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__label__cc	0.715466	0.284534	Diary of An Expat in Singapore Calogero Failla: Black Swan of Singapore Black Swan of Singapore Remember the psychological thriller Black Swan, starring oscar winner Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, and Vincent Cassel? Who knew you could find that much intrigue, jealousy, and ambition in a ballet company? Calogero Failla, that's who. Over coffee yesterday, I had a chat with this Italian export who is now a professional dancer at the Singapore Dance Theater. Failla, who has travelled the world for his art, left home at just fifteen. And if he had to do it over again? He would leave at nine. Here are my 10 questions to an expat (edited version), for the unedited you'll have to wait for the book! 1) So Calogero, how long have you lived in Singapore? Six months. 2) Where are you from originally? Ragusa, Sicily. 3) What brought you here? Ballet. I don't travel for tourism, only for work. 4) What do you do in your spare time? I don't like to go out drinking or to discos...I like to sit in a cafe' and write. Poems and stories. 5) What do you like about Singapore? People are quite reserved here. Although, sometimes they are too detached. The pas de deux is like making love...it takes two people. Otherwise it doesn't work. Ballet may belong to everybody but it is not for everybody. 6) Interesting. So what do you like least? The weather and the food. 7) Never leave the house without? A notebook and a pen. 8) Best weekend trip? I usually work on weekends. The daily regime of a dancer is very tough. If we have no shows on the weekend and are not on tour, I usually just take it easy. 9) Interesting fact people don't know about you? I know how to cook. My specialty is pasta with red pesto. I will have to make it for you one day. 10) Gladly. So what advice would you give someone who is about to move here? Go back. Just kidding. But seriously, it depends on what you want to do here. Asia is not for everybody. Posted by Jennifer Stuff First Time Visitors to Singapore Say "So this is Singapore?!" 1) It's like being on vacation. 2) Is it always so hot here? 3) It doesn't look like it's going to rain. 4) Why is the air con on all the time? 5) Can you turn the air con on? 6) I love walking. 7) Maybe we should take a taxi. 8) If I had a pool, I would always be by the pool. 9) I never get sunburnt... 10) Do they sell aloe vera? 10 Question To An Expat: Beautiful Brianna Brianna with her lovely family Introducing our expat of the month, Brianna Gardiol Foulds, beautiful wife and mother of three. When she's not training for a marathon, this Texan dynamo can be found at a Singapore Slingers game sporting cowboy boots and a huge smile. 1) So Brianna, how long have you lived in Singapore? We moved here in October 2011, so about 16 months. I was born in Idaho but lived in Tokyo as a child. My family finally settled in Texas, which is where I moved to Singapore from. My husband Todd's job. He manages a team for a US based tech company. My free time is pretty random and never scheduled far in advance. I volunteer at my kids' school, go running, catch a daytime movie with my friends. I think a course in hot yoga and hip hop would be fun. 5) What do you like best about Singapore? I LOVE that I have made so many friends from Singapore and from all over the world. I get to learn about about so many different cultures and traditions. 6) What do you like least? Durian. Seriously...who thought it would be a good idea to put something that smelled that awful into your mouth?! A hair band and a scrunchie. I have to control my frizzy hair! If only I had lived here in the 80's my hair would be rockin'. We have not traveled a lot yet but we do have some trips coming up: Kota Kinabalu (on the island of Borneo in Malaysia), Khao Lak in Thailand, Beijing, and Siem Reap in Cambodia. I'm not sure which one I'm most excited for. I started a facebook group because I couldn't find Cheez Wiz for a recipe for my first Thanksgiving dinner away from home. Yes, Cheez Wiz was the motivation behind a group that now has over 800 members in it. I also have a motorcycle license. 10) And finally, what advice would you give someone who is about to move here? Be prepared for the ups and downs of being an expat. Not every day is going to be filled with rainbows and unicorns. But make the most of it because before you know it your assignment here will be over. Ten Sure Signs You Are At An International School in Singapore "Please, sir, I want some more..." A few weeks ago, I was invited to give a writing workshop at one of the better known international school in Singapore. As expected, it was great fun to meet such an engaged group of students. Afterwards, over a delicious meal of naan and curry, I wondered if there were any tell tale signs that I was at one of those landmark institutions in Singapore: the international school. Here's what I noticed: 1) The kids' sneakers cost more than my handbag. 2) There's an olympic sized pool. 3) There's kayaking for P.E. 4) Students walk around with water bottles. You know, for the drought you haven't heard about yet. 5) Lunchtime looks like a mini UN convention. 6) Kids have a hard time pronouncing their best friend's name. 7) Field trips include skiing in the Alps and trekking in the Himalayas. 8) Kids only see their grandparents on skype. 9) On the day back from school holidays, most kids walk around in a jetlagged stupor. 10) The canteen has its own clay pot tandoori oven (see photo above). Does The Tooth Fairy Come To Singapore? Eliot lost another tooth. That is a big deal for a kid. Before bedtime, she wrote a carefully worded missive and wondered if the tooth fairy would be coming. Because even a 7 yr old knows there are no certainties in life. Especially at night time. A couple of nights ago, I read her a short story by Oscar Wilde called The Star Child. It's about a young boy who rejects his mother because she is a beggar woman. He was stolen from her as a baby in the forest and she only finds him after a desperate search that has lasted for years and left her destitute. But the child is not happy to see her since he had always imagined and told his friends he was a royal prince. He is disgusted by her ugliness and embarrassed by her poverty so he throws stones at her and calls her names. This image really upset Eliot, especially when I volunteered: "What if that were me?" Last night, an old fear came back with a vengeance- her fear of crocodiles. Nothing I could say was comforting. Not even that there are no crocodiles in Singapore. She quickly pointed out: "What about the zoo? I saw one at the zoo." I ended up just sitting next to her and singing the song I used to sing when I rocked her to sleep as a baby Knick Knack Paddy Whack Give a Dog a Bone. She finally dozed off clutching my hand and her bear. I definitely prefer her daytime fears: "I don't want to do a spelling test. I wish we could have a spice test, instead." Clearly, years of eating curry noodles have given her incredible confidence. Do you still remember the things you feared as a child? Signs You Are Not Slumming It In Singapore It's a bargain! 1) You eat cheese. 2) You drink wine. 3) You have a car. 4) You have a child. That child goes to school. 5) You buy your fruit from Isetan. (For reference: $59 sing dollars for 1 melon= 47 US dollars or 30 GB pounds or 35 euros.) Unfortunately, I cut off the top part of the sign which says: On sale. At least, they have a sense of humor...I think. When I Come Back to Singapore One Day Ten Sure Signs You Are At A Hair Salon in Singapore The Thing I Hate About Singapore Fun Things To Do With Kids in Singapore Ten Sure Signs You Are An Expat Spending Christmas in Singapore The book is available in bookstores and online. Hi! I'm Jennifer. I come from Verona, Italy and have lived in Singapore the past six years with my Italian husband and two children. I am a freelance journalist, university lecturer, avid reader, and hopefully a good friend. And, contrary to all my expectations, I love living in Singapore! Join These Cool People and Become a Follower Today! Ten Sure Signs You Are At An International School ...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8223
__label__wiki	0.751391	0.751391	Today In Tribe History Today in Tribe History: July 12, 1938 Cleveland second baseman Odell Hale hits for the cycle as the Indians fall to the Washington Senators, 9-8, at Griffith Stadium. Batting third in the lineup, Hale got to work right away, scoring Jeff Heath on a single to make it a 2-0 game after just three batters. After the Senators tied the game with two in the bottom of the first, Hale came up with Heath on third and two runners already in and knocked Heath home with a two-out triple to give Cleveland a 5-2 lead. In the fourth inning in a now 5-5 game, Hale stepped to the plate with runners on the corners, including Heath once again, this time at first. Hale doubled both runners in to give Cleveland a 7-5 lead. With a run in the fifth and two more in the sixth, the Senators took an 8-7 lead. Hale popped out in his fourth at bat in the top of the seventh, but with the Indians down to their final out in the top of the ninth, he homered off of Chief Hogsett to tie the game at 8-8 and complete his cycle. The game, however, would be decided five batters later, as the Indians’ pitchers Bill Zuber and Johnny Humphries combined to load the bases on two walks sandwiched around a bunt single. After getting Buddy Lewis to strike out, a sacrifice fly by Sam West scored the winning run. The cycle by Hale was the third in Indians history and their first in nearly five years. Bill Bradley notched the first recorded on September 24, 1903. Almost 30 years later, Hale’s teammate Earl Averill hit his own on August 17, 1933, for the second in club history. It will be almost 14 years before Larry Doby adds his name to the list. Odell Hale Indians Acquire Reliever Maton from Padres	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8224
__label__wiki	0.909966	0.909966	Business & Reference (2) E-Journal (1) Architectural Structures (2) Land management (2) American history (1) Architectural history (1) Architectural plans (1) Atomic energy (1) Auchenorrhyncha (1) Crop science (1) Cultivation (1) Froghopper (1) Geodesy (1) Historic structures (1) Historical photographs (1) Insect species (1) Leafhopper (1) Nuclear engineering (1) Nuclear reactor technology (1) Preservation (1) : all » North Carolina State University Peter Bruff (1) Zeno P. Metcalf (1) : North Carolina State University Category: North Carolina State University Living off the Land- Tobacco and Crop Science History in North Carolina, 1850-1950 W E L C O M E Living off the Land is a digital resource that features original images and other documents relating to North Carolina's agricultural history and economy. The project highlights some of the rich, educational resources available in North Carolina State University Libraries Special Collections Research Center (SCRC). Among the topics included in this collection are education, history, economics, culture, entomology, cultivation, tobacco, and crop science. For a complete list, see our subject browse . The SCRC manuscript collections that serve as the foundation for this project include the papers of individuals and organizations that have made contributions to agricultural science. Agricultural economics \| Agriculture \| Crop science \| Cultivation \| Economics \| English \| Entomology \| Image \| North Carolina \| North Carolina State University \| Text \| Tobacco \| United States \| Agriculture \| Science & Technology http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/specialcollections/digital/livingofftheland/ Some New Australian Cicadidae For most of the material from which the following new species of Cicadidae are described, I have to thank Mr. F. P. Dodd (queensland) and Mr. H. Elgner, of the same State. Amongst them it will be noticed is a new species of Cyclochila from Queensland, and also a species of Prasia, a genus so far unrecorded in Australia, though common in New Guinea. I have had some difficulty in deciding upon the generic deter- mination of Psaltoda pulchra, as it has strong affinities with Thopha in the structure of the head and the proportions of the tegmina and wings. The abdomen, however, is unadorned with the sacs which hide the tympana in the division Thopharia, so I have placed the species tentatively in the genus Psaltoda. Australia \| Biology \| English \| Exploration \| Image \| Insect species \| Insects \| North Carolina \| North Carolina State University \| Papua New Guinea \| Text \| United States \| Zoology \| Zoology \| Science & Technology http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/specialcollections/digital/text/entomology/ash... The Tom Regan Animal Rights Archive This animal rights research site was designed by the NCSU Computer Science Senior Design Center students Shane Smith, Brenda Loehfelm, Sherry Pitz, Alan Seales, and Matt Senter, in consultation with the NSCU Libraries Special Collections, Digital Library Initiatives, and Systems Departments. Animal abuse \| Animal rights \| Animal welfare \| Arts & Humanities \| English \| Ethics \| Exploitation \| North Carolina \| North Carolina State University \| Philosophy \| Text \| United States \| Veterinary Medicine \| Philosophy \| Zoology \| Health & Medicine \| Science & Technology http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/animalrights/ Greenways Archive In 1991, Charles E. Little and The Johns Hopkins University Press donated the core of what would become the Greenways Archive at NCSU Libraries Special Collections Research Center. After the completion of his path-breaking book, Greenways for America, Charles E. Little wanted to donate his impressive collection of greenways material to an academic institution that was committed to the development of greenways systems across the United States. NCSU was chosen as the repository for the Archive because of the strong interest for greenways in the Raleigh, NC area and the university's renowned programs in Parks and Recreation, Landscape Design, Engineering, and Environmental Sciences. For several years, however, the Archive remained undeveloped, consisting primarily of the Little papers. Ecology \| Ecosystems \| English \| Environment \| Historic sites \| Landscape architecture \| North Carolina \| North Carolina State University \| Preservation \| Rivers \| Text \| United States \| Environment & Ecology \| Science & Technology http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/specialcollections/greenways/ Green 'N' Growing - The History of Home Demonstration and 4-H Youth Development in North Carolina Green 'N' Growing is a resource-based research and educational web site developed by the Special Collections Research Center at the North Carolina State University Libraries. Drawing upon the rich historical records found in the University Archives, the collection provides valuable information about women, children, race relations, education, agriculture, and rural life in North Carolina during the twentieth century. Users will be able to access digital reproductions of over 10,000 items, including photographs and pages from pamphlets, reports, and other materials, that document the history of 4-H and Home Demonstration in North Carolina from the 1900s to the 1970s. Agriculture \| Arts & Humanities \| Children \| Education \| English \| Image \| Lifestyle \| North Carolina \| North Carolina State University \| Pamphlets \| Race relations \| Rural life \| Text \| United States \| Lifestyle, Family & Relationships http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/specialcollections/greenngrowing/ First Temple of the Atom This digital collection consists of ca. 150 items, 1949-1956, chiefly letters and writings of Clifford K. Beck relating to the establishment and building of the first nuclear reactor at North Carolina State College and the establishment of the Nuclear Engineering program. During the construction and test phases, numerous memorandum passed between project participants. These crucial documents detail experimental results and reactor specifications. Dr. Raymond L. Murray collected, saved, and donated these crucial documents to the NC State University Archives at the Raymond L. Murray Raleigh Research Reactor Project Notebook project site. Atomic energy \| Chemistry \| Energy \| English \| North Carolina \| North Carolina State University \| Nuclear engineering \| Nuclear reactor technology \| Text \| United States \| Chemical & Bio-technology \| Chemistry \| Energy \| Science & Technology http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/specialcollections/digital/text/engineering/re... Metcalf Collection Introduction DrMetcalf provides online access to information on cicadas , leafhoppers , planthoppers , spittlebugs , and treehoppers , including a searchable bibliographic database for retrieving literature on these groups, which together comprise the group Auchenorrhyncha . The database includes nearly 12,000 early publications (1741-1955). Few electronic databases cover the early literature for any insect group. Because the focal groups are common and widespread, users may find the database helpful for retrieving many older works on insects in general. DrMetcalf also includes an overview of the group Auchenorrhyncha and each of its major subgroups. Auchenorrhyncha \| Cicada \| E-Journal \| English \| Froghopper \| Image \| Leafhopper \| North Carolina \| North Carolina State University \| Planthopper \| Text \| Treehopper \| United States \| United States Department of Agriculture \| University of Illinois \| Zeno P. Metcalf \| Zoology \| Biology & Life Sciences \| Zoology \| Science & Technology http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/specialcollections/digital/metcalf/ North Carolina Architecture Survey more » Need more help? Browse subjects to find your area of interest. more » Need more help? Contact an expert in your area of study. more » Need help getting around? View D. H. Hill Library Map . Search books, articles, journals, & library website About the SCRC Introduction to the 1994 Architectural Records Survey This booklet is a survey of architectural records held in repositories, government agencies, architectural firms, and private collections throughout North Carolina. The aim of this survey is to begin to unite the scattered architectural collections across the state and to initiate the process for developing a statewide collection strategy and appraisal program for North Carolina architectural records. Architectural history \| Architecture \| Architecture \| Arts & Humanities \| Buildings \| Construction \| English \| Image \| North Carolina \| North Carolina State University \| Surveying \| Text \| United States http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/specialcollections/digital/text/architects/ind... A Treatise on Engineering Field-Work by Peter Bruff. 1838 THE idea of writing this Treatise suggested itself to me a considerable time since, from knowing the repeated inquiries that had been made for such a book; and after perusing, I believe, every work that has been published on the subject, I was fully convinced of the necessity of such a work, adapted to the present improved practice. Of the works on Surveying, I may say, they are all elementary, and of ante-date, no treatise, that I am aware of, having been published since the fine mathematical instruments at present in use have been considered a necessary adjunct to the successful prosecution of land surveying. Of the treatises published on levelling, there is only one of recent date, by Mr. Civil service \| Engineering \| English \| Geodesy \| Geography \| Image \| Land management \| North Carolina \| North Carolina State University \| Peter Bruff \| Surveying \| Text \| United States \| Construction & Materials \| Engineering \| Business & Reference \| Science & Technology http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/specialcollections/digital/text/engineering/br... History of Forestry Project Information Phase I Thanks to a grant from the State Library of North Carolina, North Carolina ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) in 2001, The North Carolina State University Libraries' Special Collections Research Center, in collaboration with the Biltmore Company in Asheville and the Forest History Society in Durham, created an online resource for research and information on forestry history in the state of North Carolina. The partners established this web site to provide access to collections of rare and unique items for the general public, students and scholars. During the first phase of the project, the partner institutions digitized primary research materials, including photographs, diaries, correspondence, artifacts, and printed materials. The Carl A. Ecology \| English \| Environment \| Forestry \| Image \| Land management \| Land use \| North Carolina \| North Carolina State University \| Text \| United States \| Environment & Ecology \| Science & Technology http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/specialcollections/forestry/ North Carolina Architects & Builders Coming Soon NC Architects and Builders is a growing system. We will post this entry as soon as it is ready. About Copyright This compilation copyright NC State University. We encourage fair use of this site for non-profit research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to US copyright law. Users are free to cite and link to the content without asking for permission. Cite as [Author], "[Title of entry]," North Carolina Architects and Builders: A Biographical Dictionary , Copyright & Digital Scholarship Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC. Some materials in NC Architects and Builders are copyrighted by owners other than the NCSU Libraries and NC State University. Please consult copyright information provided with the individual items for details. Architects \| Architectural Structures \| Architecture \| Architecture \| Arts & Humanities \| Biography \| Builders \| Buildings \| English \| Image \| North Carolina \| North Carolina State University \| Text \| United States \| Biography \| Construction & Materials \| Business & Reference \| Social Sciences http://ncarchitects.lib.ncsu.edu/ The Built Heritage of North Carolina - Historic Architecture in the Old North State The Built Heritage of North Carolina "The Built Heritage of North Carolina" provides access to documentation on hundreds of buildings and structures in North Carolina dating from the 1700s to the early 1900s. Buildings represented in this project include well-known examples of historic architecture, such as Baldhead Lighthouse, the Bellamy Mansion in Wilmington, and Blandwood in Greensboro. Also covered are such lesser known but historically significant structures as the Jordan House in Bertie County (one of the earliest brick buildings in the state) and the Allison-Deaver House in Transylvania County (one of the oldest frame dwellings west of the Blue Ridge). Architectural plans \| Architectural Structures \| Architectural styles \| Architecture \| Arts & Humanities \| Buildings \| English \| Historic structures \| Image \| Map \| North Carolina \| North Carolina State University \| Text \| United States http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/specialcollections/builtheritage/ Historical State: History in Red and White Historical State is your gateway to NC State history. Use Historical State to learn something new about NC State or to start your research on a university history topic. Search for information on events and activities that have occurred in the past at NC State, or access historic photos, course catalogs, and online exhibits. Explore the development of campus buildings, student life, the colleges, and the academic departments. Test your knowledge of NC State history in the "Did You Know?" section, or view a timeline to learn about the various activities happening around campus in a given year. American history \| Campus \| Education \| English \| Historical photographs \| Image \| North Carolina \| North Carolina State University \| Text \| United States \| University \| Area Studies \| History & Historiography \| Social Sciences http://historicalstate.lib.ncsu.edu/ Primeros Libros 9 unique views TODAY	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8226
__label__cc	0.688749	0.311251	Fastfood Surprises at Sorya Food City (Phnom Penh, Cambodia) During one of my arrivals in Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital, I decided to check out Sorya Mall again where I once watched Khmer movies, badly made chopsuey of horror and comedy, with slapstick sensibility. I proceeded to the fourth floor - "Sorya Food City" is what it's called. Not food plaza, not food court, nor food salon. I purchased my coupon at their coupon booth so I could start the "hunt" for an acceptable fastfood entree a la Khmer. It was chicken with curry sauce, meticulously wrapped in a cup-like banana leaf that sat on a lettuce. A cup of rice beside it. Yum. So allow me to masticate and speak no further. Labels: cambodia, eye in the sky travel blog, Khmer food, phnom penh, Sorya Food City, Sorya Shopping Center Grandiosity at the White Temple, Thailand A holy temple? Nah, it's a singular structure at the White Palace's complex in the Rong Khun area of Chiang Rai. The "temple" is in immaculate white and most times, filled with tourists - truly one of the most gorgeous sites to grace North Thailand. This eye-popping rendition of a temple is built by artist Chaloemchai Khositphiphat. But let me turn right back into the structure above. Hold your breath - literally! It is the temple complex's toilet! Labels: Chaloemchai Khositphiphat, Chiang Rai, eye in the sky travel blog, Thailand, Wat Rong Khun, White Palace Monkey Forest in Lombok's Gunung Sari If my driver-guide spoke English well, he'd be eloquent, I thought. My driver for the day, Ajam, was a far cry from the morose Odin, my driver the day before. He was particularly receptive and personable. He would open doors (which I disliked), and curiously tiptoe whenever he'd see me finish a visit. He was one of those who was eager to please. One of the places he took me to was a mountain called Gunung Sari (Sari Mountain) which the locals refer as "Monkey Forest". The uphill eastward ride through "Pusuk Pass" was pleasant and scenic. A few minutes after our ascent, we pulled by the roadside. Lush trees abound, and cheeky monkeys wait for visitors to feed them, usually bought from a nearby traditional market. I am in no way fond of these mammals. Never have. This visit reinforced that. A school of monkeys were already waiting by the roadside, hanging on trees, and hopping on to newly arrived vehicles which, expectedly, came and went. If you didn't bring any banana, the monkeys would come near you and check you out. I was, of course, not amused. Labels: eye in the blue sky travel blog, Gunung Sari, Indonesia, Lombok, Monkey Forest, Pusuk Pass The Curious Novice Monk of Innwa (Myanmar) There are 3 ancient imperial cities that can be visited as day trips from Mandalay in Myanmar. Innwa (aka Ava) was my favorite. I crossed Ayeyarwaddy River to get there, hired a horse-drawn carriage to take me around, and checked out relics of old temples. Catastrophe got the better of this ancient Burmese kingdom, which reigned between 14th to 19th century. The Big Earthquakes of March 1839 leveled the grandeur that was Innwa which literally means "mouth of the lake". The location couldn't be more strategic because it sits at the confluence of Ayeyarwaddy and Myitnge Rivers. But natural forces seem to have cast Innwa's fate. From Ava Palace, now just a watchtower, I visited Bagaya Monastery. At a relic nearby, I found my youthful welcoming committee - two novice monks who were curious of my presence. I caught my shy but curious little host in one of my photos (above). Red robes characterize the garbs of Burmese monks. You can't miss them. Labels: Ava, Ava Palace, Ayeyarwaddy River, Bagaya Monastery, eye in the sky travel blog, Innwa, Mandalay, Myanmar, Myitnge River Masyarakat Park in Petaling Jaya (Malaysia) At least Metro Manila has Pasig River. The folks from Malabon and Novaliches have their Tullahan River. Kuala Lumpur, unlike most thriving great metropolises, doesn't have a major river flowing through it. The ones they have, Titiwangsa and KL Lake Gardens, are man-made, albeit worth visiting. Thus when I ventured into another pond at Taman (Park) Masyarakat, it was like finding needle in a haystack. My destination was Petaling Jaya (PJ), essentially a new city (declared a city in 2006) and a satellite township of Kuala Lumpur, located in the Petaling district of Selangor. If you think it's far from KL, you'd be mistaken. It's just 5 stops from KL Sentral's Kelana Jaya line, a mere 2 ringgit travel. I've long wanted to visit. From the train station (Taman Jaya LRT), you could visit the Amcorp Mall, a 4-level shopping and business complex, situated just across a football field. To it's left is the city's green lung, Masyarakat Park. It's a great place to just watch people walk by, jog, fish (yes, there's plentiful in the lagoon), etc. There's a couple of children's park in the vicinity too. There are places of worship in the area: Christian churches (St. Francis Xavier Church), a Hindu and a Taoist Temple. I may have to check them out one of these days. Mostly though, the area isn't meant for tourists so I kind of felt like I was eavesdropping on the locals. Not quite. Labels: Amcorp Mall, Kelana Jaya line, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Petaling Jaya, PJ, Selangor, Taman Masyarakat Suspense and Idyll in Phuket's Patong Beach (Thailand) I was trying to avoid a Vietnamese monk who was following me around from the airport in Yangon (Myanmar) to Bangkok, then took the bus with me to Phuket. Everything was peachy. After all, what's wrong with traveling with a new friend, right? People do that all the time. But along the way, things turned hairy and I felt like I was being stalked. So I avoided him - and I'd find him hanging around places I'd go. Ever been stalked by a monk? That's one of my contentious "claims to fame", apparently. One morning in Phuket Town, after hiding inside my room, I rushed out and hopped on a 20-baht (PhP27.50) bus that would take me to the popular Patong Beach, Phuket's "most happening" stretch of beach. Bought my lunch at McDonald's and guess who I found walking by the Phuket coast? My hair stood on end! Literally! Later that day, I wound up sitting by the beach. The spot was unusually deserted, and I felt tranquil. For a few seconds, I forgot I was avoiding someone. Looking back, it was one of the most surreal situations I have been in. Something to tell your friends about. Or not. Labels: eye in the sky travel blog, Patong Beach, Phuket, Phuket Town, Thailand Candi Brahu in Trowulan, Mojokerto (Indonesia) Trowulan, a subdistrict of the Mojokerto Regency in East Java, boasts of almost a dozen temple-relics of the vast Majapahit empire (the last Indianized kingdom in Indonesia), many of them in disparaging states of disrepair. Candi Brahu (Brahu Temple) was among the more special. It sits on a majestic garden lined by flowering plants. Two kilometers from the Mojokerto-Jombang Highway, my motorbike dropped me in a gorgeous clearing with a brick temple rising like a reddish phallic symbol. A cryptic window peeks from the top. Founded sometime in the 15th century A.D., Brahu Temple was believed to have been a crematorium of kings. Their dead bodies were allegedly incinerated here. Subsequently, statues, royal jewelries made of gold, and ceremonial tools were dug and found in the vicinity. Now here's the mystery: ashes of the dead were never found during its pre-restoration studies. So what was its reason for being? No one really knows for sure. Part of its beauty is in its mystery. Like a window with no portal of entry. I was thinking of Rapunzel, only with Majapahit head garments and nose rings. "Let down your hair, my damsel in distress," I was imagining of course. This is the Eye in the Sky. Labels: Barhu Temple, Candi Brahu, East Java, eye in the blue sky blog, Indonesia, Majapahit empire, Mojokerto Regency, Trowulan The Philippines' Sabah Claim at the Muzium Negeri (KL Malaysia) The National Museum of Malaysia has several entries that mention or reference the Philippines, I was of course surprised. But why not? The Malays and the Filipinos have always been friendly neighbors. Some issues are of valid concern because they involve territories and sovereignty. I shall not discuss this fully, but will feature them as they are presented at the museum. The photo above is of Alfred Dent, a British Merchant, who provided Baron de Overbeck, the Austrian Head consul in Hong Kong with 10,000 British Pounds to obtain the concessions of North Borneo from Sultan of Brunei and the Sultan of Sulu. As a result, he managed to request a charter from the British Government and later formed the North Borneo Company to administer Sabah in 1881. Sometime during the regime of despotic Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, a group of young Muslim Filipinos were gathered together to "claim" Sabah. They were trained for this takeover, but when the mission was aborted, these young Muslim men were summarily executed, thus the "Jabidah Massacre" which has recently been accepted as part of a cantankerous chapter of our history as a nation. The formation of Malaysia also affected Malaysia-Philippines bilateral relations over claims to North Borneo (Sabah). In 1962, the Philippine government demanded that the British Government hand over the land which the Philippines claimed as theirs, because North Borneo was part of the Sultanate of Sulu. After the formation of Malaysia in 1963, the Philippines submitted a claim to the government of Malaysia. On February 10, 1964, both parties agreed to meet in Phnom Penh in order to negotiate a solution. Finally, on February 12, 1964, Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman formally announced the restoration of the diplomatic ties between Malaysia and the Philippines. A copy of the Borneo Cession papers in Jawi script given to Baron de Overbeck and Alfred Dent in 1874 by the Sultan of Brunei. An indenture made out to Alfred Dent by the Sultan of Brunei for all the islands of North Borneo in 1881. An in-depth discussion on the conference's proposals took place at the Kedah House, Cameron Highlands on May 24, 1964. WPhoto shows Prime Minister Abdul Rahman, Thai Foreign Minister Thun Thanat Khaman, Salvador P. Lopez representing President Diosdado Macapagal, and Dato Ong Yoke Lin. Labels: Alfred Dent, Baron de Overbeck, Borneo, eye in the sky travel blog, Malaysia, Philippines, Sabah National Museum of Malaysia Part 2: Galleries C and D (KL Malaysia) I wasn't looking forward to visiting the last two galleries (C and D) of Muzium Negeri (National Museum of Malaysia) because I was expecting static exhibits and pictography. What I wasn't expecting was a considerable entry on Manila and the Philippines' claim of Sabah, but I am getting ahead. Gallery C concentrates on the "Colonial Era", thus there would be considerable mention of the Portuguese settlement in Malacca (Melaka) followed by the British influences. Gallery D covers contemporary times in "Malaysia Today". There are of course entries on Singapore's break away from the Malay Kingdom, as well as Brunei's refusal to take part in the said Federation of 14 States. To be quite honest, this was welcome information for me. My Southeast Asian history is close to nil. My collegiate education hasn't made adequate mention of these neighboring countries' history. We were more interested with what went on with America than the southeast Asian countries. This "muzium" will provide at least a couple of hours' worth of informative roaming if you're into this stuff. There are a few things that one has to look out for, or might miss them in case you're rushing to another itinerary. There's a replica of Melaka's "A Famosa"; a good mention of James Brooke, Raja of Sarawak circa 1847; up until the Malaysian shouts of "Merdeka"! It's noteworthy to look for "The Speaker's Chair", a gift of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom as token of friendship for the country being a new member of the Commonwealth Association. The Philippines' claim on Sabah shall be posted separately to underline its significance. During the Portuguese Administration, the administrative epicenter was Melaka head by a captain of the fort who reported to the Viceroy of Goa who, in turn reported to the King of Porrtugal. Melaka's "A Famosa" The Bunga Emas (the Golden Flower) was a gift sent triennial by the Sultans of the Malay states of Kedah, Kelantan, Terangganu, and Patani to the once powerful King of Siam in Bangkok as a symbol of friendship. The sending of the "bunga" began in the 14th century in a very elaborate and colorful ceremony. The King reciprocated sending items of similar value. However, this practice ended at the end of the 19th century. James Brooke, Raja of Sarawak of 1847. Sarawak was in chaos. Pangkor Treaty Rubber tapping, the process of rubber gathering. Sir Henry Nicholas Ridley was pioneer of the rubber plantation in Malaya. He earlier worked as botanist of the Kew Gardens of Singapore. The first locomotive used in the country traveling from Taiping to Port Weld in 1885. Taiping Railway Station in 1885 Railway Station Hotel in 1915 Mail service using motor vehicle. This was taken as the vehicle passes through from Jalan Kuala Kubu to Kuala Lipis in 1910. The jinriksha was a Japanese invention. Some people used to ride on elephants as means of transportation. Deputy Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak at the site of the Singapore riot on July 22, 1964 to observe the situation on the island. He urged the government to be calm and reassured them the restoration of peace and order in Singapore.This was during the 1965 separation of Singapore from Malaysia. The Speaker's Chair is a gift from the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, given to the Malaysian government on November 2, 1963 as a token of friendship and as a member of the Commonwealth Association. The different communities of Malaysia. Masyarakat Chitty, the Hindu Peranakan community Orang Asli, the pribumi or indigenous people. The Siamese Community are mostly from the north, usually Kedah, Perlis, Perak and some from Terangganu. The Serani Community denotes people of Asian-European parentage. They usually come from places like Melaka. The Sikh Community. Men usually wear "turbans" to keep their hair neat because religion disalows them to cut their hair. Straits-born Chinese, the Baba and Nyonya. Kuching cats, maybe? They're on display at the souvenir shop. Labels: eye in the sky travel blog, KL, Muzium Negara, National Museum of Malaysia Artistic Endeavors at the Davao International Airp... MIASCOR Lounge (Davao International Airport) Quiznos Submarine Sandwiches (Greenbelt, Makati) A Little Corner Called Miharja (KL, Malaysia) The Room with a View - The Fault of My Stars (Metr... The Airport Without Trolleys - Davao International... National Museum of Malaysia Part 1: Galleries A an... National Museum of Malaysia Part 2: Galleries C an... The Philippines' Sabah Claim at the Muzium Negeri ... Suspense and Idyll in Phuket's Patong Beach (Thail... Fastfood Surprises at Sorya Food City (Phnom Penh,...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8232
__label__cc	0.525209	0.474791	The Quest for R2-D2 (game) (Redirected from The Quest for R2-D2) The Quest for R2-D2 Playable Minifigures: Count Dooku [[1] Here] You may be looking for The Quest for R2-D2 (Film). The Quest for R2-D2 is a LEGO Star Wars: The Clone Wars-themed game from LEGO.com. As of May 2009, there was a trial version of the game consisting of the first level only, present on LEGO.com. The full version consists of 4 different characters and 15 unique levels, and has replaced the older single-level game. The final, complete version was scheduled for release in August 2009, but was delayed until September. It can be played on starwars.lego.com. 1.1 Supporting Characters 2 Cheat codes 3 Glitches 6 Play the game Story[edit] Lost in space, R2-D2 starts emitting a weak distress call, unaware that his signal also contains a vital data code. Seperatist and Republic forces are both on the move. There are four playable characters: Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Asajj Ventress, and Count Dooku. Supporting Characters[edit] Captain Rex Commander Fox Clone Gunner Seperatist Super Battle Droid Battle Droid Commander Cheat codes[edit] If the game is paused, a side menu will appear, and there will also appear a slot indicating 'Enter Cheat Code'. Currently, there are 8 cheats known. "REDSABER" changes the color of a Jedi lightsaber to red. 'DUALSABER' enables the Jedi to have two lightsabers, and can be used in conjunction with 'redsaber'. 'GREENSABER' changes the color of a Sith's lightsaber to green. 'TRIPLEJUMP' enables the player to continuously jump three times in the air. 'DARKFORCE' gives the Sith double strength. 'CLONEHELMET' enables you have a clone helmet on the character's head. 'REDCLONEHELMET' causes characters to don Commander Fox's helmet. 'BIGHEADS' enables clones and droids to have big heads. "WINGS" enables characters to keep jumping in the air continuously. 'ALLCHARACTERSUNLOCKED' unlocks all characters: Anakin Skywalker, Obi-wan Kenobi, Asajj Ventress, and Count Dooku. This code may not work on some computers. Glitches[edit] There are quite a few reported glitches in the game. On the first level, if you jump on top of the object you have to destroy and then destroy it, your player will levitate for 2 seconds. Players can cause Anakin to die by allowing him to be shot, and wait for miniature R2-D2s to appear around his head. Next, the player can pause the game and restart. This will restart the game, but Anakin will appear with R2-D2s circling his head. On some computers, starting the game will result in Anakin's hair and the lightsaber blade being visible, and the player cannot move. To fix this, the player needs to move Anakin diagonally. The player needs to execute a Force Push while moving. This will cause Anakin to move by sliding. If the player guides Anakin from the edge of a platform, the game will continue as normal without a visible character. In some computers, one glitch is that on the trial version the game plays as normal, but if the player presses any keys in the keyboard, Anakin will be immobilized. If too many dash attacks are executed, then Anakin will move differently. When the 'clonehelmet' or the 'redclonehelmet' cheat codes are used while playing as Anakin, and repeated (to remove the helmet), Anakin will be bare-headed (this does not work with Ventress). Another rare glitch occurs so to do this sometimes when the player hits a clone trooper with the character's lightsaber. The trooper will fall to the ground and stay down. The trooper will slide on his back instead of walking. To fix this error, the player simply needs to kill the trooper. Another occurs if the player fast-attacks a diagonal wall - the player will stop moving. The player can let the character move up the wall and move on thin air. This glitch occurs on ships only. On one level, Anakin tries jumping to another platform, but he is killed without an apparent reason. This glitch is so far unresolved, but the player can move Anakin towards the camera and find a detour. On Mission 9 for Asajj Ventress, if the player holds down just the right arrow key at just the right time, the character turns around. However, she still moves the right ways, she is just turned around. If you turn on Bigheads, play, and then turn it off, when you kill a droid, the head will burst into big size as the droid pieces crumble. Sometimes your character will start to move backwards. To fix this you need to just jump. If you walk around a few times, your character will start moving left. The only way to stop this is to restart the game. If you are on the last part of a "defeat all enemies" level, where about 20 enemies are around the level exit door, sometimes one of your enemies will float up in the air next to a wall. It won't come down until you've killed everyone else. If you walk up to something that can be destroyed for a red crystal and attack it slowly, sometimes your lightsaber will not move but the object you are trying to destroy will still take a hit and flash white. Occasionally, a killed enemy will get back up off the ground and keep fighting. On the "Repair the Republic Gunship" level, if you stand inside the ship and build it, you will become stuck inside of it. Sometimes, while in the mini screen your mouse will disappear. To solve this, you have to click the mouse a few times (though this may result in the game freezing). In some levels while on a spaceship, R2-D2 can be occasionally seen through the windows, floating in space. The reward for completing one character story is an instruction booklet for the Midi-Scaled Separatist ship; if all four characters are completed, then the player will obtain the complete set. When you use the cheat-code 'Bigheads' not only the enemies' heads get larger but your helpers also do. (Helpers are the Clones/Droids that come out of the boxes that you destroy in certain levels.) Anakin and Obi-Wan have the same levels, and Asajj Ventress and Dooku the Count have the Jedi's same levels, just backwards. Some other levels are also repeated. The Quest for R2-D2 (film) Play the game[edit] http://www.starwars.com/games/playnow/r2d2_quest/ http://jayisgames.com/archives/2009/10/lego_star_wars_the_quest_for_r2d2.php Retrieved from "http://en.brickimedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Quest_for_R2-D2_(game)&oldid=1035837" Media released in 2009 Facts about "The Quest for R2-D2 (game)"	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8236
__label__wiki	0.913602	0.913602	Government organizations \| Article about Government organizations by The Free Dictionary https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Government+organizations (redirected from Government organizations) Also found in: Dictionary, Financial. public ownership, government ownership of lands, streets, public buildings, utilities, and other business enterprises. The theory that all land and its resources belong ultimately to the people and therefore to the government is very ancient. From it comes the doctrine of eminent domain, asserting that the state has ultimate control over lands and buildings within its borders. Until the policy of laissez faire in the 18th cent. emphasized capitalistic activity, public ownership was unquestioned. In ancient times governments owned and conducted many enterprises, such as water systems, theaters, and baths. In the United States, government units own and manage the public school system, public highways and bridges, dams for the reclamation of land and for power (and the management and sale of power), and many other enterprises. The Tennessee Valley Authority is an example of public ownership. The importance of public utilities to the life of the community has frequently led to municipal ownership of water, sewerage, electric light, power, gas, and transportation systems. In Europe, where public ownership is more extensive and of longer standing than in the United States, it includes railroads, telephone and telegraph lines, and radio and television and was extended to coal mining, other power resources, and banking. Since World War II many Western nations have practiced public ownership of business enterprises through public corporations such as AmtrakAmtrak, the National Railroad Passenger Corp., authorized to operate virtually all intercity passenger railroad routes in the United States. Amtrak was created by Congress in 1970 in response to more than two decades of continuous operating deficits by privately run passenger ..... Click the link for more information. . Public ownership was practiced most extensively in the USSR and other Communist countries, where government owned almost all land and all natural resources, and where nearly all industries were carried on by state institutions. The extent of public ownership contracted in the 1980s and 90s, however, in Britain, France, Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet nations (see nationalizationnationalization, acquisition and operation by a country of business enterprises formerly owned and operated by private individuals or corporations. State or local authorities have traditionally taken private property for such public purposes as the construction of roads, dams, ..... Click the link for more information. ). Many developing countries also have large-scale public ownership, especially of vital industries and resources. Public ownership is to be distinguished from government control of private enterprises in utilities, business, and agriculture. In the United States such control has been increased through loans, direct financing, and laws providing for the government's regulation of corporate activities. the state ownership of some or all of the means of production. While the term can be used to apply to state ownership within COMMAND ECONOMIES, its main application has been to sectors of the economy within MIXED ECONOMIES which are state owned. An alternative term for the process in which industries are brought under state ownership is nationalization. In Britain the 1945 Labour government undertook an extensive programme of nationalization, including coal and gas, iron and steel, electricity, and civil aviation. Subsequently, the process has been reversed as the result of the radical programme of PRIVATIZATION under Conservative governments (see also THATCHERISM). Justifications for public ownership include the arguments that public utilities, especially ‘natural monopolies’, require public control, and the more general arguments that SOCIALISM and COMMUNISM are necessary to remove EXPLOITATION. Arguments against are that state ownership requires extensive bureaucratic controls, achieves less efficiency, and tends to reduce individual initiative and human freedoms. Between the pro- or anti- arguments, there also exist arguments for a balance between private and public ownership. While the command economies of Eastern Europe proved inefficient, it has not been established that public ownership and state planning are inherently inefficient. Empirical studies have discovered no simple pattern in differences between private and public corporations. <a href="https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Government+organizations">public ownership</a> Accumulation of Capital Agricultural Production Cooperative Appalachian National Scenic Trail Barry Morris Goldwater Classes, Social Collective Capitalism, Theory of Collective, Socialist Commodity Production Commodity Supply In the past, our technologies and services were primarily available to commercial organizations and a few select government organizations through limited direct purchases," stated Chris Spencer, CEO of Wizzard Software. Wizzard Software awarded GSA Schedule for government technology procurements For example, key performance indicators such as Reimbursables Collected to Target can alert government organizations to the need to better manage their reimbursable funding by collecting and distributing funding appropriately. PeopleSoft extends industry-leading financial management solutions In fact, Websense Enterprise software is used in more than 360 government organizations, including the Department of Veteran Affairs, Federal Aviation Administration and the entire U. U.S. Air Force, Dept. of Agriculture among government orgs renewing contracts with Websense Inc We are combining the powerful Ariba Network platform with AMS' experience working with more than 300 state and local government organizations. AMS, ARIBA TEAM UP TO LAUNCH ELEC. MARKETPLACE FOR STATE, LOCAL GOVT.S Gournia Goursat, Édouard Gout Fly Gouthière, Pierre goutweed Gouvion-Saint-Cyr, Laurent de Gouvion-Saint-Cyr, Laurent, marquis de Gouy balance Gove County governess Governesses and Tutors government anchor Government Canyon State Natural Area Government Factories government frequency bands Government Island State Recreation Area Government of the Land Government OSI Profile government ownership Government Publishing Office, United States Governor Alfred E. Smith Governor Daniel Dunklin's Grave State Historic Site Governor Dodge State Park Governor Knowles State Forest Governor Nelson State Park Governor Patterson Memorial State Recreation Site Governor Thompson State Park Governor Wentworth Historic Site Governor, Isodromic Governor-Generalship Governor's Mansion State Historic Park Govind Singh GovNet Govorov, Leonid Govorov, Leonid Aleksandrovich Govorov, Vladimir Govorov, Vladimir Leonidovich government officers Government Officers Cooperative Housing Society Government Offices Administration of Shanghai Municipality Government Offices for the Regions Government Offices Great George Street Government Old Age Pension Scheme Government on Line Government On-Line Government On-Line Accounting Link System Government On-Line Data Government Open Code Collaborative Government Open License Program Government Open Source Advisory Committee Government Open Source Conference Government Open Source Software Government Open Systems Interconnection Procurement Specification Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile Government Open Systems Interconnection Protocol Government Operated Civil Engineering Supply Store Government Operational Research Service Government organisations Government Oriental Manuscripts Library Government Out of Area Line Service Government Owned / Government Operated Government Owned Alien Territory Government Owned and Controlled Corporations Government Owned Container Government Owned Contractor Operated Government owned corporation Government Owned Corporations Government Owned Enterprise Government Owned Enterprises Government Owned Housing Government Owned Software Government Owned Vehicle government paper Government Paperwork Elimination Act of 1998 government patent Government pension	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8237
__label__cc	0.561007	0.438993	List of publications and more 2018 Fennell – Computational Signaling Protein Dynamics and Geometric Mass Relations in Biomolecular Diffusion C. J. Fennell, N. Ghousifam, J. M. Haseleu, H. Gappa-Fahlenkamp, "Computational Signaling Protein Dynamics and Geometric Mass Relations in Biomolecular Diffusion", J. Phys. Chem. B, 2018, 122(21), 5599-5609 Article Link 2018 Singh – Light Harvesting for Rapid and Selective Reactions: Click Chemistry with Strain-Loadable Alkenes K. Singh, C. J. Fennell, E. A. Coutsias, R. Latifi, S. Hartson, J. D. Weaver, "Light Harvesting for Rapid and Selective Reactions: Click Chemistry with Strain-Loadable Alkenes", Chem, 2018, 4(1), 124-137. Article Link 2017 Brini – How Water’s Properties Are Encoded in Its Molecular Structure and Energies E. Brini, C. J. Fennell, M. Fernandez-Serra, B. Hribar-Lee, M. Lukšič, and K. A. Dill, "How Water’s Properties Are Encoded in Its Molecular Structure and Energies", Chem. Rev., 2017, 117(19), 12385–12414. Article Link 2017 Williamson – Two-dimensional molecular simulations using rose potentials C. H. Williamson, J. R. Hall, and C. J. Fennell, "Two-dimensional molecular simulations using rose potentials", J. Mol. Liq., 2017, 228, 11–18. Article Link 2016 Brini – Adapting the semi-explicit assembly solvation model for estimating water-cyclohexane partitioning with the SAMPL5 molecules E. Brini, S. S. Paranahewage, C. J. Fennell, and K. A. Dill, "Adapting the semi-explicit assembly solvation model for estimating water-cyclohexane partitioning with the SAMPL5 molecules", J. Comput. Aided Mol. Des., 2016, 30(11), 1067–1077. Article Link 2016 Paranahewage – Predicting water-to-cyclohexane partitioning of the SAMPL5 molecules using dielectric balancing of force fields S. S. Paranahewage, C. S. Gierhart, and C. J. Fennell, "Predicting water-to-cyclohexane partitioning of the SAMPL5 molecules using dielectric balancing of force fields", J. Comput. Aided Mol. Des., 2016, 30(11), 1059–1065. Article Link 2016 Singh – Photocatalyst size controls electron and energy transfer: selectable E/Z isomer synthesis via C–F alkenylation A. Singh, C. J. Fennell, and J. D. Weaver, "Photocatalyst size controls electron and energy transfer: selectable E/Z isomer synthesis via C–F alkenylation", Chem. Sci., 2016, 7(11), 6796–6802. Article Link 2016 Mortazavian – Surface Bonding is Stronger for Poly(methyl methacrylate) than for Poly(vinyl acetate) H. Mortazavian, C. J. Fennell, and F. D. Blum, "Surface Bonding is Stronger for Poly(methyl methacrylate) than for Poly(vinyl acetate)", Macromolecules, 2016, 49(11), 4211–4219. Article Link 2016 Mortazavian – Structure of the Interfacial Region in Adsorbed Poly(vinyl acetate) on Silica H. Mortazavian, C. J. Fennell, and F. D. Blum, "Structure of the Interfacial Region in Adsorbed Poly(vinyl acetate) on Silica", Macromolecules, 2016, 49(1), 298–307. Article Link 2014 Li – Small molecule solvation changes due to the presence of salt are governed by the cost of solvent cavity formation and dispersion L. Li, C. J. Fennell, and K. A. Dill, "Small molecule solvation changes due to the presence of salt are governed by the cost of solvent cavity formation and dispersion", J. Chem. Phys., 2014, 141(22), 22D518. Article Link 2014 Drechsel – TRIFORCE: Tessellated Semi-analytical Solvent Exposed Surface Areas and Derivatives N. J. D. Drechsel, C. J. Fennell, K. A. Dill, and Jordi Villà–Freixa, "TRIFORCE: Tessellated Semi-analytical Solvent Exposed Surface Areas and Derivatives", J. Chem. Theory Comput., 2014, 10(9), 4121–4132. Article Link 2014 Lukšič – Using Interpolation for Fast and Accurate Calculation of Ion-Ion Interactions M. Lukšič, C. J. Fennell, and K. A. Dill, “Using Interpolation for Fast and Accurate Calculation of Ion-Ion Interactions”, J. Phys. Chem. B 2014, 118(28), 8017–8025. Article Link This work was also selected as part of a special virtual issue on ion pairing advances: Ion Pairing: From Water Clusters to the Aqueous Bulk 2014 Fennell – A Fixed-Charge Model for Alcohol Polarization in the Condensed Phase, and Its Role in Small Molecule Hydration C. J. Fennell, K. L. Wymer, and D. L. Mobley, “A Fixed-Charge Model for Alcohol Polarization in the Condensed Phase, and Its Role in Small Molecule Hydration”, J. Phys. Chem B 2014, 118(24), 6438–6446. Article Link 2014 Li – Field-SEA: a model for computing the solvation free energies of nonpolar, polar, and charged solutes in water L. Li, C. J. Fennell, and K. A. Dill, “Field-SEA: a model for computing the solvation free energies of nonpolar, polar, and charged solutes in water”, J. Phys. Chem. B 2014, 118(24), 6431–6437. Article Link 2014 Li – Testing the semi-explicit assembly model of aqueous solvation in the SAMPL4 challenge L. Li, K. A. Dill, and C. J. Fennell, "Testing the semi-explicit assembly model of aqueous solvation in the SAMPL4 challenge", J. Comput. Aided Mol. Des. 2014, 28(3), 259–264. Article Link 2012 Urbic – A microscopic theory of solvation of monoions T. Urbic, C. J. Fennell, and K. A. Dill, “A microscopic theory of solvation of monoions”, Acta Chimica Slovenica, 2012, 59(3), 554–558. Article Link 2012 Fennell – Simple liquid models with corrected dielectric constants C. J. Fennell, L. Li, and K. A. Dill, “Simple liquid models with corrected dielectric constants”, J. Phys. Chem. B 2012, 116(23), 6936–6944. Article Link 2012 Kehoe – Testing the Semi-Explicit Assembly solvation model in the SAMPL3 community blind test C. W. Kehoe, C. J. Fennell, and K. A. Dill, “Testing the Semi-Explicit Assembly solvation model in the SAMPL3 community blind test”, J. Comput. Aided Mol. Des. 2012, 26(5), 563–568. Article Link 2011 Fennell – Physical Modeling of Aqueous Solvation C. J. Fennell and K. A. Dill, “Physical Modeling of Aqueous Solvation”, J. Stat. Phys. 2011, 145(2), 209–226. Article Link 2011 Fennell – Modeling aqueous solvation with semi-explicit assembly C. J. Fennell, C. W. Kehoe, and K. A. Dill, “Modeling aqueous solvation with semi-explicit assembly”, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 2011, 108(8), 3234–3239. Article Link 2010 Fennell – Oil/Water Transfer is Partly Driven by Molecular Shape, Not Just Size C. J. Fennell, C. Kehoe, and K. A. Dill, “Oil/Water Transfer is Partly Driven by Molecular Shape, Not Just Size”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132(1), 234–240. Article Link 2009 Fennell – (Additions/Corrections) Ion pairing in molecular simulations of aqueous alkali halide solutions C. J. Fennell, A. Bizjak, V. Vlachy, K. A. Dill, S. Sarupria, S. Rajamani, and S. Garde, “(Additions/Corrections) Ion pairing in molecular simulations of aqueous alkali halide solutions”, J. Phys. Chem. B 2009, 113(44), 14837–14838. Article Link 2009 Fennell – Ion pairing in molecular simulations of aqueous alkali halide solutions C. J. Fennell, A. Bizjak, V. Vlachy, and K. A. Dill, “Ion pairing in molecular simulations of aqueous alkali halide solutions”, J. Phys. Chem. B 2009, 113(19), 6782–6791. Article Link – Cover article, May 14, 2009 2008 Mobley – Charge Asymmetries in Hydration of Polar Solutes D. L. Mobley, A. E. Barber II, C. J. Fennell, and K. A. Dill, “Charge Asymmetries in Hydration of Polar Solutes”, J. Phys. Chem. B 2008, 112(8), 2405–2414; 2011, 115(50), 15145. Article Link 2006 Fennell – Is the Ewald summation still necessary? Pairwise alternatives to the accepted standard for long-range electrostatics C. J. Fennell and J. D. Gezelter, “Is the Ewald summation still necessary? Pairwise alternatives to the accepted standard for long-range electrostatics”, J. Chem. Phys. 2006, 124(23), 234104. Article Link 2005 Fennell – Computational Free Energy Studies of a New Ice Polymorph Which Exhibits Greater Stability than Ice Ih C. J. Fennell and J. D. Gezelter, “Computational Free Energy Studies of a New Ice Polymorph Which Exhibits Greater Stability than Ice Ih”, J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2005, 1(4), 662–667. Article Link 2005 Meineke – OOPSE: An Object-Oriented Parallel Simulation Engine for Molecular Dynamics M. A. Meineke, C. F. Vardeman II, T. Lin, C. J. Fennell, and J. D. Gezelter, “OOPSE: An Object-Oriented Parallel Simulation Engine for Molecular Dynamics”, J. Comput. Chem. 2005, 26(3), 252–271. Article Link 2004 Fennell – On the structural and transport properties of the soft-sticky dipole and related single point water models C. J. Fennell and J. D. Gezelter, “On the structural and transport properties of the soft-sticky dipole and related single point water models”, J. Chem. Phys. 2004, 120(19), 9175–9184. 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__label__cc	0.710056	0.289944	DVD Review: The Place Beyond the Pines by damo · November 27, 2013 The Place Beyond the Pines is a drama set in present day middle America where the lives of two unique characters crash directly into each other and then repeat. On one side a young stunt rider trying to make a buck, on the other a Policeman trying to make a name. Similar to Paul Haggis’ 2004 release of “Crash” you are taken through a drama that is emotionally tense while you try to play detective and connect the dots. Without spoilers this movie surprised me. It will be hard to give this review depth without uncovering key elements so we’ll stick to the performances and let you watch the movie to unravel the storyline. From the promotion and pre-publicity I definitely thought I had the story figured out but the movie took me down a path I wasn’t prepared for. Ryan Gosling gives a deeply resonant portrayal of Luke, a conflicted young man who has found his niche as a stunt-driver and then wakes up to discover he has a baby son to a past relationship. The only highway to self-sufficiency seems to be in robbing banks when Robin played by Ben Mendelsohn tells him how his riding skills can provide the ideal grab and run routine. In Eva Mendes’ portrayal we find Romina, the lady caught in the middle of the anguish trying to simply get by. Now living with Kofi played by Mahershala Ali, she tries to protect her new nest from the old love interest which provokes some emotional encounters. For me this was the first movie where we started to see the depth that Bradley Cooper can bring to a role. He plays the ambitious Policeman Avery Cross who has lived in the shadow of his father, a judge played by Harris Yulin. While squeaky clean by intent the ambition of Avery certainly asks you to question his motives as the story unfolds. Supporting roles from class acts like Rose Byrne, Bruce Greenwood and Ray Liotta certainly bolster the moody atmosphere that comes through the movie. Emory Cohen and Dane DeHaan play younger members of the family that you will need to watch to see if the apple does fall far from the tree. DeHaan has to be an actor to keep a close eye on after this movie and his key role in Chronicle. Director Derek Cianfrance co-wrote the movie with Ben Coccio and I can only hope we see more from this pairing. I felt there was a small loss of momentum in the middle of the movie but overall it started well and finished better and that’s what a great story is meant to do. Rating: R16 Violence,offensive language and drug use. FILMGUIDE rating: DVD Review: Ripper Street Series II Next story Need for Speed Official Trailer #2 Previous story DVD Review: The Great Gatsby	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8244
__label__wiki	0.753627	0.753627	Bad Movie Recommendations Earwolf Productions Highlander II: The Quickening (1991) By JSacks06, April 10, 2012 in Bad Movie Recommendations Decapitations Unnecessary sequel Bad Movie JSacks06 4 I know this one may be a bit obscure, but it is totally a cluster fuck of a movie. Basically,it follows Highlander 1 up by not only upping the stakes, but also totally obscuring them. Lambert, the Highlander (who is an alien so why are they calling him by his earth creed?), has used his ultimate knowledge powers, the same one's he received for decapitating Clancy Brown, to cure global warming. Lambert is now mortal and is about to die when all of a sudden, Michael Ironside sends some dudes on flying skateboards to Earth to kill him. After a breathtaking flying sword fight, Lambert is the Highlander again. He bones Virginia Madsen like it aint no thang. Then some other shit happens. Sean Connery, playing Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramierez, is summomed back to life like fucking Beetlejuice. He serves absolutely NO relevance to the plot and cracks insane anachronistic jokes. Then Global Warming happens again, John C McGinely and Ironside team up. More sword fights. Oh yeah, did I mention they were aliens? PLEASE see this movie! Nasher 28 Oddly not that obscure and even more oddly not in the forums already apparently! Yes possibly the most series threatening movie ever made. Retcon in full effect by undoing every element stated in the law of the first movie: there being only one, immortality, Connery dying, the eternal battle coming to an end. Also the insertion of an alien subplot and hoverboards. How the series survived, well struggled on, after that was a miracle in itself. For me there is only one Highlander.. and no other movies or tv shows at all. My favorite parts are: * the line "I want you to leave for the future.. Immediately!" * Assassins unable to kill an old man with either swords or guns by attacking individually or with flying suits, also on top of a very slow moving train. * Mirroring the opening sword battle in 1 with one between an oldman, with no sword!, and 2 slow and inept assassins. * General Katana's sword?... why some sort of unweildy, heavy, broadsword for course. * Ramírez paying for a suit with an pearl earring the store own simply accepts at face value. * Commuter tubes with no security or safety features and capable of 600mph+ * MacLoed is some sort of scientist now? Who invents a pseudo ozone? or something.. * Standard future anachronisms of 50's motorcars everywhere and 80's music. * People who know MacLoed not surprised he has de-aged 40years. * MacLoed seemingly has forgotten his wife, the driving force behind the first movie, and then we are suddenly reminded of it multiple times. * Impaling a taxi screen in an impossible way with a sword longer than the back seat. * Forcing Mr Ironside to dress and read lines seemingly written for The Kurgan * In flight safety demonstration that shows nothing helpful but rather fiery planes crashing. * Not to mention how exactly Ramírez got onto a plane when he has only just learned of air-travel. * Ramírez' funky disco fan room scene where all he had to do was open the panel for them to escape. * Clumsy, slow sword battles that stop for no reason, much like swords that spark seemingly at random. * The weird excuse that 'turning off' the shield requires massive amounts of energy being unexplained. * MacLoed's magically produces a Katana to fight Katana. Lots of weird timeskips in general. * MacLoed electrocuting Katana while holding him and doesn't feel a thing. Yes a movie so bad it was one of the first to be re-cut into a different movie and released for the home audience, something fans do for turds like the Star Wars prequels, and it was done by the director twice no less. If they do this movie they have to watch the original to understand why its so bad and possibly see the Renegade Version to give it even more context... now that's an epic night of fantasy sword fighting fun in anyone's books. RyanSz 2793 Technically a scientist I just rewatched this movie and forgot how batshit insane it truly is. After how good the first movie was in a cult movie kind of way, this one does a complete 180. From the characters being aliens to assassins who act like birds to Chris Lambert just wishing Sean Connery back into existence and a train accident that is all kinds of crazy, this movie is perfect for HDTGM. It was so bad that they made to alternate versions of the film to try and make it better, which it does to some extent, but it still has some of the qualitites that make it a perfect film for this podcast. Famous Mortimer 5 It's certainly bad enough...but just thinking about this film hurts my head. I think it's, if anything, too dull to make a good episode. I think it can work for how insane it went from the first movie. Alien swordfighters and resurrection by saying a person's name = pure gold. AntoinetteLeilaniNelson 2 i absolutely agree with this recommendation. and as for the pacing of the movie... i think the overwhelming "dumbness" of the movie makes it a captivating watch. incidentally, this movie is almost perfect if you haven't seen the first one because it basically retcons everything anyway. jarrycanada 2481 it's a kinda magic. I was just thinking about highlander today. I love the sound track to it. it had a great Director's Cut version that had extra additional footage added back to the movie. what a masterpiece the first one was... and then they did this, highlander 2 the rape. Ohh man, the only think i can remember about this film is that Sean Connery steals the film away in one scene. that is the scotish tailer. I remember seeing this in a theater and the audience droped to the floor at that point and it never got better after that. I wish they could of just left it alone and not made sequels. wyldride 283 It's amazing that they took an unsequelable movie that was great, but a total flop in theatres, and still decided to make a shitty sequel. And, more amazingly, after it both flopped and proved how unsequelable it was: They made another awful, flop sequel -- And a TV show, a flop movie spinoff of that, and at least one crappy animated movie. It's like someone said, "I bet you can't lost any more money on this property." And they replied, "Oh yeah -- Betcha we can!" PlanBFromOuterSpace 3134 Location: Evans City, PA I like how the franchise started at "There can only be one" before going to "There can only be one MORE" and then "There can only be several others" before ultimately ending up at "There can only be at least one a week for several seasons". I like the first film, but aside from that, the TV show was probably the best thing to come out of the series. I just wish they could have finished the video game they were making a couple years back, looked fantastic. That reminds me, here's a video review I saw of the Atari Jaguar "Highlander" game based off of the animated series from the mid-90s by the Angry Video Game Nerd guy and his buddy, and that game looked absolutely abysmal. The "Highlander" review starts around the 8 minute mark... http://cinemassacre.com/2013/01/09/atari-jaguar-cd/ Ya but Ryan, has anyone ever made a video came based on a movie that was any good? can you name one, I bet you can't... I have been so let down by movies made into video games. wyldride, you made me think of Monty Python and the Holy grail "King of Swamp Castle: When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England. " and ya they did a tv series, I think after the third highlander movie I got lost and gave up. sillstaw 405 DiscoHoff That "Chronicles of Riddick" game was pretty cool. (And I say this as someone who hasn't even seen "Pitch Black," let alone the other Riddick movie.) ETA: It's too bad that reboot of the "Highlander" movies they were proposing a while back fell apart. They had the director of "28 Weeks Later"* and the guy who's been making all the recent "Fast & Furious" movies** attached to direct at various times, and they wanted Ryan "Green Lantern" Reynolds to play Connor MacLeod. It's like they were trying to make a movie expressly so it would show up on "How Did This Get Made?" * This guy was also attached to "Bioshock" and the remake of "The Crow" that was supposed to star Bradley Cooper before they fell apart as well. It's actually surprising that he's ever directed a movie at all, given that he tends to attach himself to movies that end up in development hell. ** To be fair, he has made at least one decent movie, "Better Luck Tomorrow." Goldeneye 64, Die Hard Trilogy, Chronicles of Riddick, the Ghostbusters game, Star Wars Trilogy Arcade, and Alien Trilogy were the great ones that come to mind. Ni! jimkiler 54 My favorite part is when Connnor decapitates some aliens using a rope when they are flying. This movie is so bad and insulting if you saw the first, even as a kid i laughed at how bad it was yet I watched Nothing But Trouble and never thought it was bad. I think the main thing that makes this movie SO crazy is that so many people from the first one were involved. It was so off the fucking rails for a movie that had the same director, screenwriter, and producers as it's predecessor, and the only reasoning I can think of for this going in such a different direction is that the first one was a flop, so no one really gave a shit. If that was the case though, it makes me wonder why they even kept it a "Highlander" movie at all. Point proven, they can't make a good movie game.. AprilFoolsRebel 457 Location: Area Nifty-One Hells yeah! I totally forgot about this movie! (Thanks to years of intensive therapy.) Has there been any other sequel that so perfectly and compeletely screws the original pic within the first five minutes of the film? You can pretty much hear Connery rushing out the door to cash the check! Are you honestly saying that Goldeneye wasn't a fantastic game?! That game is possibly the greatest shit-talker of all time, and I don't know about you guys, but I had friends that played that thing for YEARS. I was in the Air Force when it came out, I lived in dorms, and there ALWAYS seemed to be a game of GoldenEye set up in one of the dayrooms. Ten minute rounds on License to Kill, lowest scores out, winner of the round picks the preferred weapon for the next round, and you'd never really be out of the game for any longer than ten minutes. Screw online gaming, this was where it's at! Was? Whatever... Goldeneye was one of the few video games, along with Mario Kart 64, that got my parents into video gaming for a time. I still remember playing levels so much that I was able to memorize the spawn points so that I could ambush players who got killed and kill them again for an added edge. The putka 0 I had not seen the 1st Highlander but went to see this steaming pile of crap w/ a group of "friends" who loved Highlander 1. After this movie I literally did not see one of them ever again. How the fuck can you have a sequel to Highlander 1? For fucks sake there can be only one!!! What I vaguely remember is something about the ozone layer being destroyed and then Michael FUCKING Ironside shows up from some other dimension. RegFranklin 19 Oh God, Highlander 2, the very epitome of unnecessary sequels. Where to begin? The transition from fantasy to cyberpunk dystopia, the villains plan that makes no fucking sense, all the Blade Runner ripoff scenery, Michael Ironside and John C McGinley chewing on the scenery all movie...It's such a trainwreck and should have been a sign early on to not make any future Highlander films, and yet they just kept going after that. And then the aliens retcon. Oh Jesus fuck the aliens retcon.... seanotron 2299 Spice Girls Apologist This movie makes me angry just thinking about it. I'm pretty confident that not one person left the original Highlander thinking the highlanders were aliens. And what makes matters worse is that this wasn't a sequel created by all new behind-the-scenes people. It's the original director, the original producers, and one of the original screenwriters. So there's truly no excuse for how laughably bad and incomprehensible the whole thing is. Not to mention all the retcons to the original movie. 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__label__cc	0.554754	0.445246	Best F1 driver ever? Post subject: Best F1 driver ever? Location: Suffolk, UK Some time back I thought I'd have a go at developing a criterion to judge who's the best F1 driver ever. I decided on the number of championships won, and runner-up posns - else where's Moss? Plus the GP win percentage. I came up with one order based on the championship stats alone, and a 2nd based on that multiplied by the GP win %. I tend to think the 2nd is more representative, but I've included the positions according to the 1st too. The table looks pretty much like I would expect. It's the win % that lifts Fangio above Schumacher. I'd be interested to know if people think it's correct or if it's way off! Post subject: Re: Best F1 driver ever? I think the biggest objection would be that you can't judge the best driver purely from the results. Surely the best driver brings the results and surely the cream de la creme is always at the top, but without the car, there's not much that one can do. Take Alonso for example, one of the best drivers around, being stuck in a dismal car the last few years. Or Fangio who was lucky in the sense that he was jumping every year to the fastest car available. This would pretty much guarantee that his stats would be at the top. Also, he got wins when his car failed and he borrowed his team mate's car to finish. Something that the drivers of today can't really do. These things, small examples really, can skew the results tables. Point being that it is a very simplistic way to look at it. There is no way to decide who is the best driver unless there is a spec series in my opinion. This is why I liked the E-190 test back in the 80's, pitting all the best drivers against each other. Even as a fun race, it was quite telling that Senna won against the top guys back then. mikeyg123 tim3003 wrote: I think you've done a very good job of creating a metric for the most successful drivers ever. Best though is a different story. I admire your effort. mikeyg123 wrote: yeah I'll second this. Pretty decent effort and applaud the work you've put into it but it's more a metric of success than of the best driver. Just look at how low Alonso is compared to Vettel, for example. Clark and Alonso are way too far down in my opinion. They form my personal top 3 along with Schumacher. I'll echo the thoughts above that it's a decent effort but attempts to rank the drivers need to find a way of taking their equipment a little more out of the equation. Ultimately, I don't believe there's a truly objective way to do it and Alonso in particular is usually going to be unfairly represented by any stats-based approach. Thanks for the plaudits! So how do you define 'best' if it's not the most successful? I didn't say 'quickest'. The phrase GOAT is used these days. (Greatest of all time). Who's the F1 GOAT if not Schumacher or Fangio? I did expect Alonso's low position to be challenged. However, as was noted re Fangio, one of the skills of an F1 champion is getting into the right car at the right time. Alonso's disasterous gamble with Mclaren surely proved he lacks that skill - why didn't he sign for a year with an option for more? Maybe money played a part? I remember Senna offering to drive for Frank Williams for free to get the 1994 drive.. When you say best, how do you define that? Best at what? Also you mention GOAT which refers to greatest. Greatest and best are two very different things IMO. Last edited by mikeyg123 on Wed Mar 27, 2019 4:03 am, edited 1 time in total. I think it's a combination of achievement and personal opinion so ultimately it's very subjective and not as simplistic as crushing numbers in particularly when comparing drivers from different eras. I'd say you've created a meter for success which isn't always the same thing as being best. Räikkönen - Vettel - Bottas Thank you Nico - You´re the champ! PF1 Pick 10 Competition 2016: CHAMPION (2 wins, 8 podiums) I like the effort, and I'm always interested by mixing statistics with sporting performance - but I can't accept any chart that ranks Damon Hill above Alonso. Any mathematical model to determine the best driver has to have a way to remove the car from the equation. Yours seems like a good way of calculating how much a driver achieved according to the length of their career, but without a way to separate car from driver that's all it does. I re-read my post and it looks like I am criticising you, which I can assure you it was not my intention. Just trying to point out that it can be tricky to do a comparison like that. It is the holy grail of F1 and the eternal debate, who is the best driver! I did enjoy the list, well done for the effort, myself wouldn't know where to start to be honest. It is difficult, however, to judge purely by the results. As I said above, the cream will rise to the top (if I'm using this correctly!), so it is a very valid indication about the drivers. But equally some bad decisions can skew the results, without having anything to do with talent. It's a difficult question to answer as it means something slightly different to everyone. For me, for instance, it's about being the most capable driver, the most likely to win if put in a competitive car, and the one who will get the best out of any given machinery. Political skills don't register on my criteria at all, although I recognize that they are necessary in order to increase the chance of success. Taking Alonso as an example, I don't see any difference at all between his decision to join (McLaren) Honda and Hamilton's to join Mercedes. Honda sold a pup, whereas Mercedes didn't, but that's not down to the drivers IMO. OTOH, the fact that Alonso seems to leave a trail of destruction in his wake, whether by accident or design, doesn't appear to do him any favours! But for me best is about driving skill, essentially, and there I would rate Senna and Schumacher as the best I've ever seen. I can't accurately rate either Fangio or Clark, as I've never seen them outside short clips, but I've little doubt both were extremely talented. My GOAT would probably be Senna, although I see the case for Schumacher. One problem I have with this list is it puts drivers like Prost (who Senna beat fairly comprehensively on track IMO), Hamilton and Vettel above Senna and I struggle with that. To have Alonso so far below both Vettel and Hamilton (and Hill!) is a red flag for me, too. They were more successful statistically, perhaps, but that's a different story for me Yes, fully agreed. A decent effort as it has all the right drivers in there, but there is nothing in place to allow for career length. Clark and Senna suffer because they died young. Clark did 7 full seasons, Schumacher did 18. The more seasons you do the more opportunities for titles and runner up spots and points of course. If you normalised allowing for career length I think it would be more accurate. Or more opportunities for low scoring and making your statistics look worse Covalent wrote: So again, I'll ask: what is the 'best' if it's not the most successful? We all have our favourites, that's a personal opinion. But is there some objective criteria by which we can judge the 'best'? Of course I agree it's not possible to compare drivers from different eras with complete accuracy, but can we at least get a fair idea? In other sports it is usually agreed to be the number of titles - majors in golf, grand slams in tennis, gold medals/world records in athletics. I agree premature death slews the stats, but haven't figured out a way to allow for this. Also, if Schumacher had not un-retired and done 3 fruitless years with Mercedes he'd have 250 GPs and a win % of .364, for a score of 5.82, putting him above Fangio.. But you're comparing individual sports to F1 which is a team sport. I'll give you a few examples as to why most successful doesn't = best. If the rain had held off in Interlagos in 2008 then Hamilton would be less successful and Massa would be more successful. Why would that quirk of luck make either a better or worse driver? Alonso was less successful than Massa in 2014. Would that truly make Massa better than him in 2014 despite the fact Alonso thumped Massa with equal equipment for years? Dani Kvyat has finished 7th in the WDC higher than Nico Hulkenberg has ever managed so is the more successful driver. Do you really consider him to be better? It is difficult and I always struggled myself with the best/most successful dilemma. I have no answer to that. As for the bold part, as true as this is, I do not think that athletics, tennis or golf are down to the equipment; they are purely based on the athlete's abilities and skills. Not the same with team sports and racing, where you are completely reliant to the equipment you receive or your team mates. Some athletes are good enough to carry the team and bring the results; these are the stars! As for successful, again that is relevant. Let me demonstrate; do you know a basketball player called Dickey Simpkins? No? Not many people will know or remember him. This guy has 3 NBA championship rings. He did play in a team that featured a player called Michael Jordan though, so he got 3 rings by not doing much, in fact I think he was at the bench for the first two. So would one consider him best or most successful? For comparison, he has the same amount of NBA champions rings as one Lebron James. Sadly, no, there isn't. 'Best' is, and always will be, subjective in Motorsports. And the difference between F1 and those other sports I'd argue is that in F1, the equipment they use has a much bigger influence on their results. Cool idea but, as others have pointed out, you can't determine the best F1 driver using only stats. I'll echo what others have said and say I admire the effort, and think it's a good table to rank success, but doesn't determine who the best F1 driver was. Why? Because what defines which driver any one person considers to be the best in F1's history is going to differ from person to person. And for some people such as myself, we refuse to even define who the best in F1's history is because of the vast difference between the different eras. I honestly don't think you can say any driver is the best in F1's history. You can look at different eras or periods, although even then it's a little loose as to where the cutoff point for any given 'era' is, and that in itself can change which driver might be considered the best of that period. You can do that in other sports because if you like they are spec sports whereas F1 is clearly not. There are other factors that are unusual to F1 like who is the fastest and who is the best which aren't necessarily the same thing. Senna and Prost would be a good example, I can't imagine many wanting to argue that Senna wasn't faster than Prost, but when you ask who was the best then that becomes more of a debate. Some corrections there, in 2008 Hamilton was sitting comfortably in title position before the rain came, it was the rain that nearly gave the the title to Massa. The Hulk finished 7th in the WDC last year. Best is difficult to define, greatest is near-impossible. Senna is the fastest I have ever seen myself, but I have this feeling he was just starting to mature into being the best when he was killed. Schumacher was nearly as fast, and must have been one of the best drivers in the history of the sport, but is far more difficult to judge since he never had any team-mates after 1992. But in the 'best' category he must surely be near the top, even allowing for all the testing nobody else in F1 enjoyed. Prost is the best driver I have seen in the pre-Schumacher era, and I think he is massively underrated. Which must surely be an achievement in itself. In my book, he remains the best. I wish I had seen Fangio in action, but he left F1 a few months before I was born. I don't think it is fair to compare his team-hopping to the best car available with the multi-year contracts seen as normal these days, and therefore can't agree that Alonso lacks/lacked that skill. I see no difference in skill between Hamilton getting lucky and Alonso being unlucky. Luck isn't a skill. Greatness to me involves more than 'simply' being the best at one point in the history of F1. Lauda may not have been as good a driver as Schumacher was, but he is greater in my book. Among my reasons for thinking so is the fact he competed with a world champion-to-be who was faster and became the best, and won. The effort required is something many overlook. Some drivers never get the credit they deserve, and that goes far beyond the drivers who get the chance to win the WDC. One factor that is required in my estimation for inclusion in the greatness category is sportsmanship. And that is where Schumacher drops out. The most difficult driver for me to judge for 'best' and 'great' is Hamilton. Even before Nico left, I had the feeling the team was geared too much in his favour. - I thought Senna's offer to drive for nothing came earlier than 1994, am I mistaken? - I may also be mistaken about Fangio's shared victories (when he took over another driver's car), but I believe they also shared the points in such a case. Best F1 driver ever? I think your exercise probably got the correct person on top, while my best is slightly too far down. But well done anyway! PS: "Greatest"? Kimi, who else? Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping? Use them after your own honour and dignity. Maria de Villota - Jules Bianchi That's a very crucial question, I agree. In the sports you mentioned there's a far greater correlation between skills and success because unlike F1 you're not completely at the mercy of the equipment you're handed. Chances are that a top tennis player isn't handed a racket which decreases his chances of a victory by 90%. I guess the question of who is the best needs first to be started by asking what makes a driver good; is it talent, skills or success? I'd say a fair mix of all. But good luck measuring talent! Fiki wrote: Did the 2016 season finale look to be geared in Hamilton's favour over Rosberg? Your first comment - That's not even close to being relevant to the point I'm making. I didn't even say Hamilton was lucky. Can we please not take every conversation down an irrelevant Hamilton rabbit hole? Honestly, You're starting to make it almost impossible for anyone to mention him. Second comment - Fair enough. Until the end of 2018 was Kvyat a better driver than Hulk. I misread the post thinking if it had not rained at all when you said if the rain had held off. The most difficult driver for me to judge for 'best' and 'great' is Hamilton. Even before Nico left, I had the feeling the team was geared too much in his favour. That is a very good question indeed! No, but then looks are just that; looks. A lot of people make the point that success in F1 is car-dependent. Fair enough, but as I think I said, the best drivers tend to get the best cars, so isn't the playing field thus level again? Maybe it's the statistican in me that wants to define numerically who is the best ! Maybe my way is not the correct way. But if not can we agree on another objective criteria that is? If not then all we have is subjective views, of which there are as many as there are drivers! Surely that's not good enough.. The best drivers don't always end up in the best cars and certainly not for the same amount of time. Hamilton was not suddenly a better driver when Merc built a dominant car 2014-16 but according to your metric he became much better. There is no factual system you can use that will give you an accurate measurement and even if there was we'd never be able to test it to check it's accuracy as their are no fixed data points to check against. To even begin to try you have to factor in the car and to do that requires you to make a guess somewhere down the line But "best" is a subjective word, so you're putting yourself in an impossible position if you're trying to work it out statistically. You might as well be trying to objectively put stats on who was happiest. You stand more chance with "Most Successful", but even then you're open to interpretation - do you use wins as a measure of "success"? Or wins to starts ratio? Or points? At the end of the day, "best" is just an opinion - I have mine, you have yours. You may well be able to persuade me to your idea of best, even using stats. But, even then, all you will have done is change my opinion. Thats why you take from numerous sources; 1) Raw statistics like you have 2) Team mate head to heads, the true measure of a driver as his team mate has the same car and it removes the biggest variable. 3) Subjective opinion You add these layers and more and you get a better result. But ultimately, its impossible to tell. F1 MERCENARY The Fangio % rating is way off for several reasons… Firstly, there were far less races in his era and far fewer top drivers to compete with as well. There's a driver far better than Fangio IMPO, but he predates official F1 competition and he'd likely have bested Fangio with relative ease. His name?... Tazio Nuvolari Just a god among mere mortals in his day, and he was such for over 2 decades. As well, several others in this list are rated lower and higher than they should be. Raikkonen rated below Rosberg is wrong. Rosberg is a excellent driver, but Kimi yielded excellent results in different cars with varying capabilities whereas Rosberg did respectably well until he found himself in a championship caliber car. Senna was better than Stewart and Clark better than Stewart. Alonso is far better than his ranking but this list is based off winning percentage, so it doesn't speak to ultimate ability. For me, right now, anyone above Schumacher is wrong. One day I can see an argument for Hamilton, but that day is not yet upon us, though the boy is bloody brilliant! HAMILTON :: ALONSO :: VETTEL :: RAIKKONEN :: RICCIARDO :: VERSTAPPEN BOTTAS :: MAGNUSSEN :: OCON :: SAINZ :: PEREZ :: VANDOORNE :: HULKENBERG GROSJEAN :: GASLY :: ERICSON :: LECLERC :: STROLL :: SEROTKIN :: HARTLEY So that would be a case of putting the tin foil hat on? Location: Nebraska, USA F1 MERCENARY wrote: I agree with much of your post, but there a couple of points where I cannot: I'd argue the thought that there car fewer top drivers in his era. He had to deal with Ascari, Moss, Musso, Gonzalez, Hawthorn, Collins, Villoresi, Behra, von Tripps, Brabham, and several capable others. I think it can be argued that the F1 field of the 60s may well have been the toughest era for drivers. I would be the last to not give Tazio his due, however, as the question was about F1 drivers, in this case anyway, Nuvo is irrelevant. Last point of disagreement... in my opinion, Jimmy Clark was greater than Senna, possibly greater than all F1 drivers over time. I really believe the case can be made. Forza Ferrari WCCs = 16 WDCs = 15 You saved me a lot of typing with that straight to the point post. Then you have the problem of drivers from different eras, I believe POB ratings attempted to work all this out and wrote a book, sadly he died a few years ago. Pullrod This is certainly the biggest fallacy of this sport called F1. Look at a driver like Raikkonen who trailed Alonso by 5 - 7 tenths when they were teammates. If your "true" measure is to be used it is fair to say that Alonso would have scored the most poles in 2018 with an average gap of ++5 tenths on Mercedes. To me best driver means the one who will achieve the best result given the "best" (or a perfectly functioning) equipment. I don't think watching a guy doing better than his teammate in a "difficult" or "struggling" car is enough to pass this kind of judgement. As I have said many times before, I believe the skills necessary to excel at the sharp end are different to those used to fight for the scraps. Vettel had a poor 2014 for this reason, but when in front(possibly after a few corners and alone) there is only one guy who can keep up with him. I watch F1 to see cars at the limit of their performance(Qualifying, rain, hot laps) not to watch a tactician more suited to endurance racing. So watching Alonso trouncing his teammates in not the best cars is not enough to think that he would do a better job than Hamilton or Vettel with the best cars just like watching Lewis and Sebastian in the best cars winning week after week doesn't mean they would do better than Alonso in a struggling or average car. Different skills. Oh and the "faster" you go, the easier is to make mistakes. And last but not least, you can luck into the best car for 1 year or 2 but staying in the best car or team is another story and something many if not most fans underestimate. Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2019 10:09 am I know this is stating the obvious, but numerical based systems are never going to produce anything conclusive - particularly in F1 where equipment is such a differentiator. Even determining which is the best manufacturer of all time is a difficult task - based by numbers - statistically it's either Ferrari or Mercedes (Ferrari for quantity, Mercedes for percentage) - but many would argue a case for McLaren, or even Red Bull, Lotus or Williams. Every sport has evolved over time. If Roger Federer in his prime was to play Bjorn Borg from his prime, I would expect Federer to thrash him. Not because Bjorn Borg isn't great, but because the understanding of tennis has evolved, the fitness and training and development from a young age has improved so much. And tennis is game that hasn't really changed much. Racquets have evolved slightly, balls have changed - but clearly it's not changed as substantially as F1. Hamilton, Vettel, Ocon, Verstappen have gone through far more intensive training programs from the moment they were adopted by McLaren/Red Bull/Mercedes and then have teams of sports scientists guiding their diet and fitness that they entered the sport at a far higher level than previous generations. Of course, so has their competition, there could be a case to be made that if a driver like Kyvat would probably be able to hold his own against the top drivers of 30 years ago - but I don't think many of us are going to be suggesting that he is actually better or equal them. While I do get personally annoyed by the phrase that pundits user time and time again, there is a lot of truth to the saying that you can't compare drivers of different eras. The most true thing to say is that each era has drivers who defined their era. Schumacher and Fangio are clearly the drivers who defined their eras. Clark, Senna and Hamilton define their eras. Of course, there is one significant driver and era I have missed - and that is Nikki Lauda. With three titles, getting whooped by Prost on pace (albeit as a returnee who performed much better than Schumacher did) and - if you care to judge him for it - withdrawing from Fuji and allowing Hunt to take his title, Lauda did something no other driver has done on the list. He changed what it meant to be a Formula 1 driver. While it's overly simplistic to suggest that all the successful F1 drivers were playboys before Lauda and since Lauda they have become athletes who study their sport... Prost, Senna, Schumacher etc... are all evolutions of the Lauda mold. He's certainly not the most successful driver in F1 history, and he wasn't the quickest, but I would say there is a big case to suggest he was the most influential. As for coming up with a numerical system. Despite what I've said, they are a lot of fun to make up - and ultimately we come up with a system and see if it matches what we expect, and if it's close we refine it, if it's no where near we throw it out. It's essentially a very very slow neural network algorithm - weighting the different inputs until it produces a correct looking response.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8248
__label__wiki	0.528836	0.528836	Episode 58 – Alayna Cole (Queerly Represent Me) This week’s Game Hugs features the founder of Queerly Represent Me, sessional academic at the University of the Sunshine Coast, and freelance games journalist and columnist Alayna Cole. Alayna joins host Jason Imms for our usual jaunt through the career that has led to her current position in the Australian games industry, as well as something of a rebuttal. In response to Game Hugs ... On September 4, 2017 / By Jason Imms Episode 57 – Luke Lancaster (ReedPop) Say hello to Luke Lancaster, who was until recently a well-known Australian associate editor at CNET, before being selected as the new PAX Australia Content Manager, replacing ex-Game Hugs host Guy ‘Yug’ Blomberg. He’s also a co-creator of The Badguys, an excellent weekly webcomic that recently took home the top prize in Stan Lee’s POW! Media Superhero Comic Contest. This episode marks ... On August 21, 2017 / By Jason Imms Episode 56 – Eli Hodapp (Touch Arcade) Eli Hodapp is the editor in chief of Touch Arcade, the world’s largest reviews and news site dedicated to Apple mobile devices. He’s also possibly a Juggalo, though the jury is still out on that one. Join Eli and host Jason Imms this week as they discuss working remotely, American gun culture, and the question of elitism in free-to-play vs. premium games. Show ... On August 7, 2017 / By Jason Imms Episode 55 – Lisy Kane (League of Geeks) As a producer at League of Geeks, co-founder at Girl Geek Academy, and a Forbes 30 Under 30 lister, Lisy Kane doesn’t seem to do anything by halves. Join Jason Imms this week for a chat with Lisy about her incredible and densely accomplished career. Also, the pair take a look at how the Australian education system is both serving and failing the ... On July 24, 2017 / By Jason Imms Episode 54 – Matt Ditton (Mighty Games Group) Matt Ditton is the managing director of the Mighty Games Group (Shooty Skies, Disney Crossy Road, Charming Keep, Charming Runes) and Many Monkeys Development (Breath of Light, ANZ Future Play), both based in The Arcade in Melbourne, Victoria. Matt is one of Australia’s veteran game developers, one of the rare few that stuck around after the industry crash that began in 2010. ... Episode 53 – Ken Wong (Mountains) Ken Wong is the founder and creative director of Mountains, a self-described “craft games studio,” based in Melbourne. He’s also well known for his work as the lead designer and artist on Ustwo‘s seminal mobile title, Monument Valley. In this episode, Ken and Jason discuss his work with Ustwo, being discovered by American McGee, his work on Alice: Madness Returns, and much ... On June 26, 2017 / By Jason Imms Episode 52 – Katie Stegs (Lumi Consulting) Katie Stegs is co-founder and creative director of games PR and marketing agency Lumi Consulting. You might think this would place sufficient burden on Katie’s calendar, but NO. Katie has also co-founded Blush Box, a collective of game creators that focuses on romance, love and sexuality, and a symposium and game jam called Heartbeat which hopes to give that community a chance to ... Episode 51 – Guy ‘Yug’ Blomberg (ReedPop) Guy ‘Yug’ Blomberg is not only the creator of this fine podcast, but also the newly appointed Global PAX Content Director, ensuring that every PAX show around the world is crammed full of amazing stars, panels, expo booths, and entertainment. No, Yug won’t be interviewing himself – his new role doesn’t leave enough time to concentrate on Game Hugs, so this episode will ... On May 31, 2017 / By Jason Imms Episode 50 – James Cullinane (CBS Interactive) James Cullinane is the Games Account Manager at CBS Interactive, including sites GameSpot, Giant Bomb, GameFAQs, ComicVine, Metacritic and CNET. He was previously the Editor of Gameplanet, before becoming the Editorial Director accross both New Zealand and Australian Gameplanet sites. ... On March 8, 2017 / By yug Episode 49 – Paul Verhoeven (28 Plays Later) Paul Verhoeven is a writer, comedian, host, and storyteller. He co-hosts the popular gaming podcast 28 Plays Later with Kris Straub, is the host of the ABC3 show Steam Punks, and is currently writing the upcoming novel Loose Units. Previously he was a host and producer of various Triple J programs including The Breakfast Show, Nerdy by Nature, and The Graveyard Shift. ... On February 27, 2017 / By yug © 2016 GameHugs.com - Jason Imms	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8251
__label__wiki	0.588617	0.588617	NYC’s Best Speakeasy Is 10,000 Miles Away by Matt Rodbard A smoky Rob Roy (left) and the Contender. All photos by Matt Rodbard. New York City may have invented (and re-invented) the speakeasy, but Sydney has perfected it. SYDNEY – There is no place in the world where the Prohibition-era cocktail scene has prospered more than New York City. Beginning with Milk & Honey, Employees Only, and Pegu Club in the early 2000s, the concept has been carbon-copied over and over again to varying degrees of success. I found a real speakeasy at two-year-old Eau-de-Vie in the Darlinghurst section of Sydney. It's hidden in the back of the darkened lobby bar at the Kirketon Hotel. Like, really hidden. Push through the entrance during a weekend night, and the space erupts with booming pop music and boozy laughter. (I found things a bit more subdued during the week.) The novelty of stumbling upon a hidden bar isn't lost on me — nearby whiskey bar The Baxter Inn does an equally good job at operating out of sight. Novelty might get me into a bar. But quality booze keeps me there. Bartenders mix from more than 200 bottles. At Eau-de-Vie, I discovered a novella-sized cocktail list featuring some of the most inventive and carefully executed drinks I've ever come across. There's an old-fashioned made with Zacapa rum, Pedro Ximenez sherry, muscovado sugar, and spices. The Tipperary presents Ireland in a coupe: Jameson, green Chartreuse, and sweet vermouth. Eschewing dark spirits, a yuzu mule foxtrots all over the palate in a bright blend of Smirnoff Black No. 55 vodka, yuzu curd, lime, and housemade ginger beer. The bar's name is a French expression meaning "water of life," apt for a bar that has reenergized the cocktail movement. Others agreed last July when it won the World's Best New Cocktail Bar at the influential Tales of the Cocktail industry awards in New Orleans. As a subscriber of the bespoke cocktail movement, I was pretty thrilled to visit the bar on consecutive nights during my January visit, closing it down at 1 a.m. each time. (Australia's last call is strangely early.) Now, back in New York, I'm pretty damn bummed that a night at Eau-de-Vie requires $2,000 in taxi fare. 229 Darlinghurst Rd. Darlinghurst, NSW 2010 Filed under: Australia, Darlinghurst, Eau-de-Vie, Great Bars, Hidden Gem, In Vino Veritas, Local Favorite, Sydney Matt Rodbard Matt Rodbard is the contributing editor at Food Republic. He travels for the local color.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8257
__label__wiki	0.685643	0.685643	Jeff Sexton's Elgin National Watch Company Watch Serial Numbers and Production History Enter an Elgin watch serial number here Elgin Serial Number 12398001 Elgin serial number 12398001 is a grade 324, 0 size, 7 jewels, made about 1906. Three-quarter plate design. Pendent wind and set. For information about Elgin's grade, class and model numbers, click here. When looking at photos of pocketwatches here and elsewhere online, you may or may not see watches that outwardly appear like yours. This is because the watch movement, inside, and the case do not go together in any way. Elgin never made pocketwatch cases. In those days, the common practice was that a customer would pick out a movement and a case separately at the shop and the watchmaker or jeweler would assemble them together. Also, for early wristwatches, there is no distinction in the movement. A small watch may be cased either way, as a pocketwatch or a wristwatch. So the outside of these watches just reflects the selection of the original buyer, or a case a watch has been moved to over its history. Keep this in mind when comparing your watch to others. Grade: 324 Jewels: 7 Class: 117 Finish: Nickel damaskeening Adjusted: Unknown Barrel: Going Barrel Named for: None Rate: 18,000 bph (beats per hour) Serial Numbers in Grade 324: 205000 Production: 1904 to 1917 Details for grade 324, including serial number ranges, private labels and notes on specific watches Production history for grade 324 Production history for all size 0 Elgin watches Production history for stem-set, 0 size Elgin watches Production history for nickel damaskeening, 0 size Elgin watches Production history for open-face case, 0 size Elgin watches Parts for this movement The listing of Elgin part numbers for your watch is by serial number, not by grade, as there can be variations in the specific parts used in watches within a given grade. Other 0 size models, 1915 and earlier Grade 324 at the Elgintime Watch Blog, 1 Grade 324 at the Elgintime Watch Blog, 2, Creative Jeweling Next sequence Notes about the information on this site Getting your Elgin pocketwatch repaired. Grade 324 Elgin Watches Serviced by J. Sexton: 11760788 (2/2014), 12068375 (11/2014), 12355578 (7/2015) More Images of This Grade Click for a full size version of an image. Note that some of these may be quite large. Also, hand, dial and case styles may vary as these were often a matter of personal preference . Like other American watch companies, for most of its history Elgin did not make watch cases, only bare movements. In those days a customer selected the movement and the case separately at the retailer. Recently Looked Up: 12398001, less than one minute ago 818623, less than one minute ago 9306001, less than one minute ago 11708, less than one minute ago 19749136, 1 minute ago 6219825, 1 minute ago 19684045, 2 minutes ago 131, 3 minutes ago 2045001, 5 minutes ago The National Watch Company, later known as the Elgin National Watch Company, was founded at the end of the Civil War, in 1864, in Elgin, Illinois. The company's first model was a large, 18 size, movement priced at $117, which was a high price for that time. Between 1867 and sometime in the 1960s when domestic manufacturing tappered off, Elgin made 10s of millions of pocket and wrist watches. The Elgin National Watch Company went completely out of business in 1968. Even though it had been, for a time, one of the largest industrial concerns in the world, today many people have no idea that America was once the world leader in quality timepieces. Using this site you can learn a good deal about your antique Elgin watch. The serial number on the watch works, called the 'movement', can be used to look up production information on watches made by the Elgin National Watch Company. Numbers on any part of the watch case, such as a serial number on the inside of the back cover, is a number that goes with the watch case only, and reveals nothing about the watch movement. Elgin did not make pocketwatch cases. The watches were sold as bare movements only. Customers selected their watch cases separately at the retail shop, so the important number is inside on the mechanical part of the watch. Enter your watch movement's serial number and click 'Search' to lookup the watch. Elgin watch serial numbers begin with their earliest watch, number 101, a B. W. Raymond model made in 1867, and range up to just over 50,000,000. Some later serial numbers begin with a single letter. If you have one of these, check here for more information. In the later years, Elgin sold imported movements, mostly Swiss. Many of these are not marked with a serial number and so little can be said about those individual pieces. This database contain far less information on later models. Our knowledge today of the year of manufacture of Elgin movements is quite good, but still should be taken with a grain of salt. There is conflicting information on many details. Also, Elgin frequently made, and numbered, plates which were stocked for later use - sometimes years later. The information presented here is frequently updated with notes on exceptions, anomolies, private labels and details of specific movements. Is there a way to look up where and when my Elgin watch was originally sold and who purchased it? Steampunk Soap! Land of the Free... Every Watch a Compass What are watch jewels? Database last updated 2019-05-18 11:05:43.0 For more information about Elgin pocketwatches, visit the Elgintime home page, thanks! Comments to jsexton@elgintime.com	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8269
__label__wiki	0.756518	0.756518	Goaltending key during Mooseheads hot 8-2 start Scott MacIntosh Darrell Theriault It’s been an excellent start to the season for your Halifax Mooseheads who have won eight of their first 10 games. That’s no easy task considering all 10 games have come on the road with another five on the way before the team plays its home opener on Saturday, October 27th. One of the main reasons for the early success has been strong goaltending from both QMJHL Player of the Week – Alex Gravel and rookie Cole McLaren. Gravel was handed the league honour on Monday after improving his personal record to 6-2 with a pair of wins including a shutout over the weekend, while McLaren also sandwiched in his own shutout victory in that stretch. “I like their work ethic and I think that they’ve both worked really hard to prepare leading up to the games,” said Mooseheads Goaltending Coach Marco Raimondo. Gravel, the Chicago Blackhawks draft pick, has been dialed-in from opening night as evidenced by his 2.51 Goals Against Average and terrific .927 Save Percentage. McLaren has made the most of his opportunities as well with the Annapolis Royal native grabbing wins in his only two starts and even earning the QMJHL Highlight of the Night last Friday in Saint John with a trio of big saves on a shorthanded breakaway. Raimondo thinks keeping goalies loose and helping them have fun on the ice has been key. “We just want them to go out there and enjoy themselves, have fun, enjoy stopping pucks and they have been able to do that.” Having a good goal differential almost always leads to success in the standings and that has certainly been the tale so far for the Herd. Halifax has allowed a league-low 25 goals as a team through 10 games which includes two shutouts while the team is third in the QMJHL in goals scored with 42. The young 30-year-old coach gave credit to the veteran defense corps with being a large factor in the 8-2 record. “We are so lucky to have the defencemen that we do have on this team. Obviously the system that the coaching staff of Eric (Veilleux), Jon (Greenwood) and Sylvain (Favreau) have put in place in front of the goaltenders has really made all the difference for our guys. “I think the term shutout is usually directed towards the goaltender but I feel the way the guys play in front of us is equally as important and we’ve been really happy with the defencemen.” The Mooseheads will aim for win number nine on Wednesday night when they face-off for the second time this season at the Avenir Centre in Moncton. The Herd skated away with a 4-2 victory on September 30th against the Cats on the strength of three points from Arnaud Durandeau and 32 saves from Alex Gravel. Raimondo said living a day at a time is the mindset he has tried to instill on the goalie tandem. “I don’t break up our season into long segments. Right now, as a goaltending team we’re just focused on today and just being really good at the things we need to do today.” Following Wednesday’s stop in Moncton the Maritimes Division-leading Mooseheads will continue the extended trip away from Scotiabank Centre with road games at Victoriaville on Friday, Sherbrooke on Saturday and Drummondville on Sunday. The exact order of starts hasn’t been announced but both Gravel and McLaren are certain to see the ice over the four-game span. The Mooseheads home opener is set for Saturday, October 27th at 7pm versus Cape Breton. Individual tickets to all 34 Halifax Mooseheads home games are on sale now for the General Public at the Ticket Atlantic Box Office, select Superstore outlets, TicketAtlantic.com, the Official Mooseheads Shop in Scotia Square Mall or by phone 902-451-1221. J.J. Daigneault's long and winding hockey journey Mooseheads hire J.J. Daigneault as Head Coach Mooseheads select forward Senna Peeters in CHL Import Draft 2019 CHL Import Draft goes Thursday at Noon Atlantic Eric Veilleux takes position with AHL’s Syracuse Crunch 2019 NHL Draft \| Raphaël Lavoie Press Conference	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8274
__label__cc	0.659381	0.340619	Tag Archives: Los Angeles Clippers NBA Playoffs: Clippers vs Warriors, Game 5 April 24, 2019 Featured, NBA and WNBA Warriors up 3-1 in the Series The Los Angeles Clippers have battled hard against the Golden State Warriors, but they still face elimination Wednesday night in Oakland. The Clippers are down 3-1 in this best-of-seven first-round series, although they’ve split the cash 2-2 ATS thus far. The Warriors squandered a huge lead in losing Game 2. They recovered with a ... NBA Playoffs: Warriors vs Clippers Warriors Blew 31 Point Lead in Game Two The Golden State Warriors were cruising to a 2-0 lead over the eighth-seeded Los Angeles Clippers Monday night. Then everything went to hell in a handcart. The Warriors look to bounce back after relinquishing an astonishing 31-point lead in their Game 2 loss. A win will establish home-court advantage again. The Clippers ... NBA Monday Betting Pick- Celtics at Clippers March 11, 2019 Featured, NBA and WNBA Celtics Look to End Road Trip With 4th Straight Win The Boston Celtics wrap up a four-game West Coast swing this Monday night against the Los Angeles Clippers. Tip off from the Staples Center is set for 10:30 p.m. on ESPN. BetAnySports opened the Celtics as slight one-point favorites with the total set at 225.5 points. The line now is ... NBA Monday Betting Pick- LA Clippers at LA Lakers March 4, 2019 Featured, NBA and WNBA The LA Clippers will sit on the visitor’s bench this Monday night at the Staples Center in a 10:30 p.m. tip against the rival LA Lakers. As part of a NBA TV doubleheader of betting action at BetAnySports, the Lakers are favored by 3.5 with the total set at 234 points, after opening at 237. The Clippers continue to make ... NBA Free Monday Betting Pick- Mavericks at Clippers February 25, 2019 Featured, NBA and WNBA Mavs on 4 Game Losing Streak The Dallas Mavericks head to the West Coast this Monday night in a late 10:30 p.m. tip against the Los Angeles Clippers on NBA TV. BetAnySports has the Clippers as 3.5-point home favorites with the total set at 230 points. The Mavericks bring a four-game losing streak into Monday night’s contest both straight-up and ... Raptors Host Clippers on Super Bowl Sunday February 3, 2019 Featured, NBA and WNBA Struggling Raptors Look to Heal Against Clippers The Los Angeles Clippers and the Toronto Raptors will meet on Super Bowl Sunday at Scotiabank Arena. The Raptors have lost three of their last four games to fall out of the top spot in the Eastern Conference. They will try to bounce back from a rare home. A 105-92 setback against East-leading ... Trail Blazers Host Clippers Sunday Evening November 25, 2018 Featured, NBA and WNBA Trail Blazers Look for Fresh Start After Road Trip The Los Angeles Clippers and the Portland Trail Blazers will meet on Sunday at Moda Center. The Trail Blazers stumbled hard at the end of a six-game road trip. They suffered two blow-out losses against top competitors in each conference. The Trail Blazers will try to hit the reset switch on ... Clippers Host Spurs on TNT Clippers and Spurs Heading in Different Directions The San Antonio Spurs and the Los Angeles Clippers will battle on Thursday Night at STAPLES Center. These teams are heading in opposite directions at the moment. The Clippers have won four of their past five games. LA is brimming with confidence after posting a 121-116 overtime victory over the defending champion Golden ... Clippers vs. Rockets NBA Preview and Pick October 26, 2018 NBA and WNBA Rockets Without Harden on Friday The Houston Rockets will be without NBA MVP James Harden when the take on the Los Angeles Clippers. Chris Paul returns from his two-game suspension to help out the cause. Friday, October 26 at 8:00 PM ET Toyota Center Odds: Rockets are a 4-point favorite. The total is at 218.5. Los Angeles Clippers The ... Clippers Host Rockets on Sunday Evening October 21, 2018 Featured, NBA and WNBA Clippers Look to Take Advantage of Tired Rockets The Houston Rockets and the Los Angeles Clippers will meet on Sunday at STAPLES Center. The Rockets are playing in STAPLES for the 2nd night in a row. TV: 9 p.m. ET, AT&T Sportsnet-Southwest (Houston), Prime Ticket (Los Angeles) Oddsmakers have the Clippers as -1-point favorites. The game’s total is now at ...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8275
__label__cc	0.635737	0.364263	Home > Sri Sarada Devi > Gospel of Holy Mother > Sri Sarada Devi Biography 2 BIRTH AND EDUCATION Gospel of Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi Biography 2 BIRTH AND EDUCATION August 1, 2018 August 7, 2018 gospel of holy mother, gospel of sarada devi Sri Sarada Devi Biography 2 BIRTH AND EDUCATIONBack BIRTH AND EDUCATION SRI SARADA DEVI,1 the Holy Mother, was born as the eldest child of her devoted parents on the 22nd of December, 1853. Born and brought up in the rural atmosphere of Jayrambati, her early training was just like that of any poor village girl of India belonging to the higher castes. Ever since she was a little girl, she helped her mother in cooking, and often when the latter could not attend to it for unavoidable reasons, she used to take her place in the kitchen. Referring to these experiences of her early days, the Holy Mother used to say, ” I cooked and my father helped me to take down the big rice pot from the oven.” As to the other types of work she was accustomed to do, she said, ” In my childhood I sometimes used to go into neck-deep water and cut grass for the cows. I carried tiffin to the labourers in the field. During one season the paddy was destroyed by pests, and I had to collect the grain from one field after another.” 1 The name given to her according to astrological calculation was Thakurmani. As a girl she was too serious and self-composed to give herself up to childish games like others of her age. Aghormani, a companion and playmate of her girlhood, used to say of her : ” Mother was very simple in her habits. She would never quarrel with anybody while playing. When others fell out, she would mediate and establish cordial relations. In play she used to personate herself either as the mistress or governess of the house. Among her playthings there were some dolls, but she was more interested in the clay images of Kali and Lakshmi which she devoutly worshipped with flowers and Bilva leaves. Once on the occasion of the Jagad-dhatri Puja, she was meditating on the Goddess with such deep concentration and sense of identification with Her, that the sight of it struck awe in the mind of Ramhriday Ghoshal of Haldepukur.” Much of her time was taken up with looking after her own younger brothers. Sometimes she went with them to the village school, but since a literary education was not considered quite a necessary accomplishment for a village girl in those days, no one seemed to have taken any trouble to teach her or ensure her regular attendance at school. She had, however, a keen desire to study, and in later days learned to read by her own efforts. Referring to this, she said, ” Lakshmi1 and I used to read the Bengali primer a little at Kamarpukur. My nephew Hriday 9 snatched the book away from me. He said, 1 Women should not learn to read and write. Are you preparing yourself in this way to read novels and dramas later on ? ‘ But Lakshmi did not give up the book. She belonged to the family ; therefore she held on to her book. I too secretly had a copy bought for one anna. Lakshmi used to attend the village school. On returning home she would teach me. But I really improved my capacity to read only long after at Dakshineswar. The Master (i.e, Sri Ramakrishna) was staying then at Syampukur for treatment. I was all alone. A girl belonging to the family of Bhava Mukherji used to come to the temple-garden to bathe in the Ganges. Now and then she would spend a long time with me. She used to give me lessons and afterwards examine me. And in return, I would give her a large quantity of greens, vegetables and other articles of food that were sent to me from the temple-garden.” Though she knew quite well how to read, she never mastered the art of writing. In later days a -disciple wanted to have an autograph from her, and she agreed in a way. But in a vain effort to write her own name, she scrawled and scrawled, and being unable to produce anything readable, gave up the attempt. It should not be understood from the above that the rural surroundings of her early days did not provide her with any facilities for education. In India, culture has never been identified with literacy. The Indian mind has devised methods of its own for the training of the head and the heart and for an unconscious assimilation of the nation’s highest ideals, without unduly emphasizing the pedagogue’s art. The religious life of the family, the atmosphere of self-abnegation and service in which girls grow up, the temple festivals, the recitals of epics, village dramas, devotional narratives, – these and several other factors of a like nature provide even women, who live a comparatively isolated life, with facilities for developing a unified character undistracted by the conflicting thoughts and ideals that flow into* the minds of the literate through the productions of commercialized publishing houses. The Holy Mother had plenty of opportunity to receive the training that such an environment provided. As we have seen, Jayrambati and its neighbourhood were not without religious festivals-Yatra performances (a form of devotional drama)* were frequent in those times, and she had occasion to attend many of them. In her instructions to disciples the Holy Mother used to quote verses and aphorisms that had been imprinted on her memory by attending such performances in her early days. What was more, the care and contact of her poor but cultured and devoted parents were an educational facility of no mean importance. That the Holy Mother was powerfully impressed by them is plain from the great regard and appreciation with which she always spoke of them in later days. And above all, she had, in her early girlhood, the rare good fortune of coming in contact with a great soul in the most intimate relationship of a woman’s life – a contact which in time helped her to understand and realize the purpose of education in the highest sense. A niece of Sri Ramakxishna. * A nephew of Sri Ramakrishna and a constant companion and attendant of his for a long time. ← Sri Sarada Devi Biography 3 MARRIAGE Sri Sarada Devi Biography 1 ANCESTRY → Sri Sarada Devi Biography Contents August 1, 2018 Comments Off on Sri Sarada Devi Biography Contents Sri Sarada Devi Biography 18 HER MESSAGE August 1, 2018 Comments Off on Sri Sarada Devi Biography 18 HER MESSAGE Sri Sarada Devi Biography 13 IN THE SETTING OF DOMESTIC LIFE August 1, 2018 Comments Off on Sri Sarada Devi Biography 13 IN THE SETTING OF DOMESTIC LIFE Swami Vivekananda New Discoveries – Chapter 13. DAWN OF THE WORLD MISSION Print !Back 13. DAWN OF THE WORLD MISSION I We have devoted many pages to what may be called the Stories By Swami – The story of Prahlada Print ! Back THE STORY OF PRAHLADA (Delivered in California) Hiranyakashipu was the king of the Daityas. The Daityas, though Talks of Holy Mother 22: Recorded by Prafulla Kumar Ganguli Print !Back 22: Recorded by Prafulla Kumar Ganguli It was the year 1916. Durga Puja was being celebrated at the Print !Back CHAPTER: 17 Sasi And The Three Sapphires Because you and my son think so highly of Swami Heroic Struggle – Introduction Print !Back Heroic Struggle – Introduction Suffering is the lot of the world’s best and bravest – yet, for aeons Lalita Devi Prayers in 9 Indian Languages Print ! Lalita Devi PrayersBack Sri Lalita Devi Prayers Introduction to Sri Lalita Sahasranama Greatness of The Mantra Sahasranama Stotram	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8277
__label__cc	0.6351	0.3649	65 ride in Vietnam Veterans bike trip Thursday, April 6, 2017 8:19 AM Rachel Zahm (left), coordinator of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bicycle Ride, and Barry McManus (center), of Trailhouse Village Bicycles in Winona Lake, present a bicycle to raffle winner CJ Stoltie (right), of Fort Wayne. McManuss donated the bicycle for the raffle. Photos provided. More than 65 bicyclists participated in the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bicycle Ride on Sunday afternoon, April 2. Riders could choose from several routes ranging in length from 4.5 miles to 50 miles, and almost half rode the 50-mile trail. All riders started from Schenkel Station, in downtown Huntington. Barry McManus of Trailhouse Village Bicycles, in Winona Lake, donated an “Army Green” cruiser that was raffled at the end of the ride. Winner CJ Stoltie, of Fort Wayne, who retired after serving 22 years in the United States Army, was crossing the finish line as his name was drawn. The ride was organized with the help of Chris Bucher, Joe Zahm, Jim Lewis and the Huntington Area Recreational Trails Association (HARTA). Proceeds will help fund a Vietnam Veterans Memorial, which will be dedicated at Memorial Park, in Huntington, on Veterans Day. Tax deductible donations for the memorial can be sent to TAPS, PO Box 551, Huntington, IN 46750. Donors should note Huntington County Treasurer TAPS in the memo line of the check.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8281
__label__cc	0.706866	0.293134	You are here: Controversies / Paul Devenyi: Pharmacotherapy of addictions Edward Shorter: The Q-T interval and the Mellaril story - a cautionary tale. Paul Devenyi MD, FRCP is former head of medical services Addiction Research Foundation, Toronto Ontario, Canada. PHARMACOTHERAPY OF ADDICTIONS - NOT A SUCCESS STORY By Paul Devenyi As an internist I somehow strayed to this website and got myself embroiled in some controversies about my view that addictions are not treatable diseases, perhaps not diseases at all, but self-induced irresponsible behaviors of choice. This point of view is not popular, of course, and not politically correct. Unless psychiatrists and behavioral scientists come up with some useful behavioral strategies, the future does not look promising. I came to this conclusion after 50 years of (wasted?) career in addiction medicine where I was involved more in the management of medical problems and complications than in addiction per se. Since programs ranging from 12 steps to individual and group counseling did not produce overwhelming success, there was an increasing demand from public and professional circles, that we come up with some viable pharmacotherapies, whereby the addicts go home with a prescription, take it and presto, he is no longer an addict. I thought it would be appropriate to this website to briefly review the available pharmacotherapies, which so far have not been a success story. The oldest drug therapy for alcoholism has been Disulfiram (Antabuse) with more than 60 years history and still going. The drug arrests alcohol metabolism at the intermediate acetaldehyde level and the accumulating acetaldehyde causes a variably unpleasant reaction. The idea is that the alcoholic voluntarily takes the drug and if he drinks on it, gets punished therefore he would be too scared to drink. Attempts were even made with involuntary administration such as by a concerned spouse or an employee health nurse; these attempts usually fail, because alcoholics are clever to cheat and wiggle out of the forced administration. Voluntary use of the drug, which is the standard today, is unsuccessful because the minority of alcoholics who accept it at all, don't take it long enough to be useful. I just mention in parenthesis that depot injection of disulfiram was abandoned, because the drug does not absorb reliably from depot sites. For opioid addiction a feasible treatment appeared to be naltrexone, an opioid antagonist which - by blocking the receptors - would render the opioid ineffective, thus wasteful. It was assumed that the narcotic addict would voluntarily protect himself from the pleasures of his drug, thus won't use it. Like with disulfiram, the trouble is that most addict won't take it and certainly not long enough to extinguish the dependency. A few years ago reports appeared that naltrexone, in a non-specific way somehow decreases alcohol craving, thus people would find it easier to abstain or would drink less. To my knowledge this did not catch on and I did not find a single alcoholic in my practice, to whom it did anything. Similar anti-craving effect has been claimed for acamprosate (Campral), long popular in Europe and relatively new in North America, which supposedly controls the alcohol craving of the already detoxfied alcoholic, thus he won't drink again. In the 1980s Doug Teller and I ran a study on bromocriptine, for cocaine addicts, a dopamine antagonist which supposedly diminished cocaine craving, by decreasing the pleasure-causing effect of dopamine (Cocaine increases dopamine in the brain). We could not distinguish the effect from placebo. Methadone, a long acting opioid is an old and more or less accepted drug substitute treatment for heroin and sometimes other opioid addiction. In my view, true and long lasting successes are not unheard of, but rare. Buprenorphine, a partial opioid agonist with a long half-life, has been used in the last few years for opioid dependence and withdrawal, preferred by some over methadone. I don’t know of any overwhelming success; personally I did not use it. Several drugs are used in addiction medicine for detoxification or drug withdrawal. “Cold turkey” withdrawal is inhumane and at times dangerous. Depressant drugs are withdrawn gradually to avoid unpleasant and sometimes dangerous withdrawal symptoms. As such, it is a successful treatment. As to maintain a drug free lifestyle, withdrawal tapering seldom has a lasting impact. In principle you taper the same drug what the patent was using or a long acting equivalent, such as methadone for opioids and diazepam for benzodiazepines. Alcohol is an exception; you don’t use alcohol for its withdrawal, the commonly used drugs are benzodiazepines, thiamine to treat or prevent Wernicke encephalopathy and peripheral neuropathy, haloperidol for delirium tremens. Non-depressant drugs, such as cocaine, cannabis, etc. do not require tapering. A newer and intriguing approach to addictions - still in experimental phase - is immunization. At Cornell, they experimented with cocaine vaccine: cocaine, a small molecule that is complexed with a large protein (common cold virus), producing a cocaine antibody response when exposed to the drug and prevents cocaine to reach the brain and produce euphoria. The Chileans are working on an alcohol vaccine. This is an entirely new avenue to treat addictions and some animal experiments have been promising. One still has to doubt that this will be the panacea. It is not just the question that will it work, but whom, at what age, under what circumstances to vaccinate? The medical ethicists would have a field day. Finally, a word about cigarette addiction. I am not a believer that the various pharmaceutical agents are that effective (Nicotine substitution, Zyban, Chamtix). A lot of people quit spontaneously and the major factor is social pressure: education, propaganda, legal restrictions - the very factors that are mentioned in my first essay in controversies that can have more of an impact on addictions than drugs or individual treatment techniques. Paul Devenyi	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8283
__label__wiki	0.835218	0.835218	Judiciary Records Staff Undergo Skills Improvement Training Mr. Kagole Kivumbi (PSSJ) addressing the Records Staff at the High Court in Kampala Atleast 108 Records staff deployed in the Judiciary spent a day at the High Court Grounds in Kampala attending a Records Management Skills Improvement Training. The day-long training, organized by the Human Resource Management Department with support from the Justice, Law & Order Sector, was the first of its kind in many years. While opening the session, the Permanent Secretary/Secretary to the Judiciary, Mr. Kagole E. Kivumbi, said he was committed to supporting the Records Officers in their career upgrades. "We know that many of you need additional qualifications to continue in your positions. We've assisted those of you who have requested for assistance and we�ll continue to do so," said Mr. Kagole. He said he was happy with the conduct of the Records staff, for he had not received any complaints against them in the past 12 months. "Management is working with a view of putting better conditions of work for you and improving the lines of communication." The main facilitator at the session was Ms. Lillian Aliso, an acting Commissioner Records and Information Management in the Ministry of Public Service. The official was supported by Judiciary's two Principal Human Resource Officers: Mr Patrick Barugahare and Mrs Apophia N. Tumwine.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8284
__label__wiki	0.623073	0.623073	Mafalda Latch sat ramrod-straight at her desk, forearms resting flat in front of her. She didn’t turn her head to look, but she watched from the corner of her eye as a few pupils hustled into the lecture hall, borderline late. First-years, probably. Mutters of dismay reached her ears from somewhere in the back–the latecomers were learning the hard way that showing up on time wasn’t enough. If you wanted a desk to yourself, you had to show up early. Otherwise, you ended up sitting on the last raised stair of the hall, crammed thigh-to-thigh with the other idiots. Welcome to the Universitat, kids, she thought. She was only twenty-two, at most three years older than them, but that didn’t stop her. The lecture hall’s wide double-doors slammed shut as Professor Ines dragged them closed. She stomped up to the podium, a squat potato of a woman in a formless linen smock, her expression characteristically humorless. As the professor walked past her desk, Mafalda felt her hands twitch. She hadn’t noticed, but she’d curled them into defensive little fists, and her scarred knuckles flexed in some sort of sympathetic response, as if they remembered the pain Professor Ines had caused them last year without help from Mafalda’s brain. Despite all that, despite the bowel-deep wariness she felt whenever sitting in the professor’s line of sight, Mafalda was glad to be back in Medao for her second year of lectures. The hot-season break had been merciful, though it began just a week or two too late by her reckoning. Home, though, was a different kind of stifling. The fishing village where her parents lived, a half-day’s ride from the city, was a far cry from the bustle she’d grown used to. She’d blown through all the books she’d packed in less than a week, and while she enjoyed the fishing trips with her father, she’d had enough after four or five. The Universitat, for all its flaws and all its horrible goblin employees, was her conduit to the city. Her excuse to be there. And finally, in year two of her studies, she’d be moving on to practical courses. Which meant that the Universitat experience itself would be more pleasant this go-around. More interesting. Caught up in her thoughts, she zoned out while Professor Ines went over schedules and syllabuses and all that crap, only half of which was applicable to second-years. Mafalda twisted a curl of dark hair around her finger, only perking up when the professor uttered the magic words: first-season field work. Mafalda held her breath and mentally recited a chant for luck. Any of the first-season field assignments would impart valuable archaeological knowledge, but some assignments were juicier than others. She had a classmate who’d spent two seasons of her first year digging up bog bodies, and ew. Mafalda appreciated the valuable contributions of bog bodies to the academic canon, but if given the choice, she preferred working in drier climes. Professor Ines read out the title of each dig, then the students assigned to the project. First up was the Symphonic Hall construction, where the Universitat team was required to excavate the site where the concert hall was to be built, ensuring no caches of artefacts or relics of previous construction lurked beneath. Next was the Faultline team, who were assigned to explore the length of the great, jutting fault line that broke a shelf in the rolling hills north of the city. The earthquake had been a generation ago, before Maf’s time, but each year rain and erosion unearthed new treasures where the earth was broken–and the fault was a hundred miles long. That list too sailed on past with no mention of her name. A spark of hope lit in her chest. Perhaps she’d be assigned to a tomb? Or an abandoned village? Those were the two pie-in-the-sky assignments second-years sometimes had to wait for. But Mafalda’s marks had been excellent. She’d managed a whole extra language course last year on top of her usual class load. Was it too much to hope that perhaps she’d earned a spot on something exciting? The Cullomardo Tomb list came and went without her. As did all the villages she was aware of. The lecture hall held a couple hundred and Mafalda could have sworn that every single ass in a seat got called before her name did. But finally, it came. Mafalda Latch, on the list to attend first-season field work at a place called Moetta Caves. Caves? That sounded more geological than archaeological. And she’d never heard of Moetta. Like a lot of Meduese names, it was probably just the surname of whatever explorer had tripped and fell into it back during the Great Migration. It told her nothing. The complete lack of context was both annoying and thrilling–she’d have liked to have had an immediate grasp on what she was in for. But the part of her who enjoyed research was itching to whisk away to the library, to question every professor she had on what precisely was so special about these caves. Caves of course could be a valuable resource when studying Meduese history. In the time before the Migration, before the city was built, the early families buried their dead in caves north of the alkali flats. In areas known to be former First Families land, every cave uncovered was excavated and mapped on the off-chance it needed to be walled up and consecrated. Doors were built when necessary, the caves’ contents were inventoried, the lineage and history of the individuals within were documented, and guards were assigned if anything valuable was found inside. But sometimes, of course, the dig teams found nothing. Unless this Moetta Cave was a known dig site, Mafalda was potentially staring down the barrel of a whole season of exploring and mapping a big, empty hole in the ground. The thought caused her throat to seize up, her breath leaking out in a tight, anguished sigh. Her eyes flicked toward the door. She needed to get to the library post-haste. A part of her was even willing to risk Professor Ines’ wrath to try for an early exit. But what would she say? She considered straight up complaining of intestinal distress. Then she weighed the social consequences of being known as the person who shit her pants on the first day of school, and as eager as she was to get to researching, she held her horses. One could be forgiven for walking right past the entrance to Moetta Cave. It was low to the ground, choked with twisted red-barked bushes, their leaves waxy stiff and their bark sharp with thorns. Mafalda and her crew did, in fact, hike past it three times, noting the small fissure at the base of an outcrop but assuming their surveyors must have meant some other entrance. How had the survey team even wriggled inside? Further exploration yielded nothing, however, so machetes and elbow grease it was. Working in shifts, they hacked at the bushes and carted trunks and boughs out in pieces, carving a path through the thorny scrub to the dark crack in the white-yellow stone. The thorns fought back, slicing and biting and menacing the knuckles of each and every laborer on site. Once they’d cut a clear path, the cave entrance still didn’t promise anything grand. Mafalda, soaked through with sweat and toweling at the back of her neck, puffed out a humid sigh. The butte of white-yellow rock stretched roughly north to south, providing shade as the day wore on but promising brutal sun in the mornings. There wasn’t much tree cover, but the flat ground made a good campsite, and slowly they cobbled together their base camp atop patches of loamy soil and beds of orange-red grass. Almost every aspect of that first afternoon set the pace for the weeks to come: the grueling physical work, the heat, the soaked-through sticky shirts, the bleeding knuckles, the thorns jabbing into her soft and uncallused hands despite the gloves she wore. But Mafalda persevered, as she always had. Like she’d conquered the road-blocks in her first year of Universitat, where she’d come up against gulfs in her education, having not grown up in the city. Like she’d conquered the soul-crushing disappointment and year-long doldrums of not even passing the admissions exams the first year she’d arrived in Medao. She wasn’t the smartest in her class. She wasn’t even street smart like her peers raised in the city. She wasn’t tough, as evidenced by how hard that first day in the field so thoroughly kicked her ass. Hells, she didn’t even make up for it socially–short, awkward, kind of chubby, unable to tame her hair and clueless about how to dress herself. Field work and its endless parade of white silk shirts and khaki shorts was sort of a blessing in disguise there. So why go through it all? Why stick it out? Apart from how deeply she owed it to her parents to succeed, the promise she’d made them, her zeal for her work walked the knife’s-edge balance between passion and obsession. She was willing to risk far, far more than the wrath of Professor Ines to make a discovery. To contribute something. To stumble across a lost civilization, or at least lost books, or failing all that at least some lost important dead people. If there was anything worth finding in this stupid, scratchy, sticky, low-ceilinged cave, she’d find it. For all her determination, for all her willingness to risk it all, Mafalda couldn’t change reality. Magick might have been real two hundred years ago, but all the sorcerers were dead now. And even if there were any left, it would take far more than a sorcerous miracle to salvage the expedition to Moetta Cave. You know what she’d found–after weeks of mapping every tiny passage, after crawling on her belly and tearing even her sturdy workwear and scraping her elbows and knees and eating camp food and sleeping on a campsite that had a tilt that made the blood rush to her feet? She’d found mosquitos. A seemingly infinite number of mosquitos, all breeding within the puddles of stagnant water that dampened the cave’s interior. Apart from the mosquitos? Fuck-all. Mafalda tried to stay focused. She tried to remain upbeat. It was hard work, but she was under no illusions that graduating from the School of Archaeology wouldn’t be hard work. She clung to her academic’s mantra, a line she recalled from one of the first lectures she’d ever attended: in science, it was just as important to prove a negative as a positive. Proving an absence was just as valid a contribution to the body of knowledge the Universitat was trying to build. Boy, it just… sucked, though. Every new passage filled with nothing but dirt and larvae eroded her enthusiasm just a tiny bit more. And compared to the others on the expedition, Mafalda was a ray of hells-drowned sunshine! Professor Banno, the expedition leader, handed out assignments these days like a bored noble listlessly watching his farmers toil. While the students had formed their little cliques and bonds, while there was some semblance of camaraderie, Mafalda didn’t have the energy nor the enthusiasm to make friends. Everyone sort of stuck to themselves or their little pairs, doing as they were told, hoping that they’d reach the end of the cavern soon. Nobody knew how deep or far Moetta’s tendrils stretched. While that had first felt like a big, juicy challenge worth sinking her teeth into, now Mafalda dreaded the discovery of new branches and chambers. Half weren’t even tall enough for a person to stand inside. She was tired of crawling around like a slug and inadvertently breathing mosquitos straight up her nose. It was in the middle of one such chamber–a low-ceilinged thing she had to sit to investigate–that the man first approached her. Professor Banno had brought along more than just his stable of students. They had a camp cook, a quartet of security guards, and some porters who’d helped hoof all their gear in and now served as general laborers, hauling out debris and shoring up passages and chopping firewood and the like. They didn’t spend much time in the caverns, as they generally had other jobs to do. So when Mafalda heard scraping and scuffing down the passage she was presently mapping, she was surprised to discover that the source of it was one of the laborer men, crawling forward on his stomach and shielding his face against the lanternlight. She’d been sitting cross-legged in the cave’s highest point, jotting notes in her notebook while sucking marrow out of the remnants of her lunch. “Oh!” She waved at the man with the rib bone she’d been nibbling on. “Hi.” With a grunt of exertion, the man hauled himself free of the narrow passage and pushed up onto his haunches. As he crept into the glow of her lantern, Mafalda caught a better look at him. He was older than her, maybe in his late twenties, with strong features and thick black hair that fell all the way to his shoulders. Muttering and patting himself down, he seemed preoccupied with said hair, gathering it up at the nape of his neck. Finally, Mafalda spotted what he was looking for: a leather cord that had fallen onto the cavern floor. He snatched it up and secured his hair, tying it off. “There we go,” he said. And then, belatedly, “Hello! My, you were a bit further down than they told me you’d be.” Mafalda turned to face this newcomer so she could examine him more closely. He’d come looking for her specifically? Whyever for? He was familiar in the sense that she knew she’d seen him around camp before, but only as part of the backdrop. He wore an outfit much the same as hers–sturdy linen work shirt rolled up to the elbows, thick canvas trousers for crawling about in, suspenders to keep it all from sliding down off the ass when engaging in said crawling. When he smiled, it was the sort of abashed grin that put an observer at ease. He had an open, approachable face. “Sorry if I startled you down here,” he said. “I couldn’t tell exactly where you were until I spotted your lantern. I should have called.” It was custom in the cave, as much as there was any real established etiquette, to cooee if you were coming up on someone else’s light. Saved people getting startled and kicking lanterns over. “You didn’t startle me.” Mafalda shrugged, finally setting the rib back on the scrap of crumpled paper she’d used as a plate. “But I have to admit I’m wondering why you’re here.” Again with the smile. The man folded his legs and sat down opposite her, having to hunch his larger frame more than she did in the cavern. If it weren’t for the fact that he was so… so… disarmingly goofy, she might have been a little put off by how close he sat. “My name is Celio,” he said. “And I’d like to talk to you about a job.” He stuck his arm out, holding a hand toward her. She tilted her head, staring at his empty palm. He didn’t have anything for her, so why…? Belatedly, she recalled that in the north, people still shook hands. And now that she gave it conscious thought, he did have a northern accent of some kind. While the Universitat itself was based in Medao, their dig site was home to a varied cast of characters. She’d grown used to hearing the clashing, unfamiliar lilts of her fellow students and workers. He’d retracted his hand before she could belatedly indulge the custom. “Sorry,” he said. “I haven’t been down here long. I forget.” Hand-shaking was a thing like sorcery, a relic of the past. When the ghost ships had brought the ague to Medao, the physiks said touch spread disease. Even after the city recovered, some customs never bounced back–shaking hands and kissing cheeks for greetings. “Going to be tough to recruit down this way for your job if you keep trying to rub your hands on people!” Mafalda gave him a gap-toothed grin. “Jokes aside,” he said. “I’m serious.” Mafalda brushed dust from her cheek, listening. “We’re all getting sick of this.” He swept a big, callused hand around to indicate the cavern’s interior. “It isn’t what we signed up for. And I’m not even from the university like you. I can’t imagine how frustrating it must be to be stuck down here instead of working on… well… anything else.” Mafalda squinted at him, the words igniting a defensive spark. She felt obligated to defend the Universitat and its ideals. “It isn’t perfect,” she said. “But it’s my first dig. I’m just glad to be here, learning techniques that will help me out on all the future jobs where I do get to uncover something interesting.” “I get that,” said Celio. “That’s a good attitude to have. In a student.” “What’s that supposed to mean? I am a student.” Now he was just getting on her nerves. Who tried to poach someone for a job by belittling their course of study? Celio steepled his fingers, leaning forward over his own legs. He propped his elbows on his knees, eyes reflecting the lanternlight. “What if I told you I had a lead on a dig that actually mattered? A tomb, discovered on a slice of private property. And an owner eager to get it all mapped and surveyed so he can get on with his plans. So eager he’s willing to pay in cash as well as first excavation rights.” Mafalda’s scam senses started tingling. That sales pitch reminded her of the time a travelling salesman had sold her mother a set of iron-bottomed saucepots, claiming they enriched the blood if you prepared food in them. What a load of nonsense. “I’d say if you had a lead like that, why waste your time here? I’d be gone already.” He smiled, unoffended. “Because I can’t do it alone.” People didn’t sit on valuable finds like that, not for weeks. Yet here he was, toiling away in this cavern as a common laborer. He wasn’t old enough or cutthroat-looking enough to be a crew leader. Whatever this guy’s game was, Mafalda doubted it would add up to anything more than disappointment and empty pockets. “Well you don’t know me,” she said, letting her eyes wander up toward the heavily-shadowed ceiling of the cavern, the little bumps and ridges and striations in the stone. “And I haven’t even graduated yet.” “I don’t know you personally,” said Celio, “but I’ve been watching you.” Yikes! Mafalda squinted at him sideways. “I’ve seen how hard you work. How you keep putting in the hours and following procedure even though everyone here knows this cave’s spent, knows there’s nothing to find. You don’t half-ass it like the others do. My employer would appreciate that a hell of a lot more than a degree.” He had her there. She did work hard. She’d always worked hard. She’d had to. She’d failed to gain entrance to the Universitat the first year she applied, falling short in chemistry and literacy. So she’d studied both, put in a solid year of hard work where her rural childhood education had failed her. And then she’d had to keep it up, being a year older than all her classmates. And she had to work hard to look like she wasn’t working, because there was nothing more embarrassing than an over-ager who still struggled. “I’ll give you some free advice,” she said. “Don’t ever approach a girl alone in a cave and say you’ve been watching her. That’ll get you shot.” Yet for all his many social stumbles over the course of this conversation, she didn’t feel threatened. Honestly, he seemed a little too inept to successfully stalk a woman for nefarious purposes. Or maybe that’s just what a real scoundrel would want you to think, she thought. “I appreciate the tip,” Celio said earnestly. Stretching out her arms, Mafalda began to pack up her things. She’d mapped this cavern to its borders, hadn’t seen any passageways along the perimeter. It was time to get back to base camp and sort out her next assignment from Banno. “Hey!” Celio spoke up, a little more urgent than before. He reached out a hand, as though to grab at her arm and prevent her from leaving. But he didn’t grab her. Instead, he clutched something in his fist, a leather-wrapped bundle. “Just have a look at this,” he said. “Would you at least do that?” Mafalda held out her palm. “Sure.” She wasn’t angry with him or anything. If she was being honest, weird as the conversation had been, it was more entertaining than endlessly sketching the same contours of rock over and over and over. Celio dropped a weighty object into her palm, a heavy thing concealed by a scrap of suede. Mafalda unwrapped it, tugging the drawstrings open on the little pouch and revealing what it hid: a piece of hammered silver, tarnished with age. It was a pendant or buckle of some sort, its shape a spined half-sunburst of primitive metalwork. A series of small parallel holes had been bored through the center. While all that was interesting, what seized Mafalda’s heart and wrenched her eyes open wider were the tiny characters etched into the metal, along the curve of the sun. She couldn’t read them, but… “This is Low Sunnish,” she whispered, voice dry and soft with awe. Not the language spoken by the First Familes, but that of their ancestors. Older than most of what the Universitat worked on. Water dripped somewhere off in the bowels of the cave, and in her stunned silence, every sound felt amplified, hammering on her eardrums. Could it be a clever forgery? Possibly. But it was solid silver. And the carved characters had a convincing depth and age to them. Even as her heart skipped and fluttered in her chest, even as excitement threatened to bubble away the last of her ennui, Mafalda cast a suspicious squint at the man beside her. “If this is real, it’s even weirder that your employer is sitting on this find,” she murmured. “Do you know what this is?” “It’s old,” said Celio. “But I’m not trained like you. So I don’t know exactly what, no.” Mafalda opened her mouth, ready to share with him all her many and instant speculations about the piece of silver. But caution stalled her. Too much about this situation didn’t add up. Though it harmed her, physically harmed her like stubbing her toe, she wrapped the thin suede back around the silver buckle and drew the drawstring shut. She passed it back to Celio, noting the thick calluses and short, dirty nails upon his hands. Could he sense her reluctance? Could he tell he’d hooked her, that passing the pouch back took so much effort? “I don’t know you,” she said. “And I don’t know your employer. But I do know that if all this was on the up-and-up, you wouldn’t be hoofing crates for Professor Banno in the middle of nowhere.” She expected him to argue. To protest. To insist that she had it all wrong, that both he and his mysterious employer were completely trustworthy. To at least be offended on behalf of his honor. He did none of those things. Celio stuffed the pouch away into a pocket and looked at her for a moment, then inclined his head in a stout, understanding nod. “You know what? That’s totally fair.” Mafalda’s squint deepened. Somehow, that only made her more suspicious. “I’ll leave you to your mapping, Mafalda Latch,” Celio said. He dropped down onto his hands and knees again, then grabbed up his toolbag. He waved at her, then made way for the passage, tucking his shoulders in and preparing to crawl. “You’re right,” he said as he started to shimmy down the passageway, his voice distorted by the much lower ceiling. “We don’t know each other. You have every reason not to trust me. But hey, you’ve got weeks left. Whole weeks of this. That is–oof–plenty of time for me to change your mind.” And just like that, squeezing himself into the darkness of the cave, he was gone. And on such an arrogant note! Mafalda gathered her things, taking care to cart out her ribs and rubbish with her, and headed out along the same passageway, shoving her bag in front of her as she inched through the tunnel. In the dark, visions of gleaming silver–of unfathomable, unknown languages and the secret history they concealed–danced before her eyes. If you’re enjoying the story, please consider voting for us over on TopWebFiction! Thanks! Posted on July 10, 2019 by Casey LucasPosted in Chapters1 Comment Despite the rhythmic grind and rumble of the wagon’s wheels, a cottony, quilted quiet wrapped its interior. Like Calay’s mind was already filtering out the background noise and focusing instead of the lack of any other sound. They’d been on the road for an indeterminate handful of hours, Adal still driving while Riss kept watch up front. Torcha had clambered up into the overhead luggage loft with her rifle. The cargo hold was rather bare, their meager possessions heaped onto the floor and lashed into place. Tarn had been kind enough to provide them with a hefty water barrel before turfing them out on their asses, and a couple of old crates rattled half-emptily around. The whole contraption smelled of sawdust and a particularly dry, musty smell that he decided must be “lizard.” Overall he wasn’t sure how he felt about wagon travel. He’d done it rarely, always found it a little claustrophobic and off-putting. As much as he was unsettled by vast, big-sky wilderness, he disliked being unable to see his own surroundings even more. And the windows on this thing, like all enclosed coaches, were pitiful. Gaz shared none of his concerns. He’d nipped a blanket from their offered quarters at Adelheim and as soon as they were underway he’d unfurled it, propped his pack under his chin, and curled against a cargo net. In their time on the road down the Janel coast, he’d conked off to sleep every time they set foot in a wagon. Something about the motion, he said. Rocked him to sleep like a baby. Well wasn’t that great for one of them. Eventually his restlessness got the better of him. Calay left Gaz to his awkwardly-curled nap in the hold and clambered up through the hatch into the passenger compartment. Which was, in a stroke of absurd hilarity, empty despite its more comfortable seating. Adal had left the pilot’s door open, so Calay had retreated further back into the hold for want of privacy. Now, though, he crawled up toward the aperture and settled down on one of the padded bench seats, cocking his head so he could peer up toward the driver. Sunlight shone through the window, striking Adal’s blond hair, a glittering corona. He had a distant, dreamy smile on his face for who knew what private reason. Everyone looked different in the sun. He’d noticed it at the castle. Riss dressed differently when she wasn’t in the field. Adal lost that pinch of annoyance that perched near-permanently around his eyes. It was an odd thing to be struck by, this passing thought that the people you spent time with were people in their own right with their own lives and their own histories and you only knew a single facet of them. Calay didn’t like that one bit. It made people unpredictable. Something on Adal’s face changed. His expression faltered, eyes going serious and head turning to glance at something off the road. Well, Calay couldn’t let that rest without an investigation. He hadn’t crawled up front for a conversation per se, just a distraction. Looked as though he’d found it. Creaking the door open to announce himself, he pulled himself up through the small hatch that separated the passenger cabin from the pilot’s bench and the great outdoors. Adal glanced down and greeted him with a quiet nod. Nothing on his face betrayed upset or alarm. Curious, Calay glanced around as he settled onto the narrow seat, peering at the vista that greeted them over the galania’s broad reptilian back. Seeing forest on either side of the wagon was an uncomfortable, startling thing–and this particular forest was a cratered, damaged hellscape. Calay blinked hard, needed a moment to take it all in. They were passing through an area that had sustained heavy artillery shelling. Craters like huge pockmarks littered the field on either side of the road. Heaps of mossed-over refuse still littered the roadside. As opposed to the clear-cut remains left by loggers, the trees here looked to have been blown apart, the occasional half-splintered trunk still standing. Though the forest was fast reclaiming all it touched, what rocks remained bore scorch marks. Despite the signs that man had passed through here, there was nothing manmade in sight. On their journey south from Vasile, Calay and Gaz had passed through some areas that had sustained artillery damage. They’d spied from a distance the occasional fortification blown through with cannon holes. But this, this was wholesale destruction down to the soil. Adal noted his quiet, met it with sober eyes. “It got bad down here,” he said. “Wherever the war-wagons passed through.” Calay had heard of the war-wagons. He’d never seen one save from a great distance. Massive constructions the size of ships, broadsides of cannons all up and down their lengths, hauled by whole teams of massive lizards like the single one that hauled their coach with ease. “Fuck me,” he said. “In some of these villages, the destruction was absolute.” Calay blinked hard. “This was a village?” There was literally no sign of it. Not a scrap of evidence. Adal’s shoulders twitched up. He shrugged while loosely holding the reins. “I’m not certain,” he said. “But there must have been something here worth bombing into the dirt.” He found himself wanting to ask about the war. It annoyed Calay when he didn’t know things. And at the time the war had broken out, back in Vasile, he’d had other matters to attend. Even though the war had, in a roundabout way, shaped his future. If the Inland Empire hadn’t blockaded the river, he never would have accepted work from House Talvace. And if he’d never accepted work from Talvace, he’d have never… well, he’d likely still be running a clinic for the underprivileged, pulling teeth and delivering babies. “So what kicked it all off, anyhow?” He tried to sound conversational, hoped he wasn’t prying painful nails out of Adal’s past. “Kicked off…?” Adal blinked and loosed a single breath of laughter. “Oh. Well, every war starts the same way, doesn’t it? Someone wants something someone else has.” Calay dredged up what he could remember. He lifted his eyes skyward, where clouds were rolling in, choking away the selective sparkle of the sunshine. “That northern leader, he invaded down this way to get access to the river. That’s why your people clogged up the river supply lines.” “Correct enough. There were other things they were after–silk production, encircling their old enemy in favorable territory–but more or less. The Selyeks–” “The who?” “… The northeners.” For a moment, Adal looked oddly embarrassed. “I thought you might have tired of hearing us all curse northerners and narlies, so I used their proper name.” A weird little smile crept up Calay’s mouth. He hadn’t anticipated that. And he appreciated it in a way that was difficult to vocalize. “Selyeks,” he said, to spare Adal having to linger in that awkward moment. “Yes. Of the United Principalities of New Selyekaskim.” Calay’s eyes inched open a little wider with every successive word of that. “I can see why you just say ‘narlies.’” He tried to repeat that last word in his mind and couldn’t manage it. Sel-ye-kas-kim. Adal took his few questions as an opportunity to launch into a full-blown civics lesson. He explained that the Selyeks, under their new leadership, wanted to acquire a land buffer around the Inland Empire due to a history of tensions and skirmishes between the two nations. Under their General Zeyinade, they’d swept in south and toppled the local governments in the textile districts who were a part of the Inland Empire but somehow not fully a part of it, a stewardship of some kind derived through a series of agreements between the local and Empirical rulers and– Calay regretted asking. He nodded along, absorbing about half the details, and reserved some amusement for how animated the subject seemed to make Adal. Everyone has something they enjoy being asked about, Gaz had told him once. People like to feel like they know things. “I’m surprised none of this penetrated the papers in Vasile,” Adal finally said. “Your people have a reputation as being well-read and civically minded.” Calay’s face crinkled up. “Sure,” he said. “The type of people who read papers.” Adal seemed to get it then, seemed to suddenly visualize the vast gulf in life experience between the two of them. His mouth snapped shut. Calay hated feeling ignorant. He hated not being able to anticipate things, and willful ignorance was like intentionally robbing yourself of the tools to anticipate outcomes and make good decisions. So he hovered on an awkward precipice for a moment–here was Adal, lofty and well-bred and well-connected, a source of good information it would benefit him to mine. Adal knew the geography of where they were headed. Knew the politics. Knew a great many things that Calay, in his isolated inner-city existence, had simply never been exposed to. Yet in order to access that information, he’d have to admit he knew fuck-all about all that. To Adalgis. Calay bit the inside of his cheek, scowling. Life was a rotten bitch who struck rotten bargains sometimes. Just as he was about to broach the subject of their destination, Gaz squeezed up through the hatch, just his head and shoulders, and peered up at them. “Huh,” he said. “Okay.” When Calay answered with a questioning look, he explained, “Oh, just wondering where everyone got to.” Riss leaned up from the guard’s perch along the wagon’s flank, drawn by the sound of extra voices. “Something the matter?” Adal looked to either side of him, squeezing his shoulders a little narrower. The bench accommodated he and Calay with little room to spare, and Riss leaning up on one side and Gaz on the other was a little much. He grumbled something under his breath. “What’s that?” asked Riss. “I said this wagon seats eight people, but in order for it to accomplish this at least some of said people have to sit on the bloody seats.” Torcha’s voice echoed from the luggage loft, muffled and sleepy: “Are mams and paps fighting again?” Adal rubbed the heel of his hand against his face. The clouds chose that moment to disgorge a single drop of rain, which hurtled down out of the sky and struck Calay square on the nose. More rain followed. Within moments it was splashing down steadily. It was warm rain, not altogether unpleasant. Calay ran a finger up his face, enjoyed the droplets tickling down his skin. Riss grumbled and hauled herself up off the guard’s perch, squeezing past him and Adal both as she headed for the hatch. Gaz retreated fully back inside to let her through. “What?” she asked as Adal made a sound of protest. “Nobody’s going to shoot at us in a downpour. Besides, I’ve kept watch long enough.” Calay snickered and gave Adal a pat across the shoulders, also clambering backwards into the dry warmth of the wagon’s passenger cabin. “Be seeing you,” he said, leaving Adal to yank the awning further down across the bench. It reached almost the entire way, but the knees of his trousers would soak through unless he had a sealskin. Sliding down the bench seat, Calay stretched out his legs. He laid out almost entirely horizontal, crossing his legs at the ankle and propping his back against Gaz’s side. Rain knocked the drumbeat of its knuckles against the coach, blending with the grind of the wheels. The music of the road. Calay flicked his damp hair out of his face and settled in for the ride, resting his head back against Gaz’s shoulder. Cracking one eye open, he watched as Riss also reclined, unpacking a book from a trunk beneath the bench seat. She propped it on her knee. They were heading south. Calay didn’t know much about south. He knew Medao was down there somewhere. And past that, the islands where the fisher tribes made their living. Plenty of country to get himself lost in. They’d entertained their notions of settling down, of no longer running, but as nice as it had sounded, it wasn’t ever realistically on the table. The best they could hope for was to disappear for a while at a time. To take their quiet moments if and when they could, like they’d managed in the swamp. “This ain’t so bad,” Gaz declared after a moment of quiet. Calay murmured a wordless noise of agreement. There were, he supposed, worse people to be disappearing with. He didn’t fully trust Riss yet, but he trusted her to do the honorable thing by her own code. He could predict that. And Torcha, well, she was Torcha. Unpredictable, but now bound to him in that strange and disarming way. “I suppose I’ll just stay out here, then.” Adal’s voice came through the hatch. “With the lizard.” Well, four of the five of them were comfortable. And four out of five wasn’t bad. End of Book One. << Chapter 68 \| To Be Continued >> If you enjoyed the first volume of Into the Mire, please consider giving us your vote on TopWebFiction! Posted on July 3, 2019 by Casey LucasPosted in Chapters2 Comments	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8287
__label__cc	0.505982	0.494018	Kim fined in Korea matter involving K.Y. Cha The Los Angeles Times reported: The Seoul Central District Court found that Dr. Jeong-Hwan Kim had damaged the reputation of Kwang Yul Cha, a fertility doctor and chancellor of a South Korean university with ties to Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center. Kim was fined $750. The decision was reached in July 2008. The Times stated: The court found Kim guilty on July 9, 2008. The documents related to the case were released by Cha this week. In a written statement, he referred to the verdict as "vindication." Kim could not be reached for comment. Kim will have to pay a fine of 1 million South Korean won, which amounts to about $750. Cha is the chancellor of the Medical School at South Korea's Pochon CHA University. A branch of the university owns Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center. Cha had sued California doctor Bruce Flamm over an op-ed written by Flamm which, in part, related to the Cha/Kim publication matter. Cha lost at trial. **UPDATE. Comment to californiastemcellreport on 10 April 09 --> The oblique reference to the Cha / Flamm matter is informative to the matter at hand. Flamm's primary concern was with one article co-authored by Cha which involved the impact of prayer on pregnancies through IVF. The Journal of Reproductive Medicine (JRM), which published the study (K.Y. Cha, D.P. Wirth, and R.A. Lobo, "Does prayer influence the success of in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer?" 46:781-787, 2001), not only refused to publish letters critical of it, they refused to even acknowledge their receipt. As months went by the JRM steadfastly refused to respond to e-mails, calls, or letters about the study. Wirth later went to federal prison [on an unrelated matter] and Lobo denied significant involvement in the JRM paper, but the paper remained, unretracted. Flamm got into trouble with Cha primarily for a remark about a DIFFERENT paper co-authored by Cha. See for example http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/2006/04/more-on-bengu-sezen-rogerio-lobo-re.html The better policy, as David Jensen suggests, is one of open discussion of issues. When dialog is suppressed, one wonders "why." As an aside, the '639 patent litigation illustrates how much money can be wasted when a simple error is not corrected. posted by Lawrence B. Ebert at 10:05 PM Oprah Winfrey's Harpo sued for patent infringement... Should creative patent attorneys be fired? KSR Grinch steals Sundance's Christmas Ricoh wins (partial) remand over Quanta at CAFC, w... Dr. Reddy's settles with Schering over Clarinex Pittsburgh newspaper laments CAFC Bilski decision In re Wheeler on anticipation, scope of review of ... Classen Immunotherapies smoked via Bilski Derivative plagiarism in New Zealand; humor Titan QB Vince Young sues over trademark rights in...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8290
__label__wiki	0.528111	0.528111	2017 Annual Awards Gala Remarks: Carrie Lukas as delivered by IWF President Carrie Lukas Independent Women's Forum 2017 Annual Awards Dinner Carrie Lukas: Tammy, thank you for that kind introduction, and thank you all for coming here tonight. In 1991, during the fury surrounding the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, the media regularly turned to groups like NOW to speak for women. The media seemed to believe that women from such radical, liberal groups perfectly reflected the views of the majority of American women. But there were some women who knew that wasn't true. They knew there were a lot of women—women like them—who had different priorities. Women who want a federal government focused on its core mission of protecting the country and executing the laws. Women who want government to get out of the way of American innovators and workers so our economy can grow and everyone can have more opportunity. Women who know that healthy families and communities are the best safety net, and that men and women aren't competitors but partners and allies. Women who know that all issues are women’s issues. These women came together in 1992 to create Independent Women's Forum. Now, 25 years later, IWF is still proudly working to fulfill their vision and give women who reject the left’s radical, victim-mentality a home. Today, IWF is playing a leading role in expanding the freedom movement by reaching new audiences and offering our positive vision for women and the country. We are changing the conservative brand by showing people that we are the team with ideas that really do help women We are the ones that are promoting reforms that will truly help people who are struggling to lead more flourishing lives. It's not the left, but those of us on the right who truly believe in women's equality. I am so proud of the work IWF is doing today, and I'd like to take a moment to recognize women who have contributed to building this organization over the years. Women like Ricki Silberman, Barbara Olson, Lynne Cheney, Anita Blair, Wendy Gramm, Elaine Chao, Barbara Ledeen, Kate O'Beirne, Heather Higgins, Elizabeth Lurie, Laura Ingram, Grace Terzian, Karlyn Bowman, Louise Oliver, Danielle Frum, Sally Satel, Charlotte Hays, Charmaine Yoest, Christine Rosen, Nancy Pfotenhauer, Mary Arnold, Christina Hoff Sommers, Kim Dennis, Randy Kendrick, Nicki Neily, Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Sabrina Schaeffer, Midge Decter, Sally Pipes and many more. Today, IWF has the privilege of being the home to many leading conservative women thinkers and our media presence continues to grow. We also collaborate with many friends across the freedom movement and I see many of those allies in this room tonight. I sincerely thank you all for your support of IWF over the years. None of our work would be possible without financial supporters, most notably: the Diana Davis Spencer Foundation, the Bradley Foundation, the Sarah Scaife Foundation, and several foundations and individuals who wish to remain anonymous – and for members of the press who are here, no, that doesn't mean the Kochs – all of whom are we very much appreciate. I’d also like to take a moment to thank our generous Gala sponsors, particularly our Platinum Sponsors, including: The Ariel Corporation, Lisa Gable and Annie Dickerson, Hendricks Holding Company, J.P. Humphries Foundation, Lewis Topper, Walton Family Foundation, and Dick and Mary Beth Weiss. Finally, a big thank you to our wonderful board members: Evonne Boice, Giovanna Cug- nasca, Nan Hayworth, Larry Kudlow, Adele Malpass, Abby Moffat, Myles Paul-in, and Michaelon Wright for your tremendous dedication to IWF’s work and success. And most especially thank you to our Chairman Heather Higgins, for your exceptional wisdom, loyalty, and leadership . IWF isn't just about outreach and making our case to the public. We are also working closely with leaders here in Washington to help identify and craft positive policy reform. We are thrilled to have many of our allies in this room tonight, including friends from the White House, Treasury Department, Federal Reserve, SEC, EPA and others. IWF is also privileged to work with conservative leaders on Capitol Hill some of whom are here tonight. Please stand when I say your name so we can recognizing you: Congressman Gary Palmer, Ken Buck , Claudia Tenney, Bill Flores, Keith Rothfus, Ron Desantis, John Faso , Mike Gallager, Lee Zeldon, Warren Davidson, Andy Barr, Ann Wagner, and Speaker Paul Ryan will be joining us shortly We thank you for coming, and for your leadership and your support on Capitol Hill. And finally, before we get to dinner, putting on a dinner like this is a big undertaking, and I want to thank all of IWF's remendous, hardworking staff for all of their hard work tonight, and particularly a big thank you to IWF's Executive Vice President Amber Schwartz and Ashley Carter for making this dinner possible. Now to close, I‘d like to make a toast. If you would each please raise your champagne flute – that flute is our gift to you to take home tonight by the way – cheers to our outstanding honorees, to all of you in this room, and to IWF's first 25 years! Here’s to the next 25! Cheers! Now please enjoy your dinner and conversation and we will reconvene shortly for the rest of the program. Thank you	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8293
__label__cc	0.67027	0.32973	Artists Meredith Drum, Rachel Stevens and Phoenix Toews are collaborating on Oyster City. Meredith Drum makes interactive documentaries about pollution governance and environmental justice and she is leading our outreach to the Urban Assembly New York Harbor School and other members of the Oyster Restoration Research Partnership. Rachel Stevens teaches graduate seminars on Nonlinear Storytelling and Psychogeography in a documentary oriented MFA program at Hunter College in NYC and recently participated in the Visible Evidence documentary conference. Phoenix Toews developed the augmented reality browser software Palimpsest in the interest of creating socially mediated narratives and experiences contextualized by geographic location and the physical environment. He has also worked on numerous creative projects incorporating sound, live and recorded video, computer/human interaction, installation and theatrical performance. Session Title: Oyster City Oyster City is an eco-psychogeography, augmented reality adventure game (in progress) featuring the rise and fall and rise of oysters in New York City and its surrounding estuaries. Our presentation will address how notions and forms of documentary are changed by embedding them in space and place and how storytelling design and user experience must be reconsidered when narrative is situated, embodied, mobile and mediated with proprietary technologies. We will share challenges in designing for an ever-changing, vibrant urban environment with imperfect GPS signals while maintaining our vision of making something experiential yet informational and historical yet relevant to communities of the present. When Henry Hudson sailed into the bay in 1609, 350 square miles of wild oyster beds surrounded Manhattan and adjacent islands. NYC became the world’s largest producer of oysters until industrial pollution and over harvesting depleted the oyster population in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Colorful lore detailing how oysters were cultivated, monetized, distributed, prepared and consumed reveals interconnections between ecological, social and economic systems. Recent interest in planting oyster reefs is playing a role in the regeneration of shoreline ecosystems and water quality. For Oyster City, sites in NYC are being populated with AR elements enabling participants to learn and play as they interact with their immediate environment. Oyster City is being made with Palimpsest, original software developed by Phoenix Toews. Palimpsest enables not only GPS placement of text, images and sounds, but also touch, orientation, and movement events, allowing the participant to act as a performer as well as a viewer. A fully functional beta, Palimpsest currently works on iPhone 4/4S, and iPad 2 with 3G. The framework will be released as an open-source project. Oyster City was presented at Mobility Shifts: International Future of Learning Summit at The New School in NYC. Preview images can be found here (by midnight 11/28/11 NYC time): http://oystercity.org/preview/	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8300
__label__cc	0.530734	0.469266	Noticias de Español The High Moral Price of Our Nation's Broken Immigration Policy Friday, Jul. 05, 2019 Edition Catholics from throughout Utah gather to encounter Christ + Enlarge Father Juan Rivas leads a prayer with more than 300 Catholic children who, with their parents, attended the Charismatic Encounter that took place March 21-22 in West Valley City. IC photo/Laura Vallejo By Laura Vallejo WEST VALLEY CITY— Nearly 2,000 Catholics from all over the Diocese of Salt Lake City gathered at Granger High School to celebrate a two-day Healing Encounter. “Families Freed by Jesus’ Sores” [Familias liberadas por las llagas de Jesus] was organized by the diocesan Renovation Charismatic Group with the help of the diocese’s Hispanic Ministry. The encounter offered music, reflection, prayer and worship. Participating priests were Father José Barrera, parochial vicar of the Cathedral of the Madeleine and spiritual advisor of the diocesan Charismatic group; Father Alexandre Paciolli, from Brazil, who is in charge of the apostolate Pilgrim Queen of the Family; Father Teo Dirk Kranz, from Bogota, who specializes in exorcisms; and Father Juan Rivas, an evangelizer and preacher from Los Angeles, but originally from Guadalajara, Mexico, and part of the Legionarios de Cristo. “This encounter is very special. There is a lot of need in our Hispanic community; we hope that we can have better families, better parents, better children,” said Salvador Bautista, coordinator of the diocesan Charismatic group. The importance of the encounter was reflected in the fact that the participants were there as families, and there were activities and talks focused on each group, Bautista said. “When all the families participate together, they all hear the information, they hear the same, they share the same and that helps them to communicate better and understand the Bible better,” said Bautista. While in the school auditorium the priests were presenting talks to the adults, outside the children were supervised by dozens of volunteers while they played in bounce houses, attended plays, had snacks, prayed together with Fr. Rivas and had many other kid-friendly activities. Rosa Ortiz was part of the group that helped with more than 300 kids. “We help the parents with their kids and at the same time we are evangelizing the kids with fun activities and being able to teach messages from the Bible through having fun,” said Ortiz. Meanwhile the parents and other adults listened to talks on themes such as Mary at the Cross, breaking curses from the past, hell does exist, the Eucharist is the food of our bodies, and the importance of healing our hearts, among others. “These type of events are very important because people realize the necessities that they have,” said Lucero Muñoz, a lay ecclesiastic minister, adding that she was very excited for all the work that the Charismatic group is doing with this events. “All the priests are great; hearing them has reminded people of our commitment as Catholics. For example, Fr. Teo said that we need to renew our faith every day, and sometimes we forget,” said Muñoz. Remembering the words of one of the talks given by Fr. Rivas, who said that people should be aware that the Virgin is not God, she is only an intercessor, Muñoz said that “when we as Catholics don’t have a good formation is very easy that we get distracted by others. Here we are learning about our Church.” As the talks from the priest were happening hundreds were in line waiting for the Sacrament of Reconciliation. “With the confessions and the talks, we can all free ourselves and welcome Jesus in our hearts,” Bautista said. Diocese of Salt Lake City Website Utah Catholic Schools Catholic Business Network For questions, comments or to report inaccuracies on the website, please CLICK HERE. © Copyright 2019 The Diocese of Salt Lake City. All rights reserved.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8303
__label__cc	0.714107	0.285893	barrow, william c. (3) associated photographers (1) thomas, james (1) young, c. b. (1) 3.5 x 5 in. (1) 768 pixels by 1024 pixels (1) 9.5 x 7.5 inches (1) cleveland union terminal (6) big creek (3) bridges, arch (3) bridges, concrete (3) cleveland zoo (3) fulton rd. (3) fulton rd. bridge (3) fulton road bridge (cleveland, ohio) (3) spencer, white & prentis co. (2) Description: Constructing Constructing railroad spur at Patterson-Sargent plant on Hamilton Avenue Patterson-Sargent Co.; Paint industry; Industrial facilities; Warehouses; Hamilton Ave. (Cleveland, Ohio) Constructing railroad spur at Patterson-Sargent plant on Hamilton Avenue. Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co. manhole construction Cleveland Union Terminal; West approach; Walworth Run Constructing manhole for CEI at the south end of the East Ohio Gas Co. pipeline Tunnel. 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__label__wiki	0.647547	0.647547	landrew42 \| October 9, 2012 Fairest of the Fair 2012: Andy Van Schyndle’s Warm Surrealism My partner and I have a longstanding theory about the relationship between certain towns and the Powers Controlling Weather. The towns make bargains–trade safety against blizzards, fires, tornadoes, and the like–to guarantee one weekend’s weather per year will have soulsucking beauty of a sort that inspires immediate relocations. Harvard and the city of Cambridge, MA team up for atmospheric perfection during the April Pre-Frosh visit, when students sought by the best schools in the country get their first of many experiences being wooed by the already-privileged. Pasadena, CA ensures that the New Year’s Rose Bowl Parade will show its world of visitors that yes indeed, southern California is the only place worth being in the dead of winter. And Louisville, KY is in hock to somebody for having just had another utterly gorgeous weekend, well-timed rain included, for the St. James Art Fair, Oct. 5 -7, 2012. The event happened mere steps from both my front and back doors. I survived the weekend eating cinnamon-sugary nuts and glistening “butterfly” fries (basically homemade potato chips… last reference to potatoes for awhile, I promise). Other than calories, the spoils include the five six-foot rugs now lining our apartment’s hallway, which would be long enough to merit a reference to House of Leaves if I had actually read it. The rugs are made out of men’s old socks. There’s something to be said about the fibers beneath my feet having tales to tell, tales of toes, of calluses, and of the unspeakable corners of far-traveling shoes. There’s even more to be said about the prints we’ve picked up from Andy Van Schyndle, a.k.a. Wagalabagala. Mr. Van Schyndle has earned my closest attention and highest praise for both of the two years we’ve attended St. James. He also has the honor of being the St. James Fair artist on whom we’ve spent the most money, with a total of eight Van Schyndle prints now in our collection. Because his website reminds me of some but not all the works’ titles, I can tell you that from last year, we have “Forest Encounter II,” “Forest Encounter III,” “Where the Cows Go,” and the one with all the barnyard animals getting together to watch a movie that evokes Roger Corman’s Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957–an allusion Van Schyndle says was not deliberate). As soon as I get frames, four more will join the wall collection: “Light My Way Home Little Acorn Lantern,” “Gateway,” “In the Gorge of the Giants,” and Van Schyndle’s latest, “PuppetTree.” “Forest Encounter III” got me first. At center, a boy and girl sit with old-fashioned joysticks, transfixed by the glowing space invaders on the tiny screen before them. Surrounding them, trees and blackness loom, concealing myriad eyes watching the children, who are themselves invaders in this dark, secret locale.I’ve already described the one whose title I don’t know, but I neglected to mention that robots and animals seem to enjoy the sci-fi B-movie equally as they perch among the drive-in’s automobiles. Whether it’s a puppet show staged in a tree (“PuppetTree”) or a telescope poised to plumb night’s depths (“Gateway”), each of these paintings situates technological media and performance in a fantastic setting. “Forest Encounter III” made me realize that alone, in the night, in the woods is the best way to experience classic Atari games. It’s a condition of childhood wonder. Instead of media squashing the imagination, as the pundits would have us believe, the imagination absorbs the media, folding them into a dreamscape made richer and truer to our lives by the inclusion of the tools we use, artistic and otherwise, to extend our experiences. If you haven’t already, now would be a good time to look at Van Schyndle’s site. When I look at the majority of those paintings, I see several feats that border on the miraculous. First is the use of color, particularly primaries. In “In the Gorge of the Giants,” it’s the red-orange sunset in the background, dazzling night coming to the already-cloaked, animistic Japanese village. In “PuppetTree,” perhaps most spectacularly, it’s the glowing purple, red, and yellow-green lanterns that make the bark-framed puppet show visible to the child and animal onlookers. In “Light My Way Home Little Acorn Lantern,” the narrow shafts of blue and red light on a windmill look like an omnipotent future at the outskirts of a tree-city’s omniscient past. At first glance, any of these paintings might look like a nightmare, with animals and small children dwarfed by strange creatures and living landscapes that could swallow them. But these flashes of amazing color carry the compositions to cozier pleasures, offering light and warmth, the brighter and warmer for their availability in darkness. Second is what this light and warmth do for efforts to compare Van Schyndle’s style to others’. For me, the most obvious comparison is Salvador Dali, who distorts figures with a similarly colorful sensibility. But while Dali’s subjects are angst-ridden ants and genes and clocks and elephants and eggs, Van Schyndle’s are unpretentious dogs and cows and frogs that seem happy in their surreal worlds. Van Schyndle’s creatures are humble, and they are middle America. I overheard another visitor at the Wagalabagala tent calling the work “too Tim Burton-y.” I see the comparison, carnivalesque intensity, gothic foundations, but Burton is mad where Van Schyndle is serene; Burton is shrill where Van Schyndle is harmonious. Van Schyndle lacks the overt religious and philosophical contemplation that marks Dali’s most critically-hallowed works, and he lacks the droll gloom captured so well when Burton works with Johnny Depp. Instead, Van Schyndle offers a vision of reconciling the tools of our modern imaginations with imaginations that refuse to acknowledge time. His tools could make us feel right at home in the dark woods, a little less dark for the glow of our TV screens. Category: Film and Media \|	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8310
__label__cc	0.570325	0.429675	Lebanon POW: 4 – 10 July pow.photos - 7/10/2019 8:12:29 PM - GMT (+2 ) Whatever you do, do with determination. You have one life to live; do your work with passion and give your best. Whether you want to be a chef, doctor, actor, or a mother, be passionate to get the best result. A child poses for a picture with an M2 Browning machine gun at the end of an army drill “A Day with the Nation” where Lebanese army units showed their capabilities in front of hundreds of civilians, in Jounieh, Lebanon. (Marwan Naamani / DPA) Children take part in activities during the Child Rights Festival in Beirut, Lebanon. (Bilal Jawich / Xinhua) People enjoy beer at the Beirut International Beer Event (BIBE) in Beirut, Lebanon. (Bilal Jawich / Xinhua) Supporters of the ‘Jinsiyati Karamati’ (My Nationality, My Dignity) movement carry national flags and shout slogans during a protest against the naturalization decree in front of the government palace in Beirut, Lebanon. (NABIL MOUNZER / EPA) A protester with a sign “No to the incinerator of death” during a protest against the government plan to install waste incinerators in Beirut, Lebanon. (Marwan Tahtah / Al – Akhbar) An archaeologist uses a brush to uncover the remains of two skulls at a site in Saida, in southern Lebanon. (Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP) Activists hold banners and a poster featuring the portrait of Beirut’s Mayor Jamal Itani, during a rally against the installation of waste incinerators in the capital, outside the municipality of Beirut, Lebanon. (JOSEPH EID / AFP) An Israeli soldier in a tunnel dug by Hezbollah, near the Israeli moshav of Zar’it at the Israeli border with Lebanon. (ATEF SAFADI / EPA) Protesters carry the national flag as they head into a protest against the government plan to install waste incinerators in Beirut, Lebanon. (WAEL HAMZEH / EPA) Singer Marcel Khalife performs on stage at the opening night of the annual Baalbeck International Festival (BIF) in Baalbeck, Beqaa Valley, Lebanon. (WAEL HAMZEH / EPA) Lebanese navy displays a 22-Damour landing craft during a festival for the Lebanese army under the name ‘A Day with the Homeland’ at the Jounieh International Festivals in Jounieh, north of Beirut, Lebanon. (NABIL MOUNZER / EPA) Adnan Al-Amoudi, fruit juices vendor, stands on the pavement opposite to the entrance of Rashid Karami exhibition in Tripoli, north of Lebanon. (Nabil Mounzer / EPA) Araya A. Hargate presents a wedding dress creation by designer Georges Hobeika as part of his Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2019/20 collection show in Paris, France. (Charles Platiau / Reuters)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8314
__label__wiki	0.915435	0.915435	Spennymoor Town 2-1 Tunbridge Wells - We gave it everything on a day to remember, says Jason Bourne Saturday 04th May 2013 SPENNYMOOR TOWN 2-1 TUNBRIDGE WELLS The FA Carlsberg Vase Final Stephen McCartney reports from Wembley Stadium TUNBRIDGE WELLS manager Martin Larkin spoke of his immense pride and heartbreak after his brave side picked up runners-up medals following to a standing ovation their first ever FA Carlsberg Vase Final. The Northern League extended their Wembley dominance of the competition to five-years after Spennymoor Town collected the silverware in their first visit, in front of 16,751 fans at a sun-kissed Wembley Stadium. Spennymoor arrived in London sitting in second place in the Northern League with only three league defeats from their 41 league games, 22 points adrift of champions Darlington. The County Durham outfit opened the scoring with their first opening when striker Gavin Gogdon headed home inside seventeen minutes. But around 12,000 fans that made the short trip from Kent raised the roof when winger Josh Stanford, 22, rifled a right-footed shot into the net with only thirteen minutes left. But big-spending Spennymoor ensured it was to be a heartbreaking defeat when man-of-the-match Keith Graydon smashed home the winner just 159 seconds later. “We’re very proud of it and proud of the players and proud of the fans’ that got involved,” said Larkin, 32, afterwards. “They’re a better side than us. We knew that and we had to go on and make sure that we played and competed and we did that for very long periods of the game, but when it mattered they stepped up at the end and got their winner and full credit to them. “I don’t want people to think it was a one-sided game. We had our time and we defended well and it just wasn’t to be unfortunately.” Tunbridge Wells skipper, Jason Bourne, 32, was proud to lead out his home-town club on it’s greatest ever day. He said: “Extremely proud! The turnout was unbelievable! We knew how many people it was going to be, but to see it with your own eyes and the noise they made, everything, it was such a proud moment. “It was everything I thought it was going to be and more – unfortunately the result didn’t quite go our way.” Reflecting on the team’s arrival on the lush playing surface in front of an empty stadium and leading the side out on to the pitch just before kick-off, Bourne said: “It was brilliant! We got here to an empty stadium. That was unbelievable! We knew everyone was nice and calm and composed, which is everything that you would’ve wanted but then we came in and got dressed and when we came out for a warm-up it was starting to fill up. “I’ve got my two children (leading the side out) with me, which makes it an even more prouder for me. To have my two children and share that experience with them was brilliant. It was everything I wanted so we can take that away from it, if nothing else.” Tunbridge Wells were not overawed by the big occasion and Andy McMath – who is emigrating to Australia in a few weeks’ time - cracked a right-footed shot sailing over the bar from 25-yards after only 19 seconds. A better chance for the red-shirted heroes arrived when McMath swung in a corner from the right and Perry Spackman rose to glance his header into Robert Dean’s arms as the ball was destined to sail into the corner. A run from Stanford resulted in Andy Irvine – who has scored seven goals during their FA Vase campaign – heading down and wide of the far post from inside the six-yard box. But Spennymoor grabbed the lead inside the opening seventeen minutes – right in front of the thousands of Kentish supporters. Spennymoor left-back Stephen Capper was allowed to reach the by-line before floating over a cross, which wasn’t cleared well by Stanford inside the box and Joe Walton touched the ball to Graydon, who floated his cross back into the middle and the unmarked Gogdon headed the ball across goalkeeper Chris Oladogba into the far corner from ten-yards. Larkin said: “I thought we let their left-winger run a little bit too far with the ball and we haven’t cleared our lines properly but the 10 (Gogdon) is unbelievable and he’s found some space between Perry (Spackman) and Scott (Whibley) and it was a really good ball in the cross. Apart from stopping the run early on, it’s pretty much undefendable.” Spennymoor winger Walton cut the ball back to striker Mark Davison, whose left-footed curler from 20-yards sailed wide of the far post, past the outstretched right arm of the diving Oladogba. Davison then flicked a pass to put Gogdon through on goal but Tunbridge Wells’ 28-year-old keeper Oladogba made a brave save at the striker’s feet inside his six-yard box. Good industry from Tunbridge Wells’ winger Jon Pilbeam down the right set up their best chance in the 25th minute, but McMath’s right-footed curler from 25-yards brought a comfortable save from Dean. Larkin added: “I thought Macca could’ve struck it rather than trying to curl it. He got it on target and that’s all we ask him. They were good decent chances, half-chances. Not proper one-on-one stuff that we wanted but it was decent.” A dangerous run from Wayne Phillips saw him reach the left by-line and he floated over a cross towards the far post where Wells’ left-back Lewis Mingle rose with Davison and the ball clipped the top of the far post. A long ball out of defence from Spennymoor right-back Kallum Griffiths was latched onto by Davison, who beat the offside trap, and he was denied by a flying save from Oladogba, who dived full length to his right to tip the right-footed drive from 25-yards around the post. When asked what he said to his troops during the half-time interval, Larkin said: “We told them to be brave and get on the ball because we weren’t getting on the ball. We were a little bit too direct. We wanted to get the ball down and play and give us an opportunity to win the game – and we did that because we got it down and played. “Tom Davey got on the ball for us. Josh (Stanford) got on the ball for us and we got an equaliser so it was working, but we just couldn’t hold out until full-time.” Bourne revealed an inspirational half-time team talk from assistant manager Brad Sandeman raised the troops. The right-back said: “Brad pretty much said ‘look, this is Wembley boys, we’ve got to get the ball down and play’, because we was a little bit too direct for my liking. “Second half I thought we got the ball down a lot better, caused them a lot more problems, got into the wide players well and we sort of established ourselves in the game.” Oladogba, a firm fans’ favourite at Culverden Stadium, kept his side in the game eight minutes into the second half, when he dived high to his left to push Gogdon’s right-footed shot on the turn over the crossbar. Then, a flicked pass from Graydon gave Davison another chance, but his weak shot across goal was easily gathered by the busy Tunbridge Wells keeper, low to his left to prevent the ball nestling into the bottom far corner. Larkin made a double substitution just before the hour-mark, bringing on central midfielder Tom Davey and highly-rated 19-year-old striker Jack Harris. This appeared to galvanise the seventh-placed Kent Hurlimann Football Leaguers as they took the game to their opponents. Davey clipped a free-kick into the penalty area for Spackman to come up from the back to stick out a leg to prevent the ball sailing behind for a goal-kick – chipping the ball back across goal and Dean was forced to tip the ball over as it dropped. McMath swung in the resulting corner from the left and Spackman made space for himself but the 29-year-old planted his header agonisingly wide of the far post. Spackman almost dug his side in a hole when his back-pass was picked up by Oladogba and referee Michael Naylor awarded Spennymoor an indirect free-kick a yard inside the penalty area. Gogdon touched the ball to Graydon, whose right-footed drive sailed harmlessly high and wide of the far post. Spennymoor’s front two linked up well together during the game and Gogdon laid the ball off to Davison, whose right-footed chip from 20-yards was caught by Olagodba. Spennymoor then linked up well down the left with a slick three-man move and the ball was played inside to Graydon who clipped his cross into the box for Davison to glance his header narrowly wide of the far post. A ball from Davey found Mingle in acres of space and the Tunbridge Wells left-back cracked a speculative right-footed drive from 35-yards sailed over the crossbar and dropped into the second row of seating behind the goal. But Tunbridge Wells grabbed a lifeline when Stanford netted his ninth goal of the season and the most memorable of his life. Bourne joined an attack and was given time to whip in a right-footed cross into the penalty area and Dean punched the ball away and the ball dropped down on to Stanford’s right-foot, who cracked a stunning volley which sailed into the roof of the net. Larkin was delighted that everyone that made the pilgrimage could savour such a moment – and Stanford can tell his grandchildren that he’s scored a goal at Wembley Stadium to join the greats that have graced this Stadium! Larkin said: “Not just Josh, it was the whole club. The noise was fantastic and he took it really well. “I’ve said in there (the dressing room) what did it feel like? He said he can’t describe it because of the noise. It was good. It was good, but we would’ve preferred to have gone on longer afterwards without conceding.” When asked how he was felling at the time of their equaliser, the Tunbridge Wells boss replied, “We deserved it I think! We did! They’re an exceptional side but we defended well. They had a lot of the ball, which we knew they were going to have and when our chance came we took it. “That’s what we’ve done all the way through the run so it was a deserved goal.” Bourne added: “The noise was unreal when the goal went in! It lifted the roof off – even if there was sixteen thousand or thirty thousand here it was unbelievable noise. To do it for those guys, everyone who came along. Hopefully we gave them their money’s worth and a day to remember! “That’s why everyone wanted to come here for. They wanted to come here to win something special. Although we couldn’t win it, it was nice to nick a goal. The place went wide, the place went absolutely wild!” However, joy swiftly turned to heartbreaking despair when Spennymoor Town dashed Tunbridge Wells’ aspirations to join Tommy Sampson’s 2000 Deal Town side as Wembley Winners, with the decisive goal. Griffiths picked the ball up and sprinted into the penalty area and faced with a three-man red wall in front of him his initial shot was blocked but he cut the ball back to the edge of the box for Graydon to lash his shot beyond Oladogba into the back of the net. Larkin said: “Unfortunately the ball bobbled along and the guy hit a half-volley on the edge of the box and nine times out of ten in the Kent League that ball goes out of the ground, whereas this is the highest level and he’s put it in the back of the net!” Sadly that proved to be the killer blow and Jason Ainsley’s side played out the rest of the game comfortably. But despite the tears, Tunbridge Wells can be proud of their achievements this year, of winning the Kent Senior Trophy and reaching a Wembley Final. Larkin said: “That’s the highest level that we can play at, at Step five so it was heartbreaking, but we’ve got to use it as a stepping stone. “We’re very proud. The whole town was buzzing today. The trains were good fun and we have to get them back to our own ground to watch us because we’re a good side and hopefully people will want to come and watch us at our ground.” When asked what he will remember the most from today, Larkin said: “Personally, leading them out and looking right and seeing the crowd! It was just an unbelievable experience. Unfortunately it wasn’t to be. “It’s a great day for the club. It’s reward for everyone that’s worked hard to get us to this point, but now the message has to be a springboard now. We’ve got to kick on and take it to the next level.” Larkin added: “Back to the Kent League to win it next season. Simple as that!” Unfortunately the amateur side – with big hearts – cannot topple the Northern League’s dominance of the competition in the past five years. Spennymoor join Whitley Bay (2009, 2010, 2011) and Dunston UTS – last years’ holders who lost their grasp on the silverware at Culverden Stadium in the fourth round back in February - as successful sides from the North East. When asked how he was feeling at the final whistle, Bourne replied, “First emotion was obviously disappointment. The second emotion was how proud I was of the boys. They gave everything and that’s all you can ask them. “The over-riding emotion is just being proud. Proud for my friends and family that have come here. It’s a mixture of disappointment but once the dust settles, we’ll know what it’s all about but overriding emotion is definitely pride. “That’s football. Somebody has to win and somebody has to lose. Unfortunately it was us that came off the wrong end of it but these days don’t come around very often. “We’re not happy just to come here for a day out, but equally if the result doesn’t go your way at least we’ve had this experience and you’re given something to the whole town.” Tunbridge Wells’ faithful can give their side a heroes' reception when they return to Culverden Stadium to play managerless Canterbury City on Monday afternoon, before ending their Kent League campaign at home to Corinthian on 13 May. Bourne said: “Hopefully now this is something that the club can transfer on to the terracing week in, week out and give us a real stable financial foothold for the future. “It’s back to the bread and butter. It’s going to be a sobering experience, Canterbury at home on Monday, but one that we’re going to rise to. “I’m sure that we’ll have a very good turnout to welcome us home to the Culverden. I’m not sure that there will be over sixteen thousand there. We love everyone that comes to support us. There’s a hard core between 170-200, who come week in, week out. We really wanted to do it for them. If the club can establish a platform from there it would be unbelievable!” Spennymoor Town: Robert Dean, Kallum Griffiths, Chris Mason, Lewis Dodds, Leon Ryan, Stephen Capper, Joe Walton (Andrew Stephenson 73), Keith Graydon, Mark Davison (Michael Rae 75), Gavin Gogdon, Wayne Phillips (Anthony Peacock 64). Subs: Steven Richardson, David Knight Goals: Gavin Gogdon 17, Kevin Graydon 80 Booked: Lewis Dodds 84 Tunbridge Wells: Chris Oladogba, Jason Bourne, Lewis Mingle, Joe Fuller (Tom Davey 58), Scott Whibley, Perry Spackman, Jon Pilbeam (Richard Sinden 85), Andy McMath, Andy Irvine, Carl Cornell (Jack Harris 57), Josh Stanford. Subs: Andy Boyle, RMichal Czanner Goal: Josh Stanford 77 Booked: Perry Spackman 66, Tom Davey 77 Referee: Mr Michael Naylor (Sheffield & Hallamshire FA) Assistants: Mr Ian Hussin (Liverpool FA) & Mr Dan Robathan (Bedfordshire FA) Fourth Official: Mr Stephen Martin (Staffordshire FA)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8322
__label__cc	0.704392	0.295608	Organic carbon stocks in urban ecosystems By editor July 5, 2015 Kevin Gaston Edmondson, J. L., Stott, I., Potter, J., Lopez-Capel, E., Manning, D.A.C., Gaston, K.J. & Leake, J. R. (2015) Black Carbon Contribution to Organic Carbon Stocks in Urban Soil. Environmental Science… Tree management for urban sustainability McHugh, N., Edmondson, J.L., Gaston, K.J., Leake, J.R. & O’Sullivan, O.S. (2015) Modelling short-rotation coppice and tree planting for urban carbon management – a city-wide analysis. Journal of Applied Ecology… Light pollution in Marine Protected Areas By editor July 5, 2015 Animals, Artificial lighting, Ecolight, Kevin Gaston, Macroecological, Mitigation, Satellite data Davies, T.W., Duffy, J.P., Bennie, J. & Gaston, K.J. (2015) Stemming the tide of light pollution encroaching into Marine Protected Areas. Conservation Letters, DOI: 10.1111/conl.12191. Many marine ecosystems are shaped… Urban songbirds, nest predation and ecological traps Bonnington, C., Gaston, K.J. & Evans, K.L. (2015) Ecological traps and behavioural adjustments of urban songbirds to fine-scale spatial variation in predator activity. Animal Conservation, DOI: 10.1111/acv.12206. The influence of… Dose-response modelling for urban nature Shanahan, D.F., Fuller, R.A., Bush, R., Lin, B.B. & Gaston, K.J. (2015) The Health Benefits of Urban Nature: How Much Do We Need? BioScience 65 (5), 476-485. Over 30 years of research… Resource availability and bacteriophage resistance Gómez P., Bennie J., Gaston K.J. & Buckling A. (2015) The Impact of Resource Availability on Bacterial Resistance to Phages in Soil. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0123752. Resource availability can affect… Streetlights and bat conservation By editor July 5, 2015 Animals, Artificial lighting, Ecolight, Fine scale measurement of lighting, Kevin Gaston, Mitigation, Street lighting, Temporal Day, J., Baker, J., Schofield, H., Mathews, F. & Gaston, K.J. (2015) Part-night lighting: implications for bat conservation. Animal Conservation, DOI: 10.1111/acv.12200. Artificial nighttime lighting has many effects on biodiversity.… Genetic adaptation to changing thermal environments Porcelli, D., Butlin, R.K., Gaston, K.J., Joly, D. & Snook, R.R. (2015) The environmental genomics of metazoan thermal adaptation. Heredity 114, 502–514. Continued and accelerating change in the thermal environment places an… Artificial light in Protected Areas By editor July 5, 2015 Artificial lighting, Ecolight, Kevin Gaston, Macroecological, Mitigation, Satellite data, Skyglow Gaston, K.J., Duffy, J.P. & Bennie, J. (2015) Quantifying the erosion of natural darkness in the global protected area system. Conservation Biology 29(4), 1132-41. The nighttime light environment of much… Historical landcover and urban ecosystem services Dallimer, M., Davies, Z.G., Diaz-Porras, D.F., Irvine, K.N., Maltby, L., Warren, P.H., Armsworth, P.R. & Gaston, K.J. (2015) Historical influences on the current provision of multiple ecosystem services. Global Environmental…	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8323
__label__wiki	0.786893	0.786893	Stories tagged with: andrew brunson Brunson: 'Tsunami of prayer' from Turkish prison by Diana Chandler, posted Thursday, May 02, 2019 (2 months ago) Photo by John Phillips WASHINGTON (BP) -- God birthed a tsunami of prayer through the imprisonment of pastor Andrew Brunson in a Turkish prison because of his faith, the pastor told hundreds of leaders gathered at a pre-National Day of Prayer dinner in Washington May 1. "I like to say I rode a wave of prayer out of Turkey at the right time, when God had finished what He wanted to accomplish through my imprisonment," said Brunson, who faced life imprisonment before his release in October, 2018, after two years' confinement. Read More Pastors' Conf.: MacDonald out, Andrew Brunson added by David Roach, posted Tuesday, December 18, 2018 (7 months ago) BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) -- Chicago pastor James MacDonald has withdrawn from his speaking slot at the 2019 Southern Baptist Convention Pastors' Conference in Birmingham, Ala., conference president Danny Wood announced Dec. 17. Meanwhile, Andrew Brunson, the American pastor released this fall from imprisonment in Turkey, has been added to the June 9-10 lineup of speakers, the Pastors' Conference announced in late November. Brunson will preach from Matthew 5:10 -- "Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for the kingdom of heaven is theirs." Wood said via Twitter that MacDonald, pastor of Harvest Bible Chapel in Chicago, "contacted me personally to say he is stepping away from all outside speaking engagements for a season (including Pastors Conference 2019). Thankful for this brother, and he has my prayers as he focuses upon his own local church ministry." Read More 'Pour out Your Holy Spirit on … Trump,' Brunson prays by Diana Chandler, posted Monday, October 15, 2018 (9 months ago) Screen capture from Global News WASHINGTON (BP) -- Just a day after his release from incarceration in Turkey, freed American pastor Andrew Brunson prayed for President Donald Trump in an Oct. 13 meeting in the White House Oval Office. "Lord God, I ask that you pour out your Holy Spirit on President Trump, that You give him supernatural wisdom to accomplish all the plans you have for this country and for him," Brunson prayed, according to a video CBS news tweeted. Brunson's family, Congressional members and media attended the 2:30 p.m. meeting. Read More Imprisoned pastor Andrew Brunson free at last by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, October 12, 2018 (9 months ago) Screen capture from Reuters ALIAGA, Turkey (BP) -- Pastor Andrew Brunson reportedly will fly to the United States Oct. 13, released after two years' incarceration on disputed charges that could have led to life imprisonment. Although Turkey did not proclaim Brunson innocent, a court in Aliaga today (Oct. 12) released him on time served after sentencing him to three years, one month and 15 days, The New York Times reported. The court found him guilty of "terror," the Times said, following charges of espionage and undermining the constitutional order of the state. Read More U.S. advocates for persecuted pastors in Turkey & Iran by Diana Chandler, posted Tuesday, August 21, 2018 (11 months ago) WASHINGTON (BP) -- In longstanding cases of Christian persecution, American pastor Andrew Brunson remains under house arrest in Turkey as the U.S. government ramps up efforts for his release, while pastor Youcef Nadarkhani begins a 10-year prison term in Iran's notorious Evin prison. In the latest bilateral move, U.S. President Donald Trump's administration rejected an offer from Turkish President Recep Erdogan that could have secured Brunson's release. Erdogan offered to release Brunson if Trump dropped an investigation of one of Turkey's largest state-owned banks, Halkbank, regarding alleged violations of U.S. sanctions on Iran, the Wall Street Journal reported Aug. 19. Read More Imprisoned U.S. pastor in Turkey moves to house arrest by Diana Chandler, posted Wednesday, July 25, 2018 (one year ago) IZMIR, Turkey (BP) -- American pastor Andrew Brunson has been granted transfer from a Turkish prison to house arrest awaiting an Oct. 12 hearing, his attorneys said today (July 25). The move comes a week after a Turkish court denied Brunson's plea for release after nearly two years' imprisonment on allegations of terrorism and spying. The longtime pastor and native of Black Mountain, N.C., has instead been charged with "the crime of 'Christianization,'" his defenders at the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) said. "We have confirmed that the Turkish government has issued an order releasing Pastor Andrew Brunson from prison and allowing him to be returned to his home in Turkey," ACLJ Chief Counsel Jay Sekulow said in a press release. "This is a critical first step that we believe will result in the freedom of Pastor Brunson so he can return to the United States and be reunited with his family." Read More Still jailed in Turkey, Brunson gave 'bold' witness by David Roach, posted Thursday, July 19, 2018 (one year ago) ALIAGA, Turkey (BP) -- American pastor Andrew Brunson's continued imprisonment in Turkey following a July 18 court hearing is probably an act of political maneuvering rather than Islamic persecution, two Islamic studies professors say. Resurgent conservative Islam in Turkey is, however, part of the background, the professors say, that led to Brunson's October 2016 arrest and subsequent imprisonment over what religious liberty watchdogs have called unfounded charges of terrorism and espionage. "I am not in a position to speculate on why Brunson (as opposed to other Americans, who are permitted to practice their Christianity freely in Turkey) was arrested," said Ant Greenham, associate professor of missions and Islamic studies at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. "False accusations seem to have played a role. However, [Turkish] President [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan is now in a position of greater strength, following the lifting of [a] state of emergency" July 18. Read More New charges against pastor in Turkey jail by Diana Chandler, posted Tuesday, September 05, 2017 (one year ago) American Center for Law and Justice photo IZMIR, Turkey (BP) -- American pastor Andrew Brunson faces new charges punishable by four consecutive life imprisonments in an Izmir, Turkey, prison. The Presbyterian pastor formerly of North Carolina is now accused of espionage aimed at overthrowing the Turkish Parliament and government, and undermining the constitutional order of the state, the Wall Street Journal reported shortly after the charges were levied Aug. 24. Previously accused of working with the Fetullah Gulen movement to overthrow Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Brunson has been imprisoned since early October 2016. Read More 78 U.S. lawmakers call for release of jailed pastor by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, February 17, 2017 (2 years ago) WASHINGTON (BP) -- A bipartisan group of federal lawmakers have signed a letter calling for the release of Andrew Brunson, a U.S. citizen believed to have been jailed for his Christian faith in Turkey where he had pastored more than 23 years. The chairman and ranking members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee are among 78 signatories of the letter calling for Brunson's release, Senate committee chairman Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) said in a Feb. 16 press release. Brunson, formerly of Black Mountain, N.C., has been held since October 2016 on accusations of being a member of an armed terrorist group. Read More U.S. citizen pastoring in Turkey jailed for faith by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, December 16, 2016 (2 years ago) IZMIR, Turkey (BP) -- Religious liberty advocates have joined the U.S. government in seeking the release of an American citizen who pastored a Protestant church in Turkey for 20 years before being imprisoned for his faith. Andrew Brunson, formerly of Black Mountain, N.C., was reportedly detained 63 days without charges at the Harmandali Detention Center in Izmir, Turkey, before being imprisoned Dec. 9 at nearby Sakran Prison. He's being held on false charges of being a member of an armed terrorist organization, World Watch Monitor reported. Read More	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8324
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__label__cc	0.531792	0.468208	gregoriocamara 6 Abril, 2018 Fictional Reality – Room #2315 – Spring Break Art Show Lelaina Pierce: I was really going to be somebody by the time I was 23. Troy Dyer: Honey, all you have to be by the time you're 23 is yourself. Lelaina Pierce: I don't know who that is anymore. - Reality Bites, 1994 Spanish curator Gregorio Cámara is thrilled to present the work of Spanish artists Julia Llerena y Nacho Martín Silva at 2018's edition of SPRING/BREAK Art Show. Following 2018 Spring Break Art Show’s theme A Stranger Comes to Town, Cámara's exhibiting proposal is titled Fictional Reality. This curatorial statement aims to portrait the confrontation of reality and fiction as the mechanism that determines our memories, and hence the definition of familiar versus strange. Construction of narratives through research is portrait as camouflage for deception. Nacho Martín Silva lives and works in Madrid and has designed a site-specific installation from the series titled Tirar del Hilo Hasta Quedar Ciego. Here, he makes use of different media, such as, vinyl, photographic paper prints and most importantly oil on canvas to convey a multifocal narrative. Antonioni, Degas, Leonardo, Sputnik, the dark side of the moon and the invisible men of the Amazon they are all represented. His pallet navigates in the shades of black, grey and white. Martín Silva works with big formats and decomposing the image is a constant feature in his practice. Enigmatic episodes, far from simply representing historical events, offer a whole set of optics to approach that single moment in time, which questions its veracity. Julia Llerena lives and works in Madrid, and through a site-specific installation reflects on the role of language as a record of the reality that surrounds us. Following a process of recollection, classification and archival of found objects, she creates an alphabet and language of her own. Based on that code, Julia arranges these objects to transcribe a fragment of a text, which in this case is piece of anti-Spanish propaganda from the 16th century. Llerena presents an account of reality through scientific mechanisms, which serves to convey veracity to that story. That is, viewers shall tend to believe in the truthfulness of the transcribed text based on the formality of its representation. Once revealed to the audience the falsity of these accusations, the artifice vanishes and the record is questioned. It's a Fictional Reality. Curator: Gregorio Cámara – gregoriocamara@gmail.com - +34 678 859 484 Artists: Julia Llerena and Nacho Martín Silva Room #: 2315	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8340
__label__wiki	0.763482	0.763482	Bush, Cheney put finishing touches on SOTU speech "I didn't know there were so many gay people out there" 'Brokeback Mountain' receives 8 Oscar nominations, among them best picture, best actor and best director. Also nominated for best picture were the Truman Capote movie, the Edward R. Murrow story "Good Night, and Good Luck", and the assassination thriller "Munich." George Clooney picked up three nominations, 'the first time ever that a contender was honored with acting and directing nominations for two different movies.' Congratulations, all! And to the freetards, bwwwwwwahahahahahahaha! And everytime they pan to Alito's wife, shove 2 fingers down your throat The George W. Bush 2006 State Of The Union Drinking Game 1. A shot glass per person. 2. Fondue pot with two packages of Li'l Smokies stewing in barbecue sauce. Preferably a sauce from Texas. Surrounded by 3. 100 cocktail toothpicks. 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On edit: Everyone gets to throw whatever they can find in the cat's litterbox at the TV when the pundits say something up-beat about Alito's brave little wife and isn't she a great woman, didn't she stand up - and then they'll put the camera right on Ted Kennedy and show how he was the guy that molested her basically... By a vote of 58-42, the Senate has confirmed scAlito to the Supreme Court. Only one of the Senate's 55 republicans voted against Alito's confirmation - Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island. The four Democrats Quislings who broke party ranks and voted for Alito are Sens. Robert Byrd of West Virginia, Tim Johnson of South Dakota, Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Kent Conrad of North Dakota. May you rot in hell. George W. Bush betrays his nation - Pravda. Yeah. Plus: DemoUnderground's Top 10 Conservative Idiots is up, and are they pissed. "A complete hoax on the Senate" The Senate sat there in 2002 holding hearings on whether FISA should be amended to increase the surveillance powers of the [mis]administration even while the [powermad Bushistas] had decided that FISA was totally irrelevant. But they let these Senators waste their time and resources holding hearings, calling witnesses, debating these issues, without notifying them that the Administration had freely been eavesdropping for months in violation of FISA and continued to do so. Unless these Senators have relinquished every last iota of their dignity, how can they not be furious at this complete contempt shown by the Administration towards both the Congress and our nation’s democratic, law-making processes? - Glenn Greenwald. Vomitos, amigos I've picked up some kind of fluey crud, so blogging may be sort of light today. "National Security should never be held hostage to a political party, or a political issue or to an election.The American people expect more." - Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, 1/29/06. "Oh, and Karl Rove's a #ucking asshat." And no one could've predicted the breech in the levees, either! In speech after speech, [Preznit Liar McPartyhat] claims that if the National Security Agency could have wiretapped two Al Qaeda operatives living in San Diego, the 9/11 attacks might have been thwarted. "We didn't realize they were here plotting the attack until it was too late," Bush said Wednesday at NSA headquarters. That's a whopper, critics say. "It's not true," ex-9/11 commissioner Bob Kerrey told the Daily News. "We knew about those two guys - the CIA lost them." The two guys were Nawaf Al-Hazmi and Khalid Al-Mihdhar, who hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 and flew it into the Pentagon. They were identified in late 1999 by the NSA as Al Qaeda agents and tracked by the CIA to Malaysia and Thailand, where they were lost, according to the 9/11 Commission's report. The CIA learned in March 2000 that Al-Hazmi flew to Los Angeles in January, but kept it secret. Nice going, assholes Craven, cowardly weak-kneed Vichycrats... Spies, lies and wiretaps "This is breathtakingly cynical. The nation's guardians did not miss the 9/11 plot because it takes a few hours to get a warrant to eavesdrop on phone calls and e-mail messages. They missed the plot because they were not looking." A bit over a week ago, President Bush and his men promised to provide the legal, constitutional and moral justifications for the sort of warrantless spying on Americans that has been illegal for nearly 30 years. Instead, we got the familiar mix of political spin, clumsy historical misinformation, contemptuous dismissals of civil liberties concerns, cynical attempts to paint dissents as anti-American and pro-terrorist, and a couple of big, dangerous lies... Including a whopper from slimy POS Karl Rove, "who emerged from hiding" to smear Dems: Mr. Rove knows perfectly well that no Democrat has ever said any such thing — and that nothing prevented American intelligence from listening to a call from Al Qaeda to the United States, or a call from the United States to Al Qaeda, before Sept. 11, 2001, or since. The 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act simply required the government to obey the Constitution in doing so. And FISA was amended after 9/11 to make the job much easier... Mr. Bush made himself the judge of the proper balance between national security and Americans' rights, between the law and presidential power. He wants Americans to accept, on faith, that he is doing it right. But even if the United States had a government based on the good character of elected officials rather than law, Mr. Bush would not have earned that kind of trust. - from a righteously pissed NY Times editorial. Someone should just put rat poison in her douche If a rethuglican harpy skank threatens a Supreme Court Justice, does (s)he make a sound? "Timmeh had better be asking every Republican on his show on Sunday about this quote. If Obama and Colin Powell are the prime candidates for "ask the black man about Belafonte," then all Republicans are fair game about Coulter. Hang her idiocy around the neck of every Rethug and make them either denounce this statement or pay the penalty. Equal opportunity runs both ways -- and its about time the people benefitting from Coulter's excesses had to pay a penalty for it." - ReddHedd. Would be nice. But I'm pretty sure Mr Russert will be too busy tarring Democrats with his repuke panel buds this weekend. CNN: we're as fair and balanced as Fox! Stuff like this #ucking burns my toast - ED HENRY, CNN's TALKING RECTUM: John Kerry was back on Capitol Hill after a long flight from Switzerland, and tried to cast his Quixotic filibuster of Judge Samuel Alito as a heroic effort. Well, that started off well. /sarcasm SEN. JOHN KERRY: I know this is flying against some of the sort of political punditry of Washington. I understand that. But this is a fight worth making. HENRY: But as he tried to dodge a pack of reporters, Kerry seemed to vacillate on just how active he is in the filibuster when asked if he's leading the effort. Gee, Ed, he just came off a - what? - six-hour flight after representing the US at the World Economic Forum. Along with Saxby Chambliss, Michael Chertoff and Paul Wolfowitz, you cheap-shot whore. KERRY: No, I'm just supporting the effort like others. It's -- you know, I'm very supportive of it, obviously. HENRY: The White House had a field day with Kerry's hasty exit from the World Economic Conference in Davos. SCOTT MCCLELLAN, WHITE HOUSE PRESS-TOOL: I think even for a senator, it takes some pretty serious yodeling to call for a filibuster from a five-star ski resort in the Swiss Alps. The 'liberal media' also had a 'field day' with it. I lost count how many times they replayed that clip of Scott McClellan being a fucking dungheap. Bah. A discredit to the GOP What do you expect from a bunch of thugs? The Bush misadministration's distortion, for political purposes, of the Democratic position on warrantless surveillance is loathsome. Despite the best efforts of Karl Rove, the slimy WH puffball, and the fabulous RNC headcheese Ken Mehlman to make it seem otherwise, Democrats are not opposed to vigorous, effective surveillance that could uncover terrorist activity. Nor are the concerns that they are expressing unique to their party. Republican Sens. John McCain, Arlen Specter, Chuck Hagel, Lindsey Graham and Sam Brownback have expressed legal doubts about the surveillance program. Do they, too, have a "pre-9/11 worldview," as Mr. Rove said of the Democrats? - from a WaPo editorial. Mostly. Just cover it up with bullshit and hold up something shiny for the sheeple Nothing to see here, move along... "Katrina investigators give Bush White House a free pass saying that 'a fog of war' prevented proper disaster management. Funny, the rest of the country knew exactly what was going on." - BuzzFlash. The White House was beset by the "fog of war" in the crucial days immediately after Hurricane Katrina, leaving it unable to respond properly to the unfolding catastrophe, House investigators said Friday. "Fog of war"?? Bush, Cheney et al were on vacation! :: %$# :: Spreading the santorum The good senator is starting to get a bit... frothy... "I had absolutely nothing to do -- never met, never talked, never coordinated, never did anything -- with Grover Norquist and the -- quote -- K Street Project." - Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Insane, Thursday, January 26, 2006. "Thank you Grover, and I appreciate your help and support on this and many other issues..." - Rick Santorum to Grover Norquist at a press conference, 6/28/05. Crooks and Liars has the video. IOKIYAR Skanky, poisonous harridan mAnn Coulter told a college audience that liberal Justice John Paul Stevens should be poisoned. The posterscum for retroactive abortion said Thursday that more conservative justices were needed on the Supreme Court to change the current law. "We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens' creme brulee," the walking venereal disease said. "That's just a joke, for you in the media." Ho ho, ho. #uck Pussies. Corrupt, lawbreaking liars threaten Dems with "looking bad" And the cowardly, pussy-assed Dems will fall for it. The White House says a filibuster of scAlito will make the Democrats look bad. Come again? The White House? We're talking Bush administration officials saying Democrats will look bad? Can a party possibly look any worse than the Republicans do right now with the litany of moral, ethical and criminal charges facing them? - The Ostroy Report. Majority in US say Bush presidency is a failure Remainder drooling morons, say polls. Damage from Bush term 'will last for decades.' New polls describe the Boy King's second term as a failure and the percentage of Americans who called the straight-shootin' cowpuke "honest and trustworthy'' also fell. At the same point in President Bill Clinton's presidency, 70 percent said they considered it a success. Even with the blowjob. Enough with the distortions Is conservative asstool David Limbaugh from another planet? Or is he just insane? Or both? How's the air on Uranus? Get it? Your anus? Shit. We often talk about the Democrats' conspicuous lack of a policy agenda to deflect from the fact that rethugs are morally bankrupt as proof that we don't know what the fuck we're talking abou they are a party in decline. But I think there's even better evidence of the phenomenon: They habitually misrepresent what they stand for and what Republicans stand for {An imperial dictatorship? - Ed.}, and constantly mischaracterize President Bush's actions {What actions were those again? You mean those illegal ones?}. If they had confidence in the salability of their ideas, would they need to play word games, resort to euphemisms, revise history, distort facts and repeat patently false charges {We never met Ken Lay! Those photos with Jack Abramoff were just a coincidence! Hitlery Xlintoon murdered Vince Foster! She was a lesbian! Al Gore invented the internets! John Kerry's got a Purple Heart for a cut! Murtha's a coward!} ? So Chimpy McFlightsuit is NOT a powermad liar who's bankrupting the country and thinks he's above the law? What? You light up my life News anchor engages in mutual masturbation with GOP 'values' maven. Warning: do not read if you have a weak stomach. WOLF "WETNAP" BLITZER: At the White House today, President Bush has been meeting with security experts about the Patriot Act and his push for a long-term extension of the anti-terror law. The former education secretary, Bill Bennett, was in that meeting in his current role as chairman of the Americans for Victory Over Terrorism. Bill Bennett is with us now. He's wearing yet another new hat. We're happy to welcome him here at CNN as a regular CNN contributor, a participant in our "Strategy Sessions" here in THE SITUATION ROOM. Bill Bennett, welcome to CNN. Smoochies!! WILLIAM BENNETT, DRUNKEN GAMBLER AND WH TOWELBOY: Glad to be here. Good to be aboard. BLITZER: Before we talk about what happened at the White House, let's bash John Kerry and his announcement to filibuster the nomination of Samuel Alito. BENNETT: I just heard it, trying to absorb it, trying to think of what the motivations could be. And the only thing I can think of is this is positioning for the Democratic nomination down the road, in '08. And I think he's trying to step to the front of the line. I think this is the wrong way to go, because I think most of the American people think Alito ought to be confirmed, seems like a reasonable guy. He's conservative, sure, but, you know, we elected a conservative president. BLITZER: We sure did! Hem. If the Democrats though are divided on this idea of a filibuster, that could embarrass the party, albeit, as you say, it might strengthen Kerry with the base of the party that's very much opposed to Alito. BENNETT: It might strengthen him with the base, but if he calls for it and nothing happens, it could weaken him. BLITZER: Because it shows ... BENNETT: Yes, it shows he's not powerful enough. He's not potent. He's not a leader. BLITZER: Speaking of potent leaders, let's talk about your meeting with the president. You were there with others who were invited in. What was that about, and just how awesome is he? BENNETT: It was about national security. It was about the Patriot Act. It was about the NSA. The president spoke. He was very, very earnest, very serious. He talked about the lethality -- he used that word several times -- the lethality of the enemy and his pledge to defend the American people, that he, the president, will defend the American people. BLITZER: Gosh! BENNETT: Yes. BLITZER: Did you emerge smarter in any way? If that's even possible? BENNETT: Yes, I did. And I can't tell you all the stuff -- some of the stuff I learned, but -- because he wanted it to be off the record. BLITZER: Oooooh! You're special! Top-secret! Just like James Bond! He's so dreamy. Just like you and the president... BENNETT: He was speaking very, very freely. But what was clear to me was the president's clear sense of conviction about this. He said there are a lot of issues, and this is the most important one, the protection of the American people. It was put very well. One thing I can repeat. He said, you know, nothing has changed since 9/11, in terms of people's interest in attacking this country, except they haven't succeeded in going it again. And there's no reason that we should back off on the measures that have kept us safe. He said, I am deadly serious about this. And I will take this all the way. I would've creamed myself if I wasn't such a moral, upstanding republican. BLITZER (READING SCRIPT): Are you completely comfortable with these wiretaps without warrants? BENNETT: I am. I am because of presidential power, presidential authority. My own view here is that people have tended to think that because it is a legal issue, that only the courts have legal authority. People forget because of the teaching of Constitutional law, the way it's taught today, Wolf, that the president is an officer of the Constitution. He has a responsibility to execute the law. He is to take the law and execute the law in many occasions. BLITZER: Listen to what that so-called Republican Senator Arlen Specter said the other day. Listen to this. SEN. ARLEN SPECTER, BuzzFlash's hypocrite of the week: The initial claim to authority, from the resolution to authorize the use of force, I think is very, very thin. If the president had asked for authority in the Patriot Act, we would have had a determination, as to whether Congress wanted to give it to him. But to say that there was congressional intent in the resolution for force, I think is a stretch. (END VIDEO CLIP) BENNETT: That's an issue of whether the president has that authority statutorily from that statute. My argument is that the president has it constitutionally. It's not Congress' to give him. Under his Article II powers, the president has the authority, indeed, the responsibility to defend the people of the United States. I don't think he needs to get that from Congress. What's interesting is that although a number of critics, mostly Democrats, but as you point out, a few Republicans, who they said they're not sure about it, they don't agree with the president's use of it. No one has moved to curtail his authority. People have been jumping all over themselves, Wolf, saying "If the president needs this, fine, we'll give it to him." And it is interesting, why hasn't anybody stepped forward and said, "Well, if he needs it and we don't think he has it now, we'll introduce legislation to give it to him," because they'd lose the political advantage. BLITZER: Everybody should support our president! OK, here's where we tell the Demonrats and the liberal media to just shut up already about those hypothetical comments you made that were taken out of context. You were reported as saying that if you go ahead and abort all black babies, there will be a reduction in crime. It caused a huge stir. Since this is the first time you're joining me here on CNN, I want you to explain to our viewers what you were thinking because I've known you were many years. I know you're not a racist. And I just want our viewers to have an understanding of what you were saying. BENNETT: Well this was -- first, I want to thank CNN for looking past this canard, or through this canard and taking me on. But I've had a number of controversies in my life and some of them, frankly deserved. This one was not deserved. I was dealing with a hypothetical, talking about lowering crime rate by aborting babies in the black community. And that this was a hypothetical. Obviously it was a matter that had been under discussion in articles and newspapers and in some discussions and books. But I brought it up as a hypothetical to point out how noxious it was. After having brought up the hypothetical, I said of course that would be a reprehensible and impossible thing to do, direct quote. Well some of the media that replayed it played the hypothetical, but they didn't play my condemnation of the hypothetical. I'm a college professor, old college professor, I use hypotheticals. And sometimes you bring up an extreme or ridiculous position in order to show how absurd it is. That was the point of it. So, it was based on a distortion. But more than that, Wolf, it was the whole thing, as it went on, was based on a distortion of my life. I appreciate what you say about me. I went to Mississippi in 1997, I taught, I taught Martin Luther King letter from a Birmingham jail. I've been committed to civil rights and all anybody has to do is look at my life, my record and the work that we still do. BLITZER: Bill Bennett, you are a hero. Welcome to CNN. I just love that you'll be spending a lot of time here in THE SITUATION ROOM. Kisses!!! BENNETT: Thank you very much, great place to be. BLITZER: Thank you very much. (OFFCAMERA) Ahhhhhh! Tissues, please? Gawd. 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Why do you think John Kerry wants to filibuster Samuel Alito? He's an evil, evil man. - this morning's poll at CNN. 9/11 lie terrists 9/11 protect lie September 11th changed evr'thing. 'Xept ah'm still a lying fuckwit Guess who had a press con today! Q: On the NSA eavesdropping program, there seems to be growing momentum in Congress to either modify the existing law or write some new law that would give you the latitude to do this, and at the same time, ensure that people's civil liberties are protected. Would you be resistant to the notion of new laws if Congress were to give you what you need to conduct these operations? BUNNYPANTS: The terrorist surveillance program is necessary to protect America from attack. I asked the very questions you asked, John, when we first got going. Let me tell you exactly how this happened. Right after September the 11th, blah blah blah everything changed terra 9/11 death blah But, John, I want to make sure that people understand that if it -- if the attempt to write law makes this program -- is likely to expose the nature of the program, I'll resist it. {???????} And I think the American people understand that. Why tell the enemy what we're doing if the program is necessary to protect us from the enemy? And it is. And it's legal. And we'll continue to brief Congress. And we review it a lot, and we review not only at the Justice Department, but with a good legal staff inside NSA. Q: What do you hear or your staff hear about releasing of photographs of Jack Abramoff with you, Mr. President? If you say you don't fear anything, tell us why you won't release them? THE DICTATOR-TOT: She's asking about a person who admitted to wrongdoing and who needs to be prosecuted for that. There is a serious investigation going on, as there should be. The American people have got to have confidence in the -- in the ethics of all branches of government. You're asking about pictures -- I had my picture taken with him, evidently. I've had my picture taken with a lot of people. Having my picture taken with someone doesn't mean that I'm a friend with them or know them very well. I've had my picture taken with you -- (laughter) -- at holiday parties. My point is, I mean, there's thousands of people that come through and get their pictures taken. I'm also mindful that we live in a world in which those pictures will be used for pure political purposes, and they're not relevant to the investigation. Q: Do you know how many? BUSH: I don't have any idea. Q: Mr. President, you talked about Jack Abramoff in the context of pictures, but it may not necessarily just be about pictures. He also had some meetings with some of your staff. So you remember, you ran on the idea of restoring honesty and integrity to the White House. So why are you letting your critics perhaps attack you and paint you with maybe a guilt by association? Why not just throw open your books and say, look, here is -- PREZNIT STUPID: There is a serious investigation going on by federal prosecutors, and that's their job. And they will -- if they believe something was done inappropriately in the White House, they'll come and look, and they're welcome to do so. There's a serious investigation that's going on. Q: But, sir, don't you want to tell the American people look, as I promised, this White House isn't for sale and I'm not for sale? CHUCKLES THE CLOWN: It's hard for me to say I didn't have pictures with the guy when I did. But I have also had pictures with thousands and thousands of people. I mean, people -- it's part of the job of the President to shake hands and -- with people and smile. (Laughter.) And I do. Q: Members of your administration have said that the secret eavesdropping program might have prevented the September 11th attacks. But the people who hijacked the planes on September 11th had been in this country for years, having domestic phone calls and emails. So how, specifically, can you say that? THE LIAR-IN-CHIEF: Well, muh new best friend Michael Hayden said that because he believes that had we had the capacity to listen to the phone calls from those from San Diego to elsewhere we might have gotten information necessary to prevent the attack. And that's what he was referring to. Q: They were domestic calls -- BUNNYPANTS: No, domestic outside -- we will not listen inside this country. It is a call from al Qaeda, al Qaeda affiliates, either from inside the country out, or outside the country in, but not domestically. Q: Can I ask you again, why won't you release the photos of yourself with Jack Abramoff? THE BOY KING: I just answered the question. Q: Your explanation on the monitoring program seems to say that when the nation is at war, the President, by definition, can order measures that might not be acceptable or even, perhaps, legal in peacetime. And this seems to sound like something President Nixon once said, which was "when the President does it, then that means it is not illegal," in the areas involving national security. So how do the two differ? NIXON THE DUMBER: Well, I said yesterday that other Presidents have used the same authority I've had to use technology to protect the American people. Other Presidents -- most Presidents believe that during a time of war, that we can use our authorities under the Constitution to make decisions necessary to protect us. Secondly, in this case, there is an act passed by Congress in 2001 which said that I must have the power to conduct this war using the incidents of war. In other words, we believe there's a constitutional power granted to Presidents, as well as, this case, a statutory power. And I'm intending to use that power -- Congress says, go ahead and conduct the war, we're not going to tell you how to do it. And part of winning this war on terror is to understand the nature of the enemy and to find out where they are so we can protect the American people. There's going to be -- there will be a constitution -- there will be a legal debate about whether or not I have the authority to do this; I'm absolutely convinced I do. Our Attorney General has been out describing why. And I'm going to continue using my authority. That's what the American people expect. Walking slime-mold draining precious natural resources Verminous, lying traitor Karl Rove 'has once again proved his ability to obliterate history in the cause of his president.' "Rove is again playing the patriot game to salvage Bush's political position. This time he is attempting to turn Bush's domestic spying into a false issue of whether Democrats support gathering intelligence on terrorists." - Sidney Blumenthal, in the Guardian. "I truly am not that concerned about him." - Smirky von Bunnypants on Osama bin Laden, 2002. "When he says he's going to hurt the American people again, or try to, he means it." - Preznit Polldropping, 2006. It's sort of ironic that Bush is using a freedom-hating terrist to defend his program to further erode our freedoms. *No, the other one. Bin Laden. Biased, irresponsible, and offensive Please visit an Open Letter To Chris Matthews and help boycott pMSNBC until the dye-and-lie-job apologizes for comparing Dems to Osama bin Laden: we know for a fact that even the association with somebody who compares bush to a famous dictator results in national shunning (the moveon.org = hitler fiasco), it seems not only hypocritical, disingenuous and unfair of you to reverse the bigoted polarity here (liberals are murderous tyrants: ok; conservatives are murderous tyrants, not ok), but it's down right transparent that you are simply a tool of the administration's playbook. - from skippy's letter to damp, Bushkissing idiot Chris Matthews. For Tweety. Somebody's cranky... Things starting to get to you a bit, Rick? It seems a reporter approached [Senator/douchebag Rick] Santorum just as he got off the train and asked Santorum something to the effect of: "Can you tell me about the 'K Street Project'?" Santorum's response? He started screaming, according to our source. "It's just a meeting!", Santorum reportedly yelled. "What Harry Reid said Wednesday is a total lie!" Touch-ee! LOL "And get this dog off my leg!" "This is huge" Liars - in 2002, the Bush misadministration opposed legislation to make it easier to wiretap under FISA. AmericaBlog: Bush chose to break the law when he had an alternative. And what's worse, this suggests that Bush feared the Supreme Court would never let him spy on Americans the degree to which he wanted, the court would find it unconstitutional, so that's why Bush never sought the change in the law proposed in 2002 - Bush thought it would have been struck down by the Supreme Court. So Bush chose to break the law in order to circumvent the Supreme Court enforcing the US Constitution. If the terrists "hate us for our freedoms" they should be loving the bejebus out of us now. "Bin Laden determined to attack inside the US" - Presidental Daily Briefing, August 6, 2001. GEN. MICHAEL HAYDEN, FEARMONGERING, PARTISAN ASSHAT and DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE: When you‘re talking to your daughter at state college, this program cannot intercept your conversations. And when she takes a semester abroad to complete her Arabic studies, this program will not intercept your communications. Had this program been in effect prior to 9/11, it is my professional judgment that we would have detected some of the 9/11 al Qaeda operatives in the United States, and we would have identified them as such. (END VIDEO CLIP) KEITH OLBERMANN: For a reality check on that claim and everything else we heard from the Bush administration today, I‘m joined now by Kate Martin, director of the Center for National Security Studies. Ms. Martin, thanks for being with us tonight. KATE MARTIN: Thank you. OLBERMANN: That‘s a pretty bold claim there from General Hayden today, obviously an improvable one. What credibility is it given by experts in the field? MARTIN: Well, you know, Vice President Cheney made the same statement, I think, in an effort to deflect the conversation from whether or not the president broke the law. I mean, what General Hayden said is that we would have detected al Qaeda operatives in the United States before 9/11. But, of course, the 9/11 commission found that they did detect two al Qaeda operatives, two of the hijackers, in the United States before 9/11, they knew they were al Qaeda, and they didn‘t do anything about it. Later.... MARTIN: And, you know, telling Congress, of course, doesn‘t matter, because the law says you may not wiretap without a warrant. And whether or not he told Congress doesn‘t make it legal. Just answer the damn question, Scott WH spokesliar Snott McClellan: You traitor... Q: I have two questions that can be dismissed with a yes or no. One, is the President going to seek any legal -- more legal permission from Congress to spy on Americans without a warrant? And b)Are you such a dickhole at home? McClellan: I've already previously answered this question with reporters and stated our view; the Attorney General stated it earlier today in some interviews. This is an important tool that helps to save lives by preventing attacks. Q: The law says he has to seek a court warrant. McClellan: -- it is labeled an international call -- Q: Why doesn't he seek a warrant? What's the big problem? McClellan: Well, actually, we've walked through this repeatedly over the last few days. It's important for the American people to understand what the facts are. There is a lot of misinformation about -- Q: Why can't you seek a warrant? McClellan: -- this program. And we do use the FISA tool, as well. That's an important tool, as well. But we have briefed members of Congress more than a dozen times on this. We continue to brief members of Congress in an appropriate manner. This is a highly classified program and it is a vital program to our nation's security. The 9/11 Commission criticized us for not connecting the dots -- Q: Is it vital to go through legal steps? McClellan: This is helping us to connect the dots in a very targeted and focused way. Q: Why can't he seek a warrant? McClellan: It is about detecting and preventing attacks. FISA was created for a different time period. General Hayden walked through that yesterday; the Attorney General talked about it more. This is about moving with speed and agility, not some long-term period of time. It's about detecting -- Q: You can get one retroactively. McClellan: -- it's about detecting and preventing attacks. And we are a nation at war, and the courts have upheld the President's authority to engage in surveillance. Surveillance is critical to prevailing in the war on terrorism. Q: He doesn't have a blank check. McClellan: And we talked with members of Congress about whether or not there needed to be legislation that reflects what the President's authority already is, and the congressional leaders felt that by doing so it could compromise this program. This is a vital program and it's important that we don't show the enemy our play book. And talking about it -- Q: Getting warrants doesn't show the enemy a play book. McClellan: Okay. Next question. WTF: Ummm, yes, Scott? Why can't he just get a fucking warrant? Pic from firedoglake. Senators in need of a spine Well DUH. Just wake up, did you? "When someone is threatening to beat you up, you don't hand him a bat." - BuzzFlash. Judge Samuel Alito Jr., whose entire history suggests that he holds extreme views about the expansive powers of the presidency and the limited role of Congress, will almost certainly be a Supreme Court justice soon. His elevation will come courtesy of a president whose grandiose vision of his own powers threatens to undermine the nation's basic philosophy of government — and a Senate that seems eager to cooperate by rolling over and playing dead. Jiminey-#ucking-criminey. Look who's talking! :: Insert sound of head banging on desk here :: It is hard to imagine a moment when it would be more appropriate for senators to fight for a principle. Even a losing battle would draw the public's attention to the import of this nomination. ... A filibuster is a radical tool. It's easy to see why Democrats are frightened of it. But from our perspective, there are some things far more frightening. One of them is Samuel Alito on the Supreme Court. - Good gravy. From a better late than never NY Times opinion piece. Meanwhile, incontinent traitor Boob Novak pulls a wrinkled, crusty page six of the GOP talking points out of his adult diaper and warns that 'politicizing' the vote on Alito may hurt Democrats. Har! You senile, drooling old gasbag. They sure aren't doing anything to help themselves, so what difference does it make? I'm disgusted with everyone. Henry VII's chapel found at Greenwich I love this kind of stuff... As muddy holes go, they don't get much more romantic. Beneath four feet of heavy south London clay, archaeologists have uncovered the remains of Henry VII's lost chapel at Greenwich. The site is where he and a host of his Tudor successors - Henry VIII, Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I - worshipped. The archaeologists may also have unearthed the spot where Henry VIII stood during his marriages to Catherine of Aragon and Anne of Cleves. - more here. Fun fact: here's how the headline read over at RimJob's Home for Dripping Rectums: "Henry VII's chapel found at Greenwich (England)." Because the ones in Buttefuck, Montana and Moosehung, Ottawa are still missing. To this very day. Governator: go #uck yourselves, gpukes Good for him. I've got to give him credit for this one. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said yesterday he wouldn't fire his top staffer, Democrat Susan Kennedy, to appease Republican activists worried about his move toward the middle. "I will hire the people I want to hire because they are the best," he said. "I will keep Susan Kennedy exactly where she is." Mike Schroeder, a former chairman of the California Republican Party, said conservatives plan to introduce a resolution taking away the party's endorsement unless Schwarzenegger fires Kennedy by March 15. He said the resolution was largely a symbolic move, but it would give a voice to conservatives' disappointment. "They are just frustrated with him. They've had it," he said. Eat it, you #ucking thugs. Call the wahhhhhmbulance. Buk buk buk buk buk White House refuses to turn over embarrassing Katrina papers to investigators. "We expect there to be transparency. People who have something to hide make us nervous." - George W. Beetbrains, Alaska, Feb. 16, 2002. The Bush misadministration, citing panic and uncontrollable defecation and vomiting the 'confidentiality of executive branch communications,' said Tuesday that it would not turn over certain documents about Hurricane Katrina or make senior White House officials available for sworn testimony before Congressional committees investigating the storm response. Heckuva job, guys. Right. What a stupid #ucking excuse. And you have the nerve to tell us that if we have nothing to hide we shouldn't be bothered by the Patriot Act? Eat me. Accountabilitude. Earle continues probing asshole Ronnie Earle, the Texas prosecutor targeting corrupt scumbag Tom DeLay, has issued a second round of subpoenas to businessmen, seeking records surrounding donations to the indicted, unethical slimeball and the disgraced former congressman, Randy "Duke" Cunningham. Bush the Incompetent The Chimpy McFlightsuit Legacy: Incompetence is not one of the seven deadly sins, and it's hardly the worst attribute that can be ascribed to George W. Bush. But it is this president's defining attribute. Historians, looking back at the hash that his administration has made of his war in Iraq, his response to Hurricane Katrina and his Medicare drug plan, will have to grapple with how one president could so cosmically botch so many big things -- particularly when most of them were the president's own initiatives. In numbing profusion, the newspapers are filled with litanies of screw-ups. How could a president get these things so wrong? Incompetence may describe this presidency, but it doesn't explain it. For that, historians may need to turn to the seven deadly sins: to greed, in understanding why Bush entrusted his new drug entitlement to a financial mainstay of modern Republicanism. To sloth, in understanding why Incurious George has repeatedly ignored the work of experts whose advice runs counter to his desires. - from a WaPo op-ed. Great moments in television "I think President George W. Bush, I think Cheney, I think Rumsfeld, I think all of these people have lost any moral integrity." Harry Belafonte embarrasses WH whore and chronic masturbator Wolf "wetnap" Blitzer. They're so poor - and so Jewy… BLITZER: And you think that what the Department of Homeland Security is doing to, you know, some US citizens suspected of terrorism is similar to what the Nazis did to the Jews? BELAFONTE: Well, if you're taking people out of a country and spiriting them someplace else, and they're being tortured, and they're not being charged, so they don't know what it is that they have done, it may not have been directly inside the Department of Homeland Security, but the pattern, the system -- it's what the system does. It's what all these different divisions have -- have begun to reveal in their collective. I mean, my phones are tapped. OK? My mail can be opened. They don't even need a court warrant to come and do that, as we once were -- were required to do. All of these things... BLITZER: But -- but no one has taken you or anyone else, as far as I can tell, to an extermination camp, and by the tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands, even millions, decided to kill them, which is what the Nazis did. BELAFONTE: Well, Mr. Blitzer, let me say this to you. Perhaps, just perhaps, had the Jews of Germany and people spoken out much earlier and had resisted the tyranny that was on the horizon, perhaps we would never have had... BLITZER: Well, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Are you blaming -- are you blaming the Jews of Germany for what Hitler did to them? BELAFONTE: No, no, no, no, no. What I'm saying is that if an awakened citizenry -- if an awakened citizenry, begins to oppose the first inkling of the subversion of government, of the subversion of our democracy, then, perhaps, an early warning would have saved the world a lot of what we all experienced. I'm not accusing the Jews at all. BLITZER: Well, I just heard you say perhaps if the Jews of Germany had done something earlier, then, that might not have happened. That's what -- what I thought you were getting at. BELAFONTE: Well, what I was getting at really was that, if all citizens, the Jewish community, the Christian community and all else, had taken a very early aggressive stand, rather than somehow suggesting or thinking or feeling that this would have gone away, we might have found that the -- Germany would have been in a far different place than it wound up in. BELAFONTE: Mr. Blitzer, you have access to a lot of information. And you have decided to ignore it in order to resort to all-out whoring for the WH instead. May God have mercy on your tiny, shriveled, blackened soul. You #ucking tart. "Harry handled it much better than I know I would have. I'd have been forced to stop my discussion and explanation to ask Blitzer when he expected to be reading and comprehending on a 2nd grade level, then give him a patronizingly slow, condescending lesson in basic rhetoric, probably using any writing utensils and paper to draw pictures for him." - Jeff, commenting at Brad Blog. "Nnnngghhhhhh!" Look! I have new genitals! A Washington Post editorial actually calls on the White House to come clean about Preznit Integritude's meetings with indicted criminal Jack Abramoff. [A]sking about Mr. Abramoff's White House meetings is no mere exercise in reportorial curiosity but a legitimate inquiry about what an admitted felon might have been seeking at the highest levels of government. Whatever White House officials did or didn't do, there is every reason to believe that Mr. Abramoff was up to no good and therefore every reason the public ought to know with whom he was meeting. [WH spokesliar Snott] McClellan dismisses requests for the information as an effort to play "partisan politics" - but Republicans wouldn't stand for this kind of stonewalling if the situation were reversed. We can say that with confidence because history proves it. During the 1996 scandal over foreign fundraising in the Clinton White House, Republicans demanded -- and obtained, though not without a fight -- extensive information about White House coffees and other meetings, including photos and videotapes. [G]et all of Mr. Abramoff's dealings with the Bush White House and the Bush administration out in the open -- now. 9/11 fear fear terra 9/11 fear death 9/11 fear terra death 9/11 you'reallgonnadie There may be depths to which Karl Rove wouldn't sink, but it's difficult to imagine what they might be. Mr. Rove, President Pinhead's slimy chief political adviser, defended the administration's domestic eavesdropping program last week by saying that "President Bush believes if al-Qaida is calling somebody in America, it is in our national security interest to know who they're calling and why. Some important Democrats clearly disagree." What rubbish. Once again, when this administration is challenged, it lashes out at the patriotism of its critics. Mr. Rove (who is being investigated by a federal grand jury for possible involvement in the unpatriotic act of leaking the name of a CIA operative) would not be able to identify a single "important Democrat" who opposes monitoring all al-Qaida communications. He didn't even try. - from an editorial here. Mostly. 9/11! 9/11! 9/11! If you're not with us, you're treasonous, anti-'Merican traitors who love terrists. Karl Rove: President Bush believes if Al Qaeda is calling somebody in America, it is in our national security interest to know who they're calling and why. Some important Democrats clearly disagree {Name one. - Ed.}. John Kerry (mostly): You know, Osama bin Laden is going to die of kidney failure before he’s killed by Karl Rove and his crowd. And all he does is divide America over this issue and exploit it. And what he’s trying to pretend is somehow Democrats don’t want to eavesdrop appropriately to protect the country. That’s a lie. We’re prepared to eavesdrop wherever and whenever necessary in order to make America safer. But we put a procedure in place to protect the constitutional rights of Americans. And what I believe, and I believe it deeply, is you can protect the United States of America without ignoring the Constitution of the country, you lying #ucksack. By the way, how's that Fitzgerald investigation going, dipshit? I'd rather be golfing Fat Tony Scalia says "#uck you" to SCrOTUS headcheese John Roberts, goes off on junket to play tennis at "one of the country's top resorts" with his Federalist Society buds. Heckuva job, III Newly released documents show the White House got detailed warnings 48 hours before Katrina hit, including descriptions of flooding, breached levees, Bush being an oblivious dickhole. Heckuva job, II Oh, isn't he cute! What an engaging, personable guy! Whore media replays Bunnypants' "Brokeback Mountain" clip over and over and over. Well, they certainly weren't going to show this one, where he comes across as an absolute stump... Heckuva job Pakistani Prime Minister brands as "bizarre" WH claims that airstrike killed members of Al Qaeda despite an overwhelming lack of evidence. Why does he hate America?	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8350
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League Athletics - Help Click here for the Coaches Guide Email Your Team: Navigate to your Team via the Team Sites page. Click on Roster in the left Frame. Select Options, Login, if you are already not logged in. Select Options, Email Team Fill in the following fields: Add CC or Attachment if desired. Click Send Add Events to your Team Schedule: Click on Schedule in the left Frame. Login at the top right corner of the page, if you are already not logged in. Select Options, + Add New Event Fill in the form. Click Submit Click here for the Coaches Guide Email... Are the Hands Part of the Bat? It is a myth that a batter’s hands are considered part of the bat when the batter is struck on the hands by a pitched ball. The situation described below is applicable in all divisions of Little League Baseball® and Little League Softball®. Two runners are on base, and there are no outs and two strikes on the batter. The batter is set in the batter’s box and the pitcher delivers the pitch. The batter offers at the pitch and in the act of swinging the batter is hit on the hand by the pitch. The umpire calls “dead ball” and indicates “strike three.” After the manager requests and is granted time, he/she suggests that the player should be awarded first base because the ball hit the player’s hands. What is the ruling? To make the proper call on this play, we reference the Definitions Section (2.00) of the 2014 Little League® Rulebook. Under part of the definition of a “strike,” on Page 64 Condition (e) states that a strike is a legal pitch that touches the batter’s person as the batter strikes at it. A dead ball is declared by the umpire. Rule 6.05 (e) on Page 78 states: A batter is out when the batter attempts to hit a third strike and is touched by the ball. In this scenario, the batter made an attempt to swing at the pitch. The swinging motion constitutes the batter offering at the pitch, making it a strike. The dead ball is called to eliminate the opportunity for a runner(s) to advance. A common misconception is that hands are part of the bat. The hands are part of a person’s body. If a pitch hits the batter’s hands the ball is dead; if he/she swung at the pitch, a strike is called (NOT a foul). If the batter was avoiding the pitch, the batter would be awarded first base. ARE THE HANDS PART OF THE BAT? It is a myth... There's is Nothing Automatic about a Bunt-Strike THERE’S NOTHING AUTOMATIC ABOUT A BUNT-STRIKE What is the proper way to interpret a bunt attempt and what constitutes a bunt-strike. The situations described below are applicable in Little League Baseball® Major Division and Teenage Divisions. In the bottom of the fourth inning, the pitcher begins his delivery to home plate. As he starts his motion, the batter moves into a bunting stance. The batter holds the bat over home plate as the pitch tracks high out of the strike zone. The batter makes no attempt to move the bat at all and the umpire rules the pitch a “ball.” The manager of the team in the field asks, and is granted, time so that he can get an explanation from the home-plate umpire as to why he called the pitch a ball when the batter never moved the bat out of the strike zone. The manager claims that since the batter did not pull the bat out of the strike zone while in the bunting position, it’s an automatic strike. Is the manager correct to challenge the umpire’s call? To explain the rule, we reference the Definitions Section (2.00) of the 2015 Little League Baseball® Rulebook. Under the definition of “bunt,” a bunt is a batted ball not swung at, but intentionally met with the bat and tapped slowly. The mere holding of the bat in the strike zone is not an attempted bunt. If no attempt is made to make contact with the ball outside the strike zone while in the bunting stance, it shall be called a ball. The batter must offer at the pitch for it to be a strike. THERE’S NOTHING AUTOMATIC ABOUT A BUNT-STRIKE What... There is Nothing Foul about a Foul-Tip What is the difference between a foul ball and a foul tip. The situations described below are applicable in all divisions of Little League Baseball® and Little League Softball®. Situation No. 1: With no outs and no runners on base, the batter has a one-ball, no-strike count. The pitcher delivers a fastball that jams the batter, who pops the ball out of play. The foul ball results in the umpire signaling strike one. On the next pitch, a change-up from the pitcher fools the batter, who lunges at the pitch, popping the ball up. The blooper travels into foul territory down the first-base line, but the defense is unable to make a play before the ball hits the ground, resulting in the umpire yelling “foul ball” and signaling strike two. The batter would foul off one more pitch before eventually reaching safely on a base on balls. To effectively and properly explain the foul ball call, we reference the Definitions Section (2.00) of the 2015 Little League Baseball® and Little League Softball® Rulebooks. According to the definition of a “foul ball,” on Pages 60-61, an umpire is expected to make a series of judgments based on foul territory. A foul ball is a batted ball that settles on foul territory between home and first base, or between home and third base, or that bounds past first or third base on or over foul territory, or that first falls on foul territory beyond first or third base, or that while on or over foul territory, touches the person of an umpire or player or any object foreign to the natural ground. Note 1: A foul ball shall be judged according to the relative position of the ball and the foul line, including the foul pole, and not to as whether the fielder is on the foul or fair territory at the time the fielder touches the ball. With two outs and a runner on second base, the batter swings at a pitch that nicks the bat and goes sharply and directly into the catcher’s glove and is caught. The umpire immediately calls and signals foul tip and the base runner attempts to steal third base. The baserunner reached third base safely. At the end of the play, the manager of the defensive team calls “timeout” and asks the home plate umpire, “That ball was foul, why are you allowing the runner to stay on third?” To explain the rule, we reference the Definitions Section (2.00) of the 2015 Little League Baseball® and Little League Softball® Rulebooks. Under the definition of “foul tip,” a foul-tip is a batted ball that goes sharp and direct to the catcher’s hand or glove and is legally caught. It is not a foul tip unless caught and any foul tip that is caught is a strike, and the ball is in play. It is not a catch if it is a rebound, unless the ball has first touched the catcher’s glove or hand. A foul tip can only be caught by the catcher. A “strike” is defined as a legal pitch which meets several conditions, including being struck at by the batter and missed; Is not struck at, but part of the ball passes through any part of the strike zone; Is fouled by the batter when there are less than two strikes; Is bunted foul; Touches the batter’s person as the batter strikes at it (dead ball); Touches the batter in flight in the strike zone; or, Becomes a foul tip (Ball is live and in play). THERE IS NOTHING FOUL ABOUT A FOUL-TIP What... That Player Has to Slide! HEY, BLUE! – THAT PLAYER HAS TO SLIDE! This month, we will explain and define whether, or not, a player is required to slide. The situation described below is applicable in all levels of Little League Baseball® and Little League Softball®. In the bottom of the second inning, with runners on second and third base, the batter hits a ball to shallow left field. The left fielder is unable to make the catch. The runner from third base scores easily, and the runner from second base runs through the third base coach’s “Stop” sign and attempts to score. By this time, the shortstop has received the ball and the catcher is yelling “home, home.” As the ball is thrown to home plate, the catcher moves in front of the plate and prepares to make a play on the runner. As the ball comes in, the runner ducks his head to avoid being hit with ball, but does not attempt to slide. As the runner crosses home plate, he bumps the catcher with his shoulder. The defensive coach immediately begins to admonish the umpire for failing to call the runner out for not sliding. Is the manager correct to claim that the runner should be “automatically” out for not sliding? To explain the rule, we reference Rule 7.08 (a) (3) in the 2015 Little League Baseball® and Little League Softball® Rulebooks. There is no “must-slide” rule in Little League. When the fielder has the ball and is waiting to make the tag, the runner has two options: 1. Slide; or 2. Attempt to get around the fielder. The runner must NOT deliberately or maliciously contact the fielder, but he is NOT required to slide. If the fielder (any fielder, not just the catcher) does not have the ball, and there is a collision, you CANNOT call the runner out. However, if the umpire determines that the runner deliberately attempted to injure the fielder, the umpire could eject the runner for unsportsmanlike conduct. HEY, BLUE! – THAT PLAYER HAS TO SLIDE! This... 2016 Coach's Info Packet * *Note some or all of the preceding documents can be downloaded and displayed and/or printed in Adobe's Acrobat format. If you do not have Adobe's free Acrobat Reader software, download it now.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8369
__label__wiki	0.705331	0.705331	French chanteusse brings taste of The Lido Caroline Nin sings a Hymn to Piaf in Paris last year. French songstress Caroline Nin served up a exciting slice of songs from the Lido, the world-famous cabaret venue on Paris’s Champs Elysees at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival in June. Nin presented as a quintessentially French performer with her sexy personal style and glorious sensual voice intoxicating the full house at The Space. She had selected a repertoire of songs from the five years she spent performing at The Lido in Paris, which easily transported us into the City of Lovers. She told the audience she had not performed in Adelaide since 2007 when she treated audiences to a rousing tribute to Marlene Dietrich during the Cabaret Festival. My French-born husband Olivier and I had front row seats for that riveting performance. Last year, when I was in Paris, I attended a special performance in a cosy, if somewhat claustrophobic 13th century cellar to hear Nin commemorate Edith Piaf on the 50th anniversary of her death in October. Henceforth, I declare that I am a devoted fan. Her appearance in Adelaide could not be missed, but my friends and I had to be satisfied with Table 23 this time at the Matinee – both Friday and Saturday evening performances booked out early. We were not disappointed, and like the whole audience, we were enthralled as this Chanteuse presented a variety of songs from the biggest cabaret venue in the world, the famous The Lido on the Champs Elysees. However, for an encore, Nin presented Je ne Regrette rien Piaf’s most famous song and the audience loved it. “I am so thrilled to be back in Adelaide because this city really celebrates the true cabaret artist,” she said after the show. absolutely french \| nadine 25/06/2014	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8374
__label__cc	0.652959	0.347041	Compassion Fatigue: an institutional issue Michael McCabe ‘Most young doctors enter medicine with quite a profound desire to help other people. Somehow, across the first decade or so of training and work, that diminishes. We call it compassion fatigue – the idea that doctors have a finite reservoir of caring that drains away over time, leaving some of them a cynical, couldn’t-give-a-damn husk of inhumanity.’ Nathan Consedine (North & South, September 2015, p.60) The Greek word for compassion ‘splagchnizomai’ literally means ‘to be moved’ in ‘one’s bowels.’ Emotions were viewed as ‘residing’ in the bowels – literally ‘in the guts.’ Thus, a person without compassion was essentially unmoved by the plight of another and could be described as being ‘hard’, ‘heartless’, or ‘harsh’ with ‘no reach’ inside them. Compassion fatigue is not limited to the healthcare professions. It is part and parcel of any professional role that involves advocacy for or care of others – it is potentially the Achilles’ Heel of all professions. Professional life is marked by the complex interplay between personal well-being, workload, role expectations, rapidly changing social and cultural norms, and by systemic issues, such as the strengths and particular shortcomings of the institutions in which the professions reside. Frequently the professional is caught in the crossfire of one or more of these dynamics with the result that his or her energy and passion for the profession and its goals dissipates. That feeling, described by many today, ‘of getting through the night’, is most notably marked by a reduced ‘reach’ of compassion, and, frequently, by cynicism. Given its multi-dimensional nature and causation, compassion fatigue requires addressing on several levels – at a personal level, and at a communal or institutional level. At a personal level compassion can only be sustained if the professional ‘tends to the soul.’ Being an advocate and caring for others drains the advocate and empties the caregiver. Whatever a person’s faith dimension or motivation, such roles demand ‘Sabbath’ time – times of refreshment and re-creation, times of rest and review in which we ‘listen again’ to our souls and nurture them in healthy and life-giving ways. While bread-winners may well recognise this need for rest and recreation, such a ‘Sabbath’ break is not always possible given financial pressures on families and individuals and the demands of the profession. That is why the culture of the particular institution, be it healthcare, medicine, law, or religious faith, also requires refreshment and renewal if it is not to exacerbate or even be complicit in compassion fatigue amongst its personnel. However, institutions themselves can demonstrate compassion fatigue, evident above all in the ways in which they respond to those who are most vulnerable, including the demands placed on personnel, the language used, and the prevailing attitudes and mind-sets of those vested with power. Nowhere is this insight being illustrated more profoundly than in the leadership and vision of Pope Francis. In the recent Synod on the Family, Pope Francis gave a clear illustration of the need for the Church to return to the ‘compassionate reach’ of the gospel. In doing so he challenges those who would tie mercy and compassion to obedience to the law. For example, in his closing homily, commenting on the story of the healing of Bartimaeus, the blind beggar, he said, “This can be a danger for us: in the face of constant problems, it is better to move on, instead of letting ourselves be bothered. In this way, just like the disciples, we are with Jesus but we do not think like him. We are in his group, but our hearts are not open. We lose wonder, gratitude and enthusiasm, and risk becoming habitually unmoved by grace. We are able to speak about him and work for him, but we live far from his heart, which is reaching out to those who are wounded. This is the temptation: a ‘spirituality of illusion’: we walk through the deserts of humanity without seeing what is really there…a faith that does not know how to root itself in the life of people remains arid and, rather than oases, creates other deserts.” At the conclusion of the Synod Pope Francis then offered a number of antidotes to compassion fatigue, at both a personal and institutional level, including Attempting to see the ‘issues having to do with the family’ in the ‘light of the Gospel’ without ‘falling into a facile repetition of what was obvious or has already been said.’ ‘Seeing difficulties and uncertainties which challenge and threaten the family in ‘the light of the Faith, carefully studying them and confronting them fearlessly, without burying our heads in the sand.’ Portraying, once again, the vitality and vision of the Catholic Church, ‘which is not afraid to stir dulled consciences or to soil her hands with lively and frank discussions about the family.’ While Pope Francis was speaking specifically about the family, his wisdom and courage gives fresh heart to all caregivers and advocates of compassion and mercy and reminds us not to neglect the ways in which ‘compassion fatigue’ may permeate the very institutions within which we practice our respective professions. Rev Dr Michael McCabe is the founding director of The Nathaniel Centre and Parish Priest of Our Lady of Kapiti Parish, Te Whaea o Kāpiti.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8377
__label__cc	0.622546	0.377454	ELEBRATE YOUR VALENTINE’S DAY WITH ‘ KALA SHAH KALA’ by National Buzz.in February 12, 2019 Bollywood, Breaking News, Latest Buzz 0 194 Zee Studios, in association with Naughty Men Productions, Infantry Pictures and Dreamityata Entertainment, will be releasing their upcoming Punjabi romedy, Kala Shah Kala worldwide on February 14, 2019.Written and directed by Amarjit Singh, the film stars Sargun Mehta, Binnu Dhillon and Jordan Sandhu in the lead roles. Kala Shah Kala is a romantic comedy with an important social message. The film will bring Sargun Mehta and Binnu Dhillon on the screen together for the first time.Speaking on the film, Shariq Patel, CEO, Zee Studios said, “The film is a romantic comedy with an important social message. We hope audiences will appreciate the film releasing this Valentine’s Day”. Actor Sargun Mehta said, “Kala Shah Kala set was all about fun and frolic. Although the subject of the film may seem a bit serious, but it is treated with utmost comedy. Binnu(Dhillon) Ji’s comic timing is something we all are a fan of. But I never knew that even Jordan is so much fun to work with. You will be entertained watching this film, that’s a promise.”Actor-producer Binnu Dhillon commented, “This concept is not new, we have always seen the discrimination on the basis of color of the skin. But the way it is treated in this film is unique; the message is conveyed without hampering entertainment a bit.Collaborating with a national brand like Zee for a regional film is pride for Punjabi cinema.” AAP MLA AMAN ARORA GETS INVITATION FROM HARVARD TO PARTICIPATE IN PRESTIGIOUS ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN BOSTON UNEMPLOYMENT FORCING YOUNGSTERS TO GO ABROAD IN SEARCH OF PASTURES RISKING THEIR LIVES : RORI Bannet Dosanjh will take you on a spiritual tour with ‘Waheguru’ - on May 09, 2019 Akali and Congress governments responsible for farmers’ plight in state: Kultar Sandhwan Captain govt should ensure wheat procurement is not hampered by shortage of gunny bags: AAP CII-Yi to organise 3rd Edition of Corporate Premier League	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8378
__label__wiki	0.978812	0.978812	Last Updated: Tuesday, 18 November, 2003, 10:54 GMT Congress agrees Aids funding plan Congress approved higher Aids spending than Mr Bush requested US Congress negotiators have agreed to provide $2.4bn to combat Aids in 2004. The amount forms part of a plan by the Bush administration to spend $15bn over five years on fighting the disease and its effects in the worst-hit nations. The 2004 allocation is more than the president had asked for, but less than the $3bn expected by Aids activists who fear the plan will suffer cuts. On Monday, US Secretary of State Colin Powell told the BBC that the US was committed to spending the full $15bn. The five-year plan is aimed at preventing and treating Aids, as well as tuberculosis and other diseases that prey on its victims, in 14 African and Caribbean countries. It was passed by Congress earlier this year, but funding for the schemes had to be approved separately. The money agreed on Monday is more than the $2.1bn that President George W Bush had proposed for next year's budget. However, the BBC's Michael Buchanan in Washington says most people had assumed the president would spend $3bn a year on the anti-Aids initiative. The decision must be put to a full vote in both chambers of Congress, possibly later this week. This is more than a health crisis, this is a national security crisis. This is a crisis in whether or not these countries can remain viable US Secretary of State Colin Powell On Monday, Colin Powell said in a BBC interview that the Bush administration was not backtracking on its commitment to spend $15bn on Aids over the next five years. He said the US was making a greater contribution to fighting HIV/Aids than any other country. And he defended plans to spend one-third of the money on programmes promoting sexual abstinence. BUSH'S $15bn AIDS RELIEF PLAN The money will provide drugs for two million people with the disease It is also intended to prevent seven million new infections Another 10 million people with HIV and Aids orphans should receive care Countries affected are Botswana, Ethiopia, Guyana, Haiti, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia He said: "Abstinence works, we know it works. If you're not actually transmitting the disease through sexual conduct, the disease will not be transmitted." However, Mr Powell stressed that sexual abstinence was being promoted as part of a comprehensive approach to HIV and Aids that also included education, promotion of safe sex and condoms, treatment programmes and research into a cure. Mr Powell said the HIV/Aids epidemic was threatening the viability of some countries: "It leaves families totally torn apart, villages torn apart, and in due course, countries torn apart." Adopting Ethiopia's Aids orphans Many of Ethiopia's Aids orphans are being cared for abroad Soviets 'haunt' Kazakh Aids policy 'Why can't we marry?' The Uganda Aids battle The fight against HIV/Aids Life in Malawi village hit by Aids 'Life interrupted' by Don McCullin In pictures: Ray's last weeks The biology of Aids Map: Global spread of HIV Impact of Aids Are Aids orphans overlooked? Aids debate: In-depth site UN Aids chief calls for openness 16 Nov 03 \| Asia-Pacific RELATED INTERNET LINKS: The Global Fund World Health Organisation (HIV) TOP AMERICAS STORIES US lifts lid on WikiLeaks probe Iran scientist heads home Argentina legalises gay marriage News Front Page \| Africa \| Americas \| Asia-Pacific \| Europe \| Middle East \| South Asia UK \| Business \| Entertainment \| Science/Nature \| Technology \| Health Have Your Say \| In Pictures \| Week at a Glance \| Country Profiles \| In Depth \| Programmes	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8379
__label__wiki	0.968055	0.968055	Last Updated: Monday, 17 July 2006, 15:16 GMT 16:16 UK Big Mac couple's £1.3m lotto win Emma Cox and Luke Pittard say they enjoy their jobs A couple who work together at McDonald's say they have no plans to give up the job despite winning more than £1.3m on the lottery. Emma Cox, 28, and Luke Pittard, 23, went for a celebration burger after picking up their cheque at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium. "It's an enjoyable job. They treat us really well," said Luke. The pair, who have a two-year-old daughter, have been living with their parents, and will start house-hunting. The couple both work in the Pontprennau branch of McDonald's, where they met four years ago. "I didn't believe her ... my first reaction was, you're lying Luke Pittard Ms Cox, who lives in Splott, Cardiff, learned they had won last Wednesday's jackpot when she switched on the TV to check the winning numbers on Thursday morning. "I saw the first three numbers and I thought, we've won a tenner, then the next three came up," she said. "I was looking at the ticket thinking, no, it's not real." She had been given a clue earlier, however, to the £1,369,847 slice of good fortune. "It's funny because on the day I bought the ticket, I went back to work and there was a money spider on my hand," she said. "So I said to one of the girls that I was going to win the lottery that night - obviously never believing it would happen." The couple plan to go on holiday, then look for a house When she discovered they had won, she telephoned her partner, who was having a busy morning at work. "I didn't believe her," Mr Pittard explained. "My first reaction was: 'You're lying.' "I just thought, I haven't got time for this now," he said, and carried on working. The couple, who currently live with their respective parents, plan to start looking for a "nice-sized" house, somewhere in Cardiff. 'Level headed' Ms Cox said: "The whole family's on cloud nine and we're looking forward to a nice holiday - possibly a cruise as I've always wanted to go on one - and then we'll start looking for a new house. "Chloe's only two so is a bit young to understand it all really, but I'm sure she'll be suitably spoilt." Ms Cox said she wanted to carry on working to keep "level-headed". Cardiff area manager Marcus Crossman said it was "absolutely fantastic" the couple planned to carry on working at McDonald's. He said everyone was "just gobsmacked" by the win. "We're all really pleased for them," he added. Find out more about what is going on across the region Bad eyesight leads to lottery win 13 Jul 06 \| Wales Student's £100k scratch card win 15 Jun 06 \| Wales OAP gives away £3.5m lottery win 22 May 06 \| South West Wales Cash splash by £2.4m lotto winner 25 Apr 06 \| South East Wales TOP WALES STORIES Admission over NHS 'underfunding' Farmers' 'badger cull disaster' Funeral of family after home fire	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8380
__label__cc	0.588306	0.411694	Just North of Wrigley Field Everyone else has a blog, why shouldn't I? Of course you'll find a lot of sports here and anything else I feel like posting. If you want to see a topic discussed here (sports or otherwise) send an e-mail to jamesinwrigleyville@yahoo.com. Enjoy! posted by James - 3:01 PM Everybody knows that they just got rid of the rebuy tournaments for the 2009 WSOP... I'm not that happy about that, but it's not the end of the world. I do pretty good in rebuy tournaments online. It's not like the WSOP was the only place to find a rebuy tournament, but I was hoping that maybe someday I would participate in a WSOP rebuy tournament with a bracelet on the line. I hardly think it would be far from the optimal event for me to enter, unless someone else was staking me. I do think it was kind of hypocritical of the proponents to eliminating rebuys from the WSOP, mainly Daniel Negreanu. It hasn't changed my opinion of him as a player or my respect for him, but I think his motives are dubious at best. He's often called an ambassador of poker, and for the most part he performs this function admirably... however, his attitude has shifted to someone who is very protective of his "spot". He released his book (which is an amazing read, especially his and David Williams' chapter... both should be required) and found out how many people enjoyed the way he played poker and implemented some if not all of his strategies into their play. Now, this hasn't stopped him from being wildly successful over the last year... winning his home country's B.C. Open and his second $2k Limit Hold 'Em WSOP bracelet (fourth bracelet overall). I'm sure he also made quite a lot of money off the book itself, which is why I found it very curious when I read a blog on his website lashing out at everyone using his concepts, claiming he was done writing books, writing columns and "teaching". http://www.fullcontactpoker.com/poker-journal.php?subaction=showfull&id=1230241291&archive=&start_from=&ucat=& It left a really bad taste in my mouth to read that. He then followed with spearheading the movement to get rid of rebuy events in the upcoming WSOP to "protect the sanctity of a WSOP bracelet" (not a direct quote, but that's pretty much it). It's not because people don't enjoy the events... if they didn't, there wouldn't be so many players putting so much money into them. There's no way anyone should consider it "buying a bracelet". Daniel gets a lot of pub for his antics in WSOP rebuy events, however he's never won one. In fact, he's only made one final table, with one other cash. It's possible this is the main motive for his desire to eliminate these events. If that's the case... he's only cashed in the main event once... yes, just once. Does he want to get rid of that, too? The winner of the Main Event is usually reviled a amateur, donk-ish luckbox as it is. Oh wow... this got off topic really quickly. I'm supposed to be asking our resident Ace, Mark Radoja, a question. It's really easy to tear things down/take things away. How about what we could add to the WSOP? What ideas could help grow poker, not only during our Mecca, our pinnacle... our WORLD SERIES, but also online and in casinos on our continent and all over the world. I'd like to see the WSOP capitalize on the popularity of Sit and Gos. There's so much for websites and casinos to take advantage of when it comes to SNGs. Availability, immediacy, getting a pretty good cut out of every single one that gets played. They don't require any more overhead than you already have... every casino offering poker (or any table game for that matter) could announce they were starting a SNG right now and see what happens. At best, a game gets started, the house gets their cut and 2-3 players go home happy, and the rest at least got a game in... at worst, you kept the players in the casino for a while longer buying food, drinks, dumping money into worthless slot machines or pai gow tables (you real poker players... please don't be that guy). SNGs are a skill and a mastery all their own, just like any other form of poker. Some institution should crown a definitive SNG world champion in 2009, but in a live setting. Now, I know what you're saying... there's already a Shootout World Championship at the WSOP, and that's kinda like a bunch of SNGs strung together... but it's not the same. Once you're out of a shoot out, you're done. When you're out of a SNG, you go get in another one. A SNG World Championship would have to capture that environment. I don't play them often, but the Matrix SNG format offered at Full Tilt is something they could bring to a casino setting. It would probably take quite a bit of manpower and an attentive staff, but that's why the WSOP isn't hosted in my basement. We already assume that about tournaments with $1,500-40,000 buy ins. Players would play in a set number of one-table tournaments and would gain points depending on where they finished in each tournament and how many players they knocked out (this would be optional). Each tournament would have a small cash prize to the winner, maybe down through 3rd place. This is important to keep every player as interested in possible during the later SNGs, even if they didn't have a chance at finishing near the top of the overall points leaderboards. There would be a large cash pool divided among the top 10% of the leaders, with a bracelet also awarded to first place. They could also spread the event over multiple days quite easy. For a large buy-in event, they could have the top 10 (or 9 or 6 depending on the type of SNG) come back on a separate day and play a one-table SNG for large cash pay outs to the top three and a bracelet to the winner. SNGs are great for poker. I hope their popularity never fades, and the frustrating moments where you're chasing after the next open seat in a juicy SNG full of fish and just miss out... never goes anywhere. The availability of a poker tournament at any hour of the day, no matter where I am, has not only increased my enjoyment of poker, but made me much better along the way. I think it could do the same for my casino play as well... if I could get my local casinos to go along with it. Maybe a WSOP event along these lines would help that come together. Other ideas: A heads up stud or Pot Limit Omaha event. 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__label__wiki	0.670185	0.670185	Multiplication table for N = 20 * 8÷9 20 * 8 = 160 [+] twenty multiplied by eight equals one hundred sixty 20 * 8.01 = 160.2 [+] twenty multiplied by eight point one equals one hundred sixty point two twenty multiplied by eight point two equals one hundred sixty point four twenty multiplied by eight point three equals one hundred sixty point six twenty multiplied by eight point four equals one hundred sixty point eight 20 * 8.05 = 161 [+] twenty multiplied by eight point five equals one hundred sixty-one twenty multiplied by eight point six equals one hundred sixty-one point two twenty multiplied by eight point seven equals one hundred sixty-one point four twenty multiplied by eight point eight equals one hundred sixty-one point six twenty multiplied by eight point nine equals one hundred sixty-one point eight 20 * 8.1 = 162 [+] twenty multiplied by eight point one equals one hundred sixty-two twenty multiplied by eight point one one equals one hundred sixty-two point two twenty multiplied by eight point one two equals one hundred sixty-two point four twenty multiplied by eight point one three equals one hundred sixty-two point six twenty multiplied by eight point one four equals one hundred sixty-two point eight twenty multiplied by eight point one five equals one hundred sixty-three twenty multiplied by eight point one six equals one hundred sixty-three point two twenty multiplied by eight point one seven equals one hundred sixty-three point four twenty multiplied by eight point one eight equals one hundred sixty-three point six twenty multiplied by eight point one nine equals one hundred sixty-three point eight twenty multiplied by eight point two equals one hundred sixty-four twenty multiplied by eight point two one equals one hundred sixty-four point two twenty multiplied by eight point two two equals one hundred sixty-four point four twenty multiplied by eight point two three equals one hundred sixty-four point six twenty multiplied by eight point two four equals one hundred sixty-four point eight twenty multiplied by eight point two five equals one hundred sixty-five twenty multiplied by eight point two six equals one hundred sixty-five point two twenty multiplied by eight point two seven equals one hundred sixty-five point four twenty multiplied by eight point two eight equals one hundred sixty-five point six twenty multiplied by eight point two nine equals one hundred sixty-five point eight twenty multiplied by eight point three equals one hundred sixty-six twenty multiplied by eight point three one equals one hundred sixty-six point two twenty multiplied by eight point three two equals one hundred sixty-six point four twenty multiplied by eight point three three equals one hundred sixty-six point six twenty multiplied by eight point three four equals one hundred sixty-six point eight twenty multiplied by eight point three five equals one hundred sixty-seven twenty multiplied by eight point three six equals one hundred sixty-seven point two twenty multiplied by eight point three seven equals one hundred sixty-seven point four twenty multiplied by eight point three eight equals one hundred sixty-seven point six twenty multiplied by eight point three nine equals one hundred sixty-seven point eight twenty multiplied by eight point four equals one hundred sixty-eight twenty multiplied by eight point four one equals one hundred sixty-eight point two twenty multiplied by eight point four two equals one hundred sixty-eight point four twenty multiplied by eight point four three equals one hundred sixty-eight point six twenty multiplied by eight point four four equals one hundred sixty-eight point eight twenty multiplied by eight point four five equals one hundred sixty-nine twenty multiplied by eight point four six equals one hundred sixty-nine point two twenty multiplied by eight point four seven equals one hundred sixty-nine point four twenty multiplied by eight point four eight equals one hundred sixty-nine point six twenty multiplied by eight point four nine equals one hundred sixty-nine point eight twenty multiplied by eight point five equals one hundred seventy twenty multiplied by eight point five one equals one hundred seventy point two twenty multiplied by eight point five two equals one hundred seventy point four twenty multiplied by eight point five three equals one hundred seventy point six twenty multiplied by eight point five four equals one hundred seventy point eight twenty multiplied by eight point five five equals one hundred seventy-one twenty multiplied by eight point five six equals one hundred seventy-one point two twenty multiplied by eight point five seven equals one hundred seventy-one point four twenty multiplied by eight point five eight equals one hundred seventy-one point six twenty multiplied by eight point five nine equals one hundred seventy-one point eight twenty multiplied by eight point six equals one hundred seventy-two twenty multiplied by eight point six one equals one hundred seventy-two point two twenty multiplied by eight point six two equals one hundred seventy-two point four twenty multiplied by eight point six three equals one hundred seventy-two point six twenty multiplied by eight point six four equals one hundred seventy-two point eight twenty multiplied by eight point six five equals one hundred seventy-three twenty multiplied by eight point six six equals one hundred seventy-three point two twenty multiplied by eight point six seven equals one hundred seventy-three point four twenty multiplied by eight point six eight equals one hundred seventy-three point six twenty multiplied by eight point six nine equals one hundred seventy-three point eight twenty multiplied by eight point seven equals one hundred seventy-four twenty multiplied by eight point seven one equals one hundred seventy-four point two twenty multiplied by eight point seven two equals one hundred seventy-four point four twenty multiplied by eight point seven three equals one hundred seventy-four point six twenty multiplied by eight point seven four equals one hundred seventy-four point eight twenty multiplied by eight point seven five equals one hundred seventy-five twenty multiplied by eight point seven six equals one hundred seventy-five point two twenty multiplied by eight point seven seven equals one hundred seventy-five point four twenty multiplied by eight point seven eight equals one hundred seventy-five point six twenty multiplied by eight point seven nine equals one hundred seventy-five point eight twenty multiplied by eight point eight equals one hundred seventy-six twenty multiplied by eight point eight one equals one hundred seventy-six point two twenty multiplied by eight point eight two equals one hundred seventy-six point four twenty multiplied by eight point eight three equals one hundred seventy-six point six twenty multiplied by eight point eight four equals one hundred seventy-six point 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__label__cc	0.643593	0.356407	How To Make Sure Your Summer Vacation Is Budget-Proof Boyz II Men Boulevard The Emergence of the Hijab Innovative Format is Key to Reaching and Educating African Americans About Prostate Cancer Posted by News Wire Nationwide — The Prostate Health Education Network (PHEN) is currently debuting its Broadway-style stage play Daddy’s Boys at national churches, venues and theaters around the country to packed houses and sell-out crowds. The show focuses on the often-overlooked prostate cancer crisis in the African American community, and collaborates with award wining playwright Garrett Davis, who uses humor and music-laden dramas to bring awareness to major health issues facing minorities. Scene from Daddy’s Boys stage play. “We know that African-American men are more than twice as likely than men of all other races to die from prostate cancer,” said Thomas A. Farrington, founder and president, the Prostate Health Education Network. “This innovative format has shown strong appeal to men and women entertaining and educating audiences, enabling us to reach thousands with knowledge to help save more lives,” according to Farrington, an 18-year prostate cancer survivor. Daddy’s Boys uses a highly entertaining infotainment approach to tell the story about a widowed father and his sons, who are in a fractured relationship, coming together when faced with prostate cancer. The play has been running for almost a year and in that time has received outstanding reviews and feedback from sold-out audiences in Atlanta, Georgia; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Glendale, Maryland; Richmond, Virginia; Detroit, Michigan; Greensboro, Fayetteville and Winston-Salem, North Carolina; and Jacksonville, FL. PHEN is touring Daddy’s Boys nationally with the support of partners including Amgen, Astellas, Bayer, Genentech, Genomic Health, Janssen Oncology and Pfizer Oncology. The nonprofit works with its network of church partners to host and promote the play within their communities. Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and other partners, including AARP are also joining in PHEN’s efforts to raise prostate cancer awareness. The performances are free of charge to the public with tickets made available online and through PHEN community partners. Typically the day will begin with an educational workshop and luncheon, including presentations by top prostate cancer medical leaders within each city, and end the day with the showing of the Daddy’s Boys stage play. So far, this innovative model is working. Surveys and reviews have shown: • Over 50% of attendees have been personally affected by prostate cancer, meaning they have either had a loved one diagnosed with prostate cancer or been diagnosed themselves; • Community leaders and politicians who attend often present PHEN with proclamations or certificates vowing to change or introduce legislation in their jurisdictions to increase prostate cancer educational and outreach efforts; • The PHEN Prostate Cancer Survivor Network is growing nationally. PHEN recruits and mobilizes prostate cancer survivors, and their loved ones, nationwide to provide education and awareness outreach within their communities. This survivor network, which stretches across the country, is the foundation for much of PHEN’s grassroots community efforts. • Reviewers leave comments and post social media videos, stating feedback, such as “Oh the show was excellent! And they gave me a lot of information. I’m going to talk to my brother-in-law tonight about going to get a check-up if I have to take him myself.” — Daddy’s Boys Atlanta Audience Member. “We have found an effective format that is working and we couldn’t be prouder of all of our churches, sponsors, community leaders, partners, survivors and volunteers for helping to make this come together. We are increasing prostate health knowledge within African American communities on a much larger scale with the ultimate goal being a reduction in the Black prostate cancer death rate,” said Farrington. The next tour stops for Daddy’s Boys includes Birmingham, Alabama on May 18th and Milwaukee, Wisconsin on June 8, 2019. More information and tickets are available at https://www.daddysboys.org Churches and other organizations that may be interested in hosting Daddy’s Boys should email PHEN at rapcancer@prostatehealthed.org. 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__label__cc	0.680997	0.319003	What was it about those 2013 Toronto Maple Leafs that shot them up the Eastern Conference standings from a playoff-less streak that seemed to last forever to a team that finished 5th and nearly upset the Boston Bruins in the opening round of the playoffs? The designs of Leafs management came together and proved that a playoff team could be built again in the centre of the universe. Phil Kessel, the expensive golden boy, came through with both scoring and leadership, James Reimer gained back some confidence and started winning some games down the stretch, Nazem Kadri escaped from under the thumb of Ron Wilson and showed he could be that player under Randy Carlyle and Cody Franson became the defender he was pegged to be, back when he was drafted by Nashville. It seems like a lot to duplicate, especially since two of the players are still unsigned and the team brought in a new goalie to fight for (and likely win) the starting job in net. The Maple Leafs have a way of making their seasons interesting, but finally, I think it is interesting in a way that will keep the fans content... for now. A couple of point-per-game seasons in Toronto is slowly making me into a believer that Phil Kessel is now a worthy contender for a 1st round pick in the hockey pool draft. It has taken a little longer than what management likely thought it would, but now that Kessel has cut through the nonsense of the Toronto media and established himself as a legitimate star, he is now in business. The real gamble in Toronto is how many games is Joffrey Lupul going to play this year? He missed the better part of the 2013 season, only playing 16 of 48 games and hasn't played a full season since 2007, but he sure has chemistry with Kessel and that's hard to deny. If he can play 60 games this year, he is still a reasonable pick-up for the pool, remarkably. The depth beyond the top two doesn't look too bad, as I figure James Van Riemsdyk is now finding his footing in Toronto and should be able to pick up a few more points this year, while Tyler Bozak will hover around his best year, Nikolai Kulemin might take a bit of a hit this year, while new faces David Clarkson and Dave Bolland will add both grit and a few extra points this year, which Toronto will need in the Atlantic Division. The polarizing character that is Dion Phaneuf will generate either feelings of love or hate towards the guy, but for the most part, he also generates points, despite how you feel about him. Phaneuf will get minutes in Toronto and as the captain, that should be expected, so I think the points won't be too far behind. This is also the last season of his large contract, so his impending free agency might make him a little more motivated this season. In behind Phaneuf, as it stands today, the re-emergence of Jake Gardiner is going to help the Leafs in the long haul, as he has put up some impressive numbers in his short NHL career. I expect him to grow a little more as an NHL'er and be a lot more of that reliable pool-scoring blueliner. The Leafs also have some depth here, as both John-Michael Liles (injury-prone status considered) and Carl Gunnarsson may figure in well into some pool designs as well. The large over-hanging question mark in Toronto is in the crease. James Reimer finished the 2013 season strong and even had a pretty good playoff appearance, but the Leafs ended up winning the Jonathan Bernier sweepstakes out of Los Angeles... so who do you have? Both goalies are 25 years old, Reimer has seen more NHL experience over the last three seasons, but Bernier is believed to have the starting goalie pedigree. The Leafs are not the only team to be deep in a goaltending question, but this will really heat up before too long and it will be a question of how they manage it. Can they possibly platoon the position well, like Anaheim or Chicago last season. Riding the hot hand may be the order of the day. The Leafs have some spots open, by my estimation, which can allow for some youth to come up and break out. Joe Colborne and Carter Ashton have been waiting in the wings for the Leafs, gaining some confidence in the minors and maturing phyiscally, so that could be a bonus. If some free agency issues on the blueline cannot be resolved before too long, look for a kid like Morgan Rielly to make a move and turn some heads. Looks like all injuries have healed before camp. Two big names still on the list as unsigned restricted free agents for the Leafs. Forward Nazem Kadri and defenseman Cody Franson are still awaiting new deals and they are both coming off of good years to warrant some good deals (according to the market). With only a couple weeks until training camp, there will be a big push to get these two signed, but with only so much money left in the coffers and so many spots left to be taken, it will be a tight fit, if a fit at all. Posted by opiatedsherpa at 12:45 AM Labels: maple leafs, pool projections	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8399
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__label__wiki	0.811312	0.811312	Obama: Shinseki stays despite calls for resignation The fallout continuing to grow over the scandal at America's veteran hospitals. The House just passed a bill that cuts through the red tape and makes it easier to fire senior officials at Veteran Affairs for misconduct. The bill comes as President Barack Obama finally broke his silence Wednesday after meeting with embattled Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki. Obama: Shinseki stays for now, but VA misconduct will be punished The president went before the American public to express his outrage and frustration over the alleged misconduct revealed by CNN that may have resulted in the deaths of at least 40 veterans in Arizona. "If these allegations prove to be true, it is dishonorable, it is disgraceful, and I will not tolerate it, period," the President Obama said. For now, the president is standing by Shinseki. But as the crisis continues to snowball, Democrats are breaking with the President. In interview with CNN's Brianna Keilar, Democratic Congressman John Barrow from Georgia explains why he's now calling for Shinseki's resignation. "It's a whole lot easier for someone new to investigate and you also get to a point where someone needs to be held accountable," Barrow said. "People died as a result of this." OutFront, Andy Card, the former White House Chief of Staff for President George W. Bush, and Bill Burton, the Former Deputy White House Press Secretary for President Obama. Filed under: Health • News • Politics • Veterans Prosecutors: Christmas lights used in Boston marathon bombs (CNN) - The accused Boston Marathon bombers used Christmas lights and model-car parts to make the explosives, prosecutors said in court documents obtained by CNN Wednesday. "The Marathon bombs were constructed using improvised fuses made from Christmas lights and improvised, remote-control detonators fashioned from model car parts," federal prosecutors said in a motion filed Wednesday. "These relatively sophisticated devices would have been difficult for the Tsarnaevs to fabricate successfully without training or assistance from others." To obtain explosive fuel for the pressure cooker bombs, the filing says, brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev "appeared to have crushed and emptied hundreds of individual fireworks containing black powder." Authorities say Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 20, planted bombs at the finish line of the 2013 race. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed during the manhunt that paralyzed Boston. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has pleaded not guilty to killing four people and wounding more than 200. Filed under: Boston Marathon Explosion • News • Terror Attack • Terrorism Witness: 20,000 bees take over car According the Department of Agriculture, bee populations have been dying at a rate that is "economically unsustainable." Yet you wouldn't know it from the stories crossing the wires. On Tuesday night, a tractor-trailer carrying live bees overturned in Delaware, forcing the closure of an entire off ramp due to transient bee swarms in the area. Then, in Canada, a massive bee hive was found inside a home. Tens of thousands of bees needed to be removed from the hive by an experienced beekeeper. And in England, 20,000 bees swarmed a car, covering the tires, doors and windows. What do you do in a situation like that? CNN's Brianna Keilar talks to the young man who experienced it first-hand, Rory Edwards. Texas teen faces life in prison for hash brownies A 19-year-old Texas man is facing serious prison time for hash brownies. Marijuana may be legal in some parts of the country, but in others, laced-baked goods could land you in jail for the rest of your life. The issue is the brownies were made with hash oil, which is considered much more serious than marijuana in Texas. So does the punishment fit the crime? CNN's Pamela Brown has the story. Filed under: Drugs • Justice • Marijuana • News 'Wheel of Fortune' host Pat Sajak under fire over 'unpatriotic racists' tweet "Wheel of Fortune" host Pat Sajak, says he was kidding when he tweeted: I now believe global warming alarmists are unpatriotic racists knowingly misleading for their own ends. Good night. — Pat Sajak (@patsajak) May 20, 2014 "I now believe global warming alarmists are unpatriotic racists knowingly misleading for their own ends. Good night." The remark set off a firestorm with one fan responding: Apparently when he's not entertaining the trailer park crowd, @patsajak is a climatologist. buy a vowel for this, Pat: F_ck Off — Greytdog (@Greytdog) May 20, 2014 "Apparently when he's not entertaining the trailer park crowd, @patsajak is a climatologist. buy a vowel for this, Pat: F_ck Off" CNN's Nischelle Turner has more on the controversy. Filed under: Global Warming • Social Media	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8402
__label__cc	0.707588	0.292412	Home/Industry News GEAR WORKSHOP HIGHLIGHTS INNOVATORS IN WEST COAST FISHERY admin 2018-01-25T18:10:57+00:00 May 31st, 2017\| “The best way to get something done is to tell a fisherman it can’t be done.” – Bob Dooley, veteran fisherman and industry leader With support from a Saltonstall-Kennedy grant and the Packard Foundation, EDF’s Pacific team joined with an all-star Steering Committee this month to convene a Gear Modification Workshop in Newport, Oregon. More than [...] THE WEST COAST GROUNDFISH RECOVERY: THE BEST FISH NEWS YOU HAVEN’T HEARD YET Monterey, California, used to be an epicenter in the West Coast commercial fishing industry. These days, it’s still a working port, but many visitors know more about Steinbeck than Market Squid deliveries. And the city’s waterfront is full of restaurants serving shrimp and tilapia imported from China. And it’s not the only place doing so. Many [...] CSUMB STUDY BACKS TARGETED BOTTOM TRAWLING Monterey >> The icy standoff between fishermen and environmentalists over trawling may thaw a bit thanks to new and more targeted research on its effects. James Lindholm, a professor of marine science and policy at CSU Monterey Bay, partnered with commercial fishermen and conservationists to study the effects of bottom trawling near Morro Bay. A FISHERY ON THE REBOUND: ON THE WEST COAST, FISHERMEN SHOW THEY CAN BE GOOD STEWARDS OF THE SEA. EDF SOLUTIONS, VO.45, NO.4 / FALL 2014 How to fix America's troubled fisheries is a question of passionate debate around the country. when West Coast fishermen were given greater control over their business, a remarkable thing happened: The fishery started to recover . Solutions senior writer Rod Griffin reports from California, where fishermen have joined EDF to help chart a more sustainable future. [...] Monterey Fisherman Develops New, Eco-Friendly Trawl Gear Giuseppe Pennisi used to be skeptical of environmental organizations. But now the old-school Monterey Bay trawl fisherman is on his way to becoming a conservationist. Trawling is notorious for disrupting crucial habitat as the gear drags across the sea floor. Pennisi has partnered with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) to design special trawl equipment that reduces [...]	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8411
__label__wiki	0.846196	0.846196	Realscreen Summit: Unscripted model needs shake up No one on the stage at Realscreen Summit’s opening panel Monday (Jan. 23) was arguing with the central theme of the afternoon’s discussion – that the state of unscripted nation ... No one on the stage at Realscreen Summit’s opening panel Monday (Jan. 23) was arguing with the central theme of the afternoon’s discussion – that the state of unscripted nation in 2017 is “under pressure.” The past year has seen rifts grow between networks and production over ownership of IP and production budgets, with the divide further fueled by uncertainty over the future of television as a whole as a new generation of slick digital content brands and legions of young cable-cutters sweep onto the global scene. But despite tensions between the two sides, panelists – including NPA’s John Ford, Critical Content CEO Tom Forman, PactUS’s David Lyle, FYI programming exec Gena McCarthy, Scripps Networks Interactive chief programmer Kathleen Finch, and Lisa Williams-Fauntroy SVP of business and legal at Discovery Communications – were all in agreement that now is the time for industry players to get creative behind the scenes and find new and better ways to collaborate on everything from maximizing production dollars to finding efficiencies in how shows are ordered and put together. “It’s about collaboration, conversation and transparency,” said Williams-Fauntroy of finding a way forward. Producers on stage agreed, though Lyle cautioned, “For a healthy eco-system, there has to be health on both sides.” Forman, whose company is behind House vs. House and Unlivable, said it was encouraging to hear a call for collaboration from network execs. He said it was time to ditch the industry norm of producers receiving a 10% profit margin in a time of constricting budgets and smaller margins. “I would rather be incentivized by my success. I understand the network point of view when they say ‘I pay you 10% whether the show works or not and that doesn’t seem right to me.’ You don’t share in your hits because I subsidize your failures,” he said. Lyle said that production companies are dealing with smaller margins, noting the 10% profit margin has been seriously eroded. In reality, he said, “it’s 5%, sometimes down to 3% and companies can’t sustain that way.” The sticky point of IP ownership was also raised by panelists – an issue that made headlines (and waves) in the industry in 2016 prompted by the ongoing lawsuit between LMNO and Discovery – with those on the production side voicing their continued unease over the potential of losing shows to networks after they’ve landed big audiences. Some companies have a template where no one gets locked in, even companies that they might have worked with for years they have developed and created to that point but a producer will not be locked into that show, said Lyle. Ford agreed with Lyle, saying it’s very scary for producers to develop that IP and have that network who fund it say “I’m going to give it someone else, that’s a turn off.” For networks, Finch said the IP issue is not a cost issue, but one of accountability. The concern is the companies don’t want to be beholden to something they have no control over, so often networks prefer a more flexible model that might include incentives such as bonuses, rather than a lock-in model. Finch also put voice to an uncomfortable truth in the current eco-system, noting, “the reality is it’s a buyers market.” She stressed that networks and producers have to figure out how to make the system work for those who want to work. At Scripps, she said the company likes to work with producers who want to negotiate, collaborate, who are not steadfast about the 10% margin, or all rights, recognizing the model has changed for everyone. “It’s a sobering reality, there are thousands of young people with cameras who call themselves production companies, and some of them are really good. The reality is that the business is going to change dramatically because certain groups know how to make high-quality content for little money,” she said. With the LMNO-Discovery case hanging over the panel, Ford said network and production companies have become too adversarial in negotiations. He said there should be a focus on shared success, which might foster a knock-out hit, which is something he hasn’t seen in a while. McCarthy said both producers and networks rise together with any success. At FYI, she stressed, “we love finding new producers, while also producing with our proven hitmakers. It’s just a balance of how we work.” With the volume of programming offered to audiences, moderator Cynthia Littleton, managing editor, Television Variety, asked about the pressure to find new and provocative concepts as a way to stand out and get people talking. Forman said it’s daunting, as so little works right now, but, he added, producers do have to think about what not only makes noise but the execution of the idea. McCarthy said that finding proactive ideas isn’t new. Rather, that has always been an approach. When she previously worked with Ford at TLC, she noted, his vision was “proactive concept, credible treatment” and that is the how she still thinks about programming at FYI today. “It’s my job and my team’s job to make sure content is entertaining and smart. That’s not new, but we have to hold ourselves to high standards of delivery.” (Photo by Rahoul Ghose) 2017 Realscreen Summit, Cynthia Littleton, David Lyle, Gena McCarthy, John Ford, Kathleen Finch, Lisa Williams-Fauntroy, Summit '17, Tom Forman Realscreen Summit: The next move for niche networks Realscreen Summit: Navigating life after the sale Realscreen Summit: Breaking ground with A+E’s Sharenow NPA and PactUS merge to create NPACT	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8420
__label__cc	0.643293	0.356707	Firearms in the UK Sawubona Sapper's thread about Lancaster carbines raised in my mind (once again0 the question of firearm ownership in the UK. Yank that I am, I was under the impression that they are very difficult to legally obtain and own, yet while passing through London some time back, I had the fortune to attend a large antique militaria auction and saw enough Martini's and such for sale to arm a small third world nation. They appeared not to be deactivated as well. How difficult is it to feed the antique rifle and pistol collecting monster over on your side of the pond? I apologize in advance if some feel that this question doesn't belong in this forum, but to me it relates to weapons and equipment. Simon Rosbottom Being pre-1919 and of an obsolete calibre, Martini's are classed as antiques and are exempt. However, if you obtain ammunition, do not have a firearms licence (and subsequently comply with all the rules on storage and use associated with that,) you will be deemed to have a deadly weapon and the book will be thrown at you. Thank you, Simon So something in .303 like a Lee-Metford would not qualify as "antique" since the ammunition is readily available (sort of anyway)? I have to wonder about an item like a Martini-Enfield artillery carbine (.303) or my 1880 MH which was rebarreled in the early 1900's by Greener to fire a rimfire .22. I'm assuming that what you are saying only applies to long guns and an older revolver (something like a single action Colt) would be a different matter entirely? Are there any particular rules on storage aside from those dictated by common sense-- that is, such things as a locking gun cabinet and/or trigger locks? I take it that one can't have live MH ammunition as well as a MH, but is it legal to have deactivated rounds? And how would the authorities view something like a '53 Enfield RML for which the "ammunition" comes out of a can and a mold? Is the license you speak of required for antique rifles? We have over here something called a Curio and Relic license (C&R) that allows one to purchase a firearm that is something of a step between antique and modern. No license is required here for an antique, but there is a background check necessary. Is there any sort of equivalent license over there? Are your firearm regulations strictly National or do you have further local ordinances equivalent to our State regulations? For example, Massachusetts doesn't allow me to carry a handgun through that state even though it's legal to own and "pack" in my own State of New Hampshire and the penalty is VERY harsh (like mandatory five years imprisonment) . Sorry about all the questions, but I've long been curious what the rules are at the source of a lot of my collection. Sawubona, UK law allows an individual to possess firearms, but not live ammunition, without a firearms certificate as antiques, curios or ornaments. In order to qualify the firearm generally has to be either a muzzle loader manufactured before 1939 (reproductions are required to be held on certificate), or breech loaders that utilise pinfire or rimfire (other than .22"RF) systems, or are chambered for centrefire cartridges that are considered to be obsolete. The UK Government produces a list of those it considers to be obsolete. Accordingly a .577" P53 Enfield rifle (original) would qualify as a pre 1939 muzzle loader, and a .577/450" MHR qualifies as it is on the list. This exemption from the need for a certificate also applies to handguns along the same lines, for example a percussion 54 bore Adams could be so held. However the list itself is not part of legislation and some firearms chamberede for cartridges not on the list have still been held by the courts to be antiques. Examples of this include Long Lee Enfield rifles in .303" and a Mk VI Webley revolver in .455". However, in our legal system one case is not binding on another, so the fact that one case ended in acquittal does not mean that .455" Webleys can now be sold as antiques. Anyone doing so is likely to still be prosecuted. In Uk we have three main categories of firearms. We distinguish rifled firearms from smoothbore ones, and these are usually known as "Section one" and "Section two" firearms respectively (referring to the relevant sections of the Firearms Act 1968). We then have a large range of prohibited weapons, known as "Section five". These are not available to the general public. Section five weapons include small firearms (such as handguns), fully automatics, semi automatics (except .22"RF self loading rifles), items which discharge electricity (like Tasers) or noxious gasses/liquids (like Mace) and a wide range of military weapons (missiles and so on). In addition ammunition designed to expand, JSP etc, is only permitted for deer stalking/vermin destruction in UK. An individual requires a certificate to possess S1 or S2 firearms. These are obtained from the local police after an application process. S2 (shotguns with a limited magazine capacity of no more than 2 rounds) certificates are reasonably straightforwrad. S1 certificates require additional details about the intended use of the firearms to be owned, for example shooting club confirmation of membership. In UK you need separate permission for each S1 firearm you possess, although they go onto the same certificate. Storage for both S1 and S2 firearms is reasonably straightforward and many shooters use secure cabinets at home. We have some limited provisions for collectors of historic handguns that do nat fall to be antiques. The collector can either collect them without ammunition (so long as the chambering is obsolete as well) and retain them at storage of their choice, or can collect them for shooting, in which case they have to be stored at one of our very few approved shooting centres for that purpose. There is a process to possess S5 prohibited weapons, but this requires authority of a Government Minister, the Home Secretary, and is for businesses and similar, perhaps in the firearms trade or involved in filmwork. We then have a further separate category for air weapons that have energy levels less than 12 foot pounds for rifles or six for pistols where these can be possessed without certificate either. You have to be 18 or older to purchase them and reatilers have to have registered with the police as firearms dealers, as with S1 and S2 firearms. BB guns and paintball guns are not considered to be lethal and as such are not regarded as firearms in UK. However it is an offence to possess them in public without lawful authority or reasonable excuse (such as travelling to a paintball site). In addition ones that actually look like modern firearms are not permitted to be imported etc into UK, unless for certain restricted purposes, including airsoft skirmishing and reenactment. In order to purchase a realistic imitation firearm you must be 18 and hold third party public liability insurance for the intended approved activity. We also have a system for deactivated weapons, where if a firearm has been deactivated to a certain standard and has been marked and certificated as such by one of the two UK Proff Houses, then it can be possessed without certificate. This applies to firearms of any section, including five. We have one national legal framework so there are not the equivalent of your local ordinances. Although the Scottish Government has brought in some additional controls in relation to air weapons. The UK does not usually permit the possession of firearms for personal protection. Similar to your description of penalties, there is a fixed penalty in UK for unlawful possession of a firearm and it is five years imprisonment for a first offence. Since our law on constructive possession would also include items you didn't know you had, such as something someone put in your pocket without you knowing, our courts do have leeway on the sentence. Thank you, Adrian. That was lengthy, but comprehensive Your firearm laws, like ours, seem to be a bit convoluted, but that's the nature of the beast isn't it? Chock full of "well, what about this if in the event that...?" Draconian and rightly so in my view although firearms offences are on the increase and are double the number they were only ten years ago. In 2006/2007, there were 755 murders in the UK - 58 involving illegal firearms. Dave Colbourne Location: Barnsley, South Yorks Simon Rosbottom wrote: Curious fact, that, that the more draconian the firearms laws become, the more firearms offences are recorded. Perhaps criminals aren't deterred by the knowledge that they are breaking the law, hmmm? Then more reson to tighten the law and make the penalties for their use more severe. Similarly, the carrying of a knife. Perhaps why the government will never have a referendum on the death penalty - it would be overwhelmingly supported. I'd rather our situation than that of the US for instance where there were almost 15,000 murders last year where 10,000 were gun related. Oddly in Canada in 2007, where guns are also widely available, there were 594 murders of which about a third were gun related (2/3 of these were handguns) and a third knife related. Is it the availability of weapons or the willingness of people to use them? Location: Near Canterbury, Kent, England. I imagine the disparity in population size would not be unconnected, Canada's being about a tenth of the USA's, I believe. However, pro rata, it would see the US is still the more dangerous, at more than double the rate per capita by your figures. Obviously, as Dave points out, making ownership of a gun illegal doesn't automatically stop it, but I would have thought there was a constant need to close any possible loophole, and every reason to make the ownership or simply the possession of any firearm strictly illegal, with very severe penalties for breaching the law. Exceptions would presumably include properly organised and constituted clubs (we obviously have responsible participants in this forum membership) where security is seen to be watertight; occupations where they might be considered necessary (some farmers) and the armed forces and specially trained police (the latter to be kept to an absolute minimum, in line with the wishes of the population); and, of course, antiques. I imagine this is more or less the situation already? Presumably membership of clubs and ownership of firearms in the above cases is very strictly controlled already? I don't know what the current penalty is, but I'd welcome the longest possible custody sentence for anyone outside the above categories found in possession of a firearm, whether at home or in public - even for a first offence. We read of certain areas in cities like Manchester or Nottingham being dangerous places for guns, and London for knives (obviously not the only places) but outside these "hotspots", is it a problem? I've never heard of anyone I know carrying a gun of any sort, nor keeping one at home, other than farmers. I'm not even sure I've ever seen a gun shop! Perhaps I've led a sheltered life ... As for knives, what a mess! Only a few years ago my 10-year old son was thrilled to get a really good pen-knife for his birthday and has since had hours of enjoyment with it - as we all did as children in our day, without a thought of anything sinister. I suppose I'd be expected to make sure he hasn't got it on him before going out these days. P.S. Anyone who wants to come and shoot rabbits is welcome in our garden at any time as we are completely overrun by the blighters!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8425
__label__wiki	0.651125	0.651125	SpainSwedenFinlandRussiaUnited StatesNorwayUnited KingdomSwitzerlandGermanyBulgariaFrancePortugalUkraineBelgiumCzechiaHong KongDenmarkNetherlandsLithuaniaItalyAustriaUruguayChinaPolandEstoniaBelarusCanadaLatviaAustraliaTurkeyColombiaRomaniaIrelandBrazilDominican RepublicSingaporeHungaryMoldovaAndorraCosta RicaAlgeriaJapanCyprusChileNew ZealandBoliviaEgyptSloveniaIsraelMontenegroPeruThailandCroatia France Population: 66,836,154 France today is one of the most modern countries in the world and is a leader among European nations. It plays an influential global role as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, NATO, the G-8, the G-20, the EU, and other multilateral organizations. France rejoined NATO's integrated military command structure in 2009, reversing DE GAULLE's 1966 decision to withdraw French forces from NATO. Since 1958, it has constructed a hybrid presidential-parliamentary governing system resistant to the instabilities experienced in earlier, more purely parliamentary administrations. In recent decades, its reconciliation and cooperation with Germany have proved central to the economic integration of Europe, including the introduction of a common currency, the euro, in January 1999. In the early 21st century, five French overseas entities - French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, and Reunion - became French regions and were made part of France proper. Largest West European nation; most major French rivers - the Meuse, Seine, Loire, Charente, Dordogne, and Garonne - flow northward or westward into the Atlantic Ocean, only the Rhone flows southward into the Mediterranean Sea Location: metropolitan France: Western Europe, bordering the Bay of Biscay and English Channel, between Belgium and Spain, southeast of the UK; bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Italy and Spain French Guiana: Northern South America, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Brazil and Suriname Guadeloupe: Caribbean, islands between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, southeast of Puerto Rico Martinique: Caribbean, island between the Caribbean Sea and North Atlantic Ocean, north of Trinidad and Tobago Mayotte: Southern Indian Ocean, island in the Mozambique Channel, about halfway between northern Madagascar and northern Mozambique Reunion: Southern Africa, island in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar Geographic coordinates: metropolitan France: 46 00 N, 2 00 E French Guiana: 4 00 N, 53 00 W Guadeloupe: 16 15 N, 61 35 W Martinique: 14 40 N, 61 00 W Mayotte: 12 50 S, 45 10 E Reunion: 21 06 S, 55 36 E Area: total: 643,801 sq km; 551,500 sq km (metropolitan France) land: 640,427 sq km; 549,970 sq km (metropolitan France) water: 3,374 sq km; 1,530 sq km (metropolitan France) note: the first numbers include the overseas regions of French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, and Reunion Size comparison: slightly more than four times the size of Georgia; slightly less than the size of Texas Land Boundaries: metropolitan France - total: 2,751 km border countries (8): Andorra 55 km, Belgium 556 km, Germany 418 km, Italy 476 km, Luxembourg 69 km, Monaco 6 km, Spain 646 km, Switzerland 525 km French Guiana - total: 1,205 km border countries (2): Brazil 649 km, Suriname 556 km Coastline: total: 4,853 km metropolitan France: 3,427 km exclusive economic zone: 200 nm (does not apply to the Mediterranean Sea) continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation Climate: metropolitan France: generally cool winters and mild summers, but mild winters and hot summers along the Mediterranean; occasional strong, cold, dry, north-to-northwesterly wind known as mistral French Guiana: tropical; hot, humid; little seasonal temperature variation Guadeloupe and Martinique: subtropical tempered by trade winds; moderately high humidity; rainy season (June to October); vulnerable to devastating cyclones (hurricanes) every eight years on average Mayotte: tropical; marine; hot, humid, rainy season during northeastern monsoon (November to May); dry season is cooler (May to November) Reunion: tropical, but temperature moderates with elevation; cool and dry (May to November), hot and rainy (November to April) Terrain: metropolitan France: mostly flat plains or gently rolling hills in north and west; remainder is mountainous, especially Pyrenees in south, Alps in east French Guiana: low-lying coastal plains rising to hills and small mountains Guadeloupe: Basse-Terre is volcanic in origin with interior mountains; Grande-Terre is low limestone formation; most of the seven other islands are volcanic in origin Martinique: mountainous with indented coastline; dormant volcano Mayotte: generally undulating, with deep ravines and ancient volcanic peaks Reunion: mostly rugged and mountainous; fertile lowlands along coast Natural resources: metropolitan France: coal, iron ore, bauxite, zinc, uranium, antimony, arsenic, potash, feldspar, fluorspar, gypsum, timber, arable land, fish French Guiana: gold deposits, petroleum, kaolin, niobium, tantalum, clay Irrigated land: total: 26,420 sq km 26,950 sq km metropolitan France: 26,000 sq km (2012) Natural hazards: metropolitan France: flooding; avalanches; midwinter windstorms; drought; forest fires in south near the Mediterranean overseas departments: hurricanes (cyclones); flooding; volcanic activity (Guadeloupe, Martinique, Reunion) Current Environment Issues: some forest damage from acid rain; air pollution from industrial and vehicle emissions; water pollution from urban wastes, agricultural runoff International Environment Agreements: party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Air Pollution-Sulfur 85, Air Pollution-Sulfur 94, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Seals, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Marine Life Conservation, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling Nationality: noun: Frenchman(men), Frenchwoman(women) adjective: French Ethnic groups: Celtic and Latin with Teutonic, Slavic, North African, Indochinese, Basque minorities overseas departments: black, white, mulatto, East Indian, Chinese, Amerindian Languages: French (official) 100%, rapidly declining regional dialects and languages (Provencal, Breton, Alsatian, Corsican, Catalan, Basque, Flemish) overseas departments: French, Creole patois, Mahorian (a Swahili dialect) Religions: Christian (overwhelmingly Roman Catholic) 63-66%, Muslim 7-9%, Buddhist 0.5-0.75%, Jewish 0.5-0.75%, other 0.5-1.0%, none 23-28% note: France maintains a tradition of secularism and has not officially collected data on religious affiliation since the 1872 national census, which complicates assessments of France's religious composition; an 1872 law prohibiting state authorities from collecting data on individuals' ethnicity or religious beliefs was reaffirmed by a 1978 law emphasizing the prohibition of the collection or exploitation of personal data revealing an individual's race, ethnicity, or political, philosophical, or religious opinions; a 1905 law codified France's separation of church and state (2015 est.) Population: 66,836,154 note: the above figure is for metropolitan France and five overseas regions; the metropolitan France population is 62,814,233 (July 2016 est.) 25-54 years: 38.04% (male 12,799,923/female 12,625,781) Major urban areas - population: PARIS (capital) 10.843 million; Lyon 1.609 million; Marseille-Aix-en-Provence 1.605 million; Lille 1.027 million; Nice-Cannes 967,000; Toulouse 938,000 (2015) Health expenditures: 11.5% of GDP (2014) urban: 100% of population rural: 100% of population total: 100% of population urban: 0% of population rural: 0% of population total: 0% of population (2015 est.) HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: NA Literacy: Country name: conventional long form: French Republic conventional short form: France local long form: Republique francaise local short form: France etymology: name derives from the Latin "Francia" meaning "Land of the Franks"; the Franks were a group of Germanic tribes located along the middle and lower Rhine River in the 3rd century A.D. who merged with Gallic-Roman populations in succeeding centuries and to whom they passed on their name Capital: name: Paris geographic coordinates: 48 52 N, 2 20 E note: applies to metropolitan France only, not to its overseas departments, collectivities, or territories Administrative divisions: 18 regions (regions, singular - region); Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte (Burgundy-Free County), Bretagne (Brittany), Centre-Val de Loire (Center-Loire Valley), Corse (Corsica), Grand Est (Grand East), Guadeloupe, Guyane (French Guiana), Hauts-de-France (Upper France), Ile-de-France, Martinique, Mayotte, Normandie (Normandy), Nouvelle-Aquitaine (New Aquitaine), Occitanie (Occitania), Pays de la Loire (Lands of the Loire), Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, Reunion note: France is divided into 13 metropolitan regions (including the "territorial collectivity" of Corse or Corsica) and 5 overseas regions (French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, and Reunion) and is subdivided into 96 metropolitan departments and 5 overseas departments (which are the same as the overseas regions) Dependent areas: Clipperton Island, French Polynesia, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, New Caledonia, Saint Barthelemy, Saint Martin, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Wallis and Futuna note: the US does not recognize claims to Antarctica; New Caledonia has been considered a "sui generis" collectivity of France since 1998, a unique status falling between that of an independent country and a French overseas department Independence: no official date of independence: 486 (Frankish tribes unified under Merovingian kingship); 10 August 843 (Western Francia established from the division of the Carolingian Empire); 14 July 1789 (French monarchy overthrown); 22 September 1792 (First French Republic founded); 4 October 1958 (Fifth French Republic established) National holiday: Fete de la Federation, 14 July (1790); note - although often incorrectly referred to as Bastille Day, the celebration actually commemorates the holiday held on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille (on 14 July 1789) and the establishment of a constitutional monarchy; other names for the holiday are Fete Nationale (National Holiday) and quatorze juillet (14th of July) Constitution: history: many previous; latest effective 4 October 1958 amendments: proposed by the president of the republic (upon recommendation of the prime minister and Parliament) or by members of Parliament; proposals submitted by Parliament members require passage by both houses followed by approval in a referendum; passage of proposals submitted by the government can bypass a referendum if submitted by the president to Parliament and passed by at least three-fifths majority vote by Parliament’s National Assembly; amended many times, last in 2008 (2016) Legal system: civil law; review of administrative but not legislative acts Executive branch: chief of state: President Francois HOLLANDE (since 15 May 2012) head of government: Prime Minister Bernard CAZENEUVE (since 6 December 2016) cabinet: Council of Ministers appointed by the president at the suggestion of the prime minister 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 22 April and 6 May 2012 (next to be held in the spring of 2017); prime minister appointed by the president election results: Francois HOLLANDE elected president; percent of vote in first round - Francois HOLLANDE (PS) 28.6%, Nicolas SARKOZY (UMP) 27.2%, Marine LE PEN (FN) 17.9%, Jean-Luc MELENCHON (PG) 11.1%, Francois BAYROU (moDem) 9.1%, other 6.1%; percent of vote in second round - HOLLANDE 51.6%, SARKOZY 48.4% Legislative branch: description: bicameral Parliament or Parlement consists of the Senate or Senat (348 seats - 328 for metropolitan France and overseas departments and regions of Guadeloupe, Martinque, French Guiana, Reunion, and Mayotte, 2 for New Caledonia, 2 for French Polynesia, 1 for Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, 1 for Saint-Barthelemy, 1 for Saint-Martin, 1 for Wallis and Futuna, and 12 for French nationals abroad; members indirectly elected by departmental electoral colleges using absolute majority vote in two rounds if needed for departments with 1-3 members and proportional representation vote in departments with 4 or more members; members serve 6-year terms with one-half of the membership renewed every 3 years) and the National Assembly or Assemblee Nationale (577 seats - 556 for metropolitan France, 10 for overseas departments, and 11 for citizens abroad; members directly elected by absolute majority vote in two rounds if needed to serve 5-year terms) elections: Senate - last held on 28 September 2014 (next to be held in September 2017); National Assembly - last held on 10 and 17 June 2012 (next to be held in June 2017) election results: Senate - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - UMP 187, PS 152, other 9; National Assembly - percent of vote by party - PS 48.5%, UMP 33.6%, miscellaneous left wing parties 3.8%, Greens 3.0%, miscellaneous right wing parties 2.6%, NC 2.1%, PRG 2.1%, FDG 1.7%, other 2.6%; seats by party - PS 280, UMP 194, miscellaneous left wing parties 22, Greens 17, miscellaneous right wing parties 15, NC 12, PRG 12, FDG 10, other 15 Judicial branch: highest court(s): Court of Cassation or Cour de Cassation (consists of the court president, 6 divisional presiding judges, 120 trial judges, and 70 deputy judges organized into 6 divisions - 3 civil, 1 commercial, 1 labor, and 1 criminal); Constitutional Council (consists of 9 members) judge selection and term of office: Court of Cassation judges appointed by the president of the republic from nominations from the High Council of the Judiciary, presided by the Court of Cassation and 15 appointed members; judges appointed for life; Constitutional Council members appointed - 3 by the president of the republic and 3 each by the National Assembly and Senate presidents; members serve 9-year, non-renewable terms with one third of the membership renewed every 3 years subordinate courts: appellate courts or Cour d'Appel; regional courts or Tribunal de Grande Instance; first instance courts or Tribunal d'instance Political parties and leaders: Europe Ecology - The Greens or EELV [David CORMAND] French Communist Party or PCF [Pierre LAURENT] Left Front Coalition or FDG [Jean-Luc MELENCHON] Left Party or PG [Jean-Luc MELENCHON and Martine BILLARD] Left Radical Party or PRG [Sylvia PINEL] (previously Radical Socialist Party or PRS and the Left Radical Movement or MRG) Movement for France or MPF [Philippe DE VILLIERS] National Front or FN [Marine LE PEN] New Anticapitalist Party or NPA [collective leadership; main spokesperson Christine POUPIN] New Center or NC [Herve MORIN] Radical Party [Jean-Louis BORLOO] Rally for France or RPF [Igor KUREK] Republican and Citizen Movement or MRC [Jean-Luc LAURENT] Socialist Party or PS [Jean-Christophe CAMBADELIS] The Republicans (formerly Union for a Popular Movement or UMP) [Francois FILLON] Union des Democrates et Independants or UDI [Jean-Christohe LAGARDE] and Democratic Movement or MoDem [Francois BAYROU] (previously Union for French Democracy or UDF); 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national colors: blue, white, red National anthem: name: "La Marseillaise" (The Song of Marseille) lyrics/music: Claude-Joseph ROUGET de Lisle note: adopted 1795, restored 1870; originally known as "Chant de Guerre pour l'Armee du Rhin" (War Song for the Army of the Rhine), the National Guard of Marseille made the song famous by singing it while marching into Paris in 1792 during the French Revolutionary Wars Diplomatic representation in the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Gerard ARAUD (since 18 September 2014) chancery: 4101 Reservoir Road NW, Washington, DC 20007 consulate(s) general: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New York, San Francisco, Washington DC Diplomatic representation from the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Jane D. 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The unemployment rate (including overseas territories) increased from 7.8% in 2008 to 9.9% in the fourth quarter of 2014. Youth unemployment in metropolitan France decreased from a high of 25.4% in the fourth quarter of 2012 to 24.3% in the fourth quarter of 2014. Lower-than-expected growth and high spending have strained France's public finances. The budget deficit rose sharply from 3.3% of GDP in 2008 to 7.5% of GDP in 2009 before improving to 4% of GDP in 2014 and 2015, while France's public debt rose from 68% of GDP to more than 98% in 2015, and may hit 100% in 2016. Elected on a conventionally leftist platform, President Francois HOLLANDE surprised and angered many supporters with a January 2014 speech announcing a sharp change in his economic policy, recasting himself as a liberalizing reformer. The government's budget for 2014 shifted the balance of fiscal consolidation from taxes to a total of $24 billion in spending cuts. In December 2014, HOLLANDE announced additional reforms, including a plan to extend commercial business hours, liberalize professional services, and sell off $6.2-12.4 billion in state owned assets. France’s tax burden remains well above the EU average and income tax cuts over the past decade are being partly reversed, particularly for higher earners. The top rate of income tax is 41%. The government is allowing a 75% payroll tax on salaries over $1.24 million to lapse. GDP (purchasing power parity): GDP (purchasing power parity): $2.737 trillion (2016 est.) $2.701 trillion (2015 est.) $2.667 trillion (2014 est.) GDP (official exchange rate): GDP (official exchange rate): $2.488 trillion (2015 est.) imports of goods and services: -31% (2016 est.) Agriculture - products: wheat, cereals, sugar beets, potatoes, wine grapes; beef, dairy products; fish Industries: machinery, chemicals, automobiles, metallurgy, aircraft, electronics; textiles, food processing; tourism Industrial production growth rate: 1% (2016 est.) Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 3% Unemployment rate: 9.7% (2016 est.) 10.1% (2015 est.) note: includes overseas territories Population below poverty line: 8.1% (2012 est.) Budget: revenues: $1.288 trillion expenditures: $1.369 trillion (2016 est.) note: data cover general government debt and include debt instruments issued (or owned) by government entities other than the treasury; the data include treasury debt held by foreign entities; the data include debt issued by subnational entities, as well as int Inflation rate (consumer prices): Inflation rate (consumer prices): 0.3% (2016 est.) 0.1% (2015 est.) Current account balance: -$11.52 billion (2016 est.) -$4.832 billion (2015 est.) Exports - commodities: machinery and transportation equipment, aircraft, plastics, chemicals, pharmaceutical products, iron and steel, beverages Exports - partners: Germany 15.9%, Spain 7.3%, US 7.2%, Italy 7.1%, UK 7.1%, Belgium 6.8% (2015) Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, vehicles, crude oil, aircraft, plastics, chemicals Imports - partners: Germany 19.5%, Belgium 10.7%, Italy 7.7%, Netherlands 7.5%, Spain 6.8%, US 5.5%, China 5.4%, UK 4.3% (2015) Reserves of foreign exchange and gold: $138.2 billion (31 December 2015 est.) $143.4 billion (31 December 2014 est.) Debt - external: $5.36 trillion (31 March 2016 est.) $5.25 trillion (31 March 2015 est.) Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad: $1.339 trillion (31 December 2016 est.) $1.316 trillion (31 December 2015 est.) Market value of publicly traded shares: $2.088 trillion (31 December 2015 est.) $2.086 trillion (31 December 2014 est.) $2.301 trillion (31 December 2013 est.) Exchange rates: euros (EUR) per US dollar - 0.9214 (2016 est.) 0.885 (2015 est.) 0.885 (2014 est.) 0.7634 (2013 est.) 0.7752 (2012 est.) Electricity - exports: 75 billion kWh (2014 est.) Electricity - installed generating capacity: 129 million kW (2014 est.) Electricity - from nuclear fuels: 48.8% of total installed capacity (2012 est.) Crude oil - imports: 1.174 million bbl/day (2015 est.) Crude oil - proved reserves: 84.08 million bbl (1 January 2016 es) Refined petroleum products - production: 1.277 million bbl/day (2015 est.) Refined petroleum products - consumption: 1.691 million bbl/day (2015 est.) Natural gas - production: 17 million cu m (2014 est.) Natural gas - exports: 7.077 billion cu m (2014 est.) Natural gas - proved reserves: 8.75 billion cu m (1 January 2016 es) Carbon dioxide emissions from consumption of energy: 385.6 million Mt (2013 est.) Telephone system: general assessment: highly developed domestic: extensive cable and microwave radio relay; extensive use of fiber-optic cable; domestic satellite system international: country code - 33; numerous submarine cables provide links throughout Europe, Asia, Australia, the Middle East, and US; satellite earth stations - more than 3 (2 Intelsat (with total of 5 antennas - 2 for Indian Ocean and 3 for Atlantic Ocean), NA Eutelsa overseas departments: country codes: French Guiana - 594; Guadeloupe - 590; Martinique - 596; Mayotte - 262; Reunion - 262 (2015) Broadcast media: a mix of both publicly operated and privately owned TV stations; state-owned France television stations operate 4 networks, one of which is a network of regional stations, and has part-interest in several thematic cable/satellite channels and internationa (2008) Internet country code: metropolitan France - .fr; French Guiana - .gf; Guadeloupe - .gp; Martinique - .mq; Mayotte - .yt; Reunion - .re Airports (paved runways): total 294 over 3,047 m: 14 under 914 m: 105 (2013) Pipelines: gas 15,322 km; oil 2,939 km; refined products 5,084 km (2013) standard gauge: 29,473 km 1.435-m gauge (15,561 km electrified) narrow gauge: 167 km 1.000-m gauge (63 km electrified) (2014) Roadways: total 1,028,446 km (metropolitan France) paved: 1,028,446 km (includes 11,416 km of expressways) note: not included are 5,100 km of roadways in overseas departments (2010) Waterways: metropolitan France: 8,501 km (1,621 km navigable by craft up to 3,000 metric tons) (2010) Merchant marine: total 162 by type: bulk carrier 3, cargo 7, chemical tanker 34, container 27, liquefied gas 12, passenger 10, passenger/cargo 41, petroleum tanker 16, refrigerated cargo 1, roll on/roll off 11 foreign-owned: 50 (Belgium 7, Bermuda 5, Denmark 11, French Polynesia 11, Germany 1, New Caledonia 3, Singapore 3, Sweden 4, Switzerland 5) registered in other countries: 151 (Bahamas 15, Belgium 7, Bermuda 1, Canada 1, Cyprus 16, Egypt 1, Hong Kong 4, Indonesia 1, Ireland 2, Italy 2, Luxembourg 15, Malta 8, Marshall Islands 7, Mexico 1, Morocco 3, Netherlands 2, Norway 5, Panama 7, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 2, Singapor (2010) Ports and terminals: major seaport(s): Brest, Calais, Dunkerque, Le Havre, Marseille, Nantes, river port(s): Paris, Rouen (Seine); Strasbourg (Rhine); Bordeaux (Garronne) container port(s): Le Havre (2,215,262)(2011) cruise/ferry port(s): Calais, Cherbourg, Le Havre LNG terminal(s) (import): Fos Cavaou, Fos Tonkin, Montoir de Bretagne Military branches: Army (Armee de Terre; includes Marines, Foreign Legion, Army Light Aviation), Navy (Marine Nationale), Air Force (Armee de l'Air (AdlA); includes Air Defense) (2011) Military service age and obligation: 18-25 years of age for male and female voluntary military service; no conscription; 1-year service obligation; women serve in noncombat posts (2013) Military expenditures: 1.8% of GDP (2014) 1.9% of GDP (2013) 1.9% of GDP (2012) Disputes - International: Madagascar claims the French territories of Bassas da India, Europa Island, Glorioso Islands, and Juan de Nova Island; Comoros claims Mayotte; Mauritius claims Tromelin Island; territorial dispute between Suriname and the French overseas department of French Guiana; France asserts a territorial claim in Antarctica (Adelie Land); France and Vanuatu claim Matthew and Hunter Islands, east of New Caledonia Refugees and internally displaced persons: refugees (country of origin): 24,220 (Sri Lanka); 14,195 (Russia); 14,182 (Democratic Republic of the Congo); 12,500 (Serbia and Kosovo); 11,824 (Cambodia); 10,652 (Turkey); 8,132 (Vietnam); 6,944 (Laos); 6,005 (Guinea); 5,179 (Syria); 5,006 (Mauritania) (2015) stateless persons: 1,326 (2015) Illicit drugs: metropolitan France: transshipment point for South American cocaine, Southwest Asian heroin, and European synthetics French Guiana: small amount of marijuana grown for local consumption; minor transshipment point to Europe Martinique: transshipment point for cocaine and marijuana bound for the US and Europe SpainSwedenFinlandRussiaUnited StatesNorwayUnited KingdomSwitzerlandGermanyBulgariaFrancePortugalUkraineBelgiumCzechiaHong KongDenmarkNetherlandsLithuaniaItalyAustriaUruguayChinaPolandEstoniaBelarusCanadaLatviaAustraliaTurkeyColombiaRomaniaIrelandBrazilDominican RepublicSingaporeHungaryMoldovaAndorraCosta RicaAlgeriaJapanCyprusChileNew ZealandBoliviaEgyptSloveniaIsraelMontenegroPeruThailandCroatia « Previous Country \| Next Country » Back to Flag Counter Overview	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8427
__label__wiki	0.59511	0.59511	Corticosteroid treatment hearing loss zedd,cold laser therapy for tinnitus reviews,best vitamins for ear ringing vitamin,white noise in earphones - Step 3 BackgroundSudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) is defined as a rapid onset sensorineural hearing loss occurring over a 72-hour period with a decrease in hearing ofa€‰>a€‰30 decibels (dB) affecting at least 3 consecutive frequencies [1]. Gel patterns demonstrating the 4a€‰G and 5a€‰G alleles in the promoter region of the PAI-1 gene. SSNHL sudden sensorineural hearing loss; Odds ratios (OR) with 95a€‰% confidence intervals (CI) and results (p values) of I‡2 analysis (chi-square test) were calculated for genotype frequencies compared with control. We further examined to see if the polymorphism of PAI-1 gene is associated with clinical outcome in patients with SSNHL (Tablea€‰2). DiscussionOne of most probable mechanisms of SSNHL appears to be impaired cochlear blood circulation involving the pathogenic micro-thrombotic mechanism [20]. Competing interestsAuthors declare that there is no financial or non-financial competing interests in relation to this manuscript.Authorsa€™ contributionsSC, SP, MB, AM and TY conceived of the study, and participated in its design and coordination and helped to draft the manuscript. According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), approximately 4000 new cases of SSHL occur each year in the United States. While SSHL characterizations remain varied, the NIH defines the condition as an idiopathic hearing loss of sensorineural origin, greater than 30 dB in three contiguous frequencies that occurs in less than three days. In the idiopathic camp, there are a number of possible causal ideologies at work-vascular, viral, genetic, lifestyle, and disease-related causes, Dr. There is a strong link to the genetic and lifestyle ideologies and a much weaker one to viral and vascular, Dr. With regard to incidence and prevalence of direct effect SSHL, he said both were hard to quantify because the data are such that a reliable denominator is not available. 103 patients with SSNHL and 113 age and sex-matched controls were enrolled at University of Ferrara, Italy and hearing loss outcome was measured at least 3a€‰months after the onset of hearing loss. The majority of patients with SSNHL have no identifiable causes and are thus classified as a€?idiopathica€? [2]. This result may be of clinical significance in diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis for SSNHL patients and may provide a new therapeutic strategy for SSNHL. HC, CY, DC and JK involved in drafting the manuscript or revising it critically for important intellectual content and performed the statistical analysis. Despite much attention, even a definitive definition of the malady escapes researchers, making successful therapies even harder to uncover. It can affect anyone, but for unknown reasons it happens most often to people between the ages of 30 and 60. SSHL occurs most often in people between ages 30 and 60; a number of causal ideologies have been proposed. Direct effect deals with things we know caused the hearing loss-largely loud noise, trauma, or toxins. SSNHL affects 5 to 20 persons for each 100,000 individuals annually and can be devastating because they can lose their hearing permanently. All the patients underwent audiological examinations including pure tone audiometry, speech recognition threshold, immittance measurements such as tympanogram and acoustic reflex; other audiometric tests for the differential diagnosis of cochlear vs retrocochlear pathologies were performed in selected cases. It has been known that elevated plasma levels of PAI-1 are associated with SSNHL [6], but the role of the PAI-1 is controversial [6, 11]. IK and CC carried out the molecular genetic studies, participated in drafted the manuscript. In an effort to spur discussion and a possible movement toward consensus, an international panel gathered to examine the epidemiology of SSHL and discuss traditional treatment modalities at the recent American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) annual meeting here.The experts also wheeled out some of the more promising research and cutting-edge treatment modalities available. Hoffer, MD, of the Naval Medical Center in San Diego, said that, in addition, the root causes of SSHL could be broken into two separate types-idiopathic and direct effect. Basically, someone gets blown up, they get a hearing loss and we know it was direct effect. The vascular hypothesis comes from a Japanese study showing subjects had an increased incidence of SSHL when switching from a traditionally Japanese diet to an American diet.This showed promise at the time, Dr. Genotype distribution was tested in patients and compared to controls by chi-square and odd-ratio analysis. The etiology of SSNHL is still unclear although the most recent studies suggest viral infection, vascular impairment, intracochlear membrane rupture, and autoimmune process as possible causes [3, 4]. Auditory brainstem response (ABR) was always performed except when hearing loss exceeded 80a€‰dB in the acute frequencies. Among the unilateral cases, the degree of SSNHL was mild in 6 patients, moderate in 15, severe in 8, and profound in 4; one bilateral case was moderate degree in both side. Hoffer said, but when combined with other, similar research, it became clear that genetic causes were at play. The codominant and recessive models were used for the multiple logistic regression analyses of the PAI-1 gene allele. Several studies have been reported on the association between cardiovascular risk factors and SSNHL, showing that high concentrations of cholesterol, fibrinogen, and homocysteine were risk factors [5a€“9]. Audiometric inclusion criterion was a decrease in hearing of at least 30a€‰dB in 3 contiguous frequencies. He also said viral ideology research is conflicting and cannot be reproduced, but that he is still convinced there has to be some kind of infectious variable at work. Patients did not receive vestibular evaluation because exclusion criteria were the presence of vertigo or suspected Menierea€™s disease. Elevation in plasma levels of PAI-1 has been reported to be associated with many diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases [14], stroke [15] and asthma [16a€“18]. Any participant with a history of head trauma was also excluded from the study.All the subjects provided their informed consent for the study and blood was taken as usual for routine laboratory exams, in the morning before starting the pharmacological therapy. One of most probable causes of SSNHL appears to be impaired cochlear blood circulation involving the pathogenic micro-thrombotic mechanism [19, 20]. Cochlear function is very sensitive to changes in blood supply which is mainly derived from the labyrinthine artery. Vascular compromise of the cochlea caused by reduced blood flow, vasospasm, thrombosis or embolus, may result in SSNHL [13, 21]. Additionally, their study elected only severe SSNHL patients with a loss of 60a€‰dB or more. Our previous case report demonstrated the effectiveness of fibrinolytic therapy for sudden hearing loss with an improvement of 50a€‰dB using a recombinant tPA, which appeared to improve the microcirculation of the inner ear [20]. We examined follow-up audiometry at least 6a€‰months after the initial episode of hearing loss and considered a hearing improvement more than 20a€‰dB as a significant recovery. These findings suggest that PAI-1 is a possible risk factor and a potential therapeutic target for SSNHL.The PAI-1 gene has variation in the promoter region on the basis of a single guanosine insertion-deletion (5a€‰G or 4a€‰G) [16]. It is not clear whether the discrepancy between these two studies is due to different population (Italian vs German) or different severity of the disease.It has been known that there is no effective treatment of SSNHL other than systemic corticosteroids which is generally used but has limitation to some patients [2]. Therefore we chose 20a€‰dB as a clear cut-off for significant improvement, which would include partial and complete recovery. Our study suggests that lowering plasma levels of PAI-1 may be a strategy to prevent SSNHL, especially in people who are likely to have high plasma levels of PAI-1, such as subjects who are obese, diabetic, or smokers [16, 18]. The age and sex-matched healthy Italian subjects (na€‰=a€‰113) were enrolled in the same geographical area. Increased PAI-1 levels facilitate the inhibition of the fibrinolytic system [16], which may impair cochlear blood circulation and thus predispose the development of SSNHL [6, 20]. Control subjects had no history of hearing loss, circulatory or metabolic diseases, or autoimmune disorders. They were healthy clinic staffs and clinic patients with other otolaryngology disorders, such as allergic rhinitis, who gave their consent for the study. We had a limited number of long-term follow-up audiometry results, which resulted in a lack of power in our analysis. We previously reported a case which showed significant improvement of hearing (> 50a€‰dB) with recombinant tPA treatment two years after the development of SSNHL [20]. This case is an interesting observation that may suggest a link between fibrinolytic treatment and clinical outcome in patients with SSNHL. We also used chi-square test (I‡2) and odd-ratio analysis for the association between genotype distribution and hearing outcome. In the multiple logistic regression analyses for each PAI-1 gene allele, we used multiple inheritance models, including codominant model (the relative hazard differed between subjects with one minor allele and those with two minor alleles) and recessive model (only subjects with two minor alleles were at increased risk of the disease). Prognosis of sudden deafness with special reference to risk factors of microvascular pathology. Usefulness of high doses of glucocorticoids and hyperbaric oxygen therapy in sudden sensorineural hearing loss treatment. Antiviral treatment of idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss: A prospective, randomized, double-blind clinical trial. Prognostic indicators of management of sudden sensorineural hearing loss in an Asian hospital. 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__label__wiki	0.704717	0.704717	Become a Member. It's free and only takes a second! Recent Posts, News, Announcements Forums Home • Discussion Forums • Science News Discussion Forum Please login or register in order to gain full user access to the forums Nancy Grace Roman - ‘Mother of Hubble’ Dies Anyone can post and discuss breaking science news or science-related public policy, that interests them (please respect posting guidelines and be sure to reference properly). Please be sure to check our forum's Rules & Guidelines by toucana on December 31st, 2018, 5:03 am Dr. Nancy Grace Roman NASA's first Chief of Astronomy - 1962 Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, a former NASA executive who is often described as the “mother” of the Hubble Space Telescope, has died at 93. https://gizmodo.com/mother-of-hubble-nancy-grace-roman-dies-at-93-1831382159 Roman, a longtime employee of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, was the first woman to hold an executive role at the agency, the Associated Press reported. After getting her Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Chicago in 1949, Roman joined NASA in 1959 as its first Chief of Astronomy in the Office of Space Science at NASA Headquarters and remained in the role for nearly twenty years until her retirement in 1979, according to NASA. She was involved with such groundbreaking programs as the Cosmic Background Explorer, and as her informal title suggests, the beloved Hubble Space Telescope. Roman is said to have consistently bucked significant barriers throughout her education and career at a time when there were few women in her field, especially at the executive level. According to the BBC, when she was at university studying for her doctorate, her supervisor refused to speak to her for the first six months simply because she was a woman. She is most often credited with furthering much of the early development of the Hubble program, particularly as it related to funding and proposals. Roman’s awards and honors include the Women in Aerospace’s Lifetime Achievement Award, the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Award, and the NASA Outstanding Scientific Leadership Award. Last year, Roman was honored as part of a fan-designed Lego set honoring women of NASA that also included pioneers such as Katherine Johnson, Sally Ride, and Mae Jemison toucana Chatroom Operator Location: Bristol UK Return to Science News Discussion Forum Jump to: Select a forum ------------------ Announcements Announcements Discussion Forums Science News Discussion Forum Science Forum (SCF) Anything Science Science Fun Astronomy & Cosmology Archaeology Beginner Science Behavioral Science Biochemistry Biology Chemistry Computers Engineering & Electronics Environmental Science Mathematics Health and Nutrition Physics Personal Theories Books, Movies, and Podcasts Science Podcasts Expert Notes CLOSED Philosophy Forum (PCF) Anything Philosophy Art Ethics Logic Fallacies Metaphysics & Epistemology Philosophy of Science Political Theory Religion Social Sciences Books, Media & Internet Resources Philosophy Media Odds & Ends Pre-2019 News Archive Community Forums Lounge Area The team • Contact Us • All times are UTC - 5 hours [ DST ] The Science and Philosophy Forum is aimed at promoting knowledge, education, and discussion between professionals, academics, amateurs, and the general public	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8443
__label__wiki	0.684477	0.684477	Goel; Vivek S. ; et al. February 8, 2018 DOWNHOLE FLUIDS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF The present disclosure relates to downhole fluid additives including a clay, a hydroxylated polymer, a cation, and water. The disclosure further relates to downhole fluids, including drilling fluids, spaces, cements, and proppant delivery fluids containing such as downhole fluid additive and methods of using such fluids. The downhole fluid additive may have any of a variety of functions in the downhole fluid and may confer any of a variety of properties upon it, such as salt tolerance or desired viscosities even at high downhole temperatures. Inventors: Goel; Vivek S.; (Humble, TX) ; Boul; Peter James; (Houston, TX) ; Pang; Xueyu; (Houston, TX) ; Hall; Lee J.; (The Woodlands, TX) ; Deville; Jay P.; (Spring, TX) ; Lewis; Samuel J.; (Duncan, OK) ; Reddy; B. Raghava; (Pearland, TX) ; Joseph; Trissa; (Kingwood, TX) ; Ye; Xiangnan; (Cypress, TX) Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. PCT Filed: April 10, 2015 PCT NO: PCT/US2015/025282 371 Date: August 29, 2017 Current CPC Class: C09K 8/206 20130101; C09K 8/145 20130101; C09K 8/16 20130101; C09K 8/54 20130101; C09K 8/40 20130101; C09K 8/487 20130101; C09K 8/493 20130101; C09K 8/80 20130101; C04B 28/04 20130101; C04B 22/0093 20130101; C04B 24/383 20130101; C04B 22/10 20130101; C04B 2103/46 20130101; C09K 2208/32 20130101; C09K 2208/34 20130101; C09K 2208/10 20130101 International Class: C09K 8/20 20060101 C09K008/20; C09K 8/16 20060101 C09K008/16; C09K 8/54 20060101 C09K008/54; C09K 8/40 20060101 C09K008/40; C04B 22/10 20060101 C04B022/10; C09K 8/493 20060101 C09K008/493; C09K 8/80 20060101 C09K008/80; C04B 28/04 20060101 C04B028/04; C04B 22/00 20060101 C04B022/00; C04B 24/38 20060101 C04B024/38; C09K 8/14 20060101 C09K008/14; C09K 8/487 20060101 C09K008/487 1. A downhole fluid comprising: a clay; a hydroxylated polymer; a cation, together in an amount sufficient to render the downhole fluid thermally stable at a temperature; and at least one additional downhole fluid component. 2. The downhole fluid of claim 1, wherein the downhole fluid comprises an aqueous component with a pH of at least 9. 3. The downhole fluid of claim 1, wherein the clay comprises a phyllosilicate clay. 4. The downhole fluid of claim 3, wherein the phyllosilicate clay comprises a smectite clay, a sepiolite clay, or a palygorskite clay. 5-7. (canceled) 8. The downhole fluid of claim 1, further comprising salt water. 9. The downhole fluid of claim 1, wherein the downhole fluid has a transition temperature at which viscosity rapidly increases of around 150.degree. F. 10. (canceled) 11. The downhole fluid of claim 1, wherein the downhole fluid further comprises a particle additive and wherein the clay, hydroxylated polymer, and cation are a suspension aid for the particle additive. 12-13. (canceled) 14. The downhole fluid of claim 1, further comprising nanoparticles of 100 nm or less in size. 15. The downhole fluid of claim 1, wherein the downhole fluid is a drilling fluid and further comprises an aqueous drilling fluid base. 16. The downhole fluid of claim 15, further comprising a bridging material, a lost circulation prevention material, a rheology modifier, a fluid loss prevention agent, a corrosion inhibitor, a defoamer, a shale stabilizer, a lubricant, or any combinations thereof. 17. The downhole fluid of claim 1, wherein the downhole fluid is a spacer and further comprises an aqueous spacer base. 18. The downhole fluid of claim 17, further comprising a surfactant, defoamer, visosifying agent, or any combinations thereof. 19. The downhole fluid of claim 1, wherein the downhole fluid is a cement and further comprises a cement base. 20. The downhole fluid of claim 19, further comprising a set retarder, friction-reducer, strength-retrogression additive, set accelerator, weighting agent, lightweight additive, gas-generating additive, mechanical property enhancing additive, lost-circulation material, filtration-control additive, dispersants, fluid loss control additive, defoaming agent, foaming agent, thixotropic additive, or any combinations thereof. 21. The downhole fluid of claim 19, wherein the clay, hydroxylated polymer, and cation together are a fluid loss preventer. 22. The downhole fluid of claim 19, wherein the clay, hydroxylated polymer, and cation together are a gas migration control additive. 23. The downhole fluid of claim 1, wherein the downhole fluid is a proppant delivery fluid and further comprises a proppant and an aqueous proppant delivery fluid base. 24. The downhole fluid of claim 23, wherein the proppant comprises sand. 25. The downhole fluid of claim 23, wherein the proppant has an average particle size in the range of from about 2 to about 400 mesh. 34. The downhole fluid of claim 1, wherein the hydroxylated polymer comprises microcellulose or nanocellulose. [0001] The present disclosure relates to downhole fluid additives, downhole fluids containing such additives, and systems and methods for using such additives and downhole fluids. [0002] Natural resources, such as oil or gas, residing in a subterranean formation can be recovered by drilling a wellbore that penetrates the formation. A variety of fluids are used in both drilling and completing the wellbore and in resource recovery. Example fluids include drilling fluid, also called mud, that is pumped into the wellbore during drilling and similar operations, spacer, which helps flush residual drilling fluid from the wellbore, cement, which typically lines at least part of the finished wellbore and is placed after flushing with a spacer, and fracturing fluids, which may be used to enhance oil or natural gas recovery. Although some parts of the wellbore lie near the surface, the majority of it is deep underground, where harsh conditions are found. In addition, any problems with a downhole fluid can be difficult to detect or correct because the fluid may be far away from the surface and relatively inaccessible, particularly in the case of cement that has set and is no longer a fluid. Accordingly, downhole fluids and additives for downhole fluids should be able to tolerate harsh conditions or avoid or ameliorate problems that may develop in downhole fluids. [0003] The appended drawings illustrate certain aspects of the disclosure--they are not exhaustive and are not intended to limit the scope of the present disclosure. [0004] FIG. 1 is an example of a system where drilling fluid may be used. [0005] FIG. 2 illustrates placement of a spacer into a wellbore annulus. [0006] FIG. 3 is a system for preparation and delivery of a cement to a wellbore. [0007] FIG. 4A illustrates surface equipment that may be used in placement of cement in a wellbore. [0008] FIG. 4B illustrates placement of cement into a wellbore annulus. [0009] FIG. 5 is viscosity data for a spacer at 200.degree. F. [0012] FIG. 8 is viscosity data for a spacer containing a clay additive as a suspending aid, as a control test. [0013] FIG. 9 is viscosity data for a spacer containing a cellulose additive as a suspending aid, as a control test [0014] FIG. 10 is viscosity data for a spacer containing a clay/cellulose additive as a suspending aid, according to the present disclosure. [0015] FIG. 11 is consistometer data at 350.degree. F. for cement containing a clay/cellulose additive as a lost circulation prevention additive. [0016] FIG. 12 is consistometer on/off data at 350.degree. F. for cement containing a clay/cellulose additive as a lost circulation prevention additive. [0017] FIG. 13 is gas migration testing of cement containing a clay/cellulose additive as a gas migration control additive. [0018] FIG. 14 is viscosity data for a proppant delivery fluid at 400.degree. F. [0019] FIG. 15 is viscosity data for another proppant delivery fluid at 400.degree. F. [0020] FIG. 16 is viscosity data for a spacer containing a clay/cellulose additive as a suspending aid alone (FIG. 16A) or in addition to nano-sized silica particles (FIGS. 16 B-G.) [0021] The present disclosure relates to downhole fluid additives as well as downhole fluids containing such additives and methods for use of both. The additives and downhole fluids may be thermally stable, have desired rheological properties, or be more environmentally friendly than other alternatives. Downhole additives may also be referred to by specific use, e.g. drilling fluid additive, spacer additive, cement additive, or proppant delivery fluid additive in portions of this specification. Downhole Fluid Additives [0022] Downhole fluid additives according to the present disclosure contain a clay, a hydroxylated polymer, and a cation. These may be present in a variety of proportions depending on the desired viscosity of the downhole fluid and its other components. The downhole fluid additive may have an alkaline pH before or after addition to a downhole fluid, or when it encounters certain conditions downhole, such that the clay will exfoliate. For example, the pH may be at least 9 or between 10 and 12. [0023] The clay used herein may be a phyllosilicate clay. Phyllosilicate clays tend to form parallel sheets of silicate tetrahedra with Si.sub.2O.sub.5 or another approximately 2:Si:O ratio. Phyllosilicate clays include a water or hydroxyl group. [0024] Phyllosilicate clays suitable for use herein include smectitie clays, sepiolite clays, and palygorskite clays. Any phyllosilicate clay or any other type of clay, particularly other silicon-based clays, able to adopt a shaped or layered structure, particularly a shaped or layered structure that is between 1 nm and 999 nm in one dimension, and that is able to interact with hydroxyl groups on the hydroxylated polymer when used in a composition described herein may be suitable for use. Clays for use herein may include both clays that swell in water, and clays that do not. [0025] Smectite clays include dioctahedral minerals and trioctahedral minerals. Smectite clays typically include layers, each having of two inward-pointing tetrahedral sheets with a central alumina octahedral sheet. The layers are typically continuous in the a and b directions, but the bonds between layers are weak and have excellent cleavage, allowing water and other molecules to enter between the layers causing expansion in the c direction. Smectite claims include montmorillonite clays, biedellite clays, hectorite clays, and saponite clays. [0026] Montmorillonite clays typically have a general formula of (Na,Ca).sub.0.33(Al,Mg).sub.2Si.sub.4O.sub.10(OH).sub.2.nH.sub.2O. Montmorillonite clays typically have greater than 50% octahedral charge. Montomorillonite clays include bentonite clays, which are formed from mixtures of montmorillonite clays and other clays or minerals. [0027] Biedellite clays typically have a general formula of [0028] Na.sub.0.5Al.sub.2(Si.sub.3.5Al.sub.0.5)O.sub.10(OH).sub.2.n(H.sub.- 2O). Montmorillonite clays typically have greater than 50% tetrahedral charge originating from isomorphous substitution of Al for Si in the quartz sheet. [0029] A hectorite clay have the general formula Na.sup.+.sub.x[(Si.sub.4Mg.sub.y-qLi.sub.q)O.sub.10(OH).sub.2].sub.z, wherein 0.3<=x<=0.4, 0<y-q<=3, 0<q<3, and 0.3<=z<=1. The hectorite clay may be colloidal. For example, the clay may be a hydrous lithium magnesium silicate, such as LAPONITE.RTM. (BYK ADDITIVES, LIMITED), which has a general chemical formula of Na.sup.+.sub.0.7[(Si.sub.8Mg.sub.5.5Li.sub.0.3)O.sub.20(OH).sub.4].sup.-.- sub.0.7 and is formed from colloidal layered silicate sheets. Mixtures of more than one type of clay may be used. [0030] A saponite clay may have the general formula Ca.sub.0.25(Mg,Fe).sub.3((Si,Al).sub.4O.sub.10)(OH).sub.2.n(H.sub.2O). A saponite clay may a trioctahedral structure. [0031] A sepiolite clay may have the general formula Mg.sub.4Si.sub.6O.sub.15(OH).sub.2.6H.sub.2O. Sepiolite clays are typically found in fibrous, fine-particulate, and solid forms. Solid forms may be mechanically or chemically manipulated to form fibrous or particulate forms in compositions of the present disclosure. [0032] A palygorskite clay may have the general formula (Mg,Al).sub.2Si.sub.4O.sub.10(OH).4(H.sub.2O). Palygorskite clays are sometimes referred to as attapulgite, but, as used herein, attapulgite referes to a composite of a smectite clay and a palygorskite clay. Attapulgite is also a suitable clay for use in compositions of the present disclosure. [0033] The hydroxylated polymer may include any polymer with at least one free hydroxyl (OH.sup.-) group (referred to herein simply as a hydroxyl group) per at least one component monomer. The polymers may be made of only one type of monomer, or of two or more types of monomers. For polymers made of two or more types of monomers, only one monomer type may contain a hydroxyl group, more than one monomer type may contain a hydroxyl group, or all monomer types may contain a hydroxyl group. Monomer types containing a hydroxyl group may contain only one hydroxyl group per monomer, or two or more hydroxyl groups per monomer. The polymers may be branched or unbranched. The hydroxylated polymer may include mixtures of two or more types of hydroxylated polymers. Hydroxylated polymers suitable for use in the compositions described herein include derivatives of hydroxylated polymers, such as functionalized hydrozylated polymers. [0034] The cellulose may include primarily one type of cellulose or mixtures of two or more types of cellulose. The cellulose may be between 1 nm and 999 nm in size in at least one dimension and therefore categorized as nanocellulose. The cellulose may be between 1 .mu.m and 1000 .mu.m in at least one dimension and therefore categorized as microcelluose. Some cellulose may be categorized as both nanocellulose and microcellulose because it has at least one dimension in both of ranges. Cellulose may also be in the form of microfibrillated cellulose (MFC), nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC), or bacterial nano-cellulose (BNC). MFC may include nanofibrils and microfibrils and nanofibrillated cellulose. MFC may be prepared by delamination of wood pulp by mechanical pressure before and/or after chemical or enzymatic treatment or by other suitable methods. MFC may typically be a cellulose fiber with a diameter between 5 nm and 60 nm and a length of several .mu.m, such as up to 10 .mu.m. NCC may include cellulose nanocrystals, crystallites, whiskers, and rodlike cellulose microcrystals. NCC may be prepared by acid hydrolysis of cellulose from a variety of sources, or by other suitable methods. NCC may typically be a cellulose fiber with a diameter between 5 nm and 70 nm and a length of between 100 nm and 250 nm (particularly for NCC derived from plant celluloses), or 100 nm to several .mu.m, such as up to 10 .mu.m, (particularly for NCC derived from celluloses of tunicates, algae, bacteria). BNC may include bacterial cellulose, microbial cellulose, and biocellulose. BNC may typically be a cellulose fiber prepared by bacterial or microbial synthesis with a diameter of between 20 nm and 100 nm. BNC may be in a nanofiber network. [0035] The cellulose may be used to enhance the thermal stability of the downhole fluid additive. Cellulose may often be derived from renewable, natural products, making them environmentally benign, which may be significant for drilling and production operations in sensitive areas, such as the North Sea. The hydrocellulose may be pre-mixed with water for easy handling. For example, 3 parts of cellulose can be mixed with 97 parts of water to create a polymer suspension with 3% activity (activity is simply the solid content of the cellulose in water suspension). [0036] Celluloses include derivatives of cellulose, such as functionalized cellulose. [0037] The cation may be any cation able to associate the clay with the cellulose, which is typically a polyanion. The cation may be present in the clay or with the cellulose prior for formation of the composition or it may be added to the composition during formation, or any combination thereof. The composition may comprise multiple types of cations, such as sodium ion (Na.sup.+) and another cation. [0038] The additives may be thermally stable in downhole conditions. For example, they may be thermally stable at temperatures of 200.degree. F. and higher, 300.degree. F. and higher, or 400.degree. F. and higher for at least 12 hours or even at least 24 hours. The downhole fluid additives may also be tolerant of the presence or addition of salt water. Downhole Fluids [0039] Downhole fluids may benefit from the addition of an additive of the type described herein. For example, the additive may render the downhole fluid thermally stable at temperatures of 200.degree. F. and higher, 300.degree. F. and higher, or 400.degree. F. and higher for at least 6 hours, at least 12 hours, or at least 24 hours. The downhole fluids may also be tolerant of the presence or addition of salt water. [0040] Specifically, the additives may be used in drilling fluids, spacers, cements, and proppant delivery fluids, with some common and some differing effects based on the type of fluid. [0041] The downhole fluid may contain a variety of components and additives, such as density control additives, for example barite (BaSO.sub.4) particles. [0042] Drilling Fluids [0043] Drilling fluids are used during the drilling of wellbores. The drilling fluid may serve many purposes, including cooling the drill bit, lubricating the rotating drill string to prevent it from sticking to the walls of the wellbore, preventing blowouts by serving as a hydrostatic head to the entrance into the wellbore of formation fluids, and removing drill cuttings from the wellbore. Typically the drilling fluid is circulated downward through a drill pipe and drill bit and then moves upward through the wellbore towards the surface. Other circulation pathways are possible, however. [0044] A drilling fluid compatible with the downhole fluid additives described herein may include a base fluid and other materials, including an additive as described herein, a bridging material, a lost circulation prevention material, a rheology modifier, such as a viscosifier, a thinner, or a low-end rheology modifier, which may increase viscosity at low shear rates, a fluid loss prevention agent, a corrosion inhibitor, a defoamer, a shale stabilizer, a lubricant, and/or other additives. [0045] Base fluids suitable for use in a drilling fluid according to the present disclosure include a variety of fluids, including aqueous-based fluids. [0046] Generally, the base fluid may be present in an amount sufficient to form a pumpable drilling fluid. By way of example, the base fluid may be present in the drilling fluid in an amount in the range of from 20% to 99.99% by volume of the drilling fluid. One of ordinary skill in the art, with the benefit of this disclosure, will recognize the appropriate amount and type of base fluid to include with the drilling fluids of the present disclosure in order to provide a drilling fluid for a particular application. [0047] The bridging material, if present, may include calcium carbonate, BARACARB.RTM. (Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.) size-ground marble, N-SEAL.TM. (Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.) extrusion spun mineral fiber or similar materials. One of ordinary skill in the art, with the benefit of this disclosure, will recognize the appropriate amount and type of bridging material to include with the drilling fluids of the present disclosure in order to provide a drilling fluid for a particular application. [0048] The lost circulation material, if present, may include materials that are capable of reducing the amount of drilling fluid that is lost during the drilling process. The lost circulation material may be present in the drilling fluid in an amount sufficient for a particular application. For example, the lost circulation material may be included in the drilling fluid in an amount of about 1 pound per barrel to 200 pounds per barrel. One of ordinary skill in the art, with the benefit of this disclosure, will recognize the appropriate amount of lost circulation material to include with the drilling fluids of the present disclosure in order to provide a drilling fluid for a particular application. [0049] The viscosifier, if present, may be any agent that increases the viscosity of the drilling fluid. The viscosifier may be used in the drilling fluid to impart a sufficient carrying capacity and/or thixoropy to the drilling fluid, enabling the drilling fluid to transport drill cuttings and/or weighting materials, and/or prevent the undesired settling of drilling cuttings and/or weighting materials. Suitable viscosifiers include biopolymers (e.g. xanthan, such as Barazan.RTM. (Halliburton, Inc., Texas) and succinoglycan), cellulose, cellulose derivatives (e.g. hydroxyethylcellulose, methyl cellulose, and polyanionic cellulose), guar, and guar derivatives (e.g. hydroxypropyl guar). Combinations of viscosifiers are also suitable. The particular viscosifier suitable for a drilling fluid depends on a number of factors, including the viscosity desired, chemical compatibility with other fluids used in the formation of the wellbore, and other wellbore design concerns. One of ordinary skill in the art, with the benefit of this disclosure, will recognize the appropriate amount and type of viscosifier to include with the drilling fluids of the present disclosure in order to provide a drilling fluid for a particular application. [0050] Other additives, if present, may include thinners, emulsifiers, wetting agents, dispersing agents, shale inhibitors, pH-control agents, filtration-control agents, alkalinity sources such as lime and calcium hydroxide, salts, or combinations thereof. One of ordinary skill in the art, with the benefit of this disclosure, will recognize the appropriate amount and type of other additives to include with the drilling fluids of the present disclosure in order to provide a drilling fluid for a particular application. [0051] In addition, the presence of salt in water used to form the drilling fluid or encountered during use of the drilling fluid does not harm stability of drilling fluid. This allows salt water to be used to mix a drilling fluid additive or drilling fluid containing the additive. It also increases tolerance of drilling fluid for salt water or salt deposits encountered by drilling fluid during drilling. [0052] Additionally, the drilling fluid additive may function as a loss circulation prevention additive, particularly if cellulose with a high aspect ratio is used. Loss circulation occurs when drilling fluid enters the formation and may have a variety of negative effects. [0053] The drilling fluid may have a viscosity at surface temperature and pressure sufficient to allow it to suspend any particles additives, such as barite, while still allowing it to be pumped downhole. In the wellbore, the drilling fluid may maintain a viscosity sufficient to allow it to suspend any particle additives, while still allowing it to circulate through and out of the wellbore. The drilling fluid may further maintain a viscosity upon return to surface pressure or temperature sufficient to allow it to exit the wellbore. The drilling fluid may also further maintain its viscosity to allow it to continue to suspend any particles additives, such as barite, until it reaches a holding tank, through any cleaning or testing process, or until it is returned to the wellbore, as applicable. [0054] Downhole fluid additives may be formed separate from the drilling fluid and added later, or formed with the drilling fluid or a component thereof. The clay and active cellulose portions of the downhole fluid additive may form only a small portion of the drilling fluid, such as between 1% and 3% by weight of water (bwow), or less than 10% bwow. [0055] Drilling fluid additives are further described in Examples 1 and 2 below, elements of which may be combined with each other and elements of the drilling fluid, downhole fluid, and downhole fluid additive as described above and with method of using a drilling fluid as described below. [0056] Spacers [0057] Spacers, also sometimes referred to as displacement fluids, wash fluids, or inverter fluids, are placed in the wellbore after drilling and before cementing. Spacers prepare the wellbore to receive cement. For instance, a spacer may fully displace drilling fluid from the wellbore annulus and/or condition the casing and wellbore surface to bond with cement. Drilling fluid can contaminate the cement, which can eventually lead to issues such as incompatibility, poor bonding as well as suppression of compressive strength development. The presence of drilling fluid filter cake over the casing may affect the bonding between the casing and cement and lead to formation of micro channels. Accordingly, spacers often remove any cakes from the drilling fluid and leave the casing and annulus water-wet to receive cement. [0058] To be effective, the spacer can have certain characteristics. For example, the spacer may be compatible with the displaced fluid and the cement. This compatibility may also be present at downhole temperatures and pressures. In some instances, it is also desirable for the spacer to leave surfaces in the well bore water wet, thus facilitating bonding with the cement. Rheology of the spacer can also be important. A number of different rheological properties may be important in the design of a spacer, including yield point, plastic viscosity, gel strength, and shear stress, among others. While rheology can be important in spacer design, conventional spacers may not have the desired rheology at downhole temperatures. For instance, conventional spacers may experience undesired thermal thinning at elevated temperatures. As a result, conventional spacers may not provide the desired displacement in some instances or lead to poor suspensions in other instances. [0059] Water-based spacers contain a base fluid which may be water-based or even water, including salt water. One of ordinary skill in the art, with the benefit of this disclosure, will recognize the appropriate amount and type of base fluid to include in the spacers of the present disclosure in order to provide a spacer for a particular application. [0060] Spacers may also contain additives, such as surfactants, defoamers, salts, viscosifiers, and other additives. [0061] A surfactant may be used in a spacer to enhance the compatibility between the spacer and oil-based drilling fluid. A surfactant may also help to change the interface between the mud and spacer from an oil-external emulsion to a water-external emulsion. In the past, a surfactant package containing DSS-A (oil soluble), DSS-B (water soluble), and SEM-8 (water soluble) has been used extensively. Surfactants may be salt-tolerant. Defoamers may also be included in a spacer when it contains a surfactant. One of ordinary skill in the art, with the benefit of this disclosure, will recognize the appropriate amount and type of surfactant and/or defoamer to include in the spacers of the present disclosure in order to provide a spacer for a particular application. [0062] Spacers are often formed with water, including seawater. For various reasons, in either instance, inorganic salts such as NaCl or CaCl.sub.2 may be added. If salts are added or seawater is used, then typically the surfactant, if present, will be compatible for use with seawater or having other inorganic salts dissolved in the water. One of ordinary skill in the art, with the benefit of this disclosure, will recognize the appropriate amount and type of salts to include in the spacers of the present disclosure in order to provide a spacer for a particular application. [0063] One of ordinary skill in the art, with the benefit of this disclosure, will recognize the appropriate amount and type of viscosifiers, and/or other additives to include in the spacers of the present disclosure in order to provide a spacer for a particular application. [0064] In addition, the presence of salt in water used to form the spacer or encountered during use of the spacer does not harm the stability of spacer. This allows salt water to be used to mix a spacer additive or spacer containing the additive. It also increases tolerance of spacer for salt water or salt deposits encountered by spacer during use. [0065] Additionally, the spacer additive may function as a lost circulation additive. Lost circulation occurs when spacer enters the formation and may have a variety of negative effects. [0066] The spacer may have a viscosity at surface temperature and pressure sufficient to allow it to suspend any particles additives, such as barite, while still allowing it to be pumped downhole. In the wellbore, the spacer may maintain a viscosity sufficient to allow it to suspend any particle additives, while still allowing it to circulate through and out of the wellbore. The spacer may further maintain a viscosity upon return to surface pressure or temperature sufficient to allow it to exit the wellbore. The spacer may also further maintain its viscosity to allow it to continue to suspend any particles additives, such as barite, until it reaches a holding tank, through any cleaning or testing process, or until it is returned to the wellbore, as applicable. [0067] Downhole fluid additives may be formed separate from the spacer and added later, or formed with the spacer or a component thereof. The clay and active cellulose portions of the downhole fluid additive may form only a small portion of the spacer, such as between 1% and 3% bwow, or less than 10% bwow. [0068] Spacer additives are further described in Examples 3 and 4 below, elements of which may be combined with elements of the spacer, downhole fluid, and downhole fluid additive as described above and with method of using a spacer as described below. [0069] Cements [0070] A wellbore may be lined with cement for a variety of purposes. Cement is typically placed between the wellbore wall which is made up of the formation, and a casing. The cement may secure, protect, and/or support the casing in the wellbore. Cement is typically introduced into an annulus between the wellbore wall and the casing, then allowed to set. Cement may help prevent the influx of undesirable materials into the wellbore or the migration of gases or fluids within the annulus. Fluid migration control may be particularly important in directing the flow of oil or gas through the casing. Typically, in order to achieve these and other desirable effects, the cement fills the annulus and bonds to the casing and the wellbore wall. As explained above, drilling fluid may interfere with cementing, so a spacer is typically placed in the area to be cemented prior to introduction of the cement. Cements can also be used in well-plugging or gravel-packing operations. [0071] Cement may refer to a wet mixture, or a set cement, or both, as will be apparent from context. A set cement is typically one that has become solid or hard. For example, a set cement may have been solidified or cured for up to 72 hours. A set cement may also have a compressive strength of greater than 50 psi. [0072] A cement may include a cement base and water, in addition to other materials such as a downhole fluid additive as described herein. [0073] Cement base may include any powder substance that acts as a binder to bind other materials together. It may include any of a variety of hydraulic cements suitable for use in subterranean cementing operations. Examples include hydraulic cements that comprise calcium, aluminum, silicon, oxygen, and/or sulfur, and which set and harden by reaction with water. Such hydraulic cements, include, but are not limited to, Portland cements, pozzolan cements, gypsum cements, high-alumina-content cements, slag cements, silica cements, and combinations thereof. The hydraulic cement may include a Portland cement. The Portland cement may be classified as Class A, C, H, or G cement according to the American Petroleum Institute, API Specification for Materials and Testing for Well Cements, API Specification 10, Fifth Ed., Jul. 1, 1990. In addition, the hydraulic cement may include cements classified as ASTM Type I, II, or III. [0074] Water used in cement may include any water compatible with the cement base. The water may be freshwater, brackish water, or saltwater, or any combination thereof in any proportion. The amount of water may be adjusted to obtain the desired rheology. One of ordinary skill in the art, with the benefit of this disclosure, will recognize the appropriate amount and type of water to include in the cements of the present disclosure in order to provide a cement for a particular application. [0075] The cement may also include salt, such as sodium chloride, calcium chloride, calcium bromide, potassium chloride, potassium bromide, magnesium chloride, or any combination thereof in any proportion. The salt may be in a concentration in the range of about 0.1% to about 40% by weight of water (bwow). One of ordinary skill in the art, with the benefit of this disclosure, will recognize the appropriate amount and type of salt to include in the cements of the present disclosure in order to provide a cement for a particular application. [0076] The cement may further include a set retarder to help increase the thickening or setting time of the cement such that the cement remains pumpable for a desired time. The amount of set retarder added may also be selected such that the cement eventually sets, which is prevented by too much set retarder. Conventional set retarders have been used to delay the setting time of cement compositions. Examples of conventional set retarders include lignosulfates, hydroxycarboxy acids, phosphonic acid derivatives, synthetic polymers (e.g., copolymers of 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropane sulfonic acid ("AMPS")), biodegradable polymers, borate salts, and combinations thereof. The molecular weight of some polymeric set retarders may be greater than 10,000 to allow them to be effective at temperatures between 150.degree. F. and 500.degree. F., which are commonly encountered in wellbores. However, there are trade-offs between solubility of set retarders and molecular weight that may be taken into account in selecting the molecular weight of a given polymeric set retarder. One of ordinary skill in the art, with the benefit of this disclosure, will recognize the appropriate amount and type of set retarder to include in the cements of the present disclosure in order to provide a cement for a particular application. [0077] The cement may also include other additives suitable for use in wellbore cementing operations such as friction-reducers, strength-retrogression additives, set accelerators, weighting agents, lightweight additives, gas-generating additives, mechanical property enhancing additives, lost-circulation materials, filtration-control additives, dispersants, fluid loss control additives, defoaming agents, foaming agents, thixotropic additives, nano-particles, and combinations thereof. One of ordinary skill in the art, with the benefit of this disclosure, will recognize the appropriate amount and type of other additives to include in the cements of the present disclosure in order to provide a cement for a particular application. [0078] A strength-retrogression additive may include course silica flour, fine silica flour, and any combination thereof in any proportion. The strength stabilizer may be present in a concentration in the range of about 20% to about 80% by weight of the cement (bwoc). One of ordinary skill in the art, with the benefit of this disclosure, will recognize the appropriate amount and type of strength-retrogression additive to include in the cements of the present disclosure in order to provide a cement for a particular application. [0079] A fluid loss additive may include HALAD.TM. products, LATEX.TM. 2000, LAP-1, and LAP-2, available from Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. Among the possible compositions for fluid loss additives, without limitation, are cellulose derivatives, such as hydroxyethylcellulose, polyacrylamide polymers and copolymers, copolymers of 2-Acrylamido-2-methylpropane sulfonic acid (AMPS.RTM. (Lubrizol, Corporation)) and dimethylacrylamide (DMA), polymers of acrylonitrile, acrylamide and AMPS monomers grafted on lignite, acrylomorpholine and vinylphosphonic acid copolymers, humic acid grafted polymers, and polymers of polyvinyl alcohol and boric acid. The fluid loss additive may be present in a concentration in the range of 0.1% to 4% bwoc. One of ordinary skill in the art, with the benefit of this disclosure, will recognize the appropriate amount and type of fluid loss additive to include in the cements of the present disclosure in order to provide a cement for a particular application. [0080] A dispersant may include, without limitation, sulfonated-formaldehyde-based dispersants (e.g., sulfonated acetone formaldehyde condensate), examples of which may include CFR.TM.-3 dispersant, available from Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. Dispersant compositions could be, but are not limited to, sulfonated acetone formaldehyde condensate, naphthalene sulfonates, naphthalene sulfonates condensed with formaldehyde, sulfonated polymers, and polycarboxylated ethers. One of ordinary skill in the art, with the benefit of this disclosure, will recognize the appropriate amount and type of dispersant to include in the cements of the present disclosure in order to provide a cement for a particular application. [0081] A filler material may include fly ash, sand, clays, and vitrified shale. The filler material may be present in a concentration in the range of about 2% to about 50% bwoc. One of ordinary skill in the art, with the benefit of this disclosure, will recognize the appropriate amount and type of filler material to include in the cements of the present disclosure in order to provide a cement for a particular application. [0082] Other commercially-available additives may be used to modify the fluid or solid properties of the cement to meet specific application requirements. For example, weighting agents such as hematite, hausmannite, barium sulphate, or other materials with specific gravities greater than 1 and more specifically greater than 3 can be used to modify the specific gravity of the cement for certain wells. One of ordinary skill in the art, with the benefit of this disclosure, will recognize the appropriate amount and type of commercially available other additives to include in the cements of the present disclosure in order to provide a cement for a particular application. [0083] Downhole fluid additives may be formed separate from the cement and added later, or formed with the cement or a component thereof. The clay and active cellulose portions of the cement additive may form only a small portion of the cement, such as between 1% and 3% bwow, between 1% and 2% bwow, or less than 10% bwow. The clay and active cellulose portions of the cement additive may form a different composition bwow. One of ordinary skill in the art, with the benefit of this disclosure, will recognize the appropriate amount and type of the additives to include in the cements of the present disclosure in order to provide a cement for a particular application. [0084] A cement containing a cement additive as disclosed herein may use the additive as a suspending aid. A suspending aid creates a desired viscosity in the cement, and prevents settling of cement particles and other particles/fibers/additives in the cement. This is desired to maintain uniform and integrity of density. The cement may have a viscosity at surface temperature and pressure sufficient to allow it to suspend any desired materials, such as cement base components, while still allowing it to be pumped downhole. In the wellbore, the cement may maintain a viscosity sufficient to allow it to suspend any desired materials until it has thickened or set, while still allowing it to circulate into the appropriate locations in the wellbore. Maintaining suspendability of particles is important in long horizontal sections where the temperature can remain at elevated conditions for long distances. In such situations, the suspending aid's ability to maintain uniform suspensions becomes all the more significant. [0085] In addition, the presence of salt in water used to form the cement or encountered by the cement does not harm the stability of the cement. This allows salt water to be used to mix a cement additive or cement containing the additive. It also increases tolerance of cement for salt water or when passing through salt zones in the formation surrounding the wellbore. In addition, although some suspending aids may work synergistically with the cement additive to resist negative effects of salt, in many cases it is possible to otherwise omit suspending aids from the cement when using a cement additive of the present disclosure. [0086] Cement additives of the present disclosure may also help prevent fluid loss in cement or may render it less rapid. The design properties of cement slurries are significantly influenced by the water content. Thus, slurries that lose water can also be subject to a loss or degradation of design properties. There are a number of conditions that can induce fluid loss. One common condition is water being drawn from the slurry into the permeable formation, in particular when pumping has ceased and the slurry is static, but not yet set. Another common condition is displacing or squeezing water from the slurry as it passes through constrictions, such as tight clearance between the casing and the formation, during placement in a wellbore. Fluid loss additives help retain the key characteristics of cement slurries, including viscosity, thickening time, density and compressive strength development. The additive may generate sufficient tortuosity and viscosity in a cement to prevent or greatly decrease fluid loss. This property may be particularly useful in low-density cement slurries, such as those with a density in the range of 8 pound mass per gallon (lbm/gal) to 14 lbm/gal. Cellulose amounts of 6% bwow or greater may be particularly effective in combination with clay to prevent fluid loss or to render fluid loss less rapid. [0087] Cement additives according to this disclosure may also produce sufficient gel strength in cement slurries to function as lost circulation prevention additives. Lost circulation occurs when cement flows into the formation and can have a variety of negative effects, including impairment of production for oil and/or gas bearing formations. Cement additives can confer sufficient gel strength in cement to prevent or decrease lost circulation. This may be particularly helpful in low-density cement slurries. In particular, cements containing cement additives may have a 10-minute gel strength of at least 90-100 lb.sub.f/100 ft.sup.2 at 190.degree. F. and a comparable gel strength even at 350.degree. F. [0088] Cement additives according to this disclosure may further have sufficient gel strength, tortuosity, and viscosity to function as gas migration control additives. Gas migration occurs when gas enters the cement. The gas may create channels in the cement, which may lead to a variety of problems. Gas migration control may provide greater cement integrity and improved zonal isolation, reduced expenses for remedial squeeze cementing, less chance of damaging tubulars in the casing, and a lower risk of downhole blowouts. Cement additives according to this disclosure may, in particular, develop a gel strength from 100 pound force per hundred square feet (lb.sub.f/100 ft.sup.2) to 500 lb.sub.f/100 ft.sup.2 in less than 30 minutes, even in less than 20 minutes. [0089] Cement additives are further described in Examples 5 to 8 below, elements of which may be combined with elements of the cement, downhole fluid, and downhole fluid additive as described above and with method of using a cement as described below. [0090] Proppant Delivery Fluid Additives [0091] Proppants are solid materials, typically treated sand or man-made ceramics, designed to keep an induced hydraulic fracture open during or following a fracturing treatment. Proppants are delivered to the fracture in a proppant delivery fluid, such as a fracturing fluid, which may often be gel-, foam-, or slick-water-based. These delivery fluids are designed to have high viscosity to enable them to carry more proppants and are often linear gels. One of ordinary skill in the art, with the benefit of this disclosure, will recognize the appropriate amount and type of components to include in the proppant delivery fluids of the present disclosure in order to provide a proppant delivery fluid for a particular application. [0092] Traditionally linear gels that contain cellulose derivatives, guar, or guar derivatives along with other chemicals are used as fracturing fluids, but these materials face stability problems at high downhole temperatures. The proppant delivery fluid additives of the present disclosure may be used to form a proppant delivery fluid that remains a linear gel at high downhole temperatures, allowing proppant delivery and/or fracturing. Proppant delivery fluids containing an additive as described herein may not contain any other viscosifiers, such as guar or guar derivatives, or may contain a smaller amount of viscosifiers. [0093] The proppant delivery fluid may be aqueous-based fluid, including any aqueous fluid suitable for use in subterranean applications, provided that the aqueous-based fluid is compatible with the other components of the proppant delivery fluid, including the proppant. For example, the aqueous-based fluid may include water or an aqueous brine. An aqueous brine may include water and an inorganic monovalent salt, an inorganic multivalent salt, or both. The aqueous brine may be naturally occurring or artificially-created. Water present in the brine may be from any suitable source, including sea water, tap water, freshwater, produced water, or combinations thereof. The additives as disclosed herein may result in a proppant delivery fluid with increased salt tolerance as compared to similar fluids without the additives. One of ordinary skill in the art, with the benefit of this disclosure, will recognize the appropriate amount and type of water to include in the proppant delivery fluids of the present disclosure in order to provide a proppant delivery fluid for a particular application. [0094] The proppant delivery fluid may further include additional additives as deemed appropriate for improving the properties of the fluid. Such additives may vary depending on the intended use of the fluid in the wellbore. These additives may be introduced singularly or in combination using any suitable methodology and in amounts effective to produce the desired improvements in fluid properties. One of ordinary skill in the art, with the benefit of this disclosure, will recognize the appropriate amount and type of additional additives to include in the proppant delivery fluids of the present disclosure in order to provide a proppant delivery fluid for a particular application. [0095] Examples of proppants suitable for use in this disclosure include silica (sand), graded sand, Ottawa sands, Brady sands, Colorado sands; resin-coated sands; gravels; synthetic organic particles, nylon pellets, high density plastics, polytetrafluoroethylenes, rubbers, resins; ceramics, aluminosilicates; glass; sintered bauxite; quartz; aluminum pellets; ground or crushed shells of nuts, walnuts, pecans, almonds, ivory nuts, brazil nuts, and the like; ground or crushed seed shells (including fruit pits) of seeds of fruits, plums, peaches, cherries, apricots, and the like; ground or crushed seed shells of other plants (e.g., maize, corn cobs or corn kernels); crushed fruit pits or processed wood materials, materials derived from woods, oak, hickory, walnut, poplar, mahogany, and the like, including such woods that have been processed by grinding, chipping, or other form of particularization; or combinations thereof. The proppant may include sand. [0096] The proppants may be of any suitable size and/or shape, for example the proppant may have an average particle size in the range of from about 2 to about 400 mesh, alternatively from about 8 to about 100 mesh, or alternatively about 10 to about 70 mesh, U.S. Sieve Series. The proppant may be present in the proppant delivery fluid in an amount of from about 0.1 pounds per gallon (ppg) to about 28 ppg, alternatively from about 0.1 ppg to about 14 ppg, or alternatively from about 0.1 ppg to about 8 ppg, based on the volume of the proppant delivery fluid. [0097] One of ordinary skill in the art, with the benefit of this disclosure, will recognize the appropriate amount and type of a proppant to include in the proppant delivery fluids of the present disclosure in order to provide a proppant delivery fluid for a particular application. [0098] Downhole fluid additives may be formed separate from the proppant delivery fluid and added later, or formed with the proppant delivery fluid or a component thereof. The clay and active cellulose portions of the proppant delivery fluid additive may form only a small portion of the proppant delivery fluid, such as between 1% and 3% bwow, or less than 10% bwow. [0099] Proppant delivery fluid additives are further described in Example 9 below, elements of which may be combined with elements of the proppant delivery fluid, downhole fluid, and downhole fluid additive as described above and with method of using a proppant delivery fluid as described below. Downhole Fluids with Additional Viscosity Control [0100] Downhole fluids described herein, including drilling fluids, spacers, cements, and proppant delivery fluids may include additional viscosity control materials that help establish a particular viscosity or stabilize viscosity. In particular, the downhole fluids may include nano-sized (between 1 nm and 1 .mu.m in average diameter or size in their longest dimension) silica (silicon dioxide, SiO.sub.2) particles. The amount of these particles may range from between half the weight of cellulose present to double the weight of cellulose present. The silica nanoparticles may be between 4 nm and 100 nm in size, between 4 nm and 6 nm in size, between 40 nm and 60 nm in size, between 40 and 100 nm in size, less than 100 nm in size, less than 60 nm in size, or less than 6 nm in size. These sizes may refer to individual particle sizes for particles that tend to remain separate in the downhole fluid, or agglomerate, chain, or other combined particle sizes for particles that tend to form groups in the downhole fluid. [0101] Without limiting the invention to a particular mode of action, the silica particles may act as a repulsive barrier between hydrodynamic spheres of other components of downhole fluids. This repulsive barrier may inhibit interaction between the hydrodynamic spheres of the other components. This may delay the development of viscosity as hydrodynamic spheres of other components begin to interact. It may additionally or alternatively extend the viscosity stability (demonstrated by a generally flat viscosity profile), including surface viscosity, to higher temperatures. Both of these effects are influenced by the size ratio of the hydrodynamic sphere of spheres of the other components to the hydrodynamic sphere of the nano-sized silica particles. This depends on the size of the nano-sized silica particles and the identity of the other components. The concentration of the nano-sized silica particles also influences these properties. [0102] Using this information as well as the information contained in Example 10, one of ordinary skill in the art may determine the appropriate nano-sized silica particles as well as the appropriate amount for use with any downhole fluid described herein to achieve a given viscosity or viscosity stability. [0103] In addition, although the above description and Example 10 focus on the use of silica nano-sized particles in downhole fluids otherwise described herein, one of ordinary skill in the art may also use this disclosure to determine appropriate nano-sized silica particles as well as the appropriate amount for use with any downhole fluid with components that form hydrodynamic spheres to achieve a given viscosity or viscosity stability. This includes downhole fluids other than those described herein, such as conventional drilling fluids, spacers, cements, or proppant delivery fluids. Methods of Forming and Using Downhole Fluids [0104] Drilling Methods [0105] The exemplary drilling fluids disclosed herein may be used in drilling a wellbore. In doing so, a drill bit may be mounted on the end of a drill string that may include several sections of drill pipe. The drill bit may be used to extend the wellbore, for example, by the applications of force and torque to the drill bit. The drilling fluid may be circulated downwardly through the drill pipe, through the drill bit, and upwardly through the annulus between the drill pipe and the formation to the surface. Other methods of circulation are possible. The drilling fluid may be employed for general drilling of a wellbore in subterranean formations, for example, through non-producing zones. It may also be employed for drilling through hydrocarbon-bearing producing zones. [0106] The drilling fluids disclosed herein may directly or indirectly affect one or more components or pieces of equipment associated with the preparation, delivery, recapture, recycling, reuse, and/or disposal of the disclosed drilling fluid. For example, the disclosed drilling fluid may directly or indirectly affect one or more mixers, related mixing equipment, mud pits, storage facilities or units, composition separators, heat exchangers, sensors, gauges, pumps, compressors, and the like used to generate, store, monitor, regulate, and/or recondition the exemplary drilling fluid. The disclosed drilling fluid may also directly or indirectly affect any transport or delivery equipment used to convey the drilling fluid to a well site or downhole such as, for example, any transport vessels, conduits, pipelines, trucks, tubulars, and/or pipes used to compositionally move the drilling fluid from one location to another, any pumps, compressors, or motors (e.g., topside or downhole) used to drive the drilling fluid into motion, any valves or related joints used to regulate the pressure or flow rate of the drilling fluid, and any sensors (i.e., pressure and temperature), gauges, and/or combinations thereof, and the like. The disclosed drilling fluid may also directly or indirectly affect the various downhole equipment and tools that may come into contact with the drilling fluid such as, but not limited to, wellbore casing, wellbore liner, completion string, insert strings, drill string, coiled tubing, slickline, wireline, drill pipe, drill collars, mud motors, downhole motors and/or pumps, spacer pumps, surface-mounted motors and/or pumps, centralizers, turbolizers, scratchers, floats (e.g., shoes, collars, valves, etc.), logging tools and related telemetry equipment, actuators (e.g., electromechanical devices, hydromechanical devices, etc.), sliding sleeves, production sleeves, plugs, screens, filters, flow control devices (e.g., inflow control devices, autonomous inflow control devices, outflow control devices, etc.), couplings (e.g., electro-hydraulic wet connect, dry connect, inductive coupler, etc.), control lines (e.g., electrical, fiber optic, hydraulic, etc.), surveillance lines, drill bits and reamers, sensors or distributed sensors, downhole heat exchangers, valves and corresponding actuation devices, tool seals, packers, cement plugs, bridge plugs, and other wellbore isolation devices, or components, and the like. [0107] For example, and with reference to FIG. 1, the disclosed drilling fluid may directly or indirectly affect one or more components or pieces of equipment associated with an exemplary wellbore drilling assembly 100. [0108] As illustrated, the drilling assembly 100 may include a drilling platform 102 that supports a derrick 104 having a traveling block 106 for raising and lowering a drill string 108. The drill string 108 may include drill pipe and coiled tubing, as generally known to those skilled in the art. A kelly 110 supports the drill string 108 and is driven either by a downhole motor and/or via rotation of the drill string 108 from the well surface. As the drill bit 114 rotates, it creates a wellbore 116 that penetrates a subterranean formation 118. While wellbore 116 is shown extending generally vertically into the subterranean formation 118, the principles described herein are also applicable to wellbores that extend at an angle through the subterranean formation 118, such as horizontal and slanted wellbores. [0109] A pump 120 (e.g. a mud pump) circulates drilling fluid 122 through a feed pipe 124 and to kelly 110, which conveys the drilling fluid 122 downhole through the interior of the drill string 108 and through one or more orifices in the drill bit 114. The drilling fluid 122 is then circulated back to the surface via an annulus 126 defined between the drill string 108 and the walls of the wellbore 116. At the surface, the recirculated or spent drilling fluid 122 exits the annulus 126 and may be conveyed to one or more fluid processing unit(s) 128 via an interconnecting flow line 130. After passing through the fluid processing unit(s) 128, a cleaned drilling fluid 122 is deposited into a nearby retention pit 132 (e.g. a mud pit). While illustrated as being arranged at the outlet of wellbore 116 via the annulus 126, those skilled in the art will readily appreciate that the fluid processing unit(s) 128 may be arranged at any other location in the drilling assembly 100 to facilitate its proper function, without departing from the scope of the disclosure. [0110] Materials, such as lost circulation materials, may be added to the drilling fluid, if present, via a mixing hopper 134 communicatively coupled to or otherwise in fluid communication with retention pit 132. Mixing hopper 134 may include, but is not limited to, mixers and related mixing equipment known to those skilled in the art. Materials may also be added to the drilling fluid 122 at any other location in drilling assembly 100. For example, retention pit 132 may include multiple retention pits, or retention pit 132 may include one or more fluid storage facilities where materials may be stored, reconditioned, and/or regulated until added to the drilling fluid. [0111] As mentioned above, the drilling fluid may directly or indirectly affect the components and equipment of drilling assembly 100. For example, the drilling fluid may directly or indirectly affect the fluid processing unit(s) 128 which may include one or more of a shaker (e.g. shale shaker), a centrifuge, a hydrocyclone, a separator (including magnetic and electrical separators), a desilter, a desander, a filter (e.g. diatomaceous earth filters), a heat exchanger, or any fluid reclamation equipment. The fluid processing unit(s) 128 may further include one or more sensors, gauges, pumps, compressors, and the like used to store, monitor, regulate, and/or recondition a drilling fluid material. [0112] The disclosed drilling fluid may directly or indirectly affect the pump 120, which representatively includes any conduits, pipelines, trucks, tubulars, and/or pipes used to fluidically convey the drilling fluid downhole, any pumps, compressors, or motors (e.g. at the surface or downhole) used to drive the drilling fluid into motion, and valves or related joints used to regulate the pressure or flow rate of the drilling fluid, and any sensors (e.g. pressure, temperature, flow rate, etc.) gauges, and/or combinations thereof, and the like. The disclosed drilling fluid may also directly or indirectly affect any mixing hopper 134 and any retention pit 123 and their assorted variations. [0113] The disclosed drilling fluid may also directly or indirectly affect the various downhole equipment and tools that may come into contact with the drilling fluid, such as the drill string 108, any floats, drill collars, mud motors, downhole motors and/or pumps associated with the drill string 108, and any measuring while drilling (MWD) or logging while drilling (LWD) tools and related telemetry equipment, sensors, or distributed sensors associated with the drill string 108. The disclosed drilling fluid may also directly or indirectly affect any downhole heat exchangers (which may be reduced in number or unnecessary), valves and corresponding actuation devices, tool seals, packers, and other wellbore isolation devices or components, and the like associated with wellbore 116. The disclosed drilling fluid may also directly or indirectly affect the drill bit 114, which may include roller cone bits, fixed-cutter bits, and any hole openers, reamers, or coring bits. [0114] It should be noted that, while FIG. 1 generally depicts a land-based drilling assembly, those skilled in the art would readily recognize that the principles described herein are equally applicable to subsea drilling operations that employ floating or sea-based platforms and rigs, without departing from the scope of the disclosure. [0115] Spacing Methods [0116] The exemplary spacers disclosed herein may directly or indirectly affect one or more components or pieces of equipment associated with the preparation, delivery, recapture, reuse, recycling, and/or disposal of the disclosed spacer. For example, the disclosed spacer may directly or indirectly affect one or more mixers, related mixing equipment, mud pits, storage facilities or units, composition separators, heat exchangers, sensors, gauges, pumps, compressors, and the like used to generate, store, monitor, regulate, and/or recondition the exemplary spacer. The disclosed spacer may also directly or indirectly affect any transport or delivery equipment used to convey the spacer to a well site or downhole such as, for example, any transport vessels, conduits, pipelines, trucks, tubulars, and/or pipes used to compositionally move the spacer from one location to another, any pumps, compressors, or motors (e.g., topside or downhole) used to drive the spacer into motion, any valves or related joints used to regulate the pressure or flow rate of the spacer, and any sensors (i.e., pressure and temperature), gauges, and/or combinations thereof, and the like. The disclosed spacer may also directly or indirectly affect the various downhole equipment and tools that may come into contact with the spacer such as, but not limited to, wellbore casing, wellbore liner, completion string, insert strings, drill string, coiled tubing, slickline, wireline, drill pipe, drill collars, mud motors, downhole motors and/or pumps, spacer pumps, surface-mounted motors and/or pumps, centralizers, turbolizers, scratchers, floats (e.g., shoes, collars, valves, etc.), logging tools and related telemetry equipment, actuators (e.g., electromechanical devices, hydromechanical devices, etc.), sliding sleeves, production sleeves, plugs, screens, filters, flow control devices (e.g., inflow control devices, autonomous inflow control devices, outflow control devices, etc.), couplings (e.g., electro-hydraulic wet connect, dry connect, inductive coupler, etc.), control lines (e.g., electrical, fiber optic, hydraulic, etc.), surveillance lines, drill bits and reamers, sensors or distributed sensors, downhole heat exchangers, valves and corresponding actuation devices, tool seals, packers, cement plugs, bridge plugs, and other wellbore isolation devices, or components, and the like. [0117] Turning now to FIG. 2, the spacer 80 may be used to flush drilling fluid from a subterranean formation 20. As illustrated, a wellbore 22 may be drilled into the subterranean formation 20. While wellbore 22 is shown extending generally vertically into the subterranean formation 20, the principles described herein are also applicable to wellbores that extend at an angle through the subterranean formation 20, such as horizontal and slanted wellbores. As illustrated, the wellbore 22 comprises walls 24. As illustrated, a surface casing 28 has been inserted into the wellbore 22. The surface casing 30 may later be cemented to the walls 24 of the wellbore 22 by cement sheath 26. Further as illustrated, one or more additional conduits (e.g., intermediate casing, production casing, liners, etc.) shown here as casing 30 may also be disposed in the wellbore 22. As illustrated, there is a wellbore annulus 32 formed between the casing 30 and the walls 24 of the wellbore 22 and/or the surface casing 28. One or more centralizers 34 may be attached to the casing 30, for example, to centralize the casing 30 in the wellbore 22 prior to and after flushing of the drilling fluid with the spacer. [0118] With continued reference to FIG. 2, the spacer 80 may be pumped down the interior of the casing 30. The spacer 80 may be allowed to flow down the interior of the casing 30 through the casing shoe 42 at the bottom of the casing 30 and up around the casing 30 into the wellbore annulus 32. While not illustrated, other techniques may also be utilized for introduction of the spacer 80. By way of example, reverse circulation techniques may be used that include introducing the spacer 80 into the subterranean formation 20 by way of the wellbore annulus 32 instead of through the casing 30. [0119] Spacer 80 may fully displace any drilling fluid remaining in wellbore 22. Spacer 80 may itself be displaced when a cement is introduced into wellbore 22. At least a portion of spacer 80 may exit the wellbore annulus 32 via a flow line 38 and be deposited, for example, in one or more retention pits 40 as shown on FIG. 4. [0121] Cementing Methods [0122] The exemplary cements disclosed herein may directly or indirectly affect one or more components or pieces of equipment associated with the preparation, delivery, recapture, reuse, recycling, and/or disposal of the disclosed cement. For example, the disclosed cement may directly or indirectly affect one or more mixers, related mixing equipment, mud pits, storage facilities or units, composition separators, heat exchangers, sensors, gauges, pumps, compressors, and the like used to generate, store, monitor, regulate, and/or recondition the exemplary cement. The disclosed cement may also directly or indirectly affect any transport or delivery equipment used to convey the cement to a well site or downhole such as, for example, any transport vessels, conduits, pipelines, trucks, tubulars, and/or pipes used to compositionally move the cement from one location to another, any pumps, compressors, or motors (e.g., topside or downhole) used to drive the cement into motion, any valves or related joints used to regulate the pressure or flow rate of the cement, and any sensors (i.e., pressure and temperature), gauges, and/or combinations thereof, and the like. The disclosed cement may also directly or indirectly affect the various downhole equipment and tools that may come into contact with the cement such as, but not limited to, wellbore casing, wellbore liner, completion string, insert strings, drill string, coiled tubing, slickline, wireline, drill pipe, drill collars, mud motors, downhole motors and/or pumps, cement pumps, surface-mounted motors and/or pumps, centralizers, turbolizers, scratchers, floats (e.g., shoes, collars, valves, etc.), logging tools and related telemetry equipment, actuators (e.g., electromechanical devices, hydromechanical devices, etc.), sliding sleeves, production sleeves, plugs, screens, filters, flow control devices (e.g., inflow control devices, autonomous inflow control devices, outflow control devices, etc.), couplings (e.g., electro-hydraulic wet connect, dry connect, inductive coupler, etc.), control lines (e.g., electrical, fiber optic, hydraulic, etc.), surveillance lines, drill bits and reamers, sensors or distributed sensors, downhole heat exchangers, valves and corresponding actuation devices, tool seals, packers, cement plugs, bridge plugs, and other wellbore isolation devices, or components, and the like. [0123] Referring now to FIG. 3, an example system that may be used in the preparation of a cement will now be described. FIG. 3 illustrates a system 2 for preparation of a cement and delivery to a wellbore. As shown, the cement may be mixed in mixing equipment 4, such as a jet mixer, re-circulating mixer, or a batch mixer, for example, and then pumped via pumping equipment 6 to the wellbore. The mixing equipment 4 and the pumping equipment 6 may be disposed on one or more cement trucks as will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art. A jet mixer may be used, for example, to continuously mix the composition, including water, as it is being pumped to the wellbore. [0124] An example technique and system for placing a cement into a subterranean formation will now be described with reference to FIG. 4A and FIG. 4B. FIG. 4A illustrates surface equipment 10 that may be used in placement of a cement. It should be noted that while FIG. 4A generally depicts a land-based operation, those skilled in the art will readily recognize that the principles described herein are equally applicable to subsea operations that employ floating or sea-based platforms and rigs, without departing from the scope of the disclosure. As illustrated by FIG. 4A, the surface equipment 10 may include a cementing unit 12, which may include one or more cement trucks. The cementing unit 12 may include mixing equipment 4 and pumping equipment 6 (e.g., FIG. 3) as will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art. The cementing unit 12 may pump a cement 14 through a feed pipe 16 and to a cementing head 18 which conveys the cement 14 downhole. [0125] Turning now to FIG. 4B, the cement 14 may be placed into a subterranean formation 20. As illustrated, a wellbore 22 may be drilled into the subterranean formation 20. While wellbore 22 is shown extending generally vertically into the subterranean formation 20, the principles described herein are also applicable to wellbores that extend at an angle through the subterranean formation 20, such as horizontal and slanted wellbores. As illustrated, the wellbore 22 comprises walls 24. As illustrated, a surface casing 28 has been inserted into the wellbore 22. The surface casing 28 may be cemented to the walls 24 of the wellbore 22 by cement sheath 26. Further as illustrated, one or more additional conduits (e.g., intermediate casing, production casing, liners, etc.) shown here as casing 30 may also be disposed in the wellbore 22. As illustrated, there is a wellbore annulus 32 formed between the casing 30 and the walls 24 of the wellbore 22 and/or the surface casing 28. One or more centralizers 34 may be attached to the casing 30, for example, to centralize the casing 30 in the wellbore 22 prior to and during the cementing operation. [0126] With continued reference to FIG. 4B, the cement 14 may be pumped down the interior of the casing 30. The cement 14 may be allowed to flow down the interior of the casing 30 through the casing shoe 42 at the bottom of the casing 30 and up around the casing 30 into the wellbore annulus 32. The cement 14 may be allowed to set in the wellbore annulus 32, for example, to form a cement sheath that supports and positions the casing 30 in the wellbore 22. While not illustrated, other techniques may also be utilized for introduction of the cement 14. By way of example, reverse circulation techniques may be used that include introducing the cement 14 into the subterranean formation 20 by way of the wellbore annulus 32 instead of through the casing 30. [0127] As it is introduced, the cement 14 may displace other fluids 36, such as drilling fluids and/or spacers, that may be present in the interior of the casing 30 and/or the wellbore annulus 32. At least a portion of the displaced fluids 36 may exit the wellbore annulus 32 via a flow line 38 and be deposited, for example, in one or more retention pits 40 (e.g., a mud pit), as shown on FIG. 4A. Referring again to FIG. 4B, a bottom plug 44 may be introduced into the wellbore 22 ahead of the cement 14, for example, to separate the cement 14 from the fluids 36 that may be inside the casing 30 prior to cementing. After the bottom plug 44 reaches the landing collar 46, a diaphragm or other suitable device ruptures to allow the cement 14 through the bottom plug 44. In FIG. 4B, the bottom plug 44 is shown on the landing collar 46. As illustrated, a top plug 48 may be introduced into the wellbore 22 behind the cement 14. The top plug 48 may push the cement 14 through the bottom plug 44. [0129] Proppant Delivery Methods [0130] During well stimulation treatments, such as fracturing treatments, the proppant delivery fluid generally has a viscosity that is sufficient to suspend proppant particles and to place the proppant particles in fractures, inter alia, to maintain the integrity of those fractures once the hydraulic pressure is released. After the proppant is placed in the fracture and pumping stops, the fracture closes. The pores of the proppant bed and the surrounding formation are filled with the fracturing fluid and should be cleaned out to maximize conductivity of the proppant-filled fracture. Once at least one fracture is created and the proppant is substantially in place, the viscosity of the fracturing fluid usually is reduced by breaking the viscosified treatment fluid via function of a breaking agent, thereby depositing the proppant and allowing the fluid to be recovered from the formation. Proppant delivery fluids of the present disclosure may allow breaking, or may provide for proppant delivery without breaking. [0131] During proppant delivery treatments, the proppant delivery fluid generally has a viscosity that is sufficient to suspend the proppant and to place the proppant in the desired location. The proppant delivery fluid may be placed in a wellbore similar to that shown in FIGS. 1 through 4 using suitable equipment, such as equipment similar to that shown in FIG. 3. [0132] To facilitate a better understanding of the present disclosure, the following examples are given. Example 1: Drilling Fluid Rheology and Stability [0133] A medium-density water-based drilling fluid was formed from 3.5 g (1.1% bwow) LAPONITE RD.RTM. (BYK ADDITIVES LTD.) synthetic hectorite, 32 g cellulose nanofibrils suspension (which contains 3% cellulose nanofibrils (University of Maine pilot plant) and 97% water), 308.1 g tap water at a pH of 11-12 (achieved by addition of soda ash, Na.sub.2CO.sub.3), and 310.93 g barite heavy-weight additive particles (for density control). Although this drilling fluid was medium-density (13.5 parts per gallon (ppg) in this example), the same principles may be applied for low-density and high-density drilling fluids with similar results. [0134] The ingredients were mixed in a micro-mixer for 10 minutes, then hydration of the cellulose was allowed to proceed to generate a micro-structure able to suspend the barite particles. The rheological properties of the drilling fluid were evaluated using a standard bob-sleeve geometry in a viscometer (see TABLE 1). [0135] After rheological evaluation, the drilling mud was placed in a pressure cell that was pressurized with nitrogen gas to 500 psi. The drilling mud was subjected to a hot-roll from room temperature to 400.degree. F., and was then held at 400.degree. F. for a period of 24 hours while being hot-rolled. The temperature was allowed to cool back to room temperature and the nitrogen gas was released. The rheology of the drilling fluid was evaluated again using a standard bob-sleeve geometry in a viscometer (see TABLE 1). Upon observation, the hot-rolled drilling fluid was stable and suspended the barite particles. After this process, some free water was observed, but could be mixed into the drilling fluid again. TABLE-US-00001 TABLE 1 Rheology Data From Hot-Rolled Drilling Fluid after hot-roll before hot-roll and cooling at after hot-roll at room back to room and cooling temperature temperature back to room Test Room Room temperature temperature temperature temperature 120.degree. F. 600 rpm 47 69 44 300 rpm 33 55 35 200 rpm 25 48 31 100 rpm 22 41 27 6 rpm 16 32 21 3 rpm 9 28 12 [0136] These rheology measurements also demonstrate that the drilling fluid was able to suspend the barite particles, even after extended periods at high temperatures. [0137] Gel strength was also evaluated by determining the maximum deflection of the bob in the rheology tests at 6 rotations per minute (rpm). Measurements were made after hot-roll and return to room temperature. Wait time after return to room temperature is noted in the results, presented in TABLE 2. TABLE-US-00002 TABLE 2 Gel Strength Data From Hot-Rolled Drilling Fluid Wait time Gel Strength 10 seconds 16 lb/100 ft.sup.2 5 minutes 21 lb/100 ft.sup.2 30 minutes 25 lb/100 ft.sup.2 Example 2: Drilling Fluid Rheology and Stability in the Presence of Salt [0138] A medium-density water-based drilling fluid was formed from 3.5 g (1.1% bwow) LAPONITE RD.RTM. synthetic hectorite, 32 g cellulose nanofibrils suspension (which contains 3% cellulose nanofibrils (University of Maine pilot plant) and 97% water), 308.1 g tap water at a pH of 11-12 (achieved by addition of soda ash, Na.sub.2CO.sub.3), 310.93 g barite heavy-weight additive particles (for density control), and 94.2 g sodium chloride (NaCl). Although this drilling fluid was medium-density (13.5 ppg in this example), the same principles may be applied for low-density and high-density drilling fluids with similar results. TABLE-US-00003 TABLE 3 Rheology Data From Hot-Rolled Drilling Fluid after hot-roll before hot-roll and cooling at after hot-roll at room back to room and cooling temperature temperature back to room Test Room Room temperature temperature temperature temperature 120.degree. F. 600 rpm 33 24 21 300 rpm 22 13 12 200 rpm 17 9 9 100 rpm 12 6 7 6 rpm 6 4 7 3 rpm 5 4 7 Example 3: Spacer Rheology and Stability [0141] A first spacer was formed from 1.5 g (1.7% bwow) LAPONITE RD.RTM. synthetic hectorite, 15 g cellulose nanofibrils suspension (which contains 3% cellulose nanofibrils (University of Maine pilot plant) and 97% water), 89.42 g tap water at a pH of 10-11 (achieved by addition of soda ash, Na.sub.2CO.sub.3), and 86.45 g barite heavy-weight additive particles (for density control). [0142] A second spacer was formed from 1.5 g (1.7% bwow) LAPONITE RD.RTM. synthetic hectorite, 10 g cellulose nanofibrils suspension (which contains 3% cellulose nanofibrils and 97% water), 84.57 g tap water at a pH of 10-11 (achieved by addition of soda ash, Na.sub.2CO.sub.3), and 86.45 g barite heavy-weight additive particles (for density control). [0143] The ingredients were mixed in a jar blender at around 1700-1800 rpm for 5 minutes. Then for each test, a portion of each sample was immediately transferred to a viscometer equipped with a B5X bob. The shear rate was kept constant at an equivalent rpm of 25 rpm to simulate shear rate experienced by downhole fluids being pumped downhole. The temperature was increased to 200.degree. F., 300.degree. F., and 400.degree. F., in three different tests respectively, at a rate of 3.degree. F. per minute then held constant at the final temperature for 6 hours. The mixtures were then allowed to cool to room temperature naturally. For each sample, the barite remained suspended when the product was removed from the viscometer and there was only a negligible amount of free water (1-2 drops), indicating that the product had remained stable throughout the test. [0144] The first spacer was used to evaluate the thermal stability of the spacer while holding the product at 200.degree. F. and at 300.degree. F. for a period of 6 hours. Data at 200.degree. F. is provided in FIG. 5 and shows a flat viscosity profile, indicating stability for at least 6 hours. In addition, the data presented in FIG. 5 shows that the viscosity at surface temperature (80.degree. F.) started low at around 800 cP, which enables ease of pumping into the wellbore. The spacer viscosity started to increase at around 150.degree. F., which is indicated by point A in FIG. 5. Even after the spacer reached the set temperature of 200.degree. F. at point B in FIG. 5, the viscosity of the spacer continued to evolve and remained sufficiently high to suspend barite particles. Viscosity evolution was completed after roughly 2.5 hours, as indicated by point C in FIG. 5, when it has reached approximately 3000 cP. Viscosity remained stable until the spacer began to cool at point D in FIG. 5. This indicates that as the spacer is pumped through the annulus to the surface, it may retain its ability to suspend barite particles. [0145] The first spacer was also used to evaluate the thermal stability of the spacer while holding the product at 300.degree. F. for a period of 6 hours. Data for this experiment is provided in FIG. 6 and also shows a flat viscosity profile, indicating stability for at least 6 hours. In addition, the data presented in FIG. 6 shows that the viscosity at surface temperature (80.degree. F.) started low at around 800 cP, which enables ease of pumping into the wellbore. The spacer viscosity started to increase at around 150.degree. F., which is indicated by point A in FIG. 6. Even after the spacer reached the set temperature of 300.degree. F. at point B in FIG. 6 and had a viscosity of around 2800 cP, the viscosity of the spacer continued to evolve and remained sufficiently high to suspend barite particles. Viscosity evolution was completed after roughly 2 hours, as indicated by point C in FIG. 6, when it has reached approximately 3000 cP. Viscosity remained stable until the spacer began to cool at point D in FIG. 6. This indicates that as the spacer is pumped through the annulus to the surface, it may retain its ability to suspend barite particles. [0146] The second spacer was used to evaluate the thermal stability of the viscosity of the spacer while holding the product at 400.degree. F. for a period of 6 hours. The second spacer was used for this evaluation at 400.degree. F. because it contained a reduced amount of cellulose, which was believed to cause oscillation in the viscosity measurements in the first spacer. Although some oscillations were still observed with the second spacer, measurements could be obtained. It is important to note that these oscillations did not correspond with any observed failure of either spacer. When both the first and second spacers were removed from the viscometer, the fluids were stable with negligible amounts of free water (1-2 drops) and no indication of barite settling. [0147] Data for the second spacer at 400.degree. F. is provided in FIG. 7 and also shows a flat viscosity profile, indicating stability for at least 6 hours. In addition, the data presented in FIG. 7 shows that the viscosity at surface temperature (80.degree. F.) starts low at around 600 cP, which enables ease of pumping into the wellbore. This viscosity was lower than the viscosity at the same temperature for the first spacer because the second spacer contained less cellulose. The spacer viscosity started to increase at around 150.degree. F., which is indicated by point A in FIG. 7. The spacer reached the set temperature of 300.degree. F. at point B in FIG. 7 and had a viscosity of around 2800 cP. This represented the maximum viscosity of the spacer. The viscosity of the spacer reduced to around 1400 cP to 1500 cP by point C in FIG. 7, indicating thermal thinning at temperatures above 300.degree. F., but slowly increased again over time to around 1600 cP. The spacer retained a viscosity sufficiently high to suspend barite particles. Viscosity remained stable until the spacer began to cool at point D in FIG. 7. This indicates that as the spacer is pumped through the annulus to the surface, it may retain its ability to suspend barite particles. [0148] Spacers with clay alone, cellulose alone or with a clay/cellulose additive according to the present disclosure were prepared and tested. [0149] A clay spacer was formed from 1.5 g LAPONITE RD.RTM. synthetic hectorite, 74.87 g tap water at a pH of 10-11 (achieved by addition of soda ash, Na.sub.2CO.sub.3), and 86.45 g barite heavy-weight additive particles (for density control). [0150] A cellulose spacer was formed from 26.33 g cellulose nano-fibrils suspension (which contains 3% cellulose nano-fibrils (University of Maine pilot plant) and 97% water), 74.87 g tap water at a pH of 10-11 (achieved by addition of soda ash, Na.sub.2CO.sub.3), and 86.45 g barite heavy-weight additive particles (for density control). [0151] A clay/cellulose spacer was formed from 1.5 g LAPONITE RD.RTM. synthetic hectorite, 26.33 g cellulose nano-fibrils suspension (which contains 3% cellulose nano-fibrils and 97% water), 74.87 g tap water at a pH of 10-11 (achieved by addition of soda ash, Na.sub.2CO.sub.3), and 86.45 g barite heavy-weight additive particles (for density control). [0152] Each spacer was mixed in a blender jar at 2000 rpm for 5 minutes. Increasing the mixing time to 35 minutes did not significantly increase starting viscosity (difference were in the range of 10-20%). Then for each test, a portion of each sample was immediately transferred to a viscometer equipped with a B5X bob. The shear rate was kept constant at an equivalent rpm of 25 rpm to simulate shear rate experienced by fluids being pumped downhole. The temperature was increased to 400.degree. F. at a rate of 3.degree. F. per minute then allowed to cool to room temperature naturally. [0153] Results for the clay spacer are presented in FIG. 8. With this spacer, the viscosity rose quite rapidly after 230.degree. F., reaching a maximum at around 320.degree. F. This indicates uncontrolled viscosity generation, which would require additional pumping energy to move the cement into the wellbore. Furthermore, upon reduction of the temperature from 400.degree. F., there was no indication of thermal thixotropy. [0154] Results for the cellulose spacer are presented in FIG. 9. With this spacer, viscosity rise steadily to about 315.degree. F., then did not show significant additional variation with temperature. Furthermore, upon reduction of the temperature from 400.degree. F., there was no indication of thermal thixotropy. Upon removal from the test equipment, this sample contained a large amount of free water, indication it was not stable at the temperatures tested. [0155] Results for the clay/cellulose spacer are presented in FIG. 10. With this spacer the viscosity rose rapidly between 150.degree. F. to 300.degree. F., but in a controlled manner, then dropped rapidly as the temperature is further increased to 400.degree. F. due to thermal thinning. Upon cooling, the material exhibited thixotropy and the viscosity increased again to nearly the earlier maximum viscosity observed while heating. Such a thermally thixotropic system is able to suspend the heavy barite particles in the spacer. Furthermore, when the cement was removed from the equipment after testing, very little (1-2 drops) of free water was observed, indicating stability of the cement at the temperatures tested. Overall, although neither laponite nor cellulose alone gave rise to a suitable spacer, the combination provided a very stable and controlled spacer. Example 5: Cement Additive as a Salt Shield [0156] A basic cement was formed from 100% bwoc Class G cement base (a Portland cement containing no additions other than calcium sulfate or water, per American Petroleum Institute (API) standard API Spec. 10A), 0.05% bwoc SA-1015.TM. (HALLIBURTON ENERGY SRVICES, INC.) suspending agent, and 5.3 gallons/sack (gal/sk) fresh water. The cement slurry had a density of 15.6 pounds per gallon (ppg). [0157] A first salt additive cement was formed from 100% bwoc Class G cement base, 0.05% bwoc SA-1015.TM. suspending agent, 34% bwoc NaCl, and 6.07 gal/sk fresh water. The cement slurry had a density of 15.6 ppg. [0158] A second salt additive cement was formed from 100% bwoc Class G cement base, 0.1% bwoc SA-1015.TM. suspending agent, 34% bwoc NaCl, and 6.07 gal/sk fresh water. The cement slurry had a density of 15.6 ppg. [0159] The basic cement and salt additive cement control slurries contained SA-1015 suspending agent to hold the slurry in suspension while testing. Salt was added to the salt additive cement slurries to test the effects of salt on SA-1015 at two different suspending agent concentrations to see if the suspending agent at higher concentrations could hold the cement in suspension. [0160] These slurries were mixed as prescribed in API Recommended Practice 10B for wetting of the components at 4000 rpm for 25 second, followed by homogenization at 12000 rpm for 35 seconds. [0161] A first clay/cellulose additive cement was formed from 100% bwoc Class G cement base, 0.05% bwoc SA-1015.TM. suspending agent, 34% bwoc NaCl, 1% bwoc LAPONITE EP.RTM. (BYK ADDITIVES LTD.) synthetic hectorite, 3.times. by weight of LAPONITE EP nanocellulose (University of Maine pilot plant) with 3% activity in suspension, and 5.94 gal/sk fresh water. The cement slurry had a density of 15.6 ppg. This first clay/cellulose additive cement was designed to evaluate any synergistic effects between the SA-1015 suspending agent and the clay/cellulose cement additive in the presence of salt. [0162] A second clay/cellulose additive cement was formed from 100% bwoc Class G cement base, 34% bwoc NaCl, 1% bwoc LAPONITE EP.RTM. (BYK ADDITIVES LTD.) synthetic hectorite, 3.times. by weight of LAPONITE EP nanocellulose (University of Maine pilot plant) with 3% activity in suspension, and 5.94 gal/sk fresh water. The cement slurry had a density of 15.6 ppg. This second clay/cellulose additive cement was designed to evaluate the effects of the clay/cellulose cement additive alone in the presence of salt. [0163] These two slurries were prepared by hydrating the laponite and cellulose in fresh water at 2000 rpm for 5 minutes. Then the cement base, salt, and suspending agent (if present) were blended for an additional 5 minutes while mixer rpm was gradually increased to as high as 7500 to 8000 rpm to accommodate more dry solids into suspension. The slurries thus prepared were thick and may need to be less viscous (e.g. contain less clay and/or cellulose by proportion of total slurry) for use in pumping. [0164] After the cement slurries were mixed, they were placed in API sedimentation cylinders in a water bath for curing at 140.degree. F. or 150.degree. F. The curing temperature appeared to have little effect on the stability of the cured samples for the range of temperatures investigated. [0165] After curing, the API cylinder samples were cut into 5 sections, and were tested for density using Archimedes' principle. The density difference was noted from the lowest density section to the highest density section and reported in TABLE 4. TABLE-US-00004 TABLE 4 Effects of Salt on Cement Density difference Cement (in ppg) Basic cement 0.20 First salt additive cement 0.46 Second salt additive cement 0.59 First clay/cellulose additive cement 0.14 Second clay/cellulose additive cement 0.14 [0166] As the data in TABLE 4, makes clear, salt greatly disrupted the effectiveness of SA-1015 suspending aid. However, the clay/cellulose additive improved the salt-resistance of the cement. This effect was not influenced by the addition of SA-1015 suspending aid, which is not surprising given it's relative ineffectiveness in the presence of salt. Example 6: Cement Additive as a Fluid Loss Additive [0167] A clay additive cement was formed from 100% bwoc Class G cement base, 1.2% bwow FDP-C1136 synthetic hectorite, and 36.22 gal/sk deionized water. The cement slurry had a density of 10 ppg. [0168] A cellulose additive cement was formed from 100% bwoc Class G cement base, 1.2% bwow FDP-C1136 synthetic hectorite, 6% bwoc CELLULON.RTM. PX (CP KELCO LTD.) 100% activity micro cellulose, provided as solid particles, 1.0% bwoc CFR-3.TM. (HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.) cement friction reducer, which helps disperse cellulose, and 36.22 gal/sk deionized water. The cement slurry had a density of 10 ppg. [0169] A first clay/cellulose additive cement was formed from 100% bwoc Class G cement base, 1.2% bwow FDP-C1136 synthetic hectorite, 3% bwoc CELLULON.RTM. PX (CP KELCO LTD.) 100% activity micro cellulose, provided as solid particles, and 39.84 gal/sk deionized water. The cement slurry had a density of 10 ppg. [0170] A second clay/cellulose additive cement was formed from 100% bwoc Class G cement base, 1.2% bwow FDP-C1136 synthetic hectorite, 6% bwoc CELLULON.RTM. PX (CP KELCO LTD.) 100% activity micro cellulose, provided as solid particles, 1.0% bwoc CFR-3.TM. cement friction reducer, which helps disperse cellulose, and 36.22 gal/sk deionized water. The cement slurry had a density of 10 ppg. [0171] CFR-3.TM. was added in some samples because the quantity of cellulose caused mixing difficulties. In each sample, the clay and cellulose (if both present) were mixed in a blender jar at 2000 rpm for 10 minutes. After this hydration, the dry blend of cement base and CFR-3.TM. (if present) were added and mixed for another 5 minutes at 4000 rpm. The slurry was then conditioned in an atmospheric consistometer at 190.degree. F. for 30 minutes, before conducting fluid loss experiments at 190.degree. F. in a static fluid loss cell according to API Recommended Practice 10B-2. Results are presented in TABLE 5. TABLE-US-00005 TABLE 5 Fluid Loss in Cement Slurries First Second Clay/ Clay/ Clay Cellulose Cellulose Cellulose Additive Additive Additive Additive Cement Cement Cement Cement Fluid 5 min/100 mL 30 min/47 mL 28 min/95 mL 30 mm/33 mL Loss API 487 mL 94 mL 196 mL 66 mL Fluid Loss [0172] Cement with clay alone exhibited a large volume of fluid loss quite rapidly. Cellulose alone improved both properties, but when a similar amount of cellulose was used in conjunction with clay (second clay/cellulose additive cement), a very substantial improvement in volume of fluid loss and speed of fluid loss was achieved as compared to clay or cellulose alone. Example 7: Cement Additive as a Lost Circulation Prevention Additive [0173] A first clay/cellulose additive cement was formed from 100% bwoc Class G cement base, 1.2% bwow FDP synthetic hectorite, 3% bwoc CELLULON.RTM. PX 100% activity micro cellulose, provided as solid particles, and 6 gal/sk MICROBLOCK.RTM. (HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.) finely divided, high surface-area silica extender/compressive-strength enhancer/thixotropy imparter, and 40.03 gal/sk deionized water. The cement slurry had a density of 10 ppg. [0174] A second clay/cellulose additive cement was formed from 100% bwoc Class G cement base, 1.2% bwow FDP synthetic hectorite, 3% bwoc CELLULON.RTM. PX 100% activity micro cellulose, provided as solid particles, and 6 gal/sk MICROBLOCK.RTM. finely divided, high surface-area silica extender/compressive-strength enhancer/thixotropy imparter, 0.4% bwoc SCR-742.TM. (HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.) high temperature cement retarder, and 0.4% bwoc COMPONENT R.RTM. (HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.) inorganic salt cement retarder, and 43.10 gal/sk deionized water. The cement slurry had a density of 10 ppg. [0175] The first clay/cellulose additive cement was designed for testing at temperatures up to 190.degree. F. For temperatures above 190.degree. F., particularly 350.degree. F., cement retarders were added in the second clay/cellulose additive cement to generate sufficient pump time for use in actual wellbores. [0176] In each sample, the clay and cellulose were mixed in a blender jar at 2000 rpm for 10 minutes. After this hydration, the dry blend of cement base and cement retarder (if present) were added and mixed for another 5 minutes at 4000 rpm. The slurry was then conditioned in an atmospheric consistometer at 190.degree. F. for 30 minutes, before conducting rheology measurements for gel strength in a rheometer at 190.degree. F. Results are presented in TABLE 6. TABLE-US-00006 TABLE 6 Gel Strength of First Clay/Cellulose Additive Cement rpm Room Temperature 190.degree. F. 300 75 56 200 72 52 100 70 50 6 63 42 3 60 42 10 seconds gel strength 85 43 10 minutes gel strength 200 105 [0177] Typical field requirements for a lost circulation prevention additive are a 10-minute gel strength of at least 90-100. The first clay/cellulose additive cement met this criteria at both room temperature and 190.degree. F., indicating it's usefulness as a lost circulation prevention additive for cement. [0178] Part of the second clay/cellulose additive cement slurry was placed in a high temperature high pressure consistometer immediately after mixing for tests at 350.degree. F. Thickening time data is presented in FIG. 11. As can be seen in FIG. 11, the cement slurry had a thickening time of greater than 9 hours, indicating it would be suitable for pumping into an actual wellbore. Rheology measurement were conducted in a rheometer at 190.degree. F., the results of which are presented in TABLE 7. TABLE-US-00007 TABLE 7 Gel Strength of Second Clay/Cellulose Additive Cement rpm Room Temperature 190.degree. F. 300 97 87 200 95 87 100 95 85 6 85 73 3 85 73 10 seconds gel strength 82 74 10 minutes gel strength 205 165 [0179] Thus, even with cement retarders added, a cement with a clay/cellulose additive according to the present disclosure retains sufficient gel strength to serve as a lost circulation prevention additive. [0180] Gel strength of the second clay/cellulose additive cement was also evaluated at 350.degree. F. by performing an on-off test in a consistometer where, after reaching a steady slurry temperature of 350.degree. F., stirring was ceased for 10 minutes, then restarted. Maximum Bearden Units (Bc) deflection was observed upon start-up of stirring, indicating good gel strength development. Results are presented in FIG. 12, which shows a Bc deflection of at least 30 Bc or more when on-off tests were conducted three times. This indicates the development of high gel strength, even at 350.degree. F. and in the presence of cement retarders. Example 8: Cement Additive as a Gas Migration Control Additive [0181] A cement with a cement additive was formed from 100% bwoc Class G cement base, 1.2% bwow FDP synthetic hectorite, 3% bwoc CELLULON.RTM. PX 100% activity micro cellulose, provided as solid particles, and 6 gal/sk MICROBLOCK.RTM. finely divided, high surface-area silica extender/compressive-strength enhancer/thixotropy imparter, and 39.84 gal/sk deionized water. The cement slurry had a density of 10 ppg. [0182] The clay and cellulose were mixed in a blender jar at 2000 rpm for 10 minutes. After this hydration, the dry blend of cement base and OBLOCK.RTM. were added and mixed for another 5 minutes at 4000 rpm. The slurry was conditioned at 190.degree. F. at 6000 psi pressure in a gas migration analyzer, which was then placed in static mode for gel strength development. Results are presented in FIG. 13. [0183] According to API Recommended Practice 10B, for an additive to qualify as a gas migration control additive, the time required for a gel strength from 100 lb.sub.f/100 ft.sup.2 to 500 lb.sub.f/100 ft.sup.2 should be less than 30 minutes. The slurry tested in FIG. 13 had a zero gel time of 3 minutes and gel strength developed to within the prescribed range within 19 minutes, indicating that the cement additive was a gas migration control additive. Example 9: Proppant Delivery Fluid Additives [0184] A first proppant delivery fluid with a proppant delivery fluid additive was formed from 2.0 g ([x]% bwow) LAPONITE RD.RTM. (BYK ADDITIVES LTD.) synthetic hectorite, 10.0 g ([x]% bwow) active cellulose nanofibrils (based on 3% activity in suspension), 74.87 g tap water at a pH of 10-11 (achieved by addition of soda ash, Na.sub.2CO.sub.3), and 44.91 g 20-40 (420 .mu.m-840 .mu.m) sand. [0185] A second proppant delivery fluid with a proppant delivery fluid additive was formed from 2.2 g LAPONITE RD.RTM. (BYK ADDITIVES LTD.) synthetic hectorite, 8.0 g active cellulose nanofibrils (based on 3% activity in suspension), 74.87 g tap water at a pH of 10-11 (achieved by addition of soda ash, Na.sub.2CO.sub.3), and 44.91 g 20-40 (420 .mu.m-840 .mu.m) sand. [0186] Each proppant delivery fluid was mixed in a blender jar at 2000 rpm for 5 minutes. Then for each test, a portion of each sample was immediately transferred to a viscometer equipped with a B5X bob. The shear rate was kept constant at an equivalent rpm of 25 rpm to simulate shear rate experienced by downhole fluids being pumped downhole. The temperature was increased to 400.degree. F. at a rate of 3.degree. F. per minute and held at that temperature for six hours, then allowed to cool to room temperature naturally. A small amount of free water was observed when the first proppant delivery fluid was removed from the test equipment, but none was observed for the second proppant delivery fluid. However, both proppant delivery fluids were homogenous when removed from the test equipment, indicating that sand remained suspended throughtout the test conditions. [0187] Results for the first proppant delivery fluid are presented in FIG. 15. The viscosity rose quite rapidly in the first few minutes of heating to 150.degree. F. to a maximum value of around 1700 cP, then reduced to about a value of 800 cP from 150.degree. F. up to 400.degree. F., at which point the viscosity levelled off at that value for the remainder of the test. This indicates an excellent ability of the proppant delivery fluid to suspend the proppant particles at high temperatures, up to at least 400.degree. F. Further, upon reducing the temperature from 400.degree. F., the viscosity showed some signs of increase, indicating that even when the spent proppant-laden gel is pumped through the annulus and back to surface, the gel will hold the proppant and have no stability issues. The viscosity reading exhibits some large spikes in viscosity at around the 3 hour mark, and minor spikes along the other readings. These spikes were unavoidable, and can be attributed to the large particle size of the sand particles, causing minor instantaneous slips along the bob. However, the average of the viscosity readings clearly indicates a good stability of the viscous suspension throughout the test. [0188] Results for the second proppant delivery fluid are presented in FIG. 16. The viscosity again rose quite rapidly in the first few minutes of heating to 150.degree. F. to a maximum value of about 1900 cP, then reduced to about a value of 800 cP from 150.degree. F. up to 400.degree. F., where it levelled off at that value for the remainder of the test. This indicates an excellent ability of the proppant delivery fluid to suspend the proppant particles at high temperatures, up to at least 400.degree. F. The viscosity reading exhibits some large spikes in viscosity throughout the test. As before, these spikes were unavoidable, and can be attributed to the large particle size of the sand particles, causing minor instantaneous slips along the bob. However, the average of the viscosity readings clearly indicates a good stability of the viscous suspension throughout the test. Example 10: Additional Viscosity Additives [0189] A clay/cellulose spacer was prepared and nano-sized silica particles were added. The silica particles were at 20% activity in suspension. One type of particles, ST-UP (Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd., Japan) form a chain of particles between 40 nm and 100 nm long. A second type of particles, ST-XS (Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd.), are spherical particles between 4 nm and 6 nm in size. A third type of particles, ST-XL (Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd.), are spherical particles between 40 nm and 60 nm in size. [0190] For each test, a portion of each sample was immediately transferred after mixing to a viscometer equipped with a B5X bob. The shear rate was kept constant at an equivalent rpm of 25 rpm to simulate shear rate experienced by downhole fluids being pumped downhole. The temperature was increased to 400.degree. F. at a rate of 3.degree. F. per minute for the control with nano-sized silica particles, or 450.degree. F. for the samples with nano-sized silica particles, then allowed to cool to room temperature naturally. [0191] In FIG. 16A, results for the control spacer with no nano-sized silica particles are provided. At point A, 80.degree. F., shear thinning was complete. At point B, 135.degree. F., viscosity build up began. The viscosity at point B was 587 cP. At point C, 192.degree. F., the viscosity had increased to 960 cP, a roughly 84% increase from 80.degree. F. [0192] In FIG. 16B, results for the spacer with 10 g ST-XS nano-sized silica particles are provided. At point A, 80.degree. F., shear thinning was complete. At point B, 160.degree. F., viscosity build up began. The viscosity at point B was 220 cP. At point C, 200.degree. F., the viscosity had increased to 550 cP, a roughly 150% increase from 80.degree. F. [0193] In FIG. 16C, results for the spacer with 20 g ST-UP nano-sized silica particles are provided. At point A, 80.degree. F., shear thinning was complete. At point B, 127.degree. F., viscosity build up began. The viscosity at point B was 142 cP. At point C, 180.degree. F., the viscosity had increased to 390 cP, a roughly 175% increase from 80.degree. F. [0194] In FIG. 16D, results for the spacer with 10 g ST-UP nano-sized silica particles are provided. At point A, 80.degree. F., shear thinning was complete. At point B, 175.degree. F., viscosity build up began. The viscosity at point B was 280 cP. At point C, 180.degree. F., the viscosity had increased to 350 cP, a roughly 25% increase from 80.degree. F. [0195] In FIG. 16E, results for the spacer with 5 g ST-UP nano-sized silica particles are provided. At point A, 80.degree. F., shear thinning was complete. At point B, 162.degree. F., viscosity build up began. The viscosity at point B was 250 cP. At point C, 190.degree. F., the viscosity had increased to 350 cP, a roughly 44% increase from 80.degree. F. In this case, with a reduced concentration of the ST-UP nano-sized silica particles, the viscosity stability was reduced a bit from the previous case (FIG. 16D) of double the concentration of the ST-UP nano-sized silica particles. [0196] In FIG. 16F, results for the spacer with 1 g ST-UP nano-sized silica particles are provided. At point A, 80.degree. F., shear thinning was complete. At point B, 140.degree. F., viscosity build up began. The viscosity at point B was 320 cP. At point C, 200.degree. F., the viscosity had increased to 750 cP, a roughly 134% increase from 80.degree. F. In this case, with a reduced concentration of the ST-UP nano-sized silica particles, the viscosity stability from addition of the ST-UP nano-sized silica particles was lost nearly completely. The thermal behavior of the viscosity returned nearly back to the control case shown in FIG. 16A, with the only exception that the viscosity at the high temperature of .about.200.degree. F. was slightly more (an increase of .about.134%) than the control case (an increase of .about.64%) (however the surface viscosities would also be needed to be factored in). [0197] In FIG. 16G, results for the spacer with 10 g ST-XL nano-sized silica particles are provided. At point A, 80.degree. F., shear thinning was complete. At point B, 176.degree. F., viscosity build up began. The viscosity at point B was 255 cP. At point C, 198.degree. F., the viscosity had increased to 400 cP, a roughly 57% increase from 80.degree. F. [0198] In an embodiment A, the disclosure provides: a downhole fluid including a clay, a hydroxylated polymer, and a cation, together in an amount sufficient to render the downhole fluid thermally stable at a temperature. The downhole fluid additionally includes at least one additional downhole fluid component. [0199] In an embodiment B, which may be combined with elements of embodiment A, the disclosure provides a downhole fluid that is a drilling fluid including a clay, a hydroxylated polymer, and a cation, together in an amount sufficient to render the downhole fluid thermally stable at a temperature, and an aqueous drilling fluid base. [0200] In an embodiment C, the disclosure provides a method of drilling a wellbore by rotating a drill string and attached drill bit to form a wellbore in a formation and pumping a drilling fluid of embodiment B through the drill string, drill bit, and wellbore. [0201] In an embodiment D, the disclosure provides a drilling assembly including a drilling platform that supports a drill string that rotates a drill bit in a wellbore, and a drilling fluid of embodiment B that is circulated through the drill string, drill bit, and wellbore. [0202] In an embodiment E, the disclosure provides a downhole fluid that is a spacer including a clay, a hydroxylated polymer, and a cation, together in an amount sufficient to render the downhole fluid thermally stable at a temperature, and an aqueous spacer base. [0203] In embodiment F, the disclosure provides a method of flushing drilling fluid from a subterranean formation by pumping an amount of spacer of embodiment E into a wellbore in a subterranean formation, the wellbore containing a drilling fluid, wherein the amount of spacer is sufficient to displace from the wellbore an amount of drilling fluid sufficient to allow cementing of the wellbore. [0204] In an embodiment G, the disclosure provides a system for flushing a drilling fluid from a subterranean formation, the system including a spacer of embodiment E and a pump able to pump the spacer into a wellbore in a subterranean formation in an amount sufficient to displace a drilling fluid from the wellbore. [0205] In embodiment H, the disclosure provides a downhole fluid that is a cement including a clay, a hydroxylated polymer, and a cation, together in an amount sufficient to render the downhole fluid thermally stable at a temperature, and cement base. [0206] In an embodiment I, the disclosure provides a method of cementing a wellbore by pumping an amount of cement according to embodiment H into a wellbore containing a casing to bond to the wellbore and the casing and substantially fill an annulus between the wellbore and the casing. [0207] In an embodiment J, the disclosure provides a system for cementing a wellbore, the system including a cement of embodiment H and a pump able to pump the cement into a wellbore in a subterranean formation in an amount sufficient to fill and annulus between a casing in the wellbore and the wellbore and to bond to both the casing and the wellbore. [0208] In embodiment K, the disclosure provides a downhole fluid that is a proppant delivery fluid including a clay, a hydroxylated polymer, and a cation, together in an amount sufficient to render the downhole fluid thermally stable at a temperature, and an aqueous proppant delivery fluid base. [0209] In an embodiment L, the disclosure provides a method of stimulating a well by pumping an amount sufficient to cause well stimulation of proppant delivery fluid of embodiment K and a proppant into a wellbore in a subterranean formation. [0210] In an embodiment M, the disclosure provides a system for stimulating a well, the system including: a proppant delivery fluid of embodiment K, a proppant, a pump able to pump the proppant delivery fluid into a wellbore in a subterranean formation in an amount sufficient to for the proppant to cause well stimulation. In an embodiment N, the disclosure provides a method of treating a subterranean formation by placing a downhole fluid of embodiment A in a subterranean formation. [0211] Embodiments A-N may be combined with any of the following additional elements, which may also be combined with one another unless clearly incompatible: i) the downhole fluid includes an aqueous component with a pH of at least 9; ii) the clay includes a phyllosilicate clay; iii) the phyllosilicate clay includes a smectite clay; iv) the smectitie clay includes a hectorite clay; v) the phyllosilicate clay includes a sepiolite clay; vi) the phyllosilicate clay includes a palygorskite clay; vii) the hydroxylated polymer includes cellulose; viii) the cellulose includes microcellulose or nanocellulose; ix) the downhole fluid includes or is formed from salt water; x) the downhole fluid has a transition temperature at which viscosity rapidly increases of around 150.degree. F.; xi) the downhole fluid includes a particle additive; xii) the clay, hydroxylated polymer, and cation are a suspension aid for the particle additive; xiii) the downhole fluid includes nanoparticles of 100 nm or less in size; xiv) the amount of clay and hydroxylated polymer is less than 10% by weight of water of the downhole fluid; xv) the amount of clay and hydroxylated polymer is between 1% and 3% by weight of water of the downhole fluid; xvi) the downhole fluid remains stable in the presence of salt water; xvii) the downhole fluid is thermally stable at a temperature of 200.degree. F. or higher for at least twelve hours; xviii) the fluid includes hydrodynamic spheres formed by a downhole fluid component and hydrodynamic spheres formed from nano-sized silica particles in an amount sufficient to inhibit interactions between the hydrodynamic spheres formed form at least one downhole fluid component; xvix) the hydrodynamic spheres formed from nano-sized silica particles are present in an amount sufficient to delay the development of viscosity of the downhole fluid as temperature increases; xx) the hydrodynamic spheres formed from nano-sized silica particles are present in an amount sufficient to extend the viscosity stability of the downhole fluid to higher temperatures; xxi) wherein the nano-sized silica particles are 100 nm in or less in size; xxii) the nano-sized silica particles are present in an amount of between half the amount of hydroxylated polymer by weight and double the amount of hydroxylated polymer by weight. [0212] Embodiments B-D and N may be combined with any of the following additional elements, which may also be combined with one another unless clearly incompatible: i) the drilling fluid also includes a bridging material, a lost circulation prevention material, a rheology modifier, a fluid loss prevention agent, a corrosion inhibitor, a defoamer, a shale stabilizer, a lubricant, or any combinations thereof; ii) the aqueous base is between 20% and 99.99% by volume of the drilling fluid. [0213] Embodiments E-G and N may be combined with any of the following additional elements, which may also be combined with one another unless clearly incompatible: i) the spacer also includes a surfactant, defoamer, visosifying agent, or any combinations thereof. [0214] Embodiments H-J and N may be combined with any of the following additional elements, which may also be combined with one another unless clearly incompatible: i) the cement also includes a set retarder, friction-reducer, strength-retrogression additive, set accelerator, weighting agent, lightweight additive, gas-generating additive, mechanical property enhancing additive, lost-circulation material, filtration-control additive, dispersants, fluid loss control additive, defoaming agent, foaming agent, thixotropic additive, or any combinations thereof; ii) the clay, hydroxylated polymer, and cation together are a fluid loss preventer; iii) the clay, hydroxylated polymer, and cation together are a gas migration control additive; iv) the clay, hydroxylated polymer, and cation together are a suspending aid. [0215] Embodiments K-N may be combined with any of the following additional elements, which may also be combined with one another unless clearly incompatible: i) the proppant delivery fluid includes a proppant; ii) the proppant includes sand; iii) the proppant has an average particle size in the range of from about 2 to about 400 mesh; iv) the proppant is present in an amount of from about 0.1 pounds per gallon (ppg) to about 28 ppg, based on the volume of the proppant delivery fluid. [0216] Embodiment N may be combined with any of the following additional elements, which may also be combined with one another unless clearly incompatible: i) placing the downhole fluid in the subterranean formation may include pumping the downhole fluid into the subterranean formation using a pump; ii) the method may also include mixing the downhole fluid with mixing equipment prior to placing it in the subterranean formation; iii) the method may also include removing the downhole fluid or a portion thereof from the subterranean formation by displacement with additional downhole fluid or a second downhole fluid; iv) the method may also include allowing the downhole fluid or a portion thereof to remain in the subterranean formation; v) a system operable to perform any of the method steps may be used. [0217] Therefore, the present disclosure is well adapted to attain the ends and advantages mentioned as well as those that are inherent therein. The particular embodiments disclosed above are illustrative only, as the present disclosure may be modified and practiced in different but equivalent manners apparent to those skilled in the art having the benefit of the teachings herein. While numerous changes may be made by those skilled in the art, such changes are encompassed within the spirit of the subject matter defined by the appended claims. For example, additional fluids may be used and data acquired with respect to one fluid or descriptions of downhole fluid additive effects with respect to one fluid may be applicable to other fluids. In particular, using the teachings of this disclosure, one of ordinary skill in the art may create a database of stoichiometric combinations of the ingredients for any fluid through a testing matrix to allow selection of components for a desired density and viscosity or other properties. [0218] Furthermore, no limitations are intended to the details of construction or design herein shown, other than as described in the claims below. It is therefore evident that the particular illustrative embodiments disclosed above may be altered or modified and all such variations are considered within the scope and spirit of the present disclosure. In particular, every range of values (e.g., "from about a to about b," or, equivalently, "from approximately a to b," or, equivalently, "from approximately a-b") disclosed herein is to be understood as referring to the power set (the set of all subsets) of the respective range of values. The terms in the claims have their plain, ordinary meaning unless otherwise explicitly and clearly defined by the patentee.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8448
__label__cc	0.527967	0.472033	Baird February 21, 2012 Catch-up playback in a conferencing system In one embodiment, a method includes receiving input indicating that an endpoint is dropping out of a real-time mode of attending an on-going conference session. A comment/question received from the endpoint is recorded along with a portion of the on-going conference session beginning at a time point when the endpoint dropped out of the real-time mode, The portion of the on-going conference session is then played back to the endpoint. At the point where the playback of the portion recorded catches up with the on-going conference session, the first endpoint is returned to the real-time mode of attending the on-going conference session. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. Inventors: Baird; Randall B. (Austin, TX) Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc. 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I claim: 1. A computer-implemented method for conferencing over a network comprising: receiving input at a server indicating that an endpoint associated with a user connected to the server over the network is dropping out of a real-time mode of attending an on-going conference session; recording a portion of the on-going conference session beginning at a time point when the endpoint drops out of the real-time mode; recording a comment/question received from the endpoint contemporaneous with the recording of the portion of the on-going conference session; receiving additional input indicating that the comment/question has ended and the endpoint is ready to resume receiving the on-going conference session; playing back the portion of the on-going conference session to the endpoint at an accelerated rate; and returning the endpoint to the real-time mode of attending the on-going conference session playback when the portion recorded catches up with the on-going conference session. 2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising storing the comment/question in a storage unit. 3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising detecting the comment/question. 4. The computer-implemented method of claim 3 wherein the comment/question comprises the speech of the user. 5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the on-going conference is a moderated conference and further comprising inserting the stored comment/question as a floor control request to the moderated conference. 6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising storing a mark indicative of a point in the on-going conference session just prior to the comment/question. 7. The computer-implemented method of claim 6 further comprising adjusting the mark to set a context for the comment/question. 8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising providing a reminder to the endpoint that the comment/question is not being sent to the on-going conference in real-time. 9. A computer-implemented method for conferencing over a network comprising: sending, by a mixer, a real-time media stream of an on-going conference session to an endpoint associated with a user; detecting, by a server, speech of the user transmitted from the endpoint, the speech comprising a comment/question that pertains to content of the on-going conference session; recording the speech; recording the real-time media stream beginning at a first point in time when the speech is detected; storing the speech; and playing back the recorded real-time media stream to the endpoint at an accelerated rate relative to the on-going conference session after the speech has ended; and resuming sending of the real-time media stream at a second point in time when playback of the recorded real-time media stream catches up to the on-going conference session. 10. The computer-implemented method of claim 9 further comprising attaching a document to the speech. 11. The computer-implemented method of claim 9 further comprising editing the stored speech. 12. The computer-implemented method of claim 9 further comprising entering the stored speech in a floor control queue for subsequent playback. 13. The computer-implemented method of claim 9 further comprising marking a context to be played along with the speech. 14. The computer-implemented method of claim 9 further comprising triggering playback of the speech. 15. The computer-implemented method of claim 9 further comprising: detecting, by the server, additional speech from the endpoint during playback of the recorded real-time media stream; halting playback of the recorded real-time media stream; recording the additional speech; recording the real-time media stream beginning at a third point in time when the additional speech is detected; storing the additional speech in a storage unit; and playing back the recorded real-time media stream from the third point in time to the endpoint at an accelerated rate after the additional speech has ended. 16. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium encoded with computer instructions, which, when executed by a processor, is operable to: send a real-time media stream of an on-going conference session to an endpoint associated with a user; record speech of the user sent by the endpoint, the speech including a comment/question; record the real-time media stream beginning at a first point in time when the speech is detected; store the speech; enter the stored speech in a floor control queue for subsequent playback; and playback the recorded real-time media stream to the endpoint after the speech has ended. 17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16 wherein the playback is at an accelerated rate relative to the on-going conference session. 18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16 wherein execution of the computer instructions is further operable to resume sending the real-time media stream at a second point in time when playback of the recorded real-time media stream catches up to the on-going conference session. 19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16 wherein execution of the computer instructions is further operable to attach a document to the speech. 20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16 wherein execution of the computer instructions is further operable to edit the stored speech. 21. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16 wherein execution of the computer instructions is further operable to mark a context to be played along with the speech. 22. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16 wherein execution of the computer instructions is further operable to trigger playback of the speech at a certain point in the on-going conference session. 23. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16 wherein execution of the computer instructions is further operable to: detect additional speech from the endpoint during playback of the recorded real-time media stream; halt playback of the recorded real-time media stream; record the additional speech; record the real-time media stream beginning at a third point in time when the additional speech is detected; store the additional speech; and playback the recorded real-time media stream from the third point in time to the endpoint after the additional speech has ended. 24. A system comprising: a conference controller to handle call signaling for a plurality of endpoints participating in a conference session; a mixer to mix input real-time media streams received from the endpoints and produce one or more output real-time media streams to be sent to the endpoints; a server operable in response to control signals received from the conference controller to: record speech of a user sent to the server by a first endpoint; record an output real-time media stream produced by the mixer for the first endpoint beginning at a first point in time when the speech is detected; store the speech; playback the recorded output real-time media stream to the first endpoint after the speech has ended; and playback the stored speech to the mixer at a future point in time after the speech has ended. 25. The system of claim 24 wherein the speech comprises a comment or question that pertains to content of the on-going conference session. 26. A system comprising: a multimedia storage unit; and means for handling call signaling for a plurality of endpoints participating in a conference session, and for mixing input real-time media streams received from the endpoints to produce one or more output real-time media streams to be sent to the endpoints, the means further for recording a comment/question received from a first endpoint, recording an output real-time media stream produced by the mixer for the first endpoint beginning at a first point in time when the comment/question is detected, storing the comment/question in the multimedia storage unit, and for playing back the recorded output real-time media stream to the first endpoint after the comment/question has ended, the means also for playing back the stored speech to the mixer at a future point in time after the speech has ended. The present invention relates generally to the fields of telephony and conferencing systems. A participant to a conference held over a network may be interrupted, i.e., pulled out of real-time listening or participation, for a variety of reasons. For example, the participant may need to step away from the conference to answer another call, or briefly discuss a matter of immediate urgency with a co-worker. Alternatively, the participant may invoke some feature of the conference service that results in the conference audio being interrupted, such as playing out the roster, receiving whisper information, moving to a sidebar conversation, etc. Upon returning to the live conference the participant usually wants to listen to what transpired in the conference during the time he was gone. Simply listening to a recording of the missed portions of the conference, however, is inadequate insomuch as the participant is permanently shifted away from real-time participation. A number of prior art conferencing systems include a feature that allows portions of a conference session to be recorded and then played back at an accelerated rate, in what is commonly referred to as "catch-up" mode. The problem with these systems is that the participant frequently forgets that he is listening to the conference in catch-up mode, and attempts to speak as a participant in the conference. Comments made during catch-up mode, however, cannot be mixed into the real-time ("live") conference because the live conference has already progressed beyond the point in time of the catch-up mode playback. The present invention will be understood more fully from the detailed description that follows and from the accompanying drawings, which however, should not be taken to limit the invention to the specific embodiments shown, but are for explanation and understanding only. FIG. 1 illustrates an example conference held over a network. FIG. 2 illustrates an example of endpoint catch-up in the conferencing system shown in FIG. 1. FIG. 3 illustrates an example method of handling speech during catch-up mode. FIG. 4 illustrates an example method of handling speech during a moderated conference. FIG. 5 illustrates an example method for triggering a comment for real-time playback in an open floor conference. FIG. 6 illustrates an example method for triggering a comment for real-time playback in a moderated conference. FIG. 7 illustrates an example method for non-real-time playback of a comment in the conferencing system of FIG. 1. FIG. 8 illustrates an example method for playback of context when a comment is triggered in the conferencing system of FIG. 1. DESCRIPTION OF EXAMPLE EMBODIMENTS In the following description specific details are set forth, such as device types, system configurations, protocols, methods, etc., in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention. However, persons having ordinary skill in the relevant arts will appreciate that these specific details may not be needed to practice the present invention. FIG. 1 illustrates an example illustrates an example conference held over a network. This lecture-hall type of conference (also known as a moderated or floor-controlled conference) is managed and handled by a conferencing system 19 (e.g., a server) coupled via an Internet protocol (IP) network 20 to the various meeting participant endpoint devices. In this example, communications between remote participants and the participants in lecture hall 12 are facilitated by video conference endpoint device 14, which is shown including a loudspeaker 20, microphone 17 and video camera 15. (It is appreciated that multiple microphones and cameras may be used.) Remote participants 18 and 22 are shown attending the conference via respective endpoint devices 16 and 22, each of which comprises a personal computer (PC) with built-in softphone capabilities and video conference endpoint device 14, which is shown including a microphone 17 and video camera 15. Using PCs 16 and 22, respective participants 18 and 21 may each communicate with the other conference participants (i.e., members of the audience 13A-D) and moderator/lecturer 11. Although not explicitly shown in this example, endpoint device 14 may include a video display and PCs 16 & 22 may include a camera for transmitting images of participants 18 and 21 to the participants in lecture hall 12. In the context of the present application, endpoint devices represent an end user, client, or person who wishes to initiate or participate in a conference session and via conferencing system 19 via IP network 20. Other endpoint devices not specifically shown in FIG. 1 that may be used to initiate or participate in a conference session include a personal digital assistant (PDA), a laptop or notebook computer, an IP telephone device, a non-IP telephone device, an audio/video appliance, a streaming client, a television device, programmable consumer electronics, or any other device, component, element, or object capable of initiating or participating in voice exchanges with conferencing system 19. In the example of FIG. 1, video conference data (e.g., audio and video data) is communicated to endpoint device 16 via IP network 20. However, it should be understood that in different specific implementations the media path for the conference participants may include audio/video transmissions, e.g., Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP) packets sent across a variety of different networks (e.g., Internet, intranet, PSTN, etc.), protocols (e.g., IP, Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)), with connections that span across multiple services, systems, and devices. Alternative embodiments of the present invention may be implemented in software or hardware (firmware) installed in an IP communication systems, PBX, telephony, telephone, and other telecommunications systems. Similarly, the signaling path utilized for transmission of commands, messages, and signals for establishing, moderating, managing and controlling the conference session may be across any network resources. Conferencing system 19 comprises a server with a processor subsystem for running a conferencing program including software (or firmware) plug-ins, modules, or enhancements that implement the various features and functions described herein. In a specific implementation, for example, conferencing system 19 may run a modified or enhanced IP communication system software product such as Cisco's MeetingPlace.TM. conferencing application that allows users to schedule and attend meeting conferences. In the embodiment shown, conferencing system 19 may also include a digital signal processor (DSP) or firmware/software-based system that mixes and/or switches audio/video signals received at its input ports under the control of the server. The audio signals received at the conference server ports originate from each of the conference or meeting participant endpoints (e.g., endpoint devices 16, 22 and 14), and possibly from an interactive voice response (IVR) system (not shown). In certain embodiments, conference server may also incorporate or be associated with a natural language automatic speech recognition (ASR) module for interpreting and parsing speech of the participants, and standard speech-to-text (STT) and text-to-speech (TTS) converter modules. Practitioners in the art will appreciate that the actual media paths are established by conferencing system 19. In other words, conferencing system 19 handles all of the control plane functions of the conference session, and is responsible for engaging the necessary media components/resources to satisfy the media requirements of each of the endpoints (i.e., endpoint 16) participating in a conference session. In operation, endpoint devices 14, 16 and 22 shown in FIG. 1 may join the audio/video conference session by calling into a conferencing application running on the conferencing server. FIG. 2 illustrates an example of endpoint catch-up in the conferencing system shown in FIG. 1. In the example shown, participant 18 associated with endpoint device (e.g., PC) 16 has stepped away from the conference session for a period of time and needs to catch up to the real-time conference that continues to proceed. This is achieved through conference control unit 23, conference mixer 25, and recording and playback server 27 components of system 19. In operation, conference control 23 is a logical unit that provides media control (shown by path 40) of conference mixer 25 and recording and playback server 27. Conference control unit 23 also performs all of the control plane functions involving endpoints 14, 16 and 22 via call signaling connections 33, 35, and 37, respectively. For instance, conference control unit 23 establishes communication channels for data packets transmitted between endpoints 16, 14 and 22. Conference mixer 25 mixes or switches the data (audio, video, and/or web collaboration) packet streams and also sends real-time media for recording (via path 45) to server 27. As will be described in more detail below, server 27 may also transmit media playback of triggered comments to mixer 25 on request via connection path 46. As participants talk during a conference, real-time media data transmissions occur via paths 39, 41 and 43 between conference mixer 25 and respective endpoints 14, 22 and 16. Conference mixer 25 mixes the real-time media according to control signals/messages provided by conference control unit 23. For instance, conference mixer 25 may be directed to apply any one of a wide variety of audio/video mixing or switching algorithms to produce an output media stream delivered to the endpoints devices. Note that in certain embodiments, conference mixer 25 may filter out annoyances by dynamically suppressing audio streams that meet predefined annoyance criteria (e.g., white noise, pink noise, snoring, etc.). It is appreciated that for non-verbal audience reaction, the audio mix can be of relatively low-fidelity. However, for applications where verbal reaction is not to be filtered out as an annoyance, the verbal audience reaction should be of relatively high-fidelity. Participant 18 may drop out of the real-time conference session by entering a command (e.g., pause button) on endpoint 16. In response, recording and playback server 27 begins recording real-time media (via path 45) from the conference session. Assume, for example, that during the session participant 18 may have a question or a comment for moderator/lecturer 11, with the moderator requesting that all questions be held until the end of the lecture. Participant 18 may click on an icon button of a user interface running on endpoint 16 to signal that he is dropping out of real-time listening mode to record his question/comment. Concurrently, server 27 begins recording the real-time media occurring in lecture hall 12 while endpoint 16 records his question/comment. That is, recording and playback server 27 may also record the question/comment received from endpoint 16 simultaneous with the recording of the real-time media. Alternatively, detection of speech by the conferencing system may cause the participant to automatically drop out of real-time listening mode and into recording mode. That is, audible speech of a participant who otherwise would not be able to participate directly in the conference may trigger recording of that speech. When the speech stops for a predetermined period (e.g., 5 seconds of silence), the system may automatically stop the recording and enter catch-up mode for that participant. In a specific implementation, recording and playback server 27 may also automatically record a predetermined time period (e.g., 5-10 seconds) of the conference session just prior to the point in time when endpoint 16 dropped out of the conference and attach it to his recorded question/comment. This additional recording provides a context for the recorded question/comment. The recorded speech and the recorded real-time media may be stored in a multimedia storage unit 50. The combination of the context media and the question/comment may be placed in a moderated question and answer queue, allowing the lecturer to subsequently manage or trigger individual questions or comments. When participant 18 has finished recording his question/comment (indicated by an appropriate command entered on endpoint 16), server 27 starts transmitting playback of the catch-up media recording (shown by path 52) to endpoint 16. The catch-up media is played back at a faster rate (e.g., 1.5.times.-2.times. with pauses and silences removed or reduced) than real-time until endpoint 16 catches up to the real-time conference session. Later, after the lecture portion of the conference has ended and the moderator is ready to respond to questions/comments, server 27 retrieves the triggered questions/comments from multimedia storage 50. The questions/comments are played back to conference mixer 25 and transmitted to each of endpoints 16, 14 and 22. Note that the additional 5-10 seconds of recorded media preceding the question/comment may help the listeners to understand and identify the context of the question/comment. FIG. 3 illustrates an example method of handling speech during catch-up mode. When speech is detected by the system in catch-up mode--such as when the listener interjects a question or comment--the conferencing system may first query whether the recording feature is disabled (block 60). If it is, then when speech is detected (block 61) the system may play a warning to the user (block 62), after which time playback of catch-up media resumes (block 63). The warning may be an audible tone or an IVR notice stating that recording of speech is currently disabled. On the other hand, if the recording feature is enabled, then playback of catch-up media is temporarily halted (block 64). The participant's comments are recorded (block 65) and a temporal mark is stored along with the recorded comments (block 66) indicating the context or point in the conference session where the participant's question/comment arose. The mark may be a simple indicator stating the comment occurred at "time 24:47" of the conference. After the question/comment has been recorded, the system may optionally prompt the participant as to whether he wishes to edit the recording (block 67). If so, then the participant may edit his comments by recording over his previous comments (block 68). Other optional prompts may include the system asking whether the participant wants to attach any documents such as charts, diagrams, pictures, etc., (blocks 69 & 70); or whether the participant wants to adjust the marked context point (blocks 71 & 72), e.g., by changing the time mark when the comment is triggered in the conference session (for instance, the participant may indicate that he wants twenty seconds of the recorded real-time media played back before his comment). The system may also give the participant the option of submitting/storing his question/comment (blocks 73 & 75). If the participant declines (e.g., he reconsiders and determines that his comment is unnecessary or does not significantly add to the discussion), the system discards the recorded comment and resumes catch-up playback (block 74). In the case of a submitted question/comment, the system may further query whether the conference is a moderated conference (block 76). For moderated conferences, the comment may be entered into the floor-control queue (block 77); that is, when the floor is opened for questions and/or comments, the comment will be heard by the participants in on ordered manner. Once the comment has been submitted, the system may then resume catch-up playback (78). If the conference is not moderated, the comment may be stored for subsequent triggering (block 79) after which time the system resumes catch-up playback (80). FIG. 4 illustrates an example method of handling speech during a moderated conference. As in the example of FIG. 3, when speech is detected the system may first query whether the recording feature is disabled (block 81). If so, and speech is detected (block 82) a warning is played to the user (block 83) and the system returns to real-time (block 84). If the recording feature is enabled, the system starts recording the real-time conference session for subsequent catch-up playback (block 85). The participant's comment/question is recorded (block 86) and a mark is stored indicating the context of the comment/question (block 87). In a manner similar to the example of FIG. 3, the system may then optionally prompt the participant to edit the comment (blocks 88 & 89); attach documents (blocks 90 & 91); attach or adjust the context (blocks 92 & 93); and then either submit or discard the comment before beginning the catch-up process (blocks 94-99), i.e., playback of the portion of the conference that occurred while the comment/question was being made or asked. FIG. 5 illustrates an example method for triggering a comment for real-time playback in an open floor conference. When a comment is ready for real-time playback in an open floor conference (block 101) a variety of triggering mechanisms may be used. The comment may be triggered for playback either by the participant who made the comment, e.g., using a command entered via graphical user interface (GUI) or voice user interface (VUI) once the participant has finished catching up (block 102). For example, the participant may have access to a list of comments that he has made (e.g., on a webpage or computer screen), and when there is a pause in the live conference the participant may manually trigger real-time playback of the comment through the GUI or VUI. Alternatively, the comment may be triggered by another participant using the GUI or VUI (block 103). The other participant may see a queue of comments on a computer screen, for instance, and click on a comment to trigger real-time playback of the comment. Yet another alternative is to have the comment auto-triggered by the conferencing system (block 104) when the participant has finished catching up and a period of silence has been detected. The triggered comment is then played back in real-time (block 105). FIG. 6 illustrates an example method for triggering a comment for real-time playback in a moderated conference. In this scenario, the floor is opened for questions at the end of a floor-controlled conference or right before a change of agenda, etc. (block 106). A floor-control queue may be utilized to accumulate questions/comments generated by the participants throughout the conference session. The floor-control queue is then accessed or serviced at an appropriate time following the main presentation or discussion (block 107). When a comment makes it to the top of the queue, its playback is triggered (block 108). Alternatively, playback of a comment may also be triggered by a variety of ordinary floor-control algorithms. For example, comments do not necessarily have to be played back in order generated. In this example, when playback of a comment/question is triggered, the floor is granted to the participant who made the comment or asked the question (block 109). This gives that participant the ability to explain or further amplify on his comment if he wishes. FIG. 7 illustrates an example method for non-real-time playback of an inserted comment when an off-line listener is playing back an entire conference recorded by the conferencing system of FIG. 1. The process in this example begins with a listener (or viewer) receiving a non-real-time playback of the conference session, i.e., a recording (block 110). As the playback progresses, the recording eventually reaches a point where a comment was previously inserted by a participant to the meeting (block 111). The comment need not have been played out in real-time--only that it has become part of the conference session recording. At the point where the comment is inserted, the system may first play a prompt to the listener indicating that the comment which follows was inserted by a non-real-time conference participant (block 112). For example, an IVR may state, "The following comment was made by a participant attending the conference session but was not part of the real time conversation." Once the prompt has been played, the recorded comment is played (block 113). After playback of the comment, the non-real-time conference session may resume (block 114). FIG. 8 illustrates an example method for playback of context when a comment is triggered in the conferencing system of FIG. 1. This example begins with the playing of a prompt or IVR script notifying the listener that a comment is about to be played back (block 115). Prior to playback of the comment itself, a predetermined amount of context is played ahead of where the comment occurred in the course of the conference session (block 116). For example, the context may comprise a preceding portion (e.g., 15 seconds) of the audio recording of the conference session just prior to the point where the comment occurred. In other cases, the context may comprise video, agenda, or web sharing context. The context playback may also comprise multiple different types of media, e.g., audio/video playback. In a specific implementation, when the context is triggered to pop-up on a participant's web browser, the agenda context may appear (e.g., "the context for this comment is Agendum 53," etc.). If the context involves web sharing, a slide that was used when the comment was made may automatically pop-up on the participant's computer screen. Additionally, an excerpted portion of the audio playback preceding the comment may accompany the information presented graphically on the user's PC monitor screen. After the full context has been played out, the actual comment is then played (block 117). In certain embodiments, the system may be configured to allow user-controlled marking of context preceding a comment or question. This feature may apply to playback of recorded conferences, playback of catch-up media while the live, moderated conference session continues (i.e., in real-time), or during a real-time moderated conference. A variety of different options may be provided. For instance, in one embodiment a participant might hear something in a real-time conference session, or playback of a recorded session, and want to set a mark at that point using a GUI or VUI. In a specific example, a participant who has already recorded a comment/question may desire to mark a point in the session preceding where his comment/question occurred. In other words, instead of using a default context setting (e.g., 10 seconds of playback preceding the comment), the system may allow the commentator to determine the appropriate context and set the context accordingly. For instance, the commentator may determine that 25 seconds of preceding recording is needed to fully understand his comment. In other cases, the commentator may decide to attach a report, graph, or web link instead of, or in addition to, a selected number of seconds of contextual playback. User-controlled marking of context may also be provided in the conferencing system of FIG. 1. User-controlled marking may be utilized in a situation where a user is listening to playback of catch-up media while the live, moderated conference session continues (i.e., in real-time). The user may want to control marking of the context preceding a question and/or comment that he has already recorded in the system. In order to do so, the user transitions from real-time to playback mode in the conferencing system. The user may then record his comment and precisely mark the context point preceding the comment using a GUI or VUI. For example, the user may listen to the context preceding his comment and then mark the context point to be where it makes the most sense. Alternatively, the user may simply choose a specified amount of time (e.g., 20 seconds) preceding the comment. In another example of participant-controlled marking, the user may insert provisional marks while remaining a real time participant in the conference. For example, the participant may be listening to a lecture and begin to hear something that he doesn't understand. If misunderstood point is subsequently clarified, the participant can cancel the provisional mark. However, if the participant then leaves a comment or question, the provisional mark can act as the actual beginning of the context for the question. It should be understood that elements of the present invention may also be provided as a computer program product which may include a machine-readable medium having stored thereon instructions which may be used to program a computer (e.g., a processor or other electronic device) to perform a sequence of operations. Alternatively, the operations may be performed by a combination of hardware and software. The machine-readable medium may include, but is not limited to, floppy diskettes, optical disks, CD-ROMs, and magneto-optical disks, ROMs, RAMs, EPROMs, EEPROMs, magnet or optical cards, or other type of machine-readable medium suitable for storing electronic instructions. Additionally, although the present invention has been described in conjunction with specific embodiments, numerous modifications and alterations are well within the scope of the present invention. Accordingly, the specification and drawings are to be regarded in an illustrative rather than a restrictive sense.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8449
__label__cc	0.503794	0.496206	Graduates and Gorillas: the game an MOC by SilentMode custom decals, CUUSOO, exhibited, game, Graduates and Gorillas, the lego show Graduates and Gorillas was my second most ambitious project (behind The EvilMode Movie), and this MOC was one of my attempts at a LEGO Ideas (née CUUSOO) project. At the time I had pondered where I would take the idea, and making a board game around the concept seemed like a good idea – although I’ve never actually played a LEGO Games board game. You’ll see that this MOC is one of the few online with custom nanofigures (game-sized minifigures). Removing the printing from these nanofigures proved challenging, particularly from the leg crevice, but eventually they had opaque waterslide decals applied to represent the characters. If there was a singular end goal I wanted to achieve with this game, it would have been to have those nanofigures officially made – particularly the Gorillas. To drum up support for the concept (which we were told was all about presentation), I went as far as making a Flash version of the game, to demonstrate how the game would be played. The Flash game took a good three months to develop and refine, and was eventually uploaded to Newgrounds, where it debuted with a score of 3.5 out of 5. Imagine how disappointed I was that people instead complained about the Flash game, instead of looking at and/or supporting the project. My response was to add cutomisable options to the game, allowing the players to change the rules as they wanted, as the main concern was that the game was too difficult. I guess what didn’t come across effectively was that Graduates and Gorillas: the game was more about strategy than anything else. While initially it would be easier to play as Bristowe and the Gorillas, I’ve demonstrated that it is possible for the Graduates to win – even against the computer! Let’s not forget that Games sets encouraged people to change the rules of the game, and maybe even come up with a completely new game, with the parts they have. Unfortunately the CUUSOO project reached less than 100 supporters after several months. In fairness it had a disadvantage because of the Games theme eventually being phased out, but as with many of my endeavours it was generally ignored when it was live. Graduates and Gorillas: the game was exhibited as part of my display at The LEGO Show 2012. This game was for between two and four players, divided into two teams: one team controlling the Graduates, the other controlling Bristowe and the Gorillas. Each player takes turns rolling the die. The game die has six sides: two each of one and two, one Gorilla face (black) and a cross face (red). The Graduates start in the middle of the board on the Dark Tan spaces, and their objective is to capture Bristowe on the balcony. Rolling a one allows the respective Graduate to move one spaces horizontally or vertically. Rolling a two allows the respective Graduate to move two spaces horizontally or vertically, or one space diagonally. In the stairwell they move just one space. Rolling a cross (red) means they miss their turn. Rolling a Gorilla (black) allows Bristowe to place one Gorilla on any black space on the board. If all four Gorillas are on the board, all Gorillas are moved one space horizontally or vertically. The first Graduate to reach Bristowe wins the game. Bristowe/Gorillas Bristowe takes the spot on the balcony, and his objective is to capture all of the Graduates. Rolling a one allows Bristowe to move one Gorilla on the board one space. (default rules) Rolling a two allows Bristowe to move all Gorillas on the board one space. (default rules) Bristowe can capture Graduates by moving a Gorilla onto a space occupied by a Graduate; that Graduate will then be removed and is out of the game. Bristowe wins the game if the Gorillas capture all of the Graduates. Graduates can defend themselves from the Gorillas by obtaining the Golden Mallet, which they can do by landing on the yellow space on the board. When a Graduate has the Golden Mallet, they can capture and remove any adjacent Gorillas after their turn - unless they've rolled a cross (Red). A Graduate with the Golden Mallet can choose to pass the Mallet to another Graduate on their turn, who will then be able to capture any adjacent Gorillas. However, the Graduate passing the Mallet will forfeit their move. The Golden Mallet can't be used in either of the stairwells, and it can't be passed to a Graduate on a stairwell. Graduates don't need the Golden Mallet to capture Bristowe. Of the many reasons given for the lack of support, someone claimed that the Graduates and Gorillas concept was racist. Surprisingly, nobody brought up the potential issue of animal cruelty! Three more Graduates (Cassidy, Kevin and Reuben) were going to be added as playable characters, before the project was cancelled. It was the outcome of posting this particular project that led to my disillusionment with CUUSOO/LEGO Ideas, and the realisation of the online LEGO community's collective "crabs in a barrel" mentality. You can still play the Flash version of the game. More of SilentMode's MOCs... Saint Sabe’s Pizzeria CATAWOL Records Modular Building Mia’s Talk Show Graduates and Gorillas Minifigure Display Winter Village Clothes Store (version 1)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8453
__label__cc	0.632251	0.367749	Nom de cafe September 4, 2006 Shane Richmond At the shop where I buy my coffee in the mornings, they usually write your name on the cup then send you to a second queue to wait for your drink. The system occasionally breaks down. For example, last week a woman called Alex reached the head of the queue only to find that the previous customer was also called Alex and had left with Alex II's drink. The staff behind the counter were baffled by this turn of events. How could such a flawless plan be so easily derailed? Could they ever trust the system again? Eventually, the panic faded from their eyes and they set about making Alex II another cup of whatever it was she had ordered. The naming thing never works out well for me. I didn't think my name was that unusual but if I'm lucky I get a cup with SEAN written on it. Sometimes it's SHAYNE, which is close enough to Wayne to make me shudder. Mostly they write something so incomprehensible that I have to stand there for five minutes while the guy with the drink tries to work out how to pronounce it. Recently there was a DIRK ahead of me in the queue. You don't see many Dirks these days. Possibly he's a Dutchman working in London but I started to wonder whether people are tempted to choose false names for their coffee. Perhaps people choose something easier to spell or less likely to be misheard. Maybe they get a little escapist and choose the name they wish they'd been given. Anyway, this morning I noticed a guy from work behind me in the queue. We don't know each other. I doubt that he knows my name but I happen to know his. I was close enough to hear what he said when the woman taking his order asked his name. And you know what? He gave a false name. I'm not going to tell you his name because if he keeps it secret in a coffee shop he's unlikely to appreciate being outed on a blog. Believe me when I say it's not unusual. It's certainly not that hard to spell. And what alias did he choose? Theodore? Eusebio? Dirk? No, it was the very plain Tim. He shrugged a little when he said it too, as if to say 'what do you care? I can make up anything'. And he's right of course. But it seems so bizarre somehow. In offline	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8458
__label__wiki	0.559016	0.559016	The Playwrights Forum > The Art & Craft of Writing > Work-in-Progress > Is this opening for a ten minute play sound Is this opening for a ten minute play sound Rating: Joined: Thu Dec 15th, 2011 I'm currently opening a ten minute play with these instructions for the director. PAMELA, age 16 Billy, her boyfriend, age 16 (Optionally, in the background, CATHERINE, her mother, age 38 and BRIAN, Billy's father, age 40. These two have no lines, but Billy and Pam spot them about midway through the play. It may be fun to stage things such that the actions the two kids are observing them doing are visible to the audience as well.) Scene: A high school dance. I've never seen anything like that instruction - so is it fine or way too quirky? (coincidentally, the latter two characters are chaperoning at the dance). Location: Kitchener, Ontario Canada I think that to be clear, you could say they were chaperoning at the dance, but are not seen until midway through the play. I think giving directors a lot of freedom makes for a better play. Trust. You picked up on it, but yeah - that's exactly why they are there. This should be devilishly fun - the two kids are falling out of love, and their parents are falling in love, dooming them to become step siblings. Explicitly stating that would help. And I really do like keeping my nose to the dialog and leaving the actors and directors alone to chart their course. Even when I strongly feel characters are hugging or the like I don't say it unless it's absolutely plot critical, or the dialog references the physical action directly. My longest stage direction in the current play is this one... "She has noticed the painting. She knows this painting. This moment is very long but exactly what physically happens here is left to you. Whether Pam finishes the word 'wonderful' is also left to you. PAM breaks the silence" Last edited on Tue Jan 17th, 2012 03:41 am by Michael Morris The Playwrights Forum > The Art & Craft of Writing > Work-in-Progress > Is this opening for a ten minute play sound Top	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8467
__label__wiki	0.799984	0.799984	scbprovincialatechennai@gmail.com The Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo Adrien Villa, # 28 Surappatu Main Road, Vinayagapuram, Kolathur P.O Chennai 600 099 Provincial Council The Motto of the Province COSAF ECEP Jolarpet Yelagiri Madavaram Thirupattur Perambur Kanapparu Kadakkal Perumon Vilathikulam Vinayagapuram Ammoor Puliampatty Mugandanur Kizhakkambalam Ponnapally Periakottai Muttom Postulancy Juniorate SISTERS OF ST. CHARLES BORROMEO - THE DAWN OF A NEW ERA Transferring the St. Charles Generalate to India closes a long era of 326 years in the West and ushers in a new era in the history of the Congregation. The inspiration emerged at the General Chapter of January 2006 when the Superior General and the General Councillors were all Indians. This inspiration was carried forward by Mother Benedicta, the Superior General supported by the Congregation. The lines from Robert Frost seem to ring loud and clear: The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. It was indeed a journey of faith; like Abraham and Moses, our Fathers in faith, we ventured to move where the Lord would lead us. By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he later received for an inheritance, obeyed; he went out, not knowing where it would lead him. The project was whispered in the ears of Bishop Agnelo Gracias during his stay at NBCLC, Bangalore, he listened keenly and strengthened the movement. Mother Benedicta had a personal meeting with his Eminence on February 4, 2010, the matter was disclosed to Cardinal Oswald Gracias who gave his assent. We are indebted to the Archdiocese of Bombay for extending its motherly arms and taking the Congregation under its wings. The missionaries from Belgium, set foot on Indian soil on December 30, 1929 at Ranipet in the Diocese of Vellore. They established a school and an orphanage for the poor children of the village and also a dispensary for the needy. This first set up in Ranipet became a strong foundation for our Mission in India. Later there were more calls from different dioceses within the country and the congregation ventured into newer fields of the apostolate. Today there are 64 houses in India, covering 11states serving the people through schools, hospitals, dispensaries, leprosaria, social work centres, homes for the aged, orphanages, boarding houses for the destitute children mid-day meal project for the poor school children and so on. During the transition period we were privileged to be at Majiwada, Thane in the parish of Our Lady of Fatima Church from June 1, 2006, the death anniversary of our Founder, Rev. Fr. Adrien Bresy. We owe a debt of gratitude to Mrs. Judith Andrade Mital for welcoming us and introducing us to Fr. Peter D’Cunha, the then Priest-in-charge. The rest is history. The land at Kamba was blessed on July 4, 2009 by Fr. Andrew Mukadham, priest-in-charge of Our Lady of Fatima Church and Fr. Barthol Machado, Parish Priest of Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Kalyan West. On August 3, 2009, Mother Benedicta, Superior General laid the foundation stone for the construction of the compound wall. Blessing of the Foundation Stone for St. Charles Home was on February 6, 2010, feast of Gonsalo Garcias, patron of the Archdiocese of Bombay. St. Charles Home at Kamba Village was blessed by Bishop Agnelo Gracias and inaugurated by Mother Benedicta on September 25, 2011. This building will accommodate the Generalate of the Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo ( formerly at Belgium) and the Home for Senior Citizens. Application for admission to the Home for Senior Citizens could be forwarded, those interested may write to the Sister-in-charge: St. Charles Home for Senior Citizens, Kalyan -Murbad Road, Opposite Royal Gardens, Green Valley Road, Kamba Village, Kalyan, 421 301, Thane District, Maharashtra Tel. No. 0251 - 6527778 On November 4, we celebrate the feast of St. Charles Borromeo, who had great love for the Church and the poor. It was these values that inspired our Founder to choose him as the Patron of the Congregation. St. Charles was a great pioneer of Christian education in the diocese of Milan, he is the patron of seminaries and catechists. The clarion call from overseas missions received a prompt reply from the Sisters. Today the Indian sisters are engaged in various ministries in Belgium, Italy, Poland, Argentina, Tanzania and Mexico. One of the remarkable changes in the history of the congregation is that, Mother India who was depending upon the foreign missionaries, is today sending her daughters to the foreign lands to serve in the Lord’s vineyard. ‘Go and teach all nations Superior General and Councillors Sr.Mary Jacob - Chair person of Medico, Social and Pastoral Commission Sr.Celine Saldanha – Asst Superior General & Chair person of Education Commission Sr.Christy Sarojini – Superior General Sr.Josita Manavalan - Chair person of Spirituality and Formation Commission Sr.Hazel Arahna - Chair person of Financial and Advisory Commission Fr.Adrien Bresy the founder proposed St.Chareles Borromeo as Patron of the Congregation Our Crest The whole crest is surrounded by lilies and violets in the midst of which is the motto: LABOUR, FAITH, and PROGRESS. The entire crest is surmounted by a Cross radiating the divine rays. Overseas Mission SCB Associates Significant Dates The Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo – Eastern Province Adrien Villa, # 28 Surappatu Main Road, Vinayagapuram, ©2019 . All Rights Reserved. Designed By YAHWEH SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8471
__label__wiki	0.723496	0.723496	SideCar Radio Founds & Walmsley In Unbeatable Form At Cadwell Park Written by Tim Langham / Photographs - Dirk Wharton Category: British FII BritishFII FSRACUP Pete Founds / Jevan Walmsley (LCR Suzuki) absolutely dominated the A.C.U. / F.S.R.A. British F2 Sidecar events at the second annual “Sidecar Revival” at Cadwell Park over the weekend of 22nd and 23rd June. They topped the timesheets in every session, claiming pole position and a hat trick of wins, breaking the lap record each time, and now head the standings by sixty five points. They were also presented with the Steve Norbury Trophy as winners of Sunday's opening F2 Sidecar race. In a break from what has been a largely disappointing year so far in terms of the weather (a stark contrast to the relentless heat-wave of 2018), Cadwell Park stayed dry throughout the weekend, and Saturday was arguably the sunniest day of the summer so far. A fantastic turnout of sidecars of all eras, along with a selection of solo classes and paddock entertainment ensured that the huge throngs of spectators did not leave disappointed. Twenty four teams lined up in the F2 category – one or two of the series regulars were missing due to other unavoidable commitments, and others were still making good repairs to themselves(!) and machinery following the T.T. Races on the Isle of Man. Qualifying saw Founds / Walmsley go one tenth under the lap record, which had been set almost a decade ago by Simon Neary / Paul Knapton back in 2010, although they would have to wait until race conditions to officially take this mantle. Lining up alongside them would be their old adversaries Lee Crawford / Scot Hardie (LCR Suzuki), who were 0.8s off the pace of the pole sitters, but over two seconds clear of the third fastest team – Sean Hegarty / James Neave (Baker Honda). John Lowther / Ben Binns (LCR Honda) were fourth; Binns deputising for Sarah Stokoe who was injured at the T.T. Races in an incident at Tower Bends with Binns' regular F.S.R.A. driver Mike Jackson. Gordon Shand / Tony Belsey (Shand Suzuki) had their best performance at this level so far in 2019, qualifying fifth, ahead of Conrad Harrison / Andy Winkle (Bellas Honda); Steve and Matty Ramsden (LCR Honda). Three F2 Cup teams rounded out the top ten – Nick Dukes / William Moralee (Baker Honda); Rob Atkinson / Simon Dawson (Bellas Suzuki); and reigning F.S.R.A. / Lane Building Services Pre-Injection Champions John Shipley jnr / Milo Ward (LCR Suzuki). Race one got underway in the early evening on Saturday, and whilst Founds / Walmsley took the advantage at the front from the start, Crawford / Hardie were in contention with them in the early laps, both teams pushing to the limits with the leaders setting the fastest lap on the fourth circulation in a time of 1:37.270, officially breaking the record. The chasing pack was led by Lowther / Binns, with Hegarty / Neave keenly contesting the final podium slot. Harrison / Winkle were early retirements, pulling in after just two laps. Making a charge through the field were Daryl Gibson / Ashley Moore, who had started at the back of the grid following problems in practice which saw their team work hard to make repairs during the day to enable them to race. Atkinson / Dawson were proving their brace of wins at the previous round at Donington Park were no fluke, and were running at the head of the F2 Cup field, and inside the overall top ten, with Dukes / Moralee heading up the challenge in the “race within a race”. The LCR Suzuki outfits of Simon Robinson / Mick Fairhurst and Michael Kirkup / Arlo Brown were having an entertaining battle for the remaining F2 Cup podium slots, with Brian Ilaria / Olly Lace (DDM Suzuki) poised to take advantage of any mistakes. Unfortunately race one saw something of a catalogue of non-finishes. Joining Harrison / Winkle on the sidelines in the early stages were Dean and Ben Dickinson (Shelbourne Suzuki) and the wild card pairing of Rob Fisher / Rick Long (Baker Thundercat). Unfortunately Crawford / Hardie joined the list of retirements on lap three, as they hounded Founds / Walmsley through the Chicane the outfit went offline and pitched Hardie from the machine, thankfully without injury, gifting a healthy lead to the reigning champions over Lowther / Binns, with Hegarty / Neave completing out the top three. These positions remained unchanged at the chequered flag, with Founds / Walmsley winning by over half a minute. In fourth came Shand / Belsey, just ahead of the Ramsdens, with Atkinson / Dawson rounding out the top six and taking the F2 Cup victory, less than one second ahead of Gibson / Moore with their spirited ride through the field landing them a seventh place finish. Dukes / Moralee took second in the F2 Cup, and eighth overall. However, it was “all action” on the final lap in the battle for the podium between Kirkup / Brown and Robinson / Fairhurst, with a series of maneouvres going on. However, a coming together between the machines at The Hairpin saw both machines on the grass, and a huge chunk of time lost, which handed third in the Cup to Ilaria / Lace, with Shipley jnr / Ward taking fourth in class and tenth overall. Sunday remained dry, but less sunny and warm – and with two F2 races on the agenda, opposed to the usual one at British Championship events there was plenty to look forward to. Atkinson / Dawson had earned a pole position start in Sunday's opening encounter, with the top six finishers in race one being reversed on the grid in race two. However, there was disappointment for them, as having suffered a wheel bearing problem in the warm up, they made good the repairs, but missed the gate closing in the holding bay as they ran out of time. Starting as the sole pairing on the front row were the Ramsdens, who got the initial holeshot from Hegarty / Neave and Lowther / Binns. However, by the time the front runners had gone through the dip on Park Straight, Founds / Walmsley were once again at the head of the field and going about establishing an enviable lead. Hegarty / Neave settled into a somewhat lonely second place for much of the race, with Founds / Walmsley stretching their advantage, breaking the lap record once again – lowering it to 1:37.223 on lap nine. Lowther / Binns were circulating third, maintaining a consistent gap over the outfits of Gibson / Moore; the Ramsdens and Shand / Belsey, who were all in close company until the latter pairing were forced into retirement at two thirds distance. Crawford / Hardie, having started at the very back of the grid were quickly inside the top ten, and by three quarter distance had relegated Lowther / Binns from the final step of the podium, and whilst they were making some in-roads into Hegarty / Neave it looked like they would struggle to make any further progress. In the F2 Cup, with Atkinson / Dawson being non-starters, Robinson / Fairhurst were keen to make amends for their fifth place finish in the previous race and were running at the front in this section. Ilaria / Lace were in a safe second, with Shipley jnr / Ward fending Kirkup / Brown off to complete the podium at the chequered flag. While Founds / Walmsley cantered to their second convincing win of the weekend, there was drama in the final two laps as Hegarty / Neave appeared to be visibly slowing with a mechanical problem. This allowed Crawford / Hardie to close and pass them on the final lap. Hegarty / Neave were able to keep the machine going and took third, with Lowther / Binns; Gibson / Moore; the Ramsdens; Harrison / Winkle; Robinson / Fairhurst; Ilaria / Lace; and Shipley jnr / Ward completing the top ten. The final race of the weekend saw another “reverse top six” on the grid. Lowther / Binns led the way from Gibson / Moore and Hegarty / Neave, although it was not long until sixth place starters Founds / Walmsley took charge at the front once again. Crawford / Hardie were rather “over-eager” to get away from their fifth place gridslot, and dropped several places as the back wheel spun up on the run up to Coppice. It was not long until they re-composed and made their way up to second place, although Founds / Walmsley had already pulled out a lead of several seconds. Crawford / Hardie pulled up at the Chicane on lap five, with concerns over the integrity of the wheel-arch. Having quickly made a check, finding nothing amiss, they re-joined back in seventh place, just ahead of the first of the F2 Cup teams. In the Cup, Atkinson / Dawson had been forced to start from the back of the grid, and they set about chasing down Robinson / Fairhurst, who were leading in the sub-class. Unfortunately the Dickinsons were retirements on lap three, having had a frustrating weekend in all three outings. Ilaria / Lace returned to the paddock at half distance, as did Hegarty / Neave a lap later with a terminal mechanical issue. While Crawford / Hardie had an excellent comeback ride to second following their earlier stop, there was absolutely no answer to the dominance of Founds / Walmsley, who shattered the lap record further, to 1:36.448, taking almost a full second off Neary / Knapton's former best, which some had thought would never be beaten! Lowther / Binns took third – consistent finishing over the weekend moving them to a clear third place in the overall points standings, only eleven behind Crawford / Hardie. Gibson / Moore had their best finish of the weekend with fourth, the Ramsdens were fifth and Harrison / Winkle sixth. F2 Cup teams completed the top ten, with Atkinson / Dawson taking the win, from Robinson / Fairhurst; Kirkup / Brown and Shipley jnr / Ward. Thanks go to Roger Body of RKB-F1; Mike Dommett and all at B.M.C.R.C. for organising a superb weekend of sidecar (and solo) action, at what has undoubtedly been one of the best sidecar-orientated meetings for many years. As always, the F.S.R.A. would like show their appreciation to the A.C.U. and all series sponsors: A.R.C. Binchester; A.V. Craine & Son; Hegarty Plant; Lockside Engineering; Pagid Racing; Rowtec Ltd; Whitby Cottages and Yorkshire Engine Supplies. There is now a five week break until the next round of the series, which is at Anglesey (Coastal) on the 3rd and 4th August. During that time, many of the F.S.R.A. competitors and their teams will be making the visit to the Isle of Man for the Southern 100 Road Races. On behalf of the F.S.R.A. may I wish them a safe and enjoyable trip. British FII Our Site Partners.. © 2019 Steve's Place	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8474
__label__cc	0.683905	0.316095	How to Pray in a Time of Global Terror Blog, Discipleship, Missions MANILA—Since I landed in the Philippines last week, the nation has been gripped with the ongoing crisis in the southern island of Mindanao. Islamic militants have taken the city of Marawi and declared allegiance to ISIS. Hundreds have been killed and thousands displaced since the violence began on May 23. Over the last few weeks, terror attacks have seemed ubiquitous around the world. The day before Marawi, the Manchester bombing took the lives of twenty-three young people attending a concert. Last week, the London Bridge attack took the lives of eight people and injured another forty-eight when terrorists drove a van into a crowded area and began stabbing random people. Though less publicized, the Middle East has seen the worst terror attacks of all over the last few weeks, with suicide bombings in Kabul (May 3), Tehran (June 7), and Karbala (June 9), each claiming the lives of dozens of civilians and injuring hundreds more. How should we as Christians respond to such tragic events, to such evil? How should we pray in a time of global terror? I have begun praying Psalm 83. O God, do not keep silence; do not hold your peace or be still, O God! For behold, your enemies make an uproar; those who hate you have raised their heads. They lay crafty plans against your people; they consult together against your treasured ones. These are the first few verses of one of a handful of imprecatory psalms in the Bible—psalms that lament human evil and suffering and ask God to judge the wicked. If, like me, much of your Christian life has been one of relative comfort and safety, imprecatory psalms can be very weird to read, much less pray. But for Christians who have lived in a war-torn region or who face real persecution, then imprecatory psalms speak directly to their experience in a way that nothing else can. I used to assume that imprecatory psalms were exclusively useful for those in extreme, life-threatening situations. But now, I’m beginning to realize that they are useful for all Christians who are confronted (even secondhand) with the depths of human evil and suffering. Why? Because imprecatory psalms give us a healthy way to voice our anger, fear, terror, and sense of helplessness in the face of human evil. They give us a way to talk to God—to appeal to His justice, His sovereignty, His mercy—when we have no words of our own. They teach us how to think—and more importantly how to feel—about something like a suicide bombing in Manchester or children being shot by snipers in Marawi. With the psalmists we can pray of terror groups, like ISIS or Abu Sayyaf, like Psalm 83 shows here: O my God, make them like the whirling dust, like chaff before the wind. As fire consumes the forest, as the flame sets the mountains ablaze, so may you pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your hurricane! Yes, it’s biblical to pray that God would bring His terror to the very people who are inflicting terror on others. And it is biblical to pray that God would bring righteous judgement on a group like ISIS. But as you begin to pray these kinds of prayers, don’t forget that we should hate evil but love sinners. We should hate ISIS and the demonic principalities and powers that animate such wickedness, but we should forgive terrorists and pray that God reveals himself to them. Even Psalm 83, with all its righteous anger, ends with a redemptive tone: Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek your name, O Lord. Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever; let them perish in disgrace that they may know that you alone, whose name is the Lord, are the Most High over all the earth. But does this really happen? Can God’s justice (and eventual mercy) toward the wicked result in some turning to Him? The short answer is yes. Think about the apostle Paul, who persecuted the church, then had a radical encounter with God on the road to Damascus. Think about the people in our Every Nation family in the Muslim world who were members of al-Qaeda before they met Jesus. Think about own your life before conversion, which was no less worthy of God’s judgment than that of a terrorist. In his short time on earth, Jesus prayed both imprecatory psalms and prayers of forgiveness towards His enemies. And so should we. Pray for My Mom Most Staff Meetings Are a Waste of Time 10 Leadership Lessons from My 1st Global Leadership Summit	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8475
__label__cc	0.711553	0.288447	Harry Douglas wins a place on the PwC Flying Start Degree Programme Date published: Wed 15 May 2019 Author: HLH Category: News Share: A second TBSHS 6th Former, Harry Douglas, has been successful against stiff competition, in winning a place on a prestigious degree apprenticeship, this time with PwC on their Flying Start Degree programme. Harry has always been interested Business, Accounting and Economics and when he attended an Open Day at the University of Reading in the middle of Year 12, he was drawn to their PwC Apprenticeship. He saw the opportunity to study as a normal university student plus have a 20 week work placements as a perfect programme for him. During the first year at Uni he will study Accounting and Business for the full year, in Year 2 he will complete the Winter & Spring semesters and then undertake a 20 week paid placement with PwC, and the same in year 3. In the 4th Year he will take final degree examinations plus a paid placement again with PwC. Harry applied through UCAS in the usual way, and in his forthcoming A Levels in Maths, Economics & History he has to achieve AAB, an offer which reflects the A grade already confirmed for his EPQ. Harry went through a detailed selection process, starting with meeting his predicted grades. This followed with Harry attending an assessment centre at Reading University in December followed by a 1 to 1 interview with the Head of recruitment in Europe. The assessment day included participating in a group exercise and being assessed by past students. There were 5-600 initial applicants, which were whittled down to 60 candidates who will all be based at Henley Business School, part of Reading University. Harry's EPQ came in very useful, enabling Harry to receive a slightly lower offer as EPQ was on the Economics of Corporate companies in the US, particularly focusing on Apple, Birkshire Hathaway and Walmart. Harry was also pleased to learn that at the end of the four years he will be exempt from 12 out of the 15 exams required to become a Chartered Accountant - another string to his bow. Outside school Harry is a keen footballer, playing for Stortford U21s and U18s and training at least twice each week. Last week he took part in the local cup final playing for Bishop's Stortford United and winning 5-3 against Real Stortford Stars to lift the Premier Division trophy. PwC say "Our Accounting Flying Start programme lasts four years and can be studied at Newcastle University Business School, Henley Business School (University of Reading) or Nottingham University Business School. It will put you on track to becoming an ICAEW Chartered Accountant – you’ll complete 80% of your exams, and will be just over a year away from qualification once you graduate. You’ll have three paid work placements with us. They’re built into the university’s academic year and last for just one term, so you’ll still have the whole summer off to enjoy. As well as earning a competitive salary, you could have some of your living costs supplemented while on placement and pay lower university fees." More info: Accounting Mrs Price, Assistant Head of 6th Form commented "Congratulations to Harry for another first for TBSHS Sixth Form students. Following on from Teale Cunningham’s Civil Service apprenticeship success, Harry is the first of our students to gain a place on PwC’s Flying Start programme which will see him not only attend university full-time at PwC’s expense but build fantastic work place experience in the company during paid placements. This is a different model to other professional services apprenticeships that our students have followed with EY and Deloitte. Harry has worked with focus and commitment since joining us in Year 7. His quiet approach to gaining such a prestigious placement is a reflection of his affable personality, professionalism and determination. I wish him every success." Mr Stark, Head of 6th Form added "I am delighted to hear that Harry has been offered a conditional offer for the PwC Flying Start Programme. These apprenticeships are very competitive and Harry’s proactivity and talent would have shone through. I wish him the best of luck for his exams and I look forward to hearing about Harry’s progress in the future."	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8487
__label__cc	0.716827	0.283173	The word desert has no fully agreed upon meaning among geographers. Many prefer, in fact, the terms dry lands or arid lands. Part of the problem in arriving at a deﬁnition that will satisfy everyone is that many popular images of North American deserts—bleak expanses of sand, lizards seeking shaded cover from a broiling sun, saguaro cactus— don’t begin to ﬁt all of North America’s deserts. Saguaros grow only in the lower Sonoran Desert; no lizards inhabit the polar deserts of Alaska; and much of the Great Basin Desert is covered with brush and grasses, even open stands of piñón pine and juniper. To biologists, deserts are dry habitats that accommodate many fewer species than other habitats such as forest land or tall grass prairies. Desert habitat is further characterized by plants and animals with unique strategies for ﬁnding and conserving water. And they are set apart from other lands by low humidity and scant rainfall, and by sometimes striking ﬂuctuations in daily and seasonal temperatures. For nonbiologists, what makes deserts distinctive is not ecosystems but landforms—stony plains of desert pavement, arroyos cut by ﬂash ﬂoods, dune ﬁelds. Excluding the polar deserts of Alaska and the arid, volcanic landscapes of Hawai‘i, there are four deserts in the United States. The “warm” Chihuahuan and lower Sonoran Deserts of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas; and the “cold” deserts—the upper Sonoran of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah; the Mojave of California and Nevada; and the Great Basin Desert, stretching all the way to Canada and taking in parts of California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. The most arid of them all is the Mojave. In the “high desert” of eastern Oregon and Washington, desertiﬁcation caused by overgrazing has converted large stretches of dry grassland into landscapes dominated by sage and scrub vegetation and by such exotic plants as Russian thistle (tumbleweed) and cheat grass. Scientists are still discovering new forms of life in the desert, contradicting the persistent notion that deserts are barren, lifeless, worthless. — Barry Lopez More from Barry Lopez blind creek strike valley soil pitch mudslide ice volcano shinnery acre-foot refugium sand prairie charco bolson intermittent stream alluvial fan downwind desert varnish dale high desert butte	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8491
__label__cc	0.704561	0.295439	Episode 23 Mestre Ailton Nunes Part 2 June 23, 2017 by Courtney Danley Aílton Nunes grew up in the community of Mangueira in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. From early childhood he was involved in the revered samba school of his community, Estação Primeira de Mangueira. Over time, he became known for his passion for samba, his talent as a musician and his leadership style. He served as director of Mangueira da Manhã, the children's version of the Mangueira drumline, for many years. Since becoming Mestre da Bateria da Mangueira (leader of Mangueira Samba School’s carnaval drumline) in 2011, Aílton has developed a reputation for surprising innovations in the evolution of samba. As a teacher, Aílton Nunes is famous for never raising his voice or losing his temper. Consequently, he is able to motivate 300 to 500 of the best drummers anywhere to play some of the best samba on the planet. Mestre Ailton took over Mangueira’s bateria in 2011, that same year receiving the coveted Estandarte de Ouro for best bateria performance at Rio’s Carnaval. Ailton also participates in the group Dose Certa and Ensaio de Escola de Samba de Leandro Lehart. Sponsored by GoSamba.net! Sponsored by gosamba.net Your source of caixas, chocalhos, repiniques, surdos, straps, tamborims, tamborim sticks all imported from Brazil! June 23, 2017 /Courtney Danley	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8497
__label__wiki	0.711794	0.711794	Now reading: Hi-tech brewing machine aims to bring Christmas joy to America Adelaide Monday November 20, 2017 Hi-tech brewing machine aims to bring Christmas joy to America The makers of a hi-tech Australian beer machine are preparing for a boost in sales after some of America’s largest retailers agreed to stock its BrewArt system. Andrew Spence Monday November 20, 2017 BrewArt Marketing Director Coopers +61 8 8440 1800 South Australian brewery Coopers is one of the world’s biggest manufacturers of homebrew beer products. It launched the automated system that uses Wi-Fi, precise temperature control and patented end of fermentation technology last year. Two of the USA’s most prestigious department store groups, Bloomingdale’s and Neiman Marcus, and online retail giant Amazon are now selling the systems. Neiman Marcus, which was founded in Dallas, Texas in 1907, features BrewArt in its Christmas catalogue this year as well as online, while Bloomingdale’s, which was founded in New York in 1861, is offering the BrewArt system in stores across New York, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles and on-line. Amazon has also commenced selling BrewArt units online. BrewArt is the world’s first fully automated personal brewing system enabling owners to brew pub quality beer at the touch of a button. It comprises the smart-phone connected BeerDroid that brews the beer and the BrewFlo that chills beer to the appropriate temperature and enables people to pour it from a pub style tap. Brewprints, which are a specific set of ingredients, enable users to pick the style of beer they wish to brew such as American Pale Ale, European Pilsner or customized to make more than 3000 different beers. The BeerDroid has patented End of Fermentation (EOF) technology that automatically detects the start and finish of fermentation without the need for testing, while the BrewFlo controls serving temperature and serving without the need for CO2. BrewArt’s Marketing Manager, Scott Harris, said the system had been developed in South Australia over a period of about eight years before being released in Australia in July 2016. “The response in Australia has been outstanding with the system winning a Canstar Blue 2016 Innovation Award just months after being released,” he said. “We were absolutely delighted when Bloomingdale’s and Neiman Marcus, which are recognised as two of the world’s most prestigious retailers, decided to list it. “The listing with Amazon will make BrewArt available to people across the US.” Harris said the BeerDroid and the BrewFlo were high-end lifestyle products designed to not only brew and dispense premium beer but also to look great in modern kitchens. “What we wanted to come up with was a kegging system and a dispenser you would be quite happy to have on your bench next to your coffee machine,” he said. “It’s Wi-Fi connected so you can actually control this whole thing from your phone. Another advantage of it being Wi-Fi connected is we can do firmware upgrades to upgrade the algorithms or anything else that people have asked for to be changed. “The other cool thing about that is if people ring us up and say ‘I did a brew and it just turned out awful’ then with their permission we can log in and check what happened.” Brews take similar time as traditional home brews of 5-15 days in fermentation mode with a keg or bottle fermentation and natural carbonation time of two weeks. Notifications are sent along the way to update users on the progress of their brew. BeerDroids sell for around US$799 while BrewFlo units retail for around US$699. Established in Adelaide in 1862, Coopers is the largest Australian-owned brewery, accounting for about 5 per cent of the nation’s commercial beer market. It has been making home brewing products since the 1970s and has grown to become the world’s largest manufacturer and exporter of brewing extracts. BrewArt More Manufacturing stories Manufacturing Manufacturing Australian ice cream company begins Vietnam exports Primary Industries Primary Industries Australia’s favourite ice cream to be sold in Vietnam An Australian Jolly Swagman heads to the United States Jessica Bassano Wednesday, June 12 Compost bin sensor puts Max on top of the world Andrew Spence Monday, May 20	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8507
__label__wiki	0.944089	0.944089	OC Hall makes the transformation: Goodbye offices, hello dorm rooms Posted by Victoria Slaten \| Jan 23, 2013 \| Archives \| 0 \| Mohammed Althabet, freshman international student, texts his friends while watching TV in the dorm lobby of OC Armstrong Hall. The lobby was converted from a speech classroom over the Christmas break to accommodate an influx of students needing housing. (Lupe Salas/Rambler Staff) The Texas Wesleyan student body is continuing to increase due to the influx of international students transferring to campus. In order to accommodate these new additions to Wesleyan, the second floor of OC Armstrong Hall has returned to its original use: housing students in dorm rooms. Sharon Manson, director of residence life, said there were no other options for housing than to refurbish OC Hall back into a dorm. “Enough students needed housing,” Manson said. “And we ran out of places to put them.” Manson explained the process it took to transform OC Hall back into its original form. She said the student organizations had to move out. Additional beds had to be purchased, and Internet was added to the second floor for student’s access. The rooms were cleaned and repaired, but some flooring still needs finishing. She said all of the room walls, which were painted by the organizations who met there, had to go back to the color white. Professor Joe Brown, dean of freshmen, said some offices like his office, security, and the mass communications department remain in OC Hall. Brown likes the change and enjoys having students close to where he works. “Years ago the first floor of Stella Russell were faculty offices, and the students lived on the second and third floor. So this is not new,” Brown said. “And it was really kind of cool because again the students really could find faculty because they were where they lived.” Brown said his vision of a perfect building on campus is a place where there are students living and faculty working under the same roof, so there will be more student-faculty interaction. Before any change to OC Hall was made, all student organizations had to move all of their equipment out of OC Hall and into a smaller storage area they have to share at Polytechnic United Methodist Church. “I know the student organizations that had rooms there were really upset and didn’t have a whole lot of notice to move out,” Brown said. Ashlie Sivley, a junior and active member of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority whose office was in OC Hall, said the school is making it seem like organizations are no longer a priority. Sivley said moving day for the organizations was difficult and frustrating. “It was very confusing. Basically, the way we were understanding it was that we had a date that we had to be out, but we didn’t necessarily have a promise that there would be a room ready for us,” Sivley said. “And it turns out there wasn’t.” Sivley said when the members of Gamma Phi Beta moved their equipment to the room at Polytechnic the walls were still being painted, and there was furniture in the middle of the room. Sivley said there was really no place to put their equipment while the walls were being painted. Gamma Phi Beta decided to put their equipment in Sivley’s garage for the time being. “I feel like it’s making it seem like the organizations on campus aren’t important, which seems silly, because it’s been proven that students who are involved in some sort of campus activity are more likely to succeed and graduate,” she said. “So you’d think that student life in general would be one of the top priorities of the university.” However, Gamma Phi Beta members said they acknowledge that as students come in, arrangements must be made for them. Sivley said her sorority is grateful to John Veilleux, vice president for marketing. He helped by getting lockers for the organizations that will go in the new room. “We do a lot for the school,” Sivley said. “We support the school a lot. We go to events. Students come to school for the classes, but they don’t stay because of the classes. They stay because of the friends they make.” Brown said if more students are admitted to Texas Wesleyan and OC Hall is to be a full residence hall again, it is expected that offices that remain in OC Hall, like faculty and staff offices, must be moved somewhere else. However, right now there is nowhere else on campus to move them, so there they will remain. PreviousLady Ram basketball shoots for Kentucky NextStella’s first floor makes space for academics Victoria Slaten Rams win three game series {WEB} Wesleyan in need of more organizations Let’s celebrate the holidays for the right reasons Guiyang mayor invites Wesleyan singers to China	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8510
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__label__wiki	0.819013	0.819013	Kyla Nicole released new single – 11th Hour R&B/Pop singing sensation, Kyla Nicole, has just released her brand new single, 11th Hour. “The story behind the title is very tongue-in-cheek to be honest. We were actually set to release another song called Soul4, and being a creative, I decided to change my mind in the dying seconds 2 days before our release date. I went into studio, wrote a brand new song and released that instead. Just before Soul4. So I thought the name 11th Hour would be fitting.” she said. The soulful ballad reminds us that even though relationships are not always rainbows and butterflies, it’s still worth fighting for. “To me this song is more about fighting for what you have. If it comes easy, it will also go easy. Anything beautiful in this world is worth the fight. Every relationship has its flaws,” explains Kyla. “We argue a lot, we fight, but instead of walking away when things go bad, rather fight for what you have.” Though it can be a tough, demanding and sometimes unforgiving industry, Kyla says that she would “like to think the relationship I have with music is the one constant that has kept me going all these years. Far from just a job or a passion, it’s my escape, my solitude, my happiness and what keeps me going and pushing on.” The 26-year-old singer/songwriter is no stranger to the music industry. Kyla’s debut single, Summer Rain (2016), spent 13 weeks on the SA Top 30 and got voted hottest new song on 5FM, quite the introduction for the newcomer. Three more songs followed, all of them achieving commercial success. Feeling For You (2017) also charted on South African radio, while All Around The World (2017) went straight to Nr 1 on YFM. Feelings (2018) debuted at Nr 2 on the Jazz charts on iTunes and stayed on the charts for more than 10 weeks. So if Kyla’s previous success is anything to go by, her latest release is also set to be a chart-topper. By: TheVibeZAAd 11th Hour, Feeling For You, Kyla Nicole, Kyla’s debut single, new single, R&B/Pop singer, soulful ballad, Summer Rain TheVibeZAAd There is no author description yet. iToys DINNER TIME STORIES SA - LE PETIT CHEF 7:30 pmFaircity Quatermain Hotel DinnerTimeStories is a mind blowing, innovative, unique, internationally acclaimed, gastronomic experience full of `Never Before Seen In SA` tabletop projected fun and surprises Pieter-Dirk Uys in #HeToo Pieter-Dirk Uys has been in the laughter-zones of South Africans since 1973... BIANCA DEL RIO: IT`S JESTER JOKE 8:00 pmTeatro, Montecasino Bianca Del Rio`s "It`s Jester Joke" The self-proclaimed `Clown in a Gown` will tell tales of her world travels and the outrageous circus that is her life COMIC CON AFRICA 2019 9:00 amJohannesburg Comic Con Africa focuses on all things pop culture from comic books to Cosplay competitions and everything in between 8:00 pmTeatre, Montecasino Broadway`s smash hit musical is set to rock the Teatro at Montecasino for the first time! Nominated for five Tony Awards?, including Best Musical Prime Fest 11:00 amCasalinga, Muldersdrift, Jhb Hot 91.9 FM presents Prime Fest featuring Prime Circle, The Parlotones, Mango Groove, Just Jinjer, Jack Parow, Freshlyground, Wonderboom and Shut Up It`s Sunday. JOE BARBER`S 20TH ANNIVERSARY 8:00 pmGrand West, Cape Town Come and join Boeta Joe and Boeta Gamat for the 20th Anniversary celebrations of Joe Barber! Joe Barber Grand West Tweets by @TheVibeZA Pinkster in Grandwest Copyright TheVibeZA © 2017	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8512
__label__wiki	0.565227	0.565227	MSNBC Has Done 455 Stormy Daniels Pieces This Year—ZERO on US-Sponsored Genocide in Yemen July 28, 2018 Rich Winkel Leave a comment FAIR — As FAIR has noted before (1/8/18, 3/20/18), to MSNBC, the carnage and destruction the US and its Gulf Monarchy allies are leveling against the poorest country in the Arab world is simply a non-issue. On July 2, a year had passed since the cable network’s last segment mentioning US participation in the war on Yemen, which has killed in excess of 15,000 people and resulted in over a million cases of cholera. The US is backing a Saudi-led bombing campaign with intelligence, refueling, political cover, military hardware and, as of March, ground troops. None of this matters at all to what Adweek (4/3/18) calls “the network of the Resistance,” which has since its last mention of the US’s role in the destruction of Yemen found time to run over a dozen segments highlighting war crimes committed by the Syrian and Russian governments in Syria. By way of contrast, as MSNBC was marking a year without mentioning the US role in Yemen, the PBS NewsHour was running a three-part series on the war, with the second part (7/3/18) headlined, “American-Made Bombs in Yemen Are Killing Civilians, Destroying Infrastructure and Fueling Anger at the US.”… https://thefreethoughtproject.com/msnbc-stormy-daniels-yemen-genocide/ Fullscreen this video from yemen and note the scintillations on the CCD cell phone camera after the bunker buster explosion (not during the explosion, those are flying sparks). These are charged particles impacting the camera, protons from decaying neutrons, I suppose. But of course that’s crazy talk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_bunker_buster Here are several other videos apparently from the same explosion. See especially the one that starts at 0:50. US Foreign Policy is About to Kill 500,000 Kids in Yemen #MeToo Finally Hits the Vatican as Nuns Denounce Rampant Sex Abuse from Priests As the #MeToo movement exploded last year after Hollywood elites were outed as pedophiles and rapists, the Catholic church remained entirely silent. Despite rampant abuse allegations, top church officials being investigated, and countless alleged victims coming forward, the Vatican remained out of the spotlight of the #MeToo movement — until now. What sets this apart from previous allegations against the church is the fact that the first time the #MeToo movement has hit the Vatican, it was brought by nuns…. https://thefreethoughtproject.com/metoo-nuns-abuse-vatican/ Kerth says he was forced to attend a midnight “black mass” at a catholic church in st. louis around 1970. Apparently it’s a church within a church. Reprise: 9/11: A Conspiracy Theory 9/11: A Conspiracy Theory Corbett: Pricking the Filter Bubble Show notes at: https://www.corbettreport.com/filterbubble/ Alex Jones: Net Censorship Shifting to Overdrive You don’t have to agree with everything he says to know that he’s a very important information source. His intelligence and military contacts are excellent. He’s being targeted because of the size of his audience, but all political blogs will be up for review if this agenda goes forward. Yet Another US-Sponsored Massacre in the US False Flag “Drug War” It’s just business. Nothing personal. The CIA and the Crack Cocaine Epidemic Cultural Engineering in Sweden July 28, 2018 Rich Winkel 22 Comments There are at least 3 different rationales for the mass importation of muslim immigrants to europe, each appropriate to a different audience. On the most superficial level is the claim of humanitarian motivation: suddenly after centuries of colonization and exploitation of brown skinned people in africa and the mideast, western “civilization” has gotten a dose of decency under “liberal” elite tutelage and decided to open its arms to a flood of refugees from the “less fortunate” world. Most of the domesticated sheep are unaware that the conditions which these refugees are fleeing from were created by the west’s own foreign political (military attacks and overthrow of democratic governments and installation of brutal tyrants for resource extraction) and economic (debt-austerity hoaxes perpetrated by the world “bank” and IMF) policies. This contradiction is neatly disposed of by imposing widespread ignorance of such issues among the domestic audience. We’re all one big human family etc. http://thoughtcrimeradio.net/2017/04/the-muslim-weapon/ http://thoughtcrimeradio.net/2014/10/beast-of-savak-prowls-streets-of-orlando-florida/ http://thoughtcrimeradio.net/2014/06/border-crisis-the-crocodile-tears-of-the-empire/ http://thoughtcrimeradio.net/2017/05/video-war-by-other-means/ http://thoughtcrimeradio.net/2015/08/confessions-of-an-economic-hitman-john-perkins/ http://thoughtcrimeradio.net/2015/02/greg-palast-on-imf-riots-and-the-shock-doctrine/ http://thoughtcrimeradio.net/2012/01/the-shock-doctrine/ http://thoughtcrimeradio.net/2017/03/censored-ben-franklin-on-the-real-cause-of-the-american-revolution/ A slightly deeper understanding of the concerns of the social engineers who plan and facilitate europe’s immigration policies recognizes that they have a demographic crisis looming. The social insurance system which the flock has spent their entire lives paying into for their retirement, thinking they were making savings deposits into some kind of government-run piggy bank, has been spent on maintaining current retirees and other government programs such as (fake) sovereign debt payments and war. There are no savings. When the current baby boomers retire they will do so in poverty because there aren’t enough indigenous young people to pay into the system to sustain future ongoing expenses. Thus the need to import masses of young people from other countries. http://thoughtcrimeradio.net/2018/08/2001-un-plan-to-flood-usa-with-600-million-refugees-from-corporate-plunder/ https://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/migration/migration.htm The two rationales above are used to market “open border” policies to the peasants and the academic/technocratic classes, respectively. But there is at least one more level of understanding here which is largely opaque to both groups. The financial ubergarchs who orchestrate social engineering projects such as war, fake debt enslavement and the academic endowments which cultivate desired policies, have much longer term goals which are very much in keeping with their role in puppeting both the betrayal of european baby boomers and the subjugation of the “3rd world”. A glimpse of the income and wealth distribution in the USA gives an idea of the largely invisible stratum inhabited by these planetary overlords, who tower over us like the roman pantheon. Clearly, the vast majority of humanity are mere insects grasping at the few atoms of sustenance drifting by their matrix-pods in the bowels of the planetary factory. But knowledge of the ubergarchs’s role in creating masses of refugees and squandering the wealth of the west’s baby boomers still doesn’t explain all the empirical evidence at hand, namely the utter abandonment of any pretense of social integration of the newly arrived immigrants into western culture, or even an anemic effort at an education worthy of a modern industrial economy for either the indigenous flock or the immigrants. Can you see where this is going? Mass immigration without integration will bifurcate the society, rendering the domestic population politically impotent as they fend off both elite-imposed poverty and the alienated immigrants who, being sheep themselves, would tend to blame the european peasants for their plight. On the other side of the coin, exporting lower-income people from the country of origin will act as a relief valve to stave off political reform and perpetuate the plunder there. The racial, language and religious barriers between the two groups will ensure social chaos for generations to come. Perhaps most importantly, the cultural knowledge of centuries of social evolution and advancement embedded in the indigenous european population (the renaissance, enlightenment, democratic self-governance etc) will be obliterated and replaced with whatever the domineers desire. The ubergarchs win in every way. The “third world” is coming home. Is it really so far fetched to think that such an entrenched, invisible, multigenerational, monopolistic and “collectively autocatalytic” cabal, mired in the traditions and rituals of medieval european aristocracy, might have its own distinct objectives, culture and indeed, its own very distinct religion? Sweden Will Remain Sweden In Name Only For some time now the Gefira Team has been keeping track of the demographic processes that are taking place in Europe, especially in its Western part. This time Gefira published a report on Sweden, a well-developed, typical Western state, member of the European Union. The report includes independent calculations, using dedicated demographic software Cerberus 2.0. The report is based on the input that is taken from the official bureaus of statistics. The Gefira findings based on the official data provided by Statistics Sweden SCB reveal what follows: the fertility rate of native white Swedes is much lower (1,6) than the country’s overall fertility rate (1.9); the Swedish parental system fails to deliver more babies; the number of children with an Islamic name is growing at a fast pace. Since 2010 it has increased by more than 30%, so that now around 8 to 10% of the newborns in Sweden have an Islamic name. the native white Swedish population will be a minority within a maximum of 40 years. The same source shows that 22% of the newborns have a non-Western migration background. To compensate for the low birth rate the government is pursuing a systematic re-population policy. That is why it can be claimed that the Swedish community will grow in numbers at a moderate speed in the foreseeable future. The SCB statisticians cannot have come to this conclusion on the basis of the Swedish childbearing numbers nor on the global migration trends. The said growth remains and will be a result of importing highly fertile women from low and medium HDI (Human Development Index) countries.… https://gefira.org/en/2018/07/27/sweden-will-remain-sweden-but-in-name/ 1. “Depopulation should be the highest priority of US foreign policy towards the Third World”. 2. “Reduction of the rate of population in these states is a matter of vital US national security”. 3. “The US economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less-developed countries. That fact gives the US enhanced interests in the political, economic and social stability of the supplying countries. Wherever a lessening of population can increase the prospects for such stability, population policy becomes relevant to resources, supplies and the economic interest of the United States”. — US National Security Council. NSSM 200 (1974) Culturecide: Sweden May Use Police to Force Homeschoolers into Public School 2001 UN Plan to Flood USA With 600 Million Refugees from Corporate Plunder Soros / CIA Plan to Destabilize Europe Centralized Social Control: Macron Floats Military Draft While Unassimilated Muslims Destabilize the Streets Gaddafi Warned of CIA-Sponsored Islamic Terror in Europe 6 Years Ago Mind Control on the Left Congressional Investigator Norman Dodd on Corporate Foundations’ Agenda for Public Education The Muslim Weapon The Real Enemy: YOU How They Live The Real Eyes Wide Shut More on How They Live Iceman Tapes: Inside the Mind of a Mafia Hitman Of all tyrannies, a tyranny excercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their conscience. They may be more likely to get to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with interolerable insult. To be ‘cured’ against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals. — C.S. Lewis 99% to Back 1%’s Derivatives Casinos CDC admits, then censors SV40 vaccine contamination 19-16-5-1-18/15-6/4-5-19-20-9-14-26 STRIKES DOWN THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE Child Sex Trafficking through Child “Protection” Services Bankers Puppeteering Egypt How to Overthrow an Elected Government Video Book Review: The Lone Gladio Reprise: Nurse Warns of “Biogenics” & Forced Flu Shots Happening in US Hospitals Russia Vindicated: Seth Rich leaked DNC emails to WikiLeaks This is CNN, and CBS and NBC and ABC and MSNBC and NYT and the Brainwashington Compost and the entire US MSM Global Power: Identifying the Institutions of Control Rockefeller attaches cybersecurity bill to National Defense Authorization Act Reprise: Learned Helplessness: The War on You Reprise: 4.5 Million Orphans in Iraq: Protests Over Food and Shelter Supreme Court ruled vaccines are “unavoidably unsafe” in 2016 – What has changed since? Nothing. 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__label__cc	0.514849	0.485151	TMNT Adventures #42 Plot: Chris Allan & Dean Clarrain Script: Dean Clarrain (Steve Murphy) Pencils: Chris Allan Inks: Brian Thomas Manager: V. Gorelick Cover: Peter Laird and Ryan Brown In the sewer lair’s gym, Ninjara and the Turtles are busy working out, though Ninjara is distracted with how impressive the whole lair actually is. Suddenly, a time-slip opens up and out pops a middle-aged Donatello and Raphael. They insist that their younger counterparts follow them back to the future, as the time-slip will only remain open for a short time. Suddenly, they see Splinter (who is shocked) and bow with sullen respect. They ask Splinter to accompany them back to the future as well. In the future (a dystopian New York full of derelict buildings and rising water levels swamping the streets), the Shredder and Verminator-X operate machinery in their headquarters (a disguised tenement building). Verminator laments that they were unable to procure the Black Stone of Mecca during their last trip to the past, but Shredder tells him to save it as their time-slip generator opens up. Armaggon comes stomping through, having collected the salvage from Null’s Deepdump operation as well as an unexpected hostage: Merdude. He asks how their mission to the past went and Shredder has to explain their failure. A fight between Armaggon and the Shredder starts to break out, but Verminator stops them, explaining that he might know of a power source just as good as the Black Stone. On the roof of Turtleco, future-Don, Future-Raph, Splinter, Ninjara and the Turtles arrive through a time-slip, only to be attacked by flying defense drones called Orni-Coppers. Future-Don shuts them down, explaining that he built them to defend Turtleco, though they malfunctioned when they registered two Donatellos and two Raphaels at the same time. Entering through the roof, future-Don invites them into his luxurious mansion. Apparantly, his knack for electronics turned Turtleco into a huge success and made him a billionaire. Young-Don is suitably impressed with himself. Splinter, Leo and Mike finally decide to start asking the big questions, starting with where their future counterparts are. Future-Raph reveals that Splinter died from old age awhile ago, but a more gripping tale awaits them in regards to what happened to future-Leo and future-Mike and just why they brought them to the future. Not long ago, Turtleco was infiltrated by Armaggon, who was trying to steal the experimental time-slip generator from Don’s lab. The resulting fight led out the window and into the flooded streets below. Although Armaggon was in his element, the Turtles still had him on the ropes. That is until the Shredder and Verminator-X showed up and ambushed them. As the Turtles struggled to recover, Armaggon nailed them all with a torpedo. When Raph came to, his eye was missing along with Mike and Leo; only Don being accounted for in the aftermath. And to make matters worse, while they were out, Armaggon succeeded in stealing the time-slip generator. Back at the Shredder’s HQ, future-Leo, future-Mike and Merdude rest unconscious within stasis tubes as the three villains look on, menacingly. This story is continued from the prologue of TMNT Adventures #41. The story continues in TMNT Adventures #43. The Turtles briefly visited this future before in TMNT Adventures #7. Shredder and Verminator-X failed to obtain the Black Stone of Mecca and escaped through a time-slip to the future in TMNT Adventures #36. Armaggon gathered salvage from Null’s Deepdump facility and captured Merdude in Mighty Mutanimals #7. This issue also features bonus pin-ups of the four Turtles and Splinter by A.C. Farley. This issue was reprinted in the UK by Fleetway as TMHT Adventures (#78). I started this review blog on June 25th, 2008. And from my very first post (TMNT Adventures miniseries #1), all I wanted to do was hurry up and get to the damn “Future Shark Trilogy”. I originally conceived TMNT Entity as a site strictly for reviews of TMNT Adventures, but I quickly got distracted reviewing TMNT comics from other publishers, as well as doing research articles and editorials and what-not. Thanks to all that, it took me three years to get to the damn “Future Shark Trilogy”. ‘Bout freakin’ time. TMNT Adventures had been “growing up” for a while before this story arc, with lots of narrative turning points and milestones bringing it away from its goofier roots and closer toward a darker action adventure series that could compete with the contemporary superhero titles of The Big Two. However, it is “The Future Shark Trilogy” that really took the book to an entirely different level, not only setting a tone that would remain for the duration of the series, but opening up a major pool of plot threads that the book would proceed to draw from all the way until the end. In both terms of atmosphere and story focus, you can almost bisect TMNT Adventures into “before the Future Shark Trilogy” and “after the Future Shark Trilogy” segments. That’s how important it is to the overall sequence of the entire series. Of course, it isn’t without its inconsistencies and setbacks; the most major of which I’ll comment on in the next review. But as far as this issue is concerned, its only noticeable flaw is how abruptly it begins. “Hey, we’re you from the future! Come with us for reasons we don’t want to explain right now!” “Okay.” But while the Turtles being drawn into the conflict feels a bit rushed, this issue actually feeds on the loose ends of two previous stories from TMNT Adventures and Mighty Mutanimals, weaving those seemingly unrelated threads together into a much larger tapestry. So the whole situation doesn’t come completely out of the blue, which works in the arc’s favor. Steve Murphy (Dean Clarrain) takes the opportunity to draw inspiration from the Mirage side of things, bringing over future-Raph’s missing eyeball and a reference to the frontispieces of Tales of the TMNT with future-Raph spouting, “Lemme tell ya a story…” In turn, the Mirage series would draw inspiration from TMNT Adventures, having the world flooded and doing stories centered in cities with massive, dilapidated skyscrapers poking out of the swamps. Hooray for cross-pollination! Even considering the seventeen pages that come before it, the real meat of this issue is in future-Raph’s brief back story regarding just what the heck is going on. It’s short and to the point, which is nice, and shocking in its brutality. Yes, that is blood bubbling up from Raph’s gauged-out eye socket. Archie had an issue with red blood at the time, so Barry Grossman was often forced to use black ink to substitute for it. But blood is blood. I think what’s best is that the flashback is used to end the issue, with Raph’s unconscious, bleeding body being the second-to-last panel of the book. The striking and grim image leaves you with the impression that “this isn’t a funny book for toddlers anymore” and the stakes have just gotten much, much higher. Even though the predicaments happen to the future versions of the Turtles, that doesn’t alter how much the game has just changed. All of a sudden the good guys can get maimed (Raph), die (Splinter) and the villains are capable-enough to win decisive battles. In one issue, TMNT Adventures just grew the Hell up. Chris Allan co-plotted the story, though to what extent I don’t really know. His art, though, is some of his absolute best. There’s such a tremendous range of expressions on the characters, particularly Armaggon, who switches gears from humorous to “holy shit” like nobody’s business. A.C. Farley’s bonus gallery is a cool extra, too, but to repeat my criticism from the Mutant Universe Sourcebook series, the guy doesn’t do “cute” very well. I hate to oversell “The Future Shark Trilogy” and I imagine anyone just skipping ahead to read it will step away wondering just what the big deal is. But you have to look at it in the grand scheme of the title’s overall development and the huge shift in directions it represents. When taken on its own, “The Future Shark Trilogy” might read like an average adventure with above average art, but that’s not how it was meant to be read. For those who’d been reading since the very beginning, “The Future Shark Trilogy” is a massive reward. Grade: B+ (as in, “Boy I love Armaggon’s flipper-legs. They’re so silly”.) Labels: Archie issues All that praise and a mere B+ grade? Man, I'd hate to have you grading my terms papers, Mark! ;-) E. Wilson said... A story with a possible dystopian future that changes the tone of the whole series and leaves a lasting impact on the direction of the book? Am I wrong to think of "Days of Futures Past?" It kind of gives that vibe. Kevin "Jester" McGill said... I agree, I was expecting a solid 3 A+s for these 3 recent entries (Leo #1, TMNT #10, and Archie #42. But then again, I'm totally biased. I've loved Future Shark since I read it in 1993 at 9 years old! It was sooo awesome. Heck, it may be what make me a fan of time travel science fiction as a sub-genre. This is the first TMNT comic i read in my life (in the hospital at age 16!)... Ryan Trimble said... Mark, love the blog, and have to agree... this is the turning point in the entire series. Amazing.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8517
__label__cc	0.741246	0.258754	Shilajit – The Mover of Mountains 07/17/2013 Blog, Health and Wellness anti-aging, anti-aging tonic, ayurveda, ayurvedic medicine, dragon herbs shilajit, fulvic acid, jing tonic, shilajit In Sanskrit, shilajit means, “Conqueror of mountains and destroyer of weaknesses.” Shilajit is an alchemical substance with life-giving power beyond our understanding. It is a rare tonic herbal substance collected from the Southwest Himalayas and as far north as the Northern Heavenly Mountains in China. It has been used for thousands of years as an anti-aging tonic. Many people feel it to be the chief tonic substance of Ayurvedic medicine. It is a chi tonic and a jing tonic in Chinese medicine. It is an extremely rich plant source of organic minerals. Depending on its source it contains as many between 70-85 complex minerals and trace elements. Shilajit comes from humus. Humus is the natural material that is formed when the soil’s microorganisms decompose organic material into elements used by plants. It is very high in antioxidants, nutrients, amino acids, antibacterial, antiviral, and antifungal phytochemicals. The most important component in shilajit is fulvic acid. I am recommending Dragon Herbs Shilajit as the best I’ve seen in my 40 years of experience. This shilajit is 20% fulvic acid. Fulvic acid is one of nature’s most astounding and miraculous molecules. Fulvic acid has a huge molecular formula, and it is one of the largest classes of dissolved minerals and can be considered a colloid. One of the key qualities of a colloid is its extremely large surface area, which amplifies all its powers. One of the unique qualities of shilajit is that it is a very powerful electron donor. Its ability to combine with other substances and other atoms is very, very high. This fulvic acid as the key molecule here, is one of the most powerful electron donors available. It improves the permeability of cell membranes and improves the permeability of the digestive tract, renal membranes, and capillaries. Because it is such a powerful electron donor for the repair of tissues, it greatly enhances the bioavailability of trace minerals and rebalances the electrical imbalance in damaged cells. The presence of fulvic acid ionizes minerals and makes them readily available for plant absorption and also human absorption. As already mentioned one of the advantages of a colloid is that colloids have the power of a large surface area. This large surface area is effective in detoxing the system as well as making all the minerals that are complexed with the fulvic acid very bioavailable. In summary shilajit has a variety of functions that make it a superior tonic: Shilajit is a strong jing tonic. Shilajit is a powerful chi tonic. Shilajit is a good shen tonic, as well. Shilajit neutralizes toxins and free radicals throughout the body and is able to detox both simple and complex toxins. Shilajit is traditionally considered to be a strong kidney tonic and also a supporter of sexual energy and enhancer of spiritual power. One unique quality of shilajit is that its complexity allows it to be a message relay system affecting the epigenetic program because it passes information relating environmental conditions and immunity of the system into the DNA. This creates an adaptability of plants and humans to outer conditions. Shilajit tonifies prostate function and leaking of jing, which, in simple terms, is premature ejaculation. As a chi tonic shilajit enhances energy and eliminates fatigue. As a shen tonic, as a result of its effects on jing and chi, shilajit improves spiritual and mental focus. Shilajit also enhances bioavailability and action of other herbs. It is a carrier of herbs as well. Shilajit is a strong detoxifier of free radical because it is a good electron donor. Shilajit helps to cleanse the blood and tissues on all levels. From a mineral perspective shilajit promotes and assists with mineral assimilation. Shilajit also helps tonify and protect the urinary tract. Shilajit acts as a mild basal dilator to the circulatory system. Shilajit helps to regulate menstrual function. Shilajit supports the immune system. Shilajit helps to cleanse and tonify the lungs. In general shilajit is one of the most essential Ayurvedic substances for treating general weakness and debility and recovery from any kind of weakness or surgery. Shilajit is warming and is therefore counterindicated with people who are highly pitta. The usual dosage is one capsule twice daily and a capsule at bedtime. Shilajit is aptly named “mover of mountains”. More on Marijuana: Dr. Cousens’ Response to Questions on Emerging Cannabis Research Eating as a Prayer to the Divine	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8518
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__label__cc	0.627646	0.372354	NEVADA, Las Vegas — Samsung Electronics, a global leader in technology, announced that 30 of its new product innovations have been recognized as CES® 2019 Innovation Awards winners, including two Best of Innovations accolades. This prestigious program honors devices and services that display outstanding design and engineering in cutting-edge technology. The awards highlight Samsung’s heritage of achievements in developing groundbreaking innovations that propel the industry forward. This year, Samsung’s award-winning honorees span a range of categories including Visual Display, Fitness, Sports and Biotech, Wireless Handset Accessories, Smart Home, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Computer Hardware, Components and Peripherals, In-Vehicle Audio/Video and Sustainability and Eco-Design. “We’ve made significant investments in the areas of 5G, IoT and AI over the past year and it’s an honor to be recognized for our steadfast pursuit to helping consumers and the industry do what couldn’t be done before,” said Tim Baxter, President and CEO of Samsung Electronics North America. “I am so proud of the team’s creativity, drive and innovative approach to bring best in class solutions to market.” The CES Innovation Awards are sponsored by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA)™, the owner and organizer of CES. Many of Samsung’s industry recognized products will be on display at CES 2019, which takes place January 8-11, 2019, in the Samsung booths (#15006) located in the Central Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center. Others will be displayed at the CES 2019 Innovation Awards Showcase, Venetian Resort Hotel, Level 2, Venetian Ballroom E/F. Following are details on a selection of Samsung’s award-winning products: Samsung Galaxy Note9 – The Galaxy Note series has long been recognized for launching Samsung’s latest groundbreaking innovations. The super powerful Galaxy Note9 builds on this legacy with a premium smartphone that delivers all day performance. With a powerful, all-day battery1, a new S Pen that features Bluetooth Low-Energy connectivity, Samsung’s most intelligent camera yet, and up to a terabyte of storage2, the Galaxy Note9 is the phone powerful enough to keep up with your busy life. Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 – A 2-in-1 Android tablet designed for people who want to do more on the go, the Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 helps you work smarter by keeping you operating at the highest levels. With Samsung DeX, longer-lasting battery, refined S Pen, four speakers tuned by AKG, this new tablet makes for easier productivity and more immersive entertainment – anytime, anywhere. Samsung Galaxy Watch – A premium, powerful smartwatch for those who want to do it all — and look good while doing it. Its long-lasting battery and LTE connectivity gives consumers a true standalone experience. With Samsung’s signature rotating bezel and more robust lineup of style options you get a smartwatch that looks like a traditional timepiece and is intuitive to use. With over 39 tracked exercises and activities and new sleep and stress management features, the powerful smartwatch keeps consumers focused on their health and wellness goals. Wireless Charger Duo – A combination of the Fast Charge Wireless Charging Stand and the Wireless Charging Pad, the fast-charging two-in-one allows users to quickly charge their phone alongside another Qi-compatible phone or wearable simultaneously. The charger eliminates the need to fumble with cables each time you need to top up your devices’ batteries, while its built-in stand offers easy access to your phone’s screen. Samsung DeX – Samsung DeX gives users a PC-like experience directly from their flagship Samsung Galaxy mobile device. It can be done by simply connecting a a mobile device to an external monitor, or changing a setting on Galaxy Tab S4. DeX enables users to use their phone or tablet as a touch padboard or touch keypad. DeX also offers “dual mode,” so they can continue to use the phone or tablet while working on the external monitor—whether it’s participating in a video chat or drawing and taking notes. Note9 users can also use their S Pen to advance slides while in DeX mode on a larger screen. SmartThings Tracker – A small, lightweight GPS tracking device connected through an LTE-M3 network that helps people quickly and more accurately keep track of what matters most. Whether it’s a gym bag lost at school or a pet that might have wandered too far from home, items can be easily tracked in real time through Samsung’s Android and iOS compatible SmartThings app4. Family members can also use SmartThings Tracker to stay connected by sending a location notification to the SmartThings app that alerts the rest of the family of their whereabouts. And, since it is SmartThings-enabled, the SmartThings Tracker can be used as an arrival sensor, triggering automations like a connected porch light turning on when the device is within range. HMD Odyssey + – This Windows mixed reality headset captivates users in the stunningly crisp detail that offers comfort, so that they can stay immersed in their favorite games and content. In addition to its Super AMOLED displays, the HMD Odyssey+ features new display technology called the Anti-Screen Door Effect (anti-SDE), so gamers no longer have to worry about dizziness and distorted views. The premium design of the HMD Odyssey+ is perfectly complemented by rich and dynamic audio of AKG technology, including 360° spatial sound, as well as 110° field of view – all of which that delivers a more fluid and real-life user experience. Samsung Galaxy A6 – For those who want to get more out of a more affordable smartphone, the Galaxy A6 features an immersive screen, powerful camera and a new level of convenience. With a Super AMOLED Infinity Display that brings your content to life with bright, rich colors and support for expandable storage up to 400GB, the Galaxy A6 offers plenty of room for videos, music and files. With 16MP front and rear cameras, users can capture stunning photos and selfies, and the F1.7 aperture on the rear camera helps keep pictures bright and clear in low-light settings. Samsung 256GB 3DS DDR4 RDIMM – The industry’s fastest DDR4 and highest density memory module for next-generation enterprise server platforms is enabled with the finest high-density, high-performance consumer infrastructure solutions along, with extremely low-power consumption (15 watts at 1.2V). Samsung 512GB Universal Flash Storage – The industry’s first 512-gigabyte embedded Universal Flash Storage (eUFS), for automotive A/V systems and next-gen flagship mobile devices, using Samsung’s new 64-layer 512-gigabit V-NAND chips. The 512GB eUFS package will transfer a 5GB-equivalent full HD video clip to an SSD in about six seconds, over 8X faster than a typical microSD card. Samsung 3.84TB NVMe Z-SSD – The SZ1733 offers a new level of storage for supercomputing targeted for AI analysis, big data and IoT applications, using Samsung’s new Z-NAND chips that provide 10 times higher cell read performance than 3-bit V-NAND chips. Samsung LM302S – The most user-oriented next generation lighting platform available to date is designed to improve work efficiency by achieving a healthier circadian rhythm (sleep/wake cycles) throughout the day, by promoting daytime-to-evening continuity and healthy sleep. Samsung’s human-centric LED solution can improve a person’s concentration level by as much as 10% for greater work efficiency. Furthermore, it also can help people to sleep better at night due to the melatonin hormone having been suppressed by the LM302S during the daytime. Samsung SSM-U Series – A new type of smart module featuring a series of tiny radar-based sensors with higher detecting sensitivity than conventional sensors, and invisible transmission for greater design flexibility in smart residential lighting. The SSM-U series can detect subtle movements and transmit the signal to other components to control lighting at the right time.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8543
__label__wiki	0.695047	0.695047	Allowing the Rest of the World to Speak Directly to Americans Promoting Peace, Diplomacy and Cross-Cultural Understanding. Home Archives Contact Us About Us Non-U.S. Newspapers Laughter: We all share a love of humor, even if a sense of what's funny differs by country and region. Le Monde, France World Tour of Humor in Seventy Countries "North Americans (United States and Canada) prefer gags based on superiority 'complexes,' either because a person appears stupid or is unwittingly made to look like it." By Macha Séry Translated By Alexandra Griffiths France - Le Monde - Original Article (French) What's funny?: We don't all agree - although we all like to laugh about something. YOUTUBE VIDEO: The benefits of 'Laughter Yoga' with John Cleese, Sept. 26, 2006, 00:03:47. An excellent supplement, a world tour of humor, was published on August 1 by the Courrier International. It was an excellent opportunity to point out again that from India to Argentina, laughter is something that is universally shared. However, one can never be certain that something considered humorous here [in France] will be found to be just as funny elsewhere. Are there national humors? What are the fundamental elements of comedy beyond colloquialisms and references peculiar to a particular country? Michael Pagnol offered an answer to this recurrent question as well as to the mystery of how jokes are born and enter circulation in his book Notes on Laughter. He covered all of the natural bodily functions, locomotion, respiration, digestion and the disturbances of the body. He then moved on to discuss social and cultural differences, which is a breeding ground for comedy common to many countries. All countries, or almost all, have made a specialty of mocking their leaders and their neighbors, territories or populations. Ireland toward the United Kingdom, Spain against Portugal, Sweden vs. Finland, Romania and Bulgaria, the list goes on … And let's not forget the petty infighting that occurs within the European community between Flems and Walloons, for example, or the sparring matches between ethnic groups in West Africa - provided that they fit within the meaning inherent in these relationships. "The uninitiated should beware: there is a strict code regarding relationships and jokes," warns Ernest Diasso in Thursday's edition of Le Journal, a Burkina Faso newspaper. "You may only tease a person who tradition has specified as being your 'rakiré' [the object of your jokes]. If a Peul were to unexpectedly insult a Samo [both West African tribes], the insult could be taken at face value." Posted by WORLDMEETS.US On January 27 at the very Parisian Café de Flore, a café-geography event was held on the topic: "Is There a Geography of Humor?" It was attended by academics from the Association for the Development of Research into Comedy, Laughter and Humor (CORHUM). It seems that the English are prone to understatement; the Americans toward exaggeration, and in Sweden they use Lutheran irony based on Jante Law - a code of conduct and politeness taken to extremes. Granted, Voltaire introduced France to Shakespeare and the word "humor," but to better emphasize classic French genius and propriety, he lamented the "inappropriateness of jokes made by the gravedigger in the middle of the tragedy of Hamlet." This is a criticism that seems old-fashioned today. That's because with globalization and the circulation of films, books and videos, the specifics of how the humor of others is appreciated have tended to become blurred. In September 2001, psychologist Richard Wiseman and the British Association for the Advancement of Science undertook an Internet study. The goal: to establish whether men and women share the same sense of humor, if it varies with age, and … to establish what is the funniest joke on earth. According to a survey carried out on 100,000 people from 70 countries, it was this: "Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses. He's not breathing and his eyes are glassy. The other guy unsheathes his mobile phone and calls the emergency services. He gasps, "My friend is dead! What can I do?" The operator says "Calm down. I can help. First, let's make sure he's dead." There's silence then a shot rings out. Back on the phone, the man says. "OK, now what?" Whoever you are and wherever you live, you like to laugh. The best customers for jokes, whatever their nature, are the Germans, followed by the French, Danish and British. The Irish, British, Australians and New-Zealanders have a particular preference for jokes based on wordplay, while North Americans (United States and Canada) prefer gags based on superiority "complexes," either because a person appears stupid or is unwittingly made to look like it. The French, the Danish and the Belgians tend more to appreciate witticisms bordering on the absurd. As a general rule, Europeans have a taste for brief stories related to subjects that "often make us feel anxious, such as death, illness and marriage." Why do we so love to laugh? To ease anxiety, release personal tension, take a bit of revenge on those more powerful than ourselves, free ourselves from inhibition and subscribe to irrational logic that helps us escape from everyday life. We laugh out of rebellion or as a consolation. "Like love, its only rival as an inner source of pleasure for mankind, laughter bridges the realms of the mental and the physical," says Jim Holt in an article for the Guardian picked up by Courrier International. Holt is the author of Stop Me if You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes. One might also draw a parallel with sex. According to the Marquis de Sade, the objective in sexual congress is to elicit involuntary noisemaking from your partner - which is precisely the object of humor, even if the nature of the noisemaking is somewhat different." Ah! According to the British study, the best time to tell a funny story is on the 15th of the month at 6:30pm. It will seem irresistibly funny at that time, whereas it will flop at 1:30 in the morning and may provoke an echo of another involuntary noise: snoring! 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__label__cc	0.742144	0.257856	Parish / School Visit our school’s website Register in our Parish Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Four Parishes, United in Community About St. Marys Parish Locations YDisciple High School Youth Ministry Grade 7_An Introduction_F&L Family Guide 4:30 pm @ St. Boniface, Monterey on 1st, 3rd and 5th Saturday of month 4:30 pm @ St Anthony, St Charles on 2nd and 4th Saturday of month 6:00 pm @ St Mary, West Point 7:00 am, 10:00 am, and 11:30 am (Spanish) @ St Mary, West Point 8:30 am @ St. Aloysius, Aloys 7:15 am @ St. Mary, West Point St. Mary's Catholic Church 343 N Monitor St West Point NE 68788 www.wpstmary.com Fr. Steven D. Emanuel, Pastor © Copyright 2019 Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Education Zone by Rara Theme. Powered by WordPress.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8550
__label__cc	0.580813	0.419187	Constitution and By Laws Request for Funds Watchdogs XC at the 2018 Ol’ Canteen Beresford Wins Union County Quad-Ol’ Canteen for 6thStraight Year By: Matt Coy For the 12thtime in the 13-year history of the event, the Beresford cross country team was successful in bringing home the Union County Quadrangular-Battle of the Ol’ Canteen title. The meet was hosted on Thursday, September 20 under dark clouds and a rain-soaked course at The Pointe Golf Course in Elk Point. The 13thannual event features two races The girls’ 5K, followed by the boys’ 5K. Alcester-Hudson, Beresford, Dakota Valley, and Elk Point-Jefferson would represent Union county and fight for the Ol’ Canteen. Everyone runs in the varsity race, and the team with the lowest combined team score wins the traveling Ol’ Canteen trophy. As the girls readied themselves at the start line, the skies opened up, the wind gusted hard, and a sideways downpour whipped through the golf course. The girls were told to retreat to the clubhouse until the small storm cell passed. With storms all around The southeast corner of the state that day, a cancellation was a real possibility. However, after just 15 minutes, the fast-moving clouds cleared out for the time being, and the meet was a go. Already drenched from waiting at the start line in the rain, the girls in the 5K field were anxious to finally get racing at 4:15. Alcester-Hudson senior, Kendra Jensen, quickly ran ahead of the pack and settled into a comfortable 15-second lead in the first mile. After the first of two 2,500 meter laps, freshman Anna Atwood of Beresford made a big move and began to close the gap on Jensen. Atwood had her eyes set on her first ever varsity meet victory. Atwood overtook Jensen with 1K to go, and continued to pick up her pace as she crossed the line in first place with a time of 20:45. Jensen was 2ndin 21:17. Jaycee Fischer had a great bounce-back meet After a difficult race at Bon Homme a few days earlier. She ran a steady race and crossed the tape in 3rdplace with a time of 22:05. Her sister, Jordyn, was not far behind with another consistent time of 22:23 and a 5thplace medal. The Fischer sisters are juggling a full varsity volleyball and cross country schedule this year, and both have been great teammates and role models with their impressive work ethic. Gabrielle Engbarth had another outstanding race, finishing with a time of 22:40, which was good enough for 7thplace, as she rounded out the team score of 16 points. Also placing in the top-30 for the victorious girls were Laura Bogue, 12th23:33; Katie Knutson, 15th24:05; Grace Quartier, 17th24:26; Adyson Hansen, 18th24:32; Faith Weiland, 19th24:33; Lucy Farley, 20th24:37; Kylie Dressen, 22nd24:50; Macy Quartier, 24th25:36; Maria Reaves, 26th26:12; and Isabel DeLay, 28th27:09. Senior Alec Atwood was looking for his fourth straight Ol’ Canteen victory, and fifth victory of the 2018 season. With more storm clouds nearby, it was decided to start the boys race immediately following the finish of the 30thplace varsity girls’ runner. This would ensure the boys would get a chance to race. The 30 boys from Beresford welcomed the cooler conditions. The rain did not look to be a factor, and a light, damp breeze cooled off the runners nicely. With the boys race underway at 4:45, it was not an unfamiliar sight after the first loop, as Atwood took command of the field. After checking over his should to make sure his teammates were in good position to secure the team victory, Atwood pushed the tempo the final mile and claimed the gold medal in 16:48. Atwood capped off his “Canteen career” with four 1stplace finishes and a bronze medal as an 8thgrader. Nico Sanz Curros had an outstanding final 2K as he pulled away from the chase pack. Sanz Curros would finish runner-up with a time of 17:19. Matthew Hoffman had another great race for the Watchdogs as he powered his way to a third-place finish in 17:45. Dallas Davis, still battling some sickness held on for 5thplace in 18:23. Brandon Andrews was 9thin 19:06, and 7thgrader Andrew Atwood wrapped up the top six runners for Beresford with his 10thplace time of 19:10. A crew of boys battled their way to top 30 finishes, and the depth of the team was evident as eleven boys secured top-20 t-shirt awards. Top-20 finishers were Tommy Cordell, 11th19:31; Cody Klungseth, 14th19:34; Caleb Weiland, 16th19:51; Gage Lyle, 17th20:37; Scott Ridley, 23rd21:28; Josh Limmer, 21:31; Isaiah Richards, 27th21:58; Cameron Wells, 28th22:14; and Nate Kropuenske, 29th22:15. Beresford won the team title this year with 27 combined team points. Dakota Valley was runner-up with 90 points, and Alcester-Hudson and Elk Point-Jefferson did not field full teams. With the sixth straight team title, he Beresford seniors, Alec Atwood, Dallas Davis, Grace Quartier, and Faith Weiland went undefeated in their careers at the Ol’ Canteen race. Copyright text 2019 by Beresford Athletic Booster Club (BABC). Website created with ❤️ by Web Designs by Teresa	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8556
__label__wiki	0.590591	0.590591	Smitherman Closes the Gap to 5 Points on Ford And the Ford free fall begins. Torontonians are finally waking up to the reality of what a Rob Ford Toronto would look like - and they don't like it very much. In the meantime good news for Smitherman as he increases his support and now is within striking distance to win this one. A survey of 400 Toronto voters released Monday evening found Rob Ford leading with 28 per cent, compared with 23 per cent for his closest rival George Smitherman and 10 per cent for third-place candidate Joe Pantalone. Sarah Thomson and Rocco Rossi were tied, with seven per cent of respondents. Significantly, this latest Ipsos-Reid poll indicates that if it was just down to the former deputy premier and the grandiloquent Etobicoke councillor, Mr. Smitherman would win – 48 per cent of respondents said they’d vote for him, compared with 45 per cent who said they’d vote for Mr. Ford if the Oct. 25 election were held today. In other news....Rossi is at 7%...me thinks it's time for him and Ms. Sarah to pack it in. PS The sad news for Torontonians is the OTHER Ford will be at city hall to ruin things. Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigade said... Any bets on whether it will be Harper or Hudak who recruits Ford after his mayoral loss? Sep 28, 2010, 8:19:00 AM Sure. Love to see him run against Iggy in Etobicoke. Can you say ass kicking?	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8558
__label__cc	0.706512	0.293488	Home Things To Do Entertainment & Music Page 2 What’s up in Newport this week: Things to do, live music and entertainment (July 15-22) Ryan Belmore - July 15, 2019 Strings the Thing at 2019 Newport Jazz Festival with Ron Carter, Jenny Scheinman, Marika Hughes and more Contributed - July 15, 2019 News Desk - July 13, 2019 Free concert series coming to Second Beach every Monday night in August newportFILM releases lineup for 2019 Outdoor Screening Series News Desk - June 7, 2019 newportFILM announced today via an email to subscribers an impressive lineup of world-class documentaries for their 10th annual summer series newportFILM Outdoors. Kicking & Screaming: An evening of dance films coming to Newport Art Museum’s Art... Newport Art Museum's Art After Dark is back on Thursday, June 13 from 5 - 8 pm. In celebration of the Museum’s current exhibition "Avant Gardens," Art... What’s up in Newport this weekend: Things to do, live music, entertainment, & more... Another weekend has arrived here in Newport, here’s what’s happening out there! Weekend Weather Forecast (as of 3:34 am... 2019 Newport Folk Festival Announcement: Chris Funk from The Decemberists to host, curate ‘For... Ryan Belmore - June 6, 2019 Newport, RI - Newport Folk Festival lineup announcements are well underway and we're keeping track of the latest right here. Rolling Thunder Revue: Martin Scorsese film about Bob Dylan coming to Jane Pickens Jane Pickens Theater has been chosen as one of a small group of cinemas around the world to screen Rolling Thunder Revue:... Beach Road Weekend: Inaugural Martha’s Vineyard Festival to feature John Fogerty, Phil Lesh and... Tickets are now on sale for the inaugural Beach Road Weekend on Martha’s Vineyard that is set to take place from August 9-11. Trinity Rep and Rhode Island Latino Arts bringing ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ to Miantonomi... Trinity Repertory Company and Rhode Island Latino Arts will present Much Ado About Nothing (Tanta Bulla… ¿Y Pa’ Qué?) at Miantonomi Park, 120 Hillside... What’s up for live music and entertainment this week: June 3 – 10 Here’s what’s happening in and around Newport this week for entertainment and live music, enjoy! You Might Also Like... What’s up in Newport this week: June 3 – 10 Discover all that's happening, new, and to do in and around Newport this first week of June! WhatsUp Interview: Dopey Lopes, Coming to Diego’s in Middletown on June 15th Ken Abrams - June 3, 2019 Dopey Lopes knows a little about rock and roll. The Newport-based musician began playing in 1987, as founder and front man of... What’s up for this weekend in Newport (May 31 – June 2): Things to... News Desk - May 31, 2019 Another weekend has arrived here in Newport, here's what's happening out there! 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__label__cc	0.503222	0.496778	Time to fly? Birds that leave the nest at the wrong time can bring disaster on the whole family \| Science A junco dad or mum lures a teen from the nest, regardless of its poorly developed wings. By Elizabeth Pennisi Jun. 20, 2018 , 2:15 PM For mother and father with grown kids, generally the ache of an empty nest can be higher than the pain of a full basement. It seems birds face an analogous, however barely extra lethal, dilemma. When younger birds leave the nest early, they assist future generations survive higher, however they themselves are extra probably to die, in accordance to a brand new examine. “There’s no single optimal solution,” says Rick Relyea, an ecologist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, who was not concerned with the examine. “This work is not only about birds,” he provides, “it’s about how all animals evolve to make this decision.” Young birds can have a troublesome life—as can their mother and father. A loud nest attracts predators that can wipe out the total yr’s reproductive efforts in a single fell swoop. Thus, avian mother and father push their younger to leave the nest early—even when they aren’t fairly prepared—growing the probabilities that at least one will survive; actually ensuring all their “eggs” should not in a single basket. But these early birds undergo because of this: Their dying toll can be as excessive as 70%, in contrast with simply 12% for species that are late bloomers. To perceive the causes behind that distinction, the ecologist who first found it—Thomas Martin of the U.S. Geological Survey in Missoula, Montana—teamed up with biomechanists Kenneth Dial and Bret Tobalske at the University of Montana in Missoula. Suspecting survival charges had one thing to do with how prepared the birds had been to take to the air, they examined fledgling flying skill at totally different ages in a couple of dozen species and recorded the outcomes with high-speed video. As anticipated, youthful birds had poorly developed wings and flew badly, if at all. Moreover, when researchers pressured a grayish sparrow known as a junco (which has a few of the lowest fledgling survival charges amongst the species studied) to keep in the nest for 13 days as an alternative of 10, extra lived to maturity. Just 10% perished inside 7 days, compared with 30% for the early birds, the workforce stories right this moment in Science Advances . But it seems that some avian mothers are prepared to hold their youngsters in the nest a bit longer. Birds akin to the white-breasted nuthatch, which nest in well-protected tree cavities, let the younger linger longer at dwelling, Martin’s crew found. In distinction, birds that nest on the floor or in the open pushed for early departures. That’s as a result of they undergo comparatively excessive losses of chicks in the nest. “Depending on where you nest—that drives the decision about when to stay and when to go,” Relyea says. Are there any classes for human mother and father? Some parallels exist, Relya says, however with folks, “there’s so much more culture that comes into it.” That makes the resolution a whole lot extra sophisticated. Previous NASA Has a Plan to Defend Earth Against Asteroid Impacts. We’ll Find Out More Today Next How Trump’s Space Force Would Help Protect Earth from Future Asteroid Threats	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8570
__label__cc	0.591971	0.408029	Around the Couch A Froggy Jamboree By ned * Other ned Posts The past decade has included its fair share of high profile legal entanglements. Big Tobacco went down. The OJ civil trail showed that if it doesn’t fit then you must owe the Brown and Goldman families damages. The law even decided the Presidency. But, for those fans of 1990s sketch comedy, we can finally put one set of legal issues behind us. The entirety of MTV’s sketch comedy show the State – which was unavailable for release due to matters of the rights to songs aired during episodes – is out now in stores on DVD. Surrounded by the programming of Liquid Television and 120 minutes, the show is in part a product of the aesthetic of the times. Your televisions starts by blasting you with loud edgy grimy distorted music in the background to a grittily shot intro. The cast members wear their fair amount of flannel. Appealing to teens and twenty-somethings, characters of angst make their share of appearances in sketches. However, although certainly a part of the feel, the serious nature of anti-establishment, anti-selling-out, Gen-X culture is not the only characteristic that defines the show. The State is absurd. For example, one of the shows most critically acclaimed skits is Porcupine Race Track. Perhaps the State's largest production, a string of music numbers parody My Fair Lady and dozens of other musicals around the setting of watching – as the name suggests – porcupines race. Others skits have less of a semblance of a plot or spin a few minutes around simple, innocent premises – such as a teen dealing with fact that he grew up in a barn. Following in the tradition of Monty Python, delight in the silly was a defining characteristic of other mid-90’s comedy. Perhaps most prominently and profitably, you can cite the rise of Jim Carrey and his slaphappy Ace Ventura. With characters such as the Chicken Lady and Bellini, the Kids in the Hall drew its audience in part from being over-the-top and outlandish. To a certain extent, Mr. Show did as well from clever and sometimes wacky premises. Goofiness though has proven to be a fad. Perhaps the change was due to 9/11 bringing a sense of reality to the zeitgeist or just a matter of trends running their course. In any case lighthearted stupidity in comedy does not garner the same appreciation as before. In the Daily Show era realism rules the day. The staged sitcom is in decline. Shot with a realistic feel, the Office, Arrested Development, and Reno 911! obscure the lines between reality and the television screen; the last of these is the current project of many of the former cast members and creative forces behind The State. Despite this swing of the pendulum, I feel much of the comedy of the State’s time will be enduring. Along with clever wit, the absurdity when coupled with the counter-culture, Gen-X aesthetic is what makes the State and much mid-nineties comedy so intriguing. When discussing architecture Robert Venturi in the book Complexity & Contradiction in Architecture delights in spaces that put two seemingly contradictory elements together. This combination to him creates ambiguity, movement and intrigue. The comedy of the 90’s is appealing in much the same way. Perhaps a result of the financial boom times and lack of war, the lightheartedness and carefree spirit in some of the States sketches are somehow coupled with an angst and desire to reject the status quo that grew out of Grunge and other movements. That’s why I think shows such as the State, Kids in the Hall, and Mr. Show will have staying power. That’s also why I’m crushing your head. Posted by ned at 3:20 AM Labels: Arts Entertainment Pop Culture, Wordsmith: Ned Danni August 6, 2009 at 11:21 AM Did you just listen to Terry Gross interview Michael Ian Black and Michael Showwalter? (not sure how to spell his name). They have a new show out and they were just interviewed on Fresh Air. ned August 7, 2009 at 1:49 AM i will take a listen. indeed. Fidel August 11, 2009 at 3:11 PM Interesting stuff, Ned. I'm curious though, what generation do you consider yourself to be a part of? Do you see yourself as Gen-Xer? Do you feel that Nirvana is the relevant band of your generation? ned August 26, 2009 at 12:20 AM although perhaps at the edge of what might be termed my cultural upbringing, i would consider nirvana an influence on my generation. just like hannah montana is for yours. 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__label__wiki	0.734975	0.734975	Home > AUTOMOTIVE > article Hyundai Motor showcases entry-level compact SUV 'Venue' at 2019 New York Auto Show Park Sae-jin Reporter(swatchsjp@ajunews.com) \| Posted : April 18, 2019, 15:09 \| Updated : April 18, 2019, 15:09 [Courtesy of Hyundai Motor] SEOUL -- At a motor show in New York, Hyundai Motor has showcased "Venue", an entry-level compact sport utility vehicle which targets tech-savvy young people with fully-packed driving-assist features. The compact SUV, which made its debut at the 2019 New York International Auto Show, is the most affordable Hyundai SUV which will be released globally in the fourth quarter of this year, Hyundai said in a statement. "The all-new Venue might be small in size, but it’s big on practicality and personality," Hyundai Motor America's product, corporate and digital planning division vice president Mike O’Brien was quoted as saying. He said Venue houses bold and unique designs as well as top-technology features regarding safety and connectivity. Lee Sang-yup, Hyundai's executive vice president of design, compared the company's SUV lineup as pieces on a chess board. "Our new Palisade is the King, but we are missing the smaller piece. And that’s where Venue comes in," he said. Palisade, a full-size premium SUV, became a best-seller at home when it was released in December. Hyundai said that because Venue was designed to be an entry-level car, it provides various safety features which would help inexperienced drivers to feel confident on the road. Venue's forward-collision-avoidance assist (FCA) will detect an imminent collision and avoid it or minimize the impact by automatically braking. The Lane-keeping-assist (LKA) feature will help drivers accidentally veering off lanes by sensing the road ahead and controlling the car's direction. The compact SUV also has a feature which helps drivers detect other traffic driving in blind spots. Venue will be fitted with a 1.6-liter four-cylinder gasoline engine that is fuel-efficient and powerful enough for active driving in urban and suburban areas. Park Sae-jin Reporter email : swatchsjp@ajunews.com [FOCUS] S. Korean steel industry under pressure to reduce di… Hyundai Motor agrees to open mobility lab in Russian high-te… Hyuindai Motor's first double-decker electric bus makes debu… Kia Motors to release new compact SUV at home in July Hyundai shipyard holds shareholders meeting after tense conf…	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8577
__label__wiki	0.861433	0.861433	SUBMIT Lifestyles / LifeStyles / Local Lifestyles / « Goodwill Thriftiest Shopper... MangoMania!» Hope Hospice goes green Solar panels used to light sign at new Lehigh facility By MEL TOADVINE, mtoadvine@breezenewspapers.com Lehigh's Hope House Center at 1205 Wings Way is leading the way in becoming "green" all in an effort to save energy. "We planned that at the very beginning with our construction people, that we try be as green as possible," said Samra Beckwith, Hope's president. She oversees other Hope Houses in Lee County. What's "green" in Lehigh is a visitor's first glimpse of two big signs on Beth Stacey Blvd., at the entrance street to the Hope House, which opened in mid May. Article Photos MEL TOADVINE Sun panels power the lights that illuminate the Hope Hospice sign on the corner of Beth Stacey Boulevard and Wings Way in Lehigh Acres. The two large signs, one marking the name of the Hope Hospice House and the other marking the addresses of other agencies on the new Wings Way, are being powered at night with solar energy. "We wanted to use the power of the sun during the day so that at night the two signs would be well illuminated and they are until dawn," Beckwith said. "We thought we would save money and we did because we had to do the whole new street off off Beth Stacey to the Hope Hospice House. Before the shorter street was on private property and led to a children's daycare center and to the home of Lehigh Community Services," she said. With the construction of the road, workers would have had to lay wiring and install timers and that was a costly project for us. Thinking "green" as had been, we asked them to use sun panels to light the signs and we are saving a lot in electricity," Beckwith said. "I think we are breaking some new ground here with the two big signs lit by the power of the sun. It could be the first such set-up in Lee County. I am not sure I have seen solar powered signs in any other locations," she said. "The staff and management are very happy with the face that we are moving toward saving energy in any way we can, and this is just the beginning. We are looking at our other Hope Homes and may do the same thing," she said. Kraft Construction Company worked with the new Hope House in Lehigh as a team and they brought in others who were the experts in solar panels being used to illuminate signs. "They all have been team members in this movement to be more green," Beckwith said. She said the new Hope House at 1205 Wings Way, the name of the new road paid for by Hope Hospice, is ready to open another wing and are looking for employees. Currently, she said there are about 75 employees. They are also looking for volunteers. The Hope House has 24 beds and one-third are being used already. "I know things are beginning to move now that people are realizing that we have a beautiful Hope home in Lehigh," Beckwith said. Beckwith said that Chris Racanus, the CEO of Lehigh Regional Medical Center, likes the idea and becoming more "green" could begin to happen at the hospital, too. Soon, Beckwith said, the Lehigh Hope House will begin a program for the elderly. More information will be published. "I'm glad we're going more green as it is the right thing to do. And with our signs now being powered by solar panels, it's probably going to last a long time, maybe indefinitely," she said. Subscribe to Cape Coral Daily Breeze	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8599
__label__cc	0.656522	0.343478	Events & Bookings Protégé Programme proudly partnered by Cape Winemakers Guild Protégés bring wine creativity to life Excitement is running high amongst the second year Cape Winemakers Guild Protégés as their dreams of making their very first wines becomes a reality with their creations safely in barrel after the 2018 harvest. The Protégés who have been given the chance to express their creativity by making their own wines are Morgan Steyn of Riversdale, Gynore Fredericks of Malmesbury and Elouise Kotze of Brackenfell. Crafting their own wines is an essential part of the second year of the Cape Winemakers Guild Protégé Programme and has been made possible by the continued sponsorship of French oak barrels by the Paarl based Cape Cooperage Group for the past 8 years. Over and above the generous barrel donation, the Cape Cooperage Group assists the Protégés by guiding them through their choice of barrel and helping them achieve the particular style of wine they envision. Other annual sponsors supporting the initiative are Consol Glass and Amorim Cork who donate the bottles and the corks for the Protégé wines. “These Protégés are the future ambassadors of our wine industry. To experience their willingness to learn from our expertise in making the right choices of Quintessence and Tremeaux French oak barrels for their quality wines, makes us very proud to be a sponsor. This programme is part of the future of South African wine, and these Protégés will carry on the traditions of the wine industry as it has been passed on to them,” says André Kotze, Managing Director of Cape Cooperage Group. Besides producing their own wines, the Protégés learn how to prepare budgets, production plans and marketing proposals. This gives them valuable experience and insight into the entire winemaking journey, from the vineyard to the end product in the bottle. With the guidance of Morné Vrey at Delaire Graff, Morgan Steyn is making a Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon blend. He wants his wine to show others the beauty of a Bordeaux-style white blend. Morgan became interested in wine when his teacher spoke about the industry in his Agriculture class. It was the language of wine that enticed him to pursue this career. “I want to be a winemaker that leads by example and brings change to the industry. I want to follow in the footsteps of my mentors, because I can see their love for wine. If this love is nurtured, the wine industry will flourish,” says Morgan, who wants to learn as much as possible during his time in the programme. Gynore Fredericks, with the guidance and knowledge of Charles Hopkins at De Grendel, is trying her hand at Pinot noir. The mystery of how to create a glass of top quality wine from grapes, motivated her to study winemaking. “I chose Pinot noir as I have never worked with this cultivar before and it is a variety with so much potential. It has an elegance and softness to it that I believe is inherent in every woman,” explains Gynore, who would love to be a mentor and inspiration to others in the wine industry. Elouise Kotze, who is based at Saronsberg under the watchful eye of Dewaldt Heyns, has chosen to make Viognier after falling in love with the Rhône cultivars while spending a harvest in France. “My wine is fermented in a water treated barrel with a lower toasting to preserve the floral and fruit aromas that Viognier is known for. My mentor has taught me valuable techniques on treating this cultivar reductively while still highlighting the freshness of the wine and incorporating the Rhône-style into a South African Viognier,” says Elouise, who decided to become a winemaker at the age of 16 after reading an article about women in the industry. The thought of making their own wines that people can enjoy excites and motivates all three Protégés. Special presentation packs of their wines will be auctioned in 2019 at gala dinners in Johannesburg and Cape Town and at the silent auction that takes place at the annual Nedbank Cape Winemakers Guild Auction. The funds raised at these events are ploughed back into the Protégé Programme to support the development of future winemakers and viticulturists. Established in 2006 under the auspices of the Nedbank Cape Winemakers Guild Development Trust, the CWG Protégé Programme gives aspirant winemakers and viticulturists the rare opportunity of working side by side with members of the Guild. By cultivating, nurturing and empowering promising individuals to become winemakers and viticulturists of excellence, the Protégé Programme plays an active role in the long term health and sustainability of the industry. For more information on the Guild, contact Tel: 021 852 0408 or send an email to info@capewinemakersguild.com. Students interested in applying for the Protégé Programme can visit the Guild’s website at www.capewinemakersguild.com. Ushering in the next generation of young winemakers Cape Winemakers Guild swells its ranks with two new members Past Cape Winemakers Guild Protégé is Young Winemaker of the Year New wine record at 34th Nedbank Cape Winemakers Guild Auction Past auction gems on Nedbank Cape Winemakers Guild Charity Auction 2019 Cape Winemakers Guild. All rights reserved. Designed by Trigger Box	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8600
__label__cc	0.736268	0.263732	Noxford Siggil Fleet Commander Fleet Commander – Ignition Fleet Commander – Genesis Fleet Commander – Beyond the Gate Fleet Commander – Salvation Fleet Commander – Avatar Fleet Commander – Forge Fleet Commander – Pirates Fleet Commander – Orbit Fleet Commander – Deep Space Tactica: Warships Home • Tactica: Warships In the last Tactica we have presented the “small” ships: frigates and destroyers. Now it’s time to talk about the “big ones”, the warships: the class 3 cruisers and the class 4 battleships. The class 3 cruisers The cruiser is available in the Fleet Commander 2 – Beyond the Gate expansion and in Fleet Commander – Genesis. Resistant (18 hull points) and dealing massive damage (3), it has a better use of shields than the other ships. If the sector of your cruiser is under attack, you can change for free the direction of the shield die you use, as if you exclusively had multidirectional dice (except if you roll a special). This flexibility makes it almost insensitive to non-combined attacks, and stronger in the pack. Provided that you have stored shields of course. This flexibility in the use of shields and its robust hull allow a cruiser to hold a flank by itself. It is a tenacious and fierce lone wolf, which will force the opponent to deploy all its forces to dislodge it. Cruisers often stand on the quare of a portal to deny access, or in a corridor between asteroid fields. In line of battle, a famous admiral used to align two cruisers side by side in two sectors. He called it the ” jaws of Fenrir “. This formation often inflicted more damage than it suffered, and had the upper hand at the height of the fighting. But this multipurpose ship has other strengths. Many Fleet Commanders call it the “escort”. Indeed, another capacity of this ship is to attract upon himself the damage of an attack. The attacker cannot choose the target he wants. The square becomes the ideal shelter for a damaged little ship, or a technical ship, even a class 2 like the Phoebean Salvation or the Amyclean Advantage which can then wander in the fighting without fear, at least until the hull of the escort holds on. This ability has led to one of the most efficient combat groups that exists. By choosing 1 cruiser and 2 ship classes with it, you have a firepower of 5 that can bear 18 damage without going down. This is the only full battle formation (5 class) capable of achieving this performance. All the other formations will see their firepower going down after 6 damage points. Only Heavy Battleship can do better, and even much better, but that’s another story. A Fleet Commander called this formation “Sky Shield”, and it is not uncommon to see two of these battle groups in a fleet . They then form the backbone and the spearhead of the fleet. The cruiser is therefore a ship capable of the best, whether alone, in line of battle or in battle group . The class 4 battleships This impressive ship is included in the basic fleets of Fleet Commander 1 – Ignition. This is your flagship, the most powerful in your fleet, the one that largely defines your battle plan. Very resistant with 24 hull points, it deals 4 damage points in a single attack, the equivalent of 4 frigates in itself! It is the warship above all, capable of keeping for a long time its firepower at the height of the fighting. But its power is not only in its conventional weapons. A specialist Its unique characteristic is to be the only ship large enough to be equipped with a special weapon. You can choose the one you want at the beginning of the Battle among the dozen available, including all the expansions. Smartly used, a special weapon alone can tip the victory on your side, but it may never be launched throughout the game. So do not put all your hopes in it. This is a topic for another article. A battleship is both the backbone, the spine and the spearhead of your fleet. Its position in the combat zone often determines by itself the whole battle. Its destruction can be one of the main objectives of your opponent, who then will strive to destroy it as soon as possible, and then make your fleet more vulnerable in appearance. But you will also notice that you can win by destroying all the ships except the battleship. Therefore, It is possible that your opponent tries everything to avoid it and focus on the rest of your fleet. You have to figure out his plans in time and choose your tactics accordingly. Its only flaw: a Fleet Commander could be overconfident and send it directly in contact with the enemy, too sure of the superior capabilities of its flagship. Even with its 24 hull points, under the heavy fire from the entire enemy fleet, it will do no miracle. It is also not uncommon for a beginner to lose his battleship only a few turns after the start of the fight. Good use For all these reasons, it is therefore important not to let it alone, and avoid exposing it to obvious combined attacks that could be too powerful, or to frigates skirmishes, or to a special weapon. Only three shots of Proton Ray are enough to destroy a battleship. Cover carefully its sides and place it quickly on a strategic square, for instance behind an asteroid field. This will deter your opponent from approaching, then bring it into the fight to launch attacks that will certainly reduce the firepower of the opponent. If it has a long range weapon (vortex missiles are a typical example), you can also decide to stay away from your enemy’s fleet to preserve it, while using its firepower. Then you have to control the movement of your opponent with your other ships. Good reactions to a battleship are: Avoidance as described above. Do not seek to cause him damage. What you want is to destroy all the ships except this one. Each damage point you inflict to it is a lost damage point that drives you away from victory. The constant use of a special weapon (Proton Ray is meant to destroy the battleships, but the Drones can also be very effective). For that you must have enough special results, and you will not use them for other things. The attrition, by raiding with frigates in “hit and run” mode or by remote bombings with your destroyers, and once its hull points are reduced (at least 50%), engage in close combat with all you got. In this case, it is your priority target which has to focus all of your attention and all your attacks. Number and absence Note that if you have enough miniatures, and this is the case with Genesis, you can build a fleet with several battleships. It is even possible to have three of them in a standard fleet of 12 classes. This gives a sense of exhilarating power. This fleet is definitely to be taken seriously as it can suffer a lot of damage but still keep all its firepower and with three ships only, it easily maneuvers. Still, it is rare to see it making exploits on the battlefield. Indeed, as we have seen above, the battleships are vulnerable if they are not accompanied. They then suffer raids and bombings from the enemy without always being able to hit back. In addition, having various special weapons does not give you more special dice. Statistically, you will launch as many special attacks as your opponent, the only advantage is to choose the special weapon you want to use. You decide if you are comfortable with this kind of fleet. Finally, the battleships are also conspicuous by their absence. Curious right? It is because of the rule which states that without special weapon (and therefore battleship), it is possible to roll again two special results (and only two) and play them immediately. This applies during the turn of your choice with two specials stored on your command bridge. With this rule, you can potentially play seven dice in a single turn! The three of the beginning of your turn, plus the two stored, plus the two special stored you roll again. It is therefore possible to play 3 movements and 3 attacks in the same round (the maximum for each). Just imagine the freedom of action you have, while your opponent cannot react! It is also not uncommon to see fleets without battleship, precisely to use this rule. Thus, this is an extraordinary ship, which still influences the battle, even when its not there. These four vessels (The 2 from this Tactica, and the 2 other from the previous one) form at the moment most of the available fleets. There are already numerous combinations, an therefore numerous tactical choices. Will you be an expert of swarms of harassing frigates, or master of heavy warships? You have to find your favorite style, polish your tactics and vary the gaming fun too. Be ready to welcome into your fleets new ships that will be introduced in the expansions. Assaultship, Gunship, Strategic Cruiser, each will bring a new way of playing. To be discovered in the next Tactica. Capsicum’s notebook: turning a 3D space into a 2D space Since the beginning of Fleet Commander, we were looking for an immersive gameplay to command… Capsicum’s notebook: the class 5 Heavy Battleship First drafts made in 2013. The class 3 destroyer was already here, but not yet… Behind the scenes of the KS Do you have an idea of what preparing a kickstarter means? We thought that it… Capsicum’s notebook: the origins of Fleet Commander Recently, someone wrote on a forum that Fleet Commander was one-of-a-kind. It was in a… © Capsicum Games We use cookies to ensure you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use it, we will consider that you accept the use of cookies. 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__label__wiki	0.577175	0.577175	« Rather's Source Says Documents Are A Fraud \| Main \| Remembering 9/11 » Washington Times: Killian Memo Signatures Forged Rowan Scarborough at the Washington Times reports this morning that the signatures on the memos CBS produced to bolster its claim of preferential treatment for George Bush during his National Guard duty are forged: Eugene P. Hussey, a certified forensic document examiner in Washington state, said yesterday there is another flaw in the CBS memos. Mr. Hussey studied the known signatures of Col. Killian on Air Force documents, and two signatures on documents dated 1972 and 1973 that aired on "60 Minutes" Wednesday night. "It is my limited opinion that Killian did not sign those documents," Mr. Hussey told The Washington Times. He said he uses the phrase "limited opinion" because he does not have the original documents. He, like other experts interviewed by the press, relied on copies of originals first obtained by CBS. Dan Rather had earlier tried to pre-empt any debate about the documents by producing the CBS expert who pronounced the documents genuine, Marcel Matley. However, a quick search on both men's names is revealing. Googling Hussey leads to eight links, all to professional document-examiner associations. However, Googling Matley results in at least one instance of Matley's questionable and controversial media pronouncements. Matley's support of another weird conspiracy theory is quoted at Justice For Kurt, a website dedicated to the notion that grunge pioneer Kurt Cobain did not commit suicide but instead was murdered. Matley suggested that Cobain's suicide note is a forgery: As to the last four lines, there are more than a dozen differences that should give us pause, and we would have to reasonable explain these differences before we can conclude that the same person wrote the four lines that wrote the body of it. A number of readers also have informed me that Matley served on the commission that determined Vince Foster's suicide note was genuine, although that seemed to me at the time and now to be a reasonable judgement. Far more interesting to me is the ethics of Matley, as described in a very revealing article he wrote titled "The Expert Ambush: How To Hold Off Your Opponent Until The Cavalry Arrives", which advises how to stall and obfuscate when presented with expert testimony damaging to your case. Not only is the article a roadmap for Dan Rather's defense so far, but it also shows that Matley is an experienced partisan who focuses much more on beating his opponent than on getting his testimony right. So now we have the following discrepancies in the CBS documents: 1. Signatures forged. 2. Pressure allegedly applied is attributed to a command officer who had retired months before the dating of the memo. 3. No letterheads on at least two of the memos. 4. Despite CBS' description of the sourcing for these memos as having come from the personal files of the deceased Jerry Killian, Killian's family insists he kept no personal files. 5. Retired General Bobby Hodges, whom CBS claimed authenticated the material within the memos, now says that CBS lied to him about the documents. He was told that the memos were handwritten in Killian's handwriting. His conclusion that they reflected Killian's sentiments was based on that information, since CBS never showed him the documents. He has now stated he believes them to be forgeries. 6. Killian's family insists that Killian couldn't type well and avoided it whenever possible. 7. Killian's family insists that Killian retained a high opinion of George Bush until Killian died in 1984, and was proud to have been the officer to pin Bush's wings to his chest. 8. The memos vary widely from required Air Force format at the time -- although they come much closer to the more modern Air Force format, first used in the 1990s, suggesting that the creator of the documents only has exposure to recent military procedure. Since Killian died in 1984, he could not possibly have written them. 9. The typography in these memos could only have been done by a typesetting system. While several of the features in the memos could possibly have been created by using various types of typesetting machines in the 1970s, no one has come up with one machine that could do all of them simultaneously in 1972 and 1973, nor explain why a Texas Air National Guard base would own one, or why a reserve Lieutenant Colonel would use one to write memos to his personal files -- especially since the colonel in question hated to type. Until CBS can answer these questions and produce the original documents for analysis, the logical conclusion is that these documents are clumsy forgeries and were produced by someone looking to smear George Bush. CBS' insistence on protecting its source and refusal to investigate its own actions in publishing this story points to an awareness of journalistic practices that are at best sloppy, and at worst fraudulent. Posted by Ed Morrissey at September 11, 2004 7:25 AM Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Washington Times: Killian Memo Signatures Forged: » Why we fight.... from The Pink Flamingo Bar Grill Update it bears remembering that these people who have lied about our soldiers in Vietnam, lied about the wounds they suffered, lied about where they were on Christmas, lied about what the results of their anti war activities would be, lied about evi... [Read More] Tracked on September 11, 2004 9:03 AM » The Rose Mary Woods Defense from The Politburo Diktat Nixon's secretary, she claimed to have accidentally erased a crucial 18 minutes of the Watergate tapes, demonstrated in the photo. While theoretically possible, her "simultaneous stretch, reach, press, and push" actions were extremely unlikely. Any on... [Read More] » Dan Rather chooses scorched earth from Brain Shavings CBS and Dan Rather stand by their crumbling story, while Captain's Quarters recaps the latest developments in the CBS forged memos scandal, and includes a handy 9-point list of discrepancies in the documents. It ain't all in the superscript, folks. Mea... [Read More] Tracked on September 11, 2004 12:17 PM » Two great roundups of the evidence on RatherGate from The H-Bomb Read this from Captain Ed, and this from UML Guy (link courtesy of Tom Maguire). If this were a trial, the jury would be back in ten minutes and the results wouldn't be good for CBS. CBS tried to put [Read More] » The protein wisdom interview: Dan Rather's Ego from protein wisdom protein wisdom EXCLUSIVE. MUST CREDIT protein wisdom protein wisdom: "To jump right in: this forged document story has really taken on a life of it's own. Question: will all this negative press damage the credibility of CBS News, and do y... [Read More]	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8602
__label__wiki	0.739797	0.739797	Skip to content The Next Generation of Vaccines About BlueWillow Technology Platform Our Intellectual Property NanoVax™ Platform HSV-2 Peanut Allergy NanoBio™ Topical Applications BlueWillow News NanoBio to Present Intranasal Pertussis Vaccine Data at the Mucosal Immunology Course & Symposium Meeting Data Demonstrates Potential for the Company’s Intranasal Vaccine to Combat Reemergence of Whooping Cough Infections ANN ARBOR, Mich., (July 27, 2016) – NanoBio Corporation today announced that the company will present key data at the Mucosal Immunology Course & Symposium Meeting (MICS) in Toronto on July 29, 2016, demonstrating the advantages of its intranasal nanoemulsion (NE) adjuvant for use in the development of vaccines for pertussis, commonly known as whooping cough. NanoBio will also present data further supporting the advantages of intranasal NE vaccines for pandemic influenza. “The resurgence of pertussis infections in the United States and worldwide has become quite concerning, as infections in the U.S. have recently reached a 50-year peak. Given vaccination rates have remained high, the concerning increase in infections points to potential limitations with the existing intramuscular pertussis vaccines,” said Dr. Ali Fattom, Senior Vice President of Vaccine Research and Development, NanoBio. “We recently tested an intranasal NE pertussis vaccine in animals and the data indicates important benefit in comparison to current intramuscular vaccines. NanoBio’s vaccine elicited robust systemic immunity and triggered a mucosal immune response believed to be critical in reducing the time pertussis is carried in the respiratory tract of individuals exposed to the bacteria. A reduction of carriage would lead directly to lower rates of transmission.” At the MICS conference, NanoBio will present data from a study in rats comparing its intranasal NE pertussis vaccine to the standard intramuscular Alum vaccine. The research indicated that both vaccines elicited similarly high levels of serum bactericidal activity against pertussis. However, the intranasal NE vaccine uniquely elicited high levels of cytokines that are associated with mucosal immunity. Given the promising results, efficacy of the intranasal NE pertussis vaccine is currently being studied in a baboon challenge model with support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NanoBio will also present data at the MICS meeting highlighting results from a mice study testing an intranasal NE vaccine for pandemic influenza. The research being presented was conducted under a five-year contract from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the NIH. “Our recent studies in mice have demonstrated that intranasal NE vaccination elicits robust neutralizing antibody and cellular immune responses against H5 pandemic influenza,” said Dr. Fattom. “In addition, the intranasal NE-rH5 vaccine uniquely elicited a mucosal immune response, which we expect will play an important role in protecting against H5 infection. With these results in hand, we are currently initiating a ferret challenge study to test the efficacy of the NE vaccine in the primary animal model.” Following are details of NanoBio’s upcoming oral presentations at the MICS Meeting at the Westin Harbour Castle Hotel, Toronto, Canada: Nanoemulsion: A Novel Mucosal Adjuvant for Pandemic H5N1 Influenza Friday, July 29, 2016 / 3:30 p.m. ET Intranasal Nanoemulsion-Based Vaccines for the Elicitation of Mucosal and Systemic Immunity to Combat Reemergence of B. Pertussis Infections About NanoBio Headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, NanoBio® Corporation is a privately-held biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing vaccines and anti-infective treatments derived from its patented NanoStat® technology platform. The company’s NanoStat® vaccine technology employs a novel oil-in-water nanoemulsion (NE) that can incorporate, deliver and adjuvant multiple antigen types. The NE adjuvant is effective when administered via intranasal or intramuscular vaccination. When applied intranasally, NE vaccines elicit both mucosal and systemic immunity. NanoBio is currently developing NE vaccines for several respiratory and sexually transmitted diseases, including pertussis, pandemic influenza, anthrax, prophylactic and therapeutic HSV2, chlamydia and HIV. In addition, the company has licensed its NE adjuvant to Merck for use with intranasal vaccines for RSV and seasonal influenza. Jessica Stebing Levitate Strategic Communications bluewillow@levitatenow.com NanoVax Platform NanoBio™ Derm Applications BlueWillow Biologics 2311 Green Road \| Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105 Telephone: 734-302-4000 \| Fax: 734-302-9150 © 2019 BlueWillow Biologics. All rights reserved. NanoVax and NanoBio are registered trademarks of BlueWillow Biologics. Site design by DesignHub.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8608
__label__wiki	0.651422	0.651422	New England Art Publishers, Inc. Birchcraft Studios 10 Railroad St Abington, MA 02351 Contact: Richard L Evans Website: www.birchcraft.com There are 2 Companies located at 10 Railroad St, Abington, MA 02351 New England Art Publishers, which also operates under the name Birchcraft Studios, is located in Abington, Massachusetts. This organization primarily operates in the Greeting Cards business / industry within the Printing, Publishing and Allied Industries sector. This organization has been operating for approximately 93 years. New England Art Publishers is estimated to generate $36.4 million in annual revenues, and employs approximately 250 people at this single location. This organization is engaged in manufacturing, importing and exporting activities at this facility. Sector: Printing, Publishing and Allied Industries Category: Greeting Cards Industry: Greeting Cards SIC Code: 2771, 2759 Is New England Art Publishers, Inc. engaged in manufacturing or production? New England Art Publishers, Inc. is engaged in the manufacture of products and/or product components at this facility. How big is New England Art Publishers? New England Art Publishers is estimated to generate $36.4 million in annual revenues, employs approximately 250 people at this location. They occupy this facility which is approximately 100,000 square feet. What are the annual sales for New England Art Publishers? New England Art Publishers generates approximately $36.4 million in annual sales. Does New England Art Publishers, Inc. conduct any international business? New England Art Publishers, Inc. is engaged in import/export activities at this location. Where is New England Art Publishers located? New England Art Publishers is located at 10 Railroad St, Abington, MA 02351. This location is in Plymouth County and the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH Metropolitan Area. Are there other companies located at 10 Railroad St, Abington, MA? There are 2 commercial tenants at 10 Railroad St, Abington, MA. What is the phone number for New England Art Publishers? The phone number for New England Art Publishers is (781) 878-5151 How many people work at New England Art Publishers? New England Art Publishers has approximately 250 employees at this location. What is the internet address for New England Art Publishers? The website (URL) for New England Art Publishers is www.birchcraft.com. How long has New England Art Publishers been in business? New England Art Publishers has been in business for approximately 93 years. Is there a key contact at New England Art Publishers? Richard L Evans is the President at New England Art Publishers. You can contact Richard at (781) 878-5151. Number of Businesses 778 Number of Employees 3,649	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8610
__label__wiki	0.674723	0.674723	White House Down [DVD] [2013] Actors: Channing Tatum, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Released: 20 January 2014 Flood [2007] [DVD] Actors: Robert Carlyle, Jessalyn Gilsig, Tom Courtenay, David Suchet, Martin Ball Director: Tony Mitchell Released: 29 October 2007 Law Abiding Citizen [DVD] Actors: Gerard Butler, Jamie Foxx, Leslie Bibb, Colm Meaney, Bruce McGill Director: F. Gary Gray Studio: Momentum Pictures Stolen [DVD] Actors: Nicolas Cage, Josh Lucas, Danny Huston, Malin Åkerman, Sami Gayle Olympus Has Fallen [DVD] [2013] Actors: Gerard Butler, Morgan Freeman, Aaron Eckhart, Ashley Judd Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. UK Ltd Arctic Blast [DVD] Actors: Michael Shanks, Alan Andrews, John Andrews Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith Jane Got A Gun [DVD] [2016] Actors: Natalie Portman, Joel Edgerton, Ewan McGregor, Rodrigo Santoro, Noah Emmerich Director: Gavin O'Connor San Andreas [DVD] [2015] Actors: Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino, Paul Giamatti Director: Brad Peyton Studio: Warner Home Video The Last Stand [DVD] [2013] Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Forest Whitaker, Peter Stormare Director: Jee-woon Kim Studio: Lions Gate Home Entertainment UK Ltd 2 Guns [DVD] Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Denzel Washington, Paula Patton, James Marsden, Bill Paxton Director: Baltasar Kormákur Studio: Entertainment One	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8615
__label__wiki	0.503741	0.503741	Band Patron Scheme Bournemouth Concert Brass Bournemouth Concert Brass (BCB) are a brass band with a local history going back over 100 years incorporating various titles involving "Boscombe Silver" and "Boscombe Temperance". The band settled into it's current brand in 1975. All the players are amateur musicians who freely give of their time and talent. The band is able to maintain it's momentum in developing a high level of performance in two ways. Contesting The band are a contesting band and regularly take part in competitions around the country. Earlier this year the bank travelled to Torquay to play in the West of England 1st Section Championships and were very happy to come away with 2nd prize. This qualified the band to take part in the National Brass Band Championships which were held in Cheltenham in September 2017. The band were pleased to be placed 8th out of a field of 16 bands. The band has an extensive repertoire of music which includes traditional marches and hymn tune arrangements, music from the classical world, film, show and pop music arrangements and a collection of fine instrumental solo arrangements to allow our principal players to shine. The band has an established relationship with the Regent Centre in Christchurch and presents a number of concerts at this venue every year. January is always our "almost world famous" New Years Viennese concert with a variety of well known Strauss arrangements mixed with other familiar music from that genre. Over 300 attended this years concert, which was a 5 year record attendance. During the summer we put on a themed concert, this year was under the title of 'Herores of the Skies'. Autumn is a packed house for our "Last Night of the Proms" concert. This is always greeted with enthusiasm and anticipation of the finale trio of Fantasia on British Sea Songs, Jerusalem and of course Pomp and Circumstance. Visit the engagements page and book early. For 24 years the band played in the Pinewalk bandstand in Bournemouth Gardens, the band is very proud of its association with the people of Bournemouth but due to Council cutbacks the band no longer has the opportunity to provide this service for the time being. Within the band we have members who are able to arrange music for brass band and smaller ensembles on request so if there is a piece of music you think would work well for a brass group, we would like to here from and try to accommodate your request. Booking the band (Full band, Quintet or 10 piece ensemble) The band is always looking to develop new concert venues where the objectives are to (1) Explore and play new and exciting venues, (2) Engage with local Bournemouth business and (3) Share concert profits with local charities. Talk to us if you have any ideas or would like to come on this venture with us. We appreaciate that a brass band of 27 players requiesa resonably sized venue. If you require a smaller ensemble, the band is also able to provide 5 piece or 10 piece ensembles to suit individual requirements and smaller venues, and often play at Care homes, Hospitals and promotional events. We havea wide range of music from classical, show, film, modern and much more. Please contact us if you would like to use our services for your event Want to join us? - The band are looking to recuit a number of key players in the cornet and baritone sections in the coming months following the loss of some players through work moves out of the area. If you are interested in joining us then contact our Chairman or Secretary (details below). The band is always looking to attract players with good brass band experience in Championship or First section bands. Young local players looking to learn their brass band trade should also talk to us. Please look at the Band Profile pages to see the vacancies that are available. If the section you would like to join is filled, please still make contact as we may still be able to accomodate by moving players around. Chairman: Nick Jarvis Secretary: Alf Hughes Follow us on Facebook/Twitter www.facebook.com/BMHconcertbrass www.twitter.com/Bournemouthconc https://soundcloud.com/bournemouthconcertbrass Latest BCB News bcb engagements bcb viennese 2019 BCB New Year Viennese concert:Â Sunday 13 Jan 2019 3pm The Regent Centre Christchurch. BCB bring Viennese music to town with their New Year Viennese style concert. Come and bring in the New Year... bcb summer BCB summer news BCB have had a busy few months. The band's smaller ensembles (5-piece and 10-piece) performed at a number of venues such as the Zetland Residential Home, the Savoy hotel,... 2018 torquay BCB crowned West of England Champions (1st Section) BCB took part in the West of England Brass Band Championships held at the Riviera Centre, Torquay and were extremely delighted to be... Conductors Bournemouth Concert Brass has been fortunate over the years to have benefited from the musical excellence, experience and expertise of some fine conductors. The band's current professional conductor is Howard... Read more Next Diary Date There are no events at this time Website Design by Cracking Media	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8618
__label__cc	0.587796	0.412204	the week in Dance w/ Showtrotta By BrooklynVegan Staff March 20, 2009 2:01 PM DOWNLOAD: Eamon Harkin – Live at Mister Saturday Night 2.28.09 (MP3) DOWNLOAD: DJ Hell – The Angst Pt. 1 (MP3) Jack Beats @ Studio B – March 13, 2009(CRED) Studio B saw a lot of excitement this past weekend. Friday night it was more packed than I’ve seen it in a long time with everyone getting down to the dubstep/heavy bass/French sandwich of beats delivered by Trouble & Bass vs. the Institubes Terror Club. Bobmo had people moving with his 90’s tinged housey French goodness. A.C. Slater proved a great addition to the T&B crew, working the crowd with a set that was both dancey and full of bass. Everyone went bananas when he dropped “Rock It Out”…someone even crowd-surfed. Jack Beats made a great New York & US debut with his UK flavored mix that was heavy on the bass, a little dubsteppy, and pleasantly unpredictable (a Phoenix remix?!). He also held it down behind the decks for much longer than anticipated when Das Glow temporarily had gone missing. When Das reappeared, he quickly made up for his absence seamlessly steering the predominantly bass heavy evening into a more mild, but still very danceable, French direction. Saturday night things only got better. It was only around 12 and the B was already packed with people dancing to a set from Nick Catchdubs. Just shy of an hour later A-trak & DJ Mehdi hit the stage and together treated the crowd to over 3 hours of awesome dance music. They played tons of new stuff and great older stuff, along with some surprises. A-trak & Mehdi were excited and that energy transferred to the crowd making Saturday night’s one of the most fun, upbeat, and awesome deejay sets of ’09. Check out some of the great footage Electrodrone took at the party. It really captures the vibe and electricity of the crowd, not to mention some great tracks. Here’s one of A-trak & DJ Mehdi dropping “Show Me Love”, and there are a few more here: Hopefully that got you excited for this weekend because there are plenty of great dance events going on. — FRIDAY — Friday night (3/20), Trus’me, the UK-based deejay behind APT‘s recent monthly Disco3000 party, touches down to treat the crowd to a 5 hour set with music from …all corners of the record shop form the past, present and of course the future. .The party info is below. Get ready and stream a set Trus’me recently did on Compost Radio. Also, in case you missed them, you can download a set from Trus’me on Beats In Space here and a live set from when he deejayed Sunday Best at the Yard at the top of this post. PS – He’s one of the first 28 performers announced for Montreal’s 10th Mutek festival! If you’re in the mood for some more modern disco sounds self-titled is hosting the second party in their Oscillations series, feeaturing DJ sets from: The Glimmers, Liv Spencer, James F!@#$%^ Friedman (Throne of Blood/Prime Time), and Benjamin Roeder, plus a live set from Cubic Zirconia at midnight at Studio B. You can read more about the line-up & listen to some of their music here. Advanced tickets available here. For something a bit more electro/techno/German, head to Webster Hall where Boys Noize will be deejaying & hosting Boys Noize Records night with some of his label’s artists. I have mixed feelings about D.I.M.‘s sets at this point, but Shadow Dancer look promising. Check out the very extensive 42-track podcast they did for XLR8R. RSVP for reduced admission. More happening Friday: – Reinhard Voigt and Joey Beltram at Club Exit (Greenpoint) – Sound Noir at 286 Meserole loft – Ruff Club at the Annex – No Ordinary Monkey at 88 Palace: —- SATURDAY — Early Saturday evening (3/21) melodic, Australian, electro-rock band Cut Copy who were around quite a bit in ’08 are ending of all their stateside cruising on this 2009 tour with Matt & Kim. Hopefully you were able to get a ticket for their SOLD OUT show at Terminal 5. If not there are plenty of other reasons to be happy and get down Saturday night: The next logical step would be the Cut Copy official after-show-party at Le Poisson Rouge featuring Cut Copy‘s only dj set on this tour, plus excellent New York disco duo, Holy Ghost as well as Knightlife. Don’t make that decision too hastily though. Ewan Pearson who played a great set at the B in November is returning to New York. This time he’s partying at Santos with Mister Saturday Night, plus special guests Todd Terry and Phonica boss Simon Rigg. The residents (Eamon Harkin & Justin Carter) will be there too. Download Eamon’s set recorded at February 28th’s Mr. Saturday Night at the top of this post, with more to come on the soon-to-be-launched Mr. Saturday Night website (tracklisting here). Also, more good news from Mr. Saturday Night: the party is now going to be weekly!! In celebration there’s a special $10 reduced list if you RSVP to: mister@mistersaturdaynight.com. Also on Saturday – Fixed is back at Studio B with Sascha Funke: – DJ Hell is here for the first time in 4 years! He’s touring in support of his new double album Teufelswerk, out April 27 on International Deejay Gigolo Records. The album is split into “Night” and “Day”: The nocturnal side offers a contemporary interpretation of Chicago house and Detroit techno. Its sunnier sister disc finds Hell embracing the rich cosmic groove of his roots. Saturday’s party is at secret location, but there’s more info here. Here are some events heading into next week: Sunday (3/22) – Kenny Dope and Wayne Williams are at Cielo. Monday (3/23) – Francois K and Rekid are deejaying Deep Space at Cielo. Wednesday (3/25) – Kevin Hedge (Blaze Imprints) is at Cielo along with special guest Mr. V. – Eight Below, is happening at 152 Orchard. – Modular‘s new weekly, Downtown Downturn, continues at BEast (171 E. Broadway at Rutgers). This week’s is hosted by the Pop Manifesto. There are a lot of good things headed our way for the end of next week. One that I’m very excited about is the Prodigy show at Roseland (tix). The group hasn’t played New York since 2006 and is in the midst of a pretty big 2009 tour to promote their new release Invaders Must Die which was just released on Take Me To The Hospital/Cooking Vinyl on March 3rd. Check out the videos for their new tracks “Invaders Must Die” and especially “Omen” which features a lot of live show footage, over at the Prodigy Channel and get ready for Thursday’s show! –Showtrotta Filed Under: showtrotta \| Studio B Category: Electronic Dance Music News \| Music News \| What's Going on Tonight in NYC	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8621
__label__cc	0.610903	0.389097	BSRLM Proceedings: Vol 32 No 3 University of Cambridge, Nov 2012 Proceedings of the Day Conference held at the University of Cambridge on 17 Nov 2012 01 A functional taxonomy of multiple representations: A tool for analysing Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge Hatice Akkoç* and Mehmet Fatih Ozmantar Marmara University and Gaziantep University This study investigates the development of prospective mathematics teachers’ use of multiple representations during teaching in technology-rich environments. Forty prospective teachers took part in a teacher preparation programme which aims to develop technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPCK). As part of this programme, prospective teachers participated in workshops during which the TPCK framework was introduced focusing on function and derivative concepts. Various components of TPCK were considered. This study investigates one particular component of TPCK: knowledge of using multiple representations of a particular topic with technology. The content we focus on in this paper is the ‘concept of radian measure’. Two out of forty prospective teachers introduced the concept of radian measure as part of their micro-teaching activities. The data obtained from semi-structured interviews, videos of prospective teachers’ lessons, their lessons plans and teaching notes was analysed to investigate prospective teachers’ knowledge of representations and of connections established among representations using technological tools such as Cabri Geometry software. We use the framework of ‘functional taxonomy of multiple representations’ which differentiates three main functions that multiple representations serve in learning situations: to complement, constrain and construct. We discuss the educational implications of the study in designing and conducting teacher preparation programmes related to the successful integration of technology in teaching mathematics. 02 Coverage of topics during a mathematics pedagogy module for undergraduate pre-service primary teachers Yahya Al Zahrani and Keith Jones* Recently, research on teacher preparation has begun examining the opportunities to learn that pre-service teachers have of the different forms of knowledge thought to be necessary for effective teaching. This paper reports on one component of a wider study of undergraduate pre-service specialist primary mathematics teacher preparation: the pre-service teachers’ opportunities to learn about the primary school mathematics curriculum during a final-year undergraduate module on mathematics pedagogy (MPM). Using data from observations of the complete teaching of this module at two university colleges in Saudi Arabia, the findings indicate that while the pre-service teachers had some opportunity to learn about teaching aspects of the primary school geometry curriculum, they had little or no opportunity to learn about teaching topics related to the algebra taught in the upper primary school years. The main reason for this discrepancy was that while the MPM contained some sessions on primary school geometry, there were no sessions explicitly related to primary school algebra even though the current version of the relevant primary school curriculum now includes some algebra for Grades 5 and 6 (pupils aged 10-12). 03 Rethinking partnership in initial teacher education and developing professional identities for a new subject specialist team which includes a joint school-university appointment: A case study in mathematics Rosa Archer, Siân Morgan and Sue Pope* In a time of rapid and extensive change in initial teacher education policy, a new team of mathematics educators is establishing at the University of Manchester. How does a new team of mathematics educators (some with experience of other institutions) establish itself and ensure that previous strengths and successes are maintained and developed? One member of the team is a joint school-university appointment. What are the affordances of a joint school-university appointment? What are the personal challenges for the appointee and colleagues working with the appointee â€“ in school and in university? Evidence for the paper is through personal reflective accounts, focus group discussions with school and university colleagues, an anonymous questionnaire of student teachers and their course outcomes. The outcomes of this early experience have implications for the developing practice of the University of Manchester PGCE mathematics team and the way in which university and school based colleagues work together to optimise learning for beginning teachers, as new models of ITE are adopted within a well-established partnership. These implications may provide areas for consideration by institutions rethinking partnership in initial teacher education. 04 Argumentative activity in different beginning algebra classes and topics Michal Ayalon* and Ruhama Even Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel This study compares students’ opportunities to engage in argumentative activity between two classes taught by the same teacher and across two topics in beginning algebra: forming and investigating algebraic expressions and equivalence of algebraic expressions. The study comprises two case studies, in which each teacher taught two 7th grade classes. All four classes used the same textbook. Analysis of classroom videotapes revealed that the opportunities to engage in argumentative activity related to forming and investigating algebraic expressions were similar in each teacher’s two classes. By contrast, substantial differences were found between one teacher’s classes with regard to the opportunities to engage in argumentative activity related to equivalence of algebraic expressions. The discussion highlights the contribution of the topic, the teacher, and the class to shaping argumentative activity. 05 Calculating: What can Year 5 children do now? Alison Borthwick* and Micky Harcourt-Heath In 2006, 2008 and 2010 we collected and analysed answers from a Year 5 QCA test paper to explore the range of calculation strategies used by a sample of approximately 1000 Year 5 children. Once again in 2012 we have repeated this research using the same group of 22 schools. This paper explores the findings from the 2012 data, including case studies. It examines the range of strategies used by the children. We conclude by considering if and how the use of particular calculation strategies has impacted on the overall results and we ask if this shows greater clarity about which strategies lead children to success. 06 Relentless consistency: Analysing a mathematics prospective teacher education course through Fullan’s six secrets of change Laurinda Brown University of Bristol, Graduate School of Education In the leadership of change literature, Michael Fullan’s work is influential. He has developed theories about the process of working rather than the content of that process. The work of a mathematics teacher educator could be seen as leading change for a group of prospective teachers. This paper aims to use Fullan’s ‘six secrets of change’ to analyse the structure of the mathematics education aspects of the one-year University of Bristol Post-graduate Certificate of Education (PGCE) course, to gain insight into both practices that illustrate Fullan’s ‘secrets’ and possible developments to the course given aspects of the secrets not in evidence. Fullan’s idea of ‘relentless consistency’seems to fit with the way the prospective teachers evaluate strengths of the course. 07 Educational game Euro-Axio-Polis: Mathematics, economic crisis and sustainability Maria Chionidou-Moskofogloua, Georgia Liarakoua, Efstathios Stefosa, Zoi Moskofogloub aUniversity of the Aegean- Rhodes Greece, bUniversity College London A game called Euro-Axio-Polis was constructed by students of the Aegean University aiming to promote teaching and learning on mathematics and sustainability for 6th grade pupils. 40 students played Euro-Axio-Polis and Monopoly to investigate differences between the two games, and wrote five key words that characterized each game. Also 19 sixth grade pupils played the Euro-Axio-Polis game during students’ teaching practice and wrote five key words about the game. The research results suggest that Monopoly reflects capitalist economic terms and social values while Euro-Axio-Polis reflects social values associated with sustainable development such as solidarity and equity. Pupils were more likely than students to make reference to socio-political issues such as parliament, education, democracy, elections and political power. As far as mathematics is concerned, most students and half of 6th grade pupils recall the mathematical concepts percentages and interest rates while they played Euro-Axio-Polis. 08 I thought I knew all about square roots Cosette Crisan Institute of Education, University of London Following on from my observations of the inconsistencies and misuse of the radical symbol amongst pupils, undergraduates, teachers and some authors of school textbooks, I became interested in those decisions that teachers take when confronted with inaccurate or ambiguous representations of the square root concept and its associated symbol notation. The impact that the ambiguous treatment of this mathematical concept and its associated symbol notation has on a number of PGCE students’ conceptual understanding and pedagogical affinity will be discussed. 09 Developing a pedagogy for hybrid spaces in Initial Teacher Education courses Sue Cronin and Denise Hardwick Liverpool Hope University We share an emerging pedagogy for Initial Teacher Education (ITE) mathematics tutors who are seeking new ways to work with student teachers in what Zeichner (2010) defines as hybrid spaces. In terms of Initial Teacher Education, hybrid spaces are those spaces which are formed to ‘bring together school and university based teacher educators and practitioners and academic knowledge in new ways to enhance the learning of prospective teachers’ (92). For the last three years the PGCE secondary mathematics programme in the authors’ university has included a Saturated Learning Project (SLP). This has involved taking all of the secondary mathematics students into school one morning for each of ten weeks to work with groups of pupils in a shared communal space, supported by class teachers and university tutor. The project has now been extended to the PGCE primary course with ten student teachers specialising in mathematics. They also worked over a number of weeks with a group of Y6 pupils. The experiences in such hybrid spaces enriched and extended students’ practical and pedagogical knowledge by facilitating understanding of theories about teaching and learning mathematics in a real, shared context. This new pedagogical approach is strengthening school-university partnership and improving learning experiences for both student teachers and their pupils. 10 From failure to functionality: a study of the experience of vocational students with functional mathematics in Further Education Diane Dalby University of Nottingham, UK. Many students who undertake vocational courses in Further Education colleges in England enter post-compulsory education as mathematical ‘failures’ at GCSE level but their experience in college has the potential to change not just their attainment, but also their future attitude and ‘functionality’ with mathematics in employment and society. This paper outlines the early stages of a mixed methods study to identify the main influences on the student experience and their effects on the aspirational trajectory from ‘failure’ to ‘functionality’. 11 Investigating secondary mathematics trainee teachers’ knowledge of fractions Paul Dickinson and Sue Hough At Manchester Metropolitan University, approximately eighty students each year qualify to become teachers of secondary mathematics. Of these, roughly half do not have a mathematics degree, but have studied on a Subject Knowledge Enhancement (SKE) course. This research study is concerned not with the pure mathematical knowledge of such trainees, but with the nature of their knowledge. Asking them relatively routine questions on fractions showed almost all trainees reaching for a known procedure to answer the questions. Furthermore, when asked how they knew they were correct, most trainees used the procedure as the authority for this. The trainees then studied the teaching of fractions, after which they taught the topic in school. This paper focusses on the first part of the study, which analyses the trainees’ own knowledge of fractions. A later paper will report on the classroom work of the trainees. 12 Teacher noticing as a growth indicator for mathematics teacher development Ceneida Fernándeza, Alf Colesb, Laurinda Brownb aUniversity of Alicante (Spain); bUniversity of Bristol In this paper, we report on our analysis of four transcripts of teacher meetings that took place over the academic year 2011-12. These meetings took place in the context of a project looking into tackling underachievement in primary mathematics through a focus on creativity. We bring the idea of growth indicators (Jacobs, Lamb and Philipp 2010) within the framework of noticing (Mason 2002) in order to analyse shifts in teacher discourse. There is evidence of growth but we conclude by discussing the complexity of teacher change and problems with any set of indicators. 13 Teacher-student dialogue during one-to-one interactions in a post-16 mathematics classroom Clarissa Grandi Thurston Community College/University of Cambridge Recent developments in mathematics education place an unprecedented emphasis on the role of discourse in developing students’ conceptual understanding, with a corresponding de-emphasis on the use of ‘telling’ : the stating of facts and demonstration of procedures. This action research study investigated teacher-student dialogue during one-to-one interactions in my post-16 mathematics classroom. The participants were four A-level students. Data sources included clinical interviews, student feedback interviews and an analytical log; and the data were coded using a framework of scaffolding categories drawn largely from current research literature. The findings suggest that, although I utilised more ‘telling’ than ‘questioning’ interventions, often these ‘telling’ actions served useful and necessary functions. They also indicate that my scaffolding skills developed as a result of the process of critical analysis; and that the scaffolding strategies valued by my students were those that they felt best promoted their independence. The study concludes by suggesting that context is a crucially important factor in addressing the dilemma of whether or not to tell. 14 Using scenes of dialogue about mathematics with adult numeracy learners â€“ what it might tell us. Graham Griffiths The study concerns the use of prepared dialogue scenes involving mathematics with groups of adult learners. It is intended to consider how we might characterise discussion following the reading of scenes of dialogue. The article outlines some examples of scenes and the response from the use of these in an early exploratory phase with some adult learners intending to become teaching assistants. A discussion of the scenes and responses leads to some conclusion about the characteristics of more appropriate scenes for the main study. 15 Professional development in mathematics teacher education Guðný Helga Gunnarsdóttir, Jónína Vala Kristinsdóttir and Guðbjörg Pálsdóttir University of Iceland â€“ School of Education Icelandic student teachers’ professional development starts at the onset of their initial teacher education. We have studied our teaching as teacher educators with a focus on the development of learning communities and reflective practices that are considered important elements of effective professional development. Our studies have given us some guidelines to work with and strengthened our beliefs on the importance of collaboration and discussions. 16 Engaging students with pre-recorded ‘live’ reflections on problem-solving: potential applications for ‘Livescribe’ pen technology Mike Hickman Faculty of Education and Theology, York St John University Building on the author’s PhD work with part time postgraduate (PGCE) primary student teachers, this paper considers the potential application of Livescribe pen technology to facilitate/support reflection on collaborative mathematical problem solving, allowing opportunities for participants to engage in ‘live’ reflection on their ‘free’ problem solving performance in order to elicit reasoning/effective strategies and thereby inform their future practice. With recorded (group) thinking aloud, followed and supplemented by a stimulated recall/task-based interview opportunity and associated problem solving/talk framework, participants are encouraged to articulate their problem solving strategies, experiences and understanding with the benefit of potentially reduced influence from the researcher. The risk of think-aloud protocols impacting negatively on problem solving performance is arguably reduced by the use of a technology that allows the ‘replay’ of participants’ workings/jottings alongside their verbal contributions. 17 A student teacher’s recontextualisation of teaching mathematics using ICT Norulhuda Ismail In university mathematics education courses, messages about the pedagogy and content of teaching mathematics are conveyed to student teachers. During the teaching practicum, mentor teachers also have their own set of messages about mathematics teaching. My research investigates the messages conveyed to student teachers and the ways student teachers acknowledge these messages and incorporate them into their teaching using the notion of recontextualisation. The use of information and communication technology (ICT) in teaching mathematics is generally viewed positively in the university and by mentor teachers. In this paper I share some data and analysis of the messages about ICT, and how one student teacher recontextualises these messages into his own teaching of mathematics. 18 Mathematical competence framework : An aid to identifying understanding? Barbara Jaworski Loughborough University, Mathematics Education Centre Research into the teaching of mathematics to engineering students to promote their conceptual understanding (Jaworski and Matthews 2011) has shown the problematic nature of planning for and identifying understanding. I review the project briefly and introduce the idea of competencies from the Danish project, KOM (translated as Competencies and Mathematical Learning). Through the medium of designing inquiry-based tasks for students and use of the competency framework for analysis of tasks, I consider the relevance of such a competency-based analysis and its usefulness (or otherwise) for recognising student understanding. This leads to important questions for further research of a developmental nature. 19 The role of justification in small group discussions on patterning. Dr Cecilia Kilhamn Faculty of Education, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Swedish students have not been successful in solving geometrical pattern tasks in the TIMSS study and as a result it has been introduced as explicit core content in the National Syllabus (Lgr11) for grades 1-6. Analysis of video recordings of three student groups working with a task taken from TIMSS07 showed that students’ initial approach to the task was often unsuccessful. In this situation it was then a call for justification that led them on, for example through questioning why a solution was correct or what the answer meant. The call for justification came from the teacher, from other students or from a student’s wish to understand. An implication of this study is that students would benefit from incorporating justification as an essential part of their problem solving process. 20 Social inequalities, meta-awareness and literacy in mathematics education Bodil Kleve Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied sciences In this paper I take as a starting point social inequalities and pupils’ different learning possibilities as a result of their social background, and consider mathematics on three levels: The level of Discourse, which primarily encompasses cultural relations and communities of meanings in school; the level of genre which concerns recognizable common cultural texts and the frames of reference which support their understanding, and finally, the level of paradigmatic and syntagmatic modes of thought which are necessary for learning within mathematics. My argument is that in order to decrease the school’s reinforcement of social inequalities, teaching should be based on meta-awareness rather than acquisition through pupils’ activities. 21 Stimulating an increase in the uptake of Further Mathematics through a multifaceted approach : Evaluation of the Further Mathematics Support Programme. Stephen Lee* and Jeff Searle Mathematics in Education and Industry and Durham University Over recent years there has been a marked increase in the number of students studying A-level Further Mathematics in England. In 2012 12,688 students sat the qualification, with the numbers having more than doubled from 5,627 in 2005 (Joint Council for Qualifications figures). The increase has been evident despite the common perception that Further Mathematics is a difficult subject. The work of Mathematics in Education and Industry’s (MEI) government-funded Further Mathematics Support Programme (FMSP) has been highly influential in stimulating this increase through not only enabling all students who wish to study Further Mathematics to have access to tuition, but also through supporting teachers and students in schools and colleges in a variety of ways. An external evaluation of the FMSP has been undertaken by the Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring at Durham University. This paper reports on aspects of the evaluation and how these relate to the multifaceted approach taken by the FMSP to increase participation in Further Mathematics, including: innovative tuition models, enrichment events, extensive provision for teachers to undertake professional development and also an insight into direct attempts by the FMSP to engage with schools and colleges who have not traditionally offered the subject. 22 Exchange as a (the?) core idea in school mathematics University of Oxford and Open University I propose that exchange is a core idea underlying much of school mathematics. Alerted by young children struggling with the difference between coins as objects and coins as having value, I began to explore the action of exchanging one thing for another. If exchange is augmented to include substitution then it shows up everywhere, from counting to algebra, from money to currency, from ratio to algorithms and Turing machines. 23 Exploring the notion ‘cultural affordance’ with regard to mathematics software John Monaghan and John Mason University of Leeds; University of Oxford and Open University About 10 years ago the Gibsons’ notion of ‘affordance’ was extended to cultural objectives underlying designed computer systems. Chiappini (2012) extends this idea to mathematics software. We critically, but respectfully, review these extensions â€“ does ‘cultural affordance’ add anything new to valuations of software for doing mathematics? 24 Doing the same mathematics? Exploring changes over time in students’ participation in mathematical discourse through responses to GCSE questions Candia Morgana, Sarah Tanga, Anna Sfardb aInstitute of Education, University of London, UK; bUniversity of Haifa, Israel The project ‘The Evolution of the Discourse of School Mathematics’ uses the lens of GCSE examinations to investigate changes over the last three decades in what is expected of students in England. We have identified differences in the discursive features of examination questions through this period and now seek to investigate how these differences may have affected the nature of student participation in mathematics discourse. Students have been tested using questions varying in characteristics typical of different points in time. We discuss the design of the test, and present some preliminary results. 25 Vending machines: A modelling example Peter Osmon King’s College, London Throughout the last century the mathematics of the continuum underpinned the science and technology of the developed world. Today’s developed world is increasingly dominated by the artefacts and processes of information technology and it is discrete mathematics that underpins this technology. A finite state machine description of the behaviour of vending machines, in the form of state transition diagrams and state transition tables, is used as an example to demonstrate that modelling numerous artefacts of today’s everyday world would be within reach of many 15-19 year old learners if the curriculum were to give more emphasis to discrete mathematics. 26 Gendered styles of linguistic peer interaction and equity of participation in a small group investigating mathematics Anna-Maija Partanen and Raimo Kaasila Ã…bo Akademi University and University of Oulu, Finland In a teaching experiment with two Finnish upper secondary classes, the basics of calculus were studied using an investigative approach and a small-group setting. As part of the ethnographic teacher research, the different styles of talking of the girls and boys in four groups were analyzed through application of the concept of sociolinguistic subcultures. This paper focuses on the interactions in one of the groups where two girls and a boy discuss mathematics. We show how the linguistic strategies typical of these boys prohibited the full potential of the contributions of the girls to be utilized in the collective construction of meaning in the group. Promoting democratic discussions in small groups may need attention in terms of gendered ways of interacting. 27 Beauty as fit: An empirical study of mathematical proofs Manya Raman Beauty has been discussed since ancient times, but discussions of beauty within mathematics education are relatively limited. This lack of discussion is surprising given the importance of beauty within the practice of mathematics. This study explores one particular metaphor of beauty, that of beauty as fit, as a way to distinguish between proofs that are considered beautiful and those that are not. Several examples are examined, supported by empirical data of mathematicians and mathematics educators who judged and ranked different proofs in a seminar on mathematical beauty. 28 Making sense of fractions in different contexts Frode Rønning Sør-Trøndelag University College and Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway This presentation is based on a study of 20 pupils, aged 9-10, in a Norwegian primary school. The pupils were exposed to two, rather different, classroom situations and in both situations the concept of fraction was central. The pupils were given tasks and in order to accomplish these tasks it was necessary to make sense of fractions in some way. An interesting observation is how the presence of different mediating artefacts influences the pupils’ meaning making. 29 Developing statistical literacy with Year 9 students: A collaborative research project Dr Sashi Sharmaa, Phil Doyleb, Viney Shandilc and Semisi Talakia’atuc aThe University of Waikato; bThe University of Auckland; and cMarcellin College Despite statistical literacy being relatively new in statistics education research, it needs special attention as attempts are being made to enhance the teaching, learning and assessing of this strand. It is important that teachers are aware of the challenges of teaching and assessing of this literacy. In this collaborative research study, two cycles of teaching experiments were carried out in two year 9 classes. The data set consisted of audio and video-recordings of classroom sessions, copies of students’ written work, audio recorded interviews conducted with students, and field notes of the classroom sessions. The results shed light on tools and techniques which the research team used to help students develop critical statistical literacy skills. The findings have implications for teaching and further research. 30 Feedback on feedback on one mathematics enhancement course Jayne Stansfield Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol, UK and Bath Spa University UK This paper reports on changes in students’ perceptions of assessment during a Mathematics Subject Knowledge Enhancement Course (MEC). Students’ views were gathered pre- and post-MEC via an open-question questionnaire with semi-structured interviews for some. Pre- and post- MEC understanding of mathematics features highly in the students’ sense of progress, but few had experienced feedback prior to the MEC. Post-MEC feedback is viewed as the most useful aspect aiding their sense of progress. 31 Developing an online coding manual for The Knowledge Quartet: An international project Tracy L Weston, Bodil Kleve, Tim Rowland University of Alabama; Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences; University of East Anglia/University of Cambridge This paper provides a brief overview of the work to date of an international research team that has worked together since Fall 2011. The team members are mathematics educators and researchers who use the Knowledge Quartet (Rowland et al. 2009) in their work as researchers as a framework by which to observe, code, comment on and/or evaluate primary and secondary mathematics teaching across various countries, curricula, and approaches to mathematics teaching. The countries represented on the team include the UK, Norway, Ireland, Italy, Cyprus, Turkey and the United States. The team has developed a Knowledge Quartet coding manual for researchers which is freely available for other researchers to use. This is a collection of primary and secondary vignettes that exemplify each of the 21 Knowledge Quartet (KQ) codes, with classroom episodes and commentaries provided for each code. This work provides increased clarity on what each of the KQ dimensions ‘look like’ in a classroom setting, and is helpful to researchers interested in analysing classroom teaching using the KQ. This paper provides an overview of the Knowledge Quartet, describes the working methods of the team and offers examples of classroom vignettes that exemplify two of the codes as an indication of what can be found on the coding manual website. 32 Preservice primary school teachers’ performance on rotation of points and shapes Zeynep Yildiza, Hasan Unala, A. Sukru Ozdemirb aDepartment of Elementary Education, Faculty of Education, Yildiz Technical University; bDepartment of Elementary Education, Faculty of Education, Marmara University In this study, the purpose was to reveal thinking styles and different points of view of pre-service primary school teachers about the concept of ‘rotation’ in mathematics. The study was conducted with undergraduate students who are studying in the department of primary school teacher education. The subject of ‘rotation’ in this study has two sub-topics which are rotation of points around a point and rotation of shapes about a point in a coordinate plane. A test about rotation was applied to 44 students and then interviews were made with 5 students. Results of the study include an analysis of correct and incorrect answers of students. 33 Report from the Sustainability in Mathematics Education Working Group: Task design Nichola Clarkea, Maria Chionidou-Moskofogloub, Zoi Moskofoglouc, Alison Parrishd, Anna-Maija Partanene aUniversity of Nottingham, UK; bUniversity of the Aegean-Rhodes Greece; cUniversity College, London; dWarwick University UK; eAbo Akademi University, Denmark. The Sustainability in Mathematics Education Working Group discusses research on how to integrate learning about climate change and sustainable living with the learning of mathematics. In the third group meeting, participants from Denmark, Greece and the UK focused on the design of cross-curricular tasks for the simultaneous learning of mathematics and sustainability issues. We drew on examples of task design experiences from Greece and the UK. 34 Report of the Mathematics education and the analysis of language working group Alf Coles and Yvette Solomon University of Bristol and Manchester Metropolitan University In this paper, we report on the discussion and issues raised at the working group session at the day conference in Cambridge.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8622
__label__wiki	0.941465	0.941465	Dance Suite Malcolm Hayes Violin Concerto [BBC commission: world premiere] Symphony No.7 in D minor, Op.70 Tai Murray (violin) BBC National Orchestra of Wales Thomas Søndergård Prom 35: BBCNOW/Thomas Søndergård – Bartók’s Dance Suite & Dvořák 7 – Tai Murray gives premiere of Malcolm Hayes’s Violin Concerto Thursday, August 11, 2016 Royal Albert Hall, London Written by Richard Whitehouse The earlier of this evening’s two Proms featured what may prove the most singular among this year’s commissions. Interesting, too, it should come from Malcolm Hayes – who, now in his mid-sixties, is better known as a (notably perceptive) writer on music than as a composer. A Prom commission was well overdue and Hayes has responded with a Violin Concerto (2014) that does not reinvent the genre as draw on earlier models in the course of a work as recasts the relationship between soloist and orchestra in a strikingly original light. Nor is there anything radical about an orchestra that, aside from an oboe d’amore and a percussion section with crotales, three triangles and piano, is comparable to the late Classical line-up of Beethoven or Schubert. What is radical is Hayes’s deployment of these forces – primarily as harmonic backdrop to violin-writing that is both continuous and continuously in flight (hence comparison to Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending, which need otherwise not be taken literally), with dynamic levels giving rise to only the briefest of climaxes. While a three-part format is discernible, the overriding impression is of a seamless unfolding – the violinist constantly at the forefront of music as resourceful in its handling of those initial motifs as in sustaining a rapt though eventful and subtly evolving atmosphere. Such a piece depends on the commitment of its soloist for ensuring a successful realisation, and Tai Murray (playing from memory) had the measure of the often stratospheric writing where flawless intonation is a necessity. The BBC National Orchestra of Wales was similarly attentive in its restraint, and one looks forward to further hearings of this often-mesmeric piece. Presumably Hayes’s age does not rule out a portrait disc for the NMC label, on which Byzantium would make an admirable coupling. Presumably, too, it was the not dissimilar orchestral requirements that prompted inclusion of Bartók’s Dance Suite (1923) beforehand. Thomas Søndergård steered a secure if slightly too portentous course through a piece whose celebratory origins (the 50th-anniversary of the union between Buda and Pest) enabled the composer to pursue a more direct synthesis of ‘art’ and ‘folk’ idioms. Best were the stealthy opening and the sensuous fourth sections; elsewhere, a greater dynamism and also a more unaffected approach to phrasing would have been welcome. Such qualities were not absent from Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony (1885). Despite a rather inert start, the opening Allegro built a convincing momentum going into the climactic start of the reprise, and with the final tailing-off of activity well judged. The slow movement was even finer, Søndergård amply underlining that its main ideas only coalesce into melodies with the heartfelt closing stages, and if the furiant underpinning of the Scherzo was not always ideally precise there was no lack of impetus in these outer sections. Come the Finale and Søndergård ensured steady yet remorseless progress through to a grandly fatalistic close. A pity the horns were often at less than their collective best, though that only undermined in passing what was a convincing account of this still underestimated Symphony. Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 (available on BBC iPlayer for thirty days afterwards) BBC Proms www.bbc.co.uk/proms	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8624
__label__wiki	0.776122	0.776122	Nashville Skyline NASHVILLE SKYLINE: ACM Telecast Needs Training Wheels Gretchen Wilson Is Shining Light of Uneven Show by Chet Flippo 5/19/2005 (NASHVILLE SKYLINE is a column by CMT/CMT.com Editorial Director Chet Flippo.) I never thought I would be saying this, but I miss Dick Clark as TV producer. Due to his illness, he was not on-hand for this year’s ACM Awards show. I turned it on wondering how the production would fare the first time in recent years that he hasn’t actively been on the scene. Watching the mishmash that masqueraded as the ACM Awards show the other night really made me miss Clark. Say what you will about the world’s oldest teenager (and I have a great deal of respect for him), he maintained certain professional standards for that show. Standards which seemed to have fallen off the ACM truck on the way to the show this year. Live TV is not easy, but there are a number of people who can do it well — believe it or not. I wonder where they were the other night. This show more or less looked like and sounded at times like a series of muffled explosions in a Salvation Army thrift store. Is this the best possible presentation of country music to the world? What did you think? For starters, how do you manage to mar Faith Hill’s return to network TV by botching her performance with some of the most inept lighting this side of my teenage home movies? By and large, the musical sound throughout the telecast was small and confined (and sometimes in obvious need of Pro Tools). Was there anyone listening at rehearsal? Was there a wardrobe department? Couldn’t prove it by the overall drab appearance of the artists. Unflattering outfits seemed to be the show’s theme. Hello, makeup? Shiny faces on screen are not flattering. One other thing this toy show proved was that an awards show sadly needs a host and moves at a snail’s pace without one. A good staff figures out which presenters can be trusted/allowed to ad lib and which need strictly scripted lines. Give them something to do, lest the audience be treated to the dread spectacle of the star-trapped-like-a-spotlighted-deer. That happened more than once to hapless stars. The invisible, anonymous announcer further eroded the show’s credibility by announcing “Lonestar!” just as the screen revealed two — two — members of Lonestar standing there. This country audience knows, you see, as if I need to explain it, that Lonestar has four — four — members. A small thing, to be sure, but an indication of the show’s general musical cluelessness. Like, how do you locate only one Warren Brother? They’re not terribly hard to book, you know. A couple of bright spots lifted the dark miasma that pervaded the six-hour telecast. What’s that you say? It was actually three? You could have fooled me. But Sugarland and Dierks Bentley, both stepping in at the last moment to perform, showed a nationwide audience just what up-and-coming country artists can do. One thing the show’s murk could not hide was the triumphant appearance of Gretchen Wilson as a rising country star of the first magnitude. Her natural talent and devotion to the work ethic have combined to give her a presentation unlike anyone country music has seen in recent years. Her direct honesty cannot be faked, and you don’t see it often in any music artist. The morning after the ACM thing, I went to the funeral of Jimmy Martin, the King of Bluegrass. In listening to his music again and to his friends and family tell Martin tales, it struck me again how Martin had that same musical conviction that Wilson has, that same kind of direct, honest link straight into his listeners’ hearts and minds. Nothing could get between singer and listener. Hank Williams had that special kind of spiritual link and a precious few others have, in many walks of music. R.I.P.: Jimmy Martin. And here’s to many more years of listening to Gretchen Wilson. Meanwhile, I want to send Dick Clark my best regards and wishes for his speedy recovery. Chet Flippo Tags: Dierks BentleyGretchen WilsonHank WilliamsJimmy MartinLonestarSugarland	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8627
__label__cc	0.696214	0.303786	Burdine Fields [Parents] was born in Mar 1852 in Tazewell Co, VA. He married Cynthia. Cynthia was born in Jun 1853 in VA. She married Burdine Fields. M i Basil Fields was born in Mar 1880 in VA. [Notes] M ii James A. Fields was born in Sep 1881. M iii George W. Fields was born in May 1883 in VA. [Notes] M iv John Fields was born in Jul 1885 in VA. [Notes] M v Joseph Fields was born in Apr 1888 in VA. [Notes] M vi Charles Fields was born on 11 Aug 1889. He died on 11 Nov 1946. F vii Nancy Jane Fields was born in Sep 1890 in VA. [Notes] F viii Lucy D. Fields was born in Nov 1891 in VA. [Notes] M ix Henry Fields was born in Feb 1896 in VA. [Notes] M x Wallace M. Fields was born in Dec 1898 in VA. [Notes] James A. Fields [Parents] was born in Sep 1881 in VA. He married Sarah in 1909. Sarah was born in 1888 in VA. She married James A. Fields in 1909. F i Carrie Fields was born in 1910 in Buchanan Co, VA. [Notes] Kennard Fields [Parents] was born on 14 May 1917 in Grundy, Buchanan Co, VA. He died on 31 Mar 1991 in Cincinnati, Hamilton Co, OH. He married Elizabeth Virginia Akers. Elizabeth Virginia Akers was born on 8 Nov 1921 in VA. She died on 25 Dec 2008 in Mooresville, Iredell Co, NC. She married Kennard Fields. John H. Keene was born in Sep 1869 in Buchanan Co, VA. Stiltner, Lucinda "Alie" F i Virgie Abby Keene was born on 15 Nov 1892. She died on 7 May 1983. M ii William Robert "Willie" Keene was born on 5 May 1894 in Buchanan Co, VA. He died on 31 Mar 1970 in Buchanan Co, VA. [Notes] John H. Keene was born in Sep 1869 in Buchanan Co, VA. He married Lucinda "Alie" Stiltner in 1896 in VA. Lucinda "Alie" Stiltner was born in Nov 1879 in Buchanan Co, VA. She married John H. Keene in 1896 in VA. F i Bertha A. Keene was born in Aug 1896 in VA. [Notes] F ii Grace C. Keene was born on 15 Sep 1898 in Buchanan Co, VA. She died on 20 Jan 1931 in Buchanan Co, VA. [Notes] M iii Charles Keene was born in 1901 in Buchanan Co, VA. [Notes] F iv Hettie Keene was born in 1908 in VA. [Notes] Fred Stapleton was born on 22 Apr 1916 in McDowell Co, WV. He died on 7 Apr 1985. He was buried in Iaeger Memorial Cemetery, Roderfield, McDowell Co, WV. He married Ethel Fields on 11 Dec 1934 in Welch, McDowell Co, WV. Ethel Fields [Parents] was born on 19 Nov 1913 in Grundy, Buchanan Co, VA. She died on 27 Jan 1999 in Simpsonville, Shelby Co, KY. She was buried in Iaeger Memorial Cemetery, Roderfield, McDowell Co, WV. She married Fred Stapleton on 11 Dec 1934 in Welch, McDowell Co, WV. Billy Joe Fields [Parents] was born on 10 Dec 1941 in St. Paul, Russell Co, VA. He died on 5 Jul 2002. He married Ida Fern Green on 6 Jun 1968 in Tazewell, Tazewell Co, VA. Turner, Barbara Gay Ida Fern Green [Parents] was born on 19 Oct 1942 in McDowell Co, WV. She died on 15 Aug 1985. She was buried in Iaeger Memorial Cemetery, Roderfield, McDowell Co, WV. She married Billy Joe Fields on 6 Jun 1968 in Tazewell, Tazewell Co, VA. Orea Coster Fields.Orea married Mary Ruth White. Mary Ruth White.Mary married Orea Coster Fields. M i Billy Joe Fields was born on 10 Dec 1941. He died on 5 Jul 2002. Billy Joe Fields [Parents] was born on 10 Dec 1941 in St. Paul, Russell Co, VA. He died on 5 Jul 2002. He married Barbara Gay Turner on 1 Dec 1962 in Lebanon, Russell Co, VA. The marriage ended in divorce. Green, Ida Fern Barbara Gay Turner was born on 29 Dec 1944 in Wise Co, VA. She married Billy Joe Fields on 1 Dec 1962 in Lebanon, Russell Co, VA. The marriage ended in divorce. James Walter Finley was born on 2 Feb 1926 in Wilcoe, McDowell Co, WV. He died on 28 May 2016 in Roanoke Memorial Hospital, Roanoke, VA. He was buried on 31 May 2016 in Woodlawn Memorial Park, Bluewell, Mercer Co, WV. He married Nellie Marie Morgan on 16 Nov 1948 in Welch, McDowell Co, WV. Nellie Marie Morgan [Parents] was born on 25 Jun 1929 in Wilcoe, McDowell Co, WV. She died in Apr 1987 in McDowell Co, WV. She was buried in Woodlawn Memorial Park, Bluewell, Mercer Co, WV. She married James Walter Finley on 16 Nov 1948 in Welch, McDowell Co, WV. Kosmos, Nick Jr M i Daniel R. Finley was born on 27 Dec 1962 in Grace Hospital, Welch, McDowell Co, WV. He died on 27 Dec 1962 in Grace Hospital, Welch, McDowell Co, WV. He was buried on 28 Dec 1962 in Iaeger Memorial Cemetery, Roderfield, McDowell Co, WV. [Notes]	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8628
__label__wiki	0.912044	0.912044	Anne Heche > Anne Heche Page 2 Follow Anne Heche Anne Heche Quick Links News Pictures Video Film Quotes RSS Anne Heche Quick Links News Pictures Video Film Quotes RSS James Tupper , Anne Heche - Women's Brain Health Initiative celebrated its West Coast debut at Gagosian Gallery at Gagosian Gallery - Beverly Hills, California, United States - Thursday 15th October 2015 James Tupper , Anne Heche - Celebrity Sightings in Beverly Hills at Beverly Hills - Beverly Hills, California, United States - Wednesday 14th October 2015 Anne Heche - Anne Heche leaving a restaurant in Beverly Hills after having lunch at beverly hills - Los Angeles, California, United States - Thursday 10th September 2015 Anne Heche and James Tupper - The Imagine Ball presented by John Terzian & Randall Kaplan benefiting Imagine LA - Inside at House Of Blues - West Hollywood, California, United States - Thursday 4th June 2015 Anne Heche and James Tupper - The Imagine Ball presented by John Terzian & Randall Kaplan benefiting Imagine LA - Inside at House Of Blues - West Hollywood, California, United States - Friday 5th June 2015 James Tupper and Anne Heche - The Imagine Ball held at the House Of Blues - Arrivals at House of Blues - West Hollywood, California, United States - Friday 5th June 2015 James Tupper and Anne Heche - A host of stars were photographed as they attended the Los Angeles premiere of 'Ride' which was held at the ArcLight cinema in Hollywood, California, United States - Wednesday 29th April 2015 Anne Heche and James Tupper - 22nd annual Race To Erase MS at Hyatt Regency Century Plaza at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza - Century City, California, United States - Friday 24th April 2015 Anne Heche and James Tupper - Celebrities attend 22nd annual Race To Erase MS at Hyatt Regency Century Plaza. at Hyatt Regency Century Plaza - Los Angeles, California, United States - Friday 24th April 2015 Arthur & Mike Trailer Wallace Avery is struggling with the hardships that life is throwing at him; a boring job, a failed marriage, an estranged son and an unfulfilling relationship; and decides that something must be done in order for him to find happiness again. He fakes his own drowning and purchases a new identity, becoming golf pro Arthur Newman and landing himself a job at a golf club away from Florida. It's then he meets Michaela "Mike", who is actually named Charlotte Fitzgerald and has assumed the identity of her twin sister who's suffering from mental health problems. They set out on a road trip together to Indiana but it isn't long before they both discover each other's true identities. With that in common, their bond strengthens and a romance blossoms as they take comfort in each other's dissatisfactions in life. But when it comes down to it, this couple have some serious decisions to make about the kind of people they really want to be. Continue: Arthur & Mike Trailer Cedar Rapids Review By Rich Cline This goofy fish-out-of-water comedy is deeply endearing. As it follows its central character on a clumsy voyage of discovery, we can't help but laugh even as we try not to recognise ourselves in him. In Brown Valley, Wisconsin, Tim (Helms) is an earnest mid-30s insurance salesman in love with his 7th-grade teacher (Weaver), who's only using him for sex. Oblivious to the moral failings of people around him, Tim heads to an insurance convention in Cedar Rapids, the biggest city he's ever seen. There his worldview is smashed by the outrageous antics of his colleagues, including party boy Dean (Reilly), married but flirty Joan (Heche) and repressed nice guy Ronald (Whitlock), as they all contend with insurance president Orin (Smith) for coveted Two Diamonds status. Continue reading: Cedar Rapids Review Spread Trailer Watch the trailer for Spread Continue: Spread Trailer Anne Heche - Sunday 20th September 2009 at Emmy Awards Los Angeles, California Wild Side (1995) Review By Christopher Null Worse films have been made, but at least this one has a lot of Anne Heche naked. The story is one of ostensible high intrigue in the corporate world, coupled with high-priced hookers and federal investigations into all of this. Doesn't make a lick of sense -- Cammell wants to be David Lynch but he just doesn't have the script here to do it. Memo to star Christopher Walken: What is that on your head? Prozac Nation Review By Jesse Hassenger Some films lead a long and storied journey to the big screen; Prozac Nation led a long and vague journey to any screen at all. It was filmed back in the year 2000, scheduled for release in 2001, only to be bumped into early 2002, then to fall 2002, then into summer 2003... and on and on, setting and missing a yearly planner's worth of release dates, until it finally premiered, clearinghouse style, on the premium movie channel Starz! in March 2005 (meanwhile, the movie dotted the rest of the globe in 2003 and 2004, with isolated premieres in Japan, Norway, Denmark, and Israel). Waiting for Prozac Nation to come out turns out to be rather like the experience of actually watching Prozac Nation; despite low expectations, you press on, hoping for something interesting to happen. Adapted from Elizabeth Wurtzel's memoir (unread by me, and despite its bestseller status it seems to be almost universally disliked) of depression and dysfunction at Harvard, Nation casts the always-watchable Christina Ricci as the self-absorbed author. The film doesn't exactly have a story; it's more about Elizabeth using college to gauge the depths of her mental instability. She writes in binges for the school paper, introduces countless substances into her system, and embarks on destructive relationships and non-relationships. Ricci, it must be said, displays skill and gusto in the areas of binging, abuse, and destruction; she throws herself into the part, though what she gets in return is questionable. Continue reading: Prozac Nation Review Return To Paradise Review Surprisingly effective, if highly unlikely, drama of the soul and the conscience. If some guy you hardly knew was sentenced to hang in a Malaysian jail unless you went back and did 6 years in a third-world slammer, would you go? Continue reading: Return To Paradise Review Auggie Rose Review Curious little movie. Jeff Goldblum's morose insurance salesman witnesses a shooting of an employee during the robbery of a deli and decides to look into the life of the man who ultimately dies into his eyes. Auggie Rose, it turns out, is an ex-con fresh out of 20 years in prison with no family ties -- only a pen-pal girl (Anne Heche) who is coming to meet him for the first time. Goldblum's John Nolan takes a giant leap and starts to assume Auggie's identity, slowly weaning himself from his rich guy trappings (and his own form of prison) as he becomes this down-on-his-luck individual. Laconic and contrived beyond belief, Auggie Rose is nonetheless a much better film than I ever expected it could be, largely thanks to Goldblum's prodigious acting chops. If anyone could make you feel the life of a rich insurance salesman is worse than that of a penniless ex-con, Goldblum can. Continue reading: Auggie Rose Review Sexual Life Review Deja vu. I've now seen this movie three times: Only the first two times it was called Chain of Desire and Love in the Time of Money. Fortunately, Sexual Life is the marginal best of these three remarkably similar films: Each of which uses the new cliche of "six degrees of (sexual) separation" to tell its story. We start with one couple: Then she goes off to another guy, then he hooks up with another girl, and so on and so on until the movie comes full circle, of course. See, we're all screwing each other! Deep? Hardly, but a number of engaging performances here, most notably Elizabeth Banks and a less-crazy Anne Heche, elevate this into reasonable watchability. Wag The Dog Review Another year-end flick with another four-star rating? What, am I nuts, or just some corporate tool shilling for would-be Oscar contenders? Never mind that I am saving up all my real praise for Spice World next week... I'll try to lay it on again for Wag the Dog. It's a great little premise: what would happen if you tried to produce a phony war as a diversion away from a lecherous President's leisure time? A lot of wacky hijinks, from the looks of it! With everything from a "We Are the World" parody to a memorial for a P.O.W., Wag the Dog is really just a send-up of America's fascination with war from WWII through the Gulf War, where combat truly became a ridiculous exercise in soundbites and TV footage. Continue reading: Wag The Dog Review Donnie Brasco Review Well, someone had to wrest the monopoly on gangster movies from the hands of Scorsese and Coppola. So why not Mike Newell, of Four Weddings and a Funeral fame, to direct it? And why not put Johnny Depp in a starring role? And Anne Heche -- you know, Ellen's girlfriend -- as his wife!? It sounds bizarre, but put this group together with Monster of Acting Pacino and Quiz Show scribe Paul Attanasio and you've got a pleasant surprise on your hands, not to mention one of the longest-running films at the box office this year. Long stuck in development because of GoodFellas, Donnie Brasco is in many ways a similar film, and in most of them better. The true story of FBI agent Joe Pistone, who in the late 70s infiltrated his way into the New York mafia to become a "made man" under the name of Donnie Brasco, Depp is surprisingly believable as an earnest father caught up in the mob mentality. Pacino shines as always, though it's not his usual character; here he's a tragic King Lear who just can't catch a break. But as for the iffy pan-and-scan job on the videotape, take a cue from the wiseguys: Fuggedaboudit. Wild Side Review John Q Review By Norm Schrager It's tough to imagine a movie star of Denzel Washington's stature making a credible beleaguered everyman, but Washington does it in John Q. Unlike, say, Cary Grant, who always looked like the sharpest looking dude in Hollywood even when playing "regular guys," Denzel goes out of his way to ugly himself a bit, letting his hair grow a little unruly and adding on some chunky pounds. It's not necessary in a film with as much big movie sheen as this one, but it shows Washington's dedication - a trait that leaps off the screen, commands the movie, and pulls the entire audience in. Washington, as John Q. Archibald, is today's blueprint, American blue-collar worker. He's an experienced Chicago machinist, a proud guy only able to work part-time hours due to the lack of work. The resulting scant paychecks lead to embarrassing situations, such as the repossession of his car, leaving his wife pissed off and his young son confused. The timing with today's marketplace couldn't be better in gaining the audience's sympathies. Continue reading: John Q Review The Third Miracle Review In the immortal words of singer Fats Waller, "I believe in miracles...." Who else is a believer? Agnieszka Holland, best known for poetic period pieces like Washington Square and trite garbage like Total Eclipse, who finally ventures into the modern era (or reasonably modern: 1979) with The Third Miracle. Based on the poorly-received novel of the same name, The Third Miracle follows a down-and-out drunk of a priest named Frank Shore (Harris), on his assignment to debunk (or bunk) a claim of sainthood regarding a Chicago woman named Helen. The main case for sainthood? A young girl who prayed to the woman has been cured of lupus. Now the statue where that girl prayed is crying Helen's Type-A human blood. People are flocking from around the nation. Continue reading: The Third Miracle Review Walking And Talking Review Well, a lot more talking than walking.... And not to be confused with last year's Kicking and Screaming. And not at all a bad movie, and the most aptly titled film out right now. Walking and Talking is basically just that, focusing on best friends Laura (Anne Heche) and Amelia (Catherine Keener) and their comedic struggles with life and love at the dawn of the big 3-0. Continue reading: Walking And Talking Review I Know What You Did Last Summer Review Yesterday's flavor of the month Kevin Williamson penned this little horror flick way back in 1997, a terribly straightforward tale where the suspected killer... really is the killer. Notably, this movie launched the film career of Jennifer Love Hewitt's breasts. Continue reading: I Know What You Did Last Summer Review Six Days, Seven Nights Review Slightly underrated, and I mean slightly... this precocious romantic comedy is all over the map, er, so to speak, when gruff 50+er Ford hooks up with 20something Heche after he crashes his plane on a deserted, tropical island. This couple is as opposite as it gets, but watch out, because in crazy times you never know who's going to fall for their complete opposite! The plot is lifted wholesale from The African Queen, sans the Bogart/Hepburn chemistry, but the addition of the subplot of the intermingling of the significant others left behind actually makes the film quite giddy. Sure, Schwimmer and Obradors make for an even less likely couple, and don't get me started on "the pirates." But hey, it's not the worst flick than any of the principals have made, not by a long shot. Psycho (1998) Review By Matt Lawrence Well, they did it. Right down to the last scene where Marion Crane's car is dragged out of the river. And it's great. It is scarier, more frightening, and more disturbing than the original. And I was fair too. The day after watching the new version, I watched the old version. I generally don't like movies in black and white but I found the old version very enjoyable. Now I now I'm the only critic who is going to say this in the world, but I thought Vince Vaughn was more effective as Norman Bates than Anthony Perkins was. There, I said it. Vaughn had a presence and a confidence on screen that paid off for him. Tony Perkins was great. So was Vaughn. Almost every aspect of the movie is better in a way except for the roles of Marion Crane and her boyfriend. Janet Leigh was more attractive and definitely a better actress then Anne Heche. Viggo Mortinsen is too dead-voiced for a major role in a thriller/horror movie. I just want to give this guy some coffee and get him to wake up. Continue reading: Psycho (1998) Review By Rob Blackwelder From its very first scene, "John Q" feels as if it's designed to put a choke leash around your neck so director Nick Cassavetes can give it a good, hard yank whenever he wants you to feel something. In this opening scene we watch a pretty blonde in a white BMW passing cars on a winding mountain road with a double yellow line. I'm sure I don't have to tell you what's coming, but Cassavetes toys with the viewer, dragging out a couple close calls to make your heart race before -- whammo! Squashed blonde. What does this have to do with a movie about factory worker Denzel Washington taking over an emergency room at gunpoint to get his dying son a heart transplant? You guessed it -- the girl's an organ donor. But "John Q" doesn't get back to her until 10 minutes before the end of the movie. Cassavetes just puts it at the beginning for shock value. Birth Review "Birth" opens with a scene of surprising emotional magnitude that is driven entirely by its score. Instantly and viscerally evocative, the elaborate orchestration -- which plays over a long tracking shot following an anonymous jogger through Central Park during a beautifully moody snowfall -- is a curious, captivating combination of flute, triangle, French horn and (quite startlingly) tympani that has an uplift and an ominousness at the same time. This gripping music, by the brilliant Alexandre Desplat ("Girl With a Pearl Earring"), does all the work in this scene until the man -- seemingly young and healthy from behind, which is all we see of him -- pauses suddenly, then collapses under a bridge. The next scene takes place 10 years later. The jogger's widow, Anna (played by a serious, sophisticated, melancholy, unabashedly pushing-40 yet intriguingly elfin Nicole Kidman) is about to get married again, to Joseph (subtle, pensive Danny Huston), a man who is really more a hopelessly devoted dear friend than he is a lover. Soon after their engagement party, a somber 10-year-old boy (Cameron Bright) sneaks into their grand Park Avenue apartment and refuses to leave. "You're my wife," he tells Kidman. "It's me -- Sean." Continue reading: Birth Review Anne Heche Glad She Got The Chance To Shoot In Jerusalem Before Conflict Anne Heche Turns Down Actor Boyfriend's Proposal Every Year Anne Heche Locked In Legal Battle Over Sunscreen Line Anne Heche Abandons Yoga Heche Divorce Finalised Anne Heche Movies Catfight Trailer Veronica enjoys a life of luxury with her rich husband, though work has never been... The Last Word Trailer Harriet Lauler knows that she is in the twilight years of her life, and has... Wild Card Movie Review Jason Statham may be playing essentially the same character he always plays, but this noir-style... Wild Card Trailer Nick Wild (Jason Statham) is working as a Las Vegas bodyguard for hire, mainly due... Black November Movie Review Nigerian filmmaker Jeta Amata clearly feels passionate about the problems in his country, but despite... Wallace Avery is struggling with the hardships that life is throwing at him; a boring... Rampart Movie Review Harrelson reunites with The Messenger writer-director Moverman for this grim drama about police corruption in... Rampart Trailer In the midst of the 1990's Rampart Scandal, Dave Brown works for the LAPD and... Cedar Rapids Movie Review This goofy fish-out-of-water comedy is deeply endearing. As it follows its central character on a... The Other Guys Movie Review A sharp script sets this fast and furious action comedy apart from other brainless summer... 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__label__wiki	0.859602	0.859602	Lorraine Kelly > Lorraine Kelly Makes Blunder As She Tells Liz Carr... Lorraine Kelly Makes Blunder As She Tells Liz Carr She Has "Funny Bones" By Ed Biggs in Movies / TV / Theatre on 19 January 2017 Follow Lorraine Kelly Lorraine Kelly Kelly hosted 'Silent Witness' star and comedian Liz Carr on her show 'Lorraine'. Daytime TV host Lorraine Kelly dropped a serious clanger live on-air this morning after she referred to her guest, disabled actress Liz Carr, as having “funny bones”. Speaking via her own morning show ‘Lorraine’ on ITV on Thursday (January 19th), the 57 year old presenter came up with an unfortunate choice of words as she was referring to Carr’s self-professed great sense of humour and attitude toward her disability. “You’ve got funny bones,” she said by way of seguing into a conversation about Carr’s new play, a comedy called ‘Assisted Suicide: The Musical’. Lorraine Kelly [pictured] told disabled actress Liz Carr she had "funny bones" “That’s just my medical condition, but thanks for bringing that up!” said 44 year old Carr jokingly, who has been wheelchair-bound since the age of seven. Mortified, Lorraine quickly said “You know what I mean!” as the pair of them found the funny side of it. More: Lorraine Kelly believes she should have been “arrested” for her outrageous outfits in the past ‘Silent Witness’ star Carr has a rare condition called Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita, which causes limb joints to randomly become fixed in a bent or straightened position. She is also a stand-up comedian, referencing her condition and society’s view of the disabled in her material in addition to her work as a disability rights campaigner. “There's such negativity around disability, so when I knew I had to use a wheelchair, it was worse than death almost,” Carr wrote in The Guardian in 2016. “There is often hypocrisy in our obsession with language. Many people use the ‘right’ language but still see me as a cripple, if you see what I mean.” Back on ‘Lorraine, the host commented about Carr’s role in the new musical: “You mentioned your condition, but the fact is you're there and you just happen to be in a wheelchair.” Carr agreed, replying “that’s the way it should be.” More: Piers Morgan and Lorraine Kelly exchange saucy banter on-air over personalised pillow Lorraine Kelly believes she should have been 'arrested' for her outrageous outfits Lorraine Kelly's new workout DVD was designed for 'ordinary women' Lorraine Kelly: 'Exercise isn't about being glamorous' Lorraine Kelly: Fashion wasn't important to me Lorraine Kelly And Piers Morgan In Saucy On-Air Exchange Over Personalised Pillow Lorraine Kelly 'Cried' As She Received Obe Aled Jones And Lorraine Kelly Land Daybreak Jobs Lorraine Kelly Leaves Hospital After Nasty Horse Trample Lorraine Kelly Hospitalised After Nasty Horse Stamp Lorraine Kelly Can't Resist Half-time Pie At Dundee Match People Index: 0 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8632
__label__wiki	0.730411	0.730411	Nevada death-row inmate: 'Just get it done' By theoutlook.ca- Ken Ritter LAS VEGAS — A Nevada death-row inmate whose execution has been postponed twice said a legal fight over his fate is taking a tortuous toll on him and his family and he just wants his sentence carried out. The state should "just get it done, just do it effectively and stop fighting about it," Scott Raymond Dozier told The Associated Press. "I want to be really clear about this. This is my wish," Dozier said in a brief telephone call from Ely State Prison. "They should stop punishing me and my family for their inability to carry out the execution." Dozier's comments Wednesday came a month after a judge in Las Vegas postponed his execution at nearly the final hour. Nevada law calls for capital punishment by lethal injection. But pharmaceutical companies nationwide have objected to their medicines being used in executions. On Thursday, a third drug company is due to ask Clark County District Court Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez to let it join with two other firms suing to block the use of their products for a three-drug lethal injection. rnsh on 08/14/2018: If you don’t want a record of web pages you’ve visited using internet browser, delete private browsing history you can delete all or some of your browsing history. Deleting your browsing history will take effect on all devices where you’re signed in to internet browser.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8635
__label__cc	0.742509	0.257491	BI Incorporated Names Gerry Callejo Software Product Manager By BI Incorporated \| \| Company Profile \| CorrectSource BOULDER, Colo. – Oct. 5, 2009 –BI Incorporated, a leading provider of offender monitoring technologies, treatment and training programs for correctional agencies, has named Gerry Callejo software product manager, effective immediately. Callejo will be responsible for managing the overall life cycle of BI’s software systems that support the company’s community correctional customers. Increasingly, software is becoming a key element in BI’s overall suite of electronic supervision products and support services. Specifically, Callejo will manage BI software from inception to phase-out to maximize business value while working closely with marketing, sales, engineering, finance, quality, manufacturing and installation. By focusing on software development and management, BI continues to simplify the customer interface with its products and services and help customers maximize efficiency and outcomes. Callejo has more than 10 years of experience in product management, including extensive experience within technology and software solutions. Most recently, he has held roles as senior product manager with Countermind Ventures; senior product manager with Intrado (another national public safety company); product manager with Pinpoint Technologies (now Zoll Data Systems, also in public safety) and product manager with Jeppesen Sanderson, a Boeing Company, among other positions. Callejo holds Master of Business Administration, Regis University, and Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering, University of Kansas. About BI Incorporated (www.bi.com) Established in 1978, BI Incorporated is the leading technology, treatment and supervision company in community corrections today. BI contracts with approximately 900 governmental agencies nationwide, supporting them with a full continuum of intensive supervision technologies and community-based cognitive behavioral reentry programs for adult and juvenile offenders. BI’s ISO 9001:2008 certified national monitoring center, owned and operated by BI, provides 24/7 expert support supervision services exclusively for governmental agencies. BI works closely with local public corrections officials to cost effectively reduce recidivism, promote public safety, and strengthen the communities it serves using evidence-based practices in a community setting. Monica Hook, BI Incorporated, 303-218-1230	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8636
__label__cc	0.622896	0.377104	AT&T and its Union: To Strike or Not to Strike April 12, 2012 Employees, Leadership, Wireless Industry 1 Comment Will bosses at the Communications Workers of America sacrifice 40,000 of their members in an attempt to line their union’s coffers? Will they force these AT&T workers to strike in an attempt to bolster their own diminishing relevance? As of midnight last Saturday four of AT&T’s 35 union contracts covering 40,000 of their 256,000 employees expired, but for the time being, workers remain on the job; Whether they eventually strike or not, remains to be seen. In the meantime union officials decided to keep their members working while they try to hammer out terms of a new contract. There is nothing terribly unusual in these contract negotiations. AT&T is asking workers to pay more for health care premiums and co-payments, and seeking changes in antiquated work rules and job protection clauses. Many of the contract provisions they’re squabbling about were negotiated decades ago when AT&T was still a monopoly. For its part, the union is arguing for the status quo even though it knows the health care benefits AT&T workers receive are significantly more generous than those offered in virtually all other U.S. companies. Here are a few facts the union refuses to acknowledge: AT&T’s landline business, the old telephone company, is a deteriorating business. Thousands of customers are disconnecting their phones every month and moving to mostly non-union cable and cell phone companies. The company needs significant cost concessions from the union because landline revenues and operating income are in a downward spiral. Obviously times have changed from the old telephone monopoly days, but AT&T’s union contracts have remained largely unchanged. The union, too, is experiencing diminishing revenue in the form of dues collected from its members as AT&T continues to downsize its landline workforce. The union’s long-term survival is dependent upon its ability grow its number of dues paying members. The best way to increase members is to show that being a union member has significant advantages over not belonging to a union. Therefore, success against AT&T might enhance the union movement’s overall relevance in non-union companies. Where better to flex its muscle than in AT&T, which has a larger unionized fulltime workforce than any other U.S. company? Union officials have much to consider before they call a strike, not the least of which is their failed strike against Verizon Communications late last summer. 45,000 Verizon workers walked off their jobs shortly after their contract expired last August and returned to work two weeks later without a contract. Why? Workers didn’t really want a strike. Most Verizon workers know they are well paid and have exceptional benefits. Workers essentially pressured their union to end the strike. They lost two weeks pay for nothing, and still have no new contract eight months later. Bottom line: The union bluffed and lost. The last thing the union wants is a similar outcome with AT&T. As union membership continues to erode across the country and unions continue to become more and more irrelevant, AT&T’s union badly needs a win. They may be willing to endure a nasty strike to make a point for the overall union movement…an attempt to save unions from continuing to move along the path to obsolescence in the private sector. The question is whether AT&T’s union workers will support their union. Visit my new website at www.dennystrigl.com and follow me on Twitter @dfstrigl AT&T, jobs, labor unions, unions One Response to AT&T and its Union: To Strike or Not to Strike Captain T says: Great read! Americans don’t support unions like they used to.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8643
__label__wiki	0.822367	0.822367	Etihad Unveils The Residence Cabin By Rachel Will - May 5, 2014 Etihad has unveiled its new Airbus A380 plane including The Residence cabin. The Residence features three rooms. The private en-suite Residence bathroom. Dining in the new Business Studio. The Lobby lounge is available to first and business passengers. The new First Apartment offers a full bed. New economy head rests. Etihad has unveiled its new Airbus A380 plane including The Residence cabin, offering a private jet experience aboard their superjumbo jet. The Residence offers a three-room configuration including a full double bed and Savoy Hotel-trained butler on call. Located on the plane’s upper deck, The Residence measures 12 square meters and offers amenities unprecedented in commercial aviation including a private en-suite bathroom and gourmet chef. Etihad also unveiled its First Apartment which offers a full bed and double-seat couch. Nine First Apartments will be available along with eight First Suites. First and business passengers will have access to the plane’s lobby with a circular seating area and full-service bar. Business class has also been reimagined as Business Studios with a fully flat bed, noise-canceling headphones, and direct aisle access. Even the plane’s economy class has been redesigned with ergonomic seating and fixed headrests. Ten A380 planes are currently on order with the first due for delivery in December for the airline’s London Heathrow route. A second A380 will operate on the same route from the first quarter of 2015 and by the end of 2015, Etihad Airways will have five A380 planes with operations to both Sydney and New York. The upgraded cabin will also be available for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, but The Residence cabin, First Apartment, and Lobby will only be found aboard in the airline’s A380. For more information, visit Etihad. Rachel Will 16:36 Etihad Now Offering Reduced Fares from Asia to Europe Airline Buzz With holiday season just around the corner, we've compiled our top picks of the latest airline news.... Etihad Launches Designer Loungewear for First-Class Passengers The loungewear is not just meant for relaxing and sleeping while in the air, but can be reused and k... Qatar Puts A350 on Munich Flights The carrier is servicing double dailies from Doha to Munich with its A350 XWB. KLM Offers Art-Inspired Wines on Air Stay up-to-date with the latest airline news about KLM, Air New Zealand, and Vistara Airlines. Travel Deal: Hong Kong Airlines’ Chinese New Year Flash Sale Enjoy discounted fares to destinations in Asia, Australia, and North America. Etihad Will Launch A380s to Paris The Gulf carrier is rolling out the A380 on services between Abu Dhabi and the French capital from J...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0094.json.gz/line8645

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