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__label__cc	0.657649	0.342351	Emergent Chaos The Emergent Chaos Jazz Combo The Security Principles of Saltzer and Schroeder Quantum Progress Posted on March 13, 2008 by mordaxus What is it about the word “quantum” that sucks the brains out of otherwise reasonable people? There has to be some sort of Heisenberg-Schödinger Credulity Principle that makes all the ideons in their brains go spin-up at the same time, and I’m quite sure that the Many Worlds Interpretation of it has the most merit. (In case you’re a QM n00b, the ideon is the quantum unit of belief.) Fortunately, there seems to be some sanity coming to reporting about quantum computing. Just about every quantum computing article has a part in it that notes that there are quantum algorithms to break public crypto. The articles breathlessly explain that this means that SSL will be broken and the entire financial world will be in ruins, followed by the collapse of civilization as we know it. Otherwise sensible people focus on this because there’s very little to sink your teeth into in quantum computing otherwise. Even certified experts know that they don’t know what they don’t know. Scott Aaronson has a good article in Scientific American called “The Limits of Quantum Computers” (only the preview is free, sorry) that gives a good description of what quantum computers can’t do. I’m pleased to see this. SciAm has been a HSCP-induced quantum cheerleader over the last few years. I have been doing some research on the claims of quantum computing. I decided to pick the specific factoring ability of quantum computers, and produce some actual numbers about how we might expect quantum computing to develop. In other words, I’m going to be a party pooper. The crypto-obviating algorithms in question are Shor’s algorithm for factoring and an algorithm he developed for discrete logs. I was surprised to learn that Shor’s algorithm requires 72k3 quantum gates to be able to factor a number k bits long. Cubed is a somewhat high power. So I decided to look at a 4096-bit RSA key, which is the largest that most current software supports — the crypto experts all say that if you want something stronger, you should shift to elliptic curve, and the US government is pushing this, too, with their “Suite B” algorithms. To factor a 4096-bit number, you need 7240963 or 4,947,802,324,992 quantum gates. Lets just round that up to an even 5 trillion. Five trillion is a big number. We’re only now getting to the point that we can put about that many normal bits on a disk drive. The first thing this tells me is that we aren’t going to wake up one day and find out that someone’s put that many q-gates on something you can buy from Fry’s from a white-box Taiwanese special. A complication in my calculations is the relationship between quantum gates and quantum bits. For small numbers of qubits, you get about 200 qugates per qubit. But qubits are rum beasts. There are several major technologies that people are trying to tease qubits out of. There’s the adiabatic techlogies that D-Wave is trying. There are photon dots, and who knows how many semiconductor-based methods. It isn’t clear that any of these have any legs. Read Scott Aaronson’s harumphing at D-Wave, more pointed yet sympathetic faint praise and these educated doubts on photonics. Interestingly, Aaronson says that adiabatic quantum computers like D-Wave need k11 gates rather than k3 gates, which pretty much knocks them out of viability at all, if that’s so. But let’s just assume that they all work as advertised, today. My next observation is that probably looking at billions of q-bits to be able to get trillions of q-gates. My questions to people who know about the relationship between quantum gates and quantum bits yielded that the real experts don’t have a good answer, but that 200:1 ratio is more likely to go down than up. Intel’s two-billion transistor “Tukwila” chip comes out this year. Five trillion is a big number. We are as likely to need 25 billion qbits to factor that number as any other good guess. Wow. The factoring that has been done on today’s quantum computers is of a four-bit number, 15. If you pay attention to quantum computing articles, you’ll note they always factor 15. There’s a reason for this. It’s of the form (2n-1) ( 2n+1). In binary, 2n-1 is a string of all 1 bits. A number that is 2n+1 is a 1 bit followed by a string of 0s, and then a 1 again. These numbers are a special form that is easy to factor, and in the real world not going to occur in a public key. This is not a criticism, it’s an observation. You have to walk before you can run, and you have to factor special forms before you can factor the general case. Having observed that, we’ll just ignore it and assume we can factor any four-bit number today. Let’s presume that quantum computers advance in some exponential curve that resembles Moore’s Law. That is to say that there is going to be a doubling of quantum gates periodically, and we’ll call that period a “generation.” Moore’s specific observation about transistors had a generation every eighteen months. The difference between factoring four bits and factoring 4096 bits is 30 generations. In other words, 7243 230 = 7240963. If we look at a generation of eighteen months, then quantum computers will be able to factor a 4096-bit number in 45 years, or on the Ides of March, 2053. This means to me that my copy of PGP is still going to be safe to use for a while yet. Maybe I oughta get rid of the key I’ve been using for the last few years, but I knew that. I’m not stupid, merely lazy. I went over to a site that will tell you how long a key you need to use, http://www.keylength.com/. Keylength.com uses estimates made by serious cryptographers for the life of keys. They make some reasonable assumptions and perhaps one slightly-unreasonable assumption: that Moore’s Law will continue indefinitely. If we check there for how long a 4096-bit key will be good for, the conservative estimate is (drum roll, please) — the year 2060. I’m still struck by how close those dates are. It suggests to me that if quantum computers continue at a rate that semiconductors do, they’ll do little more than continue the pace of technological advancement we’ve seen for the past handful of decades. That’s no mean feat — in 2053, I doubt we’re going to see Intel trumpeting its 45 picometer process (which is what we should see after 30 generations). I spoke to one of my cryptographer friends and outlined this argument to him. He said that he thinks that the pace of advancement will pick up and be faster than a generation every eighteen months. Sure. I understand that, myself. The pace of advancement in storage has been a generation every year, and in flash memory it’s closer to every nine months. It’s perfectly conceivable that quantum computing will see horrible progress for the next decade and then whoosh off with a generation ever six months. That would compress my 45 years into 25, which is a huge improvement but still no reason to go begging ECRYPT for more conferences. On the other hand, it’s just as conceivable that quantum computing will end up on the Island of Misfit Technologies, along with flying cars, personal jetpacks, Moon colonies, artificial intelligence, and identity management. But I also talked to a bigwig in Quantum Information Theory (that’s quantum computing and more) and gave him a sketch of my argument. I heard him speak about Quantum Information and he gave the usual Oooooo Scary Quantum Computers Are Going to Factor Numbers Which Will Cause The Collapse of All Financial Markets And Then We Will All DIEEEEE — So That’s Why We Need More Research Money boosterism. He wouldn’t let me attribute anything to him, which I understand completely. We live in a world in which partisanship is necessary and if he were seen putting down the pompoms, he’d be fired. Telling middle-aged technocrats that the math says their grandkids are going to see quantum computers shortly before they retire will cause the research money dry up, and if that happens then — well, the world won’t end. And then where would we be? Nonetheless, he said to me sotto voce, “There’s nothing wrong with your math.” Photo is a detail from “Shop Full” by garryw16. This entry was posted in Economics, Metrics, Science by mordaxus. Bookmark the permalink. 21 thoughts on “Quantum Progress” Not a Quantum Bigwig on March 13, 2008 at 11:12 pm said: Mordaxus, If memory serves, the number of qubits needed to run shor’s algorithm on an k-bit number is only O(k), owing to the fact that there are efficient reversible circuits for modular exponentiation. Each “gate” in the quantum circuit should be thought of as roughly equivalent to a bit operation in a deterministic algorithm. So the statement “Shor’s algorithm requires 72k^3 quantum gates” is equivalent to saying it takes TIME 72k^3 to run. This, by the way, is almost exactly the number of steps it takes to do a RSA decryption with a k-bit key — no mistake, since the main step in the algorithm is to perform a k-bit modular exponentiation. So using “your math,” we are only, say 14 generations from being able to factor 4096-bit keys. Now, it is still very unclear that we will ever solve the engineering problems of building a scalable quantum computer, and it is absolutely clear that the current leader, NMR, will not scale to factor even 64-bit numbers; so you’re absolutely right that for the near future it is unwise to worry extensively about quantum computers. On the other hand, research conferences* are about thinking longer term, and I think it is absolutely appropriate for researchers to be thinking about ways to design cryptosystems that resist the known quantum attacks. Even if the quantum engineering problem is never solved, there is no guarantee that someone will not find a classical algorithm for factoring; and many of the newer designs could potentially be faster than RSA anyways. François Greu on March 23, 2008 at 12:50 pm said: A nitpick: should be the Heisenberg-Schrödinger Credulity Principle. For the rest I agree with Bruce. Of course my opinion is of little value: I know the spelling of the name of a Quantum Physics pionneer, but could not recognize a qbit from a boson if faced with these guys. Francois Grieu Mark on March 23, 2008 at 12:54 pm said: So the fundamental rationale is that because it’s not going to happen anytime in the immediate future, it’s not something we should worry about? Isn’t that the same mindset that they had in the 1960’s that ended up being such a hassle in the 90’s for Y2K? qubit on March 23, 2008 at 1:14 pm said: A draft of Aaronson’s paper can be found at http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/ Scott L. Burson on March 23, 2008 at 1:21 pm said: Hey! AI is not a “misfit technology”. It’s all over the industry. You just don’t see it because it’s under the surface. Granted, most of the big dreams of 30-40 years ago are still dreams, but many technologies developed by AI researchers over the years are now mainstream, like the clustering algorithms that give us recommendations on shopping sites. I think AI won’t really flower until we have affordable quantum computers. But even in its present state, which I would argue is still embryonic, it’s not in the same category as personal jetpacks. Chris on March 23, 2008 at 1:32 pm said: >”I’m still struck by how close those dates are.” Well that isn’t so close. It is four (almost five) 18 month generations, which is 16 (almost 32) times difference…. Alsee on March 23, 2008 at 3:10 pm said: I see one potential problem in the reasoning. It assumes a Moore’s Law style growth, Ok, reasonable. However we have not yet begun on an actual curve yet. We are still seeking an actual technology path to apply. It is possible that once we do figure out a “how” on practical application of Quantum Computing, that the initial starting point of practical application may be extremely high. If we figure out a basic “how” of quantum computing that can operate on a silicon microchip type platform, it is possible that mechanism could immediately be moved onto a billion gate microchip. So we’re not really on a QM Moore Law track yet. We might START on that track at the billion gate level. And if that happens, a very big if, if that happens then you have just jumped something like 25 generations ahead of your above calculations. If that were to happen, a very big if, then 4096 bit public key crypto could fall in essentially the time span it takes industry to physically switch over manufacturing to the new design. Enginerd on March 23, 2008 at 3:50 pm said: The pace of progress for semiconductor-based computers has slowed considerably in the past few years. Yeah, flash is doing great, but the fundamental lithographic techniques have been running up against walls. Part of the reason to try to invent a quantum computer is just to keep it going. Feature sizes are 45 nm now. I’m not sure what the fundamental limit would be size-wise, assuming you could even etch it, but it likely wouldn’t be smaller than a few angstroms. We’ll say 5. That means we only have 7 generations max, or 15 years of semiconductor based computers. And the speed of progress is going to slow considerably, seeing as the only way to get angstrom resolution now is with electron beams. So it’s not really about beating standard computers, just keeping up the trend. Dan on March 23, 2008 at 10:30 pm said: Beale Ciphers approach the strength of One Time Pad without the hassle of picking “truly random” numbers. Just take your plaintext, cipher it against 3 or more different websites that you’re sure won’t change and you’re good to go. The key is to not just use “add” or “xor”, but to use a known set of reversible transformations which don’t necessarily result in a datum of identical size; and to do this 3 times or more, not just twice. Doing so makes any statistical analysis attack virtually impossible. Send changes to the transformations set as part of a message to keep a session. Michael de Podesta on March 24, 2008 at 5:26 am said: Interesting article. k-cubed or k-11 aside, and taking note of comments above that the timescale for a practical quantum computer might be anywhere between a decade and a century – or longer – I have a comment. From my conversations with friends who do this for a living, I am deeply skeptical about the possibility that practical quantum computers will ever exist. My objection is just that they are essentially analogue computers. They aim to map a problem to the evolution of a physical system. It may be that research in this area makes the most sensitive detectors of anything ever made – that’s realistic. And it may be we will learn a thing or two about quantum mechanics – that’s likely too. But the idea that they will make working devices seems just…unlikely. I would also say the idea of SOMETHING interesting-who knows what- arising from this research was pretty high. As an aside I find it curious the alignment of interests of the idiosyncratically diverse personalities of the scientists who work on this problem, and the rather mainstream interests of the bankers and generals who tell the government it is worth funding. Thanks for the article and the discussion Fred P on March 24, 2008 at 10:32 am said: Main article- I’m unclear why one couldn’t use fewer quantum gates in exchange for more time, although this would only give a few generations in your calculations. Are you trying to sell a product, or have you just bought into someone else’s sales spiel? Problem 1) “websites that you’re sure won’t change” – I’m curious as to how one would do this, unless one was in possession of the websites. In any case, this would do little, since you’d still need to transmit and manage information about the web sites; at best, this is just a means of data compression (for the key) with both a lot of leakage of information and poor key selection. At worst, you’re just setting yourself up to have your communications cracked at virtually no effort for the attacker. Problem 2) “The key is to not just use “add” or “xor”, but to use a known set of reversible transformations which don’t necessarily result in a datum of identical size; and to do this 3 times or more, not just twice.” – 3 times likely helps some. Using “reversible transformations which don’t necessarily result in a datum of identical size” doesn’t. Suggesting that it does violates Shannon’s Maxim: “the enemy knows the system”. If one uses the approach that you claim Beale Ciphers uses, you’d better hope that none of your attackers are competent. Dave Bacon on March 24, 2008 at 11:27 pm said: Gauntlet picked up and returned 🙂 Mordaxus on March 25, 2008 at 2:33 am said: (Echoed from Dave Bacon’s link.) I freely admit that I’m a mathematician, not a physicist, and that there is much about quantum computation that I do not understand. Nonetheless, here’s the gauntlet: when do you think it is reasonable that there will be a quantum computer that can factor a 4096-bit key in quasi-reasonable time? (Oh, let’s say a year of running time.) Under the assumptions that Moore’s law continues with semiconductors indefinitely, 2060 is a good guess. Under my lick-my-finger-and-stick-it-in-the-wind calculations for quantum computers, assuming similar ramps and dead reckoning, it’s 2053. I further observe that those two guesses are interestingly close. What’s your guess? What’s your reasoning? if it makes you feel any better, I predict we get a usable quantum computer before we get a HAL-9000-level AI, or flying cars, or jet packs, or moon bases. Michael Bacon on March 25, 2008 at 9:18 am said: It’s always good to be skeptical, so that much about your post is appreciated. However, your response was inadequate to Dave Bacon’s (no relation) post that went through a number of the facts and some of the reasoning upon which you base your conclusions. I think if you’re post is to be taken seriously as more than mere skepticism or even as justified criticism of press hype — that is, as a meaningful critique of quantum computing and the research surrounding it, then you need to do a better job at responding in a clear and reasoned way to the what seemed like pretty clear points raised by Dave. If the facts and reasoning upon which you base you conclusions are really off-the-mark, perhaps the conclusions themselves deserve to be questioned. Mark Aldington on March 25, 2008 at 12:22 pm said: I’m not a mathematician nor a physicist, nor a proponent of the “usual Oooooo Scary Quantum Computers Are Going to Factor Numbers Which Will Cause The Collapse of All Financial Markets And Then We Will All DIEEEEE” brigade either, though I concede as a consultant I will be assumed to be nearer the latter than the former. Just a couple of points: 1. It may be a bit imprudent to assume that Moore’s Law will have any relevance to the development of Q computing and arguably, IF, (and it is a very big IF)the very real problems get overcome and scaling is resolved, then it might not take many generations at all to get to 72k cubed. 2. As we have all recently noticed the banking system is totally reliant on confidence in the banking system. The merest sniff of quantum computers getting into the hands of the usual suspects and the media jumping on the story of the end of secure e-commerce as we know it, could make today’s market woes seem like a picnic. So while your skeptism is reasonable, the cost of your being right through continued research and conferences to prove the unviability of quantum computing is somewhat overshadowed if your assumptions turn out to be wrong. Michael Bacon on March 25, 2008 at 3:46 pm said: Sorry about the multiple postings — it didn’t seem like it was posting so I pushed it a few times — once again, very sorry about that 🙁 Richard Cant on March 25, 2008 at 5:33 pm said: First an observation about Moore’s law. Moore’s Law is a law of economics. It determines the way in which a technology will progress given that there are no insuperable technical factors to halt progress and there is an unlimited market for the products. In that case what Moore’s law models is essentially the investment cycle. For semiconductors the investment cycle for a plant is roughly 3 years and the desirable progress for a new plant is a factor 2 linear scaling (4x area). Given the unlimited potential market for the product each generation easily funds the next and so the investment cycle governs everything. Without funding progress stops dead. Hit a technical barrier and the same happens. A similar law operated in the aircraft industry – for ~ 50 years aircraft speed doubled about every 10 years. If you read books written in the late 50’s you will find that eeryone was totally convinced that this would continue for ever! Then they hit the heat barrier and it all stopped There are good reasons to believe that conventional computing will also hit a heat barrier within the next 10 years. (Have you put your laptop on your lap recently?) There are also good reason to suppose that Quantum computing will never have the unlimited market of conventional computing – and hence the funding will never be there to make it obey Moore’s law sup on March 27, 2008 at 7:12 am said: “Interestingly, Aaronson says that adiabatic quantum computers like D-Wave need k11 gates rather than k3 gates, which pretty much knocks them out of viability at all, if that’s so.” Where scott aareonson say this? Factoring 15 take 4^n time, on NMR “quantum computer”, becouse (current) NMR QC isn’t quantum computer at all and working with exponentional speedup, but playning kind of quantum game: “how will be if I put shit onto qunatum world”… Quantum computer is analog computer with at most precision 0.99999, which is limitation for any analog computer. And so quantum computer ever break after 100000 qubits or steps or need error correction, which somehow deal with this number (one error per 100 thousunds per qubit). I can’t imagine how is possible to correct analog errors, but maybe I somthing don’t understand yet. So according to my analog understanding of quantum computer it can’t factor even 100 bits number, don’t mutter how much qubits it will have, even if it will work like probabilitic computer like current NMR QC’s. It will take universe age time…	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line25952
__label__wiki	0.719418	0.719418	Seminar Report "APU DIPLOMATIC FORUM Philippines" Philippines - Japan Strengthening Strategic Partnership in the Asia-Pacific: Views from Both Sides On Wednessday, May 18, 2016, RCAPS welcomed Ambassador Toshiba Urabe, former Japanese Ambassador to the Philippines and Minister and Consul General Marian Jocelyn R. Tirol-Ignacio to deliver an RCAPS seminar entitled, "APU DIPLOMATIC FORUM Philippines- Japan Strengthening Strategic Partnership in the Asia-Pacific: Views from Both Sides". The seminar was held in English. Seminar Report "Issues on Tourism Macro Statistics" On November 18 (Wed.), 2015, RCAPS welcomed Professor Morihiko Kinjo (Faculty of Tourism Sciences and Industrial Management, University of the Ryukyus) to deliver an RCAPS seminar entitled, "Issues on Tourism Macro Statistics.” [Report by APM Professor Mariner Wang] In his 70 minute seminar, Professor Morihiko Kinjo (Faculty of Tourism Sciences and Industrial Management, University of the Ryukyus) talked about ①the current situation and challenges of tourism on Okinawa, ②challenges and policies for tourism on Okinawa, ③the Okinawa General Bureau’s efforts to promote tourism, ④whether or not the economic effect of tourism is overestimated by the input-output model? ⑤whether or not TSA (Tourism Satellite Account) is useless. Professor Kinjo first explained, using graphs, the current situation and challenges of tourism on Okinawa; then showed the transition in the number of inbound tourists and revenues from tourism, the average duration of stay, and the average amount consumed by per tourist; and concluded by discussing the future and challenges of tourism on Okinawa (how to extend duration of stay, expand foreign tourists, and increase amount consumed per tourist), using statistical data and graphs. Specifically, he discussed efforts for achieving longer duration of stay and increasing the amount consumed by tourists, measures for including Okinawan culture in tour menus, infrastructure building to mitigate traffic congestion for smooth transportation, economic effects from tourism on Okinawa, and international standards of how to measure the economic impact from tourism. In the Q&A session, there were many questions from the floor. 30 minutes was allocated for the Q&A session but it was extended by 10 more minutes and the seminar finished at 17:10. The seminar was a substantial one. It was surely very informative for the attendees. Professor Morihiko KINJO Seminar Report "Multiple Social Crises in South Korea: A Sociological Analysis" On Wednessday, December 9, 2015, RCAPS welcomed Professor Shin Kwang-Yeong（Department of Sociology, Chung-Ang University） to deliver an RCAPS seminar entitled, "Multiple Social Crises in South Korea: A Sociological Analysis". The seminar was held in English. [Report by APS Professor Shinji Kojima] Using tables and other visual representations, Professor Shin gave a talk on the rising socio-economic issues in contemporary South Korea. He began by elaborating on the 1997 financial crisis and the ensuing neoliberal reforms undertaken by the Korean government. One of the most significant consequences to the Korean society was the casualization of work, with increasing number of workers employed under insecure, precarious arrangements. Given the low level of social expenditure, more men and women of the working age are suffering from unstable employment and of poverty. In conjunction with the casualization of work, Professor Shin identified three crises the society is facing: rapid aging, high suicide rate, and the dissolution of family as observed in the recent rise of divorce rate. These phenomena have simultaneously led to the construction of an unequal society. The Q&A session was a lively one. The audience raised questions that compared their own country’s situation with the Korean case. Some students from Korea were concerned with educational inequality, while others questioned the nature of inequality from the standpoint of gender/women. Seminar Report "Corporate Venturing and Open Innovation" On Tuesday, October 27, 2015, RCAPS welcomed Mr Masazumi Ishii (Managing Director of AZCA, Inc.) to deliver an RCAPS seminar entitled, “Corporate Venturing and Open Innovation.” Mr Ishii talked about the current situation of Silicon Valley. The seminar was held in English. [Report by APS Professor Yukihiko Nakata] Mr Ishii obtained a Master of Science in computer science from Stanford University while he was engaged in system development at IBM Japan. After that, he joined McKinsey & Company, Inc. and worked as a management consultant. In 1985, Mr Ishii founded AZCA, Inc. in Silicon Valley, and has been doing consulting activities for Japanese companies that plan to advance into the US market. Also, since 2004, he has been involved in a venture capital company, Nonenti. Mr Ishii mainly talked about his experience in Silicon Valley. First, he explained about the history and current situation of Silicon Valley. He explained that the ecosystem of Silicon Valley is made up from universities / research institutions, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, incubators, and accelerators. As a result, 48% of investment in the US is happening in Silicon Valley, and world-renowned companies are clustered in Silicon Valley. In other words, the accumulation of money and knowledge has resulted in a virtuous circle. Henry Chesbrough, an American organizational theorist, advocated the concept of Open Innovation, which creates values by organically combining ideas from inside and outside the company. The idea of Open Innovation is supporting the current status of Silicon Valley. There are two key factors to continue bringing about innovation: openness and tolerance for failure. Japanese companies lost their competitive edge in many areas in the global market due to lacking the concept of open innovation. The concept of corporate venturing that actively uses external resources is important for companies. After this RCAPS Seminar, Mr Ishii also delivered a lecture to member companies of the semiconductor cluster in Oita Prefecture about the prospects for semiconductor-related companies from the viewpoint of Silicon Valley. Mr. Masazumi Ishii Chair：Professor Nakata Yukihiko（APS, APU） Seminar Report："From Rakuten to Kibidango:Crowdfunding as Viable Tool for Entrepreneurs" On October 21, 2015, RCAPS welcomed Mr Ryota Matsuzaki (CEO, Kibidango, Inc.) to deliver an RCAPS seminar entitled, "From Rakuten to Kibidango: Crowdfunding as Viable Tool for Entrepreneurs.” In the beginning of the seminar, Professor Nakata explained cloud innovation. As information technology (IT) develops, social network services (SNS), social media, crowdfunding, and crowdsourcing have appeared. By utilising crowdfunding, a large number of people can become the main players in the crowd, and create and accelerate innovation. This has been called as crowd innovation and makes it easier to start businesses. Mr Ryota Matsuzaki talked about how crowdfunding is actually used and answered questions from the floor. After working in the investment bank division of the Industrial Bank of Japan, Mr Matsuzaki established Rakuten with Mr Hiroshi Mikitani and four other members in 2000. Mr Matsuzaki was engaged in M&A in Rakuten Group and became independent in 2011. He was inspired by Kickstarter, the biggest crowdfunding service in the United States, which has made many great ideas into reality. He launched Kibidango, Inc. in Japan in February 2013. Kibidango has supported 137 projects so far and has gathered 100 million yen. The company uses a method called “All or Nothing” in which, if a certain amount of target money has been raised in a certain period of time, funding support will be given. The success rate so far is 80%. One of the success cases is a camera bag, Ciclissimo, which looks like a messenger bag and allows for taking out a camera quickly. Ciclissimo attracted 6.55 million yen from 226 people. Another case is an artificial arm made using a 3D printer. Mr. Matsuzaki Ryota << < 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 > >>	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line25953
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__label__cc	0.749348	0.250652	Madison Madden, M.B.A; B.A. Public Relations and Marketing Owner, Licensed Esthetician Madison earned a B.A. in Communications with concentration in both Marketing and Public Relations from Virginia Tech. While living in New York City, she continued her studies taking classes at the Fashion Institute of New York and at New York University (NYU) before completing a Master's in Business Administration. Madison entered the beauty industry in 2002 and has worked for modeling agencies in Washington, DC and Greensboro. She has modeled in local and national print and television advertising campaigns. Serving as "Miss Roanoke" she was a state "Top Five" finalist in Miss Virginia and Miss Virginia USA; her grace, beauty and confidence is evident to all. Madison's beauty illuminates from within and she has earned national honors for community service and leadership. "As a licensed esthetician and spa owner, my mission is to help others recognize their inner and outer beauty. It is important to feel good about yourself so that you have the confidence needed to conquer life's challenges. Enhancing your personal style using products that are safe and healthy, taking a few moments to de-stress with an amazing facial or massage, or adding a fashion accessory can give you the boost needed to make you feel extra special. That is my goal and why I founded GLAMHOUSE Day Spa. To provide the best products and the best service to the amazing women of the Roanoke Valley." Ivy Bailey - Licensed Cosmetologist Raised in Maui, Hawaii, Ivy took the opportunity to accelerate her high school education, graduating two years early, and dive into the world of cosmetology at 17. Her training under a Master Stylist at the most awarded salon on Maui has molded her passion and skill for all things beauty. Her favorite thing about facials, waxing and lashes is how relaxing and luxurious it can feel! Ivy knows the importance of continued education and keeping up with the latest trends, attending seminars with celebrity hairstylists like Jen Atkin of Ouai Haircare and lash training with Borboleta and the School of Glamology. Now, Ivy looks forward to making the women of Roanoke look and feel their best with all of the services that GLAMHOUSE has to offer. Leigh Ann Shires - Licensed Cosmetologist & Licensed Esthetician Leigh Ann is a highly motivated stylist who has been in this industry for eight years. She is always eager to learn the latest trends to make clients look and feel their best. She is very knowledgeable of color formulations and products in order to recommend the most suitable product to a client. Leigh Ann is also a skilled nail technician and is excellent at shaping, filing, and painting nails. She is a Certified DevaCurl stylist and specializes in (but is not limited to) balayage, deva cuts and gray coverage. Her strong love for this industry, fuels her efforts to make sure every client is beyond happy with each visit. FOR HAIR APPOINTMENTS PLEASE CALL OR TEXT: 540.312.4575 Shauna Braaten - Licensed and Certified Massage Therapist Shauna is a certified and licensed massage therapist who has been practicing massage for over 8 years. After graduating from the Virginia School of Massage in Charlottesville, Shauna furthered her training in Relaxation, Swedish, Deep Tissue, Sports and Pregnancy massage. Shauna’s goal is to create a positive impact on the GLAMHOUSE Day Spa clients’ health and support them in their journey of wellness. By utilizing 8+ years of experience in massage therapy, she strives to assist each guest in reaching their goals of pain management, increased range of motion, and relaxation. Shauna also believes that massage doesn’t have to hurt to be effective. By focusing on each guest’s sense of comfort and relaxation, she can help to achieve deep tissue results without pain and discomfort. She looks forward to sharing the many benefits of massage with our clients! Jordan McNeil - Licensed Cosmetologist Jordan, an Independent Stylist located at GLAMHOUSE, is a creative professional that appreciates every aspect of the makeover process. She stays very motivated and is always eager to tackle any challenge that is thrown her way. Jordan specializes in (but is not limited to) modern color techniques, hair extensions, and hair cuts. Her special certifications include being a level two Dreamcatchers Extensions specialist and a Certified DevaCurl Inspired Stylist. She strives to ensure each client has a memorable and positive experience. Molly Marshall - Licensed Cosmetologist Molly has been a stylist for about five years. She got into the cosmetology world at a young age and discovered it was her passion at 16. Ever since then she has loved going to hair shows to learn more, keep up on trends, and acquire new techniques. Balayage and color services are her specialties. One thing she likes to ask her clients is if they want their hair to "scream", "talk", or "whisper". No matter what the look is you're going for, she can make it happen! Capitola Jackson- Public Relations / Marketing Team Katie Jones - Public Relations / Marketing Team Katie Jones is a Roanoke-based communications specialist. She started her career in New York City and spent 5 years working in the PR department of the New York Philharmonic, where she served as Assistant Director, Tour & Media Relations. She then worked for a PR agency in New Orleans, managing a variety of accounts in the lifestyle, hospitality, real estate, and technology industries. During her time in New Orleans she managed the media campaign for the first Tiffany & Co. location in New Orleans. Katie serves on the Board of the Junior League of Roanoke Valley and has two kids, Ashley and Charlie.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line25962
__label__cc	0.628238	0.371762	Tammy Klein Future Fuels Outlook Fueling the Future Update on Global Low Carbon Fuel Initiatives: It’s Complicated 02.12.19 \| Blog \| By: Tammy Klein Countries 20 years ago were just beginning to consider the impact of transport, in particular fuels and vehicles, on their respective environments, especially air pollution and congestion mitigation. The U.S., Canada, EU and Japan had already introduced fuel quality improvements such as the reduction of sulfur in gasoline and diesel and stringent emission standards for light-duty vehicles (LDVs). Very few countries had in place fuel economy standards, and there were no GHG standards. In fact, there were no specific climate change-related transport policies really in place. Moreover, there were few countries that had set heavy-duty vehicle (HDV) emission standards and none that had set them for HDV fuel economy. Japan was the first country to set HDV fuel economy standards in 2005. Many other countries were just beginning to phase out leaded gasoline and that was the extent of their involvement in transport-related environment policymaking. Electric vehicles (EVs) were a pipe dream. There was some ethanol blending in the U.S. and especially Brazil, while biodiesel was beginning to be blended on a larger scale in the EU. There was very little biofuels blending elsewhere in the world and there were no advanced biofuels — another pipe dream. Car bans and restrictions on a city and even nationwide basis would have been unthinkable. But now, here we are in a more complex world with more EVs (and different types of them), more biofuels, more different kinds of fuels and much more attention on fuels regulation in general. Figure 1 shows a “rough” evolution or progression of global fuels regulation beginning in the 1980s through today. Figure 1: “Rough” Evolution of Global Fuels Regulation, 1980s-2010s So much has changed. Many more countries are setting both LDV and HDV emission and fuel economy/GHG standards and improving fuel quality, primarily by reducing sulfur in diesel. Concurrent with setting tougher fuel economy standards, some countries are promoting EVs with fiscal incentives and/or with actual mandates, similar to California’s Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) program. Ethanol blending, while still dominant in the U.S. and Brazil, has spread to other countries while biodiesel blending has grown in the EU, U.S. and parts of Asia. A number of countries have set renewable transport obligations without specifying a particular biofuels type or mandate. Others have now set requirements specifically for advanced biofuels, now that some of these companies are beginning to scale up and commercialize. Several have set or are setting low carbon fuel programs. Finally, for the first time, cities and even countries are calling for a ban or limitation on the internal combustion engine vehicle (ICEV) in favor of the ZEV, public transport, walking, cycling and ride sharing. Looking collectively at the countries setting the foregoing policies, I would like to highlight the following trends that I’m seeing emerge: Fuel Quality ― Gasoline and Diesel Sulfur Reduction: Over 35 countries at or below 10 ppm representing 70% of global gasoline consumption while over 40 countries are now at or below 10 ppm representing 63% of total global diesel consumption. Countries will continue to improve fuel quality with the focus on sulfur reduction, though some have focused on other parameters as well. This is a key focus area for many African countries which have very poor fuel quality with diesel sulfur levels above 5,000 ppm and where air pollution, notably PM, is a serious issue. Vehicle Emission Standards: 43 countries now have vehicle emission standards for LDVs above Euro III covering about 80% of the vehicle market. LDV Fuel Economy/GHG Standards: Only four governments 10 years ago had introduced mandatory GHG emission and/or fuel economy standards: China, Japan, South Korea, and the U.S. Today these countries plus Brazil, Canada, the EU, India, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and South Korea, and the U.S. have established such standards. All are among the top 15 vehicle markets worldwide representing nearly 80% of new LDVs sold globally. Another 43 countries plan to set fuel economy standards, many in Africa. Future Fuel Outlook members[1] can read more about LDV fuel economy regulation globally here. HDV Fuel Economy/GHG Standards: The U.S., Canada and China have implemented multi-phase programs that grow in stringency over time. New standards are being implemented in India for the first time and take a different approach than other countries that is reflective of the HDV fleet make up in the country. Meantime, the EU institutions are in the process of setting HDV fuel economy/GHG standards for the first time and they could be far more reaching than what has been implemented in other countries to date. When the EU implements its standards, 57% of the HDV market will be covered. Members can read more about HDV fuel economy regulation globally here. Biofuels Mandates Generally: 34 countries have set specific mandates requiring biofuels blending (either ethanol, biodiesel or both); 42 countries have set renewable transport (which could include biofuels as well as electricity). Most of these countries are in the EU with targets that take effect in 2020. Mid- and Higher-Level Biofuels Blends: Brazil, Paraguay and Thailand, which has had higher level ethanol blends (E20-25+) in the market for years. This month Finnish government announced a 30% biofuels target to take effect in 2030. Norway has planned to move to E20. The U.S. EPA is working on a regulation that will be finalized this year to allow E15 blending. While implementing E10 has been a stretch, India nevertheless aspires to E20. Several African countries have contemplated higher ethanol blends. Future Fuel Outlook members can read more about these programs here. Advanced Biofuels: The EU’s REDII policy follows the U.S. Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS2) program in setting a specific target for advanced biofuels, but caps 1G biofuels at 7%, a global first. Several member states are beginning to transpose those targets into legislation. Members can read more about REDII here. Low Carbon Fuel-Type Programs: California, and now Brazil and Canada, have or are implementing such programs. The EU recently revised its Renewable Energy Directive (REDII) program. California and the EU recently extended their respective programs to 2030. Members can read more about these programs here. New Fuels: The REDII contemplates low carbon synthetic fuels, such as those produced by LanzaTech. The California LCFS has encouraged new, low carbon intensity (CI) fuels such as renewable natural gas (RNG or biomethane) and renewable diesel (HVO), neither of which were commercialized 20 years ago. In fact, RNG is one of the fastest-growing low carbon fuels in California. Electrofuels (also known as e-fuels or Power to X fuels) are being investigated, particularly in the EU, as a diesel substitute. Other synthetic fuels can be produced from gas flaring, for example. There are other types of advanced biofuels in various stages of commercialization now. These New Fuels Will Proliferate: I believe this will be the one trend that will continue and that we’ll see different types of fuels across a range of different transport modes driven by climate and air pollution concerns. In fact, the ultimate fuel mix will vary by country. For example, and just to provide an illustration to contemplate further (this is not a projection!!), we could see fuel mixes in the LDV and HDV fleet as shown in Figure 2 in the next 15-20 years. I did not include other fuels, such as natural gas, or alternative fuels such as methanol, but those fuels will no doubt be part of the growing fuel matrix complexity as well. This creates both opportunities and challenges for the affected industries. In any event, the bottom line is that the fleet will not fully electrify by 2030-2035 (and even afterward), but the public policy pressure to remove fossil fuels will continue. That will continue to drive the search for alternatives. Other Transport Modes: We are beginning to see fuels regulation and/or new fuels not just in road transport but in aviation and shipping as well. Alternative fuels are part of the International Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO’s) Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA). The number of offtake agreements for alternative jet fuel are increasing. I count at least 10 such agreements to date, though there are probably more. Moreover, the industry’s attention this year is on the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO’s) sulfur regulation, which requires 0.5% m/m to take effect next year. While that has parts of industry in a tizzy and created a consulting cottage industry, the real ball game in my view is when IMO starts its decarbonization effort under its Initial Strategy, released last year. Members can read more about the IMO’s Initial Strategy here. The Rise of ZEVs: Twenty-one countries have specific policies in place currently to support the growth of the ZEV market including actual mandates and targets (e.g. China, South Korea, California and nine other U.S. states), financial incentives and/or fleet procurement requirements. This is the biggest change in the last 18 months. In addition, 10 countries have pledged under the EV30@30 Campaign organized by the Clean Energy Ministerial to pursue the collective objective of 30% EV sales by 2030. Members can read more about ZEV policies and market issues here. ICEV Bans: For the first time, cities and even countries are calling for a ban or limitation on the ICEV in favor of the EV, public transport and ride sharing. That trend has continued since I first began tracking it in 2016. To date 12 countries have announced a ban on the sale of ICEVs and most of those policies take effect in 2030. Curiously, China is the only country without a specific ban date. Some of these policies are unclear on whether they apply to hybrid vehicles. In addition, another 19 cities have introduced bans or restrictions on ICEVs. Finally, 27 cities have signed C40’s “Fossil Free Declaration“. Members can read more about ICEV bans here. Tammy Klein is a consultant and strategic advisor providing market and policy intelligence and analysis on transportation fuels to the auto and oil industries, governments, and NGOs. She writes and advises on petroleum fuels, biofuels, alternative fuels, automotive fuels, and fuels policy. [1] The kinds of issues covered in this post are covered in much more depth for members of the Future Fuel Outlook service. 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__label__cc	0.642676	0.357324	Antependium Title: Antependium Subject: Embolism (liturgy), Ad orientem, Versus populum, Canon of the Mass, Liturgical reforms of Pope Pius XII The altar in St Mary's Anglican Church, Redcliffe, Bristol, England. It is decorated with an elaborate frontal in green, a colour typically associated with the seasons after Epiphany and Pentecost. An antependium (from Latin ante- and pendēre "to hang before"; pl: antependia), also known as a parament or hanging, or, when speaking specifically of the hanging for the altar, an altar frontal (Latin: pallium altaris), is a decorative piece, usually of textile, but also metalwork, stone or other material that can adorn a Christian altar, lectern, pulpit, or table (as opposed to the vestments worn by the minister or priest). Specifically, and as the etymology of the word suggests, an antependium hangs down in front of whatever it covers, and is to be distinguished from the altar linens which are used in the service of the Eucharist, and an altar cloth which covers the top of the altar table (mensa). 1 Types of antipendia 1.1 Western Christianity 1.2 Eastern Christianity 4 Other usages Types of antipendia Danish Romanesque gold antependium, once set with gems, c. 1200-1225 Western Christianity Antependium is the word used for elaborate fixed altar frontals, which in large churches, and especially in the Ottonian art of the Early Medieval period, were sometimes of gold studded with gems, enamels and ivories, and in other periods and churches often carved stone, painted wood panel, stucco, or other materials, such as azuelo tiling in Portugal. When the front of an altar is elaborately carved or painted, the additional cloth altar frontal normally reaches down only a few inches from the top of the altar table; this is called a 'frontlet'. In other cases it may reach to the floor (the "frontal", properly so called). In both situations, it will usually cover the entire width of the altar. A "Jacobean frontal" will cover the entire altar, reaching down to the floor on all four sides. Altar frontal in tempera paint on wood panel and stucco, Spain, Catalonia c. 1250, depicting the life of St Martin.[1] The Anglican Canons of 1603 order that the Lord's Table should be "covered, in time of Divine Service, with a carpet of silk or other decent stuff, thought meet by the Ordinary of the place" (can. 82).[2] Covers for lecterns and pulpits are generally similar to a frontlet, normally covering the "desk" of the lectern or pulpit and handing down about a foot or longer in front (visible from the congregation). Russian Orthodox priest standing in front of a fully vested altar (Düsseldorf, Germany) In the Orthodox Church, the Holy Table (altar) may be covered with one or two coverings. There is always an outer frontal, covering the top of the Holy Table and hanging down several inches on all four sides. This kind is used alone if the front of the Holy Table is elaborately carved or decorateed . For a "fully vested" Holy Table a second, inner hanging is used. This covers the Holy Table fully on the top and hangs down to the floor on all four sides. The analogia (icon stands) are covered with a covering known as a proskynitarion. Similar to the coverings used on the Holy Table there may, again, be only one outer covering or a second, inner covering that hangs to the floor (though, in this case, sometimes only in the front and back). A cloth antependium is normally of the same colour and fabric as the vestments worn by the clergy. The fabric may vary from very simple material such as cotton or wool, to exquisitely wrought damasks, fine watermarked silk, velvet, or satin. Embellishment is commonly by means of decorative bands of material called orphreys, embroidery (sometimes in gold or silver thread, or making use of pearls and semi-precious stones) or appliqués, fringes and tassels, all of a complementary colour to the fabric. The most frequently used symbol on both vestments and hangings is the cross. The antependium is normally lined in satin, using a matching hue. Paraments hanging from an Advent wreath in a Methodist church. The colours used tend to be fixed by the liturgical tradition of each denomination. Most Western Christian churches that observe a developed liturgical tradition use white, gold, red, green, violet and black, with each being used on specified occasions. A rose colour may be employed for the fourth Sunday (Laetare Sunday) in Lent and the third Sunday (Gaudete Sunday) in Advent. In Anglican circles, blue is sometimes prescribed for feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary (see liturgical colours) although it is also used, unofficially, in some areas of the Roman Catholic Church. Among Eastern Christians, there tend to be two types of vestments: somber (dark) ones and festal (bright) ones. Beyond that, no specific colours are officially required. Among groups such as the Russian Orthodox Church, a pattern of fixed colours has developed, somewhat similar to that used in the West, although they are not, strictly speaking, required. Other usages Antipendium can also be used to describe the front of the altar itself, especially if it is elaborately carved or gilded. The famous Pala d'Oro in St. Mark's Basilica in Venice originated as an antependium, although it is used as a reredos now. Altar cloth Liturgical colours ^ "Altar Frontal with Christ in Majesty and the Life of Saint Martin". ^ Cross, F. L., ed. (1957) The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. London: Oxford University Press; p. 530 Altar Frontal article from the Catholic Encyclopedia Orthodox altar with red frontal Jacobean Frontal St. John's Church, Edinburgh, Scotland Articles needing additional references from October 2010 Eastern Christian liturgy Christian religious objects Eastern Christian vestments Eastern Christian liturgical objects United Kingdom, Angles, Cornwall, Isle of Man, English language Altar cloth, Catholicism, Lord's Prayer, Tridentine Mass, Eastertide	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line25965
__label__wiki	0.631879	0.631879	Author: admin2018 From this Wednesday, 16 pharmacies throughout the South American country sell psychoactive cannabis for non-medical use. These are the keys to the last step in this Uruguayan project, a pioneer in the world. Uruguay became the first country in the world to legalize the cultivation, production and sale of marijuana for recreational use. From this Wednesday, 16 pharmacies throughout the South American country sell cannabis, culminating a process of 3 and a half years. At the end of 2013, during the government of then President José “Pepe” Mujica, Parliament approved Law 19,172, which established the sale of psychoactive cannabis for non-medical use. Previously, other points of the law had been implemented, such as approval of self-cultivation and cannabis clubs. These are the keys to the last step in this Uruguayan project, a pioneer in the world. To avoid tourism linked to marijuana, only Uruguayan citizens (legal or natural) who reside in the country can buy cannabis in pharmacies. In addition, it is necessary to be over 18 years of age and to register in an official register in the National Post offices. According to the Cannabis Regulation and Control Institute (IRCCA) of Uruguay, where 3.4 million people live, up to July 16, 4,959 people registered. For a reference, there are 6,948 registered self-cultivators and 63 cannabis clubs, reports IRCCA. People registered to buy marijuana in pharmacies can not integrate any of the other two categories. Prior control of the fingerprint, the so-called “purchasers” can buy up to 40 grams of cannabis per month for personal use in the 16 pharmacies that have been adhered to so far. What you buy in pharmacies are “cannabis flowers – buds – packaged in their natural state, dried, not grinded or pressed,” IRCCA reports. Each package has 5 grams and has a price of US $ 6.5 set by the government. At the moment, two varieties are sold, called “Alfa I” and “Beta I”, which are hybrids of Indica and Sativa predominance respectively. According to IRCCA, both contain low to medium levels of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the natural active ingredient that produces the psychoactive effects. Who Produces It? The marijuana sold in pharmacies is cultivated, packaged and distributed by two companies, Symbiosis and International Cannabis Corp, which won a public tender. These have state authorization and, as such, pay taxes. However, the Uruguayan newspaper El Observador reported that the State does not profit from this process other than for the operation of the IRCCA. Why Did You Adopt This Policy? The idea behind the approval and implementation of Law 19,172 is, according to the government, to reduce drug trafficking and prevent Uruguayan people from inciting to use hard drugs. “The problem is not drugs, it is men and women, and the social bonds that are generated, with a substance, with their peers and with society, that is the fundamental thing,” said the former Secretary General of the National Drug Board from Uruguay Milton Romani, to the Efe Agency. Since Uruguay began to apply these public policies, other countries mainly in Latin America have begun to analyze and change their “prohibitionist” regulations regarding marijuana. admin2018 September 28, 2018 September 28, 2018 Marijuana In Uruguay No Comments Read more There are already two points of sale that announced that they would stop marketing cannabis. Faced with the blockade of bank accounts to pharmacies that sell cannabis, the Executive Branch is analyzing some alternatives among which is going to market it in cash at the herbalists. While looking for an exit, a second pharmacy announced that it would stop selling the drug. It is understood that the herbalists are smaller businesses that do not depend on the banks and when operating in cash they would not have problems. If this option is chosen, the instrumented system will be reversed for sale in pharmacies, at least temporarily. For this, it is thought to modify the regulatory decree of the law passed in Parliament in 2013. The idea of marketing cash only was handled yesterday by former President JoseMujica in an informal chat with journalists at the Legislative Palace. As he said, the formula “is novel because it gives an immediate response.” The fund’s exit so that the legalization of the sale of marijuana can return to normal operations goes through the mission to be carried out at the beginning of September by the president of the Central Bank, Mario Bergara, to the United States. It is estimated that he will be accompanied by the secretary of the Presidency Miguel Angel Toma or the assistant secretary Juan Andres Roballo to Washington and New York to hold meetings with Federal Reserve authorities. Mujica planned to travel to the United States but said he would not be part of the official delegation. He said that he intends to meet with linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky “to take some wines.” The government already made contacts on this issue with the US and Canadian embassies on the progress of the system. For Mujica, the first days of operation were auspicious. “If there is something in the place that is regulated to the extreme of the impossible is this, the problem is that you have to prove it to the world,” he said. From your point of view, you can not delay an exit because “people do not have back and demoralize,” he said about pharmacies that market the drug. Mujica stressed that the purpose of the law is not to promote the consumption of marijuana, but “to put the accent on the fight against drug trafficking (…) I was interested in trying to clarify to the people that this starts as a public security problem. I still worry about drug trafficking; I will never recommend it to people who smoke marijuana, “he said. For the former president, “in the long run” the problems linked to the closure of bank accounts will have “a solution because they always have.” This same version was given yesterday to the sizeable front party by the president of the Cannabis Regulation and Control Institute (Ircca) Augusto Vitale, and the Secretary of the Drug Board Diego Olivera. Sources that participated in the meeting assured El País that it was reaffirmed that the law “is more valid than ever” and “will not be modified.” There it was handled that “from the right one seeks to destroy the law.” The deputies agreed that a “defense of Uruguayan sovereignty” is necessary and reaffirmed the need to seek solutions at an international level. Some deputies went so far as to suggest that marijuana could be sold in euros, to prevent the money from being sent to correspondent banks in the United States. “I am concerned about the sovereignty of the country and that the interference is such that it ends up cutting off the possibility of selling a legal product,” Deputy Oscar Groba told El País (Espacio 609). In his opinion, the marijuana law “is well done” and has “fantastic results.” “People know what they consume, consume a product of good quality, and a product was taken from the gondola to the mouths of drug sales,” said the legislator. The opposition questioned the alternatives handled by the Executive Power to deal with the closure of bank accounts to pharmacies. “The flexibility that the government proposes to resort to cash to buy cannabis is what many people ask for financial inclusion,” said nationalist senator Javier Garcia on Twitter. So he concluded that if solutions were found so that banks do not hinder “, there must also be for all Uruguayans who do not want mandatory banking.” admin2018 September 27, 2018 September 28, 2018 Marijuana Pharmacies No Comments Read more It is because the banks refuse to operate with the businesses involved in the commercial chain. The government seeks to mediate and solve the problem. The sale of marijuana in pharmacies, a vital piece of the rule that legalized the cannabis market in Uruguay, ran into a complication: banks refuse to work with companies that participate in the production and marketing of the drug. One of the 16 pharmacies that sold cannabis in Montevideo, capital of the country, gave up on doing so after Banco Santander warned that it could not continue operating with a trade. Other pharmacies have already been informed that their accounts will be closed if they do not stop selling marijuana. “The decisions of linking clients are made locally, and within the current policy, in this line, we have decided not to participate in this area as we do not participate in others,” said sources at Banco Santander according to a communication sent to The Associated Press by the company that manages its communication in Uruguay. Also, the state bank Banco República, the largest in the country, told pharmacies that they must close the accounts of those selling marijuana. Diego Olivera, secretary general of the National Drug Board, explained that they are meeting with each of the pharmacies to find out how many have received warnings from banks. “We are reconstructing the situation of each one with individual interviews, and it is expected that, as the days go by, all of them will receive some notification.” The official tried to lower the drama to the issue. “Undoubtedly, in these processes of paradigm change different moments of difficulty are found, we are working on alternatives.” Olivera did not want to advance what the solutions could be. “We hope to minimize the negative effect, this is a legal activity, and we reaffirm our commitment to the full application of the law.” Senator José Mujica, who was president when the marijuana market was legalized in 2013, demanded that the authorities solved the problem and threatened to “lock” Parliament if that does not happen. Although there is a law that enabled and regularized the market for this drug in Uruguay, the marijuana trade is still illegal in most of the world, so banks in countries where it is prohibited cannot accept money from such activity. As explained to the AP by authority of the government’s economic team, whose name can not be disclosed because they are not authorized to make statements, Uruguayan banks could jeopardize their links and correspondent positions with international banks if they do not know that regulation. California Stores Are Also Suffering From The Same Problem Some California stores that sell medical marijuana legally have a problem similar to that of Uruguayan pharmacies because they can not access the banking system because that business is still illegal at the federal level in the United States. The lawyer Pablo Durán, legal advisor of the Pharmacy Center of Uruguay, told Carve radio that the problem with banks is suffered by pharmacies that work “within the framework of the law” and held that the sale of marijuana is an “absolutely regulated, lawful, regulated and controlled.” In Uruguay it is difficult for a company to have no access to the financial system since the salaries of the employees must be deposited in a bank account due to a legal obligation, being forbidden the payment in cash or checks. The offer of cannabis in drug stores started on July 19. Before all else, there were 4,959 enrolled customers, yet the number rose to 12,460, as per the Cannabis Regulation, and Control Institute give the recent figures. The system began to operate with only 16 pharmacies registered to sell marijuana throughout the country and only four in Montevideo, a city with almost a million and a half inhabitants. The pharmacy that was deleted from the system was one of four in the capital. After registering at a post office each user can access 40 grams of the substance each month. To record, you must be over 18 and be an Uruguayan citizen or have legal residence in the country. The price of the gram of marijuana was set at the equivalent of $ 1.30. Buyers can go to the pharmacies without needing to mention their name or present documents since it is enough for them to verify that they are registered in the registry of the state institute. admin2018 September 26, 2018 September 28, 2018 Uruguayan Pharmacies No Comments Read more In July of this year, the small nation of Uruguay became the first country in the world to legalize the sale of marijuana in all its territory. Marijuana is sold in pharmacies, but the low price and obstacles put by the banks mean that few have decided to sell it. A long queue of people waits every evening at the doors of a small neighborhood pharmacy in Montevideo. So little that they can only enter one by one. The process is slow, but the clientele, mainly young, does not seem to mind. They wait their turn standing or sitting, talking in groups of two or three, in the breeze of a warm spring afternoon. At the entrance, a pharmacist asks each of them to put their fingerprint on a scanner. The electronic device is connected to a government database that will authorize, or not, your weekly dose of 10 grams of legal marijuana. The product is of high quality, controlled by the State and guarantees an excellent high. “In the city, 25 grams of maryjane would cost you 3,000 pesos, that is, around 100 dollars [about 85 euros] for something that likely conveys a high measure of pesticides, seeds, and stems,” says Luciano, a youthful purchaser who It’s your turn now. “But here the same amount costs you only 30 dollars [about 25 euros], with a maximum quality guarantee, and in five-pack thermosealed packages.” In July of this year, the small nation of Uruguay became the first country in the world to legalize the sale of marijuana throughout its territory. “The most important thing has been the paradigm shift,” says Gastón Rodríguez Lepera, an investor in Symbiosis, one of the two privately owned businesses that produce marijuana for the Institute for the Regulation and Control of Cannabis, of the Uruguayan government. “Uruguay decided at the end without much international support, they said it would not work, so look, it’s worked.” With a populace of just 3.4 million, in a small territory between its two neighboring giants, Brazil and Argentina (with people of 208 and 43 million respectively), Uruguay has long been at the forefront of progressive politics not only in South America but globally. A divorce law that allows women to separate from their husbands by merely asking for permission in a courthouse was approved as early as 1913. Abortion was legalized in 2012, with Uruguay being the only Latin American country to do so along with Cuba. Uruguay’s progressive temperament is due in part to a clear separation between Church and State in a region where the Catholic Church remains dominant. The Christmas calendar does not appear as such on the official holiday calendar. The majority of Uruguayans refer to that day with the denomination chosen by the government: family day. Easter week is called tourism week. The decision to venture into the legal marijuana market has not come unhindered. Mainly by the majority of pharmacists, who opposed resistance to acting as marijuana providers for recreational use (medical marijuana remains illegal in Uruguay). Only 12 of the 1,100 pharmacies in the country have registered to supply marijuana to the 17,391 registered consumers in the government system, which explains the long queue in the small pharmacy of Montevideo. The low price of the product and the low-profit margins explain the reluctance of pharmacies. “But the main problem is that the banks have threatened to close the accounts of the pharmacies that sell marijuana in Montevideo,” says one of the pharmacists who sell marijuana in Montevideo in any case, does not have any desire to uncover his name for fear of bank intervention. Although the sale of marijuana has been legalized in several states of the United States, it is still illegal at the federal level, causing most banks do not want to keep accounts related to the sale of marijuana anywhere in the world. Even now that sales have been fully legalized in Uruguay, the fear of getting into trouble with US federal authorities is real. “The problem with the banks was an unexpected complication,” says Eduardo Blasina, president of the cannabis museum in Montevideo, located in an old house in the artistic Palermo district of the Uruguayan capital. “But these potholes will end up smoothing out.”	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line25969
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__label__cc	0.534898	0.465102	Home News ASEAN Who is Le Luong Minh, ASEAN Secretary-General? Tech and Education by Arno Maierbrugger - Jan 16, 2013 Le Luong Minh (left) and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon Le Luong Minh was born on September 1, 1952. He is a native of Thanh Hoa, a coastal town 150 kilometers south of Vietnam’s capital Hanoi. Minh studied Diplomacy at the University of Foreign Affairs (now the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam) in Hanoi and received his degree in 1974. He then studied linguistics and English literature at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India. In 1975, he began his career in Vietnam’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was appointed Deputy Director-General for International Organisations in 1993. In 1995, he was appointed as Ambassador – Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office and Other International Organisations in Geneva. In 1997, he was appointed as Ambassador – Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations at Headquarters. Between December 1999 to December 2002, Minh was Deputy Director-General, then Acting Director-General for International Organisations in Vietnam’sForeign Ministry. He became Acting Director-General, then Director-General for Multilateral Economic Cooperation in the Foreign Ministry from December 2002 to January 2004. From 2004 to 2011, Minh was Vietnam’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative to the United Nations. From August 2007 to December 2008, he was concurrently Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs and from December 2008 till the end of his tenure in June 2011 concurrently Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs. He was nominated ASEAN Secretary-General by the government of Vietnam, a post which he took over on January 1, 2013. The ASEAN leaders endorsed him as ASEAN Secretary-General for 2013-2017 in a ceremony at the bloc’s headquarter in Jakarta on January 7, 2013. He is married and has two daughters. AirAsia chief’s futile bid to become ASEAN Secretary-General New ASEAN Secretary-General takes office Obama lifts US arms embargo on Vietnam in historic move Three ASEAN countries among top-50 innovative nations globally Pitsuwan aims at role in Thai government ASEAN’s GDP forecast to double by 2020 EU bans fish imports from Cambodia Kuala Lumpur targets more multinationals ASEAN data centers to grow by 40% Philippines to become ‘trillion-dollar economy’ Corruption still widespread in Southeast Asia	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line25977
__label__wiki	0.828733	0.828733	Our Latest Posts About: Spamalot A Spamalot Movie Sunday, February 15, 2015 1:00 AM By Joe Crescenzi Monty Python's Spamalot should be made into a movie. When Monty Python and the Holy Grail came out in 1975, it became a one of the biggest cult classics of all time. Forty years later, millions of people still talk it and it spawned a hugely successful Broadway musical, winning the 2005 Tony award for Best Musical. Although Spamalot is based on Monty Python's and the Holy Grail, I think that a film version of the musical is way past due. It's been over 10 years now, and there still isn't any talk of a movie. It's not unusual for a movie to be made into a Broadway Musical, then return to the big screen as a movie adaption of the musical. In fact, it's quite common. Hairspray started out as an obscure John Waters movie, before becoming a Broadway Musical which led to the m... [More] Continue...A Spamalot Movie...	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line25979
__label__wiki	0.970737	0.970737	Read Local Champions Browse Annapolis Books CrossTraining Publishing Find Me Local What Though the Odds – Haley Scott's Journey of Faith and Triumph Haley Scott DeMaria \| Annapolis, Maryland When Dick Rosenthal retired as athletic director in 1995 after a lifetime of service to the University of Notre Dame, he was asked about the most memorable moment during his tenure. Without hesitation, the chief of sports at America's most storied university replied, "Haley Scott." When the Notre Dame women's swim team suffered a fatal bus crash, the lives of those on the bus, their families, and the community were changed forever. Paralyzed after the accident, Haley Scott was told she would never walk again. That was unacceptable to her. With the help of those who cared most about her - her family, her school and her teammates - she chose a different fate and promised not only to walk, but to swim again for the Fighting Irish. In Haley's words: "This book tells several stories woven together that complete my life today. It is the story of a young girl who fights for her life, and then for her dreams, and then for her life's happiness. It is the story of family - both the one to whom I was born, and the one created around me as I faced my greatest life challenge. It is the story of my faith, which was not yet defined at the start, but that was shaped by the goodness of others. In a world in need of hope, it is a story to be shared." About Haley Scott DeMaria (Annapolis, Maryland Author) In 1992, Haley Scott DeMaria was a member of the Notre Dame women’s swim team when the bus carrying the team overturned in a snow storm. The fatal accident left Haley paralyzed from the waist down, and after two emergency surgeries, Haley was told she would never walk again. Less than two years later, Haley would return to Notre Dame’s swim team, competing again for the Fighting Irish. Born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, Haley Scott DeMaria graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1995 with a bachelor's degree in History. She later received her Masters in Teaching from the University of Southern California, and taught and coached at her high school alma mater. Haley has received several national awards as a result of her inspiring recovery; including the inaugural Gene Autry Courage in Sport Award (1994), Women of Distinction (1994), National Institute for Sport Fellow (1995), and the Honda Award for Inspiration (1995). "What Though the Odds" is currently being adapted to a major motion picture (only the third movie to be filmed on Notre Dame’s campus). Haley travels the country to speak to schools, churches, businesses and civic organizations. In 2012, she served as the commencement speaker at the University of Notre Dame; repeating this honor in 2013 at Seton Hill University and in 2015 at St. Ambrose University. Haley and her husband, Jamie, live in Annapolis, MD, with their two sons, both of whom look just like their dad, but only one of whom acts like him. Know others who might like this book? Share this page! Hometown Reads © 2016 – 2018 \| Privacy Policy \| Site By Weaving Influence	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line25980
__label__cc	0.572237	0.427763	Forside > Andet > English articles > New Japanese study about HPV-vaccine adverse effects In June 2014 the first Japanese study about HPV-vaccine adverse effects was published in the medical journal Internal Medicine. The study tries to determine the cause of the vaccinated girls’ neurological manifestations. The HPV-vaccines Gardasil and Cervarix were both introduced in Japan in 2010, while it was recommended in April 2013 to all 13-16 year old girls. After this period with an increase in the vaccination rate, there was also an increased focus on the safety of the vaccines. Afterwards the Japanese government has suspended their recommendation of the vaccines indefinitely, due to the many reported adverse events. The most typical adverse effects after HPV-vaccination are fever, headache and pain at the injection site. But in the group of vaccinated Japanese girls they also observed a high frequency of chronic pain in extremities, often complicated by severe shaking and involuntary movements. Likewise in some of the cases with severe spontaneous pain in the extremities, the pain is also accompanied by chills in the affected limbs that cause noticeable disturbances in daily activity. This condition is thought to be a type of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), but it is yet to be confirmed. The criteria for CRPS are as follows: Lasting pain that is not caused by a specific event. At least one symptom from one of the four following categories: Sensory: Spontaneous pain followed by an increased sensitivity to pain (hyperalgesia). Vascular: Asymmetric skin temperature, changes in skin color, dilated blood vessels or contracted blood vessels (vasodilation/vasoconstriction). Edema: A change in sweat levels, distinct sweating (hyperhidrosis) and swelling. Motor skills: Weakness, shivering, involuntary contractions in the muscles (dystonia), coordination issues, arthralgia, impaired movement and changes in hair, nails and skin. On the time of evaluation at least one or more of the above-mentioned categories has to be proven. There is no other diagnose that can better explain the symptoms. From June 2013 to March 2014, 44 girls were examined, four of which were excluded due to other diagnoses from another hospital. The girls’ clinical manifestations were typically headaches (70%), general fatigue (53%), coldness of the legs (53%), limb pain (50%), limb weakness (48%), difficulty in getting up (48%), orthostatic fainting (43%), a decreased ability to learn (43%), arthralgia (43%), limb tremors (40%), gait disturbances (40%), disturbed menstruation (35%) and dizziness (30%). Five cases are then described in the study: 1. An 18 year old woman came to the hospital with lasting headaches and severe general weakness. In August 2011 she received the first HPV-vaccination and soon thereafter she started suffering from severe stomach pain and headache. Nothing unusual was found after MR scanning her. But her lasting headache resulted in mental instability and insomnia to such a degree that she couldn’t attend school. She was then referred to a mental clinic where they diagnosed her as being inadaptable. After receiving the second dose of the HPV-vaccine in October 2011 her stomach pain and headache intensified. She was especially tired in the morning and was prescribed numerous different types of drugs without it having any affect. After an endoscopic examination she was given a diagnosis of superficial gastritis that was thought to be caused by psychological stress. In 2013 she started to experience sudden fainting fits. After a new diagnosing by the scientific team they found that her symptoms match the criteria for orthostatic dysregulation (OD) proposed by the Japan Pediatric Society. Afterwards she was given a new special type of medicine that relieved the symptoms and her daily activities improved significantly. 2. A 15 year old girl was brought to the scientific team because of continuous headaches, limb pain and a gait disturbance. She received her first HPV-vaccine I February 2011 and the third dose in September 2011. Her everyday life was unchanged until May 2012 where she started to complain about sharp pain in the eye balls and double vision. Also she experienced limb weakness. The MR scan and the routine laboratory tests didn’t show anything unusual. She stopped going to school because of her pain and clumsy movement in her hands and on top of that she got sensitive to sound and skin stimulation. For example she could go into a panic state whenever she took a shower and an involuntary tremulousness of the limbs started. After visiting numerous different hospitals she was finally diagnosed with psychiatric or anxiety disorder. In June 2013 she developed anorexia possibly because of the very uncomfortable sensations in the arms and legs. Even though she was treated for the eating disorder she was not getting any better. The scientific team did a physical examination and found symptoms that corresponded with CRPS. She was also diagnosed with orthostatic hypotoni (OH) which means loss of blood pressure. After the specific treatment she started to feel better and the limb tremors gradually subsided. In addition, the patient again became and returned to school. 3. A 13 year old girl was brought to the scientific team because of continuous pain in the limbs, headache and gait disturbance. She was vaccinated (with Gardasil) in June 2012 and two weeks later she started suffering from lasting high fever and headaches. She was examined at the hospital, but neither in the routine laboratory tests, the endoscopy or in the CT any abnormal results were found. A lot of different medicines were given to the girl (NSAID’s) but none of the helped. She was therefore given a temporary diagnose of psychosomatic fever. In January 2013 she got that third shot of vaccine. Her high temperature and general uneasiness gradually disappeared, but instead she started to suffer from paroxysmal limb tremors that resulted in insomnia. In March 2013 she developed serious limb pain and palpitation. The pain limited the movement in her shoulder and thighs and sometimes the pain was accompanied by paralysis in both her hands and legs. Her condition was considered to be psychosomatic and she stopped attending school. The scientific team examined her and found that her symptoms matched the CRPS criteria and she was also diagnosed with POTS. She received a new kind of treatment and four months later she was able to walk with the use of stick, although she did not return to her previous school life. 4. A 16 year old girl was brought to the scientific team because of poly-arthralgia, leg pain and general weakness. She received her firs HPV-vaccination in October 2012 and the third dose in March 2012. A month after the last vaccine she started to notice arthralgia in her knee, a general fatigue and an elevated body temperature. She visited a couple of orthopedic clinics but they failed in obtaining a definitive diagnosis. The arthralgia continued to affect other joints and the girl started to suffer from continuous limb tremors. In early January 2013 she developed severe aching in both calves that resulted in the need for a wheelchair. She was examined in a hospital where they found specific antibodies and gave her medicine, however, all of her symptoms persisted and she stopped attending school. The scientific team examined her and she was diagnosed with both CRPS and OH. 5. A 15 year old girl visited the hospital complaining about weakness in her limbs and orthostatic fainting. She received her first HPV-vaccination (Gardasil) in May 2010 in USA. She received her third dose in December 2010. A couple of days after the last vaccine she started to feel pain and weakness in the lower limbs, especially in the left leg, leading to difficulty in walking. The symptoms gradually disappeared after a few days but after a month she developed numbness and weakness in both her hands which lasted for two days. Temporary continued in in both her hands and legs on a regular basis and she experienced both fainting and stomach pain. She returned to Japan in April 2012 and was examined in a hospital without any results. In addition to the weakness in her limbs she started to experience a decreased ability to learn at school. The scientific team examined her and she was diagnosed with both CRPS and POTS. After a specific treatment her limb symptoms disappeared. Four of the 40 patients were diagnosed with POTS. Interestingly most of the POTS patients have a history with previous virus infections. But none of the vaccinated women have had any previous virus infections, which enhances the correlation between HPV-vaccination and POTS. Likewise numerous of other studies have described the development of POTS after HPV-vaccination. The full study can be found here: Peripheral sympathetic nerve dysfunction in adolescent Japanese girls following immunization with the human papillomavirus vaccine Japan Times has also published articles about the HPV-vaccine and adverse effects this October: It’s as if time has stopped since the vaccine New HPV-vaccine adverse events in Denmark Data on adverse events after HPV-vaccination is misleading Saskia Oedairadjsingh siger: All vaccine causes damaged. Please project all childeren around the world for vaccine damaged. There most come a vaccine stop around the whole world. Kind regards, Saskia, the netherlands Mindy Cunningham-Murphy siger: We have been living this HELL for 3 years	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line25982
__label__cc	0.745309	0.254691	Tag - GPB Radio Augusta Medical Minute discusses gene expression and glaucoma In this week’s Medical Minute, Dr. Joseph Hobbs, chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, discusses a handful of molecules scientists have found that regulate gene expression in... Medical Minute discusses protein function and cancer In this week’s Medical Minute, Dr. Joseph Hobbs, chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, discusses how the function of the protein, TIMP1, which normally enables wound healing and... Medical Minute discusses stem cells In this week’s Medical Minute, Dr. Joseph Hobbs, chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, discusses scientist’s efforts to help stem cells make our bone and muscle remain more... 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__label__wiki	0.882746	0.882746	4//2016 Parable of Climate Change: What went on in March, 2016? What went on in February, 2016? What went on in January, 2016? Much of my news comes from The Daily Climate, whose wonderful subscription service clues me in to what's going on each day. Another great source of stories (and commentaries) comes from my friend Jim Poyser, at Apocadocs. Japanese Monks Recorded the Climate for 700 Years: Some of the oldest continuous historical records from around the world show us how dramatically the climate has changed. Imperial Oil described its climate-warming business as 'anti-social': a collection of archived internal corporate reports, contradict what the company, Imperial Oil, had been telling the public for years. They also reveal that the company went as far as describing its own actions, behind closed doors, as "anti-social." “A problem of such size, complexity and importance cannot be dealt with on a voluntary basis. The protection of the interests of society as a whole requires the establishment of legal controls on pollution and on other anti-social acts,” said the 1970 report. This runs counter to public statements made by Imperial Oil executives from the 1990s that said scientists were still debating whether rising carbon dioxide levels were warming the atmosphere. In 1998, Imperial Oil's then-chief executive officer, Robert Patterson, said that carbon dioxide was "not a pollutant" and that greenhouse gases had "no connection whatsoever with our day-to-day weather." Six years later, we’re still learning how badly the BP spill damaged the environment: The latest glimpse at the ongoing environmental effects of the disaster came in a new report by the conservation and advocacy group Oceana, which compiled the findings of a broad range of studies — primarily from the past two years — examining the aftermath of the spill. The report makes clear that the reach of the disaster, which ranks as one of the costliest environmental catastrophes ever, continues to grow. More than half US population lives amid dangerous air pollution, report warns: American Lung Association’s ‘state of the air’ report finds 166 million Americans are living in unhealthy ozone or particle pollution with serious health risks Cinci is #14 worst…. Small particles that escape from the burning of coal and from vehicle tail pipes can bury themselves deep in people’s lungs, causing various health problems. Ozone and other harmful gases can also be expelled from these sources, triggering asthma attacks and even premature death. [ael: more clean coal….] Why are we so bored?: We live in a world of constant entertainment – but is too much stimulation boring? [ael: "Bored" is the wrong word — we are empty. We have lost our religion; we have no meaning, no purpose.] [ael: here's a purpose for anyone: help repair the damage done by humans….] 'It's my dream': achievement of scientist's solar cell goal opens up potentially huge new markets: World heading for catastrophe over natural disasters, risk expert warns: With cascading crises – where one event triggers another – set to rise, international disaster risk reduction efforts are woefully underfunded The world’s failure to prepare for natural disasters will have “inconceivably bad” consequences as climate change fuels a huge increase in catastrophic droughts and floods and the humanitarian crises that follow, the UN’s head of disaster planning has warned. “It’s inconceivably bad, actually, if we don’t get a handle on it, and there’s a huge sense of urgency to get this right,” he said. “I think country leaders will become more receptive to this agenda simply because the disasters are going to make that obvious. The real question in my mind is: can we act before that’s obvious and before the costs have gone up so tremendously? And that’s the challenge.” Siberian erosion, river runoff speeds up Arctic Ocean acidification: As Siberian permafrost thaws, crumbling Russian coastlines and big rivers flowing north along eroding banks are dumping vast loads of organic carbon into marine waters there, causing much quicker acidification than had been anticipated and signaling future danger for the entire Arctic Ocean. Observations made since 1999 showed signs that in some locations, acidity has already surged past levels researchers didn't expect to emerge until the year 2100, due in part to "extreme aragonite undersaturation," the study says. Globally, ocean acidification is generally considered a byproduct of carbon emissions into the atmosphere. Since about a quarter of that atmospheric carbon winds up absorbed by the ocean, human-caused carbon dioxide emissions are considered the major source of ocean acidification worldwide. But on the East Siberian Arctic Shelf, the carbon washed into the sea by eroding permafrost and river outwash — material formed by decaying and decayed plants and animals — far outpaces the carbon coming from the atmosphere and is enough to cause acidification on its own, according to the new study. Climate Change Adds Urgency To Push to Save World’s Seeds: In the face of rising temperatures and worsening drought, the world’s repositories of agricultural seeds may hold the key to growing food under increasingly harsh conditions. But keeping these gene banks safe and viable is a complicated and expensive challenge. During the 872-day German siege of Leningrad in World War II, in which an estimated 1.1 million civilians died, a small band of workers devoted themselves to safeguarding a priceless trove of 200,000 seeds at the Institute of Plant Industry. Then the world’s largest seed bank, the collection had been amassed, in large part, by famed Soviet botanist Nikolai Vavilov during expeditions to 64 countries. As the siege wore on and starvation became epidemic, workers at the institute refused to eat the seeds and protected them from hungry citizens. Nine of Vavilov’s seed bank colleagues ultimately died from starvation. ‘And then we wept': Scientists say 93 percent of the Great Barrier Reef now bleached: Australia’s National Coral Bleaching Task Force has surveyed 911 coral reefs by air, and found at least some bleaching on 93 percent of them. The amount of damage varies from severe to light, but the bleaching was the worst in the reef’s remote northern sector — where virtually no reefs escaped it. “Between 60 and 100 percent of corals are severely bleached on 316 reefs, nearly all in the northern half of the Reef,” Prof. Terry Hughes, head of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University, said in a statement to the news media. He led the research. Scientists resort to advertising to get Great Barrier Reef crisis in Queensland paper: “The Great Barrier Reef is at a crisis point,” the scientists say. “Its future depends on how much and how quickly the world, including Australia, can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and limit ocean warming.” It then calls for Australia to rapidly phase out coal-fired power stations and for no new coalmines. How Earth itself has dramatically upped the stakes for the Paris climate accord: The first three months of 2016 have been the hottest ever recorded, and by a large margin. Greenland’s massive ice sheet melted more this spring than researchers have ever seen. Warming seas are turning once-majestic coral reefs into ghostly underwater graveyards. And scientists are warning that sea levels could rise far faster than anyone expected by the end of the century, with severe impacts for coastal communities around the globe. “The strongest hurricane on record for both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere, unprecedented continuing drought in California, the warmest start to a year that we’ve ever seen, on the heels of what was the warmest full year on record for the globe,” ticked off Michael Mann, a climate researcher at Pennsylvania State University. Such developments, though driven in part by strong El Niño conditions, are a “reminder of how perilously close we are now to a permanent crossing into the global-warming danger zone,” he said. “We are at a critical juncture when it comes to preserving our climate.” Some scientists have even suggested that this bleaching event, which signals a warming of the seas at a rate too quick for a major planetary ecosystem to adapt to, may itself indicate that the world is crossing over into the realm of “dangerous” climate change — precisely what the Paris agreement hopes to prevent. Parliamentary group warns that global fossil fuels could peak in less than 10 years: British MPs launch landmark report on impending environmental ‘limits’ to economic growth Follow-up to the Limits to Growth, Club of Rome report from 1972 Conclusion: we're on track! (but that's not good….) March broke nearly every global warm temperature record there is: This was the largest departure from average out of all of the 1,635 months in 137 years of record-keeping, surpassing the previous all-time record in February by just 0.01 degrees Celsius, or 0.02 degrees Fahrenheit. Each of the past 11 months have been the warmest such months on record. This is the longest such streak in NOAA's data. Most of the world's land surfaces were milder or much milder than average — particularly in eastern Brazil, most of eastern and central Africa, much of southeastern Asia, and large portions of northern and eastern Australia. "Most of northwestern Canada and Alaska, along with vast regions of northern and western Asia, observed temperatures at least 3°C (5°F) above their 1981–2010 average," the NOAA report stated. The world's oceans also set high temperature milestones, "with record warmth extending from southern Africa to the North Indian Ocean to parts of southeastern Asia stretching into northern Australia," NOAA found. Study: humans have caused all the global warming since 1950: Global warming attribution studies consistently find humans are responsible for all global warming over the past six decades. 'Noah's Ark approach' and coastal flooding win GOP converts: A massive behind-the-scenes effort, driven by the notion that rising sea levels will transcend party politics, led to the announcement earlier this year that a Democrat and a Republican had come together to form the first bipartisan House caucus on climate change. Justin Trudeau to lobby for quick approval of Paris climate deal: Canadian prime minister seeks to bring global agreement into force as soon as possible in bid to reverse reputation as ‘carbon bully’ Ministers back down on rule ‘gagging’ scientists: Ban threatened to stop academics influencing government policy on subjects including energy and climate change [http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/160420-bp-oil-spill-shoreline-affected-deepwater-horizon-anniversary/ BP Oil Spill Trashed More Shoreline Than Scientists Thought]: New evidence extends the size of the disaster that occurred six years ago this week. March temperature smashes 100-year global record: Average global temperature was 1.07C hotter - beating last month’s previous record increase A year of fear and distrust in Dukeville: How tainted well water and conflicting health information have turned one North Carolina family’s life upside down State officials had discovered vanadium in the Graham’s well water at an estimated concentration of 14 parts per billion, more than 45 times the state screening level of 0.3 ppb—a threshold set by health officials to warn well owners of potential risks. And the Grahams weren’t alone. Laboratory tests showed 74 wells in the tiny Dukeville community in Salisbury, North Carolina, exceeded state or federal thresholds. Across the state, 424 households received similar do-not-drink notifications, Department of Environmental Quality Assistant Secretary Tom Reeder said in January. New Data Set Poised to Revolutionize Climate Adaptation: The data set, called CHIRPS (short for “Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitation With Station data”) blends data from weather stations and weather satellites with extraordinary accuracy, providing a detailed record of global rainfall stretching back more than 30 years. By making it possible to compare current rainfall patterns with historical averages at the neighborhood scale for virtually the entire world, CHIRPS provides an early warning system for drought, making it possible for development agencies, insurance companies and others to more effectively activate adaptive strategies such as food aid and insurance. Loon's malaria death seen as sign of climate change: Pokras and Ellen Martinsen, a Vermont-based research associate with the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, started finding several different malaria parasites in loon blood samples a few years back. The latest data shows as many as 12 percent testing positive, though not all are expected be infected with malaria. Then last summer, the researchers found the first ever case of a loon — on Umbagog Lake located in Maine and New Hampshire — that died of the disease. Biologists and fans of the loons haven't found another case yet, but they are looking for other dead birds. Delta drought gives glimpse into bleak future for mighty Mekong: Thach has quit growing sugarcane and is building houses instead to repay loans after his farm in Soc Trang province in Vietnam's Mekong Delta rice bowl lost 10 million dong ($449). The sprawling Mekong Delta has been worst hit by salination in a region that provides half of Vietnam's rice and 60 percent of its shrimp and fish. EPA doubles down on mercury rule; more litigation likely: U.S. EPA today stood by its plan to cut power plant mercury emissions, reaffirming an earlier conclusion that it made the right decision under the Clean Air Act to regulate releases of the toxic metal and other hazardous air pollutants. That determination "is particularly well-founded in light of the significant health risks toxic air pollution pose to the American public," the agency said in a statement this morning, adding that the public benefits from the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) "far outweigh the costs." High Plains (Ogallola) Water-Level Monitoring Study This pdf shows the depletion, capacity, etc. over time. I got to this site to investigate Dan's assertion that the Ogallola was actually adding water, per this Washington Post article. Things I learned while attending the Democracy Awakening protest in Washington, D.C.: Speeches and quotes: "Silence is the sound of money talking." Something said by the mother or grandmother of Dr. Sandra Steingraber – Ecologist, Author, and Cancer Survivor, and head of Americans Against Fracking. "We should not let Congress treat our President as 3/5 of a president." a rough quote of Cornell William Brooks, NAACP William Barber gave his "The blood of the martyrs speech". Very moving. A later preacher gave his golden calf speech. People: I had substantive interactions with several people Drew Foley — we drove together to Washington, and shared a lot of stories and ideas. I was introduced to "Creation Spirituality" by Drew, and learned more from Patty McGrath. Patty McGrath — was our host in D.C., who put up (and up with) seven of us. She was a wonderful hostess, and had a hot meal awaiting us upon arrival. Then she made us breakfast, after providing beds for all for the night. Mike Regnier — has built three geodesic domes, and provide me some basic insights into their construction and problems (as well as blessings). I'm thinking of making a geodesic greenhouse! March was Earth's 11th-straight warmest month on record: The data, from the Japan Meteorological Agency, as well as a separate analysis using computer model data, means that if April also sets a monthly record, the Earth will have had an astonishing 12 month string of record-shattering months. Global warming has let moose return to Alaskan tundra for first time since 1880: CO2's Role in Global Warming Has Been on the Oil Industry's Radar Since the 1960s: Historical records reveal early industry concern with air pollutants, including smog and CO2, and unwanted regulation Scientists: Greenland ice sheet is melting freakishly early Can game theory help solve the problem of climate change?: Applying the mathematical principle of studying models of conflict and cooperation between groups could help us rein in global warming Scientists Are Watching in Horror as Ice Collapses: Everything we learn about ice shows that it is disturbingly fragile, even in Antarctica. Why dead coral reefs could mark the beginning of ‘dangerous’ climate change: The island of Kiritimati is one of the world’s most remote places — one of several dozen atolls making up the tiny island nation of Kiribati, a speck in the Pacific Ocean more than a thousand miles south of Hawaii. But, isolated as it is, news of its devastated coral is turning heads around the world. A recent expedition has revealed that the reefs around Kiritimati have suffered a catastrophic mass die-off — an event that epitomizes what may be an ugly truth about the ability of coral reefs around the world to adapt to the growing threat of climate change. Climate Change Hits Hard in Zambia, an African Success Story: But today, as a severe drought magnified by climate change has cut water levels to record lows, the Kariba is generating so little juice that blackouts have crippled the nation’s already hurting businesses. After a decade of being heralded as a vanguard of African growth, Zambia, in a quick, mortifying letdown, is now struggling to pay its own civil servants and has reached out to the International Monetary Fund for help. Peabody, world's top private coal miner, files for bankruptcy: [ael: ding-dong, the witch is dead!] Producers accounting for about 45 percent of U.S. coal output have filed for bankruptcy in the current industry downturn, based on 2014 government figures. While coal use has also stalled globally, largely because of China's economic slowdown and its efforts to protect domestic miners and rein in rampant pollution, most analysts expect consumption of the fuel to remain stable or rise in the future. Some 500 coal-fired power stations are currently under construction, 80 percent of which are in the Asia-Pacific region, where emerging markets as well as developed economies such as Japan and South Korea are still seeing consumption grow. Australian oil and gas lobby spent millions advocating against climate action: report: Australia's peak oil and gas industry lobby group spent almost $4 million last year trying to "obstruct" more ambitious climate change policy, according to British research group InfluenceMap. Review faults EPA oversight of oil and gas wastewater: A federal review has faulted the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for not taking sufficient steps to safeguard drinking water supplies from the wastewater generated by the oil and gas industries. The Government Accountability Office said in its report to members of Congress that the EPA has failed to adequately collect information from state and regional regulators about inspections or their enforcement actions to protect underground sources of drinking water. Auditors also found the EPA has not consistently carried out oversight of programs that regulate injection wells where oil and natural gas companies send streams of wastewater into the ground. “You would think that an act of writing off a potential drinking water source would at least be coupled with rigorous oversight and accountability,” Noel said. “The oil and gas industry is exploiting these lapses in oversight and transparency.” As of October 2015, California officials had identified more than 500 wells injecting wastewater into 11 nonexempt aquifers “with the potential to threaten underground sources of drinking water,” the GAO report said. It noted that California had halted the reinjection of oilfield fluids into some of those wells. Wildfires, Once Confined to a Season, Burn Earlier and Longer: The 10.1 million acres that burned in the United States last year were the most on record, and the top five years for acres burned were in the past decade. The federal costs of fighting fires rose to $2 billion last year, up from $240 million in 1985. Global leaders are very worried about water shortages: It’s not just government officials who are worried. In 2009, U.S. Embassy officers visited Nestle’s headquarters in Switzerland, where company executives, who run the world’s largest food company and are dependent on freshwater to grow ingredients, provided a grim outlook of the coming years. An embassy official cabled Washington with the subject line, “Tour D’Horizon with Nestle: Forget the Global Financial Crisis, the World Is Running Out of Fresh Water.” “Nestle thinks one-third of the world’s population will be affected by fresh water scarcity by 2025, with the situation only becoming more dire thereafter and potentially catastrophic by 2050,” according to a March 24, 2009, cable. “Problems will be severest in the Middle East, northern India, northern China, and the western United States.” Thomas Friedman wrote about this in 2014 Solar power sets new British record by beating coal for a day: Coal’s decline continues as figures show homes and businesses got more power from the sun for an entire 24 hours last weekend Start-Stop Technology Is Spreading (Like It or Not): (2016/04/08) Dr. Keith Tao, a radiologist in Danville, Calif., owns three late-model Mercedeses, each equipped with a fuel-saving technology called start-stop. The system saves fuel and reduces emissions by cutting the engine when the car comes to a full stop and restarting when the foot is taken off the brake. One of the first things Dr. Tao does after starting the engine: He turns off the feature. The problem, Dr. Tao says, is that the stopping and restarting is rather intrusive. “You actually feel it restarting,” he said. “In terrible stop-and-go traffic this thing comes on and off constantly. In 20 minutes you can have 50 stop-and-start cycles. It can drive you totally insane.” What's totally insane here? Dr. Tao, owner of "three late-model Mercedeses", being driven insane by the feel of his late-model Mercedesses restarting — in a pathetic effort to reduce Dr. Tao's immense carbon and consumption foot-print. Dr. Tao — you, and our society — are totally insane. You are a symptom of a much bigger problem. But you are definitely a part of the problem. Buy a bicycle — it only starts and stops when you tell it to. And, for God's sake, please stop whining about your "first world problems"…. The death of US coal: industry on a steep decline as cheap natural gas rises: With Massey Energy boss Don Blankenship headed to prison and some of the industry’s biggest companies bankrupt, a historic transformation may be ahead The former chief executive of Massey Energy was sentenced this week to a year in prison for willfully violating mine safety standards – the highest penalty available under the law. Blankenship was not accused of direct responsibility for the accident – the worst in 40 years in the US. Next week Peabody Energy, the world’s largest publicly traded coal company, will come to the end of a 30-day grace period to repay its crushing debts or fall into bankruptcy. The company’s share price has fallen by 98% since 2011. That night Kennedy condemned [Mountain Top Removal] as a crime of historic proportions. “This is the worst environmental crime that ever happened in our history,” began Kennedy. “It is a crime, it is a sin, and it is a moral obligation to stop this from happening.” Until Blankenship’s sentencing this week, however, no coalmining executive had ever been sent to jail for putting coalminers’ lives in jeopardy by placing profit over safety. The greenhouse that acts like a beetle and other inventions inspired by nature: For a new generation of innovators, biomimicry – the imitation of nature’s ecosystems – may help solve some of humanity’s toughest resource problems According to Terrapin Bright Green, Blue Planet could sequester up to 10bn tons of carbon dioxide over the next decade. While only a fraction of the more than 360bn tons that humanity is likely to produce in that period, it is still a significant step forward – and it hints at a process that could potentially transform the way industry views its waste carbon. As an added plus, the DeepWater project also produces fresh water and data storage, two more things that California desperately needs. [ael: really? 1/36th of humanity's production? I think that we have a unit problem.] How to make coal companies pay to clean up their messes: A Green and Fair Future: For a Just Transition to a Low Carbon Economy: Is the IOGCC, Created by Congress in 1935, Now a Secret Oil and Gas Lobby?: In 1978, the DOJ told Congress IOGCC should be disbanded. It wasn't. In 2005, the group claimed credit for Halliburton Loophole after ‘years of hard work.' Drowning History: Sea Level Rise Threatens US Historic Sites: HISTORIC BOSTON: Much of historic Boston is along the water and is at risk due to sea level rise, including Faneuil Hall, the market building known as the "Cradle of Liberty," and parts of the Freedom Trail, a walking trail that links historic sites around the city. Boston has seen a growing number of flooding events in recent years, up from two annually in the 1970s to an average of 11 annually between 2009 and 2013, according to a 2014 report by the Union of Concerned Scientists. If sea levels rise by 5 inches, the group reported, the number of floods is projected to grow to 31 annually. If seas rise by 11 inches, the number of flooding events is projected to rise to 72 per year. INTERNATIONAL SITES: Dozens of UNESCO World Heritage Sites are under threat from sea level rise, according to a 2014 report by climate scientists Ben Marzeion, of the University of Innsbruck in Austria, and Anders Levermann, of the Potsdam Institute in Germany. Among those are: the Tower of London; Robben Island in South Africa, where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years; Venice, Italy, and its lagoon; Mont-Saint-Michel, home to an abbey built atop a rocky islet in France; the Kasbah of Algiers, Algeria; the historic district of Old Quebec, Canada; Old Havana in Cuba; and archaeological areas of Pompeii, Italy, and Carthage in Tunisia. Farmland Could Play Key Role in Tackling Climate Change: “Climate-smart” soil management, primarily on land used for agriculture, can be part of an overall greenhouse gas reduction strategy that includes other efforts like carbon sequestration and reducing fossil fuel emissions, the paper’s authors said. Many scientists believe new efforts to reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are needed to keep global warming to an internationally agreed-upon limit of 2°C (3.6°F). Teak absorbs max CO2 from air, helps check global warming: Teak has the highest capacity for carbon sequestration among trees in India. This is the finding of a study conducted by the Gujarat Ecological Education and Research (GEER) to prepare a hierarchy of local trees in India … Emails Show Museum Closed Green Energy Exhibit After Complaints From Fossil Fuel Industry: Climate Catastrophe, Coming Even Sooner? By Elizabeth Kolbert Then the two got an idea from a colleague, Richard Alley, also of Penn State. Alley suggested that they look at what would happen if the floating ice shelves were lost. This would leave towering cliffs of ice exposed to the sea, which could make them vulnerable to rapid collapse. (A version of this process seems already to be under way in parts of Greenland.) The Danger of a Runaway Antarctica: In January, scientists reported that 2015 was by far the hottest year on record, and another record could be set this year. In February, a Princeton-based research organization said the tidal flooding that has already made life miserable for people in coastal cities like Miami and Charleston is getting steadily worse. In mid-March, a group of experts, including James Hansen, the retired scientist who first brought the perils of climate change to Congress’s attention in 1988, warned that shifts in climate could be sudden and abrupt, giving humanity little time to prepare for flooding, severe droughts and other upheavals. Now comes another scary prediction: If carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels continue unabated, the vast West Antarctic ice sheet could begin to disintegrate, causing the sea to rise by five to six feet by the end of the century, destroying coastal cities and low-lying island nations and creating environmental devastation within the lifetimes of children born today. It’s not just Antarctica — why Greenland could also melt faster than expected: Last Wednesday, a blockbuster new study in the journal Nature changed our understanding of the forces affecting ice melt in Antarctica and significantly increased expectations of the ice sheet’s future contributions to sea-level rise. But the news may not stop there. Some scientists are saying that the standing predictions for Greenland — which is warming even faster than Antarctica — may also be too conservative, meaning we may be seeing even faster sea-level rise than we thought. Marco Tedesco, a researcher with Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, pointed out that a process called “ice darkening” is one significant process at play in Greenland. “Numerous sensitivities are not included in the IPCC model sea level projections from land ice,” he noted. “Some of the sensitivities are feedbacks that mean the warmer climate gets, the ice will be lost increasingly faster.” One crop breeding cycle from starvation? How engineering crop photosynthesis for rising CO2 and temperature could be one important route to alleviation: One crop breeding cycle from starvation: In the race against world hunger, we’re running out of time. By 2050, the global population will have grown and urbanized so much that we will need to produce 87 percent more of the four primary food crops – rice, wheat, soy, and maize – than we do today. 2016 Global Food Policy Report: How We Feed the World is Unsustainable: Evidence is strong that climate change will continue to have negative impacts on agriculture. Every year, 12 million hectares of land is degraded due to drought and desertification—that’s roughly the size of Nicaragua, the largest country in Central America. This is especially detrimental to smallholders, such as the 200 million smallholder farmers in Africa south of the Sahara who tend drylands. Conversely, the global food system accounts for one-fifth of all greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The development of climate-ready crops, which can lead to more efficient water use and improve yields, are key to feeding a growing population and adapting and mitigating against climate change. Worldwide, the number of overweight people is two-and-a-half times larger than the number of undernourished people. Urbanization, increasing incomes, and higher demand for animal protein is changing diets in developing countries. Beef consumption, for example, is growing, and is one of the most resource-intensive and environmentally impactful foods to produce. Beef production requires four times more land (and four times as much greenhouse gas emissions) than dairy for every unit of protein consumed. Additionally, beef is seven times more resource-intensive than pork and poultry, and 20 times more than pulses. In 2009, adding one American to the global population would have required an additional hectare of land, which is as big as the maximum size of a World Cup football field with more than 1,700 additional square meters to spare. It would also pump out an additional 16.6 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent each year—or the greenhouse gas equivalent of driving from New York to Los Angeles and back seven times. Today, 85 percent of global water use goes to agricultural irrigation. Innovations such as climate-ready crops can greatly reduce this amount. Rice is the staple food of more than half of the world’s population and C4 rice, for example, can double water use efficiency and increase yields by almost 50 percent. Unless significant changes are made in global water consumption, most people will live under severe water shortage conditions by 2050. The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States: A Scientific Assessment: Climate change is a significant threat to the health of the American people. This scientific assessment examines how climate change is already affecting human health and the changes that may occur in the future. Bureau of Meteorology plan to take over CSIRO climate change research Some Whales Like Global Warming Just Fine: Humpbacks and bowheads are benefiting—for now, at least—from the retreat of polar sea ice: It's making it easier for them to find food. Hey, Bill Gates, our 'energy miracles' are already here: In a keynote address at the BNEF annual summit in New York on Tuesday, Liebreich delivered what amounted to a broadside against Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates, who is helping to fund a global push for a "miracle" breakthrough in energy technology within the next 15 years in order to solve the problem of human-caused global warming. Can we save the Great Barrier Reef?: A recent helicopter flyover suggested Australia's Great Barrier Reef is 90 percent bleached, damaged by tourists and a rough El Niño year. Fever: Federal report says global warming making US sick: The 332-page report issued Monday by the Obama administration said global warming will make the air dirtier, water more contaminated and food more tainted. It warned of diseases, such as those spread by ticks and mosquitoes, longer allergy seasons, and thousands of heat wave deaths. Environmental Protection Agency chief Gina McCarthy said if that's not enough, climate change affects people's mental health, too. "It's not just about polar bears and melting ice caps. It's about our families. It's about our future," McCarthy said at a White House event unveiling the report. Meltdown: More Rain, Less Snow as the World Warms: A Climate Central analysis of 65 years of winter precipitation data from more than 2,000 weather stations in 42 states, found a decrease in the percent of precipitation falling as snow in winter months for every region of the country. Winter months were defined as the snow season for each station, from the month with the first consistently significant snow, to the last. Minnesota poised to import Canadian hydro to cut carbon: The 200-megawatt Wuskwatim Generating Station is one of Manitoba's newest hydrodams, completed in 2012. Power exports to the United States from this and other new hydropower facilities in Canada are expected to help border states like Minnesota comply with Clean Power Plan requirements. Massive carbon capture investment 'needed to slow global warming': Carbon disposal technologies are needed because incremental emissions cuts are not enough to fight climate change, says Oxford University climate scientist Carbon disposal consists chiefly of the burial of carbon dioxide in underground caverns, known as carbon capture and storage (CCS), but also includes possible methods of dissolving carbon dioxide in the oceans and other means of eliminating carbon from the air. [ael: oh, great: increase ocean acidification on the other hand. Sheesh….] Climate change will wipe $2.5tn off global financial assets: study: Losses could soar to $24tn and wreck the global economy in worst case scenario, first economic modelling estimate suggests “Our work suggests to long-term investors that we would be better off in a low-carbon world,” said Prof Simon Dietz of the London School of Economics, the lead author of the study. “Pension funds should be getting on top of this issue, and many of them are.” He said, however, that awareness in the financial sector was low. Mark Campanale of the thinktank Carbon Tracker Initiative said the actual financial losses from unchecked global warming could be higher than estimated by the financial model behind the new study. “It could be a lot worse. The loss of financial capital can be a lot higher and faster than the GDP losses [used to model the costs of climate change in the study]. Just look at value of coal giant Peabody Energy. It was worth billions just a few years ago and now it is worth nothing.” Investors have also been warned about investing in new coal and gas fired power stations after 2017 by a second new study. The research shows that, to meet the 2C target, no new carbon-emitting power stations can be built anywhere in the world unless they are later closed down or retrofitted with carbon capture and storage technology. A surprising ally in the fight against climate change: dirt: By changing land use practices, an extra 9 billion tons of greenhouse gases could be locked away in the soil, according to an international team of scientists. Earth’s soils represent a potential storehouse for billions of tons of greenhouse gases, a vital addition to our arsenal for combating climate change, according to new research. The international group of scientists, whose findings are published Wednesday in the journal Nature, argue that carbon sequestration in soil has been under-appreciated and under-utilized, but has vast potential. Can coal companies afford to clean up coal country?: [ael: hell no, they can't! So we'll have to pay a fortune to clean up all that shit left by "clean, cheap coal"] A worsening financial crisis for the nation’s biggest coal companies is sparking concerns that U.S. taxpayers could be stuck with hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars in cleanup costs across a landscape of shuttered mines stretching from Appalachia to the northern Plains. The biggest coal companies typically pay third parties to ensure that mine sites are cleaned up in the event of financial hardship. But in recent years, many coal companies have relied on a cheaper technique called “self-bonding,” pledging only their own names and financial wherewithal to guarantee their cleanup obligations. [ael: there's an idiot system. Reminiscent of our pension systems.] Peabody alone has cleanup obligations of nearly $1.4 billion guaranteed by self-bonding, according to statements filed by the company last year with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Arch Coal and Alpha — the nation’s second- and fourth-largest coal companies — have self-guaranteed liabilities exceeding $485 million and $640 million, respectively, in reclamation costs. King Tides Offer Glimpses of Our Future: All the planets will line up just right to produce “king tides,” the catchy moniker for highest tides of the year. They occur each fall and spring. The first ones this year will be Thursday through Sunday. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is partnering with states and academics across the country in a citizens’ science effort – the King Tides Project – that’s encouraging people from all walks of life to go out during these tides and take photos, and sometimes measurements, and send the photos in to a Flickr account. It began in 2012 in Australia and has since spread around the world. [www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-talk-global-warming-in-plain-english/ How to Talk Global Warming in Plain English]: Scientists struggle to convey the risks of climate change simply “If we want to tell the nation the risk, we need to [do it] in plain English,” Alice Hill, the National Security Council’s senior director for resilience policy, told scientists at a gathering in Washington, D.C., last week. As her boss, Susan Rice, often notes, Hill said, “climate change is a dire threat to the prosperity and safety of the American people.” “People are flying blind and not building the infrastructure for tomorrow’s climate, but building the infrastructure for yesterday’s climate,” said Paul Fleming, who heads the climate resiliency program for the Seattle Public Utilities. page revision: 62, last edited: 03 May 2016 01:31 Internetior Marvel Revolution MUCK Criminal Justice Collaboratory Colby Community College Shadowrun: Denver Complicated Shadows	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line25988
__label__wiki	0.882068	0.882068	Undocumented graduates celebrate at first annual Beyond Borders ceremony Published on : May 19, 2015 May 19, 2015 Published by : Avery Peterson Undocumented students celebrated with their friends and families at the first annual Beyond Borders Graduation held at the SF State Annex May 17. Improving Dreams, Equity, Access and Success, a student organization founded in 2008 to help undocumented students with issues related to AB540, coordinated the graduation. IDEAS worked in collaboration with Project Connect, a program that helps students develop professional leadership skills, and the AB540 Educational Equity Task Force, a coalition that supports educational goals of undocumented SF State students. AB540 exempts eligible undocumented students from paying much higher out-of-state tuition at public colleges in California. Fear of deportation often make undocumented students reluctant to disclose their immigration status to their school or counselors, preventing them from receiving proper educational and financial advising, according to AB540.com. Students who choose to disclose their status and qualify for AB540 are eligible to pay in-state tutition. At SF State, the savings amounts to more than $372 per unit, according to the University’s fees and expenses webpage. The ceremony, which was first of its kind at SF State, celebrated the accomplishment of 25 graduates with close to 300 friends and family in attendance. The smaller setting created a unique, more personal atmosphere, according to IDEAS advisor Nancy Jodaitis. “It’s more intimate, so people tell their personal stories,” Jodaitis said. “The stories are all different, but the challenges and struggles are very similar and this is a safe place for them to share.” IDEAS has recently gained visibility and grown in size, according to Jodaitis, who has been the program advisor for six years. She said that this year, the graduation ceremony was a celebration of students’ resiliency and strength. “We now have 25 graduates and are giving them the recognition they deserve,” Jodaitis said. “They all have unique struggles, but the support of their families, the task force and Project Connect have helped them succeed.” Jodaitis said that she was inspired by how DREAMer students pushed forward and opened doors for themselves. The term DREAMer is derived from the DREAM Act, which provides temporary legal status for immigrant students, then makes them eligible for permanent legal status and citizenship if they attend college or serve in the military, according to the National Immigration Law Center. Jose Reyes Ramos, 25, said AB540 and resources at SF State have helped him and many other DREAMer students reach graduation. “If AB540 didn’t exist, we would have to pay double the tuition and we don’t qualify for FAFSA because of our immigration status,” Ramos said. “There are also other programs that offer help, like Project Connect, which lets you borrow books for free.” Graduating president of IDEAS, Ana Morales, said she was proud to participate in the first ceremony. “This really creates awareness and solidarity among undocumented students,” Morales said. “Folks misunderstand what it means to be undocumented and they need to see for themselves to understand. This event demonstrates the capabilities of undocumented students.” Morales said the ceremony celebrates not only the graduates, but their families, who offer students their continuous support and had the courage to immigrate to the United States. “I think I speak for all of us in saying that it would not be possible for us to be here without our families and their choice to make the journey to the U.S.,” Morales said. “This graduation is not just ours, but our families’ too.” The ceremony has special meaning for undocumented students and their families who have overcome additional challenges in order to graduate, including difficulties qualifying for financial aid, being charged out-of-state tuition and an abundance of misinformation, according to IDEAS’ graduation coordinator Jacqueline Ledezma. “These students are so proud,” Ledezma said. “They are usually first in their families to graduate and it’s very emotional. You can see tears everywhere. Their families are very proud to make it this far.” Organizations like IDEAS provide DREAMer students with support and resources, Ledezma said. “At IDEAS we basically create a family who go through the same struggles and obstacles to get to where you are,” Ledezma said. “It’s hard to be an undocumented student and IDEAS meetings help you create a family bond with students, faculty and staff.” Eurania Lopez, the Step to College Program director at SF State, said she hopes events like the Beyond Borders Graduation will call attention to the need for resources for undocumented students. Lopez said she is excited to see what the future holds for DREAMers. “These graduates should know the sky’s the limit and not to lose hope,” Lopez said. “Immigration changes will happen and they will happen soon.” Tagged in : DREAMer FAFSA IDEAS Naitonal Immigration Law Center Project Connect Categorized in : News Guide to 2015 summer music festivals Journey to america leads to dreams fulfilled	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line25991
__label__cc	0.683751	0.316249	— Main Menu —HomeEntertainment- MOVIES- MUSICNewsComedyInterviewsWeddings- G.I WEDDINGSEventsFashionSportsLifestyle- CareerGIAMA AWARDS G.I WEDDINGS GIAMA AWARDS Civil Rights Group Alleges Plans to ‘investigate, malign and imprison’ Ex President Goodluck Jonathan by Pres. Buhari! By : GOLDEN ICONS Tag: Femi Adesina, GEJ, President Muhammadu Buhari, Vanguards of Nigeria’s Democracy Dont miss stories. Follow Goldenicons! Follow @goldenicons A civil rights group who go by the name ‘Vanguards of Nigeria’s Democracy‘ has levied allegations against President Muhammadu Buhari’s led administration that it is making secret moves to arrest ex-president, Goodluck Jonathan.The group specifically stated that Buhari plans to “investigate, malign and imprison” GEJ by fabricating charges. In response to this development, Pres. Buhari’s spokesperson, Femi Adesina, asked why people are worrying on speculations when nothing concrete had been brought against Jonathan. He said: “All these are speculations and I cannot react to speculations because there is nothing concrete yet against the former President.” The leader of the group, Osaghae Ogiemudia however said in a statement that they are aware of the ‘clandestine moves’ made by the APC administration and other anti-Niger Delta and anti-Ijaw role the party continues to play: Ogiemudia said: “We, the members of the Vanguards of Nigeria’s Democracy, are aware of some clandestine moves made by the APC-led government to probe, investigate, malign and imprison ex President Jonathan. We are already aware of the trumped-up charges the APC government is leveling against a man who has diligently served the Nigerian state at the highest level of government. 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__label__cc	0.644345	0.355655	327 Results \| Prev \| 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| .. \| 64 \| Page 65 \| Last \| Next Reinventing the Automobile William J. Mitchell, Christopher E. Borroni-Bird and Lawrence D. Burns Personal Urban Mobility for the 21st Century This book provides a long-overdue vision for a new automobile era. The cars we drive today follow the same underlying design principles as the Model Ts of a hundred years ago and the tail-finned sedans of fifty years ago. In the twenty-first century, cars are still made for twentieth-century purposes. They're well suited for conveying multiple passengers over long distances at high speeds, but inefficient for providing personal mobility within cities—where most of the world's people now live. In this pathbreaking book, William Mitchell and two industry experts reimagine the automobile, describing vehicles of the near future that are green, smart, connected, and fun to drive. They roll out four big ideas that will make this both feasible and timely. First, we must transform the DNA of the automobile, basing it on electric-drive and wireless communication rather than on petroleum, the internal combustion engine, and stand-alone operation. This allows vehicles to become lighter, cleaner, and "smart" enough to avoid crashes and traffic jams. Second, automobiles need to be linked by a Mobility Internet that allows them to collect and share data on traffic conditions, intelligently coordinates their movements, and keeps drivers connected to their social networks. Third, automobiles must be recharged through a convenient, cost-effective infrastructure that is integrated with smart electric grids and makes increasing use of renewable energy sources. Finally, dynamically priced markets for electricity, road space, parking space, and shared-use vehicles must be introduced to provide optimum management of urban mobility and energy systems. The fundamental reinvention of the automobile won't be easy, but it is an urgent necessity—to make urban mobility more convenient and sustainable, to make cities more livable, and to help bring the automobile industry out of crisis. Four Big Ideas That Could Transform the Automobile: Base the underlying design principles on electric-drive and wireless communications rather than the internal combustion engine and stand-alone operation Develop the Mobility Internet for sharing traffic and travel data Integrate electric-drive vehicles with smart electric grids that use clean, renewable energy sources Establish dynamically priced markets for electricity, road space, parking space, and shared-use vehicles Brand New China Jing Wang Advertising, Media, and Commercial Culture One part riveting account of fieldwork and one part rigorous academic study, Brand New China offers a unique perspective on the advertising and marketing culture of China. Jing Wang’s experiences in the disparate worlds of Beijing advertising agencies and the U.S. academy allow her to share a unique perspective on China during its accelerated reintegration into the global market system. Brand New China offers a detailed, penetrating, and up-to-date portrayal of branding and advertising in contemporary China. Wang takes us inside an advertising agency to show the influence of American branding theories and models. She also examines the impact of new media practices on Chinese advertising, deliberates on the convergence of grassroots creative culture and viral marketing strategies, samples successful advertising campaigns, provides practical insights about Chinese consumer segments, and offers methodological reflections on pop culture and advertising research. Jing Wang is S. C. Fang Professor of Chinese Language and Culture at MIT, Chair of the International Advisory Board of Creative Commons China Mainland, and the author of High Culture Fever and The Story of Stone. Pricing Carbon A. Denny Ellerman, MIT; Frank J. Convery, University College Dublin; Christian de Perthuis Université de Paris IX (Paris-Dauphine) The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme The European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) is the world’s largest market for carbon and the most significant multinational initiative ever taken to mobilize markets to protect the environment. It will be an important influence on the development and implementation of trading schemes in the US, Japan, and elsewhere. However, as is true of any pioneering public policy experiment, this scheme has generated much controversy. Pricing Carbon provides the first detailed description and analysis of the EU ETS, focusing on the first ‘trial’ period of the scheme (2005–7). Written by an international team of experts, it allows readers to get behind the headlines and come to a better understanding of what was done and what happened based on a dispassionate, empirically based review of the evidence. This book should be read by anyone who wants to know what happens when emissions are capped, traded, and priced. Street-Fighting Mathematics Sanjoy Mahajan The Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving In Street-Fighting Mathematics, Sanjoy Mahajan builds, sharpens, and demonstrates tools for educated guessing and down-and-dirty, opportunistic problem solving across diverse fields of knowledge—from mathematics to management. Mahajan describes six tools: dimensional analysis, easy cases, lumping, picture proofs, successive approximation, and reasoning by analogy. Illustrating each tool with numerous examples, he carefully separates the tool—the general principle—from the particular application so that the reader can most easily grasp the tool itself to use on problems of particular interest. Street-Fighting Mathematics grew out of a short course taught by the author at MIT for students ranging from first-year undergraduates to graduate students ready for careers in physics, mathematics, management, electrical engineering, computer science, and biology. Sanjoy Mahajan is Associate Director of the Teaching and Learning Laboratory and a Lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Before coming to MIT, he was a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and a Lecturer in Physics in the University of Cambridge. Digital Apollo David A. Mindell Human and Machine in Spaceflight As Apollo 11's Lunar Module descended toward the moon under automatic control, a program alarm in the guidance computer’s software nearly caused a mission abort. Neil Armstrong responded by switching off the automatic mode and taking direct control. He stopped monitoring the computer and began flying the spacecraft, relying on skill to land it and earning praise for a triumph of human over machine. In Digital Apollo, engineer-historian David Mindell takes this famous moment as a starting point for an exploration of the relationship between humans and computers in the Apollo program. In each of the six Apollo landings, the astronaut in command seized control from the computer and landed with his hand on the stick. Mindell recounts the story of astronauts' desire to control their spacecraft in parallel with the history of the Apollo Guidance Computer. From the early days of aviation through the birth of spaceflight, test pilots and astronauts sought to be more than "spam in a can" despite the automatic controls, digital computers, and software developed by engineers. Digital Apollo examines the design and execution of each of the six Apollo moon landings, drawing on transcripts and data telemetry from the flights, astronaut interviews, and NASA's extensive archives. Mindell's exploration of how human pilots and automated systems worked together to achieve the ultimate in flight—a lunar landing—traces and reframes the debate over the future of humans and automation in space. The results have implications for any venture in which human roles seem threatened by automated systems, whether it is the work at our desktops or the future of exploration. David A. Mindell is Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing, Professor of Engineering Systems, and Director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT. He is the author of Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics and War, Technology, and Experience aboard the USS Monitor. http://web.mit.edu/digitalapollo/index.htm	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line25996
__label__cc	0.523064	0.476936	Dewitt Clinton (Steamboat), aground, 1 Sep 1838 CLINTON, DeWITT Steamboat, on her recent trip to Chicago, ran aground near Beaver Island about 60 miles beyond Mackinaw, and that it became necessary to throw overboard most of her freight, consisting principally of merchandise in order to get her afloat Cleveland Daily Herald & Gazette Monday, September 17, 1838; 2:3 Steamboat Accident. -- We are informed by Capt. Attas of the Michigan, that on Tuesday night, the 11 th inst. the steamboat. The DE WITT CLINTON was run upon a reef in the straits of Michilimackinac, about 30 miles from the island of last name, where she remained 48 hours, at the end of which period, after throwing overboard large quantities of Tin, Iron and Grain, she was able to get off and return to Mackinaw. She was met on her way back by the MADISON, which took the passengers on board. The loss is estimated at $50,000 and onward. The boat suffered no material injury The passengers on board the CLINTON, we are informed, spoke in the highest terms of praise of the conduct of Mr. Sauaman, the skilled captain of the boat. Buffalo Commercial Advertiser Dewitt Clinton (Steamboat) McN.W.10029 Beaver Island Michigan, United States Latitude: 45.66472 Longitude: -85.55731	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line25999
__label__cc	0.718663	0.281337	More: off-reservation Litigation \| Openings & Closings 'We are thrilled': Spokane Tribe prevails in challenge to new casino (July 15, 2019) The Spokane Tribe has rebuffed a rival Indian nation's lawsuit. California \| Casino Stalker \| Federal Register Tule River Tribe takes another step toward relocation of casino (May 31, 2019) The Tule River Tribe is getting closer to a decision from the Trump administration. Casino Stalker \| Federal Register Ho-Chunk Nation makes major progress on off-reservation casino (May 31, 2019) The Ho-Chunk Nation is getting closer to a decision on a long-awaited gaming project in Wisconsin. 'Shameful': Little River Band blames rival tribes for delaying off-reservation casino (March 19, 2019) The Little River Band of Ottawa Indians continues to wait for a decision on a long-awaited off-reservation casino in Michigan. Ho-Chunk Nation ready to move forward with off-reservation casino (March 18, 2019) 'We're patient and persistent so whenever the approval process wraps up, we will be ready.' Little River Band off-reservation casino faces opposition from fellow tribes (March 18, 2019) The Little River Band of Ottawa Indians is pursuing an off-reservation casino in Michigan but fellow tribes aren't happy about it. Casino Stalker \| Meetings Little River Band still waiting for Bureau of Indian Affairs to make decision (February 25, 2019) The Little River Band of Ottawa Indians was making progress. Then came the government shutdown. Ho-Chunk Nation announces plans for expansion of gaming facility (February 5, 2019) The Ho-Chunk Nation is looking to add a hotel, convention center and more gaming space to its facility in Madison, the capital of Wisconsin. Ho-Chunk Nation sees support for off-reservation casino (December 13, 2018) The Ho-Chunk Nation is moving forward with a $405 million development in Beloit, Wisconsin. Public hearings set for two off-reservation casinos in Midwest (December 10, 2018) The Midwest regional office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs is busy with off-reservation gaming projects. Compacts \| Litigation Forest County Potawatomi Tribe updates gaming agreement (November 27, 2018) The Forest County Potawatomi Tribe is once again trying to protect its gaming facility in a lucrative urban market. Casino Stalker \| Federal Register \| Meetings Little River Band takes major step forward with casino bid (November 26, 2018) It's only taken three years but the Bureau of Indian Affairs is finally moving forward on an off-reservation casino in Michigan. Ho-Chunk Nation prepares for public hearing on casino project (November 19, 2018) The Bureau of Indian Affairs is taking public comments on the proposed Ho-Chunk Nation casino in Wisconsin. Casino Stalker \| Federal Register \| Land Acquisitions Ho-Chunk Nation takes step forward with off-reservation casino (November 12, 2018) The Ho-Chunk Nation's off-reservation casino is finally moving forward in a more politically-friendly environment in Wisconsin. California \| Casino Stalker \| Federal Register \| Meetings A 'milestone': Tule River Tribe moves forward with casino plan (September 26, 2018) Comments are being accepted on the Tule River Tribe's casino impact study and a public meeting has been scheduled. California \| Casino Stalker \| Federal Register \| Land Acquisitions Tule River Tribe takes major step forward with casino relocation plan (September 20, 2018) The Bureau of Indian Affairs is finally releasing an environmental review for the Tule River Tribe's casino relocation project. California \| Casino Stalker Manzanita Band off-reservation gaming project officially declared dead (September 4, 2018) An off-reservation casino near the U.S. border with Mexico has been declared dead. California \| Casino Stalker \| Land Acquisitions Timbisha Shoshone Tribe wins approval for update to casino agreement (August 17, 2018) The Timbisha Shoshone Tribe secured approval for an updated casino agreement but not after some heated discussion. Casino Stalker \| Land Acquisitions \| Litigation Sault Tribe faces doubts about long-stalled off-reservation casino (June 13, 2018) The Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians might be looking elsewhere for gaming opportunities thanks to the Trump administration. Compacts \| Federal Register \| Openings & Closings Shawnee Tribe wins federal approval of Class III gaming compact (June 7, 2018) The Shawnee Tribe continues to make progress on a long-awaited off-reservation casino. Shawnee Tribe plans to open long-awaited off-reservation casino in summer of 2019 (June 4, 2018) After more than a decade of work, the Shawnee Tribe is finally joining the Indian gaming industry. California \| Casino Stalker \| Land Acquisitions \| Litigation \| Regulation Yet another federal appeals court backs restoration of tribal homelands (May 2, 2018) The winning streak continues for Indian Country with yet another federal appeals court decision in favor of tribal homelands. Casino Stalker Ho-Chunk Nation still waiting for movement on off-reservation casino (April 24, 2018) It's been more than five years since the Ho-Chunk Nation has since action on its off-reservation casino. What gives? Timbisha Shoshone Tribe faces hurdles in Washington for casino bid (April 11, 2018) As predicted, the Trump administration is raising hurdles for the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe as it pursues an off-reservation casino. Casino Stalker \| Land Acquisitions Shawnee Tribe planning to start work on off-reservation casino (March 29, 2018) The Shawnee Tribe officially signed the deed for the site of the future Golden Mesa Casino in Oklahoma. Sault Tribe 'remains fully committed' to off-reservation casino (March 29, 2018) The Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians plans to sue the Trump administration for rejecting two off-reservation casinos in Michigan. Tule River Tribe headed to D.C. to lobby for off-reservation casino (March 22, 2018) The Tule River Tribe is bringing its off-reservation casino proposal to a top Republican lawmaker in Washington, D.C. Tule River Tribe seeks local support for off-reservation casino bid (March 13, 2018) The Tule River Tribe continues to push for a move of its casino to a new, off-reservation site in California. Candidate vows to approve Ho-Chunk Nation off-reservation casino (February 8, 2018) A decision is still far away but a candidate for governor in Wisconsin says he will approve an off-reservation casino for the Ho-Chunk Nation. Ho-Chunk Nation still waiting for action on off-reservation casino (February 6, 2018) President Wilfrid Cleveland: 'We've had great feedback from the White House on this.' Land Acquisitions \| Openings & Closings Shawnee Tribe secures historic approval for off-reservation homelands (January 19, 2018) After nearly two decades of delays and setbacks, the Shawnee Tribe finally has a place to call home. Timbisha Shoshone Tribe solicits local input for off-reservation casino project (January 15, 2018) The Timbisha Shoshone Tribe is still working on plans for an off-reservation casino in California. Ho-Chunk Nation committed to off-reservation casino despite uncertainty in Trump era (December 19, 2017) The Ho-Chunk Nation remains committed to an off-reservation casino in Wisconsin despite uncertainty created by the Trump administration. NIGC \| Regulation Trump hire at Bureau of Indian Affairs heads back to Capitol Hill for gaming hearing (October 2, 2017) The senior-most political official at the Bureau of Indian Affairs is back on Capitol Hill to testify at a hearing about the tribal gaming industry. Ho-Chunk Nation sees support from Congress in bid for off-reservation casino (September 25, 2017) Four Democrats in Congress are calling on the Trump administration to approve an off-reservation casino for the Ho-Chunk Nation in Wisconsin. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs schedules hearing on tribal gaming industry (September 25, 2017) It's that time again -- the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs is holding an oversight hearing on the tribal gaming industry. Ho-Chunk Nation outlines optimistic schedule for stalled off-reservation casino (August 9, 2017) The Ho-Chunk Nation thinks it can open an off-reservation in Wisconsin in 2021 even though there's been little movement on the federal level. Another tribe chimes in with criticism of 'reservation shopping' in Michigan (July 31, 2017) Not everyone in Indian Country is upset with the Trump administration's first major land-into-trust decision. Nottawaseppi Huron Band praises denial of off-reservation gaming projects (July 28, 2017) While one tribe in Michigan is vowing a fight, another is praising the Trump administration for rejecting proposals for two off-reservation casinos. Ho-Chunk Nation sees more support for off-reservation casino in Wisconsin (July 21, 2017) Members of Congress, state lawmakers and local officials are rushing to support the Ho-Chunk Nation's gaming project despite a lack of movement at the federal level. Ho-Chunk Nation remains hopeful for off-reservation casino in Wisconsin (July 19, 2017) The Ho-Chunk Nation and supporters are hoping the Trump administration will approve the tribe's off-reservation casino in Wisconsin. Nisqually Tribe talks to local officials about off-reservation gaming facility (July 12, 2017) Discussions are still in the early stages but the Nisqually Tribe is interested in a casino and other development in Lacey, Washington. Casino Stalker \| Compacts \| Connecticut \| Legislation Connecticut tribes heap praise on senior Trump administration official (June 14, 2017) The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation and the Mohegan Tribe believe a letter from the Department of the Interior helped them get over the finish line for their proposed casino. Ute Tribe confronts new obstacle to proposed casino in Colorado (April 18, 2017) Racism and Ryan Zinke -- two hurdles the tribe must overcome in order to move forward with the project. Trump administration faces test of off-reservation gaming policy (April 18, 2017) The Spokane Tribe is counting on the Trump team to defend its gaming project from a lawsuit filed by a rival in Washington state. Trump administration erects new hurdle for off-reservation casinos (April 13, 2017) After just a month in office, the new leader of the Department of the Interior has made it harder for tribes to open off-reservation casinos. Shawnee Tribe secures final approval for off-reservation casino (March 7, 2017) The Golden Mesa Casino will be located in Oklahoma's Panhandle, more than 400 miles from tribal headquarters. Kalispel Tribe announces $20M casino expansion in Washington (February 22, 2017) The Northern Quest Resort and Casino is growing by 40,000 square-feet and will see a new recreational vehicle park. Timbisha Shoshone Tribe wants land swap for off-reservation casino (February 3, 2017) The California tribe appears to the beneficiary of yet another last-minute Obama administration action. Shawnee Tribe waits for answer on off-reservation casino project (January 31, 2017) The Bureau of Indian Affairs didn't make a decision before the end of the Obama administration.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26000
__label__cc	0.729598	0.270402	Ten pieces of different materials challenge the laws of equilibrium. Making use of the same typology and different scales, the collection shows in each composition, the balance between the technique, the people and the ideas that inspire us. Each piece was produced using different traditional trades, craft techniques and Mexican industrial technologies that Joel has explored at different points in his career. Personal Editions. Joel has managed to understand the state of the industry in the country and its dialogue with design thanks to its broad horizon and extensive experience, which have allowed him to experiment with different techniques and work with various workshops and industries in the country. Thus, Balance is a sample of the capacity of the Mexican industry as well as a portfolio of Joel's own work as a designer. Year / 2018 Creative Director / Joel Escalona Design Team / Isa Velarde, Mariana Loaiza Comunications / Magdalena Perez Photo Assistant / Mariana Achach Exhibitions / Zona Maco 2018 Download press images More about this project Balance refers to the diversity that can be generated in creation parting from the same concept: the pewter piece, for example, was produced in the vitrifying facilities of CINSA in Saltillo, Coahuila, where thousands of pots and pans are manufactured daily; The silver piece was made in the high precision and quality factory of TANE in Mexico City, where the raw material is silver law .99. The glass piece, on the other hand, is the result of the craftmanship blown glass, technique that is learned from generation to generation in NOUVEL Studio in the State of Mexico; from a simple sheet of copper, molded by hammering in the hands of the craftsman Napoleon in Michoacan, resulted the piece of such material; and some others were made in a workshop in Teotihuacan where obsidian, lava stone and other minerals were of great inspiration and usefulness for pre-Columbian cultures in Mexico. Balance represents a creative high point in Joel's career as it is the result of a constant search for balance between the idea and the process, the comfort of the known and the uncertainty of the new, stability and constant movement. “All my life I had been looking for balance failing miserably. Balance between love and apathy, between my friends and my family, between disinterest and obsession, between what I want and what I really need. Obsessed with the search for balance in my life, I unexpectedly found it in my passion: creation.” — Joel Escalona Designing with silver for TANE is the closest thing we have done to fashion design. It is interesting to work with a rigorous calendar of seasons and precise brand guidelines to create everyday luxury. Even if we have designed jewelry and accessories for them for years, it is always exciting to go to their production facilities to see how our ideas are transformed into a precious material that will be sold in the most exclusive stores. To witness how one of our designs is manufactured in NOUVEL Studio is quite the experience. To make a single piece of blown glass it is necessary the ability of several specialists, sometimes three, another six. However, everyone has a specific task: who removes the red-hot glass from the oven, who blows through the metal cane to mold the material, who heats up the piece with the blowtorch so that it does not cool down, who cuts the surplus, who manipulates the mold, who directs everything inside the workshop. For us, every time we make new designs with them, it means participating with that initial idea that is being shaped by all the hands that contribute in the process. Marble is perhaps one of the most passionate materials there is; dramatic, ethereal and opulent. We use it when we want to express luxury in spaces, and melodrama in a monument. In the university we teach that marble is also a key piece of the Renaissance, which represents openness and change, but a change that does not forget its origins, but takes brings them back and transforms them with a new language. Obsidian is a material extremely rich in history and tradition; It is a natural glass of volcanic origin that was used for manufacturing spiritual objects in pre-Columbian cultures. However, working with obsidian is a trade that has been handed down from generation to generation; and so, we are collaborating with the third generation of a family in Teotihuacan, where the grandfather started with the technique, the father perfected it and the children are in the process of modernization, working with designers like us to innovate the tradition. We met Napoleon in Santa Clara del Cobre due to a project we carried out for the Museum of Popular Art (Museo de Arte Popular), where designers are invited to work with artisans to create new products with craft techniques. Sometimes traditions are seen as something that should be placed on a pedestal behind a glass only to be admired. On the contrary, we believe that preserving knowledge (in this case artisanal) is achieved through being understood, used and evolved. Wood is the material with which designers lose their virginity, because when they stop making paper things and get into a workshop at the university for the first time, it is the first material they use. From the tradition of wood in Mexico there is much to say, it is used in crafts, traditional toys, kitchen utensils, decorative accessories and contemporary furniture. For all this, carpentry is more than an everyday trade, it is one of the noblest processes to design and for that reason, we wanted to break with that comfort and challenge this material. If in a history museum we pay attention to pre-Columbian objects, we will notice the curious ambivalence of the volcanic stone. Formerly, it was used both in utilitarian objects as containers and utensils, as well as in symbolic figures with a deep value and religious significance. How important has the presence of this material been for our history, since aside from covering the entire spectrum of needs ranging from the practical to the spiritual, it has managed to become a timeless and highly effective element for design and contemporary art. A material, a process and a company that is present practically in all Mexican homes. CINSA is one of our great triumphs in terms of scale, as collections and concepts we have made for them have been manufactured in millions of pieces, that almost anyone can acquire and enjoy. Having achieved innovation on such a large scale is our legacy in design. The challenge of clay paste is not only found in the form and composition, but also in the history behind the finish. In 2013 master ceramist Rubén began the process of developing a glace, in an attempt to emulate traditional clay with ceramic properties: soft to the touch, resistant to moisture and eye-catching. Attracted by the innovative material, we decided to work with him, not only to make a piece that emulates something longstanding, but to give form and function to a new material. Ceramic is one of the most capricious and charming materials at the same time. Usually it requires great patience in its conception and manufacture, especially for forms or compositions that border on the impossible. Trying new configurations requires experts with an adventurous spirit and their experienced hands, as is the case of an ingenious workshop in Mexico City, where father and son put knowledge and skill to do something they had never tried before. From the computer to reality, as if the object materialized out of thin air, usually the prelude to production. In the studio we integrated 3D printing into our design process with the aim of reducing time and making better decisions for different design proposals. It is not the same to see a piece in the distance of a monitor, as to have it in your hand, to slide your fingers over each of its surfaces and to truly feel it. In this way, we took the time to analyze the relevance of this manufacturing process, which due to the experience it generates, is a piece in itself. 3D printing is like freezing a story in the most dynamic part of the narrative, to appreciate it as it is. Back to Portfolio.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26004
__label__wiki	0.859061	0.859061	Regeneration (novel) For the 1997 film adaptation of the novel, see Regeneration (1997 film). First edition cover Pat Barker Regeneration Trilogy War novel Print (hardback & paperback) 288 (first edition, hardback) 0-670-82876-9 (first edition, hardback) 823/.914 20 LC Class PR6052.A6488 R4 1991 The Eye in the Door Regeneration is a historical and anti-war novel by Pat Barker, first published in 1991. The novel was a Booker Prize nominee and was described by the New York Times Book Review as one of the four best novels of the year in its year of publication.[1] It is the first of three novels in the Regeneration Trilogy of novels on the First World War, the other two being The Eye in the Door and The Ghost Road, which won the Booker Prize in 1995.[2] The novel was adapted into a film by the same name in 1997 by Scottish film director Gillies MacKinnon and starring Jonathan Pryce as Rivers, James Wilby as Sassoon and Jonny Lee Miller as Prior.[3] The film was successful in the UK and Canada, receiving nominations for a number of awards.[3] The novel explores the experience of British army officers being treated for shell shock during World War I at Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh. Inspired by her grandfather's experience of World War I, Barker draws extensively on first person narratives from the period. Using these sources, she created characters based on historical individuals present at the hospital including poets and patients, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, and psychiatrist W. H. R. Rivers, who pioneered treatments of posttraumatic stress disorder during and after World War I. The title of the novel refers to Rivers' research into "nerve regeneration". Barker also includes fictional characters, based on the larger cultural experience of the period, including an officer who grew up in the lower classes, Billy Prior, and his girlfriend and munitionette, Sarah Lumb. The novel is thematically complex, exploring the effect of the War on identity, masculinity, and social structure. Moreover, the novel draws extensively on period psychological practices, emphasising River's research as well as Freudian psychology. Through the novel Barker enters a particular tradition of representing the experience of World War I in literature: many critics compare the novel to other World War I novels, especially those written by women writers interested in the domestic repercussions of the war, including Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier (1918) and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (1925). Barker both drew on those texts of the period that initially inspired her and makes references to a number of other literary and cultural works and events. These give an impression of historical realism, even though Barker tends to refute the claim that the novel is "historical fiction". Background and inspiration Barker had long appreciated the literary figures she draws inspiration from in the novel: she read the World War I poetry of Sassoon and Owen as well as Rivers' Conflict and Dream in her youth.[4] However, Barker directly attributes the immediate inspiration for Regeneration to her husband, a neurologist familiar with the writings of Dr. W.H.R. Rivers and his experiments with nerve regeneration.[4] In a 2004 interview with literary critic Rob Nixon in the journal Contemporary Literature, Barker also states she wrote the novel, in part, as a response to how her earlier fiction was being received; she said, I felt I had got myself into a box where I was strongly typecast as a northern, regional, working-class, feminist—label, label, label—novelist. It's not a matter so much of objecting to the labels, but you do get to a point where people are reading the labels instead of the book. And I felt I'd got to that point. And also, I'd always wanted to write about the First World War. One of my earliest memories was of my grandfather's bayonet wound and his stories of the First World War. I knew I wanted to do that. I also knew I had to wait until I'd got a way of doing it that wasn't just a copy of what had already been done. It takes a long time to have an original idea about something which has got whole libraries devoted to it.[5] Other interviews also emphasise her memories of her grandfather's stories about his experience.[6] In her "Author's Note" for the novel, she describes the research which she used to create the novel, and how she drew on a number of sources from different period authors. The novel draws considerable inspiration from historical events. Literary critic Greg Harris describes her use of historical circumstances and historical source materials as largely, " "true" to the extent that the lives of the real-life characters, including Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, and Robert Graves, did intertwine."[7] Moreover, Harris argues that Barker accurately captures the psychological situation in which the characters, especially the literary characters, were producing their poetry.[7] French literary critic Marie-Noëlle Provost-Vallet highlights different misinterpretations and anachronistic cultural references supporting a critique of the novel by blogger and critic Esther MacCallum-Stewart.[8] However, she also notes the novel accurately assesses other parts of the historical context, such as the treatment of the World War I poets' and their poetic process.[8] The novel has been treated both as a war novel and an anti-war novel. In her 2004 interview with critic Rob Nixon, Barker describes her conceptualisation of that boundary: It's not an antiwar book in the very simple sense that I was afraid it might seem at the beginning. Not that it isn't an antiwar book: it is. But you can't set up things like the Somme or Passchendaele and use them as an Aunt Sally, because nobody thinks the Somme and Passchendaele were a good idea. So in a sense what we appear to be arguing about is never ever going to be what they [the characters] are actually arguing about, which is a much deeper question of honor, I think. "Honor" is another old-fashioned word like "heroism," but it's very much a key word in the book.[5] Moreover, because of the novel's strict adherence to history, critic Greg Harris describes the novel pushing the boundaries between historical fiction and non-fiction.[7] In her study of the novel, Karin Westman describes the act of writing historical fiction as "a challenge" for Barker.[9] Westman notes that Barker, at times, made deliberate choices not to preserve realism, when, for example, she omits the kinds of language and humour used by soldiers during the period.[9] In some interviews, Barker directly challenges the characterisation of the novel as an "historical novel," suggesting that the First World War stands in for other wars and allows her to represent more unspecific war-related themes.[9] The novel begins as Dr W. H. R. Rivers, an army psychiatrist at Craiglockhart War Hospital, learns of poet Siegfried Sassoon's declaration against the continuation of the war. Labelled as "shell-shocked", a government board influenced by Robert Graves, Sassoon's friend, sends Sassoon to the hospital trying to discredit his public declaration of opposition. Rivers feels uneasy about Sassoon entering Craiglockhart, doubting that he is shell-shock and not wanting to shelter a conscientious objector. Soon after Sassoon arrives, Rivers meets him and they discuss why Sassoon objects to the war: he objects to its horrors, out of no particular religious belief, a common criteria for conscientious objectors. Though troubled by these horrors, Rivers affirms his duty to return Sassoon to combat. Sassoon feels conflicted about his safety at Craiglockhart while others die on the Western Front. In addition to Sassoon's conflict, the opening chapters of the novel describe the suffering of other soldiers in the hospital. Anderson, a former surgeon, now cannot stand the sight of blood. Haunted by terrible hallucinations after being thrown into the air by an explosion and landing head first in the ruptured stomach of a rotting dead soldier, Burns experiences a revulsion to eating. Another patient, Billy Prior, suffers from mutism and will only write communications with Rivers on a notepad. Prior eventually regains his voice, but remains a difficult patient for Rivers avoiding any discussion of his war memories. At the beginning of Part II, Sassoon meets the young aspiring poet Wilfred Owen who admires Sassoon's poetry and Sassoon helps workshop Owen's poem "The Dead-Beat". Sassoon becomes Anderson's golf partner. On a day off, Prior goes into Edinburgh and meets Sarah Lumb, a munitionette whose boyfriend was killed at the Battle of Loos. They nearly have sex, but Sarah refuses Prior at the last minute. The doctors punish Prior for being gone from Craiglockhart for too long, confining him there for two weeks. During that time, Rivers tries hypnosis on Prior to help him recover his memories of the trenches. Meanwhile, Rivers invites Sassoon to visit the Conservative Club. At the lunch, Rivers realises it will be difficult to convince Sassoon to return to the war and does not want to force him. Later, Owen convinces Sassoon to publish his poetry in the hospital magazine The Hydra. During this time, Prior meets Sarah in town and explains why he missed their meetings. Reconciled, they take a train to the seaside and walk along the beach together, where he feels relieved, though he is distracted thinking about the plight of fellow soldiers. Caught in a storm, he and Sarah have sex while sheltering in a bush. Meanwhile, Rivers, exhausted by the taxing work of caring for the shell shocked soldiers, is ordered by his superiors to holiday for three weeks away from Craiglockhart. Rivers' departure resurrects Sassoon's feelings of abandonment when his father left him, and he realises that Rivers has taken the place of his father. While away from Craiglockhart, Rivers attends church near his brother's farm and reflects on the sacrifices of younger men in the war for the desires of the older generation. Afterward, tiring labour on his brother's farm allows a cathartic release and a thorough reflection on his experiences. During one flashback, Rivers reflects on his father's role in his life, remembering his father's speech therapy practice on both himself and Charles Dodgson, who was later known by his pen name Lewis Carroll. At Craiglockhart, Sassoon helps Owen draft one of his most famous poems, "Anthem for Doomed Youth." Meanwhile, Sarah accompanies her friend Madge to a local wounded soldier hospital. Sarah gets separated and walks into a tent housing amputee soldiers. She feels shocked that society hides these injured soldiers away. During Sarah's experience, Prior is examined by a medical board. Prior fears that they suspect he is faking illness and want to send him back to war. While away, Rivers meets with some old friends, Ruth and Henry Head, who discuss Sassoon. Rivers suggests that Sassoon has the freedom to disagree with the war. However, Rivers affirms that his job is to make Sassoon return to military duty. At the end of their conversation Head offers Rivers a job in London, which Rivers is unsure if he should take out of fear of not fulfilling his duties. Burns, who has since been discharged from hospital, invites Rivers to visit him at his family home in seaside Suffolk. Rivers finds Burns alone. They spend a few days together. One night, during a severe thunderstorm, Burns walks outside and suffers flashbacks to his experiences with trench warfare in France. The trauma facilitates' Burn's ability to talk about his frontline experience. The experience also helps Rivers decide to take the job in London, and notifies his commander at Craiglockhart. When Rivers returns, Sassoon describes his recent hallucinations of dead friends knocking on his door. Sassoon admits to guilt for not serving the soldiers and decides to return to the trenches. Rivers, though pleased with Sassoon's decision, worries about what may happen to him there. Starting the section, Sarah tells her mother, Ada, about her relationship with Billy Prior. Ada scolds her daughter for having sex outside marriage. A few chapters later, Sarah discovers that another munitions worker attempted a home abortion with a coat-hanger, but only harms herself. Meanwhile, Sassoon tells Graves of his decision to return to war. In the same conversation, Graves stresses his heterosexuality, leaving Sassoon feeling of unease about his own sexual orientation. During a counselling session Sassoon talks to Rivers about the official attitude towards homosexuality. Rivers theorises that during wartime the authorities are particularly hard on homosexuality, wanting to clearly distinguish between the "right" kind of love between men (loyalty, brotherhood, camaraderie), which is beneficial to soldiers, and the "wrong" kind (sexual attraction). Soon, the medical board review the soldiers' cases deciding on their fitness for combat. Prior receives permanent home service due to his asthma. Prior breaks down, fearing that he will be seen as a coward. Sassoon, tired of waiting for his board, leaves the hospital to dine with a friends, causing conflict with Rivers. Following the medical board, Prior and Sarah meet again and admit their love. Sassoon and Owen discuss Sassoon's imminent departure and Owen is deeply affected. Sassoon comments to Rivers that Owen's feelings may be more than mere hero worship. Rivers spends his last day at the clinic saying goodbye to his patients, then travels to London and meets Dr. Lewis Yealland from the National Hospital, who will be his colleague in his new position. Dr. Yealland uses electro-shock therapy to force patients to quickly recover from shell-shock; he believes that some patients do not want to be cured and that pain is the best method of treatment for such reluctant patients. Rivers questions whether he can work with a man who uses such techniques. Soon Sassoon is released for combat duty; Willard is able to overcome his psychosomatic paralysis and walks again; Anderson is given a staff job. The novel ends with Rivers completing his notes, meditating on the effect that the encounter with Sassoon, and the last few months, have had on him. Siegfried Sassoon – The fictional Siegfried Sassoon is closely based on the real Sassoon. Many reviewers of the novel describe Sassoon as the main character.[10] Abandoned by his father as a child, the novel presents Rivers as a father-figure for Sassoon, which reflects their historical relationship.[11] Despite Sassoon's decorated military career, his experiences in World War I caused him to publish an anti-war declaration. Although the character in Regeneration eventually returns to the front (as did the historical Sassoon), Barker depicts him as remaining deeply ambivalent about warfare. Moreover, Sassoon held ambiguous feelings about his sexuality throughout his life: though he married Hester Gatty in 1933, he had several homosexual affairs after the war. Dr. W.H.R. Rivers – Based upon the real-life W. H. R. Rivers, Rivers is an English anthropologist, neurologist, and psychiatrist who worked at Craiglockhart War Hospital between 1916 and 1917, his patients included Siegfried Sassoon amongst other literary figures. Barker describes him as the main character of the novel (though some critics emphasise Rivers or Sassoon).[10] Historically, he experimented with treatments for nerve regeneration with Henry Head. This research inspired the title of the novel as well as some of the trilogy's major themes, such as trauma, injury, and healing. In Barker's portrayal, Rivers suffers throughout the novel from the moral dilemma that he is treating soldiers in order that they can return to war. His approach is contrasted with the harsh treatment used by Dr. Lewis Yealland. Moreover, throughout the novel Rivers is struggling with a nervous stammer he has had since childhood, even though his own father used to be a speech therapist. In an interview with journalist Wera Reusch Barker called the historical Rivers "very humane, a very compassionate person who was tormented really by the suffering he saw, and very sceptical about the war, but at the same time he didn't feel he could go the whole way and say no, stop."[2] Billy Prior – Prior is one of the few purely fictional characters in the book. Prior is a soldier at Craiglockhart who suffers from mutism and asthma. According to critic Patricia Johnson, Prior's inability to speak highlights the novel's treatment of Western culture's inability to verbalise the mutilation of bodies caused by war.[12] Prior is a working-class officer who has risen to the rank of lieutenant despite his background. Straddling the class divide, Prior sees the British army mirroring the class system, even in the trenches. Prior often envies those who are not involved in the war experience, such as Sarah, his love interest in the novel. As he develops in the Regeneration Trilogy, the novels reveal Prior as bisexual. He is a man fundamentally at war with himself: torn between his working-class roots and his army career, between his officially acknowledged love for Sarah and his "forbidden" sexual attraction towards other men, between his violent father and his fussing mother, his longing for peace and his hatred of civilians unaffected by the horrors of trench warfare. David Burns – David Burns, another patient at Craiglockhart War Hospital, is a fictionalised version of one of Rivers' real patients who is described in the psychologist's case studies. Burns has been unable to eat after a bomb explosion threw him headlong into the gas-filled belly of a corpse, which caused him to swallow some of the rotting flesh. Critic Patricia Johnson explains that this experience of traumatic embodied experiences, epitomises the novel's strong use of visual descriptions of the war to help the reader recognise wars horrors (see the War themes section below).[12] Wilfred Owen – The fictional Owen is based upon the actual poet who died just before the end of the war in 1918. His posthumously published poems greatly increased his reputation.[13] He is largely a peripheral character in the novel.[13] Barker depicts Owen as initially unsure of the standard of his own poetry and asks Sassoon to help him revise them.[13] These unrevised versions of the poems are not drafts originally by Owen, but rather versions of the poems revised by Barker.[13] Owen's sexuality is also questioned, as Sassoon comments that Owen's feelings towards him seem to extend further than mere hero-worship. Anderson – Anderson is another patient at Craiglockhart War hospital. Once a surgeon, Anderson's experiences of war have made it impossible to continue practising medicine because he now hates the sight of blood after experiencing a mental breakdown. Sarah Lumb – Sarah is a completely fictional character. The girlfriend of the character Billy Prior, she is working-class, "Geordie," and works in a munitions factory in Scotland producing armaments for British soldiers. Ada Lumb, her mother, appears briefly and has a hardened attitude towards love and relationships. Dr. Lewis Yealland – A foil to Rivers, Yealland is based on a doctor of that name at the National Hospital in London who used electro-shock therapy to treat his patients. Yealland is portrayed as arrogant and uncaring. He believes that the characters that breakdown during the war are "weak" and says that they would break down in civilian life anyway. Callan – Callan is a patient of Dr. Yealland who has served in every major battle in World War I. He finds himself in the care of Dr. Yealland after suffering from mutism. Callan tries to fight against his doctor's treatment but eventually gives in to it. Robert Graves – Another real life character, Graves is a fellow poet and friend of Sassoon who sees the war as unjust and immoral. However, Graves does not want to make his life more difficult by protesting. Graves sees it as his duty to serve his country regardless of his own moral beliefs. Because Regeneration is a novel that focuses on the First World War, it explores many of the themes common to literature written during and following the war, including the cause and effects of war, the limits of ideologies like nationalism and masculinity, and both the medical and popular reactions to the psychological traumas created in the war. Critics have treated each of these extensively. Moreover, because much of Barker's earlier work was historical fiction about women, critics often comment on her treatment of women in the novel.[8] The novel extensively focuses on the effects of losses during wartime. As The Guardian noted when discussing her awards for The Ghost Road, the series gave her the reputation as "The woman who understood war".[2] Barker stated in an interview with Wera Reusch that "The trilogy is trying to tell something about the parts of war that don't get into the official accounts". She goes on to state that "One of the things that impresses me is that two things happen to soldiers in war: a) they get killed or b) they come back more or less alright. It's really focusing on the people who do come back but don't come back alright, they are either physically disabled or mentally traumatised."[2] One of the focuses of the novel is on how combatants perceive their experiences. In her article discussing the novel's representation of death, literary critic Patricia E. Johnson describes how contemporary society tends to make the casualties and experience of war more abstract, making it hard for non-combatants to imagine the losses.[14] Johnson argues that the entire Regeneration Trilogy breaks the boundaries created by modern society's abstraction of war and its casualties because "mutilation and death are re-presented in a ways that escape warfare's typical conceptual categories, thus ..."realising" modern warfare by reconnecting language and material substance."[14] In discussing the first novel specifically, Johnson highlights how the book "repeatedly employs synecdoche" to emphasise the visceral experiences, by describing eviscerated human flesh and how the characters respond to those experiences.[12] She describes experiences like Burns's horrifying head first disembowelment of a corpse as allowing the readers to understand two things: first, that memories of the combatants are recorded in terms of their relationship to actual people, rather than in the vague ideas of people represented by war memorials; and second, the conceptual opposition in Western culture between flesh or body parts and the social definition of a person (for further discussion of this philosophical issue see Mind-body problem).[12] Much of the novel explores the types of cultural ideologies, like nationalism and masculinity, that facilitated the War. Barker states that she chose to write about World War I "because it's come to stand in for other wars, as a sort of idealism of the young people in August 1914 in Germany and in England. They really felt this was the start of a better world. And the disillusionment, the horror and the pain followed that. I think because of that it's come to stand for the pain of all wars."[2] Critic Kaley Joyes argues that choices like the inclusion of the work by poet Wilfred Owen in the novel, whose life has been romanticised as "an expressive exemplar of the war's tragic losses," highlights this thematic interest in breaking down the common ideological interpretations of the war.[15] The tension between traditional models of masculinity and the experiences within the war runs throughout the novel.[7] Critic Greg Harris identifies Regeneration, along with the other two novels in the trilogy, as profiling the non-fictional experience of Sassoon and other soldiers who must deal with ideas of masculnity.[7] These characters feel conflicted by a model of masculinity common to Britain during this time: honour, bravery, mental strength, and confidence were privileged "manly" characteristics.[7] Yet they explore, internally and through conversation, what that model means for them and how the war changes how they should experience it.[7] In an interview with Barker in Contemporary Literature, Rob Nixon distinguishes between these ideas of "manliness" and the concept of masculinity as providing a larger definition for identity. Barker agrees with his assessment, saying, "and what's so nice about them is that they use it so unself-consciously: they must have been the last generation of men who could talk about manliness without going "ugh" inside."[5] In his discussion of the novel, Harris describes this "manliness" as becoming, for Barker's characters, an "unrealistic militaristic-masculine ideals"; practices such as the deliberate repression of emotion consume the novel's characters and create psychological instability, as well as being the cause of extensive discrimination during the war.[7] Harris highlights how this thematic treatment fairly represents how the question of masculine identity effected Sassoon and other shell-shocked World War I soldiers.[7] Harris also describes Barker, as author, and Rivers, as a period innovator, demonstrating how the use of therapy on soldiers offers an opportunity to shape and rethink this model of masculinity.[16] The idea of reintegrating emotions, in relation to questions about the nature of masculinity, are an important part of the novel; Barker focuses on the same type of emotional reintegration that historians have identified in River's actual methods for treating victims of the war.[17] Psychology and trauma The novel's use of a mental hospital as the main setting, along with psychologist Rivers' treatments of soldiers and their war trauma, focuses much of the novel on the psychological effects of war. In doing so, the novel follows in the tradition of novels like The Return of the Soldier (1918) and Mrs. Dalloway (1925).[18] Many critics focus on this interest in the effects of trauma. For instance, Ankhi Mukherjee describes the failure of characters to turn their memories into a narrative through the medium of talk therapy.[19] Mukherjee describes River's approach to therapy as "autogenesis," or self-understanding through structuring their reaction to traumatic experiences.[19] Sigmund Freud is an important influence on the novel's approach to psychology,[20] and this influence has roots in the historical context of the novel, because Rivers was influenced by the writings of Freud on neurosis and Sassoon wrote about the experience of Freudian psychoanalysis in his Sherston's Progress.[20] While Rivers disagreed that neurosis was due to sexual factors he considered Freud's work to be of "direct practical use in diagnosis and treatment".[20] Craiglockhart's approach to compassionate talk therapy had roots in the Freudian treatments of hysteria, using tools such as expressing compassionate understanding for patients and helping patients interpret dreams.[20] Women and the domestic See also: British women's literature of World War I Some critics have written extensively on the place of women within the novel, even though it focuses on men.[8] In part this is because Barker's previous novels focus on working class women's history.[8] In her companion to the novel, Karin Westman sees the novel as a response by Barker to critics stereotyping her as only being interested in writing about women.[21] However, Baker has repeatedly talked about how this novel as connected with her earlier interests in feminism.[21] Barker describes the novel as providing a voice for the home front, stating, that "In a lot of books about war by men the women are totally silenced. The men go off and fight and the women stay at home and cry; basically, this is the typical feature. And the women in the trilogy are always deeply significant, and whatever they say in whatever language they say it in, it is always meant to be listened to very carefully."[2] In particular, Barker is interested in the contradictions placed on women's expectations during war period, and its history;[2] for example, she points out that the women in the munitions factories are expected to produce weapons to kill thousands, but a woman who attempts to abort her unborn child is criticised.[2] The female perspectives within the novel is rare in war fiction and provides a larger sense of the domestic repercussions. Critic Ronald Paul notes that Regeneration and its sequels are some of the first novels since Rebecca's West's The Return of the Soldier or Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway that deal with the repercussions of the war and whose author was not a male soldier.[18] Paul describes such novels, which deal explicitly with domestic effects of shell shock, as part of Barker's self-described "very much female view of war".[18] The novel, like its two sequels, relies heavily on allusion to, and appropriation of, both historical and literary texts. The "Author's note" for each novel, as critic Allistair M. Duckworth points out, explicitly outlines historical texts that Barker relied on when writing that novel.[22] Critic Kaley Joyes describes much of the novel's reading experience as dependent on knowledge of the other texts.[13] Not all the texts represented in the novel are exact copies. Joyes highlights how Barker alters Wilfred Owen's poems so that the reader can witness Owen and Sassoon revise them at Craiglockhart.[13] Joyes argues the subtle use of intertextuality with Owen's works as well as other texts allows Barker to engage politically in a metatextual move similar to those identified by Linda Hutcheon in her A Poetics of Postmodernism — in which Hutcheon describes how fictional texts can question the nature of the historical process, alongside other forms of knowledge, through the means of both explicit and implicit commentary on the construction of that knowledge.[13] According to Joyes, Barker's revisions "destabilize eyewitness privilege and emphasizes narration's accessibility."[13] The following are some of the most prominent intertextual components in the novel: Part of Barker's primary inspiration for the novel are the accounts of the time Sassoon spent at Craiglockhart, as described by Rivers in his book Conflict and Dreams. To give anonymity to Sassoon Rivers refers to him as "Patient B". Sassoon refers to Edward Carpenter's writing on sexuality The Intermediate Sex, and it is implied that Sassoon is a homosexual because he states that such works made him feel normal about his sexuality.[23] The women in the bar, including Sarah Lumb, are based on characters from a scene in T. S. Eliot's The Wasteland.[24] Prior reads one of River's anthropological studies The Todas.[25] Owen and Sassoon frequently discuss Craiglockhart's in house-publication The Hydra, which published some of their poems. A number of Wilfred Owen's poems are in the text. Owen and Sassoon are shown working on Owen's famous poem "Anthem for Doomed Youth" together. Barker also revises Owen's "The Dead-Beat" as well as using "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young" and "Disabled", but, according to critic Kaley Joyes, she does this "without drawing attention to her intertextual actions."[26] According to Joyes, Barker describes Owen's as often received as an " iconic status as an expressive exemplar of the war's tragic losses".[26] Joyes posits that Barkers' subtle uses of some of Owen's poems may be an attempt for circumventing the "preexisting myth" about him and his work.[26] Literary critic Alistair M. Duckworth describes the novel building on narratives and thematic elements found in both Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That (1929) and Edmund Blunden's Undertones of War (1928).[22] Reception and sales According to academic critic Karin Westman, Regeneration was "well received by reviewers in both the UK and the United States."[27] Beyond frequent praise, the main points discussed often related to the veracity of Barker's depiction of the War period and about her role as a woman writer, along with the connections of this work to her previous novels.[27] Westman argues that many of these critics judged Barker's work on "content rather than style", so that this work allowed her to break from her earlier classification as a regional, working-class feminist into the "(male) canon of British literature".[27] The novel was even one of the "best novels of 1992", according to the New York Times.[1][28] Writing in 2001, Westman describes the novel selling well in the ten years since its publication.[1] She also notes that the novel's success was likely due to an increased interest in "remembrance" of the Great War, the success of the subsequent novels in the trilogy, and its appeal to a wide variety of readers.[1] Subsequently, the 1997 film adaptation also succeeded in the United Kingdom and Canada receiving several rewards.[3] However, the film was not successful in the United States and Westman attributes this to poor timing and a small distribution.[3] 1 2 3 4 Westman 65–68. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "A Backdoor into the Present An interview with Pat Barker, one of Britain's most successful novelists". Lola Press. Archived from the original on 26 April 2001. Retrieved 11 May 2014. 1 2 3 4 Westman 69–72 1 2 Westman 17 1 2 3 Barker, Pat; Rob Nixon (2004). "An Interview with Pat Barker". Contemporary Literature. 45 (1): –21. doi:10.1353/cli.2004.0010. ISSN 1548-9949. Retrieved 9 March 2014. ↑ Westman 18. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Harris 290–292 1 2 3 4 5 Provost-Vallet 23–25 1 2 3 Westman 16. ↑ Westman 33–35. 1 2 3 4 Johnson 309–310 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Joyes 169–170 1 2 Johnson 307–308. ↑ Joyes 171–180. ↑ Harris 294–295. ↑ Harris 296–301 1 2 3 Paul, 147. 1 2 Mukherjee 51–57. 1 2 3 4 "Freud and War Neuroses: Pat Barker and Regeneration". The Freud Museum. Retrieved 21 October 2011. 1 2 Westman 15. 1 2 Duckworth. ↑ Edward Carpenter: ''The Intermediate Sex''. Fordham.edu. Retrieved on 21 October 2011. ↑ Knutsen, Karen Patrick (2008). Reciprocal Haunting: Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy (PDF) (Thesis). Karlstad University Studies. p. 116. ISBN 978-91-7063-176-4. ↑ W.H.R. Rivers: A Founding Father Worth Remembering. Human-nature.com. Retrieved on 21 October 2011. 1 2 3 Joyes 171. 1 2 3 Westman 61–64. ↑ "Editors' Choice 1992". December 6, 1992. Retrieved March 10, 2015. Duckworth, Alistair M. (2004). "Two Borrowings in Pat Barker's Regeneration". Journal of Modern Literature. 27 (2): 63–67. doi:10.1353/jml.2004.0072. ISSN 1529-1464. Retrieved 9 March 2014. Harris, Greg (1998). "Compulsory Masculinity, Britain, and the Great War: The Literary Historical Work of Pat Barker". Critique. 39 (4): 290. doi:10.1080/00111619809599537. ISSN 0011-1619. Retrieved 3 March 2014. Johnson, Patricia E. (2005). "Embodying Losses in Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy". Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. 46 (4): 307–319. doi:10.3200/CRIT.46.4.307-319. Joyes, Kaley (2009). "Regenerating Wilfred Owen: Pat Barker's revisions". Mosaic. 42 (3): 169–83. ISSN 0027-1276. Mukherjeea, Ankhi (2001). "Stammering to Story: Neurosis and Narration in Pat Barker's Regeneration". Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. 43 (1): 49–62. doi:10.1080/00111610109602171. Paul, Ronald (2005). "In Pastoral Fields: The Regeneration Trilogy and Classic First World War Fiction". In Sharon Monteith, Margaretta Jolly, Nahem Yousaf, Ronald Paul. Critical Perspectives on Pat Barker. Critical Perspectives on Pat Barker. pp. 147–61. ISBN 1-57003-570-9. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link) Provost-Vallet, Marie-Noëlle. "Ghosts in Craiglockhart: Sassoon's textual presence in Pat Barker's Regeneration" (PDF). Art of War and Peace. 1 (1). Westman, Karin. Pat Barker's Regeneration. Continuum Compemporaries. ISBN 0-8264-5230-2. Barrett, Michèle (2012). "Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy and the Freudianization of Shell Shock". Contemporary Literature. 53 (2): 237–260. doi:10.1353/cli.2012.0016. ISSN 1548-9949. Retrieved 2 May 2014. Meacham, Jessica (2012). "War, Policing and Surveillance: Pat Barker and the Secret State". In Adam Piette, Mark Rawlinson. The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-century British and American War Literature. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 285–293. ISBN 978-0-7486-3874-1. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link) Shaddock, Jennifer (Fall 2006). "Dreams of Melanesia: Masculinity and the Exorcism of War in Pat Barker's The Ghost Road". MFS Modern Fiction Studies. 52 (3): 656–674. doi:10.1353/mfs.2006.0074. A BBC radio interview with Pat Barker on the subject of military hospitals Audio File A site giving some historical and critical context to the novel from Kansas State University An essay of masculinity in the Regeneration trilogy Novels by Pat Barker Union Street Blow Your House Down The Century's Daughter The Ghost Road Life Class Toby's Room	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26011
__label__cc	0.58375	0.41625	Encyclopedia of psychology and religion, David A. Leeming, editor The Resource Encyclopedia of psychology and religion, David A. Leeming, editor The item Encyclopedia of psychology and religion, David A. Leeming, editor represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Oklahoma Libraries. Leeming, David Adams, 1937- Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion, 2nd edition, is a greatly expanded and updated reference work that builds on the foundation of the highly successful previous edition. The first to integrate psychology and religion in the context of modern social and behavioral sciences, Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion continues to offer a rich contribution to the development of human self-understanding. A significant number of new entries and of updated original entries provide even more comprehensive coverage. This reference work provides a definitive and intellectually rigorous collection of psychological interpretations of the stories, rituals, motifs, symbols, doctrines, dogmas, and experiences of the world's religious and mythological traditions. A broad range of psychological approaches are used in order to help readers understand the form and content of religious experience as well as offer insight into the meanings of religious symbols and themes. It provides a technical and phenomenological vocabulary that will enable collaboration and dialogue among researchers in both fields. Easy to read and scrupulously edited, the encyclopedia draws from different religions, including modern world religions and older religious movements. It is of particular interest to researchers and professionals in psychology and religion New York, Springer Reference, 2014 Second edition. Text in double columns V. 1. A-E v. 2. F-O v. 3. P-Z https://ezproxy.lib.ou.edu/login?url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-1-4614-6086-2 Encyclopedia of psychology and religion David A. Leeming, editor Psychology, Religious Springer reference GW5XE .E43 2014 Leeming, David Adams V. 1. A-E -- v. 2. F-O -- v. 3. P-Z 10.1007/978-1-4614-6086-2 <div class="citation" vocab="http://schema.org/"><i class="fa fa-external-link-square fa-fw"></i> Data from <span resource="http://link.libraries.ou.edu/portal/Encyclopedia-of-psychology-and-religion-David-A./Y_DHw8lymVE/" typeof="Book http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/Item"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a href="http://link.libraries.ou.edu/portal/Encyclopedia-of-psychology-and-religion-David-A./Y_DHw8lymVE/">Encyclopedia of psychology and religion, David A. Leeming, editor</a></span> - <span property="potentialAction" typeOf="OrganizeAction"><span property="agent" typeof="LibrarySystem http://library.link/vocab/LibrarySystem" resource="http://link.libraries.ou.edu/"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a property="url" href="http://link.libraries.ou.edu/">University of Oklahoma Libraries</a></span></span></span></span></div> Data Citation of the Item Encyclopedia of psychology and religion, David A. Leeming, editor http://link.libraries.ou.edu/portal/Encyclopedia-of-psychology-and-religion-David-A./Y_DHw8lymVE/ http://library.link/portal/Encyclopedia-of-psychology-and-religion-David-A./Y_DHw8lymVE/	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26014
__label__wiki	0.636765	0.636765	Music Friday: Bruce Springsteen Has the Fortunes of Heaven in Diamonds and Gold, But He ‘Ain’t Got You’ Welcome to Music Friday when we bring you fun songs with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the title or lyrics. Today, Bruce Springsteen returns to our blog with a live performance of “Ain’t Got You.” In the song, The Boss details all the treasures he’s amassed, including “the fortunes of heaven in diamonds and gold,” but admits that he’ll never be satisfied because he “ain’t got you.” “Ain’t Got You,” was the opening track to Springsteen’s introspective, autobiographical 1987 album Tunnel of Love. Unlike his previous album Born in the USA, Tunnel of Love opened a window into Springsteen’s personal life, especially his troubled marriage to actress Julianne Phillips. The song also sparked a battle between Springsteen and Steven Van Zandt, a founding member of Springsteen’s E Street Band, according to a 2012 article in The New Yorker. Van Zandt didn’t think it was appropriate for Springsteen to write a song about his personal wealth. “I’m, like, ‘What… is this?’” Van Zandt told The New Yorker. “And he’s, like, ‘Well, what do you mean? It’s the truth. It’s just who I am. It’s my life.’” Van Zandt shot back, “People don't need you talking about your life… They need you for their lives. That's your thing. Giving some logic and reason and sympathy and passion to this cold, fragmented, confusing world – that's your gift. Explaining their lives to them. Their lives, not yours.” Despite Van Zandt’s objections, the song — which Springsteen recorded all alone in his home studio — was selected to lead off Tunnel of Love, an album that sold more than three million copies and topped the U.S. Billboard 200 list. A 1999 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Springsteen has sold more than 65 million albums in the U.S. and 120 million worldwide. He’s won 20 Grammys, an Academy Award and lit up the crowd during the 2009 Super Bowl halftime show. We hope you enjoy the video of Springsteen’s live performance of “Ain’t Got You.” The lyrics are below if you’d like to sing along. “Ain’t Got You” Written and performed by Bruce Springsteen. I got the fortunes of heaven in diamonds and gold I got all the bonds baby that the bank could hold I got houses 'cross the country honey end to end And everybody buddy wants to be my friend Well I got all the riches baby any man ever knew But the only thing I ain't got honey, I ain't got you I got a house full of Rembrandt and priceless art And all the little girls they wanna tear me apart When I walk down the street people stop and stare Well you'd think I might be thrilled but baby I don't care 'Cause I got more good luck honey than old King Farouk But the only thing I ain't got baby, I ain't got you I got a big diamond watch sittin' on my wrist I try to tempt you baby but you just resist I made a deal with de devil babe I won't deny Until I got you in my arms I can't be satisfied I got a pound of caviar sitting home on ice I got a fancy foreign car that rides like paradise I got a hundred pretty women knockin' down my door And folks wanna kiss me I ain't even seen before I been around the world and all across the seven seas Been paid a king's ransom for doin' what comes naturally But I'm still the biggest fool honey this world ever knew 'Cause the only thing I ain't got baby, I ain't got you	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26016
__label__wiki	0.950257	0.950257	Mental health experts given tight reform deadline A group of mental health experts has been given just four months to develop a detailed plan for the Federal Government to implement far-reaching changes to the nation’s disjointed mental health system. A 13-member Expert Reference Group led by former Liberal ACT Chief Minister and beyondblue Chair Kate Carnell held its first meeting today, 18 June, and has been given until October to finalise an action plan to implement a number of changes recommended by the National Mental Health Commission in its searing review of the system. The tight timeline has been praised by Commission Chair Professor Alan Fels, who said the review he led had provided a practical plan for modernising and reforming the mental health system and it was vital that the process of reform get underway. “It’s important that implementation of the review’s recommendations and actions commences as soon as possible, because the review lays out what is a long term plan for reforms,” Professor Fels said. The review found the mental health system was poorly planned and badly integrated, and urged an increased focus on prevention and early intervention. Controversially, it called for at least $1 billion to be redirected from public hospitals to fund community-based mental health services - an idea immediately dismissed by Health Minister Sussan Ley. But Ms Ley said the review showed there were clear failures in current arrangements and the Government was committed to “meaningful long-term reform”. The Minister said advice from the Expert Reference Group would help inform discussions she will have with State and Territory governments about developing a new National Mental Health Plan with much-improved co-ordination between federal, state and local bureaucracies and services. “We have a real opportunity to deliver meaningful long-term reform through this Mental Health Commission Review, and this Government is committed to action,” Ms Ley said. “However, it’s clear…there are still implementation issues to be ironed out. That’s why this Expert Reference Group is so important, to ensure the mental health sector and Government work together closely to ensure recommendations can be practically implemented as we finalise our action plan over the next few months.” Mental health groups have welcomed the formation of the Expert Reference Group, but its tight time frame has some concerned. Mental Health Australia Chief Executive Frank Quinlan told The Australian the group would be under “considerable pressure”, and warned that, with so many programs scheduled to end by early next year or be subsumed into the National Disability Insurance Scheme, it was essential the advisory group laid out a properly costed plan to provide the high quality services and programs. But beyondblue Chair Jeff Kennett welcomed the Government’s urgency. “I am pleased that the Minister has asked the group to get on with the job quickly. We don’t need more drawn-out discussions about what is wrong with our mental health system. We already know it’s a complex, fragmented and hard-to-navigate system, and the people who suffer the most are the very people and families who need the most help,” Mr Kennett said. “I hope as a result of the Expert Reference Group’s advice and Government’s quick response, some decisive and practical initiatives are identified and resolved, so people with depression, anxiety and at risk of suicide – and their families – get better outcomes. “Let’s not just talk about preventing illness and ‘early intervention’, let’s make this a reality, so people don’t have to reach crisis point before they can access services.” Adrian Rollins	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26019
__label__cc	0.503602	0.496398	Greenwood Children's Center Sponsored Sports Associations Longmeadow Little League Baseball Little League is the largest youth sports organization in the world, and is governed by international rules for the safety and well-being of the children who play. The Western Massachusetts district includes Agawam, Westfield, Northampton, Gateway, Amherst, Belchertown, Easthampton and Southampton. Longmeadow Little League (LLL) provides the best balance of skills development and competition. LLL is committed to teaching teamwork, respect, and sportsmanship at all levels of the game. Most importantly, we want to make sure everyone has fun - players, coaches, and parents. About LLL LLL offers the regular seasons (April-June), where all games are played in town, a summer league (July), several teams that compete in regional tournaments and the opportunity to play in the Little League World Series. The summer league and tournaments are included as part of the registration fee. Children can also play up to the level of competition they are ready for, regardless of age. From AAA and up players may have the opportunity to play The Little League World Series and other Summer Tournaments. If selected, LLL would support the cost of summer baseball. Ages 4-6: Tee Ball Tee Ball is the first step to learning to play baseball. Basic skills are emphasized along with fun which is essential at this age. This will be offered to 4 and 5 year old players as well as 6 year old players who have not played in the past. The Season starts the week of April 24. Ages 6-7: A The purpose of this level is to begin the process of teaching the game of baseball, develop the basic skills necessary to play the game, and introduce the children to the basic rules of the game. This league will continue to provide skills development by using a modified 3 inning baseball game. The season starts the week of April 24. Ages 7-9: AA Pitching and catching is live, performed by the players themselves. New skills need to be taught and developed as the season progresses - bunting, base running, signs, etc. are all part of the game that need to be taught as well as continuing education in the basic rules of the game is important part of this level of play. The season starts the week of April 24. Ages 9-11: AAA AAA league is primarily a developmental program for the Major League. Players will enjoy both skills development and competition. Like the Majors, players from this league may be selected to play in regional tournaments. The age range is 9 thru 11 years old with select 7 and 8 year olds. The season starts the week of April 24. Ages 9-12: Majors The Majors will continue to provide the best balance of skills development and competition. This league offers the highest level of competitive play in Little League. The very best of the players in the Majors will be invited to participate in the Little League World Series. In addition, many All-Stars will participate in several tournaments held in the region. These teams are drafted after an evaluation by the coaches. Placement in the majors are attained through tryouts. This information will be given at registration. Ages 12-13: Intermediate Division The intermediate baseball division uses an expanded diamond with longer base paths (70 feet as compared to 60 feet in majors) and pitching distance (50 feet away from home plate, compared to 46 feet in majors) to prepare kids for the full size diamond used for high school and beyond. The team will travel to play against surrounding area Little League programs and there will be opportunities to compete in summer tournaments. NEW DIVISION: AGES 14-16-Senior Division Senior League (90' field)-open to boys ages 14-16. Typically appropriate for children in 8th grade and above. Prerequisite: players have 1-2 years Intermediate experience. This division is played on a full size 90-foot diamond in a competitive environment. Games are usually played against teams from other communities, such as Easthampton, Southampton, Huntington, Agawam and Westfield and include travel to these communities. Home games usually are played at Dipippo Field in Longmeadow. Online Registration will be available starting in December: www.longmeadowlittleleague.org Live Registration dates at the Community House are: Please check website (www.longmeadowlittleleague.org) for live registration dates. Registration forms will be distributed through the schools in December and can be mailed in to the PO Box at the top of the form, or dropped off at the Parks and Recreation Dept at The Community House. There is a $25 late fee for registrations received after Feb 28th. Contact Steve Schiffman via email or call 413-374-7674 with any questions or visit our new improved website: http://www.longmeadowlittleleague.org Longmeadow Aquatic Club Longmeadow Baseball Association Longmeadow Boys Lacrosse Association Longmeadow Girls Lacrosse Association Longmeadow Soccer Association Longmeadow Softball Association Longmeadow Youth Basketball Association Longmeadow Youth Football Association US Passport Processing The Town of Longmeadow 20 Williams Street	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26023
__label__wiki	0.972503	0.972503	In 1900...In New York City, the Associated Press was incorporated as a non-profit news cooperative. In 1922..WGR in Buffalo, NY signed-on... The history of one of Buffalo's earliest radio stations has its roots at sea. On April 1, 1921 the Governor, a passenger ship, sank to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean after collision with a freighter, the West Hartland. The passenger ship’s assigned radio call letters were WGR. Due to maritime superstition, the call sign was never reissued to another ship and reverted to a pool of available call signs for new radio stations. That same year, the Federal Telephone & Telegraph Company (FTTC), headquartered in a sprawling manufacturing complex in North Buffalo, began marketing its first, completely assembled radio sets. To fill a radio void in the city, and to stimulate sales of their new "high-tech" products, the FTTC applied for (and received) a commercial radio license from the Department of Commerce. The station was named "WGR" after George Rand (founder of Remington Rand), a key investor in the FTTC. WGR Transmitter Equipment Early '20s On May 22, 1922, WGR's broadcast operations commenced, beginning nine decades of continuous service to Western New York and Southern Ontario. It is the oldest continuously operating station in Buffalo. 1738 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo - Birthplace of WGR Radio Published reports say that the first programs on WGR were: a clergyman’s lecture; a concert from Victor’s Furniture Store showroom; and a presentation on the advantages of a college education by Dr. Julian Park, from the University at Buffalo. In the late 1940s, the station was bought by a consortium of Western New York families known as the WGR Corporation, which signed on WGR-TV (channel 2) in 1953. WGR Corporation bought several other television and radio stations in the 1950s, and eventually became known as Transcontinent Broadcasting. Transcontinent merged with Taft Broadcasting in 1964. Taft sold off WGR-TV in 1983 (it is now WGRZ-TV), but kept the radio station until 1987. During its days as a full service radio station, its roster of personalities included "Buffalo Bob" Smith, later famous for TV's Howdy Doody children's show, and popular national TV and nightclub comedian Foster Brooks. The station's longtime music format combining Adult Top 40 hits and rock oldies and featured some of Buffalo's top radio personalities, talk hosts and news reporters including Stan Roberts, Frank Benny, Tom Donahue, Randy Michaels, Jim Scott, Jerry Reo, Shane, Joe Galuski, Tom Langmyer, George Hamberger, Tom Shannon, John Otto, Chuck Lakefield, Don Dussias, Lauri Githens, Wayne Smith, Sandy Kozel, Jane Tomczak, Craig Matthews and Tom Bauerle. WGR gradually evolved to news/talk during the late 1980s. In 1987, Taft sold the station to Rich Communications, which was part of the Robert Rich family's business holdings, which also included a major processed-food company and a venture applying for a National League expansion baseball franchise (for which WGR was projected to be flagship station of the team's projected network). Although the Rich interests were the National League's choice for the new franchise they dropped out of the competition for an expansion team (which ultimately went to Denver, Colorado (Colorado Rockies) for cost reasons. Soon after, WGR was eventually spun off to new owners. Today, WGR 550 AM airs Sports. In 1922…Singer Ada Jones, the most popular female vocalist of the early 20th century, died of kidney failure at age 48. Between 1905 and 1922, she had an astounding 108 Top 10 singles, seven of which went to #1. In 1955…Jack Benny's broadcast run of live network radio programs ended after 23 years. His TV show aired from 1952-1965. In 1972...Dave Herman starts at WNEW 102.7 FM in NYC. Herman interviews Elton John from 1976.. In 1998…Los Angeles radio disc jockey (KHJ, KMPC, KRTH) Robert W. Morgan died of lung cancer at age 60. As a youth growing up in Galion, Ohio, Morgan's interest was piqued while listening to his favorite DJs on Cleveland's top forty giant KYW which would eventually lead to his first on-air job was at Wooster College in 1955 on WWST & WWST-FM, for an initial salary of $1 per hour. In 1959 Morgan moved from college radio to KACY Port Hueneme, California where he hosted the over night show called Kegler's Spare Time with Bob Morgan live from the Wagon Wheel Bowl before moving on to a succession of brief stints beginning in 1961 at KTEE Carmel as the second half of a two-man classical music announcer on KTEE with Bob Elliott, a Marine Corps Heavyweight Champion who later went onto radio fame as "K.O. Bailey," then a short time later as the morning drive DJ and mid-day board op for the Arthur Godfrey Show at KMBY, Monterey, then a jump to KOMY Watsonville, then back to KMBY Monterey followed in 1962 at "K-MAKE", KMAK, Fresno where he first worked with program director Ron Jacobs. This was followed in 1963 by an eight-month stay at KROY Sacramento before finally landing his first major-market job in 1964 at KEWB, San Francisco. It was here that he met and worked with his lifelong friend "The Real" Don Steele. On April 27, 1965 the careers of Morgan, Steele and programer Ron Jacobs would gain superstar status when they joined the staff of KHJ 930 AM, Los Angeles almost overnight. Programming genius Bill Drake along with a staff of talented DJs called "Boss Jocks" had transformed a sleepy giant into the city's most dominant radio station. It was here that Morgan enjoyed his greatest on-air success as one of the original "Boss Jocks" on 93/KHJ which dominated the Top 40 radio market in Southern California from 1965 to 1973. Morgan's signature, "Good Morgan Boss Angeles!" to his devoted morning drive time audience would stay with him until the end of his career. It was also Morgan that voiced much of the "Boss Radio/93 KHJ station promos and imagery. It was also during this time that Morgan co-produced and narrated the 48-hour History of Rock and Roll in 1969, a definitive on-air encyclopedia of Rock & Roll. It was the first-ever "rock-umentary" aired worldwide as a definitive history of the Rock & Roll genre—a "rockumentary," as producers Drake and Gene Chenault would call it—that would stretch from the early 1950s to 1989. In 1970 Morgan made a surprise move from Los Angeles to WIND Radio Chicago where he remained in the morning slot until finally being enticed back to his KHJ morning show in 1972. Until his departure from KHJ in October 1970, Morgan had commanded unparalleled radio ratings in Los Angeles. Morgan's return to his former time slot in L.A., which saw a significant spike upward for KHJ until he departed just a year later. In 1973, Morgan and Steele walked out of KHJ and joined Bill Drake six months later at KIQQ-FM, Los Angeles. The ratings were sub-par, though, causing Morgan to leave the morning slot a year and a half later for weekends and fill-in slots at the prestigious KMPC Los Angeles. He did that for four years before legendary morning man Dick Whittinghill retired in 1980, allowing Morgan to go back to mornings. He stayed at KMPC until 1984. After a short stint at KMGG, Morgan returned to KMPC. Morgan was heard in 1973 on Saturday night segments of the long-running NBC Radio program Monitor, an attempt to freshen that program's image. While with KMGG, he was at one time heard as a substitute host of American Top 40. During the mid to late 70s, Morgan also did his own one hour radio weekly special highlighting one artist or group per show. "Robert W. Morgan's Special of the Week" was often played on radio stations that also carried Casey Kasem's American Top 40 as the same company, Watermark, distributed both. The year 1992 would signal the twilight years of Morgan's distinguished radio broadcast career when he signed on as the morning show host of "oldies" K-EARTH 101 where he again enjoyed solid ratings in the Los Angeles market before announcing in May 1997 that he was suffering from lung cancer. According to L.A. radio personality Bob Shannon, Morgan told his listeners, "It could have something to do with the two packs a day cigarette habit I had for the last 35 years." In an emotional on-air statement, Morgan stated that he was taking some time off to fight the disease full-time. His friend and colleague Don Steele died, also of lung cancer, in August 1997. Morgan continued to do broadcasts from his home studio until 1998. On January 9, 1998, K-EARTH 101 held a retirement tribute for Morgan at the Museum of Television and Radio in Beverly Hills. The tribute included a re-dedication of his Star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame, and a three-hour broadcast from the museum’s theater, hosted by Gary Owens and Morgan's KRTH co-host, Joni Caryl. It concluded with a thirty minute retrospective on Morgan’s career, narrated by Dick Clark. Morgan died on May 22, 1998. He was 60 years old. Morgan was married twice and was survived by a daughter. Redstone Ousts Viacom CEO From Trust (Reuters) -- Media mogul Sumner Redstone has removed Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman and Viacom board member George Abrams from the seven-person trust that will determine the fate of both Viacom and CBS in the event of his incapacitation or death, two people familiar with the situation told Reuters Friday. Reuters reported Tuesday that Redstone, who turns 93 next week, had the power to remove certain members of the trust, including Dauman. The move by Sumner Redstone, gives his daughter, Shari Redstone, who is also on the trust and vice chair of CBS and Viacom, a victory and more certain control to determine the fate of her father's $40 billion media empire. According to documents faxed to Dauman and Abrams, Redstone also removed Abrams and Dauman from the board of National Amusements Inc, the privately held movie company which owns 80 percent voting stake in CBS and Viacom, one of the sources said. Shari Redstone, Philippe Dauman Both sources wished to remain anonymous because they are not permitted to speak to the media. CBS and Viacom also received faxed notifications, according to Fortune, which first reported Sumner Redstone's move. A spokesman for Dauman called the steps "illegal and invalid" in an emailed statement to Reuters. "They are a shameful effort by Shari Redstone to seize control by unlawfully using‎ her ailing father Sumner Redstone's name and signature. As she knows and as court proceedings and other facts have demonstrated, Sumner Redstone now lacks the capacity to have taken these steps," the spokesman said. "Sumner Redstone would never have summarily dismissed Philippe Dauman and George Abrams, his trusted friends and advisors for decades." Abrams did not immediately respond to an email requesting comment. A spokeswoman for Shari Redstone had no immediate comment. Sumner Redstone and Dauman have worked together for more than 30 years, and Redstone has called Dauman "a great friend." Shari Redstone voted against Dauman's elevation to executive chairman of Viacom in February. This month, a judge dismissed a lawsuit by a former girlfriend who argued Redstone was not mentally competent to remove her from his advance healthcare directive last October. The case shined a spotlight on Redstone's health. The mogul struggled to speak when questioned by the ex-girlfriend's attorneys, a transcript of his testimony showed. The Sumner M. Redstone National Amusements Inc Trust owns about 80 percent of Redstone's privately held movie theater company, National Amusements Inc, which in turn owns 80 percent of the voting rights in both Viacom and CBS. After Sumner Redstone dies or is incapacitated, the trust will determine all matters that come to a shareholder vote at both companies, including potential mergers or acquisitions. With the removal of Abrams and Dauman, Shari Redstone will have majority support among the trust's members, who include Shari's son, lawyer Tyler Korff, and David Andelman, another lawyer who is on the CBS board. The trust's other members are Norman Jacobs, Sumner's divorce lawyer, and Leonard Lewin, an attorney who represented Redstone's first wife, Phyllis, in her divorce from Sumner. Dauman Challenging Removal From Trust Philippe Dauman Viacom Inc. Chief Executive Philippe Dauman is challenging the validity of a move by Sumner Redstone’s lawyers to remove him from the trust that will eventually control Mr. Redstone’s media empire, according to The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Dauman and Viacom board member George Abrams were informed that they have been removed from the trust by a law firm claiming to represent Mr. Redstone, according to a spokesman for Mr. Dauman. “These steps are invalid and illegal,” the spokesman said late Friday. “As court proceedings and other facts have demonstrated, Sumner Redstone now lacks the capacity to have taken these steps. Sumner Redstone would never have summarily dismissed Philippe Dauman and George Abrams, his trusted friends and advisers for decades.” The two men were also removed from the board of National Amusements Inc., the holding company that owns the controlling shares of Viacom and CBS. Removing Mr. Dauman would be a big victory for Shari Redstone, Mr. Redstone’s daughter and the vice chairman of Viacom and CBS Corp., who has clashed in the past with the executive and was the lone Viacom board member not to vote for his recent promotion to executive chairman. Glenn Beck, Tucker Carlson Beef Over Facebook Meeting Radio/TV Host Glenn Beck is criticizing his fellow conservatives after a group of them met with top Facebook executives to discuss how the company could be more diverse and include right-wing voices, according to CBS News. "I sat through a meeting that, to me, felt like I was attending a Rainbow Coalition meeting, that people (not me) had come with a list of demands," Beck wrote in a blog post on Medium Thursday. "It was like affirmative action for conservatives." The highly-scrutinized Wednesday meeting, hosted by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the company's headquarters, involved more than a dozen conservative media leaders, including Beck, who broadcasts a TV show, a radio show and owns TheBlaze. The gathering was a response to the Senate Commerce Committee's recent investigation into allegations of liberal bias in Facebook's "trending topics" website feature. Facebook's CEO denied the accusations of liberal bias in a post on the social media site, saying they found "no evidence" that the report was true. But after meeting with Zuckerberg to assess how the company could improve its product to be more conservative-friendly, Beck left the Facebook meeting with his beliefs about the social media company intact -- "that it was a good, if not perfect actor." "Walking out of the meeting, I was convinced that Facebook is behaving appropriately and trying to do the right thing," the radio and television host wrote. "[I]n my opinion, there is no evidence of a top-down initiative to silence conservative voices." Also attending was Tucker Carlson, Daily Caller editor-in-chief and Fox News contributor. Carlson was not happy with how Glenn Beck acted at the Facebook meeting for conservatives, according to Politico. In an interview, Carlson blasted the radio and television host, saying he was sucking up to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. "I went to that meeting expecting Beck to cry, rend his garments while quoting James Madison, but that's not at all what happened. He began the most extended assiduous suck-up I think I've ever seen a grown man commit. He acted like he was auditioning to be Mark Zuckerberg's manservant — it was awe-inspiring,' Carlson said. "I don't know what his agenda is; it's either he's looking to put his tanking Web properties up for sale or he just can't help himself. There's a billionaire there, so he sniffs the throne." In April, Beck's company The Blaze laid off about 40 employees and announced that it was relocating its operations almost entirely to Texas, where it is headquartered. HBO Programming Chief Exiting Michael Lombardo HBO Programming President Michael Lombardo is leaving the company after more than three decades, the latest executive shakeup at the pioneering cable television network. The LA Times reports the decision to resign was made by Lombardo, said a person familiar with the matter who was not authorized to comment. His final day is not known. A replacement has not been named. Lombardo is expected to segue to a production deal with HBO. During his tenure, Lombardo has overseen the launches of the popular series "True Blood," "Boardwalk Empire," "Game of Thrones," and "Veep." The latter two won for both drama and comedy series at last year's Emmys. But his departure comes as HBO has faced some programming struggles in the past year or so. Its blockbuster series “Game of Thrones” continues to be a mega hit. But as the fantasy epic winds down, the network’s search for a strong slate of dramas has faced some challenges. HBO's expensive rock drama “Vinyl,” executive produced by Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger, fared poorly. Other big-budget projects in development also have faced troubles. The TV adaptation of Michael Crichton's futuristic "Westworld" halted production in December and still has an undetermined air date. The TV industry has changed dramatically during Lombardo's tenure. HBO remains a top destination for high caliber projects, but faces more competition than ever. Rivals such as Netflix, Amazon, Showtime, AMC and FX have grabbed a larger share of business, attracting talent with high budgets and creative freedom. Tampa Radio: iHM Names Brian Donovan Digital Director iHeartMedia/Tampa has announced that Brian “Munchie” Donovan has been named Director of Digital, as of July 1, 2016. As Director of Digital for the Tampa region, Donovan will work closely with the programming staff and talent for the region’s 10 brands to deliver a seamless experience for listeners to easily access content across mobile, social, and Web platforms, as an extension of on-air programming. Donovan has more than 20 years of experience in the radio industry, most recently serving as Director of Digital for iHM/Hartford and afternoon drive time on-air personality for WKSS KISS 95.7 FM. “This is a welcome return to Tampa for Brian — he has 93.3 FLZ in his blood,” said Sam Nein, President of the Tampa Bay Region. “He has a proven track record across multiple cities, and we’re excited for Brian’s expertise to make a positive impact on our digital strategy.” The Tampa clusters includes: Country WFUS 103.5 , Top40 WFLZ 93.3 , Dance WFLZ 93.3 FM HD2, UrbanAC WBTP 95.7 FM, Active Rock WXTB 97.9 FM, HotAC WMTX 100.7 FM, Classic Rock WMTX 100.7 FM HD2, Sports WDAE 620 AM, News/Talk WFLA 970 AM , and Talk WHNZ 1250 AM. IN Radio: WBAA Backs Down On 'This American Life" A day after news went wide that WBAA, Purdue University’s public radio station, planned to pull “This American Life” from its lineup over a dispute over the show’s use of the commercial streaming service Pandora, WBAA posted a programming note that the show of essays and memoirs would continue on the West Lafayette station. In a note to listeners, posted Thursday at wbaa.org, the station said that after “considerable listener feedback,” WBAA officials had decided to keep the program. Last week, Mike Savage, WBAA general manager, announced on social media site LinkedIn that the station would drop “This American Life” after host Ira Glass started putting the show out on Pandora as well as through 500 public radio stations and podcasts. Savage’s argument: Distributing the show via a commercial site undercut the mission of public radio. Mike Savage Glass disagreed in a series of responses in the LinkedIn conversation, telling Savage that the deal with Pandora meant more resources for the show and more listeners for public radio fare. Glass said he hoped the station manager would reconsider. The LinkedIn post became a hot topic among public radio and media insiders, who debated WBAA's stand. Savage's decision, though, was met with objections on social media over the past few days from Greater Lafayette fans of "This American Life," who threatened to hold back donations to WBAA. WBAA 920 AM is the longest continuously-operating radio station in Indiana, having been licensed on April 4, 1922. WBAA-FM began broadcasting in 1993. It is one of the few NPR stations located on a commercial frequency. WBAA-FM, simulcasts its AM sister station in the morning and late afternoon to broadcast popular NPR talk programs such as Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, and Marketplace. Classical music can be heard at other times. MA Radio: Rick Bletaire Signs-Off At WBRK Rick Beltaire Radio lost another veteran Berkshire voice on Friday when Rick Beltaire signed off at WBRK 1340 AM in Pittsfield, MA for the last time. According to The Berkshire Eagle, Beltaire began his broadcasting career at WBEC 42 years ago after graduating from Williams College. Beltaire, who grew up in Cleveland as a die-hard Cleveland Browns fan, joined WBRK in 1984 as a member of the ownership group that purchased the station. Beltaire became WBRK's vice president of programming. "It is easy to throw the word great around, but in Rick's case it's an accurate statement," said WBRK's President Willard "Chip" Hodgkins III, "He's truly been an icon of Berkshire County radio and an iron man as well." "His 30 plus years in the morning drive slot keeping us all informed and entertained is an incredible accomplishment," said Hodgkins, whose father, Willard H. "Huck" Hodgkins, headed the ownership group that bought WBRK for $625,000 in 1984. After spending three years at WBEC in the mid-1970s, Beltaire left the Berkshires in 1977 for a job at WCOD-FM in Hyannis. But Beltaire missed this area, and returned to Pittsfield in 1980, where he replaced longtime local radio personality Bob Cudmore as the host of WBEC's morning show. R.I.P.: Actor, Broadcaster Alan Young Has Died Alan Young, Mister Ed Emmy award-winning actor Alan Young, who rode to enduring TV fame alongside a talking horse on the popular 1960s sitcom "Mister Ed" and co-starred in the classic sci-fi film "The Time Machine," has died at age 96, his manager said on Friday. Young, who also provided the voice of cartoon characters including Disney's Scrooge McDuck, died from natural causes this week at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital, a Los Angeles retirement facility for those in the movie and TV industry, according to his manager, Gene Yusem. The English-born actor was best known for his role as Wilbur Post, an amiable architect with a loquacious palomino living in his backyard barn, during six seasons on "Mister Ed," which still airs in reruns a half century after its original run on CBS ended. Fans of the show also fondly remember its theme song, starting with the lyrics: "A horse is a horse, of course, of course. And no one can talk to a horse, of course. That is, of course, unless the horse is the famous Mister Ed." Young won an Emmy Award, honoring the best in U.S. television, in 1951 as best actor for "The Alan Young Show," beating out Sid Caesar, one of the biggest names in television at the time. "The Alan Young Show" won an Emmy for best variety show that year and ran from 1950 to 1953. Young appeared in films as well, most notably director George Pal's "The Time Machine," a 1960 adaptation of the novel by H.G. Wells, starring a time-traveling Rod Taylor. Young's other films included "Chicken Every Sunday" (1949) with a young Natalie Wood, "Mr. Belvedere Goes to College" (1949) with Shirley Temple and "Androcles and the Lion" (1952) with another animal co-star. As a voice actor, Young performed as the grumpy Scrooge McDuck and worked on such programs as "The Smurfs" and "Scooby-Doo." He was born as Angus Young in England on Nov. 19, 1919, and his family moved to Canada when he was 6. He worked in radio in Canada before moving to Los Angeles and changing his name to Alan. He was a naturalized American citizen. Young came to love radio when bedridden as a child because of severe asthma. By the time he was in high school, Young had his own comedy radio series on the CBC network, but left during World War II to serve in the Royal Canadian Navy. After leaving the service, Young moved to Toronto and resumed his Canadian radio career, where he was discovered by an American agent who brought him to New York City in 1944 to appear on American radio. Young's first American radio appearances were on the Philco Radio Hall of Fame. This led to his own show, The Alan Young Show, NBC's summer replacement for Eddie Cantor's series. He switched to ABC two years later, then returned to NBC. Data curated by PrettyFamous In 1916...comic actor/singer Dennis Day was born in New York City. He came to stardom as the longtime singing fixture.. and character .. on radio’s Jack Benny Show. He went on to star in his own NBC radio sitcom (Dennis Day Show.) On TV he appeared in 237 episodes of the Benny Show, plus about a dozen guest acting gigs. He died of Lou Gehrig’s Disease June 22 1988 at age 72. In 1931...WOR radio in New York City premiered The Witch’s Tale. Beginning in 1934 the pioneering horror show was broadcast on the Mutual Broadcasting System (of which WOR was the flagship station) where it aired until 1938. In 1955...Comedian Ernie Kovacs begins a daily morning radio show (6-9a) over WABC 770 AM NYC. In 1960...KFAX 1100 AM in San Francisco debuts a news and information format. It’s the first new radio format without a single record. No music anywhere. The format consists of a 15-minute newscast on the hour, a five-minute summary onthe half-hour, plus news analysis commentary, editorial and features to fill-outeach hour. (KFAX is still on-air, owened by Salem Media, and airs Christian teachnig programs.) In 1961...Capital Cities Broadcasting Corp. purchased easy listening WPAT 930 AM in Patterson, NJ for $5 million. It's the first company purchase of a station outside a “capital city.” They own WTEN-TV/WROW-AM - Albany, WPRO-TV/Radio -Providence and WTVD-TV/Raleigh-Durham. WPAT is a successful stationserving the New York area. In 1986, following the Cap Cities purchase of ABC, WPAT was sold to Park Communications. In 1963... MGM Records was promoting a deejay-listener contest, tied to Connie Francis’ new single - “If My Pillow CouldTalk.” Participating deejays are asking their listeners “If Your Pillow Could Talk, WhatWould It Say?” Writer of the winning lettergets a $100 U.S. Savings Bond, a phone call from Connie Francis and a complete library of her albums. The deejay that receives the winning letter gets a week’s vacation at the Americana Hotel in Puerto Rico Donna Reed, Carl Betz, Bob Crane In 1963...It was announced that Los Angeles Disc Jockey Bob Crane will be a regular on the “Donna Reed Show” in the Fall. Bob has slowly built his acting career ever since he began doing mornings on KNX 1070 AM in 1956. In 1966..."two-way talk radio" is making a name for itself and is a viable format on some stations. On the East Coast, Barry Gray is one of the best-known two-way radio hosts. He conducts his show on music station WMCA 570 AM from 11p to 1a. This week, Barry Gray signs a new contract with WMCA, which will take him into1970. The new arrangement is expected to give Gray $150,000 annually - a 50% raise! WMCA was anxious to keep the high-rated talker. One reason, WCBS-AM made a bid for his services. Gray will actually split the show’s profits - 50/50. Atthe going rate (and his show is sold-out between 11p and 1a). WMCA has been riding higher than high in the New York ratings. The musicstation topped all its competitors again in the recent Hooper and Pulse ratings. In 1971...Los Angeles radio talk transplant Bob Grant now does an afternoon talk show over WMCA 570 NYC. Grant says that New York is not like Los Angeles, where he spent many a year doing telephone talk radio over KABC and KLAC. “L.A. radio is really hip compared to New York. Here the scene is very provincial and ethnic and liberal. Being a conservative, I am referred to by most of my callers as the house right-winger or fascist. Actually, it gets pretty funny because they do more yelling at me than engaging in useful debate. The audience in Los Angeles was much more sophisticated. Since WMCA started Dialog Radio, it’s really shot up in the ratings, we’ve gone from around 12th to third in the market. One of the things WMCA is big on, though, is newsmaker calls and I do a lot of them." In 1973...singer and bandleader Vaughn Monroe died shortly after stomach surgery at age 61. An immensely popular performer on radio and records, Monroe had more than 50 hits on the Billboard charts in the pre-rock ‘n’ roll era. Among his number-one records were 1945′s “There I’ve Said It Again” — revived by Bobby Vinton in 1963 — and 1949′s “Ghost Riders in the Sky.” In 1975...More than ever, disco music is spilling over to top-40. The influence of the Discotheque – big in New York, is spreading. Disco records have been breaking into the top-40 more and more because of the initial play at discos. The so-called discotheque came to the U.S. from France during the early 1960’s, but the current trend came from gay clubs. Tom Moulton, who writes about the disco scene for Billboard – summed it up by saying New York is the hub of America’s disco scene. “The disco scene has doubled in New York in the last two years. New discos are opening all the time. In the New York area there are about 600 discos and about 30 key discos that you can look at to find out what songs are popular.” In 1980...FCC realigns AM Clear Channel Stations. The FCC votes to limit the coverage of so-called “clear channel” AM stations to 750 miles. The restriction covers 25 clear channel stations including KFI, Los Angeles, WCBS, WABC, WNBC in New York City, WLS, WBBM and WMAQ, Chicago and WSM - the home of the Grand Ol’ Opry in Nashville. These stations are “protected” so that their nighttime signals can be heard in outlying areas, providing radio service to rural communities at night where there was no radio service. The FCC modified the rules in the mid-40’s, to allow new nighttime stations to operate on some of the channels, but the distance between stations was far away (WABC- KOB, Albuquerque) and only two operated (at the most) on one channel at night in the continental USA. Some channels still remain clear, such as WCCO in Minneapolis and WSM, which can still be picked-up thousands of miles away from Nashville on a clear channel. The new rules will allow smaller stations to broadcast at night, thereby “interfering” with the distant broadcasts. The FCC says it will make room for 125 more nighttime AM stations. Other stations with clear channel status - WSB - Atlanta, WBAP - Ft Worth, WLW - Cincinnati, WJR - Detroit, KDKA - Pittsburgh, KMOX - St Louis, WWWE - Cleveland, WHAM, Rochester, WCAU - Philadelphia, WOAI - San Antonio, WHO - Des Moines, WOR - New York, WWL - New Orleans, KSL - Salt Lake City, WBZ - Boston. Certain mediumwave frequencies were set aside under the North American Radio Broadcasting Agreement (NARBA) for nighttime use by only one or two specific AM stations, covering a wide area via skywave propagation; these frequencies were known as the clear channels, and the stations on them are thus clear-channel stations. Where only one station was assigned to a clear channel, the treaty provides that it must operate with a nominal power of 50 kilowatts or more; stations on the other clear channels, with two or more stations, must use between 10 kW and 50 kW, and most often use a directional antenna so as not to interfere with each other. In addition to the frequencies, the treaty also specified the specific locations where stations on this second kind of channel (known as class I-B) could be built. Some of the original NARBA signatories, including the United States, Canada and Mexico, have implemented bilateral agreements that supersede its terms, eliminating among other things the distinction between the two kinds of clear channel: the original "I-A", "I-B", and "I-N" station classes are now all included in class A. Clear-channel stations, unlike all other AM stations in North America, have a secondary service area—that is, they are entitled to protection from interference to their nighttime skywave signals. Other stations are entitled, at most, to protection from nighttime interference in their primary service area — that which is covered by their groundwave signal. Yahoo! Bids Expected To Be Below Past Indications Verizon Communications Inc. and others are expected to bid around $2 billion to $3 billion in the auction for Yahoo Inc.’s core business, less than what the troubled Internet pioneer was expected to fetch, according to The Wall Street Journal. As recently as April, people close to the process said Yahoo’s core business would likely go for between $4 billion and $8 billion. Some offers could still be above the $2 billion-to-$3 billion range, other people said, and it is generally in the interest of bidders to play down their enthusiasm in an auction. Yahoo has set a deadline in the first week of June for the next round of bids, some of the people said. It isn’t clear whether that will be the final round or if another one will follow, they said. Bidders have lowered their expected prices following weeks of sale presentations by Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer at the company’s Sunnyvale, Calif., headquarters and its disclosure of data that detailed the company’s flagging prospects. Chicago Radio: Pohlman Expects CBS Radio Spin-Off in Early 2017 Tim Pohlman Tim Pohlman is really happy about one accomplishment since he became market manager in January of the seven-station CBS Radio Chicago cluster. "I made my first quarter numbers," said Pohlman, exhaling a big sigh of relief and satisfaction in an interview in his office today. Like many other radio stations nationwide, several of CBS Radio's Chicago stations experienced ad revenue slumps in recent years. But in Pohlman's years with CBS Radio, including his most recent stint running CBS Radio's three-station cluster in Phoenix, the radio veteran revealed a knack for making his ad sales numbers, according to the Chicago Business Journal. Pohlman's radio cluster in Chicago includes all-news simulcast WBBM 780 AM WCFS 105.9 FM, sports WSCR 670 AM, Top40 WBBM 96.3 FM, country-formatted WUSN 99.5 FM, classic hits-formatted WJMK 104.3 FM and adult alternative rock WXRT 93.1 FM. Pohlman's job in Chicago was rather quickly made more complicated when CBS CEO Les Moonves revealed in March that he is considering a sale or spinoff of the vaunted media company's entire national network of more than 115 radio stations, including the seven in Chicago. Pohlman said the most probable scenario at this juncture appears to be a spinoff of CBS's radio assets, most likely sometime early in 2017. In the meantime, Pohlman has had to manage a staff of some 400 full and part-time employees here in Chicago and their expectations of what may be ahead. He is very much a hands-on type of manager who pays close attention to fostering a collegial culture in the office, where he likes to throw parties to get everybody together in the hope they will feel better about coming to work. Pohlman said he is still in the midst of taking a close look at all of CBS Radio operations in Chicago before he makes any major moves regarding on-air talent. But he has given one longtime local staffer a major promotion. Tim Cavanah was upped last month to vice president of programming at CBS Radio Chicago. Meanwhile, CBS CEO Les Moonves told the Needham Emerging Technology Conference in New York CBS is entertaining any and all offers. “There are a lot of people looking at it (CBS Radio),” Moonves said, including some “strategic” suitors and private equity investors. The company has swung open its doors to any proposition, Moonves said, including a merger. He talked up CBS’ digital initiatives including the CBSN news service. In a recent visit to its headquarters he saw that “at any given minute they can basically tell me everybody who’s watching. As an aside, he observed that the “biggest mistake” CBS made — before he moved to the company — was the 1988 decision to sell its recorded music business to Sony. Then-CEO Larry Tisch “couldn’t stand the guys in the record business. He thought there was a little too much drugs and rock ‘n roll.” But it “wasn’t a great deal. Sony Music has done very very well since then.” Nashville Radio: WKDF Adds Heather Davis For Middays Heather Davis Cumulus Media announces that Country radio personality Heather Davis has joined Nash Country WKDF 103.3 FM in Nashville as Host of Middays. Davis joins NASH FM 103.3 from Curtis Media’s Country-formatted WQDR-FM in Raleigh, NC. Prior to that, she hosted Mornings on Country station WGNA-FM in Albany, NY, and hosted Middays for Townsquare Media’s Country 106.5 WYRK in Buffalo, NY. Davis is a graduate of North Carolina State University. Charlie Cook, Operations Manager, Cumulus Media-Nashville and Vice President, Country, for Cumulus Media said: “The minute I heard Heather’s audio I knew that she was the sound we need on WKDF. I love her varied on-air experience and she is a social media monster, which is so important today. We are looking forward to Heather joining radio’s best company in one of America’s best cities.” WKDF 103.3 FM (100 Kw) Red=Local Coverage Davis said: “I am so incredibly excited to be joining the NASH 103.3 team. It's a dream come true to be living and working in the home of country music. I can't wait to experience my first CMA Music Fest and all that Nashville has to offer.” Boston Radio: Schilling Says 'No' To Smith Debate Former ESPN baseball analyst Curt Schilling told a Boston talk-radio show he was “not going to waste my time with people I don’t respect” by accepting a debate challenge from the network’s Stephen A. Smith, blasting his ex-colleague as a “racist” and “bigot.” The former Red Sox pitcher announced his decision on WEEI 93.7 FM’s “Dennis and Callahan Show” Thursday morning. Schilling was fired from the cable sports network in April after he posted a controversial meme to his Facebook wall which was critical of transgender individuals using restrooms which don’t correspondent to their biological gender. Schilling maintains he was fired for his outspoken conservative beliefs, according to The Washington Times. Smith himself is no stranger to controversy and network disciplinary action. In the summer of 2014, he was suspended for one week after making comments suggesting that Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice’s then-fiancee Janay Palmer was partially to blame for an assault by Mr. Rice that left her unconscious. Boston Radio: Jordan Rich To Exit Overnights On WBZ-AM Jordan Rich Longtime WBZ 1030 AM talk show host Jordan Rich has decided to step away from his overnight microphone. Rich has hosted the weekend overnight show on WBZ-AM ince 1996, in addition to an array of other duties at the station. According to CBS Local, Rich will continue to host New England Weekend and Connoisseur’s Corner segments on WBZ. He also maintains a fulltime job as co-owner of Chart Productions, an audio production company. Stepping away from the weekend show will allow him to spend more time with family, after working seven days (and nights) a week for so many years. “What an honor it’s been to serve as late night host for so many years,” he said. “Although this long fulfilling chapter in my career is coming to a close, I’m thrilled to remain with the WBZ family and look forward to many exciting adventures in and out of radio.” During his time at WBZ, Rich has hosted countless outside charity events, raised thousands of dollars for Children’s Hospital and other worthy causes, and made a connection to WBZ listeners that will be hard to duplicate. “There are some people we all meet in life whose personality, professionalism, compassion, and abilities are of such a high caliber I wish those attributes could be bottled and spread around for the world to enjoy,” said WBZ Program Director Peter Casey. “Jordan Rich is one of those people.” The final “Jordan Rich Show” will air the weekend of July 2 and 3. He will also co-host WBZ’s annual broadcast of the Boston Pops Esplanade concert on July 4. Prior to his work at WBZ, Rich was a morning drive host for WSSH-FM in Boston from 1982 to 1996. He also worked at WRKO-AM from 1978 to 1982, as a co-host of the morning show and a host of his own Broadway music program. 15 Percent of Country Music Listeners Called 'Top-Tier' Spenders The Country Music Association’s latest consumer research took a deep look at top-tier music listener purchases with data revealing that spending for this audience is at $800* or more in the past 12 months – a level which applies to nearly 15 percent of overall Country Music listeners on which the study was based. These figures were released Tuesday during the final of three webinars presenting CMA’s extensive consumer research initiative. “Across the board we saw higher levels of engagement and spending. There were very few areas where these fans were not over-indexing in terms of music consumption against the general Country Music listening audience, not just spending,” said Karen Stump, CMA Senior Director of Market Research. This top tier of spenders, deemed the “Fan Economy,” was comprised of all ages; however, Millennials age 25-34 were significantly higher (32 percent) as a high spending group, compared to other age groups. Gen X made up the next largest segment with a share of 25 percent among the tier. Adult Millennials had the highest average music spending levels at slightly more than $1,100 (self-reported respondents). Karen Stump Overall, these high spenders are not only purchasing more, they are consuming more across the board and all channels, both paid and free music. Seventy-eight percent of this “Fan Economy” listen to Country Music on a daily basis, while among the general Country Music audience, about 50 percent listen on a daily basis. The study uncovered a few notable differences, meaning significantly higher engagement among the super “Fan Economy” tier. This group reported twice the rate of daily listening across purchased digital music, satellite radio, and Spotify. Eighty-four percent spent money on concert tickets, compared to 50 percent among other Country Music listeners. This group also yields another benefit to the format as social influencers of music. The “Fan Economy” listeners are super-users of social media and reported twice the level of everyday/constant use of Twitter, Snapchat, and Instagram compared to the total audience. They use social media to influence and learn about music and artists, with 86 percent agreeing that social media is a good way to engage with music and artists. In webinars presented exclusively to CMA members May 3 and May 11, research has shown the Country Music audience continues to gain popularity across the board with the fastest growth in listeners occurring among non-whites, Hispanics, and Millennials. Additionally, research also indicates that Country Music fans, on average, spend more on music than fans of any other genre. The data reported in this summary is from CMA’s proprietary consumer study, which was conducted among 3,330 adult consumers across the U.S. during October 2015. The study was conducted by a third-party research partner, The Futures Company. CMA Research is conducted on behalf of and provided exclusively to CMA members. Megyn Kelly Fires Back at Media Critics Megyn Kelly got a lot of positive media coverage for her tough questioning of Donald Trump in the first Republican debate last year and her refusal to back down as he hammered her for months afterward. But after her Tuesday night (May 17th) interview with Trump that was seen as the end of their feud, many in the media were critical of it, dismissing it as being a lightweight exchange in which she never challenged the GOP's presumptive presidential nominee -- and Kelly wasn't having it. On her Fox News Channel show the following night, Kelly called out several of those by name who'd criticized the interview, charging they hadn't disclosed their previous criticism of Trump. She charged, "Not surprisingly, many of these critics failed to expose their own bias against Trump, against Fox News or against the GOP." She stated, "As I said, right from the beginning of this thing, I was never going to love him. And I was never going to hate him. And those who assumed either one assumed too much." But Kelly didn't stop there. After The Daily Show host Trevor Noah criticized the interview Wednesday night, saying Kelly didn't ask tough questions, especially when it came to Trump's statements about women, charging, "This was sold as a bloodbath. But in the end, it just turned out to be one of those couple's baths that only exist in, like, the Cialis commercials," Kelly fired back on Twitter Thursday morning. She sarcastically said she was grateful to have men like Noah advise her how to deal with sexist attacks. Don Benson to Receive National Radio Award Don Benson Don Benson, who served for over a decade as president and chief executive officer of Lincoln Financial Media Company, will receive the National Radio Award during the Radio Luncheon on Wednesday, September 21. The 2016 Radio Show, produced by the Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB) and National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), will be held September 21-23 in Nashville. “Don Benson has advanced the radio business with his strategic and thoughtful leadership," said NAB Executive Vice President of Radio John David. "This recognition is timely and fitting for Don, who is held in the highest regard for his integrity and genuine commitment and service to broadcasting.” As president and chief executive officer of Lincoln Financial Media Company (LFMC) from 2008-2015, Benson oversaw all aspects relating to LFMC's 15 radio stations in Atlanta, Miami, San Diego and Denver. Named chief executive officer of LFMC in May, 2008, he was appointed president of the company’s radio division in January, 2005; in addition, he previously served more than 10 years as the company’s corporate senior vice-president of operations/programming. Benson has more than 40 years of media experience, including more than 30 years with Lincoln Financial Media (and previous owner Jefferson-Pilot) and seven years as a programming consultant. Benson began his career at WMAK/Nashville, before joining Jefferson-Pilot in 1974 at WQXI AM/FM in Atlanta. He served as vice president of operations at KIIS-FM in Los Angeles and as corporate vice president of programming for Western Cities Broadcasting. He was executive vice president of operations for Burkhart/Douglas & Associates, an Atlanta-based media consulting firm, prior to rejoining Jefferson-Pilot in 1994. Benson served multiple terms on the Executive Committee of the National Association of Broadcasters Board of Directors and as Radio Board Chair for three consecutive terms. In addition, he also served as a multi-year member of the Board of Directors of the Radio Advertising Bureau and as Chair of the Arbitron Advisory Council, representing the top 50 continuously rated radio markets. Benson has received numerous industry accolades, including The Media Financial Management Association's Avatar Award, its highest honor, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the communications industry and exemplary role in community service. In December 2014, he was chosen as Radio Executive of the Year by Radio Ink. In 2010, he was inducted into the Vanderbilt University Student Media Hall of Fame, and in 2009, was inducted into the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame. In 1901...Fessenden applies for high-frequency dynamo patent. Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, is generally ignored and largely unknown. On December 24, 1906, at 9 P.M. eastern standard time, Reginald Fessenden transmitted human voices from Brant Rock near Boston, Massachusetts to several ships at sea owned by the United Fruit Company. The host of the broadcast was Fessenden. After giving a resume of the program Fessenden played a recording of Handel's "Largo" on an Ediphone thus establishing two records - the first recording of the first broadcast. Fessenden then dazzled his listeners with his talent as a violinist playing appropriately for the Christmas season, "Oh Holy Night" and actually singing the last verse as he played. Mrs. Helen Fessenden and Fessenden's secretary Miss Bent, had promised to read seasonal passages from the Bible including, "Glory to God in the highest -and on earth peace to men of good will," but when the time came to perform they stood speechless, paralyzed with mike fright. Fessenden took over for them and concluded the broadcast by extending Christmas greetings to his listeners - as well as asking them to write and report to him on the broadcast wherever they were. The mail response confirmed that Fessenden had successfully invented radio as we know it. Technically, he had invented radio telephony or what radio listeners would call "real" radio as opposed to Marconi's Morse code broadcasting. Fessenden could truly lay claim to be the inventor of radio and he fully expected the world to beat a path to his door. Instead, he never received his due recognition, lost control of his patents and the ensuing revenue which made other inventors and companies immensely wealthy. Even today the Encyclopedia Canadiana does not give him a separate listing. Mention of him is only included under the listing for his mother Clementina who established Empire Day in Canada. Reginald is mentioned as one of her four sons, "inventor of the wireless telephone, the radio compass and the visible bullet for machine guns, he also invented the first television set in North America in 1919." In 1920…The Canadian Marconi Company's station XWA (Experimental Wireless Apparatus) in Montréal gave what it would later claim to be the first scheduled radio broadcast in North America, and quite possibly in the world. Its call letters were changed to CFCF on November 4, 1920, and while the meaning of that call sign has never been officially confirmed, it is generally believed to be "Canada's First, Canada's Finest." In 1960...WRCA in NYC becomes WNBC 660 AM...again. WNBC signed on for the first time on March 2, 1922, as WEAF, owned by AT&T Western Electric. It was the first radio station in New York City. The call are popularly thought to have stood for Western Electric AT&T Fone or Water, Earth, Air, and Fire (the 4 classical elements). However, records suggest that the call letters were assigned from an alphabetical sequence. The first assigned call was actually WDAM; it was quickly dropped, but presumably came from the same alphabetical sequence. In 1922, WEAF broadcast what it later claimed to be the first radio advertisement (actually a roughly 10-minute long talk anticipating today's radio and television infomercials) which promoted an apartment development in Jackson Heights near a new elevated train line, (the IRT's Flushing-Corona line, now the number 7 line). In 1926, WEAF was purchased by the Radio Corporation of America, making it a sister station to WJZ. RCA then formed the National Broadcasting Company, which operated two radio chains. WEAF became the flagship station of the NBC Red Network. The other chain was the NBC Blue Network, whose programming originated at WJZ (now WABC), also owned by RCA. As a result of the North American Radio Broadcasting Agreement of 1941, WEAF became a clear channel station, and could be heard across most of the eastern half of North America at night. On November 11, 1928, WEAF moved from 610 to 660 AM. The move that solidified WEAF's position as the most pretigious of all broadcasters took place in the autumn of 1933, when NBC moved to 30 Rockefeller Plaza and became the "radio" that gave Radio City its name. In 1943, the United States Supreme Court ordered RCA to sell off one of its radio networks, citing antitrust concerns. The company decided to keep the Red Network, and it was rebranded as the NBC Radio Network after the Blue Network was divested, along with several stations (including WJZ), to Edward J. Noble and rechristened the Blue Network as the American Broadcasting Company. WEAF's call letters were changed to WNBC in 1946, then to WRCA in 1954, and back to WNBC in 1960. In 1985...the United States began broadcasting to Cuban citizens on "Radio Marti". In 2011…Longtime Pittsburgh radio personality (KDKA, 1973-2001) John Cigna died following a stroke and of complications from emphysema at 75. In 2014...Chicago radio talk show host (WGN, WCFL, WIND)/sports commentator Bill Berg died of complications from Parkinson's disease at 77. R.I.P.: CBS Newsman Morley Safer Has Died At Age 84 Morley Safer, the CBS newsman who changed war reporting forever when he showed GIs burning the huts of Vietnamese villagers and went on to become the iconic 60 Minutes correspondent whose stylish stories on America's most-watched news program made him one of television's most enduring stars, died today in Manhattan. He was 84, according to CBS News. Safer was in declining health when he announced his retirement last week; CBS News broadcast a long-planned special hour to honor the occasion on Sunday May 15 that he watched in his home. A huge presence on 60 Minutes for 46 years -- Safer enjoyed the longest run anyone ever had on primetime network television. Though he cut back a decade ago, he still appeared regularly until recently, captivating audiences with his signature stories on art, science and culture. "Morley was one of the most important journalists in any medium, ever," said CBS Chairman and CEO, Leslie Moonves. "He broke ground in war reporting and made a name that will forever be synonymous with 60 Minutes. He was also a gentleman, a scholar, a great raconteur - all of those things and much more to generations of colleagues, his legion of friends, and his family, to whom all of us at CBS offer our sincerest condolences over the loss of one of CBS' and journalism's greatest treasures." "This is a very sad day for all of us at 60 Minutes and CBS News. Morley was a fixture, one of our pillars, and an inspiration in many ways. He was a master storyteller, a gentleman and a wonderful friend. We will miss him very much," said Jeff Fager, the executive producer of 60 Minutes and Safer's close friend and one-time 60 Minutes producer. 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Former Trump GalPal Rebuts NYTimes Story Judge Dismisses WHDH Lawsuit Against Comcast iHM Discloses Negotiation Details as Trial Begins iHM Adds Restructuring Advisory Firm To Deal With ... Gannett Increases Offer For Tribune Publishing Zuckerberg To Meet Conservatives On Political Bias... EMails Force KTLA To Cover-Up Meteorologist Trump Tweaks His Brand ICYMI: Relatability & Humor..Steve Harvey's Succes... Atlanta Radio: Scammers Target Bert Show Charity St. Louis Radio: WSDZ Adds Talker Dana Loesch ESPN's SAS Wants To Debate Curt Schilling FCC Call Sign Activity For April 2016 Ryan Seacrest To Grads: Trust Your Gut St. Louis Radio: Hubbard Stations Hosting Trike Ri... R.I.P.: Singer, Broadcaster Julius La Rosa	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26028
__label__wiki	0.662599	0.662599	Still Special Season for Cougars Posted on March 7, 2013 March 7, 2013 by Thomas Sellers Cougar Jonathan Stark takes a jumper against Craigmont during the Regional Semifinal contest. One of the most successful runs in Munford Cougar Basketball history came to an end tonight. Not since the mid 1990s have the Cougars had a shot to reach Sub-State. That was the cast entering the Brighton Gymnasium in the Region 7-3A Boy Tournament Semifinals against the Craigmont Chiefs. The District 14-3A runner-ups outlasted the Cougars to win 60-51 and advance to the Regional championship game and earn a spot in Monday’s Sub-State round. The season came to an end for Butch Hopkins and his Munford Cougars. “Great accomplishment,” he said. “All the kids have been talking to me. They’ve never been on a winning team before since junior high. To get to this point, to start out the year winning then going through a losing period, everybody was getting down. “All of sudden they regrouped and came out of that to end the year 9-2,”Hopkins added. “Only losing one home game the entire season, I would have like to have had this one there.” Munford only trailed 10-9 after one quarter. Behind contributions from players like Sedric Pryor, Kameron Foster, Andre Bell and District 13-3A Tournament MVP Jonathan Stark the contest remained close in the second quarter with the Cougars behind 19-17. Then the Chiefs closed out the half on a 5-0 run to take a 24-17 lead into the locker room. That deficit remain at 7 points in the third quarter with Craigmont ahead 36-29 after 24 minutes of action. Trailing by 9 points early in the fourth quarter, Stark nailed a three-pointer to make the score 40-34 in favor of the Chiefs. Then Stark made one of his ‘Hurt’ moves to shake a defender and get into the lane for a layup. The senior guard drew the foul for a three-point play to make the score 40-37. Playing on one healthy leg the last couple of weeks, Hopkins noted Stark’s performance was courageous. The veteran coach also noted it has different players all season giving the Cougars a boost to reach the Regional Semifinals like Andre Bell overcoming injuries. “Different people at different times would step up and do some things,” he said. “It’s been a pleasure working with them. I’m going to miss it. I’ve been doing this for 31 years and it’s happen to me everytime. I’ve never ended a year without a loss. I made it the semifinals of the State twice.” For a moment it seemed the Cougars might have a shot to reach the 2013 Class 3A State Tournament. After a Craigmont bucket, Stark displayed his range again hitting a three-pointer to make the score 42-40. Then the Chiefs proceeded with a 10-2 run to make the score 52-42 with less than 2 minutes remaining. Stark hit another triple to cut the lead under 10 points. But the Chiefs went and made six fouls shots down the stretch to prevail 60-51. “We played one heck of a team,” Hopkins said. “They’re good. We played some real good teams all year long. That has helped us get to where we at. “This ain’t an early exit,” he added. “This is the deepest exit we’ve had in almost 20 years. They’ve been lucky to win a play-in much less to make it to within one game of Sub-State.” Although his players left the Brighton Gymnasium disappointed, Hopkins said he hopes they realize their accomplishments in the 2012-13 season and gain valuable life experiences. “You’ve just got to step up and tell the kids, ‘Thank you and it’s nine months until the next game,’” he concluded. “Tomorrow is the first day of next year. The kids have to learn life don’t always work out the way you want it to. You have to learn how to lose and you’ve got to learn how to win. You can’t ever get happy losing. But you have to learn how to do both with dignity. And I thought we did.”	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26031
__label__wiki	0.887278	0.887278	Namibia: Indigenous groups' long road to claim their rights Two indigenous groups have stood up to the powers that be in Namibia to claim their rights. In two separate declarations, the Himba and Zemba ethnic groups made plain their demands to government. Phil ya Nangoloh, a human rights defender and Executive Director of NamRights, a Namibian human rights organization, explained to MRG how a hitherto powerless and voiceless people took their advocacy to the highest levels. As the result of a two-month long visit to the former Kaokoland by independent human rights expert, Rebecca Sommer, who conducted human rights awareness-raising gatherings with two Namibian indigenous minority groups, the Himba people issued two separate declarations listing a litany of violations of their civil, cultural, economic, environmental, social and political rights perpetrated by the Government of Namibia (GoN). Paralelly, the Zemba people also issued a declaration listing similar violations. In the three declarations, signed between January and February 2012, the Himba pointed out that they are a distinct people, with their own tradition and culture and that they have exclusively inhabited the former Kaokoland for centuries prior to Namibian independence in 1990. In their two declarations, the Himba people also pointed out that they are totally opposed to the construction of a huge hydroelectric dam on the Kunene River. According to them, generations of their ancestors' graves would be flooded by the planned construction of the dam, while many people would also be forced to relocate from the area, overpopulating, and overgrazing other areas where they would be forced to resettle, which would cause poverty and loss of livestock due to the lack of grazing areas. In their declaration, the Zemba people explain that they have always lived on both sides of the Kunene River, in the area of Ruacana (i.e. Ruhakana) and also demand to be recognized by Namibia as a distinct indigenous people of Namibia. Both tribes also demand in their declarations recognition by GoN of their land rights. Most traditional villages of the Zemba people are situated in the former Kaokoland (now Kunene Region) where they live as permanently invited landless guests of the Himba people. A few villages are situated in present-day Omusati Region, that the Zemba claim as their traditional territory. Now officially known as the Kunene Region, the former Kaokoland is a dry and mountainous area in the remote northwestern corner of Namibia. It is homeland to an estimated 46,000 Himba and 15,000 Zemba people. The two groups stand out among other ethnic groups in Namibia because of their continuous adherence to their traditional livelihood, lifestyles and attires. They moved into the former Kaokoland, in the 16th and 17th centuries and have been living there since then. Through their respective declarations, the two groups accuse the Ovambo-controlled government of subjecting them to systematic denial of their right to self-determination. Making up more than 50 percent of Namibia’s population of 2.2 million, the Ovambo people are the single most dominant ethnic constituent in post-independence Namibian politics. In addition to the Ovambo, Himba and Zemba, Namibia is composed of at least 10 other ethnic groups. However, none of the remainder of the country’s national, or ethnic and linguistic minorities comprises more than 10 percent of Namibia’s population. In their historic declarations, the Himba and Zemba peoples demand that they must be allowed to choose their own representatives and leaders, determine freely their political institution, maintain and preserve their own governance structures and freely pursue their socio-economic and cultural development in accordance with their own pace and space. The Himba people demand that the government recognise 33 of their 36 traditional leaders while the Zemba people insist that their chief and his senior councilors be recognized. Other demands in the declarations include legal territorial land rights, that their children be taught in their mother tongue, better english lessons and that natural resources in the traditional areas be placed under their custodianship. They also demand that mining companies be removed from 'their' territories, or that they be included in the process of granting mining permits and benefit from the mining activities. The groups also demand that the government respect, protect and fulfill their right to their lands, territories and resources, which they claim they have traditionally owned and occupied for centuries. They also demanded the government stop “without delay” the implementation of the Communal Land Reform Act 2002, which they say has resulted in their lands being fenced off or “legally grabbed” by members of the dominant Ovambo ethnic group. The Himba people have also petitioned the United Nations to help them stop the construction of a massive hydroelectric dam, which would produce 1700-gigawatts of electricity in Namibia. The Zemba tribe said the government has denied them recognition as a distinct tribe since the 1990s, and claimed that the ruling party, which is dominated by the Oshivambo group, “played a very cruel, unfair game” with them. Rebecca Sommer, who agreed to collaborate with Namibian human rights organization NamRights, handed the declarations to Namrights for submission to the African Union (AU) and the government of Namibia. On February 23 this year, NamRights submitted the declarations to the country’s Prime Minister Nahas Angula and to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, while Rebecca Sommer submitted the same declarations to the United Nations system in Geneva and New York on February 24. NamRights executive director, Phil ya Nangoloh, who passed on the declarations to Prime Minister Angula's office and to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, emphasized that the groups' desire for self-determination should not be confused with secession attempts. Ya Nangoloh also stressed that the role of NamRights and Sommer was “exclusively to enlighten” the groups on their rights as contained in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and other international human rights instruments. Both UNDRIP and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities, prohibit discrimination and outline the rights of such minorities to culture, identity, language, employment, health, education, and other matters. The two tribes have also asked the UN's special expert on the human rights of indigenous people to visit Namibia. Phil ya Nangoloh, NamRights Executive Director. Credit: NamRights MRG-GAL-2400 Zemba community meeting on UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Credit: Rebecca Sommer Invitation to UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples from the Himba to visit Kaokoland. Credit: Rebecca Sommer Violence/Conflict Employment/Unemployment Law/Legislation Women/Gender No associated categoriesCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License Press Contact Information Name: Phil ya Nangoloh Email: nshr@nshr.org.na	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26033
__label__wiki	0.749938	0.749938	More about Kenya More about Pastoralists Kenya: Photo story from the Endorois homelands As part of Minority Rights Group International’s Trouble in Paradise Campaign, MRG staff members Emma Eastwood and Neil Clarke traveled to Kenya in October, 2008 on a fact finding mission examining the effects of tourism on indigenous communities. Information collected on this trip went on to inform MRG’s efforts to encourage a symbiotic balance between eco-tourism and the preservation of minority peoples and their lifestyles. The campaign focused on the situation of the Endorois people, evicted from their ancestral lands in order to accommodate a game reserve instated in the area in the 1970s. Minority communities like the one pictured in the below photographs illustrate the potential threat that touristic developments can pose to pastoral peoples. In the past 30 years, the Endorois community has slowly and methodically been evicted from their traditional lands, starting with their community removal from territory surrounding Lake Bogoria in the Rift Valley and continuing to the expansion of both ruby mines and game reserves into the present. At no point during this evicting were community members compensated for their lands and are now relegated to a small strip of semi arid land on which they are no longer able to sustain cattle herding or beekeeping activities as a means of subsistence and income. Poverty is rife and there are few means of access to education, electricity, or running water. Once sacred sites are now off limits to the community and as a result, religious traditions are no longer being practiced. Most recently, a landmark court ruling by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights has deemed such forced eviction of minority groups from their land to be unlawful and in direct breach of basic human rights. Wilson Kipsang Kipkazi, of the Endorois Welfare Council (EWC) said in a recent interview, “We are delighted that the African Commission has recognized the wrong that was done decades ago. This decision is the result of a sustained campaign for the recognition of the Endorois as a distinct indigenous community and the restoration of our ancestral land.” Hotel pool which was discovered to be diverting water away from the local community and farming lands. Outflow from the pool was then used by Endorois villagers to wash. MRG-GAL-803 Download High Res The hotel, which was built on Endorois traditional land, accommodates the influx of tourists who travel to this region of Africa A meeting between MRG staff and Mr. Wilson Kipsing Kipkazi, Program Officer of the Endorois Welfare Council Abandoned ruby mine built on Endorois land. The mine was closed after it was found to be polluting local rivers Richard Yegon is an elder from the village of Kapkuikui. Endorois elders take an active role in counseling and guiding the community and help to resolve conflicts over land and other resources such as water Beehives have been constructed as a means of generating profit for members of the community and supplementing income from dwindling cattle herding activities, now threatened by limited access to pastoral lands “Traditional” villages recreated for benefit of tourists to the region. In reality, indigenous communities now face challenges of extreme poverty as their main form of subsistence, pastoral herding, has been greatly hindered by touristic developments Welcoming ceremony for MRG staff visiting the Endorois community on a fact finding mission. Lake Bogoria is of great cultural significance to the Endorois. This area is now one of the largest hotspots for tourism in the area and many visitors come to witness the geysers (considered sacred by the Endorois) Sarah Chelimo helps run the Chelaba Women's Group - a cooperative set up by local women to help lift themselves and their families out of poverty. The women weave mats out of Seagram grass, which are used locally for roofing, beds and partition walls in h Copyright Holder: Minority Rights Group Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26034
__label__wiki	0.771858	0.771858	Concerto Italiano The Concerto Italiano ensemble was founded in 1984. Its history overlaps with that of the revival of early music in Italy. Monteverdi, Bach and Vivaldi were the main pins over which the group has been able to renew the language of early music. In 33 years of their artistic activitiy, Concerto Italiano have become one of the most acclaimed early music ensembles in the world. Concerto Italiano have appeared on many festivals and events around the world: in Utrecht, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Leuven, London, Edinburgh, Aldeburgh, Glasgow, Vienna, Graz, Innsbruck, Amsterdam, Brussels, Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Bilbao, Sevilla, San Sebastián, Salamanca, Santander, Oslo, Bergen, Vantaa, Turku, Paris, Beaune, Lyon, Montpellier, Metz, Ambronay, Saintes, Cologne, Stuttgart, Darmstadt, Rome, Milan, Ravenna, Ferrara, Turin, Spoleto, Palermo, Perugia, Bologna, Naples, Istanbul, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Warsaw, Krakow, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, New York, Washington and Tokyo. Concerto Italiano has been recently involved in the complete Monteverdi opera cycle at La Scala (Milan) and Opéra Garnier (Paris) with the stage director Bob Wilson. In 2016, Concerto Italiano made their debut in Australia and New Zealand performing Monteverdi’s “Vespers of 1610”. The group has also been touring together with RIAS Kammerchor with a monumental program of Roman sacred music and Scarlatti’s oratorio. In 2017, they performed Monteverdi’s music all over the world, including “Vespers of 1610”, “L’Orfeo” and “L'incoronazione di Poppea”, among others in China and Japan, Australia, New York (debut concert at Carnegie Hall) and many European cities. Concerto Italiano records for Naïve. Recent releases include Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo”, a collection of sacred music by Alessandro Scarlatti, Monteverdi’s complete eight book of madrigals, “Brandeburg Concertos” by Bach, Monteverdi’s “Vespers of 1610” and “Selva morale e spirituale”. The impressive array of critical awards received for these recordings confirms the outstanding quality of their performances, now recognised as a unique force in the interpretation of 17th and 18th century music. These include among others: five Gramophone Awards, ten Diapasons d’Or and two Diapason d’Or de l’année, two Deutscher Schallplattenpreis, many Repertoire awards, Choc du Monde de la Musique, the Cannes Classical Award, Le Monde’s Disques de l’Année 1995 and 1997, Premio Internazionale del Disco Antonio Vivaldi, the Grand Prix de la Nouvelle Academie du Disque and Grand Prix de l’Académie Charles Cros, Prix Caecilia and Amadeus Austrian Music Award. The “Brandenburg Concertos” recording has been awarded by “BBC Music Magazine” as the best version ever recorded. The group has been also awarded in Italy with the Premio Abbiati in 2003.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26036
__label__wiki	0.799092	0.799092	Miami still has work to do in battle to close its wage gaps June 25, 2019 David Perez David A. Perez Christopher Columbus High School Maruta Mang, a 48-year veteran finance executive in the banking industry, is accustomed to receiving a smaller paycheck than her male colleagues. Mang, 84, is a triple minority because she is a woman, an octogenarian and Asian. She also is emblematic of a recent study that says minority women make 60 cents on the dollar compared with their male counterparts. “The expectations seem to be higher for women. It is a matter of building credibility,” said Mang, who is a firm believer that the wage gap has affected her, especially in the finance industry. The study released this year on the wage gap showed that women overall earned 80 percent of their male counterparts for all industries. The wage gap was especially acute in the finance industry, said Maria Ilcheva, assistant director of planning and operations for Florida International University’s Metropolitan Center. Ilcheva authored the study. However, there also is a significant disparity among races and age when it comes to salary. While many are unaware of how prevalent the gap actually is, others are feeling its drastic effects. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, women in Florida earn 87 cents for each dollar earned by a man. While this might not seem like a substantial difference, it results in a loss of $5,515 per year per female worker. “If you read our report you’ll see that we tried to break down the data by industries and occupations, and it is precisely to show that the wage gap exists,” Ilcheva said. Businesses need to change their salary structures, Ilcheva said. “Unfortunately, business is mostly focused on profit,” she said. “For the majority of them, something needs to be regulated either from the federal government or at the local level in order for them to start making equality a priority.” Luis de la Aguilera, CEO and president of U.S. Century Bank, says he is trying to improve his company’s equality profile, but admits there’s work to be done at the higher end of the scale.. “I have been in this industry for 38 years and yes there is a wage gap to be addressed. When I started in banking in 1982, there simply were few females in management or senior and executive roles,” De la Aguilera said. Since being hired as CEO in 2015, De la Aguilera said he has been providing equal opportunities to all employees causing “a very good balance of female and male in all positions including executive senior officers.” U.S. Century Bank has 181 employees, 62 men and 119 women. Women make up 65 percent of the workforce. Ilcheva’s report also shows that race and age are prime factors in income inequality. About 25 percent of women of color earn less than $25,000 yearly, nearly 17 percent less than men. Hispanics and blacks are heavily affected by the wage gap as both groups have the largest poverty rate in Miami-Dade. “A black female needs to work seven or eight months more to make as much as a white male,” Ilcheva said. Additionally, people are working later and delaying retirement in order to maintain their lifestyle. “It’s not an option, it’s not a luxury, it’s not a matter of choice. It’s a matter of survival,” Ilcheva said. About 50 percent of workers in their mid- and upper-60s do not retire because they need to keep working. At U.S. Century Bank, workers are offered a “robust series of benefits including an employer match for a 401-K plan, health, dental, and life insurance.” De la Aguilera believes that the industry is evolving everyday. Mang, a member of City National Bank’s human resources team, is nearing 50 years in the finance industry. “I am choosing to keep working as I find my work to be meaningful and satisfying,” she said. Pressure on corporate bosses has narrowed the average wage gap for 19 percent. “It is beautiful to see impact and to see these issues being solved,” Ilcheva said. “However, there is still work to be done.” Shooter Drills, Bad Pot, Uber, Sex Ed & Wage Gaps (2019)	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26040
__label__wiki	0.825467	0.825467	Akhilesh Yadav Accuses BJP Of ‘Spreading Anarchy’ In Uttar Pradesh Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav today said there was ‘anarchy’ in Uttar Pradesh and held the ruling BJP responsible for the situation. The former chief minister also said that people of Uttar Pradesh have understood the reality of the party and would not be fooled by BJP’s false promises. “There is anarchy in the state. BJP should answer why it is so. The state government cannot hide its failure by blaming bureaucracy for creating hindrance in development works,” said Mr Yadav. “The people of the state will not go by false statements of their (BJP) leaders now as they have understood the reality of the BJP,” he said. The Samajwadi Party supremo exhorted the party workers to propagate the party’s ideology and protest against any “anti-people move” being carried out in their areas. “In BJP’s regime, people will not get any respite. It was SP which thought about people’s welfare and launched a number of developmental and welfare schemes for them,” he said, and went on to cite various schemes for youths, women and minorities launched during previous SP regime. Previous articleUttar Pradesh RERA website launch on July 26 Next article1.72 लाख शिक्षा मित्रों को राहत नहीं, सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने सहायक शिक्षक मानने से इंकार किया 1.72 लाख शिक्षा मित्रों को राहत नहीं, सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने सहायक... Wedding called off in Rampur after groom’s family says no beef,... Government Proposes A Disneyland-Like ‘Krishna Land’ Theme Park In Mathura उत्तर प्रदेश के लोक नृत्य और लोक संगीत Minor girl raped and murdered in Aligarh, accused lynched to death 10 Feared Dead Due To Heat Wave In Uttar Pradesh	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26045
__label__cc	0.574599	0.425401	Compact Airborne Image Mapping System (CAIMS) McCarthy, Tim and O'Riain, Gearoid and Fotheringham, Stewart (2007) Compact Airborne Image Mapping System (CAIMS). In: The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences. Padua, Italy. International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), pp. 198-202. Airborne image mapping systems, to a large extent, remain the preserve of specialist aerial survey companies and research groups. This paper describes the current status of the CAIMS project, established in July 2006 at the National Centre of Geocomputation, National University of Ireland, Maynooth with their industrial partner; Compass Informatics, Dublin. It’s chief objective is to develop a compact, less complex, mobile airborne mapping system. Historically, aerial survey systems comprise technically complex and expensive image mapping systems. These high-end camera and navigation systems are usually installed in aircraft that have been specially adapted to carry out this activity. A dedicated full time team, including Survey Manager, Pilots and Observers are required to support this activity. Compounding the situation is the cost of advanced software modules and associated Data Processing specialists required to turn these data into useful georectified and orthorectified image products. Meanwhile, more advanced, less complex, reasonably priced imaging and navigation sensors continue to appear on the market. Allied to this trend are less complex, cheaper data processing modules enabling data to be collected and processed in a cost effective and timely manner. The CAIMS project was setup to review current technology for compact, relatively in-expensive, mobile aerial image mapping systems. The chief research objective was to develop a complete system in terms of survey operation, data acquisition and processing. Some secondary objectives include: (i) the development of a compact acquisition system that could be installed in common light-aircraft, using a removable, fully licensed mounting system; and (ii) the development of in-flight survey management software tools and downstream pre-processing modules enabling rapid turnaround of georectified mosaics. No attempt is made to reduce the role of conventional image survey systems but rather it is to look at areas where this new technology could be used to complement existing survey work and, indeed, open up new sectors. Some examples of the latter include development of rapid mobile aerial mapping methodologies and route corridor surveys. The results of this work will help develop novel solutions for some age-old aerial survey problems and so enable a wider audience access to this rapidly evolving technology. Published under the Creative Common Attribution 3.0 License, see publications.copernicus.org/for_authors/license_and_copyright.html for details. Airborne; Camera; GPS; Mount; Photogrammetry; Faculty of Science and Engineering > Research Institutes > National Centre for Geocomputation, NCG International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) http://www.isprs.org/	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26049
__label__wiki	0.868515	0.868515	L'eau à la Bouche " Serge Gainsbourg was a French singer, songwriter, film composer, musician, poet, painter, screenwriter, writer, actor, director... " Serge Gainsbourg was a French singer, songwriter, film composer, musician, poet, painter, screenwriter, writer, actor, director , you may as well be wandering what didn’t he do? While he is mostly remembered for his songs, he has made some valuable contributions as a composer to films as well. It’s worth noting his style changed almost on a regular basis, with some hit and misses, and therefore his film and non-film from a certain period can have a lot in common. Especially in his early works for film conventional jazz is the most likely keyword, where some 10 years later you hear banjo breaks (La Horse) or unhinged analog synthesizers (Trop jolies pour être honnêtes). Also, Gainsbourg cleverly recycled a composition originally written for the film Les Coeurs Verts, which resulted in the renowned song ’ Je Taime’. It’s undoubtedly a composer whose music was of significant influence. His music to L'eau à la Bouche is, as noted, from in a period where Gainsbourg didn’t particularly had come to bloom yet and its music is firmly rooted in the area of traditional jazz. The score he wrote for the film wases Coeurs Vert performed an atypical group of musicians; trumpet, tenor sax, piano, guitar, acoustic double bass and drums, and it is of an airy, relaxing nature. No wonder, given the film, which pretends to be nothing more than normal romantic comedy, that the music can only be described as a few, simple, but catchy jazzy tracks. Its rhythmic structure and lovable little melody, performed by the sax and trumpet, are nothing out of the ordinary. It is save to say the most radical thing are the drums on the song L'eau à la Bouche. I just enjoyed the music quite a bit, despite the many similar scores that exist. It’s no secret the sound of each of work by Serge Gainsbourg was influenced by common collaborators that contribute as a musical director, arranger, conductor, the equivalent of a music producer and even as co-composer. For L'eau à la Bouche Alain Groguer played the piano and worked together with Sainsbourg as the musical director, conductor and arranger. While I can generally sense the overall influence that Groguer had on the sound, it feels like nothing when compared to the times Gainsbourg worked Michel Colombier and Jean-Claude Vannie, whose trademarks were so powerful and unconcealed. L'eau à la Bouche is not a memorable Gainsbourg score, and compared to some of his best, may even sound a bit dull. Still, it is quite attractive and an easy listener. In modern times, music labels include an original EP as part of a compilation, but sometimes leaving out one or more tracks. To make things even more complicated, multiple compilations may exist, each making different decisions on what to include, leaving the collectors with a dilemma. Universal France decided to leave out the track Judith for their Le Cinéma De Serge Gainsbourg compilation in 2002. but the label corrected’ this by reissuing the original Philips EP in 2010. 1. L'eau à la bouche (02:30) 2. Black march (01:36) 3. Judith (02:10) 4. Angoisse (02:37) Philips (regular release 1960)	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26052
__label__cc	0.601025	0.398975	Students Reflections Vincentian Social Responsibility Urban Sustainability The Role of Partnerships in Capacity-Building and Empowerment in Southville, Cabuyao Sustainable development, insofar as urban poverty reduction, moves beyond capacity building to generate new opportunities; it builds partnerships as well. The Vincentian Center for Social Responsibility built partnerships with the Southville community blocks which enabled them to become invested in the community’s long-term success. This mutually beneficial relationship is evident in the rate of continued involvement between the Adamson facilitators and the first batch group; the facilitators are learning about themselves from the Southville community members and take pride in their continued success. Partnerships between individuals of different communities and organizations do more than establish mentorship-like relationships, they empower individuals beyond what they would expect of themselves, “[…] empowerment is generally identified with the process of enhancing the capacity of individuals or groups to make choices and to transform those choices into desired actions and outcomes”, (Development Research Toolkit, Tavanti). The VCSR was able to empower the community members of Southville in intended and unintended ways. Using values formation to develop their communication skills and self-confidence, the community members were inspired to seek out other paths towards self-fulfillment and education. For some community members like Beth Novilla (the young woman featured in the picture), self-fulfillment was literacy and education, but also returning her skills to the community by becoming a teacher in the day care center. The VCSR was founded on the principles of the Millennium Development Goals, global targets created by the United Nations to eradicate poverty by the year 2025 (http://www.undp.org/mdg/). In many ways, the VCSR did not physically provide the Southville community blocks with the resources to achieve universal primary education, promote gender equality and empower women, or improve maternal health (to name 3 out of the 8 goals). Through the values formation process, the facilitators helped the community members see value within themselves as individuals. The notion of the individual as social capital is an important component of being a valuable contributor to the economy of the community, but also in terms of seeing the individual as an indispensable resource to society. The promotion of the MDG goals through the integrated sustainability process, the VCSR was able to instill a sense of direction among the people of the Southville community blocks. In the Development Research Toolkits, Dr. Tavanti distinguishes five pillars of sustainability: environmental, social, economic, institutional, and cultural. With regard to the work of the VCSR in the community blocks, the notion of social sustainability holds the most truth. “Social sustainability requires that the cohesion of society and its ability to work towards common goals be maintained […]”. Thinking back to the original struggle of the VCSR to gain the trust of the community and build partnerships, the most important component was building consensus among the community members that the values formation and community development process was worth their time and effort. The VCSR asked the question that no other NGO asked them in the past – what do you want, and where do you want to go? It found common goals among the community and developed relationships with individuals to ensure that the needs of the community were met individually, and as a cohesive unit. For the VCSR, sustainable development means nurturing partnerships and relationships with the individual community members in the Southville community blocks. Taking a personalized approach, they invested themselves in the community’s success, and as a result take pride in their achievements. The community was empowered to set a different course for itself in line with the MDG goals and is, in many ways, taking small steps toward emerging as a self-sustaining and economically developed community. by Ashley Perzyna Welcome to Manila! The Manila Program promotes to sustainability in the metropolitan area of Manila, Philippines through participatory poverty assessments. This program, designed and directed by Dr. Marco Tavanti, is the fruit of a collaboration between Vincentian academic institutions and the Vincentian Center for Social Responsibility (VCSR). Read more about the Program at DePaul University's School of Public Service Read about the Program in relation to Daniel H. Burnham and urban planning for poverty reduction HERE A WORLD OF URBAN POOR - What are we doing about it? Manila: international service learning bridges students, community Sustainability: Access to Clean Water and Sanitation in the Philippines Unheard Voices and Prevalent Corruption: An Insight on Urban Poverty in Metro Manila Education and Urban Poverty Sustainability: Access to Clean Water and Sanitat... The Role of Partnerships in Capacity-Building and ... Systemic Change: a process of liberation One Step Further and Stand Up Stand With The Poor Unheard Voices and Prevalent Corruption: An Insigh... Dr. Marco Tavanti Jamelyn Jenny.Kruse Joe Boland Meredith Koch Renee Partida Rodrigo Antonio Merino Dr. Marco Tavanti mtavanti@depaul.edu. Travel theme. Powered by Blogger.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26053
__label__wiki	0.955661	0.955661	44 dead as trains collide in Iran posted November 26, 2016 at 11:24 am by AFP Two trains collided and caught fire Friday in a remote region of northern Iran, killing 44 people and injuring dozens more, in one of the country's worst rail disasters. Provincial governor Mohammad Reza Khabbaz told state television that the crash took place in Semnan province on the main line between Tehran and Iran's second city Mashhad. An express train operating from Tabriz in the northwest to Mashhad had stopped, Khabbaz said, initially suggesting the cause could have been mechanical failure or extreme cold, although it was later put down to human error. Two coaches on the express burst into flames when a passenger train behind smashed into the back of it at 7:50 am (0420 GMT). The front four coaches of the second train -- running from Semnan to Mashhad -- derailed and overturned. "One minute I was sleeping and the next I was being carried out of a coach on fire," one hospitalised passenger told state television. Television broadcast images of a huge column of black smoke and flames shooting into the sky from coaches with their windows shattered, as firefighters battled the blaze and rescue workers searched for victims. With the toll climbing throughout the day, Hossein Kulivand, head of Iran's emergency services, said late Friday that 44 people were killed and 82 hospitalised, of whom 17 were treated for light injuries and released. Human error was determined to have caused the accident. "For some unknown reasons due to human fault, the train (from Semnan) was ordered to move and so it hit the other train from behind," said Mohsen Poor-Seyed Aghaie, the head of Iranian railways. - Injured airlifted - The province's Red Crescent director, Hassan Shokrollahi, said the remote location of the crash site, between Semnan and Damghan, the next major town, had complicated rescue efforts. "Due to the difficulty of access, only our helicopter has managed to reach the scene," he said. The injured were airlifted to hospitals in Semnan and Damghan. The Tehran-to-Mashhad line was briefly closed to allow an investigation into the cause of the crash, said Sadegh Sokri, spokesman for Iran's railways. A collision on the same line between a freight train and a passenger train left two dead and 30 injured in June 2014. President Hassan Rouhani called for "all technical, administrative and preventive measures to be taken to prevent the recurrence of such an accident." Iranian trains have been involved in four collisions this year with road vehicles, including a crash with a truck in July that left around 30 injured near the Caspian Sea in the northern province of Mazandaran. Collisions between trains are rarer. In the country's deadliest rail disaster, 328 people were killed when a train transporting sulphur, petrol and fertilisers exploded in northern Iran on February 18, 2004. Iran's roads are notoriously deadly, mainly because drivers show scant regard for rules, with 16,000 lives lost in the Iranian year between March 2015 and March 2016. In a sign of progress, however, an average of 28,000 deaths a year were registered on Iranian roads a decade ago. Topics: Iran , rail , accident	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26054
__label__wiki	0.950133	0.950133	Stars remember Debbie Reynolds, Carrie Fisher posted January 06, 2017 at 10:19 am by AFP Friends and family of screen icon Debbie Reynolds and "Star Wars" legend Carrie Fisher gathered Thursday to pay tribute to the beloved celebrity mother and daughter, who died one day apart. Meryl Streep, Holly Hunter, Ellen Barkin and Ed Begley Jr were among the stars who made their way to the luxury Beverly Hills compound where Fisher and Reynolds lived as neighbors until their deaths just after Christmas. The pair are expected to be interred side by side among many other stars of screen and stage in the Hollywood Hills on Friday. Fisher is believed to have been cremated already, although some of her ashes are expected to be buried alongside her mother. Reynolds, who won moviegoers' hearts as a star of "Singin' in the Rain," died on Wednesday last week, a day after Fisher. The 84-year-old suffered a stroke at the Beverly Hills property as she was making funeral arrangements for Fisher, who had suffered a heart attack. Reynolds' son Todd Fisher -- Carrie's brother -- told ABC's "20/20" show after their deaths that his mother had been devastated not to get the chance to see the "Star Wars" actress one last time. "She expressed how much she loved my sister. She then said she really wanted to be with Carrie, in those precise words. And within 15 minutes from that conversation, she faded out. Within 30 minutes, she technically was gone," he said. Fisher, who catapulted to worldwide stardom as rebel warrior Princess Leia in the original "Star Wars" trilogy, died in Los Angeles four days after suffering a heart attack on a transatlantic flight. She was 60. The family is believed to be planning a future public memorial service for Fisher and Reynolds, possibly featuring stars such as Streep -- who starred in the film "Postcards from the Edge," which was based on Fisher's 1987 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name. Other celebrities laid to rest at Forest Lawn Memorial Park include Bette Davis, Reynolds's onscreen mother in "A Catered Affair" (1956), and Reynolds's close friend Liberace. Silent film star Buster Keaton, Oscar-winning Rod Steiger and David Carradine, the star of "Kung Fu" and Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill" films, are also buried there. Topics: Entertainment , US , film , Reynolds , Fisher	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26055
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__label__wiki	0.82062	0.82062	Category Archives: Benjamin Moore Benjamin Moore & the Alpha Workshops Create Handmade Designer Wallpaper July 8, 2019 Benjamin MooreBenjamin MooreDavid Mazor Berkshire Hathaway’s Benjamin Moore, a leading paint, color and coatings brand, along with The Alpha Workshops, the nation’s only nonprofit organization providing decorative arts education and employment to adults and youth with disabilities and other vulnerabilities, has announced the launch of their bespoke wallpaper capsule collection. After decades of close collaboration, the Benjamin Moore color specialists have partnered with The Alpha Workshops wallpaper artisans to create this special edition of 15 hand-painted wallpapers featuring Benjamin Moore premium paints including CENTURY®, Aura® and Studio Finishes®. “The Alpha Workshops has always used Benjamin Moore as our preferred paint since we first introduced our signature wallpaper offerings in 2001,” said Ken Wampler, Founder and Executive Director of The Alpha Workshops. “This ultra-premium collection enhances our longstanding partnership and exudes the highest level of quality while coating walls in an artful, new way.” The Benjamin Moore and The Alpha Workshops Capsule Collection contains five patterns realized in three lustrous colorways. In Kimono, paints take the form of a radiant graphic floral, imprinted atop a rich, matte background. In Newport, they form delicate grids, stamped on the paper in layers to create a geometric masterpiece. In Topography, they’re slathered onto a stamp and applied in thick, glossy layers for a marbleized effect. While in Spencer and Horizon, they’re brushed on in feather-light strokes to textured paper that has been folded like origami. For most of the patterns, it takes a full day to create a single roll. “The Collection speaks to the basic color groups of primaries and neutrals, but all with a layer of glamour,” said Ellen O’Neill, Benjamin Moore Director of Strategic Design Intelligence. “Benjamin Moore premium products coupled with the care and precision by Alpha’s team, create captivating prints in a palette that can be easily mixed and matched.” The Benjamin Moore and The Alpha Workshops Capsule Collection will be available to order at select Benjamin Moore retailers throughout North America and internationally, as well as from The Alpha Workshops website at alphaworkshops.org. All wallpapers are made-to-order and cost $125 per yard. For a truly custom-made paper, customers and designers can add a touch of their hand by choosing a color scheme that is all their own. Benjamin Moore Elevates Calkins to Chairman & Chief Executive Officer January 10, 2019 Benjamin MooreBenjamin MooreDavid Mazor Benjamin Moore & Co., North America’s favorite paint, color and coatings brand, today announced that Dan Calkins, currently President and Chief Operating Officer, has been named Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Calkins now reports to Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Greg Abel and succeeds Mike Searles, who retired after five years at the helm of the of the company. Calkins began his career with the company in 1987 as a sales trainee. Throughout his 32-year tenure with Benjamin Moore & Co., Calkins has held a series of progressively influential and responsible positions, bringing significant leadership, sales and industry expertise to his new post. In recent years, Calkins served as President of Global Sales where he influenced growth and an ambitious strategy for expanding distribution through the independent channel. “Benjamin Moore & Co. has long established itself as an industry leader, and under Dan Calkins’ guidance, we believe they are primed for an accelerated trajectory into the future,” said Greg Abel, Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman. “Dan embodies the Benjamin Moore core values and both his proven track record and strong business acumen give us incredible confidence for the company’s future success.” Under Calkins’ leadership, Benjamin Moore & Co. will remain dedicated to the vision of its founder, Benjamin Moore, in 1883: produce the highest quality paints and color in the industry, and deliver them through a nationwide network of knowledgeable, customer-friendly, independent retail locations. With a commitment to research and development unrivaled in the architectural coatings industry, Benjamin Moore & Co. is determined to continue to service its customers including painting contractors, architects, interior designers, national accounts and retailers with the best products and services. Benjamin Moore Awarded for its Supply Chain Academy at SCM World February 16, 2018 Benjamin MooreBenjamin MooreDavid Mazor Berkshire Hathaway’s Benjamin Moore & Co., was awarded accolades in the fourth annual SCM World Power of Profession Awards. SCM World, a Gartner community, recognized the company with its Talent Payback of the Year and Talent Breakthrough of the Year awards. This recognition acknowledges the efforts by Benjamin Moore & Co. to transform and modernize its entire supply chain, increase employee retention and improve employee engagement. Benjamin Moore & Co. was selected out of six finalists within the Talent Breakthrough of the Year category. “We are honored to be recognized by our peers at SCM World and to be among a remarkable list of companies awarded for its efforts in supply chain initiatives,” said Barry Chadwick, Benjamin Moore Executive Vice President Operations. “This recognition represents the efforts our employees put in every day to advance their knowledge and improve the Benjamin Moore & Co. customer experience.” According to the company, Benjamin Moore & Co. has made significant efforts to transform and modernize its entire supply chain, including a transition to a world-class enterprise resource planning system and a successful Supply Chain Academy initiative that led to the promotion of 22% of its salaried employees and an 85% retention rate. To date, nearly 336 Benjamin Moore & Co. employees have taken advantage of this program. Employee engagement results have increased 10% year-over-year and exceeded the Conference Executive Board Global High Performing Norm in every category. The SCM World Power of Profession Awards identify, recognize and enable collective learning from the most impactful and innovative supply chain initiatives. The awards are unique in that they are voted on by fellow supply chain professionals, providing a chance to share lessons and best practices, and shape the future of supply chain. The winners were announced February 6th at an award ceremony, held as part of the SCM World Live Americas conference in Miami. Other award winners included Pfizer, 3M, Land O’Lakes, Schneider Electric and P&G. Benjamin Moore Introduces First Scuff-Resistant Paint June 7, 2017 Benjamin MooreBenjamin MooreDavid Mazor Berkshire Hathaway’s Benjamin Moore has introduced Ultra Spec SCUFF-X – the first-of-its-kind, one-component interior latex paint engineered specifically to resist scuffmarks in high-traffic, commercial environments. According to the company, SCUFF-X provides superior scuff-resistance to two-component coatings, without the strong odor, pre-mixing, short pot-life and application difficulties associated with similar products. “Our proprietary scuff-resistant technology minimizes repainting, retouching and cleaning, while offering easy application, low odor and quick dry-time,” said Alfredo Valiente, Benjamin Moore Brand Manager. “The Ultra Spec line of coatings is the trusted solution for commercial contractors and introducing SCUFF-X to the portfolio will dramatically improve how professionals maintain the busiest areas of their facilities.” Recommended areas for use include high-traffic, commercial spaces such as hallways, stairwells, lobbies, offices, gymnasiums, locker rooms, public restrooms, retail fitting rooms and much more. The cutting-edge formulation enables the coating to be low-VOC, eligible for LEED® v4 credit, and CHPS certified. Benjamin Moore Becomes Innovation Partner with American Institute of Architects May 15, 2017 Benjamin MooreBenjamin MooreDavid Mazor Berkshire Hathaway’s wholly-owned Benjamin Moore has become an Innovation Partner of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). The new relationship will leverage Benjamin Moore’s thought leadership in the design and architecture market through content and education programs, while also providing support to students of architecture who are on the path to licensure. Founded in 1857, the American Institute of Architects works to create more valuable, healthy, secure, and sustainable buildings, neighborhoods, and communities. Through nearly 300 state and local chapters, the AIA advocates for public policies that promote economic vitality and public wellbeing. Members adhere to a code of ethics and conduct to ensure the highest professional standards. The AIA provides members with tools and resources to assist them in their careers and business as well as engaging civic and government leaders and the public to find solutions to pressing issues facing our communities, institutions, nation and world. “We are delighted to have the support of Benjamin Moore as an Innovation Partner of the AIA,” noted Robert Ivy, FAIA, EVP/Chief Executive Officer of the AIA. “Their knowledge and expertise in paints and stains can help us serve architects and advance good design in the built environment.” “Benjamin Moore is proud to partner with the AIA on their efforts to offer continuing education and ongoing support for the architectural community,” said Veronica Connallon Arcaroli, Director, Architect and Designer Segment at Benjamin Moore. “We are committed to providing resources and opportunities that help architects and other trade professionals enhance their development and growth within the industry.” Benjamin Moore Ranked Number 1 in Customer Satisfaction By J.D. Power Off to a terrific revenue jump in 2016, Berkshire Hathaway’s paint, color and coatings brand Benjamin Moore has something additional to crow about, as the company has been ranked highest in customer satisfaction with both interior paints and exterior stains by J.D. Power. According to the 2016 Paint Satisfaction Study, Benjamin Moore achieved the highest numerical scores over all other brands among interior paints (836) and exterior stains (814) on a 1,000-point scale. “Benjamin Moore is proud to be recognized as the highest-ranking in customer satisfaction for our paints and stains,” said Mike Searles, President and CEO of Benjamin Moore. “We are committed to developing the most innovative, best-performing coatings that meet the needs of customers, contractors and designers, and this honor not only indicates the superiority of our products in the marketplace, but also demonstrates that only Benjamin Moore can make the impossible possible.” J.D. Power measures customer satisfaction in the interior and exterior paint and stain market across six factors: application, design guides, durability, price, product offerings and warranty/guarantee. Benjamin Moore scored highest in the application, durability and product offerings factors within the interior paint brand segment of the study. Additionally, the brand achieved the highest score in all six study factors within the exterior stain brand segment. The study is based on 16,128 responses measuring experiences and perceptions of customers who purchased and applied interior paint and exterior stain in the previous 12 months. Customers were surveyed from January through February 2016. Benjamin Moore’s Strong Growth 2015 was a good year for Benjamin Moore, with the company having its best results in a decade. The company is off to a strong start for 2016, with its best first quarter in five years. The key drivers of the growth is a commitment to new distribution outlets. Benjamin Moore added 265 new outlets in 2015, with a net gain after store closing and changes in brands of 79 locations. The growth is a combination of operating conversions as existing paint dealers switch to the Benjamin Moore brand, and dealers branching out and opening new outlets. The company emphasizes that its network of independent dealers is at the heart of customer satisfaction, as people receive a high level of service. At the 2016 Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting, Dan Calkins, Benjamin Moore’s Executive Vice-President of Sales, noted that Benjamin Moore dealers give excellent customer service “because their livelihoods depend on it.” Benjamin Moore has made a conscious decision to not sell its products at big box stores, such as Home Depot and Lowe’s. The company is constantly innovating its product line, and will have a new product launch in November. Berkshire’s Hidden Ownership of Kraft Heinz Shares July 9, 2015 Benjamin Moore, Kraft HeinzBenjamin Moore, Kraft HeinzDavid Mazor Berkshire Hathaway has come out of the Kraft Heinz merger as its biggest single shareholder with 325,442,152 shares of common stock and 80,000 shares of 9% cumulative compounding preferred stock, Series A. Berkshire’s partner in the acquisition, 3G Capital, is the second largest shareholder with 293,536,058 shares of common stock. Combined, Berkshire and 3G own 51% of the new consumer food giant. Berkshire’s Additional Hidden Ownership As they say in the TV ads, “But wait there’s more!” Berkshire Hathaway has an additional ownership stake in Kraft Heinz through the pension fund of its subsidiary, Benjamin Moore & Co. Benjamin Moore’s retirement plan owns 192,666 shares of common stock in its own right. As usual with all things Berkshire Hathaway, it’s good to keep in mind that the conglomerate is like a series of nested dolls, and in its companies, or sometimes even in its companies within its companies, there are often hidden treasures. Benjamin Moore Launches $50 Million Ad Campaign With much of the house paint sold to do-it-yourselfers these days being purchased at big-box stores, such as Lowes and Home Depot, Berkshire Hathaway’s Benjamin Moore has launched an aggressive campaign to highlight the brand as a premium product that is sold exclusively at 5,000 small retailers. The campaign, which uses the new tagline—”Paint like no other,” parodies the big-box store experience by using two marionettes to represent the big-box store staff. The ads emphasis the professionalism of the Benjamin Moore retailers, which are small, locally-owned businesses. The $50 million campaign is using a mix of TV, radio, print and digital media to reach consumers that have been increasing their DIY projects now that the 2009 recession is firmly in the rear-view mirror. The ad campaign is Benjamin Moore’s largest ever, and is the first to be overseen by Ron Schuller, who joined the company in November 2014 as the Chief Marketing Officer. Commentary: What a Can of Paint Says About Warren Buffett June 2, 2014 Benjamin Moore, CommentaryBenjamin MooreDavid Mazor Founded by the Moore brothers in 1883, Benjamin Moore Company has been a leader in indoor and outdoor paint for over a century. The company introduced the popular Regal® Wall Satin interior latex paint in 1957, and in 1982 became the first company to do computerized color matching. The company positions itself as a premium paint manufacturer, and its products consistently rate well. In 2014, it was ranked highest in interior paint customer satisfaction by J.D. Power for the fourth year in a row. In 2000, Berkshire Hathaway acquired the company for roughly $1 billion in an all cash deal. It’s a deal that has worked out well for Berkshire, and Warren Buffett told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” in October 2013 that Benjamin Moore had generated $1.5 billion in profit over the previous decade. Independent Dealer Strategy Since its founding, Benjamin Moore has sold its paint through a network of independent dealers. The dealer network encompasses 6,500 stores coast to coast, and the company sells its paint internationally as well, with a growing presence in China and Russia as the stand outs. However, the place you won’t find Benjamin Moore paint is in big box stores, such as Lowe’s and Home Depot. The Growth of the Big Box Store The big box stores that are leaders in the do-it-yourselfer retail category have undergone explosive growth, with Home Depot claiming the record for fastest growth of a retail outlet. Founded in 1978, Home Depot reached its 100th store in 1998, and by 2011, it had 2,248 locations in the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, and Mexico. Similarly, Lowe’s operates more than 1,830 stores within the same geographic area. Combined, they represent over 4,000 locations, with each one doing many times the business of a mom-and-pop store. Where is Benjamin Moore? The rise of the big box stores would seem to leave Benjamin Moore on the outside looking in, so why isn’t Benjamin Moore on the inside? The answer is simple. If Benjamin Moore made its paint available to Lowe’s and Home Depot, it would devastate the independent dealer network. The independent dealers count on their product exclusivity to protect their pricing and sales model. And, Buffett’s promise to protect that dealer network was such that when he got wind of Benjamin Moore’s CEO Denis Abrams plan to start selling to a major retailer, Abrams was fired on the spot. Keeping a Promise The move protected the independent dealers, but the deal also did something else. It protected Berkshire Hathaway’s reputation for living up to its word, especially when it comes to acquisitions. Berkshire Hathaway’s sterling reputation for honoring its word has become another bullet in Warren Buffett’s famed “Elephant Gun.” It helped him land Iscar Metalworking Companies in 2006, when he received an unsolicited letter from Iscar’s Chairman Eitan Wertheimer offering to sell Iscar to Berkshire. Seven years later, Wertheimer cited his great relationship with Buffett and Berkshire as one of the reasons he felt comfortable selling his remaining 20% interest to Berkshire in 2013. A Priceless Weapon As Buffett goes on the hunt for the next elephant, he’s got $30 billion in cash in his arsenal. He’s also got the priceless value of keeping his word. Hopefully, his successors will recognize the power of that weapon too. 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__label__wiki	0.723726	0.723726	GODOT again, with a difference - or rather two. Roger Rees and I met in 1976, at Stratford-upon-Avon, working for the Royal Shakespeare Company in Trevor Nunn's productions of Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth. As Benvolio and Romeo, we played best friends: as Malcolm and Macbeth, sworn enemies. The same season, we were both in Winter's Tale, Roger playing the Young Shepherd with a humorous innocence that I've never forgotten. In the musical version of Comedy of Errors, Roger was again very funny and totally winning. He acted, danced and sang expertly, at a time when most British actors could do one, might attempt two but rarely all three. The next year I produced a small-scale tour for the RSC, taking Twelfth Night and Chekov's Three Sisters to theatre-less towns up and down the UK. Roger and I had a ball as Andrew Aguecheek and Toby Belch. For that vagabond troupe, he also devised Is There Honey Still for Tea?, an anthology from drama, poetry and odd corners of literature, in praise of England and the English, their strengths and their foibles. Roger was born in Wales. After 18 such fruitful months at the RSC, why haven't we acted together since? What happened was Nicholas Nickleby, which made Roger a star on both sides of the Atlantic, followed by his decision to stay put in New York, where he has thrived ever since, writing and acting on Broadway. There he played in Sean Mathias's hit Indiscretions. Like all his admirers, I treasure Roger for the original wit, the passion and commonsense which inform his life and his artistry. I couldn't be happier that he has chosen this production to make his overdue return to the West End stage. With us will be Ronald Pickup, indispensible as Lucky (lucky audience) and Matthew Kelly for the first time as Pozzo. Ronnie is one of my oldest friends: we met as teenagers up north, dreaming about a life in the theatre. Matthew and I are new to each other but not for long. We start full rehearsals as soon as it's 2010. I can't wait.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26060
__label__wiki	0.744754	0.744754	Tag Archives: Spangdahlem The Hawgs are back in town Gallery 4th October 2015 niekvand On the 2nd of October 2015, 5 A-10Cs from the 74th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron arrived at Spangdahlem Airbase in Germany. An A-10C belonging to the 75th Fighter Squadron comes in to land at Spangdahlem Airbase The A-10s assigned to the 74th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron are in Germany to conduct training as part of their Theater Security Package mission in support of Operation Atlantic Resolve. Operation Atlantic Resolve are ongoing efforts in response to Russia’s actions in Ukraine, namely the War in Donbass. All U.S. efforts in support of NATO fall under the umbrella of Operation Atlantic Resolve. The U.S. took several immediate steps to demonstrate solidarity with NATO, such as augmenting the air, ground and naval presence in the region, and enhancing previously scheduled exercises. The U.S. is taking measures to enhance NATO military plans and defense capabilities and remains committed to maintaining a persistent presence in Eastern Europe. Spangdahlem Airbase Spangdahlem Air Base (IATA:SPM, ICAO: ETAD, former code EDAD) is a United States Air Force base constructed between 1951 and 1953 and located near the small German town of Spangdahlem, approximately 30 km NNE of the city of Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate. Spangdahlem is home of the 52d Fighter Wing, which maintains, deploys and employs Lockheed Martin Block 50 F-16CJ. In total, 4,800 military personnel, 840 German nationals and 200 US contractors are working at the base. The 52nd Fighter Wing Commander’s F-16C sporting special markings, lands at its homebase. A-10Atlantic ResolveGermanySpangdahlemTheater Security PackageThunderboltUSAFUSAFEWarthog Raptors deploy to Europe Gallery 29th August 2015 niekvand In the evening of 28 August 2015 a flight of four F-22 Raptors from the Tyndall based 95th Fighter Squadron arrived at Spangdahlem Airbase in Germany for what will be the F-22s first training deployment in Europe. The Raptors will train with U.S. services and allied air forces through mid-September. This deployment is part of European Reassurance Initiative, which saw U.S. based A-10s, F-16s and F-15s deploy to Europe in order to train with allies. Obviously, this is also a show of force against the Russian aggression in Eastern Europe (even though this is not said with so many words). One of the four F-22 Raptors landing at Spangdahlem’s Runway05. Earlier on, a 60th AMW C-17 Globemaster III arrived with the 60 airmen and associated equipment who will support this deployment. During the coming weeks, the Raptors will combat air training will be performed with F-16s and F15s, in order to see how this 5th generation aircraft performs in the European Theatre and if all the infrastructure is suited as well. TABOR11 is about to touch down at Spangdahlem Airbase in Germany. The F-22 Raptors show their distinctive shape upon arrival at Spangdahlem Airbase “This deployment advances our airpower evolution and demonstrates our resolve and commitment to European safety and security.” said General Frank Gorenc, U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa commander. It is not yet know which other airbases will be visited during this deployment, but there are rumours about Lakenheath and Eastern Europe. Time will tell….. F-22GermanyRaptorSpangdahlemTyndallUSAF 52nd Fighter Wing F-16 Crash in Germany A U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter aircraft with the callsign Rocky2, assigned to the 480th Fighter Squadron from Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, crashed Aug. 11, 2015, at approximately 9:38 a.m. near Engelmannsreuth in the county of Bayreuth, Germany. The accident happened during a training flight at U.S. Army Garrison Bavaria in Grafenwoehr, Bavaria, Germany. The crash location near Engelmannsreuth, Germany. (c) Google Maps The aircraft did not have any live ordnance loaded, only four 25 pound practice bombs were carried. The cause of the accident is currently under investigation. New pics of crashed F16-jet in Bavaria/#Germany http://t.co/xCdRZGBTV3 (in German) h/t @Muschelschloss pic.twitter.com/jmp3RMcgWf — Christian Thiels (@ThielsChristian) 11 augustus 2015 The picture below shows the aircraft concerned, 91-0366/SP, in better condition during the 2011 Paris Air Show at Le Bourget airport. U.S. Air Force F-16C 91-0366/SP during the 2011 Paris Air Show at Le Bourget. 480th Fighter Squadron52nd Fighter WingaccidentBavariaBayernBayreuthcrashEngelmannreuthF-16fighterfighter crashFighting FalconGermanyGrafenwoehrGrafenwöhrLockheed Martinpilotplane crashSpangdahlemU.S. Air ForceUSAFUSAFE Warthogs at Nordhorn Range Gallery 9th June 2015 niekvand Some action pictures of A-10 Thunderbolt IIs at the Nordhorn Air to Ground Range. The Nordhorn Range is a military aviation bombing and gunnery range to the east of nearby Nordhorn, in Lower Saxony, Germany. This is one of the few gunnery ranges in Western-Europe where A-10 pilots can use the mighty 30mm GAU-8 Avenger cannon. These A-10’s from the 355th Fighter Wing were at the time deployed to Spangdahlem Airbase for the US Airforce’s Theatre Security Package. This was a response to Russia’s agressions towards Ukraine. After a couple of weeks in Germany the A-10’s moved further east to have exercises with other NATO countries. 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__label__cc	0.689686	0.310314	Central American women fleeing violence experience more trauma after seeking asylum Many of these female asylum-seekers have already been abused before they cross the border.AP Photo/Gregory Bull Laurie C. Heffron, St. Edward’s University The number of Central American women who make difficult, often harrowing, journeys to the United States to flee domestic and gang violence is rising. I’m a social science researcher and a social worker who has interviewed hundreds of women after they were detained by immigration authorities for my research about the relationship between violence against women and migration. I find that most female asylum seekers experience trauma, abuse and violence before they cross the U.S. border seeking asylum. What these women go through while detained by Customs and Border Protection or Immigration and Customs Enforcement can take an additional physical, social and emotional toll. What they’re escaping Most Central American asylum-seekers come from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. These three countries are among the most dangerous places in the world to be female, with some of the world’s highest murder rates, including for women and girls. There are few repercussions for the perpetrators. As they make their way north, these women are often subjected to sexual violence or held hostage. They may also fall victim to human trafficking – which could entail being made to cook and clean for other migrants or forced into prostitution – on their journeys. Amid rising levels of violence, the number of Guatemalans, Salvadorans and Hondurans who have sought asylum here has increased almost eight-fold between 2012 and 2017 to about 107,000 according to the Department of Homeland Security. The government does not disclose how many women are apprehended. But there are clear signs that the number of female migrants is growing. The roughly 189,000 people who arrived with their families, rather than on their own as adults or minors, whom U.S. immigration officials stopped along the border with Mexico during the six months ending in March 2019 were mostly mothers and their children. In contrast, only 75,622 people arrived with their relatives in all of 2017. ICE is detaining more than 50,000 immigrants at any given time. Most detainees are men, although the percentage of women and girls, and specifically asylum-seeking women and girls, is rising. Detaining asylum-seekers The right to seek asylum in the United States due to persecution or fear of persecution back home stems from the 1951 Refugee Convention and U.S. immigration laws. The Trump administration has responded by detaining more asylum-seekers, a policy it casts as a deterrence strategy. Once apprehended, women may remain detained for months. In some cases they are detained indefinitely as they pursue their claims. New guidance from Attorney General William Barr could lead to more long-term detention for asylum seekers. In June 2018, former Attorney General Sessions announced that people fleeing domestic violence or gang violence would no longer be eligible for asylum in the U.S. A federal judge struck down that policy change six months later. According to many studies by scholars like psychologists Katy Robjant and Kalina Brabeck, locking immigrants up can damage their mental health by increasing risks of depression, post-traumatic stress and anxiety. The effects can last years and even a lifetime. For parents, the damage extends beyond detention and may harm children of the detained. Because detention relies on control, coercion and containment, it inherently makes frightened people more fearful, disrupts sleep and restricts access to medical, legal and social services. A Guatemalan woman, waiting at a migrant shelter in Tijuana before applying for asylum in the U.S., on April 12, 2019. AP Photo/Gregory Bull Experiencing more trauma During the past two years, together with psychologists Gabriela Hurtado and Josephine Serrata, I sought to understand and document what immigrant women who have experienced violence and abuse need while they are detained and once they are released. Many detained women say they have been abused while being held by U.S. immigration authorities in what appear to be inhumane conditions marked by incidents of sexual harassment and sexual assault. The Department of Homeland Security itself has documented dangers that include the provision of food that isn’t safe to eat, like moldy bread and rotten meat, and delayed medical care. There are signs of threats and intimidation as well. A woman I’ll call Adelia told my research team that when she asked an immigration official how much money she would have to pay to be released, she was told “stop asking me, or I’ll raise the amount.” Investigative media outlets, immigrant rights advocates and researchers have documented that ICE detainees often face threats, insults, humiliation and stress brought on by constantly changing rules and expectations. ICE itself has disclosed that 28 women had miscarriages while in detention during the 2017 and 2018 fiscal years. I have heard directly and through media reports that these immigration detention centers sometimes isolate detained women, either in response to perceived mental health issues or as punishment, leaving them unable to interact with one another, their own children or the volunteer lawyers who are trying to help them. These practices echo and exacerbate survivors’ experiences with past abuse and violence. That is, detention settings may resemble control tactics used by abusers, traffickers or other perpetrators, compounding previous trauma. A previously detained woman I’ll call Lourdes described what she experienced as dehumanizing. “You feel like an animal, as if you aren’t worth anything,” she explained. One problem is how these facilities are set up. Sandra, another former detainee, spent more than a month in the Karnes County Residential Center in Karnes City, Texas. Having heard it would be shelter for families, she and her daughter were surprised by the barbed wire and razor wire surrounding the facility. “At the entrance, there were nice glass doors that said, ‘Karnes Residential,’ but that was just a facade,” Sandra said. “It is a jail, a jail for families, families like mine that don’t have anyone in the United States, who come just to stay alive and because they want to see their children alive and well, for things to be better in the future.” Lasting repercussions We found that the problems don’t end once women are released from detention. Rather, survivors face considerable immediate and long-term needs and risks. Right after being released from detention, they may simply be left at a bus station with little or no money, supplies or information about reuniting with relatives. This leaves communities across the country scrambling to fill gaps. Many of these women, understandably, need help finding medical care, counseling, jobs, lawyers and social services. The rough start they get off to increases their risks of becoming homeless and having trouble making ends meet. It also reduces their ability to pay back the thousands of dollars they borrow to escape violence and to cover their bonds – money the authorities collect upon a detainee’s release that is similar to bail in criminal cases. What might work better? Federal agencies such the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, as well as advocacy organizations such as National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health and Casa de Esperanza, propose approaches that aid healing. They oppose the current detainment practices that seclude, isolate and restrict the ability of survivors of sexual violence to move around freely and to make their own decisions. Immigrant rights advocates and mental health professionals argue that asylum-seekers should not be held in detention centers. Community-based alternatives would cost less and be more humane. They also advocate for training staff to work with people who have experienced trauma as the victims of violence and coercion. Laurie C. Heffron, Assistant Professor of Social Work, St. Edward’s University This entry was posted in #MeToo, Corruption, Government, Health Care, Human Rights, Immigration, International Agreements, National Security vs Police State, Racism, Refugee Issues, Social Justice, Women's Issues and tagged #MeToo, 1951 Refugee Convention, Atrocities, Civil Rights, Corruption, Department of Homeland Security, Domestic Abuse, Domestic Violence, Economics, El Salvador, Gabriela Hurtado, Guatemala, Health Care, Honduras, Human rights, human trafficking, Immigrant detention centers, immigration, International Agreements, Jeff Sessions, Josephine Serrata, Kalina Brabeck, Karnes County Residential Center, Katy Robjant, Racism, refugees, Security, sexual assault, sexual harassment, social justice, William Barr, Women's Issues on May 5, 2019 by MNgranny. About MNgranny MNgranny has been an activist since the age of 17. After earning a BA in Mass Communications and enjoying a 30 year career, she is now disabled and dedicates her life to that activism. Her experiences include volunteering in community service organizations and taking leadership roles throughout her academic and professional life. She is also a survivor of rape and domestic violence, a published author and a master naturalist. She is also a professional member of the United States Press Association. She has focused for the last several years and specializes in Kurdish history, culture and politics. View all posts by MNgranny → ← On #WorldPressFreedomDay, a Reminder: Only 9% of Humanity Lives in Nations That Respect Reporters’ Rights Despite International Law Which Would Make It Illegal, Pompeo Claims US Attack on Venezuela “Would Be Lawful” → Time limit is exhausted. Please reload CAPTCHA. 9 + = fifteen	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26074
__label__wiki	0.739266	0.739266	March 5, 2019 Paul Rosen (Reuters) – Uber Technologies Inc is not criminally liable in a March 2018 crash in Tempe, Arizona, in which one of the company’s self-driving cars struck and killed a pedestrian, prosecutors said on Tuesday. FILE PHOTO: National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigators examine a self-driving Uber vehicle involved in a fatal accident in Tempe, Arizona, U.S., March 20, 2018. National Transportation Safety Board/Handout via REUTERS The Yavapai County Attorney said in a letter made public that there was “no basis” for criminal liability for Uber, but that the conduct of the back-up driver, Rafael Vasquez, should be referred to the Tempe police for additional investigation. Police said last year that Vasquez was streaming a television show on a phone until about the time of the crash and called the incident “entirely avoidable.” An Uber spokeswoman declined to comment on the letter. Vasquez could face charges of vehicular manslaughter, according to a police report last June. Vasquez has not previously commented and could not immediately be reached on Tuesday. The Maricopa County Attorney, whose jurisdiction includes Tempe, referred the case last year to another office because of a conflict. In Tuesday’s letter Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Sullivan Polk said its investigation concluded that “the collision video, as it displays, likely does not accurately depict the events that occurred.” The letter said an “expert analysis” is needed to “closely match what (and when) the person sitting in the driver’s seat of the vehicle would or should have seen that night given the vehicle’s speed, lighting conditions, and other relevant factors.” The National Transportation Safety Board and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration are still investigating the fatal crash. The Uber car was in autonomous mode at the time of the crash, but the company, like other self-driving car developers, requires a back-up driver inside to intervene when the autonomous system fails or a tricky driving situation occurs. The Tempe police report said Vasquez repeatedly looked down and not at the road, glancing up a half second before the car hit Elaine Herzberg, 49, who was crossing the street at night. Police obtained records from Hulu, an online service for streaming TV shows and movies, which showed Vasquez’s account was playing the TV talent show “The Voice” for about 42 minutes on the night of the crash, ending at 9:59 p.m., which “coincides with the approximate time of the collision,” the report said. The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office did not immediately comment on Tuesday. In December, Uber resumed limited self-driving car testing on public roads in Pittsburgh, nine months after it suspended the program following the Arizona crash. The company is now testing with two employees in the front seat and more strictly monitor safety employees. The company also said last year it made improvements to the vehicles’ self-driving software. In March 2018, authorities in Arizona suspended Uber’s ability to test its self-driving cars. Uber also voluntarily halted its entire autonomous car testing program. The NTSB has said Uber had disabled a manufacturer-installed automatic emergency braking system in the 2017 Volvo XC90 while the car was under computer control in order to “reduce the potential for erratic vehicle behavior.” Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Bill Berkrot and Grant McCool Previous Article← Microsoft expands political security service to 12 European countries Next ArticleBritain's Hunt promises 'doctrine of deterrence' against cyberattacks on democracy →	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26077
__label__wiki	0.856179	0.856179	Club TV HD started on IntelSat 20 This is a fresh new channel started on a fresh new transponder on Intelsat 20 located @ 68.5 East Satellite technical and other details of Club TV HD are follows. Intelsat 20 (IS-20) @ 68.5° East 3894 V 2500 3/4 About English Club TV English Club TV is a TV channel for those who study English. The channels content consists of documentaries, feature films, cartoons and music videos, which are adapted for learning English. English Club TV programmes are broadcast in a special order. They are divided into 6-hour blocks. Each 6-hour block consists of several mini-blocks that target different audiences with programmes on various topics. Each programme follows its own structure and delivery method. English Club TV creates its programmes following the main principles of the communicative approach. Each educational programme is a mini-lesson. It starts with presenting new material (vocabulary, grammar points) following by vivid examples, exercises and tests that enable the viewers to practise and make sure they understand the material. All programmes include some of the following learning activities: watching and listening, answering the questions, filling in the gaps, multiple choice, matching, reading followed by a self-check, and repetition after the speaker. All programming content is divided into different themes and language knowledge levels, from elementary to advanced.English Club TV HD is a high-definition simulcast version of English Club TV channel. Watching English Club TV and English Club TV HD 15 minutes a day during a year, viewers will learn 2000 new words and 100 grammar structures. The English Club TV channel is available via Astra4A and Measat3A satellites which cover the European, Asian and Africa continents. As of June, 2015, every day more than 16 000 000 subscribers of more than 400 operators watch English Club TV and English Club TV channels in 73 countries around the world. English Club TV content is available through OTT, VoD, DTH, IPTV and mobile platforms.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26078
__label__wiki	0.807398	0.807398	Review: ‘City of Ghosts’ By Daniel Glassman • Published May 2nd, 2017Comments City of Ghosts (USA, 91 min.) Dir. Matthew Heineman Programme: Special Presentations (Canadian Premiere) City of Ghosts makes a strong case for being the definitive documentary of Syrian Civil War to date. A portrait of the citizen journalist group Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS), directed by Matthew Heineman of Cartel Land fame (and executive-produced by Alex Gibney, whose smooth narrative style City of Ghosts successfully emulates), it offers both an involving look at a group of courageous activists and a useful overview of the wider shape of the conflict to date. It’s what The White Helmets should have been. In 2011, inspired by the Arab Spring revolutionary wave and, more locally, the imprisonment and torture of a group of boys in the southern town of Daraa who had spray painted anti-government messages, people across Syria began protesting against the Assad regime. These protests extended to the sleepy northern town of Raqqa, where the inhabitants, including those who founded RBSS, quickly overcame their apolitical nature derived from decades of dictatorship-enforced calm and joined in the demonstrations. Into this chaos stepped ISIS, who took over Raqqa in 2013 and made it their de facto capital, subduing the population through their trademark spectacular violence: public executions in the central square and glossy action movie-style propaganda videos. The Assad regime reacted with air strikes; in the words of an RBSS activist, using the presence of hundreds of ISIS terrorists to bomb thousands of civilians. This is the state of the city today. RBSS reported on ISIS’ atrocities from the beginning, and continues to do so today; all of the footage in Raqqa in City of Ghosts —much of it ghastly— was shot by RBSS. Several of their members have been killed by ISIS—shot or beheaded; the father of one of RBSS’ founders is murdered in one of ISIS’ propaganda videos. This has driven many of RBSS’ members into exile, and it is in safehouses in Turkey, Germany and France that Heineman finds them, uploading images and videos from their colleagues still in Raqqa. Even in exile they aren’t safe; the group’s father figure, Naji al Jerf, is murdered in Turkey, driving the group to Germany, where they continue to face threats from ISIS and far-right nationalists alike. The group’s bravery in the face of such violence is truly amazing. What’s fascinating is that even though ISIS is the immediate threat and thus the focus of the group’s reporting, spokesman Abdul Aziz Al-Hamza, who was at the Hot Docs Big Ideas screening with director Heineman and the Toronto Star’s foreign affairs reporter Michelle Shephard, insists that the real enemy is still the Assad regime. RBSS members even voice sympathy with those who join ISIS as a misguided resistance against Assad. This narrative and analysis more or less jells with the ones given in books like Burning Country by Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami and Syria Speaks, an overview of art and journalism in the conflict. It’s a contentious story but Heineman and RBSS’s insider documentary access make a compelling case for it. There are a few elisions, of course. As with, apparently, all other Syria docs, women are more or less invisible—a fact that can only speak to the patriarchal attitudes seemingly equally shared among all sides of the conflict. The group’s funding remains a bit of a question mark, addressed only in a TV interview where they mention nameless NGOs. (Their website also sports a big red “DONATE” button.) And the group’s apparently tense relationship with the region’s would-be liberators, the Kurdish YPG, goes unmentioned. More details on these points would have been appreciated. So City of Ghosts may not tell the whole story, but it tells a lot of it. If you’re going to watch one film on the Syrian Civil War, make it this one. City of Ghosts screens: -Saturday, May 6 at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema at 9:30 PM -Sunday, May 7 at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema at 12:45 PM For a second take on City of Ghosts, read Jason Gorber’s review. Review: ‘Memory in Khaki’ Review: ‘69 Minutes of 86 Days’ Truth, Lies and Alt-Facts: The Syrian Civil War Review: ‘Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS’	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26085
__label__wiki	0.699702	0.699702	Home / International News / Hundreds Of Dominicans Queue To Buy Food; Leave The Island People queue outside deep-water harbour, in Roseau, hoping for an opportunity to leave storm-ravaged Dominica. Photo credit: CMC. Hundreds Of Dominicans Queue To Buy Food; Leave The Island in International News October 6, 2017 0 By Kenton X. Chance CMC Caribbean Reporter ROSEAU, Dominica, October 6, 2017 (CMC) – Almost three weeks after Hurricane Maria decimated their island, Dominicans were, yesterday, queuing for hours for an opportunity to buy food or board a vessel leaving the island. There were also long lines outside the gates to the deep-water harbour at Woodbridge Bay, where persons had gathered in the hope of being able to sail out of the island. Among them was Sheba Belle of Giraudel, a community about 15 miles south of the capital. “I am sending my grandson and my daughter to Guadeloupe, because things are bad here. No water, no light and I want her to go to school. Most importantly, I want her to go to school,” she told the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC). Belle is hoping that the concession given by the French would work out for her 16-year-old daughter and her 7-year-old grandson, so that they can continue their education in the French overseas department. She, however, noted that she is hoping that they can stay there for a maximum of three months. “There is no school, there is no water, no light, and the children, I don’t think they can handle that too well. I will stay back to build, but I am sending my kids to be a little better, a little more comfortable.” Belle was fortunate in that the tickets, on which the children would travel, were bought in Guadeloupe, thereby guaranteeing them passage on the ferry. However, Belle, a teacher, is not sure when she will return to work, although some fifth form students have returned to class, ahead of their examinations, which begin next May. In addition to her teaching job, Belle and her husband are farmers, and that sector has also suffered significant losses. “Our green houses are all damaged, because a tree fell on them. We only have one standing, but that has no plastic. So that part of our livelihood that gave a little extra money, that is gone, for now. “I work for the government, so I wait and see what’s happening with the teaching job.” Belle was, however, blessed in that there was no damage to her house. “Just a lot, a lot of water. I had to be sweeping water all night long, but my roof stayed on,” she told CMC. Fortunately, she also has enough food and water because she had prepared for Hurricane Irma, which did not hit Dominica but left significant damage in the Leeward Islands. After Dominica was spared the worst of Hurricane Irma, and with Hurricane Maria following shortly afterwards, Belle and her family topped up their supplies. Belle also got some relief from the government, which lasted a few days. Her daughter, Shelise Belle, had mixed feeling about leaving for Guadeloupe. “It might be for selfish reasons, but I cannot deal with Dominica. College is closed and I want to continue my school. No electricity, cold baths every day. I just want a change. And I was vegan before the hurricane and now I am eating meat and I don’t really like that,” she said. Also waiting to leave was Nadia Riviere, a resident of Bath Estate, in south Roseau. She left the country, one week earlier, to take her children out and was returning to Barbados to connect to Grenada, where she is going for graduation from her master’s degree program. She, however, was not in the long line with all the other persons, but she said it was still difficult. Riviere returned to Dominica on Monday after a 14-hour trip on the Barbados Coast Guard and was hoping to make the return leg to Bridgetown. “Honestly, things are very tough. I did not believe that my children would have made it, so I took them out. It gets worse every day because you have no electricity, no water. Somebody must stay to rebuild, so I am here. But if I really had a choice, I would have done it myself, like all the others leaving,” she told CMC. The hurricane damaged part of the roof of Riviere’s house and deposited a lot of mud inside. “I am not too sure where the mud came from, but I haven’t really completed half of the job, but you have to do what you have to do,” said Riviere, who said she would return to Dominica on October 14, once she can get a flight or boat back. She paused when asked if she is optimistic about the future in her country, even as it was yet to recover from the devastation of Tropical Storm Erika, which struck in August 2015. “Arrrhm. Well, yeah. But it will take some time. It will take a lot of time. But we are resilient people so I expect us to bounce back fairly quickly,” she told CMC. At S-Mart, a supermarket and hardware store on Goodwill Road, a few hundred yards across the road from the harbour, there was a long line of persons hoping to buy items. Among them was Ruthann Beaupierre, a middle-aged woman, who began queuing around 7 a.m. (local time), two hours before the business was scheduled to open. “I am hoping to buy garbage bags, sugar and personal stuff I need for my home,” said the woman who lives with her daughter and grandchildren. Her house was severely damaged by the hurricane. “Roof gone, windows gone and my personal belongings that I had at home are damaged. Everything is gone,” Beaupierre told CMC. She said that it has not been easy to get basic items like food and water since the storm. “I saw some foreigners, I don’t know who they are and when they passed, they will ask do you have any water, and when you say no, they will leave you two little bottles of water.” She said her grandchildren are “trying”. “We need food, we need food. That is all,” a woman in the queue says, as a man shouted “after nine” to the staff of the establishment, an indication that it had gone past the time when the business was scheduled to open. The woman, who did not give her name, told CMC that she was hoping to buy rice, flour, oil, “those kinds of basic things and water”. She said it has been very difficult for her to get those basic items. “I haven’t received anything as yet. Up to now I haven’t received anything so I come to purchase today in the supermarket,” said the woman, who is from Goodwill Roseau and has been queuing since 7 p.m. and provides for four other persons in her home. The roof of her home was damaged, but, unlike many Dominicans, she has running water at her home. “We boil it and we drink it.” Another woman, who had moved to the front of the queue to see what was the delay, shouted to CMC – “Where is all the food and water that came in? I have a sick father with concern and he has a catheter! Where is the food and water? I need food and water for my dad.” The lady, who later identified herself as Cherie Angol, later told CMC that her father has prostate cancer and her community, Stockfarm, just on the outskirts of the capital, has not received any aid since the storm. Angol said, along with her sister, they also went to the outlet on Wednesday to try to buy supplies. However, the rush was such that the police officers providing security discharged their firearms to try to bring order. “When I heard the gunshot, I got a terrible headache, I just backed out… I just decided to go home.” She said the management was allowing 10 people into the supermarket and five into the wholesale, at a time, and were only allowing persons to buy a maximum of two of any items. During his daily media briefing, yesterday, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit again urged residents to be patient, noting the challenges of getting aid to 70,000 people in conditions like those left by Hurricane Maria. 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__label__cc	0.604246	0.395754	Wouter Buckinx Since 2006, Wouter Buckinx is co-founder and managing partner at Python Predictions. Wouter is a master in applied economics, an advanced master in marketing analysis, and concluded his PhD in the domain of predicting individual customer behavior at Ghent University in 2005. He is clearly customer oriented, and an expert in delivering tailor-made, robust solutions. Follow Wouter on Twitter Geert Verstraeten Since 2006, Geert Verstraeten is co-founder and managing partner at Python Predictions. He is a master in applied economics, an advanced master in marketing analysis, and concluded his PhD in predictive analytics in 2005. At Python Predictions, Geert focuses on general management, project management and training. His ambition is to coach data scientists and their managers to become successful with data science and prediction. Follow Geert on Twitter Kristof Coussement In 2009, Kristof joined Python Predictions as a Research Associate. He is Full Professor of Marketing Analytics, Director of the Expertise Center for Marketing Analytics and Academic Director of MSc in Big Data Analytics for Business at IÉSEG School of Management (Lille\|Paris, France). At Python Predictions, Kristof is responsible for fine-tuning existing methodologies and setting up innovative research projects. Follow Kristof on Twitter Pieter Van Bouwel Pieter is a senior analyst at Python Predictions, after joining us in 2010. Pieter is a master in applied economics and an advanced master in marketing analysis. He has built extensive domain experience in a wide range of industries, working on diverse analytical projects in predictive analytics and process mining. At Python Predictions, Pieter has the role of analytical expert and is mainly involved in project management. Jan Muermans Jan is senior analytics consultant at Python Predictions. Jan joined our team in August 2015 after starting his career in FMCG, where he obtained strong business understanding. At Python Predictions, he built modern data science and analytical project management skills throughout projects in a wide range of industries. Today, Jan mainly works as project manager, data science team lead or analytics translator. He has a solid track record for making sure his projects create real value. Klaas Van den Heede Klaas joined Python Predictions in 2016 and combines a master in bio-engineering with an advanced master in economics. After working abroad in the non-profit sector, he has built experience in advanced analytics and predictive modeling for several years within the financial sector and in fundraising. At Python Predictions, he will be working mainly on projects in the telecommunications industry. Adrien Houdart Adrien joined Python Predictions as a data scientist in June 2017. He acquired his master of Management science at the Solvay Brussels School and his master of Actuarial science at University of Brussels. Adrien started his career as an actuarial consultant, developing skills in financial modeling and forecasting techniques. At Python Predictions, Adrien is mainly working on data science projects in the banking and insurance sector. Elien Catthoor Elien joined Python Predictions as a Talent Manager in July 2017. She holds a master’s degree in educational science from Ghent University, and gained five years of experience in human resource management before joining. At Python Predictions, Elien’s main responsibilities are retention of talent and recruitment of new team members. Besides this, Elien is also in charge of general office management. Anthony Coppens Anthony joined Python Predictions as Data Scientist in August 2017. He holds a Master in Electromechanical Engineering and obtained an additional Master in General Management. Before Python Predictions, he was mainly active in the recycling sector, public sector and health sector as a business consultant. At Python Predictions, Anthony has gained experience in segmentation analysis, predictive analytics, process mining and forecasting projects, mainly within the telecommunications industry and utilities sector. Jan Beníšek Jan joined Python Predictions as a Data Scientist in October 2017. Before joining Python Predictions, Jan has gained several years of experience in banking and a consumer protection organization, where he was working as a Data Scientist on projects involving Advanced Analytics and Business Intelligence. He is currently also finishing his masters degree in Statistics at KU Leuven. Matthias Roels Matthias joined Python Predictions in October 2018. He holds a master’s degree in physics and a PhD in mathematics, both from the University of Antwerp. Before Python Predictions, Matthias was active as a Data scientist for a startup company specialised in Recommender Systems. Jennifer Roelens Jennifer joined Python Predictions as Data Scientist in January 2019. She holds a Master in Earth Observation and obtained a PhD in BioScience Engineering at the University of Leuven. During this time, she developed a first experience in machine learning and predictive modelling techniques for analyzing large spatial data sets. Benoît Vandekerkhove Benoît joined Python Predictions as Data Scientist in February 2019. He holds a Master’s degree in Applied Mathematics specialized in Statistical Engineering from the University of Nantes, France. Before joining Python Predictions, Benoît completed an internship where he developed his first working experience in deep learning for image comparison, machine learning and cloud technologies.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26087
__label__cc	0.713886	0.286114	Campaign Manager Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Buy Votes in Donna School Board Election A campaign manager pleaded guilty today for agreeing with others to pay voters to vote in a Donna school board election, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson and Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. Five campaign workers have already pleaded guilty to vote-buying in this election. Francisco “Frankie” Garcia, 47, of Donna, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to buy votes and one count of vote-buying, all during the Nov. 2012 general election. According to a factual basis read with Garcia’s plea, a general election was held on or about Nov. 6, 2012, in Donna, which included candidates for the presidential election, as well as candidates for various state, county and local offices, including members of the Donna School Board. Garcia worked as a campaign manager for four school board candidates, and he and others agreed to pay voters with cash and cocaine to vote for those candidates. Garcia is scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 24, 2015, before U.S. District Judge Ricardo Hinojosa. Previous post: Harris County Arrests Dec. 1 Next post: Harris County Arrests Dec. 2	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26089
__label__wiki	0.958586	0.958586	Saudi football chief quits, eyes Asia's top job Saudi Football Federation chief Adel Ezzat, seen in this file photo, resigned on Saturday while expressing his intention to run for the presidency of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). RIYADH — Saudi Football Federation chief Adel Ezzat resigned on Saturday, expressing his intention to run for the presidency of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). "I presented to (Saudi sports authority chief) Turki Al-Sheikh... my resignation from my position as of today," Ezzat told a Saudi sports broadcaster. "I will begin preparing... for elections of the Asian Football Confederation, which will be held next year." Ezzat's deputy Nawaf Al-Timyat has been named the Saudi federation's interim chief until fresh elections are held. Ezzat was last week elected as the first president of the South West Asian Football Federation, a new regional bloc of federations comprising 14 nations. — AFP	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26092
__label__wiki	0.64748	0.64748	Blithewold Mansion & Gardens Blithewold Mansion & Gardens, located at 101 Ferry Road (1.5 miles south of State Route 114) in Bristol, Rhode Island (zip code 02809-0716), is an early twentieth century summer estate built in 1908 overlooking Narragansett Bay. Majorie Van Wickle Lyon, daughter of the estate's founders, bequeathed the property to the Heritage Trust of Rhode Island in 1976. Blithewold Mansion & Gardens is the former summer residence of Pennsylvania coal baron Augustus Van Wickle, and was built in the style of a 17th century English country manor house. The estate features a 45-room, stone and stucco, turn-of-the century mansion overlooking Narragansett Bay and 33 acres of historic landscape. The mansion contains original furnishings and floral arrangements portraying a gracious turn-of-the-century lifestyle much as it originally was in its early years -- with guided mansion and grounds tours Tuesday to Sunday and most holidays from 15 April to 1 October, 10:00am to 5:00pm (every 45 minutes). Grounds are open year-round (with the mansion also being open during the Christmas season), and the estate is a beautiful site for group functions (a wedding for that evening was being planned on the date that S&L had visited) and has wheelchair access. There is a museum store which carries a beautiful wood-carved magnet, and there is an admission fee to the mansion and grounds which cannot be discounted in any way, shape, or form. Events are scheduled year-round, and picnicking is permitted. The Garden's historic, exotic landscaped grounds, gardens, and exotic plants -- created by New York's John DeWolf -- has changed little from the estate's founding in 1895 and has been maintained in its original turn-of-the-century design. Located seaside on Narragansett Bay with beautiful vistas, Blithewold's arboretum is one of the very few bordering salt water. Of interest is a 90-foot giant sequoia, or the Sequoiadendron giganteum, native to California and is thought to be tallest east of California. The Bamboo grove of Pyllostachys auerosulceta is the largest in the Northeast. A pamphlet identifies the many tree species along a self-guiding trail. The average time it took us to walk through the aboretum -- visited on the morning of 5/30/99 -- was 90 minutes, and the best seasons for viewing are Spring and Fall. The various gardens include Rose, Rock, Greenhouse, and Water Garden. There are special cutting collections. The mission of Blithewold Mansion & Gardens is to preserve and maintain the condition and character of the estate in accordance with professional standards; to foster public enjoyment of its aboretum, grounds, and buildings; to further the understanding of its cultural and historic heritage; and to maintain a balance between site use and preservation. From here you may continue on a tour of all the mansions we have visited within Rhode Island in the order that we have seen them, go to an overview of all those RI mansions, go back to our Rhode Island page, or return to the beginning of S&L's Adventures Emporium.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26093
__label__wiki	0.81911	0.81911	Home / New Underwood Post / Sami Jo Pool celebrates 15 years, honors life Sami Jo Pool celebrates 15 years, honors life Mon, 07/03/2017 - 4:56pm admin Chastity Julson A vital part of the New Underwood community will celebrate its 15th anniversary of being in operation later this summer. The Sami Jo Memorial Pool was officially opened in the late summer of 2002. Now a source of happy memories for many children in the area, the pool was birthed out of the heartache of losing a child. Tammy Bills was traveling with her mother and her 10-year-old daughter, Sami Jo, on July 27, 1998, when they lost control of the Ford Bronco they were driving because of washboards on the Hereford Road. The Bronco careened into the ditch, rolling several times. Sami Jo was ejected and perished. After the initial shock and grief of losing Sami Jo hit her family, (Tammy, stepfather, Roger Bills, two older brothers Tyler and Riley, and twin one-year-old siblings Wyatt and Keoni) decided that they wanted to perpetuate Sami Jo’s memory by contributing to the wellbeing of other children in the area in a way that would further unite the New underwood community. Prior to her death, Sami Jo had enjoyed swimming lessons at the YMCA in Rapid City. The idea of a swimming pool in New Underwood was born. By 2001, plans were well underway. Under the fiery motivation and dedication of Tammy, a committee of interested people had been formed. This committee consisted of community members dedicated to raising the funds needed for the pool. Auctions and meals brought in the finances, while donated labor and materials were pledged to make the pool a true community effort. It was a family affair as well as a community one: Tyler, donated his engineering expertise in the plans for the pool and locker areas. Though it had been Tammy’s hope that the pool would be in operation in 2001, 2002 found them still working to prepare for the groundbreaking. The pool had originally been slated to sit directly behind the city hall. This was changed to the site of the former lumberyard to the east of the community center. Finally, in April 2002, the land had been purchased, and a groundbreaking ceremony occurred. What happened over the next few months was a testimony to the spirit of cooperation frequently seen in New Underwood. Dozens of volunteers, sometimes 40 at a time, came to help with everything from pouring the concrete to painting. Documents from the time record that the concrete was hauled in wheelbarrows and five gallon buckets. By the time the project was finished, the $40,000 raised had been stretched to cover the cost of the swimming pool. Operation of the swimming pool was delegated to the city of New Underwood, lifeguards were trained at the YMCA, and the pool opened. On its first day in operation, Wyatt and Keoni, played in the pool alongside some of Sami Jo’s friends and classmates, now in their early teen years. Initially, the City of New Underwood was in charge of setting the fee for swimming, and season passes were available. Currently, due to donations from area residents and businesses, the pool can be used free of charge by area residents. In addition to open swim times, there are also family swim sessions and adult swim sessions. Swimming lessons are also offered. Sami Jo would be 30 years old in December if she were still alive. Despite the 19 years that have passed, Tammy admits that there are still little things that trigger memories. For those who knew Sami Jo, her memory is honored and her life continues to touch the lives of others in her community as new memories are made, one swim session at a time.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26102
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__label__cc	0.73496	0.26504	Manage Notes Traveller's Diarrhoea Authored by Dr Mary Harding, Reviewed by Dr Laurence Knott \| Last edited 10 Jun 2016 \| Certified by The Information Standard This article is for Medical Professionals Professional Reference articles are designed for health professionals to use. They are written by UK doctors and based on research evidence, UK and European Guidelines. You may find the Traveller's Diarrhoea article more useful, or one of our other health articles. See separate Gastroenteritis in Adults and Older Children, Gastroenteritis in Children, Childhood Diarrhoea, Salmonella Gastroenteritis, Campylobacter Enteritis, Shigellosis, Norovirus, Rotavirus and Rotavirus Vaccination, Giardiasis, Escherichia Coli O157 articles. Traveller's diarrhoea is a general term applied to the common problem of diarrhoeal illness experienced by travellers, usually in the first week or two of a stay in a foreign environment. It encompasses diarrhoea caused by numerous enteropathogens (bacteria, parasites and viruses) picked up from contaminated food and water in the new, foreign environment. It remains a major public health problem with significant morbidity. Traveller's diarrhoea has been defined as "an increase in frequency of bowel movements to three or more loose stools per day during a trip abroad, usually to a less economically developed region".[1] Epidemiology[1] It is estimated that 20-60% of travellers will be affected by traveller's diarrhoea around the world. It particularly affects those who travel from industrialised countries to developing countries, especially tropical and semi-tropical destinations. The risk and aetiology are determined by the place of destination. The pathogen is often not determined but, where it is, the most common cause is one of a number of bacteria. Globally, enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli is the most common bacterial cause, with Campylobacter jejuni and Salmonella and Shigella species also often culprits. Rotaviruses and noroviruses are also common causes. Protozoa such as Giardia lamblia or Cyclospora spp. are more likely to cause persistent diarrhoea, lasting over two weeks. Information about level of risk in individual destinations is available on the National Travel Health Network and Centre (NaTHNaC) website.[2] High-risk areas: South and Southeast Asia, Central America, West and North Africa, South America, East Africa. (C. jejuni infection is more common in Southeast Asia, whereas E. coli is more common in South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America. Norovirus is common in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa, and parasitic infection is more common in South and Southeast Asia.) Intermediate-risk areas: Russia, China, Caribbean, South Africa. Low-risk areas: North America, Western Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Other than geography, other risk factors include: Age less than 6 years. Nature of trip (certain types of trip carry higher risk - eg, cruise ship holidays, holiday resorts, backpacking). Taking acid suppressant medication: H2-receptor antagonists or proton pump inhibitors (PPIs).[3] Abnormal upper gastrointestinal anatomy. Genetic factors. These will be, to some extent, consistent with the pathogen responsible. Most pathogens cause mild self-limiting diarrhoea for less than 72 hours. Diarrhoea lasting for longer than 14 days suggests more unusual organisms and testing for Giardia, Entamoeba, Cyclospora and Cryptosporidium species is required. Bloody diarrhoea (dysentery) occurs more commonly with some pathogens (Salmonella, Shigella and Campylobacter species). Some pain may accompany infection with Campylobacter spp. Diarrhoea caused by enterotoxigenic E. coli is usually watery and profuse. It may be preceded by abdominal pains, nausea and general malaise. G. lamblia is often associated with bloating and burping. In children aged under 5 years rotavirus is a common pathogen. However, it is not possible to make a reliable diagnosis from the history alone. Further assessment A more detailed assessment of the illness is required and this should include travel details. Travel details help the diagnostic process: Place of travel and the level of risk for the particular destination. Knowledge of the local disease prevalence and conditions is required. Purpose of travel, including information on conditions of stay (including dietary habits). A medication history noting whether chemoprophylaxis of any variety has been taken. Whether other travellers are affected and details if so. General observations including whether drowsy or alert. Level of hydration (and whether the patient is shocked) - eg, skin turgor, mucous membranes and pulse and blood pressure. Abdominal examination, especially looking for the presence of a surgical abdomen. Diagnosis will not generally be difficult; however, other causes of diarrhoea should be borne in mind (see separate Gastroenteritis in Adults and Older Children and Gastroenteritis in Children articles). Investigations[1] Investigation may be required if diarrhoea persists for more than 14 days, or earlier if there is blood in the stool, fever or more severe illness. Blood tests: FBC, U&Es, LFTs, ESR and CRP. Stool culture including microscopy, culture and sensitivity and tests for ova, cysts and parasites. Additional stool tests may be done, according to history and travel destination, whether stool is bloody, whether recent antibiotics have been taken, in young children aged under 5 (rotavirus). Clostridium difficile toxin may be tested for if the patient has recently been in hospital or has taken broad-spectrum antibiotics in the preceding six weeks. Further investigation with imaging or endoscopy may be required if there is severe tenderness or there are signs of severe colitis. One study found that a raised CRP and faecal white cells were associated with bacterial infection but not parasitic infection.[4] The vast majority of cases will be managed at home with oral rehydration. Most are self-limiting illnesses, which do not require medical intervention. However, it is important to identify patients who should be managed differently. The state of hydration will need monitoring in all patients but particularly those with more severe symptoms and those at risk of dehydration. Oral rehydration and home monitoring This is appropriate for low-risk patients with mild or no dehydration and mild symptoms, who have favourable home circumstances. The young, the elderly and other higher-risk patients should be monitored particularly closely. Racecadotril is designed to be used with rehydration treatment.[5] It reduces the amount of water that is released into the gut during an episode of diarrhoea. It is licensed for the complementary symptomatic treatment of acute diarrhoea in children (aged over 3 months) and adults, together with oral rehydration and the usual support measures (dietary advice and increased daily fluid intake), when these measures alone are insufficient to control the clinical condition. It is not recommended for use within NHS Scotland for the treatment of acute diarrhoea in children because there is insufficient evidence that it improves the recovery rate.[6] The Clinical Knowledge Summary (CKS) from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) does not recommend racecadotril in traveller's diarrhoea.[7] Oral rehydration and consider admission Mild-to-moderate dehydration can often be managed at home if all other factors are favourable and the patient can be reviewed. In patients at risk of worsening dehydration with severe symptoms or with other risk factors (the young, the elderly, those with immunosuppression or other comorbid conditions), admission should be considered. Referral for possible admission in children should be considered for:[8] Children younger than 1 year, particularly those younger than 6 months. Infants who were of low birth weight. Children who have passed more than five diarrhoeal stools in the previous 24 hours. Children who have vomited more than twice in the previous 24 hours. Children who have not been offered or have not been able to tolerate supplementary fluids before presentation. Infants who have stopped breast-feeding during the illness. Children with signs of malnutrition. Anti-motility medication[7] Symptomatic treatment may be needed for logistical reasons, particularly whilst travelling. There is more evidence for efficacy and safety of loperamide; however, bismuth subsalicylate may also be used. Neither should be used if the stool contains blood or mucus, or if there is fever, and they should not be used for more than 2 days. Anti-motility medication is not recommended for children. (Loperamide should be avoided in those under the age of 12, and bismuth subsalicylate under the age of 16.) Antibiotics[7] Ideally where it is needed, antibiotic therapy should be guided by microbiology advice, with the benefit of the results of the stool sample and sensitivities determined thereby. Where empirical treatment is needed, ciprofloxacin 500 mg bd for three days is the usual choice. However, in travellers from South Asia and Southeast Asia, quinolone resistance is common, and azithromycin (off-licence) is the preferred choice. (500 mg daily for three days in adults and children over 45 kg.) Azithromycin is also used where quinolones are contra-indicated, such as in pregnant women or children. Studies show these antibiotics reduce the course from an average of three days to an average of 1.5 days.[1] Traveller's diarrhoea is typically self-limiting and serious complications are unusual. The most significant effect is that of the illness itself and the associated morbidity and disability. By definition it can be disruptive to people travelling for whatever reason, whether for holiday or business. Complications associated with dehydration may occur in severe cases, and other unusual sequelae include toxic megacolon, hepatic abscess, sepsis and bowel perforation. Postinfectious irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) occurs in up to 30% of cases.[9] Prevention[7, 10] Food and drink hygiene advice Although there is no evidence that advice on safe eating and drinking affects the rate of traveller's diarrhoea, it is known that most cases come from food or drink. Therefore advice about the following remains standard for travel to high-risk countries: Boil or otherwise purify drinking water. Use only bottled or boiled water for ice cubes, brushing teeth and washing food. Eat only thoroughly cooked food. Avoid raw seafood. Peel fruit and vegetables before eating them. Be wary of food in markets or buffets, which has been out for some time. Avoid ice cream, unless from a reliable source. Wash hands regularly, particularly when handling food or eating and after using the toilet, etc. Chemoprophylaxis For most people antibiotic prophylaxis is not recommended, due to the self-limiting nature of the illness and the side-effects and resistance potential of treatment. It should be considered for people at high risk of getting traveller's diarrhoea and who are vulnerable to complications. For example, those travelling to high-risk areas and who are likely to contract infection through the type of trip, who are: Immunosuppressed (on chemotherapy or other immunosuppressant medication, those with advanced HIV). At high risk of complications (eg, those with gastrointestinal abnormality or disease). Vulnerable due to age (babies, infants, frail elderly) or comorbidity. Undergoing a critical trip where the illness would have a severe impact on the purpose of the trip. Where continuous antibiotic prophylaxis is advisable, options are ciprofloxacin, norfloxacin, rifaximin or bismuth subsalicylate. Of these, ciprofloxacin is the most effective. Standby antibiotics It may be helpful for some people travelling to high-risk or medium-risk countries to have a supply of "in case" antibiotics to take should they develop traveller's diarrhoea. This may be particularly helpful for those who are going to be in remote areas with poor sanitation and lack of access to healthcare, or for those who are trekking or travelling continually. A short course of antibiotics is known to reduce the length of the illness. Choice of antibiotic will depend on the area and likely risks and resistance, as well as individual age, pregnancy status and comorbidity. Usually ciprofloxacin 500 mg bd for three days, or azithromycin 500 mg daily for three days is the option used. Azithromycin is used off-licence for this indication, and either would require a private prescription. An alternative is bismuth subsalicylate but this cannot be used under the age of 16, in pregnant/breast-feeding women or in those with salicylate sensitivity. NICE CKS does not advise rifaximin in this situation due to its limited efficacy. Taking loperamide in addition to the antibiotic treatment seems to speed the rate of cure.[11] There are concerns, however, that this may predispose to colonization with extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae.[12] There is some evidence that probiotics may help prevent traveller's diarrhoea.[13, 14]However, it is not yet known which preparation and what dose are optimal and these are not currently a standard recommendation. Collaboration between local governments and public health researchers could improve hygiene in high-risk areas and reduce risk to travellers. Vaccines and immunoprophylaxis may be helpful in certain circumstances.[15] Vaccines are available for Salmonella typhi and rotavirus. An efficient cholera vaccine is available and gives some cross-protection against E. coli enterotoxin. It is, however, only marginally effective against traveller's diarrhoea. One study reported that ten people would need to be vaccinated to prevent one case of traveller's diarrhoea.[16] The typhoid vaccine is currently the only one routinely recommended for travellers. Vaccines against enterotoxigenic E. coli are in development and are a World Health Organization (WHO) priority.[17] Did you find this information useful? yes no Why not subscribe to the newsletter? We'd love to send you our articles and latest news by email, giving you the best opportunity to stay up to date with expert written health and lifestyle content. By clicking 'Subscribe' you agree to our Terms and conditions and Privacy policy. Thanks for your feedback. if you would like to report a specific issue with this page, please visit our feedback page. Thank you, we just sent a survey email to confirm your preferences. Further reading and references ; Travellers' diarrhoea. BMJ. 2016 Apr 19353:i1937. doi: 10.1136/bmj.i1937. ; National Travel Health Network and Centre (NaTHNaC) ; Systematic review: the use of proton pump inhibitors and increased susceptibility to enteric infection. Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2011 Dec34(11-12):1269-81. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2036.2011.04874.x. Epub 2011 Oct 17. ; Geographic, symptomatic and laboratory predictors of parasitic and bacterial causes of diarrhoea in travellers. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 2012 Sep106(9):549-53. doi: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2012.04.008. Epub 2012 Jul 20. ; NICE Evidence Summary, March 2013 ; NICE Evidence Services (UK access only) ; NICE Clinical Guideline (April 2009) ; Systematic review with meta-analysis: post-infectious irritable bowel syndrome after travellers' diarrhoea. Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2015 Jun41(11):1029-37. doi: 10.1111/apt.13199. Epub 2015 Apr 13. ; Expert review of the evidence base for prevention of travelers' diarrhea. J Travel Med. 2009 May-Jun16(3):149-60. doi: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.2008.00299.x. Epub 2009 Mar 19. ; Effect of adjunctive loperamide in combination with antibiotics on treatment outcomes in traveler's diarrhea: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Clin Infect Dis. 2008 Oct 1547(8):1007-14. doi: 10.1086/591703. ; Increased Risk for ESBL-Producing Bacteria from Co-administration of Loperamide and Antimicrobial Drugs for Travelers' Diarrhea. Emerg Infect Dis. 2016 Jan22(1):117-20. doi: 10.3201/eid2201.151272. ; Meta-analysis of probiotics for the prevention of traveler's diarrhea. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2007 Mar5(2):97-105. Epub 2005 Dec 5. ; Probiotics for prevention and treatment of diarrhea. J Clin Gastroenterol. 2011 Nov45 Suppl:S149-53. doi: 10.1097/MCG.0b013e3182257e98. ; Travellers' diarrhoea: contemporary approaches to therapy and prevention. Drugs. 200666(3):303-14. ; Effectiveness of the WC/rBS oral cholera vaccine in the prevention of traveler's diarrhea: A prospective cohort study. Hum Vaccin Immunother. 2013 Jan 169(3). ; Status of vaccine research and development for enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli. Vaccine. 2016 Mar 15. pii: S0264-410X(16)00287-5. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2016.02.076. Acute Diarrhoea in Children Toddler's Diarrhoea Gastroenteritis in Children Hello I'm a 22 year old female. On April 23rd I went to the ER for the first time in my life, I woke up that morning with stomach pain, just like I needed to use the restroom I thought after I did... madison44969 Join the discussion on the forums Feeling unwell? Assess your symptoms online with our free symptom checker. 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__label__cc	0.693508	0.306492	Bishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Laureate, on Sexual Justice. December 14, 2009 Terence Leave a comment During the difficult years leading to the final collapse and dismantling of apartheid, Bishop Desmond Tutu, then the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town and leader of the Anglican Church in South Africa, was an inspirational figure. He was clear and forthright in his unequivocal condemnation of the evils of the apartheid regime, but also clear in his condemnation of cruelties inflicted in the name of the resistance. ON more than one occasion, he put his own life at risk to protect vulnerable people who had been set upon by mobs accusing them of collaboration with the authorities. Without his intervention, some of these people would surely have been murdered I particularly gruesome fashion – by being burned alive in the infamous (“necklace” method). After the arrival of democracy, he gained still further in stature by his wise and compassionate chairing of the “Truth & Reconciliation Commission”, which did so much to smooth the path towards national healing. (That healing has not yet been achieved, but is assuredly closer than it would have been without the commission’s work). Since then, he has not been afraid to criticise the new, black politicians who have come to office when they in turn abuse their new power in pursuit of personal or group advancement. For Desmond Tutu, the struggle against apartheid was more than just a fight for a disadvantaged group, one that he belonged to himself, but for the more abstract principle of justice for all. As such, he has continued to be outspoken in his criticism of injustice perpetrated against all other persecuted groups – including against injustice inside the church. The passage below is taken from his introduction to the book “In the Eye of the Storm”, by his colleague Gene Robinson, Bishop of New Hampshire – and the controversially, the first openly gay bishop to be elected in the Anglican Communion. (I will write separately of my thoughts on Robinson’s book.) “For me, the question of human sexuality is really a matter of justice; of course I would be willing to show that my beliefs are not inconsistent with how we have come to understand the scriptures. It is not enough to say the “Bible says………….”, for the Bible says many things that I find totally unacceptable and indeed abhorrent. I accept the authority of the Bible as the Word of God, but I remember that the bible has been used to justify racism, slavery and the humiliation of women, etc. Apartheid was supported by the white Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa, which claimed that there was biblical justification for that vicious system. Many of us were engaged in the anti-apartheid struggle. Apartheid, crassly racist, sought to penalize people for something about which they could do nothing – their ethnicity, their skin colour. Most of the world agreed that that was unacceptable, that it was unjust. I joined the many who campaigned against an injustice that the church tolerated in its ranks when women were not allowed to be ordained. They were being penalized for something about which they could do nothing, their gender. Mercifully, that is no longer the case in our province of the Anglican Communion, and how enriched we have been by this move. I could not stand by while people were being penalized again for something over which they could do nothing – their sexual orientation. I am humbled and honoured to stand shoulder to shoulder with those who seek to end this egregious wrong inflicted on God’s children. May I wholly inadequately apologise to my sisters and brothers who are gay, lesbian bisexual, or transgendered for the cruelty and injustice that you have suffered and continue to suffer at the hands of us, your fellow Anglicans, I am sorry. Forgive us for all the pain we have caused you and which we continue to inflict on you. Cape Town, South Africa 2008. When, do you suppose, the Catholic church will produce leading bishops able and willing to speak the truth as clearly and passionately? Posted in Gay Christians, Sexuality & Gender. Tags:, Queer. 2 Comments » Albert Schweitzer Prize for HumanitarianismArchbishop of Cape TownDesmond TutuGandhi Peace PrizeGayjusticelgbtLGBT equalitylgbt inclusionNobel Peace Prize	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26108
__label__wiki	0.689375	0.689375	Accueil de l'OCDE BahamasThe Bahamas decides to sign multilateral tax information sharing convention The Bahamas decides to sign multilateral tax information sharing convention 01/06/2017 – The OECD welcomes the decision by The Bahamas to sign the Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters, which was formally communicated to the OECD in a letter from The Bahamas’ Minister of Finance, the Hon Kevin P. Turnquest MP, on Monday 29 May 2017. "We very much welcome that The Bahamas has now officially expressed a strong interest in joining the Convention. Signing and ratifying the Convention will be a very significant step forward in implementing its commitment to tax transparency and effective exchange of information, in particular under the OECD/G20 Common Reporting Standard", said Pascal Saint-Amans, Director of the OECD’s Centre for Tax Policy and Administration. The Convention is the most comprehensive multilateral instrument available for a wide range of tax co-operation to tackle tax evasion and avoidance, and guarantees extensive safeguards for the protection of taxpayers' rights. It was developed jointly by the OECD and the Council of Europe in 1988 and amended in 2010 to respond to the call by the G20 to align it to the international standard on exchange of information and to open it to all countries, thus ensuring that developing countries could benefit from the new more transparent environment. Already 111 countries and jurisdictions have joined the Convention. Media queries should be directed to Pascal Saint-Amans (+33 1 45 24 91 08), Director of the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (CTPA) or the CTPA Communications Office.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26111
__label__wiki	0.520062	0.520062	Only Humanoid: by Tom Shapira \| in Articles \| Wed, 27 August 2014 Writer : Pierre Gabus Art : Romuald Reutimann Possibly the most enjoyable thing about District 14 (and I say “possibly” only because there is so much to choose from that I wouldn’t begrudge anyone for choosing differently) is the way it constantly surprises you. Going into this book one could be forgiven for thinking it’s a stock story dressed up in animal skin: There’s an immigrant arriving to a new land, bereft of all, who quickly finds himself entangled in a network of crime and corruption. That the immigrant is talking elephant in a world of anthropomorphized animals, and that the titular new land is called District 14 and not America – these would appear to be mere window dressings. But appearances, teaches District 14, are often deceiving. “(Un)Funny Animal” comics are nothing new – from Mouse to Usagi Yojimbo to Apocalypse Meow to today’s reigning champion Blacksad. The genre is familiar, it’s rules known – the animals are masks, images over the bodies of people[1]. When I bought District 14 I was expecting another Blacksad – an early 20th century noir story played straight (and Blacksad, as good as it is, couldn’t be any straighter if it came with a ruler) with some nice art. But District 14 is anything but straight, whenever I thought I had pegged it down it threw another curveball at me – shifting plots and genres, adding characters and ideas to an already dense mix. It becomes clear very quickly that Michael Elizondo’s plot is just one part of a much larger mechanism. The book also explores the politics that control District 14 with a large cast of characters that includes elected officials, corrupts cops, crime organization, social activists, and aliens. Indeed, there are actual space-Aliens in District 14 – a race of black blob-ish beings with weird powers that came to the district generations ago and are still at the bottom of the social pole. It’s such an odd, yet brilliant, move on Gabu’s part. In a world where everybody is already a species unto themselves, he creates a completely different class of immigrants by inserting science fiction elements into seemingly historical setting. As the story progresses, we see that Gabu has actually gone a lot deeper than we expect him to: exploring the sociological and physical consequences of a world in which animals evolved human-esq intelligence and humanoid-characteristics. The animals in District 14 have human attributes, but retain their animal instincts and habits. Each species reflects their real-life limitations and properties– from a short sighted rhino to an sexually prolific frog and his cadre of similar-looking-and-slow-witted offsprings. The book’s plot dances around time and space, establishing histories and locations, building up the world these characters inhabit. There are many twists and turns throughout the first two volumes of District 14, but the author refuses to abuse them into the now common “Ah-ha” moment which infests American comic-book story telling. Shocking things happen, but they are never treated with an artificial showman-like quality – these are things that feel like they are happening to actual people, which makes their impact all the more effective[2]. Reuitman’s art is nothing short of spectacular in its classicism – the pages are rigidly constructed (with most featuring between three to seven panels) and the actual characters are simple in representation. These facets do not obscure the impeccable story-telling the book offers. Nothing is ever wasted on the page, every small details builds up the work and the world. At one point two cops look in awe as the local vigilante makes short work of a small gang – “his control and mastery of even the smallest gesture is stunning…” says one of the awed policemen, this compliment could have easily been given to the artist drawing these images. Reutiman does not seek to amaze the reader with beautiful imagery – his concern is the story, by establishing characters and settings. There isn’t a single image that adequately represents Reuitman’s mastery of the ninth art. One must weigh in the work as a whole and observe the artist’s approaches to the different genres the author throws at him (drama, political intrigue, Science Fiction, noir, etc.). If there is a complaint to be lodged against District 14, it’s that at times it feels like too much of a good thing: two long volumes into the series[3] and only now the main players are finally in place for some good action. While it has been a pleasure watching them get into these positions, it’s a full time job keeping up with the loose ends the story accumulates. (I guess that this is something that would appeal to fans of stuff like The Wire, but people who prefer a more straightforward approach might just get lost in the shuffle.) What starts off as a character driven narrative, quickly becomes the story of a city, the whole city – from the upper echelons to the lowest of decks. (There is a spin off book called The Fantastic Voyage of Lady Rozenbilt – a proto-origin story for one of District 14‘s more intriguing side characters. That book is notable mostly for showing that Reuitman’s art looks just as good colored as it is in black & white; it is, otherwise, a pleasant but inessential diversion.) That the story is a bit too clever, too ambitious, is a minor qualm. Still, District 14 is nothing short of treasure and one of the most highly recommended gems in the Humanoids’ crown. [1] There is one big exception to the rule: Bryan Talbot’s excellent Grandville graphic novel series. [2] Elizondo’s history – when we finally see it, is as effective both as a great short story and as a “ah-ha” moment [3] The first two “seasons” as the books are 700 pages altogether – and I remind you that these are 700 pages without full and double spreads; in District 14 every page counts Tagged District 14, Pierre Gabus, Romuald Reutimann. Bookmark the permalink. RSS feed for Tom Shapira Tom Shapira is a carbon-based life from the planet earth. He was formed in the year 1985 AD by two loving parents. He is also an MA student of English Lit. at Tel-Aviv University, Israel, where he feels proud to be the first student to graduate with a BA by writing a paper about the works of Grant Morison. In his native tongue, Tom is a staff writer for Israel's leading comics blog Alilon.net and an occasional participant in the blog's bi-weekly podcast. He spends too much time, money and thought on Comics (especially the works of Grant Morison, Alan Moore, Warren Ellis and Garth Ennis) and his friends and family wish he would stop. He is not going to. See more, including free online content, on Tom Shapira's author page. Also by Tom Shapira:	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26115
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__label__wiki	0.713638	0.713638	What Is Identity Politics? \| 2016 Election \| Poststructuralist & Queer \| Teachable Signs Articles Recognition/Redistribution Nancy Fraser, “From Redistribution to Recognition? Dilemmas of Justice in a ‘Post-Socialist’ Age,” New Left Review 212 (1995): 68–93. Judith Butler, “Merely Cultural,” New Left Review 227 (1998): 33-44. Nancy Fraser, “Heterosexism, Misrecognition and Capitalism: A Response to Judith Butler,” New Left Review 228 (1998): 140-49. Iris Marion Young, “Unruly Categories: A Critique of Nancy Fraser’s Dual Systems Theory,” New Left Review 222 (1997): 147–60. Nancy Fraser, “A Rejoinder to Iris Young,” New Left Review 223 (1997): 126–29. Kimberlé Crenshaw, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics,” University of Chicago Legal Forum 1989 (1989): 139–68. Sumi Cho, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, and Leslie McCall, “Toward a Field of Intersectionality Studies: Theory, Applications, and Praxis,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 38, no. 4 (2013): 785–810. Jennifer C. Nash, “Re-Thinking Intersectionality,” Feminist Review 89, no. 1 (2008): 1–15. Jasbir Puar, “‘I Would Rather Be a Cyborg Than a Goddess’: Intersectionality, Assemblage, and Affective Politics,” Transversal (2011). James Bliss, “Black Feminism Out of Place,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 41, no. 4 (2016): 727–49. The Ferguson report revealed an entire scheme of municipal plunder. Anti-black policing was an economic model. — Ta-Nehisi Coates (@tanehisicoates) December 1, 2016 Elizabeth A. Armstrong and Mary Bernstein, “Culture, Power, and Institutions: A Multi-Institutional Politics Approach to Social Movements,” Sociological Theory 26, no. 1 (2008): 74–99. Avtar Brah and Ann Phoenix, “Ain’t I A Woman? Revisiting Intersectionality,” Journal of International Women’s Studies 5, no. 3 (2013): 75–86. Carrie Tirado Bramen, “Why the Academic Left Hates Identity Politics,” Textual Practice 16, no. 1 (2002): 1–11. Linda Briskin, “Identity Politics and the Hierarchy of Oppression: A Comment,” Feminist Review 35 (1990): 102–8. Anna Carastathis, “Identity Categories as Potential Coalitions,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 38, no. 4 (2013): 941–65. Tamar W. Carroll, “Intersectionality and Identity Politics: Cross-Identity Coalitions for Progressive Social Change,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 42, no. 3 (2017): 600–607. Rita Felski, “The Doxa of Difference,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 23, no. 1 (1997): 1–21. Angela P. Harris, “Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory,” Stanford Law Review 42, no. 3 (1990): 581–616. Ananta Kumar Giri, “Civil Society and the Limits of Identity Politics,” Sociological Bulletin 50, no. 2 (2001): 266–85. bell hooks, “Essentialism and Experience,” American Literary History 3, no. 1 (1991): 172–83. Jill C. Humphrey, “Disabled People and the Politics of Difference,” Disability & Society 14, no. 2 (1999): 173–88. Courtney Jung, “Why Liberals Should Value ‘Identity Politics,’” Daedalus 135, no. 4 (2006): 32–39. Deborah K. King, “Multiple Jeopardy, Multiple Consciousness: The Context of a Black Feminist Ideology,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 14, no. 1 (1988): 42–72. Smadar Lavie, “Writing Against Identity Politics: An Essay on Gender, Race, and Bureaucratic Pain,” American Ethnologist 39, no. 4 (2012): 779–803. Leslie McCall, “The Complexity of Intersectionality,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 30, no. 3 (2005): 1771–1800. Uma Narayan, “Essence of Culture and a Sense of History: A Feminist Critique of Cultural Essentialism,” Hypatia 13, no. 2 (1998): 86–106. Joan D. Scott, “Multiculturalism and the Politics of Identity,” October 61 (1992): 12–19. Iris Marion Young, “Gender as Seriality: Thinking about Women as a Social Collective,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 19, no. 3 (1994): 713–38. Nira Yuval-Davis, “Intersectionality and Feminist Politics,” European Journal of Women’s Studies 13, no. 3 (2006): 193–209. Nira Yuval‐Davis, “Intersectionality, Citizenship and Contemporary Politics of Belonging,” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 10, no. 4 (2007): 561–74.0. Linda M. G. Zerilli, “Toward a Feminist Theory of Judgment,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 34, no. 2 (2009): 295–317. Elisabeth Armstrong, The Retreat from Organization: U.S. Feminism Reconceptualized (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2002). Seyla Benhabib, Democracy and Difference: Contesting the Boundaries of the Political (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996). Seyla Benhabib, The Claims of Culture: Equality and Diversity in the Global Era (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002). Alyson M. Cole, The Cult of True Victimhood: From the War on Welfare to the War on Terror (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007). Patricia Hill. Collins, From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2006). Avigail Eisenberg and Jeff Spinner-Halev, Minorities Within Minorities: Equality, Rights and Diversity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005). Nancy Fraser, Justice Interruptus: Critical Reflections on the “Postsocialist” Condition (New York: Routledge, 1997). Laura Gillman, Unassimilable Feminisms: Reappraising Feminist, Womanist, and Mestiza Identity Politics (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). 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Deborah Orr et al., eds., Feminist Politics: Identity, Difference, and Agency (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007). Karen Ross, Gendered Media: Women, Men, and Identity Politics (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010). Ronnee Schreiber, Righting Feminism: Conservative Women and American Politics with New Epilogue (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012). Evelyn M. Simien, Black Feminist Voices in Politics (New York: State University of New York Press, 2006). Elizabeth V. Spelman, Inessential Woman: Problems of Exclusion in Feminist Thought (Boston: Beacon Press, 1988). Taylor Keeanga-Yamahtta, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (Chicago: Haymarket Press, 2016). Iris Marion Young and Danielle S. Allen, Justice and the Politics of Difference (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011). Iris Marion Young, Intersecting Voices: Dilemmas of Gender, Political Philosophy, and Policy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997). Ta-Nehisi Coates, “My President Was Black,” The Atlantic, February 2017. Brittney Cooper, “It’s Not about You, White Liberals: Why Attacks on Radical People of Color Are so Misguided,” Salon, April 8, 2014. Brittney Cooper, “White Male Temper Tantrums: What the ‘Political Correctness’ Debate Completely Misses,” Salon, February 4, 2015. Susan Cox, “Women’s Issues Aren’t Just ‘Identity Politics.,’” Feminist Current, November 26, 2016. Kimberlé Crenshaw, “Why Intersectionality Can’t Wait,” The Washington Post, September 24, 2015. Jonathon Dean, “Who’s Afraid of Identity Politics?,” London School of Economics and Political Science Blog, December 9, 2016. Susan Faludi, "Identity Politics Gone Wrong," Radio Open Source, 2016. Nancy Fraser, “How Feminism Became Capitalism’s Handmaiden - and How to Reclaim It,” The Guardian, October 14, 2013. Conor Friedersdorf, “The Left’s Attack on Color-Blindness Goes Too Far,” The Atlantic, September 4, 2015. Mikki Kendal, "#SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen: Women of Color's Issue with Digital Feminism," The Guardian, August 14, 2013. Maisha Johnson, “What’s Wrong with Cultural Appropriation? These 9 Answers Reveal Its Harm,” Everyday Feminism, June 14, 2015. Marcus Johnson, “Stop Calling It ‘Identity Politics’ - It’s Civil Rights,” Alternet, November 26, 2016. Carmen Rios, “Hey, ‘Identity Politics’ Critics: Women and People of Color Need Economic Justice, Too.,” Everyday Feminism, January 11, 2017. William Ruhm, “The ‘Identity Politics’ We’re Not Talking About,” The Feminist Wire, August 2, 2016. Amanda Taub, “The Truth about ‘Political Correctness’ is That It Doesn’t Actually Exist,” Vox, January 28, 2015. We Are The Left, “An Open Letter on Identity Politics, to and from the Left,” Medium, July 13, 2016. Andrew J. Young, “Personal Is Political: Are You Doing Your Work? White Transmen Holding Ourselves Accountable to Audre Lorde’s Legacy,” The Feminist Wire, February 20, 2014. On the Women's Strike Interview with Nancy Fraser, Left Voice, February 27, 2017. Linda Martín Alcoff, Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, Nancy Fraser, Barbara Ransby, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Rasmea Yousef Odeh, and Angela Davis, "Women of America: We're Going on Strike. Join Us so Trump Will See Our Power," The Guardian, February 6, 2017. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, "The March 8 Strike Is about Building Feminism for the 99%," interview by Sarah Jaffee, In These Times, February 28, 2017. Cathy J. Cohen, "From Black Lives Matter to the 2016 Elections," W. E. B. DuBois 2016 Annual Lecture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Janet Mock speaks at the Women's March on Washington, Washington Post, January 21, 2017.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26119
__label__wiki	0.504435	0.504435	1-312-498-0545 info@tanotravel.com Family Tour II with Safari Date A: 8/2/2019 – 8/10/2019 Tour Rates based on Single Occupancy ($5,800) and Double Occupancy ($5,500) 9 Days & 8 Nights Tour Itinerary Day 1 – (August 2019) Arrive in Accra; Kotoka International Airport pick up Arrive at hotel and check in ACCRA CITY TOUR Early morning after breakfast, enjoy a sightseeing city tour of Accra! You will drive through the administrative and economic districts of Accra, the capital of Ghana. This 137-year-old city has a blend of colonial and modern architecture that summarize her history. You will visit the W. E. B. Dubois Centre for Pan African Culture, Independence/ Black Star Square and Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park. Our last stop will be to the Niche Cocoa Factory Gourmet Chocolate Tour. You will end your tour at the Arts Centre where you will have an opportunity to use your bargaining skills to shop from an open-air market for artifacts and souvenirs from Ghana and West Africa. ELMINA CASTLE & ELMINA FISHING VILLAGE DAY TOUR Early morning after breakfast, depart Accra and visit Elmina Castle, also known as St. George’s Castle, which was built by the Portuguese in 1482. Here, learn about the relationship between the western slave traders and the African tribes that participated in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Here participants will witness the dark and stuffy dungeons local people were forced to endure before being sent on a long and perilous passage across the Atlantic. To see the truth of these conditions in person is a powerful reminder of the inhumanity of the slave trade. Afterward, journey along the scenic coast (approx. 1.5 hours) toward Elmina, a fishing village that’s both picturesque and gritty, charming and though-provoking. What better way to appreciate it than to immerse yourself in the unforgettable glimpse of its main industry – fishing! Meet with local fishermen to learn the intricacies of their trade and the challenges they face in the day-to-day work. Next, meet the fish mongers in the village who will demonstrate the various stages of smoking the fish in earthenware ovens. This tour is a unique way to experience one of Ghana’s oldest and important trades. KAKUM RAIN FOREST & CAPE COAST CASTLE DAY TOUR Early morning after breakfast, depart Accra for a drive to Kakum National Park, West Africa’s most noted tropical rain forest. Experience the soothing effects of being in a tropical rain forest environment. Choose between EITHER a nature walk through this forest to discover the wide variety of exotic floral species and the medicinal values they offer or take a walk on the canopy walkway, 100 feet above the forest floor. Afterward, embark on a tour of the infamous Forts, Castles and Slave Dungeons of Ghana. History will unfold the story of the slave trade which the impact is still felt beyond the shores of Africa today. Visit the Cape Coast Castle built by the Swedes in 1653 and was later taken over by the British. This castle also houses the West African Historical Museum established by the Smithsonian Institute in collaboration with the Ghanaian Government in 1994. SHAI HILLS AND ABURI BOTANICAL GARDENS Shai Hills Reserve, which is an hour’s drive from Accra, combines nature conservation, rich cultural interest and archaeological sites. It is home for antelopes, baboons, reptiles, primates and about 89 species of birds. The Aburi Botanical Gardens was created in 1890 for pleasure and scientific research; the Aburi Botanic Garden is a habitat for plants and butterflies from all around the world. TORGOME NAMING CEREMONY AND AKOSOMBO DAM Depart after breakfast for a scenic drive to a beautiful village located on the lower course of the splendid Volta River. You will have the opportunity to pay a courtesy call on the paramount chief and elders amidst traditional drumming and dancing by the villages and also participate in a naming ceremony, where you will be given a traditional African name. Other activities include a demonstration of pottery making which is the main occupation of the women in the village. After lunch, continue to Akosombo to tour the famous Akosombo Dam, a hydroelectric dam in southeastern Ghana. The dam is located at the Akosombo gorge on the Volta River. Its construction resulted in the flooding of the Volta River Basin, which subsequently created Lake Volta. Lake Volta is the world’s largest manmade lake and covers approximately 3.6 percent of Ghana’s total land area. You will have the rare opportunity of visiting the engine and control of the dam, which is not open to the general public FLIGHT FROM ACCRA TO TAMALE (Flight Time: 1hr) Depart from the airport for a flight from Accra to Tamale in the morning. Upon arrival at Tamale airport, transfer to Mole National park. (Tamale to Mole drive time – 3 hour’s) MOLE AFTERNOON SAFARI DRIVE (Based on flight) Upon arrival in Mole, check in at hotel and to embark on an afternoon Safari drive to view West Africa’s big game: elephants, antelopes, waterbucks, warthog’s baboons, monkeys, and more. Return to your hotel and prepare for dinner. ZAINA LODGE (2 nights) Zaina Lodge looks over seemingly endless savannah and two busy waterholes frequented by many of the aforementioned animals. Take a guided walking tour or vehicle Safari just steps from your front doors. Relax at the infinity pool, outdoor bar fire pit, or restaurant and take in the sights. All 25 rooms are individual luxury tented chalets, complete with private balconies and indoor and outdoor showers for those who like to bathe under the stars. MORNING MOLE SAFARI DRIVE Depart for an early morning safari drive through the Mole National Park to view West Africa’s big game: elephants, antelopes, waterbucks, warthog’s baboons, monkeys, and more. Return to the hotel for breakfast. AFTERNOON MOLE SAFARI DRIVE Later in the afternoon, return to Mole National Park to embark on an afternoon trek to view the rest of West Africa’s big game that were not viewed earlier. FLIGHT FROM TAMALE TO ACCRA (Flight Time: 1hr) After breakfast, depart Mole to Tamale airport (drive time: 3 hrs). Fly back to Accra. Additional Info: Our tours are fully equipped with air-conditioned vehicle transportation and services of a trained licensed driver and a experienced tour guide. Starting Price $5500-5800 Family Tour I Date A: 8/2/2019 - 8/8/2019 Booking for Family Tour II with Safari Date A: 8/2/2019 – 8/10/2019	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26121
__label__wiki	0.623106	0.623106	RIC MILITI CEO / Executive Creative Director An innovator in the marketing world, Ric Militi has worked with dozens of iconic global brands. Known for his direct approach, he has fearlessly embraced every aspect of the industry for over 38 years. Ric opened his own ad agency, The Ad Group in 1990 when he was in his early thirties. The agency specialized in entertainment marketing, and its clients included Universal CityWalk, Warner/Chappell Music, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, the Peninsula Hotel of Beverly Hills, the city of Beverly Hills, and United Paramount Network, now the CW. In 1994, Ric accepted an offer to merge The Ad Group into Eisaman, Johns and Laws, which at that time was the largest advertising agency based on the West Coast with offices in Los Angeles, Chicago and Houston and over 400 employees. Ric joined them as executive vice president and was eventually promoted to president. EJL specialized in brand advertising, where Ric gained tremendous hands-on experience and knowledge in the brand space, working with such global brands such as the Rio All-Suites Hotel & Casino, Pennzoil, Corona, Neutrogena, Kahlúa and Giorgio Perfume. EJL was eventually sold and Ric formed RMO Marketing Agency in 2000 and maintained the Rio All-Suites Hotel & Casino as a client, along with the Aladdin Resort Casino, Merv Griffin Hotels and DreamWorks/SKG, to name a few. In 2004 while working as a brand consultant, Ric was recruited by the former owners of the Rio to create and manage an in-house advertising department for a then startup casino in San Diego – Valley View Casino. Under Ric’s marketing guidance, the casino grew into one of the most reputable and successful Native American casino brands in the country. Armed with a unique understanding of casino marketing from both the in-house and agency sides, Ric felt he could take this perspective and open a new kind of marketing company – an “anti-agency®” – that could bring better results and service to all companies in need of assistance. With the tremendous support of Valley View Casino & Hotel, he was able to open InnoVision Marketing Group, retaining Valley View as his flagship client, in February of 2012. As CEO and creative director, Ric plays a strategic role in every single account, and today, InnoVision has grown to become one of the largest agencies in San Diego with over 40 clients across the nation. Ric also presents to a wide array of businesses, lecturing on the value and parallels between corporate and personal brands, the elements of a brand and the process by which a brand experience is created. He has presented to major corporations including NBC, CBS, Fox Television, Valley View Casino & Hotel, Massage Envy, Swinerton Builders and multiple universities. Ric feels strongly about giving back to the community, so he also offers InnoVision’s marketing services pro bono to nonprofit organizations such as Fresh Start Surgical Gifts, a nonprofit that performs free reconstructive surgery for underprivileged children in need, as well as Susan G. Komen San Diego, aiming to save lives through research and education and investing in breakthrough research to prevent and cure breast cancer.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26123
__label__wiki	0.508793	0.508793	Przegląd Nauk Historycznych Przegląd Nauk Historycznych 2010, R. IX, nr 1 Kasztelan krakowski Jerzy ks. Zbaraski (1574-1631). Szkic do portretu antyregalisty art_anusik_2010_1.pdf (826.0Kb) Jerzy prince Zbaraski was a descendent of the rich and powerful magnates family. He was born in 1574 as a son of Janusz prince Zbaraski (d. 1608) voivode of Bracław and Anna princess Czetwertyńska. Well educated, very good at foreign languages after long studies abroad, as a young man, together with his younger brother – prince Krzysztof (1579-1627), he became a king’s courtier. A conflict between him and Jesuits at the court was a cause of his disgrace. Passed over by the king in the distribution of state offices and crown estates, he became an oppositionist. Since then Zbaraski brothers fought internal and foreign policy of the king. After the death of their father, prince Jerzy and prince Krzysztof belonged to the exclusive group of the richest Crown magnates. Both of them played a great political role during the reign of Zygmunt III. As a castellan of Kraków (since 1620) prince Jerzy felt himself authorized to review and criticize almost every move of the king. Not until the Swedes invaded Prussia, prince castellan noticed the necessity of deep state reforms. After death of the younger brother, the only heir of the huge family landed estates was prince Jerzy. Because of his fortune the castellan of Kraków was the second Crown magnate of his times. During the last years of his life he played a first role on the political scene of the Republic. Prince Jerzy was very popular among Polish nobility. He was regarded as an ideal senator. He enjoyed widespread support. He was also admired and widely revered. Jerzy prince Zbaraski died in Kraków July 30th 1631 as a last male descendent of his family. Przegląd Nauk Historycznych 2010, R. IX, nr 1 [2]	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26124
__label__wiki	0.877703	0.877703	Journal of Nephrology & Therapeutics International Journal of Clinical & Medical Imaging Journal of Molecular Imaging & Dynamics Journal of Petroleum & Environmental Engineering Journal of Vascular Medicine & Surgery Journal of Anesthesia & Clinical Research Journal of Veterinary Science & Technology Journal of Tissue Science & Engineering Research & Reviews: Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology Alternative & Integrative Medicine heroine addiction Scientific JournalsGout Online JournalsArticles on Pigmentation DisordersHybridization Peer-review Journalsworkplace safetyArticles on cardiovascular diseasebioanalysis peer review journalsBrain Injury Scholarly journal Scholarly peer-review journal on transplantationAntioxidantsSquamous cell carcinoma Online JournalsOpen Access Pharmaceutical care JournalsDecomposition Top JournalsBrown mouse lemur top journalswater quality open access journals Open Access Articles- Top Results for Switzerland in the Napoleonic era Switzerland in the Napoleonic era Template:Region history sidebar title Roman era (200 BC–400) Alemannia · Burgundy (400–900) Swabia · Burgundy (900–1300) Old Swiss Confederacy Growth (1291–1516) Reformation (1516–1648) Ancien Régime (1648–1798) Napoleonic era (1798–1814) Restoration (1814–1847) Federal state (1848) World Wars (1914–1945) 16x16px Switzerland portal During the French Revolutionary Wars, the revolutionary armies marched eastward, enveloping Switzerland in their battles against Austria. In 1798 Switzerland was completely overrun by the French and became the Helvetic Republic. The Helvetic Republic encountered severe economic and political problems. In 1798 the country became a battlefield of the Revolutionary Wars, culminating in the Battles of Zürich in 1799. In 1803 Napoleon's Act of Mediation reestablished a Swiss Confederation that partially restored the sovereignty of the cantons, and the former tributary and allied territories of Aargau, Thurgau, Graubünden, St. Gallen, Vaud and Ticino became cantons with equal rights. The Congress of Vienna of 1815 fully re-established Swiss independence and the European powers agreed to permanently recognise Swiss neutrality. At this time, the territory of Switzerland was increased for the last time, by the new cantons of Valais, Neuchâtel and Geneva. The Restoration, the time leading up to the Sonderbundskrieg, was marked with turmoil, and the rural population struggling against the yoke of the urban centres, for example in the Züriputsch of 1839. 1 Fall of the Ancien Régime 2 Helvetic Republic 2.1 French Revolutionary Wars in Switzerland 2.1.1 Battle of Winterthur 2.1.2 Battles for Zürich 2.2 Civil war and the end of the Republic 3 Act of Mediation 4 Restoration Fall of the Ancien Régime Further information: French invasion of Switzerland French Revolutionary Wars – Swiss Campaign Grauholz 1st Zurich Grimsel Pass Oberwald 2nd Zurich Linth River Näfels and Glarus Gotthard Pass 1st Schwanden Muottental 2nd Schwanden War of the Second Coalition 1st Stockach Magnano Cassano Bassignana Trebbia Vlieter Incident Krabbendam 2nd Stockach Fort Bard Höchstädt Algeciras (1st • 2nd) Porto Ferrajo Mediterranean Campaign Egyptian Campaign Swiss Campaign Dutch Campaign File:Franzosen Staatsschatz.jpg The people of Zürich celebrate dancing around an Arbre de la liberté on the Münsterhof while the French carry off the treasury (1848 woodcut). File:Flag of the Helvetic Republic (French).svg Flag of the Helvetic Republic During the last years of the Ancien Régime the growing conflicts throughout the Confederation (aristocratic cities against peasant farmers, Protestant against Catholic and canton against canton) had weakened and distracted the Diet. In Paris the Helvetian Club, founded in 1790 by several exiled Vaudois and Fribourgers, was the centre from which the ideas of the French Revolution were spread in the western part of the Confederation.[1] During the next eight years revolts sprang up across the Confederation and unlike earlier many were successful. In 1790 the Lower Valais rose against the upper districts. In 1791 Porrentruy rebelled against the Bishop of Basel and became the Rauracian republic in November 1792 and in 1793 the French department of the Mont Terrible. In 1795 St Gallen successfully revolted against the prince-abbot. These revolts were supported or encouraged by France, but the French army didn't directly attack the Confederation. However, following the French success in the War of the First Coalition (1792–1797) against the aristocratic armies of Prussia and Austria, the time had come for direct action against the aristocratic Ancien Regime in Switzerland. In 1797 the districts of Chiavenna, Valtellina and Bormio, dependencies of the Three Leagues (an associate of the Confederation), revolted under the encouragement of France. They were quickly invaded and annexed to the Cisalpine Republic on 10 October 1797. In December of the same year the Bishopric of Basel was occupied and annexed.[2] On 9 December 1797 Frédéric-César de La Harpe, a member of the Helvetian Club from Vaud, asked France to invade Bern to protect Vaud. Seeing a chance to remove a feudal neighbor and gain Bern's wealth, France agreed.[1] By February 1798 French troops occupied Mulhouse and Biel/Bienne. Meanwhile, another army entered Vaud, when the "Lemanic republic" was proclaimed, and the Diet broke up in dismay without taking any steps to avert the coming storm. On 5 March troops entered Bern, deserted by her allies and distracted by quarrels within. With Bern, the stronghold of the aristocratic party, in revolutionary hands, the old Confederation collapsed. Within a month, the Confederation was under French control and all the associate members of the Confederation were gone. Helvetic Republic Main article: Helvetic Republic File:Karte Helvetik 4.png Helvetic Republic, with borders as at the Second Helvetic constitution of 25 May 1802 On 12 April 1798 121 cantonal deputies proclaimed the Helvetic Republic, "One and Indivisible". The new régime abolished cantonal sovereignty and feudal rights. The occupying forces established a centralised state based on the ideas of the French Revolution. Before the Helvetic Republic, each individual canton had exercised complete sovereignty over its own territory or territories. Little central authority had existed, with matters concerning the country as a whole confined mainly to the Diet, a meeting of leading representatives from the cantons.[3] The constitution of the Helvetic Republic came mainly from the design of Peter Ochs, a magistrate from Basel. It established a central two-chamber legislature which included the Grand Council (with 8 members per canton) and the Senate (4 members per canton). The executive, known as the Directory, comprised 5 members. The Constitution also established actual Swiss citizenship, as opposed to just citizenship of one's canton of birth.[3] With Swiss citizenship came the absolute freedom to settle in any canton, the political communes were now composed of all residents, and not merely of the burghers.[1] However, the community land and property remained with the former local burghers who were gathered together into the Bürgergemeinde.[4] No general agreement existed about the future of Switzerland. Leading groups split into the Unitaires, who wanted a united republic, and the Federalists, who represented the old aristocracy and demanded a return to cantonal sovereignty. Coup-attempts became frequent, and the new régime had to rely on the French to survive. Furthermore, the occupying forces plundered many towns and villages. This made it difficult to establish a new working state. Many Swiss citizens resisted these "progressive" ideas, particularly in the central areas of the country. Some of the more controversial aspects of the new regime limited freedom of worship, which outraged many of the more devout citizens. Several uprisings took place, with the three Forest Cantons (Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden) rebelling in early 1798. The Schwyzers, under Alois von Reding, were crushed by the French on the heights of Morgarten in April and May, as were the Unterwaldners in August and September. Due to the destruction and plundering, the Swiss soon turned against the French.[1] After the Forest Cantons uprising, some cantons were merged, thus reducing their anti-centralist effectiveness in the legislature. Uri, Schwyz, Zug and Unterwalden together became the canton of Waldstätten; Glarus and the Sarganserland became the canton of Linth, and Appenzell and St. Gallen combined as the canton of Säntis. French Revolutionary Wars in Switzerland See also: Italian and Swiss expedition In 1799, Switzerland became a battle-zone between the French, Austrian and Imperial Russian armies, with the locals supporting mainly the latter two, rejecting calls to fight with the French armies in the name of the Helvetic Republic. Battle of Winterthur The Battle of Winterthur (27 May 1799) was an important action between elements of the Army of the Danube, Massena's Army of Switzerland, and elements of the Habsburg army, commanded by the Swiss-born Friedrich Freiherr von Hotze. Winterthur lies Script error: No such module "convert". northeast of Zürich. Because of its position at the junction of seven cross-roads, the army that held the town controlled access to most of Switzerland and points crossing the Rhine into southern Germany. File:Battle of Winterthur details.png Hotze's troops arrived in the morning at the outskirts of Winterthur and immediately attacked Ney's position. By afternoon, his troops had joined those of Nauendorf and Archduke Charles, marked in yellow. Masséna sent the newly promoted General of Division Michel Ney and part of the Army of the Danube to Winterthur on 27 May 1799 to stop the Austrian advance from eastern Switzerland. If the Austrians succeeded in uniting Hotze's army from the east with Nauendorf's directly north of Zurich, and Archduke Charles' which lay to the north and west, the French would be dangerously encircled at Zurich.[5] On the morning of 27 May, Hotze assembled his force into three columns and marched toward Winterthur. Opposite him, Michel Ney deployed his force around the heights, the so-called Ober-Winterthur, a ring of low-lying hills some Script error: No such module "convert". north of the city. The overall commander of the forward line, Jean Victor Tharreau, had informed Ney that he would send Jean-de-Dieu Soult's division to support him; Ney understood this to mean he was to make a stand along the entire outpost line, and that he would not be isolated. He expected his small force would receive reinforcements from Soult's division. Consequently, Ney directed the weakest brigade, under the command of Théodore Maxime Gazan, to move up a long valley toward Frauenfeld, and another brigade, under the command of Dominique Mansuy Roget, to take the right, preventing any Austrian flanking maneuver.[6] By mid-morning, Hotze's advanced guard had encountered moderate French resistance first from the two brigades Ney had at his disposal.[7] The Austrian advance troops quickly overran the weaker brigade and took possession of the woods surrounding the village of Islikon. After securing the villages of Gundeschwil, Schottikon, Wiesendangen, and Stogen, further west of Islikon, Hotze deployed two of his columns facing the French front, while a third angled to the French right,[6] as Ney had expected he would.[7] Soult never appeared (he was later court-martialed for insubordination) and Ney withdrew his forces through Winterthur, regrouping with Tharreau's main force in the outskirts of Zurich.[8] A day later, Hotze's force united with the main Austrian force of Archduke Charles.[9] Battles for Zürich In the First Battle of Zürich, on 4–7 June 1799, approximately 45,000 French and 53,000 Austrians clashed on the plains around the city. On the left wing, Hotze had 20 battalions of infantry, plus support artillery, and 27 squadrons of cavalry, in total, 19,000 men. On the right wing, General Friedrich Joseph, Count of Nauendorf commanded another 18,000.[10] The battle cost both sides dearly; General of Brigade Cherin was killed, on the French side, and on the Austrian side, Feldzeugmeister (General of Infantry) Olivier, Count of Wallis, was killed. On the French side, 500 died, 800 were wounded and 300 captured; on the Austrian side, 730 killed, 1,470 wounded, and 2,200 captured. When the Austrians took the French positions in the city, they also captured over 150 guns.[11] Ultimately, French general André Masséna yielded the city to the Austrians, under Archduke Charles. Massena retreated beyond the Limmat river, where he managed to fortify his positions.[12] Hotze's force harassed their retreat, and secured the river shoreline.[13] Despite Hotze's aggressive harassment of the French retreat, Charles did not follow up on the withdrawal; Masséna established himself on the opposite bank of the Limmat without threat of pursuit from the main body of the Austrian Army, much to the annoyance of the Russian liaison officer, Alexander Ivanovich, Count Ostermann-Tolstoy.[14] On 14 August 1799, a Russian force of 6,000 cavalry, 20,000 infantry, and 1,600 Cossacks, under Alexander Korsakov, joined Archduke Charles' force in Schaffhausen.[15] In a vice-like operation, together with the Russians, they would surround André Masséna's smaller army on the banks of the Limmat, where it had taken refuge the previous spring. To divert this attack, General Claude Lecourbe, attacked the pontoon bridges over which the Austrians crossed the Rhine, destroying most of them, and making the rest unusable.[16] Before Charles could regroup, orders arrived from the Aulic Council, the imperial body in Vienna charged with conduct of war, to countermand his plan;[17] Charles' troops were to leave Zurich in the supposedly capable hands of Korsokov, re-cross the Rhine and march north to Mainz. Charles stalled this operation as long as he could, but eventually he had to concede to Vienna's orders. Consequently, the Russian troops under a novice general replaced the Austrian troops and their seasoned commander. Charles withdrew his force to the north of the Rhine. Although the order to Charles to recross the Rhine and march north was eventually countermanded, by the time such instructions reached him, they were too late to reverse.[18] In the Second Battle of Zürich, the French regained control of the city, along with the rest of Switzerland. Notably, Massena out-generaled Korsakov; surrounded him, tricked him, and then took more than half his army prisoner, plus captured the baggage train and most of his cannons, and inflicted over 8,000 casualties.[19] Most of the fighting took place on both banks of the river Limmat up to the gates of Zürich, and part within the city itself. Zürich had declared itself neutral, and was spared general destruction. General Oudinot commanded the French forces on the right bank and general Joseph Mortier, those on the left.[20] At the same time, Soult led a small force, some 150 musket-men, across the river Linth—the men held their muskets over their heads and waded across, through water to their chests—and protected the crossing site for the remainder of the force; Hotze was killed during this maneuver when Soult's men surprised him on an early morning reconnaissance.[21] By the time Alexander Suvorov arrived from northern Italy into St. Gallen in early October, the Austrians and the Russians had been pushed out and he was forced to lead his men over the Alps to the Vorarlberg, resulting in additional losses.[22] Civil war and the end of the Republic File:16 Franken 1800 HR 681735.jpg 16 Frank coin issued by the Helvetic Republic, this represents the first national coinage of Switzerland. Instability in the Republic reached its peak in 1802–03—including the Stecklikrieg civil war of 1802. Together with local resistance, financial problems caused the Helvetic Republic to collapse, and its government took refuge in Lausanne. Due to the instability of the situation, the Helvetic Republic had over 6 constitutions in a period of 4 years.[3] At that time Napoleon Bonaparte, then First Consul of France, summoned representatives of both sides to Paris in order to negotiate a solution. Although the Federalist representatives formed a minority at the conciliation conference, known as the "Helvetic Consulta"; Bonaparte characterised Switzerland as federal "by nature" and considered it unwise to force the area into any other constitutional framework. On 19 February 1803, the Act of Mediation restored the cantons. With the abolition of the centralized state, Switzerland became a confederation once again. The period of the Helvetic Republic is still very controversial within Switzerland.[23] It represents the first time that Switzerland as a unified country existed and a step toward the modern federal state. For the first time the population was defined as Swiss, not as members of a specific canton. For cantons like Vaud, Thurgau and Ticino the Republic was a time of political freedom from other cantons. However the Republic also marked a time of foreign domination and revolution. For the cantons of Bern, Schwyz and Nidwalden it was a time of military defeat followed by occupation. In 1995 the Federal Parliament chose to not celebrate the 200 year anniversary of the Helvetic Republic, but to allow individual cantons to celebrate if they wished.[23] Act of Mediation Further information: Act of Mediation and Confederation of the Rhine Swiss Confederation This page is a soft redirect.colspan="3" class="fn org summary" style="text-align:center; line-height:1.2em; font-size:115%; font-weight:bold;"#REDIRECTmw:Help:Magic words#Other This page is a soft redirect. 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Languages #REDIRECTmw:Help:Magic words#Other This page is a soft redirect. Swiss French, Swiss German, Swiss Italian, Rhaeto-Romance languages Government Republic This page is a soft redirect.- class="mergedbottomrow" #REDIRECTmw:Help:Magic words#Other This page is a soft redirect.- #REDIRECTmw:Help:Magic words#Other This page is a soft redirect. Legislature #REDIRECTmw:Help:Magic words#Other This page is a soft redirect. Tagsatzung Historical era Napoleonic Wars - Act of Mediation 19 February 1803 - Congress of Vienna 8 June 1815 The Swiss Confederation was re-established as a result of the Act of Mediation issued by Napoleon Bonaparte on 19 February 1803 in the aftermath of the Stecklikrieg. The period of Swiss history from 1803 to 1815 is itself known as Mediation. The act abolished the previous Helvetic Republic, which had existed since the invasion of Switzerland by French troops in March 1798. After the withdrawal of French troops in July 1802, the Republic collapsed (Stecklikrieg). The Act of Mediation was Napoleon's attempt at a compromise between the Ancien Regime and a Republic. This intermediary stage of Swiss history lasted until the Restoration of 1815. In 1803 Napoleon's Act of Mediation partially restored the sovereignty of the cantons, and the former subject territories of Aargau, Thurgau, Vaud and Ticino became cantons with equal rights. Likewise, the Three Leagues, formerly an associate (Zogewandter Ort) but not a full member of the confederacy, became a full member as the canton of Graubünden. The city of St. Gallen, also historically an associate of the confederacy, along with its own former subject territories (and with those formerly belonging to the Abbey of Saint Gall) became a full member as the canton of St. Gallen. By contrast, the territories of Biel, Valais, the former Principality of Neuchatel (the later canton of Neuchatel), of the Bishopric of Basel (the later Bernese Jura) and of Geneva did not become part of the Swiss confederacy until the end of the Napoleonic era. File:Mediationsakte.jpg Act of Mediation, 1803 With Napoleon acting as a mediator and declaring that the natural political state of the Swiss is a Federation,[24] the Act of Mediation dissolved the Helvetic Republic and addressed many of the issues that had torn the Republic apart. It restored the original 13 members of the old Confederation and added 6 new cantons, two (St Gallen and Graubünden or Grisons) having been formerly "associates", and the four others being made up of the subject lands conquered at different times — Aargau (1415), Thurgau (1460), Ticino (1440, 1500, 1512), and Vaud (1536). In the Diet, six cantons which had a population of more than 100,000 (Bern, Zurich, Vaud, St Gallen, Graubünden and Aargau) were given two votes, the others having but one apiece. Meetings of the Diet were to be held alternately at Fribourg, Bern, Solothurn, Basel, Zurich and Lucerne. The landsgemeinden, or popular assemblies, were restored in the democratic cantons, the cantonal governments in other cases being in the hands of a great council (legislative) and the small council (executive). There were to be no privileged classes, burghers or subject lands. Every Swiss citizen was to be free to move and settle anywhere in the new Confederation.[1] However the rights promised in the Act of Mediation soon began to vanish. In 1806 the principality of Neuchâtel was given to Marshal Berthier. Tessin was occupied by French troops from 1810 to 1813. Also, in 1810 the Valais was occupied and converted into the French department of the Simplon to secure the Simplon Pass. At home the liberty of moving from one canton to another (though given by the constitution) was, by the Diet in 1805, restricted by requiting ten years' residence, and then not granting political rights in the canton or a right of profiting by the communal property. As soon as Napoleon's power began to wane (1812–1813), the position of Switzerland became endangered. The Austrians, supported by the reactionary party in Switzerland, and without any real resistance on the part of the Diet, crossed the border on 21 December 1813. On 29 December under pressure from Austria, the Diet abolished the 1803 constitution which had been created by Napoleon in the Act of Mediation. On 6 April 1814 the so-called Long Diet met to replace the constitution. The Diet remained dead-locked until 12 September when Valais, Neuchatel and Geneva were raised to full members of the Confederation. This increased the number of cantons to 22. The Diet, however, made little progress until the Congress of Vienna.[1] Main article: Restoration (Switzerland) On 20 March 1815 Bern was given the town of Biel/Bienne and much of the land that had been owned by the Bishop of Basel as compensation for territory lost during the Long Diet. The Valtellina, formerly owned by Graubunden, was granted to Austria. Muhlhausen (Mulhouse in French) was left as part of France. On 7 August 1815 the new constitution was sworn to by all the cantons except Nidwalden. Nidwalden only agreed under military force on 30 August and as punishment lost Engelberg to Obwalden. By the new constitution the sovereign rights of each canton were fully recognized, and a return made to the lines of the old constitution, though there were to be no subject lands, and political rights were not to be the exclusive privilege of any class of citizens. Each canton had one vote in the Diet, where an absolute majority was to decide all matters save foreign affairs, when a majority of three-fourths was required.[1] French Revolutionary Wars: Campaigns of 1798 ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 "Switzerland". Encyclopædia Britannica 26. 1911. p. 257. Retrieved 2008-10-05. ↑ Helvetic Republic in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Histoire de la Suisse, Éditions Fragnière, Fribourg, Switzerland ↑ Bürgergemeinde in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland. ↑ Shadwell, p. 108; Smith, Clash at Winterthur. pp. 156–157. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Shadwell, p. 108. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Atteridge, p. 46. ↑ Blanning, p. 233; Shadwell, p. 108. ↑ Smith, Clash at Winterthur. pp. 156–157. ↑ Smith, p. 158. ↑ Smith reports that the casualty figures are controversial. Smith, p. 158. ↑ Invalid language code. Katja Hürlimann, (Johann Konrad) Friedrich von Hotze in Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz. 15/01/2008 edition, accessed 18 October 2009'; Blanning, pp. 233–234. ↑ Invalid language code. Jens-Florian Ebert. Freiherr von Hotze. Die Österreichischen Generäle 1792–1815. Accessed 15 October 2009; Invalid language code. Katja Hürlimann, (Johann Konrad) Friedrich von Hotze; Blanning, pp. 233–34. ↑ Smith, 158. ↑ Rothenberg, p. 74. ↑ Invalid language code. Hürlimann, "(Johann Konrad) Friedrich von Hotze. ↑ Blanning, p. 252. ↑ Thiers, p. 400–401. ↑ Blanning, p. 253; Invalid language code. Hürlimann, "(Johann Konrad) Friedrich von Hotze"; Longworth, p. 270. ↑ Lina Hug and Richard Stead. Switzerland. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1902, p. 361; Thiers, p. 401–402. ↑ Longworth, pp. 270–271. ↑ 23.0 23.1 Helvetic Republic, Historiography and Remembrance in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland. ↑ Act of Mediation in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland. 40x40px Wikisource has the text of a 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article about The Period of Religious Divisions and French Influence — up to 1814. Atteridge, Andrew Hilliarde. The bravest of the brave, Michel Ney: marshal of France, duke of Elchingen. New York: Brentano, 1913. Blanning, Timothy. The French Revolutionary Wars, New York: Oxford University Press, 1996, ISBN 0-340-56911-5. Invalid language code. Ebert, Jens-Florian. "Friedrich Freiherr von Hotze." Die Österreichischen Generäle 1792–1815. Accessed 15 October 2009. Invalid language code. Hürlimann, Katja. "Friedrich von Hotze." Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz. 15 January 2008 edition, Accessed 18 October 2009. Rothenberg, Gunther E. (2007). Napoleon’s Great Adversaries: Archduke Charles and the Austrian Army 1792–1914. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Spellmount. ISBN 978-1-86227-383-2. Shadwell, Lawrence. Mountain warfare illustrated by the campaign of 1799 in Switzerland: being a translation of the Swiss narrative, compiled from the works of the Archduke Charles, Jomini, and other...London: Henry S. King, 1875. Smith, Digby. The Napoleonic Wars Databook. London: Greenhill, 1998, ISBN 1-85367-276-9. Thiers, Adolphe. The history of the French revolution. New York, Appleton, 1854, v. 4. 24x21pxHistory portal 24x21pxSwitzerland portal de:Geschichte der Schweiz#Die «Franzosenzeit»: Helvetik und Médiation 1798–1814 This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article Switzerland in the Napoleonic era; it is used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA). 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Neither "Module:Location map/data/Russia Tambov Oblast" nor "Template:Location map Russia Tambov Oblast" exists.Location of Tambov in Tambov Oblast Coordinates: 52°43′N 41°26′E / 52.717°N 41.433°E / 52.717; 41.433Coordinates: 52°43′N 41°26′E / 52.717°N 41.433°E / 52.717; 41.433{{#coordinates:52\|43\|N\|41\|26\|E\|region:RU-TAM_type:city(280,161)\|\| \|primary \|name= August 5[citation needed] Administrative status (as of November 2011) Federal subject Tambov Oblast[1] Administratively subordinated to city of oblast significance of Tambov[1] Administrative center of Tambov Oblast,[1] Tambovsky District,[1] city of oblast significance of Tambov[1] Municipal status (as of November 2011) Urban okrug Tambov Urban Okrug[2] Tambov Urban Okrug,[2] Tambovsky Municipal District[2] Mayor[citation needed] Pyotr Chernovanov[citation needed] Script error: No such module "convert".[3][4] Population (2010 Census) 280,161 inhabitants[5] - Rank in 2010 Script error: No such module "convert".[6] MSK (UTC+03:00)[7] April 17, 1636[citation needed] City status since 1719[citation needed] Postal code(s)[8] Dialing code(s) +7 4752[citation needed] Tambov on WikiCommons Tambov (Russian: Тамбов; IPA: [tɐmˈbof]) is a city and the administrative center of Tambov Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Tsna and Studenets Rivers, about Script error: No such module "convert". south-southeast of Moscow. Population: 280,161 (2010 Census);[5] 293,658 (2002 Census);[9] 304,600 (1989 Census).[10] 3 Administrative and municipal status 6 Climate 10 Notable people 11 Twin towns and sister cities 12.2 Sources The name "Tambov" originates from the Moksha language word "томба" (tomba) meaning "abyss".[11][12] Tambov was founded by the decree of Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich on April 17, 1636 (Old Style). Originally, it was a border fortress against attacks by the Crimean Tatars, but it soon declined in importance as a military outpost. It then became the region's administrative and trade center. Roman Boborykin, the emperor's court menial (stolnik) and voivode was the town's first builder. Thanks to his experience, the fortress had been completed rapidly. Tambov was granted city status in 1719. In 1779, Tambov Viceroyalty was formed, and on August 16, 1781, Empress Catherine the Great approved the city's coat of arms depicting a beehive, symbolizing the town's hardworking residents. This viceyorality was formed from southern parts of Ryazan Viceyorality and northern parts of Voronezh Viceyorality. In March 1786, the disgraced Russian poet and statesman Gavrila Derzhavin was appointed the governor of Tambov Governorate—a post that he held until December 1788. Even during that brief tenure he accomplished a great deal: a theater, a college, a dancing school, a printing business, an orchestra, and a brickyard were built. Tambov later erected a monument to Derzhavin. In November 1830, during the Cholera Riots in Russia, the citizens of Tambov attacked their governor, but they were soon suppressed by the regular army. Later in the 19th century Tambov became a significant cultural center that supported a growing number of schools, libraries, and other institutions. By 1897, its population was more than 50,000 people. During the Civil War, in 1920–1921, the region witnessed the Tambov Rebellion—a bitter struggle between local residents and the Bolshevik Red Army. In 1921, a Tambov Republic was established, but it was soon crushed by the Red Army under the command of Mikhail Tukhachevsky. Between 1928 and 1934, Tambov became okrug center in Central Black Earth Oblast. After dissolving the oblast in 13 June 1934, it was become raion center in Voronezh Oblast.Tambov finally became center of Tambov Oblast, which was created from oblasts of Voronezh and Kuybyshev in 27 September 1937. The oblast had present form after separation of Penza Oblast (formerly part of Kuybyshev one) in 4 February 1939. During and after World War II, most of the Malgré-nous from Alsace-Moselle were jailed in "Camp #188" at Tambov. Between 4,000 and 10,000 French people died in this camp.[13] In 1991, a Script error: No such module "convert". high guyed television antenna was built in Tambov. Administrative and municipal status Tambov serves as the administrative center of the oblast and, within the framework of administrative divisions, it also serves as the administrative center of Tambovsky District, even though it is not a part of it.[1] As an administrative division, it is incorporated as the city of oblast significance of Tambov—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.[1] As a municipal division, the city of oblast significance of Tambov is incorporated as Tambov Urban Okrug.[2] The city is highly industrialized. The city is a large industrial center and is served by Tambov Donskoye Airport. Tambov is also the location of the Tambov air base of the Russian Air Force. A railway connection between Tambov and Moscow was first established in 1871.[14] The railroad goes on to Saratov. The tracks at Tambov's station do not have electrification. There are passenger train routes from Tambov to other such cities as Volgograd, Sochi, St. Petersburg, Voronezh, and some cities along the Trans-Siberian Railroad. Other foreign cities are Kharkiv, Minsk, Warsaw, and even Berlin, through a long Trans-European route. There are also small suburban trains, or "rail buses" that connect Tambov Oblast's capital with other cities, such as Michurinsk, Uvarovo, and Kirsanov. Tambov has a humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification Dfb tend to Dfa). The average temperature of the coldest month (February) is about -8 °C, the warmest month (July ) - about +20 °C. Because of the southerly location average annual temperature in Tambov, about 2 degrees higher than in Moscow. Annual rainfall ranges from 400 to 650 mm, more than half of them (about 270 mm) of precipitation falls in the warm season. Duration of the warm period is 154 days. This page is a soft redirect.- colspan="14" #REDIRECTmw:Help:Magic words#Other This page is a soft redirect. Climate data for Tambov Script error: No such module "WeatherBox". Script error: No such module "WeatherBox". Script error: No such module "WeatherBox". Script error: No such module "WeatherBox". Script error: No such module "WeatherBox". Script error: No such module "WeatherBox". colspan="14" style="text-align:center;font-size:85%" #REDIRECTmw:Help:Magic words#Other This page is a soft redirect.Source: Pogoda.ru.net[15] The city is home to two universities, Tambov State University and Tambov State Technical University. The Tambov Art Gallery houses a vast collection of canvases by Russian and West-European artists. Russia's oldest drama theater is located in Tambov, as well as two universities, two military colleges, a musical school, a museum of local lore, and other cultural institutions. Tambov's professional association football team, FC Spartak Tambov, plays in the Russian Second Division. 23px This section is empty. You can help by adding to it. (March 2015) Andrey Kolmogorov (1903–87), mathematician Sergei Rachmaninoff, musician Alexander Lodygin, electrical engineer Nikolay Fyodorov, religious philosopher Lev Kuleshov, movie director Ida Kar, photographer Victor Merzhanov, pianist Anastasia Rodionova, tennis player Arina Rodionova, tennis player Yuri Zhirkov, football player See also: List of people from Tambov Twin towns and sister cities File:Казанский монастырь в Тамбове. Открытка дореволюционная.jpg An old postcard depicting the Russian Orthodox monastery in Tambov See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Russia Tambov is a sister city of: 23x15px Bar-le-Duc, France 23x15px Genoa, Italy 23x15px Terre Haute, Indiana, United States ^ a b c d e f g h Law #72-Z ^ a b c d Law #232-Z ^ Росстат. База данных показателей муниципальных образований ^ Доклад «О состоянии и использовании земель в Тамбовской области в 2011 году» Приложение 1. Распределение земель Тамбовской области по категориям в разрезе районов и городов (на 1 января 2012 года, га)), стр. 108. Данные на 1 января 2012 года. ^ a b Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2011). "Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1" [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года (2010 All-Russia Population Census) (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved June 29, 2012. ^ The value of density was calculated automatically by dividing the 2010 Census population by the area specified in the infobox. Please note that this value may not be accurate as the area specified in the infobox does not necessarily correspond to the area of the entity proper or is reported for the same year as the population. ^ Правительство Российской Федерации. Федеральный закон №107-ФЗ от 3 июня 2011 г. «Об исчислении времени», в ред. Федерального закона №248-ФЗ от 21 июля 2014 г. «О внесении изменений в Федеральный закон "Об исчислении времени"». Вступил в силу по истечении шестидесяти дней после дня официального опубликования (6 августа 2011 г.). Опубликован: "Российская газета", №120, 6 июня 2011 г. (Government of the Russian Federation. Federal Law #107-FZ of June 31, 2011 On Calculating Time, as amended by the Federal Law #248-FZ of July 21, 2014 On Amending Federal Law "On Calculating Time". Effective as of after sixty days following the day of the official publication.). ^ Почта России. Информационно-вычислительный центр ОАСУ РПО. (Russian Post). Поиск объектов почтовой связи (Postal Objects Search) Invalid language code. ^ Russian Federal State Statistics Service (May 21, 2004). "Численность населения России, субъектов Российской Федерации в составе федеральных округов, районов, городских поселений, сельских населённых пунктов – районных центров и сельских населённых пунктов с населением 3 тысячи и более человек" [Population of Russia, Its Federal Districts, Federal Subjects, Districts, Urban Localities, Rural Localities—Administrative Centers, and Rural Localities with Population of Over 3,000] (XLS). Всероссийская перепись населения 2002 года [All-Russia Population Census of 2002] (in Russian). Retrieved August 9, 2014. ^ Demoscope Weekly (1989). "Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 г. Численность наличного населения союзных и автономных республик, автономных областей и округов, краёв, областей, районов, городских поселений и сёл-райцентров" [All Union Population Census of 1989: Present Population of Union and Autonomous Republics, Autonomous Oblasts and Okrugs, Krais, Oblasts, Districts, Urban Settlements, and Villages Serving as District Administrative Centers]. Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 года [All-Union Population Census of 1989] (in Russian). Институт демографии Национального исследовательского университета: Высшая школа экономики [Institute of Demography at the National Research University: Higher School of Economics]. Retrieved August 9, 2014. ^ Мокшанско-русский словарь / НИИЯЛИЭ при Совете Министров Правительстве Республики Мордовия; Под редакцией Б. А. Серебрянникова, А. П. Феоктистова, О. Е. Полякова - Москва: Русский язык: Дигора, 1998. ^ Train Station in Tambov Invalid language code. ^ "Pogoda.ru.net" (in Russian). Retrieved September 8, 2007. Тамбовская областная Дума. Закон №72-З от 21 июня 1996 г. «Об административно-территориальном устройстве Тамбовской области», в ред. Закона №438-З от 29 июля 2014 г. «О внесении изменений в статью 7 Закона Тамбовской области "Об административно-территориальном устройстве Тамбовской области"». Опубликован: "Тамбовская жизнь", №131, 1996 г. (Tambov Oblast Duma. Law #72-Z of June 21, 1996 On the Administrative-Territorial Structure of Tambov Oblast, as amended by the Law #438-Z of July 29, 2014 On Amending Article 7 of the Law of Tambov Oblast "On the Administrative-Territorial Structure of Tambov Oblast". ). Тамбовская областная Дума. Закон №232-З от 17 сентября 2004 г. «Об установлении границ и определении места нахождения представительных органов муниципальных образований в Тамбовской области», в ред. Закона №497-З от 29 декабря 2014 г. «О внесении изменений в Закон Тамбовской области "Об установлении границ и определении места нахождения представительных органов муниципальных образований в Тамбовской области"». Вступил в силу со дня официального опубликования. Опубликован: "Тамбовская жизнь", №185 (23125). (Tambov Oblast Duma. Law #232-Z of September 17, 2004 On Establishing the Borders and Determining the Location of the Representative Organs of the Municipal Formations of Tambov Oblast, as amended by the Law #497-Z of December 29, 2014 On Amending the Law of Tambov Oblast "On Establishing the Borders and Determining the Location of the Representative Organs of the Municipal Formations of Tambov Oblast". Effective as of the official publication date.). Official website of Tambov Invalid language code. Pictures of Tambov Tambov news Invalid language code. 12px Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Tambov (town)". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. Tambov Rebellion by Sennikov Published by Posev, in Moscow 2004. ISBN 5-85824-152-2 Administrative divisions of Tambov Oblast Administrative center: Tambov Coat of arms of Tambov Oblast Flag of Tambov Oblast Bondarsky Gavrilovsky Inzhavinsky Kirsanovsky Michurinsky Mordovsky Morshansky Muchkapsky Nikiforovsky Pervomaysky Petrovsky Pichayevsky Rasskazovsky Rzhaksinsky Sampursky Sosnovsky Staroyuryevsky Tambovsky Tokaryovsky Umyotsky Uvarovsky Zherdevsky Znamensky This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article Tambov; it is used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA). You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the CC-BY-SA	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26126
__label__wiki	0.736032	0.736032	STARTED EARLY, TOOK MY DOG by Kate Atkinson Bond Street Books, November 2010 The Merrion Centre shopping mall in Leeds is the staging area for this fourth episode in the adventures of Jackson Brodie, "semi-retired" private investigator. It is here that the three major characters are launched into actions that will transform their lives. First, Jackson himself, who rescues a dog from its abusive owner. Then Tracy Waterhouse, retired policewoman, currently employed on the security force in the centre, who also spontaneously engages in her own, far more significant, rescue operation. And finally, Tilly, an actress currently appearing in a TV serial but teetering on the edge of dementia, who is saved from the embarrassment of being charged with shoplifting for inadvertently wandering off with a Leeds A-Z. Pursuing the narrative arc in STARTED EARLY is a little like trying to reconstruct the naked lady in Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase. It's there all right, but you have to put in a bit of effort to get her to come into focus. Atkinson unfolds a story that has roots in a dreadful event that occurred thirty-five years ago in Leeds against the background of the unfolding drama of the Yorkshire Ripper case. Tracy was a young police constable who witnessed the aftermath of that event. Brodie is trying to find out the whereabouts of her birth parents for a client in New Zealand who was evidently born in Leeds. And Tilly's increasing dementia means that the boundaries between past and present in her mind are increasingly infirm. It should go without saying that Kate Atkinson is a superb technician. Indeed, she tends to drive the staider critics mad because she manages a complex approach to narration often thought to beyond the scope of the mere detective novel, and she does it without apparently breathing hard or suggesting that all of this is too rich for what used to be called the "common reader." Her characters, generally speaking, are "common" too, ordinary folks whose lives become extraordinary when they act to do good when called upon. The rescues that take place in that most placeless of contemporary places, the shopping centre, are both accompanied by a muttered chorus from passers-by of "someone ought to do something," "it oughtn't to be allowed," and "where are the authorities." But Jackson and Tracy don't merely mutter. They each act decisively and their lives will be forever transformed as a result. Jackson has become a lover of poetry, especially of Emily Dickinson, and what he sees, what happens to him, constantly prompts a quotation from her collected works. The title itself comes from #520 in that volume and Kate Atkinson never quotes the poem in full. I do recommend readers look it up, however; it says a great deal about Jackson and this novel. While you're at it, another Dickinson - "My life had stood - a loaded Gun" - could also have served as a title here. For it is precisely that sense of potential power within the most ordinary of persons, just waiting for the appropriate trigger to make itself felt that makes Atkinson's characters so compelling. In a recent interview, Atkinson has suggested that STARTED EARLY may in fact be Jackson Brodie's swan song. But if this is indeed the last we see of him (and I deeply hope it is not), I impatiently look forward to following wherever Atkinson cares to go. � Yvonne Klein is a writer, translator, and retired college English professor who lives in Montreal. Reviewed by Yvonne Klein, November 2010	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26127
__label__wiki	0.566358	0.566358	Proudly Operating in San Luis Obispo County Since 1992 COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION Access Shuttle Veterans Express Shuttle Medi-Cal/CenCal Health Mental Health Shuttle Community Interaction Program Hospital Transfers/Medical Shuttle Social Service Transportation Planning Ag Van (Agricultural Workers Vanpool) Agency Support Senior Shuttle GENERAL PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION Airport/Amtrak Visitor Transportation Wedding Transportation Special Events/Group Transportation Kids Shuttles & School Field Trips University Shuttles Transportation Management Association Submit a Ride Request Submit Feedback to Us Submit Info to Join/Start a Vanpool Join our Mailing List for Special Offers & Discounts Home/Ride-On Transportation's History The History of Ride-On Transportation The History of UCP of San Luis Obispo County and Ride-On Transportation Ride-On Transportation is a part of United Cerebral Palsy (UCP) of San Luis Obispo County - a San Luis Obispo, California based non-profit that serves children and adults with developmental disabilities. How Ride-On Transportation formed from UCP is a very interesting and unique story. United Cerebral Palsy (UCP) came into our county in the fall of 1985 to look for a facilitator for several self-advocacy groups in response to a grant. Self-advocacy groups are made up of people with disabilities who utilize a board format to work on issues in their lives. The coordinator for UCP of Santa Barbara recruited Mark Shaffer to become the facilitator for two self-advocacy groups. Mark learned a great deal from these groups, including the concerns of the people the system was serving. The primary need which the group began working on was the lack of transportation in the evenings and weekends. Members of the group spoke at the annual unmet transportation hearings for two years to increase the operating hours of the Runabout System. The government officials increased the funding levels for the system, but the hours of operation did not meet the needs of people with disabilities. In 1987, Mark Shaffer developed the concept of a Community Interaction Program (CIP) to help increase access into the community during the evenings and weekends. Tri-Counties Regional Center refused to fund the program. Mark set up a leasing agreement with Friendship School to use their vehicles and drivers in the evenings and weekends to get the service going. UCP offered to provide canisters to be placed at stores to raise funds for the service. The self-advocates asked the government officials to provide $3,000 to match the $3,000 the CIP Program would raise through the canister programs. In the summer of 1988, UCP began operating the CIP Program out of Mark's home. To promote the services, the CIP newsletter became a monthly bulletin in the fall of 1988. In 1989, the Leisure Club began monthly meetings at a Friendship School Program. The Summer of 1990, UCP-CIP began Camp Kelley Creek at the San Marcos Baptist Camp near Lake Cachuma. In the spring of 1991, Friendship School became concerned about the liability of their In-Home Respite Care program. Mark met with their director, David Singleton and representatives from Tri-Counties Regional Center to arrange a transfer of the service to United Cerebral Palsy. In March, UCP opened a small office on Pacific Street, with a Program Coordinator and a Respite Coordinator. In the spring of 1991, CIP began the CIP Tour Program with a camping trip to Yosemite. In June of 1992, the UCP office moved into the Old French Hospital at 1160 Marsh, Suite 102 in San Luis Obispo. In the Spring of 1988, the San Luis Obispo Council of Governments (SLOCOG) designated UCP as the Consolidated Transportation Service Agency (CTSA) to set up funding for the CIP service. The SLOCOG funded a study to look at increasing the coordination of social service transportation. In the spring of 1992, SLOCOG staff approached UCP to develop a larger CTSA effort. UCP worked with Friendship School and Mesa Dolores Home to begin the Ride-On (CTSA) services in January of 1993. At the same time that Ride-On began its operations, the Regional Rideshare Program approached Ride-On with the concept of serving the general public through the formation of a Transportation Management Association (TMA). UCP had planned to develop a more integrated service for people with disabilities. Caltrans sponsored a feasibility study to explore the possibility of Ride-On becoming a county-wide TMA. UCP used the funding from the feasibility study to establish the third component of the UCP program, the TMA. The TMA’s goal was to use Ride-On’s vehicles to encourage group transportation to reduce traffic congestion and air pollution. In October of 1994, United Cerebral Palsy of San Luis Obispo County became an independent affiliate with it’s own Board of Directors. 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__label__wiki	0.938975	0.938975	Tampa Bay 0 1 0 0 2 1 2 0 0 6 12 0 Cleveland 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 5 1 W: C. Morton (5-0) L: C. Carrasco (4-5) Progressive Field, Cleveland, Ohio Attendance: 25,882 Morton strikes out season-high 10, Rays beat Indians 6-2 (AP Photo/Ron Schwane) By BRIAN DULIK CLEVELAND (AP) Charlie Morton returned to the clubhouse Saturday afternoon and waited. Then he waited some more, anticipating the arrival of thunderstorms that never materialized. The delay didn't faze him, nor did it stop his career-best unbeaten streak. Morton struck out a season-high 10 and allowed one run over six innings - his 18th straight start without a loss - as the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Cleveland Indians 6-2 in a game that began nearly three hours late because of an incorrect weather forecast. "Well, it turned out to be a 7 o'clock game, so it wasn't bad," he quipped. "Saturday 7 o'clock games are fine, just fine. I wasn't out there (during the delay), but I heard the wind was really bad, so we just kind of hung out and stayed ready and it turned out all right." Morton (5-0), who gave up three hits and threw a season-high 106 pitches, hasn't lost since last Aug. 11 with Houston. The right-hander is 8-0 with a 3.10 ERA during his streak, which is the second-longest in the majors behind the 19 by the Dodgers' Clayton Kershaw. The first pitch was postponed from 4:10 until 6:58, but the conditions remained dry and warm throughout, except for a several-minute spell of light rain. "I'm not a weatherman, but when you get those lake effect and storms rolling in here, sometimes they nail you and pop out of nowhere," Rays manager Kevin Cash said. "We totally understood the situation. "Charlie didn't let it bother him and he made some big pitches. What that breaking ball is on, that really is a big equalizer for him like you saw tonight." Ji-Man Choi and Tommy Pham each hit two-run homers and Brandon Lowe added a solo shot for Tampa Bay, which is in the midst of playing 34 games in 34 days through June 23. Pham upped his hitting streak to 11 and Lowe had two RBIs. Choi's blast to left gave the Rays a 3-1 lead in the fifth, while Pham's rocket to center in the seventh made it 6-1 and chased Indians starter Carlos Carrasco (4-5). Carrasco dropped his second straight start, giving up five earned runs in 6 1/3 innings. The righty has surrendered nine homers in 31 innings during five May outings. "See the fastball and hit it, that's what they've been looking for," he said. "I feel a little bit disappointed about those pitches because I didn't locate them." Carlos Santana went 2 for 4 with a homer and double for Cleveland, which has lost five of six and fell to 4-6 on its season-high 11-game homestand. TERRY TOSSED Indians manager Terry Francona was ejected in the sixth by third base umpire Eric Cooper for arguing that Jose Ramirez did not swing at a pitch that hit him. It was his first ejection since 2016. "I thought it was a poor call and I told him I thought he had an even poorer night (behind the plate) the night before," Francona said. "Sometimes their attitude has just as much to do with ejections." COMING, GOING The Indians recalled LF Greg Allen and selected the contract of LHP Josh D. Smith from Triple-A Columbus. RHP Adam Plutko and C Eric Haase were optioned to the Clippers. The 29-year-old Smith made his big league debut with 1 2/3 scoreless innings. Francona said Allen's stay could be brief as Cleveland needs a starting pitcher Tuesday in Boston. Rays: 3B Matt Duffy (left hamstring tightness) has not returned to his rehab assignment at Triple-A Durham since aggravating his injury Wednesday at Norfolk. Indians: OF Tyler Naquin (left calf strain), who has been on the 10-day injured list since May 11, ran the bases without any issues Friday at Progressive Field. Rays: RHP Ryne Stanek (0-1, 3.38 ERA) will be the opener in the four-game series finale. Eleven of his 13 starts this year - all two innings or fewer - have been scoreless. Indians: RHP Trevor Bauer (4-3, 3.95 ERA) takes on Tampa Bay for the first time since June 22, 2016. In five home appearances this season, he is 1-2 with a 6.14 ERA. More AP baseball: https://apnews.com/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP-Sports	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26130
__label__wiki	0.626652	0.626652	Thomas Moran and Yellowstone National Park Charles Bird King, Henry Inman and McKenney Hall Lithographs Gustave Baumann Nicolai Fechin The Onderdonks Pistols: Dazzling Firearms Stark Museum of Art Collections Bibliography Stark Museum of Art Publications Tapestry Bibliography Selected, Annotated Bibliography Anderson, Nancy K., with contributions by William C. Sharpe and Alexander Nemerov. Frederic Remington: The Color of Night. Washington, DC, Princeton and Oxford: National Gallery of Art and Princeton University Press, 2003. Publication accompanying an exhibition of Remington’s night paintings. Provides a catalogue raisonn of his nocturnes, important essays on the significance of Remington’s accomplishments, and conservators notes. Ballinger, James K. Frederic Remington. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. in association with the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1989. Thoughtful analysis of Remington’s artistic development from his work as an illustrator to fine arts painter/sculptor. Buckland, Roscoe L. Frederic Remington: The Writer. New York: Twayne Publishers, 2000. Study of Remington’s contributions as an author. Contains biographical information, mostly drawn from earlier secondary sources, but useful for an overview of the artist’s life. Dippie, Brian W. The Frederic Remington Art Museum Collection. Ogdensburg, NY: Frederic Remington Art Museum, 2001. Catalog analyzes the paintings and sculpture of Frederic Remington Art Museum, a collection developed from estate of Remington’s widow. Strong scholarship based on research from museum’s archives. Greenbaum, Michael D. Icons of the West: Frederic Remington’s Sculpture. Ogdensburg, NY: Frederic Remington Art Museum, 1996. Comprehensive, up-to-date study of Remington’s bronzes. Chapter on each sculpture, information on foundry marks, lists of known casts. Extensive photography. Essential for study of sculpture. Hassrick, Peter H. The Frederic Remington Studio. Seattle, Washington and London: University of Washington Press in association with the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, 1994. Essay on the artist’s working studio, which has been reconstructed at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Photographs of paintings and objects from the artist’s personal collection. Hassrick, Peter H. Remington, Russell and the Language of Western Art. Washington, DC: Trust for Museum Exhibitions, 2000. Catalog of loan exhibition bringing together important paintings and sculpture by Frederic Remington and Charles Marion Russell. Excellent comparison of the two most important artists of the West. Hassrick, Peter H. and Melissa J. Webster. Frederic Remington: A Catalogue Raisonn of Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings. Cody, WY: Buffalo Bill Historical Center in association with the University of Washington Press, 1996. Two volumes listing all known paintings, watercolors and finished drawings with an illustration of each. Catalogue arranged by date with information on materials, size, early publication data and current location. Accompanying CD-Rom reproduces catalogue and contains additional information on ownership and exhibition history. Essays provide background on Remington and the literature about him. Comprehensive bibliography. Indispensable for studying Remington as painter. Jussim, Estelle. Frederic Remington, The Camera and the Old West. Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum, 1983. An analysis of the camera’s impact on art-making. Keto, Kelly (Coordinator). Remington,The Years of Critical Acclaim. Santa Fe, NM: The Peters Corporation, 1998. Focuses on the last years of Remington’s career, 1905-1909, when the change in the artists style brought him critical recognition. Features an important essay on Remington’s tonal aesthetics and night paintings, The Nocturne Paintings of Frederic Remington by Melissa Webster. Published by an art gallery, the publication also includes a selection of plates of paintings and sculpture with cataloging information. McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott, Co., 1947. Important early study. Bibliography contains descriptions of print sets useful for print collectors. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Frederic Remington “The Truth of Other Days.” New York: Public Media Home Vision, 1990. Video on Remington and his art with location shots in New York and Wyoming. Neff, Emily Ballew with Wynne H. Phelan. Frederic Remington: The Hogg Brothers Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press in association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2000. Catalog of an important collection of Remington works at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts with insightful commentary on the works and on the patron who collected them. Valuable essay on Remington’s technique by conservator. Nemerov, Alexander. Frederic Remington and Turn-of-the-Century America. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995. Interprets Remington’s art in the context of his time. Remington, Frederic. John Ermine of the Yellowstone. Introduction and notes by Gary Scharnhorst. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. Originally published in 1902. A novel about the West, written and illustrated by Remington. Introduction compares Remington as an author with others of the period. Scharnhorst’s explanatory notes assist the reader with terminology of the period. Includes bibliography. Remington, Frederic. Pony Tracks. Introduction by J. Frank Dobie. Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1961. Originally published in 1895. Remington’s first book, a collection of reports from the West written for magazines. This edition, with Dobies introduction, is usually available in paperback. Samuels, Peggy and Harold Samuels. ed. The Collected Writings of Frederic Remington. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1979. The most comprehensive compilation of Remington’s published prose including magazine articles, short stories and novels. Samuels, Peggy and Harold Samuels. Frederic Remington: A Biography. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1982. Thorough biography of the artist; contains a wealth of anecdotes, quotations and photographs. Good source of detailed background information. Samuels, Peggy and Harold Samuels. Remington: The Complete Prints. New York: Crown, 1989. Illustrations and publication information on each known print. Shapiro, Michael. Cast and Recast: The Sculpture of Frederic Remington. Washington, DC: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1981. Groundbreaking study on authenticity. Good explanation of casting methods. Supplanted by Greenbaum’s more recent book, but valuable for in-depth research on bronzes and recasts. Shapiro, Michael and Peter Hassrick. Frederic Remington: The Masterworks. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1988. An excellently written, richly illustrated catalog. Essays on biography, influences, paintings, sculpture and writings. Splete, Allen P. and Marilyn D. Splete. Frederic Remington, Selected Letters. New York: Abbeville Press, 1988. The most comprehensive gathering of Remington’s letters to friends, family and business associates with information on the recipients and circumstances. Giesecke, Ernestine. The Life and Work of Frederic Remington. Chicago: Heinemann Library, 2000. Includes a biography, timeline, photographs, and drawings and paintings by the artist. Ages 4-8. Peter, Adeline and Ernest Raboff. Frederic Remington. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1973. Part of the series Art for Children, this book contains a brief biographical sketch of the artist and approximately 15 full-color reproductions and well as many smaller designs and drawings. Venezia, Mike. Frederic Remington. Danbury, CT: Children’s Press, 2002. Biography. Includes 12 color illustrations of the artist’s work, magazine illustrations and a bronze sculpture. Ages. 9-12. Adapted from Whitney Gallery of Western Art, Buffalo Bill Historical Center by Stark Museum of Art, Research Library 712 Green Avenue, Orange, TX 77630. January 2008Selected titles may be available for purchase in the Museum Store. For Museum Store information call 409-886-2787 ext. 13. You can also consult your local library. Books not in the holdings of your local library can often be borrowed through inter-library loan.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26132
__label__wiki	0.692494	0.692494	Tag: Prince Half sister of Saudi crown prince is on trial in Paris after theft and kidnapping charges PARIS — Nearly three years after she was first accused of ordering a bodyguard to assault a man in Paris, Hassa bint Salman, the half sister of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, went on trial in … Half-sister of Saudi crown prince on trial in Paris after theft and kidnapping charges PARIS — Three years after she was first accused of ordering a bodyguard to assault a man in Paris, Hassa bint Salman, the half sister of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, went on trial in France … Paris Jackson Gets Support From Mom Debbie Rowe, Brother Prince and Macaulay Culkin at Intimate Performance Did Paris Jackson’s music career just take flight? On Saturday night, the daughter of the late Michael Jackson took the stage at The Mint in West LA with her boyfriend Gabriel Glenn where the pair … Where are Michael Jackson’s Children Now? Paris, Prince and “Blanket” Jackson Today Jackson had his first two children—Michael Jr., known as “Prince,” and Paris— by his second wife, Deborah Rowe. The couple met in the office of Jackson’s dermatologist, where Rowe was a nurse, and mar… How Paris Jackson and Brother Prince Are Honoring Late Father Michael Jackson On His 60th Birthday (Exclusive) Michael Jackson will forever be remembered as one of the century’s greatest entertainers, and in honor of what would have been his 60th birthday, the King of Pop’s family, friends and big-name fans ca… Paris & Prince Jackson Upset Over Conrad Murray’s Attack Against Late Grandpa Joe Joe Jackson is being branded as the “worst father in history” by son Michael’s death doctor Conrad Murray. RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned that Paris and Prince Jackson are “furious” over his … Fans send best wishes to Prince Harry at Paris shrine to Diana PARIS (Reuters) – Well-wishers in Paris gathered by a shrine to Prince Harry’s late mother, Princess Diana, on Saturday to mark Prince Harry’s marriage to American actress Meghan Markle. The shrine by the Pont de l’Alma, next to the River Seine and … Saudi crown prince begins European tour in Paris RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived in Paris on Sunday at the start of a European tour after three weeks in the United States, where he pitched for investments and support against arch-rival Iran. France’s foreign … ‘No risk’ of lead poisoning from Notre-Dame, assures Paris	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26142
__label__wiki	0.900236	0.900236	Top 10 Famous Political Scandals Top 10 Cat Breeds That Should Be Avoided Top 10 Canadians who Require the Death Penalty Top 10 Animated Movies In Recent Times Top 10 Global Cities To Watch For Top 10 Reasons Why Chocolate Is Your Friend And Not Foe Top 10 Weird Themed Places and Events Top 10 iPhone Apps Top 10 Plays By Shakespeare 6. Richard III This play describes the King’s reign and puts him in an unflattering and unfavorable light. Some say that it is a tragedy but critics and scholars believe that it is definitely a part of the histories. It is quite a lengthy play which is why it is not too popular today. 7. Julius Caesar This play is about the ambitious Roman dictator and focuses primarily on the aftermath of his assassination. Marcus Brutus is the main protagonist who battles with his codes of honor, loyalty and patriotism. It is powerful and well-written and definitely among Shakespeare’s best pieces. 8. Twelfth Night or What You Will This play is a comedy which was published around 1623. The protagonist gets separated from her twin brother after which she believes him to be dead. She then ‘becomes’ a boy and starts calling herself Cesario. As the play progresses, the readers realize that poor Viola has weaved quite a tangled web for herself. 9. The Taming of the Shrew The Taming of the Shrew dates back to about 1594 and is about a young man who chooses to marry a bad-tempered but intelligent woman. He tricks her in order to ‘tame’ her and make sure that she does as he says. The play has faced a number of controversies over the years but the content has inspired a number of performances. 10. Othello, The Moor of Venice Shakespeare wrote this tragedy around 1603. Othello is an ambitious man who lets his ego get in the way. This play explores a myriad of themes like jealousy, racism, betrayal and love because of which it has been used for a number of literary and film adaptations. Necessary guidelines whenever composing an abstract… Dirty Details About I Require Assist Writing My… Just how to learn how to compose words for research,… The Ultimate Solution for Cbd Oil Best Reviews That… EducationenglishliteraturePlaysshakespearetop 10Top 10 ListTop Tentop ten listwriterwriting	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26145
__label__cc	0.623404	0.376596	Vivekananda Institute of Technology (VKIT) is one of the esteemed engineering colleges in Karnataka. VKIT offers quality based education aimed at building skill, expertise and knowledge among its students in the area of technology and design. VKIT was established in the year 1997 by Janatha Education Society(JES) in its Silver Jubilee year, VKIT affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University, approved by AICTE New Delhi and recognized by Government of Karnataka. The students of VKIT are colloquially referred to as VKITians. VKIT has carved a niche for itself for its best technical education provided in the state. Focusing on innovation, continuous improvement and with service orientation, the institute is committed to making a difference to all of its stakeholders.The ambience and serenity of a world class infrastructure housed in a lush green campus, faculty who have proven record in their teachings. The VKIT staff are well prepared to reach out, robust industry interactions, research aimed at solving problems of the real world combined to provide a rare synergy that transcends artificial barriers and enables to follow their heart with passion and confidence. Vivekananda Institute of Technology currently offers five full time undergraduate courses in Engineering and four research programs. VKIT has a unique trilogy of students, faculty and learning resources, producing some of the best human capital in the country. Values of the institution are the bed rock on which a culture of outstanding innovation and execution can thrive and its combination drives future growth on a logistical idea. To become an outstanding Knowledge dissemination centre at the cutting edge of Engineering and Technology to produce globally acceptable competent professionals who will be in the forefront of technological innovations for the benefit of mankind. To provide an excellent infrastructure and conducive ambiance in the Institute. To impart quality technical education combined with ethical values. To produce world class professionals to take up challenging assignments of latest an advancement in technology and engineering. To inculcate attitudes for research and developmental activities. To leave a legacy for development of next level engineers and technologists. Engineering knowledge Problem analysis Design/development of solutions Conduct investigations of complex problems Modern tool usage The engineer and society Individual and team work Project management and finance	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26154
__label__cc	0.562734	0.437266	The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction A History of the World in 6 Glasses True History of the Kelly Gang White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America Harry Potter: A History of Magic A Secret History of Witches Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 Origin Story: A Big History of Everything The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History The World of Ice & Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones Adolf Hitler: A Life From Beginning to End Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right Twilight and History Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26156
__label__wiki	0.854653	0.854653	slow food in Beirut In Beirut, a feast de résistance Defying the violence, a small group of Lebanese chefs and gourmets has kept restaurants open and is working to promote organic food. By Louise Roug, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer Monday night, 9 p.m.The darkened streets were eerily empty. At Bread, there were five people at a window table and a couple at the bar. “It looks promising,” said Nemr Abboud, co-owner of the restaurant. “Yesterday, we had zero. Today for lunch, zero.” Half an hour later, Kamal Mouzawak, a leading proponent of organic farming in Lebanon, and three Italian companions sat down at another window table. “This is resistance,” Mouzawak said. “Resistance is trying to have a regular life.” In recent days, there has been little regular life in Beirut. The army has been fighting an Al Qaeda-linked group in the northern part of the country, and bombs have gone off in the capital and elsewhere. Tourism has ground to a halt, and the normally hedonistic Lebanese have been staying at home. In a sort of mutiny of the bounty, a small cadre of gourmets and bons vivants has defiantly kept restaurants and produce markets open. They have pulled off a bread festival and held several dinners for visiting Italians with the Slow Food movement, which encourages biodiversity and saving traditional foods around the world. “Food is important, but more so is going out,” Abboud said. “It’s an act of defiance.” On this night, Bread’s chef and co-owner, Walid Ataya, was serving everything on the menu. For starters: raw artichokes and arugula, peppery merguez sausages, warm octopus salad and tartare de sardine — raw sardines in a brine of ginger and cilantro. Among the main courses, the grilled swordfish steak covered with capers, anchovies and bread crumbs drew special praise from the Italian guests, as did the seafood with frikeh, or green wheat. The chef and his diners at the small table overflowing with food weaved a conversation in French, English, Arabic and Italian as they sampled Lebanese wines from the Bekaa Valley. The dessert was Ataya’s piece de resistance: a classic apple pie, a perfection of buttery dough, sweet and juicy slices of fruit and a touch of cinnamon. This was not a night to watch the carbs. “Tutto è molto buono,” said Luca Fabbri, a Slow Food representative, blowing the chef a verbal kiss. ATAYA, a former architect and self-taught chef, uses only organic and local ingredients, taking his inspiration from such chefs as Nancy Silverton and Paul Prudhomme. On his menu, which changes daily, he has written: “Local fish only. We are proud of our fishermen.” The small restaurant, which has a curved whitewashed ceiling and chunky wood furniture, resembles a Roman trattoria. Like Silverton, co-founder of Campanile and La Brea Bakery in Los Angeles, Ataya also sells bread from his bakery, the Bread Republic. He and Abboud are part of a group of Lebanese culinary celebrities that also includes Mouzawak; agriculture activist Rami Zurayk; and Johnny Farah, owner of the famous Casablanca restaurant and the godfather of organic cuisine in Beirut. A few years ago, Ataya decided to expand Bread Republic. Abboud, also an architect, quit his practice to join the restaurant. Farah, who also owns several fashion stores here and abroad, threw his weight behind the venture, and the trio opened for business at Christmas 2004. Two months later, former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was assassinated in a massive bombing a few miles from the restaurant in Gemayzeh, a trendy neighborhood where decaying Ottoman buildings house hole-in-the wall eateries and bars. Unrest followed, with more assassinations and sectarian tensions. Last summer, Israel shelled Lebanese cities during a 34-day war with the militant Shiite group Hezbollah. Bread stayed open throughout — the only restaurant in the area that did. “It’s like someone hits you in the head and you fall down,” Abboud said. “Then you have two months of good work and everyone regains hope. It’s a cycle.” Restaurateurs and residents alike say that this latest wave of bombings in the capital, which have killed one and injured dozens in various districts, has had a more chilling effect on Beirut’s nightlife than Israel’s artillery assault, which is believed to have killed more than 1,000 people across the country. “We’ve never had four months of good work in a row,” Abboud said. “I take it day by day. We hope for the best, but we have no expectations.” The previous day, Mouzawak had arranged a bread festival in the cobblestoned heart of Byblos, an ancient city north of Beirut. Two U.S. travel writers had flown in to judge a competition among Lebanese bakers. This small country on the eastern Mediterranean has a mild climate, and producers grow many of the same fruits and vegetables as farmers in California. As in the Napa Valley, a multitude of vineyards dot the Bekaa Valley, which borders Syria. These Lebanese producers and their stalls of organic breads, cakes, pickled vegetables and jams of every kind wouldn’t have looked out of place at the Santa Monica farmers market, except for the veiled Shiite women who won first prize for their cracker-like bread, baked from an ancient recipe. The wafers made of wheat, bulgur, sesame seeds, wild pistachios and olive oil keep for months, making them a practical provision for those traveling to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, for the hajj. One of the bakers told Mouzawak that Lebanese in the south subsisted on the bread during the war last year. “It’s good for pilgrimage and war,” he said jokingly. ON this Sunday, some producers stayed home, fearful of the new tensions in the country. Those who turned up vied in three categories: innovation and sweet and salty traditions. “It’s a political statement more than just a competition,” Mouzawak said. Mouzawak is a co-founder of Souk el Tayeb, an organic cooperative that spans the country’s regions, religions and sects. Every week at the farmers market in downtown Beirut, Shiite women from the south sell baked goods and laurel soaps next to Sunni farmers hawking tomatoes and cucumbers from the north. Souk el Tayeb’s first brochure resembled a Lebanese passport, its theme, “United Farmers of Lebanon,” printed on the inside. “It’s food nationalism — supporting our land, our products and producers,” said Mouzawak, who opened the co-op’s only store in Byblos three days before the war began last summer. Both Hezbollah, which is on the State Department’s list of terrorist groups, and the U.S. Agency for International Development provide financial aid for organic farming in southern Lebanon. Little is known about Hezbollah’s farming program, which is managed by its general reconstruction affiliate, Jihad al Bina, said Zurayk, the agricultural activist, who teaches at the American University of Beirut and blogs at landandpeople.blogspot.com. “Like many other things they do, especially in agriculture, little information actually transpires, and whatever is produced does not find its way into the public market,” he said. The Souk el Tayeb co-op has stayed politically independent but receives funding from European governments and from nongovernmental groups. The Italian government, for example, earmarked $600,000 for food-related projects in Lebanon after the 2006 war. “A few years ago, this was just an interest of elite gourmets, but now it is a necessity and a new model for development work,” said Serena Milano, another Slow Food representative. “In a country like Lebanon, which is very small and open to international exchange, it is very important to preserve local traditions. And the farmers market is an important tool.” The Souk el Tayeb market “gets people together, and it’s not just for the well-to-do people,” said Farah, who began introducing organic produce at his Casablanca restaurant six years ago. He ascribes the high quality of Lebanese food to the 15-year civil war that ended in 1990. Trapped in their homes and in need of comfort, people turned to traditional recipes and locally grown produce, he said. After the bread festival, Mouzawak invited a large group of American and Beiruti foodies to his villa in the village of Batroun near Byblos. Guests had to travel through several army checkpoints set up along the scenic coastal road in response to the latest fighting. Children and adults ate stuffed mice — a local fish — and mekanek sausages as well as hummus and grilled vegetables. Ataya had brought his famous apple pie and a tangy cranberry one. “This is a Fatah al Islam calamari,” said Mouzawak, grinning, as he compared a large, stuffed octopus to the militants fighting in the north. The comparison put no one off. All ate with gusto. roug@latimes.com 2007/06/04 Posted by admin on 2007/06/04 Tagged with: food news on fish don’t touch that!	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26160
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__label__cc	0.515311	0.484689	My inaugural Weiner of the Month is the 1972 Miami Dolphins for the total lack of grace they've shown toward the New England Patriots in their quest to join the Dolphins as the only team to "run the table" and win all of their games in a given season. The '72 Dolphins act like their s*** doesn't stink. Yet, a quick review of that 72 season shows that in their 14 regular season games, they beat exactly two teams with a winning record: the Chiefs (8-6) and the Giants (8-6). They beat the Wild Card Browns, the upstart Steelers (a team that achieved its first winning season in - forever - that year), and the NFC Champion Redskins by a grand total of 17 points. Contrast that with a REAL champion - the '89 49ers - who beat their 3 playoff foes by 100 points! The 2007 New England Patriots are vastly superior to the '72 Dolphins. Hell, the '85 Bears, '98 Broncos, '84, '89, and '94 49ers, and any Cowboys team of the early '90's are better. But the classless '72 Dolphins are still talking trash like they're "all that". For their total hubris, the '72 Dolphins are my Wiener of the Month. Labels: Wiener of the Month I'll blog later on my little trip to Florida, but right now I'm all about the Wieners. Today I'll name the Wiener of the Week. Tomorrow, the Wiener of the Month for December will be selected. And Tuesday - New Year's Day - the Wiener of the Year will be named. It's Wiener Time in Vulture Land. The Wiener of the Week is Chris Jessie, the stepson of Texas coach Mack Brown. Jessie achieved his 15 minutes of infamy during the course of Texas' 52-34 victory over Arizona State University and its heinous coach, the loathsome drunk, Dennis Erickson, hated by 49ers fans the world over. Arizona State quarterback Rudy Carpenter threw an errant backwards pass - clearly a fumble - in the direction of the Texas bench. Just before the ball reached the sideline, but while the ball was clearly still in play, Jessie reached out and narrowly brushed the ball...WHILE STANDING IN THE FIELD OF PLAY. The resulting penalty gave Arizona State second life and they promptly scored on the very next play. While it can be argued that, because Texas ended up winning the game, Jessie should be cut some slack, the bottom line is this: ANYONE allowed on the sideline of a football game at ANY level MUST be aware of what's going on. For inserting himself into a Division 1-A football game at the worst possible moment, Chris Jessie is my Wiener of the Week. Labels: Wiener of the Week I'm going to be unable to post for the next few days, but I wanted to leave my many readers (HA HA HA HA HA HA HA) with one for the road. I know I have a reputation for being something of a wide-eyed ultra-right wing extremist. Yet, unlike many so designated, I have a very wide variety of authors whose commentary I sample on a regular basis. It never hurts to be informed on all sides of an issue, even when you're inevitably right, as I am. Camille Paglia is a sometimes-darling, sometimes-devil to the ultra-left. She is a feminist in the original tradition of Feminism (i.e., we want rights, but men aren't the devil). She is the most level-headed liberal I've ever had the pleasure of reading. So, whether you can relate with her unique brand of Rational Liberalism, or are more aligned with my "Abide by the Constitution, you bastards!" mentality, you might want to give her a read. Paglia recently opined on the subject of that blowhard charlatan, Al Gore, and his Nobel Peace Prize. Al Gore got the Nobel Prize this week for his role as chief propagandist in spreading global warming hysteria into every nook and cranny of credulous minds. I expect that this baseless panic, like all fads, will evaporate when apocalypse doesn't arrive on schedule. Meanwhile let's focus on legitimate practical issues -- such as the grotesque volume of pollution belched by big-rig trucks, which in the absence of an efficient interstate rail system in the U.S. are absurdly carrying freight for thousands of miles from coast to coast. Exhaust from family SUVs is nothing compared to the environmental damage wrought by trucks, whose massive weight and deadline-driven high speeds also constitute an unacceptable risk to passenger vehicles on the highway. Wow! A liberal who thinks for herself, and who thinks beyond talking points! If more liberals were like her, we might be able to get beyond the partisan stalemate in Washington. And how do I feel about Mr. Gore and his Nobel? Al Gore is the Joseph Goebbels of the One-World Socialist Utopia Elitist Oligarchy that seeks to rule over us all. He is a master of The Big Lie. He's a disease, and his crusade to force those of us who aren't fortunate enough to be among The Elite to live lesser lives in order to "save the planet" from......well, from NOTHING......is among the cruelest of hoaxes ever perpetrated. Lord football, the National Football League, is this week's Wiener of the Week. Why? Here's the problem. The Pro Bowl rosters have been named. There is an official, published list available through various sources. Because many of the players named to the Pro Bowl won't be able to participate for various reasons, there are a number of players designated as Alternates. If you watch tomorrow's games, you'll hear various references to "so-and-so is a second alternate for the Pro Bowl". Okay...the announcers know who's an alternate - why don't we, the fan, know? WHY is there no official published list of the Pro Bowl alternates? ANYWHERE? Oh, sure, if you Google "Pro Bowl Alternates", you'll be able to eventually track down, from team websites and radio station web sites, the Alternates from a given team or two. But you'll never be able to get the complete list. Why is the list of Pro Bowl alternates such a highly guarded secret? C'mon, NFL! We, your fans, whose dollars have enriched you and given you your popularity and power, deserve to know who the Alternates are! NFL - you are the Wiener of the Week. Labels: NFL , Wiener of the Week I must not be as plugged-in as I thought I was. I had never heard of Dominionism. Now that I have, I hate it, and will do everything in my power to forestall it. Dominionism describes, in several distinct ways, a tendency among some conservative politically-active Christians to seek influence or control over secular civil government through political action — aiming either at a nation governed by Christians or a nation governed by a conservative Christian understanding of biblical law. NO! Have you assclowns forgotten the words of the Savior - "My Kingdom is not of this world"? Our energies should be poured into ministering to the sick and the needy, not toward promoting and influencing the corrupt and venal Republican party. If you belong to a church that supports Dominionism in any way, RUN, don't walk, to the nearest exit and find yourself a church that has it together in terms of their priorities. OMG! According to my desktop widget, I'm exactly 200 days from my 50th birthday. Hopefully I won't be as freaked out at 50 like I was at 40 - hah! It seems so funny now to think I was freaked out about turning 40. 40 seems so young now... Here's hoping that I can milk as much enjoyment out of the last 200 days of my 40's as possible. This week the wiener of the week is Mike Huckabee. Stupid Huckabee just couldn't leave well-enough alone. Mitt Romney had succeeded with his speach last week in stirring up all of the necessary doubts about his religion - but Huckabee just HAD to put his ignorant two cents in. I asked Huckabee, who describes himself as the only Republican candidate with a degree in theology, if he considered Mormonism a cult or a religion. ‘‘I think it’s a religion,’’ he said. ‘‘I really don’t know much about it.’’ I was about to jot down this piece of boilerplate when Huckabee surprised me with a question of his own: ‘‘Don’t Mormons,’’ he asked in an innocent voice, ‘‘believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?’’ Now, understand that I'm no Huckabee fan - I'm a Ron Paul guy. But talk about taking gold and turning it into mierda. For abject stupidity in the face of a gift horse, Mike Huckabee is my wiener of the week. Fred Reed is a curmudgeonly sort of fellow. He used to be a reporter for various newspapers and magazines. Lately he sort of amuses himself by writing books and blogging while living an idyllic life in Mexico. His latest blog entry touched on a topic that has been of concern to me for some time - violence perpetrated by Minority racists. The attack was not just a crime, but a particular type of crime. In Mexico, where I live, there is crime, but it is usually economic. If I walked in a bad part of Guadalajara by night with a Rolex on my arm, an enterprising gangster might well demand it at knifepoint. If I peaceably gave him the Rolex, he would likely just leave with it. It’s about money. Yes, crimes of passion occur when men got boozed up and fight over women or which football team is best. These are easily avoided. But when a group of very young blacks, unprovoked, attack a defenseless white women, with the intention of badly hurting her, break her bones, and then try to drag her off the bus, we see a different sort of crime. The only motive is racial hatred. The myth that only white people can be racist has got to stop. Racism is rampant in the country in a way it hasn't been seen since perhaps the 1930's - but this time around, it isn't whitey driving the hate wagon. And, lest you think this is some random incident, check out this, this, and this. This wave of violent attacks can, of course, be chalked up to Political Correctness. No one is allowed to actually think, let alone accuse, young black and Hispanic men of racism. To do so is to be branded a racist oneself. But I guarantee that if PC attitudes aren't overcome, there'll be many more attacks like these. Who else? Mitt Romney. Mitt had quite a week. Considering he was the subject of both of my posts for the past 8 days, there really wasn't anyone else in contention. Mitt is dropping like a rock in Iowa, the one state of the early voters that he MUST win. And why? Because of his enormous flip-flop on his religion. First he was a member of a "mainstream, Christian faith". Now he's set himself up as the face of religious tolerance because his religion isn't mainstream. Considering his history of flip-flops (first pro-life, then pro-abortion rights, the pro-life again), he shoulda just kept his big yap shut. Mitt Romney...you're my Weiner of the Week. Romney Speaks Mitt Romney tried to gain momentum in the tightening Republican presidential race Thursday by giving a high-profile speech that aimed to allay concerns about his Mormonism by stressing the importance of religious faith in America. “I believe in my Mormon faith, and I endeavor to live by it,” the Republican said at the presidential library of George H.W. Bush in College Station, Tex. “Some believe that such a confession of my faith will sink my candidacy. If they’re right, so be it.” Be careful what you wish for, Mitt. You just might get it. Gary Glenn, American Family Association of Michigan ...the contents of the speech were unobjectionable, but...Romney’s sincerity on key issues critical to religious conservatives was suspect. Romney’s comment that American’s don’t “respect believers of convenience” was a self-indictment since he supported abortion rights and claimed to be a social moderate when running for office in Massachusetts. Lee Harris, TCS Daily Romney's best approach might have been to say nothing at all. Certainly that would have been preferable to trying to turn his candidacy into an issue of religious tolerance. I could have told you to punt this one, Mitt. It was a no-win. You'll never hear me utter a kind word about the Mormon church. I have my reasons - I may get around to explaining them in some future post. But in spite of my feelings about his church, I was willing to give Mitt Romney a listen, even though I was aware of his rather liberal-leaning record in Massachusetts and his flip-flop on abortion. Now I see him for the liar he really is. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said yesterday that he hopes to convince voters that his Mormon faith is mainstream. "I think as people come to know my faith they'll recognize that the values of my faith are — they very much flow from the Judeo-Christian tradition of this country. What a load of BS! Sorry, Mr. Romney, but according to your Church's own scriptures, you are anything BUT a "traditional" Judeo-Christian faith. 18 My object in going to inquire of the Lord was to know which of all the sects was right, that I might know which to join. No sooner, therefore, did I get possession of myself, so as to be able to speak, than I asked the Personages who stood above me in the light, which of all the sects was right (for at this time it had never entered into my heart that all were wrong)—and which I should join. 19 I was answered that I must join none of them, for they were all wrong; and the Personage who addressed me said that all their creeds were an abomination in his sight; that those professors were all corrupt; that: “they draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, they teach for doctrines the commandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof.” 20 He again forbade me to join with any of them... Pearl of Great Price, Joseph Smith-History, Chapter 1:18-20 The various Christian faiths are "an abomination" in God's sight - this is Mormon doctrine and has been part of Mormon doctrine since the church was founded. In fact, the temple ceremony, up until 1990, portrayed a Protestant minister as a money-grubbing tool of Satan. For Romney to disingenuously try to link his church to mainstream Christianity shows either a complete lack of understanding of his church's doctrines or a complete disregard for the truth. Given Church President Gordon Hinkley's own history of prevarication, I suppose Romney's fraudulent claim that his church is in the mold of traditional Christianity is just another example of the Mormon church's tradition of saying anything at all to get over and dupe people. I plan on doing a regular feature - awarding a 'Weiner of the Week', 'Weiner of the Month', and, of course 'Weiner of the Year'. The inaugural 'Weiner of the Week' is Pat Robertson. Once upon a time, Robertson was a relevant force in the politicization of conservative Christians, along with Jerry Falwell. I never could tolerate either of them: they didn't speak for me (or my kind), and they did more in the past 25 years to harm Christianity in terms of societal impact than any coven of atheist asshats could have ever done. But now Robertson has finally, irrevocably, destroyed his credibility by endorsing Rudy Guiliani for President. Thank God! Rudy Guiliani is the antithesis of the kind of candidate acceptable to either conservatives or Christians. He's a big-spending liberal in terms of ideology. He is pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage, pro-"sanctuary". WTF, Pat? Sell out much? For selling out to the "establishment" Republican candidate instead of showing some real integrity, Pat Robertson is my 'Weiner of the Week'. C'mon, Czabe! Steve Czaban is the preeminent sports radio talking head, IMHO. He is especially good when mocking the stultifying sanctimony of ESPN - particularly his favorite target, Chris Berman. I'm a HUGE fan. But his latest take, on the Sean Taylor shooting is borderline crybaby. Second, the season as far as I’m concerned is over emotionally, if he doesn’t begin a trend toward survival and recovery. I mean, really. If Taylor is in a coma, or worse, why the hell would I as a fan care about any wins or losses from here out? Boo frickin' hoo! I get SOOOOOOOOOOO sick of the sports world's talking heads getting all preachy about the importance of sports is every time a catastrophe occurs. There is nothing more cloying than seeing some asshat with a $250 haircut whose lone contribution to society thus far has been to demonstrate how "bad mechanics" is the reason why Alex Smith can't hit a wide-open target from 10 yards away suddenly become Socrates. "It really puts the unimportance of sports into perspective when something tragic like this happens." Blah, blah, blah. Get the frick over yourself. Most of us already understand the nature of sports fandom. Most of us recognize it for the brain candy that it is. Most of us understand that we live in a world where tragedy abounds. And most of us have sufficient brain power to be able to compartmentalize, to segregate the real-world tragedy from the sports-world fantasy. So go sell sanctimony somewhere else - we're not buying here. Sorry, Czabe. UPDATE: Sean Taylor has died. I'm really sorry. I still stand by everything I said above. Yet another blog Just what the world needs - another blogger. Blogging has official jumped the shark - how do I know? Because every fad is officially over once I get involved with it. Why am I starting a blog, and why now? I've always wanted to do a blog, but I'm lazy and I procrastinate, so it's something I would have done years ago had I had the initiative. Why now? Because "the most important election in history" is coming up in 1 year. yawn Okay, I know you won't buy that...at least you won't buy that after you've read a few of my postings. You want to know why I'm blogging now? Because I believe that we've reached the point of no return. The "two" political parties ("two" in name only, believe me) are actively working against the best interests of this country, completely sold out to the twin evils of perpetual re-election and one-world-socialist-utopia. They work to undermine the strength and sovereignty of the US via legislation and presidential "executive orders" (read: royal fiat) that completely circumvent the Constitution. They have created via gawd-awful appointments a judiciary that serves as the engine for assuring that the will of the people and the intent of the Constitution are forever thwarted. And they have created an "education" system that is designed to create generation after generation of stupid, consumerist, worker-drones - a soft, neutered populous so cowed by political correctness that it won't even expend the effort to THINK about whether our rulers are leading us like lambs to the slaughter. Blah, blah, blah. You've heard this stuff before, right? Maybe. Maybe not. The things I have described are already in motion and, short of full-out revolution, are inevitable, right? That would be true, except for the wild card in all of this - radical Islam. Our elitist leaders are convinced that they can pull off the coup of one-world-socialist-utopia by simply weakening the West to the point where its sheeple give the reigns of power to them to "save" them from whatever threat the elite has invented (global warming, anyone?). But they didn't count on one of life's realities: nature abhors a vacuum. The vacuum caused by a weakened, castrated West will be filled, not by utopia, but by Sharia. All of you "progressives" who hate the West and its "dead white males" culture had better prepare yourselves for something a WHOLE lot worse. I hope you look good in a burka, honey! So I've thrown my hat into the ring of public opinion. I welcome (and encourage) your comments and emails. After all, the point isn't for me to stand on a soapbox and opine uncontested. Rather it's to engage in the exchange of ideas. You may think I'm out of my mind (and you wouldn't be the first). Give me your best shot! I won't censor anything expressed in the comments as long as there are no personal attacks involved. You'll have to register and set up a name (Do you like mine? I'll write more on it in a later post). Your "real" name and information will only be available if you set up your account that way, so you can feel free to comment in relative anonymity if that is your choice. I look forward to hearing from you.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26174
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__label__wiki	0.757737	0.757737	← The Paragons: Deus Ex Astra, Book 2, Chapter 6: The Gathering The Paragons: Deus Ex Astra, Book 2, Chapter 8: Re-Creation → The Paragons: Deus Ex Astra, Book 2, Chapter 7: The Hidden Hand by Doc Quantum In Paris, Jack Bicci visited his private office at the local branch of Wunderkind International. There was no better place in the city than his own company headquarters to conduct research. As Jack sat at a computer screen, reading police reports submitted through proprietary software he had programmed himself, Wesley Ajax sat on a couch nearby, sipping a cup of coffee. “Sorry, old man,” said Jack. “I know this isn’t exactly the excitement I promised, but an investigation like this can be quite dull at times.” “Oh, don’t mind me,” said Wesley. “It’s good to get away from the ranch once in a while. And since the most excitement I get in a week usually involves some poor tourist falling off his horse at the ranch, this is utterly thrilling. Feels like the old days.” “Ah,” Jack said finally. “Here it is, the last known whereabouts of Doctor Diabolique. Apparently, he had several lairs across the city that were known to the police. Baron Cuir himself identified most of them and shared his information with the police.” “Why haven’t they simply raided the places and shut them down?” asked Wesley. “Oh, the police have done so on a few occasions,” answered Jack. “But Diabolique always managed to elude them. For the remaining known lairs, they approached it a different way by installing wiretapping devices instead.” “Surveillance — of course,” sighed the former Wonder Boy. “I’m sure they were able to find more evidence against him that way.” “The police had all the evidence they needed to put Doctor Diabolique himself away for life, but the intelligence they gathered helped them build a case against his various associates as well. But they’ve been sitting on a lot of evidence prior to an arrest.” “Well, they won’t be arresting anyone now, if the good Doctor is really gone,” said Wesley. “That’s just it,” noted Jack. “The worst villains never die — they just keep coming back in improbable ways.” “I think I’ve found it!” said Jack, skimming through a transcript of a conversation Doctor Diabolique had held with one of his criminal associates. “According to this document, our not-so-good Doctor was hired to capture Psyché — Baron Cuir’s crime-fighting partner — during the confusion of the Crisis on Infinite Earths!” “You’ve got to be kidding!” said Wesley. “And the police have been sitting on this information since then?” “No. The records show that they’ve been trying to follow up on their leads, but they won’t get very far with them alone,” said Jack. “Not with a character like this one. It looks like they recognized this as well, since they contacted the Dome — that new United Nations agency that is supposed to coordinate action-heroes across the globe — to get in touch with Captain Atom and the Sentinels of Justice about the problem. () But the message was rated low priority, so it’s likely the Sentinels don’t know anything about it just yet. That’s bureaucracy for you.” [() Editor’s note: See Sentinels of Justice: Watching the World, Epilogue: The Dome.] “Who is it?” asked the former Wonder Boy. “Who hired Diabolique?” “You might have heard his name from watching that documentary on Captain Atom a few years back, when his early cases were declassified,” Jack Bicci explained. “He was one of those space villains that both the Captain and the Sentinels fought a few times in the ’60s and ’70s, but he hasn’t been heard from in nearly ten years. Despite his notoriety, he wasn’t one of those so-called ‘super-villains’ who tried to conquer the world during the Crisis, either, though he easily could have been, along with the likes of the Madmen, Punch and Jewelee, and Doctor Spectro.” () [() Editor’s note: See DC Universe: Crisis on Infinite Earths: The Villain War.] “Enough with the suspense, Sinistro!” said Wesley, now sitting on the edge of his seat and feeling very much like Dr. Watson to his Sherlock Holmes. “Tell me who this mystery man is!” “The man who hired Doctor Diabolique to kidnap Psyché, and who subsequently provided him with that manticore of his, is called…” Drako smiled, knowing he was well on his way to conquering this world before anyone could even realize what was happening. He had thought that acting behind the scenes would be less of a challenge than he wished. After all, he couldn’t even gloat about it to anyone except Psyché herself, and her spirit was too broken for that to be very satisfying. But there was something immensely satisfying about being far more powerful than anyone could guess. Of course, he also knew that if he had acted openly, as he’d done in the past, he would probably end up being jailed by Captain Atom or one of those damned Sentinels of Justice before too long, just like every other time he’d tried to conquer the world. That was why Drako had begun to change his tactics after his last defeat a decade ago, and had declined his invitation to participate in the Villain War. He knew that any gains made even by an army of super-villains would eventually be undone by those costumed action-heroes, time and time again. With all those gaudy costumes of theirs, it was as if the villains had targets painted on their chests. Drako had always been a master planner, and that’s what had allowed him to rise to the status of ruler of his own world. He had been born on a gigantic space ark in the shape of a planetoid after his ancestral world was destroyed by an atomic war. On the surface of the artificial planetoid was a barren wasteland, while inside was its vast scientific civilization, kept powered and warm artificially through the cold of deep space as it traveled away from its original star system. But young Drako was unlike any other in the small colony of peace-lovers. He had plans, and he was ambitious, but most of all he had the patience to wait for his time. With his ingenuity, young Drako slowly moved up in power, gaining more responsibilities and proving himself worthy of them, until he was second-in-command to the old ruler himself. When the old ruler died, Drako became the new ruler. The first thing he did was frame a political party for plotting to take his life; in the ensuing chaos, he was able to build a new order in which he was the sole arbiter of power. He abolished the senate and all committees, retaining only one old man named Valdar to act as his advisor, an essentially powerless role. And Drako’s plans finally came into fruition. Drako had grown up hearing tales over subspace radio of a wondrous man of power who had accomplished the conquering of his own world. Ming the Merciless was Drako’s hero, and he even patterned his appearance after that fabled ruler of the mobile planet of Mongo, growing a mustache and beard much like Ming’s. But whereas Ming the Merciless had not succeeded in conquering the planet Earth, Drako would prove worthy of that challenge. It was his hubris that had been his undoing, Drako now knew. If he had simply held on to his own artificial world instead of getting greedy and trying to conquer a second world too soon, he would still be ruler today, and possibly even on his way to creating an empire that spanned the stars. Instead, he was a man without a world. He had gotten greedy and had tried to conquer a second world instead of holding on to the world he already had. It began when his artificial planetoid approached the Solar System. Telescopes on Earth were able to spot the mobile world as it approached Pluto and kept moving at an incredible speed, and they had estimated that the heavenly body was in a collision course with Earth itself in as little as two days’ time. Thus, just as when Ming the Merciless had tried to conquer Earth thirty years earlier, the humans sent a champion forward to save their world. Only this time it wasn’t Flash Gordon and his associates in a rocket ship, but a unique man who had been transformed through nuclear fire from an ordinary human being into one able to harness the power of the atom itself: Captain Atom. Investigating the artificial planetoid, Captain Atom quickly discovered that it was hollow, and using his ability to discorporate his body, he passed through the outer shell to find the civilization within. There the hero of Earth met Drako’s daughter, Celest, and then Drako himself. Drako explained that he was unable to stop his artificial world from colliding with Earth himself, but with Captain Atom’s help, he could build a gravitational motivator that could decelerate his world without killing all those within. And although old Valdar warned Captain Atom of Drako’s duplicitous nature, the Earth hero nevertheless agreed to go through with the plans, since the fate of two worlds was at stake. Using a list that Drako prepared, Captain Atom rushed at breakneck speed to several places around the Solar System to gather the materials needed to build the device. Finally, Drako was able to complete his device. But it lacked a power source. That was where Captain Atom himself stepped in. Under Drako’s direction, the Earth hero willingly placed himself at the exact magnetic center of the sphere, where he radiated his internal nuclear power outward. And just as Drako had promised, his device slowed down and finally stopped the artificial planetoid from its fatal trajectory. The populations of two worlds celebrated their continued survival, though the people of Earth would have no idea how it had been accomplished until after Captain Atom’s existence was revealed to the world a short while later. Unfortunately for Captain Atom, he had not only unwittingly supplied the power Drako needed to keep him captive indefinitely, but had also left the Earth defenseless against Drako’s plans to conquer it. And with Captain Atom’s own vast power under his control, Drako was sure to attain that goal. It was a master stroke that not even Ming the Merciless had been able to accomplish. But Drako was betrayed by his own daughter, Celest, who shared the same values of peace prized by the simpering people of his artificial world. Captain Atom had instructed her that she could upset the delicate balance of the forces binding him if she could just throw a large object into the energy-field. Drako overheard and forbade her from ever seeing the Earth hero ever again. But Celest had already made up her mind. Before Drako could stop her or Captain Atom could plead for her not to do so, Celest threw herself into the energy-field, sacrificing her life to save two worlds from her father’s rule. Now freed, Captain Atom rushed forward with his daughter’s lifeless body. In an instant, Drako had lost everything dear to him. He did not resist when Captain Atom took him and placed him in prison. With his spirit completely broken, Drako languished in a dungeon as old Valdar became the new leader of their people. After Valdar vowed to lead his people wisely, Captain Atom left the artificial world and used his mighty power to push it back out of the Solar System and into deep space. () [() Editor’s note: See “Death Knell of the World,” Captain Atom (Charlton) #80 (May, 1966).] Of course, Drako eventually escaped his imprisonment with the help of a few loyal followers, and he abandoned his people forever. He half-heartedly attempted to conquer the Earth a few more times, but each time he found his plans thwarted by Captain Atom or his Sentinels of Justice. Finally, he knew he needed to change his approach. Drako would become the hidden hand that ruled the world instead of its outward ruler. But to do that would take the same kind of patience and planning that had allowed him to become the ruler of his world in the first place. He spent the last decade building a base of power among the nations of Earth, discovering the greed of mankind to be a vast resource he could tap in exchange for promises of allegiance. All he needed to do was share a small amount of his technology with these humans, and they were willing to sell their souls for it. Humans were so tragically easy to manipulate in that way. The secret societies across the globe made his job infinitely easier, since all he needed to do was to bring those at the top under his control, and they would do the work of controlling everyone below them. Only a small minority at the top were even aware of his involvement at all. He had also found other willing allies who were as alien to this planet as he was. The plans of the Silver Ladies of Venus had likewise been thwarted by Captain Atom, and they had retreated far behind the Iron Curtain. () The Soviet Union, which had been rapidly on its way to collapse through corruption and inefficiencies, was propped up by the Silver Ladies and by Drako’s own power and influence. It would not fall until he wished it to. [() Editor’s note: See “A Victory for Venus,” Space Adventures #37 (December, 1960) and “The Silver Lady from Venus,” Space Adventures #42 (October, 1961).] But back-room deals and political maneuverings could only take him so far. Drako desired a challenge to make his efforts worthwhile. He even secretly hoped for Captain Atom or other action-heroes of Earth to discover his plans, just so he could have some combat and excitement again before retreating back into the shadows where his true power lay. Nearby, Lucille Michaud struggled again in futility to free herself from her imprison, but she was just as trapped as Captain Atom had once been in Drako’s gravitational motivator. Psyché would not be able to free herself, and there was no one to upset the balance of power that kept her bound. Drako would soon get the challenge that he wished for. Jack Bicci and Wesley Ajax ran through the now-empty hallways of the Wunderkind International complex in Paris, frantically searching for something that would help them escape their foes or defeat them in their tracks. Despite his need to use crutches, Wesley still retained his alien super-speed and was able to move more quickly than a normal man. As they entered the huge warehouse adjoining the complex, Jack looked back and heard the sounds of massive destruction behind them before he barricaded the door as securely as possible in the short amount of time he had left. “What’s happening?!” asked Wesley. “I can only guess, but I think someone’s not too keen on our discovering who’s behind the mythological menace,” answered Jack. Moments ago, the former Boy Fiend and the former Wonder Boy had been discussing the possibility of the space villain Drako being responsible for the chaos in Europe over the past several days. But just as Jack finished explaining what he knew of Drako, the two were attacked by a multitude of creatures that stormed his private office and forced him and his old friend to flee for their lives. Jack had only glimpsed them for a second before he bolted into action, but he was sure he spotted a unicorn, a phoenix, a Pegasus, a centaur, a cyclops, and even a dragon amongst all those creatures. Given what they knew about humans being transformed into gods, it was likely that these creatures were all members of his staff. That would explain why neither he nor Wesley had seen any other people on the complex since then. “Jack, I’ve been out of the game for so long that I’m a bit rusty,” said Wesley. “How about you spell it out for me?” “This is only a tentative theory, Wes, but I believe we’ve hit upon some kind of safeguard that attacks anyone who comes to close to discovering the truth,” explained Jack as they continued to run through the warehouse. “And that truth is that an alien conquerer named Drako, who’s tried to conquer Earth a few times over the past twenty years, has somehow been able to tap into the mythological realm to create all the gods and monsters he needs to cause chaos over Europe. My guess is that, once Europe is overrun by these mythological creatures, the rest of the world is fair game.” “So, it was because we guessed that Drako was the one responsible that we were attacked, right?” said Wesley. “I believe so, yes.” Wesley Ajax shook his head; in his day he’d seen some strange things, but this was beyond belief. He wished his old pal Nature Boy was still around to help him out. This was more his territory than Wonder Boy’s. But that thought caused his memory to return to the alien invasion of 1957. In flashes of images, he saw death and destruction. He saw familiar heroes, his old friends, dressed in colorful costumes. He saw them all fight valiantly. Then he saw the ship falling toward him, and then nothing but black. When he awoke, his leg had been crushed. But the aliens had been defeated. Now another alien conquerer was trying something similar, just as other aliens had tried to invade Earth in the past. The former Wonder Boy vowed that Drako would be no more successful than any of the others. “Here we are,” said Jack, reaching a far corner of the warehouse, where a bunch of huge crates had been stacked. “And here’s our salvation, hopefully.” He powered up the nearby forklift and rushed to bring a crate down from a tall stack. “Are we going to have enough time for that, Jack?” Wesley asked nervously as he heard the sounds of the horde of mythological beasts tearing through the barricaded door before they spilled into the warehouse. The two men would be overrun in mere moments from now. “Yes,” Jack said with a nod of his head, but he wasn’t too sure of it himself. The forklift moved far too slowly for his liking, and he calculated that it would take too long before the creatures with wings finally reached them. The barricade hadn’t held well enough. Just as Jack began lowering the crate from the high shelf, the two men were seared by flames shot from a phoenix that was quickly flying toward them. The flying creatures attacked them with rage, forcing Jack to use his mini-jets to fly into the air in an attempt to evade the creatures. Things were not going well for them. Nearby, a hidden figure watched the two men as they were attacked by the creatures. He watched as Wesley Ajax used his great strength to push over one of the industrial-size pallet racks toward the approaching creatures. Several full pallets of equipment shattered across the floor, pinning some of the creatures beneath the racks and pallets and giving pause to the rest. But it was only a temporary solution. The man cursed under his breath. Despite doing his best to keep out of the madness that had spread across Europe over the past few weeks, the Grey Ghost would have to become involved in this demented battle against mythological creatures after all. 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__label__wiki	0.580021	0.580021	The Royal Tour Posted by pat in England, London, The Royal Family, Travel, Uncategorized Buckingham Palace, Castles, England, Great Britain, The Royal Family, travel Thank you Visit Britain for putting together a great tour with a list of royal attractions to see in Britain. Just in case you’re planning a royal themed trip, here they are. I’ve realized I’ve only seen 6 of the 12 so far, so I need to get to work. 12 Best Royal Experiences in the UK 1). Westminster Abbey – A royal trip to Britain would not be complete without visiting the historic Westminster Abbey which has served as the venue for coronations since 1066, and the wedding of Prince William and Catherine, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, in April, 2011, was held here. Visitors to Westminster Abbey can see the graves of 17 monarchs, as well as memorials to many notable figures in British history. In addition, the Coronation Chair is part of the Abbey’s museum, along with pieces of art, stained glass, textiles and more. The Abbey is open to the public six days a week and an adult ticket costs £16.00. 2). Buckingham Palace – not only a London landmark but the official London residence of the British monarch. The palace has 19 state rooms that are open for public viewing each summer, from late July to early October, with complimentary audio tours. The Changing of the Guard takes place every other day, and daily in the summer, in front of the palace. 3). Windsor Castle – Just a quick train ride from London, Windsor Castle is the largest and oldest occupied castle in the world, one of the Queen’s official residences, and where she spends most weekends. Open year-round, an adult ticket costs £16.50 which gives visitors access to the State Apartments, St. George’s Chapel, Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House, and special exhibitions: throughout 2012 there will be an exhibition entitled “The Queen: Sixty Photographs for Sixty Years”. 4). Isle of Anglesey – Now the place that Prince William and Catherine, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, call home, the Isle of Anglesey is known for its natural beauty. Visitors to the Isle of Anglesey can enjoy a visit to one of its many beaches or stroll along one of the coastal footpaths for a wonderful view of the Welsh coastline. For a tasty lunch, travellers can track down The Flaming Grill, a food truck that Prince William frequented during his training at the Royal Air Force Academy. Prince William was so impressed by that he gave it a royal seal of approval. 5). The Royal Yacht Britannia – a wonderful attraction to visit straight out of a royal fairy tale – this is where the Prince of Wales and Princess Diana honeymooned in 1981. During the 44 years that this ship served its country, The Royal Yacht Britannia carried the Royal Family on 968 official voyages all over the world. Now the ship is permanently docked in Edinburgh, where visitors can tour five of the ship’s decks. An adult ticket costs £11.00 and includes an audio tour. 6). Tower of London – Visitors wishing to see the Crown Jewels can do so at the Tower of London, where the 23,578 gems that make up the Crown Jewels, including the glistening Imperial State Crown, are housed. The Tower is steeped in history, having been used as a royal residence, military fortress and prison. Today, visitors enjoy touring the grounds and seeing The White Tower, Medieval Palace, prisoners’ exhibition and more, as well as keeping an eye out for the ghost of Queen Anne Boleyn, who is buried in the chapel of St Peter ad Vincula. 7). Balmoral Estate – One of the Queen’s favourite summertime retreats is Balmoral Estate in Aberdeenshire set amongst the magnificent scenery of Royal Deeside. Here, visitors might spot the Queen – as travellers can take up residence by renting a lovely cottage on the estate. The grounds, gardens and exhibitions are open to the public from April 1 to July 30. 8.) Enjoy a boat ride on the River Thames. – ahead of the Queen. On the afternoon of Sunday 3 June 2012, up to a thousand boats will muster on the River Thames in preparation for Her Majesty The Queen to lead the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant. It will be one of the largest flotillas ever assembled on the river. Rowed boats and working boats and pleasure vessels of all shapes and sizes will be beautifully dressed with streamers and Union Jacks, their crews and passengers turned out in their finest rigs. The armed forces, fire, police, rescue and other services are all afloat and there are an exuberance of historic boats, wooden launches, steam vessels and other boats of note. However you don’t need to wait till next June – there are boat rides all year on the River Thames, from leisurely cruises, to quicker “commuter” trips and the high speed RIB journeys. 9.) The Palace of Holyroodhouse – The Queen’s official residence in Scotland. Situated at the end of the Royal Mile, in Edinburgh, the palace has many connections with Scotland’s turbulent past, including Mary, Queen of Scots, who lived there in the 16th century. An adult ticket costs £10.50 including audio guide, or for £6.00 you can visit the Queen’s Gallery: in 2012 the exhibition “Royal Treasures: A Diamond Jubilee Celebration” will bring together some of the finest treasures from the Royal Collection, with a selection of 100 outstanding works. 10.) Sandringham Estate – near Kings Lynn in Norfolk is one of the Queen’s most beloved retreats. It has been the private home of four generations of British monarchs since 1862, and the Queen visits the estate every year on the anniversary of her father’s death. Today, visitors are welcome to Sandringham House and can walk through the beautiful gardens during the summer. 11.) Beaumaris Castle on the Isle of Anglesey is the last and largest of King Edward I’s Welsh fortifications, is a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site. Although construction was never completed, it is regarded as Wales’ finest castle. 12.) Kensington Palace – A royal residence in central London, Kensington Palace is the official London residence of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. It was also the official residence of the Duke’s mother, Princess Diana. The palace is currently undergoing a major transformation, to help visitors to better understand both the tales of the people that lived in the palace and its architectural and decorative schemes visitors can see the palace’s magnificent state apartments. The first of four planned exhibitions, on Queen Victoria, is due to open in time for the Diamond Jubilee in 2012. Meanwhile, visitors can experience the “Enchanted Palace” a series of installations offering a fascinating interpretation of the palace’s hidden stories. Guests can also drink tea at The Orangery Restaurant next door to the palace, which has some of the finest selections of tea in London.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26190
__label__wiki	0.764736	0.764736	Guangdong, 1,000 people demonstrate against the construction of a chemical plant The population of Maoming took to the streets to stop an industry of aromatic hydrocarbon, seen as a threat to the environment already plagued by rampant pollution. Meanwhile, also in the southern province, the village of Wukan returns to the polls to elect their leaders: but the government has arrested all possible opponents. Guangzhou ( AsiaNews) - The population of Maoming, in the rich southern province of Guangdong, has taken to the streets to protest the construction of a chemical plant that is likely to worsen the environmental situation and the rate of local pollution. The protesters met in the morning of March 30, outside the local Communist Party offices and marched through the streets of the city to ask them to stop the project. From a little less than two hundred, during the march the group arrived at about 1,000 people. The protest was peaceful even though, according to the government, "some troublemakers" threw stones and water bottles that have damaged some public properties. The pictures posted on social networking site Weibo showed an overturned car (perhaps a police van) and some demonstrators waving their fists. It is unclear whether or not the government will stop the factory, which is expected to produce aromatic hydrocarbon. In any case, the authorities have arrested several protesters. Protests are clearly the best way that the people have to make sure their voice is heard. In May of 2013, the population of Kunming (Yunnan Province) took to the streets against the construction of a refinery. Although the project has not been stopped, the government has promised to listen to the demands of the protesters and convoked round table talks between residents and the plant managers. In 2011, in Dalian thousands of protesters demonstrated against a chemical factory, forcing the authorities to impose a heavy fine on an oil company that has polluted the Shandong. Instead the case of Wukan (Guangdong) exploded in September 2011, resulting for the first time resulted in a sort of people's victory over the central power. In recent years, this has prompted several leaders of villages and towns to seek mediation with the population instead of repression. In fact, the Wukan experiment is once again in the spotlight: after a series of arrests against former leaders elected by the people (and not by the Party) today the village went to the polls . According to residents, it is little more than a farce "because the government wants nothing more than to regain control of Wukan and has eliminated any possible opposition ahead of the vote". Data confirms this popular dissatisfaction: For the first time in 13 years in January 2013 the Chinese National Statistics Bureau released figures for the Gini coefficient - the factor that indicates the pay gap and the gap between rich and poor - considered one of the most sensitive indicators from the political point of view. For 2012, the figure stood at 0.474: even if it represents a drop compared to 0.491 in 2008, it should be emphasized, however, that it exceeds the threshold of 0.4 that - analysts say - is the boundary that leads to social conflicts. It must be said that the University of Finance and Economics in Chengdu (Sichuan) has calculated the Gini coefficient at 0.6. Sun Liping, a sociology professor at Qinghua University in Beijing, has also updated the information on public protests: in 2010 there were about 180 thousand demonstrations, almost 500 per day, and double the 2006 figures . The Party has announced its intention to "reduce" these numbers, but what remains unclear is how it intends to go about this. wukan Poisonous gas in Guangxi: 18 dead, 10 thousand evacuated, toxic rivers Wukan inspires news protest as people in Haimen take to the streets against pollution Wukan villagers subject to police “iron fist” like five years ago Protesters shout “No to dictatorship’ in Guangdong Asia, rain and pollution obscure the eclipse of the century	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26193
__label__wiki	0.701554	0.701554	Externship Information Health and Vaccination Guidelines Animal Health Articles Wild Horses and Burro Population Still Out of Control New, collaborative research aims to curb wild horse and burro populations By Rashmi Shivni Posted Sept. 30, 2015 Overpopulation of wild horses and burros has been a major focus for the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management as grazing land begins to deteriorate because of enduring droughts and animal health becomes increasingly at risk. The BLM announced July 7 that it is overseeing 21 research projects for its Wild Horse and Burro Program designed to identify ways to maintain populations at manageable levels, decreasing the need to remove herds from publicly owned land. Paul Griffin, PhD, research coordinator for the program, said at the National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board meeting Sept. 3 that the new research will focus heavily on contraception, ecology, and population modeling. According to the BLM, wild horses and burros essentially have no natural predators in these areas, and current adoption rates are decreasing steadily each year. With the dropping rates and minimal to no interventions, the herd population is expected to double every four years. “It’s at crisis stage,” said Dr. Sue McDonnell, a member of the advisory board representing research and an adjunct professor of equine reproductive behavior at the University of Pennsylvania, in an interview with JAVMA. “One of the big problems at BLM is that most of their money has to be spent on looking after those horses that are off the range and in holding.” In collaboration with scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey and prospective university collaborators, the BLM will work on tools to create safe on-range management techniques and lessen time in corrals or on off-range pastures. These projects, BLM announced, will receive approximately $11 million of funding over a five-year period. This year, the BLM’s maximum appropriate management level—the number of wild horses and burros that can thrive in balance with other public land resources—for public lands in 10 Western states has been estimated to be about 27,000 animals. The actual number of animals present as of March 1 was almost 59,000. Some projects that the BLM will conduct are socioeconomic surveys for communities in or near the equine populations to address any public concerns for the animals and the demand for adoption or purchase of wild horses. Dr. Griffin said eight projects are also being done with various universities for potential development of new or improved sterilization methods, mostly for mares. Only four proposals so far—one each from the University of Kentucky and Louisiana State University and two from Colorado State University—have been finalized and funded. The USGS has both ongoing projects and proposals for future studies, Dr. Griffin explained at the advisory board meeting. These studies include topics such as fecal DNA analysis, trials of porcine zona pellucida contraceptive vaccines, collar and radio marking, aerial surveying, herd management area demography for horses and burros, population model testing, and even potential use of silicone rubber intrauterine devices in mares. The ultimate goal is to lower the population to match the carrying capacity of the land, and Dr. McDonnell said the best way to do this is to control fertility. “Most of the research has to do with developing effective and humane methods for population growth suppression,” Dr. McDonnell said, “(for example), spaying mares and other ways to permanently render an animal unable to reproduce. The main tool that (the BLM) has are porcine zona pellucida vaccines.” The PZP vaccines come in two forms, which have durations of one to two years. “The current problem with that is they need to get more than one application for it to be effective,” Dr. McDonnell said. “It’s a huge expense, and the welfare of the animal is a public concern every time those animals are gathered up.” One university-led study that has not yet been funded would work toward upgrading PZP, Dr. Griffin said. “(This study aims to) deliver PZP in a different kind of time-release vehicle that hopefully could last several years,” he said. But even longer-lasting PZP vaccines can only do so much given the extreme population growth that has been seen recently. According to reports by the BLM, for example, in the past year alone there was an increase of 9,000 animals, but only 384 animals were vaccinated through hand injection or darting. Given current difficulties in population suppression, the BLM is aiming over the next five years to bring forth multifaceted methods for population control and set national standards for proper treatment of the ecosystems under the agency’s control. “We are also interested in habitat use effects,” Dr. Griffin said. “We would like to continue improving the inventory methods, and we also want to improve our understanding of the perceptions of the public at large about the program and about wild horses and burros.” For more information on the 21 research projects overseen by the Bureau of Land Management’s Wild Horse and Burro Program, visit http://jav.ma/1XKYwYn. New Client Form Animal Health Articles News Stories Map Animal Clinic proudly offers products by © COPYRIGHT 2015 ANIMAL CLINIC, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26196
__label__cc	0.632706	0.367294	Stories from Thursday, November 8, 2018 Boil orders lifted by Reelsville Water (Local News ~ 11/08/18) REELSVILLE — The two recent boil orders issued by Reelsville Water Authority have been canceled. Reelsville Water contacted the Banner Graphic Thursday afternoon with the information that both orders — one for Cloverdale customers and the other for customers along County Road 150 West, Manhattan Road and Poland Road — had been lifted... Museum plans Roaring 20s murder mystery for New Year’s Eve (Local News ~ 11/08/18) The Putnam County Museum is going back in time for its New Year’s Eve celebration. The museum will host a Roaring ‘20s New Year’s Eve Museum Mystery on Monday, Dec. 31. Doors will open at 9 p.m. with a toast to the new year at midnight. The event is for those ages 15 and over with wine alternatives for anyone under 21. Costumes are suggested but not required... Veterans Day program set Monday at CHS (Local News ~ 11/08/18) CLOVERDALE -- The Cloverdale Community School Corporation will hold its annual Veterans Day Program on Monday, Nov. 12, beginning at 9 a.m. The event will be held at Cloverdale High School, 205 E. Market St., and is open to the public. Guest speaker will be U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Chris G. Durcholz, command chief master sergeant for the 181st Intelligence Wing, Hulman Field, Indiana Air National Guard, Terre Haute... Delta Theta Tau cheese balls now available (Local News ~ 11/08/18) Members of Theta Chapter, Delta Theta Tau sorority have prepared hundreds of your favorite cheese balls again this year – cheddar, beef and onion and dill for their annual fundraiser. Each cheese ball still costs $6. They were frozen immediately after being made so they can be thawed for your next movie night or game day snacks or kept for upcoming Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s celebrations... Annual Roachdale VFD bean supper set Saturday (Local News ~ 11/08/18) ROACHDALE — The 50th annual bean supper hosted by the Roachdale Volunteer Fire Department is set for Saturday evening. The supper will take place at the fire station beginning at 5 p.m. Supporters may eat what they want and pay what they want. Besides the food, there will be plenty of door prizes... Putnam Scanner for November 9, 2018 (Police Logs ~ 11/08/18) County Jail Six people were booked in the Putnam County Jail recently. Tuesday • At 9:37 p.m. John William Bruce, 34, Terre Haute, was booked in on a local warrant. • At 2:07 a.m. James Franklin Day Jr., 28, Greenwood, was lodged at the jail on a local warrant... DWD awards $1.5 million in grants to help address regional workforce issues (Local News ~ 11/08/18) The Indiana Department of Workforce Development (DWD) awarded the Western Indiana Workforce Investment Board Inc. a $59,396 performance grant to help address critical workforce issues in the region. It plans to use the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) grant to develop Career Connections training and pre-apprenticeship programs... Court News for November 9, 2018 (Court News ~ 11/08/18) The following cases were filed in Putnam County courts recently. Criminal Cases Jesus E. Perez, 43, Indianapolis, Level 4 felony possession of methamphetamine, Level 6 felony unlawful possession of a syringe, Class A misdemeanor driving with a suspended license, Class A misdemeanor carrying a handgun without a license... Many State Park properties to close temporarily for deer reductions (Local News ~ 11/08/18) Select Indiana State Park properties will close temporarily for controlled deer reductions in the coming weeks. Two reduction efforts will take place. The first is Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 12-13. The second is Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 26-27. The participating state park properties will close to the general public on the evening before each of the two efforts... CHS students selected to play with the All-Region and All-District honor bands (Local News ~ 11/08/18) CLOVERDALE -- The Indiana Bandmasters Association will host the All-Region Honor Band Nov. 10-11 and the All-District Honor Band Nov. 17-18, involving students from many schools from across Central Southwest Indiana. This year Owen Valley is hosting the All-Region Honor Band, while Northview High School in Brazil is hosting the IBA Central Southwest All-District Band. ... DePauw’s Sego featured in new diabetes awareness campaign (Local News ~ 11/08/18) November is American Diabetes Month, and a new campaign launched by the American Diabetes Association (ADA) features Hunter Sego, a senior student athlete at DePauw University. The campaign, “Everyday Reality,” brought a video crew to campus recently to capture scenes of Sego in the classroom, on the football field, and at his fraternity, Phi Delta Theta... Annual Veterans Day program set Sunday (Local News ~ 11/08/18) The traditional 11th-hour, 11th-month, 11th-day Veterans Day program is scheduled for 11 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 11 at the Putnam County Courthouse in Greencastle. The ceremony will be conducted on the north side of the courthouse, where it was moved to three years ago when construction prohibited use of the south-side location. The resulting move has distanced the ceremony from the noise and danger of highway traffic, while making speakers easier to hear during the program... Tiger volleyball team rallies for NCAA First Round win (College Sports ~ 11/08/18) GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - Facing a 2-1 deficit, DePauw rallied for fourth and fifth set wins to top Hope 3-2 (25-18, 23-25, 21-25, 25-23, 15-9) in the opening round of the NCAA Division III Championship at Calvin College Thursday. The Tigers will face conference foe Wittenberg after it opened play with a 3-0 victory over Carthage. Today’s second-round match is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. DePauw improved to 18-10 with the win, while Hope finished at 25-8... ‘CSI Guy’ credits benefactors like Purdue Club for student success (Local News ~ 11/08/18) The Purdue Club of Putnam County didn’t turn a 1960s small-town kid into the “CSI Guy,” but it might as well have. Never mind that David Tate, retired director of medical laboratory and forensic sciences at Purdue, is from the wrong county and that he began his matriculation at the West Lafayette campus more than 30 years before the local club was founded... DePauw, Wabash set for 125th gridiron meeting (College Sports ~ 11/08/18) CRAWFORDSVILLE — DePauw wraps up the 2018 season by traveling to Wabash College on Saturday in the 125th gridiron meeting between the two schools and 87th for possession of the Monon Bell. Kickoff from Hollett Little Giant Stadium in Crawfordsville is set for 1:07 p.m... REGIONAL GAME DAY PREVIEW: Nov. 9, 2018 (High School Sports ~ 11/08/18) Kickoff: 7 p.m. The coaches: Former North Putnam coach Dave Pasch is in his 11th year at Lutheran. Nathan Aker is in his fifth year at South Putnam. On the airwaves: WREB-FM 94.3 will air the game. So far: Lutheran lost 34-26 to Beech Grove, beat Cardinal Ritter 32-21, lost 31-0 to Triton Central, beat Oldenburg Academy 47-22 and Park Tudor 35-6, lost 50-7 to Indianapolis Scecina and beat Monrovia 22-10, Speedway 39-7, Indianapolis Shortridge 46-0, South Decatur 42-12, North Decatur 27-12 and Hagerstown 32-13.. ... Eagles confident they can win (High School Sports ~ 11/08/18) Seventeen years ago today, the South Putnam defeated Frankton 26-22 to win the fifth regional football championship in school history. The Eagles of legendary coach Mark Wildman had a stocky lineman on that team named Nathan Aker. Fast forward to tonight, when Aker will lead the Eagles in the regional championship game against visiting Indianapolis Lutheran as head coach... Website upgrades on county radar (Local News ~ 11/08/18) In a world where a strong online presence garners attention, the same may be true of a bad website. Although no bids have been requested for upgrades to the Putnam County website (www.co.putnam.in.us), a vendor was on hand Monday to make a pitch to the Putnam County Commissioners. Meanwhile, another has contactedCommissioner Rick Woodall about her company’s services...	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26200
__label__wiki	0.561052	0.561052	Leah Sharibu’s Death Report Fake, Ploy by Opposition to Tarnish FG’s Image Posted by African Examiner Featured, Latest News, News Across Nigeria, News From The State Sunday, February 10th, 2019 (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government says the social media report on the death of the abducted Dapchi school girl, Leah Sharibu, is fake and ploy by political opposition to tarnish the Administration’s image ahead of the general elections. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, gave the government’s position at a media briefing on Sunday in Ilorin. He described as ‘absolute fake’ the report that Sharibu had died in captivity. The minister said the rumour of Sharibu’s death, which surfaced just a few days to the presidential election, was another ploy by the political opposition to exploit primordial sentiments ahead of the polls. “It is part of the opposition’s strategies to throw everything at the administration and at the President. I think every day they are realising the hopelessness of their position. “Every day they are amazed by the support Mr President is receiving from every part of the country and they have decided that they are going to spread falsehood. ‘‘They have also decided to inflame passion and make this election a Muslim-Christian affair or North-South affair, but people are not listening to them,” he said. The minister said that ahead of the Monday’s presidential campaign rally in Ilorin, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has put everything in place to ensure that the visit of President Muhammadu Buhari is a huge success. “The party has been meeting in the last couple of days to ensure that the President’s visit is very successful. ‘‘We have watched the rallies in many parts of the country and we want to assure Mr. President that our rally in terms of numbers, quality of people, entertainment and colour will rank among the best,” he said. He said the crowd that will come out to receive the President will be organic as the party does not engage in renting crowds. Mohammed appealed to security agencies to create a level playing field for all the contestants in the election to allow the people to freely exercise their franchise. He declared that those involved in legitimate activities have nothing to fear. The minister described the protest in some circles over the redeployment of Police Commissioners across the country as the handiwork of the opposition. Specifically, he said the opposition was working to discredit the police and the Independent National Electoral Commission ahead of the general elections. (NAN) Abia 24 Hours Speaker, Njoku Resigns Over Governor Ikpeazu Alleged Opposition Osun Sets up Inquest into Adeleke’s Death Meningitis: Lagos Debunks Death Reports ANALYSIS: Blatter’s Exit: A Case Of Failed Power Play; An Alarm Bell For Public Officers Time limit is exhausted. Please reload CAPTCHA. − three = five http://www.africanexaminer.com/leah-sharibus-death-report-fake-ploy-by-opposition-to-tarnish-fgs-image/">	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26201
__label__wiki	0.822434	0.822434	Islamic finance sector seen to reach $2 trillion by 2015 DUBAI — The $1 trillion global Islamic finance industry is set to double in size between 2011 and 2015, recording an annual 20 per cent growth driven by increasing demand for this “credible alternative” to conventional banking in the GCC and Asia. “The global crisis faced by conventional finance has led to Islamic finance increasingly being viewed as a credible alternative. Issuers and investors have realised that the risk-reward balance in both conventional and Islamic finance are not fundamentally different,” said Stuart Anderson, managing director and regional head for the Middle East at Standard & Poor’s, or S&P. S&P expects the $1 trillion global Islamic finance industry to grow 20 per cent over 2011-15 doubling in size over the period. However, there are some more upbeat forecasts by pundits for the Islamic finance industry. Noor Islamic Bank chief executive Hussain Al Qemzi, speaking at the 2nd Annual Middle East Islamic Finance and Investment Conference, said the global Islamic finance industry could grow from its present $1 trillion to around $4 trillion within five years as untapped markets such as China open up and new products drive demand. Standard Chartered said in its Islamic finance industry outlook in June that banking assets of the Shariah-complaint segment, currently growing twice as fast as conventional banking assets, would reach $1.1 trillion globally in 2012, up 33 per cent from 2010. With the gap between Islamic and conventional banking solutions narrowing substantially, and due to the fast development of the Islamic banking industry, Muslim high net worth individuals are increasingly expecting Shariah compliance in managing their wealth, making Islamic wealth management solutions a key market need, Standard Chartered Private Bank has observed. In the UAE, Islamic banking assets would grow to 20 per cent of the total banking sector in 2012 from an estimated 18 per cent in 2011, the bank has said. The global prospects for the Islamic Finance industry will be the subject of a conference to be hosted by S&P in Dubai on September 25. Entitled, “The Globalisation of Islamic Finance: Connecting the GCC with Asia and Beyond”, S&P’s Islamic finance conference will explore how enhanced links between GCC and Asia can drive greater convergence and globalisation in the industry. Other key subjects that will be discussed at the event include the prospects for Islamic banks in the GCC when compared to their Asian counterparts; the varying applications of Takaful in Asia and GCC; and how greater use of sukuk can boost GCC and Asian economies. Islamic finance growth is currently led by countries in the GCC and Asia, which represent half of the global industry. “Young, fast-growing Muslim populations; robust macroeconomic environments; and large infrastructure projects that require financing are the main drivers of this increasing growth. Malaysia leads the global industry while Saudi Arabia leads in the GCC,” S&P said. “We have also seen stronger and more active support from domestic authorities, particularly through the creation of regulatory and tax frameworks, ensuring a level playing field between conventional and Islamic instruments,” said Anderson. A key development expected to drive globalisation and expansion of Islamic banking outside Asia and the GCC is the increasing attractiveness of sukuk among global investors. At a time when conventional banks’ appetite for term loans is declining, S&P believes that sukuk could become a key funding source. Sukuk issuance looks set to cross the $100 billion threshold in September 2012, and is projected by S&P to grow 25 per cent over 2012-15 to reach about $200 billion a year in 2015. Malaysia, Indonesia and the GCC are expected to account for a combined 85 per cent to 90 per cent of issuance mainly to finance infrastructure-related projects. This year, new GCC issuances — as of September 17 — has totalled $19.9 billion across all asset classes compared with $19.4 billion of new issuances in all of 2011. Asia, meanwhile, has seen sukuk issuances worth $57.9 billion year-to-date, compared with $64.9 billion in 2011. In terms of number of issuances this year, the GCC has accounted for about 50 and Asia for 430 issuances — also as of September 17 — compared with 44 and 437, respectively, for 2011, S&P said. (Khaleej Times / 22 Sep 2012) Corporate sukuk outperforming sovereign bonds KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s corporate Islamic bonds are returning twice as much as government sukuk this quarter as economic stimulus spending boosts investors’ risk appetite. The Bloomberg-AIBIM Bursa Malaysia Corporate Index, a benchmark started this week that tracks 57 local-currency issues, gained 1.6% since June 30 to 101.062, while a similar gauge for sovereign notes rose 0.7% to 109.165. Global dollar-denominated syariah-compliant debt advanced 2.3%. Sukuk issuance by Malaysian companies increased 59% in 2012 to RM50.8bil, spurred by corporations taking part in the Government’s US$444bil development programme. Inflows to emerging-market bond funds have surpassed last year’s total, as central banks in Japan, the United States and Europe pumped cash into their financial systems. “Global stimulus has helped strengthen sukuk appetite in Malaysia,”Zakariya Othman, head of Islamic ratings at RAM Ratings Services Bhd, said in an interview in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday. “Foreign investors are keen on Malaysian bonds and sukuk because they give decent returns and offer investors an opportunity to diversify their debt portfolio.” Bond funds in developing economies have attracted more than US$36bil this year, compared with US$17bil for the whole of 2011, according to US-based research firm EPFR Global. The Bank of Japan unexpectedly expanded an asset-purchase plan on Wedneday, days after the Federal Reserve announced a third round of so-called quantitative easing. Borrowing costs for top-rated companies in Malaysia dropped 30 basis points, or 0.30 percentage point, to 4.33% this year, the lowest level since 2003, according to a central bank index. Sales of sukuk, which pay returns on assets to comply with Islam’s ban on interest, are set for the best quarter of 2012. Issuance in the world’s biggest market for the debt reached an all-time high of RM75.6bil in 2011. Overseas investors increased ownership of government and corporate debt in 2012 to record levels. Foreign holdings totalled RM198bil in July, 6.3% more than the same month in 2011 and exceeding the previous all-time high of RM191bil reached in March, Bank Negara figures show. “This is going to be another great year for sukuk,” Mohamad Safri Shahul Hamid, deputy chief executive officer at CIMB Islamic Bank Bhd, a unit of CIMB Group Holdings Bhd, said in an interview in Kuala Lumpur. “Low borrowing costs and strong demand are supportive factors.” Rafe Haneef, CEO of HSBC Amanah Malaysia Bhd, said the increasing supply could eventually put a strain on the market, particularly with bigger issues related to the Government’s spending plans to build roads, railways and power plants over the next decade. “It will reach a point soon where the liquidity will be a constraint,” Kuala Lumpur-based Rafe said in an interview. “We’re seeing a lot of bumper issues coming up, with more construction-related and project finance sukuk, which will have longer tenors and bigger sizes,” he said, declining to give details. Yields on syariah-compliant bonds declined 43 basis points in the international market this quarter to 3.01% and reached a record low of 2.97% on Sept 14, as the Fed announced its bond-purchase plan, according to the HSBC/Nasdaq Dubai US Dollar Sukuk Index. The difference between the average and the London interbank offered rate, or Libor, narrowed 42 basis points to 198 basis points. Returns on Islamic debt have lagged behind non-syariah-compliant securities in the developing market, where bonds gained 6.4% this quarter, JPMorgan Chase & Co’s EMBI Global Composite Index shows. Malaysia’s borrowing costs in the dollar sukuk market also reached an all-time low. The yield on the 3.928% notes maturing in 2015 has fallen 39 basis points to 1.48% since June 30, according to data compiled byBloomberg. The difference between that bond and Dubai’s 6.396% debt due November 2014 shrank 46 basis points to 116 basis points. (The Star Online / 21 Sep 2012) Labels: sukuk Philippines to Draw Up Shariah-Compliant Stocks List The Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) is drawing up a list of Shariah-compliant equities to attract the nation’s Muslim investors and $1.2 trillion of investible funds in the Middle East. The exchange is holding consultations and workshops with the Al-Amanah Islamic Investment Bank of the Philippines, government agencies and the Asian Development Bank on standards for Shariah-compliant stocks, Leo Quinitio, head of the bourse’s capital-markets development division, said in an interview. “There’s a large pool of investible funds in the Middle East that invest only in Shariah-compliant stocks or companies that meet Muslim doctrines,” Quinitio said in Manila yesterday. “We are working on this and hopefully by the first half we will have a list.” The Philippine Stock Exchange has sought to introduce new products, including real estate investment trusts and exchange traded funds, to boost trading in Asia’s 12th-largest stock market. The nation’s equities have a market value of $209 billion, or about equal to Nestle SA (NESN)’s capitalization, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, Trading on the Philippine stock exchange has averaged 5.86 billion pesos ($141 million) a day this year, 22 percent more than 2011’s average, the data show. The Dow Jones Islamic Market World Index (DJIM) of companies that meet Islamic guidelines has surged 13 percent this year, outpacing an 8.3 percent gain by the MSCI Asia Pacific Index. Quinitio said Muslims are restricted from investing in companies that violate Shariah doctrines, which forbid the engagement in activities deemed unethical such as gambling, production of alcohol and armaments. There are also restrictions on interest-related income, he said. Apple Inc., Exxon Mobil Corp. and PetroChina Co. are the three biggest Shariah-compliant companies by market value that Muslims can invest in, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Drawing up a list of Shariah-compliant stocks can be “very difficult,” according to Abdul Jalil Abdul Rasheed, chief executive at Kuala Lumpur-based Aberdeen Islamic Asset Management. “One of the challenges is how detailed do they want the standards to be and this can make the work intensive,” Rasheed said. “Do you want it to be 100 percent compliant or have a tolerance level of say 5 percent of earnings come from non-halal business? The other challenge is do you want the financing of the business to be shariah-compliant as well?” Overseas Buying The Philippine exchange is working with the National Commission for Muslim Filipinos to form a Shariah advisory council, Quinitio said. “There are no signs so far that investors’ interest in the Philippines has waned,” he said. “The market is enjoying a good momentum.” Overseas investors bought a net $2.19 billion of Philippine equities this year to Sept. 20, compared with $1.33 billion of purchases for all of 2011. The benchmark Philippine Stock Exchange Index (PCOMP) has rallied 21 percent this year and closed at a record on July 5 amid optimism about the nation’s economic growth prospects. The $1.3 trillion Shariah-compliant finance industry is expanding globally at an average annual rate of 15 percent, according to a June report from Malaysia’s Securities Commission. The Islamic Financial Services Board in Kuala Lumpur predicts the market will reach $2.8 trillion by 2015. Islamic assets account for about 1 percent of global financial market, according to a March 2012 publication of the UK Islamic Finance Secretariat. The largest centers remain concentrated in Malaysia and the Middle East, including Iran, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar, according to the report. (Bloomberg / 21 Sep 2012) Labels: Philippine, Shariah-Compliant Stocks Islamic finance sector seen to reach $2 trillion b... 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__label__cc	0.593166	0.406834	Ex-Steelers RB Rashard Mendenhall Rants: 'Ben Roethlisberger Is Racist' Thurs, April 11, 2019 at 8:00 AM The Pittsburgh Steelers cut ties with disgruntled wide receiver Antonio Brown this offseason, trading the veteran star to the Oakland Raiders in exchange for a third-round pick and a fifth-round pick in the 2019 NFL Draft. Since then, Brown has continued to be a bit of a disturbance. Most recently, Brown picked a fight with Pittsburgh's up-and-coming star receiver, JuJu Smith-Schuster. AB later announced he was "done with the nonsense," but now another former Steeler is speaking on his behalf. Christian Petersen/Getty Images Rashard Mendenhall, a running back for the Steelers from 2008-2012, went on an exhausting twitter rant Wednesday night/early Thursday morning, in which he labeled Ben Roethlisberger a "racist" while comparing Antonio Brown to a slave. One of the tweets reads: "Alright, I’ll end the mystery... B’s racist and @AB84’s black. He had to catch balls from a racist quarterback. Every honest player knows it, it’s not a big deal. He was just supposed to take his lickings and move on, like a slave for real." Mendenhall tried to change course on those remarks hours later, tweeting, "Clearly it’s no fun, when EVERYONE’s the accused...Please allow the dialogue in sports to be equal. Why’s it so easy to shoot at one player, but not the other? B’s not racist. Just like AB’s not a dirtbag.#letsbefair." You can read all of Mendenhall's tweets regarding Antonio Brown, Ben Roethlisberger and the Pittsburgh Steelers below. via: https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/ex-steelers-rb-rashard-mendenhall-rants-ben-roethlisberger-is-racist-news.77019.html article, Ex-Steelers RB Rashard Mendenhall Rants: 'Ben Roethlisberger Is Racist' 6th Annual Essence Black Women in Hollywood Lunch Dj Cook T-Quest	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26205
__label__wiki	0.522277	0.522277	1000 musicians play Foo Fighters' "Learn to Fly" simultaneously to persuade the band to come to Italy Rockin 1000 is a project organized by Cesena, Italy-based musician and Foo Fighters fan Fabio Zaffagnini to get the 1000 rockers to play at the same time and in the same place the song Learn to Fly, in an impressive attempt to convince the band to come to Italy for a concert. And the guys from Foo Fighters respond: Ci vediamo a presto, Cesena.... xxx Davide https://t.co/o3ThIE4QYV @rockin_1000 — Foo Fighters (@foofighters) July 31, 2015 foo fighters, music, video	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26206
__label__wiki	0.584031	0.584031	50 Gram Metalor Gold Bar 999.9 Fine Gold Bar Metalor fine 50 gram gold bar produced in Switzerland. In stock. Normally dispatched within 48 hours. In 1852 Martin de Pury & Cie founded the "Preliminary Rolling Factory" at Le Locle, which specialized in the melting of gold and the manufacture of watch cases, establishing the foundations of the future Metalor industrial group. Developing its production activities first at a site in Neuchâtel, and then in other countries throughout the world, Metalor was owned by Société de Banque Suisse until 1998, when its majority ownership was taken over by a group of industrial investors. Metalor employs over 1,600 people worldwide and has a turnover of hundreds of millions of Swiss Francs. Gold has been a valuable and highly sought-after precious metal as bullion since long before the beginning of recorded history. Gold standards have been the most common basis for monetary policies throughout human history, being widely supplanted by fiat currency only in the late 20th century. In 1696 the Bank of England brought gold to prominence and established the world's first gold standard and, during 1717, the gold price was set at the equivalent of circa £4.24 per troy ounce in today's money! Weight 50 grams Dimensions 25.7 x 44.2 x 2.6 mm	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26208
__label__wiki	0.983227	0.983227	Ahmed Kathrada: South Africa’s Anti-apartheid Veteran Dies Veteran South African anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Kathrada has died aged 87, his foundation says. It says Mr Kathrada passed away peacefully in a Johannesburg hospital “after a short period of illness, following surgery to the brain”. Along with Nelson Mandela, Mr Kathrada was among eight African National Congress activists sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964. They were convicted of trying to topple the white minority government. He is due to be buried on Wednesday at a private ceremony, but President Jacob Zuma has said that flags should fly at half mast in his honour and that public memorial service will also be held. Mr Kathrada, affectionately known as Kathy, was not only one of Mr Mandela’s closest friends, but also a human rights activist in his own right who had a long history in the struggle against discrimination and apartheid, says the BBC’s Milton Nkosi. The death of Ahmed Kathrada emphasises that a golden generation of anti-apartheid heroes has nearly gone. Along with the likes of Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo and Walter Sisulu, he was part of a group untainted by corruption, acting as a moral compass for the nation. His generation literally gave up most of their adult lives to fight to liberate black people from the yoke of white minority rule. “Uncle Kathy” stayed relevant to the struggle of the downtrodden till the end. He was critical of the current administration, asking President Zuma to resign following a damning court judgement against the president. His significance in the anti-apartheid struggle was also to deracialise it.He proved that the fight was not just left for black Africans to wage on their own, and that is how I will remember him. What was apartheid? Apartheid was a legalised system of discrimination against non-white people introduced in South Africa in 1948. But laws that discriminated against non-whites existed prior to that. Born into a family of Indian origin in 1929, Mr Kathrada was affected by those laws. Why was he jailed? Mr Kathrada spent more than 26 years in prison, 18 of which were on the notorious Robben Island, where Mr Mandela was also jailed. He was arrested in 1963, along with several others, at a farm in the Johannesburg suburb of Rivonia. They had been meeting there in secret to plan the armed struggle against the apartheid government. The following year Mr Kathrada was found guilty of conspiring to commit acts of violence. Seven other defendants, including Mr Mandela, were also convicted of conspiracy and three other charges. They all received life sentences and most went on to spend the majority of their time in jail on Robben Island. Under apartheid, even prisoners were treated differently depending on their racial origin: White prisoners got the most privileges, followed by those of Indian origin, while black people got the least. Mr Kathadra refused to accept his privileges unless they were also extended to his black comrades. Image copyrightEPA Image captionAhmed Kathrada showed President Barack Obama around Robben Island in 2013 In 1982, he was moved to Pollsmoor prison on the mainland, from where he was freed in 1989. After South Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994, President Mandela persuaded Mr Kathrada to join him in government as his political adviser. Mr Kathrada left parliament in 1999, but remained active in politics, He went on to chair the Robben Island Museum Council, set up to preserve the prison as part of South Africa’s heritage. A life of struggle He was the fourth of six children born in the North West Province, previously known as Western Transvaal. Mr Kathrada was a campaigner from a young age and joined the Young Communist League at the age of 12. He later became a member of the Transvaal Indian Congress, which spearheaded campaigns against laws that discriminated against Indians, and joined their protests at 17. In 1952, he received a suspended sentence for helping to organise an anti-apartheid defiance campaign, with black activists including Mr Mandela and Walter Sisulu. Four years later he was charged with high treason, but was acquitted after a long trial. In 1962 he was placed under house arrest and then took his activities underground to work with the military wing of the African National Congress. Pain ‘same as Mandela’ Fellow anti-apartheid campaigner Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has been reflecting on the news of Mr Kathrada’s death. “I’m experiencing the same pain I was experiencing at the death of Madiba [ex-husband Nelson Mandela]. When Madiba passed on, part of his soul was left in Kathy, he was just an extension of our family. “So, the pain is the same, and somehow it feels like a closure of a chapter in history. “A very painful chapter, of men and women who dedicated themselves to this country, who fought for their values and principles they thought we’d instil in our society.” South Africa’s Nobel Peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu has also added his voice: “Ahmed Kathrada was one of those leaders. A man of remarkable gentleness, modesty and steadfastness. “He once wrote to the president to argue that he did not deem himself important enough to be awarded a high honour.” What happened to the Rivionia defendants? Image copyrightREUTERS Image captionThe eight men found guilty at the Rivonia trial were (clockwise from the top left) Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki, Raymond Mhlaba, Denis Goldberg, Ahmed Kathrada, Andrew Mlangeni and Elias Motsoaledi After Mr Kathrada’s death, there are only two surviving members of the group who were convicted at the Rivonia trial in 1964. Denis Goldberg, 83, continues to speak out on South African politics. He told the BBC that “Kathy” was “much more than a friend. [He was] a comrade. We faced the prospect of the gallows together”. Andrew Mlangeni, 91, is also still alive. He served as an MP in the country’s first democratically elected parliament from 1994 to 1999. Nelson Mandela died in 2013 at the age of 95. He became South Africa’s first democratically elected president in 1994. Walter Sisulu died in 2003 at the age of 90. He was deputy president of the ANC from 1991 to 1994. Govan Mbeki died in 2001 at the age of 91. He served in the upper house of South Africa’s parliament from 1994 to 1999. His son Thabo succeeded Mr Mandela as president. Raymond Mhlaba died in 2005 at the age of 85. He served as the national chairperson of the South African Communist Party, he also was the country’s high commissioner in Rwanda and Uganda. Elias Motsoaledi died in 1994 at the age of 69 the day before Mr Mandela was inaugurated as president. Story originated here. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-39414785 Previous Previous post: Lets Scratch The Surface On INDECOM’s Hamish Campbell… Next Next post: Special Security And Community Development Measures Act, 2017 ,a Shit Sandwich With A Different Wrapper… A Bullshit Sandwich Wrapped In Flowery Napkin…	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26215
__label__wiki	0.993492	0.993492	CHINA> Regional Taiwan, HK, Macao 13-year-old held for murder, necrophilia By Liang Qiwen (China Daily) GUANGZHOU: The police here Wednesday arrested a 13-year-old boy who allegedly killed a three-year-old girl and then had sex with her corpse on May 19. An official of the Haizhu district public security bureau in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, said: "We have arrested the boy and are interrogating him to determine the motive of the murder." The police arrested the accused, whose real name has been withheld as he is a minor, on May 21, the official said. "A postmortem examination on May 21 confirmed that the girl was first killed and then sexually assaulted," he said. According to the confession of the accused, he saw three-year-old Wang Xiaoyi playing near his apartment building while he was returning home from school on May 19, the Guangzhou-based South China Metropolis Daily reported Wednesday. "He grabbed the girl and took her to his home while his parents were away. The accused tied the girl's hands and feet and forced her head into a basin full of water," the paper reported. Related readings: Plugged toilet tells of grisly remains Child killer gets life for online-game inspired plot Dogs dig up killer prof's remains Official's daughter beats up, strips schoolmate 'Generous' murder suspect arrested After Wang drowned to death, the 13-year-old allegedly had sex with her corpse before throwing it out of his fifth floor apartment. The accused confessed to the crime, admitting he had no accomplices. Wang Long, the victim's father, told the South China Metropolis Daily: "My daughter had gone out to play at about 5 pm on May 19, but when she didn't return till dark, we got worried. "We went out to search for her, and at about 8 pm we noticed police barricades near an apartment building nearby. "There was word that a little girl had fallen to her death from the building. We stepped closer and found it was our daughter." Huang Aihua, a lawyer at the Guangzhou Hebang Law Firm, said the accused will not face criminal charges as he is a minor. "The court cannot punish anyone below the age of 14 with criminal sanctions," he said. He, however, added that if found guilty, the accused will have to bear "civil liabilities". "The victim's family can request compensation for mental anguish, death and funeral charges." Even as the cops struggle to determine a motive behind the brutal incident, psychologists said the accused might be suffering from mental problems. "In today's Internet world, it's not hard for a child to get his hands on pornography," said Guangzhou-based psychologist Xie Huichao. "If the kids are not guided properly, they will indulge in pornography which will distort their mentality," he added. Neighbors of the accused said the accused's family had stayed in the building for over six years. "The boy's father is a chef, who works in another city, and his mother is a waitress," a neighbor surnamed Huang said. Wang Long and his wife met the suspect's parents after the incident to settle the matter.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26217
__label__wiki	0.696195	0.696195	The 2007 Volvo S80 at Par with the Best in Its Class Topics: Volvo S80 Glady Reign Amazines.com February of this year will signal the introduction to the market of the newest luxury sedan from the world’s leader in automotive safety - Volvo. The luxury vehicle is the 2007 version of the company’s best selling Volvo S80. The car, just like its predecessor, promises to give the best safety features available in any vehicle out there. Along with that, the vehicle also is expected to come bearing the high quality of performance that can be expected from a Volvo. The Volvo S80 will be up against some tough competition like the Audi S6, the BMW 5-Series and Mercedes-Benz’ E-Class. The competition may be tough but the car packs a really great performance and an even luxurious interior so as to be a serious competitor in their class. The interior design of the car shows off the “Scandinavian luxury” design concept which shows the company’s loyalty to its roots. The entire concept is based on the simplicity and functionality of the interior which in reality gives the interior a very luxurious feel that only Volvo can offer. The wood grain strip paneling looks immaculate and very much in tune with the rest of the interior. Controls and handles inside the vehicle are designed to be attractive yet also very functional. One such design is the functional graphic which can be found at the center of the climate controls that allows the occupant to choose the direction of airflow through its stylized head, torso and legs. Buyers can opt for the trim package which includes a V8 engine for the Volvo S80. Such an option allows the company to be capable to drive the car against the best in its class. The quad-cam, 32-valve, 4.4-liter V8 engine can churn out 311 units of horsepower. The powerplant transfers the power of those 311 horses to all the four wheels of the car for this car has an all-wheel drive configuration. The configuration gives the car a better traction especially during nasty bouts of weather. The power finds their way to the wheels via a six speed automatic transmission that provides a smooth transfer of gear ratios and can thus give the car a decent acceleration. The precise engineering of the gearbox allows the car to go from a standstill to 60 miles per hour in just 6.5 seconds. The car’s engine is also equipped with a Volvo oxygen sensor to increase its fuel efficiency by keeping the air and fuel mixture at the standard combination. Safety features are abundant in the car - after all, it comes from Volvo which is known the world over in their effort to provide safety for their car’s users. It employs the Whiplash Protection System of the company which allows the seat to move back with the occupant to absorb much of the energy in cases of rear collisions. Aside from the standard airbags, which are the most advanced being employed by any car in the market, there are a lot more of the safety features that Volvo is known for. Take for instance, the blindspot warning device which is a set of cameras that alerts the driver if any vehicle has entered his blindspot. The car also has swiveling headlights which can enable the driver to see better when turning. The car itself is designed to react during a collision so as to protect the passengers and the driver inside - it is made up of four different grades of strength of steel used in different zones that have different reactions during crashes. To protect the vehicle, it has a personal safety system that allows the owner to check from afar if the doors are locked or unlocked and can even detect the presence of a person inside the car by sensing the person’s heartbeat.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26219
__label__cc	0.64841	0.35159	נכתב על ידי Ariel Ben Ami נוצר ב 02 פברואר 2002 יהודים משיחיים My Return to the Catholic Church This is the story of my return to the Catholic Church. I will attempt to explain how my walk with the Lord these past years has led me to this important and difficult decision, yet one that I make in peace and joy. It is addressed to my Evangelical Christian and Messianic Jewish friends in Israel, and particularly to those who do not believe that one can be a "true believer" and a Catholic at the same time. It is also written as a personal testimony for the many good and faithful friends I have made over the years around the world who may be interested in my walk of faith. To them I dedicate this essay and pray that it will help us to grow in unity in loving and worshipping the King of Kings. First, a definition of terms: Even though many believers do not like to be "labeled" to a particular denomination, this will be necessary in this essay for the sake of clarity. I will use the term "Evangelical" to describe non-Catholic Christians who believe in the inerrancy of the Bible as the only and final authority for truth. This definition will generally include "Bible-believing" and "Born-again Christians," Pentecostals and Messianic believers, both Jews and gentiles. By contrast, I will use the term "Protestant" sparingly since it also includes liberal denominations that sometimes question or even reject the basic tenets of the Christian faith. For those unacquainted with Messianic Judaism, Yeshua is the Hebrew name for Jesus and the Tanakh is the Old Testament. At the outset, I wish to clear any potential misunderstandings by stating what this conversion story is not. First, I hesitated to entitle this essay my "return" to the Catholic Church, because I am of course not "returning" to where I was several years ago. My way from the nominal Catholicism of my youth, through Evangelical Christianity, through Messianic Judaism and back to (a now correctly understood) Catholicism was not a confused, circular path, but a logical, gradual, and fascinating growth towards finding the fullness of Christ, of Yeshua the Jewish Messiah, within the Catholic Church. Secondly, my return to the Catholic Church does not mean that I am now turning my back on Evangelical Christianity or Messianic Judaism. My debt to these two traditions is considerable, and I thank God that I have had the privilege to be a part of them. I make this decision in a spirit of unity and not of division, remaining committed to continue to serve the whole Body of Messiah - Catholic and non-Catholic - in Israel and in the nations Thirdly, this decision is not based on emotional or family-related reasons. Although I have faced much opposition and many difficulties from some Messianic believers as they heard of my growing interest for Catholicism, my return to the Catholic Church is not a reaction of escapism back to the familiar and safer environment of my youth. On the contrary, coming to terms with Catholicism has probably been the greatest trial of my life as a believer. It was much more unsettling than my entering the Evangelical "world" six years ago - at the cost of much strife and division within my family - or of going through an anti-missionary course in the summer of 1999 to fully comprehend the position of those who oppose the Messiahship of Yeshua. My return to the Catholic Church is the result of an uncompromising search for truth motivated by my love for God. Even though it has even threatened the safety of my precarious situation as a foreigner involved in ministry within the Body of Messiah in Israel, I had no other choice but to go forward - whatever the cost - for the sake of truth. This essay is not intended to be a full-fledged apologetics work covering and defending every point of contention that some Evangelicals and Messianic believers have against the Catholic Church. I will hardly succeed in summarizing the hundreds of hours I spent reading, thinking, and praying about this decision. My goal is to clear some common misunderstandings about Catholicism and demonstrate that it is not only a valid way of following Christ, but actually the most biblical and Jewish expression of faith in Yeshua. Although I look forward to many interesting conversations about this "conversion", I hope this written testimony will help you see the fuller picture with more clarity than by relying solely on my potentially confusing verbal explanations. My return to the Catholic Church has honestly been a difficult, obstacle-ridden, painful, and often lonely path. I can therefore easily join my voice to Scott Hahn's, a convert to Catholicism from Evangelical Protestantism, who writes in the foreword of the book Surprised by Truth: "I've considered my own journey to Rome as a mystery story, a horror story, and a love story. Sometimes being surprised by truth is initially being horrified by truth. Does the Catholic Church have the truth? The fullness of the truth? Confronting this fact is a gut-wrenching agony for staunch, Bible-based Evangelical Protestants who've thought and taught, largely because of misunderstandings and prejudice, that Catholics are not even Christians."[1] Like Hahn and many others, I have come to realize that what seemed like the most "unbiblical" church is really the Church of the Bible. Follow me now for my story. My Youth as a Nominal Catholic I grew up in a suburb of Ottawa, Canada. My parents did their best to teach me the basics of the Catholic faith – their heritage as French and Italian-Canadians. I remember that my faith in God during my teen years was sincere. But it was not an easy thing to uphold Christian values growing up in a secularized world largely estranged from God. I occasionally read the Gospels and was impressed by the life and teachings of Jesus. I don't think I ever really questioned their authenticity, although I had no real understanding of Jesus' work of redemption. I remember praying often and sincerely. It seemed obvious to me that God was there and heard me when I spoke to Him. My relation with the Church, however, was more difficult. Whereas God was a needed friend that I could trust, I had a much harder time understanding what going to church had to do with real life. I liked the atmosphere of the Christmas Masses and Easter vigils, singing hymns and celebrating the coming of the Savior and His resurrection. But the rest of the time the Mass seemed like a tedious, outdated ritual that was detached from reality. Most of the people who attended were elderly, and the few young people that attended seemed as bored as I was. On the moral level I was even more confused. While my parents had inculcated in me a clear sense of right and wrong, it was obvious that the world was living on a totally different track, and enjoying it at that. Slowly I developed the austere concept that I had to choose between two options: either to enjoy life and pay for it in hell afterwards, or to forsake everything enjoyable and live a monotonous, dull religious life in order to "gain heaven." Neither option seemed particularly attractive. I longed for a fulfilled life but with upheld moral standards; sadly, I thought that these two concepts were incompatible with each other. The result was that I was often guilt ridden in the awareness of my sin, knowing that fully going the way of the world was wrong, yet uninspired and unwilling to lead a boring, "religious" life. Still, I am grateful for this fragmentary contact I had with the gospel which generally kept me out of trouble in my teen years while my peers discovered the world of "sex, drugs and rock & roll" of the 80s. Things began to change when I turned 20. I started to date a girl who was staunchly anti-religious and, especially, anti-Catholic. In the 1½ year that I dated her she challenged me to think about my faith in a critical way. She told me that my beliefs were largely based on what I had been taught as a child and not on objective truth or facts. She pointed out many dark moments in the history of the Church and advocated the Marxist notion that religion is the "opium of the people." To her, most Catholics were blind sheep who didn't know what they believed and hung on to their religion as a crutch of elusive and imaginary hope. In good faith, I began to challenge my own beliefs and to seek explanations from my parents. I asked questions such as: "Who made up this religion? How do we know it's true and not the invention of man? There are so many religions in the world, why would this one be the truth?" I challenged notions such as purgatory, the rosary, venial and mortal sins, confession and penance, but never really received satisfying explanations. Most of these questions centered more around Catholic doctrines and practices rather than on the existence of God and the redemptive work of Jesus. Yet doubt had been sown in my mind and heart. I began to perceive Catholicism as a religion lacking in rational foundations that only imposed limitations on my freedom and burdened me with guilt. It no longer drew me to God, but pushed me away from Him. As a result, my dislike for the Catholic Church and its "legalistic system" gradually grew, while my relationship with God declined. In retrospect, I wonder if the loss of the Christianity of my youth could have been avoided. It certainly would have been helpful to have someone answer my questions and explain to me the premises of my faith. But I believe the main problem was that I perceived Catholicism as a system of "dos and don'ts", rather than a way of knowing the unconditional love of Jesus. Without the experience of a living relationship with Him and the vivifying power of the Holy Spirit, it was almost inevitable that I would eventually reject this religious system imposed on me. But certainly it is the classic and most ancient reason known to man that led me away from the Lord in my youth. Allured by the deception of sin, "pleasant to the eyes and...desirable to make one wise" and the tempter's lies that "your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil" (Gen 3:5-6), I succumbed to the temptation to run away from the God who loves us. As my soul fled from the refuge of His love, seeking freedom in the vain pursuits of life, it began to build its own prison, whose only escape would be to return under the shadow of His wings several years later. Exile to Europe In 1993, I moved to Graz, Austria to study music. I decided to "hit the reset button" of my religious beliefs and give myself a few years to free myself from my biased childhood influences and think on my own. I occasionally went to Mass, as to "give the Church one more chance," but was left unmoved. I experienced what seemed to be the same lifeless ritual and lukewarm people I had seen in church where I grew up and I was generally not attracted to come back. Humanism had by then become my "religion." Unsure of God's existence and will, I decided that my purpose in life was not to subscribe to a certain set of beliefs or perform a religious routine, but rather to contribute to the good of mankind. Although I lived a good life, I was aware of the void in my heart caused by the absence of God. I knew my shortcomings and felt I should counterbalance my sins with good works - just in case there was one day a final judgment (I didn't actually rationalize it in this way, but somehow subconsciously believed it). Out of this motivation, I decided to volunteer with a Christian humanitarian organization in Croatia and Bosnia during the Yugoslavian war. I went there regularly for short periods of time during the school holidays, from 1993 to 1995. The experience of helping refugees of war became a turning point in my life. As I saw the extent of their suffering, I realized the insignificance of my help to them. No matter how good my intentions were, material humanitarian help could never replace what they had lost, restore their dignity, or give them lasting hope. I felt like I had nothing to offer them. In addition, far from filling the void in my heart, this experience enlarged it. My conscience could never find rest by doing good works, because the more I did, the more I realized there was to do. I saw, however, that the Christian people with whom I worked had solutions to these problems. They were not helping refugees in order to offset their bad deeds and quiet their conscience. They already had peace with God, and their work flowed out of their relationship with Christ. In addition, far more than providing mere humanitarian help, they had the love of Christ to give to the refugees. They had a message that could restore the whole person, heal the broken hearts, and offer them the real and tangible hope they needed. Returning to Austria after this traumatic experience left me in a state of utter confusion. I had been confronted with so much suffering that I could hardly continue living "normally" and selfishly as a music student. I needed God, and so did these refugees. But I didn't see how a cold and impersonal church could make any difference in either my life or theirs. The churchgoers I had seen all my life didn't seem any happier than the atheistic friends I knew. My Journey with Evangelical Protestantism All of this changed in the fall of 1995, when I began to attend a small Evangelical church in Graz. At first it didn't even occur to me that this wasn't a Catholic church. But I liked what I saw. The people worshipped freely and sang modern songs that I could relate to. There was a joyous, informal atmosphere contrasting with the stiffness and drabness of the churches I was used to. In addition, everyone brought their Bibles to the service, and even read them! We were encouraged and challenged to apply the Word of God to our lives, a new experience for me that soon bore tangible results. A short time after I began attending this church, one sermon revolutionized my concept of God. The pastor taught that Jesus loved me so much that He died for me, in order to redeem me of my sins. This was not some abstract religious formula, but something personal that could make a true difference in my life. A man, he said, is saved by faith in Christ's redemption work at the cross, and not by works. These words from Galatians struck deep in my heart. So that was why I could never find the peace with God that I longed for. I was trying to do it on my own, rather than trusting in Christ's finished work at the cross! I had to be "born again" said the preacher, by "accepting Jesus-Christ as my personal Lord and Savior" to have the assurance of forgiveness and salvation. I knew that this was what I needed. When the pastor made the altar call, I went to the front to "receive the Lord" and begin a new life in dedication to Him. When my parents heard about my newly found zeal for God, I was disconcerted to see that rather than expressing joy, they accused me of "having become a Protestant". Although I now understand that they were technically correct, I never in practice felt it that way. In my eyes, I had not converted from Catholicism to Protestantism, but from agnosticism to living Christianity. This new faith in Christ within Evangelicalism was to radically transform my life in the next three years within this small church in Austria. I learned spiritual principles that were to form the foundation of my faith to this day, and for this my debt to Evangelical Christianity is enormous. It is there that I experienced the transforming power of Jesus Christ who loved me and died for me, so that I could now live for Him. I learned to love and treasure the Holy Scriptures, to receive them as the Word of God and to study them diligently. Within Evangelical Christianity I began to "walk by faith, not by sight", and to trust in the goodness and sovereignty of God in all situations. I was awakened to the urgency of Jesus' Great Commission to make disciples of all nations, in a world that was lost and craving for the love of God. I learned about the power of prayer, the joy and freedom experienced in praise and worship, the reality of spiritual warfare against the powers of evil, spiritual gifts, and prophecy. I read just about everything I could get my hands on, especially books on apologetics. Evangelism was my first passion, and I wanted to make sure to be "ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you" (1 Pet 3:15). Anti-Catholic Reaction My conversion to Christ through Evangelical Christianity, however, had an inevitable side effect. I began to wonder why I had failed to find the living Christ despite going to church every Sunday for over 20 years. What was this religious system I had known where a loving relationship with the Father had been tragically absent? There was something wrong with this picture, and through reading and studying Scripture, I began to believe that there was something terribly wrong with Catholicism. Questions arose: Why had no one ever told me that I needed to be "born again" to receive eternal life? Why was there so much attention on Mary and the saints in the Catholic Church when the Bible says that Jesus is the only mediator between God and man? Why did people seem to pray to statues when this was clearly forbidden by the second commandment? Where did the idea of purgatory come from when the Bible seemed to say no word about it? What was the purpose of all these rules, regulations and sacraments that I had to keep and perform and receive, when the Bible claimed that I was saved by faith in the redemptive work of Christ and not by works? Why was there a need for a Pope if Christ was the leader of His church? Why were infants baptized while yet unable to make a decision to believe? How could the Mass be considered a sacrifice, when the Bible says that Christ's sacrifice on the cross 2000 years ago was final and complete? No Catholic I knew could provide serious answers to these questions. Consequently, my Evangelical friends and the books I read soon convinced me that Catholicism had long ago departed from the biblical faith and had become an apostate religion based on traditions of men rather than on the Word of God. This conclusion was supported by my personal experience with Catholics all my life. Most of them had shown either a lukewarm, liberal faith, or an ultra-conservative, inflexible legalistic system. I did not quite understand how the Church could produce these two conflicting extremes, but in either case both were devoid of the life of Christ. I became convinced that to be a good Christian, I not only had to preach the good news but also warn the poor Catholics who were deceived by such an erroneous religious system. Israel and Messianic Judaism In 1998 I completed my music studies in Austria and moved to Israel to begin theological studies at the Israel College of the Bible in Jerusalem. Studying in Israel and discovering Judaism opened to me an entirely new world. Until now, my faith had been mostly based on the gospels and the New Testament. Although I had read the Old Testament extensively, I perceived it as a thing of the past that had now been abolished and replaced by the superior New Covenant. Living in Jerusalem among the Jewish people made me see and experience that the Torah and the Tanakh (Old Testament) are alive and well still today. I saw how God's Word was being fulfilled before my very eyes with the return of the Jewish people to the land of Israel after 2,000 years of exile. Better yet, I could also experience the spiritual restoration of Israel: the growth of the modern Messianic Body, Jews who had recognized their Messiah Yeshua, yet who wished to retain, affirm and live out their Jewishness. I began to understand the continuity of Judaism and Christianity and how Jewish Christianity really is. I realized how gentile Christians such as myself should not adopt an attitude of spiritual arrogance towards the Jewish People, but rather be conscious of how much we can, and should, learn from them. As I saw that the most Jewish thing one can do is to believe in Yeshua, I also realized how much a true Christian should study Judaism and learn to love the Jewish People. This first contact with Judaism and Messianic Judaism, however, did not win points for the Catholic Church in my eyes. On the contrary, I was confronted with its dark past towards the Jewish People. I was shocked to discover that the crusades, the inquisition, the pogroms and the Holocaust were still haunting nightmares in the memory of the Jewish Nation. Worse, these horrific acts were all associated in some way with Christianity and Jesus Christ Himself. I soon understood that anti-Semitism had often found its roots in the error of "replacement theology", the idea that the Church has now replaced Israel as God's chosen people. Consequently, I became an ardent Christian Zionist, convinced that God's covenant and promises to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were still valid. It seemed obvious to me - and still is - that the Jews are still God's chosen people, and that His promise of the land of Israel to their descendants as an everlasting possession still stands as a testimony of His great faithfulness to them. After my year of studies and having arrived at a new understanding of Israel, I was fortunate enough to join the International Christian Embassy, a Christian Zionist organization in Jerusalem committed to supporting Israel and educating Christians about it. This lasted until March 2001, when I decided to leave Jerusalem and move to Tel Aviv to work with a Messianic congregation and outreach center. Why Search Further? By this time, it seemed that my theological position was well established and reached a point of relative stability. I had found a living relationship with the Messiah, had come to love His People as my own, and had the immense privilege to live among them and share with them about Yeshua. My position towards Catholicism had also appeared to reach an irreversible low point. Not only was it unbiblical and had completely severed its connection with the roots of Judaism, so I thought, it had seemingly become more pagan than Christian, culminating in the persecution of God's own people in the name of their Messiah! Having found such riches in Evangelicalism and Messianic Judaism and such evil in the Catholic Church, what then caused such a dramatic change of heart and mind in a matter of months? I have described at length the evolution of my opinions to show that nothing short of a miracle has brought me back to Catholicism. In addition, the environment I was living in could not have been less conducive to my return to the Church. Ironically, it was while living and working in a very anti-Catholic environment in Tel Aviv that I was to return to the Catholic Church. God is not without a sense of humor. At any rate, I hoped at this point to finally and permanently close the door on Catholicism, but my integrity demanded that I settle every point before I drove the last nail into the coffin. Yet there were a few nagging issues that remained unresolved. First, I had met some true Catholic believers. I had encountered some Catholic charismatics who had shown that they had a genuine relationship with the Lord. I remember giving them a hard time about the Mass and Mary, and though their explanations were not the clearest, they showed through their lives humility, love and true faith in Christ. I had also met true Catholic believers in Israel. Of course, there was also the sincere faith of my parents. This was annoying, because the very fact that the Catholic Church could produce such good fruit robbed me of my right to declare it outright a demonic system! Second, I was impressed by the sound orthodoxy of the fundamentals of the Christian Faith (best expressed in the Nicene Creed) taught by the Catholic Church. There was no denying that the Church had guarded and defended for 2,000 years the key doctrines of the Christian faith, such as belief in the triune God, the Virgin Birth, Christ's atoning death, his resurrection, and his expected return in glory. It seemed odd that a Church in error could also firmly and consistently teach so much truth. Parallel to this, the Church's moral teachings were unequalled. No other church had ever upheld such high standards of morality and human dignity. Only the Catholic Church had always persistently refused to waver on controversial issues such as homosexuality, abortion, extra-marital sex, euthanasia, divorce and contraception. Accordingly, no other church has ever produced such a hall of fame of remarkable saints, holy men and women who gave their lives to love Christ and their neighbor. Third, the sort of anti-Catholicism that I encountered baffled me. It was often expressed in an emotional and judgmental way. Although I could understand this hostility, stemming from a painful history, I found it to be seldom based on a solid, rational knowledge of Catholic theology. I certainly cannot judge such an attitude since I had been a victim of it myself in my zeal for the Gospel and misunderstanding of the Church's teachings. Still, it sometimes seemed that to attack the Catholic Church was more important than to live out the love of Yeshua. This certainly could not be the Holy Spirit at work. Furthermore, it bothered me that on one hand there were Catholic believers who lived an exemplary life and sincerely believed that the Catholic Church was the true church founded by Christ - but on the other hand, equally sincere Evangelicals or Messianic Jews claimed with similar vehemence that surely the Catholic Church was the work of the devil and that the Pope was no other than the antichrist. How could sincere believers come to such contradictory conclusions? Who was right? Could there be a middle ground? Fourth, I began to feel uncomfortable with many Scriptures that were difficult to explain from a "Protestant" perspective. Why did Jesus emphasize so strongly in John 6 that one must "eat his flesh and drink His blood to have eternal life"? Where was Jesus when He went to preach to the spirits in prison? (1 Pet. 3:19) Why did He seemingly give His disciples the authority to forgive sins: "If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained" (John 20:23)? This uneasiness only increased when I took a course on early church history. To my surprise, I discovered that the earliest Christian writings indicated that the first believers held beliefs and practices strangely similar to Catholic beliefs and practices today. In fact, our professor, although not trying in any way to defend or support the Catholic Church, openly admitted this similarity between early Christianity and modern day Catholicism. I wrote a paper on the development of the doctrine of the Eucharist and apprehensively discovered that the first Christians unanimously held the bread and wine to be truly the body and blood of the Lord, offered as a sacrifice to God, just as taught in the Catholic Church today. In addition to this theological questioning, I began to wonder if something was not missing from the Evangelical and Messianic services I went to. Although carried out by dedicated and sincere ministers, the "success" of a meeting seemed dependent on so much human effort: whether the worship was "powerful" enough, or whether the preacher was sufficiently "anointed". It sometimes felt as if the congregation was responsible to go up to heaven and pull God down into the room. Everything seemed so dependent on our emotions and efforts that sometimes the services were more exhausting than fulfilling. I also began to seriously ask myself why there was so much theological disagreement and division in the Body of Messiah. Everyone took the Bible as the Word of God and claimed to have the Holy Spirit to guide him, yet there was perpetual and substantial disagreement about countless doctrinal issues among Protestants, and even more so among the Messianic Congregations. Such were the thoughts that were hindering me from declaring all-out war on Catholicism at the beginning of 2001, and that were beginning to erode my confidence in Evangelicalism and Messianic Judaism. A Shock: "Born-Again" Believers Convert to Catholicism While visiting my parents in Canada in June 2001, my father bought me two books that left me in a state of shock. The first was the previously mentioned Surprised by Truth, a compilation of testimonies of 11 converts from Evangelicalism to Catholicism. I could simply not believe what I read. These people were "born-again", Bible-believing Christians who had come to accept the Catholic Church as the truth on the basis of Scripture. The second book was even more stunning. It had the repulsive title of "Rome Sweet Home" and was the conversion story of Scott and Kimberly Hahn. Scott Hahn had been a committed Evangelical minister and a fierce opponent of the Catholic Church - the kind that believed that the Pope is the antichrist. As I read, I saw that he was a brilliant man, a top-notch Bible scholar, but above all someone who loved the Lord and was after the truth, no matter what the cost. And he found it in the Catholic Church. After reading these two books, I returned to Israel determined to settle this "Catholic issue" once and for all. Before I left my parents' home, I grabbed the thick Catechism of the Catholic Church, and a book on church history, both of which I devoured in just a few weeks. I continued my research on the Internet, finding more writings from Dr. Hahn that completely shattered my prejudices against the Catholic Church. I downloaded more reading material and ordered several books from Catholic Answers , a California-based Catholic apologetics organization. I had read earlier some popular anti-Catholic books, such as Dave Hunt's A Woman Rides the Beast and Ralph Woodrow's Babylon Mystery Religion. Now I had found their match. Karl Keating, in particular, in his book Catholicism and Fundamentalism systematically addressed all of the typical anti-Catholic arguments and, quite frankly, tore them to shreds. A Gross Caricature of Catholicism One of the first things I realized when I embarked in this extensive study of Catholicism is that what I had come to despise about the Catholic Church was in fact a caricature of what I thought the Catholic Church to be, and not the real thing. I believe the majority of opponents of Catholicism are in a same situation and attack in good faith something of which they really have little understanding. I was relieved, for instance, to learn that papal infallibility does not mean that everything the Pope says or does is infallible, that Mary is not to be worshipped as one worships God, and that her title of "Mother of God" does not imply that she is divine or existed before God. I was surprised to learn that the Church never taught things like salvation by works, or that Christ is re-sacrificed at every Mass, or that people can be saved by other religions. Another surprise was to discover that the catechism affirmed God's eternal and irrevocable covenant with the Jewish People.[2] I thought in amazement: "What? The Catholic Church does not teach replacement theology?" I realized that replacement theology and anti-Semitism had been the product of ignorance in the Church - admittedly sometimes on a very large scale - but not of true adherence to the Catholic Faith. Many non-Catholics often have a poor impression of Catholicism because of a real discrepancy between the official teachings of the Church and the popular practice of the people. Sadly, Catholics are too often ignorant of their own faith. Little do they realize how they discredit their religion in the eyes of others, and help to create this caricature of the Catholic that so many protestants rightly dislike: the one who worships Mary and prays to the saints more than he does to Jesus, kisses statues but does not read the Bible, and believes that he can gain his salvation by his good works. This is not a description of a good Catholic, but of someone who understands little of what Catholicism is about. Yet it is undeniable that many issues, in theology and in practice, still divide Catholics from Evangelicals, and Messianic Jews. Let us look at some of them. The Believer's Authority: the Bible Alone? The central issue that has influenced my return to the Catholic Church is the question of the authority of our faith. Since my conversion to Christ, I had been a firm believer in sola scriptura, one of the two theological pillars of the reformation. Sola scriptura is the notion originally advanced by Martin Luther that the Bible is to be our only and final source of authority in matters relating to faith and religious truth. Generally, Evangelicals and Messianic believers unilaterally accept this notion, with few ever examining or challenging the source and foundation of this belief. Sola scriptura seemed to make much sense to me. I saw it as the only way to preserve the integrity of the original biblical message from transformation and distortion through the ages. After all, I thought, this was exactly what the Catholic Church had done: in flagrant violation of Jesus' warnings against the traditions of men replacing the Word of God, the Church had added tradition upon tradition to the original Gospel until it had become buried under a mountain of Catholic doctrines, papal decrees and pagan practices. I was in for a surprise, however, once I seriously started to examine this issue. To my astonishment - and horror - I saw the premise of sola scriptura completely break apart in the light of Scripture, history, and simple logic. The first shock came when I realized that the Bible does not teach sola scriptura. We believers took for granted the idea that the Bible is our only source of authority, yet did Scripture support this idea? Where did the Bible say that it was to be our only authority? I had to admit that I could not answer this question. Although 2 Tim 3:16 says that "all Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable", nowhere is it written that Scripture is to be the only source of authority for our faith. How could this be, I wondered, that this foundational principle for our faith is not taught anywhere in the Bible? Second, I discovered passages in the New Testament that seemed to support the idea of tradition as a form of authority. Paul wrote to the Thessalonians to "stand fast and hold to the traditions which you were taught, whether by word or our epistle" (2 Thess 2:15). This clearly means oral traditions. He also praised the Corinthians for "keeping the traditions" which he had taught them (1 Cor 11:2). Jesus also endorsed oral tradition. He told his disciples that "the Scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat", and therefore they should observe and do what they said (although not imitate their hypocrisy) (Mt 23:1-3). What the Scribes and the Pharisees taught at the time of Jesus was already much more than just the written Torah. It included a large volume of oral traditions, which Jesus was apparently endorsing. We see more evidence for the validity of extra-biblical tradition when the writers of the New Testament casually refer to events that are not found in the Hebrew Scriptures. In 2 Timothy 3:8, for example, Paul refers to Jannes and Jambres resisting Moses. Jude 9 refers to Michael the archangel contending with the devil about the body of Moses. These events are not recorded in the Tanakh, and belong to Jewish tradition. Yet the New Testament writers accept them as authoritative. Yeshua kept the traditional Feast of Hanukkah (John 10:22), a Feast neither commanded by God nor found in the Hebrew Scriptures. We see then that although Yeshua warned against the traditions of men that opposed the Word of God, both He and the New Testament writers also assumed that oral tradition could complement and help interpret (though never contradict) the Scriptures. A little reflection on the practical and historical application of this idea made it even more obvious. The Early Church's Authority How did the early Christians learn about their faith? They did not go around with their Bibles under their arms like we do today. They learned the Old Testament Scriptures in the synagogues, and heard the Gospel through the teaching of the apostles. In fact, the early church did not even have a New Testament. Many believers do not realize that it took nearly 20 years after the resurrection for any of the New Testament writings to come into circulation, and nearly 60 years for all of our New Testament to be put down in writing. Even then, many other Christian writings existed. This created another problem: How did believers in the early Church know which books were inspired and which weren't? For several centuries there was intense debate as to what to include in the New Testament. Many churches believed that books such as the Shepherd of Hermas, the Didache, the Acts of Paul or the Apocalypse of Peter should be part of the canon.[3] Others believed that books that are now part of our New Testament should be rejected. The historian Eusebius, writing in the year 324, lists only 22 books as accepted; 2 Peter, 2-3 John, James and Jude were still considered "disputed writings".[4] Other important books, such as the Epistle to the Hebrews and Revelation, were also regularly excluded. These were finally admitted into the canon after several centuries of debate, but not unanimously or without suspicion. It is only at the Council of Carthage in 397 CE that the present content of our New Testament was closed. For almost four centuries the Church lived and flourished with a slightly different New Testament than ours! Historian Henry Chadwick notes about the authority of the early church: "In the first century the Christian Bible had simply been the Old Testament...Authority resided in this scripture and in the words of the Lord, which long circulated in oral tradition...The authoritative standing of this oral tradition continued to be high even after the sayings and doings of the Lord had been written down in the ‘gospel' according to Mark, Luke, Matthew, or John. Even as late as the time of Irenaeus (c. 185-90) this oral tradition of the words of the Lord was regarded as an authority that had not yet been wholly merged with the written gospels."[5] It is evident then, that the Church preceded the New Testament and not the other way around. Yet how could we, as Evangelicals, be sure that this early church - the Catholic Church - had made the right decision in compiling our New Testament almost four centuries after Christ? Why did we blindly trust in the decision of the same Catholic bishops who also believed in the veneration of saints, devotion to the Virgin Mary, purgatory, and sacraments? How could we have confidence in the infallibility of Scripture if we didn't believe at the same time that the Church had to make an infallible decision on which books to include and which not to include in the canon? (In fact, the same argument goes for the compilation of the Old Testament by the Jews) These conclusions were very disturbing. The early believers did not rely on the Bible alone. Their main authority was the oral teachings of the apostles and their successors - in other words, the Church. Could such an idea be biblical? Yes, says Paul. He wrote to Timothy that the "pillar and foundation of truth" was not the Bible, but "the Church of the living God" (1 Tim 3:15), against which, Jesus promised, "the gates of Hell would not prevail". The Logical Consequence of Sola Scriptura. These thoughts gradually led me to believe that the very notion of sola scriptura was flawed - a tradition of men not taught anywhere in Scripture. This does not undermine the authority of Scripture, but does mean that the Bible is not enough. We only need to look at the fruits of the reformation to understand this: Sola scriptura has produced in five centuries thousands of Christian denominations, sects and cults who keep multiplying ever rapidly, all of them claiming to have the Bible as their authority, but perpetually disagreeing on all possible doctrinal issues. Is this what Jesus had in mind when he prayed for the unity of His Church? In addition to being unbiblical and unhistorical, the refusal of Evangelicals to attribute any authority to tradition also began to appear inconsistent. Though it declares itself opposed to authoritative tradition, Evangelical Christianity in fact accepts many traditional Christian doctrines that are not taught explicitly in Scripture. Some examples are the Trinity, the divinity of the Holy Spirit, monogamy as the only acceptable form of marital union, and the position against abortion. None of these ideas are clearly taught in the Bible. Yet Evangelicals usually accept them without reservation - and rightly so - even though they are Catholic traditions unanimously accepted as part of the deposit of Christian faith by the first believers. Some streams of Messianic Judaism and "Christian" cults are more consistent than Evangelicals and reject all Christian tradition. The inevitable outcome is that these groups frequently undermine and reject the very foundations of the Christian faith, such as the Trinity or the divinity of Yeshua. The result is heresy, but it is really a logical consequence of the rejection of all tradition and of relying on the Bible alone as a source of authority. Evangelicals, thankfully, retain much early Christian tradition (albeit often unconsciously) and thereby stay within the realms of "orthodox" Christianity. Sacred Tradition: Perversion or Preservation of the Gospel? But isn't the idea of a "sacred tradition" dangerous? After all, what guarantees that the Church could stay on the right track for 2000 years? Is this not merely a license for the Church authorities to "invent" new, unbiblical doctrines as it pleases them? Does it not threaten the very integrity of the original Gospel and place the believers at the mercy of a fallible and often corrupt clergy? Although the concept of a "sacred tradition" may indeed sound threatening at first, several reasons have led me to believe that it is in fact a biblical, sound, and even vital element for the preservation of the original Gospel. Karl Keating describes what the Church means by Tradition: "The term does not mean legends or mythological accounts, nor does it mean transitory customs or practices that come and go as circumstances warrant, such as styles of priestly dress, particular forms of devotion to saints, or even liturgical rubrics. Tradition means the teachings and teaching authority of Jesus and, derivatively, the apostles. These have been handed down and entrusted to the Church (which means to its official teachers, the bishops in union with the Pope)."[6] The existence of a "sacred tradition" alongside of Scripture does not mean that tradition may contradict Scripture. Both are in harmony with each other. The idea of apostolic tradition exists precisely to preserve the teachings of Jesus and the apostles, not to pervert it. One must here make a distinction between invention and development of doctrine. The Catholic Church has no authority to suddenly "invent" a new doctrine out of the blue. Yet it is undeniable that the Church has developed doctrines over time, in the sense of explaining them more fully. This is a natural and unavoidable process. Every believer constantly seeks to better understand and define the contents of his faith, and this is what the Church has done. It took three centuries, for example, for the Church to formally define the doctrine of the Trinity, even though the belief already existed in the beginning (see Isa. 48:16, Matt. 28:19, 2 Cor. 13:14). Likewise, although the doctrine of transubstantiation (the belief that the bread and wine actually become the body and blood of Jesus) was only formally defined in the year 1215, the belief is already attested to in the earliest Christian writings (and in John chapter 6 for that matter). Still, how can we be sure that the Church did not make at least some wrong interpretations in the development of their dogmas? We have this assurance because Yeshua gave it to us. He promised the disciples that the Spirit of truth would guide them into all truth (John 16:13). He also said to Peter: "You are Peter (Aramaic: Kephas), and on this rock (Aramaic: Kephas) I will build My Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven" (Mt 16:18-19). Numerous interpretations have been given for this verse, yet how much more sense does it make when we give it its simple "Catholic" meaning. What tremendous authority Yeshua is giving here to Peter and the Church, the "pillar and foundation of truth" (1 Tim. 3:15). If we insist on believing that the early Church soon perverted the original teachings of Yeshua, we are saying that His prayer for the worldwide Church was completely ineffective. But does not history blatantly show that the gates of hell have indeed prevailed over the Catholic Church, at least over long periods of time? There is no denying the horrible facts: Catholics have failed and sinned, seriously and repeatedly. Some popes were notorious for their vice and immorality. In addition, many practices of the Church have changed over time. How can we reconcile these facts with Yeshua's promise that the gates of hell would not prevail? To answer this, we need to look at the Church's definition of infallibility. The Catholic Church claims to be infallible only in matters of faith and morals, not in matters of practice and discipline. Infallibility does not apply to practices such as, for instance, the celibacy of priests or the form of the liturgy, which can change over time. Also, "infallibility" should not be confused with "impeccability". There is no guarantee that the Pope will not sin or neglect to teach the truth. Neither does infallibility apply to a Pope's disciplinary decisions, private theological opinions, or even unofficial comments on faith and morals. A statement of John Paul II, for instance, about Israel or the status of Jerusalem is certainly not considered infallible or binding on all Catholics. Infallibility, then, is a negative protection. It means that the Holy Spirit will prevent the Church from officially teaching error in matters of faith and morals. The only infallible statements are those that the Pope pronounces ex cathedra, that is from the chair of St. Peter, regarding faith or morals. They are usually made when some already accepted doctrine is called into question. No dogma may be "invented". Such infallible pronouncements are quite rare. For instance, in the entire 20th century, the Pope has pronounced only one infallible statement: the doctrine of the Assumption of Mary into heaven, in 1950 by Pope Pius XII. The Pope did not "invent" the doctrine at that date, but merely confirmed an ancient belief already attested of in the first centuries of the Church. In short, the Pope is not a quasi-divine man who cannot sin or make mistakes. He is like a pastor - of a very large, international congregation. Catholics owe him respect and obedience, but are not obliged to consider everything he says as coming straight out of God's mouth. This is far from the autocratic system many imagine the Catholic Church to be. To conclude this section on the authority of our faith, we have seen that sola scriptura is an unbiblical concept. It is unhistorical, illogical and a relatively recent "tradition of men" that creates division within the Church. By contrast, the idea of a Catholic Sacred Tradition, passed down from the apostles to their successors is biblical, historical and logical. Paul wrote to Timothy: "the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also" (2 Tim 2:2). Sacred Tradition preserves the teachings of Christ and the apostles. Especially in the light of the Church's sins, it shows the greatness of God in how He has preserved the deposit of faith through 2,000 years of often dark Church history. Catholic practices have come and gone. Sinful popes, bishops, priests and laymen also have come and gone. But through my research I have discovered that the Catholic doctrines in matters of faith and morals have existed since apostolic times and have not changed. This is why the Church is the "pillar and foundation of truth" which Yeshua promised to guard from error. Belief in Sacred Tradition does not undermine in any way the authority of the Bible as the inerrant Word of God. It does not turn me away from the Bible, nor does it cause me to stop searching for more treasures in Scripture. On the contrary, it makes me appreciate the Word of God even more as I come to understand it in the light of the teaching of the apostles passed down to us through the tradition of the Church. Whereas the fruit of sola scriptura has been ever-increasing division and the advent of liberal churches and cults that now question the foundations of our faith, apostolic Catholic tradition has not only preserved the integrity of Yeshua's Gospel, but also the unity of His Church. Salvation by Faith Alone? "You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only" (James 2:24). This verse, understandably, does not get much attention in Evangelical circles. Even before I began to question the validity of sola scriptura, James 2:24 was causing me to question the second pillar of Protestantism: sola fide, or salvation by faith alone. When I accepted Jesus as my personal Lord and Savior in 1995, the idea of salvation by faith alone had appeared supremely attractive. I could be saved by trusting exclusively in Christ's redemptive work at the cross - this had nothing to do with the extent of my sins or my good works. All I had to do was to "receive" the gift of salvation. No matter what I did thereafter, I could not lose it because it was a gift from God independent of my own actions. As attractive as this idea of salvation was, however, I could not deny that James 2:24 clearly contradicted it. Paul also exhorts us to "work out our salvation in fear and trembling" (Phil 2:12), and does not take his salvation for granted: "I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified" (1 Cor 9:27). How could these Scriptures be reconciled with the idea of salvation by faith alone? To answer this question, I embarked in an extensive study of the concept of salvation in Scripture. This has helped me understand the similarities and differences between the Evangelical and Catholic concepts of salvation, and how other issues, such as the baptism of infants and the notion of purgatory, are intimately related to it. An Evangelical View of Salvation According to Evangelical tradition, one is saved by "receiving Jesus as personal Lord and Savior", or becoming "born again". These two expressions are usually viewed as synonyms (although nowhere in Scripture is it written that to be "born again" means to receive Jesus as Lord and Savior). Evangelicals typically use a language such as "I was saved on such and such a date", or "before I was saved...", the implication being that salvation is received as a one-time event in our life. Once we have sincerely repented and made a confession of faith, we are considered part of the "elect", the chosen children of God. Those who have never done this are the "unsaved" or the "lost". Naturally, then, the most emphasized event in Evangelical meetings is the "altar call", where the "unsaved" have to opportunity to "receive the Lord". The process of sanctification is then of course to follow, but it is often treated as an issue that is separate and distinct from the one of salvation. I do not intend to criticize the concept of the altar call, nor the necessity to accept Jesus as Lord and Savior. These are certainly ways through which God can touch the repentant sinner with His grace. Nonetheless, I believe that this Evangelical concept of salvation does not show the complete biblical picture. The first problems I had with this concept of salvation were more of a practical than a theological nature. When I accepted Jesus as personal Lord and Savior in 1995, I accepted the notion that I had become one of the "elect", and I was now to dedicate my life entirely to God. I thought that all other born-again believers, having made the same commitment to the Lord, would show the same wonderful fruit of a consecrated and godly life. Most Catholics, on the other hand, had not been born-again or received Jesus as Lord and Savior, therefore they were not to be expected to be like "real believers". The reality however, was different. In the six years that I have been in Evangelical and Messianic circles, I have seen believers who "have been born-again" and who have subsequently completely backslidden into the world. I have seen strife, selfishness, lack of love, dishonesty, arrogance, pride and betrayal, in just about every "born-again" church that I have been - and often observed some of these unflattering qualities in myself! On the other hand, I have known Catholics who have been a constant example of humility, love, self-sacrifice and faithfulness to God. My point is not to say that one side is better than the other, but rather to question the difference between a "born-again-backslidden-believer" and a "baptized-as-an-infant-Catholic", who has "endured to the end" in his faith in Christ (Mt 10:22). Who is "saved" here according to Evangelical theology? These questions confused me until I began to understand what the Bible really says about salvation. Salvation: One-Time Event or Continual Process? Evangelicals sometimes have a rather narrow view of the term "salvation", equating it with the forgiveness of sins and the assurance of going to heaven. The Bible, however, presents a much wider meaning, either in the Hebrew word yeshuah or the Greek sozo. The term refers to the deliverance of the Israelites from the Egyptians (Ex 14:13), victory over the enemy in time of war (1 Sa 11:13), temporary deliverance from death, or even physical healing. When Jairus came to Jesus to plead with Him to heal his daughter, he told him "Come and lay Your hands on her, that she may be saved (Gr. sozo, usually translated be healed), and she will live" (Mk 5:23). In the same chapter, the woman who had an issue of blood said to herself: "If only I may touch [Jesus'] clothes, I shall be saved" (gr. sozo, NKJ translates be made well) (Mk 5:28). After she was healed, Jesus told her "Daughter, your faith has saved you" (sozo, NKJ has made you well). Yet the only issue here is one of physical healing - there is no talk about forgiveness of sins or receiving Jesus as savior. These examples demonstrate that "salvation" in the Bible implies a complete restoration of man to God's image, in the physical, emotional, and spiritual realms. It is not a "one time event", but a continual process over the course of our lives. Paul sees salvation as a past experience: "For we were saved" (Rom. 8:24, Eph. 2:5-8), as a present process, conditional upon our faithfulness: we are "among those who are being saved" (2 Cor. 2:15) and "you are being saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you" (1 Cor. 15:2), and also as a future event: "we have hope that we shall be saved" (Rom. 5:9-10, 1 Cor. 3:12-15). Perhaps the scripture that best shows that salvation is a process and not a one-time event is Romans 13:11: "for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed". Even though the Roman believers were "saved" when they repented and were baptized, Paul makes it clear that their salvation is not yet completed as long as they are alive. The First Covenant: Circumcision In order to better understand the concept of salvation in the New Testament it is important to first understand how Israel was justified before God in the Tanakh. A study of the relationship between covenant, circumcision and justification in the Old Testament will shed light upon the relationship between covenant, baptism and salvation in the New Testament. This will show us that salvation in the Bible is not seen merely as an individualistic one-time event that begins only in adulthood through a conscious decision to believe (though this is also very important), but rather is an insertion into God's covenant people, initiated within the faith of the family and community through baptism (which can therefore be received by infants). This gift of salvation is then called to lifelong growth in faitfulness and love, and it can be lost by persistent and unrepented sin, neglect, or rebellion. In the Old Testament, God's plan of salvation was initiated through the covenant of circumcision with Abraham and his descendants (Gen. 12:1-3, 17:1-12). The male child who was not circumcised had broken God's covenant and was to be cut off from his people (v.14). Circumcision was not meant to be only an outward covenant: God also commanded the people of Israel to "circumcise the foreskin of your heart" (Deut. 10:16). Paul wrote that "he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh; but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter" (Rom.2:28-29). Both things were important: the outward sign of the covenant, and the inner reality of faith and obedience that manifested the covenant in the Israelite's life. God's covenant with Israel was both individual and collective. It was individual because each Israelite was responsible for his actions before God. But it was also collective, because God redeemed a people, and not just a bunch of individuals. Children were automatically circumcised on the eighth day and included in the people of God without asking them for permission or a profession of faith. This did not however dispense them with personal responsibility for their actions and lives. Circumcision embraced a child into the covenant, but did not guarantee justification before God. An Israelite who transgressed important commandments was to be "cut off" from his people and put to death. Ezekiel makes it clear that salvation was not dependant on circumcision or on one's good standing with God in the past, but on one's present heart attitude, faith and deeds: "if a wicked man turns from all his sins which he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is lawful and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die. None of the transgressions which he has committed shall be remembered against him; because of the righteousness which he has done, he shall live... But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? All the righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; because of the unfaithfulness of which he is guilty and the sin which he has committed, because of them he shall die." (Ezek. 18:21-24). Salvation in the Tanakh, in the narrow sense of forgiveness of sins and assurance of eternal life, is hidden because the Messiah had not yet come. In the covenant of circumcision, however, we see a type and a shadow of the greater salvation that was to come. Abraham was justified by faith. He "believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness" (Gen. 15:6, Gal. 3:6). He was also "justified by works when he offered Isaac on the altar." His faith was "working together with his works, and by works his faith was made perfect" (Jam.2:21-22). The New Covenant: Baptism - the New Birth (and the legitimacy of infant baptism) With the coming of the Messiah and His establishment of the New Covenant, God's plan of salvation was fully revealed. The New Covenant's equivalent of circumcision is baptism. Paul calls it the "circumcision of Christ": "In [Yeshua] you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith" (Col. 2:11-12). Although there are many parallels between circumcision and baptism, Yeshua has given us a better covenant (Heb. 9:22). Unlike circumcision, baptism has true salvation power: "In [Noah's ark] only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water, and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also" (1Pet. 3:20-21). If we look at the true biblical meaning of the expression "to be born again", in fact, we discover that it is associated with baptism and not with a profession of faith. To Nicodemus' question on how he should be born again, Yeshua answered that "unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God" (Jn 3:5). Paul speaks in similar terms: "according to His mercy [God] saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior" (Tit. 3:5-6). We see in these passages a direct connection between the washing through water and salvation. Conscious of this close relationship between circumcision and baptism, we are now in a better position to understand the Catholic view of baptism and salvation. When a child is born into a Catholic family, it receives the sacrament of baptism as the efficacious sign of God's covenant which erases the mark of original sin and restores God's sanctifying grace and divine life into the soul (though the inclination to sin remains). As with circumcision, God makes a covenant not only with individuals but also with a family and a people. In both covenants, infants are received into the household of faith although they are not yet old enough to consciously believe. Baptism opens the door to salvation, but in no way diminishes one's accountability before God, the necessity of personal faith, the importance of one's actions, or the consequences of one's sins. This is why Paul tells us that we should "work out [our] salvation in fear in trembling" (Phil 2:12) and not take our salvation for granted: "But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified" (1 Cor 9:27). We are not immune from the risk of being cut off: "Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off." (Rom 11:22). This is in perfect harmony with Yeshua's words: "Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven (Mt 7:21). Our lives and works are important because they are our response to God's covenant with us. Many Evangelicals logically oppose the idea of infant baptism because of their notion of salvation as a "one-time event": Since an infant has not yet made a decision to believe, baptism would imply that it could be "saved" without ever coming to faith. But this individualistic view of baptism completely misses the collective aspect of God's covenant. The apostles understood that God receives children into the covenant by grace, even if they are not yet able to make a decision for Christ. Since mainly infants were circumcised, it was natural that the "circumcision of Christ" should also be available to infants. This is why Peter preached at Pentecost: "Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is to you and to your children" (Acts 2:38-39). When one accepts the biblical notion that salvation is a process continuing over time, a covenant with God that needs to be constantly and faithfully renewed, infant baptism makes perfect sense. We may compare it to the covenant of marriage between husband and wife. Although initially sealed at the wedding ceremony, the marriage will only be successful if both parties remain faithful and love each other until death. Let us then heed the words of Yeshua: "Let the little children come to me and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven" (Mt 19:14, Luke 18:15-16). Infants are welcomed into a family of believers and into the family of God through baptism. The process of salvation has begun. Of course, the parent is then responsible for raising his baptized child in the Christian faith. Ultimately, though, it is the state of our soul at the moment of death that will determine our eternal destiny. If we are alienated from God at that time we will be lost. If we are in a "state of grace", of forgiveness and friendship with God, we will be on our way to heaven. In Summary: Salvation by Grace through Faith Working in Love The Bible and the Catholic Church thus teach in unison that we are saved by grace alone through faith (Eph 2:8), but not by faith alone (Jas 2:24). The problem in my youth was that I thought I could be justified by works alone, an idea that has never been taught by the Catholic Church. Receiving Jesus as my Lord and Savior had been a genuine experience of freedom as I responded in faith to God's all-surpassing grace. But I now realize that believing in salvation by faith alone made me imagine that I could get away with some "minor" sins. I believed that my works had nothing to do with my salvation, yet the New Testament clearly and repeatedly states that every man will be judged according to his works (Mt 16:27, Jn 5:29, Ro 2:6, 2 Cor 5:10, Rev 2:23, 20:12). Conscious of this, I now have a healthier fear of God that motivates me all the more to "continue in His goodness" to not "otherwise be cut off" (Rom. 11:22). I am redeemed, and am "working out my salvation in fear and trembling" (Phil. 2:12), with hopeful confidence in the promises of Christ (Rom. 5:2, 2 Tim. 2:11-13) - but not with a false "absolute" assurance about my own ability to persevere (2 Cor. 13:5). No one will be justified by works alone. But neither are we saved by faith alone. The Catholic Church agrees with the Bible in teaching that we are saved by grace through a living faith working in love (Gal. 5:6). Intimately related to the Catholic concept of salvation is the notion of purgatory. The Catechism of the Catholic Church defines purgatory in the following way: "All who die in God's grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven."[7] In this discussion about purgatory I will touch upon two points. First, I will show that the Bible clearly points to the existence of an intermediate state between heaven and hell. Second, I will explain why the existence of such a state is in agreement with Yeshua's completed work of redemption at the cross, and why purgatory is the logical and necessary completion of the process of salvation described in the preceding section. The abode of the dead in the Old Testament is a place called Sheol, usually translated as "grave", "hell", or "pit". It is not a pleasant place: "The sorrows of Sheol surrounded me, the snares of death confronted me." (Ps. 18:5); David often pleads with God to deliver him from it: "Return, O Lord, deliver me! Oh, save me for Your mercies' sake! For in death there is no remembrance of You; In the grave (Sheol) who will give You thanks?" (Ps 6:4-5). He wishes God would send the wicked there: "Let death seize them; let them go down alive into hell (Sheol), for wickedness is in their dwellings and among them." (Ps. 55:15). Prophetically, David also implies that Sheol is not a permanent place of rest: "For You will not leave my soul in Sheol, nor will you allow Your Holy One to see corruption" (Ps. 16:10) The equivalent of the Hebrew Sheol in the New Testament is the Greek word Hades. We see this direct association in Acts 2:27, when Peter quotes Psalm 16:10. The Greek reads: "for You will not leave my soul in Hades". Obviously, Sheol or Hades is not heaven, because it is a place of suffering. But neither is it hell (Greek: gehenna, from the Hebrew gehinnom), the place of eternal punishment of the damned, "where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched" (Mk 9:44). We see a clear distinction between Hades and gehinnom in the book of Revelation, where at the end of times "death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire" (Rev 20:14). In other words, at the end of times, when death will be no more, there will be no more need for Sheol or Hades. It will be cast into hell, the eternal lake of fire. The account of the rich man and Lazarus tells us more about Hades (Luke 16:19-31). In this story, a rich man dies. The text does not say that he was particularly wicked, merely that he had been rich and lived well. Verse 23 tells us nonetheless that he was "in torments in Hades" (not gehenna or hell). He engages in a dialogue with Abraham, first asking him to relieve his own suffering, and then pleading that his five brothers may be spared coming to "this place of torment" (v.28). When I thought about this, I realized how much of a problem this passage poses to Protestant theology: The rich man is in contact with another place where there is no suffering, called Abraham's bosom (whether this is heaven or not is unclear), and has mercy for his brothers, whom he still remembers. We know that hell is a state of eternal separation from everything good, where there will certainly be no more love or mercy. Yet the "place of torment" where the rich man is suffering is not permanently devoid of mercy or contact with a better place. Once we are willing to admit the existence of this intermediary state between heaven and hell, it becomes much easier to understand 1 Peter 3:19, where it is written that Christ "went and preached to the spirits in prison, who formerly were disobedient". This is likely the same event referred to by Paul when he writes that Yeshua "descended into the lower parts of the earth" (Eph 4:9). Obviously, there would have been no point in going down to hell to preach since from there no escape is possible. This leaves us with the option that he went down to Sheol, Hades, or the place Catholics call "purgatory". Why a Purgatory? But why is there a need for purgatory? The very idea seemed to be a complete contradiction of the Messiah's completed work of redemption at the cross. I thought that the precious gift of forgiveness was ours, and that there was now "no condemnation to those who are in the Messiah Yeshua" (Rom 8:1). As I now see it, purgatory does not contradict these truths. The work of redemption is indeed accomplished and finished. Purgatory is not a "second chance" for those who rejected God during their earthly lives. Only the "saved" will have the "privilege" of entering purgatory. One might compare it to a "waiting room" by the entrance of heaven. In this way purgatory is much closer to heaven than it is to hell. Neither is purgatory an "alternative" to Christ's work of redemption, implying that it was inadequate or insufficient. Rather, purgatory is the final stage of the application of the redemptive work of Christ by the Holy Spirit. The Bible says that nothing unclean will enter heaven (Rev 21:27). We know that we are purified in this world through our sufferings. Peter writes that "he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin" (1 Pet 4:1). To suffer is to pass through a "holy fire", and every believer can testify how the greatest spiritual growth often comes after the most painful trials. The Catholic Church does not merely teach that we are considered righteous on account of the work of the Messiah. It teaches that we are actually made righteous by His grace and His work in us. Yeshua is the first born of multitudes of sons and daughters of God called to be conformed to his image in His life, sufferings, death and resurrection (Rom 8:16-17, Phil 3:10). Paul compares this spiritual birth process to the labor pains of a woman: "My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you" (Gal 4:19). If this process of purification is not completed in our earthly life, God will lovingly finish it in purgatory until Christ is completely reproduced in us, and all trace of selfishness and sin in our hearts will disappear. righteous by His grace and His work in us. Some have problems with the concept of purgatory because they confuse forgiveness with purification and expiation of sins. When we sincerely repent for a particular sin, by virtue of Yeshua's sacrifice we have instant access to the throne of grace and to God's complete forgiveness. But sin always bears painful consequences that sometimes last up to a lifetime. If I murder someone or commit adultery today, I may be forgiven tomorrow if I sincerely repent, but I will still bear the consequences of spending my life in jail, potentially destroying my family, bearing the resentment of the people I have hurt, and living with the painful memory of what I've done. Does forgiveness always include expiation? The Bible shows that it doesn't. Consider King David's case: After he committed adultery with Bat Sheva and had her husband Uriah killed, he repented before God, and indeed obtained forgiveness (2 Sam 12:13). But he still had to "expiate" his sin. Despite having been forgiven, the child who was to be born to him would die (v.14). In summary, God does not merely declare us to be holy. He actually makes us holy. We have seen that salvation is not a one-time event but a continuous process, the whole of our walk with God. He loves us just as we are, but too much to leave us the way we are. Nothing unclean will enter heaven, and through the holy fire of suffering, He forms us to His Son's image. If this process is not completed in the process of our earthly life, it will continue in purgatory until we have reached our final glory. On judgment day "each one's work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test each one's work, of what sort it is" (1 Cor 3:13). This does not undermine my assurance of salvation, "if I hold fast to the Word preached to [me]" (1 Cor 15:2). I rejoice all the more that "He who has begun a good work in [me] will complete it until the day of Yeshua the Messiah" (Phil. 1:6), and am therefore eager to "work out my salvation in fear and trembling" (Phil 2:12) trusting in the infinite grace our Father will provide for this purpose. Judaism, Catholicism, and Paganism When I began to seriously consider the claims of Catholicism, one thing that horrified me about the possibility that it might be true was its relationship to Judaism. I knew that one of the Messianic community's goals was to express its faith in Yeshua in a Jewish way and to distance itself as much as possible from anything "too Christian" - especially anything Catholic. "Catholicism is pagan!" is a common cry and sincerely held belief among many believers in Israel today - and I believed it too. Such an attitude is understandable. Never mind the long and painful history of persecution of the Jews, it does seem at first sight that the practices of the Catholic Church today have strayed far away from Judaism. Mary, the saints, statues, relics, the rosary, what has all of this to do with Adonai Echad, the one, invisible, transcendent God of Israel? How did this alleged "paganizing" of Christianity occur? The commonly accepted story among Messianic believers goes something like this: Although the first generations of believers were mostly Jewish and retained the jewishness of the Gospel, very soon gentiles started to flood the Church and outnumber the Jewish believers. As their numbers increased, they began to corrupt Yeshua's teachings by bringing in many of their former pagan beliefs and practices. Many of the church fathers were anti-Semites who built a Christian theology based on Greek and pagan philosophical concepts, rather than on biblical Hebrew thought and mentality. The "end" of the pure, true early Church came when emperor Constantine became a Christian and made Christianity a legal and accepted religion of the Roman Empire. This incorporated yet more pagan practices into the faith. Christianity was no longer Jewish, nor based on a personal faith in the Messiah, but an official religion that one had to adopt to keep a good social and political status. With all respect for this view of early church history, I believe it is somewhat over-simplistic and misses several important points. First, as I have pointed out earlier, it is remarkable to note that the very first Christian writings attest to beliefs and practices strikingly similar to modern day Catholicism: the primacy of Peter and of his successors as leaders of the Church in Rome, the baptism of infants, the real presence of Christ in the bread and wine, the sacrifice of the Mass, the hierarchical system of clergy (bishops, priests and deacons), the perpetual virginity of Mary and her title of "Mother of God", the veneration and intercession of saints, and the existence of purgatory. We can find evidence for all of these in Christian writings going back as far as the early second century, some of them even to the late first century. "Well", some will say, "this proves nothing. It only shows that the Church became pagan very early." Those who make this claim, however, usually do not see the fatal flaw in this theory of an "early paganized Church". They forget or are ignorant of the fact that the early Church was at war against paganism. We must realize that many of the leaders of the Church in the late first and early second century had known the apostles personally. It is commonly accepted tradition that all of the apostles (except John) died as martyrs for the cause of their faith. Many of the Church Fathers also died as martyrs. Why were they thrown to the lions, beheaded, crucified, or burned alive? Because of their utter refusal to compromise with paganism. Often all they had to do to avoid death was to sacrifice a small quantity of incense to Caesar. Yet countless chose to die rather than to make this token gesture to the roman gods. The Fathers of the Church are not exactly popular figures in Israel today among the Body of Messiah, largely because their writings often reveal a negative view of Judaism and a certain animosity towards the Jewish people. Even though these may reflect the antagonism between the early Church and the Synagogue and be a reaction to the persecutions of the believers by the Jewish community, we should not be proud of the tone of these anti-Judaic attitudes. The writings of the Fathers are indeed far from being infallible. Yet Messianic believers today are often not aware that the main enemy the Church Fathers fought - to their very deaths - was not Judaism but Roman paganism. How then could they have been so passionate and uncompromising for the Gospel, while simultaneously perverting it with countless pagan beliefs and practices? Such an absurd scenario would not only imply massive and collective schizophrenia on the part of the Early Church, but also the utter failure of Jesus' ministry. It would mean that the eternal and omniscient Son of God who knew the hearts of men and prayed that the gates of hell would not prevail against his Church chose a group of people who, despite being powerfully anointed by the Holy Spirit and sacrificing their lives for the sake of the gospel, were so utterly incompetent, forgetful, and unfaithful that they almost immediately completely distorted their master's teachings - and chose successors who did the same. Worse, Jesus' ministry was such a failure that the "true church" practically disappeared for 15 centuries until Luther came along to finally establish the "correct" doctrines of salvation by faith alone and of authority based on the Bible only. This does not make much sense to me, nor does it sound like a Church that prevails against the gates of hell. In fact, historical records show that the early church was usually up in arms if anyone tried to change the slightest jot or tittle of doctrine. Why then, if pagan beliefs were really creeping into the Church, do we have no records of Christian writers resisting and opposing this paganism that was threatening the purity of the Gospel? Simply because these beliefs are not pagan at all, but part of the deposit of faith universally accepted by the apostles and the early community of believers. Worshiping in Spirit and in Truth Yet we know that the Catholic Church has many practices that do not seem to originate in the Bible or in Judaism. How do we know what are forbidden pagan practices and what are legitimate ways of worshipping the God of Israel "in Spirit and in truth" under the New Covenant? Must all valid ways be explicitly found in the Bible? God forbade pagan practices in the Tanakh usually for one of two reasons: Either because they involved worship of foreign gods, or because they transgressed the Moral Law (such as the practice of sacrificing children). With the coming of the Messiah, faith in the God of Israel became available to the nations, yet without obligating them to keep the complete Mosaic Law. Paul was the champion of this cause. Even though he remained a faithful Jew all his life, kept the Sabbath and celebrated the Jewish feasts, he wrote that "one person esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind. He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it" (Rom 14:5-6). He kept the kosher laws, yet wrote "there is nothing unclean of itself; but to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean" (Rom 14:14). The central issue in religious practice and worship, then, is to give glory to the God of Israel and to His Messiah, and to uphold His Moral Law. "So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or Sabbaths, which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ" (Col. 2:16). Because of their enthusiasm for Judaism, believers in Israel sometimes tend to "forget" that God is also Lord of all the earth. Some seem to think that any religious practice or ritual that does not originate from Judaism is a pagan abomination to God. Yet David wrote "The earth is the Lord's, and all its fullness, the world and those who dwell therein" (Ps. 24:1). Even though God chose the Jewish people to make his plans known to humanity, He remains Master of all creation, of all cultures, knowledge, science and wisdom. Karl Keating notes: "Fundamentalists forget that even paganism had some truth mixed in with its error. Christianity took those elements of truth, removed erroneous associations so that they ceased to be pagan, and made use of the purified truth the better to express Christian notions. Christianity gave new meanings to old things, and in the process the pagan connections ceased. It was a matter of outright replacement, not compromise."[8] The quality of our worship, then, does not so much depend on the act we do as to the meaning we ascribe to it. Furthermore, if we take this "paganophobia" to its logical extreme, we will have to reject much more than Catholic practices. Orthodox Jews do not only claim that Mary, the saints, and the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist are pagan, but also the divinity of the Messiah and the concept of a triune God (although these concepts can be found in the Tanakh). We do not even have to stop here. Let us remember that everything was pagan before Judaism. Do Messianic believers who pride themselves in their Judaism realize that "Jewish" practices such as circumcision, harvest feasts, animal sacrifices, priesthood and temple were all pagan practices before Abraham? If we wish to root out of our faith every practice of pagan origin, we will end up with absolutely nothing left! God has always been at work in human history by taking profane, pagan symbols and sanctifying them by giving them a meaning that will reveal His purposes to man and glorify Him. The Catholic Church, by virtue of the authority given to her by Yeshua, did not innovate in this area. She has removed the pagan meanings of old things, and given glory to the God of Israel through them. Messianic Judaism, Evangelicalism and Catholicism Even though the New Testament does not impose the Jewish way of life to gentile believers, the idea is not to discard Judaism. I am grateful for having discovered the Jewish feasts, the Shabbat rest, and the treasures of the Torah. I believe Jewish believers have an essential role in keeping, valuing and cherishing their precious biblical heritage. Christianity suffered a great loss when it separated itself from its Jewish roots, and it is encouraging to see that many gentile believers are rediscovering them today. We have every interest in learning about Judaism and celebrating it. For this reason, I was excited to find congregations where Yeshua could be praised in a Jewish way when I first discovered Messianic Judaism. But was this form of worship really Jewish? As I began to reflect on the "Jewishness" of most Messianic congregations, I was once again faced with a surprise. I realized that the most Jewish form of worship to Yeshua was found elsewhere, where I least expected it. Let's think for a minute of an average service at a Messianic congregation in Israel today. Typically, we will have 45 minutes of praise and worship, a short teaching on the Torah portion, announcements and prayer, a sermon, a time for more worship, spontaneous prayer and personal ministry. What picture do we see? American Evangelical Christianity. This is a Christian service, sometimes charismatic, with some cosmetic "Jewish touches" added: the "Sh'ma", the Torah portion, a correct "Jewish-friendly" vocabulary avoiding words that sound "too Christian", and perhaps the Aaronic benediction. Apart from these few elements, we may want to ask ourselves whether Messianic services are really based on the Bible and on Judaism, or rather on the traditions of Protestantism and of the Pentecostal movement. Now let us consider some points of traditional Judaism: We see a liturgical form of worship with readings from the Scriptures, the singing of psalms, prayers for the deceased, and the presence of an oral tradition. When we look at the people of Israel in the Tanakh we also see a human hierarchy ruling the people of God, and the use of physical means - the temple sacrificial system - to express spiritual realities. Which form of Christian worship corresponded best to this picture? I had to admit that Catholicism did. The practice of asking for God's mercy for the deceased, in particular, not accepted among Protestants because it conflicts with their view of salvation and supposes the existence of purgatory, has been an ancient practice in Judaism even before the time of Yeshua.[9] As for the sacraments, I realized that they were the New Testament way of expressing spiritual realities through physical means. Far from being a distraction from Christ, Christ was truly present in them. Many believers who come from a religious background experience a sort of "anti-religious" reaction when they come to faith. I belonged to this group, and typically expressed my feelings by saying that I "had left the bondage of religion to find freedom in Christ", or "had found a simple faith in the Messiah" and therefore did not need anymore all these rules and regulations. "Religion" was a bad word once you became a believer. I now realize that such an attitude is nowhere to be found in Scripture. Yeshua and the prophets before Him often denounced the hypocrisy of a religion devoid of inner contents, yet never attacked the religious system itself. Isaiah, for instance, writes "Bring no more futile sacrifices; incense is an abomination to Me. The new moons, the Sabbaths, and the calling of assemblies - I cannot endure iniquity and the sacred meeting. Your new moons and your appointed feasts My soul hates..." (Isa. 1:13-14). Although his words are harsh, everybody knows that Isaiah was not criticizing the Jewish religion (established by God), but its hypocritical, outward practice when the participants' hearts were not right with God. Although I made this distinction while reading Isaiah, I failed to perceive it when I attacked Catholicism. I saw a religious system, knew people who belonged to it and were poor witnesses of the Messiah (including myself in the past), and therefore, I concluded, the entire system must be corrupt. It did not occur to me that the Catholic liturgy could be a good and valid form of worship that could be abused by ungodly people. I imagined that the early Christians had a free, Pentecostal-like service with no real structure. But the testimony of the early Church proved me wrong once again, as I discovered texts revealing an early form of...the Catholic liturgy as the form of worship in the early church, which had developed from the existing worship in the synagogues.[10] Not only is Catholicism not pagan, I wondered in amazement, it is Jewish! Who would have imagined it? Many Jews, in fact, did discover this startling fact. I found at Catholic Answers several books containing testimonies of Jews who found the Messiah in the Catholic Church. Many of their stories are incredible. Some directly converted to Catholicism from Judaism; others found Messiah through Evangelical Christianity or Messianic Judaism, and later found the fullness of their faith in the Catholic Church. Eugenio Zolli, for example, was the chief rabbi of Rome during the Second World War. Despite this important title, he is now a forgotten figure in both the orthodox and Messianic Jewish communities, because he became a Catholic. This brilliant spiritual man tells of his own story in the book Before the Dawn, particularly fascinating because of his circumstances as a Jew persecuted by the Nazis. Interestingly, he expresses much gratitude to Pius XII for his involvement in protecting the Jews of Rome from persecution, the very Pope that is now under attack for his alleged inaction and silence during the Holocaust! Rosalind Moss is an example of an orthodox Jew who found her Messiah through Jews for Jesus and served the Lord as an Evangelical Christian for 18 years. As she explored Christianity from biblical and historical perspectives, she realized that the Catholic Church is in fact the Church Yeshua established 2,000 years ago. She entered the Church in 1995 and is now a staff apologist at Catholic Answers. Other well-known examples of Hebrew Catholics include the brothers Theodore and Alphonse Ratisbonne, who founded the Fathers and Sisters of Zion in 1852, two congregations dedicated to prayer for and evangelization of the Jewish people; sister Edith Stein, who died in the gas chambers in Auschwitz and offered her life "as a sacrifice for the conversion of the Jews", Jean-Marie Lustiger, the present Cardinal of Paris who, like Zolli, was baptized during World War II; David Moss, brother of the aforementioned Rosalind and president of the Association of Hebrew Catholics; and Martin Barrack, author of the book "Second Exodus", which illuminates the Jewish heritage of the Catholic Church. The book is the centerpiece of Marty's Second Exodus apostolate which helps Catholics serve Jews interested in learning more about the Church. Return to the Masses In October 2001, after an absence of six years, I returned to Mass. I discovered a small Hebrew-Catholic congregation in Jerusalem. To attend the Mass in Hebrew for the first time was an awesome experience. I was still wondering at this stage whether Catholicism and Judaism could be compatible. My doubts were soon dissipated as I discovered the beauty of the Catholic liturgy celebrated in Hebrew. Because of my residence in Tel Aviv, however, I rediscovered the riches of the Mass mostly at St. Anthony's church in Jaffa, through the faithful service of Fathers Malachy Brogan and Mose Schroder and their joyful Filipino congregation. It's incredible how time changes us. Eight years ago I thought the Mass was one of the most boring events on earth. Four years ago I thought it was one of the greatest blasphemies of Christ's work on the cross. Today - finally - I believe the Mass is the peak of our walk of faith as believers, the ultimate worship experience, and the most profound expression of the Messiah's love for His people. It is entirely Christ-centered. It is a foretaste of heaven touching earth and of our participation in the marriage supper of the lamb. It is the most intimate union of the bridegroom with his bride, the Church, and a time where we are united with Him in His eternal sacrifice. The liturgy is not only a safeguard against people's agendas taking over the service; it is a profound way of living and experiencing the Gospel every week - or even daily! I have found freedom in its structure and peace in its order. The Eucharist: This is My Body I mentioned earlier that after a few years in the Evangelical/Messianic world, I began to wonder if there was not something missing in the services that I attended. Among other things, I thought I saw in the biblical account of the Lord's Supper much more than the protestant "memorial celebration". I also wondered why we had communion so infrequently - once a month or even less depending on the congregations, when the model in the book of Acts was to break bread daily (Acts 2:46). I especially wondered about the force of Yeshua's words in John 6: "Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you" (Jn 6:53)..."For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed" (v. 55). He emphasized this point so strongly that it almost sounded as if he were advocating cannibalism. Many of His disciples left Him because they were unable to receive these difficult words. Yet Yeshua did not retract anything or even hint that he was speaking metaphorically. Neither did it seem like imagery when he said plainly at the last supper: "This is my body...this is my blood". Likewise, Paul wrote that "whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord" (1 Cor 11:27) and "eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body" (v.29). How could they be guilty of the body and blood of Christ, if He were not Himself present in a more tangible way than spiritually? It seemed that the real "Bible believers" in this case were the Catholics, who believed what the Bible plainly says! The meaning of these verses now seems so clear that I wonder how I could ever deny the Real Presence of the Messiah in the bread and wine. I realized that my unbelief was not based on Scripture. I was putting myself on the side of the unbelieving disciples who left Him because they could not accept His words. The early Christian writings are unanimous in supporting the belief of the Real Presence of the body and blood of the Lord in the bread and wine. Ignatius of Antioch, for example, writes around 110 A.D - less than 20 years after the death of the apostle John and two centuries before Constantine - about some heretics who held opinions "contrary to the mind of God": "They abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer because they do not confess that the Eucharist is the flesh of our Savior Jesus Christ, flesh which suffered for our sins and which that Father, in his goodness, raised up again. They who deny the gift of God are perishing in their disputes".[11] With such language, it is not surprising that "cannibalism" and "human sacrifice" were common charges made by pagans against the early Christians because of their belief in the Real Presence. The Sacrifice of the Mass For years, the sacrificial nature of the Mass was one of the greatest stumbling blocks I had against the Catholic Church. Not only did Catholics say that the Eucharist was more than a commemorative meal, not only did they claim that the bread and wine were actually the body and blood of the Lord, they went as far as to say that the Mass was a true sacrifice offered to God. This seemed to be a direct contradiction of the recurring theme of the book of Hebrews: that Christ's sacrifice was final and completed at Calvary. "But now he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself" (Heb. 9:26). "And where these have been forgiven, there is no longer any sacrifice for sin" (Heb. 10:18). I thought the sacrifice of the Mass implied that the Son of God was re-sacrificed again and again, that his work had not been sufficient at the cross, and that Catholics were guilty of perpetually re-crucifying Him. As with the other issues, the problem was that I did not have a correct understanding of the Church's teachings about the Mass. The Church indeed teaches that Christ's sacrifice was final and complete. This has never been put in question. What the Eucharist does is that it re-presents, or makes present the sacrifice of the cross perpetually. Now what exactly does this mean? We humans are bound in time. When we think of Yeshua's sacrifice on the cross, we think of an event in time that happened in the year 32 CE. God, however, is outside of time. We know that Yeshua is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world (Rev.13:8). Peter presents the same idea and writes that "He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you" (1 Pet. 1:20). Even John, as he contemplated a vision of eternity, looked at the Lion of the tribe of Judah and saw "a Lamb as though it had been slain" (Rev. 5:6). We see then that the sacrifice of the Son of God is eternal. It was present in the beginning, and will be present for all of eternity. Evangelicals have no problem grasping this concept when they speak of "entering the throne room of God", "coming to the cross" or of "pleading the blood of Yeshua". When we plead the blood in prayer, no one accuses us of re-sacrificing Christ or of diminishing his work at the cross. What we are doing is applying or making the one sacrifice present in our lives, in a spiritual way. The same principle is at work in the Mass. It makes the eternal sacrifice of the Lamb of God present in our midst through the bread and the wine, not only in a spiritual but also in a sacramental way. Do we find any evidence in Scripture of a sacrifice of bread and wine perpetually re-presented? In fact we do. The book of Hebrews compares the priesthood of Yeshua to the Old Testament priesthood of Melchizedek (Heb 7:15-17, 21-22). What kind of offering did Melchizedek bring? We read in Genesis 14:18 that he offered...bread and wine! The prophet Malachi also spoke of a perpetual offering offered to God among the nations: "For from the rising of the sun, even to its going down, my name shall be great among the Gentiles; in every place incense shall be offered to My name, and a pure offering; for My name shall be great among the nations" (Mal. 1:11). The very first believers directly associated this prophecy with the Eucharist. We see this in the Didache, one of the earliest Christian writings dating back to the end of the first century: "Assemble on the Lord's day, and break bread and offer the Eucharist; but first make confession of your faults, so that your sacrifice may be a pure one. Anyone who has a difference with his fellow is not to take part with you until they have been reconciled, so as to avoid any profanation of your sacrifice. For this is the offering of which the Lord has said, 'everywhere and always bring me a sacrifice that is undefiled, for I am a great king, says the Lord, and my name is the wonder of nations' [Mal. 1:11, 14]".[12] Another way of understanding the Eucharist is to look at it through its predecessor, the Passover sacrifice. Even though the deliverance out of Egypt happened only once in the history of Israel, the sacrifice of the Passover lamb was to be repeated throughout all generations (Ex. 12:14). Every Jew, as he celebrates the Passover today, is to remember the deliverance out of Egypt as if God took him personally out of Egypt. The Passover sacrifice - just like the sacrifice of the Lamb of God - is a one-time event that is perpetuated throughout all generations and applied in an individual way to those who celebrate it. Messianic believers usually delight in pointing out the similarities between the Passover sacrifice and the sacrifice of the Lamb of God, such as the blood shed for atonement or the fact that not one bone was broken. However, they do forget one important detail: the Passover lamb had to be eaten to be effective. How is this fulfilled in the New Covenant? If you're a Catholic, the answer is simple: by eating the bread from heaven, the flesh of the Lamb of God. This is not a pagan idea, but a wholly biblical concept: We see the Jewish origins of the Eucharistic sacrifice in Melchizedek's offering of bread and wine, in the Passover lamb, in the perpetual offering spoken of by Malachi, and in the very words of the Lord in his sermon on the bread of life and at the last supper. But why do we need this Eucharistic sacrifice, I used to wonder? After all, as believers, we have the indwelling Christ inside of us. We are temples of the Holy Spirit, in fellowship with the Father. Once we had "received" Christ, we had him! Did he "leave us" every week, so that we had to receive Him again the next week in communion? The answer to this question can be seen in the parallel between the Messiah and his bride, and the love between husband and wife (see Eph 5:25-33). A husband and wife have each other, yet the love between them is not always expressed in the same intensity. They may not always be fully aware of this love as they live their daily lives. But in the marital act, husband and wife fully express their love by making a total gift of themselves to each other. Believers are aware of a similar variation of intensity in our love relationship with God. We go from periods of dryness to intimate and intense worship experiences. The greatest worship experience of all, the greatest act of intimacy between the Bridegroom and His bride, the Church, is His gift of Himself to us in the form of bread and wine. It is truly an exchange between the human and the divine, where we offer Him our lives as a living sacrifice (Rom 12:1), and where we receive Him in return and are made partakers of the divine nature (2 Pet 1:4). The idea of a wafer containing God is certainly inconceivable for the human mind. But so is the incarnation - the fullness of the Godhead bodily dwelling in the man Yeshua (Col. 2:9), or the real presence of God that dwelt in the Holy of Holies under the First Covenant. God's wish has always been to be "Immanuel", God with us; He is with us more than ever in the Eucharist. In my period of alienation against Catholicism, there were few things I disliked more than devotion to Mary and veneration of the saints. I saw these practices as pure distractions from the centrality of the Messiah and the message of the cross. Quite honestly, although I now accept the Church's teachings about them, I still think that many Catholics go overboard with these practices and live a Christianity that is out of balance with the Word of God. Still, I do believe that if approached in a balanced way, the communion and intercession of saints is a beautiful and biblical part of our inheritance in Messiah. Protestants generally acknowledge the communion of saints between ourselves here on earth, and the future communion of saints in heaven when we will all be with God. In the meantime, however, they seem to assume an invisible dividing wall between the saints on earth and the saints in heaven. We are to have no communication whatsoever with those who are already with the Lord, and they are certainly not concerned with our earthly existence. I don't think such a view is biblical. It is commonly defended from Old Testament commandments forbidding us to contact the dead, such as: "There shall not be found among you anyone...who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead" (Deut. 18:10-11). One must really force such a passage, however, to use it to condemn asking the saints for their intercession. First, the context is clearly one of witchcraft, sorcery and clairvoyance, with the goal either to conjure some supernatural powers that are not from God, or to get information about the future. Neither of these applies to the Catholic practice of praying to the saints. Second, the commandment forbids to "call up the dead". Asking saints for their intercession to God is not calling them up. Catholics do not, and should not, expect them to appear to provide us with some kind of divine revelation. Another objection to the practice of praying to the saints is usually based on 1 Timothy 2:5: "For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus". Indeed, Yeshua is the only mediator, and all of our prayers go through Him. But what happens when a friend of mine is in need and asks me to pray for him? Should I rebuke him and tell him: "How dare you bypass Christ's only mediation and come to me for prayer. You can pray to God yourself through Yeshua!". I don't think so. We all know that it is biblical and good to pray for each other. It does not cross anyone's mind that we are violating Christ's role as mediator when we do this. Why should it be different with our family in heaven? I cannot imagine that, if I were to die tomorrow, I would instantly lose all concern and interest for my friends and family on earth. On the contrary, having attained perfect holiness and seeing our Lord face to face, would I not be in an even greater position to uphold those I love in prayer before Him? In Luke 16, the rich man suffering in Hades remembers his brothers and prays for them. There is triple evidence for Catholic beliefs here: not only is he dead, he is not even in heaven; despite this, he still intercedes for his brothers. In addition, he does not pray directly to God but to Abraham. Can even souls in purgatory pray for us? It could be a plausible hypothesis, judging from this passage. The rich man asks Abraham to send Lazarus back to earth to the rich man's house to warn his five brothers. Interestingly enough, Yeshua did raise a man called Lazarus from the dead (John 11). Coincidence? Maybe, or maybe not. The text does not say that this account is actually a parable. It is in any case odd that Yeshua would use the name of a close friend in this context. In the book of Revelation we see the 24 elders bringing the prayers of the saints before God (Rev. 5:8). An angel does the same a little later (8:3). In chapter 6 we have another example of saints "who had been slain for the word of God" now praying to God for vindication (6:9-11). We also read in the book of Hebrews that we are constantly surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses - the saints of the past (Heb. 12:1). A witness is by definition someone who sees. If such a cloud of witnesses surrounds us, it must mean that we are not cut off from them, but that they who preceded us on the way to heaven are cheering us on as we run towards the finishing line! The Bible is clear: By coming to "Mount Zion and to the city of the living God", we have also come to "an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven", and to "the spirits of just men made perfect". (Heb. 12:22-23) Catholicism and Idolatry The Catholic use of images and statues is a great stumbling block for Protestants and Jews. Catholics are commonly accused of engaging in idolatry and violating the second commandment: "You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall not make for yourself a carved image...you shall not bow down to them nor serve them" (Ex. 20:4-5). This is a serious and legitimate charge that needs to be addressed. It should first be said that the Catholic Church has always condemned idolatry. Consider this passage from the Catechism: "The first commandment condemns polytheism. It requires man neither to believe in, nor to venerate, other divinities than the one true God. Scripture constantly recalls this rejection of ‘idols of silver and gold, the work of men's hands. They have mouths, but do not speak, eyes, but do not see.' These empty idols make their worshippers empty: ‘Those who make them are like them; so are all who trust in them.'...Idolatry consists in divinizing what is not God. Man commits idolatry whenever he honors and reveres a creature in place of God, whether this be gods or demons, power, pleasure, race, ancestors, the state, money, etc. Idolatry is a perversion of man's innate religious sense."[13] Since the Church clearly condemns idolatry, how then can the use of statues and images be justified? From the Bible, says the Catechism: "Nevertheless, already in the Old Testament, God ordained or permitted the making of images that pointed symbolically toward salvation by the incarnate Word: so it was with the bronze serpent, the Ark of the Covenant, and the cherubim."[14] The reason for the prohibition of every representation of God by the hand of man is explained in Deuteronomy: "Since you saw no form on the day that the Lord spoke to you at Horeb...beware lest you act corruptly by making a graven image for yourselves, in the form of any figure..."[15] God could not be represented physically in the Old Covenant because He revealed Himself to Israel in an absolutely transcendent form. In the Incarnation of Christ his Son, however, God showed mankind an icon of himself. Paul said, "He is the image (Greek: ikon) of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation (Col 1:15)." Christ himself is the tangible divine "icon" of the unseen, infinite God of the universe, who has made himself visible in the flesh and has lived with men.[16] Therefore it has now become possible to make an image of what we have seen of God. "Christian iconography expresses in images the same Gospel message that Scripture communicates by words".[17] Pictures and statues are merely aids that help us to recall the great characters of the Gospel story, just as we would keep a picture of a loved one in our wallet to recall him or her. It is therefore a fallacy to put the Catholic use of images in the same category as the worship of the golden calf at Sinai. No Catholic worships statues, considers them to be God, or even thinks that they have special powers. Therefore, I have no problem with the representation of Christ, Mary or the saints as a way of recalling their lives and examples. They came in the flesh and can be artistically represented. In all honesty, however, my dislike for the veneration and kissing of statues remains. Although not acts of worship or even of honor to the statue itself, these gestures are so easily misunderstood that I believe Catholics would be better witnesses of their faith by refraining from them. Mary: Behold Your Mother The sincere Marian devotion of many Catholics usually has Evangelicals and Messianic believers run for their spiritual battle dress. I have probably heard the complete array of the most vicious attacks against her, from theories that the woman Catholics "worship" is actually a reincarnation of a Greek goddess, or even Satan himself disguised as an angel of light. Mary was also the main focus of my personal anti-Catholic attacks a few years ago, and I still believe many Catholics put too much emphasis on Mary at the expense of knowing Yeshua. In her right role, however, Mary does not take the place of Yeshua; rather, she leads us to Him. She is not divine, but fully human. She is not greater or equal to Him, and should not be worshipped. As she told the servant at the wedding at Cana, she tells us "Do whatever He says to you" (Jn 2:5). Yet when she visited her cousin Elizabeth while pregnant, this humble Jewish girl broke out in a song of praise, saying: "For behold, henceforth all generations will call me blessed" (Luke 1:48). The question is, how often do Evangelicals and Messianic believers obey this Scripture and call her blessed, rather than depreciate her biblical role at every opportunity? In the book of Revelation, we read that "now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars. Then being with child, she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth... She bore a male Child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron." (Rev. 12:1-2, 5). Frankly, I don't know why anyone would have any difficulty in identifying this highly exalted woman as Mary, unless preconceived theology prevents us from accepting the simple meaning of the text. Mary's title of "Mother of God" is one that sounds highly offensive to Jewish and Protestant ears - making it sound as if Mary existed before God. It also did to mine, until I understood what the term really means. The expression "Mother of God" comes from the Greek Theotokos. A more accurate translation would be "Bearer of God". Theotokos was already used to describe Mary near the end of the second century, and it was declared a dogma in the year 431 as a response to a heresy that was threatening the divinity of Yeshua. This heresy, called Nestorianism, claimed that Mary was mother of Christ but not mother of God. The implication was that it divided the human nature from the divine nature of Christ and created two separate persons. Calling Mary "Mother of God" does not make her divine, but makes clear that Yeshua was fully God and fully man united in one person. The Immaculate Conception, the belief that Mary was preserved from the stain of original sin, is another doctrine that is deemed unacceptable among Evangelicals (even though Martin Luther believed in it). The doctrine is said to contradict passages such as "all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Rom 3:23) and Mary's own words: "my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior" (Luke 1:47). The fact that Mary admitted that she needed a Savior does not contradict the Immaculate Conception. Indeed, she needed Yeshua's salvation as much as anyone else. The difference is that He saved her from sin even before she was born. A common analogy is that we have all fallen into a deep pit, and God came and pulled us out of it. With Mary however, God kept her from even falling into the pit. In this way, His work of grace and salvation is even greater in Mary's life than in ours. As for Romans 3:23, Paul's statement does not mean that there can be no exceptions. Adam and Eve were an exception to this rule and were not born with original sin. Yeshua was an exception. Babies who die in the womb are also exceptions, having not sinned. The angel's greeting to Mary "Rejoice, highly favored one" is traditionally more accurately translated "Hail, full of grace". The Greek for "full of grace", kecharitomene, conveys a perfection of grace that is at once permanent and of a unique kind, and strongly hints at the absence of sin for the whole of Mary's life. Through her holiness, Mary is the perfect model and type of the Church, presented before God without spot or wrinkle. Probably the most alarming issue for Protestants concerning Mary is her said role of being "co-redemptrix" with Christ. Unlike the term "Mother of God", the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption, however, the role of Mary as co-redemptrix is not a declared Catholic dogma, but merely a controversial issue within the Church today. Furthermore, this idea must not be conceived in the sense of equating the role of Mary with the redemptive activity of Christ - who remains and will always remain in Catholic doctrine the sole Redeemer of Humanity. So what does the idea of Mary as co-redemptrix mean? In a certain sense, all believers participate in Christ's work of redemption. Paul expresses this in the epistle to the Colossians: "Now I rejoice in what was suffered for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ's afflictions, for the sake of his body, which is the church" (Col. 1:24). It's not that Christ's work on the cross was not enough, but for some reason, He chose to include us, weak human beings, in his work of redeeming humanity, through our prayers, labors, and love. And Mary, in her close identification with the suffering of her Son, also played a very particular role in sharing in Christ's redemption. As the perfect model of faith, servanthood and obedience, Mary is also the perfect model of a human being's participation in Christ's work of redemption. All of this merit derives from Yeshua, and we are called to the same glorious task. Still, I am personally not in favor of Mary's title of co-redemptrix ever becoming a dogma, not because I am concerned that this would be a heresy putting Mary at an equal level with the Messiah, but simply because the doctrine would be so easily misunderstood in this way. In short, Mary is not divine or put on par with her son. She is not the savior but needed to be saved like us. Yet, as prophesied by her own words and seen in the book of Revelation, she does have an exalted role in heaven. When Yeshua on the cross entrusted John to Mary with the words "Woman, behold your son!" and said to the disciple, "behold your mother" (Jn 19:27), He was doing much more than a private family arrangement. (This would have been a strange thing to do for someone under the agonizing pains of crucifixion, especially considering the protestant belief that Yeshua already had brothers who could have taken care of Mary). By these words, Yeshua established Mary as the mother of mankind, the new Eve prophesied in Genesis whose seed would bruise the head of the serpent (Gen. 3:15). The Prodigal Son's Return Home Confronted with such formidable biblical and historical evidence supporting the Catholic Church's claims to Truth, there was but one thing left for me to do: I could no longer have a clear conscience before the Lord while living at the same time in a state of rebellion against the One Church that He founded. I had often prayed for the unity of the Body of Believers; now I realized that I was contributing to the very disunity I had prayed against by remaining separated from the Catholic Church. At this point, however, my motivation to return to Catholicism had become much more than this conviction of rebellion or the removal of theological and historical obstacles that had previously made my communion with the Church unthinkable. While it was a relief to find doctrinal certainty in contrast to the theological confusion frequently reigning in Evangelical and Messianic churches, this in itself was devoid of life-giving power. Yet while searching for truth, I found love. The reluctant return I had dreaded became a most joyful homecoming into the house of the Father. By now I longed to meet the Lord in the Eucharist, and to share in His life, death and resurrection in a more profound way than ever. The Scriptures had become more alive than ever and I found the grace of God revealed in its fullest within the Catholic Church. First apprehensive, I had become curious and then eager to experience the precious fellowship with Mary and the saints that would enable me to know and love Jesus more and more. Finally, on January 27, 2002, my travail came to an end as I received the Eucharist and returned to full communion with the Church at St. Anthony's in Jaffa. Since then, I have been in a sort of second honeymoon with the Lord, rediscovering His sanctifying power in a new and very real way through the Sacraments and experiencing His peace and joy like never before. How much of the Truth had I missed as a sincere but misinformed non-Catholic Christian! May His great Name be praised forever for the unending riches He has given us! A Challenge to Catholics The Body of Messiah faces tremendous challenges as we enter the 21st century. The Gospel is under fierce attack by the forces of liberalism, secular humanism, materialism, globalization, and Islamic fundamentalism, to name but a few; never before have we held such great responsibility in carrying high the torch of Messiah. More than ever do we need to stand in unity as we carry out this formidable task. Catholics bear perhaps the greatest responsibility of all. To whom much is given, much will be required. Our faith is much more precious than gold, and it is in the Catholic Church that I have discovered the greatest riches of the Messiah. Yet many Catholics spiritually live like beggars, dressed in rags and unaware that they have a million dollars in the bank. Acutely aware of the weaknesses and problems of the Catholic Church today, my return has not been without reservations, despite the riches that I have found in Her. Evangelical and Messianic believers often do so much more with so much less, and Catholics have much to learn from their faith and dedication. The reform that initiated the splintering of Christianity into now thousands of divided factions happened for a reason. It was a reaction to the cumulated abuses and failures of the Catholic Church over centuries. Catholics must wake up to the reality that there are also legitimate reasons why millions of people hungry for God have left the Catholic Church in the past decades to find Christ in Evangelical, "Born-again" churches. Catholics cannot afford to ignore this fact or, worse, adopt a self-righteous attitude towards them. Jesus has told us to first look at the plank in our own eye before we look at the speck in our brother's eye. I believe the time has come for Catholics to humbly turn to their Evangelical brothers in appreciation and gratitude for their faithful service for the kingdom of God. They are to be commended and praised for their tremendous response to the Lord's calling. May we acknowledge our own shortcomings and be inspired by their sacrificial lives, vibrant faith, diligence in the study of Scripture, and enthusiasm and passion for the gospel. People in a lost world need a warm, loving relationship with their heavenly Father. They need the Spirit of God to touch and heal them. They need the Word of God as the foundation for their lives that will withstand the storms or skepticism, rationalism and liberalism. A religious ritual barren of these elements will never do. Catholics must first and foremost find the essence of their religion in the living God who loves them so much that He sent His only Son to die for them. Every Catholic should seek the transforming power of the Holy Spirit in genuine, passionate prayer from the heart and never be content with the mere mechanical reciting of written words. Catholics must read, study and know the Bible, and apply it to their daily lives in order to experience the hope of God's calling, the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and the exceeding greatness of His power towards us who believe. Many Evangelicals are concerned that the Catholic Church will be a part of the one-world religion where every spiritual path is acceptable except "biblical Christianity". This concern is fueled by appearances of the Pope with other religious leaders, rampant New-Age trends among Catholics who believe that people can be saved by other religions, and the reluctance of many Catholics to evangelize. Of course, doctrinally, these fears are totally without substance. No church has been as consistently uncompromising in preserving the Truth of the Gospel as the Catholic Church, and she will never agree to be part of a New Age religious mish-mash. Catholics must therefore more than ever affirm that Jesus is "the way the truth and the life, and that no one comes to the Father except through Him" (Jn 14:6). This is confirmed by the Catechism: "Believing in Jesus Christ and in the One who sent him for our salvation is necessary for obtaining that salvation. Since ‘without faith it is impossible to please God', therefore without faith no one has ever attained justification, nor will anyone obtain eternal life ‘but he who endures to the end'"[18] For this reason, Catholics must take seriously Jesus' call to go and make disciples of all nations (Mt 28:19). Evangelism is not a Protestant invention! As for relations with the Jewish people, Catholics must continue on the positive path of repentance initiated by John Paul II and be fully aware of the Church's shameful history towards the Jews. There is still much work to be done in this area. Any trace of anti-Semitism or replacement theology in the Church must be repented of and eradicated, and God's irrevocable election of Israel affirmed. More, a deeper study and understanding of Judaism would be extremely beneficial to all Catholics. In this area also may we be inspired by many of our Evangelical brothers. My hope is that the Catholic Church will eventually follow their bold example and affirm God's promise of the land of Israel to the Jewish people. In the meantime, we can rejoice that Jews are recognizing their Messiah in ever-increasing numbers and that the Messianic community is growing in Israel. However, if the current trend is to continue then the Jewish Body of Messiah will be Protestant by the time Yeshua returns. Catholics must realize that they will not win the Jewish people by kissing statues or worshipping Mary, but by a solid knowledge of Scripture, fervent prayer and true love for their older brothers in the faith. If Catholics are willing to change, to humble themselves, to discover the riches of Scripture, and to seek God with all their heart, I believe they will not only enjoy unimaginable personal benefits, but also immensely contribute in restoring the broken unity of the Body of Messiah. Protestants will see that all the good things they have - and much more - are also available in the Catholic Church. While of a different nature, the challenges to non-Catholic believers are equally great. Evangelicals and Messianic believers, with all their good qualities, must guard themselves from the presumption that they are the only ones in the world who take a stand for Yeshua. I challenge them to seriously look into the issues that I have raised in this essay, and to pray that the Lord may reveal attitudes that have contributed to disunity within the Body of Messiah. More, I earnestly urge and encourage my Evangelical and Messianic brothers not only to lay down unfounded prejudices received from well-meaning but misguided anti-Catholics, but to (re-) discover the unfathomable riches of historical Christianity, received from our Jewish Messiah himself and His Jewish apostles. Tragically, many of these riches have been lost in the more modern forms of Christianity and in Messianic Judaism, despite the common wish of these movements to "return to the original, Jewish Gospel". For those genuinely interested in finding the complete, mature fulfillment of Judaism (but also willing to pay the price), try this unexpected address: Rome. As Rosalind Moss succinctly states: "You cannot be more Jewish than to be Catholic". Furthermore, Yeshua wants us to meet Him not only in Word and in Spirit, but also in Sacrament. There will always be something absolutely central missing to our faith if the Eucharist, the true bread of life and flesh of our Passover Lamb, is absent, or merely replaced by a "memorial meal". Lastly, I wish and encourage every believer to become acquainted with our Blessed Mother and divine family in heaven. Far from offending our Father or competing for our love, as I once thought, they are but the fullest expression of the community of love of God's great family. By knowing the family, you will only learn to love your Father, your Redeemer and your Sanctifier even more. My prayer is that we would be willing to lay down preconceived ideas and beliefs, and to learn from each other. May we have the courage and humility to admit that our understanding of God is always imperfect and sometimes even wrong. Let us seek His Face and love Him with all our hearts, souls, minds and strength. Yeshua prayed for His Body on earth: "that they may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me...and have loved them as You have loved Me. (John 17:21,23). May we continue to seek truth and unity together so that the world may see and know Him in us, His one Body on earth. [1] Madrid, Patrick, Surprised by Truth, p. 10. [2] CCC 839 [3] Chadwick, Henry, The Early Church, p. 44. [4] Eusebius, Historia Ecclesiastica 3.25. [5] Chadwick, p. 42-43. [6] Keating, Karl, Catholicism and Fundamentalism, p. 137. [7] CCC 1030. [9] 2 Macc. 12:46 [10] Chadwick, Henry, The Early Church, pp. 261-263. Quotes from Justin Martyr (ca. 150 AD) and Hippolytus (ca. 200-220 AD). [11] Ignatius of Antioch, Letter to the Smyrnaeans 6:2-7:1 [A.D. 110]) [12] Didache 14 [A.D. 70]. [13] CCC 2112-2114, Ps. 115:4-5 [14] CCC 2130, Num 21:4-9, Ex. 25:18-20 [15] CCC 2129, Deut. 4:15-16. [16] Do Catholics Worship Statues? 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__label__wiki	0.972251	0.972251	Metropolitan (UA) Scheduled Castes Scheduled Tribes House Assets House Less Slums Fertility Ratio State Census 2011 District List Meergarh - Sirohi Meergarh Population - Sirohi, Rajasthan Meergarh is a medium size village located in Abu Road Tehsil of Sirohi district, Rajasthan with total 113 families residing. The Meergarh village has population of 641 of which 337 are males while 304 are females as per Population Census 2011. In Meergarh village population of children with age 0-6 is 136 which makes up 21.22 % of total population of village. Average Sex Ratio of Meergarh village is 902 which is lower than Rajasthan state average of 928. Child Sex Ratio for the Meergarh as per census is 838, lower than Rajasthan average of 888. Meergarh village has lower literacy rate compared to Rajasthan. In 2011, literacy rate of Meergarh village was 61.39 % compared to 66.11 % of Rajasthan. In Meergarh Male literacy stands at 77.19 % while female literacy rate was 44.21 %. As per constitution of India and Panchyati Raaj Act, Meergarh village is administrated by Sarpanch (Head of Village) who is elected representative of village. Our website, don't have information about schools and hospital in Meergarh village. Meergarh Data Total No. of Houses 113 - - Population 641 337 304 Child (0-6) 136 74 62 Schedule Caste 8 4 4 Schedule Tribe 296 159 137 Literacy 61.39 % 77.19 % 44.21 % Total Workers 298 185 113 Main Worker 283 - - Marginal Worker 15 9 6 Caste Factor In Meergarh village, most of the village population is from Schedule Tribe (ST). Schedule Tribe (ST) constitutes 46.18 % while Schedule Caste (SC) were 1.25 % of total population in Meergarh village. Work Profile In Meergarh village out of total population, 298 were engaged in work activities. 94.97 % of workers describe their work as Main Work (Employment or Earning more than 6 Months) while 5.03 % were involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months. Of 298 workers engaged in Main Work, 167 were cultivators (owner or co-owner) while 53 were Agricultural labourer. High Density State Density / Km2 1 Delhi 11,320 2 Chandigarh 9,258 3 Puducherry 2,547 4 Daman and Diu 2,191 5 Lakshadweep 2,149 India @ Glance District Related State Related Copyright Census Population 2015 Data	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26223
__label__cc	0.537443	0.462557	Climatic Change is not a fiction. It is already biting Heatwave LATEST: Most of France placed on alert as temperatures spike Heatwave warnings were extended across more of France on Tuesday with much of the country now on Orange alert for searing temperatures, which are expected to rise above 40C in some cities. French weather forecaster Météo France has issued orange alerts – the second highest warning – for 65 départements in France, leaving a warning map that now covers the majority of the country. Some 53 departments were already on alert on Monday as the Mercury began to rise. The warnings began in Paris and the surrounding areas before spreading south and east. The départements that were put on orange alert on Tuesday are; Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Hautes-Alpes, Alpes-Maritimes, Ardèche, Aveyron, Haute-Garonne, Lot-et-Garonn, Lozère, Maine-et-Loire, Mayenne, Sarthe and Vaucluse. The départements that remain on alert from Monday are Ain, Allier, Ardennes, Aube, Cantal, Charente, Cher, Corrèze, Côte-d’Or, Creuse, Dordogne, Doubs, Drôme, Eure-et-Loir, Indre, Indre-et-Loire, Isère, Jura, Loir-et-Cher, Loire, Haute-Loire, Loiret, Lot, Marne, Haute-Marne, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Meuse, Moselle, Nièvre, Puy-de-Dôme, Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin, Rhône, Haute-Saône, Saône-et-Loire, Savoie, Haute-Savoie, Paris et petite couronne, Seine-et-Marne, Yvelines, Deux-Sèvres, Tarn, Tarn-et-Garonne, Vienne, Haute-Vienne, Vosges, Yonne, Territoire-de-Belfort, Essonne et Val-d’Oise. It is thought that temperatures during the heatwave – which is forecast to go on all week and reach its peak on Thursday and Friday – will spike at 40C, but forecasters have warned that accompanying high humidity will make the temperatures equivalent to 47C, particularly in cities. Read more athttps://www.thelocal.fr/20190624 Emmanuel Macron hué et insulté à sa sortie de la… Val-de-Marne: les élus PCF et FG appellent la France… North Pole above freezing in sign of… Destroying Life on Earth Hawaii Missile Alert Wasn’t Accidental, Officials… ‘Extraordinarily hot’ Arctic… SOURCEwww.thelocal.fr Extreme Weather Conditions	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26224
__label__cc	0.732726	0.267274	AKAASH SINGH (New York City) Akaash earned his first television appearance in 2011. He was one of a small handful of comedians selected to be a panelist on MTV's "New Year's Bash 2011", making light of the celebrity news we all take too seriously.Then he piloted for a series with MTV Desi has been approved for a full season, and is set to begin in 2012. In 2013, He was chosen as a cast member on MTV2's "Wild N Out". In 2014, it was HBO's "The Leftovers", as well as MTV2's Guy Code. And more recently, he has just finished filming for the second season of MTV2's "Joking Off".	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26225
__label__wiki	0.822674	0.822674	Digital Hollywood Spring, 2016 Eli Weisman, VP Interactive Media, Trailer Park Lia Navarro, Sales Director, Entertainment Strategy, reddit, Inc. JR Griffin, Vice President of Digital Brand Partnerships, FremantleMedia North America Greg Portell, Partner, A.T. Kearney John Ilacqua, Director of Publisher Strategy, Jun Group Tom Edwards, Chief Digital Officer, Epsilon Track II: Poolside Tent I Viral and Social Media Experiences in Entertainment, Media and Advertising: Creativity & Monetization Challenges Adam Wilensky, Executive Director, Mobile, Fox Digital Entertainment Greg Portell, Partner, A.T. Kearney, Moderator marketing. His work there combines storytelling expertise with large scale production resources to make, market and distribute content for their diverse client portfolio of major brands and all of the top entertainment studios. Early in his career, Pittard Sullivan, the award winning design and branding agency, recruited Eli to Executive Produce interactive projects and cross-platform initiatives for clients such as ABC, HBO, Showtime, DIRECTV, and TiVo. Weisman has been a mentor at the American Film Institute, is an active member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, The Producers Guild of America, and produced the 2004 Emmy Award-winning, Showtime Interactive. Lia Navarro, Sales Director, Entertainment Strategy, reddit, Inc.; Lia Navarro leads sales in the Southwestern region for reddit.com, an online community that currently has 160 million uniques and 7 billion page views. Back in 2006, Lia joined the advertising sales team at Condé Nast Publications where she worked closely with the newly acquired WIRED.com and reddit.com (established in 2005). In 2009, Lia transitioned her focus solely to reddit.com as its only sales representative. Two years later, reddit.com spun off from Condé Nast to become its own entity. Her clients have included Universal Pictures, Sony Pictures, Lionsgate, Microsoft, A24 films, VICE, Bethesda Softworks, HBO, Showtime, FUNimation, and many more. Prior to reddit.com, Lia left her hometown in Mexico to attend California State University, Los Angeles. Before finishing school, she started working for an advertising agency with major clients from all over Latin America, including Universal Latino, CNN en Español, Gol TV, Universal Brazil, MGM Latin America, FSC and Fox Life, giving her a global business prospective and a passion for the power of digital and social media. JR Griffin, Vice President of Digital Brand Partnerships, FremantleMedia North America; JR oversees FMNA’s relationship with companies like Google and Facebook for shows such as American Idol. For the first time in TV history during the past season of American Idol, Google’s online voting platform allowed fans to cast votes for their favorite contestants directly from Google Search . The partnership with Facebook that JR spearheaded offered an unprecedented, real-time view of voting trends during the live performance shows, with Facebook-branded graphics detailing ongoing voting information. JR’s team was recognized for their work on American Idol with a nomination for an Interactive Media Juried Award for the Social TV Experience category during last year’s 66th Emmy Awards. JR and his team have also been instrumental in maintaining America’s Got Talent’s (AGT) position as the #1 summer TV series, as well as its position as a top-rated social TV show. The show finished out its ninth season at the end of the summer and captured the accolade of consistently being ranked in the weekly top ten overall in the Nielsen Twitter TV Ratings. AGT’s YouTube channel went through a complete facelift this last year by incorporating new editing styles, end cards featuring AGT judges and host Nick Cannon, and themed playlists. This resulted in AGT reaching a milestone one million subscribers mid-way through the season, for which JR’s team received a coveted YouTube Gold Play Button award. John Ilacqua is the Director of Publisher Strategy at Jun Group. “Jun” means truth and the company’s advertising platform is the honest, efficient way to get millions of people to engage with video and branded content across devices. In his role, John leads Jun Group’s Publisher Strategy team, developing audience solutions for some of the world’s largest and best-known media companies. Prior to Jun Group, John began his career in digital media with CNET sales team at CBS Interactive. He graduated with a degree in Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering from the University at Buffalo. Tom Edwards, Chief Digital Officer, Epsilon: Tom’s responsibilities involve oversight, creation and execution of Epsilon’s digital strategy and programs on behalf of agency clients. He is focused on merging the art and science of Epsilon’s robust agency offerings which include all facets of digital services from proprietary data assets, consumer engagement consulting, omnichannel activation, content and social marketing, mobile strategy, shopper marketing and innovation strategy. For the past 15 years, Tom has been among the most notable executives within the digital, mobile and social media industry, and in 2014, was named an iMedia Agency Marketer of the Year finalist. Prior to Epsilon, Tom was EVP, Strategy and Innovation, Digital, for The Marketing Arm. Previously, he was SVP, Digital Strategy and Emerging Technology for Red Urban, part of DDB Worldwide. He also served as CMO for cloud-based social solution provider INgage networks. Greg Portell is a partner with global management consulting firm, A.T. Kearney. He is also a leader in the firm’s global media and entertainment sector with a focus on content convergence, consumer marketing and segmentation as well as business unit strategy. With more than 20 years of management consulting experience, Greg’s clients include some of the world’s largest and most influential media and consumer marketing companies. His counsel is sought by clients on such emerging issues as digital rights management, consumer targeting, and market acquisition strategy. Greg is a founder and former director of A.T. Kearney’s Print Procurement Solution which creates private, preferred marketplaces for both buyers and sellers to improve marketplace economics. Greg received a M.B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis and a B.A. from DePauw University. Eli Weisman, VP Interactive Media, Trailer Park: Eli is an award winning interactive executive with an extensive branding, cross platform strategy, and user experience design background. With an intimate knowledge of content production and distribution, user interface design and technology, Eli has led teams to the successful launch of global content marketing campaigns, numerous websites, iTV platforms, interactive and enhanced TV projects, Video on Demand services, mobile applications, and widely deployed set-top and OTT devices. Eli currently leads the iTV and Content Marketing practices at Trailer Park, a full-=service agency specializing in content creation and entertainment	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26229
__label__wiki	0.844693	0.844693	View image / gettyimages.com A boat illegally carrying immigrants of Syrian origin to Greece sinks off the coast of Turkey in the Aegean Sea on 23 June. Passengers were rescued by the Turkish coast guard. (photo: Getty Images/Anadolu Agency) Migration crisis: The E.U.’s shipwrecked refugee plan (Der Spiegel) When 800 refugees drowned on their way to Europe this April, leaders promised to act. Just over two months later, the European Union’s attempts at real reform have all but failed — and raised some serious questions about the credibility and nature of the union… ISIS attacks Hassake (Fides) On Tuesday evening, 23 June, the city of Hassake in the northeast of Syria was struck by ISIS. The series of attacks started with an explosion at a tank adjacent to a garrison of Kurdish militias. Then a truck full of explosives detonated in the northeast of the city… ISIS blows up ancient shrines near Syria’s Palmyra (Al Jazeera) ISIS says it has destroyed two ancient shrines close to the Syrian city of Palmyra, seized by the armed group a month ago. Photographs posted online appeared to show the shrines being blown up and reduced to rubble on Saturday. It was the first reported damage to ancient sites since ISIS first captured Palmyra, known as Tadmur in Arabic and famed for its UNESCO-listed Roman ruins… Ukrainians displaced by fighting tell speak to U.S. bishops (CNS) Displaced Ukrainians shared their stories and experiences with the members of a U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops delegation visiting Ukraine for four days. Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.C.C.B. president, and Archbishop Blase J. Cupich of Chicago, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Subcommittee on Aid to the Church in Central and Eastern Europe, headed the delegation… Indian government places Caritas India on watch list (The Indian Express) The Indian government has placed Caritas India — an arm of Catholic Bishops Conference of India — under its “prior approval” category. Any transaction the organisation makes through Indian banks will now need clearance from the Ministry of Home Affairs. A senior government official said the organization was put under the category after its funds, given to various NGOs, were alleged to be involved in purportedly “anti-India” activities… Thousands in Armenia protest steep hikes in electricity rates (Washington Post) Thousands of protesters returned to a main thoroughfare of downtown Yerevan, Armenia, on Tuesday evening, facing down riot police to protest steep electricity price increases planned in the economically strapped country. Protesters in the capital city marched toward the presidential palace on Marshal Baghramyan Avenue just hours after police had unleashed water cannons to disperse a peaceful overnight sit-in that had taken place in the same spot earlier in the day, detaining more than 230 demonstrators and journalists in the process… Tags: Syria India Ukraine Armenia Migrants	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26233
__label__cc	0.744271	0.255729	Yanes Named 2013-2014 Philip Merrill Presidential Scholar Department of Aerospace Engineering student Nelson Yanes Department of Aerospace Engineering student Nelson Yanes was named a 2013-2014 Philip Merrill Presidential Scholar. This program honors the University of Maryland’s most successful seniors and the designated University faculty and K-12 teachers who mentored them. Yanes was selected based on his academic excellence and research accomplishments as well as his strong commitment to mentoring high school students. As part of his nomination, Yanes named his honors Chemistry teacher at Northwestern High School in Hyattsville, MD, Joe Magdelinskas, as being a positive influence and tremendous role model. Yanes also named his Department of Aerospace Engineering professor and research advisor, Dr. Christopher Cadou, as his faculty mentor. He credits Cadou for inspiring his love of research and expressed admiration for Cadou's dedication to his students. Scholars and their mentors are honored in a ceremony to highlight academic excellence, teaching and mentoring. Scholarships are awarded in the K-12 teacher’s name to a new first year student from that teacher’s school district. Yanes is a member of the Aerospace Honors Program, University Honors Program and the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers. He currently works with Cadou in the Propulsion Laboratory conducting research on the combustion losses of two-stroke engines. Yanes is also a volunteer with Precollege Programs, and every Saturday he teaches Mathematics and Physics to students around the Washington Metropolitan region. For more information on the Philip Merrill Presidential Scholar's Program, visit their website.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26236
__label__wiki	0.79953	0.79953	Cream City Central Home Packers Green Bay’s Upcoming Season Schedule Was Released Last Week Green Bay’s Upcoming Season Schedule Was Released Last Week Ryan Dietrich The Green Bay Packers’ 2019 schedule came out last week Wednesday. After a disappointing season last year, the Packers will be looking to redeem themselves in 2019-2020. Green Bay was 6-9-1 last season, this was the worst record for a Packers team since 2008 when Aaron Rodgers was in his first full season as a starter. I’ll be honest, around game 12 of last year, I gave up on the Packers. However, with the new additions to the team, I have a positive outlook on 2019. Green Bay has talent on both sides of the ball in Aaron Rodgers, Davante Adams, Aaron Jones, Jimmy Graham, Jaire Alexander, Za’Darius Smith, and Blake Martinez. They have a new coach in Matt LaFleur. A new system. A new attitude on Aaron Rodgers and Green Bay seems poised for a rebirth in the upcoming season. According to NFL.com, the Packers are tied for the 14th hardest schedule next season. Right in the middle, I’ll take it. When I look through the games, these are the matchups that fans should look forward to the most. Opener 9/5 @ Chicago On September 5th, Green Bay will be opening their season at Soldier Field in Chicago. They will be suiting up against the defending NFC North Champions. The first game is important, the players are buzzing and this is where teams set the tone for their season. Green Bay was 1-1 against Chicago last year in two grind-it-out games. Don’t expect anything different from this one. Right away, the Packers will need to find a way to contain edge rusher, Khalil Mack. Last year Mack had 9 tackles, 3.5 sacks, an interception, a forced fumble, a fumble recovery, and a touchdown against the Packers. He had more sacks in 2 games than both Clay Matthews and Nick Perry had all of last season. People will be counting down the days until the season opener and Packer fans should not miss this one. 9/15 vs. Minnesota (First Home Game) The Packers will play their first home game on September 15th versus the hated Minnesota Vikings. It will be the first home game so the Lambeau faithful will be out in huge numbers. Green Bay was 0-1-1 against the Vikings last year. They were outgained 896 yards to 605 against the Kirk Cousins’ led offense. Speaking of Cousins’, he played like an MVP against the Packers in 2018. In 2 games, he threw for 767 yards and 7 touchdowns. Those are the numbers Aaron Rodgers should be putting up, not Captain Kirk. Hopefully Green Bay has better luck against Minnesota this year than last. 10/6 @ Dallas Since Green Bay won the Super Bowl in 2010, the debate has been going on. Who is America’s team? Is it the Green Bay Packers or the Dallas Cowboys? Let’s just say, whoever wins this game on October 6th, has the rights to the America’s team title. Last season, the Cowboys won the NFC East with a 10-6 record…this game will be no walk in the park. The game in Dallas will be Green Bay’s 5th of the season so it will be a good indicator where the Packers are as a team moving forward. Dallas has a handful of playmakers on offense in Dak Prescott, Ezekiel Elliott, and Amari Cooper. On defense, they have Leighton Vander Esch, Demarcus Lawrence, and Byron Jones. Green Bay will have to limit big plays and turnovers if they want to beat the Cowboys. 10/27 @ KC Three weeks after the Dallas game, Green Bay will be going up against last year’s MVP, Patrick Mahomes. Mahomes led his Chiefs to a 12-4 record while throwing for 5,097 yards and 50 touchdowns in 2018. He is on the verge of passing Aaron Rodgers as the most talented quarterback in the league. This game will be a tough matchup for Green Bay but an exciting game nonetheless. Packers versus Chiefs has all the makings of a game that will end 42-35 with incredible performances from both quarterbacks. 12/15 vs Chicago This isn’t the most exciting storyline but it is a storyline, on December 15th, former Green Bay Pro-Bowler, Ha Ha Clinton-Dix will return to Green Bay for the first time. Also, this will be Green Bay’s 3rd to last game of the season and hopefully, they will be in the middle of a playoff push. This game could prove pivotal in deciding if the Packers make the playoffs, or even better, win the NFC North. Record Prediction With Full Season Schedule 9/5/19 @ Bears (L) 9/15/19 vs Vikings (W) 9/22/19 vs Broncos (W) 9/26/19 vs Eagles (L) 10/6/19 @ Cowboys (L)) 10/14/19 vs Lions (W) 10/20/19 vs Raiders (W) 10/27/19 @ Chiefs (L) 11/3/19 @Chargers (L) 11/10/19 vs Panthers (L) 11/24/19 @ 49ers (W) 12/1/19 @ Giants (W) 12/8/19 vs Redskins (W) 12/15/19 vs Bears (W) 12/23/19 @ Vikings (L) 12/29/19 @ Lions (W) Final Record Prediction: 9-7 Previous articleHow Jon Horst Turned The Bucks Around Next articleBreaking Down Adrian Houser’s First Career Start There’s a Quarterback Controversy in Green Bay How Grady Jarrett’s Contract Affects Kenny Clark Should Rodgers Play More This Preseason? Follow us on Instagram @creamcitycentral We are Milwaukee's newest sports site. We look to provide the city and state with a unique voice for the Bucks, Brewers, Packers, and pop culture. Cream City Central does not own the rights to any photos or videos used on this site. Full credited is still granted all original owners. © Copyright 2018, Cream City Central. Site built by L&M Design. Donald Driver: The Hall of Famer Ryan Dietrich - June 12, 2019 As basketball season ends and baseball enters the lull of summer, it is time to think about football. More importantly, the Green Bay Packers.... Where do the Packers Stand Right Now? Ryan Dietrich - October 24, 2018 NFC North Standings Vikings: 4-2-1 (Next three games, vs Saints, vs Lions, @ Bears) Packers: 3-2-1 (Next three games, @ Rams, @ Patriots, vs Dolphins) Lions: 3-3...	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26238
__label__cc	0.521133	0.478867	Join Our one of a kind NYC Sports Community Spring 25 & Under 2019 Summer Legends 2019 Summer Retro 2019 25 & UNDER STANDINGS 25 & UNDER SCHEDULE CBL 30 CBL 30 STANDINGS CBL 30 SCHEDULE Justice League Standings Avengers Standings Legends Schedule RETRO STANDINGS RETRO SCHEDULE CBL30 Schedule 25 & Under Under General Rules 30+ General Rules Legends General Rules Retro General Rules Expendables General Rules Any player that is rated 1.99 or below must play a minimum of 10 minutes per game for each game including the post season. In addition, a team must have a 1.99 or below on the court at all times. For a more detailed explanation of the minimum minutes rule, please see the “Playing Time for Lower Rated Players” below. Two 20-minute halves. Clock stoppage until one minute of each half. The clock will start at the jump ball. However, the league organizers can reduce the playing time due to delays. 35 second shot clock will take effect in the second half of each game including overtime. The shot clock will be supervised by the referee and clock keeper. A ball handler must release the ball within 5 seconds. Otherwise it will result in a turnover. Arm’s Length First and Double Overtime will last 3 minutes & 2 minutes respectively (running time until last minute); each team is awarded 1 additional time-out per overtime. Timeouts will not be carried over. Triple Overtime (and thereafter) will last 1 minute. 2 minute warm up at the start of the game (if time permits). Teams are permitted 2 time outs in the first half and 2 time-outs in the second half. Time outs WILL carry over but NOT in OT. In OT they will get one time out each. OT is 3 mins for the first OT and then 1 min per each OT. Teams shoot 1-and-1 on the 7th team foul and 2 shots on the 10th team foul and all fouls thereafter. Technical Fouls assessed prior to the start of a game will not result in loss of possession of the ball. Every game will begin with a jump ball. A team may start and finish a game with four (4) players. If a team has four (4) players at the scheduled start time, they must start the game at the scheduled start time, a 5th player can be added when he arrives. If a team does not have enough players to start the game the clock will start and the opposing team will be awarded 1 point for each minute the other team is late. If circumstances are extreme then the league officials will make a judgement call. 8 regular season games and 3 playoff rounds. The Post season will consist of the following:- Seeds 4 and 5 will compete in the wildcard and the winner will face the No. 1 seed on the same day in Rd. 1 while seed 2 will play seed 3. The winners in Rd 1 will advance to the semis in their division where there will be clock stoppage. No clock stoppage in Rd. 1.- There will be no feature where the No 1 seed selects their opponent of choice. The wildcard winner in each division must play on the same day vs. No. 1 seed. The wildcard game will follow regular season rules.The team with better records always has first right to select a time they want to play as long as it is a permit approved time slot e.g Thurs @ RFK 8-11 pm , Sun @ QHST 7-10 pm. The winner of each division will advance to the Finals and play for Season 12 Chip. Top 3 teams with the best record will clinch a post season spot LEAGUE UNIFORMS Players must wear Current CBL30 Jerseys. Starting in week 1, a (pre-game) technical foul will be assessed before the game for each player who does not have the proper league jersey. If for any reason you have an emergency player or new player playing they will get a tech ALSO. No EXCEPTIONS!!!! All Techs will be assessed. Captains CANNOT decide whether they want to take the tech or not. This also applies in playoffs. The jersey rule will go into effect Week 2 for teams who don’t have jersey orders that were requested from the league. Until then all teams must wear similar colors. Any other exceptions granted in prior seasons will no longer be in effect. UNSPORTSMANLIKE BEHAVIOR AND FIGHTING The use of profanity, vulgarity, taunting and the verbal abuse of players and officials will not be tolerated at CBL. Any such incidents will be penalized with a technical foul. Any repeated conduct of this type will result in an immediate ejection of the player(s) involved, and those players will be subject to disciplinary action. Fighting will not be tolerated! Anyone involved in a fight will be suspended for a minimum of one game and may be banned from the league. Any type of disciplinary action (including but not limited to suspensions and ejections) will be at the sole discretion of the league organizers. PLAYING TIME FOR LOWER RATED PLAYERS AND RESTRICTIONS Any player rated 1.99 or below must play a minimum of 10 minutes in each game including the post season. Plus, a 1.99 rated or below player must be on the court at all the time. If a player is not available, then the league will make a decision. If this rule is violated, then the violating team loses via forfeit or their will be serious penalties assessed by the commissioner. If a team is missing their lower rated (1.99 or below) players then the rule is that the team that is missing still has to play their other lower rated players (1.99 or below) for a minumum of 10 mins. However, their opponent does not have to play their lower rated player for a minimum 10 mins. Although we still encourage each lower rated player plays at least 10 minutes. Also, please adhere to restrictions that are imposed for certain teams. They must be followed. MERCY RULE If there is a 20 point (or greater) margin with less than 2 minutes left in the game, the game will be stopped. If it’s less than 20 points, the game clock will not be stopped under 1 minute. As part of the league fees, the league organizers will enter the stats within 24 hours after each game. The Captain is NOT responsible for entering stats. If a player(s) disagrees with their stats, they should contact their captain so the captain can contact the organizers and advise them of the inaccuracy. League will make every effort to post accurate stats. DISQUALIFICATION RULE Players are disqualified after the 5th personal foul. Players will be disqualified from the game until there are four (5) players remaining. If any of the remaining four (5) players receives a 5th personal foul, that player can continue to play, but a technical foul will be assessed on that player’s 6th personal foul and for each additional foul committed by that player. TECHNICAL FOULS All technical fouls will result in the opposing team receiving two (2) foul shots and possession of the ball. (A team does not lose possession of the ball for any pre-game technical.) The game clock runs on technical fouls unless it is at or below the 5 min mark in the second half. All technical fouls will also count as a personal foul, except for pre-game technical fouls. Once a player reaches 6 technical fouls in one season, he will be suspended for the following game INCLUDING playoffs. Each technical foul will result in another suspension. A player must also pay a $5 fee for any tech received for unsportsmanlike conduct. FORFEITS Teams can start and finish a game with four (4) players. If a team does not have a minimum of four (4) players by 10 minutes after the scheduled start time, the game clock will be started. The team that shows up late will be down however many minutes the clock has run. For example: if a team shows up with 5 minutes after the game clock has started, the other team will start the game up 5-0. If a team still does not have the minimum of four (4) players within 10 minutes after the game clock has been started, then that team will forfeit the game. Forfeits are strongly discouraged. The league will allow players with an average skill-set to fill in so a forfeit can be avoided. For an approved players list contact the league organizers. Rosters can contain a maximum of 9 players. Roster is approved by league organizers. There is a roster cap of 19.5 (for 7 players) or whatever was approved prior to the season. Any additions must be approved by league organizers PRIOR to the game. You are NOT allowed to add players without league approval. ROSTER LOCK/TRADES The Roster is locked for addition of new players after 4 games of play. This means no new players are allowed to join a team even via trade after week 4 of playing weeks. Trades are acceptable up until Monday after week 4 is over. The cap and exceptions must be compliance. If the proposed trade puts the team above the cap, then an approval from the league and committee is required. A trade can also mean that a player can join a new team up until the March 30th deadline as long as the salary cap allows for the team he is leaving and joining. There is a no cursing policy in our league. If you curse you will receive a tech. Doesn’t matter if you are talking to yourself or your own team. A curse is a curse. Seeds 4 and 5 will compete in the wildcard and the winner will face the No. 1 seed on the same day in Rd. 1 while seed 2 will play seed 3. The winners in Rd 1 will advance to the semis in their division where there will be clock stoppage. No clock stoppage in Rd. 1. There will be no feature where the No 1 seed selects their opponent of choice. The wildcard winner in each division must play on the same day vs. No. 1 seed. The wildcard game will follow regular season rules. A player rated two or more must have played in five (5) games or 62 percent of the eligible games in order to qualify for the playoffs. Players that are rated 0 to 1.99 will need to have played 4 games or fifty percent of eligible games. Unless there are extenuating scenarios/circumstances, the league will NOT give consideration. IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF EACH CAPTAIN TO HAVE ENOUGH PLAYERS QUALIFIED FOR PLAYOFFS. A team must have at least 6 players qualify for the playoffs if they have a 7 man roster. If a team carries an 8 or 9 man roster, then 7 players must qualify. A team that does not have the required amount of players qualified for the playoffs then they will be assigned (league decides) a 0-1 rated player to play on their team and that player must play the minimum minutes required which is 10 minutes. TIE BREAKERS TIES INVOLVING TWO TEAMS. The first criteria in the breaking of ties in the standings shall be head-to-head competition of tied teams. Each team’s record versus the team occupying the highest position in the final regular season standings, and then continuing down through the standings until one team gains an advantage. When arriving at another group of tied teams while comparing records, use each team’s record against the collective tied teams as a group (prior to that group’s own tie-breaking procedures), rather than the performance against individual tied teams. The lone exception to this guideline would be if there are only two tied teams in the group placement and one of the teams won both regular-season games. In this instance, the tie is deemed broken and comparison of the seed rather than the placement will be utilized. TIES INVOLVING MORE THAN TWO TEAMS. Results from the collective head-to-head competition during the regular season among the tied teams in a mini round-robin format, ranking the tied teams by winning percentage from highest to lowest will be used to determine the seeds. If during this process two teams remain tied with the same winning percentage, the two-team tie-breaking system is used, starting with head-to-head results. If during this process more than two teams remain tied with the same winning percentage, a second mini round-robin format is implemented, ranking the remaining tied teams by winning percentage from highest to lowest to determine seeds. If the teams remain tied, then the two-team tie-breaking system is used, starting with head-to-head results. If more than two teams are still tied, each of the tied team’s record versus the team occupying the highest position in the final regular season standings, and then continuing down through the standings, eliminating tied teams with inferior records until one team gains an advantage. When arriving at another group of tied teams while comparing records, use each team’s record against the collective tied teams as a group (prior to that group’s own tie-breaking procedure), rather than the performance against individual tied teams. The lone exception to this guideline would be if there are only two tied teams in the group placement and one of the teams won both regular-season games. Are you ready for Season 16? No time to celebrate as LeBron passes Michael again Powered by WordPress.com .	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26240
__label__cc	0.569559	0.430441	Author Christopher Kalanderopoulos Christopher Kalanderopoulos founded Eggplante in 2009 to cover one event in Los Angeles. It never occurred to him that it would make him the Editor of an online magazine for the next decade. He spends most of his time gaming, backing cool Kickstarter projects, and hanging out with his wicked cool nieces and nephews. How Nintendo got the Switch Lite completely wrong (and why it’s not even a Switch anymore) We're as excited as the next person for new consoles, and it's always an exciting time to know that some fresh new hardware will soon be out on the market. But with the recent announcement of Nintendo Switch Li... The 3DS is dead, but Nintendo won’t actually say it. Nintendo last week revealed its latest Switch console, appropriately dubbed "Nintendo Switch Lite" given its smaller, portable-only nature, as well as teased us with new looks at Luigi's Mansion 3, Pokémon Swor... Netflix reveals first images of The Witcher featuring Henry Cavill Entertainment, News, News, Television In May 2017, Netflix announced that it would be producing a series based on author Andrzej Sapkowski's The Witcher book series. This week, they've released the first images from the production, including Henry ... Gaming, Reviews The Legend of Zelda series has many hallmarks: dungeons, finding a sword and shield, exploring vast and untamed lands, and saving the princess, of course, not to mention the many, many others. One of the ser... E3 returns to Los Angeles June 9 – 11, 2020 As they usually do, the Electronic Software Association, ESA, has announced that E3 will be returning to the Los Angeles Convention Center next year. E3 2020 will take place from June 9th through 11th, thoug... E3 2019, Gaming, News, News When Nintendo reimagines a game, they make sure that every bit of the experience gets a redesign, while still remaining faithful to the original game. This is also true for parts of the game that may not be ... With a new LEGO Star Wars game just announced, and learning that it comprises all nine films from the entire main series, it is no surprise to learn that the game has been in the works for quite a while. In ... E3 2019, Gaming, Opinion Nintendo, having just wrapped up its E3 showcase, gave us new looks at Luigi's Mansion 3, Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield, and The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening. All of them, as you may have guessed, are c... Sequel to Breath of the Wild in development for Switch While there is only a small amount of information available, naturally, Nintendo shocked everyone by revealing that a sequel to Breath of the Wild is in the works on Switch. A teaser trailer was revealed sho... Project Scarlett is not in the Xbox One family, Xbox Live GM confirms In a presentation session about the future of Xbox, we've learned a bit more about Project Scarlett and what it means to be Xbox's next generation of consoles. Perhaps most notably is that, unlike Xbox One S...	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26245
__label__wiki	0.974844	0.974844	Churches oppose bid to allow gay 'marriage' on religious premises By Andrew John Feb 14, 2011 in World A move in the UK to allow same-sex couples to hold their civil-partnership ceremonies in religious premises is being opposed by the Church of England. The Roman Catholic Church has already expressed its abhorrence of same-sex unions, with Pope Benedict saying last year that gay marriage and civil partnerships were among the "most insidious and dangerous challenges that today confront the common good." The Independent reports that the Church of England has "pledged not to allow any of its buildings to be used for civil partnership ceremonies." The paper continues: "The proposal also threatens to provoke resistance from politicians, particularly among the Tory right." It quotes Lord Tebbit, a former Conservative Party chairman and longtime opposer of equality for gay people, as saying: "We should be utterly, completely and absolutely clear that a civil partnership is not a marriage, cannot be a marriage, never will be a marriage and should be treated entirely separately from marriage. "Marriage is celebrated within a church. If we make it a permissive option, sooner or later, the legal proceedings will start to enforce it upon churches against the will of many ministers in those churches." The Liberal Democrats – one of the partners in the UK's Con–Dem coalition government – believe they have secured a victory for their equalities agenda, says the paper, adding: "Lynne Featherstone, a Lib Dem minister at the Home Office who will make the announcement, also wants greater uniformity between civil partnership and marriage. "She has committed the Government to 'talking to those with a key interest in the issue of civil partnerships on what the next stage should be'. It includes allowing 'religious readings, music and symbols', and holds out the possibility of the ceremonies being performed by priests, rabbis or other religious figures." One man who has long pushed for both civil partnerships for opposite-sex couples and marriage for same-sex couples is the human-rights campaigner Peter Tatchell. In a news release he says there is no excuse for delays in introducing religious civil partnerships. "Allowing religious civil partnerships is long overdue. It was agreed by parliament nearly a year ago. There is no excuse for the government's long delay in putting it into effect. "Permitting faith organisations to make their own decision on whether to conduct same-sex civil partnerships is the democratic and decent thing to do. The current law prevents them from doing so, even if they want to. "When the legal change comes into effect, no religious institution will be forced to perform civil partnerships. It will be up to them to decide. They will be able to agree or refuse. Gay-affirmative religions "By banning religious civil partnerships, the current law is denying religious bodies the right to treat gay couples equally. It is forcing them to discriminate, even when many of them do not want to. "The Quakers, Unitarians, Metropolitan Community Church and Liberal Judaism wish to conduct civil partnership ceremonies and should be allowed to do so. "Following a change in the law, we expect that civil partnerships will be conducted by gay-affirmative religions, including the Unitarians, Quakers, liberal synagogues and some individual Anglican churches, where the priest agrees to do so. "Our next goal is to secure marriage equality, to end the prohibition on lesbian and gay couples having a civil marriage in a register office. "Already, 61% of the British public believe that same-sex couples should be able to have a civil marriage, according to an opinion poll conducted by Populus in June 2009." Trump other rights The move has been given a guarded welcome by the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu. The BBC quotes him as saying that he believes in a liberal democracy, and actually wants equality with everybody, but he didn't want churches to be told what to do. "You mustn't have rights that trump other rights," he said. The BBC also quotes a Church of England spokesman: "Given the Church's view on the nature of marriage, the House of Bishops has consistently been clear that the Church of England should not provide services of blessing for those who register civil partnerships." He said changes could "lead to inconsistencies with civil marriage, have unexplored impacts, and lead to confusion, with a number of difficult and unintended consequences for churches and faiths." He continued: "Any change could therefore only be brought after proper and careful consideration of all the issues involved, to ensure that the intended freedom for all denominations over these matters is genuinely secured." More about Samesex marriage, Civil partnerships, gay marriage in church, religious gay marriage, church of england Samesex marriage Civil partnerships gay marriage in chur... religious gay marria... church of england Anglican communion Anglican church Tatchell archbishop of york john sentamu	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line26249

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