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__label__cc	0.720309	0.279691	Departments A-H Emergency Telephone District Board Saline Police Department 100 N Harris Saline, MI 48176 Joel Allen - Michigan State Police Michael Armitage - City of Milan James Baird - City of Ann Arbor Marc Breckenridge - Washtenaw County Emergency Services Director (ETDB Chair) Jerry Clayton - Washtenaw County Sheriff Michelle Deatrick - Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners Tony DeGiusti - City of Ypsilanti Gregory Dill - Washtenaw County Administrator Larry Hrinik - City of Saline Courtney Nicholls - Village of Dexter Robert Pfannes - City of Ann Arbor (Alternate) Alicia Ping - Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners Harley Rider - Michigan Township Association Conan Smith - Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners Ron Smith - Michigan Township Association Brenda Stumbo - Michigan Township Association Ed Toth - City of Chelsea (ETDB Vice Chair) Jeff Wallace - Village of Manchester Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) Committee This committee is comprised of representatives from each agency within Washtenaw County that is a primary answering point for E-9-1-1 calls. This group has also joined forces, combining with the 800MHz Working Subcommittee. The joint committee does most of the technical problem solving, with technical and administrative support from the Enhanced 9-1-1 Coordinator (Emergency Services Director) and staff (Assistant Director), and from the Ann Arbor Police Department. View the Enhanced E 911 Plan (PDF). Emergency Telephone District Board (ETDB) This board is the governing body created by the board of commissioners of the county or counties with authority over an emergency telephone district as prescribed by the county or counties that created the board. The Emergency Telephone District Board is staffed by the Emergency Services Division on a cost recovery basis, and to be comprised of the Sheriff of the County, a representative of the Michigan State Police appointed by the Director of the Michigan State Police, plus elected officers and/or chief administrative officers in the following distribution: three township representatives to be appointed by the Township Association; one representative each from Manchester and Dexter Village; one representative each from the Cities of Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, Saline, Chelsea and Milan; and three Washtenaw County Government representatives appointed by the Board of Commissioners; and the E-9-1-1 Coordinator. The ETDB schedules meetings when the PSAP Subcommittee has agenda items that require Board action. The Chair of the ETDB will request a meeting date and notice of the meeting will be posted on the County's Event Calendar. 24-Hour Technical Troubleshooting Your Emergency Services Division staff are on call 24-hours a day to assist local public safety dispatch centers with the troubleshooting of 9-1-1 and 800MHz radio communications problems. Here's one example of an after hours call out for a 9-1-1 telephone system failure. When a contractor carelessly back hoed into a 9-1-1 trunk cable between Manchester Village and the Ann Arbor main office, he temporarily disabled the 9-1-1 telephone service in the entire community. Emergency Services Division staff assisted with locating the break, provided for backup 9-1-1 service, and kept the public informed through local radio broadcasts. Ameritech crews worked through the night to restore service, which was fully repaired by morning. The moral of the story is: If you are going to dig, CALL MISS DIG at 800-482-7171! Master Street Address Guide (MSAG) The MSAG is created and maintained from information provided by the PSAP Coordinators. This information must agree with telephone company customer records, and service order systems. The MSAG files contain street names, address ranges, community names, telephone exchange, and ESN's, (Emergency Service Numbers) for each jurisdictional area within the County. This data base is used to cross-reference an incoming E9-1-1 call and provide dispatchers with the correct response information for Police, Fire, and Emergency Medical Services. Your Emergency Management Division staff is involved daily with updating the database for accuracy and correcting reported errors. Test Your Phone for Enhanced 911 Services If you live in Washtenaw County and you would like to test your phone for E9-1-1 services, please send your name, address, phone number, and the Township in which you live to this email address. We would be happy to contact you and schedule a test of your home or business phone. View more information about the Emergency Telephone District Board. Emergency Medical Services Commission Hazardous Materials Response Team Authority Board Homeland Security Task Force Medical Control Authority Board	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4556
__label__cc	0.742723	0.257277	Radar-FFC Radar-JGX Radar-HTX Weather Forecast Office Peachtree City/Atlanta, GA Southeast River Forecast Center Datum: NGVD29 NOTE: Automated gauge readings are now available, courtesy of the USGS. NOTE: Forecasts are not available for the Stone Mountain Creek near Lithonia. Only observed stages are available for this point. Upstream Gauge Low Stage (in feet): 0 25 Major flooding begins. Flooding never seen before expands into the woodlands from the gage at Rock Chapel Road or Georgia Highway 124. The water level will reach the bottom of the bridge and county officials may close it. The flood waters will affect numerous homes on Kilkenny Circle...Stonebridge Park Circle...The Trace and Horseshoe Bend. The flood waters will approach the foundation of a landscape company near the bridge. 20 Significant flooding continues in the woodlands upstream and downstream from the gage at Rock Chapel Road or Georgia Highway 124. The flood waters will be around two feet deep in some homes on Stonebridge Park Circle. The flood waters will be around 8 feet deep in the lower level of one home upstream and right bank from the gage. A small parking area of a landscape company near the bridge will be under 8 feet of water. 18 Moderate flooding begins. Significant flooding occurs in the woodlands upstream and downstream from the gage at Rock Chapel Road or Georgia Highway 124. The water level will reach the foundations of some homes on Stonebridge Park Circle. The flood waters will be around 6 feet deep in the lower level of one home upstream and right bank from the gage. A small parking area of a landscape company near the bridge will be under 6 feet of water. 16 Minor flooding continues to expand into the woodlands along the creek upstream and downstream from the gage at Rock Chapel Road or Georgia Highway 124. The backyards of homes on Stonebridge Park Circle will be flooded several feet deep with water approaching the foundations of some homes. The flood waters will be around four feet deep in the lower level of one home upstream and right bank from the gage. A small parking area of a landscape company near the bridge will be flooded several feet deep. 14 Minor flooding continues in the woodlands along the creek upstream and downstream from the gage at Rock Chapel Road or Georgia Highway 124. The backyards of homes on Stonebridge Park Circle will be flooded several feet deep. The flood waters will be around two feet deep in the lower level of one home upstream and right bank from the gage. A small parking area of a landscape company near the bridge will be flooded a few feet deep. 12 Flood stage is reached. Minor flooding begins in the woodlands along the creek upstream and downstream from the gage at Rock Chapel Road or Georgia Highway 124. The backyards of homes on Stonebridge Park Circle will be flooded a few feet deep. The water will reach the foundation of one home upstream and right bank from the gage. A small parking area of a landscape company near the bridge will be flooded. 10 Bankfull conditions are reached upstream and downstream from the gage at Rock Chapel Road or Georgia Highway 124. Water begins to flow into low portions of the woodlands along the creek and backyards of homes on Stonebridge Park Circle. Latitude: 33.773333° N, Longitude: 84.077222° W, Horizontal Datum: NAD27 U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Data and Site Info for Lithonia Spring Flood Outlook USGS Georgia WFO FFC Additional Links Google Earth Gage Locations Peachtree City/Atlanta Weather Forecast Office 4 Falcon Drive	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4557
__label__wiki	0.860295	0.860295	The following radio stations broadcast on FM frequency 103.5 MHz: 1 Australia 2 Philippines 3 Canada (Channel 278) 4 Mexico 5 Russia 6 United States (Channel 278) 3MBR in Murrayville, Victoria 3MBS in Melbourne, Victoria 4MBB in Maryborough, Queensland ABC Classic FM in Armidale, New South Wales ABC Classic FM in Roxby Downs, South Australia Hot FM (Australian radio network) in Cairns, Queensland Radio National in Swifts Creek, Victoria Radio TAB in Mackay, Queensland Rhema FM Orange in Orange, New South Wales SBS Radio in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales Triple J in Port Pirie, South Australia Triple J in Spencer Gulf DWKX in Mega Manila Canada (Channel 278) CBDF-FM in Haines Junction, Yukon CBDI-FM in Poplar River, Manitoba CBFA-FM-1 in Manouane, Quebec CBFG-FM in Chisasibi, Quebec CBFH-FM in Fort-Rupert, Quebec CBFW-FM in Nouveau-Comptoir, Quebec CBKD-FM in Buffalo Narrows, Saskatchewan CBNI-FM in Makkovik, Newfoundland and Labrador CBSI-FM-16 in Tete-a-la-Baleine, Quebec CBVR-FM in New-Richmond, Quebec CBXA-FM in Chateh, Alberta CBYD-FM in Bella Coola, British Columbia CFCH-FM in Chase, British Columbia CHFA-2-FM in Red Deer, Alberta CHMM-FM in Mackenzie, British Columbia CHNV-FM in Nelson, British Columbia CHOA-FM-1 in Amos/Val d'Or, Quebec CHQM-FM in Vancouver, British Columbia CHTW-FM in Wadena, Saskatchewan CHYP-FM in Maple Creek, Saskatchewan CICL-FM in Sherbrooke, Quebec CIDC-FM in Orangeville, Ontario CILB-FM in Lac la Biche, Alberta CIVR-FM in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories CJFR-FM in Fisher River, Manitoba CJLM-FM in Joliette, Quebec CJRP-FM in Saint John, New Brunswick CJTK-FM-1 in North Bay, Ontario CKCH-FM in Sydney, Nova Scotia CKED-FM in Shuniah Township, Ontario CKGC-FM in Iqaluit, Nunavut CKHJ-2-FM in Oromocto, New Brunswick CKHZ-FM in Halifax, Nova Scotia CKJJ-FM-4 in Bancroft, Ontario CKRB-FM in St-Georges-de-Beauce, Quebec CKRC-FM in Weyburn, Saskatchewan CKRU-FM-1 in Madoc, Ontario CKYQ-FM-1 in Victoriaville, Quebec VF2209 in Kemano, British Columbia VF2218 in Seton Portage, British Columbia VF2310 in Elk Valley, British Columbia VF7228 in Jonquiere, Quebec XHEM-FM in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua XHEOLA-FM in Tampico, Tamaulipas XHGB-FM in Nanchital, Veracruz XHHMO-FM in Hermosillo, Sonora XHLZ-FM in Torreón, Coahuila XHPCH-FM in Parras de la Fuente, Coahuila XHPNK-FM in Los Mochis, Sinaloa XHPV-FM in Papantla de Olarte, Veracruz XHRX-FM on Cerro Grande Santa Fe (Guadalajara), Jalisco XHRZ-FM in Nogales, Sonora XHSCBZ-FM in Santiago de Anaya, Hidalgo XHTAK-FM in Tapachula, Chiapas XHTUG-FM in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas XHUET-FM in Huetamo, Michoacán Avtoradio in Vladikavkaz, Osetia Mayak in Murmansk, Murmansk region Yunost in Magadan, Magadan region Radio 3 in Omsk, Omsk region Mayak in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Kamchatka Europa Plus in Saratov, Saratov region Russkoye Radio in Smolensk, Smolensk region Retro FM in Cheboksary, Chuvashia Nashe Radio in Chelyabinsk, Chelyabinsk region Mayak in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin region United States (Channel 278) KAAD-LP in Sonora, California KAMZ in Tahoka, Texas KBJX in Mertzon, Texas KBPA in San Marcos, Texas KCIZ-LP in Brunswick, Minnesota KCKZ in Huntsville, Missouri KCYB-LP in Cypress, Texas KDVK in Dove Creek, Colorado KEWP in Uvalde Estates, Texas KHFR-LP in Keosauqua, Iowa KHHM in Sacramento, California KHSL-FM in Paradise, California KISF in Las Vegas, Nevada KJNZ in Hereford, Texas KKKK-LP in Colorado Springs, Colorado KLAA-FM in Tioga, Louisiana KLDZ in Medford, Oregon KLNZ in Glendale, Arizona KLPC-LP in Lone Pine, California KLUE in Poplar Bluff, Missouri KLUU in Wahiawa, Hawaii KNEI-FM in Waukon, Iowa KOST in Los Angeles, California KPAU in Center, Colorado KPST-FM in Coachella, California KPWH-LP in Jonesboro, Arkansas KQLA in Ogden, Kansas KRAY-FM in Salinas, California KRFX in Denver, Colorado KRHM-LP in Bakersfield, California KRSP-FM in Salt Lake City, Utah KRXW in Roseau, Minnesota KSAS-FM in Caldwell, Idaho KTEA in Cambria, California KTPJ-LP in Pueblo, Colorado KTWD in Wallace, Idaho KUAL-FM in Brainerd, Minnesota KVSP-FM in Anadarko, Oklahoma KWBB in Big Bear Lake, California KWHT in Pendleton, Oregon KWVV-FM in Homer, Alaska KWXD in Asbury, Missouri KXBK in Taylor, Arizona KXNP in North Platte, Nebraska KYBY-LP in Montgomery, Texas KYSM-FM in Mankato, Minnesota KZMY in Bozeman, Montana KZRB in New Boston, Texas KZTR-LP in Yakima, Washington KZZY in Devils Lake, North Dakota WADR-LP in Janesville, Wisconsin WAKY-FM in Radcliff, Kentucky WAWC in Syracuse, Indiana WAWL-LP in Grand Haven, Michigan WAXJ in Frederiksted, Virgin Islands WCCH in Holyoke, Massachusetts WCOC-LP in Jacksonville, Alabama WCOM-LP in Chapel Hill, North Carolina WCWL-LP in Clearwater Lake, Wisconsin WDBF-LP in Decatur, Indiana WEGI-LP in Immokalee, Florida WETI in Lake Village, Arkansas WEZL in Charleston, South Carolina WFNE-LP in Wake Forest, North Carolina WFUS in Gulfport, Florida WGRR-FM in Hamilton, Ohio WHUN-FM in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania WHVK in New Hope, Alabama WIAH-LP in Evansville, Indiana WIKK in Newton, Illinois WIMZ-FM in Knoxville, Tennessee WJAD in Leesburg, Georgia WJKI-FM in Bethany Beach, Delaware WJQZ in Wellsville, New York WKCV-LP in La Plume, Pennsylvania WKJH-LP in Bryan, Ohio WKNK in Callaway, Florida WKSC-FM in Chicago, Illinois WKTU in Lake Success, New York WLSP-LP in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin WLYI in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania WMIB in Fort Lauderdale, Florida WMMZ in Berwick, Pennsylvania WMRY in Crozet, Virginia WMUZ-FM in Detroit, Michigan WNHH-LP in New Haven, Connecticut WNND-FM in Pickerington, Ohio WONH-LP in New Haven, Connecticut WQBJ in Cobleskill, New York WQRZ-LP in Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi WRBO in Como, Mississippi WRCQ in Dunn, North Carolina WSIM-LP in Simsbury, Connecticut WTAW-FM in Buffalo, Texas WTCM-FM in Traverse City, Michigan WTOP-FM in Washington, District of Columbia WUUF in Sodus, New York WXGR-LP in Dover, New Hampshire WXHR-LP in Hillman, Michigan WXLT in Christopher, Illinois WZSN in Greenwood, South Carolina WZVA in Marion, Virginia Lists of radio stations by frequency Stations that broadcast for public reception CW/Morse in kHz LF (LW) Radio clocks By AM freq. Regions 1 and 3, 9 kHz spacing MF (MW) Region 2, 10 kHz spacing HF (SW)2 Freqs. in MHz By FM VHF (Band I/ OIRT FM) 30 kHz spacing3 (Band II/ CCIR FM) Australia - NAS 50/100 kHz spacing3 200 kHz spacing Japan FM Weather radio 1 Non-standard frequency 2 Shortwave uses a combination of AM, VSB, USB and LSB, with some NBFM and CW/morse code (in the case of time signal stations) as well as numerous frequencies, depending on the time of day/night, season, and solar activity level. A reasonably full list from 16 kHz to 27MHz can be found at [1] 3 Regions 1 and 3 also use Region 2's frequencies as well, with 50 to 100 kHz spacing. 4 See also: Template:Audio broadcasting, Apex (radio band) and OIRT This page was last edited on 1 July 2019, at 00:46	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4560
__label__cc	0.654934	0.345066	The Word Goes Flesh Various Writings by Jay Hinman Jay Hinman in Memories March 2, 2018 March 2, 2018 2,519 Words Ham-Handed Management 101: My Year of Failure at Cellular One “Your employees — they just don’t like you” — Melanie Coyle, Cellular One Customer Service Director, to me in 1995 The author in 1996, in the Fraud Resolution “supervisor pod” at Cellular One, South San Francisco, CA. No, I wasn’t always the sure-footed, wizened, mentor-to-many corporate leader and in-demand management guru that I am today. In fact, my first real job as a “manager” began as something of a train wreck. Cellular One in 1995 almost broke my spirit, sapped my will to live and nearly got me sent packing for the high crime of being a nervous-Nellie, fumble-footed, greenhorn manager. My adventures in the nascent world of cellular telephony started in the Fall of that year, when I exited after six years at Monster Cable (more on thatexperience here) and excitedly joined South San Francisco’s Cellular One as a Customer Service Supervisor. This was a pretty heady and massively profitable time for that industry, although the “mobile landscape” looks amazingly quaint by today’s standards. Back then every market in the United States had only two cellular network carriers — an “A” carrier and a “B” carrier. Most of us didn’t have cell phones yet. “Car phones”, installed on the floorboards of an automobile, were actually still a thing. In the San Francisco Bay Area, the two mobile operators were GTE and Cellular One, the latter of which was a joint venture between AirTouch Cellular and AT&T Wireless. Down in Los Angeles, those two actually competed against each other, with the “A” carrier being L.A. Cellular (AT&T) and the “B” carrier being AirTouch. Confusing, sure, but nothing like it later became with the arrival of Sprint and many others. Competition was minimal, in other words. Cellular One really had two problems at that point: counting all of the piled-up money they were making from the exploding mobile phone industry, and something called cloning fraud. This is how I came into the story. First, a little bit about cloning fraud, which, again, sounds totally ridiculous in the 21st century. Anyone’s analog phone signal back then could be “cloned” by dastardly tricksters and malicious thieves. These guys waited by roadsides and at intersections with “cloning devices” that eavesdropped on signals and could easily capture a phone’s unique information, which could then be quickly reprogrammed into a new phone. Seriously! Now said phone number would be associated with two devices, and unbeknownst to the legitimate bill-paying Cellular One customer, the other phone would then go off and place calls to Mexico, Canada and Timbuktu. All of these calls, local and otherwise, would show up as massive (and very expensive) surprises on the monthly bill. This would, of course, immediately prompt a fretful and angry call into Cellular One from the legitimate bill-holder. After my initial company training, I was told that I would be leading 8 call center representatives on the “Reactive Fraud” team. We would “react” to people whose phones had been cloned. I’d sit in a cubicle with my reps — later this became a pod-like “hub” in the center, with all of the reps in a circle at smaller desks around me — and I would intelligently coach them on bettering their craft, using my accumulated six years of wisdom from answering phones at Monster Cable. I was also warned that my job had very nearly been given to Kathryn, who was the team’s “Lead” (sort of an associate manager or the team’s Vice-President), and that she was none-too-happy for having lost out on a promotion to the job in favor of this new guy from outside the organization. As I came to find out, neither was my new team. So here’s what I walked into. Cloning fraud was totally out of control, and angry bill-receivers were calling up en masse to scream at us — “I didn’t make these calls to Mexico!!!” etc. We had eight reps answering calls, but when those reps were all on the phone, calls into our “queue” would stack up, while callers listened to inane hold music. When there were ten calls in queue, a scary red light on the wall would light up, and someone would have to mute their line and yell “ten calls in queue!”, just in case there might be someone available, eating a snack or otherwise ignoring the tense pandemonium of the Reactive Fraud call center. The Cellular One building, South San Francisco, CA. Like a doofus, I saw my main job as hustling these reticent phone-answerers into their headsets as fast as I could. My secondary job, green and inexperienced as I was, was to “listen in” on their calls, then coach them during quiet periods on what they might have done better to resolve the customer’s concerns, or how they might have shaved a few seconds off of the call in order to more rapidly answer another one. I decided that the Cellular One Reactive Fraud Supervisor would need to be friendly but tough, a straight-shooting customer and company advocate with a smiling face. Even as I eavesdropped on your every word, then gingerly picked apart your faults, I’d be your friend — your buddy — the best goddamn supervisor you’d ever had. Yet what I didn’t do was answer calls, even when the light glowed hot red and bedlam ensued. I totally talked the talk without walking the walk. Why not? I guess I felt at the time that it was “below” my lofty perch as a newly-minted supervisor. I not only wouldn’t walk even a millimeter in their proverbial moccasins, I also had something of a fussy, perfectionist orientation at work back then that almost certainly rubbed some people the wrong way. I had even taken a work-administered personality test that flat-out called me a “perfectionist”, and it wasn’t described as being a desirable trait. This, I’m certain, came off in how I coached and managed the team. A team that was already peeved that Kathryn wasn’t their leader now found an instant way to dislike me, and rightly so. I divined a chilliness bordering on hostility from most of them even after only a couple of weeks, and this truly pained me, so I made more than a few ham-handed attempts at “team building” to overcompensate. These mostly went nowhere, and likely made things worse. They ranged from forced “Hey, how was your weekend?” talks to morose team lunches that I tried to liven up with jokery and witty banter. I wore my weakness and nervousness on my sleeve, and even I was very aware of it at the time. I never really figured out if Kathryn helped to rally the troops against me, but I do know that 3 employees, led by a rep of mine named Ann, went to my boss’s office to tell her just how awful I was. This then resulted in a “performance talk” between me and my boss. Ann — wow. She really, really hated me, and absolutely dripped contempt every time we talked. Was it unfair? I certainly thought so at the time — but I’m not so certain of that now. I struggled with maintaining my serious I’m-here-to-coach-and-develop-you job role with my more natural state, which is to want to get along swimmingly with everyone. I tried to raise the meek defense to Stephanie, my manager, that at least some of my 8 employees liked me — Wayne did! Amy did! I was told, with regard to Amy, that “everybody already knows she’s your favorite”, which I had no intelligent retort for, because this was in fact true. Very quickly, after another complaint from an employee, I was put on an “action plan”, the failure of which to fulfill would result in my termination. This was devastating. The job not only paid well, it was in one of the hottest industries on the planet, and I’d just gotten serious with a new girlfriend (now my wife). We were looking into moving in together and building a life together, as one does. I’d been, if not a “rock star” in my six years at Monster Cable, a highly-regarded employee who got really good performance reviews and had almost no friction with anyone, neither bosses nor co-workers. To now be called out as a “bad manager” was dumbfounding. Worse, my eight reps were about to become twelve reps. My reactive fraud team soothed angry bill-receivers down by explaining cloning fraud to them, then “writing off” (zeroing out) their entire bill, rather than have them pick through the bill line-by-line saying “this one’s mine; this one’s not mine” and so on. Yet there was also a Proactive Fraud team on a different floor. These 4 reps were led by a cowboy boot-wearin’, pickup-truck drivin’ dude named Tim, whom they all adored. These reps had a magic terminal that they used to look into call activity as it was happening. They’d pick out those numbers that were spiking with calls to Mexico and elsewhere, then proactively call the customer to let them know they’d need to change their phone numbers. Back then, that really was the only way to stop it — change the number, which is what my reactive fraud team did as required. I was informed that the Proactive Fraud team would now be mine as well, and that they were moving to our floor to sit with my other reps. You can imagine that this went over like a fart in church when Tim had to break it to them. At least two of the new women on my team, Julie and Rhonda, were vocally clear about how displeased they were to have to work for me. Thankfully by this time, in early 1996, I had gathered my wits somewhat and returned some small semblance of pride. I was now personally answering calls, sometimes when there were even less than ten sitting in queue. I was able to share and revel in the lunchtime tales of some of the morons who called us, such as the reactive fraud call I once took in which the caller, whose bill I refused the write off in full, prodded me with “The fact that I have an MBA doesn’t impress you? The fact that I have a juris doctorate doesn’t mean anything to you??”. Most importantly, I was off of my action plan, having successfully “resolved my issues”. It wasn’t easy, and it stressed me out no end to have to win over the reactive team while integrating the highly resistant proactive team. I wasn’t sleeping well. Julie, in particular, was consistently “snippy” and overtly hostile with me, but now that I finally had a little wind at my back, I was able to authoritatively remind her what her job was and what was expected of her, without having to worry about it boomeranging back on me. Somehow, just as the management books said it would, this approach worked. The 1996 Fraud Resolution team, in happier times. As 1996 rolled on, the job actually became something approximating what I’d hoped it might be. We changed our name to the Fraud Resolution Team(we made it up ourselves), and the team continued to expand with the further snowballing of cloning fraud. I became somewhat proficient in providing constructive call feedback and performance appraisals to my team, even at the cost of having to silently listen into their calls via my on-desk monitoring device or in a special “call monitoring room” that the company provided. I twice caught one female employee engaging in exceptionally filthy sex talk with a boyfriend on the phone, talk so over-the-top that I decided it better to just pretend it never happened and to refrain from bringing it up. Another employee of mine was more problematic. While he could be outwardly charming and fun, he often brought a massive chip on his shoulder to work, which then infected his calls. I’d listen in to him actively arguing with customers for no good reason, or ignoring their concerns by changing the subject — even going so far as to flat-out hang up on them during difficult calls. Now it was time for me to put together an “action plan”, which I sweated and agonized over because it was likely to lead to my having to fire him. We endured this sort of tense tête-à-tête with each other for about a month, and somehow I got out of canning the guy by quietly pawning him off on another department by arranging for a transfer (!). I still feel a little guilty about that one. After my abysmal start in 1995, the comparatively better 1996 gave way to 1997, when I announced to my boss that I’d be leaving Cellular One in the late summer to get my MBA at the University of Washington in Seattle. I’d talked with some of the happy marketing people upstairs, and found out that they were doing much more creative & interesting work than I was, and were simultaneously making a great deal more money. They told me that an abrupt career change at that point in my life, aged 29, could be smoothed out by possession of an MBA, and while I’d much rather have gone back to school to study global literature, journalism or political science — really, just about anything other than business — I’d felt my path had already been set, and my risk-averse nature pushed me out the door toward my fate. I never picked up a phone in a call center again, nor told anyone else how they might do it better. I never again found myself shamed and stained by an action plan. I learned a few things about what not to do as a newly-hired manager, which came in handy later on, particularly on one relatively recent occasion in which I again stepped in to lead an existing team of ten people. Cloning fraud itself began to fade as new digital technologies were adopted both in the network and in handsets themselves, and as I was leaving Cellular One, the world was agog about the runaway success of the most advanced phone to date — the Motorola StarTAC, a flip phone with limited “SMS” capabilities. I cut virtually all ties with anyone and everyone at Cellular One, as I still held onto residual paranoia about what I envisioned was a widespread perception of my managerial incompetence, something that I’m now pretty certain I was merely imagining. The whole experience seems to have been one of those trial-by-fire toughening events that make a life what it is. In the grander sweep of things, it was a decidedly minor bump in the road that I reckon I’m glad happened when it did, even if I’m still totally pissed at myself for not grabbing that tenth call in queue, thereby maybe avoiding the whole fiasco in the first place. 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__label__cc	0.671572	0.328428	The Top 30 CDP Essays Of All-Time (2006-2008). October 31, 2008 ~ ryanzeinert ~ Leave a comment Here are the Top 30 CDP Essays Of All-Time from 2006 to 2008, in bite-sized form. Click at will and enjoy in moderation. #30 – “I Can See Your Butthole.” (07/07) #29 – “I’m Not Here To Serve You.” (11/06) #28 – “Twenty Photographs Of Door County.” (10/07) #27 – “1989 CDP Evaluation.” (02/08) #26 – “The CDP vs. PETA.” (02/08) #25 – “Eat Me, Cake.” (02/08) #24 – “The Geek.Kon Aftermath.” (10/07) #23 – “My iPod ‘Asploded.” (08/07) #22 – “The CDP’s Top 15 NES Games Of All-Time.” (05/08) #21 – “A Ziploc Bag Full Of Chocolate Chip Cookies.” (04/08) #20 – “Who Wants To Date An Internet Has-Been?” (08/08) #19 – “Do You Know Who You Are?” (03/08) #18 – “Shove That Crystal Ball Straight Up Your Chute.” (01/07) #17 – “Evan Takes A Vacation.” (01/07) #16 – “Snap, Crackle, Poop.” (08/07) #15 – “Your Karma Ran Over My Legma.” (04/07) #14 – “Kickin’ It With Cliff.” (11/06) #13 – “26 Things That Suck About Turning 26.” (02/08) #12 – “Praying For The End Of Time.” (05/07) #11 – “Grumble, Alone, Grumble, Polysics.” (10/07) #10 – “A Life Without Tires.” (04/07) #9 – “Talking Sex With The CDP.” (10/07) #8 – “Adventures In Cyber Sex.” (03/07) #7 – “Free MySpace Poetry.” (10/06) #6 – “Everything Plus One.” (06/08) #5 – “You Have No Idea What ‘Having No Idea’ Means.” (03/08) #4 – “Meet The New American Gladiators.” (01/08) #3 – “Don’t You Go Forgetting About Me.” (12/06) #2 – “Boom Goes The Spider Bite.” (09/07) #1.5 – “Lost Monday – ‘There’s No Place Like Home.’” (06/08) #1 – “65 Poor Life Decisions – The CDP Book.” (11/07) CDP Top 30 Of All-Time (’06-’08) – #1. October 30, 2008 ~ ryanzeinert ~ 2 Comments #1 – “65 Poor Life Decisions – The CDP Book.” (Originally Published November 30, 2007.) There are two ways you can order copies of 65 Poor Life Decisions, my debut book: 1. Directly through Lulu, by clicking on the above link, banner link, OR THIS LINK. It’s safe, secure and simple. Cost is $15.95. If you’re feeling charitable, feel free to leave me a 5-star review or any kind words while you’re there. 2. Directly through me, which includes a copy of the book, shipping to anywhere in the nation, autographs/personalization and free CDP merch. Cost is $21, and we will accept money orders or well-concealed cash (no checks). Contact me beforehand, however, because I may be sold out of books at the time and may need to reorder. Send the $21, along with a return address, name to make the book out to, and e-mail address for delivery confirmation, to: theCDP. If you are requesting a copy through me, and you live outside of the United States, please send $25 to cover extra shipping charges. American money or International money orders only, please. If you are paying via money order, please make orders out to Ryan Zeinert, not ‘theCDP.’ Also, while money orders are traceable and secure, I can’t be held responsible if your cash payment doesn’t make it to my PO Box. Thank you so much in advance for liking my dumb little stories; I can’t thank you enough. This is honestly one of the neatest days of my life, and I have each of you to thank. Cheers. UPDATE #1 – The almighty Kevin Palmer from PointlessBanter.net has put up a ‘5 Questions’ interview with me concerning the release of the book. It’s hilarious and informative, you can check it out right here! UPDATE #2 – HoneyFlora over at 10 Links A Day has allowed me to guest blog and list my top 10 favorite humor sites on the web. I even give a shout out to CDP alumni Pork Tornado, Pointless Banter and the Cargirl News Minute! You can check it out right here! UPDATE #3 – Cargirl over at the highly underrated and hard-working Cargirl News Minute has posted a brief reminder/plug for 65 Poor Life Decisions. You can check it out right here! UPDATE #4 – JT from Spork Nation posted one of my absolute favorite interviews concerning the book. It was done ‘live chat’ style and the questions were great. It’s about as personal as I’ll get in an interview, so please take a look at it if you want to read something slightly more insightful than what I’m used to. You can check it out right here! UPDATE #5 – Since we’re going interview-crazy today, here’s a good one conducted by Jesse Russell for Dane 101 awhile back. You can check it out right here! UPDATE #6 – Will Betheboy has been so kind as to plug 65 Poor Life Decisions on his blog. Now if I can only convince him to upload a photo of him or Nina kissing the book…hmmm… You can check it out right here! UPDATE #7 – Kenny Frankly is plugging 65 Poor Life Decisions on her blog, Topping From The Bottom. You can check it out right here! UPDATE #8 – On Friday afternoon, I met up with a few friends, signed a few books and had a few drinks. At least I know that my book is good for something. UPDATE #9 – Maus from Idle Neatness posted a brief plug for 65 Poor Life Decisions, complete with sexy banners and links. You can check it out right here! UPDATE #10 – Vintage Caveman just put up a link to my site, a link to the book, and some kind words concerning 65 Poor Life Decisions. He’s going the mail-order route; choosing to conceal his cash in a box of Mike-n-Ikes. I have the greatest fans in the world, hands down. You can check it out right here! UPDATE #11 (12/03) – This weekend has been busy, but also very refreshing to my burnt out self. I’m amazed to say that I sold 30 books in the last three days, strictly hand-to-hand. What I mean is that I sold 30 books in person, not counting any online or mail orders. This is incredible to me, because I was quite certain that I wouldn’t sell a total of 30 books. With this good news in my pocket, I’m fully recharged and ready to spend all week fulfilling your mail order requests, as well as taking on more interviews and local press. Expect to see more of those in the upcoming days this week. I’ve been snowed in since Friday evening, but I’ll be driving to the Post Office every single say, making sure that everything is being taken care of the instant it gets in my hands. It’s the least I can do for such supportive and generous readers. Now, send me some money, please. Rock Band for the PS2 comes out in 10 days. UPDATE #12 – HeyDomsar just posted a fantastic (and lengthy) interview with yours truly over on his Milwaukee-based blog, Thought For The Day. This is a good one; You can check it out right here! NOTE FROM THE CDP: So, the CDP Top 30 ends with a sentimental favorite. The release of 65 Poor Life Decisions encompassed the last five years of blogging, essays, hard work, long nights, copious alcohol consumption, depression and most of all, my attempt at telling the funniest stories I possibly could. I felt it deserved to be #1 for a number of reasons, not the least of which being that it’s been one of the biggest accomplishments of my adult life. Thanks for reading, thanks for showing up during Rerun Month, and if you’re new to the CDP, please stick around; all-new material returns Monday. Happy Halloween; sound off in the comments section and enjoy your weekend. CDP Top 30 Of All-Time (’06-’08) – #1.5 #1.5 – “Lost Monday – ‘There’s No Place Like Home.'” (Originally Published June 2, 2008.) Season 4 – Episode 13/14: “There’s No Place Like Home (Parts 2 & 3).“ The final Lost Monday is upon us. We have nothing left to discuss. Going into Season 4, we knew that things were going to be different for Lost. Storyline-wise, the addition of the flash-forwards added a new depth to the plot, character development and Harvard degree one needs to fully comprehend the show as a whole; the concept that yes, people were rescued from the island, and no, that doesn’t mean the show is necessarily over. The Oceanic 6 had problems of their own, there were hints that the island may exist on a different plane of time than the rest of the world, and Jack Shepard’s Future Beard had a nation captivated. It was good times. (“Face it, Sawyer. We’re never getting our Frisbee back from Richard’s yard.”) However, from a more technical (ie: boring) aspect, Season 4 of Lost was also different. The Writer’s Guild strike shortened the run of the show to just 13 episodes, with a huge hiatus between the 8th and 9th episodes (known at CDP Headquarters as ‘Black April’). The patience of the viewers was tested, but the producers managed to cram about 20 episodes worth of story and development into those 13 short weeks, giving us a season of television that couldn’t have possibly been expected after the scattershot and roaming Season 3. No question about it, Season 4 brought the pain in a big way, overcoming the odds and succeeding when they probably shouldn’t have. I’ve come to expect nothing less; Lost has become the Chicago White Sox of television; continually being awesome even though everyone wants them to fail miserably. All we need now is Ozzie Guillen showing up on the Island every week to deliver a profanity-laced tirade about nothing in particular. (“Why didn’t they just kill me off in the Pilot episode like they wanted to?”) So, what’s to make of this? Personally, I thought that the Season 4 finale did everything it needed to do (like all of the finales that proceeded it). They answered the questions of Season 3, raised new ones for the future and set the stage for a Season 5 that is nowhere near anything that we could have predicted a few years ago. Locke is the leader of the Hostiles? Where is the island, now that Ben warp-whistled it to the middle of nowhere? What dangers and conspiracies are about to befall the Oceanic 6? Are any of the survivors actually ‘good’ people? All this speculation is making my wee-wee hurt. Strap in and prepare for the Green & Leafy! As a longtime vegetarian, displaying a large piece of steak every week to introduce my detailed Lost recap was a very tongue-in-cheek way of introducing the hilarious, historic and world-famous satire that was about to invade your loins like the lemon-scented crotch of Zeus Himself. However, because this is my last Lost Monday, I’m going out a winner. A weak, protein-deficient winner who never gets invited to barbecues because his tofu dogs taste like ass. Let’s make it happen. (John McCain takes a lie detector test.) AROUND THE ISLAND, WHERE EYELINER AND RUM IS PLENTIFUL. Jack and Sawyer catch up with Hurley and Locke at The Orchid, where John is looking for a ramp large enough to jump over a Dharma-stamped shark. Locke explains to Jack that whomever gets rescued would have to lie about their experiences on the Island in order to protect it, as Jack tries in vain to stuff his intestines back under his t-shirt. It works, but only for a little while. Jack, Hurley and Sawyer head back to the helicopter, where Hurley is reminded that he shouldn’t be eating so many saltine crackers when water is a limited commodity. Was there any reason why those stupid crackers were referenced three times in two weeks? It wasn’t that funny. (Nobody steals Alpert’s makeup and gets away with it. Nobody.) AT THE HELICOPTER, WHERE SAYID BECOMES BRUCE GODDAMN LEE. Keamy is hauling Ben back to the helicopter for transport, when Kate bursts out of the jungle, claiming that Ben’s men are chasing her. Keamy forms a battle plan, when the Hostiles spring out and start straight-up wrecking stuff. Ben and Kate run off during the fray, as gunfire and general awesomeness reigns supreme. For a group of people guaranteed to never age or get sick, those Hostiles sure know how to kick an ass or two. As Keamy tries to catch back up with Kate and Ben, Sayid takes him out like the Iraqi torturer we used to know and love. A nearly two-minute long fistfight ensues, with Sayid and Keamy taking turns hitting each other in the head and multiple ribular stabbings. A tree branch is brought into the fray, as it has now become a No Disqualification Match. Just as Keamy gets the upper hand, Richard shows up and caps him four times in the back. Never let it be said that Richard isn’t an opportunist, but shooting someone in the back is a pretty cheap victory, regardless of how evil of a bastard Keamy is. Ben proceeds to hop into Richard’s arms like a puppy with a thorn in its paw, and they let Kate and Sayid have the helicopter in exchange for helping them out. Ben returns to The Orchid, as Locke continues to struggle with anything even remotely resembling tact or initiative. (“My kingdom for a frozen donkey wheel.”) ON THE BEACH, WHERE AUXILIARY CHARACTERS TALK ON CAMERA. Daniel lets Juliet know that the Freighter is getting closer to the island, as they get more groups ready to be taken aboard. Damn, I just realized how few Oceanic Flight 815 survivors are still on the island. There’s like, five of them left. Daniel lets Miles and Charlotte know that getting off of the Island is important, as it’s about to be hurtled through space and time like a change-up pitch to David Ortiz (two baseball references in one recap? Boo-yah!). Miles decides to stay, and Charlotte decides to stay, although it’s implied that she may have a serious birth connection to the island. More to come in Season 5, I presume. Also, I don’t care about Charlotte, so this storyline is unnecessary and wasteful. Carry on. (“Yeah, I play starting forward for the Pistons now. MEEEEEEEEEE!!!!”) IN THE ORCHID, WHERE IT ALL COMES INEVITABLY CRASHING DOWN. Ben and Locke take the elevator down to the Orchid Station, and I’m left frustrated because there was no Muzak playing in the elevator. This was a great opportunity for the same sort of dark humor displayed when Ethan was about to slice Claire open in the Medical Station, but to no avail. Quick Comedy Tip: Muzak is always funny. Once in the Station, Locke sees a The Fly-esque device, asking Ben if it’s the ‘magic box’ he was telling him about before. Ben says no, and makes him watch an educational videotape, slightly winking at the viewing audience with his humorous delivery. I quite enjoyed that moment, to be honest. In the video, Dr. Mark Wickmund/Marvin Candle/Edgar Halliwax explains that the Orchid is pretty much a place where they send bunnies through time. Fair enough. Ben looks to sabotage the vault-area, and as the elevator starts to ascend, Locke and Ben realize that they’re about to have a visitor. Probably one that is none too happy about digging bullet residue out of his spinal cord. (“Man, I can’t wait until I’m in that coffin.”) Keamy shows up in the Orchid, and delivers a monologue about how he’s not really dead and that his heart is hooked up to a monitor that will make the Freighter go explodie-time if he were to be killed. He then starts making fun of Alex’s death, which is about the least-classy thing I’ve ever seen someone do on national television (minus anything ever uttered by Billy Packer), even if it was towards a sniveling douchenozzle like Ben Linus. Locke pops in and distracts Keamy long enough for Action Linus to spring into frame and stab the crap out of his neckhole. Keamy dies, and when Locke scolds him for allowing innocent people to be vaporized on a freighter, Ben doesn’t seem to mind all that much. Welcome back, you evil asshole. We’ve all missed you. (Michael comes to terms with the fact that he has ruined the lives of everyone he ever came in contact with.) In a terrific scene, Ben goes on to tell Locke that he made a mistake in killing Keamy, and that Locke should try to be a better leader of the Island. Ben explains that by moving the island, he will not be allowed to return to it, and that Locke will be in charge from here on out. Locke is confused, the audience is confused, and Ben apologies for making John’s life so miserable. Hey, get in line, buddy. You’re probably the best thing that ever happened to him. After the Ben-caused explosion of the vault of the Orchid, a pathway is opened up to the interior of the Island. For whatever reason, this section of the Station is frozen and covered in hieroglyphs. Across from Ben is basically a frozen donkey wheel, which Ben attempts to move while declaring to the sky, “I hope you’re happy now, Jacob.“ Um, okay, dude. At this point, I looked at my reflection in the mirror, just to make sure that I wasn’t dreaming or dead. This is the same show I started watching at 8pm, right? As he begins to turn the wheel, the room begins to get brighter, now beginning to resemble the same circumstances as when the Swan Station imploded at the end of Season 2. Outside, the Island emits a shrill noise and a light envelops the island before everything freaking disappears, including about five million viewers. (Daniel represents the future vision of Lost: Random, senseless and possessing patchy facial hair.) ON THE FREIGHTER, WHERE THE CORPSE POTENTIAL IS GROWING. Michael, who will from this point forward be known as ‘Black McGyver,’ finds a canister of liquid nitrogen and explains to Desmond and Jin that he can temporarily freeze the battery leading to the C4 explosive, buying them some time to either defuse it or haul ass for the mainland. With Keamy dead and the bomb armed, Desmond leaves for the chopper and Jin hangs back with Michael for a bit. Michael convinces Jin to leave because he’s about to be a father, but Jin doesn’t make it to the helicopter in time. Christian Shepard appears to Michael, let’s him know that his work for the island is done, and he’s finally rewarded with that sweet, sweet death that he’s been hoping for since he first got back from the Island. The freighter blows to pieces, killing Michael, Jin and presumably everyone else on board. Well, maybe ‘Black McGruber‘ is more like it. (“I sure hope that thing was the bathroom, ‘cuz I just peed in it.”) ON THE HELICOPTER, WHERE HURLEY CONTINUALLY ASKS FOR PEANUTS. There’s about 6.5 people in the helicopter heading for the freighter, when Frank realizes that they’re leaking gasoline. He tells the passengers to throw out anything that isn’t bolted down, so some toolboxes, parachutes and Aaron are tossed into the ocean. This still isn’t doing the trick, so Sawyer decides to be noble and, after whispering something indecipherable into Kate’s ear, throws himself overboard and swims back to the Island. It’s a damn good thing he got back to the Island before it decided to move itself. Hell, he’s lucky the Island didn’t land on him. (“I’m so glad Lost Monday is over; the fat jokes will finally cease.”) Once on the freighter, Desmond warns them that a bomb is about to go off, but Frank lands anyway and fuels up the chopper. Everyone hops on board, including Sun, and when the helicopter takes back off, Sun loses it over the fact that Jin has now become food to the very same fish he grew up catching with his father. So poetic. Oh, then the Island disappears right in front of them. With nowhere to land now, the crew braces for impact and crashes into the ocean. They all make it into the life raft and are pretty much stuck in the middle of nowhere for the time being. They cut to commercial, and I check my pupils to make sure I didn’t recently suffer a concussion. Am I really seeing this? (“Psshems mmmmffrrrt frazzakle pwwpwwweet.”) BACK ON THE BEACH, WHERE JULIET DRINKS ALONE AND GETS ALL EMO. Sawyer washes ashore and asks Juliet why she’s displaying such public alcoholism. Juliet points to the remnants of the Freighter, and Sawyer seems to think that everyone on the helicopter is now dead. On top of that, his pants are extremely uncomfortable after such a long and tiring swim. This is a bad day for everyone, it would seem. (“DAAAAANCE CONNNNTEST!!!!”) AFTER THE ISLAND IS MOVED, BUT BEFORE THE CANNIBALISM. The Oceanic 5 (plus Frank, Desmond and Aaron), continue to aimlessly float on the life raft. Hurley proclaims that, yes, Locke really did succeed in moving the island. Jack, agitated and sick of being wrong, tosses Hurley overboard just as Frank notices a nearby ship. At this point, Jack decides that Locke was right, and lets everyone know that they should probably lie about everything that has happened to them on the Island, for the good of those who were still on it. Also, he didn’t want anyone on the mainland to know about the time that he was caught pooping in Sawyer’s pillowcase. Something like that could get your Medical license revoked. (“Jin had my keys in his pocket! NOOOOO!”) As fate (or lazy screenwriting) would have it, the boat happens to belong to Penny Widmore. A teary reunion takes place, as Jack tells Penny that they need to talk; presumably about planning their staged rescue. It’s amazing that Penny decides to go along with this, but then again, I’ve never thought she was all that bright. One week later (did you notice that?), the Oceanic 6 depart from Penny’s boat with a well-established cover story, while Desmond and Frank stay behind (with a happy ending; never to be seen again?). The conversation between Jack and Desmond seems to state that Penny let them all know just what Charles Widmore is capable of, and the 6 castaways hop on the raft and head for the island of Sumba, which is known for their fishing exports and finding of plane crash survivors. (“Hi folks. I’m James Ford, for Cool Water cologne.”) FLASHFORWARDS ARE THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE! JACK – Picking up where the final scene of ‘Through The Looking Glass’ left off, Kate seems less than excited about the prospect of going back to the Island with Jack. She tells Jack that Locke (Jeremy Bentham) had met with her, too, and she knew that he was crazy and not about to help him by going back to the island. Jack claims that he trusted him because he thought it would protect Kate and Aaron, but Kate is having none of it, and speeds away. Aaron makes a cameo and flips Jack the bird. HURLEY – Waaaaaallllllt visits the institution where Hurley is staying, asking him why nobody visited him after they were rescued. Walt claims that Locke visited him, and asks Hurley why everyone is lying about the crash. Hurley tells him that they’re lying to protect the people on the Island, and Walt seems to think that his dad is currently alive and well. Hurley decides not to upset him with the truth, as Walt is now six-foot-nine and at least 27 years old. (This wheel just spins the dessert tray in the Dharma break room.) SAYID – Sayid visits Hurley and wants him to come along where it’s ‘safe.’ Sayid claims that ‘circumstances have changed’ now that Locke was dead, and assures Hurley that they are not going back to the Island. Hurley accompanies him, but not before owning Zombie Eko in a game of chess. I called shenanigans here, mainly because I don’t think Hurley can beat Eko in a game of chess, zombified or otherwise. SUN – Sun tracks down Charles Widmore in London, and pretty much makes him look like a silly, Australian tool. She wants answers, and lets him know that she’s ready to listen when he’s ready to talk. Snap! (The CDP takes his shirt off.) KATE – Kate, dreaming, answers her phone to hear the message ‘The island needs you; you have to go back before it’s too late,’ spoken in reverse. As she goes to check on Aaron, we see Claire in his room, telling Kate not to bring him back to the Island. Kate wakes up, heads to Aaron’s room and profusely apologizes for being such a terrible faux-mother. JACK, AGAIN – Jack heads back to the funeral parlor, only to see Ben. According to Locke, some ‘very bad things’ happened on the Island after the Oceanic 6 left, and it was Jack’s fault for leaving. Locke also added that he needed to come back. Ben is there to tell Jack that everyone pretty much needs to come back to the Island before things get even more wonky, and Jack claims to not have the resources to gather up the rest of the Oceanic 6. Ben offers to help, and specifies that everyone must return, even the corpse of Mr. John Locke. Smash-cut; everything over. Wow. How about that? In honor of the Season Finale, I think that this episode deserves its very own haiku. Moving the Island With a frozen donkey wheel. Why is this awesome? Hey, truth be told, this episode was awesome. And hey, let’s not get all sad because the show has crossed the realm into the absurd and ‘you have to believe in Time Travel to continue to enjoy this madness;‘ let’s attempt to focus on the positives here, with 5 Awesome Things! Here are 5 Awesome Things…About Being Able To Move An Island Through Space & Time. 1. Every night is pizza night…somehow. 2. You could move it somewhere cooler during the Summer months. It could be like a three season room, minus all the elderly people and wicker furniture. 3. Remember when you used to play Super Mario World, and you could pause the game just before you died and reload your previously saved progress? Yeah; just like that! 4. I’m not entirely sure, but I’d rig it so I’d somehow never have to do laundry again. 5. It makes your once-amazing and respectable television show a helluva lot easier to write for. One more time, for the kids, let’s Break It Down! 4 – As a way to keep the spoiler heat off of the writers and producers of the show, two alternate endings for the ‘funeral parlor’ scene were shot, featuring Sawyer and Desmond in the coffin. This was presumably done to prevent the secret ending from leaking early. Other television shows have done this in the past, such as the Seinfeld finale, or the ‘Who Shot Mr. Burns?’ episode of The Simpsons. Subsequently, these are pretty much the only two shows that are better than Lost. 8 – Apparently, what Sawyer said to Kate was the same thing that we had presumed he had said to her, which was: “I have a daughter in Albuquerque. You need to find her; tell her I’m sorry.” Go ahead, rewind it and listen. I’ll wait. (“My only line of the Season Finale is in a dream sequence?”) 15 – For the fourth season finale in a row, the action centers around a big-ass explosion. In Season 1, the Hatch and the raft exploded. In Season 2, the Swan Station met its fate. In Season 3, dynamite was used in mass quantities to kill a batch of the Others. This week, the Freighter was vaporized. Kaboom. My current prediction is that in the Season 5 finale, Sun’s baby will explode, and in the Series Finale, my head will explode. 16 – From Lostpedia: “This episode features the first instance of a lapse of time during the continuous present-day narrative, notably, the caption of “One Week Later” after the life-raft crew are found by the Searcher.” I’d like to know what they did on the Searcher for that week; preparing their stories and whatnot. Furthermore, I pity the poor person who had to sleep in the room right next to Desmond and Penny. They had some catching up to do, and I bet they weren’t shy about it. (“Yup, that’s my dad, always ruining people’s lives in the worst fashion humanly possible. Pie?”) 23 – Mythbusters‘ Adam Savage blows the entire ‘C4/liquid nitrogen’ conflict out of the water: “The 500 pounds of C4, that whole movie thing about “dummy triggers” and fake tripwires—it’s all a load of crap. Nobody does that. At least that’s what my friends at the FBI tell me. Would you want to set up explosives so that pretty much anything you did would make them go off? It’s just like guessing and cutting one of the wires in the movies: Nobody would survive using that technique for very long, including Keamy and his crew. The whole training of a bomb tech is to work safely with explosives, not dangerously. There are too many ways to mess it up. Also, I’m pretty sure that C4 isn’t conductive, which it would need to be to set up its wiring as a resistance feedback loop that could tell if you started to pull out the detonators. And if freezing the battery works, why not just disconnect it? Oh, right, the monitored feedback loop. But wait, C4 isn’t conductive … never mind.” Also, bear in mind that the monitor that Keamy was wearing could never continue to work once he descended into the rocky underground of the Orchid Station. Either communication would have been lost, or the Freighter simply would have exploded as soon as he got out of range. Of course, this is a show where we’re supposed to believe that entire masses of land can disappear and reappear at will, so perhaps we’re digging into a a little too deeply. ….Lost! (“Maybe the numbers would go away if I ate them?”) 42 – What do you think happened to Faraday, and those who were on the raft during the Freighter explosion? Do you think they made it back to the Island before it disappeared, or are they simply floating around in the middle of nowhere, much like the Oceanic 6 were before their rescue? Personally, if they could just give me a shot, just one second of a shot, showing Daniel Faraday floating aimlessly in the ocean by himself, then this entire finale would have been worth it. Suck it, Faraday. I’m through with you, and I’m done with Lost Monday. (Breaking into a funeral home makes about as much sense as an Amish guy stealing an extension cord.) And with that, our Lost journey comes to an end. When I started doing this in 2005, I had no idea it would turn into what it did, and that I’d care so much about putting it to a halt in 2008. I want to sincerely thank everyone for all of the e-mails and kind words, and once again remind those of you who only check out the CDP for Lost Monday, I’m a published author! This was just a small section of what the CDP is all about; please stick around and allow me entertain you with poop jokes and snark. Please start the conversation in the comments section, send anything you want to communistdance@yahoo.com, and enjoy the following links to every Lost Monday…ever. Thank you. I’m taking a nap now. (“If my beard were made of scotch, I’d totally drink it.”) Season 4 – Episode 1 Recap Season 4 – Episode 3 Pop Crunch Recap Season 4 – Episode 10 Recap Season 4 – Finale Edition 1 Season 3 – Episode 22/23 Recap SEASON TWO – EPISODE 23/24 RECAP SEASON TWO – FINALE EDITION 2 SEASON TWO – EPISODE 22 RECAP SEASON TWO – CLIP SHOW EDITION SEASON TWO – TEMPORARY EDITION SEASON TWO – RERUN EDITION: VOLUME 8 SEASON TWO – EPISODE 9 RECAP SEASON TWO – RERUN EDITION (“Thank God it’s finally over.”) #2 – “Boom Goes The Spider Bite.” (Originally Published September 10, 2007.) It was about 2:30 on a Thursday afternoon. I was at work, just about to lock the door of the private bathroom I had stepped into. I often used the private bathroom because I’m strongly opposed to defecating in the same room with someone else at the same time. There’s something extremely wrong with that, and I prefer to avoid it at all costs. Even though the public stalls are 100 yards closer to my cubicle, I always make the trek for the greater good. With the door locked, I sat down and began my business. No less than a few seconds later did I notice what appeared to be the largest spider in Wisconsin recorded history, staring right back at me from the door. It was about two feet away, clinging at eye level from my vantage point. The bathroom itself is more like a Porta-Potty than anything. It’s about 4 feet wide by 4 feet long, cramming only a toilet and sink into the cramped area. Me and Spider were trapped together for the time being, and I tried very hard not to make any sudden movements. The last thing I needed was to lose sight of this thing with my pants around my ankles. I would have had no reservations darting out of that room with reckless abandon, dangling like nobody’s business while prominent businessmen and wealthy getabouts stared on in abject terror. As I wrapped up my duties, I kept a death-gaze on the spider. I knew that he was waiting for me to turn away for a mere second to pull up my pants, and then BAM! He would latch directly onto my Naughty Place, sink his fangs in and slowly digest me from the inside-out. I wasn’t ready to accept this fate just yet. Or ever, really. I stood up ever so slowly, pulling up my boxers and khakis one inch at a time, all while focusing hard on the spider. If he would have darted in any direction at this point, I probably would have screamed and knocked myself out on the back of the toilet. He was already inside my head, and I needed to get my wits together immediately. Up came the khakis, on went the belt, and before I knew it, I was 6 inches away from the spider, looming over it as he now skittered over to the side wall. I shivered as I saw how big he actually was. It was more like a doughnut with teeth. The kind of spider that you see in nightmares when you’ve had too much to drink. I had to kill it; it was the only way I would ever be able to bring myself to use the private bathroom again. The mere thought of having this thing sneak up on me in the future was enough reason to never urinate again. Because he was on the drywall, I couldn’t just step on it as if he were on the floor. Besides, he was so big, he could have probably gone for a double-underhook takedown as I was rearing up. Nope, because he was on the wall, I thought of a brilliant way to nail him with a flat-footed stomp, eliminating all chances of a near-hit or worse, a total whiff with violent spider retaliation. I decided to stand with my back to the spider, bracing myself by putting my hands on either side of the sink, and mule kicking backwards to smoosh the spider with all of the pressure on the bottom of my shoe. That way, I didn’t have to monkey with it to get it onto the floor. No fuss, no muss. One swift kick, one smashed spider, and one happy guy that just took a poop. Seems foolproof. I turned away from him, but kept peering over my shoulder to make sure he was in the same spot. I clutched onto the sink with both hands, took a few practice kicks and started lining up. I was going to demolish this spider. Pulverize it. There was no way he was coming back from this one. I wound up and sent a vicious mule kick towards the spider, my foot completely smashing through the drywall all the way up to my ankle. Horrified, I tried to yank my leg back out of the hole, but the tip of my shoe got caught and tripped me up, sending me head-first towards the toilet. I thrust my arms out to prevent myself from a self-administered Swirlie, my left arm grabbing the seat and my right arm plunging straight down into the bowl. So there I was, very much alone in a tiny bathroom, experiencing something altogether new to me. My right leg still stuck inside of the hole I had just kicked in the wall, my left knee on the filthy tile floor, my left arm clutching a public toilet seat, and my right arm soaked to the elbow with poop water. The only way it could have gotten any worse was if my First Grade teacher had walked in, peered down at my sweaty face and said, “See? I told you you’d never amount to anything.” Just then, I saw it. The spider. Climbing up the opposite side wall, just inches away from my face. I was completely helpless. Stuck. Even with all of my destruction, I had actually missed the damn thing, and now he was eying me up for the kill. “This is how it ends for me,” I said to myself. I grimaced and prepared for all of the jokes and press coverage my bloated corpse would receive upon discovery. Just then, my foot rattled loose from the wall, giving me the leverage I needed to pull my hand out of the toilet and stand myself back up. Dripping wet, my pant legs white with drywall, I grabbed a wad of toilet paper and stood before the spider. One of us was going to die in this room, and although I honestly thought it was going to be me due to my own baffling stupidity and luck, the tables had turned and business was about to pick up. One thrust later, and it was all over. I had won this battle, but at what cost? I spun around and surveyed the scene. One shoe-sized hole in the wall? Check. One dusty, white pair of khakis? Check. One arm completely submerged inside of a public toilet? Check. One dead spider mashed against the wall? Check and mate, bitch. Concerning insects, I’d say that we’re even now. Sound off in the comments section and enjoy your day. #3 – “Don’t You Go Forgetting About Me.” (Originally Published December 18, 2006.) (If you want to skip this news article, complete with witty banter, it’s your loss. But please, for the love of God, take the time to scroll down to where it says ‘STORY!’ You’re not going to want to miss this. Also, reading the news article will enhance your enjoyment of said story.) FORT COLLINS, CO. – High school teacher Carrie McCandless carried on a romance with a 17-year-old student, which included the exchange of 76 text messages in a single day, according to her arrest affidavit. (Hey, what grown woman wouldn’t be lust-struck by a 17-year old boy? The way their acne shines off of the fluorescent lights, the way that they constantly smell like French fries and Brute, the way that everything on the planet gives them an erection. It’s like Spanish Fly with a crooked baseball cap.) The teacher also supplied the students she was chaperoning on a late-October field trip with alcohol and “did everything except have sex” with the male student during the outing, the affidavit said. (Everything? Did they go hang-gliding? Did they play dueling pianos? Was there a Yak somehow thrown into the mix?) McCandless’ behavior during that weekend ultimately led to felony charges against her of sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust and contributing to the delinquency of a minor by providing at least one student with alcohol. The 29-year-old was fired from the Brighton Charter High School where her husband, Chris McCandless, is principal. (This story just keeps getting better. You thought that the students treated the Principal like a douchebag before this incident? Well, let’s just say that the respect won’t be arriving in droves after these facts get out. For a student, screwing around with the Principal’s wife is just about the greatest thing you can do, second only to airlifting his Lexus onto the school’s roof and setting it ablaze.) McCandless was formally advised of the charges against her in Larimer County District Court on Tuesday. The affidavit, which was unsealed after the hearing, details what allegedly happened on the overnight hiking trip with about a half-dozen students and how the school reacted to the situation. (What school allows a teacher to take 6 kids on an overnight hiking trip? Just 6?) School officials did not report the incident to police, who first learned about it from a television reporter. Former school board chairman David Mundy Sr. has been charged with tampering with at least three witnesses or victims and failing to report child abuse. (Oh, I see. This is the kind of school we’re talking about. Essentially, every school I’ve ever attended. Corrupt, rich, bald, white guys with a stick up their ass and a complete disdain for youth.) Mundy resigned from the board on Friday. The remaining board members have reassured Brighton school district officials, who hold their charter, that similar incidents would be reported immediately in the future. (So, they’re pretty much admitting that this sort of thing will happen again. I love Fort Collins!) The boy has told police that he started calling and text messaging McCandless in early October, when they started planning the trip and was “very excited.” (Teacher Rule #1 – Don’t give your cell phone number to students, unless you plan on giving them “everything except sex.”) Phone records reveal that McCandless and the boy exchanged 76 text messages on Oct. 10, according to the affidavit. (Student Rule #1 – STOP SPILLING THE BEANS, YOU’RE RUINING IT FOR EVERYONE. I know it’s exciting and all, but if you tell someone, the fun will end. It’s a fact of life.) In one exchange, the boy wrote that he was cold, and she responded, “Just pretend you’re here, sweating with me.” (Okay, that’s seriously the hottest thing I’ve read in a long time. Can we get a mugshot, anyone?) On the afternoon before the school trip to Estes Park, McCandless and the boy “made out” in a car outside a Sam’s Club for about 45 minutes, he told police. (They made out in bulk, and saved lots of money! I suppose they had to move all the 5-gallon drums of Mayonnaise out of the backseat beforehand. They’re bulky, but cheap as hell; just like this teacher! ZING!) The next morning, Carrie McCandless, the boy, and about a half-dozen other students drove to Estes Park and went on a hike. During the hike, McCandless and the boy lagged behind, the affidavit said. (You’d be tired, too, if you spent all last night making out in bulk. My personal record is 18.4 seconds.) The boy brought a bottle of Everclear grain alcohol on the trip, and he told police “they were all drinking.” He said McCandless also “brought up a bottle of Jack Daniels for them to drink” and shared it with him. (Clearly, the boy isn’t as innocent as the prosecutors want him to be portrayed as. This is probably going to be the single greatest experience of his teen life, so why send people to jail over it? Everclear is essentially poison, by the way. Don’t drink it.) Other students told police that they observed McCandless and the boy sneaking away repeatedly, presumably to smoke and drink, for 30 to 45 minutes at a time. (This McCandless woman isn’t a very tactful and experienced seducer. Get creative; don’t just sneak away! Fake a heart attack and have him ‘drive you to the hospital.’ Where’s the excitement?) That night, after the other students had gone to bed, McCandless and the boy “made out” on the floor in the front room of the cabin, where another boy was sleeping on a nearby couch. The boy involved with McCandless later told police that they simulated sex with their clothes on. (Okay, forget what I said before. This is the hottest thing I’ve read in a long time. If I were the boy that was pretending to sleep on the couch, I would have sprung up and outed them like nobody’s business. There’s no way I’m going to let this chance at a free ‘A’ pass me by. Blackmail makes the world go ’round.) They “did everything except have sex” and it was obvious to everyone what was going on, a friend of the boy’s told police. (Seems pretty obvious from here, as well. Perhaps she wanted to get caught, as a way to get back at her Principal husband for some reason. Beats me, but I need a shower.) Hey, we found a photo! Interesting. Very interesting. Allow me to share a quick theory with you. Women like Carrie (or any of these female teachers, for that matter) aren’t in love or even lusting after these teenage boys that they educate. They’re not trapped in a loveless marriage or living a life of lonely singlehood. All of these teachers have been reasonably good-looking, and would have no problem picking up any guy in any bar in any city in the nation. For women like Carrie, meeting men who want to sleep with them is not a problem. Hell, for any woman, it’s not a problem. There’s only one reason someone would risk their career to do something like this. There’s only one reason a woman would negate meeting adults the normal way, and carrying on a typical relationship like we all do. There’s only one reason someone would do something like this. They’re crazy. Plain and simple. That’s the only way this makes sense. Let’s elaborate, shall we? (A blurry photo of the CDP in Grade 8. I was too lazy to run this through the scanner.) When I was in the 8th grade, I met a student teacher named Sheila, who had arrived from a neighboring college. Over the course of the next several weeks, Sheila and I bonded; mainly in that I was the only student mature enough to have a decent conversation with her. She was learning the thankless ropes of the Middle School, she wasn’t getting through to the students and faculty, and she longed for someone, anyone to share typical thoughts and feelings with. We swore in front of each other. We talked after class and walked in the halls. We even sat next to each other at some of the football games. I was starting to like Sheila as more than a teacher, but was still smart enough to know that I was in the 8th grade. Clearly, she was humoring me, or simply being nice to the one student that she ‘got through’ to. I wasn’t an idiot; I knew that this was sort of a weird relationship we were having, and soon it would end. I mean, she was only a handful of years older than me, but the difference between 14 and 20 might as well have been an eternity. As the weeks rolled on, something interesting started to happen. Thinking that Sheila was solely being nice to me from a student-teacher perspective, I started to ignore her. I stopped trying to run into her in the hallways, and I stopped chatting with her after class. I didn’t want to look like an idiot with a crush, so I decided to stop leading myself into inevitable heartbreak (I later went on to lead myself into heartbreak multiple times in High School). Amazingly enough, she then started to seek me out, wanting just to talk about things that had nothing to do with school. This relationship was now being initiated by her, and quite astonishingly, she was no longer acting like my student teacher. This conflicted me to no end, as you can imagine. It made no sense whatsoever. For a teenage boy of my age, this kept me up all night, frantically attempting to understand the validity and nature of the situation. Don’t get me wrong, it was exhilarating, but mostly just confusing as hell. Students had been talking about me and Sheila for a while at this point; it was difficult to overlook that I was spending more time around her than I was with my friends. I recall one night at a football game, me and her were sitting together and talking in the highest row of bleachers, when a couple of my friends showed up. They asked me if I wanted to leave the game early and spend the night at one of their houses. I politely declined, as I was getting to know Sheila better and almost always chose women over close friends. A minute after they left, she gave me a hug, silently thanking me for choosing her over them. The next day, the same friend that invited me over said, “You’re either doing one of the dumbest things I’ve ever seen, or one of the coolest.” Then he started getting saying filthy things, and I tuned him out. Sheila’s last day at my school culminated with a dance in the gymnasium. She was there, acting as a chaperone for wee children like myself. I was feeling down, mainly because I knew I would never see her again. Regardless of how she may or may not have felt about me, I was still sad to see her go. Part of me felt like she was merely screwing with me; using me as a martyr for all of the other students that treated her like crap. Because of their folly, I would suffer. Still, another part of me felt as if she genuinely liked me, and I was about to miss out on the chance of a lifetime. Yet another part of me thought that she was mistaking me for a Special Need student, and she was merely doing her part as a humanitarian to make sure I didn’t swallow my tongue. I did my best to act as invisible as possible that night. I didn’t dance, I didn’t run around like crazy with my friends, and I didn’t spend all of my Mom’s money on candy bars. I sat under the bleachers, keeping my eye on Sheila at all times, wishing there was something I could do to temporarily stop time. When I saw her interacting with all of the students, saying goodbye and mingling, I felt deflated. That’s when a friend came over to me, and broke the news. “Hey, did Miss _____ find you yet?” “What? No. Why?” “She’s been looking for you all night, dude. She’s asking everyone where you are.” “Yeah. You better go talk to her.” I really didn’t want to talk to her. I mean, what was the point? One of two things was about to happen. Either she would thank me for being such a good student and walk away, or she would throw her arms around me, kiss me, and still walk away. No matter the case, I’d be hurt, regardless of how much I prepared myself not to be. There was no getting out of this one. When Sheila saw me walking toward her, her eyes lit up as she ran in my direction. Just then, a slow song started blaring through the gymnasium, as couples started to pair off. “I don’t have anyone to dance with,” she whispered. “Where have you been?“ I was all set to say, “Well, I’ve been hiding under the bleachers like a child because I have a crush on my student teacher who’s been sending me mixed messages for three months and I don’t want to look like an idiot and I wish I knew what was really going on but you’re leaving tonight and I’m never going to see you again and I’m just a dumbass kid that doesn’t understand how to act in situations like this so I’m just going to call my Mom and have her pick me up and take me home.” I didn’t have a chance, though, because as soon as I opened my mouth, she grabbed me by the arm and kissed me. Shocked, I took a couple of steps back. I looked around to see if anyone else caught a glimpse, but it appeared as if the coast was clear. Sheila again stepped closer, staring me down and acknowledging the slow song by tilting her ear to the ceiling and saying, “Do I hear you calling my name?“ By this point, the song was all but fading out, but she still interlocked with me and swayed until there was silence. “I’m going to miss you,” she said. “Don’t you go forgetting about me.” “Me, too” was all I could muster. Looking back, I’m well aware that it made no sense. As we said goodbye to each other, I (in a moment of bizarre bravado and charm) held her right hand and kissed it, chivalry-style. It was simultaneously the strangest and most romantic thing I’ve probably ever done as a teenager. Before I knew it, one of the weirdest chapters of my life was over. Sheila was gone, and I never saw her again. Do you want to know why? Because she was quite obviously crazy, that’s why. My aforementioned theory works, because I’ve experienced it first-hand. Looking back, I remember the way she acted very clearly. And yes, she honestly did like me as more than a student, but it was because she was nuttier than a squirrel’s breakfast. That doesn’t make it any less amazing, though. It was a lot of fun while it lasted. I also realize that I end a lot of my essays with “…and I never saw her again.” However, if I knew then what I know now, I would have taken more advantage of her than you could ever imagine. I consider it a lost opportunity, and I also consider myself an asshole with no moral compass. Just recalling this story is making me shake my head in disbelief. #4 – “Meet The New American Gladiators.” (Originally Published January 4, 2008.) When ESPN Classic started airing old reruns of American Gladiators, I was embarrassingly excited. As a kid, AG was my absolute favorite show; I’d watch every tournament, every season, to see who would emerge and walk away with the $10,000 grand prize for not being killed by some jacked-up bodybuilder with anger management issues. When I saw that NBC was reviving American Gladiators for 2008, along with snagging the ‘Immortal’ Hulk Hogan to host, I almost combusted. For me, this show would be the ultimate 80’s flashback. The only thing cooler would be if they pulled Larry Czonka himself out of retirement, handed him a microphone and told him to go nuts with the Nestle’s Crunch ‘You Got Czonked!’ Replay of the Night. I was pumped for the return of AG, and I didn’t care who knew. I couldn’t wait to see if it would be a hit with others in my generation, and now the day is almost upon us. American Gladiators was the only game show I can think of where the fans wanted the contestants to lose on a regular basis. Audience members would create signs for their favorite Gladiator and wax poetic as to why him or her was the most perfect specimen on the planet. When Hawk or Gemini would turn someone inside-out during ‘Breakthrough & Conquer,’ the arena would explode as the hapless competitor would lay very still, patiently waiting for emergency medical staff to put his femur back inside of his leg. In preparation for the long-awaited return of AG, I’ve assembled a handy guide to the new faces you’ll be seeing in Gladiator Arena. Consider this your scouting guide and preview of what very well could be the single greatest thing to ever exist on television without actual, talented writers. Name: Titan Strengths: The unfathomable reality that this guy can possibly be alive after all the anabolic steroids he’s slammed directly into his freakish hocks. Weaknesses: Quick, non-deliberate movements. Non-lycra shirts. Holding his unit when he pees. Things that aren’t illegal drugs. Finishing Move: “The Roid Rage,” where he begins lamenting about his shrinking testicles and wild mood swings, screams, picks up his opponent sideways and breaks him in freaking half over his knee. Repeat until everyone in the studio audience is in two pieces. Dead. Scouting Report: This guy cannot be a real human being. He looks like an AG cyborg, built by NBC for the sole purpose of holding a giant Q-Tip and making grown men cry. One of these days, his head’s gonna fall off, and the explosion of sparks and wires will finally assure me that I was right. Name: Siren Strengths: Having really, really nice hair. Knows all the words from every Toby Keith album, for whatever reason. Currently the Xbox Live online leader for Dance Dance Revolution. Weaknesses: Being loud at parties. Evanescence. Bass Ale. Guys who drive Trans Ams. Herpes and the men who harbor it. Her baby daddy. Finishing Move: “The Real Siren,” where the original Siren shows up and gets instantly hit by a bus, because she’s deaf and didn’t hear the bus coming. Scouting Report: When I look at Siren, I know two things for certain. First, I’m sure she’s really good at shooting pool and could drink me under a table. Secondly, I bet she’s strangled a guy with a phone cord in the bathroom of some rundown motel on at least one occasion. Name: Militia Strengths: Traveling from town to town, spreading the good news and word of our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ. Always has literature and pamphlets on hand. Weaknesses: Liberals. Birth control. Self-empowered women. Unitarians. Whoever wrote The Golden Compass. The gays and the Jews. Finishing Move: “The Holier Than Thou,” where he rises up to Heaven while you rot in perish for eternity in the horrid sins you’ve created for yourself. Scouting Report: I might be way off about Militia. Perhaps he’s more of the ‘Y2K Survivalist’ type, hoarding himself up in a shack during the offseason, carefully manufacturing pipe bombs and writing his latest manifesto of how Tom Hanks and Jennifer Garner are tapping our phones. Name: Fury Strengths: The superhuman ability to lay in a tanning bed for weeks at a time. Extensive Scrunchie collection. Always smells like coconuts. Weaknesses: Botox injections. Septum so deviated she gets to park in handicapped spaces. Finishing Move: “The Horseface,” in which she delivers a devastating mule kick to a downed opponent while eating a Red Delicious apple. Scouting Report: Maybe I’m being too hard on Fury. Who knows, she might emerge to be one of the more popular, charismatic and athletic Gladiators in the tournament. Or most likely, she’ll be instantly forgotten and delegated to ‘Hang Tough’ for the duration of the season. ‘Hang Tough’ is the Canadian Football League of American Gladiators. Name: Justice Strengths: Constantly mistaken for Tracy Morgan, he has been invited onto the set of 30 Rock an astounding 18 times. Weaknesses: Baseball caps. Looking like a jacked-up Chris Tucker. Finishing Move: “The Rush Hour,” where he teams up with an aged Asian martial artist and gets progressively less funny as the years pass. Scouting Report: Remember The Fifth Element? Wasn’t that a great movie? I tell you, Luc Besson is an absolute cinematic genius, regardless of the genre he decides to take on. It’s a shame he’s retired now. As for Justice, he doesn’t remind me at all of Luc Besson. Name: Crush Strengths: A legitimate Mixed-Martial Artist and trained athlete. Being almost too hot to watch without a certain level of depression and stomach pain. Weaknesses: The silky smooth caress of a certain Wisconsin humorist and author named Ryan J. Zeinert. Lounging around the house, reading the newspaper while wearing my shirt on Sunday mornings after breakfast. Finishing Move: “The Reality Check,” where she destroys Layla Ali in seconds, once again reminding the world that boxing is a deader-than-disco pseudo-sport run by the mob and talentless thugs. Scouting Report: Crush’s real name is Gina Carano, who is currently boasting a 5-0 MMA record in EliteXC and a former Muay Thai record of 12-1. On a far more serious note, she is my super-secret girlfriend times a billion and a half, but she nor my wife must never know. Shhh. Name: Mayhem Strengths: Taking down The Man. Can battle against the females in a pinch if there’s an injury. No haircuts means extra spending money. Weaknesses: Kinda looks like a freakishly strong woman. Finding casual pants that are loose in the thighs. The Man. Airport security. Finishing Move: “The Jax.” Remember how in Mortal Kombat 3, Jax would take his fists and just pulverize some dude’s head? Yeah, that. Scouting Report: With a name like Mayhem, I’m expecting nothing less than complete and total insanity from this guy. I don’t even want him speaking English; I just want to see screaming, carnage and piles of dead contestants. Wait, you mean they’re not killing contestants this season? What? Name: Helga Strengths: Blueberry jellies and jams. Was the backup Defensive End for the 2005 Pittsburgh Steelers. Might have a wiener. Weaknesses: Allowing the unoriginal producers of the show to name her character Helga, specifically because she’s thick and blonde. Vikings. Finishing Move: “The Oktoberfest,” where she drinks nine pints of ale and makes off with the smallest man she can carry back to her hut. Scouting Report: Helga reminds me a little bit of Beth Pheonix, the current WWE Women’s Champion. The only difference between the two is that I would move Heaven and Earth to have Beth Gorilla Press Slam me, and Helga most assuredly has a wiener that I don’t want to see. Name: Toa Strengths: The ability to have his eyeballs switch sockets with a moment’s notice. Because they’re extremely close together, you see. Weaknesses: Peripheral vision, finding glasses that fit. See, I’m making fun of his terrifyingly narrow eyes again. Finishing Move: “The Rock Bottom,” blatantly crossing the copyright infringement line with The Rock and WWE, just to see who’ll notice. Scouting Report: Toa is the real-life cousin of Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, which is very exciting for me, because if he ever decides to bust out a ‘People’s Eyebrow,’ I might laugh until I pee the couch. You see, his eyes…they’re just way too close together. Name: Venom Strengths: Looking like a pin-up girl from the 40’s or 50’s that could snap your neck without even spilling her Cherry Coca-Cola. Weaknesses: Prescription medication. Hair dye. John F. Kennedy. The smooth-shaven, Swiss Army-scented neck of a certain young, American humorist named Ryan J. Zeinert. Finishing Move: “The Consumption,” where she unhinges her jaw and swallows opponents whole. Not nearly as great as it sounds. Scouting Report: Next to Crush, I think I like Venom the most. I’ve always had a hidden fantasy for female bodybuilders, and finding one that looks like Marilyn Monroe is just icing on the cake. I’m not saying I like it when women beat me up, I’m just…well, maybe just a little bit. I sure hope she has a deep voice. Name: Stealth Strengths: The ability to crush a man’s head between her thighs, causing their brains to spoot out like a tube of Pillsbury biscuits in the noonday sun. Weaknesses: Bizarre lack of knees. Denzel Washington. Constantly asked if she’s “that bitch from The Apprentice.” Finishing Move: “The Shut Yo Mouth,” where she gets right up in your grill, requesting that you shut your damn fool mouth. Scouting Report: It’s a true sign of a poor comedic talent when they go straight to jokes about race when they run out of originally funny things to say about something. For this observation alone, I shall offer no scouting report on Stealth. She’s black and scares the ever-loving whiz outta me. Name: Wolf Strengths: Wearing wolf-pattern shirts to formal events and gatherings. Being absolutely awesome, no matter the circumstance. Hunts for food when he’s not even hungry. Weaknesses: Due to his unfortunate resemblance to Dog the Bounty Hunter, gets feverishly hassled by the NAACP. Electric razors. New moons. Finishing Move: “The Midnight Howl,” where he tears out opponent’s throat and marks territory by peeing on their husk. Scouting Report: Forget the 80’s version, Wolf might be my favorite male Gladiator of all-time. Seriously, look at this dude! If he wasn’t so busy shooting tennis balls at people, I’d fully expect him to be hunting bison with a Swiss Army knife. He’s boss and totally knows it. I want an uncle like Wolf. Well, there you have it. You’re officially caught up and prepared for the strike-crippled Television event of 2008. Sound off in the comments section and enjoy your weekend. #5 – “You Have No Idea What ‘Having No Idea’ Means.” (Originally Published March 20, 2008.) When I was an criminally underweight Freshman in high school, there was this girl that I spent a large amount of time with, we’ll call her ‘Margaret.’ My friendship with Margaret was solid and rare; we cheated off of each others’ tests, we exchanged idiotic notes throughout the school day and advised each other through short-term relationships, crushes and obsessions. It was a pretty decent and worthwhile arrangement; one of those situations where everyone naturally assumed that we were a couple, and we would just nod and play along, certain that our platonic agreement was cooler and stronger. Now that I’m older, I know for a fact that platonic relationships are impossible. You cannot be friends with someone of the opposite or desired gender without wanting to sleep with them in some capacity. So, as these stories go, our solid friendship was to be short-lived, thanks in part to the contents of my pants. I eventually fell hard for Margaret, far outside the reaches of what a strong friendship could provide, and felt it necessary to destroy the good thing we had going for the chance at a more physical and advanced form of bodily communication. I knew going in that it was sabotage, but something had to give. I couldn’t look at her anymore without wanting to tell her. I couldn’t hear another story about a bad date without begging her to let me make things right. I couldn’t even eat or listen to the radio. Surely, a friendship this strong would only be strengthened by this revelation, right? I actually believed that. I also listened to Marilyn Manson, so… yeah. As detailed in the classic CDP essay, ‘No Scents Whatsoever,’ my attempt to cross into this forbidden territory was tragically shot down by what could be accurately described as a gaffe of Shakespearean proportions. Margaret turned me down in the most unexpected way possible, our friendship hit the wall and I almost ended up getting arrested for indecent exposure. ‘No Scents Whatsoever’ is also featured in 65 Poor Life Decisions, which you should order right now. In fact, you should read that essay in order to get all caught up. Go on, I’ll wait. ‘No Scents Whatsoever’ only told the funny part of the story, though. The ‘let’s all laugh at the poor kid who whizzed everything down his leg at the football game’ part. What happened the next day was far more interesting, deep and somewhat damaging. Upon returning to school, I knew I had to do something, say something, to hopefully justify my actions and attempt to get things with Margaret back to the way they once were. We almost instantly ran into each other; the once-simple transitions and conversation now awkwardly vacant. We both had some serious explaining to do. ME – “Hey. We should probably talk.” MARGARET – “Hey. I know.” ME – “Look, I’m sorry for messing everything up by trying to mine something that wasn’t there. I didn’t think it through, and I know it’s going to be impossible to go back to the way things were, but…” Margaret cut me off. MARGARET – “I just…I can’t go out with you right now. I’m really sorry.” The tone in her voice suggested that she wasn’t necessary believing the words she was saying. This conflicted me, but more than anything, it pissed me off. ME (still frustrated and embarrassed) – “Well, why the hell not? Because I know your secrets? Because my jaw clicks all loud when I eat? Because I wear the same stupid cologne that your dad wears? Why can’t this work?” MARGARET (incredulous and saddened) – “Ryan, I can’t go out with you because you don’t believe in God.” My eyes got wide, and I shut down. Right there, in the middle of a crowded high school hallway, the two of us hit a moral and emotional crossroads that was still probably years out of our league to correctly tackle. Somehow, through our several months of wonderful friendship and happiness, we never allowed a massive topic like religion butt in and ruin the party with its polarizing attitude and smug grin. However, this was clearly an issue that Margaret took seriously. Seriously enough to turn down a relationship with someone close to her. MARGARET – “I…I just can’t do it. I’m sorry. It’s not like I don’t want to…I just can’t.” I didn’t know what to say. Part of me wanted to beg her to shake it off and give this oily heathen a chance. Part of me wanted to hold her and praise her for being so deeply rooted and mature in her faith. Yet another part of me wanted to know how she was so sure I was an Atheist. I had never mentioned my beliefs to her explicitly; I’m assuming she simply took a cue from all my terrible jokes and constant mocking of organized religion. Either way, she jumped the gun. If you asked me if I believe in God right now, I’d say ‘not really.’ Had you asked me at the age of 14, however, I probably would have said yes. In any case, how do you respond to a statement like that? It’s not like Margaret told me she disliked my haircut, or that I listened to terrible music. I couldn’t remedy the situation by saying ‘I’ll try harder next time!’ or ‘I can learn!’ This was serious. An issue of faith that had no room for a guy like me. I could be her friend, we could even grow to love each other as friends, but she would never be mine unless one of us drastically changed their spiritual views. I was dumbfounded. I had reached the Boss Level with no cheat codes. It was over. ME – “Are we going to be….okay?” MARGARET – “Yeah, we’re cool. We just can’t…you know.” ME – “Yeah, I know…I think.” Wow. All that stuff I did for her to show that I was quality best friend and boyfriend material wasn’t even close to cutting it. She didn’t need someone who was willing to borrow her a shirt after a lunchroom food fight covered her own with pineapple juice. She didn’t need someone that bought her an ice cream cone every day after school. She needed someone to pray with. Someone to attend church with. Someone to court her. A jock or preppie guy was the usual sort of challenge I was used to overcoming when it came to women, but this? Jesus Christ, why didn’t any of this come up earlier? As previously stated, I knew I wasn’t possessing the mental facilities to properly re-evaluate my entire stance on spirituality during my Freshman year. If you need proof of my immaturity, know that at the time of the argument, I was wearing a shirt that said ’69’ on it. All I knew was that I wanted to go out with her, and this new roadblock driven between the two of us wouldn’t go away until our friendship was completely off the rails. I had to do something to keep Margaret close, protect our bond, slap God directly in the face and prove to everyone that I was able to go to the next level for her. For most women, this would be a show of gratitude; like meeting her parents or ceasing communication with ex-girlfriends. For Margaret, this meant church. And I was in. There was a teen-centered church service that Margaret liked to go to every Wednesday night in the city. It was one of those places where the minister wore blue jeans, boasted a goatee and desperately attempted to phrase the words of Jesus in a way that apathetic teens would understand and care about. Decent music was played. Coffee was sold. Candles were lit in the darkened, small conference area, and I was there with Margaret, wondering just how far I’d go to prove a point or see her in her bra. I tapped my feet and hands simultaneously under the table, trying to ward off a panic attack as claustraphobia and religious anxiety sank in. I looked over at Margaret, who was saying hello to friends and placing her order. MARGARET – “Coffee?” ME – “Uh, no. I don’t drink coffee.” MARGARET – “Wow, I had no idea!” I thought to myself, “You clearly have no idea what ‘having no idea’ means. I’m sitting here, waiting for Mr. Biblepants McGee up there to start blowing smoke up my ass about the paradise of accepting God’s love, when all I really want is yours.” Instead, I just said: ME – “Well, you learn something new every day. I’ll take a bottle of non-blessed water, please.” MARGARET – “Oh, you’re hilarious.” Fun Fact for you. I was raised Catholic. Catholic mass, for those out of the loop, is basically an hour-long punishment every Sunday morning. You show up, exclaim to the world that you’re a worthless and flawed human being, beg forgiveness and give thanks to God for allowing you to live. At the age of 14, this was the only religion I knew, and I was preparing for more of the same as I chewed my nails to the marrowbone and wondered if this was all really worth it. I’ve done a lot of things to win the affection of women. I’ve written beautiful songs and poems. I’ve driven hundreds of miles and talked for hours on end. I’ve spent money I didn’t have for gifts I didn’t understand. I even got punched in the face a couple times. But none of that compared to the uncharted, uncomfortable waters I was wading into. I peeled the wrapper off of my water bottle and the service began. Of course, the night went well. The pastor did a good job of reminding me that Jesus was a fairly amazing guy, and no matter what I believe concerning my mortal soul in the hereafter, it wouldn’t hurt to try to remember some of the interesting teachings and words of the Big J. Same goes for other visionaries, like Buddha or even Martin Luther King. That, I could honestly handle, and even now as an adult, I hold a certain amount of faith in the words of prophets, just not the way they are perverted, twisted and used as a weapon by some of his closest followers. I feel the same way when an e-mail floats around that was incorrectly attributed to George Carlin or Kurt Vonnegut. Stop disgracing the name, people! Throughout the night, I was on my best behavior. I bowed my head when everyone else did. I shredded my napkin to bits when I got bored. Each time I heard something that I wanted to dispute with every fiber of my cynical and humanistic being, I just looked over at Margaret and thought about what I’d be missing out on by being an asshole. “Get your mind right,” I reassured myself. “It’s for the greater good.” I ended up going back to the church with her for most of the Summer after my Freshman year. Our friendship bloomed back into the rare and wonderful thing it used to be, and we both settled into the harsh realization that we’re better friends than lovers. By the time Summer was over, we were both seeing other people, and we were happier for it. I’m glad that I was pushed out of my comfort zone, even if it was for all the wrong reasons. I knew that she knew, too, and she made a point to let me know that she appreciated it. We both knew that I’d never be the guy to complete a successful courtship. The guy to save his virginity until marriage. The guy that voluntarily gave his time to organized religion for any reason other than a friend’s companionship. At the end of the day, we both emerged a little smarter, a little further apart, and a little more aware that we were absolutely horrible for each other. When Sophomore year started, we were too busy and preoccupied to speak to each other. Six years later, while I was working at the hardware store, Margaret walked in. We exchanged a few words and e-mail addresses, with the mutual promise that we wouldn’t lose touch with each other again. That was the last time we spoke.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4572
__label__wiki	0.751702	0.751702	The Culture Keeper Connecting Women to Ideas-A Lifestyle Blog Cover Alert: Kandi Burress covers October’s Essence Magazine Posted by theculturekeeper on September 20, 2017 Kandi Burress first ever Essense Magazine cover. While Generation X may know the 41-year-old for her role on Real Housewives of Atlanta (RHOA), she’s established a career as a chart-topping R&B singer, lucrative songwriter and successful entrepreneur. But despite her many accomplishments, Kandi reports she is humble as pie about her first ever ESSENCE cover. “I don’t ever want to feel like I’ve made it,” she told ESSENCE. “When people feel like they’ve made it, they’re on the first step to falling off.” With the highs of success, have come lows —two brought on very publicly by women close to her. The first came from fellow Xscape member, Tamika Scott who shared a nasty rumor on the radio about Burruss sleeping her way to success. They’ve since reconciled and toured together, making one of their first concert stops at the ESSENCE Festival last July. The second upset was between fellow RHOA co-star, Phaedra Parks. On the show Parks alleged that Burruss was planning on drugging and raping co-star Porsha Williams— an insane lie. “I honestly had a lot of times when I just cried,” she said. “There were moments when I wanted to say, ‘You know what? I’m done with this!’ I was vindicated in front of millions, which helped me feel comfortable again.” Despite it all, Burruss presses forward and is focused on being the best for her family. “Some of us are doers and some of us are dreamers,” she said. “I’m both.” The Real Housewives of Atlanta returns November 5 at 9 p.m. on Bravo and Xscape: Still Kickin’ It premieres November 5 and 9 p.m. on Bravo. Read the full interview in the October issue of ESSENCE, on newsstands this week. Ms. Culture Keeper- Previous Post Best Dressed Emmys 2017 Next Post Editor’s Pick of the Month: SWEETINI SWEET’S Follow The Culture Keeper on WordPress.com	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4575
__label__cc	0.524363	0.475637	Support TGIMM The Ghost In My Machine Stories of the Strange and Unusual The Most Dangerous Games: Elevator to Another World June 25, 2014 by Lucia Previously: The Dead Poet’s Game. Elevator to Another World, known colloquially as the Elevator Game, appears to originate on a Korean website some may recognize as the source of a particular comic that pops up every few months or so on sites like Reddit. Unfortunately I don’t speak Korean, so working off of the rough translations found here and here, I’ve tried to tease out a clearer version of the rules and instructions. [Like what you read? Consider supporting The Ghost In My Machine on Patreon!] It’s unclear whether the Otherworld to which the elevator delivers you is the Shadowside referred to by FableForge in his various games and rituals, or whether it’s something else; regardless as to what it may or may not be, however, as always—play at your own risk. 1 principal 1 building, at least 10 stories high, with an elevator. All three of these conditions must be met in order for the game to proceed. Venturing Out: Enter your chosen building and get into the elevator on the first floor alone. Do not proceed if anyone else is in the elevator with you. Press the button for the fourth floor. When the elevator reaches the fourth floor, do not get out. Instead, remain in the elevator and press the button for the second floor. When you reach the second floor, remain in the elevator and press the button for the sixth floor. When you reach the sixth floor, remain in the elevator and press the button for the second floor. When you reach the second floor, remain in the elevator and press the button for the tenth floor. When you reach the tenth floor, remain in the elevator and press the button for the fifth floor. When you reach the fifth floor, a young woman may enter the elevator. Do not look at her; do not speak to her. She is not what she seems. Press the button for the first floor. If the elevator begins ascending to the tenth floor instead of descending to the first, you may proceed. If the elevator descends to the first floor, exit as soon as the doors open. Do not look back. Do not speak. If you reach the tenth floor, you may either choose to get off the elevator or to stay on it. If you choose to get off, and if the woman entered the elevator on the fifth floor, she will ask you, “Where are you going?” Do NOT answer her. Do NOT look at her. You will know whether you have arrived at the Otherworld by one indication, and one indication only: The only person present in it is you. The Return Trip: If you chose to stay on the elevator at the tenth floor: Press the button for the first floor. If it doesn’t work, keep pressing it until it finally does. When the elevator reaches the first floor, exit as soon as the doors open. Do not look back. Do not speak. If you choose to exit the elevator at the tenth floor: You must use the same elevator to return as the one in which you arrived. When you enter the elevator, press the buttons in the same order you did in steps 2 through 8 of Venturing Out. You should finish at the fifth floor. When you reach the fifth floor, press the button for the first floor. The elevator will again begin to ascend to the tenth floor. Press any other floor’s button to cancel the ascension. You MUST press the button you use to cancel the ascension BEFORE you reach the tenth floor. After you reach the first floor, check your surroundings carefully. If anything seems off—even the smallest detail—do NOT exit the elevator. If you detect something wrong, repeat step 2 until your surroundings look as they should. Once you are confident you have returned to your own world, you may safely exit the elevator. Should you reach the Otherworld, the floor onto which you will emerge will look almost identical to the one from your own world, save for two things: All the lights will be off, and the only thing you will be able to see from the windows is a red cross in the distance. Some say that electronic devices—mobile phones, cameras, MP3 players, etc.—don’t work in the Otherworld; others say they do. Getting back to your own world may be more difficult than it seems: You may become disoriented and forget which elevator in which you arrived; the elevator may seem to get further and further away from you as you walk towards; and so on. Be vigilant, and keep your wits about you. If at any point during the ritual you faint, pass out, or otherwise lose consciousness, you will likely wake up in your own home. However, be sure to carefully examine your surroundings upon waking—the “home” to which you have been returned may not be the one you left when you first set out to attempt this ritual. Concerning the Woman on the Fifth Floor: Do NOT speak to her. Do NOT look at her. If you do, she may decide to keep you for her own. Elevator to Another World: FAQ. Support The Ghost In My Machine on Patreon for behind-the-scenes access and other bonus content. You can also follow on Twitter @GhostMachine13 and on Facebook @TheGhostInMyMachine. [Photo via] Filed Under: Games Tagged With: elevator game, elevator to another world, elevators, games you shouldn't play, Korea, The Most Dangerous Games, the otherworld, the shadowside Haley Webster says What if we want to do it with two people or more ? You know, I’m not actually sure. I suspect that it probably just wouldn’t work, given that the instructions stipulate being alone in the elevator when you start the ritual. It might be sort of interesting to find out what happens if you all enter different elevators in the same building and attempt the journey at the same time, though. Akmal Harith says I have read a post on the reddit nosleep section about someone who played this game with her boyfriend. It did worked for them. They successfully met the girl. But that is the only story I found regarding the success of playing with 2 persons. Shiver says oooo can I have a link? Kiara Arsenty says So you’re saying that if you choose to stay on the elevator & arrive on the 1st floor & detect if something is wrong, you remain on the elevator & then repeat step 2 or do you mean steps 2-8 of ‘Venturing Out’? Do you know how many people have died from this game? Eshaal says Gabi says Zero, because it’s not real. It’s an urban legend from Japan and South Korea. They even have different versions of the game. In the Korean version you’re not alone in the other world and your family and friends there have their same regular voices. The only way to tell them apart from the real world is that their faces are kinda off, like there is an inch difference from what they look like in the real world and their behavior is very different too. There is a video of this girl acting really weird on an elevator and looking around for a while until she eventually got off of the elevator. Meanwhile the doors stayed open the entire time until she walked away (even if she was nowhere near the doors). Then a few days or weeks later they found her dead in a water tank. If the elevator game is real maybe that’s what happened. I don’t recommend trying though. ILOVEKPOP says Yes A LOT! Christopher says I read a story of a girl who did this with several friends. They also looked at, or even spoke to, the woman when she got on at the fifth floor. Supposedly, she looks like Samara from “The Ring”. Regardless, the woman supposedly attacked her, and she blacked out. When she awoke, she was in her room, but things were different. Among those differences, her friends were missing, almost as if they had never existed. I have my suspicions about this story, but it is one of the few I am aware of regarding doing this ritual with multiple people. That seems cool, but it can’t be true. How would the girl have had access to write a story that you could have read, if she woke up in a different world? I cannot agree with you more hahaha baakaa says Maybe we are the different world. The parallel universe than the girl. The girl is from another world. And in our world, her friends never existed. Ayla says Maybe she wasn’t in a different world but her friends were. Love the elevator game but scary at same time What would happen should I venture to the Red Cross in the distance? Joselyn says I’ve heard that you can be with your friends but nobody else that is not with you. Jordan Martindale says Hey! One question, what if the girl- is my mom? o.o What would I do? o.o Shafiq Mohamad says the girl is just playing with your mind , if she is your mom then dont look or talk to her as you do she will choose what to do with you Clairie Elvanson says Hey, don’t try it bud. I died during the process.. If you died during the process, how are you posting and writing this? I live on floor 4 0_0 I’m planning to do this challenge right now but should I? Is it even real? Well did it work? I think he died. Andy Handoko says There’s a movie reference about this ritual.Look up for “Horror Stories 2”. It’s a Korean movie consist of 4 short horror films. The ritual was told in the last movie Do not look back spirits tend to take on a form that is most comforting to you and then distort it Amit Shukla says And finally I played but it did not worked fully – when I reached on to 10th floor that girl disappeared and when I came back to real world that girl was just standing on the first floor. I was scared but I didn’t focus on her as instructed but at the same time one delivery boy came and handed goods to her and when she was entering into the lift she said “Good bye baby I am going to the world back” and my heart started beating fast and started paining. But from that day onwards I am still scared. Josh Chan says Then just ignore her. she may be the woman. sammy says hell no to the no no no no Neaituppi says So the woman on the fifth floor is irrelevant? You can’t talk to her or look at her. Has anyone wondered what she is? I was watching the Elisa lam video, and heard about this. But I understand how this works. The elevator is just a way to focus the attention. This can be done anywhere. Explain. I’d love to do this but the tallest building around me is a hospital that five stories. That’s kinda breaking the rules. So really something bad might happen. Drop The Base says this is soo creepy JoeTheObjectPup says I’m pretty sure it won’t work then. Do it 1 at a time. However you would each end up in different versions of the same dimension. Ugh time space is so confusing. Jasmine says I played it with 3 friends and it worked for us, the whole thing and at some point of the game my friends disappeared when the lights shut off and turned back on. Black_Winter says Have you ventured out of the elevator? Have you seen this strange reddish sky and cross? And have you encounter the elevator woman? Bigdanslade says It does not work on buildings which don’t exist or have heavy damage in the other dimension. Therefore, you might need to try this in several different buildings to find one that is appropriate. Georg Festrunk says Korean elevators have no 4th floor (or 14th, 24th, etc) because 4 sounds like their word for death. look up “Tetraphobia” Interesting! A similar superstition, perhaps, to the lack of 13th floors in a lot of American buildings? Alexis Jung says actually, the superstition behind the number 13 goes back to Biblical times. At the Last Supper, it is said that 13 people total were present at the table, with the 13th person being Judas who eventually betrays Jesus Christ. As a result, the number 13 was thought to represent betrayal and death, or otherwise just be “unlucky” to have around because it invited betrayal and death. Even though the religious reasoning has sort of faded away over time, it’s a general superstition here in America still that 13 is “unlucky” 🙂 mohammad aarif says 12 apostles, not 13 Angelica says No. 4 means death in Japanese too … I even heard that they don’t use that # as a rm. # in hospitals … (don’t know if that’s true tho) James Fielder says When I worked in the Emergency room, I noticed there was no 13th room. When I asked a nurse, who was Asian, she explained that it was because of the superstitious nature of the number and some patients would refuse to be in room 13. She did say that it was exactly the same in her home country with the number 4. What is this game even for? I have a lot of questions 1. Who made up the game? 2. What is this game for? 3. Why could the woman decide to keep you for her self? 4. How could you go to another world if you exit on the tenth floor? 5. Why do you have to keep going to a bunch of floors? 6. What is up with that barthtub game? 7. What is up with that closet game? 8. Why does everyone think that Bloody Mary is real? 9. Why does everyone think that baby blue is real? 10. What is the purpose of this game? There those where all my 10 questions hope some of you can answer them all! Z says It’s the occult, you’re meant to find out those kinds of answers by doing it yourself and holding on to the secrets. I personally wouldn’t recommend delving into the occult, reading about it is a safer bet lol From what I know there are two different versions of this “game” one being to travel to the other world and one is a reset but the reset requires you to put in your birthdate. Also rather than you seeing a woman you’ll see yourself and in order for the reset to work only one can remain on the elevator… you figure out how… Mister says That’s the Japanese that gave that superstition, not the Koreans. Jagd says It’s common in East Asia. Many Chinese also believe in this superstition. My grandfather’s generation do at the very least. Cas says In the Philippines too. I’ve only been in a 10+ floor building once, actually many times, but the same building. It doesn’t have the numbers: 3,13, any number ending in 4 The ghost With No Name says @Cas Same here! Seriously, the tallest building I’ve ever been is a hospital. It had about 10 I think. Sadly, there was an operator so I can’t play this ritual. 🙁 VED036 says It is quite curious. I mean about words in other languages. There is a huge lot of unknown aspects about non-English languages which still remain hidden and un-discussed and undisclosed in English. In fact, most Asian/African language and some continental European languages do very dangerous words and usages. However, their effect is more in the material sphere. They can literally act like black magic in a real world scenario. Natalia Acha says Number 4 in Japanese can be pronounced “shi”. However, another word for 4 is “Yon”. But SHI means also death: 死 Of course, that will explain why Japanese people don’t like number 4. It’s pronounced the same way as the word death. Yihannay says Actually it was the Chinese, it means death in the Chinese language. Betsy says It is both Japanese and Chinese. My mom worked closely at a university with a Japanese scientist who confirmed this, and I work for a Chinese-born man who also confirms this. I can only speak for the Chinese language but Japanese does often use the same pronunciationor characters to Chinese. Anyway, the word for 4 is shi which has the same Pinyin as Shi – to die, HOWEVER the two are different tones which basically means they are not even regarded to sound like the same word, so this is not really a popular belief as far as I know in china. fshong says i live in seoul. i work on 4th floor. i live on a fourth floor. elevators most have 4th floor button B Giampa says The Korean word for ‘four’ sounds like the Chinese ‘death.’ Korea used to use Chinese characters (and still do in academic journals) and there are a lot of Chinese root words in Korean. They don’t skip the fourth floor, but rather label it the ‘F-floor.’ Giani says Thanks for setting things straight! Dave Philpott says In Korea they go 1-2-3-F-5… Sean says Are you sure its Korean? I know in Mandarin Chinese the word for 4 (四si) is the same for death (死si) and in hospitals there weren’t fourth floors. Shi is the word for death and number 4 in Japanese, maybe in Chinese too, I don’t know. But in Japanese they have an alternative way of saying 4, yon. Jenny Talbot says No we have 4th floor all of the buildings Lea says Uh no we have 4th floors, but some places don’t. lucia, this game killed a girl in mysterious way. no authority understood what happened. you may wanna look at the end of the video Where’s the video? May I have the link to this video? Thanks! Has anyone ever tried this game before besides this girl? Abbie says It isn’t clear that she was doing the game but she was found dead in the water supply for the hotel which was on the locked roof. There is the video just search it in YouTube. It’s kinda freaky but no it’s not certain she’s playing the game. Loyanna says look up “Elisa Lam” on youtube. She died mysteriously and the video of her was the last time anyone saw her alive. In the video you will see her in the elevator and it gets really weird especially towards the end. after watching it, you may want to look her up on google or wiki, it will explain a bit about her background and what possibly may have happened. good luck and hope this helps you find what you are looking for. Nad says What video? The video in question might be the one of Elisa Lam in the elevator of the Cecil Hotel (now apparently rebranded as Stay on Main) — there’s a theory going around that her death was a result of the elevator game. I don’t really buy into the theory myself; I think there are more plausible explanations for what happened, and the whole thing is such a tragedy that I don’t want to cheapen her death by chalking it up to something which may or may not actually “work.” Out of respect for both her memory and her family and loved ones, I’m going to refrain from linking to the video here — it’s probably easily found, though, so if you’re curious, go forth and Google. Search it in google. It’s Elisa Lam Ryan Ng says Personally did it before,it’s untrue. Was really excited about doing it though but it didn’t lead me to another realm so it was sorta disappointing haha Kai Wen says … What if you are now actually in the Otherworld? Neo says Then it’s even more disappointing since the ‘Otherworld’ seems no difference. Neo: it could though just be a WEEEE TINY detail that’s off MaximaEnfield says You do know this is from creepypasta right? Well, yes; all these types of games are. But they’re still fun to read, especially if you suspend your disbelief while reading them. scarry cat says Reading this blog in the dark at midnight. No bueno Odin says R.I.P Elisa Lam. Rhett says How do you find and elevator with no one on it or getting on it except for the lady That’s up to you. Be resourceful. Try a small condo in the middle of a weekday. My condo would be perfect for this any time of day really. If I had the cajones to try this anyway. Jea says I’ll try it for sure 😀 Since I was born psychic, something -related with this game or not -might happen on me like usual. Muffin says Did it work? ^ Theinquisitivetiger says Bet she’s stuck in the other world by now.. Claudia Armstrong says I was as well. But honestly, I’m a bit too scared to try it. Atiqah says Should watch Horror Stories 2, a korean horror movies which has 4 different stories. This “game” was featured in it -The Escape. Really good. Khairy Ariffin says Tried it; nothing happened thank god. The thrill however, was insanely scary Glad you got through it unscathed! Care to elaborate on your experience? Hi Lucia. I followed all the steps precisely. And I played it at exactly midnight just to add into the atmosphere. No lady walked in at level 5. I exited the lift at number 1, and it was all normal. Hope this helps 🙂 I tried at a hotel almost midnight so no one is around but too sad its nothing happen though.. Hilarious says The worst chances during the ritual is usually at 3AM. What would happen if someone got on (other than the girl) in the middle of the game, say, I’m on the sixth floor and a resident of the building gets on. What should I do? Not proceed with the game and go back to the floor I’m staying on? Or continue? Or if someone gets on on the fifth and it’s not the girl. Should I look away and not speak In the case that it’s her in a disguise? Or can I end the game because it’s not her and again, there’s someone else, so go back to where I stay? Or can I continue? If anyone else gets on, I’m pretty sure it will just stop the ritual from working; if, though, you want to err on the side of caution, don’t speak or look to whoever gets on, head down to the first floor, and exit the building. You can always try again later. Also what if nobody gets on the lift on the fifth floor? Could that mean it didn’t work? YouTuber Sam Golbach didn’t get anybody on fifth floor and it worked. SomeOne says I was wondering something similar. If someone does enter the elevator on the 5th floor, Is the player suppose to assume that its a young woman? The instructions say that you can’t look at her. How can you be certain it’s a young woman without looking or talking to her? What if something else enters the elevator? You’d have no idea unless you look. Given the close quarters an elevator provides, you’ll probably be able to see whether or not it’s a young woman out of your peripheral vision — I think the key is to avoid looking directly at her. DEFINITELY don’t make eye contact. KeeganTheFabulous says The directions mention that the person may ask you where you are going. You’ll usually know by the voice. But I would err on the side of caution and avoid looking directly at anyone who boards the elevator. Akimoto Michiyo says Oh yeah, what if you cant see her? Edward says Our elevator has mirrors O.o Anindya says I thought I read about this somewhere and apparently there was a korean comic featured this kind of game. not exactly the same though, just similar. it is called ‘The Reset Elevator’ if you want to restart your life this game might give you a chance to do so. anyway this is the comic if you are interested. it is from the same website as boncheongdong ghost http://m.webtoons.com/en/thriller/tales-of-the-unusual/ep-23-the-reset-elevator-part-1/viewer?title_no=68&episode_no=24 cheers! 🙂 Roxane says I was in British Colombia, Canada, in a hotel with 10 floors. I had heard about the elevator game and wanted to try it very bad. At first, I told my sister and cousin about it and we did it together. It did not work. I re-read the rules and saw it said I needed to be alone in the elevator. I did it. Alone. I had my phone to film the whole thing. I was terrified but brave enough to try it. I enter the whole 4-2-6-2-10 combination then when I’m about to press 5 for the woman to come in, I freeze. I press 5 and wait silently. I turn around, as I’m not supposed to look at the woman. When I’m at the fifth floor, I don’t see or feel anyone coming in. I instantly feel relieved. I press 1 and it goes normaly to 1, not 10. This is very fake, don’t worry guys 🙂 Morela Vought says Roxane have you tried it without any gauge with you? There is a bunch of videos on youtube and of course if something happen, ”they” don’t want us to know. I’ve never tried, however, I’m thinking about doing it. Any thoughts to share? Linivier says Something happened. It was horrible. I did the steps, and when it came to the fifth floor, I caught a glimpse of her hair. I help my breath, and I tried not to breathe too hard. I’m a pretty tall guy, so she didn’t get in my way. I’m also not big, so I didn’t come in contact with her. She started to hum, and I couldn’t think of the song until I got out. She then asked me “Where are you going?” And the elevator started to rise. It went up. I didn’t acknowledge her, and I heard her sigh. I got out on the tenth floor, and when I heard the elevator doors close, I looked behind me to see four other elevators. I turned back around, and there was nobody. I smelled surfer and what seemed to be burning rubber. I went to the hotel’s window and the sky was a rusty red and grayish colour. The moon was fogged and it was cloudy. I looked out a different window and to my surprise I was a cross. I then remembered what these steps said and I gasped ever so slightly. I didn’t want to stay anymore. I went back to the elevators, which seemed to be farther than I thought and went into the one I came out of. I pressed the buttons in the same order. Again. And again. I went into hysterical mode and every noise I heard scared the f out of me. I was breathing hard and then. I appeared in my world. Or. So I thought. I looked around and something was right. The guy at the counter wasn’t blinking and the time on the clock wasn’t right. It was also broken, and it wasn’t ticking. I went back in and did the steps once more, before actually getting back to my time. I ran out and looked around. It was right. The counter guy knew me and waved to me. I waved back (mainly bc he’s cute. All the homo.). I went back upstairs and saw a woman entering her room next to mine. She was humming “Tiptoeing Through the Tulips”. I remember now. The woman who was in the elevator. Was singing the same thing. The woman looked to me and nodded to me before shutting her door. I went into my room and I saw my sister. My sister, you see, is into weird voodoo and sh* t, and she’s usually doing spells or sticking dolls into pickle jars, so when she saw me walk in, her black eyes widened to the size of watermelons. She went over to me and blew on my face. It smelled like mint? “Lin. . .” She had said. “You’ve messed with something. Something horrible. And now. Something is going to happen to you. . . Linivier I haven’t figured a way to cleanse, only to conjure. You need to be safe. . . Lin, I fear for you. Your mistakes will have consequences. That woman you saw. She is evil.” I didn’t know how she knew the woman was with me, but I knew it wasn’t good. I fear for my life to this day. I fear that I will die, for my sister and father did this year. Either my sister, my mum or I die next. . . . . GamerGal says DPL says Very interesting read. If you are still ok answer. Look up the Musical Chairs Alone game. The song ‘Tip Toe Through The Tulips’ was needed to play the game. Now this song really creeps me out. What happened to Linivier????? Melanie Kuehmann says So fake, but entertaining. Catherine de la Rosa says This possibly makes the scariest and creepiest sht I have ever read in history. I pray for you and your family and I hope you are doing well. Anonomys cutie says So you have 2 sisters? and omg that is so creepy……….Hoping for you kiten says What do they mean for when it says ”she will decide to keep you as her own ?” Would i be bound to her or something of that sort ? Or would she stalk me and toy with me ? purp says Yeah, what would happen if she did decide to keep us as her own? I think it’s something like the devil? LIke she’ll own our soul or something. Or maybe she’ll just kill us. I wouldn’t want to know xD Eitherways, i’ve personally tried it and she didn’t appear on the floor to my dissapointment/relief. Maybe i wasn’t ready to meet her yet. Hehe In the original game (if you’re thinking of someone you know who’s dead) they appear. There’s also several different versions and variations that say that the woman/girl is a representative of the ‘other’ world. Will it still be considered alone if I’m on my cell phone? Chrissy Clark says I AM SOOOOOOOOOO DOING THAT What if I just take the stairs of the building while I’m going back to real world? 😀 wouldn’t that work? Farhad says So, when I was about 8-9 years old, I entered an elevator to go up to a friends house. Pushed the button for the 4th floor if I recall and I stead I was brought down to the basement. I immediately exited the elevator, ran up the stairs to the lobby and ran home. I dunno what happened that day but I believe it’s linked to this theory KL says Reading this scared the crap out of me, hahahaha. Why do I want to do this?! Surayah Holt says Ok so my friend wants to try it … If she gets stuck …. CAN I SAVE HER BY GOING TO THE DEMENSION or is all hope lost . meco says well i think if he/she stay there and you do it and she will come and if you enter the demension too i think you will see him/her and be able to rescue him/her The theory says you will be the only one on the floor… i think it would just be parallel worlds, youd both be there, unable to see each other or communicate Annabelle says I was once staying at a hotel with my friends on level 3 and we decided to check out the top level. To our disappointment there were just more hotel rooms. However, there was a huge mirror and thinking it’ll be funny, i decided to say bloody mary 3 times We entered the elevator and we pressed level 3. It was on its way to level 3, got down to level 5 and then the lifts stopped. We tried to open the door but it wouldnt open.. Then the number on the lift turned to 4 … (later on we realised it meant death) Fortunately we ended up going all the way to the lobby level and had to walk up back to our room I did something similar when I was younger and I definitely remember there was something off. When I did it and went to every floor it stopped at, the whole building seemed deserted. No one was around and no one ever got on the elevator and so I canceled it out by going back to the lobby. I want to try this I saw her This is a death trap do not do it I’m urging you. I looked at her for a split second and I’m not sure if it was just a random woman but I can still see her face in my dreams every night and it scares me so much I’ve had to take medication for it. Please this isn’t a game and if your thinking about playing I beg you not to put yourself in that position Can you describe in details? I mean it’s kinda useful to relieve my stress right now ^v^ (why can’t the otherworld be full of wonders and magic!!!?) Yiyan says Oh. My. God. One of my best friends did the challenge and at level 5, the corridor was dark, anda person with long hair appeared and entered the lift. So he turned around, and did not look and speak to her. He pressed 1 and it went down, lucky for him. Then at lvl 1, the lady asked him where he was going when he was running out. He was scared shitless. Ru says Was looking forward to trying this in my building but then realized the buttons go G-3-5-7-9-11-13-15, yeah there are 15 floors but only 8 levels… don’t ask, it was designed by an Italian architect on crack. I wonder if there is still a way to do it with a different combination to unlock the secret level of a world beyond… would be appropriate too because this building is really creepy. Any suggestions? I tried 3 times: 1st: I chose the building next to mine. When I was on the 2nd floor, I pressed the button for the 6th floor but ended up on 1st floor. I slipped my mouth and said: “What…”. Nothing was really different except for the sky (it was really cloudy before I proceeded the game; but I guess the sky can change) 2nd: The same building. When I was on the 2nd floor, I pressed the button for the 6th floor but ended up on 1st floor again. 3rd: I switched to my own building and played the game. On the 5th floor no one got in, and the elevator descended to the 1st floor. !: I brought a knife with me all the time just in case. Was it the reason why the game didn’t proceed properly? Ver says I’m a 17 years old woman. My house is on 5th floor. I was getting out so ı used the elevator. There was a man in it. He started screaming as soon as I said “can you press 1?”(the entarance of the boulding is at 1st floor). He immediatly started to push every floor and beg to me that have mercy on him. He exactly said “please don’t keep me please don’t kill me. I don’t wanna play anymore” and he ran away as the door opened. I was afraid that someting happened. I asked to the securityman that if he knows the man. He started laughing loudly and told me that he screamed while saying “I saw her , I saw the freaking lady!” then told me the ritual. I laughed my ass off. It happened that the man was living im the next building so whenever ı saw him, I look at him directly and shake my head. He immediatly runs away from me. LOL. I would like a video game based on creepypasta rituals 😀 Download the elevator game VR if you have an oculus rift. Gwen says I’ve played this game a few times now, and only encountered the young woman twice. One time though, she came on at the 2nd floor. She never asked me where I was going, and I never saw the red cross on level 10. Any theories as to why she shows up only sometimes? S says I think it all depends on your soul ambata says I followed the steps exactly in my friend’s apartment building. At the fifth floor I didn’t see anyone come in – I was trying to look at the wall so I wouldn’t look at her if she showed up. But I swear to God, I FELT someone come in. She didn’t say anything but I knew there was someone in there with me. I didn’t look. I was scared stiff. It went back down to the first floor and I left and didn’t look back. Dream says You guys should watch NIGHTMARE AT MIDNIGHT .. korean horror movies . The movie related wit the games .. You guys watchh itt Noelle Groenhuijzen says I love this game but i would not wanna do it in real life tindiesbs says you have to have salt and water in your mouth, if it originated from korean tales. Sheebah says As a female, now I just want to start entering elevators from the 5th floor in hopes of freaking some people out 🙂 What if we used a see through elevator for the game. Would it still work? Nomad says Just tried it and it didn’t work, not that I expected it to but I was willing to give it a try. Probably a ploy from elevator makers around the world to increase sales of parts (sarcasm). I’d be willing to try some other ones just to see if they work as well. First Person Hajime says Why do the buttons have to be pressed in that specific sequence? Is there some sort of message behind the numbers? Is it a religious thing, or is it totally random? Here is what i think it means 4 – Death (in asia) 2 – 2nd Place (most people find 2nd place a bad place. 6 – A blueprint for 666. 2 – Refer to 2nd Place. 10 – The floor of the otherworld. 5 – Notice how 5 is an odd number and the only other odd number is 1. That means the floor would be odd. 1 – Where you begin, it’s where you’ll end (Not exactly, but you get the point) Oscar Rojas says People, don’t try this. I was stuck in the “Otherworld” for 4 years. And I am still not sure if I am back in my “original World”. When I left, my wife and I had only 1 boy, he was 1 year old. I came back last year, and he was 5, and my wife was pregnant. She didn’t mention me anything of me being out for 4 years. When my second boy was born I tested him and the DNA test shows I am his father. I had a dog called “Mechas” (Shaggy in Spanish), she died a few weeks before I went to the “Otherworld”, and now that I am back, my wife doesn’t recall her, and she often talks about our cat that died 3 years ago. Our car is the same, but different color and she says it has been the same color since we bought it. The city is almost the same, but I remember the main Catholic Church being a really old building (1823) made out of stone, and this “other World”s Church is 20 years old, made out of concrete. The women you refer in step 8 came into the elevator, but IT was a girl (4/6 years old) talking in Spanish, my native tongue, even though I did this in Munich, Germany while on a business trip. I would like to try it again to see if I can go back to my real world, but I am afraid I get stuck again, and I really love my wife and kids. I am fucking scared. Cairo says Electronics dont work in the other world so you’re good Mag4711 says Some versions claim electronics don’t work, others claim electronics do. It depends on the version you read. Sherlock says I am sure we are the other world. I would never try this game simply because of what I have experienced as a child and even when my husband went to look it up I told him not to, even though I have never heard of it before. askingalexandria08 says Hey Erin, would you mind sharing what occurred during your child hood please? I’m very interested. scf7 says I’m gonna stay at a place with 10 floors and just keep going in on the 5th floor to see if anyone looks at me or looks terrified. ?joking* I can’t sleep after reading comments ? YouGottaBeKiddingMe says These replies are the best fiction I’ve read in a LONG time. Kudos! Sweet Tender Flesh says How long can you safely stay in the Other World? Additionally, do you think the world you arrive in via this ritual- the world with a cross as the sun- is a world between ours and Shadowside? Or the Shadowside itself? ikanatechnologies says Can you imagine if someone made a theme-park of this? Like there are dozens of elevators you could use. Then have people waiting at the floor to enter the elevator. People would probably pay a lot of money to go there. __ says What happens if you just stay in the elevator and start conversation with the woman from the fifth floor? Spyros PETS says God damn! I would never try this. Hopefully, there aren’t any buildings more than 5 storeys high in my town and even in the capital city, 10+ storeys are rare. can you take a picture at her so you can see what she looks like?? R@hulR says maybe the game is linked to a particular time of the day preferably is you try the game around midnight or 3:33am (reach 5th floor), you might have a better chance to reach to the parallel universe. Erin.C says Me and my friend have been trying to get to different world and this sounds real enough but if anybody knows any other safe but risky, scary, or adventurous ones please reply. OioiJustWondering says So what if I was in the middle of traveling to the floors in the elevator alone say perhaps when I arrive at floor six and someone (not the beautiful woman expected at floor 5) gets in? I won’t be alone so would I have to try again from scratch once they leave? SilentSong says I have read it up and she has been known to disguise herself – even as someone you know – in a bid to trap you (by tricking you into thinking you should abort the ritual or that you’re safe to talk to her). I wouldn’t abort I would continue and end the ritual as quickly and efficiently as possible. By chance do you know what they mean she may keep you as her own? Felicia says Keeping you as her own means that she is going to kidnap you, dragging you to the other world and preventing you from returning to your own world, making her as one of her favorite “toys” or person. If a spirit likes you, they will do anything as long as they can get you (my brother was liked by a ghost of a elderly woman, but she was more like a guardian to him so it wasn’t a problem). If the spirit was kind-hearted, then you’re fine. But if it is an evil spirit… You’re done for. Sorry if I go off-topic, but basically, don’t make her keeping yourself as your own. Because if she did, nothing good will happen. Scarlett says Yes, I suppose you do have to wait until they get off. I do not think you would have to although you might ivy agustin says Omg its really creepy myloveishome says then it would not work and you would have to wait until they get off or you can restart the game completely when they get off. i think it would be better to play at 3-4 in the morning for a better experience and you should restart the game completely rather than continuing on. Ivana Martinez says Yes because no one else can be in the elevator with you so once they get out you have to start from the beginning dakinuvpepr says Yes, not if that’s floor five. Affable goose says It actually means the ritual has failed and, yup you would need to try again Scary Story Lover says Yes. You have to be alone to do it. If you aren’t, it won’t work ruschil sharma says Doing this now…. Excited.. Marko says you have no idea. Haiiro Jin says Anyone who wants to play the game he can just play it and it’s completely SAFE ’cause nothing really happens I played the game many times with my friends (taking turns) and nothing actually happened. But just be careful of one thing….. You may be kicked away from the building because people will start yelling at you for playing with the elevator. So be careful elevatorgamepleasehelp says I played it, I messed up. Now i keep having dreams about it, every now and the i would wake up in the lobby, it seems like something was pushing me into the elevator Real World says You are not in your own world, you are trapped in the otherworld, come back to us, we miss you! Sohana says you’re not supposed to play with someone else NATALIA SZCZEPAN says Why? What would happen? Would it work or nah? Nah. But interesingly enough, you can try playing together each elevator. See if you can appear into another world without being alone. Bye-bye says How? If is safe, what did you do to the women that came on the 5th floor? Bring a knife and kill her? ZelDronpa says Nope. Do nothing. Don’t stare. Plus, if you do “kill” her, you would be dead. Marissa8888 says Bruh, she’s probably a demon or something that could kill you in an instant. Do NOT look at her or speak with her. And don’t even try hurting or killing her, it would be futile. IndieDud says Lol. I saw a woman from YouTube comments that doing this and she works together with the security so no one can go to the elevator. Prashant Singh says Alright tried it, but on the 8th Step, coming to 5th floor when a women enters, it didn’t happen but a lil girl entered while wearing headphones (Skullcandy maybe) and maybe listening to Imagine Dragons – Demons. So I thought that the ritual didn’t work, and pressed my flat floor 21 and when I pressed 21 the girl pressed 8 which 21-13 and offcourse it spooked me, now when I reached back on my floor I came out of elevator and looked back at the girl, she was not wearing a headphone and at first I thought she might have kept it in her pocket, but the Headphones were way big for a lil girl’s pant pocket. I was frightened and ran to my flat, rand the bell, my mum opened and I hurriedly went in. I didn’t talked to the girl. While having dinner I asked my mum if she has seen a little girl who lives on 8th floor and she said “Nobody lives on the 8th floor”. The sentence got me choked and I fell ill for a week. Since that day I my Scholastic scores are goin down however I was a good scholar and so does my family and friend relationship. Maybe I am in other world or the curse of the girl. Amy hwang says The girl might’ve been visiting the restroom or something on that floor or you saw wrong or maybe she was playing around? It’s… it’s not always an old woman. hello says I think the lady disguises herself to trick you. You’re not supposed to look at her so taylor frederick says OMG, that happened to me one time but there was a little girl who was quietly singing to herself and when I went to get off she pulled out a knife at me and cut me 2 times on the wrist :'( DO NOT PLAY THE GAME!It was on the 10 floor I asked my mum if anyone lived on the 10th floor she said”nobody lives there it’s haunted”I freaked out and started to choke out of nowhere.Since then I always woke up laying down on the 10th floor! It means you are cursed or you have been disoriented and started sleep walking DroughtWeed says I tried it twice, no one came in, and lift functioning perfectly normal. Such a letdown It means your positive energy is much more powerful than negative or you live in a purified place so stop impurity the place and try somewhere spooky Afjklol says You thinking too much in to it. You have no idea why that girl might of went in to the 8th floor. And you were probably too nervous and mistaken what she was wearing. Leno says ???? I was trying to do that but on the fifth floor someone entered it was the security i thought it will be the women but it was him he took me out and he said what are you doing thus is not a game????? Or is the security a woman disguised? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° ) Lol really funny OR maybe it was the women in disguise and now you are cursed Juhi says Shouldnt we help this poor woman on the 5th floor to get out? What if she is stuck there too? Deliver us from good and evil says I think if she was stuck there wouldn’t she might be very angry with whoever crosses her path? Amazingcandy07 says I had the same thought ._. ???? A Random Person says SHE IS NOT WHAT SHE SEEMS! READ THE DANG THING! Maybe you become the woman. I mean, I can translate the rest of the Korean post. But I’d recommend you not to look too much into this. There’s also several more warnings that are absolutely crucial. If you happen to read this comment, please add these; 1. You must not, in any case, attempt this too many times. This makes you susceptible to accidental ‘slipping’ through the worlds. 2. If you do not get out of the elevator on the 10th floor, or if the woman does not get in, you should head straight back down to the 1st floor. 3. Sometimes, when you’re coming back, the elevator goes back up instead of down. You have to cancel the ascension by pressing any. button. between your current floor and the 10th and get off. The other is pulling you. 4. If you faint in the other and find yourself back in your world- be careful. You can be pulled there and back at any given moment. This also happens to people with susceptible souls- or 기 in Korean. 5. There’s also several other, simpler ways to do this- if wanted, I can translate the rest of these for you. AspiringToBeNia says For No. 3 what if you don’t cancel the ascension? I assume you’re pulled unwillingly into the other- for good. Rin says Does it say anything about the origins of the ritual? Paula Durán says Yes please, translate the rest 🙂 I really want to do this… Some part of me doesn’t believe that this actually works, and the other part of me is afraid that something goes wrong. The rest.. the other alternatives.. aren’t really recommendable. Most of them are mostly irrevocable. By that, I mean that there’s no way to return. There’s three alternatives; one uses a bathroom, the second uses a set of stairs in a school, and the third uses salt water and an elevator. Whatever you do, I’m just saying; even if it doesn’t work, it carries a great deal of risk. I wouldn’t recommend it. Just… do something low-risk. This one’s not even verified; no point in making yourself noticed if there’s no obvious result. What if you play with other people? Like two people in the elevator, would it still work? Or would nothing happen? Probably nothing will happen. See, there’s also a mention of how the ritual can be interrupted by someone else getting into the elevator in the middle of it. But, to be safe, just follow the rules. Gillyan says what does the lady look like? No idea. It differs from account to account. From a more personal account, a friend of mine told me she saw a small, hunched woman. But she couldn’t see the face. Shriram says I remember reading a story on reddit about a guy who did this, and he accidentally looked at the woman and described her. If I am not wrong, her hair, nails are really long, she’s wearing a bloody white dress and her eyes are purple, also you could see some sort of energy around her Can You please write more about bathroom alternative/method? Please send me the translation. I’m a natural witch. I’d like to know what I’m getting into. Mohit says Just a way of playing with the mind. A hypothetical concept, clever people can use this story to scare light hearted folks 😀 :D. Its written in the sense that will terrify you out of your wits Eyad says Setting: at midnight in a random building. I went with my friends and i decided to man up and do it since they all couldnt handle going further after the second step. They waited for me down as i went up the elevator. I did exactly the steps. I didnt get to see any girl come in at any stage of the game. However at the 5th floor i heard someone moving at that floor, i exactly heard some plastic bags being moved. I quickly close the door and press the first floor as i was scared shitless at that point and then after reaching the 1st floor i rush over to my friends as i see the relief ontheir faces and told them ill never do dumb shit again. To me that ritual felt pretty fake its all psychological in my opinion. Really a thriller if youre that type of person but nothing too serious. Rainbowz says Will the lady kill you if you speak or look at her? Raha says no, but she may decide to keep you for her own…creepy Yeah, most likely kill, posses or catch in otherworlds for ever. Did You read experiences of people attempting this ritual? There you are: https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/5lyg1k/beware_the_7th_floor_of_the_elevator_ritual/ , https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/2nekov/i_did_the_elevator_ritual_i_think_something/ , https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/3ln0bd/my_experience_with_the_elevator_ritual/ , https://www.reddit.com/r/UrbanMyths/comments/5p6af3/worst_decision_in_my_life/ , https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/24s9d2/i_fainted_after_the_elevator_ritual_help_urgently/ And If You want some more let me know, I have found a few other stories. yay_unicorns_yay says I’d like to point out that the the no sleep Reddit looks like it`s just a place to post stories rather than actual events so the posts on there probably aren’t too reliable, it’s always really annoying trying to find people who have actually performed these types of rituals online since there’s so many creepypastas. Noctis says Fully convinced no matter if you’re in another dimension you can still get on Reddit. Sebastian says Hi, can I have more stories? Thank you Hi Sebastian, there You have it: 1.https://www.reddit.com/r/threekings/comments/6uwf2z/elevator_ritual_anyone_actually_had_it_work/ – this one is a thread on Three kings where someone asked if it ever worked and there is interesing comment of user called dman19910608 that you possibly want to read. 2.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E2GetqNXDI – this is video of guy, who swear that he performed this ritual, but on his channel there is another video recorded by his friend, where he says that he(guy who performed the ritual) killed himself by jumping from the bridge. And there is a comment of user Dave Pants where he says about he’s friend performing this ritual and that he a nervous breakdown and he killed himself. 3.https://www.facebook.com/ExplainThisMyth/posts/452719208110448 – this is one of the posts that I found on facebook about some people in same elevator by accident founded themself in red sky world(otherworld) 4.https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/5lyg1k/beware_the_7th_floor_of_the_elevator_ritual/ -this one is one of the latest experiences I found. 5.https://www.reddit.com/r/UrbanMyths/comments/5p6af3/worst_decision_in_my_life/ -this one also 6.http://rebrn.com/re/i-preformed-the-elevator-ritual-but-i-did-something-wrong-108364/ and this. 7. https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/17365597/#q17365820,http://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/16822097/#q16822097, https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/17037520/#q17037948(might be bad order, sorry for that) These discussions are not about elevator ritual but something similar (I call it The cave ritual). 8. https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/13620626/#q13634137_1, https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/16628009/#q16642530 – some more and less discussions about this ritual. 9. https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/13620626 -in this discussion one guy swear that he made pictures of the otherworld, but they are in bad resolution. 10. https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/40q0pu/i_think_a_saw_another_world_by_accident_ill_never/ someone who also by accident founded himself in otherworlds. 11. http://sukumquat.com/spooky-this-girl-sent-out-a-cry-for-help-from-another-dimension/ I think this one is fake, but still worth read. I hope you enjoyed this and have a nice read! Ps. If i’m gonna found more of these experiences I will let you know. LoneComa says What happens if you look at or speak to the woman? She will keep you as her own. Then she may decide to keep you as her own. Also what happens if you exit the elevator if the smallest detail seems off? Then it means you actually exit the Other World. So, you failed to return to the normal world. But i’m not a 100% sure. I think that means you’re in the other world and need to get back to get back to the elevator as fast as possible. That or the woman has taken you for her own…But i’m not really sure this is just my 2 cents I assume that you are forever trapped in the other world. epoltor69@gmail.com says Hi guys a quick question for “venturing out”: Can the woman enter the otherworld after I leave the 10th floor? Because the world only has me in it, so I am assuming there is like some “barrier” between the elevator and the otherworld? In that case what would happen if I turn around after exiting the elevator at the 10th floor and then reply her question? Can someone help me try it out because I am quite afraid to do it myself, I don’t really want to die, the last time I tried the elevator ritual I nearly passed out but thankfully made it back from the otherworld, thanks! Gamers Blog says I want to try, But If I did I would probably start panicking and forgetting what to do if the woman actually came in… I would be so terrified… Oh_hello_there says I would possibly try this on Halloween. This is the time of year when the veil between the real world and shadow world is at it’s thinnest. Also, try a building located on a charged ley line. The famous museum in Paris mentioned in the Davinci Code is located directly on the rose line. I wonder if it has 10 floors and an elevator. Washington, DC also is situated on some pretty interesting ley lines. Also, there’s an additional step not mentioned above. Apparently, you have to have salt water in your mouth as you attempt this ritual. eww, that would be sour Well actually it could help cause demons are vulnerable to salt But still she isn’t what she seems I will get you one day affable goose and you will perish You will not escape that place ever again just waiting for you to come But still I will find ya Demetria Brown says I did this and the elevator stayed stuck on the 6th floor I got scared and went back to the 1st This is other precautions I’ve read: 1) if someone who isn’t the woman or is someone you think you know DO NOT ACKNOWLEDGE THEM. The woman has been known to disguise herself in an attempt to trap players by making them think they should stop the ritual, that it’s safe to leave before it actually is, or that it’s safe to talk to her. 2) it’s not advisable to use an elevator with reflective surroundings as it’s easier to accidentally acknowledge her presence. If you must use one, focus entirely on the buttons and do not glance elsewhere even for a second. 3) if you decide to leave the elevator once in the Otherworld, as well as asking where you are going the woman may shriek at you in an attempt to scare you into acknowledging her (looking back in fear/making a noise). Be sure you don’t do this. Have any of you heard of Elisa Lam? She displayed odd behaviour on cctv in an elevator shortly before disappearing and mysteriously showing up dead where it was near enough impossible for her to be. One speculation is that she was playing this game as she can be seen talking to someone who isn’t there. Please please please exercise caution when playing this. The craziest thing about the Elisa Lam case is this weird coincidence- QUAL!A says Has anyone thought about a possible connection between this ritual / game and the mysterious death of Elisa Lam? I was thinking about this for a while actually, but after watching the video a few times Elisa’s behavior isn’t consistent to what you have to do for this game. In the beginning of the video where Elisa first walks in, she doesn’t press the button to the fourth floor like the instructions say, but instead presses four buttons in order. She also doesn’t go to multiple floors like what instructions 1-7 say, but just starts acting strangely on the same floor she enters at. But I feel like it is possible she read this game but misread/interpreted the instructions. Kiwi says She may have been in the otherworld, trying to get out with no success. This would explain why the elevator door was open for so long, why she pressed buttons, and why she was continuously walking in and out the elevator, looking around the hallways. I think she may have even gotten posessed by the woman for looking at it/talking with it. She may have “kept her for her own” and drowned her? Also her being posessed would explain how she had the power to remove and put the lid back on the water tank. Obviously cameras weren’t able to record the otherworld, so she just seems weird. But I think this would be reasonable. Also notice how after Elisa Lam leaves the elevator that the doors don’t close? They simply remain open until she gets back inside. No one must enter during the whole game if not you have to repeat it again and no one meaning people from this world What do I do if it stops at a different floor in the middle, say floor three, and people get on? Is the game finished then? Do I need to do anything special? Normal people get in while you attempting ritual? Then you failed. Try playing it at midnight or so. Then no one comes in the room. Unless it’s a security ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° ) Meteor Girl says The game’s finished. No biggie. Try again another time. What happens if I try this with one of my friends? (Both inside the elevator) It won’t work. Hirota says In some versions, they say you actually can do that. Hallucination says A ritual to basically enter a Silent Hill game? Not too keen on that. GP says I read the FAQ for this. Turns out, you’re not safe in Otherworld; not for one second. But that brings up questions: Why are you not safe? Is there “things” coming for you? And, my favorite question: Should you carry a weapon when preforming this (gun, knife, etc….), to ensure your safety if things take a turn for the worst in Otherworld? Because you’re entering hell. Because you’ve entered hell. Nogotogon says For my experiences, Things in other planes can’t be affected by normal means, such as a gun or whatever. in other words ‘things in the shadow realm can usually only be affected by things in the shadow realm, but you are in their realm so they can affect you.’ Don’t take my word as law though TRUTH says You need either Dragonstone blade or Valerian steel. You will be fine if you have one of those with you. Tato says I read this few monthes ago and I immediately decided to try this one.I like this kind of scary crazy shit,so I told my friends and we did it together multiple times. At first me and my friend did it and we were scared shitless. No one came on the 5th floor, but some strange phenomenon occurred. After we got on the fifth floor I was disappointed, but there was still hope, so when I pressed button for 1st floor hoping to get above the 5th floor(or at least to get below it) Suddenly elevator door closed and nothing happened. We were stuck.We did get out of there easily,but this really scared crap out of us.Than I tried it for second time,third time,fourth time,but again with my friend(s). All of the time different strange occurrences were spotted. Than finally I built up my courage and tried it by myself only(It really was not that big of a deal…It was 5th time after all). Nothing happened. Completely Nothing. Not even tiny strange thing. Someone said that if you want to succeed in this you must try it after the dusk. So I’m gonna give this a try again one last time. Gonna keep you updated. Neji says Can I bring my phone and headphone? so I can listen music while doing this? Of course you can, but no one can say what to expect. Mehreen says You can bring your phone and headphones 🙂 But they won’t work. Have you done this ritual? If not, how do you know? HEY WE HAVE THE SAME NAME Some people say they do. Arex Forger says I think you can. However, although the music can help distract you from the fear, you will be less alert on your surrounding. No one knows. 🙂 coruscantbookshelf says Hey, assuming this is arranged for Americans? ‘Cause in New Zealand the floor of the building that you walk into off the street is called the ground floor, not the first floor. Is it the numbers or the actual physical level that is important? It’s the same thing, I think Topingman123 Youtuber says What if you pass out and you wake up and notice something is wrong with your surroundings, what do you do after that? Get back to the elevator as soon as possible, you may be in the other world. But i’m not really sure. Who made this game? Random1name says I am wondering, is it okay to use a phone to see the steps, or no? Isariamkia (@Isariamkia) says I can’t see any problem in that They might not work on the Otherworld, so the better thing to do is to copy the steps on a piece of paper and if you play the game, bring the paper with you. That way you can go back from the freaking Otherworld easily (except if you’re trapped in there) Also some safety precautions Lucia forgot to put in the game: 1. The woman, is a mistress of disguises, so she might disguise as a friend of yours to lure you into talking to her, she may say that it is safe. Whatever you do, don’t speak to her. 2. You may not know what to expect in the Otherworld. Be prepared for a great scare. 3. If you passed out, fainted, etc, and woke up to notice something is wrong, first, consider the surroundings carefully. For example, if your home is almost being finished painted, and it was painted orange, and you saw it was a complete orange, don’t worry, some things may happen while you play the game. If not, get to the elevator as quickly as possible and go back to your own world as possible. 4. To abort the ritual, get out in a random floor, say, fourth floor, and don’t look back. PS: Sorry for saying bad things about Lucia, but she just forgot to say these kinds of precautions. Good luck in playing the game! sir_kitty says probaly not as the other guy said things in HELL can’t be affected by EARTH items so no music 4 u also if anyone knows what the “WOMAN” is if its satan death the reaper the devil whatever it is please tell me and half of me wants to say Hey its blooming real the other half says nope its all a load of crud so if you COULD post a video of YOU going there that would be great for all of us i do kind of belive but my mum says its all BS and that its not real i told her about Elisa’s death she still says no i dont know why:[ Donnie says I’m loading this on my phone, and going to use my phone to play this game in the elevator . using the recorder and see what happens . Wish me luck people.////////////////////////////////////////////// Good luck and keep us updated ! rakesh mishra says Have you played Donnie? What happened? Lozza says Zoe Flannigan says something is very off here… last time I read this article, the returning required a reverse order..lik:1-5-10-2-6-2-4-1..what happened with that version..I think I read that here o.O phoebe says same here Zoe!! Shawn says If you happen to visit this other world can you leave the building and explore…? I don’t have access to a 10 story building just wondering if there are any theories on this. So has anyone actually tried this with a scientific mindset to prove this wrong? ThisGuy says Will the lady be in the elevator after we reenter it from the Otherworld? What happens if you get stuck in the elevator at any point during the game? All answers to two questions: 1. Nope. 2. Then you’re doomed. Nope. She got out, maybe. Kiam_Mercer says I played I’m learning my lesson and as y’all say “she” (IT) has not gone away. It’s annoying but you can live with what comes back if you make mistakes. Don’t panic if you do mess up. Think it through and proceed carefully. Get out and don’t go back. Can you please describe more details about your experience? I’m very curious because I planned to do this and it would be nice to know what I can expect and what can wait for me there. Also, what do you mean that she has not gone away? Is she stalking you? Lol. This is both creepy and funny. matthew w says If while I accidentally caught looking at her, how’s she going to treat me? Just in case for the worst of the worst case. she’ll probably take you for her own or some shit ? mllwcrmpmpkn says What if the building you want to use doesn’t start on floor “1” but floor “L”, the lobby, and goes up to floor “9”? And you don’t have the option of finding another building. Could you use floor “L” as floor “1”? and floor “9” as floor “10”? or do they have to have those specific numbers? What if you wanted to stay in that other world? Are there any consequences? Or is it unknown and will never be known because no one ever came back? On the FAQ it said that staying in the Other World was dangerous? What could be so dangerous about it? The Other World is a place where only you exist; therefore, no creature with a consciousness would hurt you. is the climate different? Are natural disasters more common in the Other World? Does the Other World somehow have an effect on foreign objects/bodies? I understand, of course, if this question cannot be given a full or correct answer. Laonasa says The way that I heard it is because it’s so empty. If you’re trapped there, there’s no food, no water- no anything. Also, it’s an imperfect reality, and that makes the dimension itself dangerous in long periods of time. The Otherworld is a world for souls, spirits, and demons. That’s what makes it dangerous. What if the Stranger (from the Stranger Ritual) just chases you from there? wait, if you do it with more than one person, but you take a different elevators in the same building, will you eventually meet them in the Other World? Possibly, but I think that the other world is different for everyone. Evan says I would never do that!! #voldemort says it works with 2 people. jordi says Lo que hace la gente para atraer la atención…. De parguelas. I’d say I don’t believe in those things, but I would NEVER play that game. The simple idea of it scares me a lot. I’m not sure if evil spirits are real or not, just a human invention, but I’m not gonna try to find out, you know. The same with ouija and that stuff. If my friends wanted to play ouija I would run away as far as possible from them lol Andrew says I’m going to a large hotel in Atlanta in a couple of weeks. I’ll make a video of me trying it. It’s impossible to play in big and huge cities… People are ALWAYS awake and taking the damn elevator, especially if the building they live in has 10 floors or more. Night time’s no better when some do work then too. In towns and smaller living urban&rural places, well… In my small country no option for playing that game either… Unless I build myself such building with elevator and lock all the doors. Idk. Pity. I really wish I could play it and get lost somewhere else. Kathryn Leonard says 1. Does the woman have to enter the elevator in the 5th floor in order for you to acsend to the 10th? Or can that happen even without her? 2. How does the woman “keep you as her own?” Trap you in the “other world”? Possess you? Haunt you? Other? 3. Can someone come rescue or save you? Or will they go to their own personal 10th floor/other world? 4. If you pass out and wake up at home will you still be all alone in the other world? Or will people be there and things are just different? Do you have to go back to the elevator and follow the steps to return or are you simply stuck? What if the elevator in your new world doesn’t exist anymore? Can that happen? see, this is why I am never ever ever doing this ever in my life. there is no chance in hell I am risking being trapped in some sort of hellscape with no knowing if I’ll be able to get back or if I’ll even survive this new world. Misavn says Is it real? I want to try this ritual. Osto Frokost says I live on a 13th floor building and buildings around me are mostly either 9 or 10+ floors. Will it work the way I want if it is not just 10 floors? The Fifth Floor Woman says I’m actually not from the Otherworld. I’m a spirit looking to misguide any fool to another world. Luc says Will do it in the next 10min. With two friends Cheng says I personally think the lack of 4 floor came from China. “Tứ” is “4” in China. “Tử” is “death” in China. That connects their meanings in China’s culture. sorry for mah bad English LOL what happens if you go back to the tenth floor? The Ghost Girl says I tried this and I saw the woman! When the elavator went to the 10th floor, I got off really quick. She asked where I was going. But I didn’t answer. When I got home, my furniture was everywhere and was broken. Is that a bad sign? If so, should I move? Clara says Is there made a movie about this game? If so, what is it called? Евгений says мне страшно. Хотелось бы попробовать, но у меня нет 10-этажного здания. (I’m from Russia) They say that if you open your eyes she will make your eyes red and kill people but when one person is about to kill the person who has the red eyes she will turn you back to normal… and you die because the person who was about to kill you she was to close and you die. Gord Bestwick says You know, there is a film about this…. ᗩᗷᗷY says ᗯᕼᗩT ᕼᗩᑭᑭEᑎᔕ Iᖴ YOᑌ ᔕTᗩY Iᑎ TᕼE EᒪEᐯᗩTOᖇ? Hey,why do you need to know that says What if a man entered on the tenth floor? (I mean, I tried it but it is not true. Many people entered on the tenth floor, like kids and women!) So if I were to try this and look at the woman but, not talk what would happen? Bebbo says I tried it, and i didn’t see any cross or any lights out, no girls came so just went back. I did it to prove to my friends that it wasn’t real. So don’t worry it’s not real. still fun to read tho Leave a Reply to Sweet Tender Flesh Cancel reply Search the machine I Wrote A Book! ‘Dangerous Games To Play In The Dark’ Is Now Available For Pre-Order The Most Dangerous Games: The Raven Man Pixelated Nightmares: 21 Creepy RPG Maker Horror Video Games That Are Well Worth Your Time The Ghost In My Machine is an internet campfire of sorts. Gather round, because it wants to tell you strange stories, take you on haunted journeys, and make you jump at unexpected noises. Like what you read? Support The Ghost In My Machine! 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__label__wiki	0.990038	0.990038	GOP congressman dined with Belgian politician known for anti-Muslim views By Michael Burke - 09/06/18 10:38 AM EDT © Greg Nash Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) joined a Belgian politician known for anti-Muslim views for an hours-long dinner in July, CNN reported Thursday. The politician, Filip DeWinter, told CNN's KFile that the two had dinner after they both attended a London rally in support of a jailed anti-Islamic activist. The dinner was organized by former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon, according to CNN. CNN noted that DeWinter has said Muslims don’t belong in Europe. In 2016, he tweeted praise of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump’s proposed ban of Muslims entering the United States, writing that the European Union should do the same. #Orlando @realDonaldTrump is right! 'A total shutdown of Muslims entering the #USA' We should do the same in #EU! pic.twitter.com/QcydPcBYq6 — Filip Dewinter (@FDW_VB) June 15, 2016 DeWinter and Gosar both attended a rally in July in support of Tommy Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon. He is a founder of the anti-Muslim English Defense League, which has organized violent protests against Muslim immigrants. Robinson was sentenced to 13 months in jail after being arrested for filming outside a courthouse where a child molestation case was taking place, which violated English law limiting publicity of criminal trials. “I understand, like me, you’re all concerned about making your country great again,” Gosar, a supporter of President Trump, said at the rally. “We know that these men are from, commonly, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Muslim backgrounds,” Gosar added, speaking of the molestation case that Robinson tried to film. “What do we want? We want Tommy out,” Gosar said. Tags Donald Trump Paul Gosar Anti-Islam	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4580
__label__wiki	0.944991	0.944991	TheHill Sign up for TheHill's email Business & Lobbying November 21, 2016 - 04:35 PM EST Bannon set up Trump-Gabbard meeting By Jonathan Swan Donald Trump Donald John TrumpPompeo changes staff for Russia meeting after concerns raised about top negotiator's ties: report House unravels with rise of 'Les Enfants Terrible' Ben Carson: Trump is not a racist and his comments were not racist MORE’s chief strategist Steve Bannon contacted Tulsi Gabbard Tulsi GabbardDemocrats ask Labor Department to investigate Amazon warehouses Jack Dorsey maxes out donations to Tulsi Gabbard presidential bid Sanders praises Gen Z for being 'profoundly anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-homophobic' MORE to arrange Monday’s meeting with the president-elect, according to a source close to Bannon. “He reached out to her, not vice versa,” the source told The Hill on Monday. Many in the media raised their eyebrows when the news broke that Trump was meeting at Trump Tower Monday morning with Hawaii’s Democratic congresswoman. But for those who know Bannon best, there was no surprise at all. Bannon, who hates the entrenched two-party system, has long admired Gabbard. She’s an Iraq War veteran with an independent streak. Bannon, a navy veteran, was drawn to her when she began publicly excoriating the Obama administration over its plan to defeat ISIS. “He loves Tulsi Gabbard. Loves her,” a second source familiar with Bannon’s thinking told The Hill. “Wants to work with her on everything.” “She would fit perfectly too [inside the administration],” the source added. “She gets the foreign policy stuff, the Islamic terrorism stuff.” Bannon appreciates Gabbard’s willingness to publicly criticize President Obama for refusing to name the enemy, “radical Islamic terrorism.” “For him it’s a win-win when a Democrat is saying those things,” said a third source, who used to work under Bannon at Breitbart News. In a text message to The Hill on Monday, a source close to Bannon said the chief strategist is "big on getting Iraq / Afghanistan war veterans in the administration." As chairman of Breitbart, Bannon rarely left his reporters guessing about what he thought about a political issue or politician. He would tell his staff, in what were often expletive-laden and abrupt phone calls, exactly what he thought about whatever was on his mind, according to multiple sources who worked under him. It appears that Bannon’s view of Gabbard as an ally was shared by the Breitbart team. A search of "Gabbard" in the Breitbart News archive turns up five pages of archived stories, many of them reported over the past year. The stories highlight Gabbard’s criticism of the Obama administration over its plans to defeat ISIS, including the president’s convening of a White House summit on violent extremism, an event Gabbard described on Fox News as a “diversion from what our real focus needs to be.” Other Breitbart stories on Gabbard note her full-throated support for Israel, her support for the Kurds and her backing of a bill that would make it all but impossible to admit Syrian refugees into the U.S. Gabbard meshes with Trump’s foreign policy views in that she vehemently opposes U.S.-led regime change. She argues the U.S. government has no business removing from power the brutal Syrian dictator Bashar Assad. In the statement she released following her meeting with Trump, Gabbard said she “felt it important to take the opportunity to meet with the President-elect now before the drumbeats of war that neocons have been beating drag us into an escalation of the war to overthrow the Syrian government.” Describing her conversation with Trump as “frank and positive,” Gabbard said she shared with him her “grave concerns that escalating the war in Syria by implementing a so-called no fly/safe zone would be disastrous for the Syrian people, our country, and the world.” “It would lead,” she added, “to more death and suffering, exacerbate the refugee crisis, strengthen ISIS and al-Qaeda, and bring us into a direct conflict with Russia which could result in a nuclear war.” A Trump transition source told The Hill on Monday that Gabbard could potentially fill “a number of positions” inside the incoming administration. CNN and the New York Times have reported that she’s under consideration for United Nations ambassador. CNN also reported that she’s under consideration for State and Defense. “Let me be clear,” Gabbard said in her statement, “I will never allow partisanship to undermine our national security when the lives of countless people lay in the balance.” 1625 K Street, NW Suite 900 The contents of this site are ©2019 Capitol Hill Publishing Corp., a subsidiary of News Communications, Inc.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4581
__label__cc	0.73351	0.26649	Type-2 diabetes ‘looking more like an autoimmune disease’ Stanford researchers, led by pathologist Edgar Engleman, MD, reported today in Nature Medicine that type-2 diabetes is looking more and more like an autoimmune disease, rather than a strictly metabolic disorder. According to co-first author Daniel Winer, MD: “This work will change the way people think about obesity, and will likely impact medicine for years to come as physicians begin to switch their focus to immune-modulating treatments for type-2 diabetes.” Type-2 diabetes is characterized by the gradual development of insulin resistance, which affects the ability of the body to properly metabolize glucose. It’s associated with being overweight, but it can also have a genetic component. Despite the fact that millions of people have type-2 diabetes, the root cause of the insulin resistance is not known. In 2009, Daniel and Shawn Winer showed (also in Nature Medicine; subscription required) that T cells of the immune system were involved. Now they found that another immune cell, called a B cell, also plays an important role. The researchers found that mice genetically engineered to lack B cells were protected from developing insulin resistance even when they grew obese on the high-fat diet. However, injecting these mice with B cells or purified antibodies from obese, insulin-resistant mice significantly impaired their ability to metabolize glucose and caused their fasting insulin levels to increase. Interestingly, treating the mice with a compound called anti-CD20, which targets mature B cells for destruction, kept the animals from developing insulin resistance. The human version of anti-CD20, called rituximab, is already FDA-approved to treat some blood cancers and autoimmune disorders. The Therapy Book From aromatherapy to zero balancing and everything in between For comprehensive information on more than 200 holistic health therapies in an easily understandable format, you can’t do better than The Therapy Book for Kindle, available here. To find out more, just click on the book below. Thanks to Scope Blog for this article. autoimmune disease, diabetes type 2, genetic, obesity Effective natural remedies for hayfever sufferers What is the Paleolithic (Paleo) Diet? 2 thoughts on “Type-2 diabetes ‘looking more like an autoimmune disease’” Pingback: Type-2 diabetes 'looking more like an autoimmu... Sergio Stagnaro says: Distressing research by Authors who ignore Diabetic Constitution and the really different Autoimmune-Rheumatic Constitutions. In my 55 year-long clinical experience, T2DM Constitution is associated to Oncological Terrain rather than to Autoimmune Constitution, where it is rear cancer onset.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4582
__label__wiki	0.547696	0.547696	Beautiful Poison: Jean Simmons in Angel Face (1953) & Gene Tierney in Leave Her To Heaven (1945) It’s that dastardly wonderful time of year when Speakeasy* Shadows and Satin & Silver Screenings host The Great Villain Blogathon 2017! featuring an endless array of diabolically cunning, insensate evil, down right nefarious and at times psychotic adversaries that Cinema has to offer! Now in the past several years I’ve taken a long look at Gloria Holden & Gloria Swanson: When the Spider Woman Looks: Wicked Love, Close ups & Old Jewels -Sunset Blvd (1950) and Dracula’s Daughter (1936). Dark Patroons & Hat Box Killers: for 2015’s The Great Villain Blogathon! I focused on the extraordinarily passionate Vincent Price in Dragonwyck 1946 and the ruthlessly sublime Robert Montgomery in Night Must Fall 1937—in a twisted nail biter by director Walter Graumen who puts the lovely Olivia de Havilland in peril at the hands of a sociopathic animal James Caan — Lady in a Cage (1964) for the spectacular Blogathonian lady’s hosting the 2014’s —The Great Villain Blogathon and once again last year for 2016’s event, I featured True Crime Folie à deux: with my take on Truman Capote’s true crime drama In Cold Blood (1967) & the offbeat psycho thriller The Honeymoon Killers (1969). I was tempted to do a double feature tribute to the two masterful, despicably loathsome characters brought to life by Robert Mitchum. First his superb manifestation of the crazed preacher Harry Powell in Charles Laughton’s expressionist masterpiece The Night of the Hunter (1955). And then as the animalistic psychotic Max Cady in director J. Lee Thompson’s Cape Fear (1962). I might not wait until The Great Villain Blogathon 2018, and just do a special feature “Robert Mitchum’s Alpha Madmen” because he & these two films are just too good not to write about before next go around! And I’m simply mad about Robert Mitchum, not to worry, not mad in the same way as Angel Face’s Diane Tremayne! The Great Villain Blogathon is perhaps one of my favorite blogathons because the possibilities are devilishly deliciously endless. My mind began to wander around all the delightfully deadly possibility of dastardly dames… Beautiful Anti-Heroines with a psychological underpinning as in THE DARK MIRROR 1946 starring Olivia de Havilland playing twin sisters one bad, one good, de Havilland also embodies that certain dangerous allure in MY COUSIN RACHEL 1952. THE STRANGE WOMAN 1946 features a very cunning and mesmerizing Hedy Lamarr, and then there’s always Anne Baxter who portrays a deeply disturbed woman in GUEST IN THE HOUSE 1944. All would be excellent choices for this bad ass… blogathon! BUT…! This year, I find myself drawn to two intoxicatingly beautiful antagonists who’s veneer of elegance & delicate exquisiteness is tenuously covering their obsessive shattered psyches. Jean Simmons and Gene Tierney both manage to create an icy austerity and a menacing malignancy within the immediate allure of their physical beauty and wiles. Also significant in both these films, the characters of Diane Tremayne and Ellen Berent flip the male gaze and conquer it for themselves, being the ones ‘to look’. In both these films the two deadly women are father-fixated! Both are pathologically jealous. And both women will not go “easy” Diane won’t put the car in gear “Easy!” and Ellen will not leave Dick alone and go away “easy.” These two killer psycho-noir ladies are a great pairing of deadly damsels! DEFINITION : beauty \|ˈbyo͞odē\| noun (pl. beauties) 1 a combination of qualities, such as shape, color, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight: I was struck by her beauty \| an area of outstanding natural beauty. DEFINITION : CRIMINALLY INSANE criminally \|ˈkrimən(ə)lē\| 1 in a manner that is contrary to or forbidden by criminal law: psychosis \|sīˈkōsəs\| noun (pl. psychoses \|-ˌsēz\| ) a severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality. DEFINITION: OBSESSION obsession \|əbˈseSHən\| the state of being obsessed with someone or something: she cared for him with a devotion bordering on obsession. an idea or thought that continually preoccupies or intrudes on a person’s mind: DEFINITION: FREUDIAN Freudian \|ˈfroidēən\| Psychology relating to or influenced by Sigmund Freud and his methods of psychoanalysis, especially with reference to the importance of sexuality in human behavior. DEFINITION:PATHOLOGICALLY JEALOUS pathological \|ˌpaTHəˈläjək(ə)l\| (also pathologic) adjective/noun the science of the causes and effects of diseases, especially the branch of medicine that deals with the laboratory examination of samples of body tissue for diagnostic or forensic purposes.—• mental, social, or linguistic abnormality or malfunction—compulsive; obsessive jealous \|ˈjeləs\| feeling or showing envy of someone or their achievements and advantages: feeling or showing suspicion of someone’s unfaithfulness in a relationship:• fiercely protective or vigilant of one’s rights or possessions: • (of God) demanding faithfulness and exclusive worship. From Mary Ann Doane’s book “The femme fatale is the figure of a certain discursive unease, a potential epistemological trauma. For her most striking characteristic, perhaps, is the fact that she never really is what she seems to be. She harbors a threat which is not entirely legible, predictable or manageable. In thus transforming the threat of the woman into a secret, something which must be aggressively revealed, unmasked, discovered … Her appearance marks the confluence of modernity, urbanization, Freudian psychoanalysis…The femme fatale is a clear indication of the extent of the fears and anxieties prompted by shifts in the understanding of sexual difference in the late nineteenth century… “ Doane goes on to say that it’s no wonder cinema was a great place for the femme fatale of 1940s noir with the femme fatale representing a sign of deviant strength. That could be said of both of highlighted q! She loved one man … enough to KILL to get him! Directed by Otto Preminger written by Frank Nugent, Oscar Milland, Chester Erskine and an uncredited Ben Hecht. Jean Simmons stars as the antagonist Diane Tremayne Jessup, Robert Mitchum plays Frank Jessup, Mona Freeman as nice girl Mary Wilton, Herbert Marshall as Diane’s beloved father, Mr. Charles Tremayne, Barbara O’Neil as stepmother Mrs. Catherine Tremayne, Leon Ames as attorney Fred Barrett, and Kenneth Tobey as nice guy Bill Compton, who is also Franks ambulance jockey partner. Cinematography by Harry Straddling (Suspicion 1941, A Streetcar Named Desire 1951, A Face in the Crowd 1957, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs 1960, Gypsy 1962, My Fair Lady 1964) and haunting score by great composer Dimitri Tiomkin. Angel Face is a bit of a reserved psycho-drama/noir directed by Otto Preminger who also produced. Quite striking in it’s few brutal moments scattered throughout as the murders play out at the hands of the extremely poised Jean Simmons, (So Long at the Fair 1950, The Big Country 1958, Spartacus 1960) which is what gives the film it’s nasty ironic burn in the end. Jean Simmons was absolutely mesmerizing as Charlotte Bronn, a tormented woman who suffers a nervous breakdown, who leaves the institution and tries to make sense of her life with her austere husband Dan O’Herlihy, sister Rhonda Fleming, and sympathetic Efrem Zimbalist Jr. in director Mervyn Leroy’s Home Before Dark 1958. In Angel Face, Simmons plays it almost perfectly chilling with her refined beauty that displays no affect, a few obvious inner demons behind those dreamy eyes, not so much bubbling passion underneath as there is bursts of fervency out of necessity. She stunningly floats through the scenes with ice water in her veins, determined to possess, first her father (Herbert Marshall) and then Frank Jessup (Robert Mitchum). As an actor Robert Mitchum possesses an enormous range, and many layers to his film & real life persona– although he always exudes that smooth yet brawny exterior, he can either play it self-possessed, a coolly determined hero or visceral anti-hero and at times he’s been quite effective as a sicko. In Angel Face, Mitchum while still the usual rugged beast and cocksure fella, this time he is foolish and unsympathetically led by his pants, right into our anti-heroine’s trap… Frank should have stayed with nice nurse Mary, a nice fella for a girl. Herbert Marshall as Charles Tremayne tries to explain to the doctor and the ambulance drivers what might have happened when the gas valve was left on in his wife’s bedroom. Robert Mitchum plays former race car driver Frank Jessup, and ambulance jockey who becomes drawn into Diane Tremayne’s (Jean Simmons) psychotically woven web of obsessive love. Frank and Bill are called to the wealthy Tremayne family’s hilltop mansion, when Catherine Tremayne (Barbara O’Neil) is almost asphyxiated when the gas valve on her bedroom fireplace is stuck on. In reality Diane’s attempt to gas her stepmother fails. It seems that Diane is insanely jealous of the woman who took her dear doting father Charles’ (Herbert Marshall) attentions away. Catherine Tremayne insists that someone has tried to kill her, and that the gas inhalation was not a suicide attempt. Catherine Tremayne is looked after by the doctor, given a sedative and tucked into bed. Frank wanders down the great staircase, lured by haunting piano playing. Frank wanders into the parlor when he hears the refined and innocent doe eye looking Diane playing a classical melody on the grand piano. He is immediately struck by the beautifully delicate young woman. As soon as Diane sees Frank who tells her that her stepmother is okay, she becomes hysterical. He tries to calm her down in his gruff manner, “Look take it easy I told ya she’s gonna be fine.” Diane continues to sob, “Leave me alone.” He grabs her arm forcefully and yells at her to stop it, but Diane acts as if she is inconsolable, while Frank is getting more frustrated with her. So, the big guys slaps her, slaps her hard. Some sort of awareness washes over her face, in fact she might have rather liked getting smacked in the face and so, she slaps him back, just as hard. Frank laughs, “Now look, the manual says that’s supposed to stop hysterics, it doesn’t say a word about getting slapped back.” “I’m sorry”, “That’s alright forget it. I’ve been slapped by dames before.” We can see that there is something definitely off about this strange young woman and it should have raised the hair on the back of his neck but Frank is a bit of a dog you see. Frank and Bill drive back to the hospital where they are set to get off from work. Frank says goodnight to Bill and walks over to the cafe, because Mary is waiting on his call. Bill tells Frank he’s a lucky guy, and he agrees- “You know it!” What Frank doesn’t realize is that Diane has jumped into her little sportscar and has followed the men in the ambulance all the way back to the hospital. She watches as Frank enters the cafe. Harry the cafe owner says, “Well if it ain’t the dead body jockey” “Sure Harry that’s why I come here it looks like the morgue.” Frank puts a coin in the phone and begins to call Mary but he gets a busy signal. He turns around and voilà Diane is standing there. She floats out an innocent sounding,“Hello.” Frank pleasantly surprised says “Well hello, you do get around fast don’t ya.” Diane answers, “I parked my broomstick outside” Frank-“Beer Harry… what do witches drink?” Now… This is why Frank is a dog, it doesn’t trouble him that this young woman has followed him to work. He was supposed to have dinner with his girlfriend Mary who is a nurse at the hospital and a wonderful person. Naturally one busy signal and Frank’s attention span is switched to this young stalker whom he finds intriguing. He finally gets Mary on the phone and tells her that he’s too tired to get together and goes off into the night to dine and dance with Diane. He is now ensnared in her web. Frank-“I’ll see you tomorrow” Mary-“Tomorrow… was it a rough call?” Frank staring at Diane- “Yeah, rough.” Diane asks Mary to lunch… she’s got a plan you see What makes Diane even more conniving is that the next day she meets Mary for lunch and tells her about her evening with her boyfriend. She puts it under the pretense of helping the couple out with Franks plans on owning his own sports car repair ship, Diane having the means to offer financial support. But the seed is planted and Mary gets the heavy hint dropped that Frank is a dog and feels betrayed by Frank’s lie about being too tired. Mary is no dope and she let’s Diane know that she won’t be a fool. She tells Diane that she would have rather not known about their evening together and knows that Diane has brought her to lunch to try and shake her faith in Frank and to “find out how stupid” she was. Mary isn’t the typical good girl in noir—she’s more streetwise than that and a bit jaded by the ways of the world. She’s the good girl, but not a dumb girl. That night Frank is about to go out on a date with Mary and he continues to lie about the previous evening “I was so beat last night I hit the sack as soon as I got in” Mary tells him “That, I can believe.” Diane walks into the diner and tells Frank that she met with Mary for lunch. Diane-“Go ahead hit me.” Frank-“First I’ll buy you dinner then I’ll hit ya.” Diane -“When I tell you what I did you probably won’t want to see me again, ever.” Frank-“sounds pretty grim.” Diane-“I had lunch with Mary I told her about last night… oh not everything just that we went out together.” Frank gripes-“Well why did you say that, I told her that…” Diane-“I just told her that I wanted to help you get the garage.” Frank-“Oh yeah you’re a big help.” Later that evening while dropping subtle barbs at each other about the price of Diane’s spending, she lays the groundwork for getting Catherine to hire Frank as her new chauffeur. Diane to Catherine complaining about her expense account-“Don’t you know it’s the simple things that cost the most!” Diane tells Catherine that she could really use a chauffeur… Now that Frank and Mary’s relationship is strained Diane moves in for the kill, she initiates a passionate kiss, she tempts him with the idea of a race coming up, tempting him with “pebble beach” and that she will loan her car to him, also luring him with the security of a better paying job. He decides to take a job with the Tremayne’s as her stepmother Catherine’s chauffeur, though he tells Diane he’s just “not the type” even moving into an apartment over the garage. Diane tells Frank about her father, how he is a widowed writer, who has been wasting his talent, marrying into money for it’s comfort with the rich Catherine whom Diane despises for the way she treats him. Part of Diane’s diabolical plot to draw Frank into her web, she pretends to be nice to Catherine asking her to invest in Frank’s desire to open up his own garage that caters to sports cars. This is also a way for Diane to ingratiate herself into Franks life by appealing to his love of fast cars, as an extension of her own dangerous mind, she drives a sports car that Frank seems to be dazzled by and covets as he was once a race car driver. This is just an example of one of Diane’s manipulative powers as she seduces Frank with the illusion that he will be in control. Race cars are vehicles that represent freedom and freedom of movement as they are capable high speeds and risk taking. Both Diane and Frank seem to want to move at their own speed and of their own volition with no one interfering. In that way they are suited. Frank wants to do his own thing, opening up his own garage and Diane is looking for someone new to possess and control since her father is now a little more out of her reach. But this is where the bait, or point of attraction leads Frank down a dangerous spiraling road led completely by Diane’s calculating will— where he will ultimately and literally crash and burn. And so Frank meets with his employer who is receptive to him. Catherine actually thinks he’s a very nice young man and calls over to her lawyer to look over the papers, feeling fine about lending a great deal of money for him to open up his own garage, though she must wait for her attorney to look over the financial details of the transaction. Frank believes the deal is going to happen, until Diane sabotages the whole thing by insinuating herself using deception once again, pretending to show Frank a crumpled paper from the waste pail with the figures for the investment, that her stepmother supposedly trashed. Frank seems surprised that Catherine decided not to go ahead with it, as she appeared keen on the idea. “Oh Frank I’m so sorry.” Frank-“Don’t take it so hard. You had a nice idea it just didn’t work that’s all.” Diane-“I’m so sorry for you.” Frank-“She changed her mind forget it, we’ll make a big night of it.” Diane– “Not tonight.” Frank slightly annoyed-“Now why?” Diane warns him, “It would be safer not too. We have to be careful for a few days. More than ever now.” Frank-“What do we have to be careful of now?” Diane-“Well if she finds out she’ll dismiss you and I couldn’t stand to lose you now…” Frank-“So she fires me and I get another job. Maybe it’s better that way. At least we won’t have to play around like this. Hiding like kids.” Diane-“You don’t know her Frank. She’d lock me in.” Frank laughs-“How could she lock you in?” Diane-“She could do anything to me because of my father. If I try to fight her, she makes him pay for it, she knows I can’t stand that, please try to understand.” Of course Diane has constructed this lie as Catherine was very interested in going through with the deal. She wants to poison Frank’s mind against Catherine, and Frank doesn’t go straight to Catherine and merely ask if this is true, he just takes Diane’s word for it. Once he is working for the Tremayne’s, and the prospect of his garage will not materialize-Frank gets antsy. While Diane plays chess with dear old daddy, Frank gets bored playing chauffeur above the garage and tries to call Mary but he can’t reach her. Diane says goodnight to father laying out his milk, biscuits and cigarettes by his bedside, like the loving daughter, he can’t do without. While Diane sits at the piano and plays her lamenting melody, in her eyes she appears like a black widow knowing that she has a juicy fly trapped above the garage, planning her next strategy which comes in the middle of the night. She comes to Franks room crying and frightened claiming that Catherine had been in her bedroom looking down at her. Diane says with her most delicate voice-“It was so strange I wanted to speak but I couldn’t.” Diane tells Frank that Catherine had closed the window and put the gas on in her room, that she heard that awful hissing sound. She didn’t dare leave the room. Frank wants to tell her father and the police, but Diane quickly gathers her composure, “No Frank we mustn’t do that.” Diane’s pretense of paranoia about Catherine’s trying to kill her emerges more clearly for Frank who is now taking notice of it. An exercise in frustration, Frank begins to realize that he is in love with a lovely yet quite homicidal head case! but he fails to untangle himself from this deadly beauty. Frank [of Diane’s supposed ‘evil’ stepmother] … “If she’s tryin’ to kill you, why did she turn on the gas in her own room first?” Diane “To make it look as though somebody else were guilty…” Frank “Is that what you did?” Diane “Frank, are you accusing me?” Frank “I’m not accusing anybody. But if I were a cop, and not a very bright cop at that, I’d say that your story was as phony as a three dollar bill.” Diane “How can you say that to me?” Frank “Oh, you mean after all we’ve been to each other?… Diane, look. I don’t pretend to know what goes on behind that pretty little face of yours – I don’t want* to. But I learned one thing very early. Never be the innocent bystander – that’s the guy that always gets hurt. If you want to play with matches, that’s your business. But not in gas-filled rooms – that’s not only dangerous, it’s stupid.” Diane tells him that she’s very tired. He says “Yeah, that I can believe.” When she tries to kiss him, he pulls away from her. Meantime Frank visits with Mary, who is on her way out to meet up with Bill for a date. She is surprisingly nice to Frank which is more than he deserves. She tells him Bill was sure he’d show up for last night’s bowling tournament he tells her –“I’ve been busy.” Frank asks how Bill did in the tournament, she tells him “wonderful.” Frank answers, “He’s been making out alright with you too huh.” Mary says, “Bill was very sweet to me after you walked out.” Frank-“I took a job that pays better than being a lousy ambulance driver, is that a crime?” Mary- “Is taking the bosses daughter to the Mocalmba (club) part of the job?” Frank-“They got a good band there, remind me to take you there sometime.” You just can’t blame Mary for trying to move on, Bill is a much more dependable and a very likable guy who has worshiped Mary from the beginning. She asks about Frank’s new life, and he tells her that he’s thinking of quitting. He tells her, “I’ve been thinking about quitting, it’s a weird outfit, not for me.” Frank asks-“What’s the score Mary, has Bill taken over or do I still rate?” Mary-“That’s a hard question to answer and I don’t think a fair one to ask” Frank-“A very simple question, yes or no, Bill or me? Can’t you make up your mind?” Mary tells him, “Yes, but I want to be sure you can make up yours. Can’t we let it go at that for a while” Frank-“Oh, I’m on probation, okay, how bout tonight, we got a date?” Mary laughs- “Why not” Frank says, “You know something you’re a pretty nice guy… for a girl.” The next day Frank is going to leave, but Diane has packed her bags, and stumbles onto Frank packing his own bags. She asks him where he is going. He tells her that he’s quitting, when she asks why, he tells her, “well maybe it’s the altitude. Living up here makes my heart pound.” Of course Diane collapses onto the couch and begins to weep. Frank tells her, “Now let’s face it I never should have taken this job. You shouldn’t have asked me… you know I’m right. You have your world I have mine. You got beautiful clothes a big house, someday you’ll come into a lot of money. I got a pair of big hands and not much else.” “But all I want is you. I can’t let you go now… I won’t.” He tells Diane that he wants to quit his job and she becomes upset as her plaything and the object of her second fixation is now slipping away from her. Frank doesn’t want to be involved with the whole package anymore. “It’s no good I tell you, I’m not getting involved.” She asks “Involved with what?” “How stupid do you think I am –You hate that women Someday somehow you’re gonna hate her enough to kill her. It’s been in the back of your mind all along.” Diane says coldly-“So she’s fooled you too! Just like she has everyone else.” Diane reminds Frank about her father’s book. That one day she went into his desk to hide a present for him, just “something between him and me…” And that she found inside the drawer where he was supposed to keep his manuscript, there was nothing but a stack of blank paper. He hasn’t written a line since he married Catherine. At first Frank just blows this off, “So he got tired. Writer marries a rich widow what’d ya expect him to write… checks.” This touches on a nerve, “Don’t joke about my father!” She tells Frank that Catherine has “humiliated and destroyed him.” Frank tells her that there’s no law that says she has to stay, she could move out and find work the way other girls must do. She tells Frank that she would leave if it weren’t for her father. “That’s where I came in. I guess that’s where I leave.” “Frank please will you tell me one thing. Do you love me at all? I must know…” “I suppose it’s a kind of love. But with a girl like you how can a man be sure.” Diane quietly asks, “Will you take me with you?” Frank-“You had it all figured out didn’t ya. You mean you’d really leave your father and everything here.” Diane-“If I have to, to keep you.” Frank-“I could be wrong about you.” Diane begins to tell Frank how she can sell her jewels and the fancy car and he can get a small garage at first. He wants her to be sure what she is getting herself into. She tells him that she’s sure. They hear Catherine’s car pull around. He tells her to think it over for a few days. Her kisses and sympathetic story about her poor father has worked perfectly on Frank. And she makes sure that he promises that he won’t leave until then. Diane’s maneuvering has worked. Diane leaves Franks room, and walks passed Catherine’s car. Tiomkin’s score plays fervently, feverishly as she looks down the steep cliff and seems thoughtful about the car that is framed behind her. Finding an empty package of cigarettes stuck in the hedge, she holds it out and watches it as it drops down the deep cliff side. Shades of darker things soon to follow. Diane is so sinister she even loans Catherine a pair of her new driving gloves, just for the irony of it all. Sometimes she can be so sweet. Catherine needs to go to her bridge game looking for Frank to drive her, Diane makes the excuse that he needed to go to Santa Barbara, having loaned her sports car to him. Diane offers to drive her instead, knowing all too well that she’ll refuse. And of course Catherine does in fact decide to drive herself to her bridge game. At the last minute, Charles decides to tag along for a ride to Beverly Hills. Diane languidly floats as if in a psychotic trance and sits at her piano performing the same melody she played the night she failed to asphyxiate Catherine. We can hear Diane playing her melancholy ‘death song’ on the grand piano as her stepmother and father proceed to drive. But… Diane has figured out how to tamper with the gear shift. She’s been watching Frank tinker with the mansion’s cars, and learns how to reconfigure the brakes and the shift. Catherine starts up the car, put the gear into drive AND the car shoots backwards rather than forwards –it has been rigged to go into reverse, as her stepmother and father are propelled over the steep cliff’s edge. Of course the convertible car goes careening over the jagged cliff, rolling over and over and smashing against the rocks, the crash dummies used are quite effective as they (Catherine and Diane’s father) seem to become crushed under the twisted fiery metal… here’s a nifty gif to illustrate It is one horrific scene indeed. A scene that truly rattles me! Diane is successful at the second attempt on her stepmother’s (Barbara O’Neil Stella Dallas 1937, Gone with the Wind 1939, All this, And Heaven Too 1940, Secret Beyond the Door 1947, Whirlpool 1950) life. The problem with Diane’s almost ingenious perfect murder unbeknownst to her is that dear daddy wasn’t supposed to be a passenger in the car so he also dies in the fiery crash, a casualty in the wreckage of Diane’s unbridled psychotic scheme of stepmother machine meddling. The police think there is something strange about the accident and Frank is charged with murder after Diane’s packed suitcase is found in his room. The a cop on the case knows Frank from driving the ambulance, and he brings Frank in for questioning. Detective Lt. Ed Brady asks how Frank came to work for the Tremaynes, and Frank tells him that he sort of just fell into it, after they had gotten the call about Catherine’s near asphyxiation. Ed tells him he knows. He’s got the report right there on his desk, Detective Lt. Ed Brady (Larry J. Blake)-“probably accidental, sure makes you wonder, don’t it.” Frank asks,“What da ya mean?” Ed “She claims somebody tried to murder her” Frank laughs it off-“She was hysterical, why would anyone try to murder her?” Ed-“Are you kiddin’ a woman with her kind of money. Oh by the way Frank, what sort of a girl is this step daughter er… Diane?” Frank tells him, “Very nice girl, very pretty girl.” Ed-“Any boyfriends?” Frank-“None that I ever saw. She and her father were very close.” he puffs on his cigarette some more. Ed mentions “But didn’t get a long with her stepmother eh” Frank- “I didn’t say that.” Ed-“Okay okay, when was the last time you drove the Tremayne car?” Ed shows him the packed suitcase and then tells Frank he should get himself a lawyer. Attorney Fred Barrett (Leon Ames), Diane’s lawyer comes to see her in the prison hospital ward. “She idolized the man Fred it’s no wonder her nerves are cracked!” Diane suffers a breakdown as she had only wanted to kill her stepmother, she never intended on killing her beloved father when she tinkered with the car. It looks like Frank is involved because he was the last known person to handle the car. He was known to have worked on the cars at the Tremaynes. The Tremayne family lawyer hires one of L.A’s best defense attorneys, Fred Barrett a master at playing on a jury’s emotions. Barrett tries to tell her that it won’t serve either she nor Frank to shoulder the blame because the jury would believe them both guilt. In a moment of honesty she tries to save Frank’s neck. Seeming less like a crazy girl and in more control of her powers now in the aftermath of what she has done, inadvertently killing her father, she wants to take responsibility for the murders herself, not wanting anyone to defend her and that she acted alone. Diane confesses to the crime-“But I’m telling the truth.” “The truth is what the jury decides…not you, not me, not Frank.” At first Frank doesn’t want to go along with Barrett’s plan. Barrett-“To be perfectly blunt Mr. Jessup I’m not particular invested in saving your neck. The concern is with my client Diane Tremayne” Frank-“Yeah that’s what I figured” Barrett tells him, “But the point is you have a much better chance together than separately. And the evidence actually points much more to you than it does to her. The fact that an automobile was involved” Frank interrupts, “If she thinks she can get away with that she’s lost her mind.” Frank and Diane are married at the hospital… The ladies at the prison bake the bride and groom a wedding cake-“Kids we sure hope you beat the rap!” Barrett concocts a scheme to have Frank and Diane married in the hospital jail ward where Diane is spending her time while first catatonic, she is then convalescing after the break down. Diane’s legal team insists that she marry Frank so that it would seem like the couple were just innocent young people who intended matrimony and not having a sordid affair. They want Diane to keep her honest revelations to herself. A morally distasteful strategy that might guarantee a good outcome for them at the trial. This scheme tries to offset any more scandal for the headlines framing it as two innocent people in love. And that explains them leaving the Tremayne house that day with plans to elope. Another bad choice, Frank goes along with it, hoping to save his own skin not wanting to be convicted of the murders himself. He allows yet again an outside influence to manipulate his life. The idea of Frank and Diane getting married seems to push Diane further into the delusion that they will remain married and that she will have a future with Frank. But Frank now wants nothing to do with the obsessive murderous Diane. D.A. Judson (Jim Backus) brings in the car’s mangled motor and drive shaft to demonstrate his theory how the transmission was jimmied to stay in reverse. The defense attorney Barrett manages to create a measure of reasonable doubt, supplied by with his own specialists who does create doubt in the minds of the jury and the trial ends with an acquittal. And the couple is now free to go. Frank wants a divorce. Returning to the mansion Frank tells Diane he’ll go visit Mary to see if she’ll take him back. If she won’t he’ll leave for Mexico. Diane is devastated and in desperation makes him an offer. She’ll loan him her jaguar to go see Mary. If Mary takes him back, he can keep the car. If not he’ll bring the car back. Here we are not sure whether Diane’s psychosis has broken up a little like a dark cloud getting clearer, as she appears more genuine at this point or is she is still manipulating Frank? She shares a little history about her childhood and where her fixations might be coming from. She tells him that she was only ten years old when her mother was caught in an air raid in England, after which her father “became everything” to her. But once he married Catherine, Diane says she used to fantasize about what she and her father would do if her stepmother were dead. She tells Frank that now she realizes that Catherine never meant any harm and she wants him to believe her when she says that she would give her life to bring them back. This is why she tells Frank that he cannot leave her because she wouldn’t know what to do without him. Now appearing just desperately lonely than viciously psychotic. But Frank isn’t ready to stay married to her, not even try at staying close, though he doesn’t hate her, he is “getting out all the same.” After Frank leaves she closes up the house, dismisses the servants and wanders around the estate alone, before she goes to Frank’s room where she spends the night curled up in the armchair wrapped in his jacket. Diane believes that she’ll never see him again. She goes to Barrett’s office, wanting to confess, and Barrett reluctantly agrees to take her statement. Diane details how she unwittingly got Frank to show her while giving the car a tune up how to rig the car to go in reverse. But he tells her she can’t be tried again due to double jeopardy. Her admission shows that she might not be totally delusional, just a regretful psychotic. When Diane returns to the lonely mansion, Dimitri Tiomkin’s dark score swells dramatically around Diane as she appears to drift bereft with grief through the empty halls and rooms. But Diane’s hopes are sparked when Frank returns, Mary has by right rejected him, preferring the kind and loyal ex-partner Bill and Frank decides to leave for Mexico. Diane pleads with him to let her go along. He says no way. Even though he’s called a cab, he decides to let her drive him to the bus station. They get in the jaguar, and Diane brings champagne and two glasses. It might not be necessarily clear when the idea came to Diane, If it was the final realization that she’d be driving him to the station never to see him again. Maybe she thinks she can change his mind over that glass of champagne. But something clicks in her brain when Frank criticizes the way she puts the car in gear, as he exclaims. “Easy” that seems to spark her reaction… He pours the champagne as she starts the engine. Then looking at him, she floors the car in reverse as the two go frighteningly backwards over that scary steep cliff… And rockets them down the same cliff that killed her father and stepmother, the car smashing against the rocks mangled into the same kind of twisted metal sculpture. Irony-a few minutes later the cab arrives…. Frank you idiot. The scene is given it’s moxie by cinematographer Harry Straddling (Suspicion 1941, A Streetcar Named Desire 1951, A Face in the Crowd 1957) Angel Face dramatically embraces the darker implications of noir. I admit, I’d have a hard time saying no to Jean Simmons too… but Franks stupidity and Mitchum’s ability to play a tough guy (who smokes a cigarette sexier than any man I can think of) a guy just floating where the wind blows his pants is aptly described in Silver and Ursini’s book—FILM NOIR: THE DIRECTORS– on Otto Preminger “One of the big achievement of Preminger his writers his cast and composer Tiomkin is to create a tone of amour fou in Angel Face that is realistic, poignant, delirious and suspenseful in equal doses. Frank is not the smartest guy, but he’s not a dummy, either. His lackadaisical attitude about life is embodied in Mitchum’s languid body language. Slow on the uptake about how dangerous Diane is, his problem is one of the noir anti-hero most common:thinking with his balls and not his brains. If he hadn’t given Diane a second chance, if Mary had taken him back;and if he’d realized Diane was willing to sacrifice her own life to be with him. A lot of ifs. Frank is always a half-beat behind trying to get in rhythm and he pays for it dearly. Preminger actually generates some sympathy for Diane when she tries to make up for the murders by confessing, only to realize the state will never punish her. Barrett’s assertion she may end up institutionalized if she presses the issue is more unpalatable to her than the gas chamber. When she comes home before seeing Frank for the final time, the romantic delirium builds to fever pitch, culminating in a bittersweet shot of her curled up in the shadows in Frank’s room. Frank’s coat wrapped around her. It is one of the most moving sequences… the character is completely self-aware of her own psychosis. Angel Face is Preminger’s finest noir.” “Hers was the deadliest of the seven sins” Directed by John M. Stahl (The Keys to the Kingdom 1944, The Shocking Miss Pilgrim 1947) with a screenplay by Jo Swerling (The Whole Town’s Talking 1935, Blood and Sand 1941, Lifeboat 1944) based on the lurid novel by Ben Ames Williams published in 1944. From the very tip of the film Alfred Newman’s powerful score summons the film’s epic melodramatic mood… Leave Her to Heaven stars… those eyes, those cheekbones, that sexy overbite–yes the incredible– Gene Tierney (Tobacco Road 1941, The Shanghai Gesture 1941, Heaven Can Wait 1943, Laura 1944, Dragonwyck 1946, The Razor’s Edge 1946, The Ghost & Mrs. Muir 1947, Whirlpool, Night and the City & Where the Sidewalk Ends 1950, The Secret of Convict Lake 1951) as the soft-spoken, icy calculating Ellen Berent-Harland. Image courtesy of The Red List The film co-stars Cornel Wilde as the object of Ellen’s fixation Richard “Dick” Harland. Jeanne Crain co-stars as Ellen’s younger adopted cousin/sister Ruth. Vincent Price is the master of a mesmerizing brand of masculinity that is subtle and urbane. Here reunited with Tierney since they acted together in director Otto Preminger’s ultimate film noir masterpiece Laura 1944, and then the following year they manifested great chemistry opposite each other in Writer/Director Joseph L Mankiewicz’s Dragonwyck 1946 which I covered for 2015’s Great Villain Blogathon! In Leave Her to Heaven Price plays the part of spurned love interest Russell Quinton. Mary Philips plays Ellen’s wary mother, Ray Collins is Glen Robie, the wonderful Gene Lockhart plays Dr. Saunders and Reed Hadley plays Dr. Mason. Chill Wills plays caretaker Leick Thorne. Leave Her to Heaven also features a very young Darryl Hickman as Dick’s very young frail brother Danny who is disabled from childhood polio. The lush and painted cinematography by Leon Shamroy (The King and I 1956, South Pacific 1958, Cleopatra 1963, The Cardinal 1963, The Agony and the Ecstasy 1965, Planet of the Apes 1968, ) won him an Oscar for his work on the film. Though the film is presented in gorgeous Technicolor, Leave Her to Heaven is considered film noir, within the framework of it’s bustling stylish melodramatic plot. Considered ‘limit work’ referring to rare noirs filmed in color of the mid 1940s- 1950s it brings to mind some of Alfred Hitchcock’s mystery/noir masterpieces from 1948 Hitchcock’s Rope and from the early 50s such as Read Window and Dial M for Murder both released in 1954. One could argue that there is a conflict between style and genre with director Stahl’s lavish Technicolor noir, but given the fact that some of Ellen’s most disturbing acts take place in the bright light of day amidst a lush backdrop, the use of rich color does not take away from the deeply looming-disturbing, and ominous narrative. And in fact, it’s one of the most terrifying and shocking ‘domestic’ noir of it’s type in which the psychopath is not an unstable insecure man but a homicidal possessive woman who possesses an intoxicating beauty. Gene Tierney inverts her charming, engaging persona and manifests the enigmatic Ellen Berent who isn’t afraid nor shies away from destructive impulses committing a cold-blooded murder to get what she wants, to attain her control over all she desires. A women who would in the words of Darryl Zanuck “deliberately kill her unborn child, drowns the cripple brother of her husband and endeavors to send her own adopted sister to the electric chair.” According to Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward a “Strong mythic element runs through Leave Her to Heaven, from Ellen Berent’s Electra -like adoration of her father, her Hippolytean stance as she scatters her father’s ashes on horseback, and the Medea-like murderer of her husband’s younger brother and unborn child. This mythic aspect of the story is emphasized by the smooth marble planes of Gene Tierney’s face and the straight line, classical clothes she wears. Her face during the most frightening scene, as she watches her husband’s crippled brother drown only a few feet from her, is as impassive as any statue’s. She commits murder by ration rather than violence. Ellen goes into a trance, becoming for one moment a pure object; and without her support, acceptance and love, the male must drown… Ellen’s expression is made more blank and statue like by her heart shaped sunglasses. They hold an almost cosmic significance as she uses them to conceal her spirit as well as her eyes.” From More Than Night as James Naremore writes “One of the most notable and uncharacteristically flamboyant of the “limit works” was Leave Her to Heaven (1945), a quasi-Freudian melodrama starring Gene Tierney as a beautiful but murderously jealous heiress. Photographer Leon Shamroy won an Academy Award for the film, chiefly because of the way he combined, “mysterious” elements -lamp lit rooms, extreme deep-focus compositions, low angles that brought ceilings into view-with spectacular Technicolor scenery from locations such as Monterey, California, and Flagstaff, Arizona. His Dominant color…{with its symbolic contrast between cold and hot colors}…as Meredith Brody and Lee Sanders have observed , was an orange or amber hue that suggested ‘the same sickness and corruption as the high contrast photography of black-and-white film noir’ (Silver and Ward).” From a review in Time Magazine by James Agee, he complained about the disconnect between film noir’s typified B&W oblique shadow frames and the brightness of Technicolor against a story about a murderous femme fatale. “The story’s central idea might be plausible enough in a dramatically lighted black and white picture but not in the rich glare of Technicolor.” As writer Todd Berliner explains Agee’s trouble with the dissonance Technicolor just seemed to set “the wrong mood, evoking thoughts and emotions antipathetic to the film’s premise.” Either way, Leave Her to Heaven went on to make Fox a lot of money, as it was one of it’s highest-grossing pictures of the decade. Leave Her to Heaven opens at the end with Dick Harland coming back to his cabin in Deer Lake, Maine after serving time in prison and flashes back to the beginning of the story and how he came to meet his ill-fated circumstances. Cornel Wilde plays writer Richard “Dick” Harland who meets an enigmatic young woman on a train heading for New Mexico. She happens to be reading one of his books, which tickles him right off the bat. While napping, the book falls to the floor and Dick instantly rushes over to hand it back to this beauty. She thanks him, then proceeds to hold an intense long almost provocative stare at him, commanding control of the female ‘gaze’ rather than the other way around for a change. This makes Dick a little nervous at first when he realizes it. But, there is an immediate chemistry and he already starts falling in love with the intoxicating allure of Ellen Berent, performed with an icy reserve she manifests through her limpid blue eyes. At the very moment Tierney is on screen she exudes an undercurrent of intensity. Ellen is not afraid to get what she wants, as she illustrates while staring unblinkingly at Dick on the train. Ellen-“Oh, I’m sorry I was staring at you wasn’t I. I didn’t mean to really, it was only because you look so much like my father. When he was younger of course, your age. The most remarkable resemblance. For a moment I thought… if you’d forgive me.” Dick-“Well to tell you the truth I was doing quite a bit of staring myself, and I assure you it’s not because you look like my mother.” Dick-“As a matter of fact I can’t say that you look quite like anyone I’ve ever met before.” Ellen-“Then why did you stare?” Dick-“Do you really want to know?” Ellen-“If it’s not too unflattering.” Dick-“Now you know perfectly well that nothing I could ever say about you, the way you look I mean, could be anything but flattering. Of course if you don’t like flattery.” Ellen coyly-“Oh but I do.” Dick tells her-“On second thought it won’t be flattering, it’ll be the truth and nothing but the truth. Any resemblance to flattery will be sheer coincidence. Shall I proceed?” She tells him to proceed. Dick continues, “While I was watching you exotic words drifted across the mirror of my mind, as summer clouds drift across the sky.” Ellen smiles, “Couldn’t you be a bit more specific.” “I’ll try. Watching you I thought of tales of the Arabian Nights, or Myrrh and frankincense.” She adds, “And patchouli?” “Patchouli, that’s it.” Ellen goes to a page in his book Time Without End, “Wait a minute. I knew it, here it is” Ellen quotes the exact line back to him. She has been the one in control the entire time. “Unquote, so that’s where it came from” She slams the book shut. Dick is taken off guard. She derides him about the book not being impressive and agrees that it’s sloppy, though he hasn’t had the chance to tell her that he’s the author. She hears her destination -Jacinto being announced and abruptly gets up to depart the train. Dick sits for a moment until he realizes that it’s his stop as well, having lost the upper hand in the flirtatious repartee. Dick gets up and runs for it. The scene is threaded with gorgeous frames by cinematographer Leon Shamroy. Doesn’t this look like an Edward Hopper painting… As Mary Ann Doane points out about Ellen’s behavior in her fascinating book Femme Fatales:Feminism, Film Theory, Psychoanalysis she writes— “a certain excessiveness, a difficulty associated with women who appropriate the gaze, who insist upon looking.” “In Leave Her to Heaven (John Stahl 1945), the female protagonist’s (Gene Tierney) excessive desire and overpossessiveness are signaled from the very beginning of the film by her intense and sustained stare at the major male character, a stranger she first encounters on a train. The discomfort her look causes is graphically depicted. The Gene Tierney character is ultimately revealed to be the epitome of evil– killing her husband’s crippled younger brother, her unborn child, and ultimately herself in an attempt to brand her cousin as a murderess in order to insure her husband’s future fidelity.” Ellen gets off the train and meets her mother, stepsister and friend Glen Robie who just happens to also be meeting Dick. Glen asks about his brother Danny who couldn’t make the trip because his doctor thought it would be too much for him. Dick is suddenly struck still as he sees Ellen on the platform. Glen introduces Dick to the the family, “We met rather briefly on the train.” Dick shakes Ellen’s hand, “Too briefly.” Ruth looks at Dick as if she has just been struck with a tremor of love, while Ellen’s mother looks curiously suspicious at first. “Did you say Harland?” “Richard Harland.” Suddenly it occurs to Ellen that he is the author of the book, she looks genuinely embarrassed and apologizes, while Dick tells her “I doubt if I’ll ever forgive you.” Boy, if that were the only thing he’d have to forgive her for. They all head out to Rancho Jacinto. Mother Margaret Berent, Ruth, Glen Robie, Ellen and Dick are met by Louise Robie (Olive Blakeney) who asks about Danny, who is still convalescing at Warm Springs. They all dine at night, arguing about the trout in New Mexico versus the Boston cod. Ellen comments that her mother just doesn’t like New Mexico, which she argues that point considering this is her first time there. Ellen proceeds to insist it’s true, the first sign that there is discord in the family dynamic. Later it is revealed that Jacinto was a special place between she and her beloved father. With everyone sitting around the table, Ellen still commands the group with a certain presence that Dick takes notice of. “Father and I used to come here every Spring, year after year. And occasionally Ruth came along, but never mother. “ Dick comments, “It’s too bad Mr. Berent didn’t come along this time, I’m told I resemble him.” Ellen’s mother Margaret looks shocked. “Who told you that Mr. Harland?” Ellen smiles and leans in at her mother happily exclaiming. “I did!” Ellen asks Louise who hesitantly says that he does, then Louise awkwardly asks her husband Glen his opinion of the resemblance. The air in the room is thick with tension. When Glen says “Oh, in a way” Ellen looks longingly at Dick and almost whispers softly enough as if they were the only two people in the room, “Every way… I noticed the minute I saw him in the club car. His face, his voice, his manner. It’s uncanny.” Dick looks uncomfortable. Dick’s curiosity is aroused and wishes for an opportunity to meet Mr. Berent. Margaret Berent somberly begins to tell him that it’s hardly likely, as her husband is… as Ellen interrupts, “We’ve come here for my father’s funeral.” Aside from the fact that Ellen is a psychopath, another way to visualize her independent nature, would be to consider her performing an almost feminist power in that she challenges the ideals of a 1940s or 1950s woman who is expected to behave and project restraint. Though Ellen comes from breeding she still lacks the social construct of being timid or submissive. As Glen Robie informs us, “Ellen always wins.” Both Ellen’s mother and stepsister seem almost resolved to the idea that Ellen will always get what she wants, her strength and deviant (non-conformist) streak is a force to be reckoned with. Margaret and Ruth also subtly give away their belief that it was Ellen’s demanding possessiveness of her father, that might have put a strain on him, as well as the entire family and having been just too much for him, causing his eventual death. It is made clear that Ruth has developed an attraction to Dick. He listens as she plays a lovely classical piece on the piano. He greets her, “Hello” Ruth answers, “Hello Ellen’s gone for a walk” Dick-“How’d you know” Ruth-“Oh I’m quite psychic.” Dick-“And is your sister psychic too?” Ruth says, “Oh yes much more than I am. Only I’m not her sister.” Dick confused, “You’re not?” She tells him, “No I’m her cousin, I’ve lived with the family ever since I was a child. Mrs Berent adopted me.” Dick excuses himself and walks outside, but Ruth watches after him with a trace of sadness in her eyes as she realizes that Ellen will surely have her way. Dick takes in the vivid night sky and it’s clear air. He meets Margaret Berent outside seemingly doing the same. Margaret Berent-“In all fairness I must confess the nights here do seem more beautiful than they do at Beacon Hill. “ Dick agrees, “Infinitely. I think everything is more beautiful here” Margaret who’s had a very pensive look on her face since she met the train at the station, is well away of what Dick meant by the word, ‘beautiful’. With a note of scorn in her voice, “I believe Ellen has gone for a stroll” “Thank you” he hesitates a bit then continues to walk on looking for Ellen. The wide open expanse of the land is awe inspiring the sound of the crickets are heard as Ruth’s playing begins to fade. And Newman’s strings begin. Dick has found Ellen looking outward upon the vast openness. “Hello.” “Hello am I intruding?” ‘No not at all.” “I, well I’m afraid I owe you an apology. It was rather clumsy of me at the table to speak of your father ” “That’s alright you couldn’t have known” “You were very close to your father weren’t you?” “Yes we were inseparable From the time I was able to walk we were both happiest when we were together.” Dick notices that Ellen is wearing an engagement ring. She excuses herself they are getting up at 5am in the morning so she wishes Dick a good night. It’s now been clarified that Ellen and her mother have taken the trip to Jacinto, New Mexico in order to carry out her father’s funeral. Dick watches in awe, a voyeur at a funeral rite as Ellen framed against the glorious sky performs a primal ceremony while astride her horse, as she scatters her father’s ashes along a mountain ridge, a sacred land only they two loved and shared, referred to as “the front lawn of heaven.” In the morning Ellen begins her ritual and as writer Jeanine Basinger describes she exudes an ‘enigmatic mask’ as she with determination, spreads her father’s ashes among the land like a warrior casting the contents of the urn from side to side. Alfred Newman’s score is an almost intimidating tidal wave of strings. Newman’s score now accompanies Ellen’s movements with bold horns and orchestral strings to support her mighty galloping, all these elements possess a strident texture. Margaret and Ruth watch on as well as Ellen holding her father’s funeral urn like a Valkyrie. The sky surreal purples and blues add the mythical sensibility. Dick is enrapt with the vision of Ellen — who appears like a mythic warrior astride her horse, and once again inverting the powerful deviation from strong male figure framed instead as a strong female figure in command of the narrative. This is Ellen’s story, not Dick’s. Ellen-“Thank you for coming to the funeral this morning.” Dick-“You knew I was there?” Ellen-“Yes I saw you as I rode by” Dick-“I hope you don’t think it was just curiosity.” Ellen- “No I understand. I’m glad you were there.” Dick-“So am I. I’ll never forget it.” Ellen tells Dick that she and her father had a pact that whoever died first would scatter the ashes along the ridge, relating to him their belief that “people you love don’t really die.” This is almost hinting that with Dick, he is the reincarnated love for her father. Dick learns that she and her father were “inseparable… From the time I was able to walk, we were both happiest when we were together.” Coming back to Rancho Jacinto, Ellen asks Dick if he’s forgiven her yet for ridiculing his novel. She tells him that she became involved with one of the characters from the novel–him. Dick explains that the book isn’t about him, but she disagrees, “Every book’s a confession, my father use to always say. Cause you have to read between the lines.” Dick asks, “And did you?” Ellen says “yes”, and he asks her to tell him what sort of man she thinks he is. “You’re a bachelor. Thirty years old. You were born and raised in Boston…” She goes on to tell him details of his life. He can’t believe she got all that from reading her book. She tells him that she read the dust jacket. In an eerie foretelling Dick says, “You know if you lived in Salem a hundred years ago they would have burned you.” They make pleasant conversation until Ellen becomes a bit more focused on Dick, as he realizes that she expected him to come to the ridge that night looking for her. She tells him,“Yes, and you came didn’t you…” It’s a chilling moment as the revelation that Ellen is somewhat of a witch, who has a dominance to summon what she desires. With that, she bids him goodnight leaving him standing there a bit stunned and captivated. There is a contrast between the portrayal of Ellen who commands the night, seemingly back lit by a deeper color scheme, a darker force in the story, and the lightness of her stepsister Ruth as illustrated the next morning while Dick sits down to write, Ruth is cutting the roses on the arbor. She is lit by the daylight, caring for the earth and things that grow. A friendship forms. Dick is distracted from writing, Ellen comes popping up from the water, he tells her he’s been thinking about her all morning. And that he hates her fiancé Russell Quinton. He notices that she isn’t wearing Quinton’s engagement ring. She tells him she’s taken it off– forever. After only a few days that Ellen spends with Dick, she decides to call off her engagement to soon to be district attorney Russell Quinton (Vincent Price) who arrives in Jacinto immediately after getting the brush off telegram. Ellen’s jilted fiancé Russell Quinton (Vincent Price) shows a quiet indignation and despair while letting Ellen know that he’ll never truly give up on her. Ellen seems shocked to see him, after she sends him a telegram that their love affair is over and that she’s marrying Dick. Ellen obviously rattled because Quinton’s presence puts a dent in her celebratory mood, asks him why the rush to visit. Russell Quinton condescendingly says-“I wanted to be among the first to congratulate you on your forthcoming marriage.” Ellen “Well we hadn’t planned on announcing it for a while, but since you let the cat out of the bag… darling this is Russell Quinton.” She turns back to Quinton and introduces Dick. “My fiance Richard Harland.” Dick looks disturbed. Obviously he knew nothing about their engagement. The awkward announcement in front of the entire family is Ellen’s first real display of her controlling, possessive nature. Dick goes to shake Quinton’s hand, but he ignores him and asks to be alone with Ellen, while the family happily congratulates Dick. Russell Quinton-“I don’t understand Ellen, I always knew you’d never marry me while your father was still alive. But after he died I thought, well I thought there might be a chance.” Ellen with a stroke of cruelty in her voice-“I’m in love, we intend to get married at once. Tomorrow. Don’t look so downcast. I’ll still be able to vote for you.” Russell Quinton-“I want you to know that I was in love with you. I’m not a man who loves often Ellen. I love once.” Ellen “Thank you Russ. That’s quite a concession.” Russell Quinton- “I loved you. And I’m still in love with you.” Ellen coldly “That’s a tribute.” Russell Quinton- “And I always will be. Remember that.” Ellen glares coldly up at him -“Russ, is that a threat?” Russell leaves without saying another word. Now with Ellen’s assertive way, abruptly introducing Dick as her ‘fiance’ he soon after addresses the impromptu announcement of hers. But she pours forth her satin charm and asks him to marry her, and well, who could resist Gene Tierney, those glistening eyes and that slight overbite, (gulp)… Before Dick can finish his sentence, “Why you unpredictable little…” She embraces Dick, and tells him “And I’ll never let you go. Never, never, never.” A seemingly sweet gesture on Ellen’s part that has a completely self serving and eventual nefarious underlying motivation–she suggests that she and Dick forget their honeymoon and let a cottage in Warm Springs, Georgia. This is where Dick’s younger brother Danny is recovering from polio now, convalescing there at a Sanitarium. Ellen figuring that the sooner she tries to help rehabilitate and hands on fix Danny’s dependency on Dick, the sooner she’ll gain total control of their relationship. Keeping Dick all to herself, with Danny out of the picture. Danny sleeping out in the fresh air, is awakened to see his big brother Dick whom he idolizes. The two brothers hug and seem exhilarated to see each other again. Off screen Ellen says, “May I come in?” placing herself on the outside of their relationship, making it clear that she is already pathologically jealous of Dick’s attention toward Danny. Dick and Ellen take a cottage close to the Sanitarium. Playing house. Ellen-“I have no intention of hiring a cook, or a housekeeper nor any other servants.” Dick laughs, “You mean for the present.” Ellen says, “Never.” Now married, Ellen doesn’t want anyone else to be the one to do anything for Dick but her. “I don’t want anyone else but me to do anything for you.” She also tells him, “Besides, I don’t want anybody else in the house but us.” Dick asks, “Ever?” While it appears to be playful banter she means it when she tells him, “Ever.” Dick doesn’t realize that this isn’t an adoring quality of Ellen’s, it’s going to be a suffocating darker side to her that starts to reveal itself. Struck by her intoxicating beauty Dick doesn’t seem to pick up on the dangerous edge of her frighteningly intimidating prowess. He is taken in by Ellen’s persuasive charm only to eventually learn that she is not only possessive of his attentions, but is in fact obsessed with him. The very thing that initially drew Ellen to Dick was his resemblance to her father. Reminiscent of the relationship she had with her father, where they both shut out her mother and step sister while they carried on their own strong private bond. Ellen spends time with Danny, seemingly interested in everything she can learn about Dick and wondering when the youth will be able to go back to boarding school. Danny has absolutely fallen for Ellen’s charms. Danny also asks about Dick, but she tells him he’s working hard on his book and can’t be interrupted. Ellen has convinced Danny to keep it a secret that they’ve been working on his getting out the wheelchair, and walking. Again, she believes that the sooner he’s physically independent the sooner she and Dick can be alone. Dick is so excited to see Danny walking. Danny tells him, “Now we can, all three of us, go to Back of the Moon. Can’t we, can’t we Dick?” Dick emphatically–“You bet we can, you know we can!” Suddenly Ellen’s expression tells all. Ellen, feeling trapped, goes to see Dr. Mason (Reed Hadley) to try and convince him that going to Maine wouldn’t be beneficial to Danny’s well being. Pretending that she would love to have him along, but seeing it as dangerous for Danny. Dr. Mason doesn’t see the problem. But she tries to say that it’s too remote, and wild and rugged. That the facilities are limited, not a town nearby. Not even a telephone in case they need to reach a doctor. Dr. Mason-“His progress is remarkable. I don’t know how you did it, but you practically willed that boy to walk.” Admitting that in part, with Dick needing to work on his book, she will be left with the responsibility of looking after Danny. She explains that she gave up her honeymoon so her husband could see his brother. The burden has already been on her, spending hours at the hospital everyday. But she is glad to do it, it is no sacrifice at all, she loves Danny. She tries to paint herself as nurturing and authentically invested in the boy’s well being. The embodiment of her smiling darkly piqued rumination bubbles at the surface as Dr. Mason disagrees with her, Ellen slips, she gives away her insensitivity, her resentments and her irritations, swiftly decrying –“But after all, he’s a cripple!” Dr. Mason is visibly disturbed by her statement. But she tries to cover for her insensitive remark, saying that she didn’t mean it. Ellen tells Dr. Mason that she wants him to tell her husband, that it would be best if Danny stayed at Warm Springs. But he tells her that it isn’t true, that it would be much better for him to go to Back of the Moon, Maine. They argue back and forth, Dr. Mason insisting, “Why don’t you tell him!” but she cannot continue her bargaining as Dick enters the office. She quickly shifts gears, “Oh darling I have such wonderful news. Dr. Mason has just consented to let Danny come with us to Back of the Moon.” Ellen even picks up the phone to be the first to tell Danny. As Dr. Mason looks on in disbelief, she has just exposed her duplicity to an outsider. Ellen just cannot settle into the idea of sharing Dick with anyone. She sees herself as vibrant and an ideally athletic self, loathing all weakness, the idea that Danny is a crippled adds another layer of indignation to her plans to keep Dick to herself. She will not play nurse maid to a weakling. She begins a deep dislike for Danny’s presence and intrusion into her world with Dick. Ellen has no use for anyone other than the object of her desire, first that would be her father and now it is Dick. She tells Dick that she would love it at the cabin , “if it weren’t so crowded.” She eventually makes it clear that she dislikes Leick Thorne (Chill Wills), the Back of the Moon’s long time caretaker and Dick’s friend, whom in one scene she tells an eerie dream to about Danny drowning in the lake, with details that hint at things to come. Dick makes the mistake of inviting her mother and stepsister Ruth to visit, and so Ellen becomes like a caged animal, and her obvious tension continues to grow now having not only Thorne and Danny around her. She begins to exhibit a type of claustrophobia that causes her to become enraged at the group while she watches her family enjoy themselves, laughing and singing quaint folk songs around the fireplace. Ellen feels utterly invaded. Ellen’s mother Margaret has a few quiet resentments of her own, mainly being shut out of her own marriage to a husband who adored his daughter more. While Ellen is stoking the fire, Margaret enlightens her on Quinton’s success as D.A. who now has a potential run as Governor. A passive aggressive dig at Ellen’s mistreatment of Russell Quinton, hinting at her as having failed as a woman to grab a man of means and power. While Ruth wants to romp through the woods looking for wild Wisteria. Thorne excitedly offers to show her where some grows, when Ellen jumps in and rains on the party. “I’m afraid Thorne won’t have time for that, he has his own work to do.” To break the tense silence in the room, Danny shows everyone a trick with his crutches that Thorne has taught him, but it stumbles off his foot and smacks the ground, causing Ellen to storms off to her bedroom. Ellen brushing her hair tries to pretend that there’s nothing wrong. Dick confronts her telling her that since her mother and Ruth have arrived she’s been acting “like a shrew.” Finally Dick becomes cognizant of Ellen’s unstable behavior and criticizing her behavior, calling it “beastly” the way she has treated her lovely family, not understanding why she is behaving so coldly to her “own people.” But Ellen has no “people” in her life. The only one that is of importance to her is, Dick. Ellen is so wildly jealous she even accuses Dick of being in love with Ruth. Ellen-“I keep forgetting you can’t draw a deep breath without being heard all over the house!… Let’s change the name of the place from Back Of The Moon to Goldfish Manor.” Dick-“What’s happened to you, you’re deliberately whipping yourself into a fit of hysterics.” “I love you so… I love you so, I can’t bear to share you with anybody.” Ellen’s exclamations of love begin to wear Dick down until Ellen’s love doesn’t mean anything to him anymore. She manages to chase her mother and Ruth away. Now all that is left is Dick’s oldest and dearest friend, the caretaker Thorne who is now sleeping in the boathouse and of course there’s still poor sweet Danny. Ellen Berent the classic film sociopath who also possesses a pure form of fatal attraction in the true sense, is explained away in the provincial sense by her bitter mother Margaret who apologizes for her daughter’s behavior this way, “There’s nothing wrong with Ellen. It’s just that she loves too much.” A premonition of Ellen’s obsessive destructive desires. And through her egomania, the object of her love must naturally feel that exclusive love for her as well… or else! In much the same way Jean Simmons’ character Diane Tremayne loved her father just a tad too much, Ellen also had the same obsessive love for her now deceased father, the similarity between the two men, fathers is not lost in both narratives. One of the most shocking and unemotionally chilling murder scenes in noir, especially done in it’s vibrant earthy colors– in the light of Maine’s afternoon sun and Tierney’s inhumane reserved expression, as Danny struggles for air, going under several times until–nothing. Danny at Ellen’s direction has secretly been practicing to swim full lengths of the lake in order to surprise Dick. The boy begins to tread in the icy water so excited to show Dick the progress he’s been making with Ellen. She lures Danny out onto a row boat then encouraging him to go farther out in the lake even though he starts to show signs of tiring. Danny gets a cramp in his leg and begins to go under. Ellen sits quietly, coldly watching him drown in the lake under her dark sunglasses, then once she’s sure he’s under for the last time, she begins to scream for help. Danny drowns. Dick is nearby walking in the woods. She has just removed an obstacle to her having Dick all to herself, believing that Dick won’t be effected by the loss of his younger brother. Dick however responds to Danny’s death by pulling away from Ellen, not writing nor wanting to be at the cabin. Ruth drops the idea that perhaps if Dick had a child of his own, he might find happiness again, and of course Ellen is willing to try this if it will bring Dick back to her. But she cannot maintain this new approach to holding onto Dick for too long before the unborn child begins to infringe on her exclusive love and her freedom. Having a baby proves to be yet another potential obstacle between them, which promises to distract Dick’s love away from her once again. Getting pregnant in order to bring Dick back to her is merely another manipulated plot for Ellen, but the idea wears thin very quickly… Ellen becomes irate when her mother, Dick and Ruth refurnish her father’s old laboratory into a baby nursery. A room that was at one time her nursery, before it was her father’s lab. Calling Dr. Freud… we have a woman who is conflicted by latent infantile dependence on care and masculine power and independence that form the psychosis when she now faces becoming a mother herself. Ellen even resents Ruth whom she doesn’t even consider a sister at all. Her suspicion that Dick and Ruth are in love drives her to distraction. She is convinced they are in love with each other. Leave Her to Heaven is superbly written and directed. It is glamorous and as much as it is a psychological thriller it is also a consummate woman’s picture, when viewed as a weak man torn between two extremely opposite kinds of women. Of course the previous chilling scene where Gene Tierney’s character Ellen, sits coldly, quietly wearing her dark sunglasses in the rowboat as Danny struggles to stay afloat calling out to her until he finally goes under the water and drowns in the icy lake. That scene packs a wallop, but the next scene is yet another stunner in the way Ellen ritualistically frees herself of another unwanted obstacle. Gene Tierney as Ellen Berent here with Dr. Saunders (Gene Lockhart) who tells her she needs bed rest. She is jealousy of the child she hasn’t yet given birth to, fearing that even their own child will take Dick’s attention away from her. She also resents the baby because it takes over her body, forces her to be on a special diet, to take bed rest and limit her activity while Dick goes off with Ruth. “Tell me, has he found a nickname for you yet?… He used to call me Patchouli.” Ellen taunts Ruth with her jealous insinuations. Ellen tells Ruth that she and Dick never needed anything else, like a baby. She confesses to Ruth, “Look at me, I hate the little beast. I wish it would die.” Ruth asks how she could say such wicked things. Ellen replies, “Sometimes, the truth is wicked.” She sees the baby as ruining her beautiful body, and literally trapping her—referring to it as a “beast” she says truthfully while standing in front of her mirror. Jacques Siclier writes in his “Misogyny in Film Noir” in Perspectives on Film Noir calls Leave Her to Heaven “the most misogynistic Hollywood production since The Maltese Falcon.” As Marlisa Santos says in The Dark Mirror “There is an undeniably grotesque quality to Ellen particularly as she prepares to make her fall, she joyously dons high heeled satin slippers, a matching silky peignoir, and painstakingly appliers her makeup, as if she were a bride readying herself on her wedding night; she is, in fact hoping for a rebirth of herself and her love with Dick. She is never more powerful than when she stands at the head of the stairs, as the camera shifts to a glassy-eyed close up while she contemplates the height of her fall. Hateful though she may seem, Ellen’s delusions spring from female frustrations that are all too understandable-frustrations that, though wildly exaggerated here, convey enough truth to make her not entirely detestable…{…}…Ellen voices the sentiments regarding pregnancy that no “normal’ woman is supposed to feel : anger at losing a slender body and a feeling of parasitic subjection to a creature growing inside of her. If these sentiments are taken to be monstrous, then of course the film can be seen as particularly misogynistic. If they, instead, are taken to be elements of Ellen’s particular power, more complex than those of many noir femme fatales, then perhaps not. ” As Silver & Ward point out, Ellen is like an alien in a world she doesn’t fit into. Psychoanalysis supports the film’s title as not judging Tierney’s character as completely evil, but more mentally ill, and that a higher judge should evaluate her deeds. Taking the murders out of the equation, going a bit further, Ellen is railing against a world that does not appreciate her independent streak and strength– who pushes the normative role of wife, mother and handmaiden. They refer to director Stahl’s vision of Ellen Berent as a “super-real, emotionally alive” woman who is surrounded by unimaginative men, and that she might viewed as unnatural or sick, but Stahl has framed her as a “profoundly provocative” character who happens to be a murderess, while hinting at a wild “inner tension” and “complexity” that the other characters in the film don’t seem to realize. Even Vincent Price’s character Quinton appears in the film as non-sympathetic but rather a predatory male. Ellen performs a ritual, once she decides to rid herself of the unborn child. Picking out the perfect ensemble, putting on a dab of perfume behind each ear, and red lipstick. She is taking back her self-esteem and sense of self. Then when she is ready for the moment… Ellen flings herself down the grand carpeted staircase in her pale blue negligee and house slippers (costumes by Kay Nelson– Miracle on 34th Street 1947, Gentleman’s Agreement 1947, Call Northside 777 (1948) A Letter to Three Wives 1949), causing her to miscarry, making it look like an accident. Again the careful use of color as symbolism is highlighted when the film flashes forward to a few months later where Ellen is wearing a blood-red swimsuit and accentuated red lips by make up artist Ben Nye illustrating her savage –merciless essence. Of course the film makes use of opposites –the good girl, Ruth, who is honest, modest, gentle and sane, and the bad woman Ellen, who is devious, unbalanced, obsessive and homicidal… The other symbolization used is how Ruth makes things grow as she loves and tends to her garden where as Ellen kills things… The contrast between them is framed by the camera as Ruth is lit by sunshine, handling flowers. And Ellen is followed & surrounded by deep shadows of rich colors. After the death of their unborn baby, Dick is completely immune to Ellen’s pleadings of love. He has been spending more and more time with Ruth who is the polar opposite of Ellen, this helps to clear his mind of the dark dream he has been asleep within. He dedicates his new book to Ruth “The girl with the hoe” and Ellen becomes furious. Ellen doesn’t even hide her rage with her usual coy and manipulative manner. Her once intoxicating hold on him, her scent of “Patchouli” has worn off. To Dick, Ellen is only a cold blooded murderess. “I love you so I can’t bear to share you with anybody!” decries Ellen. Ellen orchestrates another plan that will attempt to hold Dick and Ruth hostage, from beyond the grave. First she writes to her old beau D.A. Russell Quinton who has never stopped loving her. She asks for his help, making him believe that she is in danger. To the very last Ellen exudes her destructive force. Ellen takes poison from the garden shed used by Ruth and dies, making it look like Ruth and Dick have murdered her. Her last words to Dick on her deathbed are “I’ll never let you go, Richard,” trying to ruin both their lives and control Dick from her grave! It’s a subcategory of noir psychopaths which involves pathologically jealous characters orchestrating vengeful punishments after their own deaths! Ruth and Dick are on trial for murdering Ellen. Quinton does his best to prosecute the couple. All the evidence has been planted by Ellen before she took the poison, so that her death will point to her stepsister and Dick. Dick delivers a testimony that manages to save Ruth from jail, but he also incriminates himself as an accessory to Ellen’s crimes. He is found guilty and serves two years in prison as an accessory to the crime for not having revealed Ellen’s criminal negligence. But Ellen has not won after all. “Ellen had lost… the only time she didn’t come out first.” Dick and Ruth do come together in the end, free from Ellen’s pathologically jealous and murderous nature. Ellen has ironically sacrificed herself to the greater cause of her insatiable desires, nearly destroying all she professed to love in the wake of her insane obsession. Her dangerous possessiveness tried to reach out beyond the boundaries of her physical life, undeniably scarring the lives of everyone close to her, in life and potentially in death. But consider this… Ellen took her own life, in a way, she wouldn’t allow even the law to have that privilege. Ellen does rule over her own life in that way… From Jeanine Basinger’s A Woman’s View-How Hollywood Spoke to Women 1930-1960 “Tierney is shown riding a horse, her father’s ashes inside an urn she carries. As she scatters the ashes across a wild landscape in the mountains, she moves the urn from side to side, her face an enigmatic mask, her image one of power and control. (This scene struck me the same way. Ellen is enigmatic and almost warrior like, showing a dynamic strength or inner force that is almost too austere & definitely frightening!) She is awesome in her beauty but cold and scary, and she is a dynamically moving figure instead of a framed portrait like Crain (of simple kindness and delicate beauty) From Femme Fatale: Feminism, Film Theory and Psychoanalysis by Mary Ann Doane: “In Leave Her to Heaven (John Stahl 1945), the female protagonist’s (Gene Tierney’s) excessive desire and over possessiveness are signaled from the very beginning of the film by her intense and sustained stare at the major male character, a stranger she first encounters on a train. The discomfort her look causes is graphically depicted. The Gene Tierney character is ultimately revealed to be the epitome of evil-killing her husband’s crippled younger brother, her unborn child, and ultimately herself in an attempt to brand her stepsister as a murderess in order to insure her husband’s future fidelity.” Gene Tierney whom I’ve always attributed such grace and gentility flips that persona and is masterful as the icy & enigmatic Ellen Berent in Leave Her to Heaven… And though she manages to create a perfect 1950s psychopathic villain — Tierney still brings me to tears with her portrayal of widow Lucy Muir in The Ghost & Mrs. Muir 1947. To me she’ll always be the eternally beautiful, believable & benevolent star of the silver screen… It’s been deadly fun times here at The Last Drive In! Thanks to one of the greatest Blogathons and their hosts! I’ll see you real soon folks –Yours truly, Joey Posted on April 25, 2017 April 25, 2017 by monstergirlPosted in Alfred Newman, Angel Face (1953), Barbara O'Neil, Classic Film Noir, Dimitri Tiomkin - composer, Harry Stradling-cinemtographer, Herbert Marshall, Kenneth Tobey, Leave Her to Heaven (1945), Leon Shamroy-cinematographer, Olivia de Havilland, Otto Preminger, psycho-sexual thriller, psychological thriller, Robert Mitchum, The Great Villain Blogathon 2017, The Monstrous Feminine, Vincent Price, woman vs woman, Women in Peril Previous Previous post: While You’re Waiting! Next Next post: Butch from The Little Rascals, the Villain I Love to Hate 13 thoughts on “Beautiful Poison: Jean Simmons in Angel Face (1953) & Gene Tierney in Leave Her To Heaven (1945)” Your thoroughness astounds me. Two of the most tantalizing and fascinating characters and actresses in the canon of film villainy. We simply cannot look away. monstergirl says: Thanks so much Patricia! Time after time, I say to myself, keep it simple and to the point. But as I begin to delve into these subjects that ‘tantalize’ me I just can’t help myself!!! So many images and ideas flood my head and I find myself taking that long train to The Last Drive In ville… You are so right about their place in film as consummate villainesses. And I love that -“We simple cannot look away” Exactly!!! Cheers Joey PS: I’m reading your filled with facts & thoroughly fun read http://www.caftanwoman.com/2017/04/the-great-villain-blogathon-many-faces.html The Many Faces of Casper Gutman! Joey, this is a terrific villainous Double Header! Like Caftan Woman said, your thoroughness is impressive. Even though I’ve not seen Angel Face, I feel like I have now, thanks to your description – and that’s a good thing! You’ve made me want to see it ASAP. Also loved your analysis of Leaver Her to Heaven. I keep thinking I need to read the book, and you’ve prompted me to search for it in the library. Thanks so much for joining the blogathon with these two “poisonous” ladies. This was a real treat to read. :) Ruth! Thanks once again for letting my join in the villainous fun times! You know, it makes me want to read his book as well, to see how he paints Ellen’s character. Tierney was masterful at summoning up such a cold blooded soul. It’s to her credit as I’ve always seen her as the epitome of grace and goodness in film… Have you seen her in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir… Oh my what a film. Get out the tissues. Glad it was a treat. I need to tear into all the great contributions to the Blogathon… so many so many–Cheers Joey Elaine @ Classic Movie Treasures says: I love both of these actresses and their movies. When looking at their careers as a whole, I think what I love about them most is that they can play evil characters as you have described here yet they can also play good characters. Not all actors/actresses can do that. I invite you to add your post to this week’s The Classic Movie Marathon Link Party. http://classicmovietreasures.com/the-classic-movie-marathon-link-party-5/ Elaine–You’re absolutely right! both actresses have done wonderful jobs manifesting such dark female figures when they’ve been amazing playing loving roles as good women overall… It’s a testament to their ability. Thanks for the invite to the movie marathon party! Cheers Joey Pingback: The Great Villain Blogathon 2017 – Day 1 Recap – Silver Screenings I am a big fan of Leave Her to Heaven and Gene Tierney and really enjoyed reading your post as well. Somehow it will never cross my mind to identify Ellen with the hard-core Villain, because when I watch the film I always imagine this woman with an affliction. Terrible, terrible deeds she does, but immense and irrational jealousy is really a strong component of the story. Thanks so much. I would agree with you about Ellen not being a villain in the conventional sense. Both Gene and Jean’s anti-heroines were disturbed by their over-possessive narcissism that fixated on the object of their affection with irrational jealous with deadly results. There is an element of sympathy I think, and I believe and I even went as far as saying that Ellen in Leave Her to Heaven could be considered quite a woman out of her element. Not to forgive her deeds, but to at least validate her personal prowess and independence as being misunderstood and out of everyone else’s league. Cornell Wilde’s character just seems like a limp noodle. –Thanks so much for stopping by-Cheers Joey Stephen Reginald says: My gosh! You really did some great work here. I love both Jean Simmons and Gene Tierney (and Jeanne Crain too). I always thought a double feature of “Shadow of a Doubt” featuring Joseph Cotton as the male incarnation of evil and “Leave Her to Heaven” as the female incarnation of evil, would be interesting. Two chilling film villains for the price of one. But Jean Simmons is just as much a villain (maybe more so) than Tierney. This was a fascinating read! Stephen your double feature sounds like a great pairing as well! I just watched Shadow of a Doubt recently and still think Joseph Cotten’s Merry Widow Killer is as evil as they come! Thanks so much for stopping by and your kind words-Cheers Joey Two of the very best–characters, villains (male or female), performances–so glad they got this treatment. Love all the images you always include and love that you always make time to join our villain-fest!! Thanks so much!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4583
__label__wiki	0.774898	0.774898	Oliver King Foundation Our Oliver Defibrillator Champions Our campaign for a lifesaving defibrillator in every single school across the UK Over the last 7 years the Foundation has worked tirelessly to save lives and place lifesaving Defibrillators across the UK. We have worked closely with the Department for Education and Government: Gaining the support of over 250 MPs as Defibrillator Champions. Worked with a number of Education, Health and Sport Ministers in Government Secured a change of Government policy in 2013, when the Department for Education began advising all Schools to purchase a defibrillator as part of their First Aid equipment – naming us as a key stakeholder in this policy We have fought for legislation and will continue to do so, to ensure that every single school, in every community across the country, has access to a lifesaving Defibrillator. But we cannot just wait for this to happen. We need to step up the campaign now, raising awareness of the importance of defibrillators and getting them in to even more schools across the UK. This will mean that every child has a greater chance of survival. Ending the current situation where access to lifesaving equipment is dependent upon a proactive Headteacher, parents or a local campaign, ending the postcode lottery of survival. On Wednesday 24th January 2018, we launched our National Campaign at Number 10 Downing Street, for a lifesaving defibrillator in every school. We have set an ambitious target that by 2020, when Oliver King would have been 21 years old, that all schools will have access to a lifesaving Defibrillator. To achieve this we will: Lobby Government for legislation that every school across the country has access to a lifesaving defibrillator. Continue to work with the Department for Education for policy changes. Work with Defibrillator champions and passionately lead the campaign in parliament to ensure that no school is left behind. Work to secure the support of Teacher Unions, Headteacher Forums and councillors. Yet no matter how hard we work, without your support, we will not achieve this important goal. We need your help: Urge your local schools to purchase a defibrillator (contact us for any assistance) Help with fundraising for a defibrillator Contact your local MP / councillor to take a lead on this in their area Mark King, Father of Oliver King said: “For the last seven years I’ve driven across the country personally delivering nearly 4,000 Defibrillators and the foundation has provided training to over 60,000 people. We know that the defibrillators placed have saved the lives of 36 people. “Every week 12 young people are dying because of Sudden Cardiac Arrest. We have to get the number of schools without a lifesaving Defibrillator to zero by 2020. I miss my Ollie every day. I’m determined that no other family has to suffer the same loss that my family has. I won’t rest until we meet the target of every school having a Defibrillator by the time my Ollie would have been 21, in 2020.” Senior Conservative MP and former Health Minister Anna Soubry backing the campaign said: “As a long-time supporter of the foundation, I wholeheartedly back The Oliver King Foundation’s National Campaign for a lifesaving defibrillator in every school. Legislation would ensure that this happens faster but to the foundation’s credit they aren’t waiting! Their determination and passion will ensure that they meet their target for every school to have a defibrillator by the time Oliver would have been 21 in 2020.” Senior Labour MP, Maria Eagle added her support: “My constituents Mark and Joanne King have tirelessly campaigned for this since the tragic loss of their son, Oliver in 2011 when a defibrillator that may have saved his life was not available. I have supported their work from the beginning, and I have no reservations in offering my full support in backing their campaign to ensure these life-saving devices are available in every school. I will continue to do everything I can to advocate for legislation to ensure this happens.” We have prepared a letter for parents to give to their children’s Headteacher urging them to join the campaign. Download it here. You can also sign up to receive updates on the campaign and show your support by filling in the form below. If you are a governor, teacher, your child attends a school or you are simply an active member of the community, please let us know below so that we can work together to sign up all schools! I consent to you storing and using my information to get back in touch with me © Oliver King Foundation 2019 info@theoliverkingfoundation.co.uk Tweets by TheOKFoundation Support our Campaign for a Lifesaving Defibrillator in every School This is a pop up test	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4587
__label__wiki	0.89407	0.89407	/Ghostavo 360 Best Staggering Game Of Thrones Locations You Can Actually Visit The New Episode of the Game Of Thrones is really filled with sunny locations. While the fictional world of the seven kingdoms might seem far removed from reality, their real-life locations are surprisingly close at hand. The Dark Hedges, County Antrim, Northen Ireland The most photographed spot in Northern Ireland, with its tunnel of serpentine beech trees, is more familiar to Game of Thrones fans as the Kingsroad, a grand highway that runs from Castle Black to the capital. It appears on our screens in series two, when Arya heads north in search of her family. Bardenas Reales, Spain In series six, the badlands in southeast Navarre star as the Dothraki Sea, an expanse of desert and grassland so vast that it looks like an ocean from afar. Here Daenerys is taken hostage by a khalasar and forced to march to Vaes Dothrak. Pick up a map and explore the otherworldly landscape on horseback, winding through canyons, valleys and verdant nature reserves. Verdala Palace, Malta This imposing palace is the summer residence of the president of Malta and appears early in series one as the home of Illyrio Mopatis in Pentos, where the Targeryans live in exile. Book ahead for a palace tour that includes the beautiful Buskett gardens, where Daenerys meets Khal Drogo for the first time. Grjótagjá, Iceland This lava cave and thermal spring in northern Iceland became a tourist hotspot after Jon and Ygritte took a dip here in series three. Visitors can climb down the icy passageway and swim in the lake below, though it’s best to go early if you want to avoid the crowds. Peñíscola, Castellón, Spain The setting for Meereen and the Bay of Dragons in series six, Peñíscola is a fortified seaport set on a rocky headland on Spain’s Mediterranean coast. It contains a castle built by the Knights Templar and a historic lighthouse with spectacular views out to sea. Svínafellsjökull Glacier, Iceland Part of Iceland’s vast Vatnajökull glacier, which remains the largest in Europe, Svínafellsjökull doubled as the Fist of the First Men in series two, an icy mountain range where Jon Snow and Qhorin Halfhand are held hostage by the Wildlings. The most well-known and well-loved of Game of Thrones locations, Dubrovnik has doubled as King’s Landing, the capital of Westeros, since series two. The Old Town is a maze of stone cathedrals and terracotta-roofed houses where familiar monuments from the show lie around every corner. Aït Benhaddou, Morocco A fortified city on the foothills of the Atlas Mountains, Aït Benhaddou has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987 and has played host to every Hollywood blockbuster from Lawrence of Arabia to Gladiator. More recently, it was the setting for Yunkai, a slave city Daenerys liberates in series three. Gaztelugatxe, Basque Country, Spain This windswept islet off the coast of Biscay takes centrestage in series seven as the setting for Dragonstone, Daenerys Targaryen’s entry point to Westeros. Just an hour’s drive from Bilbao, it’s perfectly situated for a picturesque day trip. Climb up the winding stone steps to see the ancient monastery on the mountaintop – it was ransacked by Sir Francis Drake in the 16th century and even hosted witch trials during the Spanish Inquisition. Itzurun Beach, Zumaia, Spain Two hours along the coast from Gaztelugatxe lies Itzurun beach, a spectacular stretch of sand bordered by rock formations that date back to the cretaceous period. The beach stands in for the shores of Dragonstone, while its magical caves are the ones Jon Snow ventures into in search of dragonglass. Castillo de Almodóvar del Río, Córdoba, Spain Jaime Lannister’s unexpected siege of Highgarden in series seven gives us our first glimpse of the fairytale castle which serves as the seat of House Tyrell. The Castillo de Almodóvar del Río was originally a Roman fort, conquered and rebuilt by the moors in 760. Walk along the ramparts to explore the martial towers, which have stunning views of the Guadalquivir river below. Castle of Zafra, Guadalajara, Spain This medieval castle built on a sandstone outcrop overlooks an isolated stretch of Spain’s Sierra de Caldereros. It features heavily in series six as the Tower of Joy, an enigmatic fortress that holds the long-awaited secret of Jon’s birthright. Vík, Iceland Since series two, the crew has ventured to Iceland to capture the expansive frozen wasteland that lies north of the wall. The black sand beaches of Vík appear in series seven as Eastwatch-by-the-Sea, a port town where Wildlings come ashore to trade with the men of the Night’s Watch. Alcázar, Seville, Spain Seville’s captivating royal palace, with its lush gardens, elaborately tiled courtyards and gilded ceilings, is the setting for the palace of Dorne in series five. Originally founded in the 10th century, the moorish fortress is the oldest European palace still in use. Essaouira, Morocco Morocco’s hip seaside town is steeped in history. Established as a trading post in the 5th century, it became a haven for pirates and later a refuge for musicians including Jimi Hendrix and Cat Stevens who flocked here in the Sixties. In series three, Essaouira becomes the port city of Astapor where Daenerys buys her army of Unsullied and prepares to conquer the seven kingdoms. Ballintoy, County Antrim, Northern Ireland The quaint fishing village of Ballintoy, a short drive from the Giant’s Causeway, is the setting for Pyke in series two, when Theon Greyjoy finally returns home to the Iron Islands. The harbour even has a Game of Thrones plaque to mark the occasion. Girona Cathedral, Catalonia, Spain Eagle-eyed viewers might recognise the cobblestone streets of Girona as belonging to the free city of Braavos, but its Gothic cathedral also appears in series six as the Great Sept of Baelor in King’s Landing. Trsteno Arboretum, Trsteno, Croatia Built in the 15th century by a Croatian noble family, this atmospheric arboretum is home to thousands of rare and exotic plants collected from around the world. Don’t miss the pavilion on the edge, which looks out onto the bright blue Adriatic. In series three and four, the arboretum becomes the gardens of King’s Landing and this pavilion is where Lady Olenna holds court with her granddaughter Margaery. Trujillo Castle, Cáceres, Spain In series seven we see another ancestral seat for the first time: Casterly Rock, the stronghold of House Lannister. Trujillo, a medieval castle that hosted several battles between the moors and Christians, is the perfect stand in for the seemingly impregnable fortress. You can climb up its stone towers and walk along the battlements where Grey Worm and the Unsullied army fight the Lannisters. Castle Ward, County Down, Northern Ireland Since the very first episode of Game of Thrones, Castle Ward has been home to Winterfell, the seat of House Stark. You can bike around the site, take an archery lesson in the courtyard and even explore the forest where the Stark children find their direwolves. Tags:Game of ThronesStaggering Football Papers: All The Latest Football News And Transfer Gossips This Morning Hennessy Artistry Celebrates its 10th Anniversary in Nigeria Ghostavo 360 Submissions to:- 360nobsmedia@gmail.com Fast Track? Call:- 08176243747 MoviesandTV 10 Actors From Harry Potter You Never Knew Appeared In Game of Thrones New Secrets Revealed About The Upcoming Season 8 Of #GameOfThrones Five #GameOfThrones Characters That Are Dead On Television But Still Alive In The Books Spin-offs From #GameOfThrones, All Of Us Would Love To See The Things That Will Come True In Season 8 Of #GameOfThrones All The Characters You Never Knew Were Recast On #GameOfThrones	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4590
__label__cc	0.500952	0.499048	Northern Illinois upsets Toledo to earn first MAC semifinals in 16 years Top Sports Stories CLEVELAND (AP) — Eugene German scored 27 points and Dante Thorpe made two critical free throws with 4.8 seconds left as Northern Illinois upset second-seeded Toledo 80-76 on Thursday night to advance to the Mid-American Conference tournament semifinals for the first time since 2003. The No. 7 seeded Huskies (17-16) will play the Ball State-Bowling Green winner in Friday’s second semifinal. Top-seeded and No. 18 Buffalo and Central Michigan will meet in the other semi. With the scored tied 68-all, German dropped his fifth 3-pointer with 2:22 left to give Northern Illinois the lead for good. The Rockets (25-7) kept coming and got a 3-pointer from Marreon Jackson and 23.2 seconds left. Jackson split a pair of free throws with 6.5 seconds left to make it 78-76 before Thorpe knocked down his free throws to close it out. Jackson scored 17 and Luke Knapke 16 for Toledo, which beat Northern Illinois twice during the regular season. The Rockets never led during a tightly contested second half when Northern Illinois coach Mark Montgomery split his pants down the back while arguing a call. Thorpe finished with 18 points, Levi Bradley made two free throws with 9.3 seconds to go and finished with 13 points for the Huskies. A Cubs Fan’s Dying Wish Fulfilled Flack wins title as Rockford Assistant PGA Professionals qualify for nationals VanVleet Weekend Recap 13 WREX to broadcast high school football, basketball championship games	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4597
__label__cc	0.584633	0.415367	Sumo Blog / IT and Log Monitoring JFrog and Sumo Logic’s Top Developers Speak Out on CI/CD, Docker and Microservices July 14, 2016 \| By Michael Floyd IT and Log Monitoring, Log Management and Analysis As part of the Sumo Logic’s Thought Leadership Series, JFrog’s Co-founder and Chief Architect, Fred Simon, came together with Sumo Logic’s Chief Architect, Stefan Zier, last week to share their insights into topics ranging from continuous integration and delivery to building apps with Docker and architecting for microservices. The series launches in advance of a webinar on July 21 at 10:00 am that dives into the JFrog Sumo Logic integration. The two-part series begins with each describing the problem they were trying to solve at startup. As Fred explains, JFrog co-founders were looking for a way to automate the delivery of software components and how to manage open source that is today being created exponentially. Today there is no single piece of software that is created from scratch – you aggregate. So, together with Yoav Landman, they launched the Artifactory open-source project in December 2006. As Fred explains, it was a very successful open-source project and so they started JFrog in 2008. Now, Fred says, “we are in the business of speed.” The process of getting from idea to code to deployed in the hands of customers is fully automated. Stefan then explains Sumo Logic’s roots as a log-management service in the cloud. Sumo Logic wasn’t the first, but what they saw is that customers struggled to keep their log management solutions running, especially when they tried to scale. “We found that customers were spending half their time keeping their product running beyond a certain scale as opposed to using the product, which is really what you’re trying to get out of it. At about that same time in 2010, we attended a talk by Werner Vogels on Amazon Web Services, he’s the CTO there…. We had this eye-opening moment and we built this as a pure-play SaaS, elastic scaling system, from the ground up. That gives you a lot of benefits. You get updates automatically, you don’t have to worry about managing machines… so 100% of the time you spend using the product.” Both were then asked about how they practice continuous delivery. Stefan explains that Sumo Logic typically checks code into Github, a developer pushes into a branch, creates a pull request and two things happen in parallel: other developers review the pull request and a Jenkins toolchain kicks off a set of tests against that branch to ensure that nothing is broken. “Once the test passes and the pull request is approved we merge it into the master branch. There’s a whole set Jenkins jobs running off of master that builds artifacts… We run a microservices architecture and our system consists of about 40 different microservices. Depending on what code you touched, one of those microservices will get built and there’s going to be a new binary we push up into both Artifactory and S3. Once that happens we have an integration deployment that automatically gets the update pushed into it.” So there’s a constant stream of microservices that get pushed where a set of integration tests are run. Once those tests pass, it is labelled as a Gold Star build. Within a few hours the Gold Star deployment goes into a longevity test deployment where it is monitored for a time before rolling out to production. Following on, Fred describes JFrog’s process. You can view Part 1 of Optimizing Continuous Integration and Delivery on Youtube. Here’s a sneak peek: Sumo Logic Integration in Artifactory In May at JFrog’s swampUP, Sumo Logic and JFrog jointly announced a partnership that will deliver industry-first technology that gives software developers and DevOps teams unprecedented insights into their software development operations as they build, run and secure their modern applications. As part of the partnership, the companies introduced a new solution that will allow JFrog users to access advanced analytics and metrics with out-of the box dashboards directly from JFrog Artifactory, and analyze all data Artifactory generates. Now JFrog developers and DevOps teams using Artifactory, the universal artifact repository, will be able to leverage Sumo Logic’s expertise in machine learning and predictive analytics to make decisions on an automated basis. JFrog has been a customer of Sumo Logic for some time, and Fred in particular has been a power user of Sumo Logic’s query language and dashboards. Hence, the Sumo Logic App for Artifactory was born in 2015. During development of the original app, JFrog provided feedback that led to six dashboards that enable Artifactory users to get insights into their Artifactory repositories. These same dashboards will power the recently announced integration between JFrog Artifactory and Sumo Logic. You can learn more about this integration in an upcoming webinar slated for July 21. If you’d like to comment on the interviews or share your own practices for continuous integration and delivery, you can post them in the Developers section of the Sumo Logic Community. In Part 2 of this series these two distinguished developers go on to share more about how they implement microservices and utilize Docker, and they also talk about the new integration that allows JFrog Artifactory users to get advanced analytics powered by Sumo Logic. Thought Leadership Series Sneak Peek Optimizing Continuous Integration and Delivery Part 1 Webinar: Analyzing JFrog Artifactory Data Using Sumo Logic More posts by Michael Floyd Prev Sumo Logic Now Monitors and Optimizes MongoDB Deployments Next Automated Infrastructure Problem Discovery using Sumo Logic and Chef	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4598
__label__wiki	0.599012	0.599012	GoFundMe to help Kanye West get out of $53M debt Posted: 11:19 AM, Feb 17, 2016 By: WKBW Staff A GoFundMe page has raised more than $1,000 for struggling hip hop artists Kanye West. What’s unclear is whether the page is serious or not. West recently took to Twitter to tell everyone he is $53 million in debt and to ask Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to invest “1 billion dollars into Kanye West ideas” … “after realizing he is the greatest living artist and greatest artist of all time.” The GoFundMe page says, “We must open our hearts and wallets for Kanye today. Sure he is personally rich and can buy furs and houses for his family, but without our help, the true genius of Kanye West can’t be realized.” But the comments left on the page – even from those donating $5 to West – make it clear there isn’t a lot of sympathy for the celebrity. “I donate negative 54 million dollars. Maybe his clothing line should not have looked like the bums in Compton designed them. How about we raise money to feed starving children here in America?? Hmmm.. What a thought.,” wrote Laurie Sanford. Winne Sanderson wrote, “How about you get a job? After all, your pathetic attempts at 'music' suck. And as for your clothes, I've seen better style on a bag lady. Or maybe your slut wife can release a few more sex tapes.” Many people donating money are using the GoFundMe page’s popularity for their own self-promotion, like Michael Fox, who wrote, “I hope this money doesn't actually go to Kanye... Buy some fresh roasted coffee from Blackbeard Coffee Roasters! www.blackbeardroasters.com.” While Aplifi Commerce wrote, “I do not support Kanye, but I couldn't pass on the opportunity to advertise. Our company does digital transformation for major brands. Kanye, if you wanted to sell more online, we could help, just expect us to charge you more than other customers. Call it the Kanye tax.”	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4600
__label__wiki	0.526864	0.526864	Yellin and Mitchell Grace Elle By Betsy Rothstein Who are the most influential women in Washington? According to Elle, two of the 10 “luminaries” are journalists. In a feature, CNN’s Jessica Yellin and MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell were honored by the glam mag for “crashing DC’s old boys club – with style.” As part of Elle’s ‘Power List,’ Yellin and Mitchell joined the likes of Dr. Jill Biden, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, and Google’s Susan Molinari, among others. As the sole female Chief White House Correspondent in the Briefing Room, Yellin earned her spot on the list for also being the only reporter to interview both the President and his wife last year. Of Mitchell, Elle says she is the living, breathing embodiment of the plucky heroines and fearless investigators (Nancy Drew and Brenda Starr) she idolized as a girl. In the spread, Yellin and Mitchell are asked to pick their favorite fashion designers. While Mitchell picks Dior, Chanel and Jason Wu, Yellin mentions Theory and Tahari. Read the full feature here. Politico‘s Patrick Gavin wrote up the mag’s evening at the Italian Embassy earlier in the week. http://adweek.it/2k77cKg	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4601
__label__cc	0.56947	0.43053	Intern for Service Leadership and Community Engagement Salve Regina University \| Newport, Rhode Island About Salve Regina University: Salve Regina University, ranked as one of the most transformative colleges in the United States by Money Magazine and among the best regional universities in the north by U.S. News and World Report, is a comprehensive Catholic University located in the scenic coastal community of Newport, Rhode Island. The University's commitment to academic success and personal discovery extends beyond its historic campus into a dynamic world where the application of higher thinking and skill are most valued. Salve Regina offers associate, bachelor's and master's degree programs, graduate certificates, and doctoral programs in humanities, international relations and nursing. Enrollment includes more than 2,600 undergraduate and graduate students from across the U.S. and around the world. Salve Regina University seeks an intern to develop the Office of Community Service's Service Advocate and Newport Community School Afterschool Enrichment Program by providing leadership development opportunities and administrative support. The candidate will mentor students and guide them in linking civic engagement to their educational objectives by facilitating service opportunities. The candidate will also provide the administrative support necessary for the University to help develop and market these initiatives. Role A: Advise Senior Service Advocate Program * Assist the Director in the management of approximately 8-10 Senior Service Advocates * Provide mentoring and support to student leaders in their daily service including problem-solving issues related to their sites * Assist with coordination of (2) day-long leadership retreats for students, (2) partner luncheons and an end of the year ceremony. This will include booking speakers, delivering workshops, and coordinating logistics * Ensure advocates comply with service commitments through one-on-one meetings and surveys Role B: Develop Newport Community School Initiatives * Advise Newport Community School Afterschool Enrichment Program leaders * Provide them with weekly supported meetings * Develop and facilitate reflective, skill-building, and team-building curriculum for leaders * Build marketing materials for the program * Research other opportunities for community partnerships OTHER DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: * Create, implement, and sustain campus-wide community efforts * Engage community partners for community service opportunities * Perform sustained outreach to students and student organizations; promote student engagement, including volunteer service and experiential learning opportunities that connects them to the campus and Aquidneck communities * Collaborate with other campus offices to promote student engagement including Student Activities, Residence Life, Career Development, the Mercy Center for Spiritual Life as well as academic departments * Perform other duties as assigned * Demonstrated commitment to service * Valid driver's license * Bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited institution and three (3) years of related experience to include community organizing and partnership building; or equivalent combination of education and experience * Knowledge and understanding of College organization, goals and objectives, and policies and procedures * Demonstrated understanding and commitment to civic engagement, service, and partnership building * Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Excel, Canva, I -Movie and database applications * Ability to work independently and effectively with students and administrators * Possess excellent work ethics and reliability * Ability to exercise initiative and sound judgment * Possess excellent communication skills (verbal and written) * Ability to work a flexible schedule which may include evening and weekend assignments * Ability to work well in a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural environment with students, faculty and staff * Support the Mercy Mission at Salve Regina University and the Critical Concerns of Mercy: Earth, Women, Non-Violence, Racism and Immigration Salve Regina University strives to provide equal opportunity in employment and education to all employees, students and applicants. No employee, student or applicant shall be discriminated against or harassed on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, age, marital or parental status, military or veteran status, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable federal or state law, in the administration of Salve Regina's employment policies, education policies, admission policies, scholarship and loan programs, athletic and other University administered programs. In accordance with Title IX, it does not discriminate on the basis of sex in any of its educational programs or activities. Salve Regina is also committed to making its programs and campus accessible to its visitors and compliant will all applicable non-discrimination laws. Applicants must apply online for any open staff and faculty positions by providing a cover-letter and resume. Pre-employment background checks and reference checks are required of successful candidates. Salve Regina University participates in E-verify. URL: www.salve.edu This company profile was created by AfterCollege and is about Salve Regina University. This page is not endorsed by or affiliated with Salve Regina University. For questions regarding company profiles, please email: care@aftercollege.com.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4603
__label__cc	0.698574	0.301426	Polymers and Textiles Conference 2019 Alumni Hall, University of Massachusetts, Lowell This conference will cover manufacturing and innovations, advancements in materials and fibers, workforce development, advanced textiles applications, business developments for advanced materials and products and aspects of sustainability. CEP: News Update AI Gives the Fragrance Industry a New Nose In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has found its way into the fragrance industry. The union sometimes seems at odds with the world of scent, which is often tied to human emotion. Yet, as the... Catalyzing Commercialization: Synthetic Bait Restores Fish Populations and Revitalizes Fishing Communities Catalyzing Commercialization Forty billion pounds of wild fish are used as crustacean fishing bait every year, consuming approximately one-third of the global catch of such forage fish. 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Don’t let undesired reactions lead to uncontrolled situations and reactive chemical incidents. In this ioKinetic... Introducing a Collaborative Framework for Chemicals Product Innovation As product life cycles shrink, you need a product innovation process that keeps you ahead of the curve. Find out how a new collaborative framework for chemicals product innovation can speed your time... Purifying Water in Developing Countries Engineers know how to produce safe drinking water, but transferring it to those in need is another story. In this webinar, Dr. Velegol discusses her experience developing a technology using the seeds... Molecular Simulations of Surfactants, Lipids, and Polymers Explore the growing power of molecular simulations to address a variety of problems. In 60 minutes, you’ll delve into the basics of molecular simulations and see examples of their applications to... Mixer Simulations, Modeling Non-Ideal Reactors and Mixers Mathematical modeling and simulations of reactors and mixers can be done at different levels of detail for different purposes. The initial use of a model may be to run simulations in order to... Understanding Why Bulk Solids Behave Differently Than Liquids Providing insights into why bulk solids behave differently than liquids, this webinar introduces concepts regarding powder flow testing, bin/silo design, feeder integration, and mechanisms of powder... Catalyzing Commercialization: Flexible Ceramic Membranes Enable Low-Cost Energy Storage Molecular separations are at the heart of chemical engineering, and nanostructured membranes are emerging as a low-cost alternative to traditional separation processes. However, most membranes struggle to maintain performance in harsh environments... Technical Entity Trends: Trending Styles: Advanced Materials in the Garment Industry Technical Entity Trends As chemical engineers, we are involved in many different industries and our work is critical to research and development (R&D) initiatives. From the development of pigments and dyes, to the scaleup that enables product affordability, the textiles and fabrics industry is no exception. The materials used in sports, outdoor, defense, and medical applications have rapidly progressed since the initial development of synthetic fibers. Ongoing research across academia and industry is backed by large-scale collaborations, such as Advanced Functional Fabrics of America (AFFOA), a member of the Manufacturing USA initiative. Here’s a look at some of the innovative clothing technology that manufacturers, designers, and bloggers forecast will shape our future. An Embroidered Battery for Wearable Biosensors Engineers at the Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) have developed a thread-based battery that can be stitched into fabric and used to power wearable biosensors for health monitoring... AIChE Journal Highlight: Nanoparticulate Polymer Brushes: A Gateway for Complex Fluids Engineering Journal Highlight Nanoparticulate polymer brushes are emerging as potent agents for complex fluids engineering, says Robert D. Tilton (Carnegie Mellon Univ.) in his AIChE Journal Perspective article, “Opportunities for Complex Fluids Engineering with Nanoparticulate... SAChE® Programa de Certificación – Aspectos Básicos de la Seguridad de Laboratorios eLearning (online) Course Este curso proporciona una revisión completa de seguridad en laboratorios que manejan químicos peligrosos. Cubre el uso seguro de equipos de... Joshua D. 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Underwater Device Captures Deep Sea Creatures Engineers at Harvard Univ. have developed a 12-sided self-folding device capable of capturing creatures from the darkest depths of the ocean, an innovation that has the potential to revolutionize our... Researchers Make First Electrical Contact with Molecules In the beginning, there were room-sized computers. Over the course of mere decades, they shrank down to bulky desktops and suitcase-sized laptops. Pagers turned into chunky mobile phones by... 21st Century Products: A Challenging Economic Future Herbert Cooper, Bodo Albrecht This article discusses how rare earth elements (REEs) and precious and specialty metals — collectively known as critical materials (CMs) — are sourced as well as some issues and engineering challenges that may lie ahead. 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Nanomaterials Restore Aged Canvases Researchers at Chalmers Univ. of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden, have developed a new method to provide structural support to canvas using nanomaterials. The method, called consolidation, treats the degraded... Catalyzing Commercialization: A New Generation of Bio-Based Adhesives from Bioadvantaged Monomers Biopolymers, produced at least partially from renewable resources, have gained attention as society, industry, and governments realize the need to move away from petroleum-based materials. There are two main types of biopolymers — bioreplacement polymers and bioadvantaged polymers. Dragonflies Inspire a New Way To Create and Dry Aerogels When a dragonfly emerges from its underwater larval stage and stretches out its wings for the first time, those wings are as soft as jelly. But after a mere hour or so, they are solid and... 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Vaccine Boosts Immune System Response to Cancer Cancer can be difficult to treat because its highly proliferative cells spread throughout the body, effectively evading the immune system’s surveillance. One opportunity that scientists are pursuing... Recyclable Resin Improves Wind Turbine Sustainability Wind energy can now be more sustainable than ever, thanks to recyclable resin with low-energy production requirements. Flow of Solids in Bins, Hoppers, Chutes and Feeders Identify strategies for alleviating problems, improving design and optimizing flow. Learn the bulk material flow strategies you need and how to apply... AIChE Journal Highlight: Reducing Lithium in Zeolites for Air Separation The widespread adoption of lithium ion batteries for energy storage has driven a steep increase in the demand for lithium. As a result, lithium prices have surged, while lithium reserves have declined. 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Numerical Simulation of Rollover Phenomena for FLNG Application LNG is a clean source of energy; when burnt it has lower associated NOx and SOx emissions than other fossil fuels. Because of environmental issues... Zeolite Adsorption Studies for Conditioning of High-Pressure Natural Gas Fluids Based on remote locations and capital cost, many current upstream gas processes use commercial desiccants ( e.g . silica gel, activated alumina,... Getting Bitumen and Extra Heavy Oil to Market: Tight Oil Synergy, Blending, and Partial Upgrading Alternative Challenges Including Thermal Cracking Product Dienes, Gums, Self-Incompatible Asphaltenes, and Pricing Bitumen and extra heavy must be transported to markets. Various methods are used to move bitumen from formation to site tankage. From the well site,... 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__label__wiki	0.721876	0.721876	NewsPhoenix Metro NewsCentral Phoenix News Court bars InvestInEd tax proposal from appearing on November ballot <p>Red for Ed rally at Arizona Capitol on Friday. </p> The Arizona Supreme Court barred a ballot proposal seeking to raise income taxes on the wealthy to fund schools from appearing on the November ballot. In an order Wednesday, Chief Justice Scott Bales said a majority of the court found that the measure's description of the change in tax rates creates a danger of confusion or unfairness. The order reverses a lower-court ruling earlier this month that rejected the challenge to the measure. Opponents said the tax hike would have harmed the state's economy, while supporters say it would have raised an estimated $690 million for schools. The proposal sought to raise the income tax rate to 8 percent for individuals earning more than $250,000 and households earning more than $500,000 for the portion of their income above those cutoffs. Noah Karvelis is one of the most vocal leaders of the Arizona Educators United movement. He posted this online, moments after the news was released: "Details coming soon. Gathering information. Hang tight. I can say though that yes, InvestInEd is off of the ballot. We appreciate the patience. We are stunned to say the very least." Arizonans for Great Schools and a Strong Economy Chairman Jaime Molera was one of the most outspoken against Prop 207. He released the following statement in part: "Not only was the initiative poorly crafted, it was the wrong plan. It would have harmed all taxpayers, small businesses, and would not have delivered on its promises for teachers, while weakening education reforms that were achieved in a bipartisan fashion under Proposition 301." Stay with ABC15 and ABC15.com for updates on the fallout from this decision. Copyright 2018 Scripps Media, Inc. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4613
__label__cc	0.649427	0.350573	Lenders to begin insolvency proceedings against Jet Airways New Delhi [India], June 18 (ANI): Insolvency proceedings against Jet Airways are likely to begin this week as a consortium of lenders led by the State Bank of India (SBI) failed to find a buyer for the beleaguered airline. The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) could hear insolvency petitions filed by the airline's operational creditors for recovery of dues on June 20, reports said. On Monday, the consortium of lenders decided to begin insolvency proceedings against Jet Airways as the SBI had received only a conditional bid, subject to lenders arranging for regulatory exemption on an open offer. Further, Etihad expected the banks to write off most of its loans to Jet. As the grounded airline's assets are inadequate, lenders are worried about a significant haircut. Besides Jet's shareholder Etihad, the Hinduja Group was among those interested in buying a stake in the airline but the talks did not lead anywhere. SBI said in a statement: "A meeting of lenders was held today to consider the way forward in respect of Jet Airways. After due deliberations, lenders have decided to seek resolution under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016 (IBC) since only a conditional bid was received and requirement of the investor for SEBI exemptions and resolution of all creditors is possible under IBC."It added: "Lenders led by SBI have been making efforts to find a resolution for Jet Airways outside IBC but in view of the above, lenders have decided to seek a resolution within the IBC process."Jet Airways shut operations on April 17 owing to a severe liquidity crunch, leaving thousands of employees jobless. It was burdened with outstanding loans of Rs 8,500 crore and liabilities worth Rs 25,000 crore.In recent weeks, SBI repeatedly said that insolvency is not a preferred option, but only a last resort as recoverability in the airline business is difficult from a bankrupt organisation. (ANI)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4616
__label__wiki	0.712234	0.712234	Students’ heavy backpacks are a perennial problem, but the strain on children’s bodies has worsened in recent years, thanks to bad posture from texting and playing video games, according to health experts. “It’s a trifecta,” said Don Clum, a Seattle chiropractor who also offers lifestyle and health consulting online. “It’s getting worse because of those other (digital) elements.” For years, the American Academy of Pediatrics has cautioned parents that backpacks should remain no more than 10 to 20 per cent of a child’s body weight to avoid strain on their backs that could lead to chronic pain later in life. Wearing two padded straps and making frequent stops at a locker or elsewhere to lighten a backpack’s load are also recommended, says Sarah Denny, of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Council for Injury, Violence and Poison Prevention. For their part, some school districts have made efforts to lessen backpack weight by incorporating the use of Chromebooks or online textbooks. Nearly 300 schools in the Chicago area have also begun using something known as the Executive Functions Curriculum, a program through Rush Neurobehavioral Center that teaches students how to organize their files into both online and paper folders to stay organized and, thus, lower backpack weight. “Kids tend to throw everything they own into their backpacks, all their books, all their papers, their shoes,” said Georgia Bozeday, director of educational services for the Rush Neurobehavioral Center. “I think (organization) can help to lighten the load once the consistency is established and they pack their backpacks for what they need.” Still, as cellphones, tablets and video games have also become part of students’ daily routines, Clum said he has seen an increase in the number of students complaining about discomfort. The repetitive, hunched-over posture — known as “text neck” — combined with the way students have to lean forward to handle the heavy weight of backpacks, takes a toll on young bodies, he said. “We see more and more kids with neck pain and headaches,” Clum said. “I coach sports … and you can actually see how this translates to what they can and can’t do in sports.” To minimize stress on children’s backs, Clum recommends tightening backpacks so students don’t have to lean forward while walking to carry the weight. Students and parents should be proactive about seeking online or digital texts to avoid the need for heavy textbooks. And students should be encouraged to get up and participate in physical activity regularly to counteract the bad posture of backpacks and technology use. “Get up, reverse that posture and hang from the monkey bars,” Clum said. Previous Article Jeremy Dutcher puts spotlight on ‘Indigenous renaissance’ in Canadian arts scene Next Article Messi leads Barcelona in Champions League rout of PSV Eindhoven Messi leads Barcelona in Champions League rout of PSV Eindhoven Party’s back on if a new source of helium pans out North Korea to skip annual anti-U.S. rally 10 words that just got added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary Shakespeare’s Coriolanus brought to the present at Stratford Brazil experiments with a new ‘magic quartet’ at World Cup When it comes to climate change not all opinions are valid, scientists say Highlights: Five squirrels disentangled, church weed-seller snared Egypt coach ‘very optimistic’ Salah will play opener	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4618
__label__wiki	0.521351	0.521351	« How far left are the Democrats going? \| Are the tantrums working? » Have the Chicoms finally had it with the Norks? By Monica Showalter Some of the strongest headlines I've ever seen on the situation in North Korea appeared in the Hong Kong press overnight. From the South China Morning Post: China will take ‘necessary steps’ for security if North Korean regime collapses Beijing vows to ‘fully enforce’ UN sanctions against Pyongyang, despite being ‘friendly neighbour’ For the Chinese to suddenly talk publicly about the North Korea's imminent demise and the importance of enforcing UN sanctions against what had been a close ally until now suggests something fairly unfriendly going on. It follows from several days of back and forth that could have been read more than one way, but taken together with these latest headlines, suggest an angry Beijing out to thrash its hideous little neighbor. The gloves are off. Four days ago, China cut off North Korea's access to its markets to sell coal for the year, yanking about a billion dollars in an expected hard currency inflow to the Hermit state, according to this CNN chart. The move was in response to North Korea's Feb. 12 illegal launch of a medium-range ballistic missile. North Korea for its part took to publicly ridiculing China, two days ago calling it a U.S. puppet, 'dancing to the U.S.' tune.' The highest-ranking North Korean defector ever, featured on last Sunday's 60 Minutes, said the North remained as murderous and dangerous as ever, and could blow any time. Last night, South Korea announced that North Korea had a 5,000-tonne (metric ton) stockpile of chemical weapons, following revelations that North Korea's broad-daylight assassination of one of Kim Jong-uns relatives in Malaysia was the work of North Korean agents using illegal VX nerve gas, an announcement sure to raise global opprobrium on the brutal communist hellhole. It's escalating fast. The New York Times, quite possibly correctly, sees the hand of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in these events, persuading China to pressure North Korea over its increasingly aggressive and illegal nuclear program, in a policy the U.S. has been trying to enact for years. If so, it means a coordinated effort is going on with South Korea and China is finally taking U.S. concerns seriously, or more to the point, no longer wants to use North Korea to harass the U.S. and its north Asian allies in South Korea and Japan. Why is China suddenly turning on its revolting little ally? It may be that China is feeling U.S. pressure in the South China Sea from the U.S. Navy and the promised military buildup, undercutting the Chinese effort to establish hegemony there, and they want the U.S. and its South China Sea allies off their backs. Already Indonesia and Australia are getting involved. There is also the U.S. threat of sanctions over trade issues, which could cut off China's access to cash. If so, it would be a masterful play by the Trump administration. to let what happens, happen to North Korea. Winds of war? They're blowing hard in those parts now. China's actions suggest that the Norks finally have a whipping coming. It would be a welcome thing if China ended its games-playing, even if it helped itself to North Korea's mineral resources, and just got rid of this odious little menace.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4621
__label__cc	0.570635	0.429365	How Companies Are Wrestling Over Big Data Big data today is considered as one of the most prevailing, trending and emerging technology. As the escalation in data is rapidly increasing, industries are progressively adopting this technology to obtain better insights from the data. Even businesses are onboarding big data analysts to assist their organizations to fulfill customers’ requirements and demands. And analysts do this process by curating valuable insights from raw data. To stay competitive in any industry, big data is becoming an indispensable component for businesses. They are leveraging it to comprehend and forecast consumption patterns or advance operational efficiency. There is a wide array of companies worldwide who driving big data technology and services market, including IBM, Oracle Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, HP, SAP SE, Amazon Web services, Dell Incorporation (EMC), Teradata, Cisco Corporation, SAS Institute. Moreover, companies like Salesforce CRM can see the mushrooming demand for big data and the analytics involved. They are planting their stake deep in the foundation of the industry no matter the cost. Wrestle Over Big Data Recently, Salesforce announced to purchase all-stock of Seattle-based big data firm Tableau Software Inc for $15.3 billion, and marking the major acquisition for CRM since its inception. As part of the acquisition, Salesforce is paying a roughly 45% premium from DATA’s closing price on Friday. This is a surprising premium to pay for a firm that wasn’t low-priced, to begin with. And this deal is expected to be finalized 1st October of this year. This announcement is following Google’s GOOGL declaration that acquired Looker for $2.6 billion, with 62.5% premium over the prior valuation, which came into the view last week. As a business intelligence and data analytics platform, Looker has been competing on the heels of Tableau. The fight over cloud computing and big data is starting to escalate and is expected to more consolidation as these firms affray for market share. Google and Salesforce are both shaping their terrain before anyone else can dive in to steal it. Though, the premiums that these companies have to pay to cover the market of big data may not be worth the price at this late stage in the business cycle. With the acquisition of Tableau, the anticipation is that Salesforce will be able to assimilate business analytics across its different offerings, where data for different industries and products exist. Customers, with more analytics software, could pull data from the various Salesforce clouds they offer, including customer relationship management (CRM), marketing and sales, among others. Salesforce’s deal comes days after Google acquired big data analytics company Looker for $2.6 billion and exceeds the $5.9 billion that the cloud-based software company paid to take U.S. software maker MuleSoft last year. Mulesoft assists with application and data integration so that big data can work together impeccably. Customer Relationship Management with DATA CRM and DATA, these two segments have some obvious interactions as Salesforce being the biggest CRM firm and Tableau as a leading data analytics company. With blending these efforts will improve Tableau’s ability and offer to scale, and further expand and entrench Salesforce’s reign in the cloud and big data marketplace. Though for investors, Salesforce is going to have to prove the value of this cumbersome acquisition, outside the further revenue growth it will bring. Also, pricing pressure from Microsoft and Google could mean a tough battle ahead as well. Besides, cloud computing and big data analytics are still in the early stages of development and will likely to witness more high-volume growth in years to come as promising technologies continue to advance. It will also be interesting to see how investors continue to react to CRM as analysts scramble to adjust their mockups. How India is Paving The Way to Build An AI-Driven Economy Teradata Partners with Cisco to Unlock IoT Value for Smart Cities Smarter Product Information With Augmented Reality	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4624
__label__wiki	0.855573	0.855573	We’re looking for participants to tell us about their experience with reading online news. If selected to participate, you could win a £75.00 GBP (or equivalent, subject to exchange rates) Amazon gift card! Take our short screener now Link questionnaire February 06, 2018 Updated 15:07 GMT Homepage : In-depth Homepage : In-depth : Why Rouhani warned Iran's leadership not to repeat Shah's mistakes Why Rouhani warned Iran's leadership not to repeat Shah's mistakes Rouhani has urged the Iranian establishment to listen to people's frustrations [Getty] Date of publication: 6 February, 2018 Follow @The_NewArab Analysis: The slightest veneer of democracy has enabled the regime in Tehran to rule for four decades, writes Paul Iddon. Iran, Shah, Rouhani, Iranian Revolution, establishment, protest In a very illuminating speech marking the 39th anniversary of the 1979 revolution, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani gave a mild warning to the ruling clerical establishment which served as an apt reminder of how the regime in Tehran has survived all these years. "The previous regime thought monarchical rule would last forever, but it lost everything for this very reason - that it did not hear the criticism of the people," Rouhani said. He was referring to the last Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, while speaking at the shrine of the man who overthrew him, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The ancien régime also "did not hear the voice of reformers, advisers, scholars, elites and the educated", Rouhani argued. "It only heard the voice of revolution… and by then, it was too late." Rouhani urged Tehran's leadership to "have a listening ear for people's demands and wishes" in a clear allusion to the recent upheaval and widespread protests in Iran over the dire straits in which the economy is floundering, as well as other contentious issues ranging from compulsory hijab-wearing to their country's costly involvement in Syria and the wider region. The Iranian president isn't offering this advice out of any desire for greater political freedoms in Iran - he has a vested interest in keeping the regime entrenched in power. But Rouhani's summary of the folly of the last Shah is quite accurate. Supreme Leader Khamenei and his cohorts risk repeating history at their peril. Rouhani is a protégé of the, now late, former President Akar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a pragmatist who always sought to do whatever necessary to ensure the regime's survival and longevity. "You and Khamenei must stay close," Khomeini told Rafsanjani on his deathbed. The founder of the Islamic Republic then squeezed Rafsanjani's thumb before saying his final words: "The revolution will thrive if you stick together." The regime has maintained a simulacrum of democratic governance, which its apologists invariably point to in order to claim that Iran is a 'free country' It's clear that Khomeini calculated that Khamenei's embodiment of the revolution's ideology balanced by Rafsanjani's pragmatism would enable the regime to weather the storms against it and endure. Rouhani's recent comments are therefore an apt example of him following in his mentor's footsteps at another challenging time for the regime. Rouhani was elected twice by the Iranian people, once in 2013 and again last year. The regime has maintained a simulacrum of democratic governance, which its apologists invariably point to in order to claim that Iran is a "free country". While the candidates for election are severely restricted - with a handful of candidates hand-picked from the thousands who apply to qualify and the Supreme Leader has the final say in all matters - presidential elections have nevertheless served as an effective tool for Iran's rulers to determine how the Iranian public actually feels about many policies. Voter turnout is a key barometer for the regime to determine how the populace feels and how they can successfully either co-opt or subvert popular will In stark contrast to this, the last Shah risibly claimed he had "the pulse of his people in his hand" after in 1975 completely abolishing the already-servile two-party system - which Iranians used to sarcastically call the "yes party" and the "yes, sir party". This cemented his isolation from the Iranian people and resulted in his infamous downfall less than five years later. In the 2013 election Khamenei, clearly cognizant of the crucial importance of voter turnout for any semblance of legitimacy, called upon Iranians to go out and vote, claiming it was a necessary measure against Iran's enemies. Voter turnout is a key barometer for the regime to determine how the populace feels and how they can successfully either co-opt or subvert popular will. Most Iranians voted for Rouhani in 2013 since they saw him taking issue with Tehran's policies in the preceding years - and also because he clearly wasn't Khamenei's preferred candidate. Also, voting for Rouhani was the only way in which Iranians could steer their ship of state in a more conciliatory course with the West rather than a confrontational one within the framework of the current order. This ultimately brought about the nuclear deal a mere two years later. Even the June 2009 Green Movement which supported presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - in whose favour they alleged that election was rigged - and which conducted large-scale protests across the country, were still only seeking political change within the rigid framework of the regime establishment and not attempting to actually topple the regime. This approach, combined with the brute force and willingness of the regime's vanguard - the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Basiji paramilitaries - to brutally repress dissent, is the primary reason it has successfully managed to retain power for four decades. Rouhani's latest comments were a simple reminder from the regime's pragmatic wing to keep to the formula that has enabled them to rule for so long. Paul Iddon is a freelance journalist based in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, who writes about Middle East affairs. Follow him on Twitter: @pauliddon Emile Nakhleh Another year of deep state repression in Bahrain Comment: Bahraini human rights activists have suffered severely from government repression, yet Washington and London continue to treat the regime with velvet gloves, writes Emile Nakhleh. Daoud Kuttab President Trump is right about one thing Comment: Freedom for Palestinians is in the long-term interest of the United States. And even Israel agrees, writes Daoud Kuttab. Matt Broomfield Investigation: Coercive 'voluntary' deportations leave refugees trapped in jail Exclusive: A scheme to repatriate refugees whose asylum bids have been rejected amounts to bullying and bribing desperate people to return to desperate situations, reports Matt Broomfield. The New Arab Iranian women arrested for appearing without a headscarf Iranian women have been accused of public order offences as pictures shared online show women taking off their headscarves in protest at the obligatory head-covering law. 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__label__cc	0.705657	0.294343	Feeling Lucky? Win a Round at SunRidge Canyon with Gary McCord Fountain Hills, AZ – As golf course promotions go, most aren’t too exciting. It’s usually “win a free round,” or maybe if you’re lucky, a “stay and play” package. It’s pretty expected stuff in terms of golf promotions. That’s why the news of the new promotion from SunRidge Canyon Golf Club caught our attention and… Polo Golf Launches Mobile Access Campaign in Golf World Magazine Polo Golf announced the debut of their Golf World magazine mobile access campaign today. The Polo Golf ads in Golf World allow readers to scan the QR code, or enter the vanity url: m.ralphlauren.com/golf on their smart phone browser, to… It’s About Time! OB Sports Leads the Way With EXPRESS LANE Tee Times Scottsdale AZ — A Great Idea – OB Sports Facilities Offer Express Lane Tee Times – We’ve all heard one of the main reasons people aren’t playing golf is because it takes too long. If you are an avid player, chances are you’ve experienced slow play. You know, the group that takes 10 minutes to look… Antigua Providing U.S. Solheim Cup Uniforms The Solheim Cup matches at Kileen Castle in Dublin, Ireland begin September 23rd and the Antigua design team is busy making sure the U.S. team’s uniforms are just right. “Designing uniforms for multiple days and multiple rounds of competition with Ireland’s unique weather as an added variable… All Sports 2011 Fall Charity Tournament Sept. 24th Mesa, AZ – Our friend at All Sports Arizona will host their 2011 Fall Charity Golf Tournament on Saturday, September 24, 2011 at Red Mountain Ranch Country Club. Participants will not only experience a beautiful golf course, but they will help All Sports Arizona continue their quest to provide affordable… Antigua’s Sean Gregg Talks Golf Fashion Trends It’s the dog days of summer in Arizona right now. Temperatures and humidity are at that uncomfortable stage, meaning you do all your chores early and hibernate in the afternoon. It’s hard to think about wearing long sleeves and jackets, but for Sean Gregg, Antigua’s head designer, that’s exactly… Osborn Scrapes and Scrambles to Win the Arizona Amateur Championship Match play is one of golf’s most fickle and funny games. Just when a player thinks he’s got it all figured out, the mano y mano format jumps up and bites him like a sleeping dog. That lesson straight out of the school of hard knocks was reaffirmed Saturday in the final match of the 87th Arizona Amateur… AZ Amateur Final Round Pits A Waiter Against A Weekend Warrior A waiter from Scottsdale, Michael Wog, will meet a “weekend warrior’’ from the same city, Bowen Osborn, in Saturday’s championship match of the 87th Arizona Amateur at the Country Club at DC Ranch. It marks the first time in eight years that a college-age player will not win this major championship… Lowe, Walicki and Sardina Advance in Arizona Amateur The last time Jin Song went this far into the Arizona Amateur’s bracket of 64 players, he was just like his future teammate, David Lowe – an 18-year-old fresh out of high school kid just two weeks away from going to Arizona State. But here it is three years later, and there’s Song again in the quarterfinals of this major championship sponsored by the Arizona Golf Association…	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4633
__label__cc	0.700719	0.299281	Guelph: 519.804.1439 \| Kitchener: 519.804.1252 \| Mount Forest: 519.804.1367 \| Simcoe: 519.804.1337 The Signs of Hearing Loss Preventing Hearing Loss Hearing & Your Health Hearing Testing for Kids Ear Protection & Custom Molds Promotions & Financing Musical Ear Syndrome Posted Jul 11th, 2019 in Disorders, Tinnitus My Tinnitus Has a Melody — Is That Possible? You probably know someone who experiences tinnitus — a ringing, buzzing, pulsing, hissing, or humming with no external source. People often call it “ringing in the ears,” and it affects approximately 15% of the North American population, according to the American Tinnitus Association. But did you know some people experience a form of tinnitus in which they hear actual melodies? It’s called musical ear syndrome (or musical tinnitus). What Is Musical Ear Syndrome? Musical ear syndrome (MES) is when someone hears music that has no external source. Some people hear a single instrument playing a simple melody; others hear several instruments playing a complex piece of music; and still, others hear a voice singing, with or without accompaniment. The most common melodies, however, are hymns, Christmas carols, and patriotic music. How is this different than when you can’t seem to get a piece of music out of your head? In the case of MES, the melody sounds like it’s coming from an obvious and specific direction, so it’s not clear that it’s internal. It sounds self-evidently external. That’s why, for many people, it can take a while to recognize what’s really going on. What Causes Musical Ear Syndrome? When you hear something, you’re experiencing a combination of sound input, interpretations by your brain, and predictions by your brain. Strong sound input reduces the amount of predicting required by your brain. When you don’t get enough sound input, however, your brain has to do more predicting to make sense of the sound input it is receiving. The more severe the hearing loss, the more the auditory deprivation, and the greater the need for the brain to fill in the gaps. The most common hypothesis about what causes MES is, in layman’s terms, that the brain gets bored through sensory deprivation and starts to generate sound by itself. Is Musical Ear Syndrome Common? The few studies published in journals suggest only about 20% of those with tinnitus experience musical ear syndrome — that means about 3% of the general population. It’s most likely underreported, however, because those experiencing MES worry that if they tell someone, they’ll seem mentally unstable. In fact, Dr. Neil Bauman, who coined the term musical ear syndrome and has been raising awareness about the condition for many years, has heard from so many people affected by MES that he suspects the number is higher than 10% of the general population! Though tinnitus is more prevalent in men, MES appears to be more prevalent in women. Is There a Cure? MES is even less understood than tinnitus. But like tinnitus, there are some ways you can minimize its effects. For many people, a great deal of stress and anxiety is alleviated when they can put a name to what they’re experiencing. Knowing others experience it also provides relief — it’s nice to know you’re not alone in your MES. Stress management. Stress has been shown to make symptoms worse, so finding ways to minimize your stress might minimize the severity of your MES. For example, deep breathing can relax your body, but it also pulls your attention away from the MES, allowing it to fade into the background. Some patients have also had success with cognitive behavioral therapy. Bring more sound to your environment. MES is a product of sound deprivation — give your brain plenty to listen to! If you don’t have hearing aids, get some. If you have hearing aids, be sure to wear them as much as possible. Get out in nature and socialize more. Natural sounds and conversations are ideal stimulation for a bored brain. Adjust your medication. MES has been reported as a side effect for almost 300 medications, both common and little known. Don’t make any changes on your own, though — consult your doctor if you suspect the MES is a side effect of a current medication. Musical ear syndrome is real, and it’s more common than you realize. If you or someone you love suspects they have tinnitus — musical or otherwise — contact us today for a consultation! At one of our four locations and be confident in your hearing again. Managed with Tymbrel	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4635
__label__cc	0.736989	0.263011	Mar 6 Christopher Wool Atesh M. Gundogdu FlashbackMonday #FlashbackMonday Untitled, 1997 Enamel on Aluminum 108 × 72 in 274.3 × 182.9 cm Tate Collection Making a name in the New York art scene in the early 1980s, Christopher Wool is best known for his word paintings, white canvases with black stenciled letters spelling out text like "Sell the house, sell the car, sell the kids" (in his 1998 work Apocalypse Now). In his early paintings, Wool used commercial rollers to apply decorative effects on canvas, and he has continued to explore pattern in his art. Incorporating media and techniques including photography, silkscreen, reproduction, overpainting, and erasing, Wool's work often combines human and machine marks, as in his paintings in which he smudges black lines drawn with a spray gun into gray fields. American, b. 1955, Chicago, Illinois, based in New York, New York Mar 7 Dan Herschlein Mar 4 Haroon Mirza Jan 16 Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons, and Sarah Charlesworth Jan 30 On Kawara Feb 6 Jenny Holzer	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4638
__label__cc	0.533309	0.466691	10 First Date Hacks Will Change Your Game Immediately 8. Figure Out Her Favorite Food Ask her what her favorite food is, and no matter what her answer, say you know the best place for that in the city and that's where you're taking her on your second date. If you don't really know of a place in advance, just say it's a surprise and do your research later. Regardless, you'll have secured a second date. Top Male Escorts Explain What Really Drives the Ladies WildRead More Trending News: What We All Can Learn About First Dates From A-Rod And J-Lo 10 Things She's Thinking About During Your First Date Salvage A Date That's Gone Wrong The Various Guys Who Never Struggle to Find Dates, Revealed Want to Try Something Wild in Bed? Here’s How to Ask Her	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4640
__label__cc	0.575946	0.424054	Desert Kitsune's Anime take a look at Desert Kitsune's Manga Will not finish▲▼ Rating▲▼ 009-1 (TV) Decent This show tries to be James Bond meets Charlies Angels, which didn't turn out too bad, but I doubt I'll ever finish this one. 11eyes (TV) So-so This show just didn't really grab my attention, nothing about it seemed interesting, doubt I'll ever get back to it.... 30-sai no Hoken Taiiku (TV) Bad This show starts and ends in depravity and is wholly deplorable. Abnormal Physiology Seminar (OAV) Bad I though this would be a amusing anime and I liked the art style, but this is just a run-of-the-mill gutter story. The only decent person in the anime seems to be Nanako Matsutaka, the rest of them are unabashed tactless sex crazed perverts. Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero (TV) Not really good Afro Samurai (TV) Weak I saw the first episode and was assailed by blood and dismembered bodies, a generic and wholly uninteresting story about revenge, and a cast of disagreeable and unlikeable characters. Props to good English voice acting and smooth animation, even so it’s not worth the time. Aho-Girl (TV) Not really good Ai-Mai-Mi (TV) Not really good These shorts are completely random and nonsensical in a uninteresting sort of way, all the jokes fell flat. Air Gear (TV) Weak This mediocre series centers around a not-so-reputable high school student who idolizes Air Treck gangs, soon he all-to-eagerly dives into the dredges of society to become a public nuisance and chased by cops (who aren’t all that great either). What a great and inspiring story this is. Skip it. Aki Sora (OAV) Bad This is a story about incestual relationship between an older sister and younger brother with a side story of a lesbian relationship of the other sister and a classmate, both relationships are consummated graphically. Not for anyone under 18, but I wouldn't recommend this to really anyone at all, the story is weak and the characters are bland, I would consider this more of a lite-core hentai. (The) Animatrix (OAV) Decent This one's just plain wierd, a real head trip, I don't think I'll ever finnish it. Anyamaru Tantei Kiruminzū (TV) So-so Sort of following in the footsteps of 'Tokyo Mew Mew', an altogether cutesy magical girl Anime, plenty of moe and kawaii to go around. This series has a fairly original yet simple storyline and some standard characters (who are in middle school), but the show is mostly fun. Even so, this story just doesn't hold much interest to me. Aria the Scarlet Ammo (TV) So-so This series just seems to me to be an excuse for guns and fanservice. The characters are bland and the protagonist's superpower is turning into a Casanova. As Miss Beelzebub Likes (TV) Weak B Gata H Kei - Yamada’s First Time (TV) Not really good this series revolves around s girl who biggest ambition in life is to become a slut, she intends to sleep with 100 guys before the end of High School. Although it has some good comedic timing, the whole essence of the anime is unappealing. Big Order (TV) Not really good Bikini Warriors (TV) Not really good This series is all about warriors who wear bikini armor, that famous trope of less equals more on a female. They do take advantage of this trope to poke fun at it, but overall it's just another fan service anime. Black Clover (TV) Weak When you strip away all the specifics from this series you'll see that all this is is a Naruto clone, but not done as well. Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan (TV) Bad This anime centers around young Sakura who will become a super pervert know round the world and hated by god himself. Angel-gone-rouge Dokuro defies god and tries to protect Sakura, only to end up killing him in violent explosions of blood from every place imaginable in amounts to fill swimming pools. Then she resurrects him by reversing time (which means we get a second viewing of Sakura's death). Then She kills him again, repeat though out entire series. Sorry, once is enough for me, but then they keep beating this dead (pardon the pun) horse by doing it over and over and over and over. The story itself is not interesting, the characters are bland, the voice acting is mediocre (even the Japanese voices), and the art isn't bad or good, again just mediocre. Conclusion: skip. Chaos Dragon (TV) So-so This series premis is that Ibuki must kill those closest to him to gain the power needed to defeat his enimies on a one for one exchange basis. It feels forced and I don't feel like watching that much forced angst, forced drama, forced emotion, and forced (and arguably unnecessary) trauma. Chaos;Child (TV) Weak This series is nothing by graphic gore, trauma, and violence for the sake of itself, the plot is fragmented and impossible to follow. Classroom Crisis (TV) Decent (The) Comic Artist and His Assistants (TV) Weak This anime revolves around a manga-ka and his inability to write manga without groping his female assistants who just say "I guess it can't be helped" and submit to his lecherousness. This is not what I consider entertaining, it is demeaning towards women. Cutey Honey (TV) So-so This one’s old and very cheesy, this anime is the origins of the ‘Magical Girl’ genre, at the time this may have been good entertainment, but now it’s just corny and simple. I don’t think I’ll ever get back to it. Daimidaler: Prince vs. Penguin Empire (TV) Weak Dies irae (TV) Weak Dimension High School (TV) Not really good Dororon Enma-kun (TV) Decent Old and cheesy, only watched a few episodes I found, I don't think I'll be able to find the entire series anyway.... Earl and Fairy (TV) Not really good Whaaay too much Shojo for me, seems to be nothing but drama and romance thought the whole series, which also makes it boring. The story sounded interesting, but after watching the first episode I was left completely uninterested. Also the romantic interest looks to be a pushy, snobby jerk, that maybe entertaining for a supporting character, but not good for a main character. Endride (TV) Not really good First Love Monster (TV) So-so FLCL (OAV) Weak I saw the first episode and was left going ".... is this suppost to be funny? I thought this was a comady?" If I ever finish this it will be because someone else wanted to and I happened to be there for it. Fox Spirit Matchmaker (ONA) So-so Fractale (TV) So-so A show that starts from nowhere and is happy to stay there, this show doesn't seem to be going anywhere and frankly I was board. Ghastly Prince Enma Burning Up (TV) Not really good Another show that had potential, but managed to waste it all by focusing entirely on fanservice. Girl's High (TV) Decent A very Shojo slice-of-life series that is not mostly fun humor just doesn't interest me that much. Gokudo (TV) Decent Leave this as a three episode OVA and it's great, but I don't want to watch that bad attitude and lack of caring for 26 episodes! Grand Blue (TV) Not really good Gravitation (TV) Bad Sorry, I'm just not into Yaoi. These themes appeared right from the get-go, they were so prominent and blatant that I couldn't even finish the first episode. Hand Shakers (TV) So-so Haré+Guu (TV) Weak As seen with all the Anime I've watched I am a big anime fan. I like fun, funny, wacky, and insane. But this is none of that, it's just wierd, and not even a fun-wierd, it's a demented-wierd. I saw the first few episodes and I think I'll leave it at that. Heaven's Lost Property (TV) Not really good An ditsy moe Angel that can grant anything is given to a clumsy pervert, insert the tomboy girl-next-door, the perverted freak, and the polite yet devious class rep, and you have a cast of cookie cutter characters. This by its self is not necessarily bad, I have watched plenty of Anime with cookie cutter characters, but the story in those series were good or fun so i liked them. However, this series seems to want to stay entrenched in perversion, all the jokes revolve around this, I watched several episodes just to be sure, but I could not find one joke or gag that wasn't perverted in one way or another. Here's my ratings; Characters: C. Story Originality: B. Storyline: C. Humor: D. Conclusion: Skip this series. High School DxD (TV) So-so Unabashed and unashamed, this series follows the classic harem anime route with bouncing boobs and naked women all the way, I'm told there's a good story in here, but I can't find it buried under all the fan service. High School of the Dead (TV) Weak This anime has so much unnecessary and unrealistic fanservice it completely drowned out any story that may have been in it. Hime Chen! Otogi Chikku Idol Lilpri (TV) Not really good This show's like watching the Disney Channel, no thanks, there are better shows out there. Humanity Has Declined (TV) So-so I just found this one boring, nothing in it caught my interest. I couldn't become a hero, so I reluctantly decided to get a job. (TV) Decent with all the potential this had, the great start, the right mix of characters, and some cleaver jokes, all this ever wanted to be (and thus devolved into) just another run of the mill super ecchi harem anime. What a waste. Ikki Tousen (TV) Weak This one deserves to be ignored, the humor and story that was in the Battle Vixens manga was completely lost in this animated adaptation. In this version Hakufu is the blondest blond on planet Earth, what little humor is left is very perverse, and the episodes horrendously bounce between airhead entertainment and dark and bloody. Skip this one. (The) Irresponsible Captain Tylor (OAV) Not really good Honestly, I was really disappointed. It's like they found everything that made Captain Tylor great and removed it for this OVA. Even though I own the DVD's I may never finish this one for that reason. Juden Chan (TV) Weak The mildly entertaining story and somwhat unique world are obscured by the fanservice and fetish nature of the show. Like so many other shows any potential this series had was squandered for depravity. Juni Taisen: Zodiac War (TV) Weak This show is about murder and death for the sake of murder and death. Kanokon: The Girl Who Cried Fox (TV) Not really good I thought this might be interesting since it was dealing with the famous Japanese legendary Kitsunes, but in reality it's just a shameless fanservice extravaganza. Keijo!!!!!!!! (TV) Weak This is literally "Boobs and Butts: The Anime", if you're looking for an actual story best look somewhere else. Kemeko Deluxe! (TV) Not really good I do not like Kemeko's character design at all, I think it is absolutely hideous!! (which is the intent, but they went too far I think) The rest of the cast is well designed, though. As for the rest of it, the series has potential, but is nothing special. Because of the hideousness of the power armor I probably will not finish this one. Kiss×sis (OAV) Bad This show goes beyond ecchi, you're basically watching a incest hentai, it gets worse and worse the longer it goes. Kiss×sis (TV) Weak This is such a mediocre anime and not worth my time, the whole story is nothing but a series of fan service with hardly any plot or story. Lord of Vermilion: The Crimson King (TV) Not really good Lupin III: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine (TV) So-so Maid Sama! (TV) So-so The male interest is amusing at times, but rather boring and insensitive most of the time, and the cross dressing boy was too much for me. I decided to stop half way through and move onto something else. Majikoi - Oh! Samurai Girls (TV) So-so Maken-Ki! Battling Venus (TV) Not really good Manyū Hiken-chō (TV) Weak Start to finish this show is all about boobs, I would rank this show as a hallmark of depravity. Million Doll (TV) Decent I just did not find any interest in this. Mob Psycho 100 (TV) Decent (The) Morose Mononokean (TV) Decent My Bride is a Mermaid (TV) So-so Spousal abuse is the order of the day in this ear splitting series. Any ordinary human would have died in episode 1 from the rampant ear shattering siren shrieks to the flat out physical punishment he endures, yet it continues for a full series. Not pleasant, not fun. My First Girlfriend is a Gal (TV) Weak Mysterious Girlfriend X (TV) Weak How many fetishes can you list? This anime tries to show them all, it is disturbing and wrong on many levels. Naria Girls (TV) So-so Okamikakushi - Masque of the Wolf (TV) Weak This anime held my attention for all of three episodes and had good potential to entertain me throughout the entirety of the series, but then it turned Yaoi. I hate Yaoi, I stoped watching when I hit the gay pedophile scene. One Piece (TV) Decent The For Kids English dub on this is not good at all, all the characters sound like they have colds and the voice acting is sub-par. Most of them are completely mis-cast for their part, Luffy sounds like he's 8 (and has a cold). I highly recommend avoiding the English dub and sticking with the original Japanese. I probably will never finish this series because it's incredibly long and I'm really not that interested in it. Oniichan no Koto Nanka Zenzen Suki Janain Dakara ne—!! (TV) Weak Although I enjoyed the art style, it was a nice break from the current favorite moe style, the storyline is not worth it. Nao dreams of a love life with her brother Shūsuke even before she found out she wasn't blood related, and Shūsuke himself is obsessed with porn. Good animation and artwork does not make up for a weak story that relies on fan service as it's draw. Ouran High School Host Club (TV) So-so A very Bishounen anime, this is a male harem series with yaoi undertones, I despise yaoi. This series seems to get high marks that's why I watched it initially, but no thanks, even though Vic Mignogna is in it I'm done with this one. Pani Poni Dash! (TV) Not really good This one had all the right pointers to be hilarious, but it just does not deliver. To begin with, there are way to many inside jokes, cameos, and tributes to properly concentrate on the show itself and completely obscures the good humor in the show. I was pausing every 5 or 10 seconds to identify what just happened and what show it originally came from, and half of the shows tributed were never released in the States, so I didn't get those ones anyway. Second, half the cast is bland and the bunny is constantly suicidal. I endured half the series in hopes that it would get better, but I've got better things to do and better series to watch. Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt (TV) Bad Although the retro style was an interesting change from the usual anime style, it was not enough. This show is more akin to the worst of modern American cartoon in both humor and animation quality; the characters all have bad attitudes and are generally not likable, their behavior is deplorable, the bad guys are revolting, and the story's are appalling. Peacemaker (TV) So-so This one's too dark for me, a well thought-out story, smooth animation, just too dark. And bloody. Please tell me! Galko-chan (TV) Weak Princess Resurrection (TV) So-so Although there are some fun characters in this anime, Hime is just plain unlikeable (which is bad for your main character) and treats Hiro deplorably (she also treats her friends poorly too), and the story is uninteresting. (The) Qwaser of Stigmata (TV) Bad A story that held some potential to it, but was content to be a twisted tale of perversion and mediocrity. Ragnastrike Angels (TV) Weak Rampo Kitan: Game of Laplace (TV) So-so Most of the characters in this series in my humble opinion should be committed to a psychiatric ward. This is a well done, but extremely disturbing anime, the level of psychological disturbance along with the physical manifestations there of is extreme. Not for the faint of heart. Recently, my sister is unusual. (TV) Weak This series wants to be a hentai so bad it hurts. There was a story in between the masturbation and fetich extravaganza, but it was so lacking I almost missed it. Regalia: The Three Sacred Stars (TV) Weak Sailor Moon (TV) Decent (dub & sub) Not a great show, but not a bad show either. With anime I like better still out there I just don't think I'll be watching all 200 episodes + movies. Half a season's more then enough for me. Sankarea: Undying Love (TV) Not really good Do you love zombies? Do you want to sleep with one? Apparently someone does because this anime made it through production and airing. Sasameki Koto (TV) Decent A show about high school lesbians and their relationships. Although there's nothing graphic (at least in the episodes that I watched) in this, it seems to be purely character driven, I probably will never finish this one. Schwarzes Marken (TV) Weak Sekirei: Pure Engagement (TV) Weak This show has a very weak storyline and is fan service intensive, there is so much unnecessary fan service in this show it detracts from the story, one of the most prominent being that all the girls except the 8 year old has unrealistically large boobs. This anime is not worth mine and yours time. Senran Kagura: Ninja Flash! (TV) Not really good another anime that was used as an excuse to bounce large breasts and flash panties, not much else to this series really, tits and butt, that's it. Were you expecting a story perhaps? Find a different anime if you want that. Servamp (TV) So-so Seven Mortal Sins (TV) Weak (dub & sub) Shattered Angels (TV) So-so This anime, although interesting in its concept of cloaking magical mecha that follow its owners will and movements, has a male love interest / hero that is just not likable. His personality is arrogant, unrestrained, and clueless as to the proper treatment of others, which in my opinion is a huge turn-off to the series. He’d work well as a supporting character or villain, but not the lead. This one gets an B+ for originality, but a D for characters. SHIMONETA: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn’t Exist (TV) Weak Shin chan (TV) Worst ever This is by far the most pathetic anime I’ve seen thus far, and I’ve seen a lot of anime (over 100 separate TV series). The first thing that tipped me off was the horrendous artwork, as an artist myself I look for quality in the animes I watch and notice when it’s lacking. Next is what passes as humor, this is really low-brow stuff, calling it potty humor would be a complement. My advice is when you see this turn and run….. fast, I will not recommend this to anyone for any reason. So I Can't Play H (TV) Weak No, you can't play H. I honestly found nothing appealing about this series. Another sad excuse for showing boobs, panties, and all manor of groping. Any interest I had in this series was quickly lost because of the excess of lewdness. Space Brothers (TV) Decent yawn is it over yet? I honestly don't remember most of the 2 episodes I watched it was so dull. Space Dandy (TV) Not really good Our protagonist and hero's one goal in life is to visit every single Space Hooters in the galaxy. No, I'm not joking. The stores are massive tits floating in space. He works his job of finding new alien life to support this endeavor. Sad really. Spiritpact (TV) So-so (The) Super Milk-chan Show (TV) Not really good This is a mildly amusing anime, funny at times, and it has a lot of cameos too. However, the good humor is sporadic, sometimes not even appearing in the episode. With no plot or even general storyline to hold you, no insane humor to get addicted to, and no elements that are just so out there that you can’t pull your eyes away from this show has no real staying power. Conclusion: a decent watch every now and then, but nothing worthy of any real recognition. Tanaka-kun is Always Listless (TV) Weak Tokyo Mew Mew (TV) Decent This magical girl series I was hoping would be good like Nanoha, but this one is more akin to Sailor Moon. Normal girls are handed super powers and have to fight generic monsters, the only real unique thing about this show is the fact that these girls have animal powers, but the flip side to that is it comes off as pro-animal rights and pro-environmentalism. 50 episodes is too much for me to sit through for such a mediocre anime, I probably will never finish this one. Wagamama High Spec (TV) Not really good Wake Up, Girls! (TV) So-so Like most idol series I've seen thus far, nothing really of much interest. White Album (TV) So-so This is definitely a Shojo Drama, I myself am just not that interested in pure drama. Good artwork though and some likable characters. (The) World God Only Knows (TV) Decent Not really a good anime and is lacking in interest to me. This guy is uninterested in real women, so he just plays dating sims all day every day, but during the series he is forced to interact with them. However, as soon as he accomplishes his goal, back to the video games and ignoring real live people. Loser. Seen some (136) Seen all (580) Will not finish (105) cloudflare ray# 4f8432fb1755572d-IAD	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4645
__label__wiki	0.761999	0.761999	Design & Living Dazed media sites Five Female Futurists Who Thrived During Art’s Most Misogynistic Movement Art & PhotographyAnOther List Giannina Censi, Aerodanze, Foto originaleCourtesy of Man Museo D'Arte Nuoro, Archivio MART, Rovereto As their work is reunited for a rare exhibition in Sardinia, take a closer look at the women who rose to the top of Italian Futurism TextThea Hawlin Futurism is largely remembered as a movement of violence, Fascism and “disprezzo della donna”, or “scorn for women”, as its manifesto proclaimed, and so female Futurists can prove a complicated contradiction, often sidelined or ignored within this famously misogynistic movement. Now, at the MAN museum in Sardinia, a long overdue retrospective is finally open to the public to highlight their role. We take stock of just some of the brilliant artists whose work is on display there. 1. Giannina Censi (above) One of the most famous Italian dancers and choreographers, Milan-born Giannina Censi created a new form of movement for Futurism. She trained at La Scala, leaving at 17 to move to Paris, continuing her classical dance education. Once there, she spent her spare time taking Indian and Spanish dance lessons, expanding both her repertoire and her body’s capabilities. By the time she met Marinetti, Censi’s range and knowledge of movements initiated what he would call a “metallism” of dance, reinventing the medium for a Futurist audience. Her piece Aerodanza saw her body contort, arched dramatically backward and forwards in mechanical motion, moving in an entirely new way. “My body had to express what the plane was doing,” she said. “It flew and above all gave the impressions of these trembling wings, of the trembling apparatus.” Benedetta Cappa, Cime arse di solitudine, 1936Museo dell’Aeronautica “Gianni Caproni”, Trento 2. Benedetta Known only by her first name, Benedetta Cappa worked across an impressive range of media, from ceramics and glass to paint and metal. The tactile experience of art was of great importance to her. Unusually for the time, she had first-hand experience flying in an airplane, and, inspired by these new perspectives, set out to overcome “earthbound limitations” in paint. The resulting fusion of paint and flight with her signature rhythmic patterns of colour slices put her at the forefront of Futurist exhibitions. As well as writing poetry, she penned essays exploring women’s place in the Fascist state: “I am too free and rebellious,” she told Futurism’s founder Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. “I do not want to be restricted. I want only to be me.” She married him. Wanda Wulz, Io + gatto, sovrimpressione del volto di Wanda Wulz con l'immagine del proprio gattoCourtesy of Man Museo D'Arte Nuoro. Archivi Alinari, Firenze 3. Wanda Wulz Speed and technology were fundamental preoccupations for the Futurists, so it follows that the medium of photography became increasingly important to them. Wanda Wulz came from a family of photographers in Trieste. After her father died, she took on the upkeep of his photography studio and soon strange movements, blurring, and montages were no longer errors to be avoided, but precious effects she sought to capture. Wulz experimented with every kind of image making: one of her most famous self-portraits Io + gatto (Cat + I) sees a negative of her face superimposed with that of her cat, her inner animal appearing to peer out into the world. Regina in LambrettaCourtesy of Man Museo D'Arte Nuoro 4. Regina Bracchi Form and curvature play a huge part in Regina Bracchi’s vision of Futurism, manifested in great swathes of aluminium, tin and celluloid. Bracchi originally studied at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, before working with the sculptor Giovanni Alloati in Turin. In no time she was producing her own creations, moving away from more traditional materials such as bronze. She wrote on aluminium sculptures and theories of aerial plastics, signing the Technical Manifesto of Futurist Aeroplastics in 1934. She was also known for riding around on her Lambretta carrying a pet canary in a cage. Her name means ‘Queen’ in Italian, so it’s hardly surprising she’s Futurist royalty. Bice Lazzari in Venice with Giacometti and Carlo ScarpaCourtesy of Man Museo D'Arte Nuoro 5. Bice Lazzari In accordance with her Venetian family’s wishes, Bice Lazzari initially trained as a musician before enrolling at the Venice Academy of Fine Art in 1916, but her studies were interrupted by the outbreak of war, and so she finished her education in Florence. Painting was a new kind of music for her – a “poetry of mark-making” – and she only painted with what she called the “absolute colours”: black, white, red and yellow. Although some debate that she belonged to any school, her time living in Rome with her architect husband just by Piazza di Spagna saw her at the centre of Futurist artistic society. Flight and Light: The Female Futurists 1912 – 1944 runs until June 10, 2018 at the MAN Museum, Sardinia. Art & PhotographyAnOther ListExhibitionsItaly Subscribe to the weekly AnOther newsletter I would like to receive the AnOther newsletter MagazineContactAboutAdvertising JobsPrivacyTermsSearch © 2009 - 2019 AnOther Publishing Ltd.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4648
__label__wiki	0.750915	0.750915	Desire2Learn Integrates With Microsoft Live@edu By AVNetwork Staff (AVTechnology) 2010-12-01T16:08:57Z Business Desire2Learn has announced integration with Microsoft Live@edu, providing another option to the internal email system Desire2Learn currently provides for clients. Desire2Learn says that the Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and integration with Live@edu is the result of a broad partnership and natural extension of both companies' commitment to eLearning. It will, "provide transformational solutions that inspire educational leaders, teachers and students daily," according to the company. "We recognize Desire2Learn's standing as a leading provider of educational software in K-12 and higher education and we are excited to see Live@edu incorporated into their learning management system," states Sig Behrens, general manager, U.S. Education, Microsoft Corp. "This integrated solution will benefit everyone on campus with streamlined access to information in one software solution that will help increase productivity and learning outcomes." Live@edu is accessible through popular Web browsers for Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems. Offered via the Desire2Learn Learning Suite, it will be running on numerous campuses in the coming months, supporting tens of thousands of students. "We are pleased to be offering this optional service to our clients," says John Baker, President & CEO, Desire2Learn. "This integration is a great showcase of our commitment to building an open platform for education and a strong partner ecosystem to support our clients." Visit Desire2Learn.com for more information. More from AVTechnology Crestron’s CEO on Intel Partnership: ‘The Objective is to Create a New Industry’ Well-Spring Fills Their Theater With Sound From Renkus-Heinz ICYMI: The Technology Manager's Guide to InfoComm 2019 Harvard Athletics Upgrades is Streaming Production Equipment AV Technology Names Best of Show Winners at InfoComm 2019	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4649
__label__wiki	0.942632	0.942632	Thu, Jun 6 Thu, May 30 + More Issues By Joe Uchill Welcome to Codebook. We have a lot of China to discuss. Tips? Hit reply to this here email. 1 big thing: China's "influence" vs. "interference" in U.S. vote Former Director of the CIA John Brennan. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images John Brennan, the former CIA director and homeland security adviser, believes the debate over what China may be doing to influence or interfere in the 2018 elections hangs on the meaning of two words. "The term 'interference' is loosely used. But there's a difference between interference and influence," Brennan told Axios at a event for SecureAuth, a firm that he advises. Why it matters: At the UN, President Trump declared, "China has been attempting to interfere in our upcoming election." Vice President Mike Pence made a similar case a week later at the Hudson Institute, saying that China was trying to influence the election. We don't know whether either executive was using "interference" and "influence" to mean separate concepts, as Brennan does, or as a single mushy idea, they way he fears the public uses the terms. But it's clear the public took the statements to mean China was doing something like what Russia did in 2018. The big picture: The difference, at least to Brennan, is that influencing an election doesn't cross over into illegality. Attempts to influence the public could be completely aboveboard — like a factual statement to the press. Interference covers activities like hacking, propaganda or other components of the Russian meddling in 2016. "I would assume China would have an influence campaign," Brennan says. "I'd be surprised if more nations did not have influence campaigns." The administration has hinted it has proof that China is doing something untoward in the 2018 elections. But the public evidence the administration has offered — such as legally placed, clearly identified advertisements and tariffs targeted at Trump-supporting states — appears to fall cleanly under Brennan's definition of influence. The scoreboard: Brennan wasn't specifically talking about how the administration uses the terms, but if you look at Pence's Hudson Institute talk under a Brennan lens, the vice president's speech only refers to China's "influence" on elections, not "interference" in them (except when he's quoting Trump). If you exclude the Trump quote and two references to "influence and interference," Pence mentioned Chinese "influence" 9 times and "interference" only 3 times — but that's interference in other contexts than the election. This Pence statement was widely quoted: "As a senior career member of our intelligence community told me just this week, what the Russians are doing pales in comparison to what China is doing across this country." But in context, the line is a reference to "influence" on "Americans’ perception of Chinese policy." Legalistic? Probably. The White House didn't immediately respond to a request to elaborate how Pence used both terms. But if the vice president should ever decide that he didn't want to imply there was interference in the election, Pence's speech offers him a lot of "technically, I'm not wrong." 2. More fallout from Bloomberg's spy chip story Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) sent a letter to Supermicro asking about controversial allegations in stories by Bloomberg that the Chinese government placed a spy chip in the server maker's motherboards. Details: The senators ask whether China has used any means to spy on Supermicro servers and whether the company has investigated potential Chinese spy equipment implanted in third-party hardware used by the firm. The letter notably also gives equal weight to a separate story first reported by The Information in 2017. Axios is told that was to sidestep controversy over the accuracy of the Bloomberg piece — the Supermicro issue isn't just a single story. Meanwhile: Rob Joyce, NSA liaison officer in London and former White House cybersecurity coordinator, strongly implied the NSA has no knowledge of the Bloomberg version of events. At a Chamber of Commerce event Wednesday, Joyce said that despite "pretty great access," he couldn't corroborate the story. "I don’t have a lead to pull from the government side. We’re just befuddled.” He had expressed concerns about the Bloomberg story on Twitter soon after the story posted late last week. But he added new detail on just how befuddled he is. "If somebody has first-degree knowledge, can hand us a board, can point to somebody in a company that was involved in this as claimed, we want to talk to them." "Do I have confidence that there’s some 'there' there on this story? I don’t," he said. Go deeper: Politico's Eric Geller live-tweeted the event. 3. Chinese spy arrest spurs fear of more hacking The Department of Justice announced that Xu Yanjun, a Chinese intelligence agent for the Ministry of State Security, will face trial in the United States for helping China steal trade secrets. Xu is not under arrest for hacking, but some prognosticators believe this is a gloves-are-off moment that could lead to more hacking. Why it matters: China and the United States have a tenuous relationship over economic espionage. In 2015, Beijing agreed to stop using hacking to steal trade secrets through hacking. A return to a full-scale hacking apparatus targeting U.S. intellectual property would be devastating for business. Details: Xu flew aerospace employees to China under false pretenses to pepper them with technological questions. He was arrested in Belgium and faces 25 years in prison in the U.S. Although Xu is not alleged to be involved in hacking, the MSS is believed to be a Chinese agency involved in China's hacking efforts. Hacking declined after the 2015 agreement — the country's overwhelming focus was economic espionage. But Chinese activity has increased in the Trump era (even before the trade war). The U.S. has never brought to trial Chinese intelligence assets involved in the IP theft-spree. "Expect China to hit back hard!" wrote CrowdStrike's co-founder Dmitri Alperovitch on Twitter. 4. Solving Social Security's ID dilemma The Center for Strategic and International Studies and McAfee released a new report on modernizing the Social Security number system Wednesday. And the numbers are a thing that need modernizing — we use them as identification in everything from mortgages to job applications, despite their being easy to steal. The problem: “If we look at how well we're doing right now with Social Security, an estimated 60–80% are already compromised,” said Candace Worley, McAfee vice president and chief technical strategist. That’s because the online world has opened up previously unavailable potential for hackers to steal and sell Social Security numbers. The problem with solving the problem: There’s an obvious next step to solving the problem — using the Social Security number like a username and using something else as a password or changing the number to something harder to steal, like a biometric. But many of the global models require national databases that the U.S. populous is traditionally against. India uses a biometric ID system, but U.S. citizens won’t enjoy giving up their fingerprints to the government. A national ID with a smart chip could solve the problem, but U.S. citizens don’t love national IDs. The bottom line: A middle-ground solution, according to the report, might be to allow private companies to run smart card based identifiers, kind of like a credit card. Citizens could chose who would be in charge of holding their data and replacing lost or stolen cards. Worley agrees there’s a downside that would need to be ironed out: It’s hard to get private firms involved without necessitating a subscription model. 5. Odds and ends The GOP activist who sought hacked Clinton State Department emails met with Michael Flynn (WSJ) Gallmaker group uses off-the-shelf tools (Symantec) Microsoft closes security hole used by FruityArmor. (Kaspersky) Pentagon may find IBM’s lack of faith in JEDI cloud bidding process disturbing (Axios) The U.S. used a Chinese spy to stop Chinese spies’ hacking (Wired)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4652
__label__wiki	0.643125	0.643125	A Healthy Dose of Caution: An Analysis of Australia's My Health Record Digital health records provide an array of benefits. Emergency care can be enhanced through quick access to important patient information. The duplication of diagnostic tests can be avoided and patients no longer need to recant their medical history and pharmaceutical prescriptions to every new health professional they see.1 Australia, along with other countries, has acknowledged the significant improvements in efficiency, quality and delivery of healthcare services that shared digital health systems can provide. My Health Record (MHR) is Australia's version of such a digital health system, acting as a national e-health record system operated and maintained by the Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA). Although the window to ‘opt out’ of the MHR system has closed, Australians are still able to choose whether they maintain their MHR, restrict access to certain information or delete their online record entirely. Universal issues regarding data privacy, security, use and participation continue to undercut the utility of the MHR platform, with the Australian public maintaining a healthy sense of caution regarding the Government’s ability to safeguard some of Australia’s most sensitive personal information. Australia's My Health Record program MHR is Australia's national eHealth record system, operated and maintained by ADHA. Implemented initially in 2012 as the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR), the system operated on an opt-in basis whereby individuals voluntarily registered for a PCEHR and consented to their health information being uploaded.2 In 2018 the Australian Government announced the PCEHR would be renamed 'My Health Record' and legislation was introduced to transform the model to an opt-out program.3 Under the new system, an MHR is created for every Australian unless he/she elects to opt-out. The deadline for opting out was originally mid November 2018 but was extended to 31 January 2019 due to widespread controversy regarding data security, privacy and how the MHR system will operate,4 as well as the delayed release of a Senate Inquiry report into the MHR system (MHR Inquiry).5 Notwithstanding such controversy, the Australian Government's decision to migrate across to an opt-out model was well-intentioned, with aims of increasing the number of individuals and healthcare providers participating in the system.6 Further, the transition formed part of Australia's broader National Digital Health Strategy with the strategic outcome of ensuring that health information is available whenever and wherever it is needed.7 1. What is MHR? Described as a 'drop box' for medical information, MHR is a centralised, online repository of documents and data relating to a person's health and healthcare, accessible only by healthcare consumers and their nominated healthcare providers.8 MHR may include important health information for an individual regarding any allergies, prescribed medicines, diagnosed or hereditary medical conditions, pathology and test results.9 Individuals can choose which health information is shared with certain practitioners by altering individual privacy and security settings, however healthcare providers caring for a person in an emergency are able to utilise "break glass" functionality to access that person's MHR without obtaining consent.10 This feature is only available where there is a serious threat to the individual's life, health or safety or the public's health or safety (i.e. to restrict the spread of an infectious disease) and their consent cannot practically be obtained.11 2. MHR Benefits Proponents of MHR argue that having a personal e-health record provides a number of potential benefits.12 Perhaps the most obvious is the potential life-saving effect MHR could have in an emergency, where access to important personal health information is critical to provide the individual with the correct treatment. Use of MHR is also expected to improve patient care, safety and medical communication. Independent advisory firm Future Wise states that a common source of medical error is the current lack of interoperability between hospitals and general practitioners.13 In enabling shared access to patient discharge summaries and important test results including pathology or diagnostic imaging, MHR may see these errors avoided. Further, some general practitioners stress that improving the flow of information between health specialists is particularly important for vulnerable patients such as the elderly and those with disabilities or from culturally diverse backgrounds.14 Such patients may struggle with English or be unable to recall important information regarding diagnosis or prescriptions. For these individuals, the need is acute for healthcare providers to be informed and coordinated and therefore able to provide better quality care. Similarly, in dispensing medicines, the Pharmacy Guild of Australia has acknowledged the beneficial patient outcomes that can be achieved in allowing pharmacists and health practitioners access to a person's MHR. The Guild states that every year 230,000 people are admitted to hospital and many more experience pain and a reduced quality of life, as a result of unintended side effects of their medicines.15 These outcomes can be prevented to the extent that information on allergies, medicines history, diagnosed conditions, etc., are first made available to the prescribing health professional. Community concerns Despite these benefits, not all Australians are convinced by the MHR initiative. A number of concerns have been raised over the privacy and security implications of storing and transmitting Australian's personal health data, with individuals particularly wary of the Government's role and capabilities in safeguarding MHR data. 1. Unclear parameters One of the main concerns with the MHR program is a lack of public understanding on who can access the health information contained in MHR and the purposes for which that data may be used. Despite repeated assurances from ADHA16 and Australia's Health Minister Greg Hunt that MHR data is only accessible by registered healthcare providers and will not be automatically shared with the police and other departments like the Australian Taxation Office, consumers remain sceptical.17 Part of this concern stems from what former Australian Privacy Commissioner, Timothy Pilgram has described as 'function creep', being the shift in boundaries around who can access the data and unintended and evolving purposes for use of that data.18 In the case of MHR, it is unclear where these limits lie as MHR data has the capability to extend beyond just therapeutic imperatives into law enforcement and commercial territory.19 This is a valid concern given the Government's proposal for MHR data to be used for secondary purposes, including research, policy and planning as outlined in their Secondary Use Framework.20 By law, the ADHA as system operator of the MHR program, is empowered to collect, use and disclose health information "for any purpose" with the consent of the healthcare recipient.21 MHR consumer access settings can be changed where an individual wants to withdraw their consent to secondary use of their data, however to the extent that a person does not actively withdraw, their consent is by default implied.22 The Law Council of Australia has also taken issue with this point, explaining that such secondary use is at odds with underlying principles in both Commonwealth and state privacy laws which require express patient consent to secondary use or disclosure.23 Australia is not the only country grappling with issues surrounding the secondary use of consumer health data. Reports from the US cite that most Americans are completely unaware that their anonymised health information is routinely traded for commercial purposes unrelated to their specific treatment.24 Even where data use is well-intentioned (i.e. the development of new treatments) without open dialogue, this hidden data exchange threatens to erode public trust in health care systems as patient confidentiality is no longer paramount.25 Further, England has also struggled to build trust and confidence in e-Health record systems with previous attempts in implementing the 'care.data' scheme failing due to confidentiality issues and a lack of consumer transparency around how the data would be used.26 The position is drastically different in Nordic countries where a high degree of public trust in research and strong values of social equality contribute to the view that medical data sharing for research is part of the social compact.27 Against these examples, Australia's MHR sits somewhere in the middle, with consumers at least engaged in public debate and the Government's proposed Secondary Use Framework prohibiting the use of health data for "solely commercial purposes."28 2. Data security concerns A further public concern with MHR is the security around consumer health information. Although the Government states that patient information will be safe, numerous security and IT professionals have warned that no online system is completely secure, especially given that MHR data will be accessible by many healthcare providers, who may have weak cybersecurity.29 MHR was designed as a centralised database, enabling broad access to MHR data by registered healthcare providers. However, with systems only as strong as their weakest link, many potential access points render the MHR database less secure and more vulnerable to hacking and unauthorised use.30 The effectiveness of MHR's security is therefore dependent on the cyber resilience of each healthcare provider's own systems which understandably gives cause for concern when we consider that many local health practitioners may not be equipped with the technology or security required to protect against malicious actors. Notwithstanding this design, the Government maintains that MHR adheres to Australian Government security requirements and is protected by high grade security protocols in accordance with the Government's comprehensive Protective Security Policy Framework.31 Yet even with this security framework, the Australian public are sceptical of the Government overstating its cybersecurity capabilities when Government systems have proven to lack proper security protections in the past. The incident of Medicare card details being sold on the dark web as well as successful attempts to hijack and access personal tax, Medicare and health information through myGov user accounts, are just two examples of Government systems failing to prevent unauthorised access. 32 Worldwide, cyber attacks and security issues are proving to be a reoccurring problem in the implementation of secure digital health sharing systems. The Wannacry ransomware attack that crippled Britain's National Health Service and other nations' hospitals, highlights the weaknesses of online systems that house citizen's most sensitive information.33 This issue is exacerbated by the fact that most nations' data governance frameworks are "gravely inadequate"34 and national laws supporting e-health records do not utilise specific rules for institutions hosting such records, but rely instead on adapting general security requirements for all types of data controllers.35 3. MHR model coercive and incomplete Industry commentators are also critical of MHR's design, stating it deprives individuals of personal autonomy in their decision to share sensitive health information.36 While there are strong policy reasons for transitioning to an opt-out model, namely, achieving meaningful participation to render MHR useful, a commonly held view is that this this message was not clearly conveyed to the Australian public. As a result, privacy and security are the overriding public concern and the requirement to take action to safeguard individual information has occasioned greater mistrust of MHR. As mentioned above, MHR settings do allow consumers to restrict access to certain health information for particular healthcare providers. However where consumers utilise these privacy controls, MHR is effectively an incomplete record which according to some commentators, undercuts the purpose of the whole system and may even prove dangerous where restricted information is important.37 For this reason, countries such as Denmark, only allow e-health record data to be edited by the institution or healthcare providers that registered that information. If the patient finds their information is incorrect, they must contact the provider or hospital who registered the data in order to change it.38 Acknowledging patient privacy concerns, Denmark's system does allow patients to limit access to certain aspects of their health data, however this is not encouraged and is prohibited for specific types of data such as referrals, laboratory results and details of hospital treatments.39 Success with any initiative is dependent on widespread adoption and trust that systems function in the intended way. So far, mistrust in the Australian Government's ability to use MHR data for the intended purpose of improving Australian healthcare and keep this data secure has resulted in Australians being divided in whether they remain enrolled in the MHR program. MHR has its share of data privacy and security concerns that are common issues for e-health record systems worldwide. Until the Australian government can present a robust framework for data management there will continue to be criticism of MHR. Nevertheless, with clear benefits to the healthcare system and open public dialogue surrounding privacy and security concerns, Australians should at least be satisfied that MHR is heading in the right direction. Originally published on DataGuidance by OneTrust. Please use the link to view the sources. With thanks to Rowena Baer, Associate, for her assistance in drafting this article. Toby Patten + 61 3 9617 4456 Email	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4655
__label__cc	0.6827	0.3173	New immigration alterations start today Changes to the immigration set up begin today with rules for employers also tightened... Land Rover to sponsor Rugby World Cups Carmaker Land Rover has been unveiled as a sponsor for the next two Rugby World Cup tournaments.... National pushes through 90-day work law Employment law changes which were fiercely fought by unions and the Labour Party have been passed by Parliament.... Auckland’s not-so-super living arrangements Auckland will need to build 5000 state and private rental houses every year for the next 15 years to accommodate population growth, two housing reports say.... Remuera Business Association – New Executive Committee The role of the Remuera Business Association is to promote the interests of its members within the Mainstreet area. ... Rugby World Cup 2011 (Empowering) Bill The Government’s facing criticism over special powers granted to Rugby World Cup Minister, Murray McCully.... Tax cuts make homes more affordable The Government’s package of income tax cuts helped improve home loan affordability last month by the most in nearly two years, a report shows.... Law around buying homes to change How Kiwis buy and sell their houses is to change after the Government decided to change the law to modernise and simplify New Zealand’s land transfer legislation.... Immigration Act 2009: Employer obligations The provisions of the Immigration Act 2009 relating to employer obligations come into effect on 29 November 2010....	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4660
__label__cc	0.552228	0.447772	Volvo S90 Ambience Concept: Magic Carpet Ride Car News Volvo April 30, 2018 Tony Borroz “In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that,” said Brian Eno, who knows more than a thing or two about ambience. And now, it would seem, we have ambient cars, or at least it will be that way if Volvo has any say about it. The car in question would be the Volvo S90 Ambience Concept. It is, literally, an industry-first sensory experience that synchronizes visuals, sound and – I’m not making this up – scent to “redefine in-car luxury.” Okay, that sounds fine, in a way. Not sure what that could offer me as a driver personally, since my preferred automotive ambience is blurring scenery, red-lining engines, and the fine bouquet of unburned fuel and tire smoke. Aladdin’s Lamp Volvo’s S90 Ambience Concept made its public debut at the 2018 Beijing Auto Show (ah-ha!, I sense a trend). The S90 Ambience Concept is based on Volvo’s top-of-the-line S90 Excellence, which is a kinda-odd, three-seater executive sedan thing that focuses on the chauffeured passengers in the rear seat. Which, given the ambience deal, makes much more sense. The Gothenburg Guys tell us passengers can personalize the atmosphere by using a smartphone app to choose one of seven visual themes that synchronize with audio and scent. I know some guys that were trying to work on that same sort of system in their VW Bus that was equipped with a Radio Shack color organ, a Steppenwolf 8-track, and a hookah. Anyway . . . Photo: Volvo Car Group. Mind Trip The visual part of the Volvo S90 Ambience Concept happens on the headliner, where the car’s ceiling is transformed to the selected theme: Northern Lights, Scandinavian Forest (of course), Swan Lake, Archipelago, and Rain. There is also a Nocturnal theme for chilling and the Freedom theme aims to give you a boost of fresh and uplifting energy. Synchronized audio plays through a Bowers and Wilkins sound system that includes small tweeters in the headrest for an immersive experience. And to top it all off, each theme is complemented with one of four bespoke scents, created by Byredo (I don’t know either), which deploys simultaneously from a portal in the center console. Continued Growth & Expansion Volvo says the S90 Ambience is launching as a concept but are considering making it available in S90 Excellence production cars in China. And indeed, China is the whole point here. In 2017 alone, Volvo sold more than 100,000 cars in China. That’s the company’s fourth consecutive year of record sales and growth in The Forbidden Kingdom. China is Volvo Cars’ single largest market and the company’s biggest for the S90 sedan. “The Ambience Concept was created primarily for the China market and provides a contrast to China’s sometimes hectic city environments,” said Martin Andersson, Senior Commercial Product Manager at Volvo Cars’ Special Vehicles Department. “The S90 Ambience Concept will reinforce our premium brand values in this important region.” Or, to quote Per Olaf Gunderssen, Volvo Senior V.P. of Ambience and Good Vibes, “I like to dream, yes, yes. Right between the sound machine. On a cloud of sound I drift in the night. Any place it goes is right. Goes far, flies near. To the stars away from here.” Then he broke into a 4:39 drum solo. Okay, I made that up. But what is true is that Volvo is Paying Attention to the Chinese market in a big way and seem to have no problem specializing their output to meet that market’s needs. Tony Borroz has spent his entire life racing antique and sports cars. He is the author of Bricks & Bones: The Endearing Legacy and Nitty-Gritty Phenomenon of The Indy 500, available in paperback or Kindle format. His forthcoming new book The Future In Front of Me, The Past Behind Me will be available soon. Follow his work on Twitter: @TonyBorroz. Volvo S90 Ambience Concept Gallery Photos & Source: Volvo Car Group. No Comments on "Volvo S90 Ambience Concept: Magic Carpet Ride"	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4663
__label__cc	0.597137	0.402863	Sustainability Collapse Sustainable Business Collapse Ethics & Integritycurrently selected Sustainabilitycurrently selected Z6_31MEH4C0N8M490Q43LUGGV0A06 Sustainability > Sustainable Business > Ethics & Integrity Sustainability Report [PDF] Biodiversity Policy [PDF] Climate Change [PDF] Environmental Policy [PDF] Sustainability Policy [PDF] AVANGRID is committed to building a healthier and more accessible clean energy model. Our strategy and actions are inspired by and built on values established by the Board of Directors and articulated in the Code of Business Conduct and Ethics. AVANGRID’s commitment creates value in a sustainable way by focusing on integrity and social responsibility in our business, with the goal of benefiting our employees, the customers we serve and the communities in which we operate. AVANGRID’s Compliance Division is independent of business and management, and reports directly to the Audit and Compliance Committee. The Compliance Division was established by the Board of Directors to oversee and monitor the company’s actions to prevent and correct illegal or fraudulent conduct. Duties include disseminating and ensuring compliance with the Code of Business Conduct and Ethics and related company policies and procedures; fostering an ethical culture against improper conduct, wrongful acts, corruption and fraud; and verifying the effectiveness of the company’s corporate compliance program while recommending improvements to achieve the highest ethical standards. AVANGRID promotes a culture of compliance by proactively embracing preventative controls through education and by correcting identified compliance concerns through robust, fair and transparent policies and practices. To promote transparency, the Compliance Division publishes an annual report describing its activities and new initiatives on the company’s public website. AVANGRID is committed to leadership and continuous improvement in this area. SUPPLIERS’ CODE OF ETHICS AVANGRID extends its ethical standards under the Code of Business Conduct and Ethics to all of its vendors. Each vendor is required by contract to comply with the Suppliers’ Code of Ethics, available on the company’s public website. In keeping with its goal of continuous improvement, the company’s Compliance Division initiated an ethics and compliance screening process for vendors in 2018. This process supplements existing due diligence practices in procurement – improving what are already considered industry-leading practices. STATISTICS ON CORRUPTION Zero incidents of corruption — no fines, penalties or settlements in relation to corruption. Share in LinkeIn.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4666
__label__wiki	0.605951	0.605951	Product Name: Hasselblad X1D 50C Product Type: camera Reviewed By: Paul Burrows Magazine: Australian Camera Distributor: C.R. Kennedy & Company Who Sells What/Website: Hasselblad THE FULL REVIEW IS BELOW, BUT SHOULD YOU PREFER, THE ORIGINAL MAGAZINE PAGES CAN BE VIEWED BY CLICKING THE PAGE IMAGE HERE >>> Could there be any greater differences in the design philosophies behind the Hasselblad X1D 50c and the Fujifilm GFX 50S… or, indeed, their executions? It’s absolutely going to influence buying decisions, as these fundamental differences directly affect both accessibility and application. It’s probably true to say that both Hasselblad and Fujifilm have similar objectives – namely, to sell more digital medium format cameras. But for the Japanese this is a whole new ball game, while for the Swedes it’s a case of increasing the appeal of the marque by moving beyond its ‘traditional’ products. Both have married mirrorless and medium format at the same time, but with no previous form here, Fujifilm is banking on the impressive track record it’s established with the X Mount camera. Hasselblad is banking on being Hasselblad… with a twist. Consequently, the only thing the X1D and GFX 50S have in common – apart from being mirrorless digital medium format cameras, of course – is the source of their 44x33 mm CMOS sensors, and even these both have bespoke designs, backed by processors programmed in different halves of the globe. You’re going to want the Hasselblad straightaway. It’s simply gorgeous… all Scandi über-coolness and, just in case you didn’t get the message, engraved “Handmade In Sweden” on its elegant top panel. Pick it up and you simply won’t want to put it down… the front-to-back handgrip is supremely comfortable and the touchscreen GUI continues the casual-but-careful stylishness, as do neat design touches such as the push-down-to-lock main mode dial. The GFX 50S is altogether more business-like in both form and function. It’s also very traditional in its use of its basic configuration, external controls, a top-panel info display and conventional menus. There are touchscreen controls, though it’s more of a flirtation than the Hasselblad’s full embrace. But there are clever touches here too – the detachable EVF and the three-way tilting LCD monitor screen to name just a couple. The EVF is tiltable too, via a little optional accessory. Operationally, the Fujifilm camera has its roots in the X Mount models so there’s a logic that anybody, amateur or pro, will immediately grasp. Conversely, here the X1D has been more influenced by the world of digital medium format cameras where things are often done a little differently… for example, RAW capture only. The ’Blad also has a RAW+JPEG mode, but the appended JPEGs are one-quarter resolution only (i.e. around 12 megapixels). This is actually quite a key difference in terms of potential users… Fujifilm emphasises in-camera processing – including the brilliant ‘Film Simulation’ modes – while Hasselblad is still thinking post-camera, which is a different way of working for some, if not many, photographers. There are, of course, many advantages to shooting RAW, but not everybody wants – or, indeed, needs – to do it. It would be nice to have the option of full-res JPEG-only capture on the X1D, as Leica offers on the SL, which is undoubtedly a competitor if you’re thinking of spending this much money. And talking of money… the GFX 50S costs quite a lot less than the X1D, but as we now know, all that hand-making in Sweden doesn’t come cheaply. Nevertheless, even if it’s still a big step up in expenditure from the key competition – which mainly comprises the Canon EOS-1D X II and Nikon D5, the Pentax 645Z and the Leica SL – it’s still the most affordable contemporary ’Blad you can buy right now. The Fujifilm camera is right in the mix here and there’s the added attraction – as far as many potential users are concerned – of a zoom lens available right from the off. While both Fujifilm and Hasselblad are working hard to build their mirrorless medium format lens offerings, there’s no competition as far as the pro-level full-35mm D-SLRs are concerned so perhaps it’s fanciful to think there’s even a competition here… there certainly isn’t one as far as speed is concerned. And it’ll be a long time… if ever… before there’s a 300mm-equivalent telephoto or a juicy 100-400mm range zoom. So perhaps Hasselblad is right to go for a design that’s still more traditionally digital medium format at heart, tuned to a narrower set of potential applications. And perhaps it’s also right to appeal to the heart before the head, because there’s no doubt that the X1D, despite quite a few quirks, is a camera to fall in love with. So let’s deal with these quirks first. Well, they’re not so much quirks as differences… but they still matter if the stated aim is so attract a new type of clientele… specifically anybody who isn’t a studio-based shooter. We’ve already noted the absence of full-res JPEG capture, but where the GFX 50S’s feature list is a forest of ticks, the X1D’s is almost puritanical. You get the impression there were conflicting philosophies at play during the product planning stage. For example, white balance controls are provided, but the manual cheerfully states “White Balance settings are technically not necessary for 3F/3FR files”. This is true, of course, but they are needed if you’re dealing with the 12.4 MP JPEGs in-camera and you want to shoot them off immediately via WiFi. So the X1D has auto WB correction, a selection of presets and manual colour temperature control, but no provisions for custom settings. Then there’s a full complement of exposure control modes, but no multi-zone metering and no auto bracketing. The latter might come in handy given the metering options are centre-weighted average, centre spot (which is more like a selective area measurement as it covers 25 percent of the frame) and spot. However, in manual mode there’s the option of a handy live exposure preview to guide settings. For the auto modes, exposure compensation runs up to +/-5.0 EV and there’s an AE lock. There’s also something called the ‘Manual Quick’ (Mq) mode which overcomes shutter lag by pre-closing shutter – hence disabling live view – which then makes things faster and quieter. The drawback is that Mq has to be first set up in another mode. Shutter lag is an issue with the leaf-type shutters used in the XCD lenses, especially with the larger sensor, but the advantages are flash sync at any speed and, in the case of the X1D, a slimmer camera body. They’re also hugely reliable, hence a one million cycles lifespan rating. Hasselblad’s heritage has been in leaf-shutter lenses ever since the 500C, and the XCD lenses have mechanisms that run up to 1/2000 second. But it’s exactly because they are mechanical that there’s an initial inertia to overcome. The X1D has arrived with three prime lenses which, unlike the camera body, are made in Japan, but for obvious reasons, not by Fujifilm. The choice is a 45mm f3.4 which is equivalent to a 35mm wide-angle in the 35mm format, a 90mm f3.2 (equivalent to 70mm) and a wonderful 30mm f3.5 (equivalent to 24mm). Arriving very shortly is a 120mm f3.5 (90mm) and in the pipeline are a 22mm (18mm) ultra-wide and the all-important zoom, a 35-70mm (28-60mm). All are autofocus, of course, and here the X1D is considerably ahead of its more traditional reflex cousins in the Hasselblad stable. The system employs contrast-detection measurements using 35 points in a 7x5 pattern (providing around 80 percent frame coverage) with the option of manual selection. It’s first necessary to hold down the camera’s AF/MF button for one second to bring up the points display, but then you can use the touchscreen to make selections which helps speed things up. At 4x4 millimetres the AF points are quite big, but we didn’t experience any issues with selectivity and there were situations where this size was an advantage. There’s a 100 percent zoom function for checking focus at the selected point and a full-time manual override for fine-tuning. Manual focusing is assisted by the magnified image and, if desired, a focus peaking display which is available in a choice of colours. The X1D’s touchscreen and graphic user interface is where the progressives in the design team obviously got their own way. It’s similar in implementation to that of Leica’s T with the idea that it replaces a bunch of external controls in the quest for quicker and more efficient operation. Hasselblad hasn’t gone quite as far as Leica – some conventional controllability is retained – but a whole lot further than Fujifilm with the GFX 50S. Consequently, for general shooting the X1D can be operated entirely from the touchscreen which has swipe and pinch/spread actions as well as tapping and double tapping (this, for example, to engage and disengaged the 100 percent zoom function). Up or down swipes switch between the main menu and the control screen which shows all the key capture settings. There are five keys arrayed down the right-hand side of the monitor screen which are also used for switching displays plus replay, entering settings and the quick return to the main menu. This is icon-based, as are the sub-menus, so everything is just a quick tap away. The main menu is divided into three sections – Camera Settings, Video Settings and General Settings – and it can be customised to change the displayed functions, although given the brevity of what’s available, you’ll probably only need to make minor tweaks. That said, it all works brilliantly, becoming progressively faster and more intuitive with familiarisation. It’s essentially pretty simple, but oh-so-elegant. The monitor screen itself is not only fixed, but flush-fitting so here’s another example of aesthetics taking precedence over any practicalities. Do we care when the X1D looks so gorgeous? Not really, although there could be issues when shooting in certain outdoor conditions… and the X1D has obvious attractions for landscape photographers. The specs say the panel is 7.62 cm in size with a resolution of 921,600 dots which looks a bit pedestrian, but in reality it seems both bigger and a lot sharper. Go figure. The ‘Control Screen’ – a.k.a. the main info display – is a neat bit of work too… for example, depending on the exposure mode, the auto setting is shown in grey digits while the changeable setting is in white. You don’t even need to check the P, A, S or M indicators to instantly know what mode you’re in. Apertures, shutter speeds and ISO settings are accessed via scrollable vertical scales navigated by up/down swipes. Very nifty touchscreen sliders dial in the exposure and flash compensation using left/right swipes to move the cursor. And everything is properly sized for touchscreen control too, so there’s no risk of mis-setting because you’ve either missed the icon or accidentally hit something else. The live view displays – in the EVF and monitor – include the options of including basic capture data, a 3x3 grid guide and dual-axis level indicators, but curiously, not a real-time histogram. However, when it comes to histogram displays in replay, your cup runneth over with the choice of a luminance (brightness) graph, separate RGB channels or combined RGB channels shown as overlays on the image. Again in replay, the touchscreen implementation is excellent so simple tapping takes you through the histogram overlays, browsing is via swiping, and zooming via spreading two fingers from the pinch position. To speed things up you can also browse nine-thumbnail pages by swiping a scrolling bar. As noted earlier, the X1D retains some conventional controls in that it has a main mode dial with front and rear input wheels, but there’s only a small smattering of other buttons for the key capture functions (i.e. focus mode, white balance, sensitivity and depth-of-field preview). The input wheels can be used for navigation, but it really is more efficient to use the touchscreen. The main mode dial’s locking arrangement – so it’s pressed and recessed into the top panel – isn’t a new idea, but it hasn’t been done very often before despite being a much smarter method than a plain old locking button. Externally, the X1D is all about style, with the hewn-from-the-solid aluminium bodyshell – something else it has in common with the Leica T – simply a joy to behold… and to handle. The latter is helped by that wraparound handgrip without which the camera would actually be less than a couple of centimetres in thickness. Not surprisingly, it feels incredibly strong and is weatherproofed, but our test sample – which, admittedly, has probably had a hard life – was showing a lot of cosmetic wear and tear where painted finishes had been used. The EVF has an extra-wide eyecup which is very comfortable and effective at excluding any stray light. The EVF panel is an LCD display about which little is known beyond its resolution of 2.36 megadots. It’s good, but not as good, it has to be said, as the GFX 50S’s 3.69 megadots OLED panel. A proximity sensor in the eyepiece allows for automatic switching between the viewfinder and the monitor screen. The flash hotshoe is, interestingly, pinned for Nikon’s higher-end Speedlights (such as the SB-910) and its TTL auto flash exposure control. Presumably this means the X1D should be compatible with Profoto’s Air Remote TTL-N controller and, subsequently, its various TTL-enabled flash products such as the B1/B1X, B2 and D2. Another quirk… there’s no PC flash terminal. The memory card compartment and connection bay are very neatly integrated into one side of the body, with flash-fitted covers which slide out to unlock and then swing open. The former has dual slots for the SD format while the latter contains a USB 3.0 ‘Superspeed’ connection, a mini (Type C) HDMI terminal and stereo audio input plus output (both for 3.5 mm minijacks). The battery is housed in the X1D’s base and employs the same arrangement as on the Leica SL whereby its base also forms the compartment’s cover. There’s a release lever, but the battery is completely removed by pressing down on the base/cover. Again, it’s all about maintaining those clean, crisp lines and uncluttered surfaces. Obviously from the connectors noted above, the X1D can shoot video, but as we noted with the GFX 50S, it’s hard to see the serious video-maker going down this route when there’s so much more capable machinery available for a lot less money. As with the Fujifilm camera, there’s no 4K option, but the X1D does a pretty decent job with either 1080p or 720p footage – albeit with the choice of 30 or 25 fps speeds only – and has reasonably good built-in stereo microphones. Functionality is very limited (not even AF is available), but there is a start/stop icon in the touchscreen which is a nice… ahem… touch. Video streaming is available from the HDMI connector. ABOVE & BELOW: Test images captured as 3FR Hasselblad RAW files and converted in Adobe Camera Raw for processing in Photoshop. Image quality is exceptional with beautifully resolved detailing, smooth tonal gradations and a wide dynamic range. Noise levels are commendably low up to ISO 6400 with very little reduction in dynamic range. Speed And Performance The X1D is no speed machine, but then no digital medium format camera is. It takes an eternity to start up, but after that the AF is quite responsive and the shutter lag doesn’t seem excessive, so it’s possible to shoot at up to 2.3 fps with RAW+JPEG capture. This is a bit slower than the GFX 50S, but still not bad unless you want to shoot fashion or active children. The AF also quite reliable, only occasionally faltering in low light situations. The metering tends to underexpose which is probably to help get the most from the highlights, but you can’t help wondering if a multi-zone system wouldn’t be ultimately more reliable overall. Just as well the X1D’s exposure compensation is so quick and easy to apply. The image quality is, not surprisingly, superb, with the X1D optimising the sensor’s resolution by not having a low-pass filter. There’s just masses of finely-resolved detail especially as the XCD lenses are undoubtedly designed to handle a 100 megapixel version of the camera in the future. Hasselblad quotes a dynamic range of 14 stops which, with RAW capture, means there’s plenty of scope for dealing with the brighter highlights and recovering shadow detail with post-capture processing. Hasselblad has its own free Phocus software, which automatically applies any in-camera lens corrections (for chromatic aberration, distortion and vignetting) and removes moiré patterns with the 3FR files. These files can also be converted in Adobe Camera Raw and processed in Photoshop, but not in Capture One due to ’Blad being a direct competitor to Phase One. As we found with the GFX 50S, the high ISO performance is a revelation for a digital medium format camera, and Hasselblad goes further by extending the X1D’s native sensitivity range up to ISO 25,600 (an expansion setting on the Fujifilm camera). Noise levels are impressively low up to ISO 1600 and still not problematic at up to ISO 12,800. Likewise, due to the way in-camera amplification is applied above ISO 1600, there isn’t such a dramatic loss of dynamic range at the highest sensitivity settings, which means there’s still plenty of scope for ‘rescuing’ exposures when shooting in very low light situations. The colour reproduction straight out of the camera is a little on the flat side, but any RAW processing software allows for the adjustment of saturation and hue as desired. It’s a sound base to start from. Big thumbs up for the external design and styling, the ergonomics and the touchscreen operation plus, of course, the image quality even if you have to do some extra work post-camera to realise it. Thumbs down for a slightly confused feature set in terms of what’s there and what’s not, the absence of full-resolution JPEG capture with in-camera processing options. The good news is that a lot can be done with firmware upgrades, as has been proven by the likes of Fujifilm and Olympus with their smaller format mirrorless systems. Hasselblad is already talking about increasing the number of AF points and it wouldn’t be hard to also add the mysteriously missing features such as a real-time histogram, multi-zone metering and at least one custom white balance measurement. Importantly, the fundamentals are right… very right. There isn’t a nicer handling camera on the market in any format or configuration, and the touchscreen implementation is exemplary. The Fujifilm GFX 50S is the more capable workhorse by a long shot, but the Hasselblad X1D is the more convincing manifestation of what a mirrorless digital medium format camera should be. It’s still flawed – at least for the time being – but still also undoubtedly fabulous. Hasselblad X1D 50C $13,999 Type: Professional digital medium format mirrorless camera with Hasselblad XCD bayonet lens mount. Focusing: TTL automatic via contrast detection measurements using imaging sensor. 35 focusing points with automatic or manual selection. Touch AF point selection. Single-shot and continuous modes. Full-time manual override. 100 percent zoom function for focus assist. Sensitivity range is EV 1 - 19 (ISO 100). Low light assist via built-in illuminator. Full-time manual override. Manual focus assist via magnified image and focus peaking display (choice of cyan, yellow and magenta colours). Metering: TTL using the imaging sensor with centre-weighted average (75:25), centre spot (25 percent of frame) and spot (2.5 percent of frame) measurements. Metering ranges are: centre-weighted average and centre spot = EV 1 - 21, spot = EV 2 - 21 (ISO 100). Exposure Modes: Program, shutter-priority auto, aperture-priority auto, manual, manual quick and TTL auto flash. Exposure compensation up to 5.0 EV in 1/3, 1/2 or full stop increments. All exposure settings adjustable in 1/3, 1/2 or full stop increments. Shutter: Electronic, between-the-lens leaf type, 60 seconds to 1/2000 second plus B (XCD lenses). Flash sync at all speeds. Viewfinder: Electronic, LCD panel with 2.359 megadots resolution. 100 percent scene coverage. Eyepiece strength adjustment built-in. Auto or manual switching between EVF and monitor screen. Fixed 7.62 cm LCD monitor screen with 921,600 dots resolution and touch controls. Flash: No built-in flash. External units sync via ISO-standard hotshoe (Nikon i-TTL exposure control). Additional Features: Aluminium alloy body with weather sealing, depth-of-field preview, three custom camera set-ups, AE lock, programmable self-timer (2-60 seconds delay), auto power-off. DIGITAL SECTION Sensor: 51.3 million pixels, CMOS with 32.9x43.8 mm imaging area. No low-pass optical filter. Sensitivity is equivalent to ISO 100-25,600. Focal Length Increase: 0.8x compared to 35mm, 1.3x with 6x4.5cm format lenses. Formats/Resolution: RAW with lossless compression in Hasselblad 3FR format. 8272x6200 (4:3 aspect ratio), 6200x6200 (1:1 aspect ratio) or 8272x4647 (16:9 aspect ratio) pixels, 48-bit RGB colour. RAW+JPEG capture (at 12.4 megapixels with High or Normal quality settings). Video Recording: MOV format (MPEG 4 AVC/H.264 compression) at 1920x1080 pixels and 30 or 25 fps and 16:9 aspect ratio. 1280x720 pixels at 30 or 25 fps and 16:9 aspect ratio. Stereo microphones with manual levels adjustment. Stereo audio input and output provided (3.5 mm minijacks). Full HD clip length up to 30 minutes. Recording Media: Dual slots for SD, SDHC and SDXC memory cards (with UHS-I support). Individually selectable as a specific file destination, or for automatic overflow. Continuous Shooting: Up to 2.3 frames per second. White Balance: TTL measurement. Auto correction with six presets plus manual colour temperature setting (2000 to 10,000 degrees Kelvin). Interfaces: USB 3.0 SuperSpeed (Type C), mini HDMI (Type C), 3.5 mm stereo audio input, 3.5 mm stereo audio output. Additional Digital Features: In-camera lens corrections (for chromatic aberration, distortion and vignetting; applied automatically post-camera using the Phocus software), sRGB and Adobe RGB colour space settings, dual-axis level indicator, grid guide, exposure simulation display, RGB/brightness histogram displays, nine thumbnails page, built-in WiFi (2.5 GHz or 5.0 GHz), tethered shooting via USB. Power: Rechargeable 3200 mAh 7.2 volt lithium-ion battery pack. Dimensions (WxHxD): 150x98x71 mm (body only). Weight: 725 grams (body only with battery pack). Price: $13,999 (inc. GST) for body only. $3499 for XCD 45mm f3.5 lens, $4199 for XCD 90mm f3.2 lens and $5799 for XCD 30mm f3.5 lens. Distributor: C.R. Kennedy & Company Pty Ltd, telephone (03) 9823 1555, www.crkennedy.com.au or www.hasselblad.com Who Sells What: Hasselblad Fujifilm X-T100 REVIEW The new entry-level X-T series Fujifilm mirrorless camera is based on the X-A5, so cheaper than the X-T20. Is anything that’s important missing? Panasonic Lumix DC-G9 REVIEW The Lumix G9 is Panasonic’s answer to the OM-D E-M1 Mark II, and so another mirrorless challenger to higher-end D-SLRs. Polaroid Originals OneStep 2 (versus the original OneStep) REVIEW In one way or another, Polaroid has never really gone away, but this amounts to getting the old band back together... 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Olympus OM-D E-M1X REVIEW Olympus ups the ante significantly in the contest to lure sports and action shooters away from their D-SLRs. Nikon Z6 REVIEW The price tag drops it right in the middle of stiff competition from all the key mirrorless camera protagonists, but Nikon’s Z 6 looks to be up to the challenges. To start with, it has many of the Z 7’s goodies.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4668
__label__cc	0.55377	0.44623	Because You're Mine: A Novel by Rea FreyRea Frey Available for Pre-Order. This item will be available on August 6, 2019 An “insidious, suspenseful tale” (J.T. Ellison) with a “shocker of an ending you won’t see coming” (Michele Campbell), Because You're Mine by Rea Frey, the author who “brings to mind Jodi Picoult” (Booklist) and “will appeal to readers of Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen” (Sally Hepworth) is a novel about how the truth will set you free. But it’s the lies that keep you safe. Single mother Lee has the daily routine down to a science: shower in six minutes. Cut food into perfect squares. Never leave her on-the-spectrum son Mason in someone else’s care. She’ll do anythinganythingto keep his carefully constructed world from falling apart. Do anything to keep him safe. But when her best friend Grace convinces her she needs a small break from motherhood to recharge her batteries, Lee gives in to a weekend trip. Surely a long weekend away from home won’t hurt? Noah, Mason’s handsome, bright, charismatic tutorthe first man in ages Lee’s even noticedis more than happy to stay with him. Forty-eight hours later, someone is dead. But not all is as it seems. Noah may be more than who he claims to be. Grace has a secretone that will destroy Lee. Lee has secrets of her own that she will do anything to keep hidden. And what will happen to Mason, as the dominoes begin to fall and the past comes to light? Perhaps it's no mystery someone is gone after all… Because You're Mine is a breathtaking novel of domestic drama and suspense. Prepare to stay up all night. Rea Frey is the author of several nonfiction books and two novels. When not writing, reading, or editing, she can be found traveling, homeschooling her daughter, or planning her next adventure. To learn more, visit reafrey.com. Single mother Lee, the protagonist of this gut-wrenching mystery from Frey (Not Her Daughter), works out of her Nashville home as a hair stylist. Her protective relationship with her seven-year-old son, Mason, who suffers from a sensory processing disorder, borders on obsessive. Over time, she has become friendly with three other playground mothers. The one she’s closest to, Grace Childress, introduces her to Noah Banks, an occupational therapist, who begins homeschooling Mason, thereby becoming indispensable to both Lee and Mason. When a girls-only weekend is planned, Lee wrestles with leaving Mason, something she has never done. Noah and her friends persuade her that Mason will be fine with Noah and that the time apart will help Mason become more independent. High hopes for the weekend go unfulfilled when someone dies. After Lee and Grace lay bare secrets that tear apart the lives of themselves and others, the action hurtles toward a heartbreaking and unexpected ending. Fans of psychological family dramas will find this impossible to put down. Agent: Rachel Beck, Holloway Literary. (Aug.) Praise for BECAUSE YOU'RE MINE "Heartbreaking and unexpected...impossible to put down." - Publisher's Weekly "An insidious, suspenseful tale full of lies and twists, Frey is a great new talent to watch." - J.T. Ellison, New York Times bestselling author of Tear Me Apart "[A] tautly suspenseful and wickedly twisty thriller that will have the reader guessing until the very last pages." --David Bell, USA Today bestselling author of Layover “Lulls you into a false sense of security and then pulls the rug out from under youmore than once...will appeal to readers of Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen.” - Sally Hepworth, bestselling author of The Mother-in-Law and The Family Next Door “Dark, intense and gripping, full of secrets and lies, with a shocker of an ending you won’t see coming.” Michele Campbell, author of It’s Always the Husband and She Was the Quiet One "An edge-of-your-seat voyage.” –Catherine McKenzie, Bestselling author of The Good Liar and I’ll Never Tell "Riveting, utterly unsettling [...] you'll think you know who masterminded the ultimate revenge plot. 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__label__cc	0.634135	0.365865	Tibi on “Jihadism and institutional Islamism, a Moderation?” 14. Jul 2015 \| publications Tibi’s latest publication in an US-journal is a conclusive article trilogy on Islamism/Political Islam published in: Soundings. An Interdisciplinary Journal (Pensylvania State University Press) in: Vol. 95 (2012), vol. 96 (2013) and vol. 98 (2015). BT on the narrative in Western Islamic Studies in “Soundings” 13. Feb 2014 \| publications In Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Vol 96, 2013, No. 4, pp. 431-449), published by Pennsylvania State University Press, Tibi lays out his fundamental critique of the dominating narrative in Western Islamic Studies. New book: The Sharia State by Bassam Tibi 1. Jul 2013 \| publications Bassam Tibi’s new book has been published by Routledge. For more information see the book description or the editors website: The Sharia State: Arab Spring and Democratization (Paperback) – Routledge. Tibi on “Jihadism and institutional Islamism, a Moderation?” 14. July 2015 BT on the narrative in Western Islamic Studies in “Soundings” 13. February 2014 Lecture at CSI in Zurich: The fate of religious minorities in a Shari’a State 22. November 2013	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4676
__label__wiki	0.578407	0.578407	Johnny Clegg, anti-apartheid musician in South Africa, dies https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Update-Major-multi-vehicle-wreck-closes-road-in-12525167.php Update: Major, multi-vehicle wreck closes road in Port Arthur By Beaumont Enterprise Updated 12:53 pm CST, Thursday, January 25, 2018 Officials are closing the intersection at 39th Street and Memorial after a major accident, according to authorities. Southbound Memorial Boulevard near 39th is currently closed, the city said. Multiple cars were involved in the crash, which included a person with a gunshot wound, according to a police department spokesperson. Officers were responding to a report of gunshots fired in the 6900 block of Memorial when the wreck occurred. Police then responded to the wreck, where they found on of the people involved had a gunshot wound. They were able to tie the shooting victim with the earlier report. This is a developing story. Stay with BeaumontEnterprise.com for updates. Were you 'Seen' Were you ‘Seen’ at Salsa at the Lake? Were you 'Seen' at the Eye of the Beholder? Were you ‘Seen’ at the mass BISD reunion? Were you 'Seen' at Juneteenth Celebration Grand jury indicts Nederland man in slaying County oil tanks could increase efficiency in road repairs	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4678
__label__wiki	0.550447	0.550447	Neu & Aktuell Recht Rechtswissenschaft, Nachbarbereiche, sonstige Rechtsthemen Rechtsgeschichte Newmyer The Treason Trial of Aaron Burr Law, Politics, and the Character Wars of the New Nation lieferbar ca. 10 Tage als Sonderdruck ohne Rückgaberecht auch verfügbar als eBook (ePub) für 22.99 € auch verfügbar als eBook (PDF) für 22.49 € Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-02218-8 Das Werk ist Teil der Reihe: Cambridge Studies on the American Constitution The Burr treason trial, one of the greatest criminal trials in American history, was significant for several reasons. The legal proceedings lasted seven months and featured some of the nation's best lawyers. It also pitted President Thomas Jefferson (who declared Burr guilty without the benefit of a trial and who masterminded the prosecution), Chief Justice John Marshall (who sat as a trial judge in the federal circuit court in Richmond) and former Vice President Aaron Burr (who was accused of planning to separate the western states from the Union) against each other. At issue, in addition to the life of Aaron Burr, were the rights of criminal defendants, the constitutional definition of treason and the meaning of separation of powers in the Constitution. Capturing the sheer drama of the long trial, Kent Newmyer's book sheds new light on the chaotic process by which lawyers, judges and politicians fashioned law for the new nation. Leseproben und andere Materialien • Concise, clearly organised and well written: accessible to a broad range of readers, specialists and general readers alike • Original in its approach - which is to capture the role of personality and political ideology in the actual process of law making • Makes full use of the stenographic report of the trial (including volume 3 of Thomas Carpenter's report, which other scholars have not fully considered)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4680
__label__wiki	0.76926	0.76926	Sonoma West Medical Center names interim CEO, CFO Ayla Ellison (Twitter \| Google+) - Monday, July 11th, 2016 Print \| Email Sonoma West Medical Center has signed an agreement with Pipeline Health for Pipeline to manage the Sebastopol, Calif.-based hospital's operations, according to The North Bay Business Journal. Pipeline is a healthcare management company that owns and operates hospitals in California and Washington, D.C. The company also provides advisory services with regards to revenue cycle, supply chain, financial operations and capital strategy, according to the report. Under the agreement, the Palm Drive Health Care District will continue to provide financial support and oversight of SWMC. However, there will be some changes made to the hospital's executive team. Pipeline COO Luke Tharasri will serve as the hospital's interim CEO, and Pipeline CFO Robert Heinemeier will serve as SWMC's interim CFO. Other Pipeline specialists will advise the hospital in various areas such as revenue cycle. The SWMC-Pipeline agreement is for five years with automatic renewal for one-year periods, according to the report. More articles on executive moves: HCA appoints capital division president: 5 things to know 16 latest hospital, health system executive moves NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst appoints new CEO	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4681
__label__cc	0.645914	0.354086	This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (December 2007) An infection is the detrimental colonization of a host organism by a foreign species. In an infection, the infecting organism seeks to utilize the host's resources to multiply (usually at the expense of the host). The infecting organism, or pathogen, interferes with the normal functioning of the host and can lead to chronic wounds, gangrene, loss of an infected limb, and even death. The host's response to infection is inflammation. Colloquially, a pathogen is usually considered a microscopic organism though the definition is broader, including feces, parasites, fungi, viruses, prions, and viroids. A symbiosis between parasite and host, whereby the relationship is beneficial for the former but detrimental to the latter, is characterised as parasitism. The branch of medicine that focuses on infections and pathogens is infectious disease. A secondary infection is an infection that occurs during or following treatment of another already existing primary infection. 1 Colonization 1.1 Occult infection Wound colonization refers to nonreplicating microorganisms within the wound, while in infected wounds replicating organisms exist and tissue is injured. All multicellular organisms are colonized to some degree by extrinsic organisms, and the vast majority of these exist in either a mutualistic or commensal relationship with the host. An example of the former would be the anaerobic bacteria species which colonize the mammalian colon, and an example of the latter would be the various species of staphylococcus which exist on human skin. Neither of these colonizations would be considered infections. The difference between an infection and a colonization is often only a matter of circumstance. Organisms which are normally non-pathogenic can become pathogenic under the right conditions, and even the most virulent organism requires certain circumstances to cause a compromising infection. Some colonizing bacteria, such as Corynebacteria sp. and viridans streptococci, prevent the adhesion and colonization of pathogenic bacteria and thus have a symbiotic relationship with the host, preventing infection and speeding wound healing. The variables involved in the outcome of a host becoming inoculated by a pathogen and the ultimate outcome include: the route of entry of the pathogen and the access to host regions that it gains the intrinsic virulence of the particular organism the quantity or load of the initial inoculant the immune status of the host being colonized As an example, the staphylococcus species present on skin remain harmless on the skin, but, when present in a normally sterile space, such as in the capsule of a joint or the peritoneum, will multiply without resistance and create a huge burden on the host. Occult infection An occult infection is medical terminology for a "hidden" infection, that is, one which presents no symptoms. Dr. Fran Giampietro discovered this type, and coined the term "occult infection" in the late 1930s. Scientists at Sheffield University have identified a way of using light to rapidly detect the presence of bacteria in a Wound. They are developing a portable kit in which specially designed molecules emit a light signal when bound to bacteria. Current laboratory-based detection of bacteria can take hours or even days.[1] List of infectious diseases Ubi pus, ibi evacua (Latin: "where there is pus, there evacuate it") Routes of infections ^ Light to detect wound infection (web). UK scientists have identified a way of using light to rapidly detect the presence of bacteria.. BBC News (11 March 2007). Retrieved on December 13, 2007. Vaccine Research Center Information concerning vaccine research clinical trials for Emerging and re-Emerging Infectious Diseases. aboutinfections.com Principles of pathology Disease - Necrosis - Infection - Ischemia - Inflammation - Wound healing - Neoplasia Surgical pathology - Cytopathology - Autopsy - Molecular pathology - Forensic pathology - Dental pathology Gross examination - Histopathology - Immunohistochemistry - Electron microscopy - Immunofluorescence - Fluorescent in situ hybridization Clinical chemistry - Hematopathology - Transfusion medicine - Medical microbiology - Diagnostic immunology Enzyme assay - Mass spectrometry - Chromatography - Flow cytometry - Blood bank - Microbiological culture - Serology Category: Infectious diseases This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Infection". A list of authors is available in Wikipedia. https://www.bionity.com/en/encyclopedia/Infection.html	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4685
__label__wiki	0.901937	0.901937	Manila Standard Today – Andy Bautista’s Purgatory By Tony Lopez \| Manila Standard Today A friend asked me recently what I advice I could give him if he joined government. I said, whatever are your claimed assets in your proposed SALN (Statement of Assets and Liabilities) are, double the amount. Even if my friend, Andy Bautista, the chairman of the Commission on Elections, had heeded that advice, it would not have served him well. Andy, an Ateneo-educated lawyer who claims to be a bar topnotcher, declared a networth of just P176.3 million in his 2016 SALN. Per his estranged wife, Patricia, 47, Andy has assets of anywhere from P1 billion to P1.3 billion. In a court of law, and in the court of public opinion, Patricia is a very credible witness. She has the crucial pieces of evidence—bank passbooks (32 in just one bank with total deposits of P300 million and with transactions of less than P500,000 each, the money laundering threshold); records of investments here and abroad, titles to condos and other properties, and even a “commission sheet” from the Divina Law office that is linked to Smartmatic, the Venezuelan company that provided the software and the counting machines and managed the Automated Election Sytems for the 2016 presidential elections. The implication, and there is no proof of this yet, is that Andy Bautista cried all the way to the bank/s before and after the 2016 elections. According to Glenn Chong, a former congressman from Biliran, Leyte and who has documented how the May 2016 election was stolen, four things were wrong with the Automated Election System: One, Comelec violated the law; two, Smartmatic tampered with the system; three, Smartmatic monopolized all the contracts; and four, the entire system was not secure. The law (RA 9369) required the review and certification of the source code. The entire election results transmission system, including all the servers, switches, routers, and other computers were not subject to source code review. The Transparency Server and Central Server were not subjected to source code review. This explains the “enye” mystery in the names of Señeres, Osmeña and Napeñas (which the computer reflected as Se?enres, Osme?na, and Nape?nas, respectively) which gave an excuse to that foreigner to reprogram or access, by remote control, the computers (the Queue Server) on the night of Election Day, May 9, 2016. The Queue Server acted like a funnel whereby all transmitted results from all 92,509 vote counting machines were made to pass through before being transmitted to the central canvassing system. The Justice department thinks this is a case of cybercrime under RA 10175 (Cybercrime Prevention Act). It was the time when Vice Presidential Candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., who was leading by a million votes over Leni Robredo in the early to late evening count, suddenly lost to the latter by early morning after election day, May 10. Smartmatic had contracts to supply and distribute the voting machines, to transmit electronically election results (for P558 million), and for the National Technical Support Center (a P122.7-million contract). According to ABS-CBN, Kabayan Party-List Rep. Harry Roque claimed that among the documents in Patricia’s possession were vouchers from Smartmatic, the private contractor that supplied the automated election system for the 2010, 2013 and 2016 national elections. Andy Bautista, citing local and international election watchdogs, insists the 2016 elections “were the cleanest and the best managed in Philippine history.” Also, “Wala po akong tinanggap na komisyon, kahit na isang kusing tungkol sa isang halalan. Totoo po iyun—wala. [I did not receive any commission, not even a single penny from the elections. That is the truth —I accepted nothing],” he said in a phone interview with ABS-CBN News. Andy decries the politicization of what is basically a marital dispute. On July 26, 2017, President Duterte tried to play marriage counselor for three hours at the presidential palace. Mrs. Bautista sought and got an audience with the President who dutifully lent his ears. After hearing Patricia, he summoned Andy, and unknown to the Comelec chief that his wife was just in the next room, was told to relate his side of the story. His claim: Patricia is having an affair, wants out of the marriage, and wants half of his legitimate income over the years. Duterte tried to work out a formula to which the quarrelling factions initially agreed. Someone balked, however. Andy cried ransom. Patricia felt she was being accused of extortion. So no deal. Thus, Duterte’s first-ever recorded professional attempt at marriage counseling failed. Even assuming Andy didn’t collect commissions from the Smartmatic contracts, his salary as a government official (P198,000 monthly or P2.57 million a year, including 13th month bonus) would not be able to account for his assets, liquid and solid, both as declared in his SALN and as alleged by his wife of 17 years (a minimum of about P600 million and upwards of P1 billion). Ever the wily lawyer, the President said he is hands-off in L’ Affaire Patricia, but his justice secretary, Vit Aguirre, has ordered the National Bureau of Investigation to probe Chairman Bautista. They simply are following the money trail. If Andy is culpable, he could be impeached, or forced to resign, which means Duterte gets a Comelec chair he wants. If the attempt to impeach Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno succeeds, Duterte will also get the SC chief he wants. As President of six years, Duterte will name no less than 11 SC justices. That will make him one of the most powerful presidents of the Philippines. Journal Online – Poe and Sotto are right – Bautista must be probed asap Manila Standard Today – First, Bautista must resign	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4690
__label__wiki	0.754634	0.754634	Biology, Life Sciences Guns, Germs And Steel : 20th Anniversary Edition 4.02 (235,549 ratings by Goodreads) By (author) Jared Diamond 12,13 € 19,60 € You save 7,47 € 'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens WITH A NEW AFTERWORD FROM THE AUTHOR Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious synthesis of history, biology, ecology and linguistics, Guns, Germs and Steel remains a ground-breaking and humane work of popular science. Dimensions 129 x 198 x 37mm \| 512g Publication date 26 Apr 2000 Publisher Vintage Publishing Imprint VINTAGE Illustrations note 32 b&w halftones Bestsellers rank 1,514 "This is the book that turned me from a historian of medieval warfare into a student of humankind" "The most absorbing account on offer of the emergence of a world divided between have and have-nots... Never before put together so coherently, with such a combination of expertise, charm and compassion" * The Times * "A book of remarkable scope... One of the most important and readable works on the human past" * Nature * "A prodigious, convincing work, conceived on a grand scale" * Observer * "This is the book that turned me from a historian of medieval warfare into a student of humankind" -- Yuval Noah Harari * Week * "Fascinating, coherent, compassionate and completely accessible" * Sunday Telegraph * About Jared Diamond Jared Diamond is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, which was named one of TIME's best non-fiction books of all time, the number one international bestseller Collapse and most recently The World UntilYesterday. A professor of geography at UCLA and noted polymath, Diamond's work has been influential in the fields of anthropology, biology, ornithology, ecology and history, among others. 235,549 ratings 5 38% (89,417) 2 5% (11,890) 1 3% (6,003) This is a panoramic view of human history. The book seeks to explain why some people have managed to split the atom and put a man on the moon while others remain rooted in a stone age society. Diamond argues that is not down to differences in intellegence, creativity etc but rather the particular environmental circumstances people find themselves. Only certain parts of the planet has allowed crop and animal domestication. The diffusion of the knowledge has also been circumscribed by environmental and geogrphical factors. It is the creative interactions with these environments by humans which determine how progress is made. Some people have found themselves in blind alleys and cul de sacs but others have been able to evolve and develope to create our modern society. The arguement is convincing from a historical perspective. How it will apply in a more global society remains to be seen. Diamond acknowledges that his study is still at the very broad brush stage and invites others to engage in to fill in the pieces or challenge the wider approach he has taken.show more by Kilronan I cannot recommend this book too highly. A magnificent exploration of why and how humanity has developed so diversely over time. Perhaps its most important role is to dispel the myth that some of us are primitive and others developed. A hard belief to shake when confronted with small groups of naked people living in jungles and comparing them to the inhabitants of Tokyo or New York, but this book manages it well. Through its many examples we can see the intelligent and rational responses, that are the hall mark of all humans, to the varied situations and circumstances we find ourselves in.show more by Jocelyn Willbond	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4691
__label__cc	0.516953	0.483047	to-mate-a-wolf To Mate a Wolf (MM) by Jordan Ashton Shifters of the Claiming Kind 2 Contemporary Paranormal Western/Cowboys Alternative (M/M, Gay) [Siren Classic ManLove: Erotic Alternative Paranormal Romance, M/M, shape-shifters, whipping, HEA] Evan Michaels has just become the mob’s number one target. They want him dead before he can tell the police what he knows. When the Brooks brothers, five kind and brave wolf shifters, offer their aid and protection on their cattle ranch, Evan jumps at the offer. Chandler Brooks opened his home to Evan Michaels, a cute half-lynx who was in dire need of his and his brothers’ protection. But he never imagined he’d open his heart, too. All this time he thought an eternal mate didn’t exist, until Evan came into his life. He tries to win the frightened and cocooned half-lynx’s heart and make him his life mate. But a past lover returns, determined to ruin any chance Chandler has at love and happiness. Can Chandler make Evan trust him and open his eyes to the everlasting love that exists between them, while protecting him from a hidden and deadly danger lurking nearby that’s ready to strike? Cover Art by Harris Channing More From Shifters of the Claiming Kind Call of the Wild Wolf (MM) Hungry Wolf (MM) Cry of the Hungry Wolf (MM) Wolf of Fate (MM) A Wolf's Desires (MM) Handyman's Crush (MM) When they got to the range, Chandler removed his hat and rested it on a wooden post, then waltzed up to a magnificent black horse. Patting its black mane, he said, “This here is Wanda. She is a thoroughbred. I bought her from our neighbor Sal Winfred. He owns several racehorses. She’s too old to race competitively anymore, but she’s perfect for us.” He turned to get the burgundy leather saddle resting in the corner of the stall and hauled it over her, securing the straps on both sides. Jumpy and fearful, Evan stammered, “D–do you have a super slow pony I can ride instead?” Chandler laughed, his pearly white teeth sparkled in the beaming afternoon sunlight. “Wanda is the slowest and tamest we have, I’m afraid.” Evan’s armpits began to perspire with his apprehension, and he really regretted wearing this light blue T-shirt which turned dark blue when it got wet. Soon he’d be a sweating slob. And if he lost his grip on Wanda and landed on his ass or his face in front of his dreamboat hunk, well, there went any chance of making a good impression. “All right. I–I guess I have no choice but to ride her,” he stuttered. “I’ll be riding with you, if that reassures you.” He gave him a slanted, flirty smirk. Panic and excitement twirled around Evan like a tornado, making him anxious and super uneasy. He hoped he didn’t forget to put on deodorant after coming out of the shower, because with all the sweating he was doing, he’d start smelling like the horse they’d be riding pretty soon. “Unless you prefer to go solo…” Chandler tilted his head to the right. Evan shook his head. “No, believe me, the last thing I want to do is ride Wanda solo. I’m scared I’ll hurt her or she won’t like me and hurl me off.” Chandler held out the stirrup, grinning. “No, she would never do that to you. She likes you a lot. You’re a super likable guy, you know.” Evan blushed as he put his foot into the stirrup and hoisted himself onto Wanda. Her wide girth had his tense inner leg muscles stretching. Once he was settled, he absorbed Chandler’s words. You’re a super likable guy. Was that a good thing or a bad? Was he likable as in he could be a good friend? Or was he likable as in a boyfriend-boyfriend relationship? He hoped Chandler meant the latter. After Chandler positioned himself behind him on the horse, he wrapped his arms around Evan to reach for the reins. Evan lost his breath when Chandler’s nose tickled the back of his neck through his stretching movements. His heart raced fast. He could feel its pulse in his throat. “Sorry about that,” Chandler apologized. “It’s okay.” Evan squeaked and coughed, trying to clear the nervousness from his throat. Chandler’s cologne smelled sweet, alluring, and very familiar. Was it Drakkar Noir he wore? Before he could ask him if it was, Chandler squeezed Wanda’s sides, and she began to gallop slowly. Evan gasped. “You okay?” Chandler’s warm breath caressed and tickled Evan’s ear and cheek. “Yeah,” he mumbled, trying to get a grip on his raging hormones and stop his churning stomach. Wanda continued to gallop at a steady pace. Soon Evan’s drumming heartbeat settled to its natural pace as his fear began to subside. He stared out at the vast grasslands. It was breathtaking. He’d only witnessed this type of view in movies or still life photos, but never in real life. As if reading his mind, Chandler said, “It’s thirty acres. My parents started this ranch some thirty-one years ago. They had just moved to Oklahoma when someone told them that this place was being sold through an auction. The previous owner had passed away. He had no kids or wife, or any other family who could inherit it, so it went to the state upon his death. “They got it at an amazing price. My brothers and I have always lived here. It’s the only home we’ve ever known.” Evan sighed slowly, still admiring the land. “And it’s beautiful.” Chandler nodded, gazing around as well. “Yes, it is.” After a moment’s silence, Evan turned to stare into his eyes. He said, “Felix told me your parents died when you were only twenty-one and you had to look after your four younger brothers all by yourself.” Chandler stared back in silence. He wasn’t smiling nor frowning, and he seemed to simply be thinking. Evan wondered if he was remembering the past and how it must have been hard for him to have so much responsibility put on his shoulders at such a young age. “Yeah, I did. I also had to take care of the ranch. It was really difficult at first, especially with Bane, my hardheaded brother. It isn’t easy for two alpha wolf shifters to get along. And at that time he was a rebel, to say the least. But we all found a way to get along and work together.” Staring deeply into Chandler’s eyes, Evan said in a soft, low voice, “You’re remarkable.” Chandler chortled. “Thanks. No one has ever called me that before.” His laugh turned to a soft smile. “And so are you.” Blushing once again, Evan lowered his gaze. “No, I’m not. I was never like you. I wasn’t a responsible person or caring of others. I was the opposite. I let my brother and my mom down.” Chandler gently touched his chin, lifting it so Evan’s eyes would meet his. “You were young, and didn’t know any better. But now you do and have changed. So stop putting yourself down and be proud of who you’ve become. Evan Michaels, you are one remarkable, handsome, amazing guy.” He leaned in, joining his warm lips to Evan’s. Electricity traveled through their contact, taking Evan’s breath away. When Evan and Chandler got to the top, Chandler looked around with nostalgic eyes. The high landing was covered with soft hay and bright sunshine that peeked in through a skylight at the center of the high ceiling. “When I was a kid, I used to come up here to this hayloft to think and daydream. He sat down on a bed of hay and motioned. “Come sit and see for yourself why I loved it here.” He lay back, resting his head on his crossed, open hands. Evan did the same. “Other kids had a tree house. I had this hayloft.” Evan peered at the clear blue sky and the fluffy white clouds up above through the skylight window in the roof. “Wow, that is so amazing.” Chandler rolled to his side and leaned on his bent elbow, smiling. “I used to stare at the clouds, imagining what they looked like, and I’d make stories up in my head.” Evan turned to face Chandler. “You must have had a vivid imagination.” He sighed. “I still do.” “Did you ever think of becoming a writer? All writers were big daydreamers when they were kids, making up stories in their heads just like you did.” Chandler’s eyes popped and his jaw fell. “How did you know? Yeah, that’s what I wanted to be when I was younger. I even wrote my first novel in high school, a whodunit mystery about a claustrophobic detective who had an obsession with origami. He used to create origami art to help him solve his mysteries. It was so lame.” Chandler chuckled. Evan laughed along with him. “That sounds like an interesting story.” Chandler snorted. “Interesting. No, bizarre is more like it.” “Have you written other stuff?” “Yeah, I had written a ton of short stories and a few novellas when I was younger. They’re stored in my laptop at home.” “Did you ever want to be a writer professionally?” “Yeah, but then my parents died and I had to forget that dream.” Evan traced Chandler’s muscular biceps with his index finger while admiring their curves and hardness. He was getting so excited being this close to him. His cock twitched and beckoned for some stimulation. “You should never forget your dreams, Chandler.” Chandler waggled his brow, leaning closer to his lips. “Now you’re the one giving the pep talk.” Evan nodded flirtatiously, and he lewdly licked his lips. He normally wouldn’t be this straight forward with his interest, but with Chandler, he couldn’t help himself. Chandler growled. “Come here, sexy.” He pulled Evan closer, then rolled over him, crushing his lips to his. The big erection in Chandler’s pants pressed against his own. He moaned with mounting pleasure. Evan wrapped his arms around his back and rubbed it in a circular motion, feeling all of Chandler’s rock-hard muscles. God, he couldn’t believe muscles could get this solid. Chandler snaked his tongue into his mouth, looping and caressing his. Heat and passion fired up Evan’s blood. It pumped faster through his veins until his cock throbbed with wanton desires. His hands roamed lower, rubbing Chandler’s magnificent glutes through his jeans. Chandler released his lips. Evan grunted, squeezing his cheeks. “Mmm, I love your ass.” Chandler grinned and groaned with hungry eyes, “Keep that up, and soon I won’t be able to stop myself.” Evan purred, wanting Chandler to take charge. “Who said I wanted you to stop?” Chandler’s brow perked. “Oh, so you want me to fuck you?” Of course he wanted Chandler to fuck him. All he had been fantasizing about this past week was how amazing Chandler would be in bed. Alpha shifters were fantastic lovers. Or so that’s what he had heard. And if Chandler’s cock was proportionate to his giant six-foot-seven-inch frame and his magnificently wide biceps, he’d have Evan whimpering with just one peek. But should he tell Chandler that? What would he think of him? That he was a man-floozy who banged a guy right after the first kiss. But it was stupid to say no. His cock was rock hard, demanding satisfaction. He nodded. “Yeah, I want you to fuck me.” Chandler smiled, leaning in to kiss him while with one hand he unbuttoned his shirt and unzipped his jeans. His lips moved from Evan’s mouth down to his neck, his collarbone, and then his chest. Goose bumps formed with his gentle kisses and licks. It felt so good. Chandler stopped and gazed at his body and cock with adoring eyes. “You’re beautiful.” Seeing how Chandler looked at him and hearing him say it made Evan really feel beautiful. For the first time in his life, he was. They never broke eye contact until Chandler slid closer to his cock. When he stroked it, his scorching fingers made it jerk. Hot pre-cum slipped out from the slit. As it cooled in the air, a shiver of pleasure swarmed Evan. Chandler fondled the tip in a circular motion, which drove Evan crazy. Chandler’s eyes returned to his and he said as he opened his pants and released his sex piston. “Turn, sexy.” A chill of excitement overwhelmed Evan, and he shivered. 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__label__wiki	0.817632	0.817632	Coming Soon: A Docu-Series about Tamerlan Tsarnaev and the FBI An Oscar-winner will direct a series based on the Michele McPhee book Maximum Harm. By Spencer Buell· 4/17/2019, 10:17 a.m. Keep your weekends full of the coolest things to do around Boston with our weekly Weekender newsletter. Photo collage by Eric Mongeon and Toan Trinh for “Tamerlan Tsarnaev: Terrorist. Murderer. Federal Informant?“ A book exploring the theory that Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev was an FBI informant will soon be made into a docu-series, and now it has an Oscar-winning director on board, the production company Propagate/Electus has announced. Few details were immediately available, but Deadline reports that directors Charles Ferguson, whose credits include 2008’s Oscar-winning Inside Job, and Shimon Dotan, who directed the Sundance prize-winning Hot House, have been tapped to direct a series based on Maximum Harm, the explosive account written by local journalist and Boston contributor Michele McPhee. Her book examines evidence that Tsarnaev had been enlisted by the feds to collect information about potential terrorist plots (the FBI denies this). An excerpt of it first appeared in Boston in 2017: Much is murky about Tamerlan’s life leading up to the deadly attack on Boylston Street. Four years after the blasts, his case, at first blush, seems to be an extreme cautionary tale about the shortcomings of the overbloated war on terror, its divided attentions rendering actual terrorists invisible. But upon closer inspection, a strange picture starts to emerge—one that counterterrorism experts and law enforcement officials have suggested points to Tamerlan having been a federal informant who went rogue. During Dzhokhar’s trial, his defense attorneys raised provocative questions about the FBI’s mysterious involvement with Tamerlan. Had agents pressured him to be an informant? And if so, did that pressure play a role in the bombings? Tsarnaev died in 2013 in the manhunt that followed the attack. His brother, Dzhokhar, was sentenced to death in 2015 for his role in the bombings. McPhee’s work has made its way onto the small screen before. She’s a regular contributor to true-crime TV specials, and her 2010 book A Date with Death inspired the Lifetime TV movie The Craigslist Killer. She is currently consulting on the upcoming Boston-based Showtime crime drama City on a Hill, produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. The news of the docu-series came on Marathon Monday, the sixth anniversary of the attack and the first time since 2013 that the race had been held on April 15, the date of the bombings. It also follows news that another local journalist’s treatment of a high-profile case is moving forward. Boston contributors Dave Wedge and Casey Sherman announced last week that a publisher bought the rights to a book they’re writing on the final years of Whitey Bulger, called Misery Mountain. Spencer Buell Staff Writer at Boston Magazine @spencerbuell sbuell@bostonmagazine.com Kitchens Guide 2018 Our Day Trip Guide to Rockport What's In Season Right Now?	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4694
__label__wiki	0.684062	0.684062	Genesis 4Genesis 6 Genesis 5 Good News Translation (GNT) The Descendants of Adam 5 This is the list of the descendants of Adam. (When God created human beings, he made them like himself. 2 He created them male and female, blessed them, and named them “Human Beings.”) 3 When Adam was 130 years old, he had a son who was like him, and he named him Seth. 4 After that, Adam lived another 800 years. He had other children 5 and died at the age of 930. 6 When Seth was 105, he had a son, Enosh, 7 and then lived another 807 years. He had other children 8 and died at the age of 912. 9 When Enosh was 90, he had a son, Kenan, 10 and then lived another 815 years. He had other children 11 and died at the age of 905. 12 When Kenan was 70, he had a son, Mahalalel, 13 and then lived another 840 years. He had other children 14 and died at the age of 910. 15 When Mahalalel was 65, he had a son, Jared, 16 and then lived another 830 years. He had other children 17 and died at the age of 895. 18 When Jared was 162, he had a son, Enoch, 19 and then lived another 800 years. He had other children 20 and died at the age of 962. 21 When Enoch was 65, he had a son, Methuselah. 22 After that, Enoch lived in fellowship with God for 300 years and had other children. 23 He lived to be 365 years old. 24 He spent his life in fellowship with God, and then he disappeared, because God took him away. 25 When Methuselah was 187, he had a son, Lamech, 26 and then lived another 782 years. He had other children 27 and died at the age of 969. 28 When Lamech was 182, he had a son 29 and said, “From the very ground on which the Lord put a curse, this child will bring us relief from all our hard work”; so he named him Noah.[a] 30 Lamech lived another 595 years. He had other children 31 and died at the age of 777. 32 After Noah was 500 years old, he had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Genesis 5:29 This name sounds like the Hebrew for “relief.” Genesis 5:1 : 1Chr 1:1-1Chr 1:4 Genesis 5:1 : Gen 1:27; Gen 1:28 Genesis 5:2 : Matt 19:4; Mark 10:6 Genesis 5:24 : Sir 44:16; Gen 49:14; Heb 11:5; Jude 1:14 Copyright © 1992 by American Bible Society 1 Chronicles 10 1 Chronicles 91 Chronicles 11 1 Chronicles 10 Good News Translation (GNT) The Death of King Saul 10 The Philistines fought a battle against the Israelites on Mount Gilboa. Many Israelites were killed there, and the rest of them, including King Saul and his sons, fled. 2 But the Philistines caught up with them and killed three of Saul's sons, Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua. 3 The fighting was heavy around Saul, and he was hit by enemy arrows and badly wounded. 4 He said to the young man carrying his weapons, “Draw your sword and kill me, to keep these godless Philistines from gloating over me.” But the young man was too terrified to do it. So Saul took his own sword and threw himself on it. 5 The young man saw that Saul was dead, so he too threw himself on his sword and died. 6 So Saul and his three sons all died together, and none of his descendants ever ruled. 7 When the Israelites who lived in Jezreel Valley heard that the army had fled and that Saul and his sons had died, they abandoned their towns and ran off. Then the Philistines came and occupied them. 8 The day after the battle the Philistines went to plunder the corpses, and they found the bodies of Saul and his sons lying on Mount Gilboa. 9 They cut off Saul's head, stripped off his armor, and sent messengers with them throughout Philistia to tell the good news to their idols and to their people. 10 They put his weapons in one of their temples and hung his head in the temple of their god Dagon. 11 When the people of Jabesh in Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul, 12 the bravest men went and got the bodies of Saul and his sons and took them to Jabesh. They buried them there under an oak and fasted for seven days. 13 Saul died because he was unfaithful to the Lord. He disobeyed the Lord's commands; he tried to find guidance by consulting the spirits of the dead 14 instead of consulting the Lord. So the Lord killed him and gave control of the kingdom to David son of Jesse. 1 Chronicles 10:1 : 1Sam 31:1-1Sam 31:13 1 Chronicles 10:13 : 1Sam 13:8-1Sam 13:14; 1Chr 15:1-1Chr 15:24; 1Chr 10:13; Lev 19:31; 1Chr 20:6; 1Sam 28:7; 1Sam 28:8 1 Chronicles 11:10-47 1 Chronicles 11:10-47 Good News Translation (GNT) David's Famous Soldiers 10 This is the list of David's famous soldiers. Together with the rest of the people of Israel, they helped him become king, as the Lord had promised, and they kept his kingdom strong. 11 First was Jashobeam of the clan of Hachmon, the leader of “The Three.”[a] He fought with his spear against three hundred men and killed them all in one battle. 12 Next among the famous “Three” was Eleazar son of Dodo, of the clan of Ahoh. 13 He fought on David's side against the Philistines at the battle of Pas Dammim. He was in a barley field when the Israelites started to run away, 14 so he and his men took a stand in the middle of the field and fought the Philistines. The Lord gave him a great victory. 15 One day three of the thirty leading soldiers went to a rock where David was staying near Adullam Cave, while a band of Philistines was camping in Rephaim Valley. 16 At that time David was on a fortified hill, and a group of Philistines had occupied Bethlehem. 17 David got homesick and said, “How I wish someone would bring me a drink of water from the well by the gate in Bethlehem!” 18 The three famous soldiers forced their way through the Philistine camp, drew some water from the well, and brought it back to David. But he would not drink it; instead he poured it out as an offering to the Lord 19 and said, “I could never drink this! It would be like drinking the blood of these men who risked their lives!” So he refused to drink it. These were the brave deeds of the three famous soldiers. 20 Joab's brother Abishai was the leader of “The Famous Thirty.”[b] He fought with his spear against three hundred men and killed them, and became famous among “The Thirty.”[c] 21 He was the most famous of “The Thirty”[d] and became their leader, but he was not as famous as “The Three.” 22 Benaiah son of Jehoiada from Kabzeel was a famous soldier; he did many brave deeds, including killing two great Moabite warriors. He once went down into a pit on a snowy day and killed a lion. 23 He also killed an Egyptian, a huge man seven and a half feet tall, who was armed with a gigantic spear. Benaiah attacked him with a club, snatched the spear from the Egyptian's hand, and killed him with it. 24 Those were the brave deeds of Benaiah, who was one of “The Thirty.”[e] 25 He was outstanding among “The Thirty,” but not as famous as “The Three.” David put him in charge of his bodyguard. 26-47 These are the other outstanding soldiers: Asahel, Joab's brother Elhanan son of Dodo from Bethlehem Shammoth from Harod Helez from Pelet Ira son of Ikkesh from Tekoa Abiezer from Anathoth Sibbecai from Hushah Ilai from Ahoh Maharai from Netophah Heled son of Baanah from Netophah Ithai son of Ribai from Gibeah in Benjamin Benaiah from Pirathon Hurai from the valleys near Gaash Abiel from Arbah Azmaveth from Bahurum Eliahba from Shaalbon Hashem[f] from Gizon Jonathan son of Shagee from Harar Ahiam son of Sachar from Harar Eliphal son of Ur Hepher from Mecherah Ahijah from Pelon Hezro from Carmel Naarai son of Ezbai Joel brother of Nathan Mibhar son of Hagri Zelek from Ammon Naharai, Joab's armorbearer, from Beeroth Ira and Gareb from Jattir Uriah the Hittite Zabad son of Ahlai Adina son of Shiza (a leading member of the tribe of Reuben, with his own group of thirty soldiers) Hanan son of Maacah Joshaphat from Mithan Uzzia from Ashterah Shamma and Jeiel, sons of Hotham, from Aroer Jediael and Joha, sons of Shimri, from Tiz Eliel from Mahavah Jeribai and Joshaviah, sons of Elnaam Ithmah from Moab Eliel, Obed, and Jaasiel from Zobah[g] 1 Chronicles 11:11 One ancient translation (see also 2 S 23.8) “The Three”; Hebrew “The Thirty.” 1 Chronicles 11:20 One ancient translation Thirty; Hebrew Three. 1 Chronicles 11:20 One ancient translation (see also 2 S 23.18) “The Thirty”; Hebrew “The Three.” 1 Chronicles 11:21 Probable text (see 2 S 23.19) most famous of “The Thirty”; Hebrew unclear. 1 Chronicles 11:24 Probable text “The Thirty”; Hebrew “The Three.” 1 Chronicles 11:26 Probable text Hashem; Hebrew the sons of Hashem. 1 Chronicles 11:26 Probable text from Zobah; Hebrew unclear. 1 Chronicles 11:10 : 2Sam 23:8-2Sam 23:39 First Communion Bible, GNT New Testament, White Leather-look - Slightly Imperfect Our Price: $5.99Save: $7.00 (54%)Buy Now La Biblia en español: Cómo nos Llegó (The Bible in Spanish)Our Price: $17.81Buy Now GNT Pew Bible Catholic, Paper Over Board, BurgundyOur Price: $15.43 Good News Translation New Testament on Audio CD, Read By Ron Hedrick Our Price: $44.99Save: $5.00 (10%)Buy Now	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4699
__label__wiki	0.878546	0.878546	KJ21 And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick. And he sent messengers and aid unto them, “Go, inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover from this disease.” And Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover of this sickness. Ahaziah [the king of Israel] fell through the lattice (grid) in his upper chamber which was in Samaria, and became sick [from the injury]. So he sent messengers, saying to them, “Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, if I will recover from this sickness.” AMPC [King] Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria and lay sick. He sent messengers, saying, Go, ask Baal-zebub, the god of [Philistine] Ekron, if I shall recover from this illness. BRG And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, enquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease. Ahaziah had fallen through the latticed window of his upstairs room in Samaria and was injured. So he sent messengers, instructing them, “Go inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover from this injury.” Ahaziah fell out the window of his second-story room in Samaria and was hurt. He sent messengers, telling them, “Go to Ekron’s god Baal-zebub, and ask if I will recover from this injury.” When Achazyah fell through a latticed window of his upper room in Shomron and lay injured, he sent messengers and said to them, “Go, consult Ba‘al-Z’vuv the god of ‘Ekron, and ask whether I will recover from this injury.” Soon after King Ahab of Israel died, the country of Moab rebelled against his son King Ahaziah. One day, Ahaziah fell through the wooden slats around the porch on the flat roof of his palace in Samaria, and he was badly injured. So he sent some messengers to the town of Ekron with orders to ask the god Baalzebub if he would get well. And Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper chamber which was in Samaria, and was sick; and he sent messengers and said to them, Go, inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this disease. And Ochozias fell through the lattices of his upper chamber which he had in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, saying to them: Go, consult Beelzebub, the god of Accaron, whether I shall recover of this my illness. One day Ahaziah was on the roof of his house in Samaria. He fell down through the wooden bars on top of his house and was badly hurt. He called messengers and told them, “Go to the priests of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, and ask them if I will get well from my injuries.” Now Ahaziah fell through the lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria, and lay sick; so he sent messengers, telling them, “Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this sickness.” ESVUK Now Ahaziah fell through the lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria, and lay sick; so he sent messengers, telling them, “Go, enquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this sickness.” Ahaziah fell down through the ·wooden bars in [lattice of] his upstairs room in Samaria and was badly hurt. He sent messengers and told them, “Go, ask Baal-Zebub, god of Ekron, if I will recover from my ·injuries [illness].” And Ahaziah fell through the lattice window in his upper chamber which was in Samaria: so he was sick: then he sent messengers, to whom he said, Go, and inquire of Baal-Zebub the god of Ekron, if I shall recover of this my disease. During the rebellion King Ahaziah fell through a window lattice in his upstairs room in Samaria and injured himself. So he sent messengers to Ekron. He had told them, “Go ask Baalzebub, the god of Ekron, if I will recover from this injury.” King Ahaziah of Israel fell off the balcony on the roof of his palace in Samaria and was seriously injured. So he sent some messengers to consult Baalzebub, the god of the Philistine city of Ekron, in order to find out whether or not he would recover. HCSB Ahaziah had fallen through the latticed window of his upper room in Samaria and was injured. So he sent messengers instructing them: “Go inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, if I will recover from this injury.” Ahaziah fell down through the wooden bars in his upstairs room in Samaria. He was badly hurt. He sent messengers and told them, “Go. Ask Baal-Zebub god of Ekron if I will get well from my injuries.” Meanwhile, Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice in his upper room in Samaria and lay injured. He sent messengers to Ekron with these orders: “Go and consult with Ekron’s god Baal-zebub to find out if I’m going to recover from this injury.” JUB And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria and was sick, and he sent messengers and said unto them, Go, enquire of Baalzebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover of this disease. And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease. AKJV Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice in his upper room, which was in Samaria, and he was injured. So he sent messengers, and he said to them, “Go, inquire of Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron, if I will survive this injury.” Israel’s new king, Ahaziah, had fallen off the upstairs porch of his palace at Samaria and was seriously injured. He sent messengers to the temple of the god Baal-zebub at Ekron to ask whether he would recover. One day Ahaziah fell through the balcony railing on the rooftop of his house in Samaria and was injured. He sent messengers off to consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron, “Am I going to recover from this accident?” Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria and became ill. So he sent messengers and said to them, “Go, inquire of Baal-Zebub the god of Ekron whether I will recover from this illness.” Ahaziah fell through the lattice of his roof terrace at Samaria and was injured. So he sent out messengers with the instructions: “Go and inquire of Baalzebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this injury.” And Ahaziah fell through the lattice in his upper chamber which was in Samaria, and became ill. So he sent messengers and said to them, “Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover from this sickness.” Ahaziah fell down through the wooden bars in his upstairs room in Samaria and was badly hurt. He sent messengers and told them, “Go, ask Baal-Zebub, god of Ekron, if I will recover from my injuries.” Ahaziah fell through a window lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria and was injured. He sent messengers with these orders, “Go, ask Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, if I will survive this injury.” NIRV Ahaziah had fallen through the window of his upstairs room in Samaria. He had hurt himself. So he sent messengers to ask the god named Baal-Zebub for advice. Baal-Zebub was the god of the city of Ekron. Ahaziah said to the messengers, “Go and ask Baal-Zebub whether I will get well again.” Now Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria and injured himself. So he sent messengers, saying to them, “Go and consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron, to see if I will recover from this injury.” NIVUK Now Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria and injured himself. So he sent messengers, saying to them, ‘Go and consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron, to see if I will recover from this injury.’ Now Ahaziah fell through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria, and was injured; so he sent messengers and said to them, “Go, inquire of Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this injury.” Ahaziah fell through the window of his second-floor room in Samaria, and lay sick. So he sent men with news, saying to them, “Go and ask Baalzebub the god of Ekron if I will get well again from this sickness.” One day Israel’s new king, Ahaziah, fell through the latticework of an upper room at his palace in Samaria and was seriously injured. So he sent messengers to the temple of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, to ask whether he would recover. Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria, and lay injured; so he sent messengers, telling them, “Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this injury.” NRSVA Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria, and lay injured; so he sent messengers, telling them, ‘Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this injury.’ NRSVACE NRSVCE OJB And Achazyah fell down through a lattice in his aliyyah (upper room) that was in Shomron, and it was a dire injury: and he sent malachim, and he said unto them, Go, inquire of Ba’al Zevuv elohei Ekron whether I shall recover of this choli (infirmity). Now Ahazi′ah fell through the lattice in his upper chamber in Samar′ia, and lay sick; so he sent messengers, telling them, “Go, inquire of Ba′al-ze′bub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this sickness.” Now Ahaziah fell down from the balcony of his upper chamber in Samaria and was injured. So he sent messengers and instructed them, “Go inquire of Baal-Zebub the god of Ekron, whether I will recover from this injury.” One day, King Ahaziah had an accident in Israel’s capital city, Samaria. He tumbled through the network shading and decorating his upper room and fell ill. While he was bedridden, he called for his messengers and sent them on an errand to Philistia. Ahaziah: Ask Baal-zebub, Ekron’s god, if my health is going to return after this injury. Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper room that was in Samaria, and was sick. So he sent messengers, and said to them, “Go, inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover of this sickness.” WYC And Ahaziah felled through the alures of his solar, which he had in Samaria, and was (made) sick; and he sent messengers, and said to them, Go ye, and counsel (with) Baalzebub, [the] god of Ekron, whether I may live after this sickness of me. (And Ahaziah fell through the lattice of his solarium, which he had in Samaria, and was injured; and he sent out messengers, and said to them, Go ye, and counsel with Baalzebub, the god of Ekron, to see whether I shall recover from this injury of mine.) and Ahaziah falleth through the lattice in his upper chamber that [is] in Samaria, and is sick, and sendeth messengers, and saith unto them, `Go ye, inquire of Baal-Zebub god of Ekron if I recover from this sickness.' 2 Kings 1:12 Kings 1:3 21st Century King James Version (KJ21) Copyright © 1994 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc.; American Standard Version (ASV) Public Domain (Why are modern Bible translations copyrighted?); Amplified Bible (AMP) Copyright © 2015 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, CA 90631. All rights reserved.; Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC) Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation; BRG Bible (BRG) Blue Red and Gold Letter Edition™ Copyright © 2012 BRG Bible Ministries. 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__label__wiki	0.877334	0.877334	Leaked Audio Of Kanye West Slamming Taylor Swift After The 2009 MTV VMAs Aly Weisman Kanye West allegedly bashes Taylor Swift and Pink in audio after 2009 MTV VMA incident. Just yesterday MTV announced the nominees for the 2013 Video Music Awards. But Kanye West still hasn't forgotten about the 2009 award show, in which he ripped a moon man out of Taylor Swift's hands after the country singer won Best Female Video over Beyoncé. After the infamous moment, West allegedly went to dinner with friends and a few other unnamed musicians at the Corner Bistro in New York's West Village, where he bashed Swift and went on a few other tangents. Turns out someone at the dinner was secretly recording West's alleged rants and Gawker just posted the audio. In what can be heard on the somewhat muffled tape, West says he re-wrote his "Run This Town" in two days and "because I did that, Taylor Swift cannot win over Beyoncé! Because I wrote my verse in two days, Taylor Swift cannot beat Beyoncé." He also gripes about Pink getting to perform two songs but he didn't get to perform "Heartless." West goes on to state, "My mother died for this fame sh--! I moved to f-----' Hollywood chasing this sh--. My mother died because of this sh--. F--- MTV. Here's the full crazy audio, as transcribed by Gawker. You can listen to the recording on their site here > I'd rather just let the [inaudible] speak for itself. You know, it's like, I was happy to be in a situation where people couldn't say, oh, I was trying to promote my own song. For the times that I've, like, defended myself... [Tape break] I'm pushing the envelope! I wrote my f-----' 'Run This Town' verse for a f-----' month! When I heard Eminem's verse on the Drake shit, I went back and rewrote my shit for two days. I canceled appointments to rewrite! I f-----' care! You know what I'm saying? And that's what I'm saying. Because I did that, Taylor Swift cannot win over Beyoncé! Because I wrote my verse in two days, Taylor Swift cannot beat Beyoncé. As long as I'm alive! And if I'm alive, kill me then! Kill me then! As long as I'm alive, you gon' have to deal with it. 'Cause there ain't gonna be no more motherfucking Elvises with no James Browns. [A female voice asks, "Why are you so angry? What's the anger?"] Because my mother got arrested for the f-----' sit-ins. My mother died for this fame sh--! I moved to f-----' Hollywood chasing this sh--. My mother died because of this sh--. F--- MTV. It ain't no love. What the f--- was Pink performing? Don't nobody know that song. Pink performed twice! Two songs? How the f--- Pink perform two songs and I didn't even get asked to perform "Heartless." "Heartless" is the biggest song of the year! It had the most spins of the first quarter! I don't know that Pink song! But I noticed that she's pink! They put me in a f-----' room and [inaudible - maybe "projected it"]. [A male voice asks, "How the f--- did Eminem get the Best Hip-Hop song in 2008?"] Eminem won Best Video! Rap Video! Yo, when he wont that sh--, I was so happy. I was so happy I [ unclear - "ran all this sh--," maybe]. I said, "Ni---, I'm gon' do this until y'all put a bullet in my head. I'm runnin' up to y'all, put a..." [tape cuts]. Meanwhile, looks like Swift hasn't forgotten about the 2009 incident either, tweeting after the nominations announcement yesterday: Two VMA nominations!! If you vote and get us one, I promise to keep a firmer grip on the mic this time ;) http://t.co/nK9rhV95RP— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) July 17, 2013 SEE ALSO: Here Are The 2013 MTV Video Music Awards Nominations More: People Kanye West Taylor Swift Awards Shows	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4712
__label__cc	0.68394	0.31606	Wealth (July 2019) Engaging the next generation NEXT-generation programmes for children of wealthy clients may not generate revenues directly for wealth managers. But they are an integral part of a private bank's offerings. Taking charge of the family's wealth MOST scions of ultra high net worth families are set for an executive role at the helm of a family business or even at large listed corporations with substantial family-held interests. BUSINESS FAMILY INSIGHTS Building a social enterprise from scratch IMPACT investments are increasingly capturing the imagination and passion of younger investors, but one family has done more than just dip their toes into the asset class. Lam Shumei, daughter of the late successful entrepreneur and businessman Larry Lam, built a chicken farm in Rwanda from scratch in 2014, braving an arid bushland, unfamiliar business milieu and a host of challenges such as a small market size and high costs. LEGAL VANTAGE Avoiding legal pitfalls in charitable giving CHARITIES in Singapore attracted approximately S$2.9 billion in donations in 2016; however donations only account for 17.3 per cent of the charity sector's 2016 annual receipts of S$16.6 billion, which includes government grants, donations, as well as fees and charges. East asia's young rich redefine the concept of legacy FOR a millennia, Asia's thinking about legacy has been framed by the Confucian ideals of family. The lure of private credit in Asia-Pacific PRIVATE debt is rapidly emerging as an asset class in its own right, driven partly by investors' search for attractive yield and an asset class not correlated with traditional stocks and bonds. Five key themes in Asia-Pac real estate A BACKDROP of increased uncertainty prevails following the renewal of US/China trade tensions. What lies ahead in H2 US/China trade tensions dampen projections of global growth. But the expected interest rate cuts by central banks have lifted market sentiment. Top culinary destinations Down Under AUSTRALIA has emerged as a great place for the well-heeled gourmand. Wealth (April 2019) Wealth (February 2019) Wealth (December 2018) Wealth (October 2018) Wealth (August 2018)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4713
__label__cc	0.641545	0.358455	Why Shazam should to be more popular than Superman This is a review of the DC Comics movie Shazam! In this #moviereview we check out #Shazam! the latest film from #DCcomics. It is the story of 14 year-old foster kid, Billy Batson, who’s been running away from various foster homes in search of his mother who abandoned him when he was a toddler. When moving in with his newest foster family Billy meets Freddy, a kid who can’t walk with out the aid of a crutch, tomented by bullies at school and obsessed with superheroes. Billy also meets Shazam an ageing wizard who has been using his powers to hold back an evil force and is seeking a champion to pass the torch to. Billy shouts his name, and Shazam he’s a 14 year-old kid in and adult super hero’s body. Why Shazam? Well it appears that the ancient wizard must be some kind of public servant because Shazam is an acronym for six ancient heroes, The wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, stamina of Atlas, power of Zeus, courage of Achillies and speed of Mercury. Billy has to come to terms with the responsibility bestowed upon him, finding his place in his new foster family and preventing the evil Doctor Thaddeus Sivana from using that evil force mentioned before to take his power. It’s a pretty standard super hero origin film—discover power, learn lesson about the whole responsibility thing, fight bad guy in a big battle at the end—but the point of difference is quite obviously a kid trapped in the adult hero’s body. More reviews at: https://thewatchman.com.au/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thewatchmanreviews Twitter: https://twitter.com/_The_Watchman YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/thewatchmanreviews Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Pocket Cast Castro Castbox Podchaser RSS Feed All content © 2019 The Watchman.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4715
__label__cc	0.523204	0.476796	Route 116 Scenic Byway Travel off the beaten path for small-town hospitality and outdoor relaxation Enjoy the “small town scene” Yankee ingenuity and immigrant spirit Step back in time Cheshire cheese wheel Open spaces and hidden gems This country road travels through wide-open spaces where you’ll find endless possibilities to relax and enjoy the outdoors. Historic town centers speak of the region’s agricultural and industrial past. Don’t miss the chance to experience local creativity and hospitality in towns like Adams, Ashfield, and South Deerfield. At the byway’s western end is the pedestrian-friendly downtown of Adams, where you’ll find artists’ galleries, small boutiques and some light fare. The visitor center is downtown on Hoosac Street and full of ideas for local activities, like walking, biking or cross-country skiing along the paved, 12-mile Ashuwillticook Rail Trail. Farther east near the junction with Route 112 is Ashfield, a close-knit and artsy town. Stop at the raved-about Elmer’s “big-time breakfast and sometimes dinner joint and old-timey natural foods grocery,” or get an ice cream cone and chat with the locals at Ashfield Hardware and Supply. South Deerfield, at the byway’s eastern end, reflects the character of the many Yankee settlers and European immigrants who farmed and worked in the area through the 19th century. In addition to historic buildings and sites like the Produce National Bank and Bloody Brook Monument, you’ll find many fantastic examples of Craftsman bungalows from the 1910s. South Deerfield is also home to Yankee Candle Village, the world’s largest candle store, styled as a charming New England village with a restaurant, Christmas shop, hands-on demonstrations, and more. Just north of the byway is Historic Deerfield village, a must-see for history buffs. This 18th-century English settlement features restored houses and a rich collection of early American crafts. The “Hidden Walls, Hidden Mills” program in Plainfield is a series of five self-guided walks through this remote town of just 600 people. Download the maps and stroll the fields and farms to discover cellar holes, mill foundations, tiny cemeteries and ancient apple orchards. The 1870 Burkeville covered bridge in Conway is one of the oldest surviving one in the nation. It was restored in 2005 for bicycle and pedestrian traffic. The Cheshire Cheese Press monument commemorates Cheshire residents’ gift to President Thomas Jefferson in 1802 of a 1,234-pound wheel of cheese made with milk from every cow in town. It was delivered to Washington on a sleigh because it was too heavy to be transported by stagecoach. The Conway Hills Wildlife Sanctuary is one of many former farms that has been preserved as open space for wildlife and outdoor recreation. Old rock walls and building foundations are visible, as is a stand of mature sugar maples. Windsor State Forest features Windsor Jambs Brook, which plunges through a 25-foot-wide gorge with granite walls rising 80 feet on either side. Look for a precariously balanced rock, or glacial erratic, a reminder of the region’s glacial history. Savoy Mountain State Forest is one of the largest in the byway region at almost 12,000 acres. You can hike past floating bog islands, fish or swim in North and South Ponds, observe migrating hawks in the fall, bike on wooded mountain trails, and stay overnight in a log cabin. An old apple orchard is now home to more than 40 campsites, some wheelchair accessible. Places along the Route 116 Scenic Byway Ashfield Community Theater Ashfield Farmers Market Ashfield Hardware & Supply Ashuwillticook Rail Trail Bloody Brook Monument Burkeville Covered Bridge Cheshire Cheese Press Monument Double Edge Theater Elmer’s Store Mike’s Maze at Warner Farm Richard Cronin National Salmon Station Sunderland Center Historic District Woodbridge Street Historic District ← Previous Jacob’s Ladder Trail Route 112Next →	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4716
__label__wiki	0.626158	0.626158	Special Events Coming to the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center! July 13, 2018 /in News /by 1_cafilm@org-94901 There’s lots to be excited about coming up at the Rafael! We’re importing Shakespeare and the Beatles from across the pond, hosting many filmmakers and their exciting new films, exploring the new work of a master musician, bringing back a favorite from DocLands Documentary Film Festival deeply rooted in Marin history, celebrating the life and work of composer Leonard Bernstein and the return of hilarious and beautifully restored Laurel and Hardy shorts. Join us for something great coming to our screens this summer! Royal Shakespeare Company presents Macbeth Sunday, July 22 at 12:00 The Royal Shakespeare Company’s contemporary production of William Shakespeare’s darkest psychological thriller marks both Christopher Eccleston’s RSC debut and the return of Niamh Cusack to the company, in the role of Lady Macbeth. Deconstructing the Beatles: Birth of the Beatles Thursday, July 26 at 7:30 Sunday, July 29 at 1:00 Reaching back to their beginnings in the late 1950s, musicologist Scott Freiman looks at four Liverpool teenagers, having neither formal training nor ability to read and write music, and analyzes the path that brought them to superstardom as The Beatles, from their early days as the Quarrymen to their transformation in Hamburg. Dark Money with filmmaker Kimberly Reed A documentary that takes on qualities of a political thriller, this incisive film examines one of the greatest threats to American democracy: the influence of “anonymous” and untraceable corporate money on our elections and elected officials. Director Kimberly Reed will be in attendance to discuss the fascinating story of Montana’s fight against the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision of 2010, clearly recounted in this important film. Thursday, Aug. 2 at 7:00 Ryuichi Sakamoto has had a prolific musical career over four decades, from techno-pop stardom to Oscar-winning film composer, and his music’s evolution has coincided with his life journeys. This film documents his return to music following a cancer diagnosis and the creation of a resounding new masterpiece. Olompali: A Hippie Odyssey with filmmakers Gregg Gibbs and Maura McCoy and special guest Peter Coyote DocLands Encore! In the late 1960s, wealthy businessman Don McCoy dropped out and started a commune at an estate in northern Marin called Rancho Olompali. But McCoy’s dream of a utopian society was short-lived, and Olompali’s blissful first year was followed by a series of shocking tragedies that threaten its very existence. Narrated by Peter Coyote, this riveting true story explores the concept of the hippie ideal and its impact on American culture. Bernstein 100: On The Town Sunday, Aug. 12 at 4:15 & 6:45 This delightful movie musical from first time directors Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen showcases the music of Leonard Bernstein in an innovative production, with numbers actually staged on location in New York City. Three sailors—Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Jules Munshin—make the most of their 24-hour shore leave, painting the town red with Vera-Ellen, Betty Garrett and Ann Miller. Royal Shakespeare Company presents Romeo & Juliet Sunday, Aug. 12 at 12:00pm What if your first love was someone you’d been told you must hate? Set in a world very much like our own, this Royal Shakespeare Company production of Romeo & Juliet is about a generation of young people born into violence and ripped apart by the bitter divisions of their parents. The most famous story of love-at-first-sight explodes with intense passion and an irresistible desire for change, but leads all too quickly to heartbreaking consequences. Bernstein 100: On The Waterfront Leonard Bernstein earned an Academy Award nomination for his music for this American classic, the only score he wrote solely for the screen. Marlon Brando stars as longshoreman Terry Malloy, an ex-boxer determined to stand up to his corrupt union boss (Lee J. Cobb), with the help of a priest (Karl Malden) and a murdered worker’s sister (Eva Marie Saint), and against the advice of his brother (Rod Steiger), who is the boss’ right-hand man. Winner of eight Academy Awards. Deconstructing the Beatles: 1963 Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Thursday, August 23 at 7:00 Sunday, August 26 at 1:00 Musicologist Scott Freiman’s new filmed lecture in his continuing series about The Beatles starts in 1962, when the Fab Four stepped into EMI studios for the first time, meeting producer George Martin and beginning an unparalleled recording career. Over the next 18 months, they would release four number-one singles (including “She Loves You” and “I Want to Hold Your Hand”) and two number-one albums while becoming international superstars. Come explore the music that launched Beatlemania! Bernstein 100: West Side Story Based on the hit Broadway musical this Academy Award-winning movie has stood the test of time. Richard Beymer is Tony, co-founder of the New York street gang the Jets, and Natalie Wood is Maria, sister of the leader of the Puerto Rican Sharks. Even with love at first sight, can they bridge the racial divide? Bernard and Huey with filmmaker Dan Mirvish Thursday, Sept. 6 at 7:15 Based on a previously unproduced screenplay by cartoonist/playwright Jules Feiffer (Carnal Knowledge, Little Murders, Popeye), this film is a timely story of two men behaving badly and the smart women who rein them in. Jim Rash and David Koechner star as two college buddies who reunite three decades later, still fixated on their sexual conquests and still needing to grow up. Laurel and Hardy: Return of the Restored Thursday, Sept. 13 at 7:30 Sunday, Sept. 16 at 4:30 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were the most beloved double act in the movies. Both knocked around in silent comedy shorts for several years until 1927, when producer Hal Roach made them a pair. Of all the silent comics, Laurel and Hardy made the smoothest and most successful transition to sound, and our presentations focus on several talkies and one extremely rare silent. The films were restored by Jeff Joseph in conjunction with the UCLA Film and Television Archive, and it’s safe to say they haven’t looked this good since they were first released. 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__label__cc	0.66673	0.33327	tanina + blake \| loch awe March 17, 2016 Heather Masterton Tanina and Blake were married on 6th September at Argyll Chalets, Sonachan House, Loch Awe; the first wedding to be held at this venue! They were planning their wedding for 18 months... "I was pregnant with my youngest child when we got engaged. We were married three weeks before his first birthday." Huge thanks to the brilliant Rooftop Mosaic for sharing their images of the day. You can catch Gail & David on their website, Facebook or Instagram. "We were married in a marquee by the Loch. It was absolutely stunning, we felt very lucky to be getting married at such a beautiful location." "Blake is from England and when he moved to Scotland to be with me he loved to travel around and see Scotland's beautifully dramatic landscapes. On one of our trips I took him to one of my families favourite spots, Loch Awe. He immediately fell in love with it and we visited whenever we could. It was a no brainer, when we came to plan the wedding, where it would be held. The owners, Michele and Les, are lovely people and nothing was a problem for them." "I love planning in general, so the whole experience was right up my street. Although I did particularly enjoy sourcing suppliers to find the exact items I wanted. I particularly loved the chair covers which I had made by a company in China." "We had a Humanist ceremony. We spent a lot of time with our celebrant, working out all the details. It was very personal and relaxed." "My eldest daughter, Estelle, wrote and read a reading about family. She had everyone in tears... including the celebrant. Blake and I were very touched by the thought and emotion she had put into it. After the ceremony she was besieged by guests complementing her." "Blake was happy to let me run wild and get on with things. The only thing he was particularly worried about was the menu. Although we had quite formal decorations and flowers, we wanted the food to be comfort food and filling." I also adored the pewter goblets we had on the tables. The guests loved them too and they really added a sense of grandeur to the table setting. We sourced these from 88 events in Glasgow." "The flowers were stunning. Little Botanica in Shawlands are beyond talented. I gave them a rough remit and they took charge of everything else. I had bought little steampunk charms that they beautifully incorporated into the displays and bouquets. The guests loved them as they got to take a small reminder home with them." "I had a baby three months before I had to start looking for a dress. It was quite stressful and I wasn't feeling particularly confident. My cousin was looking for a wedding dress around the same time and was lucky enough to find one in Oxfam. They have a wedding dress shop in Clarkston, Glasgow. I thought I would have a look too and was equally lucky. I found a mermaid style, Pronovias dress for £100 and it was gorgeous. The next week I ended up going to the Eleganza Sposa Sale just to have a look at accessories and ended up falling in love with an Eleni Bridal gown. It was a vintage styled corset and a huge skirt which had a delicate shimmer through it. It was reduced from nearly £5,000 to £800!! Being only 5 feet tall, the gown drowned me so I had it restyled to more of a princess length. Fabricated Bridal alterations in Glasgow, done all the alterations. So in the end, I wore the Eleni gown during the day and the Pronovias gown in the evening. In total, including alterations, both gowns cost me £1,600." "Seeing Blake, waiting for me at the end of the aisle is my clearest memory. He was already in tears and looked so handsome in his kilt. I'm a lucky girl, Blake is an amazing person." Blake's parents are from Yorkshire and my father owned a chippy for twenty years so the obvious choice for a main was fish and Chips. They went down a storm." "My advice would be... don't take anyone's advice. We're all so different and when it comes to weddings, one size does not fit all." Venue: Argyll Chalets, Sonachan House, Portsonachan Band: We had Capella String Quartet for the ceremony and drinks reception. We hired a PA system for the evening and plugged our iPods in. We had prepared a playlist in advance. Florist: Little Botanica Stationery: I made my own invitations, I bought everything from Cards and Pockets. It's an American company so the strong pound made everything so much more affordable. Photographer: Rooftop Mosaic - Gail was so professional and put us both at ease. We both hate getting our picture taken and she made it so much easier. Videographer: My sister Gabriella made our wedding video for us, as well as being my maid of honour. She is a very talented film maker so I was very lucky to have her. "All our suppliers were great. It really pays to do your research. They all made our day so special and I can't thank them enough." In Real Weddings Tags Argyll Chalets, Loch Awe, Sonachan House, Marquee, Pronovias Gown, Second Hand Gown, Eleni Gown, Eleganza Sposa, Humanist Ceremony, Little Botanica, Steampunk, Steampunk Theme, Rooftop Mosaic Photography, Lochside Ceremony, Fish and Chips ← grace + keir \| isle of colonsayour blogging bride \| the dress →	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4721
__label__wiki	0.799522	0.799522	New water splitting catalyst could make it easier to generate solar fuel BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - Water splitting, the process of harvesting solar energy to generate energy-dense fuels, could be simplified thanks to new research including faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York. "The key idea is to generate a solar fuel: hydrogen gas, which can be burnt to release energy on demand without releasing carbon dioxide," said Binghamton University Associate Professor of Physics Louis Piper. "For water splitting, we use visible light to generate photo-excited negative electrons and positive holes that are then separated in order to catalyze water into oxygen and hydrogen gases. Storing gases is more straightforward (and cheaper) than employing battery set-ups, so this approach has the benefit of clean energy harvesting and storage." A research team including Piper figured out how "doping" (or adding metal ions) into vanadium pentoxide (M-V2O5) nanowires raises the highest filled energy levels for more efficient hole transfer from the quantum dots to nanowires i.e. separation of the photo-excited electrons and holes. "If you don't dope, then there is a buildup of positive holes that corrode the quantum dots (referred to as photo-corrosion)," said Piper. "Using computation and chemical intuition, we predicted doping with Sn2+ ions would result in excellent energy alignment and efficient charge separation. We saw a ten-fold increase in the amount of solar-harvested hydrogen we obtained." The researchers are now working with their collaborators at University of Buffalo and Texas A&M University to enhance the hydrogen gas evolution by decorating the quantum dots with platinum. "We expect platinum to improve things by acting as a catalytic site for the electrons, but our ultimate goal is to find less costly alternatives to decorate with," said Piper. Researchers at Diamond Light Source and Brookhaven National Laboratory also contributed to this paper. The paper, "Hole Extraction by Design in Photocatalytic Architectures Interfacing CdSe Quantum Dots with Topochemically Stabilized Tin Vanadium Oxide," was published in Journal of the American Chemical Society. Binghamton University Related Quantum Dots Articles: Graphene and quantum dots put in motion a CMOS-integrated camera that can see the invisible ICFO develops the first graphene-based camera, capable of imaging visible and infrared light at the same time. Platelets instead of quantum dots A team of researchers led by ETH Zurich professor David Norris has developed a model to clarify the general mechanism of nanoplatelet formation. Quantum dots illuminate transport within the cell Biophysicists from Utrecht University have developed a strategy for using light-emitting nanocrystals as a marker in living cells. 'Flying saucer' quantum dots hold secret to brighter, better lasers By carefully controlling the size of the quantum dots, the researchers can 'tune' the frequency, or color, of the emitted light to any desired value. 'Flying saucer' colloidal quantum dots produce brighter, better lasers A multi-institutional team of researchers from Canada and the US has demonstrated steady state lasing with solution-processed nanoparticles called 'colloidal quantum dots,' an important step on the path to improving laser tools for fiber optics, video projectors and more accurate medical testing technology. Quantum dots with impermeable shell: A powerful tool for nanoengineering Depending on their applications, quantum dots need to be tailored in terms of their structure and properties. USC quantum computing researchers reduce quantum information processing errors USC Viterbi School of Engineering scientists found a new method to reduce the heating errors that have hindered quantum computing. A new form of hybrid photodetectors with quantum dots and graphene ICFO researchers develop a hybrid photodetector comprising an active colloidal quantum dot photodiode integrated with a graphene phototransistor. ORNL demonstrates large-scale technique to produce quantum dots ORNL demonstrates a method to produce significant amounts of semiconducting nanoparticles for light-emitting displays, sensors, solar panels and biomedical applications. First single-enzyme method to produce quantum dots revealed Three Lehigh University engineers have successfully demonstrated the first precisely controlled, biological way to manufacture quantum dots using a single-enzyme, paving the way for a significantly quicker, cheaper and greener production method. More Quantum Dots News and Quantum Dots Current Events Related Quantum Dots Reading:	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4724
__label__cc	0.586251	0.413749	Living Planet: Cleaning up the commute From Living Planet - This week, we bring you stories of greener transport around the world, from eco-motorbikes in Uganda to the cycle-mad city of Utrecht, and talk to the man who's made Swedes ashamed to fly. Every Thursday, a new episode of Living Planet brings you environment stories from around the world, digging deeper into topics that touch our lives every day. This week, we bring you stories of greener transport around the world, from eco-motorbikes in Uganda to the cycle-mad city of Utrecht, and talk to the man who's made Swedes ashamed to fly. Living Planet: A rare breed This week we hear stories about different species in the animal kingdom: nutria, pangolins, the golden lancehead pit viper. According to the United Nations, one million animal and plant species are threatened with extinction, many within the coming decades. But as famed primatologist and conservation advocate Jane Goodall explains, animals aren't so different from us humans. Living Planet: It's getting hot in here! Dangerous heat waves and raging wildfires across Europe and Alaska have destroyed huge areas of land. Droughts in other parts of the world have pushed people to the brink of their existence and led to climate migration. As temperatures are soaring, so is the demand for air conditioning which creates its own vicious cycle. One solution: harvesting wastewater to help cool down buildings. Living Planet: Diving deep This week on the show, we visit the Pescadero Basin off Mexico's Pacific coast and shipwrecks in the cold waters of the Baltic Sea. Exploring the oceans - from tube worms to sea turtles - we look at the rich life they sustain. We'll also be asking what impact we humans have on our seas. Living Planet: Bolivia's water woes Bolivia has been dealing with torrential rains and landslides, but is suffering from a lack of drinking water as glaciers melt away. That's why the mostly indigenous people of the highland cities decided to take matters into their own hands and start their own local water supplies. Thomas Kruchem went to explore and began his quest in the metropolis of El Alto. His report is presented by Sue Cox. Living Planet: What's left of the Amazon? The Amazon Basin is the largest rainforest area in the world. Countless animal and plant species are at home here as well as several indigenous peoples who still avoid any contact with the outside world. But the Amazon region is under threat from deforestation and development. The situation has become even more critical since the election of Brazil's new President, Jair Bolsonaro. Living Planet: Challenging the status quo On this week's Living Planet we'll meet the Indian fishermen's wives who flexed their muscles to start their own rowing-boat mangrove tours. We'll find out why short-lived clothing could soon be out of fashion, whether local currencies help the environment and what sounds insects make. Living Planet: Time for a change of diet How might Hazelnuts be damaging the planet and its residents? What about sardines? On this edition of Living Planet, we look at the unexpected impact of some foods and what our diets could look like in the future. Living Planet: Life and Death This week on the show, we're talking about the environmental impacts of being born, as well as dying. What strain does our current population of over 7.6 billion people put on the earth? How much is our population expected to grow, and how will this growth further stress natural resources and the climate? Living Planet: Marathon Journeys Twice a year, our feathered friends make a marathon migration for warmth and food. We take some time to celebrate these birds, as well as meeting one woman who is making marathon journeys of her own - running 100 marathons in 100 days to raise awareness of the scarcity and waste of our most valuable resource - water. Why the reluctance on climate action? Why is it taking us so long to do something about climate change? Is it all in the mind? That's what we're trying to find out in this week's episode. We speak with a psychologist and climate campaigners, and listen to a project that uses music and the sounds of nature to appeal directly to the heart and inspire environmental change. Living Planet: Why the reluctance on climate action? Living Planet: Here today, gone tomorrow? From destroying rainforests to support our lifestyle habits to tackling the ever-growing mountain of waste from our consumer society. We pull back the curtain on where things come from and where they end up. Living Planet: High tech farming Drones flying above farms in the United Kingdom, app-based farming in Uganda and improving potato farming in India. We look at how technology is helping feed the world, and what new developments are out there. Living Planet: Fishing for answers On this episode, we travel the seas and look at fishing communities around the world. How do fishermen protect the natural environment? And when are their practices harmful? From Brexit's implications for sustainable fisheries to cage fishing in Uganda, we're fishing for answers on this fintastic show! Living Planet: Making friends, making enemies We have a complex relationship with the other living beings around us. From farming animals, keeping pets, and even conservation work to restore creatures' habitats. We exercise god-like control over the environment around us, making decisions about which creatures deserve to live amongst us, and which of them don't. Living Planet: The F word With some people choosing not to fly and some trying to reduce emissions with carbon offsets, aviation is a hot topic among environmentalists. We ask how the industry is tackling its environmental impact and what the future could hold. Living Planet: School's out... for the climate Student strikes demanding climate action are gaining momentum around the world, fossil fuel industry workers are protesting restrictions on oil and gas development in Canada, and young activists in the US are talking about the Green New Deal and how to best tackle climate change through policy. Are young people the answer to climate change? Living Planet: Waste not From Scotland to South Africa, the Himalayas to Hawaii, this week we feature stories from around the world about how we deal with all the stuff we create, and discard. We're taking a look at waste's big problems and some of the inventive and pragmatic solutions to deal with it. Living Planet: Move fast and build things From origami-like electric cars, to drones taking out a rat infestation in the Galapagos, to one company that is quite literally sucking CO2 out of the air in an effort to mitigate climate change. This week on Living Planet we're looking towards the future with new technologies that address environmental problems. Living Planet: Green protests, greener clubs As a global phenomenon, it's no wonder that climate change's impacts can be felt in our work, home life, and even our leisure activities. This is leading people to take to the streets, as is the case with recent climate action protests in France, and to make more sustainable choices in the least likely of places. Living Planet: Setting a precedent When it comes to the health of our planet, we often look to the example set by others. This week on Living Planet, we take a look at one U.S. state that is trying to set the bar high, one area in Chile that has a dismally low environmental record, and we speak with an environmental lawyer trying to set new precedents in Europe and beyond. Living Planet: Smart thinking Solutions to environmental problems are different everywhere. In this edition of Living Planet, we're taking a look at the projects looking to recycle waste across Africa, regrow coral in Florida and shine a light on plastic pollution in Bali. Living Planet: Wild wetlands Wetlands: swamps, bogs, and marshes are important worldwide as a source of fresh water and as a home to many insects and animals. However, many of them are under threat due to overuse and deforestation and some are cleared to make way for farming. Living Planet: Taking Action! When talking about climate change, we can sometimes feel overwhelmed with problems that don't seem to have solutions. In this episode of Living Planet, we meet the students protesting for climate action, the landscapers in California who are switching to electric only equipment and the NASA climate scientist who reduced his fossil fuel use to 1/10th of what it was. Living Planet: Paying for the hidden costs From fossil fuels to water usage, our consumption has causes hidden environmental damage further along the supply chain. In this episode of Living Planet, we assess how Argentina is performing against its climate goals, whether Germany can phase out coal whilst protecting workers, where we get our drinking water from and how overuse of water is causing Indonesia's capital to sink into the sea.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4725
__label__wiki	0.66995	0.66995	20180726 Rahul Tongia Quartz Brookings India Media Mentions and External Appearances Indian Railways’ business model is based on passengers underpaying and freight overpaying. Already, in financial year 2016-17, coal’s extra freight charge increased the cost of power by about 10 paise per kilowatt on average. For power plants in distant states, which inherently rely on Railways for coal, this number can be three times higher. Rahul Tongia Quartz Tuesday, August 7, 2018 Gujarat, Punjab, Tamil Nadu that are far from coal mines, and therefore pay more than others, will contribute proportionately more to recover the coaching loss — the passenger subsidy. This overpayment by coal-based power applies to all coal generation in States like Punjab as all their coal comes via Railways. Rahul Tongia The Hindu Tuesday, August 7, 2018 Shamika Ravi spoke at The Media Rumble about making health political and democratised. “No country can develop on the back of poor human capital.” Shamika Ravi The Media Rumble For many years, the biggest constraint on India-U.S. military industrial cooperation was U.S. export control policy, which was a combination of international regimes, U.S. law, and U.S. regulation. These have gradually been amended, and India has been increasingly accommodated. However, moving forward, India will have to find ways to better absorb new technologies that are now available to it. Such steps will have to include, among other things, creating greater incentives for investment, ensuring that imported technology is secure and not leaked to third parties, and better integration into global supply chains. Until these steps take place, India may not be able to take full advantage of a number of opportunities for technology transfer that have now become available... Dhruva Jaishankar CNBC Monday, August 6, 2018 [While China was initially focused on former premier Nawaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, or PML-N,] Beijing has diversified its contacts and investments in Pakistan... Khan does not have a lot of wiggle room...We may continue to see a gradual trend of Pakistan drifting closer to China and more distant from the United States. But that would have to do with a number of factors beyond Imran Khan’s election. Dhruva Jaishankar Bloomberg Thursday, August 2, 2018 Rahul Tongia talked about his research on scaling renewable energy in India and how utilities will have to reinvent themselves to keep the electricity ecosystem sustainable. Rahul Tongia Shamika Ravi says that the push for data localisation is a global phenonmenon, for obvious reasons. The RBI is looking at it from a supervisory or a regulatory oversight view, but there is also the question of assurance of privacy protection. Shamika Ravi was part of a panel discussion on whether amendments to India’s maternity act, including doubling paid maternity leave to 6 months, will prove beneficial in the long run or dissuade industry from hiring women. While generation capacity [of electric vehicles] at a national level may be present, many bottlenecks will be local, especially at the feeder or distribution transformer level...There are broader ecosystem issues that need further study, including grid-signalling (including time-of-day pricing for electricity), valuing pollution reduction, charging infrastructure and finances...More than half the retail cost of petrol is taxes, which would need to be covered via other means if we move to EVs. It is unlikely one can (or should) tax electricity at the same rate Rahul Tongia June 20, 2018 India's toilet initiative, under which the government is trying to install 75 million public toilets by 2019, is not on its face a women's rights move, but it will increase women's access to sanitation materials. Shamika Ravi Axios June 15, 2018	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4728
__label__cc	0.528344	0.471656	Home » Dead Heat (Combustion 2) Dead Heat (Combustion 2) Author: Kate Hill Cover Art: Marteeka Karland Genres: Paranormal, Romance, Sci-Fi Themes: Men and Women in Uniform, Multicultural & Interracial, Multiple Partners Series: Combustion (#2) With her memory erased, Erica is caught between two men -- a handsome doctor who claims to be her boyfriend and a sexy government agent who suspects them of murder. She must rely on instinct to decide who to trust. Suffering from a fever that can be broken only by sexual release, Erica soon learns that neither she nor the doctor belong on Earth. Passion flares between the visitors and the agent who has discovered them, but will he endanger their lives or save them? "Dead Heat" is also available through Amazon and Barnes & Noble! Copyright ©2014 Kate Hill She opened her eyes and glanced around the unfamiliar room. It was scarcely large enough for the bed and dresser. The green curtains on the window matched the quilt covering the bed on which she lay. Rain pelted the roof and wind howled outside. Her heart raced and she trembled. She felt so strange, almost desperate, like she needed something but didn't know what. Glancing at the door across the room, she hoped it led to a relief chamber. She sat up on the bed and winced, then touched a hand to a sore place on the back of her head. Why couldn't she remember where she was and what she was doing here? Panic clogged her chest when she realized she didn't remember anything about how she'd arrived at this place. She walked to the door, but no sooner had she opened it than her worries regarding her failed memory vanished, replaced by a much bigger problem -- the dead body slouched on the floor in the shower. Her heartbeat quickened even more and waves of intense heat broke over her as she backed out of the relief chamber. She walked to the primitive communication device on the bedside table and picked it up, then paused. Who should she call? The entrance door opened and three men stepped inside. One was short and old with a bushy gray beard and a paunch that even his oversized yellow raincoat couldn't hide. The other two were younger and quite handsome, though vastly different in appearance. Both had blue eyes and dark hair, but one was of average height with a sturdy build while the other was tall and rangy. The taller one wore a long black coat, but the other had only a drenched white shirt that clung to his muscular torso. Rain-soaked jeans molded to his strong thighs. "Erica, how are you?" Mr. Tight Jeans approached, concern gleaming in his big blue eyes. He rested his large hands gently on her shoulders. Damn, his hands were hot. They only increased the fever that burned in her. An ache started deep in her belly. That delicate place between her legs tingled. She might not remember details, but she instinctively knew sexual desire. Still, this was a strange time to be horny. Was this a bad dream? None of this felt quite real. "I... there's a body in the relief chamber." He glanced quickly toward his companions. "The what?" growled the old man. "She means the bathroom. The whack on the head might have messed up her vocabulary." "Really?" The tall man arched a dark eyebrow and strode past them toward the relief -- bathroom. "What's going on?" she asked. "I don't know where I am or who you all are. I --" "You hit your head when the thief broke in and attacked us," explained Tight Jeans. He guided her to the bed and she sat while he took her face in his hands and examined her head and eyes. "How do you feel?" "Weird." "Does your head hurt?" "A little." "She should be examined at the hospital," said the tall man, stepping out of the bathroom. "Unfortunately due to the storm the only road leading to this motel is closed on both ends and the phone lines have been knocked out." "I told you I'm a doctor," said Tight Jeans. "I've examined her and I think she'll be all right." "Who are you and will someone tell me what's going on?" she demanded, feeling panicked again. Why couldn't she remember? "You think she'll be all right?" the old man said, his voice gravelly. "The woman don't remember nothin'." "Will somebody please just --" "Erica, calm down. Do you know my name?" asked Tight Jeans. "No. I don't know any of you and if you tell me that my name is Erica, I'll take your word for it because I don't remember that either." He looked even more concerned and said, "I'm Carlos." "You're a doctor?" "Yes, and I'm also your boyfriend." Lucky her. He was damn cute. "You say the man in there knocked on your door and when you opened it he forced his way in?" asked tall, dark and inquisitive. "Yeah. Erica opened the door and he grabbed her. I was in the bathroom and came out as soon as I heard them fighting. When he saw me, he pushed her away. That's when she hit her head. I fought with the guy and during the struggle he dropped dead," Carlos explained. The other guy looked skeptical. "Why does shit like this have to happen at my motel?" growled the old man. "All right, so you own the motel so I'm guessing we've never met before," Erica went on. She glanced at the tall man. "How about you? How do you fit in?" "You can call me Ian. I'm a federal agent." "So I guess that means you're in charge then?" she said, her gaze locking with Ian's. Unlike Carlos' large, sincere eyes, Ian's were almond-shaped and seemed to hide a million secrets. "Yes," he said, his voice deep and husky. "I'm in charge."	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4740
__label__wiki	0.577177	0.577177	Theater[24]: A Curator’s Diary By Elisabeth Del Toro There is a sense of vulnerability in showing people a rough draft, asking for their feedback, and polishing it in front of someone whose opinion matters to you. Theater[24] is that vulnerability incarnate, a quarterly event where, within 24 hours, students write, rehearse, and perform shows for their peers—peers who have the critical sensibilities to rip their work to shreds. Every quarter since 2010, University Theater (UT) has produced the Theater[24] Festival, and every quarter since spring of 2014, I have curated it. Theater[24]’s rehearsal period and run are dramatically shorter than most of UT’s work: one day in lieu of five to nine weeks, and one performance instead of the standard four. For the average participant, [24] starts on Friday night of first week. Actors introduce themselves to the other festival participants in 60 seconds or less, often singing, talking about their day, juggling, or reading erotic fanfiction. Curators like myself live-tweet the whole experience (@thtr24). After they all introduce themselves, writers and directors pair up; they then draw names of actors to write into their shows. Designers are prepped for the next day, and writing teams sneak away to a secret space where they will be crafting plays for the next 12ish hours. Everyone else is told to go to sleep (everyone but the first-timers usually do). Saturday morning the writers turn in their plays, and the curators, directors, actors, and designers read them for the first time. After the read-through, writers head home and rehearsals begin. As per usual, this quarter the writers came up with some inside jokes that could only make sense to the sleep-deprived members locked in a room; there were running jokes about Ted Cruz being the Zodiac Killer, a very specific recurring sound cue of cows dying in a fire, and many, many references to Hamilton. Writers often add such absurd recurring bits to the center of a [24] show because people are tired and think they’re funny. As a curator, I spent a lot of time during the day musing about what would translate to a non–UT audience and what would feel like an inside joke, and I can’t help but think most of it fell into the latter. But that’s the thing about inside jokes: they develop by accident and shared experience. Theater[24] often feels like both things rolled into one. As I rehearse with the shows, I feel like dozens of people are winking at me, and it’s nice. It’s nice to read scripts where the playwrights are present and want you to approve of them. By the time the show itself arrives, everyone is spent. After warm ups, the house opens and the Theater[24] Dance Party Extravaganza begins—a much beloved and much contested tradition of [24]. Basically, for half an hour, the festival participants dance to a terrible Top 40/’90s Throwback playlist on stage and in the growing audience. In theory, audience members can join in and hop on stage or dance anywhere in the room. More often than not, the people with friends on stage will join in, and the people who don’t will sit awkwardly for a very long time. It can feel exclusive, I get that. It is also my last festival, so in rosy-glasses senior style, I dance and blow bubbles with my friends without worrying about anyone else. The other other curators and I introduce ourselves to the audience. As we calm our nerves, the festival starts, and I prepare myself for my first role, Leonardo DiCaprio. After five more plays (I play Ted Cruz, a Soviet Space Camp instructor, two girl scouts running through the woods, an unnamed Stage Manager, and Hillary Clinton), the show is suddenly over. I hear the other curators listing the remaining UT season—shows I am not part of—encouraging people to join a [24] listhost for festivals that will continue after I graduate, and suddenly it is my turn. I spit out the after-party location, reminding participants they have to stay to strike the show, and I realize this is it. At the end of the day, I think Theater[24] has always been for itself; it’s more about the experience of the day than the experience of watching the show. While its pool often overlaps with UT, there are festival participants who come back every quarter and never work on another UT show. Theater[24] is a self-selecting group that spends its first weekend on something that guarantees low production value, lowbrow humor, laughter, and new acquaintances. I participated in Theater[24] my first weekend at UChicago and met people I ended up taking classes with, acting in UT mainstages with, and even going on dates with. This year, as a fourth-year, I watched those same connections form in younger classes. UT often seems to have a four-year-long institutional memory. Something as ever-changing as [24] can feel even shorter. It represents and amplifies everything ephemeral about theater itself. We remember the people but not the shows. We remember each other, but not our Ted Cruz impressions. We forget, but we remember. The Maroon in your inbox. Every Tuesday and Friday. The independent student newspaper of The University of Chicago since 1892. © 2019 The Chicago Maroon. Built & designed by Euirim Choi '19.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4742
__label__wiki	0.733399	0.733399	BISHOP OLMSTED EL SOL CATÓLICO DIOCESE OF PHOENIX Catholic Podcasts The Catholic Conversation Parenting Smarts The Bishop’s Hour I Got Issues Homilies and More The Catholic Sun Bishops OK plan to implement ‘motu proprio’ on addressing abuse BALTIMORE (CNS) — The U.S. bishops approved a plan to implement the “motu proprio” “Vos estis lux mundi” (“You are the light of the world”) issued in May by Pope Francis to help the Catholic Church safeguard its members from abuse and hold its leaders accountable. The “motu proprio” was one of the measures that came out the Vatican’s February Vatican summit on clergy sexual abuse attended by the presidents of the world’s bishops’ conferences. The implementation plan passed 281-1, with two abstentions, June 13, the last day of the bishops’ June 11-13 general meeting in Baltimore. Directives for implementing the new juridical instrument in the U.S. church were formally presented to the bishops June 11. Bishops approve third-party reporting system “Vos Estis Lux Mundi” established “procedures for reporting complaints of sexual abuse of minors or of vulnerable persons by clerics or by members of institutes of consecrated life or societies of apostolic life,” said Bishop Robert P. Deeley of Portland, Maine, chairman of the bishops’ Committee on Canonical Affairs and Church Governance, in introductory remarks June 11 before he presented the plan. “The ‘motu proprio’ likewise holds church leaders accountable for actions or omissions relating to the handling of such reports,” he added. The implementation plan, Bishop Deeley said, has five elements: “Provide for the utilization of a national third-party reporting system by which reports can be received and conveyed to (the) proper ecclesiastical authority.” “Underscore the requirement to provide pastoral care to persons who might have been harmed.” “Encourage the utilization of proven experts chosen from among the laity.” “Affirm the oversight responsibility of the metropolitan throughout the investigatory process.” In church parlance, a metropolitan is the archbishop in a province with other dioceses headed by bishops. There are 32 metropolitans in the U.S. church. The implementation plan was called colloquially by several bishops as “the metropolitan plan.” “Recognize the competence of each ecclesiastical province to determine an appropriate means to allocate costs for the investigation of reports and the provision of pastoral care to victims/survivors.” Bishop Robert P. Deeley of Portland, Maine, speaks on the first day of the spring general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore June 11, 2019. (CNS photo/Bob Roller) Bishop Deeley said the directives “are not intended to establish particular law for the United States.” The provisions in “Vos Estis Lux Mundi” itself took effect June 1 and will last for three years. The implementation plan itself also is good for three years, subject to a later review by the bishops. The “motu proprio” said bishops’ conferences need to establish a “public, stable and easily accessible” system for submitting abuse reports. The implementation plan urges provinces to publish information on this system broadly “in printed form, online and other media means.” When an abuse report is made, the plan said, “it is highly encouraged that the metropolitan avail himself of an investigator” from among a group previously identified to conduct an investigation. Such a list would include “persons expert in relevant fields, such as law enforcement, criminal investigation, civil law, canon law, psychology and social work,” it adds. “The appointed investigator can make use of other proven experts, who are likewise appointed by the metropolitan, chosen predominantly from among laypersons, who are called upon in view of the nature of the report and the expertise needed to examine it.” The metropolitan should report any “conflict of interest or lack of impartiality” brought to his attention to the Vatican, including that of an investigator. The implementation plan says, “Each province ought to determine the appropriate means by which it will establish a fund, should it choose to do so, or how it will otherwise allocate costs for the investigation of reports received and for the pastoral care of those who might have been harmed.” “In furtherance of the presumption of innocence enjoyed by the bishop,” it says, “all appropriate steps are to be taken to protect his reputation, to assure the exercise of other rights afforded him under canon law, and to restore his good name when it has been illegitimately harmed.” A footnote in the plan said that “in cases where the report concerns the metropolitan, or the metropolitan see is vacant,” the most senior bishop in that province would be expected to carry out the directives. “Vos Estis Lux Mundi” “took concrete steps to eradicate the crime of sexual abuse,” Bishop Deeley told his fellow bishops June 11. But nothing the U.S. bishops can do, he added, “can derogate from the universal law” of the church or otherwise restrict the Vatican’s capacity to act. Boston Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley looks on as Archbishop Alexander K. Sample of Portland, Ore., speaks from the floor during the spring general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore June 13, 2019. (CNS photo/Bob Roller) In response to a question posted by Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas, administrator of the Diocese of Las Cruces, New Mexico, Bishop Deeley said a metropolitan cannot start an investigation until directed to do so by the Vatican. “The Holy See may decide that that metropolitan is not the (proper) metropolitan to do it, for whatever reason.” Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston replied that “by our standards, waiting a month before you could begin an investigation is a far cry from the usual practice (in the United States) and could be seen as leaving a situation that could endanger young people,” and he wondered aloud whether the U.S. bishops could urge the Vatican to get investigations started more quickly. Other bishops raised concerns June 13 similar to those voiced by Cardinal O’Malley. Bishop Deeley said the “within 30 days” phrase in “Vos Estis Lux Mundi” is “an accommodation to parts of the world where communications are not as readily available as they are here.” Some bishops expressed a desire to put an auditing system in place to make sure the implementation plan is working as intended. Bishop Deeley acknowledged such plan details could not be included in the document because they need to be developed. He reminded the bishops that the “metropolitan plan” is one means to report suspected abuse, but “not the only means.” — By Mark Pattison, Catholic News Service. USCCB19 Previous articleBishops approve third-party reporting system Next articleProtocol approved on restrictions on bishops facing claim of abuse Catholic News Service, serving since 1920 as a news agency specializing in reporting religion, is the primary source of national and world news that appears in the U.S. Catholic press. It is also a leading source of news for Catholic print and broadcast media throughout the world. 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__label__wiki	0.833653	0.833653	Almost Everybody Picks Duke March 9, 1999 / 12:33 AM / CBS Sportsline As SportsLine goes into its four-corners offense -- sending writers to all points of the country to cover every subregional -- we polled our top 10 hoopheads most intimately involved in covering the NCAA Tournament, to see if they really know what they're talking about. The task was easy -- predict the teams that will advance through the first week of games. Simple? Well, let's just say the results of the CBS SportsLine Sweet 16 poll were all over the board. Maybe it's parity among the teams, or a simple disparity of opinion. Our 10 free-thinking writers reason that more than half the field is worthy of the Sweet 16. They cast votes for 34 teams, leaving out No. 7 Louisville, but including No. 13 Siena. Pick enough teams, and they're bound to be right. An upset special emerged from the picks -- 12th-seeded Detroit, which garnered two votes. To make Mark Alesia and Michael Happy look good, the Titans would have to survive UCLA in the first round and then blast through the second round, likely against Ohio State. Our writers each had a reach or two, but found there's no need to stray too far from the seedings. Four teams were unanimous selections -- second-seed Maryland and a trio of No. 1s in Duke, Michigan State and UConn. Alas, we have relatively little faith in the South's top seed, Auburn. Only five of our 10 voters figure that Auburn will be erased in the first weekend, either by No. 9 Oklahoma State (three votes) or No. 8 Syracuse (two). Go ahead, Tigers ... prove us wrong. Writer Picks Comment Alesia Duke UConn This is my brain: Duke rolls to the championship. This is my brain on a big (but natural, of course) March Mayhem buzz: Temple or Cincinnati knocks off the Blue Devils before the Final Four. Got to stay sober, though. Nobody's offering odds -- not here, at least. Browne Duke Stanford Anybody who says Kentucky isn't Kentucky these days will regret that statement by the end of March. Tubby Smith can coach, and Wayne Turner can penetrate like no other point guard in the country. Still, Duke will be just too much. The Blue Devils will avenge last year's regional final loss to the Wildcats by kncking off Tubby's troops in the national semifinal en route to their first national title since 1992. Miech Duke Ohio St. Stanford The Blue Devils, who have extra incentive in St. Pete because that's where they lost to Kentucky in the Southeast final a year ago, will conclude their season-long clinic on fast breaks, rebounds and defense with a national title. The lone question left to ponder: How long will this dynasty last? Buck Duke Arkansas Coach K makes sure nobody reads the press clippings. ... Kentucky continues to give Rick Majerus and Utah nightmares. ... For Maryland, two words: Steve Francis. ... St. Pete will open gates for Arkansas' 40 minutes of hell. Dodd Duke Playing Duke, Connecticut and Syracuse has steeled the Johnnies for their first significant run since the Carnesseca era. If UConn's Jim Calhoun doesn't get to the Final Four this year, you wonder if he ever will. The Utes take out Kentucky (finally) in the Midwest semifinal and then cruise past an Arizona team that is spent after upsetting Michigan State. ... Still, it's Duke, forever. Happy Duke UConn Despite its diminished presence in the Tournament, the best of the ACC remains better than everybody else. Lurie Duke Stanford Duke gets tested once or twice but makes it, Arizona brings back its NCAA title expertise and gets hot, Stanford beats UConn in a classic rematch. In the difficult-to-pick South where No. 1 seed Auburn was the weakest of the four, Maryland comes out too tight after a favorable draw toward its first Final Four appearance and loses to NCAA-tested Jim O'Brien and his Ohio State Buckeyes. Kahn Duke Stanford Everybody is afraid of Duke and rightfully so. Ths version of the Blue Devils is the best team since the Larry Johnson-Stacey Augmon teams at UNLV. The sleeper coming out of the Midwest is Kentucky -- winner of two of the last three NCAA titles -- and coming off an SEC championship. But the Cats aren't good enough to beat Stanford this time ... and nobody will even test Duke. Gimino Duke North Carolina Having only three teams invited to the party was a swipe at the prestige of the ACC, but the league gets the last laugh as its Big Three rolls into the Final Four with a 12-0 record. Duke is Duke ... and Maryland and North Carolina can beat everybody not named Blue Devils. It's not as if this has never happened before. In 1985, the Big East sent St. John's, Georgetown and Villanova to the semifinals. McCarthy Duke UConn Do you remember the '91 UNLV team that was supposed to be ready for the NBA? Mike Krzyzewski does. His Blue Devils beat the Runnin' Rebels in the national semifinals. Coach K will not let his team suffer the same plight. Duke, '99 NCAA champion. First published on March 9, 1999 / 12:33 AM	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4747
__label__wiki	0.606056	0.606056	Unsolved murder case is the talk of small Texas town 17 years later In Bonham, Texas, the Jennifer Harris case has become folklore -- the 2002 murder is one of the oldest and coldest murder cases in Fannin County, where many are devoted to solving it Murder on Red River Produced by Marcelena Spencer and Dena Goldstein [This story first aired on May 19, 2018] Jennifer Harris was 28 when she disappeared on May 12, 2002. Her Jeep was found abandoned on the side of the road. Six days later, a fisherman found her nude body floating in the Red River. Police learned Jennifer had told at least one other person she was pregnant. Initially, while she was missing, police reached out to the two men in her life – James Hamilton, her ex-boyfriend, and Rob Holman, her ex-husband. Both denied seeing her the night she disappeared. Both have denied being involved in the murder and neither has been arrested or charged with any crime related to Harris' murder. Every month, the Riders for Justice saddle up for Jennifer Harris. CBS News The case grew cold and along the way became part of the Bonham folklore – and its rumor mill. In 2017, then-newly elected Fannin County Sheriff Mark Johnson made good on a campaign promise to take a second look at the Jennifer Harris case. What he found was limited information and some evidence that had been damaged and destroyed by water getting into a storage pod. Johnson says he believes other evidence may have been mishandled. Daryl Parker, a former sheriff's lieutenant and Marine, is now a private investigator working with Harris' family to find answers. "If anything happens in this case, rain or shine, anytime of day, I'm on it," Parker says. Also trying to solve the case is Barry Wernick, a filmmaker married to Harris' sister, Alyssa. He began working on the project two years ago. He says he's done interviews with people who were not interviewed by law enforcement early on and is following up on any leads he gets. "Finding the killer and actually being able to prove who the killer is, will that actually be able to provide closure? Well, yeah, for my family it will," says Wernick. "It doesn't get any easier," says Alyssa Wernick. "There's not one day that I don't wake up and think about my sister." Will Parker, Wernick or Sheriff Johnson be able to solve the case? THE SEARCH FOR JENNIFER In the northeast corner of Texas, where the banks of the Red River touch Oklahoma, you'll find Fannin County and the town of Bonham, one of the oldest cities in the Lone Star State. And it's where, Mark Johnson, who had just wrapped up 32 years in law enforcement, decided to ditch retirement and run for sheriff in 2016. Sheriff Mark Johnson: I met Jerry Harris, the father of the young lady, on the campaign trail… And he made a promise, from one father to another, to continue the investigation into the murder of Jerry's oldest daughter, 28-year-old Jennifer Harris -- a case unsolved for more than 15 years. Sheriff Mark Johnson: When I came here January 1 and took over … I demanded that case be brought to me. Jim Axelrod: That was the first thing you did? Sheriff Mark Johnson: Yes. I wanted the Jennifer Harris case Jennifer's father, a Marine and Vietnam veteran, finally has hope. Jerry Harris: I think he's serious about trying to solve this case. And he's not the only one. For the last eight years, Daryl Parker has been working with Jerry Harris to solve his daughter's murder; first as a lieutenant in the Fannin County Sheriff's Office, and now as a private investigator. Daryl Parker: A Marine never meets a stranger if he meets another Marine. He too was a Marine and Parker has never charged Jerry a dime. Daryl Parker: I still have a lot of that Captain America justice kinda thing goin' on. …I want Jerry and his family to find justice. Jennifer "was the red-haired girl who was the goof ball … adorable… loveable …Lucille Ball-type," says sister Alyssa Wernick. Harris family In high school, Jennifer Harris was popular and athletic. Jerry Harris: … brilliant red-haired girl … bright brown eyes, who played tennis … and was a cheerleader… Alyssa Wernick: … she was [sighs] amazing. …She was the red-haired girl who was the goof ball … adorable… loveable …Lucille Ball-type. …She smothered me with love. Jennifer "was a dreamer" says her younger sister, Alyssa. Alyssa Wernick: She was an idealist. And she knew that there was a bigger world outside of Bonham, Texas. Daryl Parker: Bonham is probably your prototypical Small Town, USA … Gossip is on an epic scale. Jim Axelrod: When Jennifer Harris goes missing, how does that news play in Bonham? Daryl Parker: It was a bombshell. Because … this girl was not too removed from high school. To understand that she had been murdered -- it disturbed a lot of people. Jerry Harris: She was only 28 years old. She was just beginning to come into her own right when she was murdered. Sheriff Mark Johnson: The day that I came in here and looked at her case … and opened those boxes, I wanted to sit down on the floor and cry. That's because after more than 15 years, they don't have a lot to work with. "That's the Jennifer Harris case, everything that's involved," Sheriff Mark Johnson tells CBS News' Jim Axelrod of the handful of boxes on a rolling cart. CBS News Jim Axelrod: And what do we have in each of these boxes? Sheriff Mark Johnson: This is all the documentation that's in there … you know, when she first came up missing … this is a poster they're looking for her … newspaper articles, business records … and this is just some case reports. Sheriff Mark Johnson: Now this is wet. A lot of the stuff got wet … They had some pods out back. …They stored a lot of evidence. …They leaked … a lot of stuff got wet. Jim Axelrod: Contaminated. Sheriff Mark Johnson: Yes. Some of it got destroyed. Daryl Parker: The file was very light … Duplicates of the same paperwork over and over and over again … it was a mess. Although the original investigators have said they did their best, Jennifer's laptop computer and clothing -- a shirt, bra, and jeans that might have been hers -- were booked into evidence but, somehow, mysteriously disappeared. Sheriff Mark Johnson: It's just been mishandled. Jim Axelrod: Why would it be mishandled? Sheriff Mark Johnson: I honestly don't know. The only thing I can gather out of it is lack of experience, lack of training. It was Mother's Day 2002. Jennifer was visiting her friend Kristy Farr in the early evening. Jim Axelrod: It gets to be close to 8:00, and Jennifer's like, "I gotta go"? Daryl Parker: Correct. She never told Farr where she was going. But Jennifer Harris never returned home that night. The next day, Jennifer's Jeep was discovered -- parked just down the road from a local music spot. Alyssa Wernick is determined to find justice for her sister CBS News Alyssa Wernick: I get a phone call … that her Jeep had been found … What did she do leaving her Jeep on the side of the road? While she was still missing, authorities reached out to the two men in her life: her former boyfriend and business partner James Hamilton and her ex-husband Rob Holman. Both agreed to speak with investigators without a lawyer present. They had not been arrested, but both men were read their Miranda rights. And both denied seeing Jennifer the night she disappeared: JAMES HAMILTON [police interview]: I know I'm not guilty of anything… JAMES HAMILTON [police interview]: I would love to know that she's OK, she's happy. According to his police interview, Jennifer's former boyfriend, James Hamilton, was with a friend more than an hour away from Bonham at a McDonalds around the time investigators believe Jennifer disappeared. He even took -- and passed -- a lie detector test. Daryl Parker: He had an alibi for that evening …The alibi checked out. But ex-husband Rob Holman seemed concerned about his alibi: ROB HOLMAN [police interview]: I'm just … worried and scared. 'Cause I know that I don't have anybody to say where I was at that night. Holman told investigators that he had gone out that night to buy beer and visit friends. But when they weren't home, he drove around alone for five hours on the roads of rural Fannin County. INVESTIGATOR: Sunday when you went riding around, you saw her. ROB HOLMAN: No, I didn't see her Sunday. I saw a Jeep, but I didn't see -- I don't know whose it was… But when the investigator pushes harder. It sounds like Holman is admitting he did see her Jeep that night. INVESTIGATOR: Where'd you see her Jeep? ROB HOLMAN: I was on 898 at the stop sign by the blinkin' light… then I turned north. She was in front of me. She was comin' from town. By now, Jennifer had been missing for 72 hours. The search would continue for three more days. "I was getting about three or four hours a sleep a night … spent the rest of my time … searching, driving country roads …looking for buzzards," Jerry Harris says of his search for Jennifer Red Rabbit Productions in association with TWOBAR Entertainment Jerry Harris: I was getting about three or four hours a sleep a night … spent the rest of my time … searching, driving country roads …looking for buzzards. Jim Axelrod: That's a hell of thing for a father to have to do. Jerry Harris: Well, that's what I did … until they found her. Jerry Harris: Things seemed to go in slow motion for me. …It was very surreal. Daryl Parker: There was a fisherman who was fishing on the Red River, he saw a body in the water. …the body is completely naked. Jim Axelrod: Not a stitch of clothing? Daryl Parker: Not a sock. Alyssa Wernick: I remember going to the Red River … to the bridge … seeing … the police officers, the sheriff … and I remember my dad being right there with them and I just, "Let me see her, let me see her, let me see, is it her? It can't be her [voice breaks] …Is it her? Is it her? Is it really her? [cries]. Finding Jennifer's body six days after her disappearance devastated her father Jerry. But it did little to clear up the mystery of what had happened to her. She was so badly decomposed the medical examiner couldn't determine the cause of death. But Jennifer's family believes they know the answer. Her sister Alyssa and her filmmaker husband Barry Wernick are on mission to prove who killed Jennifer and why. Barry Wernick: Jennifer's murder impacted my wife and her family, you can't even put it in words. … This is much more than a passion project, because this is family. Jim Axelrod: In the time you've been looking into this, have you gone from … "I want the facts to shape my opinion" to now having a sense of who killed Jennifer? Barry Wernick: Absolutely. LOOKING FOR CLUES Alyssa Wernick: To think about how beautiful she was and her red hair and just how -- [sighs] and to think about how she was found. That's what um, that's what I just can't let go of until justice is done. Barry Wernick married Jennifer Harris' sister Alyssa eight years after Jennifer's murder. Barry Wernick: When Alyssa first told me about her sister's murder … the first thing that came to my mind was, "Who did it? Do you know who did it? " …All these things started going through my mind. Filmmakers Michael Barnett, left, and Barry Wernick CBS News The Wernicks are determined to answer those questions by making a docuseries, "Justice for Jennifer." Barry, an experienced filmmaker, was a consultant on this broadcast. Barry Wernick: I felt like I could use my filmmaking ability to do our own investigating, because it didn't seem like anyone was doing it. He is working hand-in-hand with Daryl Parker and another private eye, Jim Holloway, re-examining everything. Jim Axelrod: We are in a place -- this is central to your theory of what happened. Daryl Parker: Yes. The reason why Daryl Parker is so sure of where Jennifer died is because of a clue that lies on the river's floor a short way down the dirt road. Daryl Parker: She had some blue mud … on the front of her … according to fishermen there are only two spots on the river within several miles that that mud is on the bottom. And the river bank is one of those spots. Daryl Parker [at the river bank]: This is that blue marl mud that was on the body. Not far from the river bank there used to be the original caretaker's cottage. "This is where the original caretaker's cottage was," Parker tells Axelrod. Daryl Parker: And it just so happened that it burned down the night Jennifer Harris disappeared. Parker suspects Jennifer left her friend Kristy Farr's house and met her killer here. He believes the cottage was burned to hide the evidence. Jim Holloway: No godly Earth reason for that shack to burn at the same night Jennifer comes up missin'. Parker hoped to find clues here. Daryl Parker: We came here … with a crew and excavated the whole thing …15 feet that way [pointing] to another 10 feet that way on either side of this foundation. Jim Axelrod: I see a well. Daryl Parker: We drained the well. …And then we dug down in the muck, probably a foot or two … We didn't come up with anything. But years of coming up empty hasn't deterred Daryl Parker or Barry and Alyssa Wernick. And it hasn't shaken their conviction of who killed Jennifer. Alyssa Wernick: When I think about Jennifer, I think about Jennifer and Rob. Rob and Jennifer were together for as long as anyone can remember. She was a sixth- grader when she began dating Rob, a fifth-grader. By high school the teenagers were practically inseparable, says Jennifer's cousin, Susan Bowen. Susan Bowen: He was just part of our family from the time we were growing up. …Jennifer was just in love with him, she just adored everything about him. Jennifer had big dreams -- bigger than could take flight in small town Bonham. Jerry Harris: Jennifer had potential to explore greater horizons than just Fannin County, Texas. Jennifer and Ron Holman Harris family She moved three hours away to go to college. A few years later, Rob followed her there, and the couple married in 1996. Alyssa Wernick: It was gorgeous. It was … meticulously planned at a … very beautiful mansion out in the country. One year after the wedding, Jennifer's mother died of cancer. Alyssa Wernick: You could tell she had learned a lot … in the few years that we lost our mother … she became an adult that was very open-minded. In 1999, the couple bought a house in suburban Dallas, but there was friction brewing. Alyssa Wernick: I think that my sister was growing and evolving and moving forward in her life and Rob was stuck and he just wasn't gonna change. According to Jennifer's family, Rob, who was working in landscaping, preferred the slower pace of rural Bonham while she enjoyed living near a big city. Jennifer embraced a holistic lifestyle and enrolled in massage therapy school. Alyssa Wernick: She transformed in front of my eyes … She said that she had met someone who was like-minded and who wanted to start a business that was a massage and wellness center. That someone was James Hamilton -- someone she'd met in that massage therapy school. Alyssa Wernick: He was different, but -- Jim Axelrod: In what way? Alyssa Wernick: Well, he was new age and – Jim Axelrod: Touchy-feely? Alyssa Wernick: A little bit. Their relationship was complicated. Hamilton was living with the mother of his child, and had another on the way. Jennifer was still married to Rob. Alyssa Wernick: I told her that it was not a good idea, that I – Jim Axelrod: And what did she say? Alyssa Wernick: She didn't tell me a lot after that. [laughs] She knew where I stood. Jerry Harris: I went up there to see what was going on in their lives. When Jennifer's father got there he was shocked to see holes in the wall. While no one knows for sure how they got there, Jerry seems certain Holman was responsible. Jerry Harris: He took his fist and knocked five holes in the living room wall about as big as a softball… Jerry remembers the holes in the wall. Alyssa remembers something worse. Alyssa Wernick: My sister called me one night and was shaking in her voice… She says Jennifer told her Rob came home drunk and forced himself on her. Jennifer never reported the alleged attack. But Rob would later tell police, after her disappearance, that Jennifer was the violent one in the relationship: ROB HOLMAN [police interview]: She was hot-tempered when we were married. And it was generally her way or no way. …Sometimes I'd grab her, wrap her up, keep her from hittin' and s---. Jennifer Harris with James Hamilton in December 2001 Harris family Rob moved back to Bonham, and Jennifer's new love interest, James Hamilton, moved in with her. They became partners in a massage therapy business in suburban Dallas. But Jennifer's infatuation with Hamilton quickly faded. Jerry Harris: James wanted to marry her. And she refused to marry him. … And he was very -- upset about that. The private investigators say Jennifer's relationship with Hamilton was rocky. Jim Holloway: Real fiery. Just -- fussin' and fightin' at each other all the time. Jim Axelrod: By the spring of 2002, your sister is leading one complicated life emotionally. Alyssa Wernick: Mm-hmm [affirms]. Jennifer had divorced Holman and her relationship with Hamilton was on the skids. To add to the chaos, the massage business had failed and Jennifer was forced to file for bankruptcy. Alyssa Wernick: I think that everything was catching up to her and she never really grieved my mom's death and I think she was exhausted. Susan Bowen: She said, "I'm not happy … I don't care about the business anymore." With no job or income, Jennifer confided in cousin Susan Bowen that she'd been back in touch with her former husband Rob Holman, who now had a new girlfriend. Susan Bowen: And she said, "I still love him," and she said, "I want him back." And she said, "I even told him that." In fact, Holman later admitted to police, that even though he had a girlfriend, he and Jennifer were still having sex. INVESTIGATOR: Four or five times since Christmas? ROB HOLMAN: Yes. Jim Axelrod: So Jennifer was living a little bit of a split life? Susan Bowen: To a certain extent. But James didn't know it. He knew nothing about it all. Then one day Bowen saw Jennifer outside her apartment with a moving truck. Susan Bowen: I said, "What are you doing?" And she said, "I'm moving to Bonham." …I thought, "You're only going to Bonham because Rob's in Bonham." … "OK." And with that I turned around and left. And that was the last time I ever saw her. About six weeks later, Jennifer disappeared. On the very day she went missing, she called Holman. Rob says she asked to see him, but he refused. ROB HOLMAN [police interview] I'd had plans with my girlfriend … she got real upset 'cause it was Mother's Day and I wouldn't come over. Holman agreed to take a polygraph to back up his story, but for some reason it was never administered. Sheriff's investigators allowed him to go home. They had a lot more digging to do and it centered around a secret Jennifer had shared with her best friend Jyl Wagner just weeks before she died. JYL WAGNER [police interview]: We started talking and she said, "You're not going to believe the mess I'm in." And she told me how, you know, and I pretty much guessed, I was like, "you're pregnant." If Jennifer was pregnant, who was the father? Was it Rob Holman or someone else? That question became even more important after the medical examiner's autopsy revealed a stunning piece of information. GOSSIP, THEORIES AND A GRUDGE When they examined Jennifer Harris' body, investigators were shocked. Daryl Parker: There was a wound that affected some of the internal organs. Her uterus was missing. LOCAL NEWS REPORT: Her death was classified as a quote "violent homicide." Her uterus had somehow been removed. Daryl Parker: The question was … What damaged her? Jim Axelrod: What would've the motive been? Daryl Parker: …that she was possibly pregnant, and that the person who killed her was trying to destroy that evidence… In Bonham, where gossip is often taken for gospel, people couldn't stop talking. Daryl Parker: The public grabbed a hold of that information and they started concocting their own theories as to who did it and why But according the case file, there was no scientific evidence to prove Jennifer was actually pregnant at the time of her death. Still, Jennifer's best friend Jyl Wagner told investigators she had talked to Jennifer about being pregnant. And, that's not all she said. JYL WAGNER [police interview]: You know, she told me that it was Rob's and I was kinda shocked… Rob Holman -- Jennifer's ex-husband. He had revealed to detectives, in his police interview, that he had met Jennifer a month before she disappeared, near a drive-in movie theatre: ROB HOLMAN [police interview]: She told me that she was pregnant and that it was mine… Alyssa Wernick: I definitely think that she brought it up with Rob and in my mind that's what led to her death. Daryl Parker had long been familiar with the story of Jennifer being pregnant. Eight years after her murder, Parker, then a lieutenant for the sheriff's department, dropped by Rob Holman's house. It was Sunday. Mother's Day. A calculated move by Parker. Daryl Parker: It was the anniversary of the crime. I had … picked out of number of photographs of her and Rob, one of those being Jennifer swimming in a muddy body of water … and when I gave him the stack of photographs, the very first one he picked out was that one with the muddy water. He stood there for about five to six seconds staring at that photograph. Jim Axelrod: But that's the one that caught his attention? Daryl Parker: Like that [snaps fingers]. You know, I said, "well, if you want to talk, call me," and I gave him my card and I left. A few hours later, to his surprise, Holman called and wanted to talk. But Parker had wanted to record the interview so he suggested they meet at the sheriff's office the next day. Daryl Parker: That's where I screwed up … I should have gone right then and there … I think he was ready to talk and say something. And I should have just done it [becomes emotional]. Jim Axelrod: This really has you, still. Why so emotional Daryl? …You're really blaming yourself here? Daryl Parker [wipes away a tear]: Well, the previous investigation, it failed in so many ways. … But he was responding to me. He was responding to the pressure I was putting on him and I let it slip away. When Holman arrived for the interview with Parker, he had a lawyer: DARYL PARKER: Did you have anything to do with the death of Jennifer Harris? ROB HOLMAN: No. DARYL PARKER: Jennifer's pregnancy … Did you believe she was pregnant? ROB HOLMAN: No, I didn't think she was. DARYL PARKER: Did you think she believed she was pregnant? Remember, there was no evidence Jennifer was pregnant and, in fact, forensic experts in Dallas would later conclude Jennifer's missing uterus wasn't even cut out by the killer. Instead, her uterus and other body parts were destroyed by turtles and fish in the river. But the rumors persisted and they had plenty of company in Bonham. A year after Jennifer's murder, Myles Porter found himself in the center of the storm. Myles Porter: They were saying that I had been arrested for this murder. Jim Axelrod: I mean you hear this, and what's your reaction? Myles Porter: "What are you talking about? Where did this come from? That's crazy." Crazy, because Porter was also the district attorney at the time overseeing the case. Jim Axelrod: For the record, did you know Jennifer Harris? Myles Porter: No. Jim Axelrod: Had you ever met Jennifer Harris? Jim Axelrod: Did you kill Jennifer Harris? Myles Porter: Absolutely not. Porter says locals cooked up the story because they had a grudge against him over an unrelated case he tried. Jim Axelrod: Did this cost you your job? Myles Porter: Yeah, no doubt. Myles Porter. the D.A. overseeing the Harris case at the time, says locals cooked up the story that he killed Jennifer because they had a grudge against him over an unrelated case he tried. CBS News Myles Porter blames losing his re-election on the Jennifer Harris gossip. Now in private practice, Porter still lives with the fallout from the unfounded allegations. Myles Porter: I've had, on a number of occasion, random people throughout the county say, "I can't be fair in this case because you're the lawyer and I think you killed Jennifer Harris." Crazy. Jim Axelrod: Fourteen, 15 years later? Myles Porter: Absolutely, still happens. Daryl Parker: …in the court of public opinion, he was definitely a suspect. Jim Axelrod: Meanwhile, there's no shred of evidence that he was connected at all? Daryl Parker: None. Daryl Parker thinks he knows who's responsible. Daryl Parker: Not Myles Porter, not James Hamilton, not a random stranger … In my view, the evidence points directly to Rob Holman. Filmmaker Barry Wernick agrees. Barry Wernick: We were gonna let the facts take us where the facts took us, and where it brought us was to one person that it had to be. But they haven't been able to physically connect Rob Holman to Jennifer Harris the night of her disappearance. They're both hoping Rhonda Fitzwater can. Barry Wernick: We need that eyewitness. Jim Axelrod: And in your view Rhonda Fitzwater is that eyewitness? Barry Wernick: Yes. A FRESH SET OF EYES On a rural road in Fannin County, Texas, Rhonda Fitzwater could hold the key to Daryl Parker and Barry Wernick's theory that Rob Holman met up with Jennifer Harris that night. Jim Axelrod: On Mother's Day, 2002, no different than any other day, you take the walk. Rhonda Fitzwater: Right …I saw a Jeep, but I didn't think anything about it … But then when it was here the second day, you're, like, "Why is that Jeep still here?" Jim Axelrod: So what do you make of this idea that somehow you saw Jennifer Harris and Rob Holman? Rhonda Fitzwater: I've not ever heard that until you told me that. Fitzwater has always insisted that all she saw that night was Jennifer's parked Jeep. Jim Axelrod: Did you see anybody following the Jeep? Rhonda Fitzwater: No. It was already parked. Jim Axelrod: Did you see Jennifer Harris? Rhonda Fitzwater: No, not at all. But for years, Parker and Wernick have believed there is more to Rhonda Fitzwater's story. Only she says they are sorely mistaken. After 15 years of investigation by people closely connected to Bonham, maybe the best thing anyone can hope for is a fresh set of eyes. Joe Moura: I'm flying out to Dallas, Texas … my job is to really look at the facts of the case, study the case. Could the questions about a murder in Bonham be answered by someone 1,700 miles away in Boston? Meet Joe Moura, a private investigator and CBS News consultant. Jim Axelrod: Jennifer's been dead 15 years by the time you're looking at the file. Joe Moura: Absolutely, yeah Jim Axelrod: What'd you make of that collection of papers? Joe Moura: I thought the file was very weak, meaning that the investigation that went into it was extremely weak. "48 Hours" brought Moura to Texas to take a closer look at the Jennifer Harris case. Joe Moura: You gotta speak to people. And that's what I've done. His first stop is Fannin County Sheriff Mark Johnson. Joe Moura: I can see your frustration where …you're in the job for one -- one year you got the public -- I'm sure the family still wants to know what happened to their daughter. Sheriff Mark Johnson: There's no -- no physical evidence. That's the problem. In fact, today the sheriff won't call either Rob Holman or James Hamilton suspects, even though detectives did early in the investigation in their case documents. Jim Axelrod: How come you can't call them suspects? Sheriff Mark Johnson: You have things that lead up to 'em, that draw your interest to 'em to make them a person of interest, but you don't have that connection to make them a suspect where you can tie some physical evidence in to them. Filmmaker Barry Wernick took Moura to the location of the cottage private investigators Parker and Holloway had come to believe was burned to hide the evidence of Jennifer's murder. Joe Moura: This stuff, Jim ,with a burning shed … there's all kinds of theories about that ... now, you just murdered somebody … but about 200 yards away from where you are disposing of the body in the river, let's light up this shed in fire, attract people. Jim Axelrod: Makes no sense to you Joe Moura: Absolutely not. …it certainly can't tie it to this case, but people are trying to make it tie in. Wernick also brought him to the bank of the Red River, where he believes his sister-in-law's body was dumped. Joe Moura: There's nothing on the records of the case or any eyewitnesses that will tell you that this is where her body was disposed. Barry Wernick: Right Joe Moura: So, we're just here basically guessing. Discussing the Harris case, from left, private investigator and CBS News consultant Joe Moura, CBS News' Jim Axelrod and private investigators Jim Holloway and Daryl Parker CBS News Moura sat down with the private eyes who had been working the case for nearly a decade. Jim Holloway: To me, I think it boils down to who had the most to lose by killin' her or not killin' her? Eighteen years of child support? Maybe? Maybe not? Daryl Parker: I don't think that we need to speculate about Rob Holman's motive … because he made it clear that she was applying pressure to him. Jim Axelrod: …and there could be no more intense pressure than "I'm about to have a baby and you're the father?" Jim Holloway: That's right. Joe Moura: You have to consider it … however he disbelieves her and he admits that in the interviews. He actually said it, "I don't believe it and I don't think she is pregnant." DARYL PARKER: Did you believe she was pregnant? ROB HOLMAN: No. I didn't think she was. For his part, Moura was surprised authorities seemed to quickly disregard James Hamilton, the ex-boyfriend who wanted to marry Jennifer before she left him when their business failed. Joe Moura: She covered all the finances for the business, she's the one that put her name on the loans. Jennifer's father Jerry made notes that two months after Jennifer's death, Hamilton called him asking about her life insurance policy. Joe Moura: In my experience, money, insurances, all that stuff is a big deal. Money creates a lot of motive for a lot of people. What's more, he believes investigators bought Hamilton's alibi -- that he was with a friend at that McDonalds more than 50 miles away -- without thoroughly vetting it. Joe Moura: And I'm not so thrilled about the checking they did on that alibi. Daryl Parker: No. Joe Moura: The one thing is you go check with the alibis … And the next thing you -- you look at, "Are these alibis lying to me?" So you gotta go check that out. That was never done. Why? To Joe Moura, the investigation was flawed from the outset. And had authorities approached it differently, they may have gotten more from their interviews. Joe Moura: Here's what bothers me about this situation. It's a missing person. They're calling people, talking to people about a missing person, and the first thing they do is read you Miranda warnings. INVESTIGATOR: So, you have the right to remain silent … Do you understand all that? ROB HOLMAN: Right. Joe Moura: Now that is unheard of. Jim Axelrod: You're saying that sure, Rob said I don't have an alibi and that might be incriminating…. Joe Moura: That was after he already signed the Miranda warning. So he's already nervous and he's already saying, "Oh I'm being charged. God, I don't have an alibi" … of course he was nervous. Most people would be. But at the end of the day, the men who've been working this case for years see it very differently than the man with the fresh set of eyes. Daryl Parker: …circumstantially there is a lot of evidence in this case. Daryl Parker: …It is all circumstantial. Joe Moura: But Daryl, I think me and you are a little confused in reference to circumstantial … I'm saying to you and I submit to you that there's very little circumstantial evidence, OK? Daryl Parker: We'll have to agree to disagree. Joe Moura: Well, because I am asking you to give me the facts on what your circumstantial evidence is -- Daryl Parker: Sure. Joe Moura: --and it's based on theory … and theory ain't gonna cut it. Like Daryl Parker's theory about Rhonda Fitzwater knowing more. Joe Moura: Everybody's putting all the weight on this woman and she has nothing to offer to the case. Only that yeah, that Jeep was there. Well, we know the Jeep was there. The Red River Bridge CBS News But what Joe Moura does find interesting in the case file is one of the least examined parts of the story. One year after Jennifer's murder, Deborah Lambert -- who had seen a news report about the unsolved case -- told detectives she saw something when she was driving across the Red River Bridge on Mother's Day. DEBRA LAMBERT [police interview]: ...there was three guys out there and a girl. And two guys had the girl by her elbows and it was like she was trying to get away from them and they were restraining her… The girl she says she saw had reddish-brown hair. DEBORAH LAMBERT [police interview]: …I made eye contact with her and … she was scared, terrified look on her face… my mom seen her too and she said "that girl's fixin' to get raped and killed" … But Lambert never called police back then. She said she was too afraid to get involved. What's more, her story didn't fit with the investigators' timeline. She put Jennifer near the bridge at 5 p.m., but detectives believed Jennifer left her friend Kristy's Farr's house around 8 p.m. Jim Axelrod: Deborah Lambert's saying what she saw, she saw at 5 o'clock. That's not a deal breaker for you. Joe Moura: Absolutely not … In the real world, people are not looking at their watches and clocks all the time … she may be wrong on her time and not wrong on what she witnessed. Could Deborah Lambert hold the answer to who killed Jennifer Harris? THE SEARCH CONTINUES Every month, the Riders for Justice, ride for Jennifer Harris. "Jennifer Harris was well loved here," says Forrest Morris of Riders for Justice CBS News Forrest Morris: What Riding for Justice has done is reached out to people that knew Jennifer Harris. Jim Axelrod: Something has touched the people of Fannin County about this case. Forrest Morris: Absolutely. …Everybody in this county wants to see this case solved. Teresa Morris: To let somethin' like this go on this long is uncalled for. Forrest Morris: Jennifer Harris was well loved here. A year-and-a-half after Jennifer's murder, the Texas Rangers launched their own investigation into the case. They reinterviewed Deborah Lambert. Joe Moura: The story was the same … She was very detailed. Redhead, three guys, two were wearing jeans, one was wearing shorts Lambert was asked to look at a photo lineup to see if she recognized any of the men the woman was with. She did. She was very clear that one of the men she saw was Rob Holman. Joe Moura: Maybe Mrs. Lambert is believable. …Now the situation is, is I worry about how is that lineup done? How many photographs do they show? In other words, do they have a good old boy -- Texan boy there with his baseball cap on? And then they had three Mexican photos next to him, OK? Those are the things I worry about. Jim Axelrod: The way that the lineup was conducted, we don't know anything about. Joe Moura: No, and that's -- that's crucial. But Moura can't be confident because there are no details in the case file about how the lineup was done. Still, Moura considers Deborah Lambert a missed opportunity to potentially solve Jennifer's murder. Joe Moura: There's an open lead there that I feel wasn't closed … therefore until that lead is closed, it's problematic to say, "I'm gonna disregard what this woman saw and I'm still gonna focus on Rob and James." Rob Holman, on the advice of his attorney back then, declined to speak with the Texas Rangers. After working the case for a year, they suspended their investigation. "48 Hours" wanted to know why, but they wouldn't comment on an unsolved case. The conclusion to their report: "No physical evidence, specific cause of death, or credible witnesses … link any particular person as a suspect." No one can actually follow up with Debra Lambert. She and her mother have both passed away. But Alyssa and Barry Wernick now cling to Lambert's story. Alyssa Wernick: In my mind I always just believed that she got in the truck with Rob and it was just the two of 'em. This changes everything. There are other people that know. There are other people that could possibly speak up. Barry Wernick: Now knowing that there were two other people involved, oh, yeah. There is renewed hope. Jim Axelrod: The problem here, I suppose, is that Deborah Lambert's dead? Barry Wernick: She is dead but her -- her interview isn't. She's alive. You can see what she said. Neither James Hamilton nor Rob Holman have ever been arrested or charged with any crime related to Jennifer's murder. During "48 Hours"' reporting of this case, we made several attempts to contact both men: JIM AXELROD [on phone leaving message]: James, if this is your number, I'm calling to follow up on a letter I sent you recently. "48 Hours" got no response. ROB HOLMAN [voicemail]: This is Rob. I can't take your call right now. JIM AXELROD: [on phone leaving message]: We sent you a letter a couple of weeks ago. So, on one of "48 Hours"' trips to Texas, we went to Rob Holman's home. Jim Axelrod: How are ya? Mr. Holman? Jim Axelrod with CBS News. Rob Holman: Turn that off. Jim Axelrod: Will you talk to me if I turn that camera off? Rob Holman: Yeah, I'll talk to you if you turn it off. Holman told us off camera he never saw Jennifer that night and he's been advised by his attorney not to talk to anyone. His attorney provided this statement to "48 Hours:" "Robert Holman has neither been arrested nor charged with any criminal conduct as it relates to this investigation. This notwithstanding, Mr. Holman has, from the inception of the investigation, been treated by law enforcement as a suspect. Mr. Holman has maintained his innocence from the very beginning and his position has not wavered." With no resolution in sight, filmmaker Barry Wernick has a new plan. Jim Axelrod: Barry wants to raise $50,000 under the theory that reward money could shake someone loose. Jim Moura: No shot. …You can't put money out there and thinking that that's gonna create evidence for you. Joe Moura said as much to the sheriff. Joe Moura [to Sheriff Mark Johnson]: This isn't a cold case. This is a frozen case. It's done. It's over. Joe Moura [to Jim Axelrod]: If you have a prosecutor who's worth his weight, he would never bring this case to trial. He has absolutely nothing on this case. But Sheriff Johnson is not giving up. Sheriff Mark Johnson: I want to solve the case. I want it solved and I want it done right. Neither is private eye Daryl Parker. Daryl Parker: When Mr. Harris came to the sheriff's office and he got me involved … I told him that I would get results. And I can't, I can't put it down. …until I'm sure that either the person is held accountable or I can't do anything more, I have to carry it. Jim Axelrod: And if it takes another 15 years? Daryl Parker: If it takes another 15 years. Joe Moura: The sadness is we all have kids. We all have family members. And I have a daughter. It's devastating to not know. Alyssa Wernick: I don't know how she was killed. I wish I did. I want closure … I'm gonna do everything I can to bring justice for Jennifer. …for my Dad, he needs to see some justice done. "I'm gonna do everything I can to bring justice for Jennifer. …for my Dad, he needs to see some justice done," says Alyssa Werinck, walking with her father, Jerry. Red Rabbit Productions in association with TWOBAR Entertainment Jerry Harris: To have walked in my shoes for the last 15-and-a-half years hasn't been easy. … we miss her every day. … we miss Jennifer not bein' here … I still have high hope that justice will prevail. HAVE INFORMATION? Jennifer Harris Harris family Anyone with information about the Jennifer Harris case is asked to contact the Fannin County Sheriff's Office at 903-583-2143. 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__label__wiki	0.638774	0.638774	50-46 Overall \| 3rd AL West Rangers .252 511 134 4.89 AL West Division 3rd 1st 5th 4th American League 8th 4th 8th 9th HITTING PITCHING EXTENDED HITTING EXTENDED PITCHING Spring TrainingRegular Season -- LeDarious Clark LF .500 8 4 4 1 1 0 2 0 1 2 0 .600 .875 1.475 9 Isiah Kiner-Falefa SS .455 22 6 10 3 1 0 4 0 1 2 3 .520 .682 1.202 24 Hunter Pence RF .385 39 10 15 5 0 3 7 5 0 3 8 .455 .744 1.199 1 Elvis Andrus SS .500 26 3 13 2 0 1 9 0 0 1 2 .500 .692 1.192 12 Rougned Odor 2B .355 31 6 11 3 0 3 7 1 1 4 11 .429 .742 1.171 -- Josh Altmann LF .333 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 .500 .667 1.167 38 Danny Santana CF .314 35 10 11 4 2 2 10 1 0 3 13 .359 .714 1.073 11 Ronald Guzman 1B .323 31 5 10 1 0 3 5 2 0 2 7 .371 .645 1.016 15 Carlos Tocci CF .286 28 4 8 3 0 2 9 0 0 4 3 .394 .607 1.001 -- Curtis Terry 3B .500 4 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 .500 .500 1.000 -- Preston Scott LF .333 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .333 .667 1.000 6 Chase d'Arnaud SS .286 14 4 4 1 1 0 0 1 0 4 7 .444 .500 .944 16 Nolan Fontana 2B .394 33 6 13 2 0 0 8 1 0 2 7 .429 .455 .884 14 Asdrubal Cabrera 2B .387 31 5 12 0 0 0 4 0 0 5 11 .459 .387 .846 40 Matt Davidson 3B .206 34 3 7 1 0 3 5 0 0 3 14 .325 .500 .825 41 Logan Forsythe 2B .261 23 1 6 2 0 1 5 0 0 3 9 .346 .478 .824 47 Eliezer Alvarez 2B .250 4 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 3 .571 .250 .821 -- Preston Beck 1B .320 25 6 8 0 0 1 7 0 1 1 3 .379 .440 .819 3 Delino DeShields 2B .324 37 7 12 2 0 0 3 4 2 4 4 .390 .378 .768 86 Andy Ibanez 2B .300 20 3 6 3 0 0 2 0 0 0 5 .300 .450 .750 -- Leody Taveras CF .375 8 2 3 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 .375 .375 .750 -- Franklin Rollin 2B .200 5 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 .333 .400 .733 13 Joey Gallo LF .241 29 2 7 3 0 0 4 1 0 5 14 .353 .345 .698 2 Jeff Mathis C .227 22 4 5 1 0 0 3 0 0 7 8 .400 .273 .673 66 Zack Granite CF .222 18 5 4 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 3 .263 .389 .652 43 Ben Revere CF .286 21 1 6 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 .318 .333 .651 -- Bubba Thompson CF .111 9 2 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 3 .200 .444 .644 17 Shin-Soo Choo RF .222 27 4 6 2 0 0 5 0 0 5 7 .324 .296 .620 21 Patrick Wisdom 3B .171 35 7 6 2 0 1 5 0 0 4 14 .275 .314 .589 30 Nomar Mazara RF .243 37 4 9 3 0 0 5 0 0 1 11 .256 .324 .580 -- Ryan Dorow 2B .200 10 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .273 .300 .573 5 Willie Calhoun LF .190 42 3 8 2 0 0 5 0 0 5 6 .286 .238 .524 -- Tyler Depreta-Johnson SS .000 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 .500 .000 .500 28 Jett Bandy C .211 19 3 4 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 5 .286 .211 .497 -- Sam Huff C .200 5 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 .200 .200 .400 -- Yonny Hernandez SS .167 12 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 .231 .167 .398 80 Eli White SS .121 33 2 4 1 0 0 2 2 1 2 6 .171 .152 .323 71 Jose Trevino C .118 17 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 .167 .118 .285 -- Diosbel Arias SS .000 7 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 .125 .000 .125 -- Anderson Tejeda SS .000 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 .000 .000 .000 -- Charles Leblanc 3B .000 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 63 Adam Moore C .000 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 -- Eric Jenkins CF .000 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 .000 .000 .000 -- Frainyer Chavez SS .000 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 -- Brendon Davis 3B .000 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 -- Michael De Leon SS .000 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 -- Julio Pablo Martinez CF .000 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 -- Jax Biggers SS .000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 -- Jonah McReynolds SS .000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 Total .271 840 135 228 53 6 21 126 22 10 89 222 .346 .424 .770 Last Updated: Wed Mar 27 09:31:49 EDT 2019	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4749
__label__wiki	0.724686	0.724686	Ministers open Manawa, healthcare training facility Thursday 31 January 2019Media release3 minutes to read Minister David Clark and Chris Hipkins officially open Manawa Minister of Health Dr David Clark and Minister of Education Chris Hipkins jointly opened Manawa health research and education facility, in Te Papa Hauora \|The Christchurch Health Precinct today. A collaborative partnership between Canterbury’s health and education sectors, Manawa brings together Ara Institute of Canterbury’s nursing, midwifery and medical imaging programmes, Canterbury District Health Board’s (CDHB) professional development training and University of Canterbury’s (UC) health research in one state-of-the-art facility. “This is a significant milestone for Canterbury, and a new commitment to working together to achieve the best outcomes for the future of the health workforce in Canterbury,” Ara Chief Executive Tony Gray said. “Ara has enjoyed a close collaboration with Canterbury DHB for many years and, together with UC as well, now we are creating an exemplar in collaborative and co-located training and professional development.” Canterbury DHB Chief Executive David Meates said: “Manawa is a fantastic opportunity for the Canterbury Health System to build on our foundation of innovation and integration recognised globally, to create and shape our future health and research workforce. Students, clinicians and researchers are ideally placed in this new setting to learn from, and alongside each other and together solve some of the significant challenges facing health and disability services.” Professor Gail Gillon, Director of the Child Well-being Research Institute at University of Canterbury said: “UC’s partnership with Canterbury DHB and Ara in the Manawa building is an exciting opportunity for staff and students. They now benefit from connecting with health leaders, influencers and peers by being part of the Health Precinct, and the new research and development opportunities will expand our students’ experience.” Dr Clark also officially opened the adjacent Christchurch Outpatients building. Manawa’s simulation floor features realistic operating theatres, hospital wards, home environments and clinics that are used for training tomorrow’s workforce. Manawa means heart, patience and breath and was bestowed on the facility, along with designs of cultural significance, by Te Pākura Ltd and local iwi. Manawa also refers to the proverb “Manawa Whenua, Manawa Tangata”, which makes the intimate connection between human health and the health of our environment. Cultural elements feature throughout Manawa. The principal design throughout the facility is the pūhoro pattern, relating to water. Weaving itself through the pūhoro pattern is aka-kiore (native jasmine), and on every floor is a depiction of a native bird. The vision for a world class Health Precinct next to Christchurch Hospital emerged in the Blueprint for the City, following the 2011 earthquakes. Manawa is a flagship facility of this precinct – a creative and inspiring hub that integrates world-class healthcare, research and innovation, education and industry. The facility was blessed in a cultural ceremony prior to occupation in July 2018. Tags FacilitiesHealth PrecinctManawaminister	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4750
__label__wiki	0.668606	0.668606	Justice Department Lets Giant Corporation Evade Prosecution for Deaths of Over 100 People 'This deal will not deter future corporate wrongdoers, it will not hold GM accountable, and it sets back the demand for justice by the family members of victims of GM’s horrible actions.'—Robert Weissman, Public Citizen Andrea Germanos, staff writer "A GM engineer knew about the fatal defect even before the first car rolled off the line," stated law professor Rena Steinzor. And then "GM lawyers conspired to delay the recall." (Photo: Bill Selak/flickr/cc) The $900 million settlement General Motors reached with the Justice Department over its defective ignition switches is being criticized as "unconscionable" for holding no executives criminally accountable for actions that lead to the deaths of over 100 people. Reuters sums up the settlement: GM admitted to failing to disclose to its U.S. regulator and the public a potentially lethal safety defect with the switches that kept airbags from deploying in some vehicles. The largest U.S. automaker also admitted to misleading consumers about the safety of vehicles affected by the defect. GM was criminally charged with scheming to conceal a deadly safety defect from its U.S. regulator, as well as wire fraud. Under a three-year deferred prosecution agreement, GM must hire an independent monitor to oversee its safety practices, including its ability to fix defects and handle recalls. The Associated Press adds: The statement of facts to which the company agreed describes in scathing terms GM's deceitful and dismissive approach to handling a problem that was evident even before the defective switch went into production in 2002. Danielle Ivory reports at the New York Times that the settlement "is, in effect, corporation probation." "This settlement is shamefully weak," stated Rena Steinzor, a professor of law at the University of Maryland, and author of Why Not Jail? Industrial Catastrophes, Corporate Malfeasance, and Government Inaction. "A GM engineer knew about the fatal defect even before the first car rolled off the line. He secretly changed the part in 2005 but left hundreds of thousands of cars on the road with the bad switch. GM lawyers conspired to delay the recall. Much harsher penalties and individual prosecutions are warranted. The deferred prosecution is a toothless way of approaching a very serious problem," Steinzor said. Robert Weissman, president of the watchdog organization Public Citizen, lambasted the deal, stating Thursday, "Shame on the Department of Justice and shame on its prosecutors." "This deal will not deter future corporate wrongdoers, it will not hold GM accountable, and it sets back the demand for justice by the family members of victims of GM’s horrible actions," Weissman continued. "It is unconscionable that a giant corporation can conceal information about deadly safety defects for a decade, be responsible for the deaths of more than 100 people as a result and escape any criminal liability based only on a corporate fine and a promise not to do wrong again in the future," he said. "It is equally unconscionable that none of the executives inside General Motors responsible for this disaster are going to be held criminally accountable, as now appears to be the case." Consumer advocate Ralph Nader similarly criticized the settlement, stating Thursday that "the exoneration of all GM personnel gives new meaning to the surrender of federal law enforcement that remains impervious to the preventable hundreds of thousands of deaths and injuries resulting from documented corporate criminal negligence or outright criminality throughout our country every year." Writing in 2014, filmmaker Michael Moore denounced attempts to blame the faulty switches on GM's "corporate culture." No, the cause of this tragedy is an economic system that places profit above everything else, including—and especially—human life. GM has a legal and fiduciary responsibility to its shareholders to make the biggest profits that it can. And if their top people crunch the numbers and can show that they will save more money by NOT fixing or replacing the part, then that is what they are going to goddamn well do. F* you, f* me, and f*** everybody they sent to their deaths. That pretty much sums up their "culture". They knew they wouldn't get caught, and if they did, no one would ever serve any time. Laura Christian, whose 16-year-old daughter died in 2005 when the airbag in her Chevy Cobalt failed to deploy, said, "If a person kills someone because he decided to drive drunk, he will go to jail. Yet the GM employees who caused 124 deaths are able to hide behind a corporation because our laws are insufficient." "Can't Change a Corrupt System by Taking Its Money": Sanders Urges All 2020 Democrats to Reject Insurance, Big Pharma Cash 'An Insanely Bad Move': Experts Sound Alarm as Trump's Nuclear Safety Agency Weighs Rollback of Plant Inspections Unsealed Database Reveals How Drug Companies Embarked on 'Reckless Pursuit of Profit' as Thousands Died From Opioid Epidemic As Amazon Faces Grilling in Congress, EU Launches Antitrust Probe of Online Behemoth Justice System, Corporate Power, Public Citizen, Ralph Nader	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4755
__label__cc	0.695668	0.304332	Maintel Reports 54% Growth in Revenues Maintel today announced Group revenues of £38.1m for the first half of 2016, an increase of 54% from the same period in 2015 (£24.8m). The growth was underpinned by the strategic acquisition of Azzurri Communications in May 2016, which contributed £15.4m to the revenue. Adjusted profit before tax also increased by 17% to £3.9m. Recurring contracted revenue made up 75% of the overall revenue, compared to 71% from the same period in 2015. However, excluding the acquisition of Azzurri, the numbers tell a different story. Tough trading conditions at the beginning of the year actually saw Maintel post a loss of 26% on adjusted cash profits (£2.6m). As a result of the Azzurri acquisition, Maintel has opted to reduce its presence in the small business space, leading to the closure of Azzurri’s small business mobile operation in East Kilbride. Eddie Buxton, CEO of Maintel Group, said, “The highlight of the period was the acquisition of Azzurri, which was transformational for Maintel, adding significantly to our offering both in terms of products and services, specifically in the high growth areas of managed and cloud based services.” Maintel has also achieved recognition from the industry and the wider business community, being awarded the Technical Excellence Award by Avaya, as well as named in London Stock Exchange’s ‘1000 Companies to Inspire Britain’ and Investors Chronicle’s ‘Fast Growing Small Cap Stocks to Invest In’. Eddie Buxton added, “During this period, Maintel has successfully closed a number of large contracts and, as such, we enter the second half of the year with a strong order book as well as a full pipeline of opportunities. We are confident of delivering a profit performance for the year in line with market expectations.” Exertis announce UK deal with Poly PanaCast lands at Nimans Bone to head Yealink business unit Exertis announces virtual roadshow Mayflex offers IP Surveillance with Xanview Most Popular Distributors News Stories Exertis promotes Jamie Brothwell to Business Development Dir... DMSL Appointed Premier Partner Of BT Nimans Releases NEC SL2100 Knowledge Videos Ingram offer Digital Marketing to partners Paul Cunningham joins Westcon-Comstor as Chief Marketing Off... New Westcon Hire to Expand Partner Sales Capabilities ScanSource acquires intY for cloud platform Nimans recognised as top performing distie by Unify intY expands operations into the USA Brightstar looking to acquire 20:20 Azlan Take Resellers to Tea Beta Distribution Appoints Jackson As Director of Sales Pennine Acquires Co-Channel Westcon-Comstor Completes Global SAP Roll-Out Nuvias Opens New EMEA HQ	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4756
__label__wiki	0.773263	0.773263	Healthy Returns A US drugmaker offers to cure rare blindness for $850,000 Published Wed, Jan 3 2018 8:30 AM EST Updated Wed, Jan 3 2018 11:52 AM EST Meg Tirrell@megtirrell Spark Therapeutics' Luxturna will cost $850,000 for a one-time treatment. The gene therapy treats a rare, inherited retinal disease that can lead to blindness. Spark also unveiled a set of payment and access programs, including tying payments to how well the therapy works and exploring payment by installment. These programs could serve as a model as more one-time treatments come to market. Spark gene therapy drug priced less than expected at $850,000 The first gene therapy in the U.S. now has a price tag: $850,000 for the one-time treatment, or, more specifically, $425,000 per eye for a retinal disorder. The price is for Spark Therapeutics' Luxturna, approved by the Food and Drug Administration in December to treat a rare, inherited retinal disease that can lead to blindness. The Philadelphia-based biotechnology company also revealed Wednesday morning a set of payment and access programs, including tying payments to how well the therapy works and exploring payment by installment. The treatment is delivered just once, a facet of gene therapy that poses unique pricing questions in an industry fueled by steady payments for chronic therapies. "It's wildly expensive but, to be very frank, I think they've priced it what I'll call responsibly," said Dr. Steve Miller, chief medical officer of pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts, which is partnering with Spark on distribution and specialty pharmacy services for Luxturna. "The product is just phenomenally innovative, and we've been talking about gene therapy for over 20 years. We're now at the threshold of having gene therapy reaching patients." Wall Street expectations for Luxturna's price were around a million dollars, and Spark's $425,000 for each eye comes in under that mark. "It came down to the value we believed was inherent in the therapy," Spark Chief Executive Officer Jeff Marrazzo said in an interview. He, as well as Miller, spoke with CNBC ahead of the announcement on condition the information not be published until the news was public. "We also heard and did market research with payers ... and wanted to take into account the questions and challenges they had about affordability," Marrazzo continued. "Ultimately this is about access." Gene therapy involves the delivery, using a modified virus, of a healthy copy of a gene to make up for one that's deficient in a way that causes disease. In the retinal dystrophy Spark aims to treat with Luxturna, which the company estimates affects between 1,000 and 2,000 people in the U.S., mutations in a gene called RPE65 lead to impaired vision that deteriorates over time. In clinical trials, patients' sight was assessed by their ability to navigate an obstacle course in different levels of light. Those receiving Luxturna showed significant improvement in their ability to do so at low light after a year. Patients who participated in the trial also described, in interviews and in testimony to a panel of FDA advisers, seeing snowflakes for the first time or being able to read again. A new form of medical treatment brings with it new challenges, not only in its price. Marrazzo said Luxturna will only be available at half a dozen treatment centers in the U.S. throughout this year, so Spark will ensure financial support and logistics for travel and accommodations. The company also outlined several plans for new payment models that Marrazzo says aim to ensure access for patients, recognize the value of the product for Spark, and remove extra cost and risk for insurers and hospitals. One is an agreement with Harvard Pilgrim, a nonprofit health plan covering 1.2 million people, to pay rebates if a patient's vision doesn't meet certain thresholds in 30 to 90 days, and then 30 months after treatment, under a model known as outcomes-based pricing. "What's important and unique about the product is not just standing behind the efficacy but behind the long-term durability from a single dose," Marrazzo said. Another recently approved one-time therapy, Novartis' Kymriah for a form of leukemia, also has an outcomes-based pledge: If the treatment isn't working after a month, Novartis doesn't get paid. That treatment is priced at $475,000. Both Kymriah and another one-time cancer treatment approved in 2017, Gilead's Yescarta, are referred to by the FDA as gene therapies because they involve genetically modifying patients' own immune cells to identify cancer. They're known as CAR-T therapies. Luxturna is the first of a crop of treatments that target diseases caused by mutations in specific genes, and thus is referred to by many as the first gene therapy in the U.S. Spark also announced a program Wednesday, through a partnership with Express Scripts, to offer a way for insurers to purchase Luxturna directly, avoiding a so-called buy and bill model in which treatment centers administering a drug must purchase it upfront. The goal is to remove the risk for treatment centers in purchasing, handling and waiting for reimbursement of expensive products, and to alleviate for insurers potential markup costs imposed by the treatment centers, Marrazzo said. He said the company is in active discussions with additional insurers, with coverage announcements coming over the next few weeks and months. Express Scripts, which in its role as a pharmacy benefit manager negotiates drug prices and reimbursement on behalf of insurers and employers, "will work with health plans and plan sponsors to decide where they want [Luxturna] on their plans," Miller said. He said Express Scripts will receive a dispensing fee for its work with Spark, "not dependent on the price of the drug." Finally, Spark is also exploring a much-discussed idea for paying for expensive, one-time treatments: staggered payments that would spread costs out over time. Some of the challenges for this are government requirements tying prices to the lowest available, and the fact that patients switch health insurance providers numerous times over the course of their lives — an average of every three years, according to Spark. Marrazzo said the company is in talks with the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, including Administrator Seema Verma, on a proposal that would waive some of those requirements, enabling it to offer an installment payment option and bigger rebates linked to how well the treatment works. "We're at the infancy of what I think could be a lot of innovations in how we pay for these really expensive drugs," Express Scripts' Miller said. "We've got to figure this out, because — let's be frank — there are going to be more of these drugs coming to the marketplace for even bigger populations." 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__label__cc	0.5209	0.4791	Morgan Stanley earnings: $1.23 a share, vs $1.14 EPS expected Most couples plan to start married life with this costly ball and chain Published Wed, Mar 14 2018 9:00 AM EDT Helen Zhao@ZhaoMeow About a third of couples getting married in the next year plan to borrow up to $10,000 to cover wedding bills, according to a new survey from Student Loan Hero. Another 16 percent are taking on $10,000 to $19,999 in debt, while 11 percent are expecting to borrow $50,000 or more. Sixty-one percent of engaged couples plan to charge their expenses to their credit card. Wavebreakmedia Ltd \| Getty Images Newlyweds swap vows promising to support each other in sickness and in health — and apparently in debt. Three-quarters of engaged couples are going into the red to cover their wedding bills, according to a survey published in February by Student Loan Hero. The site polled 1,000 people getting married in the next 12 months. For many borrowers, it's a five-figure burden: 16 percent of couples are taking on $10,000 to $19,999 in debt, while 11 percent are expecting to borrow $50,000 or more. (See chart below for a breakdown.) How much debt do you expect to have as a result of your wedding? Financing a wedding isn't always rational, said survey lead researcher Elyssa Kirkham. "It's one of those life events that's really tied to emotion, to your values, what's important to you," she said. "[People are] willing to take on debt and do that trade-off if it means they can get closer to achieving their dream." These strategies can help you limit the wedding bill blues. Make a budget Nearly half of respondents in the Student Loan Hero survey said they have a detailed budget that outlines specific costs, such as how much to spend on the venue and catering. That's a key tool for keeping spending in check. First, figure out how much you can afford to spend from savings, contributions from family members and your current income — keeping in mind that you might have competing goals for that cash, like saving up to buy a home or start a family. Which of the following do you plan to use to pay for your wedding? Then assess how far those savings will go in covering your anticipated expenses. Consider how much debt you'd need to take on, if any, and how long after the wedding it will take to pay that off, said Pamela Capalad, a certified financial planner and founder of Brunch & Budget in New York. That can put your budget in perspective. "Do these flowers matter as much as you think they do right now?" Capalad said. "I feel like the longer you have to pay off debt after the wedding, the further and further away the memory of the wedding can sustain you being able to pay that debt off." Trim expenses "You have to be real picky and choosy about what is really important to you," said Douglas Boneparth, a certified financial planner and president of Bone Fide Wealth in New York. If there's a gap between your expected spending and your savings, see what you can cut, both big and small. Experts often recommend prioritizing two or three elements (say, hiring a great photographer or buying that dream dress) and scaling back on the rest. That might mean taking a do-it-yourself approach with certain things like decorations, Boneparth said, or looking for a low-cost venue such as a local park. Cutting the guest list can also help you save, reducing costs on expenses as varied as catering and invitations. gchutka \| Getty Images Borrow wisely If you do decide to take on debt related to your wedding (again: not recommended), weigh your options. Those who can pay off their credit card relatively quickly can take advantage of sign-up bonuses, such as travel rewards, as well as initial zero percent introductory rates. But there are risks involved, Capalad said. High interest rates can make it tough to dig out, and a big balance could also ding your credit score. "A credit card might not be the thing to do, if you don't have the income to qualify for the limit that you need and you don't have the credit score to qualify for it," she said. How long do you expect to be paying off credit card balances from your wedding? A small personal loan may be the better option, Capalad said. Personal loans, which are paid off in fixed installments over a set period, typically offer lower interest rates than those offered by a credit card, according to the most recent Federal Reserve Consumer Credit report. More from Personal Finance: The 'bizarre' money secret many Americans keep — even from their spouse $560M Powerball winner wins suit to stay private	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4765
__label__wiki	0.964611	0.964611	Gitmo’s Youngest Detainee Fights for Release September 8, 2016 BRITAIN EAKIN WASHINGTON (CN) — The board weighing the fates of Guantanamo Bay’s remaining wards focused Thursday on the prison camp’s youngest detainee — a man once tortured by the CIA for up to 12 hours a day. Hassan Muhammad Salih bin Attash was 17 when Pakistani forces captured him from his home during raids in Karachi, Pakistan, on Sept. 11, 2002, attorney David Remes told the periodic review board this morning. Other information from the Rendition Project suggests that the Saudi-born bin Attash was as young as 16. He is the younger brother of accused 9/11 plotter Walid bin Attash. The United States tells of the brother’s capture differently — saying the teen was found at an al-Qaida safe house with suspected senior al-Qaida operative Ramzi bin al-Shibh. In addition to calling him an al-Qaida facilitator and explosives specialist, the government says Hassan bin Attash served as a body guard for Osama bin Laden. Remes countered that he has never heard his client of 11 years express extremist views. “He is very friendly, and I consider him a friend,” Remes told the Guantanamo parole board, reading from his prepared statement. “If circumstances allowed, I would have him as a guest in my home.” After three days in a Karachi prison, bin Attash was rendered into CIA custody in Afghanistan, then transferred to a CIA secret prison in Jordan. Bin Attash’s brother Walid is being tried for war crimes by the military commission in the Guantanamo war court with four other alleged 9/11 plotters, including self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. All five face the death penalty, though a trial date is not yet on the horizon. The younger bin Attash has claimed that he was tortured for two years by employees and agents of the United States. While in Jordanian custody, interrogations lasted up to 12 hours per day for a three month stretch, according to bin Attash’s habeas petition. In a written declaration from 2011 Remes said: “The Jordanians tortured Hassan mercilessly, slapping and punching him, and making him lie down and stepping on his body and face. They also dragged him through the hallways to prevent him from sleeping. Hassan told counsel that the sleep deprivation was one of his worst tortures, making him almost crazy. The Americans have cruelly called this form of torture the ‘frequent flyer program.'” Remes noted that Americans were present during bin Attash’s interrogation and beating sessions. “Hassan suffered other tortures in the Jordanian prison,” he wrote. “Sadistically, Hassan’s keepers would lie him on his back, raise his feet above his head, secure his legs on a horizontal bar, and thrash the soles of his feet until they were raw, and afterward force him to stand in a pile of salt half-melted by hot water. Hassan has told counsel that he felt as though he was walking on hot coals, and that eventually he actually tasted salt.” An unclassified government profile on bin Attash say the detainee “grew up immersed in violent extremist ideology, coming from a family closely associated with Osama bin Laden.” The U.S. says he pledged allegiance to bin Laden in 1997 in Afghanistan. Though his government profile says he was born in 1982, Remes says bin Attash is roughly 31 now, which would have made him about 12 at the time. If the government account of his age is more accurate, he would have been about 15 in 1997. The U.S. says bin Attash moved to Pakistan in 2000 to help facilitate logistics and travel for al-Qaida for two years. “He also facilitated al-Qaeda external operations against U.S. and other Western targets, and was himself selected to participate in two such planned attacks,” according to his profile, which an anonymous female voice read verbatim during a closed-circuit viewing of the hearing at the Pentagon. Bin Attash could be seen in the video wearing a plain white T-shirt with a short beard, sifting quietly through papers as the hearing proceeded. Two anonymous military representatives told the board that bin Attash — who is fluent in English, Arabic and Pashtu, and dabbles in Urdu and Farsi — would like to go to college and become an English-Arabic translator. Describing him as optimistic, the representatives told the board in a written statement that he is currently working on completing a U.S. high school GED. Remes says bin Attash arrived at Guantanamo with only an elementary education. “He did not know English when I first met him; now he is fluent, and his English is unaccented,” Remes told the board, adding that the detainee’s post-Guantanamo professional-translation ambitions are realistic. But the U.S. says bin Attash continues to harbor an extremist mindset, and considers Westerners his enemies. “SA-1456 probably could leverage family ties and terrorist contacts should he decide to reengage in terrorist activity after his transfer,” his profile states, referring to the man by his internment serial number. Remes denies that bin Attash poses a threat to the United States, however, and recommended that the board release him. Thursday’s hearing marks the end of the initial parole reviews for the remaining Guantanamo detainees. Of the 52 detainees to go through the process, 33 have been cleared for release and 20 of them have already been transferred to third countries with security assurances that satisfy Defense Secretary Ash Carter. Nineteen of the 52 have been recommended for continued law of war detention, and will undergo a second Periodic Review Board hearing in the future. The board should issue a decision on bin Attash within the next two months. Remes said bin Attash is among 22 juveniles the United States has held without charge or trial at its naval base in Cuba. ← Step-Mom Murder Details Chill Appeals Court Lawmakers Divided on Severity of Debt Crisis →	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4772
__label__wiki	0.649263	0.649263	Man Says Supplement Nearly Killed Him February 3, 2011 DAN MCCUE PHILADELPHIA (CN) – A diabetic claims Penn Herb Co.’s Gluco-Ease Plus, which the supplement-maker markets as a way to maintain “healthy blood sugar levels” and “reduce sugar build up in the urine” nearly killed him by giving him cholestatic hepatitis and drug-induced liver disease. Isaac Shaw claims in the Court of Common Pleas that the cause of his health crisis was Uva Ursi leaf, or bearberry, the leading ingredient Penn Herb’s supplement. Shaw says Uva Ursi is listed on the FDA Poisonous Plant Database, and that it contains hydroquinone, a toxic chemical known to cause serious liver damage. “Contrary to the known dangers of long term exposure to Uva Ursi and Hydroquinone, the Gluco-Ease Plus bottle instructions suggest consumption of three to six 525 mg. pills per day, for an unlimited period of time, to ‘maintain healthy blood sugar levels and join lot’s [sic] of people who are living healthy lives,'” the complaint states. “The Gluco-Ease Plus bottle lists no warnings whatsoever regarding the toxicity of the product or the potential for serious liver problems,” it adds. Shaw, a 55-year-old plumber, said he bought two bottles of Gluco-Ease Plus in March 2009 on the advice of employees at Penn Herb’s Philadelphia retail store. After taking about 70 of the pills, he began to suffer itching all over his body that grew so severe he sought medical attention in a hospital emergency room. A liver biopsy showed he had contracted drug-induced hepatitis from the herbal supplement, Shaw says. As a result, he says he’s suffered from cholestatic hepatitis, liver failure, shortened life expectancy, debilitating bouts of itchiness, right-side abdominal pain and discomfort, extreme mental anguish, anxiety, loss of sleep and depression. “Plaintiff, being a lay person, had no idea that the supplement that he ingested could harm him in any way,” Shaw says. Shaw says the product, and Penn Herb’s marketing of it without adequate warnings, is “defective and unreasonably dangerous.” He says the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a formal warning to Penn Herb Co. in October 2005, informing it that it was violating federal law by suggesting that Gluco-Ease Plus and other products were intended for use in the cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease. “Rather than electing to have Gluco-Ease Plus evaluated by the FDA to determine if the product actually did what defendant said it did, Penn Herb elected to merely reword the marketing literature to exclude the words diabetes and insulin,” the complaint states. Shaw seeks compensatory and special damages of $50,000 or more for strict liability, negligence, and breach of implied warranty. He is represented by Thomas A. Lyman III, with Villari, Lentz & Lynam. ← Shareholder Class Action Man Claims Enbrel\|Gave Him Cancer →	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4773
__label__wiki	0.890403	0.890403	Government International Politics Turkey’s Erdogan Says Arrested Journalist is ‘German Spy’ March 3, 2017 ASSOCIATED PRESS Germany, Inter4, Turkey SUZAN FRASER, DAVID RISING, AP ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Tensions flared between Ankara and Berlin on Friday over the cancellation of two Turkish Cabinet members’ rallies in Germany, and the ongoing detention in Turkey of a German newspaper reporter. Delivering a speech in Istanbul, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan alleged the Die Welt newspaper journalist was both a German spy and a “representative” of the outlawed Kurdish rebel group, PKK. Erdogan lashed out at Germany and accused Berlin of harboring him for a month at the German Consulate in Istanbul before agreeing to hand him over to authorities. “They need to be put on trial for aiding and abetting terrorism,” Erdogan said. An upcoming referendum to increase the Turkish president’s powers has been another flash point. Earlier Friday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu spoke out against Germany over the canceled rallies, saying forces within the German state were working to prevent Turkish leaders from campaigning there for a “yes” vote. German Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Schaefer responded that the federal government had nothing to do with the cancellations, and suggested Turkish officials voicing their irritation in the press was in “nobody’s interest” and simply “pouring oil onto the fire.” The German and Turkish foreign ministers appeared to tone down the rhetoric later in the day after a telephone conversation during which Cavusoglu relayed Turkey’s “unease” over the cancellation of the Turkish justice and economy ministers’ campaign programs, Turkey’s Foreign Ministry said. It said the two ministers agreed to meet on March 8 in Germany. Gabriel’s office called it a “constructive and engaged” conversation. Erdogan however, re-escalated tensions hours later, saying Turkey would continue to criticize Germany. “They are telling us, ‘Why are you whipping up the issue?'” Erdogan said. “Just you wait, we have only just started. We are going to expose all that you have done in several international meetings.” Relations already were strained between the two countries over Germany’s criticism of Erdogan’s crackdown following a failed coup as a flow of Turkish diplomats and soldiers sought asylum in Germany. Germany has suggested it may not extradite suspects wanted by Turkey in cases it considers politically motivated, which has prompted Erdogan to accuse Germany of having “become a shelter” for terrorists and for having no regard for other countries’ national security issues. The growing rift has potential security implications. Germany has reconnaissance aircraft deployed at a NATO base in Turkey as part of the alliance’s fight against the Islamic State group. The European Union is also relying on Turkey to uphold a deal to stem the flow of migrants into Europe. The Turkish leaders’ comments came the day after local authorities in southwestern Germany withdrew permission for the Turkish justice minister to use a venue for a political rally for Turks living in Germany, citing insufficient space. The justice minister, Bekir Bozdag, canceled a meeting with his German counterpart in protest, while Turkey summoned the German ambassador seeking an explanation. Recalling previous incidents, including one last year when Erdogan was also blocked from addressing Turkish citizens, Cavusoglu said, “This has become a systematic practice of the German deep state.” Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokeswoman, Ulrike Demmer, said the federal government was not involved in canceling Bozdag’s engagement in Gaggenau, or a separate rally in Cologne planned for Saturday with Turkey’s economy minister. City officials said they canceled that event because organizers had misled them about its purpose, saying they were initially told it would be a theater performance. Demmer reiterated that the government has no plans to prevent Turkish officials from speaking to the 1.4 million Turkish voters in Germany. She said Germany wants to lead by example on issues of freedom of speech and opinion, but that “we respect the decisions that were taken” in Cologne and Gaggenau. Despite the cancellations, Turkish Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci said he would travel to Germany on Sunday to speak at different events in the Cologne area and, if necessary, meet Turkish citizens face-to-face. “It is our duty to go to battle; victory belongs to Allah,” the state-run Anadolu Agency quoted Zeybekci as saying. “If we see that they still don’t give us permission, we’ll go from coffee house to coffee house, we’ll go house to house, and we’ll still meet with our citizens in Germany.” Municipal officials in Leverkusen, where Zeybekci was to address a cultural association gathering, and Frechen, where he was to give opening greetings at a concert, said they had no plans to stop his appearances, Germany’s dpa news agency reported. Other German media later reported that the operator of the hall in Frechen had canceled the event. German officials have expressed deep concern about the Die Welt newspaper journalist. Deniz Yucel, who has both Turkish and German citizenship, was taken into custody last month following his reports about a hacker attack on the email account of Turkey’s energy minister. Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on Turkey to free Yucel, who was formally arrested last week. Schaeffer said Germany still has not received a reply to its request for the reporter to be given access to German consular officials. Rising reported from Berlin Copyright 2017 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. ← $168M Deal in Animators’ Wage-Fixing Case Gets Tentative OK 9th Circ. Orders New Look at Damages in Police Killing →	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4774
__label__wiki	0.956386	0.956386	Nine-year-old girl who was born profoundly deaf is now the star of CBBC's Rocket's Island - after life-changing implants made her 'no different to her hearing peers' Lauren Press, nine, from Barnet, had a second cochlear implant age six The electronic devices that directly stimulates the auditory nerves Also had intense auditory verbal therapy to help interpret sound Lauren's complicated history is undetectable in her role as Izzy Wizzy Lauren's mother Jacqui, who is deaf, says achievements are 'remarkable' By Naomi Greenaway for MailOnline Published: 05:50 EDT, 17 December 2015 \| Updated: 06:21 EDT, 17 December 2015 A nine-year-old girl who was born profoundly deaf and has undergone two life-changing surgeries to restore her hearing has realised her dream of becoming an actress. Lauren Press, from Barnet, who had cochlear implants at 23 months and again aged six, is now starring in hit CBBC show, Rocket's Island. Thanks to the electronic devices, which stimulate the auditory nerves in the inner ear, and intense therapy, Lauren's complicated history is undetectable in her role as vivacious foster child Izzy Wizzy. Lauren Press, who was born profoundly deaf and has undergone two life-changing surgeries to restore her hearing, has realised her dream of becoming an actress in CBBC series Rocket's Island Lauren, aged three, a year after her first implant surgery, with her parents Jacqui, who is deaf and relies on lip-reading to understand, and her dad David, who is hearing, before her younger sister Lana was born Speaking of her daughter's achievements Lauren's mother Jacqui, who is herself deaf but has clear speech, says: 'When I look back to when Lauren was a very little baby and remember all the worries and anxieties we had surrounding her deafness, we never imagined that she would be able to be viewed as a child that is no different to her hearing peers.' In order to help raise awareness of deafness, Lauren's real life struggles are played out on screen when Izzy Wizzy also starts experiencing hear loss. It's over the top and crazy but the babies will love it!'... Celebrity fashion photographer posts bare-faced selfie... But Lauren, who lives with her mother Jacqui and father David and younger sister Lana, has not let her disability hold her back. The budding actress is also a keen saxophonist and an award-winning gymnast. The cochlear implants, simulates the hair cells in a hearing ear, but it is not a miracle cure. The implants allow Lauren to access sound, but she has had to learn to make sense of the auditory world around her with specialist therapy. Thanks to the electronic devices, which stimulate the auditory nerves in the inner ear, and intense auditory verbal therapy, Lauren's complicated history is undetectable in her role as vivacious foster child Izzy Wizzy Speaking of her exciting TV role, Lauren says: 'It was the most incredible experience of my life. It also taught me that it's hard work and not as glamorous as TV looks. 'I loved every minute of it and made lovely friends!' Speaking of her TV role, Lauren says: 'It was the most incredible experience of my life. It also taught me that it's hard work and not as glamorous as TV looks. 'I loved every minute of it and made some really lovely friends!' Describing the young star, the creator of Rocket's Island, Rebecca Hodgeson, said: 'Lauren is a fantastically talented young actress. 'She is very instinctive and has a natural warmth which really comes through on screen. She plays a complicated kid with a troubled history and a secret. 'Before we met Lauren, we were worried she was too young to play the role but as soon as we met her she charmed us and we knew she was perfect. When I tested the episodes on my own children, they smiled as soon as Lauren came on screen.' Her hearing is not perfect, but Lauren speaks like a hearing child and has pursued her dream of acting It's been a rocky journey for Lauren, who failed her newborn hearing test at just 24 hours old. For Jacqui, who was told she only had a 2-5 per cent chance of having a baby who was deaf, it felt like reliving history. Jacqui, who speaks clearly but relies on lip-reading to understand, says: 'My childhood and early adult life had been a constant fight to fit in. I'd managed to put all that behind me and was happily married with a successful career as a TV producer and a fledgling acting career with a role in Holby City. 'I've always been a positive person, but when I imagined Lauren coming home from school telling me she was being bullied, I panicked at the thought of reliving my own childhood.' Then there were the practical issues to deal with - the fear of not being able to hear her baby cry or understand her needs. Describing the young star, creator of Rocket's Island, Rebecca Hodgeson, says: 'Lauren is a fantastically talented young actress. She is very instinctive and has a natural warmth which comes through on screen' Lauren, pictured aged three, started to communicate with Jacqui using hand signals at seven months Thankfully, Lauren's spirit helped Jacqui through. 'With the help of the therapy, she grew into a bright, tenacious, communicative little girl and made it impossible for me not to fall in love with her,' says Jacqui. But the hardest part was yet to come when Jacqui and David were told Lauren was a candidate for a cochlear implant and were faced with the heart wrenching decision of whether to put their one-year-old daughter through risky surgery - or let her live with her disability. The implants involve cutting open the ear and drilling an electronic implant into the cochlear, which also destroys any natural hearing. There is also the risk of damage to other nerves close to the auditory nerve, facial paralysis and loss of taste, as well as an increased susceptibility to meningitis through bacteria getting into the inner ear during the operation. 'Those four hours of waiting were the most harrowing of my life. And I wasn't prepared for what I saw when she came round. The whole side of her face was swollen, there was blood seeping from the dressings and she was badly bruised. 'I felt horrified, but when she opened her eyes, spoke the words: 'Mummy, have I got a new ear?' and asked for chocolate, I knew she was going to be fine.' Two months later the audiologist switched on the electrodes in her implant, which allowed Lauren to access sound, but she still needed therapy to learn how to interpret it. 'I'll never forget that sunny afternoon when David and I were sitting in the garden and Lauren said: 'I can hear a birdie!',' Jacqui remembers. But four years later, Lauren's hearing began to deteriorate and the couple had to relive the stress when Lauren After her second operation Lauren made slow but steady progress. 'It took a while for her to adjust to the second implant,' says Jacui, 'It meant she had to have more therapy and learn how to directionlise the sound, and learn to adjust in new surroundings.' Lauren has always attended a mainstream school and although she has a few deaf friends most of her friends are hearing. 'I have always made sure she is positive about her deafness and to be honest about her feelings,' says Jacqui. But one thing Jacqui never imagined was that Lauren would be so proficient with her language that by aged nine she would be a budding actress with a BBC drama under her belt: 'It's really been remarkable to see that she has been able to shine through.' 'She wants to continue acting in TV and hopefully experience more film opportunities, but she also is extremely dedicated to her school work and has a strong interest in becoming a vet! For more information about auditory verbal therapy go to www.avuk.org LIFE-CHANGING IMPLANTS THAT CAN OPEN UP A NEW WORLD FOR THE DEAF A cochlear implant is a small electronic device that can help provide a sense of sound to a person who is deaf or severely hard of hearing. An external portion of the implant sits behind the ear, while a second part is surgically placed under the skin. The implants cannot restore normal hearing but they can give a deaf person a good representation of sounds, helping them understand speech. Whereas hearing aids amplify sound so they can be detected by damaged ears, cochlear implants bypass damaged parts of the ear and directly stimulate the auditory nerve. Signals generated by the implant are sent via the auditory nerve to the brain, which recognises the signals as sound. Hearing through an implant is different from normal hearing and takes time to get used to it. It allows people to recognise warning signals, understand their environment and enjoy conversations with people. According to the Food and Drug Administration, as of December 2012, around 324,200 people worldwide have been fitted with implants. In the UK The Ear Foundation estimates about 10,000 people have cochlear implants and the number is growing every year. Deaf girl Lauren Press is now the star of CBBC's Rocket's Island Six tourists fined after skinny dipping on beach in Thailand Plane makes emergency landing into the water near Maryland beach Wife and lawyers arrive ahead of 'El Chapo' sentencing Shocking brawl between Man United and Leeds United fans in Perth 'Car thief' caught on camera 'using stolen credit card'	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4777
__label__wiki	0.981745	0.981745	ISIS fanatic 'behind massacre of 21 tourists at Tunisian museum' is arrested in Italy – after crossing the Mediterranean on a MIGRANT boat Abdel Majid Touil, 22, held at house he shares with his mother and brothers Arrived in Sicilian port on boat in February, but received an expulsion order Gunmen killed 22 people in March attack on Bardo museum in capital Tunis Two militants were shot dead by police, but third attacker went on the run By Simon Tomlinson and Hannah Roberts for MailOnline A Moroccan man has been arrested in Italy over the Tunisia museum massacre that left 21 tourists dead after fleeing across the Mediterranean on a migrant boat. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the March attack on the Bardo Museum in the capital Tunis which killed British mother Sally Adey. Abdel Majid Touil, 22, was arrested at the home where he lives with his mother and brothers in Gaggiano, near Milan last night. The accusations listed in the Tunisian arrest warrant include premeditated murder, conspiracy to commit attacks against the internal security of the state, belonging to a terrorist group and recruiting and training others to commit terrorist attacks, police said. Scroll down for videos Held by terror police: Moroccan national Abdel Majid Touil (above) has been arrested in Italy over the Tunisia museum massacre that left 21 tourists dead after fleeing across the Mediterranean on a migrant boat A CCTV image shows two of the gunmen who attacked Tunisia's National Bardo Museum in March holding their guns in a room as a man runs away. Two attackers were shot dead, while a third went on the run. Italian police today said they had arrested a Moroccan suspect in the northern Italian town of Gaggiano The room in Gaggiano, near Milan, Italy, where Abdelmajid Touil was arrested on Tuesday evening He arrived in Porto Empedocle in Sicily on a migrant boat on February 17 using the alias Abdullah, but received an expulsion order demanding he leave Italy within 15 days. From that moment, he disappeared before re-emerging in Tunisia where the authorities maintain he was personally involved in both the planning and the execution of the attacks. The Tunisians claim that he was also involved in recruiting jihadis. Desperate Iraqi government calls for VOLUNTEERS to fill... Charlie Hebdo cartoonist who drew Prophet Mohammed on cover... He then disappeared again and managed to re-enter Italy despite the expulsion order. Police were able to identify him in part after his mother reported that her son's passport was missing immediately after the Bardo attack. Bruno Megale of the anti-terrorism Digos police said: 'He did not appear to frequent mosques close to fundamentalism in Italy and was unknown to us apart from the deportation order before the intelligence came from the Tunisian authorities.' Touil arrived in Porto Empedocle in Sicily on a migrant boat (like the one above) in February, but received an expulsion order. The timing of his arrival in Italy suggests he was allegedly involved in planning the attack A view of the building in Gaggiano, near Milan, where Abdel Majid Touil was arrested by terror police Prosecutor Bruno Megale speaks during during a press conference by Italian police in Milan about the arrest of a Moroccan man, Abdel Majid Touil Extradition procedures will now begin, it is understood, but Tunisia could face difficulties because the death penalty could be imposed for the crimes of which he is accused. A neighbour in Gaggiano claimed Touil could not have taken part in the attacks in Tunis in March because he had been in Italy at the time. The woman told ANSA news agency: ‘He is a good kid. You are making a serious mistake. 'He has done nothing. At the time of the attack he was here. He is looking for work.' His brother has also told investigators that Touil was in Italy at the times of the shooting. Terrified: Tourists and visitors from the Bardo museum are evacuated in Tunis after gunmen opened fire Blood stains on the ground as journalists and security forces stand at the visitors entrance of the National Bardo Museum in Tunis on March 19 in the aftermath of an attack on foreign tourists in the Tunisian capital News of his arrest follows warnings by Libyan authorities that ISIS militias in Libya are using migrant boats to smuggle jihadis into Europe. A police spokesman said: 'A Moroccan national, wanted internationally, was arrested yesterday evening in a town in the Milan region. 'The Tunisian authorities suspect him of having taken part in the Bardo attack.' Mother-of-two Sally Adey was killed in the terror attack on the Bardo National Museum in Tunis, dying off wounds to her stomach and pelvis Milan's prefecture was expected to provide more details at a press conference later in the day. The Bardo attack on March 18 in the capital Tunis killed 22 people in total. Two Tunisian assailants who had shot tourists as they got off buses outside the museum were gunned down at the scene after taking hostages inside the museum. Tunisia's President Beji Caid Essebsi said a few days after the attack that a third gunman was on the run. ISIS claimed responsibly for the massacre, the deadliest involving foreigners in Tunisia since a 2002 suicide bombing on the island of Djerba. The terror group issued a statement and audio on jihadi websites applauding the dead gunmen as 'knights' for their 'blessed invasion of one of the dens of infidels and vice in Muslim Tunisia'. The government said the two gunmen had trained in jihadi camps in Libya before the attack inside the heavily secured Tunisian parliament compound. Among the dead were 17 cruise ship tourists, including British mother-of-two Sally Adey. They also included a Tunisian policeman. Mrs Adey, 57, from Shropshire, had been on a cruise of the Mediterranean with her husband, Robert, and was on an excursion to the museum. A coroner ruled at an inquest in March that the the retired solicitor died from wounds to her stomach and pelvis. Police in Tunisia have arrested five people described as directly tied to the two gunmen. Four others said to be supporters of the cell were also arrested in central Tunisia, not far from where a group claiming allegiance to Al Qaeda's North African branch has been active. ISIS fanatic 'behind Tunisia's Bardo museum massacre' is arrested in Italy	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4778
__label__wiki	0.884293	0.884293	Mongolian woman mummy buried a thousand a years ago wearing 'ADIDAS boots' and with a knife that's still shiny died after a massive blow to the head Experts have been analysing the body and belongings found a year ago Despite her luxurious posessions it appears she was a local seamstress And her distinctive red and black striped boots have now been restored Reserachers believe the head injury was the cause of the woman's death By Will Stewart for MailOnline Published: 11:24 EDT, 12 April 2017 \| Updated: 02:25 EDT, 13 April 2017 Intriguing new details have emerged about a medieval mummy known for her 'Adidas' boots - which she wore more than a millennia ago. The body of the woman was discovered a year ago this week in the Altai mountains region of Mongolia. And her body and possessions remained so remarkably preserved that experts are still uncovering some of the secrets they keep. Now, scientists have discovered that the mummy suffered a significant blow to the head before her death. Scientists believe the body of a woman (pictured) found in April last year, died up to 1,100 years ago from a blow to the head When the images were first released one picture in particular (left) caused a stir online after comparisons were drawn with Adidas boots (snowboarding boots pictured right) Experts from the Centre of Cultural Heritage of Mongolia believe the body of a woman found in April last year, died up to 1,100 years ago. The cause of her death is believed to have been a serious head wound. Despite the seemingly lavish possessions she was buried with, archaeologists believe she was an 'ordinary' woman, rather than an aristocrat or royal. The Mongolian team have suggested she may have been a seamstress, due to a sewing kit and fine embroidery found on her clothing and belongings. The Mongolian woman - aged between 30 and 40 - hit headlines in April 2016, thanks to her modern-looking footwear, which some likened to a pair of trainers. In the intervening 12 months, scientists have been working to find out more about the mysterious Mongolian mummy. And her trademark felt boots - boasting red and black stripes - have been carefully cleaned, with new pictures revealed today by The Siberian Times. Experts from the Centre of Cultural Heritage of Mongolia now believe the woman died up to 1,100 years ago after suffering a serious head wound. Initial examinations found that 'it was quite possible that the traces of a blow to the mummy's facial bones were the cause of her death'. They are still seeking to verify the exact age of the burial, but they estimate it took place in the tenth century - more recently than originally thought. Is someone telling your child to TDTM? Police reveals the... What did it SOUND like to stand in Stonehenge 4,000 years... Is there alien life in our solar system? Nasa to announce... Turn your doodles into ART: Google launches free Autodraw... Her trademark felt boots - which were compared to Adidas trainers (pictured) - have been carefully cleaned and restored New pictures of the leather boots - which feature red and black stripes and metal buckle work (pictured) - have been released About the boots Galbadrakh Enkhbat, director of the Centre, said: 'With these stripes, when the find was made public, they were dubbed similar to Adidas shoes. 'In this sense, they are an interesting object of study for ethnographers, especially so when the style is very modern.' And one local fashion expert. quoted by Siberian Times, said: 'Overall they look quite kinky but stylish - I wouldn't mind wearing them now in a cold climate. 'Those high-quality stitches, the bright red and black stripes, the length - I would buy them now in no time.' The high altitude and cold climate helped to preserve both the woman's body and her belongings. And a coating of Shilajit - a thick, sticky tar-like substance with a colour ranging from white to dark brown - that covered her body aided this process. Some skin and hair can be seen on her remains, which were wrapped in felt. Experts from the Centre of Cultural Heritage of Mongolia (pictured) have worked for the past 12 months to restore the times they found buried This included a handbag, four changes of clothes, the 'Adidas' boots, and numerous practical and everyday objects (pictured) The items of clothing found, like this jacket (pictured), were decorated with fine embroidery patterns The woman was buried alongside a number of her possessions - including a handbag and four changes of clothes. A comb and a mirror from her beauty kit were also found, along with a knife. Her horse and a saddle with metal stirrups in such good condition that it could be used today were buried as well. The Mongolian woman (pictured) is believed to have been aged between 30 and 40 when she died. Some skin and hair can be seen on her remains, which were wrapped in felt. Despite her seemingly lavish possessions (pictued) archaeologists believe she was an 'ordinary' women of her time, rather than an aristocrat or royal Experts believe she may have been a seamstress, due to a variety of sewing equipment which was found inside her bag (pictured), as well as the embroidery on her clothing But despite her seemingly lavish possessions archaeologists believe she was an 'ordinary' women of her time, rather than an aristocrat or royal. 'Judging by what was found inside the burial, we guess that she was from an ordinary social strata,' added Mr Enkhbat. 'Various sewing utensils were found with her. The preserved remains of a horse (pictured) were uncovered at the burial site A saddle with metal stirrups (pictured) in such good condition that it could be used today were found alongside it 'This is only our guess, but we think she could have been a seamstress.' 'Inside (her bag) was the sewing kit and since the embroidery was on both the bag and the shoes, we can be certain that the embroidery was done by locals.' The grave was unearthed at an altitude of 9,200ft (2,803 metres) and the woman is believed to be of Turkik origin. It appears to be the first complete Turkic burial in Central Asia. TURKIK BURIALS The first Turkic people occupied a region from Central Asia to Siberia from the 6th century BC. The first mention of Turks was in a Chinese text that made reference to Turk tribes and Sogdians along the Silk Road. The Turkic people developed their own alphabets, had their own language and are known for a number of symbols including wolves and the colour blue. In fact, some reports claim the word Turquoise originates from the word Turkish. Today, modern Turks live across Asia and eastern Europe. In 2003, DNA analysis revealed skeletons found in a 2,000-year-old tomb contained genes found in modern Turks. Two years ago, archaeologists found what they believed to be the grave of a Turkic warrior also in the Altai Mountains. Turks were buried with treasured possessions, known as 'grave goods' that they could take to the next world. In this 2014 discovery, what appeared to be a Turkic warrior was buried with a musical instrument, alongside his horse. At the time of the discovery, commenters on Twitter and Facebook made a number of tongue-in-cheek claims that woman must be a time traveller. One Twitter user jokingly quipped: 'Must be a time traveler. I knew we would dig one up sooner or later', another added: 'Huh? Time-travelling Mummy? Corpse interfered with?.' Meanwhile, Facebook users said: 'Loooooool he's wearing a pair of gazelles', and 'Well I must admit, I've got a few pair but I ain't had them that long.' A host of possessions were found in the grave, offering a unique insight into life in medievMongolia. A host of possessions were found in the grave including included a bridle, clay vase, wooden bowl, trough, iron kettle (all pictured left), the remains of a horse, and ancient clothing. There were also pillows, a sheep's head and felt travel bag (right) in which were placed the whole back of a sheep and goat bones The discovery also appears to be the first complete Turkic burial in Central Asia and the remains were found at an altitude of 9,200 feet. An elaborately embroidered bag is pictured These included a saddle, bridle, clay vase, wooden bowl, trough, iron kettle, the remains of an entire horse, and ancient clothing. There were also pillows, a sheep's head and felt travel bag in which were placed the whole back of a sheep, goat bones and small leather bag designed to carry a cup. Archaeologists from the city museum in Khovd were alerted to the burial site by local herdsmen. The Altai Mountains - where the burial was discovered - unite Siberia, in Russia, and Mongolia, China and Kazakhstan. The grave was located 9,200 feet (2,803 meters) above sea level. This fact and the cool temperatures helped to preserve the grave, which sat 10ft deep (three metres). The location of the mountains is marked Archeologists find ancient mummy approximately 1,500 years old in Mongolia Ancient mummy 'with 1,100 year old Adidas boots' died after she was struck on the head Mongolian mummy buried in 'Adidas boots' 1,100 years ago Explore the MOON in incredible 3D map: Interactive module follows footsteps of astronauts to mark 50th... 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__label__wiki	0.860488	0.860488	https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Things-you-should-know-about-the-Stop-Shop-13762123.php Stop & Shop strike: What you need to know By Jim Shay Updated 5:29 pm EDT, Friday, April 19, 2019 Workers walk the picket line in front of the Stop & Shop on Fairfield Ave., in Bridgeport, Conn. April 11, 2019. Stop & Shop employees across Connecticut and New England walked out on strike Thursday after failing to resolve a contract impasse. less Workers walk the picket line in front of the Stop & Shop on Fairfield Ave., in Bridgeport, Conn. April 11, 2019. Stop & Shop employees across Connecticut and New England walked out on strike Thursday after ... more Photo: Ned Gerard, Hearst Connecticut Media Friday is Day 9 of the Stop & Shop workers’ strike. Are the two sides talking? Both sides said they “exchanged proposals,” but there was no agreement. Stop & Shop President Mark McGowan said “as negotiations on a new contract continue, I know we are all united in our hope that this situation is resolved soon and that we can all get our energies back to being fully focused on our customers” The UFCW union said Stop & Shop “still haven’t moved from their wage proposal and other substantial issues that matter to you and your coworkers. We will be back at the table tomorrow (Thursday) to continue to work towards an agreement that will make Stop & Shop better for workers and shoppers.” For the unions’ update on negotiations, click here. Stop & Shop workers go on strike in CT For Stop & Shops’ updates on negotiations, click here Former Vice President Joe Biden attended a rally in Boston on Thurday in support of striking workers. Stop & Shop president said to the striking workers, “I deeply respect your right to picket. It is part of the civil discourse that is so central to our democracy. On several occasions, however, protests have gone far beyond civil - and customers and employees have been threatened, intimidated or put in situations that felt dangerous or disrespectful. That and illegal actions are things that we will - and I will - absolutely not stand for.” Are Stop & Shop stores open? The only Stop & Shop closed is on Whalley Avenue in New Haven. Store hours may be different and some services may not be available. Stop & Shop pharmacies and People’s United Bank branches are open. It has posted the stores operating hours here. How many stores are there? The grocery giant employs more than 31,000 associates throughout Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. The company operates 92 stores in Connecticut alone. Quincy, Massachusetts-based Stop & Shop, a division of Dutch supermarket giant Ahold Delhaize, has 415 stores across the Northeast but the strike affects 240 stores in the three states. Should I cross the picket line? That’s your decision. Nearly empty parking lots show that many customers have chosen to go to other stores. United Food and Commercial Workers Local 919 asked its members to remain courteous to those who need items from the pharmacies inside the stores. “Many of these members of the communities may not have any other options and we know all too well what it’s like when access to health care is under threat.” Can I support strikers? Check out the GoFundMe page devoted to raising funds for those workers out of jobs. Find the fundraising page by clicking here.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4782
__label__wiki	0.519711	0.519711	Grosvenor Hotel Venue There's little doubt that Melbourne is the craft beer capital of Australia. Yet in beer, as in many other ways, it has been a tale of two cities. While bars and bottleshops north of the Yarra have eagerly embraced the craft beer revolution sweeping the land, it's been a very different picture to the south. Despite being home to one of Australia's beer bar trailblazers, The Local Taphouse, and a handful of top notch bottleshops, elsewhere in Melbourne's south it's been slim pickings. Thankfully, the times they are a-changin'. Just as the Palace Hotel has given the people of South Melbourne a quality boozer with great beer, the Grosvenor Hotel is bringing choice to St Kilda East. The imposing building on a corner of Brighton Hotel was operating as an Italian fine dining restaurant until early 2013. Then a craft beer-loving manager took over and set about making some changes, not least to the tap selection, which at that point featured no less than seven different major brewery lagers. Since then, a new owner – Rabih Yanni (formerly of The Point) – has come in and introduced further changes, including looking to boost its craft credentials even more, with a range of local microbreweries lining the taps and more craft beer in the fridges. The result now is a much more relaxed feel throughout with a menu that's more suited to the pub environment, featuring a range of traditional wood-fired pizzas, burgers, sharing plates, pub classics and dry-aged steaks. The charcuterie platters are well worth checking out too, as evidenced by the impressive deli-style bench and the sides of beef ageing inside a glass cabinet by the main entrance. The venue itself is one of many parts. There's a bistro at the city end open seven days a week for lunch and dinner for a la carte dining, plus a cocktail bar with a suitably late night feel to it. At the other end, you'll find the more casual bar areas, divided by a wall of oak barrels, and an outdoor terrace. Add to that a rather funky upstairs exclusive event space, live music five days a week plus Bingo on Mondays and Trivia on Wednesdays, an adjoining bottleshop that's been turned into a drive-thru grocery / deli and it's quite the package. Grosvenor Hotel 10 Brighton Road Sun to Thurs: Midday to 11pm Fri to Sat: Midday to 1am On tap at Grosvenor Hotel This is a directory listing. To find out more, head here Regularly featured brewers 2 Brothers 4 Joyner St 4 Pines (AB InBev) 29/43-45 East Esplanade Feral Brewing (CCA) 152 Haddrill Road Hawthorn Brewing Company (Aus Venue Co) Holgate Brewhouse Little Creatures (Lion) 40 Mews Road Mornington Peninsula Brewery (Tribe) 72 Watt Road Mountain Goat (Asahi) 80 North Street Richmond Stone & Wood 100 Centennial Circuit Vale Brewing 252 Blewitt Springs Road McLaren Flat White Rabbit (Lion)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4786
__label__cc	0.74925	0.25075	Today's Blind Items - A Night At The Circus - A Hi... Blind Items Revealed #5 - Mr. X Today's Blind Items - Dirty Old Man Blind Item #12 - Kindness Today's Blind Items - Horror Billy Graham Has Died Blind Item #9 - Better Hurry Up - Mr. Hedge Today's Blind Items - On The Run For The Church Evangelist Billy Graham -- a confidant to presidents, a guiding light to generations of American evangelicals and a globe-trotting preacher who converted millions to Christianity has died. He was 99. Labels: Billy Graham, R.I.P. totaji said... Good Riddance! J Smith said... MichiganMama59 said... A truly decent human being who did nothing but help others. Goddess said... RIP. A moderating voice during times of political division. Scotty B said... Can't wait for the Blinds to leak out! Another white supremacist pretending to be a Christian who loves others. Millionaire preacher, ha, what a sinner! Very Mad B said... Christopher Hitchens said this about an equally unctuous Falwell: "If you gave Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox." Graham was a racist bastard huckster who got rich selling the panacea of a fairy tale to a bunch of frightened, ignorant, subjugated weaklings. He wouldn't deserve the wood his corpse should be lowered into. Jesus H Christ. Let the dead rest. What the fuck is wrong with you people and no that’s not racist you vacuous toffee headed motherfuckers. You people? Who do you mean, you people? Toffee headed? Son, I think you need to go see Black Panther every day this week. Try the first evening screening, it's less crowded. Dead don't rest. Dead is dead. And no evil man should be allowed any damned reverence. Lyla said... {shrugs} who cares AngryLiberalKTS. said... txredhd said... Sd Auntie said... Used to like him until he was noted for being a racist. That's normal for that age group. Cant stand his son. Tell Black Jesus Hello Mr Graham. RIP old soul He was a figure head for possibly one of the worst movements in American history: the Christian Right. nicksauntie said... Money hungry fame whore who ripped off millions.... Us People...say phoney on you Normal Christopher Hitchens was a drunk and a Communist. Who gives a fuck. @Scotty B - Billy Graham never made the big money that other tv preachers make. IIRC he capped his salary at 70K or something around there, and any profit he made above that went to charity. You may disagree with his views, but there's no need to besmirch the man with falsehoods. He was someone who practiced what he preached and tried to be a force of good in the world. John Cantor said... Billy Graham and Cliff Richard "We know that Billy Graham is serviced by ... sex slaves." http://aanirfan.blogspot.com/2014/08/billy-graham-and-cliff-richard.html Wake up, from your slumber slumber, wake up... Hahahahahaha..... Billy Graham net worth: over 25 Million. Easier for a camel through the eye of a needle than--yeah, you know the rest. This Billy Graham right now: "Uh, why is it so hot in heaven? Can we turn down the thermostat?" Then he hears a voice: "I'm sorry, Billy Millionaire. Where is it that you think you are?" followed by all our laughter. NuGa Peach said... How sad, unfortunate and telling that we have fallen so far down the civilized society ladder, that we can't even let a man pass without throwing out nasty accusations and comments. Whether you like him or not, his family, friends and millions of followers are grieving his loss. Items like this are like a truth serum that exposes the seething hate inside some of the posters here. By the standards of evangelists, he was an honorable man. RIP. I can't look past his homophobia Aunty said... Moldering into compost. ScottyB, are whites allowed to see it yet? Asking for Normal, because I don't intend to see it until it's on TCM. .robert said... This is so funny. The people talking crap about Graham are the same ones who praised Castro when he died. Xpensive Hobutt said... Roast in hell, Billy Graham, pedophile cocksucker, https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-o5JsWZr2NGU/Wo2E4pEnMzI/AAAAAAADmlc/wVe8gY0lfgUPJZXTvR_rdG02G-ZhqgxHACLcBGAs/s1600/bg.jpg You should totally see Black Panther. It's a good film. Very inspiring for all people. And Racist Crackers NEED to see this film. Not saying you are one, but asking about wypipo sounds like you are one. If you want to cry over the man, go for it. Don't take those that aren't very sad to task over it. You sound like sanctimonious assholes. "Christopher Hitchens was a drunk and a Communist." And fucking hilarious...which is why he still resonates. Calling Mother Teresa the Ghoul of Calcutta was shocking and hilarious. XRaySpex000 said... "we can't even let a man pass without throwing out nasty accusations and comments" You are taking the comments on one little site as the whole We of society? That's a little extreme. @Plot Actually I'm not. It's not just this site, it is every where. We can't even agree to disagree anymore without the inevitable shouts of you're a racist, bigot, homophobe, etc... No such thing as healthy debate and respect for differing opinions. I mean seriously, what ever happened to live and let live. I ignore a lot of that shit, so honestly I wouldn't know. Labels to me aren't important. Graham's shocking conversations on tape, with Richard Nixon, are. "The Church" got to him. He knew too much. DaToneBone said... The internet has truth and false about everything. A clusterfuck of information that really can't be organized nor cleaned up. I read somewhere that he was really a Freemason. I don't know if that is true. I'm here to see if evil gets revealed from time to time. I won't care what team they are on. Fundie Nutjob said... The rapture cometh. Be afraid,sodomites and abortionists. Low Key said... "By the standards of evangelists, he was an honorable man." Well, that kinda says it all, yeah? Yes, pretty low bar Andrew and plot - hitchens was a cowardly, misogynist, racist, warmonger without conscience. One of the reasons i no longer consider myself an atheist because i don't want to be associated with odious creeps like sam harris. RIP billy, you gave hope to millions of regular people. Fiona Barnett on Billy Grahamm: "I was trafficked to the USA, to Bohemian Grove where I was drugged & raped by the Rev BILLY GRAHAM – Richard Nixon’s pal, in a pink bubble room. I was also made to dress up like a teddy bear and play hide, seek & rape. I also witnessed the ritual murder of a person by politicians dressed up in robes." https://fionabarnett.org/abuse-drawings/ "i no longer consider myself an atheist" No, you never did. That's a lie. " RIP billy, you gave hope to millions of regular people." While building as estate of tens of millions. BG is a HUGE part of the New World Order, his ministry took off in 1954, one year after the OSS was incorporated as the CIA and Hefner's Playboy Honeypot. "We know that Billy Graham is serviced by ... sex slaves." Mind Control "Billy Graham has been built up to be the most respected and popular person in America. "Who wants to find out they have been deceived?" [The Deception of Billy Graham ](http://christianobserver.net/the-deception-of-billy-graham-a-mind-control-front/)/ Fritz Springmeier "In 1952, in Paris, Billy Graham and another evangelist had dinner with two prostitutes and each one took one of them home. "See Frady, Marshall. Billy Graham, A Parable of American Righteousness. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., p.169-170. "In 1954, the man who ran security for the Sacramento Crusade saw a high-priced hooker sneak into Billy Graham’s room prior to him going out for the Crusade. "Billy Graham and this high priced hooker were alone together in the room." Billy Graham told the American people that we need to embrace the New World Order. "When Billy Graham had his 1954 Crusade, large sums of the money came directly from people in the 'Illuminati', the Whitneys, the Vanderbilts, the Rockefellers, and Chase Manhattan." "Billy Graham’s family when they originally came over to this nation were of the Frank family which is related to Jakob Frank... "Billy Graham’s daughters have lived in Israel, and Billy Graham’s son fought with the Israeli army in the Six-Day War... Billy Graham said that he "often attends love-ins and rock festivals incognito by putting on a false mustache and beard." Billy Graham is linked to the CIA and CIA brainwashing. "In The Deadly Deception, by Jim Shaw, an ex-33rd degree mason, ... Shaw relates how Graham was present at his ceremony initiating him into the 33rd degree. Only freemasons are allowed to attend these ceremonies." "Mind-control survivor Kathleen Sullivan has written an astounding book... "Sullivan says she was abused and raped by ... Billy Graham, among others." Fuck you PLOT... go learn something TWIT Phooey.on you! Spider Rico said... Raging Bunnies said... These comments tho ... Ali B said... He walked the walk and was a good man. Anyone who disagrees is an ignorant douche canoe. This is one man who was the real deal and a true servant of God. RIP. Haters gonna Hate (and go to hell) Have you heard the tapes of Graham's conversations with Nixon? They are less than godly. The real deal produced a son like Franklin, a person very difficult to be proud of. Fairylights said... I'm obviously missing something, what's the deal with Franklin Graham? I know next to nothing about him other than he's Billy's son. Cocaine, drink, forcing crowds waiting for food and medicine to listen to her sermon first and give their lives to Jesus (even when the goods were not his.) He's a loon and an opportunist. Did you know that Billy Graham bailed Martin Luther King out of jail? I didn't until tonight. his sermon GoogleSleuth said... Ughhh, I’m going to regret getting involved here... but you DO realize that’s a blog and has no factual basis whatsoever? Whichever side you’re on, for the love of GOD, please just check your sources. Just because it’s on the internet doesn’t mean it’s true. Cant wait to meet Black Jesus! Hallelujah!!! Praise God! Elizabeth S. said... How was he a racist? In 1952 he tore down the ropes segregating his audience for a speech in the Deep South and vowed never to speak to a segregated audience again. He wrote about the sin of racism. John 15:18 (the Red Words) “If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also. But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. For all of you that loved that phony buttfuck, I'll just leave this here: From Nixon's tapes. ''They're the ones putting out the pornographic stuff,'' Graham had said to Nixon. The Jewish ''stranglehold has got to be broken or the country's going down the drain,'' he continued. Graham told Nixon that Jews did not know his true feelings about them. ''I go and I keep friends with Mr. Rosenthal (A.M. Rosenthal) at The New York Times and people of that sort, you know. And all -- I mean, not all the Jews, but a lot of the Jews are great friends of mine, they swarm around me and are friendly to me because they know that I'm friendly with Israel. But they don't know how I really feel about what they are doing to this country. And I have no power, no way to handle them, but I would stand up if under proper circumstances.'' Thanks for that Poppyman. What went on between Nixon and Graham was atrocious. I can't imagine Graham gave that up completely after Nixon resigned. https://www.jewishquarterly.org/issuearchive/articled325.html?articleid=38 Truth doesn’t stop being true because it makes you uncomfortable. WTH has that article have to do with Nixon or Graham, tell us. Plot - Hang on, did you just claim to know my spiritual inclinations from two decades ago from across the Atlantic!?! that's some talent or more likely breathtaking arrogance. Is it beyond your conception that someone might renounce their atheism because they realise that humanity is complex and that people of faith deserve respect? I don't think you internalized your atheism at all. It was a label you prefered for a moment without a depth of understanding. This is not limited to atheism. I also see, in your explanation for now believing, a tendency for superficiality and a need to seem some way rather than internalize it. Your words, at least, give that impression. Others deserving respect is not a good reason. That quality is not limited to believers only and so, yeah, I don't think you take on much more than labels. Sorry, just calling it like I see it. You are a person full of hate, and that hate prevents you from respecting others. Because you cannot respect others without first losing your hate, you look at all the happy people in the world -- Christians, conservatives, people in traditional gender roles, etc -- and refuse to consider their ideas because you have already labeled them as someone who "hates" because of psychological projection. @Phelps Tell me how this all ties together. The porn article is has what to do with Graham and Nixon? And if you are describing me as filled with hate, what has that do to with porn, Graham or Nixon? Tricia13 said... And pretty sure it was breathtaking ignorance 😉 I'll help you with your reading comprehension. Hophead complained that Billy Graham is a "phony buttfuck" because he complained about Jewish influence and control of the pornography industry. I showed that the pornography industry was, and continued to be, in fact controlled by jewish owners. I showed this using a periodical published by and for jewish people. Your hate has made it apparent over many, many threads, and has been known to regulars here for a long long time. "I showed that the pornography industry was, and continued to be, in fact controlled by jewish owners." All of it? If I find one porn production company that is not controlled by a jewish owner, will you admit you are wrong? How about 10 porn companies? What's your requirement? "has been known to regulars here for a long long time" Ah, so your invisible friends think I have hate for...what exactly? Far be it from me to argue with the invisible. My requirement is that you argue from good faith, which you are incapable of. I'm trying to do so. How many non-Jewish porn producers do you need me to dig up to invalidate your statement that Jews control the whole porn industry? What will you accept? I never argued that "Jews control the whole porn industry." Bad faith. Yeah you kinda did - First, you showed nothing of the sort. Second, you are claiming that the porn industry, as a whole, is controlled by jewish owners. Do you wish now to revise? I do not wish to revise You are arguing from bad faith, and I can not take you as a serious person. Or you cannot argue with me, because you know where this is headed and you know you're in a very weak position in your claims of those jews controlling the porn industry. Sure, go ahead, call it bad faith because you're scared. When you find some courage, I'll be happy to take this up again and we'll research how much of the porn industry is really controlled by those jews. it would be educational for both of us, no? I cannot argue with you because you are not arguing. It will not be educational for both of us, because you are incapable of changing your opinions, which is essential to learning. You don't seek education -- you only seek to control others. As an example: Jewish people are 3% of the American population. What percentage of jewish-owned production companies would convince you that the porn industry is controlled by jewish owners? 6%? 51%? 75%? You will be unable to come up with a number (other than 100%) because you are not arguing in good faith. "because you are incapable of changing your opinions" Well, it does require effort by those seeking to change my opinion, that is true. It has happened though. "you only seek to control others." Asking you for some material basis for your claims, which I generously agreed to contribute to, is trying to control you???? Really??? That makes it sound like any questioning of your fantasies translates in your head to control. Do facts and research of any kind seek to control you? Or is it that you accept only facts, or things that look like fact, that confirm your own bias? "What percentage of jewish-owned production companies would convince you that the porn industry is controlled by jewish owners? 6%? 51%? 75%?" That's a GREAT question, actually, and we'd have to establish that going in. I'm inclined to think that if we establish that more than 50% ownership allows us to declare that more than 50% of porn production has some form of jewish ownership. Another thing we'd have to agree on is whether the online amatuer porn is allowed inside our research parameters, since that is the largest growing porn market at the moment. "You will be unable to come up with a number (other than 100%)" WTF? I've not made the all inclusive statements you have. I've never said one way or the other. If we find that there is jewish ownership over 25% or 75% of porn production, that's just what it is, nothing more, nothing less. Of course, you and I will have to establish what we mean by ownership as opposed to investment. There was no online porn in the 1970s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_in_the_United_States "In this period America's most notorious pornographer was Reuben Sturman. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, throughout the 1970s, Sturman controlled most of the pornography circulating in the country." Most is more than 50%. QED Okay, so we're only talking 70s porn? Do I have that right? I'll give this fellow Sturman a look-see. My argument, from the start, has been that Billy Graham is not a "phony buttfuck" for saying that the porn industry was controlled by jewish people in a conversation with Richard Nixon in 1972. I can't specify your argument because you haven't had one. But would Graham even know who Sturman was??? Did Billy look at the blue films and mags Sturman was putting out? During the 70s, the face of porn were Hugh Hefner, Bob Guccione and Larry Flynt, none of which were Jewish. I have no doubt Graham held whispery conversations of hidden Jewish influences even there. But Sturman was his own man, unassociated with the growing and legitimate forms of porn like Playboy and Hustler (in fact, they were responsible for Sturman's loss of business.) From what I'm reading, Sturman's court cases using the 1st Amendment paved the way for others like Hefner. Sturman never lost a case, he was a savvy guy from what I can tell though he fell for the dumbest play in the book by not paying his taxes. Sturman controlled mainly the peep show industry, after the legit porn mags were sold freely at newstands. He still had a hold over porn movie theaters, too. That is hardly overwhelming control over the whole porn industry of the 70s. If it were the 60s, the argument could be made that Sturman controlled a major portion of porn, a huge hunk of it, in fact. But even then his market was quickly eroding. Interesting fellow, this Sturman, thanks for passing him on.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4787
__label__cc	0.646775	0.353225	AWS Achieves $30 Billion Run Rate Amid Growing Profitability While revenue growth slightly slowed, the industry's leading cloud became more profitable by engineering more-efficient data centers By Joseph Tsidulko April 25, 2019, 08:26 PM EDT Amazon Web Services crossed the $30 billion run rate threshold in the first quarter of 2019 as the cloud division of the e-commerce giant became more profitable by engineering its data centers to be more efficient. Amazon CFO Brian Olsavsky raised the topic of AWS without being prompted by an investor late in Thursday's earnings call to share his thoughts on the industry's leading cloud provider's improved margins and some notable customer wins. While AWS growth slightly slowed to 42 percent on $7.7 billion in sales in Q1, the expansion in the operating margin is the "a result of a lot of the good work on infrastructure and efficiencies," Olsavsky said. [Related: AWS Reports $25B In Sales In 2018 With No Signs Of Slowdown In Sight] Those "impressive gains in efficiency in the data centers" raised AWS operating income from $1.4 billion in the quarter ended March 31 of 2018 to $2.2 billion in 2019. Olsavsky said every percentage-point improvement in utilization is worth tens of millions of dollars. Realizing such efficiencies is the AWS model for investing in its infrastructure. And as AWS lowers its costs, it passes savings along to customers, either through new rates or deals, he said. Those gains have come as AWS has undergone a "very large expansion of tech and sales teams that support this business," he told investors. AWS saw some big customer wins in the quarter, including two major vehicle manufacturers: Volkswagon, which launched a comprehensive cloud service linking suppliers and manufacturing facilities on AWS, and Ford. "People are moving their workloads to AWS at a faster pace," Olsavsky said, adding usage growth is outpacing revenue. Olsavsky downplayed the significance of the rate of year-over-year revenue growth slowing sequentially from the 45 percent of the previous quarter. "This is always going to be a lumpy business," Olsavsky said. Growth rates for cloud providers depend much on the quarterly sales cycles, cloud adoption initiatives, and migration patterns of enterprise customers, he said. "We're also getting much better at adding capacity faster," Olsavsky noted, mentioning the launch of a new region in Hong Kong. "Business in China is going really well," he said. AWS delivered half of Amazon's overall income of $4.4 billion—which surged beyond the $1.9 billion realized in the same period a year earlier. Amazon's overall $59.7 billion in quarterly revenue was up 19 percent from the first quarter of 2018. That number, like AWS revenue, came in right where analysts had expected. But earnings-per-share of $7.09 blew past forecasts of $4.72, delivering a boost to Amazon's stock price. Amazon shares closed Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange at $1,902.25, then rose to $1,918.12 at the time of this publication, with a good amount of volatility in after-hours trading Activists Protesting Amazon's ICE Ties Disrupt AWS Summit New York Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s 6 Key Statements At Inspire 2019 New AWS Competency For ISVs Migrating Microsoft Workloads Google Cloud Buying Elastifile To Extend Enterprise File Storage Services CRN Exclusive: New Google Cloud Partner Advantage Program Launches Today	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4793
__label__cc	0.719611	0.280389	10 Bible Mothers Who Changed the Church Sue Schlesman Crosswalk.com Contributing Writer The fact that a mother’s influence is a powerful force over the destinies of her children is undeniable. While the Bible is filled with snapshots of courageous women, no mother is held up as a specific parenting example. We must read the short, tender stories of Biblical moms to identify their actions and character traits. Even though Christianity didn’t begin until after Jesus died, Biblical mothers from the Old and New Testaments were all women who changed the church because they were women who transformed history. They laid the foundation for nations to follow God’s commandments and accept Jesus. These mothers endured real problems, yet influenced their children to follow God. Photo credit: ©Thinkstock/Nastco 1. Jocabed Jocabed was mother to Moses, Miriam, and Aaron. By placing baby Moses in a basket in the Nile, Jocabed showed remarkable courage. She defied Pharaoh’s decree while actively involving her other children in her bold act of faith (Miriam guarded the basket and secured Jocabed as Moses’ nurse.) Moses spent his formative years with his own family, learning about God and Israel. His siblings, who were a part of his remarkable story, became his co-leaders in the exodus. “By faith Moses’ parents hid him for three months after he was born because they saw he was no ordinary child and they were not afraid of the king’s edict” (Hebrews 11:23). Photo credit: ©Thinkstock 2. Hannah Hannah was the mother of Samuel. Her heartache and fervent prayer life touched God, and He blessed her with a son after years of barrenness. Desiring to raise Samuel for God’s service, Hannah gave him to God so that he could work in the temple. By age three, Samuel had already learned to worship; by age seven, God was speaking to him directly. Samuel became one of Israel’s greatest leaders. I suspect Hannah’s prayers supported him throughout his lifetime. “And she made a vow, saying, ‘O Lord Almighty, if you will . . . remember me, and not forget your servant but give her a son, then I will give him to the Lord for all the days of his life’” (1 Samuel 1:11). 3. Shunammite Woman Shunammite woman was mother to a boy and hostess to Elisha. The Shunammite woman built a room into her house so the prophet Elisha had a place to stay on his journeys; a place where she could serve him and care for him. Finally, after years of a childless marriage, God blessed the woman with a boy. When the boy died suddenly, the Shunammite saddled a donkey and rode 25 miles to get Elisha, willing him to pray over her son. Her desire for God’s blessing gave her the faith to trust God with her life, even amidst tragedy. And God raised the boy from the dead. “But the child’s mother said, ‘As surely as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you’” (2 Kings 4:30). Photo credit: ©Thinkstock/StockPhotosArt 4. Widow Widow was the mother of two sons. After a faithful prophet died, his widow implored Elisha to help her. She could not pay her debts, so the creditor had decided to take her two sons into slavery as payment. Elisha instructed her to pour out the only thing she had in the house—a small flask of olive oil—into as many jars as she could find. After she had borrowed dozens of jars from her neighbors, she followed Elisha’s instructions. The oil in her flask did not run out until she had filled enough jars with oil to sell for the payment. She paid off her debts and then lived off the rest. Her faith in God’s provision and reliance on God’s people set an incredible example for her sons when all hope seemed lost. “’Your servant has nothing there at all,’ she said, ‘except a little oil’” (2 Kings 4:2). Photo credit: ©Thinkstock/tommaso79 5. Naomi Naomi was mother-in-law to Ruth. When a famine struck Israel, Naomi and her family made the decision to leave the country and live awhile in Moab, a nation of idol-worshippers. Although Naomi’s sons married Moabite women, Naomi must have reflected the hope of God in that culture because when tragedy struck, both of her daughters-in-law looked to her for guidance and hope. Her example, even while she grieved her husband and sons’ deaths, prompted Ruth to leave her own family and follow Naomi back to Israel. And God redeemed Naomi’s land, heritage, and family. “The women said to Naomi: ‘Praise be to the Lord, who this day has not left you without a kinsman-redeemer’” (Ruth 4:14). 6. Ruth Ruth was mother to Obed, grandmother to Jesse, great-grandmother to David, and great-great-grandmother to Solomon. Her faith in God and her willingness to care for her mother-in-law, Naomi, during a desperate time served as proof of her remarkable devotion. Ruth obeyed God’s laws in the midst of poverty, fear, and hopelessness. Some theologians think that Ruth is the inspiration for the Virtuous Woman of Proverbs 31. Her famous great-great-grandson, Solomon, must surely have known her story of love and loyalty. “’All my fellow townsmen know that you are a woman of noble character’” (Ruth 2:11-12). Photo credit: Pexels 7. Elizabeth Elizabeth was mother to John the Baptist, mentor to Mary. Late in life, Elizabeth became pregnant with a special child—John the Baptist—who would live in the wilderness, evangelizing the Jews and predicting the coming Messiah. Her young cousin Mary was also pregnant, with Jesus Christ. For three months, Mary stayed with Elizabeth and benefited from her example of encouragement and faith. “Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. In a loud voice, she exclaimed: ‘Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear! But why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?’” (Luke 1:43). Photo credit: ©Thinkstock/Pablo_K 8. Mary Mary was the mother of Jesus, James, Joseph, and Jude. The most revered woman in all of history, Mary was a young, unwed mother, chosen by God for a daunting task: train and teach the Savior of the world. In addition to guiding Jesus toward His calling, she also reared other children, two of which wrote New Testament books. Mary’s obedience to God’s Will amidst the rumors, fame, rejection, and torture of her Son is remarkable. “And Mary said, ‘My soul glorifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior’” (Luke 2:46). Photo credit: ©Thinkstock/mastapiece Mary was mother to James and John. As Jesus’ ministry grew, the two sons of Zebedee and Mary catapulted with Peter into Jesus’ closest circle of friends. Known as “sons of thunder,” Mary’s boys displayed natural leadership skills and eagerly embraced a tough calling into ministry. Mary often followed Jesus and her sons to their events. Although she was criticized for her boldness in asking Jesus to let her boys sit beside Him in heaven, Mary’s commitment to the kingdom of God is unmistakable. She knew who Jesus was, and she wanted her sons as close to Him as possible. “Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of Zebedee’s sons.” (Matthew 27:54) Photo credit: ©Thinkstock/allanswart 10. Mary Slide 10 of 10 Mary was mother to John-Mark. A wealthy woman in Jerusalem, Mary housed Jesus and His disciples for the Last Supper, welcomed Jesus’ grieving throng of followers after His crucifixion, and kept the disciples during Jesus’ appearances after the resurrection. The first church met in Mary’s house. Her example of service to Christ must surely have influenced her young son John-Mark, who went with Barnabas on two missionary journeys. John-Mark also worked with Paul and Peter, and penned the Gospel of Mark. Mary led her son toward the Lord and ministry through her courageous service to the church. “He went to the house of Mary the mother of John, also called Mark, where many people had gathered and were praying” (Acts 12:12). Photo credit: ©Thinkstock/gnagel Sue Schlesman is a Christian writer, teacher, blogger, and speaker. Her blogs, fiction, and non-fiction reach a wide audience. She has a BA in Creative Writing and is earning a MA in Theology and Culture. You can find her philosophizing about life, education, family, and Jesus at www.susanwalleyschlesman.com. NEXT: 10 Things Christians Shouldn't Say When Someone Dies	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4795
__label__wiki	0.977348	0.977348	Ex-MSU athlete's suit alleges Nassar raped her, Perles covered it up Suit alleges Larry Nassar raped a young MSU hockey player in 1992, and then-athletic director George Perles, intervened and covered it up Ex-MSU athlete's suit alleges Nassar raped her, Perles covered it up Suit alleges Larry Nassar raped a young MSU hockey player in 1992, and then-athletic director George Perles, intervened and covered it up Check out this story on detroitnews.com: https://detne.ws/2x28mOW Kim Kozlowski, The Detroit News Published 10:57 a.m. ET Sept. 11, 2018 \| Updated 7:55 p.m. ET Sept. 11, 2018 Former Spartans head coach George Perles(Photo: Detroit News file photo) Serial pedophile Larry Nassar videotaped the rape of a young field hockey player that led to her pregnancy in 1992 – and when her coach at Michigan State University complained about it, former athletic director George Perles intervened and covered it up, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court. Nassar, who is now serving a de facto life sentence, admitted to sexually assaulting young women with his fingers while an MSU and USA Gymnastics sports doctor. But the lawsuit, filed by California resident Erika Davis, is the first to allege that Nassar raped someone through intercourse. Davis' suit alleges that she was 17 and seeking treatment for an injury when Nassar drugged her, raped her and filmed the assault. It is among 500 lawsuits filed against MSU and pushes back the timeline when reports of Nassar's sexual abuse allegedly reached the university. Until now, former head gymnastics coach Kathie Klages was thought to be the first MSU official to allegedly learn of Nassar's conduct when Larissa Boyce and another former gymnast told Klages in 1997 that he had abused them. “This proves that not only did Defendant Michigan State University have knowledge that Defendant Nassar sexually abused and sexually assaulted minors, but that it would also go to great lengths to conceal this conduct,” according to the lawsuit, filed Monday in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan. “Defendant Michigan State University could have stopped Defendant Nassar’s conduct back in 1992, but did not. “Michigan State University could have prevented hundreds of young girls and women from being sexually assaulted by Defendant Nassar had they only acted appropriately, decently and lawfully in 1992.” Messages seeking comment on the lawsuit were left Tuesday with Perles, now a member of the MSU Board of Trustees, on his cellphone and with the trustees' office. MSU spokeswoman Emily Guerrant issued a statement in response to the lawsuit. “We are deeply sorry for the abuses Larry Nassar has committed, and for the trauma experienced by all sexual assault survivors," Guerrant said. "Sexual abuse, assault and relationship violence are not tolerated in our campus community. While the protocols and procedures mentioned in this lawsuit do not reflect how sexual assault claims are handled at MSU, we are taking the allegations very seriously and looking into the situation. "MSU is working diligently to create a campus community where all members feel safe to study and work free from the threat of sexual misconduct and relationship violence. At the same time, we want to make sure that when survivors of sexual assault or relationship violence come forward, they are treated with respect, listened to and that we provide the appropriate supports throughout the reporting process.” Lawyers for Davis, Detroit-based Brian McKeen and New York-based Jordan Merson, were not available for comment Tuesday. Nassar's lawyer, Malaika Ramsey-Heath, also could not be reached. Merrily Dean Baker, MSU athletic director from 1992-95,said Tuesday she was confused by some of the timelines laid out in the lawsuit. Baker, who succeeded Perles during the time frame of the incidents outlined in the complaint, said shedid not hear about the case and did not know the coach who allegedly told the plaintiff to see Nassar. "It is not going together for me, correctly, time-wise," said Baker. "I am not trying to say it didn't happen ... I am getting pinpricks of warning saying wait a minute, that doesn't fit together." The suit comes two years after Rachael Denhollander publicly accused Nassar of sexual abuse, prompting hundreds of others to come forward with similar stories. The suit was filed as the deadline closed Monday for Nassar accusers to file claims with MSU as part of the school's $500 million settlement with332 women who sued the university, alleging it failed to protect them. Nassar is in a federal prison in Florida after pleading guilty to charges of first-degree criminal sexual misconduct and possession of child pornography. At the end of Monday, Guerrant said, 168 additional lawsuits had been filed against the university since the historic agreement was reached in May, bringing the total number of suits against MSU to 500. Davis, who is named in her suit against MSU, had repressed memories of the alleged rape until February 2018, when victims were speaking out about Nassar in court and she saw one of Nassar's training videos that she appeared in on a local news station, according to the court filing. "(Davis) suffers from anxiety, depression and a host of other issues, including a suicide attempt in 1993 and suicidal ideation at many other times," according to the lawsuit. "(She) avoided gynecological exams due to the trauma caused by Defendant Nassar. When Plaintiff Erika was finally persuaded to have a gynecological examination, she was told that she had been infected by the HPV virus which caused (Davis') cervical cancer." Davis was on an NCAA scholarship at MSU when she went to see Nassar in the spring of 1992, the suit alleges. At the time, Nassar was a student in the MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine. Davis met Nassar after her coach, Martha Ludwig, suggested that she see him after she twisted her knee. Ludwig knew Nassar through a mutual friend and told Davis that he needed athletes for a study he was conducting, according to the complaint. The rape occurred, according to the court documents, after Nassar told Davis he was conducting a study on flexibility through MSU’s College of Osteopathic Medicine. There was also a cameraman at the meeting, according to the suit. Davis asked how many people were in the study and Nassar told her that she would be the third but she had to be 18 to consent and her coach could consent for her since she was 17. “Nassar further inquired whether Plaintiff Erika had ever had a breast examination, and she had not,” according to the court documents. “Nassar asked her to remove her shirt and bra, which she did. ... During this time, the cameraman was filming Defendant Nassar’s sexual abuse of (Davis)." Afterward, Nassar asked Davis to come back for a female exam in a week. When she came back, Nassar made Davis take a pill that he had crushed up but did not tell her what he had given her and she became drowsy soon after, according to the court documents. He used a camera to record the appointment, according to the documents. “When she was less woozy a short time later, Plaintiff Erika witnessed Defendant Nassar raping her,” according to the court documents. Davis was in pain and told two friends later that night and they agreed to go with her to police when she was ready. Davis also told her coach, who confronted Nassar in his office in May 1992 and demanded the video, according to the court documents. The suit alleges Ludwigalso complained to Perles, a renowned figure who was MSU's head football coach at the time. “(Perles) intervened and the charges were dropped against the coach, but she was forced to return the video, resign and sign a non-disclosure agreement,” according to the court documents. “Upon information and belief, Coach Martha made and retained a copy of the videotape.” Later in the summer, Davis had not had a period and informed a “dorm mom,” the suit says. So Davis took a pregnancy test that came back positive. “The only person who could have caused her to be pregnant was Defendant Nassar,” according to the court documents. “(The dorm mom) told Plaintiff Erika that she had been raped and should report what happened to the police." A few weeks later, Davis suffered a miscarriage, the suit says. Davis went to the MSU police departmentin October 1992. “The police told them that since she was an athlete, she had to report it to the athletic department,” according to the court documents. “The detective explicitly told them that he was powerless to investigate anything that takes place to the athletic department and to go to the athletic department. “(Davis) explained that the athletic department already dismissed it and the sergeant responded that George Perles is a ‘powerful man,’ and she should just drop it.” But by that time, Baker was MSU's athletic director. She succeeded Perles on May 15, 1992, Guerrant said. Davis stopped seeing Nassar after the incident. Soon after, Davis’ scholarship was taken away, according to the court documents. A Detroit News investigation found that at least 14 staff members at MSU received reports about Nassar's conduct over two decades. But the lawsuit alleges there were two more who knew about Nassar: Perles and Ludwig. According to Detroit News archives, Ludwig resigned as field hockey coach within a year of Baker's hiring. Efforts to reach Ludwig by phone and email Tuesday were unsuccessful. Davis is not the first woman to accuse Nassar of abuse during his time as a medical student. Sarah Klein, who recently revealed her identity during the ESPY awards, alleged in a lawsuit filed against MSU in April 2017 that Nassar assaulted her in the back room of now-closed Great Lakes Gymnastics in the Lansing area when she was 12 to 14 years old. Reached Tuesday, Klein said Nassar began abusing her in the late 1980s. Nassar also asked Klein to go to his apartment for a study on manipulation treatments for his MSU medical degree, according to a lawsuit she filed against MSU. Nassar told her he was measuring whether her muscles were more flexible when heated. He asked her to do the splits while lying on her stomach and measured the distance between her groin and the floor. He then asked her to get into a bathtub and repeated the process. "Nassar told her that he could not pay her for participating in the study but that her ‘payment’ would be a full body massage from him,” during which he assaulted her, court records say. kkozlowski@detroitnews.com Read or Share this story: https://detne.ws/2x28mOW 3 Great Lakes, St. Clair poised to break water level records Police: Woman refuses to pay for Walmart cake she ate while shopping Boil water notice in effect in Farmington Hills Police arrest driver seen doing doughnuts on Lodge Man faces 17 felony charges in double-shooting on Telegraph Backlash swift as ex-gov Snyder headed to Harvard for fellowship	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4799
__label__wiki	0.93322	0.93322	St Peter's CofE Primary School Find out how St Peter's CofE Primary School rates compared to other primary schools in Plymouth with our school ratings Devon Live St Peter's CofE Primary School Rank 12,073/14,749 Attainment for All We've analysed all the government data to bring you the rundown on your local primary schools. Here St Peter's CofE Primary School, Rendle Street, Plymouth, PL1 1TP, is put into focus to show its scores in relation to other schools in the area. You can also see how the primary school compares against other schools across England. Data is available on pupils' attainment, progress, absence levels and when the school was last inspected. Rendle Street, Plymouth, PL1 1TP The open date and status above indicate when St Peter's CofE Primary School opened or when it changed to its most recent incarnation, with a number of schools converting to academies in recent years. Where schools have changed type recently, data for previous years covering their previous incarnation is included below as well - so a school may have a status of New due to converting to an academy but have data for previous years prior to conversion. What type of school is St Peter's CofE Primary School? Voluntary aided school % English as additional language (EAL) % SEN Statement 12,073 (out of 14,749) 11,427 (out of 14,624) 11,712 (out of 14,459) Data missing (out of 41) Our unique rating system takes into account a range of different indicators to evaluate a school's performance. The system tracks achievement, pupil progress, teaching, pupil attendance and whether the school is improving. The 2018 KS2 tests were assessing a new curriculum that was introduced in 2014. Ratings for years before 2016 were based on how the school performed on the previous curriculum so performance is not directly comparable to 2018. How St Peter's CofE Primary School scores on each indicator. St Peter's CofE Primary School has been rated as Requires Improvement at its most recent Ofsted inspection. If table is blank, it means there are no recent inspections for this school. Prior to September 2012, where a school received a rating of 3 this indicated a Satisfactory grade. From after that date, it now indicates Requires Improvement. Requires Improvement How does St Peter's CofE Primary School perform on each of the areas inspected by Ofsted? As of September 2012, a score of 3 changed from indicating Satisfactory to Requires Improvement. In 2018, 50% of pupils at St Peter's CofE Primary School reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. How have pupils at St Peter's CofE Primary School done in assessments at the end of Key Stage 2 and how does it compare to local authority and national averages? While pupils are generally aiming to be working at the expected level in reading, writing and maths, what proportion of children at St Peter's CofE Primary School had a high score in reading and maths and were working at greater depth in writing, and how does this compare to performance at local and national level? How do children at St Peter's CofE Primary School with different levels of attainment at Key Stage 1 and pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds perform in terms of reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths? How does the % of boys and girls at St Peter's CofE Primary School achieving the expected standard in reading, writing and maths compare to the national average? What is the pupil:teacher ratio at St Peter's CofE Primary School and how does it compare to the national average? Mean Gross Salary of All Teachers 2017/18 (GBP) Mean Gross Salary of All Teachers 2017/18 (GBP) - National Pupils are assessed on how much progress they make between assessments in Key Stage 1 (infants) and Key Stage 2 (juniors), with the progress of all pupils contributing to an overall 'value added' measure for the school. At St Peter's CofE Primary School, pupils had an average progress score in maths in 2018 that was -0.7 compared to the national average of 0. How do children with different levels of attainment at infant level and pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds perform in terms of the progress made in maths and how does this compare to local averages? At St Peter's CofE Primary School, pupils had an average progress score in reading in 2018 that was -0.4 compared to the national average of 0. How do children with different levels of attainment at infant level and pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds perform in terms of making progress in reading and how does this compare to local averages? At St Peter's CofE Primary School, pupils had an average progress score in writing in 2018 that was 1.3 compared to the national average of 0. How do children with different levels of attainment at infant level and pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds perform in terms of making progress in writing and how does this compare to local averages? Figures below show what proportion of half-day sessions were missed by pupils and how this compares to local and national averages. In 2016/17, the most recent full school year, 5.1% of half-day sessions were missed by pupils at St Peter's CofE Primary School. Nationally, primary school pupils missed 4% of half-day sessions. Figures below show what proportion of half day sessions were missed by pupils and counted as an unauthorised absence and how this compares to local and national averages. What is the total school spend per pupil at St Peter's CofE Primary School compared to the local average? (school is in blue) How much does St Peter's CofE Primary School spend per pupil on teachers and educational support staff and how does this compare to the average spending across Plymouth? What percentage of the budget at St Peter's CofE Primary School is spent on supply staff? Primary School Ratings	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4801
__label__wiki	0.959437	0.959437	Dust storm rain create havoc in Rajasthan, 11 killed in Dholpur, 5 in Bharatpur by Chitra Home Chowdhury Dust storm rain create havoc in Rajasthan, 11 killed in Dholpur, 5 in Bharatpur: This is first-time ever a heavy rainfall created havoc on the last Wednesday night in Rajasthan. This serious storm and heavy rainfall reportedly, killed at least around people in the city Bharatpur and 11, including five children, in Dholpur districts. Around 100 people got wounded during the dust storm and rainwater in these 2 mentioned districts. The death toll in Dholpur was declared 7 in this Thursday morning, but with four more also demised because of the injuries, which has increased to 11, confirmed by the Dholpur SDM. The district administration has been stated that the toll figures can be also increased because they were collecting figures from both the districts, in the place where thousands of trees were evacuated and the phone lines got damaged. “Most of these deaths happened due to the collapse of houses in the storm. At most of the places victims were sleeping,” said a senior officer of Dholpur district administration. The heavy rainfall also affected railway services where trees fell down on the tracks. “The Dholpur-Bharatpur rail route remained closed for almost 2 hours and it was restored by 1 am on Thursday,” stated by the railway officer. At Sepau in Dholpur, a part of wall distorted in the house of mentioned Jagdish Baghela. This was result in the killing of his minor daughter. At Rajpur village in another mishap, a five-year-old girl was killed because of the wall breaking. “At Basai Nawab village a two-year-old boy and his two-and-a-half-year-old sister were killed,” said by an officer. Other deceased are, namely, Laxman Kushwah(10) of Magwara village and Suman Sharma(25) of Baseri hamlet in Dholpur. In Bharatpur, several villages went dark post the electric polls and transformers were smashed and damaged. The deceased names, also include, Vishambhar Jat(65), Kamla(60), Arun Singh(50), Ramshree(70), Yogesh Kumar(32) all belonged to different villages in Bharatpur, police said. Hospitals in Bharatpur and Dholpur were packed with a plenty of victims turn patients were seen lying in the corridors as at least around 100 people injured in rain-related accidents in the above-mentioned districts. BJP legislator Kuldeep Sengar finally named in Unnao rape case, UP govt calls for CBI probe IPL 2018: Chennai Super Kings matches moved to Pune, fresh CSK schedule	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4806
__label__cc	0.672922	0.327078	You Are Here: Home → Jim Waddington’s knowledge of business is firsthand Jim Waddington’s knowledge of business is firsthand Alex Vuocolo November 9, 2017 0 Comment Jim Waddington, kent county, spotlight Jim Waddington stands in front of the Kent County Levy Court Building, home to the county’s new co-working space. Photo by Eric Crossan. By Kim Hoey Special to Delaware Business Times There isn’t a whole lot in business development that James “Jim” Waddington isn’t familiar with — sales, distribution, manufacturing, shipping, agriculture, marketing. Yeah, he’s done that. So being the first full-time, paid executive director of the Kent County Economic Partnership office is kind of a perfect place for him. It all started with his first job as a child helping his father deliver bottles of milk to people’s doorsteps through the family company, Waddington Dairy in Mannington Township, New Jersey. As he grew, that job changed, since, in Waddington’s words, “Customers kept dying and new residents didn’t want it.” Still, with the help of Waddington, who partnered with his father as general manager and then CEO, the company endured, diversified and grew. It began distributing other drinks along with milk, and then bought an ice cream company to round out its products. Finally, it merged the dairy with a new company, Balford Farms, in 1996, and Waddington became the vice president of marketing. Eventually, though, he decided it was time to try something new. He started a shipping company helping Jamaicans living in New Jersey send products home to families literally by the barrel full. Then, before it was cool, Waddington spent about 18 months in Cuba trying to set up a shipping and distribution line across that country because it looked like the administration in the U.S., at the time, might lift sanctions. The sanctions remained, and Waddington moved on, working in economic development for local governments. He landed in Kent County in 2012. “He works extremely hard; he is extremely collaborative and he’s easy to work with,” said Bill Andrew, president of the Kent Economic Partnership board. “He’s very focused on Kent County to improve the manufacturing landscape here. He’s done an excellent job.” Waddington’s breadth of knowledge allows him to seamlessly go from talking about heavy industrial production to growing heirloom tomatoes — his favorite heirloom tomatoes are Linskey and Cuostralee, by the way. In his spare time, he likes motorcycles, spending time with his family, and true to his early life, farming — on a very small scale. He works his backyard garden with his favorite helper, his 5-year-old granddaughter. Delmarva Power readies for weekend heat wave Domaine Hudson in Wilmington honored by Wine Spectator Chemours awards 6 scholarships to Wilmington high school students Doesn’t your nonprofit already have enough money? by John Wellons Find an Underdog Customer by Chris Dohl Why managing change is critical to future success by Lisa Detwiler	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4807
__label__cc	0.689798	0.310202	What is Mikailuitl? Mikailuitl is the name for our traditional honoring of the passing of life from physical to essence. In our ancestral traditions, we do not only honor people who have passed away, but all natural life that makes up the great mystery of the world and universe. This is a cultural ceremony that helps teach our children about the natural laws of life as understood by our ancestors. In Mexico, we call these days los Dias de Los Muertos. Our families commemorate these days in several ways and through different traditions in the various regions and cultures of Mexico and Aztlan. Several of our families at Anahuacalmecac continue to honor these days through personal customs and community events. We want to honor these traditions and open a space for us to remember our family, our ancestors and our ways – together. Mikailuitl can be a very powerful healing ceremony as it can help us remember that we are not alone when we grieve. This year we will honor youth and young adults who have passed away unexpectedly through war, violence or other non-natural causes. The central altar will be dedicated to the offerings made in their memory. How will we honor Mikailuitl? Our late elder and cultural guide, Tata Cuaxtle, has taught us that the customs in his town of Copalillo, Guerrero, Mexico, include more than we typically think of in Chicano Dia de los Muertos events. Whereas, Chicanos tend to commemorate the Days of the Dead through art and festivals, indigenous Mexican traditions are deeply rooted in the cycles of community and agriculture. Corn is the foundation of our ancestral Azteca culture. Other indigenous cultures in Mexico and in Aztlan also share corn as the source of cultural teachings. Its cycle of life reminds us on a yearly basis who we are and how we should live to keep community and family harmony. Today, in Los Angeles, and even most Native reservations in the U.S., we do not sustain our community economically solely through agriculture as before. Yet, our culture and our ceremonies survive to remind us of who we are and who we should become. This is the way we honor Micailhuitl at Xinaxcalmecac. Tata Cuaxtle has also taught us that after the first ceremony for loved ones is held at the altars in the homes of every family in town, altars are raised for those that have passed away violently or by accident outside of the house. In this way we will honor our cultural heroes and heroines and all those youth we have lost due to accidents, war or other unnatural causes. Mikailuitl at Semillas Anahuacalmecac The students and families of Semillas Community Schools, are the community we call on to commemorate the Mikailuitl. Our ceremony is a cultural gathering of community to honor those who have died and to teach our children how to learn from death. This is a space and time for parents to tell our children stories about a family member, a special hero or heroine or just about nature and life. The Mikailuitl is a time for parents to learn from other parents and share customs and traditions your family practiced or still practice. This is a time to listen to the elders in your family, and to help them remember what they did when they were little so that our traditions remain strong in the next generation. This way our children will be better prepared to deal with the difficulties of life and the realities we share with all of humanity. To honor the youth and others who have died as a result of genocide, fratricide our schools have honored each known site of a homicide along or near the Huntington Drive corridor for the past several years. While our youth are divided in life, we are all united in death. Our offerings and blessings call on our barrios to unite for the love of our next generation through community, consciousness, and culture. ALL STUDENTS DANCE. ALL PARENTS WHO ARE TRADITIONAL DANCERS ARE WELCOME TO DANCE. HONOR YOUTH WHO HAVE DIED THROUGH ACCIDENT, WAR OR VIOLENCE IN THE CENTRAL ALTAR BY BRINGING A SMALL PICTURE AND AN OFFERING TO HONOR THEIR MEMORY. ARRIVE EARLY TO HELP WITH THE ALTARS. HELP KEEP THE AREA CLEAN. HELP KEEP THE KIDS SAFE AT ALL TIMES BY KEEPING A CLOSE EYE ON THEM WHILE THEY WAIT. MIKAILUITL LEARNING AND TEACHING ONLINE RESOURCES We have compiled a limited list of resources we believe provide support for decolonizing the teaching and learning about Mikailuitl - the Fiesta of our Dead.These are indigenous ceremonies, native in particular to our Azteca community, but common throughout Indigenous Peoples of Mexico and Central America. Day of the Dead: A Holiday of Indigenous Resistance Day of the Dead isn't just a Latin American tradition celebrating loved ones who have died -- it's also a day rooted in Indigenous resistance. https://videos.telesurtv.net/en/video/609103/day-of-the-dead-a-holiday-of-indigenous-resistance School of the Americas Watch: This Day of the Dead, we ask you to publicly or privately commemorate those who are missed by their loved ones due to state violence. Día de los Muertos is a celebration of life, not death. It is another opportunity to reaffirm our commitment to justice, and to do all in our power to make certain that the scourges of militarization and state violence stop harming or claiming so many lives throughout the Americas. http://www.soaw.org/news/organizing-updates/4330-today-a-day-of-the-deaddia-de-los-muertos #IlustradoresConAyotzinapa: http://ilustradoresconayotzinapa.tumblr.com/ REVISTA Harvard Review of Latin America FIESTAS: BEYOND FOLKLORE (SPRING 2014) / CELEBRATING DIASPORA Días de los Muertos, a Living Celebration By Felipe Agredano-Lozano with Photos by Emmanuel Sandoval http://revista.drclas.harvard.edu/book/death-la Lo incómodo del desfile del Día de Muertos- http://andreslajous.nexos.com.mx/?p=2205 "Hace unos días Mancera explicó que el desfile lo organizaron porque salió en la película de James Bond; que claro que no se les había ocurrido en su gobierno. Confieso que me molesta el desfile que organizó el gobierno de la ciudad de México para el día de muertos. Mi molestia no puede ser consistentemente una molestia por la “invención de una tradición"." ALTARS HONOR THE DECEASED AT DOWNTOWN DIA DE LOS MUERTOS DISPLAY http://abc7.com/society/altars-honor-the-deceased-at-downtown-dia-de-los-muertos-display/1582786/ Mexico City celebrates its first ever Day of the Dead parade – video https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2016/oct/30/mexico-city-celebrates-its-first-ever-day-of-the-dead-parade-video MICCAILHUITONTLI - La fiesta de los muertecillos http://www.gdn.unam.mx/diccionario/consultar/palabra/miccailhuitontli/id/188910 http://www.tomzap.com/muertos.html - NatGeo Lively Mexican holiday honors the dead http://nationalgeographic.org/media/dia-de-los-muertos/ NateGeoKids http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/explore/celebrations/day-of-the-dead/ Los orígenes de la celebración del Día de Muertos en México http://diadelosmuertos.yaia.com/ Feasts - Mexico 3 of 3 - BBC Culture Documentary - Dia de los Muertos en Michoacan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl25Uf9RpdA Day of the Dead Food for the Ancestors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KUxZZUACHU Day of the Dead: A Celebration of Life (English Subtitles) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j44yUsIzUks FIESTA TRADICION - DIA DE LOS MUERTOS EN OAXACA - THE DAY OF THE DEAD. PARTE 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoKsK-KYlfE La ofrenda del Día de Muertos, origen y significado https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agcv2wPUooM When Dia de los Muertos is Corrupted http://radical-regeneration.blogspot.com/2014/11/micailhuitl-disregard-disrespect-and.html?view=flipcard	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4811
__label__wiki	0.634537	0.634537	Observe and you will get a glimpse of the law of attraction in action. Join and you will take advantage of it-DR WALE The Eleven One Theory Tom Brady Gisele Bundchen Forbes: The World's Highest-Paid Celebrity Couples -DR QUOTE: It was the famous cynical psychologist and celebrity researcher Jim Houran who once said that “powerful people tend to gravitate toward other powerful people.” When it comes to celebrity couples, one plus one equals millions – $283 million, to be precise, the estimated combined sum earned by The World’s Highest-Paid Celebrity Couples between May 2010 and May 2011, according to data from the latest Celebrity 100list.Coming first on our ranking is the powerful duo formed by supermodel Gisele Bundchen and NFL superstar Tom Brady. Thanks to a monster year filled with fashion and endorsement deals, not to mention a few business ventures that could put her on the road to becoming the world’s first billionaire supermodel, Bundchen pocketed a massive $45 million over the 12-month period. Not to be overshadowed by his more famous wife, Brady – who signed a four-year, $72 million contract extension in September with the New England Patriots, NFL’s richest deal on an annual basis – brought home another $31 million, putting the couple’s combined annual earnings at $76 million. Music’s most powerful couple, Beyonce Knowles and Jay-Z hauled in some $72 million over the past year, making them No. 2 on our list. The Houston-born R&B diva pulled in $35 million, thanks mostly to business-focused deals such as a clothing line with Dereon and endorsement deals with L’Oreal, DirecTV, General Mills and others. As for Jay-Z, his earnings come from the 10-year $150 million Live Nation deal that he signed in 2008 and the cash he collects as a shareholder in New Jersey Nets, 40/40 Club chain and ad firm Translation. Hollywood royalty Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt came in third place on our list, with a combined $50 million annual income. The highest-paid actress in the world is the only woman making bank for playing action heroes in Tinseltown these days: Salt, which was originally written for Tom Cruise, earned $300 million at the box office. Her other movie from last year, The Tourist, made another $280 million worldwide. As a result, Jolie folded about $30 million last year, while her husband, Brad Pitt, cashed in some $20 million. With his Plan B production company, Pitt has become as active a producer as he is an actor. But don’t write him off the big screen just yet, as his latest movie appearance (on Terrence Malick’s The Tree Of Life) is already generating Oscar buzz. 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Talking of KANYE, his mentor JAY Z surprised Angie Martinez around the same time at HOT 97. BTW rappers; do not try to walk in a radio station without being in the system first. Unfair? Be the judge of Jay and Ye's Watch The Throne. Royalty has it's price but it is a world of privilege. Hitting on 08/08/11 on iTunes to teach hackers a lesson... Then later everywhere. Complete audio interview HERE - DR RAHDA It's A Shame	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4814
__label__wiki	0.929752	0.929752	Scot says Northern Ireland can make their mark in France Northern Ireland coach Austin MacPhee. Scott Inglis As one of the very few Scots with any competitive interest in Euro 2016, Austin MacPhee is determined to make an impression. Based in Cupar, Fife, MacPhee is also part of the Northern Ireland coaching set up and a key member of Michael O’Neill’s backroom staff. Totally unfancied to achieve much in the tournament by many, MacPhee says Northern Ireland, unbeaten in 12 games going into the championships, are capable of springing a few surprises. Apart from a team of match officials, led by Willie Collum, the rest of Scotland will watch the tournament with our noses pressed against the glass. Much is made about how the Scots have no star players to help push us to major events. But that didn’t stop the Northern Irish romping to the Euros. MacPhee has played a pivotal part in that. His hard work and opponent preparation helped guide Northern Ireland to a deserved place in France. MacPhee said: “Things have been meticulously planned and, in terms of our preparation, we are definitely ahead of schedule. “We spent one week in Manchester training at Manchester City’s training ground which was a conditioning camp. “We then moved onto Dublin where the whole squad began the tactical work for one week before heading out to Austria where we increased the training load after our 3-0 victory over Belarus in Belfast. “We travelled to Trvana to play Slovakia at the end of the Austria training camp where we drew 0-0 taking our unbeaten run to 12 games, the longest of any team at the European Championships.” The side is based just outside Lyon and since arriving across the Channel has been totally focused on its three group opponents. Banchory girl named in U19 Scotland squad You could hardly have handpicked a tougher group, with Poland, Ukraine and Germany plucked out the hat along with Northern Ireland. Typically, regardless of the standard of opponent, the preprartion remains meticulous. “Since arriving in France, training in terms of physical intensity has been decreasing as we lead up to the first game and increasing in terms of the tactical plan we hope to execute against Poland. How the team is in terms of it’s shape has always been a vital part of our success and getting the players absolute clarity is the aim of the coaching staff – taking away any grey areas is vital. “The base is fantastic in the small town Saint Georges de Reneins where we are staying in a Chateau and using the training ground of the local Club.” Here’s how Austin, who set up his own football organisation in Fife called AMsoccer, rates his group opponents. Poland – “Very dependent on their star striker Lewandowski, although their playmaker Krychowiak is also a vital cog in the wheel and played in the Europa League Final for Seville.” Ukraine – “Yarmolenko and Konoplyanka are exciting wide players but they don’t possess the central threat of Muller or Lewandowski, it will be a case of horses for courses in terms of system and strategy.” Germany – “Will be a massive game for us and hopefully we will be going into it with confidence from the previous two games and looking forward to the round of 16.” Northern Ireland play Poland on Sunday.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4817
__label__wiki	0.817555	0.817555	First cruise-related loan disbursement Pioneer of the poles Vard Søviknes is building a cruise ship capable of sailing to the North and South Poles under a contract with the French cruise ship operator Ponant. Exporter: Vard Søviknes Purchaser: Ponant – French cruise ship operator based in Marseille Product: The icebreaker Le Commandant Charcot Financing: Export loan from Export Credit Norway with a maturity of 12 years. Guaranteed by GIEK (87.5%) and BNP Paribas Fortis (12.5%). Facts «Le Commandant Charcot» An electric hybrid cruise ship Design: Vard/Ponant/Stirling Design International/Aker Arctic Length: 150 meter Breadth: 28 meter Space for 279 passengers and a crew of 180 The vessel has been christened Le Commandant Charcot in honour of the French polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot, and will travel to the North Pole, cross the Arctic Ocean, explore the far northeast of Greenland and remote places in Antarctica. This hybrid electric polar exploration vessel will offer its guests a fascinating odyssey in the wake of the great polar explorers. “I am proud to be involved in the inception of a project that marks the culmination of 30 years of effort. Our fervent desire is that our passengers, being in daily contact with scientists and experts, and meeting with the local populations, become ambassadors for the protection of these regions”, writes Jean Emmanuel Sauvée, CEO and Co-Founder of Ponant, on the company’s website. The contract with Vard was signed in December 2017, and delivery of the completed vessel is scheduled for April 2021. Ponant engaged the Finnish company Aker Arctic, in which Aker Solutions owns a stake, to assist with the ship’s design. Aker Arctic is responsible for the ship’s special ice-clearing shape, which it requires to navigate through thick ice. Ice is not a homogenous mass, and is in constant movement. Icebreaking vessels target areas where the ice is most likely to break up, and once a vessel has passed the ice closes up again. This process can take from 15 minutes to a whole day. Illustration: Ponant Environmentally friendly luxury Le Commandant Charcot is a hybrid vessel powered by a combination of electricity and liquefied natural gas (LNG). The ship is designed for both longer and shorter polar expeditions, and complies with the latest environmental standards. Its energy-optimisation system incorporates cutting-edge battery technology, and Ponant expects the ship’s SOX, NOX and CO2 emissions to be up to 95% lower than those of ordinary cruise ships. The ship has space for 279 passengers and a crew of 180. Its 135 cabins include 68 suites with private balconies or verandas. Other features include two restaurants and an on-board spa, as well as a laboratory equipped for, among other things, polar Research. Le Commandant Charcot is one of a total of seven expedition cruise ships ordered from Vard in Norway by Ponant. Laila Johnsen, Senior Vice President in Export Credit Norway’s Shipping team, is impressed by Vard and Ponant’s joint achievement, and very pleased that Ponant decided to build its ships in Norway. “The disbursement of this loan marks Export Credit Norway’s very first transaction in the cruise ship segment, and will help promote the Norwegian shipping industry. We are showing the world that Norway can build high-quality vessels, including cruise ships. Our shipyards are up-to-date, flexible and achieving success in the face of stiff international competition. I am proud of their achievements,” she relates. Laila Johnsen Shipping laj@eksportkreditt.no +47 920 48 936 laj@eksportkreditt.no +47 920 48 936 Olav Einar Rygg Director of Lending oer@eksportkreditt.no +47 995 85 074 oer@eksportkreditt.no +47 995 85 074 Ellen B. Svaheim Head of Communication ebs@eksportkreditt.no +47 482 24 093 ebs@eksportkreditt.no +47 482 24 093	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4829
__label__cc	0.630541	0.369459	10 Managers Share Most Bizarre Stories of Why They Had To Fire Certain Employees These employees are the most stupid ever! Being a manager is never an easy thing – you have to ensure the business runs smoothly, deal with complaining customers, and, of course, handle difficult employees. It’s really a tough job and not everyone is built to do it. In some instances, some managers even had to fire employees for doing very stupid things. Several posts on Reddit give us insight about what managers encounter when they work with people who have committed workplace blunders that led to them getting fired . Read on and find out about their bizarre stories: 1. Never steal a customer’s gift card. Source: loyalty360 “Every year during the holiday season, I’d warn the new hires, ‘listen, no matter how tempting it is, don’t steal a customer’s gift card. We can track it, I will track it and if I catch you, you will get fired. Every year people try it, every year people get fired. Don’t do it.’ They do it anyway.” – lestermason 2. Stealing from the warehouse then selling them on eBay. “Girl decides to start stealing some of our products from the warehouse and sell them on eBay… as brand-new, with factory warranty. It only took a couple of weeks before we started getting calls for tech support for products with serial numbers we did not have registered as “sold” in the system. Brief investigation leads straight to her. “She is fired (of course), and legal action pursued, but the sad angle to the story is that her father worked there too, and we were forced to make him stay at home with no pay until it could be determined beyond any doubt that he wasn’t involved.” – beeps-n-boops 3. Newly hired and already stealing. Source: waynealarm “Offered a job to a candidate, but had to step out of the office to grab some paperwork. Came back and a bus pass that was on the desk was missing. Newly hired employee stole it. I asked him to return it because a previous candidate dropped it and he said he needed it more than they did and walked out.” – MrHarmCity 4. New guy gets fired the next day. “New guy, around 20 yrs old or so, called in sick saying he thinks he had a stroke. Since he lived across the street from the store where we worked, we all then stood and watched through the store’s glass door as he packed up his truck with beach gear and drove off with his girlfriend. Fired the next day.” – MachineGunTeacher 5. Forging a tip. “Forging a tip on a receipt. Like adding $20 wasn’t going to get caught.” – pawvel_catsyuk 6. Calling the missing guy. Source: briantracy “During my first real dev job, the company I was working for tried to implement a bunch of things to improve efficiency and employee satisfaction. Two interesting programs they implemented were ‘work from home’ and agile development, along with the requisite bullpens (shared team areas). What this basically meant is that we only had to show up in the office for core hours (4 hours) 3 days a week, and the rest of time we could work in shared areas, restaurants, parks, home – you name it. Sometimes, if you couldn’t be at core hours, you would just dial in. We were young and excited and dedicated, so the core team really got a lot of good work done with this model. “About two weeks after we started, our scrum master casually mentioned ‘Has anyone seen Phil?’ Phil was a quiet guy, and he was still answering emails and IM, so it took us a while to agree that no-one had actually seen him in a long time. She called him from the speakerphone in the bull-pen, and as God is my witness, here is the call that took place: Boss: Hey Phil! What’s up? Phil: Hey Boss – not much, what’s up with you? Boss: Hey, we were just noticing we hadn’t seen you much lately. You ever coming back in for core hours? Phil: …Probably not… Boss: Oh… why is that? Phil: Because I moved to Idaho. Boss: …But Phil, we’re in DC? Phil: I know. Boss: Why didn’t you tell us you wanted to move to Idaho? Phil: Oh. Because I knew you wouldn’t let me. – AtlantaPesto 7. An HR nightmare. “I had an employee lock another employee in a closet one time. The person that was trapped called the police from inside the closet. It was quite an HR nightmare.” – racord360 8. The only way to tell the difference. Source: istockphoto “Had a server drink out of the customer’s Dr.Pepper and Coke to see which was which….in front of them…” – Zeke219 9. “I’m not drunk!” “Managed a long term care facility. Got a call one night from a resident telling me that the new night time worker was acting weird. This was about midnight and the shift started at 11. I called my lead (there were 3 people on duty). And asked how the night was going. She told me that “yea ‘Sally’ was sick”. Hmmmm. I put on my shoes and headed in. Now having the administrator show up at almost 1 am is never a good thing so I’m pretty sure all three of them felt scared when I showed up. I took one look at ‘Sally’ leaning against the wall, and asked her to come into my office. I asked her if she had been drinking. “I never drink at work” she slurred at me. I told her I had to have her blow into this tube. We had breathalyzer tubes that registered if they were over a specific level. The crystals changed from clear to dark blue if the alcohol registered over the legal limit. No surprise. Turned dark blue. I asked her again if she had been drinking. She admitted to have been drinking earlier in the evening. She and her friend had been doing shots up until about 10pm. ” but I’m not drunk! I stopped and ate almost 2 hours ago so it’s all out of my system”. Nope. Doesn’t work that way. “Sorry Sally, but I need to let you go. Call someone to come get you”. I told her as I was filling out paperwork for the breathalyzer usage and final check request. ” Oh that’s ok I drove in”. Nope nope nope. She then asked what time she should come in tomorrow. “Sally, you no longer work here. Coming to work intoxicated is not tolerated”. Oh. Really? Yes. Really. Please call someone, who has not been drinking, to come get you. “She called about 16 hours later asking me for her next week schedule. She didn’t remember being at work and getting fired.” – tobusytocare 10. Calling in sick – again! “I was assistant manager at a restaurant for a while and one of the newer bussers had called in 3 times in his first two weeks. He called in on Saturday telling me he was deathly sick and couldn’t even get out of bed. “Around 9pm after the dinner rush one of my servers ask me to go check on table 42. I turn the corner and there is the ‘sick’ busser stoned out of his mind with two buddies eating.” – Half_Past_Five Related Topics:employeemanagerredditworkplace MMA Star Brandon Vera Rescues Sea Turtle, Disses People Who Pollute The Environment To those who don’t respect the environment, the current One FC champion is going after you. Wendy Rimes If there’s one thing that former UFC star Brandon Vera hates so much, it’s people who don’t respect the environment. The current OneFC heavyweight champion posted a video on his Facebook page showing him and a group of friends rescue a sea turtle. The 39-year-old MMA fighter then called out to people who don’t have an ounce of respect for the environment. He even warned them he’ll kick these people in their faces if they won’t stop what they’re doing. Vera recently posted the video on his page which showed him and his girlfriend, Nenja, saving a turtle and freeing it from the plastic that it got caught in. Vera and the rest of his group were on a beach in Tagkayawan, Quezon in the Philippines. The poor sea creature got tangled in fishing nets and even plastic and appears to be struggling to move. While his girlfriend was holding the turtle in place, Vera then slowly cut the fishing nets with his pocket knife. The animal was put back in the water and swam away real fast.... Flight Attendant Rescues Teen Girl From Human Trafficker By Leaving Secret Note This woman is a hero! 49-year-old Shelia Fredrick works as a flight attendant for Alaska Airlines. Recently on a flight, she noticed a teen sitting on a plane next to an older man. She thought it was an unlikely pair, most especially because the girl, who was around 14 or 15 years old, appeared a bit troubled. She described the youngster as having greasy blond hair and that she looked like she “had been through pure hell,” a direct opposite to the well-dressed man she was with. Fredrick started to feel alarmed after she felt that the man became defensive whenever she tried to talk with them. The girl, on the other hand, wouldn’t look or talk at all. Eventually, the stewardess managed to relay a message instructing her to go to the bathroom. It was there that she left a note for the teen on the mirror and then the teen replied. ‘Homeschooling’ Mom Lets Her Kids Play Video Games All Day to Educate Them Would you use video games to homeschool your kids? A school is a messy battleground that bombards us with home works, term papers, exams, projects, and whatever difficult requirements you can think of. Sure, it helps fill our brain with knowledge and experiences that will come in handy when we become adults and face the real battlefield called life but to be brutally honest, there are times when we'd rather play and goof around than solve for the perennially missing x and y. However, for 44-year-old mother Katie Pybus and her husband Roger, there is a better option over a conventional school. You see, Katie chose to have her three children homeschooled. But unlike any other conventional homeschooling techniques where kids are taught letters and numbers, Katie's kids get busy with video games for seven hours every day. Katie homeschools her three kids using video games. Amazing Flower Has Petals That Look Like Hummingbirds Tattoos Are No Longer A Hindrance To Getting Good Jobs, Confirms Study Chinese Employee Fired for Replying With OK Emoji to Her Boss ‘The Parable of the Oranges’ Explains Why Some Employees Are Better Than Others Girl Wants Boyfriend To Meet Her Parents, He Realizes He Slept With Her Mom Weeks Ago “To The Guy At The Train Station, You Saved Me”	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4831
__label__cc	0.606886	0.393114	Harvard's camera can show you the world through the eyes of a shrimp Harvard's RoboBee X-Wing can fly under its own power Simpler, air-powered soft robots could help with space exploration Phone data can predict infectious disease outbreaks A team of Princeton and Harvard researchers analyzed the phone call records of 15 million users in Kenya -- not to spy on people, but to study the spread of seasonal disease. The team wanted to see if the movement of phone users can predict outbreaks of seasonal diseases like rubella or German measles. So, they used anonymous records from between June 2008 and June 2009, including locations where people made phone calls. They then compared the data to the areas where cases of rubella were reported in the country. The result? Well, it turns out the subjects' movement patterns matched the locations with the highest risk of rubella within that year-long period. Princeton assistant professor and lead author C. Jessica Metcalf said: Our analysis shows that mobile phone data may be used to capture seasonal human movement patterns that are relevant for understanding childhood infectious diseases. In particular, phone data can describe within-country movement patterns on a large scale, which could be especially helpful for localized treatment. In the future, the researchers plan to test if the same method is as effective in forecasting malaria and cholera outbreaks and eventually be used by doctors and other medical professionals. [Image credit: SIMON MAINA/AFP/GettyImages] Source: Harvard, PNAS, Princeton In this article: harvard, mobilepostcross, princeton	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4836
__label__wiki	0.799065	0.799065	ERA Restarting Ranger Processing Following Six-month Shutdown July 2014 \| Australia & Oceania Energy Resources of Australia (ERA) reported on June 5 that it had begun a progressive restart of processing operations at its Ranger uranium mine in Australia’s Northern Territory. The processing plant had been shut down since December 7, 2013, following a leach tank failure that allowed the escape of slurry containing a mixture of mud, water, ore and acid. The slurry mixture was fully contained within the processing area and had no impact on Kakadu National Park, which surrounds the mine site. The restart of Ranger processing operations followed approvals from the Northern Territory Department of Mines and Energy and the commonwealth minister for industry. On March 27, ERA reported the findings of an independent investigation that it commissioned into the leach tank failure. The first phase of the investigation found that the rubber lining inside the plant’s Leach Tank 1, which protects the tank structure from corrosion, had been damaged as a result of wear from a partially failed baffle inside the tank. The damaged rubber lining allowed the acidic slurry mixture to come into contact with the tank’s steel wall, which subsequently corroded and ultimately led to the failure of the tank. ERA decided to redesign and replace the baffle supports in all of the leach tanks before returning them to service. The investigation commissioned by ERA was separate from and run in parallel with a joint investigation undertaken by a government-appointed taskforce charged with overseeing the regulatory response to the leach tank incident. With the progressive restart of Ranger processing operations to occur throughout the second and third quarters of 2014, ERA’s 2014 production of uranium oxide is expected to be between 1,100 and 1,500 mt. The company produced 2,960 mt of uranium oxide in 2013. PreviousWestern Australia Government Details Plans for Anketell Port NextPoseidon Looks to Reactivate Black Swan Rio Tinto Selling Northparkes Interest to China Molybdenum Poseidon Looks to Reactivate Black Swan Doray Nearing Startup at Deflector Gold Project Rio Tinto to Develop Koodaideri as Most Technologically Advanced	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4844
__label__wiki	0.901402	0.901402	Jung, Ahmed, Park, Chung, Cho, and Nou: Molecular Genetic Aspects of Self-incompatibility in Brassicaceae Molecular Genetic Aspects of Self-incompatibility in Brassicaceae Hee-Jeong Jung1, †, Nasar Uddin Ahmed1, †, Jong-In Park1, Mi-Young Chung2, Yong-Gu Cho3, Ill-Sup Nou1, * 1Department of Horticulture, Sunchon National University, 255 Jungang-ro, Suncheon, Jeonnam 540-950, Republic of Korea 2Department of Agricultural Education, Sunchon National University, 255 Jungang-ro, Suncheon, Jeonnam 540-950, Republic of Korea 3Department of Crop Science, Chungbuk National University, 52 Naesudongro, Heungdokgu, Cheongju 361-763, Republic of Korea *Corresponding author: Ill-Sup Nou, nis@sunchon.ac.kr, Tel: +82-61-750-3249, Fax: +82-61-750-3208 †These two authors equally contributed to this work. Received 12 September 2013 Revised 17 September 2013 Accepted 23 September 2013 Molecular genetic studies of self-incompatibility (SI) are the most accentuating part in the way of advancement of reproductive mechanisms in flowering plants. In the Brassicaceae plants, self-incompatibility has been mapped genetically to a single chromosomal location where several closely linked genes have been identified. Recently, various studies have provided a novel insight into the basis of specificity in the S-receptor kinase (SRK) and S-locus protein 11 or S-locus Cysteine-rich (SP11/SCR) interaction, the nature of the signaling cascade that culminates in the inhibition of ‘self’ pollen, and the physiological and morphological changes that are associated with transitions between the outbreeding and inbreeding modes of mating in the Brassicaceae. In this review, we discuss the current view of the molecular genetic aspects of the self-incompatibility in Brassicaceae. Keywords: Brassicaceae, Genetics, Recognition mechanism, Self-incompatibility Self-pollination occurs easily in hermaphrodite flowers, and leads to inbreeding depression and decreased genetic variation; therefore plants have evolved several mechanisms to avoid self-pollination. Self-incompatibility (SI) is defined as the inability of a fertile hermaphrodite seed plant to produce zygotes after self-pollination, which is surely the most elegant pollination system (de Nettancourt 2001). SI is a physiological barrier making it difficult or impossible for a flower to fertilize itself even though it may be abundantly pollinated with its own pollen and it is the commonest way in which plants avoid self-fertilization. SI involves the ability of a plant to discriminate between its own pollen grains and those of another plant and only allow pollen from a different plant to grow and fertilize the ovules. In relation to biological events, incompatibility and sterility are clearly different. Sterility is caused by non-functional male and/or female components, whereas in incompatibility there is a lack of seed formation in a specific male and female combination, both of which are functional. Because the final phenotypes in incompatibility and sterility are quite similar, this phenomenon was originally termed self-sterility. Taking the initial letter of sterility, the genetic locus regulating SI was termed the S-locus, which is still used as the authorized locus name. It is classified into heteromorphic and homomorphic type with respect to flower morphology. The homomorphic self-incompatibility of some species is controlled by a single locus, and those of the other species are controlled by multiple loci. In all the homomorphic systems, self-incompatibility is controlled by a multiallelic locus called S-locus and pollen is rejected by pistils having the same alleles. Homomorphic self-incompatibility systems can be divided into two major classes: gametophytic and sporophytic, which are distinguished by the expression of S-locus genes (de Nettancourt 1977). In the sporophytic form of self-incompatibility, the stigma surface is the site of recognition and the proteins in the outer coat of the pollen grain are recognized. This pollen surface material is derived from the parent plant, the sporophyte or spore-bearing plant, not from the pollen grain itself, hence the name of this system. Plants in the Brassicaceae, Convolvulaceae, and other families are known to have sporophytic self-incompatibility. For instances, pollen grains from the S1S2 anther are rejected on the S1S2 pistil due to matching alleles, however, the pollen grains from the S1S2 anther are fully compatible on an S3S4 pistil, and fertilization occurs. In SI plants of this family, pollen will not develop on a stigma that expresses the same alleles as the pollen parent. The various naturally occurring, classically defined S-alleles that have been described in Brassica have been arranged in a dominance series based on their genetic behavior relative to other alleles in heterozygous plants (Thomson and Taylor 1966). Molecular analysis of the S-locus region shows that this locus is a complex locus spanning many kilobases and containing several physically linked transcriptional units that cosegregate perfectly with SI phenotype (Boyes et al. 1997; Casselman et al. 2000). A subset of genes within the S-locus complex (S-haplotype) is highly polymorphic as expected for genes involved in recognition, and specific combinations of allelic forms of each of these genes are thought to define different SI specificities. Thus, the S-locus may be viewed as a master recognition locus that encodes the function(s) required for the stigma to distinguish self-related from self-unrelated pollen. In other words, we are interested in Brassica SI from the viewpoint of both fundamental biology and agricultural applications. Thus, an understanding of the molecular mechanisms of SI in Brassica species is an important research target. In this review article, we will summarize SI research in Brassicaceae plants, including molecular cloning of the male and female S determinants, epigenetic regulation of dominance relationships between S-alleles, and evolution of the SI system. Genetics of Self-Incompatibility in Brassicaceae plants Bateman (1955) deciphered the genetics of SI in the family Brassicaceae in the early 1950s. He described the control of SI by a single Mendelian locus, the S (Sterility) locus, which exists as multiple alleles or variants, each of which encodes a distinct mating specificity. As expected for a system in which new alleles have a reproductive advantage and therefore will increase in frequency toward equilibrium, the number of S-locus alleles is usually large, being estimated at 22 in Iberis (Bateman 1955), 34 in Raphanus (Sampson 1957), 30 in B. rapa (Nou et al. 1993), and more than 50 in Brassica oleracea (Brace et al. 1994). The various naturally occurring, classically defined S-alleles that have been described in Brassica have been arranged in a dominance series based on their genetic behavior relative to other alleles in heterozygous plants (Thomson and Taylor 1966). A classical genetic analysis has grouped the Brassica S alleles into two categories based on their phenotypic effect on self-incompatibility characteristics. The first group of alleles (high-activity) is placed relatively high on the dominance scale and exhibits a strong self-incompatible phenotype in which an average of 0 to 10 pollen tubes develop per self-pollinated stigma. The second group of alleles (low-activity) demonstrates a weak or leaky self-incompatible phenotypic effect in which 10 to 30 pollen tubes develop per self-pollinated stigma and they are considered to be recessive (Nasrallah et al. 1991). The S-locus holds a large number of alleles within a population by frequency-dependent selection (Wright 1939; Fisher 1958). This system involves self- or non-self-pollen recognition in the reproductive process. Several self recognition mechanisms have been discovered in multiple plant lineages. They are classified into two types of pollen-side recognition, i.e., gametophytic (haploidy recognition) and sporophytic (diploidy recognition) self-incompatibility (Takayama and Isogai 2005). Self-recognition reaction requires two genes-one for the female (pistil) side and the other for the male (pollen) side- and allele-specific interaction between female and male molecules prevents self-fertilization to avoid inbreeding depression. Recombination between the two genes should be suppressed because recombination may disrupt the allele-specific self-recognition ability. Balancing selection on the S-locus increases the nucleotide diversity in regions around the two self-incompatibility-related genes. Sequence surveys of the S-locus region have been performed in Brassica species and Prunus mume, which employ sporophytic and gametophytic self-incompatibility systems, respectively (e.g., Boyes et al. 1997; Casselman et al. 2000; Entani et al. 2003; Fukai et al. 2003; Shiba et al. 2003). These studies have revealed extremely high nucleotide diversity in 10 kb in Brassica rapa (Shiba et al. 2003) and in P. mume (Entani et al. 2003). It has been thought that high nucleotide variation may result from the suppression of recombination in the entire S-locus region. SI recognition genes identified from stigma Until now, several closely linked genes have been identified at the S-locus. Two of them, SLG (for S-locus glycoprotein; Nasrallah et al. 1985) and SRK (for S-locus receptor kinase; Stein et al. 1991), are thought to be involved in the perception of self-pollen by the stigma. Both genes are highly polymorphic, and both are expressed specifically at the surface of mature stigmas. Mutations in SRK (Goring et al. 1993; Nasrallah et al. 1994) and loss of SLG expression (Toriyama et al. 1991; Nasrallah et al. 1992; Shiba et al. 1995) have been associated with SI. SLG gene is about 1.3 kb in length and encodes a 55 kDa glycoprotein secreted into the papillar cell wall. Although the deduced amino acid sequence of SLGs are highly polymorphic, 12 conserved cysteine residues are found in common, suggesting the importance of the structure formed by the cysteine residues for the common function of the glycoprotein. There are several potential N-linked glycosylation sites, but only two conserved sites (Kusaba et al. 1997). The role played by SLG in the SI response started to be questioned after the characterization of self-incompatible plants which express a very low level of SLG, and, in particular, after the discovery of naturally self-compatible haplotypes which express a high level of SLG (Gaude et al. 1995). New observations suggest that SRK, rather than SLG, plays a key role in the SI reaction. The SRK gene encodes a membrane-associated protein. A number of pieces of evidence indicate that a functional SRK is required for SI response in Brassica. The predicted SRK protein consists of a potentially glycosylated extracellular domain (S-domain) that shares extensive sequence similarity with SLG (90%) within haplotypes and contains 12 cysteine residues found in all members of the S gene family in the Brassicaceae. This domain is joined via a single-pass transmembrane domain to a cytoplasmic region that has sequence similarity to protein kinases. Bacterially expressed SRK kinase domains show serine/threonine autophosphorylation activity (Goring and Rothstein 1992). SRK may be related to plant proteins involved in defense against pathogens, another plant recognition system (Pastuglia et al. 1997a). Other approaches to studying the SI signaling cascade have used Arabidopsis species, because the whole genome sequence of it has been determined and other genetic tools (e.g. T-DNA tag lines, many ecotypes and microarray expression data) are available. To produce self-incompatible A. thaliana by transformation, two approaches have been used. Nasrallah and co-workers introduced SP11 and SRK from self-incompatible A. lyrata into self-compatible A. thaliana (C24 ecotype) and the resulting transgenic A. thaliana, with both SP11 and SRK, exhibited the SI trait (Nasarallah et al. 2002, 2004). Searches for SRK regulators led to the identification of several interacting proteins (Bower et al. 1996; Gu et al. 1998; Vanoosthuyse et al. 2003; Kakita et al. 2007b). Three of these, ARC1, THL1, and MLPK, have been shown to be involved in the SI response (Stone et al. 1999; Haffani et al. 2004; Murase et al. 2004). THL1 has been demonstrated to negatively modulate the kinase activity of SRK3 (Cabrillac et al. 2001). SI recognition genes identified from anther In Brassica species, pollen coat proteins (PCPs), which are derived from anther tapetum, are essential for pollen development. Analysis of PCPs, successfully lead to identification of the male S determinant (Heslop-Harrison 1975). Initially, SLG-interactive PCPs were searched (Doughty et al. 1993), and these interactive molecules were then characterized as cysteine-rich small proteins (Hiscock et al. 1995; Stanchev et al. 1996; Toriyama et al. 1998; Doughty et al. 1998; Takayama et al. 2000a). The cysteine-rich small proteins were shown to be a < 10kDa basic pollen coat proteins (PCP) by an elegant in vitro bioassay in which PCPs were isolated and fractionated (Stephenson et al. 1997). Interestingly, a gene encoding PCP-like protein, SP11, was found to be located at the S-locus, near SRK in B. rapa; thus SP11 was the most likely candidate for the male S determinant (Suzuki et al. 1999). Subsequently, it was demonstrated that SP11 is the male S determinant by using bioassay and transgenic experiments in B. rapa (Takayama et al. 2000b; Shiba et al. 2001). Furthermore, recently we showed the self-compatible phenotype in a transgenic line of B. rapa after silencing of SP11gene (Jung et al. 2012). Around the same time, a gene termed SCR (S-locus cysteinerich protein) in B. oleracea was also cloned, and identified as the male S determinant (Schopher et al. 1999). SCRs represent a new class of small, secreted, cysteine-rich proteins, distinguishable from members of the PCP family. The SCR gene is tightly linked to the SLG/SRK pair and shows an anther specific developmentally regulated expression profile. Comparisons of the deduced amino acid sequence of SCR proteins from 21 S haplotypes revealed a high degree of polymorphism (Watanabe et al. 2000). Different studies also showed that SP11 and SCR are identical (Suzuki et al. 1999; Takayama et al. 2000b; Schopher et al. 1999). On the other hand, for studying the function of SP11 in SI signaling cascade, Arabidopsis species and B. rapa were used because their whole genome sequence have been determined and other genetic tools (e.g. T-DNA tag lines, many ecotypes and microarray expression data) are available. Tsuchimatsu, Suwabe and co-workers introduced SP11 into the Wei-1 ecotype of A. thaliana, which has a functional SRK but shows SC, to produce a self-incompatible A. thaliana (Tsuchimatsu et al. 2010). Furthermore, we developed self-compatible B. rapa after silencing SP11 gene in a self-incompatible B. rapa line (Fig. 1; Jung et al. 2012). After identification of SLG, SRK and SP11 genes, many allelic genes were isolated (Watanabe and Hinata 1999; Watanabe et al. 2008), which made it possible for us to calculate the allelic diversity. S-linked genes involved in SI recognition To date, several S-linked genes have been identified in the region downstream of the SLG genes (~15kb). Boyes and Nasrallah (1995) have described a gene, designated SLA (S-locus anther), of B. oleracea with anther-specific expression but Pastuglia et al. (1997b) showed that a functional SLA gene is not required for the SI response in Brassica. Two S-linked genes SLL1 and SLL2 (for S locus-linked genes 1 and 2, respectively) of B. napus are located downstream of SLG gene (Yu et al. 1996). Although SLL1 and SLL2 are linked to the S-locus region, it is not clear whether these genes function in self-incompatibility or serve some other cellular roles in pollen-pistil functions. The S-linked ClpP (protease homologue) gene also seems unlikely to function in the SI reaction because of its expression pattern (Letham and Nasrallah 1998). Alongside, the genes that exhibit sequence similarity to the SLG genes, but are genetically unlinked to the S-locus, are designated S-locus-related (SLR) genes. Three members of this family, denoted SLR1, SLR2, and SLR3, have been shown to be expressed (Lalonde et al. 1989; Boyes et al. 1991; Cock et al. 1995). Genes SLR1 and SLR2 are linked to each other but unlinked (like SLR3) to S-locus thus they do not participate directly in the recognition of self and non-self in self-incompatibility. Suzuki et al. (1999) have demonstrated that four of the new SP genes (S-locus protein SP5, SP6, SP8 and SP11) located at S-locus of the S 9 haplotype appear to be expressed specifically in reproductive organs. An interesting finding in the study of Suzuki et al. (1999) is that predicted mature protein of SP11 gene is the same protein as male determinant (pollen ligant) of the SI. Schopfer et al. (1999) have published this protein, which they named S-locus cysteine-rich protein (SCR), soon after the publication of Suzuki et al. (1999). Mechanisms involved in the SI reaction To date, three polymorphic SI genes have been identified at the S-locus of Brassica species. The SRK gene and SP11 gene determine the S specificity of the stigma (Takasaki et al. 2000) and the pollen (Schopfer et al. 1999; Shiba et al. 2001; Shiba et al. 2002; Suzuki et al. 1999; Takayama et al. 2000), respectively. The SLG enhances the SI recognition reaction (Takasaki et al. 2000), perhaps by stabilizing SRK (Dixit et al. 2000). The physical interaction between SP11 and SRK, and the SRK-related signaling cascade following this interaction were the next research targets after identification of both male and female S determinants. Recent biochemical analysis has suggested that SP11 functions as a sole ligand to activate its cognate SRK specifically (Takayama et al. 2001). In the case of self-pollination, SCR protein (pollen ligand) is bound to SRK, resulting in activation of the receptor and initiation of a signal transduction cascade that ultimately leads to pollen inhibition (Kao and McCubbin 2000). It is possible that an SLG has a role in the binding of its cognate SRK with the pollen ligand by forming a complex with the S-domain of the SRK and facilitating the process of the recognition reaction (Takasaki et al. 2000). In the Brassica stigmatic papillae, SRK has been found to be localized to endosomes and the plasma membrane where it is positioned to perceive and bind to the SCR/SP11 protein present in the pollen coat of the self-incompatible pollen (Kachroo et al. 2001; Takayama et al. 2001; Ivanov and Gaude 2009). Interestingly, in the absence of the SCR/SP11 ligand, SRK forms ligand independent dimers (Giranton et al. 2000; Shimosato et al. 2007). The extracellular region contains hypervariable subdomains for ligand-specificity as well and presents a high affinity binding site at the plasma membrane for haplotype-specific SCR/SP11 ligand binding (Kemp and Doughty 2007; Shimosato et al. 2007; Boggs et al. 2009). Binding of the SCR/SP11 ligand results in the phosphorylation and activation of the SRK kinase domain, which in turn leads to further signaling within the stigmatic papilla to produce the pollen rejection response (Kachroo et al. 2001; Takayama et al. 2001; Shimosato et al. 2007). Shimosato et al. (2007) showed that both the S-domain and membrane-anchoring domain were necessary for allele-specific interaction by using crosslinking and immunological methods. In contrast, Kachroo et al. (2001) showed that only the S-domain of SRK could interact with SP11 in the allele-specific manner by using an immunoprecipitation method. Little is understood about the molecular mechanisms in the SRK-mediated signal transduction pathway. In the future, after determination of the tertiary structure of SRK, this inconsistency is likely to be resolved. In order to clarify the SRK signaling cascade, several SRK-interacting molecules were identified and characterized (Gu et al. 1998; Stone et al. 1999, 2003; Cabrillac et al. 2001; Vanoosthuyse et al. 2003; Murase et al. 2004; Kakita et al. 2007b) Receptor kinase activation typically results in downstream signaling proteins interacting with the activated kinase domain, and consistent with this, several proteins have been found to interact with the SRK kinase domain (Bower et al. 1996; Gu et al. 1998; Vanoosthuyse et al. 2003; Kakita et al. 2007a, b). Two Brassica thioredoxin h proteins, THL1 and THL2, were isolated first (Bower et al. 1996). The thioredoxin h proteins were found to negatively regulate SRK as well as the self-incompatibility response and were proposed to maintain SRK in an inactive state in unpollinated stigmas (Cabrillac et al. 2001; Haffani et al. 2004). Interestingly, THL1 was found to partially co-localize with SRK in the endosomes, but could not be detected at the plasma membrane (Ivanov and Gaude 2009); thus, whether thioredoxin h inhibition of SRK occurs at the plasma membrane is not clear. Nevertheless, this inhibition is proposed to be related with SCR/SP11 ligand binding. A recessive mod mutation which causes a breakdown in Brassica self-incompatibility led to the discovery of the M-Locus Protein Kinase (MLPK) encoded by the mod locus (Murase et al. 2004). MLPK was found to have serine/threonine activity, and membrane localization of MLPK is required for the self-incompatibility response (Murase et al. 2004; Kakita et al. 2007a). MLPK is predicted to interact with SRK at the plasma membrane, and this interaction was demonstrated in BY-2 cells as well as in phosphorylation related studies (Kakita et al. 2007a, b). Thus, MLPK and SRK may form a complex to activate downstream signaling proteins to set the self-incompatibility cellular cascade in motion. An example of a downstream player is another Brassica interacting protein, ARC1, an E3 ubiquitin ligase also required for the self-incompatibility response (Gu et al. 1998; Stone et al. 1999). The ARC1 protein contains a novel N-terminal domain (UND), followed by a U-box domain and an ARM repeat domain (Samuel et al. 2006). The binding of ARC1 to the phosphorylated SRK kinase domain in vitro is mediated by the ARM repeat domain (Gu et al. 1998), but interestingly, ARC1 serves as a much better substrate for in vitro phosphorylation by MLPK, supporting the idea of an SRK-MLPK complex activating ARC1 (Samuel et al. 2008a). Because ARC1 is proposed to target a substrate for degradation in the self-incompatibility response, it is reasonable to speculate that ARC1 functions as an inhibitor of compatibility factors in pollination events as a pollen rejection mechanism (Stone et al. 2003). Not as much is known about the cellular events occurring in a stigmatic papilla during a compatible pollen interaction. Whether activation of this ARC1 E3 ubiquitin degradation pathway is directly responsible for the rejection of self-incompatible pollen has yet to be confirmed, but recently, a new compatibility factor, Exo70A1, which may be the substrate for ARC1’s ubiquitin-mediated degradation pathway in this self-incompatibility response, was identified in both Brassica and Arabidopsis (Samuel et al. 2009). A schematic model of the current understanding of Brassica SI reaction is shown in Fig. 2. Dominance relationships between S alleles The majority of the members of the Brassicaceae plant genus Brassica possess a strong sporophytic SI system. An important characteristic of Brassica SI is the dominance relationships between S-alleles, which are a consequence of the sporophytic behavior of S genes (Thompson and Taylor 1966, Hatakeyama et al. 1998, Bateman 1952, 1954, 1955). Thus, the SI phenotype of pollen as well as stigma is determined by relationships between the two S-haplotypes carried by its parent (Bateman 1955). In other words, a codominant or a dominant/recessive relationship between the two S-haplotypes influences the ultimate SI phenotype of both pollen and stigma (Thompson and Taylor 1966). The following observations have been made about dominance relationships among S-haplotypes: (1) co-dominance is more frequent than dominance/recessiveness; (2) dominance/recessiveness in the pollen is observed more frequently than that in the stigma; (3) dominance relationships among stigmas are different from those among pollen; and (4) dominance relationships are non-linear, and are more frequent in the stigma than in the pollen (Thompson and Taylor 1966; Ockendon 1975; Visser et al. 1982; Hatakeyama et al. 1998). Discovery of the molecular mechanisms of dominance relationships has been based on these genetic features. The different mechanisms operating in the male and female side in the dominance relationships of SI are consistent with the four genetic characteristics described above. Dominance relationships of SI at the female side appear to be post-transcriptionally regulated by SRK, unlike transcriptional suppression of SP11 (Hatakeyama et al. 2001). They investigated whether the stigmatic S-determinant of SRK was involved in determining the dominance relationships of stigma using five S-homozygotes carrying an SRK28 transgene. They showed that the dominance relationship between the SRK28 transgene and each of the endogenous S-haplotypes was identical to that between the S 28-haplotype and the respective endogenous S-haplotype. Moreover, in the S 43S 43-homozygote carrying the SRK28 transgene, in which the S 43 phenotype in the stigma was masked by the presence of SRK28, the transcript level of SRK28 was found to be much lower than that of SRK43. These results suggest that the dominant/recessive relationships between S-haplotypes in the stigma are determined by SRK itself, but not as a result of its relative transcription level. Regarding dominance relationships in pollen, the pollen determinant SP11 from pollen-recessive S-haplotypes has not been identified, and how the relationships are determined is not known. The dominance relationships of SI are regulated by transcription of SP11 in Brassica pollen. In sporophytic tapetum cells of anthers of S heterozygous plants, SP11 derived from the dominant allele is normally expressed, whereas expression of the recessive SP11 is significantly suppressed (Fig. 3A) (Shiba et al. 2002; Kakizaki et al. 2003) Interestingly, linear dominance relationships (S 9 > S 44 > S 60 > S 40 > S 29) are also observed in B. rapa (Hatakyama et al. 1998; Kakizaki et al. 2003). In this case, dominance/recessiveness of S 44, S 60, S 40 alleles could be altered, indicating involvement of epigenetic regulation (Kakizaki et al. 2003). From observation of the methylation level of the promoter region of SP11 in several S heterozygotes, it was shown that the recessive SP11 is specifically methylated in S heterozygotes (Shiba et al. 2006). Recently, it was further demonstrated that the small RNA produced from the dominant allele could activate methylation of the recessive allele. In transgenic experiments, S 60 (class II) transformants with a class-I-derived small RNA region (S 9) showed SC, and their promoter regions were highly methylated, as in the S 9S 60 heterozygote, indicating that the small RNA from the dominant allele functions in trans to induce transcriptional silencing of the recessive allele (Fig. 3B; Tarutani et al. 2010) However, it has been suggested that pollen-recessive S-haplotypes have a set of SLG and SRK called class II, whereas pollen-dominant S-haplotypes have a different set called class I (Nasrallah and Nasrallah 1993). Furthermore, based on the sequence diversity of the SI genes, S haplotypes are classified into class I and class II; the amino acid sequence similarity of SLG and SRK is about 65% between classes and 80–90% within classes (Watanabe et al. 2001). On the other hand, amino acid sequence identities among class II SP11s are 62.3 to 94.6%, rather higher compared with those of class I SP11s which ranges from 19.5 to 76.1% (Shiba et al. 2002). Interestingly, class-I S haplotypes are dominant over class-II ones in the dominance relationships on the pollen side (Hatakeyama et al. 1998, Nasrallah and Nasrallah 1993, Thompson and Taylor 1966). To date, class II SLGs have been found only in pollen-recessive S-haplotypes, which include S 29-, S 40-, S 44-, and S 60-haplotypes of B. rapa (syn. campestris) (Hatakeyama et al. 1998; Takasaki et al. 2000) and S2-, S5-, and S15-haplotypes of B. oleracea (Chen and Nasrallah 1990; Scutt and Croy 1992; Cabrillac et al. 1999). The pairwise sequence identity among class II SLGs is in excess of 86%, whereas that between class I and class II SLGs is only ~60 to 70%. The extracellular domains of pollen-dominant and pollen-recessive SRKs also can be placed into these two classes in a similar manner. These analytical results on stigmatic S-locus proteins suggest that class II S-haplotypes have an origin quite different from that of class I S-haplotypes (Uyenoyama 1995; Kusaba et al. 1997; Schierup et al. 2001). Future outlook SI is one of the most interesting phenomena in sexual reproduction and the molecular genetics processes in sexual plant reproduction research have now been extensively dissected in Brassicaceae plants. In recent years, significant progress has been made in strengthening our understanding of the molecular and cellular steps behind the self-incompatibility response in the Brassicaceae. Such accumulation of biological and molecular genetic knowledge will also contribute to the understanding of interesting biological features, including cell-cell communication, ligand-receptor interaction, signal transduction, phosphorylation cascade, molecular evolution, allelic polymorphism and epigenetic regulation by small RNAs in the SI recognition reaction. However, there are areas that still require further dissection, and current research is aimed at more fully understanding the specific signaling events that take place in the stigmatic papillae following pollination. For example, efforts have focused on identifying residues within the SRK extracellular domain that are essential for its activation by the SCR/SP11 ligand. It appears that a surprisingly small number of residues are required, and that the three-dimensional conformation of these regions is a determining factor (Boggs et al. 2009). Outstanding questions also encompass the regulatory role of MLPK, in relation to SRK, on downstream signaling steps including ARC1 and perhaps other unknown signaling proteins or events. 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After the subsequent signal transduction, which has not yet been determined, rejection of the self-pollen occurs (Watanabe et al. 2012). Schematic model for molecular mechanisms of dominance relationships at the pollen side. (A) In the case where S1 is dominant over S2, dominant transcripts of SP11, S1-SP11, are specifically expressed in the S1S2 heterozygote. However, S2-SP11 transcripts are not detected in the S1S2 heterozygote on RNA gel blot analysis. The results demonstrate that the dominance relationship at the pollen side is regulated at the transcriptional level. (B) In the dominant S-allele, small RNA, termed Smi (SP11 methylation inducer), is specifically produced, and its nucleotide sequence is highly similar to the promoter region of the recessive SP11 gene. This small RNA induces the methylation of recessive SP11, and represses the recessive SP11 at the transcriptional level (Watanabe et al. 2012). 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__label__wiki	0.746821	0.746821	Earth Institute Faculty Centers and Programs Research: The Foundation Hazards and Risk Reduction Postdoctoral Research Program Environmental and Sustainability Courses Associations and Clubs Research, Internship and Fieldwork Opportunities Fellowships & Scholarships Subscribe to Receive Weekly Events Listings Trees on Tundraâ€™s Border Are Growing Faster in a Hotter Climate Measuring Techniques Improveâ€”But Implications Are Not Certain Researchers have traveled to the Alaskan treeline repeatedly. Lamont tree-ring scientist Kevin Anchukaitis (left) and Fairbanks arctic ecologist Angela Allen sample a dead spruce. Credit: Lamont-Doherty Evergreen trees at the edge of Alaska’s tundra are growing faster, suggesting that at least some forests may be adapting to a rapidly warming climate, says a new study. While forests elsewhere are thinning from wildfires, insect damage and droughts partially attributed to global warming, some white spruce trees in the far north of Alaska have grown more vigorously in the last hundred years, especially since 1950, the study has found. The health of forests globally is gaining attention, because trees are thought to absorb a third of all industrial carbon emissions, transferring carbon dioxide into soil and wood. The study, in the journal Environmental Research Letters, spans 1,000 years and bolsters the idea that far northern ecosystems may play a future role in the balance of planet-warming carbon dioxide that remains in the air. It also strengthens support for an alternative technique for teasing climate data from trees in the far north, sidestepping recent methodological objections from climate skeptics. “I was expecting to see trees stressed from the warmer temperatures,” said study lead author Laia Andreu-Hayles, a tree ring scientist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. “What we found was a surprise.” Members of the Lamont Tree-Ring Lab have traveled repeatedly to Alaska, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge this past summer. In an area where the northern treeline gives way to open tundra, the scientists removed cores from living white spruces, as well as long-dead partially fossilized trees preserved under the cold conditions. In warm years, trees tend to produce wider, denser rings and in cool years, the rings are typically narrower and less dense. Using this basic idea and samples from a 2002 trip to the refuge, Andreu-Hayles and her colleagues assembled a climate timeline for Alaska’s Firth River region going back to the year 1067. They discovered that both tree-ring width and density shot up starting a hundred years ago, and rose even more after 1950. Their findings match a separate team’s study earlier this year that used satellite imagery and tree rings to also show that trees in this region are growing faster, but that survey extended only to 1982. The added growth is happening as the arctic faces rapid warming. While global temperatures since the 1950s rose 1.6 degrees F, parts of the northern latitudes warmed 4 to 5 degrees F. "For the moment, warmer temperatures are helping the trees along this part of the forest-tundra border," said study coauthor Kevin Anchukaitis, a tree-ring scientist at Lamont. ”It's a fairly wet, fairly cool, site overall, so those longer growing seasons allow the trees to grow more.” The outlook may be less favorable for the vast interior forests that ring the Arctic Circle. Satellite images have revealed swaths of brown, dying vegetation and a growing number of catastrophic wildfires in the last decade across parts of interior Alaska, Canada and Russia. Evidence suggests forests elsewhere are struggling, too. In the American West, bark beetles benefitting from milder winters have devastated millions of acres of trees weakened by lack of water. A 2009 study in the journal Science found that mortality rates in once healthy old-growth conifer forests have doubled in the past few decades. Heat and water stress are also affecting some tropical forests already threatened by clear-cutting for farming and development. Trees in Alaska’s far north are growing faster than they were a hundred years ago says a study led by Lamont-Doherty scientist Laia Andreu-Hayles. Credit: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Another paper in Science recently estimated that the world’s 10 billion acres of forest are now absorbing about a third of carbon emissions, helping to limit carbon dioxide levels and keep the planet cooler than it would be otherwise. There are already signs that the treeline is pushing north, and if this continues, northern ecosystems will change. Warming temperatures have benefitted not only white spruce, the dominant treeline species in northwestern North America, but also woody deciduous shrubs on the tundra, which have begun shading out other plants as they expand their range. As habitats change, scientists are asking whether insects, migratory songbirds, caribou and other animals that have evolved to exploit the tundra environment will adapt. “Some of these changes will be ecologically beneficial, but others may not,” said Natalie Boelman, an ecologist at Lamont-Doherty who is studying the effects of climate change in the Alaskan tundra. In another finding, the study strengthens scientists’ ability to use tree rings to measure past climate. Since about 1950, tree ring widths in some northern locations have stopped varying in tandem with temperature, even though modern instruments confirm that temperatures are on a steady rise. As scientists looked for ways to get around the problem, critics of modern climate science dismissed the tree ring data as unreliable and accused scientists of cooking up tricks to support the theory of global warming. The accusations came to a head when stolen mails discussing the discrepancy between tree-ring records and actual temperatures came to light during the so-called “Climategate” episode of 2009-10. The fact that temperatures were rising was never really in dispute among scientists, who had thermometers as well as tree rings to confirm the trend. But still scientists struggled with how to correct for the so-called “divergence problem.’’ The present study adds support for another proxy for tree growth: ring density. Trees tend to produce cells with thicker walls at the end of the growing season, forming a dark band of dense wood. While tree-ring width in some places stops correlating with temperature after 1950, possibly due to moisture stress or changes in seasonality due to warming, tree ring density at the site studied continues to track temperature. “This is methodologically a big leap forward that will allow scientists to go back to sites sampled in the past and fill in the gaps,” said Glenn Juday, a forest ecologist at University of Alaska, Fairbanks, who was not involved in the study. The researchers plan to return to Alaska and other northern forest locations to improve geographical coverage and get more recent records from some sites. They are also investigating the use of stable isotopes to extract climate information from tree rings. The article was part of a special issue of Environmental Research Letters on the greening of the tundra. Other authors of the study include Rosanne D’Arrigo, Lamont-Doherty; Pieter Beck and Scott Goetz, Woods Hole Research Center and David Frank, Swiss Federal Research Institute. The study was funded in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation's Changing Seasonality in the Arctic program, and the Swiss National Science Foundation. Kevin Krajick kkrajick@ei.columbia.edu Kyu Lee klee@ei.columbia.edu Journalists may call these contacts for information. Other inquiries, please see contacts page.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4847
__label__cc	0.574309	0.425691	The autonomous delivery bot that's designed to be 'nimble and fast enough' to ride in the bike lane The biggest hurdle for delivery services is what is known as the 'last mile'. It is defined as the movement of goods from a transportation hub to the final destination of the package - the recipient's door. This final stretch of delivery is often the most inefficient and expensive part of the delivery chain. Aviation enthusiasts flying out of Tokyo's Haneda Airport, there's a new hotel room designed just for you. It features a full-sized Boeing 737-800 flight simulator, though you'll have to pay extra to use it. Amazon's virtual assistant does more than you might think -- well, assuming you know how to access Alexa's treasure trove of skills. Hundreds of drones light up Kennedy Space Center for moon landing tribute To celebrate the Apollo 11 mission, 300 Shooting Star drones from Intel took to the sky Tuesday night at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The remote-controlled lightweight drones used LED lights to create billions of color combinations while flying to music from Duran Duran. Having flogged off its data centers, AT&T cozies up to Microsoft, IBM to keep it running Satya Nadella, left, and his new best buddy John Donovan, CEO of AT&T Communications. AT&T has announced “strategic alliances” with both IBM and Microsoft, as it looks to capitalize on cloud computing without getting its hands dirty. In the beginning of 2019, the world’s largest telco completed the.... Sweden Tests Drone Delivery; U.S. Prepares Burgeoning drone delivery services have spread to Sweden, where the first autonomous flights have been conducted between two hospitals in central Gothenburg. Eight delivery missions were conducted on July 9-13 by Everdrone, a Swedish developer of visual navigation systems for drones. Three Ways Engineers Are Improving the Planet THE INSTITUTE Earth is in a nerve-wracking phase. Global warming is a major topic and humans are starting to see the effects, like extreme weather events. In 2017, Hurricane Maria hit Caribbean communities and left millions of people without power and shelter for months. With object tracking, the lightweight DJI Ronin-SC is still heavy on features has lost some weight. On Wednesday, July 17, DJI launched the Ronin-S Compact (SC) , a three-axis gimbal designed to stabilize mirrorless cameras with one hand. But the gimbal is going mobile in more ways than one, integrating new smartphone-powered tools including subject tracking and remote control of the camera’s movement. Chinese drones banned by tech supplier to US police A DJI Inspire drone hovers during a drone training session for Somali police in Mogadishu, Somalia. (Reuters pic) NEW YORK: A supplier of drone technology to dozens of state and local law enforcement and public safety agencies, located in the US and a handful of other countries, will stop working.... Was hinter der deutschen Patriot-Aufrüstung steckt D ie Nachricht liest sich nüchtern und sie ist gespickt mit Kürzeln, die nur Experten verstehen. Aber sie hat große Bedeutung für die Sicherheit Deutschlands gegen einen potenziellen Angriff aus der Luft. „Das US-Außenministerium hat einen möglichen Verkauf von PAC-3-Raketen (Patriot Advanced.... Microsoft, AT&T Sign Cloud Deal Worth More Than $2 Billion Microsoft and AT&T on Wednesday said they reached a deal under which the telecommunications company will tap Microsoft's Azure cloud service for its computing needs and . From a report: use Microsoft 365, which includes Office productivity software, for much of its 268,000-strong workforce Under the....	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line4849
__label__wiki	0.908691	0.908691	May 18, 2011 Arts & Culture » Theater At CenterREP, Ladies Sing the Blues Blues in the Night illuminates the lives of female singers. By Rachel Swan @rachelswan Armelia McQueen. A washed-up diva, a young ingénue, and a beautiful, stylish creature "of indeterminate age" walk into a hotel lobby. The setting is late-Thirties-era Chicago, and the building is slightly decrepit but awash in romance. A male saloon singer awaits them. He's a bit of a know-it-all and slightly sinister. The old diva is foundering at the end of a prolific career, trying to be ready "when they call again." The young girl is bright-eyed and enthusiastic, preparing for a date who may never show up. The stylish woman is adrift and alluring in a Josephine Baker kind of way. The night is young. Together, these four wanderers comprise the cast of Blues in the Night, a musical revue written by Sheldon Epps and premiered at the off-Broadway Playhouse 46 in 1980. It's now playing at Center REPertory Company in a production directed and choreographed by Robert Barry Fleming. With 26 blues and jazz songs by such standard-bearers as Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Johnny Mercer, and Bessie Smith, Blues evokes the world of old Chicago, the racial disparities of the 1930s, and the struggles of female singers in an impressionistic way. The set is a minimalistic design of a hotel, with the suggestion of a lobby, a bar, and a ballroom. Even the architecture seems symbolic, as though to represent three different stages in the women's lives. Fleming chose a promising cast to interpret the material, with Armelia McQueen playing the older woman — described in the script as a "lady from the road" — and Debbie de Coudreaux playing "the woman of the world." McQueen, who was an original member of the musical Ain't Misbehavin' when it toured on Broadway, brings considerable charisma and expertise to her role. DeCoudreaux, meanwhile, seemed like an apt choice because her own biography resembles that of the character she plays. Also a seasoned entertainer, she's the only African-American woman, other than Baker, to have headlined the Moulin Rouge. C.R. Lewis will showcase his deep, soulful baritone as "the man in the saloon." Amanda Folena, who plays the "girl with a date," was last seen in the guise of Britney Spears' mother, in a previous CenterREP production. Here, she'll offer a different side of her personality, Fleming assures. "It'll surprise people," he said. For his part, Fleming is no stranger to this form of musical revue. Previously, he's directed three for CenterREP : Ain't Misbehavin', All Shook Up, and She Loves Me. A self-described Baby Boomer, he said he feels a strong emotional connection to jazz and blues music, even having grown up on Motown. "It's called rhythm and blues for a reason," he said, adding that the historical lineage of the music is just as important as its way of eliciting feelings. "A lot of the great artists that we love — like Aretha Franklin — came from this same foundation," Fleming said. "There would be no Beyoncé without Bessie Smith." Blues in the Night runs through June 25 at Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts (1601 Civic Dr., Walnut Creek). $38. CenterRep.org Contact the author of this piece, send a letter to the editor, like us on Facebook, or follow us on Twitter. More Theater » Tags: Theater, Center REPertory Company, Amanda Folena, C.R. 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Click here to download For Hard Copy / Soft Copy (PDF) notes, WhatsApp +254 700 755976. ESTABLISHMENT OF COLONIAL RULE IN KENYA - History Form 3 Notes « Previous - European Invasion of Africa and the Process of Colonization - History Form 3 Notes COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION - History Form 3 Notes - Next » Download PDF for future reference Install our android app for easier access Click the link below to download the full History Form 3 Notes pdf document, with all the topics. https://downloads.easyelimu.com/pay/20-History_and_Government_-_Form_Three_Notes CAUSES OF THE SCRAMBLE FOR EAST AFRICA The rise of Nationalism in Europe. The Unification of Germany, after the Franco- Prussian war (1870-71) upset the balance of power in Europe and there was need to rebalance out through acquisition of colonies in Africa including east Africa. The Germans also felt that the only way their nation could gain recognition among other European powers was through securing colonial possession. Strategic location of East Africa in relation to Egypt. Europeans were concerned with the source of the river Nile in East Africa and control of the Suez Canal. Therefore, the ownership of East Africa was crucial to the Egyptian affairs. East Africa, had, from the days of the Portuguese conquest in the 15th century, proved to be a strategic location for fresh supplies. That is why the Germans and the British competed for possessions in the region. The need to speed up economic development of the European countries. The industrialized nations were rushing for colonies to tap raw materials to keep their factories running. There was also a popular believe that East Africa contained pockets of precious metals awaiting exploitation. They were also driven by the search for market for European produced goods. The Europeans were also looking for places to invest their capital. The rise of Public opinion in Europe. There was growth of public support towards the acquisition of colonies. E.g., the Daily Press in London spoke well about acquiring colonies. Social factors. East Africa was to be occupied as a means of stamping out slave trade and replacing it with legitimate trade. The Europeans were keen on spreading their culture to east Africa. They wanted to protect their missionaries who were already operating in east Africa The process of Partition The Berlin conference failed to fully resolve the rivalry between the Germans and the British in East Africa. The activities of Karl Peters and Harry Johnstone for the Germans and the British respectively in the Mount Kilimanjaro region depicted intense rivalry which almost led to war. The two signed treaties with local chiefs as a way of legalizing their arbitrary declaration of their spheres of influence. Karl peters even declared german protectorate over Ungulu, Uzigua, Usagara and Ukami. These activities together with those of Sir William Mackinnon of the Imperial British East Africa Company became the immediate cause of the partition of east Africa. The partition of East Africa was sealed through the following two treaties. The Anglo-German Agreement of 1886 The agreement facilitated peaceful settlement of the german and British claims on east Africa as follows; The Sultan was given the 16 KM (10mile) coastal strip from Vanga to Lamu. He also acquired islands of Zanzibar, Pemba, mafia, Lamu, pate and Towns like Lamu, Kisimayu, Mogadishu, Merca, and Brava. Germany acquired the coastline of Witu the region between river Umba in the North and river Ruvuma in the south. The British got the territory north of river Umba up to river Juba in the north. However, the treaty failed to determine the western boundary, thus leaving Uganda up for grab to any power that got there first. Uganda therefore became a theatre of intense rivalry between Karl Peters who even secured a treaty with Kabaka Mwanga in 1890 and Fredrick Lugard who tried in vain to sign a treaty with Kabaka Mwanga. This tension is what led to the Heligoland Treaty of 1890. Terms of the Heligoland Treaty of 1890 Germany officially recognized Uganda as a British sphere of influence/protectorate. Germany abandoned her claim over the territory of Witu for British in exchange for Heligoland island in the North sea Germany accepted British protectorate over Zanzibar and Pemba. Germany acquired a strip of land on Lake Tanganyika from Britain and the Coastal region of Tanganyika from the Sultan of Zanzibar. The Sultan of Zanzibar retained a 16km (10 miles) Coastal strip. This treaty thus ended the scramble for and partition of East Africa. BRITISH OCCUPATION OF KENYA Methods used by the British to occupy Kenya. Signing of treaties. The following treaties were signed either by the British or on behalf of the British to facilitate their occupation of Kenya; A treaty by Sir William Mackinnon and the Sultan of Zanzibar Barghash in 1887 which effectively put Zanzibar under the British for 50 years. The Maasai Agreements of 1904 and 1911 between Oloibon Lenana and the British The Anglo-Germany Treaties of 1886 and 1890. Collaboration. The British collaborated with communities like the Wanga and Maasai who were later used as bases to extend British Authority over other areas. Establishing operational bases. The British built Forts like Fort Smith (Kabete) and Fort Hall (Murang’a) to enhance their political control. Use of company Rule. In the initial stages, due to the fear of the enormous costs of effective occupation and administration, the British mandated the IBEA. Company to administer the Kenyan protectorate. The Imperial British East Africa Company of Sir William Mackinnon was given the royal charter in 1888 and thus had the following new powers; Levying and collecting taxes and institute custom duties in the area. Establishing political authority and Maintain of law and order in the British East Africa. Promoting legitimate trade and Eradicate slave trade Developing and civilizing the indigenous peoples with the assistance of the imperial consul based in Zanzibar. Achievements of the IBEAC. The company succeeded in quelling local aggression in the British spheres of influence from communities such as the Nandi, Maasai and Akamba. The company established a series of Forts at Kibwezi, Machakos, Smith and Dagoretti, which laid the basis for colonial administration in Kenya. The company improved transport and communication in the protectorate by pioneering road construction in Kenya. For example the Sclater’s Road between Kibwezi and Busia in 1894 which assisted in transportation of railway building materials. The company succeeded in eradicating slavery to some extend and securing freedom for many slaves. The company also developed a rubber industry along the coast and the interior. Reasons why Britain used the IBEA Company to administer her possession Absence of a clear policy on the administration of colonial possessions. This gave room to the use of the company to administer the colony. The company could provide cheap administrative capital that Britain had failed to raise for colonial governance. The colonies were not yet economically viable There was a problem of inadequate personnel to be used in the administration of the colonies. I.B.E.A.Co’s long experience in the region. The company had invested heavily in east Africa, hence making its participation in the administration of the colony inevitable. Why company rule had failed by 1895. The region lacked strategic natural resources for export thus making the IBEACO, a trading company, to operate at a loss and narrow its revenue base. Minerals like Gold, copper and Diamond were not existent. The company lacked sufficient capital to carry out the day- to- day administrative operations. The company had spent the little funds available in the construction of fortified trading stations, with little reward. Transportation of goods in the region proved expensive and slow as the region did not have any navigable rivers The company faced the problem of poor coordination of its activities caused by lack of proper channels of communication between the head office in Europe and the offices in the colony. Some of the company officials were corrupt and therefore misappropriated funds. The company faced numerous resistances especially in the Nandi country thus disrupting their operation. At one time, Fort Smith was set on fire by African resisters. Some of the company officials lacked experience in administrative matters since most of them came merely as traders. The company officials also were affected by the harsh tropical climate and diseases like malaria and sleeping sickness that killed many. The company thus surrendered the Charter in 1895 to the British government for a compensation of 250,000 dollars Factors facilitated the establishment of the British control over Kenya during the 19th century The Christian missionary factor. They created an atmosphere of friendship with Africans, which was important for colonization. They also occasionally called home for protection against hostile communities. Presence of trading company (IBEACO. The companies through their agents signed treaties with African rulers and among themselves as a means of initiating effective occupation of Kenya. Superior military power/good army. The European armies were more efficient than he African ones. This was witnessed in the ability to quell the numerous wars of resistance like the Nandi resistance. Disunity among African communities. By the time the British came to East Africa, the Wanga were up against the neighboring communities in western Kenya, the Nandi and the Maasaiwere at war and the Mijikenda against the coastal Arabs over land. This was of advantage to the British. Signing of treaties. There was Collaboration of some communities with the British. The Maasai signed the Maasai Agreement of 1900. The Wanga also signed various treaties with the British. The British policy of indirect rule was readily acceptable, thus reducing the chances of resistance. Financial support from the home government. KENYA PEOPLES’ RESPONSES BRITISH INVASION OF KENYA Africans in Kenya offered varied responses to the British intrusion into their country. Some resisted while other collaborated.The communities that resisted actively included the Nandi, Agiryama, Bukusu, Somali and sections of the Agikuyu The Nandi Resistance (1895-1906) Reasons why the Nandi resisted British occupation of their land The Nandi had gained a lot of pride, having subdued their neighbours E.g the Luo, Maasai, Abagusii and Abaluhyia. At that time, they were enjoying a sense of superiority that gave them confidence to take the British Intruders head-on. The Nandi military superiority made them feel equal if not superior to the whites. Their warriors were well- trained and equipped and had gained a lot of experience through the numerous cattle raids the conducted against their neighbours. The Nandi detested the physical appearance of the white people which they considered as evil and must be expelled from their community. The Nandi were opposed to Land alienation by the British. They disliked the grabbing of their land for railway construction/white settlement. Kimnyole’s prophecy that foreigners would dominate the Nandi motivated them to fight against the Europeans. The Nandi had a long history of resisting and fighting intruders. They had successfully warded off the Arab and Swahili traders in the 1850s. The Nandi resisted as a means of safeguarding their independence which they had enjoyed for a long time. The Nandi also enjoyed unity under the leadership of Koitalel Arap Samoei between 1895 and 1905. This had helped them to register numerous victories against neighbouring communities. They therefore felt strong enough to resist the British. Course of the Nandi rebellion The Nandi wars of resistance began in 1895. The Nandi mainly employed guerilla warfare ambushing the caravan traders and mail carriers who passed in their territory. When two Nandi warriors strayed into the Guasa Mesa administrative camp headed by Andrew Dick in 1895, he murdered them as a response to the attacks by the Nandi on foreigners passing in their territory. The Nandi retaliated through the murder of a British trader, Peter West and thirty of his workers. This sparked off British punitive expeditions against the Nandi with the first in 1897 which however failed to stop the Nandi raids. When the railway reached the Nandi territory, they refused to cooperate with the railway builders and even kept stealing building materials to make weapons and ornaments. They even ambushed and murdered railway builders. In 1900, the British sent three punitive expeditions under Colonel Evatt, the commander of the Uganda Rifles reinforced by the Maasai, Baganda, Swahili and Indian mercenaries. The Nandi were supported by the Kipsigis enabling them to resist for so long causing high death toll on the British and the Nandi as well. The year 1901 witnessed a temporary truce worked out by the British administrator, Walter Mayes (1901-1905), after realizing the heavy causalities both sides were experiencing. The war was re-ignited when the Nandi realized that the British had started settling and farming on their land. They destroyed the railway in protest. The British reacted by destroying crops and villages and stealing cattle for the next three years. The Nandi war of resistance only ended when the British officer in Nandi, Captain Meinertzhagen, hatched a plan to have Koitalel, the chief coordinator of the résistance, killed. He and his advisers were killed in October 1905, during a “peace” meeting convened by Meinertzhagen. The Nandi finally sought for peace in December 1905 ending the ten year long resistance. Why the Nandi offered the longest and strongest ever resistance to the British intrusion in Kenya. The British intrusion into their territory happened when the Nandi were at the best of their power and superiority. Existence of a superior military organization based on the age set system. The Nandi army was strong and could match any foreign force. The regimental age-set system supplied the Nandi with young men who were experienced in battle, disciplined, organized and were effective. The Nandi also possessed knowledge of weapon manufacture and repair through their local ironsmiths and using stolen railway material. The Nandi enjoyed regular supply of food and war equipment which sustained the fighters for a long period. This was mainly aided by the Nandi mixed economy enabling them to turn livestock for food when the British destroyed crops. The Nandi had good knowledge of the terrain in which they were fighting the intruders thus having an advantage over the British who were not familiar with the terrain. The difficulties faced by the British as posed by the terrain disadvantaged them durin g the resistance The Nandi knowledge of Guerilla tactics. This enabled them to organize many surprise attacks while vandalizing key British installations like the telegraph lines. The existence of strong leadership. The Nandi leadership was religiously inspired and therefore very strong. The Orkoiyot was their symbol of unity and strength and was believed to possess some supernatural powers that gave courage to the fighters. Their enemies, the British troops, were slowed down in their advance by problems like respiratory disease due to the wet and cold climate. The Nandi were accustomed to these conditions The Nandi received assistance from the Kipsigis fighters – the Elgeyo, Lembus and Nyangori which enabled them to hold off the British for Six weeks in 1900. Why the Nandi were defeated in the hands of the British The British obtained support, against the Nandi, from the collaborating communities like the Somali and the Maasai. The British military strength remained superior to that of the Nandi especially in terms of the weapons. Their guns were superior to the Nandi spears. There was an outbreak of smallpox in the Nandi country 1890. This weakened them by killing many and rendering others unable to fight on. They Nandi failed to get support from the neighboring Kenyan communities like the Luo and the Abaluhyia who were not friendly to them. The treachery employed by Captain Meinertzhagen, the British commander who lured Nandi Orkoiyot Koitalel Arap Samoei to a meeting where he was killed. The death of Koitalel Arap Samoei demoralized the Nandi into even signing for peace. The British used Scorched Earth Policy, which seemed more punitive to the Nandi since their houses were burnt and livestock confiscated. Results of the Nandi resistance The Nandi country was colonized by the British after 1906. The Nandi lost their independence. There was massive loss of life. Koitalel Arap Samoei, his entire council of elders and over 1000 warriors were killed. The British also experienced casualties on the part of their forces. There was destruction of property through burning and looting. E.g the British confiscated at least 5000 herds of cattle and burnt more than 5000 huts and grain stores. There was massive land alienation. The Nandi were pushed into reserves where they experienced impoverishment due to drought and cattle diseases. The Nandi lot their territory and traditional salt licks at Kapchekendi and Kamelilo that were now inhabited by the whites. The Nandi military organization disintegrated thus making them lose their dignity and authority in the region. The Nandi were separated from their close cousins and allies the Kipsigis through the creation of the Nandi Reserves where they were confined. Their economic lifestyle of grazing animals freely was also disrupted. Many Nandi warriors were recruited into the colonial police. Agiriama resistance A Bantu speaking group inhabiting the coastal region, their reaction to the British invasion was motivated by the reaction of the Mazrui Arabs and the Swahili who rose up against the British in 1895. The Agiriama reaction began as an offer of support to the Mazrui Arabs, with whom they had long trading links, during their conflict with the British over succession to the Takaungu Sheikhdom. The Agiriama was also hitting back against the Busaidi Arabs who were encroaching on their territory. The British had supported the Al Busaidi collaborators throughout succession conflict. The British reacted by bombarding Rashid’s Headquarters at Mweli forcing the Agiriama and the Mazrui to resort to guerilla warfare. While the Mazrui Arabs later surrendered, the Agiriama now resorted to full scale résistance against the British encroachment in 1914. Causes of the Agiriama resistance They did not want to pay taxes, especially hut tax that was hurting to traditionally polygamous group, to the British. The British also were forcing them to pay it in terms of labour instead of allowing them to sell their grains and livestock to pay. They had lost their independence/the British replaced the Agiriama traditional rulers with their own appointees They were opposed to forced labour on British plantations for little or no pay especially on land that had been snatched from them. The British did not respect their culture. The British policemen at Kitengani insulted the Agiriama culture by raping their women. The Agiriama were reacting against forced conscription into the King’s African Rifles. They were forced to produce 1000 able-bodied men within a month, join the British army They lost their land to the British due to the massive land alienation for settler farming. They were forced to offer paid labour on their own former land to the chagrin of the elders. The British, who were seeking to take over the Agiriama role as middlemen, disrupted their trade in ivory and food stuffs They disliked the British-appointed headmen whose duties included collection of taxes and recruitment of labour. Course of the resistance The Agiriama resistance was inspired by a Giriama prophetess, Mekatilili WA Menza. She was joined by an Elder, Wanje wa Madorika in mobilizing people to a mass resistance against the British rule. The immediate course of their reaction was the forced military recruitment into the KAR. To provoke the British to war, they barred their young men from moving outside their villages to work.Mekatilili and Wanje called on the people to return to their ancestral shrine at Kaya Fungo and offer sacrifices and denounced all appointed puppet rulers in favour of the traditional council of elders. The two administered traditional oaths to unite and inspire the people to war. I.e. the Mukushekushe oath for women and the Fisi oath for men. When a state of emergency was declared by the British over the Agiriama, they resorted to Hit and-run warfare. They attacked the homes of loyalists, Europeans and collaborators forcing the missionaries to seeker refuge at Rabai. The British countered the hit-and-run warfare with burning villages and crops and driving away livestock. The resistance only subsided when Mekatilili and Wanje were arrested and deported to Kisii. The Arabs, under Fadhili bin Omari, mediated between the Agiriama and the British, marking the end of the war under the following terms; The Agiriama to offer a specific number of labourers for European settlers and public works. They would also offer a certain number of able-bodied men to serve in the King’s African Rifles. The British would occupy all the land to the north of River Sabaki. Role of Mekatilili in the Agiriama resistance. She encouraged the Agiriama to face the British by administering the Mukushekushe and Fisi oaths to unite the people to war. She presented the grievances of the Agiriama, some of which the British later addressed. She rallied the people together against a common enemy thus laying the basis for nationalistic struggles for independence. Results of the Agiriama resistance to the British Many people lost their lives some as fighters while others were caught in the crossfire. The Agiriama lost their independence to the British There was Rampant destruction of property i.e. food stores at home, food crops in the fields and cattle. Some property was lost through confiscation. The community’s economic activities were disrupted, especially the lucrative trade at Takaungu, where they had been acting as middlemen. The Agiriama were prohibited from brewing traditional liquor. The British withdrew their order demanding Agiriama to move out of their homes. For the first time women took up the leadership of the rebellion e.g. Mekatilili Bukusu resistance Reasons why the Bukusu resisted the British rule They wanted to safeguard their independence and culture i.e. circumcision. They were being compelled to recognize Nabongo Mumia as the overall leader of Abaluhyia. The Bukusu did not like the idea of paying taxes to the British through force. They resented the British demand in 1894, that the Bukusu warriors surrender guns they possessed. The British invasion had happened when the Bukusu were enjoying immense military power. The Bukusu resistance began with the ambush of a trade caravan heading to Ravine through bukusuland. The Bukusu stole all the rifles. When they were commanded to surrender all the guns in 1894 and declined, the British sent a punitive expedition which however was defeated. The British administrator at Elureko, Charles Hobley sought for reinforcement from Major William Grant of the Ugandan protectorate. In 1895, at the battles of Lumboka and Chetambe, the Bukusu were summarily defeated. Methods used by the Bukusu to resist the British. Use of Warfare. They directly fought the British troops led by Major William Grant, at Lumboka and Chetambe hills. Ambushes. The Bukusu ambushed a caravan of traders, sent by the commanding officer at Kavirondo to the Ravine Station. Revolting against rule by Wanga agents. The Bukusu Murdered a Wanga agent, Hamisi, who had been sent, to administer the area. ` Effects of the Bukusu resistance The Bukusu lost most of their land through massive land alienation They lost their independence as bukusuland was declared part of the British East Africa Protectorate There was massive loss of life within the Bukusu and the British forces. There was loss of property and disruption of Bukusu economy. The Bukusu lost their cattle and sheep. Bukusu women and children were taken prisoners by the British. The Somali resistance The Somali resistance was a reaction to the British declaration that Jubaland was a British protectorate. They were led by their leader Ahmad bin Murgan. causes of Somali resistance The Somali were opposed to the division of Somaliland into the British and Italian spheres of influence, which separated the clans. They were opposed to punitive expedition sent against them by the British. The Somali people being Muslims were opposed to being controlled by the British who were Christians. The British attempted to stop the Somali raiding activities against their neighbors. The Somali were against British control of their pastureland and watering points. The British wanted the Somali to drop their nomadic way of life. The British initially reacted minimally to the Somali aggression on their Kisimayu neighbourhood in 1898 due to the following reasons; They viewed such an undertaking as to expensive in terms of the arms and military personnel that would have been involved. The Somali were a nomadic group therefore it was very hard and time consuming to suppress them. There was no economic justification for waging such a war on a highly unproductive territory. However, when the Somali murdered the British sub-commissioner for Jubaland, Mr Jenner, in 1900, the British dispatched a punitive expedition of Indian regiments against them.The Somali rose up again in 1905 against the British after they had procured Firearms. The Somali skirmishes continued into 1914 with the change of boundaries and finally ended in 1925 when Jubaland was put under the Italian Somaliland. Results of the Somali resistance There was massive loss of life, as many Somalis were killed. Sub-commissioner Jenner was also killed. The British divide the Darod and Hawiye clans through the boundary changes of 1914. The Somali cattle were confiscated. Somali lost their independence through the declaration of the protectorate status. The process of colonization by Europeans was delayed considerably. There was favorable boundary change that saw Ogaden being placed under Italian Somaliland. In Kenya, the Maasai, Wanga and a section of the Agikuyu, Akamba, and Luo collaborated. The Maasai collaboration In the 19th century, the Maasai community changed from a once feared community to one marred by succession disputes and natural calamities. The Disputes between Lenana and Sendeyo over succession of Mbatian after he died weakened the Maasai community to the level of merely collaborating with the British intruders. Sendeyo moved with his followers to northern Tanzania leaving behind Lenana’s group who chose the path of collaboration. Reasons for the Maasai collaboration with the British Losses of the Maasai military supremacy. At the time the British came to Kenya, the Nandi had overtaken the Maasai in terms of military superiority. They therefore sought for foreignsupport against their aggressors. Internal feuds. There were a series of succession disputes in the period between 1850 and 1890 caused by differences in economic activities. In one of the disputes, when Lenana seemed to be losing to Sendeyo, he appealed to the British for support. Natural calamities/disasters. The Maasai country witnessed severe hunger, livestock and human diseases in the 1850s. These weakened them more making them unable to resist. Threat and wars from the Agikuyu. When the Maasai went to reclaim their women and children at the end of the hunger period, they were met with outright threat of attacks from the Agikuyu. They therefore sought British support. Prophecy of Mbatian. He prophesized the coming of a white man who was more powerful and that the Maasai should not bother to resist him. Lenana personally chose the path of collaboration because he wanted to consolidate his position and that of his kingdom. He was looking for the much needed military support to overcome his sibling, Sendeyo of the Loita Maasai. The process of Maasai collaboration. The attempt by Lenana to secure assistance against Sendeyo was the beginning of his collaboration with the British. The Kedong massacre incident (Maasai warriors attacked a caravan of Swahili and Agikuyu traders travelling from Ravine) and the resultant death of 100 Maasai at the hands of three white men (Andrew Dick and two French companions) made the Maasai the immediately seek for collaboration with the British. They cooperated with the British in establishment of colonial administration. The provided mercenaries in the British punitive expedition against the Nandi, Kipsigis and Kikuyu. Maasai were rewarded with cattle acquired from uncooperative peoples e.g. The Nandi and Agikuyu They exchanged gifts and used British manufactured goods. Lenana was made a paramount chief. Between 1904 and 1923, a fair proportion of the Maasai agreed to be moved from one grazing land to another to pave way for British settlement. They signed the first Maasai agreement in 1904 by which they moved into two reserves, one to the south of Ngong and the railway and the other up on the Laikipia plateau. A corridor of five kilometres was set aside in Kinangop for the Eunoto ceremony that accompanied circumcision. The second Maasai agreement of 1911 implied the Maasai abandon the Laikipia plateau to rejoin others in the enlarged southern reserve. Results of the Maasai collaboration Lenana was made a paramount chief of the Maasai in 1901. The collaboration led to the separation of the Maasai related clans. The Purko Maasai were divided into the Loita and Ngong Maasai. There was massive land alienation with the Maasai being moved to the Ngong and Laikipia reserves and later the southern reserve. Maasai freedom in conducting rituals was curtailed with their confinement to a five –square-mile reserve for initiation rites. The Maasai lost their independence. Just like any other part of kenya, Maasailand became part of the British protectorate. There was total disruption of their territorial integrity. Even their cattle economy was disrupted as the number of livestock was reduced. There was an attempt to cause them to abandon their nomadic habit. The Maasai gained material reward in form of cattle and grains looted from resisting communities like the Nandi and Luo of Ugenya. Their age old custom of livestock cross- breeding with their Samburu neighbours was disrupted with the curtailing of their migratory behaviour. Their stock was therefore weakened. Some Maasai were hired as mercenaries against the resisting communities such as the Nandi and Agikuyu. Wanga Collaboration Nabongo Mumia, the Wanga leader from 1880, was an ambitious and shrewd leader who had the desire to expand his Kingdom through collaboration with British intruders and soliciting their military assistance. Reasons for Wanga Collaboration Nabongo Mumia hoped that by collaborating, he would be made a paramount Chief of the entire western region. There was family rivalry over leadership. This compelled Mumia to seek help against his brother Sakwa. He wanted to safeguard his position at home. He wanted British protection against the Nandi, who were by then enjoying military superiority, the Bukusu and the Luo of Ugenya He wanted to revive a disintegrating kingdom. He wanted to take advantage of the British western civilization particularly education and religion. He also wanted material gains from the British. He aimed at achieving territorial expansion. Mumia aimed at ruling up to Kabras, Kimilili, Marama, Butsotso, Ugenya and Samia. He realized that his community was very small and it was futile to resist the militarily superior Europeans. Having realized that the British declaration of western Kenya as their sphere of influence was inevitable, he chose to become their ally at the earliest opportunity ever. Process of Wanga Collaboration Mumia’s contact with the outside world began when he befriended the Swahili and Arab caravan traders and later the IBEA Company merchants when they visited wangaland. They built a fort and a trading station at Elureko, his capital, which was to remain the headquarters of the British administration in western Kenya until 1920. Ways in which Nabongo of Wanga collaborate with the British. He offered his seat-elureko to become an operational base of the British expeditions. He offered his men to fight alongside the British in their expeditions against other communities. He provided Wanga agents to aid the British in administering the conquered areas. The Wanga provided food, water and shelter to the British invading forces. They gave the British free passage through their territory and offered them hiding places during the battles. Mumia signed treaties of friendship with the British. Results of the Wanga collaboration with the British. Wanga kingdom was strengthened using military support from the British. Wanga kingdom was expanded. Nabongo gained more territories e.g. Samia, Bunyala and Busoko Their king Mumia was declared a paramount Chief thus raising his prestige. He ruled as a British paramount chief ruling as far as Bunyala, Gem , Ugenya and Alego, upto 1926, when he officially retired Mumia warriors became agents of the British colonialism. The warriors were used to subdue the Luo, Bukusu and Nandi. The Wanga Princes became agents of British rule over western Kenya. For example, Mumia’s half-brother Murunga was appointed chief of the Isukha and Idakho. Mumias headquarters at Elureko became the seat of British administration in western Kenya upto 1920 when it was moved to Kakamega. Mumia and his people gained material benefits from the British through trade, western education and religion. Nabongo Mumia became an important ally of the British administration in western ken\ya, providing them with vital information over the appointment of chiefs and Headmen in western Kenya. Due to the Wanga Collaboration, there was intensified enmity and hostility between the Wanga people and other Abaluhyia subsections who viewed the Wanga as traitors. However, The Wanga, just like any other collaborator or resister lost their independence when Kenya was declared a British Colony in 1920. Mixed reactions The communities that exhibited mixed reaction were the Akamba, Agikuyu and Luo. The Akamba Reaction The arrival of the British traders threatened to destabilize the prominence enjoyed by the Akamba as middlemen during the long distance trade. The British even tried to stop the Akamba from organizing raids on their Oromo, Agikuyu and Maasai neighbours. Why did the Akamba decide to resist British administration? The British failed to respect Akamba traditions and customs. For example, the cutting down of the ithembo (shrine) tree for a flag post at Mutituni in 1891. When the Akamba attacked the Agikuyu, The British intervened against them. This was not taken kindly. The Akamba were protesting the misconduct of Company officials based at Machakos who stole from the local people and raped Akamba women. The establishment of colonial administration disrupted the long distance trade, which was the Akamba lifeline. The establishment of British rule meant loss of independence for the Akamba. The establishment of military posts in Ukambani without their consent. The British built a fort at Masaku in 1890. The British kept on disrupting their peace by sending military expeditions that resulted in death and massive destruction of property. The Akamba were also resisting forced labour. Course of the Akamba resistance. In 1890, Nzibu Mweu led he Akamba in boycotting to sell goods to the company agents. Prophetess Syonguu also ordered the Iveti Warriors to attack the Masaku fort in the same year as a reaction to the cutting down of the ithembo tree for a flagpole.The British agents were defeated during this surprise attack.When the British tried to stop the Akamba raids on their neighbours in 1894, a Warrior, Mwatu wa Ngoma ordered the Akamba warriors, who had been inspired by medicinemen, to attack the British. The British responded with devastating consequences on the side of the Akamba forcing them into collaboration with the British District Commissioner, John Ainsworth. Mwatu wa Ngoma became a collaborator.Later, another gallant fighter, Mwanamuka, led the Kangundo people to attack the colonial police at Mukuyuni and Mwala, killing six. With the assistance of Maasai mercenaries, the British sent a punitive expedition against the Akamba and even confiscated their livestock.When Mwanamuka tried to blockade the Lukenya area to cut off communication between Fort Smith and Masaku, he was met with devastating consequences that forced him to also petition for peace. Why a section of the Akamba collaborated with the British They had lost heavily during the Akamba-British war of 1894 causing them to fear the British. The ruthlessness with which the British attacked the Akamba scared many warriors into collaborating. For example, the Machakos station superintendent, Leith dispatched troops to deal with Syonguu’s forces in 1891, causing merciless killings and looting of property. Some especially the trades collaborated expecting material gains. Collaborators wanted to gain prestige. They wanted to get guns to be used in robbing for wealth. The Akamba had been weakened by the 1899 famine and were therefore unable to effectively tackle the British. Reasons for the Akamba defeat Some of the Akamba were not patriotic to the resistance course. Some self-serving opportunists allied with the colonial agents with the aim of enriching themselves thereby resulting in the Akamba defeat. Internally, the Akamba lacked territorial cohesion. It was therefore very difficult to coordinate a strong resistance to British rule among a highly segmented society lacking in a centralized system of government. Sections of The Akamba community experienced severe famine in 1899. They were weakened to the level of being unable to stage a gainful resistance to the British. The role of missionaries who pacified some sections to the level of collaborating with the intruders. The missionaries actively undermined their religious practices and traditional beliefs. When the Akamba caravan trade and raiding activities were disrupted, they had lost a significant source of livelihood and thus became weakened more. Consequences of the Akamba reaction The Akamba lost their independence as their territory was declared a British protectorate. There was massive alienation of Kamba land to pave way for white settlement. Many people, especially the Akamba warriors lost their lives during the confrontations with the British soldiers. The British interfered with the Akamba culture by cutting down the Ithembo tree and raping their women. The Akamba were subjected to heavy taxation in order to raise revenue for the colonial administration. Many of the Akamba men were forcefully conscripted into the King’s African Rifles to fight in World War I. The Agikuyu reaction The Agikuyu was also a highly segmented nature lacking in territorial unity. This explains why they had mixed reaction against the British. causes of Agikuyu resistance. The British failed to respect Agikuyu traditions and customs. The missionaries campaignedagainst female circumcision and Kikuyu forms of worship. Misconduct of company officials. They stole from the local people, killing some of them, and raped Agikuyu women. The Agikuyu were revolting against the forced supply of grains and water, by their women, to the British soldiers. There was massive land alienation, which had left many landless or pushed to unproductive land. Harassment of the Agikuyu, by British punitive expeditions. To enforce their policies, the British usually applied excessive force. The British had begun meddling in the Agikuyu internal affairs making them suspicious of their intentions. Fear of Loss of independence by some leaders like Waiyaki wa Hinga. The Agikuyu were reacting against the punishment meted on them by the British for raiding Fort Smith in 1892. Reasons why some Agikuyu collaborated. Agikuyu leaders like Kinyanjui wa Gathirimu and Karuri wa Gakure wanted to derive personal wealth and prestige through collaboration. Kinyanjui wa Gathirimu and Karuri wa Gakure hoped that by collaborating, they would be made paramount Chiefs among the Agikuyu. The collaborators wanted British protection against their enemies amongst the Agikuyu and other neighbouring communities. They wanted to take advantage of the British western civilization particularly education and religion. They also wanted material gains from the British through trading with them. The Agikuyu of Nyeri realized that it was futile to resist the militarily superior Europeans. They therefore chose to collaborate. Organization of the Agikuyu reaction When captain Lugard established a fort at Dagoretti in 1890, he began relating with Waiyaki WA Hinga who was in charge of the area. Wayaki’s people supplied Lugard’s men with food. However, when Wilson took over from Lugard who had left for Uganda, his soldiers began looting food and livestock from the Agikuyu. The Agikuyu reacted by setting the Dagoretti fort on fire. Waiyaki was arrested by the forces sent by Sub-commissioner Ainsworth, and died enroute to Mombasa. It is alleged that he was buried alive at Kibwezi after provoking his captors. Kinyanjui WA Gathirimu, a collaborator, succeeded Waiyaki at Dagoretti. In 1899, Fort Dagoretti was closed down due to a series of raids. Francis Hall opened another Fort at Murang’a (renamed Fort Hall after his death in 1901) after the locals were subdued and forced to accept the British Colonial rule. British trader John Boyes forged an alliance with Karuri WA Gakure, the Agikuyu leader at Fort Hall, which enabled him to subdue the resisting Agikuyu groups. He also made contacts with Wang’ombe of Gaki (Nyeri) who together with Gakure supplied the British with mercenaries in exchange for confiscated loots from resisting groups. Meinertzhagen, who succeeded Francis Hall in 1902, subdued the Muruku and Tetu section (led by Chief Gakere) of the Agikuyu. Chief Gakere was murdered and his associates deported to the coast after they wiped out the entire Asian caravan on the slopes of the Aberdares. The Agikuyu of Iriani (Nyeri) were defeated in 1904 and their Aembu and Ameru allies sought for peace in 1906, having seen the effects of resisting.By 1910, British rule had been established in the entire Mount Kenya region. With the Agikuyu settling peacefully in the reserves upto 1920s when they began to agitate again. Results of the Agikuyu mixed reaction. The reactions fuelled mistrust, hatred and animosity in most of Kikuyuland. Such feelings of mistrust continue among the Agikuyu of Murang’a, Kiambu and Nyeri up-to-date. There was massive alienation of Agikuyu land by the British with the help of the collaborators like Wang’ombe WA Ihura and Gathirimu who gave land to the British for construction. Some Agikuyu leaders amassed a lot of wealth and rose to prominence. For example, Karuri wa Gakure and Wang’ombe of Nyeri, The collaborators like Kinyanjui wa Gathirimu and his people received western education and were converted to Christianity. There was massive loss of lives for the resisters. For example Waiyaki wa Hinga and many Agikuyu fighters were killed. The Agikuyu, both collaborators and Resisters lost their independence when their territory was declared a British protectorate. The Agikuyu wars of resistance forced the British to shift their administrative base from Fort Dagoretti to Fort Hall. There was massive destruction of property. The Agikuyu razed down Fort Dagoretti. The Agikuyu villages were burnt by the British. The Luo reaction The resisters were the Luo of Sakwa, seme, Uyoma, Ugenya and Kisumu. The collaborators were the Luo of Gem and Asembo, led by Chief (Ruoth) Odera Akang’o. Reasons for the resistance against the British by the Luo of Ugenya. To protect their land and national heritage. To protect their freedom and independence Protect their livestock, grains and fish from being taken by the British soldiers who were undisciplined The Luo had become a formidable nation in the area and did not entertain any intruder. They were also provoked by the punitive expedition sent against them by Mumia and the British. Why the Gem and Asembo Luos collaborated. Their chief, Odera Akang’o had been influenced by the Wanga Neighbours who had gained materially from their collaboration. Odera also needed British assistance to subdue the Luo of Seme, Uyoma, Sakwa and Ugenya, and the Nandi, who were a threat to his people. He realized the futility of resisting the British through the experience of his neighbours. Course of the Luo resistance. The Luo of Ugenya set off the resistance by attacking the Wanga in an attempt to expand. They vandalized British key installations like the telegraph wires and administrative stations. In 1896, the British sent an expedition against them and 200 people were killed. When the British attacked the Seme Luo for cattle and Grains, they were provoked into revolting. They attacked the Asembo Luo who had collaborated with the British. The British invaded them in 1898 with devastating effects in terms of property and life loss. The Luo of Kisumu rose up in 1898 attacking a British Canoe party on Winam Gulf for taking their fish without paying. They were however overcome. The Gem and Asembo Luos led by Ruoth Odera Akang’o supported the British throughout all these confrontations. Results of the Luo reaction Both collaborators and resisters lost their independence to the British. The Luo lost their property through burning and looting. There was massive loss of lives, especially among the Ugenya Luo. It Bred hatred between the collaborators and resisters The collaborating communities were able to gain western education and religion as the British established schools and missions in their areas. The African leadership was replaced with the British administration, thereby undermining traditional political systems. The Luo were alienated from their land to pave way for the British occupation and settlement. Colonial system of administration in Kenya In their administration of Kenya, the British employed both central government and local government as the basic administrative framework. The protectorate was divided into provinces headed by Provincial commissioners, who acted as representatives of the Governor. The governor was answerable to the colonial secretary in Britain. Hierarchy of colonial administration in Kenya Colonial secretary. Based in London, he was the political head of the British colonial administration and overall coordinator of the colonial policies as passed by the British parliament. Governor. Reporting to the colonial secretary, he was the representative of the British government in the Kenyan colony. He headed the executive council which effected colonial policies and programmee he gave assent to laws from the LEGCO before they were implemented. Provincial Commissioners. They represented the governor at provincial level and implemented the policies and laws that were enacted by the legislative council that was established in 1907. They supervised the work of DCs, Dos and the entire provincial administration on behalf of the governor. District commissioners. They implemented policies and maintained law and order and security in their districts. They headed the District Advisory Committees. They coordinated the work of DOs and Chiefs. District Officers. They implemented orders from the DCs and coordinated the work of the chiefs. They maintained law and order in their divisions. Chiefs. They acted as a link between the people and the Governor at local levels. They maintained law and order at the locations and coordinated the work of headmen. Headmen. They were a link between the government and the people at the grassroots level. They mobilized people for development within their villages. The principal function of Chiefs and Headmen under the Headman’s Ordinance and Chiefs Authority Act was tax Collection and labour recruitment for public works and European settlers. Their duties were confined in the African reserves. The advisory and Executive Councils guide the governor and effected the colonial policies. Local Government. The British introduced the Local Government in colonial Kenya because; They wanted to involve the local communities in administration of the region. This would reduce the costs of administration. They wanted to mobilize local people in resources exploitation in order to stir up development Local Government was a means of providing a legal forum for the local people to make decisions about their day to day affairs The Local Government would provide an important link between the Central government and the locals. The Local Government would provide a means through which the government would understand Africans better. It also originated from the desire by European settlers to safeguard a number of privileges for themselves by getting directly involved in local administrative units Local Native Councils They were established in 1922 after the passing of the Native Authority Ordinance. In 1924, the District Advisory Councils (DACs) were renamed Local Native Councils (LNCs) Objectives of the LNCs To encourage and develop a sense of responsibility and duty among the Africans. To provide a mechanism through which educated Africans could articulate their grievances at District level. To ensure proper restriction of the Africans in their reserves. To provide a means through which the government would understand the Africans better so that to contain them. Achievements of the Local Native councils The councils succeeded in restriction African political Agitations and other activities to their reserves. The LNCs provided basic social needs like water, cattle Dips, Public Health, Education and Markets. They succeeded in maintaining basic infrastructure in their areas of jurisdiction. They succeeded in collecting taxes to finance their operations. NB; in 1948, the LNCs were renamed African Native Councils. Pascal Nabwane became the first African chairmen of the ADCs in 1958. The ADCs operated as local authorities for Africans until 1963. Impact of Local government It exploited local resources and initiated development. It created a link between the central government and the local people. It helped maintain law and order using the small police force set up in 1896. It promoted infrastructural development and general welfare of Africans. It used the levied taxes to improve social services such as schools and hospitals. It helped in the arbitration of African disputes through the District African Courts. E.g, Land disputes were settled by the LNCs. Factors that undermined the local Government Shortage of trained personnel to work in the LNCs and ADCs. Poor transport and communication leading to poor coordination of their activities. Lack of adequate revenue to finance their operations as the colony lacked strategic mineral resources. There was a lot of rivalry between the settlers and the locals, later becoming the freedom struggles. 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