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__label__cc	0.65173	0.34827	SARAH PACKIAM Exciting things are happening for Sarah in the new year! Most exciting is the upcoming premiere of HBO's A Tiny Audience, a show where Latin superstars are interviewed before a small and exclusive audience. Sarah, along with two other musicians, has the privilege of hosting this groundbreaking and intimate new series! Watch as your favorite artists, like Columbian heartthrobs Juanes and Sebastian Yatra, reveal their innermost thoughts behind their music, inspirations, and personal journeys, followed by a performance of their fan favorite songs. A preview, released December 7th 2019, can be seen on HBO Latino and all HBO streaming platforms. The official premiere will drop in February of 2020. For more exciting updates, don't forget to subscribe below to Sarah's newsletter, and follow her on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Join our mailing list for the latest news. © 2020 - Sarah Packiam LOVE YOURSELF 2:20	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1089
__label__cc	0.634157	0.365843	Enchant Energy, City of Farmington Name Partners for San Juan Carbon Capture Project The Albuquerque Journal announces Sargent & Lundy, Kiewit, and MHIA sign MOU to support the San Juan Generating Station Retrofit Project December 19, 2019 – Enchant Energy and the City of Farmington, New Mexico, selected Sargent & Lundy in partnership with Kiewit Power Constructors Co. (Kiewit) as the integrated engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractor for its estimated $1.3 billion project. The project will enable the retrofit of the coal-fired San Juan Generating Station (SJGS) with carbon capture technology. The Albuquerque Journal featured Enchant Energy and the City of Farmington’s MOU announcement in a December 10 article. Enchant Energy signed the memorandums of understanding (MOU) with Sargent & Lundy, Kiewit, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America (MHIA) to design, engineer, and construct the project. Sargent & Lundy and Kiewit will collaborate as the EPC contractor, and MHIA will supply the carbon capture technology. This is a major milestone toward Enchant Energy reaching its long-term goal of extending the life cycle and usefulness of SJGS well into the future by installing carbon capture and sequestration technology. A principal reason Enchant Energy selected the three organizations to tackle this endeavor was their demonstrated success collaborating on the Petra Nova carbon capture project at the W.A. Parish Station in Texas. The Petra Nova project was the first of its kind in the United States and recognized as the world’s largest commercial post-combustion at a power plant, earning POWER magazine’s prestigious “Plant of the Year” award in 2017. Applying the lessons learned from the groundbreaking Petra Nova work will translate to significant technological advancement and cost-saving measures for SJGS. Sargent & Lundy will continue to build on its industry-leading position in the realm of carbon capture through continued involvement in the plans to retrofit the SJGS. Earlier this year, Sargent & Lundy completed a pre-feasibility study for the SJGS carbon capture project and is now starting an expanded and in-depth front-end-engineering and design (FEED) study, which will drive major decisions. Coal, Oil & Gas services at Sargent & Lundy Environmental services at Sargent & Lundy Petra Nova Carbon Capture Project Wins ENR ‘Best Projects’ and ‘Excellence in Safety’ Awards of Merit	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1092
__label__cc	0.504417	0.495583	Cover Woman Business Woman Spotlight Guy to Know Mommy Matters Emma Faye Rudkin by Dawn Robinette \| Jan 9, 2019 \| Jan/Feb 19, Role Model \| 0 comments When Emma Faye Rudkin was a teenager, she dreamed about changing the world. Those dreams roared to life when Rudkin founded the nonprofit organization Aid the Silent, becoming CEO of an effort that is now internationally known — and she started it all when she was just 18. Aid the Silent works to help economically-disadvantaged deaf children and teens reach their full potential and live life more richly. The organization provides funds to help them receive hearing and speech resources, including hearing aids, FM systems and speech therapy, American Sign Language lessons, ministry-related activities and education enrichment programs. “We help children from infants through high school graduates, meeting a need that is completely overlooked,” explains Rudkin, who herself has been profoundly deaf since she was three. The seed for Aid the Silent grew from a story her father shared while dealing with a family law case involving a little boy who desperately needed hearing aids and was stuck in the foster system. “My heart just broke. It was the first time I knew there is this whole other world that has never been given the resources they need. My life looks very different because I was given those resources. Just because I was born in another family, on a different side of town, my life looks very different. So that dream started growing inside of me.” Rudkin, 22, founded Aid the Silent and started her college career at the same time, juggling her dual roles as CEO and full-time college student while also serving as the first deaf Miss San Antonio. She is also the first to hold the title of Miss San Antonio more than once, wearing the crown in both 2015 and 2017. Add in a busy speaking schedule that often means she’s living out of a suitcase, and it’s no wonder she laughs when asked how she handles it all. “It means you won’t get any sleep, but it is possible to do it,” she says with a smile. Part of her secret is not putting pressure on herself. “I would only dedicate a certain amount of time for school. The rest of it was for other people.” That’s how Rudkin views the world: how can she give back? It’s also part of what she encourages through Aid the Silent. “I think people who have different needs are never taught to be givers. But it’s nice to teach them that once you receive, you give back. The kids that we have invested in are now investing in other deaf kids. Now they can help love their fellow deaf students.” That sort of connection is key to what fuels Aid the Silent: breaking down barriers and creating understanding of the deaf community. “People think that being deaf is an impairment, that something is wrong. Deaf people can do anything that a hearing person can except hear. The hearing world is the one putting the limitations on someone who is deaf,” she explains. “Someone who is deaf is just longing for the chance to show who they are.” To help break down those barriers, Aid the Silent gives sign language lessons to whole families, not just deaf children. Ninety percent of deaf children are born to hearing parents. “Children will learn sign language in school, but their parents will not learn, or they speak Spanish, so there’s even another level of separation, creating barriers in their relationship,” explains Rudkin. “When we offer sign language, the whole family attends so they’re all able to communicate.” That lack of communication creates a feeling of isolation for the deaf. “As a deaf kid, I was constantly feeling like I wasn’t included in conversations and being on the outskirts of life, just not knowing how to belong. Even just going to school was such a struggle to understand and comprehend,” explains Rudkin. Anxiety and depression are prevalent in the deaf community. The bubbly, outgoing, confident young woman shares her own issues to help others. “I have depression and anxiety because of the struggles I’ve had as a deaf child. I’m still healing them,” she explains, noting that another of her dreams for Aid the Silent is to fund therapy for the deaf. Rudkin’s dreams seem endless, and she encourages others to follow theirs. “Don’t settle for the second dream. Work for your first dream. A lot of times we start listening to other voices, telling ourselves that we can’t. “Don’t settle for what comes first or is most convenient. There’s a reason you had the first dream. That is supposed to be your purpose. It makes us most alive.” She credits her habit of how she speaks with people for how she connects with people. “I never say ‘you’, I say ‘we.’ I’m using language that shows that we’re in this together, we need to do this, not ‘You need to do this.’ We are always as a whole pushing to become better people,” she notes. “Becoming an inviter is a habit. Instead of constantly saying, ‘Let’s meet somewhere,’ say ‘Here’s what’s happening. I want you to be a part of my life’.” While she’s mastered juggling her various commitments, she credits a friend for teaching her to say her “best yes” to help manage things. “Instead of just saying yes to everything, I save my yes for a few really good things so I don’t burn out.” Rudkin recently added another line to her impressive resume: college graduate. She notes that unfortunately, it’s something that only 5 percent of the deaf community accomplishes. “Only 45 percent of the deaf community graduate high school. Sign language is symbols, not words. The average reading level is third or fourth grade. We can change that,” she says with a steely determination. With her knowledge and drive, it’s easy to understand why she was appointed by Governor Greg Abbott to serve on the Texas Governor’s Committee on People with Disabilities. “My mother taught me how to advocate for myself, which has turned into advocating for other people now. She was my voice and she’s taught me how to be the voice for others. Love your neighbors and love people like you love yourself. It isn’t as complicated as we try to make it. Joy is loving other people. Joy is helping other people.” That’s a message that everyone needs to hear. By Dawn Robinette Photography by David Teran READ MORE FROM THE CURRENT ISSUE sanantoniowoman #mondaymotivation from Martin Luther King Jr. as w Gloomy days are perfect for coffee and a good book Meet our first #WomanWednesday of the year, Meliss Just a little #mondaymotivation to start your week Anyone else on a juice cleanse...?🥂😜 #sunday San Antonio Woman 8603 Botts Ln. San Antonio Private Schools San Antonio Moms San Antonio Seniors San Antonio Doctors San Antonio Lawyers Cover Profile © 2019 SanAntonioWoman.com \| Site Managed by	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1094
__label__wiki	0.834756	0.834756	Charter Day Speakers From Special Collections Research Center Wiki Revision as of 20:14, 11 March 2009 by Acschi (talk \| contribs) (→‎1950) 3 21st Century 1859 John Tyler – former U.S. President, Rector of the Board of Visitors 1893 J. Allen Watts 1893 Robert M. Hughes 1923 Albert Bushnell Hart – former President of American Historical Association and former President of the American Political Science Association 1939 George Arents – former chairman of the Syracus University Board of Trustees 1940 Charles Warren – Former Assistant Attorney General of the United States, and Pulitzer Prize winning author 1941 Max Lerner – Author and syndicated columnist 1942 James T. Shotwell - Bryce Professor of the History of International Relations at Columbia University 1943 Oliver C. Carmichael – Chancellor of Vanderbilt University 1944 Lindsay Rogers – Burgess Professor of Public Law, Columbia University 1945 Kenneth Chorley – President of Williamsburg Restoration and Colonial Williamsburg 1946 James William Fulbright – U.S. Senator (Arkansas) 1947 The Right Honorable the Lord Inverchapel – British Ambassador to the U.S. 1948 Paul Eliot Green – Playwright 1949 Frederick D.G. Ribble – Dean, Department of Law, The University of Virginia 1950 Ceremony cancelled by President Pomfret 1951 John A. Krout – Dean of Graduate Studies, Columbia University 1952 Raymond B. Pinchbeck – Professor of Applied Economics and Dean of Richmond College, The University of Richmond 1953 Douglas S. Freeman – Journalish and Historian 1954 John A. Krout – Vice-President and provost, Columbia University 1955 Bolitha J. Laws – Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia 1956 Lewis A. McMurran – Member of the House of Delegates, The General Assembly of Virginia 1957 Julian P. Boyd – Princeton University, Editor, “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson” 1958 Harold Lees Fowler, - Professor of History, College of William and Mary 1959 Graves Glenwood Clark – Chancellor Professor of English, 1960 Walter Spencer Robertson – Former Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs 1961 Carlisle H. Humelsine – President, Colonial Williamsburg 1962 Dr. Harold L. Fowler – Chairman, Department of History College of William and Mary 1963 Julian Parks Boyd – Editor, “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson” 1964 Julius Adams Stratton – President, M.I.T. 1965 Lewis F. Powell, Jr. – President, American Bar Association 1966 Marjorie Hope Nicolson – Professor of English, Emeritus, Columbia University, and Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton 1967 John Walker – Director, National Gallery of Art 1968 Sir Patrick Henry Dean – Her Britannic Majesty’s Ambassador to the U.S. The Right Reverand and Right Honorable Robert Wright Stopford, Bishop of London 1969 Robert Quarles Marston – Director, National Institutes of Health 1970 Arthur Lehman Goodhart – University College, Oxford 1971 Davis Y. Paschall – President of the College of William and Mary 1972 Thomas Ashley Graves, Jr. – President of the College of William and Mary 1973 Colgate W. Darden, Jr. – Former Congressman, Former Governor of Virginia, Former Chancellor of College of William and Mary 1974 Edgar F. Shannon, Jr. – President of the University of Virginia 1975 Virginius Dabney - historian, author, journalist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing 1976 Sir Peter Ramsbotham, British Ambassador to the U.S. 1977 Carter O. Lowance, Special Assistant to Virginia Governor 1977 Mills E. Godwin, Jr., Former Virginia Commissioner of Administration 1978 Ernest L. Boyer – U.S. Commissioner of Education 1979 Lewis F. Powell, Jr. – Associate Justice of the Supreme Court 1980 Reverend Theodore M. Hesburg – President of the University of Notre Dame 1981 John W. Warner, U.S. Senator (Virginia) 1982 Hays T. Watkins – President, CSX Corporation 1983 Charles S. Robb – Governor of Virginia 1984 J. Carter Brown – Director The National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. 1985 Donald W. Pritchard – Professor, Marine Sciences Research Center State University of New York, Stony Brook 1986 Clark Kerr – President Emeritus, The University of California 1987 Warren E. Burger – Chancellor of the College of William and Mary, former Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1987 Gerald L. Baliles – Governor of Virginia 1988 Robert Wedgeworth - Dean of the School of Library Service, Columbia University 1989 The Right Honorable. The Lord Mackay of Clashfern – The Lord Chancellor or the House of Lords 1990 Eric Sevareid – CBS News Consultant 1991 Fang Lizhi – Professor of Astrophysics and Former Vice Chancellor of China Science and Technology University 1992 D. Allan Bromley – Assistant to the President of the U.S. for Science and Technology 1993 His Royal Highness The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales 1994 Margaret, The Lady Thatcher – Former Prime Minister of Great Britain, Chancellor of the College of William and Mary 1995 David S. Broder – National political correspondent and columnist for The Washington Post 1996 Pamela Churchill Harriman – U.S. Ambassador to France 1997 David McCullough – Pulitzer Prize winning author 1998 Robert M. Gates (’65) – Director of the Central Intelligence Agency 1999 Richard G. Lugar – U.S. Senator (Indiana) 2001 Henry A. Kissinger – Former Secretary of State, Chancellor of the College of William and Mary 2002 Michael K. Powell (’85) – Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission 2003 Kofi A. Annan – Secretary-General of the United Nations 2004 David D. McKiernan, Lieutenant General, Commanding General, Third U.S. Army Commander, Coalition Land Forces – Second Gulf War 2005 James H. Billington – The Librarian of Congress 2006 Timothy M. Kaine – Governor of Virginia 2007 Chuck Hagel, U.S. Senator (Nebraska) 2008 James B. Comey (1982), former Deputy Attorney General of the United States, 2003-2005; General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Lockheed Martin, 2005-present 2009 Jim Webb - U.S. Senator (Virginia) Retrieved from "https://scdbwiki.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Charter_Day_Speakers&oldid=5214"	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1095
__label__wiki	0.75541	0.75541	Please join Hawthorne Valley, Alkion Press, and Waldorf Publications on Sunday, January 26, at 3 p.m. in the Hawthorne Valley School Hall (HVS) – 330 County Route 21C, Ghent, NY 12075 – as we launch two new books: The Black Madonna and the Young Sculptor by distinguished HVS faculty member and Director of Education at Hawthorne Valley’s Alkion Center Eric G. Müller; and Star of the Sea by distinguished former HVS faculty member William Ward. Andree Ward will introduce and talk about William Ward’s young adult novel – Star of the Sea – beautifully illustrated by artist Pamela Dalton – followed by a dramatic reading. From master storyteller and longtime Waldorf teacher William Ward, Star of the Sea tells of the redemption of a boy who has been entangled in the worst of London’s city life. He escapes arrest and runs away to the coast of England, and there meets people who lead him through many experiences that transform his heart through kindness and spiritual insight. This is a wonderful adventure that describes the transformation of a young soul over time. Nature and enlightened friends rescue him from his own darkness. The book is beautifully illustrated with illuminated letters by the award-winning artist Pamela Dalton, and edited and partially written by the late teacher’s wife, Andree Ward, also a Waldorf teacher at Hawthorne Valley. Star of the Sea is designed for teenagers (7th-9th grades) who gain help and focus through good stories and admirable characters. It is also a good read-aloud book for 4th graders and up—as well for adults wishing to find a refreshing tale to ease the stress and confusion that can make us all forget the light in each soul on earth! Long before the majestic cathedral of Chartres stood on top of the granite promontory overlooking the forests of the Carnutes, the site was a sanctuary where druids congregated from all over Gaul to worship the virgin about to conceive. To this day, Chartres is home to one of the most revered Black Madonnas in the world, but its foundations reach far back into ancient Celtic culture. In Eric G. Müller’s The Black Madonna and the Young Sculptor, Celtic traditions, repressed by the conquering Romans, merge with nascent Christianity, still swaddled in its receptive innocence. It is 99 A.D., many centuries before the town of Carnotum became Chartres. Bryok, the druid, asks a young sculptor to carve the new Black Virgin, after the old one was viciously destroyed. Caradoc accepts, not realizing what perils await him. Questions arise: who is the veiled woman who leads him to the secret grotto where he is called upon to carve the new virgin? Who is trying to prevent him from completing his task, and why? And, most importantly, who is the Black Virgin and how should she be depicted. These and other questions precipitate a quest to the coastal Mont Tombe (Mont Saint Michel) to find answers from the seven hermits, and to Lutetia (Paris) in search of an abducted woman about to be sold into slavery, whose face he’s never seen, but who has found a place in his heart. The Black Madonna and the Young Sculptor is a riveting tale that touches on the mythic, while delving into arcane realms of Celtic, Roman, and Christian traditions. On a fundamental level it is a search for the Divine Feminine and the lingering mysteries around the Black Madonna. It is also, in part, a coming of age story in that it follows the spiritual, artistic, and romantic awakening of young Caradoc. This novel is meant to enchant and guide the reader along an array of rich imaginations that stimulate the mind to traverse through the earth’s fertile darkness toward the light-filled heights of the spirit. About William Ward William Ward, was a Waldorf class teacher at the Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School (HVS) in upstate New York. He was responsible for the completion of three full classes – grades one through eight. He was taken from his fourth class in their fourth grade year by illness. He left this world three years later with resounding wishes for the “children of the future” as he called them. A beloved member of the school community, he was brilliant storyteller, gifted woodworker, and fine father of his two daughters. He was a pillar of the faculty, responsible for the free religion lessons held at HVS until 2007, one of the last schools in North America to hold these important, story-based lessons for the young. A prolific writer, he has also had published Hawthorne Valley Harvest, a collection of plays for the elementary grades. About the Illustrator, Pamela Dalton Pamela Dalton is a nationally acclaimed and masterful artist and Scherenschnitte craftsperson. She is a decades-long friend of the Wards. Her work is also featured in The Sun with Loving Light, a collection of songs, verses, poems, and stories worthy of early readers. About Eric G. Müller Eric was born in Durban, South Africa, and double majored in literature and history at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He attended Emerson College in Sussex, England, where he completed the Foundation Year, with emphasis on drama and creative writing. He studied Waldorf pedagogy at the Waldorf Institute in Witten-Annen, Germany, where he specialized in music education. Together with his family he moved to Oregon, where he became a class teacher at the Eugene Waldorf School, carrying a class through the eight year cycle. During this time he also taught German and music (orchestra, chorus, and individual classes). He was a co-founder of the Eugene Waldorf Teacher Training Program. Currently he teaches English and Drama in the High School. The blocks he teaches include Eschenbach’s Parzival, Goethe’s Faust, Homer’s The Odyssey, History through Music, and Comedy and Tragedy. He is a founding member of the Alkion Center, and the director of the education department. Over the years he has served as both faculty and college (council) chair, and sat on numerous committees, such as the Teacher Development Committee, which holds a special interest for him. He has written two novels as well as a collection of poetry. His middle grade novel, “The Invisible Boat,” was named to Kirkus Review’s Best Indie Books of 2019. To learn more about Eric’s work, please visit his website [http://www.ericgmuller.com].	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1098
__label__cc	0.529312	0.470688	These Four Countries Just Formed the Vegan World Alliance. Posted on October 7, 2019 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV) These Four Countries Just Formed the Vegan World Alliance Source LiveKindly By Kat Smith Four countries have united to form the Vegan World Alliance (VWA). The group aims to promote vegan values on a global scale. The VWA consists of four activist groups: the Dutch Association for Veganism, the Vegan Society of Aotearoa New Zealand, the Vegan Society of Canada, and Vegan Australia. One of its first initiatives is a standard for food labeled suitable for vegans. The organization notes that many countries have no legal definition of what vegan food is. A uniform certification would be used by all alliance members and would provide concrete rules for manufacturers to adhere to. Why a Vegan World Alliance? The VWA envisions a world where animals are valued as individuals whose exploitation is morally wrong across the board. It believes that animals should not be used for food, clothing, entertainment, or in other areas where their bodies are commodified. The initiative would benefit more than just vegans. A growing body of research shows that the majority of people buying plant-based food aren’t vegan themselves. It’s 52 percent in the U.S., according to a survey from DuPont Nutrition and Health. Globally, that number jumps up to 65 percent. “There is a seismic shift occurring in eating habits globally, creating a significant market opportunity,” said Greg Paul, marketing leader at DuPont Nutrition and Health. “Most important, our research reveals that for most consumers, this has moved beyond experimentation into a permanent change brought on by health, lifestyle and social factors.” Health is a major motivator for consumers adopting “flexitarian” eating habits. Animal products like meat, dairy, and eggs have been linked to a number of health concerns ranging from heart disease to type-2 diabetes and inflammation. The environment is another reason why more are choosing to eat less meat. The livestock industry is responsible for 14 to 18 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). It is the leading cause of deforestation, water and air pollution, and biodiversity loss worldwide. The increased interest in vegan food is expected to drive the market to $6.5 billion by 2026, according to some estimates. The VWA’s First Four Members Research shows that interest in plant-based food is on the rise in all four countries in the alliance. Canada’s food industry is readying for change. The government updated the nation’s food guide at the start of the year, emphasizing plant-based protein as part of a healthy diet and nearly scrapping dairy entirely. Previous years recommended four servings of dairy a day, but the updated guide cut the number down to a daily pint of milk. The prairie provinces in the west — Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba — are now home to the Protein Industries Supercluster. Kicked off by the Protein Industries Canada, the supercluster is a nonprofit, industry-led organization that aims to make the country a leader in plant-based protein. Its focus will be on processing peas — the same ingredient that makes up the Beyond Burger — and improving technologies. The Canadian government has invested $153 million in the project, which was matched dollar for dollar by the private sector. Plant-based food has also gone mainstream in Australia. A report from independent research agency Roy Morgan revealed earlier this year that 2.5 million Australians (12.1 percent of the population) eat food that is all “or almost all” vegetarian. Prior studies showed that red meat is the biggest concern due to its links to an increased risk of heart disease. Another study revealed that vegan meat is on the rise in Australia. The industry currently generates $30 million in economic value each year. According to the report, it may be worth as much as $3 billion by 2030 if farmers, brands, and the government work to grow the plant-based meat market. New Zealand is changing with the global market. The country is known for its dairy industry. Dairy cow populations outnumber people living in New Zealand, with 4.8 million cows to the human population’s 4.794 million. The conversation in New Zealand is centered around the environment. A report from the Ministry of Health last August suggested that the entire health sector should adapt plant-forward menus to cut carbon emissions. Agriculture accounts for 49 percent of New Zeland’s GHGs. Both Australia and New Zealand are seeing more vegan food options in restaurants. Lord of the Fries, a vegan burger chain founded in Melbourne in 2004, now has 23 stores in Australia and four in New Zealand. Its future is looking bright; expansions into the UK and India are in the works. A recent study from market researcher IRI Netherlands found that vegan food sales increased 51 percent from 2017. Two of the country’s biggest supermarkets — Albert Heijn and Jumbo — have increased plant-based offerings. Some home-grown brands, such as Vivera and The Vegetarian Butcher, are gaining international ground due to increased demand. Bolscher, a leading meat brand in the Netherlands, recently acknowledged that it “can’t see a future” in selling meat alone, so it’s launching a plant-based range. The Dutch Parliament introduced legislation that requires the country to drastically reduce GHGs by 2050. The environmental council suggested a reduction in livestock herds and the encouragement of plant-based protein. The newly formed VWA will first focus on building the framework necessary to bring its vision to life. Other efforts include sharing research, resources, and outreach programs, running joint campaigns, and facilitating cooperation between vegan organizations. Have questions? Click HERE Sent by Stacey at: https://our-compass.org/2019/10/07/these-four-countries-just-formed-the-vegan-world-alliance/ « Germany: 6000 deaths during animal transport accident UK Set toOutlaw Import of Hunting Trophies. » Spain: The “Greyhound” Holocaust Early exercises who wants to become a murderer We Have All Seen The Utmost Suffering Of Dogs At Yulin - Now The Pathetic FCI Allows China To Hold The World Dog Show In 2019 !!! - Petition Link Included.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1105
__label__wiki	0.512038	0.512038	SPBH Book Club Vol V by Esther Teichmann - Special Edition In Volume V of SPBH Book Club, Esther Teichmann presents a rarefied and ambiguous exploration of female pleasure. Backdrops and shells, sculptures and the sea, the imagined and the painted, the real and the staged - it all appears in Teichmann's chimerical paradise. By referencing classical representations of women in the history of art, most often in the hands of and for the consumption of men, Teichmann reclaims the traditional pictorialism of femininity in a subversive and provocative manner. All of the complex forms of womanhood and yearning emerge - the lover, the mother, self pleasure, sensuous pleasure and the women appear as characters, specters and statues as flesh turns to stone and back again. With a layered mix of photographs - some of which are collaged on the book pages - and an original, handprinted cyanotype on the front cover, the book is an object of tactility and longing. The Special Edition comes with a print which is hand-painted and collaged by the artist. Each 19 x 15 cm print signed and editioned is therefore unique. There are two varieties of print available; Statue and Waterfall (while stocks last). Esther Teichmann (b. 1980) is a German–American artist based in London. She is senior lecturer at the London College of Communication and visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art. Teichmann has published and shown her work internationally. In the last year, she participated in group exhibitions at the Houston Centre of Photography and the Dong Gang Museum of Photography in South Korea. The release of SPBH Book Club Volume V coincides with Teichmann’s solo show at Flowers Gallery in London. Back to Out Of Print	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1106
__label__wiki	0.608915	0.608915	Undead Media instagram Shakespeare And Punk GIRLisms Fandom Love Letters Pocket Full of Poesy Submissions (Closed) Vulnerability For Justice April 22, 2018 April 22, 2018 by KJ Gormley Sarah McBride’s Tomorrow Will Be Different and 6 Other Trans Memoirs You might know Sarah McBride a couple different ways. Maybe you watched the 2016 Democratic National Convention, when she was the first transgender person to address a political party at the national level. Maybe as the first transgender intern at the White House. Maybe you remember a trans woman taking a selfie in a bathroom in North Carolina after HR2 was passed in 2016 and it going viral Part memoir, part introduction to the current state and process of trans politics, McBride’s recently published Tomorrow Will Be Different reminds us that when your community and your daily life are the politicians’ first punching bags, the personal is political and the political is personal. Telling your own story is one of the most effective political organizing tools there is. A quick synopsis of McBride’s life: a politics nerd, McBride made her first forays into Delaware’s small-but-earnest political scene at a young age, working on campaigns for governors and, notably, Beau Biden, another Delaware hometown hero. She went off to the political hotbed of American University where she won the race for Student Body President (probably one of the harder universities in America to win that seat), then came out as transgender. She then: interned in the Obama White House, pretty much is responsible for the successful passage of a non-discrimination on the basis of gender identity bill in Delaware, decamped to the Center for American Progress, and now works as the National Press Secretary for the Human Rights Campaign. In the middle of all of these achievements, she fell in love with a transgender man named Andrew Cray. They were married by the Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson four days before Cray’s death from terminal cancer. To say this book is a series of ups and downs is to understate it. I did cry while reading it, several times, probably at least once a chapter. I cried about her husband’s illness and death; I cried when McBride sat in a legislative session, her humanity insulted to her face by Republican state senators with unfounded accusations about bathrooms; I cried when she was approached by trans kids after her speech to the DNC in 2016, tiny hands and voices promising that they were going to be the first transgender president, thanks Sarah. “Telling your own story is one of the most effective political organizing tools there is.” McBride isn’t afraid to spend a considerable amount of page space talking about her privilege as a white, able-bodied trans woman who grew up in relative comfort with political connections from a young age, contextualizing her privilege against the larger world of how America treats trans people and trans women in particular. She also connects the movements of working for women’s rights and LGBTQ rights and trans rights, and draws the lines of how they all weave in and around each other in terms of solidarity and creating meaningful change for all groups. There are a few themes to which McBride returns again and again in different ways. The first is that when trans people are granted the validity of their transition, it allows them the fullness of their dreams. As she says of her husband’s unfortunately shortened life: “hate had kept Andy inside himself for what turned out to be the majority of his life. None of us know how long we have, but we do have a choice in whether we love or hate. And every day that we rob people of the ability to live their lives to the fullest, we are undermining the most precious gift we are given as humans.” Another theme of her work and life is the idea that vulnerability and storytelling can engender compassion in others, seen in her efforts to get a non-discrimination bill on the basis of gender identity passed in the Delaware state house. Like many trans activists, she first ran into the “common refrains we heard from legislators, both in support and in opposition, was that they did not have any transgender people in their districts.” (p102). So one of their first and ultimately powerful methods of persuasion was introducing state legislators to trans people in their own districts, to hear their stories. “The legislators had to see that transgender people are people. They had to understand our fears. Our hopes. They had to see our families. They had to feel the humanity of the issue.” Trans people are people, too. It sounds simplistic and it is, but it’s also a fundamental point missing when people discuss the political decisions which affect trans people’s lives. The best way to prove something that no one should have to prove—the phrase “I’m a human, just like you”—is best accomplished through telling our vulnerable stories. In a sentence that reads like a Jedi mantra, McBride says, “Vulnerability is often the first step on the path toward justice. Vulnerability breeds empathy; empathy fosters support; support leads to action.” I suppose in the interest of this review I should bring my own vulnerability into this. I, too, am trans, and I suppose the most meaningful passages of the book for me, as with all memoirs written by trans people, were the ones where McBride somehow gave voice to the unformed words of my feelings about my own transition. Oddly specific moments that are common to many trans people, but one rarely sees them written down and published. I mouthed along with her feelings as a youth: “And just as I had done as a young kid, every night as a teenager I would hope and pray that I would wake up the next day as myself.” I have personally forwarded to friends the passages where she talks about the reasons for transition, mostly so I don’t have to come up with the words myself: “I hadn’t come out to create a positive, but to remove a negative and to alleviate that nearly constant pain and incompleteness. Transitioning wouldn’t inherently bring me happiness, but it had allowed me to be free to pursue every emotion: to think more clearly; to live more fully; to survive.” Memoirs by trans people are great for trans people to read and feel seen. But if you are not trans, they are equally important to read for a different reason. If vulnerability creates justice, then immersing yourself in the stories of trans people—humans just like you—is to create a world where justice for trans people can exist. Knowing trans people are people leads to acceptance, and acceptance is one of the most important steps in culture for trans people. As McBride says “While 41 percent of transgender people had attempted suicide, that number dropped by half when the transgender person was supported by their family. And it dropped even further when they were also embraced by their community.” It’s a heck of a lot easier to be embraced by your family and community when they know that you’re a person. To that end, here are some recommendations for further memoirs by trans people, across a spectrum of identities and life experiences: 1) I’m Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted by Jennifer Finney Boylan. I like this ethereal memoir by Boylan because it really shows the simultaneous emotional weight and fragility of a childhood and youth as a trans person. If you’re reading (or recommending) a starter book for a cis person to learn more about the trans experience, though, grab her more famous memoir, She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders. 2) Redefining Realness by Janet Mock. A memoir from a courageous, ambitious trans woman who is out to live her life at all costs, Mock’s memoir is also a look into the life of a trans woman who didn’t have all those privileges on her side. 3) Gender Failure by Rae Spoon and Ivan Coyote This double memoir by non-binary performing artists from Canada is one I read and re-read whenever I’m “in my trans feelings,” as it’s the closest to my lived experience. Both have some excellent things to say about the blurred lines and blurring the lines between butch, trans men, and non-binary masculine-of-center experiences. 4) Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man by Thomas Page McBee McBee’s examination of masculinity as he decides to transition is a powerhouse of a memoir and shows one of the great parts of this sub-genre of memoir: trans people are often very good at looking at how culture creates and forcibly maintains gender roles. For a taste, here’s an essay by him about his amateur boxing career and masculinity. 5) Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock’s Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout by Laura Jane Grace Much as McBride blends politics and memoir, this memoir straddles the line between trans narrative and a straight-up sex, punk, and rock’n’roll with Against Me! founder Laura Jane Grace. 6) Life Beyond My Body by Lei Ming This Lamda Literary award-winning memoir of a Chinese trans man shows how the same deep feelings work into a culture where men like Ming seemingly don’t exist. KJ Gormley lives near the water, currently South America, sometimes Maine. In daylight hours they are a librarian. Featured writing in INTO and Brooklyn Magazine, among others. More writing here. You can follow them on twitter. Review: Hello. It Doesn’t Matter Reconsider This: Hayao Miyazaki’s Whisper of the Heart Shakespeare and Punk is an exploration of culture & how it interacts with personal narrative. There is no brow. 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__label__cc	0.534015	0.465985	The Venus Flytrap: Don’t Compromise Nearly a decade ago, I took some of the worst advice I’ve ever received. It was in the form of this unforgettable, but retrospectively mystifying, line – “You have to decide – do you want to be a full woman or a writer?” The person who said it was encouraging me to quit my job and be footloose and foolish, both nice and sometimes rewarding things for a young person to be. It was superficial advice without logistical backing, conveyed by someone not only with tremendous privilege, but who knew exactly what the effect on a vulnerable, hopeful person would be. It was cruel advice designed to ensnare: I would either choose “writer”, and suffer without grounding, or choose “full woman”, and simply leave the playing field. Either way, very little art would be made. She knew I’d choose “writer”. I was fortunate to eventually be able to walk back some of my choices, and recoup some losses. But to this day, I’ve no idea what was meant by “full woman”, but an old note I found trying to work it out begins on an eerie and absolutely revealing line. “I don’t believe in sisterhood.” Certainly, the advice-giver wasn’t a fan of other women. So when she told me that it was alright to be financially dependent for the sake of art, what she was really saying was that it should not be possible for women to have full lives. While I was still young enough to be living out that advice with relatively little consequence (there’s a finite period of time during which you can still do this; the trouble is that once you’re in the hold of that floating life, you won’t recognise when its expiry date has passed until your life blows up), I received completely contradictory guidance from someone who had equally wanted to ensure that I wouldn’t make art. She was not as eloquent as the earlier advisor, which is why only one line remains in memory – “You were younger then. You’re a woman now.” Funnily enough, this advice too had to do with being a woman. The advice was to “choose” to compromise making art for the sake of the security of a full-time job, and to also give up any hope of leaving a situation that did not feel like home. I was a little older, true, and so I recognised: the advice-giver, stuck in a painful place of not being creative, just wanted company. These two encounters were far from the only ways in which people I’d cared about or respected tried to thwart my growth as an artist. They are good examples, though. The first encounter was with someone powerful, the second with someone who was also struggling artistically. Both harboured bitterness. They are also archetypal, and many promising artists meet them in the forms of mentors and friends along the way. They may be gatekeepers, artists or peers. Such an influence is partly why so many promising artists also disappear. When they offer you a trap that implies that making art is a sacrifice, self-indulgent or an obligation, remember: it’s not, and you don’t have to choose. An edited version appeared in The New Indian Express on June 14th 2018. “The Venus Flytrap” appears on Thursdays in Chennai’s City Express supplement. Filed under Uncategorized and tagged advice, artists, the venus flytrap, women artists, women writers, writing \| Leave a comment	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1111
__label__wiki	0.890641	0.890641	The Sheltered Storm The True Story of the Man-Made Disaster That Struck the Village of Sandy Hook, Connecticut on December 14th, 2012 7. Dawn Colt Industries — West Hartford, Connecticut Connecticut had a problem, and its name was Colt. The “Constitution State” had long been the heart of America’s gun industry — home not just to Colt, but to Winchester, Sturm & Ruger, Marlin, Mossberg, and dozens more. Still, Colt was special to Connecticut, because over the years, the state’s interests, and the fate of the company, had become intertwined. And now, Colt needed help. The iconic gun maker had been in trouble ever since 1,000 of their workers had walked off their jobs at the plant in West Hartford in 1986; for decades, they had built Colt’s M-16s for the military, and the AR-15s for the civilians. The factory continued operating throughout the strike — but with cheaper, non-union labor, and at reduced capacity — until 1988, when the United States Army announced that they were dropping Colt as their supplier of M-16s. Colt had relied on revenue from that contract since 1964, and now, it was all gone. (The Pentagon said that their M16s were as good as ever — but a Belgian company, Fabrique Nationale, had simply given the lower bid.) Then, Stockton happened. When California passed its gun ban, they singled out Colt’s AR-15 by name, and so Colt had opted to surrender the model to the ATF, and stop making the guns entirely. The strike was in its fourth year by that point, the longest labor dispute in state history; finally, Colt’s parent company decided to call it quits, and put their firearms unit up for sale. That was when Connecticut placed its bet: the state’s treasurer assembled a group of investors to purchase Colt Firearms, and invested $25 million of Connecticut’s pension fund along with them. “The state’s participation is not a bailout, not a handout and not a subsidy,” the Treasurer told the New York Times. “Let me emphasize that this is a carefully thought out, carefully structured, potentially very profitable business venture.” The state legislature was soon on board, though a few members expressed uneasiness about the wave of gun legislation that seemed to be imminent after Stockton. A colleague reassured them: “The state treasurer has made very clear his opposition to the manufacture of assault rifles by companies in which the state has invested, [and] I think the treasurer has in fact been shown to be extremely prudent.” The state approved the investment, and Colt’s firearms division was reborn as an independent entity, Colt Manufacturing Company Inc. The new ownership agreed to the union’s demands; the strike ended, and the UAW workers finally came back to the plant, where all the machine tools had been updated and reconfigured to produce Colt’s brand-new product, the one they all now needed to be a success: the Colt Sporter. It was a name meant to evoke “sporting purposes.” But the Sporter was a familiar-looking black rifle, one that fired the exact same ammunition as Colt’s now-retired AR-15. In fact, when the finished Sporters came down the end of the assembly line, even the workers who had been making AR-15s for decades were hard-pressed to tell the difference. The name was the difference — the only one that mattered. In California, it had been enough to get the gun past the post-Stockton ban, filling the empty shelves where Colt’s now-outlawed AR-15s had sat. That state’s lawmakers, who had just been praising Colt’s benevolence, now were furious; they sued to get the Sporter added to the name-ban at the last minute — “The Colt Sporter rifle is a redesigned, renamed and renumbered version of the banned Colt AR-15 assault rifle,” they said — but it didn’t matter. Different name, different gun. It would take them years to get the Sporter added to their list. Connecticut General Assembly — Hartford Given its heritage, few were surprised when Connecticut was one of the states that resisted the initial shockwaves from Stockton, and voted down an assault weapons ban that year. It had marked an important victory for the NRA, in their efforts to contain the damage to as few states as possible. So now, four years later, it seemed unlikely that the same bill would fare any better. But those four years had not been peaceful; violent crime was at its peak across the nation, and like every other state, Connecticut’s cities were seeing more and more gang-related shootings. There was an increasing sentiment that something had to be done. In 1993, supporters of a ban on assault weapons in Connecticut decided the time was right to try again. And they were determined to learn from California’s mistakes: their legislation would have a “name ban,” but they’d combine it with a “military features” ban, like the ATF did with imports. And one of the features they’d ban would be any detachable magazine carrying over 15 rounds, like Bill Ruger suggested (though this only applied to the magazine that came with the gun, from the factory. After-market magazines would not be affected.) Colt’s AR-15 was on Connecticut’s name-ban list, just like it had been in California. But then another of that state’s lessons reared its head: what about the Sporter? The Sporter would make it through the “features” ban, the Colt loyalists said. And it wasn’t on the list of named guns. But a lawmaker who supported the ban headed them off: “There’s a funny thing about the Colt Sporter. You take out the clip for five bullets and you stick in a new one, readily available on the market for 30, for 50, for 70 bullets. It’s an assault weapon. Make no doubt about it.” An officer from the state police provided a demonstration for the legislators, with a Sporter in one hand and an empty 30-round magazine from an AR-15 in the other: “It snapped right in. This is basically the same gun.” Soon the Sporter came to symbolize the “assault weapon” debate, and the opponents of the ban decided to use the controversy to take a risky maneuver: they added the Sporter to the proposed list of name-banned guns — a “poison amendment.” Dare the state to shoot themselves in the foot. One of the undecided representatives begged everyone to reconsider: “Why in God’s name would you invest in a company, whether you agree with it or not, and then try to restrict their operation by limiting the use of the weapon that they produce? I think we have our priorities a little mixed up here.” His fears were well-founded; the ban’s advocates called their opponents’ bluff, and agreed to add the Sporter to the list. As the now-poisoned ban continued on the path toward becoming law, the exchanges on the assembly floor grew more heated; at one point, a representative challenged a colleague to list his “credentials” when it came to firearms, and the man answered back that he owned a piece of Colt, just like everybody else. “I guess all of the taxpayers in the State of Connecticut are now part-owner of a gun factory.” As time was running out on the legislative session, and the final vote approached, one of the opponents of the ban called attention to the gallery overlooking the Assembly chamber, where a throng of men and women in signature yellow Colt caps — the recently-returned employees from the factory in Hartford — were watching, as their jobs once again hung in the balance: Do they look like gun-toting maniacs to you? They’re here for one reason. You look in their eyes. When they lose their job if the assault rifle is not made at Colt — and you maybe say one percent [of the workforce] isn’t much — one percent of 1,000 is 100 people. It may be everybody up in that balcony up there…. Those are not gun-toting maniacs. Those are people that are wondering if it’s going to be worth shooting themselves in the head with an assault rifle or a pistol if they could lose their jobs. Meanwhile, the ban’s advocates insisted that Connecticut needed to do something about assault weapons before it was too late; a new and even deadlier epidemic of gun violence seemed just around the corner. One assemblyman described visiting the Bridgeport Police Department’s gun locker, and seeing the seized firearms, grouped by year, unfolding across time like a military preparing for war. “There’s a box — one box — for 1978. It’s not even a very big box. And you look for 1979. That box is not a very big box either.” But suddenly, something changes in the 1980’s, and the same trend seen in LA and Oakland takes hold; instead of just one box, two or three are needed to hold all the guns seized in Bridgeport in a year. And, “not only is the number of boxes growing larger and larger, but the guns in them are changing. They’re bigger. They’re stronger and more and more frequently they are assault weapons.” With the trajectory going the way it was, the senator said, it was “only a matter of time” before tragedy struck. His vote put it over the top; when the governor signed Connecticut’s assault weapons ban into law in June of 1993, he remarked proudly, “This is a vote for our children and against the NRA. This New-England state very much has its head screwed on straight, and its priorities in order.” In the aftermath, one disappointed legislator openly struggled to comprehend what had just unfolded: that after Connecticut “invested $25 million in Colt on a pledge by the former State Treasurer that Colt did not make assault weapons, the legislature has now concluded that that is exactly what the company does.” Indeed, the Colt Sporter had been banned in its home state; but it would still be produced there, for interstate sales. As a consequence, not only was every Connecticut citizen “part owner of a gun factory,” they were now part owners, officially, of an assault rifle factory. The White House — East Room James Brady watched from across the stage, as the bill named in his honor was signed into law by the president. It was a milestone for him, the end of a long journey. As President Reagan’s first White House Press Secretary, he had been walking next to Reagan on the morning of March 30, 1981, exiting the Washington Hilton hotel in D.C., when an attempted assassin shot them both. Jim Brady never walked again. It turned out the shooter that day had purchased his .22 revolver from a pawn shop in Dallas; he had lied on the paperwork, so it was an illegal sale, but there was no way for anyone to know that. Not until it was too late. The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act was a first step toward fixing all that. The “Brady Bill” would create a permanent 7-day waiting period, and a background check requirement for all handgun purchases (later expanded to include long-guns). To process the background checks, the bill also created the National Instant Criminal Background Check system. “NICS” is what the country would rely on going forward, to tell if a person was allowed to have a handgun or not. In the immediate aftermath of the ‘81 assassination attempt, both Reagan and Brady had been rushed to the hospital at nearby George Washington University. On the tenth anniversary of that day, President Reagan returned to GWU, to accept an honorary doctorate. In his acceptance speech, he thanked the staff for healing him, and saving his friend: Speaking of Jim Brady, I want to tell all of you here today something that I’m not sure you know. You do know that I’m a member of the NRA, and my position on the right to bear arms is well known. But I want you to know something else, and I’m going to say it in clear, unmistakable language: I support the Brady bill, and I urge the Congress to enact it without delay… [Pauses for cheering, applause] …It’s just common sense to have a waiting period, to allow local law enforcement officials to conduct background checks on those who wish to buy a handgun. Reagan reminded everyone that the .22 he and Jim Brady were shot with was yet another “Saturday night special” — a gun practically anyone could get — and that “with the right to bear arms comes a great responsibility to use caution and common sense on handgun purchases.” Congress didn’t meet his challenge, not then. It took two more years. Jim said a few words himself at the White House signing ceremony: “Twelve years ago, my life was changed forever by a disturbed young man with a gun. Until that time, I hadn’t thought much about gun control or the need for gun control.” He tapped his wheelchair with his cane. “Maybe if I had, I wouldn’t be stuck with these damn wheels.” Turning the ceremony back over to the president, Brady promised, “What we are witnessing today is more than a bill signing, it is the end of unchecked madness and the commencement of a heartfelt crusade for a safer and saner country.” This wasn’t hyperbole. There really was a crusade underway in Washington. The man signing the bill next to Mr. Brady was not the secretary’s fellow Reagan-administration veteran, President Bush; instead, the pen was held by a former Governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton, who had dethroned Bush in an upset in 1992. And there was no question as to the new president’s allegiances to the NRA: he had none. “We all know there is more to be done,” Clinton said to the audience. “I ask you to think about what this means, and what we can all do to keep this going. We cannot stop here.” Earlier that month, the latest attempt at a federal Assault Weapons Ban passed the Senate. With the bill now halfway to becoming law, and facing a fierce battle in the House, President Clinton released an “Open Letter to Hunters and Sportsmen” — he wanted the classical gun owners to know that he was on their side. In fact, he needed their help: “I have been a hunter since I was 12. Where I come from, it’s a way of life. And I will not allow the rights of hunters and sportsmen to be infringed upon,” he promised, in language that is — at first — jarringly reminiscent of a gun-lobby mailing. “But I know the difference between a firearm used for hunting and target shooting, and a weapon designed to kill people.” He said that the guns on the ban list “have no place on a deer hunt, in a duck blind, or on a target range — and they certainly don’t belong on our streets, in our neighborhoods, or on our schoolyards.” The president urged these gun owners to call their representatives, and voice their support for the federal ban on assault weapons. National Rifle Association Headquarters — Fairfax, Virginia From the top floor of a glass-and-steel office tower near Washington, D.C., a man named Wayne R. LaPierre Jr. watched the crusaders charge, with growing anxiety. Clearly, there was no longer an ally of the NRA in the White House. And as hostile as the political environment had been after Stockton, after Clinton’s win, it was even worse. As the NRA’s Executive Vice-President, Wayne knew how to rally his organization’s base. Accordingly, NRA mailings around this time started to sound like the notorious gun advertisements of the 1980s, when “assault weapons” were first marketed: in 1993, after the FBI (who would be in charge of the NICS system) endorsed the Brady Bill, the NRA paid for multi-page ads in Field & Stream and other mainstream gun magazines, asking readers in huge type, “WHAT’S THE FIRST STEP TO A POLICE STATE?” The dot on the ad’s question mark was made from a scrap of a black-and-white photo, showing the boots of an army formation in mid-goose-step. The answer came on the next page: “WHEN THE FBI STATES THE RULES.” The rest of the ad was a letter from Wayne, signed next to his icy portrait. He implored readers to donate to the NRA, and fight the FBI: “Such abuse of broad investigative powers is the first step toward our Founding Fathers’ worst fear; a federal police force disarming the law-abiding populace.” Later, after the Brady Bill passed, rhetoric from the NRA became downright apocalyptic. In the January 1994 issue of American Rifleman (a monthly magazine published by the NRA) they wrote, “When Bill Clinton signed the Brady Bill on November 30, a drop of blood dripped from the finger of the sovereign American citizen.” Six months after that, the magazine contained a “special report” from Wayne LaPierre himself, titled plainly “The Final War Has Begun.” Wayne’s “war” was Clinton’s “crusade,” seen through another lens. The first shots had been fired at Ruby Ridge, in Idaho, two years before; the ATF had been trying to recruit a man named Randy Weaver (who had illegally sawed off some shotguns) as an informant against the Aryan Nations — but Randy turned them down, and went back to his cabin up on the ridge with his family, to wait for his court date. Except, when the court notice came, it was misprinted, and the feds thought Randy had skipped out. They surrounded his cabin, starting a standoff that lasted for 12 days — and which ended only after a federal marshal was shot dead, followed by Randy’s wife, and son. (After Randy surrendered, the U.S. Government paid him a substantial settlement.) Around the same time that Randy was coming down the mountain, there was a UPS driver in Texas who was loading packages into the back of his delivery van. One box snagged, and tore; what fell out looked like a hand grenade. The grenade was inert, as were the dozens more that were boxed the same shipment, but then the driver remembered the other packages he had delivered to the same recipient, out in Waco: several had been stamped with warnings. Something about being careful when handling volatile chemicals. Other purchase records would show that the same folks had been buying up AR-15s, as well as tool kits that could convert the rifles to allow automatic fire. That was very, very illegal to do. Soon the ATF were on the case, and everything that happened at Ruby Ridge happened again, at Waco, on a grander scale. An attempted arrest turned into the biggest gunfight in American law enforcement history. When the feds retreated, a standoff commenced that stretched for 51 days. And while the cabin in Idaho held only Randy and his family, in Texas there was a sprawling compound, containing one hundred human beings who were members of another kind of family: all united in faith that the man leading them was god. And god would not surrender. On April 19, 1993, the ATF raided the Mount Carmel compound, their agents clad in black body armor and backed up by tanks and helicopters. The cultists fought back. There was a spark — neither side would ever claim responsibility for it — and the Branch Davidians perished on live television, a giant orange fireball enveloping their church. The scene looked like a war crime. Senate Chamber — United States Capitol Building One week after Clinton’s letter to hunters, a group of his predecessors from the Oval Office sent their own message, addressed to every member of the U.S. House of Representatives: We are writing to urge your support for a ban on the domestic manufacture of military-style assault weapons. This is a matter of vital importance to the public safety. Although assault weapons account for less than 1% of the guns in circulation, they account for nearly 10% of the guns traced to crime. Every major law enforcement organization in America and dozens of leading labor, medical, religious, civil rights and civic groups support such a ban. Most importantly, poll after poll shows that the American public overwhelmingly support a ban on assault weapons. A 1993 CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll found that 77% of Americans support a ban on the manufacture, sale, and possession of semi-automatic assault guns, such as the AK-47. The 1989 import ban resulted in an impressive 40% drop in imported assault weapons traced to crime between 1989 and 1991, but the killing continues. Last year, a killer armed with two TEC9s killed a large number of people at a San Francisco law firm and wounded several others. During the past five years, more than 40 law enforcement officers have been killed or wounded in the line of duty by an assault weapon. While we recognize that assault weapon legislation will not stop all assault weapon crime, statistics prove that we can dry up the supply of these guns, making them less accessible to criminals. We urge you to listen to the American public and to the law enforcement community and support a ban on the further manufacture of these weapons. With Reagan’s signature, and the letter’s reference to banning “semi-automatic assault guns, such as the AK-47,” the former president finally confirmed his stance on guns like the Norinco used at Stockton: he wanted them banned. Clinton’s assault weapons ban was essentially the same as Connecticut’s: a name-ban of 19 rifles (including the AK-47 and Colt’s AR-15, but not the Sporter) on top of a features-ban. There was one major difference from Connecticut: it would also outlaw any ammunition magazine holding more than ten rounds, and not just the ones the manufacturer included standard. The bill had been put together by a freshman senator from California, who reminded the chamber about her state’s tragic history: the McDonald’s shooting, Stockton, and the office building in San Francisco. She shared a lesson California was learning the hard way: that “local and state initiatives are meaningless, because gun buyers can simply cross state lines and purchase their weapons of choice.” In another session on the federal ban, Suzanna Gratia made an appearance. She told her story from Luby’s — by now, well-polished — before urging the representatives to reject the new ban. “I hear all this talk about how many bullets can go in a clip,” she said: “I’ve been there. I can tell you, it doesn’t matter. It takes one second to switch out a clip. You can have one bullet, or a hundred bullets. It doesn’t matter, guys. He goes—” and Suzanna then demonstrated the motion, ejecting the magazine from her pantomime-pistol, and with the other hand, almost immediately, inserting another — “that’s not enough time to rush a man, I promise you.” She knew. She saw her father die trying. The senator from California could see that her bill was going to fail. So she set about cutting provisions from it, narrowing its scope, desperate just to keep it alive. She agreed to add a ten-year “sunset provision” that would automatically cause the bill to expire when the time was up, if it was not renewed. Another compromise: current owners of banned assault weapons would be allowed to keep them, and sell them. Same for high-capacity magazines. The changes hurt the bill, the Californian thought, but at least its fate now appeared more hopeful. “I was amazed to see the degree to which the National Rifle Association controls this body,” she told reporters. “If this cannot pass the Senate of the United States, I fear for the streets of America.” It passed, just barely, and on September 13, 1994, President Clinton signed the Federal Assault Weapons Ban into law. He cast the moment as the latest victory over chaos: “My fellow Americans, this is about freedom. Without responsibility, without order, without lawfulness, there is no freedom. Today the will of the American people has triumphed over a generation of division and paralysis. We’ve won a chance to work together.” Finally, the lingering shockwaves from Stockton came to a rest. For the NRA, it was the most crushing loss yet. There were only two gun laws in American history that could even compare; back in 1934, when the National Firearms Act sought to take the gangsters’ Tommy guns away, the NRA’s president at the time openly supported that law, even saying that he “did not believe in the general promiscuous toting of guns,” and, “I think it should be sharply restricted and only under licenses.” The executive Vice President — holding the same office that Wayne would assume sixty years later — said that the NRA was “absolutely favorable to reasonable legislation.” In 1968, when the big Gun Control Act was passed, creating the ATF, Wayne’s predecessor in office gave a measured response; while some of that bill’s provisions “appear unduly restrictive and unjustified in their application to law-abiding citizens,” the executive wrote to members, “the measure as a whole appears to be one that the sportsmen of America can live with.” He was wrong; the hard-line gun rights advocates in the NRA grew angry after 1968, sensing that their rights were not being defended. They established the “NRA Institute for Legislative Action” (NRA-ILA) in 1975 to focus exclusively on political strategy, and preventing another gun bill like ‘68’s. This faction represented not the hunters and sportsmen that were traditionally associated with the NRA, but the subsection of members who were opposed to any restrictions on handguns, and who were more concerned with self-defense, and their right to bear arms, than going hunting. The NRA’s old-guard leadership recognized the NRA-ILA as a threat, and denied the hard-liners the funding they needed. NRA management even announced that they would be selling the old NRA headquarters near D.C., and relocating all the way to Colorado Springs; this physical move would mirror a shift of priorities, back to traditional “sportsman” shooters, and away from fighting against gun laws. It would make the NRA-ILA all but obsolete. Things quickly came to a head, and the NRA brass ultimately decided not even to wait for the relocation; in 1976, they simply sacked all eighty employees that worked on the NRA-ILA program, or who were allied with its management. The dismissed hard-liners regrouped, calling themselves the “Federation,” and hatched a plan to dethrone their enemies in the NRA. They would exploit a vulnerability in the NRA’s by-laws, which required an immediate hearing of any concern raised by a lifetime member, from the floor, during the organization’s annual meeting. The Federation began direct-mailing as many of these members as they could find (of which there were more than 200,000) seeking common cause, so that when the 1977 meeting opened in Cincinnati, the board of directors’ vote on the move to Colorado would be derailed. Coordinated by Federation members roaming the floor with walkie-talkies, the lifetime members called for a series of their own votes: casting out the current leadership en masse, installing the Federation in their place, rewriting the by-laws to protect their power, and rededicating the NRA to a fight against gun control — mainly, by rebuilding the Institute for Legislative Action. Deliberations went on well into the next morning, but by the time it was all over, the Federation hard-liners got everything they wanted. Not long after, they hired Wayne LaPierre to man the NRA-ILA, and in 1991, they put him in charge of the whole organization, calling him “our champion and fiercest warrior.” The coup in Cincinnati was what launched the NRA on its modern trajectory. Now, almost twenty years later, the Federation regime was still in power, but Wayne feared that their momentum may have finally stalled. The losses were mounting. Member donations were down. He worried that if he didn’t fight back now, the NRA might even die. Wayne began saying things he would regret. On April 13, 1995, he sent a fundraising letter to all NRA members. It began, “I’m not looking for a fight, but when you consider the facts of our current situation, you too, will see we have no other choice.” He went on, “The semi-auto ban gives jack-booted government thugs more power to take away our Constitutional rights, break in our doors, seize our guns, destroy our property, and even injure or kill us.” He then named the senator from California, who wrote the bill, as one among a group that would “stop at nothing until they’ve forced you to turn over your guns to the government.” Plunging deeper into apocalyptic imagery, Wayne painted the current reality as freedom’s struggle against a tyrannical force, and cast the orange fireball that rose from Mount Carmel as a consequence of government oppression: In Clinton’s administration, if you have a badge, you have the government’s go-ahead to harass, intimidate, even murder law-abiding citizens. Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge… Waco and the Branch Davidians… Not too long ago, it was unthinkable for Federal agents wearing Nazi bucket helmets and black storm trooper uniforms to attack law-abiding citizens. Not today, not with Clinton. When he invoked Waco, Wayne didn’t know that the provocative language he was using was remarkably similar to that of another gun rights activist, of sorts — a man who had been seen near the ATF checkpoint on the perimeter of Mount Carmel during the fateful 51-day standoff. The man’s name was Tim, and he was a veteran of the Persian Gulf war. He was there selling homemade bumper stickers that he had spread out on the hood of his car; they were starkly lettered with patriot-movement slogans: “Fear the Government that Fears Your Gun” and “A Man With a Gun is a Citizen, A Man Without a Gun is a Subject.” A journalism student, visiting the Waco perimeter one day during the siege, happened across Tim, and asked a few questions about his beliefs. Articulate and polite, Tim told the aspiring reporter that he urged gun ownership, because, “The government is continually growing bigger and more powerful, and the people need to prepare to defend themselves against government control.” Tim sounded a lot like Wayne’s letter; but then, he sounded like a lot of pissed-off gun owners at the time. Probably no one would have even noticed the similarity — except that just a week after Wayne had mentioned Waco in his fundraising later, on April 19, 1995, the second anniversary of the morning Mount Carmel burned, Tim blew up a federal building in Oklahoma. Timothy McVeigh wasn’t inspired by the letter from the NRA — he had been filling barrels with racing fuel and fertilizer weeks before that — but his rationale came from a familiar place, and Wayne’s timing couldn’t have been worse. Still, despite a wave of public pressure in the wake of the bombing, Wayne held firm, and refused to apologize. That was war. Park Laureate Office Building — Houston, TX Former President Bush had retired to a small town in Texas shortly after Clinton was sworn in. But he still kept up his work, revising a manuscript for a book on foreign policy, and drafting correspondence. However, his name had been conspicuously absent from the letter his three predecessors had sent, in support of the assault weapons ban. Being a lifetime NRA member, President Bush received a copy of Wayne’s message; Bush had been in office when Ruby Ridge happened, and his feelings about the ATF and other federal agencies were informed by his years as the head of the CIA. He took out a pen, and started a letter of his own, addressed directly to the NRA. He did not mince words: …Your broadside against Federal agents deeply offends my own sense of decency and honor; and it offends my concept of service to country. It indirectly slanders a wide array of government law enforcement officials, who are out there, day and night, laying their lives on the line for all of us. You have not repudiated Mr. LaPierre’s unwarranted attack. Therefore, I resign as a Life Member of NRA, said resignation to be effective upon your receipt of this letter. The next day, Wayne had a change of heart. He told reporters “I really feel bad about the fact that the words in that letter have been interpreted to apply to all federal law-enforcement officers.” He went on Larry King Live, looked into the camera, and assured the country that the he “never meant [to] broad-brush all of federal law enforcement, all of [the] ATF, or all of law enforcement in general.” He had lost another battle, but held out hope for the war. © 2020 by Matthew Nolan	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1113
__label__cc	0.660061	0.339939	Q&A With Posie Graeme-Evans, Author Of The Dressmaker Can you tell our readers about your book? It’s the story of a woman with one remarkable gift and one great secret. A secret that can bring her down in the morally hypocritical world of 1850’s England. I hope that it’s rich enough to eat with a spoon! What compelled you to write The Dressmaker? I’m interested in the resilience of the human spirit. Women, in particular (it seems to me) just seem to have great tensile soul-strength. Ellen Gowan, the heroine of the book, will find she has it in spades. How do you balance out the writer’s life and the rest of life? Ah, balance. I only achieve that spasmodically. Writing is obsessive and demanding. And anti-social. But, in the end, I find I’m compelled to do it. That’s tough on the other parts of your life (family, most especially.) If there’s luck in this it’s that writing did not find me until my children were grown ups. The main characters of your stories – do you find that you put a little of yourself into each of them or do you create them to be completely opposite to you? That’s really hard to know – and I can’t tease the question out properly. Or at least, well enough to give you a sensible answer. However, my characters seem to grow and change and develop the way a child does. You can see the genetic influences, for sure (bits of my mother, or my father, or me – or, indeed, anyone I know) however, they do become their own person in the end. Perhaps that sounds a little deranged ( a little?) but that’s how the process works for me. Many writers, I think, experience something similar. And they’ll say, as I do, that in the end the characters you think you create take on a life of their own. Writing is a constant surprise, believe me! When growing up, did you have a favourite author or book? Honestly too many to name – I was a bookaholic. But I’ve always adored myths and legends and fairy tales (and English childhood, on and off.) CS Lewis was an enchanting influence in my life, as was Tolkein. Have you ever had a character take over a story and move it in a different direction than you had originally intended? How did you handle it? Absolutely yes! (see above.) And, what’s more, they don’t leave your head once the book is finished. So when I’m writing I hitch a ride and follow on, writing as fast as I can when the story takes off. I think my background in making TV drama must have helped. When the words don’t behave, I can always describe the pictures. If you could be one of your characters, which one would you be and why? That’s hard. I don’t think I’d be any one of them entirely. But I’d like bits of each. However, tenacity is a key quality that keeps popping up – resilience by another name, I think. I certainly aspire to that. It’s easier on some days than others! The Dressmaker is far removed from McLeods Daughters – why do you write in such a different genre? Because I can? Because I like to. I get bored doing the same thing. Also, it’s a mistake, I think, to believe that people can only do one thing. Life shows, over and over, that we re-invent ourselves all the time. Besides, if you just do it, no-one says “Stop.” If you had to do it all over again, would you change anything in your book? Ah, that’s hard. You can always do another draft (until it’s physically taken away from you by the publishers!) And drafts change things. A painter friend of mine says that a painting is never finished. I guess I feel that way about books… Can you please tell where to find your books, any blogs you may have, or how a reader can learn more about you and writing. At the time of writing, The Dressmaker is everywhere! (ie in bookstores in Australia, and shortly to be out in the US. Next year in UK.) Amazon has my books, also as would various other book sites. I’m on Facebook and I have a website, too, www.posiegraemeevans.com. I’m also on the Simon and Schuster international author site: www.simonandschuster.com. Just enter my name in Search. And you can find the trailer I made for The Dressmaker, staring Jenna Lind, on the Simon and Schuster Australia site: www.simonandschuster.com.au. About The Dressmaker… Ellen Gowan is the only surviving child of a scholarly village minister and a charming girl disowned by her family when she married for love. Growing up in rural Norfolk, Ellen’s childhood was poor but blessed with affection. Resilience, spirit, and one great talent will carry her far from such humble beginnings. In time, she will become the witty, celebrated, and very beautiful Madame Ellen, dressmaker to the nobility of England, the Great Six Hundred. Yet Ellen has secrets. At fifteen she falls for Raoul de Valentin, the dangerous descendant of French aristocrats. Raoul marries Ellen for her brilliance as a designer but abandons his wife when she becomes pregnant. Determined that she and her daughter will survive, Ellen begins her long climb to success. Toiling first in a clothing sweat shop, she later opens her own salon in fashionable Berkeley Square though she tells the world – and her daughter – she’s a widow. One single dress, a ballgown created for the enigmatic Countess of Hawksmoor, the leader of London society, transforms Ellen’s fortunes, and as the years pass, business thrives. But then Raoul de Valentin returns and threatens to destroy all that Ellen has achieved. In The Dressmaker, the romance of Jane Austen, the social commentary of Charles Dickens and the very contemporary voice of Posie Graeme-Evans combine to plunge the reader deep into the opulent, sinister world of teeming Victorian England. And if the beautiful Madame Ellen is not quite what she seems, the strength of her will sees her through to the truth, and love, at last. Have you read The Dressmaker? Tell us what you thought!	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1114
__label__cc	0.568722	0.431278	ShirlTheGirl gives Life a Whirl Read My Blog Here ShirlTheGirls Story My mans LINKS ShirlTheGirl Political Rant Send Her Back August 8, 2019Written by Dennis Darragh Send her back. That was the chant the crowd broke into at a July 17th (2019) Trump rally in NC., and while it was an inarticulate and ham-fisted, response to the impression that Congresswoman Omar Illhan does not embrace the conclusions this country is based on, and the American way of life, choosing not to try to improve it, but instead to criticize it, and suggesting the very fabric of the American experiment be discarded and replaced with “democracy” (mob rule) and socialism, elicited a passionate response. This is not the first passage into this “territory” with regard to Ms.Omar. Jeanine Pirro’s show was put on temporary hiatus dating back to March 2017 after she suggested that Omar’s (D-MN) hijab was “indicative of her adherence to sharia law, which in itself is antithetical to the United States Constitution”. The Democrats have recently dubbed themselves as “Social Democrats”, yet another new meaningless new term. My understanding of what they mean by that is a socialist democracy, which is an oxymoron. Socialism by its nature is NOT a democracy. The left excels at language manipulation, and once they’ve coined a word or phrase, use it endlessly, until it is accepted into our lexicon of language, and the meaning, no matter how unintelligible, becomes so familiar it causes no further inquiry into its meaning. The left leaning press, it seems, is almost purposely, misrepresenting the meaning of what Trump said, so they can again “virtue signal” by calling Trump and his followers mean spirited racist bigots, and Nazi’s. The Democrats along with the press routinely discredit themselves. I firmly believe, their logic and reason continues to be clouded by their collective “Trump Derangement Syndrome”. The press, and the rank and file Democrats, still cannot believe that Trump won the last election. They believe that was the ultimate wrong and have been hell bent on evicting him from office ever since, to the point that they will ignore any obligation to present factual news or pass any meaningful legislation, so they can focus all their attention to righting the wrong that is the Trump presidency. All they can focus on is “orange man – bad” and the only moral thing they feel they can do, in their estimation, is get him out of that office, no matter what course must be taken to accomplish that end. They see Trump as a white house resident and not the bona fide duly elected president. As Dennis Prager says, “Truth is not a left-wing value”. Trump’s initial statement suggested that if she (Omar) was so unhappy with the United States, and thought this place so irredeemable and horrible, it has to be dismantled and replaced with something else, to look to her homeland (which, by the way, is a REAL hot mess), go back, repair the ills there, THEN come here and solve the problems here, if she so chooses. He never said he wanted to send her back, what he did say was she was free to leave if she wanted, and if she wanted to come back she was free to do that as well. The fact is Omar has repeatedly cast aspersions on America and other US citizens – specifically white men, calling them racists. (It seems as though the only group that can be safely singled out and held up as the dregs of American society, while continuing to “virtue signal” are the men of “white privilege”.) I could be wrong, but that appears to be an exceedingly racist stance to me. This whole “send her back” craze now seems to be “trickling down” to a great many of the Democrat compadres. Case in point, the most recent occurrence, involving GA State Representative Erica Thomas (D)) and Eric Sparkes, a Cuban born Democrat (whom I can only assume must have looked like a white male to Ms Thomas). They had a confrontation at a 10 items or less grocery store line. Initially I brushed this off as an irrelevant story, as these types of meaningless spats at supermarkets are commonplace, and if it wasn’t for the fact that an elected official decided to go public, not once, not twice but three times, with her assertions of this nonsensical confrontation would have passed unnoticed. This story was first reported on July 26th (2019). Erica Thomas decided to turn a useless spat into the political theater by latching on to the now-infamous “go back home” chant by Trump supporters at the President’s recent rally. She claimed a shopper verbally accosted her, telling her to “go back where you came from.” However witnesses have just come forward to indicate Thomas’ assertions, and claim, were fallacious. It seems as though it was Thomas who told the male shopper to “go back where you came from.” The question is why did Thomas lie, ginning up a national outcry by unhinged leftists as proof-positive that conservatives and Trump supporters specifically are all closet “white supremacists”. State Rep. Erica Thomas has used her elected office to perpetuate a dangerous hoax, not unlike all of the dangerous hoaxes the Democrats seem to be grasping at, using social media, and the press to gin-up resentment toward white people, while asserting that the whites are the racists. Thomas was not prepared for Mr. Sparkes to “crash” her TV interview to share his side of the story. Once confronted on TV by Sparkes, the Georgia legislator was forced to backpedal on her most damaging claim regarding her “go back home” allegation, which then became a “he said, she said,” controversy. Inconveniently (for her) an eye witness came forward and totally refuted Thomas’ claim, indicating that it was Thomas not Sparkes who made the “go home” remark. According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, a police report documented a witness’s testimony, who claimed they saw the altercation between state Rep. Erica Thomas and Eric Sparkes. The paper goes on to report that the Publix employee told the deputy that she witnessed Thomas “continuously telling Eric Sparkes to ‘Go back where you came from,’not the other way around. The employee also reportedly told the police, “Mr. Sparkes began to leave, but Ms. Thomas kept ‘running her mouth’ as she approached him.” Thomas reportedly told police that Sparkes ran up to her “with clenched hands in such a manner that he made me fearful for the safety of myself and my daughter.” However, the deputy indicated in his report that Sparkes, a Cuban Democrat, “did not appear to be irate, nor did I see him with clenched hands” in security camera footage he viewed. The eye witness account of what actually transpired between Thomas and Sparkes is perhaps the only accurate account of what took place. What I can’t understand is Thomas’ continuous publicity campaign of race-baiting and smearing whites in general, by her continued referencing within her tweets and tearful video posts. The first I saw of it was a FB post that had gone viral in which she said “I decided to go live because I’m very upset because people are getting really out of control with this, with this white-privilege stuff,” she said. “I’m at the grocery and I’m in … the aisle that says ’10 Items or Less.’ Yes, I have 15 items, but I’m nine months pregnant and I can’t stand up for long, and this white man comes up to me and says, ‘You lazy son of a b—h… You need to go back where you came from.’” Unfortunately, Thomas is a powerful elected official who attempted to create a hostile environment for the purpose of political expediency against the currently acceptable segment of the population it is OK to go after, “white males”, for no other reason than to continue the Democratic agenda of racial division, which I consider an egregious act. If it is allowed to continue it will surely have serious repercussions within our society. Publicity can be a double edged sword that has the potential to backfire if the facts don’t support the assertions. This entire “operation” boils down to integrity, making its way down to something as simple as taking too many items in a 10 item (or less) grocery line, then creating an incident designed to be politically expedient. This is not a new phenomena in American society. It has its roots in pride in the American way and protecting that which is deserving of love and protection. Gene Autry sang about this very idea all the way back in 1942. The name of the song is “Don’t bite the hand that’s feeding you” from the movie The Bells of Capistrano. What do you think about all the goins on? Tell me how you feel about it in the comments section I tried to examine the Send Her back phenomena and would love it if you gave me your opinion! 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__label__cc	0.690472	0.309528	Map showing Northumberland (ceremonial county) Northumberland is the most northern county in England. Lindisfarne is an island close offshore. The county town is Morpeth. Its finest church is Hexham Abbey. Historically Northumberland occupies a small part of the former Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria. Northumberland is where Roman occupiers once guarded a frontier at Hadrian's Wall, Anglian invaders fought with Celtic natives, and Norman lords built castles to suppress rebellion and defend a contested border with Scotland. The present-day county is a remnant of an independent Northern English kingdom that once stretched from Edinburgh to the River Humber. Reflecting its tumultuous past, Northumberland has more castles than any other county,[1] and the greatest number of recognized battle sites. Once an economically important region that supplied much of the coal that powered the industrial revolution, Northumberland is now a rural county with a small and gradually shrinking population.[2] As the kingdom of Northumbria under Edwin (585–632), the region's boundaries stretched from the Humber in the south to the Firth of Forth in the north. The kingdom and county were named for the Humber. The county is noted for its undeveloped landscape of high moorland, a favourite with landscape painters, and now largely protected as a National park. Northumberland is the most sparsely populated county in England, with only 62 people per square kilometre. This is mainly because the large cities of Newcastle upon Tyne and Tynemouth were joined to Gateshead and Sunderland in the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear. ↑ Long B. 1967. Castles of Northumberland. Newcastle: Harold Hill. ↑ Dowson J. 2009. Northumberland's economy 2009. Northumberland Information Network [1] Retrieved from "https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Northumberland&oldid=4674045"	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1118
__label__wiki	0.839596	0.839596	Bizarre Sounds of Saturn's Radio Emissions Click here to play sounds of Saturn's radio emissions, which have changes in frequency (127Kb Wave Sound). Saturn is a source of intense radio emissions, which have been monitored by the Cassini spacecraft. The radio waves are closely related to the auroras near the poles of the planet. These auroras are similar to Earth's northern and southern lights. This is an audio file of Saturn's radio emissions. The Cassini spacecraft began detecting these radio emissions in April 2002, when Cassini was 374 million kilometers (234 million miles) from the planet, using the Cassini radio and plasma wave science instrument. The instrument has now provided the first high resolution observations of these emissions, showing an amazing array of variations in frequency and time. In this example, it appears as though the three rising tones are launched from the more slowly varying narrowband emission near the bottom of this display. If this is the case, it represents a very complicated interaction between waves in Saturn's radio source region, but one which has also been observed at Earth. Time on this recording has been compressed such that 13 seconds corresponds to 27 seconds. Since the frequencies of these emissions are well above the audio frequency range, we have shifted them downward by a factor of 260. The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter was designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The radio and plasma wave science team is based at the University of Iowa, Iowa City. For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission, visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and the instrument team's home page, http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/cassini/ . Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Iowa This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows dwarf planet Ceres from an altitude of 2,700 miles (4,400 kilometers). The image, with a resolution of 1,400 feet (410 meters) per pixel, was take... Dawn Survey Orbit Image 4 The interplay of bright and dark material at the rim of Marcia crater on Vesta is visible in this image mosaic taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft. The bright and dark material appear to be exposed fro... Bright and Dark at West Rim of Marcia Crater This image shows the northern and southern hemispheres of Titan, showing the disparity between the abundance of lakes in the north and their paucity in the South. The hypothesis presented favors lo... Lake Asymmetry on Titan Behold one of the more detailed images of the Earth yet created. Earth by Suomi NPP This frame from an animation from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows intriguing bright spots on Ceres lie in a crater named Occator, which is about 60 miles (90 kilometers) across and 2 miles (4 kilomete... Occator Crater: Enhanced View This image, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, shows the surface of dwarf planet Ceres from an altitude of 915 miles (1,470 kilometers). The image, with a resolution of 450 feet (140 meters) per pixe... Dawn HAMO Image 19 + View Movie (28 MB QuickTime, no audio) As the solar wind flows from the sun, it creates a bubble in space known as the “heliosphere” around our solar system. The heliosphere is the region of spa... The Bubble of Our Solar System New structure, density and composition measurements of Enceladus' water plume were obtained when the Cassini spacecraft's Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph observed the star zeta Orionis pass behind... Stellar Data on Plume This unusual view of Saturn's moon Hyperion (266 kilometers, or 165 miles across) shows just how strangely shaped this tumbling little moon is. Hyperion is the largest of Saturn's irregularly shape... Strange Hyperion This whimsical travel poster imagines a future regatta where explorers recreate Voyager 1 and 2's historic Grand Tour of the outer solar system. The Grand Tour: Visions of the Future Poster NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully completed its Oct. 1 flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus, capturing these raw, unprocessed images of the moon and its dramatic plumes of water vapor and ice. Th... Enceladus Flyby E-14 (Raw Image #2) The Cassini spacecraft profiles several features oriented north-south on Saturn's moon Tethys. A line of craters runs north to south near the center of the image: (from top) Phemius, Polyphemus, A... Up and Down Tethys In this contrast-enhanced infrared image of Bellicia Crater on the giant asteroid Vesta, scientists from NASA's Dawn mission can see signs of the mineral olivine. Olivine was not expected to be fou... Contrast-Enhanced Image of Bellicia Crater Release of Probe No Earth-based telescope could ever capture a view quite like this. Earth-based views can only show Saturn's daylit side, from within about 25 degrees of Saturn's equatorial plane. Peeking over Saturn's Shoulder This image of Ceres is part of a sequence taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on May 5 and 6, 2015, from a distance of 8,400 miles (13,600 kilometers). Dawn RC3 Image 19 This false-color view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft gazes toward the rings beyond Saturn's sunlit horizon, where a thin haze can be seen along the limb. Haze on the Horizon This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft of asteroid Vesta shows many secondary crater chains on Vesta's surface. This image is located in Vesta's Domitia quadrangle, in Vesta's northern hemisphere. Secondary Crater Chains The ring moon Prometheus continues its work shaping the delicate F ring as Dione looks on. It is easy to see how Prometheus has an irregular, oblong shape, while Dione is quite round. The rings ar... Prometheus With Distant Dione + Annotated version Five images of Saturn's rings, taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft between 2009 and 2012, show clouds of material ejected from impacts of small objects into the rings. Clockwise... Meteors Meet Saturn's Rings Enceladus looks as though it is half lit by sunlight in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, but looks can be deceiving. Dark Side of the Moon: Enceladus + View annotated version This set of images from NASA's Cassini mission shows the evolution of a massive thunder-and-lightning storm that circled all the way around Saturn and fizzled when it ran ... Storm Head, Meet Tail This spectacular image of Saturn's clouds looks obliquely across the high northern latitudes. The Sun is low on the horizon here, making the vertical extent of the clouds easier to see. Cloud bands... Swirling With Shadows NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto on July 14, 2015. The Rich Color Variations of Pluto	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1119
__label__wiki	0.674773	0.674773	Spacecraft Components Lithograph Cassini–Huygens is a robotic spacecraft: that means that Cassini– Huygens is controlled by people on Earth. Spacecraft Components Titan Lithograph On July 19, 2013, in an event celebrated the world over, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft slipped into Saturn’s shadow and turned to image the planet, seven of its moons, its rings — and, in the backgroun... The Day the Earth Smiled Lithograph On October 15, 1997, the Cassini–Huygens spacecraft was launched on an almost 7-year journey to the Saturn system. On its way, Cassini– Huygens passes Venus (twice), Earth, and Jupiter — arriving a... Cassini-Huygens Spacecraft Lithograph Enceladus (pronounced en-SELL-ah-dus) is an icy moon of Saturn with remarkable activity near its south pole. Covered in water ice that reflects sunlight like freshly fallen snow, Enceladus reflects... Enceladus, Moon of Saturn Lithograph Because the rockets we now have are not large enough to send a spacecraft as massive as Cassini–Huygens directly to Saturn, and because the spacecraft cannot carry enough fuel to take it directly f... VVEJGA Trajectory Lithograph Launched in 1997 on a nearly seven-year journey, the Cassini–Huygens spacecraft arrives at the ringed planet on July 1, 2004, for a four-year scientific tour of the Saturn system. Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn and Titan Lithograph The Cassini–Huygens spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Station in Florida at 4:43 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (1:43 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time) on October 15, 1997, aboard a Titan IVB w... Cassini-Huygens Launch Lithograph What can you see in the December sky? Beautiful pairings of planets and the crescent Moon throughout the month, at sunrise and sunset. What's Up: December 2019 [Video] The International Space Station makes a trail of light in front of the Milky Way in this long exposure image. The View from Earth: Space Station, Jupiter, Milky Way What's Up for November? Mercury transits across the Sun, and the dimming of the "Demon star," Algol. What's Up: November 2019 [Video] Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is seen above the Doll House in this National Park Service photo from Canyonlands National Park. Milky Way Galaxy Over Canyonlands National Park Studying Venus not only teaches us about our own planet, but also about many planets beyond our solar system. Venus: The Mysterious Planet What can you see in the October sky? Join the global celebration of International Observe the Moon Night on Oct. 5th, then try to catch the ice giant planets Uranus and Neptune. What's Up Video: October 2019 Skywatching Tips from NASA Learn more about black holes, how to find them and how to stay safe should you ever get a chance to visit one. Guide To Black Hole Safety This image taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft shows sedimentary rock and sand within Danielson Crater, an impact crater about 42 miles or 67 kilometers in diameter, located in the ... Layers in Mars' Danielson Crater The latest view of Saturn from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures exquisite details of the ring system. Saturn's Rings Shine in Hubble Portrait	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1120
__label__wiki	0.907292	0.907292	National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Redirected from 911 Commission) The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, otherwise known as the 9-11 Commission, is an "independent, bipartisan commission created by congressional legislation and the signature of President George W. Bush in late 2002, chartered to prepare for the President and Congress a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks. The Commission is also mandated to provide recommendations designed to guard against future attacks." [1] Some Commission Members Called as Witnesses The commission was chaired by Thomas H. Kean, the former Governor of New Jersey. Interestingly, some of the commission members were also called by the Commission as witnesses ..." and other Bush administration officials raise serious questions about the objectivity of the commission." [2] Jamie S. Gorelick, who served in the William Jefferson Clinton Justice Department Philip D. Zelikow, Commission Executive Director, gave "testimony about national security issues before the commission." Zelikow's ties to George W. Bush's national security advisor Condoleezza Rice 1 Background and History 2 Public Hearings 4 Commission Members 5 Commission Staff 7 Related SourceWatch Resources 8.2 Articles & Commmentary 8.2.1 2001 The Bush Administration initially resisted the formation of the Commission, and subsequently obstructed and impeded its progress. [3] Ultimately, more money was spent investigating Clinton than investigating the 9-11 attacks. Archived video from all the public hearings, starting March 31, 2003, are available from C-SPAN Links to transcripts and articles related to the 8th public hearing on March 23-24, 2004 can be accessed at National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States: Testimony, National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States: Testimony (External Links), and, subsequently regarding the specific questioning of Dr. Condolleezza Rice, National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States: Testimony (Condoleezza Rice). The Commission's Final Report was issued on Thursday, July 22, 2004. Thomas H. Kean, Chairman Lee H. Hamilton, Vice Chairman Max Cleland replaced by Bob Kerrey in December 2003 Jamie S. Gorelick Slade Gorton John F. Lehman Timothy J. Roemer James R. Thompson Commission Staff Philip D. Zelikow, Executive Director Chris Kojm, Deputy Executive Director Daniel Marcus, General Counsel Al Felzenberg, Communications Director afelzenberg (at) 9-11commission.gov 301 7th Street, SW info (at) 9-11Commission.gov Related SourceWatch Resources 9/11 Report Critique 9-11 Truth Movement Bush administration homeland security Bush administration leaks Bush administration scandals Congressional Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 executive privilege Hart-Rudman Task Force on Homeland Security Just Four Moms from New Jersey Richard A. Clarke U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century / Hart-Rudman Commission 9-11 Attacks and Cover-up, Crisis Papers. Extensive links to emerging news reports and articles. Articles & Commmentary David Ensor, Transcript, CNN, January 16, 2001. Scroll down 4/5 of page to beginning: "Osama bin Laden has been a persistent thorn in the side of the Clinton administration, but it may now fall to Mr. Bush to decide how to respond if, as appears likely, the evidence becomes persuasive that bin Laden's group bombed the USS Cole in Yemen. ..." (Credit to Counterspin Central for finding this transcript.) Laura Blumenfeld, "Former Aide Takes Aim at War on Terror," Washington Post, June 16, 2003: "'The administration wasn't matching its deeds to its words in the war on terrorism. They're making us less secure, not more secure,' said Rand Beers, who until now has remained largely silent about leaving his National Security Council job as special assistant to the president for combating terrorism. 'As an insider, I saw the things that weren't being done. And the longer I sat and watched, the more concerned I became, until I got up and walked out.'" Jason Vest, "Why Warnings Fell on Deaf Ears," The American Prospect, June 17, 2003: "For the Bush administration, the Cold War never ended -- so al Qaeda had to get in line behind more serious enemies. ... What did the president know and when did he know it? Following revelations that the White House had reason to suspect an imminent al-Qaeda attack last year, even The New York Times has noted that the perennial post-Watergate question seems entirely appropriate. Nor should it be put exclusively to President Bush: In most countries, the directors of the internal and external security services would have resigned by now. ... Proponents of such blinkered defense priorities -- Andrew Marshall's Office of Net Assessment at the Pentagon, the Rumsfeld Commissions on ballistic missiles and space, and Frank Gaffney's private, defense contractor-funded Center for Security Policy come to mind -- have produced a steady stream of reports based on dubious methodology." David Corn, "The 9/11 Investigation: a Roadmap to Nowhere," The Nation (Utne.com), July 2, 2003. Laurence Arnold, "Sept. 11 Panel Chief Clarifies Remarks," Associated Press (The Agonist), September 19, 2003: "The chairman of a federal commission looking into the Sept. 11 attacks said Thursday that mistakes over many years left the United States vulnerable to such an attack, but he resisted pinning blame on either of the last two presidential teams." Philip Shenon, "9/11 Commission Could Subpoena Oval Office Files," New York Times (Common Dreams), October 26, 2003. Suzanne Goldenberg, "9/11 inquiry may subpoena White House," Guardian Unlimited (UK), October 27, 2003. Laurence Arnold, "Bush Asserts He's Helping 9-11 Commission," Associated Press (NewsMax, October 27, 2003: "President Bush said Monday his staff is cooperating with an independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks, but he stopped short of saying whether the White House would hand over top-level papers that may be subpoenaed. ... 'Those are very sensitive documents,' Bush said, adding that White House counsel Alberto R. Gonzales was working with Thomas Kean, chairman of the commission, on this issue." Op-Ed: "Facing the Truth of Sept. 11," New York Times, October 29, 2003: "The commission investigating the government's failures before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks is in danger of becoming a study in recalcitrance by the Bush administration. The independent commission's mandate is to supply a definitive account of the government's handling of the terrorist plot that killed almost 3,000 people. But the White House continues to fence with requests for classified documents crucial to the inquiry. ... The commission chairman, former Gov. Thomas Kean of New Jersey, a Republican, is threatening to subpoena the administration for documents that officials should forthrightly turn over. Among the key questions is the nature of an intelligence report to President Bush a month before the attacks -- only sketchily confirmed thus far by the White House -- that Al Qaeda might try to hijack passenger airplanes. ... How can an unstinting investigation of the truth of Sept. 11 not be of paramount concern to any official sworn to protect the public? The approaching presidential election makes the administration's evasions even more suspect. Failure to document and face the truth will only feed conspiracy theories and undermine the nation's chances of weathering future threats." Laurence Arnold, "9-11 Panel Votes to Subpoena Pentagon," Associated Press (APFN.net), November 7, 2003: The Commission "voted Friday to subpoena the Pentagon for documents related to the activities of U.S. air defenses on the day of the terrorist hijackings. ... The independent commission said it was 'especially dismayed' by incomplete document production on the part of the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, the part of the Defense Department responsible for protecting North American airspace." 21 "Sept 11 Commission to Subpoena NY City for Tapes," Reuters AlertNet, November 21, 2003: "...it had voted to demand the material 'crucial to its investigation that the city has failed to produce in response to a document request issued more than four months ago.' ... A city spokesman said handing over the material would violate the privacy of the victims and emergency responders." Op-Ed: "Stonewalling the 9/11 Commission" (abstract), New York Times, November 23, 2003: "...there is a key figure stubbornly refusing to hand over important data: Mayor Michael Bloomberg." Randall Pinkston, 17 "9/11 Chair: Attack Was Preventable," CBS News, December 17, 2003: "For the first time, the chairman of the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks is saying publicly that 9/11 could have and should have been prevented." Eric Boehlert, "What did Bush know and when did he know it? 9/11 Commission chairman Thomas Kean's suggestion that the administration could have prevented the terror attacks may signal a new, aggressive approach," Salon, December 19, 2003. W. David Kubiak, "Daschle PNACkles 'Commission Incredible'. Top Dem Mis-Kerrey's National 9/11 Probe," Houston Indymedia, December 20, 2003: "December 9th, two days after the 52nd anniversary of Pearl Harbor, the National 9/11 Commission itself was hit without warning by Tom Daschle's bombshell appointment of Iraq hawk Bob Kerrey to replace Max Cleland." Timothy J. Burger, "Condi and the 9/11 Commission. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice is apparently not keen on going under oath for the Kean 9/11 commission," TIME Online, December 23, 2003: "Two government sources tell TIME that National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice is arguing over ground rules for her appearance in part because she does not want to testify under oath or, according to one source, in public. While national security advisers are presidential staff and generally don't have to appear before Congress, the commission argues that its jurisdiction is broader--and it's been requiring fact witnesses in its massive investigation to testify under oath. The exception: it may not seek to swear in President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Bill Clinton or Al Gore in the increasingly likely event they will be asked to speak to the commission." Op-Ed: "Terrorism and Liberty," New York Times (The Freedom of Information Center), December 23, 2003: "After four years of work, a federal commission on terrorism issued its final report last week. The report was unremarkable except for one recommendation that shone brightly through the usual thicket of bureaucratic prose. Aggressive antiterrorism policies, the report suggested, when combined with increasingly sophisticated surveillance technologies, could have a 'chilling effect' on the right to privacy and other fundamental civil liberties. To prevent that from happening, the commission recommended that the White House establish a bipartisan panel to review how constitutional guarantees would be affected by all new laws and regulations aimed at enhancing national security." James Gordon Meek, "9/11 panelists eye Bush, Bill," New York Daily News, January 12, 2004: "The federal 9/11 commission has formally decided to ask President Bush and former President Bill Clinton to meet with the panel and to extend its investigation by several months. ... Vice President Cheney and former Clinton veep Al Gore also would be called,..." Dan Eggen, "9/11 Panel Unlikely to Get Later Deadline. Hearings Being Scaled Back to Finish Work by May; Top Officials Expected to Testify," Washington Post, January 19, 2004. Philip Shenon, "9/11 Panel Threatens to Issue Subpoena for Bush's Briefings," New York Times (Common Dreams), February 10, 2004: "Members of the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks warned the White House on Monday that it could face a politically damaging subpoena this week if it refused to turn over information from the highly classified Oval Office intelligence reports given to President Bush before 9/11." Gail Sheehy, "Stewardess ID'd Hijackers Early, Transcripts Show," The New York Observer (APFN.net), February 12, 2004. David Sirota, et al., "Sunday Show Stonewall," Center for American Progress, March 15, 2004: "On the one year anniversary of the Iraq invasion, the Bush Administration deployed Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice to the Sunday talk shows to defend their eroding credibility on the Iraq war. The trio refuses to admit any mistakes were made." Philip Shenon, "Clinton Aides Plan to Tell Panel of Warning Bush Team on Qaeda," New York Times, March 20, 2004: "... delivered in urgent post-election intelligence briefings in December 2000 and January 2001 for Condoleezza Rice, who became Mr. Bush's national security adviser; Stephen Hadley, now Ms. Rice's deputy; and Philip D. Zelikow, a member of the Bush transition team [and now Executive Director of the 9-11 Commission staff], among others. ... One official scheduled to testify, Richard A. Clarke, who was President Bill Clinton's counterterrorism coordinator, said in an interview that the warning about the Qaeda threat could not have been made more bluntly to the incoming Bush officials in intelligence briefings that he led." Scot J. Paltrow, "Government Accounts of 9/11 Reveal Gaps, Inconsistencies. Questions Arise About Who Put Nation on High Alert; A Threat to Air Force One? Panel Assembles Timeline," Wall Street Journal (The Smirking Chimp), March 22, 2004. Condoleezza Rice, "9/11: For The Record," Washington Times, March 22, 2004: "Despite what some have suggested, we received no intelligence that terrorists were preparing to attack the homeland using airplanes as missiles, though some analysts speculated that terrorists might hijack airplanes to try to free U.S.-held terrorists." Also see "Promoting Icon Condi" in the August 4, 2003, Daily Howler. Philip Shenon and David E. Sanger, "Bush Aides Block Clinton's Papers From 9/11 Panel," New York Times, April 2, 2004. Adam Entous, "Cheney Won't Back Down on Saddam-Qaeda Links-Aides," Reuters (The Agonist), June 17, 2004: In June 2004 the Commission stated that "we have no credible evidence that Iraq and al Qaeda cooperated on attacks against the United States". The assessment was one rejected by the Bush Administration. "The administration's statements rest on a solid foundation of history and facts. The record of links between Iraq and al Qaeda is clear to anyone who has open eyes and an open mind," a White House official said. Just Four Moms from New Jersey for background on establishment and progress of the Commission. National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States: Final Report released March 31, 2005. National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States: Media Accountability for the media's failure "to expose the inaccuracy of official claims during the run-up to the Iraq war." [4] Michael Bronner, "9/11 Live: The NORAD Tapes," Vanity Fair, August 1, 2006. Dan Eggen, "9/11 Panel Suspected Deception by Pentagon. Allegations Brought to Inspectors General," Washington Post, August 2, 2006. Retrieved from "https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Commission_on_Terrorist_Attacks_Upon_the_United_States&oldid=337325" Civil liberties (U.S.)	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1124
__label__cc	0.525966	0.474034	Environmental Defense Dances With DuPont On Nanotechnology In October 2005 DuPont and Environmental Defense (ED) announced a "partnership" with DuPont to "define a systematic and disciplined process that can be used to identify, manage and reduce potential health, safety and environmental risks of nano-scale materials across all lifecycle stages. This framework will then be pilot-tested on specific nano-scale materials or applications of commercial interest to DuPont." [1] In its media release, ED's Fred Krupp, stated that its "work to develop this partnership was supported in part by the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, a partnership of The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars." [2] What is the partnership all about? When DuPont and ED announced their "partnership" in October they provided only sketchy details on what exactly it would encompass. There were no copies of the detailed partnership agreement between the two or even a summary of its key elements. The partnership, the two groups identical media releases stated, "will begin to put into action the words of DuPont Chairman and CEO Chad Holliday and Environmental Defense President Fred Krupp in the June 14, 2005 edition of the Wall Street Journal". [3] In that column of just over 700 words the two acknowledged there were uncertainties about the possible impacts of nanotechnologies but cautioned that there was a need for and benefits for "thoughtful regulatory standards." "Could the novel properties that make nanoparticles so promising affect human health and ecosystems in a different way than more familiar larger particles? These and other questions must be answered. The hype surrounding nanotech drowns out the need for sound, disciplined research and commercialization guided by thoughtful regulatory standards," they wrote. Citing examples of technologies - such as DDT, leaded petrol and CFC's - where the environmental and social impacts have become apparent after they have been sold on a massive scale, Krupp and Halliday wrote. "An early and open examination of the potential risks of a new product or technology is not just good common sense -- it’s good business strategy," they wrote. [4] In their view the role of a colloboration aimes to reduce "potential liability and market risks" by involving academics, companies and non-government organisations in determining "what testing is necessary for new nanoproducts." More importantly for DuPont is that it sees the scope for EDF helping develop global interim standards that would enable it to proceed with proceeding with nanotech products before regulatory standards are developed. "A collaborative effort could set interim standards for nanotechnology around the world while regulations are under development," they wrote. [5] While Krupp and Halliday complained that the U.S. government only spends four percent of its current nantech budget assessing the social and environmental risks of the technology, a proportion, they wrote, which "becomes vanishingly small when you factor in private investment." "Government spending on nanotechnology should be reprioritized so that approximately 10% goes to this purpose. Compared to the estimated $1 trillion market for nanotechnology, this would be a wise insurance policy on such a high-potential investment," they argued. While Krupp and Halliday cite the statistics to argue for greater public expenditure on the potential impacts of nantoech, they made no comment on how they also reveal how little priority the nantoech corporations attach to assessing the risks of their developments. If the benefits are so great, why is it that the companies that stand to benefit so much are prepared to spend a lot less than four percent of their budgets on the potential impacts of the technology? "Can we reap the benefits while minimizing the risks? We believe we can. The key steps are identifying and addressing the risks," they conclude. "Current regulations, designed for a world before nanotechnology, should be reassessed and changed as needed to account for the novel properties of nanomaterials. Business and government may need new approaches to make sure workers, consumers, the public and the environment are adequately protected," they conclude. However, neither ED or DuPont eloborated on what regulations "should be reassessed and changed" or what they mean by "new approaches" to ensure the protection of the public. Other SourceWatch resources Chilling and Gassing with the Environmental Defense Fund DuPont and Nanotechnology Environmental Defense and Free Market Environmentalism Environmental Resources Trust Peter Sandman Fred Krupp and Chad Halliday, "Let's Get Nanotech Right: Environmentalists and Industry "Working Together"", Wall Street Journal, Opinion, June 14, 2005. "Mindfully.org note", Mindfully.org, June 14, 2005. "DuPont, Environmental Defense Create Framework for Nanotechnology", DuPont News, October 12, 2005. "Environmental Defense and DuPont: Global Nanotechnology Standards of Care Partnership", Environmental Defense, October 11, 2005. Jack Uldrich, "DuPont: The Truth Helps Nanotech", The Motley Fool, December 22, 2005. Retrieved from "https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Environmental_Defense_Dances_With_DuPont_On_Nanotechnology&oldid=147020"	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1125
__label__cc	0.533687	0.466313	Jay Tate What You Will See Secondary Schools & Colleges About NEOs Project DRAX in Detail Donate to Project DRAX DRAX News Building Diary Greenland ice sheet hides huge ‘impact crater’ Posted on 14 November 2018 by Jay Tate The 31km-wide depression came to light when scientists examined radar images of the island’s bedrock. Investigations suggest the feature was probably dug out by a 1.5km-wide iron asteroid sometime between about 12,000 and three million years ago. But without drilling through nearly 1km of ice to sample the bed directly, scientists can’t be more specific. “We will endeavour to do this; it would certainly be the best way to get the ‘dead fish on the table’, so to speak,” Prof Kurt Kjær, from the Danish Museum of Natural History, told BBC News. If confirmed, the crater would be the first of any size that has been found under one of Earth’s continental ice sheets. What does the crater look like? The putative impact crater is located right on the northwest margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet, underneath what is known as Hiawatha Glacier. Additional high-resolution radar imagery gathered by Prof Kjær’s team clearly shows a circular structure that is elevated at its rim and at its centre – both classic traits. But because the depression is covered by up to 980m of ice, the scientists have so far had to rely on indirect studies. What is the supporting evidence? Meltwaters running out from under Hiawatha Glacier into the Nares Strait carry sediments from the depression. In these sediments are quartz grains which have been subjected to enormous shock pressures, of the type that would be experienced in an impact. Other river sediments have revealed unusual ratios in the concentrations of different metals. “The profile we saw was an enrichment of rhodium, a depletion of platinum, and an enrichment of palladium,” explained team-member Dr Iain McDonald, from Cardiff University, UK. “We got very excited about this because we realised we weren’t looking at a stony meteorite, but an iron meteorite – and not just any old iron meteorite; it had to be quite an unusual composition.” Such metal objects that fall to Earth are thought to be the smashed up innards of bodies that almost became planets at the start of the Solar System. The signatures identified by Dr McDonald are relatively close to those in iron meteorite fragments collected at Cape York not far from the Hiawatha site. It’s not inconceivable, the team argues, that the Cape York material represents pieces that came away from the main asteroid object as it moved towards its collision with Earth. What are the doubts? One concerns the absence of any trace of the impact in several cores that have been drilled through the ice sheet to the south. At the very least, these might have been expected to incorporate the dust that fell out of the sky after the event. The other head-scratcher is the absence in the vicinity of the Hiawatha site of any rocky material that would have been ejected outwards from the crater on impact. Prof Kjær says these missing signatures might be explained by a very shallow angle of impact that took most of the ejecta to the north. And if the fall-out area was covered in ice, it’s possible any debris was later transported away. “We know that at one time the Greenland Ice Sheet was joined to the Canadian Ice Sheet, and flowed out into the Nares Strait. If you wanted to find this material today, you’d have to do deep drilling in the ocean,” Prof Kjær explained. What are the age constraints? The team knows the crater must be older than roughly 12,000 years because the undisturbed ice layers above the depression can be lined up with the layers in drill cores that have been directly dated. And they estimate an age younger than three million years based on an assessment of likely rock erosion rates, both within the crater and on nearby terrains. But the only way to get a definitive age for the crater would be to drill down and collect rocks for laboratory dating. How does this connect with other ideas? If the impact was right at near-end of the age window then it will surely re-ignite interest in the so-called Younger Dryas impact hypothesis. The Younger Dryas was a period of strong cooling in the middle of the climatic warming that occurred as the Earth emerged from the height of last ice age. Some have argued that an asteroid impact could have been responsible for this cooling blip – and the accompanying extinction of many animal groups that occurred at the same time across North America. Others, though, have been critical of the hypothesis, not least because no crater could be associated with such an event. The Hiawatha depression is likely now to fan the dying embers of this old debate. Dr Mathieu Morlighem, a team-member from the University of California, Irvine, US, commented: “When you think about it, the bed below the ice sheets has to have impact craters that have not been explored yet, and there may even be some in Antarctica as well, but more radar measurements are necessary to locate them, and dating them is extremely challenging.” ‹ NASA’s Dawn asteroid mission ends as fuel runs out An exploding meteor may have wiped out ancient Dead Sea communities › Select Month January 2020 December 2019 November 2019 October 2019 September 2019 August 2019 July 2019 June 2019 May 2019 April 2019 March 2019 February 2019 January 2019 December 2018 November 2018 October 2018 September 2018 August 2018 July 2018 June 2018 May 2018 April 2018 March 2018 February 2018 January 2018 December 2017 November 2017 October 2017 September 2017 August 2017 July 2017 June 2017 May 2017 April 2017 March 2017 February 2017 January 2017 December 2016 November 2016 October 2016 September 2016 August 2016 July 2016 June 2016 May 2016 April 2016 March 2016 February 2016 January 2016 December 2015 November 2015 October 2015 September 2015 August 2015 July 2015 June 2015 May 2015 April 2015 March 2015 February 2015 January 2015 December 2014 November 2014 October 2014 September 2014 August 2014 July 2014 June 2014 May 2014 April 2014 March 2014 February 2014 January 2014 December 2013 November 2013 October 2013 September 2013 August 2013 July 2013 June 2013 May 2013 April 2013 March 2013 February 2013 January 2013 December 2012 November 2012 October 2012 September 2012 August 2012 July 2012 June 2012 May 2012 April 2012 March 2012 February 2012 January 2012 December 2011 November 2011 October 2011 September 2011 August 2011 July 2011 June 2011 May 2011 April 2011 March 2011 February 2011 January 2011 December 2010 November 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 January 2010 December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 January 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 The Spaceguard Centre is a working observatory, and the main source of information about near Earth objects in the UK. 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__label__cc	0.697179	0.302821	A Guide to Chinese Idioms and Chengyu, Not Just a List Having lived in China for three years - and studied the language for just as long - I would like to think I've picked up a few things along the way. I'll let you decide. More posts by Robert Bailey. Chinese idioms are called chengyu. If you’re learning Chinese, you have probably come across them before. Long lists of them, put together by other learners, or possibly teachers. But if you see one outside of a guide, how do you know something is a Chengyu? How do you know when you should be using them? This article is not just another ‘chengyu dictionary’. This is a look at why Chengyu work and how you can use them, with a few examples tacked on for good measure. Chengyu have changed over time. What Makes a Chengyu? There are a few ways in which you can identify a Chengyu: • They are 4 characters long • They tend to be said on their own • They don’t follow a typical SVO (subject, verb, object) sentence structure Why Chengyu Work Chengyu work because they take a longer sentence and make it shorter. Chinese idioms in English can sound strange because of this. In fact, direct translations of the Chinese often sound like garbled and incomplete sentences. However, this briefness – for many Chinese listeners – adds a kind of wisdom to them. It also happens to make them more convenient than full sentences. Another reason why Chengyu are so important is because in the past, chengyu were used solely by the wealthy. This was because they were the only ones in society who could attend school and learn them. By using Chengyu, you’re showing that not only do you have an understanding of old Chinese culture and language, but also that you’re intelligent. When to Use Chengyu Some learners think that Chengyu can be pulled out at any time and in any place. Whilst it’s obviously possible to always open your mouth, that doesn’t mean you should. For instance, in some situations, it's a good idea to whisper one to a friend. Yet in others, to do this would defeat its purpose. Sure, you may have a quiet snicker at it, but that's not exactly why Chengyu were developed. To make things clearer, we’re going to split Chengyu into two different practical categories: genuine and sarcastic. Genuine Chengyu Genuine chengyu are sincere. They try to get to the root of a problem in as few characters as possible. Genuine chengyu are best said in a group situation, where multiple people can hear you. 人山人海 rén shān rén hǎi People mountain people sea 人山人海 is an invaluable chengyu if you’re living in - or visiting - China, which is why we’ve put it at the top of our list. It means when a place has so many people that they somehow come to look like a mountain or a sea. You can actually see sights like this pretty much every holiday season at any tourism site. The Great Wall, The Forbidden City, Hangzhou, Shanghai, and more. 卧虎藏龙 wò hǔ cáng long You might recognize this from the movie which came out in 2000 (and the subsequent Netflix sequel). However, this is more than just a movie title. 卧虎藏龙 refers to those who have hidden talents. Those hidden talents don’t just have to be kungfu. They can be anything. 逍遥法外 xiāo yáo fǎ wài Outside the law Use to refer to people who break the law but get away with it. In modern-day China, this is a very negative thing. It is more than just a criticism of an individual, but a criticism of the culture. You might hear Chinese people say this to one another, but it's not a good idea for you, as a foreigner, to say this to a Chinese person. Sarcastic Chengyu Sarcastic Chengyu are those which once meant something a long time ago, but which modern society has rejected as somewhat archaic. These are funny Chinese idioms, which can help make a situation a little more light-hearted. For instance: 花花公子 huā huā gōng zǐ Flower boy (Playboy) Whilst in western culture, comparing a man to a flower might be rather feminizing, in China it’s quite the opposite. In fact, a flower boy (or man) is comparable to a playboy. It is a man who spends his life partying, drinking, and exhibiting other somewhat impolite behaviour. This is often used in KTVs or places where people tend to spend a lot of time spending lots of money on nothing in particular. In the past, this chengyu had connotations of laziness and being a negative influence on society. These days, however, it’s taken a bit less seriously. Still, don’t call strangers this, keep it between friends. 行尸走肉 xíng shī zǒu ròu Dead Meat Walking Dead Meat Walking has come to be used more and more frequently as China has become a more prosperous country. Whereas in the past it was customary to submerge yourself in your work – spending all hours of the day in the office or at the factory, before finally coming home to eat and fall asleep – an increasing number of young people want more from life. These days, 行尸走肉 can be used to tell a person to relax a little or stop working as hard. It’s like having a friend who works every evening and saying “Yeah, you’re looking good as a zombie!” 相见恨晚 xiāng jiàn hèn wǎn Hate to Meet each other too late You probably know that feeling when you meet someone and you just click. You don't know why, but for some reason, it feels as though you've known each other for centuries. This is what 相见恨晚 means. it's a Chengyu to show fondness and a strong relationship - whether that's friendship or romantic. It's a good one to use with new people and will make almost any Chinese conversation partner happy. If you really want to get good at chengyu, try reading a Chinese novel and see if you can spot any. Then, see if you can guess what their meaning is and check it by looking online. Alternatively, next time you're conversing in Chinese, try popping out one of them mid-sentence. Good luck! More in Chinese An Introduction To Measure Words In Mandarin Chinese The Ultimate Guide to Business Words You Need to Learn in Chinese 12 Jul 2019 – 6 min read The 5 Stages of Becoming a Native-Like English Speaker Acquiring native-like fluency in any language is hard in itself if you're only focused on the end game. However, if you break the entire process of reaching the highest level Jasmin Alić Jasmin Alić 19 Oct 2017 • 6 min read Top 6 Books To Help You Learn French Parlez-vous Français? Not really, but would you like and also need to learn how to? What if we told you that you will master this language? Oh, Mon Dieu! As Georgiana Paun Georgiana Paun 17 Oct 2017 • 5 min read	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1134
__label__wiki	0.636075	0.636075	SPIA professor is recipient of APSA lifetime achievement award By: Shelby Steuart Professor of Public Administration and Policy and PhD Program Director J. Edward Kellough was recently awarded the American Political Science Association’s 2019 John Gaus Award and Lectureship. APSA is the premier association for political science conferences and publications and publishes four academic journals. The John Gaus Award and Lectureship is awarded annually to honor a lifetime of exemplary scholarship in the joint tradition of political science and public administration. Dr. Kellough has been a faculty member at UGA since 1988 and previously served as the Department Head of Public Administration and Policy and MPA Director. He specializes primarily in the field of public personnel management, with recently published articles addressing issues such as decreased diversity associated with government contractors and affirmative action in the public sector. Dr. Kellough is an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. Previously, he served as President of the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA), was a member of the NASPAA Executive Council and served on the NASPAA Commission on Peer Review and Accreditation. He is currently on the editorial boards of numerous academic journals. Dr. Kellough will formally accept the award in August at the annual APSA meeting. Congratulations on this major lifetime achievement!	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1135
__label__cc	0.64829	0.35171	Prepare now for that career after college By ANDREW SOULSBY We spend several years at college studying for exams and mid-terms, sacrificing our social lives in the process. We do this for that one piece of paper that says “We did it! We made it through alive!” But what next? If this is a question that keeps you up at night, look no further than Conestoga’s Co-op and Career Services for help. Career Services, which is managed by Lori Shadrach, aims to help students with everything related to finding a job after their program finishes. This includes resume and cover letter critiques to mock interviews and workshops. In fact, last week at Doon campus, Career Services held its annual Canada Career Week to promote a series of workshops aimed toward helping students with obtaining jobs in their chosen profession. In order for students to attend these workshops, they were required to sign up on Conestoga’s MyCareer website. MyCareer can be accessed through the student portal section of the Conestoga website under the Services tab. The site itself contains a plethora of resources students can use, such as job postings, career events and career direction information. Interested in studying or working abroad? By clicking the Career Directions tab under the Career heading, all the information you need to prepare for learning and earning abroad is at your fingertips. Craig Black, Conestoga’s Co-op & Career Services marketing and events co-ordinator, said students often wait to plan and prepare for life after college at the last minute, leading to a frenzied dash to make professional resumes and cover letters and, in some instances, building a portfolio that showcases the work they’ve accumulated over the duration of their program. Can’t find what you’re looking for on the website? You can contact Career Services and Advising at 519-748-5220, ext. 2298 for more information and individual appointments, or email them at cspry@conestogac.on.ca.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1137
__label__cc	0.701641	0.298359	Taste the world at Vincenzo’s By BEN STODDARD From Magma hot sauce to hundreds of cheese varieties, Vincenzo’s has it all. The independent grocery store, at 150 Caroline St. S. in Waterloo, focuses primarily on imported foods and hard to find items. It is also known for competitive prices and its sandwiches. The store first opened in 1967 as Italian Canadian Foods in the home of Vincenzo and Rita Caccioppoli. The store is currently owned and operated by Vincenzo’s sons, Tony and Carmine, who renamed the store Vincenzo’s after they took over in 1992. “We just opened our current location last year,” Tony Caccioppoli said. The store remained in Vincenzo’s home until 1992 when it moved to Belmont in Kitchener. “When the store started, it was mostly just Italian customers; barely a word of English was spoken in the store. Now we get pretty much everyone.” The second you step inside, you are greeted by foreign music on the radio. The first thing you see is their assorted chocolates, at least half of which is imported. There are kitchen gadgets to the left and Asian sauces to the right. The store is crowded with racks of food and small aisles, but it’s cleanly organized and there’s still enough room to move around. Customers are never more than six metres away from one of Vincenzo’s fresh food counters. They have pizza, pasta, lasagna, meat and everything you can find in a regular grocery store. They also have an ice cream bar near their frozen food section, which includes all the regular flavours as well as pineapple, hazelnut and pumpkin pie. “Our most popular items are our prepared foods, especially our sandwiches,” Caccioppoli said. “We have over 700 kinds of cheeses. We get even more around the holidays – especially Swiss cheeses. We try to get every kind of cheese available. Some is locally made and some is from the other side of the world. We also have 150 kinds of olive oil.” For snacks, they have everything from common chips and nuts to rare items you wouldn’t think to look for. There are maple roasted soybeans, cinnamon popcorn, and even candied salmon. They have a wide variety of spreads, including hazelnut and vanilla spread, plenty of imported jams and a large variety of mustards – even green mustard. There are racks full of couscous and other forms of rice. There is also a large variety of pasta in every shape, brand and even colour. Some of their pasta is even striped with five colours on each ribbon. There is lots of pasta sauce available as well, much of it imported from Italy. Customers can also browse a rack full of barbecue and hot sauces. The hot sauces range from “Pappy’s sauce for babies” to “Mega Death Sauce” and “Jerry’s Brain Damage Mind Blowing hot sauce.” Another sauce called “Magma hot sauce” is clear with red liquids that flow around when you shake the bottle. Unique salts and spices include oak-smoked sea salt, habanero blend and green peppercorn. Vincenzo’s is open 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. on weekdays and 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturdays, but it’s closed on Sundays. To find out more about the store’s history or read their prepared food menu, visit www.vincenzosonline.com.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1138
__label__wiki	0.916221	0.916221	James Conner ‘Feeling Very Good’, Says There Was No Setback Last Week For the moment, the Pittsburgh Steelers are anticipating getting running back James Conner back for tomorrow night’s game against the Cleveland Browns. But that doesn’t mean he is going to be back at 100 percent. In fact, he knows he’s not. Conner suffered a shoulder injury during a 145-yard rushing performance against the Miami Dolphins, which was clearly his best game of the season to date. But he left that game late with the injury, and he has had to sit out the past two weeks. As he returns, he understands that things are now about pain management. “I’m making a lot of progress on it, and I think I’ll be good to go”, Conner said after practicing, via Brooke Taylor of ESPN. “I can’t make no guarantees, but as of right now, I’m feeling very good and things are feeling very confident for me playing on Thursday”. Good enough to play, sure, but he’ll still feel it. Either way, they need him, and he knows it. “I just want to contribute to the run game when I get back”, he said, emphasizing that they have been playing some good defenses. Conner did practice on Wednesday last week, on a limited basis, but was held out for the rest of the week. He told Taylor that there wasn’t anything behind that, that he simply wanted to get out there on that first day. “I didn’t take a step back, just really was like a trial”, he said. “Seeing how it felt. That’s the main thing we preach, no steps back. I just wanted to be out there with the guys again and just being around some football, going through walkthroughs, catching a couple passes. I kind of knew where I was at, but I wanted to get back out there like a little trial”. Whenever a player goes from full to limited participation, or any level of participation to none at all, it raises red flags, and is taken as a setback, but according to Conner, that wasn’t the case. That should instill more confidence in the fact that he has been out there this week, and that he is tracking toward playing. How effective will he be taking contact again for the first time in weeks, on his injured shoulder? That remains to be seen. He did say that he has no plans on altering his running style, which many believe has been a contributing factor to the injuries that he has dealt with. Related Items:James Conner 2019 Player Exit Meetings – RB James Conner Buy Or Sell: Running Back A High-Priority Draft Need In 2020 2020 Stock Watch – RB James Conner – Stock Down	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1139
__label__wiki	0.622138	0.622138	Music and Performing Arts Professions Ensembles Percussion Chamber Music Ensemble is dedicated to preserving the seminal works of the past, while continuing to push the envelope and explore new and diverse music. Each year the ensemble presents several unique performances, collaborating with composers from around the world, and continuing to enrich the marimba repertoire. Boyar and his ensemble constantly strive to break down boundaries between classical and popular music. The ensemble has collaborated with many well-known artists including: Javier Diaz, Daniel Levitan, Andy Thomas, Peter Fish, and Robert Miller. Recent significant performances include the world premiere of Emmy award-winning composer Peter Fish’s Four: Marimba, the premiere of Mike Garson’s Sonata for Mallets, and a new arrangement of Steve Reich’s Electric Counterpoint. Percussion Chamber Music Ensemble is open solely to Instrumental Performance majors. One short selected solo on either mallet percussion, snare drum, timpani, or multiple percussion Rehearsal Information MPAPS-UE/GE 1090/2190.002, Professor Simon Boyar, 0 - 3 Credits, Fall and Spring, Thursday from 7:00 - 10:00pm José / beFORe JOHN5 - Aurel Hollo Aurel Hollo is a member of the critically acclaimed Hungarian Amadinda Percussion Quartet. In addition to his percussion playing, he is noted for his composition and teaching abilities, holding a position at the Bela Bartok Conservatory Budapest. This flurry of a quartet utilizes a multitude of percussive instruments and playing techniques. José / beFORe JOHN5 begins with a rousing pattern of handclaps that lay the foundation for the Spanish feel of the composition. Two marimba players then present the relentless thematic material. The performers execute the lines while standing on opposite sides of the instrument, evenly splitting each phrase in quick note groupings of two and three. Meanwhile, the other two percussionists provide a variety of punctuation, swiftly changing between grooves and impact points. The sonic palate includes instruments such as cajon, castagnettes, burma gongs, talking drums, and tambourine. After much variation, a cut time section leads into a marimba solo that catapults the piece into a breakdown where all players play non-pitched instruments. The concluding section showcases a rather unconventional percussion instrument: the guitar. Rattan rods are used to transform this string instrument and drive the composition to a vivacious finale. (Matthew Overbay) Mallet Quartet, Mvt. I - Steve Reich Mallet Quartet by Steve Reich is scored for two five-octave marimbas and two vibraphones. This piece is broken into 3 movements. The outer movements have the marimbas playing a predominantly static accompaniment part for the vibraphone to play over. What makes the vibraphone parts so interesting is that the vibraphone 1 player presents the melodic information in each new section and the vibraphone 2 part responds in canon. It creates the effect of an echo, having each part bounce off one another. The second movement is beautifully juxtaposed in how sparse the orchestration is in comparison, giving it a “thinner” quality. With the marimbas and vibraphones playing mostly quarter notes and half notes, the second movement has a unique depth and expression in the body of the piece. It is interesting to note that this was Steve Reich’s first exploration into the world of five-octave marimba writing. It was co-commissioned by the Amadinda Quartet in Budapest, on the occasion of its 25th Anniversary, Nexus in Toronto, So Percussion in New York, Synergy Percussion in Australia, and Soundstreams in Canada. The world Premiere was given by the Amadinda Quartet in Bela Bartók National Concert Hall on December 6, 2009. The American Premiere was given by So Percussion at Stanford University Lively Arts in California on January 9, 2010. (Sean Perham) Simon Boyar, Director	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1141
__label__wiki	0.552918	0.552918	Diocesan Resources / Links Time, Talent & Treasure Gifts of Treasure Helping the Needy & Poor St. Mary of the Assumption Maple Park, Illinois A Parish of the Diocese of Rockford About 1853, Farther Patrick O'Dwyer became the first resident pastor of St. Patrick Parish, St. Charles. Shortly after this he built the first church in what is now known as Maple Park. This wooden structure was built on the northeast corner of the current Watson and Keslinger Roads, and was then know as “Barney Hill.” This site is about four miles east and south of Maple Park. In these days Maple Park was officially known as Lodi. Father O’Dwyer said Mass here occasionally for Catholics, many of whom left Ireland in the 1840s during the potato famine. Sometimes priests came from DeKalb – Father John McMullen, later the first Bishop of Davenport, Iowa, and Father John B. Murray, who was pastor at DeKalb in 1861. This early church was eventually moved to DeKalb. In 1861, Lodi was attached to DeKalb as a mission. Reverend John McMullen erected a new and larger church in Lodi. Lodi became known as Maple Part in 1863. Father Richard J. McGuire came to Maple Park as the first resident pastor in 1871. In 1899, the Hook and Hastings Organ Company in Boston built a pipe organ for a church in Joliet. When the Joliet parish constructed a new church in 1923 the organ was purchased by St. Mary Parish and moved to the Maple Park Church. Father John H. Whelan (1913-1918) became pastor in 1913. On September 1, 1913, construction was begun on the present church and rectory. Mass was celebrated in the chapel attached to the church on February 15, 1914, and in the church itself the following Sunday. Bishop Peter J. Muldoon dedicated the church on June 25, 1914, under the title of St. Mary of the Assumption. When war was declared, Father Whelan enlisted in the army as chaplain and left the parish in June, 1918. The following July, Father Francis S. Porcella (1918-1939) came to Maple Park as its pastor. He was the resident pastor here for twenty years. In 1967, under the pastorate of Father James C. Novak, OSB (1961-1994), an Education Center was built. This center, now known as the Novak Center in honor of Father Novak, is still used for CCD classes, as well as many parish activities. In 1994, under the pastorate of Father Patrick Corbally (1985-1994), the old St. Mary Cemetery south of town was rededicated. Also that year, the Madonna della Strada Shrine was erected in front of the church. A history and souvenir booklet on the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the dedication of our church building on June 25, 2014, was compiled, printed, and assembled by Delores Likeum and volunteers. It contains many pictures and a more detailed history. Effective June 18, 2018, Rev. Ariel Valencia serves as parochial administrator of two parishes (St. Mary Parish in Maple Park, Ss. Peter and Paul Parish in Virgil). Retired Rev. Msgr. Thomas Dzielak moved into the St. Mary Parish rectory in July, 2016, and is assisting Fr. Valencia with parish duties. On June 26, 2019, Fr. Ariel Valencia was installed as pastor of St. Mary's and Ss. Peter & Paul parishes by Bishop David J. Malloy. As of June 30, 2018, there are approximately 160 families registered at the parish. Clergy history in Maple Park and St. Mary of the Assumption Parish (1851-1861) Various priests from the Diocese of Chicago (including Rev. William Feeley) (1861) Rev. John McMullen (186?-1871) Revs. Murray, Scott, and Walsh (all resided in DeKalb) (1871) Rev. R.H. McGuire (First resident pastor) (1872-1879) Rev. James Maloney (1879-1883) Rev. Paul Halbmaier (1883-1884) Rev. Otto Groenebaum (1884) Revs. T. O'Sullivan and Coughlin (1884-1886) Rev. W.I. Revis (1886-1890) Rev. James M. Hagen (1890-1891) Rev. R.H. McGuire (returns-see 1871) (1891-1897) Rev. Anthony Royer (1897) Rev. M. Orth (1897-1912) Rev. F.J. Hartmann (1912-1913) Rev. Th. Smith (1913-1918) Rev. John H. Whelan (1918-1939) Rev. F.S. Porcella (1939-1944) Rev. Charles Meehan (1944-1961) Rev. Msgr. Francis Conron (1961-1969) Rev. James C. Novak, OSB (1969-1970) Rev. Alfred Kruk (1970-1972) Rev. James McKitrick (1972-1982) Rev. William Kriegsman (1982-1985) Rev. Robert Sweeney (1985-1994) Rev. Patrick D. Corbally (1994-2006) Rev. Msgr. William Clausen (2006-2010) Rev. Joachim Tyrtania (2008-Present) Deacon Gregory Urban (Permanent Deacon) (2010-2011) Rev. Godwin Asuquo (2011-2014) Rev. Dennis Morrissy (2015) Rev. Moises Apostol (2015-2018) Rev. Perfecto Vasquez (July 2016-Present) Rev. Msgr. Thomas Dzielak (retired, in residence) (2018-Present) Rev. Ariel Valencia © 2014-2020 The Church of St. Mary of the Assumption, Maple Park, IL	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1144
__label__cc	0.609173	0.390827	Courage in Espresso Brown Thai Handcrafted Espresso Brown Leather Wristband, 'Courage in Espresso Brown' Chaloemphon designs a handsome wristband that highlights the organic elegance of fine leather. The minimalist design is accentuated by a brass buckle that closes the bracelet at the desired length. Leather, brass Buckle clasp Chaloemphon "Leather craft is more than a source of income — through leather, I also meet many new friends around the world." "I'm Chaloemphon Krasear, but you can call me 'Noi.' I was born in 1959 and grew up in Khonkaen Province. My childhood was very simple, like that of other boys who loved traveling and playing. I liked studying art most of all because I could create by completely using my imagination, and didn't need to memorize a lot. "When I was in high school, I had an elder friend who just finished studying at the art school in Bangkok. He came back to open a shop and sell handmade leather crafts, like shoes, bags, and such. I'd visit him at the shop when I had free time because I needed his advice on taking the college examination and studying. Poh-Chang College, where he went, is the art student's dream school. There were many fields of arts to specialize in. "I learned his craft through visiting. I studied each step to produce items in leather. When he had too many orders to handle, I would be his assistant. Most of the tasks I helped him with were very simple, such as finishing the details of a piece, painting, tinting, and drawing. "I had practiced my drawing until I could pass the college exam. Then I could apply to study arts, as I had imagined. I selected the faculty of National Fine Arts, which focuses on the Thai Arts — for example, making khon masks. These are traditional Thai masks which are used for important ceremonies. In the past, these were used only by his majesty the King and the royal family. It's very hard to find the khon show at present. It represents the arts of Thailand in many ages. "After that, I started to do airbrush paintings on bicycles. It was very famous at that time. "Then, I open a small leather shop in Khonkaen province. Unfortunately, it wasn't as successful as it should have been because I loved to give my work to my friends as souvenirs. So the income wasn't enough to continue the business. Therefore, I decided to pack the materials in box and move to Chiang Mai. "I had worked in interior design for hotels and resorts. Since Chiang Mai has become a tourist city with many attractions, I decided to go back to Khon Kaen and bring all my leftover craft supplies to start working in handmade leather again in Chiang Mai. I not only create leather bags and belts to sell, but also repair these things. "Working with leather is never boring and I've never felt like giving up. The most important material is cowhide. It is very resistant and can be used long-term. I must plan very well how to cut the leather to minimize waste. Then, the cut leather is put together by hand. Each process — cutting, sewing and dyeing — all are done by hand. "I always love to learn about new handmade leather products in order to develop new designs of my own. Leather craft is more than a source of income — through leather, I also meet many new friends around the world. Some of them are tourists who bring me leather goods to repair or come to buy a new leather belt. "My wife sews the bags. We are very happy to work together. We also provide opinions and support to each other, always. Many times, my wife inspired new designs, so they are now more diverse. I've sold more to women shoppers, as well. My wife keeps the waste leather to cut into many different shapes to decorate fabric bags or create the small key chains we give to our customers as gifts. "When someone asks about the process of leather craft or wants to learn, I am willing to teach them gladly. "I've been doing this in Chiang Mai since 1986. It's been a happy time and I've enjoined my work a lot. I have a small, warm family. My daughter is going to graduate in nursing and she is also a special violin teacher. My wife, our daughter and I enjoy music every evening. My wife plays the cello, I play guitar, and our daughter plays the violin. That's it — my happy family. "I really hope that you will be very happy with my designs and I look forward to your feedback. Thank you." By Chaloemphon This item was handmade in Thailand by NOVICA artisan borrowers. Kiva lenders have helped these artisans stock up on materials, buy more tools and grow their businesses.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1147
__label__wiki	0.601465	0.601465	The military’s love affair with computer-based training needs to change No, hazing doesn't teach discipline. It actually does the opposite Right makes might: How the US will lose its strategic advantage if it loses its ethics The US is headed for a reckoning between its military ambitions and its budget carl vs. carl No, SEALs don’t need ‘slack’ from their elite standards Carl Forsling Editor's Note: The following is an op-ed. The opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Task & Purpose. The commander of the US Navy Special Operations Command, Rear Admiral Collin Green, issued a letter to his subordinates last week telling them that there is a problem with discipline within the SEALs that must be addressed immediately. It's been obvious for awhile that there is something dysfunctional within special operations generally, and naval special warfare in particular. Special operations forces are famously afforded latitude in certain regulations not given to conventional forces. Those are supposed to be for legitimate operational reasons, such as modified grooming and uniform standards for working with indigenous forces. They aren't supposed to be a reward for being "special." The SEALs, while undoubtedly having done more than their share in the conflicts of the past two decades, are still subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice, as are all those wearing the nation's uniform. Cue the reaction from the usual suspects, such as former SEAL and disgraced political operative Carl Higbie. In an open letter published on August 1, Higbie wrote, "...cut us some slack if we want to have a few beers in Iraq between gunfights," referring to the recent case where a SEAL platoon was sent home after being caught drinking. He correctly pointed out that drinking while deployed isn't exactly unprecedented behavior among service members, making it sound as if they were expelled by some prudish teetotaler for sneaking a fifth of Jack into the country. Actually, there was an allegation of sexual assault against a member of the platoon and the rest of the unit decided to not cooperate with the investigation. With that bit of context, perhaps senior leaders were right to give the SEALs a little extra scrutiny. Most leaders might overlook someone sipping a drink or smoking a cigar behind the CONEX. They can't ignore someone allegedly being assaulted and that being covered up. But in Higbie's words, "....cut us — and quite frankly any other soldier who is willing to die for his or her country — some slack." Is that "cutting slack" inclusive of cocaine use, sexual assault, and murder? While the SEALs seem to have conduct issues disproportionate to the size of their organization, this idea that service — especially combat service — somehow earns one a free pass, seems to have some currency today. War is indisputably horrible, and sometimes it calls for brutality in order to accomplish a mission. The types and limits of that brutality are described in detail in any number of laws and rules, from the UCMJ to the Law of Armed Conflict. Being in the military doesn't exempt you from rules — it actually affirmatively subjects you to them. It's adherence and enforcement of such rules that distinguishes members of legitimate armed forces from mercenaries, criminals, and terrorists. The most important rules undoubtedly involve conduct on the battlefield itself, but good conduct is not something one can just turn on and off like a light switch. Militaries with poor conduct and discipline in garrison will have the same in battle. As the saying goes, "take care of the little things and the big things take care of themselves." While it's easy to glamorize the SEALs for their rightfully earned status as an elite force, they aren't exempt from the discipline and adherence to orders and regulations that holds the U.S. military together. Service members don't get to choose which orders are necessary and which are for POGs. There's a reason that one can usually tell a good unit from a bad one within five minutes of stepping through the quarterdeck. Building a unit without the foundations of good discipline is like building a house on sand. This is not to say that good leadership is just an exercise in martinet-like enforcement of frivolous and inconsequential rules. Discipline untempered by judgment and mercy can easily descend into petty cruelty. But those excusing crimes on account of how elite or brave a service member might be are missing a critical piece of what defines selfless service. Service doesn't earn one the slack of getting a lower standard. It earns the honor of maintaining higher standards. Carl Forsling is a senior columnist for Task & Purpose. He is a Marine MV-22B pilot and former CH-46E pilot who retired from the military after 20 years of service. He is the father of two children and a graduate of Boston University and The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Follow him on Twitter @CarlForsling opinion navy seal carl vs. carl	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1151
__label__wiki	0.77091	0.77091	Colt's legendary Python six-shooter is back and better than ever You can now score your very own Army surplus M17 pistol for a limited time Navy could decide whether to approve the I-Boot 5 early next year You can now score your very own version of the US military's compact new M18 pistol Should Soldiers Be Able To Choose Their Barrel Length? Marty Skovlund Jr. A member of the 75th Ranger Regiment takes aim with a SCAR. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Ryan S. Debooy via the 75th Ranger Regiment Facebook page. In August 2009, the Rangers of C Company, 1st Ranger Battalion became the first U.S. soldiers to deploy as a unit with the FN-Herstal SOF Combat Assault Rifle, or SCAR. After months of training with the new weapon, which comes in 5.56mm and 7.62mm variants, the Rangers were ready to test the SCAR in combat. Whether or not the rifle became a permanent addition to the Ranger arsenal depended on how well it held up in the treacherous mountains of eastern Afghanistan, where the unit was deployed to disrupt some of the most well-equipped and active terrorist cells operating in the region. The new rifle was a significant departure from the M4A1 SOPMOD previously issued to the unit. The biggest difference was that with the SCAR, soldiers could swap in barrels of different lengths, depending on the mission. A U.S. Army Ranger from B Company, 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, fires a Special Operations Forces Combat Assault Rifle (SCAR) during a close quarter marksmanship range in Fort Hunter Liggett, Calif., Jan. 25, 2014.U.S. Army Photo by Pfc. Rashene Mincy To the uninitiated, this might not seem like a big deal, but the Rangers can go from landing on the ‘X’ and clearing a compound one night, to conducting long-range patrols to a distant target the next. In a place like eastern Afghanistan, the nature of the fighting can be as varied as the landscape itself. The ability to quickly tailor a rifle to meet individual mission requirements, as opposed to being stuck with a 14-inch standard barrel for every op, was a welcome change for many of the Rangers in C Company. By the time the four-month deployment was over, the SCAR had earned their seal of approval. With battles being fought on multiple continents in a variety of climes and a new commander-in-chief devoted to spending more money on defense, is it time for the rest of the military to consider a multi-barrel, modular rifle platform like the SCAR? We have seen the Department of Defense spend billions on far more ambitious projects in recent years, like non-stop upgrades to the Abrams tank or the hotly debated F-35 fighter. The SCAR has already been combat-tested, and fielding it throughout the armed forces could have an immediate impact on the battlefield. If the Pentagon is about to have more money at its disposal, the SCAR deserves serious consideration for force-wide issue. The SCAR’s cold hammer-forged, chrome-lined, free-floating barrels come in three different lengths, depending on your version: the 5.56mm Mk-16 offers 10, 14, or 18-inch barrels, and the 7.62mm Mk-17 accommodates a 13, 16, or 20-inch barrel. Each barrel has an adjustable gas regulator that ensures a constant rate of fire when using a sound suppressor. Barrels are also equipped with an integrated flash-hider, which allows a soldier to stay concealed while engaged with the enemy. A coalition forces member fires his Special Operations Forces Combat Assault Rifle (SCAR) during marksmanship training on a range on Kandahar Air Field, in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, on Jan 15, 2014.Army Photo by Pfc. Dacotah Lane When the Rangers of C Company were shooting on the range prior to their deployment to Afghanistan, the rifle consistently shot sub one-inch groups at 100 meters, which proved that the barrel — and the weapon in general — were more accurate than the M-4. The process of switching out the SCAR’s barrel took less than five minutes with the use of an included torque wrench, and did not require the expertise of an armorer, the Rangers found. Because C Company would be clearing buildings in Afghanistan, most Rangers chose the small or medium barrel. A few, concerned about the potential for long-range engagements in the mountains along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, opted for the longest barrel. Some Rangers never stuck with just one barrel, but switched lengths, depending on the next mission. The SCAR offered the Rangers a level of flexibility that few of them were accustomed to having. “Due to how complex our missions were, I think the ability to switch barrels was good to have available,” recalled Jay, whose real name has been changed to protect his identity. Jay was a team leader in C Company. Jay said he ultimately stuck with the short barrel for the entire deployment, because he and his men often found themselves in close quarters combat. But, he said, it was nice to know that he had the long barrel as an option, too. Jay raises an important point: Frontline soldiers and Marines, especially those in special operations units, want flexibility in their weapons and equipment. Many spend hours of their free time perfecting how their kits are set up. But when a grunt receives a modular rifle and three barrels to choose from, will he take advantage of that flexibility? As an individual, not necessarily. Warfighters tend to stick with what they are comfortable with, and what they routinely train with. But the modular flexibility is valuable from a macro perspective, because not everyone in a platoon or company will use the same rifle configuration. Infantry, cavalry, even armor units could customize their small arms configurations. The SCAR could give commanders the ability to tailor their soldiers’ rifles to their mission. That, in turn, would result in a more agile fighting force. U.S. Army Rangers from B Company, 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, fire M-4 Carbines, Special Operations Forces Combat Assault Rifle (SCAR) and Mk46 machine guns during a close quarter marksmanship range in Fort Hunter Liggett, Calif., Jan. 25, 2014.Army Photo by Spc. Steven Hitchcock Despite overwhelmingly positive reviews of the SCAR — and its stellar performance in combat, according to C Company’s after-action reports — the majority of the rifle’s production was halted after that inaugural deployment; the Rangers have since returned to their modified M-4s. (Currently, all SOCOM units still deploy with the 7.62 Mk-17 SCAR.) During C Company’s 2009 deployment, the platform, and specifically the multi-barrel system, suffered no significant durability issues as some feared. Its slowed production came down to cost, as all things in government do. Simply put, the Pentagon decided that giving all ground troops the flexibility to modify their weapons according to the particular nature of their missions was not worth the rifle system’s $2,500-per-unit price tag. (The Army’s most recent M4 contract with FN was for 77,000 rifles at a price of $120 million, roughly $1,558 per unit.) “The Mk-16 does not provide enough of a performance advantage over the M-4 to justify spending USSOCOM’s limited… funds when competing priorities are taken into consideration,” officials at USSOCOM said, according to Military.com. In retrospect, Jay agrees with SOCOM’s decision. “I don’t think it was worth outfitting an entire unit,” he said. “It wasn’t a necessity.” For a military that endured significant funding issues under the previous administration, it’s understandable to see how commanders decided to go back to the cheaper option. Now, however, President Donald Trump is intent on spending more on defense. Some of that budget should be devoted to a more modular rifle platform. Rifles, even on the high end, cost significantly less money than most items on the nation’s defense budget. If there’s a chance to offer a soldier increased flexibility and accuracy for more money per rifle, the military should take that chance. Soldiers and Marines are used to working with less and making do with what they have, but for their sakes as well as the nation’s, they shouldn’t have to settle for a second-best rifle or carbine. When it comes to an infantryman’s rifle, quality and flexibility are of paramount importance; this is not an area where we as a nation should be trying to tighten the budgetary belt. “Without me, my rifle is useless. Without my rifle, I am useless,” the Marines say. Our military expects its combat troops to be the best in the world. We should hold our military’s battle rifles to the same standard. FN-Herstal SOF Combat Assault Rifle M4A1 SOPMOD scar	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1152
__label__wiki	0.628835	0.628835	Justia › US Law › US Case Law › US Supreme Court › Volume 74 › Kendall v. United States Kendall v. United States, 74 U.S. 113 (1868) Kendall v. United States, 74 U.S. 7 Wall. 113 113 (1868) Kendall v. United States A claim which has never received the assent of the person against whom it is asserted and which remains to be settled by negotiation or suit at law cannot be so assigned as to give the assignee an equitable right to prevent the original parties from compromising or adjusting the claim on any terms that may suit them. A. and J. Kendall made an agreement in the year 1843 with persons representing a branch of the Cherokee tribe of Indians called the Western Cherokees to prosecute a claim which these Indians set up against the United States. It was a part of the agreement that the Kendalls were to receive, directly from the United States, 5 percent upon all sums that might be collected on the claim. The justice of this claim, which it was thus agreed that the Kendalls should prosecute, had never been acknowledged by the United States, and the amount of it was uncertain. A treaty was finally made in 1846, not with the Western Cherokees, who were but a part of the Cherokee tribe, but with the whole tribe, and it embraced not only the claim set up by the Western Cherokees, but many other matters, setting matters between the United States and the tribe, as also between the Western Cherokees and the main body. The treaty, as finally ratified by the Senate and by the tribe, provided that the sum of money found due (and which included moneys to the main tribe), should be held in trust by the United States and paid out to each individual Indian, or head of a family, and that this per capita allowance should not be assignable, but should be paid directly to the person so entitled. On the 30th September, 1850, Congress made an appropriation of the amount necessary to fulfill this treaty, and the act contained a provision that no part of the money should be paid to any agents of said Indians, or to any other person than the Indian to whom it was due. The Kendalls having thus failed to get anything from the appropriations, presented a petition to the Court of Claims. They set forth in it the fact and history of the treaty, the great labor which they had had, and the value of which their services had been in procuring the treaty and appropriation (with interest, about $887,000); all, as they alleged, due to those services. That they had repeatedly given specific notice to Congress and to its committees, and to all proper officers of the government, of the contract made by them with the Indians, and of their claim under it, and of the justice of the same. There was no answer or evidence produced on the other side. The Court of Claims dismissed the petition. APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS MR. JUSTICE MILLER delivered the opinion of the Court. As the case was decided on demurrer, or what is equivalent to a demurrer, the statements of the petition must be taken to be true. They show a faithful and laborious performance of their contract by the plaintiffs, for which no compensation was ever received. It is insisted by plaintiffs, that because the government of the United States was aware of the contract between them and the Indians, and failed to reserve and pay over to them the five percent which by that contract they had a right to claim of the Indians, the United States is liable to them for the amount. It is supposed that the doctrine of an equitable assignment of a debt or fund due from one person to another, by the order of the creditor to pay it to a third party, when brought to the notice of the debtor, is a sufficient foundation for the claim. But, if we concede that the government is to be treated in the present case precisely as a private individual, it is not easy to see how that doctrine can be made to apply. The debt or fund as to which such an equitable assignment can be made, must be some recognized or definite fund or debt, in the hands of a person who admits the obligation to pay the assignor, or, at least, it must be some liquidated demand, capable of being enforced in a court of justice. We apprehend that the doctrine has never been held, that a claim of no fixed amount, nor time, or mode of payment; a claim which has never received the assent of the person against whom it is asserted, and which remains to be settled by negotiation or suit at law, can be so assigned as to give the assignor an equitable right to prevent the original parties from compromising or adjusting the claim on any terms that may suit them. That is just what is claimed in this case. For it is very clear that if this equitable claim in the hands of plaintiffs was not effectual before the treaty, it can have no effect afterwards. The treaty, by its terms, is incompatible with the claim of plaintiffs. None of the money could be paid to the plaintiffs if all of it was to be paid to the Indians individually in proportions to be determined by their numbers. This principle of paying to the Indians per capita was not adopted with any reference to the plaintiffs' claim as a means of exclusion. The treaty was made with the entire tribe of Cherokees, of which these Western Cherokees were but a small part, and the claims which they were urging on our government constitute a still smaller part of the matters settled by the treaty. Land claims were adjusted, the difficulties between this branch and the main body of the tribe were arranged. Other payments were made to the main tribe, in which the rule of paying per capita was adopted. Now the argument assumes that unless in adjusting all these important interests the United States kept in view the sum to be paid to plaintiffs, by their contract with the Indians, and provided for it, they must either make no treaty at all or must pay their claim. It cannot be permitted that by contracting with other parties, without requiring or asking the consent of the government, anyone can establish such a right to control the action of that government in making treaties or contracts. The claim of the Western Indians was nothing more than a claim prior to the treaty. Its justice had never been admitted. Its amount was uncertain. These, together with the mode of payment, were all unsettled and open to negotiation. Is it possible that by making a contract with claimants to prosecute this demand against the government, the plaintiffs thereby acquired such a hold on that government as not only made the claim good to that extent, but prevented it from compromising or settling with the claimants on the best terms to be obtained? We have no hesitation in saying that the United States, under the circumstances, had the right to make the treaty that was made without consulting plaintiffs or incurring any liability to them. The act of Congress which appropriated the money only followed the treaty in securing its payment to the individual Indians, without deduction for agents. And both the act and the treaty are inconsistent with the payment of any part of the sum thus appropriated to plaintiffs. The judgment of the Court of Claims rejecting the demand is therefore	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1153
__label__cc	0.635179	0.364821	Ghent commits to eco-friendly cleaning products The city of Ghent (Belgium), in partnership with the leading manufacturer of green cleaning products Ecover, has committed to using products that carry the Cradle to Cradle label. The label is the symbol of the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute, and rewards products that are sustainable from their manufacture and use, through to disposal. Ghent’s procurement strategy prioritises concentrated products, minimal packaging, reduced water consumption and sourcing products locally to reduce emissions from transportation. It also has a strict policy on recycling when products come to the end of their use. Some 340 municipal buildings across the city will be using Ecover’s Cradle to Cradle products by the end of 2013, making Ghent the first city in the world to keep its properties clean according to the label’s standards. Deputy Mayor Martine De Regge said: “The city of Ghent is by tradition a Belgian pioneer in ecology. I hope we can inspire other cities to clean in the same environmentally friendly way.” Enfield Council opts for cleanliness without cruelty Enfield Council’s (UK) decision to exclusively stock cleaning products free from animal testing started with a letter from a young girl. Concerned about the cruel treatment of animals, the young Enfielder wrote to the council enquiring about the products they use. The letter was brought up at a council meeting and the decision to ensure only cruelty free products were procured was made. After surveying the market the first barrier was identified: animal-testing free cleaning products were not available wholesale. Following an extensive search, the council contacted Ecosearch Ltd, a local research and manufacturing company, who agreed to produce the products. The company worked closely with BUAV, an organisation campaigning to end the practice of animal testing and sister company to Cruelty Free International. For many products the assurance that they are “not tested on animals” does not tell the whole truth, as constituent parts are not covered by the guarantee. To be certified by Cruelty Free International’s Leaping Bunny logo each ingredient used must be free from animal testing, requiring an examination of the entire supply chain. Once ready for distribution, Enfield Council ran a trial phase in conjunction with its contracted cleaning company. The feedback from staff was hugely positive, with most saying they prefer using the new cleaning materials. Councillor Andrew Stafford, Cabinet Member for Finance and Resources said “This new range of cleaning products that we have introduced into our civic buildings has not only never been tested on animals, but gives economical superior cleaning performance. The feedback has been excellent from staff who say the hand soap is good to use, and also cleaning staff who tell us because the cleaning fluid is not noxious they do not need to wear masks to use it.” Michelle Thew, Chief Executive of the BUAV, expressed delight at the example Enfield Council is setting for others, and said that she hoped “many others will follow Enfield’s admirable stance.” Enfield Council is delivering a Sustainable Procurement Policy and Action Plan which forms part of the council's wider Enfield 2020 sustainability programme and action plan. Assessing risk and spend in supply chains ECO-Buy, a not-for-profit organisation in Australia, has written a short guide to risk analysis in supply chains. Reacting against procurement decisions which can have environmentally and socially harmful consequences, the organisation has developed a simple chart, with the amount of risk and spend on the axes. One of the outcomes that they have noticed continually is that reduced spending is accompanied by better outcomes for the environment and for budgets. ECO-Buy outlines several different strategies to work with combinations of high and low spend and risk. This can include working in partnership with suppliers to improve their sustainability, looking for other, more sustainable alternatives, setting evaluation criteria, and setting pre-qualification requirements. Although this isn’t an exhaustive guide, it demonstrates that there is no one strategy that can be used to tackle unsustainable or socially damaging supply chains, where different inputs and outcomes exist. It entails a considered approach to sustainable procurement, and shows how systemic change can help to make this a reality. Approaches like these can be found in the resource centre. GPP 2020 to use low-carbon procurement to reach EU sustainability goals GPP 2020 is a new EU-funded project that aims to cement green public procurement (GPP) across member states to make the EU’s goals of a 20 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, a 20 percent increase in the share of renewable energy and a 20 percent increase in energy efficiency a reality by 2020. Although awareness of GPP has increased in recent years, the vast majority of public tenders in Europe still do not incorporate effective environmental criteria and do not result in the purchase of sustainable solutions. The GPP 2020 project will work in eight target countries (Austria, Croatia, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain) to mainstream practice across Europe. To do so, the project will take the following actions. Project partners will implement more than 100 low-carbon tenders to achieve significant emission reduction immediately. The project will also organise training and networking events for procurers and procurement training providers on implementation of energy-related GPP, and enhance permanent GPP support structures in the target countries. Defra publishes guidance on green IT procurement The UK’s Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra) is setting out best practice guidelines for public sector organisations to procure energy efficient datacentre and cloud hosting services. This evolution has been prompted by the increase in the use of online services by government departments, in their interaction with the public and with other public sector bodies. In the Greening Government: ICT Annual Report 2013, published by Defra, the successes among government departments are highlighted. These include the installation of an advanced cooling system by the Home Office which will save 428 tonnes of carbon dioxide every year, and the Department for International Development's investment in new, more energy efficient laptops and PCs. The report highlights that there is much still to be done in making public sector IT in the UK efficient and sustainable. One area of concern is in procurement, where “establishing fair and useful measures of environmental impacts and potential whole life costs” has been a challenging process to implement. France develops new guidelines for procurement of innovation The French government has issued new guidelines on the procurement of innovation for those working in the French public sector. It highlights the importance of purchasing innovation as a strategy to aid economic growth and prosperity, through rationalising supply chains, using cost-efficient methods and seeking sustainable alternatives. The document notes that although it is tempting in times of economic crisis to rely on models and products that are already well known and that have been proven to work, investing in innovation can be a win-win strategy. Lack of investment in innovation by either the private or public sectors can lead to inflexible markets that do not respond effectively to the needs of buyers and sellers, it claims. Purchasing innovation can be a method by which the public sector can stimulate economic activity and growth, the guide explains. Investment in innovation can create opportunities for small and medium enterprises to grow their businesses and act as suppliers for local or regional public sector agencies. Strategies that can be used to support the procurement of innovation can be found in the resource centre on the Procurement of Innovation Platform’s website. For more information, click here [in French]. New legal timber regulations explained ClientEarth, an environmental organisation, has published a document entitled ‘Implications of the new EU Timber Regulation for public procurement’. Public authorities spend hundreds of billions of euros on goods, services and works, and with this public authorities can make a real impact when purchasing timber products. Therefore, ensuring that they are compliant with the new EUTR and its implications for procurement policy as well as adopting best practice is important for public bodies. The authors of the document stress that good information gathering and record-keeping is central to this process. Although it is unlikely that public authorities will have to exercise the same due diligence as timber suppliers with regard to the product’s provenance, they will have to keep records of some other details. Additionally, the document notes that while the EUTR requires legal timber to be sourced by public authorities, it does not require that timber come from sustainably managed sources. Conversely, timber that is sustainably sourced cannot be presumed to be legal according to the EUTR rules. The document concludes by saying that public bodies need to first assess whether and to what degree they are impacted by the EUTR: for example, as a supplier who first places timber on the EU market, to those of a trader further down the supply chain.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1154
__label__wiki	0.741825	0.741825	Sustainable Summer’s leadership team is comprised of highly experienced individuals from the education, non-profit, business, and academic sectors. Day to day management of Sustainable Summer is overseen by Executive Director and Founder Jeff Sharpe in consultation with our Board of Directors and advisors. Sustainable Learning Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit incorporated in the state of New York for the purpose of facilitating experiential and theoretical learning on the subject of environmental sustainability. Under the name Sustainable Summer, we operate environmental leadership pre-college and study abroad programs for high school students. Jeff Sharpe \| Co-Founder & Executive Director Jeff brings extensive experience operating experiential education programs to Sustainable Summer. He is a former partner and director of Career Explorations, a summer internship program for high school students, and Vertex Academic Services, an educational consulting company. Jeff subsequently served as Executive Director for Discovery Internships before leaving to found Sustainable Learning (Sustainable Summer’s 501(c)(3) parent organization). Jeff began his professional career as a program director with Kaplan, Inc. and has been working with young people for over a decade as a tutor, mentor, and coach, including several seasons as a youth wilderness guide and facilitator. Jeff has a BA from Bucknell University and an MA from Dartmouth College, where his thesis research focused on globalization’s impact on water resource management in developing countries using Ecuador as a case study. Jeff is a former Division I swimmer and an avid skier and whitewater kayaker. He enjoys adventure travel, playing guitar, following the latest news in politics, and river conservation advocacy. Jeff is the Executive Director and a Board Member of Sustainable Learning Inc. Anne Fenton \| Co-Founder & Board President Anne has served as a teacher, mentor and travel group leader for high school students for more than ten years. She graduated from Wesleyan University with high honors from the interdisciplinary program College of Letters, and earned her MA in Classics from St. John’s College. For eight years, she directed a cultural immersion program for high school students in Nice, France for Summerfuel, a pioneer in the education travel industry, and managed the company’s study abroad offerings during the academic year. She is currently the Director of Operations at Berkeley Carroll, an independent school in Brooklyn. Anne has traveled abroad extensively, and has studied organic agriculture in both North and South America. In her free time, Anne enjoys reading and writing about food justice, cooking, white-water rafting, biking and bocce. Anne serves as Board President for Sustainable Learning Inc. Beth Conklin Professor Conklin is a cultural and medical anthropologist at Vanderbilt University specializing in the ethnography of indigenous peoples of lowland South America (Amazonia). Her research focuses on the anthropology of the body, religion and ritual, health and healing, death and mourning, the politics of indigenous rights, and ecology, environmentalism, and cultural and religious responses to climate change. She teaches courses on anthropological theory, medicine and healing, indigenous peoples, and environmental issues. Carley Davenport Carley is currently a graduate students in Policy, Organization, and Leadership Studies at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education. She formerly worked in development at the Berkeley Carroll School and in various other operational roles in post-secondary education. Allison Glasmann \| Board Secretary Allison holds a B.A. in English and French from Bowdoin College and completed her Master’s degree in Intercultural Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Allison served in the Peace Corps in West Africa and has considerable experience directing study abroad programs for high school students. Most recently, she has worked on a research project in Malawi, Southeast Africa with Save the Children. Kelly McGlinchey Kelly is a passionate, results-oriented leader in the food sustainability sector who finds her work most fulfilling when building partnerships, facilitating community engagement, and connecting stakeholders to execute a vision. She is an experienced business executive who believes in the power of bringing together people of diverse perspectives and backgrounds to create and sustain positive change in our local & global communities. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the board co-chair of Slow Food NYC. Katherine Tsai Katherine is a corporate attorney at eBay with experience serving on the board of directors or as pro bono counsel for various educational non-profit organizations. Katherine formerly practiced law at at Davis Polk & Wardwell, and holds a B.A. in English from Yale University and J.D./LL.M. in International and Comparative Law from Duke University School of Law. She has studied and worked in Europe and East Asia and loves rock climbing. She is also currently on the board of Zomppa.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1155
__label__cc	0.595783	0.404217	THE LOVE SONG OF JONNY VALENTINE KAPITOIL Teddy Wayne Adult Friends Forever October 21, 2008By Teddy WayneClips, Posts Adult Friends ForeverTeddy Wayne2016-01-26T18:43:11-05:00 (Originally appeared in Radar on Oct. 21, 2008) In the past week, I have seen hundreds of vaginas—shaven and hirsute, flowering out like Georgia O’Keeffe paintings and demure as habited nuns; scores of aggressively turgid, rhizomatically veined penises; breasts of varying degrees of authenticity, proportion, and symmetry; and an emotionally scarring amount of anuses. For I have entered the seamy world of Adult FriendFinder, the closest thing on the web to an amalgam of Studio 54 and Times Square circa-‘77. AdultFriendFinder.com (there are spinoff FriendFinders for different ethnicities and religions, seniors, and the PG-rated FriendFinder.com) is currently the 25th most-visited website in the U.S. and the 43rd in the world; no other stand-alone dating site has cracked the top 100 for either. The casual-sex mediator boasts over 30 million members and maintains that only half are heterosexual men (a figure not borne out by either informal studies or a quick glance in one of its chat rooms, where the male-to-female ratio is 30:1 or greater). It advertises widely on the web to snare the curious and susceptible, usually with small pictures of women and text indicating that these nubile women in your town all want to have sex—with you. In other words, it’s sort of like Ladies’ Night at the sleaziest club in the world. I scoured the Internet for attractive amateur nude photos and signed up as a straight male (with an interest in transgenders/transvestites/transsexuals) named Clientele9, a bisexual female (LovelyRita1985), and a gay male (JohnQHolmes1983). The site’s company, Various, Inc., was sold last December for $500 million to Penthouse Media Group, which also owns online-dating behemoth Spring Street Networks, so the interface for AFF is reassuringly conventional. Filling out a profile, though, is a bit different. In lieu of expressing a desire for, say, short- or long-term relationships, the AFF user can check off interests in “1-on-1 sex, Bondage & Discipline, Cross-Dressing, Discreet Relationship, Erotic Chat/Email/Phone Fantasies, Exhibitionism & Voyeurism, Group sex (3 or more), Miscellaneous Fetishes, Other ‘Alternative’ Activities, Sadism & Masochism.” More nuanced optional questions include “What STDs are you comfortable with your partner having?,” “What bondage type gear do you enjoy using during sex play?,” and the deathless “What are your thoughts on anal sex?” The profiles run the gamut from the subliterate (most of the men) to the cleverly crafted (a few of the women). About two-thirds of the men put their phalluses front and center in their photos, while the females occasionally aim for the faintly artistic, with spread-eagled and -cheeked shots predominating. A few exhibitionists upload their amateur sex videos, some of which get upwards of half a million views. Many of the more attractive photos—especially of women—are clearly as fake and plucked from Google Image searches as mine, but the majority look genuine and are supported by additional photos. Nearly all the males unabashedly state their goal of casual sex, though a few indicate that they would be amenable to a relationship with the right person; more of the women take this tack of looking for love in, quite possibly, the wrongest place of all time. Transgenders/transvestites and swingers have healthy representation as well. The site is also used for social networking. Joining another member’s network entitles one to view private photo albums and write bawdy testimonials such as “The blowjobs are still the best ever, her pussy is delicious, she is beautiful, the outfits are breath-taking, the sex is passionate and hot and sweaty and unbelievable!” Several members told me they had made some good friends in addition to finding sex partners. Blogging is popular, as is contributing “articles” to AFF’s online magazine; it is doubtful that any prose will be anthologized in forthcoming erotica collections. For Clientele9, I received a few messages (from transgender women) but was unable to open them, or view anyone’s profile, without first purchasing a membership (starting at $19.95 a month). With Rita, however, I had full access to others’ profiles and messages sent to me. (I could not read messages intended for John, until, without warning, the system allowed me.) AFF has caught flak for baiting men into buying memberships with decoy users in chat rooms, but this seemed like a much more insidious tactic: not many men who sign up for such a site could resist paying to see what that supposed 24-year-old female wrote to them. (As for obvious-from-the-get-go phony profiles that requested suitors visit a porn website to contact them, I ran across just a few; the subtler method is to lure a man into sending a message, then getting his real email address to add to a mailing list.) For skinflint men, chat rooms are the alternative to ponying up a twenty. These are the meat markets of AFF—as Rita, I was barraged every few seconds via pickup lines no more poetic than “hi sexy”—with some webcams that display women typing in regular or skimpy outfits and men, invariably, masturbating in their desk chairs. I spent ten minutes I’ll never get back watching a 28-year-old transvestite in Grand Rapids, Michigan, change in and out of women’s clothes. In my first 24 hours on the site as Rita, almost 40 men wrote to me. Most scrawled ungrammatical and misspelled one-liners addressing me as “sexy,” “beautiful,” or “baby,” complimenting my body, explaining what they would like to do with me, and attaching more pictures of—you guessed it—their erections. Some e-Cyranos were more prolix: “IT TAKES A THIEF, TO CATCH A THIEF AND IT TAKES A WARRIOR LOVER OR A THONG HUNGER [sic] PIRATE TO CAPTURE THE CHERRIES OF ANY SWEET MAIDEN LACED IN GOLD JUICES FROM HER BOX OF EXCTASY [sic]. I AM ONE OF THOSE WARRIOR LOVERS AND THONG HUNGER [sic] PIRATES ALL ROLLED INTO ONE.” The most heartbreaking, though, was a 52-year-old who apologized for being too old for me and for his average looks, describing himself as “a down to earth type of person, a little on the shy side, but once I get to know you; you would never believe me being shy. I have a very good sense of humor so I am told. I have been known to play practical jokes on people at work…I like children and animals, with the exception of rodents and fleas.” Conversely, I sent out almost 50 boilerplate messages to women in my first hour as Clientele9 (depicted as a ruggedly handsome Russian solder), with just three interested responses—and two had near-identical short profiles (“Most of my friends would say I have a easy-going personality”), suggesting fraudulence. John received a couple of messages per day from gay men that were generally equivalent in erudition to those for Rita. Most men confessed that they had either not yet encountered anyone on the site, or had met one or two women with experiences ranging from disappointing to sexually fulfilling. It wasn’t too hard to figure out why a guy would trawl—even against steep odds—for no-strings-attached sex, but what kind of single woman uses Adult FriendFinder? Quite a few, it turns out, many of whom could easily snag a partner in a bar if they so desired. I chatted with a voluptuous 36-year-old Southern Californian blonde with the username sinsualdream who has been a member for almost two years. While she estimates she has met around 30 men and women (and had sexual contact with two-thirds of them), she is currently looking for a monogamous relationship, and her profile justifies her choice of AFF: “I’m an EXTREMELY sexual woman. I love sex. I love hot, sweaty, screaming, multi-orgasmic, dual oral, fucking insane sex. I love being kinky and dangerous and pushing my limits. I want to find a man who is the same.” Besides finding like-minded kinksters, she prefers the site’s convenience: She works long hours as an advertising director, disdains the bar scene (an opinion echoed by other women), and is attracted only to black men (she’s also registered on a couple of black dating sites), so AFF helps her screen potential mates. She receives 50 or so messages a week and responds to perhaps three, and needs to establish a rapport over phone and Instant Messenger before any encounters for coffee or dinner. Five men became short-term monogamous boyfriends, and she says she fell in love with two others. She doesn’t fear having her profile or photos exposed to acquaintances or colleagues—“my life is my life…too short to worry about those kinds of things”—and has had frank discussions about her sexuality with her 18- and 19-year-old sons. Indeed, very few users issue a standard disclaimer warning others against reproducing any of their profile or pictures elsewhere (the women pictured in this article consented as long as their faces were blurred). The site also appeals to women getting out of sexually defunct relationships or eager to explore their sexuality. Lynntlb69, a 38-year-old from Massachusetts, had had one prior sexual partner when she married fifteen years ago. With their relationship already on the rocks, she and her husband joined in May so she could engage in a threesome with him. It didn’t work out, they separated, and since August she estimates she has had sex with over twenty men and couples. Adult FriendFinder, she wrote, has given her “the strength to believe in myself that I was pretty enough” to attract men. She’s embracing her newfound freedom and is not looking for anything serious: “Once in a while I meet a guy who wants more, and it really sucks when they say that I have let them down. This is a great way to come into my own sexually. I have had a great deal of wonderful sexual experiences, and I am just getting started.” Next on her to-do list? A gangbang. A 30-year-old transgender New Yorker told me she has met four men in a year on the site, but that she’s picky and turned off by most males’ lack of courtliness: “A lot of guys here and on other sites seem to think they can send an email with a cock pic and a brief message like ‘Let’s do it,’ and I’m supposed to fall in line for them.” She also meets men through her work and in her neighborhood, but, like the Californian, enjoys the site’s filtering process. I asked if the online buffer emboldened the curiosity of straight males. “I’ve never had a problem attracting ‘straight’ men in the ‘real’ world—although it has to be said that how straight they are is always a question,” she wrote. “In many cases, guys like TGs like me because they want to suck a cock without feeling gay.” Despite the ease with which she pulls in partners, she’s “not here looking for instant NSA sex,” a sentiment shared by a number of women and even some men. While it certainly has its share of randy members angling for one-night stands, the site’s name is apposite: It’s filled with a lot of adults who are, in the end, searching for a friend, lubricated or not. As the lovelorn 52-year-old wrote to me, “The sad thing about happiness is not having someone to share it with.” The same could be said, of course, about a raging hard-on. Family Values → SIGNED FIRST EDITION Holographic hardcover Amazon Spain iBookstoreIndieBound	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1162
__label__cc	0.583078	0.416922	Tag Archives: Canada Science and Technology Museum Beyond the Walls: Social Media and the Science and Technology Museum dkaizer March 13, 2017 Social Media Metrics analytics, Blog, Canada Science and Technology Museum, case study, engagement, Innovation, metrics, museums, science and technology, social media metrics, social media strategy The Canada Science and Technology Museum opened in 1967 as part of Canada’s Centennial celebrations. The idea for the Canada Science and Technology Museum was born out of the Massey Commission. In 1951, the report recommended that the Canadian Government do more to support the arts and sciences in Canada; further emphasizing the need for a Canadian Museum of Science. Between the time the Massey Report was issued and Canada’s Centennial year, many proposals were submitted for this new national institution of science; many of which were costly in a very uncertain funding environment. Finally, at the beginning of 1967, Dr. David Baird was appointed as Director for this proposed national museum; set to open at the end of the Centennial year. Due to time constraints and funding uncertainty, Baird decided to house the Canada Science and Technology Museum in a former bakery and distribution centre in Ottawa. The bakery was meant to temporarily house the Museum; however it remained in the same location until 2014 when it was forced to close due to the discovery of mould. As unfortunate as this reality was for the museum, it finally received the funding it initially deserved. The Canada Science and Technology Museum’s facility will be renewed to ensure the continued education of ‘Canadian innovation and to inspire the next generation of great innovators’, as stated in their mission. The renewed Canada Science and Technology museum is slated to open in November of 2017; and appropriately so, as it is Canada’s Sesquicentennial year!	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1167
__label__cc	0.509313	0.490687	Talent to match your ambition Written By: Cherry Reynard Published: Mon, 04 Feb 2019 10:36 GMT Talent is one of the defining challenges that scale-ups face as they grow. Whether that is the social and technical skills of their workforce, the ability to recruit from overseas or having the talent to secure international business, scale-ups have consistently highlighted the need to attract the right skills and experience as the biggest challenge to their future growth. More than any other factor, the issue of being able to access talent has persisted as one that holds fast-growing businesses back. This is a constant challenge. Drawing from the findings of its annual survey, the 2018 ScaleUp Institute Annual Review reports that 80% of scale-ups identify access to talent as important to their continued growth. Talent has remained consistently the top priority for scale-ups over the past four years. The Annual ScaleUp Review aims to advance understanding of the challenges that scale-up businesses face, and how to build effective ecosystems at a national and local level. The review can be found in full on the ScaleUp Institute’s website. There are a number of inescapable features of today’s labour market: unemployment is at its lowest level in a decade and wages are rising. As such, the right talent can be increasingly discerning about where they work and the terms they demand. This is not just salary, but lifestyle considerations – remote working, flexible hours and equity participation. Managing these issues takes skill, and ‘culture’ can be a key part of growth. The majority of successful entrepreneurs acknowledge that having the right people in place, people who share their values, has been the most important thing in realising their strategic vision. Some will get through multiple staff changes before they get those in place who support the values of the business. Melinda Nicci, the founder of health and wellbeing website Baby2Body, said: “It has been a real challenge to find the right people that fit the culture and values of the business. The values in our business are very strong and occasionally, we have found that people we’ve hired haven’t shared those values. However, we have now built a really stable team and it has made all the difference.” There are other challenges with talent management. Ensuring diverse and inclusive workforces, including drawing women back into the workforce, is another key issue. Those who have done so successfully report good rewards. “Fifty per cent of our senior management team is female,” says Sheila Flavell, FDM’s Chief Operating Officer. “It’s had a huge impact. We have a 0% pay gap and have had sustained this for two years running. It’s important to us: our staff want to work for an organisation that shares their values. We really embrace diversity. We have a returners programme and 94% of participants are women.” The Review shows scale-ups clearly recognise the value in nurturing young talent. They consistently offer more apprenticeships, internships and work experience than their larger peers. They employ graduates (70%), post-graduates (52%) and school-leavers (36%). Two-thirds of scale-ups offer opportunities to younger people through work experience (51%), apprenticeships (38%) and internships. This compares to just 18% of all UK firms that offer apprenticeships. Many have had to reshape their businesses to meet the needs of this younger talent base. For example, hard-to-teach social skills are a priority for 80% of scale-ups. That said, many scale-ups would still rather their new hires came with skills already in place. 40% of scale-ups chose technical skills as the most important criteria for new hires. For the future, scale-ups rate critical thinking as the most important skill. Service orientation is also important, which means anticipating, recognising and meeting others’ needs. Cognitive flexibility is also a key skill, with 4 in 10 scale-ups naming it as one of their three more important criteria. Getting these skills in place is a key challenge looking into 2019. One of the ScaleUp Institute’s ten recommendations to government for the year ahead was to ensure that Britain is in the top 5 of the OECD PISA rankings for numeracy and literacy by 2025, and ensure educational institutions guarantee that students come into contact with the top 50 scale-up business-leaders within 20 miles of their establishment. It also recommended that Local Enterprise Partnerships and local policymakers should work with existing private collaborative initiatives to promote the top 50 scale-up companies in their jurisdiction so that potential employees know them much better. This year’s Review shows that many businesses would do even more to nurture the next generation should there be easier connections with schools and universities. The report shows that that where scale-ups do not offer apprenticeships, it is largely as a result of problems finding suitable candidates. 3 in 10 say they do not yet have good links with universities or schools. Brexit remains a challenge. Scale-ups have an international employee base, with two-thirds employing people from overseas. 61% employ staff from the EU and 35% employ staff from outside the EU. Two-thirds say it is vital or very important that they can continue to bring in talent from abroad. Half of all exporting scale-ups say it is important to have a fast-track visa system when hiring people and talent from overseas. Irrespective of the challenges, 8 out of 10 scale-ups expect in 2019 to again grow by more than 20%: scale-ups would not be scale-ups if they were not positive and energetic in confronting challenges. They are doing a great job of nurturing and retaining talent. They are exploring numerous ways by which they can fill their talent pipeline. Smith & Williamson: talent to scale – rewarding and keeping the best people Your business needs great people to fuel its growth. Suitable incentives and financial structures must be in place to attract and retain the best team. Our experts can help you set up the foundations to support this crucial aspect of scaling up a business, helping you to manage the tax, financial and HR implications of a growing team. By necessity, this briefing can only provide a short overview and it is essential to seek professional advice before applying the contents of this article. No responsibility can be taken for any loss arising from action taken or refrained from on the basis of this publication. Details correct at time of publication. Scale-up, Employee Benefits Sign up and receive regular updates on issues that matter to you. In the 2018 ScaleUp Institute Annual Review, accessing new markets was listed as the second most important factor (after talent) for delivering growth in scale-ups – 79% identified it as vital or very important. 2017 Winner - Perkbox Perkbox has been named winners of the Smith & Williamson Scale-up Business of the Year at the 2017 Lloyds Bank National Business Awards gala dinner ceremony, held at the Grosvenor House Hotel on Park Lane. Melinda Nicci: Putting power back in the hands of women Baby2Body provides support and advice on health and well-being in pregnancy Entrepreneurs in focus in the Budget 2018 Entrepreneurs were at the front and centre of the Chancellor’s final Budget before the UK’s scheduled EU exit. 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__label__wiki	0.854433	0.854433	Home > About > History Brad Kho, TD ‘94 The headline in the New York Times on June 21, 1934, read “Yale Gets Funds for New College.” Yale President J.R. Angell announced that another gift by Edward S. Harkness, class of 1897, would support the building of the ninth and the next-to-last residential college (in the 1930’s). According to Angell, the college would be named Timothy Dwight College in honor of two of Yale’s Presidents, Timothy Dwight, Yale’s eighth president from 1795-1817, and his grandson, Yale’s twelfth president from 1886- 1899. Designed by James Gamble Rogers, class of 1889, the college would be ready for occupancy in September of 1935, to be built at an estimated cost Of $1,300,000. The following January, Angell named James Grafton Roger ‘05, dean of the University of Colorado Law School and Assistant Secretary of State from 1931-33, the first Head of College of Timothy Dwight College. The Timothy Dwights were two of Yale’s most illustrious presidents. Timothy Dwight the elder was the grandson of Jonathan Edwards, the Yale-educated, former president of Princeton. Born in 1752, the elder Timothy was said to be a remarkably precocious child. He reportedly learned the entire alphabet in one lesson and was reading the Bible at age four. He entered Yale when he was thirteen years old, graduating in 1769. Within a few years he had written one of the first noted American poems, “Conquest of Canaan.” In 1886 his grandson, Timothy Dwight the Younger, succeeded Noah Porter as president. The younger Timothy became known as the “Father of the University,” for it was under his direction that Yale became a university rather than a college surrounded by separate graduate schools. In honor of the Dwights, TDers were nick-named Prexies, a slang term for presidents (typically college presidents). TD opened on schedule on September 23, 1935, but was over budget, costing $2,000,000. The Yale Alumni Weekly called it “one of the most architecturally satisfying colleges.” Built in the Georgian Colonial Style, the college recalls the architecture of Old Brick Row, where Old Campus stands today. As described in a recent pamphlet published by the Secretary of the University, “the architecture reproduces the style of the period of the first Timothy. The Longmeadow brown sandstone of the main entrance, the brick work with white trim, the green shutters, all are of Federal inspiration. Across the court from the main entrance, a pillared representation of a New England town hall, suggestive in detail of the early classical revival, houses the Lounge, the Dining Hall, and the Library. In the Dining Hall, the heavy, weathered, hand-hewn beams and the circular light window at the southern end are also of the Federal period; the teakwood tables recall the Eastern trade of the times, and the chairs are style after the ‘captain’s chairs’ found in the whaler’s houses of Nantucket and New Bedford. In harmony with the general style are such details as the knotty-pine panellings of various rooms, the brass doorknobs, and the stars in the lighting fixtures of the Fellows’ Lounge. The doors of the dormitory entries are replicas of the New Haven house doors of the early 19th century.” The University originally built TD to house 180 students and a number of fellows. The typical suite consisted of two bedrooms (contrary to popular belief, the smaller bedroom was not for a servant) and a living room. The most expensive single, at $175 per semester, was room 1578 because it had a bedroom, a living room, and a private bath. The most expensive doubles, at $315 a semester, were the present-day first floor quads on sophomore wall. Room 1612 was the cheapest room in TD at $55 a semester. In 1935, the Yale Daily News called the TD dining hall “a model of tasteful furnishing in the simplicity of colonial style.” In those days students would sit down at a table and a waitress would present them with menus and order slips. Upon ordering, the waitresses would bring out each course individually. TD’s first dinner included roast leg of lamb and parslied potatoes. On special occasions, there was more than the typical fare. The posters announcing the college’s first informal dinner in October read: “Beer will be served with dinner Monday at 6:15. The fellows will be there and there will be singing.” There was not singing, however, when in TD’s inaugural year a number of plaster ceilings collapsed in the college. The first ceiling fell on Robert Sayre, Jr. in room 1648 on January 10, 1936, less than four months after the college first opened. According to the Yale Daily News, 75 square feet of plaster collapsed on Sayre, and it “took the entire entryway to get him out” since he was “plastered.” Two weeks later, the ceilings in rooms 1647 and 1649 also collapsed. The University ordered the mass evacuation of all TDers, and students temporarily moved to the gym, Old Campus, fraternities, other colleges, and even the Head of College’s house. The students returned a week later, after the University tore all the ceilings down and cleaned everything up. Actual re-plastering did not occur until the following summer. Prior to the evacuation, one clever student, Henry Oliver ‘38, posed for the Yale Daily News wearing a football helmet to protect himself from falling plaster. Building inspectors eventually determined that the problem with the plaster was a chemical malfunction of its bonding coat. The plaster fiasco served to bring the young TD community closer together as they were subjected to bad press and tongue-in-cheek ribbing throughout the residential colleges. The Prexies bounced back in style, celebrating their experience and homecoming with the first Plaster Dinner. Rogers composed a number of songs satirizing what he called the “Plastercine Age,” the most popular of which was “Break, Plaster, Break,” sung to the tune off “Wake, Freshmen, Wake.” The place cards for dinner were all pieces of plaster with the student’s names on them. For years, the Plaster Dinner was an annual tradition until students no longer knew what it was for. Many years later, in the 1970’s, the TD Social Activities Committee sponsored Mr. Plaster dances, but students eventually forgot about the tradition altogether. As they are today, intramural sports were an important aspect of college life in 1935. TD had a miserable first fall season, with tackle and touch football both finishing near the bottom of the standings. Despite a second place finish in hockey in the winter, the Prexies entered their first spring in ninth place out of ten. But TD vaulted into fourth by the end of the year by winning the spring season. Their victory was largely due to the success of the TD baseball team, which even had its own uniforms emblazoned with large “TD”s. The “Prexy Nine” only lost one game en route to a regular season tie, but destroyed rivals Vanderbilt (later part of Silliman College) and Branford in the play-offs to claim TD’s first championship in any sport. The Prexies went on to beat Harvard’s intramural baseball champions as well, and the entire college celebrated with a Field Day and picnic at the home of one of the fellows in Woodbridge, Connecticut. Although Saybrook took the Tyng Cup that year, the future was TD’s, as the college would claim its first of many Tyng Cups the next year in 1937. Additional NavigationClose	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1170
__label__cc	0.606259	0.393741	TMX Group Equity Financing Statistics – October 2013 TMX Group today announced its financing activity on Toronto Stock Exchange and TSX Venture Exchange for October 2013. Toronto Stock Exchange welcomed 13 new issuers in October 2013, up from 12 the previous month and the same as October 2012. The new listings include 4 ETFs, 3 structured products, 2 real estate companies, 1 financial services company, 1 oil & gas company, 1 technology company and 1 clean technology company. Total financings raised in October 2013 increased 155% from September 2013, but was down 4% year-over-year. In October 2013, the total number of financings was 78, which is up from 36 the previous month and up from 60 in October 2012. TSX Venture Exchange listed 7 new issuers in October 2013, which is down from 8 the previous month and down from 13 in October 2012. The new listings include 3 from the Capital Pool Company Program, 2 mining companies, 1 communications & media company and 1 diversified industries company. In October 2013, total financings raised increased 359% from September 2013, and increased 83% from October 2012. There were 160 financings in October 2013, compared to 125 in September 2013 and 180 in October 2012. TMX Group consolidated trading statistics for October 2013 can be viewed at www.tmx.com. TMX Group's key subsidiaries operate cash and derivative markets and clearinghouses for multiple asset classes including equities, fixed income and energy. Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, TMX Select, Alpha Group, The Canadian Depository for Securities, Montreal Exchange, Canadian Derivatives Clearing Corporation, Natural Gas Exchange, BOX Options Exchange, Shorcan, Shorcan Energy Brokers, Equicom and other TMX Group companies provide listing markets, trading markets, clearing facilities, depository services, data products and other services to the global financial community. TMX Group is headquartered in Toronto and operates offices across Canada (Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver), in key U.S. markets (New York, Houston, Boston and Chicago) as well as in London, Beijing and Sydney. For more information about TMX Group, visit our website at http://www.tmx.com. Follow TMX Group on Twitter at https://twitter.com/tmxgroup.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1171
__label__cc	0.513797	0.486203	Tag Archives: TROY Online Troy University’s online programs ranked among the nation’s best By Andy Ellis U.S. News and World Report ranked several of Troy University's online programs in its Best Online Programs rankings, which were released today. Several of Troy University’s online degree programs have been recognized by U.S. News and World Report in its “2020 Best Online Programs” rankings, which were released on Tuesday. TROY was ranked 52nd out of 353 universities in the “Best Online Bachelors Programs” overall category, and was ranked in the top 35 institutions in terms… TROY student serving his country as Air Force musician Senior Airman Jamie Teachenor rehearses at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., on July 20, 2016. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Dennis Hoffman) Air Force Senior Airman Jamie Teachenor always wanted to serve his country. He just didn’t realize doing so would involve guitars, drums and microphones. Teachenor, a 37-year-old Troy University student working on obtaining his Master of Business Administration, was already a successful songwriter in Nashville when he auditioned and became the lead singer of the… Giving back: McSwean changes lives, honors mother through scholarship gift Helping students and honoring his mother provided the motivation for TROY staff member and alumnus Malcolm McSwean to give back to the University. After 20 years as a practicing attorney with the same firm, Malcolm McSwean wanted a change. That change would take the form of a new position with Troy University as a disability services coordinator for TROY Online where, today, he also assists the Student Success Team. “When I found out about this position being open,… Troy University ranked best online college in Alabama USO Airman of the Year calls TROY Online experience ‘life changing’ DNP student receives $1.1 million grant for breastfeeding education program	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1173
__label__wiki	0.837257	0.837257	Texpatriate Founded in a Boston dormroom by Noah M. Horwitz Let’s talk about 2016! I know, I know, the 2014 candidates are still in full swing, and then the 2015 municipal campaign (including a very exciting open Mayor’s race) will follow. But the 2016 election will soon be all-consuming in the world of politics, and I think a little crash-course in the candidates would be worthwhile, so one could simply jump right in the middle of the it all when the campaign inevitably becomes a tad less ambiguous. We will begin with the Democratic primaries, followed by a (much, much lengthier) series on Republican candidates. The 2016 Democratic frontrunners begin and end with Hillary Clinton. Honestly, I am not really quite sure how I should describe her title anymore, given that she has had so many important ones. Clinton served as the First Lady of Arkansas from both 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1992, while her husband Bill Clinton served as Governor. She then followed him to the White House, and served as First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001. 17 days before the end of her husband’s Presidency, she began serving as a member of the US Senate, a position she held until 2009. At that point, she became the Secretary of State for four years, all of President Obama’s first term. Oh yeah, and she ran for President in 2008, coming astoundingly close to besting Obama in the Democratic primary that year. In fact, Clinton garnered more than 250,000 more votes than Obama. Clinton has not officially announced anything pertaining to her Presidential ambitions, though she has said that she will likely make a decision by the end of the year. That being said, most insider-sources have agreed that she will run. A well-organized PAC, “Ready for Hillary,” has already been created, laying the groundwork for the expected run. However, the PAC is not merely run by overzealous supporters. Some of the Clinton family’s biggest political supporters, including James Carville and Harold Ickes, have signed on at the ground-level of this organization. George Soros, arguably the most prolific Democratic benefactor, has also donated heavily to the group. Closer to home, Amber and Steve Mostyn, possibly the biggest Democratic donors in Texas, have also underwritten the group. But the enthusiasm is not merely confined to activists and donors. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) has preemptively endorsed Clinton for 2016, as has former Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-CA). Tauscher is also noteworthy because she was one of Clinton’s top deputies in the State Department, serving as the Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs, as well as the Special Envoy for Strategic Stability and Missile Defense. I am confident that Clinton will run inherently because of the establishment support that has already surrounded her. As many will recall from last autumn, as the “Will Wendy Davis run for Governor?” question rung louder and louder, I was sold on her candidacy the instant that Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa began openly advocating for it. Politicians such as McCaskill would not preemptively endorse if there was actually a chance Clinton would not run. Politics does not work on wishful thinking like that. Accordingly, it just makes for fatuous conversation at this point to debate whether or not Clinton will run. She’s in, and the polls show her squarely in the lead. For the Democratic primary in particular, polling shows Clinton simply eviscerating the competition. It’s not even a contest, more like the United States vs. Grenada. But, to be fair, none of the other candidates have gotten off the ground yet, or even really announced for that matter. Chief among the other opponents (pretenders to the throne?) is Joe Biden, the Vice-President since 2009 and previously a six term Senator. Biden, who ran for President but performed disappointingly in 2008, still wants to be President. For his part, though, Biden has been significantly less successful in attracting donors and institutional support. Biden’s ace-in-the-hole, however, is that he has the ear of President Obama, who for his part praised Biden recently, though stopped far short of a full-blown endorsement. A third likely candidate is Martin O’Malley, the Governor of Maryland. An outspoken liberal, he recently made headlines by criticizing the President for being too heartless on the unaccompanied minors at the border issue. Many will remember that O’Malley was the keynote speaker at the 2013 Johnson-Richards-Rayburn dinner in Houston, which I attended. A fourth possible candidate is Andrew Cuomo, the Governor of New York. Cuomo is a social liberal but its quite centrist/pragmatic on fiscal affairs. This has caused him to draw the ire of the left, though Cuomo has unequivocally stated that he would not run against Clinton. Thus, I consider him an unlikely candidate. So who would run against Clinton? Besides Biden, mostly ideologues on the left (such as O’Malley) or in the center. Among the liberals would be Howard Dean, the former Governor of Vermont and Chairman of the DNC. The name may strike some as a shock, but Dean has openly flirted with the idea. “Never say never,” he recently said of the idea. A far more skillful candidate than Dean that would appeal to the same base, however, is Elizabeth Warren, a Senator from Massachusetts. Warren has plainly said that she won’t run, but plenty of liberal figures have rallied to her side nonetheless. The New Republic called her “Clinton’s worst nightmare.” The New York Post even ran a barnbusting story about Obama secretly backing Warren over Clinton; it’s legitimacy is dubious at best. Still, this didn’t stop slightly-more reputable sources such as Fox News from repeating the allegations. Far more likely, however, is a challenge from a pseudo-socialist such as Bernie Sanders, a Senator from Vermont. Sanders, who isn’t even technically a Democrat but an “Independent Socialist” who merely caucuses with the Democrats in the Senate, would be quite the longshot to win (primary or general) but could have the effect of pulling the party to the left. The New Republic and The Nation, respectively, make that point quite well. Sanders, for his part, told Salon that he was truly interested in running for President but stopped short of any particulars. The moderates’ best messenger, I’ve always thought, is Brian Schweitzer, the former Governor of Montana. Schweitzer is a strange mix of politician. As Ezra Klein noted (back when he was still at the Post) at the start of this year, he is the Democratic anti-Obama, castigating the President at every turn. However, many of his criticism are not really from the right/center. MSNBC fills in some of the details: while he is broadly pro-gas and pro-gun, he has libertarian viewpoints on programs such as the NSA and the Patriot Act. Furthermore, he is not shy about how much he hates Obamacare, but not for the reasons you think. Much like myself, he believes in a single-payer system. However, Time Magazine notes that Schweitzer may have sunk his chances by making some off-color comments recently. I’d say he sunk his chances when he dared to criticize Obama, President of the Andals and the First Men, Lord of the 50 States and Protector of the Realm (this is a Game of Thrones joke). Among more-usual moderates, Joe Manchin‘s –a Senator from West Virginia– name pops up. The National Journal has the full story on that, noting that a spokesperson simply told a hometown paper that “Senator Manchin is leaving all his options open for 2016, and will continue to look for the best way to bring common sense to Washington.” Manchin opposes both Obamcare and single-payer, and he famously put a bullet through a printed copy of Obama’s cap-and-trade proposal in a campaign video. Last, but certainly not least, is Jim Webb, a former Senator from Virginia. Politico first reported that one. When asked point-blank on if he wished to run in 2016, he retorted with a laconic “I’m not going to say one way or another.” Webb, more than being a garden variety moderate, is a centre-left liberal who is a super-hawk on the deficit and the national debt. Personally, I will probably support Clinton, but I truly wish for a vivid and competitive primary fight to ensue. This is not a knock on Clinton, merely a point that I do not think anyone should have a free pass. Furthermore, I think it actually strengthens candidates if they go through a primary fight, because it exposes their weaknesses and allows them to improve on their weaknesses. Take State Senator John Whitmire (D-Harris County) as an example. Many will recall that when his primary opponent, Damian LaCroix, first announced his candidacy, I applauded the contested primary. And yet, I (as well as the entire Texpatriate Editorial Board) strongly supported Whitmire in his re-election. Similarly, I think that Clinton could only become a better candidate by facing opposition from both her left and her right. Among the other candidates, the only one I am truly enamored with is Schweitzer. Yes, he has a bit of an unpredictable mouth on him, but I admire a politician who says what he thinks, even if I disagree or am offended by something that is said once every blue moon. I consider it far superior to a guarded robot who never says anything of consequence. While an old adage is that Democrats fall in love and Republicans fall in line, the reality is somewhat more complex. Democrats have surely had their share of idealistic primaries (2008, for one), with three of the last five being utter snooze fests. Either a President ran for re-election (1996 and 2012) or a Vice-President ascended to the nomination gracefully (2000). Republicans, on the other hand, have only had one such contest in the last five Presidential cycles (2004). While the original frontrunner often ends up winning (2008 and 2012), the fights are regularly nasty and brutish. 2016 looks to be another such ugly brawl. I have split up the prospective Republican candidates into four main categories: Establishment Conservative, Establishment Tea Party, Fringe Tea Party and Outcast. In making these distinctions, I admittedly use the term Establishment freer than most others would. Instead of what many others do, which is to say make a distinction between business interests and grass roots evangelism, I use the term to simply denote one who has climbed up the ladder in national politics. The main distinction between the outcast and the other categories is the presence of some semblance of political experience. The main distinction between the “fringe” and the “establishment” is how well-renowned the individual is on the national stage. Finally, Tea Party is a bit of an arbitrary descriptor, as there is no monolithic organization to which a member might belong, but I have done my best to weed out the so-called RINOs, to borrow the group’s lexicon. For example, in the 2012 Republican primaries, Herman Cain and Donald Trump would be “outcasts.” Michele Bachmann was “Fringe Tea Party,” Rick Santorum was “Establishment Tea Party” and Mitt Romney was “Establishment Conservative.” Hopefully, that clears it up. ESTABLISHMENT CONSERVATIVES 1. Jeb Bush, former Governor of Florida The son of President George Bush, the brother President George W. Bush and the father of Texas Land Commissioner Republican nominee George P. Bush, this Bush is comparably open minded on a wide array of issues. He made headlines a few months ago when he noted that many undocumented immigrants crossed the border in what he considered an “act of love.” But that’s not all! Bush has also gone on record advocating for the Federal Government to stay out of the gay marriage debate (in a huge departure from his brother’s administration). All this makes Bush a formidable foe against any of the Democratic contenders (read: Clinton), if he somehow were going to emerge from a Republican primary. Personally, I have some major doubts. 2. Chris Christie, Governor of New Jersey Christie, much like Bush, is an openly pragmatic Republican. He is willing to compromise, and has some centrist positions on issues. He freely acquiesced to a State Court order legalizing gay marriage in his State. He has even become a modest proponent of Medical Marijuana. However, Christie has largely been seen as damaged goods. Since the beginning of the year, his Presidential prospects –no, his entire political career– have been put in jeopardy because of the scandal called “Bridgegate.” In its simplest explanation, the scandal revolves around some of Christie’s closest aides –who have now all resigned or been fired– scheming to artificially augment traffic in a town whose Mayor did not endorse Christie’s re-election efforts last year. Progressives were overjoyed by this revelation, and relished in the opportunity to call Christie an evil, vindictive, nefarious, Nixonian monster. For his part, Christie has been inconsistent on whether or not Bridegate affected his willingness to run for President. In May, Christie said that he was “thinking” about running for President. Just the other day, however, Christie was far more dismissive about the whole thing. 3. Rick Perry, Governor of Texas Wait, Rick Perry is not among the Tea Party crowd? I was skeptical of such an assessment for many years as well, but I think that Paul Burka’s recent article in Texas Monthly finally convinced me otherwise. Perry is a creature of the times, but he is not a Tea Party rabblerouser. His path into State Government was honorable. Furthermore, in a contrast of Perry to Greg Abbott (the Republican gubernatorial nominee), I have always said that Perry, for all his faults, is a straightforward guy. His political views are not as malleable as the sands in the wind, much like Abbott’s are. This has been shown remarkably well in the last year, as Perry has seemingly become the voice of reason on many issues. Perry’s big pot reveal is probably the best example. Perry, for his part, is doing everything he can to not only stake out his own ground in the middle, but preserve his conservative bona fides. Definitely sounds like a Presidential candidate to me. 4. Mike Pence, Governor of Indiana Pence is best known as a pragmatic Midwestern Governor. The Washington Post reports that many in the party are “wooing” him and that he is “listening.” He has a bipartisan mindset, and his administration chose to expand Medicaid through Obamacare. Not good for a primary campaign. 5. Jon Huntsman, former Ambassador to China Huntsman has been super open about his interest in another campaign. In an interview with the Salt Lake Tribune, Huntsman was warmly interested in the idea. For his part, he has began to make trips around the country, including a keynote appearance at the 2014 Texas Tribune festival later this year. A former Governor of Utah, Huntsman likely permanently disenfranchised himself from Republicanism when he accepted a job to serve as Obama’s Ambassador to China, a position he held from 2009 to 2011. ESTABLISHMENT TEA PARTY 1. Ted Cruz, Senator from Texas Cruz came out of nowhere to defeat Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst in the 2012 Republican primary for the Senate, marking the beginning of the end for the Lieutenant Governor and the beginning of the beginning for the closest thing the Tea Party has has for a leader since its inception. A former Solicitor General of Texas with a sterling track record at the US Supreme Court, as well as a graduate (magna cum laude) of Harvard Law School, Cruz is undoubtedly brilliant. That being said, I’ve never really noticed his assumed intellectuality being used in politics. Cruz goes for the gut through soppy speeches replete with straw-man arguments and sometimes outright fabrications. But it works for him, and he is reasonably the frontrunner for this contest. Pick a conservative issue, Cruz has put his money on it. He lacks the strange libertarian excesses of Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) while still maintaining nearly cult-like following from many in those same circles. Much ink will be spilled in the next couple years asking if Cruz is the Republican version of President Barack Obama, once also a first-term Senator with higher ambitions. Both have mothers whose families have been in this country for quite long, but both have fathers who were foreigners. I equate Cruz with Obama because of one key reason, far removed from the parallels I just highlighted. Cruz is the “Tea Party Messiah” in a way that Obama definitely was –and to a limited extent, still is– among younger crowds. I wrote at length on this subject last year up in Boston, and already see the initial effects for Cruz on the other side. If Cruz is serious about running for President, which I believe he is, he will need to move back to the center, progressively taking more and more stands on issues that will be sure to tick off his obstreperous base. But, if the “Obama effect” holds true, he will be infallible. That could be a dangerous mix for the Democrats, which is why I am confident that Cruz stands a good chance of clinching the general election against Hillary Clinton. I still think Clinton is favored, but not by that much. 2. Rand Paul, Senator from Kentucky Paul, the son of longtime Texas Congressman Ron Paul, is every bit the politician that he father was not. He backs away from conspiracy theories, but has most of the courage to take a stand on civil liberties and foreign policy issues. He is unequivocally opposed to NSA Wiretapping, the USA PATRIOT Act, and most everything going on at Guantanamo Bay. He believes in isolationism, though he may fight tooth and nail against it being characterized by that word. On other issues, Paul is surprisingly reasonable. He was supportive of the Supreme Court’s recent decision Windsor v. United States (striking down the Defense of Marriage Act), though he remains virulently opposed to same-sex marriage on a state-by-state level. Earlier this year, he co-sponsored a bipartisan piece of legislation that would generously liberalize requirements for felons to vote. He has even come out in favor of some limited relaxing of drug laws, much like his father. Of course, Paul more than makes up on conservative bona fides with the rest of his positions. He believes that abortion in all cases –even the life of the mother– should be illegal and a constitutional amendment to that effect should be implemented. He opposes all gun control, government intrusion in healthcare and is radically opposed to many entitlement programs. His libertarian foreign policy arguments surely will draw the ire of the neoconservative establishment. 3. Marco Rubio, Senator from Florida Rubio is an interesting figure. His positions on many political issues are notoriously hard to get hammed down, given how fluid they are depending on the day of the week. Specifically, on immigration reform, Rubio has been on both sides of the fence more than once. Originally a vociferous supporter of comprehensive reform, even a co-sponsor of the Senate bill, Rubio infamously changed his mind once he began taking flack on the matter. More recently, however, he reportedly was back to talk over decisive action on the immigration front. In doing so, he has effectively become hostile against both sides on the issue. Not only the Tea Party, but pro-immigration reform groups now view his word as useless. On other issues, such as climate change, Rubio has unequivocally stated his grave doubts on the topic, making him a late-night punchline for a number of evenings. While there are plenty of specs that would make Rubio an ideal candidate on paper, he has just had a few too many stumbles in the limelight. I mention the silly little water bottle incident not because I think it marks poorly upon his performance that night, but because it showed that the rest of his speech was utterly unremarkable. If a nominal screw-up like that occurs, it is only harped upon incessantly when there is nothing else good to cover–the 24 hour media has to cover something! 4. Paul Ryan, Congressman from Wisconsin Ryan, obviously, was Mitt Romney’s running mate in the 2012 Presidential election. For whatever reason, failed Vice-Presidential candidates never fare very well when they run for the top-spot the next go-round. Dan Quayle, Joe Lieberman and John Edwards immediately come to mind. Sarah Palin never even got around to running. Now, you may be curious why I placed Ryan in the Tea Party crowd, as opposed to the establishment. After all, he is a self-described policy wonk and is Chairman of the House Budget Committee. I think Paul Krugman at The New York Times recently did a fairly swell job of dispelling that notion. Ever since the days of his Vice-Presidential campaign, he has used plenty of fuzzy math. Ryan has what I would call “typical” views on most political issues, particularly within foreign policy, but he is far more malleable by the base than many of his colleagues. For someone who has been in Congress since the Clinton administration, I am hesitant to apply the Tea Party label, but think he has really jumped on the ship quite effectively. In that regard, he is eerily reminiscent of Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, the Republican gubernatorial nominee. Watch out for Ryan; that is, if he decides to run. He could easily run his campaign as a sort of successor to Mitt Romney. And say what you will about Romney, but the man has been vindicated on a number of issues since his failed campaign, particularly in the foreign policy sphere. I still do not think that Russia is the United States’ number one foe, but it is certainly more on our radar now than it was two years ago. 5. Rick Santorum, former Senator from Pennsylvania Santorum will have been out of politics for nearly a decade by this point, so I truly cannot tell why he would ever wish to take another longshot stab at the Presidency. Perhaps he is a glutton for punishment. Santorum has been making a plethora of trips to Iowa, and has publicly expressed interest in another run for the White House I think Santorum is what I would call the “Eric Dick of the GOP primaries,” if he were to run again. The phrase, harkening back to last year’s failed Mayoral candidate, means someone who stands no chance of winning but could significantly affect the outcome nonetheless. Dick received over 10% of the vote in 2013, and I would expect him to garner a comparable percentage –much from the same people, low-information voters familiar with his commercials or amused by his surname– if he were tor run again in 2015. Not nearly enough to win, but certainly enough to have a huge impact if there were 8 candidates. Similarly, Santorum has just enough support from evangelicals that he could win the Iowa Caucuses, even though he would be one of the last people that voters in 30+ States would ever support. This could throw a wrench into the plans of many candidates. FRINGE TEA PARTY 1. Mike Huckabee, former Governor of Arkansas Without question, Huckabee will not be the next President of the United States. Sorry to spoil it, but it is the ugly truth. That being said, the State of Iowa has an unmitigated love affair with Huckabee, and the former Governor returns the favor right back to the Hawkeye State. Huckabee, as many will recall, ran for President in 2008 and triumphantly won the Iowa Caucuses that year. He also won contests in Arkansas, Georgia, Kansas, Tennessee and West Virginia. Even as conservative as Huckabee may have been in 2008, he has moved even further to the right in the eight years since. While he has historically been a big opponent of the teaching of evolution, Huckabee was previously somewhat progressive on environmental and conversation issues. He even backed cap-and-trade in 2007, before President Barack Obama proposed the environmental regulatory overhaul himself two years later. But Obama backed the policy, so it immediately became poison for any Republican to touch with a ten foot pole. ABC News reports that Huckabee has continued to shuffle in and out of Iowa well into this year. According to the article, one of Huckabee’s closest confidants confided that Huckabee is “seriously considering” running again. The Iowa Republican electorate is dominated by socially conservative evangelicals, who love Huckabee, so he would stand a serious candidate in Iowa. For the rest of the country, much like his 2008 campaign, not so much. 2. Bobby Jindal, Governor of Louisiana Bobby Jindal infamously delivered the response to the State of the Union in 2009, Obama’s first major speech since taking office. At the time, the Tea Party had not yet been formulated and Obama boasted an approval rating north of 60%. Predictably, Jindal stumbled and was derided overwhelmingly by the mainstream press and the general public. In all fairness, the speech was reminiscent of a patronizing kindergarten teacher, and he made a flippant comment about “Volcano Monitoring,” suggesting it was a wasteful expense. Not two months after the speech, Mount Rebout erupted in nearby Alaska and that “so-called volcano monitoring” was paramount in evacuating people to safety. The National Review appears indubitably convinced that Jindal will run, but he just has far too much baggage for me to think he will be taken seriously. As the astute will recall, Jindal made waves back in 2012 for harshly repudiating failed Presidential nominee Mitt Romney following his defeat. The Boston Globe had that full story. A few months later, The Washington Post reported that Jindal called the GOP the “stupid party” for things such as rejecting science. But Jindal, in large part, does reject science. He signed a bill into law in Louisiana that condoned creationism in the schools. All in all, Jindal appears to be much like some of the other candidates vying for this top spot; that is, without a strong base one way or another. His comments about the “stupid party” surely turn off the puritans, whereas his lack of any pragmatism on actual issues will make the more moderate elements cautious against support. 3. Peter King, Congressman from New York Last September, King, the grandiloquent Long Island Representative, unequivocally announced “I’m running for President.” In the nearly year since, he has backed away from total decisiveness but still looks like quite a likely candidate. King is also a strange being with complex political views. The New York Times gave a pretty impressive lowdown on some of his stranger escapades a number of years ago, when he launched McCarthy-style investigations into the lives of otherwise law-abiding Muslim-Americans. King has a real knack for making Islamophobic comments, and it is certainly his worst feature. Otherwise, King is fairly moderate compared to the remainder of the House Republican Caucus. He openly loathes Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and his “smug arrogance.” During last year’s Government Shutdown, King blamed Cruz and his lemmings for the entire issue, unlike most other Republicans. 4. Mike Rogers, Congressman from Michigan The Huffington Post has the full story on this. A seven-term Congressman, Rogers appears eerily similar to a contender from the 2012 election. His name is Thaddeus McCotter. Himself a decade public servant, McCotter brashly entered the fray for President in an ill-fated three month campaign for President. Don’t expect much from him. 1. Ben Carson Let me start off with a precursor: Beyond the shadow of a doubt, Carson is an exceptionable brilliant man. Rising out of poverty, he attended Yale undergrad and then medical school at the University of Michigan. He went to work at John Hopkins, where he became a phenomenally gifted surgeon, and eventually the director of Pediatric Surgery. In 1987, he became the first person to successfully separate conjoined twins who were together at the head. However, these impressive medical credentials do not give Carson the political credentials necessary to run for President. They just don’t. Longtime readers of my writings will be familiar with my notion that non-political expertise simply does not substitute political histories, when one runs for higher office. Carson would be supremely qualified to run for Congress, for example, but the Presidency is for politicians and generals…full stop. On the topic of politics, however, it goes without saying that I strongly disagree with Carson’s viewpoints. He is an outspoken social conservative, and for an intellectual he has some surprisingly backwards views (such as a rejection of evolution). For Carson’s part, The Weekly Standard reports that he is warming up to the idea. 2. Ted Nugent “I might run for President in 2016,” Nugent recently said, in comments picked up by Salon Magazine, among others. The Motor City Madman may have once been famous for B-hits like “Cat scratch fever,” but has more recently become something of a folk hero to the Tea Party. He has nearly made death-threats toward the President and is replete with offensive statements that rile up a base somewhere. Tea Party Troubadour? Sure. Future President? Nope. 3. Donald Trump My position on a prospective Trump candidacy is probably summed up better by Seth Meyers’ epic roast of him at the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner. “Donald Trump has been saying that he is running for President as a Republican,” Meyers said at the time, “which is surprising because I had just assumed he was running as a joke.” In a lengthy interview with Time Magazine, Trump let on that he still had some desire to run for President. At the risk of stating the obvious, Trump would make a terrible candidate for President. Like Carson, he has no legitimate experience. Unlike Carson, he is not that bright or nonsensical. Evidently the joke is still on him. CLOSING ANALYSIS There are a number of other possible candidates who have never confirmed their interest in running. Many of these people would probably be among the strongest candidates if they were to run. Scott Walker, the Governor of Wisconsin,has been mentioned as an ideal dark-horse by many on the right. He has all the right conservative bona fides, such as vivid opposition to abortion, same-sex marriage and Medicaid expansion. He notoriously went after the unions in one of his first acts. But he has also tried recently to moderate his tone ever so slightly, especially in a State such as Wisconsin with Democratic fundamentals. Susana Martinez and Brian Sandoval, respectively, are two more great candidates, if they were to choose to run. The Governor of New Mexico and the Governor of Nevada, respectively, both deal with State Legislatures strongly controlled by the Democratic Party, and work with them on bipartisan, pragmatic agendas and pieces of legislation. This would likely sink them in a Republican primary, however. Among the other serious names thrown out there are Mitch Daniels (former Governor of Indiana), John Kasich (Governor of Ohio), Rob Portman (Senator from Ohio) and Rick Snyder (Governor of Michigan). Among the non-serious are Sarah Palin (former Governor of Alaska), Condoleezza Rice (former Secretary of State) and Allen West (former Congressman from Florida). Oh yeah, and there is still an active draft movement for Mitt Romney, former Governor of Massachusetts and the Republican Presidential nominee in 2012. Notwithstanding some of the good prospecting candidates I first mentioned in the previous three paragraphs, I have some serious doubts as to how successful the Republicans may be against Hillary Clinton, if she is the Democratic nominee. It is useless to speculate how the candidates with no Name ID would do once their recognition had been built up; that being said, just within the subset of candidates who already have sterling identifications, Clinton blows each and every one of them out of the water. I just do not see a way that any of them bounce back in a significant way, with the noticeable exception of Cruz. Ted Cruz, as I noted back in my third part of this series, has the unique capacity to shift back to the center –even with the primary– without being clobbered by the Republican base. Those laughing him off as a silly and non-serious candidate truly need to readjust their sights. I recall a very similar thing being said about another Texan about 15 years ago…and that Texan wasn’t half as smart. All in all, the 2016 Election will be quite the exciting spectacle. I, for one, am looking forward to covering it with great zeal and alacrity. This entry was tagged 2016 Election. 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__label__wiki	0.573797	0.573797	About the ThanksUSA blog ThanksUSA Blog ThanksUSA « Folds of Honor Foundation/ThanksUSA Scholarship Recipient Eric Witt Congratulations to ThanksUSA Scholar Kara Davis! » American Tennis Rallies for Military Families With ThanksUSA May 9, 2012 by thanksusa Lisa Raymond (photo by ©Michael Baz, Australian Open) Washington, DC, May 9, 2012 – ThanksUSA today announced that Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) No. 1 Doubles Player and US Open Doubles Champion Lisa Raymond will serve as a national spokesperson for the charity, which aims to thank America’s troops through the gift of education. Ms. Raymond is partnering with Men’s Doubles Champions Bob and Mike Bryan to team with tennis clubs, professionals, players and fans around the world to help provide ThanksUSA scholarships to military families. “I am honored to become a spokesperson for ThanksUSA,” said Ms. Raymond. “These scholarships open up limitless opportunities to the spouses and children of our troops. I encourage everyone to give back to our future heroes.” The Bryan brothers also produced a public service announcement for ThanksUSA that is being featured on the Tennis Channel and on TV stations in major markets. The new nationwide “Tennis Thanks The Troops” campaign launched this month in honor of Military Appreciation Month. The United States Professional Tennis Association (USPTA) is leading the effort with ThanksUSA, with support from the United States Tennis Association Mid-Atlantic (MAS) through their tournaments. “We are proud to be a part of a program that allows our members the chance to give back to those who are serving our country and their families through the invaluable opportunity of education,” said USPTA CEO Tim Heckler. “United States Tennis Association Mid-Atlantic strongly supports the efforts of ThanksUSA in providing the gift of education to our military families,” said Rod Dulany, MAS executive director. “Through ThanksUSA, the MAS Clubs are giving back to the troops that support us. I hope everyone joins us in this worthwhile project.” Tennis facilities are holding ThanksUSA tournaments, sports clinics, auctions and other fundraising events, with a special focus on Memorial Day, to raise money in support of the ThanksUSA mission to provide need-based scholarships for the children and spouses of active-duty men and women across all the U.S. Armed Forces, the National Guard and Reserves. “Our goal is to give the gift of education to those who sacrifice so much for every American – our military families,” said Bob Okun, chairman and CEO of ThanksUSA. “Tennis enthusiasts are raising their racquets to show how much they appreciate the men and women in uniform who protect our freedoms.” For more information, visit www.ThanksUSA.org About ThanksUSA Founded in the fall of 2005, ThanksUSA, a non-partisan 501(c) (3) organization, is an effort to thank the men and women of our armed forces and their families for their service to the country with the gift of education. The organization provides needs-based, post-secondary education opportunities to the children and spouses of active-duty status military personnel through competitive scholarships. For more information, visit www.ThanksUSA.org. About the USPTA Founded in 1927, USPTA strives to raise the standards of the tennis profession while promoting greater awareness of the sport. USPTA offers 70 professional benefits to its more than 15,000 members worldwide, including certification and professional development. With more than 300 days of educational opportunities throughout the year, USPTA offers the most comprehensive continuing education program in the tennis industry. For more information, call 800-877-8248 or visit www.uspta.com. About USTA Mid-Atlantic The USTA/Mid-Atlantic Section, one of 17 sections of the United States Tennis Association, is a not-for-profit organization committed to promoting tennis by offering quality recreational and competitive programs for people of all ages and abilities. Mid-Atlantic has been part of the official governing body for tennis in America since 1923. We serve more than 40,000 members in the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, and eastern and southern West Virginia. Tennis players of all ages and skill levels are involved in leagues, tournaments and programs sanctioned by the section. About Lisa Raymond (@lisaraymond73) A native of Wayne, Pa., Raymond is currently ranked No. 1 in doubles on the WTA Tour alongside her doubles partner and fellow American, Liezel Huber. Throughout her professional career of 19 years, Raymond has won 78 women’s doubles events and six major championships. 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__label__wiki	0.85715	0.85715	These are some of my favorite films, representing nine decades of cinema. All synopses are courtesy of IMDb and Yahoo! Movies. Director: Charles Chaplin Screenwriter: Charles Chaplin Producer: Charles Chaplin Cast: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard Synopsis: The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman. Director: Victor Fleming Screenwriter: Sidney Howard Producer: David O. Selznick Cast: Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Olivia de Havilland, Hattie McDaniel, Leslie Howard Synopsis: The epic tale of a woman’s life during one of the most tumultuous periods in America’s history. From her young, innocent days on a feudalistic plantation to the war-torn streets of Atlanta; from her first love, whom she has always desired, to three husbands; from the utmost luxury to absolute starvation and poverty; from her innocence to her understanding and comprehension of life. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) Director: Frank Capra Screenwriter: Sidney Buchman Producer: Frank Capra Cast: James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Harry Carey Synopsis: Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed US senator on a lark by the spineless governor of his state. He is reunited with the state’s senior senator/presidential hopeful and childhood hero, Senator Joseph Paine. In Washington, however, Smith discovers many of the shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys’ camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss, Jim Taylor. Taylor first tries to corrupt Smith and then later attempts to destroy Smith through a scandal. Gentleman’s Agreement (1947) Director: Elia Kazan Screenwriter: Moss Hart Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck Cast: Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, Celeste Holm, Anne Revere, June Havoc, Albert Dekker, Jane Wyatt, Dean Stockwell Synopsis: Phil Green is a magazine writer who decides to write a series of articles exposing anti-Semitism. After failing to achieve an in-depth grasp of the problem, he pretends to be Jewish in order to experience the hostility of bigots first-hand. The Big Clock (1948) Director: John Farrow Screenwriter: Jonathan Latimer Producer: Richard Maibaum Cast: Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Sullivan, George Macready, Rita Johnson, Elsa Lanchester Synopsis: A career-oriented magazine editor finds himself on the run when he discovers his boss is framing him for murder. Rope (1948) Screenwriter: Hume Cronyn Producers: Lord Sidney Lewis Bernstein, Alfred Hitchcock Cast: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Collier Synopsis: Brandon and Philip are two young men who share a New York apartment. They consider themselves intellectually superior to their friend David Kentley, and as a consequence, decide to murder him. Together they strangle David with a rope, and placing the body in an old chest, they proceed to hold a small party. The guests include David’s father, his fiancée Janet, and their old schoolteacher Rupert, from whom they mistakenly took their ideas. As Brandon becomes increasingly more daring, Rupert begins to suspect. Singin’ in the Rain (1952) Directors: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly Screenwriters: Betty Comden, Adolph Green Producer: Arthur Freed Cast: Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O’Connor, Jean Hagen, Cyd Charisse Synopsis: In 1927, Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont are a famous on-screen romantic pair. Lina, however, mistakes the on-screen romance for real love. Don has worked hard to get where he is today with his former partner Cosmo. When Don and Lina’s latest film is transformed into a musical, Don has the perfect voice for the songs, but Lina—well, even with the best efforts of a diction coach, they still decide to dub over her voice. Kathy Selden, an aspiring actress, is brought in, and while she is working on the movie, Don falls in love with her. Will Kathy continue to “aspire” or will she get the break she deserves? On the Waterfront (1954) Screenwriter: Budd Schulberg Producer: Sam Spiegel Cast: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Rod Steiger, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb Synopsis: Terry Malloy dreams about being a prize-fighter while tending his pigeons and running errands at the docks for Johnny Friendly, the corrupt boss of the dockers union. Terry witnesses a murder by two of Johnny’s thugs and later meets the dead man’s sister and feels responsible for his death. She introduces him to Father Barry, who tries to force him to provide information for the courts that will smash the dock racketeers. Screenwriter: John Michael Hayes Producer: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr Synopsis: Professional photographer L.B. “Jeff” Jeffries breaks his leg while getting an action shot at an auto race. Confined to his New York apartment, he spends his time looking out of the rear window observing the neighbors. He begins to suspect that the man in the apartment opposite his may have murdered his wife. Jeff enlists the help of his society model girlfriend Lisa Fremont and his nurse Stella to investigate. Director: Sidney Lumet Screenwriter: Reginald Rose Producers: Henry Fonda, Reginald Rose Cast: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley, E.G. Marshall, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, John Fiedler, Jack Klugman, Edward Binns, Joseph Sweeney, George Voskovec, Robert Webber Synopsis: The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open-and-shut case of murder soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the juror’s prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other. Screenwriters: Alec Coppel, Samuel Taylor Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore Synopsis: John “Scottie” Ferguson is a retired San Francisco police detective who suffers from acrophobia, and Madeleine is the lady who leads him to high places. A wealthy shipbuilder who is an acquaintance from college days approaches Scottie and asks him to follow his beautiful wife, Madeleine. He fears she is going insane, maybe even contemplating suicide, because she believes she is possessed by a dead ancestor. Scottie is skeptical, but agrees after he sees the beautiful Madeleine. North by Northwest (1959) Screenwriter: Ernest Lehman Producers: Alfred Hitchcock, Herbert Coleman Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Martin Landau Synopsis: New York advertising executive Roger Thornhill is kidnapped by a gang of spies led by Philip Vandamm, which believes Thornhill is CIA agent George Kaplan. Thornhill escapes, but must find Kaplan in order to clear himself of a murder it is believed he committed. Following Kaplan to Chicago as a fugitive from justice, Thornhill is helped by beautiful Eve Kendall. In Chicago, she delivers a message to Kaplan that almost costs Thornhill his life when he is chased across a cornfield by a crop-dusting plane. Director: Billy Wilder Screenwriters: Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond Producer: Billy Wilder Cast: Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe Synopsis: Two struggling musicians witness the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre and try to find a way out of the city before they are found and killed by the mob. The only job that will pay their way is an all-girl band, so the two dress up as women. In addition to hiding, each has his own problems. One falls for another band member, but can’t tell her his gender; the other has a rich suitor who will not take no for an answer. The Apartment (1960) Cast: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Jack Kruschen Synopsis: Insurance statistician C.C. “Bud” Baxter advances his career by making his Manhattan apartment available to executives in his company for their extramarital affairs. His boss, Jeff D. Sheldrake, finds out and promotes Bud in return for the exclusive use of the apartment for his own affair. When Sheldrake’s girlfriend turns out to be Fran Kubelik, a pretty elevator operator Bud likes, he is heartbroken, but accepts the arrangement. Screenwriter: Joseph Stefano Cast: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin Synopsis: Phoenix office worker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. She has to meet her lover Sam in lunch breaks and they cannot get married because Sam has to give most of his money away in alimony. One Friday, Marion is trusted to bank $40,000 by her employer. Seeing the opportunity to take the money and start a new life, Marion leaves town and heads towards Sam’s California store. Tired after the long drive and caught in a storm, she gets off the main highway and pulls into the Bates Motel. The Motel is managed by a quiet young man named Norman who seems to be dominated by his mother. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) Director: Robert Mulligan Screenwriter: Horton Foote Producer: Alan J. Pakula Cast: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, Robert Duvall, John Megna, Frank Overton, Brock Peters Synopsis: Based on Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book of 1960. Atticus Finch is a lawyer in a racially divided Alabama town in the 1930s. He agrees to defend a young black man who is accused of raping a white woman. Many of the townspeople try to get Atticus to pull out of the trial, but he decides to go ahead. How will the trial turn out and will it change any of the racial tension in the town? The Birds (1963) Screenwriter: Evan Hunter Cast: Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Veronica Cartwright Synopsis: Spoiled socialite and notorious practical joker Melanie Daniels is shopping in a San Francisco pet store when she meets Mitch Brenner. Mitch is looking to buy a pair of love birds for his young sister’s birthday. He recognizes Melanie, but pretends to mistake her for an assistant. She decides to get him back by buying the birds and driving up to the quiet coastal town of Bodega Bay, where Mitch spends his weekends with his sister and mother. Shortly after she arrives, Melanie is attacked by a gull, but this is just the start of a series of attacks by an increasing number of birds. Director: George Cukor Screenwriter: Alan Jay Lerner Producer: Jack Warner Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Stanley Holloway, Jeremy Brett Synopsis: Henry Higgins is a professor of languages and a rather snobbish and arrogant man. A visiting colleague, Colonel Pickering, makes him a bet that he can’t take a “commoner” and turn her into someone who would not be completely out of place in the social circles of upper-class English society. The Sound of Music (1965) Director: Robert Wise Producer: Robert Wise Cast: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Charmian Carr, Heather Menzies, Nicholas Hammond, Duane Chase, Angela Cartwright, Debbie Turner, Kym Karath, Daniel Truhitte Synopsis: Maria is a failure as a nun. The Mother Superior sends her off in answer to a letter from a retired naval captain for a governess for his seven children. She goes to their house and finds that she is the latest in a long line of governesses run off by the children. She teaches the children to sing, and that becomes their bonding force, leading her to fall in love with their father and marrying him. As this is happening, Austria votes to be assumed by Germany on the eve of World War II. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) Director: Mike Nichols Producer: Ernest Lehman Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis Synopsis: George and Martha are a middle-aged married couple whose charged relationship is defined by vitriolic verbal battles, which underlies what seems like an emotional dependence upon each other. This verbal abuse is fueled by an excessive consumption of alcohol. George—being an associate history professor in a New Carthage university where Martha’s father is the president—adds an extra dimension to their relationship. Late one Sunday evening after a faculty mixer, Martha invites Nick and Honey, an ambitious young biology professor new to the university and his mousy wife, over for a nightcap. As the evening progresses, Nick and Honey, plied with more alcohol, get caught up in George’s and Martha’s games of needing to hurt each other and everyone around them. The ultimate abuse comes in the form of talk of George’s and Martha’s unseen 16-year-old son, whose birthday is tomorrow. Director: George Roy Hill Screenwriter: William Goldman Producer: John Foreman Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Cloris Leachman Synopsis: Butch and Sundance are the two leaders of the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang. Butch is all ideas, Sundance is all action and skill. The west is becoming civilized, and when Butch and Sundance rob a train once too often, a special posse begins trailing them no matter where they run. Over rock, through towns, across rivers, the group is always just behind them. When they finally escape through sheer luck, Butch has another idea: “Let’s go to Bolivia.” Based on the exploits of the historical characters. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) Directors: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones Screenwriters: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin Producers: Mark Forstater, Terry Jones, Michael White (VI) Cast: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Michael Palin Synopsis: This classic Monty Python comedy, directed by Python’s Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones, is a hilarious send-up of the grim circumstances of the Middle Ages as told through the story of King Arthur and framed by a modern-day murder investigation. When the mythical king of the Britons leads his knights on a quest for the Holy Grail, they face a wide array of horrors, including a persistent Black Knight, a three-headed giant, a cadre of shrubbery-challenged knights, the perilous Castle Anthrax, a killer rabbit, a house of virgins, and a handful of rude Frenchmen. Director: Francis Ford Coppola Screenwriters: John Milius, Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Herr Producers: Francis Ford Coppola, Kim Aubry Cast: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper, Laurence Fishburne, Harrison Ford Synopsis: Vietnam, 1969. Burnt-out Special Forces officer Captain Willard is sent into the jungle with top-secret orders to find and kill renegade Colonel Kurtz, who has set up his own army within the jungle. As Willard descends into the jungle, he is slowly overtaken by the jungle’s mesmerizing powers and battles the insanity that surrounds him. His boat crew succumbs to drugs and is slowly killed off one by one. As Willard continues his journey, he becomes more and more like the man he was sent to kill. Airplane! (1980) Directors: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker Screenwriters: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker Producers: Jon Davison, Howard W. Koch Cast: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Peter Graves, Lorna Patterson, Stephen Stucker, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Synopsis: This is a spoof of the airport disaster movies. When the crew of an airplane is struck by some form of virus, the fate of the passengers depends on an ex-war pilot who is the only one able to land the plane safely. The passengers represent a selection of interesting, wacky characters who seem to take every word for its literal meaning. Director: Martin Scorsese Screenwriters: Paul Schrader, Mardik Martin Producers: Robert Chartoff, Irwin Winkler Cast: Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty, Frank Vincent, Nicholas Colasanto Synopsis: Based on the life and career of boxer Jake LaMotta, Raging Bull focuses on Jake’s rage and violence that makes him virtually unstoppable in the ring. The same anger also drives Jake to beat his wife and his brother Joey, and sends Jake down a self-destructive spiral of paranoia and rage. Back to the Future (Complete Trilogy) (1985, 1989, 1990) Directors: (I) Robert Zemeckis, Frank Marshall; (II, III) Robert Zemeckis, Max Kleven Screenwriters: Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale Producers: Bob Gale, Neil Canton Cast: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, Jeffrey Weissman, Elisabeth Shue, Mary Steenburgen Synopsis: (I) Marty McFly, a typical American teenager of the ’80s, is accidentally sent back to 1955 in a plutonium-powered DeLorean time machine invented by a slightly mad scientist, Dr. Emmett Brown. During his often hysterical, always amazing trip back in time, Marty must make certain his teenage parents-to-be meet and fall in love—so he can get back to the future. (II) Marty McFly has only just got back from the past when he is once again picked up by Dr. Emmett Brown and sent through time to the future. Marty’s job in the future is to pose as his son to prevent him being thrown in prison. Unfortunately, things get worse when the future changes the present. (III) Stranded in 1955, Marty McFly receives written word from his friend, Dr. Emmett Brown, as to where the DeLorean time machine can be found. However, an unfortunate discovery prompts Marty to go to his friend’s aid. Using the time machine, Marty travels to the old west where his friend has run afoul of a gang of thugs and has fallen in love with a local schoolteacher. Using the technology from the time, Marty and Emmett devise one last chance to send the two of them back to the future. Spaceballs (1987) Director: Mel Brooks Screenwriters: Mel Brooks, Thomas Meehan, Ronny Graham Producer: Mel Brooks Cast: Mel Brooks, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, John Candy, Daphne Zuniga, George Wyner, Joan Rivers, Dick Van Patten Synopsis: Planet Spaceball’s President Scroob sends Lord Dark Helmet to steal Planet Druidia’s abundant supply of air to replenish their own, and only Lone Starr can stop them. Directors: Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff Screenwriters: Irene Mecchi, Jonathan Roberts, Linda Woolverton Producer: Don Hahn Cast: Matthew Broderick, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, James Earl Jones, Jeremy Irons, Moira Kelly, Niketa Calame, Nathan Lane, Ernie Sabella, Robert Guillaume, Rowan Atkinson, Whoopi Goldberg, Cheech Marin Synopsis: Lion cub and future king Simba searches for his identity. His eagerness to please others and penchant for testing his boundaries sometimes gets him into trouble. Toy Story (Complete Trilogy) (1995, 1999, 2010) Directors: (I, II) John Lasseter, (III) Lee Unkrich Screenwriters: (I) John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton, Joe Ranft, Joss Whedon, Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow; (II) John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Ash Brannon, Andrew Stanton, Rita Hsiao, Doug Chamberlin, Chris Webb; (III) John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich, Michael Arndt Producers: (I) Bonnie Arnold, Ralph Guggenheim; (II) Karen Robert Jackson, Helene Plotkin; (III) Darla K. Anderson Cast: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger, Kelsey Grammer, Ned Beatty, Annie Potts, John Morris, Erik von Detten, Laurie Metcalf, Michael Keaton, Estelle Harris, Jodi Benson, Blake Clark, Javier Fernandez Pena, Timothy Dalton, Wayne Knight Synopsis: (I) Toy Story is about the secret life of toys when people are not around. When Buzz Lightyear, a space ranger, takes Woody’s place as Andy’s favorite toy, Woody doesn’t like the situation and gets into a fight with Buzz. Buzz accidentally falls out the window and Woody is accused by all the other toys of killing him. Woody has to go out of the house to look for Buzz so they can both return to Andy’s room. But while on the outside, they get into all kinds of trouble while trying to get home. (II) While Andy is away at summer camp, Woody has been toynapped by Al McWiggin, a greedy collector and proprietor of Al’s Toy Barn. In this all-out rescue mission, Buzz and his friends Mr. Potato Head, Slinky Dog, Rex, and Hamm spring into action to rescue Woody from winding up as a museum piece. They must find a way to save him before he gets sold in Japan forever and they’ll never see him again. (III) Woody, Buzz, and the whole gang are back. As their owner Andy prepares to depart for college, his loyal toys find themselves in daycare, where untamed tots with their sticky little fingers do not play nice. So, it’s all for one and one for all as they join Barbie’s counterpart Ken, a thespian hedgehog named Mr. Pricklepants and a pink, strawberry-scented teddy bear called Lots-o’-Huggin’ Bear to plan their great escape. Director: Barry Levinson Screenwriters: Hilary Henkin, David Mamet Producers: Robert De Niro, Barry Levinson, Jane Rosenthal Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Anne Heche, Denis Leary, Willie Nelson, Kirsten Dunst, William H. Macy, Woody Harrelson Synopsis: After being caught in a scandalous situation days before the election, the president does not seem to have much of a chance of being re-elected. One of his advisers contacts a top Hollywood producer in order to manufacture a war in Albania that the president can heroically end, all through mass media. Shakespeare in Love (1998) Director: John Madden Screenwriters: Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard Producers: Donna Gigliotti, Marc Norman, David Parfitt, Harvey Weinstein, Edward Zwick Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush, Tom Wilkinson, Judi Dench, Ben Affleck Synopsis: A young Shakespeare, out of ideas and short of cash, meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays. Being John Malkovich (1999) Director: Spike Jonze Screenwriter: Charlie Kaufman Producers: Sandy Stern, Michael Stipe, Steve Golin, Vincent Landay Cast: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, John Malkovich Synopsis: A puppeteer discovers a door in his office that allows him to enter the mind and life of John Malkovich for fifteen minutes. The puppeteer then tries to turn the portal into a small business. Chocolat (2000) Director: Lasse Hallström Screenwriter: Robert Nelson Jacobs Producers: Alan C. Blomquist, David Brown, Kit Golden, Leslie Holleran Cast: Juliette Binoche, Alfred Molina, Judi Dench, Johnny Depp Synopsis: When a single mother and her six-year-old daughter move to rural France and open a chocolate shop—with Sunday hours—across the street from the local church, they are met with some skepticism. But as soon as they coax the townspeople into enjoying their delicious products, they are warmly welcomed. Frequency (2000) Director: Gregory Hoblit Screenwriter: Toby Emmerich Producers: Bill Carraro, Toby Emmerich, Gregory Hoblit, Howard Koch, Howard “Hawk” Koch Jr. Cast: Dennis Quaid, James Caviezel Synopsis: A rare atmospheric phenomenon allows a New York City firefighter to communicate with his son thirty years in the future via short-wave radio. The son uses this opportunity to warn the father of his impending death in a warehouse fire and manages to save his life. However, what he does not realize is that changing history has triggered a new set of tragic events, including the murder of his mother. The two men must now work together, thirty years apart, to find the murderer before he strikes so that they can change history—again. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen Screenwriters: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen Producers: Tim Bevan, John Cameron, Ethan Coen, Eric Fellner Cast: George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, John Goodman, Holly Hunter Synopsis: Three 1920s convicts escape from jail, intent on getting to the loot stashed away by one of them. As this is at his house—soon to be flooded by a new dam—speed is of the essence. They find themselves fast-talking their way out of one jam after another, and along the way they not only have to be wary of riverside sirens, but they even get to make a pretty good country record. Ocean’s Eleven (2001) Director: Steven Soderbergh Screenwriter: Ted Griffin Producer: Jerry Weintraub Cast: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, Bernie Mac, Andy Garcia, Julia Roberts, Scott Caan, Casey Affleck, Elliott Gould, Carl Reiner, Shaobo Qin Synopsis: A gangster by the name of Danny Ocean rounds up a gang of associates to stage heists of three major Las Vegas casinos (Bellagio, The Mirage, and the MGM Grand) simultaneously during a popular boxing event. Y Tu Mamá También (2001) Director: Alfonso Cuarón Screenwriters: Alfonso Cuarón, Carlos Cuarón Producer: Jorge Vergara Cast: Diego Luna, Gael García Bernal, Ana López Mercado Synopsis: Abandoned by their girlfriends for the summer, teenagers Tenoch and Julio meet the older Luisa at a wedding. Trying to be impressive, the friends tell Luisa they are headed on a road trip to a beautiful, secret beach called Boca del Cielo. Intrigued with their story and desperate to escape, Luisa asks if she can join them on their trip. Soon, the three head out of Mexico City, making their way toward the fictional destination. Along the way, seduction, argument, and the contrast of the trio against the harsh realities of the surrounding poverty ensue. Adaptation. (2002) Screenwriters: Charlie Kaufman, Donald Kaufman Producers: Jonathan Demme, Vincent Landay, Edward Saxon Cast: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper Synopsis: An account of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman’s attempt to adapt Susan Orlean’s non-fiction book The Orchid Thief, which is the story of John Laroche, a plant dealer who clones rare orchids, then sells them to collectors. We see the action of the book as we see Kaufman struggle to adapt it into a movie. This is presumably a somewhat-true story, as Charlie Kaufman is the real life screenwriter of Adaptation. Bowling for Columbine (2002) Director: Michael Moore Screenwriter: Michael Moore Producers: Charles Bishop, Charles Bishop (II), Jim Czarnecki, Michael Donovan, Kathleen Glynn, Michael Moore Synopsis: The United States of America is notorious for its astronomical number of people killed by firearms for a developed nation without a civil war. With his signature sense of angry humor, activist filmmaker Michael Moore sets out to explore the roots of this bloodshed. In doing so, he learns that the conventional answers of easy availability of guns, violent national history, violent entertainment, and even poverty are inadequate to explain this violence when other cultures share those same factors without the equivalent carnage. In order to arrive at a possible explanation, Michael Moore takes on a deeper examination of America’s culture of fear, bigotry, and violence in a nation with widespread gun ownership. Furthermore, he seeks to investigate and confront the powerful elite political and corporate interests fanning this culture for their own unscrupulous gain. Talk to Her (2002) Director: Pedro Almodóvar Screenwriter: Pedro Almodóvar Producer: Agustin Almodóvar Cast: Javier Cámara, Darío Grandinetti, Leonor Watling, Rosario Flores Synopsis: After a chance encounter at a theatre, two men, Benigno and Marco, meet at a private clinic where Benigno works. Lydia, Marco’s girlfriend and a bullfighter by profession, has been gored and is in a coma. It so happens that Benigno is looking after another woman in a coma, Alicia, a young ballet student. The lives of the four characters will flow in all directions—past, present, and future—dragging all of them towards an unsuspected destiny. 21 Grams (2003) Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu Screenwriter: Guillermo Arriaga Producers: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Robert Salerno Cast: Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Benicio Del Toro, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Melissa Leo Synopsis: College professor Paul Rivers and his wife Mary find their union precariously balanced between life and death. He is mortally ill and awaiting a heart transplant while she hopes to become pregnant with his child through artificial insemination. Cristina Peck, having matured since her reckless past, is a beloved older sister to Claudia, a good wife to Michael and loving mother to two little girls. Her family radiates hope and joy. Much further down the socioeconomic scale, ex-con Jack Jordan and his wife Marianne struggle to provide for their two children while Jack reaffirms his commitment to religion. A tragic accident that claims several lives places these couples in each other’s orbit. In the aftermath, Paul confronts his own mortality, Cristina takes action to come to terms with her present and, perhaps, her future, and Jack’s faith is put to the test. If spiritual equilibrium is to be regained by any one of them, it could come at great cost to the others. Yet the will to live and the instinct to reach out to another person for support remains ever present among them all. Director: Tim Burton Screenwriter: John August Producers: Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks, Richard D. Zanuck Cast: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange, Alison Lohman, Helena Bonham Carter, Steve Buscemi, Danny DeVito Synopsis: The story revolves around a dying father and his son, who is trying to learn more about his dad by piecing together the stories he has gathered over the years. The son winds up re-creating his father’s elusive life in a series of legends and myths inspired by the few facts he knows. Through these tales, the son begins to understand his father’s great feats and his great failings. Screenwriter: Lars von Trier Producers: Tomas Eskilsson, Turid Oversveen, Liisa Penttila, Vibeke Windelov Cast: Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Lauren Bacall, Harriet Andersson, James Caan, Patricia Clarkson, Jeremy Davies, Chloë Sevigny Synopsis: The beautiful fugitive, Grace, arrives in the isolated township of Dogville on the run from a team of gangsters. With some encouragement from Tom, the self-appointed town spokesman, the little community agrees to hide her, and in return, Grace agrees to work for them. However, when a search sets in, the people of Dogville demand a better deal in exchange for the risk of harboring poor Grace, and she learns the hard way that in this town, goodness is relative. But Grace has a secret, and it is a dangerous one. Dogville may regret it ever began to bare its teeth. Directors: Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich Screenwriters: Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson, David Reynolds Producer: Graham Walters Cast: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, Willem Dafoe, Brad Garrett, Allison Janney, Geoffrey Rush Synopsis: Marlin (a clown fish) is a widower who only has his son Nemo left of his family after a predator attack. Years later, on Nemo’s first day of school, he’s captured by a scuba diver and taken to live in a dentist office’s fish tank. Marlin and his new absent-minded friend Dory set off across the ocean to find Nemo, while Nemo and his tankmates scheme on how to get out of the tank before he becomes the dentist’s niece’s new pet. Matchstick Men (2003) Screenwriters: Nicholas Griffin, Ted Griffin Producers: Sean Bailey, Ted Griffin (III), Jack Rapke, Ridley Scott, Steve Starkey Cast: Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell, Alison Lohman Synopsis: Phobia-addled con artist Roy and his protégé Frank are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle, when the unexpected arrival of Roy’s teenage daughter Angela disrupts his carefully ordered life and jeopardizes his high-risk scam. Crash (2004) Director: Paul Haggis Screenwriters: Paul Haggis, Robert Moresco Producers: Don Cheadle, Paul Haggis, Mark R. Harris, Robert Moresco, Cathy Schulman, Bob Yari Cast: Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, William Fichtner, Brendan Fraser, Terrence Dashon Howard, Ludacris, Thandie Newton, Ryan Phillippe, Larenz Tate Synopsis: Several stories interweave during two days in Los Angeles involving a collection of inter-related characters: a black police detective with a drugged-out mother and a thieving younger brother, two car thieves who are constantly theorizing on society and race, the distracted district attorney and his irritated and pampered wife, a racist veteran cop (caring for a sick father at home) who disgusts his more idealistic younger partner, a successful black Hollywood director and his wife who must deal with a racist cop, a Persian-immigrant father who buys a gun to protect his shop, a Hispanic locksmith and his young daughter who is afraid of bullets, and more. Director: Michel Gondry Producers: Anthony Bregman, Steve Golin Cast: Jim Carey, Kate Winslet, Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood, Kirsten Dunst, Tom Wilkinson Synopsis: Joel is stunned to discover that his girlfriend Clementine has had her memories of their tumultuous relationship erased. Out of desperation, he contracts the inventor of the process, Dr. Howard Mierzwiak, to have Clementine removed from his own memory. But as Joel’s memories progressively disappear, he begins to rediscover their earlier passion. From deep within the recesses of his brain, Joel attempts to escape the procedure. As Dr. Mierzwiak and his crew chase him through the maze of his memories, it’s clear that Joel just can’t get her out of his head. I Heart Huckabees (2004) Director: David O. Russell Screenwriters: David O. Russell, Jeff Baena Producers: Gregory Goodman, Scott Rudin, David O. Russell Cast: Jason Schwartzman, Jude Law, Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin, Naomi Watts, Mark Wahlberg, Isabelle Huppert Synopsis: This ensemble comedy is about a married couple, the Jaffes, who work as detectives, helping people solve existential crises in their lives. For those not familiar with the philosophy-based term of “existential crisis,” some examples of such a crisis would be a “mid-life crisis,” a “what am I doing with my life?” sort of hang up, “my life has been a mistake,” “my whole life is a joke,” etc. Their first client in this movie is Albert Markovski, who is experiencing angst because of his position at Huckabees, a popular chain of retail stores. Investigating his workplace, the Jaffes take on one of Albert’s coworkers, Brad Stand, as a client as well, which leads them to investigate his girlfriend, Dawn Campbell, who is the spokesmodel in the Huckabees TV commercials. Meanwhile, Albert teams up with an existential firefighter and a French radical out of frustration with the idea that the Jaffes are helping the very man who seems to be part of Albert’s existential crisis. Match Point (2005) Director: Woody Allen Screenwriter: Woody Allen Producers: Stephen Tenenbaum, Gareth Wiley Cast: Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Scarlett Johansson, Emily Mortimer, Matthew Goode Synopsis: Chris Wilton is a former tennis pro, looking to find work as an instructor. He meets Tom Hewett, a well-off pretty boy. Tom’s sister Chloe falls in love with Chris, but Chris has his eyes on Tom’s fiancée, the luscious Nola. Both Chris and Nola know it’s wrong, but what could be more right than love? Chris tries to juggle both women, but at some point, he must choose between them. Rent (2005) Director: Chris Columbus Screenwriter: Steve Chbosky Producers: Michael Barnathan, Chris Columbus, Robert De Niro, Mark Radcliffe, Jane Rosenthal Cast: Rosario Dawson, Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp, Jesse L. Martin, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Idina Menzel, Tracie Thoms, Taye Diggs Synopsis: This film adaptation of Jonathan Larson’s Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning rock opera tells the story of one year in the life of a group of bohemians struggling in modern-day East Village New York. The story centers around Mark and Roger, two roommates. While a former tragedy has made Roger numb to life, Mark tries to capture it through his attempts to make a film. In the year that follows, the group deals with love, loss, AIDS, and modern-day life in one truly powerful story. The Squid and the Whale (2005) Director: Noah Baumbach Screenwriter: Noah Baumbach Producers: Wes Anderson, Charlie Corwin, Clara Markowicz, Peter Newman Cast: Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, Owen Kline, William Baldwin, Anna Paquin Synopsis: The patriarch of an eccentric Brooklyn family claims to once have been a great novelist, but he has settled into a teaching job. When his wife discovers a writing talent of her own, jealousy divides the family, leaving two teenage sons to forge new relationships with their parents. The wife begins dating her younger son’s tennis coach. Meanwhile, the husband has an affair with the student his older son is pursuing. Black Snake Moan (2006) Director: Craig Brewer Screenwriter: Craig Brewer Producers: Ron Schmidt, John Singleton, Stephanie Allain Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Christina Ricci, Justin Timberlake, S. Epatha Merkerson, John Cothran Jr. Synopsis: There was a time when Lazarus played the blues; a time he got Bojo’s Juke Joint shakin’ back in the day. Now he lives them. Bitter and broken from a cheating wife and a shattered marriage, Lazarus’s soul is lost in spent dreams and betrayal’s contempt—until Rae. Half naked and beaten unconscious, Rae is left for dead on the side of the road when Lazarus discovers her. The God-fearing, middle-aged black man quickly learns that the young white woman he’s nursing back to health is none other than the town tramp from the small Tennessee town where they live. Worse, she has a peculiar anxiety disorder. He realizes when the fever hits that Rae’s affliction has more to do with love lost than any found. Abused as a child and abandoned by her mother, Rae is used by just about every man in the phone book. She tethers her only hope to Ronnie, but escape to a better life is short-lived when Ronnie ships off for boot camp. Desperation kicks in as a drug-induced Rae reverts to surviving the only way she knows how: by giving any man what he wants—until Lazarus. Refusing to know her in the biblical sense, Lazarus decides to cure Rae of her wicked ways and vent some unresolved male vengeance of his own. He chains her to his radiator, justifying his unorthodox methods with quoted scripture. Preacher R.L. intervenes, but it is Lazarus and Rae who redeem themselves. Unleashing Rae emotionally, Lazarus unchains his heart, finding love again in Angela. By saving Rae, he frees himself. Director: Tarsem Singh Screenwriters: Dan Gilroy, Nico Soultanakis, Tarsem Singh Producer: Tarsem Singh Cast: Lee Pace, Catinca Untaru, Justine Waddell Synopsis: In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastical story about five mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances. An Inconvenient Truth (2006) Director: Davis Guggenheim Producers: Jeff Skoll, Davis Guggenheim, Diane Weyermann Cast: Al Gore Synopsis: Director Davis Guggenheim eloquently weaves the science of global warming with Mr. Gore’s personal history and lifelong commitment to reversing the effects of global climate change. A longtime advocate for the environment, Gore presents a wide array of facts and information in a thoughtful and compelling way. “Al Gore strips his presentations of politics, laying out the facts for the audience to draw their own conclusions in a charming, funny, and engaging style, and by the end, has everyone on the edge of their seats, gripped by his haunting message,” said Guggenheim. An Inconvenient Truth is not a story of despair, but rather a rallying cry to protect the one earth we all share. “It is now clear that we face a deepening global climate crisis that requires us to act boldly, quickly, and wisely,” said Gore. Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) Director: Guillermo del Toro Screenwriter: Guillermo del Toro Producers: Javier Mateos Morillo, Luis Maria Reyes, Belen Atienza Cast: Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú, Doug Jones Synopsis: Set in 1940s Spain against the postwar repression of Franco’s Spain, this is a fairy tale that centers on Ofelia, a lonely and dreamy child living with her mother and adoptive father, who is a military officer tasked with ridding the area of rebels. In her loneliness, Ofelia creates a world filled with fantastical creatures and secret destinies. With fascism at its height, Ofelia must come to terms with her world through a fable of her own creation. Stranger Than Fiction (2006) Director: Marc Forster Screenwriter: Zach Helm Producer: Lindsay Doran Cast: Will Ferrell, Emma Thompson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah Synopsis: One morning, a seemingly average and generally solitary IRS agent named Harold Crick begins to hear a female voice narrating his every action, thought, and feeling in alarmingly precise detail. Harold’s carefully controlled life is turned upside down by this narration only he can hear, and when the voice declares that Harold Crick is facing imminent death, he realizes he must find out who is writing his story and persuade her to change the ending. The voice in Harold’s head turns out to be the once celebrated, but now nearly forgotten, novelist Karen “Kay” Eiffel, who is struggling to find an ending for what might be her best book. Her only remaining challenge is to figure out a way to kill her main character, but little does she know that Harold Crick is alive and well and inexplicably aware of her words and her plans for him. Across the Universe (2007) Director: Julie Taymor Screenwriters: Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais, Julie Taymor Producers: Matt Gross, Suzanne Todd, Jennifer Todd Cast: Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson, Dana Fuchs, Martin Luther, T.V. Carpio Synopsis: A dock worker, Jude, travels to America in the 1960s to find his estranged father. There, he falls in love with sheltered American teenager Lucy. When her brother Max is drafted to fight in the Vietnam War, they become involved in peace activism. The film title and main characters are named after various songs by The Beatles. Meet the Robinsons (2007) Director: Stephen J. Anderson Screenwriters: Michelle Bochner, Stephen J. Anderson Producers: John Lasseter, Clark Spencer, William Joyce Cast: Angela Bassett, Daniel Hansen, Jordan Fry, Stephen J. Anderson, Wesley Singerman, Matthew Josten, Laurie Metcalf Synopsis: When Lewis meets a mysterious boy from the future named Wilbur Robinson, the two travel forward in time where Lewis discovers the amazing secret of the Robinson family. Lewis is a brilliant 12-year-old with a surprising number of clever inventions to his credit. His latest and most ambitious project is the Memory Scanner, which he hopes will retrieve early memories of his mother and maybe even reveal why she put him up for adoption. But before he can get his answer, his invention is stolen by the dastardly Bowler Hat Guy and his diabolical hat—and constant companion—Doris. Lewis has all but given up hope in his future when Wilbur whisks our bewildered hero away in a time machine and the two travel forward in time to spend a day with Wilbur’s eccentric family. In a world filled with flying cars and floating cities, they hunt down Bowler Hat Guy, save the future, and uncover the amazing secret of Lewis’s future family. Director: John Patrick Shanley Screenwriter: John Patrick Shanley Producers: Mark Roybal, Scott Rudin Cast: Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davis Synopsis: It’s 1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. A charismatic priest, Father Flynn, is trying to upend the school’s strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier, the iron-gloved principal who believes in the power of fear and discipline. The winds of political change are sweeping through the community, and indeed, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James, a hopeful innocent, shares with Sister Aloysius her guilt-inducing suspicion that Father Flynn is paying too much personal attention to Donald, Sister Aloysius sets off on a personal crusade to unearth the truth and to expunge Flynn from the school. Now, without a shard of proof besides her moral certainty, Sister Aloysius locks into a battle of wills with Father Flynn that threatens to tear apart the community with irrevocable consequence. WALL-E (2008) Director: Andrew Stanton Screenwriters: Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, Jim Reardon Producer: Jim Morris Cast: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard, John Ratzenberger, Kathy Najimy, Sigourney Weaver Synopsis: After hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for, WALL-E (short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) discovers a new purpose in life (besides collecting knick-knacks) when he meets a sleek search robot named Eve. Eve comes to realize that WALL-E has inadvertently stumbled upon the key to the planet’s future and races back to space to report her findings to the humans (who have been eagerly awaiting word that it is safe to return home). Meanwhile, WALL-E chases Eve across the galaxy. Director: Marc Webb Screenwriters: Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber Producers: Mason Novick, Jessica Tuchinsky, Mark Waters, Steven J. Wolfe Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel, Geoffrey Arend, Chloe Moretz, Matthew Gray Gubler, Clark Gregg Synopsis: Tom believes, even in this cynical, modern world, in the notion of a transforming, cosmically destined, lightning-strikes-once kind of love. Summer doesn’t. Not at all. But that doesn’t stop Tom from going after her, again and again, like a modern Don Quixote, with all his might and courage. Suddenly, Tom is in love, not just with a lovely, witty, intelligent woman, but with the very idea of Summer, the very idea of a love that still has the power to shock the heart and stop the world. The fuse is lit on Day 1 when Tom, a would-be architect turned sappy greeting card writer, encounters Summer, his boss’s breezy, beautiful new secretary, fresh off the plane from Michigan. Though seemingly out of his league, Tom soon discovers he shares plenty in common with Summer. By Day 31, things are moving ahead, albeit “casually.” By Day 32, Tom is irreparably smitten, living in a giddy, fantastical world of Summer on his mind. By Day 185, things are in serious limbo, but not without hope. And as the story winds backwards and forwards through Tom and Summer’s on-again, off-again, sometimes blissful, often tumultuous dalliance, all adds up to a kaleidoscopic portrait of why and how we still struggle so laughably, cringingly hard to make sense of love and to hopefully make it real. Blue Valentine (2010) Director: Derek Cianfrance Screenwriters: Derek Cianfrance, Cami Delavigne, Joey Curtis Producers: Lynette Howell, Alex Orlovsky, Jamie Patricof Cast: Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Faith Wladyka, John Doman, Mike Vogel, Ben Shenkman Synopsis: The film centers on a contemporary married couple, charting its evolution over a span of years by cross-cutting between time periods. Director: Christopher Nolan Screenwriter: Christopher Nolan Producers: Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Ken Watanabe, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, Marion Cotillard, Pete Postlethwaite, Michael Caine, Lukas Haas Synopsis: Dom Cobb is a skilled thief—the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction—stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state, when the mind is at its most vulnerable. Cobb’s rare ability has made him a coveted player in this treacherous new world of corporate espionage, but it has also made him an international fugitive and cost him everything he has ever loved. Now, Cobb is being offered a chance at redemption. One last job could give him his life back, but only if he can accomplish the impossible: inception. Instead of the perfect heist, Cobb and his team of specialists have to pull off the reverse. Their task is not to steal an idea, but to plant one. If they succeed, it could be the perfect crime. But no amount of careful planning or expertise can prepare the team for the dangerous enemy that seems to predict their every move—an enemy that only Cobb could have seen coming. Waiting for “Superman” (2010) Screenwriters: Davis Guggenheim, Billy Kimball Producers: Michael Birtel, Lesley Chilcott Cast: Geoffrey Canada, Michelle Rhee, Bill Strickland, Randi Weingarten Synopsis: Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim reminds us that education “statistics” have names: Anthony, Francisco, Bianca, Daisy, and Emily, whose stories make up the engrossing foundation of Waiting for “Superman”. As he follows a handful of promising kids through a system that inhibits—rather than encourages—academic growth, Guggenheim undertakes an exhaustive review of public education, surveying “drop-out factories” and “academic sinkholes,” methodically dissecting the system and its seemingly intractable problems. Another Earth (2011) Director: Mike Cahill Screenwriters: Brit Marling, Mike Cahill Producers: Mike Cahill, Hunter Gray, Brit Marling, Nicholas Shumaker Cast: Brit Marling, William Mapother Synopsis: Rhoda Williams, a bright young woman accepted into MIT’s astrophysics program, aspires to explore the cosmos. A brilliant composer, John Burroughs, has just reached the pinnacle of his profession and is about to have a second child with his loving wife. On the eve of the discovery of a duplicate Earth, tragedy strikes and the lives of these strangers become irrevocably intertwined. Estranged from the world and the selves they once knew, the two outsiders begin an unlikely love affair and reawaken to life. But when one is presented with the chance of a lifetime opportunity to travel to the other Earth and embrace an alternative reality, which new life will they choose? Director: William Friedkin Screenwriter: Tracy Letts Producers: Nicolas Chartier, Scott Einbinder Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Juno Temple, Thomas Haden Church, Gina Gershon Synopsis: When a debt puts a young man’s life in danger, he turns to putting a hit out on his evil mother in order to collect the insurance. Gravity (2013) Screenwriters: Alfonso Cuarón, Jonás Cuarón Producers: Alfonso Cuarón, David Heyman Cast: Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed Harris Synopsis: A medical engineer and an astronaut work together to survive after a catastrophe destroys their shuttle and leaves them adrift in orbit. Her (2013) Screenwriter: Spike Jonze Producers: Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze, Vincent Landay Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Pratt, Rooney Mara Synopsis: A lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with his newly purchased operating system that’s designed to meet his every need. The Place Beyond the Pines (2013) Screenwriters: Derek Cianfrance, Ben Coccio, Darius Marder Producers: Lynette Howell, Sidney Kimmel, Alex Orlovsky, Jamie Patricof Cast: Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes, Ray Liotta, Rose Byrne, Emory Cohen, Dane DeHaan Synopsis: A motorcycle stunt rider turns to robbing banks as a way to provide for his lover and their newborn child, a decision that puts him on a collision course with an ambitious rookie cop navigating a department ruled by a corrupt detective. Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) Screenwriters: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo Producers: Alejandro González Iñárritu, John Lesher, Arnon Milchan, James W. Skotchdopole Cast: Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough, Amy Ryan, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts Synopsis: Illustrated upon the progress of his latest Broadway play, a former popular actor’s struggle to cope with his current life as a wasted actor is shown. Citizenfour (2014) Director: Laura Poitras Producers: Mathilde Bonnefoy, Laura Poitras, Dirk Wilutzky Cast: Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill Synopsis: A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden. I Origins (2014) Screenwriter: Mike Cahill Producers: Mike Cahill, Hunter Gray, Alex Orlovsky Cast: Michael Pitt, Brit Marling, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, Steven Yeun Synopsis: A molecular biologist and his laboratory partner uncover evidence that may fundamentally change society as we know it. Screenwriters: Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan Producers: Christopher Nolan, Lynda Obst, Emma Thomas Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Mackenzie Foy, Michael Caine, Matt Damon, John Lithgow, Ellen Burstyn, Wes Bentley Synopsis: A team of explorers travels through a wormhole in an attempt to ensure humanity’s survival. Directors: Pete Docter, Ronnie Del Carmen Screenwriters: Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley Producer: Jonas Rivera Cast: Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Richard Kind, Bill Hader, Lewis Black, Mindy Kaling, Kaitlyn Dias, Diane Lane, Kyle MacLachlan, Paula Poundstone, Bobby Moynihan Synopsis: After young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her emotions—Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust, and Sadness—conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house, and school. Get, Out (2017) Director: Jordan Peele Screenwriter: Jordan Peele Cast: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Catherine Keener, Bradley Whitford, Caleb Landry Jones, Lakeith Stanfield, LilRel Howery Synopsis: It’s time for a young African-American to meet with his white girlfriend’s parents for a weekend in their secluded estate in the woods, but before long, the friendly and polite ambience will give way to a nightmare. 4 thoughts on “Favorite Films” Daniel Quitério says: Thanks for the great feedback! Please subscribe on the homepage to be informed when I post something new. cdpung says: I saw you had Wag the Dog on the list–great film. Have you seen Glengarry Glen Ross? It’s by David Mamet, writer of Wag the Dog. It’s a really great movie with a great cast–Alan Arkin, Kevin Spacey, and Jack Lemmon. The character of Gil on the Simpsons is based on Lemmon’s performance. I haven’t seen it, but thanks for the recommendation! I’ll add it to my “watch list.” magicofmine says: Thx for a good movie list! This episode is fascinating! #TheWeeklyNYT twitter.com/TheWeekly/stat… 1 day ago	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1177
__label__cc	0.65662	0.34338	The mystic UN and Agenda 21 1 Could there be something happening in the world today that is even more threatening to life and liberty than Islam and its jihad? There could be, there is, and its name is Agenda 21. It emanates from that powerhouse of evil, the United Nations. It was initiated and is driven by votaries of a dark mysticism. They call themselves shamans. They freely confess – no, they boast – that they are working to establish totalitarian world government; that they aim to reduce the population of the world to half a billion and keep it at that number; that those suffered to live must return to a primitive existence deriving bare sustenance from such resources as their local habitat provides, own nothing, and worship the earth goddess Gaia with prescribed ritual. That is their vision of a new world order, the ultimate objective. It is to be attained step by step, starting with the enforcing of environmental regulations (among them the phasing out of the motor vehicle); emptying the suburbs and bringing people into the cities to be closely and austerely housed; returning the countryside to wilderness, which involves the destruction of roads … Is this just absurd alarmism? Surely no plotters, even in the UN, could really bring this off, could they? They haven’t really started doing these things have they? Who are these shadowy figures who can exert irresistible influence on the political powers of this world? We quote from The Green Agenda, a (Christian) site established to expose the movement for world government and explain how it is being put into effect, chiefly through the implementation of Agenda 21. It has links to the documents themselves. Agenda 21 spreads it tentacles from Governments, to federal and local authorities, and right down to community groups. Chapter 28 of Agenda 21 specifically calls for each community to formulate its own Local Agenda 21: “Each local authority should enter into a dialogue with its citizens, local organizations, and private enterprises to formulate ‘a Local Agenda 21.’ Through consultation and consensus-building, local authorities would learn from citizens and from local, civic, community, business and industrial organizations and acquire the information needed for formulating the best strategies.” – Agenda 21, Chapter 28, sec 1.3 Interestingly, in April 1991, fourteen months before Earth Summit, Prince Charles held a private two day international conference aboard the royal yacht Britannia, moored off the coast of Brazil. His goal was to bring together key international figures in an attempt to achieve a degree of harmony between the various countries that would gather at the Summit. Al Gore was present, along with senior officials from the United Nations and the World Bank. At the summit 179 nations officially signed Agenda 21 and many more have followed since. Nearly 12,000 local and federal authorities have legally committed themselves to the Agenda. In practice this means that all their plans and policies must begin with an assessment of how the plan or policy meets the requirements of Agenda 21, and no plans or policies are allowed to contradict any part of the Agenda. Local authorities are audited by UN inspectors and the results of the audits are placed on the UN website. You can see how many local authorities in your country were bound by Agenda 21 in 2001 here. The number has increased significantly since then. The official opening ceremony was conducted by the Dalai Lama and centered around a Viking long-ship that was constructed to celebrate the summit and sailed to Rio from Norway. The ship was appropriately named Gaia. A huge mural of a beauiful woman holding the earth within her hands adorned the entrance to the summit. Al Gore led the US delegation where he was joined by 110 Heads of State, and representatives of more than 800 NGO’s. Maurice Strong, Club of Rome member, devout Bahai, founder and first Secretary General of UNEP [UN Environment Program], has been the driving force behind the birth and imposition of Agenda 21. He chaired the Earth Summit, and outside, while he did, – His wife Hanne and 300 followers called the Wisdom-Keepers, continuously beat drums, chanted prayers to Gaia, and tended sacred flames in order to “establish and hold the energy field” for the duration of the summit. … In the course of his opening speech Maurice Strong made these remarks: “The concept of national sovereignty has been an immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation. It is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation states … The global community must be assured of environmental security.” “We must transform our attitudes, and adopt a renewed respect for the superior laws of Divine Nature.” “Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class – involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, air-conditioning, and suburban housing – are not sustainable. A shift is necessary which will require a vast strengthening of the multilateral system, including the United Nations.” “Global management” is required in order to keep the earth clean and pure. Or it is necessary to keep the earth clean and pure in order to impose “global management”. Take your pick, because it is never made clear which is the means and which the end. In any case, they’re after “global management” (which we believe is the end). They will manage your life because they know best. You will do as they say. For “sustainability“. And to serve the Higher Good. Which is the nursing of the planet. The serving of the planet. The worshiping of the planet. And the preservation of everything that lives on it. Even human beings within strict limits. This is called “biodiversity“. The Global Biodiversity Assessment of the State of the Earth, prepared by the UN Environmental Programme (UNEP) – armed UN leaders with the “ecological basis, and moral authority” they needed to validate their global management system. The GBA concludes … that “the root causes of the loss of biodiversity are embedded in the way societies use resources. This world view is characteristic of large scale societies, heavily dependent on resources brought from considerable distances. It is a world view that is characterized by the denial of sacred attributes in nature.” For this the inscribers of this idiotic document blame Christianity, Judaism, and Islam – of which we are not defenders; but it’s not as if they themselves are against religious superstition – far from it: “Eastern cultures with religious traditions such as Buddhism, Jainism and Hinduism did not depart as drastically from the perspective of humans as members of a community of beings including other living and non-living elements.” The UN was delighted with this tosh. Maurice Strong was honored and rewarded: Following the Earth Summit Maurice Strong was named Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations, and was appointed to the position of Chief Policy Advisor by Kofi Annan. He was also a member of the UN’s Commission on Global Governance, and the key architect of the Kyoto Protocol. Did you know that the UN has a Commission on Global Governance? Do Western governments know it? If so, why is the UN allowed to continue in existence? Just as the dirty mystic Rasputin was able to influence the rulers of Russia, so Maurice Strong is able to influence the would-be rulers of the world in the UN. A parliament of fools if ever there was one. Strong and his wife have also established the Manitou Foundation, providing land in Colorado to an eclectic mix of religious groups, including the Crestone Mountain Zen Center, the Spiritual Life Institute (a Catholic Carmelite monastery), the Haidakhandi Universal Ashram, the Sri Aurobindo Learning Center, Mangala Shri Bhuti (Tibetan Buddhists), and Karma Thegsum Tashi Gomang (Indian mystics). The Strongs have located their spiritual centre in the Colorado mountains because:”The Strongs learned that since antiquity indigenous peoples had revered this pristine wilderness as a place for conducting their vision quests and receiving shamanic trainings. It is prophesied that the world’s religious traditions would gather here and help move the world toward globally conscious co-existence and co-creation.” But while these multifarious dupes and charlatans wait for their “vision quests” and “shamanic trainings”, their drumming, their sacred flames, and their invocations to return the human race to primitive savagery, the collective political steps to the same end are being taken conscientiously by national and local government in accordance with Agenda 21. So what exactly does Agenda 21 contain? It consists of 115 different and very specific programs designed to facilitate, or to force, the transition to Sustainable Development. The objective, clearly enunciated by the leaders of the Earth Summit, is to bring about a change in the present system of independent nations. The agenda is broken up into 8 “programme areas for action”: Agriculture, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Management, Education, Energy and Housing, Population, Public Health, Resources and recycling, Transportation, Sustainable Economic Development. A link to the entire document is provided, but as the author says, it would take a few days to read all of this “blueprint for the 21st century”. The first six paragraphs are quoted for those with less time at their disposal. There the assertion is made that it “reflects a global consensus and political commitment at the highest level on development and environment cooperation”. This is nonsense of course. There is no global consensus. As for a political commitment “at the highest level”, if this means that the likes of Prince Charles, Prince Philip, Angela Merkel, Mikhail Gorbachev, Tony Blair, have swallowed the ballyhoo without even chewing it, then yes. It also asserts that “the developmental and environmental objectives of Agenda 21 will require a substantial flow of new and additional financial resources to developing countries, in order to cover the incremental costs for the actions they have to undertake to deal with global environmental problems and to accelerate sustainable development. Financial resources are also required for strengthening the capacity of international institutions for the implementation of Agenda 21.” That means taxing us, and global redistribution of our money. The author (whose name we have not discovered) stresses that “Agenda 21 is … an attempt to impose a global centrally planned quasi-government administered by the United Nations. Under Agenda 21 all central government and local authority signatories are required to conform strictly to a common prescribed standard and hence this is just communism resurrected in a new guise.” She also says that “Agenda 21 has [already] gained a stranglehold on global regulatory and planning processes”. We think this is true, at least to some significant extent. In our town the City Council is certainly putting Agenda 21 into effect. Small-unit housing is being built near railway stations. It is not family accomodation, but most suitable for single occupants. (Families are to be discouraged from living together. The family as such is bad for the environment and for collective organization.) There will be places to park bicycles but not cars. Private transport is being discouraged. “Smart meters” will inform the Authorities how warm or how cool the occupant keeps his/her austere little space. How much heat, light and water you use will not only be monitored, but controlled. Hundreds of cities in many if not all the states have embarked, or plan to embark, on the same sort of program. (Unless they’re going bankrupt. It may be that economic crisis, bad as it is, could save us from something worse.) President Obama is against the existence of the suburbs, where individual families live in privately-owned houses. He wants to concentrate population in the cities. (Some have written about this – eg. see here – but have not put it into its proper context, which is the implementation of Agenda 21.) The government can, has, and will use the eminent domain clause of the fifth amendment to expropriate private property. It is more than likely happening in your town. Your property is under threat. Your way of life is being decided for you. Not only do we have Christians, we even have some Democrats on our side in confronting this horrifying movement. Watch this video made by Democrats Against UN Agenda 21. It is long but informative. The worst news about what state and local government are doing to us comes after the 50 minute mark, but don’t skip too much before that. The shocking information needs the explanation and context. The UN must be destroyed. 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__label__wiki	0.751078	0.751078	Rowley Shillito Hooper (1887-1951), the founder of Photogelatine Engraving Company, Ltd. (often referred to simply as “PECO”), was born in Dudley, England, a small town outside Birmingham. He arrived in Canada in 1915 to fill the position of factory superintendent for Rolla L. Crain Company, Ltd., a large Ottawa printing firm. In 1916 he married Edith Emerala ‘Peggy’ Campbell in Montreal (following the death of Edith in 1937, he remarried Leonora Margaret Williams in 1941). In 1917 he left Rolla L. Crain and established his own printing business. The Photogelatine Engraving Company was incorporated in Ottawa on June 18, 1920. The Corporate Members were Rowley Shillito Hooper, publisher; Arthur William Barker, printer, and others. The objects of the Company were as follows: a) To purchase, take over, or otherwise acquire from Rowley Shillito Hooper the business now carried on by him at the City of Ottawa … b) To carry on business generally as printers, publishers, metal and tin plate printers, map makers, lithographers, photographers, engravers, stereotypers, electrotypers, embossers, book publishers, bookbinders, photogelatine, collotype, heliotype and photogravure makers, paper makers, envelope and paper bag and box makers, stationers, manufacturers, advertising agents, dealers in and vendors of novelties, office and other supplies … Ottawa (1921-1946) “Evangeline”, as painted by Thomas Faed (1826-1900). Longfellow’s heroine was a popular subject for Canadian postcards. PECO published this colour reproduction of a well-known 19th century painting. The name Photogelatine Engraving Co. first appears in The Ottawa City Directory, compiled and published by Might Directories Limited, in 1921. The entry in the alphabetical listing reads: “Hooper Rowley s, mgr Photogelatine Engraving Co. h 2, 15 Arlington av”. By the following year the Company itself is listed: “Photogelatine Engraving Co Ltd, Rowley S. Hooper mgr., 471-473 Wellington”. A postally used Photogelatine Engraving Co., Ottawa postcard, found with the date July 21, 1921, would confirm that the business was up and operating by the summer of 1921. The business, under the management of Rowley S. Hooper, remained at 471-473 Wellington Street from 1921 to 1937 and then moved to 469-473 Wellington Street where they stayed until 1946. According to M. D. Button, a former employee, interviewed February 16, 1979, the owner of the business was a Mr. Talbot from England. There is an element of truth to this recollection. On May 31, 1917 Rowley S. Hooper, signed a memorandum of agreement with T. Allen Hooper of Birmingham, England leather merchant for the advance of 500£ with Arthur George Hooper (his father) of Birmingham, a solicitor and British Labour Party politician, as guarantor. This was presumably used to start the business, and would not of been repaid for a number of years.. The Photogelatine Engraving Company picked up and moved to Toronto in early 1947. The 469 Wellington Street building was occupied by the Department of Public Works in 1947 and utilized as storage. The 473 Wellington Street building was occupied by Spartan Air Services Ltd. The buildings were demolished in the early 1960’s. Subjects of the postcards The company published views of communities all across Canada and even ventured as far afield as the British West Indies, but reserved their largest output for Ottawa. The 497 different postcards and 41 different folders/booklets with Ottawa subjects, catalogued to date (1998), make it the most prolific of all Ottawa postcard publishers. M. D. Button recalled that the earliest process used by the firm was a gelatine, similar to the “Bromoil” bromide process used in photography. A Guide to Early Photographic Processes describes this process as follows: BROMOIL PRINTS (1907 to 1940s) Developed by C. Welbourne Piper from an idea by E. J. Wall, it was a variant of the oil-pigment process. Prints, or more usually, enlargements were made on a suitable gelatin-silver bromide paper, and the image was bleached in a solution containing potassium bicarbonate. The gelatin became selectively hardened so that it would take up more or less pigment when hand applied with special brushes. The bleached image was thus ‘redeveloped’ in pigment, the distribution of which was to a large extent under the photographers’ control. Bromoil prints, which may be in a variety of colours, generally show broader tonal effects and more diffuse detail than conventional prints. The postcards, whether monotone black, monotone green, or full colour, were printed on a matte card stock and had a wide white border. The postcards are generally recognizable today because of the diffuse detail. Under magnification there is limited resolution and broad tonal effects – not the tiny squares, or dots found with half-tone illustration. Based on the dated postcards examined to date, some general conclusions on the progress of the business, while in Ottawa, can be drawn. They are of course preliminary. Types of postcards The earliest postcards printed by Photogelatine Engraving Co. (1921-1929) were white border designs in monotone black or monotone green tints. In all cases the caption was hand-lettered, in upper and lower case (or less commonly upper case) on the image. The card stock was unfinished, thick and had a slightly rough appearance. The gelatine printing did not show to the best advantage. In the case of the monotone black cards, only the No. 2 front and the No’s 2 and 2a back designs were used. In the case of the monotone green cards, the No’s 1, 1a, 1b, 2 and 2a fronts and the No’s 1, 1a, 2 and 11 back designs were used. Some of the more interesting postcard subjects treated by the Company in the 1920’s were: views of Rideau Hall produced for “The Fair of All Good Neighbours”, January 14, 1922; views of Ottawa retailed at the Central Canada Exhibition of September, 1926; and various rural scenes taken on the Central Experimental Farm. A number of interesting folders were also produced in the 1920’s, all with 16 photographic views on a single theme: the Ottawa Winter Carnival from January 28 to February 3, 1922 [FPE 4]; the Central Canada Exhibition from September 8-18, 1922 [FPE 20]; the Central Canada Exhibition from September 7-17, 1923 [FPE 33]; the Royal Mint [FPE 21a]; and the Ottawa General Hospital on Water Street [FPE 3]. Collegiate Institute, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. An example of the early PECO style. In 1930 Photogelatine Engraving Co. introduced a line of white border, full colour postcards. Breaking with past practice, the caption was printed in upper and lower case (or less commonly upper case) type in the border of the design. The card stock was a better grade, somewhat thinner and with a smooth finish. The gelatine printing gave a uniformly better result. At the same time new monotone black and a few sepia tint designs were published on the same improved card stock. In the mid-1930’s some colour and monotone black single cards and a tear-out booklet were produced in the “Giant Post Card” (4″ x 5 1/2″) format. The experiment seems to have been short-lived. Some of the more interesting themes explored by the Company in the period (1930-1947) were: a Chateau Laurier series with many interior views; a Parliament Building series sold in a 10-card envelope; a Royal Canadian Mounted series with its own exclusive numbering and a few cards to commemorate the Royal Visit of 1939. Series were also produced on the neighbouring communities of Aylmer and Hull, P.Q. A few interesting folders/booklets from the 1930-1947 period were: Official Pictures Ottawa Rough Riders from the 1939 season [FPE 29], a souvenir of the Chateau Laurier [FPE 34]; and a souvenir of the Gatineau Park, Federal District Commission [FPE 36]. Wasagaming Lodge, Riding Mountain National Park, Manitoba. An example of a coloured card produced by Photogelatine Engraving Co. The Toronto Branch (1926-1946) The Photogelatine Engraving Company, Ltd. opened a branch In Toronto in 1926. Confirmation of its arrival is provided by the Toronto City Directory 1926 (Might Directories Limited). The entry in the alphabetical listing reads: “Photo-Gelatin Co of Ottawa (br) Alex McIntosh mgr souvenirs 8, 47 King w” (The mis-spelling of the Company name and the omission of “Ltd.” was corrected by Might Directories in 1928). 47-51 King Street West was the 4 storey Colonial Building, located between Jordan and Bay Streets in the downtown core. Photogelatine Engraving Co. Ltd occupied room 8 on the second floor. In 1928 Photogelatine Engraving Company, Ltd. moved to 101 King Street West, a smaller building, between Bay and York Streets, which they shared with 4 other tenants. In 1933 Photogelatine Engraving Company, Ltd. moved to 90 Bond Street, a modest sized building, between Shuter and Dundas Streets, which they shared with 4 other tenants, one of whom was Arthur Lane, another postcard publisher. Within a year they moved once again to the 8 storey Empire Building at 64 Wellington Street, between Bay and York Streets, and within a block of Union Station. They began in room 615 on the sixth floor, but in 1942 exchanged this for room 511 on the fifth floor. In 1943, Alex McIntosh, the manager who had opened the branch in 1926, left the Company, and was replaced by the salesman/sales manager, John H. Bain. Perhaps in anticipation of the move of the parent company from Ottawa, in 1944 the branch moved into a house leased by John H. Bains at 311 Strathmore Boulevard between Monarch Park and Coxwell Avenues. This was on the east side of the city and close to what was then the City Limits. The final move of the branch in 1945 took them a bit further north to John Bain’s own house at 418 O’Connor Drive in East York. Located between Airley Crescent and Four Oaks Gate, in a pleasant residential area, the business was far removed from the city centre. Note: As early as 1943, John H. (Jack) Bain was publishing his own real photo postcards from the 418 O’Connor Drive house. Adopting the name “Kromo Graphic Postal” about 1951, he continued to publish white border postcards printed by the offset process which were obviously printed by the Photogelatine Engraving Co. Ltd. City Hall, Fort William, Ontario. Here colouring effects are used to produce an impression of a brightly-lit building at night. Relocation to Toronto, Final Years (1947-1954) The Photogelatine Engraving Company, Ltd. completed its move to Toronto in 1947. Confirmation of its arrival is provided by the Toronto City Directory 1947. The entry in the alphabetical listing reads: “Photogelatine Engraving Co Ltd R S Hooper, pres Robt Church, genl mgr 3551 Danforth av (Scar)”. The new single-floor plant, on one-half acres at 3551 Danforth Avenue was beyond the former City Limits, in Scarborough, between Balford and Warden Avenues. It was expected that when up and running in early 1947 “50 new employees will be required to turn out the company’s lines of postcards, view books, folders and calendars.” The general manager, Robert Douglas Church (1910-1998), was the son-in-law of Rowley S. Hooper, having married his eldest daughter Betty M. J. Hooper in 1943. Rowley Shillito Hooper died June 16, 1951. In 1952 he was replaced as president and general manager by Robert D. Church. The Company closed in 1954. In 1955 Robert D. Church became the senior supervisor of Rolph-Clark-Stone in Toronto. The site of the building is now Chester Village built in 1972 as a long-term care facility. Beginning in 1947, postcards produced by the Photogelatine Engraving Co. carry a Toronto address, confirming the firm had relocated by that date. Most of the postcards produced in this period are reprints of earlier white border gelatine colour, monotone black and sepia designs. Early in the 1950’s the firm introduced a radically different type of postcard. The white border, which had become a trade-mark of the Company over the years, was dropped in favour of an image occupying the entire front. The corners of the postcard were rounded. The caption was removed to the back. Perhaps in imitation of the increasingly popular modern chrome postcard, the design was printed by a collotype, full colour process and given a varnish finish. Some of the more interesting subjects covered by the Company in its later years were: numbered sets of Westboro and Hull P.Q. views and a contract issue for the Sisters of the Precious Blood in Ottawa. The two-panel advertising postcard produced for a motel in Leamington, Ontario (shown below) is an example of this type. Canada, Secretary of State. Report of the Secretary of State of Canada for the year ended March 31, 1921. Canada Gazette, “The Photogelatine Engraving Company, Limited”, July 3, 1920, p. 27. Dudley Archives, Dudley, West Midlands, “Bundle of Hooper family papers” DHF/1/20/1-7 Globe (Toronto), 3 December, 1946. “Twelve New Industries Are Slated for Toronto.” Globe (Toronto, 18 June, 1951. “Rowley S. Hooper” [obituary] Globe (Toronto), 13 March, 1998 “Robert Douglas Church” [obituary] Ocean Arrivals, Form 30A, 1919-1924 Ottawa Journal, 27 February, 1943 [engagement announcement for Betty Hooper and Flight Lieutenant Robert Douglas Church, D.F.C., R.C.A.F.] Ottawa Journal, 18 June, 1951 “Deaths” [Rowley S. Hooper obituary] Times (London), 12 October, 2002. “Leonora Hooper: who planned the wartime evacuation of her pupils to Canada and cared for them during their four-year stay” Manery’s Motor Court, Leamington, Ontario. A bifold (double) postcard produced by Photogelatine for promotional purposes. As noted above, this type of card dates from PECO’s later years and appears to have been an attempt to make PECO’s collotype process conform to customer expectations that had been altered by the emergence of modern “chrome” postcards in the years following World War II. This page was contributed by TPC member Ken L. Elder (21 August, 2018).	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1181
__label__wiki	0.554559	0.554559	Category: Postcard Shows CARD TALK CELEBRATES “CANADA 150” By Card Talk Editor August 28, 2017 August 31, 2017 Card Talk, Patriotic Postcards, Postcard Books by TPC Members, Postcard History, Postcard Shows Corner King & Yonge Sts., Toronto, Canada (Nerlich & Co.) Harbor, Toronto, Canada (Nerlich & Co.) The Fall 2017 edition of the TPC magazine Card Talk is now out: our members should be receiving their copies in the next day or two. Because July 1st represented the 150th anniversary of Confederation (“Canada 150”), the issue has several articles of a “patriotic” nature, beginning with some reflections by veteran member Joe Rozdzilski on what Canada means to him as a son of immigrants who came to Toronto in the 1930s. Joe provided us with some illustrations, including a couple of lovely patriotic cards from Nerlich & Co. This design, which is embossed and beautifully printed, must surely be the single most elegant of the large and common series of lithographed Canadian cards published by the major manufacturers after the turn of the century. These Nerlich cards recall familiar Toronto scenes of the early 20th century — the corner of King and Yonge streets downtown and the busy (and very industrial) harbour. Shields and Arms The provincial shields on these cards are of some interest. Nova Scotia’s, at the extreme right, isn’t the familiar blue cross of St. Andrew on a white background, but the province’s older design centered – understandably enough – on a fish (salmon?). Also, because they are post-1905 (likely not by much), the cards show Alberta and Saskatchewan as provinces, but at this point Alberta was still using the shield of its predecessor – the North West Territory – which featured a polar bear (rare in Alberta!) over four sheaves of wheat. Saskatchewan was apparently more on the ball, as it had already come up with its own exclusive design, featuring a more modest three sheaves of wheat. Curiously, the coat of arms depicted at lower left is not that of Canada but rather the United Kingdom’s coat of arms (which was of course that of King Edward VII, who was also King of Canada – so not at all inappropriate). Granary of the World Also (partly) on a Canada-Britain theme, Barb Henderson has contributed an article on postcards with the theme “Granary of the World”, “Britain’s Granary” or the “Granary of the Empire” … that sort of thing. Among these are several of the ceremonial arch that the Dominion government erected in London in 1902 at the time of Edward VII’s coronation. There is also a fine example (see below) from the well-known series of twelve postcards issued (seemingly) by the federal government around 1906 to encourage immigration from the U.S. The illustrations on these cards originally appeared in a pamphlet published in 1903 by the Interior ministry of Sir Clifford Sifton. The Granary of the World. (Government of Canada, c. 1906) Repatriation of Lost Treasures In another article, long-time member Bob Atkinson writes of his latest travels to postcard shows far and wide. This time his journeys took him to Vancouver and Nottingham, where he met organizer Brian Lund, for many years publisher (with his wife Mary) of the British periodical Picture Postcard Monthly and still at work on the Picture Postcard Annual. As usual, Bob was on the lookout for hidden Canadian treasures and (having forewarned dealers to his visit) came back with quite a handful. Below is a photo of Bob (at right) with his English cousin Malcolm Henderson and Mr. Lund in the middle. Malcolm Henderson, Brian Lund and Bob Atkinson at the Nottingham (U.K.) show. (courtesy R. Atkinson) Theatre Cards from New York City In not-specifically-Canadian news, we have accounts of some of our club talks, including Kyle Jolliffe’s “Broadway Ballyhoo”, an examination of New York City theatre postcards from 1900 to 1916. Kyle’s many postcards include the example below from the Korean comic opera “The Sho-Gun”. Many of the cards were produced by the Rotograph Co. as publicity for upcoming shows. Kyle, who focuses on New York postcards, also highlighted rarely-seen sets of Canadian cards by Warwick Bros. & Rutter – the “Celebrated Actor” series, which featured 36 or 37 cards – and by W. G. MacFarlane, who used Rotograph images in another hard-to-find series of cards. Scene from “The Sho-Gun”, with photo by Joseph Byron (1846-1926) of New York City. (courtesy K. Jolliffe) Other articles recount a talk by Ralph Beaumont – author of Heckman’s Canadian Pacific, an outstanding volume of early 20th century railway images not no Canadian history buff (or railway buff) should be without – and our own Mike Smith’s talk on his (and Larry Mohring’s) equally fascinating volume on the Canadian photographer Reuben Sallows, whose photographs were used on hundreds of Canadian postcards illustrating “scenes from ordinary life” in the young country of 1900-1910, in addition to numerous covers of the Canadian magazine Rod & Gun and illustrations in many U.S. periodicals of the day as well. Mike’s book may be ordered here. John Sayers contributed articles on the ongoing TPC auction and the Canadian National Exhibition, while Andrew Cunningham added an article about the use of Esperanto in postcards and postcard exchanges. As always, we conclude by noting that Card Talk is not available on newsstands – it’s only to be had by joining our Club (or, I suppose, by craftily befriending someone who already is … but in that case why not join anyway and stop being such a mooch?!) Sign-up details are available here. We hope everyone had a happy “Canada 150”! (By Andrew Cunningham) Tagged CPR, Esperanto	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1182
__label__cc	0.59689	0.40311	The Grammy Museum presents “George Carlin: A Place For My Stuff” September 28, 2015 Mark Says Hi! Awards, George Carlin, News The Grammy Museum will commemorate Grammy-winning comedian George Carlin with a new display on the Museum’s third floor. The exhibit will mark the third display in the Museum’s comedy series, following previous tributes to Rodney Dangerfield and Joan Rivers. “Ever since I became the keeper of my dad’s stuff in 2008, I have enjoyed sharing little bits of it with friends and comedians,” said Kelly Carlin, the comedian’s daughter. “But to know that his fans will now get to see some of it, makes my heart swell with joy. I am thrilled that the Grammy Museum is creating a place for his stuff.” “George Carlin helped redefine the art form of stand-up comedy. He used his talent to not only entertain, but to question conventional wisdom and social injustices,” said Bob Santelli, Executive Director of the Grammy Museum. “With this latest display in our comedy series, we continue to spotlight some of the greatest comedy acts, many of whom have been recognized by the GRAMMY Awards.” Artifacts on display in George Carlin: A Place For My Stuff will include: Carlin’s Grammy Awards and other accolades Childhood scrapbook and photos The set list from his performances on The Tonight Show in 1962 and The Ed Sullivan Show in 1971 His public arrest records Script from the 1999 cult film Dogma The exhibit opens September 30 and will be on display through March of 2016. You can plan your trip and get tickets here. The Grammy Museum is located in Los Angeles, CA. Happy Endings’ Adam Pall... 7 things to expect from “...	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1184
__label__wiki	0.727311	0.727311	The proposed NEOCam mission, years in the making, would search for near Earth objects using a space-based infrared telescope. (credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) One scientist’s 15-year (and counting) quest to save Earth from asteroid impacts by Alfred McEwen, Erik Asphaug, and Vishnu Reddy Professor Amy Mainzer of the University of Arizona may finally have her near-Earth object (NEO) survey mission. She has led the NEOCam proposal through three rounds of the NASA Discovery program, and in 2015 was one of five mission proposals awarded a Phase A study. In 2017 the Psyche and Lucy missions were selected for flight, and Amy Mainzer’s mission was supported for further funding to develop its infrared detectors. In 2005, Congress directed NASA to detect, track, and characterize 90 percent of NEOs 140 meters diameter or larger within 15 years. Those 15 years are up next year, but only about 30 percent have been found. NEOCam is a 50-centimeter telescope that will discover and characterize a large fraction of the asteroids and comets in the inner part of the solar system. It was supported based on its fundamental science, but the data that it will produce also serves planetary defense, which can be considered applied science. NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine has been called “passionate” about planetary defense and the American public agrees: in a recent AP-NORC poll of US priorities in space, monitoring asteroids was considered top priority by 68 percent of those polled, higher than any other category (59 percent prioritized scientific research and exploration; 23 percent and 27 percent prioritized human exploration of the Moon and Mars, respectively; and 19 percent prioritized a US military presence in space.) Imagine how much any presidential candidate would like to poll at 68 percent! In 2005, Congress directed NASA to detect, track, and characterize 90 percent of NEOs 140 meters diameter or larger within 15 years. Those 15 years are up next year, but only about 30 percent have been found because most are so difficult to detect from ground-based telescopes. NASA asked the National Academies to assess how best to achieve the goal, and they strongly endorsed the space-based infrared method advocated for the past 15 years by Amy Mainzer and her team. Because most NEOs are very dark (like Bennu, explored by OSIRIS-REx) they are very hard to spot in visible light; it’s like looking for a lump of charcoal in a dark room. Primitive asteroids absorb 90–95 percent of incident sunlight, so like black pavement they get hot, which makes them glow in the infrared. Even lighter asteroids glow at infrared wavelengths, just about as brightly as the dark objects. That’s what makes an infrared telescope a great way to discover NEOs. Furthermore, an infrared detection gives you a good estimate the asteroid’s diameter, even though the asteroid is not resolved (each is much smaller than a pixel.) Observing with an infrared camera is the answer, and that’s best done from space, where a telescope is outside the sometimes cloudy atmosphere and away from Earth’s heat, and can observe nearly 24/7 from an optimal geometry (NEOCam will co-orbit the Sun at “L1”, about four lunar distances interior to the orbit of the Earth.) NASA recognized that more capable infrared detectors were needed, and the NEOCam team has now achieved that. Bennu: Full-disk mosaic of images from OSIRIS-REx . This B-type asteroid reflects only 4.4 percent of incident sunlight, and has a mean diameter of 490 meters. About 70 percent of NEOs larger than 140 meters (large enough to cause a regional disaster) have not been discovered and characterized, in part because many are dark and difficult to detect in visible light. (credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona) Although it’s now been recast as an applied science investigation, the success of NEOCam will still require a scientist in a leading role who is dedicated to achieving the fundamental objectives of the mission. On September 23, 2019, Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA associate administrator for science, announced that he is supporting a directed NEO survey mission identical to NEOCam, to be managed by JPL and the University of Arizona. Amy Mainzer proposed NEOCam and developed the detectors in the extended Phase A study while working at JPL. She has now moved to Arizona to become a professor in the university’s Lunar and Planetary Lab, affording new opportunities to pursue her other life passion: inspiring the next generation of science leaders. After many years of work, the mission is in a refined state of development, so NASA hopes it will be launched in 2025, depending on funding levels. Once launched it will need about ten years to achieve the congressional requirement to find 90 percent of NEOs 140 meters or larger. So Amy Mainzer’s time has come, but with at least another 15 years to go. The heart of NEOCam is Amy Mainzer’s science investigation that was selected for the Phase A study by the Discovery program. Although it’s now been recast as an applied science investigation, the success of the project will still require a scientist in a leading role who is dedicated to achieving the fundamental objectives of the mission. We anticipate that this person will continue to be Mainzer. Zurbuchen has been involved in NASA science missions to Mercury and the Sun, and according to his website “his experience [at NASA] has driven his passion of cultivating leaders and highlighting talent throughout the agency.” There is a real concern that without a principal investigator, the mission might be poorly managed, exceeding cost while not achieving the required capabilities. Nobody has had closer oversight of all aspects of the mission than Mainzer. Moreover, the University of Arizona has made a strong commitment to supporting NEOCam, including space in a new building for an infrared detector lab, and preparation for NEO survey operations and data analysis. While NASA decides the exact strategy forward, including a possible new name for the mission, we are confident that Amy Mainzer and Thomas Zurbuchen will watch the development very closely to insure a completely successful NASA mission that fulfills the directives of the US Congress. Amy Mainzer (right) and Craig Bartlett on the set of “Ready Jet Go!” a PBS series she hosts to help children learn about astronomy and exploration. The series is targeted to kids three to eight years old, because that is often when kids make lifelong career choices. As you can see from this picture, Amy Mainzer will do whatever it takes to advance the cause. In the end, NEO discovery is not just about understanding risk, even though that is important and is the reason for the congressional mandate. Although finding and characterizing potentially hazardous NEOs is important, Mainzer has a great way of putting this into perspective. Climate change is a risk with high likelihood and high consequences, whereas the risk of asteroid impact has similarly high consequences but low likelihood over human timescales, and high likelihood on geologic timescales. So, it’s a matter of balance: finding and characterizing NEOs is important, and if after 15 years we have either found any impending impactors, or else (more likely) signaled the “all clear” (at least for the next few decades), that is certainly a good idea. In the end, NEO discovery is not just about understanding risk, even though that is important and is the reason for the congressional mandate. Earth orbits the Sun in a swarm of small asteroids and comets, and NASA and other agencies, as well as the private sector, and universities like the University of Arizona, have begun taking serious studies of them for resources in space (water, metals, hydrocarbons) and possible stepping-stones to human settlement beyond the Earth. While NEOCam’s primary goal is to eliminate the surprise of a devastating asteroid collision, a great benefit is that hundreds of thousands of small bodies will be discovered that we can visit and explore for science and profit and for putting together the puzzle of how the Earth was formed. Alfred McEwen is a Regents’ Professor in the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory in Tucson. He studies active geologic processes and is the principal investigator of the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Erik Asphaug is a Professor in the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory in Tucson. He studies planet formation and exploration, and his book on those topics, When the Earth Had Two Moons, comes out this month (Custom House / HarperCollins). Vishnu Reddy is an Associate Professor in the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona. He studies composition of asteroids that threaten the Earth using Earth and space-based telescopes. He is a co-investigator on the NEOCam concept. Note: we are temporarily moderating all comments subcommitted to deal with a surge in spam.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1191
__label__cc	0.670696	0.329304	DEA Approves First-Ever Trial Of Medical Marijuana For PTSD In Veterans The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has formally approved the first-ever randomized controlled trial of whole plant medical marijuana (cannabis) as a treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in U.S. veterans. The DEA’s approval marks the first time a clinical trial intended to develop smoked botanical marijuana into a legal prescription drug has received full approval from U.S. regulatory agencies, including the DEA and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The randomized, blinded, placebo-controlled study will test the safety and efficacy of botanical marijuana in 76 U.S. military veterans with treatment-resistant PTSD. The study is funded by a $2.156 million grant from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) to the California-based non-profit Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), which is sponsoring the research. The trial will gather safety and efficacy data on four potencies of smoked marijuana with varying ratios of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD). By exploring the effectiveness of a variety of marijuana strains, the study seeks to generate naturalistic data comparable to how many veterans in medical marijuana states currently use marijuana. Results will provide vital information on marijuana dosing, composition, side effects, and areas of benefit to clinicians and legislators considering marijuana as a treatment for PTSD. “We have been working towards approval since we opened the Investigational New Drug Application (IND) with the FDA in 2010,” says Amy Emerson, Executive Director and Director of Clinical Research for the MAPS Public Benefit Corporation. “We are thrilled to see this study overcome the hurdles of approval so we can begin gathering the data. This study is a critical step in moving our botanical drug development program forward at the federal level to gather information on the dosing, risks, and benefits of smoked marijuana for PTSD symptoms.” Marcel Bonn-Miller, Ph.D., of the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, will oversee the two separate sites as Coordinating Principal Investigator (PI). Half of the subjects will be treated by Co-Investigator/Site PI Sue Sisley, M.D., in Phoenix, AZ, and the other half by Co-Investigator/Site PI Ryan Vandrey, Ph.D., at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. Co-Investigator Paula Riggs, M.D., of the University of Colorado School of Medicine, will oversee the scientific integrity of the study. Blood analysis will be conducted at the University of Colorado, Boulder. MAPS will work with the FDA to manage and monitor data, oversee drug accountability, and ensure that the study follows Good Clinical Practice guidelines. Since its founding in 1986, MAPS has raised over $36 million for psychedelic therapy and medical marijuana research and education. MAPS is working to evaluate the safety and efficacy of botanical marijuana as a prescription medicine for specific medical uses approved by the FDA. Source:MAPS–make a donation DEA Approves First-Ever Trial Of Medical Marijuana For PTSD In Veterans MAPS Receives $2 M. Grant From CO For PTSD Medical Marijuana Study US Veterans Enroll in First Trial of Marijuana for Chronic PTSD FDA Has Approved MDMA Trials for PTSD Treatment DEA Approves Synthetic Marijuana Drug Dronabinol First Cannabis-Derived Drug Approved by FDA US Senate Approves Funding Bill That Allows To Access Medical M. DEA Eases Requirements For FDA-Approved Clinical Trials On Cannabidiol	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1192
__label__wiki	0.93541	0.93541	Why Sony Doesn’t Want To Let Kesha Out Of Her Contract With Her Alleged Abuser Jessica M. Goldstein Twitter Feb 24, 2016, 8:50 pm CREDIT: AP/GRAPHIC BY DYLAN PETROHILOS Why can’t Kesha get out of her contract? On Friday, New York Supreme Court Justice Shirley Kornreich declined to grant Kesha Rose Sebert a preliminary injunction that would liberate her from her contract with Lukasz “Dr. Luke” Gottwald, Gottwald’s Kemosabe Records, and Sony Music Entertainment. Sebert signed a six album deal and, depending on how you tally Cannibal, an EP, she has either three or four albums left to go. Sebert has been trying to get out of her contract with Sony since 2014; she alleges she suffered years of rape and abuse, as well as unfair business proceedings, by Gottwald. She says Gottwald’s pattern of assault nearly killed her; she developed an eating disorder and spent two months in rehab in early 2014. Her fear of Gottwald, she says, and the tremendous control he exerted over her career and her life, kept her from speaking out or seeking criminal charges. Gottwald denies all allegations and claims that Sebert is lying because she wants out of a contract she doesn’t like. And on Monday, Gottwald’s lawyer released a statement: “Kesha is already ‘free’ to record and release music without working with Dr. Luke as a producer if she doesn’t want to. Any claim that she isn’t ‘free’ is a myth.” I didn’t rape Kesha and I have never had sex with her. Kesha and I were friends for many years and she was like my little sister. — Dr. Luke Doctor Luke (@TheDoctorLuke) February 22, 2016 Kornreich was apparently unmoved by Sebert’s plea. “You’re asking the court to decimate a contract that was heavily negotiated and typical for the industry,” she said. “My instinct is to do the commercially reasonable thing” and uphold the existing contract. Kornreich told Sebert that the fact that Gottwald invested $60 million in Sebert’s career and was willing to let her record outside of his purview “decimates your argument.” The judge’s ruling reads as particularly callous considering what Kesha alleges she’s been through and her purported reasons for wanting an escape strategy from what she describes as a horrifying, untenable situation. Even if, as Sony representatives promise, Sebert could continue to record without Gottwald’s personal involvement, Sebert’s work would still benefit him. (If Sony is allowing her to record outside of Gottwald’s Kemosabe imprint but still under the Sony umbrella, they haven’t made that clear to the public; if she stays in Kemosabe, Gottwald will get a cut of whatever profits she rakes in.) And even if Sony allows her to record outside of Kemosabe, if Sebert’s claims are true — that Gottwald’s “proclivity for abusive conduct was open and obvious” to Sony execs, but they proceeded to either ignore or enable it — being trapped in her contract would still entail working for and alongside with people who facilitated that abuse. In her suit from last year, Sebert asserts that Sony “provided Dr. Luke with unfettered and unsupervised access to vulnerable female artists beginning their careers, and who would be totally dependent upon Dr. Luke for success.” The public perception is: A woman is being victimized twice. “I probably had the same reaction to this ruling that many women did in the music industry, which was one of surprise and disappointment,” said Beverly Keel, Recording Industry department chair at Middle Tennessee State University and music columnist for the Tennessean. “The music industry is still largely a man’s world. I was surprised with the court’s ruling. It doesn’t make common sense. Common sense says, a woman should not be bound to work with someone whom she alleges sexually assaulted or harassed her… And I understand this is a preliminary hearing but it’s just another blow to women on a national level during a time when there is so much bad news about women and sexual assault.” Yet even Sebert’s team acknowledged in their initial motion that the case was not about whether or not Gottwald was a rapist. “The task for the Court on this Motion is not to resolve whether Kesha is right or Dr. Luke is right about the abuse. It is simply to allow Kesha to record (even for Sony) without having to work with Dr. Luke and his affiliated companies.” From a legal perspective, the ruling is a small one: All Kornreich ruled, really, is that Sebert would not be protected from legal action should she opt to release music outside of the confines of her Sony contract while the rest of the case plays out. Still, “The public perception is: A woman is being victimized twice. First the assault, and now being forced to remain in the position in which she was victimized in the first place,” said Keel. “Women felt this week’s ruling. It was personal to women who heard this news. It’s a much bigger deal than just Kesha and Sony. It was proof, again, that too often in our society, the men are protected while the female victims are exploited over and over.” Pop star Kesha leaves Supreme court in New York, Friday, Feb. 19, 2016. “I would suggest that the issue of rape is not at the core of what this judge is having to decide,” said Deborah Wagnon, attorney and associate professor specializing in recording industry legal issues in the College of Media and Entertainment at Middle Tennessee State University. “She’s being handed a contract that was negotiated with two parties, and there’s no place in it for her to be the judge and jury of ‘was this woman raped?’ So what she’s got to work with is what’s there, and what’s enforceable. And it is absolutely skewed in terms of power, and has traditionally been… It’s an issue of power and control. And that relates, initially, to who has the money.” The judge “wasn’t convinced that Kesha’s career would be irreparably damaged unless the court granted the injunction,” said Suzanne Kessler, entertainment attorney, adjunct professor at Vanderbilt Law School, and former in-house attorney at A&M; Records and Universal Music Group. “That, I think, is the threshold the judge was using, along with, that this was heavily negotiated, negotiated at arm’s length — in other words, she was represented by counsel, Sony had in-house counsel, and the two parties had a meeting of the minds… They went back and forth until they got to the point that they said: This was the contract we’re going to sign now.” “Within the contractual language of her recording agreement,” Wagnon said, allowing that she had not personally read Sebert’s contract, “there probably was no basis to terminate it.” The record label is, technically, “not in breach” of contract, said Wagnon, “and that’s the problem that Kesha is having. So there’s not really a mechanism, in contract law, for her to address what she’s trying to do.” Sebert’s lawyer, Mark Geragos, told Billboard that he couldn’t think of any precedent for what Sebert was hoping to do — be freed from a contract because of physical abuse — and called Sebert’s lawsuit a “first-of-its-kind case.” That’s the problem that Kesha is having. There’s not really a mechanism, in contract law, for her to address what she’s trying to do. For comparison, Wagnon cited George Michael’s efforts to get out of his Sony contract back in 1994; his contract bound him to Sony for eight albums, up to 15 years, a situation Michael described as “professional slavery.” But the High Court in London sided with Sony, calling the contract “reasonable and fair.” Sebert is, in a way, in a similar dynamic: She’s not saying Sony violated the contract but that the contract should be voided. “She’s in a very tough position here.” What the judge has to worry about, Wagnon said, is “establishing a dangerous precedent. At the time of the George Michael case, the labels were terrified that if an artist can get out of a deal because they’re ‘unhappy,’ that will lay the framework and be a precedent for other artists to follow. So there was a collective sigh among the labels [when Sony won].” Kessler offered a hypothetical: Say Sebert goes into the studio and records an album that costs half a million dollars to produce. “The label fronts all that money for the recording costs, and it’s recouperable against the artist — the artist won’t start seeing royalties until the costs are recouped — and if the artist never makes a dime, the record label is in the hole for half a million. So the label’s rationale is, part of the reason why these recording agreements are seemingly to the advantage of the label in certain instances is because the label is taking all the risk financially.” It’s telling, though, that there isn’t that same parallel protection for the artist, who is arguably taking an equal, if difficult-to-quantify, risk: A personal, creative, and, in Sebert’s alleged case, physical one. The music industry is still dominated by middle-aged men; fair to say the average pop star starts her career as a teenage girl. (See: Sebert, Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez, Beyoncé, Adele, Lorde, Katy Perry, Ariana Grande, Rihanna, Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus, and Demi Lovato, just to name a dozen.) In pop, then, it’s often a young woman taking all the emotional, artistic risk — the human side of the equation — but her recording contract will likely be structured to protect the interests of the fleet of grown men whose risk is purely financial? “Yes,” said Kessler. “That is, in many ways, a description of the history of the music industry.” Kesha performs at the 2015 Delete Blood Cancer Gala at Cipriani Wall Street on Thursday, April 16, 2015, in New York. CREDIT: Charles Sykes/Invision/AP How did Sebert wind up in such a restrictive contract in the first place? Sebert’s contract, from everything that’s been made public about it from court documents, protects the label far more than it protects her as an artist. Which is to say, it is pretty standard for a recording contract. Some context: “Major label record deals are much more scarce than they used to be,” Kessler said. The good news is that there are more opportunities for distribution than ever: Post your latest work on YouTube or SoundCloud, share your single in a series of Snapchats and your video in Vines. The bad news is, the opportunities to sign with major labels like Sony have all but evaporated. As Grammy viewers were lectured about just last week, “The profit margins for digital music are smaller for both the artist and the labels,” said Kessler. You’ve heard this song before: Digital sales and streaming are outpacing physical sales, a tectonic shift in how the masses consume music that not even vinyl-buying millennials can counteract. This means that, should someone in the position Sebert found herself in as a teenager in 2008 — with the chance to sign with Sony, a rare get for a singer-songwriter hoping to break into the business — she would, more likely than not, have next-to-no leverage in those negotiations and accept whatever she could get. Sebert was signed to a six-album deal, her rise as a pop star coinciding with the rise of digital streaming. “That’s the kind of deal that is just too long in today’s music industry,” said Catherine Moore, clinical associate professor of music business at New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. “It’s a singles business… The fact that it’s measured in albums really doesn’t make sense for either side.” Kessler disagreed. “A six-album deal is not that unusual,” she said, and the label has the option to pick the artist up, or drop the artist, at every subsequent album. The artist, however, is in it for the long haul, unless they get dumped first. Are there typically any loopholes for an artist to get out of a contract early? There’s usually a “force majeure or Act of God clause,” Kessler said, liberating the artist from meeting obligations when natural circumstances beyond his or control made meeting those obligations impossible (e.g. wars, strikes, hurricanes, any of your Passover plagues). Recording contracts also tend to have language in place “in case the artist gets sick and something happens to his or her voice, and that physical ailment is not cured within a certain amount of time.” So, emergency exists do exist — more powerful artists get more of them — but as a general rule, they are small and rare. Kesha performs at Rehab pool party at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, NV on July 5, 2015. From the outside, where it looks like the internet is just a sea of #FreeKesha comments and donations from the likes of Taylor Swift to aid Sebert during these “trying times,” it seems like the savviest move on Sony’s part would be to walk away. Why fight so hard to keep an artist who is fighting this hard to get out? While it might seem like Sebert wasn’t a huge artist, on the cause-all-this-conversation scale of someone like Beyoncé or Adele, in the grand scheme of pop music, her status is still that of a platinum-selling artist who makes her label a lot of money. Think of that as “the jumping off point for why, in this case, Sony music and Dr. Luke, whose imprint is a Sony music company, would be reluctant to allow a successful artist out of a contract,” said Kessler. “The bottom line is, the major labels invest so much money in breaking a new artist that they’re reluctant to break a contract with an artist because they want to make their investment back and then some,” she continued. “So when an artist like Kesha is signed to a six-album deal and has recorded just two albums so far under that deal, Sony is thinking two things, as is Dr. Luke: There’s more money to be made here, and we need to make back our money and then some in this business deal.” But as the emotional public response to Sebert’s plight demonstrates, this is a case where the contract isn’t really about the contract, just like the Bill Cosby civil defamation cases aren’t really about defamation. A civil suit is a stand-in for a criminal act that either can’t be, or isn’t being, pursued. It’s all a proxy for a rape case, in Sebert’s situation because she has elected, for the time being, not to seek criminal charges (most victims of sexual assault make the same decision), and in Cosby’s accusers’ because, for all but one, the statute of limitations has run out. The alleged abuse and the contract are “connected, because it’s the same people,” Moore said. But in this particular case, Sebert’s stated goal is to have “a commercially successful musical career,” which means the question on the table is, “How can she achieve that?” If Kesha’s claims are accurate, then I would say it’s impossible for Kesha to ever even want to step foot in that building again, much less record for them. If there’s anything from Sebert’s side that makes the least amount of sense, it’s her argument that Sony would intentionally bury whatever records she ultimately produces for them, out of spite, hate, or some kind of loyalty to Gottwald over her. (Her representation calls Sony’s pledge to support whatever music Sebert records there an “illusory promise.”) But if Sony is this hellbent on not losing Sebert’s work — work in which they’ve already invested a significant amount of money — it is totally illogical to assume they wouldn’t do everything within their power to make Sebert’s music succeed. They have nothing to gain if she, as a financial and creative investment, fails. “One of the positives in this is that it’s clear Sony still sees potential in Kesha’s recording,” said Moore. Sony could “conclude, for PR reasons, the simplest thing is for us to say ‘never mind, let’s release you from the contract.’ But Sony clearly believes there’s good potential in future earnings from Kesha, which probably means when the new record comes out they’ll promote it. “ “It’s a real possibility that they could just voluntarily settle and part ways,” Kessler said. Should Sony demand an album and Sebert refused to comply, they could try to sue her for damages. Kessler doubts that will happen, though, “because labels would rarely want to sue one of their artists. It looks bad for them, it wastes a lot of time and money, and look how these situations play out in the public. And then it starts affecting other artists on their roster. You see the groundswell of support for Kesha coming from her peers.” If Sony, Gottwald, and Sebert agree to settle, Sebert will have to buy her way out of her contract. Though to mere mortals, Swift’s gift of $250,000 sounds like a lot of money, it’ll barely make a dent in what Sebert owes against the four or so albums she hasn’t recorded. And if one believes Sebert’s allegations against Gottwald, you could read that outcome as a particularly devastating one: She would basically be paying her abuser for raping her. Wagnon isn’t convinced that Sony is concerned, at all, about the bad PR. “This is the same parent company that owns Sony Pictures, that just went through its hacker issues last year. So it’s not a highly-sensitive human that you’re worried about, as to whether Sony is overly concerned that people are mad at it. Corporations have a certain sociopathic quality to them… There’s no person. It’s an it. It can fire everyone in the joint and still live on. The artist is a person, so you have an entity in a position of control over a human whose whole world is about their art and those services. It’s very inequitable.” Will this case, and the publicity its received, change the way recording contracts are written? “If it is, I will applaud and yell hooray!,” said Wagnon. “But I doubt it. Because record deals resist change.” One potential change for the better is that Sebert’s case “gives young female artists an awareness that perhaps didn’t even exist a year ago, that someone with whom they so trusted with their career could abuse them in some way,” said Keel. “So maybe they will ask their attorneys, in the future, to put a clause in the contract to help them escape should this situation arise.” “If Kesha’s claims are accurate,” said Keel. “Then I would say it’s impossible for Kesha to ever even want to step foot in that building again, much less record for them.” READ MORE: Kesha Faces Impossible Choice: Work With Her Alleged Abuser Or Destroy Her Career #Culture, #Sexual Assault	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1196
__label__wiki	0.87466	0.87466	NEW PHILADELPHIA Dover, Oh Work continues to progress at the site of the new Dover High School, which is expected to open in January of 2020. (Photo by Stacey Carmany, Tusco TV) Tuscarawas Avenue closure extended through Friday Oct 2, 2018 admin Dover, Ohio - A section of Tuscarawas Avenue that has been closed to traffic since last Tuesday won’t reopen until the end of this week, according to Dover city officials. Safety Director Gerry Mroczkowski says the two-block closure between West Fourth and West Sixth streets is for utility extensions to the new Dover High School. He says the project was initially expected to take about two days, however, the timeline had to be extended due to the complexity of the infrastructure in that area. “The problem up there is it’s such a complex section of street with your sanitary sewers, your drain runoff, your water lines, which were very large, and your gas lines, which were large, any of the houses that you have to tap into,” he explains. Mroczkowski says the biggest reason for the delay is the need to reconnect water lines to homes in the area of the construction site. “It’s kind of a complicated process. The lines have to be covered to be pressure checked. They have to put it in, hook it up, cover everything, pressure check it, sanitize it, rinse it. Then, they have to dig a hole and go back in and hook it up to the houses. That’s why it’s taking a lot longer,” he explains. Mroczkowski anticipates the work should be completed by the end of the business day on Friday, with the road expected to reopen in time for the weekend. Along with the utility work, crews have also been working at a feverish pace to construct the exterior walls of the new high school building before the start of winter. District Treasurer Marsha Scott says the walls have already gone up for the building’s auditorium. She says crews are now beginning to build on the stairwells for the three-story academic wing and pour the footers for the new gymnasium. “It’s exciting to watch it with the walls going up and all of the activity over there,” she says. Scott says the goal is to have a roof on the building by the end of the year so that the interior work can progress throughout the winter. STACEY CARMANY, TUSCO TV Trinity Hospital Twin City to host blessing ceremony for pets Area trick or treat dates and Halloween events Designed & Developed By Digital Marketing Group © 2020 TUSCO Television All rights reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1197
__label__wiki	0.980584	0.980584	Steven Knight: I didn’t want to vandalise A Christmas Carol The Peaky Blinders writer’s adaptation airs on BBC One over the Christmas period. Last updated: 10 December 2019 - 10.20pm Steven Knight has said that he did not set out to “vandalise” A Christmas Carol with his BBC adaptation. The Peaky Blinders and Taboo writer recruited a star-studded cast for a dark retelling of Charles Dickens’ classic tale of Ebenezer Scrooge. Knight said he approached the story with “a lot of reverence” but had returned to the source material and drawn out some of the suggestions in the 1843 novella. He told the PA news agency: “I am a huge fan of Dickens so I approached it with a lot of reverence. “I didn’t want come along and take a classic and try and vandalise it, or discredit it or change it too much. “What I did do was try to do a quite forensic analysis of the text and see things within the text that maybe have not been explored. “There were many things that Dickens couldn’t talk about because of the sensibilities of the time when he was writing. “I wanted to see some of the clues and some of the implications in the book and in the story, and see if I could develop and explore them, and hopefully do justice to what Dickens wrote.” The three-part special is a joint venture between BBC One and American TV channel FX. Its cast includes Stephen Graham as Jacob Marley, Charlotte Riley as Lottie, Joe Alwyn as Bob Cratchit and Vinette Robinson as Mary Cratchit. Knight said he had wanted to examine the psyche of Scrooge, played by Guy Pearce, in his retelling. Guy Pearce stars as Ebenezer Scrooge (Isabel Infantes/PA) He added: “There are a lot of issues in the original story about class and about economics and about politics and all of that I tried to explore and expand upon. “Basically this is the story of a human being who rediscovers his heart who rediscovers compassion. “What I wanted to do, when Dickens was writing, it wasn’t really the job of the novelist to necessarily find out why the character was the way he was. “But now in this post-post-post-Freudian world one wonders why a character like that exists. “What made him like that? “What experiences did he have to make that happen? “And so that’s what I have tried to look at.” A Christmas Carol starts on December 22 at 9pm on BBC One. Disney+ launch could spark change in how streaming services work	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1201
__label__wiki	0.858804	0.858804	ANDERSON, CLAYTON AND COMPANY Thomas D. Anderson Photograph, Picture of the Anderson Clayton Building in Houston, TX. Image available on the Internet and included in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107. ANDERSON, CLAYTON AND COMPANY. Anderson, Clayton and Company, cotton merchants, was founded by brothers-in-law Frank E. Anderson and William Lockhart Clayton, cotton merchants, and Monroe D. Anderson, a banker. The partnership was established in Oklahoma City on August 1, 1904. In 1905 Benjamin Clayton, Will's younger brother and an expert in rail and steamship transportation, joined the firm. Company headquarters moved to Houston in 1916 to be nearer the deep-water port facilities of the Houston Ship Channel. World War I demands for cotton enhanced the company's fortunes. As its buying and distributing organization expanded, the firm acquired storage and compressors for American cotton handling and improved its finance and insurance arrangements. As United States exports and banking accommodations grew, Anderson, Clayton set up overseas distributing agents. By the mid-1920s company trading firms were operating in Europe, Egypt, India, and China. Photograph, Picture of M.D. Anderson surveying one of his company's many cotton warehouses. Courtesy of Texas Medical Center. Image available on the Internet and included in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107. In the Great Depression, Farm Board price-support legislation and the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act necessitated geographical diversification to protect the firm's interests from the uncertainties of government policy. Development of an organization for accumulating, handling, selling, and distributing cotton abroad allowed Anderson, Clayton ultimately to sell any nation's cotton to any nation's spinners. New South American subsidiaries were set up, and, as cotton growing in other countries spread, the firm followed, offerings its services. At home, cottonseed-oil refineries produced salad oils, shortenings, and cattle feed under a variety of trademarks. By 1940 Anderson, Clayton could provide American cotton growers with service and supervision at all stages of cotton production, ginning, by-products merchandising, and finance. Before World War II the company purchased Gulf Atlantic Warehousing to improve its access to cotton resources and built a lab for the development of disease-resistant cottonseed. Picture of a bond lent out by Anderson, Clayton & Co. Image available on the Internet and included in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107. From 1928 to 1930 and again in 1936 Anderson, Clayton and Company was investigated by the United States Senate on charges of manipulating the market. William L. Clayton, later assistant United States secretary of state, responded to the charges, and no action was taken. Clayton's successful negotiations with northern investors for "Southern delivery" to non-New York ports on cotton futures contracts altered a long-standing tradition and aided the firm. After initial war-related setbacks Anderson, Clayton continued to sell cotton in Europe in the 1940s, avoiding conflict by quick turnover of its supplies. To aid in the war effort, the company used its line of barges and tugs to transport fuels, and the Long Reach Machine Works, built in 1942 to manufacture cotton-handling machinery, was converted to army ordnance production. Photograph of Texas Medical Center in Houston, TX. Courtesy of Texas Medical Center. Image available on the Internet and included in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107. The company was incorporated in 1929 and remained private until 1945. At that time it went public and was listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The move allowed the M. D. Anderson Foundation to purchase land for the Texas Medical Center through sale of company stock. By 1945, with 223 gins, 33 cottonseed oil plants, and 123 warehouses worldwide, Anderson, Clayton and Company was called the largest buyer, seller, storer, and shipper of raw cotton in the world by Fortune Magazine. Its subsidiaries included a marine insurance company, the barge line, bagging and cotton-blanket mills, a Mexican loan bank, and the machine works. After 1950 sales in the international market reached 3½ percent of all the world's production, and the multimillion-dollar corporation came to be known as ACCO, or the Big Store. When rayon threatened the cotton market after the war, ACCO further diversified, reducing its cotton interests by half and adding industrials, government warehousing services, and other interests. A Foods Division was organized after the purchase of Mrs. Tucker's Foods of Sherman, Texas, in 1952 and by 1954 ACCO sold Chiffon margarine and Seven Seas dressing and owned some of the first consumer-product franchises in Mexico. By 1965 the company handled approximately 15 percent of Brazilian coffee exports and a substantial quantity from other countries, as well as cocoa exports and soybean processing. By 1977 Anderson, Clayton and Company maintained firms or exclusive agents for cotton in over forty nations; had expanded its Ranger trademark insurance ventures, founded in 1923, with acquisition of Pan Am Insurance in 1968 and American Founders Life in 1977; and had acquired Igloo Corporation, a producer of thermoplastic beverage containers and ice chests. The company climaxed its shipping investments as cooperator of the first nuclear-powered merchant ship, the Savannah. Pruning of operations began in the 1960s, and by 1973 the firm had withdrawn from cotton merchandising everywhere except in Brazil and Mexico and considered itself chiefly a producer of food products. In the fiscal year 1982 gross sales reached $1.9 billion and net income $55.4 million. The company employed 15,000 persons worldwide. Anderson, Clayton and Company became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Quaker Oats Company in 1986, when Quaker Oats purchased the Anderson Clayton stock. Some food products, notably Gaines dog food, continued to be marketed under the name Anderson Clayton, but the company's Houston headquarters was closed and the stock was delisted. Houston Chronicle, December 2, 1979. Agriculture and Business Texas Post World War II Business and Transportation Handbook of Texas Online, Thomas D. Anderson, "ANDERSON, CLAYTON AND COMPANY," accessed January 21, 2020, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/dia01. Uploaded on June 9, 2010. Modified on August 29, 2016. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1205
__label__wiki	0.928078	0.928078	TheFitnessLounge: Get fit and off that sofa! About The Fitness Lounge Mo Zimmer: elderly run faster and faster November 16, 2015 by Sean Cox EVEN people in their nineties can benefit from strength and endurance training usually reserved for elite athletes, according to a study. The research into the athletic capacity of the very elderly comes as a new breed of endurance athletes in their seventies and eighties are reporting that they can not only run faster than they did in their twenties, but can improve performance year after year in defiance of the ageing process. Last year, the London marathon had 237 runners aged over 70, and 12 in their eighties. In the latest study, published in the journal Age, researchers from the University of Navarra in Spain worked with 24 people aged between 91 and 96 over a 12-week period. One group of 11 were trained for two days a week with “multicomponent” exercises for strength and to improve balance. They were encouraged to try to walk faster, stand on one leg or count backwards from 100 while doing various exercises. The 13 others did 30 minutes of “mobility” exercises — the sort of gentle stretching encouraged in nursing homes. At the end of the experiment, the first group showed a significant improvement in walking speed; hip and knee flexibility; improvement in hand strength and ability to do verbal and arithmetical tasks. In a separate, as yet unpublished study by the same researchers, 18 previously inactive people suffering mild dementia, with an average age of 88, demonstrated significant mental and physical improvements after exercise. “We have shown this kind of exercise is entirely safe to do, and improves strength, power and muscle mass as well as mental function,” said Mikel Izquierdo-Redin, professor of physiotherapy at the university, who is leading the project. Izquierdo is visiting Britain later this year to give lectures to senior academics interested in testing resistance and endurance training programmes on elderly people here. Retired people make up 17% of the population, and Britain is lagging behind in recognising the benefits of exercise for them. The first set of government exercise guidelines for the over-65s was published only in 2011. That document spoke of “some health benefits” from two sessions a week of strength training for elderly people, but warned that many in the age group could be too unfit to take on much activity. “These guidelines were the first official mention of strength training for elderly people,” said Richard Ferguson, a senior lecturer in exercise physiology at Loughborough University, who contributed to the government document. “There is not enough funding for this kind of research here. We can’t prevent age-related decline, but we can slow it down, and strength is as important as cardiovascular health and aerobic exercise.” However, there is disagreement about what can be achieved. Jonathan Folland, reader in human performance, also at Loughborough, thinks few people will improve their athletic prowess beyond the age of 60. “It’s really hard, though not impossible,” he says. Britain’s small but growing group of aged athletes is proving him wrong. Charles Eugster, 94, a retired dentist from Kensington in west London, who took up serious exercise when he began to gain weight in his eighties, has cut his training to three two-hour sessions a week, but says his performance in parkour and rowing, has still improved. “I started to get better at it when I was 89,” he said. “It is as though something in my body has changed in a positive way. I don’t get colds any more either.” The British Triathlon Federation, which now has almost 100 members over 70, against 44 in 2011, has just given a special award to Brian Forster, an 82-year-old retired chemist from Ashton Hayes, Cheshire, who won a world title for his age group last year by taking 90 seconds off his 2012 duathlon — running and cycling — performance time. Forster, who trains three times a week, became an athlete having survived a stroke five years ago. “I feel like I have been given a second chance,” he said. “I’m going to continue running until I can’t go any more.” Daphne Belt, 74, an antiques dealer from Littlehampton, West Sussex, who took up running when she was 50, and has taken part in several triathlons, said: “There is no question I’m faster now than I was when I was young.” So far, none of them is a match for the Indian-born farmer Fauja Singh, 102, who retired from marathon races only last year. He still runs and walks 10 miles a day. Filed Under: Strength Training Wake up early tomorrow and get your daily cardio in before the sun comes up Any thoughts on holistic approaches to working out? Copyright &copy2020 thefitnesslounge.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1211
__label__wiki	0.784121	0.784121	Previews and Predictions Can Anaheim Ducks GM Bob Murray Survive Another Slow Start? By Collin Insley June 15th, 2012 Over the course of the off-season, I’ll be examining the essential questions facing the Anaheim Ducks in the 2012-13 season, as they look to regain elite standing in the league. Stay tuned as the pieces start to role out! Management vs. Coaching vs. The Core In order for a professional hockey team to have any measurable success, there are three essential elements that must function in concert with each other. They are: the management team, the coaching staff, and the core players around which the rest of the team is built. By the same token, if one examines a club that’s spiraling out of control, you can bet on at least one, if not several of these three elements being out of whack and in need of some mending. The main idea here shouldn’t be revelatory to anyone that has even casually followed professional sports over the course of their lives. It’s a rather simple equation that sports fans grasp intuitively because, well…it’s kind of obvious. Where the above-mentioned equation becomes a fascinating exercise in mental gymnastics, however, is when the spotlight is focused on a specific franchise and the myriad of personalities, histories, and storylines involved. Take, for instance, the Anaheim Ducks, who, during the 2011-12 season, despite having a Stanley Cup winning coach in Randy Carlyle, and arguably the best forward line in the league in Ryan Getzlaf, Corey Perry, and Bobby Ryan, not only missed the playoffs all together, but also canned Carlyle midway through the season, after yet another slow start. What happened? Who’s to blame? And specifically, who’s head will roll, should the 2012-13 season get off to a similar start? Missing the playoffs for a second straight year is not an option for a small market team like Anaheim, who rely on the bump in profit provided by the post-season in order to break even, so if the Ducks stumble out of the gate yet again this season, owners Henry and Susan Samueli will have to think long and hard about the direction their team is headed, and what can be done to right the ship. This is a huge topic, so I’ve gone ahead and broken it into three manageable chunks. Parts 2 and 3 will be posted next week, but for now, let’s start by taking a trip up to the executive wing of Honda Center. Bob Murray took over the general manager duties of the Anaheim Ducks after Brian Burke decamped for the bluer pastures of Toronto in November of 2008. Since that time, Murray’s Ducks have made the post-season only twice in four seasons. They’ve finished the regular season with an average of 89.75 points over that span, and have only once made it past the first round of the playoffs. Although statistics don’t tell the whole story, they’re often difficult to see past, and judging by these statistics, Bob Murray’s tenure as GM of the Anaheim Ducks has been middling, at best. Now though, let’s look past the stats, and take a closer peek at the various roster-related issues Murray’s been tasked with fixing, how he’s fared, and what this all means for his future with Anaheim. Filling Holes With the core-type players that Murray has been given to build this team around, it’s been incumbent on him to fill in the holes on the roster through either trade or free agency, and so far, he hasn’t really been able to effectively do that. The biggest problem Murray’s faced is an ongoing one: constructing a second line to ease some of the pressure off of the Perry-Getzlaf-Ryan unit. Teemu Selanne is a mainstay on the second line (for now), but both Saku Koivu and Andrew Cogliano have been relative disappointments in terms of offensive output, while Jason Blake and Niklas Hagman, while both providing an occasional spark, simply haven’t been able to produce at the necessary level (and will not be back next season). On the defensive side of things, Murray, a former defenseman himself, has struggled to put together a bonafide NHL-caliber blue line. The re-acquisition of Francois Beauchemin has helped to stabilize things (although, time will tell whether giving up Jake Gardiner in the deal makes Murray look foolish), and Lubomir Visnovsky had a career year in Anaheim in 2010-11, but Toni Lydman struggled mightily this past season, and both Cam Fowler and Luca Sbisa exhibited signs of growing pains at various points throughout the 2011-12 season. Strong Drafting One area Murray has performed well in, however, is the draft. Since Murray took over in 2008, he has re-stocked Anaheim’s prospect cupboard with the likes of forwards Peter Holland, Kyle Palmieri, Emerson Etem, Devante Smith-Pelly, and freshly-signed Max Friberg; defensemen Cam Fowler, Sami Vatanen, and Andy Welinski; and highly touted goaltender John Gibson. Murray also displayed some shrewd marketing skills with the signing of Orange County native Ryan Lasch. Fowler’s accomplishments as a young NHLer are well reported on, and Devante Smith-Pelly impressed during his rookie season before going down with a broken foot suffered in the World Junior Championships. Emerson Etem will be given every chance to crack Anaheim’s top six forward grouping next season, ditto Peter Holland and Kyle Palmieri. That said, Murray can’t rely on meaningful contributions from these young players, and will likely have to find a way to add some immediate scoring punch via trade or free agency, at least until Etem, et al are ready to step into a top-6 role full time. Although from this vantage point the future looks bright in Anaheim, when it comes to the development of prospects, there’s no such thing as a ‘sure thing.’ If even a handful of the prospects he’s drafted can turn themselves into solid NHL players over the next few years, that would have to be considered a major win for Murray and the Ducks. With Murray entering his fifth year as Anaheim’s head honcho, he has yet to really make his mark on the franchise. It was Brian Burke’s team that won the Stanley Cup. Teemu Selanne continues to play in Anaheim because it’s, “his happy place,” not out of any sort of loyalty to Bob Murray. Cam Fowler basically fell into Murray’s lap in 2010. What has been Bob Murray’s signature move during his tenure with Anaheim? Signing Saku Koivu? Toni Lydman? Accidentally hitting a woman with a chair in Detroit? Maybe some of the prospects Murray has drafted will pan out, but even so, if 2008 (Burke) draft pick and blue chip prospect Justin Schultz does indeed slip through Anaheim and Murray’s fingers (as it appears he will), that would be a serious black mark on Murray’s record. Now is the time for the Ducks to take some serious strides and not only make the playoffs, but win at least a round or two. The Samueli’s trust Murray, as evidenced by the four-year contract extension they handed him in 2011, but the team’s ledgers won’t be able to survive another year of missing the post-season. Murray knows this, and just like last season, when he threatened to essentially trade the whole team, he will likely be very active on the trade front, should the Ducks fail to make headway – his job will depend on it, although it may be a case of too little, too late. One thing is for sure, though: Bob Murray will be a fascinating GM to keep tabs on this season, starting next Friday, at this year’s NHL Entry Draft. Bob Murray NHL General Managers Returning Lemieux Is Irreplaceable for Rangers Islanders on Pace For Fewest Power Plays in Single Season Goalies You Can’t Spell Stealing the Blue Jackets’ Show	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1213
__label__wiki	0.661218	0.661218	Canucks History Greatest Memories from Daniel and Henrik Sedins’ Careers By THW Archives September 26th, 2019 The Vancouver Canucks are set to retire Daniel and Henrik’s Sedin’s jerseys, Nos. 22 and 33, into the rafters at Rogers Arena on Feb. 12, 2020. With that in mind, let’s take a look at the greatest moments from their legendary careers. As I sat down to write this article, I came across a problem – how is it possible to narrow down the greatest moments of two absolute legends who gave all they had, and so much more, to one city? I’ve come to the following conclusion – the way they would want it done would be nothing flashy, nothing too crazy. Knowing the twins, they may not even want recognition for their achievements. That’s just the way they carried themselves over their near 20-year careers with the Canucks. They rarely basked in the glory of the amazing things they did, and were quick to shift the focus to their teammates whenever they had the chance to do so. That is, unless there was a crushing loss or a mistake to answer to; in those situations, the Sedins almost always put the blame on themselves and were the ones standing in their street clothes, answering questions while the rest of their teammates had left the arena. The Giving Sedins They did so much in their time in Vancouver that it’s hard to just narrow it down to a few highlight reel plays. Their work in the community might be their greatest achievement ever, as the number of smiles they put on children’s faces during their countless visits to BC Children’s Hospital over the years is something I’m sure both the twins and those kids will never forget. On top of all the visits to the kids whose circumstances were so incredibly unfortunate, the Sedins made a generous donation of $1.5 million to BC Children’s Hospital. It’s no wonder everyone talks about their off-ice contributions nearly as much as their on-ice contributions. Henrik Sedin and Daniel Sedin, Vancouver Canucks (Amy Irvin / The Hockey Writers) The two would often be seen in their days off out in the community. Whether it was doing the Grouse Grind together, coaching their kids’ sports teams, or playing in charity soccer matches, the twins always had time to stop and talk to fans. While the twins’ charitable work and graciousness with fans and media members alike will never be forgotten, their play on the ice has produced some of the greatest and most memorable moments in Vancouver Canucks history. There’s the signature “Sedinery” when the two would pass the puck to one another as though the puck was on a string. The twins always seemed to know where not only their lookalike would be on the ice, but the rest of their teammates, as well. They helped Anson Carter, a 10th-round pick of the Quebec Nordiques in the 1992 Draft, score a career-high 33 goals in the 2005-06 season; all thanks to being on a line with two Swedish magicians. They would later be one of the NHL’s most dangerous lines with the undrafted Alex Burrows riding shotgun on their wing, especially in 2010-11, when the Canucks made that incredible Stanley Cup Final run. “The Shift(s)” by Daniel and Henrik Sedin There is much discussion about which shift of Daniel and Henrik’s career is their most dominant. There are many candidates, in fact, there’s a Youtube video simply titled “22 Minutes of Dominant Sedin shifts”. Among the best are the 2007 shift against the Edmonton Oilers, back when the likes of Mattias Ohlund, Sami Salo, and Lucas Krajicek were patrolling the Canucks blueline. These three or so minutes are some of the greatest in Canucks’ history. The twins absolutely controlled the zone, and even the Canucks’ power play expired, the Sedins were still playing keep away from five tired Oilers. The Sedins (THW Library Archives) The Sedins essentially invented what became their signature slap pass, with Henrik usually being the playmaker on the play. Daniel or another Canuck forward would streak to the net with their stick on the ice and redirect a hard slap pass toward the net. This was a hard play for the goaltender to read, especially before the rest of the league caught on and started mimicking the play. When they played keep-away and passed the puck to one another, there was almost no chance of the opposition getting the puck. They would become so gassed that they would stand in one place and simply wait for the Sedins to make a move. That is why there were so many dominant Sedin shifts over the course of their careers – that incredible hockey IQ, along with world-class playmaking abilities. Watching the twins work the puck was always a treat. Sedin Storybook Moments You couldn’t have written some of the Sedins’ greatest moments any better. Two historic goals to join the 1000-point club. Henrik’s coming against all-time Canucks’ leader in wins, Roberto Luongo. After the goal, the two former teammates exchanged a quick embrace as Luongo congratulated Henrik on reaching 1000 points. Henrik only scored 15 goals in the 2016-17 season, but that is one that he will surely never forget. Daniel’s 1000th point came on the road against the Nashville Predators, and fittingly, it was scored on the power play, with Henrik picking up the assist. Henrik Sedin and Roberto Luongo (Anne-Marie Sorvin-USA TODAY Sports) If you thought those 1,000-point stories were great, they’re nothing in comparison to the final games of the twins’ careers. The two had announced their retirement with just three games remaining in the 2017-18 season. As soon as they made that announcement, the final two games at Rogers Arena almost instantly sold out. Tickets were being resold at astronomical prices, as everyone wanted to witness the final moments of two Vancouver legends’ memorable careers. The Canucks finished that season with two home games, followed by their final game on the road in Edmonton. The twins final home game saw them match up against the Arizona Coyotes, with fans rising to their feet and chanting “Go Sedins Go” nearly every time the twins had a shift. Daniel scored two goals in that final home game, while Henrik picked up two assists. The storybook moment, however, came in overtime of that game at the 3:33 mark of overtime, when Daniel took a pass from Henrik and let go a slapshot that found the back of the net, winning the game for his team, one last time. Let me just say, I don’t think Rogers Arena has ever been that loud before, not even for a playoff game. As I wrap up this article and close all the tabs of all the highlight clips and mic’d up videos from the Sedins magnificent careers, I ask myself, did we take them for granted? I would give almost anything to see them play on a competitive Vancouver Canucks team one last time. I guess you truly don’t know how lucky you are to have something until it’s gone. It’s hard to pick out single plays or highlights as the greatest moments of the twins’ careers, because, to be honest with you, they gave us great and memorable moments almost each and every night. I can’t think of two players more deserving to have their jerseys hung from the rafters at Rogers Arena. Daniel Sedin Henrik Sedin Bogosian, Botterill and Buffalo’s Bloated Blue Line AHL Central News: Playoff Race Intensifies Avalanche: Predicting André Burakovsky’s Next Contract	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1214
__label__cc	0.659207	0.340793	Speakers 2004 - 2019 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco_Berardi Franco “Bifo” Berardi is a cultural agitator, a media activist and a transdisciplinary philosopher. What happens to political thought, practice, and imagination when they lose hold on “the future”? The future is a great and empowering myth, but few believe it any longer: the future is unpredictable. Contradictory evidences of present and upcoming scenarios are well known and yet their consistency is often null, dissipated in the schemes of financial capitals and the never ending flows of meaningless content over ubiquitous communication media. Video of [epidemiC] "loveLetter.vbs reading" Bologna, D-I-N-A Festival, May 24, 2001 The future was itself a highly suspect temporal form, says Bifo. It was some sort of “imaginary effect” of the capitalist mode of production or the schizophrenic projection of utopia onto virtual communities, cyberpunk science fiction or the Internet. So, “what should be done when nothing can be done?”, asks Bifo. One possible answer lies in some sort of dystopic irony: “While irony does not postulate the existence of any reality, cynicism postulates the inescapable reality of power, particularly the power of Economy. Irony opens a game of infinite possibilities, whereas cynicism merely disassociates itself from ethics and possibility. The cynical mood begins with the belief that ethical action is doomed to failure.” As a philosopher and researcher, Bifo has cast an avid gaze over matters as complex as the irreducibility of the human body to the imperatives of economic discipline, including industrial automation and digital connectivity. In many of his essays he explores the devastating impact of the contemporary acceleration of info-stimuli on the human psyche and consciousness, drawing on the political significance of the loss of touch between the individual and the social body. His thought on those matters is deeply linked to a personal and collective involvement in different political contexts - the rebellion and repression in the 70s, the communal healing in the 80s counter-cultures, the emergence of new on-line utopias in the 90s and the counter-global movements of the 2000s. At the same time Bifo has combined his personal engagement with an ongoing experimentation with social movement media. The first most prominent example are the magazine A/Traverso and the experimental community radio Radio Alice, both founded in Bologna in the mid-1970s. In the late 1990s, he launched the e-mail list Rekombinant and, in the early 2000s, the community television Orfeo TV. The latter sparked Telestreet , a national movement of micro-pirate TV stations that claimed to counter the media monopoly of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. His last book, “Heroes” has been published by Verso in 2015. The Influencers 2015	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1216
__label__cc	0.681765	0.318235	A Hidden Gem The innumerable visitors who now come to see Trinity College Dublin’s Old Library (and the Book of Kells held therein) now gain access to the first-floor Long Room via a staircase inserted into the building in 1967 and designed by Ahrends, Burton & Koralek. As a result, they do not have the pleasure of seeing the original staircase at the west end of the building. This is believed to date from c.1750, its design overseen by Richard Castle. The oak stairs ascend around three sides of the double-height space, the ceiling of which features rococo plasterwork by an unknown hand. 1 Comment Posted in Architectural History, Dublin, Historic Interior, Plasterwork Tagged Dublin, Georgian Architecture, Historic Interiors, Library, Trinity College Dublin There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away, Nor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry – This Traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of Toll How frugal is the Chariot That bears the Human soul. There is no Frigate like a Book, by Emily Dickinson Photographs of the wonderful Armagh Robinson Library, founded by Archbishop Richard Robinson in 1771. 4 Comments Posted in Architectural History, Armagh, Library Tagged Armagh Robinson Library, County Armagh, Georgian Architecture, Library The Books Will Still Be There And yet the books will be there on the shelves, separate beings, That appeared once, still wet As shining chestnuts under a tree in autumn, And, touched, coddled, began to live In spite of fires on the horizon, castles blown up, Tribes on the march, planets in motion. ‘We are,’ they said, even as their pages Were being torn out, or a buzzing flame Licked away their letters. So much more durable Than we are, whose frail warmth Cools down with memory, disperses, perishes. I imagine the earth when I am no more: Nothing happens, no loss, it’s still a strange pageant, Women’s dresses, dewy lilacs, a song in the valley. Yet the books will still be there on the shelves, well born, Derived from people, but also from radiance, heights. And Yet the Books by Czeslaw Milosz. Photographs of the library at Clonalis, County Roscommon (https://clonalis.com) 5 Comments Posted in Architectural History, Country House, Historic Interior, Irish Library, Roscommon Tagged Architectural History, Clonalis, County Roscommon, Historic Interiors, Irish Country House, Library, Stately Home, The Big House In September 1753 Michael O’Reilly wrote from Dublin to the Roscommon-based antiquarian Charles O’Conor ‘I think a man should read books as he eats victuals; surfeits of either cannot be digested; and too many books as too many dishes will cause surfeit.’ The problem for O’Reilly, as for many readers today, was that more volumes were being produced than could be consumed: the market seemed to be ahead of supply. Toby Barnard’s newly-published Brought to Book: Print in Ireland 1680-1784 examines the history of publication here during this period. Barnard notes the steady rise in work being brought out. In the 1680s the average number of new titles published in Dublin was 52: by the 1790s that figure had risen to 480. For a long time Irish authors preferred, if possible, to publish in England, the understandable expectation being that they would thereby earn more and reach a larger audience. Furthermore, because the British government’s Copyright Act of 1710 did not apply to Ireland, authors who published here enjoyed no legal entitlement to payment for their work. While this had an impact on the development of Irish publishing, ultimately the drive towards an indigenous industry was too strong to be resisted. Barnard notes how many of the books produced here were local editions of work already successful in other countries. Initially interest in books about Ireland attracted little interest, one dealer noting that such volumes were ‘very little noticed by them whom they did most concern.’ But with the passage of time, increased communication and greater awareness of the need to improve the state of the country, work of Irish subject matter increased in appeal – and sales. Then as now, criticism was not always well-received: the English agronomist Arthur Young was much admired when he wrote about his own country – the Dublin Society made him an honorary member in 1771 – but drew a less favourable response when he turned his attention to matters Irish: the first edition of his Tour of Ireland had to be published in London when insufficient subscribers could be found here. Contrary to what is often thought and despite the Penal Laws, devotional books for Roman Catholics were published in Ireland from the 1720s onwards, albeit under a suppositious mainland European imprint. The first work in the Irish language known to have been produced in Dublin for Catholic readers appeared in 1736: intended as an aid for other members of the clergy, it was a series of sixteen sermons by Bishop Gallagher of Raphoe, County Donegal. By the end of the period covered, books such as Charlotte Brooke’s The reliques of Irish poetry (1788) were both recording and celebrating the nation’s ancient culture. As Barnard points out ‘the venerable was valued as evidence of the complex culture in an earlier Ireland.’ The course of this transition is traced in his own book, illustrating how complex cultures also existed here during the early modern period. Brought to Book: Print in Ireland 1680-1784 by Toby Barnard is published by the Four Courts Press. Leave a comment Posted in Book, Country House, Irish Library Tagged Architectural History, Irish Book, Library, New Book, Toby Barnard	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1217
__label__cc	0.540902	0.459098	The Greatest Advice Of All Time? By Henk J.M. Schram So why are you interested in the 'Law of Attraction' anyway? Obviously, it's about doing what you really want to do with your life. We've said it repeatedly, quoting the wise man's adage: "Money and fame do not happiness make." Of course, they may help in being happy. For example, it's pretty nice not having to worry about money. Let's face it, most people like money. And others like fame, and many like both. The thing is... money and fame are usually merely external confirmations of the fact that you're being happy and doing what you want with your life already. If you are, money and fame are usually not issues anymore. You either don't care about them because you're being happy anyway... or (many times) they may come as side-effects, or symptoms caused by the fact that you're already being happy with yourself and your life. That's where the principle of being happy and grateful for what happens to you and the situation you're in is relevant. Clearly, money and fame are really different things compared to the desire for money and fame. The 'desire for' implies that you're not being happy and grateful right now, thinking you need money and/or fame in order to be happy and do what you want with your life. This underlying feeling of needing (and thus the deeply-engrained feeling of lack) determines what you send out... the frequency you broadcast, if you will. And this frequency 'attracts' a like frequency, and this is the mechanism through which needing pushes things away, in a very small nutshell. I want now to get into something a bit more concrete - something more practical to use in your life. This might sound simple, but upon deeper thought it may just be the greatest word of advice of all time... You know, according to the American physicist, philosopher and management expert Danah Zohar, doing what you really want with your life requires what she calls 'Spiritual Intelligence.' It's about your own, personal, deeper actuating motives. Zohar says that self-development and purpose/meaning are principles that are central to spiritual intelligence. When you're in touch with your own 'inner universe,' you can develop your talents and give full scope to your natural gifts. As such, you'll live the life that fully matches who you are (which is not necessarily the life that others think you're supposed to live). Within yourself, you'll discover your own actuating motives and what really inspires and animates you. Zohar says that when you manage to live your life from that inspiration, you're quite a happy person. This pretty much connects to what the American psychologist Abraham Maslow (who came up with the so-called 'hierarchy of needs,' aiming to explain human motivation) called 'self actualization.' According to Maslow, self-actualization is the ultimate state of human development, a spiritual condition in which people are creative, 'playful,' and tolerant. These are the very conditions that facilitate the extent to which you can 'work' the 'laws of the universe' (if you want to call them that). And you know what? There's actually a specific group of people who can teach us a lot about this state of 'creativity,' 'playfulness' and 'tolerance,' or rather 'spiritual intelligence'... These people are children. Kids are almost the very paragon of spiritual intelligence. Of course, this doesn't mean we should all start behaving in infantile ways. However, we can start to look at the world more like children do. We could start to re-invent and re-discover the qualities that we so often lose in the process of what's called 'growing up' and 'becoming adults.' Those qualities are: Being genuine Wonder and astonishment on the least things... And not to forget: unconditional love. Let's face it, people who are living life like this are pleasant company, both to themselves and to others. Spiritual intelligence has got nothing to do with religion or faith. Of course, both are fine if pursuing them makes you feel good inside, if pursuing them is your own choice, and if it's not imposed on you by others. No, spiritual intelligence is about self-reflection and intuition. There's a difference between what many consider 'being spiritual' and 'spiritual intelligence.' You can do reiki, qigong, meditation, burn incense, do rain dances in wildlife outfits all day and read books about 'spirituality.' And of course that's all fine if that makes you feel good. However, 'spiritual intelligence' rather refers to making the choices that suit you and actually consciously experiencing and feeling the satisfaction and feeling of fulfillment and self-realization that come with that. That's what'll make you happy. So what's potentially the greatest advice of all time? REMAIN CHILDLIKE. Be open. Be adventurous. Be curious. Be eager to learn. Be genuine, not least to yourself. Don't judge. Acknowledge the wonder of life and the amazing experience it brings. After all, it seems so real, doesn't it? In the words of the late comedian Bill Hicks: "The world is like a ride in an amusement park." And when you choose to go on it, you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly colored and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question, is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "Hey - don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride..." And we kill those people. "We have a lot invested in this ride. Shut him up. Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account and my family. This just has to be real." Just a ride... But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us so, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok. But it doesn't matter, because it's just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. So what's your choice? Remain childlike. And enjoy the ride! Nicholas P. Kidd and Henk J.M. Schram are the instigators of the alleged 'Great Revolution', which provides the members with truthful instructions regarding the universal principles of life. The Revolution is receiving increasingly widespread attention for its straightforward explanations and instructions with regard to complex issues, which are made understandable for people from all walks of life. In essence, the true secrets of the 'Law of Attraction' and the other 'Universal Laws' are explained in much clearer and practical ways than the 'enigmas wrapped in riddles' that usually characterize the descriptions of the Law of Attraction and its application. More Success & Abundance articles	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1219
__label__wiki	0.820985	0.820985	Photo: Tomas Halasz / Greenpeace Criticism of pesticides industry bees research after historic neonicotinoids decision After Michael Gove's announcement that the UK would back move to ban the controversial pesticides, attention has turned to Bayer and Syngenta A series of studies funded by Bayer and submitted to European regulators by the company to support claims that its neonicotinoid pesticides do not harm bees have been criticised by a leading scientist and an industry expert. The news comes as environment secretary Michael Gove announced the UK would back a European move to ban neonicotinoids, also known as neonics, due to mounting scientific evidence linking the chemicals to bee deaths. The European Commission is likely to move to ban neonics by the end of the year, with a vote expected in December. The ban would go beyond current restrictions on the chemicals in Europe that have been around since 2013. Neonics have long been linked with declining bee populations, but the issue has been subject to significant debate, with manufacturers insisting their products do not harm bees when used correctly. More on bees ‘I don’t appreciate them calling me a liar’: Bees study author hits back at Bayer and Syngenta Emails show Bayer and Syngenta fought scientists for data on bees study Neonicotinoids: Unpublished industry studies detail harm to bee health Get stories like this in your inbox every week Sign up to receive weekly and breaking news stories from Unearthed, plus very occasional emails with petitions, campaigns, fundraising or volunteering opportunities from Unearthed or Greenpeace What's going on with bees? Across the globe, populations of bee species and other pollinators have declined dramatically in recent years. This matters because bees play a crucial role in global food production. In 2015, a UN report estimated between pollinating insects are directly responsible for around 5-8% of global agricultural production by volume. The decline of bees has been blamed on a variety of reasons, including climate change, habitat loss and a parasitic mite called Varroa destructor. But increasingly, research has linked bee decline to the use neonicotinoids – though this is challenged by pesticide manufacturers. ‘Severe limitations’ But speaking to Unearthed, a leading scientist noted that the Bayer-funded research was hampered by “bad experimental design” making it difficult to draw conclusions about the effect of neonicotinoids on bees. The studies were described as “statistically flawed” by Professor Ben Woodcock, who has published a number of papers on neonics, including the Bayer and Syngenta funded CEH study. Matt Shardlow, the chief executive of the conservation organisation Buglife, told Unearthed that the Ecotoxicology studies had “severe limitations”. Woodcock told Unearthed: “It’s an interesting series of studies all using the same experimental platform. However, it’s pseudo-replicated. It can’t be used to argue that neonicotinoids are either harmful or not harmful to bees. “In the case of this study this means that their experimental plots are not independent, an important requirement for robust statistics. Experiments should make observations from independent experimental plots (e.g. multiple fields treated with and without neonicotinoids in different locations), and by doing so they are able to make predictions about what happens to bees not just in those experimental plots, but everywhere. “However, by sampling repeatedly from the same two experimental locations (one treated and one not treated with neonicotinoids) this study has violated this statistical assumption. This means they cannot reliably make a prediction about what happens to bees outside of the two locations they ran their experiment in. While this provides interesting results, from a policy perspective this lack of generality limits the value of this piece of evidence. “One of the problems with pseudo-replication is that you can’t separate out the difference between the natural background variation we see between experimental sites and the effect of the neonicotinoids on the bees.” Woodcock, who told Unearthed in July that he felt Bayer and Syngenta had looked to undermine the quality of his work, added: “This study can’t be used to infer anything, least of all there is no effect of neonicotinoids. Given the sensitivity of this issue this amazes me.” He said: “The methodology of the study published in the November 2016 edition of Ecotoxicology has a number of severe limitations. The study compares one site where neonicotinoids were used on oilseed rape with another nearby site where other insecticides were used; the other insecticides are not documented so it is not clear what the control was. “The bumblebees were only exposed to the neonicotinoid treated areas for three weeks, and were then retired to a nature reserve for the rest of the year. In reality bumblebees in agricultural landscapes are exposed to neonicotinoids in planting dust and wildflowers as well, including commonly used neonicotinoids such as imidacloprid and thiamethoxam. “The study does not report on the levels of imidacloprid and thiamethoxam in the pollen and nectar, if there were more of these toxins present in one of the sites then this could throw the results. The study only measures effects from a small part of the actual annual exposure to neonicotinoids, for only one type of neonicotinoid, on one site and in one year. This does not reflect the complexity of environmental situations, or the level of neonicotinoid exposure that bees face in the real world.” In response to these comments, a Bayer spokesperson said “the studies contribute valid findings which make an important contribution to correctly assess the potential effects of oilseed rape grown from clothianidin-treated seeds on bee species with different life cycles.” “The results demonstrate that the previously authorized seed treatment of oilseed rape with clothianidin does not harm colonies of honey bees and other bee species. “Briefly summarised: the criticisms expressed does not add new facts to the scientific audience, overall. Some points of criticism are based on misinterpretations of the scope of the study and the linked statistical analysis.” Ecotoxicology’s editor’s declined to comment for this story when contacted by Unearthed. What are neonicotinoids? Since being introduced in the early 1990s, neonicotinoids have become the most widely used pesticide in the world. Unlike other pesticides, neonics are a systemic insecticide, meaning that the chemical is sprayed on the seed so it is absorbed into every part of a plant, making the whole thing toxic for pests. The chemicals have long been linked to declining pollinator populations across the globe. A Europe-wide partial ban on using neonics on flowering crops has been in place since 2013. But the companies which make the most common types neonics, Bayer and Syngenta, have long insisted their products can be used safely. Stinging criticism Bayer is not the only firm to have seen a study it backed receive criticism from scientists. A study published by the journal Plos in October 2013 and led by Syngenta’s Peter Campbell examining the impact of the chemical thiamethoxam on honey bees was dismissed by scientists from St Andrews University as “inadequate” last year. The review concluded: “Given that the data in this case are largely uninformative with respect to the treatment effect, any conclusions reached from such informal approaches can do little more than reflect the prior beliefs of those involved.” We put all this criticism to Syngenta, and they sent back a statement from Andrew McConville, Syngenta’s EAME corporate affairs head. He said: “The conclusion of low risk in Pilling et al, was informed by an expert analysis of the full biological and chemical data generated in this study. Subsequent published honeybee field effect studies conducted with thiamethoxam seed treated oilseed rape have reported similar conclusions. The criticism by St Andrews University of the independently reviewed Pilling et al study was rebutted in a paper published earlier this year”.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1223
__label__wiki	0.571988	0.571988	Saturday 15 February 2020 (other days) Saturday of week 5 in Ordinary Time or Saturday memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary The Lord’s is the earth and its fullness: come, let us adore him. Saturday memorials of the Blessed Virgin Mary ‘On Saturdays in Ordinary Time when there is no obligatory memorial, an optional memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary is allowed. ‘Saturdays stand out among those days dedicated to the Virgin Mary. These are designated as memorials of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This memorial derives from Carolingian times (9th century), but the reasons for having chosen Saturday for its observance are unknown. While many explanations of this choice have been advanced, none is completely satisfactory from the point of view of the history of popular piety. ‘Whatever its historical origins may be, today the memorial rightly emphasizes certain values to which contemporary spirituality is more sensitive. It is a remembrance of the maternal example and discipleship of the Blessed Virgin Mary who, strengthened by faith and hope, on that “great Saturday” on which Our Lord lay in the tomb, was the only one of the disciples to hold vigil in expectation of the Lord’s resurrection. It is a prelude and introduction to the celebration of Sunday, the weekly memorial of the Resurrection of Christ. It is a sign that the Virgin Mary is continuously present and operative in the life of the Church.’ Directory on Popular Piety and the Liturgy (2001), §188 Other saints: St Claude La Colombière (1641-1682) 15 Feb (where celebrated) Claude la Colmbière (1641-1682) was born in France, joined the Society of Jesus in 1659, and was ordained a priest ten years later. In 1675, he was appointed superior of the Jesuit residence in Paray-le-Moniel. There he also became the spiritual director of Margaret Mary Alacoque, a Visitation nun, who was missioned by Christ to promote devotion to his Sacred Heart, in collaboration with Colombière. On learning about this mission, Saint Claude, after prayerful discernment, authenticated the supernatural experiences of Margaret Mary, and became both her supporter and a zealous apostle of the devotion. His preaching and writing helped propagate widespread devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. In 1676 he was missioned to be the personal preacher of the Duchess of York. His zeal and the stresses of court intrigue harmed his health, and he began to develop illnesses of the throat and lungs. He was imprisoned as a result of false accusations and deported in 1679. He returned to Lyon, then to Paray-le-Monial, where he died in 1682. Second Reading: Blessed Isaac of Stella (c.1105 - c.1178) All that is known for certain about Isaac is that he abandoned his studies at the cathedral schools in about 1140 and became a Cistercian monk, at the time of St Bernard’s reforms. He became abbot of the small monastery at Stella, outside Poitiers, in 1147, from where he was exiled to a remote monastery on the Ile de Ré on the Atlantic coast of Gascony, perhaps in 1167, perhaps because of his support for Archbishop Thomas Becket. Scholars incline to the view that he returned to Stella some time later and died there in about 1178. The date of his birth has been given as anywhere between 1105 and 1120. 1 Kings 8:60-61 © May all the peoples of the earth come to know that the Lord is God indeed, and that there is no other. May your hearts be wholly with the Lord our God, following his laws and keeping his commandments as at this present day. Jeremiah 17:9-10 © The heart is more devious than any other thing, perverse too: who can pierce its secrets? I, the Lord, search to the heart, I probe the loins, to give each man what his conduct and his actions deserve. Wisdom 7:27,8:1 © Although she is alone, Wisdom can accomplish everything. She deploys her strength from one end of the earth to the other, ordering all things for good. England - Shrewsbury	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1225
__label__wiki	0.983963	0.983963	Sir Derek Barton Biography of Sir Derek Barton Derek Barton Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton (1918-1998) was Regius Professor of Chemistry at the University, 1955 to 1957. He won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1969. Born in Gravesend, Barton studied at Imperial College, London and graduated BSc with honours (1940). During the Second World War he worked on a research fellowship from the Distillers Co Ltd studying the synthesis of vinyl chloride (he was awarded a PhD in 1942) and then in military intelligence. In 1945 he returned to Imperial College as a lecturer; he worked with ICI from 1946 until 1949 (the year he was awarded a DSc), and he was a Reader and then Professor of Organic Chemistry at Birbeck College, from 1950 until his appointment to the Chair at Glasgow. During 1949 he was a visiting professor at Harvard University, where he began his ground-breaking work on conformational analysis. Barton spent only two years at the University before returning south to become Professor of Organic Chemistry at Imperial College. However, he collaborated at Glasgow with Monteath Robertson, the Gardiner Professor of Chemistry, on important research into structural problems involving clerodin, limonin, and the sesquiterpene carophyllene, and he also began the research into organic photochemistry which resulted in the development of a photochemical procedure which became known as Barton's Reaction. In 1969 Barton and the Norwegian chemist Odd Hassel were awarded the Nobel Prize for their contributions to the development of the concept of conformation and its application in Chemistry. Barton was knighted three years later and received the Légion d'Honneur. After working for many years in France he moved to the Texas A and M University in 1985, where he died in 1998. Organic Chemist Born 8 September 1918, Gravesend, England. Died 16 March 1998. University Link: Professor GU Degree: Occupation categories: chemists NNAF Reference: GB/NNAF/P150876 View Major Archive Collection Record Search for this person in the DNB Record last updated: 27th Mar 2013 Professorships: Chemistry (Regius Chair) World Changing Achievements Sir Derek Barton is listed on the University of Glasgow World Changing website. View the World Changing record On This Day Entries Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1969 (December 10 1969) Prof Derek Barton speaking at a retiral and presentation ceremony, 17 June 1957	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1226
__label__wiki	0.950781	0.950781	Pablo Arauz. Amy Bruton-Bluemel teaches students about Southeastern cultures at the Native American Heritage Month celebration on Nov. 5 in the faculty dining room. Wearing her red regalia and surrounded by artifacts, Bruton-Bluemel demonstrated the customs of Chickasaw life. Heritage month draws mixed views Efforts to honor Native American culture met with some skepticism Storyteller Amy Bruton-Bluemel sported her deep-red Chickasaw regalia as she spoke about the lives of Native Americans in the past and present at the Nov. 5 celebration for Native American Heritage Month set up by the Multicultural Center in the faculty dining room. Students got a chance to learn about a specific indigenous culture, enjoy free food and make dream catchers, but not everyone agrees that this annual recognition is what the Native American community needs. Southeastern cultures and customs At the celebration, Bruton-Bluemel gave demonstrations of how Southeastern tribes hunted. For example, Chickasaw people once used three-foot bows and feathered arrows to hunt large game and blowguns to hunt smaller animals. Many southeastern tribesmen also played stickball, an earlier and more violent version of lacrosse where men would play to the death. In courtship, a Chickasaw man would play a flute for a woman he desired as a potential partner. If the woman’s father approved of the man, the two would join as partners. Bruton-Bluemel said it’s important for non-native peoples to realize that there were hundreds of tribes and cultures before the land known as the Americas were colonized. “Most people tend to assume that there’s only two types of Indians: There’s the plains people with the big war bonnets and then there’s Navajos, so I think it’s important to remember that there are hundreds of different cultures,” she said. She also said that a major problem facing native cultures is the loss of language. Currently, there are very few speakers of the Muskogeean language, which is shared in varied dialect by both the Chickasaw and the Choctaw. Bruton-Bluemel said she sometimes gets mistaken for a non-native because she doesn’t wear native clothing when she goes to places like Walmart, a traditional marketplace where many natives go. “There’s so many people that I’ll see that will say ‘You’re not Indian, you’re not dressed like one!’ Well, in every day life I wear blue jeans and a T-shirt,” she said, “Most Indians I know, they don’t wear their regalia to go to Walmart.” Life as a Native American Today Political science sophomore Marisa Lucky is part of the Cheyenne-Arapaho tribe and is one-fourth Choctaw. She said she feels that a month isn’t sufficient to acknowledge the full history of native peoples — especially because it falls during the same month as Thanksgiving. “I’m not really a supporter of Thanksgiving,” she said. “I think there’s a lot of misconceptions. ‘That’s all we get?’ is how I feel.” Living in Texas, where according to the 2010 U.S. Census only 1 percent of the population identifies as American Indian or Alaskan Native, Lucky said its hard to find other native people on campus. Currently, there are about 2.9 million people identified as Native American or Native Alaskan in the country according to the census. Many people don’t acknowledge the harsh mistreatment and colonization of native people in the Americas, Lucky said. In a continent where there were many millions of native people and hundreds of tribes, she said its hard to connect with her culture that seems have disappeared now. Along with that, she said the hardships native people face today are magnified compared to those of non-native peoples. “History of alcoholism, history of diabetes — those are all very serious on reservations and in native communities,” she said. Suicide is also the second leading cause of death among native peoples aged 15 to 34 according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Lucky said that when her culture is brought up in an everyday setting, some people still associate indigenous people with savages. “I think it’s funny how we have Halloween right before Native American awareness month. You have people dressing as Pocahontas and Sacagawea or Cowboys and Indians kind of stuff. I don’t know if they understand the ramifications of that.” Pablo Arauz24 Native American2 Amy Bruton-Bluemel1 Ninpo Taijutsu Club trains students in mind, body Faculty couples thrive as co-workers	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1227
__label__cc	0.535372	0.464628	Tag Archives: contrasting harms Contrasting Harms: Vegan Agriculture versus Animal Agriculture In last week’s essay about veganism as the moral baseline, I promised to address the anti-animal rights claim that since 1) vegans consume grains, soybeans, corn, and other crops, and 2) crop production causes field animals to die, that 3) vegans cause animal deaths, and 4) are therefore violating the rights of animals. Before I address the related issues of the nature of rights (human or nonhuman), prima facie duties, conflicting rights, the principles of least harm and double effect, intended purposes, foreseen consequences, and how these issues interact with crop production deaths, I would like to assess and compare the harms done to animals under vegan and animal systems of agriculture. Because both of these topics (i.e. so-called rights “violations” and respective harms) are somewhat lengthy, I will break the discussion into two essays. This essay, as its title suggests, will discuss respective harms done by vegan versus animal agriculture. The next essay will discuss the so-called rights “violations” which animal exploitation advocates accuse vegans of. Amusingly (from a human psychology standpoint), animal exploitation advocates kick up much righteous and defensive dust over this rights “violation” claim on Internet forums and elsewhere, as if it provides them with a toehold of moral ground to condemn animal rights advocates and, for themselves, take a permanent moral holiday with respect to our obligations toward animals, particularly our obligation to be vegan. If you pay them enough in public relation consulting fees, the most dishonest exploitation advocates will even go as far as to dig up an old and refuted study about how – “paradoxically” – intentionally killing more animals actually saves more animals, and publish it without publishing the related successful refutation. Indeed, the sleazy front group for the promotion of the special interests of the tobacco, alcohol, meat, dairy, and egg industries, misleadingly named “Center for Consumer Freedom” (“CCF”), posted such an article on their website as recently as April 3, 2007. The article was about a 2003 article entitled “Least Harm” written by Oregon State University animal science professor, Steven Davis, and published in the Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, which, as CCF put it “suggests that switching to a food system dominated by beef and dairy would save the lives of 300 million more animals annually than switching to a vegan system.” Really? A system dominated by “beef and dairy” would save 300 million more lives than a vegan system? How counterintuitive; who would have guessed at such an odd state of affairs? To be fair, Steven Davis never put it the way CCF did above; and where we properly assume Davis made honest errors (as we will see below), CCF’s failure to mention the well-known rebuttal leaves us wondering not only about CCF’s positive inclination to plainly defraud the public, but also about their stupidity in the attempt. Least Harm Steven Davis argued that the number of wild field animals killed in pasture-based animal agriculture is less than the number of wild field animals killed in crop agriculture (due primarily to machine tilling and harvesting); therefore, according to the least harm principle central to most, if not all, ethical thought, we should adopt a diet of ruminant products (e.g. cows, sheep, and dairy) rather than a vegan diet. Davis’s “Least Harm” article was immediately and successfully refuted in 2003 by Gaverick Matheny at Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. Matheny’s article, which also appeared in the Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, challenged Davis’s claims on three counts: “first, Davis makes a mathematical error in using total rather than per capita estimates of animals killed; second, he focuses on the number of animals killed in production and ignores the welfare of these animals; and third, he does not count the number of animals who may be prevented from existing.” Of Matheny’s three objections, the third one is an objection on utilitarian grounds, and therefore, for purposes of discussing deontological rights, the first two of his objections are of primary relevance. Since Matheny’s article is linked above for those who are interested, I will spare the casual reader the details and references of Matheny’s accurate and successful rebuttal and go on to his conclusion on the first objection: “to obtain the 20 kilograms of protein per year recommended for adults, a vegan-vegetarian would kill 0.3 wild animals annually, a lacto-vegetarian would kill 0.39 wild animals, while a Davis-style omnivore would kill 1.5 wild animals. Thus, correcting for Davis’s math, we see that a vegan-vegetarian population would kill the fewest number of wild animals, followed closely by a lacto-vegetarian population.” It should be noted here that Matheny’s calculation is referring ONLY to wild animals (i.e. only those animals inadvertently killed in crop land or pasture). A “lacto-vegetarian” population would, as a practical and economic matter, kill significantly more total animals, including ruminants, than a vegan population since 1) vegans don’t kill ruminants, and 2) ruminants, like humans, do not produce milk without being pregnant, which would lead to a massive glut of unusable male calves and “spent” dairy cows which have outlasted their lacto-productivity, a productivity ending several years before their life expectancy terminates. As the old saw goes, there’s a little veal in every glass of milk. The dairy industry is economically dependent on the slaughter industry. So, when we account for the “disposal” of the excess ruminants, we see that a “lacto-vegetarian” population moves away from the vegan population and closer to the Davis-style omnivore population in terms of all animals killed (not just wild field animals), and the vegan population, killing no ruminants, not only kills the fewest wild field animals but stands further alone in killing the fewest total animals. Matheny’s second objection addresses the differences in welfare and quality of life between crop and ruminant production: “In comparing the harms caused by crop and ruminant production, we should compare the treatment of, say, a wild mouse up until his or her death in a harvester, with that of a grass-fed cow. The wild mouse lives free of confinement and is able to practice natural habits like roaming, breeding, and foraging. In contrast, the grass-fed cow, while able to roam some distance in a fenced pasture, may suffer third degree burns (branding), have holes punched in his ears (tagging), be castrated, have his horns scooped out of his head (dehorning),…” Matheny goes on to describe the cow’s transportation “up to several hundred miles without food, water, or protection from extreme heat or cold; then he is killed in a conventional slaughterhouse. The conditions of slaughterhouses have been described elsewhere (Eisnitz, 1997). Suffice it to say, it is hard to imagine that the pain experienced by a mouse as he or she is killed in a harvester compares to the pain even a grass-fed cow must endure before being killed.” Matheny goes on to properly conclude those principally concerned with the treatment of animals, rather than simply the number of deaths, have more reason to go vegan. Matheny’s third objection is a utilitarian-based objection which concludes that a vegan population allows more animals with lives worth living to exist than any non-vegan population; a desirable condition, indeed, but not a necessary condition under an animal rights view. In the end, Matheny correctly concludes that “When we correct for these errors, Davis’s argument makes a strong case for, rather than against, adopting a vegetarian diet: vegetarianism kills fewer animals, involves better treatment of animals, and likely allows a greater number of animals with lives worth living to exist.” What the Davis article and Matheny refutation does not address is the more than 10 billion land animals we actually slaughter for food annually, of which more than 9 billion are chickens, and which works out to about 33.3 animals per non-vegan annually, [1] PLUS the animals killed by harvesters to feed both humans and “food” animals, which we can estimate at least another 1.5 animals per non-vegan annually, for a total of at least 34.8 animals per non-vegan annually, compared to the estimated 0.3 of an animal per vegan annually. By going vegan, we avoid ALL (100%) of the animals intentionally slaughtered to feed ourselves and over 99% of all animals killed, intentionally or as a regrettable and unintended side-effect. Need we say more about contrasting the harms of vegan versus animal agriculture? No, it is very clear that the contrast in harms is an extremely stark one, with the actual deaths currently caused by non-vegans quantitatively greater by 116 times the number of deaths caused by vegans, [2] and the harms caused by non-vegans in terms of welfare and quality of life qualitatively unimaginably greater than the harms caused by vegans. The next essay will address how this information and other considerations, such as intentional acts and foreseen consequences, relate to animal rights and veganism as a moral baseline. Eisnitz, G. A., Slaughterhouse (Prometheus Books, New York, 1997) [1] 10 billion animals divided by the population of American non-vegans estimated at 300 million (these statistics are fairly easy to obtain, verify, or compile by searching on the Internet) [2] Deaths caused annually per person: 34.8 for non-vegans divided by 0.3 for vegans. Comments Off on Contrasting Harms: Vegan Agriculture versus Animal Agriculture Filed under contrasting harms, objections to veganism Tagged as contrasting harms, objections to veganism The Development of Empathy: Hoffman’s Theory (Part 3 of 4) This essay is the third in a series of four essays on moral psychology and development. Martin Hoffman’s theory of moral psychology and development is primarily focused on empathy and empathic distress, but also includes classic conditioning, cognitive reasoning, and principles of caring and justice. Cognitive reasoning and justice are especially integrated into Hoffman’s theory in the more advanced stages of empathy development. Hoffman’s theory is comprehensive, and while much of it is supported by research, Hoffman makes use of many detailed anecdotes from interviews, open-ended research questions, and other sources to “fill in the research gaps” in the comprehensive theory. Virtually all of the information on Hoffman’s theory in this essay has been extracted from Hoffman’s book published in 2000 entitled, Empathy and Moral Development: Implications for Caring and Justice. My purpose is not to cover or summarize Hoffman’s book or entire theory, but only to provide some of the basic elements and bring forth what I consider to be the most relevant aspects of his theory to the development of empathy for nonhuman beings. Empathic Distress Versus Egoistic Motives Central to Hoffman’s theory is the occurrence of empathic distress in response to another’s distress where, 1) empathic distress is associated with helping, 2) empathic distress precedes helping, and 3) observers feel better after helping. Empathic distress often competes with egoistic motives. Egoistic motives opposing animal rights would be the desire to maintain the status quo with regard to eating habits, the fear of learning more about the plight of animals (empathic over-arousal), over-estimations of difficulty in transitioning to or maintaining a vegan diet (even though it is very easy), fear of dealing with family and friends after committing to veganism, and, in the case of people whose occupations require animal abuse and killing, giving up their current occupations. Most of the egoistic fears regarding a transition to and maintenance of personal veganism are really nothing more than a fear of the unknown and, very likely in many cases, a lack of self-confidence in men and women. Five Categories of Development Hoffman has five categories in the development of empathic distress: 1) newborn reactive cry, 2) egocentric empathic distress, 3) quasi-egocentric empathic distress, 4) veridical empathic distress, and 5) empathic distress beyond the situation. The first category, the newborn reactive cry, is likely caused by a “…combination of mimicry and conditioning, with each getting an assist from imitation.” (Hoffman, 2000, p 65) At this point, there is only distress, but no effort to relieve distress. In egocentric empathic distress, which starts to occur at the end of the first year, the reaction to another infant’s distress is mostly the same, except that there is behavior which is meant to reduce their own distress (not the other infant’s distress). There seems to be genuine confusion at this point about who is in distress, therefore the oxymoron “egocentric empathic distress”. By early in the second year, a sense of self occurs and along with it, quasi-egocentric empathic distress develops. In quasi-egocentric empathic distress, the child will attempt to help the other in distress, but from their own point of view. For example, a child may bring another crying child to her mother instead of the child’s own mother. There is clearly the desire to help the other, but from the only point of view that the helping child is aware of: their own point of view. By late in the second year, children begin to show awareness that the inner states of others may be different from their own states. Corrective feedback, such as when one’s egocentric efforts to relieve another’s distress don’t work, leads to behavior which takes the other’s perspective into account. Eventually, corrective feedback is not needed as much (although, as Hoffman points out, even adults need corrective feedback at times). This is the development of veridical empathic distress, an important stage, since it “has all the basic elements of mature empathy and continues to grow and develop throughout life.” (Hoffman, 2000, p 72) At some point in development, empathic distress moves beyond the situation to involve others’ life conditions. There is often contradiction in a victim’s behavior where, for example, a victim of a terminal illness is laughing or appears to be very happy. People who have not moved into this stage will identify directly and solely with the currently observed happy behavior of the victim. People who have moved into empathic distress beyond the situation, however, while they may or may not show it depending on the situation, will still have empathic distress, despite current outward appearances of the victim’s immediate happiness. Empathic distress beyond the situation eventually matures to empathic distress regarding entire groups who are exploited, oppressed, or otherwise treated unfairly. This can happen both geographically, as when we empathize with groups in distant regions of the world; temporally, as when we empathize with groups in times long past; and beyond kin, as when we empathize with other ethnic groups, races, or species. It is this advanced stage of “empathic distress beyond the situation” which is required for normal adults to experience empathic distress for nonhuman beings. Unfortunately, many normal human adults have not reached this stage and may never reach it. Moral Internalization and Socialization According to Hoffman, a person’s prosocial moral structure is “a network of empathic effects, cognitive representations, and motives.” (Hoffman, 2000, p. 134) The moral structure includes principles, behavioral norms, a sense of right and wrong, and images of harmful or hurtful acts and the associated self-blame and guilt. Moral internalization occurs when a person’s moral structure is accepted and the person feels obligated to abide by its principles and consider others regardless of external punishment or reward. Socialization, according to Hoffman, is the process by which moral internalization occurs, mainly in the form of interventions. Among three types of intervention Hoffman discusses, only “induction” is relevant to changing moral behavior and causing moral internalization of new principles in law-abiding adults. Induction occurs when we take the victim’s (e.g. the nonhuman being’s) perspective and show a person (e.g. someone who consumes animal products) how his or her behavior is harming the victim. Showing pictures and videos of “food” animals in their daily lives and during and after slaughter and emphasizing the connection between the distressing footage and a non-vegan diet is an example of induction. Induction must usually be repeated anywhere from a few to several times before moral internalization has a chance to take place, and unfortunately, this repetition seems to be just as true for adults as children. Empathy’s Limitations The ability of empathy to generate moral behavior is limited by three common occurrences: over-arousal, habituation, and bias. Hoffman covers others, but my focus is on the limits common to empathy for animals. Empathic Over-Arousal Generally, the greater the victim’s distress, the greater the observer’s empathic distress. However, if the observer’s empathic distress is too great, it is likely to lead to personal distress. Empathic over-arousal is “an involuntary process that occurs when an observer’s empathic distress becomes so painful and intolerable that it is transformed into an intense feeling of personal distress, which may move the person out of the empathic mode entirely.” (Hoffman, 1978 and 2000) (Italics mine) At the other extreme, empathic distress may not motivate moral behavior. So, empathic distress can be either too strong or too weak. To complicate matters for animal rights advocates, different people will over- and under-arouse to the same situation or film or leaflet, so finding a good balance in animal rights educational material is difficult. If a person is exposed repeatedly to victim distress over time, the person’s empathic distress may diminish to the point where the person becomes indifferent to victims’ distress. This diminished empathic distress and corresponding indifference is very common in those who abuse and kill animals as part of their occupation or recreation: animal researchers, employees in the animal entertainment industry, hunters, trappers, fishers, employees in animal feeding operations, truck drivers in animal transportation, slaughterhouse employees, and butchers. In fact, the most morally repugnant, horrific and violent footage of animal abuse, acts which would garner felony cruelty charges if done to a dog or cat in the street, occurs in most of these occupations, particularly slaughterhouses and research labs. Familiarity Bias Humans evolved in small groups, and often the small groups competed for scarce resources, so it is not surprising that evolutionary psychologists have identified kin selection has a moral motivator with evolutionary roots. The forms of familiarity bias include in-group bias, friendship bias, and similarity bias. The implications for nonhuman beings are as obvious as they are unfortunate. On the positive side, however, great progress has been made in overcoming might-makes-right and familiarity bias over the past 400 years in what are now our liberal democracies. A live burning of a heretic or “witch” is now considered morally unacceptable. Chattel slavery, and the abuse and murder accepted with it, has been abolished. Wage slavery of the 19th century and early 20th century has been reformed. Women are permitted to vote and are no long expected to shut up and stay in the kitchen. Could animals be the next group admitted to the moral community by acknowledgement of their important interests which they hold as much as we do by way of certain morally relevant characteristics, such as, consciousness, awareness, and sentience? If we make the same progress during the next 100 or 200 years that we did during the past 200 years, future generations will look on our ignorance in a very similar way to how we look at the ignorance of previous generations of heretic burners and slave breakers. Here and Now Bias We tend to have a bias for empathic distress when the victim is in front of us at the present moment. The abuse and horror (i.e. distress) that nonhuman animals experience is generally here-and-now only for those habituated to directly generating the distress. The primary economic forces of the abuse and horror are derived from the consumer of animal products, who is almost never exposed to the horror story behind the eggs, meat, or glass of milk they consume. This ignorance is an unspoken “don’t ask, don’t tell” deal between the producers of animal products and the consumers, including mass media. It is a well-known saying among animal rights supports that “if slaughterhouses had glass walls (and we knew of the torture and slaughter in the milk and egg industries), we’d all be vegan.” Animal advocates must continue to display the inconvenient truth about what goes on in the sheds, feedlots, labs, transportation vehicles, and slaughterhouses to combat the here-and-now bias. We also have to remind people that just because we don’t see it in our daily lives, doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. Also, it is extremely important to narrow down the focus to the heartbreaking stories of individual chickens, pigs, cows, and other nonhumans who have been severely abused in animal agriculture to use the here-and-now bias in the favor of the animals. Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary (see link on this blog) does a terrific job at leveraging the here-and-now bias in every form of advocacy they do: sanctuary tours, blog entries, billboards, and newspaper advertisements are almost always about individual nonhuman beings. Empathy and Moral Principles Moral principles, based on reasoning and cognitive function, have sometimes been criticized as being “cold”, and therefore, not morally motivating. Others have disagreed and claimed that moral principles are highly motivating. To me, it seems to depend on the person as to whether reason or emotions are more morally motivating. Regardless, when empathy is combined with moral principles, the moral principles tend to regulate or moderate empathic distress to a more appropriate level, thereby reducing the chances of empathic over- or under-arousal. Although I’m very much on the cognitive moral principles side of the principles/empathy dichotomy, this moderating effect (i.e. increasing empathic distress in under-arousal cases and decreasing it in over-arousal cases) seems to me to be a good reason for those advocates who lean more on the empathy side to include moral principles and reasoning in their education and advocacy. Hoffman’s theory tells us much about the “emotional side” of morality and some of the strengths and limitations of empathy and its influence on moral behavior. Empathic distress generally has to overcome egoistic motives for moral behavior to occur. Hoffman believes that empathy is an evolutionary trait; and like other evolutionary traits, such as cognitive ability, it is likely on a bell-curve distribution, with some of us having more empathic capacity than others. Empathy also has other limitations, such as over- and under-arousal, habituation, and bias. Despite its limitations, empathy can be a powerful force for moral motivation. It is well worth the efforts of animal rights advocates to generate the empathic distress which comes naturally to most people when faced with the horrific realities of life for tens of billions of innocent nonhuman beings who are thrown into the hell of animal agriculture. There’s a reason industry (including the cage-free and free-range sectors) does not and will not open its doors to mass media or for general public inspection. There’s a reason why we don’t see mass media coverage of the animals’ lives: the empathic distress would be overwhelming, would cause significant moral conflict throughout society and eventually would lead to changes in what we choose to eat. A widespread vegan trend in society would alleviate much of this unimaginable hell. We can each, as individuals, internalize veganism as the moral imperative that it is. 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__label__wiki	0.871338	0.871338	JAMES MCGREEVEY, “STATE HOUSE CONFESSION” (12 AUGUST 2004) Augustine. The Confessions of St. Augustine. Translated by John Kenneth Ryan. Garden City, NY: Image Books, 1960. Brooks, Peter. “The Overborne Will.” Representations 64 (1998): 1-20. Brooks, Peter. Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Harrell, Jackson, and Wil A Linkugel. “On Rhetorical Genre: An Organizing Perspective.” Philosophy and Rhetoric 11 (1978): 262-281. Hartle, Ann. The Modern Self in Rousseau’s Confessions: A Reply to St. Augustine. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1983. Honey, Maureen. “The Confessional Formula and Fantasies of Empowerment.” Women’s Studies 10 (1984): 303-320. McGreevey, James. The Confession. Los Angeles, CA: Regan Books, 2006. Mandziuk, Roseann M. “Confessional Discourse and Modern Desires: Power and Please in True Story Magazine.” Critical Studies in Media Communication 18, (2001): 174-193. Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Epistemology of the Closet. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. Troup, Calvin L. Temporality, Eternity, and Wisdom: The Rhetoric of Augustine’s Confessions. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1999. “Book Discussion on The Confession,” Interview by Andrew Solomon, C-SPAN, http://www.c-span.org/video/?195265-1/book-discussion-confession. Buxton, Amity. “Dina’s Despair.” By Brian Lehrer, The Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC (August 27, 2004), RealAudio, http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/21218-dinas-despair/. Isikoff, Michael, and Evan Thomas. “An Affair to Regret,” Newsweek, August 23, 2004, http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/14154977/affair-regret. McGreevey, James. “Former N.J. Gov. James McGreevey Breaks His Silence.” By Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes, Hannity & Colmes, FOX News (September 21, 2006), http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,214995,00.html. McGreevey, James. “LKL: James McGreevey.” By Larry King, Larry King Live, CNN, (September 22, 2006). Transcript, http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0609/21/lkl.01.html. McGreevey, James. “The Making of a Gay American.” New York Magazine, http://nymag.com/news/politics/21340/. McGreevey, James. “Duty Trumps Personal Issues.” Editorial, USA Today, August 16, 2004, http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2004-08-16-opposing-view_x.htm. Rothstein, Richard. “Is James McGreevey’s The Confession Good for the Gays?” Blogcritics Magazine, September 16, 2006, https://blogcritics.org/is-james-mcgreeveys-the-confession-good/.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1232
__label__wiki	0.989883	0.989883	June 24, 2018 8:03AM PT ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ Feasts on $150 Million Opening By Rebecca Rubin Rebecca Rubin News Editor, Online @https://twitter.com/rebeccaarubin FOLLOW Rebecca's Most Recent Stories Oprah Defends Decision to Exit #MeToo Doc: ‘This Is Not a Victory for Russell’ Simmons How ‘Bad Boys for Life’ Escaped the Franchise Revival Curse Box Office: ‘Bad Boys for Life’ Crossing $100 Million Worldwide Dinosaurs are ruling the box office again. “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” topped estimates to devour $150 million from 4,475 locations in North America this weekend. While it fell short of its predecessors’ record-shattering $208.8 million launch, the dinosaur sequel is off to a mighty start. The Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard-led tentpole has already amassed $711.5 million worldwide, including $561.5 million overseas. J.A. Bayona directed the sequel, which had a price tag around $170 million. “Fallen Kingdom” easily led the domestic box office as the lone wide release, though “Incredibles 2” enjoyed a heroic second weekend. The Disney-Pixar sequel picked up another $80 million, bringing its North American total to $350.3 million. The superhero blockbuster, directed by Brad Bird, launched with $182.7 million, making it the best opening for an animated feature and the eighth-biggest debut of all time. “Incredibles 2” also earned $56.8 million overseas, taking the international tally to $134.6 million. With a global total of $485 million, “Incredibles 2” has already surpassed the entire run of the original film, 2004’s “The Incredibles.” Universal, the studio behind “Fallen Kingdom,” is celebrating its second-best opening ever, only behind 2015’s “Jurassic World.” “We are obviously thrilled with our opening at the North American box office,” Jim Orr, head of domestic distribution at Universal, said. “We found that we are playing very broadly in all four quadrants. [J.A. Bayona] really crafted an extraordinarily intense film. I expect word of mouth to be stellar.” The tentpole, co-produced by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment, is the fifth installment in the “Jurassic” franchise. The film has received a mixed critical response with a 50% average on Rotten Tomatoes and an A- CinemaScore. Moviegoers under the age of 25 accounted for 56% of audiences, while 54% were males. Of “Fallen Kingdom’s” $711 million haul, $380 million came from 3D ticket sales, along with $105 million from RealD. It also opened on 410 Imax screens, where it brought in $13 million. Meanwhile, “Ocean’s 8” has crossed a major milestone of its own. In its third weekend, the female-led spinoff hit the $100 million mark in North America. The Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow Pictures film pocketed $11.6 million this weekend. Overseas, the heist movie stole $26.9 million for a global total of $171 million. Another Warner Bros. title, “Tag,” landed in fourth with $8.2 million. The comedy has brought in $30 million domestically, officially clearing its $28 million production budget. Rounding out the top five is Ryan Reynolds’ “Deadpool 2” with $5.2 million. The 20th Century Fox sequel passed the $300 million mark domestically and $700 million globally. The original “Deadpool” finished its box office run with $363 million in North America and $783 million worldwide. Elsewhere, “Solo: A Star Wars Story” reached $200 million in North America five weeks in. With another $2 million internationally, the Disney and Lucasfilm picture’s worldwide total sits at $353.5 million. At the specialty box office, “Won’t You Be My Neighbor” made $1.8 million after expanding to 348 theaters. Morgan Neville’s documentary on Mister Rogers, which secured the 10th spot at the domestic box office, has earned an impressive $4.1 million in three weeks. The film will expand to 500 theaters next weekend. Thanks to the roaring success of “Fallen Kingdom” and “Incredibles 2,” the box office is 97.3% bigger than the same weekend last year, according to comScore. Overall, the box office is up 8.5% in 2018. “Notably, the $150 million earned by ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ is more than the $141.9 million generated by the entire marketplace of 105 films (led by ‘Transformers: The Last Knight’) over the comparable weekend last year,” said Paul Dergarabedian, a box office analyst at comScore. #MeToo Issues Continue to Make an Impact on Sundance Films If there were any doubts that the impact of sexual-harassment exposés and backlash against them had died down, Oprah Winfrey put them to rest when she withdrew her name (and Apple’s distribution) from “On The Record,” a film about allegations against music execs Russell Simmons and L.A. Reid — just two weeks before its Sundance Film Festival premiere. Variety reached out to Winfrey and the [...]	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1235
__label__wiki	0.9216	0.9216	Why Are GOP Candidates Campaigning In Puerto Rico? Puerto Rico doesn't have any Electoral Votes, it sends its own national team to the Olympics, it's a Spanish-speaking imperial possession that's bribed into staying a possession by huge tax breaks to big American companies like Microsoft to cheat the IRS by nominally taking profits there rather than in America, and if Puerto Rico became a state, it would substantially reduce the chances of the GOP ever regaining control of the Senate by adding two automatic Democratic Senators. And yet, CBS News reports: (CBS News) SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - After his main rival [Rick Santorum] ignited a firestorm over requiring Puerto Rico to adopt English as a condition of statehood, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney flew to the island territory today and said he would support no such requirement as president. But Romney faced a hurdle of his own in winning the hearts of voters here and their 20 delegates - his opposition to the appointment of Sonia Sotomayor, who is of Puerto Rican descent, to the federal bench. She was later chosen by President Obama for a seat on the Supreme Court. On the English and statehood issue, Romney said, "I will support the people of Puerto Rico if they make a decision that they would prefer to become a state; that's a decision that I will support. I don't have preconditions that I would impose." I'm a big fan of Puerto Rican independence. [VDARE.com Note:Republicans in Puerto Rico: Santorum Wrong-Foots Romney On Official English]	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1236
__label__wiki	0.680789	0.680789	Waverly Community House Archives Special Collections at the Waverly Community House Building Community through the Arts: The Belin Arts Scholarship October 7, 2016 October 7, 2016 Gia L. Reviello Leave a comment “I am so grateful to the members of the Waverly Community House Board of Trustees, and the Waverly community, who have given so generously their time and effort to bring forth this scholarship in memory of my father (Peter Belin, 1963).” In the last blog post, we featured Peter Belin Jr. who , through his dedication to the community, the arts, and the desire to memorialize his late father, created the Belin Arts Scholarship. This endowment was first awarded in 1964 and has gone on to benefit talented individuals for decades; it has provided awards to men and women from various different backgrounds and regional areas, engaging in a multitude of disciplines such as: painting, music, dance,literature, architecture, printmaking, and more. This year, as we enter into a new era of development for the Belin Arts Scholarship and Foundation, we remain dedicated and committed to continuing the vision of Peter Belin and his amazing gift to the community on behalf of his father. The Belin Arts Scholarship On July 6th, 1961, Ferdinand Lammot Belin passed away; Mr. Belin, who was a lifelong lover of the arts, as well as an active community member, remained very passionate about beautification efforts and became involved with many different restoration projects throughout his life. F. Lammot also remained very devoted to the Waverly Community House and its mission. One of the most significant examples of his dedication to the Comm came in 1958 when he facilitated a much appreciated expansion of the auditorium in memory of his beloved wife Frances Jermyn Belin who had passed away in 1945. After his death 16 years later, his son Peter continued the memorial tradition that helped create the Comm so long ago in 1919 by giving back to the community in remembrance of a loved one; this time, the arts remained the focus of commemorative efforts. This gift, initially labeled the F. Lammot Belin Memorial Fund, would go on to evolve into a sustained benefaction, with those awarded spanning in age ranges, geographical locations, and cultural boundaries. The Belin Arts Scholarship, as it was later called, would go on to become one of the most coveted awards for artists to obtain in pursuit of their respective vocations. In October of 1961, a series of meetings between Peter Belin Jr. and the Waverly Community House Board of Trustees would take place; these gatherings were held in order to determine how best to honor the late F. Lammot. Due to his love of the fine arts, it was later suggested to offer some sort of monetary award to artists through the Belin family and the Waverly Community House. Shortly thereafter, a special committee was formed to primarily focus on this scholarship and its development; the very first F. Lammot Belin Memorial Fund Committee meeting consisted of: Mrs. W.L. Chamberlin, Mrs. William M. Dawson, Mr. F.P. Christian, Mr. F.T. Dolbear, Mr. A.D. Hemelright, and Mr. C.W. Belin (as indicated on committee letter, 1962). In 1962, it was officially determined that a definitive scholarship be offered to artists involved in various disciplines to pursue their crafts under the direction of funds provided through the endowment. Thus, the Belin Arts Scholarship was born; the very first description of this award is described as follows: “Patron of the arts and artists, collector and creator, his love of beauty will benefit all…now, and in the years to come. The F. Lammot Belin Arts Scholarship has been established to honor the memory of a great man and a loving father, by his son, Peter Belin.” Belin Arts Scholarship: the Early Years Soon after the scholarship was conceptualized, applicants were encouraged to apply for the 1964 cycle; Dr. John Bourne, Chairman of the Scholarship Administration, Howard Hyde, Chairman of the Selection Committee, and Leigh Woehling, President of the Comm’s Board of Trustees also took their time to search for talented individuals through the region who were also urged to apply. The very first winner of the scholarship, Carol Leah Jones, was a pianist from Scranton, PA who planned on continuing her craft with the hopes of eventually becoming a concert pianist. Miss Jones showed much promise to the committee as she also expressed her desire to continue her education at the Manhattan College of Music upon reception of the award. After Carol Jones, John Hyer was presented with the award in both the 1965 and 1966 cycles; Mr. Hyer was a vocalist and recent graduate of Wilkes College (University) who later went on to attend the Julliard School of Music to receive his Masters Degree in Vocal Pedagogy. Of the Belin Arts Scholarship, Mr. Hyer exclaims: “I couldn’t have gone to Julliard without it! It opened doors for me in such places as Aspen, Colorado and it made things better in my whole career.” From Miss Jones’ first win and Hyer’s dual awards, it became clear that this scholarship was fulfilling its intention– it was bettering the lives of recipients and allowing them to grow and evolve in their careers and lives. The endowment’s first year concluded with 32 total applicants; this number continued to grow exponentially each year as word of the award circulated around amongst those involved in the fine arts discipline. From 1964, until the present, the Belin Arts Scholarship has continued to grow and evolve to benefit the arts and artists everywhere; over the years it had funded the arts of: architecture, drama, music, literature, painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, and more. What began as a memorial vision, has become so much more; as we approach a new developmental period in regards to the scholarship, we look forward to all of the new ways that this gift can continue to touch the lives of talented individuals everywhere. Quotes from Belin Arts Scholarship Recipients: Barbara Harbach (1970), organist: “The Belin Arts Scholarship allowed me to experience art and culture at a high level that would’ve taken a number of years to achieve without it.” Robert Reese (1971), painter: “Without the Belin Arts Scholarship, I could’ve never realized the professional boundaries I have, it was a blessing of huge proportions. I have told many people over the decades about this wonderful Foundation that came to my aid. It prompted me to paint very large, to make connections, and to be invited to exhibit at various museums and to lecture at many universities.” Roosevelt Newson (1978), pianist: ” The scholarship served as a professional launch pad for me and opened the door to professional management.” Barbara Hopkins (1984), flutist: “The Belin Arts Scholarship enabled me to complete my Master’s Degree at the Mannes College of Music without taking any loans. This was an enormous advantage in later years as I was able to spend more time practicing for auditions instead of working a retail job paying loans.” Karen Blomain (1986), writer: “The scholarship allowed me to accept a fellowship at Columbia University. It opened the wider world of poetry, of writing and publishing, and provided me the opportunity to study with major writers of our time.” Mark Chuck (2006), sculptor: “Having these means at my disposal has immeasurably aided me with my goals as an artist and I am most grateful for the Belin Family’s generosity. The award has greatly contributed to my local and regional recognition as a ceramic artist.” The aforementioned quotes are indicative of simply a few expressions of gratitude from those grateful for all that the Belin Arts Scholarship has provided them both developmentally and professionally. For over 50 years, this award has gone on to make its mark regionally and nationally with its wide range of possibilities. This year, we enter into a new phase of development for the Belin Arts Scholarship with its expansion into the F. Lammot Belin Arts Foundation; this extension will also include the much anticipated Belin Film Festival. This event is scheduled to commence on October 14th and is set to last throughout the entire weekend with multiple locations participating in the efforts to bring community awareness and recognition to independent films and filmmakers at a national level. For more information on this exciting and groundbreaking event you can obtain information below. As the Belin Arts Scholarship and Foundation advances, we remain deeply dedicated to continue to provide the community with new opportunities with every passing year. Belin Film Festival Information: http://www.flbaf.org/ Belin Family History, Programs & EventsBelin Arts Scholarship ← Community Member Feature: F. Lammot “Peter” Belin Jr. Holiday Traditions: The Annual Artisans’ Marketplace at the Waverly Community House → Gia L. Reviello 100 Years of History: Celebrating the Centennial Anniversary of the Waverly Community House This House Builded: Alfred Twining’s Historic Abington Embracing a New Year:Winter at the Waverly Community House They Stick like Death to their Guns: Soldiery, Citizenship, & the Civil War Era in Waverly, Pennsylvania Continuing Traditions: The Memorial Garden at the Waverly Community House Belin Family History Community House Organizations Community Member Features Waverly History Waverly Community House 1115 North Abington Road Waverly TWP, PA 18471	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1242
__label__cc	0.606006	0.393994	macguffin films EXPRESSIONIST, GRAPHIC, OFFICE/STUDIOS The office for MacGuffin Films, a commercial film production company, a large ground floor space with storage below in a building where they already had a production studio. The raw space was long (over 100 feet) and narrow (23, -28 feet at its widest) with windows on one narrow side and 16-foot ceilings. The floor was in good shape, but everything else was pretty badly deteriorated. The scheme we developed envisioned the space as a gallery in which sculptures would be housed-sculptures that are actually workstations. Each workstation is based on a generic geometric shape,chosen and articulated for the needs of the occupants and for the shape's associations with the department within, (the "mouth" of the circular sales station, the controlling "castle" of the square management station, the "turnstile" of the x-shaped freelancers' station, and the "pyramid" of the triangular bookkeeping station). The conference room and executive offices are located along the windows at the front of the space with transparent/translucent walls to allow natural light into the work station area. The south wall, through which one enters, contains more typical office functions and is made up of simple white painted and white Formica surfaces like one would find in a gallery. The north wall, originally a messy tangle of plaster, wood, and pipes, was stripped to the underlying brick for its entire length to form a darker backdrop for the "sculptures" when viewed from the entry. The scheme avoids both typical solutions to the office problem-the sheetrock maze or the open office with desks and partitions marooned on a sea of carpet. The open design of the "sculptures" allows light to penetrate to the back of the space, while their Tectum ceilings absorb sound and create room-like conditions within. The workstations' distinctive configurations give each department a sense of identity, as if each has its own building. The project in effect creates a space that celebrates the functions that comprise MacGuffin Films' office operations.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1252
__label__wiki	0.773757	0.773757	NCI wins Army network deal By Brad Grimes NCI Information Systems Inc., Reston, Va., has won a five-year deal from the Army to do network installation and support, the company said. The award is worth $7 million if all options are exercised. NCI will work with Multimax Inc. of Largo, Md., to help build a local area network for the Army Communications-Electronics Command's Logistics and Readiness Center at Fort Monmouth, N.J. The two companies will also support all associated networking programs and the installed infrastructure of computer hardware and software. NCI officials said the company will also help the center with its overall IT management program. Privately held NCI employs more than 1,400 people in 60 locations worldwide. The company has annual sales of $138 million, according to Hoover's Online of Austin, Texas.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1253
__label__cc	0.601073	0.398927	A series of digital prints by Domke adorns the walls of a Missouri hospital. Studies have shown that close-up images of plants at the peak of their life cycle work well in reducing stress and pain. 29 Dec Collector's Notebook: Palliative Pleasure Posted at 19:59h in Articles, Collector's Notebook, Winter \| Spring 2011 \| Isabelle Walker 0 Comments Prime-Care Physicians clinic in Albany, New York, is not a place people want to be. Whether actually sick, or working to stay healthy, patients enter the waiting room and run headlong into a 6-foot-high, 30-foot-wide image of a thick stand of trees. Stretched across the back wall, the picture is so clear, they can almost hear the birds chirp. Compelled to gaze a moment, they take a deep breath, and then another. Florence Nightingale knew art helped people heal long before modern science began delving into the matter. In her Notes on Nursing, she wrote: “Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color and light, we do know this, they have an actual physical effect. Variety of form and brilliance of color in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.” Nightingale would like what hospitals and doctors’ offices are doing with art today, placing it intentionally in rooms, treatment areas and hallways to support patients’ recovery; using it to calm visitors and as way-finding markers in big facilities. Long-term care facilities are using art to stimulate visual perception in elderly residents and urge the wheelchair-bound out of their rooms. Visual art is even used in some surgical procedures to minimize pain. The idea is to give patients a positive distraction, something to take their attention away from their circumstances,” said Henry Domke, a family practice doctor and artist. Images that invite patients to literally step inside the scene are optimal, he said. Domke uses digital photography to make images that achieve just this effect; images of nature, often close-up, grasshopper’s eye views of plants at the peak of their life cycle. His works are made entirely for health care settings. In the past decade there’s been a sea change in the way hospitals approach art. Thirty years ago, there was none. Twenty years ago, there was poster art here and there. Now, major hospitals are spending 1 to 2 percent of multimillion-dollar construction budgets on artwork. According to Domke, it’s because so many studies have shown patients benefit in tangible, measurable ways; and because in competitive health care markets, it helps the bottom line. “If a hospital looks dismal, people aren’t going to want to go back,” Domke said. “If it’s a positive experience, if they felt more relaxed when they were there, if the beautiful environment counteracted some of the stress of being sick, trust me, they’re going to want to go back.” Health care design experts trace the shift to a 1984 study in the journal Science by Roger Ulrich, PhD., Endowed Professor at Texas A&M University’s School of Architecture. Ulrich compared two groups of patients recovering from gallbladder surgery: those whose windows looked out at a brick wall and those whose windows looked out on a stand of leafy trees. He found that patients with the view of nature recovered faster and needed less pain medication. His research evolved and expanded and a decade later yielded concrete guidelines that many hospitals are now consulting when selecting art. Choosing realistic nature scenes for acute-care settings is recommended, he said; landscape images with visual depth or openness in the foreground and pictures of plants at the peak of life are optimal in settings where patients are really anxious. Interestingly, abstract art that is ambiguous, that leaves much open to interpretation can be troubling to vulnerable patients who can’t get up and walk away from it. “Art is very powerful in hospitals,” Ulrich said. “These are not museum situations or peoples’ homes where they have control.” Jon Huntsman, Sr., the businessman and philanthropist, is on a first name basis with cancer. He’s battled it four times, and lost both his mother and father to it. He said, for everything that’s known about treatments and survival odds, at the end of the day, it’s a mystery why some people recover and others don’t. In 1999, when he and his wife gave $100 million to build The Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) in Salt Lake City, their priority was to make sure the environment would be as healing as the medicine. “You want to take away the [patient’s] anxiety and you want to take away the fear,” said Huntsman. HCI has an 800-piece collection. Paintings and photographs hang throughout the facility, many donated by former patients. Each room has at least one piece of art, a view of the mountains and the occasional moose or deer wandering up to the edge of the building and looking in. Jain Malkin, an interior designer specializing in health care settings, said for helping patients in pain, images based on prospect-refuge theory work best. An open vista visible from the vantage of safety, through leaves or a bush for example. Malkin, an industry leader, began her career when hospitals were barren, a maze of infinity tunnels; hallways with naked walls that went on forever. She said abstract art can have a place in health care, in lobbies or cafeterias. But in procedure areas and patient rooms, realistic nature or landscape images are called for. Francie Kelley, a Los Angeles-based art consultant and owner of Paragone Gallery, just installed 450 photographs in the University of Southern California’s (USC) University Hospital. The designer was shooting for a spa-like environment. They selected 15 Domke images for the hallways and three images by Jennifer Broussard for each room. Both artists specialize in close-up nature images. “They’re very, very beautiful,” Kelley said. Domke’s art business has grown so busy, he was forced to choose between medicine and art. He picked art. “The key goal of art in the health care system is to reduce stress. And that reduction of stress can contribute to the healing process,” said Domke. “But the whole approach is very alien to most people in the art world. Picking art for the way it functions … what a weird idea.” Isabelle T. Walker is a Santa Barbara-based freelance writer with a special interest in health. She is a two-time California Endowment Health Journalism Fellow and author of the blog, Homeless in Santa Barbara, at www.homelessinsb.org. Jain Malkin designed the interior of Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, California. Relying on the research of Roger Ulrich, PhD., Malkin is a key pioneer in the burgeoning field of health care design. A waiting room in Albany’s Prime-Care Physicians Clinic features a huge digital print of a meadow and stand of leafy trees. The physician-artist Henry Domke created the image expressly to distract patients from thoughts of illness and uncertain outcomes by drawing them into the natural scene. Art in health care facilities can include textural glass sculpture, like this installation, also designed by Malkin. A digital image of a single lily in crisp focus, by Henry Domke, encourages relaxation at the Park Nicollet Melrose Institute in St. Louis Park, Minnesota.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1254
__label__cc	0.59417	0.40583	On-Air Stafftghg2019-11-10T15:23:59-06:00 The Sylacauga LIVE Morning Show 6a-9a Bruce Carr Started in radio at the age of 15 with WFEB AM 1340 which was family owned at the time. Graduated from Sylacauga High School in 1980. Then graduated from the University of Alabama in 1984 with a BA in Communication Management. Served as GM of WFEB from 1984 until 1994 when he purchased the station along with WAWV 98.3 FM. Left the business altogether in 2006. Came back to do the morning show after 5 years for 5 years. Left again for 3 years. Came back in August – 2018 to take over the morning shows at the new and improved Sylacauga Live on the all new B 101FM. Middays 9a-2p Victoria works as an account executive for Lake Broadcasting mostly in the Sylacauga and surrounding area’s when she is not performing her on-air duties in the midday’s! She has worked with Lake Broadcasting since September 2018 and worked for Alabama 100.7 in Ashland before coming to Lake Broadcasting. Afternoons 2p-6p “G” has been in radio for nearly 25 years. Over that time, he’s worked in almost every format imaginable, Rock, Pop, Talk, Country, Gospel and more. When he is not on B101 he is hosting the midday show on our sister station WKGA-Kowaliga Country 97.5 and he is the lead announcer at Talladega Super Speedway during the race weekends. music on B101, Weekday Afternoons, “G” handles the ride home from 2pm to 6pm, playing Sylacauga’s Best Hits & All Time Favorites. Afternoons with G	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1255
__label__cc	0.720763	0.279237	INFRARED MAMMOGRAPHY As a physician and a woman with fibrocystic breast disease, it really bothers me when I hear X-Ray Mammography misrepresented as preventive medicine. X-Rays are not in any way, shape or form prevention. X-Ray Mammography is at best a form of early detection of breast cancer, but it can only find a tumor after it has grown to a significant size. Even then, X-Ray Mammography misses 50 percent of the tumors in women, who have dense breasts. Since over 50% of premenopausal women and 25 percent of postmenopausal women have dense breasts, a huge number of women are at risk of misdiagnosis by relying solely on X-Ray Mammography. This is especially true for women with fibrocystic breast disease – or for women with scar tissue in their breasts. I am personally very concerned about detecting breast disease because of my family history– my sister died of breast cancer when she was 41. That’s why I began getting Infrared Mammograms many years ago. Unlike X-Rays, Infrared Mammography does not require contact with your breasts or exposure to harmful radiation. While X-Ray Mammograms are pictures of the breast anatomy, Infrared Mammograms are pictures of your breast metabolism, so that even pre-cancerous inflammation or microscopic tumors can be detected, because they generate extra heat due to increased blood flow. There is no question in my mind that this technology saves lives. So far, Infrared Mammograms have detected early cancer in three of my patients whose X-Ray Mammograms had negative results. One of them was my staff member. She has fibrocystic breast disease and some scar tissue from the removal of a cyst. She recently noticed another cyst, but when she took an Infrared Mammogram, it was the scar tissue that lit up. We sent her for an X-Ray Mammogram, which came out negative. Ultrasound showed some suspicious irregularities around the scar tissue, but it wasn’t definitive. They decided to do a biopsy and that came back abnormal. It did show up on an MRI, but MRIs are not approved as screening tests. Insurance companies only approve MRIs after you have a biopsy. It’s sort of like locking the barn door after the horses have been stolen. It was amazing to me that it was borderline suspicious on ultrasound and negative on X-Ray Mammography, but she actually had a very significant tumor that was spreading. It would probably not have been picked up any other way. In another case a woman was very concerned even though her X-Ray Mammogram and ultrasound came out negative. So she came in for an Infrared Mammogram, and it showed a hot spot. She took those results back to the radiologist, who took another look at the X-Ray. Then they noticed this spot that they hadn’t even looked at before. The biopsy confirmed a cancerous tumor in Stage One, which is early enough to be cured by surgery. In the third case, we also caught the cancer at Stage One, thanks to Infrared Mammography that had revealed an area of concern, when the patient insisted the radiologist read the X-Ray in light of the Infrared images. And conversely, we had a case where a woman’s X-Ray Mammogram and ultrasound indicated a problem close to the nipple. She had very small breasts, which makes it really hard to get a good exam, so they wanted to do a biopsy. Then her Infrared Mammogram came back completely normal, so I told her she didn’t need to do the biopsy. But she was really frightened, so she got a biopsy anyway — and it was negative. What I really love is when Infrared finds areas that are somewhat suspicious, so we make some lifestyle changes and recommend nutritional protocols, and three months or six months later we see those areas come back markedly more normal. Now that to me is true prevention. By the time you pick it up on X-Ray Mammograms, you have to do some sort of treatment such as surgery or radiation. Traditionally, breast cancer was a disease of older women, but now we are seeing more and more cancer among younger women. Remember the recent case of the 10-year-old with breast cancer? It seems to be because of all the new risk factors such as artificial hormones from birth control pills, and exposure to all kinds of xenoestrogens – toxic environmental substances from plastics, pesticides and other chemicals that behave like estrogen, which are now being detected in the water supply of most major cities. But conventional medicine does not have an effective screening test for young women. If women start getting X-Ray Mammograms at age 20 or 30 instead of 40, imagine how much cumulative radiation they will be exposed to over a lifetime, enough to actually start causing cancer. I think Infrared Mammography is the solution to that. You can screen as many times as you want because there’s no harmful radiation. I’m not saying we should do away with X-Ray Mammography. But I do think we could save more lives by accepting Infrared Mammography as an important screening technology for breast cancer prevention and early detection – especially for younger women and those with dense breasts. The medical establishment put Infrared Mammography on the back burner about 30 years ago because of a flawed study, with many saying that more research needed to be done. But Infrared cameras and protocols have developed tremendously since then, so it is time for the health care professionals to take another look. The current push for Infrared Mammography is coming from women who are searching for a way to spot breast cancer at the earliest possible stage, rather than waiting for a tumor to be big enough to be detected by an X-Ray. These are women who go on the Internet to do research for themselves. I do have a word of caution for those women. Make sure the clinic you choose has the highest quality Infrared cameras and meets the industry standards for protocols. The first company I tried had cameras with lower resolution, inferior procedures and a slow turnaround time for interpreting the Mammograms. But then I switched to Therma-scan Refernce Laboratory, LLC, a company that meets my expectations in every category. It is important for all women to know about Infrared Mammography. It just might save your life. For further reading, please see Mammography and Medical-Grade Breast Thermography.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1256
__label__wiki	0.736573	0.736573	IO Theater From IRC Improv Wiki Also known as the ImprovOlympic Theater, this long form improv theater in Chicago is owned by Charna Halpern and was the long time teaching home of Del Close. iO, or iO Chicago, (formerly known as "ImprovOlympic") is a theater located at 3541 N. Clark St., in Chicago, Illinois, in the neighborhood known as "Wrigleyville" (so named for its proximity to Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs). The theater both has performances of, and teaches improvisational comedy. It was founded in the 1980s by Del Close and Charna Halpern. iO concentrates on "long-form" improvisational structures, in contrast to the "short-form" or "improv game" format of Theatresports or the television show Whose Line Is It Anyway?. The iO's signature piece is the "Harold". The theater consists of two performing spaces: the downstairs "Cabaret", which is a cabaret-style minimal stage, and the upstairs "Del Close Theater", which is a more traditional theater-style performance space with a backstage area and entrances/exits on the set. There are full bars located in both spaces. There are performances both upstairs and downstairs every night of the week, with the exception of some holidays. Shows can consist of either a Harold or a "show". Shows can be special limited runs (typically 1- 2 months) of a particular group / piece, or they can be open runs of long standing formats using regular performers at the theater (e.g. The Armando Diaz Theatrical Experience and Hootenanny, which has the same format but a different cast every week). A typical "Harold performance" consists of 2 or 3 groups doing a Harold; newer teams usually open the night and more veteran teams give the final performance(s). On some nights, usually in the downstairs theater, they will play the short form game "The Dream" using an audience volunteer after the second Harold of the night, and then play the short form game "Freeze" after the final Harold. A "show" slot typically, but not always, has a Harold team open for them, usually one of the newer teams. There are approximately 25 Harold teams at iO at any given time; the exact number fluctuates up and down when old teams are cut from the roster and new teams are created. New teams in the past have come from the final performance level class (5B), from open auditions, and from recombining performers taken from cut teams. The oldest Harold team has been together for more than 5 years, several have been around for 3+ years, and there are many that are less than 6 months old. iO has two other franchises: iO West, located in Los Angeles, California, and the now defunct iO South in Raleigh, North Carolina. Some of the more famous alumni: Tina Fey, Rachel Dratch, Jason Sudeikis, Amy Poehler, Seth Meyers, Angela Kinsey, Kate Flannery, Neil Flynn, Jack McBrayer, Scott Adsit, David Koechner, Mike Myers, Andy Dick, Andy Richter, Chris Farley, Tim Meadows, Joel Murray, Ike Barinholtz, Arden Myrin, Mo Collins 3541 N. Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60657 http://chicago.ioimprov.com/ 1981 - The Improv Olympic was created, putting competing teams of comedic improvisers on stage in front of audiences. 1983 - Shows began shifting to a long-form approach. 1997 - Paul Vaillancourt opened a companion theater, iO WEST, in Los Angeles, California. Today it is managed by James Grace. 2001 - The International Olympic Committee threatened the theater legally over its use of the name "Improv Olympic" and the name was subsequently changed to "iO." Sept 2, 2005 - iO holds its 25th anniversary show at the Chicago Theater in downtown Chicago. The wireless microphones go dead shortly into the show, but the improvisers rally and play using wired mics for the rest of the performance. Celebrity veterans of the iO program who return to play include Mike Myers, Tim Meadows, Amy Poehler, Ike Barinholtz, and many more. The opening to the Harold piece performed is conducted by the most veteran iO house team The Reckoning. 2006 - iO begins a joint venture with ComedyWorx of Raleigh, NC to create the third iO training center, named iO South. Retrieved from "https://wiki.improvresourcecenter.com/index.php?title=IO_Theater&oldid=18012" Improv Schools About IRC Improv Wiki	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1257
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__label__wiki	0.569539	0.569539	Home All issues Volume 563 (March 2014) A&A, 563 (2014) A110 Full HTML This article has an erratum: [erratum] Volume 563, March 2014 Extragalactic astronomy https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201323059 2. Wechsler’s model ... 3. Alternative model 4. Comparison with simulations 5. Summary and conclusions A new fitting-function to describe the time evolution of a galaxy’s gravitational potential Hans J. T. Buist and Amina Helmi Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen, PO Box 800, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands e-mail: buist@astro.rug.nl We present a new simple functional form to model the evolution of a spherical mass distribution in a cosmological context. Two parameters control the growth of the system and this is modelled using a redshift-dependent exponential for the scale mass and scale radius. In this new model, systems form inside out and the mass of a given shell can be made never to decrease, as generally expected. This feature makes it more suitable for studying the smooth growth of galactic potentials or cosmological halos than other parametrizations often used in the literature. This is further confirmed through a comparison to the growth of dark matter halos in the Aquarius simulations. Key words: galaxies: evolution / dark matter © ESO, 2014 The cosmological model predicts significant evolution in the mass content of galaxies and of their dark matter halos through cosmic time. This evolution may be directly measurable using stellar streams, as these are typically sensitive probes of the gravitational potential in which they are embedded (Eyre & Binney 2009; Gómez & Helmi 2010). Clearly, to properly model this dynamical evolution it is critical to use a physically motivated representation of the time-dependency of the host’s gravitational potential. In the literature the time evolution of a galactic potential is often parametrized through the evolution of its characteristic parameters, such as total mass and scale radius. In the case of dark matter halos, the most often used parameters are its virial mass Mvir and concentration c. The virial mass is defined as the mass enclosed within the virial radius rvir, and at this radius the density of the halo ρ(rvir) = Δ × ρcrit, where ρcrit is the critical density of the Universe, and the exact value of Δ depends on cosmology (Navarro et al. 1996, 1997). The evolution of Mvir and c has been thoroughly studied in cosmological numerical simulations (Bullock et al. 2001; Wechsler et al. 2002; Zhao et al. 2003b,a, 2009; Tasitsiomi et al. 2004; Boylan-Kolchin et al. 2010). It has been found that the evolution of the virial mass is well fitted with an exponential in redshift (but see also Tasitsiomi et al. 2004 and Boylan-Kolchin et al. 2010 for more complex functions), while the concentration appears to depend linearly on the expansion factor (Bullock et al. 2001; Wechsler et al. 2002; but see also Zhao et al. 2003b,a, 2009). These relations work well in a statistical sense for an ensemble of halos, but do not always guarantee that the evolution of an individual system is well represented and physical as we discuss below. Furthermore, it has recently been pointed out that part of the evolution in mass, especially at late times, is driven by the definition of virial mass (through its connection to the background cosmology) rather than to a true increase in the mass bound to the system (Diemer et al. 2013). In this paper, we revisit the most widely used model for the time evolution of dark matter halos (Sect. 2) and show that for certain choices of the characteristic parameters, mass growth does not proceed inside out in this model. In Sect. 3 we develop a new prescription for the time evolution of a general spherical mass distribution that does have that property. In Sect. 4 we compare this model to the growth of dark halos in cosmological simulations and we summarize in Sect. 5. 2. Wechsler’s model of the evolution of NFW halos Evolution in time of a halo with virial mass Mvir = 1012 M⊙ and formation epoch ac = 0.15 (for a cosmology with h = 0.7, Ωm = 0.28, and ΩΛ = 0.72) using the Wechsler model. The left panel shows that the mass growth rate reaches a minimum for all shells between t = 1 and t = 7 Gyr, and is negative for the innermost shells, which implies they decrease in mass. The central panel shows the mass history for all shells. The shells show a temporary stall in their growth, or even a decrease in mass, between t = 1 and t = 7 Gyr, before resuming growth again at later times. The right panel shows the mass profile at different epochs. The most commonly used approach to model the evolution of dark matter halos is that of Wechsler et al. (2002). Cosmological simulations show that halos follow characteristic density profiles known as NFW after the seminal work of Navarro et al. (1996). Generally, a two-parameter mass-profile may be expressed as (1)with rs(t) the scale radius, Ms(t) the mass contained within the scale radius, and f(x) the functional form of the mass profile, with f(1) = 1. The relative mass growth rate Ṁ/M is (2)where κ(x) is the logarithmic slope of the mass profile (3)Typically κ(x) is a positive monotonically decreasing function of radius. For the NFW profile, f(x) is given by (4)The relation between Ms and virial mass Mvir(t) for an NFW profile is (5)where the concentration c ≡ rvir/rs. As discussed in the Introduction, the virial radius is defined as the radius at which the spherically averaged density reaches a certain threshold value ρc. For a given choice of ρc, the virial radius and the virial mass are related through (6)Therefore, only two parameters from the set {Ms, rs, Mvir, c} are needed to fully specify the profile. According to Wechsler et al. (2002) the virial mass evolves as (7)with MO = Mvir(zO) and zO the epoch where the halo is “observed”. The formation epoch ac is arbitrarily defined to be the expansion factor at which dlog M/dlog a = 2. Wechsler et al. (2002) found the concentration to evolve on average as (8)Halos with more quiescent histories are best described by these relations, while violent mergers can lead to significant departures from these smooth functions. The Wechsler model can give realistic trajectories in Mvir(t) and c(t) for many individual halos. However, Fig. 1 shows a problem case. In this figure we have plotted the behaviour predicted for a halo of 1012 M⊙ and ac = 0.15. The left panel shows the mass growth rate Ṁ/M as a function of time for different shells in the halo. We note that the mass growth rate of a given shell decreases with time, as expected, but that for inner shells it becomes negative, indicating that the mass in the shell has decreased. At later times, the mass growth for the inner shells seems to increase and even exceeds the growth rate at larger radii. This behaviour is unexpected in the ΛCDM cosmology, as halos tend to form inside out (Helmi et al. 2003; Wang et al. 2011), implying that the inner shells collapse first and should not grow further at late times by smooth accretion; usually a redistribution of mass is only expected during major mergers. Let us now look in more detail at what causes this odd unphysical behaviour. From Eq. (2), the condition that leads to a violation of Ṁ/M > 0 at a given radius is (9)which we can express in terms of Mvir(t) and c(t) using that (10)and (11)This leads to (12)Since for an NFW it can be shown that κ(x) ≤ 2, for the Wechsler model, the first term is (13)On the other hand, since κ(x) is a monotonically decreasing function, the second term is (14)Finally, the last term in Eq. (12) is always negative as . This implies that there may be times and radii for which the combination of the various terms is negative, leading to a decrease in the mass contained within a given shell. The above analysis shows that the Wechsler model has this behaviour because of pseudo-evolution: the virial mass is defined with respect to the cosmological background density and this background density evolves in time. Evolution in time of the same final halo of Fig. 1, but using our new model with ag = 0.04 and γ = 2. Left panel: the relative growth rate does not reach a minimum, nor does it reach negative values. This implies that the shells grow at all times, but as the central panel shows, the mass growth history for the shells flattens out towards the end. The behaviour at the virial radius follows closely (but not exactly) the Wechsler model, as shown by the dash-dotted curve. Right panel: mass profile at different epochs. We have explored a different way of modelling the evolution of a mass profile, by directly focusing on the growth of the scale radius rs(t) and the scale mass Ms(t). We require our model to have non-negative mass growth at all times and at every radius (15)In addition, we require that the mass grows inside out, which means that the relative mass growth rate should increase with radius (16)The logarithmic slope κ(x) in Eq. (2) is essential in the determination of whether these conditions are satisfied. Because κ(x) is a monotonically decreasing positive function, we can set a lower limit on the mass growth (17)where κmax is the maximum value of κ(x). For NFW and Hernquist profiles κmax = 2, for Jaffe profiles κmax = 1, while for the Plummer and isochrone potentials κmax = 3. The condition Ṁ/M = 0 would lead to a solution of the form (18)with rs,O and Ms,O the scale mass and scale radius at some epoch zO. Motivated by this we propose that in general, a solution of Eq. (2) should be of the form (19)where γ > 0 is a constant. This functional form is also supported by the work of Zhao et al. (2003a,b), who used N-body cosmological simulations to show that a strong correlation between rs and Ms exists. This correlation may be modelled as a power law with exponent 3α (so γ = 3α) for NFW profiles. The growth equation is then given by (20)Assuming that Ṁs ≥ 0, the mass growth rate is positive at every radius for γ ≥ κmax, while for γ < κmax the mass will decrease at radii where γ < κ(r/rs). The critical radius rcrit occurs where γ = κ(rcrit/rs). Since at early times rs ≪ 1, all radii are beyond the critical radius and the mass increases everywhere. As the scale radius grows, eventually some radii move inside the critical radius. When this occurs, the mass at those radii would actually decrease according to this model, but this can be avoided with a proper choice of γ. This model also ensures that the mass grows inside out since (21)and the gradient of the logarithmic slope of κ(x) is negative. For the evolution of the parameters Ms(t) and rs(t) we propose an exponential behaviour similar to that used by Wechsler et al. (2002), i.e. (22)with ag the growth parameter of the halo. Using Eq. (19), the evolution of rs is given by (23)This model has two free parameters (after one has fixed zO), namely ag which determines the growth of Ms, and γ, which is related to the growth rate of the scale radius through ag/γ. Figure 2 shows the evolution of a 1012 M⊙ halo that has the same final mass and scale radius as that in Fig. 1, taking ag = 0.04 and γ = 2 to produce a similar growth history. The evolution of the halo is as desired: the mass growth rate (left panel) is always positive and slows down as time goes by, and this slowing down is more pronounced for the innermost shells. The halo thus forms inside out as expected (central panel), and there is no mass exchange/decrease between neighbouring shells. In this figure we have also plotted the behaviour of Mvir(t), determined using Eqs. (1) and (6). We note with satisfaction that the evolution of the virial mass for our model is very similar to that of Wechsler et al. (2002). Mass growth history for various radial shells, normalised to the final value as in Fig. 2, for different values of ag and γ. The formation epoch ag changes the growth of the individual shells and the overall growth pattern of the halo. This can also be seen in the half-mass time of the shells indicated with a plus on every curve. The parameter γ mostly influences how individual shells grow. This is seen as we change γ from 2 to 4 (left vs. right panels): only a small effect is seen in the overall growth of the halo, but the inner shells grow on much shorter timescales than the outer shells. In Fig. 3 we show the effect of changing the slope γ and the formation epoch ag. For example, for smaller ag (bottom panels) the mass growth occurs earlier, and the growth rate today is lower. The parameter γ does not alter the overall evolution of the halo very much, but changes the (relative) growth pattern for the individual radial shells. For example, for γ = 2 (left panels) the inner shells grow much faster than the outer shells, while for γ = 4 (right panels) the difference in mass growth between the different shells is much smaller. Mass growth history of the Milky Way-like Aquarius halos at different radii compared to the fit obtained using our model for rs and Ms (colour dashed curves) and fitted for z < 6 to avoid the epoch of significant mergers. The dashed orange line indicates the evolution of the scale mass Ms. Setting γ = 2 also gives a reasonable fit as indicated by the dotted grey curve for each halo. To further justify our model, we have studied how well it describes the behaviour of the Milky Way-like dark matter halos from the Aquarius project simulations (Springel et al. 2008). This is a suite of six cosmological dark matter N-body simulations that were run at a variety of resolutions. We used an intermediate resolution level, in which the Aquarius Milky Way-like (or main) halos have ~5 × 106 particles, and we focused on the behaviour of halos Aq-A-4 to Aq-E-4 (the sixth halo, Aq-F, experiences a major merger at low redshift and so is not considered in our analysis). For each main halo, we computed the spherically averaged density profile at each output redshift and fitted the NFW functional form with parameters Ms and rs. We only used snapshots with z < 6 to avoid the epoch of major merger activity. In this way we determine the behaviour of Ms and rs with redshift for each halo, to which we then fit our model to determine ag and γ/ag in Eqs. (22) and (23). The mass growth history of the halos and the results of our fitting procedure are shown in Fig. 4. The values of ag for halos Aq-A and Aq-C are low (0.05 and 0.04, respectively), implying an early formation, while Aq-B, Aq-D, and Aq-E having formed later, have larger ag (0.14, 0.10, and 0.09, respectively). This is consistent with the results of Boylan-Kolchin et al. (2010), who studied the mass accretion history of Milky Way-mass halos in the Millenium-II cosmological simulations. These authors found that halos D and E follow the median history, while halos A and C form earlier. Halo B was found to catch up with the median growth around z ≈ 2. In view of this, we may argue that a value ag ~ 0.1 roughly corresponds to the median mass accretion history of Milky Way-mass halos. The values of the slope γ determined in our fits are close to 2, the κmax for the NFW potential, but generally tend to be slightly smaller, which would imply a mass decrease for some shells. Figure 4 shows that halo Aq-A depicts this behaviour early in its history. Nonetheless, we find that for all halos, setting γ = 2 also produces a reasonable fit to the evolution history in Ms and rs, as can be seen from the grey dotted line in this figure. In order to relate our results more closely to the Wechsler et al. (2002) model, we determined the ac values for halos Aq-A to Aq-E, and found these to be in the range 0.1 to 0.2, therefore appearing at the lower end of the distribution given by Wechsler et al. in their Fig. 8. This could be due to the more quiescent merger history of the Aq-halos. We have studied the evolution of a spherical mass distribution in a cosmological context. Since we expect galaxies (and their halos) to grow inside out, inner shells should form earlier than outer ones, and in the smooth accretion regime, their mass should not decrease with time. Motivated by violations of these conditions found in some models often used in the literature for certain regions of parameter space, we have presented an alternative way of modelling the mass evolution of a spherical potential. In our model, we let the scale radius and the mass at the scale radius grow exponentially with redshift, but relate them in such a way that the condition of no mass decrease at any radius can always be satisfied. The setup is quite general, and can be applied to any spherical density profile. The model has two parameters that can be chosen to obtain a variety of growth histories, providing more control over the growth rate of shells at different radii. In comparison to previous work, our model does not differ greatly from that presented by Zhao et al. (2003b,a, 2009) who also use a power-law relation between scale mass and scale radius to describe the growth of dark matter halos in cosmological simulations, except that we have found a general condition under which a system following a given density profile will grow inside out. Tasitsiomi et al. (2004) found that some accretion histories were better fitted using a power law of the scale factor a, instead of an exponential in redshift z, and proposed a mass accretion history that combines both the power-law relation and the exponential behaviour. Boylan-Kolchin et al. (2010) proposed a slight modification to this model, which gives even better fits to the MS-II simulations. Their addition of an extra parameter allows the halos to grow earlier and to reach a much lower growth rate at later times. 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__label__wiki	0.779844	0.779844	Petra Jordan More From The Canyons Erik Bjers Petra (Arabic: البتراء, Al-Batrāʾ; Ancient Greek: Πέτρα) is a historical and archaeological city in the southern Jordanian governorate of Ma'an that is famous for its rock-cut architecture and water conduit system. Another name for Petra is the Rose City due to the color of the stone out of which it is carved. Established possibly as early as 312 BC as the capital city of the Nabataeans,[2] it is a symbol of Jordan, as well as Jordan's most-visited tourist attraction.[3] It lies on the slope of Jebel al-Madhbah (identified by some as the biblical Mount Hor[4]) in a basin among the mountains which form the eastern flank of Arabah (Wadi Araba), the large valley running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba. Petra has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1985. The site remained unknown to the Western world until 1812, when it was introduced by Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt. It was described as "a rose-red city half as old as time" in a Newdigate Prize-winning poem by John William Burgon. UNESCO has described it as "one of the most precious cultural properties of man's cultural heritage".[5] See: UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists. Petra was chosen by the Smithsonian Magazine as one of the "28 Places to See Before You Die".[6] Pliny the Elder and other writers identify Petra as the capital of the Nabataeans and the center of their caravan trade. Enclosed by towering rocks and watered by a perennial stream, Petra not only possessed the advantages of a fortress, but controlled the main commercial routes which passed through it to Gaza in the west, to Bosra and Damascus in the north, to Aqaba and Leuce Come on the Red Sea, and across the desert to the Persian Gulf. Map of Petra The narrow passage (Siq) that leads to Petra Excavations have demonstrated that it was the ability of the Nabataeans to control the water supply that led to the rise of the desert city, creating an artificial oasis. The area is visited by flash floods and archaeological evidence demonstrates the Nabataeans controlled these floods by the use of dams, cisterns and water conduits. These innovations stored water for prolonged periods of drought, and enabled the city to prosper from its sale.[7][8] In ancient times, Petra might have been approached from the south on a track leading across the plain of Petra, around Jabal Haroun ("Aaron's Mountain"), where the Tomb of Aaron, said to be the burial-place of Aaron, brother of Moses, is located. Another approach was possibly from the high plateau to the north. Today, most modern visitors approach the site from the east. The impressive eastern entrance leads steeply down through a dark, narrow gorge (in places only 3–4 m (9.8–13.1 ft) wide) called the Siq ("the shaft"), a natural geological feature formed from a deep split in the sandstone rocks and serving as a waterway flowing into Wadi Musa. At the end of the narrow gorge stands Petra's most elaborate ruin, Al Khazneh (popularly known as "the Treasury"), hewn into the sandstone cliff. While remaining in remarkably preserved condition, the face of the structure is marked by hundreds of bullet holes made by the local Bedouin tribes that hoped to dislodge riches that were once rumored to be hidden within it.[9] A little farther from the Treasury, at the foot of the mountain called en-Nejr, is a massive theatre, positioned so as to bring the greatest number of tombs within view. At the point where the valley opens out into the plain, the site of the city is revealed with striking effect. The amphitheatre has been cut into the hillside and into several of the tombs during its construction. Rectangular gaps in the seating are still visible. Almost enclosing it on three sides are rose-colored mountain walls, divided into groups by deep fissures and lined with knobs cut from the rock in the form of towers. One of the many dwellings in Petra General view of Petra Some of the earliest recorded farmers settled in Beidha, a pre-pottery settlement just north of Petra, by 7000 BC.[10] Petra is listed in Egyptian campaign accounts and the Amarna letters as Pel, Sela or Seir. Though the city was founded relatively late, a sanctuary has existed there since very ancient times. Stations 19 through 26 of the stations list of Exodus are places associated with Petra.[11] This part of the country was biblically assigned to the Horites, the predecessors of the Edomites.[12] The habits of the original natives may have influenced the Nabataean custom of burying the dead and offering worship in half-excavated caves. Although Petra is usually identified with Sela, which means a rock, the Biblical references[13] refer to it as "the cleft in the rock", referring to its entrance. In the parallel passage, however, Sela is understood to mean simply "the rock" (2 Chronicles xxv. 12, see LXX). Josephus (Antiquities of the Jews iv. 7, 1~ 4, 7) Eusebius and Jerome (Onom. sacr. 286, 71. 145, 9; 228, 55. 287, 94) assert that Rekem was the native name, and this name appears in the Dead Sea Scrolls[14] as a prominent Edomite site most closely describing Petra, and associated with Mount Seir. But in the Aramaic versions, Rekem is the name of Kadesh, implying that Josephus may have confused the two places. The Semitic name of the city, if not Sela, remains unknown. The passage in Diodorus Siculus (xix. 94–97) which describes the expeditions which Antigonus sent against the Nabataeans in 312 BC is understood to throw some light upon the history of Petra, but the "petra" referred to as a natural fortress and place of refuge cannot be a proper name and the description implies that the town was not yet in existence. The Rekem Inscription before it was buried by the bridge abutments. The name "Rekem" was inscribed in the rock wall of the Wadi Musa opposite the entrance to the Siq,[15] but about twenty years ago[timeframe?] the Jordanians built a bridge over the wadi and this inscription was buried beneath tons of concrete.[citation needed] More satisfactory evidence of the date of the earliest Nabataean settlement may be obtained from an examination of the tombs. Two types of tombs have been distinguished: the Nabataean and the Greco-Roman. The Nabataean type starts from the simple pylon-tomb with a door set in a tower crowned by a parapet ornament, in imitation of the front of a dwelling-house. Then, after passing through various stages, the full Nabataean type is reached, retaining all the native features and at the same time exhibiting characteristics which are partly Egyptian and partly Greek. Of this type close parallels exist in the tomb-towers at Mada'in Saleh in north Arabia, which bear long Nabataean inscriptions and supply a date for the corresponding monuments at Petra. Then comes a series of tombfronts which terminate in a semicircular arch, a feature derived from north Syria. Finally come the elaborate façades copied from the front of a Roman temple; however, all traces of native style have vanished. The exact dates of the stages in this development cannot be fixed. Few inscriptions of any length have been found at Petra, perhaps because they have perished with the stucco or cement which was used upon many of the buildings. The simple pylon-tombs which belong to the pre-Hellenic age serve as evidence for the earliest period. It is not known how far back in this stage the Nabataean settlement goes, but it does not go back farther than the 6th century BC. A period follows in which the dominant civilization combines Greek, Egyptian and Syrian elements, clearly pointing to the age of the Ptolemies. Towards the close of the 2nd century BC, when the Ptolemaic and Seleucid kingdoms were equally depressed, the Nabataean kingdom came to the front. Under Aretas III Philhellene, (c.85–60 BC), the royal coins begin. The theatre was probably excavated at that time, and Petra must have assumed the aspect of a Hellenistic city. In the reign of Aretas IV Philopatris, (9 BC–40 AD), the tombs of the el-I~ejr[clarification needed] type may be dated, and perhaps also the High-place. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petra Copyright: Erik Bjers Tags: canyon; petra; jordan; travel; unesco; world heritage site; adventure; hike; walk; sandstone; lights; people; hdr Dan Bailey Courtney's Pirate Tatoo Christof Martin - pfalz360.de Burg Graefenstein / Merzalben Schwertkampf Stefano Gelli Livorno - Tuffo di Capodanno 刘运增云南丽江古城在木府观景台上观看古城全貌 Isola Bella, the Borromean Palace Gardens More About Jordan 世界 : 亚洲 : Middle East : Jordan	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1265
__label__wiki	0.926041	0.926041	Strong quake strikes off New Zealand No reports of damage Updated: 7:30 PM CST Nov 21, 2016 A strong earthquake rattled parts of New Zealand on Tuesday but there were no reports of damage or injuries. The magnitude 5.6 quake struck off the coast of New Zealand's North Island at about 1:20 p.m. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center did not issue a tsunami warning. The epicenter was about 120 miles northeast of the capital Wellington, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It was at a relatively shallow depth of 6 miles. New Zealand was last week hit with a powerful magnitude 7.8 quake near the coastal South Island town of Kaikoura that killed two people. The nation of 4.7 million people sits on the "Ring of Fire," an arc of seismic faults around the Pacific Ocean where earthquakes are common. An earthquake in Christchurch five years ago killed 185 people and destroyed thousands of homes and buildings. WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A strong earthquake rattled parts of New Zealand on Tuesday but there were no reports of damage or injuries. The magnitude 5.6 quake struck off the coast of New Zealand's North Island at about 1:20 p.m. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center did not issue a tsunami warning. Offshore quake causes tsunamis, nuclear worries in Japan The epicenter was about 120 miles northeast of the capital Wellington, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It was at a relatively shallow depth of 6 miles. New Zealand was last week hit with a powerful magnitude 7.8 quake near the coastal South Island town of Kaikoura that killed two people. The nation of 4.7 million people sits on the "Ring of Fire," an arc of seismic faults around the Pacific Ocean where earthquakes are common. An earthquake in Christchurch five years ago killed 185 people and destroyed thousands of homes and buildings.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1266
__label__cc	0.544416	0.455584	University of Engineering and Management, Kolkata world rank 7948 Founded in 2015, University of Engineering and Management, Kolkata is a private higher education institution located in the urban setting of the metropolis of Kolkata (population range of over 5,000,000 inhabitants), West Bengal. Officially accredited and/or recognized by the University Grants Commission, India, University of Engineering and Management, Kolkata (UEMK) is a small (uniRank enrollment range: 4,000-4,999 students) coeducational higher education institution. University of Engineering and Management, Kolkata (UEMK) offers courses and programs leading to officially recognized higher education degrees in several areas of study. See the uniRank degree levels and areas of study matrix below for further details. UEMK The earnest aspirant gains supreme wisdom Kolkata (population range: over 5,000,000) Important: please contact or visit the official website of University of Engineering and Management, Kolkata for detailed information on areas of study and degree levels currently offered; the above uniRank Study Areas/Degree Levels Matrix™ is indicative only and may not be up-to-date or complete. Important: the above uniRank Tuition Range Matrix™ does not include room, board or other external costs; tuition may vary by areas of study, degree level, student nationality or residence and other criteria. Please contact the appropriate University of Engineering and Management, Kolkata's office for detailed information on yearly tuitions which apply to your specific situation and study interest; the above uniRank Tuition Range Matrix™ is indicative only and may not be up-to-date or complete. Important: admission policy and acceptance rate may vary by areas of study, degree level, student nationality or residence and other criteria. Please contact the University of Engineering and Management, Kolkata's Admission Office for detailed information on a specific admission selection policy and acceptance rate; the above University admission information is indicative only and may not be complete or up-to-date. Important: please contact or visit the official website of University of Engineering and Management, Kolkata for detailed information on facilities and services provided, including the type of scholarships and other financial aids offered to local or international students; the information above is indicative only and may not be complete or up-to-date. University Grants Commission, India Important: the above section is intended to include only those reputable organizations (e.g. Ministries of Higher Education) that have the legal authority to officially accredit, charter, license or, more generally, recognize University of Engineering and Management, Kolkata as a whole (Institutional Accreditation or Recognition) or its specific programs/courses (Programmatic Accreditation). Memberships and affiliations to organizations which do not imply any formal, extensive and/or legal process of accreditation or recognition are included in the specific Memberships and Affiliations section below. Please report errors and additions taking into consideration the above criteria. University of Engineering and Management, Kolkata's Facebook page for social networking University of Engineering and Management, Kolkata's YouTube or Vimeo channel for videos University of Engineering and Management, Kolkata's Instagram or Flickr account for photos University of Engineering and Management, Kolkata's Wikipedia article Find out rankings and reviews of all Universities in India Disclaimer: This University profile has not been officially reviewed and updated by University of Engineering and Management, Kolkata's representatives yet; we cannot guarantee the accuracy of all the above University information. Please visit the official website of University of Engineering and Management, Kolkata to make sure the University information provided is up-to-date. The uniRank University Ranking™ is not an academic ranking and should not be adopted as the main criteria for selecting a higher education organization where to enroll.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1267
__label__cc	0.609696	0.390304	8x8 is in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for CCaaS Again! Read the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contact Centre as a Service, North America report to compare 9 providers 8x8 is in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contact Centre as a Service, North America. Get the complimentary report from Gartner to: Gain essential insights into how to choose your contact centre system wisely Compare the strengths and cautions of 9 CCaaS providers Learn why 8x8 has not only been recognised in the Contact Centre as a Service Magic Quadrant for the fifth consecutive year1, but was also named a UCaaS Leader by Gartner in the 2019 Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as a Service, Worldwide2 for the eighth consecutive time. Don’t make critical decisions about your contact centre without first knowing what Gartner, the world’s leading information technology research and advisory firm, has to say. 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contact Centre as a Service, North America Click the button below to read the report. [1] Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service, North America” by Drew Kraus, Steve Blood, Simon Harrison, Daniel O’Connell, October 15, 2019. [2] Gartner "Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as a Service, Worldwide," Daniel O'Connell, Megan Fernandez, Rafael Benitez, Christopher Trueman, Sebastian Hernandez, July 30, 2019. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Report name has changed 2015 onwards. 2015-2018 report name: Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as a Service, Worldwide. 2014: Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as a Service, North America With Additional Regional Presence – 28 August 2014. 2012-2013: Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as a Service, North America. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally, and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1269
__label__cc	0.521877	0.478123	Exact expression This box checked, the searching will be done on the whole expression Mexico (2) X Namibia (11) X Institutional document (7) Research document (6) Agriculture and Rural Development (2) Digital and Innovation (1) Fighting Inequalities (1) L'Afrique en développement (1) Democratic Republic of the Congo (15) São Tomé and Príncipe (15) République de Corée (30) Relevance Alphabetical order Publication date Views Downloads Citizen participation:leverage for better public services? Citizen participation could leverage public action to improve access to water in remote areas and address second-string subjects such as sanitation. However, this still very incantatory notion with its variable configurations first needs to be empirically explored and defined if it is to have the Impacts of weather and climate information services on African agriculture Weather and seasonal forecasts give African farmers the information they need to prepare for climate shocks and change their practices.These changes are generally economically beneficial. Yet consideration of the business model, forecast dissemination institutions and target users is key to service The agrarian question in South Africa The end of apartheid and Nelson Mandela’s election as President of the Republic turned a page in the history of South Africa. In 1994, some 60,000 (white) farmers held around 87 million hectares of land, while 14 million (Black) South Africans confined to the homelands shared the remaining 13 Since 2017, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and AFD, in partnership with the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI), have been supporting the Deep Decarbonization Pathways (DDP-LAC) project. The aim of this project is to build the capacities of six Latin Seed fund for African digital start-ups It’s a big boost for small businesses and entrepreneurs. To help support and finance African start-ups, AFD is launching a new €15 million seed fund. It’s part of a growing commitment to expanding the continent's digital ecosystem Access to electricity in Sahel doubled by 2022 - Synthesis of the conference The “Energy Access in the G5 Sahel Countries” Conference is the first edition of an annual meeting organized by the Energy Group of the Sahel Alliance, which aimed at strengthening the coordination of the various actors and contributing to experience sharing and innovation. Coordinated by AFD in Inequality trends in South Africa: A multidimensional diagnostic of inequality This report on inequality trends in South Africa is a joint publication produced by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) in partnership with the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU) based in the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town and the Agence Francaise de Minka Lake Chad Initiative The violence linked to the Boko Haram crisis has had an impact far beyond the birthplace of the movement in northeast Nigeria, its combat zones and the areas to which its fighters have withdrawn. The multidimensional consequences of this crisis have affected the entire sub-region of the countries Published in October 2019 Minka Sahel Initiative The security, humanitarian, and sociopolitical situation in the Sahel has continued to deteriorate since the 2012 crisis in Mali, with a significant increase in conflict hotspots. More than one million people, according to OCHA reports, have been forcibly displaced in the G5 Sahel countries, due to Minka CAR Initiative The Central African Republic (CAR) is experiencing a situation of chronic conflict, with militant activity by armed groups spreading over a large swath of the country, including violent attacks against civilian populations. The situation is volatile and made further complex by institutional and The Commons : Interview with David Bollier	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1276
__label__wiki	0.890668	0.890668	Indoor-farming company partners with Gordon Food Service to expand North American distribution By AGDAILY Reporters Published: March 06, 2019 Image courtesy of Square Roots Thanks to a successful indoor-growing operation and detailed training program, Square Roots has already helped to nurture the urban-farming revolution in New York City. To take their model a step further, Square Roots has partnered with Gordon Food Service, allowing the grower to expand by establishing farm campuses nationwide in close proximity to Gordon’s distribution centers. This will enable year-round growing of herbs, greens, and more, and make these products available to Gordon Food Services customers. Update, March 26: Square Roots says that it’s first campus farm will be on the site of Gordon Food Service’s headquarters in Wyoming, Michigan. This effort marks the first significant expansion to new locations for Brooklyn-based Square Roots, where it has spearheaded a year-long farmer training program, enabled by the company’s scalable “farmer first” technology platform. (The training educates young farmers on plant science, food entrepreneurship frameworks, and engaging local communities.) The Square Roots and Gordon Food Service partnership also comes at a time when many consumers are desiring to support local food providers, while seeking transparency in food sourcing. “This partnership means we will grow delicious, local real food at huge scale,” said Tobias Peggs, co-founder and CEO of Square Roots. “We’re so happy to be working with a mission-aligned partner in Gordon Food Service — leveraging technology to bring real food to a huge number of people across the country, while delivering real social impact by empowering thousands of young people to become our country’s future farmers.” Gordon is one of the country’s leading food-service providers with distribution operations spanning North America, along with 175 retail locations across the U.S.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1278
__label__wiki	0.71609	0.71609	We Named Her Gladys 23 Mar — 25 May 2019 at the Kavi Gupta in Chicago, United States We Named Her Gladys. Courtesy of Kavi Gupta Kavi Gupta presents a solo exhibition of new work by Devan Shimoyama, whose recent debut museum exhibition, Cry, Baby, at the Andy Warhol Museum, was acclaimed by The New York Times, GQ, Hyperallergic, and many other critical voices. For his inaugural solo exhibition at Kavi Gupta, Shimoyama presents a bold new body of painting and sculpture inspired by his evolving connections to identity, ancestry, community, and the definition of home. Shimoyama recently became a first time homeowner, purchasing a 1926 Craftsman home in the borough of Brentwood on the outskirts of Pittsburgh. Says Shimoyama, “The house is made of a classic, golden yellow brick that was developed in Pittsburgh. It’s a very Pittsburgh house.” Since moving in, tiny moments of discovery both inside and outside of the house have pulled Shimoyama backwards in time, moving him to grapple with the mythos of ownership, the discovery of secrets, and the ways history intertwines and negotiates with the present. Says Shimoyama, “This body of work has grown out of me thinking about how significant and important it is to own where you live; to maintain and tend to it. Many young people, especially young people of color, shy away from home ownership. This is negative in a lot of ways.” In many of the paintings, Shimoyama’s own body appears as a shamanistic figure, connecting what is “real” with hints of the unseen world. One painting portrays Shimoyama in his back yard covered in weeds. He has stopped what he’s doing to pick up a dead baby bunny. Another refers to his discovery of evidence of a past fire in the attic. Inside this haunting visual realm it is always twilight. A gradiated sky suggests both morning and night, pausing history to interrogate the vitality of the moment. Says Shimoyama, “I feel like I travel back in time to experience these moments, to digest these events; to become one with the ghosts that are in my home.” Among the works Shimoyama created for the show is a new sculpture: an adorned, a-frame swing-set with three seats, encrusted with silk flowers and jewelry. This iconic work embodies Shimoyama’s uniquely thought-provoking brand of conceptual purism: simplified forms collaged with eye-catching materials packed with inferred meaning. “Mixed media allows me to be more direct,” he says. “A lot of the materials I use are ornate, bought at stores where you would buy couture gowns, or where drag queens might buy fabric to construct a fantasy. There’s content in those materials, specific to different memories and experiences and messages. I’m thinking about branding and culture and peacocking – how what you’re wearing reflects some kind of status of yourself. The materials reflect how I think about constructing identity, and possibly code switching from era to era.” Essential to Shimoyama is that viewers see his work in person. He chooses materials partly for their ability to interact with light as viewers walk by. Colors and textures change as sequins gently flutter, constructing an experience that is both concrete and ineffable. Also important to Shimoyama is that viewers retain their subjective agency, especially when it comes to his material choices. “Readymade materials trigger different messages to different people,” he says. “For example, wood paneling for me is nostalgic, but many viewers express much different reactions to the material. Or when I had my exhibition surrounding a barbershop, people who had the same types of experiences as me understood certain nuances in the materials that related to masculinity, gender, and sexual identification. Other people experienced the work differently. It started a dialogue, which I think is the best thing that can come of it. I don’t need everyone to understand my point of view, it’s just nice to start a conversation.” Born in 1989 in Philadelphia, PA, Devan Shimoyama graduated from Penn State University in 2011 with a BFA in Drawing/Painting before going on to obtain his MFA at Yale University School of Art in 2014. During his time at Yale, Shimoyama was awarded the Al Held Fellowship. Since graduating Yale he has had residencies at Fire Island Artist Residency in 2015, the La Brea Studio Artist Residency in 2017, and most recently The Fountainhead Residency in 2018. His work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States. Kavi Gupta More from Kavi Gupta 16 Jun — 25 Aug 2018 19 May — 7 Jul 2018 Nobody Is Watching 23 Mar — 19 May 2018 Beverly Fishman 24 Feb — 28 Apr 2018 More in Chicago, United States Many Tongues 15 Feb — 3 May 2020 at MCA Chicago 15 Feb — 3 May 2020 at Museum of Contemporary Art Duro Olowu 29 Feb — 10 May 2020 at MCA Chicago Christina Quarles 4 Apr — 20 Aug 2020 at MCA Chicago	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1281
__label__wiki	0.923392	0.923392	Home West Virginia Communities West Virginia Cities and Towns South Charleston, West Virginia South Charleston, West Virginia As seen from Capitol Hill in Charleston, West Virginia, the lights of South Charleston twinkle in the westward valley. South Charleston, West Virginia (WV), a city in Kanawha County, was established in 1906, incorporated in 1917, and so-named for its location on the south bank of the Kanawha River downstream of Charleston. Two prehistoric burial mounds punctuate the cityscape -- the Criel Mound, at 7th Avenue at D Street, and the lesser-known Cemetery Mound, at Sunset Memorial Cemetery. The townsite was platted in 1907 by M. W. Venable for the Kanawha Land Co. and become one of several West Virginia cities in which chemical plants were built just prior to World War I. In 1925, Union Carbide Corp. moved its petrochemical plant from Clendenin to Blaine Island in South Charleston, and launched production of several ethylene-based chemicals. By the late 1920s several industries had located within the community -- chemical plants, glass plants, and a U.S. government armor and projectile plant. Downtown South Charleston, WV South Charleston is now principally a residential community favored its its mild weather and centrality within the Charleston (WV) Metropolitan Area. Its largest employers include Thomas Memorial Hospital, Dow Chemical, City of South Charleston and Bayer Material Science. Its population in 2010 was 13,450. Lodging near South Charleston, West Virginia South Charleston (WV) Hotels Parks & Public Recreation Facilities Little Creek Park Kanawha State Forest South Charleston is located on the I-64 expressway at highway US-60 approximately two miles west of Charleston, West Virginia, and two miles east of Dunbar, West Virginia, and three miles east of Saint Albans, West Virginia. Map of South Charleston, West Virginia South Charleston is located in the Metro Valley Region in western West Virginia. WVU researchers promote maple syrup production in West Virginia	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1282
__label__wiki	0.83892	0.83892	Essay about The Roman Republic Government: A More Just Government As Rome became independent from the Etruscan ruling, its government walked away from having a monarch and transformed into a Republic as a way to avoid the tyranny that many times comes with an absolute autocrat. Rigorous precautions were taken from the start in order to keep the power balanced. Moreover, the structure of the government was meant to be resilient to bad judgment. The structure of the Roman Republic with its government and law provided for a more just system. The principle of the Roman government was to function for the people, hence classifying them as a republic (Res Publica or the Thing or Matter of the People). Before the commencement of the Republic, Rome was ruled by a line of Etruscan kings called Tarquins. The last Tarquin was described by Roman historian Livy as being harsh towards the Romans, as he promoted hard labor. He decreed the construction of the Great Sewer and the seats of the Circus, which were not the primary cause for the dread of the Roman people; the workers were also responsible for their typical military duties (Livy, 98). After the Tarquin monarchy , the Roman people had an everlasting fear of ever being subjected to a monarchy again. In order to maintain a balanced legislature, the government was split up into three branches: magistrates , the Senate and popular assemblies . The magistrates are what the American government would consider the executive branch. They were the leaders of the political and military aspects of government and were led by the consuls. In most cases, the magistrates were only able to hold office for one year, this way they did not have enough time to accumulate power and ultimately overthrow the government or leave a significant impression on the Republic ... ...bserve that this is quite similar in nature to the obligation a policeman has these days in the US when having to disclose someone’s right prior being detained. It is a check and balance construct that tries to keep the system just. In 509 BC, the Tarquin line of kings was drawn from power and Rome began its stand as a Republic. The changes in the government and society of Rome were immense and were for the improvement of the city and its people. This aspiring new Republic did not flourish overnight into the perfect society; with the birth of the Republic came many new problems. Yet, it would be hard to imagine our modern society which we deem as democratic and just, not resting on the pillars and foundations that the Roman Republic gave us of their ideas on government branches with a system of checks and balances as well as the code of law created by the Romans. Essay on The Battle Of The Roman Republic - Wright describes the First-Century-Storm, in the centre of which Jesus found himself, as a steady gale, a high pressure system and a great cyclone merging simultaneously in Jerusalem. The gale that blew in from the far west was Rome. More specifically, it was the new superpower of Rome created by a self-serving and arrogant Julius Caesar, who was uninterested in staying true to the centuries old way of Roman rule. He craved absolute power, fancied himself divine and regal and stirred such an outrage in Roman citizens who were dedicated to keeping with tradition, that it led to his own assassination.... [tags: Roman Empire, Augustus, Roman Republic] The Expansion Of The Roman Republic Essay - As Rome conquered more people, it started to develop problems political, economical, and socially. The expansion of the Roman military created social conflicts and tension to the existing political institutions that was unable to be managed. The early Roman republic was an aristocracy before Caesar was elected consul. The Roman republics were facing shortage of money to pay for the legions, did not have a police force, and the rich people were buying their way into the senate. Legions were considered to be more loyal to their generals than they were in the republic.... 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[tags: Roman Empire, Roman Republic, Ancient Rome] The Civil Of The Roman Republic Essay - Abstract “The Conflict of the Orders, also referred to as the Struggle of the Orders, was a political struggle between the Plebeians (commoners) and Patricians (aristocrats) of the ancient Roman Republic lasting from 494 BC to 287 BC, in which the Plebeians sought political equality with the Patricians. It played a major role in the development of the Constitution of the Roman Republic. Shortly after the founding of the Republic, this conflict led to a secession from Rome by Plebeians to the Sacred Mount at a time of war.... [tags: Ancient Rome, Roman Republic, Roman Empire] Julius Caesar And The Roman Republic Essay - Starting in the mid-second century BCE, the Roman Republic was struggling because the senate continually placated the consul, and patriotic figures like Cicero were hopeful that the republic and its values would triumph over the political strife. Furthermore, new politicians like the Gracchus brothers were trying to reform a republic that heavily favored tradition and its elite. In the midst of this, Julius Caesar rose to power and was assassinated. The century-long culmination of attempted reforms, factions, power-hungry leaders, and ideological divisions justified the killing of Julius Caesar as the Roman Republic was too entrenched in its problems to implement needed political reforms.... [tags: Roman Republic, Julius Caesar, Ancient Rome] The Era Of The Roman Republic Essay - Over time, nations change. Different leaders rise to power, politics and policies change, wealth and land is acquired and eventually, one may be left wondering how it all changed. This series of changes is seen in the ancient Roman republic in its last century. After a lot of chaos between unpopular politicians and new laws, certain individuals stepped into the government and swayed its focus to conquest and personal gain. 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During the last century of the Roman republic, the system of government was drastically changed and eventually fell apart, not only because of Marius and his military reforms, but also because of the dictatorship and proscriptions of Sulla, seven consulships of Marius, political alliances of the first and second triumvirates and the growing corruption and ineptitude of the senate. By allowing more people into the army, giving them a personal reason to join, and forcing them to grow stronger, Marius made the military considerably more effective, which naturally lead to the swift gaining of territory and the... [tags: Julius Caesar, Roman Republic, Roman Empire] The Democratic Roman Republic Evolved And Was Later By The Principate Essay - Scholars have named numerous arguments as to why the so called more democratic Roman Republic evolved and was eventually replaced by the Principate. Changes in land reforms and tax collection are just two reasons why the system of government changed so rapidly. Each leader had different legislation when faced with what to do with landless veterans and the poor. Some chose to pass laws that helped the poor who were in need, while others chose to do what was most beneficial for the wealthy and elite.... [tags: Ancient Rome, Roman Empire, Roman Republic] The Athenian Democracy And The Roman Republic Essay - The system of government we have today was starting to developed centuries ago by the Athenians and Romans. Both governments were established with the intent to give power to the people, even though it did not always play out that way in society. The Athenian democracy and the Roman republic were two very different governments in practice, but also maintained similar characteristics in both systems of government. 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__label__cc	0.6191	0.3809	THE ALMSHOUSE ASSOCIATION Almshouses Today History of Almshouses Royal Patrons HRH The Prince of Wales, 2010 Royal Patron - HRH The Prince of Wales KG KT GCB HRH, The Prince of Wales has been Patron of The Almshouse Association since July 1992. Recognising the vital role of almshouses in the United Kingdom’s social infrastructure, HRH The Prince of Wales, instituted an annual Patron’s Award, which celebrates outstanding projects and developments. The award is open to almshouses projects completed in the year concerned, whether new building or major refurbishments. His Royal Highness sent the following message to the Association: “Almshouses have been part of this country's life for many generations and they continue to play a crucial role today in providing accommodation for those in need throughout the United Kingdom. They also make a significant contribution to our national heritage in maintaining many fine, ancient buildings. As Patron of the Almshouse Association, I am fully aware from my own experience, and from my visits to almshouse charities around the country, of the marvellous sense of community, well-being and independence that are the hallmarks of the almshouse movement. I believe that this stems from the unique bond that is formed between residents and locally-recruited trustees, many of whom may have grown up close to their local almshouses and now wish to give something back to the local community. This sets a fine example and enriches the lives of residents, trustees and the almshouse movement as a whole” HRH The Prince of Wales KG KT GCB HRH The Duke of Gloucester, 2015 Royal Vice Patron - HRH The Duke of Gloucester KG GCVO HRH, The Duke of Gloucester is The Queen’s cousin and a full-time working member of the Royal Family. He attends national and international events in support of The Queen and her duties as Head of State, as well as undertaking extensive public duties and engagements every year reflecting his own interests and charities. In September 2014 HRH, The Duke of Gloucester, kindly agreed to become the Vice Royal Patron of the Association. Since then he has visited a number of our member charities and presented the Patron’s Awards. DAMHA@DurhamAMHA· In partnership with @AlmshouseAssoc just before Christmas DAMHA provided 125 x £25 gift vouchers to residents who were 90 or over in 2019, a total of £3,125. http://ow.ly/eu3350xParU #giving #donation #almshouse #charity Lovely article about the benefits of almshouse living. Visit https://lettersltd.uk/2020/01/… ... See MoreSee Less Billingbear Lodge Maidenhead Road Wokingham, Berkshire RG40 5RU AlmshouseSupport@almshouses.org Vice Patrons Website Design by Pipedream © Copyright The Almshouse Association 2020 We use cookies to analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to visitors’ needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes. You can change your settings at any time.ACCEPTLEARN MORE	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1287
__label__wiki	0.761477	0.761477	AICPA Participates in Federal Trade Commission Roundtable Regarding Licensing Portability At the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) July 27 roundtable “Streamlining Licensing Across State Lines: Initiatives to Enhance Occupational License Portability,” AICPA Assistant General Counsel Virgil Webb provided the in-person and webcast audience with the profession’s long-term efforts and perspectives on licensing mobility for CPAs. Webb described the profession’s work to enact state laws that has taken place over approximately 20 years and has now resulted in individual CPA mobility in 49 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and Guam. “The effort to enact individual CPA mobility across the U.S. has been a tremendous success,” Webb said. He also noted the evolution of the efforts and explained that the profession is now working on firm mobility, as well. The roundtable opened with comments from Maureen Ohlhausen, Acting FTC Chairman, who spoke about the Commission’s efforts to mitigate the effects of state-based occupational licensing requirements that make it difficult for license holders to obtain licenses in other states. Other participants in the roundtable represented organizations that primarily have been addressing portability through the use of interstate compacts, rather than state legislative efforts. They included representatives of the U.S. Department of Defense, the National Center for Interstate Compacts, the National Interstate Medical Licensure Compact Commission, the National Association of State Director of Teacher Education and Certifications and the Texas Board of Nursing. The Washington, D.C. roundtable was organized by the FTC’s Economic Liberty Task Force.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1290
__label__wiki	0.939495	0.939495	Lebanon Pulse Is Direct Syrian Intervention in Lebanon Inevitable? Yezid Sayigh May 30, 2012 The danger of the Syria crisis spilling over Lebanese borders is increasing by the day, writes Yezid Sayigh, of the Carnegie Middle East Center. If that happens, Lebanon will edge closer to the tipping point of its own delicate internal balance. REUTERS/Roula Naeimeh Syrian and Lebanese protesters chant slogans against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during a protest organized by a Sunni Muslim Salafist group in solidarity with Syria's anti-government protesters in north Lebanon April 1, 2012. The clashes that left several people dead and others wounded in Lebanon over the past few weeks have, for the moment, been brought under control; but the risks of the Syrian crisis spilling across the Lebanese border are set to grow, not diminish. The emergence of a de facto sanctuary in northern Lebanon for the Free Syrian Army poses a particular challenge for the government of Prime Minister Najib Mikati. Instructing the Lebanese army to seal off the border would be bitterly divisive domestically, but failure to act decisively could lead, sooner or later, to direct Syrian intervention. The signs are there. The Lebanese authorities have already received several warnings from Syria demanding an end to the flow of rebels and weapons across their common border. Journalists with access to decision-makers in Damascus relay the message that the Mikati government’s policy of “warding off evil” — i.e. formal neutrality — is no longer tolerable, since it is not preventing northern Lebanon from being used as a support base for the Free Syrian Army. Rifaat Ali Eid is the head of the pro-Syrian Arab Democratic Party and a leading political figure in the small Alawi community in Tripoli, which has come under attack from armed Sunni militants, reportedly backed by fugitive Syrian rebels. He has given the clearest signal yet of the Syrian government’s possible intentions: “If Lebanon enters the unknown,” he predicted in mid-May, “an Arab army will intervene … the UN will request the Syrian army to enter north Lebanon to resolve the situation there, because it is the most knowledgeable and capable Arab army in this regard.” Eid is a marginal figure in Lebanese politics, but Syria’s intervention in Lebanon in 1976 followed the same sequence: private warnings delivered by former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad to the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Lebanese Left; public hints of Syrian intentions issued by Palestinian and Lebanese parties and media affiliated to the Syrian regime; and the claim that Syria was responding to an appeal for protection from Christian leaders. When these warnings failed [to produce the desired outcome], a Syrian armored brigade entered Lebanon and stopped just across the border. It was the forerunner of a major Syrian force deployment, which entered Lebanon two months later. There are several obstacles to a significant Syrian intervention in Lebanon in 2012. First, the Syrian army is already stretched thin at home, and cannot easily spare the troops, or the armor, for such an incursion. Certainly, establishing a “humanitarian corridor” to protect the Alawi community of Tripoli’s Jabal Muhsen neighborhood would require securing the rest of the city and the Akkar region, a task so fraught with danger as to be unthinkable. The risk of defections would also increase unless units completely loyal to the Assad regime are used, but these already appear to bear the brunt of confronting the rebellion in Syria. However, the Syrian regime may regard a brief, more limited “mopping up” operation in the border zone as a dual deterrent. This kind of operation could serve both to underscore to the Lebanese the potential costs of granting sanctuary to Syrian rebels, as well as to demonstrate the regime’s determination and capacity to act, thus discouraging other neighboring countries from allowing similar sanctuaries on their soil. A limited cross-border operation in northern Lebanon would act as a “dress rehearsal” for the wider armed conflict that may develop if the Syrian crisis degenerates into full civil war, or the Friends of Syria gear up for their own military intervention. There would be other advantages to a cross-border intervention from the Syrian regime’s perspective. The United States would no doubt condemn an incursion into Lebanon, but its stance would be complicated by its own concern, shared by other Western governments, about the possible emergence of al-Qaeda-style jihadism in Tripoli. Its inclination to assist the Lebanese Army might similarly be tempered by a reluctance to get overly involved with a government in which Hezbollah is represented. Russia is likely to regard a limited Syrian operation as a legitimate act of self-defense, despite recent statements by its foreign minister holding the Assad regime primarily responsible for the bloodshed in Syria. The reactions of Syria’s other neighbors would be no less complex. Turkey would certainly protest a Syrian incursion into Lebanon; but it has repeatedly sent its own military into northern Iraq in pursuit of guerrillas from the Kurdish Worker’s Party (PKK), and may yet claim the right to act similarly against them in northern Syria, where their presence has increased. Iraq, which currently holds the rotating presidency of the Arab League’s council of foreign ministers, has its own problems with Sunni militants and is reported to have exchanged information with Syrian intelligence over the infiltration of jihadists from its territory into Syria. Jordan, whose king was the first Arab leader to call on Assad to step down last year, has tightened controls over the smuggling of arms destined for Syrian rebels across its border, and has seen its trade with Syria actually increase since the economic embargo was declared last November. The most significant impact will instead be on Lebanon’s fragile domestic politics. So far, the Lebanese political class appears committed to defusing sectarian tensions and pulling the country back from the brink of violence. The all-party dialog called for by President Michel Suleiman on June 11 is timely, but it will have to do more than produce agreement on broad political principles. Somehow, against the odds, it must generate a national consensus on how to handle the Syrian crisis and the de facto rebel sanctuary in the north. Otherwise, a Syrian incursion will become more likely, even if not yet imminent, and Lebanon will edge closer to the tipping point of its own delicate internal balance. Yezid Sayigh is a senior associate at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut. This piece also appeared in Arabic in the newspaper Al Hayat. Found in: lebanon Yezid Sayigh is a senior associate at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut. Intel: Congress wants to cut off Hezbollah’s finances – here's why it’s taking a while Collectors hunt down forgeries as Arab art market flourishes Lawyers struggle to pursue legal action over trash burning in Lebanon Will Lebanon finally get a new president? Lebanon continues to struggle under weight of Syrian refugee crisis Russian ambassador to Lebanon speaks out	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1292
__label__wiki	0.945912	0.945912	Israel Pulse Arab party reconsiders support of Gantz over Jordan Valley annexation READ IN: עברית Shlomi Eldar December 8, 2019 Talks about annexing the Jordan Valley raise concerns amid Arab Knesset members that the Blue and White party is veering right. JALAA MAREY/AFP via Getty Images Retired Israeli Gen. Benny Gantz, one of the leaders of the Blue and White (Kahol Lavan) political alliance, visits the Jordan Valley site of Naharayim, also known as Baqura in Jordan, east of the Jordan River, which has been leased to Israel as part of the Israel-Jordan peace treaty, Oct. 18, 2019. Whether or not it's an election campaign spin by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s Jordan Valley annexation initiative is already on the table. Netanyahu, as I wrote previously, is promising to annex the land after the elections in order to kill two birds with one stone. The first is to please the settlers, for whom annexation of the valley is a precursor of future Israeli sovereignty over Area C of the West Bank and even more. The second is to set a trap for the opposition Blue and White party: If its members oppose the annexation, they would be publicly condemned as leftists willing to abandon land that lies at the heart of the Israeli consensus, and if they support it, they will lose the potential support of the Joint List — the unified slate of predominantly Arab parties. Netanyahu’s Jordan Valley annexation pronouncements have generated concern among Israeli security officials as well as in Jordan and the international community. Channel 12 News reported on Dec. 3 that Israeli security officials have warned Netanyahu that the move could jeopardize the 25-year Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty. According to the report, senior defense officials believe if Israel imposes sovereignty over the Jordan Valley, Jordan’s King Abdullah II would have no choice but to suspend the peace treaty under heavy Jordanian public pressure. This kind of pressure is what recently led Jordan to demand Israel hand back the two border enclaves of Tzofar and Naharayim that it had leased from Jordan under the terms of the peace agreement. In a Dec. 5 annual report, International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Fatou Bensouda also expressed concern not only over Netanyahu’s intentions and declarations but also over the reaction by Blue and White, which Netanyahu had managed to snare in the annexation trap. Senior Blue and White Knesset member and former Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon tweeted on Dec. 2 that a national unity government led by party chief Benny Gantz could carry out such annexation within less than five months. These comments and declarations have raised suspicions among members of the Joint List that Blue and White might actually be masquerading as a centrist party when it is, in fact, a Likud party clone that believes there is no real alternative to a right-wing regime in Israel. Joint List Knesset member Yousef Jabareen tweeted on Dec. 2 that two Blue and White Knesset members ideologically affiliated with the political right, Zvi Hauser and Yoaz Hendel, are competing with Likud over which party will be the first to annex the Jordan Valley. “Annexation is a war crime, and [the] Joint List will fight any decision that perpetuates the occupation,” Jabareen stated. In an interview with Al-Monitor, Jabareen said the identical declarations by the two major factions raise grave concern within the Joint List that they intend to form a national unity government instead of a center-left government following the next elections in early 2020, which appear inevitable. Jabareen said Netanyahu’s Likud cannot annex contested territories on its own, and in order to do so, it needs a broad-based government. “According to the talk and nuances we hear, Blue and White appears to be veering to the right and aligning itself [with the annexation],” he said. Jabareen added that if that is the case, Gantz and his faction will not be able to count on the support of the Joint List — an option seriously discussed following the September elections. “There was talk all along the way of our external support to enable the formation of a different kind of government, but this will not happen given the annexation intention and masquerading as Likud II,” Jabareen said. He reminded us that the Joint List — the Knesset’s third-largest faction — wields significant power both in the domestic political arena and in the international one. “You cannot ignore the power of 13 Knesset members,” he said, referring us back to 1995 when the predominantly Arab Hadash Party supported the government of Yitzhak Rabin but threatened a vote of no confidence in the Knesset when it turned out that Rabin was planning to authorize construction of the Jewish Har Homa neighborhood in East Jerusalem. “The threat helped and the government rejected the idea,” he said. Nonetheless, the Joint List realizes that efforts to foil the annexation would be more effective with the help of international pressure. According to Jabareen, with the growing Israeli consensus on applying Israeli sovereignty to the Jordan Valley, creating international pressure on Israel would be the only effective way to thwart a measure so destructive to future prospects of peace with the Palestinians based on the principle of two states for two people. The announcement by the office of the ICC prosecutor in The Hague appears to be part of such pressure. It began with the joint Sept. 13 statement by France, Germany, Spain Italy and the United Kingdom on the eve of Israel’s last elections, expressing concern over the very discussion of the Jordan Valley annexation and arguing it would violate international law. Jabareen claims that the formation of the Joint List and its electoral success provides its 13 lawmakers with a strong presence on the international stage that they will use, if need be, to thwart the annexation initiative. “As a political force, people treat us more seriously,” he said, adding, “Not only as those representing 1.5 million Palestinians but also as a voice opposed to the Jewish consensus that constitutes the majority.” Jabareen said his fellow lawmakers are awaiting completion of the top round of appointments within the EU institutions in the wake of the European Parliament election and are planning to meet with the officeholders and update them. The agenda of the March 2020 session of the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva includes discussion of the status of Israel’s Arab citizens in light of the 2018 Nationality Law that deepens their discrimination, and of the steps Israel is taking to distance resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as far and long as possible. These discussions, Jabareen said, support the Joint List contention that Israel is seriously considering the annexation. “We are contributing [to the UN commission] the data to which we are exposed as Knesset members,” he added. Jabareen laughed when asked whether passing on information to foreign officials does not buttress accusations by Yisrael Beitenu leader Avigdor Liberman that Israel’s Arab lawmakers are a fifth column. “We are talking about open source information, speeches by Knesset members on the right and things they say in public,” Jabareen said. “Most of them are aired on the Knesset Channel. The difference is that we understand nuances. For example, the things Israeli officials tell the heads of the EU or other world leaders are different from what is said in the Knesset.” The right-wing Knesset members, he said, do not only have annexation of the Jordan Valley in mind. “They go as far as talking about annexing [West Bank] Area A,” which is under Palestinian Authority control, Jabareen claimed. At midnight on Dec. 11, we will know whether Israel is, in fact, heading for third elections. The Joint List believes another round of voting could boost its Knesset faction by two and perhaps three members. That would be a significant political step up for Israel’s 21% Arab minority, whose Knesset members intend to fight for their improved civil standing and serve as gatekeepers against the annexation intentions. Once upon a time, annexation was a fantasy entertained by the radical right; now it verges on a consensual issue for the state’s Jewish majority. Found in: the hague, war crimes, joint list, blue and white party, annexation, jordan valley, benjamin netanyahu Shlomi Eldar is a columnist for Al-Monitor’s Israel Pulse. For the past two decades, he has covered the Palestinian Authority and especially the Gaza Strip for Israel’s Channels 1 and 10, reporting on the emergence of Hamas. In 2007, he was awarded the Sokolov Prize, Israel’s most important media award, for this work. Eldar has published two books: "Eyeless in Gaza" (2005), which anticipated the Hamas victory in the subsequent Palestinian elections, and "Getting to Know Hamas" (2012), which won the Yitzhak Sadeh Prize for Military Literature. He was awarded the Ophir Prize (Israeli Oscar) twice for his documentary films: "Precious Life" (2010) and "Foreign Land" (2018). "Precious Life" was also shortlisted for an Oscar and was broadcast on HBO. He has a master's degree in Middle East studies from the Hebrew University. 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__label__cc	0.650861	0.349139	Henrietta Maria Author: Dominic Pearce At the heart of the English Civil War stands the wife of Charles I, Henrietta Maria. She came to England in 1625 at the age of fifteen, undermined by her greedy French entourage, blocked by the forceful Duke of Buckingham and weighed down by instructions from the Pope to protect the Catholics of England. She was only a girl, and she had hardly a winning card in her hand; yet fifteen years later she was the terror of Parliament. We see Henrietta Maria in the portraits of van Dyck, and hear her voice in the letters which she wrote to her husband and many others. She is a historic queen who inherited from her father, the great French statesman Henri IV, undying convictions about royal and divine authority and about just governance. There was always brutal violence in the background of her life from the early moments (her father was assassinated when she was six months old); she lived through civil war both in England and in France (the Fronde); she was tortured by the fate of Charles I; but her spirit – and her family – prevailed. Two of her children sat on the throne of England (Charles II and James II) and three of her grandchildren followed them (William III, Mary II and Anne). Her life is a story of elegance, courage, wit, energy and family devotion on a grand scale.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1298
__label__cc	0.585143	0.414857	Surveys show Americans are in favor of raising taxes on (other) rich people Study Finds Carbon Dioxide Taxes Reduce Industrial Competitiveness: Implications for Minnesota California shows how environmental mandates in building codes make housing unaffordable Will St. Cloud Rescind Controversial Gag Rule on City Councilors? Capitalism is the greatest anti-poverty scheme ever discovered Minnesota Economy Employee Freedom Minnesota Court of Appeals Delays PolyMet Project Written by Isaac Orr in Mining Yesterday the Minnesota Court of Appeals dealt a setback to the proposed PolyMet copper-nickel mine in northern Minnesota. In the ruling, the Court sent two crucial permits, the permit to mine and the dam safety permit, back to the Department of Natural Resources. The ruling also stated the agency must hold a contested case hearing, which would require an administrative law judge to examine additional evidence and testimony on the project. The ruling is bad news for the Northeastern Minnesota communities who are eager for the economic boost that would accompany more mining. The PolyMet mine would provide 360 high-paying jobs at the mine, and the project would support a total of 1,000 jobs after indirect and induced jobs are accounted for. This development is crucially important for the Iron Range because mining jobs are good jobs. The latest economic data shows mining jobs in St. Louis County paid nearly $99,000, dwarfing the average compensation for St. Louis County as a whole, and especially jobs in the leisure and hospitality industry. This is important, because the annual average wages for tourism jobs in St. Louis County are less than $17,000 per year, a pittance compared to the wages provided by mining. They are often seasonal, hourly jobs without benefits, not the good jobs liberals seem to want everywhere else. I wrote about this paradox recently, as the latest of liberal talking points appears to be that the current economy isn’t very good at all because despite historically low unemployment, many of the jobs that are currently being created are low-paying jobs in the service and tourism sectors. But if liberals in Minnesota want to complain about the rise of low-paying jobs in these sectors, they had better be in favor of more mining in Minnesota. The best part of these jobs is that they need not come at the expense of the environment. Modern mining techniques allow mines to function while minimizing their impact on the environment. The Eagle Mine is a nickel mine in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan that has provided an economic boost to the region while operating in an environmentally responsible way. Additionally, regulators in Michigan are in the process of authorizing another non-ferrous mine, the zinc-gold Back Forty surface mine. The Back Forty, now has final water discharge, air quality, wetlands, and mining permits, with only dam safety permit left to obtain. Just like our cars have gotten cleaner and more efficient over the last fifty years, so too has mining. The decision today by the Court of Appeals is disappointing, but hopefully PolyMet continues the process and brings environmentally responsible copper-nickel mining to Minnesota. CopperMinnesotanickelPolyMetcourtof appeals 2020 Annual Dinner Featuring Sarah Huckabee Sanders Location: Minneapolis Convention Center Ballroom 1301 2nd Ave S Minneapolis, MN 55403 American President: The Unorthodox Approach to Politics that Changed the World. Sarah Huckabee Sanders served as White House Press Secretary for President Donald J. Trump from 2017 to 2019. A trusted confidant of the President, Sanders advised him on everything from press and communications strategy to personnel and policy. For two and a half years, Sanders was at the President’s side, battling with the media, working with lawmakers and CEOs, and staffing the President on every foreign trip, including dozens of meetings with foreign leaders. Sanders is only the third woman and the first mother to hold the job of… © 2016 American Experiment. All Rights Reserved. Designed & Developed by Kegan Quimby.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1299
__label__wiki	0.539647	0.539647	Android News / All News / First 5G Network To Be Released By Huawei In 2020 First 5G Network To Be Released By Huawei In 2020 By Patrick Northcraft Even with 4G LTE not even accessible to every person, we are hearing about 5G technologies in the works. According to Huawei, the very first 5G networks in the world will be available from them in 2020. Over the next six years, the Chinese company announced that they will be spending around $600 million into research and development of the technology, which they say will have 1000 times the capacity of current networks and be able to reach peak data rates of over 10Gbps, which is insanely fast, ten times faster than Sprint Spark. I am happy if I get over 10Mbps on my phone, so the idea of speeds hundreds of times faster than that is just unnatural to me. Dr. Wen Tong, the Head of Wireless Research and Head of Communications Technologies Laboratories at Huawei 2012 LAB, made these claims yesterday at a summit hosted by the company in Munich, appropriately named the [email protected] Summit. Huawei is a member of the European research consortium METIS, which contributes to a partnership program that was created by the European Commission called the 5G Infrastructure Public-Private Partnership Programme (5GPPP). The company also has large research and development centers across the pond, and is currently helping countries like Sweden and Norway deploy their first 4G networks for the mass market. Huawei also stresses that successful 5G development depends on global 4G LTE deployment, which makes me think that they are simply making the currently technology more efficient. While I will be the first to say that I do not know a lot about the science behind mobile networks, my gut hope is that should 4G LTE be deployed globally, then 5G should not be that far behind. All I can think about is when I had my old Samsung Epic 4G Touch on Sprint, and about a week after I bought it Sprint announced they were going to be focusing solely on 4G LTE development and expansion, which was incompatible with my brand new phone at the time. I was then stuck on a two-year contract with a phone that rarely got 4G, so I was stuck on Sprint's abysmal 3G speeds. Let me just say T-Mobile on my Nexus 5 is a very welcome change. However, I digress. What do you think about this? Let us know any thoughts in the comments! Patrick Northcraft I am a student at the University of Toledo studying Information Systems, Electronic Commerce, and Instrumental Music with a trumpet specialization. I am fascinated with all aspects of mobile technology, especially the vast possibilities offered via Android. I am currently sporting a Nexus 5 (which is a VAST upgrade from my old Samsung Epic 4G Touch), a Galaxy Note 10.1 2012 Edition, and an Acer C720 Chromebook.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1302
__label__wiki	0.621779	0.621779	More than ‘women artists’: Dorothea Tanning and Shelagh Wakely in London Belinda Seppings Dorothea Tanning famously said that the term ‘woman artist’ was ‘disgusting’. Perhaps she would have been frustrated by recent coverage of art world gender imbalance – which often discusses the issue in those terms – as Web of Dreams, a selection of her paintings and works on paper, opened at Alison Jacques Gallery. Despite Tanning’s revulsion of female categorisation, it is difficult to approach this show without placing significance on the artist’s gender: her work focuses heavily on the female form. In Tableau vivant (Living Picture) (1954), a large terrier, stood on its two back feet, languidly grasps a seemingly unconscious naked woman. Similarly, Meme les Jeunes filles (Even the Young Girls) (1966), draws the eye in with its abstract depictions of entwined, writhing bodies. Dominated by earthy, natural tones, Tanning’s paintings appear subdued yet playful – thoughtful interpretations of memory rather than anguished nightmares. Apart from the dog’s, no facial features are depicted, and as a consequence the viewer is kept at a distance, unable to relate to these fragmentary figures. The paintings encapsulate Tanning’s surrealist tendency to draw upon fragments of memory, nightmares and fairy tales. Yet her ability to capture movement is still more pervasive: the space is filled with falling, collapsing bodies. Works on paper, such as Tango (1989), underline Tanning’s figurative skill; although smaller and more delicate, the miniature characters convey a similar gestural quality. The show is not a comprehensive overview of Tanning’s work but, by spanning 50 years of the artist’s career, it does well to condense her lifelong study of the interplay of figures. The British artist and pioneer of installation art, Shelagh Wakely, is the focus of the Camden Arts Centre this summer. Aptly entitled ‘A View from a Window’, the exhibition introduces Wakely’s prominent themes of boundaries, edges and divisions, while revisiting a 40-year career. There is an overwhelming, eclectic mix of work on display, from installations to prints, videos, unfired clay sculptures and exploratory drawings. The golden floor piece, The Practice of Enchantment (1993) radiates an elegant, ephemeral quality, in contrast with some of the more ordinary items, such as bowls, cups and jugs or sculptures of feet, hands and shoes. Gallery 1 showcases many of these objects on low, flat plinths on the floor, surrounded by Wakely’s soft, exploratory drawings, which feature smatterings of symbols, like hieroglyphics. It is an onslaught of objects and codes, all of which seem to fade into one another. The show’s standout piece is Curcuma sul Travertino (1991), a large, ordered baroque design made of the spice turmeric, sprinkled on the floor with a stencil. The pungency evokes a sort of melancholy nostalgia, stimulating memories that will fade over time, like the turmeric’s scent. This notion of fragility and decay is reflected throughout Wakely’s work. Even the physicality of the sculptural vessels is jeopardised – their edges are purposeless as they sit forgotten, containing nothing. At a time when Wakely’s contemporaries, such as Susan Hiller and Richard Deacon, were well known for producing bold, sculptural pieces, Wakely was less well known for her transient, delicate work that challenged the use of traditional materials – perhaps because she spent much of her career working in Brazil. This show succeeds in giving an impression of Wakely’s long career and it mostly makes sense of the vast array of materials and themes. Tanning died in 2012, and Wakely the year before. Both are now thankfully being brought back into the public eye – not just as ‘women artists’, but as artists whose significant contributions to their field should not be forgotten. ‘Dorothea Tanning: Web of Dreams’ is at Alison Jacques Gallery, London, until 27 September. ‘Shelagh Wakely: A View from a Window’ is at Camden Arts Centre until 28 September. Deconstructing ‘Jerusalem’: Paul Pfeiffer revisits the 1966 World Cup final With the World Cup final fast approaching, it’s a good time to reconsider this particular collective myth Gilbert & George Interview: July/August Apollo Martin Gayford talks to artist duo Gilbert & George at their East London studio Review: Lucio Fontana at the Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris The works in this exhibition are a welcome antidote to the punctured Fontanas flooding the market	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1306
__label__wiki	0.915961	0.915961	artguide CRITICS' PICKS PRINT REVIEWS 艺术论坛 art&education PRINT September 2013 Channa Horwitz, Moiré 8 different angles #9, 1983, ink on Mylar, 22 x 30 3/8". SURROUNDED BY FAMILY AND FRIENDS at the opening of her solo exhibition at Los Angeles’s François Ghebaly Gallery this past April, Channa Horwitz watched from a bench as viewers donned slippers and entered the immersive space of her installation Orange Grid, 2013. To create this work, Horwitz had applied her signature pattern of gridded bright-orange lines to the gallery’s walls and floor, creating a theatrically charged, vertiginous box. The effect of being inside it was dizzying, partly because of the near panic induced by enclosure within such an optically disorienting, implacably repetitive pattern, but also because the pattern itself was hand-drawn. The resulting marks displayed a slight, trembling unevenness that made Orange Grid pulse like a strange biomorphic chamber. With no more than the addition of a network of lines, the cold whitewashed space was rendered surprisingly animate. Horwitz, who passed away at the age of eighty on April 29, two weeks after the opening, discovered what would become a lifelong preoccupation with pattern and shape five decades ago after attending the art program at California State University, Northridge in the early 1960s. In 1964, retroactively defying a teacher who had exhorted his students to “be as free as you can . . . throw the paint,” she devised a tightly controlled pictorial language comprising eight parallelograms of differing proportions and sizes, which she arranged into “stories,” like messages in Morse code. In 2005, Horwitz told me she had realized that “if I wanted to experience freedom, I needed to reduce all of my choices down to the least amount. . . . I chose the circle and the square to represent all shapes, and black and white to present all colors.” Horwitz’s mid-’60s experiments were contemporaneous with the early work of the Oulipo group, but it would take decades for critics to make the connection between her work and that literary movement’s pioneering use of pattern as a generative device. Nor was her work typically considered alongside the numerous practices of the ’60s and ’70s that engaged seriality and systems, recursion and permutation. A Los Angeles Times review of her work, Horwitz was to recall, was headlined “Pretty Notations by Valley Housewife.” In 1968, Horwitz submitted an ambitious proposal for a kinetic sculpture to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s “Art and Technology” exhibition. The work was never realized (indeed, notoriously, no work by a female artist was executed for the show). But Horwitz’s efforts to diagram the sculpture’s motion led to her invention of Sonakinatography, a notation system that actually scored sound and movement and that would inform her subsequent work. Describing the system in Flash Art in 1976, Horwitz declared: “I have created a visual philosophy by working with deductive logic. I had a need to control and compose time . . . To do this, I chose a graph as the basis for the visual description of time. . . . Using this graph, I made compositions that depicted rhythm visually.” Sonakinatography was premised on the numbers one through eight. Subjecting these integers to various mathematical operations, Horwitz generated numerical sequences; in drawings, the resulting “data sets” were expressed as intricate geometric patterns graphed onto a gridded matrix. Each number corresponded not only to a specific color but also to a specific duration, expressed in terms of “beats.” The two-dimensional works could and often did function as instructions for music or dance. Horwitz studied with John Baldessari and Allan Kaprow, among others, at CalArts in the early ’70s, but most of her work was pursued in relative isolation from the art world. Until recently, the reception of her oeuvre has been obstructed by its singularity. Her algorithmic experiments had no explicit feminist subject matter, nor were they convincingly Minimalist. As is so breathtakingly apparent in Orange Grid—in which the orange lines act simultaneously as systemic propositions and as artifacts, documents of a process—Horwitz’s art is defined by the collision of pure concept and human presence. The absurd disparity between the high seriousness of Horwitz’s work and its initially trivialized reception has defined her career narrative until very recently. In the past two years, her work has been shown in museums from Los Angeles to Dresden, Germany. She reprised her 1978 performance Poem/Opera, the Divided Person (based on the 1968 work Sonakinatography Composition III) in New York and LA last year. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2013, and this past summer was featured in the Venice Biennale and was appropriately grouped with Guy de Cointet and Henri Chopin at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf’s Georges Perec–inspired exhibition “The Void.” It is becoming ever more apparent that Horwitz’s simultaneous pursuit of extreme mathematical rigor and utter aleatory openness—when most artists of her generation chose one of the above—constitutes a unique vision, a multilevel map charting the mysteriously coextensive realities of abstract rule and concrete instance, empirical law and lived experience. Or, as she put it, “The world plays out in an apparent chance that is really a structure.” Chris Kraus is a writer and critic based in Los Angeles. — Chris Kraus All rights reserved. artforum.com is a registered trademark of Artforum International Magazine, New York, NY. Terms & Conditions	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1308
__label__wiki	0.61812	0.61812	ASF? International Legal Network DR Congo: Support us to amplify the voices of victims of international crimes in court The Tunisian justice system should guarantee fair trials Tunis, 22 October 2013 – The Réseau d’Observation de la Justice tunisienne (“ROJ” or the Observation Network of Tunisian Justice) calls for reforms of the justice system and revisions in judicial practices in order to guarantee fair trials for the Tunisian population. The ROJ was created by Avocats Sans Frontières (ASF) in partnership with the Tunisian League for Human Rights and the National Order of Tunisian Lawyers. Through its recommendations on judicial reforms, the ROJ aims to contribute towards creating a judicial system capable of guaranteeing the rights and freedoms for all. Since the rise of the Arab Spring in 2011, the Tunisian justice system has been the subject of weekly news coverage. “Apart from the trials closely monitored by the media, such as the trial of Ben Ali’s relatives and confidants, there exists a conventional justice system which serves the ordinary citizens of Tunisia. This justice system must also guarantee to everyone the right to a fair and equal trial”, reminds Jean-Charles Paras, ASF’s civil and political rights expert. ASF Head of Mission in Tunisia Federica Riccardi and ASF expert J-C Paras © Mohamed Nidhal Battiche It was against this backdrop that in 2012 ASF and its partners launched the ROJ. The objective of this unique network is two-fold: to examine the dysfunctional justice system with a special focus on right to a fair trial, and to make recommendations for the advancement of reforms that are in line with national and international law. For a fairer justice system In its report published earlier this month (French, Arab), the ROJ draws attention to a number of judicial derelictions such as undue adjournment of cases and court processing of trial cases. A lawyer who is a member of the ROJ relates: “In the cases that I have observed, I witnessed that courtrooms were rather crowded and that an enormous number of cases had to be pleaded on the same day.” In fact, half of the cases that were observed by the ROJ were postponed to a later date, which is particularly problematic when the defendants are in pre-trial detention. Other irregularities were noticed, such as the absence of oral requisitions by the prosecution in 9 cases out of 10 or the fact that in many instances, the right to legal assistance is disregarded. While the ROJ report points out a series of risk indicators that highlight elements of unfair trial, the ROJ report goes on to specify that very often it is not the complexities of the procedures and the laws in the Tunisian criminal justice system that cause these difficulties, but rather the attitudes and practices of the legal and judicial actors in the trial process. “This is why we make our recommendations very detailed and concrete. Let us take for example the list of defendants called for hearing. If this would be better organised then everyone would benefit from it – the lawyers, judges, the public prosecution department, and most of all the people seeking justice. Ultimately, it will contribute to an efficient and a better-equipped justice system; one that is fair and effective”, advocates Jean-Charles Paras. The ROJ report is based on the analysis and monitoring of 112 hearings representing 33 criminal trials in 19 courts, covering the entire Tunisian territory during the period from October 2012 to July 2013. In order to make this possible, the ROJ trained and commissioned 282 observers from the civil society and the Tunisian Bar Association. The project is financed with the support of the Open Society Foundation, the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Read another webstory on the ROJ Cover photo: The ROJ representatives call for a justice system in Tunisia which respects the right to a fair trial; Tunis, October 2013 © Mohamed Nidhal Battiche Published in Country \| Theme \| News \| Transitional justice \| Tunisia 6 January 2020 Detained for 10 years for no reason 10 December 2019 Joint Statement: Case submission to the French NPC to establish transparency on the Perenco Group’s activities in Tunisia 14 October 2019 The long walk: Uganda adopts a Transitional Justice Policy 16 September 2019 Policy Brief : Reflexions on victim’s participation before the International Crimes Division in Uganda 29 July 2019 Keys for access to justice in the Central African Republic Support ASF So that everyone can have access to justice Make a Donation IBAN: BE89 6300 2274 9185 – BIC: BBRUBEBB Access to justice and development Freedrom of expression Local justice Support ASF Victim's rights ASFnews Stay informed: subscribe to our newsletter © 2020, Avocats Sans Frontières. All rights reserved. Webmaster: Média Animation asbl	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1309
__label__wiki	0.532586	0.532586	Offshore region records busiest start to the year for M&A activity over past five years Appleby > Publications Type: Analysis However, 2019 deal value drops with increase in minority-stake investments, Appleby reports. The offshore region recorded more M&A transactions in the first half of 2019 than in the same time period over any of the past five years, according to a report released today by offshore law firm Appleby. Cameron Adderley Managing Partner: Hong Kong E Email Cameron The latest edition of Offshore-i, an Appleby report that provides data and insight on merger and acquisition activity in the major offshore financial centres, focuses on transactions announced over the first six months of 2019. While the total number of deals was above the same period in the previous year, total deal value was down on previous comparable periods. “The offshore region recorded more than 1,500 deals in the first six months of 2019, the busiest start for M&A activity over the last five years,” said Cameron Adderley, Partner and Global Head of Corporate at Appleby. “The total value of these deals was just over USD120 billion, a lower total than we have become used to seeing recently, with the trend in full acquisitions coming to an abrupt halt and being replaced by smaller-scale minority stake investments.” The US and China remained the leading investors into offshore jurisdictions, with significant activity also coming from the UK, Norway and France in Europe and Taiwan and Singapore in Asia. Intra-offshore deals involving an offshore target and acquirer also remained popular. The M&A Environment Across Jurisdictions A total of 1,514 transactions were recorded in the offshore region in the first half of 2019, accounting for USD120.4 billion in value. This value represents a drop when compared to recent half-year periods due in large part to fewer acquisitions and billion-dollar-plus deals in the first half of 2019. “The 10 biggest offshore deals this year reflect the more cautious environment we’re seeing in 2019,” Adderley said. “Last year, the 10 largest deals were each worth well over four billion dollars, but there have only been three of that size so far this year. These megadeals typically originate from China or the US and have been curtailed largely in the face of trade wars, risk uncertainty and national security issues.” When looking at individual jurisdictions, the Cayman Islands, as is typical, led the way in the first half of 2019, recording 38% of all offshore deals and accounting for 42% of offshore value. Cayman was also home to the first half’s largest deal, the sale of a 2.8% stake in Cayman-incorporated e-commerce giant Alibaba by West Raptor Holdings LLC – a subsidiary of Softbank Group Corporation – for approximately USD11 billion. Cayman recorded 570 deals and was followed by Hong Kong (282), Bermuda (246) and the British Virgin Islands (226). Most offshore jurisdictions experienced a drop in activity in the first half of the year when compared with the final six months in 2018. The Crown Dependencies, however, bucked the downward trend and have made a strong showing with the Isle of Man in particular having a busy period with telecommunications and energy companies. Jersey, meanwhile, featured twice in the region’s largest deals of 2019 so far, while Guernsey has seen local deal value rise, thanks in part to the USD889 million acquisition of SafeCharge, a global payments technology company. The five sectors that made up the bulk of inbound offshore activity were finance and insurance, manufacturing, construction, wholesale and retail trade, and information and communication. Outbound Deal Value and Volume Slightly Ahead of Inbound Activity While the primary focus of Offshore-i is on transactions in which offshore targets are purchased by investors, the report also examines deals in which the acquirer is based offshore. There were 1,589 of such outbound deals announced in the first half of 2019 with a total value of USD 124 billion, representing numbers that were slightly ahead of inbound activity. Bermuda’s outbound activity was considerably higher than last year including one of the largest offshore acquisition deals of 2019 to date: the USD2.2 billion purchase of Vivat NV, the Netherlands-based insurance provider. Following intense interest, the company was eventually acquired by fellow Dutch insurer NN Group partnering with Bermuda’s Apollo Management, via Athora Holding. Offshore companies acquired targets across 62 different countries. China, the UK and United States received the most attention but there has also been considerable focus on the major Asian and Oceania countries. India, Japan, Singapore and Australia all feature heavily and there have also been large individual deals in Western Europe. Key Findings of H1 2019: The total value of all offshore deals in the first half of 2019 was circa USD120 billion. There were 1,514 deals announced, more than South America, Africa and the Middle East combined. Twenty deals worth at least USD1 billion were recorded. There were 144 IPOs announced on six different exchanges. Eighty-five countries worldwide conducted offshore deals. There was an 82% increase in the number of Information & Communication deals from the start of last year. Cayman was home to the largest number of deals and total deal value. There was a drop in offshore-incorporated companies being targeted by investments financed via private equity and venture capital. There were 67 deals which is slightly below the typical six-month average total observed over the last five years. There were 1,589 outbound deals coming out from the offshore region, worth a combined USD124 billion.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1312
__label__cc	0.534729	0.465271	Messner Haus Kastelruth / Italy / 2017 74 Love 6,338 Visits Published 7/18/2019 noa_MESS_DE.pdf noa_MESS_EN.pdf noa_MESS_IT.pdf At the foot of the Sciliar, in the picturesque area of Alpe di Siusi (Bolzano), the spirit of a barn is reborn as a home. The project, realised by noa* (network of architecture), has at its core, the South Tyrolean tradition combined with surprising features internally, resulting from design of visionary and unexpected spaces. An almost magical ambience is created, inspired by childhood memories. Keep tradition in mind, but at the same time move away so as to create an original identity, a new way of living, a different structuring of the domestic space, and to search inspiration from a childhood passed in the mountains. This, in summary, was the challenge faced by noa* in the project to construct a new home at Siusi in Sciliar, a construction to take the place of a deserted house in the centre of the village, with the original structure dating back to 1850. The job, completed in 2017, needs to be understood in its complex and delicate context. We are talking about South Tyrol, and a project executed at a height of 1100 a.s.l. at the foot of Alpe di Siusi, a part of the Dolomites recognised as a Unesco World Heritage due to its outstanding natural beauty. It was therefore extremely important to respect the parameters of the original structure and the urban planning requirements and regulations of the village. For Stefan Rier, founder, together with Lukas Rungger of the noa* studio, and in this instance ‘his own client’, the project was an opportunity to give a personal footprint to his own property. In this sense there was a move away from the traditional principles of spatial distribution, this being achieved in part by recalling memories of a childhood spent in the mountains. “We wanted the project to respect the aesthetics and the urban aspects of the village, a village where wooden barns alternate with plaster-fronted houses destined for farmers and the keeping of cattle.”, explains architect Rier. “With this in mind, we finished the exterior structure with a ‘coating’ in keeping with tradition: a wooden grid on all 4 sides, just as is used for alpine barns. However, as far as the interior is concerned, I decided to leave tradition behind me, and thereby free the design from any preconceived limitations. In this way I was able to look forward...but also a little back in time to the beautiful years of my childhood”. The outcome of the project is a dwelling, having two aspects which confront each other in their style. The exterior represents the traditional alpine location, splendidly immersed in the local topography, whilst the interior boasts the visionary impulse, the surprise of a space freed from the general scheme of things, almost permeable, osmotic, and certainly innovative. On the ground floor there is a common area which spreads out almost in a ‘piazza’ fashion for (habitational)and interactional use: there is a dining table to enjoy with friends, an ample sized kitchen to accommodate more than one cook! The rest of the house develops in a vertical way and instead of the classical room division there are what can be described as ‘hanging boxes’, which are positioned at different heights and interconnected by stairs and walkways - they giving the sensation of walking up a mountain path towards the peak. The hallways are carefully designed so that, apart from their connecting function, they accommodate other essential areas such as the library and open ‘bathroom’ areas with tubs and showers (only the WC are closed in). The entire structure is conceived in a way that the further one goes up the level of privacy and intimacy is heightened. The highest ‘box’ which features a sauna opens out to the splendid view of the Santner mountain. The revolutionary distribution of the interior spaces can be noted also from the exterior, and a sort of counterpoint is created with the traditional presentation of the exterior itself. To the north the two boxes of the bedrooms, finished in bronze, can be seen behind the wooden trellis shell, and as a result the material contrast is evident, while to the south it is sauna box which protrudes the glass facade. It is an architectural concept, both extremely innovative and courageous in nature, but which also has the value of being able to evoke an atmosphere of time past. Viewing the structure from a distance, the larch framework which supports the hanging boxes with its roof supported by 12 metre high wooden columns, seems to be the outline of an old barn. “Thinking about it, I spent a lot of my childhood playing in barns”, underlines Stefan Rier, “and one of my lasting and favourite memories is of when I used to climb high up in the barns and then throw myself down into the hay. Maybe if I had not had that experience, I would never have come to design this house ...”. noa* Lukas Rungger Stefan Rier At the foot of the Sciliar, in the picturesque area of Alpe di Siusi (Bolzano), the spirit of a barn is reborn as a home. The project, realised by noa* (network of architecture), has at its core, the South Tyrolean tradition combined with surprising features internally, resulting from design of visionary and unexpected spaces. An almost magical ambience is created, inspired by childhood memories. Keep tradition in mind, but at the same time move away so as to create an original identity, a new... Type Single-family residence / Interior Design SAHARA \| Pendant lamp Ceramic pendant lamp DOMENICA Plaster pendant lamp MOUSE LAMP LIE DOWN - LOP LED resin table lamp	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1315
__label__wiki	0.71471	0.71471	British Accountancy Awards shortlist Ayming UK for outstanding project Home > Insights > News and Press > British Accountancy Awards shortlist Ayming UK for outstanding project Ayming shortlisted by British Accountancy Awards for “Outstanding Advisory or Client Project of the Year” following recent work with Ibstock PLC. Friday, 20th July 2018: London – Ayming, the international business performance consultancy, has been shortlisted by British Accountancy Awards for “Outstanding Advisory or Client Project of the Year”. Ayming’s shortlisting follows its recent work with Ibstock plc, one of the UK’s largest manufacturers of building products. Ibstock, whose consistent innovation allows it to meet ever-increasing demand, engaged Ayming to establish an effective methodology for processing research and development (R&D) tax credit claims. The size and operational complexity of the company meant that effectively organising and assessing what qualified for tax relief was challenging. Ayming performed a full review of Ibstock’s extensive technical activity to assess what expenditure might qualify for R&D tax credit relief across the group’s 30+ UK locations. The team then outlined the most financially beneficial and cost effective methodology for the business to claim its due relief. Given the detail and accuracy of the submission, HMRC was able to make the swift pay-out on Ibstock’s claim. Ibstock had not previously applied for R&D tax relief and, facilitated by Ayming, now makes a substantial claim to HMRC in each accounting period. Shamshad Khalfey, Head of Tax at Ibstock, said: “Ayming has been integral to the success of our R&D tax relief project. The board was delighted with the results and overall experience. Ibstock continues to work with Ayming to build processes into our business strategy to facilitate future claims and to support a successful and rewarding innovation culture.” Martin Hook, Managing Director of Ayming UK & Ireland, said: “Our team of sector experts know exactly what they are looking for and how to find it. By employing specialists from industry backgrounds including scientists, engineers and software developers, alongside our tax and consultancy experts, we can efficiently get to the crux of what is needed. A typical project of this size and scale takes four months or more. With help from the Ibstock managers and technical teams, we completed this project in just six weeks which has allowed Ibstock to pump millions back into the business.” Ayming is a leading international Business Performance consultancy and has a global footprint. The Group is present in 17 countries: Belgium, Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, the UK, Ireland, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Slovakia and USA with a staff of approximately 1,400. In 2017, it achieved a turnover of €157m. In the UK, Ayming helps businesses to improve their financial and operational performance through innovation, tax and procurement, supply chain, working capital and operational efficiency services. The R&D team has claimed more than €200m of R&D tax benefits for its UK clients and, as a group, analyses over 15,000 R&D and innovation projects each year. Annabel Rivero, Aspectus Group ayming@aspectusgroup.com	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1316
__label__cc	0.740697	0.259303	Welcome to Australia Awards in Papua New Guinea Australia Awards are prestigious scholarships and short courses funded by the Australian Government. A range of long and short-term scholarships for studies in Australia and in Papua New Guinea are offered. Australia’s international development assistance in Papua New Guinea helps promote prosperity, reduce poverty, and enhance political stability. Australia Awards Scholarships are prestigious international awards offered by the Australian Government to the next generation of global leaders for development. Through study and research, awardees develop the skills and knowledge to drive change and help build enduring people-to-people links with Australia. Applicants are assessed on their professional and personal qualities, academic competence and, most importantly, their potential to impact on development challenges in Papua New Guinea. Applications are strongly encouraged from women, people with disability and those living in rural or remote areas. Australia Awards in Papua New Guinea Priority Sectors Australia Awards in Papua New Guinea Health is wealth: Australia Awards scholars contributing to a healthy PNG When it comes to drivers of social and economic development, access to quality healthcare and a healthy population, are critical. Australia Awards Scholarships continue to support Papua New Guineans to develop their skills and knowledge in the health sector – among... Kumuno fulfils ambition to make a difference as a nurse For Kumuno Cliff, wanting to give back to the community in a tangible way has been a motivating factor for many years – and a key reason why he applied for an Australia Awards In-PNG Scholarship in 2018. ‘Growing up, since primary to secondary school I wanted to be a...	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1323
__label__wiki	0.676006	0.676006	Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport agrees two-year contract extension with Lewis Hamilton Mark Leo July 19, 2018 0 0 22 views Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport and Lewis Hamilton today announced the agreement of a two-year contract extension for the 2019 and 2020 Formula One seasons. Since joining Mercedes in 2013, Lewis has, to date, won three world championships and 44 Grands Prix with the team; by the end of 2020, he will have spent eight seasons as a works Mercedes driver, his longest period with a single team in the sport. Furthermore, since making his F1 debut in 2007, every single Grand Prix Lewis has driven has been powered by Mercedes-Benz engines. His career total of 65 F1 wins places him second on the all-time list behind Michael Schumacher. Through these achievements, Lewis has earned his place in history as the most successful driver in the 112-year Grand Prix racing tradition of Mercedes-Benz. “This contract extension has basically been a formality since Toto and I sat down during the winter, so it’s good to put pen to paper, announce it and then get on with business as usual. I have been part of the Mercedes racing family for 20 years and I have never been happier inside a team than I am right now. We are on the same wavelength both on and off track – and I am looking forward to winning more in the future and shining even more light on the three-pointed star. I’m very confident that Mercedes is the right place to be over the coming years. Although we have enjoyed so much success together since 2013, Mercedes is hungrier than ever – from Dr Zetsche and the board members at the top of Daimler, through Toto and the team management, to every single person I meet in the corridors of Brixworth and Brackley. The competitive passion that burns bright inside me is shared by every single member of this group – always chasing the next improvement and digging even deeper to make sure we come out on top. I can’t wait to see what we can achieve together in the next two-and-a-half seasons,” said Lewis Hamilton. “We have been aligned with Lewis ever since we first sat down to discuss the details of this contract after last season, but there has understandably been a lot of interest and speculation around the whole process, so it’s good to put all of that to rest and get this thing announced. We signed the final documents this week and didn’t want to keep people waiting any longer! There is not much about Lewis as a Formula One driver that hasn’t been said already – he is one of the all-time greats and his track record speaks for itself. But what I enjoy most about working with him is getting to know the man inside the racing helmet: his relentless drive for self-improvement, his emotional intelligence as a team member and his loyalty to those around him. Mercedes has become Lewis’ home in Formula One and his story is linked forever with the silver and green of Mercedes-AMG Petronas. I am very confident that we have some incredible chapters of our story together still to come,” concluded Team Principal and CEO Toto Wolff. Mark Leo Tags Formula 1 Lewis Hamilton mercedes Toto Wolff The new Audi TT The Nissan GT-R50 to head to Spa FEATURE: 10 Things You Should Know About the Perodua Axia AF Newsdesk September 18, 2014 271 views Wishing everyone a Happy Chinese New Year [+video] Mark Leo February 15, 2018 158 views BIKES FEATURE: Exclusive! Why I Bought The Yamaha NVX155 Chris Wee August 23, 2017 71 views AF’s Buyers Guide to new cars with Manual Transmissions in Malaysia AF Newsdesk August 8, 2014 52 views FEATURE: 7 Reasons Why I Adore The Honda Civic 1.5 VTEC Turbo AF Newsdesk April 7, 2017 43 views FEATURE: Eight of the best cars in Malaysia that no one’s buying AF Newsdesk January 31, 2015 22 views Bottas takes the lead with a win at the Australian Grand Prix Autonomous Self Driving BMW Group and Daimler AG to jointly develop next-generation technologies for automated driving Mark Leo March 1, 2019 PETRONAS launches new range of PETRONAS Syntium with Toto, Lewis and Valtteri Mark Leo February 25, 2019 Blind Mechanic Drives Car for the First Time in His Life [+video] Mercedes gives the V-Class a new facelift Daimler Trucks invests half a billion Euros in highly automated trucks Mark Leo January 8, 2019 PETRONAS Celebrates Fifth Formula One World Constructors’ Championship with Valtteri Bottas Mark Leo December 3, 2018 Mercedes-Benz Cars at the 2018 Los Angeles Auto Show Mark Leo November 22, 2018	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1324
__label__wiki	0.565421	0.565421	Lake Los Angeles FDA launches new, comprehensive campaign to warn kids about the dangers of e-cigarette use as part of agency’s Youth Tobacco Prevention Plan, amid evidence of sharply rising use among kids In the latest of a series of actions to address the epidemic of youth e-cigarette use, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration today launched “The Real Cost” Youth E-Cigarette Prevention Campaign, a new, comprehensive effort aimed at educating kids about the dangers of e-cigarettes. The campaign targets nearly 10.7 million youth, aged 12-17, who have used e-cigarettes or are open to trying them, and features hard-hitting advertising on digital and social media sites popular among teens, as well as placing posters with e-cigarette prevention messages in high schools across the nation. “HHS is committed to comprehensive efforts to protect America’s youth from the dangers of using any tobacco or nicotine-containing products. We congratulate the FDA on the launch of this new, hard-hitting campaign about the risk of addiction and other health consequences that can result from youth using e-cigarettes. This public education campaign will reach teens directly and complement the aggressive steps the FDA is taking to crack down on the sale and marketing of e-cigarettes to minors,” said HHS Secretary Alex Azar. “E-cigarettes have become an almost ubiquitous – and dangerous – trend among youth that we believe has reached epidemic proportions. This troubling reality is prompting us to take even more forceful actions to stem this dangerous trend, including revisiting our compliance policy that extended the compliance dates for manufacturers of certain e-cigarettes, including flavored e-cigarettes, to submit applications for premarket authorization. Based on our evidence, we believe the presence of flavors is one component making these products especially attractive to kids. The mandate to reverse this trend in youth addiction to nicotine is one of my highest priorities. I’m employing every tool at my disposal in these efforts. As a parent, a survivor of cancer, and someone entrusted with responsibilities to protect our nation’s kids from certain dangers – I won’t allow this rising youth use to continue on my watch. The new campaign we’re announcing today seeks to snap teens out of their ‘cost-free’ mentality regarding e-cigarette use with powerful and creative messages that reach kids where they spend a lot of their time: online and in school. In particular, these compelling prevention messages will be displayed in high school bathrooms, a place we know many teens are using e-cigarettes or faced with the peer pressure to do so,” said FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D. “Even as we consider the potential benefits of innovative tobacco products and the role that some such products may play in reducing harm to current adult smokers, the FDA won’t tolerate a whole generation of young people becoming addicted to nicotine as a tradeoff for enabling adults to have unfettered access to these same products. No youth should be using any nicotine-containing product, and the trends underway are more than a small amount of casual experimentation among kids. They are evidence of a significant swath of a generation of kids becoming regular users of nicotine. Kids who use e-cigarettes are more likely to try combustible cigarettes. And that jeopardizes the extraordinary public health gains we’ve made in reducing smoking rates in this nation. Making sure e-cigs aren’t being marketed to, sold to, or used by kids is a core priority and the guiding principle behind our efforts. We want to assure parents, educators, health professionals and the public that we’re using all of our tools and authorities to quickly tackle this public health threat. We’re committed to taking more aggressive steps to address this challenge and will continue to hold retailers and manufacturers of e-cigarettes accountable for their role in perpetuating youth access and use of these products, including new actions in the coming weeks and months.” Over the past several years, e-cigarettes were the most commonly used tobacco product by youth. In fact, more than 2 million middle and high school students were current users of e-cigarettes in 2017, and the FDA now believes that youth use of e-cigarettes is reaching epidemic proportions. This belief is based on a number of factors, including the agency’s mounting enforcement actions, recent sales trends, news coverage, increased concerns among kids, parents and educators, as well as preliminary data that will be finalized and released in the coming months. Additional research from another survey, Monitoring the Future, shows that about 80 percent of youth do not see great risk of harm from regular use of e-cigarettes. This is particularly alarming considering that harm perceptions can influence tobacco use behaviors. With its tagline, “Know the Real Cost of Vaping,” the campaign aims to educate youth that using e-cigarettes, just like cigarettes, puts them at risk for addiction and other health consequences. The messages highlight that nicotine can rewire the brain to crave more nicotine, particularly because adolescent brains are still developing. Other messages highlight that e-cigarettes, among other things, can contain dangerous chemicals such as: acrolein, a chemical that can cause irreversible lung damage; formaldehyde, a cancer-causing chemical; and toxic metal particles, like chromium, lead and nickel, which can be inhaled into the lungs. To ensure these messages are reaching the intended youth audience, the ads will run on age-verified digital platforms such as YouTube, Spotify, Pandora, Facebook and Instagram, as well as “The Real Cost” campaign website and are targeted to reach these teens with digital media and printed prevention messages in a school environment. This includes using location-targeted advertising around high schools nationwide and placing e-cigarette prevention content on educational platforms that are typically accessed by students during the school day. Posters also will be placed in at least 10,000 high school bathrooms, and additional materials for students and educators will be distributed to schools, in collaboration with Scholastic and Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD). “The FDA has a successful track record of using compelling, science-based public education campaigns to encourage kids to rethink their relationship with tobacco and is bringing the same approach to these new efforts to prevent youth use of e-cigarettes,” said Mitch Zeller, J.D., director of the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products. “E-cigarette use among youth is a tremendous concern and this new campaign will allow us to effectively communicate the dangers of these products to teens. Public education is a critical component of our ongoing work to prevent youth use of tobacco products and complements our enforcement and regulatory efforts to protect kids.” As part of the agency’s Youth Tobacco Prevention Plan and ongoing work to protect youth from the dangers of tobacco products, the FDA has taken a series of actions over the past several months to more immediately target the illegal sales of e-cigarettes to youth, as well as the kid-friendly marketing and appeal of these products. In particular, the FDA last week announced a series of critical and historic enforcement actions and signaled its intention to take new and significant steps to address the sale and marketing of e-cigarettes to kids. Those steps included issuing more than 1,300 warning letters and civil money penalty complaints (fines) to retailers who illegally sold JUUL and other e-cigarette products to minors during a nationwide, undercover blitz of brick-and-mortar and online stores this summer – the largest coordinated enforcement effort in the FDA’s history. Moving forward, the FDA is stepping up enforcement actions indefinitely with a sustained campaign to monitor, penalize and prevent e-cigarette sales to minors in retail locations including manufacturers’ own internet storefronts The agency last week also issued letters to five major e-cigarette manufacturers whose products – JUUL, Vuse, MarkTen, blu e-cigs, and Logic – were sold to kids during the enforcement blitz asking them to submit to FDA within 60 days plans describing how they will address the widespread youth access and use of their products. If they fail to do so, or if the plans do not appropriately address this issue, the FDA will consider whether it would be appropriate to revisit the current policy that results in these products remaining on the market without a marketing order from the agency. This could mean requiring these brands to remove some or all of their flavored products that may be contributing to the rise in youth use from the market until they receive premarket authorization and otherwise meet all of their obligations under the law. The FDA also committed to taking even stronger measures to stem the troubling trends of youth use, including, among others, investigating whether manufacturers of certain e-cigarette products may be marketing new products that were not on the market as of Aug. 8, 2016, thus falling outside of the FDA’s compliance policy, and have not gone through premarket review. The agency has other active investigations underway related to the marketing of these products. The FDA is also exploring clear and meaningful measures to make tobacco products less toxic, appealing and addictive. These measures, which will intensely focus on protecting youth, could include an examination of flavors/designs that appeal to youth, child-resistant packaging and product labeling to prevent accidental child exposure to liquid nicotine. The agency also issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking in March to seek public comment on the role that flavors in tobacco products play in attracting youth. The FDA intends to expedite the review and analysis of the comments so it can leverage the information into policy as quickly as possible, should the science support further action. Additionally, the agency plans to explore additional restrictions on the sale and promotion of ENDS to further reduce youth exposure and access to these products. “The Real Cost” Youth E-Cigarette Prevention Campaign is a nearly $60 million effort funded by user fees collected from the tobacco industry, not by taxpayer dollars. Initial e-cigarette prevention content first debuted in October 2017. This new campaign is part of the FDA's ongoing efforts to prevent disease and death caused by tobacco use and will complement the agency's other youth tobacco prevention campaigns. The FDA launched "The Real Cost" Smoking Prevention Campaign in February 2014, "Fresh Empire" a multicultural tobacco prevention campaign in October 2015, and "The Real Cost" Smokeless Tobacco Prevention Campaign in April 2016. The FDA's campaigns are based on the best available science and are evaluated to measure effectiveness in changing tobacco-related knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, intentions and/or behaviors over time.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0059.json.gz/line1327
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