writing, and Dance. She now works full time as a social media manager, writer, and editor. Aleah served a mission in California and is addicted to organic milk, Lang Leav poetry, Gaynor Minden pointe shoes, and Bollywood movies. Mormon Tabernacle Choir Officially Changes Its Name Mormon Tabernacle Choir Celebrates Christmas Broadway-style Hugh Bonneville, Sutton Foster to Headline MOTAB Christmas Concert Remember the Lord General Conference Infographic Endure to the End \| 29 May 2018	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755235
__label__wiki	0.897369	0.897369	home > Xbox 360 > Big Bumpin' - Overview Big Bumpin' Driving/Racing Blitz Games Studios King Games Big Bumpin' is a promotional game that was released by Burger King alongside two other games, Sneak King and Pocketbike Racer, on Nov. 19th 2006 up until December 24 . All three of these games were $4.00 with the purchase of any combo. Note that all of the BK games only had achievements worth 200 points. Cross-Compatibility The three promotional games were notable for being the first three games to have cross-compatibility between the original Xbox and the Xbox 360. The same disc could be used on either system. This forced some of the graphics to be toned down, otherwise the original Xbox wouldn't be able to handle the graphics. This included low-resolution textures, and lower polygon count. Despite this, they still did as much as they could, and made some moderately decent graphics, especially for budget titles. The Game has five different game modes, all of which are playable online: This game mode is an arena-style type of battle mode. It's you vs. three other bumper cars, with trap doors, saw blades, and all other sorts of goodies set up around the arena. This game type doesn't usually last long. Own The Puck In this game mode, there's a puck that you need to touch. As soon as you touch it, the puck will change to your bumper car's color and you'll start accumulating points. In order to keep getting points, you have to defend the puck from the other players who are trying to touch it and turn it to their color. This game mode can get quite hectic at times. Shockball This game mode plays a lot like Hot Potato. Someone will start off carrying the "Shockball", in order to get rid of it, he needs to bump into another player. When the timer reaches zero, the shockball will explode, causing massive damage. The game continues until there's one player left standing. Power Surge In this game mode, you must run over a power source to collect some power, and then bring it back to your base. The catch is, whenever the other players hit you, they'll drain some of your power. This mode plays kind of like a modified version of Capture the Flag. This game plays a lot like air hockey, except you're using a bumper car. There's two teams of two, and you must hit the puck into the other team's net. There's also some power ups on the field, including a shield, a speed boost, and a power drainer. Xbox 360 Game Installation This game is not permitted to be installed to a Xbox 360 HDD. Marvel Ultim... Platform: Nintendo Switch After a decade, Marvel Ultimate Alliance is back exclusively on Nin...	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755239
__label__wiki	0.510812	0.510812	A third, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, somehow slid through his confirmation even though he had to cough up $34,000 at the last minute to pay his back taxes. The president's choice for the new job of White House chief performance officer, Nancy Killefer, resigned when her own unspecified tax problems came to light. The bar for lobbyists and others with conflicts of interest was promptly lowered near the ground to allow Obama's nominee for undersecretary of defense, Bill Lynn, to sashay through the revolving door from his executive position at a major defense contracting firm. Out beyond the Beltway, the people who voted for Obama expect far better than this when it comes to honest and open government. Then there's all this reaching across the aisles to the Republican minority in Congress. All this bipartisan kumbaya stuff on the most recent bailout bill earned Obama only a unanimous Republican no vote in the House of Representatives and attracted only the votes of the smattering of moderate demi-Republicans in the Senate. Meanwhile, the Republican leaders that Obama courted so assiduously race outside to stand before the television cameras and open new cans of whup-ass on the president. On the credit side of the ledger, President Obama did something breathtaking: He went on national television and said: "I screwed up." Imagine that. A chief executive taking responsibility for things that went wrong. Maybe Obama could dust off the old wooden sign that adorned Harry S. Truman's desk in the Oval Office and declared: "The Buck Stops Here." The buck never stopped anywhere in Washington during George W. Bush's administration, and certainly never in the Oval Office. It was just as elusive during the eight years of William J. Clinton, and it paused rarely, if at all, during all the other presidencies dating back to, you guessed it, Harry Truman. Also to his credit, the new president seemed to be figuring out that even if he turned the bailout bill into nothing more than a trillion dollar tax cut for rich people, the Republicans on Capitol Hill would still be out on his front stoop denouncing him. With only a couple of exceptions, both of them from the state of Maine, Capitol Hill has been swept clean of all but the most hard-line, unreconstructed, die-hard Republicans. There's no point for a Democratic president to engage them in anything but hand-to-hand combat. People voted for Barack Obama because he promised change; because he promised to clean up the corrupt political culture in Washington; because he said he'd be different. They want to see evidence of that change, and it must come quickly as the nation sinks deeper into recession and flirts with depression. Last month, more than 600,000 Americans lost their jobs. Last month, hundreds of thousands of others lost their homes. All the Republicans can do is whine that the economic stimulus bill has become, of all things, a "spending bill." They overlook the fact that the only one thing that can stimulate an economy in free fall is government spending; that is, injecting money into the sectors of our economy where folks are losing their jobs, their savings and their houses. Cutting taxes for comfortably employed, well-off Americans who, if they have any sense at all, will promptly deposit the savings in their bank accounts, won't stimulate a damn thing but gratitude for the Republican Party. President Obama has a bully pulpit. He needs to talk turkey to the people who elected him. He needs to tell the Republicans to take a hike. He needs to use the whip on his own staff and advisers, who should be inspecting potential appointees with a proctologist's gusto. He needs to pursue an agenda that's anything but business as usual, and he needs to get cracking on it right now.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755240
__label__cc	0.525034	0.474966	Eric Swalwell ends presidential bid after failing to gain traction Tue, 09/07/2019 - 2:10am — legitgov Eric Swalwell ends presidential bid after failing to gain traction \| 08 July 2019 \| California Rep. Eric Swalwell announced Monday he is dropping out of the 2020 race for president, concluding a short-lived bid for the Democratic nomination that failed to gain any traction. Swalwell's exit from the 2020 race will make him the first candidate to drop out since the campaign began in earnest. He announced his long shot presidential bid in April, pledging to mount a campaign that focused on the need for generational change in the Democratic Party and his commitment to confronting gun violence in the United States.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755241
__label__wiki	0.657801	0.657801	(Warner Bros./Hanna-Barbera) Friday Five: Remembering The New Scooby-Doo Movies! June 28th, 2019 Nicole Campos Friday Five, Lists & Things, Video Over its nearly 50 year history, there have been many iterations of Scooby-Doo. We’re here to tell you that The New Scooby-Doo Movies is the BEST one. Doesn’t ring a bell?! Possibly because it’s one of the earliest versions of the show you know and love, and may have been segmented and renamed in syndication over the years. But in a nutshell: The New Scooby-Doo Movies was Hanna Barbera’s very 70’s-variety-show influenced gambit to make the Mystery Machine gang’s adventures more cinematic and, well, star-studded. Premiering in the fall of 1972, it was the only Scooby-Doo series that ran for a full hour; it aired Saturday mornings on CBS for two seasons, a total of 24 episodes. And in each of these eps, Scooby and the gang were joined by a special “guest star” – or several! – that ran the gamut from famous comedians of the era, to popular rock and roll stars, to fictional faves from other cartoon series that made for awesome crossovers. To celebrate the BluRay release of the entire New Scooby-Doo Movies run, we’re looking at some of the highlights of this grooviest of Scooby shows in today’s Friday Five! (Note: The only reason the Sonny & Cher episode is missing from this list is because there are no good clips of it on YouTube, seriously that’s the BEST one…) Okay, so some of the guest stars of this show weren’t precisely of the same decade – they went back a little further than that! See, once upon a time there was this thing called syndication which basically filled all the off-hours of the day with old TV and movies because Netflix wouldn’t be a thing for 40 more years. That meant that a lot of Golden Era comedians were well known to kids because they were on the television all the time; Laurel & Hardy appeared in The New Scooby-Doo Movies, and so did those slapsticky buffoons the Three Stooges. Gotta say, cartoon Larry, Moe and Curly make a lot more sense in cartoon form, in a strange way. And here you thought Marcia Brady was the only one who got to pal around with a Monkee! Yep, ’round about the same time he made his legendary Brady Bunch guest appearance, the cutest of The Monkees also stopped by to visit the Scooby-Doo gang and, well, we won’t go into details of the plot because at the end of the day it doesn’t matter. What matters is this clip features Davy Jones singing to a HORSE-SIZED FROG to try and keep it from attacking himself, Daphne and Velma. It doesn’t really work, but then again it doesn’t not work? They don’t get eaten, just chased through a cave by A HORSE-SIZED FROG. Man, I love the 1970’s. Here’s a case where, had this particularly Scooby-Doo series premiered later in the decade, it would have been a perfectly groovy match of guest-star and era. It wasn’t until 1979 that Don Knotts joined the cast of Three’s Company as Mr. Furley, the landlord whose polyester suits and ascots screamed “How do you do, fellow kids?!” well before that was a meme. Which is to say, he hadn’t yet played the one character whose wardrobe would have perfectly suited joining up with the Mystery Machine crew for some spooky hijinks. And so, we get Don Knotts as a guest star basically decked out as his most famous character at that point, Deputy Barney Fife from The Andy Griffith Show. (Did know one think to draw him as The Incredible Mr. Limpet?) And here is where we get into those nifty cartoon crossovers, starting with a big Hanna-Barbera blowout! The early 70’s was also peak era for all things Archie Comics (Archie and pals, as well as Sabrina the Teenage Witch had their own animated series back then), but Josie and the Pussycats was probably the most popular with the Saturday morning set. So it made perfect sense to bring them into a Scooby-Doo mystery… and then you realize it means the coolest thing ever, Casey Kasem times two! Yep, the DJ and voice-over legend is well known for being the voice of Shaggy, but turns out he also played snooty Alexander on Josie and the Pussycats. And now that we get another look at him, he looks an awful lot like Shaggy if he were a rich jerk. He’s like Bizarro Shaggy. It’s a little weird. And here’s a crossover so layered, it’s basically a triple crossover – from comics, to sitcom, to cartoon and back! Many many years before The Addams Family became a box-office blockbuster, it started life as Charles Addams’ series of cartoon strips; it then first leapt to life as a half-hour comedy in the 1960’s, where the Addamses battled the Munsters for the title of spookiest family on TV. What’s so nifty about their appearance in The New Scooby-Doo Movies is that their animated likenesses are similar to those of the original comic strip… but their voices are the cast of the sitcom! That is indeed Carolyn Jones (Morticia), John Astin (Gomez), Jackie Coogan (Uncle Fester) and Ted Cassidy (Lurch), and the rest. A match made in haunted-house heaven. Scooby-Doo is just one of the franchises we’re celebrating in this month’s JOURNEY theme; sign up by July 19th! new scooby-doo movies nicole campos Next article Gaming: My Favorite Summer Gaming Memories! Previous article Feature: Perfect Fictional Summer Vacation Spots Nicole is the lead community manager at Loot Crate, and a member of the social media team since 2014. Her interests include (but are not limited to) science fiction, British comedy, ass-kicking female superheroes, mid century modern design, awesomely bad movies, 80's ska, Matt Murdock (♥), Battlestar Galactica '03 (The one true show!), all the tea in the world, and Sriracha on everything. (Except maybe ice cream. But if you can make a compelling argument, she'll listen...) Friday Five: The Marvel SDCC Panels Worth Watching Out For Video Vault: Sea of Thieves Anniversary Edition!	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755243
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__label__wiki	0.883901	0.883901	ABOUT 14 per cent of the Australian population report a sensitivity to eating wheat. But going “gluten-free” is not necessarily healthy for everyone, and could even be harmful, University of Newcastle researchers say. “We have done some survey work, and about 14 per cent of Australians report being sensitive to wheat – getting stomach troubles that they attribute to wheat ingestion,” neurogastroenterologist, Laureate Professor Nicholas Talley, said. “That is a lot of people. Way more people than have coeliac disease, which is about 1 per cent in the community. “So there is this large group of people who at least believe their symptoms are from eating wheat, and often restrict wheat or gluten in their diet.” Related reading: Too many people are on a gluten-free diet While there was some new evidence that wheat may be a cause of some people’s symptoms, gluten restriction was not necessarily “healthy”. Professor Talley, with fellow researchers from the University of Newcastle – Dr Michael Potter, Professor Marjorie Walker and Associate Professor Simon Keely – have published their findings in the international medical journal Gut. The leading article says that while a lifelong gluten-free diet was central to the management of coeliac disease, there was a growing, wide-spread belief in the general population that a gluten-free diet was “healthier”, contributing to the gluten-free food industry becoming worth an estimated US$6 billion per year. “Avoiding gluten may not be any healthier than any other option. It could even be harmful,” Professor Talley said. “It definitely changes your gut microbiome, your gut bacteria, and not necessarily in the right direction.” Related reading: Stress is a pain in the gut Professor Talley said about half of the people who complained of symptoms had irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), or a variant of IBS where they suffered “upper gut symptoms”. “It is a little bit more complex, but it is basically bad indigestion,” he said. “About half the people, approximately, who said they were wheat intolerant, had one of those disorders.” Other lines of evidence suggested an immune response to wheat proteins could be a cause of some symptoms in some people. Related reading: A gut feeling about wheat and diet fads “We think that’s important, because in those people, removing or restricting wheat and/or gluten may be helpful,” he said. “If that is true, then we may be able to cure some of these unexplained gut symptoms with diet. “The other half? We don’t know what they’ve got. One of the issues is whether they really are wheat sensitive, in other words, if you challenge them in a blinded fashion, do they really get symptoms after eating wheat, or is it just misperceived? “We are doing double blind studies to test that to answer those questions.” Newcastle Herald https://nnimgt-a.akamaihd.net/transform/v1/crop/frm/U6sg88yptnWPBj3pxEuthQ/a93f57a2-24e9-48af-9659-f94ca4bcb5c4.jpg/r0_309_4548_2879_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg August 15 2018 - 12:00PM Gluten-free on the rise as large number of Australians blame wheat for stomach troubles Anita Beaumont Gut reaction: Neurogastroenterologist Laureate Professor Nick Talley said a large group of people believed their tummy troubles stemmed from eating wheat. Some, not all, could be on to something. Picture: Marina Neil ABOUT 14 per cent of the Australian population report a sensitivity to eating wheat. But going “gluten-free” is not necessarily healthy for everyone, and could even be harmful, University of Newcastle researchers say. “We have done some survey work, and about 14 per cent of Australians report being sensitive to wheat – getting stomach troubles that they attribute to wheat ingestion,” neurogastroenterologist, Laureate Professor Nicholas Talley, said. “That is a lot of people. Way more people than have coeliac disease, which is about 1 per cent in the community. “So there is this large group of people who at least believe their symptoms are from eating wheat, and often restrict wheat or gluten in their diet.” Related reading: Too many people are on a gluten-free diet While there was some new evidence that wheat may be a cause of some people’s symptoms, gluten restriction was not necessarily “healthy”. Professor Talley, with fellow researchers from the University of Newcastle – Dr Michael Potter, Professor Marjorie Walker and Associate Professor Simon Keely – have published their findings in the international medical journal Gut. The leading article says that while a lifelong gluten-free diet was central to the management of coeliac disease, there was a growing, wide-spread belief in the general population that a gluten-free diet was “healthier”, contributing to the gluten-free food industry becoming worth an estimated US$6 billion per year. “Avoiding gluten may not be any healthier than any other option. It could even be harmful,” Professor Talley said. “It definitely changes your gut microbiome, your gut bacteria, and not necessarily in the right direction.” Related reading: Stress is a pain in the gut Professor Talley said about half of the people who complained of symptoms had irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), or a variant of IBS where they suffered “upper gut symptoms”. “It is a little bit more complex, but it is basically bad indigestion,” he said. “About half the people, approximately, who said they were wheat intolerant, had one of those disorders.” Other lines of evidence suggested an immune response to wheat proteins could be a cause of some symptoms in some people. Related reading: A gut feeling about wheat and diet fads “We think that’s important, because in those people, removing or restricting wheat and/or gluten may be helpful,” he said. “If that is true, then we may be able to cure some of these unexplained gut symptoms with diet. “The other half? We don’t know what they’ve got. One of the issues is whether they really are wheat sensitive, in other words, if you challenge them in a blinded fashion, do they really get symptoms after eating wheat, or is it just misperceived? “We are doing double blind studies to test that to answer those questions.” Newcastle Herald	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755251
__label__wiki	0.694221	0.694221	Blog > Five FRAND questions - but what are the answers? James Nurton A conference on the thorny issue of standard-essential patents and RAND raised some difficult questions, some of them with potentially worrying consequences I was lucky enough to attend a fascinating conference on SEPs, FRAND and injunctions at UCL-IBIL last week. The problems that arise from standard-essential patents are among the most challenging in IP today, and the lawyers, judges and regulators attending the meeting pretty much agreed that they find them daunting. The issue has come to a head this year, particularly in the telecoms industry. Standard-essential patents (SEPs) have enabled interoperability and rapid technological development in mobile telecoms. In the old days (roughly, the 1990s) the biggest manufacturers were also among the big patent owners and there was a comfortable environment of cross-licensing. Today, with new entrants (such as Apple and Samsung, neither of whom were visible at the conference) and some significant patent owners who don't manufacture (IPCom, InterDigital) this balance has been upset. The problem is that patent owners in standard-setting organisations commit to licensing their SEPs on (fair), reasonable and non-discriminatory (RAND or FRAND) terms, but nobody knows what (F)RAND means. So far this year, two judges in the US – Judge Robart (who spoke in London) and Judge Holderman – have had to set a RAND rate in the face of widely divergent figures presented by the patent owner and manufacturer. A court in China has also set a RAND rate, though its reasoning has not been published. Meanwhile, in Europe a number of disputes concerning SEPs and RAND licensing are working their way through the courts (such as Vringo v ZTE). There has been some guidance from the German Orange Book decision, although the relevance of that is disputed (not least because it didn’t involve a FRAND promise). Another German case, involving Huawei and ZTE, has been referred to the CJEU. Meanwhile, as we reported recently, Samsung has addressed European Commission competition concerns regarding SEP licensing, and intriguingly suggests a role for the UK High Court and, longer term, the planned Unified Patent Court. Even after two full days of discussion in London, there were few answers to the problems. But it did feel like everyone agreed that some of the key questions had been defined. Bearing in mind much of the discussion was held under Chatham House Rules (no names, no quotes), we’ve picked out five of the questions that were raised, and welcome comments from readers. 1. Who determines RAND? Judges (with juries, in the US) will do so, but reluctantly. Many of them spoke at the conference about the difficulty of determining RAND royalty rates, especially given the lack of comparable figures. An elegant concept, but difficult to decide in practice and with hindsight, said one (Robart’s decision in Motorola v Microsoft involved more than 700 findings of fact). In any case, companies may not want to be bound by the court’s determination. And when determining rates should patent owners be rewarded for past or present investment, and for failed as well as successful research? Unfortunately, the SSOs themselves are equally reluctant to resolve the issue (there is a Grand Tour of locations where working groups have tried and failed). Should there be some sort of arbitration body to decide, similar to what exists in some places for copyright licensing? If so who would be on it and how would it work? 2. Should injunctions be available in SEP cases? Patent owners understandably want to retain the threat of an injunction, if a manufacturer refuses to license a SEP on RAND terms. But that risks busting the standard, and could lead to networks being shut down. Post eBay, injunctions are off the table in the US (except in the ITC, which is another story). They may be in Europe too (the Huawei case may shed light on this), though it would be a brave judge who places an injunction a network-critical technology. At the very least, judges have to weigh up the good faith of the parties and the reasonableness of offers being made: is challenging the validity of some patents a sign that you’re not a willing licensee? With injunctions still in principle being available for non-standard patents, that presents the paradox that non-SEPs may be more valuable than SEPs. Or, as one participant put it: If you have some spare cash to invest in telecoms research, should you put it in (non-standardised) features such as Apple’s rubber-band rather than (standard) network infrastucture? 3. What’s the royalty when the price is zero? Royalties are normally set at a percentage of the purchase price, but many growth businesses are built on a free model, from Android phones to services such as twitter and Instagram; hardware prices are also coming down. That means percentage royalty rates become irrelevant. Alternatively, you could set a cash amount per sale, but this raises its own problems of calculation and fairness. New businesses would say: we’re not making money from sales, so why should we pay third-party patent owners? The patent owners would respond: your business is built on our infrastructure, and you should pay for it. 4. Is portfolio licensing a problem? One of the practices that has until now made SEPs work is that licensees will pay a royalty for a portfolio of SEPs. Everyone knows that many (some say most) of these patents are either invalid or non-essential, but in most cases it’s more efficient for licensees to take a broad licence than go to the expense of challenging dozens of patents (though Nokia’s epic fight against IPCom is an exception). Commercially, that makes sense, but from the point of view of a purist (or, plausibly, an economist) it suggests the industry is conniving to maintain invalid patents, which could be said to be against the public interest. 5. Is there an innovation crisis? The final panel at the conference consisted of representatives of the telecoms network operators. These are the companies that rely most heavily on the SEP system functioning well, and have most to lose if it breaks down (for example, if there is an injunction on a key technology). They also rely on equipment manufacturers to ensure products are not infringing. In short, there were some doom-laden voices. One noted that if the issues are not resolved, technological advance will slow, interoperability will break up and we will all go back to needing a different phone in every country or state we visit. That would be bad news all round, except perhaps for manufacturers of paper and pens.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755252
__label__cc	0.585136	0.414864	A Compensation Claim relating to Resumption of Land in 1922 Home News & Publications Local Government A Compensation Claim relating to Resumption of Land in 1922 Compensation Claim Background Recently, Moore J of the Land and Environment Court, determined two separate questions in an unusual matter that related to the 1922 resumption of land in far Western NSW, i.e. the resumption of land that occurred approximately 95 years ago (see Lawson v South Australian Minister for Water and the River Murray [2017] NSWLEC 62 (Lawson)). In 1922, the New South Wales Government resumed all land at Lake Victoria in private possession, necessary for the purposes of the transfer of those lands to the representative for South Australia for future water storage uses. Mrs Lawson’s possessory title in the land was originally held by her great grandfather, the possessory title was then transferred to her great grandmother (Mrs Mitchell) who held the title at the date of resumption. Mrs Mitchell died in 1956 and the possessory title transferred to Mrs Lawson. An Extension of Time Biscoe J in 2014 (see Lawson v South Australian Minister for Water and the River Murray No 2) [2014] NSWLEC 189) had allowed Mrs Lawson, the Applicant, an extension of time to lodge a claim for compensation for the resumption of land under the Public Works Act 1912 (Public Works Act). The Separate Questions Mrs Lawson has since lodged her claim for compensation, the validity of which is being tested in the Land and Environment Court, from which two preliminary questions arose to be determined (see [5]): 1. On the assumed, but not agreed, fact that a person (now being deceased) held an entitlement to claim compensation under the Public Works Act by reason of the resumption of land in 1922, was such an entitlement, as a matter of law, amenable to transfer or transmission to, or otherwise passing to another person? 2. If the answer to Q1 is yes, by what legal mechanisms and to what person or classes of persons might the entitlement pass? The Public Works Act provided that interests in private land that existed prior to resumption were converted into a claim for compensation (s 45(2)). Every person who claimed compensation for land that was resumed under the relevant notification was required within 90 days of the notification, or within such time as the Land and Environment Court appointed, to serve a notice on the Crown Solicitor which outlined the nature of the interest in land, with an abstract of his title. His Honour determined that because Mrs Mitchell did not make a claim with respect of compensation within her lifetime, there was no cause of action that could pass to Mrs Lawson (see [19]). His Honour then considered whether there was a statutory right for Mrs Mitchell to have sought to have claimed compensation for the resumption in 1922 and whether that right was capable of passing to her estate. Determination of the Separate Questions His Honour determined that the suggestion that the right to seek an extension of time to lodge the claim, as provided in s 102 of the Public Works Act, is extinguished by the death of the claimant was somewhat absurd based on the construction that if a person were to die an hour after the 90 day notification period expired the right to extend the time would be extinguished (at [33]-[36]). The answers to the two questions were thus (at [42]): 1. Yes 2. The entitlement might pass (or might have passed) on the death of a person holding such an entitlement under Probate and Administration Act 1898 s61 to the Public Trustee and on the grant of probate of a will of that deceased person or letters of administration of the estate of that deceased person (as the case may be) Probate and Administration Act 1898 s44, to the executor or administrator of the estate of that deceased person named in the grant of probate or letters of administration on trust for such person or persons entitled under the will of that deceased person or in the case of an intestacy for such persons entitled to the estate of that deceased person on intestacy. Except as stated, it is inappropriate to answer the question. An interesting and unusual matter in that the wording of the relevant resumption legislation directly allows for an extension of time for the lodging of a claim for compensation, of course at the discretion of the court. It will be interesting to see how the matter continues to unfold given the lengthy period of time since the land itself was resumed. Local Government compensation, compensation claim, land, Public Works Act, Resumption, Resumption of Land ← Everyday hazards and injuries Importance of Careful Drafting for Council Contracts →	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755254
__label__cc	0.623853	0.376147	Ballygowan health hub - feasibility study FEASIBILITY OF A LOCAL GP SURGERY Ballygowan is a small town (population 4,000) 8 miles outside of Belfast. It has two primary schools, busy shops, quarry, churches, a village hall and active community associations. In 2010, a branch surgery closed leaving Ballygowan without a GP surgery. Ballygowan & District Community Association (BDCA) had made significant strides towards bringing a GP to the area including identifying sites, builders, possible GPs and collecting 1,000 signatures on a petition. However this had not been successful. In 2018, BDCA became aware of a new site (on and surrounding the existing pharmacy) that could be made available to a prospective GP surgery. BDCA then sought a feasibility study to explore this in more detail. A visual of how a small GP surgery (enveloping the existing pharmacy) could work in Ballygowan APPROACH & CONCLUSION McGarry Consulting undertook the feasibility study on behalf of BRG. We met with the group and then set up a meeting with key parties - local politicians, community leaders, council staff, and people familiar with the health sector. We then contacted local GPs, medical associations (e.g. BMA, LMC etc) and those within the Trust to understand the process better for establishing a GP. In doing so we also found out a lot about what was happening on the ground. In addition to extensive research we visited 3 sites that could serve as potential models for Ballygowan. We looked at the health hub concept (e.g. Clough) and the possibility of other health professionals (e.g. dentist, physiotherapist, chiropodist etc) coming to Ballygowan. This lead to us mapping out local health provision open to Ballygowan residents and the transport options associated with them. Image from Pulse (pulsetoday.co.uk) on GP closures in the UK, highlighting wider decline in GP numbers and centralising trend In conclusion, Ballygowan is an appealing small town with a village feel. It is relatively healthy and affluent in a NI context with seven GP surgeries within 6 miles (10km) open to residents. There is a significant shortage of GPs, with increasing demands from them. A situation which is only expected to get worse. Consequently GPs are increasingly centralising with surgeries becoming larger. Branch surgeries and small rural surgeries will close or increasingly struggle. In NI terms, Ballygowan is better off than other rural areas and therefore is very unlikely to get departmental support for a new GP surgery. The best case scenario is that an existing GP surgery may want to relocate to a larger site in Ballygowan. In which case, it would probably be a different location to that proposed. A feasibility study is about assessing if an idea is feasible, and if so how. We outlined the limited possibility but also had to present the overwhelming evidence that set out the extremely challenging obstacles and trends going against it. At our presentation to a public meeting we were praised for our straight talking and that the findings would allow a long and exhausting quest to end. It is hard to tell people that an idea, although well supported, is not likely to happen. Especially after they have put such extraordinary effort into it.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755258
__label__cc	0.686198	0.313802	Global Healthcare Innovation AMIA Charles Safran Professor of Medicine Hospital and Health Care, Greater Boston Area Charles Safran, MD MS FACMI is a primary care internist who has devoted his professional career to improving patient care through the creative use of informatics. He is Chief of the Division of Clinical Informatics, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. He is a senior scientist at the National Center for Public Health Informatics at Center for Disease Control and Prevention. He is the immediate past President and Chairman of American Medical Informatics Association was previously Vice-President of the International Medical Informatics Association. He is an elected fellow of both the American College of Medical Informatics and the American College of Physicians. Dr. Safran is co-Editor of the International Journal of Medical Informatics and on the Health on the Net (HON) Foundation Council. He is a member to the Consumer Empowerment workgroup of the American Health Information Community formed by the US Secretary of Health and Human Services. During his career he has helped develop and deploy large institutional integrated clinical computing systems, ambulatory electronic health records, clinical decision support systems to help clinicians treat patients with HIV/AIDS and most recently personal care support systems for parents with premature infants which he calls collaborative healthware. He founded a company, Clinician Support Technology and as its CEO successfully brought his ideas to a national market. The company's products and technology were acquired by a major public company. He has over 150 peer-reviewed publications and speaks to national and international audiences. He has recently testified for the U.S. Congress on Health IT. He graduated cum laude in Mathematics and hold a Masters degree in mathematical logic and a Doctor of Medicine all from Tufts University. No likes on any project yet.. Lets change that!	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755263
__label__wiki	0.59972	0.59972	An endless race against time Robert Onus Seven months in Iraq was quite an assignment for Australian Logistics team leader Robert Onus. It felt like an endless race against time to provide refugees, internally displaced people and local inhabitants’ access to humanitarian and medical aid. From securing supplies and managing logistics to rehabilitating health centres, Robert guides us through his assignment with Médecins Sans Frontières in this region in turmoil. Médecins Sans Frontières supports refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Iraq. © MSF What did your mission consist of? There was a big supply component to what I had to do, 75% of the supplies we needed for the country were coming through Dohuk, where I was based. We had to manage importation and exportation, local purchasing, warehousing and transportation to the various other projects. Another major part of my work was the rehabilitation / construction side of things, as we were preparing to hand over the health centre in one of the refugee camps near Domiz to the local authorities. As part of this process, we had to rehabilitate some old buildings, move offices, build new latrines, upgrade the waste management area and various other bits and pieces. But the most challenging aspect was managing the logistics for the mobile clinics project we were running in Ninewa. This project was based in an area close to the frontlines between ISIS and the Kurdish forces and as it was a long distance from our main office in Dohuk we effectively had to start from scratch, building a new base, office and housing in a small town in the area. Finding a house seems simple enough but in this area seven out of ten houses had been damaged or destroyed in the fighting and many remained booby trapped or contained unexploded ordnances. Once we found a house that we could actually rent then we had to do the rehabilitation to meet the needs of the project. All of this took place in a small village where most people had left due to the war and to which we had limited access and there were only limited supplies available. An unfinished building where Internally Displaced People found refuge. © MSF What was life like in Iraq? It is hard to describe life here. On one side it is simple, common, and unremarkable. I lived half of my life in Dohuk, a modern city with modern amenities. And then I spent the other half of my time working in this rural area close the frontlines in a small village with only basic conditions. The area near the frontlines is a vast farmland not dissimilar to north western New South Wales, Australia, where I come from. Rolling hills are covered in wheat and herds of sheep shuffle across the countryside usually held in check by a young boy sitting sideways on a donkey, his face completely covered by a red and white scarf to hide from the sun. The conflict in the area we were working seemed to ebb and flow, but it would usually remain on the other side of the small mountain range to the south of where we were based. The sound of coalition jets, sporadic towers of smoke across the mountains, military convoys and seemingly infinite check-points were the only signs that we were in the middle of a war zone. What were your more difficult challenges? At a personal level the main challenge was certainly the quantity of work we had to achieve across the various projects we were running. The needs are infinite and it is only a lack of resources and the danger associated with accessing certain areas that limits what you could or might do. Regardless of whether I worked 12 or 14 or 16 hours a day the amount of work I had to do seemed to grow from one day to the other. For me the most difficult element was trying to imagine the long term solution to this war. Of course it’s not our mission in MSF - we are here to deal with the medical problems faced by the people not trying to find the political solution. Yet in previous projects, such as in the Ebola epidemic, it was hard but we knew we could find the solution. In this conflict, we are bringing support to people who don’t have anything but who can say when the general situation here will improve. "all suffer the same basic hardships – most people are living one family in a small tent with temperatures fluctuating from below zero in winter to around 50 degrees in summer with only the most basic access to water and sanitation, food and shelter." Logistics team leader What are conditions like in Iraq There are camps for refugees and internally displaced people scattered all over the Iraqi Kurdistan autonomous region. In Dohuk Governorate, where I was based, there were 18 camps alone that housed displaced people. The conditions vary from camp to camp but all suffer the same basic hardships – most people are living one family in a small tent with temperatures fluctuating from below zero in winter to around 50 degrees in summer with only the most basic access to water and sanitation, food and shelter. The situation is perhaps even worse for those people who are not in the camps but still living in unfinished buildings and tents scattered around the cities. The buildings are large skeleton-like structures of concrete of several floors high, none of the walls are completed and they provide only the basic concept of shelter. People use plastic sheeting as walls, but again they have only limited access to water and sanitation. We worked in places where the bottom floor had been transformed into a giant open sewer. It was in the middle winter, so it was freezing cold, there was rubbish everywhere, and of course people are going to get sick, you are going to have epidemics in this kind of context. What was your relationship with the national staff? The staff was great. We had staff from Iraq and Syria and they were all exceptionally capable and I relied heavily on them. Outside of work, on the rare weekend when I could take a day off, we would go to the mountains or close to a river for a picnic. Dohuk Governorate is home to around 500.000 people who are either internally displaced or refugees. Among these people, who are living in precarious situations, you have many skilled and motivated to work in any way they can to provide for their families. One of the members of my team had a degree in physics; another one had a degree in literature and was a qualified electrician. We also had a number of our staff who left Iraq to go Europe in search of a better life, especially that staffs who were themselves refugees in Iraq. Some staff left with their families, despite knowing the risks they faced they saw no alternative. Many cities in Syria are destroyed, there is no hope of return, and the future of the whole country is under a heavy cloud. So what can you do? Live the rest of your life in uncertainty and wait for this protracted war to end for a chance to go home or try to build a life somewhere?! Médecins Sans Frontières in Iraq Médecins Sans Frontières is currently working in 11 governorates across Iraq in order to provide impartial and free medical care to people affected by the conflict. In the first six months of 2015, Médecins Sans Frontières teams carried out 126,722 medical consultations in Iraq. Before the maternity unit opened, many Syrian women in Domeez refugee camp were giving birth in their tents within the camp, rather than travel to hospital in Dohuk where they felt neglected and could not understand the local language. The Syrian medical staff running the services assisted 1,155 deliveries in 2015. © Baudouin Nach	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755266
__label__wiki	0.889631	0.889631	Rampell: Left turn for millennials By Catherine RampellThe Washington Post On Wednesday, at a "Millennial Town Hall" at Georgetown University, House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) fielded a tricky question from a young Republican. What "reasons for optimism," the student asked, could Ryan offer to conservative millennials disgusted by the leading GOP presidential candidates? Ryan's response was telling. He encouraged young people to ignore the "political personality," and instead "Look at the ideas. Look at the platform that is being advanced." "We win ideas contests," Ryan declared triumphantly. With all due respect, Mr. Speaker: No, no you don't. At least not among millennials. The GOP is poised to permanently lose a generation of voters, and not (only) because of its odious and uncommonly disliked presidential front-runner. New survey data suggest that young people have become increasingly averse to just about every plank in today's creaky Republican Party platform. By now it's well known that young Americans are considerably more liberal than the Republican Party on most social issues, particularly gay rights. The GOP's own 2012 election "autopsy," which proposed ways to broaden the party's base, emphasized that Republicans must change their "tone" on social issues that young people see "as the civil rights issues of our time." The latest youth poll from Harvard's Institute of Politics, though, indicates that LGBT-related policies aren't the only ones on which young people and Republican traditionalists part ways. As their rabid support for Bernie Sanders might indicate, young people have also become much more supportive of big government and expanded social welfare programs. Compared with responses from the past few years, today's 18- to 29-year-olds are more likely to believe that "basic health insurance is a right for all people," that "basic necessities, such as food and shelter, are a right that government should provide to those unable to afford them" and that "the government should spend more to reduce poverty." More broadly, other surveys have found that young people have more favorable views of socialism than of capitalism - the only age group for which this is true. Additionally, the Harvard poll found, young people increasingly reject supply-side (a.k.a. "voodoo") economics, the cornerstone of the Republican fiscal agenda. Just 35 percent of young people agree that "tax cuts are an effective way to increase growth." That is 5 percentage points lower than last year, and the lowest share since the poll first asked about this. On the breakaway issue of the current Republican primary - immigration - young people also could not be more at odds with the GOP base. For more than two decades, the Pew Research Center has been surveying Americans about whether they believe immigrants "strengthen our country because of their hard work and talents" or "are a burden on our country because they take our jobs, housing and health care." The share of millennials saying that immigrants strengthen the country has shot up to 76 percent in recent years, far higher than any other generation and more than twice as high as the share of Republicans who say this. Young people are also far more likely than other age groups to favor finding a way for undocumented immigrants to remain in the United States legally, and to oppose building a wall on the Mexican border. On countless other issues - such as whether stricter environmental regulations are worth the cost - young Americans are drifting further from those supposedly winning ideas held by Ryan's party. You might be tempted to dismiss some of these findings because young people are almost always more liberal than their elders. Even relative to earlier cohorts of young people, though, today's youth are shifting leftward. Some of that shift is compositional: Young people today are more likely to be nonwhite, and nonwhites are more likely to be liberal than their white peers. Demographics tell only part of the story, though. The components of the millennial bloc that are most likely to be conservative have also gotten substantially more liberal, according to a new study from Gary C. Jacobson, a political scientist at the University of California at San Diego. Jacobson finds that young people who self-identify as Republican are to the left of older Republicans on pretty much every conceivable metric, including whether they approve of President Obama, consume conservative media or believe in man-made climate change. Millennials are now the largest generation in history, and their voter turnout rates will probably increase with age. Research suggests that political affiliations developed early in life tend to stick. None of this bodes well for the future of the Republican Party, regardless of which candidate it offers up in November. Unless, that is, it's willing to change some of its ideas. Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell's email address is crampell@washpost.com. Follow her on Twitter, @crampell.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755268
__label__wiki	0.76422	0.76422	Mazzaglia: The shadow of Benghazi Frank Mazzaglia/Local columnist Excuse me, but are you having an affair? If so, you have every right to be nervous these days. After all, if the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency can’t keep his secret, what possible chance do you have? Uncovering deception can lead to some startling revelations. Can you imagine it? The leader of the most sophisticated intelligence agency in the whole world, David Petraeus, uses e-mail to communicate with his lover? Our Attorney General then has the unmitigated gall to say that the FBI investigation never got to the President because they could not determine any threat to the national security of the United States. Just think about it. The Director of the CIA puts himself into a position where he can be easily blackmailed. Meanwhile, given the gaping security breach and the real possibility of extortion, the FBI fails to determine any potential security threat? Really? It has been said that love and lust are cousins, but the more serious point here is that the security of the entire nation lay in the balance. Does anyone doubt that every nation engaged in sophisticated espionage was unaware of the affair? Because of that FBI investigation it is now more reasonable to assume that David Petraeus, ever the good soldier, believed that loyalty flowed two ways and that, despite the affair, the administration would remain silent and he could continue in his job. That explains why Petraeus adopted the party line before the election by possibly misleading a congressional intelligence committee. Without flinching, Petraeus said that the attack on our Benghazi embassy was spontaneous because of a film that insulted Islam when he must have known otherwise. If that’s the case, this is more than a sex scandal. It’s a direct connection to the Benghazi attack. It is not, as some would like to say, “Politicizing.” Watergate was more than a clumsy break into Democratic headquarters. Its essence was a cover-up designed to protect any involvement by President Richard Nixon. Nixon had even emerged victorious in a landslide election by winning every state but Massachusetts. In the end, Republicans joined with Democrats in pressuring Nixon’s resignation. What makes the Benghazi terrorist attack and the apparent attempt to mislead the American people by a potential conspiracy to cover-up involving Petraeus, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice, so much more serious is that four Americans are dead. Pretending to be oblivious to it all, President Barack Obama adds insult to injury by suggesting that Susan Rice would be an effective Secretary State. With a Democratic controlled Senate, an honest doubt exists as to whether the same level of Watergate outrage will occur. Hopefully, our fawning press will expose this administration’s attempt to mislead the American public if indeed, the facts bear that out. Liberal press stalwarts are already more interested in standing behind a flawed administration, than they are about presenting the real facts of Benghazi, the murder of Americans, and its subsequent potential cover-up narrative. We are just at the beginning of an investigative process and full disclosure. What’s different from Watergate is that nearly half the electorate already has serious misgivings about this administration. If it turns out that the president knew more than he says he did, this could be uglier than Watergate. Certainly there are pressing fiscal matters that must be decided before the first of January, however the long shadow of Benghazi will hang over major decisions still to be made. If it happens that the White House knew more than it says it did, all of Mr. Obama’s pretentious outrage won’t make much difference when calls grow wider for a public accounting of the truth. Yes, sex captures the public attention. Nevertheless, the real story may take us far beyond a marital affair and direct us into the murky world of politics and even the possibility of impeachment. Frank Mazzaglia can be reached at Frankwrote@aol.com	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755269
__label__wiki	0.595176	0.595176	Today's Newsletter March 18 Edition The message you have just received was delivered by Mike Huckabee and includes advertising powered by PowerInbox. These ads help bring this newsletter to you free of charge. Today's Commentary --- To give up on the justice system is to be complicit in Hillary's "exoneration" -- New Zealand Update -- Number 15 --- Laura Ainsworth: FOLLOW-UP on "The Brains Behind Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez" -- Mike Rowe nails it -- A legal victory for the good guys -- "Russian dossier" was used -- Hey AOC: Better to remain silent -- Evening Edition -- Daily Verse “Trump was investigated despite evidence of his innocence. Hillary was not properly investigated despite evidence of her guilt.” So concluded investigative reporter John Solomon –- as paraphrased by Dan Bongino –- but we already knew it was true. Our suspicions that “the fix was in” have been confirmed. After three years of FBI and special counsel investigations, even before the upcoming release of the Mueller report, there is a vast amount of evidence to support our conclusion, and anyone with half a brain who isn’t in total denial can see it, if not admit it. Mueller’s report won’t say it, of course, because the special counsel is a team of partisan prosecutors, and the report will resemble a trial summation in that there is no requirement that it contain any exculpatory evidence whatsoever. (In contrast, a FISA warrant DOES require the inclusion of exculpatory evidence, though Obama’s FBI didn’t bother mentioning it even when seeking to spy on the Trump campaign.) And this special counsel report won’t deal with Hillary at all, as Hillary is conveniently “beyond the scope.” At least, we have reason to assume she is; the document outlining said “scope” has never been shared with us little people. READ MORE HERE>>> Commentary continues below advertisement New Zealand Update By Mike Huckabee Update on the tragic shootings at two mosques in New Zealand: the death toll has now risen to fifty. Also, an early report that one would-be victim was armed and by pulling a gun caused the shooter to run away has been corrected. He actually tackled the shooter and took a gun away from him, and then the shooter ran away. We like to get our facts correct, so duly noted. But the net result was the same: a good guy with a gun stopped a bad guy with a gun, only the good guy was able to take the gun away from the bad guy, which usually doesn’t happen if the good guy isn’t armed to begin with. “Now serving number…(checks ticket)…number 15! Will Democratic Presidential candidate #15 please come to the counter to pick up your rainbow lapel pin and your check from George Soros!” Our fifteenth entrant into the race is Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who announced her run over the weekend with a platform that includes embracing the Green New Deal and more gun control and opposing Trump and border security. So, does anything set her apart from the outsized Democratic pack? According to this amusing write up by Toni Williams at the Victory Girls blog, she doesn’t understand the lyrics of the National Anthem. https://victorygirlsblog.com/brave-kirsten-gillibrand-enters-democrat-presidential-race/ Meanwhile, the “Beto” O’Rourke Presidential campaign is not getting off to the running start that some predicted (I didn’t: this linked article starts with “Not ready for prime time?,” a phrase I used days ago.) First he dealt pathetically with the Twitter outrage mob's response to an innocuous joke he told… https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/beto-pathetically-apologizes-harmless-joke-confronts-white-male-privilege/ And then came revelations that as a teenager, he was part of a notorious hackers group and wrote sick fiction about killing children. You know, that sort of thing might actually be disqualifying if he were a Republican. https://pjmedia.com/trending/beto-orourkes-gafftastic-day/ But then, who deserves to be apologizing more: “Beto” or Reuters, the “trusted” news agency that sat on this story for over a year because it might have hurt his chances of beating Ted Cruz for Senate if Texas voters had known about it? https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/reuters-drops-bombshell-beto-story-makes-shock-admission/ Laura Ainsworth: FOLLOW-UP on "The Brains Behind Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez" By Laura Ainsworth As of this writing (the wee hours of Friday morning), “The Brains Behind Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,” by “Mr. Reagan,” was up to almost 1.5 million views after being posted for about a week. I’d like to think I had a hand in some of that. Here’s more about the organization called Justice Democrats, which was behind the “casting” of AOC to be the new representative for the 14th Congressional District, covering parts of New York City. For those not yet convinced that Mr. Reagan’s claim is more than a wild conspiracy theory, here’s an article in which the head of Justice Democrats boasts of their plan to do just what he was talking about –- on a large scale across the country. Of course, she doesn’t refer to AOC as a “puppet,” but in the interview it becomes clear that all the new faces they select will, in effect, function that way. Mike Rowe nails it At the link are some of the best comments I’ve heard yet about the big college entrance cheating scandal, from Mike Rowe, host of “Somebody’s Gotta Do It” (airing Saturday nights on TBN, right after “Huckabee.”) Mike knows plenty about the dignity of all types of work, and that too many young people are being pressured into taking out unrepayable student loans to get worthless degrees, so they learn nothing useful but have an impressive school name on their resume. As he puts it, “We’re lending money we don’t have to kids who can’t pay it back to educate them for jobs that don’t exist anymore, and that’s crazy.” You’ll want to read the whole article: https://www.westernjournal.com/tv-star-mike-rowes-unique-take-college-admission-scandal-goes-viral/ As Mike could tell you, someone with a liberal arts degreee might look down on a plumber or farmer, but he needs the plumber and farmer a lot more than a plumber or farmer needs a guy with a liberal arts degree. You should also read this article to help understand not only why some rich parents were willing to spend big money to cheat their kids into elite schools, but just how widespread the problems in our universities are and how many of those degrees are now just bragging points and not indicators that the student actually learned anything once getting into the expensive school. https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/ocasio-cortezs-ignorance-proves-admissions-fraud-is-the-symptom-not-cause-of-americas-education-crisis Excerpts: “Yale changed its course requirements such that an English major may now graduate without ever having read Shakespeare. A 2007 survey from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute showed that college students graduate with less knowledge of history, politics, and economics than they had before they entered…Millennial congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez majored in Economics and graduated cum laude from a private university that costs nearly $70,000 per year. Since entering Congress, she has struggled to articulate even basic economic concepts.” Yet many continue to think that a degree from Harvard or Yale makes someone more qualified to run our government? Our last President who wasn’t an Ivy League alum was Ronald Reagan. He was looked down on and scorned by elites, but I’d say he did a pretty good job, despite his “handicap” of having studied economics at Eureka College in Illinois instead of getting a poli-sci degree with a minor in gender studies from Harvard. A legal victory for the good guys Chalk up a legal victory for the good guys: government-run CityBus of Lafayette, Indiana, settled a lawsuit by the Tippecanoe County Right to Life group and agreed to run their ad that had been banned from buses. The ad showed three photos of a baby: the first two were ultrasounds from different stages of development in the womb, and the third was the newborn baby. It was obvious they were all the same baby. The captions on the photos read, “Me…Me again…Still me.” The group said it simply conveyed “the scientific truth that unborn children are just as human as the rest of us.” But the bus company rejected the ad on grounds that it rejects any politically-oriented ads, and if it accepted that ad, it might have to accept ads from other organizations, “like ones that wear hoods and burn crosses.” (Talk about a leap! If we show a baby in the womb, we’d also have to show loons in sheets.) The pro-life group's lawsuit noted that the bus company had previously accepted health-related PSAs and genuine politically-oriented ads such as voter registration drives. So this was just an example of turning away the “wrong kind” of politically-oriented ad, which is a violation of the First Amendment. The bus company has changed its policy to accept only commercial business ads from now on, but until then, the pro-life ad is running. There’s more info at the link, where you can also see the terrific ad. https://www.westernjournal.com/pro-life-group-wins-court-case-allowing-anti-abortion-ads-run-throughout-city/ Along with rising opposition to abortion that’s been sparked by Democrats discarding their vague “right to choose” verbiage and openly promoting infanticide, this ad and the attempt to suppress it prove that abortion is one of those issues that, the closer you examine it and more you learn about it, the worse it seems. "Russian dossier" was used Just in case there was ever any doubt, we now know that some of the wild tales in the “Russian dossier” of dirt on Donald Trump that was used to kick off the Mueller probe were actually taken by Christopher Steele from unverified Internet ramblings posted by random anonymous users of a CNN “citizen journalism” website. https://www.westernjournal.com/steele-admitted-using-posts-random-individuals-cnn-user-generated-site-trump-dossier/ As this account notes, the scribblings on bathroom walls have more credibility. But I wonder if you could use them to get a FISA warrant to spy on Americans? https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/trump-dossier-research-exposed-bathroom-walls-credibility/ Hey AOC: Better to remain silent The media’s (and Republicans’) favorite “Democratic” socialist, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez complained on social media that she didn’t know Congress members have to work all the time. Actually, most don’t work all the time, but most of them aren’t out firing off ridiculous comments and trying to transform America into Venezuela. In fact, if she wants her Congressional career to last beyond 2020, she might want to stop working so hard at whatever it is she’s doing. A new Gallup poll found that the more Americans learn about and hear from AOC, the less they like her (to be fair, that's true of socialism in general.) Shortly before the election, half of Americans had never heard of her, 24 percent viewed her favorably and 26 percent unfavorably, for a net favorability rating of -2. https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/americans-give-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-tough-reality-check-new-poll/ Now, after getting two earfuls from her for several months, only 31 percent haven’t heard of her, but most of those who have don’t like what they’ve heard. Her net unfavorable rating has grown to -8 percent. Her favorable rating is up 4 points among Democrats, and is down 7 points among Independents and 21 points among Republicans. Also, while her favorable rating is up 9 points among non-whites, that’s the only demographic where she’s up. She’s down 3 points among women, 11 points among men, 15 points among whites, and even 7 points among Millennials. If this is what happens when she works all the time, she might be more popular as a do-nothing Congress member. I know she has little respect for the wisdom of those who came before her, but there’s a lot of truth in the old saying, “It’s better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.” Evening Edition - March 16 A wrap-up of all the news you might have missed yesterday! READ MORE>>> Daily Verse (KJV) "He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly." – Proverbs 14:29 Did you miss reading a newsletter recently? Go to our archive here. Note: Fields marked with an * are required. BBML accepted! Permalink: https://www.mikehuckabee.com/2019/3/today-s-newsletter-march-18-edition Today's Newsletter July 17 Edition News from a conservative point of view... The REAL story about "The Squad" Learning in L.A. 'The Five' react to The Squad's fiery presser on Trump's tweets Comments 1-1 of 1 Hello Gov. appreciate your daily reports on the latest so we can know the truth. Gov. Little upset when I see the twitter comments that the Pres had to make over the weekend about Sen McCain. I appreciate all he is doing but wish he could hold back on the the nasty comments he has made per what he thinks of Sen McCain now deceased. They tore it apart today on The View . No doubt Meghan is very upset. Gov wish you could sit down with the Pres to get him to back off the nasty type twitter comments on anyone . Be Presidential not go back on the name calling that should be over. Sen McCain was not his best fan at his end. Now they go after Sen Graham saying he had to step up and say wrong Mr. Pres on these attacks made on his friend Sen McCain. Talk to Pres family and have them gather with him and say has to stop now. Let it go not the way to the next step to be Pres. If he is tired then maybe best to get him to not move forward. He may be tired. Where is his family lately not seen the gang there with him .? We need to be better then many of the others who have been so nasty. Killings of anyone religion is wrong across the board for all involved. NO more and stop the many attacks on any nationality. Yes, we need the border shut down no more we cannot keep up this attack coming and sorry do not see asylum but a way to stop this for all of us here and many who are trying to come legally. So good luck Gov. I back this man for what he has tried but he has to step back in what he wants to just let out on those who have attacked him. Go at this another way. See what Mueller comes up with and then do on the attack of what Russians did per Dossier they tried to manipulate all of us they have won per we let them. We now have become our own worst enemy to ourselves. SAD for this country.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755271
__label__wiki	0.637267	0.637267	Travis J. Tormey Gets Boonton NJ Hindering Apprehension Charges Dismissed Hindering Apprehension Charges Dismissed in Boonton Township, NJ Fight Disorderly Persons Offense in Boonton Municipal Court Boonton Criminal Charges Travis J. Tormey recently represented a client charged with hindering apprehension in Boonton Municipal Court. Our client, who lived in Boonton NJ, was at home bathing her two young daughters when police officers knocked on her door. The officers were there to serve a warrant on the client’s boyfriend. Our client answered the door and told police that her boyfriend was not at the residence. When the officers asked our client if she would consent to a search of the residence, she said “yes.” She then told police that she needed to put away her large mastiff dog because it is not friendly to strangers. The client went downstairs to put away the dog, at which point she saw her boyfriend in the basement. He walked out of the basement and was placed under arrest without incident. Unfortunately for our client, the arresting officers were under the impression that she had initially lied to them about her boyfriend’s whereabouts. So the officers issued her a summons for hindering apprehension. This was a big deal because N.J.S.A. 2C:29-3(a) classifies hindering apprehension as a disorderly persons offense and calls for a jail sentence of up to 6 months in the county jail. Our client insisted that she was wrongfully charged. At trial, she testified that she was unaware that her boyfriend was home when police officers came to her door. Additionally, both her boyfriend and her daughter testified at trial and corroborated her story. Travis J. Tormey, founding partner of the Tormey Law Firm, represented the client in Boonton Municipal Court. Thanks to Mr. Tormey’s vigorous defense, the State could not prove its case against the client beyond a reasonable doubt. The judge ultimately dismissed the hindering apprehension charges. When issuing the ruling, the judge cited a New Jersey Supreme Court decision that declared that a person must volunteer false information to the police in order for it to rise to the level of hindering. Arrested, Charged Criminal Offense Boonton NJ? Contact Us Now The client avoided jail time and kept her record clear of a criminal conviction. Needless to say, she was thrilled with the result. This was a major success story for the Tormey Law Firm.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755276
__label__cc	0.663046	0.336954	Here’s the Secret Data Climate Scientists Are Hiding From Us For years, the more dimwitted of the climate denialists have been yammering on about a pause in global warming. This is not based on the measurements and models that even some climate scientists are puzzled about. It’s based on using a chart that begins in 1998, which was an unusually warm El Niño year. By using a very warm starting point and a more ordinary ending point, they make it look like nothing much has been going on for over a decade. It’s all nonsense. But two can play at that game. Last year was quite warm, and this year is warmer still. From the New York Times: “The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the American agency that tracks worldwide temperatures, announced Wednesday that last month had been the hottest September on record, and that the January-to-September period had also been the hottest since 1880. Scientists say it is now all but certain that the full year will be the hottest on record, too.” Hmmm. 2008 was a bit of an outlier on the cool side. So I think I’ll start there and end in 2015. Handily for me, NOAA now has a nice interactive tool that allows me to chart any period I want and even calculates the trend line for me. This generated the chart on the right. Naturally, I changed the y-axis to Fahrenheit in order to produce bigger, more dramatic numbers. Oh, and I started the y-axis at 0.8 °F instead of zero, because that produces a steeper, more apocalyptic trend line. So there you have it. Proof positive that global temperatures are skyrocketing at a pace of 0.58 degrees per decade. This is the news that climate “scientists” in the pay of Big Fossil have been hiding from us. If you can’t trust a chart based directly on NOAA data, what can you trust?	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755278
__label__wiki	0.537909	0.537909	Monastery Life Prayer Schedule Abbot Jeremy Talks & Homilies Abbot Jeremy Archive Oblate Statutes Oblates in Memoriam Seminary News Seminary Benefit Dinner Alvar Aalto's Library Aalto Architecture Aalto Furniture Make a Retreat Retreat Calendar Guesthouse Campaign Come for a Day Guesthouse Renovation New Retreat Center Guesthouse Webcam Abbey Bach Festival Christian in the World SBD – Portland SBD – Eugene St. Benedict Festival Abbey Foundation Abbey Foundation of Oregon Annual Reports Abbot's Circle Mount Angel Letter Hilltop Walking Tour Monastery Bells Abbey Pipe Organs Abbey Museum Abbey Bookstore Emergency Closures Office of Child Protection God’s grace revealed God’s grace comes through community An important element of the spiritual formation program for the men in pre-theology and theology at Mount Angel Seminary is regular participation in Jesus Caritas prayer groups. Inspired by Blessed Charles de Foucauld (1858-1916), Jesus Caritas is a worldwide fraternity made up of small groups of diocesan priests who share prayer and developments in their lives. A steady witness to the importance of these groups is Fr. Richard Keolker, director of the Jesus Caritas groups and a spiritual director at Mount Angel. Fr. Keolker has been a part of the spiritual formation program at the seminary for 27 years. But his personal Jesus Caritas group of fellow priests has met regularly for 45 years for mutual prayer and support. He is, as one seminarian recently described him, “The manifestation of Caritas. He lives it out in his life.” “There were Jesus Caritas groups already active at Mount Angel when I got here in 1991,” noted Fr. Keolker. “I worked with them, and in 2004 they became a part of the program for theology and pre-theology students.” The groups meet once a month to share dinner, Scripture reflection, a review of life, and evening prayer. Luke Stager, currently in his second year of theology, studying for the Archdiocese of Portland, admitted that he initially thought the regular prayer meetings were “one more thing to add to the list of the million things we have to do.” This changed, however, during his first and second summer parish assignments when he learned that the pastors in both parishes participated regularly in Jesus Caritas groups. They do so, as Stager explained, “to fortify and encourage each other, and to pray together.” Seeing their commitment to Jesus Caritas changed his whole attitude, he admitted. “All of a sudden,” he said, “this wasn’t just one more thing we have to do in seminary. This [sense of spiritual fraternity] is something important that we build here.” Third-year theology student studying for the Diocese of Salt Lake City, Dominic Sternhagen attests that participation in Jesus Caritas is “essential to my vocational journey.” He had arrived at Mount Angel in the middle of a year and with some experience living in a religious community. He was humbled by the way the students in one group reached out and invited him to join them. “Even with someone they didn’t really know yet,” he said, it was a time of “authentic sharing.” That sharing of joys, struggles and graces providing mutual support is a critical component of Jesus Caritas, said Peter Laughlin, also in his third year of theology, studying for the Archdiocese of Portland. He points to the importance of camaraderie and fellowship formed in the group. “While many people can have windows into our world as seminarians, no one quite fully understands another seminarian or another priest the same way as other seminarians and other priests can,” he said. “There’s a similar direction, and areas of growth we share as we aim for the priesthood in the service of God and discernment of his will together.” One realization Laughlin says he has had through the prayer group is that, “While God interacts with us individually, he is not isolated to my personal experiences. Rather,” he added, “God’s grace is revealed communally, to be shared amongst one another.” Picking up on the theme of brotherhood, Deacon John Mosier, in his fourth year of theology, studying for the Diocese of Boise, said he sees a comparison between the strength he receives from his Jesus Caritas group to the “armament of God,” referenced in the Letter to the Ephesians, chapter 6. The sacred text, said Deacon Mosier, “suggests that we put on the shield of faith.” Referencing first century Roman soldiers, Deacon Mosier explained, “It wasn’t the individual soldier himself; it was the man to the left and the man to the right, with shields interlocked, that provided the true defense.” “As others have mentioned,” he continued, “it is this interlocking dependence that is important not only for our life of faith as seminarians, but for the lives of those we want to one day serve. It’s that interlocking faith, not of the shield, but of our faith lived out here at Mount Angel that makes the Caritas groups work.” – William Gerard Categories: Monastery, Seminary Let us draw near to Christ A message from Abbot Jeremy The Church has been much in the news in recent weeks, in ways that simply break our hearts. It is important to acknowledge that we are in the midst of a terrible crisis. Innocent victims have suffered the abuse of clergy, and some have suffered again when bishops failed to act. Such evil must be named, investigated, and brought to light. As our Lord promised, the truth will set us free. My friends, a huge struggle begins whenever someone seriously undertakes to follow Christ, “to walk by the Spirit,” as the Apostle Paul writes (Galatians 5:16-25). This is what all of us are doing together, those of us here at Mount Angel Abbey and Seminary, and all those who have shown in so many ways that they love and support our mission. We in the Church in this country are under a cloud. This is a season for penitent reflection as we seek to understand the nature of the problem as profoundly as possible. St. Paul helps us see that we all are at risk, all are engaged in the same struggle. The guilt and sin of any one of us affects the whole body. By the same token, the holiness and virtue of any one of us also belongs to the whole body. If we want to contribute to the healing of the Church, in this time of crisis, we must reject the temptation to turn away from our Lord, and take up instead by the mercy of God the fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. These marvelous gifts can seem beyond our reach if we think they must be rooted in our own efforts. Instead, they are freely given by God through the Holy Spirit because we “belong to Christ Jesus.” It takes courage to persist in our faith at this time. It takes courage for monks and seminarians to risk a life of devotion to our Lord’s Church. It takes courage for our friends to stand with us, to pray with us. But more than courage is needed. All these gifts of the Spirit are needed, and we are begging God for these gifts in all our prayers and at the Eucharistic table. This is how I spoke to our seminarians in my homily at the Mass of the Holy Spirit on August 27, which inaugurated our school year at Mount Angel. I invite you to listen to my message to them. At times, when we do something courageous, we can become afraid. Jesus offers a solution to that. He comes to those who are afraid. In the Gospel of John, we learn that the disciples were gathered in fear on the very day of Christ’s resurrection. Their doors were locked. This is us right now, in this Church. We are the disciples, afraid, seeking courage. And “Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, ‘Peace be with you.’” To us right now, He shows His wounds and then He says again, “Peace be with you” (John 20:19-23). Christ’s peace is not a peace of passivity. It is a peace that calls us to serve Him, His Church, and our brothers and sisters. This is a time when Satan – named in Scripture “Father of Lies” – can wreak havoc on our souls and feast on our doubts. Again in the Gospel of John, Christ promises if we continue in His word, we will know the truth and the truth will set us free. Let us remember Christ’s promise to us in the coming weeks, months, and years, as we seek the truth. In 2004 the Bishops of the United States commissioned an independent study by the John Jay Institute for Criminal Justice so that we might understand the nature and scope of child abuse in the Church. Now there are calls within the Church for further investigations, as we seek to understand our situation together, in honesty and humility. Here at Mount Angel, we deeply value your trust and work sincerely to deserve it. I invite you to review online a statement that outlines the steps we at Mount Angel Abbey and Seminary have taken since 2002 to ensure a safe environment for children and young people. All monks and seminarians in formation participate in rigorous human, spiritual, academic and pastoral formation as they mature and embrace a life and lifestyle of celibacy and chastity, leadership and responsibility, service and accountability. Their readiness is thoroughly evaluated before they are ordained or make their profession of vows. What more is to be done? Every member of Christ’s body has a vital role to play as we seek to heal and strengthen His Church. We monks of Mount Angel will continue the way of life that Benedictines have followed for 1,500 years. We continue to pray six times a day for the life of the world. We continue to greet guests as Christ. We continue to nurture the healthy formation of our future priests. We offer this peaceful hilltop as a place of spiritual growth and refuge for all seekers. We pray that the simple order and beauty of the Abbey will serve as a beacon of light, hope and healing for you and our extended community. We will continue to ask our friends to support us, in all the ways they have supported us in the past. With even greater urgency, we ask our broad community to pray for vocations and to support the formation of monks and priests who will serve our Lord’s Church. The people of God need and deserve to be guided by mature and holy shepherds. I urge you in this time to draw nearer to Christ and His Church. Come to the Abbey. Pray with us. Celebrate Mass with us. Let our seminarians know that the vocation they are undertaking is holy and necessary. Let us encourage one another! Please, send us your prayer requests. We pray for you daily. Christ’s peace be with you, Abbot Jeremy Driscoll, O.S.B. Chancellor of Mount Angel Seminary Categories: Monastery Commencement at Mount Angel Seminary The students of Mount Angel Seminary’s graduating class of 2018 celebrated their Baccalaureate Mass on Friday afternoon, May 11, and Commencement exercises the following morning. Most Reverend Robert W. McElroy, Bishop of San Diego, presided at the Mass and gave the Commencement Address. Speaking to the graduates and assembly gathered in Mount Angel Abbey’s church for Commencement, Bishop McElroy began his talk with the inspiring story of the 2015 free ascent of El Capitan by Kevin Jorgeson and Tommy Caldwell. The successful completion of the ascent was almost anti-climatic compared to the struggle of Jorgeson to conquer the 15th pitch and the steadfast accompaniment of his teammate, Caldwell, who refused to continue the ascent without his partner. Caldwell, said Bishop McElroy, stayed with Jorgeson “even at the cost of sacrificing his own life’s dream.” He continued, “That example lies at the center of the formational experience which you have had here at Mount Angel. And it constitutes a pivotal foundation for the life of priesthood and all true service to the Church.” Bishop McElroy reminded the graduates that Pope Francis has repeatedly called the entire Catholic faith community to accompaniment. Quoting Pope Francis, he said, “We need a Church capable of walking at peoples’ side, of doing more than simply listening.” Commencement, he said, “is not a moment of termination, but of new beginnings in a life of discipleship and service to the Gospel.” In presenting the Senior Farewell, Reverend Mister Brent Crowe, from the Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon, noted that the commitment to accompaniment and letting oneself be open to discipleship can be a terrifying endeavor. He likened it to a young child on a roller coaster with his mother. The mother symbolizes the Holy Spirit and is filled with joy and laughter during the wild ride. The face of the young child, instead, is filled with terror and he is hanging on tightly to the support rail. That young child, Deacon Crowe told his classmates, is “you.” Seminary life, at times, felt like that roller coaster ride. But in spite of having come from all walks of life and many diverse cultures, he and his classmates learned to accompany one another. “God,” he reminded his friends and fellow graduates, “writes straight with crooked lines.” There were 38 in the 129th graduating class of Mount Angel Seminary, with a total of 52 degrees and certificates awarded, including 14 Bachelor of Arts degree; five Pre-Theology certificates; five Master of Arts (Philosophy); 10 Master of Divinity; eight Master of Arts (Theology); and six Baccalaureate in Sacred Theology. Mount Angel Seminary offers fully accredited degree programs at all levels, including a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy; Master of Arts (Philosophy); Master of Arts (Theology); Master of Divinity; Baccalaureate in Sacred Theology, offered in affiliation with the Pontifical Athenaeum of Sant’ Anselmo in Rome; and a Doctor of Ministry. The Master of Arts (Theology) and the Doctor of Ministry programs are open to both seminarians and lay students. Mount Angel Seminary, established by the pioneer monks of Mount Angel Abbey, began forming men for the priesthood in 1889. It’s the oldest and largest seminary in the western United States and the only seminary in the West that offers both a college and a graduate school of theology. Since its inception 128 years ago, Mount Angel Seminary has educated and formed thousands of priests for service to the people of God in nearly 100 dioceses and religious communities across the country and around the world. Categories: Seminary Annunciation Dinner 2018 On Tuesday, March 13th, students, faculty, staff, and guests of Mount Angel Seminary gathered in the Aquinas Dining Hall to celebrate the annual Annunciation Dinner. At the dinner, guests shared fellowship and honored particular members of the community for their contributions and achievements. The awards and their winners are listed below. The Saint Benedict Award for outstanding progress in both graduate and undergraduate human formation was presented to graduate student Deacon Nathan Dail (Theology 4) of the Diocese of Boise, and joint awards for undergraduate students Ian Gaston (College 4) of the Diocese of Orange and Abundio Colazo Lopez (College 4) of the Diocese of Tucson. The award is given to those seminarians who best exemplify the highest formational ideals of the seminary, who model the Benedictine charism, who live the values of the Kingdom and actively proclaim the Good News, who love the Church, and who manifest servant-leadership in the seminary community. The St. Anselm Award was awarded jointly to John DePalma (Pre-Theology 2) of the Archdiocese of Seattle and Sebastian Richardson (Pre-Theology 2) of the Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon, in recognition of those philosophy students whose love of learning, excellent academic record, appreciation of philosophy and the liberal arts, rigorous self-discipline, active classroom participation, and outstanding leadership ability have gained them the respect of the faculty and the admiration of their peers. The Saint Thomas Aquinas Award for outstanding academic achievement from a theology student was presented jointly to Deacon Joseph Lustig (Theology 4) of the Diocese of Boise and Stephen Kenyon (Theology 3) of the Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon. This award is given in recognition of those students whose love of learning, excellent academic record, outstanding ability to articulate Catholic theology, rigorous scholarly research, active classroom participation, generosity with time and talent, and strong leadership ability have won the respect of the faculty and the admiration of students. Deacon Brent Crowe (Theology 4) of the Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon, received the Saint Paul Award for outstanding progress in developing preaching skills. The award is based on the ability to proclaim the Word of God, call to conversion those who hear the Word, and the ability to possess a comfortable presence at the ambo. The Saint Bonaventure Award for outstanding contribution from a faculty member was presented to Dr. Andrew Cummings, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and professor of philosophy at the seminary. The award is based on the ability to teach effectively and generosity with time and talent which have inspired students and won the praise of colleagues. This year the Saint Michael the Archangel Award for special contributions to the seminary and its programs, was awarded to the Frassati Group. This award is given to a student or students, who have contributed significantly to the life of the seminary by establishing something new and beneficial or, through exceptional fidelity, commitment, creativity, and good will, have furthered something already established. In honor of the Most Reverend Thomas Connolly (d. 2015), past Bishop of the Diocese of Baker, the Bishop Connolly prize is awarded in recognition of those seminarians whose submitted projects were recognized as commendable by the faculty. For his essay entitled “Liturgical Mysticism as the Path to Trinitarian Theosis”, the faculty awarded the graduate prize to Dominic Sternhagen (Pastoral Year) of the Diocese of Salt Lake City. For his essay entitled “‘Come, Lady, Die to Live’: Humility and Redemption in Much Ado About Nothing and King Lear”, the faculty awarded the undergraduate prize to Matthew Knight (College 4) from the Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon. Mount Angel Seminary began forming men for the priesthood in 1889 and is now the oldest and largest seminary in the western United States, and the only seminary in the West that offers both a college and a graduate school of theology. Since its inception 129 years ago, MAS has educated and formed thousands of priests, and many qualified religious and lay men and women as well, for service to the people of God in nearly 100 dioceses and religious communities across the country and around the world. Eleven seminarians admitted as candidates for Holy Order The church of Mount Angel Abbey reverberated with the sounds of the full seminary choir and pipe organ as 11 seminarians were admitted to Candidacy for Holy Orders on the morning of October 26, 2017. The men, all in the third year of theology at Mount Angel Seminary, processed into the Abbey church for the Mass followed by about 40 bishops, religious superiors and vocation directors who were present to concelebrate the Mass and participate in the annual Episcopal Council meeting that followed. Admitted to candidacy were Benjamin Bray of the Archdiocese of Seattle; Viane Ilimaleota of the Diocese of Samoa-Pago Pago; Stephen Kenyon and Kurt Ziehlke of the Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon; Nathan Lopez and Timothy Meurer of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe; Dean Marshall and Steven Wood of the Diocese of Sacramento; John Mosier of the Diocese of Boise; and Raymond Philip Napuli and Michael O’Connor of the Diocese of San Diego. The principal celebrant was the Most Rev. Alexander K. Sample of the Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon. Other concelebrants included the Rt. Rev. Jeremy Driscoll, O.S.B., Abbot of Mount Angel Abbey and Chancellor of the Seminary; Rev. Msgr. Joseph Betschart, President-Rector of Mount Angel Seminary; and members of the seminary faculty. The Rite of Admission to Candidacy for Holy Orders is “a day of great joy,” said Archbishop Sample in his homily. The rite marks the point in each man’s vocational discernment when he publically declares his commitment to enter final preparation for service to the people of God as an ordained minister in the Church. The Church, through the bishop, accepts the candidate and publicly affirms the candidate’s acceptance to continue on the path toward ordination. The next step for these men will be ordination to the transitional diaconate, typically held in their respective dioceses in the spring. The ordination to priesthood would then normally follow, again in their respective dioceses, upon the successful completion of the fourth year of theology at the seminary. Mount Angel Seminary is the oldest and largest seminary in the western United States, established in 1889 at Mount Angel Abbey to form men for the priesthood. The Seminary serves both graduate and undergraduate seminarians from dioceses around the western United States, the Pacific Islands, and beyond, as well as students belonging to various religious communities and the lay faithful. A New Scholastic Year Begins at Mount Angel Seminary As they have since 1889, the monks of Mount Angel Abbey, the faculty of Mount Angel Seminary, and friends and staff of the Abbey welcomed seminarians for the new school year with the Mass of the Holy Spirit at the Abbey church on Monday morning, August 28. Listen to Abbot Jeremy’s homily Join us on Facebook to view the photo gallery » Abbot Jeremy Driscoll, O.S.B., chancellor of Mount Angel Seminary, presided at the concelebrated Mass and gave the homily. Invoking the Holy Spirit and welcoming all the students to the hilltop, Abbot Jeremy reminded the congregation that August 28 is also the feast of St. Augustine. He described St. Augustine as “an absolute giant of the Catholic theological tradition.” The Abbot told the students that they “will hear of [St. Augustine] in our pursuit of philosophy, of the arts, of pastoral practice, of rhetoric, of spiritual growth.” But, what is truly important to know about St. Augustine is this: “What the Holy Spirit found and molded in Augustine is the same basic ‘stuff and material’ that exists in every human being — student, faculty, monk, employee, guest.” As the school year begins, each student may have different talents academically, but all are called to respond to the gifts bestowed by the Holy Spirit. “We are to praise the Holy Spirit for the gifts he poured out on [St. Augustine] for the sake of the Church, for the sake of the world,” said the Abbot. “We pray to the Holy Spirit today for the same gifts.” ©Mount Angel Abbey, 1 Abbey Drive, Saint Benedict, Oregon 97373 \| 503.845.3030 \| info@mtangel.edu	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755280
__label__wiki	0.736034	0.736034	Prasarana Accorded IMS Certification in Unprecedented Six-Month Drive KUALA LUMPUR, 29 June – Breaking new frontiers, Prasarana Malaysia Berhad (Prasarana) has successfully carried out a six-month exercise to be accorded the highly-acclaimed Integrated Management System (IMS) certification; covering five key ISOs on quality management; occupational safety and health; environmental control; anti-bribery and information security. The approval letter for the IMS certification for the five ISOs - ISO 9001 Quality Management System; ISO 14001 Environmental Management System; ISO 45001 Occupational Safety and Health Management System; ISO 27001 Information Security Management System and ISO 37001 Anti Bribery Management System – was handed over to Prasarana yesterday by QAS SIRIM International, which was the appointed auditors for the exercise. “Based on my years of experience doing this, securing this five ISOs at one time, under a single exercise of six months, it’s indeed the first in the country. I must congratulate everybody involve in the project, not just for their commitment and dedication; but most important, is their belief that this project was achievable. Though, not for even a second that I doubted that it cannot be done within the six months that we set in our KPI with the Board. “So, on behalf of the management, I would to thank the team for their belief; putting aside all your doubts; and instead getting everybody to focus on the assignment at hand; putting their minds together to ensure ‘Mission Accomplished’. Congratulations, all!!!,” Prasarana’s President and Group Chief Executive Officer, Dato’ Mohamed Hazlan Mohamed Hussain said in his response to acquisition of the IMS certification. Taking over the helm of Prasarana on September 3, last year, Dato’ Mohamed Hazlan had immediately kicked off a fresh transformation programme with three core objectives – increasing ridership and revenue for the Group; optimising costs; and enhancing service excellence, which will be driven by the acquisition of the IMS certification. While preparatory works commenced in November including appointment of the relevant committee members, representing the Group and its subsidiaries, the project was formally launched in January with the target for certification before June 30. “By having the IMS, we know that we have a system, which is consistent and recognised by an independent, respected body. Now, we simply need to follow and replicate the systems in all the things that we do. Everything across the Group will be done in uniformity and consistently. Through this, we will not only have a standard working style; but more importantly, has developed a working culture that will be reflected in our daily operations and observed by our customers. This, in turn, is promoting service excellence. “To our external stakeholders, the acquisition of the five ISOs under the integrated certification will automatically tell them that we in Prasarana has high quality working system of standard, recognised processes. Hence, they know what to expect when they use our services – they are assured of the best, world class services as reflected by the five ISOs that we acquired,” said Dato’ Mohamed Hazlan. In building a culture, he said, the best way to start would be by having a system in place with everyone in the organization embracing and adhering to the system. “Through the adherence of these systems, we would then be able to create an identity of Prasarana staff, which has been a major challenge in the past because Prasarana first existed through the acquisition of key operators of the stage bus services, PUTRA and STAR LRT; and then the KL Monorail services before pooling them together in one single entity, then known as Syarikat Prasarana Malaysia Berhad. “A lot has evolved over the years and various initiatives had been undertaken to build a common working culture in the Group. I believe we have taken a huge step today by acquiring the IMS certification,” said Dato’ Mohamed Hazlan, who had served in Prasarana before as Chief Operations Executive of Rapid KL. “When I came back here in September last year, I have always known that the staff of Prasarana have the strength to excel. Now, with the acquisition of the IMS, it is certified that they have the strength of providing world class services as reflected in the company’s vision. With this knowledge, it will give them the self-belief and motivation to work harder and take the Group to new heights. “I have always believed that nothing is impossible if we commit and believe in ourselves. The keys to achieve something impossible are to have full commitment, to be always prepared, to think out of the box, to have emotional endurance and to always be ready to take calculated risks. Be a high-risk taker. Never listen to those who says you can't do it, but challenge yourself and prove them wrong,” Dato’ Mohamed Hazlan added. Integrating all of Prasarana’s systems and processes into one complete framework and enabling it to work as a single unit with unified objectives, the IMS will also boost the repositioning of Prasarana to a greater height as a provider of public transport infrastructure and help achieve international management standard recognition. Having a common management system requirement and functioning as a framework for implementing several management standards in an integrated way, the IMS will help reduce disruption to Prasarana’s business and eliminates duplication of activities.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755287
__label__wiki	0.950681	0.950681	Richard C. Paddock Southeast Asia Reporter, New York Times Richard C. Paddock reports on Southeast Asia for The New York Times, based in Bangkok, Thailand. He has worked as a foreign correspondent for 14 years and reported from nearly 50 countries on five continents. His current assignment is his third posting in Southeast Asia. Previous posts include Jakarta bureau chief and Moscow bureau chief for The Los Angeles Times and senior correspondent in Southeast Asia for The Wall Street Journal. He also had two tours as San Francisco correspondent for The Los Angeles Times and worked at the Center for Investigative Reporting in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2015, Mr. Paddock shared in an Emmy Award for investigative reporting given to PBS NewsHour for a story on hazardous underwater gold mining in the Philippines. Earlier, he shared in an Overseas Press Club award for coverage of foreign Filipino workers and in a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news won by The Los Angeles Times for coverage of the Los Angeles riots. All Sessions by Richard C. Paddock Native vs Foreign: Challenges in International Reporting Foreign correspondents serve foreign news audiences and editors who want engaging, relatable narratives, but this challenges reporters who are still unfamiliar with the territory and local point of view. The panel brings together a foreign correspondent, local reporter and veteran of the trade to examine cultural bias in reporting, discuss the growing number of "foreign" correspondents of Asian ancestry and provide tools you can use to broaden your story's perspective. Moderator: Richard C. Paddock Reporting Terrorism in Our Backyard Global headlines may be dominated by ISIS, Al-Qaeda or suicide bombers in places that seem far away, but here in Asia, terrorism in many regions takes on a very human face. Cities great and small may harbor communities sympathetic to terrorism or extremism, and the reasons are often more complicated than we think. Panelists will share how they cover this dangerous and sometimes deadly beat, getting to the source of the conflict and breaking down stereotypes to reveal the reality of terrorism at our doorstep.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755288
__label__cc	0.583097	0.416903	Deputies Committee Last updated: 05 Jun. 2012 16:00 The Deputies Committee (DPRC) deals with cross-cutting issues ranging from strategic and political oversight of areas, such as HR policy and the new Headquarters, to committee reform, as well as acting as “trouble-shooting committee” for those issues on which no consensus can be achieved in the competent committee. The DPRC reports directly to the North Atlantic Council. As its name indicates, it is composed of the Deputy Permanent Representatives of each member country and is chaired, according to the topic under discussion, by the Assistant Secretary General of the relevant IS Division or his/her Deputy. The Deputies Committee is supported by the Political Affairs and Security Policy Division, which has overall coordinating responsibility of its activities. It was created in 2010 in the framework of the NATO Committee Review, as a successor to the Senior Political Committee. International Military Staff (IMS) homepage	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755290
__label__wiki	0.786941	0.786941	Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ) Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) Subject/journal group: All The table to the right includes counts of all research outputs for Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ) published between 1 February 2018 - 31 January 2019 which are tracked by the Nature Index. Hover over the donut graph to view the FC output for each subject. Below, the same research outputs are grouped by subject. Click on the subject to drill-down into a list of articles organized by journal, and then by title. Note: Articles may be assigned to more than one subject area. Outputs by subject (FC) Physical Sciences 62 1.79 Earth & Environmental Sciences 2 0.54 Life Sciences 1 0.01 Top articles by Altmetric score in current window Latin Americans show wide-spread Converso ancestry and imprint of local Native ancestry on physical appearance Search for supersymmetry in events with at least three electrons or muons, jets, and missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV Search for decays of stopped exotic long-lived particles produced in proton-proton collisions at s√=13 TeV Constraints on the double-parton scattering cross section from same-sign W boson pair production in proton-proton collisions at √s=8 TeV Search for third-generation scalar leptoquarks decaying to a top quark and a lepton at European Physical Journal C International vs. domestic collaboration by FC 2.45% Domestic 97.55% International Note: Hover over the graph to view the percentage of collaboration. Top 10 domestic collaborators by FC (10 total) Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ), Brazil Domestic institution Brazil Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communication (MCTIC), Brazil (0.78) São Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil (0.71) Federal University of ABC (UFABC), Brazil (0.61) University of Brasília (UnB), Brazil (0.50) Environmental Sanitation Company of the Federal District (CAESB), Brazil (0.50) Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil (0.50) Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil (0.39) State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil (0.37) Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel), Brazil (0.16) University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil (0.03) Top 10 international collaborators by FC (313 total) Foreign institution National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Italy (4.72) Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany (3.26) European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland (3.16) Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), United States of America (USA) (2.65) RWTH Aachen University (RWTH Aachen), Germany (1.78) Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK) (1.71) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA) (1.61) University of Hamburg (UHH), Germany (1.58) Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland (1.51) French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France (1.45) Note: Collaboration is determined by the fractional count (FC), which is listed in parentheses. Instituto de Física, UERJ Departamento de Física Teórica, UERJ Instituto de Biologia, UERJ Faculdade de Geologia, UERJ Departamento de Estratigrafia e Paleontologia, UERJ Departamento de Biologia Celular e Genética, UERJ Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, UERJ Instituto de Química (IQ), UERJ Instituto Politécnico do Rio de Janeiro (IPRJ), UERJ Department of Ecology, UERJ Department of Sciences, UERJ Faculty of Engineering and Administration, UERJ Faculty of Oceanography, UERJ Affiliated joint institutions and consortia DØ Collaboration, United States of America (USA) Primate Center of Rio de Janeiro (CPRJ), Brazil The CMS Collaboration, Switzerland Numerical information only is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. {{formatDate publish_date}} {{formatScore score}} {{n_article}} {{formatScore score}} Get more from the Nature Index, on each page take a tour of the available features. Synthesizing a standard for the human proteome Technical University of Munich (TUM) Humanity’s first foray Down Under The University of Wollongong (UOW) Ultrafast solvent separation	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755291
__label__wiki	0.971535	0.971535	"Unwanted Controversy": Bhupen Hazarika's Brother Amid Bharat Ratna Row Samar Hazarika, Bhupen Hazarika's brother, said that Tej's statement is his opinion and the family feels happy about the top honour All India \| Reported by Ratnadip Choudhury, Edited by Nidhi Sethi \| Updated: February 12, 2019 22:05 IST Samar Hazarika urges all not to create a controversy around the Bharat Ratna for his brother. Guwahati: When Assamese singer Bhupen Hazarika's name was announced for Bharat Ratna, the country's highest civilian honour, his son had described it as a "victory for humanity, diversity and the country's secular character". However, a few weeks later, Tej Hazarika has called it "a display of short-lived cheap thrills". Reason? The intensifying protests in the entire northeast over the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016 and the centre's intent to grant citizenship to non-Muslims. The Bill has already been passed in the Lok Sabha. Tej Hazarika, who lives in the US, said he was unhappy how the centre planned to pass the "painfully unpopular" Bill which was against his father's beliefs and position. But that's his opinion, not the family's, clarified Samar Hazarika, the legend's brother. "We haven't discussed this. What we feel about the honour shouldn't be associated with what he thinks," Samar Hazarika told NDTV and appealed to everyone not to create any controversy around it. Any controversy in this regard is unwanted, added Samar Hazarika, who is also an acclaimed artiste of Assam. "Bhupen da deserves the honour. We all, including Bhupen Hazarika, would have been happier if the honour had come when he was alive. Tej had not consulted us on this, but I think Tej should accept the honour," said Bhupen Hazarika's sister and prominent artiste Sudakshina Sarma. Bhupen Hazarika has been named for the Bharat Ratna, the country's highest civilian award, along with former President Pranab Mukherjee and Bharatiya Jana Sangh leader Nanaji Deshmukh. Bhupen Hazarika had earlier been honoured with Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, Padma Shri, Dada Saheb Phalke and Sangeet Natak Akademi. "Each award has naturally enhanced the pride and honour of every Assamese and Assam," Samar Hazarika said. The late artiste's sister-in-law Manisha Hazarika added, "Being a member of the Bhupen Hazarika family, I am saying that this award is one of the most respected awards of this nation and Bhupen da is a legendary figure. He is above politics, so raking up this controversy is wrong." The music maestro's brother said that Bharat Ratna and the Citizenship Bill are two completely different things and the honour should not be seen in the light of the ongoing unrest. "Bharat Ratna is a recognition of his work, this was long due. We welcome the government's decision. This is not only a honour for the family, but an honour for Assam and the northeast. Tej's statement is his personal opinion," he added. In his songs, he celebrated the richness of indigenous people not only of the northeast but all of India, Tej Pratap had said. "I believe that my father's name and words are being invoked and celebrated publicly while plans are afoot to pass a painfully unpopular bill regarding citizenship that is actually undermining his documented position. It would in reality be in direct opposition to what Bhupenda believed in his heart of hearts," Tez Hazarika said in a Facebook post. The Citizenship Bill aims at granting citizenship to non-Muslims from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan after six years' stay in India. Meghalaya, Assam, Mizoram and Manipur have seen widespread protests since the Bill's passage in the lower House. The protests have spiked particularly in Assam, where the inflow of illegal migrants from Bangladesh is a huge social and political issue. Critics have also questioned the timing of the honour. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rallies in the northeast and specifically Assam have generous mention of Bhupen Hazarika. During one such rally in Assam, PM Modi said the previous governments had failed to honour these icons and it was the BJP government which conferred the Bharat Ratna on Assam's first Chief Minister Gopinath Bordoloi during Atal Bihari Vajpayee's term and now music legend Dr Bhupen Hazarika. "We think that those who are against the Citizenship Bill are behind this propaganda (the controversy around the Bharat Ratna)," said Rupam Goswami, Assam BJP spokesperson. Whereas the Congress believes that the concerns of Bhupen Hazarika's son aren't unfounded. "I understand the concerns and sentiments of Tej Hazarika. The Narendra Modi government is working against the idea supported by Bhupen Hazarika," said Ripun Bora, chief of Congress' Assam unit. Modi Government Opts Against Ordinance On Citizenship Bill "Honour To Receive Bharat Ratna For Father", Says Bhupen Hazarika's Son Bharat Ratna For "Cheap Thrills": Bhupen Hazarika's Son On Protest Mode bhupen hazarikaBhupen Hazarika Bharat RatnaCitizenship Bill 2016	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755293
__label__cc	0.640079	0.359921	Another Girl Who Wore Freedom Here in the States we just celebrated Mother’s Day and we would like to honor all mothers for the love and sacrifices they make for their children. This week’s blog is a special tribute from a son to his mother and grandmother that tells their story of survival during the German occupation. It also highlights that many, many people in addition to the French struggled under the occupation during the Second World War. All these stories are amazing and valuable pieces of history that should be captured and honored while we still have time. This is our passion at The Girl Who Wore Freedom and we hope it becomes yours. The picture transfixed me. It was Dany Patrix in her freedom dress, a dress made from the parachutes of the American liberators. My mother had such a dress. While in Normandy, Dany’s dress was adorned with the Stars and Stripes, my mother’s dress carried the red, white and blue in the form of symbolic flowers of Luxembourg. The red poppies, the white daisies, and the blue Bachelor Button flowers, also the colors of the Luxembourg flag, were hand painted on the silk. The stories of the French’s love affair for the American liberators is so important to remember, both to preserve the stories of sacrifice and gratitude and to document the story for those who can only experience history through a work like this. Just as history shapes a nation, personal family history shapes a person. I am more keenly aware of this now, as I have had the opportunity to listen to my mom fill in a few blanks of the stories she told me during my childhood. I grew up in a town in rural NW Ohio where family history was valued. Generations of families had deep roots in the area, and one could tell what area of the county you were from by your last name. However, our name meant nothing to the locals; we were foreigners. Not only were we first generation to NW Ohio, but I was a first generation American on my mother’s side. While many of those from where I grew up never saw much of the world beyond Ohio’s borders, I spent my youth taking multiple summer trips back to my motherland of Luxembourg to visit my extended family. It was over the course of my upbringing on these trips that I was able to learn about this history first hand. By the time I was eight, I had seen everything from Luxembourg to Bastogne to Versailles, and it was always a ‘must stop’ to visit General Patton’s grave at the Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial outside of Luxembourg City. Ettelbruck in Luxembourg was also a favorite stop of the family so that I could have my picture taken with the Patton Monument in the town. It was during these excursions that I learned who I really was. I learned about how my mother and grandparents endured the hardships of the war, both as residents of occupied Luxembourg and as a reluctant soldier in the German Wehrmacht. My mother’s father was born in Quint, Germany. As a young child, his family emigrated from Germany to Luxembourg to find a better life for themselves. He grew up as a Luxembourger, attended school, trained as a carpenter, and built beautiful furniture some of which adorns our family home in Chicagoland today. He got married to a Luxembourg woman and had a beautiful daughter, whom I call mom. All this he did without thought of naturalizing as a Luxembourger. In those days, countries’ borders were fluid and the requirements for naturalizing as a citizen were less of an issue than it is now. However, if had he naturalized, this story may never have been written. As Germany’s Blitzkrieg rolled across western Europe in 1940, my family was trying to maintain a sense of normalcy despite the German occupation. Eventually, as many did, my grandparents moved in with family. My grandfather’s parents lived outside of Luxembourg City and together they attempted to ride out the occupation together. When the United States formally took up arms alongside the rest of the allies in 1941, Hitler sought troops from occupied territories to fight on the eastern front. For Luxembourg, that meant that in August of 1942, men of German descent were “forcibly conscripted” to fight in the Wehrmacht. Forcibly conscripted, I guess, is a euphemism for “come fight our war or we’re going to shoot you, your wife and your child.” Having never naturalized as a Luxembourger, my grandfather, who was by then also a new father, had no choice but to fight for a country he never knew, and fight for a leader he did not support. The difficult times became worse when the Germans also conscripted Luxembourg young men. People were trying to hide their “boys” but the Nazis were very good at finding them. They would drive pitchforks into hay piles in the countryside, flushing out the boys who were trying to hide there. Most of the time, the boys were then shot on the spot. Hate for Nazis and anyone of German descent grew. This caused even more hardship for my grandmother, who continued to live near Luxembourg City, where neighbors turned against them. Looters broke into their home and threatened to steal family treasures, such as the furniture that my grandfather had built. Finally, the Mayor of the town stepped in saying, “These are Luxembourgers too! We don’t do this to each other.” When my family heard through the hidden radios that the allies were beginning to win battles in Northern Africa and in Italy, they began to make plans to hide my grandfather when he came back to Luxembourg on a short pass. Hoping that the war would be over soon, they were willing to do anything to keep him from returning to battle. However, the worse the war was going for the Germans, the more frantic they became. My grandfather knew that if he deserted, the Nazis would come looking for him, and his family would be in danger of going to a concentration camp or worse, being executed. He made the difficult choice to spare his family, and he returned to the eastern front. The rest, as they say, is history… Operation Overlord was a success. Our boys worked their way across the beaches of Normandy and slowly took back the land taken during the Blitzkrieg. As the war deteriorated for Hitler on the west front, things were becoming bleak to the east as well. During these final months of the war, my grandfather was captured. He was taken POW somewhere in what was then the Soviet Union. Many years later, my grandmother received a letter from a former fellow prisoner who had been sent home from the work camp near Riga in Russia. According to this man, my grandfather’s education as a carpenter probably afforded him reasonable treatment, but that it was best to stop trying to find him. Every time the Russians suspected that a prisoner’s location was discovered, they would move him so that they could deny that he was there. After receiving that letter, my grandmother stopped trying to find her husband. After the occupation was over, the Luxembourgers, like my mother and grandmother, sought to find a new sense of normalcy. It started with watching the Germans retreat and then meeting a new group of soldiers, the American GIs. In one of my favorite stories, a drill sergeant was leading his men through the daily calisthenics in a nearby cow pasture. Nearby, a little blond-haired Luxembourg girl mirrors their movements. Suddenly she starts yelling at him. He, of course, couldn’t understand her and went on leading his men through the drill. This persistent little girl, my mom, ran over and pulled the sergeant’s sleeves to get his attention, pointing out the piles of manure in which his men were told to do their push-ups. The drill sergeant moved his men to a clearer area to continue. The following morning, one of the GIs gave her a piece of chocolate to say thanks for helping them out of a ‘messy’ spot. So yeah, those stories you read and have seen about GIs giving kids chocolate… it’s true. All of it. Listening to my mother tell of her father’s sacrifice formed me in ways that I cannot measure. What my mother and grandmother endured is something so foreign to our experience, but that heritage gives me a great sense of appreciation for the freedom many of us take for granted. When my mother was born in 1941 in Luxembourg during the German occupation. It’s hard for us to imagine the amount of control the occupying forces could exert over the townspeople. All babies born during the occupation had to be given German names. My grandparents intended to name my mom Marguerite that was far too French to the Nazis’ liking but “Ritta” was approved. After the liberation, Luxembourgers allowed children who were forced to take Germanic names to change their names. Few made any changes because these children had grown accustomed to their names. It was easy enough, however, for my grandparents to change the spelling of my mom’s name from “Ritta” to “Rita.” Not quite as French as “Marguerite,” but it was still a heck of a lot less German. Over the years, as I learned my history and began to understand these stories at levels far deeper than the young child who first heard them, I too changed my name. In honor of a grandfather whom I never met, a man who did what he had to do in order to spare his family and in honor of what my family went through during the Luxembourg occupation. I changed my birth name of “Scott” to “Scot.” I figured if one ‘t’ was good enough for my mom, it would be good enough for me. That’s a bit of my story. It amazes me as I sit here typing how the world has brought me to this place and to be connected with this project. The western front of the European theater has always been a story close to my soul. However, as I type I have to question the coincidence of a friend of mine starting a conversation with a stranger in a foreign country leading to The Girl Who Wore Freedom and the fact that just 340 miles to the east, at the same time, my mom was also another little girl “wearing freedom.” Scot Richardson Guest Author for The Girl Who Wore Freedom Scot currently lives in Wheaton, IL with his wife, two teen-aged boys and Hooch his French Mastiff. Outside his love of European theater WWII history, Scot is an avid Lacrosse fan and coach. He currently is the Director of Data Sciences for a large Marketing Services company.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755296
__label__wiki	0.88449	0.88449	Trump welcomes billions of dollars of investments in U.S. by Qatar While the Gulf countries and their supporters continue to rebuff Qatar, the U.S. is expanding its relationship U.S. President Donald Trump and the Emir of Qatar Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani sealed the deals on Tuesday Trade between the two countries is currently around $185 billion and the emir says the countries are looking to double their current volume of trade WASHINGTON DC - The U.S. has swept aside the impasse between several of its allies and the tiny Gulf state of Qatar, and signed a number of agreements which will cement busiess ties between the two countries. Qatar, which is home to some of the richest gas fields in the world, and which boasts the richest population in the world on a per-capita basis, has been at odds with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Bahrain, Jordan, Yemen, Libya and a number of other countries, since those countries implemented a blockade against it around two years ago. Those countries are all strong allies of the U.S., as is Qatar which is home to the U.S. Fifth Fleet. While the Gulf countries and their allies continue to rebuff Qatar, the U.S. is expanding its relationship. Deals signed on Tuesday are in the areas of defense, aeronautics and energy. U.S. President Donald Trump and the Emir of Qatar Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani sealed the deals in a signing ceremony at the White House on Tuesday. "It's a great honor to be with the emir of Qatar, a highly respected man, a real leader in a large part of the world and a very important part of the world. And we've known each other a long time. We've been friends for a long time," President Trump said prior to the signing. "They're investing very heavily in our country. They're creating a lot of jobs. They're buying tremendous amounts of military equipment, including planes. And they're buying commercial planes, as you know, very large numbers of commercial planes from Boeing. And we very much appreciate it." Qatar Airways which has been blocked from flying over the airspace of its former Gulf allies, and has been banned from operating in those countries, has shown no sign of being weakened by the blockade as it has agreed to buy five Boeing 777 freighters, and has signed on to buy even more Gulfstream large-cabin aircraft than it had on order. Qatar Airways has also agreed to use General Electric jet engines and services to power its fleet of Boeing 787 and 777 aircraft. Chevron-Phillips are doing a deal with Qatar Petroleum for the two to joint-venture a petrochemical complex in Qatar. Raytheon's medium-to-long range NASAM and long-range Patriot Systems surface-to-air missile systems will be bought by the Qatar defense ministry as part of another deal. The value of the deals signed on Tuesday was not disclosed. Trade between the two countries is currently around $185 billion however, and the emir at one point said the countries were looking to double their current volume of trade.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755297
__label__wiki	0.980652	0.980652	HISTORY, Feb. 9: 'Ladies and gentlemen, The Beatles. Let's bring them on' On Sunday, Feb. 9, 1964, over 73 million Americans gathered around television sets to see what all the excitement was about. On Feb. 9, 1964, The Beatles made their first live American television appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show," broadcast from New York on CBS. The band played five songs in two sets. The first set included "All My Loving," "Till There Was You," and "She Loves You." Later in the second half of the show, the Beatles played "I Saw Her Standing There" and "I Want To Hold Your Hand." On this date: In 1825, the House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams president after no candidate received a majority of electoral votes. In 1861, Jefferson Davis was elected provisional president of the Confederate States of America at a congress held in Montgomery, Alabama. In 1942, the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff held its first formal meeting to coordinate military strategy during World War II. Daylight-saving "War Time" went into effect in the United States, with clocks moved one hour forward. The SS Normandie, a former French liner being refitted for the U.S. Navy at a New York pier, caught fire (it capsized early the next morning). In 1943, the World War II battle of Guadalcanal in the southwest Pacific ended with an Allied victory over Japanese forces. In 1950, in a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wis., charged that the State Department was riddled with Communists. In 1960, Adolph Coors Co. chairman Adolph Coors III, 44, was shot to death in suburban Denver during a botched kidnapping attempt. (The man who killed him, Joseph Corbett Jr., served 19 years in prison.) In 1964, the G.I. Joe action figure was introduced at the American International Toy Fair in New York. In 1971, a magnitude 6.6 earthquake in California's San Fernando Valley claimed 65 lives. The crew of Apollo 14 returned to Earth after man's third landing on the moon. In 1984, Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov, 69, died 15 months after succeeding Leonid Brezhnev; he was followed by Konstantin U. Chernenko (chehr-NYEN'-koh). In 2002, Britain's Princess Margaret, sister of Queen Elizabeth II, died in London at age 71. In 2005, Hewlett-Packard Co. chief executive Carly Fiorina was forced out by board members, ending her nearly six-year reign. In 2017, a federal appeals court refused to reinstate President Donald Trump's ban on travelers from seven predominantly Muslim nations, unanimously rejecting the administration's claim of presidential authority, questioning its motives and concluding that the order was unlikely to survive legal challenges. Ten years ago: President Barack Obama used his first news conference since taking office to urgently pressure lawmakers to approve a massive economic recovery bill. New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez admitted to taking performance-enhancing drugs, telling ESPN he'd used banned substances while with the Texas Rangers for three years. Lindsey Vonn won the downhill for her second gold at the World Championships in Val D'isere, France, becoming the second American woman (after Andrea Mead Lawrence) to win two golds at a worlds. Playwright Robert Anderson ("Tea and Sympathy") died in New York at age 91. Five years ago: Despite a wave of online protests, Copenhagen Zoo in Denmark killed a healthy male giraffe named "Marius" because of rules imposed by a European zoo association to deter inbreeding. Host country Russia won its first gold medal of the Sochi Olympics, winning the team figure skating event; Matthias Mayer of Austria won the men's downhill. Missouri All-American Michael Sam came out to the nation as an openly gay player in published interviews with ESPN, The New York Times and Outsports. Danish movie director Gabriel Axel ("Babette's Feast") died in Copenhagen at age 95. One year ago: President Donald Trump signed a $400 billion budget deal that sharply boosted spending, swelling the federal deficit; the measure ended a brief overnight federal government shutdown. At the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in South Korea, North and South Korean athletes entered Olympic Stadium together, waving flags showing a unified Korea; it was their first joint Olympic march in more than a decade. Today's Birthdays: Television journalist Roger Mudd is 91. Actress Janet Suzman is 80. Nobel Prize-winning author J.M. Coetzee is 79. Actress-politician Sheila James Kuehl (kyool) (TV: "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis") is 78. Singer-songwriter Carole King is 77. Actor Joe Pesci is 76. Singer Barbara Lewis is 76. Author Alice Walker is 75. Actress Mia Farrow is 74. Former Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., is 73. Singer Joe Ely is 72. Actress Judith Light is 70. Rhythm-and-blues musician Dennis "DT" Thomas (Kool & the Gang) is 68. Actor Charles Shaughnessy is 64. Actor Ed Amatrudo is 63. Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe is 62. Jazz musician Steve Wilson is 58. Country singer Travis Tritt is 56. Actress Julie Warner is 54. Country singer Danni Leigh is 49. Actress Sharon Case is 48. Actor Jason George is 47. Actress Amber Valletta is 45. Actor-producer Charlie Day is 43. Rock singer Chad Wolf (Carolina Liar) is 43. Actor A.J. Buckley is 42. Rock musician Richard On (O.A.R.) is 40. Actress Ziyi (zee yee) Zhang is 40. Olympic silver and bronze medal figure skater Irina Slutskaya is 40. Actor Tom Hiddleston is 38. Actor David Gallagher is 34. Actor Michael B. Jordan is 32. Actress Rose Leslie is 32. Actress Marina Malota is 31. Actress Camille Winbush is 29. Actor Jimmy Bennett is 23. Actor Evan Roe (TV: "Madam Secretary") is 19. Thought for Today: "The man who has eaten enough will never believe a hungry one." — Albanian proverb.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755300
__label__wiki	0.843937	0.843937	Newcastle’s pioneering medical program celebrates milestone Four decades ago the University of Newcastle’s Foundation Dean of Medicine, Professor David Maddison, was promised a free hand to create an innovative medical program. In 2018 the University of Newcastle’s pioneering medical program, the first degree in medicine to be established in a non-metropolitan Australian university, and the first to adopt a problem-based learning approach, celebrates 40 years of delivery. Respected for its game-changing focus on problem-based learning, teaching of patient-centred medicine and innovative admissions process, the medical program continues to attract a diverse group of students who are willing, and capable, of driving excellence in health care. Pro Vice-Chancellor Health and Medicine, Laureate Professor John Aitken said the University of Newcastle’s community of more than 2800 medicine graduates could be found throughout Australia, and the world, improving health care delivery through their committed work in clinical practice, community outreach, research and philanthropy. “The University of Newcastle is extremely proud of our medical program’s strong history and our commitment to delivering cutting-edge medical education to the next generation of doctors. “This important anniversary is an opportunity to celebrate our achievements so far, and to reaffirm our continued commitment to excellence and equity, and to diversity in health and medical education,” Laureate Professor Aitken. This year also marks the 10th year of the establishment of the Joint Medical Program (JMP), delivered in partnership with the University of New England, and in collaboration with the Central Coast Local Health District and the Hunter New England Local Health District. The partnership resulted in Australia’s first Joint Medical Program, designed to better address the medical workforce shortages in rural and regional Australia. The program addresses the critical health delivery issues that face the nation by providing opportunities for students to gain rural clinical experience during their studies and encouraging students to practice in rural areas. Head of the School of Medicine and Public Health, and Dean of the Joint Medical Program, Professor Brian Kelly, said the University of Newcastle was a trailblazer in changing the approach to medical program education including new methods of student selection with emphasis on the desirable personal qualities of future doctors; with a focus on improving access to medical schools; and focusing on community needs. “The new Medical School introduced new ways of learning through a problem-solving approach to real-world health needs, a firm commitment to the human element of medicine and health care, and understanding health needs of communities as well as individuals.” Professor Kelly said diversity and inclusion had become the cornerstone of the University’s medical program. “We are particularly proud that our Miroma Bunbilla pre-entry to medicine program has encouraged an exceptional cohort of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students to study medicine; we have graduated approximately one third of all practising Indigenous doctors; and our graduates are more likely to be based in rural areas than the national average.” The JMP now boasts six clinical schools including large metropolitan hospitals in Newcastle and the Central Coast, regional and rural centres in the lower Hunter, Tamworth, Armidale, Taree, Moree and primary care settings across the Upper Hunter, New England and the Central Coast. “From our Foundation Dean, Professor David Maddison revolutionising medical school admission to the establishment of Australia’s only jointly delivered medical program, we aren’t afraid to do things differently if it means the best possible outcome for our graduates and ultimately the communities they serve,” Professor Kelly said. Laureate Professor Aitken said the 40th anniversary of the medical program was an occasion to pay tribute to those who had paved the way for its success. “We take this opportunity to reflect on the confidence and hard work of those at the University of Newcastle who took a risk in launching a medical program, which continues to be successful today. “Our globally-recognised, regionally-based, medical program has graduated doctors with a dedication to excellence in all aspects of patient care with the skills and capacity to adapt and respond effectively to new and emerging future health needs.” 40 years in Medicine celebrations As part of the celebrations, the University is hosting an equity in medicine public lecture series throughout the year addressing issues such as gender equity in the health and medical professions; service provision in rural and remote communities; and Indigenous health and well-being.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755301
__label__wiki	0.559056	0.559056	Clergy, UNICEF partner to promote maternal health The Rwanda Interfaith Network against HIV and Aids (RCLS) has entered into partnership with UNICEF to promote maternal and child health. The partnership was preceded by a one-day orientation workshop and cemented by the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding ( MoU). L-R : UNICEF Country Director Dr. Joseph Foumbi ; CNLS Boss, Dr Anita Asimwe The Rwanda Interfaith Network against HIV and Aids (RCLS) has entered into partnership with UNICEF to promote maternal and child health. The partnership was preceded by a one-day orientation workshop and cemented by the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding ( MoU). The Executive Secretary of the National Aids Control Commission (CNLS), Dr Anita Asiimwe - who opened the workshop - highlighted the role of religious leaders in promoting healthy societies. “Faith based communities play a crucial role in increasing access to maternal and newborn health,” Dr Asiimwe said. “… in addition, they operate 40% of the health facilities countrywide, meaning that there is very crucial.” Dr Asiimwe added that the results of the partnership will help Rwanda achieve MDGs, specifically those related to maternal and child health, Malaria, HIV, Tuberculosis and other diseases. The Country Director of UNICEF, Dr Joseph Foumbi reiterated the role played by religious leaders in communities. “With your moral authority, you as religious leaders can change mindsets and set priorities for your communities,” he said. Foumbi challenged the religious leaders to build a society where children and their mothers do not fall sick or die because of lack of the right information to protect themselves. He said that UNICEF and the UN family in Rwanda remain committed to working with religious leaders in as far as advancing the country’s goals.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755303
__label__wiki	0.959569	0.959569	The top ten rappers who died young LIKE so many famous rappers before him, Kris Kross star Chris ‘Mac Daddy’ Kelly has died young. He died on Wednesday! Published : May 03, 2013 Notorius BIG. Net photo. The Jump singer – who found fame in the 90s as one half of the hip-hop duo – was found unconscious in his Atlanta home on Wednesday. An autopsy will determine the cause of death – although Billboard is reporting a “possible drug overdose.” He was just 34. The much-loved star - famous with Chris ‘Daddy Mac’ Smith for wearing his trousers backwards - is tragically not the only rap star to lose his life at a young age. Here are ten other gone-too-soon hip-hop gods: 1) Proof One of Eminem’s best pals, MC Proof - real name DeShaun Dupree Holton - was a part of the Stan rapper’s D12 group. One of the most prominent members of the group, he toured extensively with Eminem and appeared on the Up In Smoke Tour in 2000. But the dad-of-five got into a boozy row at Detroit’s CCC club on April 11 2006 and shot fellow reveller Keith Bender in the head. Bender’s cousin then shot Proof four times in self-defence. The club was closed down for operating illegally a month later. 2) Nate Dogg Nate Dogg - real name Nathaniel Dwayne Hale - is best known for his collaboration on 1994 smash Regulate. The hit - recorded with rapper Warren G - ironically appeared on the soundtrack to Above The Rim, a basketball film starring Tupac Shakur. The singer suffered a stroke on December 19 2007 that paralysed the left side of his body. He suffered a second stroke in September 2008 and died from complications of the multiple strokes in March 2011. 3) 2Pac Perhaps the most iconic rapper to lose his life young, Tupac Shakur was shot dead at the age of 25 in September 1996. A vocal participant in the so-called East Coast-West Coast rivalry of US rappers, he was known for huge hits California Love and Changes. He was shot dead in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas after visiting town to watch the Mike Tyson-Bruce Seldon boxing match. No suspect was ever arrested for the crime but investigative journalist Chuck Philips has put forward the case to suggest a member of LA’s Southside Crips gang pulled the trigger in revenge for an earlier attack by Shakur. 4) Lisa ‘Left Eye’ Lopes Lisa, best known by her stage name Left Eye, was part of huge US R&B/hip-hop group TLC. The girls had hits with songs No Scrubs, Waterfalls and Creep, selling more than 65million records. A big future as a solo artist beckoned but tragically Lisa was killed in a car accident after losing control of her vehicle while on holiday in Honduras in April 2002 5) Notorious B.I.G. Just 24 when he died, Biggie - real name Christopher George Latore Wallace - was shot dead as he drove home from a party in Los Angeles in March 1997. Several theories surround the drive-by shooting - which has never been solved - and British documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield made Biggie & Tupac to chase up leads suggesting a link between the two murders. Pal and collaborator Sean Puffy Combs released his biggest hit to date, I’ll Be Missing You, in tribute to the larger-than-life star. With hits including Mo Money Mo Problems and Hypnotise, he has sold 17million records in America alone. 6) Eazy-E Known as The Godfather of Gangsta Rap hypeman Eazy-E - real name Eric Lynn Wright - was part of iconic hip-hop group N.W.A. Never the best lyricist, his distinctive high-pitched delivery and violent message made him a star. Eazy parted ways with fellow rappers Dr. Dre and Ice Cube in 1994 after a string of hits including Express Yourself and Straight Outta Compton. He was rushed to hospital in early 1995 with suspected asthma but diagnosed instead with AIDS. He died just a month after his diagnosis in March that year. 7) Big Punnisher Puerto Rican rapper Big Pun - real name Chrisopher Rios - got his start rapping on tracks by the Beatnuts. His solo career debut, I’m Not A Player, was a big hit in 1997 and made him the first solo Latino rapper to go platinum. Even bigger success was predicted for the star but he died after a heart attack brought on by morbid obesity in February 2000. He was just 29 - but weighed more than 50 stone. 8) Scott La Rock The first well-known rap artist to die young, DJ La Rock formed the hip-hop group Boogie Down Productions with lyricist KRS-One. Their only released album, Criminal Minded, is considered highly influential and was picked as one of The Source magazine’s 100 Best Rap Albums. Scott was just 25 when he was gunned down after trying to intervene in a dispute between friends and another group in New York in 1987. 9) Ol’ Dirty Bastard Ol’ Dirty Bastard - real name Russell Tyrone Jones - was a member of hip-hop groug The Wu-Tang Clan along with rappers RZA, Method Man and Ghostface Killah. The true wild card of the group, ODB wrestled with drugs and mental illness throughout his life, going in and out of jail in between recording albums. He died from a lethal cocktail of cocaine and Tramadol in November 2004, collapsing on the floor of RZA’s studio. He was 35. 10) Guru Better known by his stage name Guru, Keith Edward Elam was an American MC and member of hip-hop duo Gang Starr. He also lent his voice for 8-Ball in computer games Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories. The rapper fell prey to cancer and died following a heart attack-induced coma at the age of 43 in 2010.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755304
__label__wiki	0.967659	0.967659	For Magic radio voice Dennis Neumann, the Marine Corps Marathon will be a family affair By By Josh Robbins and Orlando Sentinel Oct 19, 2013 \| 5:58 PM As the Orlando Magic's radio play-by-play announcer, Dennis Neumann spends his working life describing the athletic exploits of others. But one week from Sunday, Neumann, his stepson and one of his stepdaughters will do something few pro athletes ever attempt. They'll run the Marine Corps Marathon through the streets of Northern Virginia and Washington, D.C. Along the 26.2-mile course, they'll pass memorials to troops who served in World War II, Korea and Vietnam, as well as the Pentagon Memorial, which honors victims of 9-11. "You just think of what they gave up for us," Neumann said. "Just an incredible sacrifice." Those sacrifices hit home for Neumann's family. His stepson, Brad Fessler, piloted CH-46 helicopters in the Marine Corps during three overseas deployments. Fessler transported troops in and out of combat zones during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003 and during the troop surge in 2007. "What I did paled in comparison to what guys on the ground do," Brad said during a phone interview. "I flew guys around and, for the most part, I lived inside the wire. Those guys who are infantry guys and guys who are on patrols and face-to-face with the enemy on the ground — those are the guys, I think, who deserve the credit." [Popular on OrlandoSentinel.com] Magic officially re-sign Michael Carter-Williams, Khem Birch » But Brad's military service still left an indelible mark on the family. It brought their already close-knit family even closer together. And, even though they've run races before, next weekend's marathon will strengthen those bonds. In 1985, Neumann was working for the USA Radio Network in Dallas when he met Debbie Fessler and her three children: Brad, Lisa and Stephanie. Dennis and Debbie got married four years later. During a recent interview, his voice rose as he talked about Brad, Lisa and Stephanie. His love for them is obvious. Brad attended the U.S. Naval Academy and now works for Honeywell in Phoenix and pilots V-22 Ospreys as a reservist. Lisa is an import-export broker in Chicago. Stephanie, who will run in the marathon, is a emergency-room pediatrician in Atlanta. "I'm fortunate as a mom with children from another marriage to have him embrace my children like his own," Debbie said. "He's just fabulous with them and has been with them for a long time. They all love him. He loves them." [Popular on OrlandoSentinel.com] Magic reportedly re-sign Khem Birch to 2-year deal » Neumann grew up in Portland, Ore., and as a kid, he loved listening to sports on the radio. The broadcasts of Bill Schonely, the Portland Trail Blazers' radio play-by-play announcer, captivated him. He wanted to do what Schonely did. In 1983, a Christian contemporary radio station in Plano, Texas, hired him to work as a disc jockey during the midnight-to-6 a.m. shift. It was Neumann's first broadcasting job. The next year, he started doing play-by-play work, announcing Plano East Senior High football games over the radio. Other jobs in the industry followed. In 1991, he joined the Magic as a studio host for their radio broadcasts and listened as David Steele did the team's radio play-by-play. After the 1997-98 NBA season, Steele became the team's TV play-by-play man, and Neumann moved into Steele's old job. Neumann's style has evolved ever since, influenced by Schonely, Steele and former Seattle SuperSonics play-by-play man Kevin Calabro. Neumann's voice is smooth, and he speaks with impeccable grammar whether he's on-air or off-air. Other than that, listening to Neumann call a game is different from listening to Neumann during a face-to-face conversation. [Popular on OrlandoSentinel.com] Don’t expect Magic to pursue Russell Westbrook trade » In his day-to-day life, Neumann, a 53-year-old man with thick, white hair, is soft-spoken and calm. But, during Magic games, he captures the intensity of an emphatic dunk or a buzzer-beating shot with ease. His voice rises and acquires a rough edge. "I love the competition," Neumann said. "I love sports. It's easy for me. Number one, I'm a fan. I think it just comes out when you watch it. "I love radio," he added. "I love the fact that you can create the image. You try to create that image for people driving down the highway or working late at night or even sitting at an office." When Magic swingman Maurice Harkless dunked during a game last season, Neumann yelled, "Red Storm rising!" It was a reference to Harkless' collegiate playing days for the St. John's Red Storm. "He's genuine," Steele said of Neumann. "He's smart. He's articulate. He paints a clear picture on the radio. I think he's the best radio play-by-play announcer in the NBA. You know you have a good radio announcer when he paints a picture of what's happening on the floor. He does that with color and energy and excitement." One of the perks of Neumann's job are trips to his stepchildren's cities. Magic road games in Phoenix allow him to see Brad. Games in Chicago help him visit Lisa. And games in Atlanta enable him to spend time with Stephanie. On a few occasions, Brad sat next to his stepdad during broadcasts. Once — off the air — Brad attempted to announce an NBA game for 15 seconds. "I tried to do Dennis' job, and it's impossible," he said. [Popular on OrlandoSentinel.com] Magic shut down center Mo Bamba for remainder of NBA Summer League » Dennis conveys a similar sense of wonder when he's asked about Brad's military career. A few months ago, Brad took Dennis into a flight simulator. With a flip of a switch, the simulator approximated what it's like to fly a V-22 Osprey during a sandstorm at night. "It's beyond my realm of understanding," Dennis said. Brad's deployments were rough on the family, especially his mom. Just before Brad shipped off for his first deployment, Debbie spent some time aboard the USS Boxer, an amphibious assault ship, to help Brad get ready. The crewmen seemed so young, even younger than her son. "Bradley," she remembers saying, "they look like they're 16." There was a full moon that night. Even now, she remembers that experience — and those youngsters' bravery — whenever she sees a full moon. She recalls three occasions during Brad's deployments when she learned through news outlets that U.S. helicopters had crashed in the Middle East. She knew that military officials would've informed the family before any news hit the airwaves, but that didn't prevent her or Dennis from worrying. Each time, she went out to the family's front yard, just in case military officials were about to drive up to give her horrific news. [Popular on OrlandoSentinel.com] Magic confident they can compete in revamped Eastern Conference » "I would sit out there from the time I found out to the time it got dark, because I figured if they hadn't come to my door by then to tell me, it wasn't Bradley," she said. "That's how I felt like I had to face it." So, the family is acutely aware of other families' sacrifices. It's one reason why the Marine Corps Marathon will mean so much. As part of their run, Dennis, Brad and Stephanie are raising money for the Travis Manion Foundation, a nonprofit that helps veterans and their families. So far, Neumann and his stepchildren have raised about $5,500. Latest Orlando Magic News Magic officially re-sign Michael Carter-Williams, Khem Birch Magic reportedly re-sign Khem Birch to 2-year deal Don’t expect Magic to pursue Russell Westbrook trade The marathon will conclude at the Marine Corps War Memorial, which depicts troops raising the American flag at Iwo Jima during World War II. Neumann has tried to predict what the marathon's final mile will feel like. "To think of what has been sacrificed by those guys going overseas for us just to do what we do in this country every day," he said, his voice trailing off. "It'll be a big part of my thought process as I run." jbrobbins@tribune.com. To donate to the Travis Manion Foundation, go to crowdrise.com/familyfourteamtravis. Most Read • Orlando Magic News	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755309
__label__wiki	0.837766	0.837766	 Overtown Home Waterton Main Page The Watertons, History & Origins ▼ A Brief History Chronology Origins in Lincolnshire Life as Roman Catholics Tudor Queens Hanoverian Rats Thomas More Charles Waterton's Life & Family ▼ Autobiography Charles Waterton Portraiture Early Years School at Tudhoe Stonyhurst College Spain A Brief Marriage Edmund Waterton Life as the Squire of Walton Hall Final Resting Place Family Tree ▼ Family Tree Main Page Charles Waterton's Family Tree From de Burgh to Waterton Waterton of Corringham,etc. - 14th & 15th Century Descents Descent from More to Waterton South America ▼ Overview Guyana Demerara, The Plantation Years Venezuela, Orinoco Adventure The Wanderings ▼ Main Page 1st Wandering 1812 South America 2nd Wandering 1816 South America 3rd Wandering 1820 South America 4th Wandering 1824 North America Natural History Handiworks Walton Hall ▼ Walton Hall Main Page The Hall Gallery The Park Gallery Old Views The Heronry Aftermath Waterton Links Links - General Book Shelf Overtown Miscellany - Charles Waterton Related Pages ▼ Life & History - An Introduction Autobiography Charles Waterton Portraiture Early Years Tudhoe School Tudhoe Gallery Stoneyhurst College Spain A Brief Marriage Edmund Waterton Life As The Squire Of Walton Hall Brickbats & Roses (Foes and Friends) Final Resting Place The Grave of Charles Waterton (The Squire's Grandfather). Charles Waterton's Life and Family - Life as the Squire Portrait of Charles Waterton by Charles Willson Peale Life as the Squire • 1 - Portrait by Charles Willson Peale • 2 - The Poachers • 3 - Mary Joyce, the Faithful Servant • 4 - Political Commentaries • 5 - The Squire's Finances • 6 - Josephn Wolff Charles Waterton in his 42nd year, or in other words when he had passed his 41st birthday but not yet attained his 42nd. From the original by Charles Willson Peale (1). ■ Click here to see the painting in colour, courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery in London. The painting itself is in the National Portrait Gallery. When he first met Squire Charles Waterton, in 1824, the Squire described of his method of taxidermy using the Guiana Red Cotinga and the cat's head that the artist has included here. Waterton's 'Tiger-cat' "One of the small Leopards known as Margays (Leopardus tigrinus). Several species of leopard are called by this name. Waterton tamed one of them, brought it home, and actually trained it to run with the fox hounds. It was very useful as a rat-catcher." (Rev. J.G. Wood) (3) Elsewhere, the Margay is described as being Leopardus wiedii as opposed to Leopardus tigrinus. Leopardus tigrinus is the Oncilla, also known as Tiger Cat or Little Spotted Cat. In any event, Waterton's cat looks a bit cross like a tiger! This picture is the frontispiece from Essays on Natural History by Charles Waterton, edited with a Life of the Author by Norman Moore, B.A., published by Frederick Warne & Co., Bedford Street, Covent Garden, 1871. Painted by Peale in 1824, the portrait hung with the portraits of other distinguished naturalists in Peale's museum in Philadelphia. when the museum was sold, George Ord purchased the portrait and sent it to the Squire at Walton Hall. It was no. 162 in the Walton Hall museum catalogue. ( Squire Waterton made the staircase in Walton Hall into a museum and opened it to the public at 'convenient hours'. ■ Read a letter written by Charles Waterton on this subject. The paper of the letter has the papermaker's watermark of 1855 and, as Waterton died in 1865, the letter must have been written between these dates. This is one sheet of folded paper with the handwriting on one half sheet. Size of written area is 4½ by 7 inches.) Extract from a letter to George Ord from Charles Waterton, Walton Hall, 15th April 1855. Our family returns you its warmest thanks for your much valued present of the picture, which is doubly dear to me, on account of my personal acquaintance with old Mr. Peale and his most talented sons. The portrait is in prime order, quite ready to take its station in what, I would hope, will prove to be its last resting place. Its adventures westward have been most singular and still more singular, that it should ultimately have fallen into the hands of the only gentleman in the United States who knew how much it would be appreciated in a far distant land to the eastward How I lament the breaking up of Peale's invaluable museum! I long to know into what part of the world the skeleton of the huge mammoth has been transferred.(2) Charles Willson Peale (1734 - 1827) was a noted American artist who was a prominent portrait painter of the Federal period. He was also an enthusiastic naturalist and established in 1786 a museum of specimens in Independence Hall, Philadelphia. In 1805 he helped found Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Born in Maryland in the year 1741, he was apprenticed to a saddler by the time he was 13 years of age. However, Peale soon learned that his real talent lay in painting. Whilst still a saddler, Peale traded one of his best saddles with artist John Hesselius in exchange for a few painting lessons. Soon, a distinguished group of Maryland gentlemen had provided Peale with funds to study the trade in England with the artist Benjamin West. Peale returned to the USA with an impressive talent for capturing the spirit of his sitters. In the course of his long career, Charles Willson Peale painted the portraits of hundreds of men, women, and children. He was an inventor, a naturalist, a soldier, and a father to 17 children, many of whom became well-respected artists in their own day. In 1775, Peale moved to Philadelphia where he joined the city's militia as a private soldier. He rose through the ranks to first lieutenant, and accompanied his unit to the front in December of 1776. He crossed the Delaware River from Trenton into Pennsylvania just as the remnants of Washington's army arrived on the river bank, and later described their crossing as "the most hellish scene I have ever beheld." Back in Philadelphia, Peale served on a number of American revolutionary committees as well as the General Assembly of Pennsylvania. In 1802, he made a determined effort to provide a pictorial record of the American Revolution for future generations. To this end, he established a museum at Independence Hall to display the portraits he had painted throughout the war. His later years were dominated by a growing interest in natural history and science, although he continued to paint. Ingenious exhibits of stuffed animals and birds (as well as the reconstructed skeleton of a mammouth that Peale himself unearthed) shared the spaces at his museum with his paintings. Cover of Public Culture in the Early Republic, Peale's Museum and Its Audience, David R. Brigham, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995. ISBN 1-56098-416-3 ■ See also Brickbats & Roses (Foes and Friends) Main Page 1. Essays on Natural History, Charles Waterton, edited by Norman Moore, 1871. 2. Letter of Charles Waterton, Squire of Walton Hall, Yorks, edited with Notes by R.A. Irwin, published by Rockliff, London, 1955. 3. Wanderings in South America, the North-west of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, and 1824. Charles Wateron, edited by the Rev. J.G. Wood, Macmillan & Co., 1880. Other sources include: Hammond - Harwood House, Annapolis, Maryland, U.S.A. http://www.hammondharwoodhouse.org. Maryland State Archives http://www.md.us/. See a selection of books about Walton, Charles Waterton, Guyana and more. • click here • (Offered for sale by Amazon.co.uk) ➽ Visit the Bookshelf. OVERTOWN MISCELLANY (overtown.org.uk) © J. S. Sargent, 1997 - 2019. All rights reserved. • About this site • Contact	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755311
__label__wiki	0.725437	0.725437	Digital, Multimedia, and Sound x Denec, Erol Turkish, 20th century, male. Active in Austria. Engraver. A musician, Denec specialised in electronic sounds whilst studying at the school of fine art in Vienna, where he settled. His engravings of a magical world have been exhibited in Turkey and in Vienna.... Deuelle-Luski, Aïm Photographer. Multimedia. A theorist and art and philosophy critic, he is also an editor and artist. He takes part in group exhibitions, notably Implicit Connections in 1997 at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Gersht, Ori Active in the United Kingdom. Born 1967, in Tel Aviv, Israel. Photographer, video artist. Sound, multimedia. Ori Gersht studied photography at the University of Westminster, London, and graduated with a B.A. (Hons) in 1992. He then went on to study for an M.A. in the same subject at the Royal College of Art, London. A year after graduating, he took up the post of senior lecturer at Kent Institute of Art and Design, where he taught for seven years before becoming a reader at the same institute until ... Hassan, Jamelie Canadian, 20th–21st century, female. Born 1 Sept 1948, in London (Ontario). Multimedia artist, installation artist, curator. Jamelie Hassan is a Canadian artist, curator, and activist of Arabic background. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome in 1967, the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Beirut, Lebanon, ... Palestinian, 20th–21st century, female. Active in England since 1975. Sculptor, installation artist, photographer. Multimedia. Mona Hatoum studied graphic design at Beirut University College before settling in London in 1975, during civil war in Lebanon. In London she studied at the Byam Shaw School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art. In the 1980s she began making video and performance works incorporating themes of exile and the body, such as ... Koskas, George Born 1926, in La Marsa. Painter. Multimedia. Koskas travelled to Paris in 1946, where he worked in the studio of André Lhote and Fernand Léger and formed a friendship with Vantongerloo. He was involved in theatre and cinema projects, notably with the director Jacques Baratier. After completing a number of figurative paintings influenced by Léger, he evolved towards abstraction ... Moshiri, Farhad (b. Shiraz, 1963). Iranian artist. Moshiri graduated from the California Institute of Arts in 1984 and experimented with installations, video art and painting before returning to Tehran in 1991. He became known for a series of large oil paintings on canvas showing monumental jars and bowls with richly textured surfaces and flowing calligraphy that he began in 2001. The form and cracked and weathered surface of the jars reflects his fascination with archaeology, and the texts on them contain poems in nasta‛līq script. In some cases, his paintings contain only letters or numbers. Inspired by calligraphic practice sheets, known as siyāh-mashq, and by the alphanumeric system (abjad), he plays with the shape rather than the meaning of words. His more conceptual pieces include a vitrine of gilded objects (2003), Rogue gun installation (2004), and Ultimate Toy–Legold (2004). He has held a number of solo exhibitions, including one at Leighton House, London (... Neshat, Shirin Iranian, 20th – 21st century, female. Born 26 March 1957, in Qazvin, Iran. Painter, video artist, installation artist, photographer. Multimedia. Shirin Neshat was born in Iran but left to study art at the University of California, Berkeley, at the age of 17. She lives and works in New York. She won a Lion d’Or at the Venice Biennale in ... Francis Summers (b Qazvin, Iran, March 26, 1957). American photographer and video artist of Iranian birth. She studied at the University of California, Berkeley, where she was awarded a BFA in 1979 and an MFA in 1982. She became involved in the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York when she was unable to return to Iran for political reasons. Years later, having settled in New York, she began making art in response to the situation she found after a visit to the post-Shah religious state. Using the Islamic veil, or chador, she made photographs that examined stereotypes of Muslim women as oppressed by the veil but also empowered by their refusal of the Western colonial gaze, as in Women of Allah (1993–7) and Rebellious Silence (1994; see 2000 exh. cat., p. 61). In these works Neshat is often posed with a gun, her image overlaid in Islamic script, as a way of confronting the Western view of Islam as both incomprehensible and dangerous. In ... Sarkis Armenian, 20th century, male. Painter, watercolourist, sculptor of assemblages, installation artist. Multimedia. Conceptual Art, Art Narratif. After studying in Istanbul from 1957 to 1960, Sarkis began to paint. He worked in Paris from 1964 onwards and taught at the École des Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg. Between ... Schwartz, Buky Susan T. Goodman (b Jerusalem, 1932; d Tel Aviv, Sept 1, 2009). Israeli sculptor and video artist. He studied from 1956 to 1958 at the Avni Art Institute in Tel Aviv, worked with sculptor Itzhak Danziger in 1958, and from 1959 to 1962 studied at St Martin’s School of Art in London. After his return to Israel in 1963 he created severely geometrical painted steel sculptures such as Red Sculpture (h. 2 m, 1968; Tel Aviv Mus. A.) and site-specific sculptural installations such as White from 0 Degrees to 180 Degrees (1969; Jerusalem, Israel Mus.) and gates (1969) at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. In 1971 Schwartz moved to New York, where he produced installations in gallery spaces; some of these challenged the viewer’s visual expectations by means of an unorthodox use of mirror images, as in Changing Square (1976; Jerusalem, Israel Mus.), or through photographs and architectonic line drawings. In 1971 he began also to work with video installations in which live images were relayed from various points of view, using closed circuit video systems and monitors, to explore the relationship between real and represented space, as in ... Sedira, Zineb Robin Holmes (b Paris, April 1, 1963). French photographer, video artist, and installation artist of Algerian descent, active in the UK. Born in Paris in 1963, Zineb Sedira relocated to England in 1986. In 1995 she earned a BA in critical fine art practice with a focus on post-colonial studies at Central Saint Martins School of Art. She finished an MFA in Media at the Slade School of Art in 1997 and conducted research studies at the Royal College of Art until 2003. Through the use of self-portraiture, family narrative, and images of the Mediterranean, her work has addressed ethnic, religious, and gender identities as well as issues of stereotype, displacement, and migration. She draws on her Algerian heritage in much of her work, evoking North Africa through the integration of traditional Islamic forms and motifs into her installations. In her 1997 work Quatre générations de femmes, Sedira incorporated repeated images of her mother, daughter, and herself into traditional Islamic tile patterns (... Toren, Amikam Israeli-British, 20th – 21st century, male. Active in London from the late 1960s. Born 1945, in Israel. Video artist, painter, sculptor. Multimedia. Amikam Toren spent his formative years in Tel Aviv learning to paint and draw under Peter Hesse. 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__label__wiki	0.544287	0.544287	Going Back to Your Wife When Your Lover Dies Square pegs. Round holes. Because if not everyone can be great, then good is not really such a bad second choice. Sexy answers to sexy questions. Eugene@ozy.comYou have sexy questions? Eugene has sexy answers. Write. Now: Eugene@ozy.com By Eugene S. Robinson The Daily Dose FEB 02 2017 You have sexy questions? Eugene has sexy answers. Write. Now: Eugene@ozy.com The Horror. The Horror. EUGENE, SIR: This past summer I fell in love with the woman of my dreams. We were perfect for each other. The problem? We were both married. Me, 19 years. Her, 18. We both love our kids and didn’t want to hurt them. But we were lost as to what to do. We planned on telling our spouses soon and letting the chips fall where they may, but you’ll notice I’m using the past tense for everything. You see, she was killed in a car accident on Christmas Eve. I was home with my family when I got the news. I’m devastated. Yet I have nowhere to turn. Is there anywhere I can turn for advice or healing? —Name Withheld by Request Dear Sorrow Unbridled: We can call this one “Where the Jokes Stop.” My condolences, sir. Short answer: yes! There are group-therapy sessions and places for people dealing with loss. But it’s going to be hard to get there if you haven’t explained why you’re going to a spouse who may not be in the know. Still, if you can get away, please seek counseling. Lots of jobs offer counseling as a benefit — if you can do this during work hours? Perfect. The deepest kind of suffering is the kind around certain elements of “unknowing.” Would it have worked out? You’ll never know. And not knowing, how do you make sense of where you are now? Leaving might be pointless, outside of a possible homage to your dear departed. Staying would please your kids, who, at the very least, don’t have to deal with the untimely death of their parent. But what do you do with your relationship? Confessing seems pointless and hurtful now. Not confessing seems to make the most amount of sense, but this is not a weight you need to carry alone. Just pick who helps you carry it carefully. And in the rare case of you being a kind of “just go alone” guy, I’d recommend the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. It will explain the stages of grief and depression, and I’d not be telling the truth if I didn’t say it’s my go-to diagnostic guide for head issues. But you are in an unenviable position. Hang in there. Johnny? Are You Queer? EUGENE, SIR: Is my boyfriend gay? Or is he just not into me? Slept next to him for a month and he never wanted to have sex. On and off again relationship for six years. He says he doesn’t like to give oral sex but likes blowjobs. Our sex was always the best ever, but the best way for him to have an orgasm, a fast one, is when we do it doggy style. He always orgasms; it’s just quicker doggy style. We even do kinky sex sometimes, but every time we stop having sex, that’s when he says he’s not wanting to be in a relationship. The sex break always ends up in breakup or a timeout. My friends say he’s gay. I’ve never been with a man who sleeps next to me for weeks or a month at a time who doesn’t want to have sex with me, nor in six years has he ever wanted to eat me out! He loves to cook, he loves to sing and the way he moves and talks is gay and he has tried some anal intercourse. Usually we’ve tried when I’m on my stomach. I won’t go for that, but these are some of the reasons my friends think he’s gay. What’s wrong with him? We are still friends who just talk. —DC Dear AC: You know what would make your boyfriend gay? A marked preference for penis. That’s probably the only reliable indicator if that’s what you’re looking for. However, you really shouldn’t have to look any further than six years of no oral sex. Whether he is gay is much less of an issue than the fact that your sex life sucks. And it’s not his fault. You put up with it. Making it, most probably, your fault. You can chat with him all you want while being in a relationship with someone who actually enjoys having sex with you. Which he clearly doesn’t. Get out, get gone and use your energies for something sensible. Like? Like a man who likes giving oral sex and gives it well. Fun With Fluids EUGENE, SIR: We’re edgy in our sex play. But for the last while I have been less so. He tells me I’m a prude, but he’s the one who won’t kiss me after fluid play. It’s his semen and sometimes his urine. Am I wrong for saying that refusing to kiss me afterward is totally unsexy? —Cooties? Dear Cootie Patootie: Transgression is a funny thing. While overstepping what seems to be the bounds of comfortably correct behaviors covers — in your instance — semen and urine on your face (I assume it’s your face we’re talking about, since we’re talking about kissing, though it dawns on me that this doesn’t have to be the case at all), it screeches to a halt at the boundary line of his lips. I’d say “strange” but not that strange, really, as it probably lessens the power of the transgressive to weight the semen and urine the same way you would no-semen and no-urine. So whether he’s acting or not acting, his aversion to kissing your face after he’s covered it with semen and/or urine is both painfully predictable and, yes, not sexy. Even more, it’s a sign that he’s very possibly playing in a league he’s not quite ready for. So, why not try the nastiest thing of all? The next time it happens, demand he kiss you. If he refuses, tell him his response is very possibly the least sexy one you can think of, and ask if he thinks it’s possible that this will ever yield good, positive, long-term results. You should say the above while you’re getting dressed. Right before you go, which will immediately precede your leaving. As in: leaving leaving. Life’s too short for this foolishness. Eugene S. Robinson, Editor-at-LargeFollow Eugene S. Robinson on FacebookFollow Eugene S. Robinson on TwitterContact Eugene S. Robinson Sex With Eugene OZYWildcard The Creepy Crawl of the Commodification of Coitus OZY’s Eugene S. Robinson addresses queries from the love-weary in “Sex With Eugene.” The OZY News Quiz Have you stayed on top of everything that’s important and intriguing this week? Let’s see whether you’re presidential … or intern material. And You Wake Up One Morning to Find You're a Cuckold How to Have Sex With Racists More from Wildcard	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755313
__label__cc	0.50517	0.49483	Games 92: Espana, The Download (1992 Sports Game) Sports Games: Download full Games 92: Espana, The: Manual (21 KB) Games 92: Espana, The screenshots: The 1992 olympic games took place in Barcelona, Spain, and the corresponding computer game came from Ocean: The Games '92 - España. The sports simulation boasts an impressive variety of diciplines, divided into three sections: Track and Field: running, relay, hurdles, steeplechase, discus, shot putt, hammer throw, javelin, long jump, triple jump, high jump, pole vault; Water Sports: free style, breast stroke, back stroke, butterfly, relay, diving; Fighting: boxing, wrestling, judo, fencing. Eliminating the different distances in single events (such as 100m, 200m, 400m and 800m freestyle), though, The Games' "over 30 events" melt down to 22; and counting only those which differ to some degree in their execution, it boils down to six: running, throwing, jumping, swimming, diving and fighting. The Games '92 is divided in three parts: During preparation time, manage and train twelve athletes by sentencing them to gym time and daily practice. Game time advances with each action until the olympic games begin. In pactice, heats and finals, you take control of your athletes and drive them to peak performances through rhythmical tapping of the cursor keys, and the occasional press of the space bar. In the database section, you can read up on previous games and winning athletes, and take a look at Barcelona location maps. This game is a sport simulation which will take you to Barcelona, Spain, in year 1992 and put you in shoes of a professional athlete competing for the gold medal in various sport disciplines. So, if you have ever dreamed of becoming a top-class sportsman (and I know you have), as well as widely known and respected winner of the Olympic medal, here's your chance. Do you have what it takes to become a legend and take your place in the sports' history? There's only one way to find out... The Games '92 - Espana features an astonishingly wide range of various sports events, over 30 of them in total. They are divided into 3 subcategories: Track and Field (100m, 200m hurdles, javelin, discus, hammer throw, etc.), Fighting (judo, fencing, boxing, etc.) and finally, Water sports (all swimming styles and diving). This game also supports 5 different languages (English, French, Spanish, German and Italian) and was released on other platforms as well (Atari, Amiga). First off you get to choose which nation will your athlete represent. Once you do that, preparations for the Olympics begin. Your task is to train up to twelve athletes and get them to the peak of their form so they could do their best in the main event. This means you'll have to guide them through gym practice every day, while carefully monitoring their stamina level (they mustn't get too tired). Once you do that, you can practice actual events your athletes can compete in, or you can enter the competition. Graphics and sound: This game doesn't look great, although the graphics are VGA. Athlete animation is somewhat rough, while the usefulness of menus remains questionable. You navigate through them by clicking on pictures and icons, which can be very confusing. Many objects on menus are animated, but as I said, animations in this game are just not my cup of tea. Sound is nothing special, boring theme and a few sound effects. You can also choose whether you'll use joystick and keyboard, mouse and keyboard or keyboard only. I recommend you avoid the 'keyboard only' option because that would make navigation through menus even more painful. If you ever played sport simulations in which have to press keys as fast as you can (keeping the pace) until your fingers bleed and your keyboard turns to dust, just in order for your athlete to perform better, then you will know what to expect form this game. Basically, all you have to do is repeatedly and rhythmically press the cursor keys and just occasionally press spacebar. I don't really like this control method and I honestly think a better solution should have been introduced. Probably one of the best points of this game is it's huge database which features all kind of statistics and information about the Olympics. It tells the tale of Olympic Games from the ancient times to the 1992, as well as story of how various sport events developed through that time. It also introduces extremely thorough statistics and records for all the events featured in the game, as well as Barcelona stadium maps and locations. And guess what, it also has printer support integrated so you could print all the interesting information. Conclusion and personal opinion: Let me first get one thing straight. If you want to play good sport simulation game which features a wide range of events, there are certainly better choices than Games '92. But that doesn't mean this game isn't worth your attention. On the contrary, this is very interesting game with some of nice features like big number of events and thorough database, but with some serious flaws like graphics, control system and not so good menus. People who downloaded Games 92: Espana, The have also downloaded: Games, The: Summer Challenge, Games, The: Winter Challenge, Games: Winter Edition, The, Games: Summer Edition, The, Hardball V Enhanced (a.k.a. Hardball 5 Enhanced), International Athletics, Game, Net & Match!, Summer Games 2	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755316
__label__wiki	0.846808	0.846808	WeHo Reads presents “Sissy, A Coming-of-Gender Story” by Jacob Tobia WeHo Reads: Sissy, A Coming-of-Gender Story by Jacob Tobia Date: Wednesday, March 13, 2019, 7 – 9pm Location: West Hollywood City Council Chambers 625 North San Vicente Boulevard Tickets for this event are $26 plus tax, and include one copy of Jacob Tobia’s new book. To purchase tickets, please click here. Free tickets without a copy of the book are also available to West Hollywood residents; to learn more, please click here. Join the City of West Hollywood’s Arts Division, Book Soup, and the ONE Archives Foundation for a WeHo Reads event featuring Jacob Tobia, in conversation with Jesse Tyler Ferguson, discussing and signing, Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story. Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story (G. P. Putnam’s Sons), is a heart-wrenching, eye-opening, and giggle-inducing memoir about what it’s like to grow up not sure if you’re (a) a boy, (b) a girl, (c) something in between, or (d) all of the above. From the moment a doctor in Raleigh, North Carolina, put “male” on Jacob Tobia’s birth certificate, everything went wrong. Alongside “male” came many other, far less neutral words: words that carried expectations about who Jacob was and who Jacob should be, words like “masculine” and “aggressive” and “cargo shorts” and “SPORTS!” Naturally sensitive, playful, creative, and glitter-obsessed, as a child Jacob was given the label “sissy.” In the two decades that followed, “sissy” joined forces with “gay,” “trans,” “nonbinary,” and “too-queer-to-function” to become a source of pride and, today, a rallying cry for a much-needed gender revolution. Through revisiting their childhood and calling out the stereotypes that each of us have faced, Jacob invites us to rethink what we know about gender and offers a bold blueprint for a healed world–one free from gender-based trauma and bursting with trans-inclusive feminism. From Jacob’s Methodist childhood and the hallowed halls of Duke University to the portrait-laden parlors of the White House, Sissy takes you on a gender odyssey you won’t soon forget. Writing with the fierce honesty, wildly irreverent humor, and wrenching vulnerability that have made them a media sensation, Jacob shatters the long-held notion that people are easily sortable into “men” and “women.” Sissy guarantees that you’ll never think about gender–both other people’s people’s and your own–the same way again. Celebrated gender nonconforming writer, producer, and performer Jacob Tobia has quickly established themself as a breakout voice for the nonbinary, genderqueer, and trans communities. Named one of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 and one of the OUT 100, Jacob was a producer for Amazon’s Emmy Award-winning show Transparent and created, coproduced, and hosted Queer 2.0, a first-of-its-kind LGBTQ series on NBC News. With bylines everywhere from The New York Times to TIME to Teen Vogue, Jacob has blazed a trail for gender nonconformity and contributed to the chorus of queer voices challenging normative notions of gender and sexuality, advocating for inclusivity and empathy, and helping others embrace and own their truths. Jesse Tyler Ferguson currently stars as “Mitchell Pritchett” on the Award-‐winning ABC comedy Modern Family. Currently filming its 10th season, the show has earned five Emmy Awards and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. Ferguson has also received five Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series and three People’s Choice Award nominations for “Favorite Comedic TV Actor.” For more info about this event please call Book Soup at 310-659-3110 or visit www.booksoup.com WeHo Reads presents “Sissy, A Coming-of-Gender Story” by Jacob Tobia2019-02-222019-03-14https://www.onearchives.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/onearchives-logo-fixed.pngONE Archives Foundationhttps://www.onearchives.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/636855048255270000.jpeg200px200px Sleuthing the Secret Life of Science FictionEvents, News, Past Events Our February 2019 NewsletterNews	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755320
__label__wiki	0.924322	0.924322	Mexico's Government Warns Its Citizens Of 'New Reality' In U.S. : The Two-Way The message was prompted by the deportation Thursday of Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos, a mother of two in Arizona who for years had regularly checked in with U.S. immigration authorities. Mexico's Government Warns Its Citizens Of 'New Reality' In U.S. February 10, 20173:28 PM ET Merrit Kennedy Family members and supporters of Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos gather at a news conference outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Phoenix on Thursday. Steve Fluty/AP hide caption Steve Fluty/AP Family members and supporters of Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos gather at a news conference outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Phoenix on Thursday. The sudden deportation Thursday of an Arizona woman who had regularly checked in with U.S. immigration authorities for years has prompted a stark warning from Mexico's government. Mexican nationals in the U.S. now face a "new reality," authorities warned in a statement. After Years Of Uneventful Check-Ins, Arizona Woman Is Arrested, Deported "The case of Mrs. [Guadalupe] Garcia de Rayos illustrates the new reality that the Mexican community faces in the United States due to the more severe application of immigration control measures," the statement reads. "For this reason, the entire Mexican community should take precautions and keep in touch with the nearest consulate, to obtain the necessary help to face this kind of situation." Mexico is urging its citizens in the U.S. to "familiarize themselves with the different scenarios they may face and know where to go to receive updated guidance and know all their rights." Garcia de Rayos, 35, had lived in the U.S. for more than two decades and her two children are both U.S. citizens. The Two-Way has reported on the details of her case: "In 2008, Garcia de Rayos was arrested while she was working at a water park, during a raid carried out by then-Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. (Arpaio's workplace raids have been challenged in court as unconstitutional; the case is ongoing.) In 2009, she was convicted of possessing false papers. In 2013, ICE says, an order for her deportation was finalized. "But Garcia de Rayos was allowed to continue to live in Arizona, under supervision and with regular check-ins with ICE, as member station KJZZ reports." That changed when she appeared for a check-in on Wednesday, as activists and supporters rallied outside the ICE office. The next day, she was deported to Nogales, Mexico. Her deportation is seen as a sign of President Trump's more aggressive deportation priorities compared with Barack Obama. The former president had prioritized the deportation of people who were convicted of crimes such as aggravated felonies, terrorism or activity in a criminal street gang. Immigration-related offenses were deemed lower priority. But Trump's executive order on immigration, issued on Jan. 25, significantly broadens the government's deportation priorities. It includes people in the U.S. illegally who "have been convicted of any criminal offense," "have been charged with any criminal offense," "have committed acts that constitute a chargeable criminal offense" or "are subject to a final order of removal," among other criteria. "So certainly the scope of the executive order, if interpreted broadly, would be large enough to encompass most if not all of the unauthorized population," Randy Capps of the nonprofit Migration Policy Institute tells NPR's Adrian Florido. Immigration advocates like Marisa Franco from the advocacy group Mijente fear that this is the start of a pattern. "The battle lines have been drawn. We know that this case will be replicated in many places across the country," Franco told reporters on a conference call. "And we think it's critically important for communities to take a stand." Lawyers and activists say Garcia de Rayos' deportation could make others in her position scared to speak with immigration authorities. In fact, her attorney Ray Ybarra Maldonado told Adrian that he will advise clients in the same position to seek sanctuary in a church. "Or if you do show up, this is what's going happen to you. But that's gotta be the advice, because it's no fun walking someone to the slaughter," he said. Garcia de Rayos, flanked by her children, spoke to reporters in Nogales late Thursday. "I'm doing this for my kids so they have a better life. I will keep fighting so they can keep studying in their home country," she said, according to The Associated Press. "We're a united family. We're a family who goes to church on Sundays, we work in advocacy. We're active." "It's a nightmare having your mother taken away from you," her son Angel tells Fronteras. "The person who is always there for you. Seeing her taken away in a bunch of vans like she was a huge criminal. It feels like a dream. But it's reality and we have to face it. We have to keep on fighting for what we want. And yeah, we're going to support our community and our mother. We're going to keep on fighting."	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755322
__label__wiki	0.738055	0.738055	Home » Is Justice Delayed Justice Denied? Is Justice Delayed Justice Denied? By Robert Harper on December 17, 2008 Posted in Probate Recent developments in the Martin Tankleff murder case have captivated court observers in New York and attracted the attention of national news media outlets. For the most part, the observers have focused their attention on issues of criminal law, like newly-discovered evidence and the reliability of allegedly false confessions. Yet, the case also has potential trusts and estates-related consequences. This much we know: Mr. Tankleff’s parents were killed on September 7, 1988 (see People v Tankleff, 49 A.D.3d 160, 162-64 [2d Dep’t 2007]). After an investigation, the police arrested Mr. Tankleff for murdering his parents, prosecutors tried him for the murders, and a Suffolk County jury convicted him of the offenses (id.). In the days, months, and years that followed, Mr. Tankleff and his legal team launched an exhaustive campaign to overturn his convictions on the basis of newly-discovered evidence, which Mr. Tankleff asserted established his innocence (id.). The Appellate Division, Second Department, issued an Order vacating Mr. Tankleff’s judgments of conviction in December 2007, id. at 183, and prosecutors elected against retrying Mr. Tankleff in June 2008 (see Luis Perez, “AG won’t retry Tankleff – or any other suspects,” Newsday, June 30, 2008). Presumably, Mr. Tankleff did not inherit from his father’s estate (see Brian Harmon et al., “Martin Tankleff’s half-sister: he did it,” N.Y. Daily News, Jan. 4, 2008). Indeed, although court records pertaining to the settlement of that estate were sealed, In re Tankleff, NYLJ, Nov. 7, 1991, at 24, col. 5 (Sur. Ct., Suffolk County), reports indicate that Mr. Tankleff’s half-sister, Shari Mistretta, received the assets of the estate, which have been valued as high as $3,500,000 by the media (see Harmon, supra). This is because the “slayer rule,” which the Court of Appeals first applied more than a century ago in Riggs v Palmer, 70 Sickels 506 (1889), precludes a decedent’s intentional killer from profiting from the decedent’s estate (see In re Bach’s Estate, 53 AD2d 612, 612 [2d Dep’t 1976]). Further, an amendment to the Estates, Powers, and Trusts Law, which, if enacted, would codify the “slayer rule,” is currently pending before the New York State Senate’s Judiciary Committee. Despite the fact that Mr. Tankleff’s convictions were overturned and prosecutors decided not to retry him, Mr. Tankleff may not be able to inherit from his father’s estate for a variety of reasons. First, although prosecutors ultimately decided not to retry Mr. Tankleff because they were unsure whether they could prove his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt in a criminal proceeding, the question remains whether Ms. Mistretta would be able to oppose Mr. Tankleff’s petition to recover shares of the father’s estate by establishing that Mr. Tankleff killed his parents under the less exacting standard of proof applicable in Surrogate’s Court proceedings. Second, there may not be any estate assets left, now that approximately two decades have passed since Mr. Tankleff’s father was killed and his estate was distributed to Ms. Mistretta. See Harmon, supra. Third, the Surrogate’s Court proceedings pertaining to the estate may have been terminated by stipulation of settlement, which may be difficult, though possible, to vacate (see id.; see also Tankleff, supra). Absent additional information, it is impossible to say whether or not Mr. Tankleff is entitled to inherit from his father’s estate in light of the slayer rule. What we can, however, take away from this is the number of legal and practical considerations which might inspire or discourage Mr. Tankleff from pursuing estate-related claims or even an accounting against Ms. Mistretta. Tags: Probate, Robert M. Harper Sometimes It’s Just a Question of Standing Sharp as a Tack . . . Clear as a Bell	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755325
__label__wiki	0.972374	0.972374	Media\|How a Justice Department Ruling Could Affect Your Favorite Musician How a Justice Department Ruling Could Affect Your Favorite Musician Taylor Swift performing at the Grammy Awards in February. The Justice Department said Thursday that it would not make changes to the regulatory agreements that govern the two large clearinghouses for performing rights that process royalty payments for the music industry.CreditCreditMatt Sayles/Invision, via Associated Press By Ben Sisario The Justice Department announced on Thursday that it had concluded a two-year investigation into the complex world of music licensing and decided against making changes to the regulatory agreements that govern Ascap and BMI, two large clearinghouses for performing rights that process about $2 billion in royalty payments each year. BMI quickly said it would challenge the decision in federal court, and Ascap said it would “explore legislative solutions” to the problems of music licensing in the digital age. Let’s take a look at what happened and what it means. What are Ascap and BMI? The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (Ascap) and Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI), known as performing rights organizations, collect money for songwriters and music publishers whenever their songs are publicly performed, whether on the radio, on television, in retail stores, bars, restaurants or on streaming services. Why is the government involved? Since Ascap and BMI are collectives that sell music rights at set prices, they have long been under antitrust scrutiny, and since 1941 they have been bound by regulatory agreements called consent decrees. Two years ago, both organizations asked the Justice Department to change these agreements, saying they needed to be updated to secure fair royalty rates in the digital era. What’s the decision? The Justice Department said it had decided not to make any changes to the consent decrees. But it added a requirement, saying that for Ascap and BMI to comply with the existing regulations, they must offer “100 percent licensing” of their songs. Many songs have multiple writers, and those writers don’t always belong to the same rights society. According to the government’s proposal, if a song has, say, three writers — one affiliated with Ascap, one with BMI and the other with one of the smaller, unregulated groups like Sesac or Global Music Rights — then for Ascap or BMI to offer that song to radio stations and digital services, it would need to have legal clearance to represent the song and be responsible for getting the writers their share of the royalties. Music industry groups say the proposed requirement would break with decades of practice, causing turmoil and possibly even violating private contracts. They argue that the performing rights organizations have long represented only the fractions of songs that they control, and that for a radio station or digital service to be properly licensed, it must have deals in place with the various groups representing any portion of a song. Musicians like Max Martin have said a government proposal on the licensing issue could interfere with their creative process.CreditChristine Olsson/Tt, via European Pressphoto Agency In a filing with the Justice Department, Ascap said the government’s proposed rule could also cast doubt on whether it would actually be able to license as many as 370,000 of the more than 10 million songs in its catalog, which would cause headaches for any music outlets that wanted to play them. And musicians — like Max Martin, who has written blockbuster hits for the likes of Taylor Swift and Britney Spears — say it could interfere with their creative process, causing complications when they collaborate with a writer who is a member of a different rights organization. Broadcasters and tech groups dispute this. In their view, offering entire works is the only way to have a fair marketplace and prevent the monopoly power that consent decrees were put in place to block. What about the money? Some executives and analysts in the music industry said the government’s proposed changes would drive down the amount of money artists received because it would give an incentive to groups like broadcasters and streaming services to shop for the lowest royalty rates. Advocates for technology companies say that by helping keep costs down, this will lead to more consumer choice. Others say it is too soon to know how the ruling could affect things. Justice Department officials said they expect Ascap and BMI to compete to retain members, which should prevent rates from dropping. One area in which the effect of the new ruling is unclear is unregulated competitors like Global Music Rights, started three years ago by the music executive Irving Azoff. It represents top writers like Pharrell Williams, Bruno Mars and members of the Eagles. On one hand, carrying out the “100 percent licensing” rule would seemingly undermine that company’s leverage to demand higher rates for any songs that were co-written with a member of Ascap or BMI. But music executives also say that the model of Global Music Rights and Sesac may now become more attractive for top writers who are unhappy with the new rules for Ascap and BMI. The Justice Department is giving the music industry a year to comply with its new requirements. It is unclear how this would happen, but industry executives say it could include the creation of new databases to share data that previously was proprietary. Mike O’Neill, the chief executive of BMI, said in a statement announcing the group’s legal challenge that the government’s decision “serves no one, not the marketplace, the music publishers, the music users and most importantly, not our songwriters and composers who now have the government weighing in on their creative and financial decisions.” But the challenge may be difficult because the judges who monitor Ascap and BMI have made tough rulings in recent years. Another possibility is that major publishers like Universal and Sony/ATV could withdraw completely from Ascap and BMI, moves that would severely weaken those groups and add yet more uncertainty in the world of music licensing. For the music companies and the outlets that need music, that is an outcome they would prefer to avoid. A version of this article appears in print on , Section B, Page 3 of the New York edition with the headline: Federal Ruling on Music Licensing Frustrates Industry. Order Reprints \| Today’s Paper \| Subscribe	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755327
__label__wiki	0.993272	0.993272	Politics\|Pete Buttigieg’s Focus: Storytelling First. Policy Details Later. Pete Buttigieg’s Focus: Storytelling First. Policy Details Later. CreditCreditStephanie Keith for The New York Times By Alexander Burns The question was simple enough, but Senator John Edwards squirmed painfully. For 49 long seconds, the North Carolina Democrat, a masterful courtroom orator, sputtered before a crowd at Harvard, unable to settle on a favorite movie. Taunted by the MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews, who accused him of scrambling political calculations in his head, Mr. Edwards eventually supplied a thoroughly inoffensive answer: “The Shawshank Redemption.” Pete Buttigieg watched in horror. Two weeks later, in October 2003, Mr. Buttigieg vented his dismay in The Harvard Crimson. Contrasting Mr. Edwards’s hollow presentation with Arnold Schwarzenegger’s brazen campaign for governor of California, Mr. Buttigieg wrote that Republicans had cornered the market on political swagger. “Across the aisle,” Mr. Buttigieg lamented, “members of a Democratic Party, aghast at the hypocrisy of their counterparts’ personalities, seem themselves reluctant to demonstrate any personality at all.” Sixteen years later, that observation informs Mr. Buttigieg’s underdog campaign for the White House, an enterprise driven powerfully by personality. Other candidates have anchored their candidacies in ideological or social causes, like Senator Elizabeth Warren’s opposition to corporate power or Senator Cory Booker’s concern for racial justice. [Mr. Buttigieg is officially kicking off his campaign on Sunday afternoon.] Mr. Buttigieg’s distinctive political passion appears to be storytelling, wrapping conventional liberalism in an earnest, youthful persona that Democrats might see as capable of winning over the middle of the country. Dan Glickman, a former secretary of agriculture in the Clinton administration who knew Mr. Buttigieg at Harvard, said he saw him as a “tonal” moderate with a “calm, sensible demeanor.” Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year-old Democratic mayor of South Bend, Ind., has gained surprising early visibility in the 2020 presidential race. Also known as “Mayor Pete,” he is vying to become the first openly gay president.CreditCreditAlyssa Schukar for The New York Times “He’s got this way of articulating a vision, which is progressive but not off-putting,” said Mr. Glickman, 74, who led Harvard’s Institute of Politics at the time. A Times review of Mr. Buttigieg’s writings, starting in college, found that rhetorical task to be a consistent preoccupation. As a student, Mr. Buttigieg, now 37 and the mayor of South Bend, Ind., habitually discussed Democrats’ challenges in terms of language and argument, rather than policy or ideology. Mr. Buttigieg urged liberals in his student columns to speak in terms of “effective political values,” and he recalled corresponding in college with the University of California, Berkeley, linguist George Lakoff, who in 2004 published a best seller about political communication. In an interview, Mr. Buttigieg said his college writings were no longer fresh in his mind. But then, as now, he acknowledged, he was focused on the interaction of “narrative and politics,” and how parties connect with people beyond policy decrees. “The story that we tell, not just about government but about ourselves, and the story we tell people about themselves and how they fit in, really grounds our politics,” Mr. Buttigieg said. Mr. Buttigieg said in the interview that Democrats in 2004 faced a “crisis of authenticity,” with too many “pretending to be more hawkish than their consciences were.” [Sign up for our politics newsletter and join our conversation about the 2020 presidential race.] He channeled that frustration at the time into columns that ripple with disappointment about the “spineless Democratic Party.” Mr. Buttigieg wrote in passing about policies he found intriguing, like enacting single-payer health care and eliminating oil as a fuel source. But campaigns hinged on wider themes, he wrote: “Americans need a narrative.” “As long as the events can outpace the media’s ability to construct a novelistic story around them, the voters may have some control; but it doesn’t take long to spin a tale,” Mr. Buttigieg wrote in January 2004. Pete Buttigieg speaking to a group in Rock Hill, S.C. His ability to craft a powerful narrative about his career and candidacy is seen as central to his early success in the 2020 Democratic race.CreditSwikar Patel for The New York Times He continued, “What no one seems able to understand is why some narratives are chosen, and others aren’t.” For now, a good number of Democrats appear to be choosing the one Mr. Buttigieg has crafted. He has made an unlikely splash in the race, becoming the first openly gay major presidential candidate and captivating both elite opinion-shapers and swaths of rank-and-file Democrats with his self-assured intellectualism and rhetoric about generational change. Despite lacking traditional qualifications for the presidency and declining, so far, to detail a distinctive policy agenda, Mr. Buttigieg has risen to the middle of the Democratic field in polling numbers and fund-raising. Propelling Mr. Buttigieg is an anxiety-free persona of the kind he once identified as lacking in Mr. Edwards. He has presented himself as a cerebral type of Jimmy Stewart character, plain-spoken in manner but boasting degrees from Harvard and Oxford, discoursing happily about James Joyce and flaunting his proficiency in Norwegian. Mr. Buttigieg often appears beside his husband, Chasten Buttigieg, a teacher and emerging social-media star. Both men speak with unselfconscious pride about their marriage, and they display public affection of a kind never seen before in a presidential campaign. That full package, Mr. Buttigieg said in a recent television interview, makes him “about as different from this president as it gets.” If Mr. Buttigieg shares anything with President Trump, however, it is his reliance on comportment and biography to carry his campaign. Mr. Trump climbed to the White House on the strength of a voluble personality projected over mass media, waxing enthusiastic not about Scandinavian literature but about celebrity gossip and fast food. Even some Democrats appalled by Mr. Trump envy his crude ease with mass communication. In this respect, Mr. Buttigieg’s campaign is also an echo of his early writings, when he expressed alarm about Democrats struggling to appear as genuine as a president, George W. Bush, whom he viewed as dishonest. Senator John Edwards at Harvard in 2003. Mr. Edwards struggled to come up with the name of his favorite movie when asked.CreditWilliam B. Plowman/Getty Images In one column, Mr. Buttigieg wrote with something like admiration about Mr. Bush’s commercials that showed him striding with a “West Wing gait” and declaring: “I know exactly where I want to lead this country.” “I believe him,” Mr. Buttigieg wrote. His preoccupation with language was widely shared among Bush-era Democrats. Liberals’ conviction that their defeats stemmed from failing to communicate made a 2004 tome about political argument, Mr. Lakoff’s “Don’t Think of an Elephant,” into an influential commercial success. Mr. Buttigieg confirmed through a spokeswoman that he had read the book, and said he corresponded as a student with Mr. Lakoff but doubted the linguist would remember. Mr. Lakoff said in an interview that he did not recall interacting with Mr. Buttigieg, but praised him as a communicator with a gift for breaking down ideas for voters. “He knows how to talk plainly,” Mr. Lakoff said. “Usually, Democrats are saying: What are your 10 most important policy areas? And he doesn’t do that.” Mr. Buttigieg is likely to face pressure, however, to define a clearer governing agenda. At this early stage, he has no equivalent of Senator Kamala Harris’s call to raise teacher salaries or Ms. Warren’s proposed wealth tax, or the pledge by Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington to focus single-mindedly on climate change. As mayor of a city with about a fifth the population of Staten Island, Mr. Buttigieg lacks the kind of wide-ranging record that has given credibility and depth to other competitors’ rhetoric. Mr. Buttigieg has stirred suspicion among some Democrats for his hazy commitments on policy. In the left-wing magazine Current Affairs, the editor Nathan J. Robinson ridiculed Mr. Buttigieg as a clever political marketer without ideas or a record undergirding his ambition. Mr. Buttigieg signing copies of his book, “Shortest Way Home,” in February.CreditJoshua Lott/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images “He’s from the Rust Belt so he’s authentic, but he went to Harvard so he’s not a rube, but he’s from a small city so he’s relatable, but he’s gay so he’s got coastal appeal, but he’s a veteran so his sexuality won’t alienate rural people,” Mr. Robinson wrote. “This is literally the level of political thinking that is involved in the hype around Buttigieg.” There are policy elements in Mr. Buttigieg’s pitch, many of them tethered to the theme of generational change. He has called for creating a government-backed health insurance option and for aggressively regulating consumer data online, and speaks with fluency about the threats posed to young people by climate change and the replacement of human workers by machines. He has pushed back on the left here and there, rejecting the idea of making free college a government goal. More provocatively, Mr. Buttigieg has backed two long-shot proposals to restructure the Supreme Court and abolish the Electoral College. And he has praised, without quite endorsing, ideas for taxing carbon fuel and experimenting with a universal basic income policy, whereby the government would issue cash payments to give citizens a minimum sum to live on. Mr. Buttigieg said he would outline more proposals with time. But he rejected the idea that the Democratic race might hinge on “who has the most elegant policy design.” Because a president cannot execute his plans freely in office, Mr. Buttigieg argued, it would be “inauthentic” to make too many detailed promises. “I actually think I’ve been plenty specific; it’s just that we don’t lead with it,” Mr. Buttigieg said. “I don’t want to drown people in minutiae.” Mr. Buttigieg’s instinct for simplicity and vagueness appears deeply rooted. In 2004, he co-wrote a New York Times column describing research into the platforms of political parties, concluding that winning parties tended to have shorter platforms. And in his final column in his college newspaper, Mr. Buttigieg urged Democrats to focus chiefly on reclaiming terms like “morality” and “compassion” from the right. He acknowledged that recommendation was “about as specific as President Bush’s plan for rebuilding Iraq.” But Mr. Buttigieg said he aimed to help “turn these principles from clichéd and overused words into effective political values.” That theory of politics reappeared in Mr. Buttigieg’s 2019 memoir, “Shortest Way Home,” in which he concluded, after his bid for party chairman, that voters craved a “values-led message.” And perhaps with Mr. Edwards’s stumble as a faintly remembered cautionary tale, Mr. Buttigieg did not hesitate in the interview to disclose some favorite films, naming “The Godfather” and “Gangs of New York,” Martin Scorsese’s violent tale of 19th-century New York City. Of the latter, he conceded: “I don’t know that it’ll enter into the canon of great films.” A version of this article appears in print on , Section A, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Buttigieg’s Tack From Early On: Narrative First. 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__label__wiki	0.991516	0.991516	New York\|They Donated to De Blasio. But Here’s What They Think About His Run for President. They Donated to De Blasio. But Here’s What They Think About His Run for President. The Times asked donors to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s federal political action committee if he should be president. Their answers showed why he is viewed as such an outsider. Mayor Bill de Blasio and his wife, Chirlane McCray, spoke at Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park the day after announcing his candidacy for president.CreditCreditHilary Swift for The New York Times By J. David Goodman [What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] As Mayor Bill de Blasio enters the 2020 presidential race, an exclusive group of people would seem to be natural allies: the 115 people who contributed $458,000 to his federal political action committee. Yet even among those who gave the maximum $5,000, few said they were willing to put their votes where their money went. Dozens of interviews conducted by The New York Times with Mr. de Blasio’s donors provided a snapshot of his lukewarm support for president — even from a self-selected group of people willing to spend thousands of dollars to help the New York City mayor in his federal efforts. Mr. de Blasio’s fund-raising targets resembled those from his mayoral campaigns, as he tapped familiar sources of money from the middle rungs of the construction and real estate industries, and from ethnic business communities in and around New York City. They said they gave to Mr. de Blasio’s federal committee, known as Fairness PAC, for a variety of reasons. Some pointed to his record as mayor. Some said they did so to have a chance to talk to the mayor. Others donated after being asked by another member of their community. “Honestly speaking, I was asked by a co-worker if I can help, and I did,” said Nail Capri, an executive at a roofing and restoration company who contributed $5,000 last year. In March, Mr. Capri also attended a fund-raiser for the mayor, a Democrat, that drew attendees mostly from New York’s Albanian community. So is Mr. de Blasio your candidate for president? “For me, personally, no,” he said. The same could be said for a better-known $5,000 donor: the billionaire media mogul Barry Diller. “I’m certainly not a supporter of him running for president. I’m not a supporter of anyone at the moment,” said Mr. Diller, who is funding the construction of a park-island on Manhattan’s West Side. “He was very helpful to us in building, and supportive of building, the island that we’re building in the Hudson River.” “And that’s why,” he said. Barry Diller, center, last year at the American Songbook Gala at Alice Tully Hall.CreditKrista Schlueter for The New York Times At least Mr. Diller recalled the $5,000 donation to Mr. de Blasio’s federal committee. Howard L. Gottlieb, an Illinois political donor, said he could not even remember making his $5,000 contribution, one that federal filings show occurred in October. “I’m 95 years old,” he said. “Do you think I remember every dime that I’ve ever given to anyone, especially as insignificant as that?” He added that he had no interest in seeing Mr. de Blasio as president. “For president? No,” he said. Mr. de Blasio’s fund-raising practices have brought him scrutiny for years, including from federal and state prosecutors. Those inquiries ended without charges, but the Manhattan district attorney, in 2017, wrote that Mr. de Blasio violated the “intent and spirit” of the law. As he raises money for his federal political action committee, he has said he goes further than is required by refusing donations from people listed in the city’s “doing business” database. Mr. de Blasio has defended his fund-raising as legal and appropriate. But that computerized database does not include many potential donors with active financial interests in giving to the mayor. In recent months, as he entertained a run for president, Mr. de Blasio allowed a Boston-based construction firm seeking to expand its presence in New York City to host a fund-raiser for him. He has raised money from those seeking to influence city business through lobbyists and from a local Democratic fixture, Frank Carone, who was in the middle of an active real estate negotiation with the city. “There’s nothing wrong with the mayor’s fund-raising,” said Mr. Carone, a lawyer and fixture in the Democratic Party in Brooklyn who gave the mayor $5,000 last year while he was negotiating a real estate deal with the city. “If asked, I would be happy to support the mayor as he runs for president.” The Times first asked donors why they decided to donate to the mayor; for those who didn’t immediately hang up, a second question followed: Do you think he should be president? Out of 35 people who stayed on the line long enough to hear the question, five said yes — including a lawyer in Pennsylvania, an architect in Brooklyn and a woman on the Upper East Side. Seven said no, and the rest either expressed no preference or declined to say. Alex Tourk, a San Francisco public relations executive who gave $5,000 in September, had kind words for Mr. de Blasio. But as a presidential candidate? “I am supporting Senator Kamala Harris,” he said. Several less well-heeled donors said they had given to Mr. de Blasio’s committee not so much out of personal support for the mayor’s mission, but because of interpersonal ties in particular immigrant communities. Donations to Fairness PAC clustered around a handful of such events: one fund-raiser last year in Queens drew many Asian-American donors; another tapped into bonds in an Indian-American community on Long Island. An event in March saw a large number of Albanians gather for the mayor in a private room at Joseph’s Italian restaurant in Lower Manhattan. The host, Ilirjan Rusi, said the event attracted a range of small business people, restaurateurs and those who work in the building trades. “The Albanians like the photo ops!” he said, laughing. (That night’s haul may have been offset by Mr. Rusi’s brother, Selim, a longtime supporter of Mr. de Blasio’s: Records show that a month earlier he had donated $41,000 to President Trump’s re-election.) What about a President de Blasio? “I don’t know,” said Mr. Rusi, who owns a contracting company. “Well, somehow I guess I’m going to have to support him,” he allowed. “He’s the mayor and everything.” (He expressed greater fondness for Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., and was seeking to organize a fund-raiser for him.) At the home of Maninder Sethi in Old Westbury, Long Island, several dozen people gathered last fall to hear from the mayor and donate. Many of those present gave relatively small amounts, in the hundreds of dollars, and said they were brought together by common communal bonds, not by affinity for Mr. de Blasio. “It was at my uncle’s residence,” said one attendee who runs an online cellphone store and requested anonymity to discuss his $4,500 contribution. “My uncle asked me to donate and I did it.” Ravishankar Bhooplapur, the president of a medical school in Aruba, donated $500. He said he gives to “both parties” but had been a longtime supporter of the mayor, and would support his bid for president. “Whether he appeals to the rest of the country, I don’t know,” he said of Mr. de Blasio. “As a New Yorker, I would love to have him.” David Jiang, who described his business as importing and manufacturing, said he gave $5,000 during a Queens fund-raiser last year because “it just seemed like this was an opportunity to meet the mayor and give my point of view.” “I support both sides,” he added. For the moment, pricey fund-raisers are not Mr. de Blasio’s focus: He’s seeking donations as little as $1 to $3 from thousands of people, to meet the Democratic Party’s 65,000-donor threshold to qualify for the primary debate stage in June. The mayor opened his federal political action committee last July, presenting it as an effort to help Democrats in state and federal races. Of the nearly $500,000 raised last year, only a small fraction went to 2018 candidates. (The next filings will be released in July.) “The mayor has been very clear that all official decisions are based on merit,” said Mr. de Blasio’s campaign spokeswoman, Olivia Lapeyrolerie, adding that a “campaign finance plan” for the presidential run would be released soon. Many donors had correctly viewed his federal efforts, starting last year, as a precursor to a 2020 presidential campaign. “I don’t recall exactly what he said, but my assumption was that it was for his presidential ambitions,” said Scott Nash, who owns a chain of organic grocery stories in the mid-Atlantic region and, along with his wife, gave a total of $10,000. “I like the guy. He’s my kind of politician. Do I think he’s going to win? No.” “I’m a very pragmatic liberal,” he added. “Right now, for me, it’s Joe Biden.” Susan C. Beachy contributed research. A version of this article appears in print on , Section A, Page 23 of the New York edition with the headline: De Blasio Got Their $5,000 Donations. Their Votes Are Another Matter.. Order Reprints \| Today’s Paper \| Subscribe	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755329
__label__wiki	0.657232	0.657232	Home » Do Private Company M&A Intermediaries Need to Register with the SEC as Broker-Dealers? Do Private Company M&A Intermediaries Need to Register with the SEC as Broker-Dealers? By Alon Y. Kapen on July 17, 2017 Posted in broker, Financial Choice Act of 2017, intermediaries, mergers & acquisitions, success fee Since 2014, many private company mergers and acquisitions intermediaries have chosen not to register as broker-dealers. That’s because a 2014 SEC no-action letter took the position that intermediaries that limited their activities to representing private companies in M&A deals were not required to register with the SEC as broker-dealers. But as a no-action letter, the relief provided was limited to the specific facts presented, and the letter implied that such relief would not be available to any intermediary that engaged in any of several listed activities. Greater certainty may be on the way, however, in the form of a small part of proposed legislation recently passed by the House of Representatives that would effectively codify the SEC’s 2014 no-action position and even expand on it. Section 15(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 requires any broker-dealer engaging in interstate commerce to register with the SEC and be subject to its regulatory regime. The term “broker” is defined broadly in Section 3(a)(4) of the Exchange Act to include any person who effects transactions in securities on behalf of others, and the SEC has historically interpreted the meaning of “effects transactions in securities” to include anyone engaged in significant aspects of a securities transaction, including solicitation, negotiation and execution. The inclusion of a transaction based or success fee has long been interpreted as a strong presumption that the intermediary receiving the fee must register as a broker-dealer. So is an acquisition of a company considered to be a securities transaction such that intermediaries should have to register as broker-dealers? The broker-dealer regulations were designed to prevent abuses in the form of high pressure selling tactics and third party custody of funds, two aspects that typically don’t apply to M&A deals. Moreover, in a typical M&A transaction, unlike a stock trade, the acquiror usually engages in its own exhaustive due diligence of the target and the intermediary does not custody funds. Nevertheless, the U.S. Supreme Court thought otherwise and in 1985 opined that an M&A transaction involving a target’s stock is a securities transaction, and consequently many M&A advisors began registering as broker dealers. The 2014 No-Action Letter In the 2014 no-action letter, the SEC Division of Trading and Markets stated that it would not recommend enforcement action to the SEC if an intermediary were to effect securities transactions in connection with the transfer of ownership of a privately-held company. The letter listed a bunch of deal activities that would make the relief unavailable, however, including providing financing for the deal, custodying funds or securities, arranging for a group of buyers and sale of a company to a “passive” buyer. Financial CHOICE Act of 2017 On June 8, 2017, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Financial CHOICE Act of 2017, which repeals or modifies significant portions of Dodd-Frank but also includes a broad range of important provisions aimed at facilitating capital formation pro-growth policies generally, including an exemption from broker dealer registration for private company M&A intermediaries. Like the 2014 no-action letter, the Financial CHOICE Act would deny the exemption to any broker intermediating an acquisition of a shell company or a transaction involving the public offering of securities or engaging in the custody of funds or securities. But unlike the 2014 no-action letter, the Financial CHOICE Act would not exclude brokers that put together groups of buyers or provide acquisition financing, or intermediate a sale of a company to a passive acquiror. One feature present in the Financial CHOICE Act that was not included in the 2014 no-action letter is a size of target test. Specifically, under the Financial CHOICE Act, the exemption is only available if the target has gross revenues below $250 million and EBITDA below $25 million in the fiscal year ending immediately before the fiscal year in which the services of the M&A broker are initially engaged with respect to the transaction. The legislation has moved to the Senate, and hopefully any final version would include some form of private company M&A broker-dealer registration exemption. Of particular significance in the proposed legislation is the apparent allowance for a non-registered broker to organize groups of buyers which would enable private equity club deals. Nevertheless, even if the legislation passes, private company intermediaries should consider carefully the consequences of non-registration (or withdrawal of those already registered). These would include complications under certain state regulatory regimes and exclusion from the possibility of intermediating public company deals or deals involving targets exceeding either the gross revenue or EBITDA thresholds. Tags: Financial Choice Act, M&A advisors, mergers & acquisitions, private equity "Third Time's a Charm": House Adopts JOBS Act 3.0 to Fix Earlier Capital Raising Reform Efforts	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755330
__label__wiki	0.508344	0.508344	MONTBLANC HERITAGE ROUGE&NOIR FOUNTAIN PEN REVIEW Montblanc's Rouge et Noir pens, part of the Heritage collection, take us back in time to one of their first pens to ever hit the market,110 years ago in 1906! I'll admit I'm usually not much of a Montblanc person, but when they come up with something interesting, I just have to take a closer look... and the Rouge et Noir collection classifies as 'interesting' without a doubt! In 1906, pens were still mostly manufactured from ebonite (hard rubber). The current re-issue is divided in three 'tiers', two special editions made from precious resin, and a limited edition in hard rubber. The two pens I received on loan from Penworld to review are the 'cheaper' precious resin models, although knowing Montblanc, you'll understand that 'cheap' isn't exactly the term I should use. They are quite something though, regardless of the price. I most likely won't spend this kind of money on them, but it's a unique, eye-catching pen for sure. Both the black and red version of the Rouge et Noir are completely identical when it comes to the general design, but the small details are what sets them apart. The skinny, not-all-too-long design is typical for vintage pens. The colorways are also based on vintage pens, the black resin version has a coral red cap finial with a slightly off-white Montblanc star emblem embedded in it. The Coral red version is entirely made out of coral red 'precious' resin. Both colorways have a very vintage look and feel to them, both because of the overall design, and the materials used. The coral red resin plays a pretty big role in the appearance of the pen, even on the black version. The most prominent design feature is of course the snake clip wrapped around the top of the cap. It's a big part of the marketing around this pen, and with reason because it's the first thing you notice about the Rouge et Noir. It's quite a stand-out feature, but definitey in a good way. The metal clip has a weathered appearance (similar to aged silver, yet it's not a silver clip) which is achieved through specialised galvanising methods (according to the MB website). The prize difference between the two versions shows in the little details, such as the clip and the nib. The changes are small (The coral has small green (gem)stones as eyes in the snake clip, two-tone nib design, white-filled montblanc logo on the cap), but they do succeed in giving the pen a more luxurious and 'finished' appearance, making the black version look somewhat like a half-finished afterthought. It's a considerable price increase, but if I'd buy one, I'd go for the coral red model without a doubt. If you're looking for a larger pen, the Rouge et Noir will not be for you. In fact, most complaints I've seen so far are about the rather dissapointing size. As I mentioned in the beginning, vintage pens that are usually not as large as modern ones. In that regard, Montblanc did a good job recreating the vintage design. Not as much the length, but the narrow profile is something not everyone will appreciate. For todays standards however, a lot of people will be dissapointed to find a pen that measures in at just 13.7cm closed, and 12.5cm open, with a profile of 1cm width at the cap, and just 0.85cm around the section. The length is not the real issue though, it's actually fairly average, and more than decent enough to fit most hands. But the skinny profile, especially at the section where it's not much thicker than a woodcased pencil, might put some people off. Being a special edition pen, I think most people would expect something a bit larger. I'm more used to larger pens myself, and I have to say it took quite a bit of getting used to something this slender. It's definitely usable, but it felt like my grip was a bit more cramped than it would with a bigger pen. To my surprise, both versions are actually piston fillers. Being so slender and relatively small, I can imagine the ink capacity won't be much to write home about, and there's no ink window to keep track of how much ink is left. So in this case I think I would've actually preferred a C/C filling system for practical reasons. It's also worth noting that the barrels are actually metal, with what I presume is a layer of laquer over it to match the color of the rest of the pen (however you can see a slight color difference between barrel and cap on the Coral version). This gives the pen a noticeable amount of heft when you pick it up. It's by no means heavy, but it definitely feels solid in the hand, despite the smaller size. To make up for the size, Montblanc once again delivers with a beautiful nib design. With the grand theme obviously being the snake, the 14k gold nib features a minimalistic depiction of a snake head. Especially on the Coral red version, with the two-tone nib, this design stands out. It's easily one of the most beautiful nibs I've come across. Apart from the nib, another feature that shows upon uncapping the pen, is the metal grip section. It has a brushed finish that actually doesn't feel slippery while writing, and the threads are at the front of the section, instead of at the transition from section to barrel, which makes it a rather comfortable pen to hold, despite the lack of girth. The small nib is the same design as found on the previous Heritage fountain pen, the 1912 safety filler. The 1912 was praised for being a bit soft and bouncy, I didn't really experience that with this nib, but it's an excellent nib nevertheless. In fact, of the three Montblanc pens I've reviewed so far (Montblanc 146, Montblanc M and this one), this is easily the best one. Both the medium and fine nib I tried were responsive but smooth, and had a rich, consistent flow. One thing I've noticed with all the Montblancs I've used, is that their nib sizes vary quite wildly. For example: the fine on the Coral R&N ran quite noticeably wider than the medium on both the 146 and the black R&N, whilst the fine nib on the Montblanc M wrote almost identical compared to said medium nibs. Consistency in line width doesn't seem to be their strong suit (in my experience, that is), but other than that I can't say anything bad about the way their nibs perform. I think it's fair to say that the Montblanc Rouge et Noir is quite a mixed bag. On one end I really like it, and for a brief moment I actually considered buying one (but then my wallet talked me over on that). The design is refreshing, something that stands out from the current selection of modern pens, and with a strong nod to vintage design. But on the other hand, it's quite expensive, you have to pay a premium to get all the details (honestly if you're considering buying one, immediately move up to the coral version, the black one is so much less exciting if you compare them side by side). And the size will be a big no-go for a lot of people (I actually don't know if the Ebonite limited edition is larger, but even if it is, you'd have to be willing to pay about 1000 Euros more for it). The black model retails for 630 EUR, while the Coral comes in at 760 EUR. That's by no means cheap, but it's already a bit less compared to the Heritage 1912, and for a Montblanc special edition it's probably as low as it's going to get. Is it worth it? If you can get over the skinny profile, I think it could be. Note: Penworld Supports this blog. I received these pens on loan, so I could write this review. I was in no way influenced in the making of this review, the opinions shared here are completely my own! This review does not contain any affilate links. Labels: best fountain pen, fine writing, Luxury, Montblanc, writing NagaRaj Raj September 21, 2016 at 10:43 AM Superb work , I have visited your site for the first time. Thank you very much for having such a informative blog.My opinion is buying one, right now pass up to the coral version, the black one is a lot less interesting if you evaluate them side by facet.I'm working in cv writing service And the scale will be a huge no-go for a lot of humans I absolutely do not know if the Ebonics restrained edition is bigger. each the medium and satisfactory nib I tried have been responsive however smooth, and had a rich, constant go with the flow. One element i have observed with all the Montblancs I've used, is that their nib sizes range pretty wildly.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755332
__label__wiki	0.826064	0.826064	Call in the experts QLD NewsNewsStartupsWA NewsSA NewsBusiness IN ORDER to help their small businesses grow, more and more operators are outsourcing tasks they don't excel at so they can concentrate on what they do best. Which means more small businesses are emerging to help out the existing ones. It's not a new trend, but it's a growing one, RPO Group managing director Liam Ovenden said. Outsourcing is now worth an estimated $US4 trillion around the world, and he believes small businesses are responsible for an increasingly bigger part of this figure. "Outsourcing professionals to perform common tasks is becoming a popular and necessary function for businesses of only 20 to 30 staff, or smaller again," he said. Partial payroll, training consultancy, marketing and direct marketing, accounting, office administration and IT networking are just some of the functions they are sourcing independent professionals to help them with. "If a particular function is not your core business, and you are waylaid from performing the functions of your core business, then outsourcing becomes an option," he said. "If you're a lawn mowing business, you need to be mowing lawns, not attempting to figure out website displays." He said outsourcing started to gain pace with smaller businesses when Generation Y began moving from the classroom to the workplace. "I'm of this generation and we've never wanted to do anything other than that what we're good at," he said. "It may mean you pay more but you don't have to maintain it internally when it's not needed. You need to focus on what you're good at." For those nervous about handing over precious income to do something they have been doing themselves, Mr Ovenden suggested they do a cost exercise. "You have to ask yourself some questions. What would it cost to do it yourselves? Then what would it cost to do it badly?" The savings that can be made depend on many factors, such as the size of the company and what's being outsourced, he said. "The real big firms make the big savings, small firms won't make hard dollar savings," he said. "All their savings will come in the efficiencies, such as how much more they will make with their core business." Mr Ovenden said there were ways to measure outsourced performances and even how to pay them. "An independent business consultant will often give you tangible comparisons to gauge its worthiness," he said. "For example a promise to lower your payroll errors from X to Y, thus improving your bottom line. "There is usually a pre-determined charge but it can also be a collaborative process. "Other things to consider include relevance to your business, cultural fit, references from similar businesses and to question if they will adapt to your business and be unbiased in recommending a course of action. "For example, their business plan should not be built around on-selling and recommending technology that ties you to them."	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755333
__label__cc	0.519169	0.480831	The call of the dung: How flies find their meal Like many other insects, vinegar flies produce pheromones to call their conspecifics to an interesting food source. A research team of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, demonstrated in a new study that the flies' frass also contains these pheromones. Fruits that have been covered by the insects' fecal excretions seem to be especially attractive to other flies. These fruits are probably a more easily digestible food after many flies have been feeding on them. The new results are a first step toward understanding the importance of feces in the communication of vinegar flies. Vinegar flies (Drosophila melanogaster) are able to locate a food source by smelling the odor of overripe fruit. Fruits not only serve the uptake of nutrients, they are also ideal locations for finding a sexual mate and for laying eggs after mating. In previous studies, researchers had noticed that sites that had been visited by many adult flies were especially attractive to their conspecifics. However, the reasons behind this behavior were unclear. Behavioral assays provided an unambiguous result: The insects are attracted to the smell of their conspecifics' feces. "Even though it is known that some beetle species use their fecal excretions to pass information to their conspecifics, we were surprised about how highly attractive even the smallest amounts of frass were to vinegar flies," reports Ian Keesey, the first author of the study. The researchers conducted behavioral experiments with traps which contained different odors and were able to quantify the attractiveness of an odor by counting the flies in the traps. On top of that, they applied the flywalk, an analytic device that measures whether an odor is attractive or repellent by recording the behavior of single flies in a glass tube filled with different odors. If a fly moves upwind, towards the odor source, the odor is rated as attractive. If a fly moves downwind, away from the odor source, the odor is rated a deterrent. Interestingly, when fecal odors were tested, the flies always moved towards the source. Frass contains pheromones The next step was to chemically analyze the frass to find out which odor components of the flies' feces were appetizing. To the scientists' surprise, the frass contained sexual pheromones. The frass odors are not only species-specific, they are also different in males and females. If many flies visit a fruit, they also lay more eggs on it. Larvae hatching from these eggs might benefit from the presence of the larvae that were there previously: They could process the food more easily when it has been "pre-digested" by microorganisms in the frass of their conspecifics. The presence of frass not only attracts more flies, the flies also eat and excrete more, and this raises the attractiveness of a food source further. "Frass seems to be an important communication tool between individuals of one species. Surprisingly, it has been neglected in many ecological studies so far," explains Markus Knaden from the Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology and head of the study. "Talking about bodily excretions is still a kind of taboo and this may have contributed to the fact that researchers avoided this topic in the past. This is even more astonishing in the case of Drosophila melanogaster, considering the many other ecological aspects that have been studied intensively in this insect." Means for pest control? Future studies will be extended to related fly species. These studies will include Drosophila suzukii. Unlike its relative Drosophila melanogaster, which is attracted to overripe and rotting fruit, the suzukii fly attacks fresh or ripening berries and grapes and is a, hard-to-control pest in orchards and vineyards. If this species is as attracted to its own frass in a similar way as Drosophila melanogaster is, new possibilities to effectively control this pest would open up.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755334
__label__wiki	0.819926	0.819926	Gower: Building something greater at the Eels Tue 26 Jul 2016, 06:00 PM Dyldam Parramatta Eels forward David Gower says the Blue and Gold will be looking to make up for last week’s disappointing performance and continue on building to something greater at the Eels. After suffering a 34-14 defeat to the Gold Coast Titans last week, Gower says morale around the side is still high and they are focused on finishing off their 2016 campaign, the way they started. “Morale is still good, obviously disappointed, but more importantly disappointed in the 80-minute performance we put in on the weekend, “Gower said. “We know we are better than that and it’s not the standards we set, and the standards we set in the first half of the year are the ones we want to finish the year off with.” “We are building something at the club and will continue to build,” Gower added. “We touched on it but it will take another year to achieve what we want to achieve so the building process continues.” And despite the Finals in 2016 out of reach for the Blue and Gold, Gower says that the side is not looking ahead to 2017, still with play plenty to play for in the final 6 rounds. “We still have to improve week to week in 2016. It’s definitely not over for us,” Gower said. “We have a lot of pride to play for and improvement individually and as a team.” “We have proud fans, we think we have the best fans in the game, so we still want to reward them and encourage them to come out and support us.” And with plenty of off-field distractions throughout 2016, Gower spoke of the importance and accountability Head Coach Brad Arthur had instilled in the Blue and Gold squad. “Brad has always been great from shielding us away from all the external stuff.,” Gower said. “We obviously see it in the papers and on the news, but Brad just demands to be accountable to each other and to him everyday we take the training field and that’s the way we approached Day One in preseason and that’s the way we are going to approach it.” “We are accountable to everyone, the guy next to us, the coaching staff. We are always trying to better ourselves as a team and individually.” The Eels take on the Wests Tigers at ANZ Stadium this Saturday July 30. Click here for the Round 21 Team List. ROUND 21 GAME DAY INFO	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755335
__label__wiki	0.724025	0.724025	Reuben A. Torrey For fans of:A. W. Tozer, Dwight L. Moody, Andrew Murray, John Bunyan, Charles H. Spurgeon How to Bring Men to Christ: What the Bible Tells Us About Fruitful Evangelism to Uni How to Pray: What the Bible Tells Us About Genuine, Effective Prayer Reuben Archer Torrey traveled all over the world leading evangelistic tours, preaching to the unsaved. It is believed that more than one hundred thousand were saved under his preaching. Torrey married Clara Smith in 1879, with whom he had five children. In 1908, he helped start the Montrose Bible Conference in Pennsylvania, which continues today. He became dean of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles (now Biola University) in 1912, and was the pastor of the Church of the Open Door in Los Angeles from 1915 to 1924. Torrey continued speaking all over the world and holding Bible conferences. He died in Asheville, North Carolina, on October 26, 1928.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755336
__label__wiki	0.583409	0.583409	Falmouth council sends Route 1 redesign to voters By Will Graff FALMOUTH — In the final vote before a public referendum in June, the Town Council on Monday approved a comprehensive overhaul of the Route 1 business corridor. Councilors praised the plan and urged voters to approve the $11.7 million needed to implement the changes. “This is something that will have a monumental effect on the business district along Route 1,” Councilor Bonny Rodden said, for the next 40 years. The plan is intended to create a more village-like feel along the corridor and to encourage multiple forms of transportation. If the bond is passed, some of the more immediate visible changes will include buried utility lines, landscaped medians, new sidewalks and street lights, and storm water management improvements. The zoning changes include requirements for new business property development, notably that storefronts be brought forward, toward the street, pushing parking to the rear of most properties, and reducing the minimum number of required parking spaces. Rodden said the referendum question is the last hurdle for the project, and emphasized that it will create no expected property tax increases. Construction will be financed using property tax revenue generated from Route 1 businesses through tax increment financing. Essentially, the TIF allows for some property taxes to be earmarked for the project and used to pay off the bond – if voters approve the spending. “The bottom line is that people need to understand it’s not going to cost them anything,” Rodden said. As the business district develops, councilors said they expect it to create a more robust buisness tax base, placing less of a burden on residential property taxpayers. The medians on Route 1 will be one of the most immediate and visible feature of the new plan. Several residents, business owners and councilors expressed concern about traffic congestion and access restrictions the islands could cause, which forced the Community Development Committee to revise that portion of the original proposal. The committee narrowed and shortened the islands, making them flatter, and in some places removed them entirely. Maintaining the proposed changes along the roadway is expected to cost about $17,500 annually for landscaping, snow removal and general upkeep, according to town estimates. Falmouth is one of several towns in the state contemplating similar changes in building codes and zoning to encourage more village- or downtown-style development in commercial districts. All the plans place a significant focus on using multiple modes of transportation, shifting away from the mentality that vehicle travel is the top priority. The Route 1 plan is intended to promote more walking and cycling by creating more inclusive environments more suitable and safe for all forms of transportation. Rodden, chairwoman of the CDC, said the new design will make things easier for pedestrians. “It’s more likely pedestrians will be able to use the whole district for once and not have to be concerned for their life,” she said, referring to the lack of safe walking areas and poorly designed turning lanes on Route 1. The public referendum will be on June 11. If approved, the Route 1 improvements are scheduled in coordination with state-funded repaving projects expected to begin in 2014. Will Graff can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 123 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter: @W_C_Graff.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755347
__label__wiki	0.983005	0.983005	Kings’ Jack Campbell knows all about… Kings’ Jack Campbell knows all about Coach Willie Desjardins Kings goaltender Jack Campbell told his teammates that interim head coach Willie Desjardins, who he played for in the AHL,is “a calm guy” who “loves to win” and is fun to play for when his teams do well. (Photo by Scott Varley, Daily Breeze/SCNG) By Robert Morales \| rmorales@scng.com \| Press Telegram PUBLISHED: November 8, 2018 at 8:25 pm \| UPDATED: November 8, 2018 at 10:57 pm LOS ANGELES — Kings captain Anze Kopitar admitted Monday he didn’t know much about new interim coach Willie Desjardins, who was hired after John Stevens was fired Sunday. But goalie Jack Campbell knows all about Desjardins. Desjardins was head coach of the Texas Stars of the AHL for two seasons, during which time Campbell was one of his goalies. After the Kings defeated the Ducks 4-1 on Tuesday night in Desjardins’ first game, Campbell praised his disposition. “I think that calm demeanor helps you stay calm, and I thought the boys responded to everything he said and stuck to the game plan,” said Campbell, whose team took on the Minnesota Wild on Thursday night at Staples Center. Campbell had mixed emotions. On one hand, he was disappointed about Stevens, as well as assistant coach Don Nachbaur, losing their jobs. On the other, he seemed thrilled that Desjardins was Stevens’ replacement. “Yeah, it’s exciting,” Campbell said. “I mean, obviously, it’s a tough thing what we just went through with really good people, things like that. But with Willie being here now, I’m excited. We had a lot of success as a team in Texas, so nothing better than winning a championship.” The Texas Stars won the Calder Cup championship in 2013-14, Desjardins’ second year there. Although Campbell only played 16 games that season because of injury, he posted a fine goals-against-average of 1.49. This season, Campbell has a GAA of 2.50 in 11 games and has become the Kings’ No. 1 goaltender because of the knee surgery that has sidelined Jonathan Quick. Desjardins likes what he sees from his former minor-league goalie. “He played good,” Desjardins said of Campbell’s days in Texas. “But his level of maturity has really gone up. You have to give a lot of credit to Billy (Ranford) and Dusty Imoo for how he’s developed.” Ranford is Kings goaltending coach. Imoo is in goaltending development. “He’s a different goaltender than when I had him,” Desjardins said. “He’s confident. You can see that throughout. He’s played great this year, so it’s good.” Since Campbell is so familiar with Desjardins, he did mention a few things to his teammates about him. “I told them he’s a calm guy, he loves to win, we have a lot of fun when we’re winning, so expect that,” Campbell said. TRIBUTE TO THE FALLEN The Kings and Wild made a statement during Thursday night’s game at Staples Center by wearing helmet decals and holding up signs that said, “Enough” to honor the 12 victims of Wednesday night’s mass shooting at the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks. Also, the Kings plan to donate all proceeds from the club’s 50-50 raffle to the Ventura County Family Foundation and Kings players will match those proceeds. The team will also donate the proceeds from Saturday’s 50-50 raffle when the team takes on Calgary at Staples Center. “This is a horrible event, another senseless act of incredible violence, and it clearly hits home here with us again as Thousand Oaks is part of our community,” Kings president Luc Robitaille said in a statement. “We are thankful to the first responders and everyone who has been helping the victims and their loved ones. “We definitely will do our part to help the community but more importantly we want to help amplify the message that enough is enough. We cannot accept these incidents as a new reality.” “We’ve got to stop the violence,” Robitaille said in a pregame interview on Fox Sports West. “It’s not enough for every sports organization to just do a moment of silence. We need to do more.” "It's not enough for every sports organization to just do a moment of silence. We need to do more."@LAKings president Luc Robitaille reflects on last night's events in Thousand Oaks pic.twitter.com/Q4laxnwcKB — FOX Sports West (@FoxSportsWest) November 9, 2018 A Kings employee, Christiana Duarte, was one of 58 people killed in the Las Vegas mass shooting on Oct. 1, 2017. She had yet to start her marketing job with the organization. “We understand that when this happens, we all feel terrible and the next day, most people go about their business, and then two weeks later, it seems to happen again,” Robitaille added. “We need to at least get together and see if we can make a difference.” In a very emotional pregame tribute, we were reminded that when we stand together, humanity is greater than hate.@LAKings \| @mnwild pic.twitter.com/SK4oAORSQP WINNING WITH BROWN Forward Dustin Brown missed the first 10 games of the season for the Kings with a broken finger. The Kings went 2-7-1. But they have won three of four since Brown returned, and he has five points (three goals and two assists). Kings sign goalie Cal Petersen to 3-year extension Michael Amadio, three others signed by Kings Kings sign Tobias Bjornfot to entry-level contract Kings sign forward Samuel Fagemo to entry-level deal Kings sign Alex Iafallo to two-year contract extension Brown’s surge since his return is no surprise to Desjardins. “Well, he’s always been a leader,” Desjardins said. “He’s the type of guy that, you know, he was playing really well a few years back. (Then) things didn’t go quite so good and he took it upon himself to kind of say, ‘Hey, I’ve gotta make myself better,’ and he has done that. “Even all through that time he’s been a leader on this team and so when you have a guy like that come back to your lineup, it makes a difference. He’s just a heart-and-soul guy that always gives you what he has.” Brown, 34, is in his 15th NHL season, all with the Kings. Beginning in 2007-08 – his fourth season – Brown had 60, 53, 56, 57 and 54 points. He had 29 points in the 48-game, strike-shortened 2012-13 campaign. But then he had just 27, 27, 28 and 36 points over the next four seasons, of which he played all but five regular-season games, before coming back this past season to score a career-high 61 points. STREAK ENDS The Kings drew 17,621 for Thursday’s game, ending their franchise-record sellout streak at 297 games. The last non-sellout before Thursday was a 2-1 win over Florida on Dec. 1, 2011. Former Wilson High football coach pleads not guilty to having sex with 15-year-old student Updates from 5 Long Beach projects have Sky Room reopening and 40-story tower coming These 8 new restaurants are landing at The Hangar in Long Beach this summer los-angeles-kings Robert Morales Robert Morales covers the Los Angeles Kings for the Southern California News Group. 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__label__cc	0.698102	0.301898	Fostering Physical Activity for Children and Youth: Opportunities for a Lifetime of Health Convergence Partnership, PolicyLink, Virginia Lee, Leslie Mikkelsen, Janani Srikantharajah Date Published: September 2010 Fostering Physical Activity: for Children and Youth: Opportunities for a Lifetime of Health provides background research about the current state of physical activity in the nation and highlights organizational practices and public policies to improve physical activity among children and youth. The report serves as a launching pad for action for practitioners and advocates who are interested in engaging in systems and environmental change approaches in four key arenas: schools, early childcare and education settings, out-of-school-time programs, and communities. Commissioned by the Convergence Partnership, a national collaborative of health funders in the U.S., the report was informed by research and key informant interviews. Reflecting the Convergence Partnership's vision, the report's analysis of policy opportunities at the federal, state and local level emphasizes ways to ensure that health equity is at the forefront of collaborative efforts. This document is part of a larger strategy to identify high-impact approaches that will move the Convergence Partnership closer to the vision of healthy people in healthy places. In addition to this document, the Partnership has released other policy briefs on topics such as the built environment and access to healthy food. Visit our Convergence Partnership initiative page, and www.convergencepartnership.org to learn more. The Convergence Partnership is a collaborative of funders whose goal of policy and environmental change will help reinvent communities of healthy people living in healthy places. The steering committee includes representatives from The California Endowment, Kaiser Permanente, Kresge Foundation, Nemours, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention serve as critical technical advisors on the committee. PolicyLink, a national research and action institute devoted to advancing economic and social equity, serves as program directors for the partnership. Prevention Institute, a national non-profit organization dedicated to improving community health and equity through effective primary prevention, provides policy research and analysis along with strategic support. Convergence Partnership Healthy Food & Activity Environments	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755349
__label__wiki	0.742551	0.742551	Fr. Pavone Praises Pro-Life Media Messages Carol Baass Sowa Today's Catholic--Ft. Wayne-South Bend, IN SAN ANTONIO. Two driving forces in the pro-life movement came together in San Antonio on June 29 when the Majella Society, in partnership with the archdiocesan Office of Social Concerns, brought in Father Frank Pavone to speak to a packed house at Church of the Holy Spirit. Active in the pro-life movement since 1976, Father Pavone is national director for Priests for Life, president of the National Pro-Life Religious Council and pastoral director for Rachel’s Vineyard [A Ministry of Priests for Life], an international retreat program for post-abortion healing. In 1999 he was named one of the “Top 100 Catholics of the Century.” He has traveled to all 50 states and to five continents, speaking out against abortion, including addressing the clergy of India on life issues at the request of Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta. “Jane Roe” of the famous Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision came to call him “the catalyst that brought me to the Catholic Church,” and he was present with Terri Schiavo in her final moments and an outspoken advocate for her life. Opening the evening was Luke Doyle, executive director of the Majella Society, an organization which uses the mass media to change attitudes on abortion. Named after St. Gerard Majella, the patron saint of motherhood and difficult pregnancies, the Austin-based Majella Society entered the San Antonio market last December with a series of pro-life television commercials and billboards. They also make use of the Internet through http://www.teenbreaks.com/. “Our goal,” said Doyle, “is to make sure that the bottom line is we reduce the abortion rate in the state of Texas and that the vast majority of Texans view abortion as absolutely unthinkable.” A similar advertising program in Wisconsin, whose population is around five million, reduced their abortion rate by 23 percent over a 10 year period, Doyle stated, saving an estimated 60,000 lives that would have otherwise been aborted. “We have just over 20 million people here in the state of Texas,” he said. “Imagine, if we’re saving 60,000 lives in Wisconsin over that period of time, what we can do here in Texas.” The Majella Society makes use of two types of advertising — one aimed at changing attitude, the other offering a number (1-800-395-HELP) that can connect the caller to pro-life pregnancy counseling in their area. Doyle noted that in the Majella Society’s first campaign there was a 93 percent increase in calls to the 1-800 number and, during their second campaign, a 147 percent increase in calls. “So we are able to not only change attitudes and beliefs on the issue of abortions,” he said, “we are also extending a helping hand to get women into the centers, into the counseling that they need to make a decision for life.” He noted a very high percentage of women who had an abortion, when interviewed, said, “If I had had information on alternatives, I most likely would have made a different choice.” Father Pavone has founded a community of priests permanently dedicated to full-time pro-life work, based in the Diocese of Amarillo, and spoke glowingly of this historic step. “Never before in the history of the church,” he said, “has there been a community — technically, it’s called a Society of Apostolic Life — an opportunity for young men to become priests, not simply to do the many marvelous ministries that a priest can do, but specifically to fight for the unborn.” These priests, he said, will be able to help their fellow priests “speak more clearly and courageously, minister more compassionately, mobilize more effectively and do what Christ says we have to do for our brothers and sisters when he defines the meaning of love.” Love, Father Pavone noted, means laying down one’s life for others — the exact opposite of abortion, which is actually sacrificing another person for the good of one’s self. Praising the Majella Society for their efforts, he said, “What a marvelous goal it would be to get these commercials on constantly, not only throughout Texas, but throughout the country.” He added that the support given to the society’s efforts will help achieve this goal. “We have to keep putting this message before the minds and hearts of the American people,” he said. Despite the media being filled with pro-abortion messages, Father Pavone believes wholeheartedly in the words of Pope John Paul II: “Error may sometimes have a bigger pulpit, but there is a grace that comes with the word of truth, a grace that the words of falsehood can never have, a grace that is more powerful to transform minds and hearts than any amount of error.” “We don’t have to be distracted by the fact that falsehood has such a big pulpit,” said Father Pavone. “We’ve got to be focused on the fact that now we have a pulpit for the word of truth and for the word of life, and we have a concrete way of advancing that effort to connect with so many more minds and hearts.” Emphasizing the importance of the Majella Society’s campaign, he pointed out there are three distinct ways their media messages connect with people. The first is through “cognitive dissonance,” which occurs when a person believes something to be true but then hears new information that creates a conflict in their mind, forcing them to reconsider what they truly believe. He gave as example the state and federal laws that protect unborn children from attacks and acts of violence other than abortion. This means, he observed, that a pregnant woman who is driving herself to a clinic for an abortion could have her car struck by a drunken driver, killing the unborn child, and the driver would be charged with the death of the child the woman was about to have legally killed. He noted this cognitive dissonance took place when the physician who ran the largest abortion facility in the Western world came to doubt the validity of abortion after being struck by the incongruity of working in a building where babies were being aborted on one floor, while on another, heroic efforts were being used to save babies at the same gestational age. Father Pavone also recalled the instance of a woman who spoke to him following one of his talks at a parish. She had considered herself 100 percent pro-abortion until she heard him preach, but totally reversed her views following his talk. Two things he had said changed her mind. The first was learning that more lives are lost to abortions in one year than all the lives lost in all the wars our nation has been involved in since its beginning. The second was the story he told of the sea turtles at a beach he had visited one day while preaching on abortion in Florida. A sign on the beach stated that the sea turtles and their eggs were protected by local, state and federal laws. “And I asked the question in the homily,” said Father Pavone, “‘If we don’t have the right to choose to smash the egg of a sea turtle, how and why do we have the right to choose to smash a baby?’” “Imagine the power of having ads that raise this cognitive dissonance constantly airing, constantly making people think about it,” he said to his San Antonio audience. In addition to the use of cognitive dissonance, the Majella Society’s ads provide outreach to those tempted to abort, Father Pavone noted. Though we all fight abortion and want to protect unborn children, he said, we don’t actually come in contact with them. “What we see walking down the street,” he said, “is a young woman who is so desperate and afraid and feels so ashamed and terrified that she experiences the terrible temptation to kill her own child.” We can reach out to this woman by telling her she has a choice, he added, and this is what the Majella Society ads offer in the 1-800 number. “We don’t stand up before the world and point a finger of condemnation,” he said. “No. We extend a hand of mercy and of help to lift them up out of despair.” “Abortion is not only a sin against life,” he continued. “It is a sin against hope, an act of despair.” Thus the third focus of the Majella Society’s advertising campaign is extending hope to those who have already had an abortion and reaching out to “the woman and the man who have been enveloped in the despair that comes after abortion.” Father Pavone noted that Priests for Life is privileged to be coordinating and operating the world’s largest abortion healing ministry, Rachel’s Vineyard Retreats. Many dioceses around the country use this as their Project Rachel program. Priests for Life is also involved in the Silent No More Campaign, in which men and women who have personally experienced the pain of abortion, are speaking out to express their regrets. “And they are becoming the new sign,” he said. “They are becoming the new source of hope to others who have also fallen into that abyss.” In conclusion, Father Pavone stated that the abortion industry is, even now, collapsing from within. “Abortion destroys itself,” he said. “They cannot sustain the lies and the falsehoods that are behind this greatest of all evils. They can’t even get doctors to do the procedure, no matter how legal it is.” Instead, he noted, the abortion industry is falling back, as a last stand, on the argument that abortion is a decision between a woman and her God. This means, he said, that they have run out of arguments and their only hope of succeeding is if the pro-life message fails to get out. “Brothers and sisters,” he said, “don’t have any doubt that the message that you’re helping to get out to the people of Texas, to the people of San Antonio, to the people of America, is converting and consoling and changing people.” “That’s not what we have to fear,” he said. “There is only one thing that we have to fear and that is that they won’t get out at all.”	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755350
__label__cc	0.713765	0.286235	Fetal monitoring 50th anniversary Perspectives on 50 years of fetal monitoring from clinical leaders around the world Dr. Deborah Fox Lecturer in Midwifery at the University of Technology Sydney, and Member of the Scientific Review Advisory Committee of the Australian College of Midwives 1. How have advances in technology changed the way you work? Out of all the advances I’ve seen in over a decade as a midwife, I would particularly highlight cordless waterproof fetal monitoring technology. I think it has been crucial in enhancing how we support women who require continuous fetal monitoring during childbirth. I’ve been working with Philips to help spread awareness of this technology among clinicians in Australia. Having seen the benefits first-hand, I feel it’s important to get the message out there. 2. Which developments have surprised you the most during your time in the field of obstetrical care? I’ve been pleasantly surprised by progress in developing technology that allows women with complications to have a normal birth. Also, even though I’ve been aware of cordless waterproof technology for a decade now, the ability to wirelessly monitor twins and triplets, and maternal blood pressure and oxygen saturation, has certainly been a significant innovation. Beyond that, I would also highlight advances in fetal surgery as a very exciting area of development, with a view to improving babies’ health. 3. How has the labor experience evolved from the mother’s perspective? Women are becoming more informed about their options, and as a midwife, I think that’s something we should embrace. The more information we can share with them to help them make choices, the better. While the midwife is the expert in childbearing, the woman is the expert in her own life and needs, and those of her family. Those two things have to go together, and that means understanding and responding to the mother’s emotional, psychological, cultural and social needs – rather than treating childbirth as a purely medical procedure. 4. How have public and clinical attitudes changed with respect to mobility in labor? I think that more women than ever recognize the importance of freedom in labor. However, a lot of women still assume that they will be expected to sit or lie flat on their back on the bed. This means we need to work with women during pregnancy to help them understand that they do have choices, and that we will be ready and able to support them if they do desire mobility. From the clinical perspective, I think that more and more midwives – especially those who have been trained and educated in the last 10 to 20 years – have a firm grasp of the physiological importance of freedom of movement and positioning in labor. That’s certainly a focus of my teaching and training of midwifery students. 5. What future advances would you like to see in the field of labor and delivery that would improve your job or the mother’s experience? My dream birthing room would have a bath, waterproof cordless monitoring, and comfortable chairs, stools, cushions and other furniture for the mother to lean on – so the whole idea of lying flat on her back doesn’t even enter her head. If anything, I would like to see beds removed from birthing rooms altogether, or moved to the side so that the bed is not the focus of the room. This should be combined with midwifery continuity of care, so that every woman gets their own midwife and builds a one-to-one relationship with them. With all the psychosocial factors involved in pregnancy and labor, this continuity is crucial. If we could deliver that for all women, not just those with a low risk of complications, I think that it would have a huge positive impact on the quality of maternity care overall. View other clinical leader perspectives Learn more about the 50th anniversary of fetal monitoring	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755354
__label__wiki	0.640522	0.640522	Prospecting Mimetic Fractals The Lenses of Wisdom The Prospecting Lens The Mimetic Lens The Fractal Lens The Master Crafters At the focal point of powerful lenses one might detect a glimmer of insight and wisdom. The Spectral Evidence Of Microaggressions: When Championing The Victim Runs Awry I was listening recently to a conversation between Professors Tyler Cowen and Jonathan Haidt, which touched on the recent trend at some U.S. colleges towards what has been described as a "Victimhood Culture", involving calling out authorities to police behavior that is described as microaggressions against various races and other historically disfavored groups of people. The trend is to assign blame even where the offensive behavior is not out of intent, but mere ignorance or bad manners, and to claim victim status over the most trivial nature of slights, including in some instances the food that is served in the college cafeterias. Haidt has written an article about this trend, which references a more extensive paper by Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning. According to the paper, as Haidt summarizes: "We’re beginning a second transition of moral cultures. The first major transition happened in the 18th and 19th centuries when most Western societies moved away from cultures of honor (where people must earn honor and must therefore avenge insults on their own) to cultures of dignity in which people are assumed to have dignity and don’t need to earn it. They foreswear violence, turn to courts or administrative bodies to respond to major transgressions, and for minor transgressions they either ignore them or attempt to resolve them by social means. There’s no more dueling. Campbell and Manning describe how this culture of dignity is now giving way to a new culture of victimhood in which people are encouraged to respond to even the slightest unintentional offense, as in an honor culture. But they must not obtain redress on their own; they must appeal for help to powerful others or administrative bodies, to whom they must make the case that they have been victimized. It is the very presence of such administrative bodies, within a culture that is highly egalitarian and diverse (i.e., many college campuses) that gives rise to intense efforts to identify oneself as a fragile and aggrieved victim. This is why we have seen the recent explosion of concerns about microaggressions, combined with demands for trigger warnings and safe spaces, that Greg Lukianoff and I wrote about in The Coddling of the American Mind." Haidt made another interesting observation in the discussion about how academia has become a mono-culture in the past 30 years: "[T]he ’90s is the decade where everything flips. At the start of the 1990s, the overall left‑right ratio of the academy, taking all departments, was two to one, just twice as many people on the left as right. That’s fine, that’s not a problem. But by 2005, it had gone to five to one, five people on the left for every one on the right. Those people on the right are mostly engineering, nursing, things like that. If you look at the core — the humanities and the social sciences, other than economics, it’s closer to 10 to 1 or 20 to 1. In other words, right‑wing, or libertarian, or social conservative voices have basically vanished between 1995 and 2005. This has made us unfunctional, but it’s in the social sciences and humanities where the sacred value has become social justice and the protection of victims. That’s the division. One university of the sciences still pursues truth, the other university in the social sciences and humanities pursues social justice." Let's examine this situation through the Lenses of Wisdom. Looking through the Fractal Lens first this time, both Nassim Taleb and Mark Buchanan have observed organizations that seem outwardly to be stable mono-cultures that lack political diversity are "fragile" in Taleb's lexicon, or subject to extreme dislocations that can often appear suddenly. As this article summarizes: "According to Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Gregory F. Treverton, appearances can be deceiving, especially when it comes to the stability of a nation. In their essay in Foreign Affairs, “The Calm Before the Storm,” Taleb and Treverton argue that what you see is not what you get when it comes to the apparent “stability” of the political system of a given country. They argue that countries with relatively decentralized governments and a wide variety of political expression such as Italy or the U.S. are actually quite strong politically despite the perception of conflict and lack of national cohesion. The corollary to this is that a strong central government and the lack of political diversity you see in countries such as Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Venezuela and China actually makes these countries more fragile." In his book, Ubiquity, Buchanan discusses the seemingly unexpected onset of World War I and the collapse of the Soviet Union as other examples of seemingly stable systems coming apart at a moment's notice. In terms of the rice pile or sand pile model of complexity theory, it is the very height and size of the pile itself that can lead to a small event triggering an avalanche. According to Haidt's description of the academic environment at many U.S. colleges in the 2000s, they resemble mono-cultures that lack political diversity. If we apply the sand-pile or rice pile model of complexity theory, we see piles of similar rhetoric that have not been challenged (and thereby reduced) in years. It is not surprising that seeming small event of students complaining could cause fractures or dislocations that threaten the integrity of the academic environment itself. This is what ultimately concerns Haidt (and others): that demands for social justice are destroying the pursuit of knowledge that traditionally underpinned higher education. Thus, although the complaints themselves may be trivial, the consequences and the reactions are not. In effect, the ideals of the mono-culture are being turned inward upon itself in a litany of accusations. But where might we have seen this kind of self-destructive reaction in a mono-culture in the past? An academic setting is not really analogous to an entire country or countries. It is, however, analogous to a small community of like-minded individuals that hold strong beliefs about justice, such as that which existed in Salem, Massachusetts in the 17th Century. In that society, people adhered to strong beliefs about the omnipresence of spiritual agents, both positive and negative. From the Wikipedia entry: "In 17th-century Colonial America, the supernatural was considered part of everyday life; many people believed that Satan was present and active on Earth. This concept emerged in Europe during the fifteenth century and spread with the later colonization of North America Colonies. Peasants used a kind of witchcraft to invoke particular charms for farming and agriculture. Over time, the idea of white magic transformed into dark magic and became associated with demons and evil spirits. From 1560 to 1670, witchcraft persecutions became common as superstitions became associated with the devil. In Against Modern Sadducism (1668), Joseph Glanvill claimed that he could prove the existence of witches and ghosts of the supernatural realm. Glanvill wrote about the "denial of the bodily resurrection, and the [supernatural] spirits." In his treatise, he claimed that ingenious men should believe in witches and apparitions; if they doubted the reality of spirits, they not only denied demons, but also the almighty God. Glanvill wanted to prove that the supernatural could not be denied; those who did deny apparitions were considered heretics for it also disproved their beliefs in angels. Works by men such as Glanvill and Cotton Mather tried to prove that "demons were alive." Like the situation on some American campuses today, the Salem hysteria was set up by beliefs that originated and were propagated by the leadership: "Cotton Mather, a [Boston] minister, was a prolific publisher of pamphlets and a firm believer in witchcraft. In his book Memorable Providences Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions (1689), Mather describes his "oracular observations" and how "stupendous witchcraft"[22] had affected the children of Boston mason John Goodwin." But the immediate and direct impetus -- the grain of sand or rice that started the avalanche -- came not from the leadership, but from some of the persons with the lowest status -- children, or the equivalent of students in the college setting. "In Salem Village, in February 1692, Betty Parris, age 9, and her cousin Abigail Williams, age 11, the daughter and niece, respectively, of Reverend Samuel Parris, began to have fits described as "beyond the power of Epileptic Fits or natural disease to effect" by John Hale, the minister of the nearby town of Beverly. The girls screamed, threw things about the room, uttered strange sounds, crawled under furniture, and contorted themselves into peculiar positions . . . The girls complained of being pinched and pricked with pins. A doctor, historically assumed to be William Griggs, could find no physical evidence of any ailment. Other young women in the village began to exhibit similar behaviors. When Lawson preached in the Salem Village meetinghouse, he was interrupted several times by outbursts of the afflicted." What followed was a series of arrests, prosecutions and punishments of alleged wrongdoers that included executions. What was interesting for comparison purposes is the flimsy nature of the evidence by which these convictions were obtained and the startling lack of proof of actual intent to harm. "Much, but not all, of the evidence used against the accused was spectral evidence, or the testimony of the afflicted who claimed to see the apparition or the shape of the person who was allegedly afflicting them. The theological dispute that ensued about the use of this evidence centered on whether a person had to give permission to the Devil for his/her shape to be used to afflict. Opponents claimed that the Devil was able to use anyone's shape to afflict people, but the Court contended that the Devil could not use a person's shape without that person's permission; therefore, when the afflicted claimed to see the apparition of a specific person, that was accepted as evidence that the accused had been complicit with the Devil." Here, the modern Devil at issue is racism, sexism or other discriminatory behavior against historically disfavored groups. The evidence -- microaggressions -- is similar to spectral evidence in an important way: namely, there is no requirement of intent by the alleged aggressor. Rather, it is sufficient that the alleged victim simply report that he or she was harmed by the spectre or feeling of a racist, sexist or other discriminatory interpretation of an act, whether or not there was actually any such intention. In addition, the evidence is highly public and easily reported. In the seventeenth century, a simple public statement by the victim sufficed. Today, publication on an internet board or otherwise is the preferred mode of communication. Interestingly enough, it is academic leadership in both eras who intervened to stem the tide of accusations. In the 17th Century, the President of Harvard College was Increase Mather, the father of Cotton Mather, Cotton being one of the leaders who had egged on the investigations. In 1692, Increase Mather published Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits. In it, he repeated his caution about the reliance on spectral evidence, stating "It were better that Ten Suspected Witches should escape, than that one Innocent Person should be Condemned". Unfortunately for many of the accused, they had already been prosecuted and punished by then. Today, Increase Mather's most recent successor, President Drew Faust, has been more timely in trying to quell the accusatorial environment. In a talk given at the beginning of the academic year, she urged students to consider "risking forgiveness" and upholding the values of free speech over taking offense where none may have been intended: "As we contemplate the year to come and the range of challenges before us, let us remember that building a community of genuine inclusion and belonging is a critical dimension of that work. And let us acknowledge that such work is not easy. There are many individuals who have arrived here this past week—and no doubt many already here—who have little understanding of the cultures, origins, and expectations of roommates, classmates, and section mates, of colleagues different from themselves. Perhaps they worry that if they reach out, they will display their ignorance; that ignorance will be perceived as insensitivity. Can we strive to educate rather than isolate and condemn? Can we together turn what we might leap to label a microaggression into teachable moments? Can we explain why phrases like “off the reservation” or words like “lynching” have a different and powerful resonance for individuals who hear them within a heritage of violence and oppression? Can we make our lives together the subject for inquiry and exploration and understanding in something of the same spirit with which we approach our academic purposes? In a conversation about these issues among the deans this summer, Dean Jim Ryan of the Graduate School of Education urged that we strive to be what he called “generous listeners.” That is in my view the presupposition for real learning. The University is an institution committed to free speech—yours and everyone else’s. In the course of the year to come, that freedom is likely to produce some utterances that we deplore. And there will be times we must speak out against them. But we are likely far more often to encounter good intentions gone awry; mistakes and misunderstandings that are an inevitable part of this experiment in diversity we at Harvard are so committed to defend—in the courts, in the public discourse, and in our lives together. Listen hard, listen generously, risk making a mistake, risk being made uncomfortable, risk forgiveness. Learn from one another." The jury is still out as to whether President Faust's overtures will carry the day, although the public reactions seem to favor her position. The Fractal Lens clearly shows, however, that a dislocation in the monolithic institutions of college campuses has occurred. Shifting gears to the Mimetic Lens, Haidt, Campbell and Manning posit that a new Culture of Victimhood has recently emerged from a Culture of Dignity of the 19th and 20th Centuries, which itself emerged from a Culture of Honor. But Haidt may not have ever looked through the Mimetic Lens as discussed in the interview with Tyler Cowen: "COWEN: I’ve done one of these dialogs with Peter Thiel, and he’s a big fan of René Girard, and his theory of sacrificial violence. Do you have an opinion? HAIDT: No, many people have emailed me about him, and I know I need to read him, I think he’s vaguely Durkheimian. COWEN: Yes. HAIDT: So if he’s Durkheimian, then I’m in favor of him. By that I just mean — I don’t want to sound too academic and obscure here — just that if you look at what humans are doing, so much of what we do is weird and inexplicable. But after you read Durkheim, you see, oh, we’re trying to form communities. We’re trying to form moral communities that will give order, punish deviants, allow us to work together. So if that’s what’s Girard’s about, then I would agree with it." The view through the Mimetic Lens is that the idea that victims are to be exulted is not something new, but something that is at least 2000 years old. In effect, Haidt, Campbell and Manning are looking through too narrow a frame. Nietzsche was clear about this, because exultation of victims was one of his principal criticisms of how Christianity has affected the development of the Western societies. As the Mimetic Lens reveals and as discussed in this post, claims to victimhood -- whether justified or unjustified -- have been driving institutional action throughout the 20th Century. It has been used by both democratic and totalitarian regimes to justify action in support of a cause or a political theory. Yet the paradox of championing the victim is that as soon as it as used not as a shield but as a sword, or justification for "official" action by an authority, it adopts the archaic sacred mode of identifying scapegoats to be exorcised or eliminated. In the Girardian view, the formal accuser Is invariably the stand-in for the Devil who first calls out and then attempts to persecute or goad authorities into persecute the scapegoat: "Girard has little patience for the literal mythological interpretation of Satan as the red, horned creature. According to Girard, the concept of Satan and the Devil is what it etymologically expresses: the opponent, the accuser. And, in this sense, Satan is the scapegoating mechanism itself (or, perhaps more precisely, the accusing process); that is, the psychological processes in which human beings are caught up by the lynching mob, and eventually succumb to its influence and participate in the collective violence against the scapegoat." Thus, the Mimetic Lens shows us that the new microaggression culture actually seeks to create a new form of an archaic sacred structure, where the accusers first claim victimhood and then go on the attack against alleged perpetrators by cajoling the authorities into action -- much like the hysterical victims of witchcraft in colonial Salem went after various scapegoats by cajoling authorities with spectral evidence. This structure is also notably a Mimetic opposite of the "Just World" Culture critiqued in the last post. The only difference is the identification of the victims and scapegoats, who are essentially reversed because the narratives themselves are mimetic rivals. President Faust actually expressed what a culture of upholding the victim should be focused upon, which is that dialogue and forgiveness are the values for which we should be striving, not accusations and exorcising or attempting to silence offending scapegoats -- which is actually a paradoxical perversion of the ideal. It is typically described as "complete intolerance of any perceived intolerance." Finally, looking through the Prospecting Lens, we see the use of System 1 heuristics to turn the narrative of Microaggression Theory, which can be useful to explain some things about society some of the time, into an overarching narrative and litmus test that explains everything all the time. Microaggression Theory is over 45 years old now and has had time to be accepted, developed, expanded and taught in many academic circles. As Haidt observes, the critics of such a theory have been in decline. Most notably, it is exactly the type of "theory of everything" that tends to attract younger people looking for pat answers to how the world works. There is also a tendency to equate unintended slights with the most virulent forms of racism. The key System 1 heuristics at work here include: THE NARRATIVE FALLACY. In our continuous attempt to make sense of the world we often create flawed explanatory stories of the past that shape our views of the world and expectations of the future. We assign larger roles to talent, stupidity, and intentions than to luck or happenstance. Microaggression Theory is a very convenient narrative that relies on well-documented discriminations of the past. Rather than requiring intent, it assumes intent through the nature of the statement or act itself, even if ambiguous. TRUSTING EXPERT INTUITION. “We are confident when the story we tell ourselves comes easily to mind, with no contradiction and no competing scenario. But ease and coherence do not guarantee that a belief held with confidence is true. The associative machine is set to suppress doubt and to evoke ideas and information that are compatible with the currently dominant story.” Kahneman is skeptical of experts because they often overlook what they do not know. The paradox of Microagression culture is that the experts at issue are the professors that teach at these colleges, who are the same persons who are now concerned that their rights of free speech are being eroded by accusations of MIcroaggressions. After 45 years, they have succeeded, which now leads to the undesirable outcome that President Faust and others are now trying to dampen and renegotiate. THEORY-INDUCED BLINDNESS. “Once you have accepted a theory and used it as a tool in your thinking, it is extraordinarily difficult to notice its flaws. If you come upon an observation that does not seem to fit the model, you assume that there must be a perfectly good explanation that you are somehow missing,” The underlying explanation of Microaggression theory is always the same -- institutionalized discrimination. The alternative explanations put forth by President Faust, which include ignorance, mistakes and misunderstandings, are discounted in favor of the overriding narrative. COHERENT STORIES (ASSOCIATIVE COHERENCE). To make sense of the world we tell ourselves stories about what’s going on. We make associations between events, circumstances, and regular occurrences. The more these events fit into our stories the more normal they seem. Things that don’t occur as expected take us by surprise. To fit those surprises into our world we tell ourselves new stories to make them fit. We say, “Everything happens for a purpose,” “God did it,” “That person acted out of character,” or “That was so weird it can’t be random chance.” Abnormalities, anomalies, and incongruities in daily living beg for coherent explanations. Often those explanations involve assuming intention and causality. We see this with the Microaggression theory when people go out of their way to find explanations for things to fit the theory. In some circumstances, as noted in the article referenced at the top, students have even complained about the names of food served in their cafeterias. CONFIRMATION BIAS. This is the tendency to search for and find confirming evidence for a belief while overlooking counter examples. “Jumping to conclusions is efficient if the conclusions are likely to be correct and the costs of an occasional mistake acceptable, and if the jump saves much time and effort. Jumping to conclusions is risky when the situation is unfamiliar, the stakes are high, and there is no time to collect more information." System 1 fills in ambiguity with automatic guesses and interpretations that fit our stories. It rarely considers other interpretations. When System 1 makes a mistake System 2 jumps in to slow us down and consider alternative explanations. “System 1 is gullible and biased to believe, System 2 is in charge of doubting and unbelieving, but System 2 is sometimes busy, and often lazy." Microaggresssions are a one-way ratchet. Nobody is keeping track of microfriendliness or random acts of kindness on the same ledger for the same actors. Yet without such data, any conclusions that are drawn from the speech or acts at issue must clearly be skewed, as they are based on cherry-picking data by definition. THE LAW OF SMALL NUMBERS. Our brains have a difficult time with statistics. Small samples are more prone to extreme outcomes than large samples, but we tend to lend the outcomes of small samples more credence than statistics warrant. System 1 is impressed with the outcome of small samples but shouldn’t be. Small samples are not representative of large samples. Large samples are more precise. It is one thing if there is a pattern of behaviors involving many data points from the same actors. But the kinds of microaggressions that are now being catalogued are often isolated incidents from which little can be drawn in the way of conclusions. The goal of Microagression Theory was never to create an accusatorial or prosecutorial culture. As explained by one of its principal proponents, the goal was simply to improve awareness and manners -- to avoid offending people unnecessarily and make the world a little bit nicer. Note that he agrees that many if not most such acts are committed unconsciously -- that is, without any intent to harm. But like many good ideas, this one seems to have gone wrong. Whenever intent can be implied and guilt can be assessed without it, we are not creating a more enlightened and ennobled society, but merely another archaic ordered (authoritarian) society that merely operates by different rules and identifies different scapegoats than its equally stultified predecessors. Let's not let our System 1 minds fool us again with a conveniently attractive narrative as a poor substitute for System 2 thinking that President Faust urges: "Listen hard, listen generously, risk making a mistake, risk being made uncomfortable, risk forgiveness. Learn from one another." Because we've seen the accusatorial plot before, with its spectral evidence and scapegoats, and we know how it ends. I have always been curious about the way the world works and the most elegant ideas for describing and explaining it. I think I have found three of them. I was very fond of James Burke's Connections series that explored interesting intersections between ideas, and hope to create some of that magic here. Allan Lichtman Benoit Mandelbrot Celebrity Culture Comet Ping Pong Deliberate Practice Dread Risk Fear Fractal Lens Ian Morris Just World Hypothesis Juvenoia Keilis-Borok Luca Luchesini Mimetic Brain Mimetic Lens Oughourlian Prospecting Lens Scarcity As Sacred S-Curves (c) All rights reserved	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755356
__label__wiki	0.672899	0.672899	John R. Carbon: No comparison between Minn. and R.I. To justify his premise that "Tax cuts won't work" (Commentary, Dec. 24), Jonathan Harris compares the State of Minnesota to Rhode Island. Comparing apples to oranges? How about grapes to water melons? Eighty Rhode Islands can fit into Minnesota. Minnesota has about 5.3 million people compared to Rhode Island's 1 million. St.Paul-Minneapolis is a major metropolitan center for parts of other states, such as Iowa, Wisconsin and even the eastern Dakotas. Agriculture as well as manufacturing tend to balance the economy, instead of depending heavily upon services. There is nothing wrong or financially irresponsible with tax dollars being used to build and maintain an infrastructure. But using the bulk of tax dollars to support a welfare state is inane socialism. Look at New York State, which has been touting its new tax breaks for businesses, in an attempt to attract business, investment and economic growth. Taxes are like a fine glass of wine. A little is good, but too much will make you sick. John R. Carbon	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755357
__label__cc	0.642441	0.357559	Animal Behavior College Celebrates 10th Anniversary of the Veterinary Assistant Program; Graduate Joins Worldwide Veterinarian Service Organization to Stop Animal Abuse Approximately 15 million stray dogs roam the streets of Egypt and many have not been vaccinated and carry rabies. ABC grad works to change the publics' attitude about homeless animals so they are more compassionate and willing to help them. “I am perhaps the first and only certified veterinary assistant in my country [Egypt],” Rasha Hassanien-Hassan said. Rasha is an Animal Behavior College Certified Veterinary Assistant. SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (PRWEB) November 08, 2018 Rasha Hassanien-Hassan has always had a passion for animals, especially dogs. Growing up in Cairo, Egypt, she was well aware of the homeless animal issue and her country’s unfavorable attitude toward helping them. She knew that spaying, neutering and educating the public were the best solutions to the homeless problem and decided to become a veterinary assistant. Since veterinary assistant programs were not offered in her country, she enrolled in Animal Behavior College’s (ABC) Certified Veterinary Assistant Program (VAP). Rasha graduated in 2017 and is a certified Animal Behavior College Veterinary Assistant (ABCVA). “I knew it was important to have professional knowledge and training because it is what makes a veterinary assistant medically effective and useful, otherwise, it is just somebody with a good heart trying to help [animals] and not actually knowing how or what to do,” Rasha said. Dogs are not always man’s best friend. In some countries, such as Egypt, homeless dogs present health and safety issues for citizens. In fact, it is estimated that 15 million stray dogs roam the streets, according to the Egypt Independent, and many of them have not been vaccinated and carry rabies. Earlier this year the General Organization for Veterinary Services in Giza reported that 398,000 people were bitten by dogs in 2017 and 65 died from their injuries. “Egypt has a lot of human [welfare] problems—poverty, lack of education and health issues,” Rasha said. “What is missing in all of this is the animal welfare part. How could we solve human health and welfare problems without including the improvement of animal health conditions, too?” It was while volunteering at several overcrowded animal shelters that Rasha realized her life’s mission to help animals and improve their living conditions. Many of the dogs that arrived were emaciated, injured, had skin diseases and had been abused. Rasha interacted and socialized some of them to increase their chances for adoption. But despite her efforts, very few were adopted and the shelters’ populations continued to increase. “I wanted to do more to improve their health and living conditions and find better solutions that would ensure the wellbeing of these animals,” she said. While completing the online portion of the curriculum, Rasha applied and received a U.S. student visa and relocated to Florida where she completed her Externship. After taking the final examination and graduating with honors in May 2017, she returned to Egypt. Rasha joined Worldwide Veterinary Service, a global charity that offers free veterinary care to animals in need. She volunteered at shelters in India, Romania and Thailand, and is currently working with a group of veterinarians in Cairo to create the first-ever education, awareness and training center to educate veterinary students and graduates about the importance of sterilizing and immunizing domestic and stray animals. The group hopes to change the public's attitude about homeless animals so they are more compassionate and willing to help them. “I am perhaps the first and only certified veterinary assistant in my country,” Rasha said. “I am now living my dream of helping animals in a professional way, not just by volunteering in shelters, but by providing real medical assistance to animals in need.” This year marks the 10-year anniversary of ABC’s Veterinary Assistant Program (VAP). Since its inception, there has been an increased demand for veterinary assistants and laboratory caretakers. In fact, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts employment will grow 19 percent for these occupations from 2016 to 2026, faster than the average for all occupations. ABC’s online veterinary assistant course is one of four programs approved by the National Association of Veterinary Technicians in America (NAVTA), a distinction that is highly regarded in the veterinary community. Participants learn everything from examination room procedures and pharmacology to surgical preparation, radiology and ultrasound imaging. Upon completing the program, graduates are certified by ABC as ABCVAs. They then qualify to take NAVTA’s national examination, and if they pass, receive Approved Veterinary Assistants (AVA) designation that recognizes their accomplishments. Currently, there are 1,402 students enrolled in VAP. As of October 31, 2018, 8,733 students in the U.S. and Canada have graduated from VAP. ABC has graduated and certified more than 27,000 students from its four core programs combined including the Dog Obedience Program, the Grooming Instruction Program and the Cat Training Program. In addition, ABC offers specialized certificates of completion in seven short-term programs on subjects including doggie daycare, pet nutrition, pet fostering and training shelter dogs. For more information about the Veterinary Assistant Program call 800-795-3294 or visit ABC’s website at http://www.AnimalBehaviorCollege.com. About Animal Behavior College Now celebrating its 20th Anniversary, Animal Behavior College is a vocational school that trains professional dog trainers, cat trainers, veterinary assistants and pet groomers nationwide and in the 10 provinces of Canada. Students obtain practical hands-on experience applying what they learn by working side-by-side with a member of ABC's expert mentors group. These professional mentors include thousands of professional dog trainers, veterinary hospitals and clinics and grooming salons from all across the U.S. and Canada who are dedicated to helping students succeed in the pet services industry. Angela Pena Animal Behavior College	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755358
__label__cc	0.70462	0.29538	The Quantum System Machine learning is a field of computer science that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed. Arthur Samuel, an American pioneer in the field of computer gaming and artificial intelligence, coined the term "Machine Learning" in 1959 while at IBM. Evolved from the study of pattern recognition and computational learning theory in artificial intelligence, machine learning explores the study and construction of algorithms that can learn from and make predictions on data – such algorithms overcome following strictly static program instructions by making data-driven predictions or decisions, through building a model from sample inputs. Machine learning is employed in a range of computing tasks where designing and programming explicit algorithms with good performance is difficult or infeasible; example applications include email filtering, detection of network intruders or malicious insiders working towards a data breach, optical character recognition (OCR), learning to rank, and computer vision. Machine learning is closely related to (and often overlaps with) computational statistics, which also focuses on prediction-making using computers. It has strong ties to mathematical optimization, which delivers methods, theory and application domains to the field. Machine learning is sometimes conflated with data mining, where the latter subfield focuses more on exploratory data analysis and is known as unsupervised learning. Machine learning can also be unsupervised and be used to learn and establish baseline behavioural profiles for various entities and then used to find meaningful anomalies. Within the field of data analytics, machine learning is a method used to devise complex models and algorithms that lend themselves to prediction; in commercial use, this is known as predictive analytics. These analytical models allow researchers, data scientists, engineers, and analysts to "produce reliable, repeatable decisions and results" and uncover "hidden insights" through learning from historical relationships and trends in the data. Types of problems and tasks Machine learning tasks are typically classified into three broad categories, depending on the nature of the learning "signal" or "feedback" available to a learning system. These are Supervised learning: The computer is presented with example inputs and their desired outputs, given by a "teacher", and the goal is to learn a general rule that maps inputs to outputs. Unsupervised learning: No labels are given to the learning algorithm, leaving it on its own to find structure in its input. Unsupervised learning can be a goal in itself (discovering hidden patterns in data) or a means towards an end (feature learning). Reinforcement learning: A computer program interacts with a dynamic environment in which it must perform a certain goal (such as driving a vehicle or playing a game against an opponent). The program is provided feedback in terms of rewards and punishments as it navigates its problem space. Between supervised and unsupervised learning is semi-supervised learning, where the teacher gives an incomplete training signal: a training set with some (often many) of the target outputs missing. Transduction is a special case of this principle where the entire set of problem instances is known at learning time, except that part of the targets are missing. A support vector machine is a classifier that divides its input space into two regions, separated by a linear boundary. Here, it has learned to distinguish black and white circles. Among other categories of machine learning problems, learning to learn learns its own inductive bias based on previous experience. Developmental learning, elaborated for robot learning, generates its own sequences (also called curriculum) of learning situations to cumulatively acquire repertoires of novel skills through autonomous self-exploration and social interaction with human teachers and using guidance mechanisms such as active learning, maturation, motor synergies, and imitation. Tasks can be categorized into deep learning (the application of artificial neural networks to learning tasks that contain more than one hidden layer) and shallow learning (tasks with a single hidden layer). Another categorization of machine learning tasks arises when one considers the desired output of a machine-learned system. In classification, inputs are divided into two or more classes, and the learner must produce a model that assigns unseen inputs to one or more (multi-label classification) of these classes. This is typically tackled in a supervised way. Spam filtering is an example of classification, where the inputs are email (or other) messages and the classes are "spam" and "not spam". In regression, also a supervised problem, the outputs are continuous rather than discrete. In clustering, a set of inputs is to be divided into groups. Unlike in classification, the groups are not known beforehand, making this typically an unsupervised task. Density estimation finds the distribution of inputs in some space. Dimensionality reduction simplifies inputs by mapping them into a lower-dimensional space. Topic modeling is a related problem, where a program is given a list of human language documents and is tasked to find out which documents cover similar topics. As a scientific endeavour, machine learning grew out of the quest for artificial intelligence. Already in the early days of AI as an academic discipline, some researchers were interested in having machines learn from data. They attempted to approach the problem with various symbolic methods, as well as what were then termed "neural networks"; these were mostly perceptrons and other models that were later found to be reinventions of the generalized linear models of statistics. Probabilistic reasoning was also employed, especially in automated medical diagnosis. However, an increasing emphasis on the logical, knowledge-based approach caused a rift between AI and machine learning. Probabilistic systems were plagued by theoretical and practical problems of data acquisition and representation. By 1980, expert systems had come to dominate AI, and statistics was out of favor. Work on symbolic/knowledge-based learning did continue within AI, leading to inductive logic programming, but the more statistical line of research was now outside the field of AI proper, in pattern recognition and information retrieval. Neural networks research had been abandoned by AI and computer science around the same time. This line, too, was continued outside the AI/CS field, as "connectionism", by researchers from other disciplines including Hopfield, Rumelhart and Hinton. Their main success came in the mid-1980s with the reinvention of backpropagation. Machine learning, reorganized as a separate field, started to flourish in the 1990s. The field changed its goal from achieving artificial intelligence to tackling solvable problems of a practical nature. It shifted focus away from the symbolic approaches it had inherited from AI, and toward methods and models borrowed from statistics and probability theory. It also benefited from the increasing availability of digitized information, and the possibility to distribute that via the Internet. Machine learning and data mining often employ the same methods and overlap significantly, but while machine learning focuses on prediction, based on known properties learned from the training data, data mining focuses on the discovery of (previously) unknown properties in the data (this is the analysis step of knowledge discovery in databases). Data mining uses many machine learning methods, but with different goals; on the other hand, machine learning also employs data mining methods as "unsupervised learning" or as a preprocessing step to improve learner accuracy. Much of the confusion between these two research communities (which do often have separate conferences and separate journals, ECML PKDD being a major exception) comes from the basic assumptions they work with: in machine learning, performance is usually evaluated with respect to the ability to reproduce known knowledge, while in knowledge discovery and data mining (KDD) the key task is the discovery of previously unknown knowledge. Evaluated with respect to known knowledge, an uninformed (unsupervised) method will easily be outperformed by other supervised methods, while in a typical KDD task, supervised methods cannot be used due to the unavailability of training data. Machine learning also has intimate ties to optimization: many learning problems are formulated as minimization of some loss function on a training set of examples. Loss functions express the discrepancy between the predictions of the model being trained and the actual problem instances (for example, in classification, one wants to assign a label to instances, and models are trained to correctly predict the pre-assigned labels of a set of examples). The difference between the two fields arises from the goal of generalization: while optimization algorithms can minimize the loss on a training set, machine learning is concerned with minimizing the loss on unseen samples. Relation to statistics Machine learning and statistics are closely related fields. According to Michael I. Jordan, the ideas of machine learning, from methodological principles to theoretical tools, have had a long pre-history in statistics. He also suggested the term data science as a placeholder to call the overall field. Leo Breiman distinguished two statistical modelling paradigms: data model and algorithmic model, wherein "algorithmic model" means more or less the machine learning algorithms like Random forest. Some statisticians have adopted methods from machine learning, leading to a combined field that they call statistical learning. A core objective of a learner is to generalize from its experience. Generalization in this context is the ability of a learning machine to perform accurately on new, unseen examples/tasks after having experienced a learning data set. The training examples come from some generally unknown probability distribution (considered representative of the space of occurrences) and the learner has to build a general model about this space that enables it to produce sufficiently accurate predictions in new cases. The computational analysis of machine learning algorithms and their performance is a branch of theoretical computer science known as computational learning theory. Because training sets are finite and the future is uncertain, learning theory usually does not yield guarantees of the performance of algorithms. Instead, probabilistic bounds on the performance are quite common. The bias–variance decomposition is one way to quantify generalization error. For the best performance in the context of generalization, the complexity of the hypothesis should match the complexity of the function underlying the data. If the hypothesis is less complex than the function, then the model has underfit the data. If the complexity of the model is increased in response, then the training error decreases. But if the hypothesis is too complex, then the model is subject to overfitting and generalization will be poorer. In addition to performance bounds, computational learning theorists study the time complexity and feasibility of learning. In computational learning theory, a computation is considered feasible if it can be done in polynomial time. There are two kinds of time complexity results. Positive results show that a certain class of functions can be learned in polynomial time. Negative results show that certain classes cannot be learned in polynomial time. Decision tree learning Decision tree learning uses a decision tree as a predictive model, which maps observations about an item to conclusions about the item's target value. Association rule learning Association rule learning is a method for discovering interesting relations between variables in large databases. Artificial neural networks An artificial neural network (ANN) learning algorithm, usually called "neural network" (NN), is a learning algorithm that is inspired by the structure and functional aspects of biological neural networks. Computations are structured in terms of an interconnected group of artificial neurons, processing information using a connectionist approach to computation. Modern neural networks are non-linear statistical data modeling tools. They are usually used to model complex relationships between inputs and outputs, to find patterns in data, or to capture the statistical structure in an unknown joint probability distribution between observed variables. Falling hardware prices and the development of GPUs for personal use in the last few years have contributed to the development of the concept of deep learning which consists of multiple hidden layers in an artificial neural network. This approach tries to model the way the human brain processes light and sound into vision and hearing. Some successful applications of deep learning are computer vision and speech recognition. Inductive logic programming Main article: Inductive logic programming Inductive logic programming (ILP) is an approach to rule learning using logic programming as a uniform representation for input examples, background knowledge, and hypotheses. Given an encoding of the known background knowledge and a set of examples represented as a logical database of facts, an ILP system will derive a hypothesized logic program that entails all positive and no negative examples. Inductive programming is a related field that considers any kind of programming languages for representing hypotheses (and not only logic programming), such as functional programs. Support vector machines (SVMs) are a set of related supervised learning methods used for classification and regression. Given a set of training examples, each marked as belonging to one of two categories, an SVM training algorithm builds a model that predicts whether a new example falls into one category or the other. Cluster analysis is the assignment of a set of observations into subsets (called clusters) so that observations within the same cluster are similar according to some predesignated criterion or criteria, while observations drawn from different clusters are dissimilar. Different clustering techniques make different assumptions on the structure of the data, often defined by some similarity metric and evaluated for example by internal compactness (similarity between members of the same cluster) and separation between different clusters. Other methods are based on estimated density and graph connectivity. Clustering is a method of unsupervised learning, and a common technique for statistical data analysis. Bayesian networks A Bayesian network, belief network or directed acyclic graphical model is a probabilistic graphical model that represents a set of random variables and their conditional independencies via a directed acyclic graph (DAG). For example, a Bayesian network could represent the probabilistic relationships between diseases and symptoms. Given symptoms, the network can be used to compute the probabilities of the presence of various diseases. Efficient algorithms exist that perform inference and learning. Reinforcement learning is concerned with how an agent ought to take actions in an environment so as to maximize some notion of long-term reward. Reinforcement learning algorithms attempt to find a policy that maps states of the world to the actions the agent ought to take in those states. Reinforcement learning differs from the supervised learning problem in that correct input/output pairs are never presented, nor sub-optimal actions explicitly corrected. Representation learning Several learning algorithms, mostly unsupervised learning algorithms, aim at discovering better representations of the inputs provided during training. Classical examples include principal components analysis and cluster analysis. Representation learning algorithms often attempt to preserve the information in their input but transform it in a way that makes it useful, often as a pre-processing step before performing classification or predictions, allowing reconstruction of the inputs coming from the unknown data generating distribution, while not being necessarily faithful for configurations that are implausible under that distribution. Manifold learning algorithms attempt to do so under the constraint that the learned representation is low-dimensional. Sparse coding algorithms attempt to do so under the constraint that the learned representation is sparse (has many zeros). Multilinear subspace learning algorithms aim to learn low-dimensional representations directly from tensor representations for multidimensional data, without reshaping them into (high-dimensional) vectors. Deep learning algorithms discover multiple levels of representation, or a hierarchy of features, with higher-level, more abstract features defined in terms of (or generating) lower-level features. It has been argued that an intelligent machine is one that learns a representation that disentangles the underlying factors of variation that explain the observed data. Similarity and metric learning Main article: Similarity learning In this problem, the learning machine is given pairs of examples that are considered similar and pairs of less similar objects. It then needs to learn a similarity function (or a distance metric function) that can predict if new objects are similar. It is sometimes used in Recommendation systems. Sparse dictionary learning In this method, a datum is represented as a linear combination of basis functions, and the coefficients are assumed to be sparse. Let x be a d-dimensional datum, D be a d by n matrix, where each column of D represents a basis function. r is the coefficient to represent x using D. Mathematically, sparse dictionary learning means solving {\displaystyle x\approx Dr} {\displaystyle x\approx Dr} where r is sparse. Generally speaking, n is assumed to be larger than d to allow the freedom for a sparse representation. Learning a dictionary along with sparse representations is strongly NP-hard and also difficult to solve approximately. A popular heuristic method for sparse dictionary learning is K-SVD. Sparse dictionary learning has been applied in several contexts. In classification, the problem is to determine which classes a previously unseen datum belongs to. Suppose a dictionary for each class has already been built. Then a new datum is associated with the class such that it's best sparsely represented by the corresponding dictionary. Sparse dictionary learning has also been applied in image de-noising. The key idea is that a clean image patch can be sparsely represented by an image dictionary, but the noise cannot. A genetic algorithm (GA) is a search heuristic that mimics the process of natural selection, and uses methods such as mutation and crossover to generate new genotype in the hope of finding good solutions to a given problem. In machine learning, genetic algorithms found some uses in the 1980s and 1990s. Vice versa, machine learning techniques have been used to improve the performance of genetic and evolutionary algorithms. Rule-based machine learning Rule-based machine learning is a general term for any machine learning method that identifies, learns, or evolves `rules’ to store, manipulate or apply, knowledge. The defining characteristic of a rule-based machine learner is the identification and utilization of a set of relational rules that collectively represent the knowledge captured by the system. This is in contrast to other machine learners that commonly identify a singular model that can be universally applied to any instance in order to make a prediction. Rule-based machine learning approaches include learning classifier systems, association rule learning, and artificial immune systems. Learning classifier systems Learning classifier systems (LCS) are a family of rule-based machine learning algorithms that combine a discovery component (e.g. typically a genetic algorithm) with a learning component (performing either supervised learning, reinforcement learning, or unsupervised learning). They seek to identify a set of context-dependent rules that collectively store and apply knowledge in a piecewise manner in order to make predictions. Cognitive analysis describes technology platforms that, broadly speaking, are based on the scientific disciplines of artificial intelligence and signal processing. These platforms encompass machine learning, reasoning, natural language processing, speech recognition and vision (object recognition), human–computer interaction, dialog and narrative generation, among other technologies. In general, the term Cognitive analysis has been used to refer to new hardware and/or software that mimics the functioning of the human brain and helps to improve human decision-making. In this sense, Cognitive analysis is a new type of computing with the goal of more accurate models of how the human brain/mind senses, reasons, and responds to stimulus. Cognitive analysis applications link data analysis and adaptive page displays (AUI) to adjust content for a particular type of audience. As such, Cognitive analysis hardware and applications strive to be more affective and more influential by design. IBM describes the components used to develop, and behaviors resulting from, "systems that learn at scale, reason with purpose and interact with humans naturally". According to them, while sharing many attributes with the field of artificial intelligence, it differentiates itself via the complex interplay of disparate components, each of which comprise their own individual mature disciplines. Some features that cognitive systems may express are: Adaptive: They may learn as information changes, and as goals and requirements evolve. They may resolve ambiguity and tolerate unpredictability. They may be engineered to feed on dynamic data in real time, or near real time. Interactive: They may interact easily with users so that those users can define their needs comfortably. They may also interact with other processors, devices, and Cloud services, as well as with people. Iterative and stateful: They may aid in defining a problem by asking questions or finding additional source input if a problem statement is ambiguous or incomplete. They may "remember" previous interactions in a process and return information that is suitable for the specific application at that point in time. Contextual: They may understand, identify, and extract contextual elements such as meaning, syntax, time, location, appropriate domain, regulations, user’s profile, process, task and goal. They may draw on multiple sources of information, including both structured and unstructured digital information, as well as sensory inputs (visual, gestural, auditory, or sensor-provided). Cognitive computing has been subject to a great deal of marketing hype over the years and there continues to be a struggle with finding a non-proprietary definition, but as cognitive computing platforms have emerged and become commercially available, evidence of real-world applications are starting to surface. Organizations that adopt and use these cognitive computing platforms, purpose-build applications to address specific use cases that are relevant to their internal and external users, with each application using some combination of available functionality necessary for the use case. Examples of such real-world use cases include the following: Behavioral recommendations Cognitive analytics Cognitive computing-branded technology platforms typically specialize in the processing and analysis of large, unstructured datasets. Word processing documents, emails, videos, images, audio files, presentations, webpages, social media and many other data formats often need to be manually tagged with metadata before they can be fed to a computer for analysis and insight generation. The principal benefit of utilizing cognitive analytics over traditional big data analytics is that such datasets do not need to be pretagged. Other characteristics of a cognitive analytics system include: Adaptability: cognitive analytics systems can use machine learning to adapt to different contexts with minimal human supervision Natural language interaction: cognitive analytics systems can be equipped with a chatbot or search assistant that understands queries, explains data insights and interacts with humans in natural language. © 2018 by Quantum. All rights reserved.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755362
__label__cc	0.68874	0.31126	High Availability vs Disaster Recovery - What's the Difference? Database Replication SharePlex Clay.Jackson Customers often ask, “Can SharePlex be used to help me achieve High Availablity” or “Can a SharePlex database target be used for Disaster Recovery?” The short answer to both of these questions is “Yes!” This series of blogs will look in depth at how SharePlex can be used to help facilitate HA and DR. Wikipedia defines “High Availability” as “a characteristic of a system, which aims to ensure an agreed level of operational performance, usually uptime, for a higher than normal period”. Let’s dissect this a bit. First, we’re talking about a system, not just a database, or a web server, or a disk. If your company is involved in taking orders from customers, your users will not consider your system “available” if the database is up; but the web server that displays the order pages is not. We’re also talking about “….uptime, for a higher than normal period”. We need to define “normal”. “Normal” is pretty variable, depending on your application and use case. For example, if you’re running a system that supports accounting, and all of the accountants work only 8-5 Monday through Friday, “normal” is probably 8-5 Monday through Friday. On the other hand, if you’re running a system that supports First Responder Dispatch, “normal” is most likely 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. The definition also talks about “operational performance”. This implies that you’ll need to define that, for your organization. Does your organization have documented Service Level Agreements? As we’ll see later, these are critical to measuring High Availability or Disaster Recovery. Obviously, these will impact how you design and engineer your systems, and how much High Availability will cost. Wikipedia defines “Disaster Recovery” as “a set of policies, tools and procedures to enable the recovery or continuation of vital technology infrastructure and systems following a natural or human-induced disaster”. It goes on to say that “Disaster recovery focuses on the IT or technology systems supporting critical business functions.” To dissect this, here’s what Wikipedia says about a “Disaster”. “A disaster is a serious disruption, occurring over a relatively short time, of the functioning of a community or a society involving widespread human, material, economic or environmental loss and impacts, which exceeds the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own resources”. A things to note here. A disaster has to be “serious”. A fire in a Data Center is could be “serious”; but what if it’s just popcorn in the microwave, as opposed to a power supply failure that fills the whole room with smoke and trips the sprinkler system? Or, what about a power outage, if you have a backup generator that starts, and fuel for a week? Next, and perhaps most important, a disaster has to be “widespread” and “exceed(s) the ability of the affected community….to cope using its own resources”. Again, losing a single server is probably not a “disaster”; although with lack of planning, it might turn into one; but (to paraphrase Scott Adams), if a meteor destroys your data center, that’s almost certainly a disaster. HA vs DR Now that we’ve defined these, let’s look at some differences and similarities. Both HA and DR can be considered subsets of “Business Continuity” or, how we ensure that our business operations can continue in the event “something bad” happens. A core component of successful HA and DR programs is redundancy, or elimination of single points of failure. For the database component of our systems, both HA and DR usually involve making copies of the database; but for different reasons (see below for differences). Another key element of HA and DR is risk assessment; which leads to costing and cost comparisons. The risk of an earthquake is quite high in some areas of the country, and almost non-existent in others. The cost of recovering from a single server failure is significantly less than the cost of rebuilding a data center after a fire. Cost vs Risk evaluations will allow you to build appropriate HR and DR programs without “breaking the bank”. Both HA and DR systems should have agreed upon objectives and measures; such as availability for HA systems, and Recovery Point and Recovery Time Objectives for DR. We’ll define some of these measures in the next section. Just looking at the definitions, HA is all about systems and how they’re designed, but DR is all about policies, tools and procedures. When building systems for HA, we try to prevent failure of the overall system, by eliminating single points of failure and automating failover or recovery procedures. However, when building DR systems; the assumption is that the primary system has failed and that recovery of that system will take some time. This ties back to our objectives and measures. For HA systems, these are typically defined as “availability”; usually expressed as a percentage of the “expected” system availability time. For example, if we have a system that’s supposed to be available from 8AM to 5PM, 5 days per week; that’s 9 hours per day or 45 hours per week. An availability of 99.99% (four nines) for such a system would allow .0045 hours, or about 16 seconds of “downtime” per week. For a 7 x 24 system, we would be allowed a little over 6 seconds per week. On the other hand, DR systems typically have measures of “Recovery Times” and “Recovery Points”. For example, we might want to be able to recover our order entry systems from a data center fire in an hour (Recovery Time Objective) and lose only 5 minutes worth of transactions (Recovery Point Objective). Once we’ve defined our terms, and set out objectives and measurements, we can begin to design systems that meet those objectives. HA Systems For HA systems, we’ll want to design “failover” or switching between systems, that meets our availability objectives. If we’re trying to achieve “four nines”; even in an 8-5 system, this almost certainly means eliminating all single points of failure and automating failover. DR Systems For DR, we need to make sure our systems can survive a disaster, which usually means building a second system in a location removed from the primary; so that local events such as weather, earthquakes, or meteors won’t damage both systems. A DR “failover” will be different from an HA failover, in part due to distances between the two systems. In my next blog, we’ll look specifically at HA, and see how SharePlex can be used to eliminate single points of failure and facilitate rapid failover.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755363
__label__wiki	0.867016	0.867016	RAIL 802: Freight’s moment of truth 08/06/2016 in Comment Travel through York, and it’s clear that the rail freight sector is facing tough times. Scores of bogie coal hoppers built ten to 15 years ago stand idle, grass growing around them, seemingly with no future. Some have already been sent for scrap and it’s hard not to expect the others to follow. This was serious investment and yet is a victim of circumstance. The market these wagons were built for has gone. And the harsh truth is that it isn’t coming back. Rail freight in the UK has taken a massive blow in the past 12 months, and is at its lowest ebb since 1984-85, when the effects of the miners’ strike hit the industry hard. Politics affected the market 32 years ago, and has now done it again. The market recovered then, and now it must strive hard to do so again… but without coal. In RAIL 801, GB Railfreight Managing Director John Smith rightly called for the Government to actually understand the commodities that rail freight companies move, and how it can support them. Statistics released by the Office of Rail and Road reveal a 22% fall in the amount of freight lifted in 2015-16, compared with the previous 12-month period. That amount included 19.8 million tonnes of coal - the lowest since the strikes 32 years ago, and a decline of 54.6% in just one year. Freight lifted is the mass of goods carried on the rail network, measured in tonnes. This excludes the weight of the locomotive and wagons, and takes no account of distance. The lowest tonnage of freight lifted in a year was 65.2 million in 1984-85. The highest was 149.5 million in 1988-89. Last year it was 86.0 million. However, it is the decline of coal (and the causal factors) that presents the greatest concern. In every ORR measurement, its fall has been spectacular. Total volume of freight moved in 2015-16 was 17.8 billion net tonne kilometres, a decrease of 20.0% compared with 2014-15. Within that, coal slumped by 64.2% to 2.3 billion net tonne kilometres. The ORR admits: “Major contributory factors to the latest decrease in coal moved were the doubling of UK’s top-up carbon tax from April 1 2015 and the gradual move to renewable energy, which impacted the amount of coal moved to power plants, with the net effect that outputs from these plants are reduced when compared with the previous year.” Smith has spoken before of the carbon tax affecting coal by rail. And the fact is that with Government plans to close more coal-fired power stations within the next decade, coal will never again be king. The carbon tax charges power producers for each tonne of carbon dioxide (CO2) they emit. Overnight, this almost doubled to £18.08 per tonne. Initially that encouraged imports, but that abruptly ended around April 1 last year. Other sectors have also been hit, with the international and metals markets affected by matters of a political nature. The Calais migrant crisis is deemed to be largely behind the 20.5% fall in the international market, while the closure of steel plants and the price of imported steel has hit the metals market. The number of freight trains moving is also 16.3% down. While this is partly because trains are longer and more efficient these days, it is still the lowest in 13 years. Worryingly, four of the seven major operators have also reported a decline. Freightliner Heavy Haul, the company whose wagons litter the yards at York, has reported a 53.5% decrease in the past year, followed by Direct Rail Services (19.0%), DB Cargo (15.6%) and GBRf (0.5%), according to ORR statistics. Gone forever are the days of British Rail, where one million wagons per year went through the yards of Toton (as they did in the 1950s), supporting the coalfields of Nottinghamshire. It was a market that seemingly would never end, and yet it has. Collieries have gone; and very quickly, processions of coal trains are a thing of the past. Today, modern eco-friendly locomotives haul modern hoppers with large capacity from ports to power stations, but increasingly these are carrying biomass rather than coal, as the energy sector looks elsewhere for its fuel. A crucial question is: did the rail freight sector become too reliant on coal? The figures showing its rapid decline give an idea of just how large the market was. This is the first time in six years that domestic intermodal is the largest commodity moved on the network. Did coal act as a disincentive to innovation in the industry? It was a constant, so perhaps there was little need to innovate - to actively seek and hunt new markets. And during the recession it was still there for the rail freight sector. Other commodities floundered (and our money dried up, leading to a reduction in the number of electrical goods bought on credit that filled the boxes), but our need for energy consumption remained… and so the coal kept moving. But the need to be seen to be green has surged, and implementation of the carbon tax has made Government and industry look at other possibilities - so is the rapid death of coal actually a silver lining for the freight industry? Smith talks of the need to attract private funding from customers and clients to help support rail freight. Rail Minister Claire Perry believes rail freight could serve city centre stations during the off-peak. Could this be the future? Smith is not a fan of the idea of small payloads, as carried by High Speed Trains operated by East Midlands Trains and Great Western Railway, but Perry is nevertheless pushing the idea. “Our rail lines already reach into stations located in the heart of the city,” she said. “Imagine if we could run electric freight trains into stations outside peak hours. Or run passenger trains that can be partly converted to carry freight. Goods could be offloaded onto electric vehicles, for distribution across the city.” Is that Red Star returning? Could we see Rail Express Systems again? We had newspaper traffic serving many of our major stations overnight until 1987 and large volumes of parcels until 2004, when the sheer scale of that market was lost to air and road (it has returned, but not in the same volumes). Could stations with spare platforms be used by freight trains? Is that an answer for the hundreds of High Speed Train vehicles that could become redundant in the next couple of years? Intermodality Managing Director Nick Gallop explains on pages 6-7 what he thinks the challenges for the industry are, and how they could be exploited. The rail freight industry is at a crossroads. For so long it has done many things well, leading on investment. But now it faces a major crisis. How it reacts, and what changes it makes, could determine its very existence. Let’s all hope the decisions made are the correct ones, and that the Government listens to what it needs. Nigel Harris is away. Comment: RAIL 802: June 8 2016 - June 21 2016 Now THIS, is a photograph! @Captain_Deltic https://t.co/gv7PUPsoqx	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755367
__label__cc	0.677195	0.322805	More than 150 participants from 63 countries attend the 57th Standing Committee of the Ramsar Convention sc_plenary.jpg The 57th meeting of the Standing Committee of the Ramsar Convention takes place this week in Gland, Switzerland. More than 150 participants from 63 countries gathered on Tuesday morning to listen to opening statements. Chair of the Standing Committee, Mohamed Saif Al Afkham, opened the first plenary session saying, “This meeting is about setting the groundwork for 2019-2021 triennium and build a solid road map to deliver on COP13 resolutions. Last year The Global Wetland Outlook informed us that we are losing wetlands three times faster than forests; up to 87% of the global wetland resource has been lost since 1700. These statistics need to be constantly remembered while we are taking next steps and decisions for wetlands and thus for our own future and the future of our children.” Grethel Aguilar, Acting Director General of IUCN, welcomed participants and remarked “ Since we last welcomed you here, you have been through an amazing CoP on Dubai. CoP13 stands out for us, as an institution, as a pivotal change in the Convention. We were very glad to see the strong support for the Secretariat, the productive and collegial discussions taking place, and the re-invigorated discussions on the one reason we are all here in this room: wetlands. There are three key areas where action is most needed: information for sectors that use and have an impact on water, better understanding of the value of wetlands and using this knowledge to better improve their management, and lastly improving our communications on why wetlands are important and how the Convention is the primary freshwater management tool.” Richard Holland, Director Operations and Network Development of Wetlands International delivered a statement on behalf of Ramsar’s six International Organisation Partners (IOPs). “Next year will be an important year for biodiversity. Along with the Convention on Biological Diversity COP in China, it is a critical year for international efforts to meet the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and it will signal the official start of the Paris Agreement on Climate. We must demonstrate the central importance of wetlands to many of the key targets that will be in the global spotlight in 2020. Swamps, bogs, marshes and mangroves may not be as famous or photo-friendly as cloud forests and coral reefs, but we can’t survive without them and as climate change becomes an inescapable reality, wetlands offer us opportunities to build resilience, mitigate some of its effects and adapt to others.” Secretary General, Martha Rojas Urrego stated in her speech “I listened attentively to the opening statements, and once again, they emphasize the important role of wetlands and the commitment of Contracting Parties and partners for their conservation. This is the key moment for our Convention – we have lots of work to do to ensure that COP13 decisions are implemented efficiently. Last year at COP13 we received the wakeup call about the state of wetlands – they are the most threatened ecosystems in the world and yet the most productive. There are opportunities, which we need to size: integrating wetlands into the global environmental agenda, into the development of post 2020-biodiversity framework, SDGs, new cycle of Nationally Determined Contributions and while reviewing the Strategic Plan and making it relevant to these global processes. The Secretariat is committed to serve you, to support, and to ensure a successful Standing Committee."	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755369
__label__wiki	0.846216	0.846216	1MATCH URL: https://assets.rappler.com/7D6FA54CE6C74ED5A2D8F09ACDCA4232/img/627A91B23045471CBDB5CC5CB8CFD803/lebron-james-jan-5-2019.jpg Lakers to visit China for NBA pre-season games vs Nets The Lakers and Nets will meet on October 10 at Shanghai and October 12 at Shenzhen Published 9:00 AM, January 08, 2019 Updated 9:00 AM, January 08, 2019 LEBRON IN CHINA. LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers are set to play in China on October as the franchise returns for the first time since 2013. Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images/AFP NEW YORK, USA – The LeBron James-led Los Angeles Lakers are set to play NBA pre-season games in China next October, facing the Brooklyn Nets in Shanghai and Shenzhen, the league announced Monday, January 7. The 13th edition of NBA China Games will mark the 27th and 28th league contests in the nation since 2004, with the Lakers and Nets meeting October 10 at Shanghai and October 12 at Shenzhen. It will mark the second appearance in China for the Lakers, who played pre-season games at Beijing and Shanghai in 2013. "The entire Los Angeles Lakers organization is excited to return to China to play in front of the passionate Chinese fans," Lakers forward Kyle Kuzma said. "During my visit to China, I was absolutely amazed by the fans' love and excitement for the game of basketball... I know the atmosphere at the games will be great." The Lakers feature four-time NBA Most Valuable Player James, who has played in the past 8 NBA Finals. James, who left the Cleveland Cavaliers last July to join the Lakers, is averaging 27.3 points, 8.3 rebounds and 7.1 assists a game this season. The Lakers, 21-19, are eighth in the Western Conference this season. The Nets, seventh in the NBA Eastern Conference on 20-21 at mid-season, will make their third trip to China after games in Beijing and Guangzhou in 2010 while based in New Jersey and in Beijing and Shanghai in 2014. "It's an honor to help celebrate basketball's growth abroad and represent Brooklyn and the League on an international stage," Nets guard Caris LeVert said. "The Nets have a connection to fans all over the world and I'm thrilled to have the opportunity to visit China and play for our passionate Chinese fans for the very first time." The Nets are owned by Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov and Taiwanese-Canadian billionaire Joe Tsai, executive vice chairman of China-based e-commerce giant Alibaba. The league will conduct a day of fan activities as well as community outreach events in Shanghai and Shenzhen. "These games are the pillars of our efforts to bring authentic NBA action to our Chinese fans," NBA China chief executive officer Derek Chang said. – Rappler.com Filed under:Brooklyn Nets•NBA•National Basketball Association•Los Angeles Lakers	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755370
__label__cc	0.592965	0.407035	This Is Why We Wear Wedding Rings on the Fourth Finger By Marissa Laliberte, RD.com Ancient cultures had a sweet reasoning behind it. Why We Wear Wedding Bands on the Ring Finger See someone wearing a ring on their right index finger and you can bet they’re not married. A ring on the left ring finger, though, means that person is taken. Seems arbitrary, but there’s actually historical reason it became known as the “ring finger,” and why most people wear their wedding band on the left. (Here are 10 breathtaking wedding destinations to pin to your Pinterest board.) The wedding ring tradition dates back to ancient Egypt, as archaeologists have found evidence in hieroglyphics that brides would wear a ring, according to the BBC. The Egyptians who first started wearing wedding bands as a symbol of eternity believed there was a “delicate nerve” that ran from the fourth finger all the way to the heart, according to Mental Floss. Of course, we know now that the heart is an organ for pumping blood, but back then it was thought to be the centre of our emotions. (While some etiquette rules have gone out the window, there are still some you must follow at every wedding.) Egyptians weren’t the only ones giving rings away, though. Ancient Greeks and ancient Romans also slipped wedding rings on their left ring fingers for a similar reason. They believed a vena amoris—Latin for “vein of love”—ran from that finger to the heart, according to Snopes. (Find out the history behind these five common superstitions.) Even though that vein and nerve don’t exist, Western countries have continued that ancient tradition. In other cultures, such as in Denmark, Poland, and Cuba, though, wedding rings go on the right hand. (Check out these other cool wedding traditions from around the world.) Traditionally, women were the only ones to wear wedding rings. Men didn’t join in until World War II, when husbands wanted something to remind them of their wives and kids. (An etiquette expert explains how to recover from six cringe-worthy wedding guest fails.) Learn the terrifying reason we have bridesmaids and groomsmen at weddings. Originally published as This Is Why We Wear Wedding Rings on the Fourth Finger on ReadersDigest.com. Originally Published on Reader's Digest	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755371
__label__wiki	0.837257	0.837257	Emeril Lagasse Signs Ten Book Deal With HarperCollins Emeril Lagasse has signed a mind-boggling ten book deal with HarperCollins. Martha Stewart Omnimedia owns the rights to the Emeril Lagasse franchise of books, television shows and kitchen products. Under the multi-year agreement, Mr. Lagasse is set to release his first book -- with a focus on indoor and outdoor grilling -- in May 2009. Although the chef, who is known for his enthusiastic cooking style, has produced 12 titles with HarperCollins since 1993, the book will be his first in four years. It will also be one of HarperCollins' first releases under its new HarperStudio imprint. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, though Mr. Lagasse will receive a modest advance, as well as 50% of profits generated from the titles, according to Robert Miller, head of HarperStudio. Launched in April 2008, the new imprint made waves as the most recent effort by book publishers to cope with stagnant book sales and increasing production costs. It is unique because it splits profits with authors in lieu of paying them hefty advances and aims to eliminate the costly practice of allowing booksellers to return unsold copies. HarperStudio also focuses on electronic books and digital audio editions, one of the key reasons MSLO executive chairman Charles Koppelman pushed Mr. Lagasse to the experimental imprint. "Emeril is the perfect author for HarperStudio's cutting-edge book publishing formula," Mr. Koppelman said. Martha Stewart Omnimedia paid $50 million for the franchise, and Emeril will begin making regular appearances on the Martha Stewart show. He still owns his own restaurant business. It's a good match that should work out well for all parties. As long as he keeps writing cookbooks, we'll keep reading them. More from Readers Read DC Comics Running 80 Years of Batman Celebration The Washington Post to Publish Mueller Report Book Scholastic Unveils New Harry Potter Covers by Brian Selznick	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755372
__label__wiki	0.819152	0.819152	Ro Insider Submitted by roinsider on Wed, 08/01/2018 - 13:21 Radu Jude’s newest film is Romania’s proposal for the 2019 Oscars The movie Îmi este indiferent dacă în istorie vom intra ca barbari / I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians, directed by Radu Jude, is Romania’s proposal for a nomination at next year’s Oscars in the Best Foreign Language Film category, the Romanian Film Center (CNC) announced. The film, which recently won the grand prize of this year’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, received most of the votes of the CNC committee tasked with selecting the country’s Oscars proposal. It is Jude’s sixth film and the second to be proposed for the Oscars after Aferim!, a candidate for the 2016 race. The film earned Jude the Silver Bear for best director award at the 2015 Berlinale. The movie tells the story of a historical reenactment of the Odessa battle in World War II for a street show but the deeper story is that of Romania’s involvement in the Holocaust, an episode in the country’s history that many have difficulties in accepting. It stars Ioana Iacob, Alexandru Dabija, Alex Bogdan, Ilinca Manolache, Şerban Pavlu, Ion Rizea, Claudia Ieremia and Bogdan Cotleţ. The movie is a co-production of six countries, led by Romanian producer Ada Solomon, who also produced Berlinale-winning Aferim!. Among other productions, Solomon co-produced Maren Ade's 2016 Toni Erdmann, shortlisted for the Oscar for best foreign film in 2017. It will enter local cinemas on September 28. A preview screening takes place at the Anonimul Film Festival, which starts August 6 in the Danube Delta. Romanian film review – Don’t look away: The Dead Nation (Photo: Radu Jude (first left) and the film's team. Photo source: Îmi este indiferent dacă în istorie vom intra ca barbari Facebook Page)	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755374
__label__wiki	0.731438	0.731438	Submitted by romaniainsider on Tue, 01/15/2019 - 21:21 Romanian PM, under fire in European Parliament on possible amnesty bill Romania’s prime minister Viorica Dancila had a tense dialog with the leader of the liberal group (ALDE) in the European Parliament, Guy Verhofstadt, related to the Romanian ruling coalition’s rumored intention to promote an ordinance for amnesty and pardoning. Several other members of the European Parliament said that such an initiative would be unacceptable. The Romanian PM said that such an ordinance does not exist on her cabinet’s agenda and that the Government only wants to protect its people against abuses, according to Mediafax. She also said that, despite their strong attachment to the European Union, Romanians feel they are treated unfairly because their country is kept out of the Schengen area. The dispute took place after Viorica Dancila presented to the European Parliament Romania’s priorities during the EU Council presidency, in a plenary session on January 15. Guy Verhofstadt warned Dancila that Romania takes the EU presidency at a critical moment, when vital legislative proposals are being discussed. He also mentioned the Article 7 procedures against Poland and Hungary. “I hope that during your presidency there won’t be a third case, one against your Government. And I must say: you are not very far from this. You are getting nearer to Article 7 because you continue to ignore the Venice Commission’s recommendations,” the ALDE leader told Dancila, according to News.ro. Other MEPs also urged Dancila not to ruin the EU Council presidency by adopting measures in Romania that are against EU principles. The Romanian PM replied that she didn’t go to the European Parliament to be held to account and that the MEPs were misinformed about her Government’s intention to issue an ordinance on amnesty and pardoning. In a press conference after the EP debate, Dancila said that there’s no risk that Article 7 is activated in Romania’s case because rule of law is not in danger, according to Agerpres. The full debate in the European Parliament is available here (Photo source: Guv.ro)	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755375
__label__wiki	0.81897	0.81897	Injury boost for Mulgrew Rovers have been handed a boost with the news that the injury to Charlie Mulgrew isn't as bad as first feared. There was concern when the Scottish international limped out of last Saturday's draw with Birmingham City with a groin injury, but having responded well to treatment this week, he could be set for an early return. But whilst Saturday's Emirates FA Cup tie against Blackpool comes too soon, he could be back in time to face Leeds United at Ewood Park next Wednesday. "The extent of the injury for Charlie isn't as serious as first thought," confirmed manager Owen Coyle. "He has responded quite well to working from the medical department this week and there may be a chance that he'll be available for the league games coming up. "We are hoping that he is available for Leeds, if not, then we are certainly hoping to have him for Queens Park Rangers, so time will tell on that. But we certainly won't take any chance with regard to the cup game on Saturday. "Charlie is a very experienced player and he knows his body and he knew that when he felt a little tweak that if he'd have carried on then he could have put himself out for up to six weeks. "It is never nice to lose a player of that quality for any game but I think he did the right thing." Season ticket holders are reminded that they have until close of business Friday to get tickets for Saturday's match against Blackpool at the advanced price. Prices for season ticket holders are just £10 for adults, £5 for Seniors aged 65 and over, £5 for 18-21 year-olds and just £2 for Juniors aged 17 and under. Please note that the RFS Riverside stand will be closed for the fixture, whilst the Bryan Douglas Darwen End will be for visiting supporters only. Matchday prices and for non-season ticket holders are £12 for adults, £6 for Seniors aged 65 and over, £6 for 18-21 year-olds and just £2 for Juniors aged 17 and under. Buy online at www.eticketing.co.uk/onerovers in store at the Roverstore, Ewood Park, or by calling the ticket office on 01254 372000. Charlie Mulgrew	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755376
__label__wiki	0.689644	0.689644	Is being hooked a choice? A new book argues that all addictions are a matter of free will, even heroin and coffee. Check out this article! https://www.salon.com/2000/01/10/addiction/ Andy Dehnart January 10, 2000 10:00PM (UTC) By simply titling his new book "Addiction is a Choice," Jeffrey Schaler guarantees controversy. In a society that's addicted to identifying addictions, some -- "Internet addiction," for instance -- are obvious targets for valid criticism. But identifying drug addiction as a choice? It seems ridiculous, even blasphemous; isn't it scientific fact that drug addiction is an involuntary medical disease? According to the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, it is: "Chronic, hardcore drug use is a disease, and anyone suffering from a disease needs treatment." Not according to Schaler. A psychologist and professor of justice, law and society at American University, he argues that drug addiction is not a disease. Instead, he says it's a scapegoated behavior that has been incorrectly identified as a physical or mental illness, a victim of bad science and misguided policy. Schaler writes that -- like homosexuality, masturbation and other behaviors once thought to be physical or mental illnesses -- the idea that drug addiction is an uncontrollable affliction can and should be "swiftly discredited." Schaler admits that these aren't new ideas, but he's arguably the first to put them into an easily accessible form. The book reads like a combination of an academic journal article and a commentary from a local newspaper. While he's certain to have his critics, Schaler presents a coherent rebuttal to an argument many people accept without a second thought. If addiction is a choice, what is it not? It is not a disease. And it is not involuntary. And it is not a thing that causes people to engage in certain behaviors. The conventional wisdom is that the availability of drugs causes people to use them. That's one of the big arguments that is used to support what I call "the war on people," "the war on drugs." And the conventional wisdom is also that if you use "addicting drugs," you will not be able to moderate your use of those drugs [or] stop using those drugs. The conventional wisdom is that there is some power in the drug that makes people keep using the drug. Another part of that argument is that once you use the drug, something changes in your body. And that change -- which has never been identified, only hypothesized -- causes you to keep using the drug. What I have argued is that people use drugs as a way of avoiding and coping with certain existential experiences. They don't want to do what is necessary to change their experience. I'm not saying that's not difficult -- it can be very difficult. For example, Native Americans -- who are the victims of literal and metaphorical genocide -- have major problems they have to contend with; I'm not saying that those are small by any means. But instead of doing what they need to do to change their experience, they may tend to rely on drugs as a way of making themselves feel better so they don't have to cope with those problems. Back to the power you mentioned earlier -- the power that people say drugs have over bodies. Don't drugs have significant physiological effects on people? Yes, and this is a point that serves as a red herring for people who maintain that drugs are dangerous. There are two ways of looking at this. We can say, "Do drugs have a certain effect on the body?" Of course they do, and the people on my side who go against the grain [admit that]. However, drug use and addiction doesn't have to do with what drugs do to the body, but how drugs get into the body. If you take a drug like cocaine, obviously something changes in your body. Every time you think any thought, your body changes. There's always a physiological change associated with whatever you do. Now the question is, "Does that physiological change make you do what you're doing, or do you choose to do that?" If you have epilepsy, and you have a seizure, of course there's a physical change in your body that makes you go into convulsions. I'm not saying that you have a choice as to whether you convulse or not -- that's clearly not a volitional act. But whether you're going to reach for another cigarette or not is a volitional act; it's not the same thing as an epileptic seizure. But if you take heroin -- and even if that's a conscious choice at the beginning -- once you get "addicted" to it, there's a point at which you might die from the effects if you go off of it; you could have a seizure and die. Does that not prove that the drug actually has a sort of control over your body? No, but you're right -- there are situations in which you may need to be medically detoxified. And by that same reasoning, we could say that "crack babies" aren't really born addicted in the way we talk about addiction, but they've been poisoned. The mother has been taking the drug, and it's obviously caused something physiological in the infant, and that infant may need some care to antidote the toxic effects of that drug. The same thing with heroin, the same thing with alcohol. There's lots of evidence that shows that people who have been "addicted" to heroin for a long time give up heroin once their environments change. That's one point, which I show in the [book with the] Vietnam veterans study that was published in 1973. Aside from those who needed to be detoxed because of the physiological effects -- of course, many of those people who are detoxed go back to drug use -- if you ask anyone who's been a long-time drug user how they stopped, they'll reflect for a moment. And they'll say, "Well, I made a decision; it was time for me to do it." The act and the behavior of using or consuming a drug -- regardless of what it is -- is a choice, and people engage in those kinds of behaviors for reasons. There isn't some power in the drug or in their physiology that causes them to do it. Because by that reasoning, if people committed crimes while they were on drugs, then we'd have to exculpate them; we'd have to say they weren't responsible for their behavior because they were under the influence of drugs, and that isn't the way the law works. Why do you think our society is so obsessed with identifying everything from Internet use to gambling to, like you say, drugs, as addictive? This isn't my original idea, but I think that people have always had an investment in scapegoating some group or thing as a way of easing their existential anxiety and as a way of boosting their self-esteem. So to persecute people for using illegal drugs is like persecuting any minority -- blacks, Jews or gays -- because they've been blamed for the problems that the majority experiences. People have always done it; they'll always do it. What's different is that, in the past, people had a clearer sense that they were scapegoating blacks, or scapegoating Jews, or scapegoating homosexuals for their problems. But today, under this charade of science and medicine, we're "not" scapegoating drug users and addictions for our problems -- we're instilling public health. Who's to blame for that? Is it doctors or politicians or addicts themselves? I don't think it's the addicts. I think that it's human nature to try to find some blame as a way of easing anxiety. If people don't look to religion, then they look to persecute a minority or a substance. Who benefits from persecuting people for being addicts or who benefits from persecuting illegal drug users? I think it's clear: The drug enforcement agents benefit because they earn a living doing that. Politicians benefit because they look like they're getting rid of or getting a control on evil in our society. But I think there's a subtle group that people don't really want to pay attention to -- those who build prisons to house lots of people for consensual crimes. Of course, the others that have a deep ideological and economic investment in the "disease model" of addiction are the treatment providers because they make money treating a mythical disease. In the book you take issue with treatment providers, especially AA, which you compare to a cult and/or a religion. Even if it is a cult or a quasi-religion, they still do help some people get off drugs. Is there anything wrong with that? I think that AA should be free to exist just the way any religious group should be free to exist. My concern is that it has become a tool of the state. The state arrests people for drunk driving and orders them into Alcoholics Anonymous. That to me is a violation of the First Amendment, and the separation of church and state. I'm all for people who want to go to AA. I think it's great -- they should be able to go to any group just like they should be able to go any church, synagogue or Islamic temple. What I object to is people are being misled that AA has the truth about addiction, which is absolutely false. It would be like saying that Judaism has the truth about addiction or Christianity does or Catholicism does. What concerns me about what AA teaches is that it goes against scientific research that has focused on the concept known as self-efficacy. That is, if you believe you can do something, you're more likely to try to do it. What AA and similar disease-model groups say is that you can't control your behavior; you can't control your addiction. I think what we should be doing is teaching people that they can control their addiction. It's a choice. And then they're more likely to prove that to be true. And that idea has really been supported by psychological research; the AA idea has not. So the best form of treatment then would be to help people realize they're actually making a conscious choice to engage in that behavior? Yes. One, I think it's supported by scientific research; two, it is a common sense approach. But let me qualify one thing you said: You said, "Is this the best approach to treatment?" Well, yes and no. It's the best approach to helping people who want help with they're addiction or their behavior. However, I think we have to be careful and not call it treatment, because it becomes a euphemism for moral management. It's not the same thing as treating someone for cancer or diabetes or AIDS. There's no moral element there; you don't say to the person, "If you just have the right attitude, then you'll get better." What about those who are too far gone, those who can't really realize that for themselves or are too overwhelmed by the effects of drugs to make that decision? What about those people? I don't think they should ever be coerced into anything one might call "treatment." I don't think that's the right way; I think it's unconstitutional; I think people have the right to destroy themselves, as upsetting as that may be. That doesn't mean that private groups -- myself included -- might not try to talk these people into getting some help or talk them out of destroying themselves. But ultimately the choice rests with the individual, and I don't think we are ever justified in a civilized society that values freedom in coercing people into any kind of program, whether it's called treatment or conversation or psychotherapy, against the person's will. What about the fact that their behavior because of those drugs can affect other people? As the saying goes, there are no fights at ice cream parlors, just at bars. I think that people should be held responsible for any harm that they do to anyone else, and I don't think that we should excuse them because they're using drugs. One of the problems we get into here is what constitutes harm? It gets kind of fuzzy. If you engage in a behavior that upsets me, is that harm? You have a right to engage in behaviors of your choice as long as you don't infringe upon my freedom. I think the libertarian dictum that one should be free to do whatever one wants as long as it's not at the expense of someone else is one we should abide by. My right to swing my fist ends precisely at my neighbor's nose; whether I'm using drugs or alcohol is essentially irrelevant. If some family member or friend is self-destructing using drugs, does that cause you harm? It causes you psychological and emotional harm, it's upsetting to you. But is that the same thing as some kind of criminal act? I don't think it is. I think that's part of the price we have to pay in a free society. Based on your libertarian beliefs, would you be for legalization of drugs? I don't think they should be legalized -- I think we should repeal, in total, drug prohibition. "Legalize" connotates government regulation, and I think that people have a right to drugs as property as guaranteed by the constitution. I don't think they should have a right to marijuana, for example, because it qualifies as medicine -- certainly, they should be able to use the drugs for any purposes that they want, whether it's medical or recreational. Finally, are you addicted to anything? It depends on what we mean by "addicted." The point that I try to drive home in the book is that addictions can be good or bad, positive or negative, and they could be to experiences, or activities, or substances. The answer is yes: I'm addicted to any number of activities and substances, like coffee. But does that mean that I can't control my behavior? No. Andy Dehnart is a writer living in Chicago. MORE FROM Andy Dehnart Books Coffee And Tea Drugs Psychology How to deal with a dangerous leader Behind Trump's avalanche of lies Why Trump is stressing you out Zinke's drug bust nabbed a lot of pot "Nickel and Dimed" for the Amazon age Stranger Things 3: A good cop goes toxic How Russia manipulated Twitter in 2016	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755381
__label__wiki	0.949422	0.949422	The Revenge of Sherlock Holmes by: Leslie Bricusse The Revenge of Sherlock Holmes is available to license! What appears at first to be the final confrontation between master detective Sherlock Holmes and his perennial arch-enemy, Professor Moriarty, proves to be more than even Holmes bargained for: he finds himself facing an old-but-new enemy whose determination to outwit and destroy the great detective is even greater than before. The ensuing intellectual cat-and-mouse games between these two larger-than-life figures form the exciting centrepiece of this original musical based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's characters. The production was first produced at the Bristol Old Vic in 1993, starring Robert Powell as Sherlock Holmes and Roy Barraclough as Dr Watson, before embarking on a national tour. Formerly known as "Sherlock Holmes - The Musical" Cast Attributes: Expandable casting Leslie Bricusse	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755384
__label__wiki	0.897521	0.897521	PORTAGE PATHWAYS: Tragedy of World War I lingered for Portage families The armistice that ended the First World War in November 1918 didn't bring an end to the heartbreak of those whose sons didn't return from it. For many Portage County families, whose loved ones were buried near the European battlefields where they fell, their sense of loss was truly brought home when the bodies of the war casualties were returned -- in many cases, years after the guns fell silent. Such was the case for the William Shanafelt family of Brimfield, the parents of Corporal Ivan Shanafelt. The young soldier was killed along with several other Portage County men on Oct. 31, 1918 -- a little more than a week before the end of the war -- but his remains weren't transferred until May 1921. His funeral service in Kent, shortly before Memorial Day, renewed memories of what was thought to be "the war to end all wars" and the young men who fought and died in it. Born June 4, 1897 in Brimfield, Ivan Shanafelt was the great-grandson of a Revolutionary War veteran. Three of his great-uncles served in the Civil War. He attended Kent High School, graduating in 1916 as its class president. Shortly after graduating, he joined the Kent Grays, a military unit organized prior to the U.S. entry into the war. After war was declared on Germany on April 6, 1917, he became the first member of his high school class to enlist in the Army, signing up three weeks later with the 10th Infantry Regiment of the Ohio National Guard, a company of 100 Portage County volunteers organized in Ravenna. He was sent to Europe in June 1918, shortly after his 21st birthday. He saw action in six engagements, including the Argonne Offensive and St. Mihiel in France, before moving to the Flanders front in Belgium in late October. Corporal Shanafelt was killed in action during an engagement with the Germans that saw heavy casualties inflicted on his company. Five others from the Portage County unit died along with him. The war ended 11 days later. News of his death didn't reach his parents until nearly a month later. They hadn't heard from their son since Oct. 14, when he had written to them from France. His remains were returned to the United States in May 1921, along with those of two other Portage County casualties. Plans were made immediately for his funeral. "Ivan, the class leader, the rugged athlete, yet with the heart of a child, is back in the land he loved," the Kent Tribune reported. "We expected to see him come back as a leader of men." The writer of an unbylined article described Ivan Shanfelt's final visit to Kent, shortly before his departure for Europe. He spoke of his ambitions and what would lie ahead for him, and said that what he would remember best about his service in the military was the sense of comradeship he shared with the other members of his company. "No cleaner, finer boy in all America was there than Ivan Shanafelt," the Tribune writer observed. "Kent was proud of him in life and it is proud of him in death, a death met on the field of battle while leading his little squad of men in the battle for all humanity." Members of the American Legion, the Army & Navy Union, and survivors of the company of Portage County volunteers who had gone to war with Ivan Shanafelt met his remains when they arrived in Kent. Preceded by Post's Band, they also escorted his casket to the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Kent, where services were held on Sunday, May 22, 1921. The Rev. John Hull paid tribute to the 21-year-old corporal as "our ideal of youth and a brave soldier. He gave his life for us. We shall never forget the debt we owe to his memory." He noted that other casualties of the war would continue to come home. "As the earthly remains of those who died are returned to us, we are glad to do all we can to honor them." A caravan of 30 automobiles and 40 veterans of the World War accompanied Ivan Shanafelt to his permanent resting place, a family plot in Uniontown, where he was laid to rest after more than two years in a temporary grave in Europe. "On a hill that overlooks Uniontown, by the side of his loved grandparents, Ivan Shanafelt sleeps," the Tribune observed. And there the president of Kent High School's Class of 1916 continues to rest 92 years after he finally returned home.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755386
__label__wiki	0.573181	0.573181	View all my Blogs Football: It’s not all about Money Wednesday 16th January. 1pm. I check the weather report online for Coventry. It’s going to be minus 5 tonight, but no snow. That means the trains will be fine, and the game is on. Some people say football is all about money. It’s not. Coventry vs Tranmere on a freezing cold Wednesday night, with 400 die hard Tranmere fans huddled in a corner of a ground built for 35 000, is real football to me. Only 9500 turn up. This is a big club fallen on hard times, against a club that’s never, in their 125 year history, played in the top flight. No media fanfare. One solitary TV camera. Little interest from the outside world. But to the people that are there, to the hundreds of fans who have taken time off work and travelled across the country to be in the ground, it means everything. For the record my team lost 1-0 and it was an 8 hour round trip, arriving home in London past 1am. But despite the disappointment I still enjoyed it. Tranmere is where I’m from, where I was brought up, and will be a part of me forever. This is what football is all about. It’s not all about the money.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755387
__label__wiki	0.517107	0.517107	STRANDING MAVEN: dPOD MAY BE DEAD The head of the Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine tells the Associated Press that the five remaining Navesink and Shrewsbury river dolphins haven't been seen since Thursday and may be dead Bob Schoelkopf, the center's co-director, tells the AP that increasing ice in the rivers, coupled with the fact that no one has reported seeing the animals in more than three days, indicates they may have perished. "I don't think they're alive anymore," he said Monday. "They haven't been seen since Thursday, and the ice started freezing then. We probably won't see them until the spring when they wash up somewhere. "The last time I saw them, they were in such a weakened condition, so thin, that I can't see how they would have survived," he said. A spokeswoman for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which has jurisdiction over the animals, did not immediately return a call seeking comment Monday afternoon. Schoelkopf has been the loudest voice calling on federal wildlife officials to authorize an intervention to get the dolphins out of the river and back out to sea. The stranding center is one of about 16 government agencies and non-governmental organizations that NOAA officials say they have consulted about the health and behavior of the 16-member dolphin pod that moved into the inland rivers last June. Of those, it is the only one that has dissented from NOAA's decision not to intervene with the dolphins to move them out to sea. Elected officials including Sen. Robert Menendez and Rep. Frank Pallone have joined the chorus of citizens who've called on NOAA to remove the dolphins to prevent them from becoming trapped under ice. The Newsday version of the AP story does not address the possibility that the last five dolphins may have left the river for Sandy Hook Bay and the open waters of the Atlantic. On January 11, two of the dolphins swam out into the bay and spent two hours there before reuniting with the other three in the upper Shrewsbury. Posted on January 19, 2009 at 3:11 pm, filed under Animals, Boats & watercraft, Environment, Government, Nature, Weather. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment. Email this story. PREVIOUS: IN oRBit: SOLDIERS ON WAR & ‘RE-ENTRY’ NEXT: IN oRBit: FILM FESTIVAL LOST IN SPACE?	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755388
__label__wiki	0.811335	0.811335	February 20, 2019 / 10:05 PM / 5 months ago Millicom spends $1.65 billion on Telefonica Central America mobile businesses FILE PHOTO: A general view shows the Telefonica headquarters in Madrid, Spain, June 12, 2018. REUTERS/Juan Medina (Reuters) - Millicom International Cellular, a cable and mobile operator in Latin America and Africa, said on Wednesday it bought the mobile telecommunications assets of Spain’s Telefonica in Panama, Costa Rica and Nicaragua for $1.65 billion . Telefonica has long been rumoured to want to sell in Mexico and Central America. Millicom’s chief operating officer in Latin America, Esteban Iriarte, declined to comment when asked if Millicom was interested in a presence in Mexico. Last month, Telefonica said it had reached an agreement to sell its Guatemalan and El Salvadoran operations to Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim’s America Movil. While Millicom already operates in Panama, Costa Rica and Nicaragua, Iriarte said he does not think the acquisition will raise anti-trust concerns because Telefonica’s business is primarily mobile, while Millicom’s is fixed. “Both of us are operating in Central America, but in different areas,” he said. The company is eager to add the Telefonica team to its ranks, he said. “They have a very good base of people in Central America, and it will give us the chance to incorporate new talent in the company,” he said. “It’s great talent to have in the mobile area.” Reporting by Julia Love in Mexico City; Writing by Frank Jack Daniel; Editing by Will Dunham and Tom Brown	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755390
__label__wiki	0.95721	0.95721	October 6, 2017 4:02AM ET Lin-Manuel Miranda Talks Puerto Rico Benefit Song ‘Almost Like Praying’ “The way music comes out of … every molecule of the place [is] something we share,” playwright says of track featuring Jennifer Lopez and Luis Fonsi Suzy Exposito Suzy Exposito's Most Recent Stories Vivian Girls Are Back: Hear Their New Single, ‘Sick’ Jennifer Lopez Shows Off Range, Relevance at NYC Makeup Show See Ozuna, Anitta Party Rio-Style in New ‘Muito Calor’ Video It’s been two weeks since Hurricane Maria first raged across the island of Puerto Rico, and the crisis has only grown more complex. What first seemed like a natural disaster has also proven to be a long-standing infrastructural one; most of the island remains without electricity and water, putting its residents at a heightened risk of disease and famine. Yet with Puerto Ricans’ pleas meeting inadequate responses from the White House, Tony-winning Hamilton playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda has taken matters into his own hands – and with the help of many friends. Recorded alongside an all-star cast of Latin artists, including Jennifer Lopez, Gina Rodriguez, Fat Joe, Gloria Estefan, Camila Cabello and Marc Anthony, Miranda’s new song “Almost Like Praying” is a love song to Puerto Rico as much as it is a fight song. The song’s proceeds will benefit the Hispanic Federation’s UNIDOS Disaster Relief Fund. Lin-Manuel Miranda Pens Plea for Puerto Rico Hurricane Relief “You know how we always tell artists ‘stay in your lane’ anytime they say something remotely political? I’m trying to use what I do in service of this challenge,” Miranda tells Rolling Stone. “We’re facing a humanitarian crisis right now. And the response from our federal government is not commensurate with the previous two hurricanes, much less up to the unprecedented danger of this disaster itself.” Miranda began work on the song, an adaptation of “Maria” from 1961 musical West Side Story, two days after the hurricane first made landfall. “I knew the name Maria was forever going to have a destructive connotation to this island,” says Miranda. “It’s also the name of my favorite song from West Side Story. So my brain was already looking for a sample to flip … And that’s what we do in hip-hop, right? We take a sample, we flip it and change the meaning. And so the hook of the song is, ‘Say it soft, and it’s almost like praying.'” But first, he sought clearance from Stephen Sondheim and the estate of Leonard Bernstein. “They gave their blessing within a day,” says Miranda. “When there’s a crisis, you call in all the favors – call the gods of musical theater! I have the great fortune to count Sondheim as a mentor and a friend. I worked with him and Bernstein on the 2009 revival of West Side Story and its Spanish translations. Sondheim wrote back immediately and said ‘Yes – and what else can I do?'” Miranda infused the number with a warm blend of dancehall, reggaeton and steel drum sounds; the result is an incendiary and highly danceable clarion call. (“If you’re gonna write a song for Puerto Rico and you can’t dance to it,” says Miranda, “you fucked up.”) Most moving is how many of Miranda’s childhood heroes, including original West Side Story cast member Rita Moreno, take turns shouting out each of the island’s 78 towns – a move Miranda says was inspired by Puerto Ricans’ heartbreaking calls across social media to find their relatives in the wake of the storm. “There was a terrible silence,” says Miranda. “For some people days, for some people weeks. My Twitter and my Facebook were filled with friends and family listing the names of their towns. ‘My grandmother is in Vega Alta, my father lives in San Juan, has anyone heard from Isabela?’ I began thinking about the towns as lyrics. What unites us in this tiny island that is 100 miles across and 35 miles north to south … Is that we’re from these towns. We ask, ‘Where are you from?’ It is our link to our roots and our families.” While enlisting collaborators for the track, Miranda says he made new friends in the process. “I broke my Rolodex and called every Latino artist I know,” he says. “And when I didn’t know them, I got on Twitter. I caused a minor uproar with Camila Cabello’s fans when I tweeted her, ‘Hey I have an idea!’ I also sent a private message to Luis Fonsi, who I never met before. I cold-called and every single person said yes, without even hearing the song.” Here’s was @LuisFonsi‘s response to my asking him to be on this song via DM. We’d never met. He hadn’t heard the song.#AlmostLikePraying ?? pic.twitter.com/h3nDKEQuf9 — Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) October 6, 2017 Within a dizzying 72 hours, Miranda flew from New York to Miami and Los Angeles to be present while the artists recorded their respective verses. Yet some were still recovering in the Caribbean, where resources were scarce and internet access was spotty. “The rapper PJ Sin Suela recorded at home,” says Miranda. “But he didn’t have the bandwidth to email his verse. So he gave a memory stick to Estefan, who was there on a relief mission – she then flew it back to us. When I say ‘all hands on deck,’ I’m really not fucking around!” Riggs Morales, the executive producer behind the Hamilton Mixtape, mixed and mastered the song in the days that followed. Meanwhile, Miranda harvested stories of Puerto Rico from his collaborators, evoking tears and laughter inside the studios. This behind-the-scenes footage will air as part of a televised benefit, airing commercial-free on Telemundo Saturday, October 7th. “I asked everyone, ‘What are your favorite memories from Puerto Rico?'” says Miranda. “I will never forget seeing Rubén Blades breaking down about meeting Hector LaVoe for the first time. I’ll never forget Marc Anthony talking about wearing suits before getting on a plane [to the United States] so they’d look white when they landed … And Gilberto Santa Rosa, who sang at my wedding. He was a salsero, but grew up in the same part of town as Daddy Yankee. They could not make two more different genres, but music saved their lives. “The way music comes out of every frog, every tree, every molecule of the place,” reflects Miranda, “That’s something we share.” In This Article: Latin, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Puerto Rico	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755392
__label__wiki	0.867264	0.867264	Legislative News Legislative News Home ctcLink Connect SBCTC.edu Legislature reaches first cutoff, corrections education bill passed out of House committee February 05, 2016 by SBCTC Communications Today marks the Legislature’s first cutoff day — the point at which bills must be voted out of policy committees to continue in the legislative process. So far, the system-request corrections education bill was voted out of the House Higher Education Committee, as were bills on disability accommodations, bachelor’s degrees at community and technical colleges, and programs that would fund tuition for qualified students. Washington Promise Program bill heard by House committee Feb. 3— Representatives took up the Washington Promise Program at Thursday’s House Higher Education Committee hearing. HB 2820 would provide free community and technical college tuition and fees to eligible students. Students would have to be enrolled in an associate degree program, a transfer program, or a professional-technical program that leads to a postsecondary credential. Rep. Gerry Pollet, prime sponsor of the bill, testified in support. “Opening the door to free community college for Washington residents is a research and data-proven way to boost high school graduation rates,” he said. “And it opens the door to success for so many families in the state of Washington by allowing them to return to school and get that career-changing workforce certificate or their AA degree that will entirely change the security of their families forever.” Marty Brown, SBCTC’s executive director, spoke in favor of the program. He told committee members that the definition of basic education has changed since Washington became a state. “I think this may not happen this year, but eventually we need to have the discussion of what is 14 years of education, what’s 16 years of education, what’s potentially 20 years of education that’s needed for good citizenship, for the economy and for the goodwill of the individual students of our state, and this is the first step. This is a great concept,” he said. Brown was joined by Dr. Warren Brown, president of North Seattle College, Faline Jett, a student at North Seattle College, and Stu Halsan, a Centralia College trustee and attorney. “What we do know is that the college promise programs actually have shown an increase in the college-going rate for students,” Warren Brown said. “Here’s an opportunity for a research-based approach that we know increases student access and completion.” Jett told committee members how a program like the Washington Promise Program would help her and students in similar situations. “If HB 2820 passes, students like me will no longer have to choose between food and getting an education,” she said. Halsan gave the committee his perspective on how the Promise Program would help students in rural areas like Lewis County. “We need to break out and address that opportunity gap that we have there [in Lewis County], and HB 2820, I think, is a wonderful way to do that,” he said. Ed Parks, a member of the South Seattle College Foundation board, and Monica Elenes, a student at South Seattle College, discussed the success of a similar program called the 13th Year Promise Scholarship. The program funds one year of in-state tuition at South Seattle College for graduates of Chief Sealth, Cleveland and Rainier Beach high schools. “We’re getting kids who don’t necessarily have a plan to go to school. It works,” Park said. “We would love to see the Washington Promise Program implemented.” Elenes is a graduate of Cleveland High School and a recipient of a 13th Year Promise Scholarship. “South Seattle presented at my high school, Cleveland, and, I kid you not, so many students faces changed. And the reaction of that change was that a lot of my friends from Cleveland, from Rainier Beach and from Chief Sealth are now at South Seattle talking about their education, where they’re going to go in their future and where they see themselves,” she said. “Programs like this are what we need to sustain, to keep us going, to not just think work is what we have to do but we can make a difference.” Testimony begins at 18:00 Free to Finish College Program announced at press conference Feb. 3 — Representatives of two- and four-year colleges and universities joined members of the House and Senate Thursday to announce the “Free to Finish College” proposal. The proposal would allow some former students to re-enroll in college and finish their degrees — tuition free. The proposal would cover students who are not currently enrolled and haven’t been enrolled for the last three years, don’t have a college degree or certificate, and are 15 credits or less — one quarter’s worth of credits — from earning a degree or certificate. Rep. Drew Hansen, prime sponsor of HB 2955, introduced the measure at a press conference. “This is a commitment by us to make an offer to students who have to stop short and interrupt their studies to make it easier for them to come back and finish their degree,” he said. “We want to send a very clear message to these students that we want them to come back and finish that degree so they can have better jobs and a better chance to support their families.” Dr. Lonnie Howard, president of Clover Park Technical College, spoke on behalf of the community and technical college system. “We really think there is a tremendous upside to it in that, at the two-year college level, $1,000 can really make a tremendous value and in-roads into helping our students complete,” he said. “I think this is a tremendous opportunity that we can really begin to not just help the students, but if Washington will continue to grow economically, we have to have students who are prepared with 21st century skills.” Also speaking at the press conference were Dr. James Gaudino, president of Central Washington University, and Dr. George Bridges, president The Evergreen State College. The House Higher Education Committee took public testimony on the bill at its hearing that afternoon, and passed the bill out of committee on Feb. 5. Free to Finish Program press availability House committee takes up bills on corrections education, disability accommodations and bachelor’s degrees Feb. 2 — The House Higher Education Committee took up three bills of significance to the community and technical college system. On the agenda were: the system-request bill on corrections education, a bill on accommodations for students with disabilities and a bill that would create a pilot program for bachelor’s degrees at the colleges. College degrees in prisons The committee first heard HB 2619, which would allow colleges to offer associate and bachelor’s degrees in prisons using existing state resources. The college system-request bill received wide support from testifiers. Rep. Larry Haler, the committee’s assistant ranking minority member and the bill’s prime sponsor, told his fellow committee members why he’s supporting the issue. “I think this is important from the standpoint that this does offer hope to people who often do not have hope,” he said. “And if you can offer somebody hope for the future, and if they can do well in their studies — particularly if you need a second chance in life — I think this will provide that.” Nova Gattman, legislative director for the Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board, emphasized the importance of providing educational opportunities to inmates. “There is a clear connection between corrections education and the ability of ex-offenders to land jobs and successfully relaunch their lives,” she said. “It’s critical we do what we can to prepare these individuals with the tools they need to be successful upon reentry to their communities.” Edward Parnel, a former inmate who earned an associate degree while incarcerated through a grant from The Sunshine Lady Foundation, told committee members how education changed his life. “I spring boarded back out into the real world, and today, I’m a successful college student,” he said. “In the spring I’ll graduate from Evergreen with a double degree of a Bachelor of Arts with a primary focus in molecular biology and organic chemistry. Not bad for a guy two years ago when you Googled his name, the only thing that came up was ‘busted for distribution of methamphetamine.’” Parnel also testified before the Senate Higher Education Committee on Jan. 28 on the Senate version of the corrections-education bill. Also testifying in favor was Arlen Harris, SBCTC’s legislative director, Michael Paris, education services administrator for the Department of Corrections, Maddy Thompson, director of policy and government relations for the Washington Student Achievement Council, and representatives of faith-based organizations. Disability accommodations for students Also at its Tuesday hearing, the Higher Education Committee heard testimony on HB 2825, a bill which would create a common disabilities application form to be used by colleges and universities in determining a student’s eligibility for accommodations. The bill would also require colleges and universities to notify transfer students with a disability of that student’s eligibility to receive the same core services that the student received at the previous institution. Rep. Noel Frame, the bill’s prime sponsor and member of the Higher Education Committee, spoke in its favor. “The goal is really to reduce barriers and we do that by first having a common application, and second, really trying to reduce or eliminate that re-documentation of a disability, which, when we talk to students we heard that that can not only be time-consuming but often cost prohibitive,” she said. Scott Copeland, SBCTC student services policy associate, testified on behalf of the college system. “We are very, very interested in transition and as seamless as possible for our students,” he said. Also testifying was Toby Olson, the executive secretary of the Governor’s Committee on Disability Issues and Employment. He told committee members that current policies related to disability accommodations are often a barrier to students finishing their education. He called the policies and practices “inconsistent, confusing and conflicting, and occasionally excessive.” “This bill helps us move forward toward establishing clearer procedures and procedures that are more consistently in accord with the letter and intent of the Americans with Disabilities Act,” he said. Bachelor’s degrees at community and technical colleges Finally, the committee took up HB 2769, a bill that would create a pilot program for up to five community and technical colleges to offer bachelor’s degrees in high-demand fields of study. Marty Brown, SBCTC’s executive director, told committee members that the bill is necessary in order to fully implement the 2015-17 operating budget, which earmarked money for Bellevue College to start a bachelor’s degree in computer science. Currently, under state law, community and technical colleges may only offer applied bachelor’s degrees. “Applied baccalaureates are developed at our community [and technical] colleges and provide a clear pathway for students who may be place-bound or have difficulty finding transfer opportunities for technical and associate degrees,” Brown said. “However, in today’s economy, applied bachelor’s are not enough.” Brown was joined by Steve Miller, chair of the Bellevue College board of trustees, and Dr. David Rule, president of Bellevue College. “The state must find innovative ways to prepare students for high demand fields for the future that are cheaper and faster for the state, cheaper and faster for its students,” Miller said. “HB 2769 is one of the ways that this can be done.” Rule testified next, underscoring the idea that bachelor’s degrees are necessary for the economic health of the state. “We know we need to produce more baccalaureates throughout the state in these high demand areas. The community and technical colleges, and Bellevue specifically, are ideally suited to fill this gap,” he said. “We’re fulfilling the local demands of our local students and our local businesses. That’s still our mission regardless of what the degree level is.” Testimony begins at 1:13:03 System bill status SHB 2329: “Including certain residents who do not have a high school diploma or credential and the number of students expected to enroll in basic education for adults courses at community and technical colleges in caseload forecast council forecasting” passed the House Higher Education Committee on Jan. 22. HB 2619: “Providing postsecondary education to enhance education opportunities and public safety” passed the House Higher Education Committee on Feb. 3. HB 2769 “Creating a pilot program for community and technical colleges to offer bachelor degrees” passed the House Higher Education Committee on Feb. 5. SSB 6161: “Including certain residents who do not have a high school diploma or credential and the number of students expected to enroll in basic education for adults courses at community and technical colleges in caseload forecast council forecasting” passed the Senate Higher Education Committee on Jan. 27. SB 6260: “Providing postsecondary education to enhance education opportunities and public safety” passed the Senate Higher Education Committee on Feb. 2. Coming up next week Next week begins debate on bills in the Senate and House chambers. Bills passed by each chamber will move to the opposite chamber for its consideration. Fiscal committees will also be hard at work Monday and Tuesday hearing and voting on bills before Tuesday’s cutoff. The community and technical college system continues to monitor bills of significance and to work with lawmakers on the system’s operating and capital budget requests. Search Legislative News Subscribe to Legislative News Sign up to receive notices when new Legislative News editions are posted. All Legislative News Categories bachelor's degree (1) basic education for adults (6) capital budget (10) Career Connect (3) Customized Training Program (2) cutoff (11) Daniela (5) Department of Natural Resources (1) dual credit (1) excise tax (2) high school diploma (1) open educational resources (4) operating budget (12) opportunity scholarships (1) Running Start (1) sbctc (1) sine die (1) State Need Grant (7) student success (4) trustees (5) WACTCSA (2) Washington Promise Scholarship (1) Last Modified: 2/9/18 11:32 AM © 2019 Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755396
__label__wiki	0.939394	0.939394	High Priestess to release self-titled debut album on May 18th HIGH PRIESTESS is a heavy psych trio from Los Angeles that throw down lush harmonies, crushing riffs and killer grooves. Consisting of Katie Gilchrest on guitar and vocals, Mariana Fiel on bass/vocals, and Megan Mullins on drums, they have created a sound that echoes both past and future incarnations of doom and psychedelia. Formed in the spring of 2016 when Mariana Fiel placed an ad on Craigslist seeking like minds for a devastating new project, Katie and Megan heeded the call and together they immediately started producing long, hypnotic jams that morphed into crafted songs with dynamic crescendos and soaring improv sections. The band self-released a five-song demo in July 2017, which, through word-of-mouth collected critical praise and a growing fan base around the world. Newly signed to Ripple Music, home to some of the biggest and best heavy rock acts to emerge from the underground in recent years, their self-titled debut album will be unleashed worldwide on May 18th. Stream and share new song Take The Blame: https://soundcloud.com/ripple-music/high-priestess-take-the-blame Pre-order now at www.ripple-music.com 5/25 – Thee Parkside – San Francisco, CA 5/26 – Haul – Grants Pass, OR 5/28 – Tonic Lounge – Portland, OR 5/29 – Funhouse – Seattle, WA 5/30 – Astoria – Vancouver, BC 5/31 – Palamino – Calgary, AB 6/1 – Temple – Edmonton, AB 6/2 – Vantopia Festival – Equity, BC 6/3 – Siksika Community Centre – Siksika, AB 6/4 – Old School Records – Kalispell, MT Facebook – facebook.com/highpriestessmusic Instagram – instagram.com/highpriestessmusic Twitter – twitter.com/HighPriestessLA YOB share new song "The Screen" from "Our Raw Heart" due out June 8 YOB, who recently announced the release of their eighth album, Our Raw Heart, on June 8 via Relapse Records, share “The Screen” on Rolling Stone HERE as the Oregon trio reveal the album artwork and pre-orders are made available. “There was no guarantee that I was going to live long enough to record the album,"said singer/guitar player Mike Scheidt in an accompanying interview about the 7-track release. Physical pre-orders are available via Relapse.com HERE with various physical bundles including a super deluxe 2XLP boxset (limited to 100 copies), a white/gold splattered deluxe version (limited to 300 copies), various merchandise and other formats including cassette and CD. Digital downloads can be found at the AT THIS LOCATION and include an instant download of “The Screen.” Our Raw Heart was co-produced by the band and Billy Barnett at Gung Ho Studio in Eugene, Ore., with mastering handled by Heba Kadry (The Mars Volta, Diamanda Galas, Slowdive). Decibel Magazine and Stereogum named the release as one of their most anticipated albums of 2018. Our Raw Heart tracklist: The Screen In Reverie Lung Reach Beauty in Falling Leaves Original Face Our Raw Heart YOB’s most recent release, Clearing the Path to Ascend, was one of 2014’s most heralded releases, with Rolling Stone saying the music “makes perfect bedfellows of volume and beauty, pain and transcendence.” Stereogum said the four-track album offers “a universe unto itself” while Decibel said the songs were “as riveting as you could ever hope for them to be.” YOB Tour Dates: May 25 Vancouver, BC @ Modified Ghost Festival --- All Dates Jun 14 - Jul 14 w/ Bell Witch --- June 14 Oklahoma City, OK @ 89th Street June 15 Austin, TX @ Austin Terror Fest June 16 Little Rock, AR @ Mutants of the Monster 2018 June 17 Memphis, TN @ Hi Tone June 19 Birmingham, AL @ Saturn June 20 Atlanta, GA @ The Earl June 22 Orlando, FL @ SoundBar June 23 Wilmington, NC @ Reggies June 24 Asheville, NC @ Mothlight June 25 Raleigh, NC @ King’s June 27 Baltimore, MD @ Metro June 28 New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge June 29 Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts June 30 Boston, MA @ Middle East July 02 Montreal, QC @ La Sala Rosa July 03 Ottawa, ON @ Mavericks July 04 Toronto, ON @ Mod Club July 06 Pittsburgh, PA @ Rex Theatre July 07 Detroit, MI @ El Club July 08 Chicago, IL @ Reggies July 09 Chicago, IL @Reggies July 10 St. Paul, MN @ Club July 11 Omaha, NE @ Lookout Lounge July 12 Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theatre July 13 Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge July 14 Boise, ID @ Neurolux OFFICIAL YOB LINKS: www.yobislove.com www.facebook.com/quantumyob www.twitter.com/quantumyob www.instagram/com/quantumyob Legendary punk pioneers D.O.A. to release new studio album "Fight Back" D.O.A., Canada's legendary pioneering punks who set the bar high for punk and basically invented hardcore, are ready to rip it up on the occasion of their 40th anniversary. They have a brand new album called Fight Back and they are embarking on a worldwide tour to support this impressive new effort. The "Men of Action" are ready to take on all opposition and lay down a punk rock path of wild music and free thought. Their rough and ready line up is led by the godfather of Hardcore, Joe Shithead Keithley (guitar, vocals) he is more than ably accompanied by the manic rhythm section ofPaddy Duddy (drums) and Corkscrew (bass). Early reviews indicate that Fight Back is the most innovative D.O.A. album since War on 45.D.O.A. has always been right on the pulse of what's going on in our screwed up world. Fight Back deals with what we have left, which in a lot of ways, is not much. Fight Back, released on Joe's own label Sudden Death Records, is a scathing and timely piece. Joe deals with all manner of unseemly low characters and issues. The album opens with acerbic "You Need an Ass Kickin' Right Now," next rips right into the startling "Killer Cops," then smashes into the anthemic "Time To Fight Back," which is street punk resistance at its fiercest. The album proceeds with the timely "Gonna Set You Straight" with violent and natural ease, and continues with the vitriolic "I Just Got Back From the USA." Then, the album takes a funny twist with "We Won't Drink This Piss" (down with bad corporate beer!) and "You Can't Stop Me," a song in which Joe delves into the character of Slapshot's playing coach Reggie Dunlop (a natural alter ego perhaps). D.O.A. was formed amidst a whirlwind of controversy and upheaval. In 1978, three guys fresh out of high school from the backwaters of Canada's suburbs heard about the punk rock revolution. In February of that same year the band formed and started playing shows. They soon realized that there were no record deals coming in any time soon. Keithley (aka Joey Shithead) who was working towards being a civil rights lawyer before he found punk rock, concluded that the band had to take the "do it yourself" approach long before DIY became a popular concept. He formed a fledging record label called Sudden Death Records and the label released D.O.A.'s first snarling slab of vinyl, the Disco Sucks 7" EP. Disco Sucks soon became an underground hit and the band started touring from Vancouver to their newly adopted "home base" of California five to six times a year. In 1980, Keithley coined the term "hardcore" and the band soon released their landmark album Hardcore 81. The album became a hit, the hardcore movement took off, and D.O.A. pushed that expression into common vernacular. Over the last four decades, D.O.A. have released 17 studio albums, sold over a million albums, and played 4,000 shows on five different continents. The band's albums, shows, and attitude have won over three generations of fans and influenced the likes of Green Day, Nirvana, Offspring, Henry Rollins, David Grohl and The Red Hot Chilli peppers, to name a few. Keithley has also written two books: I Shithead: A Life in Punk and TALK - ACTION = 0. From day one, D.O.A. has helped organize and lead hundreds of benefit concerts and protests for good and just causes like environmental issues, women's rights, food bank benefits, and First Nations' rights. They have organized protests and stood against war, racism, weapons proliferation, and countless other causes. Keithley has been called a cultural politician, trying to change the world from outside the system. He's currently running for Mayor of his home town of Burnaby, under the Green Party banner, attempting to change the system from inside. Keithley and the band were also ardent supporters of the Occupy Movement, realizing this was a step towards equality in our world. He is always looking for a way to push "grassroots democracy" and like his idol Pete Seeger, he and the band won't give up. When the band takes their wild, unbridled show live show on the road, it's a must see, because it's a chance to see one of the last real punk rock bands that gets out there, kicks ass, and tells it like it is. It's a perpetual atmosphere of chaos, veering out of control, but somehow, at the last minute, D.O.A. manages to reign all of it back in. And in an indescribable way, you are not quite the same person afterwards. The "Men Of Action" are returning to the US for some unfinished business. US TOUR DATES (w/ MDC as main support): 5/21 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Metro Music Hall 5/22 - Colorado Springs, CO @ Black Sheep 5/23 - Fort Collins,CO @ Hodi's Half Note 5/24 - Denver, CO @ Streets Of London Pub 5/26 - Las Vegas, NV @ Punk Rock Bowling Festival 5/29 - Laguna Niguel, CA @ Karmann Bar 5/30 - West Hollywood, CA @ The Viper Room 5/31 - San Diego, CA @ Brick By Brick 6/02 - Phoenix, AZ @ The Rebel Lounge 6/03 - Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad 6/04 - El Paso, TX @ Lowbrow Palace 6/05 - Harlingen, TX @ Hop Shop 6/06 - Austin, TX @ Barracuda 6/07 - Houston, TX @ The Secret Group 6/08 - San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger 6/09 - Dallas, TX @ Gas Monkey Bar and Grill 6/10 - Tulsa, OK @ Shrine 6/12 - Kansas City, MO @ Riot Room 6/13 - Des Moines, IA @ Lefty's Live Music 6/15 - Billings, MT @ The Pub Station 6/16 - Spokane, WA @ The Pin! US & CANADA TOUR DATES (w/ Down By Law + Kevin Seconds (of 7 Seconds) playing solo : 07/06 - Vancouver, BC @ First Annual Fight Back Festival, Rickshaw Theater 07/11 - Regina 07/12 - Winnipeg 07/13 - Thunder Bay 07/14 - Minneapolis 07/15 - Green Bay 07/16 - Madison 07/17 - Milwaukee 07/18 - Chicago 07/19 - Detroit 07/20 - Cleveland 07/21 - Buffalo 07/22 - Brooklyn 07/23 - Philly 07/24 - TBA 07/25 - Toronto 07/26 - Ottawa 07/27 - Montreal ¹77 Festival Follow Joe and the D.O.A. gang on Twitter and on Facebook	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755399
__label__wiki	0.739732	0.739732	Flashing Across the Country: Mr. Zip and the ZIP Code Promotional Campaign The Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum has launched an online microsite celebrating and examining the history and development of Mr. Zip and the ZIP Code campaign. Introduced in 1963, ZIP Codes were not immediately or warmly welcomed by the American public. The notion that people now needed to remember five numbers for their address, and those of anyone they corresponded with, seemed like too much work for many. The new website (www.npm.si.edu/zipcodecampaign) chronicles the introduction of ZIP Codes in the U.S. and shows how this popular cartoon figure was used to encourage Americans to use the new system. ZIP Codes were introduced as part of the burgeoning mechanized mail systems that the Post Office Department was employing across the country. As mail volumes soared in the 1950s and 1960s, postal officials looked for ways to keep the mail moving smoothly. As had other organizations around the world, the POD looked to mechanizing systems such as machines that could move thousands of pieces of mail in the time it took clerks to move a handful. But the machines needed to be able to “read” the mail in order to process it. So the ZIP Code system was introduced, promising Americans that by adding five numbers to each piece of mail, it would travel swiftly through the system to its destination. Mr. Zip was the face of the new campaign. Posters, television, newspaper and magazine ads featuring his image were commonplace in the mid 1960s. The site addresses how these advertisements were used, the public response to the campaign and ZIP Codes, as well as Mr. Zip’s continued appearance in popular culture today. It also includes examples of audio and television spots from the campaign. “Almost 50 years after he was introduced to the public, and 25 years after the U.S. Postal Service stopped using him, the craggy, oddball figure of Mr. Zip continues to appear on knickknacks and in popular culture,” said Nancy Pope, historian and curator. “An image that began as part of a bank’s advertising campaign has become an enduring and recognizable figure of the U.S. mail.” The National Postal Museum is devoted to presenting the colorful and engaging history of the nation’s mail service and showcasing one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of stamps and philatelic material in the world. It is located at 2 Massachusetts Avenue N.E., Washington, D.C., across from Union Station. The museum is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (closed Dec. 25). For more information about the Smithsonian, call (202) 633-1000 or visit the museum website at www.postalmuseum.si.edu. Marty Emery emerym@si.edu	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755401
__label__wiki	0.733599	0.733599	Note 69: Application of SIMION 6.0 To a Study of the Finkelstein Ion Source: Part 1 MS Probes and Sample Vials Agilent MSD Probe Straight Sample Vials Sample Vials for MS Systems Flared Pyrex Sample Vials Quartz Vials Pyrolysi Quartz Tubes Direct Probe Sample Vial Blocks Note 69: Application of SIMION 6.0 To a Study of the Finkelstein Ion Source: Part 1 (This Page) By Steven Colby Presented at EAS, Summerset, NJ., November 1997 In 1940, A. Theodore Finkelstein described a unique ion source for the generation of intense ion beams [1]. This source was unique in that an ionizing beam of electrons was introduced co-linear to the final beam of ions. The co-propagation of charged particles was assisted by a magnetic field and dramatically increased the flux of ions from the source. We investigate the possibility of using the Finkelstein source for the introduction of ions into a mass spectrometer. Simulations are performed using the SIMION 3D software program. Both a generic conventional ion source and a Finkelstein source are modeled and comparisons are made of their efficiencies. In order for these results to be of general use, the simulation process is described in sufficient detail so that the reader can use these methods on more specific examples. The results reported in this poster were generated with the ion optics program SIMION 3D v.6.0. This software was developed by David Dahl at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory [2]. The latest version allows for greatly expanded simulation capabilities. These include larger array sizes (10 million points) and three dimensional modeling. The new capabilities of dynamic parameter variation, time varying potentials, and user programming are also employed in the work below. Figure 1A Figure 1B Fig. 1 - Simulated quadrupole mass spectrometer: (A) Conventional generic source, mass filter, and detector. (B). Cutaway of Finkelstein source. (Not shown are a filament shield and second magnetic pole located behind the filament.) SIMION was used to model the quadrupole mass spectrometers shown in Figure 1. Details of the simulation of the conventional ion source have been reported previously [3]. The simulation was divided into five sections. Each of these was designed and "refined" individually. (Refining is SIMION's method of calculating the potentials on non-electrode points.) The sections are then placed on an Ion Optics Bench (IOB) in their proper positions. The IOB feature allows items to be reused in different simulations. For example, parts of the quadrupole mass filter in this work were taken from an example that is included with the software. The IOB also permits the use of pieces whose symmetries differ. It is often helpful to incorporate elements of symmetry in the simulation because they dramatically reduce the number of array points required. Likewise, sections of the simulation can have a different number of grid points per unit area. This allows for more accurate simulations where needed, such as around the filament, without requiring such high precision everywhere else in the instrument. The five sections (or instances) used in our experiments were a magnet, the source, the region between the source and the start of the quadrupoles, the quadrupoles, and the volume including the end of the quadrupoles and detector. The source instance consisted of a cylindrical piece (1.5 cm long X 1.0 cm dia.) with a flat plate at one end. In the conventional source a "repeller" was positioned on the side facing away from the quadrupoles. The plate included a 2 mm aperture to pass ions into the mass analyzer. Two planes of symmetry along the main axis of the instrument were used to divide the number of points in the calculation by a factor of four. A 2 x 3 mm slit was placed in the source to allow electrons from the filament to enter. (Because of the symmetry used, our simulation included two identical filaments and slits.) A magnetic instance was placed over the source so that an appropriate magnetic field was generated. The instance between the source and the quadrupoles included an electrode with another 2 mm aperture. In many actual instruments, an einzel lens is placed in this area. The instance also incorporated a section of the quadrupoles in order to properly model the transition between these two regions of the instrument. The quadrupoles were modeled in two dimensions and then "extruded" along the axis of the instrument in the IOB. The final instance modeled the transition between the end of the quadrupoles and the detector. In the Finkelstein source, the -70V filament was placed behind the source (See Fig. 1B). An electron entrance hole was placed at the bottom of the source volume. The entire source was held at ground with the exception of the place that included the ion exit aperture. This surface was held at a potential of -1V. A ring magnet was placed around the ion exit and an opposite pole (not shown) was placed beneath the filament. Also not shown in Fig. 1B is a shield, held at -70V, directly behind the filament. The magnetic field within the center of the ion source had a strength of approximately 350 Gauss. Electrons and ions were simulated using SIMION's trajectory calculations. The potentials of the quadrupoles were varied at a radio frequency of 1.1 MHz in order to pass ions of 100 m/z. Control of the time dependent potentials was accomplished using SIMION's user programming interface. Each simulation was performed using groups of ions. Within each group, electrons were assumed to leave a filament at 10 different points covering a linear range of 2 mm. At each of these points, five electrons were generated with different angular trajectories. All electrons were given 0.25 eV of kinetic energy. Before the simulation of each group, a random number was generated for use in determining where electrons should turn into positive ions of 100 m/z. This was intended to simulate the electron impact ionization of neutral species. The simulation was repeated a large number of times in order to model the random generation of ions in the region between the two filaments. The complete source code for all user programs used in this simulation are available on the Internet [4]. Figure 2C Fig. 2 - Sample simulations in conventional source. (In A and B only the source region is shown. Views are along the y-axis). Fig. 3 - Sample Simulation In the Finkelstein Source Figures 2 and 3 show the simulation of three ion groups from each of the two ion sources. These are intended to show examples of the possible fates of the simulated ions. In the first case (A), ions are formed too close to the filament. They are therefore drawn back toward the filament. This was the most common path for ions to take in both sources. In the second case (B), ions are generated closer to the center of the source. In the conventional source these are eliminated by striking the front and side walls. In the final case (C), ions are shown passing into the mass filter. Some of these ions reach the detector. However, the random initial thermal kinetic energy of the ions is sufficient to prevent some of these from reaching the detector. Fig. 4 - Location of Ion Impacts For the Two Sources The probabilities of ion elimination occurring in each region of the instrument are compared in Figure 4. In the conventional source, over 64% of the ions are lost through the filament opening. This is due to both the magnetic and electric fields of the source. The fraction of ions lost through this route is a function of the size and depth of the rectangular opening used to admit electrons into the source. A plot of potential energy contours of the conventional source is shown in Figure 5A. Ions are accelerated in directions perpendicular to the red lines shown. It is clear that only in the center region are ions directed towards the exit aperture. Those ions that do move towards the exit are accelerated into the plane of Figure 5 (xz plane) by the magnetic field. As a result, the ions that strike the front plate of the source do so, on average, below the level of the principal instrument axis. As was shown in Figure 3, those ions that do not travel towards the filament still have only a small chance of reaching the detector. The Finkelstein source has an attractor in the source rather than a repeller. This generates the fields shown in Figure 5B and dramatically improves the acceleration of ions toward the ion exit. Fig. 5 - Potential Energy Contours of the Source Regions Using SIMION's data recording menu, it is possible to determine the starting positions of the ions that reach the detector. This enables us to determine the zone in which detectable ions may be generated. The volumes found were approximately 0.15 x 1.7 x 1.4 mm for the conventional source and 10 x 0.8 x 2.8 mm for the Finkelstein source. Limitations of the Simulation (Warnings!) Our goal in this presentation has been to demonstrate methods for instrument analysis and design and examine a possible source design. We are not attempting to characterize a specific instrument. However, as with any computer modeling, there are limitations to these simulations that must be kept in mind when analyzing the results. For example, the user program allows electrons to generate ions before they reach a significant kinetic energy. The simulated system was not optimized so the potentials chosen are not likely to be the best for ion collection in this system. Likewise, the specific geometry used was not based on an actual instrument or an optimal design. We have also not included the einzel lenses found in many commercial instruments. This will certainly have a dramatic influence on the collection efficiency of ions. There are also some clear disadvantages to the Finkelstein source. For example, photons from the filament are likely to generate significant noise at the detector. The ions produced in the Finkelstein source also have a kinetic energy distribution of 0.6 eV while those in the conventional source have a distribution of 0.02 eV. This is will have a significant effect on the performance of the mass filter. Our next project will be a further characterization of the Finkelstein source. This will include an examination of the effects of the initial ion kinetic energy on the instrument resolution and the possibility of using a magnetic bottle to contain the electrons. We have demonstrated the use of SIMION 3D in modeling two ion source regions for a quadrupole mass spectrometer. The software is an excellent tool for the investigation of ion optics within the instrument. We believe that the work of David Dahl will contribute to a large variety of applications. SIMION 7 and 8 users can download source files here: download simion-finksim.zip. (Note: these files are fairly old. They are based on the "quad" example in SIMION 6.0, which has since been updated in SIMION 8.0/8.1. Continue to Part II... 1. A. Theodore Finkelstein, Review of Scientific Instruments, v.11 (1940) p94. 2. David A. Dahl 43ed ASMS 1995, pg. 717. 3. S. M. Colby, C. W. Baker, and J. J. Manura 44th ASMS 1996 pgxx. 4. http://www.sisweb.com	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755403
__label__wiki	0.74351	0.74351	Regional Archive May 2009 Amnesty International Report Highlights Issues in 3 Pacific Nations The Amnesty International report for 2009 has highlighted some human rights issues in the region, mainly in Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands. Pacific Islands and the Clean Development Mechanism Press Release - Bringing the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) closer to the homes of Pacific islanders is one of the key happenings at a gathering in Fiji this week. Alert for A/H1N1 Flu Continues for Region as Numbers Rise The region is still increasingly at risk of the A/H1N1 flu, otherwise known as Swine Flu, as confirmed cases increase around the world, especially in countries with links to the region. Managing Chemicals in Kiribati Press Release - A chemicals management monitoring and evaluation project in Kiribati has been completed by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP). People Fear Being Caught on the Internet in Fiji People in Fiji are reportedly in fear of being caught using the internet because they fear being accused of reading anti-government blog sites. ADB and World Bank Pledge Funding Support for Solomon Island The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the World Bank have pledged to provide funding support to Solomon Islands to address budgetary and balance of payment challenges attributed to the impacts of the global economic crisis. ADB Regional Strategy Needs to be Consistent with Pacific Plan Press Statement - Pacific Developing Member Countries (PDMCs) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have called on the ADB to review its Pacific Strategy in line with the Pacific Plan. Fiji Police Detain Lawyers Over Blogs Three lawyers were detained by Fiji police earlier in the week over allegations that they were responsible for contributing to some of the blogs that have risen since the coup. Pacific Island Countries Showcase Culture and Products at Trade Exhibition in Japan Press Statement - The 4th Pacific Islands Trade Exhibition will take place at the JETRO Exhibition Hall in Tokyo, Japan from 21-26 May 2009. 3 Pacific Bird Species in Danger of Extinction The three bird species are part of the 2009 Red List compiled by the Birdlife International and the International Conservation Union. European Union Cancels Millions in Sugar Aid to Fiji 18 May 2009 - STATEMENT BY EUROPEAN COMMISSIONER LOUIS MICHEL ON FIJI Influenza A(H1N1) Update: 40 Countries Affected 40 countries have officially reported cases of the Influenza A(H1N1) virus, also known as Swine Flu. Climate Change Threatens Coral Reefs and Livelihoods Climate change is threatening the existence of coral reefs which threatens the livelihoods of millions, especially in the region. Fiji Police Detain Church Leader As the political situation in Fiji continues, the interim government has confirmed that it has detained the former Methodist Church president, Reverend Manasa Lasaro, 'for a possible breach of Fiji's Public Emergency Regulations'. SPREP Honoured for Protecting the Ozone Layer Press Release - The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) has been presented with a United States Environmental Protection Agency Ozone Layer Protection Award for 2009. New ADB Report Shows Continued Shift Toward Environmental Sustainability Manila, Philippines - ADB is continuing a shift in its emphasis and resources toward reducing poverty and, simultaneously, promoting environmentally sustainable growth in the Asia and Pacific region, according to a new report. Fiji Media Still Being Censored The media in Fiji is still under government censorship following the extension of the Emergency Regulation in the country with recent allegations of the detention of journalists. Niue Signs on to Pacific Petroleum Project Press Statement - Niue has sealed its support for the Pacific Petroleum Project. Pacific ACP Leaders Wants EU to Address "Contentious Issues" in EPA Pacific ACP States have reiterated their desire to see progress in the current negotiations of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union but want contentious issues be dealt with by the EU. Climate Change: Our Century's Challenge, Our Pacific Response Press Release - Dealing with climate change in the Pacific is everyone's business. This is the message of the 2009 Pacific Year of Climate Change being led by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP). 23 Countries with Officially Reported Cases of Influenza A (H1N1) Infection The World Health Organisation (WHO) has released an update yesterday confirming that 23 countries have officially reported cases of the influenza A (H1N1) infection, commonly known as Swine Flu. Carteret Islanders - First Climate Refugees Carteret Islanders of Papua New Guinea have become the first climate refugees as they relocate to new sites to escape the effects of climate change on their homeland. ADB President Urges New Development Paradigm for Asia and the Pacific BALI, INDONESIA, 4 May 2009 - With the Asia and Pacific region hit hard by the global economic crisis, the region must rebalance growth, Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Haruhiko Kuroda today told the opening session of the 42nd Annual Meeting in Bali, Indonesia. Asia Must Urgently Adapt to Climate Change, ADB Panel Says BALI, INDONESIA, 3 May 2009 - Governments in the Asia and Pacific region must urgently develop strategies to adapt to climate change or face soaring economic costs in the future, a seminar audience heard today. 'Business As Usual' Approach to Health Failing Women and Children in Asia BALI, INDONESIA, 3 May 2009 - Despite decades of rapid economic growth, the Asia and Pacific region continues to suffer from surprisingly poor health outcomes for women and children, according to a new publication by experts in the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and nine other major international development agencies. Pacific Can 'Take The Helm' in Responding to Crisis, Says Study BALI, INDONESIA - Pacific island nations need to respond pro-actively to the global economic crisis, says a new book released by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Sustainable Transport Key to Economic Development and Poverty Reduction, Says ADB Vice-President BALI, INDONESIA - Asia and the Pacific's economies and their ability to lift people out of poverty may suffer unless urgent measures are taken to ensure better movement of people and goods, a seminar audience heard today. Forum Chair on Suspension of Fiji Military Regime from PIF Press Statement - The Chair of the Pacific Islands Forum and Premier of Niue, the Hon. Toke Talagi MP, has announced that the military regime of Fiji has been suspended from the Forum. WHO/SPC Response to Swine Flu Threat in Pacific Islands Region The human swine influenza A (H1N1) outbreak is evolving rapidly. As of 29 April 2009, nine countries have officially reported cases of the infection.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755408
__label__wiki	0.965136	0.965136	Questions raised on smoking ban enforcement Gary L. Smith The state public health director paid a visit Thursday to Marshall County, where he was asked about enforcement of the public smoking ban that takes effect. Jan. 1. The state law that will ban smoking indoors in public places as of Jan. 1 came up Thursday when the director of the Illinois Department of Public Health met with a small number of health and emergency preparedness officials. Dr. Eric E. Whitaker led a roundtable discussion in a Marshall County Courthouse meeting room after touring the county health office down the street as part of a pledge he made when appointed in 2003 to visit all the health departments in the state. The practical question of how the smoking ban will be enforced was raised by Craig Riggins, an environmental health officer in the county department. "I know if people are not obeying that, (others) are going to be calling the Health Department (with complaints)," he said. Working on the law’s enforcement and other ramifications "will be the next big thing on our plate," said Whitaker. "Hopefully, we’ll see this get implemented and go well," he said. "There will be some conflict because people will feel their rights are being infringed upon." Whitaker also outlined the department’s top five priorities: community engagement; bioterrorism and emergency preparedness; health disparities; public health infrastructure; and patient safety. "We have over 200 programs, but those five things are the focus of what we do," he said. The session had been billed in a news release as a meeting with "community leaders," but most of the approximately 20 people on hand were employees of the state agency, the county health office or the Peoria City/County Health Department, which operates Marshall County’s under contract. The only county officials were Sheriff Rob Russell, 911 coordinator Hank Zilm, county veterinarian Alan McCully and Mary DeWalt, an assistant in the county Emergency Management Agency office. Russell pointed out that mental health has become an increasingly large issue, with police and other emergency responders being called to several suicides and attempts in the past year. While mental health services are generally under the Department of Human Services, Whitaker said his department has a group looking at suicide risk factors from a public health standpoint. Whitaker has now visited 76 of the state’s 95 health departments, some of which cover more than one county, according to a news release. Many of those not yet visited are north of Peoria, including the counties of Bureau, Henry, LaSalle, Putnam, and Stark, according to a map on the department Web site. Reach Journal Star reporter Gary L. Smith at (309) 686-3041 or state@pjstar.com. Obituary Pricing Totally Local The City of Sault Ste. Marie Sault Ste. Marie public schools Daily Telegram Cheboygan Daily Tribune The Daily Reporter Hillsdale Daily News The Holland Sentinel Ionia Sentinel-Standard Sault Ste. Marie Evening News - Sault Ste. Marie, MI ~ 109 Arlington Street, Sault Ste. Marie, MI 49783 ~ Privacy Policy ~ Terms Of Service	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755409
__label__cc	0.545144	0.454856	A United Kingdom DVD Starring David Oyelowo, Rosamund Pike, Jack Davenport, Tom Felton, Laura Carmichael, Terry Pheto, Jessica Oyelowo, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Arnold Oceng, Charlotte Hope Directed by Amma Asante David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike star in this romantic drama based on the true story of an African prince who fell in love with a white British woman in the 1940s. While studying in England, Prince Seretse Khama (Oyelowo) meets Ruth Williams (Pike), a beautiful young woman who immediately steals his heart. As the two begin a highly controversial love affair, they battle every day against prejudice and hate, hoping that their love will keep them together. When the time comes for Seretse to go home to take his place on the throne of Bechuanaland, he refuses to leave without Ruth and so the two marry and return as husband and wife. With British government official Alistair Canning (Jack Davenport) threatening Ruth with the knowledge that her marriage could cause the downfall of the British Empire in Africa, the couple do everything they can to convince the world that they can be an interracial couple and still successfully lead a country. Certification: (12) Catalogue number: P928801000 Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Ent. Also directed by Amma Asante \| View all Where Hands Touch	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755411
__label__wiki	0.669044	0.669044	Rosalind Nicholson – a legacy lives on … (L-R) Janelle Connellan, Rosalind Nicholson and Melinda Carr In 1966, Rosalind Nicholson, aged only 17, began to study for a teaching career at Bathurst Teachers’ College. That same year she suffered a spinal cord injury which resulted in quadriplegia. Ros was staying with her friend, Barbara, on a farm on the outskirts of Sydney where she went for her first horse ride. A dog barked, the horse shied, and Ros fell. And her life changed forever. But Ros refused to be overwhelmed by her injury. After 18 months in the Royal North Shore Hospital, she returned to the family home in Broken Hill where the hospital’s Assistant Matron developed a rigorous daily care and physiotherapy regime. With a team of carers, Ros’ parents, Jack and Elaine, followed the regime diligently. And when Ros died 40 years later, Jack, aged 91, was still helping with her daily physiotherapy routine. Jack passed away at 97 in 2012. With Jack and Elaine’s support, Ros became an active member of the local community. She gained arts and economics degrees from the University of New England, became an accountant and managed the family’s companies. She tutored high school students in mathematics, visited the sick in hospital, and was a spokeswoman for the Year of the Disabled. After Ros acquired her first motorised wheelchair, there was no stopping her. With new independence she visited friends, and took trips outdoors, to the cinema and shops. Ros died in 2006 but her legacy lives on. Jack’s retirement fund (and later Elaine’s estate) funded a Trust to support Ros’ care. Today, the Trust supports many spinal cord organisations, and also Allowah Children’s Hospital in Dundas. The tradition of giving continues through Ros’ brother, Robert, and his wife Shirley who now administer the trust. SpinalCure Australia is a proud beneficiary of the Nicholson family’s generosity. “We know that Ros would have wanted to make a donation to SpinalCure Australia, and we hope our donation will support spinal research that benefits people like her into the future,” says Robert. And it will. Donations and bequests to SpinalCure directly support research – research that will help us win the fight against paralysis caused by SCI. Wiggly Tail Pork ShopICAP	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755412
__label__cc	0.734663	0.265337	Sixty years ago, Dean Roscoe Pound wrote: "Historically, there are three ideas involved in a profession, organization, learning and a spirit of public service. These are essential. The remaining idea, that of gaining a livelihood, is incidental." Roscoe Pound, What is a Profession? 19 Notre Dame L.R. 203, 204 (1944). While most of us would respond that making payroll and paying the bills are more than incidental, it is also true that most of us became lawyers because we wanted to help people. This is the feeling that gives rise to pro bono service. The Rhode Island Rules of Professional Conduct have included the following provision respecting pro bono service: Rule 6.1. Pro Bono Public Service. A lawyer should render public interest legal service. A lawyer may discharge this responsibility by providing professional services at no fee or a reduced fee to persons of limited means or to public service or charitable groups or organizations, by service in activities for improving the law, the legal system or the legal profession, and by financial support for organizations that provide legal services to persons of limited means. Rhode Island attorneys have an extensive history of pro bono work whether in court, in the conference room or in the board room of public service organizations. Recently, Chief Justice Williams appointed a Committee to Review the Rule of Professional Conduct for Attorneys chaired by former Chief Justice Weisberger to consider the new Model Rules of Professional Conduct recommended by the American Bar Association. The Committee has recommended to the Supreme Court the adoption or modification of the ABA's model Rules of Professional Conduct. Those recommendations include a new Rule 6.1. The proposed rule is substantially more detailed and specific about what constitutes pro bono and how attorneys can fulfill this goal: Rule 6.1 Voluntary Pro Bono Publico Service Every lawyer has a professional responsibility to provide legal services to those unable to pay. A lawyer should aspire to render at least (50) hours of pro bono publico legal services per year. In fulfilling this responsibility, the lawyer should: (a) provide a substantial majority of the (50) hours of legal services without fee or expectation of fee to: persons of limited means or charitable, religious, civic, community, governmental and educational organizations in matters that are designed primarily to address the needs of persons of limited means; and (b) provide any additional services through: delivery of legal services at no fee or substantially reduced fee to individuals, groups or organizations seeking to secure or protect civil rights, civil liberties or public rights, or charitable, religious, civic, community, governmental and educational organizations in matters in furtherance of their organizational purposes, where the payment of standard legal fees would significantly deplete the organization's economic resources or would be otherwise inappropriate; delivery of legal services at a substantially reduced fee to persons of limited means; or participation in activities for improving the law, the legal system or the legal profession. In addition, a lawyer should voluntarily contribute financial support to organizations that provide legal services to persons of limited means. The Committee also adopted the ABA's Comments to the proposed Rule with a notable addition. The ABA's Comment 12 states: "The responsibility set forth in this Rule is not intended to be enforced through disciplinary process." To this the Committee added: "This Rule sets forth an aspirational goal and not a mandatory obligation for attorneys." There are several other significant points in the Comments. They clarify that the bulk of the 50 hours are to be fulfilled in service for persons of limited means or the charitable organizations that serve those persons. Attorneys can fulfill the remainder of the hours through service for other organizations. The Comments also recognize that some attorneys cannot provide these hours either because of the natures of their practice or other demands. They can fulfill their obligation through making a financial contribution of the value of their obligation to organizations that do serve the legal needs of the poor. There have been suggestions made that pro bono work be mandatory, or at least, that attorneys who do not provide pro bono services pay an additional fee to cover the cost of others providing those services. I think this would be a mistake. In Rhode Island, it appears that the largest unmet need for pro bono services is for representation in Family Court. Far and away, the largest number of requests to the Bar Association's Volunteer Lawyer Program is for matters involving family issues: divorce, custody, child support, adoption, etc. For example, in mid-September, there were 36 unmatched VLP requests of which one was for a will. All the others were family law issues. While there are experienced family law attorneys who take many VLP assignments, there are not enough to meet the need. Understandably, attorneys who are not experienced in these matters are reluctant to undertake these potentially complicated and time-consuming projects. This appears to be an area where most of us should make a direct or indirect contribution to pay for others to provide these services. The Rhode Island Bar Foundation receives substantial amounts of money from attorneys' IOLTA accounts and contributions. It provides nearly one million dollars a year to Rhode Island Legal Services to serve a variety of needs. Some of this grant is presently used for Family Court representation. The Bar Foundation is undertaking a review of all its grants to determine whether it can reallocate its awards to help met the family law needs. It is forming a committee to consider whether there are longer-term solutions to the problem. The Bar Association is forming its own committee to consider pro bono issues and to coordinate with the Bar Foundation's committee in addressing these issues. The proposed Rules of Professional Conduct include another provision that should help those who can undertake pro bono matters. Rule 1.2(c) provides: "A lawyer may limit the scope of the representation if the limitation is reasonable under the circumstances and the client gives informed consent." The Comments add: "...the terms upon which representation is undertaken may exclude specific means that might otherwise be used to accomplish the client's objectives. Such limitations may exclude actions that the client thinks are too costly or that the lawyer regards as repugnant or imprudent." Limited representation may allow attorneys to assist needy clients in one aspect of their problems without being drawn into representation with respect to all their problems. The Bar Association is also conducting an email survey of its members respecting their pro bono activities. This will help us know what we do collectively and make decisions on how the bar can address unmet needs. We plan to prepare a report for the Supreme Court on what bar has done and what it plans to do to meet pro bono needs. We anticipate that through these efforts we can better identify the unmet needs, develop ways to meet those needs and fulfill our spirit of public service.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755413
__label__wiki	0.641546	0.641546	Shiji Announces the Acquisition of ReviewPro, the Leading Guest Intelligence Solutions Provider Context: Shiji announced the acquisition of a majority stake in ReviewPro, and ReviewPro’s founders and management team will continue to lead the company... Context: Shiji announced the acquisition of a majority stake in ReviewPro, and ReviewPro’s founders and management team will continue to lead the company as it scales its global growth plan and the roll-out of new products and services. (January 16, 2017, Beijing)Shiji announced the acquisition of a majority stake in ReviewPro, the leading cloud-based data and analytics provider of Guest Intelligence solutions for hotels. The investment was made by Shiji (Hong Kong) Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary. Since signing its first clients in September 2009, ReviewPro has grown from a boot-strapped start-up to one of the fast-growing companies in the HotelTech space worldwide. Today, the company has more than 30,000 hotel clients across all segments of the industry, including brands such Meliá Hotels International, The Ascott Limited, Kempinski, Red Lion Hotels and citizenM. ReviewPro’s founders and management team will continue to lead the company as it scales its global growth plan and the roll-out of new products and services. The company’s products include Online Reputation Management (ORM) and Guest Satisfaction Surveys (GSS), which enable savvy hoteliers to increase guest satisfaction and revenue. “I am very pleased to welcome ReviewPro into the Shiji family of companies,” said the company’s Chairman, Mr. Li Zhongchu, “ReviewPro is a great fit into our strategy to Go Platform and Global. We are excited to work with the team at ReviewPro as we continue our commitment to expanding internationally by offering the hotel industry leading products, technologies and services.” Kevin King, COO of Shiji commented “ReviewPro’s focus on empowering its customers to know their guests better, providing opportunities to make smarter decisions, is very well aligned with Shiji’s mission and we are looking forward to the company making a significant contribution to our growth plans.” "We are thrilled to join one of the world's leading hospitality technology companies," said RJ Friedlander, a founder and CEO of ReviewPro." Their vision, strategy and expertise will help us to scale ReviewPro as we continue to expand geographically and extend our product and service offering.” About ReviewPro ReviewPro is the leading provider of Guest Intelligence solutions to independent hotel brands worldwide. The company’s suite of cloud-based solutions includes Online Reputation Management (ORM) and Guest Satisfaction Surveys (GSS), which enable clients to obtain a deeper understanding of reputation performance as well as operational/service strengths and weaknesses. The company provides actionable insight to increase guest satisfaction, rankings on review sites/OTAs and revenue. The company offers the industry-standard Global Review Index™ (GRI), an online reputation score, which is used by thousands of hotels worldwide as a benchmark for reputation management efforts, based on review data collected from 175 OTAs and review sites in more than 45 languages. More than 30,000 hotels worldwide leverage ReviewPro’s solutions to deliver better guest experiences. For more information about ReviewPro, please visit www.reviewpro.com	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755414
__label__wiki	0.943873	0.943873	Grambling announces 5-year apparel deal with adidas The new deal worth is more than $1.2 million in apparel and footwear for Grambling. Grambling announces 5-year apparel deal with adidas The new deal worth is more than $1.2 million in apparel and footwear for Grambling. Check out this story on shreveporttimes.com: https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/sports/college/2018/05/09/grambling-announces-5-year-apparel-deal-adidas/596422002/ Cory Diaz, USA Today Network Published 4:36 p.m. CT May 9, 2018 \| Updated 5:39 p.m. CT May 9, 2018 Grambling State University President Rick Gallot and Athletic Director unveil the school's new multi-year apparel deal with adidas. The News Star Grambling State University president Rick Gallot, left, and Athetic Director Paul Braynt, pose with adidas hats after announcing the school's athletic apparel partnership with the Portland based designer company.(Photo: Cory Diaz / The News-Star) GRAMBLING — The Tigers add three stripes Wednesday. Grambling State announced a five-year athletic apparel partnership with adidas Wednesday afternoon during a press conference on campus at the Eddie G. Robinson Museum. Adidas, the Portland, Oregon-based global athletic apparel designer and marketer, will outfit all 15 of Grambling's athletic programs with game day and practice uniforms, cleats and shoes, as well as accessories, through the 2022-23 school year. "This is a great opportunity for us. We believe our brand is one of the nation's best out there for college sports," GSU Athletic Director Paul Bryant told The News-Star. "Then, to partner with another outstanding brand, a worldwide brand, in adidas, it's a perfect fit for us." Under the new deal worth more than $1.2 million in apparel and footwear, adidas will provide four different customized gameday jerseys, two home, one away and one alternate combination, to the football, women's and men's basketball programs, while the baseball and softball programs will each receive three sets of uniforms. The agreement gives the school $130,000 over five years to supply competition and travel shoes for each student-athlete. Grambling State's Olympic, non-revenue generating sports, such as indoor track, outdoor track and field, soccer, tennis, volleyball, cross country and bowling will receive new competition uniforms from a "significant amount of promo dollars" provided by adidas. GSU athletics will also gain access to all of the company's products. 'A true partnership' "It exhibits a true partnership that has evolved out of negotiations with adidas versus the previous company that we dealt with, which was a conference-wide deal that may have been good for the conference, but not necessarily good for Grambling," GSU President Rick Gallot said. "This is a true partnership with a company who really wanted our business and wanted it bad, wanted to be associated with our brand, with our championship ways. "We're finally in position to have a partnership with a company that is truly a win-win for our university, for our students." “Our mission is to help athletes perform better and we seek to inspire through our products, our style and in communities. We’re looking forward to partnering with Grambling State athletics to help them execute their mission to build on their national reputation of winning championships, graduating students and devolving leaders,” said Jim Murphy, director of NCAA Sports Marketing at adidas North America, in a release. “We’re excited to be a part of Grambling State’s commitment to providing student-athletes the opportunity to successfully compete at the highest level of NCAA Division I intercollegiate athletics and we’ll bring our newest and most innovative high-performance products to the Tigers over the next five years.” As part of the new partnership, adidas' logo will receive prominent placement at each of Grambling's athletic facilities including Eddie G. Robinson Memorial Stadium, the Fredrick Hobdy Assembly Center as well as on the university's athletic web site, printed and online media guides as well as other locations on campus. More: David Fry boosts Northwestern State past Grambling State More: Grambling has 3 sign as undrafted free agents in NFL More: Grambling's James Cooper to coach with Team USA For the last 11 years, Russell Athletics has served as the Tigers primary athletic apparel partner, but the company revealed last fall that it planned to no longer make uniforms.The SWAC, who had been under contract with Russell for all of its members' athletic gear and equipment prior to that announcement, allowed its each of its athletic departments to seek individual apparel partnerships, beginning with the 2018-19 school year. Grambling to keep classic look "It's big for us," Grambling State head football coach Broderick Fobbs said of the partnership. "When you look at the scope of college football, everyone has their own apparel deal. Here at Grambling State University, we're a national brand. For four years, we've been lobbying to try to get this thing done. We finally ended one deal and was able to solidify another deal that allowed us to bring in a really strong partnership. "Our kids are excited about it to be to able to wear the shoes and the uniforms, all of the other things that come with it." Fobbs said for football, the team will remain "classic in their approach" in the design of their new uniforms. Adidas initially came to the table more than a year ago, and Gallot said the company's existing relationship with some other University of Louisiana system schools sped up the negotiations. "Based on conversation with our coaches and the quality of the shoes. It would no good for our student-athletes to have good looking shoes on that hurt their feet," Gallot said. "Their comfort, safety and performance was critical to us even considering. There were other companies that approached us that did not get that same vote of confidence in comfort and performance of the footwear." "Having adidas as part of recruiting, now people want to be a part of an institution that has apparel from a company that is nationally branded. Although we appreciated what Russell had done, Russell does not compare with adidas," Bryant said. "It makes our student-athletes proud to be a part of our athletic programs because of adidas. They're excited to be getting quality gear. Not knocking Russell, but it's just not adidas." Other SWAC schools have announced their new apparel deals over the last couple of months with Prairie View A&M and Alabama State announcing their deal with adidas while Grambling's rival Southern and Texas Southern will join Under Armour. Student-athletes and coaches won't be the only ones to reap the benefits of GSU's new partnership, as adidas will be the official provider of merchandise for the entire Grambling State University community, giving G-Men fans the opportunity to purchase official apparel beginning this week online and next week in stores including polos, shirts, authentic game jerseys and sideline gear at an apparel story that will located on campus. "We're not only looking for our athletic programs to be outfitted in adidas, but also on the academic side. From the honors college, to our band, everyone who's wearing Grambling gear, we want to see the Grambling adidas gear," Gallot said. "Of course for our fans who'll purchase this gear, it will help us financially that for every dollar they spend on adidas Grambling gear, it will mean a benefit for the university." With every purchase of adidas merchandise, GSU will get back 27.5-cent to the dollar rebate for additional gear. "For my volleyball, soccer teams, we can use those dollars to buy new uniforms. That's budget relief," Bryant said. "That's what important, we get budget relief partnering with adidas." Bryant said he believes Grambling State's new partnership with adidas will open the door for future partnerships with other businesses and its effect will go much further than the football field or basketball court. "It's going to have a profound effect. A business wants to do business with a company that is successful. Adidas would have never come to table if we didn't have anything to offer," he said. "We have a national company like adidas partnering with Grambling and that opens the door for others to do business with us. They see us doing business the right way. "President Gallot, it started with his vision, and it just trickles down from there. It's going to benefit the entire institution."	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755415
__label__wiki	0.827766	0.827766	Why Utah doctors are hesitant to recommend medical marijuana, even though it is now legal (Jeff Chiu \| The Associated Press) In this June 21, 2018, file photo, a laboratory manager holds a cannabis sample in Oakland, Calif. Oklahoma health officials on Friday, July 27, 2018, released new proposed medical marijuana rules that remove some of the most controversial provisions, including a ban on the sale of smokable pot and a requirement that female patients get a pregnancy test. The original rules approved by the board earlier this month prompted outrage from medical marijuana supporters who said they went too far. By Bethany Rodgers · Published: December 24, 2018 David Parault visited his doctor earlier this month resolved to put it all on the table. He explained how earlier in the year, he’d conducted a self-designed “case study” with THC-laced mints to soothe his chronic neck and back pain. The cannabis had not only blunted the ache but lifted him out of an extended depression. For the first time in years, he’d gone for a jog. The interaction with the doctor seemed to be going well, he said. Then Parault reached the crux of the conversation — he asked for a medical cannabis recommendation. “That’s when things went really south,” Parault, 36, of West Valley City, said. The state’s medical marijuana law, passed by lawmakers earlier this month, empowers physicians to suggest cannabis treatments for a specific array of maladies, even now, well before medical marijuana is sold in the state. Utah patients can then use these physician recommendations to ward off criminal conviction, provided they carry a limited amount of cannabis in a medicinal form. But Parault’s physician said he had no protocol to deal with his patient’s request. He left the room to consult with a colleague and returned even more resolute. "He said he will not associate his name with anything medical marijuana," Parault said. Crafters of Utah’s new cannabis measure have touted its immediate payoff. Even though it could be a couple years before the first medical cannabis pharmacy opens in Utah, the new law decriminalizes the use of medical marijuana in certain cases with the supervision of a doctor, the legislation’s writers have said. But in the past few weeks, some patients have stepped forward to say their doctors are unwilling to venture into this new frontier. Intermountain Healthcare, Utah’s largest provider, is working on medical cannabis guidelines for its roughly 1,500 physicians but for now is telling its physicians to not give patients letters of recommendation. There are "too many unknown details at this point for these letters to be provided to patients, and the law does not go into effect until July 2019,” Mark Briesacher, Intermountain’s chief physician executive, wrote in the memo. (The law actually took effect earlier this month immediately after Gov. Gary Herbert signed it). Briesacher advised providers to tell patients that “most prescribing practitioners are waiting for more information and guidance before providing certified written letters” and that Intermountain is looking to state agencies for more clarity and guidance about the letters and physician training on medical cannabis. University of Utah Health is in a similar holding pattern. And a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs said as long as marijuana is illegal under federal law, V.A. doctors are “not able to prescribe it.” Connor Boyack, who was a central figure in designing Utah’s new cannabis law, said the newfound medical marijuana program would be stuck in neutral without buy-in from the state’s health-care professionals. “I’ve been hearing doctors have been very much in the Wild West, just dealing with patients and being inundated with requests,” Boyack, founder of the Libertarian think tank Libertas Institute, said. “This program is vulnerable if physicians are uninformed or unwilling to participate, so our hope and expectation is everyone in a position of knowledge can be part of the education process.” Andrew Talbott, a pain management specialist who has worked with medical cannabis advocates, estimated Friday that he’s issued recommendation letters for about 120 patients so far. There is no legal limit to the number of recommendation letters physicians can write at this point, as the state is pulling together its cannabis program. After the program is implemented, general practitioners will only be permitted to recommend cannabis to 175 patients at a time, while specialists will be capped at 300 cannabis patients. For now, Talbott has designed a form letter stating that he believes the patient in question suffers from a qualifying condition listed in the state law and would benefit from use of medical cannabis. While Talbott said he’s studied the substance, many other doctors are still “in the cannabis closet.” “I think there’s still a lot of reservations at this point in time from physicians because we don’t know what the program is going to look like,” said Talbott, who serves on the board of Together for Responsible Use and Cannabis Education. That reluctance puts Parault in a difficult position. Afraid of being arrested or losing his job, Parault stopped using medical cannabis months ago, and the intense pain he’s experienced for about 20 years — since a large piece of lumber slammed against the back of his head — has been creeping back into his life. Parault isn’t convinced getting a recommendation letter will make it completely safe to use cannabis in Utah, but it’s a step in the right direction, he said. “At least with a physician, I could say, ‘Look, I’m not a junkie. I’m not a criminal. I just find relief through this medication,'" he said. Medical marijuana advocates have warned that how law enforcement deals with the new law could vary from agency to agency and have advised patients to consult with their local departments. The Utah Highway Patrol has released a new training bulletin instructing troopers not to detain or cite people for carrying cannabis if they have a physician’s written recommendation and otherwise appear to be following the new medical marijuana law. The legal protection afforded by the law only covers patients with specific qualifying conditions, including HIV, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, post-traumatic stress disorder, autism and pain that is unresponsive to other treatments. A University of Utah Health spokeswoman said it will likely be a few months before its cannabis guidelines are released, and patient Chirine Touati says her U. clinic is not willing to suggest medical marijuana at this point. Touati, who suffers from multiple sclerosis and uses cannabis to manage the symptoms, emailed her neurologists earlier this month to ask them about writing her a letter of recommendation. The clinic’s response: “At this time our providers are not prescribing nor recommending the use of medical marijuana for our patient population. There have been no clinical studies to document the safety or efficacy of this substance. For this reason, we would not be able to recommend a specific product or dose, or be able to advise on what to expect regarding effect or side effects,” a nurse wrote in the email, a copy of which Touati shared with The Salt Lake Tribune. Touati, 40, of Orem, said she generally likes her health care providers at the U. and doesn’t intend to go “doctor shopping” to find a more cannabis-friendly physician. Her plan is to continue using medical marijuana without a recommendation letter. Meanwhile, the U. is working "as quickly as we can” on developing an approach to cannabis, a spokeswoman said. “Because of the complexity of this issue, we must consider many factors, including the health and well-being of our patients, the best approaches for our faculty and staff. Further, we must be sure that we’re compliant with state and federal laws,” Julie Kiefer, manager of science communications at University of Utah Health, wrote in an email. John Macfarlane, a neurosurgeon affiliated with Intermountain, said he’s open to exploring cannabis treatments for his patients but was unaware that the new law allowed physicians to issue recommendations now. Because of his speciality, Macfarlane doesn't expect he'll deal often in the world of medical cannabis, but he said he'd consider topical creams and oils for patients dealing with neck and back pain. “I think that the alternatives to opioids need to be completely explored,” he said. “I don’t have experience with cannabis, but I’ve had patients coming to me from going to Colorado or somewhere else getting cannabis edibles or oils, and they say in some cases their opioid use has been diminished and their pain.” Some doctors, such as Court Empey, are still trying to get their ducks in a row before pointing patients toward cannabis treatments. Empey, a pain specialist based in St. George, said he’s already had patients ask for recommendations but he hasn’t yet written any. Since the law’s passage, he’s wanted to confirm that suggesting cannabis won’t run afoul of his medical malpractice insurance (it won’t, he learned). And now, he’s looking for some continuing education courses that will teach him and the other providers in his practice about medical cannabis. Empey said he’s grateful that Utah health-care practitioners have another option at their disposal, but he wants to make sure they’re recommending it in the right cases. Physicians “obviously carry a lot of the blame and responsibility for this opioid crisis, and we don’t want to start another problem with cannabis,” he said. The state’s new cannabis law does require qualifying providers to complete four hours of education for starters, but Boyack said that mandate doesn’t kick in until later on, when the full program is up and running. A spokesman for the Utah Medical Association said the organization will help connect health providers with training on medical cannabis. But even for patients whose doctors are willing to recommend cannabis, the anxiety attached to carrying the substance doesn’t evaporate. Carrie Nazzise of Draper said her physician has researched medicinal cannabis and feels comfortable recommending it for certain conditions. Nazzise, 31, who has multiple sclerosis, said she first tried cannabis more than a year ago during a trip to Colorado with her husband and has since returned every few months for a treatment. For about a day at a time, she’s able to walk without a cane, and she can use her hands again to do the things she loves — sew, crochet, play the piano. If cannabis were available to her in Utah, she believes she might be able to hold a job again. She plans to ask her physician for a letter of recommendation over the next month or so, but she doesn’t view it as a bulletproof shield. “I’m still a little shaky about how much protection it actually affords, just because [cannabis] is still federally illegal,” she said. “I feel like there’s a lot of gray area that I’m not 100 percent confident in, but at the same time, I don’t want to be in pain every day.” brodgers@sltrib.com twitter Follow @BethRodgersSLT By Alanna Durkin Richer \| The Associated Press • 3m ago By Jeanette Rusk Sefcik \| Special to The Tribune • 7m ago Utah homeless service providers put out call for volunteers ahead of big move to three new resource centers By Bethany Rodgers • 19m ago	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755418
__label__wiki	0.973342	0.973342	Climate hope in China coal turnaround: Ross Garnaut By Tom Arup and environment editor Updated August 26, 2014 — 12.39pm first published at 12.15am The international goal of halting global warming at 2 degrees is now within reach because China has slowed the growth of its coal use, despite continuing to economically develop, climate policy expert Ross Garnaut says. In a speech at the University of Melbourne on Monday night, Professor Garnaut said the fall in the emissions intensity of Chinese economic growth was the result of new development policies pursued by Beijing over the past six years, which could serve as a model for other developing nations. Through United Nations' negotiations, countries, including China and Australia, have agreed to limit global warming to 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels, which scientists believe would avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Countries will meet in Paris next year to try reach a new global agreement to help meet this goal. China is the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases. It released 9.8 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2012, almost double that of the United States. Chinese emissions have grown dramatically since 2000, largely driven by increased coal burning for power and industrial production as the country economically expanded. China was responsible for 86 per cent of the world's increase in coal consumption between 1990 and 2011. Professor Garnaut, a former Australian ambassador to China and the author of two climate reviews for the Rudd-Gillard governments, told Fairfax Media before his speech: "If the pattern of Chinese economic growth had continued along the path of 2000 to 2011, then the 2 degrees goal would have been beyond reach. "The possibility of China's emissions peaking by 2020 is of immense importance to the 2 degrees objective in itself, and has the potential to change the discussion of mitigation in other countries." Data since 2011 has shown a slowing in the growth of Chinese coal consumption, in particular to generate power. While coal-fired power still dominates China's energy mix, gas, nuclear and renewable-energy sources are projected to rise at much higher rates, albeit from lower bases. Professor Garnaut projected Chinese use of coal for power production would fall on average by 0.1 per cent a year between 2013 and 2020. "After the growth of 11 per cent per annum in coal use in power generation in the first 11 years of the century, this is a turnaround of historic dimension and global importance," he said. He said the breaking of the coal-dominated growth model occurred as Chinese economic policy switched late last decade to encourage less investment and more consumption, particularly of services, and to increase productivity in the use of resources and energy consumption. Reinforcing these broader economic changes were environmental pressures, Professor Garnaut said, including the need to address crippling air pollution choking major Chinese cities. Through international talks, China has so far committed to cutting the carbon intensity of its economy by 40 per cent to 45 per cent by 2020, which allows Chinese emissions to keep rising but at a slower rate than previously projected. Professor Garnaut said China should now feel confident committing to holding emissions from electricity generation at levels no higher than the peak before 2015. And he said further study would likely show it would be prudent for China to have its overall emissions reach a peak by 2020. But it is crucial for the global effort to stop climate change that Australia and other countries respond to the developments in China with ambitious extensions of their own efforts to cut emissions, he said. Most Viewed in Environment	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755420
__label__wiki	0.588048	0.588048	West Coast Clean Transit Corridor Initiative For Immediate Release: April 18, 2019 West Coast power providers explore EV charging for zero-emission shipping along I-5, connecting routes Utilities, municipalities say creating infrastructure for electric trucks along the corridor will improve air quality, health in the communities they serve In California, the transportation sector accounts for nearly 80% of the state’s air pollution and more than 40% of all greenhouse gas emissions. Washington and Oregon face similar environmental challenges, transportation being the largest contributor to air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions in those states as well. Today, electricity providers in the three West Coast states announced that they are working on a solution to significantly curb those harmful emissions. Nine electric utilities and two agencies representing more than two dozen municipal utilities are sponsoring the West Coast Clean Transit Corridor Initiative, a study to determine how best to ensure that Interstate 5 — a lifeline of goods transportation that extends more than 1,300 miles from the Canadian to the Mexican border — is equipped with sufficient charging to support electric long-haul trucks. “Many of the utilities represented in this partnership have programs to support charging electric vehicles that travel within our own territories, but for extended shipping and long-haul trucks, we need solutions that we can apply across utility territories,” said Caroline Choi, senior vice president of Corporate Affairs for Edison International and Southern California Edison, one of the utilities sponsoring the study. The study will explore how best to provide EV charging on I-5 and its connecting routes for medium- and heavy-duty electric trucks that are being introduced by several major vehicle manufacturers, as well as to help determine what role electricity providers can play in electrifying the corridor. Key locations for electric truck charging infrastructure will also be identified and prioritized. “Big challenges require bold and collaborative solutions, and climate change is such a challenge,” said Emeka Anyanwu, Energy Innovation & Resources officer for Seattle City Light, another study sponsor. “So, it is exciting to see such the wide range of experience and diversity of thinking from our various utilities being brought to bear to tackle such a critical issue.” Other initiative sponsors are Los Angeles Department of Water & Power, Northern California Power Agency, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Pacific Power, Portland General Electric, Puget Sound Energy, Sacramento Municipal Utility District, San Diego Gas & Electric and Southern California Public Power Authority. “Well-planned electric charging infrastructure along I-5 is important to our region,” said Scott Bolton, senior vice president of External Affairs for Pacific Power. “The I-5 corridor is the economic backbone for transporting essential goods and services to our Oregon, Washington and California customers. We see investments in transportation electrification and electric charging infrastructure as a great way to support the economic vitality and environmental quality of communities along the corridor.” “It’s these types of opportunities that continue to push us toward a more sustainable future,” said Bill Boyce manager of Electric Transportation for the Sacramento Municipal Utility District. “We are proud to partner on a local, regional and national level to reduce emissions from vehicles, and this effort to electrify our trade corridors will have significant benefits to the communities we serve.” Those benefits include improved health. Data shows that people who live near truck-traffic corridors experience higher rates of asthma, lung and heart disease, and chronic bronchitis due largely to breathing toxic vehicle emissions, specifically diesel particulate matter. “We are coming together on a regional level and taking the lead, working across state, county and city lines to take a significant step to address air pollution and climate change,” said Dave Robertson, vice president of Public Policy at Portland General Electric. “By ensuring customers involved in electric truck technology can expect a consistent and reliable experience up and down I-5 and its connected major arteries, we can accelerate a future where all-electric big rigs haul freight without polluting our communities.” The study is expected to be concluded by year’s end, with implementation of recommendations expected to begin as soon as next year.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755421
__label__cc	0.629909	0.370091	SOFITEC SIGNS A 45 M€ CONTRACT WITH PREMIUM AEROTEC The company has become the German giant’s sole Spanish supplier of composites Sofitec has just confirmed Premium AEROTEC’s awarding of a contract associated with the A350XWB programme and its 900 and 1000 versions. The German company is one of the main Tier1 in the development and manufacturing of structures and systems for the aeronautical sector worldwide. The group is the leading European aeronautical supplier for Airbus’s entire range of commercial and military aircrafts. Premium AEROTEC, founded as an independent company in 2009, is made up of EADS Augsburg, Airbus Norderham and Varel and is a key agent in reference programmes such as A350 XWB, B787 Dreamliner, Eurofighter and A400M. info about Premium AEROTEC: http://www.premium-aerotec.com The agreement with premium AEROTEC, valued at 45 million euro, means the supply of the A350XWB’s fuselage structural parts in composite materials. This is one of the European consortium Airbus’s main programmes and 180 firm orders have already been placed. The company has started the process of industrialization and plans a gradual delivery of the first goods between January and March 2017. This is how Sofitec secures its place among the few specialised suppliers in the manufacturing of composites for the aeronautical sector. This new workload translates into a crucial step to secure the growth path previewed by the company until 2020, as well as into a new milestone in the expansion of its international client portfolio. As CEO José Miguel Hernández stated, “the new contract shows not only the achievement of the entire team that makes up Sofitec, but also the challenge of what can be accomplished.“ SOFITEC EXPANDS THEIR DEVELOPMENT OF... Sofitec buys 70,000 m2 next to their projected facilities in Carmona with the idea to expand... NEW CONTRACT WITH STELIA AEROSPACE Stelia Aerospace, one of the most important global Tier 1, has awarded a contract to Sofitec for... SOFITEC’S SECOND AUTOCLAVE AND FIRST COMPOSITE... With the implemetation of this equipment, the company has increased its composite production...	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755422
__label__cc	0.545581	0.454419	Our world is changing. There is overwhelming consensus within the scientific community that human activity is causing our climate to change at a rapid and unnatural rate. Climate change is impacting life across the globe and we don't have to look far to see its effects. In the UK we have witnessed extremes in weather over recent years. Worldwide numerous weather events have been linked to climate change. This infographic shows visually some of the effects. Globally temperatures were the warmest on record in 2015, breaking the records set in 2014 and surpassing Met Office expectations. But 2016 has now surpassed even these temperatures to set the new record. Our earth is surrounded by a natural mixture of gases that shape our climate and weather patterns. These gases trap the right amount of heat inside the atmosphere to shape the environmental conditions necessary to sustain life on the planet. Around 100 years ago, humans began burning large quantities of fossil fuels such as petrol, oil and coal, to produce energy. These fuels are now essential for everything we need including light, heat, transport and most of the products we use daily. The problem is that when we burn these fuels, we release greenhouse gases (GHGs) such as carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (NO) into the atmosphere. We currently emit around 30 billion tonnes of GHGs each year from human activities. The result of adding such a large volume of GHGs is that more and more heat is trapped in the atmosphere. What action is being taken on climate change? At the Paris Summit in 2015 almost 200 nations agreed to limit global warming to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels. This is because the scientific evidence shows that above this point changes inthe climate could be irriversable. Since the climate doesn't respond immediately to changes in atmospheric gas concentrations, we are currently experiencing climatic changes as a result of previous decades' emissions. To prevent harmful and destructive climate change in the future, we need to act now to reduce our emissions. Most countries' governments have now begun to implement frameworks to reduce their emissions. The UK Government has committed to reduce our emissions by 80% by 2050 (from a 1990 level) and sets out the strategy to achieve this in The Carbon Plan. What is the Council doing? The Council have been taking action to reduce emissions for many years. In 2006, St Albans City and District Council declared our commitment to tackling climate change by signing the Nottingham Declaration on Climate Change. As part of this we set ourselves a challenging target to reduce emissions across the District by 3% every year from the 2006 level, to achieve a 60% reduction by 2025. We put in place a plan of action to achieve greenhouse gas emissions reductions across the District and within our own buildings, operations and services. In 2016 we have reaffirmed our commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to future impacts of climate change. Our Climate Change Action Plan sets out the actions we are taking within our work as estate manager, community leader and service provider. You can also find out what progress we've made over the last year here. The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) publishes area-wide greenhouse gas emissions data each year. Overall emissions decreased by 28% between 2005 and 2016 which means that we met our annual 3% reduction target for these years. 2017-2019 Climate Change Action Plan (PDF - 130 kb) 2016 Climate Change Action Plan Progress Report (PDF - 259 kb) 2018 District Wide CO2 Emissions Figures.pdf (PDF - 456 kb) We continue to play an active role in initiatives to reduce emissions both from our own operations and across the District. Find out more by following the links below. Energy - Our approach to reducing domestic energy consumption across the District is set out in our 2017-2019 Home Energy Conservation Plan. You can also find our most recent Progress Report here. Transport - We work with Hertfordshire County Council and local transport providers to improve local public transport services and infrastructure. Over previous years a number of projects have been completed including the provision of real-time bus information at bus stops, updated bus route maps, purchase of two hybrid buses and the introduction of multi-operator bus tickets. Find out more at our transport pages here. Internal - We are working to reduce emissions from our own energy and transport use, as well as from our largest contractors. Our latest Greenhouse Gas Emissions Report shows that we have reduced our overall emissions by 19% between 2008 and 2018, having made significant improvements to our buildings, including the redevelopment of three of our leisure centres to high environmental standards. Find out more about what the Council is doing to reduce it's own impacts here. 2017-19 Home Energy Conservation Act (HECA) Plan (PDF - 141 kb) 2016-17 HECA Progress Report (PDF - 252 kb) Ultimately we can't achieve this target on our own. We need residents and businesses to play their part in reducing their own emissions. There are many ways that you can help, from simple lifestyle changes, to home improvements, which could save you money. Reduce your energy consumption Generate your own renewable energy Date of last review: 09 October 2018	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755424
__label__wiki	0.888686	0.888686	Northrop Grumman Awarded Recapitalization Contract to Provide Continuous Secure Communication in Polar Region U.S. Air Force’s Authority to Proceed builds on recent successful EPS-CAPS delivery and performance REDONDO BEACH, CA (STL.News) – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) has been awarded an $82 million contract by the U.S. Air Force to facilitate military satellite communications in the Earth’s north polar region through its Enhanced Polar System Recapitalization (EPS-R) Control and Planning Segment (CAPS) program. Northrop Grumman is the provider for all three major components of the EPS-R CAPS program demonstrating the company’s industry-leading end-to-end capabilities. The U.S. Air Force’s EPS provides secure, jam-resistant satellite communications coverage to forces in the North Polar Region (above 65 degrees north latitude) in support of national objectives. CAPS is a next-generation ground system that receives telemetry and supplies configuration commands, mission planning and cryptographic planning for the EPS and EPS-R polar-orbiting payloads. Northrop Grumman successfully developed, built and delivered the EPS CAPS for the U.S. Air Force Military Satellite Communications Systems Directorate (MILSATCOM) on a previous contract. The Authority to Proceed granted by this contract award includes the development of software for the EPS-R CAPS taking the program from requirements analysis to test and delivery. The contract also addresses international host accommodations provided by Space Norway for new out of band link functions, cyber architecture, orbit planning, and the capability for controlling two additional EPS-R Payloads on a single software baseline in addition to the two existing EPS Payloads. “Northrop Grumman is committed to delivering the critical ground segment technologies that support the important mission of U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Command,” said Rob Fleming, vice president, strategic force programs, Northrop Grumman. “We demonstrate through this contract and in close collaboration with Space and Missile Command that existing ground design and software can be successfully modified to support new and advancing mission requirements, an important strategic priority for our customer.” Work will be performed in Redondo Beach, California and Colorado Springs, Colorado, and is expected to be completed by September 30, 2023. Tags: business news, North Pole, Northrop Grumman Business News: Entergy Powers Arkansas Communities with nearly $264,000 in grants CFTC Issues Social Media Customer Protection Advisory	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755428
__label__wiki	0.765184	0.765184	April 1, 1999 / Second Quarter 1999 / Issue 15 (originally published by Booz & Company) MACH 3: Anatomy of Gillette's Latest Global Launch Can a consumer product be launched globally in a short time? It can if sufficient resources and time are allocated to planning the effort. by Glenn Rifkin In May 1994, months before the Gillette Company first shipped its hugely successful Sensor Excel razor in the United States, marketing plans were already under way for the product that would succeed the Sensor Excel. That month, four Gillette marketing executives met with B.B.D.O., the firm's advertising agency, to set the marketing agenda for a new razor that would render Sensor Excel all but obsolete. That new razor, which would later be named Mach 3, was introduced with all the attendant fanfare in the summer of 1998. At Gillette, there is no such concept as getting ahead of oneself. New products go on the drawing board as much as a decade before they are introduced, and it is a safe bet that even as Mach 3 was hitting retail store shelves, Mach 4 or Mach Excel or whatever the company calls its next breakthrough razor was well along in its development cycle. When it comes to blades and razors, Gillette is not content with merely having an innovative product. The company has also turned marketing into a quantitative science, pouring time and resources into marketing plans that are almost military in their precision and implementation. The Mach 3 shaving system, a blend of leading-edge technology and relentless consumer testing, took seven years and $750 million to develop. The first industrial design of the sleek new razor existed in 1993. The product was named two full years before it was first shipped, and the efforts were so secretive that the directors, including billionaire and major shareholder Warren E. Buffett, were not allowed to see the product until nine months before its launch. Gillette has poured another $300 million into marketing the new product -making Mach 3 the world's only billion-dollar razor -and the results are already off the chart. Sales of the Mach 3 have far surpassed Sensor and Sensor Excel, which both dominated the market in their day and have exceeded even Gillette's lofty expectations. Despite the skepticism of some in the financial press, who felt the new razor was gimmicky and too expensive, in just six months Mach 3 has become the top-selling razor and blade in North America and Europe. If success can be choreographed, Gillette has done it. No other company takes shaving as seriously as Gillette. The $10.1 billion Boston-based consumer products giant also sells Duracell batteries, Braun appliances and Parker pens. But blades and razors are the bedrock of Gillette's indomitable global brand. Like other great marketers, Gillette simply knows its customers better than its competitors do. It tests, measures and rates products and preferences ceaselessly around the world. When an Italian man or an Australian woman performs his or her morning ablutions, Gillette has a pretty good idea of what razor will be used and why. The company has parlayed its laserlike focus on its marketplace, and its unmatched ability to forecast what men and women will buy, into a 72 percent market share in both the United States and Europe. This dominance is born from a relentless pursuit of better shaving technologies, a willingness to invest whatever is needed to manufacture its products effectively, and a formulaic, integrated marketing strategy that works everywhere. The Shaving Legacy Ever since 1901, when King Camp Gillette invented the safety razor, Gillette has built a corporate culture around finding better, more lucrative ways to remove unwanted hair from human beings. For much of this century, Gillette was as much a part of the American lifestyle as Campbell Soup and Coca-Cola. The first televised baseball game in 1939 featured ads for Gillette razors. In 1971, Gillette shook up the shaving marketplace when it introduced Trac II, the first twin-blade razor with two parallel blade edges housed in a single cartridge. With Atra in 1977, Gillette increased performance and pressed its "comfort and closeness" mantra with an innovative pivoting head. And in the same time period, Gillette, mired in a new battle of disposable razors with the likes of Bic, unveiled the Good News, the first twin-bladed disposable. By the mid-1980's, with disposable razors taking up a whopping 50 percent of the market, Gillette executives decided to break out of what they saw as a dead-end strategy. With disposables, the razor had become a commodity, and the buying decision was based solely on price and convenience. For a company like Gillette, this was a debilitating situation. Gillette needed a differentiator, a product upon which the brand could be elevated and market share substantially increased. So rather than compete on the existing playing field, Gillette simply created a new category, the shaving system, and took control of it while at the same time eroding the market share of the disposables category. In 1990, after 10 years of research and development, Gillette introduced its Sensor twin-bladed shaving system. As with Trac II and Atra, the blade cartridges were disposable. But there was more. With blades mounted on springs that allowed the razor to adjust to a man's face as he shaved, Sensor raised the shaving bar to new heights. The shave really was better -significantly better. The design not only produced markedly closer shaves but also brought Gillette out of the disposables morass and back into an indisputable leadership position. But Gillette never rests on its laurels. If two blades could produce a close shave, what might three blades do? For much of this decade, scientists at Gillette's research lab in Reading, England, studied metallurgy, skin and hair and came up with new blade edges -the first since the 1960's -designed to allow men to shave with less force and feel less irritation. In order to insure that consumers would not simply scoff at three blades as a marketing gimmick, the shave had to be demonstrably better. "What you need when you go to the board and ask for $750 million in development money is a product that can't fail," said William J. Flynn, the business director of blades and razors at Gillette. "It has to be preferable to what the customer is currently using." Like other great marketing companies, Gillette acknowledges that product quality is the core value proposition around which everything else swirls. "If you have a significantly and demonstrably superior product or service, it really is quite meaningful," said Benson P. Shapiro, a marketing consultant in Concord, Mass. "Procter & Gamble has traded on this for years. When they introduce a new and improved product, it really is new and improved. It really solves a personal problem. What Gillette has done is develop a new technology that worked. The tougher task is getting people to try it." Indeed, many superior technologies have slipped away, unnoticed and unrewarded, in the history of consumer products. At Gillette, gaining consumers' share of mind is an art form. Getting them to try a new product and offering a "reason to believe" has never been better orchestrated than with Mach 3. The first and most important step is creating a clear value proposition for the consumer. For the Mach 3, the value proposition had to be compelling, succinct and easily understood by a vast consumer base around the world. Like everything else in the development process, it was a painstaking endeavor. Indeed, the value statement took two full years, countless meetings and innumerable focus groups to write. The value had to be there for a wide cross section of shavers, from the serious system user to the disposables user. It had to work for the blue-collar worker in Des Moines as well as the executive in Milan. Having tested the product with thousands of men, Gillette knew what mattered. Shaving evokes certain key reactions in men: It is time-consuming, irritating and often unpleasant. Not surprisingly, men around the world crave the same thing: a close, clean, comfortable shave without nicks and cuts. Most men, Mr. Flynn said, take between 100 and 500 strokes when they shave, often going over the same area again and again. So a bridge was needed to get from the idea of a close shave to a less irritating shave. Add to that mix the disposables user, who values the quickness of a shave, and the value proposition emerged: The Mach 3 offers "the closest shave ever in fewer strokes -with less irritation." What sounds so simple and obvious was a "Eureka" revelation inside Gillette. With this statement, all marketing efforts would have a common foundation upon which to build. Gillette could not only woo its own Sensor Excel customers to move up, but also grab market share among disposables users. "If you don't put it into language that gives a promise of something better, people won't try it," Mr. Flynn said. "But if you can create an appeal that gets them to try the product, the product will sell itself." Gillette's vaunted marketing machine is actually the sum of many parts, all tied inextricably together by time-honored traditions within the company. The Horizon Committee, for example, is chartered to capture the future, looking five to 20 years ahead for what the hair removal experience is likely to be. Even today, Gillette is looking beyond wet shaving to lasers and other forms of technology for potential products. The Mach 3 group, code-named the 225 Task Force, worked for five full years in concert with R&D to produce and orchestrate the introduction of the new product. They concentrated as much on creating a great new brand as developing a great new product. The five years were characterized by ceaseless product improvement, constant consumer testing around the world and, eventually, creation of a marketing strategy to not only press the new value proposition but also substantiate the claims. To Gillette's chief executive, Alfred M. Zeien, the company looks at the world "as one nation," and global product positioning is de rigueur. By mid-1996, under John Darman, vice president of business management for male shaving, the task force began to pull together specific plans for a global introduction. With Mach 3, Gillette had a distinct advantage; the company had essentially been there before. The company's experience with both the Sensor and the Sensor Excel had created a template for the manufacturing and global marketing and promotion of a shaving system. Sensor had been so successful that it had turned the company's earnings around and set off a string of 32 straight profitable quarters at Gillette. The lessons were clear: Because the product would probably take off immediately, manufacturing had to insure that it had enough capacity to avoid shortages at the outset. To facilitate a smooth global introduction, all packaging, point of sale and other promotional and support material had to be the same, simply translated into 30 languages for other geographies. In the same vein, all marketing and advertising was based on a single campaign that was released in every market, again with minor local adjustments and translations. Pricing needed a built-in elasticity, but by carefully testing the concept with consumers, Gillette fixed a profitable price point based on the expected number of blades per user per year. The plans needed to be thorough, coordinated and highly secretive. Early on, Mr. Darman brought executives from Gillette's satellite offices around the world together with B.B.D.O. executives. B.B.D.O., the company's agency since 1988, had come up with the signature descriptor "Gillette: the Best a Man Can Get" in the late 1980's and had been an integral part of the development team on Sensor and Mach 3. Like a military strike, a global introduction had to be carefully planned and orchestrated to be successful. Gillette had introduced Sensor in all of its markets in just 18 months. But Mach 3 would be completely introduced around the planet in under one year. The new product would be introduced in North America in July 1998, in Europe and Russia on Sept. 1, in Japan in February 1999 and in the rest of Asia, Latin America and Australia by mid-year. "We want to accelerate sales and profit growth," Mr. Flynn said. "A global launch is the means to do that." The faster the product is in the market globally, the faster existing Gillette customers will trade up to the new product and the faster new users will be drawn from competitors. Such quick-strike thinking not only leads to better financial results, adds Mr. Shapiro, a former Harvard Business School marketing professor, but prevents competitors from thwarting Gillette's efforts in remote markets before the product is shipped. The naming process began in July 1995, three years before the rollout. B.B.D.O.'s computers yielded such suggestions as Vector, Synchro and Triad. But the eventual name had to work as well in Germany and Latin America as it did in North America. Thousands of one-on-one interviews around the world with consumers confirmed that the name Mach 3 would fly. Keeping it a secret became a C.I.A.-like operation, with all executives required to sign confidentiality agreements -telling spouses was strictly verboten -and no one was exempt. By 1996, specific plans started to come together. The task force drew up advertising budgets, capital costs, sampling costs and formulas for achieving more profit per user per year. In this manner, the strategic business plans for 1997 and eventually 1998 were written. Gillette has always carefully tracked blade usage. With the Atra razor, men used an average of 30 to 32 blades a year. The number dropped to the high 20's with Sensor, and, because of its superior performance, the number is expected to drop even more for Mach 3. Based on these estimates, the company set out pricing strategies. Because of the success of Sensor, which had been priced at a 25 percent premium over the previous offering, Gillette was extremely aggressive in its pricing for Mach 3. Mach 3 was priced 35 percent higher than Sensor Excel -at $6.49 to $6.99 for the razor and a similar increase for blades -and again, consumers did not blink. "In our consumer-use test study, we asked questions about what they'd pay," Mr. Flynn said. "As we increased the price, their preference actually improved. That was the first time we'd ever seen that happen." To orchestrate the product unveiling successfully, Gillette followed strict guidelines about all advertising, marketing and promotion. Everything from packaging to point-of-sale displays to retail sales guidelines was created with a single audience in mind rather than individual geographies. Thus, all packaging, point-of-sale displays and support material are the same around the world. The color scheme, an aqua green, and all typefaces and design elements are also the same. Mach 3 packages from Spain, Germany, Britain and Italy are identical except for the language on the package. The company purposely keeps the number of words on the front of the package to a minimum to avoid the need for design alterations to the packaging. Gillette also knows its markets intimately. For countries like Italy and Spain, where many stores are small, Gillette created a special display for the Mach 3. More than 100,000 of these displays were sold in the first six months after the premiere. Even the television and radio advertising is the same. A single Mach 3 television commercial is being used in all countries. Though some local production had to be done in certain markets, the commercial is essentially the same everywhere -male models have to have faces that are "acceptable" in all regions. By creating a single look and feel to the entire global campaign, the Mach 3 achieved a branded look almost instantaneously. A believer in big-budget advertising, Gillette seeks to surround the consumer with its message, embracing every medium, from television to billboards to the Internet. It stepped up its public relations efforts for Mach 3 and received 10 times as many mentions in the media, called share of voice, for the product rollout as it had for Sensor. Gillette tracks the media as closely as it tracks its customers. Mr. Flynn described a visit to Spain shortly after the Mach 3 inauguration. He was walking in Madrid where Mach 3 billboard ads dominated the sidewalk. He walked into a drugstore and was met immediately with the Mach 3 display, which mirrored the sidewalk advertising. And almost as if on cue, a radio commercial for the razor came on over the store's speakers. "It really told me why the brand is doing so well in all markets," he said. Mr. Flynn points out that the Mach 3 will be "advertising driven" for its first two years and then, as the product becomes entrenched in the marketplace, advertising efforts will slow while a sampling campaign commences. He points out that 75 percent of Mach 3 sales go to Sensor Excel users who are moving up to the new product. To win over disposable users, sampling is crucial. "Sampling is extremely effective," Mr. Flynn said. "I was the marketing manager for Sensor Excel, and I went to a focus group in New Jersey. One guy admitted that he was a system user, but he had been a hardcore disposable user until he got a Sensor in the mail. We'd have never gotten that user otherwise." Another Winner By early 1999, Gillette could safely declare victory. Mach 3 simply blew away the skeptics and became the type of whirlwind success that product developers and marketers dream about. The Mach 3 has easily supplanted the Sensor Excel as the No. 1 brand on the market. In fact, said Mr. Flynn, it took Sensor two years to reach the sales level that Mach 3 achieved in six months. In the United States alone, Mach 3 razors have outsold Sensor four to one compared with Sensor's first six months on the market and outsold Sensor blades three to one. Mach 3 razors brought in $60 million in the first six months, compared with $15 million in Sensor sales during its first six months. Mach 3 blades generated $68 million in sales in its first six months; Sensor blades brought in just $20 million in its first six months. Mach 3 razors already have a 15 percent market share in the United States and as much as 17 percent in Italy. (See Exhibit I.) It took Sensor two full years to reach that market share. Gillette is happy but hardly satisfied. The company expects a 20 percent to 30 percent market share for Mach 3 razors and blades over the next two years as it sells more than a billion blades annually around the world. And though it is closemouthed about future products, there is little doubt that Gillette sees an opportunity to move Mach 3 into the women's market, much as it did with Sensor. If and when Gillette introduces a women's Mach 3, it will undoubtedly be with a blitzkrieg approach. In a competitive global economy, Mr. Shapiro said, Gillette understands that every consumer it can get to try a new product sooner is one less customer who is likely to get away. The European Campaign Gillette's ability to introduce its new products globally is built upon best practices gleaned from decades of experience, particularly with its highly successful Sensor razor products. From Sensor to the new Mach 3, Gillette has initiated rollouts with remarkable success. But despite the almost military precision with which Gillette attacks the global marketplace, there are issues specific to certain geographies that require careful planning. William J. Flynn, business director of blades and razors for Gillette, talked with Glenn Rifkin about unveiling Mach 3 in Europe. S&B: You actually launched the Sensor Excel, Mach 3's predecessor, in Europe before North America. And then you did just the opposite with the Mach 3 launch. Why? William Flynn: We went into Europe with Sensor Excel first because Europe is a bigger market than the U.S. It's about 20 percent bigger, in fact. At that point in time, 1991, we looked at the economy in Europe, which was lagging and not as bullish as the U.S., and felt the market there needed a shot in the arm. We needed to get some energy going and thought launching there first would do that while at the same time demonstrate that we are an international company. With Mach 3, we wanted to launch in July 1998, but realized that August is not the greatest time to advertise in Europe. Everyone is out at their summer homes. In truth, the time factor was not that significant. We launched in Europe two months later. S&B: How do you evaluate each individual market? William Flynn: We look with great detail at each market. We know that the primary growth driver is the media, so we have to make sure we are spending our money wisely. Where is the greatest opportunity for profit growth? What does the competitive environment look like? We create a media spending model that is predicated on things such as profit by country, share of voice, trade-up potential, incremental profit above the competition. We do this in 17 markets in Europe. When we launched Sensor, we created the Sensor Derivation Model, which was essentially how much money we spent and what share of voice we achieved. So with Mach 3, if we replicated the Sensor launch, what would it look like? How would it play out? S&B: What did that model tell you with the Mach 3 launch? How do you build share of voice? William Flynn: For example, we knew that we spent more in Italy than Germany. The Italian market is much more devoted to disposable razors, so we had to concentrate more media in Italy. All this helps create the final plan. And we had to lay on top of that new elements for the Mach 3 program. With Sensor, it was basically a television plan, heavy television advertising. With Mach 3, we had print, outdoor, radio and the Internet. It was more of a multifaceted media effort. We had to factor all this into the Sensor Derivation Model. S&B: What does the model help you achieve? William Flynn: It is the foundation for our media spending plan. We needed to go to all the geographies and put together a rationale for what we were recommending per market. We base our plans on gross rating points, or G.R.P.'s, which equate to the number of spots you have on television. It gives some perspective to the weight of the advertising you do. And we have figured out a way to [equate] everything to a G.R.P., so we can take all media and come up with an assumption that equates to a 30-second television commercial. So we might say we'll need 3,500 G.R.P.'s in Germany, but only 3,000 in Spain because the cost of media is not as high in Spain. It's a model and a baseline to work from. S&B: So you leave little to chance. William Flynn: That's right. We have advertising tracking studies, TV versus radio versus print. We learn from history which medium is most effective. Our primary thrust is to surround the consumer with all media. Television may be more impactful than radio, but if you do both, it's even better. And that has to be scrutinized in terms of the overall objective of the plan. The plan is to make Mach 3 part of the landscape -get it everywhere. Make it part of people's vocabulary. S&B: Is your ability to achieve that different from country to country? William Flynn: Yes. From a competitive point of view, we're stronger in Germany, the U.K. and France. We're not as strong in Italy. There is a big difference in terms of systems like the Sensor and Mach 3 and disposables. Germany is a very big systems market. Only 20 percent of that market is disposables. Italy and Spain are both 50 percent disposables. S&B: What do you do about that? William Flynn: Media has always worked well in Italy. That is why when we went out with Sensor, we spent more on media in Italy than any other country. And it worked. One of the big success stories with Sensor was in Italy. The local Gillette folks did a fabulous job. They built the systems business back in 1991 better than anyone else. They did it with media, merchandising and a good story to the trade. Before Sensor, the market was 60 to 40 in favor of disposables. They shifted 10 percent of users to systems. S&B: How do you get even more men to shift to Mach 3? William Flynn: We're still focused on heavy media spending, doing a lot of the fundamentals. It really comes down to a lot of blocking and tackling. You need to sell the program to the retail trade and get their full support. With Mach 3, the display activity has been tremendous. If you go into any store in Italy and look for Mach 3, you won't have trouble finding it. There are big displays everywhere with tremendous visibility. It's a bit like looking for Coca-Cola. You see it everywhere. S&B: Are you seeing a payoff from this already? William Flynn: Major league. We've already achieved a 16 percent blade value or dollar share in Italy, which is the highest blade share of all Gillette's North Atlantic markets. And it's harder to get distribution in Italy, which makes this even more impressive. We've achieved with Mach 3 in Europe in three months what we achieved with Sensor in 18 months. S&B: What other factors contributed to this early acceptance? William Flynn: There are a lot of things that make it happen with each individual market. In Italy, the amount of work that was happening a full year before the launch was amazing. They go back to the Sensor launch and they say: "This is what you achieved for Sensor. We're going to achieve volumes that meet or exceed that, and we don't want to be out of stock." So manufacturing has to be on target with its forecasts. We want the product cut in at the point of sale, and we want to be able to meet demand. So the team works with individual accounts, and well before the official launch, they'll go in and reset the aisle. Before they had started to ship, either the Gillette sales force or outside contractors went in and reset the blade and razor section of the retailers to leave space for Mach 3. There were signs saying, "This is where Mach 3 will be." When the Procter & Gamble folks saw this in the stores, they were amazed -the way space was set for the product; the coordination in getting displays up when the advertising broke. There was a lot of preplanning to make sure that Mach 3 was in a leadership position from the outset and make sure that out-of-stocks were minimized. S&B: How do you get the retailers to buy into this so intensely? William Flynn: By making sure that things are coordinated. It's the blocking and tackling. And when you have public relations that creates the buzz, it is quite significant. Retailers see another Sensor coming, and they see that the sales force wasn't kidding. S&B: All that upfront work is phenomenal. William Flynn: That's something Gillette does the best, from an executional point of view. The company prides itself on this. A year before launch, the manufacturing people pegged how many cartridges and razors they could produce: between 50 million and 70 million razors and 400 million cartridges. They were able to call it a year in advance. You need extraordinary people to do that. S&B: So you can get other geographies on board quickly by having the answers before they ask the questions? William Flynn: You have to get it to the point where they realize that everything has been fully vetted eight ways to Sunday. We've done our research. We tested everything thoroughly in all their markets. We tested the name throughout Latin America and Europe and the scores we had showed that Mach 3 was even stronger than Sensor had been. We had impact scores, diagnostic scores, scores to show how it was different from Germany to Spain to Italy. We had tests to see how the name was pronounced in different countries. We took the value proposition and created an advertising campaign. The commercial tested better than any other commercial we've ever run in the blade and razor business. S&B: But does that guarantee buy-in from country managers? William Flynn: It sold because we had evidence that it had tested extremely well. It had to come across as extremely credible. When we first showed the European marketing directors and general managers the packaging under the tent, we had to get them in on translations and on local advertising. They challenged us, but they came away feeling we had another Sensor. It really is incumbent to get everybody on board through test results. S&B: Now that the launch has been overwhelmingly successful, how do you sustain the momentum? William Flynn: We do not go back to business as usual. We are wrestling with that now. How do we get the Mach 3 afterburn? How do we convince [country managers] to spend the money on this brand? How much money should you put against each individual unit? We need to get them to spend the amount of money we recommended last year. We can't take our foot off the accelerator. We need to spend a specific amount over the next two to three years to keep it going. We have numbers on this that are very convincing. We have to continue the tremendous efforts in point-of-sale displays, for example. We have to make sure they have all the tools necessary to continue with a razor program in which a customer buys a razor and gets a free package of other shaving products. We've established marketing guidelines for the year 2000. We created a very good Sensor Excel program that tied in with radio. They were humorous radio ads, and we worked with local markets to develop the ads for drive time for each local market. We tied that in on a cooperative basis with retailers. We called it the Challenge program: "Try Sensor Excel and you won't go back." We think we can do that with Mach 3 as well. Reprint No. 99205 Glenn Rifkin, glennrifkin@worldnet.att.net Glenn Rifkin has covered technology for the New York Times and has written for the Harvard Business Review and Fast Company. He is coauthor of Radical Marketing (HarperBusiness, 1999) and The CEO Chronicles (Knowledge Exchange, 1999). Topics: pricing, advertising, stores, trade, sales Competing for consumers in driverless cars So you think you know your customers? Why Net Promoter Score is past its prime	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755430
__label__wiki	0.976609	0.976609	LTE and 5G Broadcast - Global Market Outlook (2017-2026) According to Stratistics MRC, the Global LTE and 5G Broadcast Market is accounted for $371.89 million in 2017 and is expected to reach $1,099.50 million by 2026 growing at a CAGR of 12.8% during the forecast period. Factors such as increasing LTE mobile subscribers and penetration of smartphones and need of minimizing network capacity congestion are fuelling the market growth. However, reluctance in transiting from the legacy infrastructure is hampering the market. By Technology, 5G Broadcast segment is expected to remain attractive during the forecast period. Increasing demand of consumers for premium content such as live sports events, the market for 5G broadcast is expected to grow at a very high rate. By Geography, North America has a significant growth during the forecast period. Verizon (US) was the first company to launch 5G network that was based on proprietary standards, while AT&T was the first one to launch a standard-based mobile 5G network. Some of the key players profiled in the LTE and 5G Broadcast Market include AT&T, Athonet, Cisco, Enensys Technologies, Ericsson, Expway, Huawei, Intel, KDDI, KT, NEC, Nokia, Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics, Telecom, Telstra, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless and ZTE. Technologies Covered: • 5G Broadcast • Long Term Evolution (LTE) Broadcast • Connected Cars • Data Feeds & Notifications • Emergency Alerts • E-Newspapers and E-Magazines • Fixed Long Term Evolution (LTE) Quadruple Play • Last Mile Content Delivery Network (CDN) • Mobile TV • Stadiums • Video on Demand (VOD) o Market estimations, Forecasts and CAGR of any prominent country as per the client's interest (Note: Depends on feasibility check) 3.6 Technology Analysis 5 Global Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market, By Technology 5.2 5G Broadcast 5.3 Long Term Evolution (LTE) Broadcast 6 Global Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market, By End User 6.2 Connected Cars 6.3 Data Feeds & Notifications 6.4 Emergency Alerts 6.5 E-Newspapers and E-Magazines 6.6 Fixed Long Term Evolution (LTE) Quadruple Play 6.7 Last Mile Content Delivery Network (CDN) 6.8 Mobile TV 6.9 Radio 6.10 Stadiums 6.11 Video on Demand (VOD) 6.12 Other End Users 7 Global Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market, By Geography 9 Company Profiling 9.1 AT&T 9.2 Athonet 9.3 Cisco 9.4 Enensys Technologies 9.5 Ericsson 9.6 Expway 9.7 Huawei 9.8 Intel 9.9 Kddi 9.10 NEC 9.11 Nokia 9.12 Qualcomm 9.13 Samsung Electronics 9.14 Telecom 9.15 Telstra 9.16 T-Mobile 9.17 Verizon Wireless 9.18 ZTE 1 Global Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Region (2016-2026) (US $MN) 2 Global Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Technology (2016-2026) (US $MN) 3 Global Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By 5G Broadcast (2016-2026) (US $MN) 4 Global Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Long Term Evolution (LTE) Broadcast (2016-2026) (US $MN) 5 Global Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By End User (2016-2026) (US $MN) 6 Global Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Connected Cars (2016-2026) (US $MN) 7 Global Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Data Feeds & Notifications (2016-2026) (US $MN) 8 Global Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Emergency Alerts (2016-2026) (US $MN) 9 Global Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By E-Newspapers and E-Magazines (2016-2026) (US $MN) 10 Global Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Fixed Long Term Evolution (LTE) Quadruple Play (2016-2026) (US $MN) 11 Global Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Last Mile Content Delivery Network (CDN) (2016-2026) (US $MN) 12 Global Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Mobile TV (2016-2026) (US $MN) 13 Global Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Radio (2016-2026) (US $MN) 14 Global Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Stadiums (2016-2026) (US $MN) 15 Global Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Video on Demand (VOD) (2016-2026) (US $MN) 16 Global Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Other End Users (2016-2026) (US $MN) 17 North America Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Country (2016-2026) (US $MN) 18 North America Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Technology (2016-2026) (US $MN) 19 North America Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By 5G Broadcast (2016-2026) (US $MN) 20 North America Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Long Term Evolution (LTE) Broadcast (2016-2026) (US $MN) 21 North America Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By End User (2016-2026) (US $MN) 22 North America Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Connected Cars (2016-2026) (US $MN) 23 North America Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Data Feeds & Notifications (2016-2026) (US $MN) 24 North America Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Emergency Alerts (2016-2026) (US $MN) 25 North America Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By E-Newspapers and E-Magazines (2016-2026) (US $MN) 26 North America Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Fixed Long Term Evolution (LTE) Quadruple Play (2016-2026) (US $MN) 27 North America Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Last Mile Content Delivery Network (CDN) (2016-2026) (US $MN) 28 North America Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Mobile TV (2016-2026) (US $MN) 29 North America Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Radio (2016-2026) (US $MN) 30 North America Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Stadiums (2016-2026) (US $MN) 31 North America Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Video on Demand (VOD) (2016-2026) (US $MN) 32 North America Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Other End Users (2016-2026) (US $MN) 33 Europe Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Country (2016-2026) (US $MN) 34 Europe Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Technology (2016-2026) (US $MN) 35 Europe Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By 5G Broadcast (2016-2026) (US $MN) 36 Europe Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Long Term Evolution (LTE) Broadcast (2016-2026) (US $MN) 37 Europe Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By End User (2016-2026) (US $MN) 38 Europe Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Connected Cars (2016-2026) (US $MN) 39 Europe Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Data Feeds & Notifications (2016-2026) (US $MN) 40 Europe Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Emergency Alerts (2016-2026) (US $MN) 41 Europe Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By E-Newspapers and E-Magazines (2016-2026) (US $MN) 42 Europe Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Fixed Long Term Evolution (LTE) Quadruple Play (2016-2026) (US $MN) 43 Europe Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Last Mile Content Delivery Network (CDN) (2016-2026) (US $MN) 44 Europe Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Mobile TV (2016-2026) (US $MN) 45 Europe Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Radio (2016-2026) (US $MN) 46 Europe Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Stadiums (2016-2026) (US $MN) 47 Europe Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Video on Demand (VOD) (2016-2026) (US $MN) 48 Europe Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Other End Users (2016-2026) (US $MN) 49 Asia Pacific Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Country (2016-2026) (US $MN) 50 Asia Pacific Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Technology (2016-2026) (US $MN) 51 Asia Pacific Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By 5G Broadcast (2016-2026) (US $MN) 52 Asia Pacific Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Long Term Evolution (LTE) Broadcast (2016-2026) (US $MN) 53 Asia Pacific Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By End User (2016-2026) (US $MN) 54 Asia Pacific Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Connected Cars (2016-2026) (US $MN) 55 Asia Pacific Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Data Feeds & Notifications (2016-2026) (US $MN) 56 Asia Pacific Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Emergency Alerts (2016-2026) (US $MN) 57 Asia Pacific Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By E-Newspapers and E-Magazines (2016-2026) (US $MN) 58 Asia Pacific Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Fixed Long Term Evolution (LTE) Quadruple Play (2016-2026) (US $MN) 59 Asia Pacific Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Last Mile Content Delivery Network (CDN) (2016-2026) (US $MN) 60 Asia Pacific Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Mobile TV (2016-2026) (US $MN) 61 Asia Pacific Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Radio (2016-2026) (US $MN) 62 Asia Pacific Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Stadiums (2016-2026) (US $MN) 63 Asia Pacific Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Video on Demand (VOD) (2016-2026) (US $MN) 64 Asia Pacific Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Other End Users (2016-2026) (US $MN) 65 South America Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Country (2016-2026) (US $MN) 66 South America Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Technology (2016-2026) (US $MN) 67 South America Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By 5G Broadcast (2016-2026) (US $MN) 68 South America Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Long Term Evolution (LTE) Broadcast (2016-2026) (US $MN) 69 South America Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By End User (2016-2026) (US $MN) 70 South America Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Connected Cars (2016-2026) (US $MN) 71 South America Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Data Feeds & Notifications (2016-2026) (US $MN) 72 South America Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Emergency Alerts (2016-2026) (US $MN) 73 South America Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By E-Newspapers and E-Magazines (2016-2026) (US $MN) 74 South America Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Fixed Long Term Evolution (LTE) Quadruple Play (2016-2026) (US $MN) 75 South America Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Last Mile Content Delivery Network (CDN) (2016-2026) (US $MN) 76 South America Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Mobile TV (2016-2026) (US $MN) 77 South America Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Radio (2016-2026) (US $MN) 78 South America Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Stadiums (2016-2026) (US $MN) 79 South America Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Video on Demand (VOD) (2016-2026) (US $MN) 80 South America Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Other End Users (2016-2026) (US $MN) 81 Middle East & Africa Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Country (2016-2026) (US $MN) 82 Middle East & Africa Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Technology (2016-2026) (US $MN) 83 Middle East & Africa Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By 5G Broadcast (2016-2026) (US $MN) 84 Middle East & Africa Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Long Term Evolution (LTE) Broadcast (2016-2026) (US $MN) 85 Middle East & Africa Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By End User (2016-2026) (US $MN) 86 Middle East & Africa Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Connected Cars (2016-2026) (US $MN) 87 Middle East & Africa Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Data Feeds & Notifications (2016-2026) (US $MN) 88 Middle East & Africa Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Emergency Alerts (2016-2026) (US $MN) 89 Middle East & Africa Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By E-Newspapers and E-Magazines (2016-2026) (US $MN) 90 Middle East & Africa Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Fixed Long Term Evolution (LTE) Quadruple Play (2016-2026) (US $MN) 91 Middle East & Africa Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Last Mile Content Delivery Network (CDN) (2016-2026) (US $MN) 92 Middle East & Africa Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Mobile TV (2016-2026) (US $MN) 93 Middle East & Africa Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Radio (2016-2026) (US $MN) 94 Middle East & Africa Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Stadiums (2016-2026) (US $MN) 95 Middle East & Africa Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Video on Demand (VOD) (2016-2026) (US $MN) 96 Middle East & Africa Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G Broadcast Market Outlook, By Other End Users (2016-2026) (US $MN)	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755431
__label__cc	0.731331	0.268669	Robot, or Not? James Sharples, Managing Director of Swisslog UK, examines the future of robotics in intralogistics. If you asked the average man or woman on the street to imagine a robot and describe it, their vision would most likely be similar to C-3PO from Star Wars or Brian from the comparison site advertising campaign. It would probably be human in form and have some sort of personality. This demonstrates the power of the screen, whether big or small. The reality is that the robots that we have experienced until now are more likely to have been just a box of electronics with some mechanical activation – such as an automatic door opener or a robotic lawn mower. Personal robots However, more sophisticated robots are now set to enter our lives. We have all read, for example, about the self-driving cars that are being extensively tested around the world. Recognising our human sensibilities, many of the collaborative robots (or cobots) being trialled today actually have human forms. Take, for example, ‘Baxter’, the cobot from Rethink Robotics, which has a screen-based ‘face’ and two arms. In Japan – the most elderly nation in the world, with 20% of the population aged 65 or over – scientists are perfecting humanoid robots that can help the elderly by getting meals or turning off lights. Unlike a human carer who might call in twice a day for 15 minutes, these carer robots (or carebots) are present for their patient 24/7. An emotional – rather than functional – robot named ‘Pepper’ is being sold in Japan at a cost of just over £1,000; it tends to its owner’s emotional needs by learning about them and having conversations with them, using an ‘emotional engine’. There are also robot ‘pets’ designed to help improve their owners’ wellbeing. According to a report by Merrill Lynch, the global personal robot market – including carebots – could reach $17.4 billion by 2020. The rise of the cobot We have seen many examples of robots in the logistics industry – from automated guided vehicles (AGVs) to robots picking a range of products. Although robots have been around for some time in the distribution industry, so far they have tended to be used to replace humans in various specific roles rather than in collaborative applications. This is where change is now happening. Think about an order picker who has as his work partner a multi-axis robot, which has a myriad of tools (think ‘hands’) at its disposal. The robot could help the order picker with the mundane, repetitive tasks whilst leaving the human to cover tricky items and to validate the whole operation. If one considers the pharmaceutical industry, for example, the order picker could be a qualified pharmacist with overall control whilst the robot does much of the work. This is the concept behind Automated Item Pick (AIP), Swisslog’s human-robot picking solution, which was recently awarded the 2016 INDUSTRIEPREIS in the category ‘Intralogistics & Production Management’. At the heart of AIP is a lightweight KUKA robot that is equipped with state-of-the-art sensor technology and a 7-axis gripper. A distinctive feature of this solution is that the order bins at the pick station are served by a human hand and the robot’s grippers at the same time, without the need for a safety barrier between man and machine. The Western world today is facing reductions in the available workforce due to falling population levels. In this scenario, robots will increasingly be seen as the solution to the more labour-intensive operations in the modern warehouse. Robotic automation may help to plug the labour hole by replacing workers or, more likely, by supporting them to increase productivity. “Recognising our human sensibilities, many of the collaborative robots (or cobots) being trialled today actually have human forms.” James Sharples	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755433
__label__wiki	0.70401	0.70401	Filtering by Tag: "Scream From Screaming Queens to Love of Showgirls: San Francisco's LGBT Film Fest Has Many Noteworthy Documentaries “Camp Chaos” Matthew Camp Frameline, San Francisco's long running LGBT film festival through June 30, has many noteworthy documentaries that should be checked out. While it would be impossible to see all of the movies at Frameline (but I do try), here's a sample of some of the top documentaries. "For They Know Not What They Do" is one of the best crafted documentaries I have ever seen and it succinctly covers a lot of ground with its stories of religion and being gay. The movie weaves together several tales of coming out to a religious family and shares the highs and some of the lows that will ripe your heart out. A lot of documentaries have great stories to tell and we forgive them for inferior production qualities. But this movie hits the mark on every level - from point of view to cinematography. This should be a contender for Best Documentary at the Oscars. It's that good. "Queering the Script" is quite thought provoking. On the one side, it shows how fandom can support and help make a TV show a success and all-the-while showing how bonding over a show can lead to long term friendship and love. On the other hand, it enlightens us that while LGBT people were the characters de jour one year, adding many diverse characters to mainstream TV. But then, suddenly in one year they killed off most of the lesbians, creating a backlash among the lesbian community, causing heated discussions in the TV community and all sparked by a hashtag campaign - #buryyourgays. Very informative and definitely worth a screening. “You Don’t Know Nomi” "You Don't Nomi" is as fun and creative as the film's title. This is behind-the-scenes story of "Showgirls," the cult classic film that is in about every gay man's repertoire of movies to screen. It shows the film's underwhelming premiere, in which it flopped and, after multiple critics panned it, it won many Razzie Awards for the worst film. Then, as the years pass, it's no longer taken so seriously and, thanks to support from its fans, mostly the gay community, a cult classic is born. Interviewees include local drag icon Peaches Christ who embraced the movie from the beginning and screened it annually for nearly 20 years and Bay Area resident April Kidwell, who starred in the Off-Broadway and traveling production of the musical of "Showgirls." After screening, we will all know Nomi. "Making Montgomery Clift" had more information then I thought I'd learn, considering I am friends with one of his relatives. But Robert Clift shares moments of Montgomery's life, thanks to old recordings, photographs and notes Robert's father (Montgomery's brother) had kept and maintained for years. "Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street" is a surprise to me - and surprises make for good movies. I was never a fan of the "Nightmare" movie so I didn't see any of the sequels. Well, I never knew of all of the gay subtext in Part 2 including shower scenes and S&M! This certainly makes me want to check this out. But behind the scenes, star Mark Patton's career was very much hurt by the film as gay characters (and actors) weren't the stars of big budget films in the mid-1980s. Check out the film as Patton does what he can to overcome the stigma that followed. "Gay Chorus Deep South" is much more uplifting then I thought it would be. The San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus go to the Bible belt, to where many of the members of the chorus are from before they moved to the Bay Area. Performing at churches and reuniting with Baptist relatives, one would think there would be more drama and hate. But the movie shows that sometimes, a little enlightening is all one needs to accept and respect. “Mr. Leather” "Mr. Leather" is one of the many examples of how the leather community is just that: a community. This movie showcases Brazil's very first Mr. Leather competition and how, although a competition, there's a sense of family among the contenders and how they support each other. "Fabulous" is fabulous! Lasseindra Ninja leaves her home in French Guiana as a man and comes back as a woman. Besides a positive attitude about herself, she comes back complete with skills as a vogue dancer and ready to support and education a troupe of young people who are looking for a place to be accepted and to thrive. Some of their tales are heart wrenching but they learn to leave them behind on the dance floor. “Thanks to Hank” "Thanks to Hank" is a local SF movie exploring the life and work of Hank Wilson. Wilson is one of the pioneers for LGBT activism and he fought for our rights with a smile and a cool head. While many of us take for granted the progress we've made, this movie pays tribute to a man that stood up for us and did it for equality. "Camp Chaos" is listed as an episodic entry but it's worth mentioning here. It takes the actor from "Getting Go: the Go Doc Project" (from Frameline37) and follows him as he talks and meets up with other men through gay sex apps. Camp recreates many of his sexual encounters he had...vividly and explicitly. This movies is hot and sexual and some might deem a well photographed porn movie. "Sid & Judy" is a movie that many gay men would love to see. Me too. But no screening of the story of the Judy Garland and Sid Luft marriage. To get tickets and check out screening times, go to www.frameline.org. @FramelineFest #Frameline43 #GayFilmFestival #GayDocumentary #LGBTFilmFest #BuryYourGays tags / Frameline Film Festival, #Frameline2019, #Frameline43, #GayFilmFestival, #GayDocumentary, #LGBTFilmFestival, #BuryYourGays, "Sid & Judy", "Camp Chaos", Matthew Camp, "Thanks To Hank", "Mr. Leather", "Gay Chorus Deep South", "Scream, "Scream Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street", "Making Montgomery Clift", "You Don't Know Nomi", "Showgirls", "For They Know Not What They Do"	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755437
__label__cc	0.591568	0.408432	TALL TIMBERS MARINA The Reluctant Navigator Restaurant OUR BOATYARD DOUBLE T OYSTER RANCH The Reluctant Navigator Restaurant/ OUR BOATYARD/ DOUBLE T OYSTER RANCH/ on the potomac Tall Timbers Marina is a full service marina located along the Maryland Shores of the Lower Potomac River. Tall Timbers Marina is a family owned and operated business since 1960 A long long time ago, in 1917 Uncle Henry Juenemann, the uncle of Grandma Kitty Meatyard, traveled down the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. on a steamboat, and stopped at the Landing in Piney Point known as the Tolson Hotel. When he stepped off the boat, he first met Mr. Tolson and asked him, “Who owns the property with the tall timbers?” Introductions were made and in 1920 Uncle Henry purchased PART OF PINEY POINT known as THRICE-CARTER TRACK containing approximately 132 acres. The name of this property was changed by Uncle Henry to Tall Timbers on the Potomac. Shortly afterward, a U.S. Post Office was opened at Bailey’s Store (now Dent’s). The first Post Master was Ruby Bailey, and due to her influence, the name Tall Timbers, MD was assigned to the Post Office and the town. Part of the track included “the wet lands, the fast lands, the water and the land beneath the waters of Herring Creek”. The creek’s bottom proved to be a productive oyster ground. Over the years, oysters were harvested and sold commercially at the Reluctant Navigator Restaurant, which was opened in 1971. In 2010, Rick and Spike Meatyard created The Double T Oyster Ranch, raising oysters in “brooders” (cages) on the family oyster grounds and harvesting oysters for sale in The Reluctant Navigator Restaurant. In 1932, The Tall Timbers Camp for Boys was created by the Meatyard family for boys from the Washington, D.C. area and remained in operation until the outbreak of World War II. Camp Counselors included a Washington Redskin, Students of University of Florida’s law school, and Ross Allen of Silver Springs, Florida’s glass bottom boats and reptile farm. Allen imported, by freight train, several alligators up from Florida to the camp in the 1930’s. In the marina’s museum is a 1950 photograph of Ruby Bailey’s son, Jr. Bailey, with an alligator that was captured and killed in Herring Creek. Due to the war effort, in 1941, the Federal Government took possession of all available housing as living quarters for the military personnel at the new Patuxent River Naval Air Base. This marked the end of The Tall Timbers Camp for Boys. Around 1958, the Federal Government passed a safe boating act to promote boating for the general public. Part of the responsibility to the public was to identify and establish safe harbors. In 1959, the Army Corps of Engineers identified Herring Creek as a safe harbor. This project was to be known as The Herring Creek Navigation Project. This project involved dredging the channel to a depth of 7 feet with a width of 60 feet and constructing two stone jetties extending into the Potomac River. This project was completed in the spring of 1960. The Meatyard family constructed and maintained, at their own expense, a marina for dockage for local and transient crafts. A boat ramp and parking area were also provided to allow public access to the states navigable waters. With the arrival of the year 2017, only two years away, we will celebrate 100 years and six generations of family ownership of our little piece of heaven. Our doors are always open and we happily greet old friends and new friends alike. We take great pride in our “over 50 years of the same mis-management” of The Tall Timbers Marina. Thank you to our customers for your loyal support. “ALMOST 60 YEARS OF THE SAME MISMANAGEMENT!” 18521 Herring Creek Road, unit 9 — Tall Timbers, MD 20690 . (p) 301-994-1508	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755438
__label__wiki	0.802375	0.802375	Sara Hildén Art Museum Kiki Smith: Procession Finnish Collection Erik Enroth Collection Sara Hildén Café Sara Learn and teach RON MUECK 2.6.–16.10.2016 Born in 1958 to German parents in Melbourne, Australia, Ron Mueck first came to public attention when his sculpture Dead Dad starred in the 1997 exhibition Sensation at the Royal Academy in London. Mueck has since shown himself to be a major sculptor whose work elicits an immediate emotional response, by using all the traditional elements of his medium: pose, gesture, facial expression, scale and realism. Mueck’s subject matter – for all its universality – is deeply private, concerning the unspoken thoughts and feelings of all human beings. Ron Mueck’s first one-man show was at the Anthony d’Offay Gallery in 1998. The monumental sculpture Boy was shown at the 49th Venice Biennale in 2001. Mueck was artist-in-residence between 2000 and 2002 at the National Gallery in London, culminating in an exhibition of major works there in 2003. Mueck’s most recent major touring exhibition began at Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, in 2013, and travelled to Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro and São Paolo. Mueck’s work is held in a number of significant public collections, including Tate; National Gallery of Canada; National Gallery of Australia; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; and Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, amongst many others. Mueck's works had never previously been exhibited in the Nordic countries. The exhibition at Sara Hilden presented ten sculptures, a series of photographs depicting the artist at work and Gautier Deblonde’s film 'Still Life: Ron Mueck at Work'. 115 151 visitors attended the exhibition. Särkänniemi, Tampere City of Tampere	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755439
__label__cc	0.622118	0.377882	David Wojnarowicz 1954–1992 Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper mounted on foam Untitled is a black and white photograph depicting a topless man lying face down on the ground. His back features a large tattoo of the head and shoulders of James Dean, which is cartoon-like in style and has the actor’s name inscribed above it. On the man’s right arm is another tattoo that resembles a plant. The image is tightly cropped so that it is mostly filled with the top half of the body and the lower half of the man’s head. He appears to wear dark-coloured trousers and the floor on which he lies is made of rough, hard-looking squares of stone. This photograph was taken by the American artist David Wojnarowicz on one of the many road trips he took around the United States and Mexico during the 1980s, starting in 1984. Thirty such photographs are held in the Tate collection (Tate P79858–P79887) and although they were taken while Wojnarowicz was travelling during the mid-1980s onwards, they are all dated 1988, perhaps indicating the year of their printing (Lotringer and Ambrosino 2007, p.97). All of the photographs in this group are identical in size and are mounted on foam. Wojnarowicz first used photography as part of his artistic practice in 1978. However, during the early and mid-1980s he did not exhibit his photographs as artworks in their own right, instead using the pictures he took as sources for, and occasionally collage elements in, his paintings and multimedia works (see, for instance, Fuck You Faggot Fucker 1984, private collection). In 1988 he began making and exhibiting photo-collages, often incorporating photographs he had taken in previous years. Several of the many Untitled 1988 photographs were used in such collages, for instance in Spirituality (for Paul Thek) 1988–9. Wojnarowicz’s friend and collaborator, the photographer Marion Scemama, has noted that until he started collaging them in 1988, Wojnarowicz saw his photographs as ‘snapshot[s]’ and not artworks (Marion Scemama and Sylvère Lotringer, ‘Marion Scemama’, in Lotringer and Ambrosino 2007, p.128). The art historian Mysoon Rizk has connected Wojnarowicz’s increased interest from 1988 onwards in photography as a distinct art form with his then recent inheritance of ‘a well-equipped darkroom’ from the photographer Peter Hujar, who had died in 1987 (Mysoon Rizk, ‘Reinventing the Pre-Invented World’, in New Museum of Contemporary Art 1999, p.58). The ambiguity of many of the Untitled 1988 images is exacerbated by their lack of descriptive titles and their very closely cropped compositions. Parts of objects and figures are often excluded by the tight framing and in many cases only a limited indication of the spatial environment is provided. This may be connected to the fragmentary way in which Wojnarowicz worked when taking photographs, which the artist described in 1989: everything I do with a camera is like a journal. I take fragments of things. If people were to look at my years and years worth of negatives, they would wonder what the hell was he shooting at? ... People wouldn’t know if they were looking at a piece of Ohio, or a piece of California, or a piece of the 12th Avenue Expressway. Yet, I can look at some of these contact sheets, and there can be something that’s so charged with a certain kind of energy or memory and smell and sight. (Sylvère Lotringer and David Wojnarowicz, ‘Sylvère Lotringer / David Wojnarowicz’, in Lotringer and Ambrosino 2007, p.163.) The Untitled 1988 photographs frequently depict people in the street and in crumbling buildings, and Wojnarowicz may have regarded them as images of an alternative view of America and Mexico during the 1980s, ones that better represented his experience than did those in the mass media. In 1991 the artist wrote: ‘If you look at newspapers you rarely see a representation of anything you believe to be the world you inhabit. This is called information control ... I believe I represent a different intention in what I point my camera toward. I have a desire to open up certain boundaries and release information that unites the psychic ropes that bind the ONE-TRIBE NATION’ (Wojnarowicz 1991, p.143). The cultural historian C. Carr has emphasised further this combination of creative subjectivity and documentation in Wojnarowicz’s work: ‘Art was [Wojnarowicz’s] way of witnessing. On some level, the work was about putting information out there, exposing what’s usually hidden and creating a cultural counterweight. Where the marginal are ignored, he would exalt them ... To him, it wasn’t politics, it was truth’ (C. Carr, ‘Portrait in Twenty-Three Rounds’, in New Museum of Contemporary Art 1999, p.69). David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives, New York 1991. Fever: The Art of David Wojnarowicz, exhibition catalogue, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York 1999. Sylvère Lotringer and Giancarlo Ambrosino, David Wojnarowicz: A Definitive History of Five or Six Years on the Lower East Side, New York 2007, reproduced p.59. Supported by Christie’s. lying down(391) body(4,960) back(244) tattoo(46) Dean, James(2) name(99) cultural icon(63) David Wojnarowicz Untitled David Wojnarowicz Untitled (Desire)	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755441
__label__wiki	0.595487	0.595487	HIGH QUALITY HISTORY TUITION IN COTTENHAM Our History Tutors in Cottenham are all fully-qualified History Teachers, who also offer their skills as high quality home tutors. All are subject-specialists, professional, reliable, up-to-date with Examination Boards and the current demands of a changing curriculum. Lessons are taught at your home and are scheduled at your convenience; whether weekdays, evenings or weekends. Here is a selection of History teachers in and around Cottenham Qualified and experienced teacher offering English Language, English Literature, History, Geography, German and Greek through from Key Stage 3, GCSE, IGCSE to IB and A level. OCR Examiner. Teacher and tutor for over 20 years in UK and overseas. Native Greek speaker. PhD Prehistoric Archaeology, Goethe Institute (2005). BA (Hons) English Language and Literature, University of Cambridge (2000). Qualified and experienced teacher and private tutor with a wealth of experience covering all ages and many subjects over nearly 30 years. Strong SEN experience. Basic Literacy/Numeracy Skills, English Literature and Language, Business Studies, Sociology, Psychology and related subjects taught at various schools and colleges in South London and in Cambridge . Currently a full-time tutor offering Primary English and Maths, 11+ and school entrance examination support, English and Religious Studies from Key Stage 3 to GCSE, and A level English Literature and Language, Psychology, Sociology, Social Care and Child Care. Hornsby Diploma Sp.LD (1999), PhD Education London University (1988), MA Education London University (1981), BSc Sociology London University (1975) .Cert.Ed (1978) Qualified and experienced teacher, with experience teaching across the Independent and State Sectors. Teaches Business Studies, English, French, German, Geography, History, Politics and RS from Prep and Key Stage 3 through to GCSE, IGCSE and A level; across all major exam boards. Supports preparations for School Entrance Examinations, 11+ and Academic Scholarship. Teaches English as a Foreign Language. Supports home schooling. Provides tuition for resits and language tuition for adult learners and businesses. UK TEFL, Cambridge (2009). BSc (Hons) Social Science, European Humanities and Religious Studies, Open University (2004). Dip Religious Studies, Open University (2002) Qualified and experienced History Teacher, currently teaching at Manor School Sport College. Teaches History from Prep and Key Stage 3, through to GCSE, IGCSE and A level across all the major Exam Boards. MA Social and Cultural History, University of Northampton (2012). PGCE History, Grand Union Training Partnership (2009). BA (Hons) History, University of Northampton (2007). Qualified and experienced Religious Studies Teacher, currently teaching at Denbigh High School. Teaches Religious Studies from Prep and Key Stage 3, through to GCSE and IGCSE across all the major exam boards. Also teaches History to Key Stage 3. PGCE Religious Studies, SCITT Chiltern Training Group (2013). LLB Bachelor of Laws, University of Hertfordshire (2012). Qualified and experienced Primary, Prep and Secondary School teacher, currently teaching at a local college. Teaches across a broad range of subjects; offering Key Stage 2 Primary, including SATs, 11+, 13+ and Common Entrance preparation; teaches English, Maths, Sciences, Humanities, French, German and Spanish from Key Stage 3 through to GCSE and IGCSE, across all major Exam Boards. Teaches ICT and Computer Science through to A level. Provides coaching in general study skills and supports GCSE retakes and Functional Skills for adult learners. Advanced Skills Teacher. SEN experience. PTLLS, CTLLS, DTLLS (2012). National BTEC Diploma in Graphic Design, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire (1986). Find a History Tutor in Cottenham "Teachers To Your Home" introduces you to teachers who provide high quality History Tuition in Cottenham, at your home and convenience. We are the disclosed agent of over 18,000 qualified and experienced teachers, across the UK, who also choose to offer their professional skills as high quality home tutors. More information for History in or around Cottenham	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755443
__label__cc	0.723138	0.276862	Star in your own homemade 3D movies By Dean Evans 2009-01-09T16:18:00.8Z Home video CES 2009: New Minoru Webcam films you in stereoscopic 3D The odd-looking Minoru webcam uses two lenses to film in stereoscopic 3D 3D is all the rage at this year's CES. And it's one of the reasons why the Minoru 3D Webcam is getting a lot of attention. The odd-looking Minoru camera (it reminds us of E.T.) features two separate lenses, spaced roughly the same distance apart as your eyes. These lenses record what the camera sees from two slightly different angles. Software supplied with the Minoru camera processes the captured video feeds into a Red/Cyan 'anaglyph'. The resulting video has a stereoscopic 3D effect when viewed through a classic pair of Red/Cyan 3D glasses. 3D video conferencing According to its makers, the Minoru 3D Webcam can be used with Windows Live Messenger, Skype, AOL instant messenger, OoVoo and other video-conferencing packages. Of course, the person at the other end will also need to have a set of 3D glasses. For fun, the camera can also be used to take stereoscopic still pictures or to record 3D video for YouTube. Capable of 30fps video in resolutions up to 800x600 (SVGA), the Minoru 3D webcam also has a normal 2D mode. But where's the fun in that? Shall we start taking bets on how long it takes for the camera to be used for, ahem, sexy stuff? In the UK, the Minoru 3D Webcam will cost a mere £49.95 from Amazon.co.uk and Firebox.com. In the US, Amazon.com will be carrying it at a price of $89.95. From CES 2009 See more Home video news	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755445
__label__wiki	0.957307	0.957307	Sudanese woman sentenced to death for apostasy gives birth Meriam Ibrahim, the Sudanese woman awaiting the death penalty for refusing to convert to Islam, has given birth to a baby girl By Harriet Alexander 8:45AM BST 27 May 2014 The Sudanese woman who has been sentenced to hang for refusing to renounce Christianity has given birth to a baby girl named Maya, her lawyers told The Telegraph. Meriam Ibrahim, 27, gave birth to the girl – her second child – in the early hours of Tuesday morning, in the hospital wing of the prison. "They didn't even take Meriam to a hospital - she just delivered inside a prison clinic," As Elshareef Ali Elshareef Mohammed, her lawyer, told The Telegraph. "But neither her husband nor I have been allowed to see them yet." Mr Elshareef said he and Daniel Wani, Ms Ibrahim's husband, were still waiting outside the prison at 2pm in Khartoum (12.00 in the UK). I renounced Islam, so my family think I should die Sudan lawyer warned to drop appeal against mother's death sentence Pregnant woman given death sentence in Sudan is kept shackled in her cell Islamic court permits pregnant woman to give birth before she is hanged Her son, 20-month-old Martin, has been with her inside the cell since she was first charged in February. Ms Ibrahim’s husband, Daniel Wani, who is in a wheelchair, said last week that she was being kept shackled by the ankles in her cell. She was sentenced to death on May 15 by a court in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. Ms Ibrahim denied the charges of apostasy and adultery - the court did not recognise her 2011 marriage to Mr Wani, a Christian - because she said her Muslim father abandoned the family, and she was raised a Christian. She is to be allowed to nurse her child for two years before the sentence is carried out. A petition to quash Ms Ibrahim’s sentence, organised by Amnesty International, has been signed by 660,000 people so far – but the rights group has been barred from Sudan since 2005. “Apostasy and adultery should not even be crimes,” Manar Idriss, Sudan researcher at Amnesty, told The Telegraph. “It’s a personal choice who to marry and what to believe. “The human rights situation has been deteriorating for the past few years. It’s an extremely repressive regime, with opposition activists tortured, and the targeting of anyone who dares to defy the regime.” On Thursday her lawyers filed an appeal at the Appeal Court of Bahri and Sharq Al Nil. If the appeal is unsuccessful, they are planning to explore further avenues, and take the case to Sudan’s Supreme Court and Constitutional Court. The crime of apostasy – for which Ms Ibrahim has been sentenced to death – is defined as the renouncing of your religion. Some divisions of Christianity – among them Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Baptists – believe apostasy is a sin. But it is mainly seen as an Islamic crime, based on a Hadith – saying - from Prophet Muhammad who said, “Whoever changes his religion kill him.” But many scholars point out that numerous verses in the Koran guarantee freedom of belief. Nina Shea, director of the Centre for Religious Freedom at New York’s Hudson Institute, said that apostasy from Islam is criminalised in many, though not all, Muslim-majority states. Turkey does not criminalise it, but Iran and Saudi Arabia do imprison converts. Actual executions by governments for conversion are virtually unheard of today. “In the case of Meriam Ibrahim, the government of Sudan is adopting the practice of Islamic extremist groups like Boko Haram, al-Shabab, and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria,” she told The Telegraph. “All of those groups do put Christian converts to death.” Africa and Indian Ocean » Harriet Alexander » In Sudan The hard life of Sudan's gold miners South Sudan independence Clooney: '90 days from disaster in Sudan' Sudan beats drum for peace Top news galleries	cc/2019-30/en_head_0013.json.gz/line1755447

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