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__label__wiki	0.559449	0.559449	In Haiti, Community is Key to Transforming Education Filed under Education Posted August 2017 By recruiting a new generation of teachers, Anseye Pou Haiti works with communities to build a better Haiti. Forty-three percent of the Haitian population are children under 15 years old, yet the average child in Haiti completes only five years of formal education. Anseye Pou Ayiti (APA), a partner of global education organization Teach For All, hopes to change these statistics by transforming the country's education system. By recruiting and training a new generation of Haitian teachers who are also community leaders, APA's mission is to ensure that Haitian children not only complete primary school, but go on to pursue secondary education and ultimately contribute to the community and achieve their full potential in life. While some teacher recruits are former teachers, others bring skillsets from other fields, with various backgrounds modeling different viewpoints and valuable life experience in their classrooms. Outcomes for the young program are already promising: For students taught by APA teachers, the overall student passing rate in spring 2016 was over 80%, nearly three times higher than the regional average of 30% in rural communities. An APA classroom at Ecole La Petite Orchidée in Mirebalais, Haiti. The country's complicated social and political history, catastrophic natural disasters like the 2010 earthquake, and longtime struggles with poverty have left the education system riddled with challenges in both access and quality. It goes without saying that these challenges disproportionally affect children from low socio-economic groups and those from rural areas. Instead of preparing young people with the skills to become contributing members of society, the system stifles their potential, in turn stifling the development of society itself. Teacher leader Markenson Petit Maitre in his classroom at Ecole La Petite Orchidée in Mirebalais, Haiti. Since 2015, APA has partnered with Teach For All, the global network of organizations with a shared vision of expanding educational opportunities in their countries. In only nine years, Teach For All has developed programs in 42 countries across the world, with a common thread that transforming education requires strong leadership from within the community and buy-in from all stakeholders. The cornerstone of APA's mission is to find leadership talent within its own communities, recruiting local Haitians as teachers, many of whom were raised in or are returning to their communities (APA partner communities) in rural, underserved areas. APA has a mixed cohort approach of recruiting existing and new teachers for its fellowship. Like most Teach For All teachers, APA teacher leaders see themselves on a mission to bring the craft of teaching to peers within their schools and beyond. APA received 440 eligible applications for 35 slots in the 2016 cohort. The group included top young professionals, existing teachers, and university graduates. More than 1,400 students were directly impacted by APA teacher leaders in the 2016-2017 school year. 43% of the Haitian population are children under 15 years old. To design the foundation of APA's mission, CEO and Co-Founder Nedgine Paul Deroly engaged with local stakeholders to discuss what a successful education system would look like and, more importantly, what it would mean for the development of their children. What skills and values must they learn to become productive members of society? Grappling with these questions resulted in a collective vision that the entire community could stand behind. Instructional strategies are grounded in the appreciation of "the three C's": culture, customs and community. Negdine Paul, CEO and co-founder of APA, with two of the program’s teacher leaders. Believing that children cannot be taught separate from their culture, APA incorporates Haiti's native Kreyol language into classroom teaching and learning. The use of storytelling, songs, games, the role of elders, and community leaders are all part of the learning process. Students in the classroom are encouraged to collaborate–they learn from the teacher and then work in groups to teach each other. The same strategy is employed among teacher leaders: by learning to collaborate and teach one another, successful practices are passed on to more and more teachers. In community, APA hopes to create a new narrative of a Haiti that is for Haitians and by Haitians, centered around "new institutions who see, agree, and act on education equity as the foundation for real freedom and social justice." The Anseye Pou Ayiti program encourages children to work in groups to learn and solve problems together. Classes are taught in the Haitian native language of Kreyol. Education is highly valued in Haitian culture: despite any economic challenges at home, the highest proportion of families' disposable income is directed towards children's education. APA is concentrating the program in rural communities where there is the greatest need for quality education in underserved primary schools. Within a five-year period, their goal is to equip and graduate teacher leaders who will impact 16,000 students in Haiti. By going deep into rural areas, APA is able to generate proof points of community-level systemic change. As a result of the 2010 earthquake, most of the central historic area of Port-au-Prince was destroyed. In a country facing seemingly insurmountable challenges, APA is building up teachers who can build up their peers, their students, and the infrastructure of the education system. Ultimately they'll build a better country, by Haiti and for Haiti, together. Learn more about Teach for All, the global network of organizations dedicated to improving education through community involvement. Handshake: Building A Career Network for Young Talent Jonathan Stull, CEO of ed tech company Handshake, sketched the crisis facing new college graduates, some 40 percent of whom are underemployed. Pride and Pressure: What It Means to Be A First-Generation College Student Defying the Odds on the Path to College The first graduating class of i.am College Track Boyle Heights is heading to college. 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__label__cc	0.736527	0.263473	Work Flow New! Videos write your best work What others have said about Erika's work... Winner of the Eve Orpen Memorial Award for Excellence in Editing (2003) What I've been reading lately... Erika Westman's favorite books » Share book reviews and ratings with Erika, and even join a book club on Goodreads. Who can confidently say what ignites a certain combination of words, causing them to explode in the mind? Who knows why certain notes in music are capable of stirring the listener deeply, though the same notes slightly rearranged are impotent?" This is one of my favourite quotes from The Elements of Style, Strunk and White's seminal text for editors. There is a certain mystery and magic in writing. But there is also a method. As an editor, whether I am working in fiction or non-fiction, I love nothing more than to bring together the method and the magic of words to help writers create their best work. Now Hiring... Contact me if you're interested. erika@erikawestman.ca	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19231
__label__wiki	0.849846	0.849846	SSETI Express SSETI Programme About the SSETI Programme About SSETI Express Mission facts Technical facts Launch facts SSETI Express sub-systems Ground segment SSETI Express partners Radio amateurs Help the SSETI Express team See how SSETI Express came to life! ESA > Education > SSETI Express The SSETI Express team is made up of around 100 students Incredible but true, planning for SSETI Express only began around 18 months ago. Originally ESEO was to be the first spacecraft launched but as the complex design of some of the sub-systems made the design phase last longer than expected, it was decided to take advantage of the work already done on several critical sub-systems to make a new spacecraft: SSETI Express. This decision ensured that the students who had put so much hard work into designing the sub-systems for ESEO would be able to see their hardware fly. At the same time, SSETI Express could act as a technological test-bed and a logistical precursor for the ESEO mission and all future student satellite projects. Most importantly, this first pan-European student project is a tangible demonstration that European student teams, working together, can find industrial sponsors and maintain support from their Professors and universities. The SSETI Express team is made up of around 100 students from 10 universities in nine countries. The students are divided into 15 teams, each of which is responsible for one aspect of SSETI Express. By bringing education programmes such as the Amateur Radio Union and CubeSat, together with academic institutions and the commercial industries that have sponsored the mission, SSETI Express is helping to expand the SSETI network, making it easier for future missions. A student holds one of the smaller CubeSats SSETI Express will deploy CubeSat pico-satellites, take pictures of the Earth, act as a test-bed and technology demonstrator for ESEO hardware, and also function as a radio transponder for the global amateur radio community. This micro-satellite, roughly the size of a washing machine, will be placed in low-Earth sun-synchronous orbit by a Russian Cosmos 3M satellite from Plesetsk in Russia. Once in orbit, SSETI Express will launch its three pico-satellite passengers, each measuring exactly 10 cubic cm. This is an important milestone, as for the first time a spacecraft will be used to place other satellites into Earth orbit. Ncube II This contains an automated identification system (AIS) used to receive GPS signals. The AIS signals from Ncube 11 will be detected and forwarded to Ncube ground stations, allowing them to track the satellite. To test the technology, a reindeer named Rudolf will be equipped with a collar containing a complete AIS transmitter and tracked as it walks around the Hardangervidda national park in Norway. Ncube II was developed and constructed in Norway by Narvik University College, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, the Norwegian University of Life Sciences and the University of Oslo. The work was coordinated by the Norwegian Space Centre and the Andøya Rocket Range. UWE-1 The main objective of UWE-1, (University of Würzburg’s Experimental satellite 1) is to conduct telecommunication experiments related to the optimisation of an internet-related infrastructure for space applications. It will also establish and interlink a network of ground control stations via terrestrial internet and interdisciplinary teams of students will be able to study the system design approaches needed in developing a pico-satellite that requires modern miniaturisation techniques for the electro-mechanical components. UWE 1 was developed and constructed in Germany by students at the University of Würzburg. The flight model of CubeSat XI-V XI-V Its primary mission is the demonstration of newly-developed solar cells in space. As well as CIGS cells, XI-V will also test GaAs cells to be used for PRISM, the Intelligent Space Systems Laboratory (ISSL) of Tokyo’s next remote-sensing nano-satellite. Other mission objectives include the acquisition of Earth images by a commercial off-the-shelf digital camera and the operation of a message transmission service using an amateur radio frequency. XI-V is the second nano-satellite built by the ISSL in Tokyo, Japan. Last update: 5 September 2005 Rating: 4/5 (2 votes cast) SSETI Association Homepage SSETI Express Mission student site SSETI Radio Amateur Connection	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19232
__label__cc	0.520086	0.479914	Casa del Agua and Desert House: Two Residential Demonstration-Research Projects on Water and Energy Efficiency 2. Casa del Agua 3. Desert House 4. Questions and Answers 5. Endnotes 6. List of Figures An Essay on a presentation made by Richard Brittain to Diwan al-Mimar on May 31, 2001 Prepared by Mohammad al-Asad and Majd Musa in association with Richard Brittain, 2002 AREE - Aqaba Residence Energy Efficiency Energy Efficient Housing Booklet - How Can a House Be Energy Efficient? Two Residential Demonstration Projects on Water and Energy Efficiency Download text-only version of this essay (MS Word file, file size is 120 KB) Support for the publication of this essay has been made possible by a grant from the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development. Additional support has been provided by Darat al-Funun - The Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation. Richard Brittain (1) started his presentation with a comparison of rainfall patterns in the Sonoran Desert region, particularly in Tucson, Arizona, and in Amman. He mentioned that both have similar levels of precipitation, which amount to approximately 300 mm per year. He added, however, that the rainfall pattern in Tucson is bimodal, but is unimodal in Amman. (2) Tucson has a rainy season during the summer and another one during the winter. The situation is different in Amman where rain falls in one season, from November through March. Brittain added that the total water demand exceeds the total available renewable supply in Tucson. This is the result of a number of factors including low levels of precipitation, rapid population growth, and the high levels of water consumption by the mining industries and agricultural activities in the area. Therefore, the issue of water conservation in the different sectors of water use in Tucson is of great significance. Brittain believes that implementing an efficient use of the limited water resources on a residential scale can play a significant role in reducing the amount of municipal water used in Tucson. In order to motivate people to save water, residential education and demonstration projects are required. By a residential demonstration project, Brittain refers to a house that would demonstrate to the public and educate it about water conservation. Such a house would be one in which a family would live, while researchers would monitor the house and record data about how much water is being used and what possible savings in water use might be achieved. Through such a research project, researchers would be able experiment with the use of water-saving mechanisms such as using graywater and rainwater for irrigation. The project also would allow the general public as well as water conservation specialists and other concerned parties to visit it, tour its facilities, and examine the ways in which different water conservation technologies are implemented in a real-world setting. Such a project should also incorporate a public information center that would allow visitors to gain in-depth knowledge about the project and the research being conducted through it. This would allow them to implement in their own residences some of the ideas on water conservation being used in the demonstration house. When Brittain, at the College of Architecture, and his colleagues at the Desert Research Unit in the Office of Arid Lands Studies (OALS) at the University of Arizona considered their first water conserving demonstration house in 1983, they had been engaged for a number of years in research on various aspects of water conservation. Before they undertook their first demonstration house project, they had realized that the only way they could possibly succeed in achieving higher levels of water conservation in a given community was through involving a large segment of the community and gaining its support. Brittain and his colleagues spent a couple of years discussing the idea of a water-conserving demonstration house with individuals and relevant organizations. Participants included Tucson Water, the Pima County Wastewater Management Department, the University of Arizona, the Southern Arizona Home Builders Association, and building suppliers. (3) According to Brittain, it is this wide level of commitment to the idea of demonstration projects that allowed for the success of the two demonstration houses in which he has been involved. These two projects are described below. In 1983, the City of Tucson carried out a road-widening project in suburban Tucson, and subsequently bought the houses located along this particular road with the intention of demolishing them. Brittain and his colleagues convinced the city authorities that one of the residential properties had the potential of being modified and retrofitted as a demonstration and research site for water conservation practices. The single-family residence was very close to a shopping mall, which meant that many people would go to that area, and the mall visitors could be attracted to visit the house through effective advertising. The house was given the name "Casa del Agua," which is Spanish for "House of Water." It was opened for visitors in September 1985, and operated as a demonstration house until April 1999, when it became Tucson Water's conservation offices. Casa del Agua (figure 1) is a typical ranch-style house that had lawn all around it and was landscaped with the high-water-use plants typical of the Tucson area. Also, it conformed to the customary practice in Tucson of diverting all the rainwater that falls on a residential property off the site and into the street where it would end up in the municipal storm sewer system. The project team worked on developing Casa del Agua in order to accommodate water conservation and data collection purposes. The design development was implemented through several modifications to the original structure and the landscaping of the plot on which it is located. Consequently, the project team removed the lawn and vegetation in the front yard, except for the large African sumac (Rhus lancea) tree that provided the western side of the house with highly needed shade. Several years later this tree was blown over in a monsoon storm and was replaced with a mesquite. They created a concave front yard area with a berm around its perimeter to retain rainwater on-site rather than have it end up on the street. The team also built a ramada across the front yard with vines planted next to it to provide additional shade. Moreover, they reconfigured the driveway so that it would slope towards the concave front yard and direct the rainwater into the site. Figure 1: A view of the Casa del Agua demonstration project in Tucson, Arizona. Alterations were also applied to the backyard (figure 2). Most of the lawn area was removed and brick paving was installed with a slope that directed rainwater to a very small lawn area surrounding a tree. Low-water-use plants were installed and irrigated through a drip irrigation system. (4) A passive solar greenhouse was built on the south side of the house. This was used to grow certain food crops, and also to provide the house with passive solar heating in the wintertime. Figure 2: A view of the backyard of Casa del Agua that shows the concrete paving and extended rooftop. The project incorporated a rainwater harvesting system. (5) The project team increased the harvested rainwater catchment area of the project by increasing the roof area, which now occupied 232 square meters. Storm water was conveyed to underground storage tanks by means of rain gutters and downspouts. Prior to entering the tanks, storm water flowed through a filter box, where a simple window screen was used as a filtration device that would stop the leaves and other debris from making their way into the storage tanks. Inside the house, the concrete floor of the master bathroom was cut open to reach the drainage pipes located underneath the slab. A new set of pipes was installed to allow for the separation of graywater from blackwater. Graywater, which includes sink, bathtub, shower, and washing machine water, was made to flow into a recycling system. Blackwater, which includes toilet and kitchen sink water, was directed to the municipal sewer system. Here, Brittain mentioned that the project team members decided to route the wastewater from the kitchen sink into the municipal sewer system because of the degradable material it contains from food waste and food scraps. Such materials make the wastewater from the sink hazardous and unsuitable for use without additional treatment. Sources of graywater at Casa del Agua were the washing machine, the bathroom sinks, the showers, and bathtubs. Graywater drawn from these sources flowed by gravity via the modified drain system below the slab to a 208 liter sump tank located below the floor level of the house. The tank had an overflow valve that connected to the municipal sewer, and had a pump inside it that pumped the graywater through the various experimental treatment systems and into the graywater storage tanks. The pump would automatically operate as the container in which it is submersed fills up with water. The pump serves to reduce the level of the water so that it would not overflow onto the rest of the equipment. Brittain noted that in the context of this project the rainwater pump and pressure tank were separated from the graywater pump and pressure tank. Moreover, each of those systems served separate drip irrigation zones. Brittain added that the calculations made for the volume of the expected harvested rainwater for the project indicated that storage tanks with a total capacity of about 51 cubic meters were needed. The project team decided to harvest at least half of the annual rainfall that fell on the roof surface and direct that into storage tanks so that the harvested water would be used for irrigation up to the next rain season. Consequently, two large tanks were first assigned for the harvested rainwater. However, after the first two years of the project's operation, it was found that the house was located in a "rain shadow" area, and therefore was not getting the expected amount of rainfall, and the rainwater storage tanks were not getting filled. Consequently, one of those tanks was converted for use as a second graywater storage tank so that graywater could be stored during the wintertime when the plants did not need the graywater for irrigation. The graywater, however, would be used during the arid pre-summer peak demand season (April through June). Brittain described the underground rainwater storage tanks and their installation process (figure 3). He mentioned that the project team realized that it is costly to excavate and install the tanks. The two tanks were well compression tanks with approximately 16-mm steel walls. Tucson Water had retired a number of these tanks because they were no longer suited for pressurized conditions. The project team welded manways onto the tanks, provided them with lockable lids, and provided the necessary piping work including the inlets, overflows, and suction pipes from the pump. The manway provides access to the tank, which is especially needed for maintaining the foot valve, which retains the pump prime. Figure 3: The installation of the underground rainwater storage tanks at Casa del Agua. Figure 4 shows the area located above the underground rainwater tanks as it appeared after the project was landscaped in 1985. A mesquite tree (Prosopis velutina) was placed in the area over the tanks. Mesquites are known to have tap roots, so this particular tree was meant to grow between the two tanks to encourage its growing roots to go down into the ground. The heaviest watering needs would be for the small turf area that appears in figure 4 and that was provided with a drip irrigation system. The two potted plants that also appear in figure 4 are placed right on the access manways. Those can be removed whenever access to the tanks is needed. The manways also allow for monitoring the content of the tanks by inserting a calibrated dipstick into holes plugged with corks. Figure 4: The landscaped area above the underground rainwater tanks at Casa del Agua: lawn area, Mesquite tree, and potted plants placed on the tanks' access manways. Brittain also emphasized the "passive" approaches to water conservation that had been adopted in the project. In addition to using water from the graywater system and from the rooftop rainfall harvesting system, water also was passively being harvested. This is achieved by making sure that all rainfall coming to the site was kept in the site. This means that the water that is not collected into tanks would be stored in the soil for direct use. Otherwise, the water would escape into the street, where not only would it be lost, but also would contribute to the problems of urban flooding. Brittain added that numerous experiments were carried out on the treatment of graywater during the thirteen years of Casa del Agua's operation. The goal was to explore practical means for achieving the highest quality of graywater possible in order to satisfy the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) standards for surface irrigation without having to chlorinate. This also was one of Pima County Wastewaters' objectives for the project. Recycled graywater was basically used to irrigate the plants and lawn through an automated drip irrigation system. In a few cases, particularly when the harvested rainwater was not available, recycled graywater was even applied to the herb and vegetable gardens. The harvested rainwater was primarily used for the evaporative cooling system from 1987 to 1991. It also was used as a supplementary irrigation water supply source, particularly for watering vegetables and herbs grown in the landscape or in the greenhouse. Brittain showed an interesting example in which PVC pipes were drilled with holes, hung from the rainwater catchment area, and planted with lettuces that grew out of the holes in the pipes. The plants in the pipes were irrigated with harvested rainwater by means of a drip irrigation system. It was only an experiment, but it shows how creative ideas can come out of the limited available resources. When one does not have much ground area or much water, one can just grow the food from a "hanging garden" and water it with a drip irrigation system (figure 5). Figure 5: The "hanging garden" at Casa del Agua: lettuce growing out of PVC pipes. Both harvested rainwater and graywater were tried for flushing toilets in this project. However, after the local plumbing code made the use of low-flow (6 liters per flush) toilets mandatory, the use of rainwater and graywater for flushing toilets did not seem necessary, especially since people do not feel comfortable having "unclean" water in the toilet bowls. Water-use activities in Casa del Agua were closely monitored to achieve a better understanding of water utilization in the project. A central monitoring compartment was installed in the project, and meters were installed on all the outside hose bibs. Ten meters were installed in the central monitoring compartment on the lines for drip irrigation to the lawn area and planter beds, evaporative cooler supply, and both input and output of the graywater and the harvested rainwater. Also, the collection and consumption of graywater and harvested rainwater was physically measured by using marked dipsticks inserted into the storage tanks. The dissemination of knowledge concerning water conservation methods and practices was a major component of the Casa del Agua project. Therefore, the project was provided with a public information center, and the house garage was adapted to serve this function. The media also helped convey information to the public about the house as a water-conserving project. The occupants of the house also took a part in the public education and awareness aspect of the project. In fact, one of the responsibilities of the occupants of Casa del Agua was to document how much water was used and where it was used. Moreover, every Sunday, the day during which the project was open to the public from one to four o'clock in the afternoon, the resident family would accompany visitors on a walking tour of the outside of the house. The family would also give a brief overview of the project and the water conserving systems it incorporates, and would explain the experiments taking place in the house and how successful they have been. Professional presentations were also made in the information center. In addition, one of the residents was doing his master's thesis on educating the public regarding water conservation, and his research revealed that one-half of the people who visited Casa del Agua implemented some of the ideas presented to them during their visit. The study also noted that this house contributed to a dramatic increase in water conservation awareness among the general public. (6) According to Brittain, the results of the project showed that the amount of water used at Casa del Agua is 24% less than that used in a typical average Tucson single-family residence (the average family in Tucson is about 2.5 persons). The typical average single-family house in Tucson uses about 428 liters per person per day. That amount was reduced in this particular project to 326 liters per person per day. Also, a reduction of 47% in the use of municipal water use was achieved. The amount of municipal water used at Casa del Agua was 227 liters per person per day; the amount of graywater used was 61 liters per person per day; and the amount of rainwater used was 34 liters per person per day. 69.7% of the total water used was municipal, 19.9% was graywater, and 10.4% was rainwater. No municipal water was used for irrigating the garden or for the evaporative cooling system. (7) Brittain believes that considerable success had been achieved through the Casa del Agua project, which encouraged further experimentation such as the implementation of the Desert House project in Phoenix, Arizona. Desert House In 1993, the Desert House demonstration project opened to the public. The project, which consists of a three-bedroom single-family home and an adjoining information center, is located at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona (figures 6 and 7). The location of the project is ideal since about 200,000 persons visit the Desert Botanical Garden each year. The Desert House also draws additional visitors to the garden through the publicity associated with it. The house was perceived as an example for improving residential water and energy efficiency. Its objective was to achieve a 40% reduction in water and energy use in comparison to the typical three-bedroom single-family house in the Phoenix area. Figure 6: A view of the Desert House demonstration project and its surrounding context in the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona. Figure 7: The layout plan of Desert House. The Desert House is about 149 square meters in area. It cost about 125,000 $US to build, which was the cost of the average home in the Phoenix area at that time. It was designed with the main axis running along the east - west direction, and it had a minimal number of windows along the eastern and western facades to reduce heat gain from the morning and afternoon sun. The southern side of the house was provided with the highest window area since that side would collect solar heat in winter but could easily be shaded during the summer. Moreover, a ramada was built along that side and deciduous vines were planted next to it (figure 8). The ramada and vines provide protection from the sun in the summer, but the vines lose their leaves in the winter and allow the sunlight to enter and heat the house. A minimum number of northern windows were included in the house to minimize heat loss in the winter. Instead, the rooms located along the northern side of the house were provided with clerestory windows along their southern side so as to let the sunlight reach them. Figure 8: A view of the ramada and adjacent vines installed at the south side of Desert House. Graywater and rainwater storage tanks were located in the basement of the house. Brittain mentioned that the basement in this particular project was referred to as the "research basement" because it houses all the plumbing equipment, water meters, control-valves, storage cisterns, and pumps. The water meters also are connected to a computerized monitoring system that monitors the resident family's use of water. Two 18 cubic-meter tanks were assigned for graywater storage and one 18 cubic-meter tank was assigned for rainwater storage. Brittain mentioned that the Desert House project team benefited from the knowledge they had gained in the Casa del Agua project. Consequently, they knew that significant graywater storage was needed in order to get through the dry period between the two rainy seasons of winter and summer, and that rainwater harvesting, although necessary, would not be enough. Each of the storage tanks for graywater and rainwater storage consists of four pre-cast concrete sections, which were connected together and sealed. The tanks are accessible through manways in their lids. The Desert House was provided with a water-conserving landscape design. The house was surrounded by a path network so that visitors would be able experience the landscaping and to look at some of the features that were used for shading the house. The soil was mulched and low-water-use plants were used so as to contribute to the reduction of water use at the house. The garden plants were irrigated with graywater or rainwater, depending on the type of plants. The landscaping incorporated a small lawn area in the backyard, which served as an activity zone. Each of the plants, as well as the components of the irrigation system, were labeled so as to be identified by visitors. In addition to the exterior pathway, the project incorporated two interior display areas. The first is the technical exhibit that is housed in the garage attached to the home; the second is the information center that is housed in a separate building. The technical exhibit deals with the technological aspects incorporated in the project, as well as other equally appropriate alternatives. These include items such as the showerheads, toilets, faucets, drip irrigation, as well as graywater recycling and rainwater harvesting systems. The exhibit also deals with the building materials used in the Desert House. These include appropriate types of glass, insulation materials, walls, and heating and cooling equipment. The idea of exhibiting a variety of materials aimed at illustrating to the public the multiplicity of water and energy efficient designs that can be used. This technical exhibit also is provided with an interactive computer that features a three-dimensional model of the house. One would select an area in the house featured on the model, and the computer would display how much water or energy is being consumed in that area (figure 9). Figure 9: The technical exhibit at Desert House: the interactive computer. On the other hand, the information center illustrates the goals of the project, why one needs to conserve water and energy, and how one can design water and energy efficient structures and landscapes. It contains a model of the Desert House and a simulation of the positions of the sun at the different times of the year and the day. This allows visitors to better understand the importance of orientation for a given structure, and the importance of shading devices and of the correct placement of windows (figure 10). The information center is also equipped with a seating area for lectures and presentations. After all, the project addresses the community, and "... is designed to educate the community about the importance of wise water and energy use, and about the practicality of creating more resource-efficient housing at an affordable cost without significantly impacting today's lifestyle expectations." (8) Figure 10: The information center at Desert House: the model of Desert House and a simulation of the positions of the sun at the different times of the day and different times of the year. One issue discussed following Brittain's presentation was how storing graywater for extended periods of time affects its quality. Brittain mentioned that graywater becomes cleaner the longer it is stored in tanks. This is because of the process of "anaerobic digestion" in which the particles found in the graywater keep digesting themselves. The same applies to rainwater in a storage tank. Rainwater is dirtiest immediately after rainfall since debris and bird droppings go into the tank. But with time, the litter settles down, the process of anaerobic digestion takes effect, and the water becomes cleaner. Brittain added that in both Casa del Agua and Desert House, the drip irrigation systems that distributed rainwater or graywater were never clogged. A follow up question was whether graywater was unhealthy, and therefore should be treated through processes such as aeration or chlorination. Brittain answered that the plants seem to thrive on the nitrogen and the nutrients found in graywater, and that graywater therefore seems to function as a natural fertilizer. He added that the research he and his colleagues undertook also showed that soaps did not cause any problems. They tried to avoid using soaps containing borax and similar materials that may harm the plants. However, the researchers did not notice any negative signs resulting from using the graywater for irrigating plants during the operation years for the two projects. Another question enquired as to why mixing graywater with rainwater had not been tried in Casa del Agua and Desert House. Brittain answered that this was because each project included ornamental plants, a herb garden, and a vegetable garden. The project team wanted to control the quality of the water being applied to each of these plant groups. Graywater is best suited for shrubs, trees, and lawn. On the other hand, rainwater is of a higher quality in terms of cleanliness, and therefore was applied to vegetables and herbs. Brittain added, however, that additional research should be carried out regarding the use of graywater for watering certain vegetable crops. Brittain was asked whether one should provide two cisterns for the harvested rainwater so that when cleaning one cistern, its content of water can be drained to the second cistern rather than being discharged to the sewer system. Brittain agreed that the idea of having two cisterns for the harvested rainwater could be of use, but did not believe it necessary. He added that such tanks rarely need cleaning. In fact, he has crawled down into the rainwater storage tanks of Casa del Agua and Desert House, and has found them to be adequately clean. He did find silty deposits at the bottom of the tanks, but water is pumped out of those tanks from about 160 mm above the bottom, which is above the layer of silt. Brittain added that he crawled into a rainwater cistern that had been in operation for about sixty years, and there was hardly anything in it that really needed cleaning. Still, he agreed that when more than a single storage tank is available, one has the option of draining the content of one cistern into the other if a leak or another problem occurs. One audience member discussed the economic aspects of installing rainwater and graywater tanks as well as a dual plumbing system in a typical house. He mentioned that municipal water in Jordan is relatively cheap (at least for those who use small amounts of water), while the costs of installing such systems is considerable. He added that the money saved through the use of recycled graywater and harvested rainwater might not be extensive. Since people would not save much through the installation of such systems, they would rather not use them. He wondered if the economic logic for installing rainwater harvesting or graywater reuse systems in a place such as Arizona was more convincing than he expects it to be in Amman. As a response to this point, Brittain emphasized that harvesting and reusing water is an ethic. Rainwater is water of very high quality, and graywater is a source that is always available: a source that one always can count on. In Arizona, municipal water is very inexpensive. Therefore, in order to encourage people to implement graywater and rainwater harvesting systems, researchers need to look at simple and economically affordable solutions. Brittain mentioned that in some cases people have been using 208-liter drum tanks located above surface for collecting rainwater and graywater, instead of the more costly underground tanks. When one values a system, one will find a way to put it in use. In addition, the implementation of rainwater harvesting might be "need-driven." Brittain added that many people in Tucson even have much simpler systems than the ones he showed in his presentation. Brittain also highlighted cases where people must use all the water sources available to them. He mentioned that he visited islands where there are no fresh water sources, and people have to desalinate their water. The value of water in such areas therefore is much higher than in other contexts. Often, the cost of drilling wells to reach underground fresh water tables is prohibitively expensive. In such a case, Brittain believes that one would start looking at the value of harvested rainwater and graywater in a totally different way. For example, he mentioned that in certain Islands in the Caribbean, where harvesting rainwater is the only source of water, the inhabitants build their roof in a way that would harvest the highest amount of rainwater. Consequently, they extend their porches as far as possible so as to maximize the amount of collected rainwater that is directed into the cisterns located in a basement underneath the house. Brittain added that in this particular case one is not dealing with a simple "economic incentive," but with a "survival incentive." When there is a shortage in water resources, people should start thinking of the issue of rainwater harvesting and graywater reuse differently, a matter that applies to many locations in the world, including Jordan. Another question asked as to why a minimum number of northern openings were used in the design of Desert House. It was added that, to the contrary of what was applied in the Desert House, it is often thought that in hot climates one would increase openings in the northern side where solar heat gain is at its lowest. Here, Brittain stressed his view that northern windows should be avoided. He added, however, that exceptions might be made in cases such as the availability of an exceptionally beautiful view along the north side of the house. Brittain mentioned that the path of the sun in the winter and summer is to the south: in the summer time the sun path is at a high angle, so very slight overhangs can shade southern windows and keep the sun out. In fact, southern windows are the easiest to shade and protect, and one can always mitigate the extreme glare one usually gets from southern windows through green groundcovers and through black shade cloth on the roof in front of clerestory windows. On the contrary, a window that is placed along the north side, even the highest efficiency window, is just "a hole in the wall," and the bigger that window is, the more heat is lost through it in the winter months. A room with northern windows will be very cold during the winter, and during the summer when the temperature in Tucson is 110 degrees Fahrenheit (about 43 degrees Celsius) that window would bring in heat. Thus, in order to create truly energy efficient designs, one should place properly sized windows along the southern façade, and minimize windows along the western, eastern, and northern facades. A follow up question inquired about calculating the proper window size. Brittain mentioned that through his experience in designing passive solar homes and through the use of computer simulations for window designs, he recommends in the Tucson area that the south glass area only occupy 8 - 10% of the floor area of a given space. Consequently a 10 square-meter room ideally should have about 1.0 square meter of glass located along its southern side. Brittain added that designing a passive solar home with too many windows to the south would bring about the same problems he mentioned when placing windows along the northern facade. Too much heat is lost through such windows in the winter, and too much heat is gained through them in the summer. Brittain also pointed out that as one moves into colder climates, where more heat is needed, one might be able to raise the ratio of glass area to floor area. However, in that case, one might need to protect the additional glass with insulating curtains at night to minimize heat loss. Brittain was asked to elaborate on the issue of using harvested rainwater for cooling purposes. Here, Brittain mentioned that evaporative coolers are very common in Tucson since they are very suitable for hot dry climates. The evaporative cooler releases heat from the incoming dry air, and then distributes cooler, humid air onto the house. However, they are very high water users, and researchers have been looking at harvested rainwater as a source of water for them. The advantage of using rainwater for evaporative coolers is that it is a relatively mineral-free water source compared to the municipal water supply, which is pumped from very deep in the ground. The salts found in the municipal water build-up on the cooler pads, and thus reduce their ability to produce cool air. Since rainwater is softer than municipal water, it does not result in salt build-up on the cooler pads, and therefore provides for more efficient cooling and less annual maintenance. Another question enquired about the construction of the pre-cast concrete tanks that were installed in the Desert House project. Brittain mentioned that there is a company in Phoenix that casts huge tanks with a storage capacity of up to 30 cubic meters. Those tanks are produced in four pieces, a bottom, two middle rings, and a top, which together form a cube. The top and bottom sections look like an "open box." The lower sections are provided with a groove along the open side, and the upper section is provided with a tongue along the open side. The two sections are placed together by having the tongue fit into the groove. A special mastic is placed in the groove before the upper section is set down on it. This causes the mastic to ooze out, so the excess mastic is then cut off. Cracks in the concrete then are filled with expansive cementitious grout, and the whole internal surface of the tank is coated with a sealer. Brittain was asked to illustrate the construction materials that he often uses for walls and ceilings in his energy efficient designs, and whether he uses concrete slabs with cavities in them for the roofs. After all, it is through roofs that much heat is gained in the summer and lost in the winter. Brittain mentioned that he always tries to achieve an R rating of 30 or more for the roofs he designs. (9) He added that he often uses lightweight structural insulated panels, which have urethane insulation in the middle and nailable surfaces on the top and the bottom. Also, he mentioned that he does not recommend heavy concrete roofs for Arizona, where earthquakes need to be taken into consideration. The situation is different in Jordan where vertical extension of homes is often expected as families expand. Consequently, it makes sense in Jordan to use heavy concrete roofs that would later also serve as floors. As for the use of walls in energy efficient designs, Brittain mentioned that in the Desert House, for example, the walls were built of 20 cm-thick concrete blocks that have been developed in Arizona, and that are known as Superlite "Integra mass blocks." The blocks are H-shaped, and therefore are open on the ends. This means that minimal heat conduction takes place between the outside and inside faces of the block. The blocks are insulated with foam insulation between their inner and outer surfaces, yielding a rating of R-25. The windows that were used in the Desert house are dual-pane windows with a "heat mirror" film between the panes, and provide an R rating of 3 plus. The last question enquired whether the concepts of water conservation, which Brittain demonstrated through the two residential examples of Casa del Agua and Desert House, have been applied in commercial and industrial buildings. It was noted for example that car-washing stations are big users of water, and therefore should be subject to water conserving regulation codes. Brittain asserted that in Arizona there are water conservation regulations for commercial and industrial buildings. For example, any commercial or industrial property that uses 10 acre-feet of water a year has to conform to a different set of regulations than smaller properties, and must recycle water and reuse it a certain number of times. (10) In fact, the standards regarding water conservation that are applied to such large properties are much more rigorous than those applied to residential properties. Brittain added that Phoenix regulations prohibit, for example, discharging rainwater from large-scale shopping malls into the storm sewer system. Instead, all rainwater should be detained on-site. Consequently, culvert systems are used to harvest rainwater from areas such as parking lots and walkways. The culverts consist of a large network of underground pipes with diameters of up to 4 meters. The pipes are interconnected and they can either be perforated, so that they leak water out into the ground, or they can retain that water as storage tanks. Interestingly enough, Brittain mentioned that in spite of the use of this culvert system, the collected rainwater most often is not used for irrigating the landscapes on these properties. Instead, those landscapes are still being watered with municipal water because it is so inexpensive. Brittain added that harvested rainwater should not be looked at as something to be disposed of, but rather should be looked at as an asset. He added, however, that good examples of using harvested rainwater in Arizona at a large scale do exist. (1) Richard Brittain is an Assistant Research Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Arizona. He teaches courses in desert architecture and architectural photography, as well as design-build studios. His private practice focuses on residential desert architecture, utilizing adobe and rammed earth wall materials, passive solar energy efficiency, and water conservation techniques with rainfall harvesting and graywater reuse systems. For additional information on Richard Brittain, see http://capla.arizona.edu/architecture/faculty/brittain/default.htm. (2) The amount of rainfall in Amman ranges from 300 mm in the eastern parts of the city to about 500 in its western parts. The relationship between the two rainfall patterns, the unimodal of Amman and the Bimodal of Tucson, was discussed in a public lecture entitled "Creating Landscapes In Water-Scarce Environments: A Case Study Of Tucson, Arizona" presented by Margaret Livingston at Darat al-Funun in Amman in May, 30. For additional information on this subject, see the documentation of the lecture in the e-publications section of this web site. (3) For a complete list of the participants in the project, see note 7 below. (4) For more information on low-water-use plants and drip irrigation systems, see the documentation of Livingston's lecture, "Creating Landscapes in Water-Scarce Environments: A Case Study of Tucson, Arizona" in the e-publications section of this web site. (5) Harvested rainwater has been used historically for drinking and irrigation. With urban development, large centralized water supply systems have replaced individual water harvesting systems. However, people more recently have become reacquainted with water harvesting as an effective water conservation tool that provides free water independently from the municipal supply. Water harvesting also reduces off-site flooding and erosion by holding rainwater on site. In addition, passive water harvesting (which also is discussed in this essay) forces salts down and away from the root zone of plants, thus allowing for greater root growth. For more information on rainwater harvesting, see Harvesting Rainwater for Landscape Use (Tucson: Arizona Department of Water Resources, 1999). This document is available online through the web site of the Water Wiser program of the American Water Works Association. The web site also includes a list of references related to the subject of rainwater harvesting and graywater reuse, as well as full texts of manuals and books on these subjects. In addition, the web site of the American Water Works Association provides downloadable publications relating to water harvesting. (6) See Glenn France, Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Community Water Conservation Demonstration / Education Project: Casa del Agua, Tucson, Arizona (Master's Thesis, University of Arizona, 1989). (7) For additional information on the Casa del Agua project, see Richard Brittain, K. James Cook, Kenneth Foster, Glenn France, Susan Hopf, and Martin Karpiscak, "Casa del Agua: Water Conservation Demonstration House - 1986 through 1998," Journal of the American Water Resources Association 37-5 (October 2001): 1237 - 1248. (8) For additional information on the Desert House project, see Richard Brittain, Kenneth Foster, and Martin Karpiscak, "Desert House: A Demonstration / Experimentation in Efficient Domestic Water and Energy Use," Water Resources Bulletin 30-2 (April 1994): 329 - 333. (9) The R-factor refers to "unit thermal resistance," which is the thickness of the element divided by the thermal conductivity of the material of which it is made. (10) An acre-foot is the volume of water that would cover one acre (about 4,000 square meters) to a depth of one foot (30.5 cm). This would amount to 1220 cubic meters. List of Figures* Figure 2: A view of the backyard of Casa del Agua that shows the concrete paving and extended rooftop. Figure 4: The landscaped area above the underground rainwater tanks at Casa del Agua: lawn area, Mesquite tree, and potted plants placed on the tanks' access manways. Figure 10: The information center at Desert House: the model of Desert House and a simulation of the positions of the sun at the different times of the day and different times of the year. * All images are courtesy of Richard Brittain.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19235
__label__cc	0.672145	0.327855	About Open Access Week Open Access Week, a global event now entering its eighth year, is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research. OA Week is an invaluable chance to connect the global momentum toward open sharing with the advancement of policy changes on the local level. Universities, colleges, research institutes, funding agencies, libraries, and think tanks have used Open Access Week as a platform to host faculty votes on campus open-access policies, to issue reports on the societal and economic benefits of Open Access, to commit new funds in support of open-access publication, and more. sign up at http://www.openaccessweek.org for access to all the support and resources you need, and to connect with the worldwide OA Week community. OA Week Egypt About OAW	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19237
__label__cc	0.686955	0.313045	Reluctant Habits a cultural forum in ever-shifting standing Follow Your Ears The Bat Segundo Show Modern Library Reading Challenge Ed Walks Why I Will Not Be Celebrating the Fourth of July How to Write Audio Drama Joe Biden is a Decent Man, Goddammit! January 22, 2009 January 24, 2009 by Edward Champion In Which I Talk with Tanenhaus Tanenhaus, Sam new york times book review, Sam Tanenhaus On Wednesday night, Sam Tanenhaus and I talked. I was in the middle of arguing with my colleague Levi Asher about the future of literary coverage, saying something to him about a priori arguments in relation to rumors about The Washington Post Book World. A soft voice behind us asked, “Book World?” It was Tanenhaus. I must give Tanenhaus credit. It was a particularly freezing evening and Tanenhaus clearly wanted to go home. But he did take the time out to chit-chat. Our discussion was fiery but civil. I had blunt words to say to him about the New York Times Book Review‘s paucity of translated fiction coverage and its poor attention to genre — particularly science fiction. (I suggested a replacement name for Dave Itzkoff when he asked.) He had blunt words to say to me about the harsh language directed his way on this blog — and there has been, much to my present shock, quite a lot of posts devoted to Tanenhaus. But any man who can tell me to my face that he doesn’t care for my work, without a cowardly online pseudonym or an entirely batshit perspective, can’t be all bad. And I certainly took no offense to anything he said. I had approached Tanenhaus earlier in the evening, just after he had concluded a talk at Barnes & Noble. I came to him pointing out that I merely had one question, that there would be no ambush journalism on my part, and that I simply hoped he could clarify the record. Why had seven of the top ten books of 2008 been granted to Knopf? He did not know who I was initially. It could have been the beard. And while he grew visibly agitated when I told him I was Ed Champion, he did stick around a bit to answer my question. He indicated to me that the books selection process was publisher-blind and suggested that “the readers don’t really care.” (He seemed to be insinuating that the NYTBR only cared about the “common reader.”) In a scenario in which one conglomerate dominated the top ten monopoly (in 2008, nine of the ten titles had gone to Random House), Tanenhaus was strongly against the idea of offering a level playing field in which a few titles from another publisher might fill in some of the slots. “We can’t really say to ourselves which one doesn’t fit,” said Tanenhaus. Although he did insinuate that “seven Graywolfs” would also be great, if the selection process had veered down that direction. But what of a hypothetical alternative list that involved splitting up the top ten books among multiple publishers? Or one that considered genre? This was, in Tanenhaus’s perspective, reflective of “commerce at the center.” I then pointed out to Tanenhaus that commerce was perhaps more “at the center” when the NYTBR placed 90% of its top ten list with one conglomerate, and noted that other newspapers had different criteria in place to present such a scenario from happening. Tanenhaus tsk-tsked this, before another guy, who looked to be either a friend or a colleague, came to rescue Tanenhaus and extract him from my inquiries. I returned to my amigos, and we began shooting the shit about all this. I believe Eric was the first to point the predictability of Tanenhaus’s answers. But one had to try. Tanenhaus then came rushing by, looking for his coat. I then introduced Tanenhaus to Levi, notably responsible for the excellent “Reviewing the Review” weekly series. I asked Tanenhaus if he had found any of Levi’s observations helpful. He said no. And so we left to grab drinks. I had joked that Tanenhaus’s inflexibility to other perspectives made him the “George W. Bush of the literary world” and suggested that perhaps the NYTBR “needed an Obama” to restore coverage back to the heights of John Leonard. The group then suggested that I was that Obama, and I responded that they couldn’t possibly be serious. As it turned out, my Bush comparison was also wrong. For Tanenhaus did talk with us about twenty minutes later. He did express some regret that he hadn’t given enough space to translated titles, but he had no answers as to how or when he would do this in the future. The sense I got was that Tanenhaus was completely reliant on his editors’ respective judgments and that this judgment permitted him to do what he needed to do in an executive capacity, but prevented him from plunging first-hand into some of today’s realities. Levi brought up the rather unfunny offerings to be found in The Back Page. And Tanenhaus suggested to us that we should send him ideas on how to improve it. The Back Page was largely freelance. Ideas? Freelance? I know damn well that there’s no way in hell that I will ever write for The New York Times Book Review, but I decided to present a mock hypothetical. What if I were to pitch him ideas? He suggested that my journalism was “irresponsible” and “defamatory.” I asked him when he had last read my blog, and he indicated it had been many years. Well, how could he be certain that everything I was writing was “irresponsible” and “defamatory?” Another editor had told him. I mentioned the 1,600 word response to Adam Sternbergh’s review of David Denby’s Snark. Tanenhaus was stunned to learn that I had been published in other newspapers. There was a tinge of fury flushing through his face upon hearing this news, but Tanenhaus did keep things civilized. He insisted that my “defamations” were not up to the New York Times‘s “standards.” I had the feeling he had been wanting to say much of this for some time and, given that I had zinged him here multiple times, it seemed only fair to shut up and let him deliver his apparent vitriol. I pointed out that I went after all targets, and Levi and I both observed that these posts were largely satirical. Levi defended me and compared my work to Paul Krassner. A kind and humbling comparison, but I doubted that Tanenhaus had much appreciation for a yippy. “Ad hominem” was the key term on Tanenhaus’s mind. And I pointed out that Leon Wieseltier’s review of Nicholson Baker’s Checkpoint was just as ad hominem as anything I had ever written in calling Baker’s novel “a scummy little book.” Ah, Tanenhaus responded, but Wieseltier was attacking the book, not the person. (I probably should have said to Tanenhaus that the definition of ad hominem involves attacking the object of the argument instead of making an effort to discredit it. Wieseltier calling Baker’s novel “a scummy little book” is just as low and pointless, a missed opportunity to explain to the reader why it doesn’t hold up as a novel.) This was where Tanenhaus remained stubborn. I had pointed out that Wieseltier’s aside about liberals vs. conservatives had very little to do with the quality of the book. Tanenhaus flatly declared that it was a tight argument. “You don’t have to like what I do. I don’t have to like what you do,” said Tanenhaus. Fair enough. But this seemed absurd. Couldn’t we agree on a few common points? He was particularly fixated on my “The Knopf Times Book Review” post, in which I had proposed that The New York Times Book Review had been bought and paid for by Knopf. But the words I wrote, while quite blistering, were satirical in the end. And beneath the vituperation was the telltale entreaty to Tanenhaus that he should exercise more judgment in his selection process if anyone wanted to take the New York Times Book Review seriously, with Dwight Garner’s recent work as daily book reviewer held up as a more virtuous model. (Not unlike Tanenhaus’s entreaty to me that I should stop tossing around ad hominem bombs. But Tanenhaus has admired Tom Wolfe and Joe Queenan, both writers who specialize in ad hominem. There were, of course, double standards on this question.) In the end, I’m glad that Tanenhaus and I finally got to chat a bit. No, we’re not going to be BFF anytime soon. And I will continue to criticize the NYTBR‘s inadequacies, particularly when Tanenhaus and his team continue to perform grave injustices to covering translated fiction, debut fiction, graphic novels, and genre. But we were able to come together and have a civil disagreement and an exchange of views, and clear up a few points. That, in the end, is a healthy and constructive form of communication. [UPDATE: Levi Asher has posted his report of the events.] © 2009, Edward Champion. All rights reserved. ← Previous Post The “Save Gary Coleman” Petition! Next Post → New Policies The Knopf Times Book Review : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits January 22, 2009 at 11:31 am […] of January 21, 2009, I asked Tanenhaus in person about the concerns satirized below, and I was able to get a few answers. I point readers of this post to the direction of my later post, “In Which I Talk with Tanenhaus,” […] Levi January 22, 2009 at 12:05 pm I was very impressed that Sam stopped on the street to talk to us, especially since the atmosphere had been a little more stiff when we all spoke at Barnes and Noble. This encounter was long overdue, and I’m so glad it was a friendly one all around. I’ll post my own interpretation this weekend in my usual NYTBR column … Eric Rosenfield January 22, 2009 at 12:31 pm One thing: You say, “Why had seven of the top ten books of 2008 been granted to Knopf?” and then “in 2008, nine of the ten titles had gone to Random House”. Something’s not right there. DrMabuse January 22, 2009 at 12:35 pm Knopf is an imprint of Random House. Ahah, that’s what I was missing. Might want to have pointing that out for those of us not as familiar with the imprints, but whatever, no big deal. One more thing: “I asked Tanenhaus if he had found any of Levi’s observations helpful. He said no.” He actually said, “No, but that doesn’t mean you should stop doing it.” And, more importantly, he said that he didn’t READ it (and perhaps had never heard of it); you gave the impression that he read it and dismissed it. Sorry, he didn’t say he didn’t read it, he implied he didn’t read it. DrMabuse January 22, 2009 at 1:05 pm True dat, on the Tanenhaus quote. But Tanenhaus did say in our talk outside that he needed to read Levi and me more. The upshot is that he is now relying on his staffers to communicate what is being said about him. I understand where he’s coming from, because keep in mind that he’s editing both the NYTBR and The Week in Review. But this also has the downside of Tanenhaus not being fully informed about what’s going on, or being apprised of pivotal gaps. Such as my remarks to him about how the science fiction community (and readers half-steeped in science fiction) not taking Itzkoff’s uninformed columns seriously, which was apparently news to him. In any event, like Levi, I thought it was a gentlemanly gesture on his part to approach us in the street after we had approached him at B&N, with icy results. This is the kind of thing that needs to happen more often in the literary community, since all of us in our own respective ways are fighting the good fight. Eric Rosenfield January 22, 2009 at 1:23 pm Yes. I think you should put online somewhere that your recommendations for a better SF columnist were Matt Cheney and Jeff VanderMeer, both of whom would be lightyears better than Itzkoff. You know, in case he forgets the names you told him. Blog of The Week 26/1/09 « Annette Dunlea Literary Blog January 24, 2009 at 1:58 pm […] Champion has a post up In Which I Talk with Tanenhaus — The New York Times Book Review-editor Sam Tanenhaus. Among the points of […] Theater Review: Queens Girl : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits January 27, 2009 at 2:49 pm […] the dark to force more ink on the pages. Given that I also took notes on Wednesday night during the Barnes and Noble New York Times event and did not use any of them, I think that I will do the same for this piece. But I will present one […]	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19239
__label__wiki	0.682934	0.682934	DUCAL PALACE EDUCATIONAL SERVICE History of family The collections belonging to the National Gallery of the Marche are on display in a unique setting: Urbino’s splendid Ducal Palace [in Italian, “Palazzo Ducale”], built for Federico da Montefeltro to promote the glory of his family and at the same time, to express his character as a man of the Renaissance, a man who was able to combine culture, a military career and political prowess. Federico came to rule over the Montefeltro State in 1444. He was the legitimised son of Count Guidantonio, and succeeded the legitimate heir, his step-brother, Oddantonio, assassinated in a rebellion. His political expertise and moderation as a ruler meant he was immediately welcomed by his subjects as well as in the courts of Italy. In just a few decades under his rule, Urbino became a leading light of the Italian Renaissance. The style of Urbino in this period is all merit of Federico. His refined choice of decorators, mainly brought in from Florence and Lombardy, as well as of vanguard artists and architects, such as Piero della Francesca and Leon Battista Alberti, meant that Federico was able to leave a definitive mark on the cultural and urban landscape. The Ducal Palace was built in several stages; a significant part was designed by Dalmatian architect Luciano Laurana, responsible for the fairy-tale twin turrets. In 1459, Federico had already begun the works to extend and decorate the existing modest residence belonging to the Montefeltro counts. Work commenced on the wing overlooking the modern-day Piazza Rinascimento, featuring a long front decorated with mullioned windows, behind which are the Apartments of Iole [Appartamento della Jole], so called because of the large fireplace in the first room, which is decorated with carved figures of Hercules and Iole. The rooms in this part of the palace are decorated with extreme finesse and are the work of Tuscan craftsmen, including Michele di Giovanni da Fiesole, known as “Il Greco”. This wing contains the only frescoed room in the palace, which otherwise had walls “covered in simple white plaster, according to modern usage,” (Bernardino Baldi, 1587), and not decorated but covered in fabric or more often, in embossed, gilded leather or tapestries. The structure of the palace is practical in the sections designed by military architect and engineer to the Duke, Francesco di Giorgio Martini from Siena. The “technical” appearance of the building and the modern nature of the residence can be best appreciated by visiting the basement, the kitchens, the ice house and the other services, all of which reveal the organisation of a building able to accommodate a vast number of servants and an extremely rich court. Next to his own rooms in the centre of the palace, between the twin turrets, the Duke had a splendid study built using wood inlay; a work to advertise his erudition. From his rooms, the Federico could also reach the small Chapel of Forgiveness, attributed to Bramante, as well as a small temple dedicated to the Muses, painted by court artist, Giovanni Santi, father of Raphael. This part of the palace – a small, elegant synthesis of the qualities and interests of Renaissance man (arms and intellect) – strongly contrasts the grandiose elegance of the apartments and the immense Banqueting Hall, later known as the Throne Room in the period of papal rule. The palace’s extraordinary Renaissance balance is most perfectly showcased in its stupendous courtyard, where the stunning colour combinations of pale stone and brick define the calculated harmony of the arcade composition. The inscription running along the top of the arches commemorates the glory of Federico, condottiere and prince. One of the palace’s greatest treasures was its vast library of illuminated manuscripts, the most splendid of the period, and for which Federico spent a large amount of the money he was paid for his military services. At the time of Federico’s death, the library contained 900 codices; the collection was acquired by Alexander VII for the Vatican Library in 1657. In 1474 Federico was named duke by Pope Sixtus IV della Rovere, and the proud inscriptions “FE-DUX” commemorate this fact in many parts of the palace. On the duke’s death in 1482, the refined, cultured court of Urbino passed into the hands of his son, Guidubaldo and the wife of this latter, Elisabetta Gonzaga. With them, the Montefeltro dynasty ended, passing via the female line to the Della Rovere branch of the family. The second floor of the palace, which was rebuilt and raised in the mid 16th century, at the wishes of Guidubaldo II Della Rovere, now houses the collections of 17th-century paintings, graphics and ceramics. One part of the initial 16th-century additions to the palace is the King of England’s Room, where a gilded stucco ceiling by Federico Brandani depicts all of the emblems, feats and honours awarded to Federico da Montefeltro and to his family. The duchy prospered until 1631, when it passed under the rule of the Church. Vittoria della Rovere, the last of the dynasty, took all of the ducal “Collections” to Florence, where she was to marry her cousin, Ferdinando de’ Medici. The astounding collections from the ducal palace are now, for the most part, to be found in the Uffizi Gallery. The Illustrious Men from the duke’s study joined the Barberini collection (a part of which is now in the Louvre). The presence of an important number of archaeological finds, collected by Cardinal Francesco Stoppani in 1756, has led to the creation of a Stone Museum on the ground floor of the Gallery. For more information, please see the official guide to the National Gallery of the Marche, on sale in the ground floor bookshop. Galleria Nazionale delle Marche Palazzo Ducale di Urbino Piazza Rinascimento 13, 61029 Urbino (PU) Telefono: 0722 2760 \| Fax: 0722 4427 Avvisi, bandi e gare Iscriviti alla nostra newsletter per rimanere sempre aggiornato sugli eventi della Galleria Nazionale delle Marche Accetto le condizioni della privacy VISIT Galleria Nazionale delle Marche	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19242
__label__cc	0.53463	0.46537	Home » Global » International Bush stamp issued COLLEGE STATION, Texas—Friends and family of former President George H.W. Bush recalled his prolific letter writing Wednesday as they gathered to mark the first day of issue for the U.S. Postal Service stamp honouring him. “He never let even a day pass before he took out a card or a piece of stationary and penned his thanks, greetings, regrets, observations, congratulations, consolations, condolences, encouragements, jokes, gentle gibes and much else to whomever he had just seen or just thought about,” said Chase Untermeyer, a longtime friend who was director of presidential personnel in the Bush administration. The event, which was held on what would have been Bush's 95th birthday, took place on the Texas A&M University campus in College Station, where Bush's presidential library is located. Bush, who was the 41st president, served from 1989 to 1993. He died in Houston on Nov. 30 at the age of 94. His grandson, Pierce Bush, said his grandfather's words, dreams and hopes live on through his letters. “As a man who struggled to sometimes articulate how he felt through spoken word or in public speeches, he never once remotely struggled to express himself fully when penning and mailing someone a letter,” Pierce Bush said. “His letters showed his unique ability to lift others up, just at the time they needed to be lifted,” he said. More International Man injured in pipe bomb explosion Penguins can't resist lure of sushi Australian finds message in a bottle written 50 years ago Famed French explorer Jean Nicolet gets historical revision 22 ancient amphoras found off Albanian coast	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19243
__label__wiki	0.536795	0.536795	© By Visitlondon.com Top 5 London Museums and Galleries The powerhouse capital of the United Kingdom London is a treasure trove of brilliant activities and days out worth boasting about. We're completely spoilt for choice with things to do in London, whether you live and work in the capital or you’re planning a holiday, and there's always plenty of ways to fill a free day with fun. A trip to the city of London wouldn't be complete without visiting the musuems and art galleries, and if you're not careful then you can easily spend the whole day trying to fit them all in, so here are the top 5 must-see destinations that you should consider checking out. #1 - British Museum The British Museum exhibits works from all around the world, dating back to prehistoric and all the way right up to modern times, with some of the highlights including the Rosetta Stone, the Parthenon sculptures and the mummies in the Ancient Egypt collection. Founded in 1753, the British Museum’s remarkable collection spans over two million years of human history, with treasures of world cultures all under one roof. In addition to the vast permanent collection, the museum’s special exhibitions, displays and events are all designed to advance understanding of the collection and cultures they represent. #2 - Natural History Museum As well as the permanent dinosaur exhibition, the Natural History Museum boasts a collection of the biggest, tallest and rarest animals in the world. See a life-sized blue whale, a 40-million-year-old spider, and the beautiful Central Hall. Also don’t miss the state-of-the-art Darwin Centre Cocoon where, on a self-guided tour, you can see hundreds of fascinating specimens and look into laboratories where scientists are at work. The Museum offers a wide-ranging programme of temporary exhibitions and events, including chances to join experts in the Darwin Centre’s high-tech Attenborough Studio in topical discussions about science and nature. #3 - Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum is the world's greatest museum of art and design, representing more than 3,000 years of human creativity, with collections unrivalled in their scope and diversity. Highlights include the Medieval Renaissance galleries containing some of the greatest surviving treasures from the period, the breathtaking Jewellery gallery and the stunning British Galleries, illustrating the history of Britain through the nation’s art and design. In addition to its outstanding free permanent collection, the V&A offers a programme of temporary exhibitions and an extensive events programme. #4 - Tate Modern Sitting grandly on the banks of the Thames is Tate Modern, Britain's national museum of modern and contemporary art. Its unique shape is due to it previously being a power station. The awe-inspiring Turbine Hall runs the length of the entire building and you can see amazing work for free by artists such as Cézanne, Bonnard, Matisse, Picasso, Rothko, Dalí, Pollock, Warhol and Bourgeois. The gallery's restaurants offer fabulous views across the city. #5 - National Gallery The National Gallery is a vast space filled with Western European paintings from the 13th to the 19th centuries. Find works by masters such as Van Gogh, da Vinci, Botticelli, Constable, Renoir, Titian and Stubbs. The National Gallery displays more than 2,000 Western European paintings from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. You can also discover how Eugène Delacroix influenced generations of artists, from Matisse to Kandinsky in our special exhibition, 'Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art'. 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__label__cc	0.573807	0.426193	Kids in Crisis Posted By: admin, Posted in Community, Mental Health, Services By Brandon Truitt Published: November 14, 2017, 6:01 pm Updated: November 14, 2017, 6:54 pm © 1998-2017 WNCT.com \| Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. \| All rights reserved. Kids in Crisis: A look at adolescent mental health GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) – New studies are showing an unforgiving rise in mental health cases involving children ages 6 to 18. Those cases can lead to self-harm and even suicide, and they’re happening here in the East. Jenine Fox works for Integrated Family Services. The company serves patients throughout 25 counties in eastern North Carolina. “As of right now for 2017. for that age range of 6-18, we have served 184 individuals within Pitt County alone,” Fox said. Doctors in Vidant Medical Center’s emergency room said cases of severe depression and self-harm are so common it’s backlogging the department. “This company was started in 2003,” said Fox. “The state basically looked to see these are individuals who are showing up to the emergency departments and individuals were realizing we’re having people show up that don’t necessarily need to be here.” In 2016, Integrated Family Services had 625 calls in the east to help children at risk of self-harm. “Our data shows that the trend is rising,” said Fox. We have served each year the data keeps rising more and more. Those trends vary from different issues whether that’s depression anxiety, self-harming behaviors.” According to the Centers for Disease Control, from 1999 to 2015, more than 1,300 children between the ages of 5 and 12 committed suicide nationwide. Most cases of mental health leading to self-harm are found between the ages of 11 and 15, around the time of middle school. “Issues as it relates to adolescent suicidal ideation has been something that school systems have always had to face,” said Travis Lewis, director of Community and Student Services for Pitt County Schools. “Here lately it seems to have taken on even more prominence, and a factor in that is social media.” Experts said part of the problem is social media posts containing embarrassing photos or information can be shared dozens of times and often never go away. “The computer bully,” said Lewis. “The person who says things they wouldn’t say, or isn’t socially acceptable to say to someone face-to-face where they can say just the most awful things.” Fox agreed, saying social media is playing heavily into this epidemic. “From what we can see that is the number one thing; the more pervasive thing that we see,” said Fox. Aside from bullying, Fox said there are other factors playing a role such as relationships, conflicts within the home like divorce and sexual identity concerns. There are resources available such as the Mobile Crisis Center. It’s a free 24-7, 365-day-a-year service where help is just a phone call away. Fox said, “There are trained qualified professionals and the team consists of licensed clinical social workers and qualified mental health professionals. You have clinical addiction specialists that are there. These people are actually going out and responding to these calls to say here’s how we can help.” Services are also available online that connect you or your child instantly with professional help. What bothers Fox most about the crisis? “How pervasive it is,” said Fox. “How it is consistently going on throughout the nation. How children consistently do it and how it’s becoming more cruel.” For service over the phone call: 1.866.437.1821 ‹ New way to get help for a loved one during a crisis In crisis during the holidays? Help is out there › Posted in Community, Mental Health, Services	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19254
__label__wiki	0.711476	0.711476	MainAll NewsInside IsraelIsrael Goes for Gold in Physics Israel Goes for Gold in Physics Israel's delegation to the International Physics Olympiad returned home Tuesday, bringing home five medals – 2 gold, 2 silver, and 1 bronze. David Lev, 19/07/11 22:40 \| updated: 03:45 Saar Greets Physics Team Those concerned about whether the next generation of Israelis are up to the country's hi-tech challenges can relax: Israel's delegation to the International Physics Olympiad returned home Tuesday, bringing home five medals – 2 gold, 2 silver, and 1 bronze. Israel was rated 13th – four places higher than last year's 17th - out of the 84 countries participating in the event, which is considered the premiere physics competition in the world. This year's Olympiad, the 42nd since the competition was first organized in 1967, was held in Bangkok, Thailand (Israel is set to host the competition in 2019). The competition lasts for two full-day sessions, with the first session devoted to theoretical problems, and the second to experimental problems. Teams of five representatives are given five hours to solve their problems, and are graded on their alacrity, performance, and results. Each team consists of students from general or technical secondary schools (not colleges or universities) or have graduated but are yet to enter university, and must be under the age of 20. Israel's gold winners were Asaf Rosen (Modi'in), Gal Dor (Petach Tikvah), while Ben Feinstein (Modi'in) and Gur Peri (Mazkeret Batya) won the silver. Israel's bronze winner was Aviv Frankel (Netanya). The team underwent grueling weeks of training that began at the start of the academic year, when they were chosen by teachers as candidates for Israel's Olympiad team, part of a total of 350 candidates. All but 35 were eliminated in the initial tests, held at the Technion, where a special “physics camp” was held before Passover. Out of this group, eight were chosen to participate in the Asian Olympiad, the second most important physics event, and a prelude to the International Olympiad. That competition was held in May, (Gal Dor won a gold medal there, too – the first Israeli student to win one in the Asian Olympiad since 2003), and the final team of five were given still more training. Dor, one of the two gold winners, told reporters at Ben Gurion Airport on his arrival home to Israel Tuesday morning that it was “a nice feeling to win a medal. I didn't expect to be able to beat the Chinese students – even I was surprised,” he said. The team, accompanied by trainer Dr. Eli Raz, were greeted Tuesday morning on their return from Thailand by Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar. The Minister told the delegation that “your accomplishments have a great meaning for the country, as you were more successful than many others. You have brought great honor and pride to the state. We live in a country that strives for excellence in all areas – our survival depends on this,” said Sa'ar. “ The education system will continue to invest resources in order to improve our accomplishments in the future,” he added. Tags:Education, Gideon Saar	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19256
__label__wiki	0.611726	0.611726	Interviews Apr. 23, 2013 Anthony Bourdain on His Teaching Dreams, Vilifying Ronald McDonald, and the Terror of Child ‘Foodies’ By Sierra Tishgart “Scaring the hell out of a kid isn’t so hard, and I think it’s for a good cause.” Photo: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images Anthony Bourdain is as busy as ever: He’s got his new show, Parts Unknown, on CNN and a cross-country tour with BFF Eric Ripert happening. And on April 30, he’ll also host the Urban Assembly Bronx Academy of Letters’ benefit, focusing on chefs that are also authors (Danny Bowien, Gabrielle Hamilton, and Christina Tosi will be there, too). We took the opportunity to talk to Bourdain about using “black propaganda” to scare his daughter into eating well, his desire to lead a creative-writing workshop, the scourge of underage food snobs, and plenty more. What kind of eater were you as a kid? I wasn’t terribly adventurous, but my parents made an effort to bring me into the city every few weeks to eat relatively adventurously for the time and mix it up. We took delight eating Chinese and fine Japanese, which was really in its infancy then in New York. It was a little bit of a Julia Child family — not particularly foodie, but aspirational. I was the first in the family to eat a raw oyster. That was about as adventurous as it got. And that’s what started it all, right? It resonated later. I never thought of myself as someone destined to become a cook or to focus on food. But looking back, in retrospect, I can see that I was a little more concerned with food than a lot of my friends. How about your [6-year-old] daughter? What does she like to eat? She’s an Italian kid. Her mom’s Italian, and I am who I am. What she sees on the table is a little different. She likes grilled cheese sandwiches and hot dogs like any other kid, and I certainly have no plans to try and make her a foodie. I don’t urge her to have a more sophisticated palate. But she surprises me. She started picking up raw oysters because she saw them on the table, and really likes them. So of course, secretly, I think she’s a genius. You can’t force a kid to like something, and you ruin it by pushing it on them. If there’s anything more annoying than a foodie, it’s a child foodie. What do you think about all of the healthy food initiatives for kids these days, such as Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” campaign? How do you try and get your daughter to eat well? I’m very supportive of her initiative, given the health of our country. It’s a necessity to focus national efforts in this area. I don’t know that introducing a child to the works of Michael Pollan is a way to convince a kid not to eat McDonald’s. For better or worse, I’ve gone with the black propaganda method. I’ve told my child that McDonald’s is bad and causes horrifying health effects that are likely to make her unhealthy, physically unattractive, and marginalized at school. Scaring the hell out of a kid isn’t so hard, and I think it’s for a good cause. Ronald McDonald is a bad guy in our house. He’s not a friendly clown. Since I can afford it, I try and feed her healthy, well-sourced food. But as a kid, I liked it when my dad would take me out for something that was a little bit forbidden. We sneak out as a father-daughter thing to go to Papaya King and eat hot dogs. I don’t want her to be a food snob; that would be the worst-case scenario. Why did you decide to get involved with the Urban Assembly Bronx Academy of Letters? What attracted me to this school is its focus on the written and spoken word. It empowers kids to use language to articulate the things that they want. If I couldn’t speak well or write, I would still be standing next to a deep fryer. I’m very aware of the advantage of vocabulary. Kids need to be able to read in order to have dreams, and they need the ability to speak and write in order to articulate those dreams, or else they will never attain them. This organization is good for the world, it’s good for the kids, and it’s good for me. When all of this madness ends and I am no longer wanted on television, I’d very much like to give regular seminars or some kind of creative-writing workshop at the academy. So many of the issues that David Simon brought up very poignantly in season four of The Wire are addressed there. I hope it provides a way out. Do you ever see yourself becoming a college professor? Certainly not a professor, because I’ve never graduated from college. Maybe I’m flattering myself, but I very much like the idea of teaching a workshop on creative writing, books, or film. You recently hosted a screening of Goodfellas at IFC. Yes, I’m hoping to do a continuing thing with those guys. Possibly with the Criterion Collection. Both my parents were very into film, and I’d seen a lot of great movies by the time I was 10 years old. The extent to which I can coerce strangers of any age to see the films that I love and to read books that move me and make a difference in my life — that makes me happy. You’ve got to save the Papaya Dog next to IFC — it’s closing! I know! It’s the worst thing that ever happened. How has changing networks and working with CNN impacted Parts Unknown? They have not just allowed me, but encouraged me, to tell the stories that I want — wherever I want to tell them. They’ve been supportive of shooting in places like the Congo and Libya, where I never would have been able to shoot. Or Koreatown, for that matter, which was a tight-focused story centering on a small part of the American experience. They let me say “shit” on television. So for me, it’s been an absolute clear sky without a single cloud. They’re competent at how to shoot in a high-security situation, where people might want to kill you. They do that every week. What do you think about the recent backlash that CNN’s received for its news reporting? For whatever criticism they receive in the States, you look at the line of people who’ve been reporting from places like Kabul for years, and then you go out to places like that and you see how hard it is. It resonates nicely that after almost ten days of very fraught, high tension in Beirut in 2006, when I was finally evacuated and standing on the beach and the Marines were coming onto the shore, the first person I saw was Barbara Starr and a CNN crew. That tends to make an impression. There weren’t a lot of news organizations who were actually covering themselves in glory this past week. I’m feeling good things for CNN. And Jeff Zucker, who was throwing his weight in support for the show — it was a bold and risky move. I was as surprised as anyone when they called. At what point do you deem a place too dangerous to visit? I’m not looking to stick my head into fire for its own sake. I’m not looking to report hard news. But if there’s a historical obsession like the Congo, a place that I’ve been fascinated with historically, politically, and culturally for a long time, I will go to some lengths to tell that story. But I’m not looking to get shots of me in a flak jacket with people shooting at me just because I’ll look cool or to say I did it. I’m not a journalist, and I’m not a foreign corespondent. I’m not a danger junkie, but I have a fairly high tolerance for risk if there’s something there that I really want to look at. Next week’s episode showcases Colombia. And then, there’s an insanely food-centric, over-the-top bounce through Quebec. And then the Libya show, which I’m really proud of. I think it’s the best thing I’ve ever done. The things that people said to us on-camera are life-changing. @digital-regular Anthony Bourdain on His Teaching Dreams, Vilifying Ronald McDonald, and the	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19257
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__label__wiki	0.754441	0.754441	OLD TESTAMENT - NEW TESTAMENT - The cradle of civilization ... Land of Spirituality Why is this region (The Near & Middle East) called the Cradle of Civilization? Because this is where is all began ! Its where Christianity, Judaism and Islam were founded. Where Empires like the Babylonians, Assyrians, Sumerians rose and fell. Where the alphabet was invented sometime during the second millennium B.C. (estimated between 1850 and 1700 B.C.), Where the old Testament and Holy Quran were orated in the tradition of the time - and later written down. The Old Testament Kingdoms in Jordan The Iron Age (c. 1200-332 BCE) saw the development and consolidation of three new kingdoms in Jordan: Edom in the south, Moab in central Jordan, and Ammon in the northern mountain areas. The Moabites are best known from the Mesha Stele, a ninth-century BCE stone which extols the deeds of the Moabite King Mesha. He won a victory over the occupying Israelites, who were still clearly a major thorn in the side of the Moabites. The Kingdom of Moab covered the center of Jordan, and its capital cities were at Karak and Dhiban. The Kingdom of Ammon around 950 BCE displayed rising prosperity based on agriculture and trade, as well as an organized defense policy with a series of fortresses. Its capital was in the Citadel of present-day Amman. (See http://www.kinghussein.gov.jo/his_testament.html) Baptism Site - Bethany beyond the Jordan The Baptism site - also known as Bethany beyond the Jordan is the officially recognized baptism site of John the Baptist... and where Jesus was baptized. (called Al-Maghtas in Arabic) It was officially confirmed in 2000 during a visit by the Pope. The area is now called the Baptism Archaeological Park and covers several kilometres. The baptismal site of Bethany Beyond the Jordan (John 1:28) is located at the North end of the Dead Sea, near the southern end of the Jordan River, across from Jericho and about 6 kilometres south of the Allenby Bridge or King Hussein Bridge. From the capital Amman - it takes about 1 hour. Prior to the 1994 peace treaty between Jordan and Israel the area was a Military Zone and was a 'minefield'. Since then excavations have been undertaken by archaeologists and church officials and the whole area cleaned and transformed. An area adjacent to the baptismal site of Bethany Beyond the Jordan has many other biblical associations.- It is believed, that in an area near here Joshua led the Israelites across the Jordan River to the Promised Land (Joshua 3:14-16). Elijah — a prophet who is often associated with John the Baptist — also crossed the Jordan River on dry ground in this area, and was then taken up to heaven in a chariot of fire (2 Kings 2:8-11). In the New Testament, Jesus withdrew to Bethany Beyond the Jordan after being threatened with stoning in Jerusalem (John 10:31-40). In the area known as Wadi Kharrar, fresh springs emerge from the barren landscape. They create an oasis reeds, grasses and shrubbery dotted with Palms and tamerisk. From here the stream flows eastward to the Jordan River, its a 2-kilometre route surrounded by thick vegetation. Wadi al Kharrar was also the centre of an active monastic life. Here hermits lived in caves carved into the soft limestone and gathered weekly for common services. In 2015 Bethany Beyond the Jordan was designated a World Heritage site. Mount Nebo is located approximately 15 minutes from Madaba and stands majestically 820 metres high, and looks down 1220 metres on to the Dead Sea with views across the West Bank of the Jordan and Palestine. This is where Moses looked down on the Promised Land ..... On a clear day you can see the hills of Jerusalem and Jericho. It is acknowledged as the final resting place of Moses (although the exact location of his tomb is unknown) -Deuteronomy 34:5-6 recounts - Moses died there in the Land of Moab. It is an important pilgrimage site for all three mono-theistic religions. A 3rd century church is being excavated and renovated - and there is a small museum with the recently salvaged byzantine mosaics. Madaba - (30km south of Amman) was an important town in the early centuries of the Christian era. It is located on the Old King's Highway trade route - which is the oldest continuously used road in history ! The remains of the oldest known map of the Holy Land, A 6th century Byzantine masterpiece - painstakingly assembled from more than a million pieces of coloured stone, lie on the floor of St Georges church . The map originally covered an area of more than 15.5 metres by 5.5 metres - sadly less than a third remains. The Madaba mosaic map is orientated to the east, with the Jordan River flowing from left to right. Unlike modern maps which face North. It was discovered in 1884 - but its uniqueness was only appreciated in 1896 after the Church of St George had been built over it. Madaba is known as 'The city of mosaics'. On the eastern side of the Dead Sea and 53 kilometres southwest of Amman is the hilltop fortress of Machaerus. This is the place where John the Baptist - was imprisoned and beheaded. When Herod the Great died in 4 BC, Machaerus passed to his son Herod Antipas, who ruled Galilee and Perea (an area on the eastern side of the Jordan River) until AD 39. John the Baptist criticised Herod Antipas, the governor of Galilee and Perea, for unlawfully marrying his half-brother's wife, Herodias — thereby earning her enmity. According to the historian Josephus, John's execution took place at Machaerus. Herod Antipas had married Phasaelis, daughter of King Aretas of Nabatea, the kingdom whose capital was Petra. While visiting Rome in AD 26 he stayed with his half-brother Herod Philip I and fell in love with Philip's wife Herodias. When Phasaelis learnt that Antipas intended to divorce her and marry Herodias, she obtained permission to visit Machaerus and from there fled to her father in Nabatea. Antipas's rejection of Phasaelis added a personal note to existing disputes with King Aretas over the boundary of Perea and Nabatea. In AD 36 Aretas attacked Antipas and completely destroyed his army. Some time before the war with Aretas, Jesus was arrested in Jerusalem and brought before Pontius Pilate. When Pilate learnt that Jesus came from Galilee, he sent him to Herod Antipas, who was also in Jerusalem at the time. Herod Antipas was accused of conspiring against the Roman emperor Caligula, who exiled him to Gaul in AD 39. In biblical times Petra was a city of the Edomites, whose ancestor Esau settled there after he was tricked out of his rightful inheritance by his twin brother Jacob. Scholars believe Petra was then called Sela. One tradition suggests the Three Wise Men buying their gold, myrrh and frankincense at Petra on their way to Bethlehem. In AD 106 Petra was annexed by the Roman empire. Rome's diversion of the caravan trade and some devastating earthquakes in subsequent centuries put the city into decline. From the 13th century onwards Petra was abandoned until it was rediscovered by Burkhardt in 1812. Jabal Haroun is the mountain mentioned in the bible, where Aaron (Haroun in Arabic) brother of Moses died and was buried. Near by is the place where Moses struck the rock and brought forth water it is called (Wadi Musa in Arabic), the valley of Moses. Many buildings in Petra were converted into Christian churches. One of the 10 cities of the Decapolis. This league of Greek cities, which came under Roman control in the 1st century BC, is mentioned in the New Testament. The city became Christian in the Byzantine period, when its 25,000 inhabitants had more than 20 churches and bishops who took part in early Church councils. Ruins of most of the churches can still be seen. Jerash had more than 20 churches, all built between AD 368 and AD 611, with some even sharing walls. Their abundance may have been due to a practice of the Byzantine Church — still the custom in some Eastern churches — to permit only one eucharistic service at each altar every day. Against an outer east wall is a shrine dedicated to the Virgin Mary, with an inscription mentioning Mary and the archangels Michael and Gabriel. A series of devastating earthquakes resulted in the city being abandoned. Um Ar Rassas ( Kastrom Mefa'a) Most of this archaeological site, which started as a Roman military camp and grew to become a town from the 5th century, has not been excavated. It contains remains from the Roman, Byzantine and Early Muslim periods (end of 3rd to 9th centuries AD) and a fortified Roman military camp. The site also has 16 churches, some with well-preserved mosaic floors. Particularly noteworthy is the mosaic floor of the Church of Saint Stephen with its representation of towns in the region. Two square towers are probably the only remains of the practice, well known in this part of the world, of the stylites (ascetic monks who spent time in isolation atop a column or tower). The lifestyle of the stylite monks is conveyed by a 14 meter high stone tower built in the centre of a courtyard adjoined by a small church (the Church of the Tower). A room at the top of the tower, accessible from a door on the south apparently reached by a removable ladder was the monk's living quarters. The archaeology and inscriptions show evidence that monastic Christianity was tolerated and continued during the Islamic period of the 7th and 8th centuries and testify to the spread of monotheistic beliefs in the region. Um Ar-Rasas is surrounded by, and dotted with, remains of ancient agricultural cultivation in an arid area. http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1093 Lot's Cave Lot's cave is located at the south end of the Dead Sea - near to 2 famous biblical sites Sodom & Gomorrah which were 2 of the five cities of the plain mentioned in the Old Testament. Lot was a patriarch in the biblical Book of Genesis chapters 11-14 and 19. Notable episodes in his life include his travels with his uncle Abram (Abraham), his flight from the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, during which Lot's wife became a pillar of salt. Born and raised in Ur of the Chaldees (Genesis 11:28,31) in the region of Sumeria on the Euphrates River of lower Mesopotamia, roughly four thousand years ago. Statue of Lot's Wife Situated on a steep rock face over the south end of the Dead Sea highway is the statue of Lot's wife who was turned into a pillar of salt - after being told to flee Sodom with her family and not to look back..... She disobeyed and looked back and the rest is history! The cities of Sodom & Gomorrah were destroyed by fire and brimstone Umm Qais - Gadara Umm Qais is located at 110 km north of Amman.and is where Jesus taught the people about the Kingdom of God and performed his miracles including the miracle of the Gadarene swine. The ancient Graeco Roman ruins of a church above a Roman-Byzantine tomb with five-aisled basilica was built to commemorate the spot where it is believed that Jesus performed His miracle that was mentioned in the Bible, where Jesus cast out the devil from two men into a herd of pigs. Um Qais is a beautiful area which overlooks the Sea of Galilee and is only several kilometres away. Aanjara - Church of the Lady of the Mountain The cave IS mentioned in the Bible where Jesus passed through and rested with his mother Mary and his disciples during their missionaries. The cave was renovated and built as a church and now called the Lady of the Mountain shrine / Church. It is one of the five pilgrimage sites that have been designated by the Catholic Churches of the Middle East in Jordan the other four sites are Bethany beyond the Jordan, Mount Nebo, Tell Mar Elias near Ajloun and Machaerus. It is located at Anjara, near Ajloun. There are indeed many other byzantine ruins and holy sites too numerous to mention as most people don't have time even for the major sites in Jordan.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19262
__label__cc	0.624946	0.375054	Hope in the Shadow Graphic for "Hope In The Shadow" sermon This past Sunday, I preached a sermon called "Hope in the Shadow" taken from Psalm 23. There was so much I wanted to say, felt like I should've said better, and stuff I felt like maybe I didn't need to say. I was nervous about touching on the Ferguson, Missouri situation. How would people respond? Would I offend anyone's stance? Nevertheless, I felt led to speak on it. There's so much to be upset about, but there are seemingly so many silver linings. It may not be a time for victory celebrations, but there is a space for celebrations of hope. The more I think about it, the more I realize that it's really in the bleak times that we come to appreciate hope. In our wilderness. In our valley of the shadow of death (Psalm 23:4). This shadow of death—not really death or defeat itself, but the looming and appearance of it. A few quotes from people more articulate than I am: " . . . It's not that death is the thing that is immediately encroaching upon David. But the thing that's encroaching upon him, for which he says, 'I'm not going to fear any evil because you're with me,' is the shadow of death . . . that looms over him."— Andrew Ardnt, on Psalm 23:4 in "Walking Under Death's Shadow" "Far from punishment, judgment, or a curse, the wilderness is a gift. It’s where we can experience the primal delight of being fully known and delighted in by God." — Jonathan Martin, Prototype Ferguson is in a wilderness period. I don't know what is going to happen in the days, weeks, and months to come. This one thing I do know: there is hope. The hope of unity. The hope of justice. The hope of love. Hope may be all we have, but truthfully, I would say it's often all we really need. P.S.: Listen to the latest sermon "Hope In The Shadow" HERE. Keith Bethell August 19, 2014 Comment Worth Doing Well Keith Bethell September 12, 2014 Will The Real Creative Please Stand Up? Keith Bethell August 1, 2014 brain, creativity, research All DESIGN BLOG SPEAKING CONTACT DESIGN BLOG SPEAKING CONTACT	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19267
__label__cc	0.718103	0.281897	Ken Heffernan About Us – Family Law Solicitors Financial Orders On Separation Divorce Injunction Protection Judicial Separation Nullity Child Law Services Child Access Child Guardianship Child Maintenance New Foster Parents “Guardianship” Rights Foster Parents Get “Guardianship” Rights For First Time Foster Parents throughout the country are now starting to take up “guardianship” rights in relation to the children placed in their care under court orders with the Health Service Executive. This welcome development, brought in for the benefit of the children, has been made possible by the enactment of the Child Care (Amendment) Act 2007, which brought into law Section 43A of the Child Care Act 1991. The law provides for a slightly different procedure in relation to matters if the child is in care under Section 4 (by consent) or under Section 18 (contested) and Ken Heffernan, Family Law Solicitor, sets out below a short guide to this new option for foster parents in Cork and throughout Ireland. In simple terms, the court may grant an order in relation to “guardianship” for the child in favour of foster parents or relative of the child if satisfied: (a.) that they have been taking care of the child, under a care order for a period of not less than five years, (b.) that the granting of the order is in the child’s best interest, (c.) that the HSE has consented in advance of the granting of the order, (d.) that the HSE has given notice of the application to the child’s parents and (e.) the child’s wishes have in so far as is practicable been given due consideration having regard to his of her age and understanding. Provided the criteria are met the court may grant a “guardianship” order which shall authorise the foster parents: — to have, on behalf of the Health Service Executive, the like control over the child as if the foster parent were the child’s parent and, — to do, on behalf of the Health Service Executive, what is reasonable in all the circumstances of the case for the purpose of safe guarding and promoting the child’s health, development or welfare and in particular give consent to (i)any necessary medical or psychiatric examination or treatment or assessment with respect to the child and, (ii)the issue of the passport to or the provision of passport facilities for the child to enable the child to travel abroad for a limited period. Within the correct meaning of the term under the law the order that may be granted by the court here is not a guardianship order, such as may be granted to a natural father, but rather it is an order that allows the foster parents to have more control, involvement and authority for the child than up to now. With this in mind Ken refers to the order as a “guardianship” order to reflect the reality of the assistance that it provides for the foster parents in dealing with everyday life with their children. Deirdre McTeigue, Director of the Irish Foster Care Association has said that whilst the Association had campaigned for full guardianship rights for foster parents, the implementation of this change will mark a significant improvement for children and parents who obtain such an order, and that is very welcome. The law provides that in granting the order sought the court may impose any conditions or restrictions it thinks fit as to the extent of the authority of the foster parent to whom the order is granted. The law makes it clear that any consent given by a foster parent in accordance with an order under this section shall be sufficient authority for the carrying out of a medical or psychiatric examination or assessment, the provision of medical or psychiatric treatment, the issue of a passport as the case may be. The “guardianship” order in favour of the foster parents would not prevent the HSE from giving consent in relation to treatment or the issuing of a passport and in addition any arrangement or order that is in place in relation to access for the child continues in place unless the court makes a further order or varies such order when granting the “guardianship” for the foster parents. The “guardianship” order does not prevent the court from making a further order. The law provides that the court may vary or discharge such a “guardianship” order on application by the foster parents, the HSE, the natural parents of the child or a person who has a bona fide interest in the child. The law also provides that the “guardianship” order will cease to have effect if the care order is discharged, if the child is removed from foster parent custody by the HSE or at the foster parents’ request, or when the child reaches the age of eighteen years or marries whichever happens first. Ken’s experience in dealing with these matters on a practical level before the courts means that he says that the first step to be taken involves applying to the court for an order allowing for the release of confidential information in relation to the child’s care proceedings to him as the solicitor for the foster parents so that he can draft the appropriate application in relation to “guardianship”. This is not something that would cause any difficulty. Ken says that once he has official sight of the care order he will then be in a position to draft the application in relation to “guardianship” and advise fully on the “guardianship” application and hearing which will be brought before the judge for a decision, which decision will be made with the best interests of the child as the priority. Ken is aware that this important change in the law has come about in no small part due to the campaigning efforts of the Irish Foster Care Association who continue to campaign for changes in legislation and improved standards for children in care. Ken Heffernan BA, LLB Solicitor & Mediator Family Law Specialist (Admitted in Ireland, England & Wales) City Gate, 2nd Floor Building 1000, Mahon, Cork Email: ken@kenheffernan.ie ©2019 Ken Heffernan	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19268
__label__cc	0.676968	0.323032	» Members and Friends » The King's Campaign The King's Campaign King’s College is a place in which an education charged with creative and intellectual energy is driven by a unique physical environment. Where teaching experienced by exceptional undergraduate and graduate students is delivered by a remarkable Fellowship at the heart of a great University, and where independent thinking and seeing the world differently has always been a hallmark. The King’s Campaign will see us raise £100 million to lead the way in encouraging and enabling more of the brightest students, regardless of their financial or social background; and to make sure that the work that began here in 1441 can continue and prosper for future generations. Gifts of all sizes are invited for any of the Campaign funding opportunities. We encourage donors to give to the areas that they care most about. It is by coming together that we will achieve our aims. The King’s Campaign is raising funds in four areas that are most important to us. These are some of the opportunities you can support: Encouraging the Brightest and the Best Attracting and enabling the best students regardless of financial background, by creating a new student access and support initiative. Empowering Minds Enabling our academics to continue to engage in world-leading and world-changing research, individually and collaboratively. Protecting and Enhancing our Environment Strengthening and sustaining King’s unique physical environment through investment in new buildings and restoring and renovating our historic heart. Fostering Innovation Meeting changing needs for today’s students and Fellows by transforming the centre of the College. £100 million is a big target. This is an ambitious campaign. It has to be. We must be at the forefront of providing equality of access to all who could thrive here; and equality of opportunity to our remarkable students once they are here. We must be a catalyst for change – as we have been so often throughout our history. We must ensure that our College is equipped to continue to be a world-leading environment for learning, where great minds collaborate for the benefit of all. And we must protect and preserve the historic buildings whose future has been left in our trust. King’s would not exist without the generous philanthropy of people over the centuries who wanted to make a difference. Now we need your help. Please contact us to find out how you can be part of the King’s Campaign. Every gift matters, and we are enormously grateful. Lorraine Headen Director of Development and Fellow Donation Form - UK and Worldwide Donation Form - USA Donation Form - Canada Tax Effective Giving Becoming a Friend Information for Members Tax-Effective Giving Become a Friend of King's All Fundraising Opportunities Members and Friends Data Protection Policy Our shared vision and purpose is the source of our collective strength, and our fundraising agenda must be equally robust. We strive to improve what we offer to students, academics and the world at large in an increasingly competitive environment for higher education and research." - Lorraine Headen	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19269
__label__cc	0.710404	0.289596	Alphonsus Liguori CSsR, sometimes called Alphonsus Maria Liguori, was an Italian Catholic bishop, spiritual writer, composer, musician, artist, poet, lawyer, scholastic philosopher, and theologian. Wikipedia Born: September 27, 1696, Marianella Died: August 1, 1787, Pagani, Italy Feast day: 1 August; 2 August (General Roman Calendar 1839-1969) He founded the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (the Redemptorists). In 1762 he was appointed Bishop of Sant’Agata dei Goti. A prolific writer, he published nine editions of his Moral Theology in his lifetime, in addition to other devotional and ascetic works and letters. Among his best known works are The Glories of Mary and The Way of the Cross, the latter still used in parishes during Lenten devotions. He was canonized in 1839 by Pope Gregory XVI and proclaimed a Doctor of the Church by Pope Pius IX in 1871. One of the most widely read Catholic authors, he is the patron saint of confessors.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19271
__label__cc	0.622934	0.377066	Stories: Localbeat Browse Localbeat Stories: « Previous Story \| Next Story » Textile designer and artist Yoshiko exhibits at Okinawa Market Yoshiko Gordon set out for America 34 years ago to “entrust her dream” as a graphic designer, five years after graduating from the Kuwazawa Design Institute. Today, she’s back in Okinawa making her life’s work by “natural living words and pictures growing together. She’s finely honed her design skills, and is currently staging an exhibition at Okinawa Market at the Camp Foster Shopping Mall. Open weekdays 10 a.m. ~ 7 p.m. and Saturdays 10 a.m. ~ 8 p.m. through April 12th, Yoshiko Gordon is sharing her art and design passions with Okinawa. Entering the New York City Municipal Fashion Institute of Technology upon arrival in the United States, she studied textile design while working as an assistant designer and stylist with a textile company. Launching out on her own in 1979, Yoshiko Gordon began her own textile fashion lines under the trade name Yoshiko. Through the 1980’s and 1990’s she produced posters, greeting cards, calendars and lines of clothing. In 1999 Yoshiko published her first book, Yoshiko, a detailed collection of wallpaper designs. Yoshiko also produced calendars in Japan for a Japanese company, leading to further business producing her own image calendars. Her successes led a number of companies to engage her services for various design projects. In the late 1990’s she moved into the educational realm, teaching textile design with a new Jersey design technical college. Disillusioned with life in the U.S. after September 11th 2001, Yoshiko began longing for a return to her homeland. “It seems as if I woke up from the illusion”, she says, losing her spirit for an American love as “love faded away, day by day, in America.” In 2004 she returned to Japan to lecture at Okinawa International Design Academy, a summer that rekindled her yearning for the island. Migrating back to Okinawa in 2005, Yoshiko says her creativity revived, and she began seeing herself as a perceptive designer. She’s staged exhibitions at Okinawa Plaza House Shopping Center in 2006, Okinawa Zampa Royal Hotel in 2007, and Okinawa Kitanakagusuku Café Green Green in 2008. Yoshiko’s Okinawa Market exhibition focuses on both her paintings and products.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19274
__label__wiki	0.870402	0.870402	A Tale Of Two Independence Days I’m an immigrant from the Philippines who has achieved the ever-elusive American dream. In this dream I get to work as a user experience leader at Google where I also serve as the executive sponsor of the Filipino Googler Network – an employee resource group for Filipinos who work at Google globally. We recently sponsored a celebration of Filipino Independence Day, a holiday that commemorates our national independence on June 12, 1898. Later this week we are also celebrating the 4th of July holiday in the U.S., commemorating the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America from the British on July 4, 1776. This story has been retold in the amazing Broadway musical, Hamilton. These two days celebrating my two countries’ independence are somewhat connected. Ferdinand Magellan The archipelago we now know as the Philippines were “discovered” by the Spanish explorer, Ferdinand Magellan, in 1521 who claimed them for Spain while converting the indigenous people to Roman Catholicism. Magellan didn’t get much further as he was killed in the Battle of Mactan by the warriors of Lapu-Lapu, a native chieftain now considered a national hero. In 1543 another Spanish explorer, Ruy López de Villalobos, christened the archipelago Las Islas Filipinas after King Philip II of Spain. It became a Spanish colony in 1565 after later Spanish expeditions arrived from Mexico to establish the first foreign settlements, kicking off decades of regional political and religious wars involving Brunei, Taiwan, Indonesia, and rival Dutch and Portuguese forces. By the end of the 16th century, Spain was able to settle into full-blown colonization, spreading Christianity while exporting its resources (i.e. sugar) to the old world. Spanish culture greatly influenced the development of the Filipino culture, primarily through trade via Mexico through the Manila-Acapulco trade route. Spanish colonization ended in 1898 when Filipino revolutionaries, now considered national heroes, rose up against Spanish forces and, with American help (spurred on by the Spanish-American war that started in Cuba), won their independence on June 12, 1898. As part of the 1898 Treaty of Paris, the United States gained control of Cuba and annexed Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines. The Filipinos felt betrayed as annexation wasn’t part of their agreement with the Americans. Thus began the Philippine-American War. Because of the Americans’ overwhelming technology and resources, the Filipinos quickly turned to guerrilla fighting tactics. The bulk of the war took 3 years to play out but took another 12 for local insurrections to fully end. During this time the Philippines first became an American territory then a commonwealth that slowly inched towards independence. Surprisingly, much of the support for independence came from U.S. industries. As a commonwealth, Philippine goods were not taxed as foreign, keeping costs low which made them difficult to compete against. An independent country would no longer enjoy this advantage, so affected industries were supportive of Philippine independence. In 1941, just 10 hours after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese also launched a surprise attack and invasion of the Philippines, successfully pushing the American forces out. My dad was born in 1944 in the middle of the war. Japanese forces occupied his hometown, forcing my family into hiding into the mountains. A great uncle of mine was a resistance fighter who fought, was captured, and survived the Bataan Death March. I remember being told that he had to eat the leather from his shoes in order to survive. The Japanese occupation lasted throughout most of WWII. Primarily due to the horrible Battle of Manila in 1945, the city became the 2nd most destroyed Allied city of the war. WWII was as traumatic as you might imagine for a country that served both as a base of operations and battlefield for both sides of the war. World War II finally ended after the United States dropped atom bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in early August 1945, prompting the Japanese to surrender. Through the Treaty of Manila, the Philippines finally gained its independence on July 4, 1946. The Americans wanted to continue the custom of celebrating the 4th of July as independence day, deciding it was appropriate for the Philippines as well. The presidential administration of Diosdado Macapagal, who served from 1961 to 1965, changed the official day of independence back to June 12, the original date of independence from Spain in 1898. That has been the official date of Philippine independence ever since. In History, Politics Tags Philippines, independence, independence day, Magellan, Lapu-lapu, Manila, WWII, war	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19278
__label__cc	0.563346	0.436654	India Program Project Associate Experience US Program Applied Data Fellowship Apply to the India Program Apply to the US Program Financing Healthcare in India Tuesday, January 30, 2018 \| 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. \| The University of Chicago Center in Delhi At just 1.2% of the GDP, India’s public health spending is among the lowest in the world, while public health infrastructure in the country faces signi cant gaps.The National Health Policy of 2017 expresses a hope to universalize health coverage and deliver quality health care to all at an affordable cost. What will it take for India to realize these goals of access and quality? What does “quality” health care encompass, and do we provide this to all citizens across the country? The discussion will feature the following speakers: William Haseltine (Chairman & President, ACCESS Health International) Shamika Ravi (Director of Research, Brookings India & Member, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India) and Dinesh Arora (Director, Health, NITI Aayog). Dr. Anup Malani, Faculty Director, International Innovations Corps, and Professor at the University of Chicago Law School and Pritzker School of Medicine, will moderate the panel. Creating Participatory Spaces in Public Policy: Insights and Learnings from Community Engagement in Participatory Schemes Wednesday, August 23, 2017 \| 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. \| The University of Chicago Center in Delhi There is an urgent need to involve communities in the creation and delivery of the policy initiatives intended to serve them. However, governments and outside organizations often experience difficulty reaching and engaging end-users in a process of design, implementation and refinement. As a result, initiatives can struggle to incorporate the ideas of end-users and align to their priorities. Participatory schemes have been identified as vehicles to address these challenges. One vital component of cultivating successful participation within a scheme is the creation of productive spaces that successfully link a government or organization and its beneficiaries.A successful participatory scheme will generate community engagement towards a mission, and effectively iterate with the community towards its implementation. Participatory schemes are able to transform the community itself into a vital resource, in a way that traditional schemes cannot. While there is a general consensus among experts about what characterizes a participatory scheme—the involvement of beneficiaries as planners and owners in the scheme’s development—opinions diverge when discussing the means of reaching that end. It is time to begin a discussion centered around the challenges that are inherent to participatory programs, and the best practices that have been shown to lower barriers to success. In particular, how can an organization or government create spaces that ensure a true participatory system, especially when that entails a transition from existing structures to the new and unfamiliar? This conference is designed to facilitate such a discussion. Experts on the panel will share insights and best practices relating to overcoming participatory challenges and deepening levels of community engagement in India. Financing Development Programs: Opportunities and Challenges Thursday, August 24, 2017 \| 3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. \| The University of Chicago Center in Delhi Per conservative estimates, India will face a financial shortfall of USD 8.5 trillion if it is to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. It needs significant additional funds, along with systemic changes at the policy and service-delivery levels, to achieve these goals. While the government’s spending and efforts are substantial, increased participation by private funders is critical, and philanthropic giving and impact investing can accelerate the development process. Such funding can support the implementation of existing government programmes, catalyze innovation, drive advocacy, and educate communities. A number of factors presage a larger role for private actors. The recently amended Companies Act mandates that a sizeable number of corporations spend 2 percent of their net profits on corporate social responsibility (CSR) programmes. Impact investing has emerged as an investment-led approach to channelize capital towards for-profit enterprises that not only create social impact, but also have the potential to generate returns. While these trends are heartening, questions about the effectiveness of these emerging mechanisms remain unanswered. In light of these developments, the International Innovation Corps will be hosting a conference to answer pertinent questions about the impact of social enterprises and impact investing on the one hand, and the successes and lessons from Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funding on the other. Filling Data Gaps, Fueling Data Governance Friday, August 25th, 2017 \| 3:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. \| The University of Chicago Center in Delhi Data is the new oil: it is undoubtedly a rich resource, but one that is currently difficult to tap into and often inefficient in its usage. The International Innovation Corps will be hosting a workshop that hopes to shine a light on promising public and private data initiatives that overcome gaps in data collection, management, and analysis. Beyond recognizing these entrepreneurial ventures, we hope to engage in a productive discussion on how their best practices and approaches can be scaled up. The workshop will feature case study presentations and a distinguished panel of experts representing such fields as data journalism, policy research, and data intelligence. © International Innovation Corps site by Noughts & Ones	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19280
__label__cc	0.676836	0.323164	Eiffel Tower History \| Make My Holiday Trip Eiffel Tower History Eiffel Tower History – The Most Attractive Destination The Eiffel Tower is famous in France. The Eiffel Tower is in Paris. Paris is the capital of France. The Eiffel Tower is a huge iron tower. It was built from 1887 to 1889. It is on the banks of the River Seine in Champ de Mars remains. The tower is one of the world’s wonderful creation. It's called the Eiffel tower in the name of Gustave Eiffel. The tower was created by Gustave Eiffel. Also Read: Las Vegas The Eiffel tower was built for 1889 the world fair. Eiffel tower height is 325 meters. The height is equal to the approximately 80-story building. France is the second largest building tower. High viewing tower in the world is the most tickets are sold here. Eiffel Tower is the hallmark of France. The tower was built by 300 workers. Its construction was completed in 2 years and 2 months, 5 days. History of The Eiffel Tower Also Read: Imagica Theme Park Eiffel Tower Plant remains in a square shape. The length of each side of the square is 125 meters. The class name of the four pillars north pole, south pole, east, and west column. North and east of column lift. Stairs in the south remain column. The staircase leads to the first and second floor. Similarly north, east, and south gate and box column remains Interns. South pole has two private elevators. Le Jules Verne, a private elevator to the second floor is the restaurant The second is the private elevator service elevators. History of The Eiffel Tower Fast Floor Also Read: Bali The first floor of the Eiffel Tower is approximately 4,200 square meters spread. It can come together is 3,000 people. The floor is four and a reticulated balcony. Etc. This is keeping the telescope on the balcony. They have views of Paris. Here Gustave Eiffel’s name written in large gold lettering. Which is visible from the street outside. Follow Gus salt for children on the exhibition floor. Here is ice skating in winter sometimes. There are 58 Restaurants in the Eiffel Tower. In addition to a cafeteria. Where is the stuff of treats? The History of The Eiffel Tower Second Floor Eiffel Tower Restaurant The second floor of the Eiffel Tower extends around 1650 square meters. Its capacity is about 1600 people. Here is a cafeteria where we can buy food. In addition, there is a shop of a Seminar. In the second floor, there is a second sub-floor. And in this sub floor a lift to the third floor. A Restaurant Le Jules Verne is also on the second floor. We can come to this restaurant by a private lift. In the second floor, we can get tickets to the third floor. the second floor is 115 meters high from the ground. The History of The Eiffel Tower Third Floor The third floor is spread over approximately 350 square meters. It is 275 meters high from the ground. Its capacity is 500 people. On the third floor is only one lift. This floor is closed by the glass in all sides. In this floor an office of Gustave Eiffel. This office made up of glass. In this cabin, there is an effigy of the mother of Gustave Eiffel. On the third floor, there is a second, third floor like sub floor. Telescope etc. ready in this sub-floor. The sub-floor is made of mesh. One more sub-floor above this sub-floor. This one more sub floor has restricted for visitors. Radio and TV Tower has engaged here. The decoration of the Eiffel Tower lights, etc. which continues until one o’clock at night. Because of this, the tower is shimmering for 5 minutes each hour. How to go Paris is a very big city. The Eiffel Tower is in Champs de Mars, Paris, France. Paris is The capital of France. Eiffel Tower you can come by car. Eiffel Tower you can come by car from any city in France. Just look at the map given at the end of the page. Map out a roadmap from your city to the Eiffel Tower. Print it. Take the printed map and come straight away. France Eiffel Tower can come by bus from any town. Also Andorra Belgium, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Monaco, Spain, Switzerland, the neighboring country of France. We can come to the Eiffel Tower from the neighboring countries. There is no way to walk to the Eiffel Tower. The Charles de Gaulle airport near the Eiffel Tower. We can not walk from the airport, but it is equal near like come by walk. Several major airports of the world link here by airplanes. All major companies airplane arrive at the airport. Taxi from the airport is available. Many natives, exotic and international tourists arrive by plane. By RER RER is famous in France. Only a few minutes’ walks from the Eiffel Tower to the RER station. RER is similar to rail. Metro reach in Almost all Paris. The Eiffel Tower is near to the line. 6, metro station named Bir-Hakeim. Eiffel Tower is visible from outside the station. We can come from the station to the Eiffel Tower by taxi etc. Eiffel Tower is the world famous tourist destination. Hotels near Eiffel Tower and rooms for accommodation are readily available here. The hotel offers rooms with different costs. Advance booking is also can ready. Just choose the right place to stay. For the Eiffel Tower, all precautions while traveling. Got Full details before staying in any hotel. Should take care of you and your belongings to the new location. The Eiffel tower is the world’s most famous and attractive tourist destination. Millions of foreign and native tourists come here every year. Eiffel Tower every day is becoming more popular. Nowadays everybody’s dream to take a photo with the Eiffel Tower. tourist buy a half-fit model of the Eiffel for memories. Light of the Eiffel Tower at night will look a bit different. 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__label__wiki	0.798838	0.798838	For Frenchie La-Garde, it's so good to be home By Alana Melanson, amelanson@lowellsun.com Maurice "Frenchie" La-Garde, 62, relaxes at his North Chelmsford home with his wife Heike Petermann. It's been a long road to recovery for La-Garde, who contracted a flesh-eating bacteria 2 1/2 years ago that kept him largely in hospitals or rehab facilities. SUN/David H. Brow CHELMSFORD -- For months, Maurice La-Garde longed for the comforts of his North Chelmsford home, being able to cook meals with his wife and entertain guests with his sharp, risque wit. That 2 1/2-year dream became reality on July 16, when La-Garde, better known as "Frenchie," finally returned home. "It's just nice to be in surroundings that I'm so familiar with," he said from his Technology Drive home Monday, pointing to the photographs and his original artwork on the walls. He's been settling in, taking every opportunity to get outside and enjoy the neighborhood and his quick access to Starbucks and the other amenities of Drum Hill. He and his wife, Heike Petermann, were also finally able to get back to their favorite restaurant, Fishbones, in Chelmsford center. Maurice "Frenchie" La-Garde is happy to be home to continue his recovery with his wife, Heike Petermann. La-Garde is getting used to the quirks of his new motorized wheelchair, which isn't as easy to maneuver in the kitchen as his manual chair was. So Petermann has been helping him prepare dishes like his famous scallop salad and stuffed zucchini. "She's my sous-chef," La-Garde said with a smile. "It's our date now," Petermann said. "It's very exciting." Despite being quadriplegic since a 1987 swimming pool accident that left him paralyzed from the chest down and with limited use of his arms, La-Garde had enjoyed independence, held a full-time job and married the love of his life. Then, in 2015, he contracted a flesh-eating bacteria in a pressure sore. The road since then has been paved with a series of health complications and setbacks that landed La-Garde in multiple hospitals and rehabilitation facilities. The goal was to first have him home by Christmas. After that deadline passed, it was moved to January and then to La-Garde's birthday, March 16. He beat that goal post by almost a month, coming home for the first time on Feb. 19. But the victory was short-lived. La-Garde was still on oxygen at the time for respiratory problems. Maurice "Frenchie" La-Garde demonstrates his new motorized wheelchair at his North Chelmsford home with his wife Heike Petermann. SUN/David H. Brow His oxygen machine and air-fluidized bed, designed to keep pressure off the body and prevent sores, require electricity. So when his home lost power during an early March nor'easter, he had no choice but to go to the hospital. He was back at the Lowell General Hospital emergency room a week later with a lung infection and breathing problems, and spent the week of his 62nd birthday in the intensive care unit. Back home again after that, La-Garde and Petermann found there was a bit of a learning curve to properly using his new bed. His linens and cloth pads put too much cushion between his skin and the fluidized mattress, so it wasn't relieving pressure as it should. La-Garde was developing potentially dangerous sores once again. On April 14, they made the difficult decision that La-Garde would return to Whittier Rehabilitation Hospital in Haverhill. There, La-Garde was put on a special sand bed. "That is probably the best bed for healing pressure sores," he said. "The next thing is just time. They heal very slowly." As those three months wore on, La-Garde and Petermann tried to take it day by day. Petermann was admittedly a little "freaked out" by having to take over care of her husband when he had previously been so independent. Before he got sick, he could shower, dress and do everything else on his own, even drive to work in his specialized vehicle and do the food shopping. "I was really worried about how our relationship would change, but it's OK, I realized," Petermann said. La-Garde lost most of his muscle mass during his hospitalizations, and regaining it is slow going. He has some physical therapy every day, and hopes to eventually get back into his manual wheelchair and drive again. In the meantime, his motorized chair is a great help. It has a pressure-release cushion to help with circulation, and can lift him high enough to comfortably sit at a restaurant bar or reach items on a high shelf at the grocery store. Last week, La-Garde got to visit his coworkers at LifeLinks for the first time in three years and see the organization's brand-new office on Omni Way. He said he was happy to see both, but was glad they didn't plan a big party for him, because he preferred to visit with people individually. "Some of the spaces are enormous," La-Garde said. "I've got a huge office to myself." LifeLinks allowed him to work from his hospital bed the entire time he was away, setting up and managing employee training from his laptop. "That, to me, is amazing," La-Garde said. He and Petermann said they're so grateful for all of the kindness and generosity that people have shown them, through donations and kind messages. The GoFundMe page La-Garde's sister, Yvette, set up in November to help get him home is still running, and will be for the foreseeable future. As of Thursday, it's at $23,715 of its $40,000 goal. La-Garde said his health insurance has been great in paying for his rehab stays. Petermann said they're still working with his insurance to get his bed and other equipment at least partially covered, but they keep getting bills for the $63,000 in the meantime. Additionally, insurance only covers three days of home health aide visits, and they pay privately for the rest of the week, she said. For a detailed history of La-Garde's struggles and to donate, visit gofundme.com/frenchiehome. Follow Alana Melanson at facebook.com/alana.lowellsun or on Twitter @alanamelanson. Photo Gallery \| Maurice "Frenchie" La-Garde	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19290
__label__cc	0.745271	0.254729	Zoe Bouwmeester Placed Zoë is a 17 year old sports minded girl who lives in Zutphen, the Netherlands. Besides tennis Zoë loves fashion and she is also a movie fanatic. Zoë is a perfectionist and optimistic person who always smiles and works hard to achieve her goals. She is a fighter because her mother told her ''It ain't over until the fat lady sings.'' Zoë organises events and is also giving tennis lessons to the younger children at her tennis club. Next to her curricular activities she also has a part-time job at the local supermarket. Zoë is currently a senior in high school at the highest level of education in the Netherlands (VWO) and is expected to graduate in spring of 2015. Her academic interests are Economics, Management and Organisation, History and Maths. Zoë has lived in the Netherlands for all her life and it's time to expand her horizon. Her motto is ''one should not be limited by the borders of one's country. Opportunities are plenty and can be found everywhere.'' It is her dream to play college tennis because than she can be able to improve her tennis skills and also get a good education at the same time. Zoë started playing tennis at the age of 6. At this age she also did gymnastics at a high level. However at the age of 10 she had to choose between the two sports because she couldn't do both and with pleasure she picked tennis. Zoë is an aggressive right-handed player who prefers to play aggressively from the baseline. Her best quality is her positive attitude towards tennis and she is a fighter who will never gives up. During her junior career Zoe played the national junior circuits and she achieved a highest national junior ranking of 41 (girls under 14). At the moment she practices four times a week.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19291
__label__wiki	0.56755	0.56755	Fact or Fiction: Can Tooth Enamel Be Restored? Dr. Salvatore Barbaro Has a Heart for Education as El Rey Feo LXXI The South Texas Chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Fights for The Cure Cover Stories, Men's, Women's The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) is the largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding research, finding cures and ensuring access to treatments for blood cancer patients. Since 1949 LLS has been on the forefront of blood cancer advances such as chemotherapies and stem cell transplantation leading the way to the targeted therapies and immunotherapies that are saving thousands of lives today. LLS is changing the landscape of cancer with more than 300 active research projects that explore different avenues of new and adventurous research; ones with promise and ones that will save lives not someday, but today. Whenever we talk about cancer, we always use the same word. Someday. Someday there will be a cure. Someday we won’t lose the people we love. But when is someday? With LLS’s research partnerships and collaborations with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, patients support services and advocates working for blood cancer patients everywhere, someday is today. Man and Woman of the Year 2017 Candidates Alicia Guevara ALICIA GUEVARA has been in the television and film industry for over 20 years. Alicia, also a mother of four, is the owner of several beauty related businesses located in downtown San Antonio. THE PROFESSIONALS MAKEUP+HAIR+IMAGE, THE MAKEUP BOX, & ELEMENT BOUTIQUE which is located inside her salon and spa, THE OXYGEN ROOM & BEAUTY BAR. She is also the author of the instructional makeup book series, MAKEUP SENSEI. She makes regular appearances on the lifestyle morning show, Great Day SA with her segment, Beauty Buzz. Her body of work includes working with celebs, high profile clients, image consulting in media and film work. She is passionate about people and helping others and often volunteers, donates and gets involved where she is needed. She has worked with various local youth programs that assist inner city children and teens with positive experiences and career choices. Alicia is most inspired by her beautiful mother who ran the family business for over 30 years. Adam Wilson Adam is a 2nd generation homebuilder from Austin, TX, who currently resides in San Antonio. From an early age, Adam worked his way through the ranks of his father’s homebuilding business and simultaneously graduated from Southern Methodist University with a business degree. He then worked with both regional and national construction companies before setting out on his own in 2008 to open Adam Wilson Custom Homes. Adam has 2 beautiful children who are the focus of his life. He spends most of his time off with them and looks forward to supporting both of them in all of their dreams. Callie Grant Callie Grant is a digital and social media strategist for FleishmanHillard, working with the Social & Innovation team specializing in social strategy and brand moments. Callie is a lead social strategist working on the Google account leading program-based project work for the Google brand team and social strategy for Google Store. Recent work includes leading Google’s Olympics programs, Google’s Year in Search, and the Sabre Innovation award winning I’m Feeling Lucky Experience at SXSW presented by Google Store. Callie has also won a Shorty Award for excellence in social media for her work on the Holiday’s by Us holiday campaign for Google Store as well as a finalist in the global AME awards for excellence in social media. Callie is a born and raised San Antonio girl who is in love with chispas, Riverwalk Christmas lights and the Spurs. After traveling extensively for work over the past 10 years, she and her husband James moved back to the 210 in 2016. Her work for the Man and Woman of the Year campaign is her first step into a life of giving back to a community full of love and family. Callie graduated with a Bachelor of Science from the University of Texas at Austin’s school of communication with a degree in public relations. She also received an associate’s degree in general studies from Northwestern State University Louisiana where she played division 1 soccer in 2006 – 2008. When Callie was 16, her cousin Pearce was diagnosed with stage 3 Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma at the age of 10. The news shook the family to the core as the fear swept, but with that fear, something else lit up inside – the desire to fight, together. By the grace of God, Pearce is now 25 and has been in remission for 10 years and has grown a passion for producing films, travel, and music. Jennifer Wilkinson Jennifer Wilkinson has been promoted to executive vice president of Amegy Bank. In addition to being responsible for Commercial and Corporate Banking in Central Texas and the CAT dealer initiative, Wilkinson will now provide executive leadership and work closely with President & CEO of Amegy Bank in San Antonio, David McGee. “Jennifer and her team have tripled our regional commercial banking portfolio during her tenure,” said McGee. “She has distinguished herself as a thought leader in this space and a center of influence in the Central Texas community.” Wilkinson has more than 16 years of banking and financial experience. Prior to joining Amegy in 2012, she served in a commercial banking leadership at JPMorgan Chase and was the platform-wide advisor for Chase’s CAT dealer and specialty insurance portfolio. Prior to joining JPMorgan Chase, she served as Assistant Vice President at Guaranty Bank. Wilkinson received her Bachelors of Business Administration in Finance from Texas Christian University. She is involved with Financial Executives International and serves as a Board Member for Junior Achievement of South Texas. In addition, she is actively involved in the Amegy Bank Women’s Initiative, the Diversity Council at Zions Bancorporation and the Women’s Leadership Council for the United Way. She also volunteers for multiple non-profit organizations including Goodwill and Habitat for Humanity. Notably, Wilkinson is currently raising funds and awareness for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) in her campaign for Woman of the Year. Kristin Hefty Kristin Hefty is a 2003 graduate of the University of Texas-Austin and has held architectural internships at internationally-acclaimed architecture firms Leeser Architecture (New York, NY) and Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (New York, NY). During her time at KPF, Kristin was an integral member of the design team for the Shanghai World Trade Center, the tallest building in mainland China and the second tallest building in the world at that time. After graduation in May of 2003, Kristin joined Lake\|Flato Architects and worked on the master plan and facility expansion of the Francis Parker School (San Diego, CA), the Shangri La Botanical Gardens & Nature Center (Orange, TX), the University Of Texas Health Science Center (Houston, TX), and multiple single family residential projects. After her 5-year tenure with Lake\|Flato, Kristin ventured off with the creation of Wiese Hefty Design Build. With the help of her husband and construction partner Clay Hefty, the firm compiled a diverse portfolio of residential, commercial and retail projects. Kristin and Clay announced their new venture in January 2013 as Dado Group, dedicated to providing high quality architecture and construction services under one roof. Kristin is a fully licensed architect, a member of the AIA (American Institute of Architects) and a LEED (Leaders in Energy and Environmental Design) accredited professional. Notable projects include the corporate headquarters for Sweet Leaf Tea (Austin, TX), the Monterey Restaurant (San Antonio, TX), Rosella Coffee Company, Signature by Andrew Weissman, the Granary Cue N’ Brew and High Street Wine Company on the Pearl campus (San Antonio, TX) as well as multiple residential remodels and new construction projects. Leslie Bohl Leslie Bohl is celebrating her 20th anniversary this month waking up and starting the day of South Texans as anchor of “News 4 San Antonio Today” weekday mornings 4:30-7:00 on WOAI-TV. You can also see her at the helm of the “News 4 San Antonio at Noon.” In addition, Leslie served as host and correspondent for lifestyle show and the “San Antonio Living” for 15 years. Her reporting has greatly ranged from political elections to hurricanes and natural disasters to the Olympics. Her assignments have taken all across the US, Mexico and Europe. She interviewed presidents, a list actors, CEOs of national companies and visionaries but her favorite story to tell is one of the resilience of the human spirit: ordinary people doing extraordinary things especially during times of challenge. She has been bestowed a Gracie Award for her medical reporting. During her time in broadcasting, Leslie has helped local charities and community groups raise millions of dollars for various projects serving as Mistress of Ceremonies, Moderator, Emcee and volunteer. She also has served on various boards including the Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Board and San Antonio Rodeo committee. Currently, she is a part of the Catholic Charities Advisory Board. Leslie also has a long history serving her community from helping teach Faith Formation classes at her church, to volunteering at her daughter’s school to working for the Junior League of SA. Leslie graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Journalism and a Bachelor of Arts in Government. Her biggest and proudest accomplishment is being a mom and mentor to daughters, Bailey and Tabitha. Mat t Pepping Matt Pepping is an attorney at Norton Rose Fulbright, LLP. He has a national practice, focusing on high-stakes civil litigation matters, with an emphasis on insurance coverage, professional liability, and commercial litigation. He also has an active pro bono practice. He has represented indigent clients in civil rights trials and worked with undocumented immigrants making asylum claims. Matt is active in the community. In addition to working with LLS, he serves on the Executive Committee of the Family Violence Prevention Services Board of Directors, which operates the Battered Women and Children’s Shelter of San Antonio. He also volunteers on the Advisory Committee of the local Catholic Charities. He was named a 2012 and 2017 Rising Star in SA Scene magazine. Matt received his B.A. magna cum laude in political science and business administration from Trinity University. While at Trinity, Matt was the goalkeeper for the 2003 national championship men’s soccer team, and he won the 2005 Thurman Adkins Leadership Award. Most importantly, he met his wife, Lauren, at Trinity. Matt went to law school at the University of Notre Dame, which he attended on a Notre Dame Fellowship Scholarship. While in law school, he served as the editor-in- chief of the Journal of College and University Law and worked as an Assistant Rector. Following law school, Matt and Lauren returned to warmer weather in San Antonio and married. They’ve since had three children, and Lauren started a local small business, Cookie Cab, which is as delicious as it sounds. Matt is grateful for the outpouring of support for LLS from his friends and the community. He looks forward to the day that we’ve cured blood cancer and is proud to have helped. Michael Shultz Growing up on ranches and later working in the construction industry, Michael developed a love of land and luxury homes which led him to work in the real estate industry. His motivation for continued success is having the opportunity to bring overwhelming happiness to his clients through finding the perfect property. In Michael’s short time as a Realtor, he has exceeded his personal goal of being named one of the top 25 luxury Realtors by the San Antonio Business Journal three years in a row. Michael shows a strong devotion and work ethic to his clients on a daily basis. He provides up to the minute market knowledge for his clients, providing an easy, relaxing, and rewarding home purchasing or selling experience all while balancing his work life and family life with his beautiful wife and two daughters. Michael sees being a Realtor as an opportunity to bring overwhelming happiness to the people he works with, and one of the ways he accomplishes that is by understands that moving doesn’t end at closing. He’s always on hand to help his clients — in any way he can — make a seamless transition into the newest chapter in their lives. Michael is running for Man of The Year in dedication to his grandfather, Gordon Schultz, who lost his battle to lymphoma almost 15 years ago. Since starting this campaign, he has met new people and heard from people he knows knew almost weekly that have suffered or had someone they loved suffer from leukemia and/or lymphoma and it continues to touch me deeply. He wants to continue to support LLS reach their goals to help fund research and outreach to families in need. Mindy Miller Hill Mindy Miller Hill is the Director of Destination Sales at the JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort & Spa. Mindy has been with Marriott for 11 years & was on the pre-opening sales team for the JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort & Spa. Prior to that, she worked at Marriott Rivercenter and the San Antonio Convention & Visitors Bureau (now known as Visit San Antonio). She has a degree in Recreation, Park & Tourism Sciences from Texas A&M and over 25 years of experience in the hospitality industry. Mindy’s job involves selling San Antonio to meeting & event planners, so it’s critical she has her finger on the pulse of what’s happening in the city. She also enjoys helping her husband, Rick Hill, and the staff at the Valero Alamo Bowl welcome coaches and teams to San Antonio during bowl week each year. When not working, she loves dedicating her time to her husband and kids, Heidi (15) and Audrey (13). Mindy is an Air Force brat, born in Wiesbaden, Germany. She and her family moved 11 times while growing up; during that time, they were stationed in San Antonio twice (once at Randolph AFB, the second time at Kelly AFB). She is the second born of four kids. Mindy has dedicated her campaign to her father, who she lost in May of 2015 due to complications with AML. Also, her family friend, Aaron Brady (42 years old & married with 2 young children) was diagnosed with AML in March & has been in desperate need of a bone marrow transplant. Dr. Roland Cavazos, DDS Dr. Roland Cavazos, DDS, was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. He graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in 1986 and went on to pursue his education at St. Mary’s University. After receiving his Bachelors in Science in 1990, he attended the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio and became a Doctor of Dental Surgery in 1994. He has been the owner of his general practice, Alamo Dental Center, since 1997, and maintains a loyal clientele. He branched out into a new business venture in 2014 and became the owner of the Inn on the Riverwalk Bed and Breakfast. In addition to his dentistry practice and business endeavors, Dr. Cavazos is dedicated to serving his community. He was on the Board of Directors of the Big Brothers Big Sisters from 1996-2004. He is most dedicated however to his three children, Tristan, Gabriela and Briana. On his off time, he enjoys being with his children, traveling and staying involved in the community. Dr. Cavazos had his own personal scare with cancer and for him it was a wake-up call that we all need to invest more into research so that everyone can have access to the best treatments available, and one day find a cure for all types of cancer. Erin Eaton Just a month shy of turning nineteen, Erin Eaton wasn’t concerned when she came down with what she thought was a bad chest cold. The cough lingered and grew worse over a few weeks’ time. Bloodwork and imaging revealed she had Non-Hodgkin Large Cell Lymphoma. The cancer had grown undetected for a year. For the next eighteen months, Erin underwent chemotherapy followed by radiation. When she completed the radiation, doctors harvested stem cells. They worried the cancer might return. Twenty-one years later, Erin enjoys life and brings joy to others with her bakery, Eaton Sweet. Erin is married to her childhood sweetheart, Tres Eaton and they are proud parents to six adorable, rescue fur-babies. Dr. Kirsten L. Smith Dr. Kirsten L. Smith is a San Antonio native. After graduating high school from Alamo Heights she headed to Lexington, Virginia to attend Washington and Lee University. She returned to San Antonio for medical school at The University of Texas Health & Science Center San Antonio. In 2007, she completed her General Surgery residency at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon. Though she is board certified in General Surgery, wound care is her passion. She returned to San Antonio once again and entered private practice with her father Dr. James Martin Smith. She specializes in wound care and hyperbaric medicine at the Methodist Wound Care Center and is the Medical Director of wound care at LifeCare Hospital in San Antonio. When Kirsten was six years old, her grandfather Col. B.J. Smith died of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. that was the first time in her life she lost someone important to her from blood cancer, unfortunately it was not the last. She is running for Woman of the Year in honor of her friends, family members, and patients affected by this disease. Team KS4LLS has worked hard to raise money for LLS in memory of their lost love ones that courageously battled leukemia – Linda J. Threlkeld and Erin Claire Garst. Kirsten loves the San Antonio Zoo- referring to it as her “happy place”. She found a way to bring these two amazing charities together by making Bubba the Komodo dragon her mascot for the campaign. The Komodo dragon featured in the KS4LLS Medal symbolizes Survival, Life Force, and Longevity – which is what the LLS strives for as well. Her goal is to raise $171, 550 – that is one dollar for every person in the United States diagnosed with leukemia, lymphoma or myeloma in 2016. That may seem like an incredibly ambitious goal, but she feels it is important to give representation for each one of those newly diagnosed patients. Kirsten is honored to be a candidate for the 2017 Woman of the Year for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society with a goal to fight cancer harder and smarter. Richard Ojeda Richard Ojeda, an adventurous entrepreneur, and a successful business man was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. Richard’s parents Sam and Hortense Ojeda (deceased), had three children. He was the youngest of the siblings which includes his older brother Roger and his sister Sandra. Richard graduated from Robert E. Lee High School in 1973. He received his degree at UT in Austin. Richard has three children, Emily, whose is married to Jarett, Hill who is married to Sarah and his youngest daughter Sarah who is married to Mark. His grandchildren are Drake, Sicily, Paisley, Jane Francis, John David and Thomas Kessler. He has always had the passion for football and can boast of a spectacular high school career — a regional title, one semifinal state game and a state championship in 1971 while at Lee. Richard received a football scholarship to the University of Texas and played during the reign of Darrell Royal. He graduated in 1977 with a Major in Physical Education. Richard started his work career at the oil company Amoco in 1977 and during that same year he opened Ojeda’s Barbacoa which he later sold to his father. He left Amoco in 1980 to enter a Managerial Program at Luby’s Cafeteria and began his career in the food industry. In 1985, he launched Taco Flats restaurant with his father-in- law Roger C. Hill. Shortly thereafter, in May of 1986, he opened Black Tie Affairs Catering. He made the decision to focus on the growing success of his catering business and sold Taco Flats in1997. Today, Black Tie Affairs is the largest Hispanic-owned catering company in San Antonio. Richard attends Alamo Heights United Methodist Church and Community Bible Church. He is a Life Member of San Antonio Livestock Expo at the Rodeo and participates with all the local Chambers of Commerce. He served on NEISD School Board during the early 1990’s. He is also a member of the San Antonio Home Builders Association and became Rey Feo “The People’s King” in 2011 raising over $250,000.00 for scholarships. Live Stock Show & Rodeo – 2013 Volunteer of the Year. In May 2014, was named “Man of the Year” through the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society raising over $220,000.00. Richards’s involvement with LLS is in part due to Richard losing his grandfather to Leukemia. Richard’s daughter best friend also died at 8 years old from Lymphoma and most recently, a dear friend of Richard lost her husband to Lymphoma 7 years ago. Currently Richards’s cousin son-in- law is dying of Leukemia. Richards’s personal ties is what motivated him to get involved with LLS and this prevalent cause. Brian Purnell South Texas Eye Institute: Helping patients to see clearer Dr. Richard Francis- Driven by A Passion to Help Others	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19292
__label__wiki	0.780655	0.780655	Viscera/// - "Cyclops" (CD) "Cyclops" track listing: 1. Focus: The First Eye (2:18) 2. Keep On Bluesing Through The Stars (12:20) 3. Iris Overburden (9:51) 4. Shape Of God (3:38) 5. Few Years To Live (7:13) 6. White Flies Might Rule The World (7:53) 7. Titan (7:51) "It isn’t long before the psychedelic notions start to pop up and it becomes apparent that “Cyclops” isn’t the average devastatingly brutal metal album. " Originally bursting onto the metal scene as a goregrind outfit, Viscera/// has shattered the boundaries of grindcore with their first full length album, choosing to incorporate heavy elements of drone, rock, and experimental ambience into their music. “Cyclops” frequently takes detours and goes to completely unexpected places without ever losing sight of the intended destination, keeping all of the vastly different elements present tightly wound together so that they never work against each other or sound out of place. Overtones of grindcore still show up, especially in the vocals, but they are swept into the maelstrom of cosmic melody in the same manner as all of the other attributes of the album, used as just another means of expressing the dream-like state the album attempts to emulate. “Cyclops” starts off with ambient noise that gives the impression of some strange machine being turned on or a celestial gateway being opened up, which then gets sucked into an absurdly heavy cyclone of distorted guitars and overwhelming drums. It isn’t long before the psychedelic notions start to pop up and it becomes apparent that “Cyclops” isn’t the average devastatingly brutal metal album. At over twelve minutes in length, the second song, “Bluesing Through The Stars,” takes plenty of time to go on a distant journey, dragging the listeners along and letting them know what sort of unexpected things to start expecting in the rest of the tracks. While the guitar parts aren’t every particularly complex or technical, the droning way they are played coupled with the constantly changing styles of distortion used gives a massively spaced out sensation, something like what it might feel like to float bodiless through the heavens and watch as all of the wonders and terrors of the universe pass by. The song’s minute and a half long ending clinches the otherworldly impression by retaining the same general theme evident while spurting in slightly different musical directions and then coming right back where it started again, like some sort of beautiful heavenly phenomena that drives men mad because of its unknowable properties and purposes. The song “Iris Overburden,” keeps the disturbingly heavily distorted sound of the opening segments of the album, but allows the guitars to meander into a more upbeat rock style. The whole album frequently melds traditional metal elements into excruciatingly heavy extreme parts to reinforce the feeling that listening to the album is like floating along a dreamscape, allowing the dream to go where it will, whether that be into extreme unpleasantness, immense bliss, or somewhere in between. In several instances the screaming grind vocals are also dropped in favor of slightly muted clean vocals that are hazy and indistinct, as though they were coming from some far off place. A large portion of the album doesn’t use vocals of either variety at all, with two full songs passing along while nary a word is spoken. The lack of singing or screaming allows the instruments to create a ponderous and inquisitive mood, prompting thoughts about the universe and the listener’s place within it. The debut full length album by Viscera/// is a catastrophically heavy acid trip that ventures into territory most other metal won’t even touch. Anyone ready to take a serious trip should ignite “Cyclops” and prepare for blast off. Highs: Extremely heavy guitars and imaginative experimental ambience Lows: A few of the sound effects used in the album are a little jarring Bottom line: A catastrophically heavy acid trip to ponder the nature of existence to. Get more info including news, reviews, interviews, links, etc. on our Viscera/// band page.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19293
__label__wiki	0.940549	0.940549	Historic Sites of Manitoba: Woodbend School No. 1886 (RM of Lakeshore) The Woodbend School District was organized formally in June 1917 and a school building was erected the following year, on the southeast quarter of 5-22-16 west of the Principal Meridian in what is now the Rural Municipality of Lakeshore. In 1956, the building was sold to a local farmer for use as a workshop and the building from Granville School was moved here. In 1964, its district was consolidated with Carrick School No. 1639 and Makinak School No. 979 to form Makinak Consolidated School No. 2428. The building is no longer present at the site. A commemorative cairn at the site, topped with a metal model of the school, was erected in July 1987. Among the teachers of Woodbend School were Donald Van Duesen (1954-1955), Miss Evelyn McNaughton (1955-1956), Theodore Humeniuk (1956-1957), Sally Walker (1957-1958), Randolph Reimer (1958-1959), Joe Gosskie (1959-1960), and Barry Knight (1960-1961). Woodbend School (no date) by H. J. Everall Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 50. Woodbend School monument (May 2012) Site Location (lat/long): N50.86056, -99.64871 “Teaching staffs named for “A” and “B” groups,” Dauphin Herald and Press, 9 September 1954, page 1. “Record-breaking enrollments expected here in collegiate, elementary schools,” Dauphin Herald and Press, 1 September 1955, page 1. “All-time high enrollments expected for town schools,” Dauphin Herald and Press, 30 August 1956, page 1. “Town schools open today, high enrollments expected,” Dauphin Herald and Press, 29 August 1957, page 1. “Total of 110 teachers assigned to schools in Dauphin-Ochre area,” Dauphin Herald and Press, 4 September 1958, page 1. “Teaching staffs assigned to rural, village schools,” Dauphin Herald and Press, 3 September 1959, page 1. “26 rural schools start fall term classes Tuesday,” Dauphin Herald and Press, 31 August 1960, page 4. Between Mountain and Lake: A History of Ochre River Rural Municipality, 1885-1970 by Ochre River Women’s Institute History Committee, Neepawa: The Neepawa Press, 1970, pages 250-251. One Hundred Years in the History of the Rural Schools of Manitoba: Their Formation, Reorganization and Dissolution (1871-1971) by Mary B. Perfect, MEd thesis, University of Manitoba, April 1978. Page revised: 10 January 2017	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19296
__label__wiki	0.752065	0.752065	The Northridge Earthquake Learning about the last big one in California Seven Seconds to Change a City The power of a blind thrust fault The Northridge Quake Memories of Northridge Earthquake PDF The Northridge Earthquake was one of the most destructive earthquakes in California history. It changed quake history at 4:31AM on January 17, 1994. The primary duration was seven seconds, although there was shaking that lasted as long as 20 seconds. Even though from a magnitude perspective, this wasn’t a huge quake on the Magnitude Scale (6.7), due to the nature of the quake (blind thrust fault), it was one of the most power quakes ever measured in an urban area of North America. One of the more interesting facts about this quake is that it wasn’t centered in Northridge, but rather in nearby Reseda. The fault involved is called the Pico Thrust Fault. The official death toll was established at 57 people. More than 8,700 people were injured, and 1,600 of those people required hospitalization. The Northridge Meadows apartment complex was one of the well-known affected areas – and in part contributed to the name of the event. Unfortunately, 16 people were killed as a result of the building’s collapse. The Northridge Fashion Center and California State University, Northridge also sustained very heavy damage. The earthquake gained worldwide attention because of damage to the vast freeway network, which served millions of commuters on a daily basis. The most notable damage to a freeway was to the Santa Monica Freeway, Interstate 10, known as the busiest freeway in the United States, congesting nearby surface roads for three months while the roadway was repaired. Farther north, the Newhall Pass interchange of Interstate 5 (the Golden State Freeway) and State Route 14 (the Antelope Valley Freeway) collapsed as it had 23 years earlier in the 1971 Sylmar earthquake even though it had been rebuilt with improved structural components. One life was lost in the Newhall Pass interchange collapse. Portions of a number of major roads and freeways, including Interstate 10 over La Cienega Boulevard, and the interchanges of Interstate 5 with California State Route 14, 118, and Interstate 210, were closed because of structural failure or cracks in the roadway. An unusual side effect of the Northridge earthquake was an outbreak of coccidioidomycosis, more commonly known as Valley fever, a respiratory disease caused by inhaling airborne spores of a species of fungus unique to the American southwest. The number of reported cases (203) in Ventura County was roughly 10 times the normal rate in the eight weeks following the earthquake and three people died. The Northridge earthquake led to a number of legislative changes. The estimate on losses continues to be debated, but was between $20 and $25 billion dollars. As a result, many insurance companies either stopped offering or severely restricted earthquake insurance in California (and elsewhere). In response, the California Legislature created the California Earthquake Authority (CEA), which is a publicly managed but privately funded organization that offers minimal coverage. A substantial effort was also made to reinforce freeway bridges against seismic shaking, and a law requiring water heaters to be properly strapped was passed in 1995. Northridge Quake on Wikipedia Learning from Earthquakes on PBS Northridge Earthquake on the History Channel Historic Earthquakes at the USGS QuakeSmart:CA Articles 7 Steps to Surviving a Quake Earthquakes 101 Earthquake Escape Plan Drop, Cover and Hold On! Earthquake Fires Did You Feel It? Earthquake History	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19303
__label__wiki	0.936962	0.936962	Tag Archives: Dolly Parton Dolly Parton to Star in Upcoming Hallmark Movie, “Christmas in Dollywood” Dolly Parton will return to TV screens this winter in a new Hallmark movie, Christmas in Dollywood. The upcoming flick, which stars Danica McKellar (The Wonder Years), will begin filming in Tennessee in August, according to Entertainment Tonight. Dolly will make a special appearance in the film, which is slated to be released in December…… MORE Post Malone’s Bonnaroo Attire Gets Dolly Parton’s Seal of Approval Post Malone sported a Dolly Parton-themed outfit during his headlining set at Bonnaroo on June 15—and Dolly “loved” it. The 23-year-old rapper was decked out in a patterned short-sleeved suit adorned with hundreds of photos of Dolly’s face during his 75-minute set. Dolly shared her sentiments on Post Malone’s garb via Twitter, saying: “Love the…… MORE Listen to Ronnie Milsap Duet With Dolly Parton on New Single, “Smoky Mountain Rain” Earlier this year, Country Music Hall of Fame member Ronnie Milsap released a new album that features duets with an A-list cast, including Billy Gibbons, Luke Bryan, Dolly Parton, Jason Aldean, Willie Nelson, Lucy Angel, Kacey Musgraves, Little Big Town, George Strait, Jessie Key, Leon Russell, Steven Curtis Chapman and Montgomery Gentry. The 13-track collection,…… MORE Dolly Parton Opens $37-Million “Wildwood Grove” Expansion at Dollywood With New Roller Coaster, Climbing Structure & More [Photo Gallery] Dolly Parton hosted the grand opening of the $37-million Wildwood Grove expansion at her Dollywood theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., on May 10 and 11. Wildwood Grove, which represents the largest capital investment in Dollywood’s 33-year history, features 11 new experiences for guests, including a new restaurant, climbing structure and roller coaster called the…… MORE FBI Honors Dolly Parton for Fundraising Efforts Following 2016 Smoky Mountains Wildfires Dolly Parton can add a new award to her trophy case that already includes eight Grammy Awards, 10 Country Music Association Awards, five Academy of Country Music Awards, three American Music Awards, two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the BMI Icon Award, the Library of Congress Living Legend Award, the National Medal of…… MORE Dolly Parton NASCAR Camaro to Debut at Bristol Motor Speedway Dolly Parton fans, start your engines. Dolly’s likeness will be featured on driver Tyler Reddick’s No. 2 Chevy Camaro at Bristol Motor Speedway on April 6. In addition to Dolly’s image on the hood, the white and pink car features the Dollywood theme park logo on the rear quarter panels, with the DollyParton.com website across…… MORE Dolly Parton Opens Dollywood for the 2019 Season With New Additions [Photo Gallery] Dolly Parton visited Dollywood on March 15 and 16 to help kick off the 2019 season at the theme park that has featured her name for more than 30 years. Dolly officially opened the season with the annual Festival of Nations (March 16–April 14), which highlights musical cultures from around the world. In addition to…… MORE Maren Morris Says She Looks Up to “Kind But Unapologetic” Women Like Her Mom, Miranda & Dolly Maren Morris’ inspiring new single, “Girl,” is continuing its rise up the Billboard Country Airplay chart, currently No. 27 after four weeks. Penned by Maren, Sarah Aarons and Greg Kurstin, who also produced the song, “Girl” features the encouraging chorus: “Girl, don’t hang your head low / Don’t lose your halo / Everyone’s gonna be…… MORE Photo Gallery: Grammy Awards Red Carpet, Including Dolly, Kacey, Maren, Kelsea, Little Big Town, Florida Georgia Line, Chris Stapleton & More Before the trophies were handed out at the 2019 Grammy Awards on Feb. 10, a number of stars walked the red carpet, including a country contingent of Dolly Parton, Maren Morris, Kacey Musgraves, Little Big Town, Kane Brown, Florida Georgia Line, Chris Stapleton, Margo Price and more. Check out our red carpet photo gallery, courtesy…… MORE Dolly Parton to Perform at the Grammys With Maren Morris, Kacey Musgraves, Little Big Town & Katy Perry Dolly Parton will return to the Grammy stage for the first time in 18 years when she performs music from her recent album, Dumplin’, at the 61st Grammy Awards on Feb. 10. In addition to re-recording six songs from her iconic catalog, Dolly co-penned and recorded six new songs for the Nexflix movie, Dumplin’. In…… MORE	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19304
__label__cc	0.569433	0.430567	The Classical James Brown Noel Holston - 10/24/2014 Mr. Dynamite, a documentary about James Brown produced by Mick Jagger and directed by Peabody Award winner Alex Gibney (Mea Maxima Culpa), premieres on HBO Monday, October 27, its goal in part to increase respect for the Georgia-raised R&B legend. It’s not, however, as if Brown never got his propers. This is the performer-composer whose sobriquets included not only “Mr. Dynamite” but also “Godfather of Soul,” “Soul Brother No. 1” and “The Hardest Working Man in Show Business.” He was taken seriously not just by adoring fans but by serious musicians. Doubt that? No less a classical-music personage than symphony conductor Michael Tilson Thomas won a 2007 Peabody Award for his public-radio radio series, The MTT Files, that prominently included an installment titled “We Were Playing Boulez, But We Were Listening to James Brown.” “When I was in music school, I was part of a crowd of adventurous young musicians,” Tilson Thomas says in that program. “One day, I heard this song, James Brown’s Cold Sweat. This music completely knocked me out. I wanted to share it with all my classical music colleagues. And it turned out all the hipper ones already knew the music. We were all amazed by the level of energy, the attacks, the precision, the syncopation, the wonderful empty spaces. The amazing singing. In those years, we were playing Boulez and Stravinsky, but we were listening to James Brown. From the first day I heard James Brown’s music, I waited anxiously for each new song he would release. He became a hero of mine.” Tilson Thomas and Brown years later became acquainted. The conductor discovered he and Brown were on the same record label. In April 2006, eight months before Brown passed away, Tilson Thomas visited the R&B legend at his home and recorded an interview that would be included in an MTT Files broadcast. A few excerpts: Tilson Thomas recalls hearing Brown for the first time on Baja, California, “border blaster” XERB-AM. He asks Brown if he remembers the station. JB: I remember the station, because I helped to get it functioning — with Wolfman Jack. MTT: The Mighty 1090! JB: That’s right! Tilson Thomas asked Brown about his use of space in his music and about his first hit, “Please, Please, Please,” in 1956. MTT: One of the things I love about the song is, you leave great spaces in your music. A lot of people try to fill in all the spaces. ... I can’t [sound like] you, but the “I-I-I” — the tension you make us feel between those words — how did it happen? How did you get to that? JB: The only thing I can say is, it was spiritual. ... I went to Africa, trying to find myself there, and I didn’t see me there, but I saw a lot of great things I came from there. I went to India, where my mother’s from. ... [Also] Geronimo is one of my ancestors. ... My dad was named Coochi. That’s Cochise. That’s the bloodline. But the space, the Indian dances, the pain, the struggle, the emptiness. The same thing with Africa. I represent the spirit in a cage that’s a hostage by man. That’s what I represent. Tilson Thomas also asked him about the incredible tightness, the precision, of the recordings. MTT: If I’m a bass player ... are you gonna suggest to me something I can do? JB: If I’m arranging songs, I’m not gonna suggest, I’m gonna tell you. MTT: [Laughs.] That’s what I wanted to hear. JB: I don’t let nobody suggest nothing on my stage. It’s like an assembly line. Any man, he don’t have to know anything about that car. Put this bolt right here. All they gotta do is do what I tell them. I’m structuring it. Exactly. And over my head is God—he’s structuring it.” To hear the whole program, by all means visit the Peabody Awards Collection Archives and request call number 2007015ENR or visit American Public Media’s page for The MTT Files, program 7. mr dynamite: the rise of james brown alex gibney the mtt files james brown noel holston The Original Hit Song Countdown Unconventional TV Shows: The Later Years	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19306
__label__cc	0.560473	0.439527	The Political Use of the Three Ring Circus Every morning when I wake up and turn on the TV while making breakfast, I have the same reaction: why is the news all about which presidential candidate said or did what, and what are his chances of being the candidate to face Obama, and what does so and so think about it, and what is the White House doing about it? Finally, this morning I got one of those alpha moments as I was waking up: we’re witnessing the political harnessing of the three ring circus! If I remember correctly, in your standard circus, there is usually one ring where the main attractions are featured, while the other two are there to fill the space. (My readers, ever ready to pounce on the slightest erroneous detail, will forgive me if my circus facts are totally wrong: I’m taking ‘poetic license’ today, for the cause.) With respect to the news, what we have is a very good imitation of a three ring circus: Keep the audience’s attention focused on the main ring, no matter what happens in the other two. In the two side rings the Climate Conference in Durban (South Africa) gears up, even as BP lures winter vacationers to the Gulf Coast which it trashed a few years ago; Iranian students sack the British Embassy in Teheran; NATO quibbles with Pakistan over whose first shot resulted in 24 Pakistani military deaths; Russia approves the Arab Leagues sanctions against Syria, and Northern Israel is shelled from Lebanon. I’m reminded that in recent days someone, I think it was Chris Matthews, replayed a 2007 Democracy Now interview of retired General Wesley Clarke in which he describes how, ten days after 9/11, a Pentagon officer informed him of plans to achieve regime change in no fewer than seven Middle Eastern countries. Yet in the main circus ring, the news is all about Herman Cain’s love life. Labels: BP, Herman Cain, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Russia, Wesley Clarke Occupation or Revolution? Here is a recent quote from the Occupy movement: “The Occupy movement is born of the simple belief that humanity could meet our common needs if not for the predation and greed of the very few.” That is a left-wing credo no matter how you slice it. Now two quotes from Ted Rall’s new book, not very cleverly titled The Anti-American Manifesto: “The story of the United States of America as we know it - not merely as the world’s dominant superpower, but as a discrete political, economic, and geographic entity - is drawing to a close, due to a convergence of emerging economic, environmental and political crises ...Nothing lasts forever, empires least of all. There’s going to be an intense, violent, probably haphazard struggle for control. It’s going to come down to us versus them.” As the Occupy movement continues to spread throughout the country, pundits continue to ask when it will make specific demands, or put forth a program. If Ted Rall is right, the situation is beyond repair by demands, or even a change of program. If the Occupy movement decides to get behind any presidential candidate, the logical choice would be Green Party candidate, Jill Stein. But there is a consensus among Occupiers and others that elections will be useless, at least until the Constitution is amended (for which there is a call: http://movetoamend.org/). The independent third party that does not want to be a party, Americans Elect apparently thinks the right person in the White House will solve all our problems. It has adopted the method used in Iceland to nominate and vote for candidates on-line. But that does not make it a left-wing operation. Its CEO, Elliot Ackerman admits: “A lot of the folks that engage with us are socially liberal and fiscally conservative.” In a word, libertarians. Honor goes to the Occupy movement for being peaceable, while groups that are likely to be attracted to Americans Elect have been practicing military skills for years in the woods. As Occupiers take pepper spray and tear gas sitting down, a tight-knit right-wing/libertarian community flocks to gun shows and exchanges ideas for taking on the government. Personally, I agree with Rall that violence is inevitable: his historical and political ducks are lined up perfectly. But he contradicts himself when he suggests toward the end of his book that the enemies of our enemies should be our friends, and therefore that the left should enter into a temporary alliance with the right that knows how to shoot. In defense of this idea he refers to the French partisan groups that helped end the Nazi occupation of their country. Some were Catholic and right-wing, others were Catholic and left-wing, still others were Communists or Socialists. They cooperated to oust the Germans, knowing they would thrash out their differences afterward. Like other European countries, the French are still doing that, which is why they have been governed alternately by the left and the right, with the social benefits gained by a powerful left never in question. Alas, we are not a European country benefitting from a socialist tradition that has endured since the French Revolution. As Rall points out, the statement in the 1776 Declaration of Independence giving us the right, and even the duty, to overthrow an unsatisfactory government, was quickly counter-manded by the four Aliens and Seditions Acts, that authorized deportation of anyone advocating the overthrow of the government, by the way, forever linking foreigners with sedition. Our government by and for the people lasted only twenty-two years, the last of act being passed by 1798. Dylan Ratigan interviewed Rall on November 9th, www.youtube.com/watch?v=namL_pIqsVo, with his friendly way of navigating the unimaginable. The negative comments to the transcript were all from the woodsmen. Neither the Occupiers nor the left’s high priests had anything to say. Yet Rall’s book draws a blueprint for action: the formation by anyone and everyone of small action cells consisting of people that can fully trust each other. As India’s Adivasi discovered when they refused to leave their mineral rich forest, confrontation with a well-funded, trained military, non-violence rarely works. The Adivasi need the support of the Maoists to stay in their homes. Labels: Aliens and Seditions Acts, Domestic affairs, Foreign Affairs, Health Care, ideology, Jill Stein, Miscellanouse, Ted Rall Oakland, Zucotti, Adivasi, Same Story I was just formulating a comment to the raid on the Oakland protesters, helicopters and all, when a raid on Zucotti park in New York was reported. Few readers may remember that in 2002, President Bush quashed a proposal by Vice President Cheney to use U.S. troops to arrest the Lackawanna Six, accused of being terrorists. Now, the Fourth Amendment bans “unreasonable” searches and seizures without probable cause. And the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 generally prohibits the military from acting in a law enforcement capacity. In the Lackawanna discussions, the Cheney camp cited an Oct. 23, 2001 memorandum from the Justice Department affirming that domestic use of the military against Al Qaeda would be legal because it served a national security rather than a law enforcement purpose. The memorandum, declassified in March, was written by John Yoo and Robert Delahunty in response to a question by then White House counsel Alberto Gonzales about the president’s authority to use the military to combat terrorist activities in the United States, was. It affirmed that: “The president has ample constitutional and statutory authority to deploy the military against international or foreign terrorists operating within the United States.”. News reports of the Oakland evacuation www.nydailynews.com/news/national/occupy-oakland-camp-cleared-police-roughly-20-arrests-made-pre-dawn-raid-article-1.977229?localLinksEnabled=false signal police helicopters flying overhead as police moved in to evacuate the protest site. You don’t have to be paranoid to imagine the day when U.S. army helicopters will be called in to quell riots set off by bank closings, layoffs or unmanageable weather events. It’s already happening in what is called ‘the biggest democracy in the world’. The Indian writer Arundati Roy, appeared yesterday on Democracy Now. According to Wikipedia, India is characterized as a ‘sovereign socialist secular democratic republic”, and its ruling party, the INC, is described as ‘center left’. But those labels have not protected it from the ravages of the world financial system. Roy’s soft voice is the first one I hear lamenting that other countries aspire to the American model. (It didn’t just happen to India, but to Iceland and most of Europe, and their peoples know the Euro crisis stems from that fatal attraction.) In 2005 the Indian government signed Memorandums of Understanding to allow international mining companies to harvest the minerals from the country’s Central Forest. Then it set up Operation Green Hunt, in which two hundred thousand heavily armed troops pushed 350 thousand Adivasi (traditional forest dwellers) out of 600 villages, forcing them into camps. In her new book, "Walking with the Comrades," Arundati Roy describes her time among the Adivasi, who are supported by Maoist guerillas, each group borrowing from the other. For Roy, the forest in Central India and New York’s Zucotti Park “in the heart of Empire”, are connected, and OW needs to formulate “some kind of vision to replace this particular model in which a small group of people have unlimited power and wealth.” In order for social democratic governments around the world to be spared the siren calls of Wall Street, America must work its way to a social democratic system, the only one that can meet the just demands of the 99%. Failing that, there will eventually be Maoists in the Central Plains, and army helicopters over our cities, to rein in domestic 'terrorists'. Labels: Adivasi, Arundati Roy, Democracy now, Domestic affairs, Foreign Affairs, Fourth Amendment, Health Care, ideology, Miscellanouse, OW, Posse Comitatus Act, Zucotti Bacevich on the End of American Dominance and Cockburn on the OM Ever since reading his book ‘Washington Rules’ I have admired Andrew Bacevich. Today he publishes in Tom Dispatch and Alternet a piece that establishes new rules for American political commentators. They need no longer sidestep the real issue: that of ideology. Bacevich’s main points are: - “Ours has long been a political system based on expectations of ever-increasing material abundance, promising more for everyone. Confronted with evidence of a radically changing environment, those holding (or aspiring to) positions of influence simply turn a blind eye, refusing even to begin to adjust to a new reality. - “We can neither liberate nor dominate nor tame the Islamic world. US policy in the Middle East has been “to keep a lid on, exclude mischief-makers, and at the same time extract from the Middle East whatever it had on offer. The preferred American MO was to align with authoritarian regimes, offering arms, security guarantees, and other blandishments in return for promises of behavior consistent with Washington’s preferences. Concern for the wellbeing of peoples living in the region (Israelis excepted) never figured as more than an afterthought. Taking Bacevich’s arguments one step further, in a Nation piece on the Occupy Movement: The International Battlefield, from Athens to Oakland”, Alexander Cockburn actually dares to quote Lenin: “There is never a final collapse of capitalism unless there is an alternative.” Many will be quick to assume that Cockburn is siding with his fence-sitting colleagues. In fact, instead of focusing on its lack of specific demands, he says: “The strength of the occupy movement lies in the simplicity and truth of its basic message: the few are rich the many are poor. In terms of its pretensions, the capitalist system has failed.” Now that two prominent writers have confirmed the conclusions of lesser contributors to the debate, hopefully the worldwide movement of the many can achieve what Lenin’s call: ‘Workers of the world, unite!’ could not: the end of a system that he observed in its childhood, before Freud, Jung, Maslow, Eric Berne and insider trading. LOL: The Bear Exited Front, but the Dragon Entered Rear The Cuban Missile Crisis will go down in history as the time when the Third World War was almost started. It happened in October, 1962. President John F. Kennedy feared the Nikita Khruschev had placed Soviet missiles in Cuba to threaten the U.S. After days of a tense stand-off, the missiles were removed, essentially putting paid to the claim that Cuba constituted a threat to the U.S. In 1991, with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Russian Bear exited the island that stands ninety miles off the tip of Florida. Now, fifty years later, we learn from today’s BBC.com report, www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-1565524, that the Chinese Dragon had been ramping up its presence in Cuba for several years. Five hundred Cuban students are now learning Mandarin at the Confucius Institute of the University of Havana. China is Cuba’s second largest trading partner after Venezuela, and is participating in preparations to exploit Cuba’s off-shore oil fields. Whether it fears the bear or the dragon, the eagle has been shooting itself in the foot for more than half a century. Labels: China, Confucius Institute, Cuba, Havana, URSS Is the Cradle of Civilization Broken - or Is Civilization? I don’t know if it’s still being taught in K-12, but I learned that ancient Greece was the cradle of Western Civilization - you know, the Parthenon, the original Democracy 101. The Golden Age of Greek culture, known as Classical Greece, occured five hundred years before the birth of Christ. The death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC marked the beginning of the Hellenistic period, which ended with the annexation of Greece by Rome in 146 BC. Greek culture conquered Rome, but the importance of "Greece proper" (that is, the territory of modern Greece) declined sharply. The great centers of Hellenistic culture were now Alexandria and Antioch, capitals of Ptolemaic Egypt and Seleucid Syria, their influence reaching as far as Afghanistan until the advent of Christianity Roman rule marked the end of Greek political independence for centuries. After that came the Greek Byzantine Empire, which in turn was conquered by the Ottoman Turks whose rule lasted to the early nineteenth century. (Turkey ruled over all of Eastern Europe for 500 years, creating the economic lag that many in the West thought was the result of Postwar Soviet rule.) Following the Ottoman defeat, Greece had several interim governments, until the Kingdom of Greece was founded in 1832. It lasted until 1924, when it gave way to the second Hellenic Republic. Republican Greece was largely dominated by the revolutionary and statesman George Venizelos, known as the father of modern Greece. After several premierships and revolts, he was exiled in 1935, and Greece again became a Kingdom. When the Second World War broke out, the Greek King was allied with the Germans. As in many European countries, it was the Communist Party that organized the resistance, first against the Germans, then the Italians. The world war was succeeded by a civil war in Greece, as progressives fought for a republic, with the Communist Party remaining legal until 1948. With British—and later the US - help, the monarchy won the day. The Marshall Plan, enabled Greece to begin to develop. But in 1967 a military junta took power in a coup, ruling Greece until 1974. From 1974 until the present, power has alternated between conservatives and socialists. Greece joined the European Union in 1981 and adopted the Euro in 2001. New infrastructure, funds from the EU, and growing revenues from tourism, shipping, and light industry brought Greeks an unprecedented standard of living. During that period, left and right alternated in power. But from 2004 to 2009, as the international financial crisis was building, Greece was led by the conservatives. The socialist George Papandreou took over a country deeply in trouble, and as in many countries across the globe, has not been able to satisfy both his people and international finance. Whether or not the Greek crisis further imperils the Euro by spreading to Italy - a much larger economy - it marks the end of the civilization to which it gave birth. Labels: Cradle of Civilization, Domestic affairs, Foreign Affairs, Greek crisis, Health Care, ideology, Miscellanouse, Ottoman Turks, Papandreou Greece Tries to Grab the Torch of Freedom from Iceland On October 27th a grand conference was held in Reykjavik complete with representatives of the IMF, the government and the financial sector, to congratulate themselves on the deeds that squelched Iceland’s revolution. Here is the text of a letter signed by twenty-two activists from all walks of life on behalf of the general public and sent to the foreign participants before the conference, to point out the discrepancies between the government’s claims and reality. They also lit red warning flares in front of the building where the conference was to take place. “The present state of Iceland's economy is clearly much different from that envisaged at the beginning of the IMF program for economic stabilization and reconstruction in the fourth quarter of 2008. Foreign debt at the end of 2010 was almost double the target level under the program, while public sector debt, unemployment and inflation were all significantly higher than projected. Before the Icelandic banking crisis in 2008, the debt of the state treasury was 26% of GDP. According to official numbers the debt has risen to 111% of GDP, but the gross national debt is officially placed at 280% of GDP. Net treasury balance has deteriorated by 140 billion Kroner or 26% of GDP between the second quarter of 2010 and the second quarter of 2011. We estimate that since the banking crisis started, Iceland has borrowed up to around 100% of GDP. This does not include substantial foreign exchange reserve loans provided under the IMF program. Interest payments on government debt now stand at 20% of government revenue. At the end of 2010, municipal liabilities were up to 586 billion Kroner. By excluding the Reykjavík Energy company‘s public guarantees of close to 300 billion Kroner and 47 billion of unfunded public pension liabilities, gross municipal debt remains at approx. 310 billion. This is equivalent to 20 % of GDP or 154% of municipal revenue. The cost of resurrecting the Icelandic banking system in late 2008 has been estimated at 64% of GDP, a world record. Domes-tic assets, mostly loans to productive Icelandic companies and individuals, were transferred to the new banks at 45-65% of their value. Yet bank customers are still being charged for full repayment to a failed credit regime, resulting in massive bankruptcies, foreclosures, asset stripping and job losses. At this moment at least 20% of Icelandic families are unable to repay their loans in full, and around 40% are in devastating circumstances. Only 10% of all homes are able to meet the repayments on their alleged liabilities. Personal income after taxes has been down 27.4% for the past 3 years while prices have risen 40%, resulting in sharply reduced consumption and demand. Increasing numbers of Icelanders are eligible for food handouts although public figures are hard to come by and not necessarily accurate. Breadlines are longer and municipal welfare expenses have risen by 62% since the start of the banking crisis. According to last year‘s tax returns, private property and real estate values have gone down while debt has gone up for Icelandic homeowners. Families in positive equity are 8.1% fewer, while the number of families in negative equity has increased by 12.1% since the preceding year. Officially, unemployment is now 6.7%, an optimistic number, since many have signed up as students in order to get student loans rather than unemployment benefits. Close to 5,600 people, almost 2% of the population, or more than one family every day have left the country to seek work and a better quality of life elsewhere. A considerable number are without benefits and therefore counted. From public reports in 2010, the jobs lost can be estimated closer to 22,500 or a 8.2%. The main reason for the Icelandic financial crisis was a grossly oversized banking sector. The public finds it odd that the government should be enthusiastically attempting to rebuild a failed system instead of promoting growth in the real economy. While the burden of the systemic banking catastrophe has been imposed primarily on the common people, instead of mandating general debt relief, the government is allowing the banks to decide on a case by case basis basis, how individual problems are handled. This approach is designed to maximize repayment rather than providing any semblance of compensation for the widespread embezzlement of citizens. These policies have fueled inequality. People are outraged that high-level executives and owners of failed businesses are receiving massive debt write-offs while keeping ill-gotten profits, and continuing their operations while the public takes the consequences. Elected representatives defending the interests of the financial sector at the expense of the public, have become a real threat to social stability in Iceland. The financial elite has transferred its exposures and liabilities to the public balance sheet just as they have in Greece, Ireland, Portugal and elsewhere The primary victims of the financial crisis have been democracy and the rule of law.” One of my Icelandic correspondents put the situation more succinctly: “Social benefits are unchanged in kronas, but due to inflation, higher taxes and other outside influences, purchasing power has dropped around 40% - the government calls that preservation!” Two progressive American economists, Joseph Stieglitz and Paul Krugman, spoke at the conference, and both, more or less directly, criticized the austerity measures imposed on the people of Iceland, who had nothing to do with the 2008 crash. While the self-congratulatory ritual was taking place in Reykyavik, meanwhile, the people of Athens were picking up the torch of rebellion. Unlike the Europeans, who understandably want to preserve the Euro, their common currency, the people of Iceland think the Greek Prime Minister, George Papandreou, did the right thing by inviting his countrymen to vote on the ‘rescue’ package being offered them. One Icelandic blogger noted with glee that this is the first time a population is invited to vote on the common currency. If it is defeated, it is understood that Greece would have to leave the Euro, endangering the entire financial system. This situation constitutes a major world crisis, and the underlying reason for it is that whether in the tundra or by a warm blue sea, the people are demanding to rule. Nov. 4th - Greece is being taken in hand, too. Labels: Domestic affairs, Foreign Affairs, Greece, Health Care, Iceland, ideology, IMF, Joseph Stiglitz, Miscellanouse, Paul Krugman Greece Tries to Grab the Torch of Freedom from Ice... Is the Cradle of Civilization Broken - or Is Civil... 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__label__wiki	0.770685	0.770685	A Fistful of Dynamite (1971) Shon, Shon... Shon, Shon Juan Miranda (Rod Steiger) didn't set out to become the hero of the Mexican Revolution. He just wanted to rob a bank. After a successful heist in which Juan and his extended family take over a coach transporting members of the wealthy elite, Juan sets his sights on something bigger: the Mesa Verde National Bank. He gets the idea when he meets John Mallory (James Coburn), a dynamite expert, I.R.A terrorist and fugitive on the run. Juan meets John, John meets Juan... it's destiny. Juan wants John on his team but John likes being a lone outlaw just fine. John finds a way to work Juan's bank heist idea into this own plans only to have Juan discover that the bank has no money. Instead it was a makeshift political prison. Juan just freed hundreds of prisoners and has been declared a national hero. But Juan's troubles are just beginning. The Mexican army wants to rid the country of the revolutionaries. When a major tragedy befalls Juan and when one of John's allies turns traitor, this reluctant duo must come face-to-face with the oppressive regime. It's a battle that culminates into one explosive finale. I only learned one thing from you. - Juan Oh what's that? - John How to get fucked. - Juan Director Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dynamite (1971) is a Zapata Western, a sub-genre of the Spaghetti Western in which the stories are set in Mexico, often during the Mexican Revolution of the 1910s. This sub-sub-genre sets out to take a look at the revolution that is vastly different from the Hollywood stories that came before. Leone's film has a long and complicated history. The story is based on an original idea by Sergio Donati. Leone and Donati fleshed out the story and worked with writer Luciano Vincenzoni on the screenplay. Leone didn't intend to direct the film. Both Sam Peckinpah and Peter Bogdanovich were considered but neither worked out for different reasons. For the two leads Clint Eastwood, Jason Robards, Eli Wallach, Malcolm McDowell and George Lazenby were all considered. In fact Wallach, who was initially reluctant to take the part, dropped his current project upon Leone's encouragement. However, United Artists had already hired Steiger for the role of Juan Miranda and wouldn't budge. As a result, Wallach sued. There are so many versions of this film that it's hard to keep track. First off there's the title. In Italy it was released as Giu la Testa which translates to Keep Your Head Down. Leone historian Sir Christopher Frayling has said that Keep Your Head Down would have been an excellent title for the movie and I agree. Instead the English-language title was Duck, You Sucker, a line often repeated by James Coburn's character John Mallory. However that title wasn't going to jive with American audiences so it was changed to A Fistful of Dynamite, a reference Leone's landmark Spaghetti Western A Fistful of Dollars (1964). And in Europe the film was also referred to as C'era una volta la rivoluzione or Once Upon a Time.. a Revolution. The different releases worldwide came with different cuts. Several scenes were deleted or shortened depending on the market. For example, in one version the extended slow-motion flashback scene at the very end when John is remembering a menage trois with his girlfriend Coleen (Vivienne Chandler) and his best friend Nolan (David Warbeck) is shortened to 30 seconds essentially removing a bit of storyline essential to understanding John's relationship with Nolan. A Fistful of Dynamite was shot in Spain and Ireland. While its set during the Mexican Revolution, the film serves as a general commentary of war, imperialism and is even influenced by the Italian political climate of the time. Several scenes were inspired by works of art depicting important moments in history. Leone's film has great depth that really can't be fully explored in just one viewing. I'm not well-versed in Leone's Spaghetti Westerns and I came to this mostly to watch Rod Steiger and James Coburn, two of my favorite actors. I was particularly fascinated with Coburn's John Mallory and the film's slow-motion flashbacks to his life back in Ireland. And the possible suggestion that John and Nolan had a romantic relationship. The movie meanders, takes its time with its characters and even with that explosive finale. There was no rush to tell the story and it allows viewers to settle into this world. The true hero of the film though is Ennio Morricone's music. The various themes and the chants (Shon, Shon... Shon, Shon) are entrancing. Amazon — Barnes and Noble — Best Buy — Deep Discount — Kino Lorber — TCM Shop A Fistful of Dynamite (1971) is dark, gritty Leone classic ready to be rediscovered. It's available on Blu-Ray from Kino Lorber. When you use my buy links you help support this site. Thanks!' The Blu-Ray contains two separate audio commentaries by filmmaker Alex Cox and film history Sir Christopher Frayling, 6 featurettes ranging from 7-22 minutes each, 2 animated galleries, 6 radio spots and several Sergio Leone movie trailers. The case comes with a reversible jacket. Thank you to Kino Lorber for sending me a copy of A Fistful of Dynamite (1971) on Blu-Ray to review. Posted by Raquel Stecher Labels: 1970s, Blu-Ray, Film Reviews, James Coburn, Kino Lorber, Rod Steiger, Sergio Leone, Spaghetti Westerns, Westerns Leave me a comment! If it is a long one, make sure you save a draft of it elsewhere just in case Google gobbles it up and spits it out. The Big Steal (1949) The Female Gaze by Alicia Malone Sterling Hayden's Wars by Lee Mandel Mr. Capra Goes to War: Frank Capra's World War II ... Fritz Lang's Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19309
__label__cc	0.641314	0.358686	Home » Industry news » Barclays Personal Banking is planning to outsource over 4000 jobs outside UK as a direct result of cost reduction Barclays Personal Banking is planning to outsource over 4000 jobs outside UK as a direct result of cost reduction Barclays Personal Banking is planning to outsource over 4000 jobs outside UK in order to reduce costs and direct the business towards a low cost environment. The outsourcing process mentioned above will take place step by step , up until the end of 2015.The cost reduction could reach 250 million GBP as per an explanation provided by a representative of the British Company. The bank has already transferred 2,000 jobs in the 2011-2012 period and the main areas affected by this process are the administration and the IT department – according to a presentation held by Eric Bommensath, general manager at Barclays. However, in regards to the future plans he did not reveal the info as to where the new jobs will be outsourced. “We will have a more pronounced presence in terms of offshore business which brings us in line with other banks. Having fewer employees in high cost locations will help us manage additional capacity for office space, generating new cost savings” said Mr Bommensath, representing Barclays . The Bank is trying to reduce costs by reducing the administrative services inside the company. Barclays recorded a commission of 514 million GBP in April , after closing many branches in Europe and reducing the number of employees in Europe and Asia. According to latest official data , the unemployment rate in the UK has reached 7.8% ( currently, 2.5 million people do not have a permanent job ). Source : Economica.net Tags: Barclays outsourcing, Barclays Personal Banking, HR & RPO, outsourcing advisors, outsourcing jobs UK	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19310
__label__cc	0.662065	0.337935	PLT's Energy & Society program provides formal and non-formal educators with tools and activities to help students in grades PreK-8 learn about their relationship with energy and investigate the environmental issues related to energy's role in society. Energy & Society helps students develop critical thinking skills to make decisions about their personal energy use. In addition to hands-on activities, Energy & Society integrates music and dance to enhance the study of energy issues. Energy & Society is correlated to the TEKS. Workshops are available with a registration of $50 per person. Materials In The Energy & Society Kit Include The Following: Energy & Society Activity Guide: A background section for educators; an outline of how to use the Energy & Society materials with students; correlations to national standards in science, social studies, and English language arts; a student energy primer; a collection of six activities that educators can use with the Where is the energy? and What powers the move? posters; ideas for action projects and science fair projects; energy-related case studies; a list of energy-related children's literature and other resources; lyrics to the songs on the Billy B CD; and a glossary. Energy & Me music CD: A collection of 15 energy-related songs from singer/songwriter, Billy B. (The music CD may also be purchased separately through Billy B's website: www.billybproductions.com. Energy & Me music and dance video: Billy B and students perform dances to five of the songs from the music CD, and complete instructions are provided for three of the dances. Energy & Society posters entitled Where is the energy? and What powers the move?: Visual teaching tools for introducing students to the topic of energy and the issues surrounding it. Each kit includes a set of 8 of each poster. Powerpoint presentations available: Energy Basics K-2 grade. Energy Basics 3-5 grade. For more information visit National PLT's Energy & Society web page.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19314
__label__wiki	0.686833	0.686833	How To Promote Your Music Successfully on the Internet: 2003 Edition The Music Biz Academy proudly announces the release of the 2003 edition of "How to Promote Your Music Successfully on the Internet," the industry's most up-to-date guide to making money on the Internet using music. (PRWEB) February 28, 2003 Midnight Rain Productions The Music Biz Academy http://www.musicbizacademy.com The Music Biz Academy (http://www.musicbizacademy.com) proudly announces the release of the 2003 edition of "How to Promote Your Music Successfully on the Internet," the music industry's most up-to-date 'how to' guide to making money on the Internet using music. The author, David Nevue, is an independent musician who has been promoting his own music online since 1995. "The Internet is a very exciting place to grow your music career," says Nevue. "Contrary to common thought, you donÂt need a recording contract to be successful. You can get radio play, grow a fan base, create a distribution channel, and manufacture and sell CDs all online." Nevue understands the frustration most musicians feel when trying to 'make it' in the business. "I got tired of banging my head against a wall trying to get someone 'with money' to take interest in my music and career," he says. "I learned what most every other musician finally comes to grips with: if you want a successful career in the music business you can't wait for someone else to 'discover' you. You have to find your own way." Nevue found his own way - using the Internet to promote and distribute his music. Completely on his own, without any help from a major record label, he released seven albums of his original music. "I'm doing music full-time now," Nevue continues. "That's all I ever really wanted - to create music, inspire others, and have the opportunity to be heard." Nevue wrote "How to Promote Your Music" to help other musicians find the same freedom he has enjoyed. "Many musicians are either intimidated or skeptical about the opportunities available online. They donÂt need to be either. You donÂt need a record deal to have the satisfaction of knowing thousands of people a day are listening to your music." The 2003 edition of "How To Promote Your Music Successfully on the Internet" includes everything a musician needs to start pursuing their own success online. Chapters include "The Best Places to Sell, Promote, and Distribute Your Music Online," "Targeting Your Customers to the Max," and "Proven Strategies for Selling Your Music." The book also details how to take credit cards (in 15 minutes!) and includes a very easy-to-understand guide to search engine optimization and submission. The book concludes with a 'Quick Reference Guide' containing hundreds of links to useful resources. Previous editions of "How To Promote Your Music Successfully on the Internet" have received high praise from many in the online industry, including Hitsquad.com, The Buzz Factor, MusicDish, FourFront Music and AllMusic.com. Its biggest fans, however, are the readers themselves, with dozens of testimonials from happy customers listed at the Music Biz Academy web site. For more details on the book, visit http://www.promoteyourmusic.com	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19318
__label__wiki	0.910387	0.910387	Home > Business > Cabinet nod for merger of BMB with SBI likely in 3 months Cabinet nod for merger of BMB with SBI likely in 3 months PTI19 March 2017 4:07 PM GMT The government is expected to give final approval to the merger of Bharatiya Mahila Bank with the country's largest lender SBI within three months. The Cabinet last month approved amalgamation of five associates of SBI with the parent but the merger of Bharatiya Mahila Bank (BMB) was not considered due to some issues, sources said. "Now it a is matter of time. The final approval from the Cabinet should come within three months," a source said. The Union Cabinet has already given in-principle approval to the merger of BMB with State Bank of India (SBI). With the final approval, the first round of consolidation of public sector banks would be over. According to sources, the next round of consolidation in the PSU banks would begin after these six lenders are integrated with SBI. BMB, set up in 2013, has 103 branches with its presence in almost all the states. The total business of the bank is about Rs 1,600 crore with Rs 1,000 crore of deposits and Rs 600 crore of advances, majority of which is retail business, according to the bank's website. Integration process of all the five associates with SBI would start from April 1 as part of the largest consolidation exercise in the banking history of India. The assets of State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur (SBBJ), State Bank of Mysore (SBM), State Bank of Travancore (SBT), State Bank of Patiala (SBP) and State Bank of Hyderabad (SBH) will be transfered to SBI from April 1, 2017. With the merger of all the five associates, SBI is expected to become a lender of global proportions with an asset base of Rs 37 trillion (Rs 37 lakh crore) or over $555 billion, 22,500 branches and 58,000 ATMs. It will have over 50 crore customers. Of the five subsidiary banks, SBBJ, SBM and SBT are listed. The board of SBI earlier approved the merger plan under which SBBJ shareholders will get 28 shares of SBI (Re 1 each) for every 10 shares (Rs 10 each) held. Similarly, SBM and SBT shareholders will get 22 shares of SBI for every 10 shares. The shares of the listed associates will be delisted from stock exchanges following the merger.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19319
__label__wiki	0.79448	0.79448	Over 1000 Website Reviews Dating Back to 1996 Law-Related Archives Dating Back to 1992 RedStreet publishes reviews of law firm website in our Reviews section, and we include archives of what the law firm website home pages looked like in our Museum section. We have over 200 MB of content on this website and are always adding to it. We welcome your feedback! RedStreet Inc. was founded in April 1997 as Red Street Consulting by Richard P. Klau and Erik J. Heels, and RedStreet was incorporated in January 2000. Working together since 1993, Klau and Heels saw RedStreet as an opportunity to narrow their focus and work with law firms in a more significant manner. Erik J. Heels is a legal technologist and a patent attorney. From 1992 to 1995, Erik wrote seven editions of his book The Legal List: Law-Related Resources on the Internet and Elsewhere, the last two of which were published by Lawyers Cooperative Publishing. He and Klau wrote Law Law Law on the Internet: The Best Legal Websites and More in 1998; RedStreet's Best Legal Websites 2000 in 2000. He writes the "nothing.but.net" column for the ABA's Law Practice Management magazine and regularly speaks about issues related to law and technology. He earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from MIT and his J.D. from the University of Maine School of Law. Richard P. Klau is a graduate of the University of Richmond School of Law. While in law school, Rick founded the Richmond Journal of Law & Technology, the world's first law journal to publish exclusively online. A regular speaker at marketing and technology conferences around the country, Rick has also written extensively about the changes taking place in the legal profession as a result of new technology. Along with Heels, he wrote Law Law Law on the Internet: The Best Legal Websites and More and RedStreet's Best Legal Websites 2000, and he has contributed chapters on Internet technology to several books. RedStreet specializes in helping law firms integrate the Internet into their practice. Specifically, we work with law firms to: Develop effective marketing campaigns that leverage technology to demonstrate the firm's strengths, Provide detailed audits of a firm's existing website to identify strengths and weaknesses and recommend strategies for future success, Assist firms in crafting RFPs to ensure that the firm's web development process will go as smoothly as possible, Train the members of a firm in the effective use of the Internet and educate lawyers and staff on the competitive advantages afforded by efficient uses of technology, and Provide ongoing assistance in understanding new technologies and how they affect law firms' business. Here is a list of some of the firms we have worked with: Baker & Botts Buchanan Ingersoll, PC Fox, Rothschild, O'Brien & Frankel Frost & Jacobs Luce, Forward ,Hamilton & Scripps Orrick & Ward Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal Strasburger & Price If you would like more information about our work with these firms, or would like to find out how we can help you, please feel free to contact us.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19323
__label__cc	0.655072	0.344928	Diocesan Response to the Charter The United States Catholic Conference of Bishops developed the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People during in June 2002 in Dallas Texas. This document was the first united response by the bishops to the revelation by the secular media that priests had physically and sexually abused minors over a period of many years. Article 1, 2, 12 and 13 of the Charter outlines the steps each diocese needs to take in establishing a comprehensive safe environment program. The Diocese of Santa Rosa’s responses to these articles are listed below. ARTICLE 1. Dioceses/eparchies are to reach out to victims/survivors and their families and demonstrate a sincere commitment to their spiritual and emotional well-being. The first obligation of the Church with regard to the victims is for healing and reconciliation. Each diocese/eparchy is to continue its outreach to every person who has been the victim of sexual abuse* as a minor by anyone in church service, whether the abuse was recent or occurred many years in the past. This outreach may include provision of counseling, spiritual assistance, support groups and other social services agreed upon by the victim and the diocese/eparch. The victim assistance services include immediate pastoral response to victims/families, referrals to counseling, support groups and other resources as needed. Regular outreach efforts has included: Distributing victim assistance coordinator information to parishes via pamphlets, bulletin announcements and the North Coast Catholic. ARTICLE 2. Dioceses/eparchies are to have policies and procedures in place to respond promptly to any allegation where there is reason to believe that sexual abuse of a minor has occurred. Dioceses/eparchies are to have a competent person or persons to coordinate assistance for the immediate pastoral care of persons who report having been sexually abused as minors by clergy or other church personnel. The procedures for those making a complaint are to be available in printed form in the principle languages in which the liturgy is celebrated in the diocese/eparchy and be the subject of public announcements at least annually. The director of the Office of Child and Youth Protection (formerly victim assistance coordinator and safe environment coordinator) has been in existence since April of 2003. The Victim Assistance services include immediate pastoral response to victims/families, referrals to counseling, and other resources as needed. Every parish/ school has a safe environment coordinator who has been trained in the prompt response to an allegation Child abuse reporting information has been distributed to all parishes/ schools and is accessible on the website. Dioceses/eparchies also are to have a review board that functions as a confidential consultative body to the bishop/eparch. The majority of its members are to be lay persons not in the employ of the diocese/eparchy (see Norm 5 in Essential Norms for Diocesan/Eparchial Policies Dealing with Allegations of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Priests or Deacons, 2002). This board is to advise the diocesan/eparchial bishop in his assessment of allegations of sexual abuse of minors and in his determination of a cleric’s suitability for ministry. The review board was established in April 2003. This advisory board continues to meet on a regular basis. ARTICLE 12. Dioceses/eparchies are to maintain “safe environment” programs, which the diocesan/eparchial bishop deems to be in accord with Catholic moral principles. They are to be conducted cooperatively with parents, civil authorities, educators and community organizations to provide education and training for children, youth, parents, ministers, educators, volunteers and others about ways to make and maintain a safe environment for children and young people. Dioceses/eparchies are to make clear to clergy and all members of the community the standards of conduct for clergy and other persons in positions of trust with regard to children. The diocese's adult safe environment training , “Shield the Vulnerable"; is a comprehensive online training that was made available in 2006. Until 2010, the director for the OCYP also conducted trainings throughout the diocese on a biennual basis. Since 2003, more than 7,000 clergy, employees and volunteers have been well trained in ways to make and maintain a safe environment for children and youth. Originally, the diocese created a safe environment program for children and youth called Smart Kids Safe Kids. This program was in use until January 2012, when the diocese purchased a program called The Circle of Grace from the Archdiocese of Omaha. This program includes parent information. ARTICLE 13. Dioceses/eparchies are to evaluate the background of all incardinated and non-incardinated priests and deacons who are engaged in ecclesiastical ministry in the diocese/eparchy and of all diocesan/eparchial and parish/school or other paid personnel and volunteers whose duties include ongoing, unsupervised contact with minors. Specifically, they are to utilize the resources of law enforcement and other community agencies. In addition, they are to employ adequate screening and evaluative techniques in deciding the fitness of candidates for ordination (cf. National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Program of Priestly Formation, 2006, no. 39). Since Fall 2003, the diocese has required all priests, deacons, employees and volunteers who have regular contact with children to be fingerprinted through the California Department of Justice. Individuals wishing to work or volunteer are required to have a criminal background check completed prior to beginning work.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19330
__label__cc	0.510279	0.489721	"Star Wars: The Last Jedi" - More New Images Sneak Peek more leaked images, plus behind-the-scenes footage from director Rian Johnson's "Star Wars: The Last Jedi", the sequel to "Star Wars: The Force Awakens": "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" aka "Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi"... ...is the second film in Disney's "Star Wars" sequel trilogy... ...following "Star Wars: The Force Awakens "(2015). The film is produced by Lucasfilm... ...and will be distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" was announced after Disney's acquisition of Lucasfilm, October 2012... ...arranged by Ram Bergman and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy. John Williams, composer for the previous seven films, returns to compose the score. Cast includes Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley... ...John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Lupita Nyong’o, Domhnall Gleeson... ...Anthony Daniels, Gwendoline Christie, Andy Serkis... ...Benicio Del Toro, Laura Dern and Kelly Marie Tran. "Star Wars: The Last Jedi", opens December 15, 2017. Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Star Wars: The Last Jedi"... Posted by Michael Stevens on Monday, August 14, 2017	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19334
__label__cc	0.570237	0.429763	poverty eradication and gender justice National coalitions Watchers publications SW news Echoes in the press Monitoring Commitments 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Millennium Declaration World Summit for Social Development World Conference on Women SW in the World Global Interactive Map Introducing a gender perspective: a case study Irina Unzhakova Svetlana Shakirova Women’s Federation ‘Status’ Center for Gender Studies Poverty alleviation programmes are more effective when they include a gender perspective and are specifically designed for women and other vulnerable groups. This case study examines the lack of the gender dimension in a public project at the local level as well as the efforts of civil society to achieve development without exclusion. Considering the gender dimension is essential for achieving economic and social development with equity. The inclusion of special gender programmes within public budgets should be part of the gender planning of governmental actions. Kazakhstan is taking its first steps in this direction, and civil society has a decisive role to play in constructing a society of equal opportunities. The Women’s Federation ‘Status’ is undertaking a project called the “Public Council for a Gender Budget”, which is aimed at expanding knowledge on the principles of gender budgeting among civil servants, members of Parliament, and NGOs at the local level. The project is part of the organization’s National Action Plan on the Improvement of the Status of Women (1999). The project focuses on the implementation of the Government’s poverty reduction programme in Ust-Kamenogorsk, an industrial city in the oblast of East Kazakhstan . The two tools for measuring the extent of gender budgeting are the gender sensitivity of the actors involved in the programme’s implementation and the impact on its beneficiaries. The evaluation of the implementation of this programme at the local level has shown that the civil servants involved in the budget process are not informed about gender budgeting. Therefore, it is no surprise that the programme in question is not gender-sensitive, despite the fact that gender considerations are mentioned in the introductory section of the programme document. Among the principles of poverty reduction outlined in this introduction, the seventh principle clearly refers to the need to consider region, gender, age and other aspects. Obviously, it is the most vulnerable groups of a population who have the greatest need for a fair distribution of resources and public goods, as well as access to public services. In Ust-Kamenogorsk, the most vulnerable group is made up of women over the age of 40 with low scores on health indexes and with one or more minor dependent children. Despite having spent a considerable length of time in the work force (18 years and more), these women have been either employed temporarily, self-employed or unemployed for more than one year, and as a result, their income is variable and occasional. Most of these women speak Russian but not Kazakh, and the only social support they have are regressive pension savings. Many of them have approached public and private employment services and NGOs in search of advice and assistance. Roughly 70% of their requests are related to seeking assistance to find permanent employment, whereas the remaining 30% were directed at obtaining social benefits in healthcare, help for taking care of sick and disabled family members, protection from domestic violence, and information about emigrating to Russia, among other services. Specific needs The goals and targets of the poverty reduction programme are aimed at the local population as a whole, but do not specifically address the needs of those whose income is below the poverty line, most of whom are women. At the time the programme started, the average per capita income of the poor population was KZT 1,871 (USD 12), which represented 12.5% of the per capita nominal income of the urban population. In 2003, according to official statistics, 8,000 people (2.6% of the population) were living below the poverty line. The main expected outcome of the programme is to reduce the number of poor people by 3,000 between 2003 and 2005. However, the programme provides no disaggregated data by gender, age, or health status. Another major obstacle is that the information available is not sufficiently specific. For example, it is not clear if all 5,604 people registered at the local employment centre could be considered poor. Half of the female population of Ust-Kamenogorsk suffers from anemia, but it is not known how many of these women are in fact poor. The latest statistical data show that over a third of Kazakhstani women have anemia, and the proportion is higher in Ust-Kamenogorsk, which is a major contributing factor to the high rates of infant and maternal mortality in the region. Infant mortality was estimated at 20.6 deaths per 1000 live births in 2004, while maternal mortality reached 64.8 deaths per 100,000 live births the same year. The implementation of a treatment programme, including iron deficiency anemia prophylactics, would help to decrease maternal and child morbidity and mortality in the region. Unspecific data Unlike the stated principles of the poverty reduction programme, the selected indicators do not take into consideration gender, age and other factors frequently related to poverty. These indicators include the number of targeted social assistance recipients, the number of housing support recipients, the number of microcredit recipients, the number of people trained for a new profession, and the number of people provided with social service employment. Within the programme, the basic actions aimed at the development of infrastructure include primary healthcare, food and water quality control, the strengthening of preschool facilities, roads, transport and others. Actions focused on poverty reduction are implemented through activities for income generation, as well as access to basic social services such as healthcare, education, and social support for the poor. Although public expenditures on the social sector continued to grow between 2003 and 2005, actions for income generation have been under-financed. The possibilities of obtaining increased income are doubtful. Temporary social service employment could hardly be considered as a serious poverty reduction tool, due to its short duration and low effectiveness (only 10% of the unemployed find a permanent job). The list of programme beneficiaries includes young people who are neither studying nor employed, children from low-income families, orphans, single elderly poor people, disabled people, and members of marginalized groups. None of these categories has been gender-disaggregated. Hence, the difference between girls and boys or young and elderly women and men has not been taken into consideration. For instance, there is a clear need for specific preventive measures for young women, since many of them become involved in street prostitution and sexual exploitation (not necessarily in foreign countries, since the situation is widespread within Kazakhstan). This leads to the increase of sexually transmitted diseases, early pregnancies, abortions and loss of reproductive health. The existing poverty reduction programmes have a low effectiveness because they target the population as a whole and do not focus on the specific population group of those living below the national poverty line. At the same time, the gender specificity of the poor population has not been taken into account. In each of the groups of potential beneficiaries, the needs targeted and actions implemented should be differentiated by gender. This would considerably increase the effectiveness of public expenditures on poverty reduction in both economic and social terms. The civil servants involved in the budget process have to be informed about the principles of gender budgeting. For this, they need to receive special training. The Kazakhstani network of NGOs, in cooperation with international experts, is prepared to organize the necessary training. Budget issues Gender Budget initiatives in CEE/CIS Region Network of East-West Women Thirteen years after gaining independence, Kazakhstan has transformed itself from an agriculture-based republic of the Soviet Union to one of the fastest-growing economies in the region. Recent years have also witnessed improvements in budget processes and in civil society participation in the budget. However, much room remains for further improvement. In April 2004, Kazakhstan Revenue Watch of the Soros Foundation-Kazakhstan held an international roundtable conference at which civil society groups discussed the need to strengthen Parliament’s role in the budget process. Problems cited by members of Parliament at the forum included their lack of budget knowledge to analyze the President’s draft budget, their inability to hire external experts to help them do this job, and the limited time they have to review the draft budget, negotiate amendments with the Government, and approve the budget. However at the moment there is a green light for gender budget initiatives. Kazakh legislation clearly states what budget information should be made public and provides penalties for violating the people’s right to information. In 2005 a civil society organization, the Tax Standards Formation, compiled a list of these legal requirements in the report “Analysis of Expenditures on Healthcare, Education and Social Protection in the Budget of Almaty City”.1 However, this legislation often does not work in practice. Public officials sometimes hide cases of misappropriation and embezzlement or resist cooperating with civil society. Also, only a limited number of Kazakh NGOs are involved in the budget process given the lack of knowledge about the budget, inexperience in dealing with the appropriate officials and difficulties in obtaining professional legal assistance when authorities refuse to provide the required information. 1 Available from: . Administrative division or region. Eastern-Kazakhstan Oblast Program on Poverty Reduction (2003-2005). Reports from Kazakhstan 2006 - Introducing a gender perspective: a case study 2005 - Uninterested in gender issues 2003 - To the detriment of women, children and the poor 2002 - Everyday life is another question 2000 - USD 24 a month 1999 - Democracy is retreating SPOTLIGHT ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 2019 IS AVAILABLE IN: Meet Social Watch! Watcher's Publications About Social Watch History of Social Watch	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19336
__label__cc	0.555691	0.444309	Chapter 20 - The Millennial Kingdom of Elohim ("God") and the Final Judgment Revelation Chapter 20: the binding of Satan; the Millennial Kingdom of Elohim on Earth; the Final Judgment (the Great White Throne judgment) 20:1-3 Then I saw (a) an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for (b) a thousand years; and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, (c) so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while. a. Note that this angel is not Yahuah the Father, Yahushua the Son, the Holy Spirit, Michael the archangel, or even a “mighty” angel. He is just an ordinary angel, showing how powerless the devil really is apart from the enabling and permissive will of the Lord. b. There is no reason to think that this is not a literal thousand years. Some allegorically interpret it as a time period in the past or the present, but there has never been a time period without evil ruling the world. And with the terrible and worsening spiritual state of the world, it is impossible to see that the thousand years, when the forces of Satan have been defeated and Satan is imprisoned, is any time period in the past or the present. c. During the Millennium, none of the nations of the world will be deceived into worshiping false gods, which is the basic tactic of Satan. 20:4-6 And I saw thrones, and (a) they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw (b) the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to [Yahushua] and for the word of [Yahuah], who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with [the Messiah] for a thousand years. But (c) the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. (d) This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such (e) the second death has no power, but (f) they shall be priests of [Yahuah] and of [the Messiah], and shall reign with Him a thousand years. a. They” are the redeemed and glorified Followers of Yahushua (cf. 2 Timothy 2:12; Revelation 2:26, 27). Yahushua promised His apostles that they, in the world to come, would sit on thrones judging the tribes of Israel. They were specifically told, “. . . in the regeneration [the Millennium], when the Son of Man sits on the throne of His glory, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel" (Matthew 19:28). Is that not exactly the scenario that John sees here, at the beginning of the Millennium? As was often prophesied (Isaiah 11-12; 65:17-25; 66:22-24; et al.), the millennial kingdom will be the regenerated, Eden-like world in which one will be considered very young who dies at the age of 100 (Isaiah 65:20). So, if the inhabitants of the earth during the Millennium can die, they are not the resurrected, glorified, redeemed Ones, who rule with the Messiah from New Jerusalem are they? During the 1,000 years, the earth will be populated with a huge multitude of the physical descendants of the remnant of Israel who survived, by the grace of Yahuah, the Final Seven Years, exactly as was promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Exodus 32:13) - a "multitude of nations" who are the descendants of Ephraim (Genesis 48:19). In other words, the nations of the world during the Millennium will be the descendants of Jews who believe in the coming Messiah but who do not recognize that He is Yahushua before they see Him coming in the clouds to gather His Elect, plus the descendants of those God-fearing Gentiles who survive the Final Seven Years. And the King of Kings, with the apostles and other glorified and raptured Saints, will rule the nations of the earth from David’s throne in New Jerusalem (cf. Isaiah 9:6-7; 2 Timothy 2:12; Revelation 2:26-27). b. Among the glorified Saints who live and reign with the Messiah from Jerusalem during the Millennium are the martyrs whom John sees come to life. Some say that this group is comprised only of those who are martyred during the Final Seven Years (cf. 6:9), but the following statements: This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of [Yahuah] and of [the Messiah], and shall reign with Him a thousand years, clearly indicate that this group that John sees is comprised of the Redeemed martyrs of all ages. Also, this appears to be the fulfillment of Daniel 7:9-10, 22, which states, I was watching; and the same horn [Antimessiah] was making war against the saints, and prevailing against them, until the Ancient of Days came, and a judgment was made in favor of the saints of the Most High, and the time came for the saints [including the Saints of ancient Israel who looked forward in faith to the coming Messiah plus the Gentiles grafted into the commonwealth of Israel] to possess the kingdom . . . I watched till thrones were put in place, and the Ancient of Days was seated . . . A thousand thousands ministered to Him; Ten thousand times ten thousand stood before Him. So apparently, among other responsibilities which include judging angels (1 Corinthians 6:3), the resurrected and glorified Saints will, as promised (2 Timothy 2:12), reign with the Lord over all the nations of the earth. And, as promised (5:10), these kings and priests of God (1:6) will rule, as the Messiah does, with a rod of iron (2:27). That’s because, although Satan is chained up in the bottomless pit, man’s sin nature will not have been eradicated, resulting in death for some of the physical inhabitants of Earth during the Millennium (cf. Isaiah 65:20). So, in order to maintain perfect peace, rule with a rod of iron over all is necessary. c. These are those who are lost, in Hades awaiting the Final Judgment. d. The “first resurrection” will include all those who are raptured when the Great Tribulation is cut short on the last day of the Final Seven Years, by the sounding of the Last Trumpet on Yom Teruah, when the Lord Yahushua (Jesus) returns to “catch away” the Redeemed before the final Wrath of the Lord falls. (See the commentary on 11:14-19c; Cf. also 1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17.) But it also includes those martyrs who, at the beginning of the Millennium, John sees resurrected. Do not be confused by the statement that John sees the souls of the martyrs come to life. Remember, Revelation is more like a mural than a strict time-line chart. From Heaven’s point of view, it is all part of the same resurrection, just as Yahushua’s second coming spans all the events from the Rapture through the establishment of His Kingdom on Earth. The resurrection of all those who have died in the Messiah throughout history is a necessary precursor to reigning with the Lord during the Millennium. e. The second death is "eternal" separation from Yahuah, the source of life, following the Final Judgment. f. The repetition of “they” from verse 4 confirms that both groups - those who John saw sitting on thrones and those who had been beheaded for their witness to Yeshua and the Word of Elohiym ("God") - were involved in the first resurrection. They are the redeemed and glorified Saints of both the Old Covenant and Renewed Covenant People of Yehovah (those who looked forward in faith to the coming Messiah but died before He came and those who have accepted Yahushua as the Messiah), who will rule with Him during the Millennium. 20:7-10 Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison and (a) will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, (b) Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea. They went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from [Yahuah] out of heaven and devoured them. (c) The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever. a. The people of the nations who now cover the earth have had 1,000 years of perfectly-enforced peace in a perfect, Eden-like paradise. So, how could the devil possibly deceive them? What could he offer them that is better than what they already have? How could he entice them to follow him and to rebel against the Lord who, for 1,000 years, has met their every need? . . . in exactly the same way he enticed Adam and Eve to sin against Yahuah: by appealing to their vanity and pride: “You will be like [Yahuah]” (Genesis 3:5) - the same vanity and pride that got Lucifer expelled from Heaven in the beginning (cf. Isaiah 14:12-14) - the same incorrigible sin that will be the downfall of anyone, including any of Yahuah's chosen People who refuse to totally submit to and who rebel against the One True God. b. In Scripture, Gog appears to be the fallen archangel or "prince of the power of the air" (Ezekiel 38:2; Ephesians 2:2) who leads nations under his power (Magog) against Yahuah’s People and Jerusalem. Ezekiel 38 and 39 tell us about a war of Gog and Magog, the prototype of the final conflict at the end of the Millennium, in which armies from the Middle East and North Africa will come against Israel and be destroyed by the Lord’s direct intervention. That war will apparently occur at the beginning of the Final Seven Years (cf. Ezekiel 39:9), after the destruction of modern Babylon by fire, and, along with the destruction of Babylon, will set the stage for the rise of Antimessiah. Another occurrence of the War of Gog and Magog will be at the end of the Final Seven Years when armies from all nations come against Israel (compare Ezekiel 39:17-20 with Revelation 19:17-18). But the Gog-Magog war at the end of the Millennium involves the peoples of the whole earth (which, as was mentioned before, in "the restoration," may consist of one, huge continent). Those of all nations who have been deceived by the devil come against the “camp of the saints” (Israel and the Gentiles who have joined Israel under the Renewed Covenant - cf. Zechariah 8:23; Jeremiah 31:33 - who live outside the city) and “the beloved city” (New Jerusalem). But, as Sodom and Gomorrah and Babylon were destroyed, fire will come down from Heaven and destroy the rebels. In other words, the people of the “nations” during the Millennium will be given another opportunity to remain faithful to Yahuah. But again, although they dwell in a perfect world ruled over directly by their Messiah, many of them will be deceived into following Satan in rebellion against the Lord, and perish. c. Satan, like Antimessiah and the false prophet before him, is finally finished - cast into the lake of fire. d. For an exposition of "eternal torment," read Appendix 4 - Who are the People of Yahuah ("God"). 20:11-15 Then I saw (a) a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face (b) the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them. And I saw (c) the dead, small and great, standing before [Yahuah], and (d) books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And (e) the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. (f) The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works. Then (g) Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And (h) anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire. a. This is the scene of the Final Judgment, when the dead of all ages - before and during the Millennium - who are included in the “second resurrection” appear before the Great White Throne of judgment. The One who sits on the throne is Yahushua the Son, to whom the Father has committed all judgment (John 5:22). He will personally judge those who have rejected His Father and Him throughout history. b. As happened to the islands and the mountains of 16:20 and to Babylon (18:21), the earth and heaven (the cosmos) disappear (cease to exist) (cf. also 2 Peter 3:7, 10-12). c. These are not the Redeemed who are no longer dead but were brought to life in the first resurrection. This begs the question, however: “Where are those who, in their physical bodies, lived and remained faithful to the Lord during the Millennium?” This commentator does not know; all that he can do is to speculate that they are transfigured and given their new, glorified bodies when the earth and heavens pass away, as was Yahushua in the garden before his crucifixion (Matthew 17:2) and as, undoubtedly, was Elijah when he ascended into Heaven without tasting death (2 Kings 2:9). d. There are apparently several books maintained by Yahuah, including the books of Yahuah’s remembrance of the tribulations of His People and of those who fear Him (Psalm 56:8; Malachi 3:16), the book of Yahuah’s creation (Psalm 139:16), the book of the law (Galatians 3:10), the books of people’s works (20:12), and the Book of Life. e. The dead are judged by their works rather than by their faith, for “Faith without works is dead” (James 2:20). Good works do not save us, but saving faith is confirmed by the good works in which the Lord created us in the Messiah to walk (Ephesians 2:10). Head knowledge or just saying, “I believe,” will not get one saved. It may be inserted here that the Redeemed will also appear before the Lord in the Final Judgment (2 Corinthians 5:10), not to be judged negatively (John 5:24), but to be rewarded for their good works done by the grace of Yahuah through faith (Ephesians 2:8-10) and for their fruitless works to be burned (1 Corinthians 3:13-15), purifying them for eternity in the presence of the Lord. f. Why the sea is listed and Death and Hades are listed separately as places from where the dead come is not clear. Apparently “sea,” being singular and mentioned here after the description of the annihilation of earth and heaven, is figurative for the mass of unregenerate humanity (cf. 13:1) and is listed along with Death and Hades to emphasize the comprehensive nature of the second resurrection. Here, the sequence of events seems somewhat out of order: the judgment of the dead is seen prior to the second resurrection. But John is apparently not listing the events in strict chronological order, but from Heaven’s point of view, as if he were looking at a mural - as they occur in relation to the central focus of his vision - the Great White Throne of judgment. g. Perhaps Death and Hades are personified here to emphasize that there will be no more death or place for the unrighteous dead in the Kingdom of Heaven. Or perhaps, as was suggested in the commentary on 6:8, Death and Hades are fallen angels who subject souls to death and Hades. h. Anyone whose name had either never been written in the Book of Life (“vessels of wrath prepared for destruction” – Romans 9:22) or one whose name had been blotted out of the Book of Life (cf. 3:5). Continue from Chapter 20: The Millennial Kingdom and the Final Judgment to Chapter 21: The New Heavens and New Earth, and New Jerusalem. Return from Chapter 20 to the verse-by-verse commentary on Revelation page. Return to the Revelation Understood! commentary home page. ₀ Add Your Own Revelation Chapter 20 Commentary Has the Lord Yehovah given you additional insight into Chapter 20 of the Revelation of the Lord? If so, you are invited to add your own page of commentary. (To be approved for inclusion in this website, your commentary must be relevant to this page's topic the Millennial Messianic Kingdom, contribute to our understanding of the topic, and be solidly based on Scripture.) Enter A Title for Your Commentary. (Example: "Who are the Inhabitants of the Millennial Kingdom?"). Do you have some pictures or graphics to add which illustrate the commentary you are submitting? Simply click the button and find the first one on your computer. Select it and click on the button to choose it.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19337
__label__wiki	0.596629	0.596629	Harry Jackson: Carpetbagger? By Kyle Mantyla \| May 11, 2009 10:52 am We’ve been very confused lately about Bishop Harry Jackson’s sudden interest in the inner workings of the District of Columbia’s city council and how he came to be a leader in the fight against its efforts to recognize same-sex marriages performed legally in other states, especially since we had always operated under the impression that he was actually a resident of Maryland. After all, Maryland is where his church and his High Impact Leadership Coalition are both located and where a lot of his political activism has taken place: On March 9, Jackson addressed the 30th Annual Maryland March for Life, which was protesting against pro-choice legislation and the nomination of Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as Secretary of Health and Human Services. Jackson’s biggest political project was on behalf of Michael Steele’s run for the U.S. Senate from Maryland, where Jackson lives. Jackson organized gatherings around the state where Steele could meet African American pastors. According to a news report, “the High Impact Leadership Coalition had joined with the Maryland Catholic Conference, Maryland Right to Life and the Association of Maryland Families to spend about $70,000 for [pro-Steele] ads — mostly on the radio in Baltimore and Prince George’s County until the Nov. 7 general election.” Before the election, Jackson asserted boldly that “The Maryland race for the U.S. Senate will once and for all answer the question: Can a black man really be a successful Republican?” He gushed that “Steele’s credentials, credibility, and charisma speak of greatness” and predicted that the Senate could be a stepping stone to the vice presidency. So imagine our surprise when, a few weeks ago during the rally he hosted on Freedom Plaza in DC at which he declared that they would “launch the Armageddon of the marriage battle in this country” he suddenly started identifying himself as a resident of the District of Columbia: Jackson says that although his church is located in Maryland, he lives in the District and expects a large portion of those at the rally to be D.C. residents. Perhaps he had moved, we thought, attempting to give him the benefit of the doubt. But now it seems as if we were being too generous, judging by this op-ed he wrote that showed up in the Washington Post over the weekend in which he declared that “today the District of Columbia is less democratic, less free and less just because it sanctions same-sex marriage reciprocity.” The interesting thing about his op-ed is that it identifies Jackson as being from Beltsville, Maryland: Needless to say, one cannot both live in Maryland and the District of Columbia since they are, you know, two different places: So where does Jackson live exactly? Did he recently move to DC, or does he live in Maryland and is trying to create the impression that he lives in DC to make his local anti-marriage activism seem more genuine? If it is the latter, it wouldn’t be the first time he’s sought to create a misleading impression about his work, as we pointed out last year regarding his repeated references to himself as a “registered Democrat.” Tags: Harry Jackson Kathleen Sebelius Activism choice District of Columbia Legislation marriage senate Association of Maryland Families Charisma E.W. Jackson: Black Lives Matter Is ‘Demonic’ Victoria Jackson: Obama’s Gay Marriage Support Proves He’s ‘An Islamic Jihadist’ E.W. Jackson: God Will Punish America For Embracing Marriage Equality EW Jackson: Caitlyn Jenner Is Insane, Mentally Ill	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19339
__label__cc	0.63926	0.36074	Riverside Taps Potential with Latest Acquisition October 01, 2008 Download Full Press Release Firm Invests in ‘Green’ Electric Tankless Water Heater Manufacturer (October 1, 2008) – The Riverside Company recognized the simmering market for electric tankless water heaters and acquired Eemax, Inc., the leading manufacturer of the devices for commercial, industrial and residential markets. Riverside’s deal flow has kept a steady pressure as Eemax is the 25th acquisition for the firm this year. Tankless electric water heaters provide on-demand hot water without continually storing and heating water. Eemax products are used in single and multiple hand-wash sinks, emergency eyewash and drench showers, dishwashers, whole homes, boosters for specific applications and other instances where water is heated at point of use. The company’s unique heating-chamber design is patented and its products are sold through independent representatives, plumbing wholesalers, original equipment manufacturers, modular building manufacturers, exporters and retail outlets. Founded in 1988 and headquartered in Oxford, Connecticut, Eemax sells to customers in 30 countries around the world. “Eemax is an example of our emphasis on fast-growing companies,” said Loren Schlachet, Riverside Managing Partner. “Demand for tankless water heaters is on the rise due to their superior efficiency in the face of rising energy costs. Riverside plans to continue Eemax’s growth by expanding distribution, increasing the company’s product portfolio and broadening its customer base. In addition, the attractiveness of the device’s smaller size, longer life and ‘green’ efficiency allows Eemax to tap into the rising demand for tankless water heaters.” Eemax joins several of Riverside’s portfolio companies that offer ‘green’ products, such as SIGG Switzerland, a manufacturer of aluminum drinking bottles. In addition, Riverside has recently added a sustainability consultant to its “Toolkit” of partners available to assist the firm’s portfolio companies in addressing these efforts. “Tankless water heaters are poised to hit the mainstream, thanks to recent technological advances and industry dynamics,” said David Corrado, Eemax President and CEO. “We are looking forward to Riverside’s support to raise the profile of Eemax and increase market share via expanding the market.” “In Europe and Asia, electric tankless heaters are widely accepted in commercial, industrial and residential settings,” said Schlachet. “Conversely, these products are primarily found in commercial settings in the United States. “The worldwide appeal and Riverside’s experience in building companies internationally are a great fit for the growth of Eemax.” Working with Schlachet on the acquisition from Riverside were Alan Peyrat, Vice President; Jeff Tobin, Operating Partner; and Analysts Beth Lesniak and Kenny Shum. The transaction was sourced by Robert Landis, Partner, who leads the firm’s North American Origination team, and equity was provided by Riverside Micro-Cap Fund (“RMCF”). CharterOne financed the transaction and Consilium Partners advised the sellers. The Riverside Company (www.riversidecompany.com or www.riversideeurope.com) The Riverside Company is the largest global private equity firm focused on the smaller end of the middle market (“SEMM”) and is one of the industry’s most experienced leveraged buyout investors. Riverside specializes in investing in premier SEMM companies (those valued up to $150 million) and partners with strong management teams to build companies through acquisitions and value-added growth. Since 1988, the firm has invested in 201 transactions with a total enterprise value of $4.4 billion. Its current portfolio in North America, Europe and Asia numbers 68, with combined annual sales of $3.2 billion, EBITDA of $517 million and more than 14,000 employees. Riverside offers the resources to complete acquisitions smoothly and in as little as 45 days - thanks to its sizeable pool of capital under management (more than $2 billion in nine funds), over 180 professionals in 18 offices (Atlanta, Brussels, Budapest, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Eindhoven, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Madrid, Munich, New York, Prague, San Francisco, Seoul, Stockholm, Tokyo and Warsaw), and long-standing relationships with partner lenders. Six of nine of the firm’s mature vintages are currently top quartile, and the firm’s investors include the world’s leading pension funds, endowments, funds-of-funds, insurance companies and banks. Eemax, Inc (www.eemaxinc.com) Since 1998, Eemax tankless hot water heaters have been used in industrial, residential and commercial applications. The heaters offer hot water on demand by heating water at the point of use instead of storing hot water. The company’s patented common heating chamber and interchangeable heating and electric control components make Eemax hot water heaters the number one choice for customers in 30 countries around the world. Holly Mueller The Riverside Company	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19340
__label__wiki	0.992246	0.992246	North Metro 12916286 Dec. 30, 2007: Ex-CEO regrets 'mission' to take on IRS Robert Beale, awaiting a trial for tax evasion, ponders all that he once had -- and lost. By Randy Furst Star Tribune Robert Beale's world is in collapse. Not so very long ago, he had a wife, a family and substantial wealth. He was a leader of his church and a successful business executive. Then he decided he had the legal right to stop paying his taxes. Now Beale wears the orange jumpsuit of a jail inmate, back in custody after 14 months as a fugitive. His wife has divorced him and seized his assets. His son has ousted him from the Maple Grove computer firm Beale founded. He spends his days in a jail cell, preparing for a trial that could send him to federal prison for a decade or more for tax evasion and unlawful flight. "The hardest part is thinking about family and friends on the outside," said Beale, 64. "Emotionally, it's horrible ..." Beale said: "In hindsight, I believe I was not wise. I'm sorry I even took this mission. ... I was very naive." Regrets taking on IRS Beale got involved in the tax protest movement years ago. He failed to show up for his federal trial in Minneapolis in August 2006, resulting in a 14½-month manhunt. Now held at the Sherburne County jail in Elk River, Beale talked about the reasons he went on the lam (he needed more time to prepare his case), his life as a fugitive (he took a cruise) and how he got caught (he said his ex-wife tipped off authorities). He said he regretted taking on the IRS and failing to pay his taxes. "I never imagined they would take such a hard line," he said. "I assumed if they ended up disagreeing with me, I would just pay the taxes." While no household name, Beale has been in the spotlight before. He was Minnesota campaign manager for Pat Robertson, the conservative television evangelist who ran unsuccessfully for president in 1988. For about 10 years until the mid-1990s, Beale said he was a major contributor and board member of Living Word Christian Center, a large Brooklyn Park church where Mac Hammond is senior pastor. Hammond said through his daughter-in-law and assistant, Kristin Hammond, that he and Beale "had points of disagreement and taxes were one of them." Hammond said "he was very sorry for what has happened to Bob." Beale, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate, was an engineer with an entrepreneurial touch. A firm called Artist Graphics that he started in the early 1980s had revenue of up to $35 million a year by the end of the decade, according to his eldest son, Theodore Beale, who now lives in Italy. As the computer graphics industry shifted from computer cards to chips, the firm folded. But Beale had started Comtrol, which makes devices that connect peripherals like printers and modems to computers. Comtrol's revenues rose to about $25 million, and at its peak it had up to 100 employees, Theodore Beale said. Beale's issues with the IRS surfaced in the early 1990s when he had a dispute with the IRS over an Artist Graphics facility located in Ireland, Theodore Beale said. Anti-tax crusaders Beale later began reading books about the tax code. One was by Irwin Schiff, one of the nation's leading anti-tax crusaders. Beale attended one of Schiff's seminars. In February 2006, Schiff, 78, was sentenced to more than 13 years in federal prison for advising people that no U.S. law requires them to pay income tax. Meanwhile, Beale read more books like Schiff's, and said he concluded that the federal income tax "applies to a profit from business that's related to the federal government and it also applies to any employee of the federal government." He began filing annual tax statements, he said, claiming he did not think his income was taxable because he was not a federal employee. He said he believed he was on a mission. The IRS had different ideas. In January 2006, Beale was indicted by the U.S. attorney's office for tax evasion. His passport was confiscated. Prosecutors declined to comment for this story. In court filings, they indicated Beale did not want Comtrol to pay him directly for his income in 2000, so he and company President Lee Stagni had Beale paid through a shell company, "Chayil." It functioned as a pass-through entity for concealing Beale's income from the IRS, and Comtrol documents were then backdated, Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy Rank alleged. Beale filed no federal or state tax returns for 2000 to 2004, even though he received at least $5,696,574 in income, Rank wrote. He also said company employees were told by Beale and Stagni not to file normal payroll documents for Chayil with the IRS. "It wasn't hidden from anyone," said Beale. "The accounting department knew what my income was. The government could have called me or written my company and found out what my income was." Beale chose to represent himself in court. Motions he filed early in the case were rejected by U.S. District Judge Ann Montgomery shortly before the trial was to begin on Aug. 14, 2006. Such eleventh-hour rulings are not uncommon, but Beale said he was unprepared for them, and rather than seek a continuance, he fled. "I didn't believe I would get a fair trial," he said. Beale said he moved in with a friend. The friend turned out to be Martin Chapman, a tax critic who had a mobile home near Balsam Lake, Wis. Officials raided it on Aug. 29, 2006, but Beale was gone. Chapman, who says he did not know Beale was a fugitive, was not charged. Beale said he moved in with "someone else" -- he won't say who -- and stayed in the Twin Cities area until that following Christmas, researching his tax case. "I rode my bicycle and I went jogging daily," he said. One weekend while riding his bike, he said, he stopped at a fruit stand, and a man at the stand sold him some watermelon and told Beale he was a full-time police officer. "I just decided to eat quickly and be gone," Beale said. Around Christmas, he said, he moved to Orlando, Fla., rented a room under another name and continued to work on his computer. He obtained false identification, he said. He declined to say where he got money to live on. During this period, he said, he made a couple of trips by plane -- one to attend a tax seminar in New York-- and also took a one-week cruise to the Bahamas, which he called "just a vacation." He said he made a "really dumb mistake" using the same cell phone for 11 months. "I started calling my family," he says. "My ex-wife found out I was making these calls and she called the police. They subpoenaed the phone records from family... and found out where I was calling from." He was arrested without incident in the parking lot of an Office Depot in Orlando on Nov. 1. Beale was originally supposed to stand trial with Lee Stagni, Comtrol's ex-president, who was charged with helping Beale evade taxes. Stagni was convicted of aiding Beale and sentenced to three years and seven months in prison. "I thought he was totally innocent," said Beale. "He was just doing what I told him." In the meantime, problems were multiplying at his company. In an affidavit filed in Hennepin County District Court in May, Bradford Beale, another of his four sons and vice president of Comtrol, said many company decisions couldn't be made because his father was a fugitive. Comtrol's bank terminated the company's line of credit. The court removed Robert Beale as CEO. Beale's personal life was also in a shambles. Even before he fled, Rebecca Beale, his wife of 40 years, who had tried to dissuade him from battling the IRS, left him and moved to Florida. After he disappeared, she divorced him and initiated a separate legal case against him in Ramsey County District Court to obtain his assets, accusing him of attempting to create illegal trusts and an illegal corporation to hide income and property and to defraud the U.S. government. She also claimed he had gold and other funds valued at more than $775,000 in Swiss banks. The courts stripped him of his $5.6 million in Comtrol stock, the couple's $1.9 million home in Naples, Fla., and $2 million home in North Oaks, awarding it all to his wife. Court papers say she will have to pay about $2.5 million to the IRS in tax, penalties and interest. Theodore Beale said the Swiss accounts, long since depleted, were set up years ago when his parents considered moving to Switzerland. Beale's ex-wife and her lawyers could not be reached for comment. 'Going to be a hero' Beale said he had no money and can't hire his own lawyer. He said he'll represent himself at trial, although the court has appointed a lawyer, Dean Grau, as "standby counsel." Dan Pilla, a Stillwater tax litigation consultant, said that the views of tax protester Schiff are "nonsense," but that Beale might be able to convince a jury that he believed Schiff's writings and that he acted in good faith when he failed to pay income taxes. Such jury decisions are rare but do happen, he said. "He has something that is going to hurt him bad, and that's the fact that he ran," Pilla said. Prosecutors will argue it proves he knew he was wrong. Dan Scott, Beale's former stand-by attorney, said Beale could get 9 to 12 years in prison under U.S. guidelines. From jail in Elk River, Beale said he is struggling to assemble his case. No date has been set for the trial. "The saddest part of the story is I thought I was going to be a hero, not a pariah," he said. "I wish I could turn the clock back. ..." Staff researcher Roberta Hovde contributed to this article. Randy Furst • 612-673-7382 Randy Furst is a Star Tribune general assignment reporter covering a range of issues, including tenants rights, minority rights, American Indian rights and police accountability. rfurst@startribune.com 612-673-4224 randyfurst Star Tribune reporter takes to the sky in a Blue Angels jet Reporter Pam Louwagie got to see what it's like to perform some Blue Angels aerial stunts with pilot Lt. Cary Rickoff. Supporters push to jump-start $1.5B Bottineau light-rail project • North Metro Northeast Minneapolis residents are opposed to plans to move Fridley bus barn to their neighborhood • North Metro Kayaker shot and killed trumpeter swans on Anoka County lake, charges say • North Metro Elk River man claims $21.6 million lottery jackpot • North Metro Minneapolis bus shelter crash puts racial tension in spotlight as investigation continues • North Metro	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19344
__label__wiki	0.866326	0.866326	Initiativet Initiativtagare Jeremy Rifkin: “Anti-vivisection societies and animal rights organizations have been making this argument for a long time, only to be scorned by scientific bodies, medical associations, and industry lobbies who accuse them of being anti-progress and caring more about animals than people. Now, it is the scientific establishment that has come to the very same conclusions. Toxicity testing in animals is bad science.” Nature 10/11/05: “Scientists at the European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods (ECVAM) in northern Italy — which was set up by the European Commission to develop alternatives to animal testing — argue that animal tests are badly flawed. They say the new drive for alternative methods will improve the science of toxicity testing. And public safety demands that the new tests are shown to be better predictors of toxicity than the existing methods.” Lancet 04/06/2011: “"A fundamental problem is that a rat is not a human. They are different sizes, have different metabolisms and have different diets so using animals to predict effects on humans is difficult. Fifty percent of compounds that prove to be safe in rats prove not to be safe in humans so it really is the toss of a coin," Dexter told Sky News.” “It is increasingly clear that an important factor contributing to these problems is the over-reliance of the pharmaceutical industry on the use of animals to predict drug behaviour in man. The stark differences, not only in the diseases of different animal species, but also the ways that they respond to drugs, are now well known. Many studies have shown that animal tests frequently fail to translate to the clinic, with estimates of their ability to predict effects on people as low as 37—50%, or no better than the toss of a coin.” Thomas Hartung: “But the toxicology tests on which regulators rely to gather this information are stuck in a time warp, and are largely based on wasteful and often poorly predictive animal experiments” The toxicity tests that have been used for decades are “simply bad science”, he explains. “We now have an opportunity to start with a clean slate and develop evidencebased tests that have true predictive value.” “To test a chemical for its potential to cause cancer takes five years and involves 400 rats. More than 50% of the results are positive, of which 90% are false positives.” David Biello in Scientific American (13.10.2011): "We are screening 10,000 chemicals using these rapid tests to characterize the bioactivity of the chemicals to predict their hazard and to use that information to prioritize for further screening and testing," says biologist David Dix, deputy director of EPA's National Center for Computational Toxicology. "We can test a lot of chemicals with a lot of repetitions at a lot of different concentrations." The program, initially started at EPA as ToxCast to assess 1,000 chemicals (and known as Tox21 in its expanded form), employs a robot to speed chemical screening. On plastic plates filled with 1,536 tiny wells, the robot drops varying amounts of different chemicals onto human cells and human proteins. Essentially, each plate has 1,536 experiments underway at the same time. "In a stack of 100, we have 150,000 combinations of chemicals and targets," Dix says. The robot arm and its numerous five- to 10-microliter wells replace the old standby of toxicology—animal testing. In addition to being slow and controversial, animal tests do not reveal how a chemical might impact humans, nor do they deliver any insight into the mechanisms by which a given chemical produced toxic outcomes. Simply by running the robotic tests, the EPA and its partner agencies will generate more information on chemical toxicity in the next few years than has been created in the past century. The effort has already screened more than 2,500 chemicals, including the dispersants employed to clean up BP's 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The new information may allow toxicology to evolve from a reactive science to a predictive one; models of liver toxicity based on chemical testing, for example, could predict how new chemicals would interact with the liver, based on molecular structure and other information. Already, ToxCast scientists have made such a predictive model for liver toxicity: It forecast accurately tumor formation in rats and mice that had been exposed for two years to certain chemicals. A similar effort proved accurate for reproductive toxicity, including vascular development and endocrine disruption—an area of keen interest for human exposure to chemicals such as bisphenol A (BPA). In addition, the high-speed robotic testing will allow toxicologists to better understand mixture and low-dose effects by testing both combinations of chemicals for additive damage as well as how, for example, 15 different concentrations of a given chemical impact human cells. "We suspect that when we look at 10,000 chemicals we'll see a lot of activity that we didn't know about," Dix says of the two-year effort, in which the EPA has partnered with a handful of federal health agencies. "For a lot of chemicals, there's no requirement for animal toxicity testing or any other type of testing," Dix notes. "Tox21 is going to provide information where there is no information." Vittorio Prodi: “Toxicity testing is not delivering what safety of products demands nor is it sufficiently relying upon the most advanced technologies. It typically involves studying adverse health outcomes in animals subjected to high doses of toxicants with subsequent extrapolation to expected human responses at lower doses. But we are not 70kg rats feeding largely on chemicals. The system is expensive, time-consuming, low-throughput and often provides results of limited predictive value for human health. The toxicity testing methods are largely the same for industrial chemicals, pesticides and drugs, and have led to a backlog of more than 80,000 chemicals to which humans are potentially exposed but whose potential toxicity remains largely unknown. In the US, a new toxicity testing plan has been launched which includes the use of predictive, high-throughput cell-based assays (of human origin) to evaluate perturbations in key pathways of toxicity, and to conduct targeted testing against those pathways. Mapping the entirety of these pathways (hence the 'Human Toxome Project') could be a large-scale effort, perhaps on the order of the Human Genome Project. It could develop tremendous opportunities for REACH, the testing ban for cosmetics, the pesticide regulation, and the endocrine disruptor screening, while reducing animal suffering. How can Europe contribute to this goal?” Francis Collins, director, NIH’s National Human Genome Research Institute, 2008: “Animal experimentation is “expensive, time-consuming, uses animals in large numbers, and it doesn’t always work.”” Samuel Wilson, acting director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and NTP: “The new research model would allow scientists to test 100,000 compounds in 1,500 different concentrations in about two days compared with years if the testing was done on animals.” Francis Collins in The Scientist: “With earlier and more rigorous target validation in human tissues, it may be justifiable to skip the animal model assessment of efficacy altogether.” Science 15-02-2008 Francis S. Collins, George M. Gray and John R. Bucher “We propose a shift from primarily in vivo animal studies to in vitro assays, in vivo assays with lower organisms, and computational modeling for toxicity assessments.” Allison Abbott in Nature 10/11/2005: “Most animal tests overor underestimate toxicity, or simply don’t mirror toxicity in humans very well.” “Commercial and political pressures are pushing for a halt to the use of animals in toxicology tests in Europe. This change will also mean a move towards better science, says Alison Abbott.” Horst Spielmann: “Animal embryotoxicity tests are not reliably predictive for humans,” says Horst Spielmann, a toxicologist at the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment in Berlin. “When we find that cortisone is embryotoxic in all species tested except human, what are we supposed to make of them?” Pandora Pound in British Medical Journal: “Ideally, new animal studies should not be conducted until the best use has been made of existing animal studies and until their validity and generalisability to clinical medicine has been assessed.” John Prineas and Michael Barnett in New Scientist: “Their findings back the view that the reason for the lack of progress in this field is that most Multiple Sclerosis research is done on mice with a disease that is actually quite different” National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: “A second argument against selection bias is that knowledge to predict carcinogenicity in rodent tests is highly imperfect, even now, after decades of testing results have become available on which to base prediction.” Robert Sharpe: “Most adverse reactions which can occur in patients cannot be demonstrated, anticipated or avoided by the routine subacute and chronic toxicity experiment” (Zbinden 1966). Honess et al 2004: “More long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) than any other primate are imported into the UK for research, and journey times may be of up to 58 h.” Erwin, Drake and Deni – 1979: “The subjects were housed individually 1-m3 wire cages. All were kept in the same colony room and were exposed to identical environmental conditions.” X.S. Puente 2006: “Despite the high conservation of cancer genes between both species, we identified 20 genes containing several codon insertions or deletions in their protein coding regions, although the functional significance of these differences, including their putative association with cancer, will require further studies.” Yasuhiro 2009: “Animals captured and bred in Vietnam for instance may respond differently in toxicological or immunological studies to those originating in the Philippines or in Mauritius” 7th World Congress on Alternatives & Animal Use in Life Sciences (Conclusive Press Release): “Participants agreed that current knowledge of the human genome and the genomes of many animal species have resulted in such a level of scientific progress in the area of gene mapping and expression (genomics) that it will make it possible in the near future to apply these tools, together with current computational technologies (linking and analysing massive data bases) and sophisticated second generation in vitro test systems, to assess the hazards and risks of chemical and microbiological substances without the use of experimental animals.” Robert Matthews 2008: “It is crucial to know how and why such tests fail to predict what happens in humans. That can happen in two ways: firstly, where animals fail to warn of real toxic effects in humans - as in thalidomide - and secondly, where they give false alarms, with the animals falling victim to drugs that would be fine in humans.” “Toxicity testing in the 21st century: a vision and a strategy” National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences (U.S.A.) 2007: "Using the results of animal tests to predict human health effects involves a number of assumptions and extrapolations that remain controversial. Test animals are often exposed to higher doses than would be expected for typical human exposures, requiring assumptions about effects at lower doses or exposures. Test animals are typically observed for overt signs of adverse health effects, which provide little information about biological changes leading to such health effects."	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19345
__label__cc	0.54896	0.45104	Printed from http://tektonics.org/ccmbad.php Is contemporary Christian music Satanic? Let's get a few things straight up front: I have as much interest in contemporary Christian music as I do in Japanese fiscal policy. I can't understand 75-90% of the words in anything not sung by "Weird Al" Yankovic. My current "favorite" secular CD is by a group called Bond that is almost entirely instrumental. No matter what anyone says, there is nothing about contemporary Christian music directly in the Bible. No "thou shalt not listen to Petra" or "though shalt not use a guitar". As a preterist I believe Satan is now bound and not doing anything. This means that when someone asked me of late to comment on some material alleging that contemporary Christian music (CCM) was "satanic" (the source of the material was an extremist fundamentalist website, but it has been reprinted elsewhere), I had to shake my head. We obviously have CCM that is from bad sources (such as the heretical Philips, Craig and Dean, who ought to not be offered on any sound Christian radio station). But satanic? No, I think that even if Satan was loose, he'd be too busy just now to be doing such things; and even if he were not, he'd probably come up with a better method anyway. But let's reduce it to a more basic question even so: Is CCM immoral? I will say this to start: Too often I think artists offer "pop" theology either because a) they don't know any better; b) they try too hard to make a rhyme at the expense of clarity. The measure for this, for me, is that my dearly beloved wife (who enjoys some CCM) will tell me what a song is saying (since I can't understand it) and then pose some deeper theological question about what the singer means. Most of the time my answer is as above: What they did say has little or no meaning; it was just an effort to make a rhyme using the lingo. Thus I can agree with certain "Biblical screens" set out by the material, at least in terms of whether something represents Christianity in a worthwhile way. It goes too far to say that music must pass all of these screens to merely be labeled "Christian". Let's go over those "screens," in fact: its lyrics should be edifying, spiritually oriented, clear, conforming to Biblical truth, and point our focus to Jesus Christ Curiously we are told that "most" CCM can be rejected on the basis of lyrics alone -- even when the lyrics are audibly clear, the predominance of false doctrine and/or the shallow view of the person and work of Jesus Christ is often appalling. Perhaps it is. Perhaps also it is hard to achieve depth and at the same time be an able communicator. I wonder whether critics can compose a tune for us that explains the Trinity in terms of Jewish hypostatic Wisdom? The next issue is "score" and it is said, medical research clearly supports the contention that musical tones and rhythms in and of themselves (i.e., without lyrics) can cause physical and "emotional" reactions over which the listener may have little or no control. Since the score of contemporary Christian rock music, with its syncopation and slurring of notes, is virtually indistinguishable from its secular counterpart, one has to wonder if spirituality is being eroded and carnality is being propagated. One does? Perhaps I am immune to such blandishments myself, as I find no such "reactions" engendered by rhythms. The advice given thereafter (One should always assess "Christian" music thusly: "Does it stir the flesh to 'boogie,' or the spirit to praise the Lord?") seems to beg the question as to whether a "boogie" is not an acceptable expression of worship (or maybe David was doing something before the Ark of the Lord that would have been acceptable to Lawrence Welk). It would perhaps shock this individual to be told that, ie, the riposte used by Jesus against the Pharisees is "virtually indistinguishable" from that used by the Qumranites, or that used by "secular counterparts." Does one "have to wonder" about carnality in that case? A key problem here is that the text of the Bible itself is quite "earthy" by certain contrived standards of "holiness" we have set for ourselves (check out the Song of Solomon if you don't think so). It is not AS earthy as it could be -- but what we seem to have here is not Biblical morality, but Victorian morality. This is the last and (even by its own admission) vaguest of the "screens": Character -- Our hymns, or the character of the music, is its most obscure component. The character of much of what is called "Christian" music may best be characterized as charismatic, irreverent, universalist, socialist utopian idealistic, superficial religiousness, neo-evangelical, expressionistic, ostentatious, or in a myriad of other contexts (e.g.; What is the character of the music at a so-called Christian rock concert when whatever message is presented is punctuated by screaming guitars, smoke bombs, and a general atmosphere of frivolity?) And because the character of the music is not always readily apparent to the listener, it can have the most insidious effect on believers; i.e., tolerance or acceptance of false doctrine can arise from constant subjection to deficient and improper attitudes in music. If this is "not always readily apparent" then one wonders how the critic is an authority to make an evaluation. It is hard to say more without specifics (we will get some soon), though, so we'll leave that as is; but we might note that "frivolity" is in the eyes of the beholder here -- the word suggests someone with no appreciation at all for performance technique; for the establishment of atmosphere and the relevance of it in sending a message. I would hazard that "smoke bombs" are not used just to give smoke-bomb manufacturers a way to make a living. As an amateur cartoonist I think as much of this comment as I do of someone who would say it is "frivolous" to use stylized panel borders. It is in the specifics indeed that we must deal. Cited first is someone I must admit I have not heard of much: Larry Norman, allegedly "the father of Christian rock." It is claimed that Norman makes the incredulous statement that rock 'n' roll music originated in the Church hundreds of years ago, and that the devil stole it!!. Norman is not actually quoted to this effect. But here are some more specific charges: Norman titles one of his songs, "Why Should the Devil Have All The Good Music," and in another song he refers to Christ (at His return for His Church) as an "Unidentified Flying Object." I'm not clear on what the problem is supposed to be for the first one. If indeed I believed Satan were active today, it seems likely that one of his aims would be to corrupt what was good and use it for his purposes (for after all, evil is an adulteration of good, not its mirror opposite). The second point does not seem particularly problematic in the context of the song -- following the dispensational eschatological picture, the message Norman offers comes from the view of the non-Christian who, seeing Jesus "coming on the clouds of heaven," has no idea what to make of the sight and will likely interpret what they see in other terms (as William Shatner wanted to make Jesus into a space alien). Next a song... ..in which it is said that Norman "pitifully trivializes the Gospel of the Resurrection" with these words: They nailed Him to a cross; They put Him in the ground; Just goes to show you; Can't keep a good Man down. I am not sure how it is this "trivializes" the resurrection or the Gospel. The "can't keep a good man down" trope encapsulates a broader idea that good will not be defeated by evil. How is this "trivializing"? Because a trope is used? The phrase is used as the title of a 1920s movie; was the use of the trope there "trivializing" to the subject matter (the movie was a silent drama)? The critic notes the historical origin of the "rock and roll" genre in terms of the name of the genre coming from "a ghetto term that black people used for pre-marital sex in the back seat of a car..." Then it is advised that we "contrast" this origin with that told us by the so-called "Christian" rock band Petra in the lyrics of one of their songs; i.e., that God was the source of rock 'n' roll!: God gave rock 'n' roll to you, Put it in the soul of everyone, etc. No, we need not finish it -- the critic here is apparently seriously contending that Petra intended this song as some sort of objective history of the rock and roll music genre. The KJV is not the only thing some wayward Christians read with absurd overliteralism. The critic claims there appears to be a parallel between the attempt today to "Christianize" rock music and the "Christianization" of various pagan religious practices in fourth century Rome. The problem here is that no documentation is offered for any such thing being done, officially, in 4th century Rome at all. The same "logic" has been used to say that the Jews "borrowed" Passover from pagans. But in fact, what the critic refers to as "Christianization" of pagan customs, symbols, etc. was the standard practice of those victorious in ancient ideological warfare -- and it is perfectly Biblical. Thus for example, Christianity "took over" the images and language of Jewish Wisdom theology, in the New Testament. Christ is the ruler of the world; all is his. And so then there is nothing awry about this process whatsoever (even if we allow for the rather bigoted implication that it may be wrong because it is somehow "Roman Catholic"). The true point that can be garnered here is that the change and revamping must be genuine; and what is truly in error must be sliced off (if it is indeed in error; it must not merely be presumed to be). A few accusations are then offered, lacking much in the way of substance, and with (for example) hints that the CCMers are in it for the money, and poor analogies: May we similarly "Christianize" liquor by putting a Gospel message on the bottle label, and have Christians buy and promote it to reach drunks for Jesus? Of course the question is merely begged that music forms are as incorrigible as (and as innately harmful as) liquor; at the same time, since at times in the past persons became literally hypnotized even by the use of traditional hymns, repeated far too often in a single session, the same argument could easily kill the use of hymns that the critic would otherwise approve. The better analogy would be to the "Christianizing" of the concept of bars (which serve coffee rather than liquor). On the other hand, the idea that Luther used tavern songs is properly debunked by more reliable sources than the critic. Although godly music can have an evangelistic purpose or result (e.g., Psa. 96:1-3; 108:3), it is not used primarily for this in Scripture. In fact, nowhere in the Bible does it say, "Sing the gospel of Christ." It says to preach it! God can certainly use music to bring somebody to Christ, but there has to be a presentation of the gospel somewhere along the line. Our music is primarily an expression of a Spirit-filled life, not really intended for the world's consumption. We seem to want so much to sing our songs to the world that we put them in the world's vernacular and think it's going to be evangelistic. Of course if we take "preach" to that level of literalism, it means we can't write letters that are evangelistic; we have to evangelize in person. The admission that God CAN use music to bring a person to Christ undermines the critic's entire argument against CCM merely as a genre (not against specific songs, of course). The accusation of merely switching vernacular is perhaps true of specific songs (though none yet given as examples qualify). But it speaks for itself that in the end, this sort of argument ends up what is being used: So even if one could find nothing wrong with the lyrics, the score, the character, and/or the effect of "Christian" rock music, one would still have to question why the modern day, self-proclaimed musical evangelists/entertainers persist in using their music in endeavors where there is no clear Biblical precedent; i.e., although mentioned over 800 times in Scripture, music is never used for entertainment or for direct evangelism or for any end within itself. Music in the Bible is used primarily in praise and in worship, either to God (e.g., I Chron. 16:9,23; II Chron. 29:30; Psa. 9:11; 30:4; 33:2,3; 47:6; 135:3; etc.) or to Satan (e.g., Dan. 3:4,5,7,10,15; Exo. 32:17,18). Then, it seems we must also stop reading all books other than a select few; for these is "no clear Biblical precedent" for writing Christian fiction (whether pedantic literature like Left Behind or quality material like that made by C. S. Lewis), and also, no more works of apologetics, since although Scripture is written itself, writings other than Scripture are "never used for entertainment or for direct evangelism or for any end within itself." The error here is the same that is fallen into by the Church of Christ in their effort to rid the church of musical instruments -- as I said in sum, applies also here: I find it significant that another CoC site finds it necessary to accompany this sort of argument with a closing threat: "Since we cannot be absolutely certain that God finds the use of musical instruments an appropriate form of worship, then it seems quite foolish to risk His wrath by adding something which He did not clearly authorize us to do during collective worship." Well, as far as I can see, altar calls, weekly collections, two services on Sunday and one on Wednesday, business meetings, and other standbys aren't clearly authorized either, but as far as I can see as well the CoC isn't throwing those out the window. The modern church, even the CoC, is a product of its time, and Paul and others would not recognize much of it. However, that it far from important, since the early church was also very much a product of its time; what is important is that they would recognize the members of the body of Christ. "Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's." (2 Cor. 7) In fairness, I ought to note that our critic in view is one such who would probably disavow such things as altar calls, etc. -- his own website is full of condemnations for not only properly-condemned persons, but also condemns persons like Bill Bright, Billy Graham, and J. I. Packer. The result -- isolationism -- also speaks for itself. Then we have this: Jesus said that when He was lifted up, He would draw all men to Himself. Why then would the Holy Spirit need help today from the world's music in drawing people to Christ? Why do the "musical soul-winners" think they can attract people for God by using the world's standards and the world's music, when the net effect of the music is to basically stir the flesh and the emotions rather than stir a love for God? So why then would the Spirit need men like Peter and Paul to even preach? And why indeed would Paul have needed "help" from pagan poets he quoted before the Areopagus? Why do the "poet-quoting soul-winners think they can attract people for God by using the world's standards and the world's poems, when the net effect of the poetry is to basically attract people to pagan philosophy"? One wonders how our critic would cope with the news that some people have used the Song of Solomon for the sake of erotic fantasizing. There is nothing more here than an attempt to blame objects for that which persons are truly resposible. On the other hand, at least "backwards masking" is dismissed not as unreal, but as irrelevant. A case is made for the idea that "music can be used for evil" -- which no one doubts; but the same can be said for writing of books, so does this mean we should stop reading the Bible? The fallacy here is again the classic one of blaming the vehicle rather than the driver who drives it, and also adds his own modifications to the vehicle to make it run faster or louder. One of our critics' main sources for data on how music affects people is David Tame's The Secret Power of Music. This in itself indicates a serious lack of discernment, given that his writings also include such gems as Real Fairies (which is described as saying, This book relates the experiences of many people, some famous, some clairvoyant, some everyday, who have met members of the fairy kingdom.) and another book claiming to find esoteric messages in Beethoven's works. But is Tame right that music can be a negative influence on people? Perhaps so. So the same could be said of different kinds of books. What of it? I have a form of "seasonal disorder" which means that I dislike the heat and bright light and long days of summer. It makes me antsy and causes me to lose my appetite. So does this mean sunshine is bad? Of course not. It is bad for me. If music (even rock music) is bad for you, drop it. What our critic fails to show is that the category of CCM falls under some universal proscription "against". Such "evidence" as is presented is suspicious for its record; for example: The plant research findings are solidly in the traditionalist camp: not only did rock music stunt the growth of a wide variety of plants, but if played long enough, the plants actually died. And even more startling were the findings of Dr. T.C. Singh, head of the Botany Department at Annamalia University, India. His experiments demonstrated that not only did certain forms of music and certain musical instruments (specifically, classical music and the violin) cause plants to grow at twice their normal speed, but that later generations of the seeds of musically stimulated plants carried on the improved traits of greater size, more leaves, etc.! Presumably, the same effect can result in the negative sense, from bad music. The possible significance of Dr. Singh's findings to human life is evident, and should be at least a little disconcerting to rock music fans (pp. 141-145). Should it be? Not if we know what it actually said. Others who use Singh's study report some additonal data which is of interest. It seems that gardeners have quite an interest in his work and here is what one such source says: Plants respond to sound, too. In the early 50s, Dr. T.C. Singh, head of the department of botany at Annamalai University, found that frequencies between 100 and 600 cycles per second produced strong beneficial effects in a large number of plants, including common asters, petunias, cosmos, onions, radishes, and sweet potatoes. And another such site says: Knowing that plant protoplasm streaming begins to speed up shortly after sunrise, Singh placed an electrically-operated tuning fork six feet away from the plant and broadcast the note for a half hour prior to 6 a.m. What he noticed was that the sound apparently stimulated the protoplasm to stream at speeds which normally would not occur until much later in the day. Singh’s next step was to ask a violinist to play while standing near the plants. At a certain pitch, the protoplasm streaming accelerated. One thing led to the next, until Dr. Singh was playing South Indian music to mimosas and found that after two weeks the number of stomata on the plant leaves had increased by 66%! Singh also soon discovered that the music apparently stimulated above average growth and rates of growth in balsam plants. It wasn’t long before he was playing music to all kinds of plants, including petunias, lilies, aster, onions, radishes, and sweet potatoes, to name a few. The music was played one-half hour per day and, according to Tompkins and Bird, was "scaled at a high pitch, with frequencies between one hundred and six hundred cycles per second." Singh’s published conclusion was that he had "proven beyond any shadow of doubt that harmonic sound waves affect the growth, flowering, fruiting, and seed-yields of plants." What this boils down to is that Singh's study had little if anything to do with rock music -- it had to do with ANY sound performed within certain cycle-levels. No doubt it is possible that some levels of music may have an ill effect on people. No doubt also the same can be said of certain mechanical noises, but I doubt if the critic is going to either move for a ban on such machines, or else say that CCM is fine as long as musicians avoid those specific tones and rhythms that cause a problem, and fits in with "natural body rhythms". The critic makes use of alleged medical research as well, though Tame is again the source, which leads to obvious questions about reliability. For example: Dr. David Nobel, another medical doctor and an authority on music, has done extensive research on the value of music rhythms [score] corresponding to body rhythms. He writes that, "None of these qualities accrue to the rock sound. Instead, rock contains harmonic dissonance and melodic discord while it accents rhythm with a big beat. In fact, the anapestic beat [two short beats, a long beat, then a pause] used by many rock musicians actually is the exact opposite of our heart and arterial rhythms [thereby causing an immediate loss of body strength]." As another addresser of these views has pointed out, this is exactly the opposite of the argument that rock incites sexuality, which is something these critics say. But it is more curious that other than this reference, and misspelled references to Dr. David Noebel (of Summit Ministries), there is no evidence at all of this "Dr. David Nobel" doing anything, so far as I have found. The critic closes with another series of brief points which, while offering some gems (such as, not making "how we feel" a criteria for whether music is good -- which sort of contradicts the points above about how bad it is supposed to make us feel on the other hand), are also mixed with a few threats of hellfire for those who disagree, and closes with questions from a "booklet" by someone of unknown authority, Sears: Gordon Sears, in his booklet, Is Today's Christian Music "Sacred"?, asks six questions of those who think that CCM is indeed acceptable to God: If the new style and sound of music is of God then: (1) Why is it causing so much confusion and division among Christians?; Is it? I see no confusion at all over it, and no division either, except among types such as this critic. One might add that the same could be said over the doctrine of the Trinity. (2) Why is it not received by all fundamental Bible-believing churches?; I am inclined to reply that restricting to the category of "fundamental Bible-believing churches" rather skews the results (not to mention that it begs the question as well that such churches are the sole and final arbiters). (3) Why is it readily accepted by the non-Christian world? The ungodly never accepted the old Christian hymns; They don't? Funny, because the movie Minority Report, for example, made use of the old song, Jesu: Joy of Man's Desiring. By the way, why is Christian charity so readily accepted by the non-Christian world? And when was the last time you heard Internet Infidels unite in saying that they found "Breakfast" by the Newsboys to be an "acceptable" tune? (4) Why is it that Bible-denying universities and popular secular TV entertainment shows invite well-known Christian artists to give concerts with CCM? This never happened with the great spiritual hymns; No examples are given of which universities and secular TV shows do this (much less is it shown that this is any sort of norm), so it is hard to comment, but I have to wonder if a) it is Christian groups on university grounds that offer such invitations; b) whether authors of "great spiritual hymns" would be invited to shows if they sang, "Happy Birthday". In other words, maybe it is the subject of the songs and not the genre that makes for the invitation? (5) Why are there hundreds of churches with godly pastors across America that strictly reject it and forbid it in their services?; As with (2) this simply begs a question of who is a rightful arbiter (not to mention that it makes no effort to count how many "godly" pastors hold the opposite view). (6) Why does it have such a strong effect upon the physical body? (As shown earlier, music does have a strong physical effect -- to ignore this would be negligent.) As noted above, the issue is a particular range of frequencies, not a genre of music. I wonder again if these fellows would lose their objection if the frequencies were outside the range in question. In the end, the critic is forced to resort to guidelines that are hardly exclusive of CCM ("The text and music should not be cheap or tawdry.") or else have more to do with subjectiveness and weakness of character ("It will be free of mental association with worldly musical styles and evidence a holy consecrated character (Rom. 12:2; I Jn. 2:15).") than with anything specific or objective -- which is no doubt why our critic offers so little in the way of specifics. In the end, the critic chases himself in a circle, setting his own guidelines and then force-fitting Scripture into validating those guidelines. As a tone-deaf listener who doesn't care about CCM in the first place, I think I can objectively say that beyond the warnings that could be applied as well to any form or art of communication, critics of CCM I have seen are far not engaged in serious exegesis or understanding. A reader with more knowledge of CCM comments here (Word document).	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19347
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__label__wiki	0.854902	0.854902	Stagecoach (1966) (Blu-ray Review) Reviewed by: Dennis Seuling Review Date: Jul 03, 2019 Format: Blu-ray Disc Release Date(s) 1966 (April 16, 2019) Studio(s) 20th Century Fox (Twilight Time) Film/Program Grade: C+ Video Grade: A- Audio Grade: A Extras Grade: A- http://www.twilighttimemovies.com/ Remaking a classic film has its pitfalls. With 1939’s Stagecoach, director John Ford elevated the movie Western from B status to a first-class production that dealt with adult situations. This 1966 remake seems almost unnecessary, since it duplicates the plot and characters without adding much other than color and widescreen. A stagecoach headed to Cheyenne is transporting an assortment of characters. The driver is Buck (Slim Pickens). Marshal Curly Wilcox (Van Heflin) is riding shotgun in exchange for the lift to Cheyenne. Like the marshal, the passengers all have their individual reasons for being on that coach. Dallas (Ann-Margret) is a dance hall floozy run out of town because two men killed each other fighting over her. Doc Boone (Bing Crosby) is a physician with a taste for liquor who has outstayed his welcome in town. Peacock (Red Buttons) is a traveling whiskey salesman. Lucy Mallory (Stefanie Powers) wants to join her husband, Captain Mallory, stationed in Cheyenne. Hatfield (Michael Connors) is a professional gambler who served in the Confederate army under Lucy’s father and offers her his protection. Henry Gatewood (Bob Cummings) has stolen $10,000 from his father-in-law’s bank and is on the run. On the trail, the stagecoach encounters the Ringo Kid (Alex Cord), who broke out of jail and demands to be taken to Cheyenne to settle a score with the Plummer family, who killed his father and brother. The individual characters develop relationships with each other as they face dangerous terrain, bad weather, and hostile Indians. The claustrophobic interior of the stagecoach forces a degree of civility, though it’s apparent that not everyone is thrilled with the company of the others. This version was critically panned during its initial release, primarily because of affection for the superior original, but seen today, it has its virtues. First, the widescreen color cinematography by William H. Clothier is spectacular and shows off the Colorado locations to great advantage. Aerial shots of the territory under the title credits magnificently reveal the vast expanse of the pristine land. Such visual grandeur simply was not possible in the original, despite Ford’s use of Monument Valley. Acting for the most part is adequate. Bing Crosby, in his final feature film role, stands out as a man who seems to exist on booze alone. His performance adds comic relief to the drama surrounding him. Ann-Margret and Stefanie Powers are wooden and their characters are clearly secondary to the bigger male roles. Alex Cord, who takes on the role that made John Wayne a star in the original, is no match for Wayne in terms of screen presence. He lacks the necessary stature, and for such a significant role, this is deadly. Though he is supposed to be driven by a thirst for vengeance, his Ringo lacks fire. He is much more effective in his scenes with Dallas, whom he feels sorry for because she’s shunned by most of the other passengers. Pacing is also a major flaw. The film starts with an exciting clash between Indians and a troop of cavalry, complete with stunts, blood, and violence. But then we have to wait close to an hour before the Indian attack on the stagecoach. In the interim, the film bogs down. At 16 minutes longer than the original, this version drags when it should be heightening suspense. Though the threat of an Indian attack is always present, padding the movie with extraneous dialogue and interpersonal conflicts is mere filler until the “good stuff” comes along. That good stuff is some excellent stunt work during the Indian attack. The sequence goes on for a while, which makes up for the extended lack of action that preceded it. Stunt men dressed as Indians fall from galloping horses, jump from horse to stagecoach, and get dragged behind the it. In a daring stunt duplicating one from the original, the Ringo Kid jumps from the driver’s seat to the team of six horses, making his way to the front and mounting one of the lead horses. This homage to Ford’s film is still exciting to watch. The film cost $6.3 million, a huge amount for the period, and it turned a modest profit. The Blu-ray release, featuring 1080p resolution, is presented in the widescreen CinemaScope aspect ratio of 2.35:1. Visual quality is sharp and the colors appear natural, particularly in the shots of the picturesque Colorado countryside. Details, such as Doc Boone’s whiskers, the pattern in Dallas’ dress, the fair skin of Ann-Margret and Stefanie Powers, and the rumpled clothing of Marshall Wilcox, show up well. Clothier’s cinematography conveys an epic feel and even makes quieter moments intimate, often a problem with wide CinemaScope compositions. Matte shots convincingly show the stagecoach teetering on the edge of a narrow, winding, rain-soaked mountain road. Original paintings of the cast by Norman Rockwell are shown at the end of the film. Soundtrack is English 1.0 DTS-High Definition Master Audio. English subtitles are available for the deaf and hard of hearing. Sound is excellent, with dialogue distinct throughout. The whoops of the Indians, the sound of the stagecoach racing over rough terrain, and the horses’ galloping hooves generate excitement. These moments are balanced by quiet scenes, such one between Dallas and Ringo and the polite exchange between Hatfield and Mrs. Mallory. Jerry Goldsmith’s score has rousing moments, mostly during the stagecoach’s journey as the rhythm of the music matches the rapid movement of the coach. The unrated 114-minute Blu-ray is released as a Limited Edition of 3,000 units. Bonus materials include an audio commentary, an isolated music track, the Twilight Time catalogue, and a booklet. Audio Commentary – Film historians Lee Pfeiffer and Paul Scrabo note that the “filmmakers are respectful of the original material.” The film, they believe, is as good as the original in terms of entertainment value. They acknowledge that Ford’s film is a masterpiece that elevated the stature of the Western. In Gordon Douglas’ re-interpretation, the color and widescreen really resonate. Douglas was wise not to use Monument Valley, a major location of the original, filming instead at the Caribou Country Club Ranch in Colorado. The violent opening Indian attack was pretty strong for the period. This early scene sets up a “sense of menace.” Audiences realize there is danger and the passengers in the stagecoach are at constant risk. The barroom scene integrates major characters. Brief career profiles are presented for the leading cast members. Bing Crosby is acknowledged for his huge impact on both music and film, and was also a shrewd businessman. He won an Oscar for Going My Way. Before Stagecoach, Ann-Margret starred in Bye Bye Birdie, State Fair, and Viva Las Vegas (with Elvis Presley). Bob Cummings was a romantic lead in Hollywood in the 1940s before getting his own TV show in the 1950s. He was hopelessly addicted to drugs and died penniless. Alex Cord had polio as a child and learned how to ride horses as part of his therapy. Mike Connors, who was originally known as “Touch Connors”, and Stefanie Powers, would both go on to star in TV series of their own (Mannix, The Girl From U.N.C.L.E.). Red Buttons was a comedian who had his own TV show, Slim Pickens had recently ridden an atomic bomb to its destination in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove, and Keenan Wynn, who plays Plummer, speaks loudly in the movie because he was hard of hearing. One of Wynn’s sons plays his character’s son, Ike Plummer. The original X rating by the MPAA is discussed. Because the rating wasn’t trademarked, producers of porn movies co-opted it. Because newspapers wouldn’t run ads for X-rated films, that rating for mainstream Hollywood films was dropped. The use of back-screen projection is very well done. A major stunt – Ringo jumping from the driver’s seat of the stagecoach onto the team of galloping horses – is similar to the one in the original. Artist Norman Rockwell, who painted portraits of the cast, has a small role in the movie. Wayne Newton sings Stagecoach to Cheyenne under the final credits. 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__label__cc	0.511472	0.488528	The Last Madam by Christine Wiltz Book: The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld Author: Christine Wiltz Type of Work: Biography Why Did I Read This Book: I love New Orleans. It is my favorite place on the planet, which is a remarkable thing to contemplate given how sensitive I am to smells. So I read most things to do with New Orleans. I also am a sucker for true crime. So it was a win-win situation, made all the better when I found it on close-out at one of those transient book stores that pop up in old, abandoned Linens ‘n’ Things and Nike Superstore buildings. Availability: Published by De Capo Press in 2001, it is still in print. You can get a copy here: Comments: I’m unsure how to go about reviewing this book. What do you say about an adequate biography that is interesting because the writer is competent and the subject matter is relevant to your interests? It was a fun-enough read and because I tend to keep any books that are not outright garbage, it will have a place in the biography sections on my shelves. But it was a merely adequate book. Not particularly thought-provoking. I read it when I was ill with H1N1, when Dr. Seuss would have been challenging, but this book went down easy and did not require much of me, even as I found it interesting. It seems like all praise for the book is damning it faintly, but it’s not often a book falls into the middle zone with me, a place where I could take it or leave it. But seeing as I how “took” it, it is on that basis worth discussing. As I say above, I love New Orleans. I read every book I can that involves the city. It is the place where I should have been born and if my spouse could find the sort of work there that would support us, it would be the place where I live. So it takes a lot for a person in a biography largely set in New Orleans to overshadow the town I love so much, but Norma Wallace managed it. Wiltz does an adequate job of painting a picture of New Orleans from the early 1900s to the mid-1970s, but I found myself more interested in Norma than any of the places she lived. Norma Wallace was born into bone-crushing poverty, likely in 1901, but she continually shaved so many years off her age that when she died it was reported that she was years younger than she was. I knew Norma was going to break my heart in the first chapter when the author recounted a story from Norma’s youth. Norma lived next to a bakery that made lemon pies and the smell wafted to her daily but she could never afford the few pennies one of the pies would cost. She frequently begged her mother for a pie and when her useless, dissolute parents took in a lodger, her mother promised Norma that she could finally get one. Except the lodger committed suicide when the rent was due. Norma never got her pie. But Norma was a smart girl, and in the way of too many smart, poverty-stricken girls, she saw a very profitable way to make money: Prostitution. When a doctor (a doctor!!) turned her out in her early teens, Norma’s die was cast. Born Norma Badon, Norma was married five times but took and kept the name of the love of her life, a bootlegger she never married but who gave her a seven carat diamond ring and later shot her. Yes, shot her. Through her various relationships with men, both amorous and amicable, she received funding and safe locales to start her brothels, but she and the other women who ran houses of ill-repute called themselves landladies, not madams. Interestingly, once she became a madam, Norma stopped having sex for money. She was strictly a business woman from that point on and a good one, too. She never used drugs, though drank hard enough, and did not permit women with pimps or drug habits to work in her brothels. Though arrested a few times, Norma ran brothels for decades before finally being arrested and sent to jail for several months. Once out of prison, Norma promptly tried to set up a new house and decided to stop for her own good, divorced her husband and married a man almost 40 years younger than her. Gah, no matter how you feel about prostitution (should it be legalized, pearl-clutching at the morality, etc.), you gotta admire Norma’s spirit. With her much younger husband, she ran an extremely successful restaurant, but eventually, the luck Norma had in her younger life ran out on her. Her marriage was rocky, she moved to the country, where a city-girl like her was not suited to live, and entered a depression that became intractable. Not to spoil too much, but her days ended in a way that utterly belied the elan with which she had lived so much of her life. Norma’s pictures do not reveal the je ne sais quoi that drew people to her. In her pictures, she appears passably attractive but she had a raw magnetism that made men want her and the sort of personality that made the women who worked for her loyal to a fault. She was a woman who understood that glamour meant a lot and that brains meant even more. Yet, despite her business acumen and the inevitable hardening such a profession has on one’s emotions, Norma valued love and happiness above money. Overall, the subject matter of this book almost ensures it is going to be a good read, but Wiltz does a capable job of telling Norma’s story, using old tapes Norma left behind and reconstructing believable conversation from the notes she had to work from. But the title is a little misleading. This is less a tale about a life in the New Orleans underworld than the story of a woman who was larger than life, whose way of life would have been large no matter where she lived. In a way, Norma was such an interesting figure that New Orleans was just a back drop to her personality. Oh, and because I am a complete squishface, the fact that Norma loved animals, that there is a picture in the book of her nursing her beloved puppy Vidalia, almost ensured I would love Norma. But her canniness, her wit, her smarts and her outright amazing presence as a woman, despite her career choice, sealed the deal. Too bad the book about her was merely capable instead of extraordinary. Posted on January 21, 2010 August 19, 2015 by anitadaltonin BooksTagged: Biography, brothels, Christine Wiltz, I Read Everything, Louisiana, madams, New Orleans, non-fiction, Norma Wallace, prostitution, The Last Madam The Diary of a Rapist by Evan S. Connell Pearl by Mary Gordon	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19357
__label__wiki	0.843579	0.843579	Carry On Spying Director: Gerald Thomas Stars: Kenneth Williams, Barbara Windsor, Charles Hawtrey, Bernard Cribbins, Eric Barker, Jim Dale, Richard Wattis, Eric Pohlmann, Dilys Laye, John Bluthal Review: Carry On #9 turned its attention to the next most popular and lasting British film series - James Bond. And as a parody of all things Bond, this works really well. The excellent Talbot Rothwell script is delivered superbly by a top team of stars, including Kenneth Williams, Barbara Windsor, Charles Hawtrey, and Bernard Cribbins as the clumsily successful group of secret agents whose latest mission is to battle against the evils of STENCH and recover the secret formula stolen by the cunning Milchmann from under the noses of the security forces. With names such as James Bind, Daphne Honeybutt, and The Fat Man ("Description - Male, Fat.") you know that the level and consistency of the jokes will be best described as thick and fast. And the scenes where our heroes get to grips with The Fat Man (Eric Pohlmann) in the kasbah (including Bernard Cribbins as the least-convincing drag-act I think has ever been seen on screen) and the evil Dr Crow in her secret lair are fast-paced and frenetic. What they do achieve, to great effect, is to capture the mood and style of the early sixties spy thrillers almost as well as Carry On Screaming would do with Hammer Horrors two years later. Williams and Hawtrey are very good as agents Simkins (the experienced one) and Bind (the effeminate one), whilst Barbara Windsor's first appearance in a Carry On is memorable, and not just for setting the tone of all her other appearances. Bernard Cribbins reprised his clumsy male lead role from Carry On Jack, and whilst the result is enjoyable, after this film the role of young romantic male lead went to Jim Dale, and in fairness to them both, Dale was better in this type of role. In Spying, he puts in some great cameo moments as the 'official' spy Carstairs, and proved his worth to the production team, probably winning the chance to star in the next outing, Carry On Cowboy, in which he excelled. This is one of the best Carry On films there are. Reviewer: Paul Shrimpton This review has been viewed 6457 time(s). Gerald Thomas (1920 - 1993) British director responsible for every film in the Carry On series. Started as an assistant editor before debuting with the childrens' film Circus Friends. Thriller Timelock followed, but the success of 1958’s bawdy Carry On Sergeant launched one of the most successful series in British cinema. Thomas directed 30 Carry On films up until 1978’s Carry On Emmannuelle, returning in 1992 to deliver his final film, Carry On Columbus. Other films include the Carry On-esque Nurse on Wheels and The Big Job, plus the big screen version of Bless this House.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19369
__label__wiki	0.864979	0.864979	Minnesota State Senators Repulsed By "In God We Trust" Republican Sen. Dan Hall, representing Minnesota’s 56th district, recently sponsored a bill that would allow schools to display a poster with the words “In God We Trust.” Hall told “Fox & Friends” that he hoped the proposed bill, which would utilize private funds to pay for the posters, would help bring respect back to schools. “I only assume that if you take those things out of government, if you take the things that are respectful out, you’re going to put in something different. We need to bring respect back to our country,” Hall said. However, two of Minnesota’s Democratic state senators, Scott Dibble and John Marty, are strongly opposed to the bill. Both argue that the posters could be viewed as “offensive.” Certainly by Dibble and Marty: “The money in my wallet has to say ‘In God We Trust.’ I think that’s offensive,” Marty said on the State Senate floor, Fox News reported. The Dynamic Democratic Duo are also browned off that schools in Minnesota have to fly an American flag and are required to recite the Pledge of Allegiance once a week. Writer’s embellishment: Marty added that the presence of “E Plurubus Unum” on coins also “pisses me off,” while Dibble said he is offended by the word “Liberty.” Another Democratic state senator said that she was “outraged” by the term “Annuit Coeptis,” found above the Great Seal on American currency, though she admitted she “didn’t really know what it means.”	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19371
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__label__wiki	0.697496	0.697496	Obstetric outcome of teenage pregnancy and labour in Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals complex, Ile-Ife: A ten year review OA Ijarotimi1, OR Biobaku2, OO Badejoko1, OM Loto1, EO Orji1 1 Department of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Perinatology, Obafemi Awolowo University/Teaching Hospitals Complex, Ile-Ife, Osun, Nigeria 2 Department of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Perinatology, Obafemi Awolowo University/Teaching Hospitals Complex, Ile-Ife, Osun, Nigeria, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Tathleeth General Hospital, Tathleeth, Aseer Region, Saudi Arabia Date of Web Publication 17-Apr-2019 Dr. O A Ijarotimi Department of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Perinatology, College of Health Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University/Teaching Hospitals Complex, Ile-Ife, Osun DOI: 10.4103/TJOG.TJOG_13_19 Background: Teenage or adolescent pregnancy is a recognized problem of public health significance. Every year, in excess of 14 million teenage girls give birth to a child; most of these young mothers are living in non-industrialized countries. In view of the high prevalence, there is a need to audit such cases regularly to identify areas of possible improvement in its management. Results obtained from the audit can help in policy formulation and strengthen advocacy on issues ranging from abortion complications to early marriage. Objectives: The objectives of this 10-year retrospective study are to document the pattern of prevalence, presentation, obstetric outcome of teenage pregnancy, and labor at the Ife Hospital unit of obafemi awolowo university teaching hospitals complex (OAUTHC), Ile-Ife. Materials and Methods: The study involved a 10-year retrospective analysis of the data collected from the records of all cases of teenage pregnancies during the period from January 1999 to December 2008. Results: During the period studied there were 6,250 deliveries of which teenage pregnancies accounted for 255 giving an incidence of 4.08% of the total deliveries. Majority (51.76%) of the pregnant teenagers were unbooked for antenatal care and 92.12% of them were nulliparous. Antepartum hemorrhage, abnormal presentations, obstructed labor, and anemia were the commonest complications seen occurring in 54.5, 36.5, 14.1, and 11.4 per cent of the teenagers respectively which was significantly higher when compared to the adult pregnant women (P = 0.000). Delivery was by caesarean section in 32.2% of the teenagers compared to 22.6% in the other women (P = 0.000). The overall perinatal mortality rate was 68.8/1000 births while teenagers had a perinatal mortality rate of 106/1000 births (P = 0.013). Conclusion: Teenage pregnancy still remains a major recognized problem of public health significance. Most of these patients are from low socio-economic class and their obstetric performance is relatively poor compared to the adult group. The concept of women's sexual and reproductive health rights needs to be reinforced in most developing countries. Improving access to contraception and discouragement of early marriage will help to reduce teenage pregnancy and the overall burden of maternal mortality. Optimal care should be given to teenage mothers not only to improve the pregnancy outcome but also to enhance their social, educational, and emotional adjustment. Keywords: Ile-Ife; outcome; pregnancy; teenage. Ijarotimi O A, Biobaku O R, Badejoko O O, Loto O M, Orji E O. Obstetric outcome of teenage pregnancy and labour in Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals complex, Ile-Ife: A ten year review. Trop J Obstet Gynaecol 2019;36:105-11 Ijarotimi O A, Biobaku O R, Badejoko O O, Loto O M, Orji E O. Obstetric outcome of teenage pregnancy and labour in Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals complex, Ile-Ife: A ten year review. Trop J Obstet Gynaecol [serial online] 2019 [cited 2019 Jul 18];36:105-11. Available from: http://www.tjogonline.com/text.asp?2019/36/1/105/256461 The term Adolescence is synonymous with Teenager, the, former emphasizing the period of transition from childhood to adulthood that is accompanied by profound physical, biological, social, and psychological changes.[1] The WHO defines adolescents or teenagers as persons in the 10–19 years age range.[2] In Nigeria, an adolescent is defined as a person aged between 10 and 22 years; as defined by the National Adolescent Health policy (1995).[2],[3] By 1990, 22% of the world's population were in the 10–24 years age category and of these, 83% live in the developing countries.[2],[4] Approximately 22 million Nigerians out of the over 100 million of her estimated total population are between ages of 10 and 19 years.[3],[5] One in four girls in the world becomes a mother before the age of 19 years.[6] Every year, in excess of 14 million teenage girls give birth to a child; most of these young mothers are living in the non-industrialized countries.[6] Teenage or adolescent pregnancy is said to occur when a girl aged between 10 and 24 years becomes pregnant.[6],[7] Teenage pregnancy is a recognized problem of public health significance worldwide,[6],[8],[9] and it is one of the major reproductive health problems of adolescent girls.[8] The situation is especially worse in Sub-Saharan Africa where they are not only commoner, but occur against the backdrop of poor socioeconomic infrastructure and poor knowledge, availability, and practice of contraception.[5],[6],[10] Most pregnancies that occur in Teenage girls are unwanted, i.e., undesirable.[2],[7],[8] Majority of Teenage pregnancies occur in unmarried girls (80%), and these pregnancies were unintended compared with 6% for married girls.[2] Teenage pregnancy if not controlled for socio-economic pressures or when under routine prenatal care is associated with adverse perinatal outcomes such as low birth weight, preterm delivery, and small for gestational age births.[1],[6] Except for the very young adolescent (less than 16 years), teenage pregnancy itself is not biologically harmful and full-term teenage pregnancy may even constitute the only known primary protective factor against breast cancer.[6] For years, it has been accepted that teenage pregnancy is a high-risk pregnancy.[1] Many pregnant teenagers come from low socio-economic background, having poor education, and perhaps poor general health due to inadequate nutrition. Iron stores and caloric intake are often reduced among adolescent girls and iron deficiency anemia is often found.[1],[2],[6] Over the past 3-4 decades, Nigeria's reproduction has remained high with a crude Birth rate of 45–48 births per 1000 populations.[11] The high fertility rate is observed to be more common among the teenagers.[12] Hence, the government's national policy on populations of 1988 in which one of the cardinal objectives is to reduce teenage pregnancy by 50% by the year 1995 and then by 90% by 2000 AD.[12] Despite this policy a National Demographic and Health survey (NDHS) report from the Federal Office of statistics (FOS) revealed in 1992 that quite a large number of girls aged less than 18 years were already mothers.[13] This implies that the policy is yet to have any appreciable effect. The incidence of teenage pregnancy is well documented in the developed countries where national figures are available. In the developing countries, figures are usually institutional. By 2000, the teenage birth rate in the United States had declined to 49 per 1000 and about 13 per cent of all infants are delivered by teenagers.[6],[14] In other developed countries teenage delivery rates are generally lower. In Sweden, less than 3 per cent of all infants are delivered by teenage mothers,[14] the trends of teenage deliveries are rapidly decreasing in these countries.[15] In Mexico, 17 per cent of live births occur in teenagers,[16] and in the Sahel region of Mali and Burkinal Faso, 21.94% of the births was seen in this group,[3] and in Calcutta (India) 18.68% of labor recorded were in teenage mothers.[17] Though there is a downward trend in UK like other developing countries, the rate is still high compared to other developed countries. In Nigeria and in many other African countries, teenage pregnancy do occur commonly;[9] the actual incident is not well established. In Enugu and Benin, teenagers contributed 10–15% of deliveries.[18],[19] In Port Harcourt (UPTH) it constituted about 10% of all deliveries.[20],[21] In Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, a previous 10-year review showed the percentage to be 3.7% of total deliveries.[9] Ojengbede et al. (1987) in Ibadan reported an incidence of 7 per 1000 (0.7%).[22] Attitude to teenage pregnancy varies with socio-cultural and religious practices in the community. Thus early marriage,[20] and societal permissiveness, with diverse sexual information from various types of media; favor early exposure to sexual activity and are probably responsible for the increased teenage pregnancies in the region.[6],[7],[20] Furthermore, with improved nutrition there is likelihood for the menarcheal age to be reduced thus also reducing the age at coitarche. The younger the age at initiation of intercourse, the greater the likelihood of teenage pregnancy.[6],[23] Pregnant teenagers have relatively low level of education, low-socio-economic status, and socio-psychological immaturity.[6],[7],[8],[9],[12],[14],[16],[18],[21],[24] Induced abortion rate is high,[4],[6],[7],[9],[12],[16],[22] and antenatal care is often poor,[22] since most teenagers do not intend to become pregnant.[2] Higher obstetric complications have been associated with teenage pregnancies.[1],[2],[4],[6],[7],[9],[12],[14],[16],[25] Some studies have shown that these complications are not due to the age per se but due to unwanted motherhood, small anatomical size of patients, poor socio-demographic characteristics, primigravidity, and poor antenatal care.[25],[26],[27],[28] This retrospective study documents the obstetric problems and perinatal outcome in teenage mothers seen in Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Ile-Ife in the last 10 years, and show that obstetric complications are more in teenage pregnancies. Suggestions for improved teenage motherhood are proffered. The case notes of all cases of teenage pregnancies managed in Obafemi Awolowo Teaching Hospital Ile-Ife between January 1, 1999 and December 31, 2008 were reviewed. The data related to age, parity, booking status, socio-demographic profile, antenatal complications, gestational age at delivery, and clinical outcome of both mother and fetus were obtained. The record of total deliveries and other obstetric and perinatal complications were obtained from the hospital statistics department to serve as statistical denominator. Clinical findings were compared to those of all other non-teenage pregnancies managed during the same period being reviewed. Data was analyzed using SPSS 16, Chi-square test was used to determine statistical significance where applicable and a P value <0.05 was considered significant. Out of a total of six thousand two hundred and fifty (6,250) deliveries, between January 1, 1999 and December 31, 2008, teenage pregnancies accounted for 255 of the deliveries, i.e., 4.08% of the total deliveries. [Table 1] showed that the youngest age at delivery was 15 years and the oldest 19 years. The modal age was 18 years which made up 110 (43.14%) of the total number and the mean age was 17.68 years. One hundred and fifty-two (59.61%) of them were single at the time of delivery and 103 (40.39%) married. Seventy (27.45%) of these patients were traders, 80 (31.37%) were permanent house wives, 50 (19.61%) were students in various levels of education, but mainly Secondary Schools; 45 (17.65%) were apprentices in various trades. The men responsible for the pregnancies were mainly traders and artisans who made up 31.37% and 27.45%, respectively. Fifty (19.61%) of those responsible for the pregnancies were students of secondary and tertiary institutions, 13.73% were civil servants. Drivers and farmers each have 3.92% as depicted in [Table 1]. Table 1: Age, Marital status, and Occupation of Pregnant Teenagers at OAUTHC, Ile-Ife [Table 2] showed that 240 (94.12%) of these patients were nulliparous, while 15 (5.88%) were primiparous. One hundred and twenty-three (48.24%) of patients were booked and 132 (51.76%) unbooked. Table 2: Parity, booking Status, and Gestational age at delivery of Pregnant Teenagers at OAUTHC, Ile-Ife The gestational age at delivery was 37–42 weeks in 155 (60.78%) of patients, between 28 and 36 weeks in 75 (29.41%) of patients and post-term in 10 (3.92%) of patients. [Table 3] showed the Fetal outcome of teenage pregnancies. The Apgar score at 1 minute was less than 6 in 95 babies (37.25%) and less than 6 in 80 babies (31.37%) at 5 minutes. Table 3: Apgar scores and birth weights of babies delivered to Teenage mothers at OAUTHC, Ile-Ife One hundred (39.22%) of teenagers' babies had birth weights of 2.5 kg and above, 13.73% (35 babies) had very low birth weight (less than 1.5 kg). The birth weights in 70 cases (27.45%) of the patients were at least 3 kg. The highest birth weight was 3.95 kg [Table 3]. A summary of the obstetric outcome of teenage pregnancies is shown on [Table 4]. The overall maternal mortality rate was 1968/100,000 live births during this study period. There were two teenage deaths accounting for a mortality rate of 784/100,000 live births. Table 4: Summary of obstetric performance of pregnant Teenagers at OAUTHC, Ile-Ife [Table 5] compared the pregnancy complications among teenagers with those of other age groups. Antepartum hemorrhage, abnormal presentations, obstructed labor, and anemia were the most common complications seen occurring in 54.5, 36.5, 14.1, and 11.4% of the teenagers respectively which were significantly higher when compared to the adult pregnant women (P = 0.000). Delivery was by caesarean section in 32.2% of the teenagers compared to 22.6% in the other women (P = 0.000). The overall perinatal mortality rate was 68 per 1000 births, teenagers had a rate of 106 per 1000 births and older patients had a rate of 66 per 1000 births (P = 0.013). Table 5: Complications of pregnancy and delivery among Teenage mothers compared to adult women at OAUTHC, Ile-Ife Traditional expectations that teenage girls remain virgins until marriage are incompatible with the realities of urban life.[4],[29],[30],[31] The girls' need to prove their fertility makes them further susceptible to unprotected sex. The 21st century adolescent is also subjected to a wide spectrum of media information, courtesy of advancement in global communications.[2] Pregnancy among teenagers constitutes an important medical, social, and educational problem.[9] Although the incidence of teenage pregnancy in Nigeria is unknown, studies have shown that teenagers constitute the bulk of cases of illegal abortion.[32],[33],[34] In our environment, teenagers account for 59.9% of illegal abortions and 31.6% of abortion-related deaths.[9] The contribution of teenage deliveries (4.08%) is lower than figures recorded in some parts of Nigeria where pregnancy and marriage occur relatively earlier.[7],[18],[20] This is probably related to the fact that early marriage is not common in southwestern Nigeria compared to other parts of the country. Pregnant teenagers in our environment would more likely opt for abortion rather than continue the pregnancy to viability.[9] The percentage of teenage pregnancy however compares well with 3.7% detected earlier in the same environment.[9] The relative increase may be because of the increase in societal permissiveness and poverty.[4],[12],[16],[23] Most teenagers do not intend to get pregnant.[4] This could not be ascertained from the case notes; the desire to terminate pregnancy is more closely associated with the socioeconomic status of the teenager and of her parents.[8] 27.45% of the patients were petty traders, 17.65% were apprentices in a trade, 19.61% were students and 31.37 were housewives. These support the fact that the more enlightened teenagers are the more likely to have induced abortion and hence not present for delivery. The partners of these patients were also mainly traders (31.37%) and artisans (27.45), this is in keeping with the reported status of spouses.[29] The woman's educational status and husband's occupation are well known parameters for measuring the social class of these patients, but however the data on the patients' educational status was scanty in the case note. This information would be better extracted in a prospective study. The proportion of these patients who are married (40.39%) is not unexpected; it is in line with the assumption that teenage marriage is uncommon in this part of the country.[9] Teenage pregnancy in this study was found to be associated with increased frequency of antepartum and intrapartum complications as documented by other authors. These complications might have arisen from age or other socio-physical factors,[13],[28],[35],[36] as it is not controlled. The incidence of premature rupture of membranes was not markedly higher in teenagers, this may be explained by the fact that being majorly nulliparous (94.12%), they may not have as much pelvic and vaginal infections (as to predispose to PROM) compared to the older women who have had more coital exposure and previous deliveries. In this study 51.76% of the patients lacked adequate antenatal care and thus the higher chance of antenatal and intrapartum complications.[37] This percentage is similar to 51.9% in a previous study (Ogunniyi et al., 1991). Delivery was at term in 60.78% of the study group. The caesarean section rate in this study (32.2%) is high and statistically significant when compared with 22.6% in the older age group. This may be because of a higher incidence of fetopelvic disproportion with obstructed labor (together accounting for 20.4%) when compared with the older population (12.1%). The fetal outcome was significantly poor among teenagers. The perinatal mortality rate was 106/1000 births compared with 66/1000 births in the adult women (P = 0.013). Also 18.7% of the babies had moderate asphyxia, which is in conformity with other studies,[9],[14],[17],[38],[39] and likely due to the higher incidence of maternal complications such as Antepartum hemorrhage, Eclampsia, Anemia, Abnormal presentations, Obstructed labor, and Intrauterine growth restriction which were all statistically significant when compared with the adult pregnant population. The percentage of low birth weight (33.34%) in this study is similar to the finding from a study in India;[17] also the higher incidence of intrauterine growth restriction among the pregnant teenagers in this study may be a reflection of the poor care and nutritional support given to the patients in addition to the medical complications they experienced since majority of them did not book for antenatal care. The highest birth weight of 3.95 kg was recorded in a 17-year-old booked, married, house wife; this is quite unusual, but probably due to the family support and care received by this married patient.[9],[26],[28],[40],[41] The maternal mortality rate of 784 per 100,000 live births is less than 1,968 per 100,000 live births recorded overall, it is not in keeping with findings in other studies.[42] This may be because of the smaller number of pregnant teenager population compared to the pregnant adult population. This hospital-based study only reveals the performance of the teenagers who booked for antenatal care and those that presented themselves as emergencies during pregnancy and delivery. Thus, the teenagers with spontaneous or induced abortions and other gynecological complications are not in this study. By inference, the low socio-economic class present at the hospital with teenage pregnancy,[4],[14],[41] and their obstetric performance is relatively poorer than that of the older age group.[4],[7],[9],[12],[17],[23],[24],[25],[42] Only a controlled clinical study would state whether the cause of this poor obstetric performance is physical, psychological, or age specific. Conclusion and Recommendation The obstetric outcome of teenage pregnancy is poor compared to the pregnant adult population. Emphasis should therefore be focused on effective family planning services and family life education, with improvement in the general socioeconomic status of the citizens.[7],[42] Legalization of abortion may reduce the effect of unwanted pregnancy on obstetric outcome. Adolescent contraception needs to be emphasized, as this will go a long way in reducing complications of abortion and teenage pregnancy.[2],[8] The recent increase in the female school enrolment will go a long way to minimize teenage pregnancy; since adolescents who have finished at least seven years in school are more likely to become matured at marriage.[2],[8] There is also need for women economic empowerment and regard for reproductive health right of women and adolescents. 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Garn SM, Petzold AS. Characteristics of the mother and child in teenage pregnancy. Am J Dis Child 1983;137:929-42. Okonofua FE, Makinde ON, Ayangade SO. Yearly trends in caesarean section and caesarean mortality in Ile-Ife, Nigeria. Trop J Obstet Gynaecol 1988;1:31-5. Yoder BA, Young MK. Neonatal outcome of teenage pregnancy in a military population. Obstet Gynaecol 1997;90:500-6. [Table 1], [Table 2], [Table 3], [Table 4], [Table 5] Ijarotimi O A Biobaku O R Badejoko O O Loto O M Orji E O Ile-Ife; outcome; pregnancy; teenage. Materials and Me... Conclusion and R...	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19376
__label__wiki	0.688645	0.688645	Preservation - A Landmark Lost By Roland Souza Sometimes glorious historic jewels are wrapped in plain paper. Such is (was) the case with the former St. James Armenian Apostolic Church’s Sanctuary, located at 3200 West Adams Boulevard. Built in 1957, the unadorned and blocky modern exterior of the church – designed to evoke in its shapes centuries-old cathedrals in Armenia – hides from clear view what was a splendid historical interior space. The St. James Sanctuary featured extensive murals on the walls and dome, gold leaf enhancements, copper niches, wood trim, wainscoting, and a mezzanine loft. We now use the word “was” because, despite city-imposed protections, the current owners, the charter school organization Stem Prep Academy, gutted that Sanctuary interior over the past few months. The action is shocking for many reasons. WAHA featured the former St. James Armenian Apostolic Church on a historic architecture tour in 2008, and members of the Preservation Committee had the pleasure of meeting with Armenian church officials to learn more about the interior features and, especially, the designs of the murals and the stained glass windows, which depict Armenian Saints as well as the Armenian Church in the Middle Ages. By then, the property had been sold and an adaptive reuse project was planned to convert the entire site into a charter school. WAHA worked with the charter school officials to create a plan whereby the Sanctuary would become the school’s multipurpose assembly room. However, Stem Prep, which has occupied the site for one year with its Math and Science College Preparatory Charter School, and the recent prior owner, Pacific Charter Schools, decided to eliminate the Sanctuary in order to build a basketball court and gymnasium -- even though their own historic consultant recommended methods to retain and protect the historical character features. Importantly, this plan was concealed from the community, key city planners, the neighborhood council, and Council District 10 until it was too late to save anything. So, now everything is demolished, plaster removed, floors removed. The murals are gone (with possibly one exception). The mezzanine is gone. Wainscoting and copper niches are gone. The stained glass remains, but will be covered on the interior, light not to shine through. Exterior features are intact, but school officials would also like to remove the rooftop copper crosses, to erase the building’s association with religion, according to Eric Barlow, Stem Prep’s Chief Operations Officer. The loss is doubly shameful due to the Sanctuary’s association with Armenian heritage. Church architecture is always a symbol of the presence of the sacred in the everyday world. But for Armenians the Church is also a sign of their survival and endurance in the world. In 2009 the City adopted an environmental clearance that required that the Sanctuary be preserved and any work undertaken utilize the Secretary of Interior Standards. Specifically, the owners were admonished that no historic materials were to be removed. A subsequent Conditional Use Permit (“CUP”) the same year, and a City Planning Commission further approval the following year, repeated the conditions and mitigations. However, recently these things happened: 1). The owners hid their true intentions from some decision-makers and the community. They submitted one set of plans and project description (basically showing and describing a “historically preserved sanctuary”) to the Planning Department’s Expediting Section, UNNC neighborhood council, The West Adams Avenues neighborhood association, and Council District 10. In multiple meetings and e-mails with community members and at public hearings, no mention was made of a “basketball court” or “gymnasium.” They submitted a different set of plans (showing a basketball court and demolished Sanctuary interior) to the HPOZ unit and Building and Safety. 2). The HPOZ planner never contacted the Expediting Unit planner, and never reviewed the original land use cases, and thus cleared the application based on exterior preservation only. 3). The project was submitted to the City‘s Valley office for building permits and project planning. The Planning Department staff member ALSO failed to look up and review the prior cases, and she approved/cleared the project. Since neither planner contacted the planner for the main case, he never knew there were two sets of project plans floating around. 4). The other factor was that multiple city officials along with the owners’ historic consultant made an error, thinking that the building’s exterior designation in 2011 as a “Contributor” to the Jefferson Park HPOZ was what the original 2009 conditions and requirements referred to – somehow not realizing that the historical protections for the Sanctuary two years before there was an HPOZ would therefore have nothing to do with the HPOZ. The St. James Armenian Apostolic Church was consecrated on December 15, 1957. At the time of its consecration the congregation was the largest Armenian Church in California. According to Historic Consultant Mitzi March Mogul, one of WAHA’s Preservation Committee members, “in many ways a replica of Armenian churches of the Middle Ages, the church exhibits the traditional iconography associated with the religion, but it also adapts and integrates it within the unconventionality of the Southern California lifestyle. The design of the church building is a combination of traditional Armenian design and mid-twentieth-century California architecture. It is that nexus between formal tradition and Armenia and modernity and Southern California that is most striking.” In her assessment, Mogul adds: “In church construction in the Diaspora, Armenians recall the ancient edifices in Armenia, but also adapt the style to local traditions, in this case, to Southern California. The Armenian churches were based on a combination of the Roman ground plan and the Greek basilica. It almost always has a pointed pyramidal dome--this one is sheathed in copper--resting on arches extending above the roof, as does this building.” What Was Lost Before the Sanctuary’s demolition, the barrel vaulted ceiling blended into a colonnade composed of squared pilasters and arches running the length of the North and South walls, with small chandeliers adorning each pendant. A highlight of the Sanctuary was the dome. The drum at its base was pierced by stained glass windows. The figures at the base of the dome on the four squinches [an arch placed diagonally at each corner of a square space as a link between it and the round form or barrel of the dome] were the apostles who were the chroniclers of the four New Testament Gospels -- accompanied by their Christian symbols/icons: Matthew with the Angel Mark with the winged Lion Luke with the Bull John with the Eagle Each of the apostles was surrounded by a field of gold leaf. Gold leaf was utilized throughout the murals and decorative motifs, which added a subtle glow to the Sanctuary. This luster was enhanced by the four chandeliers above the main aisle and by those that acted as pendants at the interior base of each colonnaded vault. The thousands of crystals that dangled from the brass chandeliers refracted the light to increase the luster of the gold leaf throughout the sanctuary. Originally the walls of the nave were painted the same dark moss gray as the fields of the Coptic cross motifs along the colonnade walls. This enhanced the effect of the gold leaf and of the refracting crystals. It is not clear if any of the interior is recoverable. Stem Prep officials admit they threw away the materials. UNNC’s Planning & Zoning Committee voted to recommend to the neighborhood council’s Governing Board that the school be censured; that a nuisance revocation be initiated; and that the Planning Department look into its own processes and procedures to determine how this happened and how to prevent such mistakes and lack of mitigation monitoring to happen in the future. The Governing Board may take this up at its August 4th meeting or later in the year. UNNC has also asked the City to NOT issue a certificate of occupancy until the matter is resolved. WAHA is also exploring its options. It is clear that we have lost something significant. Between World War I and World War II especially, West Adams became home to thousands of refugees escaping oppressive regimes, prejudice, war, and even genocide. They found safe haven right here in West Adams, but now one piece of that history, cultural heritage and connection to the past has been erased. Roland Souza is a current WAHA Board Member.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19381
__label__wiki	0.825787	0.825787	Handbook of Evidence-Based Substance Abuse Treatment in Criminal Justice Settings of: Carl Leukefeld, Thomas P. Gullotta, John Gregrich ISBN: 9781441994707 , 342 Pages Copy protection: DRM Price: 154,69 EUR More of the content Get high. Become addicted. Commit crimes. Get arrested and be sent to jail. Get released. Repeat. It's a cycle often destined to persist, in large part because the critical step that is often missing in the process, which is treatment geared toward ensuring that addicts are able to reenter society without the constant threat of imminent relapse. The Handbook of Evidence-Based Substance Abuse Treatment in Criminal Justice Setting probes the efficacy of corrections-based drug interventions, particularly behavioral treatment. With straightforward interpretation of data that reveals what works, what doesn't, and what needs further study, this volume navigates readers through the criminal justice system, the history of drug treatment for offenders, and the practical problems of program design and implementation. Probation and parole issues as well as concerns specific to special populations such as women, juvenile offenders, and inmates living with HIV/AIDS are also examined in detail. The Handbook's wide-ranging coverage includes: Biology and genetics of the addicted brain. Case management for substance-abusing offenders. Integrated treatment for drug abuse and mental illness. Evidence-based responses to impaired driving. Monitoring technology and alternatives to incarceration. The use of pharmacotherapy in rehabilitation. This must-have reference work is a comprehensive and timely resource for clinicians, researchers, and graduate students across a variety of disciplines including clinical psychology, criminology and criminal justice, counseling, and educational policy makers. Carl Leukefeld is Professor and Chair of the Department of Behavioral Science and founding Director of the Center on Drug and Alcohol Research at the University of Kentucky. He is also the Bell Alcohol and Addictions Endowed Chair. He came to the University of Kentucky in 1990 to establish the Center on Drug and Alcohol Research from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) where he filled administrative and research positions. He was also the Chief Health Services Officer of the United States Public Health Service. Dr. Leukefeld has published over 200 articles, chapters, books and monographs. He has taught the undergraduate Alcohol and Problem Drinking Course, the Dependency Behavior graduate course, and the Introduction to Clinical Medicine course for medical students. He currently is a reviewer and consulting editor for five journals, grant reviewer, and has been a member of the NIH Community-Level Health Promotion Study Section and the NIH/NIDA Health Services Initial Review Group. His research interests include treatment interventions, HIV prevention, criminal justice sanctions, and health services. Thomas P. Gullotta is C.E.O. of Child and Family Agency and a member of the psychology and education departments at Eastern Connecticut State University. He is the senior author of the 4th edition of The Adolescent Experience, co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Primary Prevention and Health Promotion, and editor emeritus of the Journal of Primary Prevention. He is the senior book series editor for Issues in Children's and Families' Lives. Tom holds editorial appointments on the Journal of Early Adolescence, The Journal of Adolescent Research and the Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation. He has published extensively on adolescents and primary prevention. Tom was honored in 1999 by the Society for Community Research and Action, Division 27 of the American Psychological Association with their Distinguished Contributions to Practice in Community Psychology Award. John Gregrich is retired from the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) where he served as Chief of the Treatment Branch in the Office of Demand Reduction. From this position he had oversight over, and developed interagency working groups involving, agencies from the Departments of Health and Human Services, Justice, and Education. He annually drafted sections of the National Drug Control Strategy, and developed white papers addressing needle exchange, drug dependent offenders, and drug treatment principles. He developed and oversaw a major Institute of Medicine study of marijuana and a national conference on drug dependent offenders; and served on review panels for, and occasionally contributed to publications of, the National Institute of Justice, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, and the Institute of Medicine. He achieved parity for drug treatment in federal employee health benefit plans and initiated efforts to establish linkages between primary healthcare providers and drug treatment and prevention programs. John came to ONDCP from the Department of Justice, where he developed, documented, and conducted national demonstrations of the Treatment Alternatives to Street Crime, Drug Abuse Resistance Education, Juror Utilization and Management, and Victim/Witness programs.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19382
__label__cc	0.566802	0.433198	Thursday, July 18, 2019 Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence. Errico Malatesta quotes Daily updated quotes! Errico Malatesta (1853 – 1932) Italian anarcho-communist. Anarchists generally make use if the word "State" to mean all the collection of institutions, political, legislative, judicial, military, financial, etc., by means of which management of their own affairs, the guidance of their personal conduct, and the care of ensuring their own safety are taken from the people and confided to certain individuals, and these, whether by usurpation or delegation, are invested with the right to make laws over and for all, and to constrain the public to respect them, making use of the collective force of the community to this end. Malatesta quotes We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves. We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man. Malatesta Errico quotes In the anarchist milieu, communism, individualism, collectivism, mutualism and all the intermediate and eclectic programmes are simply the ways considered best for achieving freedom and solidarity in economic life; the ways believed to correspond more closely with justice and freedom for the distribution of the means of production and the products of labour among men. Bakunin was an anarchist, and he was a collectivist, an outspoken enemy of communism because he saw in it the negation of freedom and, therefore, of human dignity. And with Bakunin, and for a long time after him, almost all the Spanish anarchists were collectivists (collective property of soil, raw materials and means of production, and assignment of the entire product of labour to the producer, after deducting the necessary contribution to social charges), and yet they were among the most conscious and consistent anarchists. Others for the same reason of defence and guarantee of liberty declare themselves to be individualists and they want each person, to have as individual property the part that is due to him of the means of production and therefore the free disposal of the products of his labour. Others invent more or less complicated system of mutuality. But in the long run it is always the searching for a more secure guarantee of freedom which is the common factor among anarchists, and which divides them into different schools. Malatesta Errico Anarchy is a word that comes from the Greek, and signifies, strictly speaking, "without government": the state of a people without any constituted authority. Before such an organization had begun to be considered possible and desirable by a whole class of thinkers, so as to be taken as the aim of a movement (which has now become one of the most important factors in modern social warfare), the word “anarchy” was used universally in the sense of disorder and confusion, and it is still adopted in that sense by the ignorant and by adversaries interested in distorting the truth. If you say that you reject violence when it exceeds the limits imposed by the needs of defense, they accuse you of pacifism, without understanding that violence is the whole essence of authoritarianism, just as the repudiation of violence is the whole essence of anarchism. By anarchist spirit I mean that deeply human sentiment, which aims at the good of all, freedom and justice for all, solidarity and love among the people; which is not an exclusive characteristic only of self-declared anarchists, but inspires all people who have a generous heart and an open mind... I claimed that "individualist anarchism and communist anarchism are the same, or nearly so, in terms of moral motivations and ultimate goals". I know that one could counter my claim with hundreds of texts and plenty of deeds of self-proclaimed individualist anarchists, which would demonstrate that individualist anarchist and communist anarchist are separated by something of a moral abyss. However, I deny that that kind of individualists can be included among anarchists, despite their liking for calling themselves so. If anarchy means non-government, non-domination, non-oppression by man over man, how can one call himself anarchist without lying to himself and the others, when he frankly claims that he would oppress the others for the satisfaction of his Ego, without any scruple or limit, other than that drawn by his own strength? He can be a rebel, because he is being oppressed and he fights to become an oppressor, as other nobler rebels fight to destroy any kind of oppression; but he sure cannot be anarchist. He is a would-be bourgeois, a would-be tyrant, who is unable to accomplish his dreams of dominion and wealth by his own strength and by legal means, and therefore he approaches anarchists to exploit their moral and material solidarity. Therefore, I think the question is not about "communists" and "individualists", but rather about anarchists and non-anarchists. And we, or at least many of us, were quite wrong in discussing a certain kind of alleged "anarchist individualism" as if it really was one of the various tendencies of anarchism, instead of fighting it as one of the many disguises of authoritarianism. Today's Anniversary (07/18/2019) Next Authors Maimonides Mair, Eddie Mair, Victor H. Majewski, Andrzej Majid, Sheila Major, John Makeba, Miriam Malakar, Sanjaya Malamud, Bernard Malatesta, Errico Malda, Rob CmdrTaco Malebranche, Nicolas Malevich, Kazimir Maliki, Nouri Malinovsky, Rodion Mallarme, Stephane Mallet, David (or David Malloch) Malloch, Ted Mallory, George © 2009–2013Quotes Privacy Policy \| Contact	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19383
__label__wiki	0.862606	0.862606	Spring Fling artists taking the stage A look at the lineup to visit campus during Spring Fling. Performers include local and profesional musical groups Published Apr 11, 2018 6:00am By Sarah Workman Q&A: UA graduate Ellery Page's honors thesis highlights the interplay of neuroscience, art and poetry By Mikayla Kaber 07/09/19 1:48am New teen music scene on the rise By Jamie Donnelly 06/24/19 9:49pm Q & A: UA Director of Bands is a recognized guest at Carnegie Hall By Jamie Donnelly 06/18/19 12:37am KiloBravo12/Wikimedia Commons \| The Daily Wildcat Quinn XCII at Irving Plaza on Feb. 27, 2018. The University of Arizona will be hosting its 44th annual Spring Fling festival starting Friday, April 13 and running through Sunday, April 15. The event will feature artists such as Austin Kelly, Sophia Rankin and Quinn XCII. Marketing director for the event, Josler Tudisco, said that the concert will showcase student performers, as well as other musicians. The combination of student and professional performances is essential in the talent selection process, Tudisco said. “We have a budget for the event, so we look at the amount of money we have allotted for a performer and we try to find a performer who is going to excite the UA community as well as the Tucson community,” Tudisco said. Some of the student performers that will be featured this year include, Black N Blue Crew and Amplified A Cappella. Another group that will be at the event will be the Saguaro Stompers, a local dance group. RELATED: 'Sweet Treats' Served on A Retro Set of Wheels In years past, Tudisco said that many of the performers were artists who became popular years before the event, including one of last year’s performers, We the Kings. However, this year’s performer, Quinn XCII, gained his popularity much more recently, and is well-known in the UA community. “This year, we decided to turn over a new leaf, and we got pretty lucky with Quinn XCII because he was just starting to get popular at that time,” Tudisco said. “I think it’s going to be a really good concert because a lot of people know who he is, especially around the UA.” Quinn XCII began his musical career as a rapper while attending school at Michigan State University. However, he is best known for his collaboration with Ayokay in “Kings of Summer,” which hit number one on the Global Viral Chart, according to an article by The KnockTurnal. “For all the performances we have, I think Quinn XCII is probably the one that everyone is most excited to see,” Tudisco said. The event is aimed at not only UA students, but Tucson families as well. As a Tucson native, Tudisco said that he had attended Spring Fling before he decided to attend UA. “I’m a Tucson local, so I remember going to these concerts when I was a kid in high school. It’s always been a lot of fun,” Tudisco said. “It really is just a part of growing up in the Old Pueblo.” RELATED: Turning into stone: UA dancers inspire sculptor Something that Tudisco believes makes the event special is that the carnival is a student-run event. The money raised at the event is also put back into activities and organizations that are beneficial to students. “All the money that we make goes back into the students,” Tudisco said. “Last year we raised $78,000 for clubs on campus through Spring Fling, which means a lot to our students and means a lot to our community as well.” The first day of the festival will kick off with performances from Austin Kelly at 5 p.m., followed by Blacklidge 17 at 5:30 p.m. and Quinn XCII at 7 p.m. Follow Daily Wildcat on Twitter	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19386
__label__wiki	0.810037	0.810037	TheBigBoot Goes Global #1: Mitsuharu Misawa By: TheBigBoot TheBigBoot Goes Global #1: Mitsuharu Misawa (18th June, 1962 – 13th June, 2009) “MIS-AH-WAH MIT-SU-HARUUUUUUUU!!!” A famous announcement signalling the introduction of one of pro wrestling’s modern day legends, often the start of another five star classic; one that we will sadly no longer hear. Last Saturday, Japanese wrestling icon, Pro Wrestling NOAHFounder-President and one of the greatest wrestlers of all time Mitusharu Misawa died following a bout in Hiroshima. Whilst teaming with Go Shiozaki against GHC Tag Team Champions Akitoshi Saito and Bison Smith, Misawa was knocked unconscious following a backdrop suplex from Saito. A stunned, hushed crowd watched as a doctor from the audience tried to revive him using CPR before he was rushed to a local hospital who pronounced him dead at 10:10 PM. Robert Heard already has a comprehensive look at Misawa’s entire career and his attitude to the business up on the site that is well worth checking out. This article is more my personal reflections as to how (and why) I will always remember him from the perspective of a wrestling fan in the UK. Over the last several days, I have read many tributes to Misawa stating Misawa/Kobashi matches that responsible for getting them interested in the wonderful world of puroresu (Japanese pro wrestling). Misawa played a part in my own journey as a fan albeit in a different way. Growing up a wrestling fan, I was exposed to Japanese wrestlers from Day One. Fans of World Of Sport-era British grappling got to witness the likes of Sammy Lee (Satoru ‘Tiger Mask I’ Sayama), Kwik-Kick-Lee (Akira Maeda) and ‘Flying’ Fuji Yamada (Jushin Liger) first hand as the future puroresu superstars were sent to the UK for seasoning. In 1989, one year after ending it’s coverage of British wrestling ITV started broadcasting NWA WorldWide (later WCW WorldWide) a programme which at the time featured another wrestler who would go on to achieve legendary status in his homeland – The Great Muta (aka Keiji Mutōh). Meanwhile, the late Jumbo Tsuruta was a regular name to appear in the wrestling magazines, normally due to his connections with the AWA (mentioned in every article on Rick Martel back then) or the fact he was wrestling Terry ‘Bam Bam’ Gordy in Japan. Although a fan of all the above, for me it was the exploits of Jushin ‘Thunder’ Liger during his 1991-92 run in WCW that got me interested in wrestling outside of Europe and the United States. As a result the first Japanese wrestling I got into was New Japan, especially since it became easily accessible via EuroSport around the same time. So whilst I can’t say that Misawa matches were the reason I became interested in watching some Japanese wrestling, I will say that he was the reason I got into All Japan Pro Wrestling. Whereas with New Japan there was people like The Steiners, Muta, Liger, Big Van Vader, Road Warrior Hawk, 2 Cold Scorpio, and Chris Benoit all of whom I was already very familiar with/fans of from their work in the States, with AJPW it was Misawa who was the first one that got my attention when I ordered one of those ‘Best Of Japan >insert month<’ tapes after seeing the kind of star ratings they regularly got in Rob Butcher’s monthly tape lists. Whilst many puro fans will tell you that Kenta Kobashi is the first one of AJPW’s ‘Famous Five’ (Mitsuharu Misawa, Kenta Kobashi, Toshiaki Kawada, Jun Akiyama, and Akira Taue) that people who have never seen the style before “get” because he was flashier and more fiery, and that the more reserved personalities of Misawa and Kawada take longer to appreciate, for me it was the opposite. The first time I saw AJPW I liked Misawa the most and, as a result, I got into the others (plus Americans like Stan Hansen - whom I liked from WCW but didn’t yet know much about), precisely because I already liked ‘Double M’. To be brutally honest, if I hadn’t enjoyed Misawa the first time I saw him I might not have bothered with AJPW/NOAH ever again (I turned off a lot of U.S. and European Indy wrestling just because I didn’t enjoy it anymore). Maybe it was because he was portrayed as the ‘Ace’, the ‘Main Man’ of All Japan that made me connect with him. At the time, Bret Hart and Ric Flair (pre-Hogan arrival) were both being portrayed as the top babyface and the top wrestler in WWF and WCW respectively so, first seeing Misawa in 1994, he seemed to be promoted in a similar way. Along with guys like Terry Funk, Sabu, Atsushi Onita, and the late Eddie Gilbert, Chris Candido, The Public Enemy, Eddy Guerrero and Art Barr he was one of the first who showed me there was more to wrestling outside the usual Joint Promotions/All-Star Wrestling/WWF/Jim Crocket Promotions/WCW/CWA/USWA/WCCW//Mid-South/UWF/NJPW/GLOW stuff that I had been accustomed to seeing up to that point. It wasn’t hard to see why even back then people considered him to be one of the greatest wrestlers of all time. Many consider him the greatest. In this case, I found this wrestler really was as good as the hype suggested. Misawa was trained for wrestling from an early age. As a teenager he attended Ashikaga-kodai High School, alongside future rival Toshiaki Kawada, and while there young Misawa became the Japanese high school national amateur wrestling champion at 187 pounds in 1980. He also placed fifth for Freestyle wrestling in the World Championships that same year. Recruited out of school by All Japan founder the late Shohei ‘Giant’ Baba he officially joined the company in March 1981 and following training under the guidance of Baba, The Destroyer (Dick Beyer) and Dory Funk Jr. he made his debut on 21st August that year. Misawa’s first real push came in 1984 when he was chosen to be the second incarnation of Tiger Mask (following Sayama). As well known as he became in the gimmick he would go on to even greater fame without it. In a memorable angle, during a tag team match on 14th May, 1990 he told his partner Kawada to remove his mask which he threw into the crowd. Mere weeks later (8th June) in his first main event at the legendary Budokan Hall he defeated the companies top star Jumbo Tsuruta in one of my favourite Japanese matches ever. That one classic has been credited as the beginning of a new era in AJPW with the rise of the “Super Generation Army”. Misawa’s rise to the top was completed on 22nd August, 1992 when he defeated Stan Hansen to win the Triple Crown Championship (AJPW’s World Title). He would hold the belt for almost two years, during which period I started to follow Misawa as he held off every challenge, before memorably dropping it to ‘Dr. Death’ Steve Williams on 28th July, 1994. The win over Hansen had established him as AJPW’s ‘Ace’, their ‘Top Dog’, literally The Man who would carry on AJPW’s Royal Road in the tradition of Giant Baba and Jumbo Tsruta, by taking it to the next level. It was a role he would occupy for the remainder of the decade, during which he captured the Triple Crown a record five times (a combined time of 1,799 days) and contested numerous hard-hitting thirty-plus-minute singles and tag matches opposite the likes of Hansen, Kawada, Taue, Williams, Gordy, Kobashi, and Vader, many of which are regarded as legitimate classics. To this day, his 3rd July, 1994 Triple Crown defence against Toshiaki Kawada is considered by many to be the best singles match of all-time - an example of pro wrestling taken to its highest point as an art form. Less than a year later, his 9th June, 1995 match alongside Kenta Kobashi against Kawada and Akira Taue in which Kawada scored his first pinfall over Mitsuharu Misawa is possibly the best tag team match ever. That both matches happened at or near the peak of the tape-trading boom in the UK brings back fond memories for many fans of that era. In fact even as late as 2003, when UK tape trading guru Glen Radford decided to sell off his collection, I made sure to pick up master copies of some of those to have them in the best quality possible (at the time). By the time Baba passed away on 31st January 1999, Misawa was a strong contender for ‘Wrestler Of The Decade’ but the new millennium brought some tough challenges. Following the death of Baba, Misawa was named AJPW President but a series of disagreements with Shohei’s widow Motoko Baba led to him being removed from the Executive Board and leaving the promotion in 2000. Taking his cue from the first book of the Bible, Misawa named the new group ‘Pro Wrestling NOAH’, only in this case the Ark was filled with the majority of the AJPW. Proof of the high regard in which Misawa’s peers regarded him, the mass exodus left only Japanese natives Toshiaki Kawada and Masanobu Fuchi, and ‘Gaijan’ (foreign wrestlers) Stan Hansen and Maunakea Mossman (Taiyo Kea) remaining in All Japan. NOAH debuted with a show appropriately named Departure on 5th August, 2000. Although Misawa held his new company’s top belt, the GHC Title, on three occasions he was eager to pass the torch. Through an unfortunate combination of injuries to other top stars and newer stars not getting over as legitimate headliners he was forced to continue to feature himself in a prominent role despite his mounting injuries. As someone who works with small businesses as one of my ‘day jobs’, I can relate this to the experience that many owner-managers face. Misawa’s most talked about NOAH match, amongst Western fans came against Kobashi on 1st March, 2003 at Navigation For Evolution. Despite the accumulative injuries both men had from years of working a highly physical style (Kobashi had surgery eleven times in total on both knees prior) they were able to pull out a dramatic 33 minute match in which Kobashi finally defeated Misawa for the GHC Title. Kobashi’s first major title win over Misawa was supposed to signal a new era but for some it came several years too late. Nonetheless, it is hard to remember a Japanese match post-1997 that generated as much discussion amongst fans that don’t regularly follow puro. In 2004, fans in the UK and Ireland got a chance to see the promotion on a regular basis when NOAH was broadcast on The Wrestling Channel. The following March they got the chance to see him up-close as Misawa teamed with Tiger Emperor and Yoshinari Ogawa against Doug Williams, James Tighe and Scorpio as part of TWC’s International Showdown at the Coventry Skydome. Amazingly, that wasn’t his only appearance in the UK (or in Coventry) as the Japanese legend also joined forces with Yoshinari Ogawa (vs. Doug Williams and Stevie Knight) in Scotland’s BCW (the night before International Showdown), and with Naomichi Marufuji (vs. old rival Kenta Kobashi and Go Shiozaki) and Kotaro Suzuki (vs. Bison Smith and Mark Haskins) as part of last July’s European Navigation tour which represented NOAH’s first events outside Japan. Little did anyone know it would be for the last time? As common as wrestlers deaths seem to be, 46 is still no age to go (since then Japanese referee Ted Tanabe died at the same age). Any death is sad, but death in the ring has added poinancy. Whether you were a hardcore puroresu wrestling fanatic or just someone like me , not the most regular watcher but normally takes time out to check out the bigger matches each year, the chances are, if you saw him, Misawa had an impact. His trademark green and white tights, forearm-based offense and one of the best entrance tunes in the business (Spartan X) are as identifiable with Puro as any wrestler has ever been. His rivalries with Kawada and Kobashi are possibly the most famous series of Japanese wrestling matches to Western fans. So how would I explain Misawa to someone who hasn’t seen him? I would just say that in the twenty-plus years I have been following this crazy thing we call ‘pro wrestling’ there have been many wrestlers ranked amongst my favourites to watch, but there are very few wrestlers I have ever called “great”. Personally, I would put Misawa up there with (or above) the likes of Jumbo, The Funks, Race, Flair, Steamboat, Savage, Hart, Dynamite, Rocco, Liger, Mutōh, Takada, Vader, Kobashi, and Kawada as wrestlers people should check out because they were amongst the very, very best I have seen at what they did. A successful business owner, a company figurehead and an iconic wrestler, Misawa performed at a level very few have been able to match as evidenced by the fact he was involved in more (24) matches rated ***** by The Wrestling Observer than any other worker in history. His contributions to the business will be sorely missed. At this time I feel sorry for his family, friends and also everyone the Misawa match, especially Saito. Misawa would have turned 47 this Thursday. Last weekend pro wrestling has lost one of its best. He will be sadly missed. I thank him for the hours of enjoyment he has given me. Carl ‘TheBigBoot’ Robinson - Contact TheBigBoot - TRS: How to make a Hash out of stardomBy Robert Heard - 08/02/2004 11:00 PMTRS: What do you do with stale goods?By Robert Heard - 07/19/2004 11:00 PMTRS: The movers and the shakersBy Robert Heard - 12/15/2007 11:03 PMThe law of diminishing returns - The state of Joshi PuroresuBy Mr Dragon - 11/17/2004 12:00 AMAkira Hokuto ProfileBy Mr Dragon - 08/22/2004 11:00 PMToryumon January 2004 Revolucion PPV ReviewBy Jason Chedy - 09/27/2004 11:00 PMTRS: Critical AcclaimBy Robert Heard - 02/05/2008 9:42 PMTRS: Whatever happened to the Golden Generation?By Robert Heard - 12/02/2007 7:48 PMIn memory and respect of Mitsuharu MisawaBy Robert Heard - 06/15/2009 12:02 AMTRS: The annual PWI 500 2004 and the state of NJPWBy Robert Heard - 11/08/2004 12:00 AM More on the WWE/NJPW link up...By Robert Heard - 05/20/2004 9:34 PM NJPW Best of the Super Junior XI updateBy Robert Heard - 06/11/2004 10:24 PM Nagata hatches a plan and NJPW Toyko show problemsBy Robert Heard - 06/14/2004 2:52 PM NOAH Results 18/5/04By Robert Heard - 05/18/2004 9:59 PM Hustle-2 card run-downBy Matt Singh - 03/01/2004 3:03 PM NOAH Tour closer results, titles on the line.By Robert Heard - 10/25/2004 5:30 PM 5/10 Pride results (spoilers)By Matt Singh - 10/05/2003 4:39 PM Noah newsBy Robert Heard - 08/08/2004 10:46 AM All Japan Results 22/7/04 - Kawada in chargeBy Robert Heard - 07/22/2004 1:02 PM NOAH 21/8/04 Results...By Robert Heard - 08/21/2004 1:26 PM	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19391
__label__wiki	0.66002	0.66002	Read The Quest: Countdown to Armageddon: Book 6 Online Authors: Darrell Maloney The Quest: Countdown to Armageddon: Book 6 Countdown to Armageddon: Book 6 By Darrell Maloney This is a work of fiction. All persons depicted in this book are fictional characters. Any resemblance to any real person, living or dead, is purely coincidental. Copyright 2015 by Darrell Maloney This book is dedicated to my brother, Randy Maloney, who passed away a few months ago. Randy was strong and forthright, like the character in this book who shares his name. He was also one of the finest men I’ve ever known. I miss him and love him so very much. You’d have loved him too. Randy, this is for you. THE STORY THUS FAR… Scott Harter was nothing special. Just an ordinary guy living in the suburbs with a typical family and a dog named Duke. If anything set Scott apart from everybody else, it was his extraordinary luck. All his life, he seemed to be in the right place at the right time. He’d started his business at just the right moment, getting in early on what would become a booming self storage industry. He seemed to know when and how to play the stock market so that his money grew at a steady pace. It was also his good luck that drove him to dig inside a storage locker when its renter defaulted on his contract. What he found in the locker didn’t make much sense at first. Some old maps of the heavens. A lot of literature about the Mayans. And a journal, left behind by an old college professor who’d seemingly vanished from the face of the earth. Scott read the journal. And the more he read, the more concerned he got. “The Mayans never said the world was going to end,” the old professor wrote. “They said that December 21, 2012 started a new era. An era they called ‘the last period of progress.’” And then Scott found the answer he’d been looking for. It turned out the Mayans could predict solar flare activity. They discovered that solar storms, like most other things in the universe, run in cycles. Just as earth had seasons of increased storm activity, so did the sun. But unlike earth, which has a hurricane season each year, the sun’s storms happened less frequently. Every two hundred years, give or take a few. And just as the Mayans had seen the planets and their moons without the aid of telescopes they also knew, beyond all reason, that the cyclic solar activities around the year 2020, give or take a few years, would cause unfathomable damage. But with the mysterious professor’s notes and the research Scott did at the library, he had the tools he needed to prepare for the inevitable. He had the know-how and the drive. What he didn’t have was the time. A big problem, as Scott saw it, was that the Mayans weren’t very specific. The professor said that the solar storms came every two hundred years. He’d commented in his notes that it was akin to predicting on which day the first snowstorm of the winter might come. It was obviously coming. But pinning it down far ahead of time was just a little bit harder. Scott enlisted the help of his girlfriend Joyce, and borrowed heavily from the bank to purchase a section of land in the hill country above San Antonio. It was far enough away from the city to be safe from the turmoil that would engulf the urban areas. It was also rural enough to be able to grow crops and raise livestock. For the better part of two years, the pair worked against the clock, praying each day that the EMPs would hold off a little longer, until they were finished. Finally, their compound was ready to occupy. They’d prepared a large field for growing crops. Enlarged a small playa lake and diverted a stream to fill it; then stocked it with fish. They’d built a tall security fence around most of the compound, to hide the fact that they were keeping cattle, pigs, chickens and rabbits on the inside. And most importantly, Scott built a huge Faraday cage, the size of a two car garage. Inside the cage he’d placed the small things they’d need to carry on the lives they’d become accustomed to. The television sets and microwaves and video games. And the important things, too. Batteries. Spare parts to get their vehicles running again. Spare pumps and transformers and surveillance cameras. When the solar storm finally happened, it sent electromagnetic pulses toward the earth at half a million miles an hour. Everything, from flashlights to vehicles to pacemakers, stopped functioning. The world around Scott and his loved ones was going mad. In the cities, people were outraged at the electric companies for not getting the power back on. The water was no longer flowing, and people were getting desperately thirsty. They were angry and looking for someone to blame. Even the police and fire crews were almost powerless, and having to resort to riding commandeered bicycles to help those they could get to. All the ugliness of mankind came out. The looting started, and then the violence. Buildings were set on fire and cars were overturned. The decent people holed themselves up in their houses. The bad roamed the streets, looking for whatever they could plunder. At the compound, the group of six was safe. But there was a lot to be done. Things went relatively smoothly at the compound. They transitioned into a farming and ranching lifestyle. With the help of Tom Haskins, their one and only neighbor, they learned to plant and harvest crops, and how to care for livestock. Scott developed a close friendship with a San Antonio police officer named John Castro. A war hero, John fought hard to join the SAPD despite leaving half a leg in the burning sands of Fallujah. And he was fighting equally hard to save the city he loved. Scott and John talked frequently by ham radio. Scott learned that San Antonio was decimated. Few would survive the waves of starvation and suicides. Bodies were stacked in the streets and burned until they were merely piles of ashes and bones. But that wasn’t all. The decomposing bodies had created a pneumonia-like plague that was sweeping through the cities. It was treatable only with massive doses of antibiotics, and was ravaging what was left of the population. John was sure to be infected eventually. He was out among the masses every day, trying to restore order and to bring his city back from the brink. But he was desperate to get his wife and two girls away from the city. Tom Haskins went to work on a Walmart truck abandoned by the side of the road since the blackout. He was able to get it running, and seventy two boxes of unprocessed wheat were added to the load of food. Tom and Scott took a harrowing trip back to the city and dropped the load. In exchange for the food, they brought back something even better: John’s wife and daughters. Then John came down with the plague. He went into a coma because he was allergic to penicillin and couldn’t be treated using the normal protocol. San Antonio was out of an alternative antibiotic. But Tom was able to find some in nearby Junction. Scott made a second run to San Antonio, to drop off the medication that would save his friend’s life. Unfortunately, Scott didn’t make it back safely. In fact, he didn’t make it back at all. He was ambushed by a gang of thugs who shot him and left him to die. Scott recovered fully, but in the process was exposed to the deadly plague sweeping through the city. Although he showed no symptoms, he was told he could be a carrier. And that old people and infants were especially susceptible to the infectious disease. He opted to stay away from the compound for the few months to a year it would take for the plague to dissipate, instead of endangering his newborn grandson. In doing so, he relied on the men and women he left behind to make do without him. And he volunteered to help his new friends in the San Antonio Police Department try to regain order in the city. The SAPD was decimated and down to just a few officers. They were resorting to desperate measures, and one of them was recruiting good men regardless of their backgrounds. There was no more police academy. Scott had to learn on the fly, by watching his partners and mimicking their tactics. Luckily, by this time most of what the police did had nothing to do with enforcing the laws. Most of their duties involved helping the few survivors continue to survive. Scott wore the uniform with pride. He knew it was only temporary, and he’d never be a “real” cop. But he was making a difference, and it gave him a sense of accomplishment while he waited for the “all clear” that would allow him to return home again. Scott, still in San Antonio, was talking to his family via ham radio when he heard shots ring out. “We’re under attack!” Joyce shouted. Ninety miles to the south, Scott and his friends were too far away to be of immediate help. But like the cavalry of old, they were on their way and flying fast. They arrived at the compound in the waning minutes of the battle, and were able to help finish off the attackers. Scott and John brought Robbie and Randy, two fellow officers and friends, along for the fight. But the damage had been done. Scott’s girlfriend Joyce was killed instantly when she was struck in the forehead as the battle raged. The group cried as one. It was a dreadful loss. Scott and the others had to watch Joyce’s funeral from afar. They were still carriers of the deadly plague and therefore couldn’t come into close contact with any of their loved ones. It made the pain even harder for Scott to bear. As it turned out, the gang which attacked the compound was infamous around the Kerrville area for their brutality. After Tom and Scott put the gang’s bodies on display as a warning for others to steer clear, word got around Junction. City leaders decided that grizzled old Tom Haskins might just be the man tough enough to clear the other gangs out of Junction and Kerrville and clean up the towns. Tom was offered the job of sheriff, and reluctantly accepted. Back in San Antonio, Scott was deemed experienced enough to be given a new partner of his own. Named Rhett Butler, the rookie quipped, “Hey, what can I say? My mom was a big Scott laughed out loud in disbelief when he learned that Rhett had managed to find and marry a girl named Scarlett. Rhett and Scarlett quickly became two of Scott’s closest friends. They were with him when he stepped on a piece of wood with a protruding nail. “Oh, it’s nothing,” he said, until his foot became infected and he had to seek medical care. As it happened, Scott was treated by Becky, the same nurse who’d brought him back from the brink after his gunshot wound some months before. Becky was an angel of mercy. Not only did she clear up the infection, she also helped him grieve, and taught him to deal with Joyce’s death. In the process, Becky’s love for Scott, there since their first encounter but never acted on, grew stronger. The story ended as the plague started to dissipate. Scott was called aside by the police chief and given the first good news he’d heard in awhile. “You’ve become a fine officer, Scott, and you should be proud of the work you’ve done for the city of San Antonio. I wish I could keep you around longer. But I know you’ve got loved ones up north of here who need you worse than we do. “We expect the FEMA people to issue an all clear within a few weeks. You need to start making plans to go back to Junction and rejoin your family.” It was the news he couldn’t wait to hear. But he was conflicted. He now loved Becky and didn’t want to leave her behind. But she was filling a key role as a head nurse in one of the busiest hospitals in Texas. It was also one of the hospitals that was most understaffed. “If I pull you away from here, your co-workers will have to work even harder. And they’re being run into the ground already. But please understand, everyone else I love in the world is up north in the compound. I’ve got to get back to them. I’ve just got to.” The Last Cop Out by Mickey Spillane The Stranger Came by Frederic Lindsay Neighborly Complications (Stories of Serendipity #1) by Conley, Anne Ethics of a Thief by Hinrichsen, Mary Gale The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy Into Action by Kaplan, Robert S., Norton, David P. Forever and a Day by Alexis Konsantino By Chance (Courtland Chronicles) by Grant, Cat Point of No Return by Rita Henuber Learning to Trust: New Life by B. B. Roman Dead Anyway by Chris Knopf	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19394
__label__cc	0.732632	0.267368	Situation with banks in Ukraine: Figures and Facts Author : Oleksandr Okhrimenko It is impossible to demand from banks to work like in the EU, as Ukrainian economy is far from the EU Read the original article at 112.ua 112 Agency In January 2017, the banking system of Ukraine showed a profit of 338 million UAH. Almost sensational news, given that in January 2016 there was a loss of 890 million UAH, and in January 2015 - 8.5 billion UAH. In January 2013, the profit of the banking system was at the level of 560 million UAH. It can be said that Ukraine’s banking system has finally left the unprofitable line that has been pursuing it for the past three years. This is an accounting loss, and as a result, the main factor here was the size of the formed reserves for problem loans. They also formed huge accounting losses of the banking system over the past years. But this does not mean that we now have less problem loans. Unfortunately, in January 2017 the share of problem loans was 28% of all loans that had been issued. In January 2014, this figure was 10%. But by the end of 2016 problem loans were partially written off and once again changed the method of forming reserves for such loans. As a result, they reduced the size of the reserves and finally "got" the desired profit on the banking system. As for other items of income and expenditure of the banking system, it is worth noting that in January 2017 the banking system received an income of 484 million UAH from foreign exchange operations, but we remember the loss of more than 1 billion a year ago. The devaluation of hryvnia earlier this year helped banks to earn extra money. But interest on loans, on the contrary, decreased. In January 2017, the total amount of banks’ interest received for loans decreased by 6%. Now commission fees are very important for banks, because they form the main income. Therefore, the development of non-cash payments and the use of payment cards by the population is the main goal of the Ukrainian banking system. In conditions when crediting does not work, it is exactly operations with cards and credits on cards that help banks very much. Therefore, recently, many banks are actively offering consumer loans. Indeed, the rates are high, but for consumer loans rates are always high, since these are quick and unsecured loans, which means - high-risk loans. But banks simply do not have a choice. After the "reforms" the banking system cannot function properly. All these problem loans, the idle market of interbank loans, the dominance of the "black currency market," and the banks' endless nervousness as a result of "cleaning" of their ranks lead to the fact that banks do not give loans to either business or the population. As a result, banks now have a large surplus of free money. The indicator of instant liquidity for January 2017 is 60% with a standard of 20%. But there is no way to lend normally, and only high-risk consumer loans remain as an instrument. This is the paradox of our banking system. And there is a lot of money, and there is a desire to lend, but there is no possibility in these conditions, which the NBU created for the banking system of Ukraine. Even banks with EU owners are now in shock. They just do not know what to do in Ukraine with such a banking system. We have to survive. Indeed, there is an opportunity and a great desire this year to launch lending to the economy. To do this, there are all the prerequisites, but so far there is no support, or rather, competent steps from the NBU. Banks want and can lend to the economy, but they need clear and understandable rules without any exceptions and chaos. You cannot demand from banks to work according to EU type, as the economy of Ukraine is far from the EU economy. But it is impossible to give loans through state-owned banks in the manual mode and call it lending to the economy of Ukraine. Here it is necessary to do it correctly, so that it would be beneficial for banks and customers. Related: Luxembourg to allocate €500 thousand to Ukraine for humanitarian projects Related: EU extends sanctions against violators of territorial integrity of Ukraine Related: Multi-speed Europe: West is "for", but Poland - "against" EU Ukraine banks loans UAH POLITICS21:16Presentation of peace plan of settlement of Donbas conflict in European Council, full text UKRAINE TOP 16:15Dollar devaluation: What does this mean for Ukraine? POLITICS23:12Greed of our oligarchs and consequences for ordinary Ukrainians POLITICS12:41India says Russia's missiles don't work (and wants to buy Israeli ones instead) FINANCE21:27How Ukraine could smooth out exchange rate fluctuations? UKRAINE TOP 12:28Volodymyr Zelensky: Why Ukraine's new president needs second election win RUSSIA19:50American commandos gear up for new shadow war with Russia UKRAINE TOP 15:04Outcomes of Ukraine-EU summit in Kyiv UKRAINE TOP 14:11Opposition platform – For life: Zelensky is silent toward attack at 112 Ukraine as he is fine with it POLITICS12:54Europe is stuck between the United States and Russia	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19396
__label__wiki	0.69482	0.69482	Are Social Media Short Sellers Calling for a Pullback? By Chris Lange September 13, 2017 10:20 am EDT Social media has taken the world by storm, building virtual communities for anyone who has internet access and allowing people to connect and share across the globe. Many of these sites have changed the world in terms of how we meet people, read the news, get jobs and even date. These companies are on the cutting edge of social trends and are a good beacon to look toward for change. Facebook and Twitter are the main names in this group, with one hitting all-time highs while the other is holding near its low. Despite being the preferred communication channel for the current U.S. commander-in-chief, Twitter still has been unable to monetize its platform, which has investors growing ever more concerned. However, Twitter’s most recent earnings report has restored some faith in the stock. On the other hand, Facebook has been steadily expanding and is taking a sizable piece of the online advertising pie. The August 31 short interest data have been compared with the previous report. Short interest in most of these selected social media stocks increased for this settlement date. Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) had its short interest increase to 21.44 million shares from the previous 21.06 million. Shares were last seen trading at $172.80, within a 52-week trading range of $113.55 to $175.49. The number of Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) shares short increased to 57.92 million from the previous level of 55.17 million. Shares traded at $18.25, in a 52-week range of $14.12 to $25.25. Match Group Inc. (NASDAQ: MTCH) saw its short interest rise to 16.33 million from the previous level of 15.28 million. Shares were trading at $23.30, in a 52-week range of $15.08 to $24.05. Weibo Corp.’s (NASDAQ: WB) short interest came in at 10.00 million, compared to the previous level of 9.31 million. Shares were changing hands at $108.00, within a 52-week trading range of $40.12 to $107.86. 24/7 Wall St. The 6 Most Shorted Nasdaq Stocks Short interest in Yelp Inc. (NYSE: YELP) decreased to 6.51 million shares. The previous reading was 8.38 million. Shares recently traded at $43.55, in a 52-week range of $26.93 to $44.25. Snap Inc. (NYSE: SNAP) saw its short interest increase to 94.62 million, compared to the previous level of 69.60 million. Shares were trading at $15.15, in a post-IPO range of $11.28 to $29.44. By Chris Lange « Short Sellers Focus Even More on Major Semiconductors Short Sellers Can’t Make Up Their Minds on Cybersecurity Stocks » Read more: Media, short interest, social media, Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), Twitter, Inc. (NYSE:TWTR), WB, YELP	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19398
__label__wiki	0.778929	0.778929	Start your day in a beautiful way: Subscribe to Aleteia's daily newsletter here. Thanos’ Infinity Gauntlet looks eerily similar to a Catholic relic Library of Melk Abbey, in Melk, Austria The library of the abbey of Melk, a famous Benedictine abbey overlooking the Danube founded in the 11th century, contains about 85,000 volumes, plus 1,200 manuscripts and incunabula (books printed before 1501). Its architecture is impressive, including the ceiling fresco by 18th-century Austrian Baroque painter Paul Troger depicting an allegory of the Faith. The wooden statues symbolize the four faculties: law, medicine, philosophy and theology. Vatican Apostolic Library Established in 1474 by Pope Sixtus IV, the Apostolic Library of the Holy See houses more than a million and a half books, 300,000 coins and 8,300 incunabula. Once considered the largest library in the world, it's not only known for its exceptional setting, but also for the painted decorations that adorn its large reading room. Known as the Sistine Hall, this area was opened to the public as a reading room in October 2017 after several years of work. Built by architect Domenico Fontana between 1588 and 1589, it is decorated floor to ceiling. The frescoes were executed by about 40 painters whom Sixtus V had gathered for the occasion. Michal Osmenda I CC BY-SA 2.0 Library of the Imperial Abbey of Salem, Baden-Württemberg, Germany Located in Baden-Württemberg, north of Lake Constance, the Imperial Abbey of Salem covers 17 hectares (42 acres) surrounded by vineyards, meadows, fields and forests. Built along the river Aach, this Cistercian abbey was founded in 1134. For more than 650 years, it was one of the most important abbeys of the Cistercian order in Germany. Built in Baroque style, its library has a superb vaulted ceiling. It holds about 60,000 works. Wolfgang Sauber I CC BY-SA 4.0 Library Sainte-Geneviève in Paris The Place du Pantheon in Paris is home to this neo-classical building. Built in 1851 by the architect Henri Labrouste, the library was built on the site of the former college of Montaigu. This institution is the heir to the third largest library in Europe, that of the former abbey of Saint-Genevieve of Paris, founded by Clovis in the 6th century and dismantled in the Revolution. Today, the Sainte-Geneviève Library holds about 2 million documents covering all fields of knowledge: philosophy, psychology, religions, social sciences, pure and applied sciences, linguistics, art, literature, history and geography. Marie-Lan Nguyen I CC BY 2.0 fr Library of Kremsmunster Abbey in Austria At the heart of the monastery of the Benedictine Abbey of Kremsmunster, founded in 777, this magnificent library was built between 1680 and 1689 by the Italian architect Carlo Antonio Carlone. It's one of the largest libraries in Austria, with about 160,000 volumes, as well as 1,700 manuscripts and nearly 2,000 incunabula. The most valuable book is the Codex Millenarius, a book containing the four Gospels written in Latin around the year 800. Peppe Guida Library of Waldsassen Abbey in Germany Completed in 1727, the library of this sumptuous Cistercian Abbey of Waldsassen is a true jewel of Baroque art. Its stucco decorations made by Pietro Appiani are found next to remarkable woodwork and humorous figures, which one might not expect to find in a library of Cistercian monks! Zairon I CC BY-SA 3.0 Library of Wiblingen Monastery in Germany This former Benedictine abbey today houses the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Ulm. The interior of its library is particularly famous for its 18th-century architecture. Completed in 1744, it’s considered one of the most famous examples of Rococo architecture. The ceiling paintings by Franz Martin Kuen, the architecture, the sculptures, the fine columns of the galleries, the stuccoes and the penetration of light give an impression of perfect harmony. Benedictine Library of Admont, Austria Founded in 1074 in the heart of the Austrian Alps, this Benedictine abbey hosts the largest monastic library in the world. Built in the 18th century in a Rococo style, its spectacular dimensions (approx. 13 yards tall, 70 yards long and 14 yards wide) house a unique collection of rare books. There are no fewer than 200,000 books, including extraordinary manuscripts of the Middle Ages, and works of art dating from that time to the Renaissance. Jorge Royan I CC BY-SA 3.0 Library of the Monastery of San Lorenzo Del Escorial in Madrid, Spain The library of the Escorial Monastery is part of the magnificent site of the former residence of the King of Spain. Built at the end of the 16th century, it has more than 45,000 volumes. It’s famous especially for having the world's largest collection of Arabic and Hebrew manuscripts. Xauxa Håkan Svensson I CC BY-SA 3.0 Library of Strahov Monastery in Czech Republic With collections of more than 200,000 books, the Strahov Premonstratensian Monastery Library is located in the heart of Prague. The 800-year-old institution is one of the most valuable and best preserved libraries in Europe. It includes illuminated manuscripts, maps, terrestrial and celestial globes, and medieval engravings. The sumptuous Baroque and neo-classical ceilings are covered in frescoes by Siardo Nosecký and Franz Anton Maulbertsch. Yelkrokoyade I CC BY-SA 3.0 Library of St. Florian Monastery in Austria The library of this monastery is one of the oldest and most impressive in Austria. Baroque in style, its ceiling is sumptuously decorated with frescoes by Bartolomeo Altomonte (figures) and Antonio Tassi (architectural painting). These works symbolically depict the union of virtue and science under the protection of religion. The library has 150,000 volumes, most of which date back to before 1900. Facebook I Stift St. Florian Library of St. Gallen Abbey in Switzerland Founded in the 7th century and rebuilt in the 18th century in Baroque style, the Library of St. Gallen Abbey is one of the oldest monastic libraries in the world. The Abbey of St. Gallen was for centuries one of the most important Benedictine monasteries in Europe. Its library is known to have been one of the richest in medieval times. Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen I CC BY-SA 3.0 Discover our best slideshows Incredible photos of St. Therese of Lisieux taken by her sister Celine Witness the most incredible festival in all of New York – Festa dei Gigli!	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19401
__label__cc	0.63519	0.36481	Recorded In Heaven: Remembering Michael Kandel of Tranquility Bass THE LABELS ON HIS RECORDS SAID that these songs had been “Recorded In Heaven,” though after listening you never needed to be told. Tragically, the man that made those celestial tracks – American Trip Hop and Ambient pioneer Michael Kandel, best known for the musical project Tranquility Bass and the innovative Exist Dance label – passed away this week, friends told 5 Magazine. An obituary for Michael Adam Kandel was published in today’s Chicago Tribune. Michael was a “special friend to many all over the world,” it reads, “a free spirit and always did things ‘his way.’ ‘Let the Freak Flag Fly!'” Friends today remembered Kandel’s eclectic spirit and records that represented the best of forward-thinking electronic music from America in the 1990s. Kandel’s music stubbornly kicked at the walls between genres that observers even then were keen to fortify. He was, in Peter Margasak’s words, one of the “unheralded forefathers of Trip Hop.” And you could add West Coast breaks, Goa and a few other genres to that list as well. Though he played a prominent role in establishing the “West Coast Sound” in electronic music, Michael Kandel was born in Chicago and attended the Chicago Academy for the Arts before leaving for CalArts in Los Angeles in the early 1990s. Michael and Tom Chasteen formed Exist Dance, the label which released early rave anthems from Freaky Chakra (his debut record: the Halucifuge 12″) and others, but will be best remembered as the outlet for the first records from a collaboration between Chasteen and Kandel called “Tranquility Bass.” Tranquility Bass’ “They Came In Peace” hit the early American electronic music scene like a meteor strike – a record that seemed to wrap all of the incoherent psychedelic, scientific, and eco-cybernetic sentiments that were in the air into one big, gorgeous, sloppy opus. “They Came In Peace” captured a zeitgeist few then were able to articulate, much less describe. But there were more. Exist Dance’s Broadcast Standard series in a sense charted Tranquility Bass’ growth in technique, songwriting and depth. “Cantamilla” was one of the most notable releases. It’s as if for all of the California dreaminess, for all of the inner- and outer-space adventures, there was a film of Chicago grime that Kandel just couldn’t wash off. It rooted these records with firm moorings to the ground, even as so many similar records of the era just sort up and floated away. After Chasteen’s departure from Exist Dance, Kandel released the seminal Let The Freak Flag Fly, an album whose origins are almost as well-known as the music Kandel forged in intense isolation and ardor. He spent the better part of a year in a rented house on an island off the coast of Washington state, alone with his computers, synthesizers, tape decks, mixing board and guitar. There he had staredowns with the deer through the picture window, communed unsuccessfully with stray hippies and sucked down cowboy coffee (boil water in tin pan, add ground beans, drink and you’re up for several days). Yet just few years after Let The Freak Flag Fly, Kandel walked away from the music industry, friends told 5 Magazine, though in the last few years he’d resurfaced, back in Chicago and with a new inspiration. Of particular note was his album Heartbreaks and Hallelujahs, which probed a depth and breadth of emotions rarely shown in dance music. His bandcamp site was a recent discovery of mine, though, oddly, I hadn’t connected the name with the older tracks yet. This one, Sometimes I Lose My Soul, is one of a treasure trove of brilliant, under-appreciated tracks by Bandcamp artists I had planned to feature. Services for Michael will be held Monday at noon at The Chapel (195 N. Buffalo Grove Rd in Buffalo Grove, Illinois). The family has asked that donations be sent in lieu of flowers to 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, TN 38105 or 55 E. Monroe, #3420, Chicago, IL 60603. exist dance michael kandel tranquility bass west coast breaks Wild Hypno-Ambient Breakbeats on Dretraxx’s “Fears To Be Slain” DJ Krush’s The Butterfly Effect Is Perfection Lost Astronaut: The Last Records of Tranquility Bass In the beginning there was JACK! Various Artists: Deep Club Don Solo May 20, 2015 at 7:10 pm Thanks Terry…for remembering & honoring a man that was a mentor to me, in music, and in life…one of the kindest most talented souls ever. Michael Kandel (Tranquility Bass) Has Died \| News - Suburban Apologist May 21, 2015 at 12:49 pm […] Kandel, who recorded ambient and trip hop music as Tranquility Bass, has died, 5 Magazine reports. He was 47 years old. A cause of death was not […] Review: Deep Club's Bad Ass Tracks June 25, 2015 at 1:24 pm […] lately after reading about the death of Exist Dance co-founder and Tranquility Bass’ Michael Kandel and discovering his work. “Sound Response” slides into that groove like a glove: […] Lost Astronaut: The Last Records of Tranquility Bass September 14, 2015 at 3:06 pm […] Michael died on May 18, 2015, obituary writers (including myself) were careful to note the influential power of these tracks and equally careful to gloss over the […] The Phuture Belongs to Him: Remembering Earl Smith, Jr \| 5 Magazine October 31, 2016 at 2:04 pm […] written more obituaries than I care to remember in the last three years. Many I wrote aggressively, as if […] Freakeasy! and the Fine Art of Not Giving a F#ck \| 5 Magazine June 2, 2017 at 5:07 pm […] study Free Jazz at Columbia and Advertising at Roosevelt University, he also drummed for his friend Mike Kandel’s Tranquility Bass, credited by many with starting the Trip-Hop […]	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19405
__label__cc	0.702811	0.297189	A Voice for the Voiceless Tag: assange wikileaks News, Opinion December 6, 2018 April 12, 2019 Assange May No Longer Face Extradition to America By James Sweet III \| United States If Julian Assange decided to leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London tomorrow, he could leave knowing that he may not be extradited to the United States. According to Ecuador’s President, Lenin Moreno, the British government has guaranteed that the founder of Wikileaks would not be extradited to any nation that may serve him the death penalty. Moreno stated in a radio interview Thursday that he has received written assurances from the British government that they will not extradite Assange to a foreign country that could put the man to death. In the United States, Assange is facing several charges for leaking classified information regarding diplomatic cables and war crimes in the Middle East. The possible sentence for these crimes could carry the death penalty. Assange has been hiding in the Ecuadorian embassy since 2012, being granted asylum under former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa. His access to the internet was cut by the Ecuadorian government, although it was recently restored, and he hasn’t seen sunlight in years. While the current President has stated he will not force Assange out, Moreno revealed that the asylee’s team is discussing what to do next. Assange could still be extradited to the United States, however, if American prosecutors promised not to pursue the death penalty. Wikileaks revealed in mid-November that the government of the United States was pursuing charges against Assange, but they are currently sealed and the charges federal prosecutors may pursue are unknown. Regardless, this is an important step for Julian Assange. The activist’s chances of leaving the embassy without fear of a shortened life have increased. If he did indeed leave the embassy and was kept in the United Kingdom, it would be a victory for government transparency advocates around the world, although not being arrested is preferable. 71 Republic is the Third Voice in media. We pride ourselves on distinctively independent journalism and editorials. Every dollar you give helps us grow our mission of providing reliable coverage. Please consider donating to our Patreon, which you can find here. Thank you very much for your support! Featured Image Source Filed under: America, assange, assange ecuador, assange wikileaks, death penalty, ecuador embassy, extradition, free speech, Freedom, liberty, News, Politics, The United Kingdom, transparency, USA, Wikileaks Opinion November 22, 2018 November 21, 2018 Charging Assange is a Terrible Idea, and Here’s Why By Josh Hughes \| United States The federal government has inadvertently named WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in a court filing in an unrelated case. The naming of Assange appears to have been by accident, as the charges came up on the file for a man charged with sex crimes. But, this shows that the Justice Department has his name on file and has likely charged him in a secret case. A spokesman for the attorney’s office simply stated that the filing was an error, while the FBI has declined the comment at all. The whole affair seems very secretive and mysterious, and for good reason. Assange has been a Justice Department target for some time now. Assange has been in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since August of 2012. Without a doubt, his extradition and trial in the U.S. are important to many people of both major parties. WikiLeaks and those associated with it are often accused of violating the Espionage Act of 1917. It is a wordy document, but it basically makes it illegal to leak classified documents or anything else to the detriment of the United States, specifically in wartime. WikiLeaks has been in the news quite a bit over the past decade for releasing many notable pieces. These include documents about CIA spying, war crimes, and U.S. atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan. More recently, however, they have made international news for the involvement in the alleged Russian hacking of the DNC’s emails in the 2016 presidential election. Charging Assange: A Dark Move Would pressing charges against the organization and Assange be a good thing for the U.S. to do? In a time when the current administration is under heavy fire for limiting the press and making the media the enemy, perhaps it would be best to lay off such outlets whose sole intent is to provide transparency. WikiLeaks and Assange did nothing wrong; their sole crimes are the exposure of government crimes. How could anyone, especially from a party that claims to support government transparency, support the arrest of a man and an organization who does just that? In times like these, perhaps suppression of the media isn’t the way to go. Admittedly, the government would never encourage hackers, leakers, and other whistleblowers. However, it may be more beneficial to drop the charges and continue to let Assange operate out of his base in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. To be fair, WikiLeaks has never been partial or partisan, exposing both left and right wing issues. With the election of right-leaning Lenin Moreno as president of Ecuador, Assange may be facing an uphill battle. Extradition is a very tough case, one Assange has promised to fight. For the time being, he is safe, but officials in the embassy have begun to be stricter towards him. He has not left the embassy in months. The near future will be interesting to follow with the WikiLeaks foundation. The loss of Assange would be a huge blow to the liberty movement. For now, all one can do is hope for his safety. Get awesome merchandise. Help 71 Republic end the media oligarchy. 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__label__wiki	0.778488	0.778488	Taylor Swift Is The World's Highest-Paid Celebrity Of The Past Year posted by James Dinh - Jul 10, 2019 Taylor Swift is back on top of Forbes' highest-paid celebrity list after earning a whopping $185 million in pretax income over the last year. This marks her biggest earnings total yet. As per the new report, the pop titan's estimated pay grew 131% after earning $80 million in 2018 largely due to her "Reputation Stadium Tour." The 53-show trek stopped at 35 cities, seven countries and four continents. In addition to touring, Swift also took the top spot due to endorsement deals with Netflix, Apple, AT&T and Diet Coke. Swift last topped Forbes' Celebrity 100 in 2016 with her $170 earning, courtesy of her "1989 World Tour." During her iHeartRadio Music Awards appearance, Swift spoke about the doubts that some had about her touring venture when accepting the honor of Tour of the Year. "I think one of the most wonderful things about the way that this whole tour turned out is that for like the entire six months leading up to the first show of this tour, every headline that I read about the tour was, 'This is going to be a massive failure. This is going to be a flop tour,'" she explained. "And you know, it really did wonders for my self-esteem. It was really great to hear people saying that I was going to be playing to nearly empty stadiums. I’ve learned a lot. I’ve learned a lot. And one of the things that I’ve learned is life is really unpredictable and people can make forecasts, and they can make predictions, but those predictions and forecasts may not come true if there’s an unforeseeable factor involved. And that unforeseeable factor in this case was my fans. So honestly, I honestly owe everything, everything in my life to you." As for the remainder of the Celebrity 100 list, Kylie Jenner took the second spot with $170 million as Kanye West came in third with $150 million. Among the other notable names include Ed Sheeran in fifth place with $110 and Cristiano Ronaldo in sixth place with $109 million. Click here to see the full ranking!	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19408
__label__cc	0.605911	0.394089	Police find two shooting victims inside SUV HOUSTON Houston police found the two shooting victims inside a Cadillac SUV on the street by an apartment complex at Woodway and Lazy Hollow around 10:30pm. The SUV was in the parking lot of the apartment complex and after the victims were shot, the SUV rolled through the intersection, hitting some vehicles on the other side. Investigators are still looking for witnesses who might be able to tell them exactly what led up to the shooting. "We have one male and one female. The male is deceased here one scene, and the female was transported to the hospital," said Officer Mark Coleman with the Houston Police Department. The male driver had been shot in the chest and died at the scene. A female passenger was shot in the head and is in critical condition. Right now, police don't have a suspect or a motive. Authorities did not immediately release any information on the identities of the victims.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19410
__label__cc	0.730759	0.269241	Main » 2015 » October » 14 Security Forum in the USA Reviews the UAE Policing Methods in the Fight against Cyber Crimes Following the MoI’s Success in Arresting the Nigerian Cyber Criminal Gang Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - Sunday, October 11th 2015 [ME NewsWire] Security authorities in Los Angeles, California, hosted a local forum for U.S. investigation and law enforcement authorities on Sunday, on cyber crimes (high technology crime offences). An Emirati police delegation was invited to the forum, to share the efforts and mechanisms that were applied by the UAE Ministry of Interior in arresting the Nigerian gang of internet fraudsters recently. The participants lauded the outstanding professionalism and cooperation of the UAE team who managed to track down and identify the gang members, to locate their whereabouts, and to apprehend them swiftly. The cyber criminal gang members had targeted their victims, both individuals and institutions, in the United States of America by hacking their accounts and emails to steal private documents and information to commit fraud. ... Read more » ZTE Partners with Reliance Communications India to Build 100G Metro Optical Network SHENZHEN, China - Wednesday, October 14th 2015 [ME NewsWire] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the Mobile Internet, has signed a new 100G optical transportation network (OTN) contract with Reliance Communications India. ZTE will provide 100G optical transportation network design, engineering, installation, and operations and maintenance services to Reliance Communications India in Pune and Hyderabad during the next three years. The company will also provide its ZXONE series of equipment to satisfy the multi-service access and high integration requirements of Reliance Communications India, with ZTE’s low total cost of ownership (TCO) being one of the major factors in Reliance Communications India’s decision to partner with the company. Currently occupying 14.35 percent of Indian market share, Reliance Communications India is ... Read more » Development projects for the Ministry of the Interior website To become interactive and compatible with smartphones ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Saturday, October 10th 2015 [ME NewsWire] The Executive Office of the MoI’s Smart Government Program implemented several development projects, related to the Ministry’s website. These projects are designed to provide the technical features and standards of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, in order to ensure optimal access to the ministry’s website, better usability and compatibility with different web browsers, smart phones and portable devices, ultimately becoming an interactive website. Lieutenant Colonel Faisal Mohammed Al Shimmari, Executive Director of the Smart Government Program at the Ministry of Interior, said that the ministry, by developing the website, has improved e-participation possibilities for the benefit of users, so as to provide the highest levels of communication with the public. He said: “Technically, ... Read more » Views: 79 \| Added by: africa-live \| Date: 10.14.2015 Security Support Delegation Takes Part in Italian Carabinieri Daily Duties The delegation from the Security Support Department at the Security Support Directorate General, the General Secretariat of the Office of His Highness Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Interior, arrived to the City of Vicenza in Italy, for official visit. The visit is part of the international expertise exchange program, and includes taking part in the Italian Carabinieri’s daily tasks in Vicenza, accompanying field patrols, and carrying out joint exercise drills. The Italian Carabinieri greeted the UAE delegation upon arrival with an outstanding parachute show, carried out by the Carabinieri paratroopers, which included skydiving while carrying the UAE flag, as a tribute to the visiting delegation and the UAE’s good reputation. Colonel Khalid Al Shamesi, Head of the Security Support Department, explained that the visit is aimed at exchanging mutual expertise between both p ... Read more » MoI organizes a workshop on "Promoting Child Protection Programs" ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Monday, October 12th 2015 [ME NewsWire] The Human Rights Department at the Ministry of Interior organized workshop on "Promoting Child Protection Programs", at the Fairmont Bab Al Bahr Hotel in Abu Dhabi. Participants in the workshop called for concerted efforts with parents, teachers, mentors, educators, and caregivers to reinforce their culture, self-development and self-education, as well as to improve the culture of dealing with children by implementing the necessary programs to enhance child protection, and finding alternative methods to deal with children and avoid any kind of abuse. Participants also stressed the need to enforce Article (19/1) of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which stipulates that “States Parties shall take all appropriate legislative, administrative, social and educational measures to protect the child from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negl ... Read more » Olea Medical to Join Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation Group LA CIOTAT, France - Tuesday, October 13th 2015 [ME NewsWire] (BUSINESS WIRE) - Olea Medical SA (“Olea”) announced today that Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation (“Toshiba”) and Olea have completed the acquisition of the outstanding shares of Olea, following approval from the French Ministry of Economy. This acquisition enables Toshiba to accelerate the growth of its MRI business and offer new clinical added value to healthcare providers by leveraging Olea’s cutting-edge software technology for advanced post-processing and image analysis as well as its broad relationships with the world’s key research institutions and customers. “This partnership means we will benefit from both Toshiba and Olea’s strengths to accelerate innovation and enhance our global presence”, said Toshio Takiguchi, President and CEO of Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, “Through the integration of both R&D teams we believe ... Read more » Views: 57 \| Added by: uaeonlinenews \| Date: 10.14.2015 ADP Customer Service Centers Dedicate this Achievement to the Public ADP Licensing Department achieve a 5-star rating for Government Services The Customer Services Center affiliated with the Vehicles and Drivers Licensing Department at the Directorate General of Central Operations at Abu Dhabi Police obtained a 5-star rating, as a part of the Customer Service Centers’ Classification Project at federal government entities, according to the Stars Rating System. The Naturalization and Residency Customer Service Centers in the Western Region and Abu Dhabi and the Traffic and patrols Services Center in Al Ain were rated four stars; while the Civil Protection and Safety Departments’ Services Center in Mussafah, Abu Dhabi and Al Ain, were rated three stars. This milestone achieved by the Abu Dhabi Police was the result of the police leadership’s support and motivation towards developing the services offered to the public. This falls in line ... Read more » UAE and China Discuss Ways to Boost Security Cooperation ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Thursday, October 8th 2015 [ME NewsWire] In a meeting held at the Dubai Police Officers Club on Wednesday evening, Lt. General HH Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, met with Chun Dong, Representative of the Chinese General Security Minister, Deputy Director General of the International Cooperation Department at the Ministry of General Security in the People's Republic of China, along with his accompanying delegation. During the meeting, both parties discussed a number of topics of mutual concern alongside the ways to strengthen bilateral cooperation and coordination between the UAE and the People’s Republic of China in various security and police fields. The meeting was attended by HE Lt. General Dhahi Khalfan Tamim, Deputy Chairman of the Dubai Police and General Security; Major General Khamis Matar Al Muzainah, Commander General of the Dubai Police; Major General ... Read more » Saif bin Zayed visits injured soldiers at Al Mafraq Hospital Lt. General HH Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, visited the Al Mafraq Hospital in Abu Dhabi on Friday evening, to meet with a number of UAE servicemen who were injured in the line of duty, during the Arab Coalition's ’Operation Restoring Hope', led by Saudi Arabia to back the legitimate government of Yemen. His Highness inquired as to the health condition of the injured soldiers, from the Armed Forces, the Ministry of Interior’s staff members and entities supporting the brotherly Yemeni people. During the visit, Sheikh Saif praised the great sacrifices made by the UAE soldiers to win glory on the field of battle. He also lauded their steadfastness, heroism and dedication they made while defending the right of their brethren in Yemen to security and stability; praying to Allah Almighty to bless the injured with good health and ... Read more » Saif Bin Zayed Meets the Lebanese Minister of Interior Lt. General HH Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, met on Sunday at his office at the Abu Dhabi Police General Headquarters with HE Nouhad Machnouk, Lebanese Minister of Interior and Municipalities and his accompanying delegation. During the meeting, both sides discussed issues of mutual interest, especially in security and police fields. The meeting was attended by Major General Dr. Nasser Lakhrebani Al Nuaimi, Secretary General of the Office of HH Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior; Major General Omair Muhammad Al Muhairi, Director General of Police Operations at Abu Dhabi Police; and Brigadier Sheikh Mohammed bin Tahnoun Al Nahyan, Director General of Security and Ports Affairs at Abu Dhabi Police. The Lebanese Minister of Interior and Municipalities was accompanied by consultant Khalil Gebara; consultant Mahir Abu Al K ... Read more » Delegations from the MoI visit injured soldiers at Zayed Military Hospital Lt. General Saif Abdullah Al Sha’far, Undersecretary at the Ministry of Interior, visited Zayed Military Hospital today Sunday to meet with a number of injured UAE servicemen who were injured in the line of duty, during the Arab Coalition's ’Operation Restoring Hope', led by Saudi Arabia to back the legitimate government of Yemen.. The Undersecretary and the accompanying delegation inquired as to the health condition of the injured soldiers, from the Armed Forces, the Ministry of Interior’s staff members and entities supporting the brotherly Yemeni people.. Lt. General Saif Abdullah Al Sha’far was accompanied in his visit by Major General Ahmed Nasser Al Raisi, Inspector General of the Ministry of Interior; and Major General Abdul Aziz Maktoum Al Shareefi, Director General of Protective Security in the Ministry of Interior, who wished the injured a quick ... Read more » Views: 71 \| Added by: africa-live \| Date: 10.14.2015 \| Comments (0) Quintiles Wins Society for Clinical Research Sites’ 2015 Eagle Award Recognized for leadership in site support for third consecutive year RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. - Monday, October 12th 2015 [ME NewsWire] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Quintiles today announced that it has been awarded the Society for Clinical Research Sites’ (SCRS) 2015 Clinical Research Organization (CRO) Eagle Award. Presented during the annual SCRS Site Solutions Summit, the award honors outstanding leadership, professionalism, integrity, passion and dedication when working with sites. “It is a tremendous honor to be recognized for this award three years in a row,” said Jeanne Hecht, senior vice president and global head, Site & Patient Networks at Quintiles. “This award reflects Quintiles’ commitment to continually enhancing site relationships. I would like to thank our dedicated employees at Quintiles, as well as the talented individuals and teams with whom we work at investigator sites around the world. Together we have a relent ... Read more » Murex Releases New Version of MX.3 for Investment Management PARIS - Tuesday, October 13th 2015 [ME NewsWire] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Murex, the leading provider of capital markets solutions, announces a new release of MX.3 for Investment Management, a fully integrated solution for cross-asset portfolio management. The solution is tailored to the requirements of asset managers while leveraging the power and functionality of Murex's market leading front-to-back-to-risk platform. In the current economic and regulatory environment, asset managers are having to diversify their investments to meet clients' needs and to improve performance. Both regulators and investors are demanding greater transparency, with fuller reporting and explanation of results. Securities and cash inventories need to be consolidated in a timely manner and managed more proactively to meet the evolving margining requirements for cleared and non-cleared products. Randa Saghieh, head of Murex Asset Management, comments: “More sophisticated risk ... Read more » Saif bin Zayed Offers Condolences to Family of Martyr Al Siyabi ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Friday, October 9th 2015 [ME NewsWire] Lt. General HH Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, offered his condolences to the family and relatives of martyr Mohammed Khalfan Abdullah Al Siyabi, who died in the line of duty during Operation Restoring Hope, under the Arab alliance to support the people of Yemen and their legitimate government. During his visit to the mourning council in Al Shamkha in Abu Dhabi, His Highness expressed his heartfelt condolences and sincere sympathies to the family of the martyr. He also prayed to Allah Almighty to rest the martyr’s soul in peace, to grant him eternal peace in heaven among the martyrs and the saints, and to grant the family patience and solace to bear their loss. For more information about: The Ministry of Interior, please click HERE Abu Dhabi Police, please click HERE Follow us and check our Social Media feeds ... Read more » Widespread Activities at the Ministry of Interior to Celebrate the Elderly and People Special Needs Community The the Ministry of Interior marked the International Day of Older Persons with a variety of activities in Abu Dhabi and Al Ain, in recognition of the achievements and contributions that older people make to society and to raise awareness about their rights. The Human Rights Department organized a seminar at the Abu Dhabi Police Officers Club auditorium, under the theme “Caring for the Elderly is a Shared Responsibility”. Major General Khalifa Hareb Al Khaili, Acting Assistant Undersecretary of the Ministry of Interior for Naturalization, Residency and Ports Affairs, inaugurated the seminar with a speech by which he welcomed the attendees, and praised the valuable role of the elderly in the UAE. “The elderly provide a link between the present and the past; they are a source of rich experiences and wisdom; and an indispensable role model for the new generations,” h ... Read more » Workshop Discusses Strategic Approach to Develop Civil Defense at the MoI Major General Dr. Nasser Lakhrebani Al Nuaimi, Secretary General of the Office of HH Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior and Chairman of the Federal Civil Defense Sector Development Council attended the workshop organized by the Directorate General of Strategy and Performance Development on the Ministry of Interior’s Strategic Approach 2017-2021, which was held at the InterContinental Hotel Abu Dhabi. The workshop aims to set forth the strategic approach and priority initiatives pertaining to the Civil Defense Sector at the countrywide level for the next five years “2017-2021”. Major General Dr. Nasser Al Nuaimi stressed the need to standardize response systems to deal with various incidents faced by the Civil Defense Sector, and to build proactive capabilities that keep pace with the rapid developments taking place in the UAE. He highlighted the importance ... Read more » CARTES SECURE CONNEXIONS: Smart, Sustainable, Secure Cities From 17 to 19 November 2015, at the Paris Nord Villepinte Exhibition Centre, CARTES SECURE CONNEXIONS, in synergy with the Milipol Paris 2015 Show, will take up the topic of Smart Cities, through its exhibitors, conferences, Innovation Playground and more (BUSINESS WIRE)-- One of the greatest challenges in the years to come will be to turn city centres into smart, connected, secure places. Today, 250 of the world's cities are testing out innovative projects that are optimising their urban services and improving their inhabitants' or users' living conditions. Barcelona, New York, London, Singapore and Nice, France were some of the smartest cities in 20151. They have been pioneers, implementing a new rationalised environmental design concept that is turning out beneficial to all. 1. Technology, Serving Cities The "Smart Cities" concept is riding high. In it, technologies are put to w ... Read more »	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19412
__label__cc	0.528205	0.471795	Home Opinions Crass ignorance, illiteracy and bigotry Crass ignorance, illiteracy and bigotry For the next four weeks or so, South Africa will be in the global media spotlight as the first African country to stage arguably the most prestigious sporting event in the world – the World Cup. As soon as South Africa, aided by the revered Nelson Mandela, won the bid to stage the event in 2004, the cynics and doom mongers set to work, spreading doubts about the country’s ability to host the soccer fiesta. This country has had to endure scores of column inches of negative foreign news reports in the six years since it won the right to host the first World Cup tournament in Africa. The negative press intensified when in January some members of the Cabinda separatists, FLEC, attacked the Togo team bus during the African Cup of Nations tournament in Angola, killing some players and officials. The doom mongers had a field day, saying the lives of all those – players, officials and fans – that travelled to South Africa for the World Cup would be in peril. This was crass ignorance, illiteracy and bigotry at their best! They failed to realise that Angola, one of the 53 countries on the African continent, was thousands of miles away from South Africa. And that the political situation Angola that triggered the atrocity visited on the Togolese in Angola was totally different from what obtained in South Africa! Nobody in the UK and the Western world called for the 2012 Olympics to be moved from London to another country because of the terrorist attack that killed 52 innocent people in London in July 2005. Neither did I hear anyone say that because somebody tried to blow up a jet over Detroit, USA, on Christmas Day last year, the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada last February was imperilled. After all the US and Canada are neighbours sharing a common border on the same continent! With kick-off just a few days away, most of those doom mongers are discredited and although there are still plenty of areas of concern to test the nerves of organisers, ranging from violent crime to transport, the omens look good. For years media reported that FIFA had a ‘Plan B’ to move the tournament if South Africa failed to be ready in time. But Africa’s biggest economy has done better than many of the so-called advanced nations preparing for either the World Cup or Olympics. The country has confounded the critics. The 10 stadia were ready early and six of them – five built from scratch and one extensively expanded and rebuilt – are magnificent arenas comparable with any in the world. From Johannesburg’s 90,000-capacity Soccer City, Africa’s biggest stadium, to Durban’s arch-spanned arena and Cape Town’s bath-shaped bowl – both fronting the ocean – the soccer fields are more than sports venues. The grandiose projects affirm the confidence and ability of an often troubled country 16 years after the end of apartheid. This event, more than in almost any other country, has huge symbolic importance for a nation torn by racial conflict for centuries which hopes the World Cup will unite still wary blacks and whites in patriotic fervour. Hosting the world’s most-watched sporting event also has the potential to give an enormous boost to South Africa’s image and its ability to attract investment and millions of extra tourists to a country blessed with myriad attractions. Having visited Pretoria, Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban on various assignments over the years, I can assure visitors of the sheer beauty and adventure that awaits them. Development campaigners are gearing up to catch the media wave and draw attention to their issues, messages and organisations. Events related to everything from malaria, girls’ education, microcredit, maternal health, clean water and climate change are planned, with footballers, film and rock stars, politicians and personalities recruited to the cause. The question I, and others like me, are asking is whether all this exposure will challenge or just confirm negative stereotyping of our continent, particularly in the western media. Africa’s image with the general public in many countries is unfortunate, to say the least. Africa is associated with hunger and poverty, corruption, violence, machine-gun touting men in reflective sunglasses, and giraffes silhouetted against a sinking sun, often with Mount Kilimanjaro in the background. This image is both inaccurate and counterproductive, both for Africans and for the countries where it holds. It is inaccurate because the facts do not support it. Corruption is clearly a major problem – though Africa is still fairly amateur at it compared to other parts of the world. Africans have to put up with widespread petty corruption to get things done, and there are too many examples of dictators and their sons living in intercontinental luxury while their citizens struggle to survive. But again, the facts, dull as they sometimes are, tell a different story. The Mo Ibrahim Index on African Governance, the most comprehensive attempt to capture the quality of political and economic accountability in Africa, shows a steadily improving picture, as does the World Bank’s ‘Ease of Doing Business’ ranking, with improvements being made in commercial law, property rights and investor protection. Africa’s image in the western media is counterproductive. It is Africa’s potential, not her problems that should be of growing interest to much of the world – and certainly to her own entrepreneurs. I am hoping that at least some of the coverage around the World Cup will increase an understanding of Africa’s issues. Opportunities like this do not come often. The last thing Africa needs is coverage that just reinforces the negative stereotyping and that gives a false impression both of the continent’s problems, and of the solutions to them. Previous articleOpportunity knocks! Next articleNkrumah’s dream still holds Why Ghana is likely to go on needing the IMF – however difficult the relationship US-China-Russia race for Africa is well and alive Russia in Africa: can it offer an alternative to the US and China? Aquion announces off-grid battery and solar energy project in Africa Facebook opens first African office in Johannesburg Uphill task for Nigeria’s new economic team Nigeria to explore crude oil sales to Africa markets	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19413
__label__wiki	0.686006	0.686006	Noni juice: Hawaiian Noni LLC October 2005: Application from Hawaiian Noni LLC for an opinion on the equivalence of noni fruit (from the fruit of <i>Morinda citrifolia</i> L). Awaiting notification. About noni juice Noni juice comes from the fruit commonly known as 'noni'. But it is also known as 'Indian Mulberry' and 'nonu'. It is believed to have originated in Southeast Asia and to have been distributed subsequently by ancient voyagers or other means into the Pacific islands, including Tahiti and Hawaii. The plant is also found in India, Africa and the West Indies. It resembles a small evergreen shrub or tree that grows from three to six metres. Its fruit are green until maturity, when they rapidly turn to a light yellow and then a translucent white. An application for noni juice (juice of the fruit of Morinda citrifolia L.), made under the Novel Foods Regulation (EC) 258/97, was approved on 5 June 2003. This approval applies to the applicant company only but Regulation (EC) 258/97 makes provision for novel foods or ingredients that are substantially equivalent to an existing product to be placed on the market once the applicant has informed the European Commission. In all cases to date, the Commission has required that the applicant first obtain an opinion on substantial equivalence from a member state. Hawaiian Noni LLC has requested such an opinion from the UK. The basis of this request is that Agrinom, the supplier of Hawaiian Noni Juice LLC, is the sole supplier of BPI Austria whose product was authorised in 2004. Following an initial public consultation period the Agency, the UK Competent Authority for all novel food issues decided that Hawaiian Noni LLC's noni juice meets the criteria for equivalence as defined in Article 3(4) of Regulation (EC) 258/97. A copy of the letter informing the applicant of this decision can be found below. Hawaiian Noni LLC application dossier on noni juice(61.69 KB) Letter to applicant (Hawaiian Noni LLC)(37.63 KB)	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19416
__label__wiki	0.786853	0.786853	Brittany Simpson 'Roos Drop Double OT Heartbreaker 2OT Southwestern (Tex.) (5-9, 4-1) 14 12 14 11 9 9 69 Austin College (11-3, 4-1) 11 7 12 21 9 7 67 Pts: Zhazze Brown - 17 Reb: Tori Carraway - 10 Pts: Bryce Frank - 19 Reb: Bryce Frank - 15 Ast: Ann Savage - 4 SHERMAN, Texas –Southwestern University scored with five seconds to play in the second overtime and Austin College's last second effort rimmed out as the 'Roo women's basketball team fell 69-67 in double overtime on Friday night. The 'Roos are now 11-3 overall and 4-1 in Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference play. Austin College got out to a quick start, taking a 10-2 lead on a three by Ann Savage with 4:47 left in the opening quarter but Southwestern used a 12-1 run to lead 14-11 heading into the second. The 'Roos went ice cold in the second frame, hitting just 3-of-15 shots as the Pirates took a 26-18 lead into halftime. The 'Roos trimmed the margin to four at 30-26 on a three by Reagan Chiaverini with 3:47 left in the third, and after a pair of free throws by Natalie McCoy kept it a four point margin at 34-30, the Pirates hit a pair of threes in the final minute to push the lead to 40-30 heading into the fourth. Bryce Frank scored 10 of her game-high 19 points in the fourth as Austin College came storming back, but Southwestern would take a 51-48 lead into the closing seconds of the game. With just one tenth of second left in the game, Savage drew a foul on a three point attempted and knocked down all three free throws to force the first overtime. Austin College took a 58-53 lead on a three-point-play by McCoy with 1:54 left in overtime, but Zhazze Brown hit a three to cut it to a 59-58 game with under a minute to play. After Savage knocked down one of two free throws with five seconds left, Brown took it the length of the floor and drilled a 17-footer as time expired to force a second extra period. The 'Roos scored the first two points of the second overtime but six in a row for Southwestern made it a 66-62 game with 1:03 left, but Savage buried a triple with 34 seconds on the clock to cut it to a one point game. Chiaverini tied things up at 67 apiece with 22 seconds left, but Tori Carraway scored in the paint with five seconds left to propel the Pirates to the win. Frank finished with 19 points and 15 rebounds and Savage added 17 points, eight rebounds, and four assists. McCoy came off the bench to score 12 points, and Chiaverini had nine points and 11 boards. The 'Roos shot just 28.2% from the field, including 16.1% from long distance. Brown led the Pirates with 17 points, and Noel Pratts added 13 points and nine rebounds. Carraway finished with seven points and 10 rebounds for Southwestern. The Pirates forced Austin College into 19 turnovers in the game. Austin College will be looking to rebound tomorrow as they host Texas Lutheran with tip-time set for 4:00 p.m.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19417
__label__wiki	0.977083	0.977083	EA7 Milan extends captain Gentile through 2017 Jul 19, 2014 by Euroleague.net Print One of the biggest talents and youngest captains in elite world basketball is staying put for at least two more years after EA7 Emporio Armani Milan on Saturday announced a contract extension for swingman Alessandro Gentile through the end of the 2016-17 season. Gentile (1.96 meters, 22 years old) captain EA7 Milan to its first Turkish Airlines Euroleague Playoffs appearance this season, but could not play in that series, which was lost to eventual champion Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv, due to injury. Thus, EA7 Milan fell short of reaching the Final Four in its own city, but Gentile returned to lead the club to its first Italian League title in 18 years as MVP of the playoff finals in June. Prior to the injury, Gentile had exploded into a double-digit scorer and team leader, averaging 11.4 points, 2.4 rebounds and 2.3 assists in 25 minutes per Euroleague game. In his last one before getting hurt, Gentile posted career highs of 24 points, 7 rebounds, 6 assists and a 28 performance index rating as EA7 Milan ended Barcelona's 26-game Top 16 win streak over two seasons with a 28-point home victory. Gentile made his Euroleague debut as a teenager after joining EA7 Milan in December 2011 from Benetton Treviso, with whom he had played three seasons, reaching the Eurocup semifinals in 2011. He currently has career averages of 8.9 points, 2.6 rebounds and 1.8 assists in 36 Euroleague games to date. Milan puts Moraschini in the backcourt AX Armani Exchange Olimpia Milan has added depth in its backcourt by signing guard Riccardo Moraschini to a three-year deal. Moraschini (1.94 meters, 28 years old) arrives... Milan makes White its first new player The first signing of the Ettore Messina era at AX Armani Exchange Olimpia Milan is spectacular forward Aaron White, who has inked a two-year contract, the club announced. Legend Messina takes reins in Milan A legend of the coaching profession is returning to Turkish Airlines EuroLeague sidelines with the announcement Tuesday that AX Armani Exchange Olimpia Milan has put Ettore...	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19420
__label__cc	0.525364	0.474636	Country house life between the wars Tag Archives: Avenue House Albert Richardson Sir Albert Richardson at home The other day I finished reading The Professor (White Crescent Press, 1980), Simon Houfe’s affectionate biography of his grandfather, the architect Sir Albert Edward Richardson. I’ve been intrigued by Richardson for a while: he often has a passing mention in memoirs and letters produced between the wars although, in spite of an architectural career which lasted from the late 1890s to the early 1960s, his country house output was small. He enlarged or remodelled one or two minor houses – The Hale, near Wendor (1918) and Chevithorne Barton in Devon (1930) are good examples – but the practice he carried on, with C. Lovett Gill until 1939 and from 1945 with his son-in-law, E. A. S. Houfe, focused mainly on commercial premises, usually designed in a light, elegant neo-Georgian style. Houses at Chew Magna near Bristol (1765) and Redbourn in Hertfordshire (1778) – examples of Richardson’s distinctive graphic style Richardson’s real contribution to the period was as a polemicist for the buildings of the past, and in particular for the long eighteenth century – which in his case was even longer than usual, beginning with the Restoration and ending with the death of George IV 170 years later. He travelled the length and breadth of the country in his enormous Rolls Royce, haranguing philistine local authorities to save an England that was in danger of demolition, berating negligent owners of dilapidated mansions. He recorded historic architecture in hundreds, perhaps thousands, of fluid, fluent sketches and in a flood of published work: Georgian England, The Old Inns of England, The Smaller English House of the Later Renaissance. John Betjeman once told him that ‘You have written the two bibles of my life – Monumental Classic Architecture of the 18th and 19th Centuries, and Regional Architecture in the West of England. If I were king, I would give you a peerage.’ Avenue House, Ampthill And not content with promoting the past, Richardson lived in it. In 1919 he bought Avenue House in Ampthill, built for a Bedfordshire brewer in 1780 and extended by Henry Holland in 1792-5. Over the next four decades or so the architect filled Avenue House with art and oddities: oils by Philip Mercier and Angelica Kauffmann, exquisite George III furniture in tulipwood and satinwood; a lamp said to belong to the Lady of the Lamp herself, Florence Nightingale; Clive of India’s door knob and a battered baluster from Doctor Johnson’s house. He refused to have electricity installed, and was fond of dressing up in full Georgian costume around the house. In many ways Richardson was a difficult character – bombastic, self-centred, a reactionary conservative who hated Modernism as much as he loathed modern society. Imagine an architectural G. K. Chesterton, and you have him. But his contribution to the evolving preservationist movement of the 1920s and 1930s was profound. The Avenue House Sale Catalogue By a strange coincidence, just as I reached the last page of The Professor, an email came through from Christie’s announcing the sale of the contents of Avenue House. The place had remained more or less intact since Richardson’s death in 1964, and after years of searching for a way of preserving it for posterity, the family has given up the struggle. The Avenue House sale took place this week. It isn’t a disastrous Mentmore-type dispersal to be remembered and mourned for decades. It is more of a small sadness. But it is a sadness, none the less. Something has been lost, and we’re all a little poorer for it. Image / Posted on September 19, 2013 by adriantinniswood / Tagged Albert Richardson, Avenue House, country houses, John Betjeman, Long Weekend / 5 Comments	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19421
__label__wiki	0.626093	0.626093	Audi RS5 a ferocious family hatchback Is this the world's hottest hatch? Or is Audi's new RS5 Sportback actually a supercar with a very useful boot? For the first time, the fast-moving German maker has offered its mid-sized missile, the RS5, in "Sportback" form (the company's name for a five-door hatchback). And in the process, it has no doubt ignited an Car Review: New A5 Sportback offers innovative features You’ve probably not seen a sleek looking SUV and for good reason. They aren’t sleek or stylish in the way sedans and coupes can be. Along comes the Audi A5 Sportback, a... Traverse City Record-Eagle 2019-07-15 Best buys - premium hatchbacks: BMW 1 Series goes out on top Best in class: BMW 1 Series Say a sad farewell, because the current BMW 1 Series is not long for this world, and next year it’s going to be replaced by an all new version,... High-Performance. Full of Character. Individual. Audi Sport Is Celebrating 25 years of the Audi RS Models Audi MediaInfo Product and Technology Communications Eva Stania Phone: +49 152 57767 044 Email: eva.stania@audi.de www.audi-mediacenter.com High-Performance. Full of... Audi shows newest avant-garde vehicles in Spider-Man movie The newest installment of the Spider-Man series, “Spider-Man: Far From Home,” features Audi’s latest high-tech vehicles. In the film, Spider-Man, starring Tom Holland as... The Manila Times 2019-07-15 BMW’s new 1 Series can go wheel-to-wheel with the best of its hatchback rivals They say necessity is the mother of invention. When BMW’s bean counters decided to forgo the company’s trademark rear wheel-drive format for its smallest range of cars, several major engineering egos took a hit. For years they had sneered at rivals up the road at Audi who had the phenomenal Quattro four-wheel drive format on performance cars, but opted for front-wheel drive for... BMW 8 Series returns with touch of glamour What's at the top of your bucket list? A question that's sparked many a dinner party conversation and the odd television and newspaper promotion. Often, our "one final indulgence" proves out of reach. But not always. A few years ago, an old and dear friend was diagnosed with a terminal illness. In his 70s, he had led a "fortunate life" - travelling the world with a glamorous... Upcoming cars - sedans, hatchbacks, SUVs and crossovers - expected to launch in India by second half of 2019 The Indian four-wheeler market is facing a slump in terms of sales. However, that has not deterred the plans of different automobile manufacturers. Be it expanding the plant capacity, upgrading engine tech to BSVI or scheduling new launches, the Indian passenger car market will be witnessing it all in the second half of 2019. From Audi's first-ever all-electric offering, the... Tested: BMW Z4 M40i is fast, fun and turns heads Johannesburg - Perhaps you could call it the phone factor - a non-scientific but generally accurate barometer of a car’s head-turning ability. Test drive a supercar for a week, as we occasionally do, and you’ll see plenty of phones pointing at it on the street, along with the obligatory upward-turned thumbs and envious stares. In that sense, our BMW Z4 M40i test car in San... The Audi A4 Allroad is a convincing alternative to an SUV What is it? (Audi) The Allroad recipe is a relatively simple one, yet it’s remarkably effective for Audi. It starts with taking the standard A4 estate, jacking it up a few centimetres, adding some painted plastic around the wheelarches, and voila. Audi has been quietly letting its Allroads bubble away in Audi showrooms for 20 years now, with the concept of a rugged-looking... Audi reveals new S8 with potent twin-turbo V8 Ingolstadt - Audi has finally given its flagship sedan the performance variant it deserves with the release of the new-generation S8. Currently under consideration for South Africa, the new S8 is one of the most potent Audis to date. It’s powered by a 4-litre twin-turbo V8 that produces 420kW and 820Nm, and the engine features Audi’s 48-volt mild hybrid system which is said to...	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19423
__label__cc	0.51911	0.48089	Contributors 2018-19 The Project: Best American Poetry Cultural Artifacts “Poem Bombs” ashberyland American Culture and Poetry in the Internet Age “Take Yourself Seriously”: Another Five Questions with Stephen Dunn by ftaney44 Stephen Dunn was born in 1939 in Queens, New York and went to college at Hofstra University where he played basketball on a scholarship. After college, Dunn worked in the advertising business. After a few years in the business, Dunn decided to quit his job and traveled to Spain to write his first novel along with some poetry. After he lived in Spain, Dunn studied at the New School and acquired an MA in creative writing at Syracuse University. Dunn has written over a dozen books of poetry that includes Loosestrife (1996), What Goes On: New and Selected Poems 1995-2009 (2009), Different Hours (2000), Here and Now (2011), and Lines of Defense (2014). His book of poetry, Different Hours (2000), actually won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 2001. Along with the Pulitzer Prize, Dunn has won several more awards and honors that include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Dunn also was awarded an Academy Award for Literature and he won the James Wright Prize. Since 1974, Dunn has been a professor at Richard Stockton College for creative writing and he has been a Visiting Professor at NYU, Columbia, The University of Washington, and The University of Michigan. Today, he resides in Maryland with his wife, Barbara Dunn, who also is a writer. Fiona Taney: What was your inspiration for your poem “The Imagined” in Best American Poetry 2012? Stephen Dunn: I don’t remember exactly, but I was at Yaddo, the artist colony, and found myself writing the first line, and then just riffing on the subject from there. The interesting thing was that I showed what is now the first half of the poem to a friend, a woman, thinking that it was finished. She said why don’t you give the woman a secret man? Which I proceeded to do. When I’ve read that poem at readings, all the women in the audience are frowning at me. When I continue on to the second part they smile and get very pleased. FT: How did it feel to win the pulitzer prize for poetry? SD: Wonderful, of course. A great surprise. FT: How did you discover that you loved to write poetry? Was it in childhood or later in life? SD: Later life, for sure. I went through college on a basketball scholarship, was a serious student, but not a very good one. I worked in New York after college, a corporate job, which I was good at, but was sure I didn’t want to be like anyone in the office. When I got a big promotion, I quit, and went to Spain with my new wife to see if I could become a writer. We lived for a year on 22 hundred dollars. I wrote a bad novel and threw it away. But I had started to read poetry seriously,– Wallace Stevens, Federico Lorca, others, and gave it a try. My only literary friend visited, and thought what I had written was good. He must have been lying, but I chose to believe him. When I came home, I applied to grad schools, and went to Syracuse where I encountered fabulous teachers. There’s more, of course, but I suggest you read my book of essays WALKING LIGHT if you want a more complete story. FT: I found the poem “The Kiss” to be very powerful. Was this poem based on true events? SD: Only the typo is a “true event.” The rest is fiction. FT: Do you have any advice for a young, aspiring poet? SD: Yes, take yourself as seriously as other would-be artists do. Read everybody. Practice. Practice. 05.22.2018 – Uncategorized	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19426
__label__wiki	0.641256	0.641256	Britain has produced its fair share of fantasy authors over the years, including David Gemmell, T H White, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman and countless others. Many of these writers hail from all corners of the British Isles but there is one city in particular that seems to have produced a disproportionate number of fantasy authors – Oxford. J R R Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, C S Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, Alan Garner’s Wild Magic series, Susan Cooper’s Dark is Rising Sequence, Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and, most recently, Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, all have one thing in common – not only did their authors attend the city’s famous university, the inspiration for their novels often came from the time they spent in Oxford. Even J K Rowling is rolled up in the Oxford mythos, as the Potter films use many Oxonian locations. What is it about Oxford that has proved so inspirational for so many of the greatest authors ever to write in the fantasy genre? One explanation may lay in the fact that, while Oxford is probably most famous for its ancient university, its royal associations and its modern car production factories, this historic city is also full of strange accounts of fantastical happenings, ghostly manifestations, and related supernatural phenomena. Perhaps this should come as no great surprise: if any place in Britain is going to be haunted then it is Oxford, cruel to kings, malignant to monks and redolent with scandal. But Oxford has also been described as the home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties – in the words of Matthew Arnold – the sweet city of dreaming spires. At certain times, like first thing in the morning when the dawn sun is reflected like a wraith through the low-lying mist over Christ Church Meadow, or at dusk when the shadows give Tom Tower a Gothic cast as it spears the Oxford skyline, there’s no one around and it feels like you’ve just stepped into the past or even into a world that never was. In many ways Oxford as a whole is like that, full of ghosts of the past and elements of the fantastical that cannot be found anywhere else. They say that this city has more history per square mile than anywhere else in Britain, with the sole exception of the centre of London. King Charles fled here during The Civil War and, for a couple of years at least, it was the country’s capital. Half of the country’s Prime Ministers were educated here, as well as a number of Nobel prize-winners and even one American President (although whether what Bill Clinton did here in his days as a Rhodes Scholar can strictly be described as ‘educational’ in the traditional sense is open to debate). Shakespeare himself knew the city well, though he never attended the university, for he used to stop over with his friend John Davenant at the Crown Tavern in Cornmarket as he passed back and forth between the theatres in London and his family in Stratford-upon-Avon. In particular, pubs and inns are a rich source of ghost stories and Oxford has its fair share of hostelries – at one time there were well over 400 in the city and perhaps the most famous of these still stands today in the form of the Eagle and Child. The Eagle and Child public house lies on the western side of St Giles, one of Oxford’s widest streets and the main exit from the city to the north. This street is the location of the Martyr’s Memorial, a monument to the three Anglican bishops burned at the stake in the cruel reign of Queen ‘Bloody’ Mary. The Eagle and Child’s greatest claim to fame is that the Inklings, a loose grouping of authors including C S Lewis, J R R Tolkien, Charles Williams and Neville Coghill, met there for many years. The Inklings got together twice a week to discuss their work: on Tuesday mornings at the pub, and on Thursday evenings in C S Lewis’s rooms at Magdalen College. In the pub they met in the Rabbit Room, a long thin bar which is still there to this day, one of a few delightfully small snug bars which make up this tiny pub. The Eagle and Child has a long history and there is a persistent rumour that there was a tunnel between the pub and St John’s college over on the other side of the road, though there is now no evidence of an entrance in the cellar today. Although it was not a pub at the time, the building was around during the English Civil War and was used as a pay house for the King’s Cavaliers as they took shelter here from Oliver Cromwell and his advancing Roundheads. Then there’s the so-called Moberley-Jourdain incident. Eleanor Jourdain (1863–1924) was an English academic and author, as well as the Principal of St Hugh’s College, Oxford, between 1915 and 1924. Neither her studies nor her writing, however, ever propelled Eleanor to such fame as the occasion when she and her predecessor as Principal of St Hugh’s, an equally respected academic by the name of Charlotte Moberley, claimed that while on a trip to Versailles they slipped back in time to the period of the French Revolution. In An Adventure, an account of the escapade published later, they claimed that they took a wrong turn and suddenly found themselves in the company of people from eighteenth-century France, including Marie Antoinette herself. This story was an immediate sensation and has been argued over for decades. The boring explanation was that they had simply stumbled upon a tableau vivant of locals in fancy dress, but the ladies themselves, being experts in such matters, insisted on details which firmly placed the scene in the eighteenth century. Those of a superstitious bent immediately decided that the two friends had slipped through a hole in time and, as they were distinguished academics, considered that their honesty could not be in doubt. Of course, detractors concluded that the pair were simply trying to hoodwink the nation and pointed to two sexually repressed spinsters, full of romantic notions, whose story could not stand up to the closest scrutiny. (It should be noted, however, that when they wrote the book together Moberley and Jourdain did so under assumed names, which would seem to invalidate possible accusations of publicity-seeking.) Each college that makes up the university (there were thirty nine at last count) has its own body of history and mythology. It was at Christ Church, in the shadow of Christopher Wren’s Tom Tower, that the young mathematics don Charles Lutwidge Dodgson turned to writing children’s stories to entertain the Dean’s daughter, Alice Liddell. Using the ‘Latinized’ pen-name Lewis Carroll, he published Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in 1865 and Through the Looking-glass six years later. The fantastic lands that Carroll created might well have been based on the wonders around him. Christ Christ Church Meadow, for instance, is one of the last pastoral paradises of the Middle Ages remaining in England today. The fields there have not been ploughed since medieval times and have never been sprayed with pesticide. As a result buttercups, moneywort, columbine, lady’s mantle and straggly yellow rattle all grow here. Where else in the world could you find a herd of cows grazing on undeveloped grassland within two hundred yards of the bustle, noise and activity of the high street of a major city? I mentioned earlier that half of England’s Prime Ministers were educated at Oxford but neglected to say that half of them were Christ Church men – thirteen in all – including Gladstone and Eden as well as Peel. The college was founded by Henry VIII, Albert Einstein taught Physics here, and to this day the head of the college is elected by Royal appointment. John Locke, W H Auden and William Penn all also call Christ Church their alma mater. This distinguished Royal and academic legacy is in large part why Christ Church is often regarded as the cradle of the British upper crust and has something of a superiority complex over the other colleges – according to Oxford style it is either called simply Christ Church, without the need for the suffix ‘college’, or ‘The House’ (from its Latin name Aedes Christi or ‘house of Christ’). Oxford is full of trivia that it would take far more space than I have here to detail – indeed, it would take a lifetime to uncover the full extent of the history, myth and legend that has accumulated in this city over the centuries. Its colleges, libraries and museums, ranging from the medieval to the modern, testify to the city’s academic traditions but there is another Oxford, the city of car factories and housing estates, high-tech research and alternative culture. From the quadrangles and chapels of the ancient university to the multicultural bustle of Cowley Road, Oxford has many faces, both historic and contemporary. There is the university city: the seat of learning, inside the colleges, river and gardens, dons and students, ‘town and gown’ conflict and so on. Then there is the writers’ city: the Oxford loved and hated by Dr Johnson, Oscar Wilde and Philip Pullman. Finally, there is that intangible Other Oxford: cars and marmalade, saints and sinners, museums and mausoleums, tramps and tourists. As Matthew Arnold, again, once said: “the Oxford of the past is the Oxford that will always be” and in this city where fantasy and history, ghosts and fevered imaginings mingle seamlessly in the streets, I find it impossible not to agree with him. Tags: Oxford Categories Folklore, History, Legend, Mythology ← Merlin’s Wood Lords of Midsummer → 9 Responses to “The City of Dreaming Spires” joshuabertetta8306 May 24, 2014 at 2:05 am # This is really cool–a fun look at the background setting to so much fantasy–the fantasy behind the fantasy of sorts. Glad you’re back blogging 🙂 ashsilverlock May 24, 2014 at 2:58 pm # Thanks – feels good to have been missed! georgianaderwent May 24, 2014 at 12:45 pm # Great post. Did you go to the University and/or live in the town for a period? You seem to know the place very well. I studied history at Oxford a few years ago, absolutely loved it and have set a series of novels there, The Cavaliers, which are basically about a Bullingdon-club style society whose members are vampires from the Civil War who are secretly controlling Britain. http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B009SQ1LPK My own books aside, I agree that it’s a great place to set a book or TV show, especially one with a fantastical edge – though Oxford crime series seem to be a bit of a thing too). It’s so beautiful with all the grand old buildings in different architectural styles, and you really can just feel the history and tradition radiating out of them. That Moberley-Joudian story is a new one to me though. The one thing I think you missed is the people. The University gathers together some of the cleverest young adults in the country, about half of whom are quite rich, and the other half of whom have had to work super hard and defy the odds to get there. It makes them live close together (at my college, at least, everyone had to live within walls for all three years) and puts them under lots of pressure to succeed. It’s a recipe for rivalry, for close friendships, and for romantic tension. All of which combines to practically give you a ready made novel before you even factor in the underlying plot! Totally agree about the people contributing to the whole ‘Oxford’ thing. Yes, I do indeed have a long association with Oxford as student, lecturer and resident. More than that I can’t say – I like to maintain an aura of mystery! Reblogged this on The Posh, the Privileged and the Paranormal and commented: A really interesting piece on why Oxford is such a great setting for books, especially ones with a fantastical element. Needless to say, I couldn’t agree more! eao May 25, 2014 at 5:18 pm # I spent six months there on an overseas studies program while an undergraduate and I have to say I came home with a longer list of things I still wanted to do in Oxford than the original one I started with! I confess I spent many an afternoon seeking out places mentioned in “His Dark Materials” and wandering the streets in search of those ghostly whispers of history. The ruins of the Godstow Abbey were of course quite satisfying, though I also absolutely loved just wandering around back streets looking at the gargoyles and poking my head into the little shops. Found a lovely 1834 miniature edition of “Paradise Lost” that I brought home as a souvenir. boundandgaggedbooks May 27, 2014 at 12:47 am # I think universities, particularly in their earlier years, were mythical places of knowledge and mystery and possibility. And when one thinks of universities, Oxford, Camebridge, Harvard, and Yale are often the first to come to mind. Just standing in the hallowed halls or sweeping libraries of such a university feels mythical and, with all that history, it just seemes impossible for there not to be secrets. Surely, one of those books was tucked away to keep it safe or contains a letter of grave import, lost to time. The Long Room of the Old Library in Trinity College Dublin is the closest thing to a wizard’s archive I can imagine, so it makes sense to me that attending a place like Oxford would inspire any would-be fantasy author. Simon Banks May 30, 2014 at 8:24 pm # Small point (from a Cambridge man): it wasn’t Oliver Cromwell (good Cambridge man though he was): it was Sir Thomas Fairfax, his superior at the time. Actually, to be even more pedantic, it was Fairfax AND Cromwell! (And I don’t think you can really call Cromwell a ‘good Cambridge man’ as he left the university without a degree…)	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19427
__label__cc	0.510149	0.489851	Commemorating Black History Month Happy February! This month is filled with joy, love and excitement as we take one step further into the new year and look toward the upcoming spring and summer. February tends to be very well-known for one specific holiday: Valentine’s Day. In honor Saint Valentine himself, Valentine’s Day celebrates love and romance in our lives. But even more special than one single day is what the entire month of February stands for: Black History Month. Black History Month is a time to remember, celebrate and commemorate the achievements and contributions by African-American men and women throughout U.S. history. When living an altruistic lifestyle, how can we take steps to truly honor Black History Month and those it recognizes? Let’s take a look at the history behind Black History Month and some ideas for how to commemorate it. Studying Black History Month The concept of Black History month first originated from historian Dr. Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (now the Association for the Study of African American Life and History). As a young scholar, Woodson noticed the misrepresentation of African Americans in history books, or complete omission of their history altogether. In 1926, Woodson announced the second week of February would be designated as “Negro History Week.” This week was first chosen because it coincided with the birthdate of Abraham Lincoln on February 12th, and Frederick douglass on February 14th, both of which were already celebrated by many African American communities. During the U.S. Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, African Americans began to reclaim pride in their history and cultural identity. By 1976, African Americans had begun to completely embrace their heritage and celebrate other African Americans who had made significant contributions throughout history. As part of the United States’ bicentennial celebration that year, the month of February was then officially declared as Black History Month in 1976. Other countries soon followed suit, such as the United Kingdom in 1987 and Canada in 1995. Dr. Woodson and his efforts had left an unforgettable mark on history, one we continue to celebrate today through Black History Month. Woodson himself once stated, “If race has no history, it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.” We can help maintain this tradition by taking steps to properly honor Black History Month. This February, take some time to learn more about Black History Month, its origins and some of the individuals it honors, such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks and Langston Hughes. Learn about celebrated people in the African American community, and share about them with your friends and family. Watch films dedicated to black culture, listen to historically black music, read books and poetry by black authors or try new foods with historically black recipes. Most importantly, learn about some of the issues African Americans might still face in U.S. culture today. Have respectful, open-communication dialogues with individuals who may or may not look like you, and take this month as an opportunity to learn and grow in community. No matter your race, Black History Month is an important time to celebrate the accomplishments of African American individuals. This February, use this time as a chance to look back and recognize how far the United States has come in racial inequality, and how far we still have to go. The month of February is about more than a romantic dinner and some candy: it’s about fully understanding all of U.S. history, and taking steps toward a better future.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19429
__label__cc	0.726423	0.273577	Bahrain Bourse Receives Positive Feedback on ‘Listing Rules’ Consultation Paper As part of the Bahrain Bourse’s continuous efforts to develop the capital market in the Kingdom, and based on CBB Resolution No. (11) of 2018, Bahrain Bourse (BHB) announces the completion of its public consultation on the ‘Listing Rules’ which was disclosed last month in order to receive the views and comments of all stakeholder groups within the capital markets prior to the implementation of the new Listing Rules. During the consultation period, Bahrain Bourse received positive feedback from various stakeholders and is now in the process of reviewing and consolidating the feedback and comments received. The final Listing Rules will be published after obtaining the relevant approvals from the Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB). The Chief Executive of Bahrain Bourse Shaikh Khalifa bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa said, “The introduction of the new Listing Rules goes in line with BHB’s implementation of the self-regulatory organization (SRO) model which will enhance the regulatory and supervisory role of Bahrain Bourse and in return enhance its competitiveness to attract further listings to contribute to the development of the economy in the Kingdom of Bahrain.” “We would like to express our sincere gratitude and thanks to all stakeholders for their support and valuable feedback during this consultation exercise, which aims to ensure alignment of market needs,” Shaikh Khalifa added. Following the approval of the Central Bank of Bahrain on the consultation paper, Bahrain Bourse will publish the new Listing Rules on its website www.bahrainbourse.com.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19442
__label__cc	0.72678	0.27322	Bahrain Bourse is a member of the most prominent standard-setting international organizations in the field of capital markets and central securities depository operations and actively participates in the regular meetings of held by these organizations. The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) is the international body that brings together the world's securities regulators and is recognized as the global standard setter for the securities sector. IOSCO develops, implements and promotes adherence to internationally recognized standards for securities regulation. It works intensively with the G20 and the Financial Stability Board (FSB) on the global regulatory reform agenda. IOSCO was established in 1983. Its membership regulates more than 95% of the world's securities markets in more than 115 jurisdictions; securities regulators in emerging markets account for 75% of its ordinary membership. World Federation of Exchanges The World Federation of Exchanges is the trade association for the operators of regulated financial exchanges. With 64 members from around the globe, the WFE develops and promotes standards in markets, supporting reform in the regulation of OTC derivatives markets, international cooperation and coordination among regulators. WFE exchanges are home to nearly 45,000 listed companies. WFE statistics database covers more than 350 indicators and 70 years of data from exchanges worldwide. Arab Federation of Exchanges The Arab Federation of Exchanges (AFE), headquartered in Lebanon, was established in June 1978 by the League of Arab States. The Arab Federation of Exchanges is the official Regional Federation representing the Arab Exchanges and works in close cooperation with the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) and the Federation of Euro-Asian Stock Exchanges (FEAS). The Mission of the Arab Federation of Exchanges is to create a transparent and developed environment for the Arab Capital Markets, to reduce the barriers of securities trading across the countries, to enhance the communication among its members and to coordinate their activities with the Regional and International partners. The Arab Federation of Exchanges membership includes 18 Arab Regulated Exchanges, 4 Clearing Settlement and Depository Companies and several financial institutions as affiliated members covering the GCC, Levant and North Africa regions. Africa & Middle East Depositories Association AMEDA was established in April 27 2005. AMEDA is a non-profit organization comprised of Central Securities Depositories and Clearing Houses in AFRICA & The MIDDLE EAST. The Africa & Middle East Depositories Association is formed for the benefit of its Member community, as an elective, inter-professional and regional facility to foster a spirit of cooperation, reciprocity and harmony among members, to achieve those objectives it determines from time to time. Association of National Numbering Agencies ANNA (the “Association of National Numbering Agencies”) is a global industry association, with a presence in excess of 120 countries, comprising a membership of Central Banks, Central Securities Depositories, Data Vendors, Regulators and Stock Exchanges. The objective of ANNA is to provide actionable global ID and reference data products and services to global market participants, including Regulators and the financial services industry to uniquely identify, classify and describe entities and financial instruments. Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative The United Nation’s Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative is a peer-to-peer learning platform that aims to engage & encourage exchanges in collaboration with investors, regulators, and listed companies to adopt sustainability factors in their corporate strategy which includes environmental factors, social factors, and corporate governance issues. In February 2019, Bahrain Bourse announced its voluntary commitment to the United Nations Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) initiative to promote sustainable and transparent capital markets in cooperation with listed companies and other related stakeholders. Middle East Investor Relations Association (MEIRA) The Middle East Investor Relations Association (‘MEIRA’) is an independent, non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting the Investor Relations (IR) profession and international standards in corporate governance across the Middle East. The mission of MEIRA is to enhance the reputation, efficiency and attractiveness of the Middle East capital markets. In partnership with stock exchanges, regulators and other market participants, MEIRA supports companies through its workshops, professional development and certification programmes. Bahrain Bourse announced the establishment of MEIRA – Bahrain Chapter in April 2019, which is headed by Bahrain Bourse in collaboration with the Founding Members which includes Aluminium Bahrain (‘ALBA’), Bank ABC, Bahrain Telecommunications Company (‘Batelco’), Ithmaar Holding, National Bank of Bahrain, and SICO BSC (c).	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19443
__label__wiki	0.988313	0.988313	OPP and NHLAA team up to put the stigma around mental health in the penalty box Published Tuesday, July 9, 2019 6:42PM EDT Ontario Provincial Police has teamed up with the National Hockey League Alumni Association (NHLAA) to create awareness around mental health and how to deal with mental illness. In front of a quiet and captivated audience, Dave Truax, a retired OPP Detective Superintendent, tells of how he learned his son had taken his own life. "The contingent officer tells me my son Devon was found dead," he says. "When you break this news to someone, it's about the same as taking a baseball bat and swinging it right across their gut." Former NHL player Jim McKenny spoke about his struggles with mental illness. "I have the disease. I have a panic anxiety disorder, and I'm also a recovered drug addict and alcoholic," he admits. "I think a lot of people look up to hockey players and they think they're big, tough guys and all that, but, you know, after they're finished playing your body starts to break down and you have all of these ramifications going on and on." Truax spoke about ways to improve mental health through things like exercise, and about the importance of better OPP training. He says it's crucial that officers, hockey players, and anyone in the community look out for one another. "If someone reaches out and says 'I need your help,' that's serious. Don't put that off. I never got that call," he says. The OPP plans to continue with the speaker series and hold events like the one today every few months. Retired OPP Detective Superintendent Dave Truax speaks about mental health in Orillia on Tues., July 9, 2019 (CTV News/Aileen Doyle) Former Toronto Maple Leaf Jim McKenny speaks about his struggles with mental illness in Orillia on Tues., July 9, 2019. (CTV News/Aileen Doyle)	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19444
__label__wiki	0.683056	0.683056	Episode 019: Suppressing the Indians Throughout the summer of 1763, in what became known as Pontiac’s War, Indian tribes all across the northwest rose up to destroy British forts and settlements. Warriors launched attacks all across western New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and what is today Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana. The British were ignoring promises to keep settlers east of the Allegheny mountains. Without the French to act as a counterweight, the Indians realized they needed to go to war if they wanted to protect their lands. Last week, I went over all the major attacks over the course of the summer, often killing and mutilating without mercy, taking no prisoners, and wiping out soldiers and civilians alike. While their ferocity destroyed settlements and spread fear, Indians never seemed to be able to maintain a sustained war over time. Warriors needed to return home to feed their families. Pontiac and his allies had hoped to encourage the French to rejoin the fight once they saw the Indians in full scale war against the British. But the few French garrisons still along the Mississippi were already planning to leave. Alone and without a European power to provide arms and ammunition, even united tribes could not sustain a war footing. They could not remain in battle for more than a few months. As summer turned to fall, and the fighting season ended, many warriors simply returned home. Paxton Boys By winter 1763, the Indian threat in Pennsylvania had been neutralized, yet anti-Indian sentiment flourished. In December, a mob from Paxton, Pennsylvania raided a nearby village of Christianized Indians who has played no role in the uprising. Some from Paxton accused them of providing aid to Indians who had participated in earlier raids. It seems more likely though that their fears had given rise to the attitude that the only good Indian was a dead Indian. They massacred and scalped six Indians who they found sitting in their cabins. Paxton Massacre (artist's conception from 1841) (from Indian Country Today) Amid further threats, officials took 16 Susquehannock men, women, and children into protective custody to prevent their massacre. The Paxton vigilantes were undeterred. Two weeks later, they attacked the Lancaster jail where the Indians were being held in protective custody. The killed, scalped, and dismembered the bodies of the Indian men, women, and children. In January 1764, 250 Paxton vigilantes marched on Philadelphia to demand further government action against the Indians. Instead, they found that most Philadelphians were shocked and appalled by their actions. They ended up providing the legislature with a list of grievances and returning home. Although the violence ended, no one was ever prosecuted for the murder of the Indians, despite some attempts by the Governor to find the perpetrators. Amherst Responds to the Uprising It took months for Gen. Amherst to receive intelligence on the attacks on distant outposts and to appreciate its enormity. Once he did, he had no intention of working out a diplomatic solution. These attacks required a harsh response. As he assembled armies to counter the uprising, Amherst issued orders that no Indians be taken prisoner. As with the Cherokee uprising a few years earlier, he ordered any captured Indians from tribes involved in the uprising to be executed on the spot. Gen. Jeffery Amherst (from Dictionary Canadian Biography) When Amherst heard about Fort Pitt’s use of biological warfare in spreading smallpox to the warriors, he approved reimbursement costs for the smallpox infested blankets and recommended that same plan to other officers. As one officer writing to Amherst put it, he wished “to extirpate that Vermine from a Country they have forfeited, and with it all Claim to the Rights of Humanity.” The Biological Weapons Convention of 1972 was still more than two centuries in the future. In the 1760’s use of smallpox as a weapon did not seem to be an issue for much of anyone. I should also add that many have considered it racist that the British used smallpox as a weapon against the Native American tribes. However, as we will see in future episodes, they seemed equally willing to use it against the rebels during the Revolution. It just was not quite as effective as many Patriots got inoculations. Although many tribes rose up in this fight, the Iroquois remained loyal British allies, with the exception of some Seneca who had been involved in the Devil’s Hole Massacre. William Johnson, who lived among the Iroquois, was able to maintain the loyalty of most of the Six Nations throughout the uprising. Johnson attempted to get Amherst to make use of the loyal Iroquois, who believed they had the power to suppress the Indian uprising in the Ohio Valley, at least enough to bring them to the bargaining table. Even though Johnson and these same Iroquois had proven their value to Amherst during his Montreal Campaign in 1760, he refused to make use of them. Instead, he continued his policy of destruction, killing all enemy Indians, burning their villages, destroying their food supplies and spreading smallpox among them. Once the Indian forces had used up their ammunition and supplies, unable to obtain more, Amherst believed he could defeat the warriors in a war of attrition. Amherst was not the first commander to earn the scorn of Sir William Johnson. Like others before him, he would pay the price as Johnson contacted his friends in London to criticize the commander’s policies that were only exacerbating and extending the war. In August, Amherst was recalled back to London and Gen. Thomas Gage took command. Amherst had been requesting for years to be relieved of command. With the war over, there was little glory in commanding North America. He wanted to return to Britain. Now overseeing an all out Indian war, officials in London decided that maybe it was time for new leadership. Again, like most Generals brought home in defeat, Amherst would move on to better things. He had been appointed Governor of Virginia in 1759 and continued to hold that post until 1768. He only lost that job after officials decided that having been Governor for nine years, it might be nice if he actually visited the colony. When he declined, London appointed a new Governor. Amherst would eventually be promoted to full General and later Field Marshall. He would also join the King’s Privy Council and become a Baron. But in 1763, Amherst left America, never to return. Gen. Thomas Gage I’ve mentioned the new North American Commander, Thomas Gage, a few times before. But now with his first command, and given his future importance to the story, I should probably give a little more background. Gage was the son a Viscount, but as the second son, he likely would never inherit a title or property. Instead, Gage had joined the army at the age of 20 to fight in the War of Austrian Succession. He returned to Britain to help put down the Jacobite Rebellion, participating in the slaughter of Scottish rebels at the infamous Battle of Culloden in 1746. Thomas Gage A few years later he shipped off for North America, serving under Braddock and alongside George Washington in 1755. For most of the French and Indian War, Gage could not get in a position to prove himself in battle. He was part of the relief force to Fort Oswego, that arrived too late. He was part of Gen. Loudoun’s mission to take Louisbourg, which simply turned around and did not fight a battle. Gage did finally see battle again at the first failed attempt to take Fort Carillon, in which he was wounded in 1758. While recuperating, he went to New Jersey to recruit a new regiment of colonists. There, he found time to marry a local Jersey Girl, Margaret Kemble, and start a family in America. He continued to serve throughout the French and Indian War, serving under Gen. Amherst when he defeated the French in Canada in 1760. Yet when Amherst decided that Gage acted with too much caution in failing to attack a small French outpost, he gave Gage a position in the rear during the final assault on Montreal. After the city fell, Amherst gave him an administrative job as the military governor of Montreal. When officials recalled Amherst in 1763, Gage became the new North American Commander. Because Amherst had only been “recalled for consultation” and Gage made temporary commander, Gage may not have felt confident significantly altering Amherst’s plans for 1764. Gage, therefore, went forward with Amherst’s plans to defeat all the tribes militarily with only about 8000 regulars left in America. Treaty of Fort Niagara Gage did allow Johnson to negotiate a treaty between the loyal Iroquois and the renegade Seneca who has taken part in the uprising. The Seneca signed the Treaty of Fort Niagara bringing them back into the British fold. Sketch of Ft. Niagara by Wm. Johnson in 1758 (from Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada) The Treaty negotiations at Fort Niagara, made clear that most of the Ohio Valley tribes were also ready to settle. By the summer of 1764, it was clear to all tribes that the French had no intention of re-engaging in North America. The natives were on their own, and would remain dependent on the British for trade. Smallpox had also decimated many tribes throughout the winter of 1763-64. This may have been in part the result of British attempts to start such an epidemic, or more likely the inevitable result when Indians came into increased contact with Europeans and each other. Although the meeting at Fort Niagara was primarily for the purpose of bringing the Seneca back under the Iroquois fold, representatives from 24 different tribes attended. They received gifts from the British and expressed a desire to end hostilities. The Seneca did agree in the final treaty signed on August 1, 1764, to pledge loyalty to the British. They were also forced to give up their monopoly over the Niagara portage as the price for their attacks. Bradstreet Expedition At the same time Johnson was negotiating the Fort Niagara Treaty, Gen. Gage was executing Amherst’s orders to strike at the heart of the Indian rebellion militarily. By this time though, everyone seemed to have lost their thirst for blood. John Bradstreet The first prong of this now half-hearted invasion called for Col. John Bradstreet to leave Fort Schlosser in Western New York, sail across Lake Erie with a force of 1200 men, subdue all the Indians along the way, and eventually reinforce Fort Detroit. This is the same Col. Bradstreet who led the raid on Fort Frontenac back in 1758. Ever since then, he had been sitting in a cushy quartermaster job in New York. It is not clear if he wanted this new combat role, but it is clear he did not see any good way to use 1200 men to lead a path of destruction through thousands of angry warriors across hundreds of miles. Fortunately for Bradstreet, the Indians did not see much point in fighting any more either. When he landed near Fort Presque, ten Indians representing Wyandot, Delaware, Shawnee, Mingo, and Munsee tribes approached under a flag of truce. He provided terms requiring they cease all hostility, return all prisoners, and agree to send Fort Pitt any Indians who continued to attack soldiers or civilians As he continued along the way, he offered similar terms to the tribes he encountered, directing them to attend a summit that he would hold in Detroit in September. Bradstreet, though, was not authorized to enter into treaties on behalf of Britain. His orders were to suppress any opposition and perhaps arrange for a temporary ceasefire. It was not until late September, after Bradstreet had relieved the garrison at Fort Detroit and held his summit with the tribes that Gen. Gage’s letters finally caught up with him telling him he had far exceeded his authorization and to stop making peace terms with the tribes. In any event, the Detroit meeting was a disaster even before Gage’s letters arrived. Pontiac refused to attend. Bradstreet insulted the rest of the Indians by using a hatchet to chop up the peace belt that Pontiac had sent. Ignoring Gage’s orders to march inland and attack various tribes (which would have been suicide), Bradstreet tried to return via Lake Erie, only to be run ashore by storms. Without enough boats, much of his contingent, including all the Indian auxiliaries he had with him, had to travel by foot overland back to Fort Niagara without proper supplies. Many of them died from from exposure or starvation along the way. Even worse, the tribes which had agreed to end the war and to return prisoners neither stopped their attacks nor actually returned any prisoners. Bouquet Expedition As Bradstreet was returning in October, Col. Bouquet was setting out from Fort Pitt on his own expedition into the Ohio Valley. Henry Bouquet (from Bushy Run Battlefield) Bouquet had started late and moved slowly. His experience at Bushy Run the year earlier made him cautious of ambush. After setting up a defensive stockade, Bouquet met with area chiefs and offered terms similar to Bradstreet’s. He made clear, however, that any final treaty would have to be made with William Johnson back in New York. Several tribes actually brought them about 200 British prisoners with promises to return more to Fort Pitt in the spring. By the end of November, Bouquet arrived back at Fort Pitt convinced that hostilities were coming to an end, at least in the Ohio Valley. Further west, in the Illinois territory, Pontiac and another more hawkish Chief named Kaské continued to make war on any British they could find. They captured several small diplomatic parties. Kaské wanted to torture and kill them, while Pontiac decided to allow them to return, indicating he was at least ready to talk peace. Treaty with Pontiac Facing a new, expensive and difficult offensive in Illinois in 1765, Gage reached out to Pontiac hoping to find a diplomatic solution. He sent George Croghan, the Indian trader from Pennsylvania who had worked with Washington’s first incursion into Ohio back in 1754 and who had continued to trade with the Indians and establish British settlements through the intervening years. Negotiations with Henry Bouquet In Illinois, Kaské attempted to burn Croghan at the stake. Pontiac, however, saw continuing war as pointless, spared Croghan and agreed to travel to New York. He and Johnson signed a treaty at Fort Ontario on July 25, 1766. The Treaty only announced a general acceptance of British sovereignty. It did not cede any land to the British nor even return prisoners. Even that was too much for Kaské, who crossed the Mississippi with other refugees who refused to live under British rule. Conclusion of the War Pontiac is sometimes credited with leading this entire effort. It seems clear though that he was among a group of many chiefs representing many tribes coordinating this effort against the British. Pontiac was merely the first to act. Pontiac’s War, sometimes called a rebellion, uprising, or conspiracy, was the first concerted effort by almost all tribes to halt the advancement of Europeans across North America. At best, it slowed things for a few years. It did convince the British that the native tribes were a force to be reckoned with and could not be taken for granted. If anything, Pontiac’s decision to end the fighting humiliated him among tribes who still wanted to fight. He lived in relative isolation for the next few years, before a Peoria Indian murdered him for unknown reasons. Following the end of the fighting, Britain decided to renew its tradition of providing annual gifts to the various tribes, and making more of an effort to keep settlers out of western Indian lands. The British also eliminated many of the smaller western forts, and only kept a few of the larger ones, like Fort Detroit and Fort Pitt. Royal Proclamation of 1763 The same year the uprising began, King George III issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which largely forbade any British settlements west of the Allegheny Mountains, providing a reserve stretching the length of the Continent from the Alleghenies to the Mississippi River for use of the Indians. The Proclamation which was based largely on the agreements of the 1758 Treaty of Easton, was under preparation even before the news of Pontiac’s War reached London. The news probably did speed up its release and distribution. The Proclamation by itself, however, did little. The Indians had no reason to believe yet another piece of paper with promises on it. It probably added something to those already predisposed to end the violence. However, few tribes seemed to put much faith in it. On the other side, the colonies were outraged that they would be barred from the land over which they had just fought a whole war to obtain. Why exactly did we just spend millions of pounds and sacrifice thousands of lives to give the Indians a private reserve? It helped stoke the frustration colonists felt over having virtually no say over major policy questions. The war ended up for many being another one where the colonists sacrificed greatly only to see London give away any gains they had made. One reason the colonists did not get too outraged about it is that most of them figured it would be treated much like most other edicts from London. The colonists would largely ignore it and eventually it would go away entirely. As Washington wrote in a letter to a friend also involved in land speculation, “I can never look upon that Proclamation in any other light (but this I say between ourselves) than as a temporary expedient to quiet the Minds of the Indians and must fail of course in a few years…” In other words, whatever the King said, western colonial expansion could not be stopped. Once it became clear that British policy would not permit a settlement boom in the west, Gage decided to reduce the military presence as well. He abandoned several of the smaller outpost that had been easily overrun. Troops in larger forts such as Fort Pitt or Fort Detroit were reduced to a few dozen soldiers, not even enough to maintain upkeep on the Fort, let alone defend it if ever attacked again. The main purpose of maintaining any soldiers at all was simply to keep guard on the valuable canon left in the forts. The military presence throughout the Ohio Valley, the Illinois valley and the Great Lakes region fell to around 350 Regulars. With the region at peace, more soldiers only incurred unnecessary costs for the government. The military essentially pulled out and went home. I’m sure that won’t cause any future problems. Next week: Britain starts looking for way to pay back its war debts, and looks to the colonies to help pay the bill. It passes the Sugar Act and the Currency Act of 1764. Next Episode 20: Sugar Act and Currency Act of 1764 Previous Episode 18: Pontiac's War Visit the American Revolution Podcast (https://amrev.podbean.com). Pontiac’s Rebellion http://www.warpaths2peacepipes.com/the-indian-wars/pontiacs-rebellion.htm Benjamin Franklin’s account of the Paxton massacres: http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-11-02-0012 Sir Jeffrey Amherst: https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Amherst_Sir_Jeffery_1717-1797 Thomas Gage: http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/gage_thomas_4E.html Henry Bouquet: https://bushyrunbattlefield.com/history/henry-bouquet George Croghan: http://www.academia.edu/22252682/George_Croghan_1710-1782_-_a_miscellany Treaty of Fort Niagara http://www.chiefs-of-ontario.org/node/920 Royal Proclamation of 1763: http://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/home/government-policy/royal-proclamation-1763.html Royal Proclamation of 1763 (full text): http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/proc1763.asp The Ohio Company of Virginia and the Westward Movement, 1748-1792, by Kenneth Bailey (1939). 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__label__wiki	0.539926	0.539926	Politics at Reading News, events and thoughts from Politics and International Relations at Reading About our Teaching Grants and Impact ← Hungary’s New Electoral Law, Part 1: The Basics The government’s Scottish referendum plans are indefensible → Hungary’s New Electoral Law, Part 2: Analysis Posted on December 26, 2011 by readingpolitics Alan Renwick In Part 1 of this post, I outlined the basics of Hungary’s new electoral law. Now I turn to the question of what we should make of the changes introduced. Before I get going, I should say that others have been following Hungary’s electoral reform debates over recent months and years more closely than I have. I offer my impressions here partly because I know many non-Hungarian-speakers want to know more than they can at present about what has happened, and partly in the hope of initiating conversation with those in Hungary who know much more than I do. I hope you will point out errors, omissions, and points that I ought to think about in more detail. The key question in thinking about an electoral reform concerns whose interests it is designed to serve. Is it imposed by the government to protect its own interests (what I have elsewhere called elite majority imposition)? Is it agreed among politicians more widely (elite settlement)? Or does it reflect pressure from below, which politicians feel compelled in greater or lesser measure to accommodate (elite–mass interaction)? A quick look at the final parliamentary vote on the bill shows that this was not a case of elite settlement: the governing parties (the centre-right Fidesz and its Christian Democratic vassal, the KDNP) were united in support of the new electoral law, while the opposition parties were equally united against it. One opposition party – the far-right Jobbik – voted against the bill. The other two – the socialist MSZP and the green/liberal LMP – boycotted the session and headed instead for a demonstration outside parliament. That’s not to say, however, that all aspects of the bill were contested. The opposition parties all supported a sharp reduction in the number of deputies: as government supporters frequently pointed out during the main debate on the principles of the bill on 2nd December, Hungary’s parties have long promised a reduction in the size of Parliament without delivering. There was also general agreement on the introduction of special representation for minorities. Four of the five parliamentary parties – all except the LMP – supported the shift to single-round elections in the single-member districts. And all agreed that, if single-member districts were to be retained, there was an urgent need to redraw constituency boundaries. No redistricting had taken place since 1990, with the result that the largest districts were three times the size of the smallest. The Constitutional Court had ruled in December 2010 that the prevailing district structure was unconstitutional. Nevertheless, two aspects of the bill appear designed to serve Fidesz’s own party interests. The first is that the new system is more majoritarian than the old. As I noted in Part 1 of this post, that is partly because the proportion of single-member districts (SMDs) is greater than in the old system and partly because winners’ surplus votes are now included in the transfer of remainder votes from SMDs to lists. One estimate, which seems to be widely accepted, is that, whereas the old system translated Fidesz’s 53 per cent vote share in 2010 into a 68 per cent share of the seats in Parliament, the new system would have given it 76 per cent of the seats. Fidesz justifies this move in two ways (I’m drawing again here and in the next few paragraphs on the parliamentary debates on 2nd December). First, in terms of the mechanics of the new system, it argues that including winners’ surplus votes in the transfer ensures that all “wasted” votes from the SMDs are treated equally. Fidesz’s Lajos Kósa said: The goal of the new method of counting remainder votes is that no vote should be lost – that every citizen’s vote should count. The bill thus treats all votes that are not used in the single-member districts equally. Only some of the votes cast in single-member districts are needed to win a seat. The bill’s goal is that every vote should be used: those cast for losing candidates in the same way as those cast for the winner that were not needed to obtain the seat. This part of the bill was ridiculed by opposition deputies: the MSZP’s Zsolt Molnár, for example, likened it to giving social security benefits to bank directors. And, indeed, the government’s reasoning is very strange. If the equality of votes is an aim, that surely needs to be gauged across the outcome of the election as a whole: few voters pay much attention to how their votes are treated at particular stages of the count process. And in terms of the outcome of the election, the new system manifestly treats votes more unequally than the old: disproportionality, as already noted, is markedly higher. Of course, disproportionality can be justified if it produces more effective or more accountable government. And this is Fidesz’s second argument. Lajos Kósa continued: The question of proportionality and governability is a key question for every electoral system. In considering it, we must recognize that each of these values can be realized only at the expense of the other. Increased proportionality endangers the formation of a governing majority, while realization of the majoritarian perspective reduces proportionality. … I believe that the bill offers an appropriate solution to this. But none of Fidesz’s speakers explained why governability requires even greater disproportionality than already exists in Hungary. Every parliament in Hungary over the last twenty years has lasted its full four-year term. No election has been followed by problems in government formation. Voters have been able to throw out the existing government and replace it with a wholly new coalition in four out of the five elections since the first post-communist election in 1990. As the far right’s Dóra Dúró said in Parliament on 2nd December, “Election results have not caused problems for governability in Hungary, whereas proportionality – or, rather, disproportionality – has been much more of a problem”. Fidesz points out that some European countries have entirely majoritarian systems, and if these are classed as democratic then, a fortiori, so too must be a system that combines majoritarian and proportional elements. But this argument is again tendentious. The UK – the example most commonly cited – has relatively entrenched parties that retain stable bastions of support even in lean times. As a result, no government has commanded two-thirds of the seats in the House of Commons since 1945 – never mind the three-quarters share that Fidesz could have won under the new Hungarian rules in 2010. By contrast, the parties’ weaker entrenchment and the greater homogeneity in voting patterns in Hungary mean that a popular party can virtually sweep the board in the SMDs: Fidesz won all but two SMDs under the old rules in 2010; the MSZP and their allies won all but ten in 1994. In Hungary’s circumstances, therefore, a pure SMD system would be wholly indefensible: it could at some elections prevent the existence of any meaningful parliamentary opposition. The new mixed system also risks leaving Hungary without adequate checks against majority power. No justification has been offered for why that might be needed. The second highly contentious aspect of the system that seems designed to serve Fidesz’s interests is the new structure of single-member districts. Article 4 of the new electoral law states that SMDs must not cross county boundaries, must comprise contiguous territory, and must contain roughly equal numbers of eligible voters. It goes on to state that district electorates should deviate by no more than 15 per cent from the average (unless that is necessary to respect county boundaries and maintain contiguity) and that Parliament must act if any deviation rises above 20 per cent. An annex to the bill then sets out each district in precise detail. The general principles set out in the bill are perfectly reasonable. As government speakers repeatedly pointed out during the parliamentary debate, they conform to the principles laid down by the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission in its Code of Good Practice in Electoral Matters. What none of those speakers cared to point out, however, is that the Code of Good Practice goes on also to suggest procedures for drawing up precise boundaries. It says: When constituency boundaries are redefined – which they must be in a single-member system – it must be done: impartially; without detriment to national minorities; taking account of the opinion of a committee, the majority of whose members are independent; this committee should preferably include a geographer, a sociologist and a balanced representation of the parties and, if necessary, representatives of national minorities. The third of these points has not been followed: there is no information at all on how the government has drawn the map described in the new law. Furthermore, it appears that the first principle has been violated too. During the parliamentary debates, the LMP’s Gergely Karácsony showed two graphs: you can watch the clip here and see the graphs here. The first graph plots Fidesz’s share of the votes in 2010 in the new SMDs on the y-axis against each SMD’s population on the x-axis. It shows that the districts are smaller where Fidesz’s vote is higher, suggesting that the boundaries have been manipulated to Fidesz’s advantage. Interestingly, the second graph (obtainable by clicking on the arrow to the right of the first graph), which plots the same data using the old SMDs, suggests that, although variation in district size was much greater under the old system, the bias against Fidesz was smaller than the bias in Fidesz’s favour that has now been introduced. I have not been able to verify these figures – which do, of course, come from one of the opposition parties. Nevertheless, they fit closely with others: analysts writing on the Haza és Haladás blog find, simulating 2006 election data with the new SMDs, that the average number of voters in districts where Fidesz were ahead by more than 5 per cent is 74,639, while that in districts where the MSZP were ahead by the same amount is 80,428. They find evidence of various other boundary manipulations in Fidesz’s favour and conclude, largely on this basis, that “this is not a democratic electoral system”. To draw up district boundaries in a non-transparent and partisan way is a gross abuse of democratic principle. Fidesz will probably get away with it: such abuses are common in several other SMD-based systems, and Hungarian politicians have a depressing tendency to compare Hungarian practice with what happens elsewhere rather than with what should happen. But we should be clear all the same that Fidesz is skewing the system to its own advantage. Furthermore, by placing the district boundaries in the electoral law – a law that can be changed only with a two-thirds parliamentary majority – it is seeking to entrench its unfair advantage for the future. Overall, then, this is basically a case of reform by elite majority imposition: the government has designed an electoral law that will serve its own power interests against the opposition of all parties outside government and with little real involvement from the wider public. Everyone agreed that an overhaul of the electoral system was necessary, but the government has used this opportunity ruthlessly for its own purposes. The only possible qualification to this picture concerns the reduction in the size of Parliament from 386 to 199 members: why would Fidesz deputies back such a change if they were thinking only of their own electoral interests? I look forward to hearing others’ thoughts on this. One point may be that the unanimous support for the bill from the government benches shows how far Fidesz is controlled by its leadership. But is there also a concession here to public opinion? In other countries, including the UK and Ireland, reductions in the number of deputies in the past year have been justified on the basis that, when public services are being cut sharply, politicians should feel the pinch too. The same reasoning was expressed in the Hungarian Parliament on 2nd December: Fidesz’s Gergely Gulyás, for example, said, “At a time when the country’s difficult economic situation demands sacrifices from numerous parts of society, it is particularly justified and rational for Parliament to set a good example”. More often, however, Fidesz deputies simply pointed out that parliamentary downsizing has been promised for twenty years but never achieved. This justification appeals to a populist discourse according to which Fidesz is the party that can slice through the lethargy of a corrupt and self-serving elite to act in the interests of the ordinary people of Hungary. In this respect then, Fidesz is pandering to popular distaste for politicians. But it is doing so in a way that does the party’s leadership no harm. To use the language introduced by political scientists Steven Reed and Michael Thies, act- as well as outcome-contingent considerations matter here. In all respects, however, it appears that the government has worked out what will serve its own power interests and has taken as much of this as it thinks itself able to get away with. 26 Responses to Hungary’s New Electoral Law, Part 2: Analysis Matthew Shugart says: Alan, this is very valuable. Thank you. You ask, about the reduction in size of parliament, “why would Fidesz deputies back such a change if they were thinking only of their own electoral interests?” I am not sure I understand the puzzle here. A smaller parliament, all else equal, produces less proportional results (Taagepera, various, including his 2007 book). So this fits well with the party’s overall move towards greater majoritarianism. (Interestingly, the reduction brings Hungary close to the “cube root rule” of assembly size–Taagepera and Shugart, 1989. The old one was one of the most over-sized, relative to population, in the world.) Another question: Regarding the boundary delimitation process, you comment that “abuses are common in several other SMD-based systems”. Other than most US states and non-democratic Malaysia, where else do we find such gross abuses of this process as what you detail in the new Hungarian law? Alan Renwick says: Many thanks, Matt. The puzzle from my point of view regarding the reduction in the number of deputies concerns why the deputies themselves would accept this, given that many of them will lose their jobs as a result. I agree with your point about proportionality, but I might expect the party leaders to have an interest also in not antagonizing their members unnecessarily. The ease with which the government was able to do this might just reflect the dominance of the party leadership over the rank and file. It should be said that the reduction in the size of Parliament was already foreshadowed by a constitutional amendment passed in May 2010, just after the Fidesz government entered office, which set the maximum size of Parliament at 200. Regarding boundary delimitation, I was thinking also of France, where the 2010 redistribution (like the previous redistribution in 1987) seems to have been strongly politicized. If France had a formalized mechanism for regular, independent boundary review, I think it would be far harder for the Hungarian government to justify what it has just done. Tibor Glant says: Reduction of the size of the political elite was one of the major campaign promises of Fidesz. Like with some others, they did come good on this promise. This was one of the reasons why many gave them 2/3: we believed that they would do it, unlike all other parliaments before. Liz DB says: Yes, thanks Alan, this is very useful. I completely agree that it is a puzzle why Fidesz would wish to reduce the number of MPs. I wonder if it isn’t just about improved control over the party. I’m not sure what Fidesz’s candidate selection procedures are like, but I presume it’s pretty essential to promise loyalty in order to get nominated or be put on the party list. Aren’t they also changing the incompatibility laws, too, so that you can’t be a mayor and an MP simultaneously? I’m not sure what motivates that – although can imagine it might fall disproportionately on different parties – but it might as a consequence mean there are fewer loyal MPs to go around. It might also change the ease of access to political power for parties of different sizes. How would you expect Jobbik to fare under the new system, and does that tell us anything about Fidesz’s real attitude to them? Many thanks, Liz. Yes, there has certainly been a lot of talk about stopping people from being mayor and MP simultaneously. I can’t see anything saying that this has happened yet, but it would be interesting to find out more about it. The Haza és Haladás simulation suggests that Jobbik would have won 9 per cent of the seats in 2010 under the new rules, compared to 12 per cent under the old rules. Both Jobbik and the MSZP are now a bit higher in the polls than they were at the election, but they would still both presumably struggle to win in many SMDs. Jobbik and the MSZP have both been arguing for a German-style MMP system. Viktor Szigetvari says: They want to reduce the number of MPs because it is their populist (and to be honest partially legitimate) answer to the electoral dissatisfaction with the post-transitional status quo. The anti-political, anti-elitistic sentiment of those Hungarians who are dissatisfied with the way how things are going, were going in our country. It was accepted by all parties even during previous electoral terms that the number of MPs should be limited, but there was no two third majority in the Parliament to have a succesfull vote on any possible reform and reduction. They now introduce new incompatibility laws too, a mayor cannot be an MP anymore (after the next elections). This is more important than the reduction, because during the last 20 years succesful lobbying of mayors was able to stop crucial reforms. About Jobbik. Fidesz is afraid of a strong far right in Hungary. Mainly not because of their ideas but of their capability to attract volatile voters on the right. Because of this in 2010 Fidesz partially reformed the municipal electoral system to institutionally limit the success of Jobbik during the Autumn on the municipal elections. Jobbik has good grassroots so the collection of qualification card will not be a problem for them. Until Jobbik does not become either the biggest or an above 30 percent second biggest party of the Hungarian political system they will be disprefered by this new system. Because the “winner’s compensation” system decreases the influence of their proportional votes (because the winning candidates will also create votes for the system of compensation and these votes will compete against the party list votes for the mandates on the national list). Here is our paper in English, and on the 13th page you can find the explanation of this: http://lapa.princeton.edu/hosteddocs/hungary/Beyond%20democracy%20-%2027%20Nov%202011.pdf Jobbik is the second most popular party in the rural areas and some former socialist cities, especially on the poorer North-Eastern part of our country. I belive that there are still some electoral limits of Jobbik’s success, and centrist-volatile voters would rather stay away from elections than vote for them, so because of this Jobbik in the future might become capable to win some single electoral districts (on the North-Easter part of Hungary) in tight races against Fidesz but on the Western part in Transdanubia even in the rural areas it would be hard for them to win seats. And the proportional arm of system with its 93 seats disprefers Jobbik until they do not rise above 30 percent. With due respect, Jobbik took over from MSZP in areas where people would not vote for Fidesz under any circumstances. Now they would not vote for MSZP either. Again, quality of government. Fidesz needs both MSZP and Jobbik as deterrents to middle-of-the-spectrum voters. Yes, I would say that this is a very disciplined party, in which the deputies are the agents, not the principals, of the leadership. Such a party surely will take care somehow of its MPs who might lose seats as a result of the reduction in parliament. It would be interesting to follow up after the next election and see what jobs former MPs who are not renominated end up with. It should be noted that there are probably not many examples of such large reductions in assembly size in history. Other very large reductions came at the fall of the USSR, for example. Communist parliaments tend to be oversized, and in fact Hungary’s oversized parliament up till now is itself a vestige of the communist era. The only surprise is that it took so long to bring it back in line with the cube root rule. (The UK might now be the most oversized, in terms of deviation from the cube root rule of assembly size.) Removing the incompatibility may be a clue: will many former MPs now become mayors? Is the job of mayor at all attractive? I would tend to doubt it, because Hungary is quite centralized (isn’t it?). But this would open up more political jobs to go around… No they cannot become because Fidesz won with a landslide in the Autumn of 2010 on the municipal elections. So there will be lot of former MPs who will have to find positions in the powerless county municipalities of fight with local (and incumbent) mayors for new candidacies. But Fidesz used to be capable to manage this internal disputes, and many MPs after the landslide of 2010 were aware of the fact that this is their first and last term in the Parliament. And you are right? Under this government the country became more centralised so the job of mayors will not be that powerfull. Also, thanks for the mention of France. I did not know it had a non-independent redistricting process. Gabor Toka says: Dear Alan, many thanks for your posts indeed. In the vain hope that this may benefit other readers, let me repeat here some points that we already emailed about. The reduction of the size of parliament was indeed supported by a widespread popular mood and (consequently) an inter-party consensus. The 199 figure is also broadly in line with Taagepera’s fornula for assembly size (see http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0049089X72900841). But by achieving this figure in the context of a predominantly majoritarian system, Fidesz created major obstacles to the effective participation in the work of parliament even by parties with as much as 10 percent of the popular vote. With possibly as few as 5-7 seats each, their opportunities to participate in committees will be hugely limited. Even if each of their deputies obtains multiple assignments, what will they do if two their committees meet at the same time (which, with the current government setting rules of conduct, would presumably be the rule rather than the exception)? I am also concerned about the special arrangement for minority representation. As it is, I think this is only good to provide a further tool for corruption in – and executive dominance of – the legislature, as well as to cultivate a culture of ethnocentrism in public life and political culture. Romania’s experience with a similarly non-sensical system of minority representation (where the only politically relevant minority, the Hungarian, gets represented through the normal mechanisms of PR, and such ethnographic curiosities as the Italian, Albanian, “Lipovan Russian”, Turkish, Tatar, Polish etc. minorities of Romania get 17 seats under the special rules for minority representation – see http://www.cdep.ro/pls/parlam/structura.gp?idl=2&idg=5) shows that these deputies nearly always find themselves voting with the government of the day (in the current parliament for 96-97% of the time, according a quick and partial check that I just made on the parliament’s website). I imagine that these people, typically elected with a few thousand votes and formally only associated with organizations like the “Democratic Union of Turkish-Muslim Tartars in Romania” may also be quite dependent on powerful donors in their campaigns, and possibly also in their recruitment in the first place. Which of course does not prevent them from becoming, say, vice-char of the legislative committee on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men (currently held by a deputy from the “Cultural Union of Rutens in Romania”). In other words, the cheapest way to become a legislator in Romania is to run under the banner of some fanciful minority that you invented and then get a few thousand people vote for you. As far as I can recall, no Hungarian party ever dared to speak out against the ethnocentric and completely impractical constitutional requirement, enshrined in 1989, to add such representatives to the Hungarian parliament. (That there has not been any such representative in Hungary as yet is down to the fact that the previous parliaments never managed to set rules for the election of these minority representatives, i.e. remained in violation of the constitution for 20 years.) Yet the size and political significance of ethnic minorities in Hungary hardly justified retaining this rule in the 2011 reform, except possibly in the case of the Roma, who are so numerous and so divided politically that awarding them a single “Roma” seat in parliament will do no justice to their fair representation. The whole idea of adding such specially designated minority representatives to parliament has only ever been meant to provide some further arguments for Hungarian foreign policy asking for similar privileges for the Hungarian minority in neighboring countries and in defending itself from charges of nationalism. But even if you share those concerns, you will notice that Hungarian ethnic parties regularly obtain parliamentary seats in all neighboring countries without any special arrangements everywhere where ethnic Hungarians live in significant numbers. So I imagine that Fidesz’ only remaining reason not to drop the requirement for a privileged representation of ethnic minorities in the Hungarian parliament was that they see quite precisely how useful this arrangement will be to further reduce the number of list seats awarded to smaller opposition parties and to provide some extra votes for the government of the day. By the way, Kim Lane Scheppele has a new posting at http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/31/hungarian-diplomatic-protest/ and raises an interesting point re districting: “I know of no other system [than the new Hungarian] that allows an incumbent party to embed the specific boundaries of districts in a law that requires a 2/3rds vote for alteration and that has no independent body to determine whether the electoral districts have been fairly drawn in the first place.” I do not know such example myself either (DOES ANY READER DO, BY ANY CHANCE?), but, as a devil’s advocate, I was wondering whether a partisan of the Hungarian government could legitimately counter that in the American legal tradition partisan and pro-incumbent gerrymandering are in fact accepted by the courts (I am not sure whether that is the case in every state or just some), and by prohibiting non-contiguous districts the Hungarian system actually goes further in preventing such gerrymandering than US state laws (while the Hungarian law has admittedly a much-much greater tolerance for inequalities in voting age population between districts, even within counties)? Many thanks for this, Gábor – and sorry that I’ve only just noticed it! What you say about absolute numbers of MPs for smaller parties is very interesting – it’s an aspect of the change that I hadn’t really thought about, but you are clearly right. On the representation of national minorities, my suspicion was that the government was gathering ammunition for foreign policy purposes, so I’m glad to see you mention this. During the parliamentary debate on 2nd December, Fidesz’s Gergely Gulyás said “From the perspective of Hungary’s national political interests, it is particular justified that the national minorities living here should have an enhanced position and that they should be subject to positive discrimination” – which sounds to me more or less like an admission of this point. We’ll see to what degree the minority reps may be manipulable in the future. I agree that there are other examples of really unjustifiable districting around the democratic world. As I mentioned in the post, I find it exasperating that Hungarian politicians constantly refer to what happens or doesn’t happen elsewhere in the world in order to justify their position – when what happens elsewhere is indefensible, using it in this way really shouldn’t be allowed! Phil Sage says: Gabor – “I know of no other system [than the new Hungarian] that allows an incumbent party to embed the specific boundaries of districts in a law that requires a 2/3rds vote for alteration and that has no independent body to determine whether the electoral districts have been fairly drawn in the first place.” The US senatorial system Alan, very nice and balanced analysis, easily the most fair and intelligent of all that I have come across in English. I have a few minor additions only: (1) we did have a census in 2011 which is the basis for redistricting as is the county system. (2) Haza és Haladás is the blog of Gordon Bajnai and Mr. Szigetvári above, one defeated premier, one campaign chief, so I would be careful with their analysis. What I do not get here is (3) how could they extrapolate the 2010 results onto the new law? 176 to 106 SMDs, 386 to 199, with possible minority representatives, and the party list votes of the Hungarians who are willing to vote and who live outside of Hungary? How can they claim that HUs outside of Hu would all vote for Fidesz? The law is now up and available from Magyar Közlöny. (4) Fidesz are also reducing the number of municipal governments, so incompatibility or not, many of them will lose lucrative jobs. As for MSZP-SZDSZ complaiing about the Fidesz victory, it was self-imposed both by style of government and two sets of austerity measures within 3 years (2006 and 2009). Many thanks for these comments, Tibor. Yes, I realize that the impartiality of the Haza és Haladás blog might be questioned. I felt I could use it because I haven’t seen anyone – including anyone from Fidesz – offer any evidence to suggest that their figures might be incorrect. The comments of various Fidesz speakers in the 2nd December parliamentary debate suggested that they accepted the numbers. But do let me know if I’ve missed any alternative analyses: it’d be really interested to see it. My understanding is that the Haza és Haladás analysts have used voting data from the many thousands of polling districts, which allows them to get at least quite close to the votes cast in 2010 in the boundaries of the new districts. Alan/Tibor – The Haza és Haladás blog analysis is fundamentally flawed. It refers only to valid votes. The correct comparison is electors. Here in the UK a south england vote is worth much less than in a northern england electorate because of turnout, let alone the larger size of the constituencies Szigetvári Viktor says: why would that modify the finaly result in the model? Viktor: The fundamental flaw in your model lies in the attempt to project two-step election results onto a single-step election law which has not even been tested yet, and in also your unwillingness to factor in MSZP-SZDSZ cooperation. It would carry more authority if it did not come from the PM and campaign manager of a party thrashed by popular vote in a free election. Elegant and elegantly written in English, but wistfully manipulative IMO. re 3.: we did not count at all with all the minority representatives (maximum the roma population will get one seat), and the votes of Hungarians without permanent residence in Hungary – we do not even know yet the number of these citizens, the all must be registered. But 500 000 votes from them (and this would be much more than we can foresee) would change less than 5 proportional seats given the fact that the proportional votes will be combined with the loser’s compensation. Plus in our model we stated that we did not take into account this system of non-Hungarian residents. In the end it will have a very limited effect on any electoral outcome. Here is a Nézőpont review: http://nezopontintezet.hu/aktualis/valasztasi-reform/ As regards H&H, a Bush-Rove blog on Obama would not convince me. I am under the impression that Bajnai is being built up as a challenger for 2014, and the blog is dangerously, intelligently manipulative. Scheppele is clearly connected, and some of her statements in the NYT are atrocious. Whatever way you look at it, MSZP had the living daylight beaten out of them by the electorate. This election law will be better than the previous one. What nobody has raised so far is what I see as the two biggest discrepancies in the old system: (1) 1990 districts totally disregarding population movement and (2) defeated candidates still making it to the Parliament and deciding about people who specifically said, “NOT you”. You could run in an individual district and lose and still make it from the party list. Nagy Sándor, MSZP, 3 times out of 3 elections in my district in Debrecen. Envelopes were also used in large-scale cheating by MSZP in 2006, and when some promises were unfulfilled, one of them went public with the method. A Fidesz modifier to the law asking for the repeal of the envelope system was defeated by MSZP-SZDSZ. Nails in the coffin. I am less worried about redistricting than Mr. Szigetvári, as this is NOT a winner-take-all system, but there is large-scale compensation. I fully agree with you that compensating the winner is weird, but it does open doors for any party winning an election. H&H should be explaining why they would stand no chance even today, with the HUF at 320 to the Euro. I posted on some of these things on facebook, and there is an excellent PEW survey from 2009 on post-communist countries and democracy. Again, congrats, this blog was a relief to read, with no political agenda, and thoughtful analysis. I was beginning to lose faith that I could read anything like this in English anymore. There were no electoral cheating in 2006 at all. Do you have any legal evidence for this statement? Only confession on video, as you, as campaign manager, certainly know. Envelopes, investigation blocked by “independent” (=MSZP-SZDSZ controlled) Országos Választási Bizottság. Viktor, excuse me but this is not a campaign but an analytical blog, and the very fact that you and Haza és Haladás are posing as “independent” is already misleading readers. Having said that, you scored a major media and campaign success with this analysis, but with Bajnai stepping up as a supposed alternative to the elected government of Hungary, the whole thing smells foul. It is like Ms Scheppele analyzing over 4000 pages of legislation in a week but the EU commission still reading one out of 30+ laws before passing judgment. Let us not destroy this blog, as later on, when you may be back in power, you might need an impartial analyst, when Orbán and co. pull a H&H on you. I would be willing to discuss party rhetoric in private. Here, however, we are trying to discuss actual concerns, such as the ones I have raised above. Best, GT Electoral cheating in 2002, on request: http://www.fidesz.hu/index.php?menu=nyomtathato&Cikk=53363 Was repeated in 2006, Fidesz proposal to remove envelopes rejected by MSZP-SZDSZ: http://www.fidesz.hu/index.php?Cikk=53726 and continue search from here. Balázs Váradi says: A new set of calculations came out. The author(s) take issue with the Haha analysis, using their raw numbers but applying different assumptions. There is lively debate, too, in the comments section, alas, all in Hungarian. The (pseudonymous) post is in the right wing, pro-government but not uncritical blog “Mandiner”. http://mandiner.blog.hu/2012/02/03/nem_csak_a_fidesz_a_haza_es_haladas_hibas_modellje Leave a Reply to Tibor Glant Cancel reply Department of Politics and International Relations Reading MA Student at 56th United Nations Graduate Study Programme The UN and Global Order Leverhulme News Delphi Economic Forum Dr Sarah von Billerbeck elected Parliamentary Studies trip to Westminster Challenging Contemporary Wisdom Engaging with practitioners Political Quarterly	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19448
__label__cc	0.739264	0.260736	It's even more important for older people to stay hydrated. Age can bring a decreased sensitivity to thirst. Moreover, it's sometime harder for those who are feeble to get up and get something to drink. Or sometimes a problem with incontinence creates a hesitancy to drink enough. Those who are aging should make drinking water throughout the day a priority. Even more important than shopping for healthy foods: actually eating them. When you get home from the store or farmer's market, bounty of fruits and veggies in tow, wash and chop them right away and store in a pretty glass container in your fridge. "Studies show that spending more time on food prep is linked to better eating habits," says Dr. Lipman. It's all about convenience—if they're ready for you, you'll grab them in a pinch. If not? It's chips and dip time. You can also do this with other foods, like making a batch of quinoa for the week or roasting a bunch of veggies to throw together for quick lunches. There is more than one way to eat healthfully and everyone has their own eating style. Make healthier choices that reflect your preferences, culture, traditions, and budget. Choose fruits, vegetables, grains, dairy, and protein foods to get the most nutrition and meet your personal calorie needs. Aim for a variety of foods and beverages from each food group and limit saturated fat, sodium, and added sugars. Eating healthy is important for a woman’s body and mind. But what does eating healthy mean? On the internet, in books and journals, there is a wealth of nutrition information at your fingertips. Important dietary needs include carbohydrates, protein, fat, fiber, and vitamins and minerals. Having a balanced diet and physical activity plan can help keep you ready for class demands and activities on campus. To get the basics on nutritional needs, visit the websites listed below. Please note, every body has different nutrient needs. The major nutrients benefiting women’s health are listed on this page. A healthy vegetarian diet falls within the guidelines offered by the USDA. However, meat, fish and poultry are major sources of iron, zinc and B vitamins, so pay special attention to these nutrients. Vegans (those who eat only plant-based food) may want to consider vitamin and mineral supplements; make sure you consume sufficient quantities of protein, vitamin B12, vitamin D and calcium. You can obtain what you need from non-animal sources. For instance: Although canola oil appears to be good for the cardiovascular system, two Harvard studies have raised concerns that ALA might be bad for the prostate. In 1993, the Health Professionals Follow-up Study of 47,781 men published a major evaluation of dietary fat and prostate cancer. It found that saturated fat from animal sources such as red meat and whole-fat dairy products was linked to a 2.6-fold increase in prostate cancer. But the study also provided some disquieting news about ALA: Men who consumed the most ALA were 3.4 times more likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer than those who had the lowest dietary intake. Per DSHEA, dietary supplements are consumed orally, and are mainly defined by what they are not: conventional foods (including meal replacements), medical foods,[10] preservatives or pharmaceutical drugs. Products intended for use as a nasal spray, or topically, as a lotion applied to the skin, do not qualify. FDA-approved drugs cannot be ingredients in dietary supplements. Supplement products are or contain vitamins, nutritionally essential minerals, amino acids, essential fatty acids and non-nutrient substances extracted from plants or animals or fungi or bacteria, or in the instance of probiotics, are live bacteria. Dietary supplement ingredients may also be synthetic copies of naturally occurring substances (example: melatonin). All products with these ingredients are required to be labeled as dietary supplements.[11] Like foods and unlike drugs, no government approval is required to make or sell dietary supplements; the manufacturer confirms the safety of dietary supplements but the government does not; and rather than requiring risk–benefit analysis to prove that the product can be sold like a drug, such assessment is only used by the FDA to decide that a dietary supplement is unsafe and should be removed from market.[11] I have identified a number of arguments in favor of supplementing the modern diet with essential nutrients, here summarized with 7 headlines. Most people should consider taking a multivitamin supplement containing vitamins and minerals even if they eat a nutritionally balanced diet. Additional nutrients may contribute to better health and, in some cases, can be of vital importance in our modern world. The arguments are presented in random order, i.e. the order does not reflect priority. Having a treat now and then is a great way to make sure your healthy eating plan stays on track. Now, you might be thinking, how can eating a piece of cake or a donut help my eating habits? By not making anything completely off limits, registered dietitians explain that you're less likely to wind up feeling deprived—which means you're also less likely to find yourself in a binge-eating episode. For instance, foods rich in vitamin E and beta-carotene are healthy and can help reduce cancer risk. However, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) and the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) recommend against taking vitamin E or beta-carotene for the prevention of cardiovascular disease. People who smoke or are at risk for lung cancer also should avoid beta-carotene. It can increase their risk of lung cancer. A visit to the health food store can be an overwhelming experience. It's tough to figure out what to choose from among the dizzying assortment of dietary and nutritional supplements on the shelf. From vitamins to minerals to weight loss pills, there are thousands of options to choose from. But do you really need any of them? Do they really work, and if so, which ones are best? Bodybuilding supplements are dietary supplements commonly used by those involved in bodybuilding, weightlifting, mixed martial arts, and athletics for the purpose of facilitating an increase in lean body mass. The intent is to increase muscle, increase body weight, improve athletic performance, and for some sports, to simultaneously decrease percent body fat so as to create better muscle definition. Among the most widely used are high protein drinks, branched-chain amino acids (BCAA), glutamine, arginine, essential fatty acids, creatine, HMB,[40] and weight loss products.[41] Supplements are sold either as single ingredient preparations or in the form of "stacks" – proprietary blends of various supplements marketed as offering synergistic advantages. While many bodybuilding supplements are also consumed by the general public the frequency of use will differ when used specifically by bodybuilders. One meta-analysis concluded that for athletes participating in resistance exercise training and consuming protein supplements for an average of 13 weeks, total protein intake up to 1.6 g/kg of body weight per day would result in an increase in strength and fat-free mass, i.e. muscle, but that higher intakes would not further contribute.[30] The muscle mass increase was statistically significant but modest - averaging 0.3 kg for all trials and 1.0–2.0 kg, for protein intake ≥1.6 g/kg/day.[30] Proteins are chains of amino acids. Nine of these proteinogenic amino acids are considered essential for humans because they cannot be produced from other compounds by the human body and so must be taken in as food. Recommended intakes, expressed as milligrams per kilogram of body weight per day, have been established.[26] Other amino acids may be conditionally essential for certain ages or medical conditions. Amino acids, individually and in combinations, are sold as dietary supplements. The claim for supplementing with the branched chain amino acids leucine, valine and isoleucine is for stimulating muscle protein synthesis. A review of the literature concluded this claim was unwarranted.[36] In elderly people, supplementation with just leucine resulted in a modest (0.99 kg) increase in lean body mass.[37] The non-essential amino acid arginine, consumed in sufficient amounts, is thought to act as a donor for the synthesis of nitric oxide, a vasodilator. A review confirmed blood pressure lowering.[38] Taurine, a popular dietary supplement ingredient with claims made for sports performance, is technically not an amino acid. It is synthesized in the body from the amino acid cysteine.[39] "These products provide a subtle, incremental effect. You can't use a sports supplement for a week and expect to gain pounds of muscle, but if used properly, research shows they can provide a slight, not overwhelming, edge," says Andrew Shoa, PhD, vice president for regulatory affairs for the Council for Responsible Nutrition, a trade association for the dietary supplement industry. ^ MacLean CH, Newberry SJ, Mojica WA, Khanna P, Issa AM, Suttorp MJ, Lim YW, Traina SB, Hilton L, Garland R, Morton SC (2006-01-25). "Effects of omega−3 fatty acids on cancer risk: a systematic review". JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association. 295 (4): 403–415. doi:10.1001/jama.295.4.403. hdl:10919/79706. PMID 16434631. Retrieved 2006-07-07. While what works best for one woman may not always be the best choice for another, the important thing is to build your dietary choices around your vital nutritional needs. Whether you’re looking to improve your energy and mood, combat stress or PMS, boost fertility, enjoy a healthy pregnancy, or ease the symptoms of menopause, these nutrition tips can help you to stay healthy and vibrant throughout your ever-changing life. Dietary supplements are substances you might use to add nutrients to your diet or to lower your risk of health problems, like osteoporosis or arthritis. Dietary supplements come in the form of pills, capsules, powders, gel tabs, extracts, or liquids. They might contain vitamins, minerals, fiber, amino acids, herbs or other plants, or enzymes. Sometimes, the ingredients in dietary supplements are added to foods, including drinks. A doctor’s prescription is not needed to buy dietary supplements. Added sugars. Foods like fruit and dairy products naturally contain sugar. But you should limit foods that contain added sugars. These include sodas, sports drinks, cake, candy, and ice cream. Check the Nutrition Facts label for added sugars and limit the how much food you eat with added sugars. Look for these other names for sugar in the list of ingredients: Total sales for the U.S. dietary supplement industry in 2006 are estimated at $22.1 billion, with vitamins accounting for $7.2 billion of that, says Patrick Rea, editor of the market research publication Nutrition Business Journal. Included in this total are not only sales of vitamins, but also those of minerals, herbs/botanicals, sports supplements, meal supplements, and weight loss products. Salt, caffeine and alcohol intake may interfere with the balance of calcium in the body by affecting the absorption of calcium and increasing the amount lost in the urine. Moderate alcohol intake (one to two standard drinks per day) and moderate tea, coffee and caffeine-containing drinks (no more than six cups per day) are recommended. Avoid adding salt at the table and in cooking Before you take any supplements for disease prevention, it's important to know whether the potential benefits outweigh the risks. To make that conclusion, you need to look at the results of well-designed studies. A recent randomized trial in men suggested multivitamins have possible benefits for cancer prevention. For many of the other popular supplements, including vitamin D and omega-3 fatty acids, results from randomized controlled trials should be available within the next five years, according to Dr. Manson. It's easy to get sucked into the lure of the restaurant menu when you're hungry and everything looks good. You don't have to order the plain grilled chicken breast with steamed veggies—that would be boring. Order what you'd like, but balance the meal out with the rest of the day, says Zied. If you know you're going out for a steak and potatoes dinner, go easy on the meat and starch at lunch. Make sure you're also fitting in healthy fare like whole grains, fruit, veggies, and nuts and seeds in the other meals and snacks that day. That way a hunk of steak won't derail your diet and you'll leave happy. The average American diet leaves a lot to be desired. Research finds our plates lacking in a number of essential nutrients, including calcium, potassium, magnesium, and vitamins A, C, and D. It's no wonder that more than half of us open a supplement bottle to get the nutrition we need. Many of us take supplements not just to make up for what we're missing, but also because we hope to give ourselves an extra health boost—a preventive buffer to ward off disease. According to the American Heart Association, it's better to eat more complex carbohydrates (vegetables, fruits and whole grains) than simple carbohydrates found in sugars. Complex carbohydrates add more fiber, vitamins and minerals to the diet than foods high in refined sugars and flour. Foods high in complex carbohydrates are usually low in calories, saturated fat and cholesterol. Hey hey! The month of May on NS is all about women’s health awareness so we’re chatting wellness advice, nourishing recipes, and beauty foods to help you feel amazing! Today on the blog I wanted to round up questions I’ve been getting about women’s health and nutrition related to just us ladies. Sorry, fellas. If you have more questions that went unanswered here, comment below with em’. Let’s go! Dairy isn’t a necessary component of a healthy diet. Some research warns against consuming too much dairy, while other studies show some benefits from regular dairy consumption. Still, for many men, it is an easy way to get the required calcium, vitamin D, and protein they need to keep their heart, muscles, and bones healthy and functioning properly. (Locked) More » There are thousands of dietary supplements on the market, including 40+ essential nutrients alone and in various combinations, i.e. vitamins, minerals, trace elements and fatty acids. However, a number of other nutrients are "conditionally essential", meaning that the body normally can make these molecules, but some people do not make optimal amounts. Examples are L-carnitine, alpha-lipoic acid, the methyl donor betaine, [7] chondroitin sulfate, coenzyme Q10, choline, amino acids such as tyrosine or arginine, and "essential" sugars normally formed in the body. [8] Eat in smaller plates. Science says that eating on a large plate tricks your brain into thinking that you haven’t eaten enough. Eat on a smaller plate to feel full quicker and avoid overeating. Moreover, the color of your plate could impact your food intake as well. According to a study conducted by Cornell University, people eat less when there is a higher color contrast between the plate and the food. If the color contrast between the two is lower, we tend to eat more. For instance, if you eat pasta with alfredo sauce on a white plate, you’ll probably eat more as compared to eating in, say, a blue plate.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19449
__label__wiki	0.872608	0.872608	Maryland tour guide: Enjoy your visit, Big Ten fans! By BTN.com staff, 5 years ago Mitch Stringer-USA TODAY Sports Planning a road trip to Maryland to see your Big Ten team take on the Terrapins? Well, you’re in luck, because I asked Jeff Ermann (@insidemdsports), of Inside MD Sports, to compile a tour guide for visiting Big Ten fans. Check out his guide in this post. [ MORE: View all of our Maryland and Rutgers welcoming coverage ] 1. Comcast Center: Known as the house that Gary [Williams] built, Comcast Center is one of college basketball’s premier basketball arenas and often a nightmare for opposing teams. Opened in 2002, the arena’s trademark feature is ‘The Wall” — a steeply-built, intimidating 2,600-seat student section behind the visiting team’s second-half basket. Capacity seating (17,950) at Comcast, whose playing floor was dedicated to Williams in 2012, is second only to Ohio State in the Big Ten. 2. Testudo: Testudo, Maryland’s mascot, is a diamondback turtle native to the nearby Chesapeake Bay. Adopted as the school’s official mascot in 1932 — Maryland teams were previously known as the ‘Old Liners’ — he can be found in statue form in three different campus locations: Comcast Center, Cole Student Activities Building and at Byrd Stadium. Students traditionally leave Testudo offerings of all sorts, including food and beer, in exchange for good luck during finals week. One of the statues is located outside the Terrapins’ locker room at Byrd Stadium, where Maryland’s players touch it for good luck as they run onto the field before games. [ MORE: Gallery: See every uniform combo Maryland wore in 2013 ] 3. The Comeback: While Maryland is known as a basketball school, it’s also had its share of football success, highlighted by a national championship in 1953. But the most memorable game in the program’s history took place in 1984, when quarterback Frank Reich led the Terps back from a 31-0 halftime deficit to defeat Miami, 42-40. It was the biggest comeback in NCAA football history, but would later be eclipsed when Michigan State erased a 35-point deficit against Northwestern in 2006. Reich, meantime, went on to break the same record in the NFL in 1993, leading the Buffalo Bills past the Houston Oilers after trailing by 32 points. 4. Route One: If you’re looking for pre-game eats, shopping or want to stroll around during your visit, Route One is the place to do it. Also known as Baltimore Avenue, it’s a hub of activity for students and local residents alike. The busy strip is lined with shops and restaurants, including R.J. Bentley’s — College Park’s traditional gameday spot for food and adult beverages. Bentley’s, which sits on the corner of Baltimore and Hartwick Ave., has gained notoriety in recent years thanks to a signature catch phrase — “Let’s go to Bentley’s!” — diehard Maryland alum Scott Van Pelt uses after recapping Terps wins on SportsCenter. [ MORE: Get to know Byrd Stadium \| Get to know Comcast Center ] 5. In the Shadow of Nation’s Capital: Few college campuses boast the sort of major metropolitan proximity College Park has to Washington, D.C. Driving times can vary wildly due to heavy local traffic, but a 35-minute ride on the Metro Rail will land you near Washington landmarks like the White House, the Washington Monument and the Smithsonian, which is the world’s largest museum and research complex. While the nightlife in College Park is limited compared to many universities of similar size, there’s an endless supply of activities, sightseeing and hot spots in the District. Watch hundreds of live non-televised Big Ten events via BTN Plus on BTN2Go.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19459
__label__wiki	0.513077	0.513077	As an internationally renowned photographer, Brian Bielmann has traveled extensively with many of the world's best surfers like Andy Irons, Bruce Irons and Kelly Slater. With his images gracing more than 150 magazine covers, the pages of 30 books and appearing in iconic magazines like Rolling Stone, Men's Journal, National Geographic and SportsIllustrated, he is recognized worldwide to be a photographer at the very top of his field. He captures the entire surf lifestyle and continues to push the boundaries of photography both above and below the water. Brian's passion for surfing and his love of photography have kept him on the cutting edge for over 35 years. His client list is massive and extends to some of the most recognizable brands on the planet indlucing Anheiser-Busch, Guinness, Red Bull, Quicksilver, Billabong, Reef, Sanuk, DCShoes and Western Digital among others. Brian was the senior staff photographer for TransWorld Surf Magazine for it's 14 years of existence and is currently the go to guy for Volcom, a manufacturer of surf and lifestyle clothing. He has been published in every major surf publication around the world and is still considered one of the most prolific and inspiring photographers of the modern era. Not only do his images appear in stories, advertisements and online videos; Brian proudly shares the results of his passion with fine art collectors through his limited edition prints. Brian has also won numerous awards from Red Bull Illume, American Photo and National Geographic to name just afew. He also won the Whistler Pro Showdown for best action sports photography, which garnered a $10,000 first prize. Without a doubt, even after three and a half decades of surf photography, Brian Bielmann is still having the most fun. His dedication, love of the lens and surfing will continue to grow andeffect the way the world sees the surfing lifestyle. Thanks for visiting.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19467
__label__cc	0.725275	0.274725	We are experts in social mobility, mentoring and education, and can help you with information you need on these topics. We have had coverage of our work in outlets including The Telegraph, The Guardian, Sky News and BBC News, and regularly contribute opinion pieces to the national and education sector press. See some examples of Brightside in the press. Research and policy > Brightside’s mentoring has been highlighted as good practice in reports by Department for Education, House of Commons Business, Innovation and Skills and Education Joint Select Committee and Universities UK among others. See some examples of Brightside’s work cited in research and policy. Our senior staff regularly speak at conferences run by organisations such as UCAS, Higher Education Policy Institute and Westminster Briefing. We are also active members of a number of policy groups including the Fair Education Alliance, Universities UK Social Mobility Practitioners Reference Group, National Education Opportunities Network (NEON) and Higher Education Funding Council for England’s (HEFCE) Strategic Advisory Committee on Teaching Excellence and Student Opportunity. Brightside Chief Executive Anand Shukla is available for media interviews and speaking slots. We also have a number of young people willing to speak about their own experiences of education issues. Please contact press@brightside.org.uk or 0203 096 8120 to find out more. Your mentor’s advice is some of the best, unbiased and helpful advice you’ll ever receive. She helped me decide which course to pick and I’m really glad I am where I am today. I’m studying nursing at University of Glasgow and I’ve been in several hospitals learning the ropes. I can't believe I'm already this far through the training. I've grown so much as a person since I started!	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19468
__label__wiki	0.689674	0.689674	Coming Clean on E-mail Discovery Published By American Bar Association Journal December 1999 This article first appeared in the December 1999 issue of the American Bar Association Journal.. FOCUS: LITIGATION Soap giant Procter & Gamble, Amway battle shows need for clear rules By Timothy Q. Delaney The widespread use of e-mail in the workplace is causing lawyers, litigants and courts to reconsider the parameters of the rules of discovery. In a typical company today, the use of e-mail is not only widespread but practically nonstop. Employees at all levels of a company, from administrative assistants to the ceo, use e-mail. The sheer bulk of all that electronic correspondence places a burden on any litigant facing a discovery request that includes e-mail documents. Dealing with that burden, and the costs that go with it, may put a greater premium on cooperation between parties in litigation to define the scope of e-mail discovery, at least until the courts develop clearer rules on how e-mail discovery should be handled. A case in point involves litigation between Procter & Gamble-- the world's largest manufacturer and distributor of personal and home care products--and Amway Corp., one of its competitors. In 1995, P&G sued an independent distributor of Amway products in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City. Even though Amway was not named as a party until later in the case, P&G immediately served it with a subpoena seeking documents, including e-mail. (Amway has been represented in this matter by the author's firm.) A Massive Undertaking Amway determined that the burden of retaining and searching every daily back-up of its e-mail, which is used extensively by more than 14,000 company employees worldwide, would be overwhelming. Amway sought to negotiate a reciprocal agreement with P&G on what e-mail should be subject to retention, pursuant to discovery. The parties were unable to reach a discovery agreement, however, even after Amway became a party in the case with standing to conduct its own discovery. Amway then asked the court for a protective order that would place reasonable limits on the amount of e-mail it should retain and the method of search. P&G vigorously opposed the order as 'a naked request for judicially sanctioned spoliation on a grand scale.' Amway, on the other hand, viewed it as a way to avoid any possible charges of destruction of evidence that also would benefit P&G when its turn came to respond to discovery requests for e-mail. After the court granted Am- way's motion for a protective order, the company initiated its discovery of P&G's e-mail, only to find that P&G had made minimal efforts to save its e-mail and was discarding files on a daily basis. Amway filed a motion for sanctions against P&G. Ruling on the motion, the court ordered P&G to pay Amway $10,000 for bad-faith destruction of e-mail records. Procter & Gamble Co. v. Haugen, 179 F.R.D. 622 (D. Utah 1998). Keeping Pace With Progress A sanction order by a court against a party in litigation for destroying e-mail documents is a significant step in the legal system's efforts to grapple with the advent of new technology in the workplace and its impact on litigation. In an age of increasingly sophisticated electronic technology, the importance of preserving electronic data and materials relevant to a company's operations and legal obligations cannot be overstated. Until the courts develop clear rules on e-mail discovery, the key to a manageable process may be getting the parties to agree to mutual parameters for that discovery. Litigants might agree to limit their searches to: a back-up or snap- shot of their e-mail systems from an agreed date; the relevant documents uncovered by an electronic search with a limited number of key terms; e-mails generated during an agreed period of time; and to only the e-mail of employees likely to have relevant materials. In attempting to reach agreement, litigants should be mindful of their obligations to produce documents while remaining sympathetic to the practical difficulties each side faces when tackling such a task. That is not always an easy balance to reach. After all, in many ways, cooperation is a novel concept in litigation, too. Timothy Q. Delaney practices intellectual property law at Brinks Gilson & Lione in Chicago. Reprinted from the American Bar Association Journal, December 1999. For additional information, write: ABA Journal, 750 N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago IL 60611.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19469
__label__wiki	0.673757	0.673757	When facts aren’t facts by Russ Roberts on November 13, 2013 in Data, Work One standard explanation for the increase in measured inequality over the last few decades is that innovation has enhanced the productivity of highly educated people more than the productivity of less educated people. That in turn has increased the wages of college graduates relative to those who have only graduated high school. In the New York Times, Eduardo Porter refers to Larry Mishel of the Economic Policy Institute who is skeptical of this phenomenon. Porter writes: This rendition of history suggests that improvements in technology — coupled with a college graduation rate that slowed sharply in the 1980s — have been principal drivers of the nation’s widening income gap, leaving workers with less education behind. But critics like Mr. Mishel point out that this theory has important blind spots. For instance, why have wages for college graduates stagnated over the last decade, even as innovation continues at a breathtaking pace? Between 2000 and 2008 the typical earnings of men with at least a bachelor’s degree fell by more than $2,000, after inflation, to $70,332 a year. Between 2008 and last year they fell a further $3,500. Though somewhat less pronounced, the pattern is similar for women. This seems to refute the claim that technology gives college graduates an advantage. Surely there was technological change between 2000 and 2008, yet earnings of college grads fell. This calls into question the relationship between technology and inequality, but it’s alarming in its own right. It suggests that the rules of the game are rigged in some way. People are doing the right thing–they are going to college–and yet their salaries are falling. Here’s the key claim: Between 2000 and 2008 the typical earnings of men with at least a bachelor’s degree fell by more than $2,000, after inflation, to $70,332 a year. What does that mean? It seems pretty straightforward. But it’s easy to misinterpret. Here is what it does not mean. It does not mean that people who had a college degree in 2000 found themselves with lower income eight years later. Let me say that again. It does not mean that people who had a college degree in 2000 found themselves with lower income eight years later. It COULD mean that. But it doesn’t have to. Why not? Because the people who were sampled in 2000 and 2008 are not the same people. What the statement does mean, is that if you take the median income of people with at least a bachelor’s degree in 2008, that number is lower than the median income of all the people with at least a bachelor’s degree in 2000. (This assumes that prices are measured correctly. All of the income comparison in this post correct for inflation using standard methods. There are problems with those methods, but let’s put that issue aside.) You might think that this is a nit-pick. How much can the population of highly educated people change in just eight years? Sure, some people retire or die. Others enter the labor force. But those effects must be small. They’re not. They’re potentially huge and they make the comparison meaningless for trying to figure out if it’s a good idea to go to college or if the economy is rewarding college graduates. Stick with me and you will learn one of the coolest things there is to learn about statistics and data and the elusiveness of truth. Sometimes something that looks like a fact isn’t close to a fact. And you’ll discover something pretty amazing that happened between 2000 and 2012 that you might not know about. If you want the details, go below the fold… Comparisons between 2000 and 2012 might not show what you think they show because there could be changes in not just who is working but in how much they work and when they work. So it’s possible that the proportion of the work force that works full-time is different, or all year vs. part-year. And even when you hold those things constant, men make more than women. So another variable that can change over twelve years is the proportion of the work force that is male vs. female. So to hold all those factors approximately constant, I’m going to look at just women who work full-time, year-round and who are over 25. I pick the age point just because that’s how the Census lists it. I’m going to use a slightly longer time horizon, 2000 to 2012, so I can use the latest data. It also makes the point I want to make a little more dramatic. But if I did it for 2000-2008, I’d get the same effect. The bottom line is that you can’t draw simple conclusions from what look like simple transparent changes. Between 2000 and 2012, here are the changes in real median income for women 25 and older who were defined as working full-time, year-round by education level. The data I’m using are census data from here. Less than 9th grade -3.7% 9th-12th but didn’t finish -6.7% High school graduate -3.3% Some college but no degree -3.7% Associate’s degree -10.0% Bachelor’s degree or more -2.7% Looks like a pretty bleak 12 years, doesn’t it? And sure enough, these numbers echo the Mishel claim listed above–college grads seem to be doing worse. Given those numbers, what do you think happened to the median income for all women, regardless of education level? If you don’t think about it very much, you’d take an average of the six decreases in the data for each income group. Remember, those six categories are exhaustive–they cover all women 25 and over who work full-time year-round in the workforce. The average change across all groups turns out to be almost exactly 5%. So if you didn’t think about it much, you’d guess that for all women 25 and over who worked full time, income fell about 5%. You’d think that might be a pretty good approximation. But you’d be wrong. Or maybe you’d realize that all the groups aren’t the same size, so maybe you shouldn’t just take the average. Maybe you should take a weighted average. But you’d be pretty confident that the overall change in the median income of women would be somewhere between -2.7 and -10, the range between the smallest change and the biggest change. But you’d be wrong. The income of women over the age of 25 who worked full time actually increased between 2000 and 2012. It went up 2.8%. (Again, all these numbers are corrected for inflation.) Not a great twelve years. But very different from a 5% drop. Now that seems impossible. I must have made a mistake. If every sub-group went down, how could the total for the whole group go up? But it is possible. How? The answer is that the women in the full-time workforce 25 and over in 2000 were not the same women in 2012. In particular, they were a lot better educated. But how much better educated could they be in twelve years? Or a better way to put it, how much could the educational composition of the full-time female labor force change in a mere 12 years? A lot. More than I would possibly have come close to guessing. In 2000 30.5% of all female workers who were 25 and older and who worked full-time and year-round had at least a bachelor’s degree. In only 12 years, that number had increased to 41.8%. That’s an enormous change, a 37% increase in the proportion. And it’s the category that has the highest overall pay of all six categories. So if you increase the proportion of the population in the highest paying group, the overall average can go up even when each group, including the group that pays the most, goes down. Here’s another way to see it. In 2000, 11.6 million women 25 and over who were working full-time had at least a bachelor’s degree. Twelve years later there were 17.2 million women 25 and older working full-time with at least a bachelor’s degree. That’s incredible. Between 2000 and 2012, the number of women with at least a bachelor’s degree increased by 48% in absolute numbers. That’s a silent revolution in the work force. (This phenomenon is called Simpson’s Paradox by the way. Floyd Norris of the New York Times has a similar example here.) And now you can understand the complexity of claiming that college grads are doing worse than they did before. They’re not the same people. When a lot more women are going to college and entering the labor force with a college degree, you wouldn’t expect them to necessarily have the same income as the people who have already been to college. For one reason, they’re likely to be younger with less experience. But as the number of people going to college increases, you might expect their starting salaries to be lower than workers from before. The pool is less selective. And of course, there are a hundred other reasons their salaries could be lower–maybe they major in different things than people did in the past. My point is that you can’t prove much by observing that salaries for people with a college education are going down over some period. It doesn’t mean that people who already have college degrees are doing worse. They could be doing better, but the starting salaries of the newcomers can pull down the median and the average as well. The bottom line is that the “stagnation of college grad salaries” is misleading as a measure of the health of the economy and even of the health of being who have already graduated and who are working. It can actually be an encouraging measure–one of the reasons college grad salaries can stagnate is because more people are going to college and the new grads have lower salaries than the existing median. But the new grads are better off than they would be than if they had not gone and their salaries do not necessarily mean that those who would have gone no matter what are doing worse. Previous post: Some Links Next post: Quick Question	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19472
__label__wiki	0.606979	0.606979	P Press Releases CAIR-Florida Strengthens its Resources by Opening an Office in Northwest Florida (MIAMI, FL, 10/24/2016) - The Council on American-Islamic Relations - Florida (CAIR-FL), the state's largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization, announced today the opening of an office in Panama City which will serve the Muslim community in the Panhandle. This makes the fourth Florida office opened since it was established in 2001. This action will strengthen the organization by having personnel and services readily accessible in this geographical area. Hiba Rahim will coordinate the office's services and outreach efforts. She is an experienced community leader who is well acquainted with this community and their needs. Hiba Rahim and CAIR-Florida's Regional Operations Director, Nezar Hamze When interviewed, Hiba stated, "I am excited to join the wonderful team of CAIR-Florida. I am amazed at the organizational and efficiency level of this strong organization. Serving is my passion and CAIR-Florida gives me the opportunity to serve others to the best of my abilities, Inshallah. Hiba is an American-Muslim activist and community organizer. Her passion lies in developing bridges between communities through respectful dialogue and in collaboration with other groups to promote minority empowerment. Ms. Rahim was employed as a radio producer and a host in Chicago, a television news anchor in London, and a researcher and translator for two human rights organizations. She launched her career as a college instructor at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, Florida where she developed a unique course on "The Arab-Israeli Conflict". Hiba's volunteer experience includes organizing open houses for various Mosques and Islamic Centers, representing her local community in the media, leading a local response and outreach committee, and actively working to enhance racial equality in the broader community. Hiba is also very passionate about providing international humanitarian relief and research assistance in besieged countries. Hiba has presented dozens of lectures on Islam and politics throughout the United States. She holds a Master's Degree in International Relations from Florida State University. CAIR-Florida Northwest Regional Office: Address: 8317 Front Beach Road, Suite B, Panama City Beach, FL 32407 Phone: 850.855.89708 CAIR-Florida is the state's largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization. Its mission is to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties of all people, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding. La misión de CAIR-Florida es mejorar la comprensión del Islam, fomentar el diálogo, proteger las libertades civiles, capacitar a los musulmanes estadounidenses, y construir coaliciones que promuevan la justicia y la comprensión mutua. - - -END - - CAIR-Florida's Communications Director, Wilfredo A. Ruiz, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., 305.502.6749 CAIR-Florida's Northwest Florida Regional Coordinator, Hiba Rahim, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., 850.855.8708 CAIR-FL In The News	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19473
__label__wiki	0.711127	0.711127	Standing in solidarity for our missing sisters Sisters in Spirit Vigils on October 4th are an annual way to honour the lives of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada. The violence experienced by Indigenous women and girls is a national tragedy that unions and the labour movement have been pressuring governments to address. Each year, the Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) and Families of Sisters in Spirit (FSIS) organize vigils to remember the missing and murdered indigenous women in this country. Family members, Indigenous community members, and concerned citizens gather together to stand together in solidarity, raise awareness, demand action, and provide support to those who have lost love ones. Between 1980 and 2012, the RCMP reported close to 1,200 cases of missing or murdered Indigenous women and girls across Canada (although many working on the front lines believe the number is much higher). While they make up only 4% of Canada’s female population, Indigenous women and girls make up over 16% of female homicides and 11% of missing women. What began with eleven vigils in 2006 has grown to over 200 vigils today, in communities across Canada, including a vigil on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. In response to calls from Indigenous families, communities and organizations, including unions and the Canadian Labour Congress, the Government of Canada launched an independent National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in September 2016. In response, the CLC stated: “We must ensure the inquiry addresses the root causes of violence against Indigenous women, such as racism, sexism and misogyny so that it truly does result in justice and meaningful change. Canada’s unions will stand in solidarity with Indigenous women, girls and their communities both as the inquiry is underway and beyond to help ensure our country truly addresses the root causes of violence against Indigenous women. We will also continue to urge the government to implement strategies that include clean water, affordable housing, accessible education and poverty reduction in Inuit, First Nations and Métis communities.” (news release, 02-21-2017) NWAC has created a quarterly report card about the inquiry to encourage transparency and to measure its progress. Tags: Feminism History Human Rights and Equality Indigenous Violence Women A historic step towards greater protections for workers around the world Canada’s unions join workers everywhere in celebrating today’s historic adoption of a new International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention and Recommendation addressing violence and harassment in the world of work. After over a year of negotiations with governments, employers, and workers, the Centenary International Labour Conference adopted the new framework at its convention in Geneva. “It is a historic day,” said… Canada’s unions mark National Indigenous Peoples Day by calling for further action towards reconciliation This National Indigenous Peoples Day, Canada’s unions say action on reconciliation must become an urgent national priority. Earlier this month, the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) released its final report, including 231 Calls for Justice to address the alarming rate of violence against Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA people. To date, no implementation plans… Canada’s unions play key role in ILO negotiations on addressing violence at work This year marks the 100th anniversary of the International Labour Organization (ILO). Representatives from labour, governments, and employers are meeting this month as part of the 108th International Labour Conference in Geneva. Marie Clarke Walker, Secretary-Treasurer of the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), serves as the Worker Spokesperson and will continue as a key leader in the effort to strengthen obligations…	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19477
__label__cc	0.622502	0.377498	Andy's Blog Andy Wainwright, MD of aql. Whether you are a customer of aql’s services, a channel partner, or just work in the communications industry and are interested in what aql are up to, I hope you enjoy reading our new company newsletter. We’ll be sharing updates on new products and features we’re launching, update you on general aql news, as well as share industry related blogs, white papers and videos we’ll be publishing across the year and beyond. I re-joined aql as Managing Director in October last year with a focus on improving the service we provide to our customers, and I’m really pleased that we’re making great progress. I hired Charli Land as Customer Success Director at the start of the year and she leads our efforts to improve our service to customers and channel partners. She’s implemented a wide range of measures aimed at improving the quality of service we provide. Whether it be our responsiveness to issues, the quality and proactiveness of our communications, to sales support and advice to support channel partners in selling our solutions, we’re improving things week-by-week. You can read more about the changes Charli has introduced and her plans for the year here. Since becoming Managing Director, it’s freed up time for our founder and CEO, Adam Beaumont, to focus on his key strengths around strategy and innovation, for which he was recently recognised as a ‘top 100’ innovator in the UK by Maserati, and also International Director of the Year by the IoD. Adam’s leading on our R&D initiatives and is focussed on building out our next generation products so we’re well placed in the medium/long term. It’s a bit too early for us to reveal what we're working on right now, but needless to say, it’s exciting stuff and continues aql’s heritage of innovation and ingenuity. Alongside Charli, there are a number of other new members of our senior leadership team, and we’ve updated the about us section of our website so you can read more about the team here. Matt Sweeney joined us early in the year as Sales & Marketing Director with responsibilities for our Sales, Marketing & Product Management functions, alongside Jo Penkert who’s joined as Finance Director. The SLT is completed by Ben Carter, our CTO, Oliver Ware, our Facilities and Security Director, and Gill Brabham, our HR & Business Services Director. It’s been busy times at aql over the last few months. Our product and development teams have been working hard to complete our new client portal, which will provide our messaging customers with a cleaner and more intuitive UI, and a more functional way to review SMS activity, create and manage campaigns, purchase numbers and more. We’ll be continuing to add extra features over the coming months and will be extending it to our voice channel partners too at a later date. Besides that, we’ve recently received notification that we’ve been accepted on the G-Cloud framework, providing an easy and friction-free way for public sector organisations to purchase our Messaging, Broadband and LoRaWAN network services. We’re also making good progress in expanding our data centre colocation capacity with a new floor. Our colocation service has been incredibly popular since we launched it, as customers value the security and resilience our data centres provide, alongside the wide choice of carriers with presence in our data centres, and we look forward to supporting more customers over the coming year. A key development in communications this year will be the proper launch of RCS, the next generation of SMS. RCS has been hyped in the industry for a number of years but with Google keen to stop the march of Instagram and WhatsApp as they gobble up messaging market share, Android phones will be RCS enabled imminently. SMS is still more effective than email, and with RCS, businesses will be able to unlock the potential of powerful new tools to engage with customers, including branching logic for conversations, image sharing, mobile payments and more. We’re working on RCS solutions to support businesses who want to take advantage of this new technology. Our Product Manager, Arthur Howie, has written a blog about RCS and the benefits it will bring to customers here. Last but not least, we are currently on the front cover of CommsBusiness, the industry magazine for the B2B ICT market. The Channel is a key market for aql and in a 2-page interview, I provide an overview of our ambitions and offerings in this space. It's exciting times at aql, and I look forward to sharing further updates with you over the coming months. Andy Wainwright	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19479
__label__wiki	0.649289	0.649289	Country Day School, Escazu, Costa Rica (3D animation) County Day School is a school in Escazú, Costa Rica. The school was founded in 1963 by Marian Baker in order to provide an American college preparatory education in Costa Rica. It started off as a small school, and has since grown into a large school enrolling more than 1000 students. >>> 'Dubai Frame' mega-attraction, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Dubai's newest mega-attraction, a 150-meter-high, 93-meter-wide picture frame structure dubbed the "Dubai Frame" is approaching completion after a nearly two-year delay, and is set for opening in the second half of this year. At a cost of $43.60 million, the new building will stand as a symbol of the city's rapid rise from modest settlement to gleaming metropolis, giving visitors a panoramic view of the boundary-pushing skyscrapers from the coast of the Persian Gulf. >>>	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19480
__label__cc	0.711259	0.288741	"Tjetri" në krijimtarinë e Agollit "The other" in Agolli's work Author(s): Anila Mullahi Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Albanian Literature, Sociology of Culture, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Politics, Identity of Collectives Published by: Univeristeti i Prishtinës, Fakulteti i Filologjisë Keywords: Dritëro Agolli;Albanian literature of the 20th century;the other; Summary/Abstract: In the period before the 1990s, in the context of a strong tradition of socialist realism literature, the positive heroes were placed in the center of the literary world; those that were created according to a standard model. They were developed in a linear way and often were incompatible with the internal logic. The tendency to create "social characters" caused the extinction of the particular and loss of curiosity. The characters of these works appear without any dilemmas, without great twists, without spiritual breaks, without vacillation for the life, the world or the human existence. Near the positive character are the others, who worship them or they want to resemble to the heroes; while on the other side, opposite them are the antagonists, the enemies.In Agolli's works, besides these two groups, are those characters that are seen as "weird", “irregulars” or "incorrect". They are not negative characters because they are not "enemies" but they are not even positive characters because do not resemble the standard example at all. This kind is considered as "the other", and actually this is what it is deep inside the unconscious of the author.“The other” is an individual who is perceived by the group as someone who does not belong, as different in an essential way. The group sees themselves as the norm and judges those who do not meet the norm elements. “The other” can have many forms, in the case of Agolli appears as one who is not indoctrinated. He is not interested about politics, but either he is interested in objecting it. His non-inclusion and non-ideology make him different. They reveal an essential feature that differs from others; speak openly and directly and do not have the veil of deceit in front of their eyes and they see the reality as it is, without idealizing it.In some cases at Agolli’s characters, "the other" is ultimately subjected to the group's norm, but also their existence as being different, makes Agolli's works distinct from the others. One form of "the other" can be considered Commander Rrapo in the novel "Commissar Memo" or Mato Gruda in "The Man with the Cannon".There are other cases where Agolli's "the other" it may be someone who shows great passion for life. A way to enjoy life with all the pleasures that it brings, through humor, eating, drinking, dancing, women, as it is Cute Babulja in the novel "The Ark of the Devil". Such a man with great love for life and the pleasures that life brings is not in line with the positive hero “whose character is shaped among the great difficulties". Agolli's literature work is filled with atypical characters, with special features, with individuals in conflict with the society norms, which consists in alienation from the principles of the official frame method. Journal: Seminari Ndërkombëtar për Gjuhën, Letërsinë dhe Kulturën Shqiptare Language: Albanian SHNDËRRIMI NË FIKSION I FAKTIKES, NË TREGIMIN SHQIPTAR TRANSFORMATION OF THE FACTUAL INTO FICTION IN THE ALBANIAN SHORT STORY 2017	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19482
__label__cc	0.541104	0.458896	Are You Looking to Buy or Sell a Home in Woodland Park, NJ? Woodland Park, in Passaic County, New Jersey is small—just 3.115 square miles—and is bordered by Little Falls, Clifton, Totowa, and Paterson. As of 2017, the borough’s population was 12,834. Located southwest of the city of Paterson, it is a highly developed municipality, with a mixture of residential, retail, office, and industrial properties. There’s plenty of nature in Woodland Park as well, as the borough borders Garret Mountain on the east and the Passaic River on the west. Woodland Park was originally known as West Paterson. However, in November 2008 the citizens of West Paterson voted to change the name of the borough to Woodland Park, in reference to the community’s wooded areas. Businesses in Woodland Park, NJ The North Jersey Media Group, originally headquartered in Hackensack, is the parent company of The Record, Herald News, and Daily Record, North Jersey’s daily newspapers; and publishes dozens of weekly local papers. Starting in 1999, the company began relocating Herald News staff and eventually the full operation to Woodland Park in 2016. Another major presence in Woodland Park is Cytec Industries, which specializes in chemicals and materials technology. Route 46 has strip malls, restaurants, auto dealers, and other businesses. Woodland Park real estate The average home value in Woodland Park is $375,000. Buyers can choose from smaller, classic older houses to large seven-bedroom homes, multi-family properties, condominiums, and contemporary townhomes, with prices ranging from $225,000 up to $749,000. The Woodland Park School District educates about 1600 students in kindergarten through eighth grade in: Charles Olbon School (Kindergarten – 2) Beatrice Gilmore School (3 & 4) Memorial Middle School (5 – 8) Students attend Passaic Valley Regional High School in Little Falls with those from Little Falls Township and Totowa. The Garrett Mountain campus of Berkeley College is located in Woodland Park. Transportation in Woodland Park Woodland Park contains 33.47 miles of roadways. Interstate 80, Route 46, and Route 3 run through the borough. NJ Transit provides bus service on the 191 and 194 routes to the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City. Recreation/activities Garrett Mountain Reservation is a huge county park located in Woodland Park, 500 feet above sea level. One of several National Natural Landmarks in New Jersey, it covers 568 acres and offers miles of hiking and walking/running trails, grass fields, basketball courts, picnic areas, fishing in Barbour’s Pond, and horseback riding at the equestrian center. Many high school cross-country races are held there in the fall. The woodland oasis is also a stopover point for many dozens of species of migrating songbirds, making it a birdwatching hot spot. Famous Lambert Castle, once the home of a Paterson silk baron, is at Garrett Mountain Reservation and now houses the Passaic County Museum. Another well-known park is Rifle Camp Park, a 225-acres county park. Most of it is located in Woodland Park, with a small portion in Clifton. This park has hiking trails, a nature center, fitness trails, and is a perfect place for people to meditate or go bird watching. Rifle Camp Park served as a location where Washington’s troops could observe British movements during the Revolutionary War in 1780. The Recreation and Community Relations Committee oversees organized sports and civic programs in the Borough. Some activities include: Easter breakfast and Easter egg hunt, 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony, Senior Valentines Dance, Memorial Day Parade, Street Fair on McBride Ave., a fishing contest, and many summer concerts. Famous People associated with Woodland Park Rick Cerone, a former New York Yankees catcher Kevin Hamilton, a defensive tackle for the New York Giants. Natalia Shaposhnikova, former Soviet gymnast and two-time Olympic champion Abe Vigoda, famous actor For more information on Woodland Park, NJ visit: http://www.wpnj.us/	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19483
__label__wiki	0.834277	0.834277	Category Archives: Ekua Holmes What Do You Do with a Voice Like That? among Bank Street’s Best Children’s Books of the Year From the Bank Street College of Education’s Children’s Book Committee: The Children’s Book Committee strives to guide librarians, educators, parents, grandparents, and other interested adults to the best books for children published each year. The list includes more then 600 titles chosen by reviewers for literary quality and excellence of presentation as well as the potential emotional impact of the books on young readers. Other criteria include credibility of characterization and plot, authenticity of time and place, age suitability, positive treatment of ethnic and religious differences, and the absence of stereotypes. I’m pleased as can be that the 2019 list includes What Do You Do with a Voice Like That? The Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan (written by me, illustrated by Ekua Holmes, and published by Beach Lane Books/Simon & Schuster) among its best books for readers ages nine to twelve. In a brief write-up, the Committee said, “Jordan’s bold voice took her to places few African American women had been in the 1960s, and finally to the US Congress, where her oratory and integrity shone.” Not only that, but our book received special recognition for Outstanding Merit and Diversity. As that long paragraph above says, there are hundreds of other titles on this year’s list, from books for kids under five up to books for readers over 14. Have a look at the whole list, and you’re bound to find something terrific for the young reader(s) in your life. Chris Barton Posted in Bank Street College of Education, Barbara Jordan, Beach Lane, Chris Barton, diversity, Ekua Holmes, Simon & Schuster, What Do You Do With a Voice Like That Leave a comment My remarks at the Barbara Jordan Media Awards As I mentioned last month, my book What Do You Do with a Voice Like That? The Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan (illustrated by Ekua Holmes and published by Beach Lane Books/Simon & Schuster) won the 2018 Barbara Jordan Award for children’s books. Three weeks ago, Jennifer and I had the honor of attending the awards ceremony at the Etter-Harbin Alumni Center on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. Not only did I get to meet some of the other winners — — but I also got to appreciate some of their award-winning work. And I’ve got great news: You can enjoy it, too, after about 60 seconds of remarks by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. (Excerpts from What Do You Do with a Voice Like That? begin at about the four-minute mark.) Upon receiving the award, each of the winners had an opportunity to say thank you and share other thoughts. What I said during my three minutes was: I must admit, I was really, really, really hoping that my Barbara Jordan children’s book would win the Barbara Jordan children’s book award. I am so grateful for this honor, and I can’t help but also be a little tickled by it. And based on what I learned about Barbara Jordan in the course of researching and writing What Do You Do with a Voice Like That?, I think she would have gotten a kick out of it, too. That shared sense of humor would not be the only thing Barbara Jordan and I have in common, despite our significant demographic differences. We’re both native Texans. We both found a home and a community in our adopted city of Austin. I admire and aspire to emulate Barbara Jordan’s talent for and interest in listening to those whose viewpoints and experiences differ from our own. Her forceful insistence on integrity and ethical behavior has led me, regarding many situations, to wonder — occasionally, then frequently, now daily — What Would Barbara Jordan Do? And like Barbara Jordan, I believe in putting my own success and privilege — and, yes, my own voice — to work pulling up or helping along others who, for various reasons, are not yet there themselves. My favorite example of how Barbara Jordan lived that value is how she, after accumulating significant political capital herself, applied that capital to shoring up — rather than restricting — the voting rights of Mexican-American citizens and others. In my work as a member of the children’s book community, that impulse has taken the form of advocating for authors, illustrators, readers, and characters who tend to share Barbara Jordan’s demographics more so than my own. I don’t know how many other titles were in the running for this year’s honor, but nothing would make me happier than for my Barbara Jordan book for children winning the Barbara Jordan children’s book award to inspire many more children’s books about Texans with disabilities and by Texas authors and illustrators with disabilities. I want there to be plenty of fierce competition for this prize in the future, and for the judges to have their work cut out for them every year. Thank you, judges, and to all who work on behalf of the Governor’s Committee on People with Disabilities. Many thanks to illustrator Ekua Holmes and to our publisher, Simon & Schuster. Thank you to my wife, Jennifer — I love you — and to all the family and friends and librarians who have supported me and my work. Thank you, Barbara Jordan, for your inspiration and for that voice. Thank you all. Since the awards ceremony three weeks ago, I’ve begun making some inquiries about the accessibility of conferences for writers and illustrators, in hopes of helping make those events more accessible for people with disabilities. If you’ve had experiences or can offer suggestions that might contribute to those conversations, please leave them in the comments section below, and I’ll be glad to pass them along to the folks I’m in touch with. Chris Barton Posted in accessibility, Barbara Jordan, Beach Lane, Chris Barton, Ekua Holmes, Simon & Schuster, Texas Governors Committee on People with Disabilities, What Do You Do With a Voice Like That Leave a comment Barbara Jordan book wins Barbara Jordan Award The life of Texas hero Barbara Jordan included many facets, and one of those was her experience with multiple sclerosis, which began soon after she entered Congress in 1973. Fittingly, the Texas Governor’s Committee on People with Disabilities bestows the Barbara Jordan Award each year on authors and journalists whose work “accurately and positively reports on individuals with disabilities, using People First language and respectful depictions.” I’m delighted to report that my book What Do You Do with a Voice Like That? The Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan (illustrated by Ekua Holmes and published by Beach Lane Books/Simon & Schuster) has won the 2018 Barbara Jordan Award for children’s books. I strove to get all aspects of her story right, and this recognition means the world to me. I look forward to thanking the committee in person at the awards luncheon next month here in Austin. Plus, what’s not to love about a book about Barbara Jordan winning an award named for Barbara Jordan? I like to think that the great lady herself would have gotten a kick out of that. Chris Barton Posted in Barbara Jordan, Beach Lane, Chris Barton, Ekua Holmes, Simon & Schuster, What Do You Do With a Voice Like That Leave a comment SLJ‘s recommendations for “Honoring African American Women and Girls, Past and Present” School Library Journal has compiled a list of 20 recent nonfiction titles “celebrating African American women [that] highlight their important contributions to the arts, activism, literacy, politics, science,” etc. Thanks to the magic of alphabetical ordering by author’s last name, the list features my book What Do You Do with a Voice Like That? The Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan (illustrated by Ekua Holmes and published by Beach Lane Books/Simon & Schuster) at the very top. I’ve got a lot of catching up to do in my own reading, and maybe you do, too. Check out the entire list. Chris Barton Posted in Barbara Jordan, Beach Lane, Chris Barton, Ekua Holmes, School Library Journal, Simon & Schuster, What Do You Do With a Voice Like That Leave a comment Voice on three “notable” lists I’m happy to report that my newest picture book, What Do You Do with a Voice Like That? The Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan (illustrated by Ekua Holmes and published by Beach Lane Books/Simon & Schuster), has been named to a trio of lists that are, literally, notable. Voice is among the 25 titles on the list of Notable Books for a Global Society 2019 put out by the Children’s Literature and Reading Special Interest Group (CL/R SIG) of the International Literacy Association. The group says, “These books for all levels (preK-12) reflect diversity in the broadest sense, celebrating a wide variety of voices and topics.” (Reviews of some of the winners are compiled here.) Thank you so much to the members of the CL/R SIG for this honor. My picture book biography of Barbara Jordan is also included on the 2019 list of Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People put together by the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and the Children’s Book Council (CBC). The NCSS says, “The selection committee looks for books that emphasize human relations, represent a diversity of groups and are sensitive to a broad range of cultural experiences, present an original theme or a fresh slant on a traditional topic, are easily readable and of high literary quality, and have a pleasing format and, when appropriate, illustrations that enrich the text.” Many, many thanks to the NCSS and CBC for including Voice. Finally, the book was on the Notable Children’s Books Discussion List at the just-completed midwinter meetings of the American Library Association. I’m looking forward to seeing the final Notables list and am delighted that the ALA included Voice in their discussion. Chris Barton Posted in ALA, Barbara Jordan, Beach Lane, Children's Book Council, Children’s Literature and Reading Special Interest Group, Chris Barton, Ekua Holmes, International Literacy Association, National Council for the Social Studies, Simon & Schuster, What Do You Do With a Voice Like That Leave a comment Barbara Jordan on This American Life If you’ve read and enjoyed What Do You Do with a Voice Like That? The Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, I think you’ll appreciate the latest episode of This American Life: Where Have You Gone, Barbara Jordan? Our Nation Turns Its Lonely Eyes to You Back in the 1990s, a bipartisan team led by the charismatic Barbara Jordan came up with a solution to the immigration debate that would have fixed a lot the things we’re arguing about today. Producer Miki Meek tells the story. Chris Barton Posted in Barbara Jordan, Beach Lane, Chris Barton, Ekua Holmes, Simon & Schuster, This American Life, What Do You Do With a Voice Like That Leave a comment “Why do you have so many illustrators?” Considering that I’ve worked with Ekua Holmes, Victo Ngai, Don Tate, Troy Cummings, Ashley Spires, and Tom Lichtenheld, among other artists, today’s question is a great one. Chris Barton Posted in Ashley Spires, author visits, Chris Barton, Don Tate, Ekua Holmes, Nicole Xu, questions from readers, school visits, Shanda McCloskey, Tom Lichtenheld, Troy Cummings, Victo Ngai Leave a comment Year-end (and New Year’s) excitement for What Do You Do with a Voice Like That? New Year’s Day brought some exciting news for What Do You Do with a Voice Like That? The Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan (Beach Lane Books/Simon & Schuster). My most recent picture book, illustrated by Ekua Holmes, was named one of the 2018 Elementary/Middle Grade Non-fiction Finalists for the Cybils (Children’s and Young Adult Bloggers’ Literary Awards). Chris Barton’s text begs to be read aloud. Using alliteration and repetition, it reverberates with the big booming voice of former U. S. Congresswoman from Texas, Barbara Jordan. Ekua Holmes’ mixed media illustrations are as bright and bold as Barton’s text and perfectly capture the late 1960s and early 1970s. In the author’s note and a two-page spread timeline in the back matter, readers discover that Barbara Jordan — who retired early from public service because she had multiple sclerosis — died too young at 59. What Do You Do with a Voice Like That? is a wonderful choice for Black History Month, for Women’s History Month, and for all the months of the year. Long ago, I was a Cybils judge, so I know the great collective effort that goes into whittling the year’s nonfiction books down to a shortlist and finally a single winner. Thank you to all the folks who gave their time to this year’s Cybils, and especially to those who chose to recognize What Do You Do with a Voice Like That? That gratitude extends to everyone who has embraced this book about a Congresswoman and teacher from Texas who — as I’ve learned these past few months — was not as much of a household name as my lifelong experience as a Texan of a certain age had led me to believe. That includes those who placed the book on the lists for The 2018 Nerdy Book Club Award for Nonfiction Picture Books The Nonfiction Detectives’ Best Biographies of 2018 Kid Lit Frenzy’s Favorite Nonfiction Picture Books of 2018 Booklist Editors’ Choice: Books for Youth, 2018 — Nonfiction — Middle Readers Lone Star Literary Life’s Top Twenty Texas Books of 2018 The Penn Graduate School of Education’s Best Books of 2018 for Young Readers A Mighty Girl’s 2018 Books of the Year What Do You Do with a Voice Like That? has also been included on a couple more Mock Caldecott lists. Thank you, Pernille Ripp and Bickering Book Reviews! It was included as well as in booksellers’ roundups in the Houston Chronicle — The picture book is a beautiful reminder of the impact Jordan had on the nation. It’s a must have for every Texas young reader. — and in the Abilene Reporter News. Many thanks to Joy Preble and Glenn Dromgoole, respectively. Finally, I must express my deep appreciation for Margie Myers-Culver’s detailed commentary on What Do You Do with a Voice Like That?. An excerpt: I can’t imagine a personal or professional collection of books without a copy of What Do You Do With A Voice Like That: The Story Of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan written by Chris Barton with illustrations by Ekua Holmes on their shelves. This fresh, vibrant depiction in a stunning blend of words and images will promote discussions and further research. It’s one thing to love a book, another thing to reflect upon it, but something else entirely to so generously share those thoughts with the public. Thank you, Margie. Chris Barton Posted in Barbara Jordan, Beach Lane, Booklist, Chris Barton, Ekua Holmes, Lone Star Literary Life, Margie Myers-Culver, Nerdy Book Club, Simon & Schuster, What Do You Do With a Voice Like That Leave a comment Celebrating the Texas Topaz Reading List twice over Not long ago, the Texas Library Association created the Texas Topaz Reading List “to provide children and adults with recommended nonfiction titles that stimulate reading for pleasure and personal learning.” I love that this list spans all ages and isn’t tied to any sort of curriculum — heck, it’s not even Texas-specific. The Texas Topaz list recognizes that nonfiction reading can be a joy, and it suggests that anyone not on board with that notion perhaps just hasn’t yet found the right book. Well, the new Texas Topaz list just came out, and I’m thrilled to see that it includes not only two of the adult titles I’ve most enjoyed this past year or so — Michael Hurd’s Thursday Night Lights: The Story of Black High School Football in Texas and Lawrence Wright’s God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State — but also two of my own books. Hooray for Dazzle Ships: World War I and the Art of Confusion, illustrated by Victo Ngai and published by Millbrook Press/Lerner Publishing… …and for What Do You Do with a Voice Like That? The Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, illustrated by Ekua Holmes and published by Beach Lane Books/Simon & Schuster. And thank you many times over to the Topaz committee, and not just for including my books among this terrific bunch. I know a lot of work goes into reading books for these lists and making hard choices between what to include and what to almost include. I want y’all to know that nonfiction readers like me surely appreciate it. Chris Barton Posted in Barbara Jordan, Beach Lane, Chris Barton, Dazzle Ships, Ekua Holmes, God Save Texas, Lawrence Wright, Lerner, Michael Hurd, Millbrook, Simon & Schuster, Texas Library Association, Texas Topaz Reading List, Thursday Night Lights, Victo Ngai, What Do You Do With a Voice Like That Leave a comment What do they say about What Do You Do with a Voice Like That? It’s been several weeks since I last compiled news about What Do You Do with a Voice Like That? The Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan (Beach Lane Books/Simon & Schuster). Considering that the book has been out in the world for just over two months, that means I’ve essentially been neglecting my most recent book for more than half its life. So, let’s correct that with this roundup. What Do You Do with a Voice Like That? has been named a 2019 Orbis Pictus Recommended Book by the National Council of Teachers of English. The California Reading Association has listed it as a 2018 Eureka! Nonfiction Children’s Book Awards Honor Book. Kirkus Reviews has named What Do You Do with a Voice Like That? among the best picture books of 2018, and at Waking Brain Cells, Tasha Saecker has compiled those books into a single, easy-to-read list. Houston’s Blue Willow Bookshop has included the book in its list of the 25 best books of 2018 across all categories, recommending the book “For every school and library in Texas, as well as family bookshelves.” The Nonfiction Detectives write: In this age of partisan, negative politics, Barbara Jordan is a model of dignity, civility and justice. What Do You Do With a Voice Like That? is the perfect read aloud to inspire children to speak up and use their voices to help others and to make the world a better place. The San Francisco Chronicle says: Using her sonorous voice for good, she participates in the Watergate hearings, speaks out for equality and justice, and fights for the powerless. Bright mixed-media art, as strong and stately as Jordan herself, helps chronicle her setbacks and successes, both personal and political. In The Christian Century, Baylor University theologian Beverly Roberts Gaventa writes: [T]he book instructs its readers about an extraordinary woman, but it also invites them to find their own voices and put them to use to make the world a better place. I need to give myself a copy, since my grandson is tired of loaning me his. (If you want to read only my favorite final line in any recent review, you can stop right there.) The Horn Book writes: This large book, with its lush, vivid, mixed-media illustrations, makes an artistic statement as bold as groundbreaking African American congresswoman Barbara Jordan’s own giant voice. Smart page-turns — often prompted by a series of questions and frequently repeating the titular one — lead readers to think about, rather than simply learn about, Jordan’s life. The Austin American-Statesman says: Barton’s “Voice” showcases Jordan as a trailblazer who always championed what was right, such as in her famous speech during President Richard Nixon’s impeachment hearings, when she vowed that she would not “sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.” The New York Times includes the book in a roundup of several immersive picture books about women leaders. The standout books of the bunch tell the stories of two remarkable women of color. In WHAT DO YOU DO WITH A VOICE LIKE THAT? (Beach Lane, 48 pp., $17.99; ages 4 to 8), a biography of Representative Barbara Jordan written by Chris Barton and illustrated by Ekua Holmes, we go from Jordan’s modest upbringing in Houston to her civil rights activism to the halls of Congress and back to Texas after a multiple sclerosis diagnosis takes her out of public life. All the way, Jordan’s distinct “big, bold, booming, crisp, clear, confident voice” guides us. (I can’t wait to get my hands on Martha Brockenborough’s Unpresidented. I see her book and mine as complementary and equally necessary. Teens can benefit from both. And readers of all ages deserve truth and honesty.) Barnes & Noble says of Barbara Jordan’s story: The chronicle of her rise is thrilling, but the next chapter of her life is just as instructive: when diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, she came home to Texas and kept giving to others, as a teacher. The Alcalde — the alumni magazine for the University of Texas, where I got my degree and where Barbara Jordan taught — says: Accompanied by brilliantly detailed collages from artist and illustrator Ekua Holmes, the book explores Jordan’s legacy in the realm of civil rights and equality. Meant to educate and inspire young readers, Barton showcases Jordan’s milestones as a lawyer and politician, as well as the obstacles she overcame on her path to success. In PW Shelftalker, bookseller Cynthia Compton includes the book in her roundup of recent titles with themes of voice or voicelessness. Ekua Holmes’ illustrations have landed What Do You Do with a Voice Like That? on Mock Caldecott lists overseen by Megan Dowd Lambert, Michele Knott, and John Schumacher and Colby Sharp. And over at Kid Lit Frenzy, Alyson Beecher has added What Do You Do with a Voice Like That? to her Mock Sibert list. Thank you, one and all, for your appreciation for this book, and for all the ways — public and otherwise — that you’ve expressed it. If you’re ever wondering if an author might like to hear kind words about their new (or old) book, the answer is always “Yes!” Chris Barton Posted in Barbara Jordan, Beach Lane, Chris Barton, Ekua Holmes, Fabulous Prizes, Horn Book, Kirkus, Michele Knott, NCTE, Orbis Pictus Award, Simon & Schuster, What Do You Do With a Voice Like That Leave a comment	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19486
__label__cc	0.61413	0.38587	Osteoporosis Often Missed in Elderly Men FRIDAY, Feb. 15, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Osteoporosis is typically thought of as a woman's disease, but elderly men are also prone to bone loss -- even though they often aren't treated for it, a new study finds. Among men and women aged 80 and older, women were three times more likely to get osteoporosis treatment, researchers reported. Ten million Americans have osteoporosis, according to the study. Each year, the disease causes 2 million fractures, costing $19 million. As the population ages, this could rise to 3 million fractures at a cost of $25 million by 2025. Healthy Living Can Cut Odds for Alzheimer's in People at Genetic Risk The Happiness Dividend: Longer, Healthier Lives Poor Social Life Could Spell Trouble for Older Women's Bones Looks Like Guys Are More Prone to Pack on the 'Freshman 15' Osteoporosis is a serious condition for men, too, the researchers added. After breaking a hip, the risk of illness and death is greater among men than women, they noted. For the study, researchers led by Dr. Radhika Rao Narla, from the Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition at the University of Washington in Seattle, compared screening and treatment for osteoporosis among more than 13,700 men and women aged 70 and older. Managing the disease included scans of bone mineral density, measuring levels of vitamin D, and treatment with vitamin D, calcium supplements and bisphosphonates (some brand names include Boniva, Actonel and Fosamax). The investigators looked at more than 11,600 men and 460 women where age alone was a risk factor for hip fracture, and another group of more than 1,600 men at risk for osteoporosis due to previous fracture or treatment that weakened bones. About 50 percent of the men aged 75 to 79 had a risk of breaking a hip that qualified them for osteoporosis treatment, as did 88 percent of the men aged 80 and older. The researchers found that men were much less likely than women to be tested and treated for osteoporosis, especially those aged 80 and older. Looking at age alone, the researchers found that more women than men had their bone density measured (63 percent versus 12 percent) and had their vitamin D levels measured (39 percent versus 18 percent). Women were more than three times as likely to be given calcium and vitamin D supplements (63 percent versus 20 percent) and to be treated with bisphosphonates (44 percent versus 5 percent), the researchers found. Among men aged 80 and older, only 10 to 13 percent had bone density measured and fewer than 1 in 10 were treated with bisphosphonates. Men at higher risk for hip fractures or those who had already suffered from a broken hip were often overlooked for diagnosis and treatment, the researchers noted. Narla and her team could not say why men are not assessed for osteoporosis. It might be a lack of awareness of screening guidelines or doctors are busy dealing with other medical problems, they said. These findings suggest that guidelines are "inadequate in effectively identifying older men who might benefit from evaluation for osteoporosis and fracture prevention treatment," the researchers said. The report was published online Feb. 14 in the Journal of Investigative Medicine. "We believe that there is a need for developing strategies to improve the evaluation and management for all older men, particularly among elderly men with a very high risk of fracture," Narla's group said in a journal news release. The National Osteoporosis Foundation offers more on osteoporosis. SOURCE: Journal of Investigative Medicine, news release, Feb. 14, 2019 -- Steven Reinberg	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19495
__label__cc	0.711796	0.288204	Cleveland Orchestra opens Centennial Season with Vixen redux and stunning Rite of Spring (September 26 & 28) October 3, 2017 by Daniel Hathaway What a week at Severance Hall! On Tuesday, September 26, The Cleveland Orchestra’s revival of Leoš Janáček’s opera The Cunning Little Vixen received its third and final performance, and two days later, Franz Welser-Möst returned to the podium to lead the Orchestra in a spellbinding performance of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. [Read more…] Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Adriana Zabala, Afendi Jusef, Cleveland Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra Chamber Chorus, Cleveland Orchestra Children's Choir, Dashon Burton, David Cangelosi, Franz Welser-Möst, Jennifer Johnson Cano, John Clouser, Martina Jankova, William Preucil, Yuval Sharon The Cleveland Orchestra begins 100th Season with revival of Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen September 19, 2017 by Mike Telin by Mike Telin The Cleveland Orchestra begins its landmark 100th season this week with a revival of Yuval Sharon’s critically acclaimed, made-for-Cleveland production of Leoš Janáček’s opera The Cunning Little Vixen. Franz Welser-Möst leads the Orchestra and a cast that will include Martina Janková (Vixen), Alan Held (Forrester), Jennifer Johnson Cano (Fox), Andrew Foster-Williams (Harašta), Daryl Freedman (Lapák the Dog), Dashon Burton (Parson/Badger), and David Cangelosi (Schoolmaster/Mosquito). Performances will take place on Saturday, September 23 at 8:00 pm, Sunday the 24th at 3:00 pm, and Tuesday the 26th at 7:30 pm. Tickets available online. Writing for Classical Voice North America, Daniel Hathaway said that the digitally enhanced production was “beguiling in concept and brilliant in execution.” [Read more…] Filed Under: Previews Tagged With: Bill Barminski, Christopher Louie, Cleveland Orchestra, Cunning Little Vixen, David Cangelosi, Franz Welser-Möst, Leos Janacek, Yuval Sharon The Cleveland Orchestra’s Cunning Little Vixen — a conversation with tenor David Cangelosi May 13, 2014 by Special to ClevelandClassical.com Opera librettists take their inspiration from novels, novellas, plays and legends, but rarely from a daily comic strip. “The Adventures of the Vixen Sharp-Ears,” a serialized cartoon by Rudolf Těsnohlídek and Stanislav Lolek in the Czech newspaper Lidové novini gave Leoš Janáček the idea for his comic opera, The Cunning Little Vixen, for which he wrote the libretto himself. Is it a children’s entertainment? The characters include animals, birds and insects, as well as a few human beings, but Janáček himself seems to have intended it to be a philosophical reflection about the cycle of life and death. The plot is open to a whole spectrum of interpretation, “but I can tell you that this production will appeal to the widest public components possible,” said tenor David Cangelosi, who sings the roles of the Schoolmaster and the Mosquito. “It just has something for everybody – the littlest of kids straight through to the most seasoned opera or symphony goer.” [Read more…] Filed Under: Previews Tagged With: Cleveland Orchestra, David Cangelosi, The Cunning Little Vixen	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19498
__label__wiki	0.990605	0.990605	The Columns W&L Homepage About Academics Admissions and Aid Athletics Student Life Support W&L Students Employees Alumni Parents Visitors A-Z Index Calendar Directory Search Feature Stories Campus Events Search columns.wlu.edu Feature Stories Campus Events The W&L Magazine Stories by Discipline Africana Studies Digital Culture and Information East Asian Languages and Literatures German and Arabic Middle East and Southeast Asia Studies Physics and Engineering Poverty Studies Latin American and Caribbean Studies Russian Area Studies Theater, Dance and Film Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies The Williams School The School of Law Death Penalty Law Stories by Opportunity Alumni College American Talent Initiative W&L Athletics Community-Academic Research Alliance Career and Professional Development Center for Poetic Research Endeavor Foundation Equality and Difference Series HHMI Fellowship The Johnson Program Johnson Enhancement Fund Johnson Lecture Johnson Opportunity Grant Johnson Professorship Johnson Scholarship Mock Con Mudd Center for Ethics Office of Inclusion and Engagement Questbridge Questioning … Speaker Series Post-Graduate Scholarships The Shepherd Program Bonner Scholar Shepherd @ 20 Shepherd Alliance Internship Staniar Gallery Outing Club Spring Term Abroad Summer Opportunity 1749 Circle W&L: Education and History Series W&L Hosts Marty Baron, Editor of The Washington Post Baron became executive editor of the Post in 2013. There, he oversees print and digital news operations and a staff of more than 800 journalists. By Erica Turman WASHINGTON, DC – FEBRUARY 11: Marty Baron, Washington Post Executive Editor, poses for a photo on February 11, 2016 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Ricky Carioti/ The Washington Post) Washington and Lee University will host Martin “Marty” Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post, for a public Q&A on March 26 at 5 p.m. in Stackhouse Theater. Baron’s talk, which is free and open to the public, will be available to watch online here. Baron became executive editor of the Post in 2013. There, he oversees print and digital news operations and a staff of more than 800 journalists. Newsrooms under Baron’s leadership have won 14 Pulitzer Prizes. The Post, during his tenure, has won four times for national reporting, and once each for investigative reporting, explanatory reporting and public service, the latter in recognition of revelations of secret surveillance by the National Security Agency. “Marty is the best editor on the planet,” said Alecia Swasy, Reynolds Professor of Business Journalism. “He is tireless in his pursuit of the truth about powerful people and institutions, whether it’s the Catholic Church or the White House.” Previously, Baron had been editor of The Boston Globe. During his 11 1/2 years there, the Globe won six Pulitzer prizes—for public service, explanatory journalism, national reporting and criticism. The Pulitzer Prize for public service was awarded to the Globe in 2003 for its investigation into a pattern of concealing clergy sex abuse in the Catholic Church; coverage portrayed years later in the Academy Award-winning movie “Spotlight.” Before the Globe, Baron held top editing positions at The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and the Miami Herald. Under his leadership, the Miami Herald won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news coverage in 2001. His honors include Editor of the Year by the National Press Foundation (2004), the Al Neuharth Award for Excellence in the Media (2017), the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Award (2017), and the Award for Public Leadership from the University of Pennsylvania’s Fels Institute of Government (2016). In 2012, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the recipient of honorary doctorates from George Washington University, George Mason University and his alma mater, Lehigh University. Baron began his journalism career at the Miami Herald in 1976, serving as a state reporter and later as a business writer. In 1979, he moved to the Los Angeles Times, where he became business editor in 1983; assistant managing editor for page-one special reports, public opinion polling and special projects in 1991; and, in 1993, editor of the newspaper’s Orange County Edition, which then had about 165 staffers. In 1996, Baron moved to The New York Times; he became associate managing editor responsible for the nighttime news operations of the newspaper in 1997. He was named executive editor at the Miami Herald at the start of 2000. Baron’s talk is presented by the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation and the Department of Journalism and Mass Communications at W&L. Washington and Lee Hosts Human Rights Expert Isabella Alexander W&L Hosts Public Lecture with U.Va. Professor Anthony Corbeill Washington and Lee Hosts Public Lecture with Erin Walcheck Averett Related //The College, Strategic Communication, Journalism and Mass Communications Tagged //public lecture, public talk, public event, Q&A, free and open to the public, writer, Editor, Don't miss it, Stackhouse, campus events, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe About Academics Admissions and Aid Athletics Student Life Support W&L W&L Magazine Submit a Class Notes Change Your Address Contact Us Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19502
__label__wiki	0.944018	0.944018	/Anime Dragon Ball Super Movie Code Geass Meets Final Fantasy VII in this Gorgeous Mash-Up Fan Art By Evan Valentine - June 15, 2019 05:44 pm EDT With Square Enix having dropped the bombshell at E3 that the remake of Final Fantasy VII would be releasing in March of next year, 2020, there's no better time than now to release anything FF7 related! The upcoming remake has been in the works for years, having appeared at numerous E3 conferences, but it wasn't until this year that attendees gained access to a playable demo of the game. One fan decided to take the scorching hot popularity of this classic video game and mix it with the machinations of the power house anime, Code Geass. Twitter User Ccreayus created this fan art that merges Final Fantasy VII's Aeris with Code Geass' C.C: 「ピザ、いらない？」 pic.twitter.com/MGhkANjoLI — 嵐月@ブレイク延長 (@ccreayus) June 13, 2019 Code Geass' C.C. is the originator of Lelouch's powers, granting him the power of the Geass himself. The enigmatic protagonist takes it upon herself to act as the protector of Lelouch, occassionally leading the Black Knights into battle and piloting a giant robot whenever she deems it necessary. At the end of the series, C.C. admits her feelings for Lelouch as well as coming to the realization that perhaps not all Geass need to live out their days in loneliness. (Photo: Square Enix and Madman Entertainment) Aeris arguably represents the most shocking, biggest death in video game history. Originally a flower girl who finds herself on the side of Cloud Strife and his band of eco-terrorists attempting to save the world, Aeris is struck down by the villain of the series, Sephiroth. So out of nowhere was her death, that fans to this day still consider it one of the most iconic events to take place in a video game. In a series that prides itself on its ability to resurrect characters using a "phoenix down", its no wonder that a permanent death would hit as hard as it does with Aeris. Final Fantasy VII's remake will surely have this iconic moment remade for a brand new generation and we're certainly looking forward to reliving it once again when the game drops in March of next year, 2020. What do you think of this mash-up between Final Fantasy VII and Code Geass? Do Aeris and C.C. have more in common than we'd think? Feel free to let us know in the comments or hit me up directly on Twitter @EVComedy to talk all things comics, anime, Final Fantasy, and Code Geass. Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion was first created by Sunrise, with character designs provided by manga collective CLAMP. Set in an alternate world, the series follows Lelouch vi Britannia who decides to bring the Britannia Empire down when he receives the power of the Geass, which allows him to exert his will over others. The anime series ran for 50 episodes from 2006 to 2008. The series was licensed for an English language broadcast by Bandai, and was aired on Adult Swim in 2007. On today's episode, we talk about the new Pokemon added to Sword & Shield, why some of them are creepy, and why some of them are awesome. We also cover a $60K Pokemon card that got lost in the mail and MAJOR changes coming to Pokemon GO! Make sure to subscribe now to never miss an episode! Kyoto Animation Tragedy Rallies Global Support With #PrayForKyoAni Hashtag Dragon Ball Collector's Box Sets Announced For FYE Japanese Officials Report 33 Dead Following Kyoto Animation Arson Attack Kyoto Animation Offices Set Ablaze In Arson, Multiple Deaths Reported Dragon Ball Genderbent Cosplay Unleashes Vegeta, Princess of All Saiyans Bait Previews Exclusive One-Punch Man Collection Ahead Of SDCC Dragon Ball Z Auction Selling Classic Vegeta Family Sketch Japan Begins Program Promoting Overseas Anime Production	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19503
__label__wiki	0.573225	0.573225	Glenn Greenwald in Seattle & Northwest Justice Forum in Ellensburg! May 30, 2014 May 29, 2014 uwcpsl June 17: Glenn Greenwald Speaking in Seattle Town Hall Seattle, 1119 8th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101 TICKETS only $6! In May 2013, Glenn Greenwald set out for Hong Kong to meet a source who claimed to have astonishing evidence of pervasive government spying and insisted on communicating only through heavily encrypted channels. That source turned out to be the 29-year-old NSA contractor Edward Snowden, and his revelations about the agency’s widespread, systemic overreach proved to be some of the most explosive and consequential news in recent history, triggering a fierce debate over national security and information privacy. As the arguments rage on and the government considers various proposals for reform, it is clear that we have yet to see the full impact of Snowden’s disclosures. In April 2014, Greenwald and his colleagues at The Guardian received the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Don’t miss Greenwald speak in-person as he fits all the pieces together, recounting his high-intensity eleven-day trip to Hong Kong, examining the broader implications of the surveillance detailed in his reporting for The Guardian, and revealing fresh information on the NSA’s unprecedented abuse of power with never-before-seen documents entrusted to him by Snowden himself. Glenn Greenwald will be signing his new book, No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State (available from Elliott Bay Book Company). Coming at a landmark moment in American history, No Place to Hide is a fearless, incisive, and essential contribution to our understanding of the U.S. surveillance state. Click here to reserve a spot. June 18-19: Tenth Annual Northwest Justice Forum in Ellensburg, WA Wednesday-Thursday, June 18-19, 2014 Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA Schools, Juvenile Justice, and Community Keynote Speaker: Judge Steven C. Teske Pre-Forum Trainers: Christina Albo, Resolutions Northwest Kellie Henderson, Clark County Juvenile Court Click here for the forum brochure. Click here to register. September 10-13: Hispanic National Bar Association’s Career Fair Friday, Sept. 12, 2014 HNBA Career Fair Wednesday-Saturday, Sept. 10-13, 2014 HNBA Convention Renaissance Downtown Hotel in Washington, DC Students and alumni are invited to participate in the HNBA Career Fair, the nation’s largest career fair for Hispanic law students and legal professionals, at the Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA) Annual Convention on Friday, September 12 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The 2014 HNBA Convention will be held September 10-13, 2014 at the Renaissance Downtown Hotel in Washington, DC. The event will give you access to government agencies, law firms, and leaders of industry, as well as allow you to make contacts that may lead to employment or other post-graduation professional opportunities. To register, click here. Working in DC this Summer? Consider Learning More About Law & Policy Making May 29, 2014 uwcpsl Disability Rights Washington (DRW) Releases Documentary about the WSBA’s “Questions of Discrimination” By Gillian Maguire, Disability Rights Washington Disability Rights Washington’s video “Questions of Discrimination” criticizes the Washington State Bar Association (WSBA) exam questions that single out applicants with mental health disabilities and ask for treatment records. In Washington, as in many other states, several bar application questions and rules call into question an individual’s “character and fitness” to practice law if they have a mental health disability. According to several law students and attorneys, applicants struggle in answering these questions because they feel forced to choose between their rights to privacy and freedom from discrimination, and their ability to practice their chosen profession. “WSBA asks a question that’s trying to identify whether or not a lawyer is going to be a problem from a character standpoint. They take kind of a wholesale question like, ‘have you ever been treated for mental health’, that has a built-in assumption that anybody who has ever seen a therapist has a character flaw that might be a problem with them being an attorney. And that’s not borne out by science,” says Andy Imparato, Executive Director of the national Association of University Centers on Disabilities. Duke Law Offering 2014 Summer Institute on Law & Policy in Washington, DC Working in Washington? Put the Duke Law D.C. Summer Institute on Law and Policy on your agenda: A great way to learn law applicable to your policy area of expertise — without ever leaving Washington. Course offerings in the 2014 Duke Law D.C. Summer Institute on Law and Policy focus on topics important to current and aspiring practitioners in fields that require mastery of constitutional, statutory, and regulatory law and policymaking. The two sessions this summer are July 7-17, 2014, and July 21-July 31, 2014. Each course is designed to provide an accessible introduction to the pertinent legal and policy subject matter. Those living and working in Washington who are potentially interested in attending law school, or who otherwise seek greater familiarity with the legal framework in a particular field, are especially encouraged to enroll. In each two-week session, classes will be held Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday evenings from either5:45-7:15 p.m. or 7:30-9:00 p.m., at the Duke in Washington office located near Metro Center at 1201 New York Ave., NW, Suite 1110, in Washington.Wednesday evenings are reserved for special programs, including events with Judge Patricia Millett on July 23, and with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg onJuly 30. Participants in either or both sessions are invited to attend all of the Wednesday night events. To enroll, click here. Asian Pacific American Legal Groups Urge Chicago Officials to Investigate Anti-Asian and Anti-Immigrant Video Incident By Tina Matsuoka, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association WASHINGTON — The National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) and its Chicago-based affiliates — the Asian American Bar Association of Greater Chicago (AABA), Chinese American Bar Association of Greater Chicago (CABA), and Korean American Bar Association of Chicago (KABA) — along with the Filipino American Lawyers Association of Chicago (FALA) and the Indian-American Bar Association of Chicago (IABA) express concern over the actions of certain Chicago police officers captured by recently-released video surveillance, which depicts officers using racist and anti-immigrant language during an arrest last summer. “The actions shown in the video raise questions about how people of color and immigrants, particularly those who are limited English proficient, are treated by Chicago police officers,” said Bill Simonitsch, president of NAPABA. “We urge Mayor Emanuel and Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy to fully investigate this incident and work with the local Asian Pacific American community to ensure that immigrants and all people of color feel protected by local law enforcement officials.” According to a lawsuit filed in federal court on May 14, 2014, Chicago police officers verbally harassed and physically abused a Chinese American spa manager during a raid on a local business in July 2013. The security video shows officers entering the spa, apprehending the woman and striking her while she was kneeling and handcuffed. Police officers can be heard on the video making racist and anti-immigrant remarks during the arrest. One officer refused to believe that the woman was an American citizen and told her “You’re not f—— American! I’ll put you in a UPS box and send you back to wherever the f— you came from.” NAPABA, AABA, CABA, KABA, FALA, and IABA urge the City of Chicago and the Chicago Police Department to fully investigate the specific allegations raised by the video, determine whether any systemic problems of official misconduct exist, and take appropriate action to ensure that all visitors and residents, regardless of gender, race, national origin, immigration status, or English proficiency, feel welcome and safe in the City of Chicago. Full Time Staff Attorney Position Vacancies & Other Summer Opportunities! UW Moderate Means Program is Recruiting Interns for Summer and Fall Quarters, Due 6/6 The Moderate Means Program (MMP) is a UW Law in-house pro bono program that is a great way to get experience interviewing lots of clients without having to leave Gates Hall! The goal of the program is to increase access to civil legal services by people of moderate means who cannot afford an attorney but make too much money to qualify for traditional legal aid services. The program is focused on the areas of Family, Housing and Consumer law. Law students serving as MMP volunteer interns will interview potential clients by telephone to collect information and evaluate their cases. Qualifying cases will be referred by the MMP interns to participating attorneys who have agreed to represent Moderate Means Program clients for a reduced fee. MMP interns will be expected to commit to a minimum of five hours a week for the duration of spring quarter and this summer (one hour is a weekly staff meeting). Attention Recent Grads! Catholic Community Services of Western Washington Seeking Staff Attorney The Legal Action Center offers free legal assistance to qualifying low income persons in King County who are facing evictions and subsidy terminations, landlord/tenant issues, and debtor/creditor issues related to past tenancies. In eviction and subsidy termination cases, clients first speak to our staff over the phone to have their case evaluated. Then they may be scheduled for an appointment. Attorneys and paralegals provide free legal assistance ranging from self-help information to representation in court. This position is responsible for providing legal services to low income households facing eviction, housing subsidy terminations or other barriers to securing suitable housing. For a full job description and application instructions, click here. Attention Post Grads! Northwest Justice Project Seeking Full Time Staff Attorney in Everett With 3+ Years Experience The Northwest Justice Project (NJP) is a not-for-profit statewide law firm that pursues its mission through legal representation, community partnerships, and education to combat injustice and promote the long-term well-being of low-income individuals, families, and communities throughout Washington. NJP seeks applications from qualified attorneys committed to supporting our mission through the work of our Everett regional office. Successful applicants for this position will have experience in all aspects of civil litigation, with a minimum of 3 years in family law, preferably in Washington State. Experience preferred in one or more additional areas of law that particularly impact low income persons. Applicants should be culturally competent and have demonstrated experience working with low-income client communities. Washington State Bar Association membership in good standing, the ability to acquire membership through reciprocity, or ability to take the next Washington bar exam is required. Significant civil legal aid and/or civil litigation experience is strongly preferred. Transgender Law Center Seeking 2014 Immigration Detention Law Clerk Transgender Law Center works to change law, policy, and attitudes so that all people can live safely, authentically, and free from discrimination regardless of their gender identity or expression. Through a Soros Justice Fellowship, Olga Tomchin has started an Immigration Detention project at Transgender Law Center to challenge the inhumane treatment of indigent transgender people in immigration detention and improve their access to quality deportation defense representation. A clerkship with the Immigration Detention project at Transgender Law Center will provide selected law students with a unique opportunity to gain a first-hand education in the intersection of transgender law, immigrants’ rights, and anti-incarceration work. Clerks will receive close training and supervision by Transgender Law Center attorneys. Transgender Law Center Seeking Fall 2014 Legal Intern Transgender Law Center works to change law, policy, and attitudes so that all people can live safely, authentically, and free from discrimination regardless of their gender identity or expression. Transgender Law Center provides legal assistance and information to more than 2,200 transgender people and their families each year, and also engages in selective high-impact litigation to advance transgender rights, such as the recent groundbreaking EEOC decision in our case Macy v. Holder. A clerkship with Transgender Law Center will provide selected law students with a unique opportunity to gain a first-hand education in transgender law through providing direct legal assistance to transgender community members and their families, assisting with litigation, conducting legal research and writing, and participating in creating new legal publications. Prior experience or knowledge of transgender law is preferred, but not required. Clerks will receive regular training and supervision by Transgender Law Center attorneys. Attention Post Grads! Columbia Legal Services Seeking Adjunct Attorney in Its Children & Youth Project in Olympia, 2+ Years Experience Required For many years, Columbia Legal Services has represented some of the most marginalized people in our community. We use every legal tool available on their behalf. Our role to serve people and use advocacy that might otherwise not be available makes our work an integral part of the Washington Alliance for Equal Justice. As a proud member of the Alliance, our vision of justice is when people have the necessary tools and opportunity to achieve social and economic justice, a more equitable and inclusive society is possible. Every day, our legal teams engage in advocacy intended to make a lasting difference so that all people can be meaningful members of their communities. Through large-scale litigation, policy reform, and innovative partnerships, our lawyers and staff work in furtherance of our mission. We share a deep commitment to serve and advocate alongside our clients as we seek justice together. Columbia Legal Services seeks an attorney with experience in child welfare, education, or juvenile justice cases. The position is full-time and will be based in our Olympia office. Applicant must be willing to travel to the Seattle office throughout the year. This is an adjunct, twelve-month position, with possible extension depending on funding. Job responsibilities include policy advocacy in the legislative and administrative forums, and litigation. Applicant must be a member of the Washington State Bar. Upcoming Events on the Law, Race, Human Rights and Justice May 28: Webinar: CCR, CRR & USHRN Present “Defending the Defenders” 2:00 – 3:00 PM EST The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR), in collaboration with the US Human Rights Network (USHRN) are hosting a webinar this coming Wednesday, May 28th at 2 pm EST on human rights defenders in the United States. Please join us to learn about how we can use the human rights framework to protect ourselves and our work, hear from others who have successfully engaged in human rights defenders advocacy, and to get details on how you can join a new USHRN human rights defenders member-initiated action team! Ejim Dike, Executive Director of the U.S. Human Rights Network Sunita Patel, Staff Attorney at Center for Constitutional Rights Karla Torres, Human Rights Fellow at Center for Reproductive Rights Ahmad Abuznaid, Legal and Policy Director at Dream Defenders Reena Shah, Director of Human Rights Project at Maryland Legal Aid May 29: Senator Elizabeth Warren Reading of A Fighting Chance: Elizabeth Warren by Henry Holt University Temple United Methodist Church Chapel, 1415 NE 43rd Street In her first year as senior senator of Massachusetts, Senator Elizabeth Warren has become a liberal political hero and a lively, say-it-like-it-is star of what might otherwise be a dull Senate floor. This spring, you can hear Warren speak yourself as she presents her new memoir about her journey from small-town Oklahoma to the political chambers of Washington, D.C. that is as passionate, funny and rabble rousing as Warren herself. Join us for an evening with the Senator, and if rumors turn out to be true, you might even be able to say you met a future presidential frontrunner. Tickets are $32.76 and available from Brown Paper Tickets. Each ticket admits one person and includes a copy of A Fighting Chance. May 29: Tele-Conference – Combating Violence Against Women: What’s Working? 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EDT By Teleconference Only A FREE non-CLE teleconference proudly presented by ABA Section of International Law International Human Rights Committee; Asia/Pacific Committee; India Committee; NGO & Not-For-Profit Organizations Committee; Women’s Interest Network (WIN) and IMPOWR Recent horrific and highly publicized attacks against women, international advocacy to combat sex trafficking, and efforts to pass I-VAWA and other legislation have heightened awareness about the global epidemic of violence against women. Less well-know are the various innovative and practical strategies and approaches around the globe that have significantly increased prosecutions and convictions of offenders, empowered women to vindicate their right to be free from violence, and otherwise improved the safety and security of women. This teleconference will highlight best practices throughout the world to combat violence against women, including: mobile courts to enhance access to justice for victims in rural areas; coordinated response centers for victims of sexual violence; and, specialized units training of judges, police officers, prosecutors and local leaders/elders to educate them about gender violence and to ensure effective and timely investigations, prosecutions and convictions. Speakers will include representatives from advocacy groups operating in various regions of the world and judges/law enforcement personnel involved in developing/implementing these approaches. Elizabeth Brundige, Executive Director, Avon Global Center for Women and Justice at Cornell Law School Justice Elena Highton de Nolasco, Vice President of the Supreme Court of Argentina and founder of the Supreme Court’s Domestic Violence Office Maimbo Ziela,National Coordinator of WLSA-Zambia Smriti Minocha, Senior Program Officer, Human Rights Law Network, New Delhi, India Please RSVP to Jonathan Lewis at jonathan.lewis@americanbar.org. Email questions to: inthumrights@gmail.com or tweet us @ABAIHRC or use the hashtag #ABAIHRC. June 9: Discussion on Perceptions of Justice Registration opens at 8:30 AM OB2 Auditorium DSHS, 1115 Washington Street SE, Olympia, WA Sponsored by: The Washington State Minority and Justice Commission Prosecutors, police representatives, judges, defense counsel, and representatives of community organizations will be present for this discussion. There will be an opportunity to ask questions during the presentations and for informal conversations during the lunch hour. Don Stemen, Measures for Justice Mark Peffley, John, Hurwitz, and Jeffrey Mondak, Researchers No Cost to Register ~ Lunch provided. Advance registration is recommended. Register by emailing: cynthia.delostrinos@courts.wa.gov with “Perceptions of Justice” in the subject line. 3 general CLE credits approved. June 20: Save the Date for Negotiating Justice: Advancing Racial Equity and Client Goals Gates Hall, RM 138 One of the most challenging skills that an attorney can conquer is learning to humanize their client and translating that practice into a successful negotiation of their client’s case. This CLE will focus on how to improve your awareness of the obstacles that our clients face in their lives. You will learn how to negotiate your cases in a way that uses this understanding. John A. Powell, Berkeley Law, an internationally recognized expert in civil rights, civil liberties and structural racism, ethnicity, housing, poverty and democracy. Judge Robert S. Lasnik , U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, who recently decided the landmark Wilber v. Mount Vernon case concerning meaningful representation of indigent clients. Sponsored by the University of Washington Law School, the Washington Defender Association, Columbia Legal Services, ACLU-WA, Northwest Justice Project, TeamChild and Center for Children & Youth Justice. CLE credits pending. This program is free nad open to WDA members, civil legal service attorneys, attorneys in private practice who handle pro bono cases and law students. Advance registration is required. Please email wda@defensenet.org or fax (206) 623-5420 with the following information: -Name ______________ -Bar Number ______________ -Are You a WDA Member? Yes ______ No _______ -I may want to join WDA – please send info. ______ -Email: ______________________ -Employer/Organization: ____________________ -Phone: _________________________________ Are You Interning for a Public Service Org This Summer? Come Attend This Training Orientation 2014 Alliance for Equal Justice Summer Intern Orientation, 6/23 Date & Time: Monday, June 23, 2014, 8:30am – 3:30pm Location: WSBA Conference Center (1501 4th Avenue, Seattle), Gonzaga University School of Law (721 N Cincinnati St, Spokane) Registration Process: Fill out application Registration Deadline: Friday, June 6, 2014 Contact: Jennifer Werdell, werdellj@seattleu.edu Are you a law student who is interning or externing for an Alliance for Equal Justice or other Washington State civil legal organization this summer? Join this annual orientation to learn more about the Alliance for Equal Justice, develop client skills that will enhance your summer experience, and connect to dozens of other law students and practicing attorneys. Space is Limited! Register by Friday, June 6, 2014. Click here to register. Can’t attend in person? Come in person to take advantage of small group and networking activities, or watch live via webcast if you can’t make it. Indicate your preferred location/method of attendance at registration. Please contact Jennifer Werdell, werdellj@seattleu.edu. Sponsored by the Washington Access to Justice Board’s Leadership Development Committee and the Washington State Bar Association. Planning to Have a Career in Public Service? Don’t Forget to Apply for LRAP! Need Help Paying Off Student Loans? UW LRAP Applications Now Available for UW Law Grads in Public Service in WA State The Loan Repayment Assistance Program constitutes a core component of the UW School of Law’s commitment to public service by increasing the ability of its graduates to enter public service law. The School awards $5000 to approximately three new applicants per year and will commit to awarding an additional $5000 a year for two more years for a total commitment of $15,000 per participant. Applicants must be UW Law grads in full time public service legal employment in Washington State. For complete information on the program and to download application materials please visit here. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis through June 3. Questions about LRAP? Email Aline Carton-Listfjeld. International Criminal Court Prosecutor to Examine Alleged British Crimes in Iraq War By: Mirjam Donath, Reuters The International Criminal Court re-opened on Tuesday a preliminary examination of allegations of “systematic detainee abuse” by British troops in Iraq between 2003 and 2008 after receiving new information. The Hague-based court had previously concluded an examination of similar accusations in 2006, but it did not launch a full investigation because the information did not meet the “required gravity threshold.” “I received earlier this year substantial information, much more than what we had in 2006, on alleged crimes that were committed by the UK forces,” ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda told reporters at the United Nations after she had briefed the U.N. Security Council on the court’s cases in Libya. In January, a Berlin-based human rights group and a British law firm submitted what they describe as 250 pages of analysis to Bensouda’s office. They said more than 400 Iraqi former detainees had made allegations of grave mistreatment, of which 85 had been chosen as “representative cases. Bensouda’s office said in a statement earlier on Tuesday: “The communication alleges a higher number of cases of ill-treatment of detainees and provides further details on the factual circumstances and the geographical and temporal scope of the alleged crimes.” Sexual Violence Soars in South Sudan By: IRIN JUBA, 13 May 2014 (IRIN) – Sexual and gender-based violence might not be a new phenomenon in South Sudan, but the current crisis and the near absence of protection for civilians has exacerbated it, analysts say. “We do know that it [sexual and gender-based violence] is a major issue. Even though many victims of sexual violence do not report their ordeal because of the stigma that it carries, wherever we went we met women and girls who told us that they had been raped by either government or opposition forces,” Donatella Rovera, senior crisis response adviser at Amnesty International, told IRIN. On 8 May, Amnesty International released a report in which it documented atrocities committed against civilians, including rape and sexual violence, by the two warring parties in South Sudan’s five-month old conflict. “The current militarized environment, where armed men are ubiquitous and civilian law enforcement is virtually absent, places women and girls at a heightened risk of sexual violence. Persistent reports of sexual violence perpetrated by both government and opposition forces strongly indicate that conflict-related sexual violence is widespread,” Amnesty International said in its report. “We received testimonies from women and girls victims of sexual violence from all the main conflict-affected areas: Juba and areas in Unity, Jonglei and Upper Nile states,” Amnesty International’s Rovera, told IRIN. In its report, also released on 8 May, the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) noted that the “conflict has exacerbated the vulnerability of women and children in South Sudan to sexual violence.” In the report, UNMISS said: “All parties to the conflict have committed acts of rape and other forms of sexual violence against women of different ethnic groups. Credible information suggests that sexual violence took place in connection with the occurrence of human rights and humanitarian law violations before, during, and after heavy fighting, shelling, looting, and house searches.” Continued reading here. Photo courtesy of Hannah McNeish/IRIN. Are you a member of the LGBTQ Community or an Ally? Apply for the QLaw Foundation Fall Grant Program and Receive up to $5,000! Do you have a full-time fall internship that focuses on promoting the rights of LGBT persons or persons living with HIV/AIDS? Will you be working with a non-profit organization or government agency? If so, you may be eligible for up to a $5000 grant to fund full-time work (at least 400 hours over the duration of the quarter/semester). The goal of the QLaw Foundation grant program is to ensure that unmet legal needs in the LGBT community are recognized and prioritized, and that the next generation of legal advocates for LGBT rights develop the skills necessary for careers in public interest law. Applicants should have a demonstrated commitment to advancing LGBT rights and/or the rights of persons living with HIV/AIDS and be a Washington State law student, a student working on projects within Washington State, or a student who has a demonstrated interest in working in Washington State after law school. All students working on behalf of LGBT rights or persons living with HIV/AIDS—including allies who do not personally identify as LGBT—are encouraged to apply. For more information on applicant and sponsor eligibility criteria, selection criteria, and the application process timeline, please visit the QLaw Foundation website and view the 2014 Fall Grant Application. You may also email the Grant Coordinator, Gabe Verdugo. Equal Justice Works’ Veterans Legal Corps Postgraduate Fellowship Positions to be Announced Soon In addition to the Employment Opportunity Legal Corps positions, we will be announcing, on a rolling basis, several possible new positions for the 2014 Veterans Legal Corps for recent graduates. Please check our website from June to August as all positions are posted, and please share with your recent alumni. Completed applications are due by Friday, June 20, 2014. Final selection of grant recipient(s) will take place by June 30, 2014. Positions & Fellowships in Human Rights, Clean Energy, and Civil Legal Assistance Cohen Milstein Seeking Human Rights Attorney Cohen Milstein is one of the country’s premier law firms for complex civil ligation on behalf of plaintiffs. With approximately 80 attorneys and four offices, we specialize in groundbreaking and high-stakes litigation concerning antitrust, civil rights, consumer protection, employee benefits, international human rights, securities, and matters representing state attorneys general in civil law enforcement investigations. Cohen Milstein’s Washington, DC office seeks a junior-level attorney, with one to four years of litigation experience, to work with our Human Rights Practice Group. The Human Rights Group represents victims of human trafficking, forced labor, torture and other abuses in civil suits in U.S. courts. Candidates must possess excellent writing and analytical skills and strong academic credentials. Foreign language skills and experience in international human rights or working with victims of human trafficking are a plus. Snohomish County Prosecutor Seeking Experienced Attorney in Civil Division (Land Use, Environmental, Municipal, and Real Estate), Due 6/2 The Civil Division of the Snohomish County Prosecuting Attorney’s office seeks an attorney with a minimum of 4 years of experience representing and advising clients on land use and environmental law, municipal law, or real estate issues. The current opening is in the Land Use and Environmental Law Unit of the office. This unit provides comprehensive legal services to county officials and agencies on a broad variety of legal matters with a focus on land use and environmental law matters (excluding labor, employment, and tort claims). Duties include conducting legal research, providing oral and written legal advice, drafting contracts and other legal instruments, developing legislation, and representing Snohomish County and its officials in litigation before courts and administrative tribunals. Applicants should have a strong interest in public sector law; excellent research, analysis, and communication skills; and experience in computer-aided research and word processing. The ability to work with other attorneys, support staff, elected officials, and county personnel is essential. Membership in the Washington State Bar Association is required upon hiring. In accordance with state law, deputy prosecuting attorneys must be United States citizens. The salary depends on qualifications. The position includes a generous benefits and leave package. Snohomish County is an equal opportunity employer. To apply, please submit a letter of interest, resume, writing sample and references to: Jason Cummings, Chief Civil Deputy, Snohomish County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, Civil Division, 3000 Rockefeller, M/S 504, Everett, WA 98201. The deadline for submittals is June 2, 2014. Open Society Foundations’ US Programs/National Security & Human Rights Campaign Seeking Program Officer, Due 6/6 The Open Society Foundations work to build vibrant and tolerant societies whose governments are accountable and open to the participation of all people. The National Security and Human Rights Campaign promotes respect for human rights and civil liberties, open society values, and the rule of law in U.S. national security policy with a focus on counterterrorism measures and their domestic and international consequences for open society. The Program Officer will work as part of a team, based in New York, to advance the Campaign’s overall goals. In an exceptional case placement in Washington, DC may be considered. The Program Officer’s primary responsibility will be to oversee strategy development and grantmaking relating to the Campaign’s goals, under the direction of the Campaign Manager. The Program Officer shares responsibility for building connections between this work and the other priorities of U.S. Programs and OSF’s work internationally. Click here for a full job description and application instructions. Legal Services Corporation Seeking Graduate Fellow in Legal Affairs, Paid Position Established by Congress in 1974, the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) is the country’s single largest funder of civil legal aid for low-income Americans. LSC currently funds 134 independent, non-profit legal aid organizations with more than 800 offices throughout the nation. LSC’s mission is to promote equal access to justice and provide grants for high-quality civil legal assistance. The Office of Legal Affairs (OLA) serves as in-house counsel to the Corporation. The Office carries out traditional “lawyer” functions, including negotiating, drafting and reviewing legal instruments such as contracts, settlement agreements, releases, applications for funding, and grant documents, and representing the Corporation’s interests in litigation, directly or through retention and management of outside counsel. Graduate Fellows perform a broad variety of work including legal research and writing on a myriad of topics such as interpretation of federal statutes and regulations regarding appropriations, federal grants and oversight of federally-funded legal services, non-profit corporation legal issues, and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) issues; assistance with LSC’s rulemaking; drafting and review of contracts; drafting of internal policies; and assistance in litigation matters. Clean Coalition Seeking Legal Fellow in Clean Energy for 2014-2015 in San Francisco, CA The Clean Coalition (www.Clean-Coalition.org) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to accelerate the transition to renewable energy and a modern grid. Help accelerate the transition to renewable energy and a modern grid! The Clean Coalition is looking for a full-time, paid legal fellow to make a one-year commitment (Summer 2014 – Spring 2015) to assist with the following tasks: Research, draft, edit, fact check, proofread, and file comments, testimony, motions, and other documents with public utilities commissions and other energy agencies in California and other states. Develop proposals for local renewable energy programs and policies. Participate in workshops, hearings, and energy policy events.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19505
__label__wiki	0.55131	0.55131	Let’s Get Moving! Back Commentary Sep 20, 2018 By Winnie Comstock-Carlson Growing up, we take our bodies for granted. Many of us expect that we’ll always be able to move with ease, or challenge our bodies with minimal punishment. But as age sets in or circumstances change, our bodies are quick to remind us — things won’t always work like they used to. Exercise can help us maximize life’s potential. My days wouldn’t be complete without a daily weight lifting regime called Happy Body and weekly racquetball games. My parents raised me to be active mentally and physically. My dad was an avid outdoorsman who traversed Northern California through his surveying company, and climbed just about every mountain, knoll and gorge in the northern state. I believe that exercise at every age improves your life. Regular high-intensity exercise can even combat symptoms of aging, as it does for patients with Parkinson’s disease, including those highlighted in this month’s issue (“Move Your Body” by Russell Nichols, page 56). The participants in the Rock Steady boxing program have PD and are fighting — quite literally — for the quality of their lives. The classes work parts of their bodies that are slowly being debilitated by Parkinson’s. PD affects nearly one million people in the U.S. with 60,000 new cases reported each year. It is the second most common degenerative disease after Alzheimer’s. In its early stages, Parkinson’s causes tremors as nerves begin to degenerate. Ultimately, loss of motor skills can cause stiffness in joints and limbs. The disease can affect the brain, as well. Related: New approaches to physical therapy take a swing at Parkinson’s disease I lost my dad to the disease, after he suffered for 11 years. It was heart-wrenching to watch PD ravage his body, and we couldn’t help but wonder what had caused it. Family lore attributes my father’s disease to his use of turpentine to treat mange he contracted from our hunting dogs. I’m sure we aren’t the only family unable to help themselves from grasping for answers. Fortunately, we know significantly more about Parkinson’s than we did when my dad was suffering, but there is still much that remains unknown. California is taking steps to learn more about how the disease progresses and which groups of people are most susceptible to it. Since last July, new cases of Parkinson’s have been recorded in a statewide registry. From those cases, some patients will be chosen for long-term studies beginning in March 2019. The Rock Steady Boxing program was designed specifically to combat symptoms, and improve mental alertness and coordination. Footwork also helps improve balance. The University of Cincinnati researched the benefits of exercise for Parkinson’s, and found patients who start exercising earlier slow the decline caused by the disease and those who stay with an exercise program do better over the long term. The symptoms of Parkinson’s develop slowly over years, giving patients the opportunity to live a fulfilling life while managing the disease. To convey that message, actor Alan Alda recently announced that he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s — three years ago. He said he made his diagnosis public to combat the stigma associated with the disease that patients can’t lead full lives. In those three years, he started a podcast, acted, has given speeches and created a university program to communicate the sciences. There is a lesson here for all of us: Living an active lifestyle is always a good strategy, even if what constitutes an active lifestyle changes over time or with circumstance. Taking charge of our physical health is critical. Just take a look at the executives profiled in this month’s cover story (“The Way We Work” by Jeff Wilser): Whether it’s Laurie Harting of Dignity Health stretching at her standing desk or Taro Arai of Mikuni Restaurant Group and his morning rounds of golf, these executives understand the value of physical health — even in the midst of the daily grind. From young professionals to leaders in the C-suite, I hear all the time how difficult it is to make time for exercise, and I understand the struggle. But start with a small commitment — a 20-minute power walk before breakfast, let’s say — and go from there. Your body will thank you, and you might be surprised at how natural it becomes to set aside time to care for yourself. Please type the numbers into the box below: * 64852 » Winnie Comstock-Carlson	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line19506

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