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__label__cc	0.685982	0.314018	Where is it? - Learning Characters 4+ SUN&MOON,inc. Beautifully-designed perceptual art app Have fun learning the alphabet while playing hide-and-seek Parent and child can learn the alphabet and pronunciation together while playing In this perceptual art app, you look for letters hidden inside animals and birds such as elephants and flamingoes while playing a game that feels like hide-and-seek. Parent and child can enjoy learning the alphabet and pronunciation together. We hope that through this app, children around the world will be able to communicate with rich sensitivity. The “A to Z Alphabet Book” released in 1985 has been reborn as an educational app. This is the second app from graphic designer and picture book designer Osamu Nakatani. His “A to Z Alphabet Book,” released in 1985, has been given new life in a brand new format with the addition of sounds and animation that could not be depicted in a book. Simply designed animals. A world of unique colors. This is a work that can be enjoyed not just by children but by adults too. [ Features ] ▶ The joy of the search You can memorize capital and lowercase letters at the same time while playing a game that feels like hide-and-seek as you look for the alphabet hidden inside animals and birds. ▶ Sounds When you tap the pieces of the alphabet, you will hear pronunciations. You can also hear animal calls when you finish the puzzle. ▶ Graphic design The animal designs are rich with color. You can cultivate a sense of color and design through the colorful graphics. - Optimized to iOS9. SUN&MOON, Inc. Requires iOS 7.0 or later. Compatible with iPad. English, Japanese © SUN&MOON Inc. すうじどうぶつ $1.99 hiragana_tango	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line897
__label__wiki	0.586145	0.586145	IBM’s new transactional memory: make-or-break time for multithreaded revolution At Hot Chips last week, IBM talked about BlueGene/Q, the processor powering … Peter Bright - Aug 31, 2011 9:15 pm UTC The Blue Gene / P supercomputer at Argonne Photograph by Argonne National Laboratory The BlueGene/Q processors that will power the 20 petaflops Sequoia supercomputer being built by IBM for Lawrence Livermore National Labs will be the first commercial processors to include hardware support for transactional memory. Transactional memory could prove to be a versatile solution to many of the issues that currently make highly scalable parallel programming a difficult task. Most research so far has been done on software-based transactional memory implementations. The BlueGene/Q-powered supercomputer will allow a much more extensive real-world testing of the technology and concepts. The inclusion of the feature was revealed at Hot Chips last week. BlueGene/Q itself is a multicore 64-bit PowerPC-based system-on-chip based on IBM's multicore-oriented, 4-way multithreaded PowerPC A2 design. Each 1.47 billion transistor chip includes 18 cores. Sixteen will be used for running actual computations, one will be used for running the operating system, and the final core will be used to improve chip reliability. For BlueGene/Q, a quad floating point unit, capable of up to four double-precision floating point operations at a time, has been added to every A2 core. At the intended 1.6GHz clock speed, each chip will be capable of a total of 204.8 GFLOPS within a 55 W power envelope. The chips also include memory controllers and I/O connectivity. The 18th core is a redundant spare. If a fault is detected in one of the chip's cores, the core can be disabled and transparently mapped to the redundant spare. Detection and remapping of faulty cores can be done at any stage of the system's manufacture—not just when the chip wafer is being tested, but also when chip has been installed into Sequoia. Sequoia will use about 100,000 of the chips in total to reach its 20 petaflops target. Sequoia's huge scale makes the ability to remap faulty cores important: IBM estimates that given the number of chips in the supercomputer, one chip will fail every three weeks, on average. Traditional multithreading: locks and serialization Transactional memory is an approach to parallel programming that has the potential to make efficient parallel programming a great deal easier than it is currently. Parallel programming is easy when a task can be broken up into many independent threads that don't share any data; each part can run on a processor core, and no coordination between cores is necessary. Things get more difficult when the different parts of the task aren't completely independent—for example, if different threads need to update a single value that they share. The traditional solution is to use locks. Every time a thread needs to alter the shared value, it acquires the lock. No other thread can acquire the lock while one thread holds it; they just have to wait. The thread with the lock can then modify the shared value (which may require a complex computation, and hence can take a long time), and then release the lock. The release of the lock in turn allows the waiting threads to continue. This system works, but it has a number of problems in practice. If updates to the shared value occur only infrequently—and hence, it's rare for a thread to ever have to wait—the lock-based system can be very efficient. However, that efficiency tends to rapidly diminish whenever updates to the shared value are frequent: threads spend a lot of their time waiting for the lock to become available, and can't do any useful work while they're waiting. Locks also prove quite difficult for programmers to use correctly. Though the case of a single shared value is easy to handle, real programs are rarely so simple. A program with two locks, A and B, is susceptible to a problem called deadlock. If two threads need both locks, they have a choice; they can either acquire lock A followed by lock B, or they can acquire lock B followed by lock A. As long as every thread acquires the locks in the same order, there's no problem. However, if one thread acquires lock A first, and the other acquires lock B first, then the two threads can get stuck—the first waits for lock B to become free, the second waits for lock A to become free, and neither can ever succeed. This is a deadlock. This problem might seem easy to avoid, and indeed when a program only has two locks, it normally is—but it becomes harder to ensure that every part of the program does the right thing as the program becomes more complex. Add more locks, for other bits of shared data, and it becomes harder still. Transactional memory: the end of locks Transactional memory is designed to solve this kind of problem. With transactional memory, developers mark the portions of their programs that modify the shared data as being "atomic." Each atomic block is executed within a transaction: either the whole block executes, or none of it does. Within the atomic block, the program can read the shared value without locking it, perform all the computations it needs to perform, and then write the value back. At the end, it commits the transaction. The clever part happens with the commit operation: the transactional memory system checks to see if the shared data has been modified since the atomic operation was started. If it hasn't, the commit just makes the update and the thread can carry on with its work. If the shared value has changed, the transaction is aborted, and the work the thread did is rolled back. Typically when this happens, the program will simply retry the operation. Transactional memory potentially offers a number of advantages over the lock-based scheme. First, it's optimistic: instead of each thread needing to acquire a lock just in case another thread tries to perform a concurrent operation, the threads assume that they'll succeed. It's only in the case of actual concurrent modifications that one thread will be forced to retry its work. Second, there's no deadlock scenario, since there are no locks. Third, the programming model is, broadly speaking, one that developers are quite familiar with; the notion of transactions and roll-back is familiar to most developers who've used relational databases, as they offer a somewhat similar set of features. Fourth, atomic blocks arguably make it a lot easier to construct large, correct programs: an atomic block with nested atomic blocks will do the right thing, but the same isn't necessarily true of lock-based programs. (It's worth pointing out that transactional memory has a number of complexities of its own: for example, what if a transaction needs to do something that can't be rolled back, like sending data over a network or drawing on the screen? The best way to approach this kind of issue, and many others, is still an area of active research.) The hardware advantage Up until now, transactional memory research has mostly focused on software-based implementations. Real processors don't actually support transactional memory, so it has to be emulated in some way. Some schemes make use of virtual machines to do this—there are transactional memory modifications for the .NET and Java virtual machines, for example—others use native code, and require programmers to use special functions for accessing shared data, so that the transactional memory software can ensure the right things happen in the background. A consistent feature of all of these implementations is that they tend to be slow—sometimes very slow. Although the transactional memory makes it easier to produce bug-free programs, careful use of locks (or other multithreading techniques) can yield much greater performance. BlueGene/Q moves transactional memory into the processor itself. It's the first commercial processor to do so, though Sun's Rock processor—cancelled when the company was purchased by Oracle—would also have included a transactional memory capability. The transactional memory implementation is predominantly found in the chip's 32MB level 2 cache. IBM did not describe the system in enormous detail at Hot Chips, but did describe a handful of details. Data in cache has a version tag, and the cache can store multiple versions of the same data. Software tells the processor to begin a transaction, does the work it needs to do, and then tells the processor to commit the work. If other threads have modified the data—creating multiple versions—the cache rejects the transaction and the software must try again. If other versions weren't created, the data is committed. The same versioning facility can also be used for speculative execution. Instead of having to wait for up-to-date versions of all the data it needs—which might require, for example, waiting for another core to finish a computation—a thread can begin executing with the data it has, speculatively performing useful work. If it turns out that the data was up-to-date, it can commit that work, giving a performance boost: the work was done before the final value was delivered. If it turns out that the data was stale, the speculative work can be abandoned, and re-executed with the correct value. A logical evolution The transactional memory support is in some ways a logical extension of a feature that has long been a part of the PowerPC processor, "load-link/store-conditional," or LL/SC. LL/SC is a primitive operation that can be used as a building block for all kinds of thread-safe constructs. This includes both well-known mechanisms, like locks, and more exotic data structures, such as lists that can be modified by multiple threads simultaneously without any locking at all. Software transactional memory can also be created using LL/SC. LL/SC has two parts. The first is the load-link. The program uses load-link to retrieve a value from memory. It can then perform the work it needs to do on that value. When it's finished, and needs to write a new value back to memory, it uses store-conditional. Store-conditional will only succeed if the memory value has not been modified since the load-link. If the value has been modified, the program has to go back to the beginning and start again. LL/SC is in fact found on many processors—PowerPC, MIPS, ARM, and Alpha all use it. x86 doesn't; it has an alternative mechanism called "compare and swap." Most LL/SC systems are quite restrictive. For example, they may not be able to track writes to individual bytes of memory, but only entire cache lines, meaning that the SC operation can fail even if the monitored value wasn't actually modified. SC will also typically fail if, for example, a context switch (which flushes the cache) occurs between the LL and the SC. Some implementations will even make the SC fail if any value gets written to memory between the LL and the SC. Transactional memory is a kind of LL/SC on steroids: each thread in a transaction can, in effect, perform an LL on many different memory locations, and the commit operation performs a kind of SC that takes effect on those multiple locations simultaneously, with either every store succeeding or failing together. Will it deliver? The implementation of the transactional memory itself is complex. Ruud Haring, who presented IBM's work at Hot Chips, claimed that "a lot of neat trickery" was required to make it work, and that it was a work of "sheer genius." After careful design work, the system was first built using FPGAs (chips that can be reconfigured in software) and, remarkably, it worked correctly first time. As complex as it is, the implementation still has its restrictions: notably, it doesn't offer any kind of multiprocessor transactional support. This isn't an issue for the specialized Sequoia, but it would be a problem for conventional multiprocessor machines: threads running on different CPUs could make concurrent modifications to shared data, and the transactional memory system won't detect that. BlueGene/Q's hardware support allows use of transactional memory with little or no performance penalty. This lack of performance penalty in turn means that transactional memory can be used in real-world software, to see if it really is as useful in practice as it appears to be in theory. Haring said that, the transactional memory "feels good," but the team was still tuning compilers and software support, so it did not yet have any real-world data. As specialized as Sequoia is, the insight it will give into the utility of transactional memory will be invaluable. The combination of ease-of-use advantages for programmers and the performance potential (both of transactional memory and speculative execution) make transactional memory very appealing. Software implementations, however, have for the most part reached a performance impasse: so severe are the performance issues that it puts the entire approach in jeopardy. If this hardware implementation proves successful, it could be the first of many. But if it doesn't work out—if it fails to deliver the performance and reliability that transactional memory is assumed to provide—it could sound the death knell for a once promising solution to the multicore conundrum. What effect will transactional memory have on database usage? BDoN Wise, Aged Ars Veteran But will it play Crysis? BDoN wrote: Crysis ran on my shit laptop back when it was released. Major General Thanatos wrote: Keep in mind that Crysis with all features turned up is still a pretty good measure of "good" hardware. Of course your shit laptop ran Crysis, but it probably wouldn't run it with everything turned all the way up. Please do shut up with the Crysis jokes. The game is now almost 4 years old, the jokes even more so. And no, it cannot run Crysis because Crysis is compiled for x86 processors, while the Sequoia uses PowerPC chips. And that's putting aside the fact that it's a GPU-dependent game, and supercomputers don't really have much in the way of GPU hardware. /exasperated semi-rant dacjames Ars Praetorian Very little, at least with existing databases. As the article mentions, databases already support robust concurrency controls. However, it may be possible to modify the implementation of a database to make use of hardware transactional memory in the future. I see parallels here to memory paging, which was originally implemented in software but eventually became supported in all modern hardware. magnusalpha1280 wrote: Yes, but the shitty question wasn't if it could run Crysis on max, it was if it could run Crysis. dacjames wrote: Ok. It was a bit of a layman's question, as I have a roommate that does a lot of sql work from home, and I remember seeing (nolock) in the code quite a bit. I'm guessing that is something completely different now. This transactional memory sounds like it differs from the tradition in about the same way that Ethernet differs from token-ring networking. Is that a useful analogy? Devon Shaw Seniorius Lurkius Serious question: Why must a transactional rollback and retry be required in the event of a modified access? Why couldn't an additional operation be executed first to determine if the previously committed change actually modified any information relevant to the transaction in question? sefsefsefsef Seniorius Lurkius I've never heard transactional memory pitched as a solution for reliability and performance. In my experience, it's always pitched as being an easier programming model, and that's all. Hardware TM just tries to be competitive with complex lock-based programming models, while being extremely simple to program (and impossible to mess up). Deadlock and livelock go away for transactional memory unless the HTM system introduces some of its own, which some academic HTM solutions in the past have, but then that's the architect's problem, not the programmer's. With lock-based multi-threaded programs, handling concurrency wrong totally breaks your program, but with HTM, handling concurrency incorrectly only hurts performance. Again, TM is just about making the programmer's life easier. 13 posts \| registered Aug 25, 2011 DeadCat Ars Scholae Palatinae remarkably, it worked correctly first time. As a professional hardware developer, I would have loved to see their face when they powered it on the first time and it worked. Shit never works the first time. pbaril@gmail.com Seniorius Lurkius Using a conservative estimate on power consumption, Sequoia will use at least 25000 kilowatts of power. That's about $2500... PER HOUR. That's $22,000,000 a year in electricity if it's used 24/7, and yes, it will be used 24/7. Somebody please tell me my math is wrong... That's one of the outstanding questions, really, when it comes to "how should transactional memory be exposed to developers?". In an intuitive sense, it would be great if transactional memory could co-operate with other transaction managers--for example, Windows has a transactional file system, transactional access to the registry, and of course, databases. The more things you have that are transactional, the more you can put into an atomic block. While some things like network access might not ever be truly transactional, one could envisage higher-level protocols that included this property. This would provide quite a compelling development model--your atomic block could write to the file system or the database, and roll back all those changes if a conflicting in-memory change occurs. Transactional memory has lots of nuances and complexities. The basic concept is easy enough--but it turns out there are lots of decisions that can be made. For example, what kind of isolation do you provide. Consider this: int x = y = 0; atomic { atomic { if(x != y) { x++; for(;;) { y++; Question is, can that hang? Can the left-hand thread see the x++ but not the y++, and hence enter its infinite loop? With "weak" TM systems that update data in-place, the dirty reads are visible, and the program can hang. In "strong" TM systems that don't update in-place, the modified values are invisible until the transaction is committed, at which point they're atomically made visible (so other threads can either see x == y == 0, or they can see x == y == 1, with no other option). Problem is, at least for existing software TM implementations, in-place modification and dirty reads make things a hell of a lot more efficient. There are other issues. Transactions work well with transactions (as long as you have a reasonable policy for how nested transactions could work) but perhaps counterintuitively, transactions don't necessarily work well with code that uses locks, or even some lock-free algorithms. For example, consider this: volatile int flag = 0; // this is some type that can be modified atomically, i.e. does not need locks for other threads to read it flag = 1; while(flag != 1) { while(flag == 1) { } } flag = 2; With no transactions or locks, that routine is safe; it won't hang. But what happens if those routines happen to be run inside transactions and we have strong isolation (no writes visible outside the transaction? It turns out that now both routines hang. Neither can see the signal that the other has sent. For the left-hand one, flag is always set to 1; for the right-hand one, it's always set to 0. The broader in scope you make your transactions, the hairier things become. If you start allowing transactions to wrap lock-based code (or lock-less code), interacting with transactional databases, file systems, and more, you can suffer all kinds of problem. Maybe this can all be worked out in an effective and efficient way. But maybe it can't. It may be that the best route is to keep transactional memory as its own thing, keep it as a low-level thing, and leave it to skilled developers to use--in much the same way as LL/SC and CAS are handled. jimCA Ars Tribunus Militum Devon Shaw wrote: That is theoretically feasible, but the effort required in many cases is probably similar to the effort to just rerun. There's lots of cases where that's not true, but it's usually better to err on the side of simplicity and reducing chance of incorrect data. But it brings up at least one problem in optimistic transactions: if too many of your transactions fail b/c the data was modified by another thread, you're redoing work over and over again hoping you'll get to be the one that successfully modifies the data first. This can lead to a situation where you have thread A performing a lot of quick updates to the data and thread B doing a lot of work for one update. Thread B may NEVER be able to commit because by the time it gets done with its work, thread A has modified it again. Given the comments on "sheer genius" and "neat trickery", they may have solved that problem. sefsefsefsef wrote: I've never heard transactional memory pitched as a solution for reliability and performance. In my experience, it's always pitched as being an easier programming model, and that's all. "easier way to program" == "fewer deadlocks and other problems" == "more reliability" "easier way to program" == "greater use of multiple threads and multiple cores" == "more performance" Hardware TM just tries to be competitive with complex lock-based programming models, while being extremely simple to program (and impossible to mess up). Deadlock and livelock go away for transactional memory unless the HTM system introduces some of its own, which some academic HTM solutions in the past have, but then that's the architect's problem, not the programmer's. With lock-based multi-threaded programs, handling concurrency wrong totally breaks your program, but with HTM, handling concurrency incorrectly only hurts performance. Again, TM is just about making the programmer's life easier. If the programmer doesn't care about performance, he can use a single-threaded system and not use any locking at all. No need for transactional memory in that situation. This is basically what is done, but that check needs to be done at the end of the transaction. Lazy transactions (as opposed to eager) work like this: 1. begin transaction 2. do useful work 3. make sure none of my reads were written by other threads since I began transaction (this is basically what you were talking about) 4. commit my writes to the shared virtual memory (this step may cause other threads to abort when they get to their own stage 3) 5. end transaction jimCA wrote: This is the problem of starvation and there are many ways to get around it, such as not allowing younger transactions to abort older transactions after the older transaction has been aborted X number of times. You could think of a million others. Even in that bad case you described, that's still not livelock. Useful work is still being done (young transactions are committing, hence work is being done). It's just not "fair" to the older transaction. It's the only general way of achieving correct performance. In fact, the big ability that transactional memory and LL/SC have over CAS is that they can detect that a change has occurred even if it's not visible to the program. This is important for something called the ABA problem. To prevent the ABA case, you want to roll back due to memory writes even if the modification didn't change the value. chordoflife Ars Centurion There's some serious gold in the comments. Almost as much as in the article. rotational Ars Scholae Palatinae Outstanding article Peter. DeadCat wrote: Perhaps it wasn't really shit so it worked the first time? I can see where you're coming from on the reliability point, but I can't really agree with the performance thing. It's not like transactional memory makes it easier than locks to break up your problem into X pieces. It can make the coding of it smoother and easier, but it doesn't really improve performance. In fact, TM often (read: almost always) hurts performance compared to a well-coded lock-based solution. The ideal for TM is to break even with locking, while being simpler to program. Again, the point of TM is to make writing a single-threaded and multi-threaded version of the same program practically the same experience, so it's geared toward people who want to get more performance out of their programs for little more effort beyond writing the single-threaded version. But you only use locking and multithreading because you care about performance. If you don't care about performance, you don't use multiple threads at all--TM may be relatively easy, but single-threaded is easier still. The very fact that someone is using multiple threads in the first place means that they care about performance. You're coming at it from the angle that the alternative to/opposite of transactional memory is judicious use of locking. But it isn't. The alternative is single-threaded programs, or at a pinch, multithreaded programs with a single global lock that's used to protect every shared data structure. Both of these solutions are correct and will avoid multithreading issues. They just don't perform worth a damn. Problem is, neither do typical STM implementations; they're generally slower than the single-threaded code would be. So they give you the worst of all worlds, really--greater complexity than pure single-threaded code, and worse performance even when using multiple cores. mlubrov Wise, Aged Ars Veteran I think you're wrong. The point isn't to make writing a single-threaded and multi-threaded version of the same program practically the same experience. It's to avoid the downfall of the deadlock/livelock issue. But if you want to look at it, this does greatly enhance the performance of some applications. If a program is sufficiently large, and sufficiently complex, with each thread writing frequently to locked values, this will greatly increase performance, such that it probably well exceeds single threaded performance. If you create a deadlock between two threads, those 2 threads won't ever execute, and even more threads can begin to pile up waiting for the locks to become removed (remember even one lock being in use halts a thread until it's released, and moving that thread out of a core requires a context switch which either kills the process and forces a restart, or moves it to the side in a SMT solution which increases the likelyhood of other deadlocks if it has a lock on anything). Also note that once a thread deadlocks it can take down a whole core even using SMT depending on where it is in the pipeline. Once you've locked enough cores your performance WILL be impacted. That's the point of Dr. Pizza's quote about misusing locks equating to your program breaking under locking, compared to your performance simply degrading using Hardware TM. hobgoblin Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius The potential for performance issues entered my mind, in that you could end up with a thread in virtual standstill because a different thread (or threads) keeps changing the values from under its proverbial feet. Russ.Dill Ars Centurion I think things like RCU (Read-copy update) and seqlock provide a better alternative than TM because they offer more flexibility. megaman821 Seniorius Lurkius On-chip transaction memory seems target more for compilers than end-developers. Much like end-developers don't worry so much about how many registers a chip has. The on-chip TM will only be able to do so much variable bookkeeping and then would switch over to using a software TM. It would be a nightmare to have to worry about low level details like that to utilize transaction memory. jukes_ Ars Praetorian et Subscriptor It's probably worth noting that there's a proposed draft standard for TM (software TM) in C++ (CXX1X) that addresses lots of these issues http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2 ... cts-for-c/. This may or may not be relevant to IBM's HTM implementation, but does address lots of these issues. Intel also has a prototype version of icc that can handle the draft's "atomic" blocks that anyone can download and play with. It's a bit outdated but is still useful. 3ggn0g Account Banned So....can it run Crysis 2 then? Transactional memory still sounds like it's best for certain problems. Large multi-process solvers, for example, would perpetually trigger transaction rollbacks at every boundary it would seem. Killing Time Ars Tribunus Militum 3ggn0g wrote: PowerPC, you'll have to be happy with Marathon. Killing Time wrote: And I would be hobocop Seniorius Lurkius Haskell offers its users a sturdy, efficient software transactional memory system that works quite well and is easy to understand. The type system prevents transactional code from doing anything that can't be rolled back. Of course, understanding Haskell itself is a prerequisite for this, which is not a trivial feat for most people. JPan Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius The problem with all these in hardware features are that developers normally never get to see them outside of specialized hardware like this. IBM has tried before with the CELL chip to pitch a new programming model to the masses, arguing (not wrongly) that the current model of substantial speed increases under the 15th programming abstraction layer are over. Now developers like their abstraction layers and surely didn't switch to programming SPEs. Lets suppose that they add this feature to Power chips. Hell even DB2 will most likely not support it since it is available on 5 million different platforms and processing architectures, and I am pretty sure that locking mechanisms are so ingrained in the code that it would be a bitch to support different versions on different platforms. Besides the allure of easier programming is lost once you have to support the harder versions as well. etimy Seniorius Lurkius It pisses me off that we only get cool stuff like this for nuclear weapons research. I'm happy that these concepts are being explored, it's the way they have to get stuffed in with your traditional, please-model-my-bomb, supercomputers that makes me angry. grimlog Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius the mean time to failure for the chips will be about three weeks That can't be right! The 'average' chip will have at least one core fail in just 3 weeks? Or did IBM say that they expect one core in the entire cluster to fail in 3 weeks? etimy wrote: Tech trickles down eventually. grimlog wrote: i assumed i was missing a piece of the puzzle here. love for it to be explained further than what i can grasp as that something is wrong in the chip's production. Mean time to failure is a bulk property, not an individual one; out of Sequoia's 100,000 processors, one is expected to fail every three weeks.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line902
__label__cc	0.575471	0.424529	Tokyo Game Show coverage on Xbox Live (Yawn) Sure, there are a ton of new videos and two new demos, but nothing that is … Ben Kuchera - Sep 24, 2006 4:20 pm UTC with 0 posters participating Am I the only one underwhelmed by the content we've been getting on the Marketplace from the Tokyo Game Show so far? I just tried the Fuzion Frenzy 2 demo, and didn't really find any of the three included games fun; they all play like filler, and the graphics are last-generation quality. The small amount of interest I had in that game was quickly killed after only a few minutes of play. Ditto for the Japanese Tenchu demo—you do remember how to grab those, right?—there just isn't much in that game to like. The character design is odd looking, the animation is stilted, and the graphics are sub par. There isn't any news about that title heading to North America, and after the demo I don't think anyone really cares. I'm not all warm and fuzzy looking at videos of what gaming will be like on Vista, mostly because after I buy Vista I won't have a lot of money for games. I'm enjoying the news of what games are coming to the Arcade, but really I'd rather just have a game or two released now instead of hearing about what I may get in a year's time. Anyone notice we still don't have Lumines Live! yet? [And what about Contra, for the love of toast! -Ed.] I'm really hoping for some better videos and hotter demos in the next few days; so far there isn't anything here that's worth taking up space in your already almost-full hard drive.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line903
__label__cc	0.740214	0.259786	March 27, 2013 by icecreamanddreaming Every time a fork clinks on the edge of a plate, Evelyn tenses to keep from shivering. She can tell that Michael’s keeping an eye on her, and she can almost feel the weight of his disapproving stare when she hunches forward. His parents are oblivious, chattering away about the last time they were at this restaurant, and hasn’t Joan just gotten so tacky with all that big jewelry. She smiles as politely as she can, feeling her lips stretch all strained and aching over clenched teeth. Michael’s mother is a heavy, overbearing sort of woman. They’ve never really liked one another, though they get on well enough. At least, Evelyn doesn’t think they like each other. It’s too warm in this restaurant, and the buzz of conversation keeps building to a suffocating pitch. Michael’s looking away from her now, he’s talking about Joan’s recent illness. Evelyn relaxes a bit, easing her shoulders down and laying her hands on the tablecloth. She’s done with her salad. By the time dessert comes, she’s biting her lip so hard that she’s surprised it’s not bloody. His parents are at the end of a twenty-minute tirade about the state of things in this country, and Evelyn’s lungs seemed filed with a syrupy dread. When she met Michael’s parents, back when they were first dating, she had been struck with an uneasy sort of premonition. He was so unlike his mother and father, she’d thought, but Jesus save her from a marriage like that. It had made her glad for the easy, graceful relationship they had. After leaving she’d reconsidered, and thought that perhaps she’d been too harsh. His parents seemed nice enough, all told. Every time they saw his parents, though, the feeling came back. Being around them made her heart pound in a ragged staccato beat and her lips curl in, skin catching on her teeth. She looks at Michael and he’s watching her, his eyes wells of gleaming dark in the dim lighting. He mouths, “Are you okay?” and she shrugs. When they get home, she slips her coat and dress off at once. He smiles and pulls her toward him, but she ducks away. She sees the hurt on his face and thinks how ridiculous it is that he looks wounded over something so small, and she says, “That was an odd meal, sweetie. You know I don’t have the best time with your parents.” He frowns and reaches for the remote where he tossed it on the bed earlier. The television flickers on, and his voice jumps to be heard over the end of a crime show, where the body’s being wrapped up and the detectives pat each others’ shoulders. Her eyes are drawn to it as she half-listens to him tell her about being disrespectful and understanding, which she apparently does in the wrong order. She nods, tries to smile at him, and says, “Okay, yes, I’m sorry. Could we avoid a fight right now? I’m just really tired.” The frown eases, and he nods. The television is spewing noise into the air, someone advertising the next show over the music of the credits. They both slide onto the mattress from opposite sides and sit to watch for a while, slumped against the headboard, barely touching. There’s silence except for the noise of the next show and the occasional shout from the street below the window. After a few more minutes they go to bed pressed up against one another, as usual. It feels like something they’ve done forever, except that she’s restless under the pressing covers. She shrinks from him ever so slightly, curls forward around the empty air in front of her, and he lays a wrist lightly over her waist, where it grates against the bone of her hip. An ad for an online matchmaking service bounces onto the television, hearts wafting about the smiling faces of the spokescouple. They lean into one another and look boldly into the camera. “I’m so glad,” says the woman sitting on the left, “because without it I never would have found the love of my life. We’ve been married two years now, and I’m looking forward to spending the rest of our lives together.” They both flash bright grins and the screen fades to text. The words repeat in Evelyn’s head, taking on a queer bumping rhythm. “For the rest of our lives together,” she repeats softly, her fingers over her mouth, feeling the words escape warm and soft on her skin. “The rest of our lives, then.” Tagged family, fighting, flash fiction, marriage, relationships, romance, short story	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line904
__label__cc	0.668028	0.331972	All The Old Stories a family history blog for my Coombs, Costigan, Hegarty, and Murphy ancestors Family Tree Overview Category: DNA Ancestry’s updated ethnic communities June 22, 2019 June 22, 2019 ~ Emily ~ Leave a comment When AncestryDNA recently updated their ethnicity algorithms, one of my communities changed. I used to be connected to the English settlers of Newfoundland community, which was mapped onto Cornwall and Devon and followed a migration arrow to Newfoundland. Here is their new assessment: They have changed the “settler” place identification to be the place settled, not the place of origin. I’m descended from the Newfoundland & Southeastern Labrador settlers, rather than being descended from English people who settled Newfoundland. Notice also that they have divided Newfoundland into multiple regions. My issue is that this new community doesn’t show any connections back to England. If, on the interactive Ancestry website, I click on my 23% English-Wales-NW Europe DNA percentage, it tells me I have “no connections.” That’s because literally all of my English heritage is via Newfoundland ancestors. But where in England did those Newfoundland ancestors descend from? According to my paper trail and historical guesses, probably Dorset and the Channel Islands. But that’s not reflected in the new DNA community organization. Meanwhile, in Munster, I have connections in four distinctly defined overlapping areas around Cork. Again, it’s not that it’s wrong. I just don’t understand why it’s four communities for one region of a smallish country and then no connections at all for a larger country from which a quarter of my DNA derives. (All reference to “clicking” refers to the live interactive graphic on Ancestry’s website. What you see here is just a static graphic for sharing.) I looked at some of the other communities, just to see how things were divided up, and it looks like these divisions are meant to direct research fruitfully. My roots go back hundreds of years in Newfoundland; with the scarcity of records, it’s hard to get far enough back to research in England. So maybe these divisions were an attempt to nudge DNA discourse towards genealogical research and away from pseudo-scientific debates about ethnicity? That makes good sense, but I wonder if any of the changes were more controversial? Did anyone else have a dramatic change in their community membership after the new DNA update? Ancestry.com AncestryDNA Cambridge cleary Cork Costigan Cronin deasy ethnicity Hegarty Kilmurry LaCour Long Island murphy Nassau Community College Newfoundland Staten Island world war 1 Follow All The Old Stories on WordPress.com	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line905
__label__wiki	0.748633	0.748633	Clear as a crisp spring morning! Have you ever felt like a game was made just for you? Like it was pandering to your own sensibilities and your own sense of humor? It did something different and you really enjoyed it but maybe not everyone else got it. But you did and you really liked what it was doing. I'll let you describe Deadly Premonition here, Zach. Greenvale. An unassuming small American town with all the necessities--a gunsmith, a gas station, a diner, two pubs--and little out of place. Certainly not the kind of place you'd expect to find the mutilated body of a young girl, stripped and bound to a tree as if crucified, left to be found by two young boys. The inexplicable appearance of monstrous humanoids which bleed purple and have a compulsion for bending over backwards and jamming their arms down one's throat is a little odd, too. Francis York Morgan (just call him York, that's what everyone calls him) is an agent of the FBI with a special interest in murder cases involving young women. He works alone, save for the company of his invisible friend and confidant Zach (don't ask) and has little patience for local law enforcement. They've never seen anything like this, and York is not inclined to explain every little thing to them. Even so, an agent can't work without information, and York will need all the leads he can get if he wants to get to the bottom of this case. Kind of reminds you of Twin Peaks after a little while. Deadly Premonition, also known as Red Seeds Profile, is a game for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC released in 2010. While panned by reviewers for its less than stellar graphics and uninspired combat system, its quirkiness and personality combined with surprisingly able storytelling have made it a possible Cult Classic in the making. Tropes used in Deadly Premonition include: Abandoned Hospital: The hospital in the "Red World" is only inhabited by the shadows, but that could be said of the "Red World" in general. Abusive Parents: George's mom, who was mentally unstable and regularly whipped her son. To an extent, Harry, George's father. He abandoned his son with the full knowledge that his wife was mentally unstable and did nothing about it for years. Affectionate Parody: Of the Police Procedural genre. Alas, Poor Villain: Its hard not to pity George after you learn exactly why he fell to evil. Thomas, too. Alien Sky: The town sports one whenever enemies are about. All There in the Manual: The developer's blog details a few key points not explained in the game, such as the relation between the Red World and Forest. Alone with the Psycho Alphabetical Theme Naming: With a few exceptions, the major citizens of Greenvale represent an entire alphabet. The case begins with the murder of Anna, which leads to the arrival of York and Zach, and everyone in between is a suspect. With the exception of Thomas, every character vital to the plot is between A and H. All of the characters A through G die, and Thomas is the only person outside that range who dies. They tend to die in alphabetical order, though it isn't absolute. Always Murder: York muses that he always seems to get stuck with the very unusual 1% of crimes that involve serial murderers. Then again, he does work for the FBI, and solving serial murders happens to be part of what they do. Amazing Freaking Grace: Plays during the original Raincoat Killer sequence. Amazing Technicolor Battlefield: You fight giant Kaysen, the final boss, in one. Ambiguously Gay: Thomas, who has rather effeminate movements and is a surprisingly great chef. Confirmed later on. American Kirby Is Hardcore: While the Japanese version gives you an honest idea of what to expect with a clear shot of York and a preview of the Profiling mechanic, the American boxart is more suggestive of some horrible gore-obsessed game from the nineties trying too hard to be cool. Considering how much York adores old B-movies, this is unintentionally fitting. See Covers Always Lie below. An Axe to Grind: Everyone's favorite psycho in a red raincoat, of course Axe Before Entering: Even when the door he's chopping is the one he left through not one minute ago. Axe Drag: Which sends up sparks even across softer ground! Throwing Your Axe Never Works: So long as York remembers to dodge first. And Now for Someone Completely Different: One chapter has you playing as Emily, and another as the original Raincoat Killer in the fifties. The final boss fight has you playing as Zach. And Your Reward Is Clothes: Various sidequests have suits as rewards. Some of them do something, like extend your life bar, some don't. Anyone Can Die: Anyone. It's scripted as to who dies when and where, but there's a reason you can backtrack to earlier chapters in this game; you wouldn't be able to get all the sidequests otherwise. In fact, it's possible to get all the sidequests done on one playthrough provided that you put off the story as long as possible. Arc Words: "At times we must purge things from this world because they should not exist, even if it means losing someone that you love." Armies Are Evil The Atoner: Mr. Stewart became this after he failed to protect his son George from his abusive wife, turning George into a twisted powermonger. Battle in the Rain: In the fight against George. The final boss fight also, though not as noticeable. Beard of Sorrow: Grow your own, or shave it off! Perma-Stubble: Not too much of it, though. Big Eater: York, probably due to whatever ridiculous metabolism causes him to be so hungry after a short nap. Bishonen Line: Sort of. The final boss goes through a couple of grotesque transformations only to turn into a larger, creepier version of his normal self at the end. Bittersweet Ending: The case is finally resolved, but several characters are still dead including Emily and York. On the other hand, Zach is finally freed from the Red Room. More like Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence for York. It's still bittersweet, however. Body Horror: The Red Trees growing out of people. Boom! Headshot!: "Bullseye! Great. Great. Amazing! Headshot." Gives you extra Agent Honor. Boss Rush: The "Psychic Spot C" sidequest. Breakable Weapons: Only melee weapons, though this is balanced by them being much more powerful than the guns. You can earn unbreakable versions of melee weapons through side-quests though. Bunny Ears Lawyer: Agent York is clearly more than a little unhinged, from the way he's always talking to the unseen Zach to the way he fixates on memorizing the directors and years of release for many movies, to the bizarre way he reacts to certain phenomena such as cracking inappropriate jokes during a grisly autopsy. However, he's also a surprisingly competent detective and his ability to fixate upon minute details to create scenarios in his mind is impressive. Bury Your Gays: Played straight with the only confirmed gay person in town: Thomas. Who goes insane first. But for Me It Was Tuesday: Played with. Kaysen seems like he forgot who George was, before remembering that he was a part of his plans and insulting how simplistic it was to get him to join his cause, though it would make sense that Kaysen would forget who George is, considering his modus operandi. Camp: Filled with it, and lampshaded almost every time. Canine Companion: Willie, Kaysen's pet. And, according to Word of God, the interpretor for the force that was giving Kaysen orders. Catch Phrase: Aside from York's trademark introduction, he also has "Zach, they're here" whenever he enters the Other World. The Chanteuse: Carol. City Mouse: York's got a bit of a city mouse thing going on at the start of the game, acting like traveling to the countryside equals going among cavemen. He's wrong though, it turns out they're as far as the Middle Ages! Clock Tower: Emily fights Thomas in one. Cloudcuckoolander: York, as you will realize when he starts casually informing Zach of the omens he finds in his coffee. Pretty much reaches Bunny Ears Lawyer-status. There are several townspeople with similar quirks. Sigourney comes to mind. Companion Cube: Sigourney's pot. It mustn't get cold. Cool Car: York's car, before he totals it in the prologue. And after it gets fixed up. Covers Always Lie: The American cover art makes out the game to be a complete horror gore-fest when it's more detective work than anything. Creator Cameo: Sort of. A bar is named after him, the "SWERY '65". He also appears in a trading card. Creepy Twins: Isaach and Isaiah. Cruel and Unusual Death: The murder that brought York here. Cutscene Incompetence: Both York and the Raincoat Killer, who seem to have more fun playing with each other than actually wanting to take each other out. Dark World: The nightmare world sections. Whether or not they take place in "reality" or are some sort of illusion or hallucination is left murky for quite a while. Depraved Homosexual: Thomas is a tad obsessed with George. Really, his "G" tattoo should have been a big giveaway. Detective Drama: A very closed one. The Dev Team Thinks of Everything: You control a few characters other than York a few times in the game. If you open up the menu and try to look at his Profiling movies, they're filled with static. Only York can visualize what happened! Did Not Get the Girl: Somewhat: York does, but the player-character does not. Die, Chair, Die!: The only fences you can get past are the ones that can be broken down by smashing. Ditto for the crates. You often get a little reward money for this, too. Disappeared Dad: York, Emily and George all lost theirs one way or another at young ages. Two of those have highly sinister reasons. Disc One Nuke: It's possible to obtain an infinite-ammo SMG early on from a sidequest, making combat go by a lot faster. Even earlier than this, the infinite durability wrench can be obtained from a sidequest, which is far better than the initial pistol. Diving Save: York employs this to rescue Diane who's hanging from the ceiling of the Muses Gallery. The Dog Was the Mastermind: Almost literally. Willie is Forrest Kaysen's handler, who relays his orders from the Red Tree. Double Entendre: "Rosy Lips" Gina. Think about it. Driven to Madness: Poor, poor Thomas. Witnessing Becky's and Diane's deaths was just too much for him. The townsfolk of Greenvale that got into contact with the purple fog released by Kaysen and the military. Driven to Suicide: Zach's father puts his gun to his head after failing to shoot his wife before the sapling planted in her sprouts. The player is given the option of direct suicide in the end. Drop-Dead Gorgeous: Anna. Lampshaded by people remarking on how beautiful she looked, and possibly subverted by Isaach and Isaiah practically worshiping her in death. Emily isn't too bad on the eyes. Definitely worth going primal over. Eccentric Townsfolk: Not that the outsider isn't just as eccentric. Eldritch Abomination: Forrest Kaysen. Emergency Weapon: The pistol York starts out with that cannot ever be dropped. Everyone Is a Suspect: York says this to Emily and George in front of the Lumbermill, stating that he considers everyone a potential suspect, until he can honestly clear someone. Evidence Scavenger Hunt: As part of the profiling game mechanic. Expy: York bears more than a passing resemblance to Agent Dale Cooper, quirky mannerisms and all. Several of the other townsfolk have passing resemblance to characters from Twin Peaks. Thomas is Andrew the Sheriff's deputy. Quint is Bobby with elements of James. Becky is Donna. Forrest Kaysen is directly imported from a previous Swery game Spy Fiction. There though, he was a scientist based off of Dennis Nedry in Jurassic Park. Eye Scream: The American box art depicts such a picture. The Faceless: York's father's face is always shrouded in shadow from the nose up despite the rest of the room being adequately lit. Fast Forward Mechanic: York can smoke cigarettes to make time pass more quickly. Also, any bed will allow him to sleep for three, six, nine or twelve hours at a time. Fat Bastard: Forrest Kaysen. Fetish Retardant: In-universe: Gina's "sexy dance" while washing York's car leaves a bad taste in his mouth. Fetus Terrible: Despite not being children, Kaysen's Red Trees fit the bill. Five-Bad Band: Big Bad: Forrest Kaysen. The Dragon: The Raincoat Killer. Evil Genius: Thomas MacLaine. The Brute: George Woodman. Dark Chick: Carol MacLaine. Fog of Doom: The purple fog coming from the Red Trees causes anyone who is exposed to it long enough to be driven insane. Foreshadowing: Being based on Twin Peaks, this game is chock full of it. Perhaps the most damning piece of foreshadowing, that is probably the most easily overlooked, are the red raincoats you can find in the police station storage room. York's very first profiling sequence rapidly flashes forward throughout the entire game and contains some images that are quite significant and spoilertastic when you know to look out for them, including shots of both Becky and Diane's deaths, Zach's dead mother with the sprout growing out of her belly, and the scene where Emily is united with the other victims. Also, if you look closely, you'll notice that George's scar gradually becomes more open and featured with each murder. The foreshadowing begins in the very first chapter, in the very first room, where you have to examine a number items to proceed. All of them are appear irrelevant... until you begin the final boss fight and recall that one was a doll of a fat man. "The excessive loss of blood from her internal organs is what actually killed her.", as the camera pans onto a squirming Emily... George has a Red Tree in his front yard. Once you realize it is there, it sticks out like a sore thumb. His license plate is also a giveaway, and during one scene, the camera actually focuses on it for a second. His house is also the only one in Greenvale you can't peek into. "F... K... In the coffee!" Just after meeting Diane, York tells Zach that she will likely lead him to the killer. He then looks up and sees Kaysen in her office. During one of the "coffee fortune" scenes, York tells Zach that a colleague of his once had his hair turn completely white from stress. The colleague is in fact Zach himself. While incredibly funny at first, George's logic about going to Velvet Falls to find lost files that are important to the case, saying that if they don't find them, they'll become more powerful, becomes more meaningful near the endgame. George has a very big obsession with "power", due to his mother beating him with branches when he was younger. Former Teen Rebel: Emily is surprised to learn that York was a bit of a punk rocker in his youth. For the Evulz: Kaysen was already immortal and had no real need for any of the murders, and it is very clear that he torments the citizens of Greenvale and plants the Red Trees in women all over the United States purely for his own amusement. He's just that much of an utter bastard. Freudian Excuse: George, George, George, George, George, George and George. Full-Name Basis: Michael Tillotson seems to insist on referring to York as "Mr. Francis York Morgan". Garden of Evil: The 'Red World' that York occasionally visits is covered is strange red vines. In some cases, Greenvale itself is a Garden of Evil in the making, thanks to the Red Seeds scattered about that can drive the entire town insane. Genre Busting: One of the reasons this game isn't Trope Overdosed despite its popularity is the fact that it's so difficult to completely classify in a few words. Giant Evil Doberman From Nowhere: Appears to rise from the ground whenever York is exploring the town late at night. Girly Run: Thomas. Glasgow Grin: The enemies in the nightmare world sport them. Glowing Eyes of Doom/Red Eyes, Take Warning: The Raincoat Killer. A God Am I: George committed the murders hoping to become immortal. Godiva Hair: On Anna's corpse. From what few flashbacks we see, she wore her hair that way normally even when she did have clothes. Going Through the Motions: George's compulsion for throwing his hands out in exasperation can seem threatening after a while. Emily's ability to pose with her hands on her hips even while sitting down is almost frightening. York sticks his finger up in the air and taps his tie so often that if a drinking game were to be based around them, you'd have to make sure to use half-shots. When you talk to some people, they'll shove whatever they were holding into their back pocket, even if it's a large object like a broom or a jug. After talking to you, they'll proceed to remove it from their pocket and continue on with their business. Good Scars, Evil Scars: York has a small scratch under his eye, and an older scar going through his left eyebrow and up his head (mostly all healed now). Zach has a much more heroic (and obvious) one down through his eye. George's back is riddled with them, which obscures the ONE tree-shaped back-scar York is looking for. George's facial scar also slowly becomes more pronounced with each murder, something most people don't realize until way after the game is over. Gorn: The town's deceptively friendly atmosphere makes it really shocking when someone dies in such a violent manner. Government Conspiracy: The US military deliberately released the purple fog onto the populace of Greenvale for an unrevealed reason and quickly covered it up, wiping it clean off of any official records. Guns Are Worthless: Averted in that guns are very useful throughout the game, but played somewhat straight in the way a melee weapon will do much more damage than a pistol or machine gun. Hannibal Lecture: George lectures York on power before his boss fight. Hate Plague: Caused by the purple gas. Hell Hound: Those giant rottweilers that appear if you stay out too late. Willie is also this by Word of God, being Kaysen's "handler". Historical Villain Upgrade: The original "Raincoat Killer". Hope Spot: When Becky is found in her house all strung up. She's alive, but soon dies due to the trap being set off. When York dives off the balcony to save Diane. She's saved from being impaled on a pointy sculpture. Five minutes later, that same sculpture falls on top of her. Humanoid Abomination: Judging by his dialogue and mutations, either Forrest Kaysen was never human to begin with and just spreads violence and chaos For the Evulz, or he's been alive for a very, very long time, to the point where he no longer sees himself as human and just spreads violence and chaos For the Evulz. If you attempt to kill him at the wrong time, he will mention that he was "always more than human", and is "A messenger from the Red World." Hypercompetent Sidekick: Harry isn't stupid by any means, but damn, Michael can do everything! He also frequently displays an enourmous amount of knowledge about Greenvale's past and current events, even when Harry isn't feeding him information. This makes a lot more sense though, after he reveals that he's Harry's adopted son during his sidequest. Idiot Ball: York near the very end, completely failing to notice the most obvious hints in the game that point to Kaysen's guilt as well as the "peace sign" being a tree. Possibly justified by the fact that Zach's mental block concerning Kaysen probably doesn't allow for clear thinking when he's involved. I Have You Now, My Pretty: Kaysen with Emily. He actually goes all the way. Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Thomas's gruesome death scene. In the head, even! Improbable Weapon: Some of the melee weapons York can wield include a wrench, a weed whacker and Keith's guitar. And it turns out that Keith's guitar is one of the best weapons, if not the best, in the game. In-Universe Game Clock: Time progresses at nearly a real-time rate (25 seconds to every minute). It fast-forwards if you smoke cigarettes or sleep, though doing so will cause your hunger meter to decrease greatly. Infinite Flashlight: Without the flashlight, even! Innocent Inaccurate: The Ingram twins, not quite grasping the concept of death, believe that Anna has become a goddess of the woods. Subverted in that the victims have in fact become "goddesses of the forest", as the twins can see them in the forest (along with York) during the epilogue. Insistent Terminology: The men of the Morgan family seem to identify mainly by their middle name, since not only is York rarely called Francis, his father Brian Xander Morgan is mostly known as Xander (and even calls his son by his middle name). Insufferable Genius: York isn't shy about letting rural cops George and Emily know he's a much better detective than them. He lightens up on it a little later on though. Insurmountable Waist High Fence: Played straighter than straight. You can't stray off of clearly marked paths in forest areas, even with a car. For that matter, a lot of chain-link fences are surprisingly sturdy and won't budge even if you slam your car into them. And let's not forget the part where you have to fight your way through a building in order to get to the other side of some couches. Interesting Situation Duel: Emily gunfights Thomas in the town bell-tower, whilst he uses a revolver. Things stop sounding normal from there as he's wearing a dress, on a clock wheel, and using a hook as his second means of harming Emily. Jack the Ripoff: The new Raincoat Killer is nothing like the original Raincoat Killer. Just for Pun: The first victim is Anna Graham. The last victim gets soiled. Lady in Red: Anna, the first victim, Carol in her singer getup and the rest of the victims. Large Ham: George and Kaysen, preceding their boss fights. Lethal Chef: Attempting to describe Emily's cooking, York at one point starts describing a mission which had him going down into the sewer, and inspecting the trash compactor in Emily's kitchen leads him to comment on whether or not that constitutes illegal dumping of hazardous waste. Thomas refers to Emily's attempts as "amazon cooking". Peeking in Emily's house, the charred stovetop really says it all. Subverted with the turkey, cereal, and strawberry jam "Sinner's Sandwich": York initially thinks it's supposed to be awful so as to be a form of penance for the eater's past sins, but after he tries one, he finds it to be so delicious that he immediately changes his order to it. Truth in Television too, if you use a cereal like Cheerios, that sandwich is actually really good. Thomas is easily one of the better chefs in the game, but when me messes up, he messes up HARD. No, seriously, who mistakes peanut butter for mustard? The General apparently knew one of these guys during his tour in Vietnam. The guy's cooking was supposedly so bad it almost decimated the entire platoon, nearly making him a LITERAL Lethal Chef. Let's Play: Two done in Giant Bomb's Endurance Runs running concurrent to each other, an abandoned one from The Spoony Experiment, and one by Something Awful member Supergreatfriend. Limited Wardrobe: Nearly all the NPCs wear only one outfit for the entire game regardless of time, location or weather; the ones that do have different outfits change them only for plot reasons (Emily changing into a slinky black dress for dinner, the "goddesses of the forest" changing into red dresses, etc...). Averted with York, as you can have him wear any of a number of suits and have it reflected in the cutscenes. Played straight with Zach, who cannot change suits. Locked Into Strangeness: Young Zach's hair turns white after witnessing his mother's brutal death and his father's suicide, then getting scarred by Kaysen. Loves My Alter Ego: Emily eventually falls for York who is revealed to be Zach's Split Personality. Make My Monster Grow: No spoileriffic description here. You just have to see it to believe it for yourself. Man in White: Michael Tillotson. Also Mr. Stewart in York's dreams. Meaningful Echo: General Lysander, who runs the junkyard, keeps going on and on about the importance of speed and having a fast car. Harry Stewart, the only other person the same age as him in town, keeps saying that haste makes waste. "Some people think speed is the only thing that matters. They rely on speed, and are satisfied with what speed brings, but they miss sight of the important details." Meaningful Name: George Woodman. This also counts for the original Raincoat Killer a.k.a. Harry Woodman's father. And then there's Forrest Kaysen who goes around selling saplings. Mercy Kill: Zach's mother begged his father to kill her before the sapling planted in her sprouted. At the endgame Emily begs York (now Zach) to do the same. The original Raincoat Killer killings may be considered mercy kills as well. Mind Screw: How much of the action sequences were actually real? Were the enemies civilians who had been caught in the rain, ghosts of the original victims, or figments of York's imagination? Why could Emily see them? How much of Harry's story was true? Was the military really responsible, or was Kaysen acting alone? Why was Kaysen in the military at all? Did the final boss fight even happen? Why does everyone intuitively know to call you Zach after The Reveal? Does that mean that you only thought you were calling yourself York? Why can Isaach and Isaiah see dead people? Why were they in the Red Room? What was the Red Room? Why did Kaysen know about it? What did he mean when he said that he was from the "Red World"? And to a lesser extent, SWERY's graphic on his director's blog that points out that Greenvale's borders are the outline of a dog... specifically, Willie. Mismatched Eyes: Zach's scarred left eye is hazel, and his good right eye is blue. Mobile Maze: Harry Stewart lives in one. The entrance room rotates when Michael taps some keys on the piano, and the door behind him leads to a different place each time. Money for Nothing: You get pocket change for a ridiculous number of actions. Shaving, changing your suit regularly, driving at top speed for as long as you can, checking the weather, and so on. You'll likely get most of your money from defeating enemies, but it's still amusing to get paid to go about your daily routine. Mood Whiplash: Every few minutes. You'd best wear a bracer when playing this game. "Hahaha--WHAT THE?!" sums it up. Mummies At the Dinner Table: George keeps his abusive, dead mother in the basement just like a certain motel owner. Necro Cam: Starts off terribly blurry. Finding more clues allows York to get a "clearer picture" of what really happened. Nerves of Steel: York most definitely has these. Milder situations include waking up from what seems, by all accounts, to be a standard Catapult Nightmare with nothing more than a small sigh and staring down crowds of monsters with a wry grin. Truly amazing examples include chatting idly with Zach when he is captured by Thomas after he knocks him out, and shrugging off the penultimate boss's Freudian Excuse with a few well-placed wisecracks. Which, being Zach's alter ego created to protect him from harm, makes perfect sense. Never One Murder: Anna's murder is the only murder to happen for the first third of the game. Then you get more victims. New Game+: You can replay any completed chapter with all your current inventory items intact. Considering certain sidequest givers die at certain points in the game, this kind of backtracking is vital. Nightmare Face: The Shadows of course have their vile grins (which are the only things vaguely frightening about them), but the real show stealer is York with the hilariously terrifying wide grin he pulls at bizarre moments. Nonstandard Game Over: If you decide to have Zach kill himself or shoot Forrest Kaysen rather than (attempt) to Mercy Kill a begging Emily, you're treated to York telling you that you made the wrong choice with a shriveled up Emily with parts of the Red Tree that Kaysen planted sticking out from her. Notice This: Deadly Premonition leans more heavily upon this than most modern games: any object that can be interacted with has a huge glowing pool of light in front of it, whether it's a switch or an item to be collected. About the only thing that doesn't glow are doors (though plot-relevant doors will have a red pool of light in front of them). Not Using the Zed Word: The zombie-ghost enemies aren't given a proper name. York simply refers to them as "Them", though some of the profiling photos of them call them "Shadows". This might just be because most characters never acknowledge the creatures' existence, let alone discuss them. George uses the zed word near the climax to refer to something not unlike the zombie-ghosts. Obfuscating Stupidity: George kills Becky and Diane right in front of you, and to everybody, it looks like he's just a tragically inept klutz. Kaysen. Full stop. Older Than They Look: Anna Graham recently graduated high school making her around 18, but looks closer to 35. Ominous Latin Chanting: The music for Kaysen's final form. One-Winged Angel: Both George and Kaysen take on freakish mutated forms for their boss fights. Only Sane Man: Emily considers herself this. She's the only main character, besides York, who didn't grow up in Greenvale, so she doesn't seem to have any of the other townfolk's eccentricities. Optional Traffic Laws: While you can get penalized for mowing down too many lampposts or driving too close to any townsfolk on foot, it barely dents your wallet. That said, the only non-monetary penalty for hitting other drivers is that your vehicle gets damaged. Orifice Invasion: Some of the enemies like to shove their hands down York's mouth. Given the chance, these enemies will shove their entire bodies down York's mouth, which will definitely kill him. Parental Abandonment: A recurrent theme throughout the game. Phony Veteran: York makes out Lysander to be one of these, noting that the old man wears a sergeant's uniform despite calling himself The General. Inverted, as it turns out that Lysander actually was promoted to general but out of guilt during the Vietnam War continues to think of himself as a sergeant. Photo Psychic: Played straight with York's profiling. Posthumous Character: Anna, the victim whose death kicks off all the ruckus. Press X to Not Die: Used whenever running from the Raincoat Killer or during a boss fight. The Profiler: This is York's entire schtick. His sole method of investigation is to find a few items of evidence and use them to concoct a scenario. Quirky Town: Part of what causes the Mood Whiplash is how goofy some of the folks are in town. Railroading: While you have a generally lax schedule (see Take Your Time below) for much of the game, there are points where you immediately have to go to a target, usually by car, which won't allow you to get out of them, and even give you unlimited gas and make your car completely invulnerable, almost as if they wanted to make sure you don't try anything funny. After discovering Thomas is likely a criminal, the game becomes much more linear, with red vines stopping you from fully exploring. Rain of Blood: A cutscene halfway through the game in the Red World has an aged tree crack apart and shower the camera with blood. Red Herring: During the very beginning of the game, York casually mentions being scratched by a hysterical woman. This is to cause you to assume that the townsfolk are simply spreading rumors over the little mark on your cheek, when in fact they're talking about the much more dramatic scar sported by Zach. At one point, Michael blocks you from getting to Harry while doing the Raincoat Killer's trademark finger-wag, while the killer's theme plays. It has no relevance whatsoever. Another big one would be The General. He asks you to visit him so he can tell you about the story of the Raincoat Killer, and he's one of the few people in town who's old enough to have been around during the incident. In fact, being a solider, he was likely standing on that clock tower gassing the town with the others. Instead, when you get to him, he just tells you war stories from 'nam. Respawning Enemies: A few missions have sections where one or two enemies respawn endlessly until you complete some task or just leave the area. Ranges from frustrating to just puzzling (with the exception of the very first mission, which turns it into That One Level due to the amount of frustration it introduces to someone unfamiliar with the rest of the game). Rhymes on a Dime: Michael Tillotson often speaks this way. Why he does this, who's to say? So says Mr. Stewart. He'll stop rhyming when York does something incredibly shocking like, oh, reading Michael's diary and then fessing up to it. Room Full of Crazy: George's basement, complete with a Stalker Shrine dedicated to Emily. And what's in the room next door to top the icing on the cake? Running Gag: Emily's cooking and York's bizarre smoking habits, among others. Screw the Rules, I Have Money: Harry. Sequel Hook: Considering the fact that Willie (who is from the Red World) is still around, and the fact there's more than just one town with red trees. Swery has also confirmed he's making a sequel. Don't forget that Swery said that there are "other agents of the Red Tree" like Kaysen.... She Cleans Up Nicely: Emily, who is apparently already a goddess of the Forest. Shout-Out: York name-drops many old movies and bands during his car rides with Zach. The whole game is a big one to Twin Peaks. Psycho gets a good one when York finds George's dead mother in the basement. Shown Their Work: The monkeys-for-squirrels sound effect mentioned above notwithstanding, this game does get a lot of visual details for Smalltown, USA right. One of the post-game bonuses is looking at all the photographs the developers took of rural US areas to get the right appearance for diners, streets, people and so on. York is a secondary personality created to protect Zach from psychological harm during a childhood incident. This is, in fact, one of the only reasons split personalities are developed in Real Life. While that is true, it goes back into Did Not Do the Research, as people with DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) cannot communicate directly with their other personalities, but this is the entire premise between Zach and York. Shut UP, Hannibal: Done numerous times by York in the following end game sequences preceding major boss battles. Single Tear: Zach drops one near the ending. Smoking Is Cool: And it makes time fly! York's chain-smoking is a Running Gag, and characters around him cough in annoyance the first time he does it. On the other hand, Zach doesn't smoke. Soundtrack Dissonance: Serial killers? Gruesome murders? Time for wacky whistling! During the flashback sequence where you play as the original Raincoat Killer, the song that plays during the scene of utter madness and carnage is Amazing Grace. While it doesn't fit the mood, it does actually fit the intent of the character (see What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic in the YMMV section). It then changes to "The Woods and the Goddess", which usually plays during tranquil scenes. Split Personality: York, which is to say that he's Zach's. Unlike most Split Personalities in fiction, this one actually was developed for reasons that are tenable in psychology: taking on another identity to spare yourself from trauma. Sprint Meter: Used for exhaustion, holding your breath and blaring a police siren(?!). It also rises when you're looking in people's windows. Its so slow, however, that most people aren't aware of it. Stalker Shrine: George has an Emily one in his basement. Stalker with a Crush: George is a little bit too obsessed with Emily. Stripperiffic: Gina's outfit. Supreme Chef: Thomas, whose biscuits are considered absolutely amazing. They're also the best healing/restorative item in the game, hands down. York is very particular about his biscuits, he'll have you know. Nick Cormack. According to Emily, he's the real deal and no visit to Greenvale is complete without a visit to the A & G Diner Take Your Time: Play darts, go fishing, stare into coffee and do whatever. Just remember to get back to the investigation at some point. Amusingly though, if you're driving with the local law enforcement, they expect you to go straight to the next plot point, and if you fail to do so, they give York a severe tongue-lashing while York basically shrugs and says "I had stuff to do." You have the ability to sleep in some of the dungeons in the game, which is a cost-effective way of restoring your health, and you'll usually see an infinite supply of lolipops nearby to keep yourself from going hungry. Time is meaningless in the Dark World, however, as you can see from your clock and the "clean time" on your suits. For people who aren't in the Dark World, it probably appears that York is just gone for a few minutes. There Is No Kill Like Overkill Through the Eyes of Madness: One possible explanation for York's travels through the nightmare world. Also applies to the townsfolk of the past and the original Raincoat Killer who, affected by the purple fog, most likely saw each other as horrible monsters and were driven to slaughter. After the reveal that York is Zach's split personality and not the other way around, the townsfolk all call him Zach, as if it had always been that way. Not to mention the constant references to a very large scar, which York doesn't have, but Zack does. Together in Death: York and Emily. Tomato in the Mirror: York's the alter persona of Zach, not the other way around. Too Clever by Half: York. It doesn't win him any points. Too Much Information: Emily asks York about older cases he's worked on. He gladly details a particular case in which a serial killer finds... practical uses for human skulls. Great dinner conversation! Town with a Dark Secret: In the past, Greenvale was the site for government experiments that drove the townsfolk into murderous frenzies. Trailers Always Spoil: The trailer for the U.S. release flashes the identities of several victims as well as the endgame bosses and Big Bad. Twist Ending: York is the imaginary friend. You've been playing as Agent Francis Zach Morgan. To be precise, you were playing as York. York simply happens to not have been the original personality. Unflinching Walk: Zach turns around and walks away as the monstrous Kaysen explodes into chunky meaty gibs. Unreliable Narrator: Near the end of the game, you discover that not only has he been introducing himself as Francis Zach Morgan all this time, but he doesn't look like we thought he did. This explains why the townsfolk think Zach's scar is a big deal, when York seems to have only a few small cuts. Unwilling Suspension: Becky in her own bathroom above the shower. Diane in the Muses Gallery above a very pointy sculpture. Useless Useful Stealth: York can hold his breath to temporarily become invisible to the enemies. This slows his walking speed and makes his stamina meter run out, and there's not a lot of situations that call for stealth in the first place, so you will most likely forget about this option after it's introduced. Vanity License Plate: All of the named townsfolk have these on their vehicles. Video Game Cruelty Potential: You can attack, or at most threaten the civilians of Greenvale, with violence. Villain Episode: Near the end of Chapter 6, you get to play as the original Raincoat Killer, axe and all. Villainous Breakdown: George and Kaysen, both in awe that a mere human was able to bring them down. Villainous Crossdresser: Thomas. Partially subverted in that Thomas is no more a villain than any of the other women in A-D, and is explicitly classed with them at several points in the story. Virtual Paper Doll: York can change suits at any time; however, the longer he continues to wear a suit, the dirtier it becomes to the point of attracting flies. The Voiceless: Mr. Stewart speaks only through his aide Michael Tillotson. Later on, he'll decide to drop it and speak directly to York himself. Vomiting Cop: Thomas barfs in the toilet after Becky is found out to be dead. When the results screen comes up, a still shot of it is shown. Warp Whistle: The radio obtained from one of the quests which lets York travel to any previously visited locations Wasted Song: "Pillow Stain", which was in the original "Rainy Woods" trailer, can be heard nowhere else in the game but Thomas's apartment and in the Sound Test. We Could Have Avoided All This: During the epilogue, Harry muses that he could have prevented the murders if he had had the will to stop his psychotic wife from abusing George. Wham! Episode: Chapter 6 in general, but Chapter 25 especially. Wham! Line: "When the time comes and you have to make that decision, make the right one. OK, Zach?" It's even printed in giant letters that are about five times larger than the rest of the dialogue in the entire game. What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?: York's reaction to trying out the "Sinner's Sandwich". Wide Open Sandbox Widget Series Wild Wilderness: The outskirts of town near the railroad tracks, the two large empty forest trails, and the random location of the town it's self count. Retrieved from "https://allthetropes.org/w/index.php?title=Deadly_Premonition&oldid=1685008" Horror Video Games Describe Topic Here	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line906
__label__cc	0.661671	0.338329	Amber Reads a Book Reviews of books I'm reading; current, classic, and in-between Waiting for Tom Hanks The Book of Dreams The Winters When Katie Met Casside The Pisces A Little Blog of Boo… on Summer House With Swimming… amberreadsitall on Afterworlds P. S. Hoffman on Afterworlds RawMultimedia on The Secret Place Lauren Henderson on The Monuments Men Review #44: Fiction First to Read #3 The Winters by Lisa Gabriele For the most part, this is a highly enjoyable book. It is equal parts romance, thriller, and suspense, though falls short by having small sparks of each, but never going fully in on any one of these. The story we’re following is of a young woman (we never get her name, which becomes more and more annoying as it’s specifically mentioned several times throughout that she is either happy or irritated when people pronounce it correctly or incorrectly) who meets a widower in the Cayman Islands while working for a tourist boat company. They have a very quick romance – so quick that it never really feels believable. Their relationship is very one-dimensional and a lot of the plot relies on the believability of their relationship. This lack of chemistry between the two characters (Max Winter and our unnamed protagonist) weakens the book. Max spirits her away to be married and the new head of his extravagant home – Asherley – on Long Island, and to be a stepmother to his teenage daughter, Dani. Dani is the spitting image of her deceased mother, and behaves toward our protagonist as we would expect a teenager to receive a new mother less than two years after her passing. Though, unchecked, Dani begins to go above and beyond normal rebellious behavior, and soon becomes someone to be feared. The protagonist (I am also annoyed by having to write ‘protagonist’ rather than a character’s name; it was a weird and bad choice by author and editor to move forward with an unnamed protag) gets closer and closer to Max, thinks she’s making strides with Dani, but time and again finds herself on the receiving end of cruel jokes. As these pranks unfold, Dani becomes more unstable, Max becomes more exasperated, the protagonist begins to learn more and more about the secrets Asherley keeps, the truth behind the death of the first Mrs. Winter, and whether or not she’ll meet the same fate. To get the thriller elements, Gabriele gives us a lot of unsettling moments, creates a truly scary character in Dani, and keeps us asking questions nearly throughout. She uses a lot of misdirection, and red herrings to try to turn the reader’s attention away from putting the pieces together. Unfortunately, this doesn’t work well enough, and before the protagonist figures it all out, most readers will have already deduced the final twist. This leaves around 30 pages of the book where readers will be left waiting for her to catch up. In the end, there’s not much to be surprised by, and some ill-advised elements (the protagonist’s lack of name, the random addition of a grandmother in Cuba the protagonist doesn’t mention until the very end of the book, the lack of believable romance) weaken what could be a chilling story about family secrets. Dani is the best written character in the book, and definitely moves the story along in ways the protagonist just can’t when she’s not even given a name, is very loosely fleshed out, and finds herself embroiled in this family soap opera based on a foundation-less romance. My rating: 3 out of 5 stars I received access to an e-copy of this book for this review. Tags Book review, Books, dark, domestic fiction, domestic life, ebook, Family, family secrets, Fiction, First to Read, gothic, Haunting, Lies, Lisa Gabriele, Literature, Marriage, misdirection, Mystery, Politics, psychological thriller, red herring, Relationships, retelling, Romance, secrets, stepmother, Suspense, The Winters, Thriller, Travel, twist, unsettling, Violence, Women's Fiction	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line909
__label__cc	0.567366	0.432634	Anime picture touhou №114788 セルゲイ Date Upload: 4/2/11, 8:26 PM Date Published: 4/3/11, 9:40 PM Downloads: 261 Smoothness Degree: 112.5885 Chaoran , Алиса , lilynette1050 , Esther , Yolo yuura: https://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=425878 http://yura82pb.tumblr.com/ https://twitter.com/82yura touhou: The Touhou Project (東方Project Tōhō Purojekuto), also known as Toho Project or Project Shrine Maiden, is a series focused on bullet hell shooters made by the one-man developer Team Shanghai Alice, whose sole member, known as ZUN, is responsible for all the graphics, music, and programming for the most part. The Touhou Project began in 1996 with the release of the first game, Highly Responsive to Prayers, developed by the group Amusement Makers for the Japanese NEC PC-9801 series of computers. The next four Touhou games released between August 1997 and December 1998 also were released on the NEC PC-9801. The Touhou Project was inactive for the next three and half years until the first Microsoft Windows Touhou game, The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, was released in August 2002 solely by ZUN after he split from Amusement Makers and started Team Shanghai Alice. Touhou Project became a media franchise spanning a steadily increasing number of official games, in addition to commercial fan books, light novels, and manga. Images depicting only one character. No one else should be visible in the picture. game copyright touhou 38K kagiyama hina 570 yuura 22 single 303K simple background 92K green eyes 54K green hair 20K magic 5K bow 53K ribbon (ribbons) 45K hair bow 36K boots 18K water drop 2K splashes 1K Generated in 0.011986970901489258sec.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line913
__label__cc	0.571131	0.428869	Sailor Moon Crystal S3, Episode 8: Shit Hits the Fan sailor shitpost Filed to: sailor moon crystalFiled to: sailor moon crystal sailor moon crystal season 3 I’ve been hyped for this episode since the season started, because it’s so dense with revelations, plot twists and general craziness. I was not disappointed! Well, except for one small thing. The episode starts right where the last one left off, with Chibimoon and Tuxedo Mask rendered speechless by the Holy Grail suddenly appearing in Sailor Moon’s hands. Even though the last episode ended on this cliffhanger, they felt the need to replay almost one and a half minutes of the last episode to start this one. But, hey... I don’t mind occasional reuse of animation if it helps the team keep up the quality for the rest of it. Anyway, as Sailor Moon holds the newly-appeared Holy Grail, a pulse gets sent out from it and dispels the mind control afflicting the rest of the Senshi. They all immediately halt (aww... the fight was over too quickly) and return to the ground to watch her in wonderment. Suddenly, the Talismans start to react to Sailor Moon, and sensing that Sailor Moon was calling out for her comrades’ cooperation, both the Outers and Inners lend their power to her. This fills the Holy Grail and Sailor Moon uses it to transform into Super Sailor Moon, complete with a flurry of rainbows, hearts and butterflies. Fuck yes, it’s the girliest thing ever and I LOVE IT. After everyone gawks, Chibimoon flashes back to her father bragging about how invincible Sailor Moon is (although the show gets Neo Queen Serenity’s hair color wrong...) and the villains realize they’re in trouble. This rendition of the Super Sailor Moon costume is pretty good. There are no major deviations, and I’m happy to see that the tie-dyed effect on the skirt was kept from the manga, instead of going with the simplified stripes that the 90's anime opted for. Super Sailor Moon in the 90's anime, manga, and Crystal I would’ve liked the gradient effect of her sailor collar to have made it in too, but maybe that would have been too hard to animate. Either way, can’t complain - this is definitely the objectively best-looking form of Sailor Moon, so it would be hard to screw it up. Meanwhile, Hotaru is still in her bedroom holding her head, trying to keep something from “coming out.” Pharaoh 90, the disembodied voice who’s been giving orders to Kaolinite and Prof. Tomoe, wonders what Sailor Moon’s incredible power could be - it’s now many times more powerful than the Death Busters’ Taioron Crystal. Suddenly, in her room, Hotaru raises her head and tells Pharaoh 90 that it’s the Legendary Silver Crystal. The evil face and creepy laugh is definitely not Hotaru’s. Back at Mugen, Sailor Moon summons her rod with newfound confidence and blows Cyprine and Ptilol away with a powered-up Rainbow Moon Heartache. Kaolinite is pissed that the last of her servants have been defeated, thus stomping on her plans to become the master’s partner. But Creepy Hotaru is listening through her amulet and giggles maliciously at her frustration... before suddenly snapping out of it and collapsing. Whoa, what’s going on with Hotaru? With the crisis averted, the Senshi start to recover from what just happened. Sailor Moon realizes that this new power wasn’t something she’d been carrying around with her this whole time, but was created from the power lended to her from the others: Super Sailor Moon is a symbol of the unity of the Sailor Senshi and requires their cooperation. The Outer Senshi are particularly shocked to see this happen, as their Talismans have never resonated and responded in this manner before. In light of this development, the Outer Senshi take the Inners back to Uranus’ apartment (by which I mean, they fly there) to have an important talk. But not before squeezing in a laugh about how rich Michiru and Haruka are. Because they have benefactors and sponsors from racing and violin, they can afford the Mugen apartments, which run Haruka a million yen per month. I don’t know why she’s sweating glass and furniture repairs when she has that kind of money - it’d surely be a fraction of that, wouldn’t it? Anyway, they’ve brought them here to start to explain what their deal really is. You see, the only other time they’e seen the Talismans resonate was long ago... during the Silver Millennium. Yep, the Outers were around back when there was still a kingdom on the moon, and Usagi was Princess Serenity, and Mamoru was Endymion. Because the Outers have rigid roles and jurisdictions to adhere to, they could do nothing during Queen Metallia’s takeover of Earth and attack on the moon. They protect the solar system from outside threats, and the Dark Kingdom developed on Earth itself. But as they watched Earth fall, the Talismans started to resonate, and the final Sailor Senshi was summoned from the taboo planet, Saturn. When the Outers saw Saturn, the Senshi of Ruin, appear, they knew the end of everything had arrived. Sailor Saturn swung her Silence Glaive and reset the world, ending the destruction happening on Earth. That’s right - while the Dark Kingdom technically caused the fall of the Silver Millennium way back in season 1, it was Sailor Saturn who actually destroyed everything and sent everyone to be reborn on Earth. She’s the oh shit button. The nuclear option. The last resort you turn to when all hope is lost. Herein lies the problem: the true purpose of the Three Talismans is to summon Sailor Saturn, as a last-ditch effort in situations that have become hopeless. The Outers are protectors of Saturn’s “keys.” So, for Uranus, Neptune and Pluto to be reborn on Earth together and for their Talismans to be drawing together - it’s a really, really bad sign. It means that Sailor Saturn is on her way, and that everything is going to be destroyed again for the sake of rebirth. And just to make everything worse, guess who the reborn Sailor Saturn is? Yep. Hotaru. Which brings us to the kicker here: the Outers’ mission is to prevent Sailor Saturn from awakening. To them, that means they have to kill Hotaru. Of course, this immediately elicits objections from the Inners, but it’s more common sense than you might think. Basically, Hotaru is doomed. Those weird muscle-like fibers and wires Chibiusa saw all over Hotaru’s arms are part of her artificial, cyborg body that her father has been forcing on her ever since the enormous fire that claimed her mother’s life. Her body is fragile and falling apart, and it can’t hold out much longer. The only way to save her is to allow her to awaken as Sailor Saturn - but to allow that would be to allow the destruction of the world. Either Hotaru dies, or everyone else dies. So really, because Hotaru is so close to death anyway, killing her makes an unfortunate amount of sense. Nevertheless, Sailor Moon flatly rejects this plan. Maybe Saturn won’t awaken! They don’t know that she will show up yet! And there has to be a way to save everyone without anyone having to be sacrificed! But the Outers look disappointed to hear her say such a thing. They knew she’d be against it - which is why they’ve been keeping to themselves and insisting that they’ll take care of the problem on their own. That’s why they’ve been insisting that they can’t be friends. Neptune in particular looks sad to have to say all this, but the Outers aren’t interested in re-evaluating the situation. They swiftly hop out of the building and fly away, ignoring Sailor Moon’s pleading. Chibimoon can’t comprehend the possibility of her dear friend needing to die. She can’t forget how soulful and lonely she always looked, the girlish promises they made to each other, or the gifted clay chalice. Upset, she suddenly storms out of the room and rushes to Mugen Lab, intent on apologizing to Hotaru and supporting her. The Outer Senshi are already there, but for some reason, they don’t stop Chibimoon as she makes her way around to Hotaru’s room. Of course, when she gets there, it isn’t Hotaru waiting for her. The girl jerks upwards, blows the glass out of her room’s sliding doors, and Hotaru’s hair suddenly grows impossibly long and a Death Busters star appears on her forehead. Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask show up in time to attempt to save Chibimoon, but it’s too late - bizarro-Hotaru has grabbed her with her long hair, grabbed her transformation brooch on her chest, and ripped it away. Who is this long-haired version of Hotaru? Could it be Saturn, Sailor Moon wonders? No, it can’t be - the Talismans haven’t done anything, and Saturn can only be summoned with the Talismans. Rather, this is Mistress 9, one of the Tau System aliens who had been trying to vesselize Hotaru’s body for a very, very long time. As the Senshi look on, lost and confused, they realize that Chibiusa isn’t breathing. And so, we end on yet another cliffhanger, with Hotaru lost to Mistress 9, Chibiusa rendered dead by the theft of her Silver Crystal, and the Senshi at odds all over again. I LOVED this episode. In the span of 25 minutes, the stakes are raised higher than ever before. The Outer Senshi bring an entirely new dynamic to the show because they don’t adhere to the magical girl solidarity that has been its whole premise up to this point. They have their own duties, methods and entitlements. They introduce the idea that Sailor Senshi aren’t necessarily good, they’re not all some embodiment of friendship and hope. Sailor Saturn is the best and most severe example of that. And yet, Super Sailor Moon was born from the inner desire for everyone to work together and be friends. These two concepts are going to be battling it out now, for the whole rest of the reason. I only have one complaint. For some reason, the script writer removed what I feel is an essential conversation that happens in the manga. from missdream.org Here’s one of the problems with the Sailor Moon manga, and the series in general: it went too far too soon. In the second season of the show, we see the future, where Usagi has become Neo Queen Serenity, all of the Senshi are alive and happy, and the world is at peace. For the rest of the series, we already know everything is going to turn out perfectly fine. We already know they’re going to prevail against whatever they face, because if they didn’t, that future would not have existed in season 2. The 90's anime never addresses this fact, letting it pile up with the other terrible narrative choices it makes as it successfully distracts you with excellent character-focused writing. But the manga, infinitely better written from an overall story perspective, DOES address this - in that page right up there. Pluto explains that, yeah, this isn’t supposed to be happening. Something has gone wrong with the timeline; fate has for some reason pushed everyone in a different direction. And she doesn’t know why. Just look at the shame on her face as she has to say that. She’s supposed to be the Guardian of Time, but she can’t come up with an answer for why this is happening or how to stop or fix it. This conversation was excised from the Crystal adaption, and all we get is an unsatisfying line from Pluto that the future happens despite what’s going on. That’s a totally pointless line to include, because by removing the rest of what she says, it only underscores how this doesn’t make any sense in the context of what we know about the series so far. If only they had taken the time to spare a few extra seconds to let Pluto explain that this is an anomaly and they don’t know why it’s happening. Not only would that acknowledge the contradiction, but it would keep the stakes high AND respect us as an audience who’s capable of putting two and two together here. I’m really disappointed to see this removed from the episode. Maybe they’ll find a way to fit it in somewhere else, but I doubt it. I guess we’ll have to deal with Crystal never addressing the apparent inevitability that everything is going to turn out okay. But, well, maybe that’s a small thing in the grand scheme and I care about the details too much. Either way, this is still a very satisfying and exciting episode, and I can’t wait for next week’s. Join me next time!! You can follow the author on Twitter at @sub_judice. 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__label__wiki	0.816324	0.816324	Pines special meeting ends in handshakes JOSH DAVIS/BAYSIDE GAZETTE Ocean Pines Board members last Friday discuss what to discuss during the first half hour of a special meeting in the administration building. The directors eventually adjourned to a closed session to discuss legal matters, believed to be a pending lawsuit attempting to halt the association election. (July 12, 2018) Doug Parks remains president of the Ocean Pines Association and he apparently apologized during a special meeting Friday to Director Slobodan Trendic for belittling comments made in this paper. The two men quarreled during and after a June 23 regular board meeting over a discussion about the resignation of now former Director Pat Supik. Parks had said Trendic was at least partly to blame for her stepping down. Trendic countered by calling a special meeting to consider Parks’ removal from this leadership post, but backed off Friday and suggested the board instead pivot to a closed-session for legal matters, believed to be the Brett Hill lawsuit that is attempting to block the August election. It took close to half an hour to approve the agenda alone, but the directors came out shaking hands and expressing some level of optimism for the final month before the election. One debate involved whether more consideration needed to be given on whether to replace Supik or simply wait for her replacement to be elected. Trendic said he favored waiting. “This topic was brought up at the last regular meeting,” he said. “At that time, it was decided that it would be pointless to appoint a director, since we only have one regular meeting left [before the election]. So, I’m not sure why this is being brought up.” Director Ted Moroney said board members previously agreed to have a special session on the subject because one director, Tom Herrick, was not present during the previous meeting. “That was the issue. We wanted Director Herrick present,” Parks said. “We wanted to memorialize it formally.” Trendic said Herrick had weighed in, via email, and he agreed “it would pointless to appoint somebody with only six weeks left.” He suggested deferring the officer removal discussion to another time in favor of a pending legal issue, citing “a lawsuit against the association and the board.” “I’m willing to defer that topic [removal of an officer] to a later time and allow the board to dedicate this special meeting exclusively for the reasons related to legal actions … which has a huge impact on our election procedure,” Trendic said. “I think that is what really is most important for the board to be considering. “I just think what’s important for the membership today is the legal issue and it’s the election process, and I think that’s what the board should focus on today,” he added. Following a back-and-forth and several votes to add and remove agenda topics, Moroney wondered if he could ask “a dumb question.” “Are we just going to go ‘round and ‘round the next 30 days on having special meetings to talk about this? Either we talk about it today or, when the new board convenes itself in August, they sit down and have frank discussions about how to operate going forward,” he said. “This thing’s just going to drag out and continue to be ‘he said, she said.’ “There’s not a hell of a lot of time left to talk about it. I say we either talk about these things today, or forget it,” he added. “I just don’t see us going anywhere by continuing to call special meetings.” Trendic agreed. “Really, what the board should do is just let’s put all this aside,” he said. “We’ve got six weeks to go until the election [and] a new board will be in place. And at that time if the board wants to revisit anything related to what transpired, I’m perfectly happy to go along with that.” “I’m in favor of that. Can we operate effectively over the next six weeks and really put it aside?” Parks said. “I know I can.” “I can too,” Trendic said. The directors decided not to pursue appointing another director before the election and then adjourned to the closed session. The meeting was disbanded after briefly opening back up. “When we reconvened in the open session, there was a comment from the president to his fellow directors apologizing for choice of words, insulting a fellow director, and that apology was accepted,” Director Colette Horn said.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line925
__label__cc	0.647049	0.352951	Adventure travel articles for 50 activities in 3000 destinations. Join the club & save £350 ($550 / €450) a year. Welcome to AWE365 your gateway to action sport, outdoor activities and adventure travel discounts and articles. Join the club and save on average £350 / $550 / €450 each year. Navigate by: T&Cs - The boring stuff! AWE365 Club Offer a discount Jet Ski RydeCategories Multi Activity Go back to Isle of Wight 11 best UK family adventures: British activity holidays with kids If you’re looking for the best UK family adventures, then you can find them in every corner of the country. From British activity holidays with kids in Scotland to exhilarating family fun in southern Cornwall. There are countless opportunities across the UK to spend some exciting and quality time together…. Activities: Canyoning, Coasteering, Cycling, Fishing, Hiking, Horse Riding, Jet Ski, Kayaking, Kitesurfing, Mountain Biking, Multi Activity, Paragliding, Rafting, Rock Climbing, Sailing, Scuba Diving, Sea Kayaking, Skiing, Snorkelling, Snowboarding, SUP, Surfing, Trekking, Wakeboarding, Walking, Water Skiing, Windsurfing, Yacht Charterdestinations: Ben Nevis, Bike Park Wales, Brecon Beacons, Brighton & Hove, Buttermere, Coed y Brenin, Colwell Bay, Coniston, Cornwall, Cuckmere Haven, Cumbria, East Sussex, England, Europe, Falmouth, Fort William, Giant’s Causeway, Grasmere, Greater London, Grizedale Forest, Gwithian Beach, Hove Lagoon, Isle of Wight, Keswick, Lake District, Lake Windermere, Lee Valley, Loch Lomond, Lochaber, London, Mount Snowdon, Northern Ireland, Pen y Fan, Pennines, Penrhyn Quarry, Perranporth, Portreath, Portrush, Ryde, Sandown, Scotland, Seven Sisters, Shanklin, Snowdonia, South Downs National Park, Swanpool, United Kingdom, Wales, Whinlatter Forest Exclusively sponsor this Ryde Jet Ski page for a year. Costs start at just £90 (€125 / $140). Pages can only be sponsored once so book your key pages before your competitor does. Promote your Ryde Jet Ski holidays, day trips and courses for free by offering a discount through the AWE365 Club. Promote your company through an article about Ryde Jet Ski holidays, day trips or courses. Costs start at just £50 (€70 / $80) for a permanent article that promotes your services to our 50,000+ monthly visitors. Write for AWE365 Know enough about Ryde Jet Ski to write an article about it? Been on Ryde Jet Ski holidays and want to share your experience? Please get in touch with your ideas. AWE365 Discount Club Join the AWE365 Club & save on average £350 ($550 / €450) a year on Ryde Jet Ski holidays, day trips, courses and much more. Enjoy more adventure travel, outdoor activities and action sports for less cost. Copyright © 2019 AWE365 LTD Like most websites, AWE365.com uses cookies. Our cookies do not record personal data and cannot be used to identify you personally. They're here to make the site work better and allow us to analyse how it's being used. You can delete these cookies if you wish, but some aspects of the site may not work as well without cookies. Find out more about how AWE365 uses Cookies. We also recommend you read our Terms and Conditions; and Privacy Policy. ☒ I understand that cookies are used on AWE365.com	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line930
__label__wiki	0.525713	0.525713	Scroll to Dismiss Bike mechanic looks to help Madison children ride for free Company has prepared more than 400 bicycles for donation, with goal of 500 by April by Vidushi Saxena · Jan 31, 2017 Share Tweet A frustrated University of Wisconsin professor documented her attempt to find parking at Union South in a video she posted online. When it came down to what he really loved, Andy Quant knew his greatest passion was fixing bikes. Now, the Madison bike mechanic is looking to use his passion to help kids around the county get bikes for free. Free Bikes 4 Kidz, or FB4K, which is originally a Minnesota-based company, came to Madison thanks to Quant’s efforts. In 1995, Quant moved from his hometown Lake Mills to Madison to attend the University of Wisconsin. He started to work in local bike shops and continued to volunteer fixing bikes even after getting “a real job.” Quant began The Bike Mobile, which is a bike-repairing business he operates out of his van, in 2016 after deciding his true calling was fixing bikes. “A year ago, I was looking for work and wondering what to do with my life, and I was like, the only thing I really loved doing was fixing bikes,” Quant said. “So I decided to make a living out of it.” New nonprofit encourages Madisonians to advocate for bike-friendly roadsA new local bicycle organization is working to provide an outlet for individuals to speak out when it comes to bicycle-related Read… Late last year the cold weather prevented him from keeping this business alive, so he decided to start working toward establishing FB4K in Madison. The program allows interested people to volunteer based on their skill level. There are three categories: cleaners, preppers and “real bike mechanics.” Cleaners ensure the bikes are clean, preppers use more basic mechanical skills to change tires and attach basic gears and the bike mechanics test for quality control. Quant said response to FB4K has been “great” and attracted attention from several local organizations including the Boys and Girls Club of Dane County. FB4K has been able to partner with these organizations and uses them as a way to find potential bike recipients. There is a special process through which the bikes are allocated to children. In most cases, the local organizations and other community leaders decide who bikes are donated to, Quant said. UW Humorology strikes balance between friendship, fun, philanthropyBen Winding probably did not realize he would be singing and dancing in a philanthropic musical every year when he first enrolled at Read… People can also apply to receive a bike, which helps get other members of the community involved. Quant said any person who knows a group of children can apply to have bikes donated to them. FB4K’s management then reaches out to those people and works out logistics to match them with the perfect bike. The bike drop off portion of the donation process ended Jan. 14. Those bikes are now in “rehab,” or being prepared for giveaway. The giveaway is scheduled for April 8. The organization has acquired 400 bikes in Madison since it began. Quant said he hopes to have 500 bikes ready by the giveaway. Quant said the company’s main focus is to get more students involved. While UW students have yet to get involved, Quant said he wants to engage in more outreach to get them interested. “Even after getting real jobs, I found myself moonlighting to fix bikes,” Quant said. “There’s a lot of work, but there’s not a lot of planning and thinking — it’s just about doing it.” Interested volunteers can visit the FB4K website to figure out the best fit for them, Quant said. This article was published Jan 31, 2017 at 8:00 am and last updated Jan 31, 2017 at 12:09 am Tags: Andy quant, Boys and girls club of dane county, Free bikes 4 kidz, The bike mobile, Volunteering UW doctor sued for sexual exploitation, medical malpractice Maganti, a UW professor, neurologist has been sued by a former patient for medical malpractice and inappropriate behavior Judge rules rape crisis advocate may testify in Cephus trial Advocate counseled one of the victims after alleged assault Wisconsin gerrymandering case thrown out by judges following Supreme Court ruling Whether Wisconsin taxpayers will pay legal fees will be decided later Gov. Tony Evers signs biennial budget, with partial vetoes His budget highlights funding for "What's Best for Kids," higher education, healthy communities	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line934
__label__cc	0.608497	0.391503	Ellijay Wildlife Rehabilitation Sanctuary says ... It’s a girl, boy … ... Ellijay Wildlife Rehabilitation Sanctuary says they have to kill the animals ELLIJAY, Ga. — Most people know Criag Cylke simply as "Grizzly". He's raised abandoned bears and nursed injured predators. Now, he's scared the animals he loves could soon be euthanized. "We're down to the point now, this will probably be our last week, this coming week," Cycle said. The Ellijay Wildlife Rehabilitation Center is the largest in Georgia, and one of just a handful that can handle large animals. The wildlife sanctuary lost its federal funding. Now, private donations have slowed to a trickle. The animals go through two tons of dog food and two tons of meet every month. The non-profit organization is $300,000 in debt. "If we go down, there's not going to be many places for these animals," he said. "In fact, the bears that you see here today, the state will probably have to put down because there's no home for them." It's devastating news to Chris Enfinger. He came for summer camp one year and kept on coming. He's now a volunteer. "Just to see them, after all the time I've spent with them, just to get put down because they can't go anywhere, that would be really sad for me." Dr. Lyn Lewis is a vet at the Appalachian Animal Hospital. They donate about $40,000 in care every year. He says the sanctuary is a safety net for all of Georgia. "The wildlife would suffer," he said. "We already have endangered species in this area. I firmly believe that this sanctuary keeps many of those animals from going extinct in this region." Cykle and his wife haven't taken salaries in three years. They've sold off personal assets to keep these animals fed and keep their doors open. Now, the money is gone. Some of the animals have no where to go. The center is days away from closing. And still, the man called "Grizzly" tenaciously holds on to hope. "We have a hope. And that hope is our Georgia people and our lovely neighbors in the surrounding states. If they just hear the message of what's happening here, then they can make a difference." Click here to help the Ellijay Wildlife Rehabilitation Sanctuary. View Julie's Photo Gallery of the Sanctuary. http://www.11alive.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=119350&provider=email Carole's letter to the reporter: I don't know Craig Cylke, but would be wary of any sanctuary that is breeding animals. The US Fish & Wildlife service specifically states that accredited sanctuaries do NOT breed. As someone who has been involved with saving big cats for the past twenty years, I can assure you that there are no legitimate breeding and release programs for big cats and never will be because there isn't habitat for them to survive and raising and releasing captive born cats isn't possible without tremendous danger to the public. I found this on Cylke's website after reading your article: We at the Wildlife Rehabilitation Sanctuary are working to reestablish the eastern puma in the wild through our captive breeding and release program. At this time, we are working on strengthening the bloodlines of our four eastern pumas and 13 western cougars through selective breeding as deemed necessary. However, our goal of releasing puma offspring to the wild cannot be achieved until funding is raised to create a 5-acre natural habitat in which puma mothers will raise their cubs for two-year periods without direct human contact prior to release. Thanks to a generous donation from the Howard Buffet Foundation, we now have the land needed. The remaining cost for habitat preparation and maintenance is $235,000 I emailed him and told him that if he has to close we may be able to house some of his cats, but none of his cougars could be Eastern panthers, so none of his cats should be bred. There is no good reason to breed cats for lives of confinement and deprivation. The images of the enclosures from your report was heartbreaking. Time and time again I have seen "sanctuaries" plead to the public to send money or they will have to kill the animals. Looking at their 990s online at Guidestar it looks like they have gotten a lot of money in the past (although I have never heard of federal funding for what they do and knowing the particulars on that would be interesting). Unfortunately, it is usually just bad management and the inability to plan properly that causes so many animals to end up in such deplorable situations. The questions I would really like to see exposed are the following: Why is is that "sanctuaries" and those who profess to "love" the big cats are so violently opposed to legislation that would end the private trade in them as pets and collectibles? My goal is that places like Big Cat Rescue no longer need to exist and my path to that goal is by asking for legislation that bans the breeding, sale, trade and collecting of these great cats. As a result, I may be the most hated person in the big cat "industry" and yet most of the people who spend so much time trying to discredit me with their lies and insinuations claim to be in the rescue and sanctuary business. Why isn't ending the abuse the most important goal of those who claim to be saving big cats from abuse? Why are big cats being born in sanctuaries when there isn't enough sanctuary space for all of the unwanted big cats? Why would a sanctuary take a cat from a breeder who isn't going to stop breeding? I don't know if this is the case at Ellijay, but it seems to be prevalent in the industry. Online polls show that 92% of the public are opposed to inbreeding an animal just to get a unusual coat color, but they clamor to see a white tiger? More here: https://bigcatrescue.org/cats/wild/white_tigers.htm Where do all of the babies from last year go? When you look around at all of the places who advertise baby lions and tigers, where do they all go for the next 20 years? https://bigcatrescue.org/000news/0articlesbybcr/2008ManEatingLions.htm https://bigcatrescue.org/000news/0articlesbybcr/2008DyingToBeHeld.htm It costs Big Cat Rescue between $5,000 and $7,500 per year to provide proper care for a big cat. Multiply that by the number of big cats in these pseudo sanctuaries and roadside zoos and then compare it to their annual budgets. Lack of accountability. Most of these places hide behind their USDA licenses as if it were a badge of honor, but if you visit the abusers page on www.911AnimalAbuse.com you will see a repeating pattern of facilities having USDA violations reported year after year, for six years in some cases, before the USDA takes action. Meanwhile the USDA keeps renewing their licenses. Why does USDA renew licenses each year of facilities that have failed to meet even the more minimal of standards? To give you an idea of how low the standards are, the size of cage for a tiger only has to be big enough for the cat to stand up and turn around. What does it cost the tax payer? When less than 1/10th of one percent of the public owns exotic animals, why do tax dollars fund entire governmental departments to regulate an industry that is unneeded and inhumane? What are the actual costs to tax payers for all of the reporting, licensing, enforcement and the clean up costs after these places allow escapes or they go belly up? 62% of the people polled say that seeing big cats in cages has done nothing to cause them to donate to conservation in the wild. Almost all of the places that use big cats for income will cite that noble cause as their excuse, and yet how much of the money they raise is actually put to work in saving the habitats? The tiger is the best example of how this doesn't ring true. No big cat is more commonly kept in zoos and back yard menageries and yet with less than 4,000 left in the wild and one being poached per day, it is obvious that this great cat will disappear in the next few years. All of the cats who were born in cages for the last hundred years did nothing to stop the onslaught. I believe that the practice of keeping cats in cages has actually led to their demise in the wild. If you can have the convenience of driving a few miles to see a tiger in a cage, then why protect them half a world away where you may never see them? For the cats, Carole Baskin, CEO of Big Cat Rescue an Educational Sanctuary home to more than 100 big cats 12802 Easy Street Tampa, FL 33625 813.493.4564 fax 885.4457 http://www.BigCatRescue.org MakeADifference@BigCatRescue.org Sign our petition to protect tigers from being farmed here: http://capwiz.com/bigcatrescue/issues/alert/?alertid=9952801&type=CU This message contains information from Big Cat Rescue that may be confidential or privileged. The information contained herein is intended only for the eyes of the individual or entity named above. You are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, disclosure, and/or copying of the information contained in this communication is strictly prohibited. The recipient should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses. Big Cat Rescue accepts no liability for any damage or loss caused by any virus transmitted by this e-mail. It’s a girl, boy … tiger … elephant Baby Bobcat 9 Marie MacDonald Quick Noah's Ark Animal Sanctuary is well equipped to handle big cats and bears – the only question being if they have room. I hope they have at least been asked. Man Mauled at Wesa-A-Geh-Ya KSDK — Authorities in Warren County, Missouri are investigating an animal attack at the ... BCR August 4, 2008 Idaho officers tag & relocate young cougar roaming in neighborhood Click on link to view photosIdaho Cougar Relocated Because ‘He Feared People’ While the ... BCR July 14, 2010 Now at Big Cat Rescue July 3 2014 Kitten Cuteness Silly Leopard Siamese Momma Cat This Daily Big Cat is ... BCR July 3, 2014	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line937
__label__cc	0.577762	0.422238	Media Kit INR Media Kit USD Policy & Regulatory Articles/Features Pharma/BioPharma Healthcare delivery Health science management Text blogs Premium Article Bio Interactions FDA approves Merck's Keytruda in combination with Inlyta 22 April 2019 \| News Approval is based on results of KEYNOTE-426, where KEYTRUDA in combination with Axitinib reduced the risk of death by nearly half compared to Sunitinib. Merck has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved KEYTRUDA, Merck’s anti-PD-1 therapy, in combination with Inlyta (axitinib), a tyrosine kinase inhibitor, for the first-line treatment of patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC). The approval is based on findings from the pivotal Phase 3 KEYNOTE-426 trial, which demonstrated significant improvements in overall survival (OS), progression-free survival (PFS) and objective response rate (ORR) for KEYTRUDA in combination with axitinib (KEYTRUDA-axitinib combination) compared to sunitinib. Consistent results were observed across pre-specified subgroups, IMDC risk categories and PD-L1 tumor expression status. For the main efficacy outcome measures of OS and PFS, the KEYTRUDA-axitinib combination reduced the risk of death by 47% compared to sunitinib (HR=0.53 [95% CI, 0.38-0.74]; p<0.0001); for PFS, the KEYTRUDA-axitinib combination showed a reduction in the risk of progression of disease or death of 31% compared to sunitinib (HR=0.69 [95% CI, 0.57-0.84]; p=0.0001). The ORR, an additional efficacy outcome measure, was 59% for patients who received the KEYTRUDA-axitinib combination (95% CI, 54-64) and 36% for those who received sunitinib (95% CI, 31-40) (p<0.0001). This is the first indication for KEYTRUDA in advanced RCC, the most common type of kidney cancer, and the first anti-PD-1 therapy FDA-approved as part of a combination regimen that significantly improved OS, PFS, and ORR versus sunitinib in patients with advanced RCC. “This represents a new treatment option for patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma, who will now have access to KEYTRUDA as part of a first-line combination regimen,” said Dr. Scot Ebbinghaus, vice president, clinical research, Merck Research Laboratories. “Today’s approval reflects Merck’s commitment to patients with cancer and further supports the use of KEYTRUDA to help improve survival outcomes for patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma.” Immune-mediated adverse reactions, which may be severe or fatal, can occur with KEYTRUDA, including pneumonitis, colitis, hepatitis, endocrinopathies, nephritis and renal dysfunction, severe skin reactions, solid organ transplant rejection, and complications of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). Based on the severity of the adverse reaction, KEYTRUDA should be withheld or discontinued and corticosteroids administered if appropriate. KEYTRUDA can also cause severe or life-threatening infusion-related reactions. Based on its mechanism of action, KEYTRUDA can cause fetal harm when administered to a pregnant woman. For more information, see “Selected Important Safety Information” below. “Given the aggressive nature of the disease, many patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma need additional treatment options that can help improve survival outcomes,” said Dr. Brian Rini, medical oncologist at Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center and professor of medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. “Pembrolizumab in combination with axitinib offers an important new therapeutic option for physicians to consider when approaching initial treatment for patients newly diagnosed with advanced renal cell carcinoma.” Dr. Rini reports consulting and research funding from Merck. The approval was based on data from the pre-specified interim analysis of Phase 3 KEYNOTE-426 trial, a randomized, multi-center, open-label trial conducted in 861 patients who had not received systemic therapy for advanced RCC. Patients were enrolled regardless of PD-L1 tumor expression status. Randomization was stratified by International Metastatic RCC Database Consortium (IMDC) risk categories (favorable versus intermediate versus poor) and geographic region (North America versus Western Europe versus “Rest of the World”). Patients with an active autoimmune disease requiring systemic immunosuppression within the last two years were ineligible. Your comment has been submitted for approval. Please note that comments are moderated and are generally published if they are on-topic and not abusive. × Your session has been expired. Please click here to Sign-in or Sign-up Health Canada approves Biocon ... Diabetes and Hypertension ... West Pharma receives India Pac... Novo Nordisk to present data f... 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__label__wiki	0.576231	0.576231	Wannasee Festivals at Heritage Park The Wannasee organisers are re-scheduling dates for festivals in the North East for next year, and as a consequence there will not be a Wannasee festival at Heritage Park in 2018. We continue to have a very positive relationship with Wannasee and we will review this situation and keep everyone informed. The Club wishes to express its thanks to the Wannasee team, as we have thoroughly enjoyed hosting their festivals for the last four years. We would also like to thank the Town Council for their support during this time and all those who came along and attended the festivals at the stadium. Moving forward, this decision now allows the Club to concentrate on closes season pitch preparations much earlier than in previous years, which means that we will be working on securing much higher profile pre-season home friendlies, at a time that better suits the larger professional league clubs. 2 Responses to Wannasee Festivals at Heritage Park janice bainbridge Thu 02/11/2017 at 12:51 pm that a shame been to the last 3, but you have to o what best for club Programme Editor Tue 07/11/2017 at 5:52 pm Hello Janice – the decision was made by the Wannasee organisers. Regards, Nick « Chairman’s Update Defender Transfer Listed »	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line942
__label__wiki	0.565272	0.565272	Nana-Kwame-Ofori-Writes-NPP-Dont-Sacrifice-The-Chicken-That-Lays-The-Golden-Egg-For-Christmas-SoupFix-Dunkwa-Offin-To-Obuasi-Road- Few weeks ago when Ex-President Mahama accused President Akufo Addo of hijacking and for absurd concentration of the Apedwa-Kyebi roads, I responded on Alfred Ogbameys wall that “it is only a fool who will not rebuild his father’s tattered house after becoming successful in life.” I advanced my argument that the very motive that “…In Part 3, the final paper, we provide additional information about funding arrangements for the University of the Gold Coast (and KNUST), and compare the importance of... Special Photo report: 122 years of neglect; the untold story of Obuasi With many years of active and profitable mining operations by AngloGold Ashanti, formerly Ashanti Goldfields Limited at Obuasi in the Ashanti Region, residents still suffer... Like-Manasseh-I-Am-Disappointed-In-President-Akufo-Addo-But Dear Manasseh, Permit me to share my unsolicited opinion on your recent article. These days it is strenuous to engage in a proper discourse without been suffocated by the... AngloGold donates �250,000 towards construction of KNUST Obuasi Campus The proposed establishment of a campus of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology at Obuasi has received a boost with a ¢250,000 support from Anglogold Ashanti.... UK High Commissioner to cycle 1,000km to raise funds for plastic surgery UK High Commissioner to Ghana Ian Walker has announced, a 1,000km ride on a bicycle to raise funds in support of plastic surgery at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital. The 10-day ride on a bicycle is dubbed the Ghana Grand Tour. It is expected to start in August and will see the diplomat ride through Ashanti region and end in the Volta region. Ian Walker in an interview with... Obuasi mine records 1m Lost-Time-Injury (LTI) free man-hours Aiming to pour its first gold by the end of 2019, the Obuasi Mine, operated by AngloGold Ashanti in Ghana, had its first blast underground on 1st February 2019. With development improving steadily by the week, the Obuasi Redevelopment Project on Wednesday, June 19, reached a significant milestone when it recorded 1 million LostTime-Injury (LTI) free man-hours. Congratulating... Obuasi-Mine-Records-1-Million-Lost-Time-Injury-LTI-Free-Man-Hours Aiming to pour its first gold by the end of 2019, the Obuasi Mine, operated by AngloGold Ashanti in Ghana, had its first blast underground on 1st February 2019. With development improving steadily by the week, the Obuasi Redevelopment Project on Wednesday 19th June 2019 reached a significant milestone when it recorded 1 million LostTime-Injury (LTI) free man-hours.... Betway Talent Search 2019 dates announced Betway Ghana has opened applications for teams across the country to apply to participate in its annual Betway Talent Search. This year’s event takes a new shape as eight (8) teams with players aged eighteen (18) and above from the division two or lower leagues in Ghana have the opportunity to showcase their skills to selected coaches and scouts from Ghana and across the world.... AngloGold to pour first gold at redeveloped Obuasi Mine AngloGold Ashanti says it is on course to pouring first gold by end of this year, following resumed operations at the redeveloped Obuasi Mine, inaugurated six months ago. The mining giant has since February been busy working on the underground tunnel, production plants and other key components under the intensive redevelopment process. "The mine is currently developing. There... Environmental NGO fights gov’t over Helen Huang deportation Environmental NGO, A Rocha Ghana, wants the government to explain why illegal rosewood dealer, Helen Huang, was deported instead of being prosecuted. Deputy Director of the organisation, Daryl Bosu, said it is becoming the norm that when criminal offences, relating to natural resources, are committed by Chinese nationals, the government tends to take the convenient approach to...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line944
__label__cc	0.634721	0.365279	Write Summary IPOPHL brings IP-focused MCLE Program to Cebu Date: 13 March 2019; Type: Industry Updates; Source: Philippine News Agency MANILA, Mar 14 (PNA) - The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) will be mounting the 2019 edition of the Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) this March in Cebu, to expand its education drive and reach out to IP practitioners in the Visayas. The IPOPHL MCLE 2019 Program’s Cebu leg, to be held at the Radisson Blu Hotel from March 18 to 22, marks the program’s debut in a major city outside of Metro Manila. “Scaling up our IP Education and Awareness drive is at the forefront of IPOPHL’s agenda. The MCLE Program’s first run outside of Luzon this March will be an essential learning opportunity for lawyers and non-lawyers alike. Our curriculum for this lecture series is a diverse offering of updates on IP legislation, strategic innovation on IP core processes & appeals, commerce-related concepts of IP,” Director General Josephine R. Santiago said in a statement on Wednesday. Intellectual property processes, including litigation and the special rules and procedures on IP cases will be discussed. Intellectual property is a game-changer of scientific innovation and creativity, and has been entrenched as a component of economic growth in the Philippine Development Plan (particularly in chapters on advancing science, technology, and innovation and expanding economic opportunities for industry and services). The area of intellectual property is an increasingly popular field in legal practice that remains to be fully tapped by a new generation of lawyers. With every sector, from manufacturing to banking, now being infused with technology, expertise in the field of intellectual property will complement law firms’ existing competencies in high-demand practice areas such as information technology and cyber law. Intellectual property has been a salient feature of modern free trade agreements, both bilateral and multilateral ones, putting it in a prime intersection with trade law. The lecture series will tackle topics such as the impact of new legislation (the Competition Law and the Data Privacy Act) on intellectual property, as well as enforcing one’s IP rights. For business groups and commerce associations, capitalizing on companies’ intellectual property assets by way of licensing and franchise will also be discussed. Members of the academe and research and development institutions will benefit from learning about drafting technology transfer agreements, in the case that their technology are being prepped for commercialization. The five-day program presents a rare opportunity for these sectors to learn the centrality of IP in these different fields of knowledge. The IPOPHL MCLE 2019 curriculum will be taught by a roster of seasoned and internationally-recognized intellectual property lawyers and professors. ASEAN aims at creating Future Digitally-Skilled Youths PRRD signs Law on Free Access to Tech-Voc Education Dewan Rakyat passes Trademarks Bill 2019 IPOPHL to Promote IP Education in Higher Academic Institutions Irawan Gunawan v J Casanova DK Bill of the Trademarks Act 2019 Request for Comment on the Draft Rules of Procedure for IPOPHIL Mediation Outside Litigation Teddy Tan v Hugo Boss Trade Mark Management GmbH & Co KG IPOPHL pushes for Registration of Online Sellers Personal Data Protection Law is being reviewed - Gobind Duterte signs Law allowing Simpler Patents for Farmers Public Consultation on Draft Intellectual Property Dispute Resolution Bill Get ASEAN LAW ALERT Legal updates by e-mail. It's Free. SUGGEST A SOURCE Asean LIP is always on the lookout for new sources of information, and therefore encourages its readers to suggest appropriate sources that they feel it should monitor.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line945
__label__cc	0.502023	0.497977	General (ASoIaF) A Song of Ice and Fire: The Novels I think I've figured out how Valyrian Steel is made. By Br16, June 17 in General (ASoIaF) Landed Knight I had another look at the Azor Ahai /Nissa Nissa lore and something occurred in my mind: What if the secret to Valyrian steel is simply steel forged by dragon fire, tempered in king's blood? There seems to be obvious parallels between the sorcery Mel is obsessed with (i.e. blue blood=better result) and the sorcery of the Old Freehold. That would explain why even Dragonlords such as the Targaryens only had 2 Valyrian steel swords. Even for a world conquering Empire, the amount of kings they could get their hands on would be limited, and the reason the whole secret was so easily lost could be that the sacrifice required would probably be considered scary, sacrilegious and prohibitively expensive by most, so later people can't even imagine it as a concept. Edited June 17 by Br16 shameeka reacted to this Not sure with kings but it is possible that Valyrian steel was created with blood sacriface/blood magic, same as dragon hatching. Free Northman Reborn Not king’s blood. But definitely blood sacrifice. Life force powers all magic in the World of Ice and Fire. You must sacrifice something to gain something. Prince of the North reacted to this 49 minutes ago, Free Northman Reborn said: Even if not king's, the blood has got to be rare or highborn imo. If any slave or animal would do, then there's no reason the Targs wouldn't have loads of them. Aenar brought all his wealth with him, but still only two known Valyrian swords. Also, Aeron thought Euron's armor was Valyrian steel and was of the opinion that even before the doom, it would have cost a kingdom if it were. Thus, I feel there has to be a threshold above a slave or animal, after all the Valyrians ran through slaves in the 14 flames even faster than we run through coffee. 4 minutes ago, Br16 said: There are hundreds of Valyrian blades (including swords, daggers, knives etc) in Westeros alone, according to a quote from George. That implies that in Valyria there would no doubt have been tens of thousands created over the course of their history. Edited June 17 by Free Northman Reborn True, but lets say 20,000 Valyrian steel items over Old Valyria's 5000 year history. This would still be an average production of only 4 per year. Since they enslaved constantly, the number should be much higher unless there was another limitation, such as the quality of blood. HelenaExMachina 4 Oreos from heaven Why decrease the value of your product by increasing the quantity on the market? By keeping the secret of forging close to their chest and production low, VS becomes more valuable 19 minutes ago, HelenaExMachina said: Could be, after all, they seem to be a secretive bunch. But I've a feeling that the Dragon Lords liked plundering/looting/tribute/levies/slave labor more than they like earning on the open market. If they could outfit their elite armies with as much Valyrian steel as they could make, the less dragon fire they need to deploy, meaning the more loot that remains unburnt, and less property damage during dealing with revolts. I don't think that it was a "material" i.e. higborn/king blood that made a cost but knowledge of spells and magic to use it and forge valyrian steel. Maybe the larger the blade, the more people had to be sacrificed to forge it? 9 minutes ago, Free Northman Reborn said: That could also be true. Perhaps if not King's blood, they may have to sacrifice an obscene amount of people just to make one good sword? Either way, I'm betting Mel knows how to make more, but won't push it or involve Dany because the moral uproar over the sacrifice price (which I feel will cross every red line by a mile) would be simply too much, and perhaps make her even more unpopular than she is now. Alexis-something-Rose I doubt they were using king's blood. Blood sacrifice, possibly, but I doubt it was king's blood. Besides, even if the Valyrians were using king's blood, they don't have to kill the person for the blood. Melisandre used leeches on Edric Storm. I think there is a hint in the text about dragonbone being one of the materials used to make the steel. Tyrion in ASoS says that there are thousands of blades left in the world and two hundred in Westeros and this is some 400 years after the Doom. So it's not that Valyrian steel was such a rare thing the Doom. It's just that there's no one to make it anymore. The spells to reforge the steel are there. The spells to make the steel are not. If the place that made the product goes kaboom, then all bets are off. Ghost+Nymeria4Eva Valyrian steel is probably made using spells and dragonfire, rather than sacrifices. Valyrians knew how to use the magic uniquely. When Valyria is gone, the craft of forging the blades go too. The magic may have required sacrifices, but it's hard to imagine why Valyrians would kill people just for the blades, because they had dragons and didn't have much need for conventional blades anyway. The blade that we know is made with a sacrifice is Lightbringer, which is a weapon of legend. So weapons that require sacrifices belong to a different group. Anyway, that Essoi smith in KL says he knows how to forge Valyrian steel, probably with spells. When magic returns to the world, it might be possible to make Valyrian steel once more. Here's an interesting post on this: Edited June 17 by Ghost+Nymeria4Eva Morte reacted to this Aebram Interesting idea, but I don't think there's any evidence that Nissa Nissa was royalty. 9 hours ago, Aebram said: I was thinking more along the lines of that "it'll cost you" being the price of Valyrian steel. The fire and blood magic of Valyria is similar to the type practiced by the red priests, so the principles should be the same. For Azor Ahai, the price of Lightbringer was the love of his life, a hero's wife. For Valyrian steel, the sacrifice price could be rare highborn blood, which explains why the Targaryens (not the most powerful Dragonlords in the freehold, but still one of the ruling 40 of a world conquering empire) only had two even though Aenar evacuated all his wealth. 12 hours ago, Ghost+Nymeria4Eva said: but it's hard to imagine why Valyrians would kill people just for the blades, because they had dragons and didn't have much need for conventional blades anyway. Dragons are more air support/ nuke. The Valyrians regularly field large armies such as the 100K host they sent along with 300 Dragons in the Second Spice war. The Valyrians were world conquering and cruel beyond measure (14 flames slavery etc.), thus, I'm pretty sure the Dragonlords wouldn't bat an eyelid at sacrificing a few hundred nobles after a sack to create some Valyrian steel items for themselves and their household guards/non dragon riding officer kin. 13 hours ago, Alexis-something-Rose said: they don't have to kill the person for the blood. Melisandre used leeches on Edric Storm. So it's not that Valyrian steel was such a rare thing the Doom. It's just that there's no one to make it anymore. The spells to reforge the steel are there. The spells to make the steel are not. If the place that made the product goes kaboom, then all bets are off. You might if you want to temper a whole sword. Regarding the dragon bone, 4 of Aenar's 5 dragons died on Dragonstone yet the Targ's still only have two VS swords. I'm pretty sure someone as highly placed as he was would know the spells. The fact he could not make more could be because he lacked the rare sacrifice needed, and didn't want to get into trouble to obtain it just to make an extra sword. Moreover, the dark color of VS swords could be a hint of the blood sacrifice (i.e. blood darkens when it solidifies). Lastly, even if there were once 50,000 VS swords, that would still be average production of 10 per year over Valyria's 5000 year history. Moreover, Aeron suspected that Euron's armor was VS, and if it were, Aeron thought it might cost a kingdom even before the doom. The Hoare Hedge Knight I'm pretty sure someone as highly placed as he was would know the spells. Maybe none of the Targaryens were blacksmiths. We have no reason to believe that the valyrian nobility would forge their own blades. 3 minutes ago, The Hoare said: Well, Aenar brought his entire household and staff/slaves with him, I feel one of them should be the household smith. The Sleeper A series of biological ephemera Human sacrifice yes, King's Blood no, there weren't enough kings around. And while I do think the Nissa Nissa parable refers to the creation of Valyrian steel it doesn't necessarily describe the exact process. Another alternative is that it refers to the creation of dragons. Azor Ahai tried to create the dragons by mixing firewyrms and wyvern, but it wouldn't take until he added a bit of human to the mix. 20 minutes ago, The Sleeper said: Thanks for dropping by. I think you bring up an interesting point about Lightbringer being the first dragon, the sentience of Nissa Nissa fusing together firewryms and wyvern. I always felt R'hllor obviously had something to do with it. Plus, one flaming sword is simply impractical when you're faced with undead tsunami. Dragons sound about right. As for the rarity of King's blood, I think the fact there's not enough to go around could be the reason it was King's blood. Remember, there are only a few thousand VS items left in existence, and probably only tens of thousands at its height. When you divide that by Valyria's 5000+ year history, it only averages a few swords a year. For a world conquering, world looting Empire, and if we expand the term King's Blood to include princes and top tier Highborn, it sounds about right. Only this type of supply shortage would cause the Targs to have only 2 ancestral VS swords, which is a rather sorry amount for a Dragonlord unless there was a source material shortage reason. 42 minutes ago, Br16 said: I never said anything about R'hlor. Martin has pretty much said that there are no gods. A person or people being at the core of the legend of Azor Ahai, is something different. I believe there was a sorcerer, likely from Asshai, who played an integral part in the events of the Long Night. For conveniences sake, I call him Azor Ahai. As for king's blood, it seems a stretch to begin with and it depends largely on definition. For instance if you count each and every chieftain, sure, or if you count back far enough. There should be a few hundred descendants of Aegon IV alone. I think however the particular type of sacrifice refers to an actual reigning King. Moreover the particular legend does not point in any way shape or form to the sacrifice of royalty. It may point however to the sacrifice of a spouse. ETA. Not in reference to making swords, but in reference to the role of the PtwP. Dany has sacrificed both spouse and child and Jon abandoned his wilding wife on the eve of battle to fight on the other side. Edited June 18 by The Sleeper Go To Topic Listing General (ASoIaF)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line946
__label__wiki	0.643708	0.643708	WesFILES Player: Making His Mark Photo Courtesy of Steve McLaughlin When Mark Piccirillo started playing football in first grade, there was no telling just how good of an athlete he would become. Flash forward to Mark's senior year of college, and he is arguably one of the best quarterbacks to have come through the NESCAC. But despite his talents, Mark attributes much of his success to the support of his family and coaches, and to the skills of his fellow teammates. Being a quarterback is a unique and challenging position, because it takes technical precision and mental toughness. Quarterbacks typically garner most of the recognition for wins, as they are the face of the team and often in the limelight. Having this role on a team can be difficult, and many quarterbacks struggle to stay humble. Mark, however, is a very unique quarterback because he doesn't think that he makes the team, quite the contrary, he believes that it is his teammates that make him a better player and person. Before Mark arrived at Wesleyan, he had a seasoned career at Shelton High School (Conn.). As a senior in 2014, he racked up numerous accolades including New Haven Register All-Area MVP, Connecticut Post Super 33 MVP, National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame Scholar Athlete, Walter Camp Player of the Year, Walter Camp First Team, First Team All-State, Southern Connecticut Division I Player of the Year, Shelton High School MVP, 960 WELI Player of the Year and the Connecticut Coach DeMaio Player of the Year. Wesleyan Athletic Director Mike Whalen had the privilege of getting to know Mark throughout his recruiting process and remembers recognizing immediately that Mark had the it factor. "Having been around college football for over 30 years, I have been fortunate to have been around some very talented quarterbacks. Just like Mark, they all had the it factor. It is tough to define, however, when you see someone who has it, you know right away." During Mark's time at Shelton, he helped guide his team to a State Championship (12-1 record), while setting career records for passing yards (5,976), passing touchdowns (64), total yards (8,835) and total touchdowns (110). Mark's high school campaign did not come without it's own challenges. During his early years, he had torn his hamstring, and despite playing through the pain, he was always worried about reinjuring it. However, Mark is the type of athlete that is focused on his goals and would not let anything stand in his way. This dedication and persistence is why as a first-year student at Wesleyan, he became a starter midway through the season. To be a starter as a freshman is not super common, but Mark believes that, "You have to make sure that you are ready when they call your name," and he made sure he was ready before he even stepped on campus. Head Coach Dan DiCenzo spoke about Mark's impact early on, stating, "He is a complete player and a student of the game. He has been a leader since he walked on campus and has continued to improve in every area of his game every day." Since then, Mark has been a force on the field as a Cardinal. During his first year, he was named Wesleyan Rookie of the Year, and he was named Second Team All-NESCAC Offense during his sophomore year campaign. Last season, Mark continued to build upon previous year's successes, where he broke 11 program records and become Wesleyan's all-time leading scorer with 252 career-points and 42 career-touchdowns. During the 2017 campaign, Mark totaled 2,657 passing yards, which ranked fourth all-time among NESCAC leaders in a single-season. Additionally, he led the team in rushing as a junior and ranked sixth in the NESCAC. It is easy to look at Mark's successful career and assume that he is someone who was born with talent. However, Mark has worked extremely hard to get to where he wants to be. DiCenzo explains, "Mark has had an outstanding career. He will graduate with a bunch of offensive records and it is well deserved. As coaches, we see the work he puts in, but from the outside they just see the results. Mark has earned his success through his hard work and dedication." With his dedication and passion for the game, it is no surprise that Mark has become such a talented athlete. But what others may find shocking is his desire to pass knowledge and motivation on to his teammates. He expressed, "It's easy to see in practice when guys are tired or getting down on themselves, I know because I am tired too. But, I have to be the one that sets the tone. So, even if I am feeling terrible, I just try to get everyone going again and making sure everyone has the energy to play at a high level every day." In addition to this, Mark's mantra he preaches to younger players is, "Every time you touch the ball, you have to make something happen. You cannot take any time off." This type of mindset has allowed Mark to excel on the field and has helped to make his teammates better. Whalen explained, "Mark thrives on competition and has a real passion for the game. He has that rare ability to make everyone who plays around him better." As Mark's playing time comes to an end at Wesleyan, he will be remembered for his contributions on and off the field. Whalen expressed, "When his college career comes to an end, Mark will own many Wesleyan records. However, what I will remember most about him is his unselfish attitude, strong commitment to his teammates and his willingness to always put the needs of the team ahead of his own." Book: The Science of Running Movie: Jaws Professor: Kyungmi Kim Music: Rock n' Roll Band/Artist: Led Zepplin Pro Athlete: Aaron Rodgers Food: Pizza Started Football: First grade Best Kept Secret: Afraid of the dark April 10, 2019 Eight Wesleyan Football Members Named to NFF Hampshire Honor Society December 11, 2018 Morris and Gooden Named CLIFF HARRIS AWARD Nominees December 4, 2018 Taj Gooden Named D3football.com All-Region First Team Defense November 29, 2018 WesFILES Player: Elite Football Background Shaped Morris Into A Talented Player & Quiet Leader November 28, 2018 WesFILES Alumni: Mark Molina '81 November 20, 2018 Gooden and Morris Earn First Team All-NESCAC, Four Others Garner Second Team Laurels November 20, 2018 Joe Wilson Named Swede Nelson Award Winner November 10, 2018 Wesleyan Loses to Trinity in Defensive Battle, 9-0 November 7, 2018 Week 9 Preview: Wesleyan (5-3) vs. Trinity (7-1) November 4, 2018 Jackson Eighmy Named NESCAC Defensive Player of the Week November 3, 2018 Wesleyan’s Stifling Defense Helps Lead Cardinals Past Williams, 21-14 November 2, 2018 WesFILES Alumni: Mike Fogarty '90 November 1, 2018 WesFILES Player: Military Upbringing Gives Williams Ability to Tackle Anything That Comes His Way October 31, 2018 Week 8 Preview - Wesleyan (4-3) vs. Williams (5-2) October 27, 2018 Wesleyan Cruises Past Bowdoin, 24-0 October 26, 2018 WesFILES Alumni: Steve Humphrey '63 October 26, 2018 Saturday’s Football Game Moved to Citrin Field October 25, 2018 WesFILES Player: Making His Mark October 24, 2018 Week 7 Preview - Wesleyan (3-3) vs. Bowdoin (0-6) October 20, 2018 Wesleyan Defeated by Amherst, 33-3 October 17, 2018 Week 6 Preview - Wesleyan (3-2) vs. Amherst (5-0) October 13, 2018 Football Cruises Past Bates, 44-13 October 11, 2018 Week 5 Preview -- Wesleyan (2-2) vs. Bates (0-4) October 6, 2018 Football Downs Colby, 28-20 October 4, 2018 WesFILES Player: Perseverance and Family Propel Hull October 3, 2018 Week 4 Preview – Wesleyan vs. Colby October 2, 2018 WesFILES Alumni: Matt Perceval ’00 & Jake Fay '00 September 29, 2018 Wesleyan Stunned by Hamilton, 33-29 September 27, 2018 Wilson Named Semifinalist for 2018 William V. 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__label__cc	0.507259	0.492741	HomeFeaturedQuestions of “Blackness” are tackled in BlackCard Questions of “Blackness” are tackled in BlackCard Robert Jeffrey posted on Mar. 01, 2018 at 4:00 pm With shades of 1984’s Big Brother, BlackCard is a satirical/ sci-fi laced look into the question of what constitutes real “Blackness”. About a month back director Pete Chatmon (Grown-ish, Black-Ish), screenwriter Tony Patrick ( co-writer of DC Comic’s Batman & The Signal, and creator of X’ED), and a talented cast and crew released the short film BlackCard. The cast includes Dorian Missick (Monster, Animal Kingdom), Simone Missick (Marvel’s Luke Cage, The Defenders) and Hisham Tawfiq (The Blacklist.) From the You Tube page, “MEMBERSHIP HAS ITS CHALLENGES. It would be just another day for Leonard, except The Commission, a shadow organization tasked with keeping members up to snuff on their “blackness”, is hot on his trail for his latest infraction. An afternoon with the love of his life, Lona, goes off course as a missing ID Card escalates into questions of loyalty, life, and love…” As described by Patrick, “BlackCard is a universe with more narratives that will be spun out of it.” There are plans to create a series out of the short. Sit back and enjoy BlackCard. Robert Jeffrey II is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in such publications as UVC Magazine, JaDore Magazine, BlackSci-Fi.com, and The Atlanta Voice Newspaper.He was chosen as a participant in the DC Comics Class of 2017 Writers Workshop . He is a regular contributor for the Tessera Guild, and his comic book work includes client work for the Centers for Disease Control, and Nitto Tires. His comic book writing includes work on such award winning/ nominated series as his creator owned series Route 3, Radio Free Amerika, Terminus Team-Up, and Soul of Suw. He’s yet to fulfill his dream of pop-locking to save a community center. Head to his website here, and you can follow him on Twitter @SYNCHRKJ, Tumblr @robdawriter , and Instagram @robertk.jeffrey. Tags:black-ishblackcardDorian Missickgrown-ishpete chatmonsimone missicktony patrick Finding The Heart Shaped Herb of Wakanda Review- Black Lightning, Episode 6/ Three Sevens: The Book of Thunder	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line960
__label__cc	0.736402	0.263598	← Podcast on Health Care Price Transparency Safe Gift-Giving this Holiday Season → What You Need to Know about FraudNet Posted on November 20, 2014 by gao_watchblog Fraudulent spending, waste, abuse, or mismanagement of federal funds erodes public trust in government. Since 1979, GAO has provided an outlet for anyone—federal employees, contractors, or members of the general public—to report allegations of such activities. FraudNet offers ways for anonymous citizens to get sensitive information to the people who are trained to protect that information from unauthorized disclosure, and to use that information to fight fraud. See this video for more on how to report allegations to FraudNet. History of FraudNet In 1979, we established the GAO Fraud Hotline, a toll-free telephone number. In 1996, we expanded the program to receive allegations via the Internet, fax, and letter. At that time, the program was renamed “FraudNet” to reflect that expansion. Upon receiving allegations, FraudNet staff and investigators from our Forensic Audits and Investigative Service team analyze and research the allegations. If they find that further investigation is warranted, FraudNet staff assign a case number and determine whether to refer that allegation to the relevant executive-branch agency, typically an Office of Inspector General (IG), or to pursue the allegation within GAO. FraudNet staff can use LexisNexis investigative tools and resources from the National Crime Information Center (the nation’s clearinghouse for crime-related data) to follow up on allegations. What kinds of allegations does FraudNet receive? FraudNet has received an average of 1,850 allegations a year over the past 5 years. About 80% of the allegations received in fiscal year 2013 received a case number for further investigation, and below is a breakdown of the types of allegations in those cases. As you can see, most of the allegations are about government mismanagement and waste: FraudNet in Action FraudNet’s work has contributed to executive branch IG and GAO audits and investigations. For example: FraudNet referred 3 cases to the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) IG. In these cases, contractors falsified information to gain access to programs intended to benefit service-disabled veterans and businesses located in historically underused business zones. Consequently, four companies that had received $11 million in contracts pled guilty to charges including wire fraud and misrepresentation. FraudNet staff performed substantial research that tracked registered sex offenders leaving and entering the United States. One of the recommendations from GAO’s report helped Immigration and Customs Enforcement and INTERPOL’s U.S. National Central Bureau share data to monitor sex offenders’ international travel. FraudNet staff provided GAO with information about people who applied for passports using the identities of dead or jailed individuals, as well as those with active felony warrants. In the course of completing the report, GAO referred some high-risk cases to the Department of State, which may help them strengthen the integrity of the passport program. FraudNet received allegations regarding potential fraud and abuse in the National School Lunch Program. GAO’s work following up on these allegations led to recommendations in a GAO report for improving integrity and oversight of the school-meals programs. Questions on the content of this post? Contact Steve Lord at LordS@gao.gov. Comments on GAO’s WatchBlog? Contact blog@gao.gov. Image \| This entry was posted in About GAO, Mission Team and tagged abuse, FAIS, fraud, FraudNet, investigators, mismanagement, reporting fraud, reporting waste, tipline, tips, waste. Bookmark the permalink. 1 Response to What You Need to Know about FraudNet Pingback: What Happens to FBI Whistleblower Retaliation Complaints? \| WatchBlog: Official Blog of the U.S. Government Accountability Office	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line964
__label__wiki	0.504935	0.504935	Let's hear it for Mugabe-style land-grabs Those opposed to a substantive redistribution of land in Scotland accuse those of us in favour of substantive land redistribution of 'Mugabe-style land grabs'. The white people of Zimbabwe, we're told, 'own' lots of land on which they have productive farms. The elected president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, is, we're told, a bad man because he wants to seize this land off the nice white people and give it to his supporters (who are black). Let's just recall a little history. Between 1810 and 1831, the Marquis of Stafford drove the people of Sutherland off the good land they had customarily farmed onto poor and marginal land, and replaced them with imported farmers. The common folk of Sutherland did not consent to this; no legislative assembly in which they were represented gave authority for it. Between 1881 and 1900, the Canadian Pacific Railroad drove the Dakota and Métis people of Saskatchewan off the good land on which they had customarily lived, and replaced them with imported farmers (including my grandfather - this is not ancient history). The common folk of the Dakota and Métis did not consent to this (and actually, neither did any representatives of theirs). Instead, they revolted, but it didn't help them, because the railroad company had the guns and they didn't. No legislative assembly in which they were represented gave authority for it. At exactly the same time, Cecil Rhodes (with help from the British South Africa Police) drove the Matabele and Shona people of Zimbabwe off the good land which they had customarily farmed, and replaced them with imported farmers. The common folk of the Matabele and Shona didn't consent to this. No legislative assembly in which they were represented gave authority for it. Rhodes' apologists claim he had an agreement - the Rudd Concession - signed by King Lobengula of the Matabele. But what neither side appears to dispute was that the verbal agreement which the king made was for 'at most ten' white men to come, and it gave them rights only to dig for minerals, but that the English written document which he was persuaded to sign made no mention of any limits. Rhodes' apologists are even rather proud of this sleight of hand; it's evidence, apparently, of hard-headed business acumen. What the British Empire was doing, just as much in Sutherland as in Saskatchewan and Matabeleland, was imposing an entirely new concept of land ownership which had never existed before. It gave to members of the new (British) elite exclusive right to determine the management of extensive tracts of land, and to determine who could live on and work that land. And - in Sutherland just as much as in Saskatchewan or Matabeleland - it imposed that new concept, against popular resistance, by force. You can take a range of views of the relationships of pre-modern peoples with their elites. At best, common folk paid their local elites in return for services of protection from raiders and administration of justice. At worst, local elites ran protection rackets, parasitising off the economic activity of common folk. In almost all cases, the truth was somewhere between these two extremes. But I know of no pre-modern society where elites had a right to throw the commons off the land. Rather the contrary; the elites needed the labour of the commons to extract value from the land, and consequently, in many parts of medieval Europe, common folk - serfs - were actually forbidden to leave the land. In any case, a legal system constructed by the elite in assemblies of the elite for the benefit of the elite cannot be legitimate. It isn't acceptable to say 'yes, this was unjust; but it happened in the past and we cannot change it now'. On the contrary, from the unaddressed injustices of the past spring the wars of the future. We can and we must rebalance the scales. Rhodes took the best land off the common folk of Matabeleland and gave it to white farmers. The Marquis of Stafford took the straths off the MacKays and Gunns and MacLeods, and gave it to 'Cheviot shepherds'. The Canadian Pacific Railway took the flatlands of Saskatchewan off the Dakota and the Métis and gave them to the scaff and raff of Europe, including, inter alia, my Grandfather. The Ndebele and the MacKays and the Métis and the Gunns and the Dakota and the Shona and the MacLeods received no compensation when their land was annexed. If what Robert Mugabe is accused of is taking the land back off the white farmers and redistributing it to the common folk of the Ndebele, then, surely, no-one has any gounds for complaint. (Of course, what Mugabe is actually accused of is giving the land to his cronies, or keeping it for himself. But I don't think anyone seriously supposes that Nicola Sturgeon intends to extend her back garden by annexing Perthshire.) Labels: Levelling, Rural policy, Scotland The Irresolution: on software, quality, and why one works Meters, object oriented, with proper multiple inheritance. Doesn't look very impressive? Well, this is Interlisp-D. In 1983. I don't make new year resolutions; I never have. This year I almost did... Some weeks ago, working on a project which has gone horribly badly wrong, I tripped on one of those nasty ugly non-orthogonalities which litter Microsoft software. In frustration, I wrote a very sarcastic comment in my code. In code review, a colleague whom I very much respect chided me: a bad workman blames his tools. Yes, I thought but did not say, but a good craftsman chooses his tools. And I decided then that by the end of 2016 I would be working only in pure functional languages and only on competently-written platforms. That was going to be my first ever new years resolution. I'm sixty, dammit. People are not going to pay me to cut code for very many more years. I started my career, thirty years ago, working on Interlisp-D, a development environment technically streets ahead of anything commercially available now. A thing of real beauty and a joy to work with. The general idea of 'progress' is that things get better over time, not worse. I'm damned if I'm going to end my career writing on Microsoft's fit-of-pique clone of an ALGOL-derived language which Sun consciously and deliberately crippled because it was intended as a special purpose tool to develop programs for small-footprint embedded systems with very limited memory. A meter I wrote this year, in SVG and Angular. No multiple inheritance, so much less reusable code. It's crap. Writing software is about solving problems, about finding elegant ways to solve problems. But it isn't and shouldn't be about finding elegant ways to solve the problems caused by the shoddy workmanship and poor technical design of platform you're working on. If the platform you're working on is shoddy, don't bloody work on it. That was a good resolution. A wise resolution. A resolution it would have been sensible to adopt. Just after Christmas it was tested: my attention was drawn to a job advert a friend of mine has posted: Clojure, my preferred language, on UNIX, my preferred platform, in Glasgow. I know the office, I've done coding dojos there. It's very slick, very comfortable, with standing desks I much admire; I know several of the team, and I like them. It should be a dream job. And I'm not going to apply. Cowardice? Possibly. An old man's reluctance to move? Well, certainly that. I find settling into new places and building new networks of relationships stressful and difficult, so that is a real consideration. Engagement in the work I'm doing? Well, I do believe in what we're doing. I do believe that what we do, as a company, makes the world a better place. And I do suspect that the company is quite likely to make it very big indeed, and I'd be quite interested to watch that happen - even if this time I'm just an employee. But what it really boils down to is loyalty. Loyalty to a key group of the people I'm working with; a desire not to let them down. Not that I imagine I'm irreplaceable; I'm nothing like as good as I used to be, and I'm much less good working with tools I dislike than I could be. I know this is a bad decision. I know that some months down the track I'm going to find myself falling into another sinkhole of Microsoft shite and I'm going to regret this decision bitterly. But this is my decision, and I've made it. Afterword: on why tools and their quality matter Yes, I know all computer systems of any significant size contain elements which seemed like a good idea at the time and which later turned out not to be. Interlisp is a LISP-2 - it has separate value and function pointers on every symbol. It also has subtly different binding mechanisms between interpreted and compiled code, which means that the scope of variables is different leading to semantic difference - which was an uncommon but horrible pitfall when your code worked when interpreted but broke when compiled. It has an awkward inorthogonality between older functions which have abbreviated names in ALL UPPER CASE and newer ones which have LongerNamesInCamelCase. Oh, and there was the curious CLISP feature which you could either see as magical or a well of despair, depending on how you used it (I didn't). Finally, in Medley, it had Common Lisp bodged onto the side. Common Lisp is a bit of a mess anyway, but the attempt to make one system interoperate functions written in two different syntaxes must have made for interesting debugging. But I had moved onto Prolog before Medley was released, so I never really had to deal with that. Similarly, Clojure is partially crippled by the JVM's limited, fixed size stack (back to that notional 32 bit minimal-memory set-top box Java was designed for). And there have been some bizarre decisions in the language design: the default arithmetic operators do not gracefully switch to bignums on arithmetic overflow (although there are alternative operators which sensibly do, if you know about them); nil is not the empty list (both (nil? '()) and (empty? nil) return false) and is also not false ((false? nil) returns false); also, bizarrely, the car of the empty list is nil ((first '()) returns nil) but the cdr is the empty list ((rest '()) returns ()); the decision to remove a layer of brackets from cond and case means that pretty-printing does not give a rational code layout (and also makes translation of code from other Lisps that bit harder); the decision to notate arg-lists and let binding lists as vectors is also bizarre and again introduces needless inorthogonality (yes, I know that as compiled for the JVM they're implemented as vectors, but that's an implementation detail)... And so on. There is no perfect computer language. But anyone who has looked at a fern-moss, or a frond of bracken, or a waterfall, or a birch tree, or a cloud, or a prawn, or the development of a human embryo, has to acknowledge that if God does not write Lisp, God writes some language so similar to Lisp as to make no difference. The physical world is built in all its aspects and at all scales of simple functions recursively applied. It physically hurts me to work on systems whose underlying architecture is a bag of hacks kluged together. A good workman chooses his tools. The Irresolution: on software, quality, and why on...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line967
__label__cc	0.660368	0.339632	Becoming Italian Word by Word « 5 New Year’s Resolutions in the Italian Language \| Main \| How the Months Got Their Names in the Italian Language » News from Dianne Welcome to 2019! My new year began with good news: LA BELLA LINGUA will be translated and published in Italian by the distinguished house of Treccani. It's a true honor to join its roster of noted authors. In December another of my books inspired a question on the classic quiz show Jeopardy: "A Life Discovered is the subtitle of a book about this enigmatic woman, the most famous portrait sitter of all times." The answer: MONA LISA, by Dianne Hales! The countdown to publication of LA PASSIONE: HOW ITALY SEDUCED THE WORLD on April 16 is beginning. Foreign rights have been sold to Croatia—my first book to be translated into this language. You can read my first interview on LA PASSIONE, with sister appassionata Leslie Rosa of La Dolce Vigna. Click here to preorder LA PASSIONE and be among the first readers! To keep up with the latest news, sign up here for author alerts. My favorite holiday present came in the form of an e-mail from a remarkable young woman named Sydney Matrisciano. In 2010, when she and her family lost their home in Mississippi and often went hungry, her mother offered her a special treat—any book she wanted from a local bookstore. Sydney chose LA BELLA LINGUA, which inspired a deep love of languages. She taught herself Italian, studied French and Latin in high school and became so adept at Russian that she won an international competition in Moscow. Sydney also won a full scholarship to Northwestern. In her admission essay she described the impact LA BELLA LINGUA had on her. "Thank you, Ms. Hales," she wrote to me, "You changed my life irrevocably." Sydney's generous words warmed my writerly heart. As I prepare to launch LA PASSIONE into the world, I hope that it too will take on a life of its own and inspire passions that light all our spirits. I look forward to sharing the coming year's adventures with all of you—and to sharing LA PASSIONE, so please pre-order now! Dianne Hales is the author of LA BELLA LINGUA: My Love Affair with Italian, the World's Most Enchanting Language, MONA LISA: A Life Discovered and the upcoming LA PASSIONE: How Italy Seduced the World. For more information, visit her new website: www.diannehales.com Posted at 08:18 AM in Books, culture, Italy, Language, Sayings and expressions, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs \| Permalink Tags: books on Italy, Dianne Hales, Italy, Jeopardy, La Bella Lingua, La Passione, Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered, travel, Treccani Dianne's website Sign up for Dianne's Newsletter! Life in Italy Bleeding Espresso Under an Olive Tree Friends and Family in Italy Lost in Sicily Rubber Slippers in Italy 2 Baci in a Pinon Tree An Ex-Pat in Umbria: Brigolante Guest Apartments: Farm Holiday Found in Tuscany What's New in Italy fodors.com goitaly.about.com unabellavista.blogspot.com wanderingitaly.com/blog Mama Margaret & Friends Living Italian Diario di Una Studentessa Matta Italian-American perspectives italianamericangirl.com Italianintheus.blogspot.com Mirella Patzer Lucy Bertoldi Sayings and expressions	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line975
__label__wiki	0.54481	0.54481	Standing In The Door Of The Pink Flamingo – The Fifth Test Preview Sep 6, 2018 Sep 7, 2018 LordCanisLupus “It was a kind of so-so love, so I’m gonna make sure it never happens again” – Soft Cell The Original London Test Venue – Accept No Substitutes July 2012 – It was half an hour before the end of play. England had been chased around the Oval by Hashim Amla, en route to a mammoth 311 not out, and Jacques Kallis, with his death by relentlessness. The only wicket to fall was Graeme Smith, for a century. I had had enough. Enough of being kicked from behind. Enough of getting up, and sitting down, getting up and sitting down. Enough of not being able to take pictures because stupid idiot that I was, I had forgotten to put the charged battery in the camera. A fact I discovered when I tried to turn the camera on at 11 am. I had had enough of the test match “experience”, the fan who had had his fill of going to watch test cricket with the personal space diminishing. I got up, and I walked out. That was 2012. Tomorrow is the first time I’ve gone back to the Oval for a test match. What was once an annual pilgrimage now has a sense of novelty returning to it. I’m almost excited about it. And then. England go into this test match 3-1 up against the number one team in the world. I am a cricket fan who sat through the 1980s and 1990s and saw England struggle to win any long test series. Now I take this 3-1 win and feel somewhat cheated. Every test match in England has to prepare a result wicket. That’s pretty clear these days. Let’s look at this year’s tests: Lord’s v Pakistan – Ended after lunch on Day 4 Headingley v Pakistan – Ended towards end of Day 3 Edgbaston v India – Ended early on Day 4 Lord’s v India – Ended midway through Day 4 with Day 1 being washed out Trent Bridge v India – Ended 10 minutes into Day 5 Southampton v India – Ended after tea on Day 4 To me the test match experience is one where all results are possible, including the most thrilling of all – the race to take wickets against time. Now grounds appear so terrified of producing a wicket where real hard work is required to take scalps and being branded a “Chief Executive’s Pitch” that things seem to go the other way. Now the draw only seems to come into play when it rains. The broadcasters, supposedly speaking for me say that the best test wickets are the ones we have been watching. Batting is being effected by T20 revolutions and all that, we know that, but England players especially have stopped making big scores. We have two centuries in this series. Two. By an all-rounder and a bloke batting 7. I loved test matches for the batting. I wasn’t a great fan of bowling as a bad club player, but I watched the game for batting. The eccentric and the orthodox, the pretty and the ugly, the attacking and defensive. Now we look at the batting in tests and think enjoy it while it lasts in England. A knock like Pujara’s should not be an oasis in the desert – not should it be too common – but it’s rare now. Rare here. So England play in a test match which could end with us 4-1 up in the series. The team we are playing is the number 1 team in the world. When England played India in 2011, on the cusp of taking the number 1 mantle from India, we were 3-0 up going into the final test of the summer at the Oval. At that time India had just been slaughtered in a four day test where England won by an innings and many, racked up 700, saw Cook fall short of 300, and Sehwag get a king pair. Now we go into this match with the team struggling to make 300, a batting line-up with more holes than a colander, a question mark of balance, a wicket-keeper debate, a retiring pit prop and a captain who has finally stamped his feet and said “I’m not batting three”. And somehow, someway, the vanquished have “enhanced” their reputations by not capitulating meekly like the last two Indian test sides to visit our shores. This seems to be because their bowling hasn’t been atrocious, far from it, and Kohli and Pujara have made centuries. The fact is, with the draw out of the equation apart from rain, tests are going to get a result. 4-1 just doesn’t seem as impressive (to me) when the draw is pretty much a non-starter. Some see this as progress. Of course, tomorrow isn’t really about a contest between England and India now. It isn’t about trying to prepare for a winter where we are going to get slow and low tracks, turning or just dead. It isn’t about seeing who has it, who hasn’t and so on. It has become a valedictory for an England legend, a personal farewell to a man who stood above it all and came out on top. The tributes have been fulsome. The gushing prose forged through misty eyes hangs over the English cricket world. Every praise ratcheted up, eulogies that people want to hang their name to. I remember the celebration last test for Sachin Tendulkar, who, by common consent was at least two years past it when he had his farewell. Every replay was met with a brief screen saying “Sachin’s Last Test” or something. It was teeth-itching in it’s cloying manner. I thought when he was dismissed for the final time that the catcher might get a death threat for denying him a ton. Steve Waugh’s farewell seemed to follow similar, if lower key lines, but then the oppo pouring 700 on you does that to a man. I’d seen worse. Derek Jeter, of the New York Yankees, last home game at the New Stadium barely took the camera off the man for the three hour broadcast. There was an actual sporting contest, a close, if not overly meaningful one, going on but you could have been forgiven that no-one gave a stuff. I sincerely hope Sky and TMS get the formalities out of the way, comment at the appropriate time, and keep the test match as the focus. There will be more on Cook post test, and I am sure you’ll have your say on the coverage of the match. As a test event, England sealing the series has rendered this into “dead rubber” territory so any messages, form or results need to be considered in this context. For example, would a Keaton Jennings hundred mean as much? What about a fifty? We’ve been there with the dead rubber thing, but look, I’m a fan and the tension on the game between us being 3-1 and it being 2-2 is palpable. The former feels like a semi-exhibition, the latter meaning a huge amount. It speaks volumes for that relative importance that Cook felt he could announce a retirement with a 3-1 lead, but not if 2-2, for fear of distracting from the task at hand. Says a lot, Melbourne Manics, doesn’t it? From his own words. Pitch preparations going well. Little bit in it for the spinners. No, this isn’t Taunton. At time of writing there is no outline on either side. I’m rather hoping India pick Shaw as he is an exciting talent, and I would love to see him play. There may be other chances. From the England perspective, Stroppy YJB, Jonny the Teenager (the media have gone to town on this, haven’t they) is set to reclaim the gloves, and Buttler becomes the batsman. Ali is set to ruin his batting stats further by taking number 3 – Newman, for one, not happy that Joe is pulling up the ladder on that role – and is now back firmly in the fold. Jennings has one last chance to nail down one of the two opening vacancies. Woakes, Stokes, Curran can’t all play unless they drop Rashid? 12 into 11 don’t go. I know. I know. As soon as I press send, they’ll announce the team. That always happens. Finally some Cook thoughts: His statement of “regret” about KP is nothing new. That it is being dressed up as something it isn’t adds to the dishonesty around this long festering story. I’m sorry if I think it is still important. There’s something like this being stirred up for someone else. Look at YJB’s media in the past week. Open season. His statement that he won’t reconsider is also worthless, but also file it under “what else can he say”. He can’t say he will consider un-retiring a day or two after he announced he was retiring. Also if he does score a hatful of runs, our opening crisis is not solved, and people asked him to play, if he said yes, would we stop him because he retired. Of course not? On past evidence of form, maybe, but not because he announced it. I made an error jumping on a Jimmy Anderson “no ego” tweet. My fault. But let’s face it, it’s not as if nonsensical overblown statements have never been mentioned in the same breath as our opener. When it is over, I might move on, but probably not. I’ll carry on writing an “Anti-Cook Blog” despite hardly writing about him all year (one pet peeve – a blog is the collective writing on an online site. An individual piece is either a “piece” or a “post. Not a blog. No correspondence entered into). There may be a sense of no off limits players after this (perhaps Anderson on his retirement) and we will see how the media deal with Root’s rough patches. What has been enlightening, and why I wrote at such length on the previous post, is the whole circus around Cook (including me). For such a dull, non-social media, cricket man, he invokes passionate discussion. It’s one of the oddest, yet easily explainable things. Establishment stooge v England legend. There’s the rub. Enjoy the test, I hope my camera works, and although I doubt I will write tomorrow, I’ll be sure to do a test day experience piece, possibly in concert with Trevor (Bogfather) next week in the long run up to the next test. Thanks, and especially thanks for all the nice words and comments on the Cook piece. This makes me want to do more. It’s reassuring. Peter (Dmitri) Oh! And Comments below, of course……. Alastair Cook, England vs India 2018, Uncategorized Previous Article Sink Me In A River Of Tears – The Retirement of Alastair Cook Next Article England vs. India: 5th Test, Day 1 – Cook Triumphant. England Not So Much. 97 thoughts on “Standing In The Door Of The Pink Flamingo – The Fifth Test Preview” nonoxcol Sep 6, 2018 / 1:14 pm “A nice little housewife, who’ll give me a steady life. And won’t keep going off the rails.” Always knew I’d found a keeper when I saw you liked small-scale but epic stories told via the medium of electronic music. Thanks for the last four and a half years. LordCanisLupus Sep 6, 2018 / 1:28 pm The preceding couple of lines may have been more my way of thinking! mdpayne87 Sep 6, 2018 / 2:27 pm I always think of the David Gray version of that song. Sacrilege I know. I used to think of the other version of Stairway to Heaven, but if I do so now, not only is it supposedly heretic, I’d be labelled as something else! — mike selvey (@selvecricket) September 6, 2018 Move on, Selve. Move on. He will be feted. He is being feted. PLEASE, would someone tweet him the “cunt” link and subquote “defending the indefensible”. Make my day, go on. OscarDaBosca Sep 6, 2018 / 6:46 pm If I wasn’t blocked by him I would do it, he is a vile vile specimen thebogfather Sep 6, 2018 / 7:17 pm Consider it done 🙂 @selvecricket no.7https://t.co/VuCg5D91wU 'Defending the indefensible' #SuchBlindIgnoranceSoReprehensible #Cnut — TheSlogfather (@RoverTrogue) September 6, 2018 Mark Sep 6, 2018 / 2:17 pm The more I read of Selvey the more I’m convinced that I would Never believe what he judges constitutes a “good bloke.” If Selvey thinks you are a good bloke I would have a long hard look in the mirror, and question if you are balmy. The beatings will continue, until you all call clap louder. Deep Purple Fred Sep 6, 2018 / 2:52 pm He’s escalating. It started with insulting, then became sheer ignorance, now it’s up to indefensible. I wonder if Bertus can push him up to treasonous, or heretical. Peter I’m glad you wrote about the apparent shortening length of Test matches in recent years. I know it’s only natural to look back with rose tinted glasses, and I expect there were many test matches that ended in 3-4 days decades ago. However I’m sure on average the games lasted longer. (Happy to be proved wrong by stats, but can’t be bothered to look them up) We rarely even bowl 90 overs these days either. When I first started watching Test matches there was a rest day, Sunday, So the forth day could actually feel a bit like the fifth day. There also seemed like there were many more draws. The rear guard action of holding out for a draw, doesn’t fit with the increasing Americanisation of everything. We need a winner. Doesn’t matter who, but five days for a draw …..no thanks. But then Test cricket was always for those that enjoyed the whole thing. Not just the result. Some would say oddballs. I have no idea if the pitch down at Taunton was doctored in the last few days, but I do find it amusing that when England do similar it’s referred to as creating a “result wicket.” How the hell can the ECB lecture counties about doctoring when they are just doing a posh version of the same? Of course England can’t play on flat pitches because they get beat. India would have scored more runs, and England wouldn’t. We know this because when England travel abroad they are shockingly bad. 300/350 is par for England regardless of conditions. Anyway the TV experts now inform us these are the best pitches because it makes for more exciting cricket. It makes for more chance of an England win more like. For Sky/ECB that is the same thing. I was also at that test. It was dispiriting at the time because we didn’t take more than one wicket and Amla looked impenetrable Little did I realise I was watching the last Halcyon days of test batting Pick the bones out of this. I’ll probably have to download it when I get home tomorrow. http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/24596772/alastair-cook-wanted-keep-door-ajar-kevin-pietersen-return I’m not going to call him a liar, but he’s wanting it both ways. There was all that culture crap and living and dying for England BS at the time that didn’t sound like he was leaving a door open. Yes, I know, he couldn’t go against his bosses. Then Strauss let his personal feelings get in the way! I’ve always ranked the villains in order in my mind at 2014. 1. Downton 2. Clarke 3. Flower 4. Cook It was the media treatment and handling by of Cook that drove me spare. Hmm interesting! It’s plausible. But Cook seemed mighty irritated at the time when Graves said KP could come back into the team, and the media then turned on Graves. I do think that the biggest division was Flower/Strauss/KP rather than Cook/KP. Hence the savouring by Selvey of Strausss c* remarks. There were some rumours that Cook wasn’t altogether happy with his lot, and felt he had been let down by some people behind the scenes. I think Cook was a stooge, but perhaps a willing one? Who knows? The English cricket establishment projected onto Cook a symbol of everything they wanted. In exchange Cook became a captain with zero criticism against him, and his place never in question. It may be Cook was never these things, and just wanted a quiet life opening the batting. In many ways if he had taken that route he would be much more respected by many of us outsiders. He became the symbol of the ECB. If true I would be a bit pissed off with them myself. But he can’t say he didn’t prosper from the whole business. If he does write a book I hope he tells the truth, warts and all, and doesn’t get Newman to write a Janet and John version. quebecer Sep 6, 2018 / 10:51 pm On the Ashes tour itself and what transpired there, I’d have Gooch on that list too. LordCanisLupus Sep 6, 2018 / 10:54 pm There’s more tonight. Lots more. If Cook didn’t agree with it, why hasn’t he tried to bury the hatchet. He wasn’t the one wronged. I’d always put Inspector Dreyfus higher than Clarke, unless you’re taking the ICC shenanigans (leaked about two weeks before KP was sacked) into account as well. I’m just not sure that anyone could get away with “aplomb” on the scale of Downton’s, having just walked through the door after years “outside cricket”, unless Dreyfus was pulling strings and leaking in the notoriously anal manner customary to his organisation. Oh Lordy… Guess who…. ‘I’ve got a friend who is a legendary American investor called Howard Marks,’ he begins. ‘He has this phrase, “If you want to be different and better, you have to bear the risk of being different and worse”. ‘That’s a really important point. You should always have the bravery to do what you think is right, even if you know there’s a chance it won’t succeed. You know who it is. Newman is in love. The selection Smith definitely got right was bringing Buttler back to the Test team. Frankly, he won this observer over as soon as he did that, because it was ludicrous the previous panel ever left him out. Smith’s eyes light up when Buttler is mentioned. ‘Normally I would say “we” but in this instance I don’t mind saying I felt incredibly strongly Buttler had to play,’ says Smith. ‘I’d watched every ball he’d faced for England in every format. I’d watched him in the IPL and I’d followed him closely. Anyone who knows me will appreciate that selection was no surprise. It had to be done. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/cricket/article-6140239/Ed-Smith-claims-Im-prepared-things-left-field.html Mark Sep 6, 2018 / 10:25 pm ‘Normally I would say “we” but in this instance I don’t mind saying I felt incredibly strongly Buttler had to play,’ says Smith. So what is he saying….The coach and Root didn’t want Butler in the team? A bit early for the new selector to be doing a lap of honour. He still has to find two new openers, and a number three. He got a double first in history at Cambridge and enjoyed a career as an author, academic, journalist and broadcaster. Left a word out. Begins with P….. LOL at “doing a lap of honour”. The big question asked by team director Strauss of Smith and the man he narrowly pipped for the role, Andy Flower, was whether selection was an art or a science? ‘What didn’t get widely reported is that my answer was not what was expected,’ says Smith. ‘I don’t think selection will ever be an exact science. It will never be reduced to an algorithm or a simple equation that gives you the right player. ‘Yes, we can use better statistics and ask better questions of statistics, but there’s always going to be the need for judgment.” He’s patting himself on the back for answering the dumb question “both”. I am mofoing awestruck. What did Flower answer? “I kicked out the top scorer on a tour. What the fuck do you think?” – Narrowly pipped. It’s brilliant. Mark Sep 7, 2018 / 12:30 am He’s doing another lap of honour for smugly answering the question with a special killer answer that nobody expected. (Or so he claims) He’s not a modest man is he? Perhaps Flower passed on that question? It’s crazytown tonight. WTSF is this…. Now is the time finally for @piersmorgan and others to offer unequivocal apology to Alastair Cook for blaming him for Pietersen sacking. https://t.co/DyRDuYdb2Q — Jonathan Agnew (@Aggerscricket) September 6, 2018 Oh come on! He says he agreed with it. He says that KP should have been dropped after the tour despite scoring the most runs. He says he was relieved when Strauss killed the beast. Come on. Piers Morgan, for all his many faults, is going to chew that up and spit it out. Can’t wait for this interview. Agnew and I used to talk a bit in the old days. He once told me Flower got KP reinstated to the squad for India. During the fire and fury he never once mentioned Cook didn’t agree with the post-Ashes KP sacking to me. Yet he’s said he has told Piers for years. Why now to say it? Staggering. Sure, he didn’t need to tell me anything, but you’d have thought he might have mentioned it? I still like Aggers. For all my sins. But I really don’t know what the hell is going on here. Oh Piers. He didn’t agree with it. As I have been telling you for years. Fire away. See you in the morning. I’ve a test match to go to. “He didn’t agree with it.” Well why the f* didn’t he say something then? He’s supposed to be a man of steel. A leader up there with Zeus. And why does he have to keep talking through you Aggers? Are you Lord Charles to his Ray Alan? When Colin Graves said KP might be allowed back, “after some time off” the impression that was given was Cook would resign. Oh what a tangled web you media sycophants do weave………. LordCanisLupus Sep 7, 2018 / 1:05 am “I was involved in the original decision, but the England captain doesn't have the final say on hiring and firing. I agreed with it, but I said 'why don't we give him some time off, we can go away and maybe KP can come back later on. “ @piersmorgan He agreed with it. nonoxcol Sep 7, 2018 / 6:55 am 'I agreed with it' – Alastair Cook to Jonathan Agnew, in your new interview. Did you even listen to what he told you? https://t.co/aFhxqC1qFk — Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) September 6, 2018 Friday is Funday! Somehow I don’t think this belated “ta-dah” moment is going to heal any schisms. What actually possessed them to re-open this for his final Test match though? Did he, did JA, seriously think it would wipe clean the blemish so we could all get down to mourning and worship? Deep Purple Fred Sep 7, 2018 / 7:00 am Exactly the same question came to me too, why would they want his glorious last test played out to a background of this old controversy? Why dscuss it on TMS? I guess the reason is that they feel he is triumphant and vindicated, and they’re in a position to rub it in. Cook has gone on to a glorious and record setting end to his career (according to their analysis) and KP disappeared. They won’t admit that it was a less that optimal episode, and things might have been better for all parties, Cook, KP and England, if they hadn’t fired him. They demand that the critics confess, foreswear, and repent. They are determined to be right, there must be no blemish on Cook. What better time to drive this home than during Cook’s lap of honour? Agnew is a piece of work. “They demand that the critics confess, foreswear, and repent. They are determined to be right, there must be no blemish on Cook. What better time to drive this home than during Cook’s lap of honour?” Sadly, having slept on it, I agree. It’s not as if they don’t have form: the 2015 Ashes had to be re-cast as “Cook’s Redemption” as soon as the Trent Bridge Test finished. Hussain said it, Brian Moore tweeted it (even saying it was vindication for fucking Downton), Ed Smith and Dominic Lawson wrote articles with that theme. Cook, at that time, in that series, had made one fifty (96) in seven innings, and that in defeat. He averaged 31.86 and went on to make 85 (again in defeat) at The Oval. He was about to complete 15 Ashes Tests without a hundred. Root, Broad, Finn, Anderson and Stokes had done all the key work in 2015: it seemed to me they received very little credit in the afterglow. That weekend was an interesting one on BOC. Mark Sep 7, 2018 / 9:15 am Yet he takes all the glory for himself. He said that the 2015 Ashes win was the the vindication of keeping him as captain after the 2014 Ashes loss. So without his fantastic leadership England would not have won back the Ashes? But as you say England’s bowlers plus Root played a more important roles. As Fred says, Agnew is a piece of work. And this is the final straw in his pretence as a neutral pundit. From the twitter gate scandal, and is claim that the account wasn’t being run from the English dressing room, His spats with KPs wife over passwords. imploring us to get behind Cook after the India series in 2014. His delight in revealing within minutes of the private meeting between Strauss and KP that KPs career was over. Tell all dinners on the eve of the last test match evening when Cook told him he was retiring, but Agnew forgot to inform his listerners. He has been nothing but Cooks Public relations manager throughout, and to top it off he now demands an apology from his crictics. Not just worship of his hero you see , but a full blown apology. Fuck you Agnew, and fuck your grubby yellow journalism. A fake pundit for a fake news organisation. Standing O in 28 minutes. I’m frigging steaming right now! I don’t know how you have the stomach for it. TV remains switched off. I dare you boo when he walks out. An Australian view: "I did it. It wasn't my fault. It was someone else's fault. I was captain though." This interview sums up why Cook was a shithouse captain. No ownership. https://t.co/H8TgEfgxcI — Dennis Atif Mian (@DennisCricket_) September 7, 2018 “I was captain” does seem to matter a bit more when it’s “I won in India”. Like Dmitri, I still rank him a distant fourth among those names mentioned above. I’m certainly never going full Maxie and Piers. But, as ever, you can see the agenda from Neptune. Or at least, might we say, from North Korea. The so called “man of steel” mantra has taken a bit of beating today……( I was captain, I didn’t agree with it, but er,er,ah,er maybe I did agree with it. I’ll let Mr Agnew explain it for me) The Emperor has no cloths. Sit! Here’s one for you Dmitri. From the co-signatories of the “Outside Cricket” press release: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2018/sep/07/england-v-india-fifth-test-day-one-live-alastair-cook It’s vomit-inducing enough, then you scroll down to the video….(17 mins ago at time of posting) metatone Sep 7, 2018 / 8:37 am I’m sort of the opposite, I’ve always loved bowling and while there have been great batsmen I loved watching (Richards, Lara, VVS come to mind) my love for the game come from the bowling side. Yet, I’m not taking much pleasure from these pitches. It feels the dial has been turned too far the other way. I don’t want endless draws, teams racking up 600 & 700 like on the worst stretch of pitches between India and SL… but you want a Test match that looks like it will go to Day 5. (All the more so if you’d like to see some of the finer aspects of spin bowling.) I got a few emails with things like “£35 tickets still available for Day 4” and I think that’s kind of symbolic. (Yes, dead rubbers attract less interest, Day 4 is Monday… but… no-one is even sure it will last that long.) d'Arthez Sep 7, 2018 / 9:44 am England have won 9 out of 10 tosses against India recently (for Tests). I expect 4-1 after 4 days confirmed. Perhaps England have a special remote controlled coin that is operated by laptop from a bunker under Loughborough? (This is sarcasm by the way. Just in case any miserable unfunny Selveyistas are reading.) thelegglance Sep 7, 2018 / 9:55 am I’m reflecting on why I’m feeling so furious this morning. And it is the media. Cook has had a very good England career, and it’s his final match. I don’t have a major problem with that, or with the idea of saying goodbye to a player who has played for so long. It ought to be a time for a farewell and a celebration of him, flaws, strengths and all. This determination to paint him as an all time great without qualification, this insistence as with Agnew above to state that black is white, this ridiculous cult of Cook, both at the time of Pietersen and now – to try to ensure that the proper narrative is possible, has all meant that a player who should be lauded for what he was done on the cricket field provokes ire and fury from a significant section of cricket supporters. That’s what I’m not going to forgive. I should be able to appreciate Cook the player. And I can’t. You utter bastards. Yup, 100% agree! The media are in large part the reason why Cook couldn’t just be viewed as a very good opening batsman. . Maybe one day Cook might reflect, that just maybe he got played by a cynical media so desperate to suck up to the ECB agenda. I doubt it mind. For Agnew to use this event to demand…..DEMAND, on the eve for a public apology from his critics is the final admission of yellow journalism. They couldn’t just let him take his bow. No, they had to make it political and then claim that we are the problem. Hanoi Agnew! nonoxcol Sep 7, 2018 / 10:10 am From the link above (Guardian OBO), read this: “There have been a lot of Cook stats going round in the last few days. This is my favourite: the most deliveries faced in Test cricket since Cook made his debut on 1 March 2006. Cook has faced 32 per cent more than anyone else. 32 per cent. No wonder he has nothing left in the tank.” Now look at this, ordered by matches played not balls faced: http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/stats/index.html?class=1;filter=advanced;orderby=matches;spanmin1=01+Mar+2006;spanval1=span;template=results;type=batting 1) He’s played 38.8% more matches than Amla, next batsman on the list 2) TBF, you should use Amla’s figure as the denominator for “more than anyone else” not Cook’s, so it’s 8,280/17,806, not 8,280/26,086. This is actually 46.5% more balls. 3) It follows that Cook has actually faced more balls per match than Amla (162 v 153). 3a) I’m actually making Cook look better, weird or what! 4) The real point is context: Cook is more than 50% ahead of every other batsman’s total matches played (using their figure as denominator). Pietersen is fifth among batsmen on matches in spite of not playing for four and a half years. 5) It’s actually immensely impressive. I’m certain that on, average balls per match, he’s the leading opener and (of the top 20 by balls faced) that he’s behind only Sangakkara (194!), Jayawardene, Dravid, Younis and Chanderpaul on average balls faced per match. It’s just that the original stat somehow obscures the actual achievement by disregarding context and using the wrong benchmark for the percentage. thelegglance Sep 7, 2018 / 10:21 am Exactly. Cook has had a fine career, and one he should be proud of. This need to dress up everything and exaggerate it is utterly bizarre. We’re in a twilight zone where not agreeing that he’s the greatest opener in England history is deemed to be criticism and insufficiently respectful. Nobody doubts Cooks volume of runs or his mental and physical capabilities. In many ways he was a man for this era. (Numerous series, and back to back Test matches) Thats why his feats are more endurance than on the eye. As he he said, he got the most out of his ability. That is something to admire. But the media couldn’t leave it there. They try to pretend he was a god. Up there with Bradman. In my lifetime I have seen Garry Sobbers. I have seen The Richards (Viv & Barry) I have seen The Chappells, Boycott, Clive Lloyd, Gower. (Would any of these journos prefer to watch a Cook hundred above a Gower one? Honestly?) That doesn’t demean Cooks worth, but be honest. I have seen the coming and going of Sachin. His first hundred in England at 16 and two hundred odd days. I saw the genius of Lara. Cook is not off these types of batsman. He was an endurance guy. He didn’t sweat, and we were tirelessly told. For a comparison of style I would put him in with Graeme Smith of SA. Obdurate, left handed opening batsman who got the job done. But if you put it to the English cricket media that Smith was up their with the other greats they would piss themselves laughing. But for some bizarre reason they think the comparison with Cook should be taken seriously. Sorry, I can’t, and I never will. dlpthomas Sep 7, 2018 / 11:28 am There are a lot of Cook stats going round in the last few days, presumably because people want to make the case that Cook is an all time great without mentioning his batting average. The other claim going round is that Cook has no ego. This is just silly. For a start, as the song goes, Ego is not a dirty word (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbQbmbNTyXU) and secondly when people refer to Cooks “bloody-mindedness” they are really referring to his ego. Zephirine Sep 7, 2018 / 10:26 am This is all about people who can’t admit they were wrong, ever. Cook can’t. Agnew can’t. Downton can’t. Selvey can’t. They have to keep self-justifying. The person from the KP saga who now looks most mature is KP, not because of what happened then but because he’s now got a new focus, new interests, has rebuilt his life and ‘moved on’ – funny, weren’t they telling us to do that? Quite. They proved it was about score-settling and Cook with the 2015 Ashes. Nothing’s changed. This – trailing an interview as THE last word on the Pietersen saga – is actually tawdry though. I’m now sat here wanting him to get a hundred for himself, yet fearing the tsunami that would follow. LordCanisLupus Sep 7, 2018 / 10:41 am Started well. The wicket looks very un-Oval like. Fear is India are halfway to Heathrow. To be honest….They were half way to Heathrow when they landed. Interesting that the wicket looks very un Oval like. It’s amazing how often these days these test wickets are very unlike normal. Almost as if someone is ordering them up? My TV remains steadfastly switched off. Are you suggesting that a flat pitch has been ordered for a dead rubber Test match of obvious circumstantial or historic significance? Looks bang on a big score here. Looked comfortable as if the pressure is off. Didn’t see too many tears in our area. Each time he makes contract someone goes “shot” behind me. Nice day for cricket… Deep Purple Fred Sep 7, 2018 / 11:35 am Rumours that the MCG pitch has been mysteriously dug up and smuggled out of the country are entirely unfounded… oreston Sep 7, 2018 / 12:07 pm Wouldn’t surprise me. Since last December that blessed sod, in all its benign roadiness, has become an artifact of cultural, historical and masturbatory significance. It’s a very worrying trend in Australia. God knows what the new Waca is going to be like. It would be disasterous for Australian cricket if the pitches lose their character, any more than they already seem to have. Maxie Allen cricket (@MaxieCricket) Sep 7, 2018 / 11:02 am If Cook had nothing to do with Pietersen’s sacking – if he was just a poor innocent, caught in the crossfire – why did he make the effort to travel to the Danubius hotel in St John’s Wood in order to be present when Pietersen was sacked? Given his form and general “aplomb”, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Downton insisted on it. This would certainly fit with Cook’s reported embarrassed demeanour. He (PD) possessed not a scintilla of the foresight and awareness required to understand how the whole thing would look to (some) England fans who had just paid to endure that farce. It remains my belief that if half the cricket media hadn’t played first-class or Test cricket with him, he’d have been justifiably excoriated for his total and utter absence of common bleeding sense at the time. Maxie Allen cricket (@MaxieCricket) Sep 7, 2018 / 12:17 pm Quite possibly, but Cook agreed, and went. Having done so, he takes authorship of the sacking. Yet he bleats to Agnew that it was everyone else’s fault. Miami Dad's Six Sep 7, 2018 / 12:22 pm At best, he was a captain who picked the side of the suits over that of a fellow player. dlpthomas Sep 7, 2018 / 12:54 pm Cook has also been quoted as saying he was relieved (I think he said like a weight had been lifted from his shoulders) when Strauss sacked KP for good. rpoultz Sep 7, 2018 / 12:55 pm If dear cookie scores a ton will the press mention that he was dropped like they frequently did when Kohli made his 149 in the first test…probably not is my guess. dlpthomas Sep 7, 2018 / 1:10 pm I’d quite like him to get a 100. Cook innings so far : -Leave ✓ -Block✓ -Sq cut✓ -Pull ✓ – Poke through extra ✓ -Clip ✓ -Bread and butter off hip✓ Like all our yesterdays. Frankly? Crowd around me bored. Let me try that again: I’d quite like to see Cook get a 100 but I could do without all the bullshit that would follow. rpoultz Sep 7, 2018 / 1:52 pm The total BS that will follow is really not worth it. But everyone to their own. Sophie Sep 7, 2018 / 2:34 pm I’m just happy if I never hear about his sweating again. I’ve had more exciting days at test cricket. thelegglance Sep 7, 2018 / 2:43 pm So lacking in gratitude. Pipe down young man. After all, as Gower said a little while ago “The legend carries on”. 123 for 1 at tea in a dead rubber. My goodness. It’ll be a while before I shall out 65 sheets for this again. What the hell is Mo doing? Playing for his position I would say. He can see an opportunity at 3. And fair enough too – it is a dead rubber after all. Be curious to see how many in the press make that point. Side on I know but Shami looked like he was bowling superbly with no luck. But wickets had to be taken. Many of us have been complaining about 3 day test matches, modern batsmen throwing their wickets away, etc so surely we can’t complain when 2 top order batsmen knuckle down and fight for survival when faced with excellent bowling? This is proper test match cricket. oreston Sep 7, 2018 / 5:10 pm Experienced opener manages to do his job reasonably well for the first time all series, after numerous disappointing failures, in a dead rubber game. Mind you, looking at the rest of the score card, if this is the thanks he gets when he finally DOES give the team some sort of a platform to build a decent innings perhaps he’s better off out of it. d'Arthez Sep 7, 2018 / 5:46 pm Cook averages nearly 30 in lost Tests. Which is pretty good. Bear in mind that among openers only Sutcliffe averages over 50, and only Hutton and Hobbs average 40 (among openers; minimum of 10 lost matches). If ever anything had been written, this is it. Get ready for Melbourne to the power of Southampton. On both sides. The bit that’s annoying me at the moment is this idea that Cook’s runs count for more because he did it as an opener. This presupposes several things: First, that he would have scored more/averaged more if he played in the middle order. This is nonsense. He’s an opener because of how he plays, not how good he is. In the same way that a Pietersen or Bell wouldn’t have been effective as openers, Cook wouldn’t have been effective at number five. Second, that he’s only the second opener to score 10,000 runs. Yes, and longevity is impressive. But there are four other primary batting positions, and only two opening positions. Why would it surprise anyone there are more players from 3-6 in the list? Third, if facing the new ball skews it so much, are we now going to say spinners’ wickets count double? They spend most of their careers with the old ball, not the new. And they love the bounce and grip of the new ball. It’s not given to spinners because seamers are more effective with it. Duh. Cook was an opener because his mental approach to the game made him one, not because he kindly volunteered to shield a cowering middle order. Batting roles are different through the team, and people usually end up where they’re best suited. man in a barrel Sep 7, 2018 / 3:28 pm And, the middle order sometimes has to face a new ball or 2. If you play for England, the middle order always seems to face a new ball. Botham’s classic against Lillee was mostly scored against a new ball 😁 northernlight71 Sep 7, 2018 / 2:21 pm Selvey will pretty soon be an old and mainly ignored bore, sitting in the corner of a country pub ranting on at nobody in particular. He’ll still get his freebies into matches and be tolerated on the edge of the “journalism” crowd but he’ll be less and less relevant. His coterie at the Guardian diminishes every day.We should just “do a KP” and get on with the worthwhile stuff in our lives while he carries on stumbling self-righteously into his dotage. I must ask: was his 50 really “acclaimed like a double hundred” as per the Guardian OBO? I was here for Tres’s double. No. See my convo with Booth on Twitter. Not via the tv no. Warm reception, sure. Yes. Warm. A nice hand, a few stood up around me. But the crowd are bored. Really bored. I’m bored, and I’m not watching any of it. I actually hope he gets a hundred just to see who in the media can make the biggest fools of themselves. The real contest is not on the field, but in the press box as to who can grovel lowest. Who will be the most pious, surgery coated, imbecilic brown noser? The competition for tit of the year year is very strong. There is even an outside chance that when he scores the final run one of these clowns head will self explode in delirium. It will be worth it just do see one of them self combust in ecstasy. Piers Morgan currently quoting England Test batting averages higher than Cook’s and being told he doesn’t understand Test cricket. The “hiding in the middle order” argument getting a fair old airing from those who allegedly do understand it….. Some might say this is another way of saying he’s outside cricket… Out for 71. There is a God, after all! And here I’ll say that yes he did get a standing ovation, and quite right too. As a player of 159 Tests and that many runs should do. Irrespective of who it is. That’s kind of the point. Indeed, if I were there I would have applauded with the rest. The fact that he got out without either making a match defining score or playing a virtuoso Dexter or KP innings would also be part of my thoughts Now, they could go with either Cook as top scorer starting the collapse, or Cook bravely standing up when others failed. The irony being that the latter is ALWAYS how it should go, but isn’t. Ah-ha, just checked into my hotel and checked the score, and of course someone had beaten me to my point. I wonder indeed 🤔 metatone Sep 7, 2018 / 3:40 pm What might have beens are always questionable, but I watch some of the balls Bumrah is producing and say if he’d been fit from the off it might have been a tight series. Rooto Sep 7, 2018 / 4:04 pm I’ve found a picture of Dmitri in the crowd at the Oval when Cook got his 50. (Warning: ‘joke’ of questionable taste) https://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2016/01/photo-of-the-day-665/ Very happy for Jadeja. Indian team politics seem equally murky, and I can’t really see why Jadeja wasn’t playing by Trent Bridge at the latest.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line976
__label__cc	0.622769	0.377231	Cisco Blog > Security Recognized Excellence in Trustworthy Product Development and Pervasive Data Protection I am proud to announce that last week at RSA the 2017 Info Security Products Guide Global Excellence Awards honored three teams from the Cisco Security and Trust Organization. These teams were recognized for their work in defending the company’s networks, building secure and trustworthy products and services for our customers, and educating our employees – as well as the industry – on leading security practices: Cisco Systems won Gold for Best Overall Security Company of the Year for ensuring pervasive security across Cisco’s global enterprise Security and Trust Engineering was selected as the Gold winner for the Security/Information Technology Department of the Year Cisco’s Pervasive Data Protection and Awareness Program won Silver for the Security/Information Technology Project of the Year I thought it might be worth a bit more detail on each of the three areas honored, for while we are a large security company in products and services, we’re also a security-aware company for always keeping in mind that security must be embedded. Are we perfect? No, we’re not. Are we invested in being better? Absolutely. Our organization’s goal is to ensure that security is embedded everywhere in the company – from product development to operations, information security to data protection, and in our culture. We invest in our people, processes, data, and technology to build an industry leading, secure enterprise – one where transparency and accountability are critical to retain the trust of customers and investors, and protect shareholder value and brand integrity. Ed Paradise, VP Security and Trust Engineering, accepting awards Security and Trust Engineering works tirelessly to ensure the trustworthy product development and value chain security that our customers demand. This includes developing both reliable and verifiable security components and processes – such as the Cisco Secure Development Lifecycle, Secure Boot, Trust Anchor and global certifications – that encourage innovation while maintaining necessary protections. Cisco’s Data Protection Program continues to evolve how we address data protection proactively through our people, process and technology. From reviewing the technologies, tools and processes for capturing and containing cyber incidents, to building data protection leaders internally, the Data Protection Program is making a significant and positive impact on Cisco’s day-to-day operations. I continue to be proud of such an incredible team and partners across the company. Together we achieve incredible things. Of behalf of Cisco, I want to thank the Info Security Products Guide Global Excellent Awards judging panel. We are humbled and honored. [The Info Security Products Guide Global Excellence Awards recognize excellence in every facet of the industry, including products, people behind the successes, and the best companies. See the complete list of winners.] CSDL S&TO Secure Development Lifecycle Trust Anchor Subscribe to Security Connect with Security CERT Vulnerability Analysis Microsoft Security Research & Defense SANS Internet Storm Center Security Advisories for Cisco Products & Alerts	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line986
__label__wiki	0.93534	0.93534	« REVIEW: Rapper Wiz Khalifa sets himself apart by just havin' fun at Susquehanna Bank Center \| Back to Main Page \| Television personality coming to Sands Bethlehem Event Center » REVIEW: The Hold Steady blows away opening night of XPoNential Festival in Camden Categories: Concert Reviews, Music, Music News, New CDs, Susquehanna Bank Center Posted by The Morning Call at 10:57:37 AM on July 27, 2014 On the first song of The Hold Steady’s set Friday at the XPoNential Music Festival at Wiggins Park in Camden, N.J., singer Craig Finn was so animated, waving his arms frantically, that his microphone became unplugged. And as a stage hand rushed to reconnect it, the audience continued singing the words to “Constructive Summer.” That’s the kind of connection The Hold Steady has with its audience, and with good reason. Craig Finn of The Hold Steady at Xponential Festival Photos by Brian Hineline/Special to The Morning Call In a set that lasted 50 minutes, that intensity never flagged. By the third song, Finn -- his glasses fogged and spittle moisturized his lower face – was running back and forth across the stage. But none of that would be nearly as effective if the music from the group endearingly called America’s Best Bar Band wasn’t just as intense. And it was. Over 12 songs, the band burned through favorites such as “Sequestered in Memphis” – one of the night’s best, it was barreling rock that had the crowd clapping along to the beat – and “The Weekenders,” which had Finn snapping his fingers and punching the air to chiming guitars over thumping drums. But a great surprise was that songs The Hold Steady’s excellent new CD, “Teeth Dreams,” released in March, held up well against the old songs. The disc’s first single, “I Hope This Whole Thing Didn’t Frighten You,” was the aforementioned third song, that had Finn hopping along. Even better was the new “The Ambassador” – slow, studied and atmospheric, with a sweet guitar solo as sweet as the breeze that blew off the river at Camden’s waterfront. [That helped make the concert even more enjoyable. Finn told the crowd it was the third time The Hold Steady had played the XPoNential Festival and “we’ve never had anything approaching such a beautiful evening.” But an equally important element of The Hold Steady’s appeal is the band’s literate lyrics. Its songs tell shadowy stories of shadowy characters, delivered in Finn’s half-sung, half-spoken narrative delivery. As Finn navigated through the twisted tale of “Your Little Hoodrat Friend” late in the set, the substantial gathering at the front of the stage hung on every word, and even the expansive lawn audience of several thousand listened along. The band even slowed the center of that song for Finn to thank the crowd and Philadelphia radio station WXPN-FM 88.5, which organizes the event. But then the band burst back in with a vengeance, chugging forward to a close. After nine songs, Finn still was animated, making constant hand gestures and stumbling about the stage, pointing and waving. The closing run of songs was especially good. “Chips Ahoy” had the crowd singing along loudly, and perhaps the group’s best song, “Stuck Between Stations” (how many rock hits out there have lyrical references to poet John Berryman?) rocked hard – though it still misses former keyboard player Franz Nickolay’s contributions. And then the band closed with the more sedate “Southtown Girls.” “Southtown girls won’t blow you away,” Finn sang. But The Hold Steady did. The band will be back in Philadelphia on Sept. 8 at Underground Arts. Tickets, at $20, are on sale at www.ticketweb.com. XPoNential Music Festival presented by Subaru concludes noon-7 p.m. today, Sunday, July 27, in Wiggins Park with performances by Old 97’s, Trigger Hippy featuring Joan Osborne and more, and 1t 7:15 p.m. at Susquehanna Bank Center with Beck, with The Districts and Band of Horses. Tickets, at $60 for Wiggings Park are available at the gate and $20-$75 for Susquehanna Bank Center, are available at www.ticketmaster.com. Linking Blogs \| Digg It \| https://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d8341c4fe353ef01a73df52adb970d Listed below are links to weblogs that reference: Click to follow us to our new home. JOHN J. MOSER has been around long enough to have seen the original Ramones in a small club in New Jersey, U2 from the fourth row of a theater and Bob Dylan's born-again tours. But he also has the number for All-American Rejects' Nick Wheeler on his cell phone, wrote the first story ever done on Jack's Mannequin and hung out in Wiz Khalifa's hotel room. JODI DUCKETT: As The Morning Call's assistant features editor responsible for entertainment, she spends a lot of time surveying the music landscape and sizing up the Valley's festivals and club scene. She's no expert, but enjoys it all — especially artists who resonated in her younger years, such as Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Tracy Chapman, Santana and Joni Mitchell. KATHY LAUER-WILLIAMS enjoys all types of music, from roots rock and folk to classical and opera. Music has been a constant backdrop to her life since she first sat on the steps listening to her mother’s Broadway LPs when she was 2. Since becoming a mother herself, she has become well-versed on the growing genre of kindie rock and, with her son in tow, can boast she has seen a majority of the current kid’s performers from Dan Zanes to They Might Be Giants. STEPHANIE SIGAFOOS: A Jersey native raised in Northeast PA, she was reared in a house littered with 8-tracks, 45s and cassette tapes of The Beatles, Elvis, Meatloaf and Billy Joel. She also grew up on the sounds of Reba McEntire, Garth Brooks and Tim McGraw and can be found traversing the countryside in search of the sounds of a steel guitar. A fan of today's 'new country,' she digs mainstream/country-pop crossovers like Lady Antebellum and Sugarland and other artists that illustrate the genre's diversity. FINDLOCAL METROMIX: Lehigh Valley Music THEMORNINGCALL.COM BLOGS Pioneering, platinum-selling heavy metal group to play area arena Sands Bethlehem Event Center to kick off fall season with free classic rock show Blues great who canceled ArtsQuest fest in 2012 says he'll play Musikfest Cafe in 2015 Taylor Swift was bad at MTV awards. Then again, all of VMAs was pretty bad. 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__label__wiki	0.835149	0.835149	Main Latest SA Politics News Latest SA Politics News Real or fake? Cadbury's 3.7million orphans in SA claim investigated a month ago 67 views by Luc Haasbroek - Cadbury has claimed that there are 3.7 million orphans in South Africa - However, the actual figure is closer to 2.1 million - Additionally, there are under 400 000 double orphans (meaning children who have lost both parents) A recent marketing campaign by Cadbury has urged people to donate money to support South African orphans. In the campaign, Cadbury claims that there are currently 3.7 million orphans in the country. But how does this figure compare with the reality? PAY ATTENTION: Do you want to know what's trending on Briefly.co.za? Join our WhatsApp group today. Cadbury shared the 3.7 million orphan figure on various social media platforms. In a country of just over 57 million people, this makes for a substnatial percentage of the population. However, Cadbury's claim is incorrect. It is an outdated figure that has been shared by Unicef, among other places. Stats SA defines an orphan as any child under the age of 18 who has lost one or both parents. According to AfricaCheck, the total number of orphans in South Africas of a 2016 survey was around 2.4 million. Most recent date from 2018 puts the number at just over 2.2 million. This is one and half million fewer orphans that Cadbury has claimed. Additionally, the number of double orphans (those who have lost both parents) is closer to 375 000. READ ALSO: SA's singletons: People aged 18 to 34 most likely to be single This means that Cadbury's estimate is out of date, as is the number listed by Unicef. Unicef says they will update their information soon, Briefly.co.za has gathered. Enjoyed reading our story? Download BRIEFLY's news app on Google Play now and stay up-to-date with major South African news! SA Politics Latest NewsSA Crime Latest NewsSouth Africa Latest NewsSA Government Latest NewsMzansi Latest News Black Coffee age dali mpofu sjava cyril ramaphosa nomzamo mbatha instagram Explainer: SA economy takes a dive, but what caused the slump?	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line993
__label__cc	0.731871	0.268129	Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health USA - MA - Boston The Department of Health Policy and Management (HPM) is committed to training and inspiring the next generation of health care leaders. Our students and faculty are passionate about making the world a better place by improving health and health care. We work on compelling and important problems, from making the delivery of care safer and more efficient, to expanding health insurance coverage and eliminating disparities, to designing and improving the performance of entire health systems. The Program Manager will be independently responsible for the designing from the ground up, and administering of a 'spark grant' program for students and/or junior faculty -- including designing and implementing application review process, establishing criteria for awards, and monitoring of grant progress an milestones. The Program Manager will serves as a subject matter expert, principal administrative contact, and liaison for internal and external constituencies regarding our faculty's research and for building and retaining community partnerships to further develop the reach of the program. They will manage the Initiative and plan and organize regular, high-profile events at the School. They will create, review and analyze procedures and policies; assess outcomes and implement changes; working very independently with minimal supervision in a work environment of multiple and conflicting priorities. Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following: Develops and implements complex systems and procedures related to the creation of a new 'spark grant' program for students and/or junior faculty Creates new, and evaluates existing policies and procedures; recommends and implements improvements Designs and manages data tracking systems, often using a variety of computer software; prepares statistics and reports on program participation, survey results, budget, and evaluations Has lead/primary responsibility for, Harvard Chan School's new Initiative on Health and Homelessness; Handles a significant amount of detailed work Serves as subject matter expert and principal administrative contact and liaison with departmental or program constituents, other universities or with government agencies; principal source of information on Initiative on Health and Homelessness policies and advises and trains faculty, students or staff on regulations and policies Prepares and maintains unit's records (such as financial, personnel, administrative, student); reviews complex documents, reports, etc., to assure compliance with University requirements and gift terms and notifies supervisor of unusual situations as needed Develops and monitors budget(s) including grants, maintains financial documentation, provides information, research, statistics, and analysis. Makes decisions on expenditures and monitors towards a large or complex defined budget Keeps current on trends, compliance issues, regulations and guidelines regarding subject matter; advises and trains appropriate community members accordingly Manages all logistical aspects of regularly occurring, high-profile events/functions, including staffing, facilities, amenities, meeting materials. Negotiates with hotels, caterers and vendors Trains, oversees, schedules, and directs work of students and/or LHT's and temps related to Initiative events and 'spark grants' May prepare grant proposals; may provide policy interpretation on grant parameters. may serve as liaison to granting institutions/donors Duties and Responsibilities will be included in the "Additional Information" section. PLEASE NOTE: This is a part-time, benefits-eligible position with a 17.5 hour work week. PLEASE NOTE: This position has a term appointment of June 30, 2021, with the possibility of extension. Duties and Responsibilities continued: May serve as IT point person for the Initiative; may oversee relevant websites May assist with staff recruiting efforts; screening resumes, and interviewing applicants in person Coordinates and carries out designated research tasks and projects, making use of selected methodology and materials, field work, library research, statistical analysis, or other investigative techniques Prepares and submits periodic reports of project status to supervisor and donors Collates, organizes, drafts and/or edits material for the preparation of research papers, manuscripts, progress reports, articles or other documents for publication and/or presentation The Harvard T.H. Chan of Public Health is dedicated to building a diverse community of individuals who are committed to contributing to an inclusive environment – including fostering respect for all, serving the greater good, and welcoming individuals from diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. To learn more about the Chan School's mission, objectives, and core values, please visit our website here. Harvard offers an outstanding benefits package including: Time Off: 3- 4 weeks paid vacation, paid holiday break, 12 paid sick days, 11.5 paid holidays, and 3 paid personal days per year. Medical/Dental/Vision: We offer a variety of excellent medical plans, dental & vision plans, all coverage begins as of your start date. Retirement: University-funded retirement plan with full vesting after 3 years of service. Tuition Assistance Program: Competitive tuition assistance program, $40 per class at the Harvard Extension School and discounted options through participating Harvard grad schools. Transportation: Harvard offers a 50% discounted MBTA pass as well as additional options to assist employees in their daily commute. Wellness Options: Harvard offers programs and classes at little or no cost, including stress management, massages, nutrition, meditation and complimentary health services. Harvard access to athletic facilities, libraries, campus events and many discounts throughout metro Boston. Join the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to support our mission of health research and education, and to be a part of the oldest institution of higher learning in the country! Salary Grade: 056 Union: 55 - Hvd Union Cler & Tech Workers 3+ years of related experience is required College degree and/or master degree strongly preferred in a related field of research study, or an equivalent of education plus relevant business experience preferred Proven project and/or program management skills preferred Experience with developing a program strongly preferred Experience working in an academic environment, with students strongly preferred Experience using a variety of computer software and systems preferred Excellent organizational skills preferred Effectively prioritizes work in an environment with multiple and conflicting interests preferred Excellent interpersonal, analytical, and communication skills preferred Works well independently with minimal supervision preferred Handles complex and confidential information with discretion preferred EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER: We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Internal Number: 49646BR About Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders in many disciplines who make a difference globally. The University, which is based in Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts, has an enrollment of over 20,000 degree candidates, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. Harvard has more than 360,000 alumni around the world. The University has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a truly global education. Established in 1636, Harvard is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States. 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__label__cc	0.748824	0.251176	GroobyBucks.com Steven Grooby Photo by @Altomicvisuals February 2, 2011 (Updated April 4, 2019). Caramel: Hi, Steven. Thanks for agreeing to do this interview with me. It’s a great honor for me as you were the first webmaster to provide what I was looking for in adult online entertainment and it’s no secret that I think you’re the best at it out there today. There are so many different takes on the origin of your nickname “seanchai.” Can we settle this here once and for all? Steven: When I started the sites it was for a bit of fun, no intention of being a large business so I decided to come up with a moniker. Given that I’ve a Anglo-Scots-Irish background and our clan were the “storytellers” in Scotland, I used the Celtic name “seanchai” … which means just that, “seanchai”. Some people thought I was Asian, some that my name was Sean. In the business side of what I do, it’s either Steven or Steven Grooby. Most people know my real name but I’ve retained seanchai (pronounced with all the vowels see an kaa ee … or thereabouts). Caramel: 11 years ago, I thought you were an Asian webmaster named Sean, when you founded your first adult transsexual websites, GroobyGirls.com and Ladyboy-Ladyboy.com. The average fan of your websites probably imagines you shooting beautiful transsexuals in lavish sets 24-7 and having your pick of the litter as if you have a harem. Many don’t know that running a prominent adult company involves spending hours at the computer working with your staff and customers. I have to admit that even when I first subscribed to Shemale Yum the year it was launched, I imagined you having a “swinging from the chandeliers” lifestyle. What is it like being Steven G#####n on an average day? Steven: Haha … if only they knew. I akin myself to something Keith Richards said, along the lines of that everyone expects after a gig for him to go partying, when he usually goes home, has a cup of tea and watches the footie. When we started the company, we were the only people shooting and we were “stars” in that the girls loved us, we were traveling the world, getting into trouble in some seriously fucked up places (searching for new models) and did have our pick of the bunch … but seriously how long can you do that for? A typical day would be to arrive at the office around 9am, work with the designer and affiliate manager on what they’re doing and then spend the next 8+ hrs in front of the computer … checking our site forums and answering questions, arranging new business, corresponding with models and photographers, setting updates for the coming weeks, etc, etc. Most of my job is being the hub and then delegating. We’ve about 18 support staff worldwide and about 17 photographers so a lot of working with them. Until a year ago, I’d get home and have that cup of tea and watch the footie … but now I take my son out for a walk (I walk and he gets pushed) which is a lot of fun. As a business owner, there are no weekends off and no nights off – but that’s the price you pay for doing something you love. Caramel: Congratulations on being a daddy. The August 2008 edition of AVN Online magazine mentioned you in an article about brand name leveraging in the same thread as Hustler magazine. Was it ever a conscious decision for you to create an online empire in the tradition of Hustler, Playboy and Penthouse? I’m asking this question particualrly because in the world of transsexual adult entertainment, you’re today’s Internet version of Larry Flynt, Hugh Hefner or Bob Guccione. Steven: I was surprised as anyone to see us alongside Hustler. I’m a big fan of Larry Flynt especially the fact he’s so politically opinionated and also likes to surprise his viewers every now and again. It wasn’t a conscious decision, but a pure business one. When we spun off an Asian site with Ladyboy-Ladyboy it was instinctive that there should be enough revenue to support it, Black-Tgirls was the same. Not every site has been so successful, we’ve had failures but as part of an “empire” the more profitable entities help support the lesser ones and that’s always been integral. I’ve also made it a point to do some very specific things within our company, only working with exclusive photographers and showing exclusive content, allowing public forums for feedback and making the sites very personal by having named webmasters and photographers. Caramel: I see you as a handsome and masculine straight male with an attraction to both genetically born women and transsexual women. How old were you when you began to develop an interest in transsexuals? Steven: Thanks for the compliment … you’ve obviously never met me! Masculine and straight yes. I developed an interest in the concept of transsexualism in my early teens, I remember seeing a few photos and just thinking it was totally strange but exciting. I have a lot of ideas where I’d like to cross over into mainstream (not porn) in the future, but it’s having the time. I’ve always maintained that the attraction of men to transsexuals is a naughtiness … a forbidden fruit and that it’s a very visual attraction, more than any sexuality or sexual function. Caramel: Most men I hear from do think of transsexuals as naughty, forbidden fruit, so to speak. I get the “shemale” sex object thing just like I got the “chocolate fantasy thing” before I began transitioning. However, there are also a lot of guys who respectfully treat us like women. They’re harder to find, but out there. Fortunately for both of us, both types enjoy ts adult entertainment, and more and more every year. Everyone has to start somewhere and I think you’ve paid your dues just like everyone else does; at the beginning. You didn’t just create Shemale Yum overnight. Is it true that your Internet beginning was with Geocities sites? Steven: Actually I’d forgotten it was a Geocities site but of course, the original site was. Then, a bit free hosting I had attached to my ISP. All the sites were grooby.com/~yum or /~asian back then. After a few months of busting the free hosting I bought a little and put an AVS site up, making $10 a sale … which then eventually ended up as a paysite, $10 for 3 months access. It just took off from there. Caramel: There are a few current “It Girls” and one of them is Kimber James. When you launched her blog, did you have any idea it would end up with a #1 Google ranking? I mean, I had a good feeling that she’d rise to stardom at first glance. Did you have that same instinct? Steven: I blew it with Kimber James. Gia Darling actually tried to put the two of us together, before she’d worked with anyone else. She didn’t have the boobs and was Gia’s assistant at the time. I wasn’t able to do the shoot myself and handed it off to Buddy Wood, but they never got it together for a while and she premiered on DVD. We should have been the first. Kimber is the closest TS I’ve seen to crossing over to the mainstream porn industry to date. She’s got an awesome look and photographs incredibly well, I was worried that her appeal might be limited by too much of the “same look” but she’s changed it up recently and really just looks awesome. The blog we run was intended to promote GroobyGirls.com and her DVD originally (of which she is on a profit-share) but I think we’re one of the biggest affiliates to her website, so it’s worked out good for both of us and as you know, we have a few other models fan blogs. Girls I was spot on with, knowing they’d be the “It Model” … were Khloe Hart & Hazel Tucker … but you didn’t have to be a genius to guess a them. Caramel: I’m a serious Gia Darling fan, for her work and business sense. Khloe is sensational in print an on screen and I can’t go on enough about Hazel, yet another “It Girl” and a sweetheart. Let’s say there’s a Grooby website fan who’s fairly young, in good shape, pretty well hung and can perform in either top or bottom roles. Where would he have to go to do a shoot with one or more of your models? Must he be in Los Angeles, New York City or in Las Vegas? Steven: If there was a male performer like that, ready to go and in any of those cities, we could get him work, but male performers need to realize, their payments are far less than the tgirl model in our productions. Those that can get to Vegas could probably work on TranSexDomination.com as well as other productions to make it more worthwhile. Caramel: You’ve described your blog “Fallen Angels and Lost Devils” as the hardest blog you’ve ever had to write. Anyone with sense doesn’t have to ask you why. It’s mission is to honor and inform about all the transsexual models who have died in the industry. I really don’t have any questions about it but I wanted to give the blog a plug because it was an extremely thoughtful thing to do. Steven: The “Fallen Angel’s” Blog was a good place to put all the girls together (and the few guys) and really illustrates how young and violently many of the tgirls are when they die. It doesn’t really touch on Thailand or the PI either as it’s too hard to verify there and I’d estimate as many as 10% of the models on early Brazilian Transsexuals updates may have passed. I’ve been personally affected by a few of these. Obviously the three photographers who worked for us, especially Eric in Thailand whose death from cancer was tragic but also Lisa Kage was a very good friend and various other girls I’d had contact with over the years. Caramel: You’ve had nice things to say about SMCRevenue, a company I trust which produce sites like Kimber’s and many more. The content is great and their customer service practices are honest and reputable. However, there are also some shady sites out there. I promoted two major companies and when I learned that they’d resorted to pre-checked cross selling, I stopped promoting them. I know that you’re a teddy bear, Steven, but I’ve seen you enraged over websites who upsell with pre-checked cross sales and I wouldn’t want to be on your bad side. You’re passionate about integrity and have no tolerance for companies that burn customers by tricking people into accepting extra fees. It drives disgruntled customers away from signing up to reputable sites and in some cases, they’ve had to cancel banged credit cards to end charges. What can we do to protect customers from getting burned and put disreputable companies out of business when what they’re doing is legal? The laws allow them to work their way around the rules of what’s right and what’s wrong so do we try to get those laws changed or go after the websites one by one? Steven: I’m a terrible salesman. Absolutely useless. I can only sell products that I believe in which is why my own companies sites are an easy sell, I stand behind them 100%. There are plenty of other good companies out there, the job that Isa has done with SMCRevenue is awesome and I love promoting them as well as some of the solo girls sites like Krissy4u.com, WendyWilliamsxxx.com, some of the sites from BluePixels.com, etc. They’re easy sells because they run reputable companies, with great content and don’t rip off the consumer. There will only ever be so many consumers out there willing to buy trans porn, if they get ripped off once or twice then they will just quit joining sites altogether. Those sites are short term business minded and effectively driving the consumer to search out free pirated content. I advocate and encourage all affiliates not to do business with companies who pre-check a cross sale or make it difficult to cancel. It may be legal at the moment, but it’s poor business ethics. I’d ask every fan forum and blog to name the companies NOT to do business with… I’ll start, TrannyPay…they rip off their customers by doing pre-checked cross sales. Caramel: I love BluePixels.com sites also and I’m exited about interviewing Luci May from that group this week. TGirl Japan is one of your most successful websites to date. Many of us immediately embraced the opportunity to see Japanese new-half photos and videos without those annoying mosaics which prevented us from seeing the models’ genitalia. Now that you’ve conquered the majority of adult transgender content from Asia, would it be possible to take on China? Steven: TGirlJapan.com has been one of our fastest growing, but it’s got a long way to catch up with Shemale Yum, Ladyboy-Ladyboy, Franks-Tgirl World, Black T-girls or Brazilian Transsexuals. I’ve had so many mis-hits with getting a Japanese producer. I knew the potential for a great website was always there, but the Japanese are almost impossible to work with being a gaijin. When Hiro contacted me, I was on a plane to meet him in Tokyo within 72 hrs, we completed the deal in 72 hours and launched the site 4 months later. We’re still planning a full Japanese language roll-out of the site. The difference with China is that porn is illegal, although they’re opening up a lot and there are even sex shops (selling toys and novelties but not photos/videos) it’s near impossible to shoot there. I have a number of Chinese transsexuals ready to work but it could be years. You can be assured though, that we’re constantly striving to look for new places and avenues. Caramel: Oh, there’s no doubt in my mind and I’ll be right there whenever something new comes up. So what do you have up your sleeve for us next? Steven: I’m not a big fan of announcements before a site is due to be launched which is why we spring them on you quite fast. What is not a secret is that the huge reworking of GroobyGirls.com and Black-TGirls.com will follow through to Franks-TgirlWorld.com, Ladyboy-Ladyboy.com and Brazilian-Transsexuals.com in the following months. It’s a mammoth task, as every set and video needs to be re-added to the new database and categories added for each, before the graphic interface is designed and made user friendly, but the experience it gives the users is the best of any transsexual websites around. We will have one all new exciting site within the next few months – and hopefully one more later in the summer – and then onto a major project in the transgender niche which is a bit of a departure for our current business models … stay tuned! Caramel: Thank you so much, Steven. I had a feeling that Steven wouldn’t reveal Grooby’s next big project, but I just had to ask anyway. I wouldn’t have told either. The element of surprise is a powerful weapon and competition is fierce out there. I hope that a lot of readers out there will pay special attention to our discussion about pre-checked sales and if you ever have a question about a website you’re debating subscribing to, just write me here so I can look into it for you. I do my best to stay in the loop about questionable practices, to discuss issues with the pros and deliver an informed rapid response. I’m not like a restaurant critic who gets a free meal for every review I write. I pay my hard-earned money for memberships also and don’t want to get ripped off any more than you do. I hope you’ve enjoyed this interview. For updates, follow @GroobySteven on Twitter. A full list of Grooby sites is below: 3W Trans (Default Tour) Link \| (Third World Ladyboys) Link \| Asian American TGirls Asian TGirl (Black TGirls) Link \| Bob’s TGirls (Bob’s TGirls) Link \| Brazil TGirls XXX (Brazil TGirls XXX) Link \| (Brazilian Transsexuals) Link \| (Franks T-Girl World) Link \| (Grooby Girls) Link \| Grooby VR Hairy In America Just VR Krissy 4 U (Ladyboy-Ladyboy) Link \| T.Porn TGirl 40 TGirl BBW (TGirl Japan) Link \| TGirl Japan Hardcore TGirl Pornstar (TGirl Pornstar) Link \| TGirl PostOp TGirlSex.XXX (TGirlSex.XXX) Link \| (The Grooby Archives) Link \| (vendo_test) Link \| Transex Domination (Transex Domination** (closed to affiliate promotion)) Link \| (TS Domino Presley) Link \| One thought on “Interview With Steven Grooby” Pingback: Black-TGirls Review: Joslyn Returns! – caramelstgirls.com	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1014
__label__wiki	0.991267	0.991267	Category: News Wales Carl Sargeant death ruled as suicide as coroner questions pastoral care By Eleanor Barlow, Reporter 11th July 2019 News Wales A coroner has raised concerns about the support given by the Welsh Government to ministers who lose their posts as he concluded the death of politician Carl Sargeant was suicide. Drugs readily available and violence rife at new prison in Wrexham, inspection reveals By Flora Thompson, Home Affairs Correspondent 11th July 2019 News Wales Drugs and violence are rife at a new prison being run by inexperienced staff, according to a watchdog. Drugs were “readily available” at HMP Berwyn, with nearly half of prisoners Widow of politician believed ‘100%’ his denial over allegations of groping women By Eleanor Barlow, Reporter 9th July 2019 News Wales The widow of Welsh politician Carl Sargeant has told his inquest she believed him “100%” when he denied allegations he had groped and touched women. Alyn and Deeside AM Mr Ex-First Minister accused of being a liar at inquest into Carl Sargeant’s death The former first minister of Wales has been accused of being a liar at the inquest into the death of politician Carl Sargeant. Mr Sargeant, the Alyn and Deeside AM, Law graduate jailed for targeting 150 vulnerable children to perform sex acts By Adam Hale, Reporter 5th July 2019 News Wales An aspiring lawyer has been jailed for 10 years after recording more than 150 children carrying out sex acts he told them to perform. Owain Thomas (pictured), 29, targeted “vulnerable” Judge approves blood transfusion for gravely ill baby son of Jehovah’s witness By Brian Farmer, Reporter 3rd July 2019 News Wales A High Court judge has ruled that a sick baby whose mother is a Jehovah’s Witness should have a blood transfusion. Mr Justice MacDonald concluded that a transfusion was in Swansea MP who lost her son breaks down over new fund to help bereaved parents By Josh Thomas, Parliamentary Staff 3rd July 2019 News Wales An MP who lost her own son broke down in tears in the Commons as she spoke about a new fund to help bereaved parents pay for funerals during their Gwent Police must ‘immediately’ overhaul its child custody procedures By Flora Thompson 27th June 2019 News Wales A police force has been told to immediately review its policy on keeping children in custody after concerns were raised by inspectors. Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & New £7.8m Gwynedd extra care facility having positive impact on residents By Iain MacDonald 21st June 2019 News Wales Guests at the official opening of a housing association’s £7.8m extra care facility in Porthmadog heard about its positive impact on the lives of residents. Grŵp Cynefin’s Hafod y Gest Film launched at USW to help celebrate 100 years of Learning Disability Nursing By Iain MacDonald 19th June 2019 Education & Training, News Wales A film celebrating 100 Years of Learning Disability Nursing (LDN) has been launched at an event at the University of South Wales (USW). Vaughan Gething, Welsh Government Cabinet Secretary for	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1016
__label__cc	0.594318	0.405682	Born to Brand. The bar was situated directly across the road from where Michael had spent his day pushing his brand. Clean, white and spacious, the high ceiling gave a beautiful echo to the low murmuring of the other guests. The main bar was on the second floor. It was five hundred square meters and overlooked the Our All Father’s Platz, a beautiful green space in the heart of Frankfurt, full of large red and white roses and English Oak. A sweet smelling place. It had once been an old Opera house. It was now this bar. The garden and the bar were reserved for Level 6 or higher Beamten. A large portrait of Our All Father hung on the main wall. Watching. They had called the bar ‘Coalition’, and it had been the first of its kind: the first in a long range of Coalition owned franchises, brands, products and services. It had served as a prototype for many bars like it: high ceilinged spaces, white walls, high-level chatter, and huge windows letting in the sunlight from another Coalition day. A Coalition Bar in every mega-city. Michael sipped on his Gin and gazed out at the city of his birth. His Frankfurt. He’d done well here. Twenty-three years old and already a Level 7 Beamter. He’d just been good at it, a natural and everybody had said so. At sixteen, Michael stood in line with all the other boys from his school to take part in his Passing. He would never forget the excitement he had felt: the joy of finally passing from a non-network existence and into the world of RACHEL and the Coalition. One by one the boys would walk to the table and under the supervision of the Coalition teachers take the three pills that would change their lives for ever. Somewhere, the boys had known, the girls would be queuing and Passing too. Finally, Michael too had reached the Passing table, and the Headmaster then spoke the words that would lead to the other side and change his life for ever. Our All Father We ask you to guide Michael’s Influence. We offer his brand to you. May he leverage his reach unto you in the hope that it is worthy. May he give his mind and body to our beloved RACHEL. May he love brands, or be removed trying. May his benchmark be strong. Shopping is freedom. A quick nod from the Headmaster and Michael popped the Brandsulin, Flucermol and RACHEL pills into his mouth. He then walked to his designated Passing Area where they would wait for the effects to kick in and complete their Passing from insignificance and into the Coalition Network. He had felt the effects of Bransulin almost immediately. His consciousness flooded by a stream of ideas, messages, songs and blip clips for a whole range of things that he suddenly needed. He found that he could hold, process and sort through hundreds of these tiny brand messages simultaneously and soon his network was engulfed by high-level Influence Beamters, all looking to sell their brand. This was the Incoming. Then The Flucermol kicked in: Michael threw his head back, gasping for air, his whole being realising that this was what he had always meant to do, his birthright. He was outgoing now. Projecting his brand, selling his wares, a bright, new glowing light within the Coalition network that was telling an exquisite and irresistible story. And then she came. RACHEL. Her voice was soft and gentle. She had welcomed him into the network. A shining star, she had called him. Men, Level 5 Beamter, had collected him, taken him directly from the Passing Area and taken him to the Priority Building. The journey had only taken twenty-three minutes but his he had already reached a Level 2 Beamter Benchmark by the time he had arrived. He had been, or so they kept telling him, even now, born for the network. Born to brand. Looking around the bar, it struck him again how much younger he was than his peers. He could sense their version of RACHEL communicating with his, comparing Influence Benchmarks and Personal Brand Performance. Every so often one would glance at him with a look of shock, surprise horror, or hate. The thing was, he could never really stop: he was always working, branding, doing – shopping had set him free. He was headed for the 44th floor of the coalition tower. Everybody could sense it. He would consume everything. A sip of Gin. The network rushed to shop for Gin. A blink and a glance at RACHEL’s timepiece slightly to the left of his mind’s eye. In ten minutes he would need to be at his Hot House for the evening. RACHEL had informed him that he’d been Selected for the evening and he briefly wondered who she would be this time. She would know of him, that would be certain. A sip of Gin. The network rushed to shop for Gin. Gin is sold out. A sip of Gin. He sensed the flash before the blast hit him: a ball of white light, heat and shattered glass pushing him up from his chair, across the room and smashing him into the huge portrait of Our All Father. The flames scorching the white walls of the Original Coalition. A forbidden colour. RACHEL was shutting down non-vital systems while he was still in mid-air, speaking calmly to him, telling him that he would survive and that the network had already identified and removed the terrorists. His Coalition shirt and trousers were torn and tattered. And sold out. No one was removing him today. About Memories From The Future: “Memories From The Future” is a weekly series written exclusively for bynd48 by Marcus John Henry Brown. Set in 2059, the series is based upon his Black Operatives Department Talks and explores technologies, society and businesses of the present by imagining them in a chilling near-future. Marcus John Henry BrownMemories From The FutureRachel Published by Marcus John Henry Brown Born the son of lorry driving Scotsman, Marcus moved to Germany in 1993 having studied Art & Social context at Dartington College of Arts. He founded MJHB Office for Creative Intelligence in 2014, CreativeWalks.com in 2015 and The Black Operatives Department in 2017. “Marcus Brown is turning in some of the finest, most important culture criticism being produced today.” – Chris Locke, author of “The Cluetrain Manifesto”. Marcus John Henry Brown: The Sensorium Process Militia Immaculata No influence, no brand, no future. Welcome To The Sensorium. Wie stehen die Chancen für Apple Pay in Deutschland?	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1020
__label__wiki	0.798777	0.798777	Spike Lee Rocks Head-To-Toe Purple For Prince Tribute On Oscars Red Carpet Alanna Vagianos HuffPost February 24, 2019 Spike Lee paid tribute to the iconic Prince on the Oscars red carpet Sunday night. The “BlacKkKlansman” director sported a necklace of Prince’s love symbol with an orange pendant in the middle. The symbol, which he adopted as his stage name after a contract negotiation issue with Warner Bros., is infamously unpronounceable ― hence why he was called “the artist formerly known as Prince” for several years. Lee, who’s up for Best Director, paired the Prince symbol with a purple suit and a purple hat ― the singer’s signature color. He walked the red carpet with his wife, Tonya Lewis Lee. Spike Lee arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 24, 2019, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP) (Photo: Charles Sykes/Invision/AP) The filmmaker also paid homage to his 1989 film “Do the Right Thing” by wearing knuckle rings that read “Hate” and “Love.” Lee was nominated for an Oscar in 1990 for Best Screenplay but didn’t win. Lee at the Oscars on Sunday night. (Photo: Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP) Lee, who missed out on a Best Director nomination for his celebrated 1989 classic, is only the sixth black filmmaker to be nominated for a Best Director Oscar. In addition to the Best Director nomination, “BlacKkKlansman” was also nominated for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing and Best Original Score. Actor Adam Driver was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Flip Zimmerman in the film. The Oscars Are Only As Hellish As Everything Else Going On In America Right Now Oscars 2019: See All The Best Dressed Celebrities At The Academy Awards Billy Porter Slays Oscars 2019 Red Carpet With Velvet Tuxedo Dress Also on HuffPost Mahershala Ali (right) and his wife Amatus-Sami Karim Gloria Campano, from left, Bradley Cooper, and Irina Shayk Jason Momoa and Lisa Bonet Michael B Jordan (right) Kasey Musgraves #movies #the-oscars #prince #spike-lee #blackkklansman Shawn Mendes Packs on PDA With Camila Cabello Shortly After Denying Dating Rumours	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1022
__label__wiki	0.616965	0.616965	DigiLocker Digital India facing hurdles on multiple fronts: Report "This is largely due to the fact that providing mobile connectivity in such locations is not commercially viable for service providers," it added.PTI \| January 12, 2017, 15:15 IST NEW DELHI: The Centre's ambitious Digital India programme is facing multiple challenges in successful implementation due to lack of clarity in policies and infrastructural bottlenecks, according to a report. The issues pertaining to taxation and other regulatory guidelines have proved to be roadblocks in advancing with the programme, while contracting challenges also played a spoilsport, the joint report by Assocham-Deloitte said. "Some of the common policy hurdles include lack of clarity in FDI policies, which have impacted the growth of e-commerce. Transport services like Uber have had frequent run-ins with local governments due to legacy policy frameworks which have not become attuned to the changing business landscape," it said. Moreover, many request for proposals (RFPs) issued by the government are not being picked up by competent private sector organisations since they are not commercially viable, the report added. "The biggest challenge faced by Digital India programme is the slow/delayed infrastructure development. Spectrum availability in Indian metros is about a tenth of the same in cities in developed countries. This has put a major roadblock in providing high speed data services," it said. The joint study observed that for the Digital India to have a large scale impact on citizens across the nation, the digital divide needs to be addressed through last mile connectivity in remote rural areas, as currently, over 55,000 villages remain deprived of mobile connectivity. "This is largely due to the fact that providing mobile connectivity in such locations is not commercially viable for service providers," it added. The report estimated that India needs over 80 lakh hotspots as against the availability of about 31,000 hotspots at present to reach the global level of one Wi-Fi hotspot penetration for every 150 people. "For digital technology to be accessible to every citizen, significant efforts are needed to customise apps and services to cater to local needs. Finding vendors who can provide such applications has become a challenge," the report pointed out. With proliferation of cloud-based services like DigiLocker, data security has emerged as a major challenge, revealed the report. To enable development of digital infrastructure, it said that a uniform (Right of Way) RoW policy across all states with a reasonable cost structure is required along with a single window mechanism for granting RoW permissions. PPP models must be explored for sustainable development of digital infrastructure, as has been the case for civic infrastructure projects like roads and metro. The government should try to make additional spectrum available to telecom service providers for deployment of high speed data networks. Moreover, startups need to be incentivised for the development of the last mile infrastructure and localised services and applications, it suggested. The report said the existing government infrastructure assets like post offices and other buildings should be further leveraged for provision of digital services. In rural and remote areas, private sector players should be incentivised to provide last mile connectivity. Tags : Corporate, DigiLocker Most Read in Corporate ICICI Bank CTO Madhivanan Balakrishnan resigns; set to join IDFC First Bank Srinivas Rao Kollipara joins Larsen & Toubro IDPL as CIO AI, Analytics are key drivers of digital transformation TMF Group appoints Sajith Chakkingal as the Head of Global Infrastructure Sathyanarayanan A. retires from Ashok Leyland after four decades	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1024
__label__cc	0.646361	0.353639	Jorgora Posted by Cirsova on November 26, 2012 Jorgora is a mound or ruin of indeterminate purpose and origin in an isolated northern region of the Cirsovan Empire, on the edge of the ice sheets. It was discovered by imperial cartographers who were surveying the boundaries of Ungoza following its annexation. It lays along the southern ice sheet, nestled in a corridor between the GreatNorthernForests and the GatlianMountains, completely isolated from the rest of Ungoza. Though it is within the boundaries of province, it is considered inaccessible, except for the southern approach from Davou in Cirsova. Because of its remoteness, it has not been studied extensively. The mound takes its name from the legendary Jorgora, whose origins are extolled in a handful of surviving fragments written in the Northern tongue; whether the mound in Ungoza and the mound in the stories are the same is unknown. Interestingly, descriptions of fabled Jorgora in late pre-contact Polaran writings closely match the geographic features of the mound and its location. Some scholars, such as Garick Hellos of Owen, have proposed that the Tyuravelinai may have discovered the mound and attributed this mysterious outcropping with mystical properties, ascribing the legend of Jorgora to it. The mound would have been located at the far, southern range of their civilization and in a particularly isolated region, adding to its mystery and fascination; accounts of Jorgora on the edge of the ice date back only as far as late Polaran writings. If this is the case, legendary Jorgora and this mound could be one in the same. The legend of Jorgora, in brief, is as follows: The ancient Northern Folk, the Tyuravelinai, believed that powerful dreamers could manifest their dreams in the waking world as well as in the dreaming world.* Jorgora was built both in the waking world and the dreaming world by an unnamed individual who had consumed a large quantity of Shuul. Apparently, an undertaking as large as the construction of a palace would have required consuming an inadvisably large dose of Shuul, thereby rendering the dreamer, regardless of power, inanimate for such a period of time that severe dehydration and death could occur. Thus, the creator died, with his dream palace becoming an eternal tomb for his mind. Jorgora is therefore seen as an allegory for reaching for grandiose and impractical goals with poor preparation or foresight. In addition to following the valley north from Davou, some have claimed that Jorgora may be visited by direct route by the Shuul users of Polaris, though the validity of any such account is going to be in question. Individuals visiting the mound by this method describe Jorgora as a radically different place than the one which adventurers may find through natural means. *: This conclusion may be inaccurate. Shuul’s role in the Northern Civilization is not fully understood. A growing minority of scholars also believe that the legend of Jorgora, at least as we understand it today, is uniquely Polaran, with any connection to the old Tyuravelinai tenuous at best, as no manuscripts recording this oral tale pre-date any last known inhabitation of Elefloe or any other cities of the Northern Folk, save Polaris, whose inhabitants never speak to outsiders about the fall of their civilization in the wake of the growing ice sheet. This entry was posted in Encyclopedia Entry, Jorgora, Ungoza and tagged Jorgora, Ungoza. Bookmark the permalink. Music – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Loom of the Land On Arcane Institutes	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1025
__label__wiki	0.946013	0.946013	ClemsonGRIT Littlejohn Coliseum Clemson Men's Basketball No. 18 Tigers Finish Regular Season at Syracuse on Saturday GAMEDAY SETUP No. 18/18 CLEMSON (22-7, 11-6 ACC) vs. SYRACUSE (18-12, 7-10 ACC) Date: Saturday, March 3 Tipoff: 2 p.m. ET Arena: Carrier Dome (35,446) Radio: CTN (Don Munson-pbp; Tim Bourret-color) TV: ACCN (Evan Lepler-pbp; Jason Capel-color) • Clemson is 4-2 all-time against Syracuse. • The Tigers have won two-out-of-the-last-three matchups. • Clemson clinched the sixth 15-win season at home. It ties for the regular season win record in program history. • With a win at Syracuse, Clemson can clinch its most wins under head coach Brad Brownell at Clemson with 23. It would mark the most regular season wins under Brownell in his tenure at Clemson. • Clemson’s adjusted defensive efficiency ranks 5th (93.0) nationally. Last season the Tigers finished ranked 86th (100.5). CU Series W-L record: Clemson is 4-2 all-time against Syracuse. Streak: None. TIGER TRACKS • With wins over Georgia Tech and Florida State to close out February, the Tigers clinched winning months in both January and February for the first time since 1990. • The Tigers’ win over Florida State marked a new program record for ACC wins during the regular season with 11. The 11 wins ties for the most all-time in any conference for Clemson. (Posted 11 wins in the Southern Conference in 1951-52). • Marcquise Reed tallied his 10th 20-point outing of the season with 22 points on 7-for-11 shooting in a 13-point win over Florida State (Feb. 28). • Gabe DeVoe remains 11th all-time in the Clemson record book for threes in a career (154). He needs just one more to tie for 10th. • Clemson tied for the third most home wins in a single season with 15 (79-80; 86-87; 10-11). It ties for the most in program history during the regular season. • In 2006-07 and 2013-14, three of the Tigers’ record 16 home wins came during postseason play in the NIT – so they achieved 13 in regular season play. U.S. Captures World University Games Gold Medal USA Looks for Gold in Rematch with Ukraine Simms Powers USA to Gritty Victory over Israel USA Earns Gritty Victory Over Germany, 76-74	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1028
__label__wiki	0.83474	0.83474	Colored Writers Crafted For Value Richest Man Richest Woman The First university In Nigeria is ….. ? June 14, 2019 Brambaifa Felix Nigeria, Africa 0 The First University In Nigeria We all like certain things and this, forms the basis of our most common desires. My most basic intellectual need is to know much about my reality or existence or rather the fabric it is made of. And as a Nigerian i like to know things about my country. And just like the post on the first storey building in Nigeria, i also would like to share some facts about the first university in Nigeria. And that University would be the University of Ibadan or UI! This university was established in 1948 as the University College of Ibadan, as a College of the University of London which was responsible for the supervision of its academic programs and awarded degrees until 1967. The establishment of the university of Ibadan was prompted by the recommendation of the Asquith and the Elliot Commissions on Higher Education in the then British colonies, that two University Colleges of the University of London be set up in Ghana and Nigeria. It was structured upon the existing structure of the Yaba College which was created in 1932 in Yaba, Lagos, as the first tertiary educational institute in Nigeria, with the sole aim of providing post-secondary vocational education and teacher training to Africans. The staff and student community was craved out from Yaba college, to form the new University College of Ibadan. The University was declared open on 18 January 1948 but became a full-fledged independent university in early 1963. Rt. Hon. Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa ( the first Prime Minister of Nigeria ) in late 1963 would become the first Chancellor of the university. While Kenneth Dike (a Nigerian historian), would become first Nigerian vice-chancellor of the university. Even though it is considered as the first university in Nigeria, it would not become autonomous till 1963. Unlike the university of Nigeria established as an autonomous university in 1960. And there you have it. The essentials details about the first university in Nigeria. The First Storey Building In Nigeria The First University In The World The Name Nigeria Was Given by Who? The Most Expensive Dress In The World (2019) The Most Expensive Shoe In The World (2019) The Most Expensive House In The World (2019) 9 Different Types of Bank Accounts Africa Alcohol American celebrities from canada Banking Blogger Castor Oil Celebrity News Coffee Constipation Days Without Sleep Erection Famous Nigerian Male Singers Good Night Sleep Health Health Benefits How to fetch as Google in new search console Intermittent fasting Jeff Bezos Jelqing Most Expensive Most Expensive Watch Natural Stool Softener Nigerain female celebrities Nigeria Nigerian celebrities Nigerian Celebrity Nigerian celebrity stories Nigerian female celebrities Nigerian Male Celebrities Odour Okra Penis Prostate Cancer Richest Man richest woman Sedentary Lifestyle Sleep Sleep Deprivation Testosterone The RIch University Vagina Watch Water Weak Erection	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1030
__label__cc	0.742429	0.257571	Re: PROTEST & REBELLION SONGS.."get it off your ch... PROTEST & REBELLION SONGS.."get it off your chest" babrahamson Re: PROTEST & REBELLION SONGS.."get it off your chest" "Look What They've Done To My Song, Ma" Melanie's protest song against advertisers using popular music to sell their goods. MaVolta What Have They Done to the Rain? - Joan Baez LookOverYonder RISE UP Jimmy Cliff Get Up Stand Up Bob Marley & the Wailers Joe Hill. Wooden Ships Crosby, Stills & Nash 1969 Was heralded by many of the 60's counter-culture as a call to abandon American culture, a culture which was oppressing vocal youthful protesters, to build a new life, an enclave together, free of war, insensitivity and intolerance. "Go, take your sister, then by the hand, Lead her away from this foreign land, Far away, where we might laugh again, We are leaving - you don't need us. This Land Is Your Land Pete Seeger I'd Love To Change The World == Ten Years After The End of the Innocence - Don Henley (Bruce Hornsby also had a version of this.) Same lyrics just a different day. Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1033
__label__wiki	0.69375	0.69375	Charlotte Music CLTure Ad Partnerships Become a CLTure contributor It’s Snakes, Houston Brothers, and Party Battleship August 24, 2018 @ 8:00 pm - 11:30 pm « TreeHouse!, Lovely Budz, and Zach Fowler Travers Brothership and Downtown Abby & The Echoes » Friday, August 24, 2018 at 8 p.m. – 11:45 p.m. Petra’s 1919 Commonwealth Ave Tickets: $7.00 The Houston Brothers Amazing things can come from simple ideas. The Houston Brothers consist of two brothers, Justin and Matt Faircloth. They are not from Houston, but instead were born, raised and still live in Charlotte, NC. After years of playing in other bands, the two decided to form a group with just the two of them as the sole members. Justin figured out a way to play keyboards, play drums and sing at the same time, while Matt figured out how to play guitar, play bass pedals and sing. The Houston Brothers by The Houston Brothers It’s Snakes: Hailing from The Queen City of Charlotte, NC; It’s Snakes is southern, indie rock ‘n’ roll with a strong measure of the funk for the people to dance to. Wild Life by It’s Snakes Party Battleship is the songs and sound of rock and roll. Play loud. Cake + Flames by Party Battleship DJ Shawn Lynch will keep you moving and grooving all night with some classic rock ‘n’ roll and deep soul cuts! Charlotte, concerts, events, HOUSTON BROTHERS, It's Snakes, Music, Party Battleship, petras Charlotte, NC 28205 United States http://www.petraspianobar.com CLTure Weekend Guide What is CLTure? Got news, tips, music? Charlotte Events © 2019 CLTure LLC.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1037
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__label__wiki	0.785835	0.785835	Start Over You searched for: Formats Text ✖Remove constraint Formats: Text Copyright Public domain ✖Remove constraint Copyright: Public domain Subjects National Library of Medicine (U.S.) ✖Remove constraint Subjects: National Library of Medicine (U.S.) Genre Exhibitions ✖Remove constraint Genre: Exhibitions Genre Catalogs ✖Remove constraint Genre: Catalogs 1. Catalog of an exhibit in honor of the sesquicentennial of the birth of Louis Pasteur: National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, October 2, 1972- February 4, 1973 National Library of Medicine (U.S.) [Bethesda, Md.] : U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Library of Medicine, [1972] Pasteur, Louis, 1822-1895. 2. Extraordinary objects - extraordinary stories: celebrating the NLM collections Bethesda, Md. : National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 1996 NLM Publications and Productions2 National Library of Medicine (U.S.)✖[remove]2 History of Medicine1 Pasteur, Louis, 1822-1895.1 National Library of Medicine (U.S.)1 Catalog of an exhibit in honor of the sesquicentennial of the birth of Louis Pasteur: National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, October 2, 1972- February 4, 19731 Extraordinary objects - extraordinary stories: celebrating the NLM collections1 Catalogs✖[remove]2 Exhibitions✖[remove]2	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1044
__label__wiki	0.525518	0.525518	Still Life Painting Reproductions - Page 1 Still-Life - Art History of the Genre Still life is a work of art which represents a subject composed of inanimate objects. Popular in Western art since the 17th century, still life paintings, such as of flowers or fruit, give the artist more leeway in the arrangement of design elements within a composition than do paintings of other types of subjects such as landscape or portraiture. Still life paintings often adorn the walls of ancient Egyptian tombs. It was believed that the foodstuffs and other items depicted there would, in the afterlife, become real and available for use by the deceased. Similar paintings, more simply decorative in intent, have also been found in the Roman frescoes unearthed at Pompeii and Herculaneum. The popular appreciation of still life painting as a demonstration of the artist's skill is related in the ancient Greek legend of Zeuxis and Parrhasius. Through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, still life in Western art was mainly used as an adjunct to Christian religious subjects. This was particularly true in the work of Northern European artists, whose fascination with highly detailed optical realism and disguised symbolism led them to lavish great attention on the meanings of various props and settings within their paintings' overall message. Painters such as Jan van Eyck often used still life elements as part of an iconographic program so dense that scholars to this day are still debating the possible symbolic significance of each flower, candle, or stone. Still life came into its own in the new artistic climate of the Netherlands in the 17th century. While artists found limited opportunity to produce the religious art which had long been their staple (images of religious subjects were forbidden in the Dutch Reformed Protestant Church), the continuing Northern tradition of detailed realism and hidden symbols appealed to the growing Dutch middle classes, who were replacing Church and State as the principal patrons of art in the Netherlands. Especially popular in this period were vanitas paintings, in which sumptuous arrangements of fruit and flowers, or lavish banquet tables with fine silver and crystal, were accompanied by symbolic reminders of life's impermanence. A skull, an hourglass or pocket watch, a candle burning down or a book with pages turning, would serve as a moralizing message on the ephemerality of sensory pleasures. Often some of the luscious fruits and flowers themselves would be shown starting to spoil or fade. The popularity of vanitas paintings, and of still life generally, soon spread from Holland to Flanders, Spain, and France. The French aristocracy of the 18th century also employed artists to execute paintings of bounteous and extravagant still life subjects, this time without the moralistic vanitas message of their Dutch predecessors. The Rococo love of artifice led to a rise in appreciation for trompe l'oeil (French: "fool the eye") painting, a type of still life in which objects are shown life-sized, against a flat background, in an attempt to create the illusion of real three dimensional objects in the viewer's space. With the rise of the European Academies, most notably the Academie francaise which held a central role in Academic art, and their formalized approach to artistic training, still life began to fall from favor. The Academies taught the doctrine of "Hierarchy of genres" (or "Hierarchy of Subject Matter"), which held that a painting's artistic merit was based primarily on its subject. In the Academic system, the highest form of painting consisted of images of historical, Biblical or mythological significance, with still life subjects relegated to the very lowest order of artistic recognition. It was not until the decline of the Academic hierarchy in Europe, and the rise of the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters, who emphasized technique and design over subject matter, that still life was once again avidly practiced by artists. Henri Fantin-Latour is known almost exclusively for his still lifes. Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" are some of the best known 19th century still life paintings, and Paul Cezanne found in still life the perfect vehicle for his revolutionary explorations in geometric spatial organization. Indeed, Cezanne's experiments can be seen as leading directly to the development of Cubist still life in the early 20th century. Between 1910 and 1920, Cubist artists like Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Juan Gris painted many still life compositions, often including musical instruments, as well as creating the first Synthetic Cubist collage works, such as Picasso's "Still Life with Chair Caning" (1912). Artists in the United States, largely unburdened by Academic strictures on subject matter, had long found a ready market for still life painting. Raphaelle Peale (1774-1825), eldest son of Revolutionary era painter Charles Willson Peale, was the first American still life specialist, and established a tradition of still life painting in Philadelphia that continued until the early 20th century, when artists such as William Harnett and John Frederick Peto gained fame for their trompe l'oeil renderings of collections of worn objects and scraps of paper, typically shown hanging on a wall or door. When 20th century American artists became aware of European Modernism, they began to interpret still life subjects with a combination of American Realism and Cubist-derived abstraction. Typical of the American still life works of this period are the paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe, Stuart Davis, and Marsden Hartley, and the photographs of Edward Weston. Much Pop Art (such as Andy Warhol's "Campbell's Soup Cans") is based on still life, but its true subject is most often the commodified image of the commercial product represented rather than the physical still life object itself. The rise of Photorealism in the 1970s reasserted illusionistic representation, while retaining some of Pop's message of the fusion of object, image, and commercial product. Typical in this regard are the paintings of Don Eddy and Ralph Goings. The works of Audrey Flack add to this mix an autobiographical Feminist message relating to cultural standards of female beauty. While they address contemporary themes, Flack's paintings often include trompe l'oeil and vanitas elements as well, thereby referencing the entire still life tradition of Western art. Title: A Vanitas Still Life with a Bust, a standing ... Artist: Harmen Steenwijck SKU: HSJ-17288 Original Size: unknown Location: Public Collection A Vanitas Still Life with a Bust, a standing ... Harmen Steenwijck Title: Still Life of Fruit, Fish on an earthenware Platter Location: Private Collection Still Life of Fruit, Fish on an earthenware Platter Title: Vanitas Title: Still Life: An Allegory of the Vanities of Human Life Location: National Gallery London United Kingdom Still Life: An Allegory of the Vanities of Human Life Title: Still Life with Poppy, Insects and Reptiles Artist: Otto Marseus van Schrieck SKU: OMS-17282 Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art New York USA Still Life with Poppy, Insects and Reptiles Otto Marseus van Schrieck Title: Stylized Flower on a Decorative Background Artist: Egon Schiele SKU: SCE-17258 Location: Leopold Museum Vienna Austria Stylized Flower on a Decorative Background Title: Chrysanthemums Original Size: 61 x 92 cm Title: Dead Birds Artist: Melchior d'Hondecoeter SKU: DHM-17002 Location: The Wallace Collection London United Kingdom Dead Birds m.1660s Melchior d'Hondecoeter Title: A Cockerel with other Birds Original Size: 107 x 127.5 cm A Cockerel with other Birds Title: Peacocks and Ducks Peacocks and Ducks Title: Peacock and Hunting Trophies Artist: Jan Weenix SKU: JWX-16999 Location: Museu Calouste Gulbenkian Lisbon Portugal Peacock and Hunting Trophies Jan Weenix Title: Dead Swan Original Size: 245.5 x 294 cm Location: Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery The Hague Netherlands Dead Swan Title: Dead Hare, Fruit and Monkey Original Size: 119.6 x 98 cm Dead Hare, Fruit and Monkey Title: Lemons on a Branch Artist: Claude Monet SKU: MCL-16989 Lemons on a Branch Title: Yellow Roses in a Vase Artist: Gustave Caillebotte SKU: GUC-16830 Location: Dallas Museum of Art Texas USA Yellow Roses in a Vase Gustave Caillebotte Title: Still Life with Salmon, Lemon and Three Vessels Artist: Luis Egidio Melendez SKU: MLE-16770 Original Size: 41 x 62.2 cm Location: Prado Museum Madrid Spain Still Life with Salmon, Lemon and Three Vessels Luis Egidio Melendez Title: Still Life with Vessels Artist: Francisco de Zurbaran SKU: ZUR-16764 Still Life with Vessels Francisco de Zurbaran Title: Six Sunflowers Artist: Vincent van Gogh SKU: VVG-16649 Location: Destroyed in World War II Six Sunflowers Title: Basket of Crocus Bulbs Location: Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam Netherlands Basket of Crocus Bulbs Title: A Bouquet of Cabbage Roses Artist: Jean-Baptiste Robie SKU: RJB-16641 A Bouquet of Cabbage Roses Jean-Baptiste Robie Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir SKU: RPA-16628 Location: Art Institute of Chicago Illinois USA Title: Basket of Apples Basket of Apples Title: Basket of Potatoes Basket of Potatoes Title: Baskets of Potatoes Baskets of Potatoes	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1047
__label__cc	0.727279	0.272721	Congress Already Ruined Sports Betting Once; Don't Let Them Do it Again Op-Eds and Articles Michelle Minton • October 1, 2018 After a prohibition lasting more than two decades, Americans outside Nevada can at last bet on sports without breaking the law. The newfound freedom is thanks to a May ruling by the Supreme Court that overturned the federal law blocking states from legalizing sports betting. Since then, the four states that have now joined Nevada in offering legal gambling on sports are already reaping the benefits, collecting millions in tax revenue and licensing fees. More importantly, legalization also undermines the vast illegal sports gambling industry — a win for consumers and sports integrity. So, why is Congress discussing a proposal that could bring this progress to an abrupt end? The federal ban aided the rise of illegal sports betting, an estimated $150 billion a year industry in the U.S., that for 25 years Congress did nothing to stop. Yet, laughably, some in Congress now insist that the federal government is better equipped to regulate the burgeoning legal industry. At the Sept. 27 hearing, the House Judiciary Committee will broadly focus on what the Supreme Court ruling means but may also entertain ideas for federal sports betting regulation. So far, the only proposed framework for federal sports betting regulations comes from Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. Like those who originally argued for the sports betting “ban,” Schumer argues federal interference in sports betting is necessary to protect sporting events from criminals who might try to corrupt the games and profit by wagering on fixed outcomes. However, the plan details make it clear the motivation for regulating sports betting is less about safeguarding consumers or markets than about protectionism and rent-seeking. Even before the Supreme Court ruling, stakeholders knew the end was near for the federal sports gambling ban. As far back as January 2017, the major U.S. sports leagues began lobbying state lawmakers to ensure that, were sports betting legalized, the rules would guarantee the leagues a cut of the gambling profits. A key part of the leagues’ plan was an “integrity fee,” a requirement that bet makers pay the leagues 1 percent of all bets wagered on their games. That might sound like a pittance, but the fee would actually amount to about 20 percent of gambling operators' profits since they only keep a portion of the money wagered, paying out the rest to winners. State legislators have uniformly rejected the leagues’ demand for integrity fees, likely understanding that doing so would limit the nascent legal gambling industry’s ability to attract customers and generate tax revenue for states. But, while they failed to convince state lawmakers to take up their cause, the leagues seem to have had better luck with Congress. Though Schumer’s plan doesn’t mention “integrity fees,” it would grant leagues something even more powerful and lucrative: a price monopoly. In addition to age restrictions, protections for problem gamblers, and rules to prevent criminal behavior, Schumer’s framework would require gambling operators to rely exclusively on “league data” to determine the outcome of bets. What this means is that the gambling operators would be prevented from using third-party sources of information about games (even public sources) and forced to buy the data needed to make bets from the leagues. In other words, Schumer’s proposal gifts the leagues a data monopoly, allowing the leagues to charge as much as they want for their data. Data about game outcomes is widely and publicly available through many sources (e.g. sports broadcasting), but the lifeblood of sports betting is in-play betting: wagers on “events” that occur during game play, such as how, when, and where goals are scored, who assisted in goals, etc. This makes providing data about in-game activities a highly valuable service. In Europe, third-party data companies compete to sell such data to sportsbooks on the basis of price, speed, and accuracy. Schumer’s proposed framework, however, would eliminate that competition, essentially giving the leagues the power to ransom their data, forcing sportsbooks to pay as much as the leagues want for the data. On top of that, giving the leagues a data monopoly also allows them to decide what types of bets gambling companies can even make because they can simply withhold data if they don’t want certain bets made. This would give the leagues an extraordinary advantage over the gambling industry when negotiating all manner of contracts. Schumer’s proposal would certainly be a windfall for the leagues (all of which are headquartered in Schumer’s home state), but would do nothing to safeguard consumers or the integrity of sporting events. The opposite, actually. Match-fixing is more likely to occur when betting markets are illegal because illegal markets have less oversight. So, it is easier for criminals to hide their behavior and profit in unregulated markets. And, the more the criminals profit by illegal gambling, the more money and incentive they have to attempt to corrupt players and officials. Congress set the stage for this exact scenario in the U.S. when it barred states from regulating sports betting, giving consumers no other option but the black market, which grew in size to meet demand. Now, they are considering proposals that will make it harder, if not impossible, for legal gambling operators to offer the same types of games, odds, and payouts as the illegal market, ensuring that customers continue to spend their money illegally. One can debate the merits of the specific laws that might govern sports gambling, but it is difficult to argue Congress would be more effective at regulating the industry than the states. For 25 years, Congress refused to admit that its prohibition was failing and that it had actually spurred the creation of an enormous black market. State legislatures, however, needed only a handful of months to respond to the changing landscape, listen to stakeholder demands, and execute the will of their constituents. While the states might fumble as they develop new regulatory regimes over sports betting, at least they have the ability to revisit and amend ineffective laws. If we allow Congress to again set the rules that govern sports gambling, we will be stuck with those rules and their unintended consequences for decades to come. Originally published at Washington Examiner. More about Banking and Finance Super Bowl – Here's Why it's a Big Deal That You Can Place Your (Legal) Bets on the Big Game Chips are Down for Online Gamblers as US Moves Toward New Ban Trump Justice Department Pits 1961 Law Against Online Gambling	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1048
__label__wiki	0.60728	0.60728	searching Search now Solutions by Long Span Structure Footbridges Long Span Bridges PreCoBeam Bridges Filler Beam Bridges Multi-Storey Car Parks Mechanical Resistance & Stability See all news > See project map > News Arch segments at ArcelorMittal Taranto The third arch in the Mineral Park superstructure was erected 10 days ahead of schedule – on 5 April! This structure will play a crucial role in limiting the dispersion of dust towards the city, particularly in the Tamburi district. The minerals present in the primary parks are due to be covered by the end of 2019 – almost 19 months ahead of the deadline set by the Prime Minister’s decree of September 2017. The coverage of the mineral parks is not only one of the most important interventions required by the Integrated Environmental Authority, but also part of the most ambitious environmental plan ever with a total goal of 1.15 billion Euro in investments by 2023, making Taranto the most advanced facility in Europe. Update: Ahead of schedule! Arch segments at the new ArcelorMittal steel shelters in Taranto In January 2019, the first arch segment of the new ArcelorMittal (previously the ILVA metallurgical plant) steel shelters in Taranto, Italy were erected. Each segment is composed of six of a total 51 huge arch trusses that will form the 80m high, 254 m wide, and 700 m long cover structure which is required for the environmental containment of the Mineral Park. Heavy plates from our Taranto mill were used for the fabrication of the welded tubes and trusses. The assembled steel will be transported to its final position using dedicated rollers, as demonstrated in the construction process shown in the following video. This challenging work is being carried out under the supervision of SWS Engineering's on-site team & Cimolai, the steel fabricator and erector. For a complete visualisation of the process, take a look at this video: Text: SWS, Constructalia, ArcelorMittal Italia Photos: Arcelormittal Europe Flat / PLP, SWS Video: SWS Heavy plates ArcelorMittal Europe By closing this message, you consent to our cookies on this device in accordance with our cookie policy unless you have disabled them. You can change your cookie settings at any time but parts of our site will not function correctly without them.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1061
__label__cc	0.524833	0.475167	Salted Codfish Salted codfish have na huge important role in the Portuguese gastronomy. Nowadays each Portuguese eat around 6,5Kg salted codfish a year. We may cook it in a lot of different ways, so many that we say that we have 1001 salted codfish recipes. What is odd is that we don’t have codfish in our coast so all the cod that we eat is imported. What makes the cod National Portuguese dish is the technique that we use to preserve it, which consist in dry the codfish with salt. Then when we want to cook it we need to soak it in water for 2 or 3 days, changing the water twice a day. But why are we cod addicts? Researchers say state that during the XIV century Portugal establish an authorization with the Denmark kingdom to fish in their waters. Also important was the deal between D. Afonso IV of Portugal and Edward III of England. Made in 1353 allowed the Portuguese’s to fish in the waters controlled by that king. Researchers also say that we fish cod since the XV century in Newfoundland on the east Canada cost. During the XVI century we even establish little fisherman’s colonies coming from the north Portugal and Azores island. At that time a trip between Canada and Portugal took a lot of time. Fisherman’s needed to find a way to preserve the cod during the trip and salt was the answer. But why did we need so many fish? Because during the medieval period Portugal was obliged by the church to do a meat fasting during 132 an year. The rich people used to buy church leaflets to be free from this rule but the poor’s didn’t have that option. During the winter it was impossible to fish due to the violent sea. Codfish appeared as an easy and cheap solution since salting the cod was a way to preserve it. Salted Codfish on Christmas Season One of the fasting periods was during the Christmas. Maybe this is the reason why the salted codfish is our Christmas national dish. This tradition have its origins at Minho (north Portuguese coast) where the codfish arrived first. However the codfish recipes just started to appear on the Portuguese cookbooks during the XIX century. During this century also the potato became really common in Portugal brought from South America. Nowadays most of the codfish recipes incorporate them. The other ingredient that we always use with the cod is the olive oil. Salted Codfish2017-01-272017-01-27https://cookinglisbon.com/wp-content/uploads/cooking-lisbon-social-logo.jpgCooking Lisbonhttps://cookinglisbon.com/wp-content/uploads/cooking-lisbon-social-logo.jpg200px200px What can be a Portuguese cooking experience?General Why Tagus River is so important on Lisbon lifestyle?General	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1062
__label__wiki	0.623277	0.623277	Rugby: CHS Girls Win A Close Match Against Valley Center Now that the Boys’ Varsity team has finished its season, the Lady Ruggers are preparing for playoffs. Last Saturday, Coronado faced Valley Center High School, after having lost one of their best players, Stefany James, to an injury. Valley Center kicked off to start the match, with the ball falling into the hands of Coronado’s fastest player Rose Ty. Immediately after receiving the ball, Ty did not hesitate to make the try, which gave Coronado an early lead at 7-0. After kicking off to their opponents, Valley Center quickly regained their ground and evaded Coronado’s tackles. Valley Center was then able to score a try and tie the game at 7-7. This back and forth continued, ending the first half at 12-12. The second half of the match was reliant on good defense from Araceli Flores, Nessa Hudson, and Charlotte Walton. As Valley Center continued to apply pressure, Christie Parr found an opportunity to score a try more than seventy yards from the try line. Walton passed the ball to Parr, who ran through four players to successfully make the try. Nessa Hudson was then able to make the conversion giving Coronado a 19-12 lead. The clock began to run out, which prompted Valley Center to attempt a final try and conversion. The former they would do, but their conversion went wide. The final score was 19-17—another win for Coronado’s Lady Ruggers. Upcoming Game: Saturday, February 10 vs. La Costa Canyon and San Marcos High Schools at Niedermeyer Field @ 10 AM	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1063
__label__wiki	0.614035	0.614035	Published: 10:16 AM, 23 November 2018 Leaning Tower of Pisa continues long path towards vertical Asian Age Online The Leaning Tower of Pisa isn't leaning so much anymore. After more than two decades of efforts to straighten it, engineers say the famed Tuscan bell tower has recovered four centimeters (1.57 inches) more and is in better structural health than predicted. ANSA news agency quotes a consultant to the international committee monitoring the tilt, Nunziante Squeglia, as saying that while the progressive recovery of tilt is good news, the overall structural health of the tower is more important. The 12th-century tower reopened to the public in 2001 after being closed for more than a decade to let workers reduce its slant. By using hundreds of tons of lead counterweights at the base and extracting soil from under the foundations, engineers initially shaved 17 inches off the lean. More From Life Style	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1064
__label__wiki	0.592674	0.592674	The World's Finest Presents Episode #18 - Legends, Part 1 Original Airdate - April 21st, 2002 During a fight with Lex Luthor, the Justice League is blasted into an alternate reality where they meet the Justice Guild of America, a group of old-fashioned comic-book heroes whose exploits Green Lantern remembers reading about when he was a kid. Original Airdate - April 28th, 2002 After coming across startling evidence concerning the Justice Guild, Green Lantern approaches the heroes with it with horrific results. Media by Bird Boy Review by Bleu Unicorn Credits: Written by Andrew Kreisberg Directed by Dan Riba Music by Lolita Ritmanis Animation Services by Koko Enterprise Co., LTD. Maria Canals as Hawkgirl Phil LaMarr as Green Lantern Carl Lumbly as J'onn J'onzz George Newbern as Superman Michael Rosenbaum as Flash David Naughton as The Streak William Katt as Green Guardsman Stephen Root as Cat Man Ted McGinley as Tom Turbine Jennifer Hale as Black Siren Neil Patrick Harris as Ray Thompson Udo Kier as The Music Master Michael McKean as The Sportsman Corey Burton as Dr. Blizzard Jeffrey Jones as Sir Swami Screen Grabs, Part 1 Pans, Part 1 When the Justice League foils an attack by Lex Luthor, Flash, Green Lantern, Hawkgirl, and Martian Manhunter are transported to an alternate reality. There, they meet up with the Justice Guild of America - characters from a comic book that GL read when he was a child. Being the true heroes they are, the Justice League soon joins the JGA in helping to thwart the plans of their villainous enemies, the Injustice Guild. To her surprise, and GL's disbelief, Hawkgirl discovers that the real JGA is dead. Together the two search for clues as to the truth behind this mysterious world that mirrors our own - inevitably confronting the JGA and learning the identity of their true nemesis. This story, which is fittingly dedicated to Gardner F. Fox, seems to be one of the more misunderstood of the series. On the surface, it is a parody of the Golden Age comics, complete with the corny lines and campiness we have all come to associate with that comic book era. "Legends" has a much deeper meaning than just that - paying a glorious tribute to the heroes so many of us have forgotten, but loved so very much, which is shown so wonderfully with GL's character and responses throughout the entire episode arc. He worshipped the JGA as a child and the thought that they could be behind the ruse that is Seaboard City was too much for him to take at face value. "Legends" does so much right, where so many of the episodes go so wrong. The opening sequence, which quite literally had me on the edge of my seat, is a grand example. The fight against Luthor is one of the best action sequences to date - in fact; I will venture to say it is a perfect action sequence. All too often, the Leaguers tend not to act like a league, fighting one at a time instead of as a team. This sequence displays a level of teamwork from the JL that not only was effective in defeating Luthor's robot, but also literally left me starring at the television in utter awe. Anyone familiar with the Golden Age comics and/or the 1960s Batman series should feel right at home watching "Legends." From Ray's "holy-isms" to Dr. Blizzard's punning to Green Guardsman's ring being powerless against aluminum, we are reminded repeatedly about the shortcomings and quirks of many our DC icons. Streak's constant reiteration of good morals, in some ways, is very reminiscent of the early '80s cartoons I grew up watching. Beyond the parodying, though was a remarkable likeness to many DC characters; Green Guardsman being very much Alan Scott, Streak mirroring Jay Garrick perfectly, Catman as a nice mixture of Batman and Wildcat, Black Siren portraying Black Canary, and Tom Turbine as a great combination of Atom and Superman. In fact, not only was the JGA itself a likeness to the characters - much of the story itself comes from the same comic roots. GL remembers GG from the comics, the same way Barry Allen knows of Jay Garrick, for instance. To be honest, there is so much crammed into this episode, I could literally go on forever. It really is a wonderful portrayal and dedication - and is done so very well. The character interaction is also one of the key highlights of this episode. Streak in particular has many obviously patronizing - possibly borderline insulting - lines within this episode, yet in the context of when they are said, one easily understands they are compliments. His comment to GL that he is a "credit to his people" is undoubtedly racist and yet it is meant as a complete compliment to John Stewart. The complete disregard to Ray's safety by Catman in brining him along is literally laughable and J'onn's warning flies right over his head. Dr. Blizzard and Flash probably have the best interaction during their fight; the puns they bounce off each other were just hilarious and fit the scene perfectly. Hawkgirl's interactions with Black Siren were also a treat to watch - and her comment to Flash, "One word and you'll be the fastest man alive with a limp," is one of the most priceless and memorable lines of the entire series. Along with her impatience with GG's good Samaritanism and powerlessness over aluminum, which are so purely in character. The dialogue in this episode is definitely at its very best for the series, timing itself perfectly to the scenes. Flash's punning retorts to Blizzard are executed in exactly the right places and work so well with Blizzard's initial puns it almost seems like a verbal dance. In addition, Hawkgirl has some great dialogue here - as I mentioned before. I especially love her condescending tone towards Black Siren when she asks her how she manages to bake cookies and fight crime! Granted some of the dialogue really is almost cringe-worthy in its corniness, it fits this entire storyline so well, it is forgivable. I especially love the deep emotion you hear in the JGA towards the end when they battle Ray, knowing they are solidifying their own deaths. Tom Turbine's line to Ray, "In Seaboard City, crime doesn't pay," is filled with so much sorrow that you almost want him to leave Ray alone, just to preserve the JGA. For me, the absolute best thing about this episode is the cliffhanger. It left me completely at a loss as to what would happen in the second half of the arc - and for once Cartoon Network did not ruin it with their preview! Ray as the true villain works perfectly. His character, as the Justice Guild's Junior Justice Guildsman was without a doubt the most annoying thing and it made total sense that he would be the one behind the whole illusion. It is so pathetic that it actually is sad how obsessed he was about his heroes and the world he grew up living in that he would forsake everything to keep it exactly the same. Also, it seems equally fitting that the JGA, as the obsessively good heroes they are, to sacrifice themselves without a moment's thought to save their world, again. GL's reaction to that is really heart breaking. He lost his heroes once, when the comic stopped being published, and in a split second, they are taken from him again. The animation was rather good in this episode, along with some very interesting camera angles that really capture the moment of the scene. However, there were a few choppy moments that I caught. Green Lantern always seems inconsistent in this series - and in this episode, it appears he is just about every height. Some of the movements of the characters were a bit off; there is one place where it almost appears that GL's torso moves of its own accord, rather than his character turning to face the camera. Unfortunately, even with this wonderful of an episode there still is some that could be improved. First, I have to say that Cartoon Network was at fault when they aired this episode before "Injustice for All." While there is no mention of this episode, it would have been slightly easier (not to mention understandable) to recognize Luthor in the beginning. That aside, I found Batman's presence in this episode, as brief as it was, completely unnecessary. He has no lines - unless you count a grunt as a line - and personally, his one deed could have easily been accomplished by Superman. The campiness and corniness, while understandable and enjoyable, was at times absolutely annoying. The degree to which it occurred and the frequency was at times almost too much to bare. Why was J'onn in this episode? He is almost completely useless - and it seems very contrived that he seems to know everything at just the right moment! Where did all these people come from? Why are they alive? Why didn't they age a single day in forty years? Nothing is really talked about them at all; save for the seven seconds it takes the ice cream man to say they destroyed their world. Finally, the last scene with GL and the portal really was weak. Granted it is established that the JGA is part of why he became a Green Lantern - and their death gave him more confidence, but this small scene really does not do this premise justice. "Legends" is without a doubt one of the most comedic episodes of the entire series. As a tribute to the Golden Age of DC comics, it does a superb job - capturing the likeness of that era down to its most miniscule detail and creating a story that warms the heart and soul of both fan boys and those new to these characters. [ Back to Episode Reviews ]	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1074
__label__wiki	0.683102	0.683102	Clement School (Wallace, N.C.) Leslie N. Boney Architectural Papers (MC00096) School buildings mc00096-001-ff0157-000-001_0003 Beaux Arts to Modernism Leslie N. Boney Architectural Papers (MC00096) held by Special Collections Research Center at NCSU Libraries Digitization of this image was partially supported with federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds made possible through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources. Building: Clement School (Wallace, Duplin County, North Carolina) Boney, Leslie N., 1880-1964 more info on Boney, Leslie N., 1880-1964 Duplin County (N.C.) Interior Elevation & Sections Dorton Arena (Raleigh, N.C.) Perspective drawing Grove Arcade (Asheville, N.C.) Front elevation and window details Southside Moravian Church (Winston-Salem, N.C.) Roof elevation James A. Gray House (Winston-Salem, N.C.) Interior elevation Adamsleigh (Greensboro, N.C.) Longitudinal section D. H. Blair Theatre (Forsyth County, N.C.) Elevations and cross section, Ramsaur Mill, Gaston County, North Carolina Ramsaur, Jacob Grinding Mill (Gaston County, N.C.)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1079
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__label__wiki	0.515259	0.515259	Russian Soldiers Are Complaining About Exploding Guns Russian infantry weapons have a reputation for reliability Charlie Gao Russian infantry weapons have a reputation for reliability. The AK and PKM are renowned for enduring through adverse conditions, powered by their powerful long-stroke piston actions. However, a recent report by warhead.su suggests that when these weapons do fail in Russian service, the problem is often not in their design, but rather in the Russian ammunition they fire. This is not a new phenomenon. Russian imported ammunition to the United States has always been regarded as “budget” brands, with inconsistent quality. But apparently, the same problems apply to Russian military ammunition. The report opens with a story of a soldier operating a Kord 12.7-millimeter heavy machine gun. The soldier noticed the belt was a little lighter than usual, and when he pulled the trigger… the bullet got stuck in the barrel, not even passing the gas port on the barrel. The cause for this is the inconsistencies in Russian powder manufacture. In addition to bullets getting stuck in the barrel, there are stories of guns shooting hotter than usual, and guns exploding due to too much powder being in a cartridge. Of course, for these reasons, Russian domestic ammunition is rarely the ammo of choice for Russian precision shooters. The occurrence of these squibs poses a significant reliability problem for all weapons, as they can cause the barrel to explode if the soldier does not realize a squib has been fired and attempts another shot. Given the Russian predilection for automatic modes of fire, this only compounds the problem as a soldier would likely not have time to react before the second round is fired. Moving from powder problems, the report goes on to talk about primer problems. The primer is the small explosive component in the rear of the cartridge that detonates when the firing pin strikes it, setting off the rest of the gunpowder in a cartridge. It usually is placed in the “primer pocket” in the rear of a cartridge and then sealed with varnish to keep them in place. Russian cartridges also have significant difficulty with this. The primers are inserted in backward or sideways and are sometimes missing the primer itself. Above — a Russian soldier with a PYa pistol. [Vitaly V. Kuzmin]( photo. At top — a Russian soldier with a Kord machine gun. Russian Ministry of Defense photo Category:MP-443 Grach - Wikimedia Commons But those are the least of the primer flaws, being readily visible. Usually soldiers inspect their ammunition as they are loading them into their magazines, and such defects are readily spotted and thrown away. What’s worse is the harder to spot flaws of a protruding primer or defects in the workmanship of the primer itself. Protruding primers pose great danger to soldiers, as the primer can get struck in the magazine, resulting in detonation. This has happened with some Russian ammunition, a picture was provided of a 9×18 Makarov round in a magazine that did this. Russian primers have also proven to prove vulnerable to being punctured, which results in the hot gases of the powder detonating rushing back through the punctured primer onto the bolt face, which can significantly damage the firearm. They also have been known to fall out during the extraction cycle, falling into the fire control group of a firearm. This can potentially cause misfires, or lock up a gun. Other problems include inconsistent depth of insertion of the bullet. This may cause some of the overpressure problems, but it definitely does not help the consistency of Russian ammunition. There were also issues with some cartridges being totally out of specification—being too long, for example. When combined with an open bolt gun like the Shpagin submachine gun, the results are catastrophic. Because of the fixed firing pin on the bolt of the gun, the cartridge detonated before the bolt was fully locked, destroying the firearm. These problems are not only reported on that site. Various videos from Spetsnaz veterans discuss ammunition problems that plagued their service weapons. One of them singles out the special armor piercing 7N21 and 7N31 9×19-millimeter ammo of being particularly low quality and causing significant reliability problems in the issued PYa pistol. Indeed, the photo of a bullet sticking out of the barrel linked above is a 7N21 round, as seen by the black stepped tip. Other sites have suggested that the PYa only chokes on ammo from certain factories, but this itself can be a seen as representative as an overall lack of ammunition standards in the supply of ammunition to the Russian police and military. As one infantry veteran lamented: “The Russian arms industry makes reliable and simple weapons, but ammo quality just annihilates it.” This articleoriginally appearedat The National Interest. Army Prototypes Range-Doubling New Artillery Weapon to Outgun Russia New Next-Gen Army 50mm Cannon Destroys Targets in Live-Fire Demo Are America and Iran on the Path to War? Are Russia's Anti-Tank Missiles Impossible to Stop? Why 3-D Printed Body Armor Is Useful for Both the U.S. Military and Terrorists Why Does Turkey Want Russian Military Technology so Badly? A Look at Germany's Powerful G3 Assault Rifle Sig Sauer Had a Plan to Crush Glock's Best Guns Sturmgewehr 57: Sig Sauer's Very First 'Battle' Rifle	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1085
__label__wiki	0.693718	0.693718	Digital Release: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, GOG.com, Steam December 20, 2016 (EU, US) Delisting: November 15, 2018 - Steam November 20, 2018 - GOG.com Developer: Telltale Games Publisher: Telltale Games Available On: Digital: PC (Epic Game Store) The Walking Dead Collection: The Telltale Series Links: The Walking Dead: A New Frontier homepage SteamDB page The Walking Dead: Season Two was delisted from Steam on November 15th, 2018 and from GOG.com on November 20th, 2018. On Steam its price was set to $0.00 leaving its store and Community pages accessible. On GOG.com the only trace that remains is a forum post by team member Chandra regarding the entire The Walking Dead series from Telltale: “We’d like to inform you that The Walking Dead game series will be delisted from our catalog, effective immediately, due to publisher request. The process may take some time. Everyone who owns the games prior to delisting will still be able to access them through their GOG Library. Right now we have no information about the future on The Walking Dead: The Final Season, but we will keep you up to date if we receive any news.” The game remains available to download on numerous other platforms suggesting that it may also return to sale on PC at some point in the future from publisher Skybound Entertainment. “After society was ripped apart by undead hands, pockets of civilization emerge from the chaos. But at what cost? Can the living be trusted on this new frontier? As Javier, a young man determined to find the family taken from him, you meet a young girl who has experienced her own unimaginable loss. Her name is Clementine, and your fates are bound together in a story where every choice you make could be your last.“ Last Updated: January 29, 2019 by ShawnS Delisted On: GOG, Steam Companies: Telltale Games Related to this Title Beginning of the End: More Telltale Games titles delisted Walking Dead delisted after Telltale Games closure, more to follow	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1086
__label__wiki	0.761535	0.761535	Structural Properties of Discs and Bulges of Early-Type Galaxies Roelof S. de Jong, Space Telescope Science Institute Luc Simard, National Research Council of Canada Roger L. Davies, University of Oxford R. P. Saglia, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics David Burstein, Arizona State University Matthew Colless, Anglo-Australian Observatory Robert McMahan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gary Wegner, Dartmouth College Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society We have used the EFAR sample of galaxies to investigate the light distributions of early-type galaxies. We decompose the two-dimensional light distribution of the galaxies in a flattened spheroidal component with a Sérsic radial light profile and an inclined disc component with an exponential light profile. We show that if we assume that all galaxies can have a spheroidal and a disc component, then the brightest, bulge-dominated elliptical galaxies have a fairly broad distribution in the Sérsic profile shape parameter nB, with a median of approximately 3.7 and with σ∼ 0.9. Other galaxies have smaller nB values. This means that spheroids are in general less concentrated than the de Vaucouleurs R1/4-law profile, which has nB= 4. While the result of our light decomposition is robust, we cannot prove without kinematic information that these components are spheroids and discs, in the usual sense of pressure- and rotation-supported stellar systems. However, we show that the distribution of disc inclination angles is consistent with a random orientation if we take our selection effects into account. If we assume that the detected spheroids and discs are indeed separate components, we can draw the following conclusions: (1) the spheroid and disc scale sizes are correlated; (2) bulge-to-total luminosity ratios, bulge effective radii and bulge nB values are all positively correlated; (3) the bivariate space density distribution of elliptical galaxies in the (luminosity, scale size)-plane is well described by a Schechter luminosity function in the luminosity dimension and a lognormal scale-size distribution at a given luminosity; (4) at the brightest luminosities, the scale size distribution of elliptical galaxies is similar to those of bright spiral galaxies, but extending to brighter magnitudes; at fainter luminosities the scale size distribution of elliptical galaxies peaks at distinctly smaller sizes than the size distribution of spiral galaxies; and (5) bulge components of early-type galaxies are typically a factor of 1.5–2.5 smaller than the discs of spiral galaxies with a slight luminosity dependence, while disc components of early-type galaxies are typically twice as large as the discs of spiral galaxies at all luminosities. de Jong, Roelof S.; Simard, Luc; Davies, Roger L.; Saglia, R. P.; Burstein, David; Colless, Matthew; McMahan, Robert; and Wegner, Gary, "Structural Properties of Discs and Bulges of Early-Type Galaxies" (2004). Open Dartmouth: Faculty Open Access Articles. 1863. External Galaxies Commons, Physical Processes Commons	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1093
__label__cc	0.585582	0.414418	Greece risks financial Armageddon while Ireland makes cuts By Edward Harrison On Dec 13, 2009 The Irish government announced draconian spending cuts of 6 billion Euros in order to stave off a debt crisis in the worst modern-day downturn in the nation’s history. Even so, Irish government bond yields have been rising relative to German government bond yields, the benchmark for the Eurozone. Over the past five years the spread had averaged about 40bps. Now it is 170bps. But, the Irish seem to be making the necessary cuts forced on them by lower tax receipts and currency union. The Greek government, on the other hand, is not taking the same tack. Witness comments by the country’s Premier as reported in the Telegraph by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: Salaried workers will not pay for this situation: we will not proceed with wage freezes or cuts. We did not come to power to tear down the social state. Nice sentiment. But what does that mean in practice? I see this as asking for trouble. The only way to interpret this statement is as a vow not to take the same draconian up to ten percent pay cut measures the Irish are now taking – ones that are likely to lead to strikes and social unrest. But, the reality is the Greeks have no other choice. Either make the cuts or face national bankruptcy. It’s as simple as that. To be clear, these cuts will mean depression in Greece as similar measures in Latvia have done. Evans-Pritchard says: Mr Papandreou has good reason to throw the gauntlet at Europe’s feet. Greece is being told to adopt an IMF-style austerity package, without the devaluation so central to IMF plans. The prescription is ruinous and patently self-defeating. Public debt is already 113pc of GDP. The Commission says it will reach 125pc by late 2010. It may top 140pc by 2012. If Greece were to impose the draconian pay cuts under way in Ireland (5pc for lower state workers, rising to 20pc for bosses), it would deepen depression and cause tax revenues to collapse further. It is already too late for such crude policies. Greece is past the tipping point of a compound debt spiral. Indeed, as I indicated in a recent post, market participants are talking openly of a bust-up in the Eurozone because of what is happening in Greece and Ireland. The thinking is that the stress of the tie to the Euro would cause the countries to leave the Eurozone and start printing money to cover their deficits. I see this as unlikely. After all, even Latvia is now risking depression to escape the volatility of small-country monetary independence. Moreover, the U.K and the U.S. are hearing the same deficit hawk voices despite monetary independence. But, the situation in Greece is worse than it is in Ireland. The debt levels are higher. The spread to German bunds (214bps) is higher, and the budget cuts are not yet forthcoming. For signs of stress, I look to Greece before I look to Ireland. Greece defies Europe as EMU crisis turns deadly serious – Telegraph Greece warned to act over default risk – FT Note: The Guardian takes a different tack, leading its story on Greece with the statement: Greece will attempt today to claw back some of its lost credibility with the EU and other international financial institutions by outlining drastic cost-cutting measures to reduce its runaway deficit. See the article Greece fights to regain international confidence. BalticsbondscurrenciesEuropefiscalGreeceIrelandmoney The week in review at Credit Writedowns: 2009-12-12 News from 1930: Closing of Bank of United States dansecrest says 10 years ago Must be following Bill Mitchell’s advice… The global growth slowdown is accelerating The credit cycle is now turning down	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1101
__label__cc	0.660615	0.339385	Interesting facts about Pallavi Sharda Published on April 19, 2016 March 7, 2019 by Anirudh Singh Bollywood Actress Pallavi Sharda is a debutant at Indian Premier League’s preview and post-match analysis show “Extraa Innings T20”. Here are some of the interesting facts you would love to know about this beautiful anchor, Pallavi Sharda : 1.) Early life Pallavi was born on 5 March 1988 in Perth, Australia and had spent her early life there. She is a classically trained dancer in Bharatha Natyam. 2.) Education Background Pallavi did her schooling at Lowther Hall Anglican Grammar School in Essendon and later on commenced her LLB and BA in Media and Communications and Diploma in Modern Languages (French) from the University of Melbourne. 3.) Beauty Pageant Winner Pallavi was crowned “Miss India Australia” in 2010 during a beauty pageant contest held at Sydney. 4.) Bollywood Career To pursue her career in modeling and anchoring, Pallavi shifted from Melbourne to Mumbai in 2010. After playing a cameo role in Shah Rukh Khan starrer ‘My Name is Khan’ Pallavi played a lead role in comedy drama-film ‘Dus-Tola’ along with veteran actor Manoj Bajpayee. Since then, Pallavi had also been a part of Bollywood movies like Love Breakup Zindagi (2011), Heroine (2012), Besharam (2013) and Hawaizaada(2015). These movies did not make an impact on the Box Office but her role in these movies was commendable. 5.) IPL Anchor Pallavi Sharda was shortlisted for the anchoring role in IPL 2016 after the previous female hosts were pulled off from this years season. Pallavi admitted that she was highly nervous in the beginning about her anchoring but now she feels to be much more confident about her ongoing job. Previous Story Previous post: Five amazing facts about young sensation Sarfaraz Khan Next Story Next post: Interesting facts about IPL Anchor Rochelle Rao, that will make you more than her fan	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1102
__label__cc	0.588271	0.411729	Tag Archives: ROBERT WILSON HANGMAN NETFLIX UK DARK TOURIST ATTRACTION – THE CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION HERE AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL, FOREST OF DEAN, GLOUCESTERSHIRE …. FEATURING AN EXHIBITION ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENT, ALSO KNOWN AS THE DEATH PENALTY . A CHILLING REMINDER OF THE WORK OF BRITAIN’S HANGMEN AND EXECUTIONERS … Talk about objects that evoke strong feelings and debate …. you need look no further than a simple rope which just happens to be the Hangman’s Noose . Here at The Crime Through Time Collection, Littledean Jail we house and display several original Hangman’s Nooses including the one used by James Berry on ” The Man They Couldn’t Hang ” John “Babbacombe” Lee. We also house and have on display several official government regulation nooses made by John Edgington , Old Kent Road, London. Some of which have the chamois leather noose and the the gutta percha on the noose ends. The gutta percha was later omitted from the regulation noose ends in 1955. These noose’s would have possibly been used for both test drops and executions by several of Britain’s 20th Century Hangmen and Executioners, and also for executions carried out abroad . These ropes would undoubtedly have been used by the likes of Stephen Wade, Henry Kirk, Robert Lewis Stewart, John Ellis, Albert Pierrepoint and the last hangman in England Harry Allen . Above : Original oil painting of 3 generations of the Pierrepoint family , who were all Britain’s chief executioners … Painted by local Gloucestershire artist Paul Bridgman , on display at Littledean Jail. Sadly official records no longer appear to exist in regards to where and on whom these official government regulation J Edgington & Co noose’s were used . All we know is that Edgingtons were awarded the Government contract to supply all the execution noose’s from 1888 up until the abolition of the death penalty in 1964. The only other official documentation or records that exists in regards to the storage and transportation of numbered J Edgington nooses is that which is held at HMP Wandsworth , London. We also feature on display an array of handwritten and signed correspondence from a number of hangmen. All in all a hopefully unique, historical and educational insight into the life and times of Capital Punishment within the UK . ABOVE AND BELOW: VARIOUS EXAMPLES OF OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT ISSUE HANGMAN NOOSE’S WHICH WERE MADE BY J EDGINGTON & CO , OLD KENT ROAD , LONDON. THESE WERE MANUFACTURED BY THEM FROM 1888 UNTIL THE ABOLITION OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN 1965 . Official inscription of Government Hangman nNoose makers J. Edgington on brass eyelets . close-up image of vulcanised rubber noose washer and ” gutta percha ” covering Close up image of Chamois Leather covered noose BELOW IS AN INSIGHT INTO SOME OF VARIOUS HANGMEN RELATED EXHIBIT MATERIAL HERE ON DISPLAY, WHICH INCLUDES ORIGINAL HANGMAN’S NOOSE’S USED BY GEORGE SMITH POPULARLY KNOWN AS ” THROTTLER SMITH ” AND JAMES BERRY ON THE “MAN THEY COULD NOT HANG ” – JOHN “BABBACOMBE” LEE . ALSO HANDWRITTEN AND SIGNED LETTERS, BUSINESS CARDS AND RECEIPTS ETC. GEORGE SMITH ( 1805-1874 ) George Smith, popularly known as Throttler Smith, was an English hangman from 1840 until 1872. He was born in Rowley Regis in the English West Midlands, where he performed the majority of his executions George Smith, popularly known as Throttler Smith, was an English hangman from 1840 until 1872. He was born in Rowley Regis in the English West Midlands, where he performed the majority of his executions NOOSE’S USED BY GEORGE SMITH POPULARLY KNOWN AS ” THROTTLER SMITH “ NOOSE USED BY GEORGE SMITH POPULARLY KNOWN AS ” THROTTLER SMITH “ WILLIAM CALCRAFT (1800 -1879 ) William Calcraft was a 19th-century English hangman, one of the most prolific of British executioners. It is estimated in his 45-year career he carried out 450 executions. BELOW: Original oil painting by Gloucestershire artist Paul Bridgman of notorious Hangman and Executioner – William Calcraft BELOW : Original receipt for payment of the sum of £12.12 shillings dated 22 march 1856 for an execution he carried out at Manchester Gaol . It is complete with a lilac Inland Revenue 1d stamp as well as being receipted as signed for by William Calcraft …. an extremely rare historic item for sure here on display at Littledean Jail In today’s money this would be equivalent to approx £9000 !!! WILLIAM MARWOOD ( 1818-1883) William Marwood was a hangman for the British government. He developed the technique of hanging known as the “long drop”. ABOVE : Original oil painting of William Marwood by Gloucestershire artist Paul Bridgman here on display at Littledean Jail BELOW : An original rare official business card from William Marwood , Executioner , which he has also signed on the rear as pictured here below. JAMES BERRY (1852-1913 ) James Berry was an English executioner from 1884 until 1891. Berry was born in Heckmondwike in the West Riding of Yorkshire, where his father worked as a wool-stapler. Above & below : An original book about James Berry sent to Joe Mawson back in 2004 with a dedicated inscription for his help having , at the time via Andy Jones of The Crime Through Time Collection provided a copy of the original James Berry calling card for illustrated use within this book ABOVE : Original and very rare James Berry ” Public Executioner ” business / calling cards ABOVE: An original oil painting by Gloucestershire artist Paul Bridgman of James Berry , here on display at The Crime Through Time Collection , Littledean jail . ABOVE AND BELOW: THE ORIGINAL JAMES BERRY HANGMAN’S NOOSE, USED BY HIM IN THE FAILED ATTEMPT TO EXECUTE JOHN ‘BABBACOMBE’ LEE IN EXETER JAIL ON 23 FEBRUARY 1885 DISPLAYED HERE ALONG WITH THE ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN AND SIGNED AUTHENTICATION LETTER FROM JAMES BERRY DATED 3 JULY 1897 IN RELATION TO THE USE OF THIS NOOSE . Above & below , an original James Berry Executioner business calling card privately acquired from the estate of former crime ephemera collector Joe Mawson (who passed away at the age of 86) by The Crime Through Time Collection along with an original letter from Scotland Yard’s Black Museum curator Bill Waddell sent from the Metropolitan Police Office dated 20-2-1984, previously sent to Joe Mawson with reference to this extremely rare calling card . PICTURED HERE BELOW IS AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE AND MOST CERTAINALY HISTORICALLY UNIQUE ENGRAVED 1861 HALF PENNY COIN PRESENTED BY JAMES BERRY PUBLIC EXECUTIONER TO J.BREEZE, 25 JULY 1886. THIS PERSONALLY ENGRAVED PRESENTATION COIN IS HERE ON DISPLAY, ALONG WITH AN ARRAY OF INFAMOUS HANGMAN JAMES BERRY & OTHER HANGMEN AND EXECUTIONER MEMORABILIA JOHN ELLIS (1874 -1932 ) John Ellis was a British executioner for 23 years, from 1901 to 1924. His other occupations were as a Rochdale hairdresser and newsagent. ABOVE: Original oil painting of John Ellis by Gloucestershire Artist Paul Bridgman , here on display at Littledean Jail JOHN BILLINGTON HANGMAN AND EXECUTIONER John Billington came from a family of hangmen. His father, James, was an executioner from 1884 to 1901, and his two older brothers, Thomas and William were employed in the same occupation. In early 1902, at the age of 21, John attended an execution training course at Newgate Prison. His brother William was England’s primary executioner by this time, and the two became partners. They first worked on 18 March. John was the assistant for 10 of William’s commissions in 1902. He helped perform the last execution at Newgate and the first one at Pentonville. Billington continued as an assistant through most of 1903. However, with his experience, he was soon promoted. On 2 December 1903, he carried out his commission as a chief executioner in Manchester, with John Ellis as his assistant. Twenty-nine executions took place in England and Ireland in 1903; the Billington brothers participated in 27 of them, including 15 as a two-man team. John Billington worked both as his brother’s assistant and as a chief executioner for the next two years. On three separate occasions, they carried out executions in different cities on the same day. The last of these was on 17 August 1904, when John executed John Kay at Armley Prison, and William hanged Samuel Holden at Winson Green Prison. Besides Ellis, John Billington also frequently worked with Henry Pierrepoint. In his career, Billington carried out a total of 26 hangings as an assistant and 16 as a chief executioner. He worked as a hairdresser when not performing executions. In August 1905, Billington received a commission to hang Thomas Tattersall in Leeds. While preparing the scaffold, he fell through the open trapdoor and cracked his ribs. He died about two months later due to those injuries; the official cause of death was pleurisy. Billington was 25 years old at the time. He was survived by his wife and one child. ABOVE : Original oil painting of James Billington by Gloucestershire artist Paul Bridgman here on display at Littledean Jail BELOW: Original oil painting of Henry Pierrepoint by Gloucestershire artist Paul Bridgman here on display at Littledean Jail THOMAS PIERREPOINT (1870 – 1954 ) ABOVE: Thomas Pierrepoint (left) and his nephew, Albert (right) BELOW: Thomas Pierrepoint , Hangman and Executioner Thomas Pierrepoint began working as a hangman in 1906 under the influence of his brother, Henry. His career spanned 39 years, and ended in 1946, by which time he was in his mid-seventies. During this time, he is thought to have carried out 294 hangings, 203 of which were civilians executed in England and Wales, whilst the remainder were executions carried out abroad or upon military personnel. Among those he executed was the poisoner Frederick Seddon in 1912. During World War II he was appointed as executioner by the US Military and was responsible for 13 out of 16 hangings of US soldiers at the Shepton Mallet military prison in Somerset. In this capacity, Pierrepoint carried out executions not only for murder but also rape which, at the time, was a capital crime under US military law although not in British law. In most of these cases he was assisted by his nephew Albert – who was principal hangman for the remaining three executions. In 1940, his medical fitness for the job was questioned by a medical officer who called him “unsecure” and doubted “whether his sight was good”. The Prison Commission discreetly asked for reports on his performance during executions in the following time, but evidently found no reason to take action, although one report said that Thomas Pierrepoint had “smelled strongly of drink” on two occasions when reporting at the prison. This, however, appears to clash with Thomas Pierrepoint’s instruction to Albert (when the latter acted as his assistant) not to take a drink if on the job and never to accept the drink customarily given to all witnesses at executions in the Republic of Ireland. Thomas never officially retired, rather his name was removed from the list of executioners and invitations to conduct executions ceased to arrive. He died at his daughter’s home in Bradford on 11 February 1954, aged 83 ABOVE: Original oil painting of Thomas Pierrepoint by Gloucestershire Artist Paul Bridgman on display at Littledean Jail ALBERT PIERREPOINT ( 1943 -1992 ) Albert Pierrepoint was a long-serving hangman in England. He executed at least 400 people, including William Joyce and John Amery. In Germany and Austria after the war, he executed some 200 people who had been convicted of war crimes HARRY ALLEN – THE LAST HANGMAN AND EXECUTIONER IN THE UNITED KINGDOM ABOVE : Harry Allen, Britain’s last chief executioner, photographed in 1969 Harry Bernard Allen (5 November 1911 – 14 August 1992) was one of Britain’s last official executioners, officiating between 1941 and 1964. He was chief executioner at 41 executions and acted as assistant executioner at 53 others, at various prisons in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands and Cyprus. He acted as assistant executioner for 14 years, mostly to Albert Pierrepoint from 1941 to 1955. ABOVE : Inspection: Hangman Harry Allen, right, examines a noose before an execution he undertook for the British Government in Cyprus In October 1955 Allen was appointed as Chief Executioner alongside Pierrepoint, although he did not execute anyone in this role until 10 May 1956, when he hanged two EOKA members in Cyprus. Pierrepoint was no longer available because he had resigned in February 1956. Allen’s most controversial hanging came in April 1962, when James Hanratty was hanged for murder, despite efforts to clear his name. Hanratty was proven guilty in 2002 by DNA. Allen also assisted in the execution of Derek Bentley in 1953, and he performed one of the last two executions in Britain, in August 1964. ABOVE : Original oil painting of hangman and executioner Harry Allen by Gloucestershire Artist Paul Bridgman here on display at Littledean Jail. 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IN MEMORY OF ROY “PRETTY BOY ” SHAW ( 11 MARCH 1936 – 14 JULY 2012 ) FORMER UNOFFICIAL, UNLICENSED BRITISH HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION, DANGEROUS CATEGORY ‘A’ PRISON INMATE AND PROPERTY TYCOON. WHETHER LOATHED OR LOVED, HIS CHARISMATIC LIFE AND TIMES REMAIN IMMORTALISED HERE AT THE CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION, LITTLEDEAN JAIL, FOREST OF DEAN, GLOUCESTERSHIRE , UK Royston Henry Shaw (11 March 1936 – 14 July 2012), also known as Roy “Pretty Boy” Shaw, Roy “Mean Machine” Shaw and Roy West, real estate investor, author and businessman from the East End of London who was formerly a criminal and Category A prisoner. During the 1970s–1980s, Shaw was active in the criminal underworld of London and was frequently associated with the Kray twins. Shaw is best remembered today for his career as a fighter on the unlicensed boxing scene, becoming an arch-rival with Lenny McLean. THE FORMER GUV’NOR HAS PASSED AWAY BUT HIS MEMORY LIVES ON HERE AT THE CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL Picture By: Jules Annan Picture Shows:Andy Jones with Roy “Pretty Boy ” Shaw’s boxing trunks and the Belt presented to Roy when he was the undisputed unlicensed British Heavyweight boxing champion between 1975 and 1981 . Roy sadly passed away 14th July 2012 . These items and other Roy Shaw material are on display at the Crime Through Time Collection at Littledean Jail Date 21st July 2012 HAVING HAD THE GREAT HONOUR TO HAVE MET AND KNOWN ROY FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS AND HAVING ATTENDED A GREAT MANY EVENTS WITH HIM DURING THIS TIME , HE WAS CERTAINLY A VERY TOUGH AND CHARISMATIC PERSON … TO SAY THE LEAST. UNDOUBTEDLY ONE OF THE TOUGHEST MEN I HAVE EVER MET …. TRUE GENT AND OLD SCHOOL ALTHOUGH AS MANY OF HIS CLOSE FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES WOULD WELL KNOW… ONE YOU WOULD NOT WISH TO ANTAGONISE, UPSET OR CROSS . HERE AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL WE HAVE LONG FEATURED A NUMBER OF PERSONAL EXHIBIT ITEMS THAT ONCE BELONGED TO ROY SHAW AND USED BY HIM THROUGHOUT HIS UNLICENSED BOXING CAREER .. THESE ITEMS WERE KINDLY GIFTED AND PRESENTED TO MYSELF DURING AN INVITED PRIVATE VISIT TO HIS HOME BACK IN THE YEAR 2000 . THESE INCLUDE HIS UNDISPUTED , UNOFFICIAL, UNLICENSED BRITISH HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP BELT , HIS BOXING TRUNKS, TRAINING GLOVES , ORIGINAL FIGHT POSTERS ETC….. HE ALSO CONTRIBUTED A NUMBER OF PERSONALLY SIGNED PHOTO’S TO BE INCLUDED IN AND AMONGST THIS PERMANENT EXHIBITION AREA HERE AT THE JAIL… BELOW: ROY SHAW GIFING AND PRESENTING HIS UNOFFICIAL BRITISH HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP BELT ( DATED 1975-1981 ) AND BOXING SHORTS TO ANDY JONES OF THE CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION… AT ROY’S HOME BACK IN THE YEAR 2000 “LONG WILL HE REMAIN IMMORTALISED HERE AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL” … SAYS ANDY JONES, CRIME THROUGH TIME COLLECTION OWNER BELOW ARE A COUPLE MORE VIDEO FILM CLIPS RELATING TO ROY SHAW ….ALSO BELOW THESE A FEW MORE GALLERY IMAGES OF ROY SHAW AND SOME OF THE ITEMS ON DISPLAY HERE AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL …. INCLUDING ORIGINAL FIGHT POSTERS ETC…… Picture By: Jules Annan Picture Shows:Andy Jones with Roy “Pretty Boy ” Shaw’s boxing trunks and the Belt presented to Roy when he was the undisputed unlicensed British Heavyweight boxing champion between 1975 and 1981 . Roy sadly passed away 14th July 2012 . These items and other Roy Shaw material are on display at the Crime Through Time Collection at Littledean Jail Date 21st July 2012 Ref: World Rights Only Unbylined uses will incur an additional discretionary fee! 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Above : Charles Manson seen here in open coffin after his death on November 19, 2017 Charles Milles Manson (né Maddox, November 12, 1934 – November 19, 2017) was an American criminal, cult leader, and songwriter. In the late 1960s, he formed what became known as the Manson Family, a quasi-commune in California. Manson’s followers committed a series of nine murders at four locations in July and August 1969. In 1971 he was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder for the deaths of seven people, all of which were carried out at his instruction by members of the group. Manson was also convicted of first-degree murder for two other deaths. At the time the Manson Family began to form, Manson was an unemployed ex-convict who had spent half of his life in correctional institutions for a variety of offenses. Before the murders, he was a singer-songwriter on the fringe of the Los Angeles music industry, chiefly through a chance association with Dennis Wilson, drummer and founding member of the Beach Boys. Manson believed in what he called “Helter Skelter”, a term he took from the Beatles’ song of the same name to describe an impending apocalyptic race war. He believed the murders would help precipitate that war. One of his songs, “Cease to Exist”, was recorded by the Beach Boys and renamed “Never Learn Not to Love”. It was released as a B-sided single in 1968 without Manson’s credit. From the beginning of Manson’s notoriety, a pop culture arose around him in which he ultimately became an emblem of insanity, violence and the macabre. After he was charged with the crimes of which he was later convicted, recordings of songs written and performed by Manson were released commercially, starting with Lie: The Love and Terror Cult (1970). Various musicians have covered some of his songs. Manson was originally sentenced to death, but his sentence was commuted to life with the possibility of parole after California invalidated the state’s death penalty statute in 1972. He served out his life sentence at California State Prison in Corcoran and died at age 83 in 2017. Above: Charles Manson painting kindly donated by Gloucestershire Artist – Paul Bridgman on display at The Crime Through Time Collection at Littledean Jail . Charles Manson is a convicted serial killer who has become an icon of evil. In the late 1960s, Manson founded a hippie cult group known as “the Family” whom he manipulated into brutally killing others on his behalf. Here’s some interactive information , a brief photo gallery and video footage relating to the infamous cult leader Charles Manson and The Manson Family FROM THE HANDS OF DEATH Here on display at the Crime Through Time Collection at Littledean Jail , Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, UK ………..we have a number of handwritten and signed letters etc from Charles Manson and some of his disciples along with various other American and UK serial killers. November 12, 1934 — Charles Milles Maddox, Charles Milles Manson Overview of Charles Manson: Charles Manson was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to 16-year-old Kathleen Maddox. Kathleen had run away from home at the age of 15 and spent the next few decades drinking too much, with periods of time spent in jail. Since his mother couldn’t take care of him, Charles spent his youth at the homes of various relatives and often at special reform schools and boys homes. By age nine, Charles Manson had already started stealing and soon added burglary and stealing cars to his repertoire. Manson Gets Married In 1954, at age nineteen, he was released on parole after an unusual bout of good behavior. The next year, he married Rosalie Willis, a waitress, and they had a son together, Charles Manson Jr. (born March 1956). Even while married, Manson had continued making extra money by stealing cars. In April 1956, he was again sent to prison. After Manson had been in prison for a year, his wife found someone new and divorced Manson in June 1957. Manson the Con Man In 1958, Manson was released from prison. While out, Manson began pimping, stealing checks from mailboxes, and conned a young woman out of money. He also married again, to a woman named Leona, and fathered a second son, Charles Luther Manson. Manson was again arrested on June 1, 1960 and sent to the McNeil Island Penitentiary off the coast of Washington. His wife soon divorced him. Music in Prison Manson spent the next six years in prison. It was during this time that he befriended the infamous Alvin “Creepy” Karpis, former member of Ma Barker’s gang. After Karpis taught Charles Manson to play the steel guitar, Manson became obsessed with making music. He practiced all the time, wrote dozens of original songs, and started singing. He believed that when he got out of prison, he could be a famous musician. Manson Gets a Following On March 21, 1967, Manson was once again released from prison. This time he headed to San Francisco where, with a guitar and drugs, he began to get a following. In 1968, he and several followers drove to Southern California. Manson was still hoping for a music career. Through an acquaintance, Manson met and hung out with Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys. The Beach Boys did record one of Manson’s songs, which appeared as “Never Learn Not to Love” on the B-side of their 20/20 album. Through Wilson, Manson met Terry Melcher, Doris Day’s son. Manson believed Melcher was going to advance his music career but when nothing happened, Manson was very upset. During this time, Charles Manson and some of his followers moved into the Spahn Ranch. Located northwest of San Fernando Valley the Spahn Ranch had been a popular location to film westerns in the 1940s and 1950s. Once Manson and his followers moved in, it became a cult compound for “the Family.” Charles Manson was good at manipulating people. He took pieces from various religions to form his own philosophy. When the Beatles released their White Album in 1968, Manson believed their song “Helter Skelter” predicted an upcoming race war. “Helter skelter,” Manson believed, was going to occur in the summer of 1969 when blacks were going to rise up and slaughter all the white people. He told his followers that they would be saved because they would go underground, literally, by traveling to an underground city of gold located in Death Valley. However, when the Armageddon that Manson had predicted did not occur, he said he and his followers must show the blacks how to do it. Manson Orders the Murders Manson told four of his followers to go to 10050 Cielo Drive in Los Angeles and kill the people inside. This house once belonged to Terry Melcher, the man who had not helped Manson with his music career. However, Melcher no longer lived there; actress Sharon Tate and her husband, director Roman Polanski, had rented the house. On August 9, 1969, four of Manson’s followers brutally murdered Tate, her unborn baby, and four others who were visiting her (Polanski was in Europe for work). The following night, Manson’s followers brutally killed Leno and Rosemary LaBianca in their home. Manson’s Trial It took the police several months to determine who was responsible. In December 1969, Manson and several of his followers were arrested. The trial began on July 24, 1970. On January 25, Manson was found guilty of first degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder. On March 29, 1971, Manson was sentenced to death. Manson was reprieved from the death penalty in 1972 when the California Supreme Court outlawed the death penalty. Charles Manson now serves a lifetime sentence and periodically comes up for parole. Though he’s been in prison for over three decades, Charles Manson has received more mail than any other prisoner in the U.S. Charles Manson is currently being held in California’s Corcoran Prison. 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__label__wiki	0.686282	0.686282	Home / Certification Category: Certification Samsung Teams With Banks, Telcos for Mobile ID Network Based on Blockchain Business News, Certification, Crypto News, Identity, LG, News, samsung Tech giant Samsung Electronics is joining six other major South Korean firms to develop a blockchain-based certificate and ID authentication network. US Medical Board Group Launches Blockchain Certification Pilot Business News, Certification, Crypto News, FSMB, Healthcare, Legal, medical board, News, Use Cases & Verticals A national non-profit group for state medical boards is launching a new blockchain pilot focused on digital certifications. The Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) announced today that it would be the latest organization to test the use of Blockcerts, an open-source standard built on top of bitcoin that developed by Learning Machine Technologies and the MIT Media Lab. The non-profit used the tech to create digital records for both undergraduate and graduate medical certification credentials. Though most of the groups to date to try out the standard have been academic institutions, the FSMB’s pilot represents a notable use case in the medical field. The FSMB dates back to the early 20th century and counts the 70 state medical and osteopathic regulatory boards within the U.S. Materials published online suggest that the pilot began last month, though it’s unclear at this time whether the FSMB will consider any applications of the tech beyond the scope of the pilot. “Verification of medical education and related credentials is a critically important endeavor, and we are hopeful that the continued success of this pilot may provide the level of certainty needed to implement blockchain technologies in the medical licensing and credentialing process,” Michael Dugan, the FMSB’s chief information officer, said in a statement. Doctor image via Shutterstock The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is an independent media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. Have breaking news or a story tip to send to our journalists? Contact us at news@coindesk.com. Sea Change? Deloitte Is Tracking Ships' Certificates with Blockchain Business News, Certification, Crypto News, Deloitte, DNV GL, Featured, Features, IACS, Lloyd's Register, shipping, Supply Chain, Use Cases & Verticals Deloitte is taking non-financial applications of blockchain technology into uncharted waters. To record the inspection certificates for ships, oil rigs and the like on a private, shared ledger, the consulting firm’s blockchain lab for Europe, the Middle East and Africa recently partnered with DNV GL, one of the world’s largest classification societies. Such companies certify that vessels and offshore structures meet acceptable standards for safety and environmental impact. But, the certificates they issue can be forged, potentially undermining trust in the system. Further, checking that a certificate is real is a slow, cumbersome process. Deloitte and Norway-based DNV GL see blockchain technology as the answer to both problems. Their solution creates a digital ID of each certificate that is stored and accessed on a private blockchain. The decentralized approach is seen as a way to discourage fraud or otherwise tampering with the documents. Lory Kehoe, Deloitte’s EMEA blockchain lead, explained: “Instead of one record being held on one server, it’s held over many, many systems.” The existing system for issuing certifications had been in need of digital transformation, said Kehoe. “Some parts were manual, some parts weren’t exactly digital.” One problem with the legacy system is that users need to go to a company’s website or send an email to check a certificate’s authenticity. This can now be done instantly with a blockchain, explained Renato Grottola, director of global digital transformation for DNV GL, which formed from a merger between DNV and Germany’s GL in 2013. He told CoinDesk: “Anyone can, by scanning the QR code on the certificate, check its validity and data. With the one-to-one connection between the certificate and the blockchain, verification is instant and easily done with a mobile device.” “As the original data is stored and updated in the blockchain, it will quickly reveal whether a certificate is authentic or not,” he said. The solution was officially deployed September 23, with 90,000 certificates currently on the private blockchain. “It is quite early after the deployment, but feedback received so far has been positive,” said Grottola. Protecting reputations DNV GL’s business is based on trust and authenticity with industries trusting its certificates to be what they say they are – but that is an increasingly difficult balance to maintain. “You can spend a lifetime building a reputation and it takes seconds for it to fall apart,” explained Kehoe: “All it takes is one or two scenarios where DNV GL have put their name to something and another company in another part of the world replicates that and DNV GL’s name gets tarnished.” It can take another lifetime trying to disprove those falsehoods and rebuild a reputation. Kehoe said he believes that Deloitte’s blockchain deployment will prevent that. “In the world of certification, other companies presume we’re looking at this,” said Kehoe. “If I was in the business insurance industry myself beyond DNV GL, I would have been looking strongly at blockchain.” The International Association of Classification Societies (IACS) is an organization whose members include DNV GL. A spokesperson told CoinDesk that it is currently neutral on blockchain, saying: “IACS does not have a position on blockchain technology and has not discussed this matter to date.” However, IACS recently appointed DNV GL’s CEO, Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen, as its new chairman and upon his appointment, he spoke of the need to prioritize digitization. London-based Lloyd’s Register, a competitor of DNV GL, on the other hand, said it is “is actively working at real-world applications of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies with our clients and partners.” A spokesperson for Lloyd’s Register added: “We believe blockchain and distribute ledger technology has wider applicability in industrial applications, especially around increasing transparency in supply chains and around safety and reducing risk.” Grottola said DNV GL was aware that some its competitors are looking at blockchain initiatives and it was “keenly observing” new entrants in the market. Growing trend DNV GL’s blockchain solution is part of a growing trend of non-financial services firms turning to the technology. Deloitte’s Kehoe said he has seen a notable increase in the number of such queries over the last nine to 12 months, and that clients are now coming to Deloitte with a greater understanding of blockchain technology. “The work we’re doing now is kind of skipping the [proof of concept] phase because our clients understand the technology,” he said. “They’re coming to us with use cases with a clear problem to solve.” He explained: “We’re not talking about experiments anymore in dark rooms where people are playing with this technology. It’s now all about how do we integrate the technology in a meaningful way so that it solves the problem – it creates an opportunity, helping companies stay relevant, I think that’s a very important point too.” Sailing boat image via Shutterstock. 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__label__cc	0.67316	0.32684	18th of July 2014 · 20:21 Leeds and Bradford Cycle Superhighway: Confused? You will be. The plans for Leeds’ “Cycle Superhighway” are so afwul that I genuinely don’t know where to start. So I’ll start by saying this: As it stands right now, I would rather go full-Franklin and campaign against this scheme than risk any of this crap being installed. It really is so awful that I would rather see the whole project cancelled than have the current scheme approved. Regular readers will know that I’m all for good-quality cycling infrastructure, and I’ve campaigned hard to get it. But there’s now a bigger danger to cycling in Britain than those old-school “cyclists’ proper place is on the road” types, and that is poor-quality infrastructure. Nothing will derail the entire “Space for Cycling” movement more than the acceptance of rubbish designs, and Leeds’ plans are probably as good an example of rubbish designs as you’ll find anywhere. A year of no progress whatsoever It’s now over a year since I first wrote about Leeds and Bradford’s lacklustre plans, though I hoped at the time that the designs would be improved. So, a whole year has passed, surely that’s plenty of time to come up with something at least vaguely reasonable? Sadly, it seems not. While the latest plans are an improvement over the ones I last looked at (especially the sections in Bradford) they still fall short of the standard of infrastructure that’s needed here. As is normal with such big projects, there’s a wonderful-sounding “vision” (PDF) and then there’s the grim reality of the actual designs themselves. They’ve got a name (“CityConnect”) and a logo, which must not be tampered with. It’s interesting that they’ve been so exacting with the logo, yet extremely sloppy with the actual plans. These big schemes always have plenty of lovely words about how great cycling is and how it benefits everyone and how brilliant it would be if people could use a bike to get around, but then the planned scheme makes it clear that cycling comes last, motor vehicles are more important, and the whole thing is going to be a botched job. It’s all about the branding – PDF here, but make sure you have some incense sticks and a whalesong CD ready, it’s a wild ride of paradigm-busting colours and mutual touching. (Incidentally, whoever is running the City Connect Twitter account is responsive and helpful, though they have been unable to provide me with simple and important pieces of information, such as the width of the planned cycle track. This fits in with branding being prioritised over content, I guess.) It seems to me that whoever is in charge of this scheme either doesn’t have a clue what they’re doing, or they’re cynically and intentionally trying to appear modern and cycle-friendly while actually continuing Leeds’ reputation as the Motorway City of the 1970s. I’m told that there are some great people involved who really do want the best but are being hampered by relics of the past in powerful positions. Whatever is happening behind the scenes, the current plans are dreadful. And that’s particularly annoying for me personally, as this scheme affects areas that are close to me. I grew up in Leeds and my family still lives there. My BMX was stolen from outside the very Halfords that this scheme runs past. More importantly, my niece – just five years old, an age where Dutch children are regularly cycling around with their parents – lives very close to the planned route. When it’s built, would my sister be able to use this cycleway with her daughter? In ten years time, will my niece be able to ride into town safely on her own, as millions of Dutch teenagers do today? Looking at these plans, no. Not even close. It’s not a safe design, it’s a hack job. I would not advise my sister to use this “superhighway”. I would advise against it. So who is this scheme for? Who is it aimed at? Existing cyclists – very few though there are in Leeds – surely don’t need this, as it will only slow them down. I can’t see how it would attract people to begin cycling either, as it’s just not convenient enough compared to the alternatives. It seems to be aimed at some kind of day-tripping leisure cyclist who prefers huge arterial roads to greenery. Plans of confusion I was intending to dive into the plans themselves in this post, but due to the inconsistency of the images and icons shown to describe different types of cycleway, it’s difficult to know exactly what’s planned where. For example, the blue circle icon for their “Type 1” cycleway seems to suggest that the footway, cycleway and carriageway are all at the same level, with raised kerbs separating them. But then the cross-section diagram seems to suggest that the footway will be at the normal raised level, and the cycleway at carriageway level with a raised kerb as a divider (like CS2X in London). And then they’ve used a photo of a section of CS3 in London to illustrate this, which is like neither of the other two suggested arrangements (though that photo does match their “Type 2” cycleway!) Do those behind this scheme even understand the difference? Okay, so I’d read all this and decided that the blue ‘Type 1’ cycleway must be level with the carriageway, with a raised dividing kerb, like in the 3D image at the bottom and the cross-section diagram on the left. But just when I thought I might be able to make sense of the plans, there’s more mess! The designs show triangles at the start and end of the blue ‘Type 1’ sections, which I’ve been reliably informed denote a ramp up or down (the point of the triangle being the bottom of the slope): The triangles suggest that the blue sections are raised to a higher level than the carriageway. It seems that the people behind the plans are as confused as I am, because somebody has clearly spent a lot of time drawing these triangles in. Whoever sat at a computer and did this must have thought that the blue “Type 1” cycle paths are raised from carriageway level, or they wouldn’t have diligently spent time and effort adding ramps into the drawings. I asked the always-responsive City Connect Twitter person about this, and they checked for me. It seems the blue “Type 1” cycleways are at carriageway level after all, and the triangles on the plans were “an error from [the] design team”. An error? Look, I’m not an engineer, I’m just some schlub who would like people to be able to use a bike for transport easily and safely. How on Earth did nobody notice this before me? Is the communication within the project so poor that nobody is scrutinising the plans as much as untrained members of the public? Why are we paying people to make such obvious errors? How many more errors – invisible to my untrained eye – are hidden in these plans, to remain there until the guys with the shovels turn up on site? Note, added 20th September 2014: It’s also occurred to me that if the blue bits are indeed at carriageway-level, where’s the 60cm-wide segregating strip meant to go? The black line on the plans is nowhere near wide enough. How can people be expected to give informed feedback on such vague plans? Nothing says “Superhighway” quite like the words “footway conversion” There’s also inconsistencies such as this: They’re just putting labels on at random, now. The image above shows a footway conversion while the icon used is for a carriageway-level cycleway divided by an island. We all know that “footway conversion” means nothing more than a few signs and some paint, so why have they labelled it as being at carriageway-level? (And I wonder if they intend to move the many lamp-posts and telegraph poles that are currently embedded in the footway?) Are they really planning to drop this footway down to carriageway level? I don’t think so. So why label it as such? (Image: Google Streetview) At least, I hope the intention is to convert the entire width of it into a cycleway, although the icon suggests that one half of it will be turned into a cycleway, with the other half remaining a footway. With such inconsistency, and with no width given anywhere, it’s impossible to tell. Isn’t that the whole point of plans, to answer these questions? Finally for now, the icons for “cycle lane across junction” and “cycle path across junction” are used inconsistently, too: So bikes go on the what, now? The whole thing reeks of sloppiness. How are members of the public expected to give feedback when the designs are so unclear? Even those who are paid to work with them seem unsure about what is intended where. If only they’d paid as much attention to detail on the plans as they have done on the logo. Anyway, that’s enough for today, I reckon. I’ll have a deeper look at some of the plans very soon. But for now, I’ll leave this question, which I sincerely hope someone from City Connect can answer: Why are there no widths given for any of the planned cycleways? Update, Wednesday 23rd July 2014: A response was posted by City Connect on their blog, which prevents linking to anything but the main blog page, so you have to click here then find the blog titled “Section G Plans”, which should be at the top until they add a new post. At least, I think it was a response to my blog post, or my tweets. It’s hard to tell, as there was no link to what was being rebutted. Tagged as bad design, bradford, City Connect, Cycle Superhighways, leeds	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1110
__label__wiki	0.793839	0.793839	> Search > Site list > Marine site detail Natural England Conservation Advice for Marine Protected Areas Farne Islands SPA Natural England guidance This site collection contains Natural England’s conservation advice for this site. It fulfils Natural England’s responsibility under the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 (as amended), to give advice on how to further the conservation objectives for the site, identify the activities that are capable of affecting the qualifying features and the processes which they are dependent upon. Natural England’s conservation advice for this site is made up of a number of components. You will need to consider: Site information (feature and sub-feature descriptions, site overview, general information about the site and features) Background information and geography Conservation Objectives Supplementary advice on conservation objectives Advice on seasonality Additional information for consideration: Feature condition Management measures Overarching site: Farne Islands Site name: Farne Islands SPA Designation type: SPA Site identification: UK9006021 Classification date: 29 January 2017 Qualifying features (click to see site specific description): Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea), Breeding Common tern (Sterna hirundo), Breeding Guillemot (Uria aalge), Breeding Roseate tern (Sterna dougallii), Breeding Sandwich tern (Thalasseus sandvicensis), Breeding Seabird assemblage, Breeding General information on the site features: You can find generic information on the qualifying species from the following websites: The RSPB bird guide British Trust for Ornithology The generic information on the supporting habitats for the qualifying features is useful for understanding the qualifying features, and should be used in conjunction with the site specific information. Designated area (ha): 101.23 Moderation/boundary changes: The site was classified on 17 July 1985. On 29 January 2017 the site was amended to include guillemot (Uria aalge) and a seabird assemblage. Component Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI): Farne Islands SSSI Overlapping Protected Areas: Berwickshire and North Northumberland Coast SAC Farne Islands NNR Northumberland Marine SPA Last updated: 15th March 2019 The Farne Islands are a group of rocky Islands stretching from between 2.4 to 7.6 kilometres offshore. The islands are rocky plateaus formed from Whin Sill rock, the total area of all the islands is 101ha consisting of 15 – 20 islands depending on tide, they are split into the Inner Farnes and the Outer Farnes. The botanical interest is limited but the islands are famous as a breeding ground for grey seal and as a seabird nesting colony. The Farne Islands was first classified as an SPA in 1985, they were designated as an SPA for nesting Arctic (Sterna paradisaea), common (Sterna hirundo), roseate (Sterna dougallii), and Sandwich terns (Thalasseus sandvicensis), also during breeding season nesting guillemot (Uria aalge) The SPA designation also includes the seabird assemblage which consists of kittiwake, shag, cormorant, puffin and guillemot, plus the terns described above. Eider also nest on Inner Farne although they are not present in significant numbers to constitute as part of the SPA designation (English Nature, 1983). Birds from the islands forage in the surrounding water column, and these surrounding waters are now protected through the Northumberland Marine SPA. The Farne Islands SPA is managed by the National Trust who have permanent rangers stationed on the main island, they monitor bird activity and help manage visitors as these islands are visited regularly by tourists on boat trips. A voluntary code of conduct is in place for recreational boat users using the area with a management plan in order to manage visitors. The Farne Island supports an internationally important assemblage of seabirds, supporting a total of 142,490 individual breeding seabirds (Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC), 2017). During the breeding season the area regularly supports the assemblage which includes kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla), shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis), cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica), guillemot (Uria aalge), Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea), common tern (Sterna hirundo), roseate tern (Sterna dougallii), and Sandwich tern (Sterna sandvicensis). The seabird assemblage birds all breed on the Farne Islands and forage in the surrounding sea. The area surrounding the Farne Islands is protected by the Northumberland Marine SPA, which has been classified to protect the foraging areas of tern species and other breeding seabirds. The Northumberland coast and surrounding sea supports important breeding colonies of seabirds and auks, protected at four existing SPAs: Farne Islands SPA, Coquet Island SPA, Lindisfarne SPA and Northumbria Coast SPA. The surrounding waters are protected by Northumberland Marine SPA, these areas are used by the seabirds and auks for foraging and maintenance activities, such as bathing and preening. Use the MAGIC website to see site maps, including habitats, species and other marine designations. These maps are based on best available evidence, there are some caveats associated with the maps on MAGIC. The site’s conservation objectives apply to the site and the individual species and/or assemblage of species for which the site has been classified (the "Qualifying features" listed above). The objectives are to ensure that, subject to natural change, the integrity of the site is maintained or restored as appropriate, and that the site contributes to achieving the aims of the Wild Birds Directive, by maintaining or restoring: the extent and distribution of the habitats of the qualifying features the structure and function of the habitats of the qualifying features the supporting processes on which the habitats of the qualifying features rely the populations of each of the qualifying features the distribution of qualifying features within the site Refer to the site information table above for the list of features within this site. This should be read in conjunction with the accompanying supplementary advice section, which provides more detailed information to help achieve the objectives set out above, including which attributes should be maintained and which restored. The conservation objectives apply under the Habitats Regulations, and must be considered during a Habitats Regulation Assessment, including an Appropriate Assessment. The conservation objectives and accompanying supplementary advice provide a framework to inform the management and measures needed to conserve or restore the European site, and the prevention of deterioration and significant disturbance of its qualifying features. Where the objectives are met, the site will be considered to show a high level of integrity, and to be contributing to achieving the aims of the Habitats Regulations. See supplementary advice on conservation objectives for this site, which aim to describe the range of ecological attributes that are most likely to contribute to a site’s overall integrity. See the advice on operations for this site to view information on the sensitivity of features in this site to the pressures exerted by different activities. See the advice on seasonality for this site, to view the months in which each mobile feature occurs in this site. Last updated: 14th September 2018 In 2016, Natural England trialled and rolled out a new condition assessment methodology that provide robust results and information on the condition of marine features within Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). Area Teams conduct these assessments following a standardised approach that assesses if feature- and site-specific targets have been met. Assessments for the first sites have been completed, and several others are currently assessed by the Area Teams. To date, condition assessments have been carried out for marine habitat features of a number of Special Areas of Conservation (SACs). Marine habitat features in other SACs will be assessed in the future. Different processes are currently in place to report on the condition of features in Marine Conservation Zones (MCZs) and Special Protection Areas (SPAs), and on the condition of non-marine habitat features and species features of SACs. The main part of the assessment process is directly undertaken and stored here on Natural England’s Designated Sites View. The details for the most recent assessments of this site can be found here. If you are carrying out an environmental assessment, planning an operation or assessing an operation or proposal, it is important to consult with the following organisations where applicable. To find out if any management measures, byelaws or other restrictions apply to your activity see the management measure page or you can use the following links for more information. The Marine Management Organisation license, regulate and plan marine activities in the seas around England and Wales so that they’re carried out in a sustainable way. Environment Agency are responsible for regulating major industry and waste, water quality and resources, fisheries, inland river, estuary and harbour navigations, conservation and ecology. Offshore Petroleum Regulator for the Environment and Decommissioning (OPRED) regulates oil and gas, CCS and gas storage activities in the marine environment. Northumberland County Council Northumberland Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority For further information relating to this designated site you can refer to the following resources: EU Habitats Directive and EU Birds Directives reports from JNCC Natural England's SSSI information, including condition assessment Wetland Bird Survey Alerts from BTO Site specific information: the classification citation (2017) the classification citation (archived) Natura 2000 Standard Data Form National Trust - Farne Islands Joint Nature Conservation Committee provides advice on habitats and biodiversity and is responsible for the identification of MPAs in UK offshore waters Site Improvement Plans were developed during the Improving Programme for England’s Natura 2000 sites (IPENS) This site is a Marine Protected Area. Refer to the Marine Protected Areas Conservation Advice package collection. MPA Marine conservation advice guidance For further information about this site contact: Natural England enquiries Telephone: 0300 060 3900. Email: enquiries@naturalengland.org.uk For further information on the Conservation Advice Project, including Designated Sites System (DSS) guidance, Frequently Asked Questions and a Glossary of terminology, please contact: MCAProject@naturalengland.org.uk	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1112
__label__cc	0.668658	0.331342	Phenylmercury propionate Regulatory process names 1 CAS names 1 IUPAC names 2 Other identifiers 2 ↓Groups: Mol. formula: C9H10HgO2 Danger! According to the classification provided by companies to ECHA in CLP notifications this substance is fatal if swallowed, is fatal in contact with skin, is fatal if inhaled, is very toxic to aquatic life, is very toxic to aquatic life with long lasting effects and may cause damage to organs through prolonged or repeated exposure. Important to know Important to know This section highlights four regulatory activities or outcomes under REACH – Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals – Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006: Community rolling action plan - indicates if the substance is or was included in the Community rolling action plan (CoRAP). The CoRAP list includes substances that could pose a risk to human health or the environment and whose (potentially hazardous) properties are to be evaluated by the Member States in the next three years. After evaluation, proposals may be made for further regulatory action regarding the substance. Candidate List - indicates if the substance is included in the candidate list of substances of very high concern (SVHCs). The Candidate List includes substances that are subject to additional protocols and reporting obligations and which may eventually be included in the Authorisation List, further limiting their use. Authorisation list (Annex XIV to REACH) - indicates if the substance is included in the Authorisation list. These substances cannot be placed on the market or used after a given date, unless an authorisation is granted for their specific use, or the use is exempted from authorisation. Restriction list (Annex XVII to REACH) - indicates if the substance is included in the Restriction List. The Restriction List describes the conditions for the manufacture, placing on the market or use of certain substances, either on their own or in mixtures or articles. Please note: The identification of relevant regulatory activities and outcomes is done automatically and without manual verification. Substances may be grouped together under a specific regulatory activity for more efficient risk management and legislative processing (e.g. restriction on "Lead and its compounds"). In these cases, Infocards may not identify all substances in the group.Therefore it does not represent official and legally–binding information. To confirm if a substance is covered by a specific regulatory action the official publication, e.g. the electronic edition of the Official Journal of the European Union should be consulted. Some uses of this substance are restricted under Annex XVII of REACH. Restriction list REACH Annex XVII. Substances for which certain uses are Restricted under REACH at EU level. Submitted restrictions under consideration - previous consultation PIC - Prior Informed Consent Regulation Substances subject to export controls or banned from export from the EU under the PIC regulation. Group parents This substance has been identified as member of the following groups of substances: EC / List no. Mercury compounds, including inorganic mercury compounds, alkyl mercury compounds and alkyloxyalkyl and aryl mercury compounds - - Expert judgement Entry 62 - - Expert judgement EC Inventory, Restriction list (annex XVII), PIC, Pre-Registration process CAS names Mercury, phenyl(propanoato-.kappa.O)- Organic compounds of mercury phenylmercurio propanoate EC Inventory, C&L Inventory, Restriction list (annex XVII), PIC, Pre-Registration process, Other Combined Nomenclature Code	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1122
__label__wiki	0.682029	0.682029	Home News Revealed: the £300k cost of Oxford SU’s refurb Revealed: the £300k cost of Oxford SU’s refurb The University’s Estates Services paid out over £200,000 on building work and nearly £175,000 on redecorating. The interior of the renovated offices. Oxford University spent over £300,000 renovating Oxford SU’s stylish new offices, Cherwell has learnt. A Freedom of Information (FOI) request revealed the University’s Estates Services paid out over £200,000 on building work and nearly £175,000 on redecorating to move the student union headquarters. University officials spent a further £25,000 on interior designers and £26,000 on new furniture for the new offices, the figures show. Oxford SU moved from 2 Worcester Street to the larger university-owned premises at 4 Worcester Street in September last year. It was part of a wider makeover that also involved rebranding from ‘OUSU’ to ‘Oxford SU’. According to Oxford SU, the relocation was requested by the University. Oxford University paid a total of £316,651 on the refitting job, a cost that will fuel debate on the spiralling costs of the SU’s rebranding scheme and raise questions over why the University, and not Oxford SU, solely footed the bill for the work at a time of heightened scrutiny on University expenses. Last August, Cherwell revealed that Oxford SU paid a London PR agency over £17,000 to improve its image amongst the student body, including designing a new logo and website. The rebrand followed a survey showing Oxford’s student union has some of the lowest satisfaction rates in the country. At the time, students took to social media to brand the cost “absolutely obscene”. The 4 Worcester Street offices are used by the elected sabbatical officers and other staff, as well as the student union’s official newspaper the Oxford Student and its relaunched online radio station Oxide. Ray Williams, an Oxide presenter, while admitting the studio was “cramped”, described the new premises as “modern and clean with high quality equipment”. Felix Pope, a Hertford student said: “It’s nothing short of absurd that the University and Oxford SU have decided that the best way to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds is to do up a suite of offices that the vast majority of students will never enter, for an organisation that that vast majority of students couldn’t care less about. “Why buy state of the art recording equipment for a radio station that will attract a few dozen listeners at most? Why splurge on a body so irrelevant to student life that that couldn’t convince even a fifth of us to bother to vote in its most recent internal election? And why waste yet more money after SU functionaries blew 17 grand this summer on an ugly new logo that could’ve been thrown together in ten minutes on Photoshop? “Surely this money could be better spent on improving student mental health provision, funding outreach work, or helping support those from disadvantaged backgrounds.” An Oxford SU spokesperson told Cherwell: “The new space has increased the opportunity for students to use space that Oxford SU provides with more student meetings, campaigns and socials happening in the building over the last term. “It has also increased space for the University’s Student Welfare and Support Services, which includes the counselling and disability advisory services.” A University spokesperson told Cherwell: “These costs relate to a project designed to improve a range of services for our students. The project included providing OxfordSU with additional office and meeting space, which will allow it to further develop its service for students. “It also expanded space for University’s Student Welfare and Support Services, which includes the counselling and disability advisory services – allowing for additional appointments with students; and brought together the Welfare, Graduate Accommodation and Fees and Funding teams in buildings close to OxfordSU. “We believe the project will benefit students across the University, and that the costs are proportionate for a project of this scale.” oxford su Previous articleTwelfth Night Review – Shakespeare for the Love Island Generation’ Next articleTwelfth Night preview – ‘a darker version’ https://jackrhunter.com/ Jack Hunter was the editor of Cherwell in MT17. Follow him: @_jackhunter or email jack.hunter@wadham.ox.ac.uk Oxford celebrates Seren Network partnership with Wales St Hugh’s outreach officer runs 130km to improve access Noah Carl defence fund linked to far-right BoBe 19th January 2018 at 9:10 pm A note on Oxide Radio – it’s not an irrelevance. Hundreds of people listen (shout out to me mum and nan for always tuning in). Internet radio has exploded in the past few years and uni radio stations have long been feeders for the big broadcasters e.g. Greg James honing his craft at UEA radio. Not everyone comes to Oxford to smash out a first and drift into corporate life. Oh and Oxide used to be a quite well known – lack of investment in equipment helped to send it into relative obscurity. My weekly show gave me the head space I needed to get through my time at Oxford. I’m glad Oxide has been future proofed for the next generation. SursumCorda 20th January 2018 at 3:05 pm The more I hear about the Student Union the more angry I get. I completely agree with the comments given by the Hertford student, but would add that the absurd treatment that student societies such as Oxford Students for Life have received by OUSU – which is supposed to represent the students – makes this look all the more ridiculous. We don’t need a radio station. We didn’t need a rebrand. I can’t imagine moving buildings was necessary either. Imagine if that money had been put towards reducing the ridiculously long waiting list for OUSU counselling? Habemus ad Dominum 25th January 2018 at 11:10 pm I think it is such a shame that OUSU benefits from university money and uses it in this way while simultaneously treating societies such as OSFL with such disdain and indeed, harassment. There are so many opportunities for engagement – I know that OSFL are working hard to make information for student parents more widely available. Surely supporting student parents would be a far more worthy use of £316,651 – imagine how many more students could access university education if there were more free nursery places available. Given that the university does not currently consider pregnancy to be an unforeseen circumstance, and thus ineligible for hardship grants, perhaps OUSU ought to expend its efforts on lobbying the university to recognise that pregnancy can often be an unforeseen circumstance. Letter from Paris Universities widen entrance criteria Shorts in the North Engines stolen from college rowing launches Network Rail cancels NUS ‘Liar Liar’ posters Hyeonseo Lee interview: “Until I don’t have to, I will continue... Going Wilde in America Worcester wingers stoke victory fire Wahoo opens and closes for the last time Oxford academic offers advice to NHS	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1124
__label__cc	0.601988	0.398012	Home Body & Health Methodist Hospital’s Sharon Jones recognized with Excellence Award Gary-Body & Health Methodist Hospital’s Sharon Jones recognized with Excellence Award National Hygiene Specialist® Excellence Award given to Environmental Services team member at Methodist Hospitals in Indiana, Gary Campus Sharon Jones Sharon Jones, a member of the Environmental Services (EVS) team at Northwest Indiana’s Methodist Hospitals, Gary Campus, has been named the 2015 recipient of the Hygiene Specialist® Excellence award sponsored by UMF Corporation, a developer of high-performance infection-prevention products. Jones, a resident of Gary, IN, was nominated for the award by her supervisor, Poet Billups, Manager of Environmental Services at Methodist Hospitals, a 600+-bed hospital system with campuses in Gary and Merrillville, IN. The Hygiene Specialist Excellence award is in its seventh year. It was established by UMF Corporation to acknowledge the invaluable contribution of the unsung hero’s staffing Environmental Services (EVS) departments across the country – the first line of defense – providing safe environments in hospitals and long-term care facilities, according to George Clarke, CEO of UMF Corporation. Commenting on his nomination of Jones, Billups said, “Sharon’s primary job is to provide a clean, safe environment for patients, visitors and staff by minimizing the dangers posed by the spread of any infectious diseases and healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). In addition, Sharon also embodies what we call the Spirit of Methodist in her work and her actions. She does a tremendous job in the way she partners with nursing staff and in the compassion she shows to patients and their families. As a member of the EVS team, Jones participated in a Hygiene Specialist In-Service Training program that included learning best practices for effective infection prevention, in-service education and effective hygiene management in patient rooms and all other areas of Methodist Hospitals. The Hygiene Specialist Award includes a one-week vacation for two to South Beach, Florida. (Note: 2016 award nominations are being accepted at http://www.perfectcl-ean.com/award.html.) Hygiene Specialists: The ‘Secret Weapon’ in Reducing, Preventing HAIs Though mostly preventable, HAIs like Clostridium difficile (C. diff) and Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureu (MRSA) can, and do occur in all types of patient and resident care settings, Clarke said. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), on any given day, about one in 25 hospital patients has at least one healthcare-associated infection. CDC Director Tom Frieden has said, “Today and every day, more than 200 Americans with healthcare-associated infections will die during their hospital stay.” This does not include long-term care, assisted living or nursing homes where the problem is estimated to be more severe. “Sharon Jones and all the other dedicated EVS individuals – Hygiene Specialists just like her – have been called ‘the secret weapon’ in reducing and preventing HAIs in the healthcare setting and providing a safe environment,” Clarke said. He cited several instances of the role of EVS in patient safety: A 2013 study published in BMC Infectious Diseases that found that environmental cleaning should be considered an integral component of MRSA infection control in hospitals. “Given the previously under-appreciated role of surface contamination in MRSA transmission,” the researchers wrote, “this intervention mode can contribute to an effective multiple barrier approach in concert with hand hygiene.” A report in USA Today on Jewish Hospital-Mercy Health in Cincinnati, which was experiencing an unusually high incidence of C. diff, a potentially fatal form of diarrhea. The hospital managed to half the rate within six months, with hospital officials crediting new environmental cleaning practices as a significant factor in reducing these infections. A study in the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America that found that a dedicated cleaning crew that adequately cleans and disinfects rooms contaminated by C. diff using a standardized process can be more effective than other disinfection interventions. And in a hospital near Chicago, environmental services and hygiene played a significant role in in lowering infections and improving patient satisfaction on the important Cleanliness of the Hospital Environment of the federal government’s Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS). “Enlightened management at facilities like these and Methodist Hospitals has recognized the importance of EVS as part of an enterprise-wide multimodal intervention plan to combat these infections,” Clarke said. “Clearly, these dedicated individuals are invaluable and deserve recognition.” Hygiene Specialist Excellence award Northwest Indiana’s Methodist Hospitals Previous articleBasketball Players Combine Sport with Learning Next articleEdgewater launches its new Primary Care Facilities What’s the difference between these two types of cancer? 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__label__wiki	0.832733	0.832733	You are here: Home / News and Press / Press Release: Chinese Historical Society to honor Janet Lee Chen with 2019 Phil & Sarah Choy Community Service Award Press Release: Chinese Historical Society to honor Janet Lee Chen with 2019 Phil & Sarah Choy Community Service Award Issue Date: March 8, 2019 Media Contact: Janice Lee, gala@chsa.org Chinese Historical Society to honor Janet Lee Chen with 2019 Phil & Sarah Choy Community Service Award SAN FRANCISCO, California – The Chinese Historical Society of America (CHSA) will feature Janet Lee Chen at their gala, “The Past is Prologue: CHSA on the Move!,” on Friday, March 15, at The Hyatt Regency Embarcadero in San Francisco. She will be the recipient of CHSA’s 2019 Phil & Sarah Choy Community Service Award for her community contributions, including creating a culture of philanthropy and volunteerism. Passionate about collaboration and camaraderie, her work and support has benefited students, youths and immigrants for five decades. “Like many women of our generation, Janet has not been widely recognized for all of her accomplishments. She is a mother, wife, sister, friend and tireless community volunteer. She has given generously of her time and family resources,” said Jane Chin, CHSA Vice President and Interim Executive Director. “CHSA is proud to give our top community award this year to an unsung hero who represents women everywhere.” Chen is a founding member of the Rotary Club of San Francisco Chinatown, which volunteers in local schools and funds polio eradication campaigns overseas. During and since her daughter’s attendance at Sterne School, she has helped secure two new sites, enabling the school to enroll more students needing personalized instruction. She remains on its board and strategic planning committee. Through the Rose T.Y. Chen Charitable Fund honoring her mother-in-law, the Chen family has given yearly grants to dozens of Chinatown organizations including CHSA. “I enjoy working with people, giving back, working with a team, and volunteering with others,” she said. Chen grew up and attended public schools in San Francisco. Her teachers encouraged volunteering, while her father and uncle were active in their Chinese school alumni association. During high school, she created a program providing activities and field trips to Chinatown children, formed and led the Purple Pandas girls’ club at Chinatown’s YMCA, interpreted for seniors at doctors’ appointments, and organized kids for the Chinese New Year Parade and Cameron House events. As a college and law student, she worked with Chinatown clients of the San Francisco Neighborhood Legal Assistance Foundation and Asian Law Caucus. Her JLC Boutique donated clothing in the late 1980s to Gum Moon Women’s Residence. She has served on the boards of Asian Neighborhood Design and the Chinatown Youth Center. Four hundred guests are expected to attend the benefit dinner with Master of Ceremonies Ben Fong-Torres (Rolling Stone magazine journalist, Chinese New Year Parade co-host). Guests will see a sneak peek of the documentary in production “LIKE A ROLLING STONE: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres” by filmmaker Suzanne Joe Kai. Attendees of CHSA’s gala will celebrate the organization’s mission to illuminate the pioneer past and inform the present while looking forward. CHSA will present a Special Recognition Award to former San Francisco Mayor Willie L. Brown, Jr., for his support of CHSA’s acquisition of the historic Julia Morgan-designed Chinese YWCA building on Clay Street, which became a museum that welcomes thousands of visitors each year. His search for new talent has included appointments of Chinese and other Asian Americans to dozens of city departments, boards and commissions, including Fred Lau as Chief of Police, the late Ed Lee as City Purchaser (who would become Mayor), and Gorretti Lui to the Board of Trustees of the Fine Arts Museums. The CHSA gala begins at 6 p.m. with live jazz by Bay Area saxophonist Francis Wong at the Reception with a Silent Auction and Night Market featuring Chinese American culture, including a China Live San Francisco experience, Frank Wong miniature mah jong diorama, theatre tickets and meet-and-greet with actor B.D. Wong, Bruce Lee memorabilia, an original Joy Luck Club movie poster donated by costume designer Lydia Tanji, and vintage qipao. Other items include tickets on Hawaiian Airlines, a group ride on the San Francisco Fire Department’s fireboat, an autographed Steph Curry basketball, five-foot linocut by Emmanuel Montoya, private cooking class for eight, group bead making class, Cuban cigars in a humidor box, and a TOTO washlet. Among the women and women-owned businesses whose items will be part of the CHSA Silent Auction and Night Market include: b. Patisserie Ada Chen DeLynda DeLeon Designs e&h Photobooth The Enchanted House Marisa Louie Lee Deborah Lao Purple Fire Gems Katie Quan Secret Agent Salon Sheba Piano Lounge The Wok Shop Wok Wiz Chinatown Walking Tours Leading gala sponsors are Ed & Janet Chen, Buck Gee & Mary Hackenbracht, Charles McClain & Laurene Wu McClain, Hoyt Zia & Leigh-Ann Miyasato, Jane Chin & James Wong, Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass LLP, Lui Foundation, Perkins Coie LLP, and Connie Young Yu. Media sponsors are ABC7, shades Magazine and Sky Link TV. Since the organization’s founding in 1963, CHSA has been dedicated to preserving Chinese American history and telling stories to enlighten a new generation. Made exclusively by CHSA on the 150th anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, a special gift will be given to guests to commemorate the significant historic role of Chinese laborers who built the railroads. For more information on the gala, email gala@chsa.org or visit www.chsa.org/event/gala2019. Download press release (pdf) Filed Under: News and Press Tagged With: press release	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1136
__label__wiki	0.582638	0.582638	Dragon Laffs #1200!!! → LeprechaunLaffs #63 for Monday 5/16 Posted on May 15, 2011 by lethalleprechaun Next person that tells me there is no reason to be superstitious over Friday the 13th and that being so is a sign of ignorance is going to get a shelleigh right square in the mush! By 7:00 PM on Friday I was in me sick bed with a high fever, chills, pounding headache and generally feeling like the Dragon normally looks… an ugly death warmed over. I couldn’t get out of bed at all on Saturday and while I was up for a wee while Sunday morning I’m currently gutting out this issue from my bed again. I’m even planning on posting it earlier than I normally do so I can turn in earlier and sleep later, hopefully a LOT later in the morning. You’ll have to excuse me if it’s not up to my usual standards but I I felt bad for you folks. It’s bad enough its Monday for you people too, but to have it be Monday AND have to listen to the Dragon whine about how he worked all weekend and then had to pick up my slack was just too much to inflict on your readers so here I am doing the best I can. OK enough about my devotion to DragonLaffs and my misery…. LET’S HAVE SOME MEDICINAL LAUGHTER! Can I get that with a double shot of Tylenol3 and Prozac please? Simple Alzheimer’s Test How fast can you guess these words, no cheating 1. F_ _K 2. PU_S_ 3. S_X 4. P_N_S 5. BOO_S 6. _ _NDOM 2. PULSE 3. SIX 4. PANTS 6. RANDOM You got all 6 wrong….didn’t you? Don’t worry. You don’t have Alzheimer’s. You are just a pervert. In your case Impish I’m afraid its both options. On the bright side, in an hour, I’ll be able to bill you for giving you the same test again! President Obama gave a big speech at the U.S.-Mexico border, talking about creating pathways to citizenship. We already have pathways. They’re called tunnels. Newt Gingrich announced he is running for president. His new slogan is “At least I’m not Trump.” McDonald’s is undergoing a billion-dollar makeover, to be more like Starbucks — snobby, overpriced, and full of unemployed people. Oreo has come out with something called the “Triple Double” Oreo. They call it that because your waistline triples and your cholesterol doubles. [ Administrative Note: Have purchasing get quote on boxcar load of “Triple Double Oreos” before Dragon starts whining about wanting them and how he’s always last to get the good things again] President Obama’s approval rating is the highest in two years. Experts say that at this rate, Obama can count on re-election if he just kills bin Laden two more times. Al-Qaida has not yet picked a new leader to run their terrorist organization. Apparently, candidates keep losing interest after asking, “What happened to the last guy?” Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver might be splitting up. Arnold’s friends say he is doing everything he can to win his wife back. He just burned every single copy of “Jingle All the Way.” Donald Trump says he uses Head & Shoulders on his hair. As a result, Head & Shoulders is suing Donald Trump for slander. A deadly peacock has escaped from the Bronx Zoo. They want everyone to be on the lookout for an enormous tail. It’s like looking for Kim Kardashian. There was a naked guy running around on the subway. Charlie, Charlie, Charlie . . . Newt Gingrich announced that he’s running for president on Twitter and Facebook. I think his concession speech will be on YouTube. Late Show Top Ten Top Ten Questions on the Application to Replace Osama bin Laden 10. “How many threats per minute can you type?” 9. “Can you work weekends?” 8. “Are you just doing this for the sweet 8-inch picture tube television?” 7. “How do your co-terrorists describe you?” 6. “What is the current bounty on your head?” 5. “Any ideas for a new catchphrase? ‘Death to America’ is kind of played” 4. “Would you require the use of the company llama?” 3. “How often do you delouse your beard?” 2. “Were you bar mitzvahed?” 1. “What are your long-term goals, besides not getting killed by Navy SEALs?” The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson Mel Gibson’s new movie is about a man who is so emotionally damaged that he can only communicate through hand puppets. It’s called “The Craig Ferguson Story.” I don’t know how I feel about film festivals. On one hand, film is an art form and competition demeans it. On the other hand, I’m a very big fan of watching other people fail. I’ve been to the Cannes film festival three times. Yes, I used to be in real show business. CBS has offered Charlie Sheen’s role on “Two and a Half Men” to Hugh Grant. I wonder what the thought process was there: “Where can we find another actor who has been busted with hookers?” Lindsay Lohan pleaded no contest to theft charges for allegedly taking a necklace from a jewelry store. She will serve her sentence at home with a monitoring bracelet. If she stole a necklace, what are the chances they’ll get that monitoring bracelet back? After 25 years Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife Maria Shriver are separating. She said, “I’ll give you 25 years to learn to speak English. If not, we’re done.” Just a month after misplacing a cobra, the Bronx Zoo spent today looking for its missing female peacock. Yeah, you know what else the Bronx Zoo should be looking for? A new zookeeper. A TSA screener in Kansas City is facing criticism for giving a pat-down to an 8-month-old baby. You don’t pat down a baby! You stick him in a tray and run him through the X-ray machine. The White House announced that the $50 million reward for Osama bin Laden’s whereabouts won’t be going to anyone. Then China was like, “Wanna bet?” The number of millionaires in the U.S. is expected to double by the year 2020. Of course, by then, being a millionaire will just mean you have a full tank of gas. “Thanking Obama for killing Bin Laden is like going into McDonalds and thanking Ronald McDonald for the hamburger. It’s the guy cooking the burger that should get the credit, not the clown.” Ah Mulligan! Another Leprechaun after me own heart..frequently and with a bloody big knife too! You bankrupt a fellow once and steal then marry his girl and some folks just can’t find forgiveness! The Village People – it’s a riot! THE ONLY LIVE ONE IS THE GUY IN THE MIDDLE. The rest are puppets. Click below: THE VILLAGE PEOPLE…IT’S A RIOT! You know…I’ve seen Impish look a lot like that, usually after a fight with Mrs. Dragon! Well we WERE supposed to just be adding a couple more potential Republican candidates to the mix today but apparently before I can do that we have to delete another one. Seems Mike Huckabee has decided to go against the tea leaves and not throw his hat into the steel cage match of his party’s primary saying his heart just isn’t in it. Too bad Fred Thompson didn’t do this back in ‘08 and I would not have embarrassingly backed a horse that died before it completely cleared the starting gate! Mike Huckabee will not try to become the Republican candidate in next year’s US presidential election. “All the factors say go, but my heart says no,” he said on his Fox News Channel show on Saturday. Huckabee made a strong showing in the 2008 campaign for the Republican candidature. He is the second prominent Republican contender to bow out; Haley Barbour announced last month he would not run. Barack Obama’s approval rating has hit its highest point in two years, 60%, and more than half of Americans now say he deserves to be re-elected, according to a poll last week. Obama had already been expected to be a fundraising powerhouse in his re-election campaign, with some estimating he will bring in as much as $1bn. Wow $1 BILLION in Obama’s campaign funds? That’s a LOT of drug money! What a clever way to launder it! Brilliant! Oh well we can always hope with the money to buy that much air time he bored half his voter base to death! Ok scratch one more Republican from the possibles list now lets add two new ones to the mix:. The Fast Fix: President Mitch Daniels? By Chris Cillizza Mon May 9, 10:45 am ET Could Mitch Daniels, the Republican governor of Indiana and former Bush Administration official, be a serious contender in 2012? Mitch Daniels, the governor of Indiana, isn’t all that well known by the general public, yet he’s seen as a very serious contender for the presidency if he decides to run in 2012. Daniels has a long and impressive resume in politics that has been capped by seven well-regarded years as Hoosier State governor. But even more importantly is the fact that Daniels is one of the few people in either party who seems willing to take on the nation’s ever-growing debt problems. In a speech earlier this year, Daniels’ compared the debt to the threat from Russia during the Cold War. In Indiana he has balanced the budget for four straight years without raising taxes, a record that has has many Republicans clamoring for a Daniels candidacy. Daniels isn’t without problems though. His call for a “truce” on social issues has not gone over all with party activists. He did sign a bill defunding Planned Parenthood in the state late last month though. To read remainder of article click here A Potential Candidate in No Rush for a Race By JEFF ZELENY Published: May 4, 2011 WASHINGTON — Gov. Mitch Daniels of Indiana called the leisurely pace of the 2012 presidential campaign “a blessing” for voters. Whether he plans to take advantage of it is another question, which he did not answer as he paid a visit here Wednesday For weeks, the clamor about Mr. Daniels has swelled among Republicans. And for weeks, he has dropped only cursory clues about his intentions, sending mixed signals about whether he was looking for a way out of — or into — the party’s presidential nominating contest. He exhibits many qualities of a candidate: deep experience in government, a passionate concern about the nation’s fiscal burdens and policy proposals that could keep Congress busy for a long while. A campaign structure is almost fully locked into place. Yet his public appearances have been missing one ingredient: enthusiasm. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/05/us/politics/05daniels.html [Mitch must be taking a page from the Fred Thompson’s How to Run For President on an Ambivalence Platform and Embarrass Yourself and Supporters 2008 playbook. –L.L.] Mitch Daniels’ Hamlet Complex by Jill Lawrence The Indiana governor needs to jump into the 2012 race—or stop ruminating about it. Jill Lawrence on why playing the reluctant candidate is more likely to turn Daniels into a Fred Thompson than a George Washington. Didn’t I just say that Jill? Get your own witty copy and stop stealing mine! One week of making the rounds as a possible presidential candidate, and Mitch Daniels is already digging himself out of a hole. Memo to Mitch: Get in or out, but do it soon. There’s such a thing as playing too hard to get, and it can be risky. The Indiana governor’s high-profile speech last week in Washington about his education accomplishments, and his wife’s upcoming keynote address Thursday at a state Republican Party dinner, are among the strong signs that he is serious about jumping into the 2012 GOP race. The former federal budget director, a fiscal Paul Revere raising alarms about the $14.3 trillion national debt, has certainly received encouragement to run from some in his party and many in the media, including me. http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-09/mitch-daniels-for-president-2012-his-risky-hamlet-complex?cid=csi:relatedstories2:3 Huntsman’s 2012 Buzz Caused Friction With Obama Team by McKay Coppin With Jon Huntsman gearing up for a 2012 campaign, sources in Beijing tell McKay Coppins exclusively that the ambassador’s presidential buzz led to clashes with the White House—and the Chinese government. With Jon Huntsman gearing up for a presidential campaign, political pundits are zeroing in on how the Republican’s service as the Obama administration’s ambassador to China will affect his chances in the GOP primary. Real answers to that question won’t come until voters begin pulling levers, but in the meantime, something else is coming into focus: how the Huntsman 2012 buzz, which began a full four months before he officially left the Obama administration, affected his service in China. An embassy official who worked closely with Huntsman in Beijing told The Daily Beast that the last few months of the ambassador’s tenure were marked by friction with the White House. After a January Newsweek article set off a flurry of speculation that Huntsman would make a bid for the presidency, the Obama administration began taking aggressive measures to ensure that Huntsman wouldn’t be able to use his appointment for 2012 posturing, said the official, requesting anonymity to discuss internal matters. “Once the resignation was submitted, politics probably became much more of a question mark, and it was tense,” the official said. “On the embassy side, there was suspicion that [Huntsman] was being subjected to greater scrutiny than he would have otherwise been.” According to the official, who was not a political appointee, the administration began micromanaging Huntsman’s schedule, canceling media appearances and carefully vetting his public remarks. The source specifically noted a major education speech in Shanghai that was heavily scrutinized by administration officials “to make sure it was kosher.” http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-11/jon-huntsman-2012-presidential-buzz-caused-friction-with-obama-team?cid=csi:relatedstories2:2 How Jon Huntsman Could Win in 2012 by McKay Coppins As he launches a new PAC, Obama’s former China ambassador is considered a dark horse, but he could parlay conservative positions on abortion, guns, and the deficit—and support from Glenn Beck—into a strong presidential bid, writes McKay Coppins. When Jon Huntsman Jr. returned to the United States last weekend, no one was quite sure how serious he was about making a run for the White House—not even his staff. As U.S. ambassador to China, Huntsman had hinted at presidential aspirations, but federal law prohibited him from engaging in overtly political activities while working for the State Department. So his supporters were forced to assemble a campaign-in-waiting without his input and simply hope for the best. Now, it appears, they can stop wondering: He’s serious. On Tuesday, after two days of consulting with staffers—some of whom he was meeting for the first time—Huntsman filed paperwork to create a federal political action committee that will allow him to travel and raise money. Insiders say HPAC, as they’ve named it, will serve as a de-facto exploratory committee, and that Huntsman will likely announce his bid this summer. The question now is, can he win? http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-04/jon-huntsman-for-president-2012-how-he-could-win/ The case against Jon Huntsman By Chris Cillizza Posted at 11:53 AM ET, 02/ 1/2011 Yesterday, we made the case for why soon-to-be-former Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman could win the Republican presidential nomination. Today we argue the opposite — the case against Huntsman. (Look for cases for and against all of the potential Republican nominees for president in the coming week and months!) Obama’s ambassador: There is no figure in American politics right now whom Republican voters distrust and dislike more than President Obama. So, having served in his administration is not an ideal launching pad for a bid for the GOP nomination. That’s the position Huntsman currently finds himself in, having spent the better part of the last two years working for Obama in China. “I’m sure that him having worked so well for me will be a great asset in any Republican primary,” Obama joked at a recent press conference. While Huntsman allies insist that serving as an ambassador is not the equivalent of being a member of the Obama Cabinet, it may not matter for many Republican primary voters who view ANY connection to Obama as unpalatable. If Huntsman can’t get past “hello” — kind of the opposite of “you had me at hello” — with Republican primary voters, the strength of the rest of his resume won’t matter much. The Mormon problem: Huntsman is a Mormon. (Send the breaking news alert now!) The 2008 candidacy of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney seemed to suggest that being a Mormon complicates drawing in social conservative voters who dominate the Iowa caucus and the South Carolina primary — two of the first three nominating contests in the 2012 race. Romney spent oodles of time and money in each state but finished a distant second behind former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee in Iowa and third in South Carolina. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/case-forcase-against/the-case-against-jon-huntsman.html 3 Responses to LeprechaunLaffs #63 for Monday 5/16 I don’t know much about Mitch Daniels. I’m with you on this one, LL. Time to get a gun!! Yeah because your Indiana court system is doing such a fine job of protecting you already right? Court: No Right to Resist Illegal Cop Entry Into Home By Dan Carden dan.carden@nwi.com, (317) 637-9078 INDIANAPOLIS \| Overturning a common law dating back to the English Magna Carta of 1215, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Hoosiers have no right to resist unlawful police entry into their homes. In a 3-2 decision, Justice Steven David writing for the court said if a police officer wants to enter a home for any reason or no reason at all, a homeowner cannot do anything to block the officer’s entry. “We believe … a right to resist an unlawful police entry into a home is against public policy and is incompatible with modern Fourth Amendment jurisprudence,” David said. “We also find that allowing resistance unnecessarily escalates the level of violence and therefore the risk of injuries to all parties involved without preventing the arrest.” David said a person arrested following an unlawful entry by police still can be released on bail and has plenty of opportunities to protest the illegal entry through the court system. The court’s decision stems from a Vanderburgh County case in which police were called to investigate a husband and wife arguing outside their apartment. When the couple went back inside their apartment, the husband told police they were not needed and blocked the doorway so they could not enter. When an officer entered anyway, the husband shoved the officer against a wall. A second officer then used a stun gun on the husband and arrested him. Professor Ivan Bodensteiner, of Valparaiso University School of Law, said the court’s decision is consistent with the idea of preventing violence. “It’s not surprising that they would say there’s no right to beat the hell out of the officer,” Bodensteiner said. “(The court is saying) we would rather opt on the side of saying if the police act wrongfully in entering your house your remedy is under law, to bring a civil action against the officer.” Justice Robert Rucker, a Gary native, and Justice Brent Dickson, a Hobart native, dissented from the ruling, saying the court’s decision runs afoul of the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. “In my view the majority sweeps with far too broad a brush by essentially telling Indiana citizens that government agents may now enter their homes illegally — that is, without the necessity of a warrant, consent or exigent circumstances,” Rucker said. “I disagree.” Rucker and Dickson suggested if the court had limited its permission for police entry to domestic violence situations they would have supported the ruling. But Dickson said, “The wholesale abrogation of the historic right of a person to reasonably resist unlawful police entry into his dwelling is unwarranted and unnecessarily broad.” This is the second major Indiana Supreme Court ruling this week involving police entry into a home. On Tuesday, the court said police serving a warrant may enter a home without knocking if officers decide circumstances justify it. Prior to that ruling, police serving a warrant would have to obtain a judge’s permission to enter without knocking. http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_ec169697-a19e-525f-a532-81b3df229697.html My advice you want protection buy a gun. They haven’t invented one yet that asks a liberal “mother may I?” when you squeeze the trigger before firing itself. They charge in don’t resist sure them to death and the state for violating your Civil and Constitutional rights. Nobody granted a bunch of corn shuckers in black bathrobes in the ass end of no where the authority to decide or interpret my constitutional right! The Supreme Court does that nobody else period end of discussion. Any judge that tries it should be disbarred, tarred, feather, run out of their state to the nearest border on a razor wire wrapped rail and exiled. Mitch Daniels may be a contender for the Republican nod, but for THIS Hoosier, if he were elected President and he were to treat the country the way he treated Indiana, all the toll roads would be sold off to foreign interests, the police force and teachers would be cut drastically, and our country would then be open to crime and our children would be less educated than they already are. Some people say he’s done great things for Indiana, but for my money, he’s made it a less safe and less pleasant place to live. Impish Dragon	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1139
__label__cc	0.525378	0.474622	eiPDF com Hobbies and Home Mystery and Thriller eiPDF » History » The Authentic South of Gone with the Wind: The Illustrated Guide to the Grandeur of a Lost Era The Authentic South of Gone with the Wind: The Illustrated Guide to the Grandeur of a Lost Era by Bruce Wexler Bruce Wexler Americas English Size PDF book: 1190 kb Size ePub book: 1117 kb Size Fb2 book: 1632 kb The year 2007 marks the 70th anniversary of the publication of the landmark novel, Gone With the Wind. What a perfect gift this companion volume will be for all those fans who can never get enough bonus material and commentary on the world of Scarlett O'Hara. The Authentic South of Gone with the Wind features photographs, facts, and trivia about the world that surrounds this famous heroine. But you don't even have to be a fan of the book or movie to be mesmerized by this evocative portrait of the war-era South with its grand houses, great societies, splendid uniforms, and exacting manners. Witness also its marvelous cities and the shadow society of slaves that made all the prosperity possible. The Authentic South of Gone with the Wind: The Illustrated Guide to the Grandeur of a Lost Era by Bruce Wexler PDF review Najinn Moonlight and Magnolias, huge hoop skirts and "well bless his heart" ladies sitting on the front porch being fanned. That is what most people think when they think of the Old South. I like this book because it tells the true stories. Has beautiful pictures of clothing, houses, farms, equipment, and other household goods that were used on a day to day basis. Yes, it talks about the plantation society, but it also tells about the other 90% of the people that lived in the old south. Gone With The Wind is my favorite movie, period, but it is used allot to establish what most people think the old south was and that was only 10% of the people. Love this book! As a big GWTW fan, it's nice to see information about Margaret Mitchell, the writing of GWTW, the filming and the movie premiere throughout the book. You can tell the author is a fan as well. Beyond that, though, are all the interesting stories, pictures (especially enjoyed the historical ones!) and historical facts pertaining to daily life in the old south. Everything from the homes they lived in to the articles of clothing they wore and the utensils they used is covered. Nothing is overlooked or too small to be noted -- very informative and written in an entertaining way. I felt that in some cases it was maybe a little too simplistic, but it is meant to inform those not familiar with the lifestyle and not as an insult. The tone of the book is as if the author is talking to a friend and sharing his passion for history. Looking forward to reading Mr Wexler's book on the Old West as well! Saimath Not very long but has a bunch of cool stuff. I wish it wasn't quite so focused on movie props and more an authentic stuff but I love the film so I'll take. I mean the photo of the authors typewriter I guess is cool for hardcore fans but it has its place but I'd rather see more uniforms and stuff. Adrielmeena This book has photos of the home that Tara in Gone with the Wind was modeled after. It was built by my great great great-grandfather. Vispel I expected more pictures from the movie. Xwnaydan The Authentic South of Gone with the Wind is chock-full of interesting information about the Old South and its aftermath and can be longer to supply more. I've read Gone with the Wind (which is too long in my honest opinion) once and seen the movie three times, so I am able to appreciate the allusions because I remember them vividly well. Also, I am pleased to see some of the myths in the book and movie be dispelled because the Old South was hardly that for many citizens and was built on the foundations of slavery which was never idyllic to begin with. All in all, despite the many grammatical mistakes, I highly recommend The Authentic South of Gone with the Wind to any Gone with the Wind fan. Daizil I collect GWTW memorabilia, so this book was a perfect addtion to my collection. Received quickly and in great condition. A+++ transaction. Other Formats: mobi lrf doc mbr Publisher: Running Press; First Edition edition (April 3, 2007) Subcategory: Americas Author: Bruce Wexler Title: The Authentic South of Gone with the Wind: The Illustrated Guide to the Grandeur of a Lost Era Related pdf/epub/fb2 books: Rhett Butler's People by John Bedford Lloyd,Donald McCaig Borne on the South Wind by Frank Joseph Rowe Where the South Wind Blows (Harlequin Romance, No. 2272) by Anne Hampson The Sailor's Wind by Stuart H. Walker M.D. The Wind Is Never Gone: Sequels, Parodies and Rewritings of Gone with the Wind by M. Carmen Gomez-Galisteo The South Wind and the Sun (Rostrum Shakespear Series) by Kate Turkington South East Asian Food by Rosemary Brissenden Scarlett, Rhett, and a cast of thousands: The filming of Gone with the Wind by Roland Flamini Wind Power for the Homeowner: A Guide to Selecting, Siting, and Installing an Electricity-Generating Wind Power System by Donald Marier Daughters of the South Wind by Aola Vandergriff Copyrights © 2019 eiPDF.com Contacts \| DMCA \| Privacy Policy	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1149
__label__cc	0.629229	0.370771	Welcome Rahul! Rahul Choudhary speaks with community members in Mandi District, Himachal Pradesh, who are concerned about plans for a hydropower project that threatens 100 villages. We are pleased to welcome Rahul Choudhary who arrived this morning for a 10-day ELAW Fellowship. Rahul is winning big victories before India's National Green Tribunal. Rahul has protected communities and wetlands in Chhattisgarh threatened by a coal-fueled power plant and communities in Orissa threatened by a polluting steel plant. The National Green Tribunal recently appointed Rahul to investigate claims that an incinerator in South Delhi is emitting life-threatening levels of toxic metals, including lead. Rahul is also working to protect India's 400 remaining Asiatic lions. He helped win orders last month to re-locate part of the population, to ensure their survival. Rahul is an attorney with the Legal Initiative for Forest & Environment (LIFE), a non-profit organization based in Delhi. Rahul's organization has worked closely with ELAW for many years and co-hosted the 2012 ELAW Annual Meeting, in Goa. Our Staff Lawyers and Staff Scientists are excited to collaborate with Rahul. We will tour the West Eugene Wetlands, the Cascade Mountains, the Oregon Coast, as well as Lane County's Short Mountain sanitary landfill! Join me in welcoming Rahul to Eugene! Maggie Keenan P.S. Learn more about ELAW's work by visiting our blog, the ELAW Spotlight, Facebook, and Twitter.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1150
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__label__wiki	0.951171	0.951171	FILE - In this Aug. 14, 2013 file photo Philadelphia 76ers head coach Brett Brown listens during a news conference in Philadelphia. Brown survived a 10-win season to steer the 76ers toward the top of the Eastern Conference. Brown's chances of returning for a seventh season as coach are on the rocks following back-to-back 50-win campaigns. So it goes in Philly, where patience with the Process has worn thin. The Sixers were knocked out of the Eastern Conference semifinal for the second straight season. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, file) 76ers will move on from crushing Game 7 loss with Brown PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Brett Brown survived a 10-win season to steer the Philadelphia 76ers toward the top of the Eastern Conference. He'll get another chance to try and finish the championship chase. The 76ers called a 9 a.m. press conference Tuesday at their complex in Camden, New Jersey, with owner Josh Harris and general manager Elton Brand where they'll discuss their plans for the offseason, and how Brown fits in for the future. ESPN reported Monday night Brown will return as coach next season. Brown could have his most talented team yet. But first, the agony of a postseason lingered for one more day at the Sixers complex. The Sixers — who rebuilt their roster with two blockbuster trades — were knocked out of the Eastern Conference semifinal for the second straight season. Kawhi Leonard sank the first Game 7-ending buzzer-beater in NBA history and Toronto struck its biggest dagger in the sports heart of Philadelphia since Joe Carter went deep for the Blue Jays in Game 6 of the 1993 World Series. Joel Embiid walked off in tears, his girlfriend cradling the face of the crestfallen 7-footer. Jimmy Butler, Tobias Harris and JJ Redick are headed into free agency, a max contract likely looming for Butler. Brown's return was the most crucial decision facing ownership, as Harris for the first time put public pressure on Brown to at least reach the East final. And at an impromptu press conference before the start of the playoffs, Harris refused to say if Brown would return and offered only a lukewarm endorsement of his performance. "What he's done for this organization is nothing short of remarkable," Redick said Monday. "I would just say this in general, for any NBA team, when you think about a coach, and potentially replacing that coach, you have to consider what coaches are available. I don't feel it necessary to defend Brett to anyone. I think his work speaks for itself." Like Redick, Brown's players have never shied away from expressing their admiration and confidence in Brown. Brown never cracked at the pressure or sniped at the media as he became the public face of the franchise through the early years of the Process. He outlasted general managers Sam Hinkie and Bryan Colangelo and turned the team into conference contenders even as expected cornerstones Markelle Fultz, Jahlil Okafor, Nerlens Noel and others flamed out. Only six NBA coaches have longer active tenures with one team than Brown does in Philadelphia. "If there's someone to blame, put it all on me," Embiid said. But the Sixers struck it big when Embiid became a franchise player and No. 1 pick Ben Simmons turned into an All-Star. Both have major flaws in health (Embiid) and shooting (Simmons) that will stunt the franchise's growth until they are resolved. Sure, the Sixers could pluck two-time national champion Jay Wright from Villanova much like the Cavaliers hired John Beilein, but the coach might not matter if Embiid can't consistently stay on the court. Brown, though, has taken heat for a lot of the team's failures late in close games. Yes, Leonard's four-bouncer through the rim was the defining play, but a pair of late shot-clock violations and rushed shots as it ticked down made the Sixers appear disorganized in the final minutes. There are plenty of other questions in a crucial offseason. NEED FOR EMBIID Embiid has all summer to dry his tears and soothe his upset tummy. The Sixers will only go as far as their franchise center takes them, period. They were willing to wait two years for him to sit out with injuries because they knew the tantalizing talent ahead. But he has yet to play more than 64 games a season, one reason why the Sixers played Game 7 on the road instead of home. He missed a playoff game against Brooklyn with a bad left knee and had multiple digestive issues that made his starting status unknown for other games. Embiid needs to become a 70-game player who never sniffs the injury report in the postseason for the Sixers to win it all. "I feel like I let everybody down by not playing or by sitting out," Embiid said. Butler, acquired from Minnesota in November, is sure to ask for the max contract of nearly $190 million over five years. The Sixers would be wise to give it to him. Brown repeated through the playoffs that Butler was "the adult in gym" and other teams with cash to spend will be hot for the four-time All Star. "I haven't thought about it too much," Butler said Monday. "I've got to sit down and really talk to my team." Harris, a trade deadline pickup from the Clippers, can also command a max deal from the Sixers. The Sixers are already on the hook for the $121 million left on Embiid's deal and Simmons is a year out for earning a max-level extension. The Sixers have to solve some tricky financial questions if they're willing to pay all their stars, while still leaving room to sign needed reserves as they chase their first NBA championship since 1983. SIZING UP SIMMONS Defenses sagged on Simmons daring him to shoot because the speedy All-Star can't do much outside the paint. Simmons is 0 for 17 from 3-point range in two seasons and the ability to expand his game is needed as much as a healthy Embiid. More AP NBA: https://apnews.com/NBA and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports Athlete contracts Sports transactions Athlete injuries Athlete health Sports team and league operation Sports industry Media and entertainment industry By signing up, I agree to the Terms of Use and acknowledge that I have read the Privacy Policy.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1156
__label__cc	0.64888	0.35112	and in the cutting of stones for settings, and in the carving of wood, that he may work in all kinds of craftsmanship. "And behold, I Myself have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the hearts of all who are skillful I have put skill, that they may make all that I have commanded you: the tent of meeting, and the ark of testimony, and the mercy seat upon it, and all the furniture of the tent, the table also and its utensils, and the pure gold lampstand with all its utensils, and the altar of incense, the altar of burnt offering also with all its utensils, and the laver and its stand, Bible Verse Crafts King Solomon was king over all Israel, and these were his high officials: Azariah the son of Zadok was the priest; Elihoreph and Ahijah the sons of Shisha were secretaries; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder; Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was in command of the army; Zadok and Abiathar were priests; Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; Zabud the son of Nathan was priest and king's friend; ... Bible Verse Crafts He also made two capitals of molten bronze to set on the tops of the pillars; the height of the one capital was five cubits and the height of the other capital was five cubits. There were nets of network and twisted threads of chainwork for the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital and seven for the other capital. So he made the pillars, and two rows around on the one network to cover the capitals which were on the top of the pomegranates; and so he did for the other capital. The capitals which were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily design, four cubits. There were capitals on the two pillars, even above and close to the rounded projection which was beside the network; and the pomegranates numbered two hundred in rows around both capitals. Thus he set up the pillars at the porch of the nave; and he set up the right pillar and named it Jachin, and he set up the left pillar and named it Boaz. On the top of the pillars was lily design. So the work of the pillars was finished. Share Your Faith Products Thus says the Lord, “Go, buy a potter's earthenware flask, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests, and go out to the Valley of the Son of Hinnom at the entry of the Potsherd Gate, and proclaim there the words that I tell you. You shall say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing such disaster upon this place that the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle. Because the people have forsaken me and have profaned this place by making offerings in it to other gods whom neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have known; and because they have filled this place with the blood of innocents, and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command or decree, nor did it come into my mind— ... Bible Scripture Verse Crafts Remember that biblical art, as a visual representation of the Bible, is not always rated “G.” The Bible is not a children’s story, so some biblical art contains nudity or bloody depictions of violence. Not all things in the Bible are beautiful and calming; many times biblical stories are full of distortion and dissonance. As such, biblical artwork will tell the full Story of God that includes creation, fall, and redemption, with each of its harsh realities. As in all of life, the believer is called to be discerning. Bible Scripture Verse Crafts Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the Lord's hand double for all her sins. A voice cries: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.” ... Share Your Faith Products From the very first verse of Scripture, God reveals himself as the Creator, an Artist. Everything within the universe is a magnificent element of the Great Artist’s masterpiece. As works of art created in God’s own image (Gen 1:27), people are endowed with the ability to create as well. We can choose to join the Master Artist by being artists ourselves. Share Your Faith Products He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ ... Bible Verse Crafts "Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with rooms, and shall cover it inside and out with pitch. "This is how you shall make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. "You shall make a window for the ark, and finish it to a cubit from the top; and set the door of the ark in the side of it; you shall make it with lower, second, and third decks. Bible Scripture Verse Crafts A Psalm for giving thanks. Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth! Serve the Lord with gladness! Come into his presence with singing! Know that the Lord, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name! For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations. ... Share Your Faith Products Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death. For “God has put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when it says, “all things are put in subjection,” it is plain that he is excepted who put all things in subjection under him. When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all. Share Your Faith Products Then Moses said to the people of Israel, “See, the Lord has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah; and he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill, with intelligence, with knowledge, and with all craftsmanship, to devise artistic designs, to work in gold and silver and bronze, in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, for work in every skilled craft. And he has inspired him to teach, both him and Oholiab the son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan. ... Bible Scripture Verse Crafts "If you happen to come upon a bird's nest along the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young; you shall certainly let the mother go, but the young you may take for yourself, in order that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days. Bible Verse Crafts There's no shortage of Father's Day activities to celebrate your favorite guy on his special day, from a father-daughter or father-son getaway to bonding over a few dad-centric tunes. But once the gifts have been exchanged and the brunch has been devoured, one of the best ways to continue the celebrations at home is to plop down on the sofa and share some Father's Day Bible verses together. Wind things down, grab the good book, and tap into your faith by reading up on these short passages about fathers, husbands, and the love of God. Whether you're a son, daughter, or spouse of the man of honor, you can remind him why he's so loved with these inspirational words (or write them in his Father's Day card!). Share Your Faith Products If you would like to read some Christian 'Poetic' Housewarming Card Verses & Housewarming Poems, click on, 'Christian Housewarming Card Verses'. If you are searching for a particular card verse, then click on, 'Christian Card Verses' where I have many verses categorized for many different occasions. To visit the 'In God's Word' index page, click on the back button below. The index page has links to scriptures categorized on many different topics. Please click on the 'Share With Friends' button above, if you want to send this page to a friend. Remember, there is more Christian poetry in the 'Christian Poetry Pages' section, also Christian Poetry for Special Occasions in the 'Special Occasion Poetry' section. Scripture Verse Crafts	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1164
__label__wiki	0.519249	0.519249	Free Kids Songs Troy Washington was born in Dallas, Texas and raised in Fort Worth. He has dedicated himself to helping children grow and develop and it’s his way of paying it forward and giving back what was given to him. He created a record label at the age 21 with the vision and hope that it would provide a constructive outlet at a time when his neighborhood was tainted by gangs and drugs. He wanted kids to have an alternative as opposed to being victims of what at the time, appeared to be a road to nowhere. He has a son Troy Washington, II that is the joy of his life and the driving force in his desire to make a positive impact in the world. Troy has serviced the Mansfield area children for years as a coach in basketball, soccer, and baseball. Jelani Clay was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He has over 15 years of music production and songwriting experience winning various awards and competitions for his work. Jelani is also scholastically developed in that he was high school valedictorian, graduated college with honors, and worked many years with NASA as a rocket scientist with an emphasis on computer programming. Jelani’s naturally ability to be silly allows him to tap into his inner child when needed to better resonate with young, developing minds as demonstrated on songs like Monkey Business and Introduce You To Some Colors. Meet the wonderful individuals that serve the communities and keep Every Child Wins running smoothly. Tamara Madison Director of Early Childhood Systems Amy Baxter Director of Community Outreach Erica Patterson Kris Kelly Daniel J. Geller Director of Finance and Accounting Michael Carpenter Director of Media Operations Why “Every Child Wins” Was Created Every Child Wins was founded in 2015 out of pure necessity. With the birth of his son, Troy Washington often meditated on ways to equip his son with the tools necessary to thrive under any circumstance and environment. He broke it down into 3 categories (education, problem-solving, and confidence) and began his search to find tools that embodied these core values. After 2 years of spending hundreds of dollars on products that had more bark than bite, Troy knew he had to take matters into his own hands. Being a gifted producer and songwriter, he understood firsthand the power songs had in influencing minds. Since no one ever forgets lyrics to their favorite songs, music is unarguably the most powerful educational tool the world has ever seen heard. It was then that Troy reached out to his longtime collaborator and friend Jelani Clay to explain the foundation of what would later become Every Child Wins. Before Troy could finish his pitch, Jelani stopped him, said it was brilliant, and the two moved forward with an unwavering purpose. Using his own son as the first official test subject, Troy proved that Every Child Wins had successfully created the formula for quick and effective learning. As Jelani states, “Many children’s songs miss the mark. They either focus on entertainment or education, but never both. This leads to annoyed parents and bored children.” Once exposed to Every Child Wins, parents witnessed the positive changes in their child’s abilities along with a greater demand to hear more. As Troy puts it, “It’s like a kid saying ‘No mommy, I don’t want any candy. I want more vegetables.'” Every Child Wins is not just a music company, it’s an educational company with a focus on building confident, educated, problem-solving kids. At such an affordable price, who wouldn’t want their kid on the fast track to success? Every child wins. LET’S LISTEN Raises IQ and Academic Performance Increases Verbal Intelligence Works Well With Special Needs Kids Reduces Depression Relaxes Your Child Strengthens Learning and Memory Makes Your Kids Happier Keeps Brian Healthy Lowers Stress and Improves Health For the parents, Elevates Mood While Driving Start with a free download of EKAG1 I Like Free Every Child Wins Can you perform at my child’s school or community event? How can I get you to make a song about another subject? How can I get my child’s name spoken on his or her favorite song? Where are the wonderful testimonials that you receive? A Cool School Video To Show Your Kids On Presidents’ Day 5 Reasons Why Horse Riding Is Good for Your Children 6 Mr. Miyagi Quotes That Will Lead To Better Parenting, Guaranteed The Top 10 Alphabet (ABC) Songs That Will Make You Dance Copyright © 2019 Every Child Wins. All rights reserved. Designed by JClay, Powered by the X THEME	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1166
__label__wiki	0.749926	0.749926	East Orange 24 Game Tournament Creates Buzz for Math Last week, Part 1 of this story outlined how the 24® Game and its inventor, Robert Sun, inspired Jaliyla Fraser to organize a wildly-successful 24 Challenge/Math Madness Tournament that would, in her words, “bring the students and community that I serve in East Orange a positive math experience.” EAST ORANGE, NJ—Jaliyla Fraser is the Supervisor of Mathematics for grades 6-12 in the East Orange School District’s Division of Curriculum Services. She and several dedicated volunteers went from concept to Tournament—complete with a pre-game national anthem, food, cheerleaders, halftime show and a DJ—in four months. “It was a lot to juggle,” laughs Fraser. Left to right: East Orange School District Superintendent Dr. Kevin West; 8th-Grade Tournament Champion Saniyya Ward from Cicely L. Tyson M/H School; East Orange School District Supervisor of Mathematics for grades 6-12 Jaliyla Fraser, and Terry Tucker-Swanson, President of the East Orange Board of Education. How did she do it? The ever-energetic Fraser centered the event around buzz for New Jersey STEM Month, Pi Day (March 14), and copied the successful and familiar bracket format of college basketball’s March Madness Tournament. Presenting math as a sporting event brought a certain level of ‘cool’ to the party, but Fraser realized that it would also be beneficial for students to see adults involved in mathematics, so she set up brackets with 64 players from four distinct groups: Groups one and two consisted of students in grades 6-8 and 9-12. Each school held their own qualifying matchups to determine who would attend the 24 Challenge/Math Madness tournament. Group three was made up of non-math teachers. “This was the hardest group to fill out,” smiles Fraser. “They needed some convincing to put aside their own math anxiety and try it.” Group four included community representatives, as well as parents, who were required to come and practice with the 24® Game cards three times a week. Fraser gave them t-shirts as incentives, and says “the parents really liked the 24® game Single Digits app because they could practice on their phones.” “Jaliyla was so smart about this, a mix of kids and adult participants made it a huge success, as did involving an entire community, just like our tournaments used to do years ago,” says Sun, referring to the nationwide network of annual 24 Challenge® Math Program Tournament events that were held from 1988 through 2006 with funding from corporate sponsorship. “Our East Orange Tournament was fun and splashy and exciting—everything I had hoped for—but I see it as a stepping stone because it gained a lot of traction for math, and where math is concerned, in the district” explains Fraser, who points out in somewhat mathematical terms that “success equals interest.” Community involvement, funding from local companies and a congratulatory Resolution presented by the City of East Orange at a City Council meeting all represent a newfound interest in math and have generated excitement for future tournaments, according to Fraser. “As educators, we all have to articulate the vision we have for math to create success.” With a template already established for next year’s math competition, Fraser has also begun to examine the First In Math® Online Program. “What I like about First In Math is that students do the heavy lifting, not teachers. I want to explore educational evolution and revitalization, and I’m super excited to see how Mr. Sun and I can achieve our mutual goal of helping students release their fears about math.” Editor’s note: Jaliyla Fraser is currently Supervisor of Mathematics for grades 6-12 in the East Orange School District. She has also spent the last six years as a part-time lecturer of Mathematics at Rutgers University in Newark, NJ. New Jersey Educator Aims to Help Students Conquer Their Fear of Math EAST ORANGE, NJ—A meeting at the 2019 NCSM/NCTM conference in San Diego between 24® Game inventor Robert Sun and Jaliyla Fraser could have been a typical one, but it turned into so much more. Fraser, Supervisor of Mathematics for grades 6-12 in the East Orange School District’s Division of Curriculum Services, had just pulled off a massively-successful 24 Challenge/Math Madness tournament, and she couldn’t wait to share the excitement with Sun. 24® Game inventor Robert Sun and Jaliyla Fraser meet at First In Math headquarters to discuss creative approaches for urban math education. “I told Bob how important he has been in my life—and in the lives of my students. The 24 game is a staple in American culture, it literally has impacted the world,” explains Fraser. “I grew up on the game of 24®, it helped me gain automaticity manipulating numbers in many different ways, and I thought it was important for the students and community that I serve in East Orange to have a similar, positive math experience.” Fraser believes that the 24® Game helps students of all ages combat their fear of math because it allows them to engage the subject in a non-threatening way. “As Jaliyla gave me an overview of what she and her staff did to magnify the competition we soon realized we have a mutual goal of helping students—and adults—become less fearful of math,” says Sun. After the conference, Fraser emailed Sun several videos of the event, including the preparation and promotion for what came to be known as the 1st Annual Pi Day 24® Game Competition. “I loved how the whole East Orange SD community rallied around the competition,” exclaims Sun. “The videos perfectly captured the high energy unleashed in students, administrators, parents and community leaders.” (Click here for video recap of the event) Fraser built her tournament around tie-ins with New Jersey STEM Month, Pi Day, and modeled the success of college basketball’s March Madness. “I wanted to give kids something familiar to relate to,” says Fraser. “Using a tournament-bracket approach and treating it just like a sporting event seemed natural, complete with a pre-game national anthem, cheerleaders, halftime show and a DJ!” She also realized it was crucial for students to see adults conquering their math anxiety. One-half of the Tournament Bracket was made up of students, but the other half were Non-Math Teachers, Parents, community leaders, and some members of the local Police department. “Some of the most resistant participants were the teachers, I had to fight back against the ‘I’m bad at math’ stereotype at every turn.” “In Mathematics, it’s not about how many answers you know, it’s about what you do, and how you behave, when you don’t know how.” —Jaliyla Fraser Fraser looks back on the weeks of preparation as time well spent. “Affecting a change in attitude, that’s big,” says Fraser. She says that most kids decide that math is ‘okay’ after an engaging event like this. “It exposes them to mathematics in a whole new, fun atmosphere.” Considering all of the excellent feedback from staff and community participants after the competition, the district is in support of making this an annual event, and Fraser intends to continue to use 24® Game as the anchor. Sun has extended his full support for next year’s event, and the two plan to work together in the future toward their common goals. “Bringing 24® within reach of many different urban communities and school districts across the country is a goal of mine, and one I am happy to say that Robert Sun and I share completely.” Next week in part two, learn how the event was structured, and why building successful math partnerships within your community is important. New Jersey School Creates Math Fun with First in Math “Just the Facts” Tournaments WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, NJ—On December 18, 2018, nearly 50 third-grade students gathered in the Wedgwood Elementary School all-purpose room to participate in a First In Math Online Program JUST THE FACTS Tournament. Students fired up their laptops and logged into First in Math—an online math-practice program that uses digital gaming to create math excitement and improve student performance—then tackled a series of five-minute sessions in the JUST THE FACTS Addition Module to see who could answer the most addition facts correctly in the shortest amount of time. Winners advanced to the next round, ready to again demonstrate their fact fluency. Wedgwood third-graders (left to right) Noah Raberi, Alycia Dymond, Peyton Vena and Ava Powers were the final four competitors in the FIM Just the Facts Tournament of Champions. The semifinal round saw Noah Raberi and Alycia Dymond knock out Ava Powers and Peyton Vena. In the end, Raberi narrowly edged Dymond in the championship round to claim the JTF Tournament title. Other players reaching the quarterfinals were Simone McGlinchey, Luke Heim, Sophia Watson and Aiden Blood. Other third-graders who participated in the tournament included: Domier Abdussalaan, Catherine Aversa, Jake Bauer, Andrew Begley, Adam Borgia, Quinn Broadbelt, Jackson Chudzinski, Mackenzie Danso, Alivia Dingler, McKinley Edwards, Kara Epstein, Kaylie Garton, Ella Goehringer, Natalie Grimaldi, Fhalyn Harris, Alexa Howley, Andrew Huynh, Alexis Ingling, Max Jimenez, Kori Leacott, Matthew Male, Olivia Marchetti, Lucas McCabe, Benjamin McCloskey, Alayna McComb-Carstarphen, Kali Messick, Judah Nalbandian, Colin Proffitt, Connor Rainey, Devon Stott, Ejon Viray, Augustin Wezet, Luke Wheat, Aidan Wood, and KaiQi Yuan. The tournament idea was created and organized by Wedgwood Math Specialist Domenick Renzi. “It was so simple, the event itself was actually pretty easy for Math Teacher Autumn Mattera and I to manage,” says Renzi, who recommends that others try their approach. “The student with the highest score in the quickest amount of time advances to the next round. A large bracket board was updated at the end of each round. Students simply found their next opponent, logged into the First In Math JUST THE FACTS 10x10 Addition module, and began to solve. Single elimination rounds continued until a champion was crowned.” Preliminary rounds included three students, as there were more than 45 participants. In the weeks before an event, Renzi promoted it on morning announcement broadcasts. "I remember saying things like: Get ready 3rd graders! The First in Math Just the Facts Tournament of Champions is coming," laughs Renzi. In addition, each teacher received a sign-up sheet to place in their classroom. “We gave students a week to decide if they wanted to sign up, then collected names of those interested and created a Tournament bracket.” The event was a success because the students had fun, and also became more fluent in their addition facts, according to Renzi, who adds that the only downside is that his approach is not really audience-friendly—yet. “Because it is a computer-based game, the audience cannot watch live results as each student plays. But we did send out a press release, and we use Twitter regularly to keep parents and the community abreast of the many math happenings in our school.” The initial test-run was a smaller, 4th grade JTF Multiplication Tournament held in November that saw 28 students put their love of math—and their knowledge of multiplication—to the test. It ended in a tie, as Andy Nelson watched his opponent, Evan Eschenbach, finish up with a score of 99 out of 100. Nelson was declared the overall winner, because he finished his round in less time. He earned a JUST THE FACTS Championship Certificate and special Anniversary Edition of the 24® Game for his efforts. Wedgwood fourth-graders (left to right), Andy Nelson and Evan Eschenbach shake hands. Students reaching the ‘Elite Eight’ were Nelson, Eschenbach, Michael Ilagan, Nolan Rollins, Eleanor Lawyer, Colin Boyle, Andrew Robinson, and Justin Taylor. Other competitors included: Mason Hatton, Brianna Rainey, Zachary Clark, Jacob McFarland, Jadeson Truong, Mia Taxis, Jowell Crawford, Olivia Sutton, Emerson Perez, Lyric Porter, Luke Ridgeway, Nyla Conrad, Melanie Liguori, Ryan Crean, Ava Deccio, Andrew Deich, Mykaela Fogg, Lillyanna Jones, Kendall Spera, and Heidi Stemetzki. In January 2019, Renzi is conducting a tournament for 2nd grade students, and plans to continue to hold one JTF Tournament each month for the various grade levels at Wedgwood ES. Florida Student Shares His Passion for First In Math PANAMA CITY BEACH, FL—Nine-year-old Kurt Pfahl, a student at Breakfast Point Academy, has been involved with First in Math Online since first grade, but these days the newly-minted third-grader is busy generating a lot of buzz about the innovative math program throughout Bay District Schools. Kurt Pfahl with Bay District Schools Superintendent, William V. Husfelt, in 2018. His father, Chris Pfahl, describes Kurt as very competitive, and says it was natural that when he began using First in Math’s digital-gaming format his desire to win would become a dedication to excellence. Kurt set ‘having the most points in his class’ as an initial goal. He accomplished that objective with relative ease, then adjusted his aim toward being #1 in his school. He hit that target, too. “After that, Kurt told me there was a family-involvement option called Family Link and asked if we could team up and try to be the best Family Team in the entire District. I reluctantly agreed, but I had no idea what I was getting into,” laughs Pfahl. Their partnership culminated in both Individual and Family Top 10s within the District, and a #2 State and #8 National Ranking among all second-graders. At the same time, something else began to happen. Something magical. “Kurt’s favorite thing in the world to do is play basketball, which is great because it allows me to spend extra time with him as the coach of our local beach recreation league,” explains Pfahl. “I walked into basketball practice one day and asked my son and another boy to get off their tablets and start warming up. They asked for two more minutes to level-up on First in Math—that’s when I knew it was serious.” Pfahl says that he saw math become a cool competition between kids who were not overly interested in it before. “Soon soccer players who had never played it started to use it and compete. When others saw my son succeed—and have fun—a very unique mix of athletes and scholars began to compete and learn. This program gives all types of kids an opportunity to interact with their peers in a positive way about math.” When asked if he could give any advice to new players, Kurt answered like a true competitor: “If you want to get stickers quickly, go after VIF’s (Very Important Facts) and under the Bonus Module try the Estimation game. You can jam out a lot of stickers on those.” Pfahl credits Kurt’s First grade teacher, Renee Miller, for sparking his early interest in math, and applauds Bay District Schools Mathematics Instructional Specialist, Cylle Rowell, and the entire team at BDS for bringing First In Math into the curriculum. “My son is a good student in mathematics, but this app has made him a great student.” Editor’s note: Rowell was in the early stages of discussion about organizing a district-wide FIM event and award ceremony for this year, but that event will be delayed due to local devastation from Hurricane Michael. She is encouraged by the level of involvement First In Math can generate, and remains excited to help students and promote math achievement in the community. You've Got (First In Math) Mail! EASTON, PA—First In Math is excited to announce our new Notifications System, designed to keep Teachers, Principals and Administrators up-to-date about everything in the First In Math universe. “This is great way for educators to get important information specific to them, as well as communication intended for everyone, like announcements of new games, new features, or links to online PD,” says Suntex Executive Vice President Nan Ronis. A clickable MAIL icon now appears on each educator’s Homepage whenever there is a message waiting. According to Ronis, the FIM Notification System allows educators to check their FIM “inbox” at any time, mark messages as read, and even scroll through or search an archive of already-read messages. “This will be an extremely valuable feature, allowing us to communicate useful information to everyone in a timely manner.” If you have a FIM Educator or Admin User ID, log in to your Homepage now to view your first Notification. Click the link in the message for a full overview of this new upgrade. First In Math Unveils Social Engagement Award EASTON, PA—First In Math Online has unveiled a new Spirit In Education™ Award to support the effort educators, students and parents are making to create energy and excitement around math on Social Media. The award will be announced electronically via Twitter, Facebook and Instagram—to an educator, school, parent or student who generates buzz and positive feedback about Math on Social Media. First In Math creator, Robert Sun (Twitter: @RobertSun), has long espoused the importance of talking about math in a positive way. “When we speak the language of math with vibrancy and passion, we inspire our children to explore the rich opportunities offered by this essential and universal form of communication.” In many cases, a child’s day-to-day interactions can affect how they perceive math, explains Sun. “Negative influences from outside the classroom can profoundly complicate learning. But, if students are also exposed to positive energy and believe that they can grasp a subject, they will.” First In Math India CEO, Monca Patel (Twitter: @AboutImpact), agrees. “Let us all do our best to create an environment where mathematics becomes a pursuit to be enjoyed. I am so excited that we will be recognizing those who speak about the positives every day.” Follow us on Twitter! @FirstInMath First in Math Brings Unique Experience To Romania Originally published in 2007 DROBETA TURNU-SEVERIN, ROMANIA–A relatively small Romanian town along the shore of the Danube river is home to the first East European school to offer its students access to the First in Math® Online Program. Gheorghe Titeica High/Middle School teacher, Irina Zaman, began using First in Math with 15 students from one of her seventh-grade classes in 2007. Most Romanian classrooms do not have computers, so students played at home or made visits to the school's computer lab during breaks or after school. Within a few days, Zaman noticed students discussing game strategy and following each other's scores—students with lower scores were even being ‘tutored' by higher-scoring students. Soon, an amused Zaman was answering student questions such as ‘Can we go to the lab to play FIM during other teachers' classes, if they're boring?' "FIM's user-friendly and entertaining interface makes my students feel they are ‘playing' when working on the site, which cannot be said about most of their homework," says Zaman. Irina Zaman is interviewed by a Romanian TV news crew, as her team uses First In Math in the computer lab. "Completing FIM activities requires basic math knowledge as well as imagination, creativity, and attention to detail," according to Zaman. "I'm overwhelmed by the enthusiastic response from my students and their parents, and am pleasantly surprised to see how quickly my students got into the Top 100. My students have never been more excited about math, and I am extremely grateful for that!" When word got out that Titeica students were competing online in a math contest and that they could compare their scores to those of American students, one of the local TV stations came to interview Zaman and her team. Local newspapers followed suit, printing weekly updates of Titeica students' ranking in FIM Top 100. Zaman hopes that all this publicity will bring more support for an idea she already believes—that math can be exciting and fascinating. The initial 15 students received access through a grant offered by Suntex through the Center for Mathematics, Science, and Computer Education at Rutgers University in New Jersey. However, the students and parents interested in gaining access to First in Math were so keen to use the program that they offered to pay for access themselves. And so, starting in January 2008, a new group of Romanian students will combine math with play, and find themselves immersed in the First in Math universe! Empowering A Special Child: One Family’s Journey of Transformation BETHLEHEM, PA—Raising a child with special needs can be a rollercoaster of emotion for parents, according to First In Math India CEO, Monica Patel. Her son, Shonak, was diagnosed with high-functioning Autism nearly 20 years ago. First In Math India CEO, Monica Patel, and her son, Shonak. “Unfortunately, at that time in India and overall, there was a lack of understanding about special-needs children,” explains Patel. School was soon a social, emotional and academic struggle. She and her husband, Pulkesh, decided their son needed a more inclusive social structure along with better education options—and made a bold move all the way to the United States, settling in Bethlehem, PA. At his new school, Shonak discovered a love for mathematics—and flourished. He had found his niche. In sixth grade, his math teacher encouraged him to participate in the First In Math Online program, and he eventually bested 600,000 students to become the #1 player in the nation, all grades, in 2006. “For the first time, hundreds of his middle school peers stood up to applaud him and in that moment he went from being invisible to becoming the pride of his school and the local community,” says Patel, who, more than 10 years later, is still visibly moved. The experience with First In Math was such a powerful one, she eventually introduced the program to India, becoming CEO of First in Math India Pvt. Ltd., in 2014. “When I share Shonak’s success story with people, I also make sure that they understand First In Math is for ALL students—average, gifted, struggling, urban or rural,” says Patel. “A program such as this has the power to work for all our children and it would be a shame to see it get boxed-in to one category.” While she has been preaching the gospel of First In Math for years, only recently has Patel been willing to share her family’s private journey. “My personal experience is a small part of this, but if I can help any family I am willing to talk about it.” After moving to the U.S., Patel obtained a Masters degree in Special Education from Lehigh University, and says that fully embracing and accepting her son’s autism came only after her own education and research. “It is hard to admit now, but no challenge was greater for us than my initial years spent in complete denial about his Autism.” Now 24, Shonak is acknowledged as a top mathematician, and is ready to graduate from Carnegie Mellon University. He was recently featured in a PARENTS WORLD cover story in India. “It was making a connection, in his case with math, that motivated him in every aspect of life,” says Patel, who urges parents to help their child identify the interests he or she chooses. “Find the best tools to hone their skills until excellence becomes a way of life, and autism is carried with pride.” First In Math Champions, Then and Now: James O'Shea EASTON, PA—Eight years ago, eighth-grader James O'Shea outperformed more than 500,000 of his peers to claim the title of #1 Player Nationwide—all grades—in the First In Math® Online Program for the 2009-2010 school year. It was his third and final appearance in the prestigious National Top Ten. James O'Shea and First In Math creator, Robert Sun - 2010 and 2018 Fast-forward to 2018. O’Shea, home from college on winter break, is sitting across the table from one of his mentors, creator of the First In Math online program, Robert Sun, reminiscing about his FIM days and discussing future plans. The busy Economics and Pre-Health double major graduates from Notre Dame in the Spring, where he is also an undergrad Teaching Assistant for both biology and statistics. “It's crazy how time has passed so quickly since my days playing First In Math. I was looking through the website the other day, and it's incredible how much it has changed. There are so many more games and topics for kids to explore. It's great how big the program has become, and its user base has exploded.” O'Shea is a member of Omicron Delta Epsilon, one of the world's largest academic honor societies, and will attend medical school at Thomas Jefferson University after graduation. “I'm so excited, becoming a physician has always been my long-term goal,” says O'Shea. “I'm very fortunate to be attending right out of college. Sun invited him to take a peek at some new games in development, including coding activities in the new Computational Thinking (CT World) module. “I'm very excited that First In Math is including a coding aspect on the site; through my coursework, I've found that it's incredibly applicable across all fields. I just took a coding class this past semester. I wasn't supposed to be there because it was a IT majors-only class, but I was persuasive,” laughs O’Shea. “I learned about R and SQL and fell in love with it.” But he says he’ll never forget the skills he practiced—and the fun he had—with First In Math. “When I saw my little brother Justin at the airport, the first thing he said to me was, ‘James! Guess how many stickers I have in First in Math!’ and wow, that brought back a lot of fond memories. My parents never forced me to compete, I did it because it was fun challenging myself, and it’s the same for Justin. He told me that he is top 20 in the nation for all grades and I'm so proud of him, he's been working really hard. He’s a third grader, and already well known as the ‘First in Math guy’ at his school. Sometimes, the more things change, the more they stay the same. First In Math Helps Retired Army Veteran And Family Look to the Future RIALTO, CA—At First In Math we receive letters, emails and phone calls every day. Some contain constructive criticism, some contain praise, and some touch our hearts in remarkable ways. One such email was forwarded to us by Eva Serrato, Academic Agent, Math/Science and College & Career Pathways for the Rialto Unified School District. Sgt. H. and his wife. “I always get the credit for my service, but she watches over me in ways no one else would and really makes it all happen.” In a communication to Dr. Monte Stewart, Principal of Elizabeth T. Hughbanks Elementary in Rialto, a happy parent shared that he was very excited his son received a First In Math Online program User ID and Password. “Thank you soooooooooooooo much for Michael’s account,” wrote US Army Sgt. H. “I'm ecstatic, as this program has given me a purpose since being home with my children.” Days earlier, Serrato had asked local First In Math representative, Jill Henderson, to help her enroll just one more Kindergarten student in FIM. “Jill took care of it immediately,” says Serrato. “I didn’t know how important that request was until I read the Sgt.’s email.” Sgt. H., who always wanted to be an engineer, joined the Army National Guard in 2000 as an Infantryman and was activated to Kuwait after the 9/11 attack. He did three combat tours in Iraq, but in 2006 was severely injured when his vehicle was hit by an IED (Improvised Explosive Device). He awoke in a Baghdad ER with little to no memory of the attack or the days leading up to it. Severe injuries left his memory extremely compromised and his high-level math skills nearly extinct. The combat veteran, who used to deal with calculus and trigonometry, was left barely able to do multiplication. “I didn’t arrive home the same. PTSD, TBI, chronic pain, you name it, I had/have it. I fight each day to overcome these obstacles.” In 2017, he was medically retired, having served nearly 17 years. “A that point I was doing all I could to hang on to what I knew,” explains Sgt. H. “I went from being a frontline, hardened, combat-infantry soldier to learning how to be a full-time, stay-at-home dad on a fixed income. And I thought combat was tough!” He didn’t leave the house very often, but one day his wife convinced him to attend a school award presentation “Some kids got a First In Math Award and they were talking about ‘stickers’ and things I didn't understand. I thought, what is this program every teacher is praising? So, I got on First In Math and went through every game I could, learning everything I could about it when, like an explosion—pun intended—it hit me! I remembered I used to be able to do high levels of math.” “I realized that it's the basics that matter, the foundation that counts, so from that point on my son Joshua and I did all we could to challenge ourselves on First In Math. I know that life is a process full of growth potential and littered with constant failures, and it will take hard work and effort to overcome those failures. But we were determined to have fun, enjoy the program, and most important appreciate our precious time here on earth together.” “I'm still unable to recall and hold onto many things, but through much practice, effort, hard work and time—and the support of my beautiful wife and mother of our six children—I'm grateful just for the opportunity to remember any little things and be in the present with my family.” A few months later at the next awards presentation, Joshua was awarded a FIM plaque for being #1 in the Rialto Unified School District among all grades! He was also ranked #1 in the State and #7 in the Nation at his grade level. “This year, he’s currently #1 in CA among third graders,” says the proud father, noting that Hughbanks recently promoted him to fourth-grade math. Sgt. H. explains that the letter he wrote to Dr. Stewart was about Joshua’s younger brother, Michael, who is now five, and loving First In Math. “He’s doing addition and subtraction easily and going strong because of the inspiration and hard work of his brother, I am so proud of him.” But this dedicated dad says that it wasn't until he saw his kids using First In Math that it inspired him to get back on the horse and relearn math. “First In Math gave me a platform to work with. I tried flash cards, other programs, everything and just lost hope because nothing worked. FIM was the direction and guide I needed to help me teach and guide my children. It is great therapy for me daily watching my children excel in the knowledge I lost years ago.” “Sgt. H.’s story is so inspiring, and I applaud his incredible courage,” says Dr. Stewart. “As educators, we may not always realize how one small action we take—or curriculum support we offer—can impact the lives of others. Hearing something like this only strengthens my commitment to the school and to every student, one child at a time.” Editor’s note: In the interest of privacy, we have been asked to substitute “Sgt. H.” in place of an actual name, and we deeply respect Sgt. H.’s desire to dedicate this piece “to my fallen brother and sisters, to those still faithfully serving and who have served—both in military and public safety—I wake up every day thanks to them.” 11 Tricks to Improve Your Students’ Math Achievement Special Teacher Focus: Fresh Ideas for Your Math Classroom by Caralee Adams This article, published on August 28, 2017 to the WE ARE TEACHERS website, points out that while all teachers want their students to succeed in math, no one wants to teach to the test—routinely drilling students with math facts and assigning practice worksheets. Being intentional and using creative approaches to your instruction can get students excited about math. Not surprisingly. First In Math can help! 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__label__wiki	0.810823	0.810823	LeBron May Be The Most Clutch Playoff Shooter Of His Generation May 11, 2015 , at 4:13 PM By Neil Paine Filed under Basketball LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers hits the game winning shot with 0.7 seconds left against the Chicago Bulls at the United Center during Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinals on Sunday. Jesse D. Garrabrant / NBAE / Getty Images On Sunday afternoon, LeBron James offered another reminder of how silly it was to ever doubt his performance in the clutch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz-3ItHYeiQ After the game, ESPN’s Brian Windhorst tweeted that James has now made more go-ahead shots at the end of playoff games than Michael Jordan. (It’s not the only area in which James is Jordan’s statistical peer in the postseason.) Windhorst’s definition for what constitutes a game-winning shot is as good as any — it covers all potential go-ahead field-goal attempts with five or fewer seconds remaining in the fourth quarter (or overtime) of playoff games. At Basketball-Reference.com, I was able to find 10 such attempts for James: five makes and five misses.1 How does that stack up to other playoff performers over the years? Unfortunately, Jordan’s playoff career predates BBR’s shot-by-shot database by three seasons, but the site does have a record of every such shot attempted since the 2001 playoffs. And in those go-ahead situations (after accounting for the leverage of the game in which each shot occurred), nobody has a better record relative to expectations2 than James — particularly not his longtime nemesis Kobe Bryant, who sits at the opposite end of the list. Relative to the league-wide average, James generated 4.8 more total points than expected on his go-ahead shots, which translates to about one entire playoff win beyond what an average shooter would have contributed from the same field-goal distances. And those numbers become magnified when you consider that James’s average go-ahead shot came in a playoff game with championship implications 34 percent greater than the typical postseason contest. After we weight by the leverage of his specific game-winning shot attempts, James generated the equivalent3 of 8.5 more points than expected, or roughly two playoff wins above average, with his clutch end-of-game shooting alone. (By contrast, Bryant generated 3.2 fewer points than expected and did it in games that were about 64 percent more important than the average playoff game, compounding the damage of his 1-for-10 performance.) So there’s no doubting James’s history of knocking down big playoff shots. But what’s also interesting about the list above is that the trailing section contains slightly better players, on balance; the bottom 10 players have tallied 1,090 wins above replacement (WAR), versus 987 WAR for the top 10. Granted, there’s essentially no relationship between career WAR and leverage-weighted net expected points for the entire sample of players … but maybe that’s the point. Role players can be called upon to hit huge shots with championship implications just as readily as stars. While James (and Dirk Nowitzki, and Chris Paul, to name a few) are all-time greats, the fact that the likes of Rashard Lewis and Metta World Peace also rank so highly — and Bryant fares so poorly — might speak as much as anything else to the unpredictability of who steps up and changes the course of NBA history with a clutch shot or two. One thing’s for sure, though: James has shown that he’s better at knocking down such consequential buckets than any other player of his generation. I’m not sure what accounts for the discrepancy with Windhorst’s numbers (he has James as 6-for-10), but for the remainder of this post, I will use Basketball-Reference.com as my data source. As measured by points generated per shot above what would be expected from the distance of the shot. At normal playoff conditions. Neil Paine is a senior sportswriter for FiveThirtyEight. @Neil_Paine NBA (730 posts) Basketball (291) NBA Playoffs (149) Cleveland Cavaliers (132) LeBron James (113) 2015 NBA Playoffs (25) Kobe Bryant (11) Clutch (1)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1181
__label__cc	0.734604	0.265396	When the Steelers and Penguins flop, should you flip? Posted on February 3, 2019 February 3, 2019 by footballshrink Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – February 3, 2019 – Gene Collier – Clearly — clearly! — the better team doesn’t always win. But skill and coaching aren’t the only factors at play. This past week came the re-emergence of that wicked sports phenomenon we’ve come to consider uniquely Pittsburgh, never mind that it isn’t — the beloved black and gold losing to a team it clearly — clearly! — should have beaten. And handily. The Penguins were at home against the New Jersey Dreadfuls, who had not won back-to-back season series against Pittsburgh in 14 years, who had not scored six goals in a game in the Steel City in the same 14 years, and who were about to check both boxes with a 6-3 victory that repulsed the audience toward apoplexy. It was not exactly unprecedented that the Penguins flopped in front of a last-place team. My colleague Jason Mackey, in fact, helpfully pointed out that last place teams were 7-1-1 against the Penguins this season, which is a problem with but one obvious solution: Fire Mike Tomlin. Yes, because the head coach of the Steelers, known for many things including never having had a losing season and never having seen Antonio Brown taking a liberty he couldn’t rationalize, recently completed a season in which his hyper-powered club failed to win at Cleveland, at Denver and at Oakland, three places where the NFL teams finished a combined 17-30-1. The same virus that currently has the Penguins hagridden is something of a Tomlin trademark, albeit of dubious merit in this view. Attributing any team’s performance or underperformance exclusively to the head coach is a chronic ’Burghian oversimplification, one perhaps best countered by a not-so-famous quote from Jeff Van Gundy that I came across only this past week. Van Gundy, former head coach of noted basketball enterprises such as the New York Knicks and Houston Rockets, once offered this scenario to illustrate the fluidity of coach perception: “Biggest game of the year. Final seconds. You’re down one. You get a good shot. The ball goes in the air. It hangs there. Good coach or bad coach? Good coach or bad coach?” That’s from a book titled “This is Your Brain on Sports,” by Jon Wertheim and Sam Sommers, which examines both the wonders and pratfalls of sports psychology, group psychology, and fan psychology, all of which are inextricably entwined in results described as “Geez that’s a game they should have won!” Losing to so-called inferior teams — often called “playing down to the competition,” or “coming out flat” (as opposed to with great topography, I guess) — is something I’ve always considered endemic to the games, most especially at the professional level. If the so-called inferior teams can’t beat you, why are we watching in the first place? But this I’ll allow: When the Steelers succumb to the Raiders or the Penguins flail about helplessly on the pond against the Devils or the Kings or the Blackhawks or the Senators, there is as much psychological failure as physical, if not more. “Not overlooking teams on your schedule, that is huge, and as in anything, some teams are gonna do it and some teams are not gonna do it,” Murray was telling me this past week (not Penguins goalie Matt Murray, but rather Dr. John F. Murray, renowned sports psychologist and the man sometimes called the Freud of Football). “So I think the fan maybe expects a little too much. In their eagerness, they would like their team to be always dominant and they maybe make some kind of a mental assumption that is not valid — we should always beat this team. Well, not necessarily. Not unless you bring it 100 percent and even then you can’t really control how well the other team performs. You may have a great performance and the other team out-performs you.” Occasionally, in fact, good teams are actually at a psychological disadvantage against lousy teams, if I am understanding Dr. Scott Goldman correctly on the topic of pattern recognition. “What’s interesting is that high octane teams that are playing at a very fast pace, practicing at a fast pace, in some ways an underdog team can have a competitive advantage against them because the underdog team may be doing things poorly and that becomes a little foreign to the high-octane team when it comes to pattern recognition,” Goldman said on the phone from Michigan. “The best example I can give is in soccer, you’ll see this sometimes, where a more advanced move that would pull an advanced player out of position, a less advanced player would just stand there, and that’s where you see the advanced player maybe collide with him, or if he tried to nutmeg a player, kick it between their legs, the less advanced player doesn’t take a stab at the ball, which prevents him from opening up his legs.” Goldman is a clinical psychologist currently under contract to two NFL teams, neither of which is the Steelers, so he couldn’t comment specifically on any psychological issue currently at work in this hair-raising Steelers offseason. He did, however, mention this in another context. “Steve Kerr just said something on a podcast that resonated,” Goldman said about the Golden State Warriors coach’s appearance on a podcast called “Finding Mastery” with (psychologist) Michael Gervais. “‘The secret to [team] culture is when the head coach’s value aligns with the best player. He said for him, his value is joy, and Steph Curry is a very playful guy by nature, so culture was created.’ “We are social creatures, social animals. We’re not sharks.” No, but some of us dress up as singing hippos on TV, which might have been Antonio Brown’s attempt to spread joy, which doesn’t appear to be Mike Tomlin’s main value at the moment. The result is that fans, analysts and even former players are pointing to a ruptured culture within the Steelers. A flawed culture is not itself a pathology, but it can have a negative impact on a team’s collective psychology, and thus, inescapably, on performance. I asked Dr. Murray, who has four degrees in this field, if it was true that teams own a collective psychology. “Most definitely,” he said. “I wrote a book called the ‘Mental Performance Index’ in 2011 and revised it in 2013. I studied every play in Super Bowl history and came up with a way to quantify statistically what we would otherwise call mental performance. So I looked at things like reduction of mental errors, reduction of penalties, turnovers, sloppy play vs. more efficient play, better execution. It wasn’t purely subjective. I tried to make it something everyone could agree upon. When I quantified that statistic and then ran the statistics on how important that factor was across the first 46 or 47 Super Bowls, that factor that I actually invented, or I would say discovered, accounted for much more impact than anything else. The next best statistic would have been turnovers. “If you know anything about correlations, turnovers were about a .45 correlation with winning the game and this statistic, Mental Performance Index, had a .80 correlation.” Often when the Penguins lose a game they clearly — clearly! — should have won, they cop to being outworked, as Patric Hornqvist did after Monday’s incident. “Everyone can’t have their best game every single night,” Hornqvist said, “but we can control our effort, attitude, and work ethic.” We’ve always accepted that last part as scripture, but is it true? Can we always control how hard we work? I have zero psychology degrees (full disclosure: took one course in college, got a ‘C’), but I tend to doubt it. Psychological factors can mitigate against effort, I think, but I should probably defer to the educated. “When people over-think or complicate things or verbalize too much, they get out of the instinctual manner of performance that you want,” Dr. Murray said. “That is the hallmark of anxiety, of fear. I tell them what I’d tell anybody. Focus only on what you can control. You can control your effort. You can control how hard you work. You can control what time you get to bed. You can control what you put in your mouth. I tell my clients, ‘I’ll never ask you to do something that you can’t control. For example, I’ll never ask you to win.’ No one can win. You can perform and you give great effort.” All of which, as we’ve come to note, guarantees nothing. That must be why we watch. 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__label__wiki	0.543144	0.543144	"Like A Rolling Stone" the best ever ? By Kevin, November 19, 2004 in Music Discussion Kevin 3 Fish Eyes On Wednesday, Rolling Stone magazine named "Like a Rolling Stone" ~Bob Dylan as the "best rock and roll song of all time." "No other pop song has so thoroughly challenged and transformed the commercial laws and artistic conventions of its time, for all time," ~ Senior editor David Frike Certainly it's a great song, but are you all content with this choice or the magazine's reasoning ? Thoughts ? :guitar: :: OLD 55 6 No, great song, but not THE greatest. Now the runner- up "Satisfaction", top 5 for sure. I'll have to see the entire list, as I think most of us will before you get too many replies Kevin. Cheers. The top ten list of Rolling Stone mag is somehow ridiculous for me... of course, these 10 songs are great, but... only "Hey Jude" by Beatles? And only "Satisfaction" for Rolling Stones? No CCR? No Bob Seger? No... no. ImThatGuyToo 0 Do you happen to know what issue of Rolling Stone the list is published in? My roommate has a subscription... I disagree with their choice of Like a Rolling Stone as the greatest... but then again, these lists are there to incite conversation, I mean here we are all discussing Rolling Stone magazine. I'd say their plan worked though, we can agree on that at least. Danielj 1 yellow submarine fish Stairway To Heaven should definetly be there, and I know we say it a lot, but Freebird too. Moondance by Van Morrison perhaps, and Wish You Were here by Pink Floyd makes a very good feeling well up inside of me. It might sound corny, but I love it :: miamisammy29 4 "Like a Rolling Stone" isn't even one of Dylan's ten best. Aunt_Acid 1 David Frike is tehn00b. EasyRider 0 "Rolling Stone magazine" "Like a Rolling Stone" I think they like the song because it has "Rolling Stone" in the title.LOL That's the first thought that came to mind. cpride09 0 Stairway To Heaven should definetly i find it hard to believe it's not! EdL 0 Like A Rolling Stone - the best ever! What an excellent and obvious choice. And it's included on Highway 61 Revisited which some (including me) regard as the finest rock album ever made. I was in my teens at the time "Like A Rolling Stone" was released it was positively ground breaking and not just because it broke the "singles must be 3 minutes long" rule. If you consider some of the other hits that we had to put up with in 1965 like "Tossing & Turning" by the Ivy League or "I'll Never Find Another You" by the Seekers you'll see what I mean. And to think that "Like A Rolling Stone" was kept out of the number one slot by Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe". When Bruce Springsteen inducted Dylan into the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 he described how he felt when he heard "Like A Rolling Stone" for the first time, finishing with, "Dylan was a revolutionary. Bob freed your mind the way Elvis freed your body". You had to be there in 1965 to know what I mean. Well done Bob (but we knew it all along). windy1 0 Fantastic song? Oh yeah. Best ever? Oh no. I'ts all subjective of course, my best and your best are gonna be very different. I'd agree with Satisfaction (but then you all knew I would) but there's a lot of best songs. Best in what way? Music, Lyrics, Popularity? Although I remember many a night a bunch of us drunk or whatever, singing Like a Rolling Stone at the top of our lungs and thinking then it was the best song ever. MuzikTyme 0 Tune-a-Fish It's not even a rock song. It's a folk song. Rolling Stone magazine is a joke. When will people realize that they don't need another source to tell them what music is best? Don't they know themselves? A folk song? Like "Barbra Ellen"? Oh dear! !! :sleepy: I guess Bob Dylan didn't know what he was talking about, kinda like you. The only thing rock-n-roll about Like a Rolling Stone is it's title. It´s a good song, sure... but not the BEST... why not stairway to heaven? what about the Floyd? And "Don´t answer me", Alan Parsons? And "Smoke on the water"? And "Please Mr. Postman" And why the three first Beatles songs are MCCartney´s? is it worth it talking about old Rolling Stone alzheimer magazine? We all know which are our top songs... which issue is it in? Although I usually never agree with them, I really like lists, because they give me an excuse to get angry! Like many have said, Like A Rolling STone isn't even a rock song, it's a folk song. Oh well, it's hard to pick 500 best songs. But thenn, why did they even try? vincegillstwin 0 I wonder where Muskrat Love came in on the survey? Always #1 in my book! _jr_ 0 KISSing Fish Love Will Keep Us Together is a much better tune. Seriously. Does anyone know where "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" placed? I wonder if it still holds the record for most airplays in the U.S. ? From what I've heard, #180 is "Hey Ya" many different emoticons for that ranking: :: :: :: :beady: Hahahaha! If "Hey Ya" made the list, and they put a folk song as number 1, Muzik is right, there's absolutely no way we should trust Rolling Stone mag. As to them liking it because it mentions their title, that was my first thought as well. If anyone should put together the list, I say it should be a crack team of Songfacts junkies. And come on, no Stairway and no Freebird? As much as I think Stairway to Heaven's overrated, at least I can count on it to be rated! In my opinion Achilles' Last Stand is my number one rock and roll song. It has everything going for it. Win, Place or Show. How about "Bohemian Rhapsody?" 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__label__wiki	0.534361	0.534361	GIS / Mapping Additional Maps Annexations / Town Limits - shows the current annexation breakdown and boundary for the Town of Frederick. Annexation Plats - list of recorded annexations approved by the town. Comprehensive Plan - The purpose of the Comprehensive Plan is to direct development decisions and ensure quality of life remains high. The Town of Frederick Comprehensive Plan serves as the official, adopted guide for future development and conservation within the community. The following maps show the vision for the long-range future of the Frederick community. Land Use - is a general guide to growth and development within Frederick. Residential Areas Framework - provides policy guidance to ensure new residential development complements the Town's existing neighborhoods. These policies should also serve the needs of the community for the next twenty years. Commercial and Industrial Areas Framework - provides guidance for areas that should be planned and conserved for long-range business growth. Environmental Constraints - shows the current environmental constraints in the town. This includes aspects from floodplain and wetland areas to abandoned mines and oil and natural gas drilling sites. Transportation and Mobility - outlines the town's existing system. This map also provides both short- and long-term recommendations to handle projected traffic growth while expanding non-motorized transportation options. Community Facilities and Infrastructure - seeks to ensure that high quality community facilities are available to current and future residents and businesses. It also ensures that the right steps are taken to address future growth and opportunities for community partnerships. Parks, Recreation and Open Space - aimed at preserving environmental features and open space areas. It also gives plans for expanding the Frederick park system and opportunities for active and passive recreation. Crime Map and Weekly Police Case Report - a weekly report and monthly snapshot of the crime in Frederick. Existing and Future Development Map - shows all neighborhoods within the town limits of Frederick. Final Plats - individual list of recorded final plats approved by the town. Metro Districts - A metropolitan district is a special district with limited governmental powers, formed pursuant to and governed by C.R.S. § 32-1-101 et seq. There are many reasons for which special districts are formed. Most commonly, they are formed to assist with the financing, construction, and ownership of public improvements necessary for a specific development. Districts can own, operate and maintain public improvements. They may provide any or all of the following services: ambulance services, fire protection, hospital, mosquito control, park and recreation, safety protection (i.e., traffic and safety controls and devices on streets and highways), sanitation, street improvements, TV relay and translation, transportation, and water development. Snow Priority Removal Map - shows the snow removal routes. Snow Route Map - Displays the routes of our snow plows during a snow event. Street Map - provides a detailed list and locations of streets within the Town of Frederick, Firestone and the City of Dacono. Trails and Parks Map - a comprehensive map of trails and parks within the Town of Frederick. You can also visit our Parks and Facilities website for more information. Trash/Recycle - Map and Weekly Calendar Schedule for residential properties with the town limits of Frederick. Urban Renewal Areas - shows urban renewal areas within the Town of Frederick. Zip Code Map - shows zip codes within the Town of Frederick and surrounding areas. Please contact the USPS to confirm information. Zoning Map - shows the zoning for all areas within the town limits. Please call the Planning Department at 720.382.5650 to verify zoning designation. GIS Open Data	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1193
__label__wiki	0.800301	0.800301	Let the grads’ success commence! Arts & Humanities at Fresno StateStudent Successfeatured, GradsLeave a comment “What do you plan to do now that you’ve graduated?” It may be the most common question asked of graduates on commencement day. The Fresno State College of Arts and Humanities congratulates all of our students, and we are especially proud of those who plan to continue their education or have secured a job to launch their career. We will be adding more students as they are posted on our social media accounts. Congratulations Victoria Cisneros! She will be returning to Fresno State for her M.A. in Communication this fall. "I am excited to continue learning from and working with the department faculty, delving deeper into the study of communication, and remaining involved with such an innovative, scholarly community." – torivictoria_ A post shared by Arts & Humanities @FresnoState (@fresnostatecah) on May 15, 2019 at 4:41pm PDT Congratulations Paul Luna on your Video Production job with Fresno State Athletics! "I'm most excited about utilizing my degree and getting hands-on camera experience. Also, traveling with the football team!" @suavecito_paulito Congratulations to Melinda Medeiros who will continue at Fresno State in the MFA Creative Writing program! Melinda's goal is to write things that matter and to teach others to do the same. "I am most excited for the opportunity to continue growing as a writer in a program guided by some really amazing authors and teachers." @mgmrose #FresnoStateGrad Congratulations to Jordan Cody for being accepted to the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law! Jordan aspires to become a practicing family law attorney here in the Central Valley — to be a resource for those who have been marginalized in family court matters. "I am most excited about continuing my education. I have had an interest in law for many years, and I am looking forward to the challenges ahead." #FresnoStateGrad A post shared by Arts & Humanities @FresnoState (@fresnostatecah) on May 13, 2019 at 12:30am PDT Congratulations to Bryce Lopez for getting a full ride to the University of New Mexico! Bryce plans to teach jazz at the collegiate level and create a successful financial business. "I most excited to extend my musical ability and develop new relations at a higher level." #FresnoStateGrad @bryce_lopez24 Congratulations Nathalie Maria Quiros Piloto Contreras for being accepted to Arizona State University AND Mills College! Nathalie has decided on ASU and is excited about "Moving to a new state. Being one step closer to becoming a dance professor, artistic director or company owner." @dancenat93 #FresnoStateGradowner." A post shared by Arts & Humanities @FresnoState (@fresnostatecah) on May 10, 2019 at 12:30pm PDT Congratulations Mars Harren on your position as the Director of Communications for the Andrew Janz for Mayor of Fresno Campaign! "I'm excited to have the opportunity to help bring change to the City of Fresno, change that is so desperately needed." #FresnoStateGrad @MARIHARREN A post shared by Arts & Humanities @FresnoState (@fresnostatecah) on May 10, 2019 at 8:30am PDT Congratulations to Hayley Marciochi for accepting a Public Relations assistant position at the Lockwood Agency! "I'm excited to apply everything I've learned at Fresno State and continue to grow in the PR industry." @fsmcjdept A post shared by Arts & Humanities @FresnoState (@fresnostatecah) on May 9, 2019 at 4:30pm PDT Congratulations to Cyrel Mallory for landing a production job at KSEE 24/KGPE 47! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ "I'm excited to take what I learned from my major and apply it to my job. I really look forward to starting my own production company one day. Also, I look forward to learning whatever comes my way and being experimental because the media industry is constantly changing." @sure146 #FresnoStateGrad A post shared by Arts & Humanities @FresnoState (@fresnostatecah) on May 9, 2019 at 12:54pm PDT Congratulations to Megan Starr for accepting a position as the Marketing and Events Coordinator for the Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Central Valley, Inc.! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ "I am the most excited about having a full-time job waiting for me once I graduate. I feel so lucky to be hired on full-time at an organization I feel passionate about. I look forward to gaining more knowledge and experience in my career field." A post shared by Arts & Humanities @FresnoState (@fresnostatecah) on May 9, 2019 at 8:30am PDT Congratulations to Manuel Alfaro for being accepted into the credential and MA program in Loyola Marymount University through Teach for America! Manuel plans to earn his Ed.D. or Ph.D. and one day become a superintendent of a school district. @manny.alfaro.330 Congratulations to Michael Harter who will be pursuing his MA in Philosophy at LSU! Michael hopes to go on to receive his Ph.D. and teach at a university. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ "I'm most excited about being able to continue to broaden my philosophical horizons at a school that matches my interests in continental philosophy all while gaining valuable experience as a teaching assistant." Congratulations to Alec Ryan Barnett (pictured here with his girlfriend) for landing a job at AEON in Japan as an English teacher. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ "I am most excited about moving to Japan and applying everything I have learned into practice. I can't wait to teach!" #FresnoStateGrad Congratulations Marisa Mata! She will be starting the MFA in Creative Writing Program at CalArts this fall. Outside of her writing, Marisa plans to focus her career on empowering other writers through publishing, education, and community building. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ "I feel most at home and most like myself when I'm writing, so I'm really looking forward to being in a space where I can dedicate my entire being to my craft. It's been my goal to become a published author since I was seven and I'm beyond excited and thankful to be taking such big steps toward that." @MarisaMata_ #FresnoStateGrad Congratulations to Gabriella Marchese on her position as Administrative Assistant at Granville Homes! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ "I am excited to begin my career and see all of the different places that life is going to take me after college!" @gabriellamarchese A post shared by Arts & Humanities @FresnoState (@fresnostatecah) on May 7, 2019 at 11:50am PDT Congratulations to Ruby Arreguin for being accepted to the UCLA Department of Theater, Film, and Television to pursue her masters in acting! Ruby plans to act professionally, collaborate with others to create original work and teach at the collegiate level. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ "I am most excited to graduate and obtain my BA (feels like it's been a long time coming), about grad school, to finally be totally immersed in my craft and only my craft." @rubyarreguin Congratulations to Madison Neal for being accepted to DePaul University’s Women and Gender studies MA program! Neal plans to become a professor in women and gender studies. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ "I am most excited about becoming more involved in activism and expanding my knowledge on issues of inequality." @Maddie____ Congratulations to Lia Dewey for being accepted to the Theatre Performance, History, and Theory MA/Ph.D. program at Ohio State! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Dewey plans to be a professor of theatre history, dramaturgy, or playwriting. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ "I'm most excited to be able to focus all my time on theatre now, and get paid to do it! Theatre has been the love of my life since I was little. I feel so grateful to be able to fully commit to it now." @liazurloewen Congratulations! You are an inspiration for life! Kudos to Fresno Writers: April 2019 Provost Awards honor CAH faculty	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1196
__label__wiki	0.946552	0.946552	FRESCOE MAP LIST THEMES Media Information note Madredeus Madredeus Report on the band Madredeus on the occasion of a French tour. The band, whose name is taken from a neighborhood in Lisbon, Madre de Deus, plays a mix of fado, folk and popular music which is now internationally renowned. Concert excerpts, interview with band founder and guitarist Pédro Magalhes, and song by Teresa Salgueiro, singer. Media type : Broadcast date : A2 (Collection: JA2 20H ) Madredeus / Pédro Magalhes / Teresa Salgueiro Music > Traditional music Places : Europe > France Created in 1985 by the guitarist Pedro Ayres Magalhães and the pianist Rodrigo Leão, the Portuguese group Madredeus, originally made up of Francisco Ribeiro on the cello, Gabriel Gomes on the accordion and the singer Teresa Salgueiro, were soon noticed for the uniqueness of their lucid and invaluable songs, mixing in an eternal style of classic sophistication, traditional folklore, fado and popular contemporary music. From the release of their first album in 1987 Os dias da Madredeus the Portuguese public were won over by the crystalline purity of Salgueiro's voice as well as the quality of the compositions and orchestrations that came within the scope of fado tradition yet considerably renewed the style. Their second album Elixir appeared in 1990, but it was especially their participation in the soundtrack of the Wim Wenders film Lisbon Story (1995), allowing them to obtain international renown. Following several reshuffles in the group (Leão's departure followed by Riberio and Gomes), Madredeus would, from the album O Parciso (1997) progressively distance themselves from the original fado to begin to mix music from other parts of the world. Always carried by the exceptional voice of Teresa Salgueiro, the group would record four more albums in the new millennium (Movimento (2001), Faluas do tejo (2005)) before the singer finally announced in her turn, in 2007, a desire to follow a solo career. Daniel Bilalian Off to discover a group which plays traditional Portuguese music brought up to date since it's fashionable: Madredeus, currently on tour in France. Madredeus, mother of God, it's the name of a neighborhood in Lisbon where we found them. Report: Louis Carzou, Pascal Pueyo. (Music) Louis Carzou For all the hurried tourists, Madredeus is just the name of a Lisbon neighborhood. But, for a bit longer than 10 years, for curious music lovers, this Madredeus name brings up a beautiful story: that of a Portuguese band, the only one whose music flies well beyond the Tage, driven by Pedro Magalhes's guitars and Teresa Salgueiro's magical voice. Madredeus, Pedro Magalhes has dreamed about it for many years. After having played rock, this son of a sailor got back to the source of Portuguese tradition: the Fado. But Madredeus's composer embellished upon this tradition through his musical journeys to achieve these unique melodies where love stories blend with next day melancholies. Pedro Magalhes It's different than Portuguese efforts of times gone by. But many years ago I thought that perhaps during this century, the stongest method of communication and the most interesting way to be creative, would be music. Today, people come from all over the world for a simple photo session with Madredeus on the ramparts of the Saint-Jorge castle. But between two tours that take her from Paris to Tokyo, Teresa doesn't forget Lisbon nor the very first song that she sang with her voice. Amalia Rodriguez The Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir The Latvian Choir The band Taraf de Haïdouks's tour Other Medias (10) Juan Goytisolo et l'Espagne de Franco Meeting between Joseph Kosma and Juliette Gréco Milos Forman Interview François Truffaut regarding the director profession Other Medias (231) Painter Maria Elena Vieira da Silva José Saramago regarding The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis Homage to Manoel de Oliveira at the Cannes Festival CREDITS OVERVIEW LEGAL INFORMATION CGU CONTACT FAQ PRIVACY POLICY	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1197
__label__wiki	0.558732	0.558732	Art Hearts Poetry The role of poetry in the world of appearances Language’s various forms have captured the attention of a swathe of artists of late, as well as those who make their business around them. See (or read) the works that fill the white walls of our exhibition spaces, and are described in the white pages (both analogue and digital) of our stuttering, inarticulate press releases: the essay-film (Moyra Davey), the literary voice-over (Ed Atkins), the lecture-performance (Hito Steyerl), the artist’s book (Heike-Karin Föll), the paintings on book covers (Paul Chan), the exhibitions inspired by literature, or its idea, or the idea of its idea. See (or read), the works on a4 paper that look very much like poems, or an artist’s idea of them (fragments, metaphors, refrains, line-breaks). See these poems laid in vitrines, framed on walls, placed in stacks on the floor (Sue Tompkins). Read the poems streaming down the sides of white cubes in a scrawled, stylized hand (Karl Holmqvist). See recent artist monographs: in between the critical essays and reproductions, read the poems (Ida Ekblad, Oscar Tuazon). Attend the opening-night performances; hear how often they are now called ‘readings’. See the issue of frieze you read now, with its focus on ‘Artists’ Poetry’. What is that, exactly? I have no idea. But as a poet who works in the field of visual arts, a writer who works daily in a world of appearances, I am interested. ‘Poets’ Art’: you would never say that. Well, maybe you could of William Blake. Someone as antique, witty and sincere as him. Anyway, poetry: what’s going on? Like capitalism, contemporary art is hungry and omnivorous; it devours and assimilates everything. If the art world has a bright, muscular market, much of what it has absorbed – independent film, theatre, dance, publishing, philosophy – does not. It is philosophy’s firm, sometimes fallible, hold on the contemporary art world that reminds me most of artists’ recent adoption of the poetic party line. Also of some observations by Hannah Arendt: ‘[Rudolf] Carnap’s statement that metaphysics should be regarded as poetry certainly goes counter to the claims usually made by metaphysicians; but these […] may be based on an underestimation of poetry,’ writes Arendt in The Life of the Mind (1978). Martin Heidegger, she notes, said that philosophy and poetry ‘sprang from the same source’: thinking. And ‘Aristotle, whom so far no one has accused of writing “mere” poetry, was of the same opinion: poetry and philosophy somehow belong together.’ Until lately in the art world, the idea that poetry is equal to philosophy would be trashed, oh, immediately. Despite poetry’s present popularity, that probably remains the case. In its familiar incarnation in contemporary art – as criticism – language is often devalued. But this placement of the world of appearances and objects above that of language is not new. As Arendt notes: ‘Nothing we see or hear or touch’ – art, for example – ‘can be expressed in words that equal what is given to the senses. [Georg] Hegel was right when he pointed out that “the This of sense […] cannot be reached by language.”’ And yet: ‘Was it not precisely the discovery of a discrepancy between words, the medium in which we think, and the world of appearances, the medium in which we live, that led to philosophy and metaphysics in the first place?’ Arendt asks. ‘It seems only natural that the former will discriminate against appearances and the latter against thought.’ It’s a discrimination we’re all familiar with. But why am I talking about discrimination when I should be celebrating poetry’s fashionable return? Perhaps because the gap between language and appearance (so much dark, evocative water) makes their intersection or parallel movement – one trying to ‘make sense’ (or something else) of the other – so compelling. Art criticism begins when a writer tries to transform one medium into another. ‘We are what men always have been – thinking beings,’ Arendt writes. ‘By this I mean no more than that men have an inclination, perhaps a need, to think beyond the limitations of knowledge, to do more with this ability than use it as an instrument for knowing and doing.’ Arendt’s measured observation ‘touches a nerve in me’, to reach out to (or into) the body and its senses for my metaphor, as we writers often do. Poetry embodies the need to use language in a way that is not useful, in the conventional sense. W.H. Auden’s ubiquitous maxim ‘poetry makes nothing happen’, is followed by the less-often quoted lines: ‘it survives / In the valley of its making where executives / Would never want to tamper’. Poetry is full of gestures, a favourite word of artists – towards itself and language, towards the world and others – and of unknowingness, often embodied by the fragment, the line-break or the caesura that favours sound over sense. Perhaps artists are tired of use value. Perhaps poetry, with its loose ties to the contemplatives and metaphysicians that Arendt names, seems like a strange, unknowable, useless (in the best sense) place of respite. Not passive but parallel. Or perhaps, conversely, art’s turn towards poetry is about poetry anxiously attempting to join the market. Maybe it is about the new linguistic currency of the internet: advertorial, adolescent, content-driven, anxiety-ridden, always appeasing, liking, performing, sharing, driving the shares up. Maybe it is about trying to learn this language – this new digital poetics – to better compete in that market, or to make something of no (or better) use within it. Or perhaps it is about both of these tendencies pressing against each other, coolly, ever compellingly: the old longevity of contemplation, the new compression of expression. Perhaps it is because words are increasingly not just the medium in which we think, per Arendt, but in which we live. Perhaps words are the new images. To that end, perhaps artists’ movement towards and into language is simply about the fact that we might all write more than ever before. Why not do it better? Fail better, etc. Quinn Latimer is a writer and contributing editor of frieze. Her most recent book is Like a Woman: Essays, Readings, Poems (Sternberg Press, 2017). 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__label__cc	0.716186	0.283814	Tips for Selz Users Seller Spotlight – Andrea from ESL Basics Written by Melissa Whidjaya posted 6 years ago This week I caught up with Andrea from ESL Basics for a chat about juggling a day job, managing an online business while travelling, and the importance of community. They’ve also got a very smart idea for a 404 error page that you’ll love! Andrea and her family Who are you and what do you do? I’m Andrea Giordano, an ESL (English as a Second Language) teacher/administrator and creator of ESL Basics. With ESL Basics, we work to provide useful content for English language learners around the globe to improve their English. Much of our site is video-driven, but we also produce and sell ebooks and articles that are useful for both English learners and teachers. I also travel and speak (29 countries and counting), as well as work on special projects with ESL Basics such as recording audio for others’ ESL resources. A typical day for me starts and ends with my adorable 2-year-old boy, North. In the middle of each day, I teach and help run a flourishing ESL program of about 70 international students at Campbellsville University. Outside of my day job as a teacher, I produce content for ESL Basics (videos, blogs, etc…) and keep in touch with our few thousand followers and fans on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. What I get to do on a daily basis – raising a son, teaching the world, connecting with followers – is truly magical. 15 Essential English Business Idioms Tell us about how social media has helped you grow your business. Social media has been our primary way to teach the world. Each day, we reach out to followers, trying to find out what each individual needs. I’m active on Twitter (@eslbasics), Facebook (facebook.com/eslbasics) and Youtube (youtube.com/eslbasics), and personally respond to every person who writes. Our goal through social media is to show that not only can we produce valuable content, but that we actually care about the people we’re teaching. It’s what makes the difference nowadays. Anyone can produce content – but do they care? How have you incorporated Selz into your business? Selz has been such a pleasant surprise for us! We use Selz as a platform to give away and sell ebooks and plan to add video packages, services, and more in the near future. We also include our products that are listed on Selz within our e-mails. This way, our subscribers can have access to our premium content. Right now we feature our products in the sidebar and footer as well as on our resources page (http://www.eslbasics.com/free-english-learning-and-teaching-resources/) and our 404 error page (http://www.eslbasics.com/404.php). Since the widget code won’t work in some emails platforms, we simply saved the images and “Buy Now” buttons, coded them into the email, and link to our Selz page. What do you find to be a challenge of running an online business? The hardest part about running a business online is being consistent in our content generation. We’ve had seasons of life when we create massive amounts of content, but there are also seasons when it’s difficult to keep plugging away with new posts and video. We’re finding that developing a passionate community online takes consistency more than anything else. The Power of Language Learning What online resources do you find useful? Are there blogs that you follow, or communities that you’re part of? I’m a member of TESOL (tesol.org), as well as some other professional organizations. I enjoy connecting with other teachers and students through social media. My brother Josh, who handles all of the technical aspects of ESL basics, follows blogs like ThinkTraffic.com and VandelayDesign.com. I’m happy to say that we have so much ahead on the horizon. We’re looking to release several more e-books over the next year. We’re also working on English language radio vignettes for international radio stations as well as audio resources for a partner in Turkey. And I’m having a baby in the next couple weeks. Did I mention how wonderfully busy life is? Want to find out more about ESL Basics? Check out their website at www.eslbasics.com Melissa Whidjaya Melissa is the co-founder of Bloombox Co. Bloombox Co works to connect flower growers and flower buyers, creating a distribution system that reduces waste, improves profitability for growers, and removes barriers to consumption, providing flower lovers with a fresher, more sustainable product than ever before. Selz Buy Button is an Alternative to PayPal for Selling Online The Science of Selling Online	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1202
__label__wiki	0.569895	0.569895	ICE raids net nearly 700 arrests, DHS says Posted 4:04 PM, February 13, 2017, by CNN Wire WASHINGTON (CNN) — A series of immigration enforcement operations around the country netted more than 680 arrests, mostly criminals, the Department of Homeland Security said Monday. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement initially confirmed the five-day raids Friday, saying they were a set of targeted enforcement actions much like those they had conducted periodically under the previous administration. But immigration advocates and Democratic politicians who represented the areas affected had questioned the activities — saying they were going beyond the Obama administration in targeting non-threatening individuals and scaring communities with public arrests. In a statement Monday, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly once again emphasized that the operations were “routine.” He said the operations targeted convicted criminals, gang members, individuals who re-entered the country after being deported and individuals who had final removal orders from immigration judges. Of the more than 680 arrests conducted by the Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, San Antonio and New York City ICE offices, which include Southern and Midwestern states in their jurisdictions, roughly 75% were “criminal aliens,” Kelly said. Some of the crimes included “homicide, aggravated sexual abuse, sexual assault of a minor, lewd and lascivious acts with a child, indecent liberties with a minor, drug trafficking, battery, assault, DUI and weapons charges,” Kelly said, though other criminal convictions could be included and it was not clear if any of those were what are known as “status violations,” including driving without a license or using a false Social Security number as many undocumented immigrants do to work. “President Trump has been clear in affirming the critical mission of DHS in protecting the nation and directed our Department to focus on removing illegal aliens who have violated our immigration laws, with a specific focus on those who pose a threat to public safety, have been charged with criminal offenses, have committed immigration violations or have been deported and re-entered the country illegally,” Kelly said. While the Obama administration did conduct similar enforcement, advocates have raised anecdotal concerns that last week’s actions went after a much wider group of immigrants than the Obama administration had prioritized. While the previous administration had clear guidance that targeted mainly serious and violent criminals, in his first week President Donald Trump signed an executive order that vastly expanded the priorities to include virtually any undocumented immigrant in the US, including if they were only suspected of a crime or safety threat. Old Bob It’s time to make routine, the new normal. If you are illegally, it’s time to go home thoughtcriminal And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself. Leviticus 19:33-34a Stranger not criminal. Nice Bible quote. But separation of church and state requires the government to ignore it. Not one illegal American employer arrested. I want to see some fat white boomer holding his pants up running down the street trying to get away from the police for hiring illegals Huda Mann I have serious concerns about the previous administration’s ability to secure our borders from criminals and terrorists. I only have “anecdotal concerns” about tacos bought from street vendors in LaJolla and Fox17’s continued rehash of CNN drivel. Leann Graves Yes they do ..Perla Barbosa Garcia of Holland, Mi was taken to Grand Rapids by her mother in law Christina Graham Jefferson and for $ 3000.She came home with drivers license , birth certificate, social security card..And is working , voting you name it..Just wrong. ICE to begin nationwide immigration raids Sunday, report says ICE begins raids to round up undocumented immigrants Planned ICE raids cause fear for migrant families in West Michigan Trump says US will begin deporting millions Man fatally shot by police after throwing incendiary devices at Washington ICE facility Trump talks of releasing migrants in Dem cities Trump pressured Nielsen to release detained immigrants into so-called sanctuary cities White House threatens to veto aid bill for migrant families House passes emergency funding bill for migrant-care crisis Pence: US ‘encouraged’ by Mexico’s proposals as tariffs loom Mobile fingerprint scanner leads to arrest of ‘deported’ driver Trump says DHS Secretary Nielsen leaving	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1204
__label__wiki	0.731608	0.731608	Replay: Fox 5 News at 10 p.m. FOX 5 TV Schedule Police: DNA match IDs killer in 1979 La Jolla murder Posted 9:50 PM, March 21, 2019, by City News Service SAN DIEGO — A crime scene DNA match has, at long last, allowed homicide detectives to determine who stabbed a La Jolla mother of two to death at her home four decades ago, San Diego police announced Thursday. The break in the cold case murder of 37-year-old Barbara Becker, however, is a bittersweet one, since the recently identified suspect has himself been dead for more than 20 years. On March 21, 1979, Becker’s two young sons returned home from school to find their mother’s bloody body in the living room of the family home. She had suffered numerous stab wounds and “put up a tremendous fight for her life,” SDPD homicide Lt. Matt Dobbs said. A trail of blood leading away from the scene of the savage attack suggested that the assailant also had been injured during the desperate struggle. “Homicide investigators worked diligently to solve the vicious murder, but eventually all of the investigative leads were exhausted, and the case went cold,” Dobbs said. Man arrested in California for 1986 cold case murder in Michigan Years later, when DNA became an accepted forensic technology, the genetic profile of the perpetrator of the slaying was uploaded into the FBI’s Combined DNA Index System, but no matches were found. In October of last year, the San Diego Police Cold Case Unit and the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office Cold Case Unit asked the FBI’s Investigative Genealogy Team for assistance with the case. “The group worked together and were eventually able to identify a potential suspect using public-access genealogical databases,” the lieutenant said. The investigation also identified immediate family members of the potential killer. They were contacted and provided voluntary DNA samples that were compared to the genetic profile developed during the lengthy investigation into the slaying. Those comparisons identified one-time San Diego resident Paul Jean Chartrand as the source of the non-victim blood from the murder scene, according to police. California serial killer could be connected to 90 slayings Chartrand died in Arizona in 1995. Frustratingly for investigators, he had been arrested in Los Angeles the previous year, just prior to full implementation of the federal DNA database. Dobbs described finding final answers about the long-unsolved murder — the motive for which remains a mystery — as a gratifying achievement for all concerned, but one with a decidedly somber side to it. “The entire investigative team is grateful the case has been solved,” he said. “However, (the closure) is tempered by the fact it took 40 years to give Barbara Becker’s family the answers they deserved and that Chartrand was able to avoid justice for 16 years after Barbara Becker’s murder.” Single fingerprint leads to arrest in decades-old murder case DNA from DJ’s chewing gum, bottle help investigators crack 1992 murder of teacher Topics: Cold case, La Jolla, murder, San Diego Police Department Like FOX 5 on Facebook Join the conversation with the FOX 5 community. ‘You took my kid away for what?’: Mother of La Jolla drive-by-shooting victim speaks out Young man killed in Paradise Hills shooting 1 person killed, several shot at La Jolla party La Jolla residents react to deadly drive-by shooting Police identify woman killed in La Jolla drive-by shooting Man killed in shooting at local park Trial begins for man accused in 2 murders Man admits stabbing uncle to death at Pacific Beach condo 2 arrested in young man’s murder DNA leads to arrest of man suspected in 1990s California rape cases Homicide investigation underway in City Heights Police search for man accused of deadly stabbing in Pacific Beach Nevada ‘Jane Doe’ identified 37 years after death	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1205
__label__wiki	0.912374	0.912374	Martinez’s homer leads Boston over Blue Jays 6-4 for sweep Posted 8:23 PM, May 30, 2018, by Associated Press BOSTON — The Boston Red Sox are rolling into Houston for their first matchup against the champion Astros since getting bounced by them last postseason. J.D. Martinez hit a tiebreaking, two-run homer over the Green Monster and out of Fenway Park, and the Red Sox beat the Toronto Blue Jays 6-4 on Wednesday to complete a three-game sweep. The win finished a 5-1 homestand for the AL East leaders, who own the best record in the major leagues at 39-17. “It’s been great to be able to come in and sweep Toronto, now we’re going to be able to face a tough opponent in Houston,” Martinez said. “It’s fun to leave on this note.” Martinez tied for the major league lead with his 18th homer, breaking a 2-2 tie in the sixth. Leon (HR, 2 2B) leads Red Sox to 8-3 win over Blue Jays Eduardo Nunez had a solo homer and RBI double, and Jackie Bradley Jr., had a run-scoring double for Boston, which has won nine of 11 and improved to 15-3 in series finales. “Contributions from everybody. We’re not relying on one, two, three people. We’re ready,” Bradley said. “We’re playing good ball right now. We look forward to going there and trying to continue with our game plan.” Last year, the Astros beat Boston in four games in the ALDS. Teoscar Hernandez hit a two-run homer for the Blue Jays, who have lost 13 of 17 and dropped to 2-7 against the Red Sox this season. Toronto, which opened the season 13-6, is a season-high six games under .500 at 25-31. “I think guys are upset, I think guys are disappointed, I think we have some talented players here that aren’t playing up to their capabilities,” Blue Jays outfielder Kevin Pillar said. Hanley Ramirez designated for assignment by Red Sox Toronto will finish May without consecutive wins. “We’ll look forward to a day off tomorrow,” manager John Gibbons said. “We could use it.” Eduardo Rodriguez (6-1) gave up two runs and three hits in 6 2/3 innings with seven strikeouts and one walk. Boston is 10-1 in his starts. Craig Kimbrel allowed two inherited runners to score on Kendrys Morales’ double, then got three straight outs for his 18th save in 20 chances. Red Sox head to Bronx after Sale fans 12, Boston tops Rangers 6-1 Making his third start since his May 11 recall from Triple-A, Sam Gaviglio (2-1) gave up four runs and seven hits in six innings. Boston opened a 2-0 lead on Bradley’s RBI double in the third and Nunez’s fifth-inning homer off a tabletop above the Green Monster in left. Hernandez’s homer tied the score in the sixth. Blue Jays: 3B Josh Donaldson missed his second consecutive game with right calf soreness. Red Sox: OF Mookie Betts missed his fourth straight because of tightness in his left side that flared up during BP Sunday. “If he’s OK, most likely he’ll be in the lineup tomorrow,” manager Alex Cora said … 2B Dustin Pedroia also had the day off. TWO REVERSALS The Blue Jays challenged two safe calls with the same batter up in the third: one at second on a steal attempt, the other at the home with a runner looking to score when a pitch bounced away. Both were overturned. Cora is excited to get his World Series ring before Thursday’s series opener in Houston. “It was an amazing ride,” he said. He plans to bring a jersey he wore last season as the team’s bench coach, have it signed by the Astros and hang it “probably at home.” HARD SHOT Plate umpire Jerry Layne was dazed by a foul ball off his chest but stayed in the game. Boston catcher Christian Vazquez held up Layne when the umpire was wobbly. Blue Jays: LHP Jaime Garcia (2-3, 5.52 ERA) is scheduled to start Friday’s series opener at Detroit. Red Sox: LHP Drew Pomeranz (1-2, 6.75) is to be on the mound Thursday for the opener of a four-game series against Houston. He’s 0-1 with a 9.53 ERA in his last three starts and hasn’t gone past four innings. Topics: boston, mlb, red sox Devers, Bogaerts homer as Red Sox beat Tigers 9-6 after 2-hour rain delay Ye Olde Slugfest: Yanks top Red Sox 17-13 in MLB Euro debut Sale fans 10 to help resurgent Red Sox beat Orioles 7-2 Villar slam, Means’ pitching lifts Orioles past Red Sox 4-1 Sale remains winless as Tigers sweep Red Sox 7-4, 4-2 Welcome to the rivalry: Paxton Ks 12, Yanks rout Red Sox 8-0 Yankees, Red Sox play on artificial turf London MLB All-Star Game on FOX61: AL holds off NL for 4-3 win Marte has 2 HRs, 5 RBIs, Diamondbacks rout Red Sox 15-8 Eovaldi to have elbow surgery, expected out 4-6 weeks MLB London Series: Baseball searches for ‘legacy’ with Red Sox-Yankees games Video shows Red Sox legend David Ortiz slumped over after he’s shot at a Dominican club; suspects arrested Boston Red Sox sending plane to pick up legendary slugger David Ortiz after he was shot in the Dominican Republic	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1206
__label__wiki	0.549003	0.549003	The Nutcracker Ballet Badge (Discover Art) by Tammy Elliot Penguin: Do three requirements including the one starred * _____1.* Read (or have read to you) the story The Nutcracker. Otter: Do four requirements including the two starred * _____1.* Do Penguin requirement 1. _____2.* Learn five facts about the history of the Nutcracker Ballet (ex. Who wrote the original story? Who composed the music? Where was it first performed?). Dolphin: Do five requirements including the two starred * _____1.* Do Otter requirements 1 & 2. Your list should include ten facts about the history of the Nutcracker Ballet. _____2.* Learn the history of Nutcrackers. Where do they come from? What do they symbolize? Butterfly: Do six requirements including the two starred * _____1.* Do Dolphin requirements 1 & 2. _____2.* Learn what a celesta is and what its significance is to the Nutcracker Ballet. Eagle: Do seven requirements including the two starred * _____1.* Do Butterfly requirements 1 & 2. _____2.* Watch the Moscow Ballets production of the Great Russian Nutcracker. How is this different than other productions of the Nutcracker Ballet? Owls: Do nine requirements including the two starred * _____1.* Do Eagle requirements 1 & 2. _____2.* Teach someone how to do a skill from this badge or teach some knowledge about this badge to someone. You can teach kids, your spouse, seniors, anyone, just as long as you are sharing your new found knowledge. If for some reason, you cannot teach what you have learned to someone else, you may choose an additional 2 optional requirements instead. Optional Requirement: _____1. Draw a picture of your favorites scene from the ballet. _____2. See a live production of the Nutcracker Ballet. _____3. Design your own nutcracker. _____4. Make snowflake ballerinas from Waltz of the Snowflakes. _____5. Look at a nutcracker collection, either in a book, online, or in a museum. _____6. Start your own nutcracker collection. _____7. Read the original story The Nutcracker and the Mouse King by E.T.A. Hoffman. _____8. Share with your troop for family your favorite part to the ballet and why. _____9. Perform in a production of the Nutcracker Ballet. _____10. Earn your Ballet Badge. _____11. Design a costume based off a character in the ballet. _____12. Listen to Tchaikovsky�s Nutcracker Suite.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1207
__label__wiki	0.75619	0.75619	Flash Anime-tion!, Reviews/Editorials Kaichou wa Maid-sama! Retrospective \| Flash Anime-tion March 11, 2019 Chris Voyage 3 Comments “You know, you always talk about how much you like romance, yet you never talk about romance anime! Do one of those!” …’kay. Studio(s): J.C.Staff Genre(s): Comedy, Romance, School, Shoujo I… should probably have clarified that I usually prefer a nice romantic subplot to an all-out romance anime. But I’m not opposed to the latter. And this is one example that stands as to why. You may be surprised as to how little I have to say about this (is what I thought when I started writing this). But that shouldn’t take away from what I do wind up saying. And I’ll open by noting that I do absolutely love this. But. The reason for that is as basic and simple as it gets. Put plainly… it’s funny and it’s cute. So. So cute. Now, with that being said, let’s get into some specifics. J.C.Staff is a studio that needs no introduction. They’ve helmed a lot of anime I Absolutely. Love. And even the ones I’ve seen that I haven’t felt overly strongly about, I walked away with an overall positive experience. Of late, I’ve seen them kinda catching a lot of shade, and I don’t really get it? But, hey, I’m not one to care what mass opinion of anything is, anyway. Clearly. That said, one thing I really want to give them credit on, here, is the visual style of the show. The colors are vibrant and the character designs are just really aesthetically pleasing to me. The style also lends itself well to the overall style of humor that the series leans on, which does a lot with cartoonish, rubberband-like character deformity and slapstick, made possible through the use of chibi style, in places. Speaking of humor, the show also has really weird comedic timing. Yet it works pretty well. The pauses linger just long enough to prevent the dead air from becoming awkward. Or maybe it’s that the pauses linger so long that the atmosphere does become awkward, but just enough that when the punchline actually comes, it makes the joke feel funnier because of the release of tension. Either way, the show really struck a comedic chord with me. Moving away from the comedy a bit, I don’t watch a ton of Shoujo unless the word “Mahou” is in front of it. But that mostly just comes down to iffy past experiences. Lots of Shoujo romances that took themselves way too seriously for my liking, mostly. Obviously, they aren’t all like that. But even amongst the more dramatic love stories, I’d like my share of humor, adventure, or whatever to break up all the drama and whatnot. Getting me to go “Awwww!” only works so much. Eventually, I’m gonna wanna laugh or marvel at some awesome spectacle. But while Maid-sama does definitely deliver on the former, it more than fulfills the “Awwww!” quota. The best part about Maid-sama to me, funnily enough, isn’t even the romance. Don’t get me wrong. It’s adorable. And we’ll come back to that. But I honest-to-god think that this series could stand up pretty decently even without it. Why? Because the characters have such great chemistry in general. And not just the main pair. Usui and Misaki are fantastic and feature some of my favorite (albeit usually one-sided) dialogues in anything, lately. Usui, in particular, is such a bloody troll. I love him. But the side characters, while not especially delved into, are fun and fill the show with a lot of life. They feel like they exist as more than vehicles for the leads in that they live their own lives outside of them, while also helping them out and providing them with significant life lessons and such – especially the staff of Maid Latte. There are other shows out there that definitely do this better. But for having just two cours and not being an ensemble cast, it gets the job done a satisfactory manner. But, let’s be honest, Misaki and Usui are the stars. And they really make the show what it is. When I first turned it on, I was a bit leery of Misaki. The “man-hating” thing seemed a bit weird and weakly explained. But as you get to the core of the character, which they do an excellent job of setting up, by the way, you kinda get what’s really going on. She doesn’t actually hate guys, so much as she’s just wary and distrusting of them. Her Shounen-inherited hotblooded nature just translates this into an exceptionally vindictive and authoritarian streak. But I liked getting to see her gradually mellow out, even if the “devil” side was still forced to rear its head, when necessary. And, really, Misaki is the strongest character in the series (the anime, anyway), by a country mile. In writing, that is. Though she’s fairly close in the literal sense. Sure, she’s a strong female character and all that. She doesn’t need Usui to save her in most situations. And when she does, there’s a very clear and evident reason that doesn’t come down to her being incapable of something “because she’s the girl.” Half the time, when things go wrong, it’s honestly her own fault or something so far out of her control that she wouldn’t be able to do anything, regardless. And her strength comes from a place of genuine concern for others and the wellbeing of those around her. She’s not a selfless paragon by any means, but a life of rough circumstances and struggling for that which she’s been able to acquire does make her highly empathetic. So you get why she wants to help people and why the attitudes of the guys around her drive her up the wall. And then there’s Usui. Amusingly, going purely by the anime, he’s probably the overall weakest character in the thing. I know what his deal apparently is from the manga, but the anime never got around to that, so… yeah. As he appears in the series we have, so far, he’s just Mr. Perfect with an aloof personality and a love of teasing Misaki. He’s even actively referred to as “her knight.” Multiple times. But, despite this lack of… really anything to go on, I greatly enjoy his character. His motivations are murky at best, his past an utter mystery, and there doesn’t appear to be a blasted thing he’s incapable of. He’s certainly not perfect in personality. He’s possessive and prone to jealousy, has the people skills of a potato (until he doesn’t, for the sake of plot convenience), and is generally pretty crass. But Misaki puts up with him because he’s a walking Deus Ex Machina. And, for some reason, I am entirely okay with this. Ordinarily, it’d annoy me. But there are two things keeping me engaged. On the one hand… this is a comedy. And the second you attach that tag to anything, I become about a million times more lax about certain things. That’s one of them. The second reason is that, honestly, he’s just entertaining. His blase attitude and witty retorts kept me thoroughly amused and his ability to suddenly hit the charm button nearly made me swoon for Misaki, at times. He’s like if Sakuta from Bunny Girl Senpai wasn’t… well… kind of a loser. Except this guy came first. Put plainly… he’s just a fun character, even if (based on the anime so far) he’s not an especially deep one. So with all that said… how’s the romance, itself? Honestly? I’unno. That usually takes a bit of rumination time for me to determine. Like I said, I thought it was cute. It hit the “Aww!” button on several occasions. The romantic chemistry between the two was genuinely very engaging. Usui actively pressing Misaki’s buttons to trigger her sweeter (dere) side, was both adorable and funny, depending on the scene. Misaki constantly fretting over it all and why she can’t make heads or tails of her own feelings was also pretty sweet. For someone so used to having things figured out, here a new element enters her life where she simply loses that certainty. And, really, it’s a fairly effective example of how love can indeed be enigmatic, overwhelming and, above all else, bloody confusing. Another thing I really enjoyed about this show was its pacing. Every episode. Every episode felt absolutely full. Let me note something. I watch a lot of seasonal anime. I don’t cover all of it for the site for reasons I’m not gonna get into, here. But one thing I’ve noticed is that a lot of it feels really, really breezy. That’s not an inherently bad thing. Quick watches make for a very binge-able and easily digestible viewing experience. But the way this show is paced, each episode felt like it packed in the absolute maximum amount of content it needed to feel completely full and thus lead to really satisfying individual experiences. They felt like long episodes without me wanting it to get on with things. A lot of the time an episode might’ve felt like it was ending, but nope. The show must go on. And, in this case, that was a good thing. Because I wanted more. Despite its pretty rapid comedy, the series was very laid back and took its time. That’s what I’m getting at. And all that just brings me to the conclusion of everything. This anime is perhaps the single best example I’ve run into in a while where I can just say… READ THE DAMN MANGA. Alas, that second season (which this totally deserves, and they know that) pro’lly ain’t gonna happen. But the story continues and I’m honestly interested in reading more. So I’ll off and do that, at some point. As much as I’d love to say “Read the Damn Manga” is the rating, it obviously isn’t. But Kaichou wa Maid-sama is definitely Super Effective. So. What are your thoughts on Maid-sama? Are you keeping your fingers crossed for a second season as much as I am? Let me know, down below. That’s all I’ve got for ya here. As always, thanks for reading, folks. Keep up the Awesome. AnimeFlashAnimetionMaid-samaRetrospectivereview Previous PostSo Who Else Is Excited For Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield? \| Bulletoon WeeklyNext PostLast Week Was A Looot Of Setup, Huh? \| Weekly Anime Redux 3 thoughts on “Kaichou wa Maid-sama! Retrospective \| Flash Anime-tion” 54stickynotes says: This anime has a lot of flaws. The manga version has a lot more interesting elements that the show just doesn’t have. As a result, you get an anime that feels kind of stilted at parts because its own premise (assuming the person doesn’t know anything about the manga’s version) doesn’t stretch out too well for multiple episodes in my opinion. The art is good for its time, though. Pingback: Medaka Box Season 1 Retrospective \| Flash Anime-tion \| GALVANIC Pingback: Kyousougiga Retrospective \| Flash Anime-tion \| GALVANIC	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1214
__label__wiki	0.675857	0.675857	Tag Archives: The Force Awakens History repeating itself? Star Wars The Force Awakens reviewed Warning: This review contains spoilers. Breathe a sigh of relief; The Force Awakens is not going to embarrass you at parties. The latest instalment is fun, comfortable, even exciting in places. It is eager to be liked, commits no major faux pas, but at the same time it never inspired me or made me feel anything more than entertained. At least on this first viewing. Odd to admit, but the first and second trailers on Youtube affected me more deeply than the ultimate movie I saw on the big screen. Perhaps it is not so surprising however. When I went to see Star Wars back 1978 with my dad and sister Gail, I came out a little disappointed. After all the hype and reading the novelisation twice before I had even been to the cinema, Star Wars was good, just not overwhelming. George Lucas’s creation has been one of the big influences on my youthful imagination, probably second only to Doctor Who. For years, I saw other films through the prism of a galaxy far far away. I can see now it was the whole universe that excited me. For me, Star Wars was always more than just the movies, but the action figures I created more stories with, the novels and comics, even the not-quite-Star Wars products that came in its wake like Battlestar Galactica or Starlord comic. I am not surprised that JJ Abrams initially turned down to the film. The Force Awakens has to satisfy middle-aged fans who want a film that will stroke their nostalgia, whilst containing enough sophistication in the story and characters that they do not feel embarrassed to be watching an essentially childlike SF fantasy. Episode VII also needs to find and thrill young audiences for whom both trilogies are something from their parent’s/siblings’ distant past. Oh yes and launch a new Disney empire of spin-off movies, TV series and a tsunami of merchandise. Amazingly I think he has managed to deliver that film. The only drawback is that he has had to play it very cautiously indeed. The biggest surprise is how deliberately Episode VII resembles Episode IV in story moments. A cute droid with vital plans for a vast superweapon. A desert planet. A bar filled bizarre aliens. Said superweapon having one vital weak spot requiring a X-wing raid, whilst another commando group sneaks about the gleaming corridors. Not to mention shout outs to the ice world of Hoth, the green forests of the rebel base on Yarvin’s moon and a supreme leader who favour dark robes and appearing as a giant hologram. At times it feels alarmingly more like a reboot rather than a continuation, that the team are relying a bit too heavily on the imagery of the older films to reach our emotions. There is progress elsewhere though. More women taking part and a wider ethnicity is welcome, as is Kylo Ren, a villain who is not quite as straightforward as usual. His struggle for his identity and unwillingness to believe in or accept forgiveness for his crimes is a believable motivation, one that also ties in with the series’ mythic storytelling. In fact throughout the movie, casting younger faces in the bad guy roles pays off well, making the First Order feel more like an extremist movement of a radicalised generation. Interesting that the only famous faces in the movie belong to the original generation of Star Wars. This franchise does not need celebrities or A-list stars and it is the better for casting relative unknowns in all the major roles. Daniel Craig’s cameo appearance as a Stormtrooper is all the better and funnier for being revealed only in the end credits crawl. JJ Abrams has come up trumps in choosing Daisy Ridley, John Boyega and Oscar Issac as his new trio of heroes. Three charismatic young actors who just like Hamill et al can the comic strip bubble dialogue off the paper and make it feel real and human. As for the veterans, they all do more than simply phone it in, as they could easily have. Ford especially is such a good actor he actually makes Solo look like he is having a good time. Plus it is sweet to think of Peter Mayhew back in the furry suit as Chewbacca, at least for the growling scenes. Great to see the dirty, rusty lived-in universe of the original trilogy back and the green screen work kept under control. BB-8 is a wonderful robot design that lends itself to an impressive amount of expression. For me there is still not been a spaceflight sequence to match the asteroid belt battle in Empire Strikes Back, achieved with models and opticals, but the fight through the wreckage of a star destroyer is beautifully choreographed. The battle with the hideous tentacled Takodana monsters are probably the best surprise in the film, a frenetic corridor chase which takes the franchise into Alien territory for a few moments. Generally, the plot held few surprises for anyone who has seen many Star Wars-inspired films. I was generally correct in guessing what came next, although the reveals of the Millennium Falcon and that Kylo was Han and Leia’s son were genuine shocks, which I enjoyed. Ultimately, JJ Abrams and writers Michael Arndt and Lawrence Kasdan understood that Star Wars always owed more to Greek legend and the Brothers Grimm than to science fiction. The Force Awakens is at its best when it puts tragic destiny at its core, of heroes making bad choices with terrible outcomes. It also adds more detail and richness to the Star Wars world’s future, without alienating newcomers and boring them with continuity. Maybe it does not take too many risks itself, but it has built a foundation for future instalments to be bolder. Note: I wish cinemas would sign some kind of agreement to limit adverts and trailers to fifteen minutes. Is it necessary to advertise so many summer blockbusters, which will not be with us for six months or more? Half an hour of cinematic adverts and epic superhero trailers made me feel exhausted before the two hour plus movie had even begun. December 21, 2015 gazhack Review, Spoilers, Star Wars, The Force Awakens 2 Comments	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1215
__label__cc	0.536491	0.463509	Below is the full text of Oskar Freysinger’s speech in Berlin last Saturday, as translated by JLH. Note: Mr. Freysinger departed from the prepared text when he spoke, so this version differs slightly from what can be heard in the video and audio recordings. A full report on the day’s events is here. Speech by Oskar Freysinger in Berlin Berlin is worth a trip. Especially today. Especially here. Because here and now an important signal is being given to the peoples of Europe. The signal for a European Spring! To offset the autumn mood in the EU. So that, instead of the mood of doom, finally a mood of awakening will come. An awakening in the name of freedom! Yes, yes, cherished FREIHEIT! That is also the name of the party here in Germany that offers an alternative to bureaucratism, centralism, loss of democracy, uncontrolled immigration and Islamization. An alternative to self-destruction. My dear Berlin friends, I come to you today as a neighbor. And as a concerned friend. Since I am a citizen of a small country which is put under greater and greater pressure by the EU, it is near to my heart to support the truly democratic forces in the EU conglomerate. Only if these forces prevail can I hope that the Great Power pretensions of the EU will be abandoned and its relationship to Switzerland will at last be shaped in the way it should be between civilized and respectful neighbors. Freedom is one of the democratic forces I count on. But why does the EU exert this kind of massive pressure — economically, financially and politically — on my country? Is it arrogance? Greed? Envy? All of those may apply, but the true reason lies deeper. The EUSSR will no longer tolerate the existence of a small country in the heart of the continent, whose people still want to decide their own fate. A prudent, little bit of a folk that has thus far withstood the over-indebtedness which is playing hell with the states reined in by globalization. For that is the goal of all global financial institutions and international monetary funds: The weakening of nation-states in order to lead them to their dubious “good fortune.” The wealth of peoples is destroyed en masse, so that the weakened states can be reduced to willing agents of a global dogma. We Swiss hate every form of paternalism! We want no patronizing, no foreign judges! Our citizens are independent and imaginative enough to take their fate into their own hands. Just picture this: On the southern border of Germany is a country in which 53% of the people have voted for deportation of criminal aliens; a land in which every minor rise in the VAT must be approved by referendum. Who is surprised that the VAT is still at 8% in Switzerland while it has reached 20% in the EU? A study by the French economic expert Yvan Blot demonstrates that where state affairs are voted on directly and democratically, the rates of duties and taxes are on average 30% lower than where state affairs are decided exclusively on administrative and policy grounds. We watch our own wallets more carefully than other people’s money. There lies the future of the continent. Not in further expansion of a bureaucratic and centralized monster that will one day swallow its own children. In Switzerland, the power is still in the hands of the people. We Helvetians were able to vote on entry to the EU… and wisely looked the other way. In retrospect, this decision has proven to be a great good fortune. How did that work in Germany? Elites distanced from the people decided for the people. The same elite who introduced the euro, which, at one blow, caused a 30% loss of purchasing power for the average German citizen. In Switzerland, the possible introduction of the euro had to be approved by the people. You can just picture the result. Of course, the strong Franc would then be no problem for our export economy, but we would be stuck in the euro trap like the others and would have to bleed financially for a completely broken-down statist system, just as the German taxpayer has been doing for years. Better to stay flexible and economically independent. Direct democracy means that the optional or obligatory referendum underlies every law proposed by parliament, and nothing can be decided over the heads of the people. Direct democracy means that determined citizens can launch initiatives with 100,000 signatures, which must be put before the people. This gives political decisions much greater legitimacy than the usual parliamentary resolutions. No one in Switzerland would think of questioning a decision by referendum which was approved by 50-70%. What the people have decided is valid and everyone has to adhere to that, Period. Even the administration. Especially the administration. That is how it was with the famous/notorious anti-minaret initiative in which I was the anti-muezzin. 58% of the Swiss population decided in November, 2009 to prevent the occupation of public space by the dominating symbols of a religious dogma. This decision by the last free population in Europe had a signal effect. In its wake, decisions were made about the veiling of women in France and Belgium and the construction of a Saudi-financed giant mosque in Norway was prevented. The dhimmi attitude of Europeans sustained a wound which must not heal over, if the millennia-old European civilization is to survive. For Europe is more than a plot of land, more than a continent, more than the sum of its countries. Europe is an idea, a cultural landscape, an intellectual space shaped by history. Europa is the cradle of the modern constitutional state, the treasure-house of human rights, of freedom of opinion and expression. This is ever more strongly endangered by the possibility that our political elite will bend their necks before a religious dogma that is alien to our intellectual history, our values and our constitutional state. This dogma is gnawing away at the pillars of our system of laws, wherever it is allowed some space. This dogma demands total obedience from its followers. They are in no case to integrate into our value system. That would be like treason and can even be punished with death. They are expected to conquer our intellectual home, make the Western world subject. Not with tanks, rockets or riflemen. Not through brutal revolution. No, Islam is in no hurry. It has an eternity. A long process of softening up and leisurely occupation of our weakening, child-poor society is foreseen. The Islamic doctrine is expected to gradually creep into everyday life and Fortress Europe will crumble from within. Just think of how the Serbs lost Kosovo. Through demographic development and the help of NATO, which brought about the founding of the first Islamic state on European ground. What an ominous sign. The Islamic dogma is succeeding everywhere. In Turkey, the Islamists are gradually occupying all judicial and army posts, in order to obliterate the heritage of Kemal Atatürk. Lebanon will become an Islamic state in the next decades, The Arab Spring is on the point of being taken over by the Islamists. In Iraq, in Egypt and in Pakistan, the last Christian communities are facing extinction, And what are we doing? We are allowing this violent doctrine, unhindered in cultural ghettos, to strain at toppling the nation of laws. We just shrug our shoulders when girls are forced into marriage and Muslims willing to integrate are pressured and threatened. When women are beaten and whole city districts are taken over, we look the other way. We believe we can soften the power hunger of the holy warriors with welfare money. We believe we can buy peace! What lunacy! No one fingers the Prophet’s beard. Fanatics cannot be bought. Germany should know that better than any other country in the world. My dear friends in the audience, we are not fighting against people, we are fighting for people! We are fighting against a dogma that is anathema to every aspect of humanity and would like to lead us back into barbarism. We do not intend to give up the freedom we have fought so hard for over the centuries. Dear Berliners, here I stand, and I cannot do otherwise, lest soon no human being in this Europe will be able to take the responsibility for what represents the pillar of our culture, of our system of law and of our humanity: transcendent, unconditional love of neighbor. If we lose this battle, there will be no second chance, for Islam does not give back what it has conquered. So I summon all the humanists of this continent not to keep their heads in the sand and to resist the Islamic dogma’s drive to conquest. Let us stand together and uncompromisingly insist upon the primacy of our civil law over any religious dogma. Let us find our way back to our precious intellectual heritage. Islam is only as strong as we are weak. Let us oppose it with more than McDonald’s, soap operas, stupefying TV programs and brutal video games. Our culture has so much more to offer. Let us get back to depth and endurance, to organic growth. Let us stay alert and critical, so long as even a grain of Socrates lives on in us. Let us no longer subject our spirit to the dictates of the material. Only that way can we prevent brutal power politics being spread in the name of religion. Only that way do we have chance to leave our children a peaceful Europe, shaped by respect and dignity. Long live die Freiheit! (Long live freedom!)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1216
__label__cc	0.697491	0.302509	Past and Current Chairs Past and Current Executive Directors, Presidents and CEOs GBC Foundation GBC Foundation Activities The Leadership Leader Newsletter Member Directory Advertising Business Community Calendar Conference Room Request Join The GBC GBC Work State House Update City Hall Happenings GBC News GBC in the News GBC News Releases and Statements Contacts for the Media #bWomen Bridging the Gap Committee Education and Workforce Tourism, Entertainment and Culture Committee Regional Business Advisory Councils GBC Events Bridging the Gap Nomination 2019 Legislative Priorities Legislative Tracking & Positions 2019 Dates of Interest Serving Anne Arundel County, Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Carroll County, Harford County and Howard County. Regional business leaders creating a better tomorrow...today. GBC releases Baltimore Metro Export Market Assessment at Economic Outlook Conference Print Page \| Posted on October 19, 2015 The Greater Baltimore Committee and four partners released an export market assessment on Oct. 19, which found that while the Baltimore Metro area lags other metro regions in the U.S. when it comes to exporting, there is a lot of untapped potential that could be leveraged. The assessment of the Baltimore metro market’s current exports and potential was released at the GBC’s annual Economic Outlook Conference at the Hyatt Regency Baltimore. The assessment is part of the Baltimore region’s participation in the Global Cities Initiative, a joint project of the Brookings Institution and JPMorgan Chase. The Baltimore region will issue a final Global Cities Initiative report, including a strategy for expanding the region’s exports, in early 2016. At the conference Marek Gootman, Fellow and Director, Strategic Partnerships and Global Initiatives for the Brookings Institution, and Donald C. Fry, President and CEO of the GBC, discussed how the Greater Baltimore region can expand and improve export activities to stay competitive in today’s global economy. Richard E. Cripps, CFA, Chief Investment Officer for Stifel, made projections for the Maryland and regional economies. The event – themed “Expanding Into Global Markets: Exporting your Goods and Services to Grow your Business” – includes these highlights and observations: Marek Gootman of the Brookings Institution said thinking about exports from a global perspective is imperative “because the focus on traded sectors and exports is needed to sustain quality economic growth.” Gootman said that “95 percent of the world’s consumers are outside of the United States.” “Eighty-one percent over the next 15 years of global economic growth is occurring outside the United States,” he said. “That’s a lot of economic activity.” “Despite the fact that 98 percent of exporters are small businesses, the value and the share of export activity is still dominated by that 2 percent – the large exporters,” Gootman said. “Going global pays off for small- and medium-sized enterprises, both on goods and services.” “Middle market firms in particular benefit from exports,” Gootman said. “They have increased revenues over non-exporting firms, add more employees and project greater revenue. There is a substantial business case, a data-driven case for small- and medium-sized businesses to be exporting more and there are plenty of opportunities for them to be exporting more.” “This is about firm competitiveness. Globalization is forcing some of these changes,” Gootman said. “This is a great time for rethinking about what everyone is doing around economic growth.” Donald C. Fry, President and CEO of the GBC, said the rationale for why the Baltimore metropolitan region is ripe for an export plan is because the region has relied heavily on federal government and defense funding. He noted that the assessment included five key findings. Fry said the constraints of the federal government spending, including sequestration, has stifled economic growth. “Recently Maryland’s economy ranked 49th out of 50 with no economic growth shown,” he said. “We recognize the need to diversity our region and also to expand into the marketplace. This is a rationale for why it’s critically important for this region to move forward with this effort.” The Baltimore metropolitan region exports in the areas of education, health care, tourism, information technology and manufacturing, Fry said. “We export to Europe, Asia and Canada,” he said. “Our top export areas were in airplane products and precision instruments and R&D services.” “We have not experienced the growth that other regions have post-recession,” Fry said. “In fact, we rank 82nd out of the 100 largest metros for our export growth since the recession.” Fry said that if the Baltimore metro’s export trade strategy and areas are improved, “we think that the Baltimore metropolitan region has a tremendous opportunity to grow its metro GDP but also grow the percentage of that that comes from export trade,” he said. “We need to take advantage of that opportunity if we’re going to be successful in moving our region forward.” Richard E. Cripps of Stifel offered projections for the Maryland and regional economies. “As we try to look at all of this, we have to ask ourselves is this unique? Is this zone of instability something that we have never experienced before?” Cripps said. Cripps suggested that the instability or the feeling of instability in the 1950s “was as great then as it is now,” he said. “We think this is so unique, this period of time, this zone of instability that we need to maybe take a broader perspective. Is there a phenomenon like the Baby Boom or the world reconstructing that we’re looking at today that we’re somehow missing?” “The impact in the growth of the global Middle Class is 10 times greater than the Industrial Revolution,” Cripps said. “We’re looking at the growth of the Middle Class population essentially going up to 4.2 billion with $65 trillion worth of purchasing power 10 years from now. That’s enormous and that’s the opportunity that the Global Cities Initiative is trying to capitalize on.” Cripps said that in 2025 or 2030 we may look back at 2015 and say “what kinds of decisions could we have been focusing on to place ourselves in the middle of the river of this opportunity?” Offering an economic forecast for the balance of 2015 and looking to 2016, Cripps said “I would say to you narrow your intention to your effort at hand, to your focus at hand, engage in creative thinking, be innovative where possible and adapt to the realities that are occurring in the marketplace. Doing so will be good for you and it will be good for the City of Baltimore.” View Baltimore’s Metro Export Market Assessment here. Read about the project here. Share this News Story: This entry was posted in Featured News, GBC News by Elizabeth Lowe. Bookmark the permalink. Legislative Advocacy Links 2019 Session Dates of Interest 8:30 am Transportation and Mobility Comm... @ Greater Baltimore Committee Transportation and Mobility Comm... @ Greater Baltimore Committee To RSVP to this committee meeting, email Tara Harris. 8:30 am Stop the Bleed Training @ Greater Baltimore Committee Stop the Bleed Training @ Greater Baltimore Committee The Greater Baltimore Committee, in partnership with the University of Maryland Medical System’s R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, is offering a one day “Stop the Bleed” training for GBC members only on August 22. The training provides the basics of how to recognize life-threatening bleeding and ways to stop it. Go here for more information on the “Stop the Bleed” program. 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__label__wiki	0.747298	0.747298	"Deal politics" has damaged political system, Lithuanian president says The "deal politics" has damaged Lithuania's whole political system and that needs to be fixed, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says. Dalia Grybauskaitė In her words, information prepared by the State Security Department (VSD) for the parliamentary Committee on National Security and Defense, and later published, shows that the MG Baltic business group sought to take over the state's control. "This information shows that relations between politicians and business were developing in a very complex and often non-transparent way. In most cases, business sought only benefit, and in the specific MG case it also tried to take over control of the state," the president said in an interview with the national radio LRT, aired on Wednesday. Systemized MG Baltic info shows whole picture, head of VSD says LVŽS leader: president wants to direct attention from corruption case Grybauskaitė stated that the merger of politics and business greatly affects the state's development and that makes people poorer. "The "deal politics" has damaged our political system and that needs to be fixed. And that is the responsibility of all political parties," the president said, stressing the responsibility of both ruling and opposition parties. As reported, the VSD told the Seimas committee in the report last week that MG Baltic had a long-term strategy, in pursuit of its interests, which can be viewed as destructive activity capable of destabilizing the state's order and democratic political system and, thus, posing threat to national security. MG Baltic representatives later called the report "a mixture of opinions and assumptions". MG Baltic has been charged in a political corruption case in Lithuania. Information on the MG Baltic business group's activities was collected for a long time and shows the... Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is trying to direct attention from the political corruption... Agrokoncernas says it doesn’t seek to influence politicians Agrokoncernas, a business group owned by Ramūnas Karbauskis , leader of the Lithuanian Farmers and... What to do with those shooting at the state: Bakas softens his tone President sees no grounds for stripping MG Baltic's LNK TV of its license Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that MG Baltic is an example of oligarchic activity,... PM sees no need for drastic measures against large business-controlled media Amid a parliamentary investigation into business groups' possible influence on political processes,...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1218
__label__wiki	0.95887	0.95887	52nd National Film Awards The 52nd National Film Awards, presented by Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India to felicitate the best of Indian Cinema released in the year 2004.[1][2][3] Awarded for Best of Indian cinema in 2004 (President of India) Directorate of Film Festivals Announced on Presented on 21 October 2005 (2005-10-21) Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi dff.nic.in Best Non-Feature Film Girni Best Book Stardust: Vignettes from the Fringes of Film Industry Best Film Critic Namrata Joshi Dadasaheb Phalke Award Adoor Gopalakrishnan Most awards • Autograph • Girni • Page 3 (3) ← 51st National Film Awards 53rd → The selection process of 52nd National Film Awards began with the constitution of three Juries for feature film, non-feature film and best writing on cinema sections. The renowned filmmaker Sudhir Mishra headed the feature film Jury, which had sixteen other members. Cinematographer and Director A. K. Bir headed the seven-member non-feature film Jury. The Jury for best writing on cinema was headed by veteran film critic and former editor of Screen and Filmfare from Mumbai, Rauf Ahmed.[4] Awards were announced by each committee chairpersons on 13 July 2005. Award ceremony took place at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi on 21 October 2005 and awards were given by then President of India, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.[5] For 52nd National Film Awards, 107 feature films participated along with 118 non-feature films and 22 books on cinema in 9 Indian languages.[4] Awards were divided into feature films, non-feature films and books written on Indian cinema. Lifetime Achievement AwardEdit Awardee(s) Awarded As Dadasaheb Phalke Award Adoor Gopalakrishnan[5][6] Director Swarna Kamal, ₹ 2,00,000 and a Shawl Feature FilmsEdit Feature films were awarded at All India as well as regional level. For 52nd National Film Awards, a Hindi film, Page 3 won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film also winning the maximum number of awards (3), along with a Tamil film, Autograph. Following were the awards given in each category:[1][2][3] JuriesEdit A committee headed by Sudhir Mishra was appointed to evaluate the feature films awards. Following were the jury members:[1][2][3][4] Sudhir Mishra (Chairperson) • Preeti Sagar • Vanisri • Satabdi Roy • L. Vaidyanathan • Sandeep Sawant • Subhadro Chaudhury • Chandi Mukherjee Sharad Dutt • Bhajan Sopori • T. S. Nagabharana • Nagesh Kukunoor • Ranjeet Das • M. Sanjeev • M. Mohan • Vinod Ganatra • Vasantha S. M. A. All India AwardEdit Following were the awards given:[1][2][3] Golden Lotus AwardEdit Official Name: Swarna Kamal[1][2][3] All the awardees are awarded with 'Golden Lotus Award (Swarna Kamal)', a certificate and cash prize. Best Feature Film Page 3 Hindi Producer: Bobby Pushkarna Director: Madhur Bhandarkar ₹ 50,000/- Each Citation: For a complex and daring attempt which exposes the shallow world of Page 3 in a manner which is both savagely satirical yet gently ironical. Best Debut Film of a Director Grahanam Telugu Producer: N. Anji Reddy Director: Mohan Krishna Indraganti ₹ 25,000/- Each Citation: For invoking nostalgia in a manner that is powerful yet poetic. Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment Veer-Zaara Hindi Producer: Yash Raj Films Director: Yash Chopra ₹ 20,000/- Each Citation: For invoking a touching tale of love highlighting the importance of human relationship above man-made boundaries. Autograph Tamil Producer: Cheran Director: Cheran ₹ 20,000/- Each Best Children's Film Chutkan Ki Mahabharat Hindi Producer: Children's Film Society Director: Sankalp Meshram ₹ 30,000/- Each Citation: The film is phantasanagonic story of a boy whose dreams start coming true suddenly. All hell breaks loose when a Nautanki comes to village to play Mahabharata and suddenly its story changes. The warring Kaurvas and Pandavas bury their differences and become friends even before the war has begun. Best Direction Swapner Din Bengali Buddhadeb Dasgupta ₹ 50,000/- Citation: For his appropriate usage of metaphors and complex handling of socio political situation present in West Bengal in a language simultaneously cinematic and poetic. Silver Lotus AwardEdit Official Name: Rajat Kamal[1][2][3] All the awardees are awarded with 'Silver Lotus Award (Rajat Kamal)', a certificate and cash prize. Best Feature Film on National Integration Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero Hindi Producer: Sahara India Media Communication Ltd. Director: Shyam Benegal ₹ 30,000/- Each Citation: Netaji is one of the most controversial and colourful figures of modern Indian history. His struggle to fight the Britishers and bring the Indians together to do this. The idealistic dreamer turns into a revolutionary to achieve his goal. The film effectively brings alive the era. Best Film on Family Welfare Hasina Kannada Producer: Chiguru Chitra Director: Girish Kasaravalli ₹ 30,000/- Each Citation: The film deals with a social evil of family planning in a Muslim community. The story of women and her children deserted by a drunkard husband is handled in a unique and subtle way. Best Film on Other Social Issues Perumazhakkalam Malayalam Producer: Salim Padiyath Director: Kamal ₹ 30,000/- Each Citation: For its deft handling of a complex, sensitive issue in a very sensitive manner. The central characters in the film reflect the traditional virtues of the Indian women, such as self-sacrifice, endurance and forgiveness, to bring two communities together. Best Film on Environment / Conservation / Preservation Devrai Marathi Producer: Y. N. Oak ₹ 30,000/- Director: Sumitra Bhave and Sunil Sukthankar ₹ 15,000/- Each Citation: In this chaotic world, when every body talks about the importance of environment, conservation and preservation but no body cares to learn from the wisdom of myth created by our forefathers and create a space for every mind to realise its potential without judging, discriminating or condemning. Best Actor Hum Tum Hindi Saif Ali Khan ₹ 10,000/- Citation: For his sheer ease, subtlety and spontaneity in portraying a complex and demanding role. Best Actress Hasina Kannada Thaara ₹ 10,000/- Citation: For her powerful portrayal of a young Muslim wife boldly questioning the traditional laws of her community. Her ability to convey the range of various moods through her performance in a forceful manner is appreciated. Best Supporting Actor Krantikaal Bengali Haradhan Bandopadhyay ₹ 10,000/- Citation: For his subtle yet powerful performance which is understated portraying a helpless bedridden old royal. Best Supporting Actress Akale Malayalam Sheela ₹ 10,000/- Citation: For the grace with which she handles the tragedy of a community that is slowly fading away. Best Child Artist Chhota Sipahi Hindi Om Bhutkar ₹ 10,000/- Citation: For his gradual evolution from a naïve innocent young child to a patriot in the liberation movement of Goa. Best Male Playback Singer Swades ("Yeh Taara Woh Taara") Hindi Udit Narayan ₹ 10,000/- Citation: For the song to honour his soulful rendition of this beautiful Rahman melody with imaging modulation. Best Female Playback Singer Autograph ("Ovvoru Pookalume") Tamil K. S. Chithra ₹ 10,000/- Citation: For expressive and soulful rendition of the song with powerful voice throw suitable to the text and the scene. Best Cinematography Swades Hindi Cameraman: Mahesh Aney Laboratory Processing: Adlabs ₹ 15,000/- Citation: For his lens that captures the rural Indian landscape with reality and harshness. Best Screenplay Page 3 Hindi • Manoj Tyagi • Nina Arora ₹ 10,000/- Citation: For telling a complex story in a stunningly simple manner. It takes you into the empty shallow world of Page 3, in a manner which is funny yet deeply empathetic. Best Audiography Iti Srikanta Bengali Anup Mukhopadhyay ₹ 10,000/- Citation: For finest recordings of the sound in a superb way that lends an extra dimension to the film. Best Editing Page 3 Hindi Suresh Pai ₹ 10,000/- Citation: For the crisp cutting which gives a finesse to the film and the successfully sustains the tempo of the film and mood and emotion while never losing the narrative. Best Art Direction Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero Hindi Samir Chanda ₹ 10,000/- Citation: For effectively recreating the period prior to the second world war across nations. Best Costume Design Hasina Kannada • Ishrath Nissar • M. N. Swamy ₹ 10,000/- Citation: For the costumes that lent a realistic feel to the characters thereby adding to their credibility. Best Music Direction Swarabhishekam Telugu Songs and Background Score: Vidyasagar ₹ 10,000/- Citation: For the songs that are composed as per the situation and enrich the theme of the film. From the beginning to the end he has maintained traditional classical music and used Indian acoustic instruments thus bringing out the colour and flavor of Indian music. Best Lyrics Autograph ("Ovvoru Pookalume") Tamil P. Vijay ₹ 10,000/- Citation: For or meaningful and powerful lyrics generating hope for a better future. Best Special Effects Anji Telugu Sanath (Fire Fly Digital) ₹ 10,000/- Citation: For imaginative and effective creation of an outside world using special effects. Best Choreography Lakshya ("Main Aisa Kyu Hoon") Hindi Prabhu Deva ₹ 10,000/- Citation: For his imaginative, spectacular and rhythmic dance composition. Special Jury Award Dancer Tamil J. Phillip (Actor) ₹ 25,000/- Citation: For his incredible acting and dance performance despite being a physically challenged person. Special Mention Des Hoyaa Pardes Punjabi Gurdas Maan (Actor) Certificate Only Citation: For an effective portrayal of an innocent, helpless, patriotic young Punjabi landlord caught in crossfire between terrorists and the police. Oridam Malayalam Pradeep Nair (Director) Citation: For his credible attempt at creating a new imagery and effective cinematic language in his debut film. Regional AwardsEdit The award is given to best film in the regional languages in India.[1][2][3] Best Feature Film in Assamese Dinabandhoo Producer: Krishna Roy Director: Munin Barua ₹ 20,000/- Each Citation: For a human struggle against circumstances, mainly because of dowry as well as social status. Best Feature Film in Bengali Krantikaal Producer: Shampa Bhattacharjee Director: Sekhar Das ₹ 20,000/- Each Citation: For dialectical portrayal of a terrorist’s critical encounter with a decadent Bengali royal culture trapped in a time wrap. Best Feature Film in Hindi Raincoat Producer: Shree Venkatesh Films Director: Rituparno Ghosh ₹ 20,000/- Each Citation: For its subtle handling of human relationship in a low-keyed fashion yet mentioning the warmth of a lost love. Best Feature Film in Kannada Beru Producer: Mitrachitra Director: P. Sheshadri ₹ 20,000/- Each Citation: For critical analysis of bureaucratic corruption through the eyes of a folk dancer and its ironic overtone. Best Feature Film in Konkani Aleesha Producer: Rajendra Talak Creations Director: Rajendra Talak ₹ 20,000/- Each Citation: For its concern about pollution and protection at the same time exposing corruption. Best Feature Film in Malayalam Akale Producer: Tom George Kolath Director: Shyamaprasad ₹ 20,000/- Each Citation: For its sensitive handling of characters trapped in tragic situation, in an unconventional filmic way. Best Feature Film in Marathi Uttarayan Producer: Opticus Films Director: Bipin Nadkarni ₹ 20,000/- Each Citation: For its portrayal of nostalgic love between two aged characters and their problems with the next generation. Best Feature Film in Punjabi Des Hoyaa Pardes Producer: Manjeet Maan Director: Manoj Punj ₹ 20,000/- Each Citation: For its sharp handling of terrorism in Punjab and portrayal of alienation, migration of Punjabi youth to the west of that time. Best Feature Film in Tamil Navarasa Producer: Sunil Doshi Director: Santosh Sivan ₹ 20,000/- Each Citation: For its credible exploitation of the world of the third gender blended with director’s own cinematic style. Best Feature Film in Telugu Swarabhishekam Producer: H. Gopalakrishna Murthy Director: K. Viswanath ₹ 20,000/- Each Citation: For its excellent musical structure clubbed with great classical musical performance. Best Feature Film in Each of the Language Other Than Those Specified In the Schedule VIII of the Constitution Best Feature Film in English Amu Producer: Shonali Bose Director: Shonali Bose ₹ 20,000/- Each Citation: For its innovative style of handling a girl’s search for her identity and her encounter with a scarred society. Non-Feature FilmsEdit Short Films made in any Indian language and certified by the Central Board of Film Certification as a documentary/newsreel/fiction are eligible for non-feature film section. A committee headed by A. K. Bir was appointed to evaluate the non-feature films awards. Following were the jury members:[1][2][3][4] A. K. Bir (Chairperson) • Kadambari Chintamani • Vasiraju Prakasam • Sudhish Gopalakrishnan • Supriyo Sen • Prasann Jain • Pushpesh Pant Best Non-Feature Film Girni Marathi Producer: Tripurari Sharan for Film and Television Institute of India Director: Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni ₹ 20,000/- Each Citation: For projecting the impact of noise over a child's mind with excellent visualisation and fine cinematic dramatisation. Best Non-Feature Film Direction Girni Marathi Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni ₹ 20,000/- Citation: For portraying the impact of sound on a young and sensitive mind with excellent dramatic and cinematic style. All the awardees are awarded with 'Silver Lotus Award (Rajat Kamal)' and cash prize. Best First Non-Feature Film Ek Sagar Kinaree... A Seaside Story Marathi and English Producer: Gomantar Marathi Academy Director: Laxmikant Shetgaonkar ₹ 10,000/- Each Citation: For handling the simple and delicate relationship between ordinary human beings in a very profound evocative and enterprising manner, within a commercialised compulsive atmosphere. Best Anthropological / Ethnographic Film The Legend of Fat Mama English Producer: Rafeeq Ellias Director: Rafeeq Ellias ₹ 10,000/- Each Citation: For presenting a nostalgic journey of the Chinese community in Kolkata in a very lively and engrossing, and yet thought provoking moment. Best Biographical Film It’s Prabhat Marathi Producer: A. V. Damle Director: Madhavi Vaidya ₹ 10,000/- Each Citation: For presenting the glorious history of Prabhat Film Company in a very engaging and fascinating manner through excellent compilation of the excerpts of some of the renowned old films of the company. Best Scientific Film / Best Environment / Conservation / Preservation Film Timeless Traveller-The Horseshoe Crab English Producer: Riverbank Studios Director: Gautam Pandey ₹ 10,000/- Each Citation: For venturing to explore the most enigmatic creature, very scientific and analytic manner effectively urging mankind to conserve this unique species. Best Film on Social Issues Dwijaa Marathi Producer: Tripurari Sharan for Film and Television Institute of India Director: Pankaj Purandare ₹ 10,000/- Each Citation: For presenting the distress of a child widow and her graduation over reality with subtle and sensitive cinematic treatment. Best Exploration / Adventure Film Shores of Silence – Whale Sharks in India English Producer: Gautam Pandey Director: Ranjana Pandey ₹ 10,000/- Each Citation: For capturing the cruelty of fisher-man over harmless sea-creature, the whale shark, along the Gujarat coast, with a fine insight and bravado, which could bring transformation to the ignorance of the fisherfock's mindless slaughter. Best Investigative Film Harvest of Hunger English and Oriya Producer: Action Aid India, Bhubaneshwar Director: Rupashree Nanda ₹ 10,000/- Each Citation: For portraying the apathy and the hardships of drought effected villagers from Bolangir District, and their struggle to survive under an atmosphere of compulsive exploitation in excellent investigative and poignant style. Best Animation Film Raju and I English and Hindi Producer: Aseema Charitable Trust Director: Gayatri Rao Animator: Chetan Sharma ₹ 10,000/- Each Citation: For depicting the emotional journey of a child and his experience and awareness of the social conditions through an excellent technique of animation. Best Short Fiction Film Cradle Song English and Hindi Producer: Tripurari Sharan for Film and Television Institute of India Director: Nimisha Pandey ₹ 10,000/- Each Citation: For exploring the mental agony of a couple, that has given birth to a crippled child in a very ethereal and stimulating cinematic style. Best Film on Family Welfare Saanjh Hindi Producer: Tripurari Sharan for Film and Television Institute of India Director: Jasmine Kaur ₹ 10,000/- Each Citation: For a very sensitively structured short film which deals with the apathy of an old man and his encounter with reality. Best Cinematography Girni Marathi Cameraman: Manoj Raymond Lobo Laboratory Processing: Adlabs ₹ 10,000/- Each Citation: For a short film which is highly enriched through excellent visual choreography. Best Audiography Kshy Tra Ghya Hindi Vivek ₹ 10,000/- Citation: For evolving an experimental form of narration within a story form, with excellent sound design. Best Editing Harvest of Hunger English and Oriya Prashant Naik ₹ 10,000/- Citation: For documenting with apathy of the drought stricken villagers, by fluent and flowing editing style, keeping the interest on the subject, very engaging. Best Music Direction Ek Sagar Kinaree... A Seaside Story Marathi and English Dhwani ₹ 10,000/- Citation: For a short film which is extremely enhanced by the accompaniment of very throbbing and engaging music. Best Narration / Voice Over The Legend of Fat Mama English Yang Yen Thaw ₹ 10,000/- Each Citation: For communicates the nostalgic journey of the Chinese community in Calcutta through a moving narration, complying with the harmonious pace of the film. Special Jury Award Kshy Tra Ghya Hindi Amit Dutta (Director) ₹ 10,000/- Citation: For evolving an experimental form of narration within a story form, with excellent special visual effects in an innovative style. Best Writing on CinemaEdit The awards aim at encouraging study and appreciation of cinema as an art form and dissemination of information and critical appreciation of this art-form through publication of books, articles, reviews etc. A committee headed by Rauf Ahmed was appointed to evaluate the writing on Indian cinema. Following were the jury members:[1][2][3] Rauf Ahmed (Chairperson) • Utpal Borpujari • Shoma A. Chatterji All the awardees are awarded with 'Golden Lotus Award (Swarna Kamal)' and cash prize. Name of Book Best Book on Cinema Stardust - Vignettes from the Fringes of Film Industry English Author: Roopa Swaminathan Publisher: Penguin Books ₹ 15,000/- Each Citation: For giving a rare, fascinating insight into the lives of people on the fringes of the film industry whose contribution to cinema is no less significant. The work is marked by painstaking research and incisive analysis that does not alienate the average cinema lover. Best Film Critic Namrata Joshi ₹ 15,000/- Citation: For consistently maintaining a high standard of film evaluation at a time when reviews are tending to become a public relations exercise. Her writings reveal a sound grasp of all aspects of film-making. Awards not givenEdit Following were the awards not given as no film was found to be suitable for the award:[1][2][3] Best Feature Film in Manipuri Best Feature Film in Oriya Best Historical Reconstruction / Compilation Film Best Arts / Cultural Film Best Educational / Motivational / Instructional Film Best Promotional Film Best Agricultural Film ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "52nd National Film Awards". International Film Festival of India. Archived from the original on 5 May 2014. Retrieved 16 March 2012. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "52nd National Film Awards (PDF)" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 28 January 2012. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "52nd National Film Awards - PIB (PDF)" (PDF). Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. Retrieved 16 March 2012. ^ a b c d "Juries for the selection of films for National Awards set up". Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. Retrieved 16 March 2012. ^ a b "President Gives Away 52nd National Film Award". 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__label__wiki	0.716	0.716	This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. The specific problem is: Headings, sources Please help improve this article if you can. (October 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) The Rachel Carson Award is a premier award which honors distinguished female leaders impacting the environmental world.[1][2][3] It is awarded each spring by the National Audubon Society's Women in Conservation to recognize "women whose immense talent, expertise, and energy greatly advance conservation and the environmental movement locally and globally".[4] Honorees are drawn from diverse backgrounds, including the worlds of journalism, academics, business, science, entertainment, philanthropy and law.[5] The award is presented to honorees each May at the Rachel Carson Award Luncheon. The Luncheon, which is held annually at New York City’s Plaza Hotel. Proceeds from the Luncheon support Audubon's Long Island Sound Campaign. (With more than 28 million people living within 50 miles of its shores, the Sound is home to 10 percent of the U.S. population. Unfortunately, it has undergone unprecedented pollution, habitat loss, and ecosystem disruption. The crisis in this significant estuary has led to a campaign of national importance.) Additionally, Audubon's Women in Conservation Program, in conjunction with Audubon's Rachel Carson Awards Council, supports a website connecting women of all ages to extraordinary leaders in the environmental movement and to the great environmental issues of our time. In its mission to support environmental opportunities for girls and young women, Audubon's Women in Conservation also supports a prominent internship program and hosts an educational school panel in which past Rachel Carson Award honorees speak at a local all-girls school.[6] The award is named in honor of Rachel Carson, a monumental figure of the 20th century and the undisputed founder of the modern environmental movement.[7] Each year the Rachel Carson Award is created by Tiffany & Company. The Rachel Carson Awards Council was founded by Allison Whipple Rockefeller in 2004. Award recipientsEdit Source: Audubon Society Gina McCarthy, Former EPA Administrator and Professor of Public Health Practice at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health[8] Mary Powell, President and CEO, Vermont Green Mountain Power[9] Dorceta Taylor, Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion & James E. Crowfoot Collegiate Professor at University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability[10] Jamie Rappaport Clark, President and CEO, Defenders of Wildlife Dr. Heidi Cullen, Chief Scientist, Climate Central Anne Thompson, Chief Environmental Affairs Correspondent, NBC News Dominique Browning Co-Founder & Director of Moms Clean Air Force Rebecca Moore Founder and Director of Google Earth Outreach Dr. Kathryn Sullivan Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Warrie Price President and Founder of the Battery Park Conservancy Flo Stone President and Founder of the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital Ellen Futter President of the American Museum of Natural History Kaiulani Lee Playwright and Performer of “A Sense of Wonder” Nell Newman Co-Founder and President of Newman’s Own Organics Marian Heiskell Conservationist and Philanthropist[11] Lady Bird Johnson First Lady and Environmental Pioneer Sally Bingham President, The Regeneration Project/Interfaith Power & Light[12] L. Hunter Lovins President, Natural Capitalism Solutions Janette Sadik-Khan Commissioner, New York City Department of Transportation[13] Maya Lin Artist, Architect, and Environmentalist[14] Sigourney Weaver Actress and Environmental Activist Suzanne Lewis Superintendent, Yellowstone National Park Isabella Rossellini Actress, Director, Writer & Environmental Activist Dr. Beth Stevens Senior Vice President Environmental Affairs, Disney World Wide Services The Tiffany & Co. Foundation Fernanda M. Kellogg, President Dr. Sylvia Earle National Geographic Explorer in Residence; Founder, Deep Search Foundation Sally Jewell Secretary of the Interior[15][16] Elizabeth Cushman Titus Putnam Founding President, Student Conservation Association NBC Universal’s Green is Universal Initiative Elizabeth Colleton, Jane Evans and Susan Haspel Jean Clark, Norma Dana, Marguerite Purnell, Phyllis Cerf Wagner, and Elizabeth Barlow Rogers Central Park Conservancy Teresa Heinz Kerry Philanthropist Bette Midler Founder, New York Restoration Project Frances Beinecke President of the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC)[17] Majora Carter Founder and Executive Director of Sustainable South Bronx Laurie David Global Warming Activist/Producer/Author Deirdre Imus Founder and President of the Deirdre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology Kathleen Bader Former President and CEO of NatureWorks LLC Margie Ruddick Environmental Designer, Founder of Margie Ruddick Landscape Kay Kelley Arnold Vice President of Public Affairs, Entergy Corporation Bernadette Castro Former Commissioner, New York State Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Mae Jemison Founder, BioSentient Corporation Margaret Wittenberg Whole Foods Market Vice President of Global Communications and Quality Standards Jayni Chase Environmental Activist and Philanthropist Lynn Chase Wildlife Artist, Philanthropist Maria Rodale Chairman, Rodale Publishing[18] Peggy M. 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(March 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Olga Carolina Rama (1918-04-17)17 April 1918 25 September 2015(2015-09-25) (aged 97) Self-taught Painting, bricolage Carol Rama (born Olga Carolina Rama; 17 April 1918 – 25 September 2015) was an Italian self-taught artist whose unconventional painting encompassed an erotic, and often sexually aggressive universe populated by characters who present themes of sexual identity with specific references to female sensuality.[1] She began to paint around the mid-thirties and exhibiting her work ten years later.[2] Her work was relatively little known until curator Lea Vergine included several pieces in a 1980 exhibition, prompting Rama to revisit her earlier watercolour style.[3] 2 Art practice 3 Carol Rama's Studio 4 Notable works 5 Major exhibitions Born on 17 April 1918, Olga Carolina Rama was the youngest of three children born to Marta (née Pugliaro) and Amabile Rama, who had just returned to Turin the year before their daughters birth after a six year stint as migrant workers in Argentina. Much of Rama's earliest frame of reference comes from factory life. Through much of the 1920s, the business and the family prospered. Rama took riding lessons. She remembered it as a carefree time during which the family sand operatic arias and played dress-up at home.[4] Her father, Amabile Rama, was a small-scale manufacturer in the engineering industry who produced automobiles under the trademark "Sintesi". as well as unusual unisex bicycles under the trademark "OLT". Among those working in his factory, at Via Digione 17 in Turin, there was a model employee, Vittorio Valletta, who in 1927 left "Sintesi" to place his talents at the service of FIAT. And it was following the birth of the FIAT that her father's company began to go downhill, and was declared bankrupt while Carol was still a child. Hard years followed for the previously prosperous Rama family.[5]Her once secure middle-class family was socially marginalized. Gone were the afternoons of singing operatic arias and taking riding lessons. Rama said, "I started to experience rejection and derision from the same circles that had showered me with privileges before." Carol Rama's mother, Marta was committed to a psychiatric hospital in 1933; Rama was 15 years old. Six years later, Amabile, Rama's father, committed suicide.[6] Rama was still forming herself as a young woman during her mother's mental breakdown . frequent visits to the asylum proved decisive: "I felt comfortable in that surrounding. Because it's there I began to have manners and upbringing without either cultural preparation or etiquette." Observing the unusual, quixotic characters in the asylum and absorbing that atmosphere has a liberating effect on the budding artist, which would inform her whole aesthetic and worldview. Rama had enrolled at the art academy but school would not be her path forward; she skipped class and dropped out. Right off the bat she intuitively possessed her own self-assured style, line quality, subject matter, and twisted perspective. Specificity of vision, Brazenly expressed, distinguishes Rama's earliest works.[4] Art practice[edit] As a painter, Rama began with sex and with watercolor. Infused with inwardness, watercolor has an intimate relation to the painter's body, with brushwork that tends to revolve around hand and wrist action, much like writing; its scale suited Rama's tabletop home-studio set-up. A medium of dilution and pollution, bleeding and spillage, watercolor was just the right thing for the then-young artist fascinated by bodies, orifices, fluids, and their intersubjective exchange. Color in her early watercolors is generally applied sparingly, in pale washes or barely at all, with strategic, vivid punctuations that draw our attention to key erogenous zones: mouths, tongues, nipples, cunts, dicks, and assholes- wet holes and erotic plumbing primed for liquid flow. Of all the orifices, the mouth is Rama's favorite, as it is the most representative of desire. Her watercolors redesign anatomies, amputate and reorder limbs, realign orifices, and scramble physiological functions. Her women are often depicted armless, legless, or both, appearing broken like damaged classical ruins from Italy's ancient past.[4] At the end of the thirties carol Rama also painted some twenty oils on canvas with a less scabrous content, as if her message had been influenced by the more conventional medium. they are most of all self portraits in which the coulees are at first laid on flat, in a manner that recalls some of Felice castoratis early paintings, bu the features are stylized to such an extent that they disappear reducing the face and the body to mere splotches of lumpy paint.[5] The work of Carol Rama was also the object of what we could call a psychopathological reduction. Throughout the 19th century and a large part of the 20th, the art produced by sexual and political minorities and those of functional and cognitive diversity have been strained by epistemological-political taxonomies.[7] In 1945, Rama mounted her solo debut at Galleria Faber in Turin, exhibiting a range of early watercolors. But the show was not seen. It was immediately censored, shut down by police for its obscene, abject, and all around exuberantly offensive imagery before it could open to the public. Chronically excessive and too much for the scene to handle, Rama could continue to fall outside authorized spheres of visibility and slip through cracks between official categories. Throughout her long life in art, she fluently navigated along the margins and shifted positions across movements as a rogue agent, while consistently affirming her presence: she exhibited regularly for over half a century, presenting solo shows nearly every year, mostly in northern Italy, with rare breaks of more than a few years. Rama's oversexed, vulgar, dirty, and disfigured bodies roiled propriety and uptight norms, directly challenging the far-right national politics of the day. By the early 1950s, she was painting irregular geometric compositions of lilting rhomboid and squares, often connected by long spidery lines or forming a directional field of implied movement. Books on her shelf from that time confirm formal affinities with Klee and Kandinsky as well as the influence of Cubism, especially Picasso, whose major exhibition in Milan in 1953 sent ripples across the Italian scene. within the decade, her abstraction evolved into more painterly, impastoed, gestural canvases streaked with dark, textured forms that read as wounds or scars. An example of this would be a black monochrome she painted called Melodramma (1960).[4] Around the mid fifties, Rama began to undo little by little the geometric conventions of the concrete art. Movement while also experimenting with new materials and techniques. Carol Rama invents organic abstraction, surrealism, concrete visceral art and porno brut. Carol rama was profoundly influenced throughout the sixties by the experimental linguistic and visual poetry movement of Novissimi. many of the writers of this movement reclaimed the "feminine" gaze as. Tool for critiquing the dominant ideology, the scene was paradoxically male.[7] Starting in 1970, Rama began incorporating bicycle inner tubes into her work. She cut them up, splayed them out flat, hung them dangling off painting, and draped them limply over sculptural structures, flaccid bunches of long, hollow piping. The tires, ranging in color from black to rich rusty ocher, would always be associated with memories of her dead father and his factory, but formally they also echo the crowded multiplicity of dicks and snakes in her early watercolors, as well as more general signifiers of mobility, circulation, plumbing, and detumescence. With titles like Le Guerra e astratta [War is Abstract], Arsenale [Arsenal], and Presagi di Birnam [Omens of Birnam], Rama's rubber collages and assemblages are framed in relation to martial power, rubble, mass weaponry, and mass death.[4] After more than thirty years concocting virulent strains of abstraction, Rama returned to figuration. in 1979, her irresistible perversions of the 1930s and 40's, previously censored by the authorities, were finally seen for the first time in an exhibition of a dozen early watercolors at Galleria Matano in Turin. Amid her return to figurative picture making, which lasted until her death in 2015 at age 97, Rama became fascinated with the mad cow outbreak that spiraled into a global media frenzy in the late nineties. She made a series of collaged paintings called La Mucca Pazza [The Mad Cow], dominated by bloated udder shapes cut out of leather and rubber and arranged on used mail sacks.[4] Carol Rama's Studio[edit] Heavy black curtains are drawn over her windows. She can't get enough blackness: "Black is the color that will help me to die. I'd like to paint everything black, it's a kind of incineration, a kind of wonderful agony..." The apartment's ceilings are high and dark, disappearing upwards like the night sky. Charcoal gray and stale beige walls work with the dark wood floors, doors, furniture, and artifacts to further shade the rooms. Dwelling is this apartment at Via Napione 15 in Turin for over seventy years, Rama's studio-home became an extension of herself, her persona, and her singular artistic visions. On one set day a weeks, she used to open up her workshop abode to friends and intellectuals. Part Museum, part asylum, part apothecary, part reliquary, part anthropological archive: her home overflows with small sculptures, talismans, relics, masks, exotic figurines, dolls, miniature charms, unusual tchotchkes, artifacts, shoes and shoe molds, vessels, glassbottle soft perfume, strands of beads, pieces of jewelry she made, hanging ornaments, exhibition posters, etchings, paintings, and pictures everywhere. Boxes, crates, drawers, and shelves are crammed full of strips of rubber, tape measures, hammers, scissors, brushes, markers, pencil nubs, watercolor cakes, pastels, vials of pigment, jars of ink and Flashe paint. Seemingly random objects take on an allegorical charge, mirroring aspects of her personality.[4] Notable works[edit] Nonna Carolina [Granny Carolina] (1936). Thought to be her earliest watercolor, the old woman's withered bust lies limply among so many prosthetic limbs and wooden shoe forms, her throat besieged by a half dozen black leeches like a soggy swamp monster, displaying her wetness as a necklace.[4] Melodramma [Melodrama] (1960). Features a bubbling, festering, charred tumor of texture stretched across the middle, surrounded by a handful of ready-made plastic skull-and crossbones stickers or tags.[4] Le Guerra e astratta [War is Abstract] Arsenale [Arsenal] Presagi di Birnam [Omens of Birnam] La Mucca Pazza [The Mad Cow] Major exhibitions[edit] 1945 Galleria Faber, Turin 1946 Galleria Il Bosco, Turin 1955 Libreria Il Salto, Milano, (presentation by Albino Galvano) 1957 Galleria La Bussola, Turin, (presentation by Galvano) 1959 Galleria La Bussola, Turin, (presentation by Luigi Carluccio) 1964 Galleria Stampatori, Turin, (presentation by Galvano and Edoardo Sanguineti); Galleria La Carabaga, Sampierdarena (presentation by Edoardo Sanguineti) 1965 Museo Civico, Pistoia, (presentation by Sanguineti) 1966 Galleria Lutrin, Lione, (presentation by Sanguineti) 1967 Galleria Numero, Rome, (presentation by Sanguineti); Galleria Fiamma Vigo, Rome, (presentation by Sanguineti) 1970 Sala Bolaffi, Turin 1971 Galleria La Bussola, Turin, (presentation by Sanguineti) 1972 Galleria Anthea, Rome, (presentation by Sanguineti) 1974 Galleria Il Fauno, Turin (presentation by Man Ray) 1975 Galleria LP220, Turin, (presentation by Maurizio Fagiolo dell'Arco); Galleria Marin, Turin (presentation by Fagiolo dell'Arco) 1976 Place and sign, Galleria Luciano Anselmino, Milan, (presentation by Sanguineti); Galleria Il Capricorno, Venice, (presentation by Sanguineti) 1978 Galleria Weber, Turin, (presentation by Giancarlo Salzano) 1979 Galleria Martano, Turin, (presentation by Paolo Fossati, Galvano, Marco Vallora) 1980 Carol Rama: watercolors 1939-1941, work 1966-1980, Galleria Giancarlo Salzano, Turin (presentation by Corrado Levi and Sanguineti) 1981 Carol Rama, works 1950-1955, Galleria D'Arte Maggiorotto, Cavallermaggiore (presentation by Galvano and Paolo Fossati) 1983/84 Galleria Giancarlo Salzano, Turin (texts by Levi, Sanguineti, and Lea Vergine) 1985 Sagrato del Duomo, Milan, (curated by Lea Vergine); Carol Rama: Seven Works, Galleria Giancarlo Salzano, Turin 1987 Carol Rama, Works from 1937 to 1987, Galleria Dell'Oca, Rome, (presentation by Giuliano Briganti and Corrado Levi) 1988 Casa del Mantegna, Mantova (presentation by Giorgio Manganelli, Francesco Bartoli, Giuliano Briganti and Anne-Marie Sauzeau Boetti) 1989 Circolo degli Artisti, Turin (presentation by Paolo Fossati) 1990 Galleria UXA, Novara; Carol Rama, works 1989/90, Galleria Giancarlo Salzano 1991 Galleria Giancarlo Salzano; Paintings and drawings 1940/48, Galleria Giancarlo Salzano 1993 Carol Rama: Quasi note azzurre (Almost blue notes), Galleria Giancarlo Salzano, XLV Biennale Internazionale d'Arte, Venice (presentation by Achille Bonito Oliva and Corrado Levi) 1993/94 La corona di Keaton, 1993 Idilli, 1993 Inediti, 1952/57, Galleria Giancarlo Salzano 1994 Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Milano 1994-95 Carol Rama, Past to Present 1994-1930, Galleria Sprovieri, Rome (presentation by Achille Bonito Oliva and Maurizio Fagiolo dell'Arco) 1995 Le stanze di Carolina 1939-1994, Galleria Otto, Bologna (presentation by Paolo Fossati and Dario Trento) 1996 Galleria Il Ponte, Turin; Stamperia del Borgo Po, Turin (text by Sanguineti) 1997 Carol Rama, works on paper, 1930s to present, Esso Gallery, New York (presentation by Filippo Fossati, Levi, Paolo Fossati, Sanguineti and Ingrid Schaffner); Galleria Giancarlo Salzano, Turin 1998 Retrospective, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam traveling to ICA Boston; Incisioni Recenti, Franco Masoero Edizioni d'Arte, Turin 1999 Carol Rama, GAM, Museo d'Arte Moderna, Turin 2002 Galérie Anne de Villepoix, Paris 2003 Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy; Carol Rama, past and present, Esso Gallery, New York 2004 Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin 2014 Carol Rama and Danh Vo, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK 2015 La Passion selon Carol Rama, The Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris 2016 The Passion According to Carol Rama, Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin 2017 Carol Rama: Antibodies, New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, N.Y.) April 26-September 10, 2017. ^ "Addio a Carol Rama, artista eccentrica ammirata da Sanguineti e Calvino" (in Italian). La Stampa. Retrieved 25 September 2015. ^ Carol, Rama; Maria Cristina Mundici; Rudi Fuchs (1998). Carolrama. Milano: Charta. ISBN 8881581485. OCLC 38857040. ^ Bell, Kirsty (June–August 2009). "Review: Carol Rama". Frieze Magazine (124). Archived from the original on 2010-11-04. ^ a b c d e f g h i Christoffersen, Helga; Gioni, Massimiliano; Lehrer-Graiwer, Sarah; Vergine, Lea; Vo, Danh; Rama, Carol. Carol Rama : antibodies. New York. ISBN 9780915557158. OCLC 993629902. ^ a b Rama, Carol (2004). Carol Rama. Curto, Guido., Verzotti, Giorgio., Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l'arte., Museo d'arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto., Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art. Milano: Skira. ISBN 8884918723. OCLC 55199304. ^ Latham, Bethany (2007-05-08). "Biography Resource Center". Reference Reviews. Thomson Gale. 21 (4): 38–39. doi:10.1108/09504120710744664. 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__label__wiki	0.856646	0.856646	Sayyed Nasrallah: Hariri Detained in Saudi, Must Be Set Free Immediately Lebanon - Live News - News - S. Nasrallah Speeches - Top Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Nasrallah stressed Friday that the Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri is detained in Saudi and cannot return to Lebanon, adding that KSA’s regime decided to impose on Lebanon a new prime minister and leader for Al-Mustaqbal party. Delivering a speech during Hezbollah central ceremony to mark Imam Hussein (P) Arbaeen and Hezbollah’s Martyr Day, Sayyed Nasrallah said that Saudi falsely thinks it can impose on the Lebanese a new prime minister, adding that all what it has done is provoking the Lebanese to be involved in internal clashes, political disputes, and seditions. Sayyed Nasrallah pointed out that Saudi provokes a lot of countries against Lebanon and asks its nationals to leave the Lebanese territories, pointing out that what is more danger is that Saudi has offered the Zionist entity billions of dollars to wage a war against Lebanon and Hezbollah. PM Hariri’s resignation “illegal” Tackling the recent Lebanese-Saudi crisis, Sayyed Nasrallah said that the Saudi decision to force PM Saad Hariri to resign terminated a one-year period of political, security and economic stability, adding that Hezbollah condemns this “blatant” Saudi actions which insults all the Lebanese, not just its prime minister. “Saudi insulted all the Lebanese by forcing PM Hariri to read a resignation statement written by the Saudis, detaining him, and preventing him from returning to Lebanon.” Sayyed Nasrallah called for letting Hariri return home, adding that in Lebanon he can take any decision, away from the Saudi interference in the Lebanese domestic affairs. The Resistance leader maintained that Hariri’s resignation is unconstitutional and illegitimate for it occurred by force, adding that Lebanese government is still in place and that Lebanon is unconcerned with conducting parliamentary consultations before Hariri returns, as some conspirators want. Sayyed Nasrallah also hailed the “wise leadership of President Michel Aoun in cooperation with the House Speaker Nabih Berri and the national forces,” stressing that this has protected Lebanon’s security and stability. Hezbollah chief called for a security alert in light of Saudi statements about assassination operations which may strike Lebanon which, according to his eminence, must be also ready to confront any Israeli aggression. Hezbollah much stronger than ever In this regard, Sayyed Nasrallah stressed that the Islamic Resistance is much stronger than ever and ready to make the Zionists pay heavy prices for any war against Lebanon, adding that the Israelis are trying to benefit from the current crisis by supporting the Saudi attack on Hezbollah and all the Lebanese and stirring seditions as in the case of granting the Sunnite Nusra Front terrorists a way to attack the Druze town of Hadar in Syria’s Quneitra. Hezbollah and the Lebanese army are thoroughly monitoring the Israeli movements, according to Sayyed Nasrallah who added that the Zionist conditions do not allow them to wage a war for the sake of the Saudi interests. Saudi successive defeats Sayyed Nasrallah noted that Hezbollah understands the Saudi frustration which “is attributed to its successive defeats in Syria, Iraq and Yemen,” adding, “but we do not understand their insulting actions.” “Saudi supported the terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq, backed the separatists in Iraqi Kurdistan and waged a destructive war on Yemen,” Sayyed Nasrallah said, “The Saudis consider that Hezbollah turns criminal if it denounces their crimes against the Yemenis who suffer from war, famine and .” In order to justify their defeat in Yemen, they blame Iran and Hezbollah and underestimate the capabilities of the Yemeni army and popular committees, according to Sayyed Nasrallah who added that the Yemenis have become able to manufacture sophisticated drones and ballistic missiles. Sayyed Nasrallah pointed at that Saudi even failed to subject Qatar to its political will, adding that its policy which is based on the Bahraini regime against the civilians in that country has led Bahrain into the edge of bankruptcy. Saudi thinks that Lebanon will be the scapegoat for it is unable to confront Iran, according to Hezbollah chief who warned the Saudis against any miscalculations regarding subjecting the Lebanese national parties that oppose its policies. “Saudi must set accessible goals, so I do not advise them to aim at eradicating Hezbollah because they will never be able to do that.” Sayyed Nasrallah added that both Saudi and Iran have political influence in Lebanon, but that the Iranian, unlike the Saudis, do not interfere in the Lebanese domestic issues. Sayyed Nasrallah wondered whether the Saudi actions of intimidating the Lebanese, insulting their prime minister, and stirring seditions among their segments would save them. Do you want to launch a destructive war against the Lebanese to save them following your approach in Yemen? Sayyed Nasrallah asked the Saudis. ISIL in final stages On the other hand, Sayyed Nasrallah stressed that ISIL terrorist group is in its final stages in Syria in light of the military battlefield conditions, mentioning the liberation of the Syrian city of Al-Bukamal on the border with Iraq. “In 2017, we, blessed by the martyrs’ bloody sacrifices, were able to liberate our detained [fighters] and create a deterrent force that is able to protect our country from Israeli greed and from the conspiracy that has been set for the region.” Sayyed Nasrallah said that the sacrifices made by the martyrs “enabled us to defeat the Zionist enemy in 2000 when the Greater Israel plot fell and in 2006 when the Great Israel scheme was frustrated,” adding that “We also managed to liberate our territories from the terrorists in 2017.” Hezbollah now contributes to eradicating the terrorist Wahhabi group of ISIL and its conspiracy against Islam, Prophet Muhammad’s Religion, and the human values after it was established by USA and Saudi, according to Sayyed Nasrallah. Imam Hussein Arbaeen and Hezbollah Martyr Day Sayyed Nasrallah said that the greatest honor that Holy God gives to a human being is martyrdom on the path of Imam Hussein (P), adding that Hezbollah martyrs represented this loyal and honest sample as they abandoned all the earthly possessions for the sake of the afterlife gifts. On Imam Hussein (P) Arbaeen, Sayyed Nasrallah reiterated condolences to Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and Imam Mahdi (P) in the martyrdom of Imam Hussein and stressed that 20 million pilgrims have marched in grief and love towards Imam Hussein (P) shrine in Iraq’s Karbala in a distinguished phenomenon, hailing the Iraqis’ generosity displayed by the services they provide the pilgrims with. “This highlights the Imam’s lofty religious positions and the loyalty as well as sacrificial spirit of his followers.” “If we want to search for honesty, love and passion we will see that the greatest scene emerges in Karbala. On the road to Hussein, a huge number of your sons sacrificed themselves as martyrs.” A lot of documentaries can be prepared to tackle the scenes observed on Arbaeen, according to Sayyed Nasrallah who added that Imam Hussein’s character must be thoroughly studied to unveil the secret of this human phenomenon. “We meet today to commemorate the Day the Emir of Self-Scarifying martyrs, Ahmad Qasir, ruined the center of “Israeli” ruler in Lebanon.” Hezbollah Martyr Day refers to the anniversary of the martyrdom bombing operation carried out by martyr Ahmad Kassir who detonated the headquarters of the Israeli military command in southern Lebanon in 1982, according to Sayyed Nasralla. Hezbollah ceremony was started by a blessed recitation of a number of holy Quranic verses and displaying a dramatic scene whose theme matches the occasion. Source: Al-Manar Website Netanyahu Dreaming of ‘Crushing’ Hezbollah Sayyed Nasrallah Confident of Victory: We Will Pray in Al-Quds! Hezbollah Parliamentary Bloc Confronts US Sanctions, Stresses Saudi, ‘Israel’ to Pay Heavily for Any War on Iran	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1226
__label__wiki	0.940054	0.940054	The Making Of Eminem’s “KILLSHOT” With IllaDaProducer by Eddie Fu @eddiefu Eminem’s record-breaking diss track, “KILLSHOT,” was the final salvo in his late-summer feud with Machine Gun Kelly. The scorching song was a direct response to MGK’s own diss track, “Rap Devil,” which was in turn prompted by the shots Eminem took at the Cleveland rapper on “Not Alike.” Production on “KILLSHOT” is handled by IllaDaProducer, who also placed several tracks on Eminem’s most recent album, Kamikaze. The Florida-based beatmaker spoke with Genius about creating the track on the latest episode of Deconstructed. IllaDaProducer says the beat was originally destined for British rapper Giggs, who always asks him for “horror movie beats.” To find that vibe, he started with a piano he found in a loop pack from DopeBoyz Muzic. “It was the chord progression that really stood out to me,” he remembers. “It was really theatrical, like some Phantom Of The Opera. I wrote automation on it to make it breathe a little bit. It gives it like a pumping effect.” From there, IllaDaProducer made sure the snare had “a lot of pop” by using a plugin called Sausage Fattener and moved on to the hi-hats to give the track a little bounce. After adding the second hi-hat with a reversed cymbal, he tried out four different kick drum patterns before settling on the final one. For the final sound, he programmed the 808. “It’s hitting in between the kicks, and it’s actually following some of the rhythm of the sample. So there’s rhythms that somebody that’s technical can just jump all over,” he explains. To give the beat a dramatic breakdown, IllaDaProducer played around with the sample. “Since I didn’t use a lot of sounds in this beat, I used the ranging to build the drama and build the crescendo of the beat,” he says. “I took the sample and then I half-timed it. This is the sound by itself, and this is it with it on. It gave it a dramatic breakdown and he used it perfectly.” Check out the full Deconstructed episode above to learn more about how the song was made, and read all the lyrics to Eminem’s “KILLSHOT” on Genius now.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1230
__label__wiki	0.737717	0.737717	Onnoghen retired, he didn’t resign – Lawyer One of the lawyers defending the embattled Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen, Adegboyega Awomolo, has said Onnoghen retired and not resigned just as reported on some media platforms. Mr Awomolo said Mr Onnoghen’s decision is a retirement and not a resignation from office, Premium Times reports. He said Mr Onnoghen sent his notice of retirement to President Muhammadu Buhari in line with constitutional provisions. “What he has done is to send his notice of retirement to the President. And he has done so, in accordance with the provisions of the constitution. “His position from day one has been that it is only the NJC that can discipline him. Now that the NJC has spoken, out of respect for the NJC and the office of the Chief Justice of Nigeria and Nigerian Judiciary, he sent his letter of retirement, not resignation. He never resigned. “All he has done is to send a letter to the president, saying thank you. I have served this country for about 32 years. I want to retire. That’s all he has done,” Mr Awomolo said. The post Onnoghen retired, he didn’t resign – Lawyer appeared first on Nigeria News \| Laila’s Blog.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1232
__label__wiki	0.501853	0.501853	Long Investment Ideas Growth Investing Research CSX Cuts Its Growth Outlook on Economic Uncertainty Comerica Inc (CMA) Q2 2019 Earnings Call Transcript Why LM Ericsson’s Stock Fell 12% Today Interactive Brokers Group Inc (IBKR) Q2 2019 Earnings Call Transcript Here’s Why Avrobio Rose as Much as 19.9% Today WML.V: Wealth Minerals Advances Planned Transfer of Copper Assets to Shareholders MDNA.TO: MDNA109 Shows Synergy with Checkpoint Inhibitors in Preclinical Models… AZRX: Launch of Study for Cystic Fibrosis Patients With Severe EPI BHT.V: Braveheart Resources Acquires the Bull River Property and is Poised… SNGX: Multiple Important Catalysts on the Horizon… Home Stocks Lofty Expectations for Driverless Cars Could Hurt These 3 Chipmakers Lofty Expectations for Driverless Cars Could Hurt These 3 Chipmakers Autonomous driving has been a hot topic in the tech world over the past few years. Back in 2017, Ford (NYSE: F) announced plans to invest $1 billion over five years to launch a fully autonomous fleet by 2021. Honda and Toyota claimed that they could put driverless cars on highways by 2020, while other automakers made similar claims. Those types of forecasts caused chipmakers to focus on the auto industry as its next growth market. Unfortunately, those early forecasts now seem too bullish, and car companies are walking back some of their claims. Ford CEO Jim Hackett recently admitted that the automaker “overestimated the arrival of autonomous vehicles” and that its early vehicles will likely be restricted to narrow geo-fenced areas. At a recent Reuters Newsmaker event, Uber’s Advanced Technologies Group chief scientist Raquel Urtasun admitted that the timeline for driverless cars was “not clear,” and that scaling up the industry could “take a long time.” Alphabet‘s Waymo, one of the first movers in the market, is still testing out its driverless taxi service in a few geo-fenced test sites. It seems like early estimates for the driverless market missed the mark, and the slowdown could impact the growth of three chipmakers: Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), Ambarella (NASDAQ: AMBA), and NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA). Intel is the world’s largest manufacturer of x86 central processing units (CPUs) for PCs and data centers. Demand for both types of chips remains robust, but the chipmaker’s output is currently throttled by a production bottleneck in its 14nm chips. PC and data center chips accounted for 85% of Intel’s revenue in 2018, but the chipmaker has been diversifying into adjacent markets like wireless modems, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, non-volatile memory chips, programmable chips, and automotive chips. Intel’s automotive chip business includes its Atom automotive CPUs, Mobileye’s ADAS (advanced driver assistance systems), Movidius’ computer vision chips, and technologies from smaller computer vision companies like Itseez. It also plans to launch a fully autonomous platform with BMW and Fiat Chrysler by 2021. Intel doesn’t disclose the growth of its automotive business, but the company noted early this year that Mobileye secured 28 new design wins and 78 vehicle model launches in 2018, and that it “made important progress” in the autonomous driving market. However, the high hurdles for mainstream adoption could force Intel to adopt a much longer-term view for its automotive business. Ambarella generates most of its revenue from sales of image processing SoCs (systems on chips) for action cameras, dash cams, security cameras, drones, and other devices. However, the chipmaker’s sales tumbled as demand for action cameras dried up and some of its top customers pivoted toward alternative SoCs. Two of its top customers, drone maker DJI Innovations and security camera maker Hikvision, started using Intel’s Movidius computer vision chips instead. To offset softer demand for its image processing SoCs, Ambarella is pivoting into the automotive market with computer vision chips for autonomous cars. However, its latest CV-series chips faces tough competition from Mobileye’s EyeQ chips, which are frequently bundled with its industry-leading ADAS solutions. To counter Mobileye, Ambarella partnered with ADAS software provider Hella and driver monitoring system (DMS) maker Smart Eye. Ambarella’s turnaround relies heavily on the growth of its CV business. Unfortunately, it remains stuck between a rock and a hard place, as it faces competition from Intel and slower demand for automotive chips. NVIDIA is the world’s largest maker of graphic processing units (GPUs) for gaming PCs, professional visualization workstations, and data centers. However, it also produces Tegra CPUs for vehicle infotainment and navigation systems. Its Tegra-powered Drive PX platform, which was originally launched in 2015, turns traditional vehicles into autonomous cars. The latest versions of the platform, Drive PX Xavier and Drive PX Pegasus, are designed for fully autonomous vehicles. The Drive program currently has over 370 partners, including major automakers, suppliers, and service providers. NVIDIA generates most of its revenue from gaming GPUs, but the business’ growth hit a brick wall last quarter as the end of the cryptocurrency boom flooded the market with cheap cards, demand declined in China, and lofty prices and a lack of compelling new features throttled sales of its new Turing cards. NVIDIA’s automotive revenue only accounted for 7% of its top line last quarter, but it’s one of the three businesses (along with the professional visualization and data center units) which posted year-over-year sales growth. However, NVIDIA’s automotive revenue still slipped 5% sequentially last quarter due to softer demand for its legacy infotainment chips, and its declines could worsen if automakers postpone their driverless upgrades. I’m not saying that the driverless market is headed off a cliff. However, investors should take lofty promises regarding the market with a grain of salt, and focus on these chipmakers’ core competencies instead. 10 stocks we like better than Intel When investing geniuses David and Tom Gardner have a stock tip, it can pay to listen. After all, the newsletter they have run for over a decade, Motley Fool Stock Advisor, has quadrupled the market.* David and Tom just revealed what they believe are the ten best stocks for investors to buy right now… and Intel wasn’t one of them! That’s right — they think these 10 stocks are even better buys. See the 10 stocks *Stock Advisor returns as of March 1, 2019 Suzanne Frey, an executive at Alphabet, is a member of The Motley Fool’s board of directors. Leo Sun owns shares of Ford. The Motley Fool owns shares of and recommends Alphabet (A shares), Alphabet (C shares), Ambarella, and NVIDIA. The Motley Fool recommends BMW. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. 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__label__wiki	0.752395	0.752395	You are here: Home Page > Social Sciences > Politics > International Relations > Belt and Road This item is out of stock. It can be ordered now for delivery when back in stock. 5.4x8.4 inches A Chinese World Order Bruno Maçães A Hurst Publication What does the biggest geopolitical project of our time tell us about China's global ambitions? Overshadowing the Marshall Plan in its magnitude, "Belt and Road" will cover seventy countries by land and sea and affect every sector of the world economy, from shipping to agriculture, the digital industries to tourism. A guide to understanding China's bold infrastructure project, "Belt and Road," with close to a trillion dollars being invested across the globe and involving 65% of the world's population. China's Belt and Road strategy is acknowledged to be the most ambitious geopolitical initiative of the age. Covering almost seventy countries by land and sea, it will affect every element of global society, from shipping to agriculture, digital economy to tourism, politics to culture. Most importantly, it symbolizes a new phase in China's ambitions as a superpower: to remake the world economy and crown Beijing as the new center of capitalism and globalization. Bruno Maçães traces this extraordinary initiative's history, highlighting its achievements to date, and its staggering complexity. He asks whether Belt and Road is about more than power projection and profit. Might it herald a new set of universal political values, to rival those of the West? Is it, in fact, the story of the century? WHAT IS THE BELT AND ROAD? THE BELT AND ROAD AND THE WORLD ECONOMY THE BELT AND ROAD AND WORLD POLITICS THE WORLD AFTER THE BELT AND ROAD Bruno Maçães is a non-resident senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and senior advisor at Flint Global. Formerly Portugal's Europe minister (2013-15), he has been a regular commentator for CNN, the BBC and Al Jazeera, and has written for the Financial Times, The Guardian and Foreign Affairs. His last book was The Dawn of Eurasia: On the Trail of the New World Order. "China's emerging mastery of the Eurasian trade zone is described in visionary, granular detail."-- The Wall Street Journal "Stimulating."--The Economist "Macaes . . . is one of our chaotic times' most fertile brains . . . across Asia things are on the move, in large part because of Chinese ambition, and he is right to be excited about it."--The Times "Bruno Macaes describes a changing world order with great verve and clarity. Belt and Road is a vital compass for this change, describing how the formation of 'Eurasia' and the creation of world changing trading routes reset the allocation of economic and political influence."-- Paschal Donohoe TD, Minister for Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, Ireland "This is a remarkably insightful and comprehensive review of China's Belt and Road Initiative, with all its implications for economic development as well as for the reshaping of the global order. America and Europe: take note! This is essential reading for us all."--Stephen Green, former chairman of HSBC, chair of Asia House, London "A masterful overview of China's Belt and Road project . . . it's a fascinating, intriguing and terrifying story, and Maçães tells it superbly."--The American Interest "This book shows the impressive and ambitious planning of a project that would redraw the map of the global economy to put China at the centre with a transnational industrial strategy of value chain dominance."--Kori Schake, Deputy-Director General of the International Institute of Strategic Studies and author of Safe Passage "The author has an engaging, animated writing style . . . recommended reading for those who are curious about who will rule the world when the US empire recedes."--The Jordan Times "Bruno Macaes writes with great felicity on the expansive Chinese effort to transform the global order. His insights capture a critical moment in the evolution of world politics."-- C. Raja Mohan, Director, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore The Chinese Journal of International Politics Yan Xuetong Understanding Reform in Myanmar Marie Lall Charles D. Ferguson The Edinburgh Companion to the History of Democracy Benjamin Isakhan and Stephen Stockwell Business Politics in the Middle East Steffen Hertog and Giacomo Luciani W. Andy Knight and Tom Keating Cycle of Fear Leon Goldsmith Virginia Comolli Pakistan's Foreign Policy Shahid M. Amin Social Sciences > Politics > International Relations Social Sciences > Politics > Regional Political Studies Social Sciences > Regional & Area Studies > East Asian Studies	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1244
__label__cc	0.629998	0.370002	Health Quest Medical Practice Home Healthy Living Mental Health During Life's Journey During Life's Journey See All Children See All Teens See All Adults See All Seniors See All Answers to Questions About Your Child's Mental Health in About Mental Health, About Mental Health Children's mental health is as important as their physical health. Read on for helpful answers to common questions that can help you protect your child's mental health....more Knowing When to Seek Treatment for Your Child in About Mental Health, About Mental Health Common symptoms of a potential emotional, behavioral, or developmental problem include poor grades in school, withdrawal from friends and family, and insomnia....more Temper Tantrums in Behavior Issues These fits of rage - the stomping, screaming, and falling on the floor - are a normal part of childhood development. Temper tantrums often happen only with a parent. 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__label__wiki	0.641629	0.641629	Goodbye, January Of Crowded Rooms February 1, 2013 \| by Nathaniel Popkin \| Possible City \| Bella Vista Red Table 1, 2003 by Regina Granne February, season of masks, appears to want to reveal its true self. There is no definition to the sky this morning in Bella Vista, and there is no depth but for the tumbling snow. January in contrast could hardly disguise its brutal heart. Mummers spray graffiti was still stuck to the sidewalk when it took from Bella Vista one of its most fundamentally honest and unpretentious men, David Wycoff. David was part of a team of federal lawyers who defended men and women sentenced to death. Capital punishment is a racist and arbitrary institution. It’s on the wane in the US, in part thanks to people like David, who seek justice for everyone. His work was integral to the October ruling that stayed the execution of Philadelphian Terrance Williams. Hundreds came to David’s extraordinary funeral, where the names of men and women he had helped save from the death penalty were read. Hundreds poured into his family’s small row house on Mildred Street to pay their respects. They tumbled up and down the stairs and into the kitchen and out onto the street. They pressed against one another, the liberal intelligentsia, the members of Society Hill Synagogue, the friends from the neighborhood, public interest lawyers, and teachers, stunned and sometimes sobbing at the mendacious soul of January. Then the hundreds, different and yet the same hundreds, climbed crooked marble stairs to the second floor walk-up art studio and apartment of the painter Regina Granne, who died Sunday in Greenwich Village, New York. Regina was the first cousin of my mother-in-law, an artist and thinker of enormous and persistent vision. Even at her funeral she spoke forcefully through her paintings (two of which were placed at the front of the room) about feminism and war; all together she challenged how we see the world. What do I wish to say to you, January? You don’t know it, but you reminded me that cities are still for people–and I don’t mean in an abstract way. Intimate, even iconic urban places like Bella Vista and Greenwich Village can draw us in great magnificent hordes into their tiny private spaces–in sorrow, in community, in a kind of celebration. Those spaces defy everything about our culture, I think, and for that these two defiant people, David and Regina, would be glad.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1253
__label__wiki	0.572303	0.572303	NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PHOTOGRAPHER Today we interview Jim Richardson who is a photographer for National Geographic Magazine and a contributing editor for its sister publication,TRAVELER Magazine. Jim Richardson has photographed more than 25 stories for National Geographic. What was it that drew you to photography? My photography began on the farm where I grew up in Kansas. My dad was an avid amateur and I thought cameras were exotic. Perfect thing for a loner kid who liked gadgets, science and nature. Eventually I worked for newspapers and then magazines. But it has always been the challenge of making pictures that somehow showed how special the world is. What is the one thing you wish you knew when you started taking photos? Well, how much gear I would have to carry around during my lifetime. It’s been a lot. All over the world, always worrying about whether it would work at the critical moment. I’m driven by the desire to make pictures that reveal the workings of the world. Maybe that’s why I like the research stage of photography, trying to figure out what’s important and how to see it. Which photographers influenced you, and how did they influence your thinking, photographing, and career path? My early influences were photographers of the LIFE magazine traditions of documentary photography, principally W. Eugene Smith and Cartier Bresson. That showed that you could find true drama in the everyday world. What keeps driving you to Scotland? There’s a lot of Scotland I haven’t explored. I find myself drawn to the wild edges more and more, especially the islands and the northwest. Maybe that’s because I grew up in the flatlands of the American Great Plains. Not many lighthouses in Kansas. But I’m also fascinated by the people I find in those remote places, chasing their improbably dreams of a life in the place they love. How does Scotland compare to other areas you enjoy photographing? Scotland has a particular intensity for me. I’m not much for Tropical countries where every day is the same (perfect, maybe, but always the same.) So I appreciate the dynamic weather and seasons, the landscape that seems to do battle to endure, and the great sense of drama and history that drapes every crag and glen. What would be your perfect Scottish road trip? Well, I used to tell everybody about this great road trip up the northwest coast and over the top of Scotland that nobody traveled and really ought to be better known. Then it became the NorthCoast 500! Still a great trip but better known now. Now I think I would say something like driving up Skye to Uig, taking the ferry over to Stornoway, down Lewis past Callanish (side trip) and down to Harris (stop in the distillery in Tarbert) around the Golden Raod to Leverburgh (take the day trip out of St. Kilda, if possible,) then take the ferry down to North Uist, South Uist and Barra, then grab the ferry back to Oban. What a bit of scenery along that route. Do you have any advice for a budding photographer looking to visit Scotland for the first time? There’s a lot to see and it’s all good. So do a lot of research, get out a map, carve off a piece of it and work it hard. No way to do it all in one trip, maybe not even in one lifetime. Do you have a standout photo from your trips to Scotland? Might be the Callanish Stones when I stayed up all night, light painting the stones for hours before the dawn finally put an end to my picture taking at about 4 AM. Will we see you back in Scotland sometime soon? I’ll be back twice this summer, in May and August. Through the Outer Hebrides, up to Orkney, Fair Isle and Shetland on the first trip. Down the Caledonian Canal and out into the Small Isles on the second trip. Hope to see you then. Thank you for your time! You can find out more from Jim using the links below.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1254
__label__cc	0.711125	0.288875	2019 Honda CB650R New Motorcycles • Sport 2019 Honda CB650R • $8,899 CB650RK Chromosphere Red MIDDLEWEIGHT NEO-SPORTS CAFÉ KNOCKOUT. There’s nothing like a high-revving four-cylinder bike that just makes a rider’s soul sing. Sure, all motorcycle engines are special, the heart and soul of our machines, but once you’ve ridden an inline four…you’ll understand. Especially if we’re talking about the one in the new Honda CB650R. Here’s a machine built for the pure joy of riding. It handles like a sportbike, but has all the comfort of a standard. And the way it looks—you can see that for yourself (but it’s like nothing you grew up with, that’s for sure). A genuine middleweight, it gets everything right, combining handling, nimbleness and rideability with responsiveness and crisp, edgy style. The new Honda CB650R. It’s truly about performance, and about how much fun you’ll have. 41MM FRONT SUSPENSION: The CB650R’s front suspension showcases some leading-edge technology. The 41mm fork is equipped with Showa’s Separate Function Fork (SFF) which offers reduced weight, superior rigidity, and excellent overall performance. A new aluminum lower triple clamp completes the picture. SLIPPER CLUTCH: The new assist slipper clutch lightens clutch operation by approximately 12 percent compared to previous models, and that reduces rear-wheel hop during rapid downshifts. NEW FRAME: The new CB650R refines a classic Honda design. The twin-spar frame incorporates updated pivot plates, engine hangers, seat rails, and other components that all reduce weight. It’s light, strong, and provides the basis for the CB650R’s stellar handling. RADIAL-MOUNT FRONT BRAKES: Featuring huge 310mm discs, the new CB650R also comes with radial-mounted four-piston calipers. The result is premium sportbike stopping power that’s linear and easy to modulate. REAR-DISC BRAKE: A 240mm hydraulic disc at the rear complements the twin front discs for plenty of stopping power. NEW HANDLEBAR: A bike’s handlebar makes a huge difference in how you relate to your machine. We moved the CB650R’s bar forward by 13mm and down by 8mm (compared to the previous CB650F), and changed the bend in the bar too. Plus, using a premium, tapered-section swaged bar gives you better front-end feedback. NEUTRAL/SPORTING RIDING POSITION: One of the most rider-friendly aspects of the whole Neo-Sports Café design is how you sit on the CB650R. You’re ready for aggressive riding, but you’re still comfortable. You can see what’s going on around you. And your riding sessions can last for hours at a time with little fatigue. 649CC DOHC ENGINE: Engines like this are what Honda does best. The four-cylinder design makes it smoother and faster revving than most twins, and offers ample low- to midrange torque, plus plenty of power through the entire rev range. FOUR-INTO-ONE EXHAUST: Power, style and an unmistakable growl—you get all three with the four-into-one exhaust system on the CB650R. SIX-SPEED TRANSMISSION: Smooth, nearly seamless shifts and gear ratios matched to the way you want to ride: those are two of the characteristics that make this Honda so much fun to ride. REFINED INTAKE SYSTEM: The CB650R features a twin-duct intake design, engineered to ram cool, dense air into the airbox, increasing horsepower. NEW MUFFLER: Mufflers need to accomplish four things: They need to quiet the engine without robbing power, they need to help tune engine output, they need to sound great, and they’re a huge style element on any bike. The CB650R’s exhaust knocks it out of the park on all counts, and sounds like only an inline four can. SPECIAL ENGINE TUNING: Changes to valve timing and piston shapes have improved engine response, especially from the idle to 8000 rpm, a big advantage in urban environments. 4.1-GALLON FUEL TANK: A bike as versatile as the CB650R needs plenty of range, and the 4.1-gallon fuel tank provides just that. NEO-SPORTS CAFÉ STYLING: The CB650R looks unique because it’s a fresh, new design. The Neo-Sports Café look combines elements from pure sportbikes and sporting nakeds. Sometimes less is more, and the CB650R makes a bold styling statement wherever you ride it. Y-SPOKE ALUMINUM WHEELS: The new aluminum wheels feature “Y”-shaped spokes that help reduce unsprung weight. These lighter hoops have a greater influence on handling than the numbers alone suggest. TRAPEZOIDAL BODY LAYOUT: It sounds like a mouthful, but it just means that the new CB650R has some awesome lines, and that it just flat out looks right. LUSTROUS NANOPIGMENT PAINT: The CB650R’s dual-layer candy paint is applied with a nanopigment clear coat on top of a base coat. Aluminum flakes in the base coat give this paint a shimmering look—check it our for yourself and you’ll be hooked. LED HEADLIGHT: The CB650R uses the same LED headlight as our CB1000R. The bezel around the headlight and is finished in black, emphasizing a sharper image. This LED headlight is both brighter and smaller than a conventional design, and contributes in a big way to the CB650R’s sense of style. NEW DIGITAL INSTRUMENTS: Based off our CB1000R, the CB650R’s new LCD screen features a digital speedometer and tachometer and more, including a clock, odometer, trip meter, real-time and average fuel consumption meters, and illuminated engine diagnostic indicators. Front - Dual 320 mm discs with radial-mount four-piston calipers #525 Chain; 15T/42T DOHC; four valves per cylinder; inline four-cylinder PGM-FI with 32mm throttle bodies Emissions - Meets current EPA standards. California version meets current CARB standards and may differ slightly due to emissions equipment. Front - 41 mm fork; 4.25 in. travel Rear - Showa Single Shock; 5.04 in. travel 1 Year, Transferable, unlimited-mileage limited warranty	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line1261

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