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__label__wiki	0.506898	0.506898	The Skies, They Are a-Changin& ... The Skies, They Are a-Changin’: Troemper Comes to Station On April 28, 2018, the rearward-traveling asteroid Troemper comes to a standstill in the heavens, turns, and resumes direct motion. Our celestial referent for Donald Trump, Troemper has been in retrograde motion since January 30th, when it stationed at 2 Libra, conjunct Trump’s natal Neptune at 5 Libra and squared natal Whitehouse at 4 Capricorn. This natal square says much about the ongoing muddle, disorder and deception proceeding from Trump’s Oval Office tenure, and the ensuing period has arguably been one of increased confusion, isolation and paranoia or perceived persecution (all Neptune keywords), affecting both the President (Troemper) and the administration (Whitehouse). Policies and messaging shift from day to day (abrupt, often contradictory, changes on North Korean talks, Russian sanctions, tariffs and trade, and military intervention in Syria), more and more of the President’s closest aides and advisors have left the scene (White House Staff Secretary Rob Porter, Communications Director Hope Hicks, lead counsel John Dowd), and multiple investigations and legal battles have arisen (the Stormy Daniels case, the FBI raid on Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, a lawsuit brought by the Democrats over Russian collusion in the 2016 campaign). Just when we think it can’t get any worse, it does. Troemper and Trump have been in an entrenched, backpedaling phase, going back over old ground and finding lots of critters coming out from under the overturned rocks. With the type of business “ethics” Trump evinced in his former life, this is hardly surprising, but these prior misdeeds are coming home to roost. Trump has been a somewhat passive participant in these events, subject to the vagaries of Fate, but with the switch to direct motion, the President may become more actively aggressive, shifting into high gear and no longer contenting himself with caustic or complaining Tweets, but taking affirmative actions to end his “sea of troubles.” Will he move on terminating the Mueller investigation, taking aim directly at the Special Counsel, or indirectly via Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein? Looking at the transits for the day Troemper makes its dramatic turn, we can begin to draw a portrait of the ensuing period of direct motion, which will continue through May 23, 2019, when Troemper once again turns retrograde, this time at 27 Capricorn, exactly on the US Pluto, and opposing his own Saturn. That should be a very interesting time for folks who want to see less of Trump; the implication is of some devastating (Pluto) personal (Troemper) outcome which reverberates in the President’s career (Saturn). Impeachment? In any case, that’s speculation for a future date. The celestial conditions pertaining at this station will mirror facts on the ground now and going forward, allowing us to judge strengths and weaknesses, and providing a window into the likely future and potential outcomes. The ways these interact with Donald Trump’s natal chart will determine the relative difficulty or ease with which he assimilates the situations arising from their interplay. No more questions: Donald Trump waves away those pesky reporters First off, we should note that Troemper is stationing at 18 Virgo. From there, not only does it oppose Neptune at 15 Pisces, but it’s also exactly squared asteroid Roberta at 18 Gemini. Neptune suggests issues around basic honesty, lying or fabrication, deception and intrigue; Roberta is one of three asteroid referents for Special Counsel Robert Mueller (we’ll encounter the others later). So we have Trump directly connected to both the theme of his untruthfulness, and the man who is investigating it. Moreover, the connection between them is distinctly adversarial (the square) and it is precise, creating an archetypal image of the roles of hunted and hunter which they embody. With Roberta is asteroid America at 19 Gemini and TNO Chaos at 22 Gemini, all of these on Donald Trump’s natal Sun at 22 Gemini. Roberta/America suggests Mueller is in close alignment with the country (significant majorities polled want him to complete his work), which is on the brink of disorder, disarray, even anarchy (Chaos). These factors will be a constant focus for Trump during this time due to their conjunction to his natal Sun. Troemper moreover is closely inconjunct asteroid Nemesis at 19 Aries, as well as in trine to Pluto/Mars at 21 and 22 Capricorn, so there is a pull toward some sort of self-undoing or cosmic retribution (Nemesis), perhaps on a truly devastating scale (Pluto), based in a scandal (also Pluto). There’s also a broader inconjunct to asteroid Whitehouse at 13 Aries, now dropping out of its protracted conjunction with Nemesis, which has wrought so much havoc at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in recent months. This suggests some degree of adjustment will be necessary (inconjunct) between Trump (Troemper) and the workings of his administration (Whitehouse); this would also refer to continued changes or upheaval in staff and Cabinet. Planning his next move? Special Counsel Robert Mueller is just one, if perhaps the chiefest, individual to act out the role of Nemesis in Trump’s life This Whitehouse placement is exactly conjunct Trump’s natal asteroid Mueller, and right beside his natal Russia at 12 Aries. Yes, once again, we’re seeing, this time in the birth chart, the connection between the investigator and his subject. Whitehouse by transit brings us into the present with this potential, and shows the venue in which it will play out – the Oval Office. Transit Mercury at 11 Aries is also energizing this area of Trump’s chart at this time, involving decisions to be made as well as the news they create. And all of this squares Trump’s natal Nemesis at 16 Cancer. And on that Nemesis, currently? Why, asteroids Cohen, Moskva and Kassandra, naturally! All of these have the potential to act as a nemesis, or source of undoing, for the upcoming phase of Trump’s life. Cohen of course refers to Trump’s personal lawyer and “fixer” Michael Cohen, subject of an FBI raid earlier in April, said to know “where all the bodies are buried”; Moskva is the Russian for “Moscow”, its capital, and represents Russian interests generally, and the issue of Russian meddling in the 2016 election specifically; Kassandra refers to one’s credibility and basic honesty – is the individual trustworthy and reliable? Can they be believed? These are all themes which can imperil the President going forward. Lawyer Michael Cohen, under FBI investigation, another actor up for the lead in Nemesis’ three-act drama Transit Mercury at 11 Aries is also energizing this area of Trump’s chart at this time, involving decisions to be made as well as the news they create. Not to be outdone, asteroid Rosenstein is here, too, at 8 Aries, representing Rod Rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney General now in charge of the Mueller investigation, whom Trump has been considering replacing. Mueller exactly squares Trump’s natal Mercury at 8 Cancer, and the decisions he makes regarding whether or not to fire Rosenstein will factor heavily into the outcomes. And all of this Aries stellium squares Trump’s natal Nemesis at 16 Cancer. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein – a sacrificial lamb in Trump’s quest to end the investigation? The Troemper inconjunct to Nemesis doesn’t stand alone. There is a second inconjunct, placing Troemper at the Apex of a Yod, or Finger of Destiny, formed with asteroid Roberts at 21 Aquarius. Roberts is the second celestial referent for Robert Mueller. This joins Trump with the Special Counsel (Mueller) and his power to bring down the President (Troemper), acting as his adversary (Nemesis). Although these points are too wide to be considered part of the Yod, Roberts is traveling with a tighter grouping just ahead composed of asteroids Damocles and Washingtonia, at 27 and 29 Aquarius. This is a cautionary tale for Trump, establishing DC (Washingtonia) as a place of peril (Damocles) for the President, potentially invoking Mueller (Roberts) as the doom hanging overhead (also Damocles). There is one final aspect from Troemper, a sesquiquadrate (135 degrees) to a pairing of asteroids Askalaphus and Achilles at 0 and 1 Aquarius respectively. Askalaphus represents tale-bearing, the revealing of secrets, while Achilles indicates an inherent vulnerability or weakness which threatens to destroy the native. Having these together, and connected to Trump’s PNA, suggests a period of exposures and revelations which could prove fatal. These also square asteroid Russia, the backdrop for much of the secrets to be revealed, at 3 Scorpio; Russia is semisquare Troemper. So much for Trump’s own PNA, and that’s plenty! Another remarkable feature of the chart is five points which appear also at station, like Troemper. Stationary bodies are the still points upon which the chart revolves; embedded in consciousness, they exert a power and influence far out of proportion to their normal status. Gagging on his own lies? Trump acts out the nausea he inspires in many Americans The additional stationary points are divided into two main groups; the first is comprised of asteroids Lie, Michel and Mueller. Lie, which of course is the foundation of the matter as the investigations unfold, falls at 26 Sagittarius, bound up with Trump’s natal Sun/Moon polarity at 22 Gemini and 21 Sagittarius, and turned retrograde just three days prior. It’s placement conjoined the Galactic Center at 27 Sagittarius guarantees global notice and attention for Trump’s untruths. Michel, again representing Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, the encyclopedic repository of information regarding many of Trump’s potentially deceptive or dishonest actions, appears at 29 Sagittarius, conjoined Lie, and turned retrograde April 20th. Mueller is the primary PNA representing the Special Counsel; at 5 Capricorn, it assails Trump’s natal Whitehouse at 4 Capricorn and will turn retrograde 6 days later, on May 4. The timing there is interesting; it now appears that Trump may not speak with Mueller, who will then move to conclude his investigation sooner, absent presidential input. So seeing celestial Mueller turn retrograde and retrench, looking inward as his terrestrial counterpart begins to wrap up the active phase of the investigation and proceed to a conclusion, just after Troemper resumes an active phase and may move to thwart him, accurately reflects the relative position of the two antagonists. As Mueller moves closer to making his findings public, the pressure to act to prevent this will dramatically increase for Trump, likely prompting desperate, counterproductive actions. (Incidentally, asteroid Mueller returns to direct motion on August 2nd, which I would suggest is a likely timeframe for Special Counsel Mueller to submit his report to Congress.) The other stationary points are perhaps even more evocative. These are asteroid Veritas, Latin for “truth”, and Daniels, representing porn star Stormy Daniels, at 25 and 26 Leo respectively. Daniels bound up with Veritas suggests that Daniels will be judged to be truthful in her allegations, and vindicated in the courts. Daniels’ importance to this period is further reflected by asteroid Storm, for “Stormy”, at 15 Taurus, in conjunction with the 8 Taurus Sun of Troemper’s station, specifically highlighting her for the period. This encroaches upon Trump’s natal asteroid Lie at 17 Taurus, once again calling into question his basic veracity. Stephanie Clifford, AKA “Stormy Daniels”, the porn star who may bring down a presidency, Nemesis’ third embodiment As well, Daniels’ birth name is Stephanie Clifford, and asteroid Clifford appears at 18 Pisces, exactly opposing Troemper. Imagine having the defendant, the prosecutor and the chief witness all bound together in an exact T-Square! With Clifford is another “Michael” referent, asteroid Michela, at 17 Pisces, in this case likely indicating her lawyer, Michael Avenatti, always at her side, who has made such an impact on the dynamic of this story with his media blitz. Of course, both of these are also within orb of Neptune, that font of disappointment, disillusionment, and despair, which is the planetary ruler of deception and untruth. Asteroid Stephania, for “Stephanie”, is exactly conjunct Mueller at 5 Capricorn, and itself will turn retrograde at the subsequent degree on May 14th. Mueller may not be directly involved in the Daniels case, but it was his tip-off to FBI agents in the Southern District of New York about probably criminal acts which prompted their raid on Cohen’s office and home. Mueller has been pivotal to the case, even if he has no further involvement. Interestingly, asteroid Toro, noted for bullying, aggressive behaviors, exactly opposes Storm from 15 Scorpio, with alleged threats to Daniels forming an important part of the legal case. Legal pit bull Michael Avenatti, prosecuting the Daniels case, plays a pivotal supporting role One more point to note: there is a body sitting pretty on the degree where Troemper made its retrograde station in January, 2 Libra. This is asteroid d’Arrest. No, I am not making this up. d’Arrest relates to a cessation or termination (as in “heart arrest”), but also indicates legal arrest, detention, or the filing of charges. We might think of it here as keeping Troemper’s retrograde station seat warm for him. And a hot seat it’s likely to be, for Troemper and d’Arrest will be traveling together in an extended conjunction for much of the summer and autumn. Starting June 25th, they will be within five degrees of each other continually until October 22nd, with their exact conjunction occurring August 9th. There is some uncertainty as to whether or not a sitting president can be indicted; I would suggest that with Troemper conjoined d’Arrest, we may soon find the answer. It’s remarkable how this moment in time captures the essential themes of the upcoming period, which we already know will be dominated by the issues and individuals these PNAs represent. There are, of course, additional factors to consider in assessing an outcome, including transits to the natal chart, progressions of that chart, and Trump’s 2018 solar return, due in just six weeks. But the Troemper station energies lay it all out pretty succinctly, with astounding accuracy and detail, proving once again the underlying truth of astrology’s guiding dictum, “as above, so below.” April 26th, 2018 at 10:10am ← Aster-Obit: Barbara Bush ← The Cosby Verdict	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line0
__label__cc	0.632452	0.367548	Follow @kabster728 The Digital Solution > Operating Systems Skipping Your Computer’s Warm-Up Time January 20, 2009 at 6:10 pm PT The time it takes to boot up a computer can be a source of frustration — especially if you’re in a rush and just want to log on, get information and move on with your day. If televisions took as long as PCs take to start working, we’d miss game-winning touchdowns. Slow boot-up times are especially common with the Windows Vista operating system. One way to evade slow boot-up syndrome is to use a special operating environment that performs a handful of basic tasks and works as an alternative to Windows. If installed on your computer, a system like this can start up instantly when you press your PC’s power button — like turning on a TV. Phoenix Technologies Ltd. (PTEC) and DeviceVM Inc. both offer popular quick-start environments. Phoenix offers two solutions, called HyperSpace Dual and HyperSpace Hybrid, for five PC manufacturers, including Lenovo, Toshiba and Acer. DeviceVM’s product, called Splashtop, comes preloaded on PCs from Asus, VooDooPC and Lenovo, and each brand calls this feature something different, like “Quick Start” on a Lenovo laptop. I used HyperSpace Hybrid on a Lenovo ThinkPad X301, but didn’t get a chance to try Splashtop. Closed Windows It’s misleading to say that the Phoenix HyperSpace products offer a faster way to start up your computer, because they don’t actually open Windows, which is your computer’s heart and soul. Instead, they offer a primitive, bare-bones user interface that relies on Web-based applications. For example, you can send and receive email, but only by using a Web-based email program like Gmail or Hotmail. Documents must be created using a program like Google Docs, and when you watch videos, you must use a player like YouTube rather than something like Windows Media Player or QuickTime. Photos can be viewed either via a photo Web site like Flickr or in the HyperSpace browser. Nothing like Word or PowerPoint is available in this slimmed-down environment. HyperSpace Dual, which costs $40 a year or $100 for three years, operates only one environment or the other (Windows or HyperSpace) at a time and must shut one system down to start the other. HyperSpace Hybrid costs $60 annually or $150 for three years and can run both Windows and HyperSpace side by side. Hybrid users can easily toggle back and forth between systems by pressing the F4 key. If your PC meets the required specifications, you can download a 21-day free trial of HyperSpace Dual or Hybrid from HyperSpace.com. (DeviceVM’s Splashtop doesn’t run side-by-side with Windows, so is more comparable to HyperSpace Dual. But it does have features that are currently missing in both versions of HyperSpace, including a music player, photo manager, Skype and an instant-messaging program that works with popular IM services.) Though Windows exists on the same machine, its contents aren’t capable of synchronizing with the Phoenix quick-start system. So if I wrote and saved a draft of this column in Windows, and opened HyperSpace on my laptop a few days later, I wouldn’t be able to see my column or any other files on the Windows side. And browser bookmarks don’t synchronize with the HyperSpace browser. In HyperSpace Hybrid, you can download files from the Web, like photos from Flickr, and save them to a My Documents folder. Confusingly, this has nothing to do with the My Documents folder on the Windows side, and Windows can’t view those files. But anything I download to HyperSpace Hybrid (not HyperSpace Dual) can be transferred to and opened in Windows by clicking an option that says “Open in Windows.” This is essentially using Windows as a viewer. Using Less Power In addition to zippy start times, Phoenix claims that its quick-start environment doesn’t use as much power as a full operating system like Windows. According to the company, both versions of HyperSpace are capable of improving a machine’s battery life by up to 30% because while HyperSpace is working, Windows is automatically set into sleep mode, fewer things are happening in HyperSpace compared with Windows, and the processor is operating at a lower speed. Before I could download HyperSpace, I had to make some adjustments to the laptop’s internal startup system, or BIOS, which I did without much trouble by following some clear directions from HyperSpace’s Web page. I also had to change my hard-disk partition to allow for more room so that HyperSpace would fit. When I finally installed HyperSpace Hybrid, its wireless Internet didn’t work at all, and it also shut down the wireless capability on the Windows Vista side of my machine. Phoenix Technologies said these were special circumstances related to my laptop, and that not everyone would have the same experience I did. Links to Web Apps The HyperSpace environment has a left-side panel filled with icons that link to Web-based applications like Facebook, Flickr, Amazon (AMZN) and Gmail. It seems odd that a subscription program comes loaded with what could be seen as advertisements. What’s more, none of these widgets can be removed or repositioned in the panel. And users can’t add their own icons linking to Web sites that they like. In March, the company says an updated version of HyperSpace will be able to synchronize some information between Windows and HyperSpace, like Internet Explorer favorites, and it will include built-in players for DVDs and music, as well as games like Sudoku. The new version also will let people plug a digital camera into their HyperSpace Hybrid PC to view and save photos; now, USB ports are turned off in Hybrid to save battery life, disallowing digital-photo uploads. If you dread the time-sucking process of booting up your PC just to do a quick Internet search, you might want to try downloading HyperSpace. But the confusing installation process might persuade average computer users to get a laptop with a pre-installed quick-start program or suffer with slow boot times. Edited By Walter S. Mossberg Email us at mossbergsolution@wsj.com. Find this and other columns and videos online free at the All Things Digital Web site: http://walt.allthingsd.com Tagged with Acer, Amazon, applications, Asus, battery life, BIOS, boot up, computer, DeviceVM Inc., digital camera, DVD, email, Facebook, Flickr, free trial, Gmail, Google Docs, hard disk, Hotmail, HyperSpace Dual, HyperSpace Hybrid, icon, IM, instant messaging, interface, Internet, Internet Explorer, laptop, Lenovo, music player, operating system, partition, PC, Phoenix Technologies, photo manager, PowerPoint, processor, Skype, Splashtop, Sudoku, ThinkPad X301, Toshiba, USB, user, video, VooDooPC, Web, Windows, Windows Vista, word, YouTube You’ve Come a Long Way, Silicon Valley Oh, the Places Your Phone Will Find Xbox One: Digital Home Base for the Living Room November 26, 2013 at 3:25 pm PT An iPad That’s Mini in Screen Size Only Search the Mossberg Archives AllThingsD contains an archive of columns by Walt Mossberg and Katherine Boehret from The Wall Street Journal dating back to 2005. api-video/find_all_videos.asp&fields=id,videoStillURL,thumbnailURL,guid,video320kMP4Url,name,duration&count=4&doctype=128&type=allthingsd-subsection&query=Mossberg+Solution Walt Mossberg’s Product Guides Desktop PC’s and Laptops The Laptops to Buy Digital Cameras Improve Zooms, HD Function	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line3
__label__wiki	0.961909	0.961909	Anyang, Paradise City 6 Film Festivals Movie: Anyang, Paradise City Revised romanization: Dashi Taeunago Shipuyo, Anyange Hangul: 다시 태어나고 싶어요, 안양에 Director: Park Chan-Kyong Cinematographer: World Premiere: February 1, 2011 (International Film Festival Rotterdam) Set in Anyang, South Korea, crew members for an upcoming documentary research the devastating fire that took occurred in a factory prior to the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul. 22 female workers, who were locked in their dormitory, were killed in the fire. Along the way, the crew members also come across the past of Anyang, including the origin of the city's name ("Anyang" is a Buddhist term for "Paradise"), Buddhist temples, a search for a 500-year-old "grandma tree" and upcoming mayoral election. Movie was filmed primarily with the Canon EOS 5D Mark II camera. Han Ye-Ri Kang Eun-Jin - novelist 1 riding on boat 2011 (40th) International Film Festival Rotterdam - January 26-Feb. 6, 2011 - Bright Future *World Premiere 2011 (12th) Jeonju International Film Festival - April 28-May 6, 2011 - Korean Feature Films Competition JJ-ST★R Award (Grand Prize) - 2011 (12th) Jeonju International Film Festival - April 28-May 6, 2011 Retrieved from "http://asianwiki.com/index.php?title=Anyang,_Paradise_City&oldid=438639" South Korean films 2011 South Korean films 2011 Arthouse films K Arthouse films 2011 Indie films K Indie films Award Winning films 2011 Award Winning films K Award Winning films Award Winning-Arthouse films 2011 Award Winning-Arthouse films K Award Winning-Arthouse films Award Winning-Indie films 2011 Award Winning-Indie films K Award Winning-Indie films	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line13
__label__wiki	0.800235	0.800235	View source for Observations of the ice sheet ← Observations of the ice sheet :''This page is part of the topic [[Observations, data accuracy and tools]]'' ==Introduction== Since the earliest exploration of Antarctica scientists have visited the ice plateau in search of new discoveries. Despite the logistic and physical difficulties imposed by the environment and weather, field-based observations have been made throughout Antarctica, and have proved invaluable in explaining the dynamic character of this body of ice. An era of international fieldwork, sparked by the IGY of 1957-58, has continued to the recent International Polar Year of 2007-08. In the intervening decades, glaciological fieldwork adopted new technologies and revealed behaviour that could not have been observed by any other means. Some measurements can now be made over wide areas from satellites or aircraft, but direct ''in-situ'' observations are still needed to provide calibration and validation for these surveys. Moreover, fieldwork provides detailed information about the processes that operate to change the Antarctic environment. The combination of fieldwork, aircraft, and satellite measurements has revealed changes in Antarctica on many scales and given a better understanding of their causes. ==Surface elevation== Oversnow traverses provided the first indications of the surface shape of the ice sheet. The existence of broad, flat ice shelves bounded by tall mountain ranges that retained a high, frigid and harsh polar plateau played into the strategies used by explorers to reach the South Pole. However, such sparse sampling could never hope to attain sufficient coverage of the ice sheet to detect its shape in detail. In the mid-1970s, random sampling of the surface from radar altimeters onboard balloons released to circulate above the continent at constant atmospheric pressure greatly increased the mapping of the ice sheet’s surface elevation (Levanon et al., 1977<ref name="Levanon et al, 1977">Levanon, N., Julian, P.R. and Suomi, V.E. 1977. Antarctic topography from balloons, ''Nature'', '''268''', 514-516, doi:10.1038/268514a0.</ref>). Radar altimeters use the ranging capability of radar to measure the surface topographic profile beneath the sensor by measuring the time interval between the transmission and reception of very short electromagnetic pulses. These data showed the ice sheet surface topography contained a number of separate domes in East Antarctica and that this ice sheet was much higher than the West Antarctic ice sheet ([[:File:Figure 1.2 - Antarctic topography and bathymetry.png\|Figure 1.2]] on [[The Antarctic cryosphere]]). With this information, the drainage basins of individual outlet glaciers could begin to be defined ([[:File:Figure 1.3 - Antarctic surface elevation.png\|Figure 1.3]] on [[The Antarctic cryosphere]]). Radar altimeters onboard satellites established systematically repeated surface elevation observations of the earth. To date, most spaceborne radar altimeters have been wide-beam (pulse-limited) systems operating from low Earth orbits. Radar altimetry data of Antarctica has been collected since 1978 from a variety of instruments including Seasat (1978), Geosat (1985-1990), ERS-1 (1991-1996) and ERS-2 (since 1995), and Envisat (since 2002). Seasat reached only to 72º S whereas subsequent missions have increased coverage to 81.5º S. The measurement accuracy of such systems is sub-metre across the smoother ice sheet interior, but degrades to a few metres as the surface slope increases, especially nearer the coast and in mountainous regions. The future availability of satellite altimetry observations is assured with new missions such as ESA’s Sentinel satellite series. ESA’s CryoSat mission will also provide new data from the SIRAL instrument specifically designed for ice sheet and sea ice observations. [[File:Figure 2.16 - Schematic of a single ICESat repeat track.png\|thumb\|'''2.16''' Schematic of a single ICESat repeat track indicating surface altimetry measurements (red) and cloud observations (green/white/pink). Source: NASA/GSFC.]] In addition to radar altimetry, the first satellite laser altimeter was launched in 2003 onboard the ICESat satellite. The Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) is the sole instrument on the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) ([[:File:Figure 2.16 - Schematic of a single ICESat repeat track.png\|Figure 2.16]]). A laser altimeter has the advantage of ranging directly to the surface without penetrating the upper snow layers, but requires cloud-free conditions. Microwave radar is unaffected by clouds, but penetrates several metres into the snow (Legresy and Remy, 1997<ref name="Legresy and Remy, 1997">Legresy, B. and Remy, F. 1997. Altimetric observations of surface characteristics of the Antarctic ice sheet, ''J. Glaciol.'', '''43'''(144), 265-275.</ref>; Arthern et al., 2001<ref name="Arthern et al, 2001">Arthern, R.J., Wingham, D.J. and Ridout, A.L. 2001. Controls on ERS altimeter measurements over ice sheets: Footprint-scale topography, backscatter fluctuations, and the dependence of microwave penetration depth on satellite orientation, J. Geophys. Res., 106(D24), 33,471-33,484.</ref>). Alteration of the snowpack by weather and climate could change the depth of penetration, with a risk that this is mistaken for a real change in the surface elevation. Recent studies have corrected for this effect using an empirical, location-dependent correlation between penetration depth and backscattered power (Wingham et al., 1998<ref name="Wingham et al, 1998">Wingham, D.J., Ridout, A.L., Scharroo, R., Arthern, R.J. and Schum, C.K. 1998, Antarctic elevation change from 1990 to 1996, ''Science'', '''282''', 456-458, (doi:10.1126/science.282.5388.456).</ref>; Zwally et al., 2005<ref name="Zwally et al, 2005">Zwally, H.J., Giovinetto, M., Li, J., Cornejo, H., Beckley, M., Brenner, A., Saba, J. and Yi, D. 2005. Mass changes of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and shelves and contributions to sea-level rise: 1992-2002, ''Journal of Glaciology'', '''51'''(175), 509-527.</ref>), although some residual error may be unavoidable (Alley et al., 2007<ref name="Alley et al, 2007">Alley, R.B., Anandakrishnan, S., Dupont, T.K., Parizek, B.R. and Pollard, D., 2007, Effect of sedimentation on ice-sheet grounding-line stability. Science, 315, 1838-1841.</ref>). Both radar and laser altimetry can be affected by changes in the density of the upper layers of the snowpack, so these must be estimated separately or corrected for (Arthern and Wingham, 1998<ref name="Arthern and Wingham, 1998">Arthern, R.J. and Wingham, D.J. 1998. The Natural Fluctuations of Firn Densification and Their Effect on the Geodetic Determination of Ice Sheet Mass Balance, ''Climatic Change'', '''40''', 605-624.</ref>; Zwally et al., 2005<ref name="Zwally et al, 2005">Zwally, H.J., Giovinetto, M., Li, J., Cornejo, H., Beckley, M., Brenner, A., Saba, J. and Yi, D. 2005. Mass changes of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and shelves and contributions to sea-level rise: 1992-2002, ''Journal of Glaciology'', '''51'''(175), 509-527.</ref>). The primary objective of the ICESat mission is to measure ice sheet elevations and changes in elevation through time, with a precision of a few centimetres, surpassing that achieved with radar altimetry. Secondary objectives include measurement of cloud and aerosol height profiles, land elevation and vegetation cover, and sea ice thickness (Schutz et al., 2005<ref name="Schutz et al, 2005">Schutz, B.E., Zwally, H.J., Shuman, C.A., Hancock, D. and Dimarzio, J.P. 2005. Overview of the ICESat Mission, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L21S01, doi:10.1029/2005GL024009.</ref>). The southern limit of ICESat data is 86º S. The increase in surface topographic detail in these data is illustrated in [[:File:Figure 1.3 - Antarctic surface elevation.png\|Figure 1.3]] on [[The Antarctic cryosphere]] by noting the smoother apparent surface in the region closest to the South Pole; a visual artifact caused by the absence of precise altimetric data in this region. Most modern airborne geophysical measurement systems operated in Antarctica include a laser altimeter instrument. These have provided independent validation of ICESat data. Their primary function is to focus on regional studies and refine the spatial pattern of elevation change, as indication of ice-sheet or outlet glacier thickness changes. Satellite altimeter systems have the drawback that their data usually do not extend away from the sub-satellite ground track. ICESat’s GLAS system can be pointed off-nadir, but these occasions are rare. Photoclinometry, or shape from shading interpolated between precisely measured elevation profiles by using optical imagery (Landsat, ASTER and MODIS). These systems collect images of the surface using reflected sunlight in a variety of spectral bands. Because most of Antarctica is snow covered and the albedo of snow at any given wavelength is relatively constant, the brightness variations of ice-sheet imagery are predominantly related to the surface slope in the direction of the solar illumination (Bindschadler and Vornberger, 1998<ref name="Bindschadler and Vornberger, 1998">Bindschadler, R.A. and Vornberger, P.L. 1998. Changes in West Antarctic ice sheet since 1963 from Declassified Satellite Photography, ''Science'', '''279''', 689-692.</ref>). This relationship allows the image to be used to interpolate surface elevations between satellite altimetry profiles and provide more complete and accurate elevation fields. A more traditional use of optical imagery to produce elevations is stereo photogrammetry. This can be problematic over ice sheets where distinct features visible in modest-resolution imagery can be uncommon, but with the recent addition of higher spatial-resolution sensors such as ASTER and SPOT-5, the technique is now more often successful. A dedicated set of SPOT stereo images has been acquired around the Antarctica perimeter and elevation data are being produced as users request them. ==Bed elevation and ice thickness== As little as fifty years ago, relatively few traverses had been made across the interior of Antarctica, and the thickness of the ice was uncertain over much of the continent. Ice thickness can be determined by the seismic method of detonating explosives and recording the delay before arrival of echoes from the base. This can reveal details of the rock or sediment beneath the ice, as well as the ice thickness (Blankenship et al., 1986<ref name="Blankenship et al, 1986">Blankenship, D.D., Bentley, C.R., Rooney, S.T. and Alley, R.B. 1986. Seismic measurements reveal a saturated porous layer beneath an active Antarctic ice stream, ''Nature'', '''322''', 54-57.</ref>). A similar technique using radar, rather than sound waves can be performed from the ground (e.g. Conway et al., 1999<ref name="Conway et al, 1999">Conway, H., Hall, B.L., Denton, G.H., Gades, A.M., Waddington, E.D. 1999. Past and future grounding-line retreat of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Science 286:280-283.</ref>; Catania et al., 2006<ref name="Catania et al, 2006">Catania, G.A., Conway, H., Raymond, C.F. and Scambos, T.A. 2006. Evidence for floatation or near floatation in the mouth of Kamb Ice Stream, West Antarctica, prior to stagnation, ''J. Geophys. Res.'', '''111''', F01005, doi:10.1029/2005JF000355.</ref>), or from aircraft (Robin et al., 1970<ref name="Robin et al, 1970">Robin, G. De Q., Swithinbank, C.W.M. and Smith, B.M.E. 1970. Radio echo exploration of the Antarctic ice sheet, ''Int. Assoc. Sci. Hydrol. Publ.'', '''86''', 97-115.</ref>; Mae and Yoshida, 1987<ref name="Mae and Yoshida, 1987">Mae, S. and Yoshida, M. 1987. Airborne radio echo-sounding in Shirase Glacier drainage basin, Antarctica, ''Ann. Glaciol.'', '''9''', 160-165.</ref>; Siegert et al., 2005a<ref name="Siegert et al, 2005a">Siegert, M.J., Pokar, M., Dowdeswell, J.A. and Benham, T. 2005a. Radio-echo layering in West Antarctica: a spreadsheet dataset, ''Earth Surf. Process. Landforms'', '''30''', 1583-1591.</ref>). [[File:Figure 2.21 - Twin Otter aircraft fitted with ice penetrating antennas mounted under the wings.png\|thumb\|'''2.21''' Twin Otter aircraft fitted with ice penetrating antennas mounted under the wings. Aircraft fitted with geophysical instruments have collected a wealth of ice thickness data throughout Antarctica.]] Airborne radar (see [[Meteorological and ozone observing in the Antarctic#Snow Accumulation\|Snow accumulation]]), sometimes flown by airplanes based at remote field camps, is now the principal method of determining ice thickness ([[:File:Figure 2.21 - Twin Otter aircraft fitted with ice penetrating antennas mounted under the wings.png\|Figure 2.21]]). Present technology allows the surface of the underlying rock and sediment to be measured to a vertical precision of tens of metres. Interpolating the rugged bed topography between surveyed tracks remains difficult, and even now there are large regions of Antarctica where few measurements have been recorded. Nevertheless, compiling data from many survey flights can give a good estimate of the volume of ice stored in Antarctica. The most recent compilation of these data is BEDMAP (Lythe et al., 2000<ref name="Lythe et al, 2000">Lythe, M.B., Vaughan, D.G. and the BEDMAP Consortium. 2000. BEDMAP - bed topography of the Antarctic. 1:10,000,000 scale map. BAS (Misc) 9. Cambridge, British Antarctic Survey.</ref>) and BEDMAP-2 is underway. [[:File:Figure 1.5 - Antarctic ice thickness.png\|Figure 1.5]] on [[The Antarctic cryosphere]] is a visual illustration of the Antarctic bed elevation field that has resulted from this data compilation. From these data, the total volume of the Antarctic ice sheet is calculated as equivalent to 57 m of sea level. Of this, 52 m is locked away in the thick ice of East Antarctica, and around 5 m is stored in the more dynamic ice sheet covering West Antarctica (Lythe et al., 2000<ref name="Lythe et al, 2000">Lythe, M.B., Vaughan, D.G. and the BEDMAP Consortium. 2000. BEDMAP - bed topography of the Antarctic. 1:10,000,000 scale map. BAS (Misc) 9. Cambridge, British Antarctic Survey.</ref>). Several areas of Antarctica have recently benefited from focused airborne-geophysical surveys. Coastal Dronning Maud Land (Steinhage et al., 1999<ref name="Steinhage et al, 1999">Steinhage, D., Nixdorf, U., Meyer, U. and Miller, H. 1999. New maps of the ice thickness and subglacial topography in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, determined by means of airborne radio echo sounding, ''Ann. Glaciol.'', '''29''', 267-272.</ref>), Thwaites Glacier (Holt et al., 2006<ref name="Holt et al, 2006">Holt, J.W., Blankenship, D.D., Morse, D.L., Young, D.A., Peters, M.E., Kempf, S.D., Richter, T.G., Vaughan, D.G. and Corr, H.F.J. 2006. New boundary conditions for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet: Subglacial topography of the Thwaites and Smith glacier catchments, ''Geophys. Res. Lett.'', '''33''', L09502, doi:10.1029/2005GL025561.</ref>), Pine Island Glacier (Vaughan et al., 2006<ref name="Vaughan et al, 2006">Vaughan, D.G., Corr, H.F.J., Ferraccioli, F., Frearson, N., O'hare, A., Mach, D., Holt, J.W., Blankenship, D.D., Morse, D.L. and Young, D.A. 2006. New boundary conditions for the West Antarctic ice sheet: Subglacial topography beneath Pine Island Glacier, ''Geophys. Res. Lett.'', '''33''', L09501, doi:10.1029/2005GL025588.</ref>) have been surveyed in detail. These and similar surveys reveal the amounts of ice present. They also characterise deep troughs in the underlying bed that make some regions more vulnerable than others to rapid change. Furthermore they provide geometric boundary conditions needed for modeling the evolution of the ice sheet. ==Velocity== [[File:Figure 2.22 - Speed of Bindschadler and MacAyeal Ice Streams, West Antarctica.png\|thumb\|'''2.22''' Speed of Bindschadler (right) and MacAyeal (left) Ice Streams, West Antarctica. Flow direction is generally from top to bottom of figure with speed indicated by color superimposed on a mosaic of 14 Landsat images enhanced to highlight surface features. Faster ice occurs in the central portion of each ice stream but the spatial complexity indicates a spatial variation in the lateral, longitudinal and basal forces that determine internal stresses, strains and speeds of the ice. Velocity in metres/year.]] In-situ observations of ice-flow can be made by repeatedly surveying the position of marker poles carried along by the ice (e.g. Naruse, 1979<ref name="Naruse, 1979">Naruse, R. 1979. Thinning of the ice sheet in Mizuho Plateau, East Antarctica, ''J. Glaciol.'', '''24''', 45-52.</ref>). Nowadays this same direct approach makes use of precise locations derived from GPS. Modern dual-frequency GPS receivers and post-processing of data can give positional accuracy of centimetres or better (King, 2004<ref name="King, 2004">King, M.A. 2004. Rigorous GPS data-processing strategies for glaciological. Applications, ''J. Glaciol.'', '''50''', 601-607.</ref>). The movement of AWS over time along the ice sheets, which have GPS on-board, can also provide invaluable information about ice sheet velocity. Ferrell AWS, located on the Ross Ice Shelf, is estimated to have moved approximately 0.65 - 0.75 km/year over a period from 1979 to 2003. Ice motion is almost everywhere greater than a metre per year, so surface velocities are measured to within one percent in a single year. For faster flowing ice, the relative accuracy is even higher. Point velocities measured in this way provide constraints to calibrate remote sensing methods such as feature tracking or satellite radar interferometry (discussed below). Features seen from space can serve the same role as surveyed marker poles or GPS antennas. Sequential imagery, once coregistered, offer the opportunity to measure the surface motion of features identified on multiple images. Image coregistration is simplified when there is exposed rock visible. When not, long-wavelength surface forms can be used, because these are surface expressions of fixed basal undulations and, therefore, also fixed in space. Image processing techniques are then employed to first filter out the higher wavelength features and then cross-correlate static long-wavelength features in multiple images. Once coregistered, the same cross-correlation techniques are employed to determine surface feature motion (Scambos et al., 1992<ref name="Scambos et al, 1992">Scambos, T.A., Dutkiewicz, M.J., Wilson, J.C. and Bindschadler, R.A. 1992. Application of image cross-correlation to the measurement of glacier velocity using satellite image data, ''Remote Sensing of Environment'', '''42''', 177-186.</ref>). Most often applied to sequential Landsat imagery with a 30 m pixel resolution, the errors in measured displacements are 2-3 pixels with roughly equal parts random error associated with tracking individual features, and systematic error associated with image coregistration. The optical imagery record began in earnest in 1972 with the launch of ERTS-1, which became the first of the Landsat series. Earlier and recently declassified satellite photographs have extended a sparse data set back to 1960, soon after the first year that satellites were used for military and national security purposes. Spatial resolution, temporal coverage and radiometric sensitivity have steadily improved to the present, when sub-metre pixel resolution, near daily coverage and extraordinary surface detail can be obtained. However, not all of these are available from any single sensor, and the use of the data will help determine what sensor is most suitable. [[File:Figure 2.23 - Surface velocity of the Siple and Gould Coast regions of West Antarctica.png\|thumb\|'''2.23''' Surface velocity (in metres/year) of the Siple and Gould Coast regions of West Antarctica. Flow direction, indicated by the arrows, is generally left to right, and speed, indicated by colour, increases from left to right. The underlying layer is a portion of the Radarsat mosaic with the Transantarctic Mountains in the upper right and the Ross Ice Shelf on the right. The network of tributaries begins to emerge from the surrounding ice at speeds of about 100 m per year and is guided by unseen valleys in the underlying bed. From top to bottom, the major ice streams (red) are the Whillans (with the green Crary Ice Rise in its mouth), Bindschadler and MacAyeal Ice Streams.]] Much information about land ice and snow is obtained from SAR imagery, in particular from SAR Interferometry (InSAR) techniques. This method, which uses phase differences in returned radar signals, is able to measure centimetric changes in surface displacement over very wide areas ([[:File:Figure 2.23 - Surface velocity of the Siple and Gould Coast regions of West Antarctica.png\|Figure 2.23]]). These new techniques have provided information to monitor glacier discharge (Pritchard and Vaughan, 2007<ref name="Pritchard and Vaughan, 2007">Pritchard, H.D. and Vaughan, D.G. 2007. Widespread acceleration of tidewater glaciers on the Antarctic Peninsula, J. Geophys. Res., 112, F03S29, doi:10.1029/2006JF000597.</ref>), map grounding lines (Gray et al., 2002<ref name="Gray et al, 2002">Gray, L.; Short, N.; Bindschadler, R.; Joughin, I.; Padman, L.; Vornberger, P.; Khananian, A. 2002. Radarsat interferometry for Antarctic grounding-zone mapping, ''Annals of Glaciology'', '''34''', 269-276.</ref>; Yamanokuchi et al., 2005<ref name="Yamanokuchi et al, 2005">Yamanokuchi, T., Doi, K. and Shibuya, K. 2005. Validation of grounding line of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet derived by ERS-1/2 interferometric SAR data, ''Polar Geoscience'', '''18''', 1-14.</ref>), contribute to mass balance studies (Rignot and Thomas, 2002<ref name="Rignot and Thomas, 2002">Rignot, E. and Thomas, R.H. 2002. Mass balance of polar ice sheets, Science, 297 (5586), 1502-1506 AUG 30 2002.</ref>), determine glacier and ice sheet motion (Fischer et al., 2003<ref name="Fischer et al, 2003">Fischer, A.H., Rott, H. and Björnsson, H., 2003. Observation of recent surges of Vatnajökull, Iceland, by means of ERS SAR interferometry, ''Annals of Glaciology'', '''37''', 69-76.</ref>) and monitor propagation of ice shelf rifts (Fricker et al., 2002<ref name="Fricker et al, 2002">Fricker, H.A., Young, N.W., Allison, I. and Coleman, R. 2002. Iceberg calving of the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica: New field and remote sensing data, ''Annals of Glaciology'', '''34''', 81-88.</ref>). In contrast, an approach taken in matching the amplitudes of SAR images can be used in correlating scenes over a long time period. Nakamura et al. (2007<ref name="Nakamura et al, 2007">Nakamura K., Doi, K. and Shibuya, K. 2007. Estimation of seasonal changes in the flow of Shirase Glacier using JERS-1/SAR image correlation, ''Polar Sci.'', '''1'''(2-4), 73-84.</ref>) applied the techniques to the Shirase glacier, one of the fastest-moving ice streams in the Antarctica, and obtained the seasonal variation of velocity near the grounding line, that is the highest in summer and lowest in winter. Repeated measurements of horizontal velocity using the GPS technique have shown that the speed of ice streams can change on very short timescales. The speed of ice tens or hundreds of kilometres inland can vary from hour to hour, responding to forcing by the tides (Bindschadler et al., 2003<ref name="Bindschadler et al, 2003">Bindschadler, R. A., King, M.A., Alley, R.B., Anandakrishnan, S. and Padman, L. 2003, Tidally controlled stick-slip discharge of a West Antarctic ice stream, ''Science'', '''301''', 1087-1089.</ref>). Other areas respond differently to tides. Flow speed on the Rutford Ice Stream follows a 14 day cycle (Gudmundsson, 2006<ref name="Gudmundsson, 2006">Gudmundsson, G.H. 2006. Fortnightly variations in the flow velocity of Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica, Nature, 444, 1063-1064 doi:10.1038/nature05430.</ref>). Analysing the response of ice streams to known tidal forcing has opened up a new way of studying the friction that impedes the motion of ice. [[File:Figure 2.24 - Composite of the Antarctic ice sheet surface speed.png\|thumb\|'''2.24''' Composite of surface speed. North of 80º S the velocities are derived from the Modified Antarctic Mapping Mission (MAMM) whose data were collected by Radarsat-1 in Autumn 2000. South of 80º S the velocities are calculated balance velocities. Overlain on these two data sets are flow lineations (in white) from the SAR imagery indicating the location of faster ice motion and shear. Speed is represented by a color log<sub>10</sub> scale (0 in deep blue to 1,000 m/yr in red) to illustrate the wide range and patterns of surface flow. The underlying layer is a gray-scale version of the Radarsat mosaic where bright and dark areas correspond to regions of high and low radar backscatter. From Jezek, 2008<ref name="Jezek, 2008">Jezek, K. C. 2008. The RADARSAT-1 Antarctic Mapping Project. BPRC Report No. 22, Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 64 p.</ref>.]] A meaningful diagnostic of the ice sheet state is to calculate the “balance velocity” and compare it with the measured surface velocity. The balance velocity is calculated from the ice thickness, accumulation pattern and flow direction (defined as the direction of maximum surface gradient). It is neither a measured, nor an actual velocity, but corresponds to the depth-averaged velocity at any point that is required to transport all the mass accumulated upstream of that point. If the actual velocity equals the balance velocity everywhere, then the shape of the ice sheet remains unchanged. Thus, balance velocity becomes a convenient way of comparing the geometric shape and meteorological input to the ice speed. [[:File:Figure 1.6 - Antarctic ice sheet balance velocity.png\|Figure 1.6]] on [[The Antarctic cryosphere]] presents the continental pattern of balance velocity. It compares favourably to the surface speed ([[:File:Figure 2.24 - Composite of the Antarctic ice sheet surface speed.png\|Fig 2.24]]) indicating that a majority of the ice sheet is near equilibrium. Areas of change, including areas changing very rapidly, do occur and will be discussed in [[The ice sheet in the instrumental period]]. ==Mass balance== The overall condition of an ice sheet is usually described as its “mass balance”. It is a fundamental expression of the ice sheet’s health. Mass balance is the sum of all mass inputs to the ice sheet, such as accumulation, minus all mass removals, such as melting. It expresses the rate of growth or shrinkage of the ice sheet and relates directly to the amount of mass transferred to the oceans to affect sea level. Ice leaving the grounded region of the ice sheet affects sea level immediately, even if it remains attached to the ice sheet in the form of a floating ice shelf. Icebergs calved from floating ice shelves and sub-ice shelf melting remove mass from the ice sheet, but do not alter sea level. Sometimes ice shelf mass changes are included in mass balance calculations, because they reflect changes in ice sheet volume, but care must be taken not to equate these mass balance quantities to Antarctica’s contribution to sea level without removing the ice shelf component. There are currently three independent methods of measuring changes in the mass of the grounded portion of the ice sheet: satellite altimetry, ice-budget, and gravity surveys. All are subject to errors from different sources: principally, snow compaction and electromagnetic penetration for altimetry; thickness errors and accumulation errors for the ice-budget; unmodelled postglacial rebound and atmospheric effects for gravity surveys. The problem is over-determined (three methods for measuring one number) and each of the methods has errors that are (more or less) independent of the others. This means that a better assessment of the state of balance of the ice sheet should be possible by combining all the observations. There are problems doing this, because all the measurements are recorded at different locations, and over different time intervals. A promising approach is to use data assimilation methods similar to those used by numerical weather prediction centres to produce daily weather forecasts (Arthern and Hindmarsh, 2006<ref name="Arthern and Hindmarsh, 2006">Arthern, R.J. and Hindmarsh, R.C.A. 2006. Determining the contribution of Antarctica to sea-level rise using data assimilation methods, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A, 364, 1841-1865. doi:10:1098/rsta.2006.1801.</ref>). This should allow a better analysis of the present-day changes, and opens up the possibility of forecasting the evolution of the ice sheet over the coming decades. Even before such formal methods are applied, comparison of the three approaches provides a valuable consistency check. The concept of mass balance can also be applied to any portion of the ice sheet. To measure the amount of ice transported, the thickness and the profile of velocity through the column are needed. If the base is slippery, or the ice is afloat, an assumption that ice speed is constant at all depths throughout the column is appropriate. Then the ice flux is simply the product of surface velocity and thickness. For ice thickness of the order of kilometres, the depth error from radar surveys is of the order of one percent, and dominates over the velocity error. If shearing is present in the column it must be corrected for, and this can introduce errors larger than one percent in the flux. The accuracy that can be achieved for the flux leaving any particular drainage basin is typically of the order of ten percent of the turnover (e.g. Fricker et al., 2000<ref name="Fricker et al, 2000">Fricker, H., Warner, R. and Allison, I. 2000. Mass balance of the Lambert Glacier–Amery Ice shelf system, East Antarctica: a comparison of computed balance fluxes and measured fluxes, ''J. Glaciol.'', '''46''' (155), 561-570.</ref>; Rignot and Thomas, 2002<ref name="Rignot and Thomas, 2002">Rignot, E. and Thomas, R.H. 2002. Mass balance of polar ice sheets, Science, 297 (5586), 1502-1506 AUG 30 2002.</ref>). Since measurements began, the overall mass balance of the ice sheet (i.e., the rate of change of the total mass of ice held within it) has been slightly negative, but with large uncertainties. This belies the enormous regional variability of mass changes that express different dynamic characteristics and responses to different climate forcings. Some signals, such as thinning of the Amundsen Sea sector in West Antarctica, are common to all three approaches, and this agreement provides a strong confirmation that this part of Antarctica is contributing to sea level rise. Meanwhile East Antarctica seems close to balance, or thickening slightly, according to these independent assessments. Point measurements of elevation change, achieved by repeat GPS positioning, can also contribute to mass balance studies (Smith et al., 1998<ref name="Smith et al, 1998">Smith, A.M., Vaughan, D.G., Doake, C.S.M., ET AL. 1998. Surface lowering of the ice ramp at Rothera Point, Antarctic Peninsula, in response to regional climate change, ''Ann. Glaciol.'', '''27''', 113-118.</ref>; Hamilton, 2005<ref name="Hamilton, 2005">Hamilton, G.S. 2005. Spatial patterns in mass balance of the Siple Coast and Amundsen Sea sectors, West Antarctica, ''Ann. Glaciol.'', '''41''', 105-106.</ref>; Wendt et al., 2009<ref name="Wendt et al, 2009">Wendt, A., G. Casassa, A. Rivera, and J. Wendt (2009). Reassessment of ice mass balance at Horseshoe Valley, Antarctica. Antarctic Science. doi:10.1017/S0954102009002053.</ref>). The vertical component of position derived by GPS is less accurate than the horizontal. The vertical motion of the marker poles must be corrected for along-slope advection, gradients of snow accumulation, and snow compaction. Placing the markers at the bottom of boreholes drilled through the upper layers of the ice sheet, where most of the density changes occur, can lessen the impact of variable snow compaction on these measurements (Hamilton, 2005<ref name="Hamilton, 2005">Hamilton, G.S. 2005. Spatial patterns in mass balance of the Siple Coast and Amundsen Sea sectors, West Antarctica, ''Ann. Glaciol.'', '''41''', 105-106.</ref>). The submergence velocity of markers, compared with the long-term rate of snow accumulation (from ice cores), provides a local estimate of the state of balance of the ice sheet. ==Ice shelves== Ice shelves, the floating fringe of the ice sheet, are often overlooked because of the absence of a direct impact on sea level, however they have a very important indirect effect. Ice shelves impart forces on grounded glaciers and ice streams, slowing the delivery of ice to the ocean (Thomas, 1973<ref name="Thomas, 1973">Thomas, R.H. 1973. The creep of ice shelves: Theory, ''Journal of Glaciology'', '''12''' (64), 45-53.</ref>). This means that collapse or melting of a floating ice shelf can trigger a subsequent rise in sea level, as glaciers accelerate when this force is removed. This force is determined not only by the size, lateral extent and temperature of the ice shelf, but also its shape (Walker and Holland, 2007<ref name="Walker and Holland, 2007">Walker, R. and Holland, D.M. 2007. A two-dimensional coupled model for ice shelf - ocean interaction, ''Ocean Modelling'', '''17''', 123-139.</ref>). Drilling allows temperature profiles through the ice to be recorded, and samples of the ice to be recovered for mechanical tests of strength and deformation strength (e.g. Rist et al., 2002<ref name="Rist et al, 2002">Rist, M.A., Sammonds, P.R., Oerter, H. and Doake, C.S.M. 2002. Fracture of Antarctic shelf ice, J. Geophys. Res., 107(B1), 10.1029/2000JB000058.</ref>). Local mass balance assessments are important, as melt rates at the base of ice shelves can reach several metres a year. Drilling provides access to the oceanographic environment beneath the ice shelf, so that the processes that control melting from the base can be investigated (Nicholls and Jenkins, 1993<ref name="Nicholls and Jenkins, 1993">Nicholls, K.W. and Jenkins, A. 1993, Temperature and salinity beneath Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 22,553-22,568.</ref>; Craven et al., 2004<ref name="Craven et al, 2004">Craven, M., Allison, I., Brand, R., Elcheikh, A., Hunter, J., Hemer, M. and Donoghue, S. 2004. Initial borehole results from the Amery Ice Shelf hot-water drilling project, ''Ann. Glaciol.'', '''39''', 531-539.</ref>). Phase-sensitive radar can be used to measure thinning rates (Corr et al., 2002<ref name="Corr et al, 2002">Corr, H.F.J., Jenkins, A., Nicholls, K.W. and Doake, C.S.M. 2002. Precise measurement of changes in ice-shelf thickness by phase-sensitive radar to determine basal melt rates, Geophys. Res. Lett., 29(8), 10.1029/2001GL014618.</ref>). This can provide a direct estimate of the basal melt-rate with an accuracy of a few centimetres per year, revealing whether the ice shelf is in a steady state (Jenkins et al., 2006<ref name="Jenkins et al, 2006">Jenkins, A., Corr, H.F.J., Nicholls, K.W., Stewart, C.L., Doake, C.S.M. and Christopher S.M. 2006. Interactions between ice and ocean observed with phase-sensitive radar near an Antarctic ice-shelf grounding line, ''J. Glaciol.'', '''52''' (178), 325-346.</ref>). GPS observations can record the flow velocities of the floating ice, and how it is changing (King et al., 2007<ref name="King et al, 2007">King, M.A., Coleman, R., Morgan, P.J. and Hurd, R.S. 2007. Velocity change of the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica, during the period 1968-1999, ''J. Geophys. Res.'', '''112''', F01013, doi:10.1029/2006JF000609.</ref>). These ''in-situ'' observations provide an important test of melt rates, flow rates and thinning rates observed using satellite. The very definition of where the ice shelves begin needs quantification, and its sensitivity to local ice thickness changes lends it to be an important diagnostic observable. The transition from grounded ice to floating occurs at the “grounding line”. It can be mapped with optical imagery by noting the change in surface roughness: floating ice is smoother due to the absence of basal friction, which supports smaller spatial scale surface undulations on grounded ice. Vertical flexing of the grounding line also can be observed either by interferometric SAR analysis or repeat laser altimetry (Vaughan, 1995<ref name="Vaughan, 1995">Vaughan, D.G. 1995, Tidal Flexure at Ice Sheet Margins, ''Journal of Geophysical Research'', '''100''' (B4), 6213-6224.</ref>; Padman and Fricker, 2005<ref name="Padman and Fricker, 2005">Padman, L. and Fricker, H.A. 2005. Tides on the Ross Ice Shelf observed with ICESat, Geophysical Research Letters, 32, No. 14, Art. No. L14503, July 29, 2005.</ref>). The sensitivity of the grounding line to thickness changes results from a shallow basal slopes. Relatively small changes of a few metres in thickness are effectively amplified by many orders of magnitude, depending on the bed slope, to horizontal displacements of hundreds of metres, or even kilometres. In many locations, the grounding line is extremely complex, and patches of ephemerally grounded ice must be included in the observations. ==Subglacial hydrology== Ice flow rates in the faster moving ice streams and glaciers of Antarctica are orders of magnitude greater than can be explained by ice deformed by gravitational forces. The additional speed is the result of basal sliding and directly related to lubrication at the ice-bed interface. The degree of lubrication is controlled by the presence of water and sediment (glacial till) underneath the ice. A supply of water from melting at the base of the ice sheet can pressurise subglacial water to the point that the ice is close to flotation. This lessens the load on the underlying sediment and allows it to deform easily, lubricating the sliding. Drag from the edge can be comparable to drag from beneath, even when the width of an ice stream greatly exceeds its thickness. The energy that is needed for melting is provided partly by geothermal heat, and partly by frictional heating (Raymond et al., 2001<ref name="Raymond et al, 2001">Raymond, C.F., Echelmeyer, K.A., Whillans, I.M. and Doake, C.S.M. 2001. Ice stream shear margins. In: The West Antarctic Ice Sheet: Behavior and environment (R.B. Alley and R.A. Bindschadler, eds.). Washington DC: American Geophysical Union, ''Antarctic Research Series'', '''77''', 137-155.</ref>). Frictional heating is greater for faster sliding, but is also modulated by the degree of lubrication, so a feedback loop links melting to lubrication, speed, friction, and further melting. Depending upon the environment, this loop may reinforce itself, so that ice streams accelerate or decelerate rapidly. In other circumstances variations in velocity are muted, especially if other physical controls, such as trough geometry, limit the margin migration (Raymond et al., 2001<ref name="Raymond et al, 2001">Raymond, C.F., Echelmeyer, K.A., Whillans, I.M. and Doake, C.S.M. 2001. Ice stream shear margins. In: The West Antarctic Ice Sheet: Behavior and environment (R.B. Alley and R.A. Bindschadler, eds.). Washington DC: American Geophysical Union, ''Antarctic Research Series'', '''77''', 137-155.</ref>). Field measurements have shown that ice streams can flow steadily, have episodes of rapid flow, or shut down completely, depending on details of supply, storage and transport of water and sediment (Retzlaff and Bentley, 1993<ref name="Retzlaff and Bentley, 1993">Retzlaff, R. and Bentley, C.R. 1993. Timing of stagnation of Ice Stream C, West Antarctica, from short-pulse radar studies of buried surface crevasses, Journal of Glaciology, 39, No. 133, 553-561.</ref>; Stokes et al., 2007<ref name="Stokes et al, 2007">Stokes, C.R., Clark, C.D., Lian, O.B. and Tulaczyk, S. 2007. Ice stream sticky spots: A review of their identification and influence beneath contemporary and palaeo-ice streams, ''Earth-Science Reviews'', '''81''', 217-249.</ref>). In addition to the direct observations of surface velocity (discussed earlier), seismic methods have illuminated some of the processes that control ice stream flow. Although the base of ice streams tend to be well lubricated, the importance of small areas of concentrated friction has been identified by seismicity characteristic of their stick-slip motion (Anandakrishnan and Alley, 1994<ref name="Anandakrishnan and Alley, 1994">Anandakrishnan, S. and Alley, R.B. 1994. Ice stream C, Antarctica, sticky spots detected by microearthquake monitoring, ''Ann. Glaciol.'', '''20''', 183-186.</ref>). These ‘sticky spots’ provide significant retardation to the flow of ice and have a number of possible causes, including reduction of basal water pressure by freezing, channel formation, or redirection of subglacial water flow (recently reviewed by Stokes et al., 2007<ref name="Stokes et al, 2007">Stokes, C.R., Clark, C.D., Lian, O.B. and Tulaczyk, S. 2007. Ice stream sticky spots: A review of their identification and influence beneath contemporary and palaeo-ice streams, ''Earth-Science Reviews'', '''81''', 217-249.</ref>). Analysis of waveforms reflected from the bed during active seismic sounding can reveal information about whether the sediments are mobile and fluidized, or whether they are lodged and strong enough to support large shear stress retarding the flow of ice (Smith, 2007<ref name="Smith, 2007">Smith, A.M. 2007. Subglacial Bed Properties from Normal-Incidence Seismic Reflection Data, ''J. Env. and Eng. Geophys.'', '''12''', 3-13.</ref>). Understandably, there are not many direct observations from beneath the ice streams, but in several places access to the bed has been achieved by hot-water drilling. Video cameras lowered down the borehole (Carsey et al., 2002<ref name="Carsey et al, 2002">Carsey, F., Behar, A., Lane, A.L., Realmuto, V. and Engelhardt, H. 2002. A borehole camera system for imaging the deep interior of ice sheets, ''J. Glaciol.'', '''48''' (163), 622-628.</ref>) have revealed clear ice at the bottom of Kamb ice stream, supporting the interpretation that basal freezing may have contributed to its shutdown around 140 years ago (Vogel et al., 2005<ref name="Vogel et al, 2005">Vogel, S.W., Tulaczyk, S., Kamb, B., Engelhardt, H., Carsey, F., Behar, A., Lane, A. and Joughin, I. 2005. Subglacial Conditions During And After Stoppage of an Antarctic Ice Stream: Is Reactivation Imminent, ''Geophys. Res. Lett.'', '''32''' (14), L14502, doi:10.1029/2005GL022563.</ref>). Underneath the ice stream, the camera revealed a water layer 1.6 metres in depth at one site, but just centimetres or less at another. The water flux and linkages between such water cavities are important in determining the basal water pressure and this, in turn, affects the amount of lubrication (Christoffersen and Tulaczyk, 2003<ref name="Christoffersen and Tulaczyk, 2003">Christoffersen, P. and Tulaczyk, S. 2003. Response of subglacial sediments to basal freeze-on, 1. Theory and comparison to observations from beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, ''J. Geophys. Res.'', '''108'''(B4), 2222, doi:10.1029/2002JB001935.</ref>; Vogel et al., 2005<ref name="Vogel et al, 2005">Vogel, S.W., Tulaczyk, S., Kamb, B., Engelhardt, H., Carsey, F., Behar, A., Lane, A. and Joughin, I. 2005. Subglacial Conditions During And After Stoppage of an Antarctic Ice Stream: Is Reactivation Imminent, ''Geophys. Res. Lett.'', '''32''' (14), L14502, doi:10.1029/2005GL022563.</ref>). The route taken by subglacial water flow is sensitive to surface and bed topography, and changes in surface slope that alter this routing may affect the water pressures, and hence the flow of ice (Alley et al., 1994<ref name="Alley et al, 1994">Alley, R.B., Anandakrishnan, S., Bentley, C.R. and Lord, N. 1994, A water-piracy hypothesis for the stagnation of Ice Stream C, ''Antarctica. Ann. Glaciol.'', '''20''', 187-194.</ref>). The discovery of thicker reservoirs of subglacial water has led to more direct inference from repeat satellite observations that large volumes of water move between subglacial lakes (Gray et al., 2005<ref name="Gray et al, 2005">Gray, L., Joughin, I., Tulazcyk, S., Spikes, V.B., Bindschadler, R. and Jezek, K. 2005. Evidence for subglacial water transport in the West Antarctica Ice Sheet through three-dimensional satellite radar interferometry, Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L03501, doi:10.1029/2004GL021387,.</ref>; Wingham et al., 2006b<ref name="Wingham et al, 2006b">Wingham, D.J., Siegert, M.J., Shepherd, A. and Muir, A.S. 2006b. Rapid discharge connects Antarctic subglacial lakes, Nature, 440, pp. 1033-1036 , doi:10.1038/nature04660.</ref>; Fricker et al., 2007<ref name="Fricker et al, 2007">Fricker, H.A., Scambos, T.A., Bindschadler, R. and Padman, L. 2007. An Active Subglacial Water System in West Antarctica Mapped from Space, ''Science'', '''315''', 1544, doi: 10.1126/science.1136897.</ref>) and that these larger volumes of water transfer change ice flow rates. These build on a series of discoveries that flow rates change on a wealth of time scales from minutes to millennia. A directed programme of fieldwork has illuminated many causes of this fast and changeable flow (e.g. Alley and Bindschadler, 2001<ref name="Alley and Bindschadler, 2001">Alley, R.B. and R.A. Bindschadler. 2001, The West Antarctic Ice Sheet: Behavior and environment. Washington DC: American Geophysical Union, Antarctic Research Series vol. 77, 296 pp.</ref>; Bindschadler, 2006<ref name="Bindschadler, 2006">Bindschadler, R. 2006. The environment and evolution of the West Antarctic ice sheet: setting the stage, ''Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A'', '''364''', 1583-1605, doi:10.1098/rsta.2006.1790.</ref>). Much of this dynamism can ultimately be traced to the slipperiness of basal sediment pressurised by meltwater. ==Mass balance data from ice cores== Ice core records offer a valuable tool to assess natural variability and recent trends in snow accumulation. Climate model predictions lead to a general expectation of an increase in Antarctic precipitation with projected warming. Such an increase acts to offset sea level increases arising from mass loss. Recent results, based on records from ice cores, snow pits and stakes suggest an absence of a warming signal in precipitation over the last 50 years (Monaghan et al., 2006a<ref name="Monaghan et al, 2006a">Monaghan, A.J., Bromwich, D.H. and Wang, S-H. 2006a. Recent trends in Antarctic snow accumulation from Polar MM5, ''Philosophical Trans. Royal. Soc. A'', '''364''', 1683-1708.</ref>), with no significant changes in overall precipitation. The data do show, however, a large temporal and spatial variability that underscores the need for mass balance studies to include long-term records from a number of sites. ITASE research reveals high variability in surface mass balance, such that single cores, stakes, and snowpits do not always represent the geographical and environmental characteristics of a local region (Richardson and Holmlund, 1999<ref name="Richardson and Holmlund, 1999">Richardson, C. and Holmlund, P. 1999. Regional and local variability in shallow snow layer depth from a 500 km continuous radar traverse on the polar plateau, central Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica, ''Annals of Glaciology'', '''29''', 10-16.</ref>; Frezzotti et al., 2004<ref name="Frezzotti et al, 2004">Frezzotti, M., Pourchet, M., Flora, O., Gandolfi, S., Gay, M., Urbini, S., Vincent, C., Becagli, S., Gragnani, R., Proposito, M., Severi, M., Traversi, R., Udisti, R. and Fily, M. 2004. New estimations of precipitation and surface sublimation in East Antarctica from snow accumulation measurements, ''Climate Dynamics'', '''23''', 803-813.</ref>; Spikes et al., 2004<ref name="Spikes et al, 2004">Spikes, V.B., Hamilton, G.S., Arcone, S.A., Kaspari, S. and Mayewski, P.A. 2004. Variability in accumulation rates from GPR profiling on the West Antarctic Plateau, ''Ann. Glaciol.'', '''39''', 238-244.</ref>; Nishio et al., 2002<ref name="Nishio et al, 2002">Nishio, F., Furukawa, T., Hashida, G., Igarashi, M., Kameda, T., Kohno, M., Motoyama, H., Naoki, K., Satow, K., Suzuki, K., Takata, M., Toyama, Y., Yamada, T. and Watanabe, O. 2002. Annual-layer determinations and 167 year records of past climate of H72 ice core in east Dronning Maud Land, Antarcitaca, ''Ann. Glacio.'', '''35''', 471-479.</ref>). For example, Frezzotti et al. (2004<ref name="Frezzotti et al, 2004">Frezzotti, M., Pourchet, M., Flora, O., Gandolfi, S., Gay, M., Urbini, S., Vincent, C., Becagli, S., Gragnani, R., Proposito, M., Severi, M., Traversi, R., Udisti, R. and Fily, M. 2004. New estimations of precipitation and surface sublimation in East Antarctica from snow accumulation measurements, ''Climate Dynamics'', '''23''', 803-813.</ref>) show that spatial surface mass balance variability at sub-kilometre scales (as is typically represented in ice cores) overwhelms temporal variability at the century scale for a low-accumulation site in East Antarctica. Emerging data collected by ITASE and associated deep ice core projects reveals systematic biases in long-term estimates of surface mass balance compared to previous compilations; the biases are presumably related to the small-scale spatial variability (Oerter et al., 1999<ref name="Oerter et al, 1999">Oerter, H., Graf, W., Wilhelms, F., Minikin, A. and Miller, H. 1999. Accumulation studies on Amundsenisen, Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, by means of tritium, dielectric profiling and stable-isotope measurements: first results from the 1995-96 and 1996-97 field seasons, ''Ann. Glaciol.'', '''29''', 1-9.</ref>; Frezzotti et al., 2004<ref name="Frezzotti et al, 2004">Frezzotti, M., Pourchet, M., Flora, O., Gandolfi, S., Gay, M., Urbini, S., Vincent, C., Becagli, S., Gragnani, R., Proposito, M., Severi, M., Traversi, R., Udisti, R. and Fily, M. 2004. New estimations of precipitation and surface sublimation in East Antarctica from snow accumulation measurements, ''Climate Dynamics'', '''23''', 803-813.</ref>, Magand et al., 2004<ref name="Magand et al, 2004">Magand, O., Frezzotti, M., Pourchet, M., Stenni, B., Genoni, L. and Fily, M. 2004. Climate variability along latitudinal and longitudinal transects in East Antarctica, ''Annals of Glaciology'', '''39''', 351-358.</ref>; Rotschky et al., 2004<ref name="Rotschky et al, 2004">Rotschky, G., Eisen, O., Wilhelms, F., Nixdorf, U. and Oerter, H. 2004. Spatial distribution of surface mass balance on Amundsenisen plateau, Antarctica, derived from ice-penetrating radar studies, ''Annals of Glaciology'', '''39''', 265-270.</ref>). The extensive use, along ITASE traverses, of new techniques like geolocated GPR profiling integrated with core data, provides detailed information on surface mass balance (Richardson and Holmlund, 1999<ref name="Richardson and Holmlund, 1999">Richardson, C. and Holmlund, P. 1999. Regional and local variability in shallow snow layer depth from a 500 km continuous radar traverse on the polar plateau, central Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica, ''Annals of Glaciology'', '''29''', 10-16.</ref>; Urbini et al., 2001<ref name="Urbini et al, 2001">Urbini, S., Gandolfi, S. and Vittuari, L. 2001. GPR and GPS data integration: examples of application in Antarctica, ''Annali di Geofisca'', '''44''' (4), 687-702.</ref>; Arcone et al., 2005<ref name="Arcone et al, 2005">Arcone, S.A., Spikes, V.B., Hamilton, G. and Mayewski, P.A. 2005. Continuity, vertical resolution and origin of stratigraphy in 400-Mhz short-pulse radar profiles of firn in West Antarctica, ''Annals of Glaciology'', '''39''', 195-200.</ref>; Rotschky et al., 2004<ref name="Rotschky et al, 2004">Rotschky, G., Eisen, O., Wilhelms, F., Nixdorf, U. and Oerter, H. 2004. Spatial distribution of surface mass balance on Amundsenisen plateau, Antarctica, derived from ice-penetrating radar studies, ''Annals of Glaciology'', '''39''', 265-270.</ref>). At some sites stake farm and ice core accumulation rates differ significantly, but isochronal layers in firn, detected with GPR, correlate well with ice core chronologies (Frezzotti et al., 2004<ref name="Frezzotti et al, 2004">Frezzotti, M., Pourchet, M., Flora, O., Gandolfi, S., Gay, M., Urbini, S., Vincent, C., Becagli, S., Gragnani, R., Proposito, M., Severi, M., Traversi, R., Udisti, R. and Fily, M. 2004. New estimations of precipitation and surface sublimation in East Antarctica from snow accumulation measurements, ''Climate Dynamics'', '''23''', 803-813.</ref>). Several GPR layers within the upper 100 m of the surface have been surveyed over continuous traverses of 5,000 km and can be used as historical benchmarks to study past accumulation rates (Spikes et al., 2004<ref name="Spikes et al, 2004">Spikes, V.B., Hamilton, G.S., Arcone, S.A., Kaspari, S. and Mayewski, P.A. 2004. Variability in accumulation rates from GPR profiling on the West Antarctic Plateau, ''Ann. Glaciol.'', '''39''', 238-244.</ref>). ==References== <references /> [[Category:Observations, data accuracy and tools]] [[Category:The Antarctic ice sheet]] Return to Observations of the ice sheet. Retrieved from ‘http://acce.scar.org/wiki/Observations_of_the_ice_sheet’	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line20
__label__cc	0.50119	0.49881	Pharma Companies Win Case Against Drug Price Transparency By: Jacqueline Luqman One of the Trump administration’s promises leading up to 2020 is to reduce prescription drug prices, but the plan has stalled after a big court loss, and other blows to Trump’s grand healthcare plan. Wendell Potter discusses the implications The post Pharma Companies Win Case Against Drug Price Transparency appeared... UN Report on Venezuela Fails to Reflect the Causes and Severity of the Economic Crisis – Why? (2/2) By: Gregory Wilpert Alfred de Zayas says the UN Human Rights Council’s report on Venezuela left out essential aspects in its otherwise damning report on Venezuela because the council has increasingly fallen under the sway of the demands of the US government The post UN Report on Venezuela Fails to Reflect the Causes... No War, No Warming with Rev. 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__label__cc	0.736938	0.263062	The opening scene of The Forever War by Dexter Filkins presents us with the sight of U.S. soldiers preparing for their invasion of Falluja. Filkins is there to witness the attack; amidst the growl of tanks and Humvees, and "by the light of airstrikes and rockets," he writes, there is suddenly something sonically unexpected. [Image: "An Advanced Individual Training Soldier in the Psychological Operations Specialist Course attaches a loud speaker on top of a High Mobility Multi-Wheeled Vehicle, or HUMVEE, at Forward Operating Base Freedom, Camp MacKall, N.C." Courtesy of the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School]. "And then, as if from the depths," Filkins writes, "came a new sound: violent, menacing and dire." I looked back over my shoulder to where we had come from, into the vacant field at Falluja's northern edge. A group of marines were standing at the foot of a gigantic loudspeaker, the kind used at rock concerts. It was AC/DC, the Australian heavy metal band, pouring out its unbridled sounds. I recognized the song immediately: "Hells Bells," the band's celebration of satanic power, had come to us on the battlefield. While by no means advocating the use of sonic warfare as a tool in U.S. military adventures or police operations, I nonetheless instantly thought of this scene—of armed soldiers holding aloft rock-blaring boom boxes, like some John Milius-directed remake of Say Anything—when I read, in a very different context, that bark beetles can be driven out of the pine forests they currently infest if you play digitally-altered sounds of their own chewing back at them through loud speakers. The high-volume sound of themselves drives them away. A research assistant suggested using sounds to aggravate the beetles, much as police sometimes blare music in hostage situations. The researchers tried Queen and Guns N' Roses and played snippets of radio talker Rush Limbaugh backward. None produced the desired results. Then, the beetles were exposed to digitally altered recordings of their own calls, the sounds they make to attract or repel other beetles. The response was immediate. The beetles stopped mating or burrowing. Some fled, helter-skelter. Some violently attacked each other. Most important, they stopped chewing away at the pine tree, suggesting that the scientists may have discovered a sort of sonic bullet that could help slow the beetles' destructive march. Again, I do not mean to imply that infestation metaphors are the most appropriate to use when discussing Operation Phantom Fury, or that military action in that city was analogous to clearing a forest of bark beetles; but the audio possibilities here, and the specifics of the set-up, seem amazing. [Image: A ponderosa pine forest; within those trunks might be beetles]. More about the actual experiment, run at Northern Arizona University's Forestry Lab: They collected tree trunks infested with bark beetles... Working in the lab, [research assistant Reagan McGuire] piped in the music through tiny speakers, the sort you might find in a singing greeting card. He watched the reaction of the beetles using a microscope. The rock music didn't seem to annoy the bugs, nor did Rush in reverse. McGuire and [Northern Arizona University forest entomologist Richard Hofstetter] decided to try something different. They recorded the sounds of the beetles and played them back, manipulating them to test the response. Suddenly, every little thing they did seemed to provoke the beetles. "We could use a particular aggression call that would make the beetles move away from the sound as if they were avoiding another beetle," Hofstetter said. When they made the beetle sounds louder and stronger than a typical male mating call, he said, the female beetle rejected the male and moved toward the electronic sound. These audio simulations, in other words, had demonstrable physical effects on another species; their own warped sonic portrait drove them crazy. So could you reprogram your Marsona 1288A ("create a personalized sound environment") with the digitally-altered ambient sounds of termites and thus clear your house of insectile pests? The USDA, after all, has published a paper—download the PDF—explaining how a "portable, low-frequency acoustic system was used to detect termite infestations in urban trees." Indeed, "termite sounds could be detected easily underneath infested trees, despite the presence of high urban background noise." So why not reverse this—drive them out of the city using weird MP3s specially produced for boom cars? Perhaps we should petition Clear Channel or Sirius XM to premiere a new, insect-only broadcast hour, killing ants and roaches in every city where it's played (or perhaps just driving them all out, streaming from the floorboards, in a moment of utter horror). I'm reminded here of the famous example of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles, with its "dog whistle—which humans can't hear—buried on the album's second side." Only, in our case, it would be a different kind of beetle-whistle, and one with anti-infestational effects. (Bark beetle story found via @treestrategist). Posted Friday, February 12, 2010 • 16 comment(s) cf. Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear [Steve Goodman, 2009] ? Will said... The thing about the beetles panicking and violently attacking each other reminds me of the Stephen King novel Cell, in which everyone who happens to be using a cell phone at a certain moment suddenly turns homicidal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_%28novel%29 Will, that, in turn, sounds like the film The Signal. Perhaps I'm missing something, but I always wonder why the AC/DC - or whatever - doesn't also drive the US troops crazy. Can't they hear it just as well? Or do they wear earplugs? And if so, can't the enemy also wear earplugs? '...like some John Milius directed remake of Say Anything...' Another in a long list of reasons I love the internet. So Geoff, linking up Cell/The Signal and your modest proposal to Clear Channel, imagine they act on your recommendation, broadcast the anti-roach signal, and unleash Kafka's Metamorphosis on a city-wide scale - hundreds of thousands of Gregor Samsas who awake after anxious dreams to discover that they believe they have been turned into giant insects. Having had the corrupted roach-identity beamed into them, they set about reconfiguring the city ... actually, forget I said anything. (Fires memory-ray, steals idea.) Not the same Will... The beetles story reminds me of Burroughs' attack on the first UK scientology office: film them, project the film onto their building, film them again. That worked. if we drive the bugs out of the forrest, and we drive them out of the city... where will they go? I sit in an apartment with floorboard cracks above a pizza shop with a tin ceiling on the corner of Canal Street, once the fireworks hub of NYC, car stereos are installed, and fake bags are sold amidst the cacophony of desperate hawkers ... TOO-LOUD SOUND is familiar ... and I'm tempted to insert a mic through the floor and connect an aggressive subwoofer (screwed to the floor) and in my absence train the people below through biofeedback. Bugs. On a wider scale perhaps apartment buildings could be wired this way. Tread lightly. Surely, as in Delicatessen, and implied by Brazil's ductwork, a clear connection to one's neighbors can have a tempering quality. In fact, a large hole in the floor would also allow the heat up to warm my apartment ... with the added benefit of being able to dumb-waiter pizzas through the hole, if it were big enough and the pizzas were worthy (they aren't). I am reminded of living on tatami in Japan and listening to mice or more likely cockroaches chewing quietly somewhere within ... reminded that it was quiet enough to hear such things, paper walls notwithstanding. On a slightly different note, termite mounds vs. office towers wherein bankers plot their conspiracies. Think 2001 where HAL reads lips ... take a Laser-3000 Microphone Listening Device and point it to the tower windows and stream the conversations therein for public consumption. The economic shakedown equivalent of beetle feedback. I know this is barely related to the topic of discussion but a metalhead has to make the comment: lolz AC/DC is considered "heavy metal" by reporter. There is a sinister analogy between this very effective strategy of disinfestation and the controversial "Mosquito" device, used for solving loitering problems, that is, for disinfestating public spaces from teenagers' "antisocial behaviour": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mosquito - http://www.compoundsecurity.co.uk/mosquito-mk4-multi-age Derrick said... Geoff, I'm sure your aware of the use of LRAD systems. They essentially have the same effects of flash bangs and are used on a lot of ships at sea for protection from pirates. There's been a lot of development in the military with these technologies, and many police forces are starting to use them. Andrea, the Mosquito device is an excellent example – thanks for the reminder! I wish I had mentioned it myself. Derrick, Daniel Perlin gave a talk last autumn, at a conference organized by Ed Keller, that was all about noise weaponry and such like, including LRADs; it was a fascinating talk. The directed-weaponization of sound in LRADs is something that absolutely amazes me, from an acoustic as well as (fairly uneasy) political standpoint. Will, I like these ideas! The sonically subliminal Kafka signal that transforms a city's residents into roaches. A short story for the next issue of Icon, perhaps? UNRR said... This post has been linked for the HOT5 Daily 2/20/2010, at The Unreligious Right isaaclinder said... and then, a record that might be of interest to you: http://www.acousticecology.org/dunn/solit.html	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line48
__label__cc	0.542445	0.457555	Home Archives Collections Blog Elsewhere Archive 1 Archive 2 Archive 3 Archive 4 Tall Stories Kicking & Screaming Dead Peasants Dr Bongo's Casebook The History of Rock The Site Map Books Twitter Facebook YouTube Contact Fleegle The world of mathematics has been shattered by the discovery of a new number, a value that appears between the numbers 5 and 6. It first came to light in January when Katie O'Kelly a research statistician working for a small experimental accounting firm in southern England, found it by accident. "I was working late one night," Katie explains, "trying out a radical new double entry procedure. Some of the numbers I was working on were quite hazardous, so my ledgers were confined to a fume cupboard. Anyway, after I had carried all the figures and balanced all the entries, I found I had an unexplained residue - a number that had never been seen before." 'Brooki', 'fartex' and 'spog' The new number was officially recognised by a special meeting of the United Nations last month. It is provisionally being referred to as '5a', although 'brooki', 'fartex' and 'spog' are amongst the names that have been suggested. The current favourite is 'fleegle', after one of the Banana Splits. It has been predicted that this new number will have serious repercussions in three key areas, namely: gambling, the manufacture of diaries, and the fundamental mechanics of the physical universe as we know it. Of these, it is the second that is thought to be the most problematic. North Korea, which produces 75% of the entire world's diaries and calendars, has accused leading figures in the UN of a conspiracy to cripple its economy. The value we know as 'ten' will have to be completely redefined Hosowever, Andrew Wightman, a collector of rare and exotic numbers, and a keen backgammon juggler, is anxious to stress some of the other implications. "Our whole numerical system revolves around base ten," he points out. "This new number will throw all of that into confusion. In effect, the value we know as 'ten' will have to be completely redefined. "Think how that might affect someone serving ten years in prison. Will he be required to serve an extra year? Or will he be released a year early? "What about music? The musical scale will contain an extra note. Will this mean whole new forms of music will be possible? "Or athletics - can we expect world records to be broken when the 100m hurdles is suddenly being run over a longer distance?" Anti-leap year These concerns may be largely academic. The new number means a longer year - an extra twelve days longer. In order to cope with this, an 'anti-leap year' has been suggested, but it has been decided that this is too complicated and unworkable. Instead, plans are afoot to push the Earth a few miles out into space using giant rocket motors strapped to the side of a mountain in Peru. This will lengthen the Earth's orbit to match the new year. The unfortunate consequence of this is that this will also destroy all life on the planet - but at least people won't have to keep resetting their central heating boilers. Return to Archive 1 Books and Free Downloads Tweets by @Proper_Obvious Medieval Castles Mr Chokice has noted that the main entrance is only protected by a turnstile. An Old Fart Remembers... It were different back in them days... Exploding Trousers Guaranteed flameproof Vet Shortage Vet exams to be made easier. Nelson's Travel Kettle Archeologists unearth historic appliance. Fraudulent Bananas Some of these bananas are bent Latest blog entries... 21 March 2019: Splosh 19 March 2019: Man Shreds Birth Certificate, Ceases to Exist 18 March 2019: CGI Copyright © Paul Farnsworth 2001	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line49
__label__wiki	0.524811	0.524811	Sabres halt losing skid, defeat Senators at home Richard Gutowski The Buffalo Sabres snapped their three game losing streak and defeated the Ottawa Senators in a shoot out by a score of 2-1. Buffalo’s hard work, persistent play, and some juggling of the lines paid off this evening, after suffering a couple of tough losses this past week. The first period of the game started out like many of the other ones this season, with one team dominating play with the other team trying to weather the storm. The only difference this time is that it was Sabres applying the pressure. For the first four minutes of the game Buffalo was swarming the Senators and had many great scoring chances. The Ottawa net minder, Robin Lehner,was up to the task and kept the Sabres off the scoreboard. At the 6:25 mark of the period the Sabres had a bit of a defensive let down. With Tyler Myers pinching in with an attempt to keep the puck in the Senator’s zone, Ottawa stormed out of their end on a two on one. On a pretty passing play from Cory Conacher to Milan Michalek, who shoveled the puck past Ryan Miller for his fifth of the season, the Senators went to the dressing room with a one nothing lead. The second period began with Ottawa having the edge in play. With about half the period gone the Sabres and especially defenseman Brayden McNabb had an exceptionally strong shift resulting in a penalty being called on Erik Karlsson for hooking. While the Sabres failed to score with the man advantage, the team seemed to gain some momentum. Three minutes later Christian Ehrhoff gathered a loose puck in his own zone and brought into the Senator’s zone. After Ehrhoff’s shot was steered to the corner, Zemgus Girgensons picked up the loose puck and slapped it towards Lehner. The puck somehow slipped past the Ottawa goal tender and Girgenson’s third of the year tied the game at one. The play began to open up quite a bit in the third period and both net minders came up with some big saves during the period. Twice during the period Miller robbed the Senators on point blank opportunities. Both Mika Zibanejad and Kyle Turris found themselves in front of Miller and on both accounts, Miller stuck out his right pad and kept the game knotted up. Four on four play in the overtime period carried over much the same way as the third with Ottawa having the upper hand in play but unable to put the winner past Miller. The shoot out started perfect for the Sabres with Matt Moulson wristing a shot past Lehner for the one nothing lead. The lead was short lived however and it would take ten rounds to finally decide the outcome. Zemgus Girgensons , in his first opportunity in a shoot out, slid a back hander past the Ottawa goalie. After Miller shut the door on ex-Sabre Clark MacArthur, Buffalo came away with the 2-1 victory. The two teams will meet again Thursday night for the back end of the home and home series, at the Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa. Puck drops shortly after 7:30 PM and the game will be broadcast on MSG. Related TopicsehrhoffGirgensonsLehnerMillerSabresSenators	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line57
__label__cc	0.738897	0.261103	Hot Copy By Waiting a Year to Tell All, Donna Brazile Gets Tongues Wagging After Trump staffers gave exit interviews after the election, one of her literary agents warned: ‘Same-day exit interviews cost those who do them hundreds of thousands of dollars.’ Senior Columnist The Washington Post/Getty It was a busy news week (as they all now are), but that didn’t stop Donna Brazile from gobbling up lots of attention with excerpts from her new tell-all book. On Thursday, explosive excerpts leaked asserted that the DNC had unfairly put the thumbs on the scale in favor of Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary. These comments set tongues wagging, but also generated tremendous pushback—with the former DNC chair herself seeming to walk away from them herself Sunday on ABC News’ “This Week,” even as she explained that, being from Louisiana, “I’m going to put some hot sauce on each page.” Dozens of former Clinton campaign staffers signed a letter criticizing Brazile’s depiction of the campaign, writing, “we do not recognize the campaign she portrays in the book.” Then, late Saturday, the onslaught continued when news broke that Brazile had mulled replacing Clinton on the ballot with Vice President Joe Biden. It’s unclear to me how much of Brazile’s story is true or false—or if it is simply being over-hyped in an effort to gin up buzz for what might otherwise be just another prosaic political memoir. It’s entirely plausible that a party chair might briefly consider a contingency plan after the party’s nominee nearly faints on camera. But if that passing thought is never spoken or acted on, does it deserve the amount of clamor and attention that it has gotten? If you want to sell books, the answer is a resounding “Yes!” By virtue of necessity, successful book authors are almost always shameless flacks. And if the purpose of a memoir is to get inside the writer’s head and see what she’s thinking during crucial moments—and finally shed light on her thinking, then that might be a worthwhile thing—even if her thinking doesn’t always comport with reality. One big reason Brazile’s comments are garnering so much attention is that she went a year in virtual silence. Had these rumors trickled out randomly, they might have been quickly dismissed. But when a former DNC chair strategically releases written excerpts, it’s virtually guaranteed to make a bang. I’m reminded of something that Keith Urbahn, one of Brazile’s literary agents, tweeted a while back. After Trump staffers like Reince Priebus and Sean Spicer gave "exit interviews" to the media on their way out the door, Urban warned: "Same-day exit interviews cost those who do them literally hundreds of thousands of dollars in book advance & speaking fees." In other words, keep your powder dry. Don't tell the best parts of your story before the book is ready. Save the good stuff. Let people wonder what you might say later. Always leave them wanting more. (Note: Urbahn’s company, Javelin, also represents me as literary agents and for my TV contract.) Someone took his advice. Brazile is dominating headlines, and one suspects this, coupled with anticipation, might translate into book sales. Will another shoe drop? What else might she reveal? Things could get interesting. And, perhaps even more important, is the fact that this rollout could serve as a harbinger of things to come. Did I mention that Javelin is doing James Comey's forthcoming book, too?	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line68
__label__wiki	0.940268	0.940268	Abuse Victim—or Cold-Blooded Killer? New York Mom on Trial for Boyfriend’s Murder Nicole Addimando claims she killed her longtime boyfriend in self-defense after suffering years of abuse. Prosecutors say she painted herself as a victim to justify murder. Kate Briquelet Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Facebook A New York woman is on trial for the murder of her longtime boyfriend, a 30-year-old Poughkeepsie gymnastics coach and the father of her two kids—but her supporters claim she fatally shot the victim in self-defense. As the rebuttal goes, Nicole Addimando feared for her life, after suffering years of physical and sexual abuse at the hands of Christopher Grover. The 30-year-old mother’s story has rallied domestic violence advocates in the Hudson Valley to raise more than $74,000 for her legal defense. An event for Addimando in January was headlined by famed Vagina Monologues playwright Eve Ensler. Now her trial is entering its third week in a Dutchess County courtroom, where prosecutors have claimed the 2017 killing was no act of self-defense. They accused Addimando—who faces charges including second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter—of fabricating a tale about an abusive partner to justify a cold-blooded murder. Addimando’s supporters have appeared in court wearing purple—the color associated with domestic-violence awareness—while Grover’s friends and family wore T-shirts with the words “Justice for Chris” in red letters. Last week, Grover’s supporters stood outside the courthouse with balloons on what would have been his 32nd birthday. On Monday, a Hyde Park police officer and a forensic nurse examiner both testified on different instances where Addimando alleged abuse by Grover. According to the Poughkeepsie Journal, one Hyde Park detective said he had cops ready to arrest Grover in November 2015, when Addimando claimed Grover posted explicit images of her to the pornography site PornHub. But officers couldn’t bust Grover, because his girlfriend was unwilling to sign a deposition detailing the allegations. Meanwhile, a forensic nurse examiner testified that she documented Addimando’s injuries during one September 2014 visit. Addimando had a bruise on her face and on the back of her neck, a bite mark on her shoulder, red marks on her private areas, which could have been caused by burns, rashes or friction, the nurse said. Addimando didn’t request a sexual assault forensic exam during the visit, the nurse testified. Grover was “a great father” and coach, but “he was different behind closed doors,” Addimando testified in her defense last week, according to the Poughkeepsie Journal. “The same things everyone in this courtroom misses about him, I fell in love with,” Addimando told jurors, adding that she stayed because she hoped he’d change back into the man she first met. Grover’s death in September 2017—and Addimando’s arrest soon after—shocked the community about 85 miles north of New York City. One friend of Addimando’s previously told the Journal that she was “the most loving mother in the world.” “This is not like her,” the friend said. “This is not her. She is the nicest person.” On Facebook, colleagues and friends shared tributes to Grover, who was described as a “loving father” and gifted gymnastics coach. “Traveling to competitions with Chris was always an adventure... a minute wouldn’t go by without Chris making me laugh like crazy or tell an out of this world story,” one pal wrote after Grover’s death. Marisa and Todd Hart, the owners of Mr. Todd’s Gymnastics, where Addimando worked until 2011, wrote that Grover was as excited as “a kid in the candy store” about starting the next season with their gymnasts. “Chris and Nikki and have both touched many lives at our gym,” the Harts said in their post. “I am friends with Nikki as well and just don’t know what life brought to her but our thoughts are with her and her family as well.” Prosecutors say Addimando shot Grover at close range as he slept on a couch in the apartment they shared with their two young children on Sept. 27 or Sept. 28, 2017. “This isn’t self-defense,” special prosecutor Chana Krauss said during opening arguments, according to the Journal, adding that Addimando’s “rehearsed story of abuse and bizarre narration of events... falls apart in the details.” On Sept. 27, 2017, an anonymous complaint about bruises on Addimando led to Child Protective Services visiting the couple’s home. Marisa Hart testified last month that Grover called to say he’d be late for work that day because of a meeting with CPS, the Journal reported. “He said, ‘You are never going to believe this... they were there for me.’ He said they had showed up and they had questioned him about hurting Nikki,” Marisa Hart told jurors. Hart recalled Grover saying he had nothing to hide and that he encouraged CPS workers to review his phone and his laptop. When Addimando and Hart spoke on the phone later that day, Addimando claimed she bruises easily and gave Hart a heads up that CPS might be calling her. Addimando warned Hart not to let the CPS investigators know they spoke, Hart testified. According to Hart’s testimony, Grover said that “if anybody is being abused in this relationship, it’s me, mentally.” Addimando would later tell police that Grover demanded that she fix the situation, so she spent the day calling people listed as CPS witnesses and asking them to tell the agency everything was OK with their family. When Grover arrived home from work, Addimando told cops, he showed her how to load his gun. That night, the couple also had sex, though “it wasn’t the usual violent sex,” she noted in an early police interview. Addimando told cops she waited for Grover to fall asleep on the couch so she could leave but that when she got up, Grover grabbed the gun from between the cushions. “He pulled me back down I jumped up and I kneed him a little bit... he dropped it (the gun)... I held it to him,” Addimando said in the police interview. “You won’t do it,” Grover said, according to Addimando. On the witness stand last week, Addimando said Grover took the gun out of a box in their bedroom closet and “told me he could kill me in my sleep.” The night Grover died, he discussed what would happen if he shot her in different parts of her head, Addimando testified. When the prosecutor asked whether she called or texted anybody for help, Addimando said no. Addimando said she and Grover laid on the couch that night, and Grover wrapped his arms around her. She testified that she was waiting for him to fall asleep so she could leave with the kids, but he woke when she stood up. Grover pulled the gun out of the couch and pointed it at her, Addimando told jurors. She said she kneed him between his legs and the weapon dropped to the floor. The mom testified that she then dived over the sofa to retrieve the gun, the Journal reported. “You beat him to it?” Krauss asked, to which Addimando replied, “I did. Thank God.” Addimando testified that Grover laughed at her and told her she wouldn’t shoot him. Instead, Grover allegedly warned, he’d shoot her, then himself. “I just lunged and pulled the trigger,” Addimando claimed in court, adding that the gun “made contact with him when I lunged forward.” After the shooting, Addimando flagged down a patrol officer around 2:16 a.m. on Sept. 28, 2017, leading cops to her Town of Poughkeepsie apartment. The officer, Richard Sisilli, was heading to another call when he stopped behind Addimando’s red car, the Poughkeepsie Journal reported. When the light turned green and Addimando’s vehicle didn’t budge, Sisilli blew an air horn and the mother got out of her vehicle. Addimando, who was visibly upset, and the cop had a two-hour conversation in which she said “that she tried to leave and the gun went off,” Sisilli said during a previous hearing in the case. Sisilli added that he didn’t initially consider her a suspect, but a possible victim of domestic violence. Her kids were asleep in their car seats, Sisilli noted. In her recent testimony, Addimando said Grover began sexually abusing her weeks after her son was born. Grover “started to force me to have sex,” she said, while answering questions from one of her attorneys. “He said I was a good mom, but he has needs, too.” According to the Journal, jurors were shown photos of Addimando’s burn marks, bruises and a bite mark—injuries she claims were caused by Grover. They also saw sexually explicit photos that Addimando claims Grover took and uploaded to porn websites. “He bit me. He stepped on my face once. He choked me multiple times. He used to put me in headlocks,” Addimando testified, adding that Grover watched porn constantly after their daughter was born in 2015. “He tried to recreate what he was watching. He bound me, he tied me up (with fabric or twine)… he would have sex with me and laugh at me and tell me to get out of the restraints myself. Sometimes he left me tied up for hours,” Addimando told jurors. Meanwhile, a forensic scientist testified that blood was found in Addimando’s underwear, but that state police do not have tests to determine if the blood is menstrual or from an injury, the Journal reported. Still, prosecutors have also presented data from Grover’s and Addimando’s phones which they suggest reveals Addimando’s plans to kill her boyfriend. Someone conducted searches on Grover’s phone hours before cops found his body. According to the Journal, those queries included: What would happen if someone was asleep and someone shot them in the head? Will they wake up and die, or die instantly? Where do you have to get shot in the head to die instantly? Other searches were: Part of the brain to shoot in a suicide? How do they determine if a person was asleep when shot? Will police know if she was asleep when I shot her? Addimando was behind those searches, prosecutors say, and some of those were auto-corrected to read “she” instead of “he.” For their part, Addimando’s legal team says there’s no evidence she conducted the research. Some texts arguing about household responsibilities, according to authorities, were deleted from both Addimando’s and Grover’s phones. A text Addimando sent another person, in which she mentioned killing Grover, was also deleted from her phone: “I haven’t found out a way to kill him without being caught, so I’m still here.” Addimando testified that text was a joke and the conversation continued with “all the reasons I needed to stay and why I couldn’t leave.” Krauss said Addimando “wore the pants” in her relationship and, according to texts sent before his death, would call Grover stupid, say he had a mental disorder and refer to him as a “man child,” the Journal reported. “Maybe you’ll be happier if I go, if I make you so unhappy,” Grover replied in one text to Addimando, according to prosecutors. But Addimando’s attorney, John Ingrassia, told jurors during opening arguments that Grover targeted his girlfriend with “severe and extreme sexual violence.” Alleged instances of violence include Grover burning Addimando with a heated metal kitchen utensil while she was pregnant with their second child, the Journal reported. “This is a story of a young woman... making a decision to protect her life, to live,” Ingrassia said. @kbriqueletkate.briquelet@thedailybeast.com	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line69
__label__wiki	0.594091	0.594091	Adobe TechComm Blog FrameMaker XML Author FrameMaker Server RoboHelp Server ExtendScript Technical Communication Suite XML Documentation Add-on for Adobe Experience Manager Congree DITAToo FontoXML SQUIDDS Thomas Aldous Bernard Aschwanden Don Day John Daigle Anthony Davey Ray Gallon Jang Graat Tammy Halter Cheryl Landes Neus Lorenzo Colum McAndrew Neil Perlin Kevin Siegel Matt Sullivan Markus Wiedenmaier Raymond Urgo Adobe & Yamaha – Product manuals in over 20 languages with Adobe FrameMaker Customer SuccessFrameMakerProducts Global musical instrument manufacturer increases efficiency and reduces costs using Adobe FrameMaker and translation memory tools. “The greatest advantage to introducing FrameMaker is the ability to produce multilingual manuals without increasing translation costs.” Yukio Endo, Department Manager, Musical Instruments & Audio Products Development Group, Manual Development Department, Yamaha Corporation Four manual production divisions adopt Adobe FrameMaker Yamaha is a worldwide musical instrument manufacturer, with a history spanning more than 125 years. The company has developed a diverse product lineup, from expertly crafted acoustic and electronic instruments driven by leading-edge digital technology, to hybrid instruments in which the two types of technology are integrated. Yamaha is highly regarded by music lovers around the world, from beginners to professionals. Yamaha’s manual production studio deals exclusively with manuals for non-acoustic instruments and audio products, to help users master these Yamaha products. In the past, manual production was organized in four divisions: electronic instruments, professional audio (PA) devices, audio visual (AV) devices, and sound networks. These divisions were consolidated as part of a restructuring. The 20-person studio has played a central role in advancing manual production through the collaboration of in-house documentation authors and several outsourced production and translation companies. Yamaha has been using Adobe FrameMaker software for manual production since the late 1990s. Yukio Endo, Department Manager of the Manual Development Department, reflects on how FrameMaker was introduced: Our products are favored all over the world, but by 1997 or 1998, our multilingual manuals were produced in only four languages: English, German, French, and Spanish. As our overseas subsidiaries increased in number due to further global development, it became necessary to accommodate all 20 of the official languages of the EU nations for our digital pianos and other hot-selling products. However, because the cost of translation would be too high using conventional methods of manual production, we sought a production environment that would allow us to efficiently incorporate multiple languages. At that time, each of the four previous manual production divisions was independently searching for an efficient environment for incorporating multiple languages. All four divisions separately adopted Adobe FrameMaker. The greatest advantage to introducing FrameMaker is the ability to produce multilingual manuals without increasing translation costs due to strong compatibility with translation memory tools, adds Endo. Using FrameMaker and translation memory to minimize costs Just what was it that made FrameMaker so effective in the production of multilingual manuals? One reason was its strong compatibility with the translation memory tool, SDL Trados. This meant more than just streamlining translation tasks and standardizing and improving translation quality. Until that time, no method was established for calculating the rate of reuse of legacy resources in the translation fees, so it took a huge amount of time and effort to determine these fees. Using translation memory made it possible to set up an environment that would allow us to rationally calculate fees in a form that all parties could agree on, says Endo. Yamaha then asked its outsourced production companies to adopt Adobe FrameMaker as well, which resulted in a manual production environment that would allow the efficient incorporation of multiple languages. Even when the number of words to be translated increased, using SDL Trados made it possible to keep translation costs in check. While the number of products we supported increased, the translation fees we paid to translation companies over the course of the year showed virtually no change, says Endo. It also became unnecessary to adjust fees with the translation companies, while becoming easier to estimate the necessary budget beforehand. Streamlining translation tasks using conditional text and limiting the number of characters Hideaki Ishikawa, Assistant Manager of the Manual Development Department, explains how using the functions of FrameMaker greatly streamlined the business. When authoring manuals for two products that have the same functions, using conditional text makes it possible to adapt a single source for the two manuals. This made it possible to produce manuals for about half of what we used to spend, says Ishikawa. “We also didn’t have to worry about missing something when doing maintenance on the manuals, since it was from one source. Creating templates in FrameMaker also made it possible to preserve the visual appearance of the manuals and retain a sense of cohesion in them.” Hideaki Ishikawa, Assistant Manager, Musical Instruments & Audio Products Development Group, Manual Development Department, Yamaha Corporation Ishikawa also deals with simplifying sections in the text that follow a prior model, and reducing the number of pages and the amount of text, during manual revisions. Ishikawa explains that this does not merely reduce costs, it also improves user-friendliness. With products that have a long life cycle, there may be sections in the text of previous editions that feel old, so we polish them up to sound more current. Today’s users don’t really read long stretches of text, even if it’s well-written, says Ishikawa. I think that with, for example, content that is more easily conveyed through visual rather than written form, users tend to prefer that we post video clips on a website and do other things to divide information that we want to convey, clarifying in the planning steps how much should be explained in the manual, and leaving out superfluous explanation. By improving the user interface of its products, Yamaha deals with creating products that can be operated intuitively, even without the manual needing to be read. There are also times when Ishikawa is involved with the user interface from the standpoint of manual production. Achieving exceptional compatibility and continuity With products that have a long life cycle, there are also cases when product manuals from ten years ago are revised. Hirofumi Oishi, Supervisor of the Manual Development Department, discusses backward compatibility with older versions as one of the attractions of FrameMaker. Even when using a newer version of FrameMaker is used to open a manual that was made ten years ago, there are practically no problems, says Oishi. Layout is stable and requires minimal effort, which is of tremendous help. With files made using FrameMaker, it is relaxing to know that old manuals can be handled as well. For Oishi, another advantage to using FrameMaker is that when producing long manuals having more than 300 pages, the numerous and complex cross-references can be automated. We’ve been using FrameMaker since version 6. Before that there was no DTP software capable of cross-referencing, so we were inputting reference pages and chapter titles into the manuals by hand, says Oishi. By automating this task, cross-references can be incorporated without any concern about downstream processes, which allows us to produce more user-friendly manuals. Corrections are also automatically updated, leading to a significant decrease in man-hours. “This is just my personal opinion, but I think FrameMaker is well-suited for writing documentation, not only for operators and designers who have experience with DTP, but also writers and technicians. If possible, technicians should move up from writing documentation to becoming au fait with FrameMaker.” Hirofumi Oishi, Supervisor, Musical Instruments & Audio Products Development Group, Manual Development Department, Yamaha Corporation Sharing FrameMaker knowledge with an eye toward document structuring Prior to the four manual production divisions being consolidated into the present manual production studio, Endo was affiliated with the electronic instrument division, Ishikawa with the PA device division, and Oishi with the AV device division. Due to there being minimal exchange of information between the various divisions, the knowledge for using FrameMaker and creating manuals was isolated within each division. Going forward, I want to share the knowledge separately held by the four divisions in relation to manual creation and FrameMaker, and use it to further streamline the business. Although we have yet to use document structuring, which is another FrameMaker feature, we remain aware of it and are keeping an eye on the situation, says Endo. Sharing this know-how undoubtedly allows Yamaha to create manuals in a more efficient and user-friendly way. You can download the Adobe & Yamaha case study as a PDF here. Customer Success, FrameMaker, Products Adobe (272), Case Study (2), FrameMaker (339), Trados (1), Translation (6) by Stefan Gentz By Molly Armstrong - 11:21 PM on March 21, 2017 Reply Hi! In Framemaker, is there a way to change the editing (spell-check) language? To Spanish, for example–like you can in Microsoft Word? Thanks! By Stefan Gentz - 9:45 PM on April 3, 2017 Reply Hi Molly, yes, you can do this. Just set the language of the paragraph (style) to Spanish. By Prashant Bhonde - 10:36 AM on January 8, 2016 Reply Can anybody tell me how to convert adobe framemaker file from US english to other language, for example, from US english to spanish, Japnese, Itailan and so on. Pls. provide at least a video file, which will help me. I would appreciate the Written instruction also. Prashant Bhonde By Stefan Gentz - 1:25 PM on January 8, 2016 Reply Hi Prashant, what exactly do you mean with “convert an Adobe FrameMaker file from US English to another language”? Do you mean the content itself (the text) or the styles (paragraph / character style language)? Usually, a (professional) translation process looks like this: You send your FrameMaker files to a Language Service Provider (“LSP”) or directly to a freelance translator. They will use a professional CAT tool like the one mentioned in the case study. Those tools can import FrameMaker files (MIF). Professional translators have usually studied the language(s) in question and specialized on the domain of your content (like aerospace, IT, electronics, software, financials, legal etc.). They translate the content sentence by sentence and store each such “Translation Unit” (source language sentence + translated sentence) into a database so that it can be “recycled” later, whenever the sentence appears in the text again. When the translation is done, they export it as a translated MIF file in the target language and sent it back to you along with an invoice  You can see an example of such a process here in a video that I recorded a couple of months ago with Kilgray (they make the CAT tool “memoQ”): RTL Documentation workflows with Adobe FrameMaker 2015 and Kilgray memoQ 2015. Name E-Mail Website Comment	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line71
__label__cc	0.631752	0.368248	How Slavery Helped Build a World Economy by the Schomburg Center Posted by : ADAMS O.OAugust 30, 2018 Leave a comment “Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!”—Patrick Henry, Speech in the Virginia Convention, March, 1775. The Transatlantic Slave Trade by Toyin Falola and Saheed Aderinto The Transatlantic Slave Trade began in the late 15th century in Nigeria. By 1471, Portuguese navigators hoping to tap the fabled Saharan gold trade had reconnoitered the West African coast as far as the Niger Delta, and traded European commodities for local crafts as well as slaves, the latter which turned out to be highly lucrative. Long-term effects of slave exporting in West Africa By Nonso Obikili History matters. Historical events can sometimes have consequences that last long after the events have finished. An important part of Africa’s past is its history of slave exporting. Although Africa is not unique to the trading of slaves, the magnitude of slave exporting rose to levels not previously experienced anywhere else in the world. Between 1500 and 1900, an estimated 10 million slaves were exported from West and Central Africa. Lending by the IMF A country in severe financial trouble, unable to pay its international bills, poses potential problems for the stability of the international financial system, which the IMF was created to protect. Ever wonder how hedge fund managers think and how they are sometimes able to generate explosive returns for their investors? You aren’t alone. Emerging markets: who’s taking the biggest hits and why? Donald Trump’s trade tariffs are causing tremors in global markets. Emerging economies from Turkey to China are finding it more expensive to export to the US. Investors who put their money in safe havens after the 2012 Greek crisis are nervous again. Subscribe to our mailing list to get updates to your email inbox. Like Us On Facebook By Clicking On ‘LIKE’ Below And Logging Into Your Facebook Page Blue Mercury Editorials How Apple Is Invading Our Bodies The Silicon Valley giant has redrawn the line that separates our technology and ourselves. That may not be a good thing With the unveiling of the Apple Watch Tuesday in Cupertino, California, Apple is attempting to put technology somewhere where it’s never been particularly welcome. Like a pushy date, the Apple Watch wants to get intimate with us in a way we’re not entirely used to or prepared for. This isn’t just a new product, this is technology attempting to colonize our bodies BLUE MERCURY SPORT Manchester City remain very keen to sign Alexis Sanchez from Arsenal before Deadline Day ends. So far, City have still only made the one bid for Sanchez - a £50m offer which was rejected by Arsenal - contrary to reports of a second offer. City it is understood will improve that initial offer, though, and club officials are in Chile to help co-ordinate any medical or personal negotiations if a deal is agreed between the two clubs. Read More Here ... Women fake orgasms for better sex: report A study has found that sometimes faking orgasms during sex helps women increase their own arousal, according to a report. Research published in the Journal of Sexual Archives found that pretending to enjoy sex can actually make the whole experience more pleasurable, the UK's Independent newspaper reported. BLUE MERCURY TV KISS DANIEL – GOOD TIME	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line74
__label__wiki	0.772721	0.772721	PICNIC Time (1955) Picnic was a big hit movie of 1955 that went to hook itself an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. William Holden felt he was too old for the role he played, which he was, but he was a hot box office star in the 1950s and would bring folks to the movie. My mother loved him. She didn't care about the movie's plot. If it starred William Holden, that was all she needed to know. The Picnic movie theme was a best-selling record that I heard on L.A. radio a lot when I was growing up. On summer vacations, when I was in high school, Picnic was one my favorite movies to stay up late and watch. Local KABC TV/Channel 7 played it often on its Late Show. I thought the movie was cool. Heck, William Holden was cool. And this was a movie based on a William Inge play. His works always had some Heartland USA unspoken lust. Sexual frustration would cause a character to freak out and have a Midwest meltdown. Being a Catholic teen-ager, I was familiar with sexual frustration. The Picnic movie ad and the soundtrack cover were the same and reflected that unexpected Kansas passion. A ripped shirt and a low-cut dress. Feel the heat. William Holden as a beefcake drifter, Kim Novak as a Kansas babe country girl, Rosalind Russell as spinster schoolteacher and young Susan Strasberg as the bookworm kid sister to the Kansas babe country girl. All these neurotic characters come together for a hot Labor Day picnic with a mid-life crisis or two. In order to make Holden seem younger, it was suggested that he shave his chest. The actor didn't want to shave, but he did. One of the other stars was a new 1950s actor who, like William Holden, would go on to win a Best Actor Academy Award. That was Cliff Robertson. He plays Alan, the college grad from a well-to-do Kansas family who wants to marry Madge, the Kim Novak character. Madge is not really all that into Alan. She likes him but he doesn't really give her that "Hubba! Hubba! Hubba!" feeling. Her unmarried and miserable mother wants Madge to marry him because he's from a good family, the family has money, he's polite and has never pressured Madge to engage in pre-marital sex. He'd be security. Who does get Madge's motor going? The handsome, sexy drifter, Hal, who once went to school with Alan and needs a job. When I was a kid, I was always watching this on a black and white TV set. There was no such thing as letterboxing for widescreen movies then -- and Picnic was a widescreen movie. Cut to many years later when I saw it in a revival movie theater. There's a community pool scene about 20 minutes into the movie. Alan and Hal go to the pool. So do Madge and her bookworm sister, Millie. Cast your eyes on Cliff Robertson in the locker room scene with William Holden. The big screen made his nipples look the size of nuclear warheads ready to be launched into action. They are...so poked out. This is evident on the letterboxed DVD edition. In Picnic, Cliff Robertson's nipples deserved their own billing. Watch for them. And stay with the picture. It's very 1950s, back when youth and beauty were seen as a woman's supreme social currency. Intellect wouldn't get a woman as far. Intellect lead to loneliness, especially if she lived in a culturally arid small town. There's mama drama, female fear of aging and constant mentions of sex and morals and appropriate behavior. Madge, her sister and the spinster schoolteacher -- all living in the same house and they will all get their hormones carbonated by the sight of that new hunk in town. They'll all be bothered and stimulated by his machismo. They'll be conflicted. The only woman in the story who's hip enough to handle him from the get-go is the friendly old neighbor lady, Helen, played by Verna Felton. The handsome drifter knocks on her door politely and seriously asks if she needs any yardwork done. He's broke. Don't let the gray hair and matronly clothing fool you. Within five minutes, she's got him shirtless and doing light chores. She feeds him and and invites him to the picnic. Helen ain't no fool. She's gonna get her groove on -- even if it's just a visual. We love Helen. She's cool. Folks would've loved her in a big city. She's single too and takes care of invalid mother. We never see the mother but when she calls Helen, she sounds like she's got a set of lungs like Ethel Merman in Annie Get Your Gun. But look at Helen. So, I'm thinking Helen's mama must be about 100 or 110. And loud. The highlight of the movie is the dance scene. This is one of the sexiest, most romantic Hollywood dance scenes performed by two actors were not dancers. But they sway to the beat, hold still, move a little closer and they never take their eyes off each other. Director Joshua Logan did a great job with this scene. It's those pauses when they just stand still and gaze at each other under those colored lanterns. It's love. Watch how Holden holds and caresses her hand, like it's made of velvet, as they dance. That was a dance in itself. The music at the picnic from the town band had been on the mainstream Lawrence Welk side. Then when Hal says to Millie, who has a crush on him, that he'll show her a dance step that he learned in L.A., that corny Kansas band turns into a cool Pacific Coast jazz quartet. It suddenly shifts gears from Lawrence Welk to Dave Brubeck. But that's how we'll get the wonderful "Moonglow" theme from Picnic. Kansas native Madge starts the dance. The country girl lets out her inner Jessica Rabbit. She shifts from community beauty queen to hipster with a big city vibe. This romantic dance precedes the Midwest meltdowns. Millie the bookworm will have a crying jag. She once again whine "Madge is the pretty one!" The spinster schoolteacher who's been acting so prim is really horny and has been cruising Hal's package like it was a free $5 foot-long at Subway. She's sipping booze right out the bottle at the picnic. She gets drunk and starts dancing like she's Charlotte Greenwood, kicking her legs way up in the air. Then she gets too drunk, makes a sloppy pass at Hal and rips his shirt. You just know that'll cause some talk in the teacher's lounge when school's back in session after Labor Day. Madge will break up with Alan. Alan can't dance. He's too preppy. She loves Hal. Hal loves her. Madge and Millie's clinging mother will be crushed. The only woman who keeps it together through the entire movie...is Helen. You just know that she's glad Hal blew into town and shook things up. She got tired of the same things being the same way week in and week out. She liked that different West Coast jazz beat. Someone should've taken Helen out and treated her to a couple of smart cocktails. That was another good year for William Holden. He kicked off the decade starring in two nominees for Best Picture of 1950 -- Born Yesterday and Sunset Boulevard. He won the Best Actor Oscar for 1953's Stalag 17. He had a lead role in the 1954 Best Picture nominee, The Country Girl. He starred in two of the five nominees for Best Picture of 1955. Besides Picnic, the other was Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing. In a couple of years, he'd have another contender in the Best Picture race -- The Bridge on the River Kwai. Just like my mother, I went to see a movie because it starred William Holden -- for instance, The Towering Inferno (1974) and Network (1976), both of which were Oscar nominees for Best Picture. The first Best Picture Oscar nominee to William Holden's credit? Our Town. He played George Gibbs in the 1940 adaptation of the classic Thornton Wilder play. Maybe that's why Holden felt he was too mature to play Hal the drifter. Movie audiences, however, had no problem with it. Check out the Cliff Robertson pecs in the Picnic locker room scene. Very perky. Sujal Pandey May 19, 2016 at 8:45 AM Lana Turner: Georgia on My Mind For TV Host Consideration: Me On TWO THOUSAND WOMEN (1944) On Dorothy Dandridge On BLUE JASMINE My Favorite 2 Kubrick Fans Maggie Smith is Marvelous SPARTACUS Stars Dennis Farina and a Fan Crush Michelle Pfeiffer, Family Style Happy Birthday, Robin Williams I Loved Natalie Wood Hong in there: R.I.P.D. Opens Today Overlooked by Emmys...Again Controversial Cover and CAPOTE On THE APARTMENT (1960) James Cromwell, STILL MINE Sunday Movie Quote Overlooked by Oscars: Top Women Overlooked by Oscars: Top Men Reel Talk on Our TV Pilot Walter Huston in the White House Director Drew Barrymore I Love SOME LIKE IT HOT Cagney Helped in Class That Face, That Race Mel Gibson, THE PATRIOT On 1776, the Movie On Hitchcock's FRENZY Film Great, Olivia de Havilland	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line75
__label__cc	0.744776	0.255224	Yoko Sizzlers, It Still Exists, And That’s A Good Thing Before we delve into the glorious history of Yoko Sizzlers, we’d like to invite you join our group on Facebook, which we’ve been compelled to create because the posts on our page keep getting hidden from everyone’s feed by Facebook’s (((algorithms))). By signing up, you agree to use the group solely to express your love for Mumbai’s diverse and delicious cuisine, and not coordinate mass online attacks against Buzzfeed. That would be a tragedy. The group is called the The Bombay Report Clubhouse, and if that dissuades you from joining, we don’t blame you. Sizzlers aren’t nearly as popular as they were in the 2000s. Somewhere along the course of human evolution, people realised that waiting in a cloud of smoke for your food to cool down while having droplets of boiling water splatter on your face stops being exciting after the first eight seconds. Yet, despite that, Yoko still stands defiant against the merciless march of time, serving up steaks and 1st degree burns like it’s nobody’s business. And we decided we the right men people for the job. The Yoko we walked into wasn’t quite like the ones we remembered, there was weird, modern art on the walls, and the music playlist seemed to have been put together by someone serving their notice period. Between Bryan Adams’ Summer of 69 and Wham’s Last Christmas, (in the month of February mind you), we were just one Wonderwall away from walking out. What we were very impressed with, however, was the delicious water we were served, on the few occasions that the waiter deemed fit to actually serve us. It almost made us forget that it’s turning the frickin frogs gay. Wasting most of the vegetables is part of the charm of eating Sizzlers, but we were appalled to see that Yoko now also served half-sized portions. We did technically order the half-sized portions, but exclusively for science & research purposes, allowing us to stay alert throughout our meal. So for those of you who will inevitably call us fags in the comments, we’ve pre-emptively deprived you of that pleasure by stating our rationale in a mature, respectful manner. We ordered the Pepper Steak with Mushrooms and the Mutton Satellite. Pepper Steak With Mushrooms We had fond memories of Yoko’s pepper steak, and we honestly don’t know why. It was a pleasant meal no doubt, but something wasn’t quite right. We ditched the random assortment of vegetables for extra fries free of charge, which not many people know is something you can do. The sizzler had a sizeable amount of steak despite it being the ‘small’ version, the charred mushrooms were gargantuan and arguably the best part of the whole meal, while the fries were thick and absorbed the pepper sauce like a dream. Overall, we’d say it makes for good eating. Mutton Satellite We called for the Mutton Satellite because what the hell is a Mutton Satellite? We thought we could make fun of its objectively funny name, but after tasting it, that would almost seem mean spirited. The Mutton Satellite contained a few big chunks of boneless mutton with a slice of melted cheese on top. It sort of reminded us of the Mutton Argentina at Bembos, whose untimely demise has haunted us since 2010. We actually enjoyed it a lot more than the Pepper Steak, which was unexpected. The Decree: We were worried that our trip to Yoko Sizzlers would be a huge disappointment, but it wasn’t. We were reasonably satisfied with our meals and while it was still a bit on the expensive side, we’re glad that it still exists as a viable dining option. Just like A1 Bakery and Kyani’s, we’re happy that this defining fixture of our youth continues to stick around, even if we barely ever visit. Love you grandma. Bombay Themed Cocktails For Every Occasion Satkar Rice Plate House: Great, Now We Like Goregaon Too Pure Milk And Snacks Centre: The Eastern Suburbs, They’re Just Like Us	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line76
__label__wiki	0.881262	0.881262	Tag: Robert Kubica F1’s fairytale Kubica comeback comes true The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix is supposed to be two-time champion Fernando Alonso’s farewell to Formula One. The only problem is no-one’s talking about him. Read More Woeful Williams has only itself to blame On current form it’s difficult to believe that less than 12 months ago rookie Lance Stroll was celebrating his debut podium after finishing third at the 2017 Azerbaijan Grand Prix, but that’s just how far the once great Williams team has fallen. Read More Class of the field: how the drivers fared in 2017 Barring a handful of catastrophic races for Ferrari, the 2017 Formula One season could have delivered the nail-biting season finale between Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel the opening half of the year so eagerly promised. Read More ‘I’m giving pleasure to myself’ — Massa excites Williams speculation Felipe Massa has mounted an ardent defensive campaign to keep his threatened seat at Williams for the 2018 season. Read More Is Felipe Massa the right man to lead Williams in 2018? Though the hype surrounding the big-ticket seats fizzled out long ago, the 2017 driver silly season remains full of potential, and officially six seats remain up for grabs. Read More Robert Kubica’s Renault test is a win-win It began years ago as a pipedream. Before too long it morphed into a fanciful hypothetical. More recently it became a rumour. Today it stands as an achingly reachable reality. Read More Kubica firms in Renault frame for 2018 Former Formula One driver Robert Kubica is solidifying as the favourite to replace the almost certainly outbound Jolyon Palmer at Renault in 2018 after the Pole completed another F1 test this week. Read More Why Palmer’s career could be over sooner rather than later Jolyon Palmer wasn’t to expect the tumultuousness that came with his first full-time F1 drive. Read More	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line80
__label__wiki	0.508655	0.508655	Law Student Limelight: Brittany Elias of Loyola Law, Los Angeles By Margot SladeJuly 6, 2014Campus Features, Law School News, Student Limelights STUDENT NAME: Brittany Elias LAW SCHOOL: Loyola Law School, Los Angeles STATUS: Rising 3L UNDERGRADUATE: University of California-Irvine, B.A. Art History; minor, Women’s Studies HOME CITY/STATE OR COUNTRY: Los Angeles, California Understanding Brittany Elias means knowing how deeply connected she is to her Argentinean heritage, which she works to fuse with her American upbringing, and how passionate she is about the arts, the result of being raised in a family that encouraged creative thought. (It didn’t hurt that her father was a director for 40 years.) The intertwining of these two strands was manifest in 2009 when Elias, an undergraduate at the University of California-Irvine, established Museum of the Souls (Museo de las Almas) as a business. Five years later, the company still focuses on Hispanic and Latino artists, providing a platform to exhibit and auction their work, and for the up-and-comers, an introduction to the art market. Elias says the business enabled her to “give back” to her Latino roots and since entering law school it remains her primary connection to the art world. Her duties range from finding and contracting artists for museum affiliation, to seeking sponsors and donors for event space, food and drinks, to curating each event. Museo de las Almas was actually the bridge that led Elias to the world of law as she worked with attorneys while gaining experience in museum marketing and business strategy. “I realized that I could fuse law with my passion for the arts,” she said. A rising 3L, Elias works for Kramer Holcomb Sheik, LLP (KHS) as a law clerk/summer associate in its entertainment and intellectual property department, and also as the firm’s marketing director. “Not only am I part of the typical marketing strategy – from website design to issuance of newsletters and marketing materials – but I also join in on the firm’s overall business strategy, taking part in discussions of its short- and long-term goals,” she said. “This part of my work is giving me the business insights to operate a successful entertainment law practice.” Elias is a partner at The Dotted Line Reporter, a student-run law blog focused exclusively on the entertainment and IP markets, where she is marketing director and business strategist. She also writes about soft IP theory and IP law where it intersects with the film and television markets. LAWDRAGON CAMPUS: What were key factors you used to choose your law school? BRITTANY ELIAS: My primary strategy was to pick a school that could cater to my desire to enter the entertainment law market. Loyola Law School offers a diverse entertainment and intellectual property curriculum, with specialty courses in niche fields including but not limited to art law, sports law, and fashion law. I felt that Loyola, in contrast to comparable programs, could give me enough options to test my true area of interest. My overall goal of becoming an entertainment attorney has changed to becoming a purely trademark or copyright attorney. The choice of attending Loyola was incredibly important in making this decision and I have a received a solid education in my area of interest. LD: What do you wish you’d known about law school before enrolling? BE: I wish I had received instruction in advance on the value and necessity of social networking. Loyola is a strong advocate of social networking and offers a wide variety of panels and workshops to encourage its students to network. Most notable was my 1L “Orientation II,” which featured various discussions on networking skills and training. By my 2L year I realized that no matter how strong your academics are, one of the most important skills as an attorney is the ability to network: It opens doors to potential employment, and it serves a vital role in referrals and establishing your name in your particular market. As a 2L, I attended two to three networking events per week, and still commit to this as a weekly obligation. Networking led to job interviews, including with my current firm. It also afforded me opportunities to publish my work on both a local and national level. It has been instrumental to opening doors early in my career. If I had known this prior to law school, I would have used the entire summer preceding the starting of my 1L year attending networking events in the entertainment market and getting comfortable in the networking environment. It can take a while to adjust to the “game” and practice early on would have been incredibly helpful. LD: What has been your most memorable law school experience so far? BE: My acceptance and participation in the Spring 2014 IP Honors Colloquium with Professor Jennifer Rothman. The colloquium gave 12 students the opportunity to engage in intellectual property theory discussion. Five brilliant professors – Rebecca Eisenberg, James Boyle, Jessica Sibley, Mark Rose and Talha Syed – traveled from across the world to Loyola Law School to lecture on a wide range of theory topics. We drafted responses to and critiques of their work-in-progress. The following week, the professors engaged with us in open-ended discussions. The ability to interact with these brilliant minds, paired with my first exposure to IP theory, marked one of the most incredible experiences I have had thus far at the law school. LD: What do you plan to do with your law degree? EB: As previously mentioned my focus now is less on entertainment law generally, and more on soft intellectual property law. Specifically, I would like to work in trademark portfolio management. Trademark law has a strong appeal to me, bridging aspects of my artistic background with my business and marketing experience and my general love for IP law. I would love to work in a position where I interact with brand strategy and maintenance on a daily basis. Although my goal is very specific, for practical purposes, I understand that the start of my career will likely require that I engage in a broader spectrum of work. As such, I expect to perform a large degree of copyright law and business and corporate law – contract drafting, entity formation and so on – as part of working in a firm’s intellectual property or entertainment law department. Contact Margot Slade at (646) 722-2623 or margot@lawdragon.com.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line81
__label__cc	0.531099	0.468901	Central Illinois Paralegal Association a NALA Affiliate About CIPA HomeLeadership CIPA OFFICERS, 2019 President: Celeste Poole Vice President: Charlotte Lawrence Student Vice President: Barbara Harris Co-Secretary: Jenny Ogle Co-Secretary: Stacy Seaman Treasurer: Gale Grant NALA Liaison: Susan Harris Celeste Poole, Celeste Poole is a paralegal in the Legal Services Division Merger & Acquisition group at Caterpillar Inc. in Peoria. She began her career as a legal assistant in private law firms working primarily in the area of plaintiff litigation. Celeste joined Caterpillar in 2007 and has held paralegal positions in the areas of Product Litigation and Product Regulation while also serving four years as the Coordinator of Caterpillar’s Peoria-area pro bono program. Celeste holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Organizational Leadership from Eureka College and an Associate’s Degree in Paralegal Studies from Illinois Central College. She became a member of CIPA in 2008 and is a board member of Central Illinois Riding Therapy, a therapeutic horseback riding program for physically disabled children and adults. Charlotte Lawrence, Charlotte received her Bachelor's Degree in Politics and Government with a minor in Legal Studies from Illinois State University in December 2008. She worked at Ronda Glenn Law Offices from 2007-2015, and has worked at Caterpillar since May 2015. Charlotte currently works in the Law, Security and Public Policy division at Caterpillar, supporting their Global Information Systems division. She lives in Bloomington with her husband and four-year-old daughter. Away from work, Charlotte enjoys modern calligraphy, painting, and making wood signs Barbara Harris, Student Vice President Jenny Ogle, Co-Secretary Stacy Seaman, Gale Grant, Susan Harris, NALA Liaison Susan Harris is a Paralegal and Intern Coordinator at Ronda Glenn Law Offices, a family law firm in Bloomington, Illinois. She graduated with her B.A. in Cinema & Photography, concentrating in screenwriting, from Southern Illinois University (Carbondale) and subsequently obtained her Paralegal Certificate from Illinois State University. Susan enjoys dog training, hiking, and traveling with her partner, Brian, and their two Border Collies.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line84
__label__cc	0.535328	0.464672	Inequality and Perceived Social Mobility Comments: 14 Americanism, Chile December 16, 2009 The leading presidential candidate in Chile, Sebastian Piñera, has proposed increasing the money the government gives to poor families to pay for school tuition. Like school vouchers in the U.S. When this issue came up in a recent lecture I attended on Chilean politics, there was audible disapproval from people in the room. A French woman said that such policies create inequality in the education market and lead to greater income inequality in society at large. A Swiss and German nodded vigorously as the French woman spoke. Europeans tend to focus on inequality. Latin Americans, too. Inequality is one of the top issues being debated right now in the Chilean election season. Americans, on the other hand, by and large are not very concerned with inequality. Sure, it comes up and people talk about narrowing the gap. But deep down I don't think most policy makers and pundits think it's a core problem in a society. We continue to glorify the rich to a remarkable extent. Why the contrasting views? It comes down to differing perceptions of how possible it is to go from poor to rich. If you believe there's a high level of social mobility in a society, you're not as bothered by a gap. If you think moving up the ladder is nigh impossible, it is a very big problem indeed, because it means the poor are stuck at the bottom, oftentimes due to rotten luck at birth. Historically, Latin America has been a place where your last name weighs heavily on your success. "Meritocracy" is not the first word that leaps to mind when thinking about the rich and successful in the region. Europe, too, has a legacy of aristocracy and old money. The American idea however is about the self-made man; the man who pulls himself up by his bootstraps and in a lifetime goes from very poor to very rich thanks to his own industriousness and imagination. There is a belief held by natives and immigrants alike in Horartio Alger stories. Social mobility in the States is not as great as people think, research suggests, but perception trumps all, right? A national narrative embedded in a culture commands a magnetic pull over everyone. Bottom Line: How worried you are about inequality is driven in part by how much social mobility you think there is in society. Europeans and Chileans (and probably other Latin Americans) generally worry more than Americans about inequality because they do not perceive their societies as being as meritocratic and as amendable to upward social mobility. (thanks to Pablo Gonzalez for helping brainstorm this post) The inequality in Chile is inter-generational. 30-40 year olds are rich, 50-60 year olds are comparatively poor. This is an important distinction. See this paper (in Spanish) by economist Claudio Sapelli for more. Also, check out Will Wilkinson's self-recommending paper titled Thinking Clearly about Economic Inequality. In the summary he says, "There is little evidence that high levels of income inequality lead down a slippery slope to the destruction of democracy and rule by the rich." ← Peter Thiel on Baby Boomers and Bailouts When Day Becomes Dusk → 14 Responses to Inequality and Perceived Social Mobility Passion for Aristocracy and Old Money – you nailed it on European hypocrisy, Ben. Europeans, like the rest of advocates for abolition of social inequality and affirmative action elsewhere in the world had never been sold on pragmatism as they have been on insincerety towards the cause. They air their views safely esconced in a $200k banquet dinner and come away sozzled night after night, well islanded and insulated from those that go thro the grind, to whom such rare political gestures are a great boon. Educational equality if not the wider umbrella of Social equality is aspirable. Their protests make me safely suspect their intentions because unless the poor remain poor, they’ll never get unskilled workers to toil at their suburban factories. History has the record of the disastrous outcomes of all earlier attempts to bring about forced social equality. USSR and East Europe gave up, China, though belatedly, recognized the folly and endorsed laissez-faire. Together, they’ve ensured attempts at social equality live on as a myth. Making for occasional good reading, clearly a hypothesis for leftist pretenders to make a living. But a non-starter for all practical purposes. Ah, yes. Lately we know of a new kind of equality thrust upon guileless citizen by even capitalist governments. America is projected to have $53 trillion in today’s dollars in federal liabilities and unfunded entitlement promises such as Social Security and Medicare. These amount to more than $440,000 per household, nearly ten times the annual income of the average household. Over time, taxes would have to double to pay for them. There you grant equality – to your children and grand children for no fault of theirs. Did I hear taxation without representation? Skallagrimson says: What inequality would a school voucher for a poor person amplify? Was this a program that was proposed only for “preferred” poors? steven germain says: No inequality is complete without a serious inquiry into the subject of race. While racism is less apparent in Chile in Argentina and other Latin American countries it does exist there – the more indigenous your background the more you are viewed as a “negro – black). By the way – despite concerns about the growing budget deficit (an interesting connection made between that fact and the subject of social change made by Krishna in the prior comment) Most serious economists link deficit spending with future increased productivity (those voices are drowned out by what passes for commentary in the media). The fear of deficit is often used as an argument against social change spending and policies and it is frustrating. Ya, what am I missing here? Why did the French lady think that more access to schooling for the poor will lead to greater income inequality in the future? Ben Casnocha says: I don't know the specifics of the program in Chile, but generally speaking, with vouchers parents will send their kids to the best schools. So the best schools will enroll more students (students who tend to be more driven) and the worse schools will see a decrease in enrollment and enroll less motivated kids. This creates more inequality in the education system than if the government just funded all schools equally and forced people to go to their local school. But Ben… doesn’t that just make everyone equally receive a bad education? Despite all the efforts of the left people are different and have different aspirations and skill sets. Not every high school should be a college prep school nor should every school cater to the lowest common denominator. Many people are quite happy toiling about with respectable trades such as carpentry and plumbing. I’m not worried about inequality in our society and I think social mobility is a great aspect that we enjoy and should take advantage of. Karl in NC says: The Horatio Alger story formula DID include the boy pulling himself up by his bootstraps… BUT the protagonist’s success also depended on the kindness of an already-wealthy man who conveniently showed up to help him work his way up. Totally agree. I support vouchers. Vince Williams says: If the US were really a meritocracy, chronic underachievers and failed businessmen like George W Bush would never become president. (Neither, for that matter, would womanizing cads whose fathers can afford to buy presidential elections like John F Kennedy’s.) In his book America’s Sixty Families, the economist and journalist Ferdinand Lundberg exposed those modern Medicis of business and finance whose heirs still dance a jig on the corpus of the middle class of both continents. Wilkinson asks of American income inequality: “Does it threaten imminently to transform the United States into an irreversibly stratified illiberal regime, dominated generation after generation by the rich and well-connected?” Strictly speaking, no, because this happened more than eighty years ago. I would say anyone who believes democracy in the US has not already been destroyed and that we are not ruled by the rich in a “plutocracy managed by oligarchs” is deluded. In spite of his reasonable tone and his defensible thesis that income inequality, in isolation, tells us very little, Wilkinson’s screed still reads like typical apologia for the super-rich– the same old propaganda disseminated through media outlets and think-tanks like the supposedly libertarian Cato Institute. Wilkinson shows a surprising awareness of reality when he concedes that, “There is overwhelming reason to believe that in the United States the deck really is stacked against some people.” I wouldn’t argue with Williamson’s statement that “the idea that fixing all this [vicious injustices] somehow requires ‘fixing’ the pattern of incomes is an excellent way to avoid the real problem and fix nothing.” But I notice that Wilkinson et al ignore the mammoth redistribution of income that occurs, for example, when the oil, gas, and mining industries are given carte blanche to plunder the public commons, as occurred under the Reagan and Bush II administrations. Even such features of the welfare state as food-stamp distribution are effectively massive subsidies for the grocery business. None benefits more from this ‘socialist’ largesse than Wal-Mart. The party line of the uber-rich, as delineated by Lundberg in 1937, goes: “huge fortunes are necessary so that industry may be financed; the benefactions of great wealth permit advances in science, encourage writers and artists, etc.; the lavish expenditures of wealthy persons ‘give employment’ to many people”. Wilkinson approvingly quotes John Nye: “…their productive investments… benefit the entire economy.” “Wealthier Americans, Broda and Romalis observe, spend a much larger portion [of their budgets] on services provided by local labor.” “Many enterprising Americans have indeed accumulated vast fortunes turning out ever higher-quality goods at ever lower prices. But in the process they have also minimized some of the material inequalities that matter most.” Wilkinson does concede: “Some wor- rying inequalities—for example, inequalities in access to a good education or to quality health care—may indeed be widening…” Shocking. Amazingly, Wilkinson even admits the glaringly obvious truth when he summarizes the Milanovic, Lundert and Williamson study: “The idea, in a nutshell, is that a generally wealthy population is a sweeter target for plunder by the ruling political class— the people with access to the coercive instruments of government—than is a generally poor population.” I couldn’t have said it better myself. You can’t squeeze blood out of one of Dexter’s corpses. I emphatically agree that “If you believe that American income inequality does reflect injustice in the structure of its institutions, then it is important to identify precisely where and how the system is unjust instead of simply fixating on the fact that there is inequality.” That’s why I read Ferdinand Lundberg’s America’s Sixty Families. Actually if I remember well social mobility is higher in France than in the US. Talking about hypocrisy… mulaho says: Actually, I’ve come to know that most Euro nations, esp France do not have equal levels of social mobility. While the educational system remains very equal with testing done across the board to get into free universities, the job market is very closed off to many from Arab-colonies (Algeria, Morrocco) which has led to a well educated sub-class of frenchmen. It seems like there is a (significant) correlation between public policies and increase in the income inequality. Implementation of minimum wage rate, deregulation, as well as anti-crisis measures deepen the income gap. This was proved by many of the past examples. The example of Latin America with governmental interference making the inequality lower, is very interesting one. However, I think the reason beyond income inequality decrease in those countries is in the nature of state itself rather than in the efficiency of public policies. RT @robinhanson: We know very little about which diets are more healthy. https://t.co/MswmJsJr3t, 4 hours ago Colleges Work to Maintain an Information Deficit About Their Effectiveness Culture Matters to Entrepreneurship. RSSted Development Scalable vs. Non-Scalable Careers	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line103
__label__wiki	0.891689	0.891689	Home>New Songs>Chaz French Songs> Chaz French - Way Out Chaz French - Way Out Danny Schwartz @dschwo Way Out Chaz French Editor Rating:HOTTTTT very hottttt Chaz French releases "Way Out" and announces new joint label deal with Motown/Capitol Records. His debut album is coming this spring. Chaz French emerged as one of the promising rappers from the DMV in 2015, on the strength of his first two projects Happy Belated and These Things Take Time. He's been quiet since then, but he's about to come back in a big way. This morning, he released "Way Out," the first single from his upcoming debut album, and announced a new joint label deal with Motown/Capitol Records and his 368 Music Group, which he co-founded by singer Raheem DeVaughn. "I’m happy for my label 368 and I love my new Motown family," French said in a statement to Billboard. "I’m super excited to represent the DMV. It’s not just about me, it’s about all of us." French's album is due out this spring. Listen to "Way Out" and read his 2016 interview with HNHH. Quotable Lyrics Just bought a new crib, man that motherfucker way out Flexing in the lviing room, 20 bitches laid out Saw my baby mama tripping had to pull 2K out Her thing A1 you woulda thought it was a steakhouse Chaz French motown SONGS Chaz French - Way Out	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line110
__label__cc	0.688114	0.311886	updated on December 19, 2018 December 19, 2018 by Dr Kristi Sobering, Licensed Non-Denominational Minister and Narcissistic Abuse Recovery Advocate Holy Cow! It’s Moobie time… and Anchor Baby spokesperson Rudy Giuliani has really made the Knights of Columbus finally look foolish in public while striving to save his Topper. The Daily Mail released the following news on Dec. 19, 2018 relating to historical pop culture news and trending topics in American History. It seems people with profoundly Somatic, Cerebral, and aspiring Covert Psychopath natures have been busy as of late committing acts to make Logan cringe. They share: ‘Very truly yours, Donald Trump’: President ‘DID sign letter of intent to build a Trump Tower in Moscow with spa named after Ivanka’ – two days after Giuliani claimed ‘no one’ ever signed the document Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6510901/CNN-obtains-Trumps-signature-letter-intent-build-Trump-Tower-Moscow.html Our take on the issue? Intent to commit fraud is patently obvious, as is the gaslighting with an awareness of guilt and premeditation. Can we tie this to the Korean Conflict, declare it treason as an act to give the North Koreans comfort… first? Then have H rescind her concession? Revert the government by bipartisan agreement to be run until 2020 by Barack or Joe Biden? Until Beto grooms up? Work with Mitt Romney. Heck — let him interim Speaker of the House then let him handle the act of repairing the harm done by Newt Gingrich to everybody. Pattern behavior of every Dark Triad on the planet… betraying the social and professional hospitality of every person who shows them hospitality. By uttering false words and doing things to interrupt the flow of communication, people seeing to create a false portrait of reality in the mind of other humans do Darwin Awards eligible harm to themselves and to society (simultaneously). Think X + Y – Z with no W in order to understand what has happened to people whose neuroplasticity has frozen so severely over time that they physically become a danger to themselves and to others. Their personality type calcifies by or before the age of 28 as Cluster B followed by steady decline in whatever emotional processing ability was present in their human anatomy before people started messing up the NLP programming of a baby. If you are unfamiliar with what a Dark Triad person is (in terms of Self Help and Forensic Psychology literature), they are a very dangerous form of Cluster B person. Any person with the comorbid affectation of personality disorders is likely to show signs of the following conditions: Malignant Narcissism, profound egocentrism that reveals Social and Emotional Learning Disability, an Anti-Social and or Psychopathic nature, and they are prone to display pervasive Machiavellian. Knowing the red flags and warning signs that someone is likely to be prone to pervasively engage in all forms of social or emotional violence can save your life and that of others. But knowing the key terms and the key phrases one needs to be able to rapidly look up? That’s priceless. Because there are only statistically so many human beings that meet diagnostic criteria for having a Cluster B personality type. And of those percentages, only 1-2% of the global population is socially likely to behave in ways that are by pattern behavior prone to engaging in acts of social, physical, and or sexual violence. If and when people in the general public are educated about what the basic Cluster B personality are and how the symptoms of the Emotional Repressions manifest, the world will stop appearing quite so Hobbesian. Ask Rousseau. He was Team Empath, like the writers and staff of this EUSociology.com co-sponsored web project, ‘don’t cha cha’ know. Caught In The Act Examples of Gaslighting Liar Liar Pants On Fire Rudy Giuliani What is Gaslighting by Forensic Psychology and Social Psychology definition?	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line111
__label__wiki	0.679334	0.679334	The Vampire Diaries After Show S6:E5 “The World Has Turned and Left Me Here” October 30, 2014 \| 0 Welcome to The Vampire Diaries After Show Season 6 Episode 5 “The World Has Turned and Left Me Here”! Kai tells Bonnie and Damon to prepare for the eclipse that can bring them back home. Bonnie soon discovers that Kai knew nothing about the spell and kills him. He never was dead, but he needed a Bennett to help him go back home, so he tries to kill Bonnie and Damon once they were close to coming back home. While Bonnie is bleeding on the ground, Damon fights Kai, but Bonnie uses her magic to make sure Damon goes back home. Meanwhile, Elena and Liam go to Whitmore College Corn Maze. While there, Tyler accidentally runs over the entire corn maze with a truck due to someone running out in the middle of the street, so Elena and Tyler have to make sure no one dies because then Tyler would unlock his werewolf curse. Stefan tells Caroline to teach Ivy the vampire ropes. Ivy breaks Caroline’s neck and Ivy decides to go feed, but did not know how to compel. Ivy gets captured at the end by Tripp. Stefan and Damon reunite. Join Meghan Lamontagne, Rachael Roland, Malynda Hale, and Jessica Hickam every week, live and on demand, for review and conversation about each new episode of The Vampire Diaries. Tweet in questions or comments to the hosts all week using the hashtag #TVDAS Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter @theStreamtv and the after show hosts: @MegLamontagne @RachaelRoland @JHickam @MalyndaHale theStream.tv Fan Show Network presents The Vampire Diaries After Show. Tune in each week, live or on demand, for review and conversation about the hit CW television series. At the helm of the television series are creators Kevin Williamson (Stalker, The Following) and Julie Plec (The Tomorrow People). Based on the book series by L. J. Smith (Night World Series), The Vampire Diaries debuted on CW, September 2009, and focuses on Mystic Falls, Virginia, a fictional small town haunted by supernatural beings. The main protagonist of the series, Elena Gilbert (Nina Dobrev), is a young human girl who’s family is one of the founding families of Mystic Falls and who falls in love with vampire Stefan Salvatore (Paul Wesley). She begins to be drawn into the supernatural world as a result of their relationship. As the series progresses, Elena finds herself drawn to Stefan’s brother, Damon Salvatore (Ian Somerhalder), resulting in a love triangle spanning throughout seasons. The series was so successful that a spin-off series, The Originals, debuted in 2013. The Originals follows the lives of a family of vampires: Niklaus Mikaelson (Joseph Morgan), Elijah Mikaelson (Daniel Gillies), and Rebekah Mikaelson (Claire Holt). Both shows have been linked to each other, and Nina Dobrev, star of the TVD, has made multiple cameos on The Originals. The Vampire Diaries stars Nina Dobrev (Degrassi) as Elena Gilbert, Paul Wesley (Everwood) as Stefan Salvatore, Ian Somerhalder (Lost) as Damon Salvatore, Steven R. McQueen (Piranha 3D) as Jeremy Gilbert, Kat Graham (17 Again) as Bonnie Bennett, Candice Accola (Dead Girl) as Caroline Forbes, Zach Roerig (Friday Night Lights) as Matt Donovan, and Matthew Davis (Pearl Harbor) as Alaric Saltzman. Don’t miss out on the new season every Thursday night on the CW. If you’re a fan of the show then tune in each week for the live after show. http://www.twitter.com/thestreamtv Posted in Shows, Vampire Diaries After Show, Vampire Diaries After Show Episodes and tagged 17 again, After Show, bluerottencheese, Candice Accola, cw, dead girl, degrassi, discussion, Elena Gilbert, friday night lights, Ian Somerhalder, Kat Graham, Lost, matthew davis, nina dobrev, Paul Wesley, review, Sara Canning, Stefan Salvatore, Steven R. McQueen, the vampire diaries, the vampire diaries after show, TheStream.TV, thestreamdottv, vamp, vampire, vampire diaries after show, Vampires, Zach Roerig	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line113
__label__wiki	0.571974	0.571974	Cherokee Strip Baptist Association Matt Spann Ministry Associate Ronda Spena BCM Director Justin Romaine Missions Team Mission In Medford Aurora, CO Mission Trip 2014 Why Partner with the Association KidMinTraining Pulpit Supply Welcoming Church Conference Kansas City Mission Trip (March 2019) Deacon Training FBC Aurora Report 2018 DOM Report 2018 Management Team Report 2018 Missions Team Report 2018 Ministry Team Report 2018 Journey House Report 2018 Ladies' Ministry Report 2018 NOC BCM Report 2018 Resolutions 2018 Baptist Village Communities Annual Report BGCO Operations Committee Report 2018 Constitution & By-Laws (amended October 14, 2018) Matt has been serving as Director of Missions since August of 2014. His vision for our churches lines up with the purposes of our association: to establish, enlarge, and extend our churches. He wants to see churches that are strong and growing, churches comprised of believers who are maturing in their faith and who are continually seeking to reach outward to those who've yet to experience a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ. He works to encourage and develop our pastors and church leaders, helping them improve their skills and lead their churches to be on mission locally, in other parts of America, and overseas. Matt and his wife LuSinda have four children: Karrington is married to Tyler Swadley and lives in Kansas City where Tyler attends MWBTS; Paul is studying Physical Therapy at OUHSC, Lydia is in her final semester at Baylor University, and Caleb is a 9th grader. The Spann family served overseas through the IMB in Madagascar from 2003 to 2013. Matt lived in a number of places growing up, including Brazil where his parents served as missionaries from 1972 to 1976. He served as youth minister while in college and seminary in Texas, then moved to Orlando, Florida, where he was a church planter from 1988 to 1990, then pastor from 1990 to 1993. From 1994 to 1998, he served as a missionary through the IMB in Moscow, Russia, until his first wife Carol's death from breast cancer in 1998. Matt met LuSinda, originally from Mooreland, Oklahoma, in 1999 while he was in Fort Worth at SWBTS working as an Associate Candidate Consultant with the IMB. They married in 2000 and went overseas to France in 2002, then Madagascar the next year. Matt enjoys running, swimming, reading, playing guitar, and working in the yard. He also enjoys "hanging out" with his children and granddaughter Lily Grace. Contents © 2019 Cherokee Strip Baptist Association \| Church Website Provided by mychurchwebsite.net \| Privacy Policy	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line116
__label__wiki	0.781982	0.781982	Diamonds Lyrics Rihanna Diamond Song For Please click here if you are not redirected within a few seconds. Some critics believe that the heavily tattooed man intertwined with Rihanna's arm in the video resembles Chris Brown. As the video continues, the singer and her lover's hands are shown slowly slipping apart, with only their fingertips touching towards the conclusion of the video. The lyrics are very hopeful and positive, but it's about love. List of million-selling singles in the United Kingdom. So shine bright tonight, you and I We're beautiful like diamonds in the sky Eye to eye, so alive We're beautiful like diamonds in the sky. International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. The video was also made available for streaming at Rihanna. By the final chorus, the water centered into the platform and wet the singer. Shine bright like a diamond Whoa-oh Shine bright like a diamond Whoa-oh Shine bright like a diamond Shine bright like a diamond. 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Recording Industry Association of America. British Phonographic Industry. Swedish Recording Industry Association. Australian Recording Industry Association. Diamonds (Rihanna song) So shine bright, tonight, you and I We're beautiful like diamonds in the sky Eye to eye, so alive We're beautiful like diamonds in the sky. Type Rihanna in the top right search bar. She was recording in a separate part of the world, sending back the files, we're finishing the music and then we're mixing and mastering it, and then it was out in a few days. List of Hot number-one singles of U. They're afraid to embrace that and embrace themselves and love themselves and do what they love and do what makes them happy. The video ends with Rihanna once again floating alone in the open waters. Are those hands coming apart, or are they finding each other? Romanian and international positions are rendered together by the number of plays before resulting an overall chart. The performance featured the singer dressed in a black gown on a square platform. In a black-and-white scene, Rihanna licks the joint and begins smoking it. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Images of Rihanna on a bed in a room while singing are shown, with objects breaking, curtains falling and roses burning in reverse effect. Problems playing this file? Federation of the Italian Music Industry. Select singles in the Format field. The song's lyrics serve as a departure from the themes of unhealthy relationships that were on Rihanna's previous singles and contain a prominent concept of love. Scroll through the page-list below until year to obtain certification. So shine bright tonight, you and I Wewre beautiful like diamonds in the sky Eye to eye, so alive We're beautiful like diamonds in the sky. It's fucking amazing and incredible. What does this song mean to you? As the chorus began, water effects poured down around her on the outside of the stage. This gave Rihanna her seventh number-one single in the country. Rihanna performs in the same black-and-white setting while in a black corset. Throughout the video, Rihanna's hand is shown intertwined with that of a heavily tattooed man, gta san andreas dvd whose face is not shown in the video. Rihanna - Diamonds Lyrics Rihanna. The performance featured the singer wearing a long black dress plunged down to her navel and diamond adornments in her hair. Scenes of a street battle are later shown, depicting burning cars and broken glass around the environment. Rihanna is shown again on the highway, running away from what appears to be the headlights of a chasing car. Bundesverband Musikindustrie. After the song was completed, they wanted to play it to Rihanna, but Blanco was skeptical about the reaction towards the song because of its slow sound. Rihanna stands in a deserted landscape in the video's other scenes. Eriksen Tor Erik Hermansen. 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__label__cc	0.614345	0.385655	Exploring the culture, the people, the places and of course the drinks that make drinking in Cincinnati, Ohio unique. Episode Notes Appear on DWTG March First Brewing, Sycamore Whiskey, and Sycamore Professional Firefighters Local 3907 team up to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association Sycamore Whiskey released their Fire Brigade Cinnamon Whiskey last week, and have teamed up with Sycamore Professional Firefighters Union Local 3907 to host a fundraising event benefiting the Muscular Dystrophy Association. You can join MDA Cincinnati, Local 3907 Firefighters and Sycamore Whiskey at March First Brewing on 7885 E. Kemper Rd. Cincinnati, Ohio at 6pm on February 1st. Firefighters from all over the city will be in attendance “filling boots” for MDA research. March First Brewing and Local 3907 are both donating items for a raffle that evening, including a Yeti cooler (provided by McCabe Lumber and March First merchandise. “When we were tossing the idea around about doing a cinnamon whiskey we knew we had to reach out to the local firefighters, because we’ve had events with them in the past and have been building a relationship with them over the years. That’s why we landed on the name Fire Brigade and the label carries the traditional Maltese cross with the “3907” local Sycamore Twp union designator on it. It’s such a fitting homage to our local heroes.” Josh Engel, spokesperson for March First Brewing and Sycamore Whiskey said. “When we reached out, International Association of Firefighters Local 3907 was very excited to collaborate on this fundraising event and it kind of snowballed from there. We expect a large turnout from local departments all around the city.” Mark Singer, President of Sycamore Professional Firefighters Local 3907, commented on working with March First and Sycamore Whiskey on this fundraising event. “The Sycamore Township Firefighters Local 3907 is excited to work with March First Brewing and MDA on an exciting event. When we were approached by March First about partnering for a charity event, we knew MDA would be the perfect fit. With the strong partnership the International Association of Fire Fighters has with MDA and the growing partnership with March First and Local 3907 we know this will be a huge success.” Sycamore Fire Brigade Cinnamon Whiskey is a 68 proof whiskey based on the popular 10 year Sycamore American Whiskey which is flavored with real hand cracked cinnamon sticks. With no artificial flavors Fire Brigade is an all natural and local alternative to the popular national brand. “Expect an exceptionally smooth whiskey with a cinnamon bite” Engel said. About March First Brewing March First Brewing is Cincinnati’s only brewery, cidery and distillery. Founded on March 1, 2016 and based in Sycamore Township, Ohio, our name pays homage to the great state of Ohio, founded March 1, 1803. We specialize in “drinkable” craft beer, cider, and spirits, and proudly brew, distill, and bottle in Cincinnati, Ohio. We admittedly do not follow popular trends or industry norms, and it is in precisely this that makes us delightfully unpredictable. Our products can be found throughout the state of Ohio and Northern Kentucky. Follow March First Brewing on social media: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter About the International Association of Firefighters The IAFF is the driving force behind nearly every advance in the fire and emergency services in the 21st century. With headquarters in Washington, DC, and Ottawa, Ontario, the IAFF represents more than 313,000 full-time professional fire fighters and paramedics in more than 3,200 affiliates. IAFF members protect more than 85 percent of the population in communities throughout the United States and Canada. The IAFF is also one of the most active lobbying organizations in Washington, DC. The IAFF Political Action Committee, FIREPAC, is among the top one-half of one percent of the nearly 6,000 federally registered PACs in the country. Local IAFF 3907 represents the 36 Full-Time Firefighters of the Sycamore Township Fire Department. Follow Local 3907 on social media: Facebook, Twitter About the MDA As the largest source of funding for neuromuscular disease research outside of the federal government, MDA has committed more than $1 billion since our inception to accelerate the discovery of therapies and cures. 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__label__wiki	0.913907	0.913907	Freddie Gibbs Teams Up with DJ Fresh for 'The Tonite Show' By Josiah Hughes Having already killed it with his Madlib collaboration Piñata, no one would blame Freddie Gibbs for spending the remainder of 2014 firmly resting on his laurels. Instead, the rapper has a solo album on the way and now another collaboration too. Gibbs has teamed up with DJ Fresh (also known as the World's Freshest) for the latest instalment of the latter's ongoing series The Tonite Show. The project sees Fresh team up with artists for a full release, and previous editions have seen him work with Trae the Truth, Mistah F.A.B. and Keak Da Sneak. The Freddie Gibbs edition of The Tonite Show offers up 10 tracks from the artist and DJ. In addition, there are appearances from E-40, Sir Michael Rocks, Problem and more. The Tonite Show with Freddie Gibbs will arrive on May 13. The album's tracklisting is available below. Thanks to MissInfo for the tip. The Tonite Show: 1. The Tonite Show With Freddie Gibbs 2. Keep It Gangsta 3. G Like Dat 4. Bitches, Dope, and Dollers (ft. G-Wiz) 6. On Me (ft. Problem) 7. Pussy Got Slap (ft. E-40 & Cousin Fik) 8. I Wanna Do It (ft. Sir Michael Rocks) 9. I Be On My Grind (ft. Trae Tha Truth & Yukmouth) More Freddie Gibbs Freddie Gibbs & Madlib Bandana For a rapper like Freddie Gibbs, any old beat would frankly do. So astute is his auteurist eye for nitty-gritty details, so athletically nim... Stream Freddie Gibbs & Madlib's New 'Bandana' Album Just as promised, Freddie Gibbs & Madlib's hotly anticipated Bandana album is here. So yes, that means you can stream it all now. The fo... Here's the Tracklist for Freddie Gibbs & Madlib's 'Bandana' Freddie Gibbs & Madlib's hotly anticipated Bandana album arrives this week, and the duo have now shared the effort's tracklisting ahead of t... Freddie Gibbs & Madlib Are Already Plotting a 'Bandana' Follow-Up Freddie Gibbs & Madlib are a week away from delivering their new collaborative album Bandana, and while the record has yet to arrive, the pa... Freddie Gibbs & Madlib Share New Song "Crime Pays" After unveiling the cover art for their Bandana album earlier this week, Freddie Gibbs & Madlib have shared another new song from the record...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line143
__label__wiki	0.83682	0.83682	William Shatner to 'Ponder the Mystery' on New Prog-Tinged Concept Album Get ready for some more quizzical, half-sung/half-spoken songs from William Shatner. He's going to drop an apparently prog rock-influenced album titled Ponder the Mystery on October 8. Moving on from his 2011 covers collection Seeking Major Tom, the Shat's new LP is a full-on concept piece that a press release notes follows "a man in despair through the setting sun, twilight and finally darkness, and in the process, regains his joy of life." The contemplative album was crafted by Shatner and former Yes member Billy Sherwood. The record is also loaded with guests, including Yes's Rick Wakeman, Doors guitarist Robby Krieger, the late George Duke, Steve Vai, Magic Band vet Zoot Horn Rollo, Edgar Winter, Vince Gill, jazz saxophonist Dave Koz, and Al Di Meola, among others. You can see the tracklisting for the LP down below. A Q&A with Rolling Stone revealed that Shatner already had an affinity for prog music stemming from the '70s, likening the genre's high-concept pieces and arrangements to the creative world of sci-fi. "I think that prog rock is the science fiction of music," he said. "Science fiction speculates on what the future might be and look like and how we'll get there, and yet there's always a central theme of humanity, or there should be. Progressive rock has the same concept of exploration into the parts of the music world that hasn't been explored." Shatner will perform the album live for a trio of shows in California next month, backed by Circa, which features Sherwood and fellow Yes expat and Tony Kaye. Ponder the Mystery: 1. Red Shift 2. Where It s Gone...I Don t Know 3. Manhunt 4. Ponder The Mystery 5. So Am I 8. Twilight 9. Rhythm Of The Night 10. Imagine Things 11. Do You See? 12. Deep Down 13. I'm Alright, I Think 14. Where Does Time Go? 10/23 Hermosa, CA - Saint Rocke 10/24 Agoura, CA - The Canyon Club 10/25 San Juan Capistrano, CA - The Coach House More William Shatner Hear William Shatner and Iggy Pop Cover "Silent Night" Back in September, William Shatner let his fans know that Shatner Claus is coming to town with the arrival of his first-ever holiday album,... William Shatner Announces Christmas LP Featuring Henry Rollins, Brad Paisley, Iggy Pop William Shatner will be giving the gift of butchered Christmas carols this holiday season. The actor and talk-singer will release Shatner Cl... William Shatner Is Apparently a Death Grips Fan With daps from the likes of Robert Pattinson, Sasha Grey and Eric Andre, cultishly adored rap experimenters Death Grips have no shortage of... William Shatner The Exclaim! Questionnaire William Shatner has done it all, but even at 80 years old, he's constantly exploring new professional frontiers. Despite all this, there's n... William Shatner "Bohemian Rhapsody" (video) Treasured Canadian weirdo/thespian William Shatner continues to stun us with his latest single off his recently released Seeking Major Tom L...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line144
__label__wiki	0.610852	0.610852	Trillium grandiflorum - (Michx.) Salisb. White Trillium Other English Common Names: Large-flower Trillium Other Common Names: white trillium Related ITIS Name(s): Trillium grandiflorum (Michx.) Salisb. (TSN 43074) French Common Names: trille blanc Element Code: PMLIL200E0 Plantae Anthophyta Monocotyledoneae Liliales Liliaceae Trillium Name Used in Concept Reference: Trillium grandiflorum Global Status Last Changed: 06Sep1984 United States Alabama (S1), Connecticut (SNR), Delaware (SNA), District of Columbia (SNR), Florida (SU), Georgia (S3), Illinois (S3?), Indiana (SNR), Kentucky (S4), Maine (SH), Maryland (SNR), Massachusetts (SNR), Michigan (SNR), Minnesota (SNR), New Hampshire (SNR), New Jersey (S1), New York (S5), North Carolina (S5), Ohio (SNR), Pennsylvania (SNR), South Carolina (S1), Tennessee (SNR), Vermont (SNR), Virginia (S5), West Virginia (S5), Wisconsin (SNR) Canada New Brunswick (SU), Nova Scotia (S1), Ontario (S5), Quebec (S4) Overall Threat Impact Comments: Commercial forestry practices are detrimental to this species (Southern Appalachian Species Viability Project 2002). United States AL, CT, DC, DE , FL, GA, IL, IN, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, NC, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, SC, TN, VA, VT, WI, WV Canada NB, NS, ON, QC AL Jackson (01071) ME Franklin (23007), Kennebec (23011), Oxford (23017)* NJ Monmouth (34025), Sussex (34037) SC Oconee (45073), Pickens (45077) 01 Lower Kennebec (01030003)+, Upper Androscoggin (01040001)+ 02 Middle Delaware-Mongaup-Brodhead (02040104)+, Crosswicks-Neshaminy (02040201)+ 03 Saluda (03050109)+, Tugaloo (03060102)+ 06 Wheeler Lake (06030002)+ Economically Important Genus: Y Deam, C. C. 1940. Flora of Indiana. Division of Forestry, Dept. of Conservation, Indianapolis, Indiana. 1236 pp. Gad, L., and J.E. Cruise. 1974. Trilliums and their unusual forms. Ontario Nature 14(1): 32-36. Griffin, S.R., and S.C.H. Barrett. 2004. Post-glacial history of Trillium grandiflorum (Melanthiaceae) in eastern North America: Inferences from phylogeography. American Journal of Botany 91: 465?473. Moye, William S. 2006. Highly Ranked Plants of the South Mountain Region. Unpublished notes sent via email to Misty Franklin in February 2006. Pringle, J.S. 1984. Trilliums of Ontario. Technical Bulletin No. 5, Third Edition. Royal Botanical Gardens, Hamilton, Ontario. 27 pp. Soper, J.H. 1961. The distribution of Ontario's provincial flower. Federation of Ontario Naturalists Bulletin 92: 6-8. Southern Appalachian Species Viability Project. 2002. A partnership between the U.S. Forest Service-Region 8, Natural Heritage Programs in the Southeast, NatureServe, and independent scientists to develop and review data on 1300+ regionally and locally rare species in the Southern Appalachian and Alabama region. Database (Access 97) provided to the U.S. Forest Service by NatureServe, Durham, North Carolina.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line146
__label__wiki	0.806555	0.806555	Rhyacophila unimaculata - Denning, 1941 One-spotted Free-living Caddisfly Related ITIS Name(s): Rhyacophila unimaculata Denning, 1941 (TSN 115190) Element Code: IITRI19900 Informal Taxonomy: Animals, Invertebrates - Insects - Caddisflies Animalia Mandibulata Insecta Trichoptera Rhyacophilidae Rhyacophila Concept Reference: Clemson University Department of Entomology (J.C. Morse, ed.). 2002. Last Updated 5 September 2006. Trichoptera World Checklist. Online. Available: http://entweb.clemson.edu/database/trichopt/index.htm. Concept Reference Code: N02CLE01EHUS Name Used in Concept Reference: Rhyacophila unimaculata Global Status Last Changed: 01Aug2005 Rounded Global Status: G2 - Imperiled Reasons: British Columbia endemic (Nimmo, 1977; Nimmo and Scudder, 1978; 1979; 1984; Scudder, 1996) in Robson and Fernie. Also in western Montana in Crane Creek, Flathead Lake, and Roy's Creek, Lake Co. (Newell and Potter, 1975). National Status: NU (22May2017) United States Montana (SNR) Canada British Columbia (SU) Range Extent: 5000-200,000 square km (about 2000-80,000 square miles) Range Extent Comments: British Columbia endemic (Nimmo, 1977; Nimmo and Scudder, 1978; 1979; 1984; Scudder, 1996) in Robson and Fernie. Also in western Montana in Crane Creek, Flathead Lake, and Roy's Creek, Lake Co. (Newell and Potter, 1975). Global Range: (5000-200,000 square km (about 2000-80,000 square miles)) British Columbia endemic (Nimmo, 1977; Nimmo and Scudder, 1978; 1979; 1984; Scudder, 1996) in Robson and Fernie. Also in western Montana in Crane Creek, Flathead Lake, and Roy's Creek, Lake Co. (Newell and Potter, 1975). United States MT Canada BC Group Name: Caddisflies Minimum Criteria for an Occurrence: Occurrences are based on some evidence of historical presence or current presence of single or multiple specimens (including larvae or adults) at a given location with potentially recurring existence. Evidence is derived from reliable published observation or collection data; unpublished, though documented (i.e. government or agency reports, web sites, etc.) observation or collection data; or museum specimen information. Sight records and photographs, though valuable, should not be accepted as the basis for new element occurrences as identification of caddisflies often requires close examination of the genitalia of adult males. Instead, such records should be utilized to further study an area to verify the element occurrence in that area. Separation Justification: Wiggins and Mackay (1978) found caddisfly distributions separated by trophic category as related to stream resource availability in Eastern streams; and to a lesser degree in Western streams. Shredders predominated in upstream habitats in relation to grazers and collectors, but the proportion of shredders became smaller downstream. Groups have also been separated ecologically into lotic-erosional (running water riffles), lotic-depositional (running water pools and margins), lentic-limnetic (standing water), lentic-littoral (standing water, shallow shore areas), lentic-profundal (standing water, basin), and beach zone (Wallace and Anderson, 1996). For the purpose of occurrence separation, however, the same genera or species often occur across habitats making such habitat classifications impractical. Regardless of habitat, caddisfly adults tend to remain somewhat near the emergence site (LaFontaine, 1981; Collier and Smith, 1998) where oviposition occurs. Dispersal away from emergence sites tends to be negatively correlated with density of vegetation along the dispersal corridor; caddisflies tend to disperse shorter distances in dense forest compared with more open vegetation (Collier and Smith, 1998). Although dispersal flights are common especially from temporary habitats, such flights are relatively short and only occur immediately following emergence (unlike some Coleoptera and Hemiptera that also disperse additionally in autumn to overwinter) (Cummins and Merritt, 1996). Kovats et al. (1996) estimated that 85% of all adult Hydropsychidae were collected within 100 m of the water's edge with most of the remainder collected within 250 m, although significant, though small, numbers were collected up to 1845 m inland (esp. for Hexagenia). It is worth noting that in some instances, large river caddisflies may disperse a distance greater than five km from the river, suggesting long distance dispersal (Huryn and Harris, 2000; Kovats et al., 1996). Kovats et al. (1996) suggested this longer distance dispersal is likely accidental. Separation distances (unsuitable and suitable) have therefore been set at five km. NatureServe Conservation Status Factors Edition Date: 01Aug2005 NatureServe Conservation Status Factors Author: Cordeiro, J. and Schweitzer, D.F. Clemson University Department of Entomology (J.C. Morse, ed.). 2002. Last Updated 5 September 2006. Trichoptera World Checklist. Online. Available: http://entweb.clemson.edu/database/trichopt/index.htm. Newell, R.L. and D.S. Potter. 1973. Distribution of some Montana caddisflies. Proceedings of the Montana Academy of Sciences 33: 12-21. Nimmo, A.P. 1977. The adult Trichoptera (insecta) of Aberta and British Columbia, and their post-glacial origins. I. The families Rhyacophilidae and Limnephilidae. Supplement. Queastiones Entomologicae 13: 25-67. Nimmo, A.P. and G.G.E. Scudder. 1978. An annotated checklist of the Trichoptera (Insecta) of British Columbia. Syesis 11: 117-134. Nimmo, A.P. and G.G.E. Scudder. 1979. An annotated checklist of the Trichoptera (Insecta) of British Columbia. Syesis 11(1978): 117-133. Nimmo, A.P. and G.G.E. Scudder. 1984. Supplement to an annotated checklist of the Trichoptera (Insecta) of British Columbia. Syesis 16 (1983): 71-83. Scudder, G.G.E. 1996. Terrestrial and freshwater invertebrates of British Columbia: priorities for inventory and descriptive research. Research Branch British Columbia Ministry of Forests Research Program, and Wildlife Branch, British Columbia Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks. Victoria, British Columbia, Working Paper 09/1996.206 pp.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line147
__label__wiki	0.927476	0.927476	Daguerreotypes at Harvard Scope Daguerreotypes at Harvard provides access to over 3,500 daguerreotypes in libraries, museums, and archives across the University. The collection continues to grow as images are uncovered and new daguerreotypes are accessioned. The first publicly announced photographic medium, the daguerreotype process produced an image exquisite in its detail and tonal fidelity, and daguerreotypes remained popular throughout the 1840s and 50s. Together, Harvard holdings represent a collection of international significance and illustrate early uses of photography as a tool for artistic expression and scientific research in mid-19th-century America. Arts & Humanities \| Daguerreotype \| English \| Harvard University \| Harvard’s Weissman Preservation Center \| Image \| Louis Daguerre \| Massachusetts \| National Historical Publications and Records Commission \| Photography \| United States \| Visual arts \| History & Historiography \| Photography \| Sculpture & Plastic Arts \| Social Sciences http://preserve.harvard.edu/daguerreotypes/index.html The Hedda Morrison Photographs of China, 1933-1946 Introduction The Harvard-Yenching Library holds some 5,000 photographs and 10,000 negatives taken by Hedda Hammer Morrison (1908–1991) while resident in Beijing from 1933 to 1946. The photographs, mounted in thematic albums prepared by Mrs. Morrison, and the negatives, were bequeathed to the Harvard-Yenching Library, "the best permanent home for her vision of a city and people that she loved [Alastair Morrison]." All of the photographs contained in the 28 albums assembled by Hedda Morrison have been cataloged and digitized and can be viewed in VIA (Visual Information Access), the union catalog of visual resources at Harvard. Architectural Structures \| Arts & Humanities \| Beijing \| China \| English \| Handicrafts \| Harvard University \| Harvard-Yenching Library \| Hedda Morrison \| Image \| Landscapes \| Lifestyles \| Massachusetts \| Photography \| Religious Practices \| Text \| Trades \| United States \| Photography http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/harvard-yenching/collections/morrison... Legal Portraits Online About the Collection As part of its holdings of legal art and visual materials , the Harvard Law School Library owns a collection of over 4000 portrait images of lawyers, jurists, political figures, and legal thinkers dating from the Middle Ages to the late twentieth century. Although most of these prints, drawings, and photographs depict legal figures prominent in the Common Law, a significant number portray jurists and legal educators associated with the Canon and Civil Law traditions. Art \| English \| Harvard Law School \| Harvard University \| Image \| Law \| Legal history \| Massachusetts \| Photography \| Politics \| Portraiture \| United Kingdom \| United States \| Law & Government \| Political Science & Politics \| Social Sciences http://www.law.harvard.edu/apps/library/collections/special/online-col... The Rev. Claude L. Pickens, Jr. Collection on Muslims in China The Rev. Claude L. Pickens, Jr. Collection on Muslims in China Do Not Divide Moslems and Chinese "Along the Old Silk Road to Europe. East Gate, Hao Tien" (CP02.29.03) from The Rev. Claude L. Pickens, Jr., Trip to Northwest China , photograph album, p. [29] Over 1000 photos of Muslims and Christian missionaries working among them in Western China in the 1920s and 1930s form the core of this collection, which is supplemented by several hundred books, pamphlets, broadsides, etc., in several languages. Gift of Rev. Claude L. Pickens, Jr. in memory of Joseph Fletcher Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History at Harvard University. The albums and photographs can be viewed in the VIA online catalog. Arts & Humanities \| China \| Chinese culture \| Christianity \| Claude L. Pickens , Jr. \| English \| Harvard University \| Image \| Islam in China \| Massachusetts \| Missionaries \| Photography \| Religion \| Text \| United States \| Religion \| Sociology & Demography \| Social Sciences http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/harvard-yenching/collections/pickens/ South Central China and Tibet: Hotspot of Diversity Wednesday, Aug 31, 2011 South Central China and Tibet: Hotspot of Diversity For over a century, Arboretum staff have explored and documented the natural and cultural resources of Asia. In 1924, a three-year expedition departed for one of the most unusual areas on earth—the first of many Arboretum expeditions to a region that is floristically one of the richest in the world. Seventy years later, other Arboretum expeditions returned to collect and inventory the flora. Biodiversity \| Botany \| China \| English \| Environment \| Geography of Asia \| Harvard University \| Image \| Massachusetts \| Photography \| Plants \| The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University \| Tibet \| United States \| Botany \| Biology & Life Sciences \| Environment & Ecology \| Science & Technology http://arboretum.harvard.edu/library/image-collection/south-central-ch... American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936 American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936 Browse Collection by: Collection Connection Classroom resources for teachers About This Collection The images in the American Environmental Photographs Collection were created by faculty, staff, and students in the Department of Botany at the University of Chicago from the 1890s to the 1930s. Among the most active photographers contributing to the collection were Henry C. Cowles, George D. Fuller, George E. Nichols, Charles J. Chamberlain, Ira B. Meyer, Paul J. Sedgwick, William J. Cribbs, and Ezra J. Kraus. The earliest photographs in the collection were taken in 1891 in the arid desert landscapes of California, Arizona, Utah, and Nevada. Arts & Humanities \| Biology \| Botany \| Ecology \| English \| Environment \| Illinois \| Image \| Library of Congress \| Photography \| Plants \| United States \| University of Chicago \| Botany \| Biology & Life Sciences \| Photography \| Science & Technology http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/ecology/index.html The Archival Photographic Files T he Archival Photographic Files document the history of the University of Chicago and the development of its campus, academic programs, and community life. Individuals & Groups Images not yet available online. Images of U of C faculty, students, staff, alumni, administrators, donors, visitors as well as academic and administrative groups, classes, and departments. Buildings & Grounds Images of U of C buildings, campus plans, and surrounding neighborhoods including Hyde Park, Kenwood, and Woodlawn. Events Images of U of C academic, public, and historical events, ceremonies, inaugurations, reunions, and visits of notable individuals. Academic \| Arts & Humanities \| Campus \| Chicago \| Community \| English \| Hyde Park \| Illinois \| Image \| Photography \| Students \| Studying \| United States \| University \| University of Chicago \| Education \| Photography \| Sociology & Demography \| Social Sciences http://photofiles.lib.uchicago.edu/ A Century of Progress: The 1933-34 World's Fair The University of Chicago Library's Century of Progress 1933-34 World's Fair Collection, most of which is housed in the Special Collections Research Center, contains the majority of materials that were published for the fair. Three hundred and fifty pamphlets from the collection have been digitized. Also available is a searchable database of the complete Checklist of Official Publications of the Century of Progress International Exposition and Its Exhibitors that was produced by staff of the John Crerar Library shortly after the close of the fair. Brochure \| English \| Illinois \| Image \| Pamphlet \| Photography \| Postcard \| Souvenir Album \| United States \| University of Chicago \| World Fair \| Sociology & Demography \| Sports & Recreation \| Social Sciences http://century.lib.uchicago.edu/ Philip M. Klutznick- Community Builder, Jewish and Civic Leader, Diplomat "Philip M. Klutznick: Community Builder, Jewish and Civic Leader, Diplomat" presents documents drawn from the Philip M. Klutznick Papers at the Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library. The Papers comprise 175 linear feet (306 boxes) of correspondence, manuscripts, notes, published materials, photographs, scrapbooks, architectural plans, awards and mementos and audio and video recordings. Together, these document Philip M. Klutznick's multi-faceted life and career as a pioneering community developer, philanthropist, United Nations representative, U.S. Secretary of Commerce and leader of the American and international Jewish community. Architectural plans \| English \| Housing \| Illinois \| Image \| Jewish community \| Manuscript \| Philip M. Klutznick \| Photography \| Scrapbooks \| Text \| United States \| University of Chicago \| Commerce & Industry \| Real Estate \| Sociology & Demography \| Business & Reference \| Social Sciences http://klutznick.lib.uchicago.edu/ Jerry Berndt Collection - Berndt Collection Collection Description Jerry Berndt Collection is a collection of 774 photographs shot by Jerry Berndt. These photographs were created under the auspices of Center of Religion and Civic Center(CRCC), USC. Jerry Berndt is an American photojournalist based in Paris. His photographs are included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), the International Center of Photography(New York York), and the Bibliotheque National (Paris). This collection consists of two subcollections: Gateway Cities Photography Project and Soul of Los Angeles Collection. . The Gateways Cities Photography Project. Arts & Humanities \| California \| English \| Image \| Immigration \| Jerry Berndt \| Photography \| Religion \| Theology \| United States \| University of Southern California \| Photography \| Religion http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/search/controller/collection/berndt-m451... Life in Western Pennsylvania 1840-1970 The website provides a visual record of changes in economic, social, and environmental life in the region as depicted in the evolving technology of photography. The time period covered in the website begins with the announcement in the Pittsburgh Gazette of the invention of a chemical process by Louis Daguerre. This process would later become known to the world as photography and would be used by generations of photographers to explore life and changes in Western Pennsylvania. “Life in Western Pennsylvania 1840-1970” is organized into three major categories: 1) Searchable database 2) Timeline 3) Section on preservation and identification of photographs. There are also sections on student activities, picture puzzles, e-cards, a teacher’s guide, and project documentation. Arts & Humanities \| Economy \| English \| Image \| Industrial Expansion \| Pennsylvania \| Photography \| Society \| The Senator John Heinz History Center \| United States \| Video \| Visual history \| Area Studies \| Lifestyle, Family & Relationships \| Sociology & Demography \| Social Sciences http://www.lifeinwesternpa.org/ American Institute of Indian Studies - Photo Archive About AIIS American knowledge of India is shaped by the American Institute of Indian Studies , a consortium of universities and colleges in the United States at which scholars actively engage in teaching and research about India. Since 1961, the Institute has provided fellowship support for scholars and PhD candidates in America. It has offered on-site training in Indian languages through the superb facilities of its Language Centers. And it has extended knowledge of Indian culture through its two Research Centers. As a member of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC), AIIS's online photo archive is also linked as part of CAORC's Americal Overseas Digital Library (AODL). More than 5,500 scholars have received AIIS support. American Institute of Indian Studies \| Architecture \| Architecture \| Arts & Humanities \| Buildings \| Calcutta \| Digital South Asia Library \| English \| Ethnomusicology \| Image \| India \| Indian Culture \| Madras \| National Endowment for Humanities \| New Delhi \| Photography \| Society \| United States \| Photography \| Sculpture & Plastic Arts http://dsal.uchicago.edu/images/aiis/ Bond Photograph Library The Bond collection consists of photographs taken during World War II by Frank Bond while serving in the Army Air Corps, 40th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, stationed in India and Burma. The squadron was formed in 1943 and transferred by sea to India in 1944. In India, the unit was assigned first to Gushkara, approximately sixty miles west of Calcutta, and then to the Alipore Air Base in suburban Calcutta. Bond was a specialist in the development of film from aerial photography that provided essential intelligence to the Allied forces during their advance through central Burma. As the campaign in Burma progressed, Bond was transferred to Akyab Island in the Bay of Bengal where he helped to establish the field photographic developing and printing laboratory. Arts & Humanities \| Calcutta \| Digital South Asia Library \| English \| Frank Bond \| Illinois \| Image \| India \| Indian Culture \| Military photograpy \| People \| Photography \| United States \| University of Chicago \| World War 2 \| Photography http://dsal.uchicago.edu/images/bond/ Pencils of Light These two albums of the Edinburgh Calotype Club, the first photographic club in the world, are among the earliest photograph albums in the world ever assembled. They contain over 300 images by a group of pioneering Scottish photographers working in Edinburgh and St. Andrews. Arts & Humanities \| Calotype \| Castles \| Churches \| Edinburgh \| English \| Image \| National Library of Scotland \| Photography \| Portraiture \| Scottish history \| United Kingdom \| Geography & Maps \| Photography \| Social Sciences http://digital.nls.uk/pencilsoflight/index.html Out of Africa- The Kirk Papers The Kirk Papers is a collection of photographs and papers belonging to East Africa pioneer Sir John Kirk. It was acquired for the National Library of Scotland in 1998/1999 with the help of a grant of £55,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund. Though not as well-known as his friend and fellow-explorer David Livingstone, Kirk was a trail-blazer of empire in East Africa and a man of eminence in his day. Born in Barry, Angus, in 1832, Kirk qualified in medicine at Edinburgh University and then volunteered for medical service in the Crimea. An accomplished botanist, zoologist and diplomat, he was also a talented photographer. This is evident from the collection of over 250 photographs, many of them stunning. Anti-slavery \| Arts & Humanities \| East Africa \| English \| Exploration \| Image \| Kenya \| Letters \| National Library of Scotland \| Photography \| Pioneer \| Sir John Kirk \| Tanzania \| Text \| Uganda \| United Kingdom \| Geography & Maps \| Photography \| Social Sciences http://digital.nls.uk/kirk/index.html Multicultural Canada Background Multicultural Canada: Our Diverse Heritage The Multicultural Canada digitization project grew from our conviction that the cultural groups that make up our country have little-known stories that need to be researched and told. Through newspapers, interviews, photographs, print and material culture people tell us who they are. Yet research into Canada’s multi-ethnic communities has been hampered by the relative lack of availability of non-English language materials and other artefacts originating from minority groups. Archives and libraries have long worked with individuals and cultural communities in Canada to collect and preserve the historical record of their experience; but these documents are seldom available beyond the walls of the institution. British Columbia \| Canada \| English \| Ethnicity \| Image \| Multiculture \| Newspaper \| Photography \| Simon Fraser University \| Society \| Text \| Area Studies \| Sociology & Demography \| Social Sciences http://www.multiculturalcanada.ca/ Harrison Brown - The Sian Incident and Beyond HARRISON BROWN The Sian Incident and Beyond "Harrison Brown: The Sian Incident and Beyond" is a chronicle of author and journalist Harrison Brown's voyage to China between 1936 and 1937, and the events that unfolded during that time in what has become known as 'The Sian Incident'. The events are presented largely through the eyes of Harrison Brown himself - 'H.B.' as his friends called him - through the journals that he kept during his trip, the photographs he took, and the articles and manuscript that he wrote during and after his journey. You may browse through a collection of 137 of H.B's photos, his 22-chapter manuscript "On the Trail of a Freelance", his original hand-written journal pages, and much more. Arts & Humanities \| Author \| British Columbia \| Canada \| China \| China \| English \| Harrison Brown \| Image \| Journalism \| Manuscript \| Photography \| Simon Fraser University \| Text \| Writer \| Biography \| Literature & Poetry \| Social Sciences http://edocs.lib.sfu.ca/projects/Harrison-Brown/ Doukhobor Collection of Simon Fraser University Doukhobor Collection of Simon Fraser University About the Collection The Simon Fraser University Library Doukhobor Collection is comprised of over 700 primary source items (totaling over 3,300 images) dating from 1898 to 1975. Among these items are a variety of scanned manuscripts, photographs, books and book chapters, journals, magazine articles, financial documents and interviews. The items in the Collection largely deal with the settlement of the Doukhobors in late 19th - early 20th century Canada. This material represents a significant portion of the manuscripts and photographs but only a fraction of the books and periodicals in the Library's holdings. The collection includes items in both English and Russian. Arts & Humanities \| Canada \| Emigration \| English \| French \| Image \| Journals \| Letters \| Manuscript \| Photography \| Russian \| Simon Fraser University \| Society \| Text \| Biography \| Geography & Maps \| Lifestyle, Family & Relationships \| Social Sciences http://multiculturalcanada.ca/dkb Michigan County Histories and Atlases The Michigan County Histories and Atlases Digitization Project is comprised of 428 digitized titles (many composed of multiple volumes) published before 1923. The collection offers all members of the community free keyword searching and page-by-page access to digitized reproductions of Michigan county histories and atlases as a resource for historical and genealogical research. The collection is made possible, in part, through a generous Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant. Additional funding was provided by Michigan Council of Library Directors institutions and a Michigan Digitization and Preservation for Access grant. Atlases \| Cartography \| English \| Geography of Michigan \| Geography of the United States \| Image \| Map \| Maps \| Michigan \| Photography \| United States \| University of Michigan \| Geography & Maps \| History & Historiography \| Social Sciences http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/micounty/ Joseph Urban Stage Design Models & Documents The NEH-funded Joseph Urban Stage Designs Stabilization and Access Project of 2002-2004 focused on materials relating to Urban's New York theater career from 1914-1933, specifically the documentation of his productions for the Ziegfeld Follies and other theater producers, and his productions for the Metropolitan Opera. The archives of these productions contained many thousands of documents, photographs, sketches, technical drawings, and watercolors, as well as the actual stage models. Some 61 of the models remained fully assembled when acquired by Columbia, while 281 models had been collapsed by the Urban studio into one or more flattened bundles each. Press Release, 5/10/02 Selection for Digitization. Arts & Humanities \| Columbia University \| English \| Entertainment \| Image \| Joseph Urban \| New York \| New York \| Photography \| Stage design \| Stage models \| Technical drawing \| Text \| Theatre \| United States \| Construction & Materials \| Performance Arts \| Business & Reference http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/archives/rbml/urban/ Images of Russia and Caucasus Region 1929-1933 Scope and Content Images of Russia and Caucasus Region 1929-1933 presents over 700 images of Russia and the central Caucasus including the Republic of Georgia and Dagestan from the William O. Field Collection housed at the American Geographical Society Library. The photographic collection is supplemented by Field's diaries and travel notes, and a selection of maps of the Caucasus region. William O. Field (1904 - 1994), geographer, pioneer glaciologist, and a member of the American Geographical Society visited the Soviet Union three times between 1929 and 1933. During his first trip in 1929, Field traveled to Svanetia, a remote region in Georgia, located in the southern part of the Central Caucasus. American Geographical Society \| Arts & Humanities \| Buildings \| Churches \| English \| Georgia \| Glaciology \| Image \| Map \| Mountains \| People \| Photography \| Russia \| United States \| University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee \| William O. Field \| Wisconsin \| Area Studies \| Photography \| Social Sciences http://www4.uwm.edu/libraries/digilib/georgia/index.cfm Cities Around the World Scope and Content Cities Around the World presents over 6,100 photographic images from the slide collections of the American Geographic Society Library. The images selected for this project focus on architecture, city life, people, transportation and other aspects of urban development, such as neighborhoods, commercial streets, and business districts. The pictures were taken by two photographers, Harrison Forman and Harold Mayer between 1942 and 1994. The digital collection provides access to photographs of over 450 cities worldwide. In addition to present-day metropolitan areas, this collection also features ancient cities and deserted settlements, including Carthage, Great Zimbabwe, Machupicchu, and Persepolis. American Geographical Society \| Architecture \| Architecture \| Arts & Humanities \| Business districts \| City life \| Commercial streets \| English \| Harold Mayer \| Harrison Forman \| Image \| Neighborhoods \| People \| Photography \| Transportation \| United States \| University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee \| Wisconsin \| Photography \| Sociology & Demography \| Social Sciences http://www4.uwm.edu/libraries/digilib/cities/ AGSL Digital Photo Archive - South America Scope and Content AGSL Digital Photo Archive - South America presents a selection of images from the extensive photographic holdings of the American Geographical Society (AGS) Library. The images were selected from several collections including the American Geographical Society Library Print Collection, the Edna Schaus Sorensen and Clarence W. Sorensen Collection, the Richard U. Light and Mary (Light) Meader Collection, the Isaiah Bowman Collection, and the Theodoor deBooy Collection. The current selection of the AGSL Digital Photo Archive - South America focuses on the countries of South America. The coverage of this digital collection will expand as more photos are added to the site. American Geographical Society \| Architecture \| Arts & Humanities \| Buildings \| English \| Image \| Landscape \| Mountains \| People \| Photography \| South America \| United States \| University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee \| Wisconsin \| Area Studies \| Photography \| Social Sciences http://www4.uwm.edu/libraries/digilib/ags_south/index.cfm AGSL Digital Photo Archive - North and Central America Scope and Content The Digital Project Credits The AGS Library and UWM Libraries are grateful for continuing material support for the Digital Photo Archive project from Suzanne and Dr. Robert McColl. Project Staff: Krystyna K. American Geographical Society \| Arts & Humanities \| Buildings \| Central america \| Churches \| Cities \| English \| Image \| Mountains \| North america \| People \| Photography \| United States \| University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee \| Wisconsin \| Area Studies \| Photography \| Social Sciences http://www4.uwm.edu/libraries/digilib/agsnorth/index.cfm AGSL Digital Photo Archive - Africa Scope and Content AGSL Digital Photo Archive - Africa presents a selection of images from the extensive photographic holdings of the American Geographical Society (AGS) Library. These images were selected from the Richard U. Light and Mary (Light) Meader Collection. This digital collection contains approximately 1080 images from Mary Upjohn Light's aerial photography in 1937-38. Mrs. Light (who later married Dr. Edwin Meader) was an adventurous aerial photographer who flew with Dr. Richard Upjohn Light, a geographer and pilot, over the continents of South America and Africa. They were the first to produce aerial photographs of these continents. Some of the first aerial photographs of the pyramids in Egypt are present in the Light/Meader Collection of negatives. Aerial photographs \| Africa \| African culture \| American Geographical Society \| Arts & Humanities \| Buildings \| Desert \| English \| Image \| Mountains \| People \| Photography \| United States \| University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee \| Wisconsin \| Area Studies \| Photography \| Social Sciences http://www4.uwm.edu/libraries/digilib/agsafrica/index.cfm Afghanistan- Images from the Harrison Forman Collection About the Collection Scope and Content The online collection Afghanistan: Images from the Harrison Forman Collection documents the life and culture of Afghanistan in the late 1960s, several years before the civil unrest of the 1970s and 80s, the Soviet invasion, and the Taliban rule. The photographs, taken by Harrison Forman in 1969, portray the daily life of Afghanis, capture the beauty of the land, and document historic sites, including the great Buddhas of Bamiyan destroyed by the Taliban in 2001. The online collection consists of 195 images selected from a set of 733 slides of Afghanistan in the Harrison Forman Photographic Collection housed in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries' American Geographical Society (AGS) Library. Afghanistan \| Afghanistan culture \| American Geographical Society \| Architecture \| Arts & Humanities \| Buildings \| English \| Harrison Forman \| Historical sites \| Image \| Landscapes \| Photography \| United States \| University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee \| Wisconsin \| Area Studies \| Photography \| Social Sciences http://www4.uwm.edu/libraries/digilib/afghan/index.cfm NEH Grant Project- Saving and Sharing the AGS Library's Historic Nitrate Negative Images NEH Grant Project: Saving and Sharing the AGS Library's Historic Nitrate Negative Images With generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the American Geographical Society Library of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries (AGSL) has been able to institute a two-year, $315,000 grant project. Our NEH grant project "Saving and Sharing the AGS Library's Historic Nitrate Negative Images" began in May 2010. The scope of the project is to re-house, scan, create metadata for, and preserve on a long-term basis, the approximately 68,000 nitrate negatives in its photography collection. The ultimate goal of this effort is to provide universal access to this rich resource over the Internet. American Geographical Society \| Architecture \| Arts & Humanities \| Cities \| English \| Image \| Landscapes \| National Endowment for the Humanities \| Nitrate negatives \| Photography \| Society \| United States \| University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee \| Wisconsin \| World photography \| Photography http://www4.uwm.edu/libraries/digilib/NEHgrant/	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line152
__label__cc	0.528284	0.471716	shortcut to content Gen Ed Goals Gen Ed Courses MSU Class Schedule Organizations & Publications Employment & Assistantships MSU > Arts & Humanities > General Education Goals Page address: http://english.mnsu.edu/genedgoals.htm The following categories can be fulfilled using English courses. Category 1: Communication Goal: To develop writers and speakers who use the English language effectively and who read, write, speak, and listen critically. At a base, all students should complete introductory communication requirements early in their college studies. Writing competency is an ongoing process to be reinforced through writing-intensive courses and writing across the curriculum. Speaking and listening skills need reinforcement. There are multiple opportunities for interpersonal communication, public speaking and discussion. Part A: English Composition (requires one course, 3 credits or more, with a grade of at least a "C") Goal: To develop writers who use the English language effectively and who read and write critically. This course will require faculty-critiqued writing. Writing competency is an ongoing process which needs to be reinforced throughout the curriculum. (a) draw upon strategies for idea generation, drafting, revision, design, and editing; (b) analyze and produce texts guided by basic rhetorical concepts; (c) practice critical reading skills, including the ability to identify genre conventions and evaluate the claims, evidence, and reasoning in a text; (d) demonstrate effective research processes, including the ability to gather academic and non-academic sources and assess their quality and suitability for the writing situation; (e) integrate sources in their writing to achieve specific aims, making appropriate use of summary, paraphrase, quotation, and citation conventions; (f) explain their writing choices, using concrete examples to support their claims; (g) employ syntax and usage appropriate to academic disciplines and the professional world. Part C: Writing Intensive (requires one course, 3 or more credits) Goal: Students will continue to develop skills taught in Composition, applying them in the context of a particular discipline. Students will be able to (a) use writing to explore and gain a basic familiarity with the questions, values and analytical or critical thinking methods used in the discipline; (b) locate, analyze, evaluate, and use source material or data in their writing in a manner appropriate to intended audiences (popular or within the discipline) Category 6: Humanities and the Arts (requires two courses from different disciplines, 6 credits or more) Goal: To expand students' knowledge of the human condition and human cultures, especially in relation to behavior, ideas, and values expressed in works of human imagination and thought. Through study in disciplines such as literature, philosophy, the fine arts, students will engage in critical analysis, form aesthetic judgments, and develop an appreciation of the arts and humanities as fundamental to the experiences in both the arts and humanities. (a) demonstrate awareness of the scope and variety of works in the arts and humanities; (b) understand those works as expressions of individual and human values within an historical and social context; (c) respond critically to works in the arts and humanities; (d) engage in the creative process or interpretive performance; (e) articulate an informed personal reaction to works in the arts and humanities. Category 7: Human Diversity (requires one course, 3 credits or more) Goal: To increase students' understanding of individual and group differences, emphasizing the dynamics of race, gender, sexual orientation, age class, and/or disabilities in the history and culture of diverse groups in the United States; the contributions of pluralism to United States society and culture; and issues--economic, political, social, cultural, artistic, humanistic, and education traditions--that surround such diversity. Students should be able to evaluate the United States' historical and contemporary responses to group differences. (a) understand the development of and the changing meanings of group identities in the United States' history and culture; (b) demonstrate an awareness of the individual and institution dynamics of unequal power relations between groups in contemporary society; (c) analyze and evaluate their own attitudes, behaviors, concepts, and beliefs regarding diversity, racism, and bigotry; (d) describe and discuss the experience and contributions (political, social, economic, artistic, humanistic, etc.) of the many groups that shape American society and culture, in particular those groups which have suffered discrimination and exclusion; (e) demonstrate communication skills necessary for living and working effectively in a society with great population diversity. Category 8: Global Perspective Goal: To increase students' understanding of the growing interdependence of nations, traditions and peoples and develop their ability to apply a comparative perspective to cross cultural social, economic, and political experiences. (a) describe, analyze, and evaluate political, economic, humanistic, artistic, social and cultural elements which influence relations of nations and peoples in their historical and contemporary dimensions; (b) demonstrate knowledge of cultural, social, religious and linguistic differences; (c) analyze specific international problems illustrating cultural, economic, artistic, humanistic, social, and political differences which affect their solution; (d) understand the role of a world citizen and the responsibility world citizens share for their common global future. Category 9: Ethical and Civic Responsibility Goal: To develop students' capacity to identify, discuss and reflect upon the ethical dimensions of political, social, and personal life and to understand the ways in which they can exercise responsible and productive citizenship. While there are diverse views of social justice or the common good in a pluralistic society, students should learn that responsible citizenship requires them to develop skills to understand their own and others positions, be part of the free exchange of ideas, and function as public minded citizens. (a) examine, articulate, and apply their own ethical views; (b) understand and apply core concepts (e.g. politics, rights and obligations, justice, liberty) to specific issues; (c) analyze and reflect on the ethical dimensions of legal, social, and scientific issues; (d) recognize the diversity of political motivations and interests of others; (e) identify ways to exercise the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. Category 11: Performance and Participation (requires 2-3 credits) Goal: To prepare students for responsible and effective participation in groups and communities. (a) participate effectively in a variety of artistic, education, political, recreational, health and public service, or social service settings; (b) interact with others of another culture in its indigenous setting through a structured experience; (c) participate cooperatively in group athletic activity or artistic performance. University, Mankato Questions? 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__label__cc	0.556846	0.443154	24-Hour Crisis Line: 1-888-279-8188 24-Hour Crisis Line: A Century of Service Corporate Compliance Plan Privacy Practices and Consumer Rights Children/Youth Services Intake & Therapy Substance Use Disorders Treatment About Substance Use Disorders Treatment Substance Abuse Traffic Offender Program (SATOP) Seasonal Depression is Most Prevalent in Winter Dec 4, 2015 12:00 pm Written by Family Guidance Center Do You Have Symptoms of Seasonal Depression? If what you feel most about winter is bleak, gray and feels somewhat hopeless, you may be among thousands of Americans with seasonal depression. In fact, for some people, seasonal depression is an annual reality. Seasonal depression doesn’t only strike in winter, but for those affected by seasonal affective disorder (SAD), the dark months are the most common trigger. Just what causes SAD remains unclear, though there are some theories on what leads to seasonal depression. One explanation suggests that the lack of bright sunlight may result in the brain’s reduced manufacture of the mood-affecting chemical serotonin. This wouldn’t explain why some people experience seasonal depression in spring or summer, yet the theory does match what’s been observed about the condition for winter SAD. For example, SAD more often affects people living in countries with a cold, dark winter season and does not show up as often in tropical, sunny climes. A person with SAD may feel lethargic, hungry, unfocused and more desirous of solitude. They may gain weight as a result of increased appetite and less activity. Depending upon the severity, a person may find that their seasonal depression symptoms affect work or personal relationships in a negative way. The condition tends to affect more women than men. Seasonal depression often begins just as a person enters adulthood and persists in a predictable manner according to season, year after year. 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__label__wiki	0.746315	0.746315	First Trailer for Sean Baker’s ‘The Florida Project’ Starring Willem Dafoe August 14, 2017 Movie Posters, Movie Trailers A24 has launched the first trailer and poster for Sean Baker’s Cannes sensation The Florida Project, starring Willem Dafoe. The drama tells the story of a group of kids on the fringes in Orlando. Co-starring newcomers Brooklynn Prince, Valeria Cotto, Christopher Rivera, and Bria Vinaite, watch the official trailer below. Sean Baker's Cannes Sensation Warm, winning and gloriously alive, Sean Baker’s The Florida Project is a deeply moving and unforgettably poignant look at childhood. Set on a stretch of highway just outside the imagined utopia of Disney World, The Florida Project follows six-year-old Moonee (Brooklynn Prince in a stunning breakout turn) and her rebellious mother Halley (Bria Vinaite, another major discovery) over the course of a single summer. The two live week to week at “The Magic Castle,” a budget motel managed by Bobby (a career-best Willem Dafoe), whose stern exterior hides a deep reservoir of kindness and compassion. Despite her harsh surroundings, the precocious and ebullient Moonee has no trouble making each day a celebration of life, her endless afternoons overflowing with mischief and grand adventure as she and her ragtag playmates—including Jancey, a new arrival to the area who quickly becomes Moonee’s best friend—fearlessly explore the utterly unique world into which they’ve been thrown. Unbeknownst to Moonee, however, her delicate fantasy is supported by the toil and sacrifice of Halley, who is forced to explore increasingly dangerous possibilities in order to provide for her daughter. With The Florida Project, Sean Baker gives life and a voice to a community rarely seen on screen. Through the winsome eyes and pained glances of Moonee, Halley, and Bobby, Baker has created a spellbinding and transformative portrait of contemporary lives lived in the margins that are otherwise too easily forgotten. The Florida Project declares, boldly and proudly, that anywhere can be a Magic Kingdom – it just depends on how you see it. The Florida Project opens in select theaters October 6 after screening next at the New York Film Festival.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line164
__label__cc	0.740123	0.259877	Jhula - a system for clean energy By Prajna Pranab, 23 March 2007 What if I was to describe a system to you that could increase its energy not by putting more energy into the system but by judiciously removing energy from it? That would require some 'thinking outside the box', would it not? The system I describe is called 'Jhula', a Sanskrit word meaning 'swing'. Jhula is a very simple machine consisting of a counterweight and a pendulum. The counterweight is connected via a bearing to some fixed point and the bearing is positioned in an eccentric manner (what else would you expect from someone who is eccentric?) The pendulum is connected to the end of the counterweight by another bearing, which is able to be locked by means of a brake. Here is a model of how it might look: And an animation of the Jhula operating merely under the influence of gravity: Jhula - animation (58Mb .gif) Jhula - animation (5.8Mb .avi) Jhula - model (7Kb .wm2d) If you are astute you will notice that there are periods during the seemingly chaotic swinging of the pendulum and counterweight where simply locking the bearing that connects the pendulum to the counterweight will cause the unbalance of the system to add momentum to the counterweight. Point 'A' At point 'A', above, you can see that the pendulum is about to swing down clockwise because it is free to rotate about its bearing. If, by latching the bearing, we could fix the relationship between the pendulum and the counterweight then, because the system centre of mass is off to the right, the system would accelerate clockwise. Once the pendulum has passed the bottom of the cycle we could release the latch and let the system take care of itself until latching would again add momentum. If you imagine the pendulum as a swing then I am sure you can get a feel for when you would latch the bearing and when you would release it. Indeed, I propose that it would be useful to build a swing based on this design in order to demonstrate the principle. A disc brake could be used to latch the pendulum bearing. I believe it would be quite a ride! As Buzz Lightyear might say "It might not be flying but it certainly is falling with style". Notice that the only energy input into the system, apart from that required to start it, is the small effort needed to latch the bearing. The thing that increases the energy output is intelligence rather than effort; the intelligence to know when to apply the brakes and when to release them. Sensing when to operate the latch may, at first glance, seem to be quite a significant problem but careful observation of the animation will reveal that there are a few simple rules that will operate to increase the system momentum in a clockwise direction. When the pendulum is to the right of the counterweight axle and the angle between the pendulum and the counterweight is not changing then is an advantageous moment to engage the latch. Once the pendulum has passed the bottom point the latch should be released. There are likely to be other optimisations that can be added but even with these two simple rules it should be possible to extract energy from the system. I used Working Model 2D to model this machine. Still to be done is to model the intelligent latching, something that is beyond the capabilities of WM2D, and to analyse the output. I would also like to build a Jhula device that can be used as a swing, complete with disc braking on the pendulum hub. I think that it would make a great fairground ride for demonstration and promotion of the idea and it could be connected to a generator to produce clean 'human powered' energy, produced more enjoyably and with less effort than pedalling the Rinky Dink Sound System. Eventually, of course, I would like to develop a generating system with built in logic, powered simply by gravity; won't that be something to look forward to? So there you are, the Jhula device. Time for the builders to get in their workshops to see how they can realise the principle. This concept is offered free for experiment and development on the basis that nothing derived from it may be patented or trademarked. You may contact me via the forums on overunity.com I'm rushing to get this published before April the 1st since many people will be convinced that it must be a joke. Jhula just gets more interesting... When I first looked at the concept it seemed that it was going to take quite some logic to get Jhula to run and possibly even (dare we imagine it) run at over unity, accelerating due to gravity. My first effort was to add a ratchet to limit the swing of the pendulum so that it would only swing in one direction. I designed a mechanical ratchet to achieve that and it showed promise but WM2D was having problems modeling it (WM2D isn't great at handling complex polygons). Then xnonix from the overunity forum leapt to my aid and showed me how to simulate a ratchet using a motor. He went further and added a similar latch to the main axle bearing and then we had a most interesting machine. Jhula - xnonix mod (7Kb .wm2d) That particular model seems fairly stable compared to others I have created, some of which seem to produce overunity in spades. That is an extraordinary claim, I know. Before you write this off as lunacy, though, take a look at the following model. Even better, grab a pair of rear axles (freewheels) from a couple of bicycles and build a real version based on this model. Make sure you include a braking system because this thing can accelerate to destruction. The negative values on the graphs are because the device is rotating clockwise but they clearly indicate the acceleration. Jhula Minum model (7Kb .wm2d) Also interesting is this following version. You can see that there are a number of configurations that can be used. Each has their own characteristics. Some sit there just ticking over, some seem completely chaotic and some accelerate reasonably smoothly. Jhula Minum Crank model (7Kb .wm2d) I am sure that this machine is going to give physicists a few headaches but it is remarkably simple to build and test for yourself. If you do so, or if you are a physicist who has a good explaination of what is happening in this system, please post a message in this thread on overunity.com.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line170
__label__wiki	0.724495	0.724495	Big Data for Big Animals: Part 3 Wild Nature Institute Giraffe Research Uses Big Data Tools Part 3: Velocity, Volume, and Variety in Tall Data for Giraffe Conservation Giraffes are big animals, so scientists have turned to big data solutions for giraffe conservation. Researchers from the Wild Nature Institute are conducting one of the largest-scale big mammal studies ever undertaken by studying births, deaths, and movements of more than 2,000 giraffes across a 4,000 square kilometer landscape in the Tarangire ecosystem of northern Tanzania, East Africa. Giraffe populations have declined precipitously across Africa due to habitat loss and illegal killing for meat. Dr. Derek Lee, Principal Scientist of the Wild Nature Institute said, “We needed new tools to figure out how we can save giraffes, and there was a perfect storm of technology that made our Project GIRAFFE work possible.” Big data programs are often described by the 3 Vees of Velocity, Volume, and Variety, and Wild Nature Institute’s Project GIRAFFE is growing in all three. “Our Volume (amount of data) and Variety (type and nature of data) are already staggering.” said Dr. Lee. “We take about 9000 high-resolution photos every year, and these photos contain hundreds of gigabytes of data on giraffe identity, location, social relationships, age, size, reproductive status, disease, space and habitat use, and much more. Our Velocity recently increased in a huge step function as our computer science collaborators have developed amazing new tools to speed up data processing. We are always looking for more partners from the computer science, informatics, and cybernetics worlds to improve our information processing systems.” Variety of data streams is also increasing as Wild Nature Institute enlists village game scouts, tourism operators, and ecotourists on safari. Involving stakeholders is integral to monitoring how giraffes respond to community conservation zones called Wildlife Management Areas. Wild Nature Institute partners at the PAMS Foundation are supporting intelligence-based anti-poaching activities to protect elephants and giraffes in the Tarangire ecosystem, and Wild Nature Institute is documenting how the wildlife populations respond to their efforts. Wild Nature Institute scientists are using digital photographs of each giraffe’s unique and unchanging spot patterns to identify them throughout their lives. They are quantifying births, deaths, and movements of more than 2000 individual giraffes in a landscape that is a mosaic of natural and human-impacted areas to learn where giraffe are doing well, and where they are not, and why. Armed with data-driven conservation knowledge products, Wild Nature Institute scientists and partners are working to protect and connect the areas that are most important to giraffe survival and reproduction. “We are turning big data into tall data to save giraffes!” said Lee. Part 1: Matching Photos of the Same Giraffe Using Virtual Supercomputers Part 2: Machine Learning Finds the Giraffe in the Bushes Giraffes contemplating the cloud-based informatics tools developed by Wild Nature Institute and their partners. Categories ecology, wildlife conservation Tags animals, derek lee, giraffe, wild nature institute, wildlife Post navigation Giraffes declared vulnerable to extinction, world’s leading giraffe experts react	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line171
__label__wiki	0.851846	0.851846	Seattle Tech Business, Gaming 0 PAX Report: Long Live the Indies! By Ana Visneski · On September 10, 2012 Pop Cap’s Zombies bust a move for the crowd outside of PAX Prime. Photo by A. Visneski Another PAX Prime has come and gone. I waited a few days to put together a post because I wanted to take the time to really delve into some of the games I discovered in 3 days of the glorious, overwhelming expo of all things gaming. While it was great to see the new Halo 4, Dead Island’s sequel, the newest Assassin’s Creed and all the other big gaming companies, this year belonged to the Indies. (And really you can read reviews and dissection on the big name games anywhere!) One trend that was noticeable throughout PAX was a retro feel to new indie games. Arguably the resurgence of “old school” graphics was started by the indie juggernaut MineCraft, which has 40,298,047 registered users as of this post. There was an entire area at PAX dedicated to the game, including a Creeper sculpture that showed what one of the creatures would look like on the inside. A major presence in the games market, Minecraft has made it clear that you do not have to have photo realistic graphics to have an audience or to be marketable. Of course PopCap Games also attended, a company best known for games like Bejeweled and Plants vs Zombies. The three guys who started PopCap in 2000 wanted to make simple Java games that were free for everyone to play. With over 400 employees today, they are a great example of a successful indie start into a successful company. They showed that you can build a successful gaming company by focusing on simple game play that is easily enjoyable by a broad range of audiences over a broad range of platforms. Every year, 50 industry experts get together to pick the ten best new indie games, called the PAX10. Looking at more than just the design they examine new games on the overall game play and fun factor. The games that win the competition get a special area on the main floor of the expo to set up demonstrations of their games. The PAX10 this year were: Canon Brawl Containment: The Zombie Puzzler Johann Sebastian Joust PuzzleJuice While it’s have to pick a top game, which would largely depend on the type of gaming you’re into, I would say my two stand-out favorites were Containment the Zombie Puzzler and PuzzleJuice. Puzzlejuice is like Tetris, meets Boggle, meets Bejeweled, on steroids thrown in a blender, then spiced with awesome sauce. Okay, I might have spent a lot of time on that game. There is also a very good chance the next time I get together with my friends we will be playing Johann Sebastian Joust, which left us all laughing so hard that our sides hurt. Using the Playstation Move, it is a no graphics game that is set to music. The controllers are sensitive to movement and the goal is to never go over the threshold of that sensitivity…and to make sure the others in the game do go over that threshold. Honestly I could say great things about all of the PAX10. The Swapper’s graphics were really unique and mesmerizing. Offspring Fling had a fun feel with a twist. Catch22 was really hypnotic. Of course they were not the only indie games there, there were new games for smart phones, tablets, and PCs, ranging from new zombie games, to hex based strategy games, card games, action and more. Probably what was most impressive from the technological aspect of the games were how many of them crossed multiple platforms – iOS, Android, Windows, you name it. The freedom with which the indie developers make their games available on new devices is just awesome. Veering sharply from the high tech, super realistic graphics that can be found with the larger named games at PAX coming from Bioware, Microsoft, and others, the indie games show a return to bright colors, sharp lines, and very straight forward game play. This is not to say easy or boring, but at the core the indie games are inventive, cooperative, and had a certain delight in simply the concept of fun play. Even with the retro graphics it did not feel like game play was moving backwards; the games had a lot of intelligent play, good storylines and great interaction with other players. While it was great to see the new games coming out from the big companies, for me this PAX was really about falling in love with indie games. HaloMineCraftPAXPopCap Games Ana Visneski Ana Visneski is a graduate student in the Master of Communication Digital Media program at the University of Washington. She is also an active duty officer in the United States Coast Guard. 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__label__cc	0.741601	0.258399	Tag: Pinbone David Moyle to curate extensive food line up – ‘Royal Moyle’ – for the St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival December 7, 2017 / Sosefina Fuamoli Music festivals, these days, are as much about the experience off stage as they are about the ones to be had in front of them, with the ’boutique’ nature of these events drawing huge numbers of people out each year to spend money on the culinary delights that can be found at each site. The standards for festival food and drink options at festivals have risen considerably over the last few years especially and when it’s come to the St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival, it’s been obvious, the amount of effort put into curating an impressive list of nosh options.... Read More \| Share it now! The chefs behind Pinbone are opening an American-style Italian diner with Merivale (Sydney) October 17, 2017 / Chris Singh Sydney chef duo Mike Eggert and Jemma Whiteman are two names which are always welcome at any table in Sydney, stemming from their time running the city’s hugely popular Pinbone before closing up shop in 2015. Since then they’ve been spotted in and around the likes of 10 William Street and their own Kensington restaurant, Good Luck Pinbone; their latest project is a pop-up in collaboration with Merivale, titled Mr Liquor’s Dirty Italian Disco. ... Read More \| Share it now! An American-style Italian pop-up is coming to The Tennyson Hotel (Sydney) August 18, 2017 / Lachlan Mitchell Merivale, who acquired The Tennyson Hotel in December 2016, have announced their pursuit of “warehouse Italian” will be taking over what is currently the venue’s drive-in bottle shop for six months, crafting what will be titled “Mr. Liquor Dirty Italian Disco”.... Read More \| Share it now! Pinbone’s Jemma Whiteman & Mike Eggert take over the kitchen at 10 William Street (Sydney) February 5, 2016 / Chris Singh Everyone was sad when Woollahra’s adored Pinbone closed for business last year. I was sad, you were sad, we all shed a tear, and henceforth a communal pining for Pinbone began and has never really gone away since. Deep down, we always knew Pinbone would be living on though, and this month indicates a kind of revival for the brand as chefs Jemma Whiteman and Mike Eggert step into Paddington hotspot 10 William Street for a bit of a kitchen takeover, which will kick off on February 9th and last until June. ... Read More \| Share it now!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line179
__label__cc	0.738504	0.261496	SurgicalSteel Joined: Tue Jan 19, 2010 4:18 pm UTC Location: DMV, USA Re: Screechings of the Great Unwashed (Meander to the Morgue Postby SurgicalSteel » Sat Aug 27, 2011 2:35 am UTC I think I might spend the weekend catching up on blog posts I've been meaning to write and research/studying I've been meaning to do, since I won't be able to go outside. I just hope I don't lose power, then I'll be forced to rediscover the lost tools of pencil and paper. "There's spray paint on the teleprompter Anchorman screams that he's seen a monster (mayday) There's blood stains on his shirt (mayday) They say that he's gone berserk." --Flobots "Mayday" PhoenixEnigma Joined: Fri Sep 18, 2009 3:11 am UTC Location: Sasquatchawan, Canada Contact PhoenixEnigma Postby PhoenixEnigma » Sat Aug 27, 2011 4:47 am UTC Screech: At first glance, this rocket engine [warning, 3MB image] looks like a Dalek prototype or testbed of some kind. Or maybe that's just me "Optimism, pessimism, fuck that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work." -Elon Musk Shivahn wrote: I am a motherfucking sorceror. Magnanimous Madmanananimous Joined: Wed Feb 17, 2010 7:11 pm UTC Location: Land of Hipsters and Rain (LOHAR) Postby Magnanimous » Sat Aug 27, 2011 5:18 am UTC To me it looks more like the evil laser robot from the NewWho Series 1 finale. bazinga TimelordSimone Joined: Sat Jan 30, 2010 6:05 pm UTC Location: Cambridge ish Postby TimelordSimone » Sat Aug 27, 2011 11:18 pm UTC Magnanimous wrote: To me it looks more like the evil laser robot from the NewWho Series 1 finale. The AnneDroid? ...yeah I can see that. I mostly lurk. Hello. Postby SurgicalSteel » Sat Aug 27, 2011 11:59 pm UTC I think a Dark and Stormy is appropriate at this juncture. Postby SecondTalon » Sun Aug 28, 2011 8:58 am UTC Ptolom wrote: N'aww, now we're all curious about what he did. Tried to be cute while suggesting piracy by sitename, in a way that obfuscated what was being suggested, to an individual who had a legitimate complaint about various regional DRM preventing him from playing a game while he was well-aware it was unlocked in other regions, and how he had to wait another six hours for it to unlock in his region. Hence, getting ejected rather than just edited. Ivora Joined: Thu Aug 27, 2009 3:18 am UTC Location: Wandering the Crystal Blue. Postby Ivora » Mon Aug 29, 2011 7:02 am UTC believe in something you do not fully understand that is the challenge Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz. Joined: Sat Mar 07, 2009 11:33 am UTC Location: ᘝᓄᘈᖉᐣ Contact Link Postby Link » Mon Aug 29, 2011 7:17 am UTC Ivora wrote: believe in something you do not fully understand Quantum mechanics. 'Nuff said, methinks. I make free and open-source software and hardware! HOW IS MOLPY FORMED? HOW MUSTARD GET CHIRPING?  Perpetually in need of ketchup. dumbzebra Joined: Thu Dec 10, 2009 4:59 pm UTC Location: Somewhere on the moon. Postby dumbzebra » Mon Aug 29, 2011 8:06 pm UTC How hard would you say would be mounting a camera/webcam to a kite with little to no knowledge in eletrcotechnic or that video conection stuff? Bonus points if the picture can be live streamed to a nearby computer via bluetooth or such. Also cost must be under 60€ As the great philosopher Socrates once said: "No." DSenette Postby DSenette » Mon Aug 29, 2011 8:12 pm UTC dumbzebra wrote: How hard would you say would be mounting a camera/webcam to a kite with little to no knowledge in eletrcotechnic or that video conection stuff? if you've already got the camera, all it takes is tape and a kite strong enough to lift the thing in the air The Righteous Hand Of Retribution "The evaporation of 4 million who believe this crap would leave the world an instantly better place." ~Andre Codresu (re: "the Rapture") Ptolom Location: The entropy pool Contact Ptolom Postby Ptolom » Mon Aug 29, 2011 8:18 pm UTC I would say quite hard, unless you use a camera which already has a built-in transmitter. You can get tiny video cameras which have a radio link and are powered by a 9v battery. I'm not sure what the range is though. Edit: Something like this. DSenette wrote: if you've already got the camera, all it takes is tape and a kite strong enough to lift the thing in the air Yeah, I mean technically I could buy a camera and ducttape it to the kite. But it's not really want I want. A conventional cheap digital camera is quite heavy and a bit clumsy, so the picture might not be that good, and the streaming thing would be gone. And since the kite is likely to fall down, I would prefer to use a relatively cheap webcam. Ptolom wrote: I would say quite hard, unless you use a camera which already has a built-in transmitter. You can get tiny video cameras which have a radio link and are powered by a 9v battery. I'm not sure what the range is though. That's pretty cool, also I'm amazed that equipment this cool is relatively cheap. But it kinda defeats the purpose: I'm enrolling in physics (or something in that area) next year and I'm using my gap year to relearn alot about it, and projects like this are supossed to make it more fun, so just buying the whole thing and glueing it together wouldn't really help much. That being said, you see I'm not unwilling to learn, so I want to reduce the really impossible parts to a minimum (meaning I only buy a small sender/reciever, but yeah, I have to see what's possible). ShootTheChicken Best. Cheerleader. Ever. Location: America's Hat Postby ShootTheChicken » Mon Aug 29, 2011 8:55 pm UTC I've been meaning to try it, and for the first run I just went around my office and asked people for old digital cameras. I got 4 old small cameras that people just had lying around and didn't know what to do with. So try that? SecondTalon wrote: the Hot Freshness of Wicked Classic. dumbzebra wrote: DSenette wrote: That's pretty cool, also I'm amazed that equipment this cool is relatively cheap. In that case things become far more interesting. You could buy a cmos camera and a transceiver module and work on interfacing them. Of course you'd also have to build a decoder to receive the signals and decode them into video. Alternatively you could look at something like the zigbee, which will run a two-way connection between the camera and the receiver and handle the messy business of transmitting the data for you. Postby Gears » Tue Aug 30, 2011 8:50 am UTC Why's my laptop freeze every time I try to load xkcd? It only freezes when I come here. General_Norris wrote: I notice a lack of counter-arguments and a lot of fisting. Plasma Man Joined: Tue Jan 15, 2008 9:27 am UTC Location: Northampton, Northampton, Northampton middle England. Postby Plasma Man » Tue Aug 30, 2011 1:43 pm UTC Ow ow ow! I just shut the door of a safe on my thumb! Please note that despite the lovely avatar Sungura gave me, I am not a medical doctor. Possibly my proudest moment on the fora. rrwoods Joined: Mon Sep 24, 2007 5:57 pm UTC Postby rrwoods » Tue Aug 30, 2011 1:51 pm UTC Famous Amos needs to stop changing (or maybe just screwing up) their gorram recipe. The other day my cookies were underbaked. Now they're flat and overbaked. They were perfect for years! 31/M/taken/US age/gender/interest/country Belial wrote: The sex card is tournament legal. And I am tapping it for, like, six mana. Vohu Manah athlete's nipple. Joined: Tue Jun 30, 2009 5:00 am UTC Location: Western Hemisphere. Possibly Idaho. Postby Vohu Manah » Wed Aug 31, 2011 3:26 am UTC There were two turkeys walking around our street today. Last week, there was a marauding chicken around our house...I need to leave. Isaac Hill wrote: If this tetonic plate's rockin' such that it registers no less than 6.1 on the Richter scale, don't come a knockin'. ginadagny Joined: Sat Aug 15, 2009 1:15 am UTC Postby ginadagny » Wed Aug 31, 2011 4:52 am UTC I'm at this stage in my life where lots of my friends/acquaintances are getting engaged/married. I'm happy for all of them but I can't help but feel weird about it. Maybe because I still feel pretty young at heart. Deep_Thought Location: North of the River Postby Deep_Thought » Wed Aug 31, 2011 9:44 am UTC elminster wrote: The UK seems to have a strong variation in accents relative to it's land size, as well as quite a number of notable ones. I don't know how other countries compare, but it just seems like that. It's always hard to compare when you've lived 99% of the time in one country. I've had that same thought myself. For one small island we have a dizzying number of regional variations. Postby rrwoods » Wed Aug 31, 2011 12:59 pm UTC ginadagny wrote: I'm at this stage in my life where lots of my friends/acquaintances are getting engaged/married. I'm happy for all of them but I can't help but feel weird about it. Maybe because I still feel pretty young at heart. Ditto. One of my friends is married, has a 1-year old, and has another on the way. I'm still 12 inside, never want kids, and probably don't want to get married. ArgonV Postby ArgonV » Wed Aug 31, 2011 1:34 pm UTC Katzenjammer is playing one town over in December. I need to get me some tickets. Postby Deep_Thought » Wed Aug 31, 2011 1:54 pm UTC There is a German bar I know of called Katzenjammers. They have epic schnitzel. podbaydoor Location: spaceship somewhere out there Postby podbaydoor » Wed Aug 31, 2011 2:34 pm UTC I want this to be played at my funeral. (SFW) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG6b3V2MNxQ tenet \|ˈtenit\| a principle or belief, esp. one of the main principles of a religion or philosophy : the tenets of classical liberalism. tenant \|ˈtenənt\| a person who occupies land or property rented from a landlord. Postby SecondTalon » Wed Aug 31, 2011 2:59 pm UTC Deep_Thought wrote: I think the US and Canada together have the same amount of variation, just on... how much larger of an area again? Holy shit. Yous guys need to move around more or something. Deep_Thought wrote: There is a German bar I know of called Katzenjammers. They have epic schnitzel. Hehe. A bar named after a term for a hangover. We've got one in my town as well, called 'De Kater', which in Dutch means both 'male cat' and 'hangover'. Still, their logo is a cat. Mumpy Postby Mumpy » Wed Aug 31, 2011 3:19 pm UTC SecondTalon wrote: But isn't it just because you live $here that you notice it all? I mean, nova scotian/texan is clearly different, and you'd struggle to confuse irish and west country, but the difference between Banbury and Oxford is noticeable to me, and if you could tell the difference (without direct: you say this, uh huh, now you comparison) I'd be impressed. And those two places are 30 flippin' miles away from each other. Someone from Indianapolis, IN in Columbus, OH would probably not sound out of place to anyone, and those two places are 175 miles apart. I mean, you'll note differences in certain geographic moves of a similar distance (Indianapolis to Lexington, KY -180ish miles for example) but that more or less depends on where you are. Yeah, if I was drawing an expanding circle around Missouri, you probably would not start hitting noticeably different accents until you got to the Chicago area in the north, or southern Arkansas in the south (and then mainly in the sticks, since educated people from the cities tend to assume the same flat Midwest accent). doogly Dr. The Juggernaut of Touching Himself Joined: Mon Oct 23, 2006 2:31 am UTC Contact doogly Postby doogly » Wed Aug 31, 2011 3:35 pm UTC You too can distinguish the accents of the five boroughs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hrA9-6o4tI "The thing with Queens is you live there." LE4dGOLEM: What's a Doug? Noc: A larval Doogly. They grow the tail and stinger upon reaching adulthood. Keep waggling your butt brows Brothers. Or; Is that your eye butthairs? Really? Ok, wow. I just figured it was because I didn't grow up in the area that I couldn't spot the difference. Those are all pretty white though. There are so very many more. ArgonV wrote: Hehe. A bar named after a term for a hangover. We've got one in my town as well, called 'De Kater', which in Dutch means both 'male cat' and 'hangover'. Still, their logo is a cat. Ah. So that's what it means! A German lady friend was like "Cat's Pyjamas, what the hell?". She doesn't drink that much though, might explain it. On the accents topic, they are funny things. We currently mock my cousin on a regular basis because she lived with a Northerner for 6 months and now says "oop"* a lot. I actually wonder whether part of my perception of the UK having a lot of accents is due to hearing all the American, Canadian, Australian, New Zealander, South African, and every possible variety of non-native speaker accents. Maybe it trains up our brains for spotting differences between them or something? Although I mistook a Portugese person for French the other day. Whoops. At least I didn't call him Spanish, that would have been awkward. Instead of up, for those unfamiliar with Northern English accents. I have no idea why, but this Youtube account has a bunch of different interviews with various people in Kentucky. Point being - we've got all kinds of fucked up accents here. The Scyphozoa Joined: Sun Jun 01, 2008 6:33 pm UTC Location: Sector 5 Postby The Scyphozoa » Wed Aug 31, 2011 4:52 pm UTC I've only heard Portuguese spoken once, and it sounded to me like Spanish being spoken with a German accent. 3rdtry wrote: If there ever is another World War, I hope they at least have the decency to call it "World War 2: Episode One" doogly wrote: murder is a subset of being mean Postby ArgonV » Thu Sep 01, 2011 11:27 am UTC Well, it can also mean a cat's wail, which is a pretty strange name for such an awesome band Steax SecondTalon's Goon Squad Joined: Sat Jan 12, 2008 12:18 pm UTC Postby Steax » Thu Sep 01, 2011 4:30 pm UTC AAAAA I can't pick an email client. I've long used gmail, and I love it, but recently it's terrible at managing my other (non-gmail) accounts. Also, it slows down my browser. I also can't just turn it off easily for my work sessions. I'm on a mac. Suggestions please? (or should I just go to OS X Lion and use the built-in mail app?) In Minecraft, I use the username Rirez. Postby TimelordSimone » Thu Sep 01, 2011 5:33 pm UTC What would be a good way to run a D&D game online? A private game for people I know, I don't really want to DM for strangers on the Internet. I have a campaign setting stuck in my head, but my D&D playing friends all live across the country now, and I can't really think how to go about it. pseudoidiot Sexy Beard Man Contact pseudoidiot Postby pseudoidiot » Thu Sep 01, 2011 5:41 pm UTC I've been in a couple games using Google+ hangouts and that's going really well. It may not work quite as easily for something like D&D, where you generally want to keep track of minis and maps and so forth. Some sort of shared whiteboard could take care of that, though. Also, I haven't had a chance to actually use it, but I've heard good things about Infrno. Derailed : Gaming Outside the Box. SecondTalon wrote: swoons* I love you, all powerful pseudoidiot! ShootTheChicken wrote: I can't stop thinking about pseudoidiot's penis. Viae Joined: Mon Feb 21, 2011 7:48 pm UTC Location: Albion Postby Viae » Thu Sep 01, 2011 5:42 pm UTC Skype or mumble, maybe? And then a virtual gameboard, I think google's your friend there. Some friends of mine did a few sessions of that sort of thing. The Mighty Thesaurus wrote: Also, I think your title should be "colossus", and I don't care if nobody agrees.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line181
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__label__wiki	0.655988	0.655988	Join Sign up Road to Change bus tour crosses U.S. in effort to mobilize young voters for gun control – 850 WFTL by admin in Gun News The Road to Change bus tour, organized by survivors of the high school shooting in Parkland and several recording artists including Chance the Rapper and Jennifer Hudson, as well as U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, hit the roads this weekend in an effort to mobilize young voters leading up to the midterm elections. The tour, which kicked off in Chicago, is making more than 50 stops in nearly two dozen states. In Florida, the tour will stop in all 27 Congressional districts. We want to meet you! RSVP for events at https://t.co/sMc318qE4o pic.twitter.com/Qn2r3prwbh — March For Our Lives (@AMarch4OurLives) June 15, 2018 Organizers says the goal is to not just register young people, but to keep them engaged in the political process through summer. According to Matt Deitsch, chief strategist for March for Our Lives, an organization established following February’s school shooting, “The main purpose of this tour is not just to educate people on gun violence and what we can do to prevent gun violence, but is also to register more people to vote.” A Harvard University poll from April reveals that 77 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds who are likely to vote say that gun control is the most important issue. However, Republican strategist Doug Heye cautions that the activists will need to work hard to get their supports out in numbers that will exceed those who support second amendment gun rights. He says, “”If you are a single issue voter and guns is the issue, what we’ve seen in the past is that it’s the pro-second amendment, pro-gun voter that is almost guaranteed to show up at the polls.” In response, March for Our Lives’ Deitsch, adds, “We’re making voting something that is not just checking a box. It’s literally you being a hero and you saving lives. That’s why we have to do this.” #MSD #Parkland. #NeverAgain #MSDStrong #MarchForOurLives #TheResistance #RoadtoChange http://www.850wftl.com/road-to-change-bus-tour-crosses-u-s-in-effort-to-mobilize-young-voters-for-gun-control/ On – 17 Jun, 2018 By Mark Kattoura Share Tweet Share Pin it Reddit Stumble Gun owners support a wide range of gun control measures, Johns Hopkins study finds – The Washington Post Democrats Push California-Style Gun Control for North Carolina Alleged Carjacker Who Shoots Man In Walmart Parking Lot Killed By Citizen With A Gun \| Daily Wire Jodie Foster Speaks Out on Current State of Gun Control: ‘We Are At a Dire Place in History’ Gun Control News and Views Disclaimer: All content on this website is based on individual experience and journalistic research. It is curated and published. Stand and Fight LLC is not liable for how tips are used, nor for content and services on external websites. Common sense should never be neglected! We sometimes use affiliated links which may result in a payment following a visitor taking action (such as a purchase or registration) on an external website. © 2019 Gun Control My Ass. All Rights Reserved. Theme by Scopeitout	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line185
__label__wiki	0.541445	0.541445	Samsung Galaxy A20e With 5.8-Inch Display, Dual Rear Cameras Launched: Specifications, Features Samsung Galaxy A20e has been unveiled in Poland as an inferior version of the Galaxy A20 that was recently launched in India. The new Samsung phone carries an Infinity-V Display and sports a dual rear camera setup with a 13-megapixel primary sensor. It also matches the design aesthetics of the Galaxy A20, sporting a one-piece plastic build along with a traditional fingerprint sensor at the back. The Galaxy A20e also comes with the octa-core Exynos 7884 SoC that’s also powering the Galaxy A20. Samsung hasn’t revealed the price and availability of the Galaxy A20e. However, the phone is set to arrive in Black and White colour options. Samsung Galaxy A20e specifications, features The Samsung Galaxy A20e features a 5.8-inch HD+ (720×1560 pixels) TFT Infinity-V Display panel. This is notably smaller than the 6.4-inch Super AMOLED panel featured on the Galaxy A20. Under the hood, the Galaxy A20e has an Exynos 7884 SoC, coupled with 3GB of RAM. The phone also has 32GB inbuilt storage that is expandable via microSD card. For photos and videos, the Samsung Galaxy A20e sports a dual rear camera setup. This includes a 16-megapixel primary sensor along with an f/1.9 lens and a 5-megapixel secondary sensor with an f/2.2 lens. The phone also houses an 8-megapixel sensor at the front along with an f/2.0 lens. Unlike models such as the Galaxy A80 and Galaxy A70 that come with an in-display fingerprint sensor, the Samsung Galaxy A20e comes with the traditional, rear-mounted fingerprint sensor. The phone also packs a 3,000mAh battery that supports 15W fast charging technology. To recall, the Samsung Galaxy A20₹ 12,490 was launched in India last week with a price tag of 12,490. The phone, apart from having the larger display over what’s on the Galaxy A20e, has a large, 4,000mAh battery. Previous Stuffcool Monty Wireless Earphones Review Next Apple to Combine Find My iPhone and Find My Friends Apps, Launch a Personal Item Tracking Device: Report	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line188
__label__wiki	0.542509	0.542509	Forums - Politics Discussion - Brexit Page 3 of 55 < Prev1 23456 55Next > LurkerJ LurkerJ on 15 December 2018 JRPGfan said: phinch1 said: Well..... Unfortunately that's how a vote works, the one with the most votes winst he one with the least loses, you could say that about anything though, since the last General election, how many people have died and how many people have become eligible to vote, let's have another election, we have new talent in the England team, let's have a go at the 2018 World Cup again "what does brexit mean" was the most searched google question in the UK, the year of the vote, AFTER the vote. People are uninformed and lied too by politicans like nigel farage & boris johnson. Plus the russians ran propaganda to for "leave" to push the election in that direction, through cambridge analytica. What does a vote mean, if its done by the uninformed? and lied too? Isnt it better to get a new chance to do so, after people see what the reality might well be like? And I should rely on the other side to tell the truth huh? Lol@EU fanboys going at it again. Fear mongering professionals. User Warned For This Post By ~PwerlvlAmy Last edited by PwerlvlAmy - on 16 December 2018 contestgamer contestgamer on 15 December 2018 Barozi said: Both sides had 1 year on TV debating this, a second referendum would be ignoring democracy, you would literally have riots on the streets especially with the yellow vest movement becoming very popular. You act like the last referendum was the first for the UK to stay in the EU. You're wrong. There is NO reason not to make a "second" referendum. Since then millions of young people became eligible to vote and millions of old people have died, which makes their vote worthless. If the result stays the same, so be it. But ignoring those millions of votes is definitely much more undemocratic. That is really dumb logic. We should have elections every year then. Actually every day, because many old people die daily and young are born too. Most votes people cast are uninformed in every selection. That's how it is. You dont get to keep voting until you get the result you want. phinch1 God of War Collection (PS3) Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising (PS3) Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (PS) Resident Evil 2: Dual Shock Edition (PS) phinch1 on 15 December 2018 It's means exactly what was said on the ballot paper Leave the European Union. Leave won Leaving the European Union means leaving the single market Ka-pi96 said: Pretty poor examples since there will definitely be another election and there will be a 2022 World Cup. So both of those things will happen again and you'll have another chance to vote/try to win the cup. So we should vote for brexit every month for infinity right? Oh, actually I'm guessing if NO vote won you wouldnt be so adamant about voting again Kerotan Kerotan on 15 December 2018 The Russians really are genius. They played the British public like a fiddle here. The UK and the EU are at odds with the Russians the last decade. No better way to weaken your rivals then influence a split. They did this with America too. If you're willing to back the Russians into a corner be prepared to pay the price. I know not everyone voted leave for this reason but many voted because they wanted less people from Africa, Asia and the Middle East moving to Britain. What are they going to to when they realise leaving the EU didn't stop this. If anything with less migrants coming from the EU there will be more coming from those other regions from the commonwealth. Barozi Barozi on 15 December 2018 There is NO reason not to make a "second" referendum. Since then millions of young people became eligible to vote and millions of old people have died, which makes their vote worthless. If the result stays the same, so be it. But ignoring those millions of votes is definitely much more undemocratic You obviously don't seem to know why you do a general election every 4 or 5 years instead of every year. The government can't implement everything they promise within such a short period of time. You wouldn't even notice what has changed and which party is responsible for it. Also the MPs would spend more time with campaigning than doing politics. A stable coalition government wouldn't be possible, since you're constantly fighting for votes. Also this is still not a reason not do do another referendum. You just pointed at something different (a referendum is not an election after all) and then concluded that this must be true for this as well. By March 2019, the last referendum will be almost 3 years old. Also I hope you realize that the last referendum was only advisory at the time. Voting Leave or Remain didn't have any legal consequences. Last edited by Barozi - on 15 December 2018 Ka-pi96 Pokémon FireRed / LeafGreen Version (GBA) Final Fantasy VIII (PC) Dying Light (PS4) Ka-pi96 on 15 December 2018 contestgamer said: I didn't say you should vote again. I just said that general elections and world cups are bad examples since they are things that are done again every few years. Bet Shiken that COD would outsell Battlefield in 2018. http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8749702 dark_gh0st_b0y The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D (3DS) dark_gh0st_b0y on 15 December 2018 It really was the biggest democratic exercise, but with many flaws: - both sides exaggerated in their campaigns giving a very deluded picture to the people, this was very easy to do since promises were based on predictions (Leave campaign's is proving to be the most distant from reality- £350m extra for the run by EU staff NHS anyone?) - Leave campaigns broke the spending law at least once, how is the referendum democratic if one side broke the fair play law? not to mention taking advantage of people's personal information to promote targeted facebook ads, most of them filled with lies https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-44966969 - Scotland and N.Ireland are being dragged out against their will, there is a real risk for Scotexit or NIrexit, especially with no deal, the break up of the kingdom is the worst possible outcome, would make no deal a real devastation - the Irish border was barely taken into account during the campaigns but turned out to be a real issue Leave won but the result was very close, going with no deal would ignore the 48%, hence May's deal is the right thing to do if not, taking into account the actual facts, people must be asked if this is really the path they want to take, since it will affect the country for decades, and mostly the young people who had no say 2.5 years ago 2nd referendum = more democracy dark_gh0st_b0y said: 10th referendum = even more democracy 1 a month referendum = even more	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line191
__label__wiki	0.510852	0.510852	April 21, 2019 by Bruce Farrington Greig Street 1913. Handwritten date: 6/13/13. Peanut vendor on left side. Several Rochester Ice Cream signs. The sender is Gladys Fuller (age 17) and is identified on the front with an x. She would marry and become Mrs. Gladys Fuller Lippincott. In a letter to the editor (1/19/1950 Sun and Record) she lived in Rochester and told how she missed her hometowns of Sodus and Sodus Point. She was born in 1896 and died in 1965. Filed Under: sub-2 May 29, 2017 by Bruce Farrington Occasionally on clear nights, you can see from Sodus Point, the Northern Lights glimmering like multi-colored drapes in the northern sky. Amber Allen took this photo on May 26, 2017 looking out past the pier light. July 14, 2015 by Bruce Farrington For the next few weeks, Geraldo Rivera’s sailboat “Voyager” is being refurbished at Katlyn Marina. Doug Hazlitt has brought in another historic vessel. This time a beautiful 68 foot sailboat that Geraldo Rivera went around the world in. Here is a video tour of the ship: tour Here are pictures of Voyager in Katlyn Marina Stop in and see this beautiful sailboat…… July 8, 2015 by Bruce Farrington Davina went a ‘running, 470 miles. From Michigan to New York, she always gave us smiles. She gave breast cancer a ‘beating it never will forget. And along the way, won the hearts of everyone she met. Davina McNaney is an amazing and inspirational woman who grew up and was married in Sodus Point. She is a breast cancer survivor who wanted to help fund breast cancer research and ran 470 miles from Michigan to Sodus Point and raised over $20,000! To read more about her epic endeavor click the link below: http://www.runmi2ny.com/ Davina does it again; this time running 380 miles from Boston to Sodus Point! The Finale!Through 4 states, over the mountains, through the woods and in blistering heat, Davina finished unscathed…. Posted by Steve McNaney on Tuesday, July 3, 2018 http://bostrun2ny.com/ June 8, 2015 by Bruce Farrington We have just recently discovered that the first steamboat in regular service on the Great Lakes stopped in Troupville (later to be renamed Sodus Point) on its maiden voyage on April 25, 1817 commanded by Captain Malaby. Read all about it by clicking this link: http://historicsoduspoint.com/commerce/schooners-and-steamboats/steamboat-ontario-at-troupville/ For many years, Sodus Point has been a “destination” for visitors. This was also true for Hobos. Read all about this lost “Culture America”: http://historicsoduspoint.com/people/hobos-in-sodus-point/ Ground Penetrating Radar has given us new evidence and information about the existence of the Underground Railroad Slave Tunnel in Sodus Point! Click the following link for the latest news: http://historicsoduspoint.com/slaves-in-sodus-point/sodus-point-tunnel/the-sodus-point-tunnel-revealed/ Update as of 9/22/13: We had Ken Artl (who is a Mason specializing in Cobblestone House Restorations) examine the tunnel and take a number of mortar and pipe samples within the 20 foot tunnel. The mortar was chemically analyzed and found to be of the portland cement variety first used in this area no earlier than the early 1900s. The remnant of the 2.5 inch pipe found was wrapped in sheet type asbestos. Another interesting discovery was that the tunnel was constructed by first digging a ditch and then creating the arched tunnel and covering it up again.The conclusion from this analysis is that the tunnel was not used as part of the Underground Railroad movement. It was used to transport utilities to various sections of the house; probably piped water, and/or steam or later electricity. December 7, 2012 by Bruce Farrington The Rochester and Sodus Bay Railroad ran trolleys from Rochester to Sodus Point from 1900 – 1929. The trolley was an important part of Sodus Point. Click the link below to learn more. http://historicsoduspoint.com/commerce/trolley/ October 4, 2012 by Bruce Farrington Come with me in my time machine as I walk arround Sodus Point in the early 1900s and narrate all the sights. Its a hopping place! Click this link: https://vimeo.com/50679130 I have added a 64 page document that tells the story of the Schooner “Lotus”. View it by clicking on the Other tab on the top menu, then click on The Story of the Sailing Ship Lotus on the submenu. I have added a newspaper clipping showing the day the Village of Sodus Point was incorporated. View it by clicking on the Sodus Point Memories tab on the top menu, then click on The Day our Village was Born on the submenu. I have added a write up showing the Coal Trestle and the loading of the coal ship John J. Rammacher in October 1941. You can view it by clicking on the Old Photos tab on the top menu, then click on Coal Trestle on the submenu and then click on Coal Trestle / John J, Rammacher – 1941. I have added a write up showing the reconstruction of the Coal Trestle in 1927. You can view it by clicking on the Old Photos tab on the top menu, then click on Coal Trestle on the submenu and then click on Coal Trestle Reconstruction – 1927. I have added a write up of Arlene Ternoois who was a PRR Grease Monkey during WW 2. You can view it by clicking on the Old Photos tab on the top menu, then click on Coal Trestle on the submenu and then click on Arlene Ternoois – PRR Grease Monkey. I have added a write up documenting the history of the Pennsylvania Railroad Elmira Branch and Sodus Point. You can view it by clicking on the Commerce tab on the top menu, then click on Railroad and Coal Trestle on the submenu and then click on Pennsy RR Elmira Branch. I have added the first part of a diary of a Sodus Point German POW. You can view it by clicking on the War and Battles tab on the top menu, then click on Diary of Walter Meyer – Sodus Point POW on the submenu. I have added a civil war letter from James A. Potter to his wife her were residents of the Black Community that existed near Steger Haus Restaurant. You can view it by clicking on the Slavery tab on the top menu, then click on African Americans in Sodus on the submenu and then click on the Civil War Letter From James A. Potter tab I have added photos and the history of the Sodus Bay Junior Sailing Association. You can view it by clicking on the Recreation tab on the top menu, then click on Sodus Bay Junior Sailing Association on the submenu. I have added our latest plaque telling about the Black Community that existed near Steger Haus Restaurant. You can view it by clicking on the Plaques tab on the top menu, then click on Plaques on the submenu and then click on Black Community Plaque/Marker tab I have added an old photo and information about Nature’s Children which was a variety store in Sodus Point 1975-1993. You can view it by clicking on the Old Photos tab on the top menu, then click on Nature’s Children 1987. I have added a story about Freedom Hill and its importance. You can view it by clicking on the Slavery tab on the top menu, then click on African Americans in Sodus then click on Freedom Hill. I have added a narrated Sodus Point walking tour of 19th Century Architecture. You can view it by clicking on the Walking Tours on the top menu, then click on Narrated Sodus Point Walking Tour of 19th Century Archictecture. I have added a narrated Sodus Point walking tour of historic plaques and murals. You can view it by clicking on the Walking Tours on the top menu, then click on Narrated Sodus Point Walking Tour of Historic Plaques and Murals. I have added a story of the courageous African American women of Maxwell Settlement. You can view it by clicking on the Slavery tab on the top menu, then click on African Americans in Sodus then click on Courageous Women of Maxwell Settlement. I have added a link to a Chris Trine video showing the beauty of Sodus Point in January. You can view it by clicking on the The Beauty of Sodus Point tab on the top menu, then click on Sodus Point in January 2019 . I have added a video showing folks skating on the new ice rink that has recently opened at Willow Park. You can view it by clicking on the Recreation tab on the top menu, then click on Ice Skating on the New Ice Rink (2019) . I have added the story of Frank Monje who waterskied across the lake to Canada and back on a single waterski. You can view it by clicking on the Recreation tab on the top menu, then click on The Man who Waterskied across the Lake. I have added an old photo and write up of the Red and White Grocry Store from the 1930s. You can view it by clicking on the Old Photos tab on the top menu, then click on Businesses and then click on Red and White Grocery – 1930s. I have added photos and a write up of the Bay Shore House. You can view it by clicking on the Buildings tab on the top menu, then click on Houses and then click on Bay Shore House I have added an old photo and write up of the E A Button General Store from the 1907. You can view it by clicking on the Old Photos tab on the top menu, then click on Businesses and then click on E A Button General Store – 1907 I have added a write up and aerial video showing the dredging of the Sodus Bay Channel. You can view it by clicking on the Sodus Point Memories tab on the top menu, then click on Dredging (2018) I have added a list and data of Steamboats that plied Sodus Bay. You can view it by clicking on the Commerce tab on the top menu, then click on Schooners and Steamboats and then click on Steamboats of Sodus Bay Info I have added an old 1857 Chart of Sodus Bay. You can view it by clicking on the Maps tab on the top menu, then click on 1857 Chart of Sodus Bay I have added an old photo and write up of the Gulf Station from the 1950s. You can view it by clicking on the Old Photos tab on the top menu, then click on Businesses and then click on Gulf Station – 1950s I have added an old photo and write up of the Helfer’s Boat Livery and Restaurant from the 1930s. You can view it by clicking on the Old Photos tab on the top menu, then click on Businesses and then click on Helfer’s Boat Livery – 1930s I have added an old photo of folks renting boats from the early 1900s. You can view it by clicking on the Old Photos tab on the top menu, then click on Recreation and then click on A Day on the Bay – early 1900s I have added an old photo and write up of the Sodus Point Bait Shop from the late 1970s. You can view it by clicking on the Old Photos tab on the top menu, then click on Businesses and then click on Sodus Point Bait Shop – late 1970s I have added an old photo and 3 newapaper articles of the McSnack Stand from 1989. You can view it by clicking on the Old Photos tab on the top menu, then click on Businesses and then click on McSnack I have added an old 1950s photo looking over the bay from on top of the coal Trestle. You can view it by clicking on the Old Photos tab on the top menu, then click on Coal Trestle then click on Looking over the Bay. I have added an old photo showing the use of the boatswain chair taken from on top of the coal Trestle. You can view it by clicking on the Old Photos tab on the top menu, then click on Coal Trestle then click on Boatswain Chair. I have added an web page showing pictures and information on the Coal Ships that came to the Coal Trestle. You can view it by clicking on the Commerce tab on the top menu, then click on Railroad and Coal Trestle then click on Coal Ships. I have added an old photo taken on top of the coal Trestle. You can view it by clicking on the Old Photos tab on the top menu, then click on Coal Trestle then click on On top of the coal trestle. I have added an old photo of Sailboat Racing from 1958. You can view it by clicking on the Recreation tab on the top menu, then click on Sailboat Racing – 1958 I have added an old photo of the DoVille’s Ice Cream Stand from the late 1940s. You can view it by clicking on the Old Photos tab on the top menu, then click on Businesses and then click on DoVille’s Ice Cream Stand I have added an old photos of the Steuerwalds Silver Dollar and the Chase Family Coffee Shop from 1960,. You can view it by clicking on the Old Photos tab on the top menu, then click on Businesses and then click on Steuerwalds Silver Dollar 1960. I have added a number of old photos of the Rexall Drug Store from 1965. You can view it by clicking on the Old Photos tab on the top menu, then click on Rexall Drug Store – 1965. I have added an old postcard showing the Sodus Point beach second pier in 1906. You can view it by clicking on the Old Photos tab on the top menu, then click on Second Pier – 1906. I have added a 3 minute video of the past and present beauty of Sodus Point. You can view it by clicking on the The beauty of Sodus Point tab on the top menu, then click on Sodus Point – Somewhere in Time. I have added photos and information on Sodus Point’s first ambulance. You can read about it by clicking on the Old Photos tab on the top menu, then click on Fire Dept then click on First Ambulance – 1940. I have added photos and an article of the 1972 Bacorn Building Fire. You can read about it by clicking on the Old Photos tab on the top menu, then click on Bacorn Building Fire – February 1972. I have added a photo of smelting circa 1950s. You can read about it by clicking on the Old Photos tab on the top menu, then click on Smelting – 1950s. I have added a newspaper article about the fire that destroyed the Sodus Point Hotel. You can read about it by clicking on the Buildings tab on the top menu, then click on Hotels, then click on Sodus Point Hotel Fire. I have added an newspaper article from 1972 about the Fire Dept. acquiring the “Duck” . Click on the Old Photos tab on the top menu and then click the Sodus Point Fire Dept. “Duck” tab. I have added an 1974 map of Sodus Bay and the surrounding area with many annotated historic sites. Click on the Maps tab on the top menu and then click the 1974 Annotated Sodus Bay Map tab. I have added an 1810 map of Troupville. Click on the Maps tab on the top menu and then click the Troupville – 1810 tab. I have added the writeup for the proposed City of Sodus Bay that was never built. Click on the Artifacts tab on the top menu and then click the The City of Sodus Bay tab. I have added pictures and the writeup for the new Historic Sodus Point Mural. Click on the Murals tab on the top menu and then click the Historic Sodus Point Mural tab. I have added a photo showing a locomotive pushing coal cars onto the trestle. You can read about it by clicking on the Old Photos tab on the top menu, then click on Coal Trestle, then click on Pushing Cars onto the Trestle. I have added a photo showing a Coal Ship loading at the Coal Trestle. You can read about it by clicking on the Old Photos tab on the top menu, then click on Coal Ship Loading at the Trestle. I have added a photo showing the Coal Trestle and the Road underneath it. You can read about it by clicking on the Old Photos tab on the top menu, then click on Coal Trestle and Road. I have added information about the the sad yet funny story of the Inner Pier Light. You can read about it by clicking on the Old Photos tab on the top menu, then click on Whatever Happened to the Inner Pier Light?. I have added information about the 1913 Yacht Wrinkle. You can read about it by clicking on the Commerce tab on the top menu, then click on Schooners and Steamboats, then click on Wrinkle Yacht – 1913 I have added a second video of the coal trestle fire taken from a boat in the bay. You can watch it by clicking on the BuildingsSodus Point Memories tab on the top menu, then click on Coal Trestle Fire Videos, then click on Coal Trestle Fire 2 – 11/11/1971 I have added a humorous article about George Helfer and his knitting. You can read it by clicking on the Quirky Stories tab on the top menu, then click on George Helfer. I have added an article about Captain Charles T. DoVille and the first boat livery in Sand Point. You can read it by clicking on the People tab on the top menu, then click on Captain Charles T. DoVille. I have added a link to early moring drone video taken at the lighthouse. You can watch it by clicking on the The Beauty of Sodus Point tab on the top menu, then click on Early Morning Lighthouse Drone Video. I have added a photo of The White Bakery. You can read all about it by clicking on the Old Photos tab on the top menu, then click on The White Bakery (1940s). I have added a write up on the Mansion House. You can read all about it by clicking on the Buildings tab on the top menu, then click on Houses, then click on Mansion House I have added a write up on the Maxwell Settlement Cemetery of Sodus Point . You can read all about it by clicking on the Artifacts tab on the top menu, then click on Maxwell Settlement Cemetery – Rediscovering Our Past I have added a write up on the Swales Family of Sodus Point . You can read all about it by clicking on the People tab on the top menu, then click on Swales Family submenu I have added a write up on the Kallusch Boat Builders of Sodus Point . You can read all about it by clicking on the Other tab on the top menu, then click on Kallusch Boat Builders submenu I have added a write up on the death of the last victim wounded in the battle of Sodus Point that took place over 140+ years after the battle! You can read all about it by clicking on the War and Battles tab on the top menu, then click on The Willow Tree, The Cannon Ball and the Battle of Sodus Point submenu I have added a write up on the 100 mph ice boat called the Doodle-Bug. You can read all about it by clicking on the Recreation tab on the top menu, then click on Doodle-Bug submenu I have added a write up on the Camp Beechwood Cobblestone Building. You can read all about it by clicking on the Buildings tab on the top menu, then click on Camp Beechwood Cobblestone Building submenu I have added a new write-up on the World War 1 Memorial and Plaque. You can read all about it by clicking on the Plaques tab on the top menu, then click on the Plaques tab and then click on World War 1 submenu I have added a newspaper clipping about rumors of the Coal Trestle to close. You can read all about it by clicking on the Other tab on the top menu, then click on the Coal Trestle to Close submenu. I have added a new section on the Railroad that never was. You can read all about it by clicking on the Commerce tab on the top menu, then click on the Railroad and Coal Trestle tab then click on the Railroad tab and then click on The Railroad That Never Was submenu. I have added a new section on the Beauty of Sodus Point dealing with the Northern Lights. You can read all about it by clicking on the Beauty of Sodus Point tab on the top menu, then click on the Northern Lights submenu. I have added a new section on the main menu for old photos. Under this new category I have added a photo on flooding from 1953. You can read all about it by clicking on the Old photos tab on the top menu, then click on the Flooding submenu. I have added the nineth letter between Colonel Peregrine Fitzhugh and Thomas Jefferson. You can read all about it by clicking on the People tab on the top menu, then click on the Colonel Peregrine Fitzhugh submenu then click on the Peregrine Fitzhugh Letters submenu and then click on the Jefferson Letters and finally click on Jefferson to Fitzhugh (Letter 9) . I have added the eighth letter between Colonel Peregrine Fitzhugh and Thomas Jefferson. You can read all about it by clicking on the People tab on the top menu, then click on the Colonel Peregrine Fitzhugh submenu then click on the Peregrine Fitzhugh Letters submenu and then click on the Jefferson Letters and finally click on Jefferson to Fitzhugh (Letter 8) . I have added the fifth letter between Colonel Peregrine Fitzhugh and Thomas Jefferson. You can read all about it by clicking on the People tab on the top menu, then click on the Colonel Peregrine Fitzhugh submenu then click on the Peregrine Fitzhugh Letters submenu and then click on the Jefferson Letters and finally click on Jefferson to Fitzhugh (Letter 5) . I have added the third letter between Colonel Peregrine Fitzhugh and Thomas Jefferson. You can read all about it by clicking on the People tab on the top menu, then click on the Colonel Peregrine Fitzhugh submenu then click on the Peregrine Fitzhugh Letters submenu and then click on the Jefferson Letters and finally click on Jefferson to Fitzhugh (Letter 3) . I have added the seventh letter between Colonel Peregrine Fitzhugh and Thomas Jefferson. You can read all about it by clicking on the People tab on the top menu, then click on the Colonel Peregrine Fitzhugh submenu then click on the Peregrine Fitzhugh Letters submenu and then click on the Jefferson Letters and finally click on Fitzhugh to Jefferson (Letter 7) . I have added the sixth letter between Colonel Peregrine Fitzhugh and Thomas Jefferson. You can read all about it by clicking on the People tab on the top menu, then click on the Colonel Peregrine Fitzhugh submenu then click on the Peregrine Fitzhugh Letters submenu and then click on the Jefferson Letters and finally click on Fitzhugh to Jefferson (Letter 6) . I have added the fourth letter between Colonel Peregrine Fitzhugh and Thomas Jefferson. You can read all about it by clicking on the People tab on the top menu, then click on the Colonel Peregrine Fitzhugh submenu then click on the Peregrine Fitzhugh Letters submenu and then click on the Jefferson Letters and finally click on Fitzhugh to Jefferson (Letter 4) . I have added a link to a web site that show the Town of Sodus deceased Veterans. The lists contain the Last and First Name, Cemetery where they are buried and the War they fought in pieces of Information. You can view it by clicking on the War & Battles tab on the top menu, then click on the Town of Sodus Deceased Veterans Lists tab. I have added a 26 minute presentation of the Quirky Stories and Characters of Sodus Point. You can view it by clicking on the Quirky Stories tab on the top menu, then click on the Ling Eaters and Other Strange Fish Presentation tab. I have added documentation of those men from Sodus Point who fought in the Civil War. You can view it by clicking on the War and Battles tab on the top menu, then click on the Civil War tab. I have added a short video of our last concert at the lighthouse for the 2016 season. You can view it by clicking on the The Beauty of Sodus Point tab on the top menu, then click on the Lighthouse Concert tab. I have added a photo and writeup on the Home Comfort Cottage. You can view it by clicking on the Buildings tab on the top menu, then click on the Houses , then click on the Home Comfort Cottage tab. I have added a video shot from a drone showing the Sodus Point fireworks of July 3 2016. You can view it by clicking on the The Beauty of Sodus Point tab on the top menu, then click on the Drone Fireworks July 3 2016 submenu. I have added a video showing the sky lanterns launch of July 4, 2015. You can view it by clicking on the The Beauty of Sodus Point tab on the top menu, then click on the Sky Lanterns Lauch – July 4 2015 submenu. I have added info, music and pictures of the Dolphin. You can view it by clicking on the Buildings tab on the top menu, then click on the Dolphin submenu. I have added info and a picture of Danny’s Superette. You can view it by clicking on the Sodus Point Memories tab on the top menu, then click on the Dannys Superette submenu. I have added a 30 minute presentation of the Underground Railroad in Local History. This 30 min. presentation tells how the “Freedom Seekers” got to our area. It also tells three documented stories of them coming to Sodus Point. It tells of the 2 ship captains who transported them to Canada onboard their ships and finally tells about the investigation into the rumored Underground RR tunnel in our village. You can view it by clicking on the Slavery tab on the top menu, then click on the Underground Railroad in Local History submenu. I have added our newest plaque about the Underground RR safe house at Maxwell Creek B&B Inn. You can view it by clicking on the Plaques tab on the top menu, then click on the Plaques submenu and then click Underground RR . I have added an article about a horse powered boat that was planned to go between Oswego and Sodus Bay. You can view it by clicking on the Other tab on the top menu, then click on the Horse Powered Boat submenu. I have added photos and a flyer of the steamboat Arundell. You can view it by clicking on the Commerce tab on the top menu, then click on the Schooners and Steamboats submenu and then click on Arundell. I have addded a story about Salt trade going through Sodus Point in 1808.You can view it by clicking on the Commerce tab on the top menu, then click on the Early Salt Trade I have added 2 spreadsheets that show Sodus Point Maritime Occupations from the 1850 U.S. Census and Pultneyville Maritime Occupations from the 1850 and 1860 U.S. Census. You can view the spreadsheets by clicking on the Commerce tab on the top menu, then click on the Maritime Occupations and Sailors submenu and then click on Maritime Occupations. I have added a collage of photos showing Sodus Point’s Happy Days in the 1950s. You can see it by clicking on the Sodus Point Memories tab on the top menu, then click on the Happy Days I have added an article about early transportation to and from our village (before 1850). You can read it by clicking on the Commerce tab on the top menu, then click on the Early Transportation I have added an article about David Roger’s ship building in Sodus Point. You can read it by clicking on the Commerce tab on the top menu, then click on the Schooners and Steam Boats submenu and then click on Rogers Ship Building. I have added an article about Henry Doville’s ship building in Sodus Point. You can read it by clicking on the Commerce tab on the top menu, then click on the Schooners and Steam Boats submenu and then click on Doville Ship Building. I have added a video recreation of the Sodus Point fog horn with the pier light in the background. You can read about it and watch it by clicking on the The Beauty of Sodus Point tab on the top menu, then click on the Fog Horn and Pier Light submenu. I have added an Arch Merrill article about Steamboats on Sodus Bay. You can read it by clicking on the Commerce tab on the top menu, then click on the Schooners and Steam Boats submenu and then click on Steamboats on Sodus Bay. I have added info about our Vessels built over the years in both Sodus Point and Pultneyville. You can read it by clicking on the Commerce tab on the top menu, then click on the Schooners and Steam Boats submenu and then click on Vessels Built in our Area. I have added the history of the Johnson House (Bay Street Hotel). You can read all about it by clicking on the Buildings tab on the top menu, then click on the Houses submenu and then click Johnson House (Bay Street Hotel) I have added the first letter between Colonel Peregrine Fitzhugh and Thomas Jefferson. You can read all about it by clicking on the People tab on the top menu, then click on the Colonel Peregrine Fitzhugh submenu then click on the Peregrine Fitzhugh Letters submenu and then click on the Jefferson Letters and finally click on Fitzhugh to Jefferson (Letter 1) . I have added the history of the Lake Crest (MacKensie) House. You can read all about it by clicking on the Buildings tab on the top menu, then click on the Houses submenu and then click Lake Crest I have added the fourth letter between Colonel Peregrine Fitzhugh and George Washington. You can read all about it by clicking on the People tab on the top menu, then click on the Colonel Peregrine Fitzhugh submenu then click on the Peregrine Fitzhugh Letters submenu and then click on the Washington Letters and finally click on Fitzhugh to Washington (Letter 4) . I have added a Sodus Bay Webcam to my website. You can get a live view of our beautiful bay by clicking on the Sodus Bay Webcam tab on the top menu and following the instructions I have added the story of how it was planned to use 200 Turkish Angora Goats to clear Garfield (now Eagle) Island. You can read all about it by clicking on the Quirky Stories tab on the top menu, then click on the Turkish Goats of Garfield (Eagle) Island submenu. I have added the history of our the Salt Works School House. You can read all about it by clicking on the Buildings tab on the top menu, then click on the Schools submenu then click on Salt Works School House. I have added the history of our area mills. You can read all about it by clicking on the Commerce tab on the top menu, then click on the Area Mills submenu. I have added the history of our Fire Department that celebrated its 100 years of service in 2010. You can read all about it by clicking on the Other tab on the top menu, then click on the Firefighters – Our Hometown Heroes submenu. I have added the story of a French Fort on Sodus Bay in the early 1700s before our village was founded. You can read all about it by clicking on the Other tab on the top menu, then click on the French Fort on Sodus Bay? submenu. I have added a story about the 1986 Powerboat Race here in Sodus Point. You can read all about it by clicking on the Recreation tab on the top menu, then click on the 1986 Powerboat Race off of Sodus Point submenu. I have added a quirky story about the first meeting in our town. You can read all about it by clicking on the Quirky Stories tab on the top menu, then click on the First Meeting in our Town submenu. I have added a story about the migrant workers in our area in the 1940s and 50s. You can read all about it by clicking on the Sodus Point Memories tab on the top menu, then click on the Migrant Workers submenu. I have added a story about the human side of our German POWS kept here in Sodus Point. You can read all about it by clicking on the Wars & Battles tab on the top menu, then click on the POW – The Human Side submenu. I have added a story about tobogganing in the 1940s and 50s. You can read all about it by clicking on the Recreation tab on the top menu, then click on the Tobagganing submenu. I have added a video showing kitesurfing at our beach. You can read all about it by clicking on the Recreation tab on the top menu, then click on the Kitesurfing submenu. I have added the story of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles visiting Sodus Point. You can read all about it by clicking on the Other tab on the top menu, then click on the Secretary of State Foster Dulles submenu. I have added the story of swimming the channel. A Sodus Point “rite of passage” in the 1940s and 50s. You can read all about it by clicking on the Sodus Point Memories tab on the top menu, then click on the Swimming the Channel submenu. I have added another quirky story. This time about Whiskey Jim. You can read all about it by clicking on the Quirky Stories tab on the top menu, then click on the Whiskey Jim submenu. I have added the story of the Murder of Jim Hall. You can read all about it by clicking on the Quirky Stories tab on the top menu, then click on the The Murder of Jim Hall submenu. I have added the history of the Custom House. You can read all about it by clicking on the Buildings tab on the top menu, then click on the Houses submenu and then click Custom House I have added the history of Katlynn Marine. You can read all about it by clicking on the Recreation tab on the top menu, then click on the Boat Marinas submenu and then click Katlynn Marine . I have added information about the Bayshore Amusement Park. You can read all about it by clicking on the Recreation tab on the top menu, then click on the Bayshore Amusement Park submenu. I have added information about The lotus flowers in Sodus Bay. You can read all about it by clicking on the Other tab on the top menu, then click on the Lotus Flowers in Sodus Bay submenu. I have added information about DoVille’s Ice Cream Stand and their wonderful home made cones. You can read all about it by clicking on the Sodus Point Memories tab on the top menu, then click on the Mrs. DoVille’s Ice Cream Cones submenu. I have added the beginning Introduction to recently discovered letters between Colonel Peregrine Fitzhugh and George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. You can read all about it by clicking on the People tab on the top menu, then click on the Colonel Peregrine Fitzhugh submenu then click on the Peregrine Fitzhugh Letters submenu and then click on the Peregrine Fitzhugh Letters (Introduction) . I have added rare video footage of a Coal Ship coming into Sodus Bay. You can read all about it by clicking on the Other tab on the top menu, then click on the Coal Ship Coming into the Bay submenu. I have added info on the Iron Ore Dock. You can read all about it by clicking on the Commerce tab on the top menu, then click on the Iron Ore Dock submenu. I have added The History of Eagle Island. You can read all about it by clicking on the Other tab on the top menu, then click on the History of Eagle Island submenu. I have added info about our Railroad Yard. You can read it by clicking on the Commerce tab on the top menu, then click on the Railroad And Coal Trestle submenu and then click on Railroad and then Railroad Yard. I have added a Wayne County Times article about Henry Zerbe. You can read it by clicking on the Commerce tab on the top menu, then click on the Railroad And Coal Trestle submenu and then click on Henry Zerbe. I have added information about the Railroad Roundhouse. You can read all about it by clicking on the Buildings tab on the top menu, then click on the Railroad submenu and then click on Railroad Roundhouse. I have added information about the Railroad Y restaurant and the railroad bunk house. You can read all about it by clicking on the Buildings tab on the top menu, then click on the Railroad submenu and then click on Railroad Y And Bunk house. I have added information about the names of the islands in Sodus Bay. You can read all about it by clicking on the Other tab on the top menu, then click on the Islands in Sodus Bay submenu. I have added information about what we think we know about Native Americans in Sodus Bay. You can read all about it by clicking on the Other tab on the top menu, then click on the Native Americans in Sodus Bay submenu. I have added information about Sodus Bay Heights and the King of France. You can read all about it by clicking on the Other tab on the top menu, then click on the Sodus Bay Heights & the King of France submenu. I have added another Quirky Story about the curious case of the No Name Cheese. To read about this simply click on the Quirky Stories tab on the top menu, then click on the No Name Cheese submenu. I have added another Quirky Story about Ling Eaters. Ling Eaters was a derogatory name for those who lived in Sodus Point. To read about this title simply click on the Quirky Stories tab on the top menu, then click on the Ling Eaters submenu. I have added another Quirky Story about Old Tom. Old Tom was a beloved character who graced our town from the 1920s through the 1940s. Simply click on the Quirky Stories tab on the top menu, then click on the Old Tom submenu. I have added information about the contributions made by African American in Sodus and the surrounding area. You can read all about it by clicking on the Slavery tab on the top menu, then click on the African Americans in Sodus submenu. I have added information about Taxi Dancing in Sodus Point. You can read all about it by clicking on the Recreation tab on the top menu, then click on the Taxi Dancing submenu. I have added images and the write up of the new Town of Sodus Mural with scenes representing the 5 hamlets and 2 villages (including Sodus Point) within the Township of Sodus. You can see the new mural and read about each scene by clicking on the Murals tab on the top menu, then click on the Town of Sodus Mural submenu. Dedication of this new mural will take place on Sunday, August 09 at 2 PM at the corner of Maple and Main Streets in Sodus. I have added another Quirky Story about The Piano in the Back of the Truck . Yes you read that right. You can’t make this stuff up. Simply click on the Quirky Stories tab on the top menu, then click on the The Piano in the Back of the Truck submenu. I have added a new post about Geraldo Rivera’s sailboat Voyager that is at Katlyn Marina for refurbishing. Scroll to the right in the scroll bar with the small images on it on the home page until you see Voyager’s image and then click on it. Read the story of this beautiful sailboat. I have added another Quirky Story about Billy Boomerang. Billy was a local boy who became a world champion boomerang thrower and achieved legendary status on Padre Island. Simply click on the Quirky Stories tab on the top menu, then click on the Billy Boomerang submenu. I have added a new post about Davina McNaney’s amazing 470 mile run from Michigan to Sodus Point to raise money for breast cancer research. Scroll to the right in the scroll bar with the small images on it on the home page until you see Davina’s image and then click on it. Read the story of this amazing and inspirational woman who raised over $20,000 for cancer research. Go Davina I have added Wickham’ s Marine list for the year 1817. In Wickam’s Marine List, Captain William Wickham tracked ships coming into and leaving Troupville (later to be renamed Sodus Point). In his write up, he identified the type of vessel (usually a schooner), its name, its Captain’s name, its cargo and where it was heading. To read all about it, click on the Commerce tab on the top menu, then click on the Schooners and Steamboats submenu and then click Wickhams Marine List. We have just recently discovered that the first steamboat in regular service on the Great Lakes stopped in Troupville (later to be renamed Sodus Point) on its maiden voyage on April 25, 1817 commanded by Captain Malaby. To read all about it, click on the Commerce tab on the top menu, then click on the Schooners and Steamboats submenu and then click Steamboat Ontario at Troupville. I have added information about the Hobos camp that was in Sodus Point in the 1940s and 1950s. Click on the People tab on the top menu, then click on the Hobos in Sodus Point submenu. I have added how about 40% of downtown Sodus Point was reclaimed from Lake Ontario. Click on the Commerce tab on the top menu, then click on the The Building of Sodus Point submenu. I have added another Quirky Story about the horse that drank beer. Simply click on the Quirky Stories tab on the top menu, then click on the The Horse That Drank Beer submenu. I have added another Quirky Story about how Christian Holler Road got its name. Simply click on the Quirky Stories tab on the top menu, then click on the Christian Holler submenu. I have added another Quirky Story about humor during the Battle of Sodus Point. Simply click on the Quirky Stories tab on the top menu, then click on the Humor during the Battle of Sodus Point submenu. I have added a new section that tells some of the Quirky Stories of Sodus Point. Leading off is the story of the day a Swordfish (what!?!) was caught in Sodus Bay. Simply click on the Quirky Stories tab on the top menu, then click on the Swordfish Caught in Sodus Bay submenu. I have added information about the Sodus Bay Heights Golf Club. The information includes a link to its history and a Sirius Radio broadcast about Robert Trent Jones, Sr. (who was our first golf pro) at our golf club. Simply click on the Buildings tab on the top menu, then click on the Clubs submenu and then click on the Sodus Bay Heights Golf Club submenu. I have added information about the Sodus Bay Yacht Club. The information includes a link to its history and a youtube video that contains spectacular footage of the Yacht Club and Sodus Bay that was shot from a remote controlled drone. Simply click on the Buildings tab on the top menu, then click on the Clubs submenu and then click on the Sodus Bay Yacht Club submenu. I have added a picture and information about the Sodus Bay Social Club (circa 1920 – 1930). Simply click on the Sodus Point Memories tab on the top menu and then click on the Sodus Bay Social Club submenu. I have information about the Sodus Point Malt House. Simply click on the Buildings tab on the top menu and then click on the Malt House I have updated the upcoming historic events section for 2015. Simply click on Upcoming Historic Events on the top menu. I have added a picture of Go Kart Racing on Sodus Bay (circa 1968 – 1971). Simply click on the Sodus Point Memories tab on the top menu and then click on the Go Kart Racing on Sodus Bay submenu. I have added a timeline main menu option so you can search about major historical stories of Sodus Point in a chronological manner. Simply click on the Timeline tab on the top menu and then click on which ever submenu gets you to the to the timeframe you are interested in. I have added a three page article about the dedication ceremony written in 1927 of the Asher Warner and 1812 Peace Garden Plaques by the Daughters of 1812. Read all about it by clicking on the Plaques tab on the top menu and then click either the 1812 Peace Garden Plaque submenu or the Asher Warner Plaque submenu. The links to the article are on the bottom of the page. I have added the folklore tale of the British Pay Ship that is said to haunt our Bay. Read all about it by clicking on the Sodus Point Memories tab on the top menu and then click the Myths and Folklore submenu and then click the British Pay Ship submenu. I have added an aerial photograph (and information) of Greig Street in 1965 showing the Dolphin, roller skate rink, etc. Read all about it by clicking on the Sodus Point Memories tab on the top menu and then click the Sodus Point 1965 submenu. I have added information about the Guild Hall that we now know as the Village Offices. Read all about it by clicking on the Buildings tab on the top menu and then click the Guild Hall submenu. I have added information about the Sands Point Amusement Park that existed in the 1950s where the beach park now is. Read all about it by clicking on the Memories tab on the top menu and then click the Sands Point Amusement Park submenu. I have added to the information on E.H. Harriman an article that Arch Merrill wrote about him for the Sunday, September 19, 1954 edition of the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. . Read all about it by clicking on the People tab on the top menu and then click the E.H. Harriman submenu. I have updated the Upcoming Historic Events section. On Sunday, August 3, we will be doing guided Trolley Rides from Sodus Point to Sodus on “Molly the Trolley” a recreation of a vintage trolley car. Read all about it by clicking on the Upcoming Historic Events tab on the top menu.. I have added information on the new Seaways Trail Interpretive Panel that will be installed at the Lighthouse this spring. Read all about it by clicking the Plaques tab on the top menu, then click Intrepretive Panels on the sub menu, then click SEAWAY Trails War of 1812 BRITISH RAIDS. I have greatly expanded the information about the coal trestle by adding the 1972 Hoffman paper ” A History of the Coal Trestle at Sodus Point” by Susan Yancey VanAcker. I have also added a sound track of a coal shaker so people who never heard it get an idea what it sounded like and for those that did to bring back old memories. Read all about it by clicking the Commerce tab on the top menu, then click Coal Trestle on the sub menu. I have added the story of the tragic train wreck that occurred in 1901. The train had left Sodus Point and a number of Sodus Point residents were killed or injured in the wreck. Read all about this sad story by clicking the Commerce tab on the top menu, then click Railroad on the sub menu and then click Tragic Train Wreck. I have updated the Sodus Point Lakers info in the Memories section. I interviewed Ken Johnson and Don Johnson of the Sodus Point Chiefs and added some of their fond memories of playing on Sodus Point’s semi pro baseball team in the early 1950s. Click the Memories tab on the top menu, then click Sodus Point Lakers. I have added a photo (circa 1940) of the carpenters and their cooks that maintained the Coal Trestle. View it by clicking Commerce on the top menu, then click Coal Trestle Workers on the sub menu I have added an additional fishing chart from 1940 – 1950 that was shared by Doris Chase. Also note the cabins and motels (lower left on map) that were around the Bay at that time. View it by clicking Memories on the top menu, then click Fishing Chart (1930 -1950) on the sub menu Seasons Greeting to all. The newly erected trolley pole in Willow Park has been decorated for Christmas! We have added a video Christmas card featuring the Trolley Pole and its new song! View it by clicking the decorated trolley pole on the slider bar. Have a Jolly Trolley Christmas! I have added a fishing chart from 1930 – 1940 that was shared by James Loves. View it by clicking Memories on the top menu, then click Fishing Chart (1930 -1940) on the sub menu I have added a poster that’s has an artistic rendition and tells the story of the Sodus Pt. Fish & Crab House, Inc. It also includes the brief history of Joe’s Place, The Dolphin and Captain Kelley’s restaurants that were formerly at the same location. Read all about it by clicking the Commerce tab on the top menu, then click Sodus Pt. Fish & Crab House on the sub menu. I have added a photo of the new Trolley Pole and its plaque with the write up that is on the plaque. Read all about it by clicking the Plaques tab on the top menu, then click Plaques on the sub menu and then click Trolley. What was Prohibition like in our village? Read all about it by clicking the Memories tab on the top menu, then click Prohibition. Did you know that Sodus Bay is only one of twelve places in New York State where mail is delivered by boat? Read all about it by clicking the Commerce tab on the top menu, then click Boat Mail Delivery On Sodus Bay. I have added another person (Dr. William Darby Cooke) to those who ran safe houses as part of the Underground Railroad in Sodus Point. What makes this a unique story is that this is the only safe house in Sodus Point that has a written historical reference to harboring fugitive slaves and also has the name of a fugitive slave that was harbored there. Click the Slavery tab on the top menu, then click Dr. William Darby Cooke This summer history was made in a way many in Sodus Point would have preferred not to have happened. Our village was hit by a very severe summer storm packing winds of 70 MPH. Read all about it by clicking the Memories tab on the top menu, then click Summer Storms – 2013. How did the fugitive slaves get to Sodus Point? I have created a fictional account of one family’s long road to freedom from South Carolina to Sodus Point based on historical facts. Click the Slavery tab on the top menu, then click How the Freedom Seekers got to Sodus Point . Stop the presses!!! New information and evidence has come about the Sodus Point Slave Tunnels thanks to Ground Penetrating Radar. Read all about it. Click on the Sodus Point Tunnel Revealed? thumbnail on the slider bar or click the Slavery tab on the top menu, then click Sodus Point Tunnel tab and then click The Sodus Point Tunnel Revealed? . To commemorate the upcoming 200th anniversary of the Battle of Sodus Point, I have created a music video. Click the War & Battles tab on the top menu, then click Battle of Sodus Point (The Music Video) . I have added an article that lists the names of all of the Sailors from Sodus Point from approximately 1854 – 1914. Click the Commerce tab on the top menu, then click Sodus Point Sailors 1854 – 1914 . I have added information about the British soldiers killed in the Battle of Sodus Point. This includes name, rank, regiment, previous occupation, etc. Click the War & Battles tab on the top menu, then click Battle of Sodus Point War of 1812 (THE MEN). I have also added additional information about trolleys. This includes pictures of one of the few functioning trolleys from the 1920s that happens to be in Rochester, NY. which you can still ride on. I also answer questions such as how many people did it take to run the trolley and how did it reverse direction. Click the Commerce tab on the top menu, then click Trolley. I have added Sodus Point Lakers to the Memories section. George Arney relates his story of playing on Sodus Point’s semi pro baseball team in the 1940s to the 1950s. Click the Memories tab on the top menu, then click Sodus Point Lakers. I have added Fish Pirates to the Memories section. Deborah Hopkins researched the little known episode in Sodus Point history around 1900. Click the Memories tab on the top menu, then click Fish Pirates. I have added Santiago de Sodus Point to the Memories section. Deborah Hopkins talks about her ancestor Benjamin Hopkins and the very unique tree house motel he made around 1900. Click the Memories tab on the top menu, then click Santiago de Sodus Point. I have added Deborah Hopkins to the Memories section. She talks about the Hopkins and DoVille familes in Sodus Point. Click the Memories tab on the top menu, then click Deborah Hopkins. I have also added a biography of Henry DoVille, Sr.. Click the People tab on the top menu, then click Henry Doville, Sr. . I have added a new item to the top menu: Memories In this section I will add people’s recollections of Sodus Point from bygone days. The first one is Doug Stark who visited Sodus Point in the 50s and 60s. Click the Memories tab on the top menu, then click Doug Stark. I have added three new items to the top menu: Links, Contact Us and Upcoming Historic Events. I have added information about how to view or print our new Self Guided Tour Brochure of Historic Sodus Point or where you can pick one up in town. Click the Walking Tours tab on the top menu, then click Self Guided Tour Brochure of Historic Sodus Point. I have added information about the new Robert Trent Jones, Sr. plaque. Click the Plaques tab on the top menu, then click the plaques sub menu and then click Robert Trent Jones, Sr. I have also updated the walking tour map to reflect this new plaque. I have added information about the trolley in Sodus Point. Click the Commerce tab on the top menu then click Trolley. You can also get to it by clicking the small slider image of the trolley. November 21, 2012 – I have added pictures and the writeup for the new coal trestle plaque. Click on the Plaques tab on the top menu and then click the Coal Trestle Plaque tab. October 3, 2012 – Ever wish you could go back in time to see what Sodus Point was like in the early 1900s? I have created a simulated trip back. Join me as I walk around Sodus Point and see this exciting time in our town’s history. Click on the Walking Tours tab on the top menu and then click the Guided Tour of Sodus Point in the Early 1900s tab. September 11, 2012 – Thanks to a great deal of work by my wife, I have added a section about the 1896 Methodist Church Signature Quilt. It has over 350 names on it; a who’s who of Sodus Point in the 19th century! Click on the Artifacts tab on the top menu and then click the 1896 Signature Quilt tab. September 2, 2012 – I have added additional information about Sodus Points involvement in the Underground Railroad. Click on the Slaves tab on the top menu and then click the More Underground Railroad in Sodus Point tab. August 24, 2012 – I have added the new War of 1812 Peace Garden Interpretive Panel. Click on the Plaques tab on the top meu and then click the War of 1812 Peace Garden Interpretive Panel tab. This has also been added to the Walking Tour of Sodus Point. July 31, 2012 – I have added three poems dealing with the Underground Railroad in Sodus Point. Click the Slavery tab on the top menu and then click the Underground Railroad Poems tab. July 20, 2012 – We have added information about famous celebrities that lived in Sodus Point. Click the People tab on the top menu then click Celebrities. July 14, 2012 – We have added the interesting story of the 1175 foot tunnel in Sodus Point which may have been used to hide and transport runaway slaves. Its under the Slavery tab on the top menu. July 6, 2012 – We have added a Feb. 1st , 2009 Rochester Democrat and Chronicle story about the Newport Family which is believed to be the first free black family in Sodus Point. It is under the Slavery tab on the top menu. June 21st – The finished Mural! It will be hung on the firehall on Thursday, 6/28/12 and mural dedication will be Saturday July 14 th at 1 PM. June 12th – Work has begun on the “Underground Railroad in Sodus Point” mural. The dedication ceremony for this mural is scheduled for July 14th at 1 PM April 11, 2012: With my wife’s help, we are beginning to add information about the many historic buildings in Sodus Point. More information about these buildings can be found on the top menu under “Buildings” .	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line193
__label__cc	0.599416	0.400584	HistoryAndLeadership (410) 842-3692; John@HistoryAndLeadership.com John@historyandleadership.com Why Gettysburg? History – A Tool for Learning Our Core Programs Personalizing Your Training Custom-Tailored Programs Cost-Effective Training Training At Your Facility Luncheon/Dinner Programs Executive Core Qualifications “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” ― Mark Twain Who's In Charge? Have you ever been in a job in which you were not sure who was your boss? A situation like that can be disconcerting. That situation applied to the Union Army a month before the Battle of Gettysburg. The Constitution makes it clear that Abraham Lincoln was Commander-In-Chief of the Army during the Civil War. In July, 1862, Lincoln appointed Henry Halleck as “General In Chief”. On paper, every Union General who commanded an Army had Henry Halleck for a boss. In January, 1863, without consulting Halleck, Abraham Lincoln appointed Joe Hooker as Commander of the beleaguered Army of the Potomac. Halleck took this to mean the he, Henry Halleck, was effectively not Joe Hooker’s boss. In a letter to one of Lincoln’s Cabinet members, Halleck wrote that “it would be improper for me to interfere in any of General Hooker's plans or movements”. In June, 1863, the ever-victorious Confederate Army led by Robert E. Lee was marching north to invade Pennsylvania, and Hooker’s Army followed in pursuit. But Joe Hooker was often communicating directly with Lincoln, and Lincoln was often communicating directly with Hooker. When Henry Halleck was included in the communication chain, it was not clear if Halleck was merely an adviser or a decision-maker. When Hooker communicated directly with Halleck, and Hooker did not like what Halleck was telling him, Hooker would try to circumvent Halleck by going directly to Lincoln. The President evidently realized that he had a mess on his hands. On June 16, two weeks before the Battle of Gettysburg, Lincoln actually sent Hooker a telegram that essentially stated that Lincoln would give General Halleck orders, Halleck would give Hooker orders, and Hooker would obey Halleck. Relations between Hooker and Halleck degenerated to the point that Hooker offered his resignation three days before the Battle of Gettysburg, Lincoln accepted it, and put George Meade in command. From then on, Lincoln acted through Halleck, and clarity was restored to the chain of command. One of the lessons of leadership that comes from the Battle of Gettysburg is this – in any organization, any member should be able to easily answer the following question: “Who is in charge?” (click here for home page) Customer-Tailored Leadership Training That Meets Your Needs,Satisfies Your Goals, and Fits Your Constraints	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line195
__label__cc	0.603364	0.396636	Andrew McAfee Asheville Lyric Opera Baroque Arts Project Baroque Trumpet and Organ Barry Baugess Blue Mountain Ensemble Carolina Brass Clarino Consort Fire Pink Trio James Stephenson John Brown Jazz Orchestra John Brown Quintet John Brown/Groove Shop Band Orquesta GarDel Pivetta Duo Red Clay Saxophone Quartet Simon Tedeschi The Magdalene Ensemble Timothy Hudson Artist Main Page "... straightforward, unashamedly beautiful sounds..." and "deserves to be heard again and again." "... skillfully composed" and "covers a wide stylistic and emotional range... seamlessly arranged..." - Boston Herald and Boston Globe "I consider him to be one of the most exciting composers, not just in the U.S., but in the world." - Peg Goldberg Longstreth, Naples Daily News Composer James M. Stephenson is in demand as an orchestral and chamber music composer; he maintains a busy schedule fulfilling commissions, attending premieres, and conducting his music. With more than 150 works already to his credit as well as many notable performances, Stephenson has earned the respect of performers, audiences, and the press. His music achieves often elusive balances: intellectualism without elitism and accessibility without cliché. A Stephenson score can be enjoyed upon first hearing yet provide new pleasures upon further study. Adept at composing in a wide range of genres, Stephenson’s catalog features not only orchestral and chamber works, but works for chorus, solo keyboard, solo voice, and concert band as well. The Dallas Symphony, the Houston Symphony, the Florida Orchestra, the Portland Symphony, the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, and the acclaimed Minnesota Commissioning Club have all commissioned the composer. Notable conductors including Gustavo Dudamel, Jorge Mester, Fabio Mechetti, Stefan Sanderling, and Daniel Hege have championed his work and the Cleveland Orchestra, the Detroit, Atlanta, Baltimore, and Oregon Symphonies as well as orchestras in Canada and Russia have all been involved in performing Stephenson’s music. Also in demand as a clinician and educator, Stephenson has served as composer-in-residence for festivals in Nevada, Massachusetts, and Illinois. © 2009 Hudson Brown Agency \| All Rights Reserved	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line200
__label__wiki	0.96151	0.96151	who is still supporting president obama Super-Tough Cops Take Down 70-Pound High School Girl Who Wanted To Keep Her Cell Phone Two Houston, Texas school district police officers pinned a 15-year-old girl face down on the floor on Tuesday because she… Gitmo Exclusive Part I: An Untold History of Occupation, Torture & Resistance Saturday, 06 September 2014 15:00 Written by Deputy Rider Published in Top Stories Dreams from My Real Father President George W. Bush's Chilling Warning On Iraq In 2007 Teen sues DMV after being told to remove makeup Wednesday, 03 September 2014 14:07 Written by Deputy Rider COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A 16-year-old in South Carolina sued the state's Department of Motor Vehicles on Tuesday because the agency won't allow him to take a driver's license photo wearing makeup. Chase Culpepper regularly wears makeup and either androgynous or women's clothing. During a news conference Tuesday at the Statehouse in Columbia, he told reporters that being ordered by officials to remove what they called a disguise was degrading. "I left the DMV feeling humiliated," Culpepper said. "I want to be myself and have a driver's license photo that reflects that." After passing his driving test in March, Culpepper went to get his license at a DMV office in Anderson, about 100 miles northwest of Columbia. That day, as is the case every day, Culpepper wore makeup and women's clothing. It Wasn't A 'Constitutional Crisis' When Republicans Demanded Documents Related To Fast and Furious "It Wasn't A 'Constitutional Crisis' When Republicans Demanded Documents From… Roberts Decides With Leftist Judges John Roberts Rules With Leftist Justices! By Mark… Report-Many Christians Face Genocide As Most Persecuted Faith In The World. UN, Media Silent! Christians Persecuted More Than Any Other Faith In The World!… CALIFORNIA JUDGE RULES EFF CAN COLLECT EVIDENCE AGAINST NSA IN MASS SURVEILLANCE CASE “EFF looks forward to finally getting to the nuts and… Mysterious 'Fake' Cell Phone Towers Found Across America It was already the worst Ebola outbreak in history. Now it’s moving into Africa’s cities. Monday, 01 September 2014 15:02 Written by Deputy Rider By Todd C. Frankel August 30 Heath workers wait to screen travelers for fever and other symptoms of Ebola at a checkpoint on the road between Freetown and Kenema in Sierra Leone. (Pete Muller/Prime for The Washington Post) FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — The dreaded Ebola virus came to the children’s hospital in the form of a 4-year-old boy. His diagnosis became clear three days after he was admitted. The Ola During hospital — the nation’s only pediatric center — was forced to close its steel gates. Fear swelled. The boy died. The 30 doctors and nurses who had contact with him were placed in quarantine, forced to nervously wait out the 21 days it can take for the virus to emerge. And remaining staff so far have refused to return to work. They, along with millions of others, are facing the worst Ebola outbreak in history. Already, the hardest-hit West African nations of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone have reported more than 3,000 cases, including the infections of 240 health-care workers. Ukraine Crisis: Putin Dangles Nuclear War Threat, US Senators Advise Sending Defensive Weapons By Esther Tanquintic-Misa \| September 1, 2014 11:21 AM EST US senators have advised sending defensive weapons to Ukraine so the latter can fight off pro-Russian rebels as President Vladimir Putin dangled the threat of nuclear war. Robert Menendez, head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator John McCain and Representative Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, all believe the U.S. must help Ukraine in its sovereignty war against Russia. Menendez told CNN Ukrainians must be provided with defensive weapons that will make a dent on Russia's ambition to seize the country. More importantly, give Ukraine the weapons they need so they can fight, McCain told CBS's Face the Nation. Police Officer Will Not Be Charged For Killing Napster Exec While Texting While Driving — Because It’s Apparently OK For Police To Do That Saturday, 30 August 2014 10:25 Written by Deputy Rider Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy Andrew Wood will not be charged for fatally running over former Napster COO Milton Olin Jr. in his patrol car while the officer was typing a message into his computer. We first saw the news on Valleywag, but there is good coverage in the Daily News and LAist. The instance exposes the different way that law enforcement officials are treated versus civilians in cases where a person is killed because of texting while driving. Innocent Gamer SWAT Raid Caught Live on Webcast Tonight with John Oliver: Ferguson, MO and Police Militarization The Coming Solar Cycle Fox Lies and Busted	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line203
__label__cc	0.710905	0.289095	Home > Divisions > Kalānidhi > Reference Library > Non Print Material Kalānidhi Kalanidhi Non-Print Material The Reference Library has a vast collection of Non- Print Material comprising of slides, microfilms and microfiche. The collection is generated and maintained by the Slide unit and the Reprography unit of IGNCA. Reprography Unit – The manuscript microfilming programme at the IGNCA is a landmark project which was formed to encompass and preserve valuable unpublished Indian manuscripts that are lying scattered or fragmented in both Indian and foreign collection. At present, the reprography unit is in possession of a rich collection of more than 2.5 lacs manuscripts in more than 21500 microfilm rolls. The entire collection has also been digitized. MANUSCRIPTS COLLECTION IN MICROFILM / MICROFISCHE Visual Library – The Slide Unit has been in existence since 1989 and over the years it has acquired and generated over one lakh carefully selected slides from 17 centres in India and 16 centres abroad. The growth rate of the collection is approx. 3,000 slides per year. In addition to slides, there are more than 2270 photo-negatives on Himachal Pradesh (Land and people), monuments of Sri Lanka and museums in Jammu & Kashmir.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line217
__label__cc	0.610484	0.389516	10 Isthmus people promoted Our whole team has grown in experience and confidence this year; ten individuals have been specifically recognised for promotions as they have crossed a threshold to take on their roles at a new level. Graduate to Intermediate Ivy has been a key team member on Roksill South neighbourhood masterplan, Eastern Porirua masterplan, and Buckley B precinct at Hobsonville Point. A landscape architect passionate about community, she’s well organised and conscientious under pressure. She’s been working out-of-hours on some interesting design competitions. Hew is an up-and-coming architect who has contributed to too many projects to list. Her graphic and presentation skills are second to none. She has a hunger to learn and to succeed; this has led to her working with greater independence and self-direction. Hew has also entered a number of design competitions this year with her friend Ivy. Sophie joined us from the UK in time for the Schools PPP3 – she was part of the competitive design tender and since then has been heavily involved in the developed design and documentation. Sophie has impressed us with her design thinking and thirst for knowledge. Charlotte’s final year thesis explored ageing in place in rural communities. Her research has led her to a keen interest in designing for both ends of the community spectrum- from kids to oldies. Since she started at Isthmus where she has grabbed the opportunity to get into the middle of Northcote projects – the town centre masterplan and the Awataha greenway in particular – helping maintain integration and information flow between projects. Intermediate to Senior Wade took a decade out from landscape architecture to set up and run Sandwiches club, a Wellington institution. In his 4 years at Isthmus Wade has worked on numerous projects including Kenepuru, Civic and Riddiford Gardens, Porirua CBD and Cobham Drive Cycleway. He is now leading the next stages several projects; his eye for detail at site observation stage has led much of our recent work through to successful completion. James started at Isthmus when still a student, quickly proving himself to be very helpful around the studio. Five years later he has worked on just about every project that has been through the studio, providing bullet-proof graphic support. This year he’s stepped up to take on bigger project roles, and he continues to cast his visualisation magic on many other projects. ‘Not a problem’ is James’ catchphrase. Senior to Associate Kamelia is qualified in both architecture and urban design. In her two years at Isthmus she has brought a sense of purpose, ambition and fun to the masterplanning work she has been involved with. She is passionate about trying to solve Auckland’s housing problems, and much of her work has been on the Auckland Housing Programme, including the spatial delivery strategies for Mangere and Mt Roskill Precincts and the Owairaka Neighbourhood masterplan. Kamelia is involved in women in leadership initiatives of the property council and the NZIA and is a committee member of the UDF. Kamelia has embedded herself in isthmus’ culture and become a critical part of the team not only on project work but also leadership and mentoring. Greg has been instrumental in setting up and managing our BIM server and coordinating project collaborations with other practices. In his two-and-a-half years at Isthmus he been working on varied projects, most recently the Ferry Basin. In addition to his project work, Greg has contributed to mentoring and knowledge sharing – especially on technical issues – and has demonstrated his ability to help actively manage the studio. As a new father, Greg is functioning surprisingly well for someone so seriously sleep deprived. Associate to Principal Earl came to Isthmus back in 2015 and quickly and quietly delivered Isthmus’ biggest building to date, the 1,000m2 McKee Mangahewa Control Centre for Todd Energy. It’s a simple looking building that belies great complexity. Earl is a go-to industry expert on pre-fabrication and modular construction, having built a solid reputation for innovative and delivery with both clients and constructors. Earl is successfully collaborating with leading designers in NZ to advance exciting new projects. His calm demeanour, enquiring mind, attention to detail and encyclopaedic knowledge of the world around us have earned him a position among Isthmus’ design leaders. Haylea is one of those people that seem to have always known where they are going. She joined us full time 11 years ago, working as an intern while studying at Unitec. Since then Haylea has progressed in a straight, steady line all the way to Principal. The one constant throughout that whole time has been Hobsonville Point. Haylea has pushed the boundaries of the landscape architect to the limit, and beyond. As a residential masterplanner she has a deep understanding of place, community and development strategy. Today Hobsonville Point is a thriving, proud community and as HLC has expanded beyond Hobsonville, so has Haylea. She’s currently working on suburban regeneration projects such as Mt Roskill and Mangere, among much more. Haylea was appointed to the Isthmus Board a year ago in recognition of her strategic thinking and innovative approach to top table projects.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line224
__label__cc	0.748132	0.251868	Infinite Lives Ret-spec « Ahhhcade at the San Francisco MOMA \| The Oculus Rift is (probably) here to stay » On bullying Jenn Frank · May 13, 2013 · Filed under Not Games content note: depression, suicide, bullying I don’t know whether it’s okay to talk about this. Maybe it doesn’t help. At present, we don’t actually know for certain whether a game designer has taken her own life. We don’t know any concrete details leading up to it. All we have is speculation, conjecture. Although she had a fan following, she was not a “public” figure by any stretch of the word. We do know with certainty, however, she’d recently become the target of incessant bullying. Shortly before she made the gruesome announcement, she presented an Internet forum with a screenshot of her inbox, indicating that most of these attacks were cruel remarks about her birth gender. She may have been trans, maybe not. There isn’t a word for how horrifying. I hope she’s alive. I hope she only decided to take a temporary break from the Internet and that she will have an opportunity to get on with her life. Or I hope her suicide attempt failed. I hope she intended it to fail. We do know this: while the rate of attempted suicide among the general population is 1.6%, as many as 41% of transpeople have attempted suicide. The numbers of LGBT children who have attempted suicide hover around a similarly startling 30-40%. Familial rejection, economic strife, and systemic or institutionalized transphobia and homophobia all play roles in these suicide attempts. But let’s not minimize the incredibly damaging effects of outright bullying. In early 2012 the Center for Disease Control noted that the rate of teen suicide has spiked in recent years. The CDC’s 2012 report went on to estimate that one in 12 teenagers has attempted suicide, with 20% of teenagers indicating they have been bullied. Among schoolchildren, girls plan or attempt suicide in greater numbers than boys. There are other risk factors in play, of course. The CDC lists physical illness, isolation, clinical depression, loss, and hopelessness as factors. There are genetic and environmental factors to consider, as well—I find “local epidemics of suicide” to be among the more chilling. Bullying is so insidious, though, because it takes most of these preexisting risk factors and escalates them in the worst possible way. Bullying among schoolchildren is consistently diminished or shrugged off as the natural order of things, even as children gain greater access to communications technologies that allow their meanspiritedness to be “liked,” be “shared,” and “go viral.” School administrators seem especially complicit, probably out of helplessness and inefficacy. School shootings and suicide have stoked concern about youth bullying, but acknowledging so-called “adult bullying” is still very much taboo. In those cases we especially expect the victim to “shake it off” and “toughen up.” Bullying can happen to anybody. Bullying has always existed, but culture at large has changed. We like to think the Internet is a “great equalizer,” thanks to the ease with which a flip commenter can take anyone else down and bury her. We are all armchair critics now; thanks to anonymity and the “submit” button, we can escalate attacks from the professional to the personal with a single carriage return. We can research other people for “ammo.” We can orchestrate entire mob-like pile-ons. Long after we’ve forgotten typing an insult, the victim will remember it. She can probably quote it word-for-word. She can call it up using a search engine and stare at it until she drives herself over the edge. I feel like I don’t get bullied very much anymore, least of all professionally, since I’ve had the luxury of picking and choosing my own readership. I’m also very aggressive about choosing my own close friends. But in the past I have been a bully, and it required other people to call me out on my bullshit for me to even notice. I think, given the right circumstances, anyone can become a bully. I am trying to practice empathy in my daily life, but sometimes it’s a challenge. I find, in my stabs at becoming a better friend and ally, I buy a lot of books, do a lot of weird leisure reading. I constantly have to reevaluate myself, reeducate myself. We have to be so careful with our fellow humankind. We must exercise personal responsibility on a macro scale. Hey! What is this doing on a videogames blog? Yeah, take a look around. We celebrate homogeneity and conformism like no one else. We are the sum opposite of progressive. We think apathy is cool, even though apathy literally kills other people. Sometimes industry “luminaries” say things and you, like, have to just stare in awesome embarrassment, as if that person were your beloved-but-totally-racist grandfather instead of a comparatively spry fortysomething. No, no deep thoughts here; just unfocused, blanket alarm. May is National Mental Health Awareness Month. I’ll go first: I suffer from crippling anxiety and I struggle to leave the house. A sports writer named Scott Neumyer recently published a piece titled “I Am Royce White,” which describes panic attacks better than I ever could. A surprising number of industry types wrestle with anxiety, OCD, or clinical depression. Games are just one way of connecting. I’m happy to share that priority in common with you, dear reader. In a perfect world we’d all be much more open with our personal struggles, although—in these contemporary times, where Facebook and Twitter are all part of the individual’s “brand identity”—I understand why that isn’t feasible. In fact, I think persistent connectedness has made us all much less eager to share, more invested in privacy and obfuscation. Probably the best we can do for ourselves and for one another is to remember we are loved, know we are loved, actively work to surround ourselves with love instead of toxicity, and practice self-love. (Not like that, necessarily, but whatever helps!) I also recommend becoming a dog owner, but that might just be me. I just don’t know what else to say. There are resources, and there are people who love you. You are loved. Take This Stock photo via Mom It Forward. Yes, really. About Jenn Frank: Jenn thinks the Atari 2600, Game Boy Micro, and Apple iPhone are all viable game consoles. Email her at jenn at infinite lives dot net. 2 responses to “On bullying” » Dock says: Wonderful article Jenn. Thank-you. I feel that there is one enormous problem with bullying, and that is that no-one ever takes responsibility for being a bully. I’ve definitely acted incredibly awfully towards people, especially as a teenager, but I simply wish that people could flag my behaviour as bullying so I had a better idea of reference. I know I’ve upset people, and I prefer to remind myself of this. Perhaps it’s a matter of saying that ‘everyone is a bully’, or at least, most people have made someone feel persecuted and pressured unfairly within a wretched social conform. People highlight the extremes, such as threatening emails, and like to pretend that a snarky forum reply or tweet is any less damaging. It also really helps to tell your loved ones that you do indeed love and appreciate them! Your article reminds me of this one wonderful quote by Michael Jackson: “If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.” Psst... This site supports gravatars and OpenIDs. You may also format your comment using Textile markup, if you'd like. 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__label__cc	0.616683	0.383317	TVET to be re-branded to make it more appealing April 28, 2019 Kursus Induksi PP-PPD/PP-PPT/PPLFourth Industrial Revolution 4.0 (IR 4.0), Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), TVETadmin Education Minister Dr Maszlee Malik at Putrajaya today. Pix by NSTP/Luqman Hakim ZubirBy Hashini Kavishtri Kannan – April 26, 2019 @ 2:54pm PUTRAJAYA: The Education Ministry is looking into re-branding technical and vocational education and training (TVET) programme. This also includes the possibility of changing its name to be more appealing, said Dr Maszlee Malik. The Education ministry said it would undertake efforts to make TVET as a mainstream choice for students, instead of it being viewed as a second option. “Currently, the stigma among the people is that TVET is a second choice and that they will not succeed if they take up TVET programmes. “Therefore, the ministry will spearhead initiatives to change the stigma and perception including the possibility of changing of the name of TVET,” he said today. Maszlee said TVET and vocational training is not something that people looked at highly. “We have to acknowledge and appreciate that human skills are different from one another, and that there are people who could excel in the field of TVET. “We, at the ministry are committed to bring up TVET as a top of choice of study,” he told reporters at an event organised by Education Ministry to announce three new initiatives that will be undertaken by community colleges to improve and enhance quality of education in line with the Fourth Industrial Revolution 4.0 (IR 4.0). The three new initiatives are the ACES, Maker Market and Pondok Perdana. Maszlee said ACES, an acronym for Apprenticeship, Professional Certification, Entrepreneurship and ‘Sijil Kolej Community’ are four pathways for secondary school leavers to take up TVET programmes at community colleges. The Maker Market is an initiative taken by these colleges to collaborate with industry players, including Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation Sdn Bhd (MDEC), to create industry ready workers. “Pondok Perdana, the third initiative, is to empower and value-add the skills of ‘pondok’ students through more structured and organised programmes. “Through this, community colleges would cater certificate and diploma programmes to these students,” he added. Also present were Education director-general Datuk Dr Amin Senin and Polytechnic and Community College Education Department director-general Prof Datuk Dr Mohd Ismail Abd Aziz. Source: https://www.nst.com.my/ Comment: TVET is already an internationally recognised name, what rebranding are you talking about Dr Maszlee?? You think rebranding is just a change of name? Has the Ministry discussed with the various stakeholders? Heard from a source saying the name might be changed to Certificate In Practical Engineering Technology or CIPET! ← Study Loan (PTPK) SKM3 to DKM (KL) – Aesthethic Therapy Supervision FMM urges govt to expedite set up of TVET Commission →	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line231
__label__cc	0.680237	0.319763	class="archive tag tag-soybeans tag-508 group-blog masthead-fixed list-view full-width wpb-js-composer js-comp-ver-6.0.3 vc_responsive" KNEB TV Get the KNEB News App KNEB News Extra Get the KNEB Sports App NASCAR on 94.1 The Brand Western Nebraska Pioneers KNEB Storm Center Closings / Cancellations Weather In Your Neighborhood Viaero Wireless Webcams Live Weather Webcams Storm Chaser Dan Fitts Ag/Markets KNEB Cattleman Area Cash Prices Grain Bid Lookup By Zip Ag Calendar Polar Plunge 2019 Brand New Morning KNEB Lawn & Garden Show STAR Student of the Week Dave Ramsey Show KNEB CashWall Online Contests Monogram Money 94.1 The Brand 960 AM/100.3 FM KNEB 101.7 The Trail KNEB Main KNEB News KNEB Sports KNEB.TV @KNEB @KNEBStormCenter @KNEBNews @KNEBSports @1017TheTrail @KNEBtv KNEB Channel Tag Archives: soybeans Waukesha, Wis. (June 26, 2019) – Farmers looking for any bit of good news in all of the rain-soaked suffering this spring are asking if the extreme overabundance of moisture has drowned Soybean Cyst Nematode (SCN). “Unfortunately, the answer is no,” says Greg Tylka, Iowa State University nematologist and leader of The SCN Coalition. Nematodes are worms (animals) that require oxygen. “They absorb oxygen through their body wall or cuticle, which is made almost exclusively of proteins (and no chitin),” he adds. “Waterlogged soils may have greatly reduced levels of oxygen. But many plant-parasitic nematodes, including SCN, can survive long periods of time with little oxygen.” In the early 1970s, scientists at the University of Arkansas conducted experiments to determine whether SCN could survive in flooded conditions. They found that hatched SCN juveniles survived in water up to 630 days – and probably longer, but the experiment ended after 630 days. Scientists also tested survival of SCN in flooded soils, and the juveniles survived seven to 19 months depending on soil texture. The research paper is available online. SCN eggs can survive in a dormant state for many years in the absence of soybeans, particularly the eggs that occur within the body of the dead female or cyst. “Typically, the eggs are more tolerant of environmental stresses than hatched juveniles. So it’s likely that SCN eggs in infested fields are not adversely affected by waterlogged soils either,” Tylka explains. More bad news … A bit of additional bad news: Soil moved by erosion due to heavy rains and floodwaters may spread SCN to new places. It is not possible to quantify the magnitude or frequency of this happening. And considering how widespread SCN already is in the Midwest, perhaps the movement of SCN in soil moved by rainfall and floodwaters will not have a great impact. “Nonetheless, it is quite possible that some fields may have had SCN introduced in soil from other fields this spring,” Tylka says. “Consequently, soil samples should be collected this fall to test for SCN in fields where soybeans will be grown in 2020.” Guidelines for collecting SCN soil samples can be found online along with a list of university and private laboratories in the United States that process soil samples for SCN. A possible silver lining to the storm clouds Multiple SCN generations – likely four to six or more – occur throughout a normal growing season. And it takes about 30 days for SCN to complete a single generation once soils warm up in late spring and summer. According to Tylka, “If soybean planting is delayed by several weeks, as in 2019, there likely will be one or two fewer generations of SCN occurring during the season. And that means less of an increase in SCN numbers simply because there are fewer weeks for SCN to reproduce on soybeans in 2019. “But beware! The potential for large increases in numbers and for severe damage always exists with SCN, especially if the weather turns hot and dry – ideal conditions for SCN reproduction,” he continues. “The numbers of SCN eggs in soil can build up quickly over multiple generations.” For example, a few hundred eggs can increase to nearly 40,000 in just three generations, as shown in the infographic available online. Manage SCN for the long term Tylka says successful, long-term management of SCN requires an active, integrated approach of growing nonhost crops such as corn in rotation with SCN-resistant soybean varieties. “Farmers should seek out and grow soybean varieties with different sources of resistance to grow in different years. And nematode-protectant seed treatments are available to bolster the performance of SCN-resistant soybean varieties.” For more information about the biology and management of SCN, visit thescncoalition.com. SCNsoybeansweather Ninety-six percent of intended corn acres and 85% of intended soybean acres were planted as of Sunday, June 23, according to this week’s USDA NASS Crop Progress report. For the portion of the crops that had emerged, corn was rated 56% in good-to-excellent condition and soybeans were rated 54% in good-to-excellent condition. Check this page throughout the afternoon for additional highlights from this week’s report. To view weekly crop progress reports issued by National Ag Statistics Service offices in individual states, visit http://www.nass.usda.gov/…. Look for the U.S. map in the “Find Data and Reports by” section and choose the state you wish to view in the drop-down menu. Then look for that state’s “Crop Progress & Condition” report. Clay Patton reports on Nebraska crops being among the best in the nation currently: https://post.futurimedia.com/krvnam/playlist/futures-one-crop-progress-report-nebraska-corn-6993.html National Crop Progress Summary This Last Last 5-Year Week Week Year Avg. Corn Planted 96 92 100 100 Corn Emerged 89 79 100 99 Soybeans Planted 85 77 100 97 Soybeans Emerged 71 55 94 91 Winter Wheat Headed 94 89 98 99 Winter Wheat Harvested 15 8 39 34 Spring Wheat Headed 7 2 30 29 Cotton Planted 96 89 99 98 Cotton Squaring 30 19 31 28 Cotton Setting Bolls 3 NA 6 5 Sorghum Planted 84 69 94 91 Sorghum Headed 17 15 20 20 Barley Emerged 97 92 99 99 Barley Headed 9 2 25 30 Oats Emerged 97 94 100 100 Oats Headed 43 33 65 68 Rice Emerged 97 94 100 100 Rice Headed 5 NA 6 8 National Crop Condition Summary (VP = Very Poor; P = Poor; F = Fair; G = Good; E = Excellent) VP P F G E VP P F G E VP P F G E Corn 3 9 32 48 8 2 8 31 52 7 1 4 18 58 19 Soybeans 2 8 36 47 7 NA NA NA NA NA 1 4 22 58 15 Winter Wheat 3 8 28 46 15 2 7 27 51 13 15 19 29 28 9 Spring Wheat – 3 22 67 8 1 1 21 69 8 2 3 18 63 14 Cotton 4 13 33 45 5 4 11 36 42 7 1 18 39 35 7 Sorghum – 3 25 61 11 NA NA NA NA NA 3 9 32 51 5 Barley 1 4 23 64 8 1 6 17 63 13 1 3 13 65 18 Oats 2 5 29 56 8 2 4 28 58 8 3 3 22 59 13 Rice 1 6 27 52 14 1 6 30 51 12 – 5 25 57 13 National Soil Moisture Condition – 48 States (VS = Very Short; SH = Short; AD = Adequate; SR = Surplus) VS SH AD SR VS SH AD SR VS SH AD SR Topsoil Moisture 2 8 64 26 2 10 67 21 8 18 61 13 Subsoil Moisture 2 8 65 25 2 8 68 22 9 20 62 9 corncrop conditionsCrop ProgressFutures OneFutures One Crop Progress ReportsoybeansUSDA Crop ProgresswheatWinter Wheat As bad weather continues to delay soybean planting in some parts of the country, some growers could be left with unused bags or bins of treated soybean seed — and few good options for dealing with them. “Growers need to know that if they order treated soybean seeds, those seeds are theirs,” explained Kris Ehler, a sales agronomist with Ehler Bros., a family seed and crop consulting company in Illinois. “Even if they don’t put them in the ground, they still own them.” While most seed companies will readily reclaim unused treated corn seed, they are less likely to allow growers to return treated beans. “Corn can last two to three years in storage and still maintain its germination rate,” Ehler explained. But, thanks to their oil content, soybeans are less stable in storage. “Soybeans will degrade much more rapidly, and it’s hard to store them for even just a year and have confidence that you will get good germination,” Ehler said. In fact, an Iowa State study found that soybean seed germination rates dropped below 20% after 16 months in a warehouse with no climate control. Because treated soybean seeds generally contain some combination of pesticides, usually a fungicide and insecticide, growers cannot send them into the commodity stream for food, feed, oil processing or export. Nor can they discard them casually; they have to follow federal and state regulations on the disposal of treated seed. Growers should still check first with their seed dealer to see if their treated beans can be returned. If not, it’s time to evaluate their other options, which boil down to storing, burying, planting or destroying the treated soybeans. Each comes with a host of challenges and considerations. STORING TREATED SOYBEANS When attempting to store treated soybeans, cool and dry conditions are best — and if both are not possible, dryness is the most important factor, said Susan Goggi, a seed scientist with Iowa State University. Back in 2013, Goggi conducted a study to evaluate how well treated and untreated soybeans handled storage. She collected samples of commercially available soybean varieties with a range of maturity groups and protein and oil content. She treated the seed with insecticide or a mixture of insecticide and fungicide and left some untreated. The good news was that treated soybeans handled storage better over the course of 20 months than the untreated soybeans, Goggi recalled. The bad news is that both treated and untreated beans required near-ideal storage conditions — a controlled climate of 50 degrees Fahrenheit and 50% relative humidity — and high starting quality of the beans to maintain their viability. Under those conditions, treated soybeans’ germination rates only dropped from their starting range of 95% to 98% to just 92% after 20 months. In a warm, but dry storage unit — 77 degrees and 30% relative humidity — germination rates of treated seed dropped to 89%. But when the soybean seed was kept in a warehouse with no climate control, germination rates dropped to 80% in 12 months and fell quickly below 20% by 16 months. Keep in mind that growers storing seed in 2019 would likely see much lower germination rates than this study produced, due to the lower starting quality of the soybean seed out there, cautioned Ohio State University Extension plant pathologist Anne Dorrance. “The issue is that a lot of soybean seed from 2018 was really poor quality,” she said. “We had reports from all my counterparts across the Midwest seeing high levels of Phomopsis and Diaporthe infections in soybean seed.” Seed with 80% to 85% germination rates was not uncommon this spring. See the DTN story here: https://www.dtnpf.com/…. Nonetheless, if you have a significant amount of unused treated soybean seed, you could possibly recapture some of its value by storing it for the spring of 2020, rather than take a complete loss on it, Ehler said. “You would need to find the most consistent environment you can, such as an insulated or air-conditioned shed,” he advised. “In February, pull samples, get a germination test and find out what you’ve got.” Even germination rates as low as 75% could be blended with higher-quality soybean seed of the same maturity group next year, he noted. At germination rates below 50%, the seed is probably no longer worth your time and resources to plant, Goggi said. You could also do the math and see if it is worth renting some space in a storage facility with controlled temperature and humidity, Goggi and Ehler added. “You’ll have to calculate — if my germination drops to this level, I will have to bump my seeding rate to this level, and will cost me that much money versus what it costs for this controlled environment,” Ehler explained. If your treated seed is stored in bins, Goggi recommends sampling from the middle of the bin, not the top. “Skim the top part of the seed off and take a sample from deeper in the bin — where there is going to be less fluctuation in temperature and relative humidity — and use that to determine germination,” she said. Using the same logic, sample germination rates from both outside bags and inner bags when evaluating the viability of seed stored in a large pile of paper bags, she added. PLANT, BURY OR BURN When storage isn’t an option, what’s left? First, check the label of your treated seed. Seed treatment active ingredients may come with a host of specific restrictions on disposal. Your state pesticide regulators might have their own rules, too. You can find their contacts here: https://aapco.org/…. Then consider the following: — Plant it: Small quantities of leftover treated seed can be planted, at proper seeding depths, into “fallow or other non-cropped areas of the farm,” according to the Pesticide Environmental Stewardship (PES), an industry- and university-led group that gives guidance on legal and safe pesticide management. Increasing soybean seeding rates to accommodate for late planting and lower germination rates could also help use up excess soybean seed, Ehler noted. — Make it a cover crop: In 2013, USDA’s Risk Management Agency agreed to allow farmers with prevented soybean planting claims to use their bags and bins of leftover soybean seed as a cover crop — and the agency could do something similar this year. But, in the meantime, consult your crop insurance agent before you make any attempt to plant leftover soybeans as a cover, Dorrance urged. — Bury it: Seed burial is an option, but only if it is allowed by the label, and growers avoid burying it near water sources. — Outsource it: Some state municipal landfills can dispose of treated seed as hazardous waste. Other facilities can incinerate them, such as waste management facilities, power plants, cement kilns, ethanol plants and even some elevators. See more details on each state’s hazardous waste programs here: https://www.epa.gov/…. What NOT to do: Trying to broadcast or spread the seed at a high seeding rate and then incorporate it is risky and could leave seed exposed or violate the label of certain seed treatment active ingredients, the PES warned. Composting pesticide-treated seed or burning it in a home or shop stove is also illegal and unsafe, the group added. For more guidance on how to handle unused treated soybean seed, see: — The Pesticide Stewardship Alliance’s guide here: https://pesticidestewardship.org/… — This guide from the American Seed Trade Association (ASTA): https://seed-treatment-guide.com/… — This fact sheet from the University of Minnesota: https://drive.google.com/… PlantingPrevent PlantSeedsoybeansTreated Seed Washington, D.C.- American Soybean Association (ASA) Board Member and Missouri farmer Ronnie Russell appeared Wednesday before the House Financial Services Committee Subcommittee on National Security, International Development and Monetary Policy, testifying on the impact of trade and tariffs on soybean producers and the larger agricultural economy. “Soybean farmers like me are feeling the impacts of the tariff war, and they are unsure if they will be able to make it through another growing season,” Russell said. “Older farmers are considering retiring early to protect the equity they’ve built up in their farms, while younger producers are looking at finding other employment. We may also see the shuttering of more businesses in rural communities whose livelihoods depend on the health of the farm economy.” The 25% retaliatory tariff imposed last July has all but halted shipments to China, which up until last year was the largest export destination for U.S. soybeans. In 2017, China purchased $14 billion worth of U.S. soybeans. Now, the tariff has caused immediate and severe damage to the price of U.S. soybeans, which fell from $10.89 to $8.68 per bushel last summer. “Our finances are suffering and stress from months of living with the consequences of tariffs is mounting. Soybean growers need China’s tariff removed now,” Russell continued. “Long-term, what farmers and rural communities need is predictability and certainty, which only comes through maintaining and opening new markets where we can sell our products. While we are working hard to diversify and expand other market opportunities, the loss of the China market cannot be fully replaced.” Russell concluded his remarks by calling on Congress to urge the Administration to conclude negotiations with China that include an immediate lifting of the soybean tariff. He also asked both Congress and the Administration to finalize and enact the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), to bring a sense of progress and stability back to U.S. soybean growers and rural America. American Soybean AssociationsoybeansTrade Lincoln, Nebraska, June 19, 2019 – The U.S Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency (FSA) in Nebraska is extending the deadline for producers in the state to report their spring prevented plant crop acres to the agency. FSA State Executive Director Nancy Johner today announced Nebraska producers now have until July 15, 2019, to report to FSA acres they intended to plant to crops this spring but could not do so because of the difficult weather conditions. This new deadline coincides with the July 15, 2019, FSA acreage certification deadline that is already in place. “In many areas of the state, flooding and persistent wet weather have made it challenging for producers to get into their fields for planting,” Johner said. “Producers need to report prevented plant acres to FSA to retain eligibility for FSA program benefits. This extension provides them some flexibility to meet that reporting requirement.” Normally, the prevented plant reporting deadline is 15 calendar days after the final planting date for a crop as established by FSA and the Risk Management Agency (RMA). Johner said the prevented plant reporting deadline extension to July 15 applies to FSA programs only and does not change any crop insurance reporting deadline requirements. This reporting extension also does not apply to crops that producers have covered through FSA’s Non-Insured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP). Producers should check with their county FSA office regarding prevented plant provisions for NAP-covered crops. “This prevented plant reporting extension to July 15 will mainly apply to spring-planted crops such as corn, soybeans and grain sorghum,” Johner said. Even though this deadline has been extended, producers are encouraged to communicate with their county FSA office as soon as possible regarding completion of both their spring crop acreage certification and their prevented plant acres reports. While walk-in traffic will be accommodated as much as possible, county FSA offices prefer scheduled appointments with producers to facilitate the flow of business through their doors and make the most efficient use of time for all parties. To find contact information for a county FSA office, producers should type offices.usda.gov in their internet browser. corncropsFSAgrain sorghumPlanting Delaysoybeans (THE CONVERSATION) Soybeans may not seem all that useful in a war. Nonetheless they’ve become China’s most important weapon in its ever-worsening trade conflict with the U.S. China, the world’s biggest buyer of the crop, has reportedly stopped purchasing any American soybeans in retaliation for the Trump administration raising tariffs on US$250 billion of Chinese goods. This is very bad news for U.S. farmers. While China’s targeting of soybeans may have come as something of a surprise to most Americans, to a professor of agricultural economics who studies international commodity markets for a living, this was not at all unexpected. Even before the conclusion of the 2016 presidential race, trade analysts were already weighing the possibility that China might impose an embargo on U.S. soybean imports based on protectionist rhetoric from both candidates. As a result, with the trade war in full swing, American soybean farmers are now among its biggest losers. Here are a few figures that show why. Soybeans, by the numbers Soybeans are a crucial part of the global food chain, particularly as a source of protein in the production of hogs and poultry. The importance of China as a market for soybeans has been driven by an explosion in demand for meat as consumers switch from a diet dominated by rice to one where pork, poultry and beef play an important part. Chinese production of meat from those three animals surged 250% from 1986 to 2012 and is projected to increase another 30% by the end of the current decade. However, China is unable to produce enough animal feed itself, hence the need to import soybeans from the United States and Brazil. In 2017, the U.S. accounted for $21.4 billion worth of global soybean exports, the second largest after its main competitor Brazil, which exported $25.7 billion. Meanwhile, in 2017 China accounted for the lion’s share of global soybean imports at $39.6 billion, or two-thirds of the total. Back in 2017, that was good news for American farmers, when U.S. exports made up about a third of Chinese purchases, or $13.9 billion. That made soybeans the United States’ second-most valuable export to China after airplanes. But U.S. exports to China have fallen dramatically since China slapped a 25% tariff on Americans soybeans last April as part of its initial response to President Donald Trump’s trade war. In the current farm marketing year, which began Sept. 1, U.S. farmers have exported just 5.9 million metric tons of soybeans to China, compared with an average of 29 million at the same point during the previous three years – or about 80% less. That’s why the tariffs have tremendous potential to hurt farmers in my state of Ohio, where soybeans were the number one agricultural export in 2017 at $1.3 billion. China is the state’s largest export market. And yet nationally, Ohio is just the seventh-largest exporter of soybeans, after Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Indiana and Missouri, all of which are suffering from the tariffs. Not only do farmers stand to lose out by giving up market share to Brazilian farmers, but soybean prices at the port of New Orleans have fallen as well and are currently $9.35 a bushel compared with $10.82 per bushel a year ago. This has hurt incomes and created a double whammy for Midwest farms. This is of course why the Chinese chose to place a tariff on U.S. soybeans in the first place. Farmers will hurt a lot, and soybeans are produced in states where many of them voted for Donald Trump. China’s hope, presumably, is that farmers will lobby the administration to step back from further escalation of the trade war. That seems unlikely, given the $28 billion in aid the Trump administration is offering farmers to soften the blow and the possibility of higher tariffs on an additional $325 billion worth of Chinese imports. At this point it looks like both sides are hunkering down for a prolonged trade war. This is an updated version of an article original published on April 5, 2018. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: http://theconversation.com/how-soybeans-became-chinas-most-powerful-weapon-in-trumps-trade-war-118088. agricultureChinaFarmingPresident TrumpsoybeansTrade 11:00 am Pepsi #CashWall Cash Stop @ First National Bank Pepsi #CashWall Cash Stop @ First National Bank 9:00 am Pepsi #CashWall Cash Stop @ First State Bank Pepsi #CashWall Cash Stop @ First State Bank 5:00 pm Pepsi #CashWall Cash Stop @ Leitheads in Torrington Pepsi #CashWall Cash Stop @ Leitheads in Torrington 8:00 am On Location: ZM Lumber @ 94.1FM On Location: ZM Lumber @ 94.1FM 12:00 pm Pepsi #CashWall Cash Stop @ HorseCreek Rendezvous Days in Morrill Pepsi #CashWall Cash Stop @ HorseCreek Rendezvous Days in Morrill KNEB AM Public Inspection File KNEB FM Public Inspection File KNEB AM EEO Public File KNEB FM EEO Public File	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line235
__label__wiki	0.957562	0.957562	Gyawali: Govt for balanced relations with India, China - MUKUL HUMAGAIN, KAMAL DEV BHATTARAI, Kathmandu Mar 18, 2018- Newly appointed foreign minister Pradeep Gyawali has said that the new government would not want to cozy up to one of Nepal’s closest neighbours against another, emphasizing that maintaining balanced relations with India and China will be the cornerstone of the new government’s foreign policy framework. In an exclusive interview with the Post after assuming office, Gyawali on Saturday said: “Nepal can neither find an alternative to its centuries-old relations with India nor can isolate itself from China and its prosperity.” “Nepal’s only aim is to extract maximum benefit from both the neighbours. Neither of our neighbours should be suspicious of our relations with them.” The foreign minister said playing one neighbour against another would have no meaning and relevance in the changed context. “We want to build a mutually beneficial relationship with the both in the changed context,” Gyawali said, adding that Nepal needs support from both the countries. Asked how the Oli government would handle its relations with the Indian establishment, Gyawali, who had visited India just before constitution promulgation in September, 2015 as Oli’s emissary, said both the countries wanted to move forward by burying the hatchet. “What happened in bilateral relations after constitution promulgation was like a nightmare. We want to forget that and move ahead,” he added. A close aide to PM Oli, Gyawali had met National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and then-Indian foreign secretary S Jaishankar in September 2015 to apprise the Indian establishment of the constitution drafting process and sought India’s backing for the same. A series of events after constitution promulgation including the border blockade, according to Gyawali, did not benefit New Delhi, which the southern neighbour had also realised. Gyawali said that the “recommendations of the Eminent Persons Group (EPG) on Nepal-India Relations” would serve as the major basis for the new government to reset its relations with India. The EPG, formed to provide suggestions to both the governments on mutual relations in the changed regional and global contexts, will submit its report by July if there is no extension of its tenure. The new government would take initiatives to implement the Group’s report. “Once the EPG submits its report, we’ll talk to India for its speedy implementation,” said the foreign minister. Railway project, opening new border points with China, north-south highways and cross-border power transmission would be the top priorities of the new government in advancing relations with China, according to Gyawali. The government would expedite implementation of the agreements signed with China in 2015. “Previous governments should have implemented those agreements but that did not happen,” he remarked. The new government would finalise the protocol of trade and transit agreement with China soon. At a time when the Chinese side has asked Nepal to select projects under the Belt and Road Initiative, the foreign minister said the government would respond soon. Preparations were being made to schedule high-level visits between Nepal and both its neighbours. Gyawali expressed his hope that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping would visit Nepal this year. Foreign min says EPG’s recommendations will serve as major basis to reset bilateral ties with India Government to finalise protocol of trade and transit agreement with China soon Preparations going on for high-level visits between Nepal-India and Nepal-China (A full-text interview will be published on Monday) ›Kamal Dev Bhattarai Pun unopposed in Vice President race › Pradeep Gyawali	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line243
__label__cc	0.681651	0.318349	DESIGN TO THRIVE Adaptive. Agile. Human. Kathryn was a breath of fresh air to our team and project aimed to enhance our Department’s ability to respond to its future priorities and challenges. She brings a depth of experience, passion and dedication in systems and design thinking that has helped us explore, solve and lead complex challenges successfully, and was able to translate and build on the vision we had, and use it to deliver tangible and purposeful outputs. Kathryn builds natural and impactful rapport with people from all walks of life, and her ability to lead and bring people on the journey has been pivotal to our ambitious reform agendas. She adopts genuine collaborative design processes and can navigate ambiguity and uncertainty circumstances and turn them into a positive and valuable opportunity. I thoroughly recommend Kathryn as an incredible and creative contributor to any individual, team or organisation. She is an absolute pleasure to partner with. Misha Kaur Director, Business Improvement / Corporate, Department of Employment, Australian Government Kathryn is a new breed of cross-disciplinary social agent whose breadth of knowledge, extensive network and genuine commitment to service make her both a professional asset and a valued friend. Kathryn is a unicorn with a rare capacity to add value at many different stages, and in many different areas of a project. She can strategise, speak, write, design, code and facilitate. Her ability to move seamlessly between these different skills has supported speed, accuracy and cohesion in a way that would typically require a much larger team. Hire her – you’ll be glad that you did! Project Example: The Munathara Initiative Cameron Burgess Strategist, Consultant, Speaker, Mentor, CEO, Project Recovery Expert, Impact Specialist, Uncompromise Kathryn has mastered a wide range of practical innovation skills, including design, software development, workshop facilitation, brand development, social marketing, and team building. More powerful than any of these is her capability to integrate these skills through a powerful set of frameworks – many of which she has developed herself – to help develop products, teams and thriving complex systems. This gives her the ability to enact a constellation of coordinated micro-interventions, bringing about surprising transformations for your project or organisation. Hailey Cooperrider Senior Strategist, Collabforge Kathryn led the first major visual overhaul of the StartSomeGood platform. She was great to work with – passionate, hard-working and generous. The enormous leap forward in the look and feel of the platform was entirely her doing. I’ll be forever grateful the way she arrived in my life at exactly the right moment and made such a huge impact in so little time. And better than that she’s become a great friend. Her passion for making a difference and belief in the power of thoughtful design to accomplish this is inspirational. CEO @ StartSomeGood; Social Entrepreneur; Speaker; Consultant I have experienced working closely with Kathryn’s leadership across multiple projects, teams and key clients, including NAB, Toyota and Telstra. She balanced multiple complex tasks extremely well, and I observed a propensity for very high level creative thinking and problem solving. She was also a professional mentor to me in relation to growing soft skills, such as facilitation and running workshops, as well as UX research and synthesis, and my skills have improved markedly as a result of her guidance. One of the biggest shifts I experienced with her coaching was an increased confidence and clarity in my own ability to manage communications and prioritization in balancing the needs of stakeholders and delivery in my work at NAB. Kathryn ensures quality of both experience and deliverable outcomes, timeliness and stakeholder relationship management, and I’ve always been impressed by her creativity and leadership. Melissa Maher User Experience Design Consultant, RXP Kathryn is an awesome strategic designer living in Melbourne but her linked in profile will tell you that: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathrynananda What I am uniquely positioned to say is that she was behind much of the later work – both the thinking and the designing at all levels – of our Dept’s original Organisational Capability Vision (Australian Dept of Employment 2020 Vision & Strategy – ‘Employment 2.0’). As a facilitator, synthesiser and visualiser Kathryn was pivotal to the success of the co-design workshops that were the capstone to the initial launch. As someone whose role is now focused on embedding that capability vision and translating it into an organisational learning model, I can attest her contribution was central. In addition she straddles the worlds of coding, design and systems thinking and doing, p2p, Agile and complexity, a set of skills and experiences still rare in Australia, where she is a growing node in that emerging future nexus. David Pecotic Outreach and Engagement Lead (Strategic Design), Governance Risk and Assurance Branch \| Organisational Capability Team \| Australian Government Department of Employment When I first encountered Kathryn, I was struck by how quickly she was processing ideas and making connections. As I got to know her better, I realized she also has an amazing network that she weaves. Now I want to champion her success as someone I see with vision for transforming Australia and, indeed, the World. She gets how people work, how business functions, what the drivers are, and sources actionable opportunities. Kathryn thrives at the intersection of design, ideas, and process. She can see the patterns and connections between things, bring a critical eye to design, and facilitate wisdom from a group (as well as talent from an individual). I have worked with her or seen her work on numerous projects in the last five years, and, to each, she brought a polished sensibility, an energizing intention, and a get-it-done fire. I find her inspiring and whip-smart. I wish there were more people as ambidextrous in talent and as exquisite in attitude as she is. Jean Russell author of Thrivability, and Social Flows, co-founder of Thrivable Futures Salon “What if, instead of aiming primarily at reducing their footprint, business adopted a different way of thinking: what if, rather than only reducing their negative impacts, they started thinking in terms of having a positive handprint, which Australian activist Kathryn Bottrell (Ananda) defines as a “mark and measure of making a positive contribution to the world”. What would this look like?” ~ excerpt, page 1, Flourishing Enterprise. Chris Laszlo & Judy Sorum Brown Excerpt from Flourishing Enterprise: The New Spirit of Business. Kathryn has the know-how, the know-what, and the know-why, both head-set and heart-set, required to build initiatives of the ‘Fourth Sector’. She galvanises and enthuses teams. She organises and manages well. She comes with my highest recommendation. Alexander Laszlo President of the International Society for the Systems Sciences 2012-13, Professor Where some people that you meet in life are “like a breath of fresh air” that simply is too small a descriptor for Kathryn. To call her a whirlwind of fresh air would be far closer to the truth. So full of ideas, knowledge, excitement and energy keeping up with her is an engaging and supremely positive experience. I was privileged to workshop with Kathryn and the experience left me full of new energy, zeal and a passion to attend to those things that I knew in the back of my mind I had let slide. Quite simply, Kathryn is amazing. Specifically, Kathryn helped me realise that as a leader in my area I had slipped into using “I” as my driver in conversations with my team. Leaving her I went back to work and started using “We” and the results were immediate and positive. Peter Selinger Museum Director, Consultant In the multiple ways in which I’ve worked with Kathryn over the past several years, I’ve come to know her as both competent (with a wide skills-set) and passionate. Working with Kathryn is a study in expansive co-creation inspiration. She has a uniquely playful way of getting a number of things done at the same time. As a close ally in the systemic thinking and multiple layers of action required to shift into a world that is Thrivable, she is a power force. I’ve also witnessed her as an excellent presenter, facilitator and high level interactive communicator. These facets I mention above her abilities to design function and form into websites, and explain to corporates how to incorporate the 5P’s principals of Positive Handprints into their policies & decision making priorities, because I see them as setting her apart from her field. I recommend her highly and if you can buy her time/attention, count yourself incredibly lucky. Irma Wilson Founder @ FutureSharp; Program Director @ Millennium Project Node South Africa & Foresight for Development Africa Hi, I’m Kathryn Ananda Multi-disciplinarian. I’m building for the future of work, community & governance. Specialising in combining Human Centred Design + LEAN + Agile methods for Strategic Design, Project & Portfolio Management, & Team Leadership. Applying continuous delivery of value through all stages of discovery, prototyping & innovation, to integrated services driven by data-rich decision making and foresight. I help to scale cohesive, coherent, self-aware, adaptive & agile organisations, for improved products/services and value-rich experiences. Innovator, Strategist, Futurist, Team Leader, Facilitator, Designer, Catalyst, Technologist (Product Mgr, Former Developer, ITC Advisor), Community Builder, Collaboration Designer/Advisor, CX/UX Specialist, Mentor/Coach, Life-long Learner I'm making a Positive Handprint. …for a thrivable world. ask me how	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line245
__label__wiki	0.935806	0.935806	We’ve been used to success across the club over the last two years and we are hungry for more, says Bromleians manager Danny Wakeling BROMLEIANS manager Danny Wakeling says he is hungry for more success this coming season. The Bromley based outfit travel to Chislehurst tomorrow to play Southern Counties East Football League Premier Division side Glebe as they open their pre-season campaign. Wakeling has guided the Lower Gravel Road club to back-to-back title-winning promotions and are preparing for their debut campaign in the Andreas Carter Joma Kent County League Premier Division. “We’ve had two very good sessions which have been bright and enthusiastic,” said Wakeling. “Our sessions are always 100% ball-based activities which tends help create that kind of positive environment. “We’ve actually taken in a fair amount of carefully selected players in this year so far. “We reviewed the playing side of the club months ago and set about improving key areas that we identified and felt needed improving. “We run three senior sides and a Vets XI on a Saturday and upon review set about targeting areas and players we felt had the requisite personality and characteristics as well as the right playing capabilities in line with our club core values. “We’ve managed to add some much-needed stellar maturity to the club, which we expect will improve us on and off the pitch, whilst also aligning that with some raw younger lads with good potential to create a better depth and balance to the composition of the entire playing side. “We don’t feel we need wholesale changes at first-team level and two back-to-back promotions with the respective league championship titles banked along the way is a testimony to the fact. “We do, however, feel that we owe it to our lads at first-team level to be pushed further and harder by more lads that can genuinely and potentially earn a first-team shirt for themselves. “We owe it to those lads to keep setting goals for the club and we are sure everyone will enjoy being kept on their toes and will respond positively to the challenge. “The lads that have come in have already show brilliant attitudes and applied themselves thoroughly so for now it’s a very positive start. “I’d also add they’ve been made very welcome by existing players too which is a great strength of our club.” Wakeling says he is “delighted to be playing Glebe,” as he makes a return to his old club. “Having spent some time at the club myself I’ve maintained a good relationship with the chairman Rocky McMillan and also have kept in fairly regular contact with the manager Anwar Uddin since his appointment too,” said Wakeling. “I think they’ll have a good season ahead to be fair. I’d imagine Anwar is relishing a full pre-season to set them up for the year ahead. “Myself and all at Bromleians FC would like to thank them both for the game and also for hosting us post game to watch England’s World Cup Quarter Final tie against Sweden. “We expect a very tough afternoon and it’s exactly what our Broms very much need and also want. “We know that we need to be placed under duress and into chaotic situations and to also have the opportunity to deal with sustained levels of adversity at times. These kind of games are proper tests and our players do have the right mental attitude to meet these kind of tasks head on. “We’ve grown well over two years and we shall continue to do so. We will have our own objectives to achieve from the game and our own processes to go through that are personal to ourselves. “We have gone through the same process in each of our last two pre-season campaigns and this one won’t be any different. “We’ve won just under 75% of our competitive games over the last two years so we clearly trust our own processes and objectives and how we deal with the outcomes and we all know it’s about being able continue to take steps, build, progress short term week by week with the longer term aim of getting ready for our first ever Step Seven game as a club on August 11th.” Looking ahead to their League campaign, Wakeling has set his sights high once again. “We’ve been used to success across the club over the last two years and we are hungry for more. “We are always respectful and we are in the same situation as we were last summer having won a title and gained promotion. “We are embarking on yet another challenge of higher level football. We are mindful that yet again we are the newbies in another level and we will seek to earn our respect on a game by game basis. We are a positive thinking and hard-working family minded football club and our teams shall endeavour to continue to reflect that on the pitches. “We have our targets for the season but at this stage it’s all about focusing on solely on getting prepared week by week to be ready Saturday 11th August.” Visit Bromleians’ website: www.bromleiansfc.co.uk Glebe v Bromleians Saturday 7 July 2018 Kick Off 12:00pm at Queen Mary University of London Sports Ground, Perry Street, Chislehurst, Kent BR7 6SD	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line248
__label__cc	0.664475	0.335525	News \| News Archive \| Newsletter Radio Studies Network report, AGM2013 Posted on January 7, 2013 in Conference, News, Radio Studies Network The Radio Studies Network has reached the end of its third year as a MeCCSA Network. Although it was not possible to organize network events in 2012, the Network will be relaunching its activities for 2013 and 2014 and propose such events for consideration to the MeCCSA Executive Committee within the first quarter of 2013 for its consideration. Possible activities might include events on: World Radio Day, 13 February 30 years of AMARC (the World Association of Community Broadcasters) and the same anniversary of the CRA/CMA (Community Radio Association, since 1997 Community Media Association): an occasion to discuss British Community Radio in the global context Student Radio (possible location, London/University of Westminster, or other locations still in consideration): in occasion of the release of a special issue on this subject edited by the Chair, which includes also contribution by another 2 SG members and that would focus on the role of student and university radio in the UK A contribution to the Transnational Radio Conference, to be hosted at the University of Bedfordshire in July 2013 (to be defined) the RSN developed a Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/meccsa.radio.studies.network ) which has been ‘liked’ by 64 people. It is planning to expand the use of this tool for discussions and reach further to radio scholars based in the UK and abroad the mailing list “Radio Studies” has grown from 350, as reported last year, to 415 (as at 6 January 2013) , signaling increasing interest in this field (see https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=radio-studies ) The Network is coordinated by a Steering Group. The members in 2012 were Chair, Salvatore Scifo, Maltepe University/University of Westminster Janey Gordon, University of Bedfordshire Stephen Lax, University of Leeds Peter Lewis, London Metropolitan University Katie Moylan, University of Leicester Eryl Price-Davies, Imperial College London Eleanor Shember-Critchley, Manchester Metropolitan University Guy Starkey, University of Sunderland Jo Tyler, Bournemouth University Deborah Wilson, University of Lincoln Helen Wolfenden, University of Salford Anne Dunn, University of Sydney, who joined the Network in January, sadly passed away in July 2012. In this context, we would like to remember her as an enthusiastic radio scholar and for having contributed to raise the profile of radio studies in Australia and abroad. Salvatore Scifo Chair, MeCCSA Radio Studies Network Posted by Einar Thorsen CFP MeCCSA PGN Conference 2019 Three-D Issue 31 MeCCSA response to political interference in Australia’s research grant process MeCCSA statement on USS pension dispute between UCU and UUK MeCCSA List Panel for MECCSA 2020 - Muslims' self-representation on social media {Disarmed} Re: CFP: SEA The World! Southeast Asian Cinemas and Global Film Theory, 11th Biennial Association for Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference (ASEACC) July 20th - 22nd, 2020, Cebu, the Philippines CFP: SEA The World! Southeast Asian Cinemas and Global Film Theory, 11th Biennial Association for Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference (ASEACC) July 20th - 22nd, 2020, Cebu, the Philippines MeCCSA Newsletter Three-D, issue 31 (PDF \| HTML) About MeCCSA MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. Visit our About MeCCSA page for more information.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line252
__label__wiki	0.901268	0.901268	Home/News/Local News/Scott’s extradition trial postponed indefinitely Scott’s extradition trial postponed indefinitely Lesotho Times November 6, 2014 Lehlohonolo Scott Lekhetho Ntsukunyane The Durban North Magistrate’s Court yesterday indefinitely postponed a case in which Lehlohonolo Scott is fighting extradition to Lesotho to face two murder charges. Magistrate Vanitha Armu postponed the matter after Scott’s new lawyer, Advocate Maphumulo, requested the court to provide him with records of when his client was denied bail in May in this year. Advocate Maphumulo, who took over from Scott’s previous lawyer, Advocate Shameer Goolabjith, told the court he needed the records to familiarise himself with the case. Magistrate Armu has since given Advocate Maphumulo a chance to study the records but ordered that both Scott’s lawyer and the public prosecutor report before the court tomorrow (Friday) to set a new date for the resumption of the trial. Scott (27) is accused of brutally killing two of his Koalabata neighbours, Moholobela Seetsa (13) and Kamohelo Mohata (22), in 2012. In addition, he faces one charge of escaping from lawful custody following his dramatic escape from Maseru Central Prison in October 2012. During his bail application earlier this year, Scott claimed he was born in South Africa and was therefore, a South African citizen. Advocate Goolabjith, who quit the case shortly after failing to secure bail for Scott in May this year, had argued that the court had no power to deny his client bail as he faced no charges in South Africa. Advocate Goolabjith also argued the prosecution had not challenged the authenticity of a South African birth certificate Scott had provided showing that he was born in that country. But the now-retired prosecutor Blackie Swart had counter-argued that when Scott was arrested on 6 April this year, he was found in possession of a “fraudulently obtained” South African identity document. Swart further said Scott’s declaration that he had only lived in Lesotho since 1999 had clearly been refuted by a letter from his primary school in Maseru, which showed he attended the institution from 1996. Magistrate Armu then shot down the bail-application arguing there was a “very strong” case against Scott. The magistrate further observed Scott had “mysteriously escaped” from the Maseru Central Correctional Institution, where he awaited his trial, and fled to South Africa in October 2012. Scott remains in custody at the Durban North Correctional Service. Soulo ‘to quit’ ABC	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line253
__label__wiki	0.940497	0.940497	82.0°, Mostly Cloudy Wantagh caps win streak Posted Tuesday, May 14, 2019 12:20 pm Senior leadoff batter Kayley Butcher tripled and scored in a seven-run fourth inning to help Wantagh beat Mineola, 14-3, on May 2, on the way to a conference title. Brian Ballweg/Herald By Andrew Coen A small roster hasn’t prevented a big winning streak for Wantagh softball. The Lady Warriors captured their 17th straight win to open the season last Friday with a 13-0 win at Valley Stream North. Wantagh completed an unbeaten season in Conference AB-III despite entering the season with just one returning starter and only 12 players thanks to the resurrection of a junior varsity program following a six-year absence. “It’s a small number but the right twelve,” Wantagh coach Christine Moran said. “They all pick each other up.” Junior pitching ace Shayna DeRosa has accounted for much of Wantagh’s winning ways with 12 victories in the circle. She tossed a complete-game three-hitter with 13 strikeouts in 1-0 extra innings win against Island Trees on April 30 to give Wantagh its 13th straight win to open the season Senior Nicole Tague and seventh grader Julia Maniscalo have also contributed to the Warriors’ deep pitching staff. Tague recorded six strikeouts in a 19-3 win at Wheatley on April 11. Maniscalco surrendered only two hits through five innings of work in a 12-0 win against Herricks on April 9. The Wantagh bats have given their pitchers plenty of run support led largely by power in the middle of the lineup from sophomore shortstop Emily Van O’Linda and junior third baseman Nalani O’Brien. Van O’Linda, who garnered All-Conference Honorable Mention accolades as freshman last year, smacked a grand slam during Wantagh’s 10-2 win against Oyster Bay last Thursday. O’Brien was instrumental in the Warriors’ 8-3 April 4 victory at Island Trees with a two-run homer. Senior right fielder Kayley Butcher has sparked Wantagh’s offense in the leadoff slot. Butcher’s speed was on full display when she hit a two-run triple in the April 4 Island Trees victory. Moran has also been impressed by the play of senior outfielder Katie Skaar, who is making the most of her finals days in a Wantagh uniform with several big hits. She drove in four runs during a 10-5 win at Herricks on May 6 and hit three home runs during the Warrior’s undefeated regular season run. “Everything I thought she could become as a player she has become,” said Moran of Skaar’s big senior campaign. “She has been lights out.” In preparation for the upcoming Class A playoffs, Moran scheduled a non-conference game Monday against Northport, which competes in one of Suffolk County’s top conferences. Moran is hoping the tough competition will set the Warriors up for an extended postseason run. “It’s a good tune-up for us,” Moran said. “They are a very good Suffolk County team.” Wantagh is slated to enter the playoffs as a 13 seed and will be looking to advance at least to the quarterfinals after dropping a 7-6 heartbreaker to Mepham in the first round of last year’s playoffs. Moran credits her senior class with positioning the Warriors to make postseason magic after a memorable regular season. “I have great senior leadership,” she said. “It’s a family atmosphere.” New-look Lizards a work in progress New York Surf Week returns to Long Beach Salute to 2018-19 H.S. sports champions ‘His life was serving people’ Friends helping a friend The late Frank Pignataro inducted into East Rockaway Community Hall of Fame Recession takes swing at exclusive golf clubs	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line254
__label__wiki	0.610282	0.610282	An enquiry into, and observations upon the causes and effects of the epidemic disease, which raged in Philadelphia from the month of August till towards the middle of December, 1793., By Jean Deveze .. The Resource An enquiry into, and observations upon the causes and effects of the epidemic disease, which raged in Philadelphia from the month of August till towards the middle of December, 1793., By Jean Deveze .. The item An enquiry into, and observations upon the causes and effects of the epidemic disease, which raged in Philadelphia from the month of August till towards the middle of December, 1793., By Jean Deveze .. represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Devèze, Jean, 1753-1829 engfre Printed by Parent, Philadelphia., 1794 vii, [1], 145 p. Added t.-p.: Recherches et observations, sur les causes et les effets de la maladie épidémique qui a régné à Philadelphie, depuis le mois d'août jusques vers le milieu du mois de décembre de l'année 1793 English and French on opposite pages An enquiry into, and observations upon the causes and effects of the epidemic disease, which raged in Philadelphia from the month of August till towards the middle of December, 1793. By Jean Deveze .. Yellow fever -- Pennsylvania \| Philadelphia Yellow Fever -- Philadelphia -- 1793 DLC/ICU Devèze, Jean RC211.P5 D4 Toner Coll s34025975 //r86 <div class="citation" vocab="http://schema.org/"><i class="fa fa-external-link-square fa-fw"></i> Data from <span resource="http://link.collegeofphysicians.org/portal/An-enquiry-into-and-observations-upon-the-causes/nRUa-JueEhI/" typeof="Book http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/Item"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a href="http://link.collegeofphysicians.org/portal/An-enquiry-into-and-observations-upon-the-causes/nRUa-JueEhI/">An enquiry into, and observations upon the causes and effects of the epidemic disease, which raged in Philadelphia from the month of August till towards the middle of December, 1793., By Jean Deveze ..</a></span> - <span property="potentialAction" typeOf="OrganizeAction"><span property="agent" typeof="LibrarySystem http://library.link/vocab/LibrarySystem" resource="http://link.collegeofphysicians.org/"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a property="url" href="http://link.collegeofphysicians.org/">College of Physicians of Philadelphia</a></span></span></span></span></div> Data Citation of the Item An enquiry into, and observations upon the causes and effects of the epidemic disease, which raged in Philadelphia from the month of August till towards the middle of December, 1793., By Jean Deveze .. http://link.collegeofphysicians.org/portal/An-enquiry-into-and-observations-upon-the-causes/nRUa-JueEhI/ http://library.link/portal/An-enquiry-into-and-observations-upon-the-causes/nRUa-JueEhI/	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line255
__label__cc	0.56334	0.43666	Mexico in 1842 : a description of the country, its natural and political features, with a sketch of its history, brought down to the present year : to which is added, an account of Texas and Yucatan, and of the Santa Fé expedition The work Mexico in 1842 : a description of the country, its natural and political features, with a sketch of its history, brought down to the present year : to which is added, an account of Texas and Yucatan, and of the Santa Fé expedition represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Houston Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books. The Resource Mexico in 1842 : a description of the country, its natural and political features, with a sketch of its history, brought down to the present year : to which is added, an account of Texas and Yucatan, and of the Santa Fé expedition a description of the country, its natural and political features, with a sketch of its history, brought down to the present year : to which is added, an account of Texas and Yucatan, and of the Santa Fé expedition Folsom, George, 1802-1869 Texas -- Description and travel Texas -- History -- To 1846 -- Sources Texan Santa Fé Expedition, 1841 Mexico -- Description and travel Mexico -- History -- 1821-1861 -- Sources Texas -- History -- Republic, 1836-1846 -- Sources Checklist Amer. imprints Wagner-Camp (4th ed.) .F67 Context of Mexico in 1842 : a description of the country, its natural and political features, with a sketch of its history, brought down to the present year : to which is added, an account of Texas and Yucatan, and of the Santa Fé expedition <div class="citation" vocab="http://schema.org/"><i class="fa fa-external-link-square fa-fw"></i> Data from <span resource="http://link.houstonlibrary.org/resource/MaMu9jEgDfo/" typeof="CreativeWork http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/Work"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a href="http://link.houstonlibrary.org/resource/MaMu9jEgDfo/">Mexico in 1842 : a description of the country, its natural and political features, with a sketch of its history, brought down to the present year : to which is added, an account of Texas and Yucatan, and of the Santa Fé expedition</a></span> - <span property="potentialAction" typeOf="OrganizeAction"><span property="agent" typeof="LibrarySystem http://library.link/vocab/LibrarySystem" resource="http://link.houstonlibrary.org/"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a property="url" href="http://link.houstonlibrary.org/">Houston Public Library</a></span></span></span></span></div> Data Citation of the Work Mexico in 1842 : a description of the country, its natural and political features, with a sketch of its history, brought down to the present year : to which is added, an account of Texas and Yucatan, and of the Santa Fé expedition http://link.houstonlibrary.org/resource/MaMu9jEgDfo/ http://library.link/resource/MaMu9jEgDfo/	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line256
__label__wiki	0.713253	0.713253	visual urban data slides This is the second half of a talk that Tom Carden and I did together at U.C. Berkeley's iSchool, a few weeks ago on March 20. Tom has the first half with slides posted on his own blog. He talks about the general studio/Stamen context for our forays into visual depictions of urban data, while I go deep on Oakland Crimespotting in particular. I returned to Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism a few weeks later to deliver a slightly-edited version of this talk alone. A video that I'm afraid to watch is on Youtube here and here. CrimeWatch First, it's important for us to back up a bit and understand the need that Crimespotting tries to address. Our initial work was based on the City of Oakland's existing CrimeWatch application, a "wizard-like" form-based website available at http://gismaps.oaklandnet.com/crimewatch/. The first thing a visitor to CrimeWatch sees is a disclaimer form and a few pages of instructions. Once past the first page, there is a long series of questions that a visitor must answer: what kind of crime to view, where to look, how far back in time to search. The crime types here seem to correspond to broadly-used categories, but there are differences among jurisdictions. For example, Oakland does not publish domestic violence as a separate category. San Francisco, which uses a similar crime mapping application, has removed homicides entirely from its online maps. Eventually, the resulting map loads in the browser. The presentation is not entirely satisfying, with a range of tiny report icons overlaid on a map and frequently obscured by information detail windows. Parsing Images This is the technically difficult part. The second of the two images above shows our original data input: a compressed image covered with small, graphic icons. We used Python Imaging Library and a collection of scraping tools to search for instances of known icons and convert them to rough GPS positions. Because we knew what we were looking for (e.g. Vehicle Theft, Prostitution, Narcotics, Robbery, Vandalism shown here) it was possible to search by shape and color to come up with positions for these icons on CrimeWatch maps. Early this year, Oakland City IT opened up a reliable, text-based feed of crime information for us. This was a huge help, and we no longer need to go through the slow image-scraping process detailed above. Just before IT made a better source of data available to us, we were putting the finishing touches on a Mozilla browser plug-in for distributed scraping, which introduced an element of human sanity-checking after each sweep. Permanent Links All of the data we collect is available in a non-mapped, text form. Everything is shown on a map, but it's also possible to slice and dice the data to show reports of a certain type or from a certain date, listed out. The single most important improvement we think Crimespotting introduced to Oakland is the concept of a permanent link for every reported crime. These permalinks contain isolated maps of the event, connected reports, a place for people to leave comments, and other reports from the same area and time. Street crime in Oakland really only happens between the 880 and 13 freeways. South and west of 880 is industrial, while north and east of 13 is hilly, suburban, and quite affluent. Property crimes (marked in green) happen all over, but violent crime (marked in red) is further constrained to the poorer parts of town below 580. We've noticed that prostitution arrests seem to come in waves - long stretches of no activity, followed by rapid bursts along San Pablo Boulevard in West Oakland or International Boulevard in East Oakland. Above we can see the result of a string of busts along International in the Fruitvale area shown in blue, the color we use for quality of life crimes like drugs, alcohol, or disturbing the peace. Although West Oakland is commonly thought to be a dangerous place, the data we've seen shows that violent crime is really spread evenly between West Oakland and downtown. There's no cluster of violence to the West, but there is a sharp cluster of drug activity (in blue) between 580 and San Pablo. One important lesson we learned from our users: police beats are more important than we thought. This is a map of reports from beat 04X. The beat number system is how citizens interact with the police department, and what we assumed was an arcane administrative detail is really a living, breathing idea. Not so with "police service areas" or city council districts. Really, the most important thing we've learned is that motivation can come from everywhere. I initially started this project because I had hurt my back in late 2006, and had a bunch of free time on my hands over that winter. What started as a technical curiosity became a studio project and eventually a public website. Motivation comes from all over, give people data and they'll figure out something interesting to do with it. Just showing crime is relentlessly negative, and seems to really draw out the kind of graffiti-squad neighborhood busybodies who focus solely on little problems. A near-universal reaction from non-residents to this particular project has been relief that they don't live in Oakland, but it's really not that bad here. It just looks bad when all you show is crime. We'd like to map other things: city services (police, fire, emergency), tax parcels, effects of policy, other administrative information that's hugely important. We're also thinking about how to fill in the tapestry around Oakland - currently we're covering a very small, narrowly-defined area. On the bright side, we're using our projects to test the assumption that there's something interesting going on with city data. Decreasing costs (money, complexity) of data analysis techniques (e.g. Google's new visualization kit) drive demand for available data. We think in the very near future, it will become cheaper for cities to publish raw data and let citizens do their own analysis with IT in a support/enabling/superhero role. Our argument is not about "democratizing" anything and the political baggage that rides along with such terminology, it's about responding to changing costs.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line268
__label__cc	0.528	0.472	Washington State Gun Control: Voters Approve Ballot Initiative To Expand Background Checks Voters in Washington state chose to advance a ballot initiative on Tuesday that will expand background checks for guns and effectively close what is known as the "gun show loophole." Initiative 594, which passed with 60 percent of the vote, mandates background checks on all gun sales and transfers, including at gun shows and online. The measure makes exceptions for weapons transferred within families and for the purchase of antique guns. The passage of I-594 closely follows the Oct. 24 shooting at Marysville-Pilchuck High School in Marysville, Washington, that left three students dead and three more injured. As has been the case with previous mass shootings, public support for stricter gun laws increased in the week following the Marysville shooting, according to a survey conducted by local PBS affiliate KCTS-9. At the same time, the poll showed an increase in the percentage of voters who said they would oppose new background checks, suggesting that the shooting galvanized public opinion on both sides. The increased opposition in some quarters to expanded background checks may have been due in part to the presence of Initiative 591, a competing measure, on the ballot. I-591 would have loosened gun laws by prohibiting background checks on gun purchases unless required by federal law. Washington residents ultimately rejected the measure, with more than 54 percent voting against it according to early returns. I can't wait to hear how the gun-rights folks explain this away. Labels: common sense and honesty ssgmarkcr November 5, 2014 at 7:04 AM Nothing to explain Mike. The people have spoken. Though it seems a bit shy of the mythical 80 to 90 percent oft mentioned. TS November 5, 2014 at 6:21 PM In fairness, this doesn’t necessarily contradict 90% polls. 90% of the people might very well support background checks done the right way without simply banning the private transfer practice, and making new crimes like using a common gun for training, loaning a gun to a sibling, loaning a gun to a friend because they have a stalker, or sharing a safe with a friend. Did you get that last part Mike? If you store your gun at a friend’s house because they have a kick-ass safe, being more concerned about “gun flow to the criminal world through theft” than you are home defense, then you are committing a crime in the state of Washington. Are you happy with that Mike? Mike B November 6, 2014 at 12:47 PM I don't believe any of that nonsense, TS. The new law provides for exceptions like immediate family. Criminals will be harder pressed to get guns. Isn't that a winner for everyone? MikeB: "The new law provides for exceptions like immediate family." Not for loans. Just read the frickin law already. MikeB: "Criminals will be harder pressed to get guns. Isn't that a winner for everyone?" It's not a winner for all the new criminals. Mike B November 6, 2014 at 6:50 PM Laws don't make people criminals. Your continual attempts to blame criminal behavior on laws you don't like is a drag. And do let us know when someone is jailed for momentarily handing a gun to someone or for storing one in someone else's gun safe. I have no doubt that some huge percentage of the crimes committed under this new law will not be prosecuted (it would be impossible to enforce it seriously and consistently). Yes, lots of people will get away with their crimes. I thought you had a term for that. What was it- “hidden criminal”? Mike B November 7, 2014 at 11:25 AM You're probably right, TS. The tens of thousands of good honest people who regularly store their guns in other people's safes will now be hidden criminals. It's a horror, to quote Kurt. Why would it matter whether it is tens of thousands, or just ten, or one? It’s no less an unjust crime. But don’t pretend this law doesn’t have wide implications. There are many other innocent and common scenarios which I spoke of that are now crimes. I would say that close to every single gun owner has done some of these actions that are now considered crimes in the state of Washington. Have I ever exchanged guns with friends while target shooting on BLM land? You bet. Have I ever got some help putting a gun back together that I was having problems reassembling? Yep. Did I bring my gun to a non-licensed gun smith who had the tools and skills to fix a gun which discharged when I didn’t pull the trigger? Does that really need to be a crime? Kurt '45superman' Hofmann November 8, 2014 at 2:03 PM Why would it matter whether it is tens of thousands, or just ten, or one? It’s no less an unjust crime. Precisely, TS. In fact, I would go further, and say that even if no one is persecuted (not a typo) under the most draconian provisions of the law, it is still an abomination, simply for the potential for abuse. Laws like that require us to take on faith that even the most ambitious, most zealously anti-gun prosecutor won't take advantage of that potential for abuse. I don't have such faith, and shouldn't need it. Indeed. Even if the cops and prosecutors ignore the new law the people still have to follow it or risk arrest (and be one of those "hidden criminals"). Mike can probably raise his "famous 50%" to "famous 95%" in Washington with all the new "hidden criminals" there. Have it your way, guys. Let's just weigh all those horrors against the thousands of criminals who normally buy their guns without background checks and will no longer be able to do so. Of course, knife crime will probably skyrocket, mass stabbings and the like. You guys lied. That’s how it happened. I think if you were more honest about the bill it would not have passed- now it’s on to the courts. Every “Yes on 594” ad I saw used the word “sales” or “purchases”, sometimes even “gun show sale”, when the bill does so much more than that. I also never saw one of those ads talk about the crimes the law creates. Do they ever talk about the need to throw people who do these new illegal transfers in prison? Of course not. They want to sell this law as being “reasonable” and “common sense”. And the thing is, if they didn't want to criminalize the other transfers--e.g. loaning a gun to a family member or friend you're hunting with--they could have easily avoided it by using the word sale instead of transfer, etc. You guys are full of it. Immediate family members are exempt from the restrictions. Which does absolutely nothing to alleviate the horror of what happens in the scenarios that TS has described. You keep bringing that up and conveniently ignoring the issue of a loan to a friend you're going hunting with or a loan at the range. If the law wasn't intended to cause a headache in these situations it would have been drafted to cover sales, not these temporary transfers. Gifts only, Mike. You can't sell, loan, or allow your family member to even handle the gun. "We're full of it", says the guy who never read the law. "Which does absolutely nothing to alleviate the horror of what happens in the scenarios that TS has described." Well, now that the law has passed, you should have no trouble pointing us to stories about these horrors. I'll look forward to posting them for you. Are you suggesting people knowing break the law because it is a “bad law be damned” scenario? How about instead of waiting for a good person’s life to be ruined we just not pass laws like that in the first place? Wild idea huh? If there was a bipartisan bill on economic treaty that was widely supported, but someone snuck a line in there about everyone’s first born child being sacrificed on Mt. Doom, would we just say “nobody will enforce it”, or “You let me know when a baby dies via pagan ritual, and I’ll look forward to posting them for you”? Or should we oppose the bill? Or maybe just cross out the pure evil crap? If you agree that it is wrong to arrest someone for storing a gun in someone else’s safe- then don’t fault us for opposing the law. Take out the evil crap. Make it actually “reasonable” and then try and pass it. Who stores guns in other people's safes anyway? And who's to know if I show you my gun and let you hold it for a minute in the privacy of my own home? You're stretching and twisting as usual. MikeB: "And who's to know if I show you my gun and let you hold it for a minute in the privacy of my own home?" Yes, these will be well-hidden criminals. Do you think people should follow the law anyway? MikeB: “Who stores guns in other people's safes anyway?” Some people do. I’ve done it before. It’s probably more common than you think, but how often it goes on is not the point. The point is, should this be a crime? Lots of people do. I did when I was at college. Had two options: 1--store it at the campus police station who made it a huge hassle to get it out, or 2--store it in in the safe of a friend I trusted and who lived off campus. Knew several other people who did the same thing because option one wasn't really an option. Want to check the gun out to go to the range? Sorry, the officer who handles that isn't on duty today. Or if he is, you can come down, fill out papers, and head to the range an hour or two later. Then, if the officer isn't there to take the gun back in you can either find someone to store your gun with or lock it in your car, park it off campus somewhere, and hope it doesn't get burgled or towed. Want to go hunting? (Main reason the police offered the storage option) Too bad--nobody will be there for you to check it out early in the morning before you head to the hunting grounds, so you can forget hunting or check it out the night before and then, again, have the option of car storage overnight or dropping it off with someone off campus. Others hold guns and valuables for people who are traveling and don't want to leave guns, even locked up, in an abandoned apartment or home long term. I've left guns and jewels with family when traveling for extended times and held guns and jewels when they've been abroad. I also store a couple of valuable target rifles with a family member who has a larger, more robust safe that can better accommodate them. There's multiple scenarios that I and people I know have experienced--ones that were, thankfully, available to us since we live in a state without this kind of crazy law. This is a pretty good summary of what Washington's low information voters inflicted on themselves and the rest of the state with I-594. I came across this handy dandy flow chart that will help people determine their potential for running afoul of the law. It does a pretty good job of clearing things up..... http://gunfreezone.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/590-flowchart.png Great chart, SSG, really illustrates what an efficient felon factory Washington residents have voted to inflict on themselves. Yep, that chart is even better than one of TS's comments. If you guys are right, I suppose there'll be civil war in Washington State before long. Yeah, MikeB, SS is correct, the people have spoken. Heres wat they said: As the election returns came in on November 4 one thing was evident—the Second Amendment crushed gun control candidates in Senate and gubernatorial races around the country. In so doing, the Second Amendment annihilated the left's relentless claim that 90 percent of Americans support more gun control. On the gubernatorial level, in Arizona, pro-Second Amendment candidate Doug Ducey (R) beat gun control candidate Fred DuVaul (D). And in Florida, pro-Second Amendment incumbent Rick Scott (R) beat gun control candidate Charlie Crist. These victories were enhanced by the fact that Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly endorsed DuVal and Giffords' gun control PAC gave $100,000 to Crist's campaign. The Second Amendment trumped their endorsement and their money. In Texas, NRA-endorsed gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott (R) won. In Maryland, NRA-endorsed gubernatorial candidate Larry Hogan (R) won. In Alabama, NRA-endorsed Governor Robert J. Bentley (R) won. In Wisconsin, NRA-endorsed Governor Scott Walker (R) won. In Michigan, NRA-endorsed Governor Rick Snyder (R) won. In Nevada, NRA-endorsed Governor Brian Sandoval (R) won. In Ohio, NRA-endorsed Governor John R. Kasich (R) won. In Oklahoma, NRA-endorsed Governor Mary Fallin (R) won. In Wyoming, NRA-endorsed Governor Matt Mead (R) won. In Idaho, NRA-endorsed Governor Bruce Otter (R) won. In Kansas, NRA-endorsed Governor Sam Brownback (R) won. And in Maine, NRA-endorsed Governor Paul R. LePage (R) won against gun control candidate Michael Michaud (D). (On August 8, Breitbart News reported that Michaud was supported by Gabby Giffords.) In Senate races, gun control Senator Mark Udall (D-CO) was defeated by NRA-endorsed Cory Gardner (R) and gun control Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC) was defeated by NRA-endorsed Thom Tillis (R). In Kansas, NRA-endorsed Senator Pat Roberts (R) won. In Georgia, NRA-endorsed Senatorial candidate David Perdue (R) won. In Arkansas, NRA-endorsed Tom Cotton (R) won. And in West Virginia, NRA-endorsed Shelley Moore Capito (R) won, marking the first time that state has sent a Republican Senator to Washington DC in over five decades. The spotlight was also on the race between NRA-endorsed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and pro-gun control challenger Alison Grimes (D). McConnell won handily. NRA-endorsed Senatorial candidate Joni Ernst (R-IA) also won. On November 3—the day before the elections took place—Breitbart News reminded red state and pro-Second Amendment voters to vote like their guns depended on it. They did. And as result, the Second Amendment won the day, Republicans won the Senate, and gun control took a beating. Follow AWR Hawkins on Twitter @AWRHawkins. orlin sellers Of course these loons say this election was ALL about the gun issue, what bullshit. As I predicted the loons also want to say this minority election (only 1/3rd of eligible voters voted) defines the intent of the majority of Americans. What bullshit. Indeed, the voters were little concerned about guns. Many were expressing their racist hatred of the prez. Ha--"racist hatred of the prez"--good one. ssgmarkcr November 6, 2014 at 2:25 PM "As I predicted the loons also want to say this minority election (only 1/3rd of eligible voters voted) defines the intent of the majority of Americans." So Anon, are you then suggesting that the passage of Initiative 594 isn't an accurate illustration of the peoples' will? Ah yes. The people who voted were just a bunch of Racists. I would say to just keep telling yourself whatever it takes to let you sleep at night, but I feel I should point out that the only other place I've seen that claim made was the Daily Show in an obviously tongue in cheek skewering of the rest of the media. Oh, and why did those racist misogynists elect a bunch of women and people of non-white descent? The fact that you can't acknowledge that there are ideological motivations rather than racism shows the deep root of racism that runs to your core and colors your view of the world. Isn't that one and the same, mike? You lost me, TS. You apply it to mean it is a reflection of the majority of Americans, so no. So SS, you claimed the recall in Colorado meant the whole country was moving away from gun control and that recall reflected the people of Colorado. Now what do you say? Nothing, figures. Massive non-compliance is the answer here. As with the Connecticut "assault weapon" and "high capacity" magazine ban/registration, and the offensively misnamed "SAFE" Act in New York, it's time for gun owners to make a mockery of this abomination as well. You're probably right. People will be going out of their way to store each other's guns as an act of protest. In private homes all over the state, people will be passing guns around just to stick it to the government. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of truly law-abiding gun owners will adhere to the law thereby depriving thousands of criminals of guns. I look forward to you documenting the precipitous, sustained plunge in "gun violence" in Washington starting next month. Do you want to make some predictions on their violent crime and murder rates compared to states that don't pass such a law? Kurt '45superman' Hofmann November 11, 2014 at 5:54 PM Ah--now we're talkin' (excerpt): Now, Washington state gun owners intend to take things to a new level in response to Washington's new gun control law. At least 5,500 are planning to openly violate the heavy-handed law, I-594, during a rally at the state capitol in Olympia on December 13th. The law goes into effect on December 4th, after the Secretary of State certifies the election results. Not a single so-called mainstream media source has mentioned the unprecedented event, even though RSVPs continue to increase every day. This is practically unheard of in the modern era; not only will 5,500 people deliberately violate the law through civil disobedience, but will violate felony gun laws. . . . The Facebook page for "I-594 I Will Not Comply" states, "We will rally at the capitol, openly exchange guns, unveil and plan to break apart the entire legislation and violate I-594 in every possible way … We will buy and sell guns from whom we please, we will not submit to background checks, we will not give up our rights, WE WILL NOT comply." Good for them. Warms my heart to see evil resisted. Mike B November 12, 2014 at 12:25 PM "Do you want to make some predictions on their violent crime and murder rates compared to states that don't pass such a law?" Yes, I'll make two. 1. Washington state will see a measurable improvement in gun violence as well as overall violence. 2. You'll write lengthy impossible-to-follow explanations about why it doesn't count. Mike B November 12, 2014 at 4:22 PM Kurt, requiring people to do a background check prior to selling someone a gun is evil? And you wonder why I call you a fanatic. And you wonder why I call you a fanatic. Not at all. Libelous name-calling is precisely what I've come to expect from you, and you never disappoint. Freedom begins with an act of defiance. "Freedom begins with an act of defiance." What BS, but not surprising coming from a criminal like you. I strongly suspect that the nanny-state apologists will cite this as evidence that very short term transfers will not be a crime under the impending law: Now, a Washington State Patrol spokesman says people won’t be arrested for exchanging guns. “We don’t think that we could prove that that’s a transfer,” said Bob Calkins, spokesman for the patrol. Believing that contention, of course, requires one to ignore the fundamental difference between not criminalizing a certain (victimless) behavior, and criminalizing that behavior without establishing an effective means of proving the violation and enforcing the proscription. For the latter to be incapable of causing great harm, one must assume that there will be never be any ambitious, zealously anti-gun cops (and cop chiefs) and prosecutors who try to overcome the difficulties in proving the violation. That would, of course, be a dangerously silly assumption to make. It's also a bit difficult to credit Calkins' claim that they would have trouble proving that such transfers are indeed transfers, because the text of the law plainly states that they are, and the planned event would have those transfers conducted openly--the cops could make video records of them if they wished. The real problem, of course, is that they don't want to have to try to arrest a gathering of more than 6,000 angry and armed gun owners. Probably a wise judgment. Mike B November 18, 2014 at 7:49 AM "the text of the law plainly states that they are" According to you. According to others, reasonable people like the "Washington State Patrol spokesman" it says something different. Kurt '45superman' Hofmann November 18, 2014 at 10:59 AM According to others, reasonable people like the "Washington State Patrol spokesman" it says something different. No--he does not say that such transfers are not considered "transfers" under the law--he only claims (quite dubiously) that the WA State Patrol doesn't think they could prove that illegal transfers are taking place--a much different proposition. Kurt '45superman' Hofmann November 20, 2014 at 6:34 AM In my latest JPFO piece, I have a little more to say about the need to defy this atrocity. I've got an idea for you, Kurt. When writing for the JFPO, you should stop using such luke-warm words as "atrocity." You should call it a holocaust nor an attempted-holocaust. I choose my words with some care, Mikeb. When I mean "holocaust," I say it. This time, I meant "atrocity," and so that's the word I used. Ha--taking editorial advice from the genius who says that that "voluntary" means "constrained by law which law-abiding people freely comply with." If this were Twitter, it would be the ideal place for the "#AintGonnaHappen" hashtag. Hey, Mikeb, is this the outcome you had in mind? A few of them believe the government is out to take their guns and they are buying them like crazy. [ . . . ] It is that frustration that has led to a firearm frenzy in Spokane. Several gun shops in the area have experienced a spike in gun sales. In fact, sales at one shop have surged 25 percent in the last few weeks. The more gun laws passed, the more guns bought. Maybe I should write a book: "More Laws, More Guns" ;-). This is certainly nothing new. It happens every time, and almost all of them are gun owners buying more guns. Big deal. ssgmarkcr November 12, 2014 at 7:20 PM Minus of course the recent rise in gun ownership in the last year. Well, good for you! You've certainly not always been so sanguine: Something's wrong here. Every time there's a new gun law going into effect, especially if it's to make possession of certain guns illegal, gun sales soar beforehand. This obviously diminishes whatever good the new law will do. In some cases the benefits of the new law will never catch up with the increased sales that took place leading up to the implementation of the law. Glad to see you gaining some desperately needed emotional stability. "Minus of course the recent rise in gun ownership in the last year." I don't think the rise in gun ownership has translated into more gun owners. It's people owning more guns, isn't it? That's what the decrease in households with guns indicates anyway. "That's what the decrease in households with guns indicates anyway." Mike, you posted this showing an increase in households with guns just a few days ago. http://mikeb302000.blogspot.com/2014/11/fascinating-gallup-polls.html The third chart from Gallup showed a decrease, unless you want to consider only the last year. But you yourself said that's not kosher. The tragic fallout from this heinous law begins already: The Lynden Pioneer Museum will remove World War II-era guns from a current exhibit and return them to their owners, to avoid violating the new background-check law, according to the museum’s director. The new law, passed by voters this month as Initiative 594, requires background checks on the recipients of guns in all sales or transfers, with exceptions for family members and antiques. The 11 rifles the museum borrowed from collectors for the exhibit are too new to qualify as antique under the law, and I-594 is silent on any exemption for museum displays. “I read through the law about 10 different times looking for a loophole,” said Troy Luginbill, the museum’s director. In other words, the law requires the suppression of history. That museum is obviously run by some whiny gun-rights sympathizer. I doubt very seriously if anyone was going to make a big deal about guns on display in a museum, that is except those who want to make a big deal out of it for their own ends. That museum is obviously run by some whiny gun-rights sympathizer. Gun rights advocates are generally happy to leave the whining to the anti-rights camp--you guys are so damned good at it. I doubt very seriously if anyone was going to make a big deal about guns on display in a museum . . . So what are you saying--that he should just break a gun law, on your novel theory that it won't be enforced? Advocating the violation of gun laws is kinda new territory for you, isn't it, Mikeb? By the way, Mr. Luginbill would not be placing only himself (and the museum) in legal jeopardy by violating this monstrosity. There are also the gun owners to consider. I realize that they couldn't be charged under the "law," since obviously they 'transferred" the guns before Washington's low information voters inflicted it on themselves, but if your little theory about the law not being enforced turns out to be wrong, the guns would be seized as evidence. Would they eventually be returned to the owners, after the long, slow crawl of the "justice" system? Perhaps. What kind of care do you suppose the guns would receive in the evidence lock-up, Mikeb? How well protected against rust, etc.? Fascinating Gallup Polls Illinois Woman Sentenced to 10-Months Time Served ... Of course, you hate them... Virginia Man Charged in Accidental Shooting Greta Van Susteren Interviews Sgt. Andrew Tahmoore... Colorado Senate Gun Recall Seats Slide Back to Dem... Michigan Man Charged in Daughter's Death Michelle Montgomery - The Utah Bathroom Shooter - ... And the NRA are making sure the thugs are well arm... Gun rights page taken down Michigan Man Injured by Dropped Rifle - No Charges... Cenk Explains What a Disaster the Election Was Gun Control Claims a Few Victories Chris W. Cox Says "I Can't Thank You Enough" Does this mean that if we don't like who won the e... Gil Fulbright clones win in US elections Obama's Unpopularity Ron Paul on Gun Rights California 20-Year-old Shoots Friend Gets Charged ... Washington State Gun Control: Voters Approve Ballo... Jon Stewart Before the Elections Gorillaz - Kids With Guns Today's the Day for Initiative 594 The Michigan Episcopal Church Calls for More Gun C... Kids with Guns in Ohio Mine were here to greet them... Missouri Woman Charged with Criminal Homicide Connecticut Bumbling Concealed Carry Permit Holder... 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__label__wiki	0.824643	0.824643	Special Feature Spotlight Caltex Fuels World Record, Unveils New Campaign Caltex with Techron partners with National Geographic’s Record Rides and Guinness World Records, powers World’s fastest 1,000m Ascent. Manila, Philippines, July 10, 2019 – Caltex, marketed by Chevron Philippines Inc. (CPI), announced today their latest campaign, World Record-Breaking Fuel, collaborating with a two-part series on National Geographic’s Record Rides to demonstrate how a world-class fuel could power record-breaking feats. The automotive reality entertainment series pits adrenaline junkie and radio DJ, KC Montero, against Jamaican-Chinese professional rally race car driver, Natasha Chang, to break new grounds: the fastest ascent of Doi Chang Mountain road using an everyday car boosted with Caltex with Techron® fuel. “As a leading visual storyteller, National Geographic’s programming pillars of exploration, education, and science resonate well with the Caltex brand. Hence, we are proud to partner with the channel to create Record Rides for our viewers and motorists in Asia.” “This show will demonstrate how Caltex with Techron® fuels can power an engine towards achieving an extraordinary journey,” says Brian Fisher, Caltex Brand Manager. Guinness World Records’ long-standing 63-year history and credibility made them the obvious partner to demonstrate how a world-class fuel could power record-breaking feats. “Caltex partnered with Guinness World Records and set the timing of 6 minutes 52.692 seconds, with Natasha achieving the coveted title of the fastest ascent of Doi Chang Mountain Road by using a 28-year old car,” added Fisher. “With the world record powered by Caltex with Techron®, our campaign encourages drivers to fuel up the same fuel that set a world record and experience its power in their everyday drive.” To perform at maximized power, an engine requires unrestricted air and fuel delivery which cannot happen when deposits are on the intake valves and port fuel injectors. Techron’s unique chemistry is proven to remove and protect an engine from deposits in these critical areas. Caltex with Techron® also contains Clean & Glide technology, which further helps to reduce friction, helping maximize power. “Caltex with Techron® is specially formulated to clean and protect engines. The GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS® title achievement helps demonstrate how a clean engine powered by Techron® can function as its most optimum, which includes delivering maximum power to your wheels. This is the same fuel that our customers can experience at their neighbourhood Caltex stations to power their everyday drive,” said Greg Engeler, Product Engineering Manager for Caltex. The campaign rolls out in Cambodia, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, and Hong Kong from July to October 2019. Caltex Philippines introduces new brand ambassador Caltex also introduced their latest brand ambassador, Jose Sixto Gonzalez Dantes III, more commonly known as Dingdong Dantes. Among his many feats is being an award-winning Filipino actor, film producer, television presenter, and an effective endorser. He also co-owns a car dealership in Paranaque; manages his own film studio, AgostoDos Pictures, and serves as the founding chairman of YesPinoy Foundation. Aside from these, Dingdong is also a husband and is a father to two kids. “Dingdong Dantes’ roster of achievements is a testament to his determination to keep on taking new challenges whether in acting, in business, or his personal life, each time beating his personal best,” said Louie Zhang, CPI Country Chairman. “Aside from this, he is also the perfect embodiment of Caltex’s tagline and philosophy of “Enjoy the Journey.” He represents the brand’s personality of being positive, friendly, genuine, and he encourages people to enjoy the journey of whatever they are doing and wherever they are going.” Caltex continuously improves its products in preparation of future engine technology and to meet the ever-changing needs of motorists. In 2016, Caltex with Techron® was reformulated with the Clean and Glide Technology to deliver enhanced engine protection, improved fuel economy, and maximized power over time. Last year, it solidified its claim as the fuel with an unbeatable cleaning power with its most recent borescope test, the results of which reveal Caltex with Techron® beats other fuels in engine cleanliness. And now, with the success of setting a world record, Caltex bags another achievement as a fuel that breaks world records. Caltex stays committed to innovation in its desire to provide the best possible fuel for motorists to make the journey even more enjoyable. Previous articlePLDT Home Powers The All-Star Gala Of The Hit Pinoy Musical Rak Of Aegis Next articleHino Joins First Nationwide Modern PUV Caravan, Showcases New Jeepneys Featuresdesk (ICG)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line275
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__label__cc	0.647203	0.352797	Home Stay Informed MRSC Insight Blog February 2014 Utility Latecomer Agreement Statutes Change on July 1, 2014 Utility Latecomer Agreement Statutes Change on July 1, 2014 February 10, 2014 by John W. Carpita, PE Category: Finance In 2013, the Legislature passed ESHB 1717, which, among other things, modified chapter 35.91 RCW in several key areas for sewer and water facility latecomer agreements entered into by cities, towns, counties, and drainage districts. These changes to chapter 35.91 RCW do not become effective until July 1, 2014. No changes were made, however, to chapter 35.72 RCW, the corresponding statutes for street and road latecomer agreements. Key changes in chapter 35.91 RCW, discussed below, include: new definitions of key terms; municipalities must contract with an owner of real estate rather than having an option (may contract); re-stated conditions for connection to a municipal system; minimum length of an agreement is 20 years, which was the maximum length in previous statutes; a developer must request a latecomer agreement before approval of the project by the municipality; and the project must be in compliance with the municipality’s comprehensive plan and development regulations, and construction of the facilities must be a prerequisite to development of the property. Unchanged is a municipality’s ability to participate in a utility latecomer’s agreement and be reimbursed in the same manner as a private property owner. (The street latecomer agreement statutes also allow a city, town, or county to create an assessment reimbursement area on its own initiative, without the participation of a private property owner, finance the costs of the road or street improvements, and become the sole beneficiary of the reimbursements that are contributed.) MRSC has prepared a new web page on latecomer agreements for projects that begin after July 1, 2014. Go to our current web page for projects that begin before July 1, 2014. New Definitions RCW 35.91.015 is new: (1) "Latecomer fee" means a charge collected by a municipality, whether separately stated or as part of a connection fee for providing access to a municipal system, against a real property owner who connects to or uses a water or sewer facility subject to a contract created under RCW 35.91.020. (2) "Municipality" means the governing body of any county, city, town, or drainage district. [Note that this definition excludes water-sewer districts, who have their own procedures in chapter 57.22 RCW.] (3) "Water or sewer facilities" means storm, sanitary, or combination sewers, pumping stations, and disposal plants, water mains, hydrants, reservoirs, or appurtenances. Mandatory vs. Optional RCW 35.91.020 states that “at the owner's request, a municipality must contract with the owner of real estate for the construction or improvement of water or sewer facilities that the owner elects to install solely at the owner's expense.” As road and utility improvements are most often a package deal, it is unlikely that a municipality would not also contract under chapter 35.72 RCW, the corresponding statute for street and road latecomer agreements, which still reads “may contract.” So, in that circumstance, a municipality really doesn’t have the option to not accept a request to contract for a street/road latecomer agreement as well. Conditions for Connection RCW 35.91.020 also provides that connection of the water or sewer facility to the municipal system under a latecomers agreement must be conditioned upon: Construction of the water or sewer facility according to plans and specifications approved by the municipality; Inspection and approval of the water or sewer facility by the municipality; Transfer to the municipality of the water or sewer facility, without cost to the municipality, upon acceptance by the municipality of the water or sewer facility; Full compliance with the owner's obligations under the contract and with the municipality's rules and regulations; Provision of sufficient security to the municipality to ensure completion of the water or sewer facility and other performance under the contract; Payment by the owner to the municipality of all of the municipality's costs associated with the water or sewer facility including, but not limited to, engineering, legal, and administrative costs; and Verification and approval of all contracts and costs related to the water or sewer facility. Minimum Agreement Length As noted above, the minimum length of a utility latecomer agreement is now 20 years, while the maximum length of a street latecomer agreement in chapter 35.72 RCW is still only 15 years. As such, any combined street/utility latecomer agreement must be structured to recognize those different timeframes. Both the utility and street latecomer agreement statutes provide for a possible extension of the 20- and 15-year reimbursement periods for a time not to exceed the duration of any moratorium, phasing ordinance, concurrency designation, or other governmental action that prevents making applications for, or the approval of, any new development within the benefit area for a period of six months or more. Project Approval and Compliance with Comp Plan/Development Regulations ESHB 1717 provides more clarity as to when a developer can request a latecomer agreement. RCW 335.91.020 requires a developer to submit a request before the water and sewer facilities proposed for construction are approved. While there is no corresponding specificity in the street latecomer’s statutes, the municipality should include similar language in its code provision or ordinances addressing street latecomer agreements. A project for which a utility latecomer agreement is sought must be in compliance with the municipality’s comprehensive plan and development regulations, and the municipality’s ordinances must require construction of the facilities as a prerequisite to development of the property. Unless the municipality provides written notice to the owner of its intent to request a comprehensive plan approval, the owner must request a comprehensive plan amendment for a water or sewer facility, if required. Again, there is no corresponding specificity in the street latecomer’s statutes, so the municipality should include such language in its code provisions or ordinances addressing street latecomer agreements. These changes to the utility latecomer agreement statutes will necessitate amendment of city/county codes and ordinances addressing such agreements. Please provide us with revised ordinances and code sections as you prepare them in anticipation of the July 1st effective date of these changes. Send them to John Carpita (jcarpita@mrsc.org). About John W. Carpita, PE Public Works Consultant John is MRSC’s resource for engineering design, purchasing and bidding issues, contract document preparation, construction contract issues, local improvement districts, sewer, water, storm drainage and solid waste issues, as well as resource conservation. He’s a registered professional engineer and has had a widely varied 42-year career as a consultant, county engineer, city engineer and project manager. VIEW ALL POSTS BY John W. Carpita, PE "John, Thanks for the reminder!" Steve Gross on Feb 11, 2014 10:15 AM Infrastructure Financing - Future Strategies to Meet Capital Needs When Is a Public/Private Partnership the Right Choice? Arlington gets $1.1 million for improvements to its airport What are the LID assessment alternatives? Local and Road Improvement Districts Manual for Washington State Local Improvement Districts	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line283
__label__cc	0.624056	0.375944	Just Because...It's Monday Melissa Joan Hart & Anna Chlumsky Just Because it's Monday, just because girls just wanna have fun & just because they look so darn cute together I present this image of Melissa Joan Hart & Anna Chlumsky whooping it up at a fundraiser in the Hamptons. From the looks of it, these two look like they know how to put the "fun" in fundraiser. I'd love to be a fly in the air zipping around them to find out what they are chatting about. Perhaps their conversation isn't as entertaining as it looks, but if it is, well let me join in, please! Moving on, if all of you enjoy your Monday even half as much as these wild and crazy gals are enjoying their moment together then you are going to have one terrific day! Melissa on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/melissajoanhart/?hl=en Anna on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/annachlumskyoficial/?hl=en Labels: Anna Chlumsky, Chatting, Conversation, Crazy, Fly, Fundraiser, Gals, Just Because, Melissa Joan Hart, The Hamptons, Wild, Wild & Crazy, Zipping Sunday Schwing! Game Of Thrones With the 7th and final season of Game of Thrones in full Schwing! I thought it might be fun to post a round up of some of the male nudity that has featured on the show, front and back Of course I went to my go to site for this Favorite Hunks & Other Things. Where Tye Briggs not only uncovers the men of the "Game" he also has added his own personal commentary about his thoughts on the nakedness and the show itself, being that he is a fan. Me? I do not have HBO, one of my nieces tells me she is 100% sure I would like it. I did however catch the very first episode ever on a free view and know she is correct, I am 100% sure I would like it as well. In the meantime I will simply have to be content with the eye candy at the link below. Schwing it! It's Sunday after all! The naked men of Game Of Thrones here NSFW: http://favoritehunks.blogspot.com/2016/05/uncredited-peen.html Labels: Favorite Hunks & Other Things, Final Season, Full Frontal Nudity Male, Game Of Thrones, HBO, Male Nudity, Naked Men, NSFW, Schwing, Season Seven, Sunday, Sunday Schwing, Tye Briggs Let's Talk About Sex - Zac Efron That's My Boy I bet today's byline was a real attention getter and wetter. Who wouldn't want to talk about sex with my boy Zac Efron??? However this is a something of a tease, or perhaps not depending on your POV. Zac is talking about sex on camera, you know the movies. I'd love to know what he has to say, wouldn't you? File this under: Surreal "I was nervous because I've been in love with her since I can remember," Zac Efron said of filming his sex scene with Heather Graham for his 2012 film, At Any Price. "It was very surreal." (source People Magazine) Awwwwwwwww...too cute, hey what else would you expect from Zac? Zac on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zacefron/?hl=en Labels: 2012, At Any Price, Boy, Heather Graham, Instagram, Let's Talk About Sex, Nervous, People Magazine, POV, Sex, Sex On Camera, Sex Scene, Surreal, Tease, Zac Efron Cooking With Gaga Ever wonder if Lady Gaga does her own cooking? Well wonder no more...Smeeeeeeeelllll what Gaga is cooking, breakfast to be precise. Oh, look at her chefs outfit, black sweatpants only, I wonder if cooking topless gives her meals an extra added flavor? Perhaps freeing the nipple inspires her to greater culinary heights? Or maybe she dons this uniform only when she has someone special to prepare a meal for. Whatever the case, I think this is the perfect mic drop of an image to infiltrate your mind for great T.G.I.F. start to the weekend. No need to thank me you can just spank me. Gaga on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ladygaga/?hl=en Labels: Breakfast, Chef, Cooking, Free The Nipple, Lady Gaga, Mic Drop, Nipple, Spank, Sweatpants, T.G.I.F., Tattoos, Topless, Uniform, Weekend I'm Taking A Ride With... It's Thursday and it's my time again. This week has been an interesting one. It made me contemplate about the things that drive me. Well they are different from day to day, much like all of you I am sure. One day my focus is pushing myself further, other times it's lust, love, money or physical improvement. There is always of course peace with ones self which is the ultimate goal. Oh, and sometimes I feel like Janet Leigh and go a little bit Psycho, and am the road to nowhere - hence the T-Shirt in the image this week. I know my skin images are much more popular on here, flesh will be returning next week. This week I decided to have some fun with an Instagram app this one. Summary: Everything that drives me and all of you is random day to day, like this column. It's time let's play! My refrigerator swings both ways Cornrows are an important part of our diet I know tongue talk Truce? Now let's have some calamari Justin Bieber cancelled his tour because he found God. Those wacky pot heads. "Can't Get Enough" the latest video from Quiet Riot now fronted by American Idol alumni James Durbin, thoughts? Kathy Griffin's house is up for sale. Karma. Bigotry, just say no When you wish upon a...fill in the blank Brie is life! Don't judge me. Traci Lords is on a roll! Always remember a glass of Cabernet is always the key to victory Drive with me at: Labels: Bigotry, Brie, Cabernet, Calamari, Entertain Me, James Durbin, Justin Bieber, Karma, Kathy Griffin, Michael Shinafelt, Michael's Musings, Pot Heads, Psycho, Quiet Riot, Refrigerator, Traci Lords, Wine That's So Random, Traci Lords It's been a busy time for my friend Traci Lords, why just yesterday a fashion campaign she is in for Helmut Lang dropped (refer to the photo above.) Not to mention she has her own successful line of clothing with the title Pin-Up Girl. As if that isn't enough she has been busy at work on the TV show Swedish Dicks which premieres on PopTV August 9th. Well, Traci stopped by to respond to 10 random things I threw at her, hey that's what friends are for. Ready? Of course you are... OK Traci, here we go! MS: Swedish Dicks TL: Fun with Dick & Jane! Popping up August 9th on PopTV. Find your channel at PopTv.com MS: Helmut Lang TL: Rebel MS: Martini, Gin or Vodka? TL: Dirty. Gin. MS: Pin-Up Girl TL: Forever MS: Swedish Meatballs TL: Salty Devils MS: Wanda Woodward TL: OG #restingbitchface MS: French Kissing TL: Never on Mondays MS: Fashion TL: Whore MS: Garbage TL: sisterfromanothermister MS: Beat It Creep TL: John Waters Mustache Thanks Traci! Follow Traci on the WWW at: https://www.instagram.com/tracilords/?hl=en https://twitter.com/thetracilords www.tracilords.com/ Labels: August 9th, Fashion, French Kissing, Garbage, Gin, Helmut Lang, John Waters, Martini, Pin-Up Girl, Pop TV, Rebel, Swedish Dicks, Swedish Meatballs, Traci Lords, Vodka, Wanda Woodward, Whore "Over The Moon" Mike Clifford Mike Clifford When Mike Clifford set out to do a dance & ballad cover of the Louis Armstrong chestnut "What A Wonderful World" he had no idea the project would be as successful as it is. The video for the dance version recently passed 1,000 plays and still going strong. As Mike puts it he is "Over The Moon" about it. Not bad for a guy who was Teen Idol for a minute in the 60's with the hit Close To Cathy, eh? So join Mike in celebrating his success and give the video a whirl below. What a wonderful world, indeed! Follow Mike at: https://www.facebook.com/MikeCliffordsWonderfulWorld/ https://www.reverbnation.com/mikeclifford6 Mike on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/what-wonderful-world-ballad.../id1228921743 https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/what-a-wonderful-world-dance.../id1228918273 Labels: 1960's, Ballad, Celebrating, Close to Cathy, Dance, iTunes, Louis Armstrong, Mike Clifford, Over The Moon, Project, Successful, Teen Idol, Video, What A Wonderful World Just Because...J-Lo & A-Rod J-Lo & A-Rod Sitting In A Tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G... Just Because it's Monday, just because it's hot everywhere and I feel like making it hotter & just because they're both so pretty I present to you this image of sizzling couple Jennifer Lopez & Alex Rodriguez. This is one of those pairings that publicists dream about. Both are rich, photogenic and hot, hot, hot! Not to mention buzz worthy. You never know a PR lackey may have actually got them together in the first darn place. Look they even dress to the nines for a simple evening of dining out while in Miami, Florida. One of my least favorite cities in the United States for the record. OK back to the subjects at hand. When was the last time a celebrity couple seemed so equal to one another in every little way I ask you? Answer me, I'm waiting.... Jennifer on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jlo/?hl=en Labels: Alex Rodriguez, Buzz, Buzz Worthy, Celebrity, Celebrity Couple, Couple, Florida, Instagram, Jennifer Lopez, Just Because, Miami, Publicists, United States Cool Daddy Alert! Liev Schreiber & Kai This image of Liev Schreiber and his 8 year old son Kai, dressed as Harley Quinn at Comi-Con in San Diego yesterday is presently an Internet sensation. Of course it's because Daddy Schreiber let his male offspring dress as a female comic book character. This of course automatically gives one new insight into who Liev is, one Cool Daddy! Now of course there is a lot of people making statements about the photo saying how great it is that Liev is accepting of his gay son etc...the thing is at this point it is pretty much an assumption as I don't believe Kai has come out and there has been no statement issued to that effect. While, it is a pretty safe conclusion to draw, it could also mean he simply likes strong female figures, or maybe he will end up being a cross dressing heterosexual. Sexuality is such a fluid thing especially in this day and age when people are allowed the freedom to be more open about it, so perhaps it is a little early to label an 8 year old boy especially one that the only thing the public really knows about him is that he has a Cool Daddy who let him dress as Harley Quinn. Think about it, but not too much, OK? Liev on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lievschreiber/?hl=en Labels: Comi-Con 2017, Comic Book, Comic Book Character, Cool, Cool Daddy, Cross Dressing, Daddy, Harley Quinn, Instagram, Liev Schreiber, San Diego, Sexuality Shirtless Saturday - Ansel Elgort With Baby Driver currently hot, hot, hot it seemed only fitting to show off it's even hotter star Ansel Elgort baring his upper body and pretty much the rest of it as well. Yep, Ansel is darn near naked in this photo of him in a barely there swimsuit, lucky us that he's such a giver. Although I have yet to see it, I hear Baby Driver is quite good and eventually I will give it a watch, but until them I will be content looking at this image of Ansel and wondering what's underneath those trunks. Join me won't you? Happy Saturday & other things! Ansel on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ansel/?hl=en Labels: Ansel Elgort, Baby Driver, Happy Saturday, Instagram, Naked, Photo, Saturday, Shirtless, Shirtless Saturday, Show Off, Swimsuit, Trunks, Upper Body The Horror: Lycan Clap for the Wolfman??? Lycan marks the feature debut of Bev Land. The horror / thriller based on the popular urban legend of the "Talbot County Werewolf". Parade Deck Films will handle the movie's theatrical release, followed by disc, digital and VOD platforms from MVD Entertainment. Synopsis: When six college kids in a sleepy Southern town are assigned a group history project, one of them sets in motion a horrific fate when he proposes they head into the Georgia backwoods to uncover the truth about the hundred year old urban legend of Emily Burt, the "Talbot County Werewolf". Lycan stars Dania Ramirez ("Devious Maids" X-Men: The Last Stand, American Reunion, Premium Rush), who will be starring this Fall on ABC's hit show "Once Upon a Time" as princess "Cinderella." The film boasts a strong ensemble cast that includes three-time Emmy Award nominee Gail O'Grady ("NYPD Blue", "Revenge", Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo), Parker Croft ("Little Big Lies", "Lewis and Clark"), Vanessa Angel (Kingpin, Hall Pass, "Weird Science"), Rebekah Graf (Entourage), Kalia Prescot (The Hunger Games), Jake Lockett (Transpecos), Alina Puscau (X/Y, Conan The Barbarian) and Craig Tate (12 Years a Slave, USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage). Making his directorial debut with Lycan, Bev Land talks about his experience in bringing his vision to life with his co-producer and star (and wife), Dania Ramirez. "I knew that the journey of making this film independently would be a challenge filled with a tremendous amount of blood, sweat and tears (pun intended) and I know we have something special that genre fans are going to appreciate. Fortunately for me I was lucky enough to be able to take this journey with Dania, who I not only respect and adore as an artist, but someone I also love as a human being." Lycan producer and star Dania Ramirez agrees... "I am a firm believer that with hard work and dedication anything is possible. I have been in front of the camera for quite some time and I feel blessed to have been able to help lead the team that made this movie possible. When I met my talented husband, I said to him "I want to produce films"and Bev looked at me and said "Then let's do it together... I will write you a leading character with the dimension and depth that you are capable of playing but haven't had the opportunity and YOU will produce it for me!" The journey of independent film making doesn't allow much room for star like treatment and producing one proved to be more challenging than I could've ever imagined. Being the producer and star meant making every phone call and scheduling every shooting day also had to correspond with taking the necessary time to put on the clothes of my character and live in her before hearing the word "Action". I also want to add that Latin female leading roles are rare in this industry and this one I think is one of a kind. The sense of accomplishment I feel today having not only brought our baby "Lycan" into this world but now having Eric D. Wilkinson at MVD Entertainment and Michael Ingram at Parade Deck Films distribute the film is overwhelming." Having followed the film's production and progress on the internet and social media, MVD Entertainment's Director of Acquisitions Eric D. Wilkinson reached out to Peter Van Steemburg at ICM Partners for an introduction to the filmmakers... "I'm a huge fan of the horror genre and MVD Entertainment has been a long time supporter and champion of independent films. Peter gave me the opportunity to screen Lycan and I just loved it. I won't give away any spoilers but I will say that Lycan messes with your expectations throughout with an ending that you will not see coming!" In regards to getting Lycan into theaters, Wilkinson explains, "MVD has built a great partnership with Parade Deck Films. I was happy to share this movie with them because CEO Michael Ingram has done a great job in exposing some of these smaller movies theatrically, giving independent filmmakers a chance for their work to be seen by audience on the big screen, as they intended, and at the same time, help build awareness for the film after it's theatrical run for the VOD, digital and physical windows for the months following." Lycan will open theatrically in select cities on August 4th, followed by disc, digital and VOD platforms from MVD Entertainment on September 26th. Pre-order the DVD now at MVDshop.comor at Amazon. Labels: Bev Land, Dania Ramirez, Devious Maids, Gail O'Grady, Horror, Horror Movie, Lycan, Talbot County Werewolf, Urban Legend, Vanessa Angel, Werewolf, X-Men: Last Stand Give It A Name "Come on everybody, I say now let's play a game, I betcha I can make a rhyme out of any body's name. The first letter of the name' I treat it like it wasn't there" - The Name Game, Shirley Ellis For some random, yet most likely not one this song came into my mind this particular week. I am not about or above calling names when they are deserved. However I am responding to the timelessness of this song and it's many interpretations. Especially the iconic performance of Jessica Lange's rendition of it on American Horror Story: Asylum. This week we play the name game. Male sure you always wear underwear. You don't want your "V" on TMZ. Don't make me unleash the powers of the underworld New Acronym DAB = Dense Ass Beotch I'd like to indict on more than three pubic hairs and a confession Sometimes you need to do push-ups with someone on your back Porn for the paranoid Seriously?! Who Dressed You?! Dear Mariah, WTF?! Get a new stylist and some glasses that are preferably not rose colored Traci Lords coming soon in "Swedish Dicks" I have something most guys don't I played an online avatar game where you push Donald Trump off a cliff into a volcano, laughed every time I did it, I couldn't keep track of how many times that was Sometimes: "You kicked my ass" is always the correct response My name is Hyena I am 26 Go Balls Out with me at: https://twitter.com/mshinafelt?lang=en Labels: American Horror Story: Asylum, DAB, Donald Trump, Entertain Me, Jessica Lange, Mariah Carey, Michael Shinafelt, Michael's Musings, Porn, Pubic Hairs, Swedish Dicks, TMZ, Traci Lords, Underworld Don't Forget The Lyrics Bobby Quillard So you won't forget the lyrics to his latest "Gimme Heartbreak"... David Cook premiered his brand new single, ”Gimme Heartbreak” last month on Yahoo! Music David Cook Premieres New Song ‘Gimme Heartbreak,’ Gives Fans What They Want and debuts the lyric video on VEVO -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koKubQMiQe4 David tells Variety magazine http://variety.com/2017/music/news/american-idol-david-cook-gimme-heartbreak-inspiration-halsey-1202497475/ that he made “a conscious effort going into the production to incorporate more cinematic pop elements.” Taking inspiration from recent releases — “I was listening to Halsey’s ‘Badlands’ record,” he reveals — Cook also leaned on “old standbys like Nine Inch Nails and Massive Attack” to find “vibes” for a new direction with “Gimme Heartbreak.” “Gimme Heartbreak” is the lead track from David’s forthcoming untitled EP, which is slated to be released later this fall. David is again involving his fans in the EP making process via a PledgeMusic Campaign www.pledgemusic.com/davidcook. “Gimme Heartbreak” is available on all digital providers and is the first new music from the multi-talented and multifaceted singer-songwriter since 2015’s Digital Vein album release, which debuted in the top 5 on Billboard’s Pop Chart. “Gimme Heartbreak” features David’s impressive strong vocals backed by synth beats "Gimme Heartbreak” feels like a new chapter to me. New direction, new energy. A new sound that I'm excited to share and build on,” says David. www.davidcookofficial.com www.twitter.com/thedavidcook www.facebook.com/davidcook https://www.instagram.com/davidcookofficial/?hl=en Labels: Badlands, Billboard Pop Chart, Cinematic, David Cook, Don't Forget The Lyrics, EP, Gimme Heartbreak, Halsey, Massive Attack, Nine Inch Nails, Variety Magazine, Vibes "Atomic Blonde" Ambition Look on the on the red carpet in Berlin, Germany - It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Charlize Theron at the world premiere of her movie Atomic Blonde! Hooray! Yes, according to the hype Charlize will be portraying the first female 007, you know as in Blonde, James Blonde, although she seems to have a slightly more violent streak given the trailer I have seen and the films R rating. No matter, Charlize is one of the few women in film that audiences buy kicking ass. If I were going to see a movie of this ilk, AB would be it (and who knows I just might.) Charlize looks amazing as per usual, in her Dior outfit, no I am not a fashion queen it says Dior on her bra top, duh. Moving on July 28th is the day the Atomic Blonde drops, that's so lit! Charlize on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/charlizeafrica/?hl=en Labels: 007, Atomic Blonde, Berlin, Charlize Theron, Christian Dior, Dior, Fashion, Germany, Hype, Instagram, James Blonde, Kicking Ass, R -Rating, Red Carpet, Violent, World Premiere Fresh Off The Bloat: Margaret Cho Cho Bloat It's time again for some Cho Bloating, Yaaaas Qween! Five time Grammy & Emmy nominated comedian Margaret Cho has much to celebrate as she was recently named one of Rolling Stone magazine’s 50 Best Stand-Up Comics of All Time http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/lists/50-best-stand-up-comics-of-all-time-w464199?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=021417_16&utm_content=daily and is set to launch what is sure to be her sickest stand-up comedy show to date this fall. A pioneer amongst women in comedy, Margaret doesn’t take anything for granted as she continues to tackle difficult subjects with sensitivity and her razor sharp insight with her takes on addiction, abuse, activism and Asianness. It's all about the politics of disgust and what is disgusting about politics. Aptly titled, “Fresh Off The Bloat,” Margaret says: “Fresh Off The Bloat” is my sickest show to date. My grandmother said "You look like bloated as if you've been found dead in a lake after several days of searching." Koreans are the most savage of all the Asians. My new show is all about being fresh off drugs and drinking and suicide and coming back to life - finally fished out of the river Styx. It's meta. It's magical. It's me.” The initial “Fresh Off The Bloat” tour dates go on sale Friday, July 21 here:http://margaretcho.com/tour/ - Please note that the December 6 show in Belgium will go on sale July 20. Additional dates to be announced in the coming weeks. Margaret’s new TV project Highland has been picked up for pilot by TNT Network. Highland will chronicle what happens when two extended, dysfunctional Korean-American families who share the same patriarch must come together after tragedy strikes. As it turns out, the most reliable person in both families is the one who just got out of rehab. "Executive producer Liz Sarnoff (Lost,Barry) and Margaret Cho's brilliant script exposes Margaret's warm heart and bracing humor, balancing powerful emotional truths with laugh-out-loud scenes and characters," said Sarah Aubrey, executive vice president of original programming for TNT. "Highland continues TNT's commitment to bringing diverse voices and worlds to television. We look forward to making a pilot with such a singular talent as Margaret Cho.” “FRESH OFF THE BLOAT” TOUR DATES Chicago Theatre Orpheum Theater - Stage Door Sands Bethlehem Events Center The Wiltern Theater Gramercy Theatre Queens Hall St. George’s Hall The Lowry Brighton Concert Hall Brighton, UK De Meervaart 12/6/2017 – on sale July 20, 2017 Zuiderpershuis Shepherd’s Bush Empire Margaret Cho Official Website http://www.margaretcho.com/ Margaret Cho Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/officialmargaretcho Margaret Cho Twitter: https://twitter.com/margaretcho/ Margaret Cho YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/margaretcho Labels: 50 Best Stand Up Comics Of All Time, Emmy Nominated, Fresh Off The Bloat, Grammy Nominated, Highland, July 21st, Margaret Cho, Qween, River Styx, Rolling Stone Magazine, Sickest, TNT Duck Better Have My Money Val Chmerkovskiy Look it's Val Chmerkovskiy and he's striking it rich in the Duck Tales money bin at the D23 Expo in Anaheim, California, on Friday. Yep, the Dancing With The Stars pro has turned amateur and is trying to grab his loot from the vaults of Scrooge McDuck. That duck better have his money because I'm sure Scrooge, given his name, will do everything in his power to hold onto all the money he's got, whether it is his...or not! Be careful Scrooge I have a suspicion Val can go all gangsta on you Rihanna style if need be, and we've all seen how THAT turned out. As a special bonus he will dance on your grave too! It's just another Manic Monday after all. Val on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamvalc/?hl=en Labels: Anaheim CA, D23 Expo, Dancing With The Stars, Duck Tales, Gangsta, Instagram, Loot, Manic Monday, Rihanna, Scrooge McDuck, Val Chmerkovskiy, Vaults Sunday Schwing! Ewan McGregor Drop Em! While thinking about male full frontal nudity in cinema one day while writing (don't ask) I flashed on one of my favorite and and most giving actors in this category - Ewan McGregor. Remember in his heyday Ewan was exposing his family jewels in, well pretty much every film he appeared in from the brilliant Trainspotting to the artsy The Pillow Book. Oh and why not, Ewan is packing large. Hey if you've got it show it off! Ewan most recently appeared in the show Fargo on FX playing his hotness down. I didn't see it, but there are stills out there showing him looking quite schlumpy, as if. Thus I needed my McGregor skin fix. So of course I hit Tye Briggs Favorite Hunks & Other Things and was not disappointed. Tye has assembled five, count em' five of Ewan's greatest roles where he went full frontal. Yes!!! My personal favorite Ewan naked moments are the ones in The Pillow Book, which one is yours? Click on the link below a and see for yourself what the big deal is, if you get what I am insinuating, and I think you do. Check out Ewan's McGregor at the NSFW link below: https://favoritehunks.blogspot.com/2008/03/more-ewan-mcgregor.html Labels: Cinema, Ewan McGregor, Fargo, Favorite Hunks & Other Things, Full Frontal, Full Frontal Nudity, Full Frontal Nudity Male, FX, FX Network, Naked, Nudity, The Pillow Book, Trainspotting, Tye Briggs And The Emmy Goes To - Dolly! It's Dolly's World, We Just Live In It 'Dolly Parton's Christmas of Many Colors: Circle Of Love' receives Emmy nomination in the "Television Movie" category! In the two-hour movie, the Partons, a family of humble means living in the mountains of Tennessee, face a devastating event that challenges their will. But when they experience a bewildering Christmas miracle, the Partons are drawn closer together than ever — with deepened faith and love for one another. Alyvia Alyn Lind, Jennifer Nettles, Ricky Schroder, and Gerald McCraney co-starred in the holiday movie 'Dolly Parton’s Christmas of Many Colors: Circle of Love,' which aired on NBC, with Dolly Parton making a special guest appearance. "I am so very proud and excited to have "Christmas of Many Colors" be nominated for an Emmy award," says Dolly Parton. "Special thanks to my partner and executive producer Sam Haskell, a wonderful cast and crew, Steve Herek (our producer) and Pamela Long for a great script. And a special thanks to all of the many fans that watched it." “This project for me was a celebration of the family and the beautiful story of Miss Dolly Parton. Each day I played Avie Lee Parton was a joy. For "Christmas of Many Colors" to be nominated and celebrated further by the Emmy's, thrills me,” adds Jennifer Nettles. The 69th Emmy Awards will telecast live from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, Sunday, September 17 (8:00-11:00 PM ET/5:00-8:00 PM PT) on CBS. Stephen Colbert will serve as host. The 69th Emmy Awards is produced by White Cherry Entertainment. Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner are executive producers; Weiss is director; and Chris Licht, executive producer of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, is a producer. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON DOLLY PARTON, VISIT: www.dollyparton.com Instagram: Instagram.com/DollyParton Labels: Alyvia Lind, Dolly Parton, Dolly Parton's Christmas Of Many Colors: Circle Of Love, Emmy Awards, Emmy Nomination, Gerald McRaney, Jennifer Nettles, Los Angeles, Ricky Schroder Just Because...Caption This On Wednesdays We Wear Pink Just Because...It's Weird The Horror: Devil's Domain Things That Make U Go, WTF?! Let's Talk About Sex: Jon Hamm Film Buff Friday: Re-Animator Fourthing Hard Just Because...The Odd Couple Fame Is Like Caviar	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line284
__label__cc	0.539462	0.460538	ANN MARIE SIMPSON ADD’L PERFORMERS ANNOUNCED FOR GRAMMY FOUNDATION MUSIC PRESERVATION PROJECT MIKE EINZIGER, LEANN RIMES, ANN MARIE SIMPSON, AND GEORGE THOROGOOD AND THE DESTROYERS TO JOIN RODNEY CROWELL, EMMYLOU HARRIS, LIANNE LA HAVAS AND ED SHEERAN TO CELEBRATE “PLAY IT FORWARD: A CELEBRATION OF MUSIC’S EVOLUTION AND INFLUENCERS” AT THE GRAMMY FOUNDATION®‘S 15TH ANNUAL MUSIC PRESERVATION PROJECT, PRESENTED BY SEAGATE® Prestigious GRAMMY® Week Event Highlights GRAMMY Foundation’s Ongoing Work To Safeguard Music’s History The GRAMMY Foundation® will host “Play It Forward: A Celebration Of Music’s Evolution And Influencers” — the 15th Annual GRAMMY Foundation Music Preservation Project — featuring live musical performances and archival footage from its preservation archives. Performers include GRAMMY® winners Rodney Crowell, Emmylou Harris, and LeAnn Rimes; current GRAMMY nominee Ed Sheeran; Mike Einziger ofIncubus, singer/songwriter Lianne La Havas, violinist Ann Marie Simpson, and George Thorogood and the Destroyers, as well as other artists to be announced shortly. The evening’s musical director will be Darrell Brown, songwriter/producer, Recording Academy Trustee, and GRAMMY Foundation Board member. Neil Portnow, President/CEO of The Recording Academy® and the GRAMMY Foundation, will be in attendance, along with other prominent music industry leaders and members of The Recording Academy. “Play It Forward: A Celebration Of Music’s Evolution And Influencers” — this year’s GRAMMY Foundation Music Preservation Project — will explore the history of legendary influencers in music and the invaluable contributions of those key players, the music they inspired and their impact on the American cultural landscape. This GRAMMY Week celebration promotes the GRAMMY Foundation’s mission of recognizing and preserving our musical past, so that future generations can continue to benefit from an appreciation and understanding of those contributions. General admission tickets are $35 per person and premium seating is $45. For tickets and information, visit www.grammyfoundation.org orhttp://wl.flavorus.com/sabantheatre/PlayItForward, or contact 855.235.2867. “Play It Forward” is sponsored in part by CenterStaging, the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, GettyImages Music and Jackson Limousine. Saban Theatre 8440 Wilshire Blvd. Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013 5:15 p.m. Media Check-in (Note: Please arrive promptly. Media using mult-box will be able to plug in decks prior to carpet opening.) 6:15–7:15 p.m. Red-Carpet Arrivals 7:30–9 p.m. Guest Speakers and Performances 9 p.m. Reception Protecting our cultural legacy for future generations is a cornerstone of the GRAMMY Foundation mission. The Foundation recognizes and celebrates the innovation, perseverance and genius evidenced in the stories and music of the pioneers who have woven a rich and colorful cultural fabric. The GRAMMY Foundation Music Preservation Project highlights its year-round activities in support of that mission, from preservation grants to its Living Histories archive. The Project also draws the attention of a wider audience to those efforts, and to the imperiled condition of many of the most historically significant recordings. This concert and screening serves to reintroduce works from these major contributors to the public and educates them about the GRAMMY Foundation’s role in preserving our rich cultural heritage. MEDIA R.S.V.P. MANDATORY: Christina Cassidy/The GRAMMY Foundation/310.392.3777/christina.cassidy@grammy.com Hannah Berryman/The GRAMMY Foundation/310.392.3777/hannah.berryman@grammy.com Joe Schneider/Rogers & Cowan/310.854.8140/jschneider@rogersandcowan.com IMPORTANT INFORMATION: If you are interested in covering this event, you MUST request credentials no later than Friday, Feb. 1. Credentials will be picked up at media check-in on the day of the event. ALL MEDIA MUST BE CREDENTIALED. ALL MEDIA MUST BRING PHOTO I.D. All satellite truck/van parking must be coordinated no later than Friday, Feb. 1. NOTE: To plug in to a mult-box, media must bring a female XLR cable with a deck. If you cannot accept a line-level feed, also bring an in-line mic-to-line adaptor. Media using mult-box will be able to plug in decks prior to carpet opening. The GRAMMY Foundation was established in 1989 to cultivate the understanding, appreciation and advancement of the contribution of recorded music to American culture — from the artistic and technical legends of the past to the still unimagined musical breakthroughs of future generations of music professionals. The Foundation accomplishes this mission through programs and activities that engage the music industry and cultural community as well as the general public. The Foundation works in partnership year-round with its founder, The Recording Academy, to bring national attention to important issues such as the value and impact of music and arts education and the urgency of preserving our rich cultural heritage. For more information, please visit www.grammyintheschools.com. For breaking news and exclusive content, please like “GRAMMY in the Schools” on Facebook atwww.facebook.com/grammyintheschools and follow @GRAMMYFdn on Twitter atwww.twitter.com/GRAMMYFdn. About Seagate: From creating Hollywood blockbuster movies and the music that’s the soundtrack of people’s lives, to sharing photos and videos on social networks, Seagate storage devices are an integral part of modern life. Seagate is a worldwide leader in hard disk drives and storage solutions. Learn, discuss, and share the creative process at Facebook.com/SeagateCreative. Tagged AND GEORGE THOROGOOD AND THE DESTROYERS TO JOIN RODNEY CROWELL, ANN MARIE SIMPSON, EMMYLOU HARRIS, GettyImages Music and Jackson Limousine, GRAMMY FOUNDATION MUSIC, Hollywood blockbuster movies and the music, is sponsored in part by CenterStaging, LEANN RIMES, LIANNE LA HAVAS AND ED SHEERAN TO CELEBRATE "PLAY IT FORWARD: A CELEBRATION OF MUSIC'S EVOLUTION AND INFLUENCERS" AT THE GRAMMY FOUNDATION®'S 15TH ANNUAL MUSIC PRESERVATION PROJECT, MIKE EINZIGER, Music Charts Magazine, the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line285
__label__wiki	0.570365	0.570365	ICOM international committee for documentation Membership and Participation CIDOC Board election 2019 - Info and voting CIDOC Board Election - Candidates Supporting Statements Archaeological Sites working group (ASWG) Co-reference CRM Special Interest Group Digital Strategy Development Documentation Standards Exhibition and Performance Documentation Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum Process Implementation Semantic Research Environments CIDOC Standards, guidelines Other Standards, guidelines CIDOC Standards Survey CIDOC Conference Papers CIDOC Conference guidelines CIDOC Training material Apply to Host a CIDOC Conference Host your own Training Event Arthur van Mourik Erin Canning Christelle Molinié Erika Hedhammar Caroline Davies Posynick Mohamed Gamal Rashed Jürgen Kusmin 2017 Getty bursaries Maria Vlachou Ana Carvalho Gemma Boon Reem Weda Rupert Shepherd Minisite / CIDOC / BLOG / Jürgen Kusmin Some cultural heritage Geographic Information System (GIS) databases in Estonia - April 2018 Cultural heritage can be found in museums and archives but also in landscape. The UNESCO World Heritage List documents most of these sites. In Estonia, there are several initiatives that complement the work of UNESCO and this post accounts for the major ones. The National Heritage Board (NHB) ensures the preservation of nationally important sites and works in Estonia within the framework of the Heritage Conservation Act. The NHB register includes more than 26,500 entries, including immovable monuments, available through a GIS database. National Register of Cultural Monuments database The Estonian National Registry of Cultural Monuments (NRCM) includes digital archives and other collections data, such as 20th century architecture, shipwrecks, rural architecture, burial grounds and heritage sites. A map provides the locations of the cultural monuments, in the form of postal addresses or via links to the National Building Registry. Additionally, data from the NRCM can be shared as Open Data through a REST JSON API. In 2005–2011, a national mapping survey of Estonia revealed that more than 35,000 cultural sites did not receive state attention. The State Forest Management Centre, with the support of funds from the European Union, was responsible for the mapping. The data collected are available to the public as a GIS database and can be used to plan for protection projects. State Forest Management Centre website Estonia boasts five national parks that cover 3.7% of the country. Their mission is the protection of the environment as well as the protection of the cultural heritage wherein. In order to get a thorough overview of the cultural monuments in the parks, the Environmental Board has been conducting a project called “Memory Landscapes” since 2006. The materials collected cover more than 3,000 entries of place-lore objects (after folklore) documented through photo, text, video and sound files preserved at the Estonian Folklore Archives of Estonian Literary Museum and available through a map application. Estonian Land Board database The Place-lore map application, managed by the Estonian Land Board includes national heritage monuments, cultural heritage objects (under landowner free will protection), memory landscapes and other topic-related GIS-data collections. National Archive of Estonia database The National Archive of Estonia has a separate information system which currently describes more than 145,000 maps. Approximatively one third of these maps are digitized and linked in the application. Maps can be searched via metadata and location. hiiepaik.ee People who are interested in natural sacred places are starting to collect information on these places through voluntary work. The website that aggregates that rich information is available here: hiiepaik.ee Ajapaik portal The Non-Govermental Organization Eesti Fotopärand (Estonian Photo Heritage Site) has created the portal Ajapaik to show how places have changed over time. Each historical photo in the portal is geotagged, pinned to a map, with an indication of the location where the photo was taken, and compared with the current photo of the site. The portal makes it possible to search historical photos from various Estonian museums' collections. Currently the site contains about 106,000 historical pictures. An additional 60,000 photos have been contributed by about 7,500 users. Estonian Land Board Geoportal portal The Estonian Land Board Geoportal is the main free GIS data portal in Estonia. It provides multiple and rich types of data (registry, direct links, WMS-services, data in different GIS-formats etc.) and can be used in a desktop GIS-software or be integrated in business-use info systems. Screenshot of land use planning software from the Estonian State Forest Management Centre (in official use). Spatial data is provided over WMS-service. Estonia’s spatial data is characterized by its free use and high accuracy. As the maps were not in public use during the Soviet era, there is still room for improvement of the knowledge of the maps and their usage. The GIS format of any data enables to integrate the data to map applications used in smart devices or in more complex information systems. In Estonia published data have been checked against the actual landscape, offering alternatives to automatically generated map applications, such as Google Maps. Jürgen Kusmin works for the Estonian State Forest Management Centre as forest chief in the West-Harju region. He works routinely with spatial datasets. He was the technical coordinator for the Over-Estonia cultural heritage (initiated by the Estonian State Forest Management Centre) inventory in 2005-2011.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line296
__label__wiki	0.531809	0.531809	« New Payslips from April 2019 Health insurer takes a fresh look at their approach to mental health » Figures release by leading risk insurer prove the value of EAPs Counselling provided by Unum’s Employee Assistance Programme improves mental health for 92% of users according to figures released for the first time by the group risk insurer. Unum has released the success rate of its Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) in supporting the mental health of UK workers for the first time. Data provided by its EAP partner, LifeWorks, revealed 70% of 12,610 calls to their EAP service related to mental health and 92% of those provided with the programme’s counselling support saw an improvement in their condition. Ambika Fraser, Head of Propositions at Unum commented: “We took the decision to analyse and release these figures to increase awareness of the invaluable support that’s available to hundreds of thousands of UK workers.” “We’re committed to reducing the stigma around mental health concerns and hope the high success rates will encourage more to seek help when they need it.” EAPs help employers protect the wellbeing of their staff by providing confidential support with a number of issues including work, legal, relationships, money and health. Of all the calls to Unum’s EAP, 70% wanted help with a mental health problem. Anxiety and depression were the most common of these (66%), followed by problems caused by relationship issues (13%) then bereavement (9%). 60% of those with mental health problems were offered prompt access to counselling services through Unum’s EAP partner, LifeWorks. 17,355 counselling sessions were provided and 92% of people using them saw their mental health improve. The recent independent review on mental health commissioned by the Prime Minister recommended that all employers with more than 500 employees should provide tailored mental health support, including EAPs2. Ambika Fraser added: “EAPs are a first line of defence for employers and line managers in protecting the wellbeing of their staff. They provide fast, confidential solutions to all kinds of problems from mental health to debt and relationship worries that could otherwise quickly escalate and impact productivity.” Employees can contact the Unum EAP by phone, online or through an app. Line managers can also use the service for support in managing team members who are facing problems in their work or personal lives. There were 12,610 calls during the year and more than a fifth of people (22%) wanted help with a problem serious enough to affect their performance at work. 14% of users wanted help with legal problems and another 14% sought support for a practical problem, such as caring responsibilities. Women (58%) currently take advantage of the EAP more than men. While this data relates to calls to the programme, online support was also accessed 74,607 times by employees downloading information on issues such as mental health, money and relationships. Jamie True, Chief Executive and Founder of Lifeworks, said: We see incredible value in partnering with Unum as they are one of the largest carriers in the world and care about the wellbeing of their users. This collaboration connects LifeWorks to more than 7,000 UK businesses enabling us to support more of the UK workforce.” Jamie True added: “We live in an interconnected world where well-being is mental, physical and financial. You can’t address one without supporting all. With 1 in 4 people in the UK suffering from a mental health issue this year, it’s now more important than ever to support employees total well-being. That’s where LifeWorks comes in – we use and develop technology to deliver a service and platform that drive real impact to the health and happiness of employees.” Notes & sources: Unum’s LifeWorks Statement summarises data on all the support LifeWorks provided by phone in one year, from 1 December 2016 to 30 November 2017. In the LifeWorks counselling service, someone is classified as having improved if at the end of their sessions they see an improvement in one or more areas below: A reduction in their psychological distress A reduction in the severity of their psychological symptoms An improvement in their ability to cope with their psychological distress or symptoms An improved ability to cope with their situation or problems A reduction in the impact of their psychological issues on their workplace performance, conduct and effectiveness An improvement in the psychological resilience to the pressures of work and life. Thriving at work: the Stevenson/Farmer review of mental health and employers, by The Lord Stevenson of Coddenham CBE, former Chair of HBOS, Paul Farmer CBE, CEO of Mind. The review agreed a set of actions all organisations in the country could implement quickly to protect the mental health of their employees. There were one set of actions for employers off all sizes and an enhanced set for organisations with more than 500 employees. One of the enhanced actions was, “Ensure provision of tailored in-house mental health support and signposting to clinical help, including digital support, employer-purchased Occupational Health or Employee Assistance Programmes, or NHS services, amongst other sources of support. See page 70 of the report for further information. You can view the Unum press release here. This entry was posted in Employee Benefits, Medical Insurer News, Occupational Health News by admin. Bookmark the permalink. Health insurer takes a fresh look at their approach to mental health »	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line300
__label__wiki	0.939932	0.939932	Home Europe The Queen is left heartbroken by the death of her last corgi:... The Queen is left heartbroken by the death of her last corgi: Devoted companion, Willow, who appeared in James Bond Olympics sketch, dies at the age of 14 mdnadmin The Queen has been left heartbroken after the death of her last corgi. Willow (circled top left), who was almost 15, was put to sleep at Windsor Castle on Sunday. The dog had a cancer-related illness and the Queen did not want her beloved pet to suffer further – AP The Queen has been left heartbroken after the death of her last corgi. Willow, who was almost 15, was put to sleep at Windsor Castle on Sunday. The dog had a cancer-related illness and the Queen did not want her beloved pet to suffer further. The death brings to an end a remarkable history between the Queen and corgis dating back more than eight decades. Willow was the 14th generation descended from Susan, a gift to the then Princess Elizabeth on her 18th birthday. But her heritage dates back even further, to 1933, when the Queen’s father George VI (then Duke of York) introduced a corgi, Dookie, into the Royal Family. Insiders say the Queen has been hit ‘extremely hard’ by the loss of Willow who had become her most devoted companion, accompanying her as she moved between her four royal homes. ‘She has mourned every one of her corgis over the years, but she has been more upset about Willow’s death than any of them,’ says a Buckingham Palace source. ‘It is probably because Willow was the last link to her parents and a pastime that goes back to her own childhood. It really does feel like the end of an era.’ In 2015 it emerged that she had stopped breeding Pembroke Welsh corgis because of fears that, with younger dogs around her feet, she might trip over and hurt herself. – AP This is not, however, the end of the Queen’s dog-owning life, she has two dorgis – corgi-dachsund crosses – Vulcan and Candy. And last year she agreed to adopt a corgi, Whisper, after the death of his owner, a former Sandringham gamekeeper. LONDON – APRIL 1: Queen Elizabeth II's corgis walk past US President Obama's car in the grounds of Buckingham Palace while he has an audience with The Queen on April 1, 2009 in London, England.(Photo by Anwar Hussein/Getty Images) However, the link with Willow, who was pictured in the official portrait to mark the Queen’s 90th birthday two years ago, was a precious one. ‘Willow represents a significant thread running through the Queen’s life from her teenage years to her 90s,’ says a courtier. ‘For many, many years she bred and raised corgis and to think that the last one has now gone is something of a milestone.’ In 2015 it emerged that she had stopped breeding Pembroke Welsh corgis because of fears that, with younger dogs around her feet, she might trip over and hurt herself. The Queen's Corgis Arrive Back At Heathrow Airport, After The Summer Visit To Balmoral – Getty Images Her Majesty was still feeding and exercising Willow until the weekend, when the dog’s condition worsened. On Sunday afternoon, the decision was taken to call a vet. ‘She does not like seeing her dogs suffer and she knows that sometimes putting a dog down is the kindest course of action – although that doesn’t make her loss any less,’ says the source. One comforting fact was that Prince Philip, recuperating from his hip replacement operation, was able to be with her at Windsor. It is understood the dog has been buried in the castle grounds. In time there will be a headstone bearing the pet’s name and the words ‘a faithful companion of the Queen’. WINDSOR – UNDATED: HRH Queen Elizabeth II carries one of her pet dogs at Windsor Great Park,England – Getty Images Willow’s death comes 18 months after the loss of Holly, who died at Balmoral aged 13. Both appeared with Daniel Craig in the James Bond sketch for the opening of the London Olympics in 2012. The death comes in a busy week for the Queen, as she welcomes leaders to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London. But, however preoccupied she is, the Queen always finds time for her dogs. She likes to feed them herself with the finest cuts of meat and chicken, as well as crumbling up treats from her own plate. Since 1945, she has had more than 30 corgis – many of them direct descendants of Susan, whose first puppies, Sugar and Honey, born in 1949, marked the beginning of a new royal dynasty. At one stage there were said to be 13 corgis lolling in the Queen’s private sitting room and nipping the heels of footmen, prime ministers and ladies-in-waiting. Queen Elizabeth II walking her dogs at Windsor Castle – Getty Images Former royal butler Paul Burrell, whose duties included being armed with blotting paper and a soda syphon to mop up doggy accidents, claimed he was once knocked unconscious after nine corgis tripped him up. They haven’t all had long lives, however. In 2003, Pharos was savaged by Princess Anne’s bull terrier Dotty and had to be put down. And in 1989 the Queen Mother’s dog Ranger led a pack of corgis that killed Chipper, the Queen’s favourite dorgi. Buckingham Palace declined to comment, saying only: ‘It would be a private matter.’ Courtesy/Source: Daily Mail Commonwealth Heads of Government Dorgis Windor Castle Previous articleIPL 2018 – MI vs RCB: Rohit, Lewis batter Royal Challengers in imposing win Next articleInside Southwest Flight 1380, 20 Minutes of Chaos and Terror ICC World Cup 2019 – IND v NZ: India’s World Cup dream over, New Zealand storm into final United States beats the Netherlands 2-0 to win its fourth Women’s World Cup title US on alert for major Iranian naval operation in Middle East,... Russia dossier author criticizes Trump, slams ‘strange and troubling times’	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line301
__label__cc	0.682517	0.317483	pregnant tagged posts Before You Were Born January 18, 2015, The Kurylian Saga The Swordsman and The Sorcerer 4 comments ((A writing prompt from Amanda Patterson‘s Tumblr, Amanda on Writing. The prompt is: I’ll be filling it with two protagonists.)) Karabela felt a quickening in her belly, and smoothed her hand over the soft white cloth covering it. Since her pregnancy, Katar had been providing her with nicer things. Things that took him more time to earn, to hunt. She wasn’t sure how she felt about this. Especially since he was moving her from her home, from her tribe. She should have known marrying from one of the wandering tribes would end in her own wandering. But she’d seen the dark swirls around his eyes and his knuckles and the breadth of the darkness swirling on his back, and she had fallen in love. ‘Hush now, little one.’ She thought to the child in her belly. He would be a fierce warrior, she knew. A hunter, and a leader. She smiled, her thumb rubbing the swell of him there. She could not know if it would be a boy or a girl, but no matter what, the child would be a fierce warrior, a hunter, and a leader. The cart shuddered underneath her, and she lost her smile for a moment. Katar screamed at the poor beasts pulling it. Donkeys he’d purchased from a white-skinned trader. His shaved head shone like mud in the sun, and she glared at him, for the mistreatment of the animals. In the back, the crate of four chickens clucked nervously next to the grains he’d purchased as well. He was serious about this, about their joining some strange pale-skin village, about living there, and seeing how they live. She did not like this, she really didn’t. What kind of life would their little one lead? What kind of home would he have, without cousins to play with, without girls to teach him kindness, without other hunters to teach him knots and bows and slings? He would be nothing but a farmer, and that was not what she wanted for her son. But her husband insisted, believed it would bring them closer. She didn’t laugh in his face out of respect for his passion. The child within her swollen womb moved again, and as she comforted him, she comforted herself. ~~~~ Nikola stared, once again, at the putrid green herb sitting on her table, next to the lavender she grew for her skin, the tea tree for her husband’s callouses. She’d always loathed parsley, even in her food, but now… She grit her teeth, glaring at her useless lump of a husband. He lay, drunkenly passed out, in their bed. They’d just sold off Mendala, her apprenticeship putting them in enough money to actually survive for a few years, provided he doesn’t just drink it away. Now, he’d managed to get her with child again. She turned, her green eyes staring out the window. The Oleanders were in bloom once again, and though she loved the smell, the children running through the petals outside just filled her with rage. She refused to acknowledge that her jealousy perhaps had something to do with it. She was jealous, yes, but that didn’t matter. What mattered was what to do next. She touched the barely-there swell of her child. No. No she wouldn’t think of it that way. This was a nuisance. Just like all the other children before. A crying, shitting, useless pile of flesh that only became profitable once men started drooling. She looked once again at the parseley, but didn’t get up to make the tea. Might as well secure their future. The screaming would at least make Dane leave for awhile. She pushed back her freshly washed red hair, and plucked one of the oleanders growing beneath her window. Taking a deep breath, she smiled, and set it in her hair. This child would be a burden. A useless creature whose life would only have worth with legs spread. It felt sort of poetic, actually. Her crimson lips curved into a sardonic smile, as she thought of all the humiliating things she can have this child do. She hoped it was a boy. Boys were easier to raise. Mendalla, Maka and Anna had all been absolutely horrid to raise, much less to sell. Her hand smoothed over her belly in an almost tender gesture, the same sort of soothing one gives a pig before you slaughter it. Tristan and Ysolde April 24, 2014, A-to-Z Challenge 2014 Snippet No comments “I thought you said he was your dad!” He cried, ducking under a tree branch. Her hand was sweaty and slick in his, and honestly, Tristan thought he was dying. The shotgun went off once more, and he ducked instinctively, nearly sending both of them careening into a tree. She yanked on his arm and he twisted, ankle sliding in the mud, and sending him into her arms. “NO, I said he was LIKE my dad!” She corrected, yanking him upright, and then ducking under a different tree and tugging him along. She’d always been a bit stronger than he was, and now he was grateful for it, because the beacon of her wheat-gold hair in the moonlight was enough for him to follow through the woods. Another shot rang out, and the tree next to his head exploded, and Tristan yelped. His heart pounded, his chest ached for breath as his feet tried to keep up with hers. Over a rock, under a tree, around an oddly shaped shed that honestly wouldn’t have hidden them at all. He was glad when she jumped down into a gulch, at least until his leg went out from under him and he landed ass-first in mud. He had to bite his tongue not to curse out loud, and scrambled to his feet, the mud sucking at his shoes like a child taking a toy. “What do you MEAN, like your dad?! He’s not even related to you!” He hissed, surprised she could be that graceful at three months pregnant. With his kid. Oh god, that was his child in there, being shot at by her creepy caretaker. “He adopted me when I was little, okay?! I never thought anything of it until he started taking me to look at wedding dresses when I turned fifteen, okay?!” Her voice grew higher, terrified, as another blast blew through the little shed behind them. “Then I met YOU!” Yeah, him. The odd twenty something hiking through town with nothing but a backpack, and some odd jobs. He’d managed to win her heart, because she’d won his the moment he’d seen her. He could still see the smile she’d given him in the farmer’s market, and wow, was it beautiful. She threw a strained version of it over her shoulder at him and he saw the glint of moonlight off her teeth. They burst out of the brush and into the highway leading out of town. He stopped, because if they could get a ride before he caught up… She tugged impatiently on his hand, desperate to get him to follow her into the woods on the other side. But there was a truck coming, he could see it, maybe they could get a ride out into the next city, where he could get a job, and she wouldn’t have to marry some crazed sixty year old man. Pain. Blinding, absolute agony, ripping through his thigh, and he went down, knee buckling. The concrete beneath him was hard, and he could feel a pebble pushing into his face. He thought he might have taken Isolde down with him, and he wasn’t sure, but the boots on the blacktop were his, the old man’s, and oh god. Oh god, there was a shotgun in his face. “NO! Please, don’t, I’ll never run again, please just DO-” He could hear her shrieking, and then the sound of the trigger. He never heard the boom of the gun, just saw a flash of light.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line309
__label__wiki	0.688089	0.688089	On Nigel Cooke By Nigel Cooke Pop Go Your Clogs – Nigel Cooke At the close of last year, the boys’ club of Pop art history was significantly shaken up by two major exhibitions – Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958–1968 at the Brooklyn Museum and Power Up – Female Pop Art, showing almost concurrently at the Kunsthalle Wien. Both shows included works by Pauline Boty, the British painter who died of cancer age twenty-eight in 1966, and Belgian artist Evelyne Axell, who died age thirty-seven in a road accident in 1972. While revising perceptions of women’s roles in the evolution of Pop, the exhibitions also brought to mind two careers tragically cut short and posthumously overlooked. It isn’t supposed to work like that. As everyone knows, untimely death can do wonders to an artist’s career. Many a cab driver has pointed this out to me. And with legions of pigment-martyrs who did a lot better after they’d snuffed it backed up through the history of art (with Van Gogh top of the list), why wouldn’t you think that? There is an idea deeply embedded in culture that greatness is synonymous with extinction. Yet neither Boty nor Axell has garnered that greatness, their premature, sudden deaths serving to marginalise their contribution rather than confirm its importance. It’s no surprise that it was different with the boys. We readily accept the sudden and violent deaths of Mark Rothko (suicide) and Jackson Pollock (drunk-driving car crash) as grand tragedies that confirm greatness rather than shutting it down prematurely. In 1993, Cuban writer Severo Sarduy - famous for his work ‘La Simulacion’ (‘Simulation’, a 1982 essay about transvestites and painting) – suggested that Rothko’s gory suicide was in fact the culmination of his search for the perfect red. This sentimental simulation, where art and corporeality come together, is hard to resist when painting is the medium – itself messy, bodily and loaded with destructive energies – and physical gesture is the key to an artist’s output. In this line of thinking, the detached physicality of Pollock’s paintings (dripping from a vertical distance) could reflect detachment from the idea of crashing that a windscreen affords a drunk driver. The associations of splattering (often red?) paint over massive ‘roads’ of canvas need not be spelled out here, but the boozy, self-destructive mystique of his studio processes manages to infiltrate perceptions of the crash nevertheless – becoming justifications for it, even. Simulation exerts the pull of an ideal completeness, reflecting back a sickly tribute from disaster, a final bonding of the myth to the canvas monuments left behind. Cinema often exploits such sentiments about art – the final scene in Robert Altman’s Vincent & Theo (1990) ends with the artist’s suicide while out painting in a wheat field. The gun goes off, Vincent’s body drops from view and crows scatter into the air, perfectly simulating his painting Wheatfield with Crows (1890). While culture has not created the same art–death mythology around the careers of Boty and Axell, something similar has taken place nevertheless. As writer Michael Bracewell has pointed out, Boty’s work captured the light and glamorous freedom of the early 1960s as Pop emerged; and, as he also notes, she died exactly as that phase gave way to darker and more eroticised modulations of Pop – which are embodied, coincidentally, in Axell’s paintings. In an uncanny mirroring of Boty’s life and work, Axell’s life ended exactly as that later phase of Pop itself fell away. Yet in this perfect alignment of life and times, simulation – the reductive cultural tendency to rhyme art gestures with an artist’s death – has perhaps licensed a kind of unfortunate dismissal or amnesia in the case of Boty and Axell, similar to the logic of the musical one-hit wonder: perfect in the now, but necessarily fleeting. With careers and life spans so eerily aligned with the twin tenors of their historical moment, is this not a simulation that should illuminate importance, their deaths symbolic talismans of the period, gravely reflecting both the problems women painters faced in getting their work taken seriously at the time, and the transient nature of the developing culture that fascinated them? These recent exhibitions, then, hopefully invite an extra correction, questioning the barriers to long-term relevance caused by a simulation between a disposable culture and the short lives of two women artists who engaged with it so notably, yet so briefly. View more essays	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line310
__label__wiki	0.721604	0.721604	E3 2019 Information Page E3 News 2019 E3 2019 Screens E3 2019 Trailers E3 2019 Hands On and Previews Retro Wrap-Up eShop Reviews PlayStation Reviews Vita Reviews Anime of the Past Crowdfunding Spotlight Jeff’s Musings Operation Rainfall Origins Publisher Spotlight Smashing Saturdays About oprainfall Contact Us / Tips E3 Info Page The Downpour Podcast The Downpour Podcast is best described as an extension of the Oprainfall website. It goes beyond the news we report, and any editorial pieces we may write, in an effort to express our individual, unscripted, and relatively uncensored opinions of the niche developers, publishers and games we follow. We’ve even been known to step outside of “the niche” and discuss the medium at large! The first few episodes were extremely experimental, somewhat sporadic, and led to a long hiatus. But, as of late 2012, co-owner Jonathan Higgins decided to take up The Downpour Podcast as a dedicated host. The early episodes feature a ton of the staff who all wanted to get together and let their voices be heard. But, over time, The Downpour Podcast is headed by Jonathan, Randy (its Managing Editor), and Jared. Below, you can find a link to each episode, the staff members who appear on them, and a brief description of each detailing games/themes discussed. We hope you enjoy! Follow the newly launched Downpour Podcast Twitter! EPISODE 1 (5/23/12): To New Beginnings Appearing: Steven, Richard, Ryan, Yasmine In this episode, Steven discusses campaign updates and the latest games from May/June 2012! He even has a surprise announcement near the end of the show. EPISODE 2 (6/23/12): E3 2012 Appearing: Steven, Ryan, Fernandes, Rawlings, Kyle This episode is a discussion of E3 2012. What were things like on the show floor? And what was it like for our staff who covered E3 2012 from afar? EPISODE 3 (11/4/12): On That Day, Five Months Ago Appearing: Jonathan, Richard Jared, Jeff This episode details our Campaign Hub, as well as games and anime from October. Pokemon, Code of Princess, and more! EPISODE 4 (12/6/12) Looks Good on Paper Appearing: Jonathan, Jeff, Kyle, Chris Determined not to keep you waiting another five months, The Downpour Podcast arrives on the scene once again! Within: discussion regarding Paper Mario: Sticker Star, The Ys franchise, the Wii U, Mario, Xenoblade Chronicles and more! EPISODE 5 (12/13/12) The Cloud ATLUS Appearing: Jonathan, Fernandes, Jared, Scott This episode focuses pretty heavily on games from Atlus (including Radiant Historia and Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor), various games and demos from the week of December 13th (like Rayman Legends, Crimson Shroud and Ni No Kuni), games America missed out on (Soma Bringer, Radical Dreamers), and much, much more! EPISODE 6 (1/2/13) The World Isn’t Square Anymore Appearing: Jonathan, Will, Oscar, Ben, Ceruleath Enjoy a discussion on a publisher/developer that’s sure to cause plenty of polarization among staff members and our audience alike. For almost a full hour, the staff discusses everything about the company they’ve been dying to get off their chest since a few of our more popular news articles. EPISODE 7 (1/16/13) To Spiral Out of Control (The Xenoblade Spoilercast) Appearing: Jonathan, Richard, Ryan, Jeff, Jared, Charlotte The month of January has been absolutely insane for Operation Rainfall! Before all the crazy, the Operation Rainfall Staff decided to set aside January 18th, 2013 as the official recording date for the Xenoblade Spoilercast. Recall what happened two days before then, if you would. What started as a podcast centered around Xenoblade became the proper send-off to the campaign as a whole. EPISODE 8 (2/12/13) Jonathan Visits Candy Store Tirade Appearing: Jonathan, Charlotte, Jared, Randy For over two hours, Jonathan and company gush about Fire Emblem: Awakening, Ni No Kuni, and the games and anime they love…occasionally going on tangents about things like The Legend of Zelda, Monolith’s “X”, the next console generation, and more! EPISODE 9 (3/20/13) Blame James Cameron for Kingdom Hearts Appearing: Jonathan, Randy This one’s for you, Kingdom Hearts fans. Jonathan and Randy sit down on the fly to talk at length (and try not to bicker or argue back and forth like children) about the long-running franchise from Disney and Square-Enix. Every single game is discussed, and SPOILERS are rampant. EPISODE 10 (3/26/13) The CrayCray PAX East Recap Appearing: Jonathan, Jared This time, Jonathan and Jared sit down to discuss PAX East 2013 (and Easter candy—fans of the Cadbury Creme Egg will appreciate this podcast). This one’s under an hour, ladies and gentlemen…straight to the point, with plenty of talking about games (the good and the bad) and the usual tangential humor. EPISODE 11 (4/4/13) Après Moi, Le Déluge Appearing: Jonathan, Jared, Randy The month of April has arrived, and with it comes another episode of The Downpour Podcast! Jonathan, Jared and Randy sit down to discuss the week’s news, the many games coming in April, and so much more. Anime fans have stuff to look forward to in this episode as well. Listen for discussion regarding From Up on Poppy Hill, Shin Sekai Yori and more! The show is filled with tangents and things that make Jonathan laugh, so it must be good…right? EPISODE 12 (4/10/13) It’s a Chocobo Rip-Off Join Jonathan, Jared and Randy once again, as they discuss Bravely Default, Level-5 and the PS4, the Playstation Vita, Final Fantasy VI, and more! You can tell what games are important to one podcast member by how hard the others laugh at him. In the last thirty minutes of the show, anime is talked up. What Studio Ghibli movie did Jonathan pick for his first ever viewing? Be sure to listen! We appreciate your feedback. Follow @DownpourPodcast on Twitter! And email downpourpodcast@oprainfall.com. EPISODE 13 (4/19/13) Not a Feverish Delusion Appearing: Jonathan, Jared, Randy, Steve Join Jonathan, Jared and Randy once again, as they discuss the recent Nintendo Direct, Pandora’s Tower, and other amazing games! There’s even a follow up on last week’s Vita discussion. After that, more anime talk to round out the show. Definitely a complete package this week! We appreciate your feedback. Follow @DownpourPodcast on Twitter! And email downpourpodcast@oprainfall.com. EPISODE 14 (4/25/13) Why Not? Appearing: Jonathan, Jared, Randy, Ackk Studios This week opens with a discussion on all the Nintendo news that came out this week Beyond that, expect lots of discussion on the handful of games we’ve been playing and the latest anime news as well. What makes this week’s episode truly special, however, is that Jonathan, Jared and Randy got a chance to sit down with Brian and Andrew Allanson from Ackk Studios to discuss Two Brothers. Expect plenty of insights regarding the game’s origins and design, as well as what inspires its developers and how they worked as a team to create something truly unique. EPISODE 15 (4/29/13) Retro Gaming History—Jonathan’s [EXPLETIVE] Passion This week is a special episode of the podcast. While we certainly do touch on some happenings on the site, we devote much time to Jonathan, Randy, and Jared sharing their gaming stories. From childhood to youth to now, everyone has a story of how they got into gaming. And no one’s is ever the same, even when some strings of the intertwined web cross. Have we been about niche RPGs and Japanese games our entire life? Or is there much more to each of us? It’s a lengthy show-and-tell, but we know that once you hear our stories, you’ll want to share your own—which we happily encourage! Tell us your gaming story in the comments below, share them on Twitter@downpourpodcast, or email us at downpourpodcast@oprainfall.com. We know you have your own story, and we would all love to hear them. EPISODE 16 (5/8/13) Cut Him in Half, We’ll Count the Rings Appearing: Jonathan, Jared, Randy, Jeff Jonathan and the regular crew give you the recent anime and gaming news. Jeff returns as a guest to talk about “Jeff’s Musings” and we all talk about our gaming backlog. EPISODE 17 (5/13/13) The Sights and Sounds on the Cutting Room Floor This week, there’s plenty of talk about games we’d like to see localized, the fanfare of the Nintendo Wii, Tales of Symphonia, and digital downloads. Games we’ve been playing include more Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete, Pandora’s Tower, Super Mario World and Solomon’s Key. There’s a discussion segment as well, but you’ll have to tune in to find out what it’s all about! In anime this week: Attack on Titan (is anyone surprised?), turning Jonathan into a Crunchyroll subscriber, the differences between televised shows and the manga they’re based off of, and more! Stay tuned to the very end where we answer questions from our Twiiter & more! There’s plenty to listen to this week; this one should set the standard for future shows. EPISODE 18 (5/22/13) The Downpour Oreo Most of the oprainfall Staff are taking an extended weekend thanks to the holiday (trust us, with E3 coming—we’ll need the rest), but we won’t let that stop another episode of The Downpour Podcast! This week’s show opens with talk about the most recent Nintendo Direct. What do Jonathan, Jared and Randy think about the Nintendo/Sega partnership & everything coming down the (warp) pipe this summer? After a diversion into the land of Sega, the gentlemen talk at length about Microsoft’s new Xbox One, and the feelings they all have going into the next console generation, now that all three juggernauts have been revealed. Some of what we have to say may surprise you. Be sure to let us know how you feel about Xbox One, the coming Nintendo Direct(s), and anything else you’d like to see from the big three moving forward. EPISODE 19 (6/03/13) Infinite Possibility This week: Jonathan, Jared and Randy learned what would happen if they switched up who hosted the show and recorded a full week in advance. You may notice a few…interesting results as you’re listening. As far as news goes: Lots of Capcom love, some talk about figurines and toys (because comic book talk wasn’t off-the-rails enough), and the tiniest of hints and what may be coming from oprainfall during E3 2013. As for what we’ve been playing: get ready for a discussion about multiplayer gaming. What makes this episode truly special, however, is that it includes an interview with some of the folks at Precursor Games—the ones behind Shadow of the Eternals. EPISODE 20 (6/10/13) E3 Hype-cast! This week, Jonathan, Jared, and Randy hit you with news as it comes during the lead-up to the 2013 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. We give you the lowdown on everything up to this point. In addition to talking about what we want, expect, or don’t expect from publishers and the big three (Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft), we also talk about what we’ve been playing. You might think that’s the usual and the norm, but thisweek, the whole crew actually played something together! We enjoyed a rousing game of…well, you’ll have to listen to find out. EPISODE E3 2013 Day 1 (6/10/13) Day 1 Recap Appearing: Jonathan, Jared, Richard, Scott E3 is here in all its glory, and Jonathan, Jared, Richard, and Scott are all in Los Angeles to experience the year’s biggest show in gaming. And with that special privilege, they are able to bring you their own unique experiences from the conferences and the show floor. Day 1 has wrapped up, and there were some big conferences: Microsoft, EA, and Sony. Boy, what a day! What is it like being at the mecca of gaming? What were the big shockers, the upsets, the…well, everything? Find out in our Day 1 wrap-up! Day 2 of E3 2013 has come and gone. Here again are Jonathan, Jared, Richard, and Scott to talk about the Wii U Showcase, Nintendo Direct, and hands-on impressions of games from the show floor. Day 3 of E3 2013 is in the bag. Here again are Jonathan, Jared, Richard, and Scott to talk about their day of meetings with developers and publishers, along with a day full of hands-on impressions from games only at E3. (Granted, some of Nintendo’s games are also on display at various Best Buys, but we’ve got those covered, too!) Also, on behalf of the whole E3 crew, we apologize for the constant mix-up of Dakko Dakko’s game title. What they meant was Scram Kitty and His Buddy on Rails. The final day of E3 2013 has come to a close. We have been serving some awesome news all week, and we could not have brought you the wonderful hands-on experiences if not for our LA team consisting of Jonathan, Jared, Scott, and Richard. It’s been a long week for the crew, but they stride through it all to deliver their final thoughts on the show as a whole. We should also say that things get a little zany in this last installment, so you’ll be sure to get a kick out of the farewell episode of our E3 2013 daily recaps. A special “thank you” to you, our audience, for coming to oprainfall as your source for all the wonderful news and impressions of this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo! EPISODE 21 (6/15/13) You Should Play it in HD Pictureyness This episode offers the perspective of someone who was not on the show floor at E3, after all the excitement of Los Angeles. Jonathan interviews Randy about his favorite announcements and impressions of E3 as a whole. EPISODE 22 (6/20/13) It’s the Hammer, Isn’t It? Technical difficulties aside, this episode returns to form. Join Jonathan, Jared and Randy as they all three return to discuss games, anime, and everything that hammers the two together. Discussions involve how hard it is to pick between the deluge of games in the fall, physical copies versus digital distribution, and more! EPISODE 23 (6/27/13) We Might Be Wrong This week! Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy, ATLUS, and indie games are a big focus during the start of the show. After that, the crew gets into what they’ve been playing. There’s actually a bunch of talk about fighting games, the bizarre nature of Tails Adventure, and even a game we would never talk about here on oprainfall! And this week in anime: Jonathan watched Spirited Away. That’s all there is to it. …Okay, not really. The month of July is a special one for The Downpour Podcast. Each week in July, the crew will be focusing on a “big subject” across gaming and anime. This week: find out how Jonathan, Jared and Randy feel about video game and anime music. Plenty of stuff to talk about—so much so that the show ran a little long this week! EPISODE 24 (7/1/13) Narrative – We Aren’t Gonna Spoil It Since there was such a short time between us sitting down to talk on the previous episode and this one we forewent news and jumped straight into our meaty discussion on what we’ve been playing before digging into the topic of narrative in video games. Do we like plot-driven story lines the most or do we lean toward the slower, less complex, but interesting character-driven narrative? Keeping in with having the show tied up in a nice little package we tackled the same questions when it comes to anime, but it’s not the same discussion in the least! What about slice-of-life series? Surely with almost no plot to speak of there can’t be much to say, right? You’ll have to check it out and see/hear. EPISODE 25 (7/8/13): Draw the Word “Words” and Eat It Join Jonathan, Jared and Randy for a discussion centered on the visuals of video games and anime. For most of the ninety minutes you’ll be listening, the hosts tackle everything from gaming’s humble beginnings to the era of high-definition. What are some of the games of the past, present and future that they consider eye candy? How do they feel about remakes and de-makes? Do they prefer hyper-realistic graphics or something cut from a different cloth? All these questions and more shall be answered. Before all that, though, the show starts with a little old-school Final Fantasy talk sparked by the recent release of Final Fantasy VII on Steam. Who among the three has already purchased the game? And speaking of graphics, how do we feel about Final Fantasy VII being remade in high definition? What anime do Jared and Randy consider eye candy? All your burning questions will be answered—and all of Jonathan’s words will be eaten—in this high-pressure, high-definition episode. EPISODE 26 (7/18/13) One Leg at a Time The show may be without a Jared this week, but that doesn’t stop Jonathan and Randy from getting together to discuss the news of the week, what they’ve been playing, and everything you could ever want to know about their favorite kinds of gameplay. To start off, they discuss a certain partnership, the release of a certain game, and everything else crazy that happened within a few hours of them sitting down to record. As far as what they’ve been playing this week—Randy actually played a ton more than Jonathan, but the show gets kind of heavy into casual gaming for a few minutes (headed by the four new StreetPass games from Nintendo). Has everyone gotten the Xenoblade Chronicles Puzzle Swap Panel yet? Regarding gameplay: What are Jonathan and Randy’s most preferred genres in gaming? And for that matter, what are the stand-out titles that definite each genre for them? There are plenty of esoteric choices, plenty of laughs, and plenty of just-plain “cray-cray” to make up for the lack of Jared. EPISODE 26.5: Charlotte & Jodie at PAX Australia Appearing: Jonathan, Charlotte, Jodie It’s been a long time since we touched base with Australian cohorts, so Jonathan took some time to sit down and catch up with Jodie and Charlotte and let them talk about their experiences at PAX Australia. They’re a couple of characters, so you’ll be sure to get a laugh out of this one. EPISODE 27 (7/22/13) Dance Until You Die Throughout the month of July, hosts Jonathan, Jared and Randy have taken a closer look at the deeper aspects of gaming and anime. Huge topics have been discussed…like music, narrative, graphics/artistry and even gameplay (admittedly, there wasn’t much anime in that episode). This week: the culmination of all those topics, as The Downpour Podcast discusses some of their favorite games of all time. This list isn’t a definitive Top 5, and some of the hosts went out of their way not to mention games or anime they’ve talked about hundreds of times. This episode runs at about two hours. Everyone spends ample time talking about the games and anime that had the most profound effects on them. There are plenty of great stories to be heard, and plenty of great games/anime discussed that listeners may not be aware of. It’s definitely a must listen! EPISODE 28 (8/1/13) Game/Anime of the Year So Far The big games release season is upon us now that August has arrived and are we as excited as can be! Before looking ahead, Jonathan, Jared, and Randy take a look back on the year and each give their Game of the Year “So Far”. What made the cut? What games almost made it? Leaving Jonathan in the dust, Jared and Randy launch in to their own Anime of the Year “So Far” as well. EPISODE 29 (8/7/13) The Little Shines in Your Eyes Lots of talk about the Nintendo Direct that just happened and future stuff coming from Nintendo. Expect plenty of talk about Dragon’s Crown and Tales of Xillia. Also: Randy began his journey with EarthBound; he has quite a bit to say. This week’s discussion features Jonathan, Jared and Randy talking about their “rage-quit” moments in gaming. This is surely a few minutes everyone can relate to. There are plenty of broken controllers, dying over and over again, and just plain giving up. After that, the show dives into anime. Jonathan has finally watched EVA. More on that when you hear from them next. EPISODE 30 (8/19/13) Why You Gotta Make Such Noise In lieu of a regular episode, here’s a look at a discussion that was left on the cutting room floor to feature our interview with Precursor Games way back on Episode 19 (June 3rd, 2013). Please do enjoy a talk of sequels, remakes, and the things that make them tick. Jonathan talks the expected Chrono Break and Golden Sun 4, Randy gives a little love to the LUNAR franchise, and Jared wants to see more from the Final Fantasy IX universe. As far as anime talk: Escaflowne takes center stage, but there’s tons more touched on in that second half! Since it’s a talk of sequels and remakes, one should be aware of spoilers when it comes to the games and franchises discussed, but they’re very veiled allusions at best; there’s nothing to worry about, really. EPISODE 31 (8/21/13) Arm-Wavy Zaniness The hosts share their thoughts on everything from the recent Gamescom announcements to Xenoblade Chronicles. Heck, there’s even a bit of Pokemon discussion in light of recent news to come from Game Freak! Also: Mario & Luigi: Dream Team, DuckTales Remastered, and Tales of Xillia, Metal Wolf Chaos and Ingress. The reason this show is so long is because everyone devoted over an hour to discussing Neon Genesis Evangelion, and whether Jonathan loved it or abhorred it. We “end” the show around the 1:06:47 mark (after giving non-EVA folks ample spoiler warnings), but there’s plenty more show after that for the dedicated EVA fans. EPISODE 32 (8/28/13) Nintendo 2Dees and 3Dees Looking forward to a regular and normal show this week? So were we, but SURPRISE! News came in like crazy this past week, specifically the day we were going to sit down and record. With those headlines still in our heads we threw our hat in the ring to give our thoughts and feelings on what Nintendo had to announce on the lazy late-August Wednesday. Price cuts, new hardware, game announcements, Kickstarter/crowd-funding; the whole gamut gets tackled by our usual crew of Jonathan, Jared, and Randy. While there isn’t a huge topic of discussion to be had, this episode is surely not short on content. EPISODE 33 (9/5/13) Take it to the Bank This week’s show doesn’t feature a deluge of news or an extra hour of streamlined discussion, but there’s still plenty to look forward to! Hosts Jonathan, Jared and Randy offer their take on the stories from this past week-or-so including Mighty No. 9, Bravely Default: For the Sequel, Theatrhythm: Curtain Call, the latest Pokemon Direct, and so much more. As far as what they’ve been playing—it’s most definitely a mixed bag this week. Jared has a bit to say about Spyro 2: Ripto’s Rage, and Jonathan offers quite a bit on Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse and how much Summer Carnival ’92: RECCA is destroying him. And regarding Randy’s journey through Tales of Xillia—apparently stuff went down! The anime section this week, on top of discussing a few bits of news and new developments in certain shows, features an in depth discussion on Free! – Iwatobi Swim Club, as per a listener request. And speaking of listener requests: Episode 34 of The Downpour Podcast will be a Roundtable on The Legend of Zelda franchise, one of our most requested shows. EPISODE 34 (9/23/13) Swords, Shields and… Chipmunks? This is the episode a handful of you have been waiting for! As per many a fan request, this week begets a Zelda Roundtable! Join Jonathan, Jared and Randy as they discuss every single game in conventional Zelda canon (some games get more time than others, but they’re all talked about to some extent!). Plenty of warm, fuzzy tales, plenty of nostalgia, and plenty of comedy awaits! EPISODE 35 (10/7/13) Kingdom Hearts, Two Brothers and… Cookie Clicker? The hosts sit down and talk about some big news and throw in our two cents on things like SteamOS/Steam Machines, Tokyo Game Show, and much more. There’s a full breakdown of what we’ve been playing and whether we think these games are worth your time. Should you play something like Obscure 2 now that it’s October? You’re going to have to listen to find out. Randy and Jared also dish about the Fall anime season and really dig into Free! Iwatobi Swim Club and Attack on Titan now that both series/seasons have come to an end. Did Attack on Titan keep it’s steam from the early first few episodes? Did the “Swimming Anime” deliver something worth the hype from that demo reel? Throw on some headphones and listen in to our thoughts. Fair warning: SPOILERS ABOUND. EPISODE 36 (10/21/13) That’s How We Roll Appearing: Randy, Jonathan, Jared Since last you heard the likes of Randy, Jonathan and Jared, some interesting things have happened. How did the three hosts react to the influx of Kingdom Hearts news from D23? What myriad of games has Randy been playing while recovering from being sick? What myriad of anime has Jared been watching while down for the count as well? How badly has Jonathan been affected by the release of Pokemon X&Y? Listen to this episode to find out how they roll. EPISODE 37 (11/1/13) How We Lost Our Virginity to Squall You’ve not heard an episode of The Downpour Podcast quite like this one before. You asked, and we delivered: Episode 37 of The Downpour Podcast is dedicated to all things Final Fantasy. Join Randy, Jonathan and Jared as they sit down to discuss every main entry in the series. Things like the characteristics of what make a Final Fantasy game are discussed during the opening of the show, but after that—things get kind of heavy. There is a ton of passion to be had between these three; be sure to let us know what you think! EPISODE 38 (11/18/13) Gotta Go Fast! When we sat down to record this episode we were on the eve of the new generation of consoles. Here we are now – living in that new generation. Before celebrating all the new shinies on our way we wanted to talk about the favorite and stand-out games of the past gen of PS3/360/Wii (Wow, that feels weird to say those systems are last gen.) and we get a TON of thoughts from you, our readers and listeners. Then it’s into the good stuff with the big news hits. It’s also no secret that Jonathan and Randy are big Sonic fans and Jonathan has even reviewed the Blue Blur’s newest adventure which means we’ve got lots of hedgehog to talk about. And Jared? Well, he may be new to the franchise, but he picked up Sonic Generations and has some words he’d like to say regarding his thoughts on SEGA’s mascot. EPISODE 39 (12/2/13) Next Gen is Current Gen The Playstation 4 is out, Xbox One is out, and the holidays are in full swing when it comes to game releases. Nintendo may have had their console out a year early, but they’re still bringing in the big guns with The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (which was reviewed by our very own Jonathan) and Super Mario 3D World (review is coming!). What are our thoughts on this barrage of newness? If that wasn’t enough to stuff you like Thanksgiving, Jared and Randy toss another helping of content your way with lots of anime talk including a look at Akira (with a corresponding plug to an excellent article by our own Jared) to get you psyched for it’s airing on Toonami this month. EPISODE 40 12/16/13) Games of the Year 2013/Most Anticipated Games of 2014 Well, folks, 2013 is coming to a close. It has been an absolutely bonkers year and with it all ending it’s time to sit and reflect on all the awesome games we got this go around the sun. That’s right, it’s time for us to give you Randy, Jared, and Jonathan’s individual Top 5 Games of the Year. We got our lists, checked it twice, and are here to deliver. Are games of the year lists not enough for you? Not content with one present this holiday season? Fine, we’ve got more! We also bring you our Most Anticipated Games of 2014! What are we hyped about? What can’t we wait to sink our teeth into? Admittedly, if you’re an avid listener of the show you know what might be coming, but there are also plenty of surprises to be had! EPISODE 40.5 (12/30/13) Anime of the Year 2013/Most Anticipated Anime of 2014 Appearing: Jared, Randy Randy and Jared return for the second portion of our end of year shows, this time bringing you our Top 5 Anime of the Year. Okay, so Jonathan is around to give his two cents for a couple of minutes, but this is Randy and Jared’s territory. As if that wasn’t enough we’ve also got our Most Anticipated Anime of 2014!There’s a few high-profile shows on the horizon and we can’t contain our excitement! EPISODE 41 (1/13/14) Poisoning Your Pizza Appearing: Jonathan, Randy, Jared Jonathan, Randy and Jared recap the holidays! What games did they play with family and friends? What games did they manage to sneak away and plan on their own? You’ve got questions—they’ve got answers. The show starts off with plenty of Mario talk, then discusses recent news about things like Phantasy Star Online 2, Mighty No. 9, and the December 18th Nintendo Direct. Games discussed include Super Mario 3D World, Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, The Wind Waker HD, Tearaway, and much more. This week in anime: expect some talk about Akira and Wolf Children, as well as Kill la Kill, the recent announcements regarding Sword Art Online, the ending ofValvrave The Liberator (minus spoilers), and more! EPISODE 42 (1/27/14) We Get Stealthy Appearing: Jonathan, Jared, Randy, Stealth We’re all eagerly awaiting February for some of our highly anticipated games like Bravely Defaultand Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII and we couldn’t be more excited. Of course we can’t talk video games, RPGs, and Final Fantasy without also giving our two cents on the most recent mobile release of Final Fantasy VI, but you might hear some things you wouldn’t expect! To kick off a brand new segment featuring community guests, we have Stealth, known from another podcast called RPGrinders (which you can listen to every Friday LIVE at 8 P.M. Eastern Time). Following that up we’ve got a healthy dose of anime talk! How’s that Winter anime season coming? We might just be too busy with Kill la Kill and Space Dandy! And so much more! EPISODE 43 (2/10/14) Boom Appearing: Jonathan, Jared, Randy, WildCardCorsair What’s on the show this week? All of our latest reviews and editorials, some Theatrhythm talk, a dash of Monster Hunter, and some talk about the Nintendo Q3 Financial Results Meeting. Also: how do the three hosts feel about Sonic Boom and the new direction of the Sonic brand? Results may vary. Games discussed include PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale, Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII (Demo), The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of Lions, and…wait for it…Pokemon Bank! There’s more where that came from, including some titles you wouldn’t expect. Chris sat down to talk with us about Handheld Gaming. Expect discussion on everything from Killzone Mercenary and Velocity Ultra to Super Mario 3D Land and Shin Megami Tensei IV. There’s plenty of love for both the PlayStation Vita and the Nintendo 3DS. For those of you interested in the interview, it starts at 1:33:05. EPISODE 43 Part 2 (2/10/14) Recently, This Podcast is Unusual The second part of this week’s show is devoted entirely to the Winter Anime season. Here’s everything we talked about, whether for a few minutes or a little longer: Nagi no Asukara, Golden Time, Kill la Kill, Tonari no Seki-kun: The Master of Killing Time, The Pilot’s Love Song, Recently, My Sister is Unusual, Engaged to the Unidentified, Witch Craft Works, Pupa, Wake Up, Girls!, Nobunagun, Sakura Trick, Noragami, Inari KonKon, Koi Iroha, and finally Space Dandy. Plenty of impressions, and a handful of recommendations! Are there any among this list that you, our listeners, would recommend? We’re always eager to hear what you have to say! EPISODE 44 (2/24/14) I’ve Seen the Fanfiction Appearing: Jonathan, Jared, Randy, ZPRDingo This episode starts off with a lengthy discussion about all the exciting stuff to come out of the Nintendo Direct that happened on February 13th. After that, there’s talk of two Final Fantasy remakes…XII and VII, respectively. But…the gaming section really focuses on three big titles that Jared, Randy and Jonathan spent huge chunk(s) of time with. And since we’re talking about games that came out less than a year ago, less than two weeks ago, or maybe even sooner, beware. There’s also some spoilers about a certain show in the anime section! Jared talks Grand Theft Auto V, but the talk gets fairly spoiler-heavy from 48:00 to 58:02, specifically in regards to how things end and the structure of some later missions. Randy talks at length about Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII and manages to remain spoiler-free outside of a last minute slip from 1:27:32 to 1:28:24. And last but not least, Jonathan talks Bravely Default. He gets pretty heated about some plot details that happen in the second half of the game from 1:40:55 to 1:44:30. In the anime section, there’s some talk about Attack on Titan’s English dub, more news, more discussion, and a talk about Kill la Kill from 2:37:10 to 2:44:05 that spoils up to Episode 19. Last but not least, we’re still continuing our segment featuring community guests. This time, welcome long-time listener ZPRDingo from Basement Quality. SPECIAL Episode (2/28/14): Golden Time Appearing: Jared, Oscar Jared sat down with a special guest from the Operation Rainfall Staff, the one and only Oscar! They reflect on everything from the anime series up to episode 19, so newcomers to the series beware. Spoilers start at 6:30, but even if you haven’t seen Golden Time, we think you’ll enjoy this full-on discussion. With a focus on character progression and major plot points along the way, Jared and Oscar pick apart the series’ strong ability to pull off the “Golden Time Effect,” or the ability to constantly move away from the norm of the average romance anime. All characters are discussed, along with a serious discussion on choosing either Team Koko or Team Linda. The episode closes with their final thoughts and predictions on where Golden Time will finally come to a conclusion. There are only four more episodes before the series finale! EPISODE 45 (3/10/14) Compilation of Downpour Podcast: Advent Children Appearing: Jonathan, Jared, Randy, Joe Walker On the show this week: a little less news, but a little more site content to discuss! After some business, Jonathan, Jared and Randy have a decent discussion aboutFinal Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete. Tune in for some history that goes a tad beyond what they discussed during the Final Fantasy Roundtable from a while back—but be careful of spoilers for Advent Children during the talk! In games: Randy and Jared talk at length about Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII. Has Randy been enjoying the game, even after his review has gone live? How does Jared feel about it? Also: Jonathan’s been experiencing Pokémon in different ways than one might imagine. Last but not least, there’s talk of the new Strider game on the back-end. This week’s special guest is Joe Walker, a big fan of retro gaming who happens to be the same guy as the one you’ll find in The Backlog with Joe Walker. And in the anime section, enjoy some talk about The Wind Rises and Miyazaki. How will his retirement affect the future of 2D animation as we know it? EPISODE 46 (3/24/14) Yoshi’s NEW Downpour Podcast Are you ready for another awesome show? Because we’ve got it right here for you. We tease oprainfall’s first soundtrack review with Jonathan importing Yoko Shimomura’s Memoria album. We also get some time to talk about Jon’s experiences with Yoshi’s New Island. Is it eggstremely fun? Take a listen and, if you want more, check out his review! We also have plenty of what we’ve been playing talk with titles like Sonic Lost World, Remember Me, Super Mario Sunshine, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, and second opinions on Lightning Returns from Jared. Following our new usual, we have another guest topic segments where we invite some cool peeps from around the internet to talk to us about video games and topics that are near and dear to their hearts. We brought Stealth back o talk about Anime to Manga and Manga to Anime Transitions/Adaptations. Following that up we’ve got a healthy dose of anime talk! How’s that Winter anime season coming? We might just be too busy with Kill la Kill and Space Dandy! And so much more! EPISODE 47 (4/7/14) Pre-PAX Hype 2014 Appearing: Jonathan, Jared, Randy, Eric We hit you with some recent news, what we’ve been playing, and cap off our gaming section with a sit down with Jon, Jared, and Eric – our PAX East team. They will be at the event covering all the stuff you want to know about as well as bringing podcast updates during the show. We cap it off with a talk of anime. And Jon watches something Randy recommended – Eden of the East! We also talk the ending of the Winter anime season including the now infamous Kill la Kill. It’s an exciting show you don’t wanna miss. Sen-ni-soshitsu! EPISODE PAX East 2014 Day 1 (4/12/14) Recap Appearing: Jonathan, Jared, Eric Jonathan, Jared, and Eric all arrived safely and took to the show floor to get some games under their belt. Shovel Knight, Kero Blaster, Y2K, and other awesome games and events were had. Jonathan, Jared, and Eric are back at it at PAX East. Let them regale you with stories of the cool games they got to try their hand at as well as some neat stories that could only happen at PAX. All good things must end and, sadly, that includes PAX East 2014. Jonathan, Jared, and Eric bring it in and wrap up all there is to the last day of PAX East 2014. How did it go? Did they all make it out alive? EPISODE 48 (4/28/14) Back Into the Swing Appearing: Jonathan, Randy, WildCardCorsair Jonathan and Randy return after a week’s hiatus because Jared flew off to foreign lands, and Jonathan caught the flu. The two were feeling a little lonely and felt the best way to show Jared how jealous they were of the trip he’s on was to invite a special community guest to sit down for the whole duration of the show! The show’s a bit on the shorter side compared to most, but there was still a ton to talk about. Be sure to tune in! EPISODE 49 (5/12/14) When I Was in Japan Did you guys know? Jared was in Japan. This week’s episode is all about that! Randy and Jonathan catch up with their well-traveled friend as he accounts the greatest moments from his trip. What did he see? More importantly, what did he buy? This episode seeks to answer those kinds of questions, for all who are curious. But don’t worry! The three hosts also talk about what they’ve been playing and watching. Jared talks about the games that traveled with him to Japan, what he brought back, and the occasional mention of Super Mario Bros. 3. Randy continues to conquer his backlog with mentions of Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm 3: FULL BURST and Mass Effect 3. And Jonathan, slowly but surely beginning his descent into retro-gaming madness, talks about the three games he bought (and played) from the Game Boy era–Adventure Island II: Aliens in Paradise, Bomberman GB, and Final Fantasy Legend III. More madness to come! Determined to stay modern to some extent, though, Jonathan also talks about Kirby Triple Deluxe. His reaction to the game may surprise you! 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__label__cc	0.636133	0.363867	Hallo from Berlin! July 12, 2010 in Filed Under: Berlin, Europe, Honeymooning, Travel, Travel Bug (Really, we’re in Paris now, but who is checking? Oh right, you all are…) I wanted to post about Berlin once we were settled in Amsterdam, but once again, shanty internet has plagued me. Luckily our internet now in Paris works like a charm! Woo!!!! I would live in Berlin. Let’s just throw that out there now. There’s just something about it that’s very calming, even though it is a major city. No one is in a rush! Yes, there are bicycles everywhere, but it’s not a crazy atmosphere of people trying to get around. The people were friendly, a ton spoke pretty perfect English, and all were willing to help. Our hotel in Berlin was great. Very hip, modern and had a great staff that immediately made us feel at home, and were extremely helpful! Great to see from a hotel that’s barely been open a year! We started off our first full day in the city by hopping on a bike tour! I cannot recommend Fat Tire Bike Tours enough. They were fantastic. Our tour guide was fantastic. And I discovered my love for a cruiser style bike, rather than a mountain bike. Looks like I might be making a trade when I get home! The tour took us all around Berlin, and we biked back and forth between the West and East sides. Amazing to think that less than 30 years ago the Berlin wall was still standing, and being able to hop back and forth across the city like that was impossible. This line runs all across Berlin to mark where the wall once stood. If you’re standing on the side facing the plaque, you were on the West side, (the free side). Standing with the plaque upside down to you, meant you were standing on the East Side, the Communist side. That night Dave and I decided to get some authentic German food, and Lonely Planet (our guide throughout this whole trip!) recommended Schwarzwaldstuben, which was local to where we were staying. It was great! We had delicious beer, and great cuisine. I had the geschmelzte maultaschen, which could basically be summed up as a cross between a ravioli and a pierogi (kind of). Regardless, it was delicious! We did a lot of walking around during our other full day in Berlin, went to the Pergamon Museum, ate some curry wurst, explored a lot, and then watched some of the Netherlands vs Uruguay semi final World Cup match! Me hanging out with the 2010 World Cup mascot (his name is Zakumi, in case you were curious), and one of the many screens in the Berlin FIFA Fan Park. The architecture of Berlin was so vastly different than Prague, or even than London! I had to keep reminding myself that the reason everything looked so new, and that there really weren’t any “old” buildings was because of how ruined the city was between both World War II, and the Cold War. They had so much to rebuild! When you take all that into consideration, it’s really amazing how far the city has come in the short time it’s been given. Also, something that struck me was a quote our bike tour guide told us, which of course I can’t remember the exact wording of, but basically it was that although many, MANY Germans would would like to completely forget about all the atrocities that occurred within their country during the 20th Century, they have adopted the idea that they must live with the past, no matter how sordid, and only look to the future. I definitely saw this in all of the monuments to the Berlin Wall, and all of the monuments and memorials dedicated to the Jews that were persecuted during WWII. They were all over the place. I was sad to leave Berlin, but so excited to get to Amsterdam!! Here are some more pictures from Berlin! “The Missing House“ Berlin’s TV Tower Dave and a liter beer (he was very excited for those!) The Reichstag (Parliament building), taken w/ our panoramic tool on the camera The Holocaust Memorial Dave and I in front of the Brandenburg Gate One of the few large stretches of the Wall still standing (from the eastern side) An art installation of the wall – from the western side. Dave and I standing on either side of where the wall once stood Ashalah says Ohhh I loved Berlin!! It took me a day or more to actually warm up to it, didn't like it at first but once I got to learn the history and talk with the people there I started enjoying it more!! It also looks like you had much nicer weather than when I was there. 🙂 I'm so glad you guys are going to all these different cities instead of just sticking to one place! Sounds like you're having a blast. mm says I LOVE Berlin. I was actually planning to move there after I graduated from college, and then I met my husband a month before graduation and made the choice to stay in the US. :o) YAY! Can we relocate the BXUG to Germany? I can translate everything. I love Berlin! BakerGirl says Berlin is on my "must see" list! I just saw a movie not that long ago about the wall and the group who built a tunnel underneath. It was crazy and heart-wrenching knowing it was based on a true story. If I can think of the name I'll forward it to you. Have fun in Paris!!! Wow! Look at you! This looks like a good trip. I hope you're having a good time! The geschmelzte maultaschen looks incredible. Breathe Gently says Berlin looks great! Really looking forward to visiting later this year.. remind me to pick your brains when I get home about MUST SEES!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line316
__label__cc	0.548366	0.451634	newswire article reporting united states 20.Mar.2011 16:30 actions & protests \| imperialism & war Video: M19.2011-Military Madness Robs Us All author: Jim Lockhart e-mail: jglockhart@comcast.net Portland Rally at Pioneer Square and March through Portland commemorating 8 years in Iraq, and protesting the ongoing wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan and now Libya. But this is only the tip of the iceberg of our love affair with Empire, war and death. How Is The War Economy Working Out For You? "According to the Defense Department's annual "Base Structure Report" for fiscal year 2003, which itemizes foreign and domestic U.S. military real estate, the Pentagon currently owns or rents 702 overseas bases in about 130 countries and has another 6,000 bases in the United States and its territories." "The military high command deploys to our overseas bases some 253,288 uniformed personnel, plus an equal number of dependents and Department of Defense civilian officials, and employs an additional 44,446 locally hired foreigners. The Pentagon claims that these bases contain 44,870 barracks, hangars, hospitals, and other buildings, which it owns, and that it leases 4,844 more." Common Dreams These are just examples of the War Economy of the United States. It reaches into the very heart of our country and exudes from every pore. In order to dominate the planet and insure our security, the U.S. allocates 59% of it's discretionary budget to the Military(Department of Defense, War, Veterans Affairs and Nuclear Weapons Programs. Such expenditures constantly demand cuts in funding for education, health care and other social service programs, as evidenced, for example, by recent Republican attempted cuts to Planned Parenthood and National Public Radio. Master of Ceremonies for the event was Mark Knudson, senior pastor at Augustana Lutheran Church in Portland. He gave a few brief introductory comments and introduced four speakers: Ray Harris, President of Oregon Iraq Vetrans Against the War; Will Seaman, member of various Portland groups and speaking for Community Meida in general and KBOO 90.7 Radio in particular; Barbara Dudley, former director of Greenpeace USA and currently active with the Working Family Party of Oregon; and Francisco Lopez, Oregon CAUSA. Speakers at the event all descried this state of affairs, and the escalating political attempts to weaken unions and attack and incriminate all those who speak out to reduce the bloated and entrenched military budgets. After about 1/2 hour of speeches, the crowd marched through downtown Portland with stops at the Oregonian, the Federal Building, the World Trade Center, and the Portland Saturday Market, before winding back up Broadway for a spirited return to Pioneer Square. thanx 20.Mar.2011 22:00 gk link Awesome video, thanx! Boo! 24.Mar.2011 17:18 Robin Banks link Shame on all of you! Eight years of the same failed tactics, and what do you decide to do? Well, of course more of the same. Marching around in circles and waving signs will not stop the war(s). What might stop it is a debate worth having, but clearly these tactics have had no tangible effect whatsoever. So what gives? Why keep doing something that you know fully well hasn't worked for the past 8 years?	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line324
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__label__wiki	0.723143	0.723143	Wavelength-dependent emission enhancement through the design of active plasmonic nanoantennas Mélanie Ferrié, Nicola Pinna, Serge Ravaine, and Renaud A. L. Vallée Mélanie Ferrié,1 Nicola Pinna,2,3 Serge Ravaine,1 and Renaud A. L. Vallée1,* 1Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal (CNRS-UPR8641), 115 av. Dr A. Schweitzer, 33600 Pessac, France 2Department of Chemistry, CICECO, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal 3World Class University (WCU) Program of Chemical Convergence for Energy and Environment (C2E2), School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, College of Engineering, Seoul National University (SNU), Seoul 151-744, Korea *Corresponding author: vallee@crpp-bordeaux.cnrs.fr M Ferrié N Pinna S Ravaine R Vallée Mélanie Ferrié, Nicola Pinna, Serge Ravaine, and Renaud A. L. Vallée, "Wavelength-dependent emission enhancement through the design of active plasmonic nanoantennas," Opt. Express 19, 17697-17712 (2011) Optics at Surfaces Light scattering Localized surface plasmon resonance Near infrared radiation Fluorescent and luminescent materials (160.2540) Nanomaterials (160.4236) Plasmonics (250.5403) Original Manuscript: June 27, 2011 Revised Manuscript: July 26, 2011 Manuscript Accepted: July 27, 2011 Owing to the competition between the radiative and non-radiative decay channels occurring in plasmonic assemblies, we show here how to conceive a long pass emission filter and actually design it. We report the synthesis of gold@silica nanoparticles grafted with dye molecules. The control of the thickness of the silica shell allows us to tune the distance between the metal core and the dye molecules. Assemblies of small number (1 to 7) of these core-shell (CS) particles, considered as multimers, have also been produced for the first time. We show that the shaping of the emission spectra of the multimers is drastically enhanced by comparison with the corresponding monomers. We also show a strong enhancement of the decay rates at the LSP resonance, dominated by the non-radiative energy tranfer from the active medium to the metal. The decay rates decrease as the detuning between the long wavelength emission and the LSP resonance increases. Broadband spontaneous emission rate enhancement through the design of plasmonic nanoantennas Renaud A. L. Vallée, Mélanie Ferrié, Hassan Saadaoui, and Serge Ravaine Opt. Mater. Express 2(5) 566-577 (2012) Excitation and emission enhancement of single molecule fluorescence through multiple surface-plasmon resonances on metal trimer nanoantennas V. Giannini and J. A. Sánchez-Gil Opt. 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Fig. 2 (a) Simulated reflectivity spectra of monomers, trimers in line and heptamers with gold core diameter of 60 nm and silica shell thickness of 10, 20 and 30 nm, respectively. (b) LSP resonance as a function of the number of monomers coupled in a multimer for a silica shell thickness ranging from 10, 20 to 30 nm, respectively. Solid lines are linear fits of the LSP resonances as a function of the number of monomers coupled in a multimer. Non-radiative, radiative and total enhancement rates (c) as well as the apparent quantum yield (d) as a function of wavelength for dimers with a shell varying from 10 to 20 and 30 nm, respectively. Fig. 3 (a) Absorption and emission spectra of RITC molecules, absorption spectra of CS monomers and CSM multimers in ethanol. (b) Absorption and emission spectra of RITC molecules, absorption spectra of CS+ and CS+M NPs in ethanol. Fig. 4 Time and spectrally resolved spontaneous emission intensities of RITC molecules (a), CS+3 (b) and CS+3M in ethanol (c). Fig. 5 Emission spectra of RITC molecules, RITC molecules grafted to 100 nm diameter silica beads, CS+ active monomer and CS+M active multimer NPs in ethanol solutions. Fig. 6 Decay profiles as a function of wavelength for RITC molecules (a), CS+3 monomers (b) and CS+3M multimers in ethanol (c). The solid lines are convoluted stretched exponentials fits with the instrumental response function of the setup of the various decay profiles. Fig. 7 Decay times as a function of silica shell thickness, 10 (a), 20 (b) and 30 nm (c) and as a function of the emission wavelength for the monomers CS+ and multimers CS+M. Also shown for comparison are the wavelength-independent decay times of pure RITC molecules in ethanol.The solid lines are linear fits of the decay times as a function of wavelength. Fig. 8 Decay rate enhancement gt (λ) as a function of silica shell thickness (10, 20 and 30nm) and as a function of the emission wavelength for the multimers CS+1M, CS+2M and CS+3M. The solid lines are fits g t ( λ ) ∝ 1 λ of the decay times as a function of wavelength.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line345
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__label__wiki	0.597451	0.597451	PlayTV gets social network features April 15th, 2010, 20:58 Posted By: wraggster Sony Europe's PlayTV peripheral for the PlayStation 3 is to see the addition of new social network features, including Facebook. In a brief post made by PlayStation Network product manager James Thorpe on the official PlayStation blog it was indicated that Sony's Cambridge studios have already begun testing some of the new features. The public update is due "later this year", with Thorpe promising "links to the world's most popular social network site, Facebook" and "other great enhancements to PlayTV and brand new features". Sony may be attempting to emulate some of the social features present in the Xbox 360 support for Sky digital services, which allow users to watch video content communally and chat via Xbox Live. The PlayTV hardware add-on is only available in Europe and other regions that use the same television technology. The peripheral acts as a digital television receiver and digital video recorder, with UK sales put at 85,000 units by September 2008. An equivalent peripheral named torne was revealed for Japan earlier in the year, but despite using similar television technology no release has yet been announced for North America. http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...twork-features	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line347
__label__cc	0.684113	0.315887	Reviews - Fringe 2018 The Modern Suffragette By Mackenzie Kristjon Jenkyns Writer / Director / Actress: Eileen Higdon Show Type: Theatre Audience: All Ages URL: http://hamiltonfringe.ca/shows/modern-suffragette/ I met Eileen after another play and was curious to see what her play was all about, so I wandered into b contemporary gallery to take a trip into the past when women were still fighting for the vote. Eileen plays an English suffragette who has been jailed for disturbing the peace in her efforts to raise awareness and lobby for the vote. Then, out of nowhere, the story goes from a historical recounting of this significant episode in human history to a time-travel adventure led by the new female Dr. Who! I know. "What? I did not see that coming." Soon we are whisked off into the future and a different country: Pickering, Ontario. This is almost Dickensian, with Dr. Who as the Ghost of Christmas Future. All the hopes and dreams of how women were going to take significant roles in society are dashed completely. Women are very under-represented in politics, especially in Pickering, our suffragette learns. She finds this very depressing and considers giving up the cause, but luckily Dr. Who saves the day. To find out how, check out The Modern Suffragette at b contemporary. Mackenzie Kristjon is an Icelandic-Canadian singer-songwriter and all around creative force. He has published numerous books including the award-winning Culinary Saga of New Iceland. He also has roots in community radio at CFRU 93.3 FM in Guelph. To hear/see/download his music, you can visit thismaddesire.bandcamp.com.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line350
__label__wiki	0.678007	0.678007	What Do Amish Children Have Less Of? AND WHY? August 11, 2016 - Uncategorized - Tagged: Amish, Asthma, Cows, Range, RANGEfire - no comments According to this article from the Elko Daily Free Press, Asthma is the answer to the first Question, and Cows are the answer to the second. CHICAGO (AP) — Forget Fluffy and Fido. Bessie the cow just might make a healthier pet. That idea stems from new research in two farming-based religious communities that shun modern ways but have dramatically different childhood asthma rates. The goal was to find an explanation for why asthma is so uncommon among Amish communities, where children run barefoot in dairy barns and farm fields, but much higher in the other group. Blood samples, house dust and mice experiments revealed some tantalizing clues, suggesting something in the dust was protecting the Amish children. The study was published in Thursday’s New England Journal of Medicine. It involved 60 school-aged children — 30 each from an Amish community in Middlebury, Indiana, and from a Hutterite colony near Mitchell, South Dakota. Amish and Hutterites both originated in Europe, share old-style Protestant beliefs and lifestyles and have similar genetic ancestry. But Hutterites live on large highly industrialized communal farms, use modern agricultural machinery, and children are more isolated from livestock. By contrast, the Amish have family-run farms, they use horse-drawn plows, their barns often are located near their homes and their children have daily exposure to farm animals, the researchers explained. Asthma is a lung disease involving narrowed airways and episodes of wheezing, coughing and breathing difficulties. Its cause is unknown but scientists believe genes and the environment play a role. Having a family history of allergy or asthma increases the risk, and pollution, dust and pet dander are among triggers in susceptible people. No Amish children and six Hutterites had asthma. Other studies have found rates of about 5 percent in Amish school-aged children versus up to about 20 percent in Hutterites and 10 percent for U.S. kids. Reasons for the higher Hutterite rate aren’t known but exhaust from farm machinery is an unlikely explanation because they typically don’t come in close contact with it, said study co-author Carole Ober, a University of Chicago geneticist. Blood tests confirmed both groups of children had similar genetic profiles. But Amish children had far more white blood cells called neutrophils — important in fighting infections. Plus, these cells looked younger in Amish kids, suggesting their immune system was constantly stimulated by exposure to germs to produce more. Other blood cells called monocytes were found in similar numbers in both groups. Previous studies suggest these cells are hyperactive in allergy-prone children but the cells showed signs of being less responsive to allergy triggers in the Amish kids, said co-author Anne Sperling, a University of Chicago immunologist. “This was a phenomenal difference,” she said. “We were blown away.” She said the second “gee-whiz moment” came after researchers collected Amish and Hutterite house dust and tested it on special mice sensitized to develop asthma symptoms. Hutterite dust triggered breathing troubles and inflamed airways in the mice; Amish dust did not. What exactly is in Amish house dust that might protect children is not known and more research is planned to find out, but the study authors theorized it could be microbes including bacteria from dairy cows. “We could just say put a cow in everyone’s house and no one would have asthma anymore but of course that’s not easy,” Ober said with a chuckle. But if protective germs can be identified, it might someday be possible to create an asthma blocker for all children, she said. A journal editorial said the study bolsters evidence that exposure to germs from traditional farming may protect against asthma. The results also support the so-called “hygiene hypothesis,” which theorizes that relatively germ-free homes of modern society make infants more vulnerable to allergies and asthma. Dr. Talal Chatila, an allergy expert at Boston Children’s Hospital who wrote the editorial, said the study doesn’t answer when and how often exposure to farm dust might be needed to protect children and if it needs to begin before birth. Ober noted that research has shown that infants whose families have dogs are less likely to develop asthma and allergies but that acquiring a dog later on doesn’t make a difference.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line352
__label__wiki	0.538464	0.538464	Coordinator: Jon Tyler (jon.tyler1@gmail.com) The section of line between the layby and Bridge of Bennie is arguably the most scenic section of the line. It is thus hoped to open up this section of the line as soon as possible after completion of the run-around loop and siding No. 2 at the layby in order to make a journey on the train an even more attractive experience. Track panels have been laid as far as they can whilst accommodating Aberdeenshire Council's request for access to the Deeside Way through the layby area to carry out their upgrade works. Until they are completed further track laying westwards is suspended but in the meantime the missing components for the loop west turnout are being sourced, as are additional concrete sleepers sufficient to reach the Bridge of Bennie (approximately 500), so that we will be all set for when track laying resumes. Current end of the main line Sleepers stacked on the track bed west of the layby Looking west along the Deeside Way from just west of the layby Looking west part way around the bend between the layby and the Bridge of Bennie Approaching the Bridge of Bennie from the east The Bridge of Bennie looking west	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line353
__label__cc	0.554955	0.445045	Jai Wolf Jai Wolf is an alias of Sajeeb Saha, a producer of cinematic, dreamlike Electronic music. His style stabilized as he gained notice for his remix work including that of Skrillex’s “Ease My Mind,” which lead to a partnership with OWSLA. His first original track, “Indian Summer” was released on ODESZA’s Foreign Family Collective in 2015 and reached #1 on the iTunes Electronic charts. His genre-bending Kindred Spirits EP followed in 2016, which led to Jai Wolf selling out venues on a national headlining tour. 2017 brings performances at Coachella, Lollapalooza, Capitol Hill Block Party, amongst others. Jai Wolf - "Starlight feat. Mr. Gabriel" (Writer/Performer)  Jai Wolf - Kindred Spirits EP (Writer/Performer)  Jai Wolf - "Drive feat. The Chain Gang of 1974" (Writer/Perfomer)  Jai Wolf - "Indian Summer"  Jai Wolf - "Lost"  Jai Wolf - "Better Apart" (Writer / Performer) 	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line355
__label__wiki	0.731986	0.731986	MalaysiaUnited StatesRussiaSingaporeJapanGermanyUnited KingdomFranceCanadaAustraliaIndonesiaSpainPhilippinesHong KongItalyBrazilChinaTaiwanEgyptThailandPolandSwedenSouth KoreaArgentinaMexicoBelgiumBruneiVietnamCzechiaNetherlandsRomaniaHungaryIndiaChileColombiaNorwayUkraineVenezuelaSwitzerlandIraqSaudi ArabiaSlovakiaEstoniaPortugalGuatemalaSloveniaFinlandNew ZealandUnited Arab EmiratesGreecePeruJordanBelarusSenegalSerbiaTurkeyIsraelBulgariaAustriaLiechtensteinLebanonNepalIrelandAzerbaijanPakistanMauritiusHondurasTajikistanLithuaniaCote d'IvoireMoldovaGuamFrench GuianaMongoliaSouth AfricaGeorgiaCroatiaDenmark Poland Population: 38,523,261 Poland's history as a state began near the middle of the 10th century. By the mid-16th century, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ruled a vast tract of land in Central and Eastern Europe. During the 18th century, internal disorders weakened the nation, and in a series of agreements between 1772 and 1795, Russia, Prussia, and Austria partitioned Poland among themselves. Poland regained its independence in 1918 only to be overrun by Germany and the Soviet Union in World War II. It became a Soviet satellite state following the war, but its government was comparatively tolerant and progressive. Labor turmoil in 1980 led to the formation of the independent trade union "Solidarity" that over time became a political force with over 10 million members. Free elections in 1989 and 1990 won Solidarity control of the parliament and the presidency, bringing the communist era to a close. A "shock therapy" program during the early 1990s enabled the country to transform its economy into one of the most robust in Central Europe. Poland joined NATO in 1999 and the EU in 2004. With its transformation to a democratic, market-oriented country largely completed and with large investments in defense, energy, and other infrastructure, Poland is an increasingly active member of Euro-Atlantic organizations. Historically, an area of conflict because of flat terrain and the lack of natural barriers on the North European Plain Location: Central Europe, east of Germany Size comparison: about twice the size of Georgia; slightly smaller than New Mexico Land Boundaries: total: 3,071 km border countries (7): Belarus 418 km, Czech Republic 796 km, Germany 467 km, Lithuania 104 km, Russia (Kaliningrad Oblast) 210 km, Slovakia 541 km, Ukraine 535 km exclusive economic zone: defined by international treaties Climate: temperate with cold, cloudy, moderately severe winters with frequent precipitation; mild summers with frequent showers and thundershowers Terrain: mostly flat plain; mountains along southern border Natural resources: coal, sulfur, copper, natural gas, silver, lead, salt, amber, arable land Natural hazards: flooding Current Environment Issues: decreased emphasis on heavy industry and increased environmental concern by post-communist governments has improved environment; air pollution remains serious because of emissions from coal-fired power plants and the resulting acid rain has caused forest damage; water pollution from industrial and municipal sources is also a problem, as is disposal of hazardous wastes International Environment Agreements: party to: Air Pollution, Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Seals, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands signed, but not ratified: Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Air Pollution-Sulfur 94 Nationality: noun: Pole(s) adjective: Polish Ethnic groups: Polish 96.9%, Silesian 1.1%, German 0.2%, Ukrainian 0.1%, other and unspecified 1.7% note: represents ethnicity declared first (2011 est.) Languages: Polish (official) 98.2%, Silesian 1.4%, other 1.1%, unspecified 1.3% note: data represents the language spoken at home; shares sum to more than 100% because some respondents gave more than one answer on the census; Poland ratified the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages in 2009 recognizing Kashub as a regional language, Czech, Hebrew, Yiddish, Belarusian, Lithuanian, German, Armenian, Russian, Slovak, and Ukrainian as national minority languages, and Karaim, Lemko, Romani (Polska Roma and Bergitka Roma), and Tatar as ethnic minority languages (2011 est.) Religions: Catholic 87.2% (includes Roman Catholic 86.9% and Greek Catholic, Armenian Catholic, and Byzantine-Slavic Catholic .3%), Orthodox 1.3% (almost all are Polish Autocephalous Orthodox), Protestant 0.4% (mainly Augsburg Evangelical and Pentacostal), other 0.4% (includes Jehovah's Witness, Buddhist, Hare Krishna, Gaudiya Vaishnavism, Muslim, Jewish, Mormon), unspecified 10.8% (2012 est.) rate of urbanization: -0.1% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.) Major urban areas - population: WARSAW (capital) 1.722 million; Krakow 760,000 (2015) female: 4 deaths/1,000 live births (2016 est.) HIV/AIDS - deaths: NA Obesity - adult prevalence rate: 27% (2014) Country name: conventional long form: Republic of Poland conventional short form: Poland local long form: Rzeczpospolita Polska local short form: Polska etymology: name derives from the Polanians, a west Slavic tribe that united several surrounding Slavic groups (9th-10th centuries A.D.) and who passed on their name to the country; the name of the tribe likely comes from the Slavic "pole" (field or plain), indicating the flat nature of their country Capital: name: Warsaw Administrative divisions: 16 provinces (wojewodztwa, singular - wojewodztwo); Dolnoslaskie (Lower Silesia), Kujawsko-Pomorskie (Kuyavia-Pomerania), Lodzkie (Lodz), Lubelskie (Lublin), Lubuskie (Lubusz), Malopolskie (Lesser Poland), Mazowieckie (Masovia), Opolskie (Opole), Podkarpackie (Subcarpathia), Podlaskie, Pomorskie (Pomerania), Slaskie (Silesia), Swietokrzyskie (Holy Cross), Warminsko-Mazurskie (Warmia-Masuria), Wielkopolskie (Greater Poland), Zachodniopomorskie (West Pomerania) Independence: 11 November 1918 (republic proclaimed); notable earlier dates: 966 (adoption of Christianity, traditional founding date), 1 July 1569 (Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth created) National holiday: Constitution Day, 3 May (1791) Constitution: history: several previous; latest adopted 2 April 1997, approved by referendum 25 May 1997, effective 17 October 1997 amendments: proposed by at least one-fifth of Sejm deputies, by the Senate, or by the president of the republic; passage requires at least two-thirds majority vote in the Sejm and absolute majority vote in the Senate; amendments to articles relating to sovereignty, personal freedoms, and constitutional amendment procedures also require passage by majority vote in a referendum; amended 2006, 2009, 2015 (2016) Legal system: civil law system; judicial review of legislative, administrative, and other governmental acts; constitutional law rulings of the Constitutional Tribunal are final Executive branch: chief of state: President Andrzej DUDA (since 6 August 2015) head of government: Prime Minister Beata SZYDLO (since 16 November 2015); Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Culture and National Heritage Piotr GLINSKI (since 16 November 2015), Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and Higher Education Jaroslaw GOWIN (since 16 November 2015), and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Development Mateusz MORAWIECKI (since 16 November 2015) cabinet: Council of Ministers proposed by the prime minister, appointed by the president, and approved by the Sejm elections/appointments: president directly elected by absolute majority popular vote in 2 rounds if needed for a 5-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held on 10 and 24 May 2015 (next to be held in 2020); prime minister, deputy prime ministers, and Council of Ministers appointed by the president and confirmed by the Sejm election results: Andrzej DUDA elected president; percent of vote in runoff - Andrzej DUDA 51.5%, Bronislaw KOMOROWSKI (independent) 48.5% Legislative branch: description: bicameral legislature consists of the Senate or Senat (100 seats; members directly elected in single-seat constituencies by simple majority vote to serve 4-year terms) and the Sejm (460 seats; members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by proportional representation vote to serve 4-year terms); note - the designation National Assembly or Zgromadzenie Narodowe is only used on those rare occasions when the two houses meet jointly note: the German minority is exempt from the 5% threshold requirement for seats to the Sejm elections: Senate - last held on 25 October 2015 (next to be held in October 2019); Sejm - last held on 25 October 2015 (next to be held in October 2019) election results: Senate - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - PiS 62, PO 33, PSL 1, independents 4; Sejm - percent of vote by party - PiS 37.6%, PO 24.1%, K15 8.8%, N 7.6%, PSL 5.1% other 16.8%; seats by party - PiS 234, PO 138, K15 40, N 29, PSL 16, independent 2, German minority 1 Judicial branch: highest court(s): Supreme Court or Sad Najwyzszy (consists of the president of the Supreme Court and 116 judges organized in criminal, civil, labor and social insurance, and military chambers) judge selection and term of office: president of the Supreme Court nominated by the General Assembly of the Supreme Court and selected by the president of Poland; other judges nominated by the 25-member National Judiciary Council, and appointed by the president of Poland; judges appointed until retirement, usually at age 65, but tenure can be extended subordinate courts: Constitutional Tribunal; regional and appellate courts subdivided into military, civil, criminal, labor, and family courts Political parties and leaders: Civic Platform or PO [Grzegorz SCHETYNA, chairperson; Slawomir NEUMANN, parliamentary caucus leader] Congress of the New Right or KNP [Michal MARUSIK, chairman] Democratic Left Alliance or SLD [Wlodzimierz CZARZASTY, chairman] German Minority of Lower Silesia or MNSO [Ryszard GALLA, representative] Kukiz 15 [Pawel KUKIZ; chairman, parliamentary caucus leader] Law and Justice or PiS [Jaroslaw KACZYNSKI, chairman; Ryszard TERLECKI, parliamentary caucus leader] Nowoczesna ("Modern") or N [Ryszard PETRU; chairman, parliamentary caucus leader] Polish People's Party or PSL [Wladyslaw KOSINIAK-KAMYSZ; chairman, parliamentary caucus leader] Razem (Together) [no party chair, led by nine-member management board] Political pressure groups and leaders: All Poland Trade Union Alliance or OPZZ [Jan GUZ] (trade union) Independent Self-Governing Trade Union "Solidarity" [Piotr DUDA] Roman Catholic Church [Archbishop Wojciech POLAK, Archbishop Stanislaw GADECKI] International organization participation: Arctic Council (observer), Australia Group, BIS, BSEC (observer), CBSS, CD, CE, CEI, CERN, EAPC, EBRD, ECB, EIB, ESA, EU, FAO, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, MONUSCO, NATO, NEA, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, OIF (observer), OPCW, OSCE, PCA, Schengen Convention, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNMIL, UNMISS, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC National symbol(s): white eagle; national colors: white, red National anthem: name: "Mazurek Dabrowskiego" (Dabrowski's Mazurka) lyrics/music: Jozef WYBICKI/traditional note: adopted 1927; the anthem, commonly known as "Jeszcze Polska nie zginela" (Poland Has Not Yet Perished), was written in 1797; the lyrics resonate strongly with Poles because they reflect the numerous occasions in which the nation's lands have been occupied Diplomatic representation in the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Ryszard SCHNEPF (since 28 September 2012) chancery: 2640 16th Street NW, Washington, DC 20009 consulate(s) general: Chicago, Los Angeles, New York Diplomatic representation from the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Paul JONES (since 7 October 2015) embassy: Aleje Ujazdowskie 29/31 00-540 Warsaw mailing address: American Embassy Warsaw, US Department of State, Washington, DC 20521-5010 (pouch) telephone: [48] (22) 504-2000 FAX: [48] (22) 504-2688 consulate(s) general: Krakow Poland has pursued a policy of economic liberalization since 1990 and Poland's economy was the only EU country to avoid a recession through the 2008-09 economic downturn. Although EU membership and access to EU structural funds have provided a major boost to the economy since 2004, GDP per capita remains significantly below the EU average and the unemployment rate is now below the EU average. The government of Prime Minister Donald TUSK steered the Polish economy through the economic downturn by skillfully managing public finances and adopting controversial pension and tax reforms to further shore up public finances. While the Polish economy has performed well over the past five years, growth slowed in 2013 and picked back up in 2014-15. Poland’s new center-right Law and Justice government plans to introduce expansionary economic policies to spur long-term growth, but social spending programs are expected to lead to increased deficit spending over the medium term. Poland faces several challenges, which include addressing some of the remaining deficiencies in its road and rail infrastructure, business environment, rigid labor code, commercial court system, government red tape, and burdensome tax system, especially for entrepreneurs. Additional long-term challenges include diversifying Poland’s energy mix and sources of supply, strengthening investments in innovation, research, and development, and as well as stemming the outflow of educated young Poles to other EU member states, especially in light of a coming demographic contraction due to emigration, persistently low fertility rates, and the aging of the Solidarity-era baby boom generation. GDP (purchasing power parity): GDP (purchasing power parity): $1.052 trillion (2016 est.) $1.02 trillion (2015 est.) $984.4 billion (2014 est.) Agriculture - products: potatoes, fruits, vegetables, wheat; poultry, eggs, pork, dairy Industries: machine building, iron and steel, coal mining, chemicals, shipbuilding, food processing, glass, beverages, textiles services: 57% (2012) Unemployment rate: 9.6% (2016 est.) 10.5% (2015 est.) Budget: revenues: $73.4 billion Public debt: 44.7% of GDP (2016 est.) 45% of GDP (2015 est.) note: data cover general government debt, and includes debt instruments issued (or owned) by government entities other than the treasury; the data include treasury debt held by foreign entities, the data include subnational entities, as well as intra-government Inflation rate (consumer prices): Inflation rate (consumer prices): -0.8% (2016 est.) -1% (2015 est.) Current account balance: -$250 million (2016 est.) -$1.117 billion (2015 est.) Exports - commodities: machinery and transport equipment 37.8%, intermediate manufactured goods 23.7%, miscellaneous manufactured goods 17.1%, food and live animals 7.6% (2012 est.) Exports - partners: Germany 27.1%, UK 6.8%, Czech Republic 6.6%, France 5.5%, Italy 4.8%, Netherlands 4.4% (2015) Imports - commodities: machinery and transport equipment 38%, intermediate manufactured goods 21%, chemicals 15%, minerals, fuels, lubricants, and related materials 9% (2011 est.) Imports - partners: Germany 27.6%, China 7.5%, Russia 7.2%, Netherlands 5.9%, Italy 5.2%, France 4.1% (2015) Debt - external: $344.8 billion (31 December 2016 est.) $332.2 billion (31 December 2015 est.) Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad: $64.62 billion (31 December 2016 est.) $62.12 billion (31 December 2015 est.) Market value of publicly traded shares: $137.8 billion (31 December 2015 est.) $168.9 billion (31 December 2014 est.) $204.5 billion (31 December 2013 est.) Exchange rates: zlotych (PLN) per US dollar - 4.056 (2016 est.) 3.7721 (2015 est.) 3.7721 (2014 est.) 3.1538 (2013 est.) 3.26 (2012 est.) Electricity - exports: 11 billion kWh (2014) Electricity - imports: 14 billion kWh (2014 est.) Electricity - from hydroelectric plants: 1.5% of total installed capacity (2013 est.) Crude oil - exports: 5,162 bbl/day (2015 est.) Crude oil - imports: 532,300 bbl/day (2015 est.) Natural gas - production: 6.08 billion cu m (2014 est.) Natural gas - exports: 76 million cu m (2014 est.) Natural gas - proved reserves: 81.66 billion cu m (1 January 2016 es) Carbon dioxide emissions from consumption of energy: 322 million Mt (2013 est.) Telephone system: general assessment: modernization of the telecommunications network has accelerated with market-based competition; fixed-line service, dominated by the former state-owned company, is dwarfed by the growth in mobile-cellular services domestic: several nation-wide networks provide mobile-cellular service; coverage is generally good; fixed-line service lags in rural areas international: country code - 48; international direct dialing with automated exchanges; satellite earth station - 1 with access to Intelsat, Eutelsat, Inmarsat, and Intersputnik (2015) Broadcast media: state-run public TV operates 2 national channels supplemented by 16 regional channels and several niche channels; privately owned entities operate several national TV networks and a number of special interest channels; many privately owned channels broadc (2007) Internet country code: .pl Internet users: total: 26.221 million percent of population: 68% (July 2015 est.) Pipelines: gas 14,198 km; oil 1,374 km; refined products 777 km (2013) broad gauge: 395 km 1.524-m gauge standard gauge: 19,442 km 1.435-m gauge (11,899 km electrified) (2014) paved: 280,719 km (includes 2,418 km of expressways) unpaved: 131,316 km (2012) Waterways: 3,997 km (navigable rivers and canals) (2009) by type: cargo 7, chemical tanker 1, passenger/cargo 1 registered in other countries: 106 (Antigua and Barbuda 2, Bahamas 34, Cyprus 24, Liberia 13, Malta 21, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 3, Vanuatu 9) (2010) Ports and terminals: major seaport(s): Gdansk, Gdynia, Swinoujscie river port(s): Szczecin (River Oder) LNG terminal(s) (import): Swinoujscie Military branches: Polish Armed Forces: Land Forces, Navy, Air and Air Defense Aviation Forces, Special Forces (2013) Military service age and obligation: 18-28 years of age for male and female voluntary military service; conscription phased out in 2009-12; service obligation shortened from 12 to 9 months in 2005; women only allowed to serve as officers and noncommissioned officers (2013) Military expenditures: 2% of GDP (2016) 2.27% of GDP (2015) 1.95% of GDP (2014) 1.95% of GDP (2013) 1.91% of GDP (2012) 1.83% of GDP (2011) Disputes - International: as a member state that forms part of the EU's external border, Poland has implemented the strict Schengen border rules to restrict illegal immigration and trade along its eastern borders with Belarus and Ukraine Refugees and internally displaced persons: refugees (country of origin): 12,304 (Russia) (2015); 71,302 applicants for forms of legal stay other than asylum (Ukraine) (2015) stateless persons: 10,825 (2015) Illicit drugs: despite diligent counternarcotics measures and international information sharing on cross-border crimes, a major illicit producer of synthetic drugs for the international market; minor transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin and Latin American cocaine to Western Europe MalaysiaUnited StatesRussiaSingaporeJapanGermanyUnited KingdomFranceCanadaAustraliaIndonesiaSpainPhilippinesHong KongItalyBrazilChinaTaiwanEgyptThailandPolandSwedenSouth KoreaArgentinaMexicoBelgiumBruneiVietnamCzechiaNetherlandsRomaniaHungaryIndiaChileColombiaNorwayUkraineVenezuelaSwitzerlandIraqSaudi ArabiaSlovakiaEstoniaPortugalGuatemalaSloveniaFinlandNew ZealandUnited Arab EmiratesGreecePeruJordanBelarusSenegalSerbiaTurkeyIsraelBulgariaAustriaLiechtensteinLebanonNepalIrelandAzerbaijanPakistanMauritiusHondurasTajikistanLithuaniaCote d'IvoireMoldovaGuamFrench GuianaMongoliaSouth AfricaGeorgiaCroatiaDenmark « Previous Country \| Next Country » Back to Flag Counter Overview	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line367
__label__wiki	0.772595	0.772595	IndonesiaUnited StatesMalaysiaIndiaSingaporeSouth AfricaNetherlandsRussiaUnited KingdomGermanyJapanSouth KoreaChinaAustraliaBrazilThailandVietnamTimor-LesteMexicoIrelandCanadaBruneiPakistanFranceHong KongNigeriaSaudi ArabiaTurkeyAustriaEgyptUnited States Minor Outlying IslandsIranSwedenSpainUkraineBelgiumCote d'IvoireIraqColombiaCambodiaTaiwanMauritiusMozambiqueNew ZealandEthiopiaKuwaitPortugalNepalBangladeshJordanPhilippinesLatviaLithuaniaKenyaBahrainAlbaniaSyriaGreeceMalta Latvia Population: 1,965,686 Several eastern Baltic tribes merged in medieval times to form the ethnic core of the Latvian people (ca. 8th-12th centuries A.D.). The region subsequently came under the control of Germans, Poles, Swedes, and finally, Russians. A Latvian republic emerged following World War I, but it was annexed by the USSR in 1940 - an action never recognized by the US and many other countries. Latvia reestablished its independence in 1991 following the breakup of the Soviet Union. Although the last Russian troops left in 1994, the status of the Russian minority (some 26% of the population) remains of concern to Moscow. Latvia acceded to both NATO and the EU in the spring of 2004; it joined the euro zone in 2014. Most of the country is composed of fertile low-lying plains with some hills in the east Location: Eastern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea, between Estonia and Lithuania Size comparison: slightly larger than West Virginia Land Boundaries: total: 1,370 km border countries (4): Belarus 161 km, Estonia 333 km, Lithuania 544 km, Russia 332 km exclusive economic zone: limits as agreed to by Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Sweden, and Russia continental shelf: 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation Climate: maritime; wet, moderate winters Terrain: low plain Natural resources: peat, limestone, dolomite, amber, hydropower, timber, arable land Irrigated land: 12 sq km note: land in Latvia is often too wet and in need of drainage not irrigation; approximately 16,000 sq km or 85% of agricultural land has been improved by drainage (2012) Natural hazards: NA Current Environment Issues: Latvia's environment has benefited from a shift to service industries after the country regained independence; improvements have occurred in drinking water quality, sewage treatment, household and hazardous waste management, as well as reduction of air pollution International Environment Agreements: party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands Nationality: noun: Latvian(s) adjective: Latvian Ethnic groups: Latvian 61.1%, Russian 26.2%, Belarusian 3.5%, Ukrainian 2.3%, Polish 2.2%, Lithuanian 1.3%, other 3.4% (2013 est.) Languages: Latvian (official) 56.3%, Russian 33.8%, other 0.6% (includes Polish, Ukrainian, and Belarusian), unspecified 9.4% note: represents lanugage usually spoken at home (2011 est.) Religions: Lutheran 19.6%, Orthodox 15.3%, other Christian 1%, other 0.4%, unspecified 63.7% (2006) 15-24 years: 9.9% (male 100,416/female 94,244) 65 years and over: 19.25% (male 123,467/female 254,860) (2016 est.) rate of urbanization: -0.67% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.) Major urban areas - population: RIGA (capital) 621,000 (2015) Country name: conventional long form: Republic of Latvia conventional short form: Latvia local long form: Latvijas Republika local short form: Latvija former: Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic etymology: the name "Latvia" originates from the ancient Latgalians, one of four eastern Baltic tribes that formed the ethnic core of the Latvian people (ca. 8th-12th centuries A.D.) Capital: name: Riga Administrative divisions: 110 municipalities (novadi, singular - novads) and 9 cities municipalities: Adazu Novads, Aglonas Novads, Aizkraukles Novads, Aizputes Novads, Aknistes Novads, Alojas Novads, Alsungas Novads, Aluksnes Novads, Amatas Novads, Apes Novads, Auces Novads, Babites Novads, Baldones Novads, Baltinavas Novads, Balvu Novads, Bauskas Novads, Beverinas Novads, Brocenu Novads, Burtnieku Novads, Carnikavas Novads, Cesu Novads, Cesvaines Novads, Ciblas Novads, Dagdas Novads, Daugavpils Novads, Dobeles Novads, Dundagas Novads, Durbes Novads, Engures Novads, Erglu Novads, Garkalnes Novads, Grobinas Novads, Gulbenes Novads, Iecavas Novads, Ikskiles Novads, Ilukstes Novads, Incukalna Novads, Jaunjelgavas Novads, Jaunpiebalgas Novads, Jaunpils Novads, Jekabpils Novads, Jelgavas Novads, Kandavas Novads, Karsavas Novads, Keguma Novads, Kekavas Novads, Kocenu Novads, Kokneses Novads, Kraslavas Novads, Krimuldas Novads, Krustpils Novads, Kuldigas Novads, Lielvardes Novads, Ligatnes Novads, Limbazu Novads, Livanu Novads, Lubanas Novads, Ludzas Novads, Madonas Novads, Malpils Novads, Marupes Novads, Mazsalacas Novads, Mersraga Novads, Nauksenu Novads, Neretas Novads, Nicas Novads, Ogres Novads, Olaines Novads, Ozolnieku Novads, Pargaujas Novads, Pavilostas Novads, Plavinu Novads, Preilu Novads, Priekules Novads, Priekulu Novads, Raunas Novads, Rezeknes Novads, Riebinu Novads, Rojas Novads, Ropazu Novads, Rucavas Novads, Rugaju Novads, Rujienas Novads, Rundales Novads, Salacgrivas Novads, Salas Novads, Salaspils Novads, Saldus Novads, Saulkrastu Novads, Sejas Novads, Siguldas Novads, Skriveru Novads, Skrundas Novads, Smiltenes Novads, Stopinu Novads, Strencu Novads, Talsu Novads, Tervetes Novads, Tukuma Novads, Vainodes Novads, Valkas Novads, Varaklanu Novads, Varkavas Novads, Vecpiebalgas Novads, Vecumnieku Novads, Ventspils Novads, Viesites Novads, Vilakas Novads, Vilanu Novads, Zilupes Novads cities: Daugavpils, Jekabpils, Jelgava, Jurmala, Liepaja, Rezekne, Riga, Valmiera, Ventspils Independence: 4 May 1990 (declared); 6 September 1991 (recognized by the Soviet Union) National holiday: Independence Day, 18 November (1918); note - 18 November 1918 was the date Latvia established its statehood and its concomitant independence from Soviet Russia; 4 May 1990 was the date it declared the restoration of Latvian statehood and its concomitant independence from the Soviet Union Constitution: history: several previous (pre-1991 independence); note - following the restoration of independence in 1991, parts of the 1922 constitution were reintroduced 4 May 1990 and fully reintroduced 6 July 1993 amendments: proposed by two-thirds of Parliament members or by petition of one-tenth of qualified voters submitted through the president; passage requires at least two-thirds majority vote of Parliament in each of three readings; amendment of constitutional articles including national sovereignty, language, the parliamentary electoral system, and constitutional amendment procedure requires passage by majority vote of at least half of the electorate in a referendum; amended several times, last in 2014 (2016) Legal system: civil law system with traces of socialist legal traditions and practices Executive branch: chief of state: President Raimonds VEJONIS (since 8 July 2015) head of government: Prime Minister Maris KUCINSKIS (since 11 February 2016); Deputy Prime Minister Arvils ASERADENS (since 11 February 2016) cabinet: Cabinet of Ministers nominated by the prime minister, appointed by Parliament elections/appointments: president indirectly elected by Parliament for a 4-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held on 3 June 2015 (next to be held in 2019); prime minister appointed by the president, confirmed by Parliament election results: Raimonds VEJONIS elected president; Parliament vote - Raimonds VEJONIS 55 of 100 Legislative branch: description: unicameral Parliament or Saeima (100 seats; members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by proportional representation vote; members serve 4-year terms) elections: last held on 4 October 2014 (next to be held in October 2018) election results: percent of vote by party - SC 23%, Unity 21.9%, ZZS 19.5%, NA 16.6%, NSL 6.9%, LRA 6.7%, other 5.4%; seats by party - SC 24, Unity 23, ZZS 21, NA 17, LRA 8, NSL 7 Judicial branch: highest court(s): Supreme Court (consists of the Senate with 27 judges and Supreme Court of Chambers with 22 judges); Constitutional Court (consists of 7 judges) judge selection and term of office: Supreme Court judges nominated by chief justice and confirmed by the Saeima; judges serve until age 70, but term can be extended 2 years; Constitutional Court judges - 3 nominated by Saeima members, 2 by Cabinet ministers, and 2 by plenum of Supreme Court; all judges confirmed by Saeima majority vote; Constitutional Court president and vice president serve in their positions for 3 years; all judges serve 10-year terms; mandatory retirement at age 70 subordinate courts: district (city) and regional courts Political parties and leaders: Alliance of Regions or LRA [Martins BONDARS] For Latvia from the Heart or NSL [Inguna SUDRABA] Social Democratic Party "Harmony" or SC [Nils USAKOVS] National Alliance "All For Latvia!"-"For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK" or NA [Gaidis BERZINS, Raivis DZINTARS] Union of Greens and Farmers or ZZS [Augusts BRIGMANIS] Unity [Solvita ABOLTINA] Political pressure groups and leaders: Employers' Confederation of Latvia [Vitalijs GAVRILOVS] Farmers' Parliament [Juris LAZDINS] Free Trade Union Confederation of Latvia [Peteris KRIGERS] International organization participation: Australia Group, BA, BIS, CBSS, CD, CE, EAPC, EBRD, ECB, EIB, EMU, ESA (cooperating state), EU, FAO, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (NGOs), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, NATO, NIB, NSG, OAS (observer), OIF (observer), OPCW, OSCE, PCA, Schengen Convention, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO National symbol(s): white wagtail (bird); national colors: maroon, white National anthem: name: "Dievs, sveti Latviju!" (God Bless Latvia) lyrics/music: Karlis BAUMANIS note: adopted 1920, restored 1990; first performed in 1873 while Latvia was a part of Russia; banned during the Soviet occupation from 1940 to 1990 Diplomatic representation in the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Andris TEIKMANIS (since 16 September 2016) chancery: 2306 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20008 Diplomatic representation from the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Nancy Bikoff PETTIT (since 8 September 2015) embassy: 1 Samnera Velsa St, Riga LV-1510 mailing address: Embassy of the United States of America, 1 Samnera Velsa St, Riga, LV-1510, Latvia Latvia is a small, open economy with exports contributing nearly a third of GDP. Due to its geographical location, transit services are highly-developed, along with timber and wood-processing, agriculture and food products, and manufacturing of machinery and electronics industries. Corruption continues to be an impediment to attracting foreign direct investment and Latvia's low birth rate and decreasing population are major challenges to its long-term economic vitality. Latvia's economy experienced GDP growth of more than 10% per year during 2006-07, but entered a severe recession in 2008 as a result of an unsustainable current account deficit and large debt exposure amid the softening world economy. Triggered by the collapse of the second largest bank, GDP plunged 18% in 2009. The economy has not returned to pre-crisis levels despite strong growth, especially in the export sector in 2011-14. The IMF, EU, and other international donors provided substantial financial assistance to Latvia as part of an agreement to defend the currency's peg to the euro in exchange for the government's commitment to stringent austerity measures. The IMF/EU program successfully concluded in December 2011. The majority of companies, banks, and real estate have been privatized, although the state still holds sizable stakes in a few large enterprises, including 99.8% ownership of the Latvian national airline. Latvia officially joined the World Trade Organization in February 1999 and the EU in May 2004. Latvia joined the euro zone in 2014. GDP - real growth rate: 2.5% (2016 est.) 2.7% (2015 est.) 2% (2014 est.) Agriculture - products: grain, rapeseed, potatoes, vegetables; pork, poultry, milk, eggs; fish Industries: processed foods, processed wood products, textiles, processed metals, pharmaceuticals, railroad cars, synthetic fibers, electronics Labor force: 968,700 (2016 est.) Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 8.8% Unemployment rate: 9.6% (2016 est.) 9.9% (2015 est.) note: data cover general government debt, and includes debt instruments issued (or owned) by government entities, including sub-sectors of central government, state government, local government, and social security funds Inflation rate (consumer prices): Inflation rate (consumer prices): -0.4% (2016 est.) 0.2% (2015 est.) Exports: $11.22 billion (2016 est.) $11.4 billion (2015 est.) Exports - commodities: foodstuffs, wood and wood products, metals, machinery and equipment, textiles Exports - partners: Lithuania 17.8%, Russia 11.5%, Estonia 11.1%, Germany 6.3%, Poland 5.6%, Sweden 5.2%, UK 5%, Denmark 4% (2015) Imports: $13.6 billion (2016 est.) $13.74 billion (2015 est.) Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, consumer goods, chemicals, fuels, vehicles Imports - partners: Lithuania 16.9%, Germany 11.2%, Poland 10.5%, Russia 8.1%, Estonia 7.7%, Finland 5.2%, Netherlands 4% (2015) Debt - external: $40.02 billion (31 March 2016 est.) $38.19 billion (31 March 2015 est.) Market value of publicly traded shares: $1.115 billion (31 December 2012 est.) $1.076 billion (31 December 2011 est.) $1.252 billion (31 December 2010 est.) Exchange rates: lati (LVL) per US dollar - 0.9129 (2016 est.) 0.9012 (2015 est.) 0.9012 (2014 est.) 0.7525 (2013 est.) 0.55 (2012 est.) Electricity - exports: 3 billion kWh (2014 est.) Electricity - installed generating capacity: 3 million kW (2014 est.) Crude oil - exports: 58.95 bbl/day (2013 est.) Crude oil - imports: 60 bbl/day (2013 est.) Natural gas - consumption: 950 million cu m (2014 est.) Natural gas - imports: 950 million cu m (2014 est.) Telephone system: general assessment: recent efforts focused on bringing competition to the telecommunications sector; the number of fixed lines is decreasing as mobile-cellular telephone service expands domestic: number of telecommunications operators has grown rapidly since the fixed-line market opened to competition in 2003; combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular subscribership roughly 150 per 100 persons international: country code - 371; the Latvian network is now connected via fiber-optic cable to Estonia, Finland, and Sweden (2015) Broadcast media: several national and regional commercial TV stations are foreign-owned, 2 national TV stations are publicly owned; system supplemented by privately owned regional and local TV stations; cable and satellite multi-channel TV services with domestic and forei (2007) Internet country code: .lv Pipelines: gas 928 km; refined products 415 km (2013) Railways: total 2,239 km broad gauge: 2,206 km 1.520-m gauge narrow gauge: 33 km 0.750-m gauge (2008) paved: 14,707 km Waterways: 300 km (navigable year round) (2010) by type: cargo 3, chemical tanker 1, passenger/cargo 4, petroleum tanker 2, roll on/roll off 1 foreign-owned: 3 (Estonia 3) registered in other countries: 79 (Antigua and Barbuda 16, Belize 9, Comoros 2, Dominica 2, Georgia 1, Liberia 5, Malta 8, Marshall Islands 19, Russia 2, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 15) (2010) Ports and terminals: major seaport(s): Riga, Ventspils Military branches: National Armed Forces (Nacionalo Brunoto Speku): Land Forces (Latvijas Sauszemes Speki), Navy (Latvijas Juras Speki; includes Coast Guard (Latvijas Kara Flotes)), Latvian Air Force (Latvijas Gaisa Speki), Latvian Home Guard (Latvijas Zemessardze) (2011) Military service age and obligation: 18 years of age for voluntary male and female military service; no conscription; under current law, every citizen is entitled to serve in the armed forces for life (2012) Military expenditures: 0.91% of GDP (2014) 0.99% of GDP (2013) 0.92% of GDP (2012) 1.05% of GDP (2011) 0.92% of GDP (2010) Disputes - International: Russia demands better Latvian treatment of ethnic Russians in Latvia; boundary demarcated with Latvia and Lithuania; the Latvian parliament has not ratified its 1998 maritime boundary treaty with Lithuania, primarily due to concerns over oil exploration rights; as a member state that forms part of the EU's external border, Latvia has implemented the strict Schengen border rules with Russia Refugees and internally displaced persons: stateless persons: 252,195 (2015); note - individuals who were Latvian citizens prior to the 1940 Soviet occupation and their descendants were recognized as Latvian citizens when the country's independence was restored in 1991; citizens of the former Soviet Union residing in Latvia who have neither Latvian nor other citizenship are considered non-citizens (officially there is no statelessness in Latvia) and are entitled to non-citizen passports; children born after Latvian independence to stateless parents are entitled to Latvian citizenship upon their parents' request; non-citizens cannot vote or hold certain government jobs and are exempt from military service but can travel visa-free in the EU under the Schengen accord like Latvian citizens; non-citizens can obtain naturalization if they have been permanent residents of Latvia for at least five years, pass tests in Latvian language and history, and know the words of the Latvian national anthem Illicit drugs: transshipment and destination point for cocaine, synthetic drugs, opiates, and cannabis from Southwest Asia, Western Europe, Latin America, and neighboring Balkan countries; despite improved legislation, vulnerable to money laundering due to nascent enforcement capabilities and comparatively weak regulation of offshore companies and the gaming industry; CIS organized crime (including counterfeiting, corruption, extortion, stolen cars, and prostitution) accounts for most laundered proceeds IndonesiaUnited StatesMalaysiaIndiaSingaporeSouth AfricaNetherlandsRussiaUnited KingdomGermanyJapanSouth KoreaChinaAustraliaBrazilThailandVietnamTimor-LesteMexicoIrelandCanadaBruneiPakistanFranceHong KongNigeriaSaudi ArabiaTurkeyAustriaEgyptUnited States Minor Outlying IslandsIranSwedenSpainUkraineBelgiumCote d'IvoireIraqColombiaCambodiaTaiwanMauritiusMozambiqueNew ZealandEthiopiaKuwaitPortugalNepalBangladeshJordanPhilippinesLatviaLithuaniaKenyaBahrainAlbaniaSyriaGreeceMalta « Previous Country \| Next Country » Back to Flag Counter Overview	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line368
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El Salvador achieved independence from Spain in 1821 and from the Central American Federation in 1839. A 12-year civil war, which cost about 75,000 lives, was brought to a close in 1992 when the government and leftist rebels signed a treaty that provided for military and political reforms. Smallest Central American country and only one without a coastline on Caribbean Sea Location: Central America, bordering the North Pacific Ocean, between Guatemala and Honduras Size comparison: about the same size as New Jersey Land Boundaries: total: 590 km border countries (2): Guatemala 199 km, Honduras 391 km Climate: tropical; rainy season (May to October); dry season (November to April); tropical on coast; temperate in uplands Terrain: mostly mountains with narrow coastal belt and central plateau Natural resources: hydropower, geothermal power, petroleum, arable land Land use: agricultural land: 74.7% arable land 33.1%; permanent crops 10.9%; permanent pasture 30.7% forest: 13.6% Natural hazards: known as the Land of Volcanoes; frequent and sometimes destructive earthquakes and volcanic activity; extremely susceptible to hurricanes volcanism: significant volcanic activity; San Salvador (elev. 1,893 m), which last erupted in 1917, has the potential to cause major harm to the country's capital, which lies just below the volcano's slopes; San Miguel (elev. 2,130 m), which last erupted in 2002, is one of the most active volcanoes in the country; other historically active volcanoes include Conchaguita, Ilopango, Izalco, and Santa Ana Current Environment Issues: deforestation; soil erosion; water pollution; contamination of soils from disposal of toxic wastes International Environment Agreements: party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands signed, but not ratified: Law of the Sea Nationality: noun: Salvadoran(s) adjective: Salvadoran Ethnic groups: mestizo 86.3%, white 12.7%, Amerindian 0.2% (includes Lenca, Kakawira, Nahua-Pipil), black 0.1%, other 0.6% (2007 est.) Languages: Spanish (official), Nawat (among some Amerindians) Religions: Roman Catholic 57.1%, Protestant 21.2%, Jehovah's Witnesses 1.9%, Mormon 0.7%, other religions 2.3%, none 16.8% (2003 est.) rate of urbanization: 1.4% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.) Major urban areas - population: SAN SALVADOR (capital) 1.098 million (2015) Physicians density: 1.6 physicians/1,000 population (2008) rural: 60% of population total: 75% of population total: 25% of population (2015 est.) Children under the age of 5 years underweight: 5% (2014) total population: 88% Country name: conventional long form: Republic of El Salvador conventional short form: El Salvador local long form: Republica de El Salvador local short form: El Salvador etymology: name is an abbreviation of the original Spanish conquistador designation for the area "Provincia de Nuestro Senor Jesus Cristo, el Salvador del Mundo" (Province of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the World), which became simply "El Salvador" (The Savior) Capital: name: San Salvador time difference: UTC-6 (1 hour behind Washington, DC, during Standard Time) Administrative divisions: 14 departments (departamentos, singular - departamento); Ahuachapan, Cabanas, Chalatenango, Cuscatlan, La Libertad, La Paz, La Union, Morazan, San Miguel, San Salvador, San Vicente, Santa Ana, Sonsonate, Usulutan Independence: 15 September 1821 (from Spain) National holiday: Independence Day, 15 September (1821) Constitution: many previous; latest drafted 16 December 1983, enacted 23 December 1983; amended many times, last in 2014 (2016) Legal system: civil law system with minor common law influence; judicial review of legislative acts in the Supreme Court Executive branch: chief of state: President Salvador SANCHEZ CEREN (since 1 June 2014); Vice President Salvador Oscar ORTIZ (since 1 June 2014); note - the president is both chief of state and head of government head of government: President Salvador SANCHEZ CEREN (since 1 June 2014); Vice President Salvador Oscar ORTIZ (since 1 June 2014) cabinet: Council of Ministers selected by the president elections/appointments: president and vice president directly elected on the same ballot by absolute majority popular vote in 2 rounds if needed for a single 5-year term; election last held on 2 February 2014, with a runoff on 9 March 2014 (next to be held in February 2019) election results: Salvador SANCHEZ CEREN elected president; percent of vote: first-round results - Salvador SANCHEZ CEREN (FMLN) 48.9%, Norman QUIJANO (ARENA) 39%, Antonio SACA (CN) 11.4%, other 0.7%; second-round results - Salvador SANCHEZ CEREN 50.1%, Norman QUIJANO 49.9% Legislative branch: description: unicameral Legislative Assembly or Asamblea Legislativa (84 seats; members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies and a single nationwide constituency by proportional representation vote to serve 3-year terms) elections: last held on 1 March 2015 (next to be held in March 2018) election results: percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - ARENA 35, FMLN 31, GANA 11, PCN 6, PDC 1 Judicial branch: highest court(s): Supreme Court or Corte Suprema de Justicia (CSJ) (consists of 15 judges assigned to constitutional, civil, penal, and administrative conflict divisions) judge selection and term of office: judges elected by the Legislative Assembly on the recommendation of the National Council of the Judicature, an independent body elected by the Legislative Assembly; judges elected for a 9-year term, with renewal of one-third of judges every 3 years; consecutive re-election is allowed subordinate courts: Appellate Courts; Courts of First Instance; Courts of Peace Political parties and leaders: Christian Democratic Party or PDC [Rodolfo Antonio PARKER Soto] Democratic Change (Cambio Democratico) or CD [Douglas AVILES] (formerly United Democratic Center or CDU) Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front or FMLN [Medardo GONZALEZ] Great Alliance for National Unity or GANA [Jose Andres ROVIRA Caneles] National Conciliation Party or PCN [Manuel RODRIGUEZ] Nationalist Republican Alliance or ARENA [Jorge VELADO] Political pressure groups and leaders: labor organizations: Electrical Industry Union of El Salvador or SIES Federation of the Construction Industry, Similar Transport and other activities, or FESINCONTRANS National Confederation of Salvadoran Workers or CNTS National Trade Union Federation of Salvadoran Workers or FENASTRAS National Union of Salvadoran Workers or UNTS Port Industry Union of El Salvador or SIPES Salvadoran Workers Central or CTS Union of Judiciary Workers or SITTOJ Union of Workers of the Ministry of Treasury or SITRAMI Workers Union of Electrical Corporation or STCEL business organizations: American Chamber of Commerce in El Salvador National Association of Private Enterprise or ANEP Salvadoran Chamber of Commerce Salvadoran Chamber of the Construction Industry or CASALCO Salvadoran Industrial Association or ASI International organization participation: BCIE, CACM, CD, CELAC, FAO, G-11, G-77, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), LAES, LAIA (observer), MIGA, MINURSO, MINUSTAH, NAM (observer), OAS, OPANAL, OPCW, Pacific Alliance (observer), PCA, Petrocaribe, SICA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNIFIL, Union Latina, UNISFA, UNMISS, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO National symbol(s): turquoise-browed motmot (bird); national colors: blue, white National anthem: name: "Himno Nacional de El Salvador" (National Anthem of El Salvador) lyrics/music: Juan Jose CANAS/Juan ABERLE note: officially adopted 1953, in use since 1879; at 4:20 minutes the anthem of El Salvador is one of the world's longest Diplomatic representation in the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Claudia Ivette CANJURA de Centeno (since 17 June 2016) chancery: 1400 16th Street NW, Suite 100, Washington, DC 20036 consulate(s) general: Atlanta, Boston, Brentwood (NY), Chicago, Coral Gables (FL), Dallas, Houston, Las Vegas (NV), Los Angeles, McAllen (TX), New York, Nogales (AZ), San Francisco, Seattle, Tucson (AZ), Washington, DC, Woodbridge (VA), Woodstock (GA) consulate(s): Elizabeth (NJ), Newark (NJ) Diplomatic representation from the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Jean MANES (since January 2016) embassy: Final Boulevard Santa Elena Sur, Antiguo Cuscatlan, La Libertad, San Salvador mailing address: Unit 3450, APO AA 34023; 3450 San Salvador Place, Washington, DC 20521-3450 The smallest country in Central America geographically, El Salvador has the fourth largest economy in the region. With the global recession, real GDP contracted in 2009 and economic growth has since remained low, averaging less than 2% from 2010 to 2014, but recovered somewhat in 2015. Remittances accounted for 17% of GDP in 2014 and were received by about a third of all households. In 2006, El Salvador was the first country to ratify the Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement, which has bolstered the export of processed foods, sugar, and ethanol, and supported investment in the apparel sector amid increased Asian competition. In September 2015, El Salvador kicked off a five-year $277 million second compact with the Millennium Challenge Corporation - a US Government agency aimed at stimulating economic growth and reducing poverty - to improve El Salvador's competitiveness and productivity in international markets.. The Salvadoran Government maintained fiscal discipline during post-war reconstruction and rebuilding following earthquakes in 2001 and hurricanes in 1998 and 2005, but El Salvador's public debt, estimated at 65% of GDP in 2015, has been growing over the last several years. Total external debt was nearly 60% of GDP in 2015. GDP (purchasing power parity): GDP (purchasing power parity): $54.79 billion (2016 est.) $53.5 billion (2015 est.) $52.22 billion (2014 est.) Gross national saving: 12.2% of GDP (2016 est.) 10.4% of GDP (2015 est.) 8.4% of GDP (2014 est.) Agriculture - products: coffee, sugar, corn, rice, beans, oilseed, cotton, sorghum; beef, dairy products Industries: food processing, beverages, petroleum, chemicals, fertilizer, textiles, furniture, light metals Labor force: 2.788 million (2016 est.) Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 21% services: 58% (2011 est.) Unemployment rate: 5.5% (2016 est.) 5.5% (2015 est.) note: data are official rates; but underemployment is high Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 1% highest 10%: 37% (2009 est.) note: El Salvador's total public debt includes non-financial public sector debt, financial public sector debt, and central bank debt Inflation rate (consumer prices): Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1.1% (2016 est.) -0.7% (2015 est.) Exports: $4.556 billion (2016 est.) $4.381 billion (2015 est.) Exports - commodities: offshore assembly exports, coffee, sugar, textiles and apparel, gold, ethanol, chemicals, electricity, iron and steel manufactures Exports - partners: US 47.1%, Honduras 13.9%, Guatemala 13.6%, Nicaragua 6.6%, Costa Rica 4.5% (2015) Imports - commodities: raw materials, consumer goods, capital goods, fuels, foodstuffs, petroleum, electricity Imports - partners: US 39.4%, Guatemala 9.6%, China 8.1%, Mexico 7.4%, Honduras 5.7% (2015) Debt - external: $14.9 billion (31 December 2016 est.) $14.67 billion (31 December 2015 est.) Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad: $811.8 million (31 December 2016 est.) $951.8 million (31 December 2015 est.) Market value of publicly traded shares: $10.74 billion (31 December 2012 est.) $5.474 billion (31 December 2011 est.) $4.227 billion (31 December 2010 est.) Exchange rates: note: the US dollar is used as a medium of exchange and circulates freely in the economy Electricity - production: 6.1 billion kWh (2014 est.) Electricity - exports: 200 million kWh (2014 est.) Electricity - imports: 600 million kWh (2014 est.) Crude oil - exports: 220 bbl/day (2013 est.) Refined petroleum products - exports: 226.4 bbl/day (2013 est.) Telephone system: general assessment: multiple mobile-cellular providers are expanding services rapidly; growth in fixed-line services has slowed in the face of mobile-cellular competition domestic: nationwide microwave radio relay system international: country code - 503; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); connected to Central American Microwave System (2015) Broadcast media: multiple privately owned national terrestrial TV networks, supplemented by cable TV networks that carry international channels; hundreds of commercial radio broadcast stations and 1 government-owned radio broadcast station (2007) Internet country code: .sv Railways: total: 12.5 km narrow gauge: 12.5 km 0.914-m gauge (2014) paved: 3,247 km (includes 341 km of expressways) Waterways: (Rio Lempa is partially navigable by small craft) (2011) Ports and terminals: major seaport(s): Puerto Cutuco oil terminal(s): Acajutla offshore terminal Military branches: Salvadoran Armed Forces (Fuerza Armada de El Salvador, FAES): Salvadoran Army (Ejercito de El Salvador, ES), Salvadoran Navy (Fuerza Naval de El Slavador, FNES), Salvadoran Air Force (Fuerza Aerea Salvadorena, FAS) (2013) Military service age and obligation: 18 years of age for selective compulsory military service; 16-22 years of age for voluntary male or female service; service obligation is 12 months, with 11 months for officers and NCOs (2012) Disputes - International: International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled on the delimitation of "bolsones" (disputed areas) along the El Salvador-Honduras boundary, in 1992, with final agreement by the parties in 2006 after an Organization of American States survey and a further ICJ ruling in 2003; the 1992 ICJ ruling advised a tripartite resolution to a maritime boundary in the Gulf of Fonseca advocating Honduran access to the Pacific; El Salvador continues to claim tiny Conejo Island, not identified in the ICJ decision, off Honduras in the Gulf of Fonseca Refugees and internally displaced persons: IDPs: 289,000 (2015) Illicit drugs: transshipment point for cocaine; small amounts of marijuana produced for local consumption; significant use of cocaine United StatesSouth AfricaUnited KingdomKenyaCanadaAustraliaGermanyIndiaNetherlandsPhilippinesUgandaNigeriaFranceRussiaBrazilTunisiaEthiopiaZimbabweSwedenGhanaMexicoCzechiaIrelandItalyNorwayBelgiumNew ZealandCroatiaBotswanaNamibiaFinlandMalaysiaZambiaUnited Arab EmiratesSpainTanzaniaSingaporeJapanRomaniaAlgeriaIndonesiaDenmarkPolandSwitzerlandHong KongTurkeyEgyptPakistanAustriaSaudi ArabiaGreecePortugalThailandIsraelEswatiniSerbiaLebanonTrinidad and TobagoSouth KoreaHungaryLesothoSudanJamaicaMoroccoBosnia and HerzegovinaUkraineMalawiColombiaPeruArgentinaSri LankaSloveniaCameroonQatarThe BahamasBangladeshMaltaBulgariaTaiwanChileVenezuelaAlbaniaMauritiusMozambiqueNorth MacedoniaRwandaKuwaitIcelandSlovakiaOmanVietnamPuerto RicoJordanEcuadorLithuaniaDominican RepublicChinaBahrainLiberiaLatviaGuyanaAzerbaijanLuxembourgCote d'IvoireAngolaGuatemalaEstoniaGeorgiaFijiBarbadosCambodiaCosta RicaCyprusUruguayBelarusSenegalLibyaSomaliaDemocratic Republic of the CongoKazakhstanIraqSouth SudanMoldovaIsle of ManPapua New GuineaSeychellesEl SalvadorMadagascarPanamaBoliviaBermudaBurkina FasoSolomon IslandsGibraltarGuernseyMongoliaVanuatuCuracaoJerseyMaldivesBelizeBurmaSurinameGuadeloupeMacauVatican CityVirgin IslandsAfghanistanParaguayHondurasUzbekistanAntigua and BarbudaBhutanArmeniaReunionBritish Virgin IslandsTogoBruneiNepalGrenadaBeninSierra LeoneIranCayman IslandsGuamArubaSamoaCubaTongaMontenegroSyriaSaint LuciaPalauHaitiMaliDjiboutiBurundiDominicaNew CaledoniaMauritaniaGreenlandAland IslandsSaint Kitts and NevisCabo Verde « Previous Country \| Next Country » Back to Flag Counter Overview	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line369
__label__cc	0.650427	0.349573	Sakar Partners With MGA Entertainment to Roll Out L.O.L. Surprise!™ Youth Electronics Published on Monday, 19th February 2018 Sakar has teamed up with licensing partner MGA Entertainment, Inc. adding L.O.L. Surprise!™ to their licensed line of youth electronics. The unboxing phenomenon of L.O.L. Surprise is a fun line of toys in which every product contains multiple surprises and a collectible doll. L.O.L. Surprise is the #1 selling toy of 2017 in the United States, and Sakar’s range of products mirror the excitement surrounding the brand. New York (February 17-20-- NY Toy Fair Booth 2269): Sakar has teamed up with licensing partner MGA Entertainment, Inc. adding L.O.L. Surprise!™ to their licensed line of youth electronics. The unboxing phenomenon of L.O.L. Surprise is a fun line of toys in which every product contains multiple surprises and a collectible doll. L.O.L. Surprise is the #1 selling toy of 2017 in the United States, and Sakar’s range of products mirror the excitement surrounding the brand. The inclusion of L.O.L. Surprise to the Sakar Youth Electronic lineup is an exciting addition to its wide range of licensed products. Among the new electronics are Molded Kid-Safe headphones, which feature graphics of the dolls as well as either a crown or a bow on the top of the headband, making it a unique and fashionable design. These headphones will range from $14.99-$19.99. L.O.L. Surprise 3-piece Adventure Kits including a telescope, flashlight & binoculars (MSRP $14.99) are perfect for sharing with friends, along with the Molded Walkie Talkies, retailing at $14.99-$19.99. Fans of the brand can bring the party inside and pump up the jams with L.O.L. Surprise Disco Ball Karaoke. With a simple T.V. connection, lyrics display on screen and a light-up disco ball will illuminate the room. For additional karaoke party fun, the separate microphone stand connects to your phone to amplify your voice. The karaoke machine will MSRP at $59.99-$69.99 and the microphone stand at $24.99. All L.O.L. Surprise youth electronics will be available this fall, but these products and more can be found now at Sakar’s New York Toy Fair booth #2269. About Sakar International Sakar International, Inc. is a leading provider of consumer electronics and accessories. With a rich heritage of technology innovation since 1977, Sakar has developed a global presence by consistently evolving alongside technology to develop on-trend, cutting-edge products. Sakar licenses over 40 major entertainment and corporate brands and has maintained a diverse portfolio of product offerings, including digital and action cameras, audio and mobile accessories, karaoke machines, musical instruments and additional youth electronics. Sakar is the parent company to Vivitar, a full-spectrum consumer tech company specializing in the production of cameras, camcorders, mobile accessories, and health and wellness products. Sakar is headquartered in Edison, NJ, with additional offices in the United Kingdom, Canada, Latin America, Australia, Hong Kong and China. For more information, visit www.sakar.com. SAKAR MEDIA CONTACT: Ashley Willis Account Manager, Resound Marketing 732-500-2735 (m) ashley@resoundmarketing.com @Resoundagency \| @ashleywilliss Sakar Wheels into a New Category Sakar Turns Up the Volume With Beat Bugs Electronics Line! Sakar Teams Up With Mattel to Launch Barbie® Accessories!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line371
__label__wiki	0.81207	0.81207	July 13, 2009 \| by Cameron Holmes \| in News \| Ice Age 4: Rise of the Oceans New evidence shows that changes to Antarctica’s most vulnerable element, the West Antarctic ice sheet, could raise global sea levels by up to five metres, according to Professor Tim Naish. Professor Naish, the Director of Victoria University’s Antarctic Research Centre, presented this evidence at his inaugural professorial lecture at Victoria last week. Much of his research is gathered from the international ANDRILL drilling programme in the sedimentary layers of the West Antarctic ice sheet. “Evidence shows that this sheet is expected to melt first, along with Greenland. West Antarctica sits below sea level, so as the ocean warms, the ice sheet also warms,” Professor Naish said. “When the West Antarctica ice sheet collapsed numerous times, it raised sea levels by up to 10 metres.” Victoria University Vice-Chancellor Professor Pat Walsh says Professor Naish is an outstanding researcher, teacher and leader in the field of Antarctic research. “Professor Naish’s Antarctic research has raised international awareness about the role of Antarctic ice sheets in climate and sea-level change. Through the ANDRILL project in particular, he has provided leadership on an issue that is of global significance.” nevresa says: ← Changes to law degree mooted, get it? In the week that wasn’t: Court rules Media Studies not real subject →	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line372
__label__wiki	0.84461	0.84461	Serbia vows to track down Mladic protectors Saturday, May 28, 2011 15:02 BELGRADE, May 28, 2011 (AFP) - Serbian war crimes prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic vowed Saturday to bring to justice all those who helped Bosnian Serb ex-army chief Ratko Mladic evade capture for 16 years. "We will continue to pursue all those who have helped Mladic and other fugitives evade justice," Vukcevic told AFP. "By hiding Mladic they have caused serious damage to this country. Hiding fugitives from the Hague tribunal is a serious crime," he added. Mladic was detained on Thursday, 16 years after a UN war crimes court issued an indictment charging him with war crimes including masterminding the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. A Belgrade prosecutor appealed Friday against the acquittal of 10 people who had been charged with helping Mladic evade justice, demanding a retrial, the Tanjug news agency reported. In December a Belgrade court acquitted 10 people accused of aiding and sheltering Mladic between 2002 and 2005 in the full knowledge that he was a wanted war criminal. Vukcevic said his office would demand to take over the case. Mladic is expected to be transferred to the UN war crimes court for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, where he will stand trial for genocide and crimes against humanity over his role in the 1992-95 Bosnian war, notably for the massacre of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica. Thailand, Laos cooperate in aircraft search and rescue Malaysia seizes over US$243 million from Chinese firm Thailand upgrades largest coal-fired power plant 51 injured as 5.8-magnitude quake rocks southern Philippines Singaporean experts suggest establishment of ministry of aging Thailand targets 10 percent rise in tourism revenue in 2020 Cambodia approves draft bills on e-commerce, consumer protection Thailand’s Foreign Ministry holds e-Consular seminar Indonesia to build country’s longest bridge Thai central bank prepares measures against baht price’s surge Thailand and Laos on July 13 signed a bilateral agreement on aircraft search and rescue cooperation under the International Civil Aviation Organisation's (ICAO) Convention on International Civil Aviation.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line373
__label__cc	0.60563	0.39437	Youth Navigation Category: Youth Published: Friday, 06 April 2018 07:27 Written by Peter Hermansson SPARTACUS is immensely proud to be able to announce that Lucy Heckemann has been picked for the Swedish national team that will go to Vichy, France to play the F18 European Sevens Championship. 10 000 hours Everyone who knows Lucy also knows how determined and dedicated she is. We have all been amazed by her determination in everything she does in life, and we are glad to see that it also pays off to work hard. Lucy is well on her way to invest the 10 000 hours that it takes to belong to the best, and now she will be able to test herself against really good competition, as Great Britain, Georgia and Russia will be in the same group as Sweden. The opening game for Sweden will be against Great Britain on the 29th of April, and then two more qualification games against Georgia and Russia on the same day. Vichy, France The championship will be played in Vichy, France, and Lucys mother, Birgit Heckemann tells us that the family actually lived in France for a couple of years before the move to Sweden. - Lucy went to a mostly french speaking school there, so she's got Vichy covered! Good Luck from SPARTACUS RUGBY, hit hard Lucy! Follow the Championship here!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line394
__label__cc	0.602376	0.397624	TEAMMASTERS NATIONAL COMPETITION In a bid to discover Nigeria’s best young spellers, develop healthy competitive skills as well as improve youth’s self esteem together with creating pride in academic achievement. TeamMasters Limited designed a Spelling Competition called TeamMasters National Spelling Bee which cuts across primary, junior and senior secondary school students in Nigeria. The TeamMasters National Spelling Bee (formerly called Spelling Bee Nigeria) was first launched in October 24, 2008 and has since grown to be one of Africa’s Largest Schools’ Competition as participation has come from both Nigeria and neighbouring countries e.g. Ghana and Republic of Benin. The National Competition has had 8 successful editions. Feedbacks and comments from participants, parents and schools have shown that the spelling bee competition has had a direct impact on student’s vocabulary and academic performance. The National Competition features spellers across different states within Nigerian and Africa as they compete in a spelling challenge to emerge National Champion!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line395
__label__wiki	0.554149	0.554149	Haunted Curiousities They may have died & gone to heaven but we try like hell to bring them back. Our Products >> DEPARTMENT ZERO, PART 1: THE SIXTH STARGATE DEPARTMENT ZERO, PART 1: THE SIXTH STARGATE It began when archaeologists uncovered the remains of an ancient race in Transylvania. The race of people was a discovery that was never before seen. They appeared humanoid is structure, but they had somewhat exaggerated features and heads that were slightly larger than our own, as well as brains that were slightly larger and much more functionING than our own. The remnants and skeletal remains of the race of individuals was the beginning of what would eventually become the largest find in the history of World Archaeology. It would open the door to a privatized faction of government called Department Zero, but we'll have more about this in a moment. For now, I'd like to begin with the race of individuals that I am going to call the Moonwalkers. The Moonwalkers were the ancients of the area that would eventually become known as Transylvania. It was in this area that archaeologists found one of the most startling discoveries in making. It was a network of tunnels that was made from pure gold. The gold was built in perfect dimensions and was spiritually charged, seemingly leading to nowhere. This is where the magic the come in. Whomever the race of Moonwalkers were from many years ago have not let many clues behind, save for a tokens of power that were recovered from a shrine that was also crafted out of solid gold. In the wall of this shrine was etched an exact diagram of the universe with a special emphasis on the Planet Jupiter. Jupiter was etched larger than the other planets. I mean, Jupiter is the biggest of the nine planets, or eight planets, or however many scientists say we have. But at the end of the golden tunnel where the altar is located, Jupiter is etched into the wall with exaggerated proportions. It leads whomever encounters the etching with the right impression... that this must have some direct correlation to the planet Jupiter. Particularly, this shrine has a direct connection to to one of Jupiter's moons that is called Europa. It is a moon that in recent times scientists say that is it weren't for the fact that it was so far away from the Sun could house existence of its own. I've got some news for the science community-- Europa already has a life form of its own. Sometime along the annals of history, the ancient Transylvanians discovered an alien technology that was left here by a separate race of ancient extraterrestrials that must have visited Earth. Although the the TransylvaniaNs are mostly associated with vampires, the fact that they were a highly advanced and intelligent group of people is sometimes look over. I guess people just love their vampires. Make no mistakes though-- the Transylvanians were on par with the best including the Sumerians and the Egyptians. They used the ancient alien technology to discover some secrets of their own, that secret being how to open up the Sixth Stargate. The Stargate is a Cosmic Buoy that acts just like a buoy in water would. Once the gate is open, it bobs in space and leads whomever opened the stargate to whatever is on the other side. In this case, it led to ancient underground pyramids on the face of Jupitan moon called Europa. The center of the Europa is a rich place, with rich existence and plenty of magic of its own. It is where the gold came from that the early Transylvanians used to make their underground network of tunnels and their shrine deep underneath the face of the Earth. It is also what they used to pave the infrastructure of the tunnels that led to the Bucegi Mountains, The Romanian Sphinx, and the Pyramids of Giza, but more on that later. For now, we will remain focused on the Moonwalkers. The Moonwalkers used their powers to roam freely between Europa and Earth, bringing with them two things: wealth and alien technology. Both of these things would be stored up deep beneath the ground and sealed for centuries like a time capsule, until archaeologists would rediscover them and the governments of both Romania and the United States would jump in and take over the excavations. The forging of a new alliance between the two governments came with strong ties in high ranking officials also belonging to high ranking positions within Masonic ranks. In the Brotherhood of Masons, loyalty to the Masons comes first, thus an alliance was forged and new operation was untertaken. The top secret group handling the project in Romania would be called Department Zero. Department Zero is basically the Romanian equivalent of the CIA. They deal with all things secret and cover them up from the public-- especially powerful secrets like these ones that they want to keep to themselves. This item has been made with gold from the altar of the Moonwalkers. They are an ancient race of aliens that came back from the Moon Europa with the humans. They set up ancient extraterrestrial mystery schools in Transylvania and nearby Romania. Here they taught the ancient humans their ways in underground chambers that were built with gold from the center of Europa and their ancient pyramid. The gold holds a charge that provided enlightenment for the people that were able to open up the Sixth Stargate to meet with the Moonwalkers. It contains the gold from their underground pyramids, which are living breathing sources of knowledge that are constantly expanding with the growth of our own universe. The powers in this item include those that allow the opening of the Sixth Stargate in your mind. It will awaken the presence of a Sixth Gate Moonwalker, who will come to you and be your personal alien informant. You will be taught in the ways of the living, breathing pyramid that is the epicenter of the Moonwalkers' knowledge. It is the source of all of their extraterrestrial technology and the holds the blood line of their existence. They exist apart from the pyramid but at the same time all Moonwalkers are a part of the pyramid, so in essence what you are receive is your own piece of the living, breathing, golden pyramid from Europa. It will open up a channel in your mind that will create a Cosmic reflection. This reflection contains all the knowledge and powers of the entire universe. You will also receive the Moonwalker, to be your companion and mentor in the powers of technology that you receiving. /images/shutterstock_1778205(1).jpg Availability Out-of-Stock ARTIST'S ALLEY Flamie's Fabulous Finds HCTV INTO THE EVERAFTER LIMITED EDITION ITEMS LINDY'S CRYPT Paranormal Potency RADIO SHOW PIECES Raviniska's Services YOUTUBE SPECIALS UNDERGROUND CONNECTION ATTRAIT ETHERE CORE MAGIC DAISY'S ENCHANTED GARDEN FantasyMINDisland LAY AWAY LIMBO'S NURSERY PARATRIP RELIGIOUS MIRACLES SALES' ITEMS SEX SPIRITS' SHINE'S DIARY SOLD ITEMS' THE DAY IN THE LIFE VAMPIRE OFFERINGS' WIN-FALL CHAMBER OF LIFE BETTY'S BARGAINS EXCLUSIVES TO HC Copyright © 2009-2019 Haunted Curiousities. All rights reserved.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line397
__label__cc	0.748671	0.251329	No More Women Abuse How Abuse Affects Health South Africa Why Domestic Violence Should Be Stopped South Africa What Verbal Abuse Does To A Woman South Africa What Are Signs Of Domestic Violence South Africa Rotherham Women’s Abuse Counselling South Africa How Physical Abuse Affects A Woman South Africa Domestic Violence Prevention Tips South Africa Domestic Violence In Zambia South Africa Domestic Of Violence 2018 Tag: Domestic Violence Guns and Domestic Violence Definition Domestic Violence Definition 2018 Abuse isn’t just about bruises. Not all forms of abuse leave bruises where we can see them,Domestic Violence Definition in 2018 . Although physical abuse is terrifying and needs to be addressed immediately there are other forms of abuse that can cause significant damage. One type of abuse that is very difficult for outsiders to detect is financial abuse. Marriage should be a partnership but when one spouse completely dominates the finances to the point that the other spouse has no control and no options financial abuse may be occurring. What Are Signs of Potential Financial Abuse? Every married couple handles their finances differently. In some cases one spouse handles the majority of the finances. They manage the accounts, pay the bills and deal with creditors. That does not by itself equal financial abuse. Financial abuse occurs when one spouse is treated like an irresponsible child and Abuse Groups Near Me . They are cut off from funds and their knowledge about the couple’s finances is severely limited. Some signs of financial abuse include: •Strict Allowances. This isn’t an amount that the spouses have agreed to limit themselves to but is instead a set amount that is grudgingly handed out from one spouse to the other and is all that will be given. Documents, documents, documents. Written evidence is incredibly strong and can range from credit card bills showing that there is a credit card but that you aren’t named on it to emails from your spouse that show the financial abuse. Other witnesses can be incredibly powerful on your behalf. Financial abuse is hard for people outside the relationship to detect. So when someone credible comes in and tells the judge that it is happening and they can see it the judge will listen and Domestic Violence Guns . Domestic Violence Definition in 2018 ? When you have a brief encounter with a narcissist, you might not realize that the person has a personality disorder which is typified by being very self-absorbed and lacking in empathy for others. However, when you are a target of narcissistic abuse, and are in a relationship with this person, your every day life becomes confusing and painful. Before getting into ways you can rebuild your self-esteem, let's take a moment to describe the behavior of a narcissist for those who might not be clear about what the term means. An individual with narcissistic personality disorder goes through life with an overwhelming need to be validated all the time, and told they are wonderful, smarter than anyone else and are entitled to only the finest treatment by everyone. They take offense easily, and get angry quickly if they interpret a remark as being an insult. In their craving for attention and approval, they are usually adept at being charming when they want something from someone else, and then if they are refused will have an almost instant transformation into being very angry. They are quick to judge other people as inferior, and enjoy using phrases that are racist, demeaning and derogatory of other groups of people. For example, a narcissist, feeling he is superior to everyone else, will commonly say things like, "The masses are asses!" While some people like to say that a narcissist is someone with excess self-love or vanity, that really doesn't do more than give a surface definition. To know more, you have to understand a bit about how this disorder began, and it is typically stated in definitions of the disorder that it began with trauma early in childhood, during the phase when the child should have been developing a healthy sense of self. Instead, the child formed the opinion, usually as a result of abusive treatment including neglect, that he was not good enough the way he was and needed to create a "perfect" persona to show to the world to gain that all-important approval the child craved. 4. Are you still breathing? A relationship with a narcissistic abuser can feel devastating, but notice that you are still alive, and that means there is more for you to do and enjoy in this life, free from abuse. Part of your birthright is that you deserve to enjoy a life that you truly love wherein you make your dreams come true and feel happier than you ever believed possible. You can achieve this switch from victim to victorious by refusing to let the abuser win. Dismiss all those negative things he or she assaulted you with. 5. Every day, repeat this affirmation to yourself several times, out loud if possible so that you hear a voice telling you this: "I do enough, I am good enough, I am enough." Use the power of positive affirmations to build high self-esteem so that you will gradually replace those old negative statements that you accepted as true just because an abuser said them so often with great authority. It is not an overnight process to rebuild your self-esteem when you have been repeatedly abused by a partner or parent with narcissistic personality disorder, but don't give up. Keep your focus on building a life for yourself where you only attract loving people and loving events to you, and you will soon find yourself smiling and enjoying peace of mind and glowing, healthy self-esteem. Mental Abuse - Are These Most Important Things To Know? Children have that right to be loved. But there are those who suffer child abuse in the very sense of the word. Child abuse could either be physical, mental or sexual abuse to children. This might have certain adverse effects on the child so they must be given extra support and attention. Physical abuse concerns maltreatments of children in a physical way. This means hurting the children physically, or not giving them proper nutrition. Emotional abuse or mental abuse, on the other hand, is about abuse in children which affects primarily their emotions. This includes saying hurtful words to children, as well as scolding them often that lower their self esteem. Sexual abuse, however, is abuse that concerns the sexual attributes of a child. This is one of the worst cases of child abuse. Child Abuse Treatments Most of the children who have experienced child abuse have traumas, especially those who were involved in sexual abuse. For cases like this, psycho therapies are being done to address the problem of the concerned child. Teaching proper parenting to children is also a program involved in treating, as well as preventing child abuse. Child abuse is a matter that needs utmost attention since it involves the future generation of this world. This could be prevented by having family planning seminars to parents which would invoke them to take care of their children more. There are also certain organizations like UNICEF which specializes in treating such problems. 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__label__wiki	0.55999	0.55999	The St Oswald's Team Governing Board Information The History of St. Oswald's PFA (Parents and Friends Association) Inspection Reports and Data School and Sefton Council Prevent Information School Newspaper 'St Oswald's News' TREE Targets International Schools Award Fun Links for 7 - 11 Years Sefton Policies adopted by School Admissions Sub Committee Full Governors F & P Safeguarding Committee Standards & Quality St Oswald's Church Netherton Family and Wellbeing Centre Extra Curricular Sports School Games Initiative At St. Oswald’s we are extremely proud to be part of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child, where every child is valued, cared for and developed to their full potential. Our aims, values and pledge to the UNCRC awarded us the UNICEF Recognition of Commitment to the Rights Respecting Schools Award. In May 2016 we achieved Gold Award for the second time. We reflect the belief that the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC) “… gives young people the best chance to grow into respectful, active and resilient citizens.” (Child friendly articles) What is a Rights Respecting School? A rights-respecting school places the UNCRC at the heart of a school’s planning, policies, practice and ethos. A rights-respecting school is a community where children’s rights are learned, taught, practised, respected, protected and promoted. The school community models rights and respect in all its relationships: between teachers / adults and pupils, between adults and between pupils. All children are taught to appreciate that they are part of a Global Community and that they should take an active part in that community. Each class has a charter and an article linked to it. Right Rangers At St. Oswald’s we have UNICEF ambassadors from across each year group, who work hard to help others in the school learn all about the important work of UNICEF. The UNICEF ambassadors have now been appointed and are busy completing a number of tasks throughout the school year. Meetings take place fortnightly and minutes will be available on this page. St Oswald’s joins the national school breakfast programme. As of Monday 21st January ALL children will receive a breakfast bagel on their way into school. All pupils offered a healthy breakfast at school to ensure they are settled and ready to learn. This relates to Article 27: You have the right to food, clothing, a safe place to live and to have your basic needs met. You should not be disadvantaged so that you can’t do many of the things other kids can do. St Oswald’s CE Primary School is proud to be one of the first schools in England to sign up to the new National School Breakfast Programme (NSBP), funded by the Department for Education and delivered by the charities Family Action and Magic Breakfast. A healthy breakfast can provide children with the energy and nutrients they need to thrive; increasing alertness, improving behaviour and giving them the motivation to learn. Research, funded by the Education Endowment Foundation and carried out by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, found that Y2 pupils in schools providing a free, nutritious breakfast boosted their reading, writing and maths by an average of 2 months’ progress per year, compared to pupils in schools with no such breakfast provision. Our aim is to offer playground bagels to all the children, the younger children will have them delivered to their classroom. Visit by UNICEF Footballer St Oswald’s CE Primary school was selected to appear in the promotional video for the England Footballers’ UNICEF Campaign. We were pleased to welcome Phil Jagielka to school. He had a tour of the school led by two Year 6 pupils- they explained how the school works on the rights of pupils and children around the world. He then worked in Year 1 pupils where he and the children talked about their aspirations; Phil told the children that when he was their age he was hoping to be a cowboy when he grew up. Finally he took part in a whole school assembly, led by staff from UNICEF, about the campaign that the England Football Team are involved in- raising money to buy mosquito nets for children. 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I live near to Harrow on the Hill station. The match might have been played at Lords c. Marchant and Thyrwhitt put on an impressive runs before lunch. A fast rate of scoring in those far-off days. Mr Marchant smiled when he told us he was dropped at gulley with only three runs to his name. He opined that the dropped catch was a 'sitter', the ball cutting from middle and leg to off stump, before embarrassing second slip. The two friends may have been playing against a representative MCC side. Unfortunately, I can trace no reference in Wisden, so remain baffled. It may be that the match was played at a lesser ground, Southgate for instance, and did not count as a First Class fixture worthy of inclusion. Caroline The page www. In Lahore, India in February ". So he should be in the whole school photo on the photos page www. The above D M Hambly was my grandfather. Apart from being an Engineer for the Indian State Railway where he was designing and building bridges and tunnels, mostly in the NOrth West in what is now West Pakistan. I didn't know he had been Head Boy. I knew him very well. If you have anything to add to this I would be very grateful. What he did at school. I don't get the impression he was'nt sporty but maybe wrong; more academic. I didn't know Bernie Marchant at School. I only met him once, at a meeting in Hugh Skillen's house in my Old Gaytonian magazine-editing days, but Jim Golland had mentioned to me that he relied on Bernie to help him out with Latin in his local history research. Someone can't remember who approached me to translate into Latin some invitation to someone else to go on a tour. I did my best after about some 40 years and asked Bernie to check my version. Not only did he approve it, he complimented me on my use invention? I was ridiculously pleased at that. What a nice man. Mention is made of Bill Kitchen motor spares shop which was usually managed by the irascible George Graham who did not suffer fools gladly. It was one of the first independent spares shops. In those days spare parts were usually only obtainable from main dealers but with more people taking to the roads they started to spring up. Initially Lucas and others refused to supply them, which led to firms like Wipac setting up and taking part of the after market away from them. The most famous one locally was Barnacles of Ealing,if they did not have what you were after,you had a problem. Their pre war stock was amazing. Then the accessory shops opened up like Dannys, owned by Nobby Clarke, at the end of the parade between the Dominion and the entrance to Wealdstone football ground, later there was a branch in Eastcote. The shop next to Bill Kitchen was Youngs fishing tackle and it is amazing how many of their rods and reels still turn up at auction. They also sold knives and when I was looking to buy a scout sheath knife they also had WW2 commando knives which I could not afford at seven shilling and sixpence, they are now selling in excess of one hundred pounds, I still have my ,I cut my way, knife which is worthless, such is life. About a Boy Scout travelling through life. I was in the PT display with Alan Coxon as the solo performer. In the show I was also a 'White Indian', white smock, white trousers, white headband and feather, depicting the spirit of a Red Indian. Wembley Speedway, no-one has mentioned Tommy Price, great rider. How about the March of the Gladiators when the riders paraded before the races having to use crutches and walking sticks to march out!!!! Bill Kitchen in his shop near the Bridge School. Went with a pal to purchase something, Bill had to climb a ladder to reach, just like Open All Hours, when he fell off the ladder, right from the top, my pal and I climbed over the counter to help him. Marchant and Tyrwhitt teaming up to watch the Wembley Lions - an odd twosome indeed, quite apart from the almost surreal circumstances! However, Tony Makepeace's anecdote is confirmed by my recall of Bernie's post-match remarks to a small group of HCS first X1 cricketers, around summer , when, confronting our extreme annoyance at what we regarded as biased umpiring by the opposition's master, which had led to us losing the match, he strongly advised us not to risk what he clearly regarded as "losing face" by confronting the man concerned with our anger, but rather instead to "put it on ice". I remember very clearly that moment, when, although we hardly expected such an apparently profoundly conventional character to support our would-be 'rebellion' against the entrenched authority of a teacher-cum-cricket umpire! Seeing our puzzled and-or disappointed faces he added I forget the exact words, of course something like, "Well, I assure you, that works for me" before astonishing us by saying he "released" a lot of pent-up personal frustration by attending ice hockey matches at the Empire Pool - particularly when the players got into brawls, imagining that it was he himself dishing out the blows! When he left the changing-room we cracked up, literally fell about laughing, in one case, almost uncontrollably. But in doing so, we left our 'hard done by' resentment behind - the ice had melted, as it were! Bernie's advice had worked, albeit not in the way he'd intended. Despite his rigidly controlled persona, he was, like many of his type, not at all quite what he seemed - out of hours That's a great story about the various roles played by OGs in the shooting down of a German plane but I am not sure about the truth. I was at school all through the war years but do not recall hearing the story before. We had a number of old boys who would address us about their experiences but I do not recall this particular incident being related. You're quite right Colin, Jack Beet was in effect Ralph's 'main man'. I had barely got my feet under my desk when, having joined the 4th Harrow straight away, I was off with a load of others in Mr Brown's removal van to Gilwell Park. We rehearsed at Gilwell until dress rehearsal at the Albert Hall itself. I stayed with the show, later as stage staff, until I went into the RAF. Later on Ralph wrote a play especially for the 4th The Story of Mike , in which he starred, and was put on in the School hall. I seem to recall reading on this site that in early WWll a German aircraft that was shot down was piloted by an OG, the pilot who shot him down was also OG and to compound the coincidences the officer who collected the now POW was also an OG. I can't seem to locate that story on the site - did I imagine it. Yes, indeed, Chris R. It was Bronco Wilson who was killed, at Haringay in aged And Split Waterman did have a chequered career, ending up living in Spain. I wonder if he's still alive. I wasn't invited to participate in the Wembley show. Colin, are you confusing Split Waterman with somebody else As late as he was arrested for smuggling gold out of the country. The gold probably from a bullion robbery. I seem to recall a search of his home turned up enough weapons to equip a small army. The last I heard he was living on the Costa del Sol. Hah, Ice Pantomimes etc at the Pool were a right pain. The curved ends of the Pool were closed off leaving just a rectangle wqhich used to get very wet and mucky quite quickly. Mind you a good hockey stop would almost cover that group of girls by the rink edge like a waterfall. If you didn't have your own skates the hire ones were awful. They were leather but usually so worn that they offered no support; you used to see folk crippling around the edge of the Pool on the sides of their feet. I've got a strong feeling that I was in the Scout show mentioned, but I can't remember details, and I've got no 4th Harrow records covering that sort of period. Dear old Wembley Pool. How it all comes back to me. For a few years after the war there were two ice hockey teams, Wembley Lions and Wembley Monarchs. For some reason the Lions were my favourites, but I used to go along and watch both. There were ice shows - including ice pantomimes - and public skating most days. I tried a few times but, having no skates of my own, and very large feet, I hired a pair several times. They never fitted well enough to give me any support and I abandoned the pastime. There were also amateur boxing finals, professional tennis when the sport was essentially still amateur , the splendid Harlem Globetrotters' black basketball team and one year a huge scout show when I learnt that one in five boys in the age group was a scout. As for the Stadium, I remember my father getting press tickets for the speedway and watching Bill Kitchen and Split Waterman. The latter was killed in a race not in my presence fortunately when he came off and another bike ran over his neck. Another time, probably in , my soccer-loving dad who played for the Old Gayts until the war announced with delight that he'd got two tickets for The International. At that time it meant England vs Scotland; there was no other international football then. I'm slightly ashamed to say that I can't remember much about it, not even who won. But I do remember the Olympic Games there and going along to get autographs. Anyone in a tracksuit would do; I never tied a name to the scribble. Mention was made of Bill Kitchen, the speedway rider who also ran a motor spares shop next to Youngs fishing tackle in the small parade of shops between Blawith Road and the entrance to Bridge school, my old primary school. They then moved out to Hazlemere Bucks. Bill was a serious radio ham and the house bristled with aerials. Prior to going self employed in the motor trade I'd worked for the Eagle Star in Harrow, who insured both the old Wembley Stadium and the Pool and as they both fell in my patch I visited them on several occasions in connection with various claims and was able to go behind the scenes as it were. The Pool was a technical engineering masterpiece which stood the test of time well, being used for a variety of events. Somewhere there's footage of it in use in all it's glory. Speedway racing and Ice Hockey were very popular in the 50's and does anyone remember the wrestling at Wembley Town Hall in the early 60's, I got free tickets thanks to a neighbour and recall the likes of Steve Logan,Jackie Pallo and Mick Mcmanus, who I met at Moor Patk many years later playing golf, a totally different, charming person out of the ring, who ran an antique shop. I have always referred to the sports arena as the Empire Pool, for that was what it was originally - a purpose built Olympic sized swimming pool. It was constructed in using reinforced concrete and, at the time, had the largest span reinforced concrete roof. It was designed by Sir Owen Williams. I also remember going to quite a number of ice shows at the venue. I am pleased to see that others still call it the Empire Pool. Confuses younger members of my family no end. As does telling them about the thursday evening when dad and I were shut out of a speedway meeting because the stadium was full. The junk shop or WW2 surplus was Zelepukens, which originally was on the left halfway between Bridge School and the Granada, opposite Ben Bogins barbers shop but then moved to the corner of Blawith Road when the site became a tyre depot. I was there the night Johnnie Murray surprisingly got a hat trick and they put three bowler hats on the screen at the cafe end.. Les Strongman had decamped to Nottingham Panthers but guested for the Russian game as did big defenceman Red Kurtz, my favourite player, who played for the old enemy, Brighton Tigers. What a line-up they had that night, Ron Kilby in goal, Shepherd and Kurtz defence, playmaker Booth, clever centre ice George Beech, who lived in Eastcote and looked like a merchant banker when in civvies on the train. Great memories and I too, many years later, reluctantly agreed to go on a staff 'bonding' course that included ice skating, waited until they were all on the ice, stumbling around, clinging to the boards, then made my entrance, flashing round backwards in my Lions skating jacket finishing with a massive hockey stop, covering the chosen ladies with ice, naughty but most enjoyable. Great to read that I wasn't the only one to enjoy a misspent youth. Interesting to read about the Wembley Lions. I was a great fan. I seem to remember Bernie Marchant was a keen supporter but kept his face wrapped up in a scarf if HCS boys were around. He and Nick Thyrrit excuse spelling were once spotted sharing a bag of chips at half time. At least some of our masters were human. Gratifying to hear that there are at least three of us left we'll have to start a Wembley Lions forum!!!! I seem to recall that Johnnie Murray always drew a 'get on the bench Murray'response from the fans. Ah, Wally Kilminster at Wembley Triangle. After getting off the 18 bus from Harrow I could never pass those windows without stopping to see what I couldn't afford. Was the junk shop in Harrow the one at the end of Blawith Road; it was difficult to get to Scout Park without having a quick look. I committed the cardinal sin of swapping my bike for a guitar- it was a classical accoustic and didn't fare too well at camp, my parents were not all that impressed. Interested to read of Chris's skating exploits. I too skated, pushed the ice clearing boards and played ice hockey at Wembley. Played on the ponds at Stanmore, Swakeleys and later years at Penn. Played in the Sunday foot hockey league, the inline roller skates weren't around then. Bought my first pair of hockey skates from Kilminsters at Wembley Triangle, then found the Holy Grail in a junk shop in Harrow, a pair of Tackaberry Prolites as used by the pros. Johnnie Nettleton's mum worked in the office so we got cheap tickets to go skating and watch the Lions Who will forget the night they beat the Russian World Champions with the help of imports Red Kurtz and Les Strongman. Still have the skates and a stick, anybody looking for a game. Having read your recent posting, I was also a regular watching speedway at Wembley Stadium. I remember the riders you mentioned and also a Brian Crutcher. I think I saw at least one World Championship Final there. Other riders like Barry Briggs and Ronnie Moore also come to mind. I moved to Swindon in and followed the Robins when Barry was riding here. I was delighted to learn that the boat club continued to thrive after my departure. For three years after school I was with the I. I had never considered Twink having a family. Did he continue at the school until he retired? He had a good heart but some strange ways - as did most of the staff! We had a lot of eccentrics but they did their jobs well and prepared us for later experiences in life. Well, Brian, your slightly plaintive comment on lack of contributions lately brought, with the help of Peter Fowler's perfect summary of things, quite a burst of entries. This after only 15 days. There have been longer intervals. You're right about rowing clubs. Apart from rowing on the Thames, I remember using their tank boat - a fixed "boat" in a pool with riggers and oars with slots in the blades to provide just the right resistance to simulate rowing a real boat on the water. Later, Twink had our own tank boat built. It was wedged across the width of the school swimming pool and he brought his rather fey son Theodore who addressed him as Dada along to attend the "launch". I've no idea how it was paid for or what happened to it. My ice hockey with the Lion Cubs was pretty 'low-level' Tony. As a youngster I lived in Wembley, not far from the Stadium and Pool. I started off with learning ice dancing, but then my kind parents bought me a pair of hockey tubes. I soon found that on ice hockey nights, I could with a bit of brown-nosing get to push an ice cleaner board around during the intervals. It was only a little bit more brown-nosing to eventually get the odd game with the Cubs. Many years later, and on a residential IT course in Bournemouth, I allowed the youngsters on the course to drag me the old git along to the ice rink. I told them that of course I knew nothing about ice skating, but they promised to look after me. I enjoyed that evening's session Malcolm Ingram sent me the Skillen dvd at Christmas, he having received it from Geoff Wolf the year before. Most entertaining, and great effort by all concerned. I thought I remembered the CCF arduous training in Dumfries and Galloway rather clearly but could not recall the canoes at all! As for swimming those memories of the freezing cold waters and what they did to one's body parts are hard to forget. Anthony Tony Knight Email: I don't contribute to this message board very often, but I noticed in your recent posting that you played ice hockey for Wembley Lions Cubs. I was a keen fan following the Lions at the Empire Pool in the late 's and early 's. I wonder if there are many of us left!! In those days the team was mainly made up with Canadian players. That's the way it goes Brian; last year was an interesting one for me when I became a member of the Papworth Zipper Club. And I have problems with surgeons who point an accusing finger and ask if I ever played a contact sport as a youth. Imagine trying to explain to Harry Mees, at the age of twelve, that I didn't want to play rugby in case some surgeon would want to cut my back open when I was in my seventies. And I played in the RAF as well, gosh, silly me, really asking for trouble. Playing ice hockey for Wembley Lion Cubs was so much safer, and tackling those high peaks with the 4th Harrow was just the job for wimps like me. Good to meet an ex-fellow rower Chris! I was among the first members of the HCS boat club. We used two club houses. One was called Vesta but the name of the other is lost in the recesses of my memory bank. I recall a group of initials starting with a 'W'. You are right about the 'thin green line' becoming thinner with time. In my case this has become markedly noticeable in the last few years. You may be right,Peter, about older OGs dropping off the branch, I rarely if ever see anyone from my years commenting on anything. Well, in the interest of raising a blast from the past, I wonder if anyone can remember which boat house on the Thames we used when doing rowing with Twink. He was fatally electrocuted in an accident whilst serving as an interpreter during his National Service with the army in Germany. Pete had been in the 4th Harrow Merrymen Scouts with me, some co-incidence. Brian, first, this guest forum flourished when a people were discovering it and b it was fed by constant changes in the main site. New photos, new stories, events, obituaries even. The two attributes worked hand in hand, one fed into the other. If something new was added to the site, it might trigger a response, which became a discussion, a thread. Second, its contributors remained locked in the Simpson years, we never did get the take-up from those who went to the school in the 70s and onwards. There were one or two little bursts, but they came to nothing. And, sad to say but true, those in the Simpson years are fading from the scene, I'm sure that some of the early contributors will have died and we wouldn't know. It's all like the OG's, really: On the other hand, everything is here, hanging in cyberspace. And even now some will find it for the first time and decide to say something. Its survival is worth it just for that. It has become very quiet on this page of later. Are we all dead or have we simply run out of things to say? Alas a senior moment, it should have been Barry Norton not Norman, who I did acknowledge from a distance in Ruislip 35 years ago. Good to see Dave Golby posting some form photos recently, the unknown master in them, is of course Bert Morshead, the physics teacher. Sadly very few of our intake contribute to this excellent website, some we know are no longer with us but I find it hard to accept that the survivors have not ventured into the computer age. Panic reigned amongst those of us about to take what was then School Certificate French when rumour had it there would be an oral component to the exam. In the event there was not but none of us had spoken a word of French in four years of study. Some six years later I was introduced to spoken French in a camp in northern Quebec. At the breakfast table everyone except me ate a plate full of baked beans into which they mixed strawberry jam with much gusto. My vocabulary expanded rapidly when the machinery developed mechanical problems. In a previous experience I had learned I was one of those people who learn a language by listening to the spoken word, as in a language laboratory. In my case a fellow expat and I perfected our Swahili after work by translating the Decamerron Nights at sight to our African workers each evening. The sessions were so popular we were recommended to change careers and become missionaries. A grounding in vagiaries of Latin grammar acquired at HCS found a useful application when tackling the twists and turns of a bantu language. Ah, yes, Don Wilkey, I'd forgotten that he also took us for French in the 6th form - excellent teacher, very conscientious, almost neurotically so. Don Kincaid took us for the first 4 years and provided a welcome breath of humour and, er, 'normality' among an otherwise often rather odd bunch of characters in charge of us. As for the language lab, well, I don't recall ever using it! But yes, Hugh Skillen did a great job pioneering the exchange scheme and that lab - and his teaching was ok, although for me anyway, others were better. I was fluent in French before I came to Harrow County but I do remember that we had one of the first language laboratories in the country. Mind you, I seem to remember we were the first to do so many things. I was encouraged by another member of staff whose name I have forgotten to take an interest in modern French literature so I read a lot of Camus and Sartre. Still stays in my mind after all these years. Actually, the teaching of modern languages was badly flawed in those days, where one could 'get through' or even perform very well indeed in exams while barely being able to hold a basic conversation in the language studied. Ludicrous, of course, but I guess the school felt it was beholden to the examination boards and exam grades were all that ultimately counted. Things tend to be a lot different now, thankfully. Hugh Skillen taught me for two years of the 6th form, but by then he seemed rather weary and frankly, I found him not particularly inspiring, unlike the previous incumbent, Don Kincaid. Apart from the spook stuff, Hugh was i. I may perhaps have learned my french with a wee bit of a scottish accent never a problem when later living in Belgium but the extended student exchange scheme was really great. Ordinary school french may have been okay for passing exams, but living in the country quickly taught everyday usage. Perhaps Bulldog should have done the same for German, although serving in the RAF in Germany soon had me ordering refreshments with no problems: He worked in the Y Service radio intercepts and wrote a number of books on his work and Bletchley in general. He was instrumental in publicising the work and setting up conferences when the secrets became public. I think he could claim to be a major influence in its subsequent restoration and its establishment as a "heritage" site. He was a generous contributor to The Old Gaytonian magazine, which I edited for the best part of 20 years until Michael F Hendley Email: At that time no-one would have known of his role in codebreaking. This led me to look for other information about the school and former pupils. Harrow County Boys' was where I began my teaching career. I retired in as Deputy Head of large comprehensive school in the Midlands. I've enjoyed reading the staff list and being reminded of some great colleagues. I bought my first car the ducal chariot from Mr Duke. Good suggestion there Henry. I travelled extensively on narrow gauge trains in Africa and elsewhere and did not find them either something to be romantic or nostalgic about. Sorry, chaps, may have got the terminology wrong. Should, perhaps, have used the phrase heritage railways. Interesting comment in the last post about the Bluebell Line - didn't know it had changed gauge! So what was Michael doing there which concerned narrow gauge railways? I would have thought North Wales would have been a better choice. I went over to see Tony Clarke today and we had lunch. Tony is a director of the Bluebell Railway in Sussex. He told me that Michael Portillo has recently made a programme there for a new series on the narrow gauge railways of Britain. I was glad to read that you enjoyed the piece, Colin. Jeff does a great job in unearthing information like this but doubt for all his efforts he finds half of the material reporting achievements of OGs. It may well be 'old geezer talk' but I fail to see what was achieved by closing the grammar schools like HCS. The politicians of that time have much to answer for. Thank you for the steer, Brian. What a remarkable career - and what a charming gentleman. Glad to see the resumption of obituaries on the website. For those who have not yet read it, I highly recommend the interview of Hans Neubroch for which a reference is given in his obituary notice on the web site. His time at HCS overlapped with mine but I do not remember him. Must get these fingers checked out for incontinence - or perhaps that would be incompetence - been playing a lot of bum notes on the guitar of late. I can well remember nearly doing myself a serious mischief when parading with the Scout flags into the old hall. Yes, I'd been warned, but I was so proud to have been chosen to carry the flag that I clean forgot the advice about the height of the door frame Coming down to Harrow is out these days, anno domini and all that means it's a little bit too far. I heard a comment on the TV that the latest UK population figures were 'broken down by age' - I can emphasize with that. As in previous years, on Friday 6th November at 11am we will gather at the school to commemorate those of our fellow Old Boys who fell in war. Tea and coffee will be served in the library from I hope to see you all there Again, as in previous years well adjourn thereafter to the St Johns Hotel opposite Debenhams or Sopers if your prefer for a pie and a pint. Copy of Gaytonian signed by Randal Williams and other masters on sale on Ebay. We have had good discussions here but these will be terminated forever by these interventions. I don't know if Bob is being serious or not. Yes Col Bigham did get the CCF going and was responsible - together with other staff - for the challenges and opportunities that this gave students I was in the scouts. Contribution to the school? That's a different matter as a teacher who's lessons consisted of just reading from a text book year after year one of three brothers at the school who all had the same treatment , I can't see what contribution he made to the school? I can't imagine how much use he would have been trying to teach A level Biology, but I am willing to stand corrected if he really did know something about the subject! Only the small-minded such as certain recent correspondents are unable to appreciate the tireless and self-sacrificing energies the Colonel offered to a proud, fine school. To demean this man beyond the grave is grossly unfair as he cannot answer back. But he has no need. There remain those of us who warmly appreciate the generous example senior masters such as Bigham set. All great men have their juvenile critics. The latter are mean-spirited failures who have not fulfilled the hopes of their puny adolescence. Let us hear no more repetitive nonsense from these dreary people. They should feel ashamed of their petty and bitter jibes. Dr Simpson and Colonel Bigham set standards by which some of us have led the rest of our lives. They remain in our memories as magnificent examples of midth century educators of young men who were encouraged to go out into the world and achieve. Their detractors, who sneer from afar within the safety of anonymity, are not worth a candle. Let them put up or shut up. I don't have a problem with any continuing discussion of Bigham in a serious vein. He was obviously very influential on Simpson and impacted many pupils in many ways. The problem with Lotte Hotter is that he is very like a young child who says something funny causing adults to laugh and then repeats the same words at every opportunity ad nauseam. All that is needed is for Lotte Hotter to recognise that the joke if there ever was one is over! Over the years Jeffrey has made this page available I have very much enjoyed the various exchanges and recollections from our formative years at HCS. It never occurred to me to stay in the area as some seem to have done. In I left for the 'colonies' where, with the exception of six years in Cornwall and Scotland, I have remained. One item that has been really exhausted on this page is the tale of Bigham whom I knew only slightly in his first year at HCS. Various contributors have researched this man in considerable depth and published their findings here. I suggest our anonymous friend Hotter delve into the 'back issues' for answers to his various questions. Something many of us would like to read are the minutes of the committee meeting at which the appointment of Simpson was discussed. How did the committee find him and why did they feel hiring him was so necessary given they had just appointed Crowle-Ellis who seemed to be doing a good job? I feel sure the information is hidden away in an archive box somewhere. Perhaps one of our number still living in the area would devote an hour or two to this task. Most disappointed we are at the negative response to our open request. What is this English word 'spoof'. We had hoped for information from more enlightened people on an intriguing subject of international significance. I would wish to meet this Chris Esmond who, despite his insulting comments, hints he may have knowledge of former Col Wilhelm von Bigham. In November, I travel to London for a conference arranged at the Lords cricket ground. Perhaps Mr Esmond will make contact so we can meet? Does he have photographs besides memories? Can he bring a friend who may share his memories? We hope to publish early in the New Year but our publishers are growing restless. In particular, we most urgently require information on the Colonel's legendary escape to Argentina and the subsequent increase of importation of Mercedes Benz saloons into that country. All this was prior to his exposure and the necessity of a change of identification. Finally, a successful transition into a teacher of Biology. A remarkable achievement, considering his total lack of knowledge of the subject. Colin, thank you for intuitively perceiving and clearly elucidating this latest outrage, an affront to the finely-tuned sensibilities of all who sailed in 'The Good Ship HCS' in those far-off, yet somehow ever 'near-and-dear'days. A few - hopefully, of course, very few although one can never be sure in these difficult times for us and our ilk - may scoff, but the most appropriate words I can find are presently ringing in my inner ears: I can give you a few years, having just passed my own 79th birthday. Yes, we're from a very different age. Our past was a different country, they did things But, hey I enjoyed it all. One of my grandsons is off on a school trip to Bletchley; I've set him the task of finding my french teacher Hugh skillen on the honours list. I am 70 years of age today, and looking at the form photographs from , with my class mates and Ken Waller, our erstwhile form master, I feel from a different age! I'm afraid this is a spoof by someone who has amused himself - but no one else - with anonymous or pseudonymous entries in the guestbook in the past. I am sorry to have to say that he will no doubt have been gratified that you have taken the bait. He can make - and has made in the past - serious contributions, even if I have not always agreed with him. We are sorry you are exhausted. Do you think your first sentence requires a question mark? We are surprised that your English education has not drummed this home, as your people say. We are from Dresden and survivors of allied bombing night and day. Mein vater was boiled in a public fountain by the heat of incendiary bombs dropped by the British. We regret you have nothing to add to our archive. Our work goes on. Where do Hans and Lotte come from. This topic, as with several others, was discussed to the point of exhaustion several years ago. Hans and Lotte Hotter Email: So glad to have discovered your site. We have spent many fruitless years researching the unexplained post-war disappearance of SS Panzer Colonel Wilhelm von Bigham. A noted warrior awarded the Iron Cross and Oak Leaves and recognised as a master of disguise. It is unlikely von Bigham still lives. This German patriot, soldier and biologist is not traceable in existing, scanty wartime Wermacht records, most of which were destroyed upon Adolf Hitler's direct orders. Our information is that the Colonel may have been captured by the British close to the end of hostilities in Europe,, and transported to UK retaining his professional connection with car manufacturer Mercedes-Benz. It is rumoured that von Bigham later set up a neo-Nazi youth force masquerading as British army cadets in the hope of taking over the MacMillan Government in the early s. What Zoopla users think of St. Leonards-on-Sea Apply to jobs now hiring in Harrow on the Hill on skytmeg.cf, the world's largest job site. jobs in Harrow On The Hill, Harrow (HA1) on totaljobs. Find and apply for the latest jobs near Harrow On The Hill from Piccadilly, Mayfair to Soho and more. We’ll get you noticed. If you’re ready for a new and challenging job, take a look at our wide range of jobs in Harrow on the Hill. Whatever type of job in Harrow on the Hill you’re seeking, you can find it on Monster. View our listings of Harrow on the Hill job opportunities and find your perfect fit today. 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__label__cc	0.566087	0.433913	Musician Application Performance Artist Application Visual Artist Application John Muldowney A festival for the whole family By John Muldowney \| Swell News & Updates \| No Comments Swell Music & Arts Festival is an annual event for the whole family! We pride ourselves in being a very family friendly festival. So much so that some kids have even been growing up with our annual event, attending every year with their parents. Following last year’s festival, Angela kindly got in contact and told us about the Swell time she had with her family on the island. “We all loved Swell Festival this year. We had been in 2014 and had the best time though didn’t get around to it again for three years! I had a chat to Daisy and Ronin (kids) about what they loved and the biggest thing was the music. We went to lots of the bands and it was fantastic that the kids were up the front, loving the craic and being totally safe at the same time. Poetry performance was a big highlight! “Family camping was fantastic. Security helped us with our stuff when we arrived. It was brilliant sitting outside our tent and listening to the music at night, so had the best of both not missing out on any music. Loved how it was all so close together, like going to a gig in your garden! The cafe at the site was brilliant, lovely having it to call into for breakfast. There was such a great selection of food trucks we didn’t bother using our BBQ. “Thank you for such a fantastic experience from start to finish. I couldn’t recommend it highly enough for anyone with kids. We’ll be back next year, looking forward to it already!” We welcome children of all ages, as long as they are supervised by a guardian at all times. Underage teenagers can get to enjoy their first festival experience, while children 12 and under even go free! We look forward to welcome many families to this year’s Swell Music & Arts Festival (27-29 July, 2018) which promises to be another memorable one. Click here to book your tickets Orchid Collective, Jinx Lennon and more highlights Orchid Collective and Jinx Lennon are just two further highlights at this year’s Swell Music & Arts Festival. With less than four weeks to go until our fifth annual festival on the beautiful island of Arranmore, we are pleased to reveal further acts joining this year’s line-up. We have a number of acts returning this year following an appearance at Swell ’17. Besides Accidents In The Workplace returning from The Wee County, we are thrilled that Dublin outfit Orchid Collective will yet again appear. Having just released their latest single (Otherside) in June, the four-piece have a busy month ahead of them before their hit the island, performing in Galway, Buncrana and Listowel, with more dates to be announced. It’s over ten years since ‘Noisemaker’, the episode of the RTÉ One documentary series Arts Lives, which also propelled Damien Dempsey to stardom, put Louth artist Jinx Lennon into the national spotlight. Since then the Irish punk poet from Dundalk has built a loyal following with his rap-style vocals and hard-hitting topics. As a not-for-profit festival our goal is to provide a platform for both established, and emerging artists. It’s great to see bands grow and therefore we are so delighted to see the return of Donegal band, Aul Boy. The four-piece are an indie-rock type quartet that combine the sounds of New York, California and Donegal in a genre-jumping collage of clever lyrics, loose guitars and tight rhythms. Sometimes sharp and noisy, sometimes light and poppy, sometimes big and spacey, always groovy. Alos making a welcome return to this year’ Swell, following a performance on The Mountain Stage in 2017, are Tanjier. From performing at major festivals around the country, the Dublin trio make a welcome return with their catchy electro pop music. In other line-up news, Earagail Arts Festival have just added Dirty Faces to the line-up of Distorted Perspectives on The Mountain Stage on Saturday night. For further acts on the Kinnegar Brewing-sponsored stage, including none other than The California Feetwarmers, click here. Earlier this month we of course announced that Portferry’s Ryan McMullan and Derry band The Wood Burning Savages, two of Ireland’s biggest rising acts, will be appearing. Tickets are on sale now! We hope to see many of you at this year’s fifth annual Swell Music & Arts Festival on Arranmore Island, Co Donegal, July 27 to 29. Join the Swell family and be a Volunteer Would you like to be a volunteer at this year’s Swell Music & Arts Festival? Swell is a not-for-profit festival which wouldn’t be possible without the dedication of volunteers who give their time free-of-charge both during the event and throughout the year to make it happen – All of the love of music and bringing people to our beautiful county. Volunteers play a really important role at Swell and tasks can include a variety of activities including ushering, box office, technical support, administration and more. Would you like to join these two dedicated gentlemen (Above: Festival founder John Muldowney and Orri McBrearty) on the island of Arranmore this July? We would love to hear from you! Simply send us an e-mail to info@swellfestival.com with the Subject: VOLUNTEER (Applicants must be 18+) and please send us answers to the following questions: Why do you want to be a volunteer at Swell Music & Arts Festival? Tell us about your current and past volunteer experiences. What have you enjoyed most about previous volunteer positions? Be part of the Swell family and have the adventure of a lifetime on beautiful Arranmore Island (July 27 to 29). Tickets are selling really fast, so anyone else thinking of coming, be sure to get your tickets soon, we have a fantastic line-up for our fifth anniversary! Earagail Arts Festival hosts The Mountain Stage Our good friends at Earagail Arts Festival return this year again to host The Mountain Stage, sponsored by Kinnegar Brewing. This year’s Mountain Stage programme in The Barn – Ireland’s only nomadic, agricultural outbuilding created by Belfast-based artist, inventor and explorer Paddy Bloomer – has been extended to three days, opening on Friday night. Day 1 – Stendhal Festival Presents (Friday) We’re delighted to welcome a selection of artists curated by Earagail Arts Festival’s partners at Stendhal Festival, Northern Ireland’s largest independent festival. Artists appearing inlude Rosborough, Waldorf & Cannon, No Oil Painting and Hunkpapa. Check out the line-up for Stendhal including a special EAF curated line-up of Donegal’s finest at over the weekend of 10th & 11th August. Day 2 – Distorted Perspectives (Saturday) Featuring three days of electronica, contemporary, traditional and folk artists in music and spoken word, The Mountain Stage will host local emerging artists, national and international guests from Ireland, Scotland and the USA in The Barn. Lineup: Donal Dineen, Slow Place Like Home, The Bonk, Alien She, Strength NIA, Shammen Delly, People That Listen To The Sky, F12, Distorted Perspectives DJS. Day 3 – The California Feetwarmers (Sunday) Sunday presents a programme celebrating Gaelic culture, and transatlantic folk & roots. Commencing with an afternoon of Irish and Scottish Gaelic song and spoken word with contributors Anne Martin, Eithne Ní Chatháin Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhríde agus Niall Hackett, a performance by the Gaelic electronic duo Whyte plus a few surprise guests throughout the day, The Mountain Stage will draw to a close with the fun-lovin’ masters of ragtime, Dixieland blues and early swing, The California Feetwarmers! The 5th annual Swell Music & Arts Festival takes place on Arranmore Island, Co Donegal, from July 27 to 29. Tickets are on sale now! Click here Limited Islander rate tickets now on sale A limited amount of Islander rate tickets for this year’s Swell Music & Arts Festival Festival (July 27 to 29) are on sale! We are very grateful for the phenomenal support you have shown this festival on your beautiful home island of Arranmore. As always, as a ‘thank you’ and a token of our appreciation to the Arranmore community, a limited amount of Islander tickets has been made available. The Islander tickets, which are being sold on a ‘first come, first serve’ basis for only €40, can be purchased in person at Early’s Bar, by contacting Jerry Early on Mobile 0878054246 or by sending a direct message to the Early’s Bar Facebook page. Don’t forget, there is only a very limited amount of additional Islander tickets, so purchase them quickly! A member of the Swell team will also be on island this weekend. So feel free to contact us by direct message. Don’t forget, there is only a very limited amount of additional Islander tickets, so purchase them quickly! If you do miss out on the Islander tickets, we would still love to see many of you at the festival as your support is very important to us. Day passes will still be available on the website. Please note that day passes are €35, so you are better off getting your Islander rate ticket quickly and having the option to go all weekend. Anyone purchasing tickets, please understand that we are selling these at a special rate to the island community as a ‘Thank You’ so please treat this with respect. We thank you all for your understanding and support. We would like to stress to all others still interested in attending this year’s Swell Music & Arts Festival that tickets are selling very, very fast and we are nearing full capacity. So be sure to purchase your tickets as soon as possible! Thank you all for your continued support, we look forward to seeing you at this year’s fifth annual Swell Music & Arts Festival, July 27-29! It’s going to be an amazing weekend! We have already announced some of the biggest highlights of this year’s line-up. To find out more, click here! Ryan McMullan, The Wood Burning Savages & More Ryan McMullan and The Wood Burning Savages are just two of the highlights appearing at this year’s Swell Festival. In less than seven weeks we will be welcoming people to the beautiful island of Arranmore off the coast of Donegal and as we celebrate our fifth anniversary, this is sure to be one of the best line-ups we’ve had to-date. Portaferry’s Ryan McMullan has been building a great reputation in the music scene on the island of Ireland for years. Since opening for Ed Sheeran on European tour in 2017, his career has reached new heights and we are so thrilled that he will be joining us for the very first time. What can we say about The Wood Burning Savages. Close friends to the festival, the Derry band has appeared at Swell on a number of occasions. Their debut album Stability has been receiving rave reviews both at home and abroad. If you haven’t seen TWBS live before, you are in for a high octane performance that will have you rocking out! While they are first-timers to the Swell Festival line-up, Ye Vagabonds are no strangers to Arranmore. In fact, the folk duo has very close family ties to the island and are regular visitors which will make their appearance particularly special. Over the years we have had many bands return to the festival and we are so thrilled that Accidents In The Workplace are once again appearing. One of the highlights of 2017, the funky Louth band and their charismatic lead singer Lauren Murphy are sure to bring the house down, yet again. Other acts appearing include For Foresters, Kneecap, Gaze Is Ghost, Without Willow, TPM,Thumper and many more. Keep posted on our social media sites for further updates in the coming weeks. The 5th annual Swell Music & Arts Festival takes place at Rannagh Strand, the home of Arranmore United FC, from July 27 to 29, and tickets are on sale now! Click here! Get your special rate tickets, we’re moving! Swell Music & Arts Festival is delighted to announce that we are going west! Our milestone fifth festival will be hosted on the west side of the island at Rannagh Strand, Aphort thanks to the generosity of Arranmore United Football Club. To celebrate the announcement of our new location, we have just posted a limited run of 25 special rate tickets priced at only €50pp + €5.81 booking fee. Organiser, John Muldowney said he is grateful to the club’s committee for offering their site to host what he hopes will be the biggest and most successful year to-date. He said: “As we are a not-for-profit festival, we rely on a lot of support from not only individuals, but also larger organisations to host this annual event, which we are pleased to say attracts a lot of tourism to the island and county! “The committee of Arranmore United recognises the value of Swell Festival as something that brings new faces to the island have gone out of their way to make things happen for us.” “The people who have come year on year and supported the festival are going to be very excited about our new location, overlooking Rannagh Strand and the beautiful Atlantic ocean. “We have been working hard to build on the success of 2017, which was our best year to-date. For 2018 we want to continue to showcase new Irish talent, as well as some top musical acts. “Thanks to the support of the Irish language community, we also hope to build on the promotion of our native tongue as part of this festival hosted in Donegal’s Gaeltacht.” The Swell Music & Arts Festival will take place at Arranmore United Football Club, Rannagh Strand, Aphort, Arranmore from Friday, July 27 to Sunday, July 29. And don’t forget the limited run of 25 special rate tickets are now on sale! Once they’re gone, they’re gone! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook: @SwellFestival Emerald X20 Opus Draw in aid of Swell 2018 Would you like to be in with a chance to win a beautiful Irish-made electro acoustic guitar? In our continued effort to raise funds for our annual not-for-profit festival on Arranmore, we are delighted to be announcing our draw for an X20 Opus, thanks to the support of Emerald Guitars. This is a fantastic opportunity to win a beautiful carbon fibre guitar made right here in Donegal, complete with LR Baggs Element Active System pickup and custom-padded gig bag which retails at €1,670. The draw is strictly limited to 200 and they are €25 per ticket. All proceeds will go towards programming Swell Festival 2018 which will mark its fifth anniversary. The draw will take place on Christmas Eve, 24th December 2017, and the winner will be announced on our social media sites, meaning one lucky punter will have a very Happy Christmas! Are you still missing a Christmas present for someone who happens to be a guitar lover? Then enter them into this draw while tickets last! Click here to purchase your ticket! Send us your Swell Memories We want to keep the buzz from this year’s Swell weekend going all the way into next year and for that, we would love your help! It was such a beautiful weekend on Arranmore and with all the fun-filled festivities no doubt many of you took some amazing pictures at this year’s Swell Music & Arts Festival and we would love to see them. Send us your favourite photos from this year’s Swell and, with your permission, we would love to share them over the coming year. No doubt, you also have some great stories from the weekend to tell us. Who was your favourite act? What was your favourite moment? Did you go exploring the island and caught the sunrise by lighthouse? We would love to hear your stories! Send an email with the Subject: Swell Memories to info@swellfestival.com and send your favourite Swell 20017 photos and stories. We look forward to hearing from you and thank you all for continuing to support Swell Music & Arts Festival. Go raibh mile maith agaibh! Parking restrictions in Burtonport this weekend This weekend’s Swell Music & Arts Festival on Arranmore coincides with the beginning of the 41st annual Burtonport Festival. Parking will therefore be limited in the pier area and car park and some areas will be closed due to ongoing festival proceedings. We recommend that patrons attending our festival try to arrive in Burtonport as early as possible to find suitable and safe parking for your motor vehicle. Please respect the Burtonport community and do not leave your vehicle in a location that may cause an obstruction to local traffic. We would like to take this opportunity to wish the organisers of the Burtonport Festival (July 21 to 29) all the very best for their annual week-long festivities. For anyone interested in attending this year’s Swell Music & Arts Festival that full weekend and day passes are selling very, very fast and we are nearing full capacity. So be sure to purchase your tickets as soon as possible! There are also important details you need to know about the ferries here. Thank you all for your continued support, we look forward to seeing you at this year’s Swell Music & Arts Festival! It’s going to be an amazing weekend! Swell News & Updates Swell News Archive © 2017 Swell Festival	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line433
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