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__label__wiki	0.835081	0.835081	Are CD’s Dead? Is the releasing of physical compact discs dead? Big Sean followed his acclaimed Dark Sky Paradise to the top of the charts again with his 4th release I Decided. Gaining number one on Billboard this time completely digitally with his new release showed an ever growing shift in the industry. He stated the reasoning was to prevent leaks and to work on it until the very last second. Sean’s decision was validated when a week later Rick Ross’ 9th album and first release with Epic leaked online before his release date. With physical releases the artist has to turn their project in to the label which has to ship it in enough time to get to the retailers for the consumers. Many top tier artists are moving from just physical discs to digital content. This is no longer the days of old where boy band acts and pop princesses would battle over who can sell a million copies in a week. With piracy fears and record sales decreasing there is more of a reliance on streaming. According to Bloomberg Technology U.S. streaming revenue accounted for almost half of the music industry’s sales. In a singles dominated market fans are expecting faster releases and engulfing experiences. Whether called mixtapes or playlists the artist gives their fans a body of work not with unique raps over popular beats like Lil Wayne’s No Ceilings or Drought series but complete with both original compositions and lyrics available for purchase. Regardless of name since they are sold the labels count these projects as albums. Future made waves in the industry with his run of classic tapes like Monster & 56 Nights. This year saw Future Vandross go literally back to back with FUTURE & HNDRXX. He was the first artist with two Billboard chart topping albums in consecutive weeks. After being nominated for Album of The Year Drake gave his fans a playlist entitled More Life. Though available digitally for purchase his playlist made streaming history. He broke records on many platforms. More Life, in it’s first week, had 90 million streams on just Apple Music and 60 million with Spotify. Because of this it went #1 & became certified Gold in only a week. Chance The Rapper won 3 trophies at the Grammys for his latest release Coloring Book. For each mixtape, including the collaborative project with Nico Segal and the Social Experiment, they were available for digital download, no purchase necessary. “I miss that immersive experience, now people only listen to a few seconds of a song on their iPods and they don’t really invest in the whole experience…I felt like, I don’t want anybody to get the message, when my record is coming out. I just want this to come out when it’s ready and from me to my fans” — Beyoncè, on the unconventional release of her self titled album Beyoncè revolutionized video with her self titled release in 2013. She continued in the practice of shooting a music video for every track which she did with B-Day in 2006. BEYONCE was released without warning and strictly digitally until a week later then with her Platinum edition complete with both the audio and visual discs. Similarly with her most recent album, Lemonade she gave the visual first on HBO then she released it for streaming and digital purchase. Weeks after she then shipped physical albums to stores. For her fans an album is an event and she doesn’t disappoint as she invites them to experience her work more in-depth than where a physical disc would lack. CDs will eventually go the way of the dinosaur joining outdated platforms of vinyl & cassette tape. The reliance on auxiliary cables and now Bluetooth technology shows increasing value to the ability of grasping libraries of music and content at the tip of consumer’s fingers. Posted in: Articles, Music \| Tagged: beyonce, big sean, bloomberg, cds, chance 3, chance the rapper, dark sky paradise, drake, elvntwntysvn, future, hndrxx, i decided, lemonade, lil wayne, more life, no ceilings, rick ross, thomashester2 Dame Dash – The Cost of Independence The 90’s Are All That	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1254
__label__cc	0.583477	0.416523	Everyday Digital Money Innovation in Money Cultures and Technologies Paper Sessions 1. Alternative Monies 2. Credit and Debit Cards 3. Innovation Design and Adoption 4. Online Money 5. Designing New Experiences 6. Mobile Payments and Transfers Opening Keynote: Money in the digital revolution Keith Hart (Goldsmith's College) Julia Elyachar (UC Irvine), Amolo Ng'weno (BMGF), and Paul Thomas (Intel) Closing Keynote: Re-examining M-banking: Linking Adoption, Impact, and Use Jonathan Donner (Microsoft Research India) Paper Session 1: Alternative Monies Electronic Money: Flop or a New Run-Up? Hugo Godschalk, PaySys Consultancy What people are calling “digital money” today is nothing else but “old” money which can be accessed through digital instruments. The value is not stored on an electronic device (chip, magnetic stripe, pc or elsewhere) but is still registered at a traditional account at a bank or at an other provider. So only the access instruments to the funds are digital, not the money itself. On the other hand, almost all the account based funds should be digital money because the registration of the account information is not written in the books (scriptural money) but stored as bits and bytes. But there was a real invention in monetary history and evolution. It was the electronic purse, a specific string of information with a monetary value stored in the chip of a card or on the hard disk of a pc, which could be directly transferred from person-to-person without the existence of an account. Developed in the early 90s as revolutionary concepts of a new monetary order which could mean the end of the worldwide central bank monopoly of the old cash. After a period of innovation and euphoria (1990-1995), central banks started to domesticate the digital cash by regulation (1995 – 2000). The forerunners of internet based e-purses, like Mondex and Digicash failed. Only card-based products survived in the market, until now a niche product in European and Asian markets kept under highly surveillance of the monopolists of the “old” money. The period from 2000 until now could be seen as the period of disappointment, but also of re-egineering. Non-banks like telcos started to issue “new” account-based emoney regulated in Europe as “e-money-institutions”. But real innovations like emoney are still lacking which could be (anonimous) transferable from person to person or new digital “numeraires” (as a new private currency not nominated in state money units like $ or €). Most of the private money issuance (like the “Regio” money in Germany) is still based on traditional money (cash or scriptural money). The focus of this presentation is the “history” of real digital money, its regulation and its potential for a new run-up. Hugo Godschalk, a native Dutchman from Den Haag (1957) has been living and working in Germany for over 30 years. Following his PhD in economics from the University of Münster in 1982, he started his career in the payments industry at the Gesellschaft für Zahlungssysteme (GZS; now part of First Data International), last as head of the business administration. From 1990 on, he worked for 3 years as a senior consultant for Ordina (Germany) GmbH, covering payment and card business related topics. Since 1993 he has been managing director and partner of PaySys Consultancy (Frankfurt), a consultancy specialised in card business (www.paysys.de). Since 2000 he represents the European Payments Consulting Association (EPCA) as director (www.epca.de). Other assignments: • Expert Member of the Payment Systems Market Group of the European Commission • Member of the advisory board of the Payment Data Bank Paycomm (www.paycomm.org) • Member of the committee of experts of the national network of Regiogeld initiatives in Germany After 5 years (1979 – 1984) of scientific research and teaching at the Institute for money and currency at University of Münster with main topics in the area of payment innovations and electronic money his academic focus is still at monetary innovation and reforms as well as monetary history of private money during the Great Depression. The results were published in various books and articles and presented at national and international conferences. Contact information: Dr. Hugo Godschalk; PaySys Consultancy GmbH; Im Uhrig 7 60433 Frankfurt; Tel: germany – 69 – 951177 0; Telefax: germany – 69 – 521090; Email: hgodschalk [at] paysys.de Posted in Paper Session 1: Alternative Monies \| Permalink \| Comments (2) \| TrackBack (0) The Real Pound Project Peter Etherden, Cliff’s End Signalling Company Studies of usury and the public response to the abuse of money suggest centralised systems are undesirable for the management and control of the issue of coinage (metal, paper & digital). Academic study is needed into the structure and modus operandi of decentralist Mints and Exchanges serving the money needs of ordinary people in the real economy. The Real Pound Project was first at the Radical Consultation in September 2001. The paper is the third of six research papers…the others are Birmingham as Number One (1986), The Wealth of CountiesEnergy Currencies (2006) and The Future of Local Money (2008). A sixth paper on The Doctrine of Usury based on historical research into public usury policy is due out next year. Decentralised public and private mints and exchanges conduct their business in a structure of legal statutes such as the Usury Law of 1571 or the Legal Tender Act of 1862. Money is political and the division of power and means of enforcement are in the small print. The paper explores the way The Real Bank of Wiltshire might operate under licsence from a publicly accountable Real Bank of Wessex. All papers available online at http://www.cesc.net/serifweb/scholars/shepherd/irvine/manuscripts/ Writings on the Real Economy by William Shepherd Birmingham as Number One (1986) County Wealth (2001) Real Bank of Wessex (2001) Energy Currencies (2006) The Future of Money (2008) The Doctrine of Usury - available 2009 Historical Research edited by Peter Etherden Usury and the English Church by Henry Swabey (2008) - http://www.cesc.net/serifweb/scholars/swabey/ Wilson’s Discourse Upon Usury by R.H. Tawney (2008) - http://www.cesc.net/serifweb/scholars/tawney/ William Shepherd’s Blogs What I Do All Day (2006) - http://williamshepherd.blog.co.uk Shepherd on Climate (2007) - http://climate.blog.co.uk Peter Etherden is a radical economist who writes under the nom de plume of William Shepherd. For 25 years he has been a regular contributor to the London-based political journal Fourth World Review. In 1993 he co-founded the Cliff’s End Signalling Company, an independent policy and strategy development forum. cesc maintains a website for discerning radicals and publishes the work of cesc scholars. Michael Linton, Open Money Innovation in money is really quite rare. While the carrier (the medium) is increasingly digital, almost all the money itself (the message) is still massive and substantial in nature, a commodity supposed to carry value in itself - limited quantity, goes anywhere, issued by authorities - money 1.2, 1.3 maybe, but still money 1.n. It's still simply stuff. And definitely "their" money, not ours. The value in a 1.n money is intended to be in the money itself, not in the users. That's how it works. But consider the consequent patterns. Our income comes from anywhere, our spending goes anywhere. The "original" sources and "end" destinations are all well out of our reach and completely beyond our control. And this is true for all - people and organizations alike - we don't know where the money we spend is going, and we don't know where it's coming from. Most problematically, we don't know whether it's going to continue coming. These are the realities of markets confined to money 1.n. It is not healthy that we are all so driven. Fortunately there are other possibilities. As with web 2.0, so money 2.0 is emergent from the context of information systems. Money 2.0 is information, not mass or commodity. It measures, it moves and it is a social agreement. Both as individuals and organizations, we can create our own community currencies with each other - monies that will circulate within our networks, communities, associations. And it's only "with each other" that community currencies can work. The private currencies proposed by Hayek and corporate currencies like AirMiles (m$ & goo$ maybe?) are going to succeed and/or fail not so much on the status of the issuer, as on the quality of the community of users. The most productive forms will be those most compatible with the medium, and the needs and purposes of the users will be much more important than those of the corporation. The term "open money" applies to the field of opportunity for such community currencies, which will be realised / expressed in forms of socio-economic neo-tribalism. Money cultures and technologies will co-evolve more rapidly beside and beyond the established structures than within them. Mobile technologies for money - MPESA, OBOPAY for instance - are establishing in the developing world where landlines and conventional banking are unrealistic. Before any such systems were released for "real" money between "real" users and "real" bank accounts, you can be sure they were tested on virtual users and virtual banks, and moved virtual money. Systems that can support "real" money can readily support other currencies in parallel - how long before we have chips with everything? The ability to move discrete currencies through the supply chain will have many applications. It will for instance make agreements - such as that between Burger King and Florida tomato pickers for a retail price hike to pass through to the farmgate - much easier to implement and monitor, to "follow the money" and make sure it indeed goes where it is intended. Virtual currencies can also track the accumulation of carbon and other environmental costs, as in the BT Carbon Disclosure project and recent developments in product labelling in Japan and will likely provide the infrastructure for such urgent initiatives as TEQS. From theory and projection to the matter of practical demonstration. The community way program (youtube video) - is a general application intended to not only do what it does - raise funds for community needs - but also act as ignition for local / regional open money development collaborations. It is designed for anywhere with a population over 100,000 (or less), for anyone with access to internet (direct or indirect), anytime they're ready (almost). All parts are well tested and the whole has been verified under adverse conditions, occasionally and briefly. Until very recently, we could not provide on-line multi-currency accounting support to remote communities - local independent services and operations were required, with varieties of complications. And, until such independent networks can be linked, the benefits of applications like community way programs are mainly available to smaller businesses operating in single markets, as larger corporations are active in widely distributed markets. However, recent open money systems and software development now provide for global networks, and so open many possibilities for major corporations. If time allows I will speak briefly about some of these, and particularly about community development funding models that bring the ethics and purposes of microcredit to the context of money 2.0. Michael Linton, not formally educated as an economist, has been active in the development and implementation of virtual money systems since 1982 - LETSystems and related tools in particular. Everyday Digital Money Workshop Program: Day 1 Registration and Travel	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1256
__label__cc	0.512472	0.487528	ESSAYSWORLD.NET Toll free: Toll free: Toll free: support@essaysworld.net Temperance Movement Dec 4, 2017 at History Essays Get a Free Price Quote The end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century was a period in the US history marked by a few social reforms. Prior to the Civil War (1861-1865) some organizations were insisting on no person shall consume alcohol. In the beginning, these groups called for abstinence that later proved to fail, which in turn, made them count on the force of the law. These efforts to minimize the consumption of alcohol by the masses led to the formation of the Temperance Movement in the USA. The Idea of Temperance The Temperance Movement traces its development from moral and religious motions to legal tranquility of the society. The idea of temperance dates back to the antiquity; however, the movement appeared as a result to the numerous efforts to diminish the use of distilled beverages nowadays. The first promulgators of the movement arose from the evangelical Protestants and Baptist individuals. They advocated that alcohol was harmful health wise for any person; as well as, it leads to the destruction of families and reputation (Appleby, 1997). The first temperance movement that actually passed a law with success was in Maine. The main goal of the law was to prove that it is a model for the improvement of the society’s welfare. Evermore, shortly after the Temperance Movement arose, the National Prohibition emerged in the USA with the similar scope to decrease consumption of alcohol. However, this effort failed to prevent the use of alcohol. It also led to the abusive and illegal production of alcohol that was not taxed by the government (Grimes, 1993). FOR 15+ PAGES FOR 45 + PAGES The Temperance Movement was geared mainly toward men. Along with the purpose to persuade men to give up drinking, the movement in the late 1830s encouraged the ban of the retail liquor license. Therefore, on many occasions candidates from different religious groups were encouraged to run for governmental offices. The idea behind this was that they will be more prone to pass laws that would ultimately stop the production and use of alcohol among masses. Alternatively, some of the southern states whites attributed the temperance with the involvement of northern individuals. This influence was associated with economic development and lack of personal liberty, thus leading them to reject the temperance. Such happenings proves that this movement had its issues based on location, social standings and as it will be shown racial prejudice. (Murdock, 1998) The Ideology of Temperance The ideology of the movement was predominant and acknowledged across gender, race, religion and even age barriers. It was also intertwined with antislavery and women rights issues. Thus, the temperance movement suffered some distress after the Civil War. The southern states were noticeably opposed to allowing other races into the temperance organizations, and yet they were all for not letting them to consume alcoholic beverages (Thompson, 1999). Thus, the political participants of the temperance were also members of the antislavery and women’ rights groups. Furthermore, the mixed emotions about gender, race, and political views led to the creation of The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). The purpose of the WCTU, as well as the other mentioned temperance groups, was to eliminate consumption of alcohol and facilitate safe homes and happy families. Since the WCTU was predominant across class, racial and religious masses it was also involved in a number of other important social issues such as, child and women welfare, health and woman rights. Therefore, the organization allowed African-American women participate in various events in order to improve their race’s image and social liberties. In this context, it is well noticeable that the temperance movement had positive effects on the races and various social groups (Warner, 1997). On the contrary, the Chinese control of opium had a relatively different direction. The introduction of opium among the Chinese population was caused by the trade between Britain and China. Britain was always interested in the Chinese products such as, tea, silk or porcelain. However, the Chinese had no interest in any of Britain’s trade products and thus demanding to be paid in silver. The exchange of Chinese goods for silver created economic troubles for Britain. Therefore, in order to regulate this problem, the British persuaded the Chinese to accept opium as payment for their goods. The sales of opium helped put Britain’s economy back on track; however, since it is an addictive drug, opium began to cause huge problems for China. The great demand for opium attracted India into the market and created a price drop on the market. The competition for importing opium into China that was created among merchants worldwide led to the Opium Wars. On local levels the massive influx of opium into the country led the Yongzheng Emperor to prohibit the import of opium by law. This law was not followed by many and thus failed. The next attempt to outlaw opium and its addiction was attempted by the Qing Empire by issuing a Decree to prohibit opium imports and its use. The Chinese government declared punishment by death for Chinese born dealers. All in all, the evident similarity between both situations is that the governments were involved on different levels. The purpose of the government force was to stop the use of two different but yet similarly addictive drugs. Finally, the results proved that without government involvement of government powers the end results could have been different. 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__label__cc	0.557851	0.442149	Eternal City RP The Online Roleplay Community Face Claims Premade Roles Ailward Guard ★ Early Merry... Christmas? (Henri & Kaldre) Posted by ✓ Henri Aleshire on November 16, 2019 at 16:06 in In and Around The City (Human Territory) Crunch. Crunch. Crunch. Henri could feel the sounds the leaves are making with every step he took, how couldn't he? When the night has already set it and the moon was taunting him from above because even it knows and he knows, he couldn't do anything about this. His hazel hues stared at the moon as he continued to go on with his journey, he has been trying to get to the mountaintops since yesterday but it wasn't an easy feat when not everyone would take it lightly for a whole snow tiger to walk around in the middle of the day. There shouldn't even be a snow tiger here in Evermore. Not that it is a real one, but he is as real as it can be. The only difference between him and an actual snow tiger was that he doesn't pounce and tackle humans for his prey, one, because he knows better. Two, human meat doesn't fit his diet. Kidding. His white fur had been covered by snow and the mountaintops should be a nice enough place for him to settle for a while because he needed to stay off sight. He's been sighing heavily for a while now, he couldn't remember what happened. Only that a few nights ago after he transformed into his ailuranthrope form to do his perimeter run every week around the borders of Evermore to see if there was anything new or out of the ordinary because there hasn't been a shortage in the Evermore General to stop accepting patients because a lot kept being admitted. At this point, he knew they would be more short staffed than they already were. Something was going on and he was going to check if it was anything done near the borders that separated any ties or deals done in the name of peace for Evermore. He couldn't find anything weird that night so he came back to the manor using the woods as a shortcut but realized he couldn't morph back into his human form. His chances to revert back to human had been the only thing that's been stuck in his head for days and he couldn't exactly walk into the diviner territory demanding for a diviner. He's a freaking tiger. Henri initially had a bag filled with his clothes with him since he would be needing clothes once he turns back per usual but since he's stuck in this form, he's been dragging it with him by having it hung around his mouth as he trudged through the woods. Unfortunately, while he was walking towards the mountaintops, the grounds were a bit slippery and it had resulted the therian to stumble on his steps and rolled down. A whimper escaped him when his body hits the tree, but that wasn't his main concern now. His bag was nowhere to be found. It must've dropped somewhere when he fell. Goddammit. With no energy left he could spare just to find his bag, Henri was left to choose whether he would continue to use the remaining energy to settle in somewhere there even though there's a risk of Niveis finding him or he could continue his journey by rerouting them to somewhere he could search for help. He can't return to the manor in this state, for sure. In the end, Henri chose the latter. It was better to find solutions instead of hiding. So he made sure to go back to the city using routes not many would use, the woods provided good access thankfully and after a while of walking, he came across a shop that was still open. That wasn't what caught his interest, it's the antiques put up on display. People who own places like this usually ends up being a diviner so for once after a while, Henri's eyes lit up and rushed to the entrance door, nudging his head against the doorknob. Stupid paws. Fortunately, the only light there was a lamp post not far from where he's at. It was quite late so no one would come. Please, he pleaded, open up. NiveisPermalink Reply by ✓ Kaldre Rephaim Frostbourne on November 17, 2019 at 0:30 If there was one thing Kal had learned about opening a shop in Evermore city, it was that pawnshops with interesting things in the window tended to draw in random people to the store in the strangest of ways. In the space of a few months, he’d had a girl who wanted to know why he had a sword that belonged to her late father, plenty of drop-ins from the Niveis of his tribe on Unyak and a pirate who ransacked the place in search of anything from the shipwreck that turned him into a Niveis. So by now he was used to people showing up out of the blue, he figured most people thought he was probably Diviner because of the items he stocked and really he may as well be because he owned enough mystical objects in the store that he actually could do some magic, he had also learned a lot about what you could do with herbal remedies which countered magic. You could say he was well versed in magic and how to face it by now. It had been a really quiet day in the shop so he had cleaned up and closed shop early before heading up to make dinner and eventually falling asleep quite early on. Often Kal would be up late sorting through new stock or researching interesting things that had been brought in to understand their worth so it was rare for him to get an early night. He was sleeping soundly, his cat sleeping against the pillow next to him when he was stirred away by the sound of tapping. It had been really windy lately so he assumed at first it was just the wind sweeping something against the windows but then it happened again. He grumbled turning over and trying to block it out but now he was awake and could hear how it sounded more rhythmic than the wind. No, this was purposeful. He groaned before pushing himself to his feet, he was dressed in pajamas because he’d gotten used to these interruptions that it just seemed easier to already be dressed for it. He was cautious as he headed down the stairs and into the ground floor where the store was located and crept through to the showroom, he stared at the door unable to see anything there at first but then he lowered his gaze and saw none other than a snow tiger standing there as though it was expecting to be let in. His initial reaction was to let his jaw go slack in shock of what he was seeing. If he was an average human he probably would have immediately called the police too but Kal was versed enough in the Supernatural world to recognize the chances of an actual snow tiger knocking on the door was very unlikely. Which meant this guy was actually an Ailuaranthrope and it seemed like he was asking for help. He debated his options for a moment, wondering what might happen if the very small chance he was wrong turned out to be the case but he decided to risk it, heading slowly towards the door and then unlocking it and pulling it open. He kept his hands up in front of him in case he needed to call upon his ice powers to halt him in his place as he moved back slowly, his expression curious about what was happening, though he took it as a good sign that he didn’t immediately lunge for him or anything like that “Are you lost?” he asked hesitantly wondering why a therianthrope would be wandering the city as their animal form rather than their human one. Perhaps something was wrong? If they thought he was Diviner then maybe they thought he could help. Ailward GuardPermalink Reply by ✓ Henri Aleshire on November 27, 2019 at 17:19 The entire time he's been pawing against the door handle, all Henri could think of were the endless possibilities he may face as soon as the person unlocks the door. Were they all good? He had thought that there were about 90% chance of possibility for the owner to come checking what was causing all the ruckus. But... one of them was him doubting the owner would unlock the front door just because he saw a tiger who seemed to ask for an entrance. Why? Because he's a tiger. Who in their right mind would do that… for a tiger? Be realistic, Henri, he reminded himself. But right now, that was all that he could do. Returning to the manor in such a state while worrying them, nope, that's not about to happen. Not when Ven just recently got off the rails and Henri was supposed to supervise him. Not that he would do anything reckless but a drunk person can do plenty of questionable things, indeed. The moment he saw a male's silhouette from inside, his eyes lit up in desperation, please come here, he whined. Please help him. The nearer the steps took the male, the more his heart started to bloom in hopes that he may be able to help him. Or at least, offer him sanctuary for a brief while. A sighting for a snow tiger in the middle of the roads of Evermore is not something he wanted to be in Evermore Daily. The door was unlocked with a click and Henri slowly allowed himself in, his tail wagging instinctively as he stared at the male down. Is it a familiar face? Unfortunately, he couldn't recall. When asked if he is lost, he quickly nodded and whimpered, as if to say yes. He glanced back to the outside before returning his gaze to the male with pitiful eyes. He wouldn't stop wandering them all over the place, there were so many antiquities, he was so certain he is a Diviner. But he doesn't smell like one… could he be mistaken? A frustrated and annoyed growl escaped him softly as he bumped against the coat stand, causing the hats and coats to fall on him. Of all the things he expected to come downstairs to in the shop, he had to admit he wasn’t expecting to see a big cat pawing at his door. Now Kal had seen some very strange things in his years thanks to the items he collected and the type of crowd that drew in but this definitely had to top the list. Sometimes he wondered if he was just cursed not to have a single month without some kind of dramatic happening overnight. He sighed as he went to open the door and then stepped back, keeping his hands up defensively as he tried to assess the situation he was now in. Well much to his relief the tiger seemed civil enough with its movements and reactions to confirm is suspicion that this was indeed a therianthrope and not an actual wild animal, of course that made more logical sense when you thought about it but he wasn’t really thinking all that logically when they were in the middle of the city. Kal kinda stood there looking a little lost for a while as he stared at the tiger, but when he responded to his question with a nod and whimper the Niveis definitely knew there was a person there. He bit his lip for a moment, hesitantly moving across the room while talking out loud so he wouldn’t freak out whoever it was “I’m not a Diviner so I’m now sure how much I’ll be able to help but you’re safe here, don’t worry” he assured him only to turn and see him knocking over the coat stand and getting covered in clothing. He couldn’t stop himself chuckling as he playfully reprimanded the male “Watch your paws, this shop is designed for humans, not tigers” he was searching through the objects until he found what he was looking for, or two things rather, the first was a looking glass which was said to be spelled to allow someone to see through magic, he’d used it a few times and it had always shown him something different. The second he wasn’t sure was going to work as it was much older, originally owned by one of the assistants to Cleopatra back when she reigned supposedly, it was supposed to allow people to communicate with animals and while he had never managed to get it to work every time he used it on his cat, he had to wonder if perhaps it wasn’t your standard animal it was used on. He pressed his lips together as he came closer towards him and held up the eyeglass while looking though it at him. Sure enough, he could see the shape of a person lit up inside of the tiger’s frame which was enough to confirm he was right, this was a therianthrope. He then hesitated before putting on the necklace, this one he wasn’t sure would work but he had to try “Okay, say something” he instructed hoping he would now be able to understand him. Ailward GuardPermalink Reply by ✓ Henri Aleshire on December 4, 2019 at 16:37 A part of him was wondering if this was the right place to be at. One, he had no idea if this guy was a diviner or not. Two, to keep himself in somewhere confined sometimes messes with his claustrophobia and anxiety but in his tiger form, he was able to control it slightly better. Keyword; slightly. It doesn’t confirm anything; it doesn’t confirm that he would not freak out and probably bump himself into everything in the store that really looked to be quite priceless and precious. It is a pawn shop, after all. Lots of valuables were stored there, he could see it. Henri could see the exhaustion on the male’s face, the one who allowed him in, who he had also presumed to be the owner of the place judging from the way he was acting. His hazel hues never left the male even when he moved to the side of the room, he stood still on the ground and whined a bit when the coats fell on him but other than that, he was behaving pretty well. He had to admit though, upon finding out that this guy wasn’t a diviner, he frowned and a small whine escaped him because he was discouraged, how was he going to get out of this situation then? But at least the other male assured him he was safe there. He could take his word, right? When he was chastised and reprimanded to keep his paws to himself, he whined in response, as if to say it wasn’t his intention and it wasn’t his fault he was large. God, he wanted to speak so bad. He stepped back a few steps in apprehension when the male came back with a necklace, who knows what that was? If he’s learned anything while being a Guard all these centuries, it was that you should never play around magic you don’t know and he doesn’t intend to do that. But what choice does he have other than to let whoever this guy was to help him? So he halted and allowed him to put on the necklace around him, looking at him weirdly when he was told to say something, “It’s stuffy in here.” Of course, that’s what he’d say. “Sorry for the coats but it’s hard to move around when you’re a big ass animal-” His eyes widened only after he realized he was talking, his voice was being heard, “Holy-” NiveisPermalink Reply by ✓ Kaldre Rephaim Frostbourne on December 6, 2019 at 11:04 Well at the very least tonight he would able to figure out if some of these mystical objects he owned were real or fake, though trying to figure out how to communicate with a tiger was definitely testing the limits of his knowledge. Kal had a Diviner friend who he often asked for help figuring out what was what when it was brought into the shop, a lot of people sold him fakes and unfortunately without much to go on, he had made a few losses on those items. But then there were others which actually turned out pretty useful. He could see the hesitance in the other male as he held up the necklace but he kept calm as he approached him slowly, he was definitely glad at this point he wasn’t facing a real tiger. He took a deep breath as he affixed the mystical piece of jewelry and widened his eyes when it started glowing once it had been clasped, he was sure that was a good sign but he still had no idea how it actually worked but it seemed the tiger had been trying to communicate all this time and this was supposed to help with that. The very first words he heard both made the Niveis laugh and then widen his eyes in shock because he was actually communicating with a tiger and this was weird as hell “Don’t worry about the coats, just try and avoid the glass if you can” he spoke it softly almost having to double-take because damn this was a weird situation he found himself in right now. He cleared his throat for a moment, shaking off the strangeness of it all to ask a relevant question about why he had a snow tiger visiting his shop this very everything “I’m going to guess since we can talk that you’re a therianthrope?” he almost didn’t sound sure even though he was certain the alternatives were much less likely “Are you uh….” he didn’t know how to phrase it “Stuck like this?” he wondered out loud as he stared back at the big cat, completely weirded out by the fact he was talking to him. Ailward GuardPermalink Reply by ✓ Henri Aleshire on December 12, 2019 at 17:23 Perhaps the first step into going through this seemingly permanent transformation rule, is not to trust strangers. Especially strangers who would put stuff on you, like what this guy is currently doing. But what choice did he have, anyway? Other than to comply? Technically, he did come here for help and if this man was able to help him in any way, then Henri was all for it. Something is better than nothing. And he wasn't about to stay in this form forever without finding a solution to regain his human self back. This was one of the times when Henri really wished that he could revert back without complaining. God, he will never complain about the clothes ever again. Did he trust him? Not fully. But enough to trust him to put the necklace around him. It felt slightly snug around his fur, but it fits just right. When he realized that he was actually talking to the Niveis, he gaped and wanted to cover his mouth but totally forgot his hand is now a paw so it made him look like a tiger who was in awe. Because honestly, he was in awe. The laugh elicited from the other male confirmed that he did talk. "Well, this was cool. Incredibly weird and creepy as hell but what did I expect from a mystical object... " During his service in the Guard, he has come across plenty. When he told him to avoid the glass, the therian nodded, he'll avoid those. When he asked if he was a therianthrope, Henri, once again, nodded in affirmation, "Ailuranthrope to be exact. That's why you're encountering a whole snow tiger right now." And god was it really stuffy in here. He's never thought that being in this form would ever annoy him but right now it was doing that. Henri placed his paws on the floor and sat down comfortably, if he was going to have a whole conversation with this guy, the least he could do is make sure he's comfortable doing so. "Something like that… I was out for patrolling and suddenly I can't revert back to my human form… no matter how many times I tried." It was then he realized they had no idea who the other was. At least, not the names. "I'm Henri, by the way. Thanks for… Uh, not locking me out when I came earlier… that would've been embarrassing." He tilted his head to the side and cleared his throat, "I'm taking that… you're not a Diviner?" NiveisPermalink Reply by ✓ Kaldre Rephaim Frostbourne on December 14, 2019 at 15:14 Kal had to admit he had never seen an expression of shock on a tiger before but it was priceless seeing the other male respond to the ability to talk in his big cat form and he had to hold in a laugh because of how strange this whole thing was “Well when the guy said it let you talk to animals I guess he wasn’t technically lying” though it only worked on animals who weren’t actually animals “Well I have to admit I’m quite glad you’re not a real tiger because that would have been a whole mess” he noticed the way the other male was pacing like he was bothered by something though “Is it too hot in here for you? I can cool it down pretty quick” given that he was a Niveis he should like being in the cold but he guessed that was another thing he didn’t have in common with his kind. Now that the general panic about having a big cat in the room was over he headed towards the entrance door and closed it before he took a seat up on the shop counter while watching the other male curiously “That’s weird, don’t you normally have full control over your turns?” he pressed his lips together “I mean you’re still you in there clearly because you’re not trying to eat me” he laughed under his breath crossing one leg over the other while they talked “Kaldre” he responded to his greeting with a slow nod of his head “And you’re welcome, I’ve had some interesting late-night visits to the shop over the last year but I think a talking tiger tops it” which felt like a completely insane thing to say and yet made absolute sense in Evermore. “No” he responded when the other male asked him if he was a Diviner “But that doesn’t mean I can’t be of help, I may as well be an honorary one with the number of mystical objects people bring here” he hopped off the counter to inspect the other male for a moment “Do you have any leads on the cause? Have you been feeling any different than usual? Did you come into contact with any strange substances” perhaps if they could isolate the cause they could figure out how to release the blocker preventing him from shifting back. He had to admit, talking in this form was actually very awkward, even for him, he's never thought about having to communicate while he's in his form but today has proven that he may need to take precautions later on. How was it possible for him to be stuck in his form? Did someone curse him or something? So many questions yet so little time to search it out, but the male in front of him has tried to help him so far, it means he's trustworthy, right? Albeit a man he still has yet to know the name or identity of, but still, he couldn't expect him to entertain him while he's in this form. "I'm either really offended that you would call me an animal when I'm indeed an actual person inside this form or I'm amused by the fact that you think such trinket wouldn't work when we live in a world filled with supernatural here and there" he mused coolly, well, at least it worked, he could talk now. That would make things so much easier. He chuckled when the other male said he was relieved he wasn't a real tiger, "A real one would've eaten you for his late night supper. Fortunately, we famished as I am right now, human flesh is the least on my menu." Now that he's said it, he realized with a coat of fur covering his body, he wouldn't feel as cold even if it was snowing heavily elsewhere but yes, he did feel a bit heavy on the downside of being in a warm place, "That would be very much appreciated, thank you. But… how would you do that?" It didn't occur to Henri that Kal may be a Water Initia, or a Niveis, though he still has yet to meet the latter living far from the mountain tops. When asked about whether he had full control on when he turns, he nodded and sighed heavily, "That seems to be the problem. I shifted to check the perimeters… when I tried to revert back to my human form, it wouldn't follow. No matter how many times I tried, it still remains the same." And honestly, he's a bit tired from all the tries. "Hello Kaldre, I'm Henri" he tried to wave but completely forgot that he had a paw as a hand so it looks a bit awkwardly cute to see a tiger lifting his paw up to wave at you. The hope would've almost faded from his hues had it not been to Kal assuring him that he could still find a way to help despite not being a diviner, that was better than nothing and the fact that this stranger was willing to lend a hand for him who was in need of it, tells a lot already. "To answer all of those three questions, no. I only felt weird after I couldn't shift back, it's like my tiger side doesn't want to budge and listen no matter how many times I tried telling it to let go. I know it's not a rebellious thing, something is happening and I couldn't think of anything else aside from being cursed by a diviner. But I didn't piss anyone off... " Kal gave a pointed look at the other male, which in hindsight looked like a guy who was tired of his pet cat because it kept misbehaving and running his things “Well I obviously tried to use to talk to actual animals” he commented in an exasperated tone “Imagine trying to talk to an actual cat and ending up getting a paw to the face for your effort” he commented in a slightly grumbly tone “I thought it didn’t work after that, it only just occurred to me that it could be a different kind of...being” he didn’t say animal this time because that seemed to be a sore point and he wasn’t looking to try and upset the other male “The mystical object trade is hit or miss, some people take superstition too far, others actually got things from Diviners” and it was very hard in a short consultation to know the difference. “Yeah, hence why I was a little apprehensive to let you inside, you just never know with this city” he had definitely seen a lot of strange happenings come to his shop and they didn’t show signs of stopping either, sometimes he questioned if he went into the right business because he swore he found himself in the strangest situations. “What does a Therianthrope eat anyway?” he asked curiously, he supposed if they got hungry in that form they had to do some sort of hunting right? “I have a raw steak in the fridge if that’s of any help” he offered. He looked around when the other male asked him to decrease the temperature before raising his hand and freezing some of the molecules in the air, immediately making the room feel colder “That should be more to your liking” he commented softly. He had to chuckle softly at the adorable way that Henri attempted to wave at him in greeting “I’d say nice to meet you Henri but I can’t imagine this situation is all that favorable for you” he commented his breath as he started to try and think of things which might help with this particular predicament. He bit his lip when the other male confirmed that nothing strange had really happened to him lately but at least that did rule out a few ideas in the book and not leave them staring at every possible option he could think of “Pardon my ignorance but could you explain to me how the change is triggered?” he pursed his lips trying to think how to explain what he was getting at “Is the driver behind it more physical, such as the physical reactions from an emotion or even pain, or is it mental? You know more...willing things to happen” with that clarified he was sure he could come up with more ideas. Ailward GuardPermalink Reply by ✓ Henri Aleshire on January 5, 2020 at 14:12 He was aware that his backhand comments and sarcasm wasn't helping the situation but Henri hasn't been all too well trapped in his form without knowing when he could revert back next. So he's being a bit cranky now, alongside his famished self. Yes, he hasn't eaten for about 2 days or so now. It wasn't as if he could also go for a hunt, if anyone sees him, he's not going to have a fun time running away before being caught. "I'm sorry for being… cranky. I'm just not used to no control over this… I mean of course I have control over my actions, just not the reverting back to human kind of control" he murmured sheepishly, if only he could rub the back of his head following the awkward silence between them. The thought of receiving a paw to the face as a response was funny though. He could only imagine. Back in the manor, he's seen plenty of cats, one of them was Seraphire, Malva's white Persian Ragdoll cat that he swore would glare at you as if she's royalty. Overall, he's fine with animals. "And you know not to take superstition like it's nothing, huh?" Obviously, he could smell it off him to know that this guy wasn't a human. Especially with how much knowledge, no matter how minimal it was, he seemed to hold. He was glad that Kal had allowed him to come inside, of course. It was a lifesaving move for Henri, who didn't know where else to keep himself at aside from the woods. "I'm grateful that you allowed me inside… God knows where I would hide at until this… thing wears off." When he was asked what they eat, his eyes flickered momentarily and cleared his throat, "That" he motioned to Kal's answer afterwards. "It depends on the individual, I imagine. I'm used to shifting into my form so I hunt a few times. And most of the time it's smaller animals, raw meat mhmm" He couldn't even focus that much on his words because his attention is now elsewhere when the other male mentioned he had raw steak stored up. Hey, he's hungry. Have mercy on the guy. The drop in the temperature of the room made Henri blink a few times in amazement, it felt like the room became so much colder. "How did you do that… are you a Niveis?" Being in the Guard meant information come and go, and the newest addition to the city was definitely a piece Henri did not forget about. "Thank you." It does make him feel so much better, the winter doesn't bother him when he's a snow tiger but sometimes it gets overwhelming when you're in one space and it's so warm. "Oh well, it may not be as nice but it's a pleasure to make your acquaintance, Kaldre" he bowed his head slightly as an indication towards his greeting, though it does look funny since it was similar to a house cat trying to nod in acknowledgement, albeit a very… big house cat. He didn't have any hesitation when it comes to explaining to Kal how he shifts, it wasn't anything major anyway, "I don't know about others but I'm guessing once you're used to it, it becomes your second nature. I shift into my form every time I will it. Although there are certain times when your temper gets to you and well… " he grinned sheepishly, it could be embarrassing, really. "So I'd say the latter. Why do you ask?" Was he getting somewhere? NiveisPermalink Reply by ✓ Kaldre Rephaim Frostbourne on January 7, 2020 at 0:30 Kal shrugged nonchalantly when Henri apologized for being cranky, he could definitely understand why he would feel that way given the fact he couldn’t turn back no matter how hard he tried and was now wondering if he ever would he was sure “Believe me I get it, no one likes feeling out of control in their own life” he sympathized given everything he went through in his part “It’s probably not easy feeling like your own control has been taken from you either” he pondered how that must feel, knowing you had this power to be whatever you wanted before and now suddenly faced with the realization your own power was becoming a prison “But I’m sure there will be a way to fix it, we just have to figure out what’s wrong” which may result in a little trial and error but hey, he was awake now. “I find in this world it’s usually better to assume every legend is true rather than the opposite” he admitted and shrugged his shoulders, he had heard some crazy stories about the supernatural, tales of species he had never even met before, objects that if real would have the power to destroy the whole world, it was hole you could dive down and never return from if you weren’t careful. “Yeah, you aren’t exactly inconspicuous in the city, even with the stripes” he joked with a chuckle trying to cheer the other male up a little because he seemed worried about what he was going to do “Though surely you have a pack you could turn to if needed?” he questioned, in his understanding of therianthropes they mostly traveled in numbers because it made them more powerful after all. “Alright steak it is” he commented giving a slightly weirded-out look because he wasn’t exactly sure how was best present a meal to a tiger. He headed into the kitchen and took it out of the packaging before placing it on a plate and then returning, setting the plate down on the floor “Don’t starve on my watch, we still have plenty to work on to get you back to normal I’m sure”. The Niveis propped himself up onto the counter and raised his brows curiously when the other male asked if he was a Niveis “Yes, though I have to admit I’m surprised you know how to recognize one” he admitted and bit his lip, though he supposed this was going to get more and more common from here on out because they were a public faction in the city now, Kal had read all about how his sister had arranged a spot on the peace treaty for the tribe. “No problem, I prefer the cold anyway so really I’m making both of us more comfortable” he crossed one leg over the other as he nodded his head back towards Henri, this was still weird but he was starting to get used to talking to the tiger, which was a weird thing to even think so he was doing his best not to focus on it too much. He listened intently as Henri explained the way that he shifted, while he was processing the information he was trying think of possible things they could try to solve the problem, nothing immediately jumped to mind but at least talking about it they could try and figure out what the blocker likely was “Well I was debating whether I was going to need to burn a bunch of incense to trigger some kind of physical response or if we need to you know, figure out a mind blocker, honestly I was hoping for the incense” he sighed softly “Do you have any experience with meditation?” he hopped down from the desk, well, doing meditation with a tiger wouldn’t be the weirdest thing he’d done in his life but it was definitely up there. Ailward GuardPermalink Reply by ✓ Henri Aleshire on Tuesday "If feels so weird being trapped… I've always had a control over how I shift and this is the first time I ever encountered this type of problem" And it was egging him because Henri wasn't happy to know that what used to be his strength was no longer his own to control. In fact, wasn't this becoming another one of his weaknesses? He couldn't exactly fight people off if they were to hunt him down. So he does feel utterly helpless right now. Thankfully, he met someone who was willing to help him. That's why he was able to feel slightly relieved, at the moment. "Hopefully, there's a way. Surely, there must be one. You can't do magic without having a way to counter and undoing it, right?" The therian knew enough on how things worked, there must be a loophole somewhere. It's how nature demands the balance to be retained. He's fine with complying if it meant there is a way of him to revert back to his human form. A chuckle escaped him when he realized Kal was trying to cheer him up, to make something of this situation into something more… cheerful. There was no reason to stay sullen the entire time, no? Not when he needed to find a way to undo this thing, this contraption. When asked if he had a pack to go back to, he cleared his throat and looked away in what seemed to be an embarrassment, it's not like he wasn't proud he joined the Guard. It's a prestigious position where he's at. But when talking about packs, all they had were the other therians in the Guard and even then, it wasn't like any others. "Not exactly… I mean, I don't go together in a pack." It's hard to explain to Kal who may or may not know about the Guard but he'd rather keep himself tight-lipped right now. When he came back with a plate placed before him, Henri got up and was quick to dine in his meal, god he was famished. "Thank you" he quipped softly before digging in. The moment Kal confirmed he was, indeed, a Niveis, Henri had a small smile because he felt a bit accomplished, that's more than what he's gotten for the past few days. He knew it must've been extremely weird to be talking to a tiger during everyrhing that was happening but it could be worse, besides, it's Evermore. What's even surprising anymore? They live among humans and supernaturals alike, it's nothing new for most people, especially if the humans were residents. The mention of incense had him scrunching his nose up as he shook his head gently, whimpering at the thought of it as soon as he finished his meal, flopping himself on the floorboards with his head tilted to the side slightly. God he was actually behaving like an actual house cat. A big house cat. "Depends on what kind of meditation you're talking about… have I done yoga? Or just plain resting myself like I'm on another plane? A few times." Most of the time, he didn't have the expanse for spending free time. 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__label__wiki	0.558756	0.558756	Urethane Blog Epoxy Blog November Auto Sales Rise U.S. New Vehicle Sales Rise in November Makers enjoyed big gains last month. by Joseph Szczesny \| Dec 3, 2019 The popularity of Toyota’s RAV4 is pushing the company to add 400 more workers at its Kentucky plant. This story contains updated results from later in the day. Consumers seem to have figured out automakers are prepared to offer their best deals during the industry’s year-end marketing push, which now begins before the Thanksgiving holidays as manufacturers reporting November sales reported solid gains. American Honda sets new November sales records for total vehicles (up 11.1%) and trucks (up 18.2%) and Acura brand increased 3.1%, with record November truck sales. “With one month to go in 2019, robust sales of light trucks are leading the Honda and Acura brands to a strong finish, with record November auto sales for American Honda,” said Henio Arcangeli Jr., senior vice president of Automobile Sales, American Honda Motor Co. (Post-Thanksgiving weekend key to November auto sales) “Based on the strength of our products and disciplined approach to sales, American Honda is bucking industry trends, with record sales in three of the last four months.” The new Hyundai Santa Fe enjoyed a strong sales increase in November, as did most of the brand’s SUV line-up. Toyota Motor North America reported November 2019 sales of 207,857 vehicles, an increase of 9.2% on a volume basis and up 5% on a daily selling rate basis versus November 2018. Toyota division posted its best-ever November with 177,764 vehicles sold; an increase of 8.4% on a volume basis and 4.2% on a DSR basis. The RAV4 led the way with a sales increase of 26.4%, marking a best-ever November; led by RAV4 Hybrid with 10,057 units sold. Lexus division posted its best-ever November with 30,093 vehicles sold; an increase of 13.8% on a volume basis and 9.4% on a DSR basis. Hyundai Motor Co. reported a solid 6.2% rise in November sales to 60,601 vehicles. It was the company’s 15th gain in the last 16 months. The company’s retail sales jumped 19% last month. “Thanks to the strongest product line-up we’ve ever had and the dedication of our retail partners to provide a better sales experience, we were successful in growing retail sales by double digits, while keeping incentive spending below industry average,” said Randy Parker, vice president, National Sales, Hyundai Motor America. Honda said its sales increase in November came courtesy of CR-V and HR-V. (Skip the deals on TVs and toys, get a new car on Black Friday) Nissan, which has struggled of late, was the exception. Nissan brand sales dropped 13.3% and Infiniti brand sales dropped by one third or 33%. German premium brand Audi saw is sales rise 20.7% to 20,618 units from 17,082 last November. The company’s increase was led by by its SUV line-up. Detroit’s automakers – General Motors, Ford and Fiat Chrysler – no longer report sales on a monthly basis. Meanwhile, ALG, a subsidiary of TrueCar, and a leader in determining the future resale value of a vehicle, projects average transaction prices or to be up 1.3% or $460 from a year ago and up 0.4% or $152 from October 2019. “Not only are consumers preferring SUVs which are typically more expensive than their sedan counterparts, but they’re also choosing not to skimp on in-vehicle features and content, a positive indicator of consumer confidence in the economy,” said Oliver Strauss, chief economist at ALG. “Automaker revenue is coming in strong as well, up 2.2% year-over-year, another signal that the automotive industry remains healthy.” (Toyota riding wave of new product launches) Total light-vehicle sales are expected to come in at an adjusted annualized rate of 17.5 million in November, a touch better than 17.4 million a year ago, according to LMC Automotive and J.D. Power. They expect industry deliveries to drop to 16.8 million in 2020, from about 17.1 million this year. Polish Furniture Industry Profile Palmer Holland Converts to ESOP China Trade Deal Phase I REACH Impacts Epoxies About Everchem Everchem Specialty Chemicals Rose Tree Corporate Center Urethane Raw Materials Industrial Specialties Urethane Prepolymers & Systems Copyright © 2020 Everchem Specialty Chemicals. Web Design by Media Proper	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1270
__label__wiki	0.668532	0.668532	What We're Reading: EW's books staff recommends dramas that hit close to home This month, our book recommendations hit pretty close to home By David Canfield and Seija Rankin October 01, 2018 at 02:54 PM EDT Simon and Schuster; MCD; Liveright; Scribner Each month, EW’s books staff selects some of their favorite recent reads, whether new releases or older titles they’ve just caught up on. In addition, you can check out all the books EW has covered over the past month here, including reviews and interviews. These picks are perfect for book clubs, beach reads, and (hopefully) sustained breaks from your iPhone. Read on for more, and check out our column from last month here. The Golden State by Lydia Kiesling I have a confession to make: I missed the boat on this title. As book editors, it’s our job to be on top of the latest and greatest releases — to know what’s coming out when and whether we should recommend it to our own readers. But there are just so many titles and sometimes an email slips through the crack of your inbox. I discovered The Golden State thanks to a glowing review (from a publication who shall not be named) and immediately added it to my ever-growing queue. But this was worth the wait. Golden State is told entirely in a first-person train-of-thought, and follows a new mother, Daphne, as she embarks on a road trip from San Francisco to a rural town in the middle of nowhere, California. She brings along her baby daughter and seeks refuge in a home owned by her late grandparents as she attempts to grapple with a few personal tragedies — the likes of which are revealed slowly throughout the book. While the plot keeps you turning the page, it’s the insight and care with which Kiesling builds her main character that really hooked me. I’ve never had a child, but if I did I imagine I would approach it just like Daphne: Surges of love punctuated by fits of tears, bookended by waffling between never wanting to be away from your child and needed to be left alone at all costs. The intricacies of Daphne’s other relationships are fascinating, but the way that she’s free to feel all of those complicated motherhood feelings without judgement is what I’ll remember most. —Seija Rankin Heartland by Sarah Smarsh I picked up Smarsh’s memoir quickly after it was longlisted for the National Book Award (Nonfiction), and I’m glad I did. I’d enjoyed reading much of Smarsh’s reporting and criticism in the lead-up to Heartland’s publication, but the prospect of getting through another treatment on the White Working Class of Trump’s America didn’t exactly leave me eager to start. Call it Hillbilly Elegy withdrawal. Fortunately, Smarsh doesn’t demonstrate any interest in reductive talking points or narrow political analysis, the tired stuff of heartland “reporting” which never seems to advance the conversation. Instead she looks inward, chronicling a rich and painful family saga with the sort of hard-earned perceptiveness that reads as genuinely eye-opening. Smarsh grew up in Kansas, and bore witness to the destruction of the American working-class — a coordinated effort, she says, by forces too powerful and distant to fight back against. She reveals this plight through the story of her mother and her grandmother, the generations of women in her family who’ve fought for scraps. At the risk of reducing the memoir’s value to one of the thousands of “this is the X we need right now” headlines, Heartland is an important book for this moment. Smarsh analyzes policies like Trickle Down economics and tears them to shreds, her persuasive combination of righteous fury and explosive intelligence a rather extraordinary weapon she wields time and again. There’s real pain here, of the kind you sense just in the way sentences follow one another, each period and comma providing a break, however short, to absorb the emotions and information and catch your breath. The intensity with which this was written is right there on the page. Smarsh’s attempts to unpack the nuances of race in this discussion are particularly appreciated. She balances her sharp points about the way her rural, predominantly white community was devastated by political-economic forces with a rejection of the term “white working class” — hallelujah! — as a means of separating poor white folks from poor people of color, and maintaining racial inequities. “Whiteness,” Smarsh writes, is “imbued…with power” in American society. Smarsh emerges as a writer, most potently, in her vivid encounters with the ironies of working-class life — her reflections on what it means to live poor can turn startlingly poetic. I’ll leave you with one of my favorite passages: “It’s a hell of a thing to grow the food, serve the drinks, hammer the houses, and assemble the airplanes that bodies with more money eat and drink and occupy and board, while your own body can’t go to the doctor.” —David Canfield Ordinary People by Diana Evans Ordinary People has the bones of a novel you’ve likely read more than a few times: midlife crises, flailing marriages, suburban longing — the stuff of literary fiction clichés. It’s why Diana Evans’ success in crafting something wholly original, evoking authors ranging from Charles Dickens to Celeste Ng while still showcasing her unique voice consistently, is all the more impressive. Evans’ writing is lacerating, if also tender in the way that the best observers of human nature need to be. She juxtaposes the malaise of two couples. There’s Michael and Melissa, living (surviving?) in a literal “crooked” house in South London, the former anxious over their fading love life and the latter over motherhood’s intrusion on her career as a fashion writer. Then we have Stephanie and Damian, she a suburbanite eager for the domestic life so many dread, he a researcher on “the effects of solar heat on large glass areas in multistorey blocks of flats.” (“He could never seem to abbreviate this description,” Evans observes with cutting humor. “Every word seemed essential.”) One other note: Stephanie is white, born to privilege and idyllic simplicity; Damian is black, son of a racial-political activist and academic who’s just died. Evans (26a) doesn’t map out linear character arcs, which may prove frustrating for a reader expecting change or excitement or enlightenment. Instead she plots to the beat of despair. At times, literally: This is a musical book, of a sort of implicit soundtrack, with songs and artists cited and occasionally played, in scenes of aligning emotions. (The title, for instance, is drawn from John Legend’s 2004 record.) The transporting opening, a Friday night party celebrating Barack Obama’s 2008 election victory, blasts Jill Scott and Al Green and Jay-Z, sounds of empowerment and hope. The mood sours when Melissa and Michael drive home late at night. “What is a good rave if not an opportunity for love in the early hours?” Evans asks. “Overdue love. Kissing, touching that has been all but abandoned amid the duties of parenting, the frequent waking of a baby boy and unreasonable requests at dawn for Cheerios from a little girl.” Evans, as that gorgeous little excerpt indicates, writes of these two marriages from a great distance, the power of her pen at times prodigious: She’ll survey the entire London landscape with a breadth that adds considerable weight to her novel, transforms the way we read her characters. (This is her first novel in a decade, and third overall.) That there is no catharsis, per se, may make Ordinary People a tough sell. And maybe this brand of book — the kind that’s won Jonathan Franzen and many other, erm, white guys countless accolades — has gone a little out of style. (I’m not sure, in this case, that the overworn title helps.) But Evans shifts the paradigm with slick subtlety: Race is embedded in her story, as is disenfranchisement, and this satisfyingly complicates the more familiar drama. A fatal stabbing forever stains one couple’s lives, however remotely. A fridge magnet of the smiling Obama family hovers over Michael and Melissa, making for a brilliantly cruel visual, this uber-public vision of black success and perfection all but mocking their sadness. The death of Michael Jackson bookends an era of illusory hope. The encroachment of decline and mortality, the toll of the routine, causes Ordinary People’s four main players to feel trapped. But in Evans’ rendering, their world is vast. —David Canfield You by Caroline Kepnes I have another confession: I wasn’t sure I wanted to read this book at first. During last month’s iteration of the EW Book Club (shameless plug: Listen to us on Sirius XM on Wednesdays at 5:30 p.m. PT!) I had my heart set on another title, but the listeners voted for Kepnes’ stalker-thriller (and subject of a current Lifetime adaptation). And, well, the listeners know best. You was a fabulously good time. The novel is told from the point-of-view of the stalker, beginning with the first day he meets his victim-slash-greatest-love (it depends who you ask). The reader is quickly let in on the fact that Joe is no ordinary protagonist and the crush he has on Beck, who fate sent into his bookstore, is no ordinary puppy love. He hacks into her email, he keeps watch on her friends, he follows her pretty much everywhere. But I should warn you: He’s also charming as all get out. Yes, Joe is also no ordinary stalker. He’s freaking funny, and even though he’s doing really creepy stuff like stealing Beck’s underwear, he’s doing it while making some of the wittiest social commentary I’ve read of late. If you’ve ever lived in New York City or found yourself surrounded by a smug group of Ivy League grads you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about — and you just might connect with Joe more than you’d like. —Seija Rankin September’s Hottest Books Invision/AP/REX/Shutterstock Lake Success: Gary Shteyngart’s foray into Trump’s America is funny and illuminating, if also a bit well-trodden. Read EW’s review, as well as our interview with the author. In Pieces: Sally Field tells her life story for the first time in a lyrical, at times devastating memoir. Read EW’s profile of the author-actress. Washington Black: Esi Edugyan’s bracing novel explores the aftermath of slavery. Read EW’s review. An Absolutely Remarkable Thing: Hank Green’s debut explores the trappings of social media, but disappoints. Read EW’s review. The Man Who Came Uptown: George Pelecanos may be running HBO’s The Deuce now, but he’s still writing great crime novels. Read EW’s interview with the author. The Real Lolita: Sarah Weinman’s true-crime chronicle reveals the tragic inspiration for a notorious novel. Read EW’s review. Cravings: Hungry for More: That’s right, Chrissy Teigen is back with a follow-up to her phenomenon cookbook. Read EW’s interview with the author. By David Canfield @davidcanfield97	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1273
__label__cc	0.602826	0.397174	Expanded Animation expanding ideas about animation dotdot dash January 9, 2019 January 9, 2019 ExpandedAnimation2 Comments Come and take part 6-8pm Thursday 17th January 2019 Cello Factory, 33-34 Cornwall Road, Waterloo, London SE1 8TJ New performance as part of the opening of In the Dark, an experimental show by the London Group, the Computer Arts Society and the Lumen prize dotdot dash is a participatory light action with laser pointers and voice directed by Birgitta Hosea. The performance is orchestrated around a chance-based score made through walking with paint-covered feet over musical paper. Coming together in a choral collaboration, participants are directed to explore the colours and mark making possibilities made by drawing with laser pointers and to accompany this with the sounds of their own voices. The effect is a live audio visual performance of animated lines in red, green and purple reminiscent of a scratched-on film, abstract animation such as those made by Len Lye. Although many other artists such as Pika Pika and even Picasso have done light painting before, this is not the same. It is not a set up to be recorded on a slow exposure for a photograph, but a live animation of lights and sound that is created communally and experienced in the present moment. dotdot dash was originally commissioned in 2018 for the Night Walking North Kent festival by InspiralLondon, a collaborative artists’ project led by Charlie Fox of Counterproductions. The project is based on a 300-mile walking trail around London in the shape of a spiral created by Charlie Fox and divided into 36 sections. Determining a route by chance through this drawing of a line means that the walk cuts through many unpredictable parts of London. dotdot dash was created to be experienced by walkers as part of a series of site specific artworks at the end of the trail in Gravesend. My intention was to create a work of animation that could be made collectively by the participants on the walk; that was mobile and would not involve carrying any heavy equipment. Additionally, following discussions with the InspiralLondon group about privilege and who is able to walk around freely in the dark at night, dotdot dash is a collective action to reclaim the night through light and noise for people who may not normally feel safe to walk at night in the city. The route involved going through light industrial areas that are desolate and deserted at night, walking through a caged walk way over a sheer drop to a chalk pit, through bushes and undergrowth, past burnt out motor bikes, across another caged walkway over a railway line and then to a tunnel through a disused chalk pit near Ebbsfleet International station. Everyone on the walk was given two laser pens and with around 30 people present together we created a live performance of animation. With the help of brass megaphone, I gave instructions as to what colors and types of marks they should make. With the excellent acoustics provided by the tunnel, I encouraged people to sing along with the instructions too. The work was repeated in a tunnel on the Regents Canal at Kings Cross, London for another InspiralLondon night walk for the London as Park City Festival, Friday 20th July 2018. A different group of walkers participated in the work. The addition of the water going through the tunnel added an extra element of bounced light and reflection to the mark making possibilities. Chance-based score made by walking, Birgitta Hosea, 2018 The same score interpreted by participants with lasers! animation outside, expanded animation, live art, visual musiclight action, live animation, live art, participation, performance art Erasure, Hanmi Gallery 30/08-19/10/18 August 21, 2018 March 1, 2019 ExpandedAnimationLeave a comment Exhibition by Birgitta Hosea at Hanmi Gallery Seoul 608-12 Sinsadong Gangnamgu, Seoul, South Korea http://www.hanmigallery.co.uk Private View: Thursday 30th August 2018 Artist’s Talk: 6 – 6.30 pm Performance: 6.30 – 7 pm Reception: 7 – 8 pm Erasure brings together a body of work from the last three years that addresses the erasure of women’s voices in society and visualises the invisibility of labour. The exhibition is named after my short film in which dirt, ink, bleach and other cleaning products are animated. It includes sequential drawings, performance and animated installation. Here are some of the plans that I have done in Sketchup. Information in Korean on Art & Tok I have many people to thank – Heashin Kwak and Soo Yeon Kim from Hanmi Gallery have done so much to make this happen; Sandra Nutmeg, Anne Pietsch and Maryclare Foa have given me so much support; very grateful to Calum F. Kerr for allowing me to share his studio; thanks to Lilly Husbands for writing the catalogue essay; a number of curators included pieces from this series in group shows or screenings which allowed me to develop the ideas further – Vanya Balogh, Tianran Duan, Rebecca Feiner, Lu Tingting, Gerben Schermer, Zhang Xiaotao; I was also supported by going on a number of residencies that enabled me space to progress at a time when I had no studio thanks to Susan Allen, Regine Bartsch, Rose Bond and Rekha Sameer; and finally I am so thankful to my employer, the University for the Creative Arts, for supporting the exhibition catalogue and my trip to Korea. Some images from the show: A video overview of the final exhibition filmed by Soo Yeon Kim: expanded animation, gallery installation, live artanimation installation, drawing, exhibition, gallery installation, Moving Pictures, performance art, Seoul Melania the Stepback Wife August 21, 2018 August 21, 2018 ExpandedAnimationLeave a comment Melania the Stepback Wife was a character I created for the Mind Your Head Art Cabaret in Peckham this summer, curated by Calum F Kerr and Caroline Gregory. Based on a hideous hybrid of Melania Trump and the 1970s Stepford Wives, Melania launched her new product line in MissFortune cookies, a wholesome new brand of home baking based on the very same pure, gentically modified, bleached ingredients her momma used to use. She just wanted to share her own beautiful life and very own misfortune. Melania tries to interest the audience in her cookies [Picture by Calum F Kerr] Accompanied by her loyal and real friendly husband Donny Pantsdown character design, live artperformance art ‘Medium'(2012) in Karachi Biennale November 19, 2017 December 7, 2017 ExpandedAnimationLeave a comment Thrilled that a video of my 2012 performance Medium was selected for the Karachi Biennale in Pakistan this year. Curated by Amin Gulgee, this is the first ever Biennale to take place in Karachi and had the theme of ‘Witness’. My work was installed in a building that formerly housed a branch of the Theosophical Society. The Biennale launch: Thanks to Sandra Louison for all her assistance in installing and promoting this work for me. Here are some of her photos of my work and where it was situated: Here is a snippet from the first dress rehearsal of Medium in the cells of a former workshouse underneath Shoreditch Town. Curated by Jane Webb for Illumini. Links to previous posts about this project: Medium and ‘Medium’ mark II. More about the Karachi Biennale: Karachi Biennale 2017 from Karachi Biennale on Vimeo. expanded animation, gallery installation, live art, performance drawing, site specific installationmedium Boundary Crossings: Performing Identity Boundary Crossings is a biennial institute for contemporary animated arts that was established in 2009 by artist, Rose Bond, at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon, USA. The two-week studio programme includes a hands-on exploration of experimental animation as spatial experience, interdisciplinary moving image practice, kinetic sculpture and expanded cinema. This is complimented by readings of related critical theory, a programme of artists talks and screenings and culminates in an exhibition. Participants include working professionals as well as graduate and upper-level undergraduate students with an interest in time-based arts and a desire for an immersive studio experience on the cutting edge of animation and fine art. Professor and Department Chair of Animated Arts at PNCA, Rose Bond‘s personal practice builds on her experience of frame-by-frame direct animation to create spectacular, site-specific, architectural animation projections in public spaces. Each Boundary Crossings is also co-curated and co-taught by a different international practitioner, who defines the theme and conceptual direction. This year’s theme, Performing Identity was chosen by visiting artist, Birgitta Hosea (myself), Head of Animation at the Royal College of Art in London. In addition, it was supported by guest artist, Carl Diehl, with Studio Manager, Maxwell Brown, and assisted by Sarah Hickey. The work produced during Boundary Crossings goes beyond the short film format in investigating in what ways the concepts behind the films can expand out of the screen and be presented to others in an exhibition context. All of these works were conceived of and produced in their entirety over a period of two weeks. Each artist has considered the context of the way in which their animation is displayed to create a unique experience in sound, image and space. PNCA, Portland, Oregon, USA. Photo: Birgitta Hosea, 2017 Entrance Hall. Photo: Birgitta Hosea, 2017 Overview. Photo: Birgitta Hosea, 2017 Overview. Photo: Ali Gradisher, 2017 Ran Sheng: From My Family Album Double projection on sculpture. Soundtrack: appropriated Chinese pop music. “A mixed-media memoir generated by childhood memories through the lens of current circumstances. Using the family photo as a carrier, I explore how childhood experiences have affected the development of my personality – who made me what I am?” Photo: Birgitta Hosea, 2017. Photos: Ali Gradisher, 2017 Nicole Baker: The Width of a Circle Black card, sequential prints on acetate, motor, stroboscope. Silent. “A magic machine made of light and myth, this kinetic sculpture emits visions of a creation tale eminating from primordial history. Contemporary visual storytelling technologies contrast with early animation mechanics to highlight how the power of myth perforates the human mind.” Terese Cuff: Complains and Concerns Extended animation split between two projectors on papier mȃché relief. Soundtrack: recreated voice recordings inspired by complaints made by children in the classroom. “Exploring the disconnect between conflicted internal and external voices, from the petty to the disturbing.” Jacob Houseman: A Very, Very Exclusive Performance Live performance with interactive database of animation. Silent. “All the fair ladies and gentlemen of polite society have tonight in their planners for this very, very exclusive performance, which is a very, very anticipated one. If you mean to secure your place among the rich and famous, you absolutely must view the very, very exclusive performance.” Photo: Birgitta Hosea, 2017 Sol Fantasma: Shapeshifter Rear projection of metamorphosing animals on tissue paper. Silent. “You aren’t the same person twice. Who you’re with influences how you act. Who are you really?” Briar Parks: The Eyes of Izangi Interactive animation with sculptural objects as controllers. Silent. “This interactive installation is inspired by animal mimicry, exploring how imitation blurs the line between Self and Other.” Photos: Birgitta Hosea, 2017 Amy Love: Shalom Cut out animation on TV monitor with associated objects. Soundtrack: unaccompanied personal recording of traditional song “The Artist shares her lived experience of trauma and recovery.” Ari Gabriel: Summer of the Yellow-Dry End Stop motion video, associated objects, cabinet. Soundtrack: Spoken word poetry. “Memories were left as dreams and fled into folklore, leaving something like an afterimage on the other side of an eyelid. The dry trees calling fire, the smell of hot stone, the dust stirred by crows, dreams of a gleam of a knife or scissors on a distant hill. In the hush of the summer night, the changeling was born of the Grain Mother.” Mike Nixon: Ocean – Sea of Faith Animations on three monitors. Soundtrack: various foley recordings of water and rowing, “Water can give or take away, as it is in life or death. The cycles of nature, day and night, season to season. The swimmer moves through water, clearing space and releasing it as they progress. There is the possibility of transformation through the most traumatic of experiences by the rhythms of life. We are water and water is us.” T.J. Orlowski: KINET-X Pre-recorded and user-generated animation. Silent. “This work explores the kinetic signature of an individual person’s specific motion through active participation.” At this year’s Boundary Crossings we started with the idea of how to convey subjective experience. Can animation can be used to express private, inner worlds? Can our personal identities be expressed without using verbal language? And if so, what makes an audience interested in another’s personal experience? The very notion of how personal identity is constituted and expressed was examined through Judith Butler’s idea that our identities are so fragile that they need to be constantly reaffirmed through repetitive personal rituals that confirm who we are. For example, in order to be a man, you make sure that you walk like a man. Animation is the perfect art to look at the personal and the subjective, because it is not limited to what can be photographed and can express thoughts direct from the imagination. Through animation, gesture and ritual can be analysed and reflected upon. This was further developed by discussions around glitch feminism – that gender may in itself be a faulty machine. The workshops included Isadora and physical computing by Carl Diehl, animated installation: expressing ideas through spatial context by Rose Bond and myself, projection techniques by Rose Bond and practice-based research and development of concepts by myself. I also gave a talk on my own practice that had been informed by extensive research into Victorian spirit mediums and screened a programme of experimental animations from the Royal College of Art. Participants were encouraged to be mutually supportive through peer review and connected reading sessions. To develop the theme of performing identity as well as to serve as a warm-up and possible starting point, I conducted a drawing workshop inspired by performance theory in which the choreographic principles of Rudolph Laban were used to build a vocabulary of emotional mark making and Method acting techniques were used to engage with affective and muscle memories. gallery installation, live artanimation, gallery installation, video art Beyond Noumenon November 6, 2016 ExpandedAnimationLeave a comment International Experimental Animation Exhibition and Forum, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute Chongqing, China, 18th Oct – 1st Nov 2106 This series of events sought to question the ontology of animation with a series of speakers and artists showing work that troubled at the edges of animation as a practice. Day 1. Forum Opening. Presentations: Welcome speeches by Jie Zhang , Vice-president of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chuan Li , Director of the New Media Department and Tingting Lu, director of the Forum. Tianran Duan “The Principle Concept of Animation” drew parallels between the post-modern collapse of meaning in philosophy and our current understanding of animation. Gerben Schermer “Holland Animation Film Festival on the Cutting Edge”talked about the curatorial policy of the festival and showed the film Recycled by Lei Lei and Thomas Sauvin Jian Liu reflected on experimental practice in animation and warned against over theorising practice. Birgitta Hosea “Involuntary Animation” explored involuntary mark-making and chance procedures in animation with reference to Iimura Takahiko’s Circle and Square (1982), John Cage’s Music of Changes (1951), Vicky Smith’s 33 Frames Per Feet (2013) and Noisy, Licking, Dribbling and Spitting (2014) and finally her own work Time Channel (2014). Xi Chen “Time and Poetry in Animation” Yuxiao Yi “Rational Technique and Image Ethic” discussed post-disciplinary, post-hums work and the extension of sensation Yves Nougzarede talked about “Annecy and Experimental Animation” with examples of films by Paul Bush and Susan Young and thoughts about the curatorial policy behind the experimental category Lei Lei “Tidy Up Old Things and Image of Animation” presented some his latest works in which he uses re-animation techniques to interrogate archival collections of photographs Sheila Sofia “Animated Documentary”discussed creative challenges in using animation for documentary purposes and considers whether animation might be more truthful or perhaps more manipulative than live action. Tingting Lu’s closing speech argued for a dematerialisation of the concepts behind animation, for animation as an adjective or adverb instead of a verb or a noun, for anti-animation, for post-animation. Sheila Sofia presents her latest film, Truth Has Fallen, and the context behind it Birgitta Hosea presents an overview of her work in animation and performance Organiser Tingting Lu, her assistant Juncheng Li, Birgitta Hosea and Sheila Sofian Exhibition Opening in the New Media Art Centre Featuring work by artists including: Birgitta Hosea. For Beyond Noumenon, she has created a series of works that explore erasure and the invisibility of labour. It takes so much physical labour to create the world around us – constructing buildings, manufacturing goods, cooking, cleaning… Yet, all too often this work goes unrecognised and is invisible. We see the end product – the finished building, the meal, the clean house – but not the labour of the workers that went into its creation. This project aims to remember some of the labour of domestic work performed over and over by many generations of women for their families, but then forgotten. Through sequential action drawings, paper cuts and performance, the process of erasure is used to record the duration and actions of domestic labour. The artist herself worked as a cleaner in hospitals and private houses in her younger years and has created this project in memory of her grandmothers. The individual works include Rosary Drawing XII (2015), a performance that explores the time-based nature of prayer beads, Scoured I-XVI (2016), a series of 16 images created through cleaning processes through the use of bleach and a scouring pad, and Cleaning I and 2 (2016), paper cuts made as the trace of a performance of cleaning. Sheila Sofian Tianran Duan Lei Lei Mi Chai Tingting Lu Lots of lovely food was eaten, particularly the local hot pot! Meeting up with former students Dandan Wang and Lai Wei, Sheila Sofia and translator Bao Li Birgitta Hosea also ran a workshop on Emotional and Physical Mark-making, which used techniques from contemporary dance and method acting to challenge students’ habitual drawing methods Press reviews and more photos on 99ys.com, sina.cn and weixin gallery installation, live art, Uncategorizedcontemporary Chinese animation, experimental animation, time based media Documentation of SEeAFAR October 30, 2014 ExpandedAnimationLeave a comment Foá + Hosea, Carali McCall, Anne Robinson, Sarah Sparkes, Thurle Wright Folkstone Triennial Fringe 29-31st August 2014 Deptford X 27th September – 5th October 2014 Curated by Birgitta Hosea He will not have been (a) present but he will have made a gift by not disappearing without leaving a trace. (Jacques Derrida in Re-Reading Levinas,1991) Seeafar features new work by six artists whose practice traces the presence of absence through drawing, painting, installation, performance and moving image. Recalling the perspective of generations of women living in a state of unknowing as they wait for news or the return of loved ones from overseas, the works explore the tensions between anticipation and memory, separation and speculation. The visionary act of making becomes an empowering process that enables each one of us to think things into the world, to reveal the hidden and make manifest the unsaid. The Old Truckers Lounge, Folkestone Harbour Foá + Hosea Traion III (Folkestone), Mixed Media (Graphite/pen on paper, projected animation), Dimensions variable (2014) In the Traion series, Foá + Hosea respond to the myth of the first drawing, in which Butades’s daughter traced the outline of her lover’s shadow on the wall to hold on to his memory before he left on a journey. Foá + Hosea engage with this dilemma – the impossibility of attempting to hold time – through fixing their digital shadows in place with animation. In the title of the series, the words ‘trace’ and ‘motion’ are merged to reference their process of drawing over film, in which evidence of presence and motion is traced. Artists’ bio: Maryclare Foá draws to examine the relationship and affects between place and practitioner. Her PhD revealed how sound can be drawing that interacts with the environment. She teaches for Central Saint Martins and writes for Studio International. Birgitta Hosea is a media artist working with expanded animation, installation and performance. Her work and PhD explore performativity, presence, affect and digital materiality. She is Course Director of MA Character Animation at CSM. Both artists have exhibited internationally and awards include Foá – RCA Drawing prize and twice shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize and Hosea – MAMA Holographic Arts Award and an Adobe Impact Award. Foá and Hosea work individually and also collaborate. Recent collaborative works have been exhibited in Paris – Dans ma cellule, une silhouette, Centre d’Art Contemporain, La Ferme du Buisson; London – Draw to Perform, ]Performance Space[; DRAFT, Parasol Unit; Bletchley Park – Ghost Station and Orkney – Papay Gyro Nights. www.maryclarefoa.com www.birgittahosea.co.uk Carali McCall Work no. 4 (Restraint / Running) Folkestone, Performance to camera (2014) In an area of performance drawing, which considers drawing to be connected to movement through the act of doing and physical activity, this performance addresses what it means to use the extreme form of physical activity – running. Using (myself) the runner to articulate an understanding of how the body moves through space, I use the ‘breath’ and the discipline of marathon training to explore how the physical act of running can be a viable form of drawing. Artist’s bio: Carali McCall is an artist working and living in London from Canada. She completed her MFA at Slade School of Art, UCL in 2006 and has recently submitted her practice-based PhD thesis at Central Saint Martins, UAL. Although training for marathons and ultramarathons have always occurred alongside her art practice, it was not until she adopted Euclid’s definition of the line ‘a line is a breadthless length’ and began to explore the role of the body in drawing that McCall has become aware of potential connections between running and drawing. Since studying the influences and the trajectory of performance art practices, her recent work has been used to explore linear properties beyond conventional mark making processes. Recent exhibitions and presentations of work include, Performing Site, Falmouth University 2014, Draw to Perform, Performance Space, London, 2013 and Again and Again and Again: Serial Formats and Repetitive Actions, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada, 2012. www.caralimccall.org Skinny White Sailor, 4-6 x paintings, 30.5cm x 40.5cm, oil on canvas (2014) Thrashing In the Static, Single screen video, 10 minute loop (2014) How far is too far? How can we look over the edge, feel our way beyond the horizon, traverse time zones and cross the bounds of one human life? The two new works presented here, paintings in the series Skinny White Sailor and the song-film Thrashing In the Static, involve a haunting – keeping watch in the night for revenant sailors. In Robinson’s song-films the voice becomes spirit presence. In Thrashing In the Static, the wavelengths of a search for a brother lost at sea soar over the edge across time zones – a ‘traveling eye’ crossing from the Thames foreshore in 21st century London, way back to an island in the South China Sea in 1942, a dream terrain, long away and far ago. The work draws on surrealism, phenomenology and radical philosophies of time to work with uncanny presence, the sorcery of long exposures, high speed filming and painterly surface distorting out time sense. Artist’s bio: Anne Robinson’s practice encompasses painting, moving image installations and performance and is concerned with the perception and politics of time passing in art. She has shown work nationally and internationally, recently working with the Commonist Gallery and CGTV on film and singing interventions. She completed a residency in 2013 in Marseilles at De Centre der Space. She has published in: The Journal of Visual Arts Practice and The Journal of Media Practice as well as curating One More Time (2011), Over Time (2014) and being one of the art curators for the Supernormal festival. She has recently completed a PhD on temporality and painting and also works with the moving image in collaboration with other artists and as an educator, currently senior lecturer in Film at London Metropolitan University. annerobinsonartwork.org Sarah Sparkes The Haunted Sea and Jane Conquest Rings the Bell, Mixed media (2014) Sarah Sparkes’ great grandfather was a Magic Lanternist. Using his decaying lantern slides and combining these with a magician’s optical effects, the artist has created a series of works illuminating the ambiguous relationship between the woman watching on the shore and the spectre of the shipwreck at sea. In Jane Conquest rings the Bell a standard maritime narrative is re-imagined, in which a visionary woman looks out from behind the helm of destiny. Artist’s bio: Sarah Sparkes’ work, as both an artist and curator, is primarily concerned with concepts of immateriality and how this might be visualised. She runs the visual arts and cross-disciplinary research project GHost, which explores how ghosts are manifested in visual art and contemporary culture. Her chapter on Ghost has been published in The Ashgate Research Companion to Paranormal Cultures, 2014. Recent exhibitions include Theatrical Dynamics at Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles; The Infinity Show at NN Contemporary, Northampton and Haunted Landscapes, University of Falmouth, Cornwall. She is currently developing work for the Over Time project in Greenwich, London and is one of the selected artists for Art in Romney Marsh Churches, 2014. www.sarahsparkes.com Thurle Wright Crossing, Collage (Found map of Dover Strait and two poems by Matthew Arnold; ‘Dover Beach’ and ‘Calais Sands’), 90x100cm, (2012) Deep Reading (Extract from children’s adventure novel and old school atlas, glue, on paper), 60 x 20″, (2010) An oily old sea map and pages from a poetry book: the poems in this work are addressed to a woman at the end of her honeymoon travels. The poet, Arnold, speaks to his new wife as he gazes out to sea at night contemplating the future in a mood of great uncertainty and melancholy. In deconstructing the lines of the poems and stitching them in small paper stages across the map, the physical progress of the sea crossing is referenced, flowing alongside the slow unravelling process of reflecting and writing itself. There is a patient stitching of thoughts, not knowing how it will end. The words themselves become waves and currents, caught in that space between leaving and arriving, at the mercy of the tides. Artist’s Bio: Thurle’s delicate paper reconstructions stem from an interest in the systems and structures of language, the ordering of knowledge, the collecting, storing and accessing of words. Working in the gap between the concrete and abstract impression of text on paper, Thurle cuts, folds, weaves and stitches lines of words into a new visual format, in which traces of the original mingle with personal, often playful or poetic interpretations. Thurle has shown work widely both in the UK and internationally including the Bookarts Triennial in Lithuania, Deptford X, and Brussels Art on Paper. Her work is in various public and private collections including Brisbane Sate Library. Numerous residencies include work for the V&A Museum of Childhood, Perth Central School of Art and Design, Fremantle Arts Centre, Camberwell Arts Festival and various colleges. www.thurle.com Bonus artwork by Sandra Louison at Folkestone Num3er, Creekside, Deptford Acknowledgements: thanks to all of the artists for their help in putting together this exhibition as well as Anne Pietsch, Sandra Louison and the teams behind the Folkestone Fringe, Num3er and Deptford X gallery installation, live art, movement, performance drawing, site specific installationgallery installation, Moving Pictures, projections, site specific animation, time-based Call for Papers – Ecstatic Truth V: The Age of the Absurd CALL FOR PAPERS. 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__label__wiki	0.904031	0.904031	Celebrity News October 12, 2019 Cody Simpson Confirms He's Dating Miley Cyrus: 'We Just Have a Ball' They can't stop, and they won't stop... Miley Cyrus and Cody Simpson, that is! Cody took time out from celebrating the launch of Tiffany & Co. Men's in L.A. Friday to confirm that he and Miley are officially together — and that he couldn't be happier about it! "I'm very happy. We are very, very happy," Simpson said to reporters at the event. He went on to say Miley is "creative. She's very passionate about what she does, and I'm very similar in that sense. That's why we get along so well." Is Liam Hemsworth Dating Aussie Actress After Miley Cyrus Split? People magazine reports the smitten singer also said, "We just have a ball, yeah, and that's the most important part of a relationship, you know?" Citing their long friendship, he said it was refreshing to have rediscovered each other "in a space where we're both not partying, working real hard." He believes, "It just keeps things healthy, and it's good." Radar Pics “Any girlfriends I’ve had in the past has always been immediate romance, and so it’s a different experience having been friends with somebody before and it developing naturally into something more.” To cement their togetherness, Simpson even wrote and recorded a new song about Cyrus while she was recovering from tonsillitis this past week! “She was like, ‘If you don’t put this s— out, I’m putting it out on your behalf for you. I’m getting your Spotify login and doing this s— myself.’” He has previewed the song for fans, and said, “I shouted the words in the first daylight and a chorus of words burst into sight. Now I know that I’m hers, for whatever it’s worth, by the rule that’s in the sky.” He's giving boyfriends out there a lot to live up to! The two have been spotted together frequently since Miley ended her brief relationship with Kaitlynn Carter within the past month and announced her seven-month marriage to Liam Hemsworth was over in August. #HookupsAndBreakups#CodySimpson#MileyCyrus#LiamHemsworth#KaitlynnCarter	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1276
__label__wiki	0.691822	0.691822	FSC dissociates from APRIL by Sergio Baffoni \| Aug 14, 2013 \| Uncategorized A recent statement issued by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) confirms that the paper giant Asia Pacific Resources International (APRIL) is officially banned from using the FSC trademark to market its pulp and paper products. This decision follows a formal complaint submitted by Greenpeace, WWF Indonesia and Rainforest Action Network that APRIL was in violation of its Policy of Association. The joint-NGO complaint to the FSC documents continued large-scale deforestation activities, pervasive social conflicts and violations of human rights in Indonesia by APRIL and other companies within the RGE group. In order to avoid any inquiry, last June, APRIL asked its certification bodies to withdraw all of its chain-of-custody FSC certificates. APRIL is part of the RGE (Royal Golden Eagle) group, owned by the notorious deforestation tycoon Mr Sukanto Tanoto, whose assets are estimated to be worth around US$12 billion. The FSC Policy for Association is in place to ensure that the FSC only associates with companies committed to fundamental principles of responsible forest management. It requires that a company holding FSC chain-of-custody certificates not be involved in the conversion of High Conservation Value forest and must not have converted an area of forest covering more than 10,000 ha within the past five years. “The FSC has acted rapidly to disassociate its brand from the activities of APRIL and its affiliated companies,” said Aditya Bayunanda from WWF Indonesia. “However, APRIL still holds chain of custody certificates granted through the industry-led PEFC forest certification scheme. If the PEFC had any teeth, it would follow the lead of the FSC and distance itself from all RGE group companies.” The latest statement by the FSC not only means that APRIL is no longer allowed to apply for any sort of FSC certification, but that all other companies belonging to Tanoto’s pulp and paper empire are barred from obtaining FSC chain-of-custody certificates. These include three leading global specialty cellulose companies â€“ Sateri International (China), Bahia Speciality Cellulose (Brazil) and Toba Pulp Lestari (Indonesia).â€“ that manufacture ingredients used in everyday products ranging from textiles, cigarette filters, baby wipes and eyeglass frames to cosmetics, ice cream, pharmaceuticals and tyres. “Whilst more and more companies are cutting their ties with deforestation, Sukanto Tanoto’s empire continues to trash rainforests across Sumatra and Borneo,” said Zulfalmi from Greenpeace Southeast Asia. “In 2012, APRIL’s suppliers alone planned to clear around 60,000 hectares of rainforest, making Tanoto the largest driver of deforestation for pulp in Indonesia, if not the world.” “This move is a clear signal to paper and textile buyers as well as the broader corporate community that APRIL and Sukanto Tanoto’s other holdings are rogue companies,” added Christy Tennery of Rainforest Action Network. “FSC’s decision, and the shocking cases of land conflict and rainforest conversion raised in our complaint, demonstrates that doing business with RGE companies poses significant risk to customer brands and investors.” WWF, Greenpeace and RAN are calling on APRIL and the RGE group to commit to adopting and implementing a zero deforestation policy that ends deforestation, expansion on carbon-rich peatlands, violations of human and labor rights and illegal practices and that includes immediately stopping all natural forest and peatland conversion, eliminating the use of mixed tropical hardwoods, restoring/compensating legacy forest and peatland loss and resolving and remedying conflicts and human rights violations.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1277
__label__wiki	0.563429	0.563429	About FCM Quebec partnership develops shared tourism strategy Case Study: Quebec partnership develops shared tourism strategy Filter by: Topic (-) Video (3) Webinar recording (2) Filter by: FCM Program Green Municipal Fund (3) (-) Municipal Asset Management Program (3) Partners for Climate Protection (4) Women in Local Government (2) The First Nations–Municipal Community Economic Development Initiative (CEDI) is a joint project of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) and Cando (the Council for the Advancement of Native Development Officers). From 2013 to 2016, the initiative worked with six community partnerships across Canada in urban, rural and remote settings. Hundreds of communities expressed interest in collaborating with this unique initiative and as a result, FCM and Cando are currently implementing a second phase of CEDI until 2021. CEDI enables collaboration to pursue joint community economic development (CED) initiatives by fostering stronger relations and supporting mutually beneficial initiatives. Released in September 2015, CEDI’s Stronger Together toolkit systematizes the knowledge and experience from the first phase. The First Nations–municipal CED methodology is articulated around four milestones, starting with building a relationship and mutual respect. In 2017, CEDI staff visited one of the partnerships located in western Quebec. Through CEDI (Phase 1), Kebaowek First Nation (formerly Eagle Village First Nation), the Town of Témiscaming and the Municipality of Kipawa developed a tripartite friendship, agreed to pursue a shared tourism strategy and started to explore a coordinated approach to regional economic development. The CEDI toolkit includes a case study outlining the history and milestones of the partnership. The last activity of the partnership under CEDI support took place in June 2015, but the tripartite collaboration continues to flourish and grow. First Nations–Municipal Collaboration is Groundwork for National Truth and Reconciliation In 2013, the Town of Témiscaming (population 2,385) and Kebaowek First Nation (261 on-reserve and 568 off-reserve) described the state of their relationship: “We live next door to one another yet don’t necessarily know each other; we coexist.” In the wake of the national Truth and Reconciliation process, this situation remains all too common across the country. Témiscaming and Kebaowek are located on the traditional territory of the Algonquin Nation, in a resource-rich region of Quebec, approximately 70 kilometres northeast of North Bay, Ontario. The two communities were concerned about their dependency on the forestry industry and saw the opening of a new provincial park, Opemican Park, as a way to support tourism growth. They decided that a regional approach would better attract tourists and asked the nearby Municipality of Kipawa (population 474) to join them. They developed a joint vision statement to guide their collaboration. “We want to create a memorable experience by welcoming visitors to share our natural beauty, cultural heritage and friendliness.” While it seemed that conditions favoured a successful venture, the partnership had a difficult start because the three communities held opposing views over a proposed mine in the region. Over the course of several months, through openness and mutual commitment, community leaders managed to overcome this barrier. They “agreed to disagree” on the rare-earth mineral mine project. The CEDI Dialogue Principles were instrumental to that process. These communities came to better appreciate their respective histories and issues, and the need to collaborate to build a better tomorrow. Trust and respect were built over time. During ameeting, Chief Lance Haymond repeated these two words. He explained, “Understanding and educating is the biggest part of the Truth and Reconciliation. Fighting prejudice. Few people know the contribution that First Nations have had for the development of Canada.” This sentiment resonates with his counterparts. Nicole Rochon, Mayor of Témiscaming, said, “Understanding the Indigenous culture has helped me realize some of the constraints and challenges that the Band Council has to deal with. This remains true today. They have to manage everything, including contracting and paying the nurses. We don’t have that responsibility as a municipality.” By 2016, at the end of their formal involvement in CEDI, the partners had accomplished the four milestones. The foundations of friendship were in place. A tourism strategy had been adopted. And a series of key objectives were in sight: Develop a tourism marketing plan Create a name, logo and slogan to build the brand Hire a joint tourism development officer Create a website and promotional material, including a short video The completion of the four stages of joint First Nation-Municipal CED is not the end of the process; rather it marks the start of a new way of thinking about, and working with, neighbouring communities. Long-term success depends on making joint CED the new normal in communities: Invest in building mutual trust and respect Develop a broad network of supporters and champions Make formal commitments and governance structures Address difficult issues as they arise Try new things; learn and improve More than Economic Development, CED is Vital to Social Inclusion and Wellbeing Chief Haymond knows his community thoroughly. He speaks persuasively of the prejudices of social welfare and challenging circumstances. He points to the legacy of residential schools. He knows the responsibility and small window of opportunity for the five remaining elders in his community, aged between 60 and 86 years old, to pass on their language and culture: the traditions, the names of the lakes, the knowledge of the land. Community development is complex and there is much at risk. Adding to the challenges are complicated jurisdictions, legal and fiscal arrangements, and accountability mechanisms that can make development processes cumbersome. As Chief Haymond explains, “In Canada, we have Indigenous communities that have a legal relationship with the federal government and municipalities that work under the jurisdiction of their provincial municipal acts.” These dynamics create boundaries and silos, resulting in neighbouring communities that cannot easily collaborate. People circulate freely on the land and through the towns, but social issues create islands of solitude. One case in point is the segregation of school systems. Throughout the history of the three communities, English and French school systems were planned separately with children divided by language and culture. As a result, children living in the same neighbourhood did not play together. Racism and intolerance feed on ignorance. While municipalities are not responsible for schools, Témiscaming, Kebaowek and Kipawa have started to advocate together for change with the school boards. These issues affect everyone, and the communities are finding strength and leverage with stakeholders through collaboration. Chief Haymond acknowledges that the partnership has come a long way, and that it was not always easy. “Through dialogue and mutual respect, and cooperation, we are starting to see the benefits. The more we talk, the more we realize that we have things in common.” From Coexisting to Long-term Collaboration At the forefront of the collaboration with Témiscaming and Kipawa, Justin Roy, Director of Economic Development for Kebaowek First Nation, has seen the relationship develop from its early stages. “We haven’t missed a single meeting of our committee since it started. There are a lot of moving parts to our collaboration. We don’t want this to go off the road!” CEDI provided the technical support, the advice and the encouragement to break down barriers and create relationships. “With time, we build trust,” said Roy. “Trust that gets bigger and better. That’s the biggest thing we’ve got from the project.” Reflecting on the lessons learned from the CEDI project, Roy spoke of open communication and transparency as key to success. Trust and friendship were built by: Ensuring equal representation of partners in all discussions Taking time to get to know one another on topics such as governance, policy, culture, history Leaving politics out of the collaboration to focus on joint objectives for community wellbeing Creating open conversations Picking common goals “Tourism is a nice, clean industry that we can all take part in,” said Amanda Nadon-Langlois, Tourism Development Officer at Kipawa Tourism, and it is also a strong ground for long-term collaboration. Leading Together FCM and Cando were invited to an event to launch the logo of Kipawa Tourism in spring 2017. The logo features three proud loons, standing together heads high under a shared horizon: a beautiful and powerful representation of the relationship that is developing amongst the three partners. “We are three cultures here: the Algonquins, the French descendants, and the English descendants. We work together. We play together. And we build our future together,” said Norman Young, Mayor of Kipawa. “You cannot work with someone if you don’t know them. The road that we have walked together over the years has built great friendship. We started with the idea of tourism. But now, we’re starting to think about other things.” An addition to the reserve, growing the snowmobile and bike trails, and developing commercial activities are on the radar, said Justin Roy. Through their collaboration, the communities have been able to attract three doctors. “We see new leaders emerging. We see new faces, younger people. We discuss new things that I don’t think we would have been able to discuss just a few years ago. This is making our communities better.” At the Kipawa Tourism launch event, all partners acknowledged CEDI’s important contribution to enable and nurture their relationship. Helen Patterson, CEDI Project Manager reminded guests and partners, “We asked you to show us the way for Canadian municipalities and First Nation collaboration. You have demonstrated rigour, commitment and dedication. Congratulations on your success! Thank you for being the example.” The launch event culminated with a preview of the promotional video developed as part of the tourism strategy. 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__label__cc	0.635816	0.364184	Who will be the Third Annual Lars Sundheimer Fermentation Olympic Champion? Sponsored by Grow Pittsburgh There will be 3 events starting at 12noon till ~1pm at the Festival on Sunday Feb 23rd. Each round will select only the top finishers to move on, while others will be “knocked out.” The winner of the final round will be crowned the champion and will win a Full Cultures Kit that includes a complete set of starter cultures for: Tempeh, Koji, Sourdough, Natto, Tofu, Kefir, Oncom, and more! How to sign-up: Register to be a participant by entering the lottery below. Those randomly selected will be notified prior to the event. Sign-up is FREE. The first competition is at 12:00pm. What the heck will we be doing? Competitors will be challenged in silly tests of their general fermenting skills. The challenges are kept secret until festival day to ensure a level playing field. However, in the first event participants will need to be good at extracting liquid from sliced cabbage. (That’s the only hint you get. For now.) Register for the Fermenter Olympic Lottery Signing up to enter the Ferment Olympic Contestant Lottery means you have full intention to attend the Pittsburgh Fermentation Festival on Feb 23rd 2020. Selected applicants will be asked to arrive by 11:30 to check in. Applicants will be chosen at random and notified by email where they will be asked to confirm participation. Only 10 will be selected for the first round, then 6 go on to the second, and 3 compete in the final round. The Olympics will begin at Noon and run until completed with roughly 15min between each event. And remember this is silly and not serious at all. However the final 3 will go home with Starter Cultures! In memory of Lars Sundheimer Lars was a passionate fermenter and wonderful person whose fervor for exploring the world of fermentation was infectious. Through her excitement to learn about every ferment she could we decided to continue to pass along the inspiration she gave to those around her by awarding the Fermenter Olympics Champion with a full and thorough Cultures Starter Package.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1285
__label__cc	0.695822	0.304178	Calling for Applications: JWB Singapore Summer PR and Operations Fellowship 2018 Category: Recruitment Justice Without Borders: Singapore Summer PR & Operations Fellowship 2018 Justice Without Borders (JWB) is accepting applications for a Summer Public Relations & Operations Fellowship in the Singapore office. Please click here for more information. The Fellow will primarily assist with the messaging and mechanics of our regional organisation. Projects will focus on public relations, development and fundraising, outreach, event planning and execution, information technology, and supporting our staff generally. The Fellow will have the opportunity to coordinate with partners across the region, including Indonesia, the Philippines and Hong Kong, among others. Please note that the Fellowship is a professional engagement, with students treated as junior staff in the organization. While experience with migrant worker issues is a plus, it is not required. We are looking for people who are interested in our issue area, are self-motivated, can work in a team and are not afraid to take on new challenges outside of their comfort zone. About Justice Without Borders JWB is a not-for-profit organisation that supports victims of labour exploitation and human trafficking in seeking just compensation against their abusers, even after returning home. Operating at the regional level, we work with local service organisations along key migration routes to ensure victims can access legal assistance, wherever they are. In Singapore, JWB develops the networks, knowledge and know-how needed to bring cross-border litigation. We work with local service organisations to screen cases for potential civil claims and with lawyers to both develop cases and conduct strategic legal research that will help clarify currently unsettled areas of the law. We have already assisted locally qualified lawyers in obtaining successful settlements for multiple clients, and we are in the process of developing new cross-border cases for clients with outstanding legal claims. Candidate Qualifications 40 hours per week in the summer at JWB’s office, with priority given to those who can commit to a minimum of 6 weeks. Available from 25 June 2018 to 3 August 2018. Applicants who can start earlier or end later are welcome. Fluency in English, with strong written and oral communications skills. Ability to work well in a team, managing tasks assigned to the entire group. Strong organizational skills, ability to manage multiple tasks with different deadlines. Self-directed, ability to take initiative and actively address issues that come up in the flow of work. Have their own laptop with Microsoft Office products and ability to communicate via web applications (email, calendar) throughout the day. JWB treats its Fellows as professionals and entrusts high levels of responsibility in them accordingly. Welcome but not required Skills or interest in graphic design. Skills or interest in video production and photography. Experience in or a student of mass communications or public relations. Speaking and writing ability in Bahasa Indonesia or Tagalog. Knowledge of website and social media tools, including WordPress, Twitter and Facebook. This is an unpaid fellowship. Please submit a one-page cover letter, CV and a writing sample of no more than ten (10) pages to Yee Suan Poon at yeesuan@forjusticewithoutborders.org. Applications are due 30 APRIL 2018. Questions about the Fellowship? E-mail us today. For more information, visit: www.forjusticewithoutborders.org and our Facebook page, www.facebook.com/forjusticewithoutborders info@forjusticewithoutborders.org © Justice Without Borders 2013 - 2020 Hong Kong \| Singapore \| Indonesia \| USA Disclaimer: JWB IS AN INDEPENDENT ORGANIZATION THAT IS NOT AFFILIATED WITH ANY OTHER ORGANIZATIONS, INCLUDING “WITHOUT BORDERS” ORGANIZATIONS. JUSTICE WITHOUT BORDERS IS NOT IN ANY WAY AFFILIATED WITH DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS / MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES, LAWYERS WITHOUT BORDERS, INC / ABOGADOS SIN FRONTERAS, OR JUDGES WITHOUT BORDERS. DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS AND MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES ARE REGISTERED TRADEMARKS OF MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES INTERNATIONAL. Justice Without Borders Learn more about our mission and impact. Meet our board members and staff. Read the latest updates of our work. Read our annual reports and legal research publications. Find answers to your questions here. {:en}Contact{:}{:zh}交流{:} Contact us to explore partnerships, volunteering opportunities and more. First ‘Reverse Cross-Border’ Mass Claim Against Illegal Agency Fees Calling Hong Kong Law Students: Summer 2019 Legal Fellowships Are Open Making Insurance Pay: JWB and ILO Helping to Overcome Barriers to Insurance Claims for Workers Returning Home	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1291
__label__wiki	0.702898	0.702898	Global sea ice area and extent data Author Topic: Global sea ice area and extent data (Read 148251 times) Re: Global sea ice area and extent data Gerontocrat, do you know the total number of days 2018 has spent at the lowest position in global extent? I have amazing news for you. Man is not alone on this planet. He is part of a community, upon which he depends absolutely. - Ishmael Quote from: Ktb on May 25, 2018, 02:32:00 PM 34 out of 144, I think. Getting exciting, does it flatline or not? JAXA DATA - Extent as at 27 May = 21,536,004 km2, 18k above2017 On average, a maximum of 24.31 million km2, a bit higher but still second lowest, is on the cards, with a relatively low range of 23.5 million to 25.2 million km2 outcomes from the last 10 years remaining extent gain. On average, 69% of extent gain done, with 161 days to go. ps:- Due to the different timings of Antarctic gain and Arctic loss, there is a secondary minimum of global extent in late August or September. At the moment, this also looks like a record low is very possible. See last table attached. AA1.png (31.06 kB, 695x430 - viewed 5203 times.) « Last Edit: May 31, 2018, 12:28:01 PM by gerontocrat » AA2.png (16.7 kB, 521x333 - viewed 4852 times.) JAXA DATA - Extent as at 4th June = 22,111,119 km2, 38k below2017 and 34k greater than 2016 - i.e. 2nd lowest by a teeny bit. On average, a maximum of 24.43 million km2, a bit higher but still second lowest, is on the cards, with a slightly lower range of 23.8 million to 25.1 million km2 outcomes from the last 10 years remaining extent gain. JAXA DATA - Extent as at 7th June = 22,237,997 km2, 145k below2017 and 262k below 2016 - i.e. lowest by a significant bit. On average, a maximum of 24.39 million km2, a still second lowest, is on the cards, with a slightly lower range of 23.5 million to 25.0 million km2 outcomes from the last 10 years remaining extent gain. JAXA DATA - Extent as at 7th June = 22,469,175 km2, 30k below2017 and 200k below 2016 - i.e. still lowest- just. A combination of high Antarctic gains and low Arctic losses over the last three days has changed the picture somewhat. On average, a maximum of 24.52 million km2, still second lowest, is on the cards, with a slightly lower range of 23.6 million to 25.1 million km2 outcomes from the last 10 years remaining extent gain. To be a record low, remaining extent gain would have to be about 40% less than the average remaining extent gain of 2 million km2. AA4.png (176.9 kB, 700x487 - viewed 4413 times.) NSIDC Global Daily Extent as at 13th June + Jaxa image (https://ads.nipr.ac.jp/vishop/#/extent/&time=2018-05-29%2000:00:00) NSIDC and Jaxa extent data show the same story - high Antarctic gains and low Arctic losses. NSIDC Global Extent - Daily Data.png (38.85 kB, 699x475 - viewed 4177 times.) VISHOP_Extent.png (230.9 kB, 700x600 - viewed 4259 times.) JAXA DATA - Extent as at 14th June = 23,085,478 km2, 640k above2017 and 116k below 2016 A combination of high Antarctic gains and low Arctic losses over the last 10 days or so has changed the picture somewhat. On average, a maximum of 24.94 million km2, 1.2 million km2 above the record low of 2016, still second lowest (just), with a range of 23.7 million to 25.8 million km2 outcomes from the last 10 years remaining extent gain. A record low is looking about impossible as remaining extent gain would have to be about 70% less than the average. Global area has managed to punch back into +/-2 standard deviation range for the first time since July 2016. 6-14-18 Area.png (613.14 kB, 1200x900 - viewed 123 times.) JAXA DATA - Extent as at 17th June = 23,103,875 km2, 457k above 2017 and 200k below 2016 A combination of high Antarctic gains and low Arctic losses over the last 10 days or so changed the picture somewhat and then in the last three days reversed to very low Antarctic gains. 17th June saw a 27k drop in total extent, (a bit earlier than the average year start in early July). On average, a maximum of 24.82 million km2, 1.1 million km2 above the record low of 2016, still second lowest, with a range of 23.6 million to 25.6 million km2 outcomes from the last 10 years remaining extent gain. A record low is looking about impossible as remaining extent gain would have to be about 70% less than the average (as happened in 2016). The last table shows the Sept/Oct "false minimum" caused by the different timing of Arctic extent loss and Antarctic extent gain. A record low is still very possible. No flatline to the summer secondary peak then, still possible to have a flatline in autumn of course. JAXA DATA - Extent as at 1st July 2018 = 23,767,558 km2, 1.130 million km2 above 2017 and 4th lowest in the satellite record A combination of high Antarctic gains and low Arctic losses in June makes a record low look somewhat unlikely to impossible. On average, a maximum of 25.38 million km2 is the result from average remaining extent gain, 1.6 million km2 above the record low of 2016. The previous 10 years remaining extent gain gives outcomes ranging from 23.84 to 26.28 million km2.. On average, 82% of extent gain done, with 1 days to go. The last table shows the Sept/Oct "false minimum" caused by the different timing of Arctic extent loss and Antarctic extent gain. A record low is still just about possible. But note this assumes that as usual for a period of time from about now, daily Arctic Sea Ice extent loss is greater than Antarctic Sea Ice gain, as happened in 2016. And a graph from JAXA. aa5.png (167.33 kB, 695x456 - viewed 3729 times.) JAXA DATA - Extent as at 7 July 2018 = 23,860,328 km2, 1.024 million km2 above 2017 and 5th lowest in the satellite record On average, a maximum of 25.52 million km2 is the result from average remaining extent gain, 1.6 million km2 above the record low of 2016. The previous 10 years remaining extent gain gives outcomes ranging from 23.86 to 26.6 million km2.. At this point in time, Arctic loss is, on average, greater than Antarctic gain. This is not happening so far this year to any meaningful extent. JAXA DATA - Extent as at 16 July 2018 = 23,720,655 km2, 1.116 million km2 above 2017 and 6th lowest in the satellite record A combination of average Antarctic gains and low Arctic losses in June and July makes a record low look unlikely to impossible, given that extent is now only 40 k below that record. On average, a maximum of 25.64 million km2 is the result from average remaining extent gain, 1.9 million km2 above the record low of 2016. The previous 10 years remaining extent gain gives outcomes ranging from 23.94 to 26.65 million km2. At this point in time, daily Arctic loss is, on average, greater than daily Antarctic gain. This is not happening so far this year to any meaningful extent. (see garph and table re Sept/Oct false minimum) And a graph from JAXA to complete the picture JAXA DATA - Extent as at 20 July 2018 = 23,533,468 km2, 0.760 million km2 above 2017 and 6th(?) lowest in the satellite record In recent days high Arctic losses and low Antarctic gains has made a bit of a difference. Table re the Sep/Oct false minimum also attached. JAXA DATA - Extent as at 20 July 2018 = 23,167,525 km2, now only 0.139 million km2 above 2017 and 2nd(?) lowest in the satellite record In recent days high Arctic losses and low Antarctic gains has made a large difference. Looking at the Sep/Oct temporary minimum, if Arctic extent losses continue above average, and Antrctic gains low, a record low temporary minimum is a real possibility. Quote from: gerontocrat on July 28, 2018, 01:39:09 PM Whee!! Where's the heat off, that was redistributed by atmosphere, 2015 El Nino? Has it stayed in south (New Zealand heat in 2016-7), or is there a northern component to it ( like 2 weeks of +30°C weather in northern Europe.) On the yard, in the shade, 31 degrees, sweating, having beer. (At least it's windy today. Soon to water the lawn, surprised the city hasn't yet complained of the water usage of the citizens. Record low: Unlikely to impossible on July 17th. Real possibility. July 28th. Quote from: harpy on July 29, 2018, 01:31:29 AM As the US SeaBees (Construction Battalion) used to say - "the impossible will take a little longer". Harpy, you were out by 2 days (NSIDC Daily Extent Data). https://sites.google.com/site/arctischepinguin/home/global-sea-ice Pinguin Global Extent 30 July 2018.png (285.95 kB, 805x569 - viewed 80 times.) JAXA DATA - Extent as at 6 Aug 2018 = 22,854,878 km2, now 0.349 million km2 above 2017 and 2nd(?) lowest in the satellite record A mixture of variable gains and losses have kept an unchanged picture. Extent and a likely maximum of around 25 million are well below historical averages for a third year. Three years in a row at least suggest the beginning of a significant change. JAXA DATA - Extent as at 10 Aug 2018 = 22,854,878 km2, now 0.327 million km2 (1.4%) above 2017 and 2nd lowest in the satellite record A bit above average arctic sea ice losses and well below average Antarctic sea ice gains have changed the picture somewhat. Extent is now 856k (3.8%) below the 2010's average. The September interim minimum from the remaining average net sea ice loss in this period is on 5 Sept, just 27 days from now. The average result is 21.96 million, just 0.05 million above the record low in 2012 on the 25 August. But this measure is subject to highly volatile change. JAXA DATA - Extent as at 20 Aug 2018 = 22,554,294 km2, now 0.237 million km2 (1.0%) above 2017 and 4th lowest in the satellite record Extent is now 698 k (3.1%) below the 2010's average. The September interim minimum from the remaining average net sea ice loss in this period is on 5 Sept, just 17 days from now. However, this minimum could be in 5 days or as many as 31 days from now. The average result is 22.11 million, just 0.20 million above the record low in 2012 on the 25 August. The September interim minimum from the remaining average net sea ice loss in this period is on 5 Sept, just 9 days from now. However, this minimum was reached earlier in 3 years, and could have been reached already, or be in as many as 23 days from now. The average result is 22.27 million, 4th lowest, and 0.36 million above the record low in 2012 on the 25 August. But for the very slow arctic melt this year, a new record low would have been possible. This measure is subject to highly volatile change, and at this time especially projections of outcomes are of little value. Entering the exiting other season when global ice may flatline. The northern hemisphere heat didn't reach arctic this year but the build-up of new ice may still be slow. Or the antarctic ice might leave fast. « Last Edit: August 29, 2018, 10:44:46 PM by Pmt111500 » Quote from: Pmt111500 on August 29, 2018, 07:17:41 PM Having both Arctic and Antarctic to consider gives one double the chances of being wrong. And I should know. JAXA DATA - Extent as at 31 Aug 2018 = 22,471,089 km2, now 0.241 million km2 (1.1 %) above 2017 and 3rd lowest in the satellite record The September interim minimum is on average on 5 Sept, just 5 days away. However, this minimum was reached earlier in 2011, 2012, and 2014, and could have been reached already, or be in as many as 20 days from now. The result from average further extent loss is 22.29 million, 4th lowest, and 0.38 million above the record low in 2012 on the 25 August. But for the very slow arctic melt this year, a new record low would have been possible. Big loss in the antarctic today should push global sea ice extent to lowest on record. First time since late July. Edit: don't ice while intoxicated « Last Edit: September 09, 2018, 04:57:41 PM by Ktb » JAXA DATA - Extent as at 8 Sep 2018 = 22,240,985 km2, now 96k km2 (0.4 %) below 2017 and 2nd lowest in the satellite record (45k > 2012 - not quite a record low Ktb) The September interim minimum was on average on 5 Sept, 3 days before. However, this minimum was reached earlier in 2011, 2012, 2013,2014 and 2017, and could be be in as many as 12 days from now (2008, 2010). The result from average further extent loss is 22.11 million, just 4th lowest, and 0.20 million above the record low in 2012 on the 25 August. But for the very slow arctic melt this year, a new record low would have been probable. This measure is subject to highly volatile change, and at this time especially, projections of outcomes are of little value. JAXA DATA - Extent as at 9 Sep 2018 = 22,227,260 km2, now 159k km2 (0.7 %) below 2017 and lowest in the satellite record The September interim minimum was on average on 5 Sept,4 days before. However, this minimum was reached earlier in 2011, 2012, 2013,2014 and 2017, and could be be in as many as 11 days from now (2008, 2010). The result from average further extent loss is 22.10 million, just 4th lowest, and 0.19 million above the record low in 2012 on the 25 August. But for the very slow arctic melt this year, a new record low would have been probable. Extract from JAXA Graph attached. Over the coming days, the trend to watch will be against 2016 into 2017, the year in which Antarctic sea ice extent completed the collapse from the record highs of 2013 and 2014. NSIDC Daily Extent Data - Record low by 194k at 22.405 million Km2 on 9th September. NSIDC Global Extent - Daily Data Graph by Wipneus.png (238.32 kB, 556x623 - viewed 1423 times.) JAXA DATA - Extent as at 10 Sep 2018 = 22,174,535 km2, now 259k km2 (1.2 %) below 2017, 57k (0.3%) below 2016 and lowest in the satellite record The September interim minimum was on average on 5 Sept, 5 days before. However, this minimum was reached earlier in 2011, 2012, 2013,2014 and 2017, and could be be in as many as 10 days from now (2008, 2010). The minimum result from average further extent loss is 22.04 million, 3rd lowest, and 0.13 million above the record low in 2012 on the 25 August. But for the very slow arctic melt this year, a new record low would have been certain. This measure is subject to highly volatile change, and at this time especially, projections of outcomes are of little value. However, the data does tell us that currently global sea ice is extremely low, and has been for some time. The graphs are impressive. Extract from JAXA Graph attached. Over the coming days, the trend to watch will be against 2016 into 2017, the period in which Antarctic sea ice extent completed the collapse from the record highs of 2013 and 2014. NSIDC Daily Extent Data - at 22.259 million Km2 on 10th September, Record low by 299k. NSIDC Global Extent - Daily Data TABLE.png (32.74 kB, 699x403 - viewed 1241 times.) The second graph within a few days where the pen is writing its line on previously untouched areas... Yes, but with the tendency of North and South to see-saw, if it hard to say exactly what this means. I guess we can at least say exactly that -- previously untouched. Quote from: gerontocrat on September 11, 2018, 03:52:26 PM The previous record global low on Sept 10th occurred in 2016 and was just 113 K km^2 above 2018. By the 12th, 2016 is record lowest again by just 26 K km^2. Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore NSIDC GLOBAL Daily Extent Data - at 22.241 million Km2 on 15th September, a dead heat with 2016. I have switched the comparison of extent from 2017 to 2016, as we are almost at the time of year when in 2016 Global extent dropped like a stone - very much due to Antarctic melt. NSIDC Global Extent - Daily Data TABLE.png (42.88 kB, 699x487 - viewed 911 times.) NSIDC Global Extent - Daily Data Graph by Wipneus.png (292.08 kB, 695x589 - viewed 935 times.) charles_oil Ger - any chance you could differentiate 2018 a bit better - dotted / thicker line / contrasting colour ? Many thanks Quote from: charles_oil on September 16, 2018, 09:17:23 PM Not my graph! As the name says, it is by Wipneus Here's a more focussed look at this month. I have taken out the years before 2001 but included them in Max Min and Average from 1988 - 2017. 2018 in black 2016 in red. NSIDCGlobalSea Ice ExtentSeptember.PNG (101.15 kB, 1293x803 - viewed 109 times.) JAXA DATA - Extent as at 27 Sep 2018 = 22,746,339 km2, Extent is - 830 k (3.6%) below the 2010's average. - 228k km2 (1.0 %) above 2017, - 16k km2 (0.1 %) above 2008, - 184k (0.8%) below 2016 and - 3rd lowest in the satellite record There are on average 38 days to maximum. Average remaining extent gain would produce a maximum of 25.11, 2nd lowest in the satellite record. This measure is subject to highly volatile change, and projections of outcomes are of little value. However, the data does tell us that currently global sea ice is extremely low, and has been for some time. AA1.png (34.1 kB, 700x458 - viewed 578 times.) AA2.png (66.16 kB, 698x574 - viewed 577 times.) - 2nd lowest in the satellite record While Antarctic ice extent is dithering around the maximum (i.e. melt very slow), Arctic ice extent increase is very slow. 2018 global extent looks set to test the 2016 lows for the rest of the year. Particularly the next 6 weeks will be very interesting.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1293
__label__wiki	0.922153	0.922153	Bolton Wanderers Football Club Fan Forum for all BWFC Supporters. Stats, Results & Highlights Bolton Nuts » BWFC » Bolton Wanderers News » Bolton planning January deals to help struggling squad Bolton planning January deals to help struggling squad Message [Page 1 of 1] 1 Bolton planning January deals to help struggling squad on Fri Dec 06 2019, 11:34 karlypants Reinforcements are on the horizon for Wanderers – but Keith Hill admits his battle-weary players may have to grind out results for the rest of the festive period. After another dent was put in his slender squad in the 13 days since the Accrington defeat, Hill admits the physical strain of getting players up to top shape is now starting to show. The notoriously challenging Christmas schedule will soon be upon Bolton, and with a handful of games still to be rescheduled the workload will also be high in the New Year. With that in mind, Hill is counting down the days before he can bring in new signings in the January window and give some players respite. “I relish playing the games at this time of year, they come thick and fast,” he said. “There’s a flip side to my thinking, though, because we really do need more players. “I want to support the group we have got by giving a little bit of freshness back, a bit of newness, because they need help. “Unfortunately at this moment in time it’s a case of self-help. They are going to have to try and get through this run together until we can get to January and actually do something about it.” Hill says “one or two” academy players could be pushed up the pecking order in the coming weeks but that his chief focus is on bringing in loan signings next month. The stays of Thibaud Verlinden, Jake Wright and Liam Bridcutt could be renewed – although Verlinden’s future could depend greatly on whether new Stoke City boss Michael O’Neill has plans for him in the Potteries. The club’s transfer embargo, which is non-negotiable, make the task of adding to the squad tougher – but not impossible, admits the Bolton boss, who is still looking around for options. “It’s still an open market,” he said. “It’s a difficult window at the best of times but we are looking at players from other clubs, potentially on loan, and we’re mindful of the fact we can only have five at a time. “We have to be creative in our recruitment and our retained list. We are only allowed a certain amount of players, we’re still not allowed to spend money on transfers or loan fees. “We want new signings. But there’s a lot of work to do in the next few weeks because we have got to plan.” The focus this weekend will be on the visit of AFC Wimbledon, a side sitting four places and 15 points above Bolton at start of play. Such was the severity of their defeat at Accrington last time out, the result was still on everyone’s minds as Hill took his regular pre-match press conference at Lostock yesterday morning. But while the Wanderers boss is keen to put the whole affair behind him – at least until Wanderers go back to the Wham Stadium next Tuesday in the Leasing.com Trophy, he admits there was one valuable lesson learned in the 7-1 thrashing. “We became a victim of the sending-off, the penalty, and without being too disrespectful, a bad refereeing performance,” he said. “We shouldn’t be victims, we should be stronger. “We should be protecting the outcome and there are valuable lessons to be learned from that, so we’ll take that into Wimbledon. “You can’t allow decisions, however wrong they feel, to dictate what happens on the pitch. “There was two-thirds of the game to play and the score was still one apiece, so we shouldn’t have let those circumstances affect us and lead to a scoreline like that. “We let it become a game-changing decision.” Select a forum\|\|--BWFC\| \|--Bolton Wanderers News\| \|--Bolton Wanderers Banter\| \|--Bolton Wanderers Development Section\| \|--Wandering Minds\| \|--Bolton Town and District\| \|--Competitions \|--Prediction League \|--Fantasy Premier League Free forum \| © PunBB \| Free forum support \| Contact \| Report an abuse \| Forumotion.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1294
__label__wiki	0.558513	0.558513	Index:The Fall of Maximilan's Empire.djvu Note that relevant formatting guidelines may have already been established. Please check this Index's discussion page. The Fall of Maximilan's Empire Seaton Schroeder G.P. Putnam's sons Year: New York and London Done—All pages of the work proper are validated Pages (key to Page Status) Cvr Img Ttl Cpy Toc Toc Int Blk 001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018 019 020 021 022 023 024 025 026 027 028 029 030 031 032 033 034 035 036 037 038 039 040 041 042 043 044 045 046 047 048 049 050 051 052 053 054 055 056 057 058 059 060 061 062 063 064 065 066 067 068 069 070 071 072 073 074 075 076 077 078 079 080 081 082 083 084 085 086 087 088 089 090 091 092 093 094 095 096 097 098 099 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 Adv Adv Adv Adv Blk Cvr Introductory and Retrospective In 1865 the Mexican Empire an accomplished fact—Sympathy in the United States—Proposed loan—Confidential instructions of Napoleon to General Forey—Decree of the Assembly of Notables—Crown offered to Prince Maximilian—France requests acknowledgment of proposed Empire by the United States—Reply of Mr. Seward—Joint resolutions in Congress—Maximilian lands in Mexico—Liberal party resists—President Johnson reiterates the Monroe doctrine—Proposed withdrawal of French forces—Mission of General Schofield to Paris—The United States steamer "Tacony "—Sails for Vera Cruz 1 "Tacony " arrives at Vera Cruz—English sloop-of-war "Jason"—French corvette "Phlégéton"—Spanish gun-boat "Uloa"—Austrian Imperial yacht "Elizabeth"—Her mission—Marshal Bazaine—His message to President Johnson—His insults to Maximilian —Maximilian refuses to abdicate—Retires to Queretaro—Departure of French troops—Investment of Vera Cruz by Liberals—General Barranda visits the " Tacony "—Roe communicates with Camp Casa Mata—Helps American refugees—Fresh provisions—Relations with other men-of-war—Imperialist steamer "Tabasco"—Attempts to stop communication with shore—General Joe Shelby 13 Fears for safety of Maximilian—Austria requests good offices of United States—Action of Mr. Seward—Letter from Commander Roe to President Juarez—Preliminaries for surrender of Vera Cruz—Bad faith of Imperial governor—Condition of affairs in Vera Cruz —War tax contemplated—Action of Commander Roe—Tax not levied—Maximilian taken prisoner—Proposition of Captain Gröller—Governor Bureau a traitor—Offers to parley—Arrival of General Santa Ana—His turbulent career—His projects of revolution—Claims promises of assistance from United States—Commander Roe takes him on board the "Tacony"—Sends him out of the country—He lands at Sisal—Is arrested —Tried for treason—"Tacony" goes to Pensacola for provisions—Discussion of Commander Roe's action—Memorandum of Mr. Seward . 45 Queen Victoria and Emperor Napoleon request intercession of United States to save Maximilian's life—Offer of Emperor of Austria—Opinions of Mr. Romero—Causes of Maximilian's execution—Mexican press jealous of the United States—"Tacony " returns to her station —Vera Cruz still holding out—The Foreign Legion—News of Maximilian's execution—Commander Roe requests the Prince's body for Austrian captain—Negotiations for surrender of Vera Cruz{—}}"Tacony" and "Jason" move to inner harbor—Ordered to leave—Guns brought to bear on them from Castle of San Juan—Flight of Bureau—General Gomez surrenders the castle to Commander Roe—Consuls form provisional government—"Tabasco" disarmed—Foreign Legion embark—Liberal forces take possession of city—Salutes—Captain Aynesley—Commander Pritzbuer—Captain Gröller—Mrs. Juarez arrives in U. S. revenue steamer "Wilderness"—"Tacony" returns to the United States—Commander Roe detached—Commended by Navy Department—Thanked by the President—Concluding remarks 91 Retrieved from "https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Index:The_Fall_of_Maximilan%27s_Empire.djvu&oldid=6246452" Index Validated Indexes validated in August 2015 Fully transcluded	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1298
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__label__cc	0.727336	0.272664	Neuroscience News, tACS Alpha tACS for the treatment of major depressive disorder. Double-blind, randomized pilot clinical trial targeting alpha oscillations with transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) for the treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD). Transl Psychiatry. 2019 Mar 05;9(1):106 Authors: Alexander ML, Alagapan S, Lugo CE, Mellin JM, Lustenberger C, Rubinow DR, Fröhlich F Major depressive disorder (MDD) is one of the most common psychiatric disorders, but pharmacological treatments are ineffective in a substantial fraction of patients and are accompanied by unwanted side effects. Here we evaluated the feasibility and efficacy of transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) at 10 Hz, which we hypothesized would improve clinical symptoms by renormalizing alpha oscillations in the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC). To this end, 32 participants with MDD were randomized to 1 of 3 arms and received daily 40 min sessions of either 10 Hz-tACS, 40 Hz-tACS, or active sham stimulation for 5 consecutive days. Symptom improvement was assessed using the Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) as the primary outcome. High-density electroencephalograms (hdEEGs) were recorded to measure changes in alpha oscillations as the secondary outcome. For the primary outcome, we did not observe a significant interaction between treatment condition (10 Hz-tACS, 40 Hz-tACS, sham) and session (baseline to 4 weeks after completion of treatment); however, exploratory analyses show that 2 weeks after completion of the intervention, the 10 Hz-tACS group had more responders (MADRS and HDRS) compared with 40 Hz-tACS and sham groups (n = 30, p = 0.026). Concurrently, we found a significant reduction in alpha power over the left frontal regions in EEG after completion of the intervention for the group that received per-protocol 10 Hz-tACS (n = 26, p < 0.05). Our data suggest that targeting oscillations with tACS has potential as a therapeutic intervention for treatment of MDD. PrevPrevioustDCS for Hallucinatory Schizophrenia? NexttDCS Reduces Craving in Substance Use DisorderNext	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1310
__label__wiki	0.937485	0.937485	HomeOur ObsessionsMarvelNetflix user? Disney is coming for your Marvel bingewatches Netflix user? Disney is coming for your Marvel bingewatches It’s the end of an era, folks. Once Ant-Man and the Wasp ends its theatrical run it’ll be making its way over to Netflix for fans to stream in the comfort of their own superhero lair. But it’ll also be the final Marvel Studios movie to land on Netflix. The New York Times reported that starting with Captain Marvel, all Disney movies (including every Marvel Studios title) will land on Disney’s own streaming platform and swerve Netflix altogether. Disney’s currently unnamed streaming platform is set to launch in 2019. The good news is that Disney has no plans to remove the Netflix Originals Marvel shows from the platform anytime soon (but never say never) and there are still several Marvel properties that Netflix has streaming rights to, meaning the movies should stay on the platform for a while longer yet. If you want to get your Marvel fix on Netflix before the Mouse House creeps in and takes all it can for its own, then here are all the current Marvel canon properties you can still watch on Netflix right now. Easily our favorite MCU movie in a while, Taika Waititi’s humorous, pulpy take on the Marvel canon is an uproarious buddy movie between Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and Hulk (Mark Ruffalo). It also features the best supporting cast of any MCU movie, with Tessa Thompson, Jeff Goldblum, Idris Elba, and the indomitable Cate Blanchett all showing up and showing out. Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2 James Gunn’s sequel is by no means as raucously fun or original as the first film, but it’s still a solid blast of entertaining popcorn fodder, with Kurt Russell and Pom Klementieff joining Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, and Dave Bautista for the anarchic sojourn across the universe. Is it okay to say that Doctor Strange is the weakest Marvel movie released so far? We don’t care much either way because it’s the painful truth. Though the film boasts some trippy and audacious special effects, Benedict Cumberbatch’s American accent as the titular character is an abomination and makes the whole thing difficult to watch. Still, at least it looks nice. You’re seriously going to want to bingewatch all five seasons of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. while you still can and celebrate how this scrappy underdog of a show has managed to repeatedly survive cancellation. Plus, Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) – we hardly knew ye. Cheo Hodari Coker’s take on Harlem’s hero has thus far offered up two solid seasons’ worth of plays for power, inspiring speeches, and unexpectedly spectacular musical performances. Mike Colter plays the bulletproof hero with a mesmerizing sense of swagger, while a strong supporting cast including Simone Missick, Alfre Woodard, Theo Rossi, Rosario Dawson, and Gabrielle Dennis makes this show one of the best of the MCU. S1 of this feminist superhero yarn is a near-perfect interrogation of rape culture and PTSD, with Krysten Ritter and David Tennant providing some of the best performances of their careers to date. The second season is nowhere near as good, but still worthwhile if just to see Trish’s (Rachael Taylor) long lost career as a teenage pop star brought into sharp, harrowing, and occasionally hilarious focus. That’s sadly the best we can say about it, really. Frank Castle is one of the most compelling and complex antiheroes of all time and Jon Bernthal really brings the character to life in gruff and emotional ways. We could have done without Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll) being involved in the whole thing, but it still makes for an electric viewing experience with some sharp commentary about the treatment of army veterans and post-traumatic stress. The devil of Hell’s Kitchen was the first hero to have his Netflix Originals show and it still holds up as being one of the best. Charlie Cox has developed the character incredibly well over two gripping seasons and we can’t wait to see what the upcoming third season has in store for us (especially after the explosive ending of The Defenders). By this point we’re all aware of what a hot mess the first season of this show is. But having seen Danny Rand (Finn Jones) showing up with a complete overhaul of character in S2 of Luke Cage, we’re hopeful S2 of Iron Fist will more than make up for it. It’s Luke, Matt, Jessica, and Danny all meeting up as one for the first time and battling The Hand together! Sigourney Weaver plays a villain in it! And yet, it’s just okay. The Defenders should be one of the best shows on the streaming service, but instead it’s a stacked plate of meh with a side dish of oh lawd, won’t somebody please shut Danny up. 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__label__wiki	0.534306	0.534306	Home >> Béla Tarr Berlinale Special 2012: Series of Talks at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele For years, discussions with filmmakers directly after the screenings of their films have been a special attraction of the festival experience for many Berlinale visitors. With the establishment of the Haus der Berliner Festspiele as a new venue in 2012, the Berlinale now has the opportunity to use this space to expand discussions between filmmakers and the audience. “Some topics simply demand more attention and a broader platform than the time allotted to them usually allows,” comments Fes... 10.02.2012 \| Berlin's blog Béla Tarr visits Kaunas with “The Turin Horse” and special masterclass courses Organizers of Kaunas International Film Festival have promised a surprise: a Hungarian film directorBélaTarr is coming back to Kaunas for the second year in a row. One of the famous master of auteur cinema is going to present his latest film “The Turin Horse”, winner of Silver Bear and FIPRESCI at this year's Berlin Film Festival. Moreover, an iconic director will take camera and teach young cinema trainees. B. Tarr has announced that “The Turin Horse is his final film. Director feel... 03.02.2012 \| Kaunas International Film Festival's blog “Say Goodbye to the Story”: Leitmotif of the Berlinale Shorts 27 films from 22 countries will be competing for the Golden Bear and Silver Bear Jury Prize, the DAAD Short Film Award and a short film nomination for the European Film Prize. German actress Sandra Hüller, Palestinian artist Emily Jacir as well as filmmaker David OReilly will be picking the winners in 2012: International Short Film Jury: Sandra Hüller (Germany) After ten years in the business, renowned and prize-winning actress of the screen and stage Sandra H... Hungarian legend Bela Tarr wins FIPRESCI AWARD at PSIFF for 'The Turin Horse'. At the 23rd Palm Springs International Film Festival, the FIPRESCI AWARD went to the Hungarian film 'The Turin Horse' (2011), Hungary 's official entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, the latest and last film by the legendary auteur director Béla Tarr. I interviewed Mr. Tarr, Béla in September while in Reykjavik during the 8th annual Reykjavik Film Festival (RIFF) where he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Golden Puffin Award for greatness in filmmaking from the Ice... 15.01.2012 \| Palm Springs's blog THE TURIN HORSE at Cinedays, Skopje! This week at 'Cinedays' in Skopje, Macedonia, during the 70 films in 10 days event, Bela Tarr's latest film (and final the director says), THE TURIN HORSE (2011) screened to local and international audiences. Bela Tarr is a loved auteur around the world and some even say, an 'apocalyptic' director. The first time I had heard about Béla Tarr was from a Serbian filmmaker friend who told me that if I wanted to know some real avant-garde plucky cinema, I hadn’t lived until I had seen a Bé... 22.11.2011 \| Cinedays's blog Q and A with Bela Tarr at RIFF Q and A with Bela Tarr at RIFF 2011 after the screening of Tarr's latest film THE TURIN HORSE (2011) photo by Vanessa McMahon 10.10.2011 \| Reykjavik International Film Festival's blog \| 1401 reads Q and A with Bela Tarr at RIFF 2011 after the screening of Tarr's latest film THE TURIN HORSE (2011) Bela Tarr receives Lifetime Achievement Award at RIFF, 2011 BELA TARR receives Lifetime Achievement Award at RIFF, 2011 The legendary, exemplary, unconventional and inspiring filmmaker Bela Tarr traveled from his native Hungary to Reykjavik, Iceland last week during the 8th annual Reykjavik International Film Festival (RIFF) to receive the honorary award for Lifetime Achievement for greatness in filmmaking. The president of Iceland, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, awarded a statue of the nation's symbolic puffin to an emotionally touched Bela. The ce... 06.10.2011 \| Vanessa McMahon's blog BELA TARR receives Lifetime Achievement Award at RIFF, 2011 The legendary, exemplary, unconventional and inspiring filmmaker Bela Tarr traveled from his native Hungary to Reykjavik, Iceland last week during the 8th annual Reykjavik International Film Festival (RIFF) to receive the honorary award for Lifetime Achievement for greatness in filmmaking. The president of Iceland, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, awarded a statue of the nation's symbolic puffin to an emotionally ... 06.10.2011 \| Reykjavik International Film Festival's blog me and Bela Tarr at RIFF me and my goofy pose with cool and sweet Bela Tarr at the president's house in Reykjavik.STAY TUNED FOR ONE ON ONE INTERVIEW WITH BELA COMING UP! THE TURIN HORSE is the official Hungarian entry for the upcoming Academy Awards At the meeting of the Hungarian Selection Committee for Academy Awards Entry held on the 31st August, it was announced that Hungary will enter THE TURIN HORSE by BÉLA TARR for consideration for the Best Foreign Language Film of the Year. Press Release of Magyar Filmunió, Budapest, 1st September 2011 The members of the Committee were representatives of the following Hungarian professional organizations: Association of Hungarian Film Artists - Gábor Gelencsér, Hungarian Directors�... Prize of the International Critics (FIPRESCI Prize) At the 61st Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale, Germany, February 10-20, 2011) the Prize of the International Critics (FIPRESCI Prize) has been presented to: "The Turin Horse" (A Torinói Ló) by Béla Tarr (Hungary, 2010) (International Competition) "Top Floor Left Wing" (Dernier étage gauche gauche) by Angelo Cianci (France, Luxemburg, 2010) (Panorama) "Heaven's Story" by Zeze Takahisa (Jap... Bela Tarr Just got a box set, cant wait to watch his films again!! ... 06.10.2009 \| Pickpocket Media Films's blog A conversation with Bela Tarr - the famous Hungarian filmdirector. On the margin of the 39th Budapest Film Week a conversation with Bela Tarr - the famous Hungarian filmdirector.Brigitta Bokor (Q): Recently when people are talking about Hungarian films, they usually mention your name - Bela Tarr. How do you deal with the fact there was no Tarr movie at the 39th Budapest Film Week competition and even the opening film - which supposed to be your "The Man from London" -- was cancelled? Béla Tarr (A):In fact we would have liked to be part of the Week, ... 28.02.2008 \| Brigitta_B's blog A conversation with Bela Tarr, Hungarian filmdirector On the margin of the 39th Budapest Film Week: a conversation with Bela Tarr - the famous Hungarian filmdirector.BudapestBrigitta Bokor (Q): Recently when people are talking about Hungarian films, they usually mention your name - Bela Tarr. How do you deal with the fact there was no Tarr movie at the 39th Budapest Film Week competition and even the opening film – which supposed to be your “The Man from London” -- was cancelled? Béla Tarr (A):In fact we would have liked to be part of the We... BestOff 99-08 Film Festival’s Green Ravens handed out February 9th, Saturday night the annual award ceremony of Hungary’s Student Jury took place at one of the most recognized art cinemas of the capital, Toldi. Celebrating the 10th anniversary of participating in the Hungarian Film Week, the National Student Jury held its own festival after the wrap-up of the 39th Film Week. During the event, the Green Raven awards of the 39th Film Week were handout out in six categories but this year a new award has been added to the list.The National Student Ju... "The Man from London" by Béla Tarr Hungarian director Béla Tarr, a guest of the Cannes Festival in 2000 for the presentation of Werckmeister Harmonies in the parallel section, is competing for a Palme d'Or this year with his new feature, The Man from London. Adapted from a mystery novel of the same name by genre maestro Georges Simenon, it's the story of how the life of a solitary man, played by actor Miroslav Krobot, becomes a nightmare when he witnesses a murder. He finds himself confronted with sin, ethics, and punish... 23.05.2007 \| Cannes's blog	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1317
__label__cc	0.61112	0.38888	First Night Danbury The based solely on traditional Indian forms,The based solely on traditional Indian forms, Arduous Search for Identity in Sherman Alexie “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” Sherman Alexie, a Spokane Indian, was born in 1966 and grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, Washington (Nygren). He is a songwriter, poet, and a filmmaker. Reservation is the place, where it is a central in Alexie’s fiction. Alexie’s main concern is presenting his culture and traditional as a Native American to the whole world. Therefore, most of his writing based on his experience as a Native American growing up on the Spokane Indian reservation where the effects of what Alexie went through still asserts its painful presence (Nygren). In spite of the sense of loss, and the bitterness that he had suffer, Alexie tends to use humor in showing his plot and characters. His writings are meant to remind of sadness but he also uses pop culture and humor that leaves the readers with sense of understanding, respect, and commiseration at the same time. Alexie’s influences for his writings do not based solely on traditional Indian forms, but instead he blends Indian spirituality, elements of the humanities, and the drudgery of poverty-stricken reservation life to create his characters, and the world they inhabit. This paper examines Alexie’s What You Pawn I Will Redeem” as the arduous search for self-journey where Jackson Jackson, the protagonist does his best to retrieve his traditions, culture, and identity. The story “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” is told through the character of Jackson Jackson, the protagonist of the story. He is an alcoholic, homeless of Spokane Indian descendant who finds his grandmother’s regalia at a pawn shop. He wanted to gain this family heirloom back by setting out a quest to raise one thousand dollars. The story mainly focuses on the obstacles Jackson faces, and the humor Jackson uses to get through his difficult position as a Native American. However, Jackson still comes across many people who help him achieve his goal through his journey. By living in the reservation, Native American, or Jackson has to face three major dilemmas as an alcoholism, homelessness, and unemployment (Nygren). Their culture started to vanish due to stereotyped, oppressed, maligned, and abused in acts and deed, in words and action (Matt). Gradually, Native Americans were fused and adapted to the new arrivals’ culture. In the meantime, the reservation also contains so many social issues. The reservations are full of alcoholic, homeless, and jobless people. Alexie retrieving the Native American culture, and identity through Jackson character. This is evident in the story as Jackson feels that it is his duty to claim back his grandmother’s regalia, even though he knows very clear that it is impossible in every way. Jackson also represents all Native Americans who lost their culture and feel the pain of being lonely in their homeland. He tries to show the circumstances a Native American face in a place is plagued with cultural disavowal, social issues, and political matters. The title “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” leads to the believe a kind of dialogue between Jackson and Jackson’s grandmother. It is Jackson Who blames his grandmother for losing the regalia, emphasizes their culture, and confirms at the same time that he will get it back no matter what it costs. Although, Jackson is alcoholic, homeless, and miserable, but Jackson shows the will and determination to get back the lost heritage. However, Jackson’s situation is not his own choice, it is nobody choice, but it is what the American society imposed upon to him as many other Native Americans in the reservation. Alexie starts the story with “One day you have a home and the next day you don’t” (Alexie 1). This sentences beyond any doubt shows the state of homelessness that Jackson lives, as well as insinuatingly expose the cultural aspect of homelessness of the Native Americans. They live as they are connected to an unfortunately past of cultural refutation. Jackson Jackson states that he is only good at being homeless as the following “I’ve been homeless for six years now. If there’s such a thing as an effective homeless man, then I suppose I’m effective. Being homeless is probably the only thing I’ve ever been good at” (Alexie1). He is not only having no home to live or even a shelter to stay, but also due to the fact that he is lonely while living in his own homeland. In the story, when Jackson introduces his Indian friends, Jackson says that his friends refuses to identify their tribe and says, “Do any of us know exactly what we are?” (Alexie 2). In this instance, Alexie questions the identity of those Native Americans and cause to be visible the effects of acculturation and consumptions. They are no longer able to identify what tribe they belong to, and who they are in this whole world. This kind of act shows the horrible effects of assimilation that makes Native American gradually forgetting their origins. They start to consider themselves as “Plains Indian”, Indians belong to no identity tribe, and end with consider themselves as American with different color. Jackson’s journey to find his identity starts when he walks past a pawnshop, and notices “an old powwow-dance regalia hanging in the window” (Alexie 2). Somehow Jackson feels that it is his grandmother’s regalia, and it is his duty to get it back no matter what it costs. The regalia symbolizes Native American’s identity, and lost heritage. Immediately, Jackson feels that he must reclaim it, although he is not really sure that it belongs to his grandmother, but his intuition insures him that it is the one. When his friend asks him if Jackson is sure that regalia is his grandmother’s one, he replies: “I don’t know for sure, because I hadn’t seen that regalia in person ever. I’d only seen photographs of my grandmother dancing with it. As those were taken before somebody stole it from her, fifty years ago. But it sure looked like my memory of it and it had all the same color feathers and beads that my family sewed into our powwow regalia” (Alexie 2). This quotation strongly suggests the truth, as the regalia symbolizes the lost Indian identity, and that Native American’s identity was stolen by the colonizer. As Jackson is not assured that the regalia belongs to his grandmother, it also depicts of Native Americans suffer from the blur picture of their identity, and their true culture. Jackson enters the pawn shop and asks the pawnbroker to give him the regalia, but Jackson only has five dollars so the pawnbroker refuses to give it to him. The pawnbroker then gives Jackson a chance to reclaim it if Jackson pays him nine hundred ninety dollars within twenty-four hours. Jackson accepts the deal, and starts collecting money. Throughout the journey, Jackson gets help from many white people in collecting the money. This shows that Native Americans need a hand to revive their heritage and cultural identity, and it could be the Whites. Jackson is determined to reclaim the regalia by himself “It’s a quest now. I need to win it back myself” (Alexie 7). Jackson also refuses to call the police, or asks anybody to help him reclaim his grandmother regalia. This shows Alexie’s intention of informing the readers that Native American can rely on themselves. also bring up the issue of alcoholism among Native American as it makes them mislead between the dark gloomy history, and an uncertain future within the white’s hands. Jackson just like many other Native American, who keeps drinking throughout the story. Jackson acknowledges the impact of alcohol on him “An alcoholic Indian with a busted stomach, I always hope I can keep enough food in me to stay alive” (Alexie 8). Jackson also questions his ability of making choices, and decisions “Well, sometimes I think of it that way. And other time I think of it the way they wanted me to think of it. I get confused” (Alexie 9). This shows that Native American were silenced, and only good at following the instructions of white people. The commitment to the Native American identity is clear in the story as Jackson keeps reminding the readers of the Indian traditions. This is evidence when Jackson offers Mary to get an amount of money after he wins a lottery ticket “No, it’s tribal. It is an Indian thing. When you win, you’re supposed to share with your family” (Alexie 11). He considers everyone as a part of his family, and also implied the sense of loss that Jackson has. Jackson begins his journey with only five dollars and ends it with no difference, it is still five dollars. Although Jackson is fully aware that the pawnbroker will not give him his grandmother’s regalia without nine hundred ninety-five dollars, but he still goes there and ask for it. Surprisingly, the pawnbroker gives him the regalia with his five dollars, and tells him that his determination to get it back is more important than the money. After a harsh journey, Jackson takes his grandmother’s regalia and says, “I took my grandmother’s regalia and walked outside. I knew that solitary yellow bead was part of me. I knew I was that yellow bead in part. Outside, I wrapped myself in my grandmother’s regalia and breathed her in. I stepped off the sidewalk and into the intersection. Pedestrians stopped. Cars stopped. The city stopped. They all watched me dance with my grandmother. I was my grandmother, dancing.” (Alexie 26). This statement represents Jackson as Native American who lost cultural identity has been found, and the whole world stopped to see the original identity of Jackson who lives the moment of relief. conclusion, Alexie shows no effort in reviving his own cultural, and true identity in this story “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” according to the evidence mentioned above. However, Alexie created a protagonist who represents the condition, and difficult situations of all Native American during that time in history. They all share the same values, and qualities of those who lives in the reservation, and those who determines to fight till the end to prove to the world that Native American do really exist. 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__label__cc	0.718452	0.281548	DiscWorld Noir cappuchok Post by cappuchok » Thu Dec 22, 2005 10:57 am neosmagus wrote: I've got Discworld Noir working on my P4 3.2, Windows XP machine perfectly fine, no hacks, no no-cd patches, no problem. Just got good ol' Windows XP compatibilty switched on to put it in 640x480 256colour mode. What I have noticed is that the main menu crashes on options and load... if you want to load a game you go to new game first, and then go to the load screen. That was my observation as well (see post above). DW 1+2 however seem impossible to run in XP without resorting to some form of emulation (DOSbox or VDMSound). When there is now the promise of a native portable interpreter engine instead, DOSbox does sort of seem like a rather suboptimal solution since it introduces so much overhead in terms of emulated hardware/software compared to a real engine like ScummVM. I hope the team gets the source soon. neosmagus Post by neosmagus » Thu Dec 22, 2005 11:58 am yeah... I got them running fine with VDM sound... but I am so looking forward to playing DW1 and 2 in ScummVM! Does DW2 work in Dosbox? Isn't there an issue with changing cds? Because the main annoyance with an dos-based game is that my screen, for some reason, doesn't like 60hz refresh rate... flickers... its quite annoying. If I play in Dosbox, I could play window mode and get rid of the refresh problem. (until it gets implemented in ScummVM ) joostp Post by joostp » Thu Dec 22, 2005 1:21 pm FWIW, all 3 Discworld games work fine without any tweaking whatsoever on my PlayStation (2), so they might be worth hunting down. Post by cappuchok » Thu Dec 22, 2005 2:11 pm neosmagus wrote: Does DW2 work in Dosbox? Isn't there an issue with changing cds? I believe the best way to run DW2 is to use the Win32 version, which unfortunately doesn't work in XP. The discs come with two executables, one for DOS and one for Windows. The Windows one (supposedly) has some added benefits and uses DirectX. My guess (even though I'm not a programmer) is that it will be the easier one to port of the first two games, because considering that is is adapted to DirectX, it's most likely not using as much (if any) x86 assembly, like the DOS versions would. joostp wrote: FWIW, all 3 Discworld games work fine without any tweaking whatsoever on my PlayStation (2), so they might be worth hunting down. Does DW2 and Noir (the PS versions) run in 640x480 like the PC versions do? Considering they're really PSOne games, I think they're likely to use a lower resolution (320x240 wouldn't be too far off). Might be good to have in the collection for completeness and geek cred, and they might actually use a higher resolution if displayed in an emulator, but to actually play them I'd rather have the PC versions running natively (with ScummVM) on $OS_of_choice. cappuchok wrote: Does DW2 and Noir (the PS versions) run in 640x480 like the PC versions do? Considering they're really PSOne games, I think they're likely to use a lower resolution (320x240 wouldn't be too far off). I've never played the PC version of 2, but I guess the PSX versions are indeed lower-res. It's also only 1 disc. Post by cappuchok » Fri Dec 23, 2005 7:43 am joostp wrote: I've never played the PC version of 2, but I guess the PSX versions are indeed lower-res. It's also only 1 disc. Definitely low-res, then, or it wouldn't fit. Some PSX games do have the odd property of really using high-res graphics but because of the limitations of the PSX hardware it only shows in emulators running in 640x480 and higher. bainomamueles Location: Zaragoza Post by bainomamueles » Wed Dec 28, 2005 5:01 pm trin wrote: This is incorrect. Discwold Noir runs fine on Windows 2000 and Windows XP. The only thing you need is a NO-CD Crack, because Securom-check is buggy. Yep, thats true. With the NO-CD Crack it runs fine. But as someone has said before, you'll have to use de F1 menu, not the main screen buttons. With Discworld 1 use VDMSound. Discworld 2 is utterly unplayable on XP, it crashes just at the main screen. Post by neosmagus » Mon Jan 02, 2006 11:29 am Windows version doesn't seem to work on XP... for me it doesn't even get into the game before it crashes with an error. But if you install the Dos version of Discworld 2, it works fine, together with VDMSound. cpt. wesker Post by cpt. wesker » Tue Jan 10, 2006 10:51 pm runing discworld 2 in dos mode is kind of strange to me, as i always runned in windows 98 and the feeling isn't right as running it in windows mode, the gameplay experience isn't the same Last edited by cpt. wesker on Sun Apr 19, 2009 7:39 am, edited 1 time in total. Post by neosmagus » Wed Jan 11, 2006 6:19 am what do you mean? The two versions are identical. Post by cpt. wesker » Wed Jan 11, 2006 1:20 pm of course they are indentical, trust me, the whole experience is kind of different, try the windows version on windows 95, or 98, and try through dos mode. try it and please try to eloquently explain it here. i bought discworld 2 in 1996 (it had nice cover - ah, what did i know back then...) and played enough recall the right feeling, plus the dos version is a little pixelized and the sound is lower on quality, the gameplay is kind of "heavier" Post by neosmagus » Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:50 pm I've played both versions. I always played Windows version until XP, and then switched to the Dos version out of necessity. Maybe the only difference I can think of is that the performance of the Dos version is slightly slower cause it uses Vesa instead of DirectX. But especially on my machine, that is barely noticeable. tanatie Location: Slovenia, C. Europe Post by tanatie » Wed Apr 05, 2006 11:26 pm I really wish I had a really crappy computer so that I could play the best games...now it's not good enough for the new games (suxky graph. card) and too good for old games like DW...why can't they just make up theri mind about what kind of a comp you'll need to play a goddamn game?? saulob Post by saulob » Sat Feb 24, 2007 7:51 pm try to install VMWARE.. or any Virtual PC application (google!) and create a dos machine Post by md5 » Sat Feb 24, 2007 8:37 pm Wow... talk about thread resurrection	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1325
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__label__cc	0.512098	0.487902	Nettleship v Weston [1971] 3 Aer 581 - CA Azizul Kirosaki enregistrerEnregistrer Nettleship v Weston [1971] 3 Aer 581 - CA pour plus tard Dead in the Water: A Novel Where Are You Now?: A Novel "I" is for Innocent: A Kinsey Millhone Novel Just Take My Heart: A Novel My Own Words Final Appeal Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome Rough Justice Low Price Wilde Lake: A Novel Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice The Code of the Hills: An Ozarks Mystery The Fall: A Novel The Submission: A Novel Final Jeopardy COURT OF APPEAL NETTLESHIP v WESTON [1971] 3 AER 581 30 June 1971 Editors italics Full text LORD DENNING MR: Policy & the responsibility of a learner-driver Mrs W is clearly liable In the civil law if a driver goes off the road on to the pavement and injures a pedestrian, or damages property, he is prima facie liable. Likewise if he goes on to the wrong side of the road. It is no answer for him to say: I was a learner-driver under instruction. I was doing my best and could not help it. The civil law permits no such excuse. It requires of him the same standard of care as any other driver. It eliminates the personal equation and is independent of the idiosyncrasies of the particular person whose conduct is in question, [said] Lord Macmillan [in] Glasgow Corporation v Muir. The learner-driver may be doing his best, but his incompetent best is not good enough. He must drive in as good a manner as a driver of skill, experience and care, who is sound in wind and limb, who makes no errors of judgment, has good eyesight and hearing, and is free from any infirmity The high standard thus imposed by the judges is, I believe, largely the result of the policy of the Road Traffic Acts. Parliament requires every driver to be insured against third-party risks . The reason is so that a person injured by a motor-car should not be left to bear the loss on his own, but should be compensated out of the insurance fund. The fund is better able to bear it than he can . But the injured person is only able to recover if the driver is liable in law. So the judges see to it that he is liable, unless he can prove care and skill of high standard Thus we are, in this branch of the law, moving away from the concept: No liability without fault. We are beginning to apply the test: On whom should the risk fall? Morally the learner-driver is not at fault; but legally she is liable to be because she is insured and the risk should fall on her ... Volenti This brings me to the defence of volenti non fit injuria. Does it apply to the instructor? In former times, this defence was used almost as an alternative defence to contributory negligence. Either defence defeated the action. Now that contributory negligence is not a complete defence, but only a ground for reducing the damages, the defence of volenti non fit injuria has been closely considered, and, in consequence, it has been severely limited. Knowledge of the risk of injury is not enough. Nor is a willingness to take the risk of injury. Nothing will suffice short of an agreement to waive any claim for negligence. The plaintiff must agree, expressly or impliedly, to waive any claim for any injury that may befall him due to the lack of reasonable care by the defendant: or more accurately, due to the failure of the defendant to measure up to the standard of care that the law requires of him Applying the doctrine in this case, it is clear that Mr N did not agree to waive any claim for injury that might befall him. Quite the contrary. He enquired about the insurance policy so as to make sure that he was covered. If and in so far as Mrs W fell short of the standard of care which the law required of her, he has a cause of action Mr N is not defeated by the maxim volenti non fit injuria. He did not agree, expressly or impliedly, to waive any claim for damages owing to her failure to measure up to the standard Full text LORD DENNING MR: Mrs Weston is a married woman. She wanted to learn to drive. Her husband was quite ready for her to learn on his car. She asked a friend of hers, Mr Nettleship, if he would give her some lessons. Mr Nettleship said he would do so, but, in case there was an accident, he wanted to check up on the insurance. Mr and Mrs Weston assured him that they had a fully comprehensive insurance which covered him as a passenger in the event of an accident. This was correct. They showed him the policy and certificate of insurance. Mr Weston was insured under an ordinary Lloyds policy. By it the underwriters agreed to indemnify Mr Weston and any person driving the car with his permission against liability at law for damages in respect of bodily injury to any person including any passenger. On being so assured, Mr Nettleship said that he would give her some lessons. On 25 October 1967 Mrs Weston took out a provisional driving licence. Mr Nettleship went with her in the car on Sunday, 28 October, and Sunday, 5 November, and gave her driving lessons. He found her very receptive to instruction and a very good learner-driver. On Sunday, 12 November, he went with her on her third lesson. She sat in the driving seat. He sat beside her. She held the steering wheel and controlled the pedals for the clutch and foot brake and accelerator. He assisted her by moving the gear lever; and applying the hand brake. Very occasionally he assisted in the steering. They came to a road junction where there was a halt sign. They had to turn left. She stopped the car. He moved the gear lever into neutral and applied the hand brake. The road was clear. He said to her: Move off, slowly, round the corner. He took off the hand brake. She let in the clutch. He put the gear lever into first gear. The car made a smooth start. She turned the steering wheel to the left and the car moved round the corner at walking pace. He said to her: Now straighten out. But she did not do so. She panicked. She held the steering wheel, as he said, in a vice-like grip; or, as she said, my hands seemed to freeze on the wheel. He at once took hold of the hand brake with his right hand and tried to get hold of the steering wheel with his left hand to straighten it out. He nearly succeeded. But by this time the nearside of the car had mounted the kerb. As bad luck would have it, there was a lamp standard just by the kerb at that point. The nearside struck the lamp standard. Mr Nettleship was injured. His left knee-cap was broken. On 25 January 1968 Mrs Weston was convicted by the Sheffield magistrates of driving without due care and attention. She was fined 10 and her driving licence was endorsed. Mr Nettleship now claims damages for negligence against Mrs Weston. She denies negligence, alleges contributory negligence, and also pleads that he impliedly consented to run the risk of injury. The judge dismissed the claim. He said that the only duty owed by Mrs Weston to Mr Nettleship was that she should do her best, and that she did not fail in that duty. The responsibility of the learner-driver in criminal law Mrs Weston was rightly convicted of driving without due care and attention. In the criminal law in is no defence for a driver to say: I was a learner-driver under instruction. I was doing my best and could not help it. Such a plea may go to mitigation of sentence, but it does not go in exculpation of guilt. The criminal law insists that every person driving a car must attain an objective standard measured by the standard of a skilled, experienced and careful driver. That is shown by McCrone v Riding, where a learner-driver was exercising all the skill and attention to be expected from a person with his short experience, but he knocked down a pedestrian. He was charged with driving without due care and attention contrary to s 12 of the Road Traffic Act 1930, now s 3(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1960. The justices acquitted him, but the Divisional Court directed them to convict. Lord Hewart CJ, said ([1938] 1 All ER at 158) that the standard is an objective standard, impersonal and universal, fixed in relation to the safety of other users of the highway. It is in no way related to the degree of proficiency or degree of experience attained by the individual driver. Again in R v Evans an experienced driver was overtaking another car at the dip in the road. He crashed head-on into an oncoming car and the driver of it was killed. He was charged with causing death by driving in a manner dangerous to the public, contrary to s 1 of the Road Traffic Act 1960. Salmon J directed the jury that even though the dangerous driving was caused by slight negligence, the slightest negligence on his part, he is guilty. The Court of Criminal Appeal affirmed the conviction and said ([1962] 3 All ER at 1088, [1963] 1 QB at 418): if a man in fact adopts a manner of driving which the jury think was dangerous to other road users in all the circumstances, then on the issue of guilt it matters not whether he was deliberately reckless, careless, momentarily inattentive or even doing his incompetent best. [Such considerations are] highly relevant if it ever comes to sentence So the criminal law is clear. No one would dream of throwing any doubt on it. Mrs Weston was convicted in accordance with it. The conviction is admissible in civil proceedings as prima facie evidence of negligence: see Stupple v Royal Insurance Co Ltd. The responsibility of the learner-driver towards persons on or near the highway Mrs Weston is clearly liable for the damage to the lamp-post. In the civil law if a driver goes off the road on to the pavement and injures a pedestrian, or damages property, he is prima facie liable. Likewise if he goes on to the wrong side of the road. It is no answer for him to say: I was a learner-driver under instruction. I was doing my best and could not help it. The civil law permits no such excuse. It requires of him the same standard of care as any other driver. It eliminates the personal equation and is independent of the idiosyncrasies of the particular person whose conduct is in question: see Glasgow Corpn v Muir ([1943] 2 All ER 44 at 48, [1943] AC 448 at 457) per Lord Macmillan. The learner-driver may be doing his best, but his incompetent best is not good enough. He must drive in as good a manner as a driver of skill, experience and care, who is sound in wind and limb, who makes no errors of judgment, has good eyesight and hearing, and is free from any infirmity: see Richley v Faull and Watson v Thomas S Whitney & Co Ltd. The high standard thus imposed by the judges is, I believe, largely the result of the policy of the Road Traffic Acts. Parliament requires every driver to be insured against third-party risks. The reason is so that a person injured by a motor-car should not be left to bear the loss on his own, but should be compensated out of the insurance fund. The fund is better able to bear it than he can. But the injured person is only able to recover if the driver is liable in law. So the judges see to it that he is liable, unless he can prove care and skill of a high standard: see The Merchant Prince and Henderson v Henry E Jenkins & Sons Ltd. Thus we are, in this branch of the law, moving away from the concept: No liability without fault. We are beginning to apply the test: On whom should the risk fall? Morally the learner-driver is not at fault; but legally she is liable to be because she is insured and the risk should fall on her. The responsibility of the learner-driver towards passengers in the car Mrs Weston took her son with her in the car. We do not know his age. He may have been 21 and have known that his mother was learning to drive. He was not injured. But if he had been injured, would be have had a cause of action? I take it to be clear that, if a driver has a passenger in the car, he owes a duty of care to him. But what is the standard of care required of the driver? Is it a lower standard than he or she owes towards a pedestrian on the pavement? I should have thought not. But, suppose that the driver has never driven a car before, or has taken too much to drink, or has poor eyesight or hearing; and, furthermore, that the passenger knows it and yet accepts a lift from him. Does that make any difference? Dixon J thought it did. In Insurance Comr v Joyce ((1948) 77 CLR 39 at 56, 57) he said: If a man accepts a lift from a car-driver whom he knows to have lost a limb or an eye or to be deaf, he cannot complain if he does not exhibit the skill and competence of a driver who suffers from no defect If he knowingly accepts the voluntary services of a driver affected by drink, he cannot complain of improper driving caused by his condition, because it involves no breach of duty. That view of Dixon J seems to have been followed in South Australia, see Walker v Turton-Sainsbury, but in the Supreme Court of Canada Rand J did not agree with it: see Carr and General Insurance Corpn Ltd v Seymour and Maloney ([1956] 2 DLR 369 at 375). We have all the greatest respect for Sir Owen Dixon, but for once I cannot agree with him. The driver owes a duty of care to every passenger in the car, just as he does to every pedestrian on the road; and he must attain the same standard of care in respect of each. If the driver were to be excused according to the knowledge of the passenger, it would result in endless confusion and injustice. One of the passengers may know that the learnerdriver is a mere novice. Another passenger may believe him to be entirely competent. One of the passengers may believe the driver to have had only two drinks. Another passenger may know that he has had a dozen. Is the one passenger to recover and the other not? Rather than embark on such enquiries, the law holds that the driver must attain the same standard of care for passengers as for pedestrians. The knowledge of the passenger may go to show that he was guilty of contributory negligence in ever accepting the lift - and thus reduce his damages - but it does not take away the duty of care, nor does it diminish the standard of care which the law requires of the driver: see Dann v Hamilton and Slater v Clay Cross Co Ltd ([1956] 2 All ER 625 at 627, [1956] 2 QB 264 at 270). I would only add this. If the knowledge of the passenger were held to take away the duty of care, it would mean that we would once again be applying the maxim: Scienti non fit injuria. That maxim was decisively rejected by the House of Lords in cases between employer and workmen: see Smith v Baker & Sons; and by Parliament in cases between occupier and visitor: see s 2(4) of the Occupiers Liability Act 1957, overruling London Graving Dock Co Ltd v Horton. We should not allow it to be introduced today in motor car cases even though it was backed by Sir Owen Dixon. But that was in 1948. He might think differently today. The responsibility of a learner-driver towards his instructor The special factor in this case is that Mr Nettleship was not a mere passenger in the car. He was an instructor teaching Mrs Weston to drive. Seeing that the law lays down, for all drivers of motor cars, a standard of care to which all must conform, I think that even a learner-driver, so long as he is the sole driver, must attain the same standard towards all passengers in the car, including an instructor. But the instructor may be debarred from claiming for a reason peculiar to himself. He may be debarred because he has voluntarily agreed to waive any claim for any injury that may befall him. Otherwise he is not debarred. He may, of course, be guilty of contributory negligence and have his damages reduced on that account. He may, for instance, have let the learner take control too soon, he may not have been quick enough to correct his errors, or he may have participated in the negligent act himself: see Stapley v Gypsum Mines Ltd. But, apart from contributory negligence, he is not excluded unless it be that he had voluntarily agreed to incur the risk. This brings me to the defence of volenti non fit injuria. Does it apply to the instructor? In former times this defence was used almost as an alternative defence to contributory negligence. Either defence defeated the action. Now that contributory negligence is not a complete defence, but only a ground for reducing the damages, the defence of volenti non fit injuria has been closely considered, and, in consequence, it has been severely limited. Knowledge of the risk of injury is not enough. Nor is a willingness to take the risk of injury. Nothing will suffice short of an agreement to waive any claim for negligence. The plaintiff must agree, expressly or impliedly, to waive any claim for any injury that may befall him due to the lack of reasonable care by the defendant: or more accurately, due to the failure of the defendant to measure up to the standard of care that the law requires of him. That is shown in England by Dann v Hamilton and Slater v Clay Cross Co Ltd; and in Canada by Lehnert v Stein; and in New Zealand by Morrison v Union Steamship Co of New Zealand Ltd. The doctrine has been so severely curtailed that in the view of Diplock LJ: the maxim, in the absence of express contract, has no application to negligence simpliciter where the duty of care is based solely on proximity or neighbourship in the Atkinian sense: see Wooldridge v Sumner ([1962] 2 All ER 978 at 990, [1963] 2 QB 43 at 69). Applying the doctrine in this case, it is clear that Mr Nettleship did not agree to waive any claim for injury that might befall him. Quite the contrary. He enquired about the insurance policy so as to make sure that he was covered. If and insofar as Mrs Weston fell short of the standard of care which the law required of her, he has a cause of action. But his claim may be reduced insofar as he was at fault himself - as in letting her take control too soon or in not being quick enough to correct her error. I do not say that the professional instructor - who agrees to teach for reward - can likewise sue. There may well be implied in the contract an agreement by him to waive any claim for injury. He ought to insure himself, and may do so, for aught I know. But the instructor who is just a friend helping to teach never does insure himself. He should, therefore, be allowed to sue. Conclusion thus far In all that I have said, I have treated Mrs Weston as the driver who was herself in control of the car. On that footing, she is plainly liable for the damage done to the lamp-post. She is equally liable for the injury done to Mr Nettleship. She owed a duty of care to each. The standard of care is the same in either case. It is measured objectively by the care to be expected of an experienced skilled and careful driver. Mr Nettleship is not defeated by the maxim volenti non fit injuria. He did not agree, expressly or impliedly, to waive any claim for damages owing to her failure to measure up to the standard. But his damages may fall to be reduced owing to his failure to correct her error quick enough. Although the judge dismissed the claim, he did (in case he was wrong) apportion responsibility. He thought it would be just and equitable to regard them equally to blame. I would accept this apportionment. Joint responsibility Thus far I have considered the learner as the driver of the car and the instructor as a passenger, albeit a very special kind of passenger. But I doubt whether that is the right way of looking at the problem. I prefer to regard the learner-driver and the instructor as both concerned in the driving. Together they must maintain the same measure of control over the car as an experienced skilled and careful driver would do. That is, I think, obvious. Their joint driving must come up to the high standard required of a single individual. If there is an accident, such as would not have occurred with a careful driver, then one or other, or both, must have been at fault. Either the instructor did not have as much control over the driving as he should have done or the learner took more on himself than his experience warranted, or did something silly, even for a learner. In the absence of any evidence enabling the court to draw a distinction between them, they should be held to be both to blame and equally to blame: see Baker v Market Harborough Industrial Co-operative Society Ltd. If they are both equally to blame and one of them is injured, then he can sue the other for negligence, but his damages would be reduced by one-half because of his own contributory negligence: see Stapley v Gypsum Mines Ltd. So by this simple route, I arrive at the same result. Final conclusion In my opinion when a learner-driver is being taught to drive a car under the instruction of an experienced driver, then if the car runs off the road and there is an accident in which one or other, or both of them are injured, it should be regarded as the fault of one or other or both of them. In the absence of any evidence enabling the court to draw a distinction between them, they should be regarded as equally to blame, with the result that the injured one gets damages from the other, but they are reduced by one-half owing to his own contributory negligence. The only alternative is to hold that the accident is the fault of neither, so that the injured person gets no compensation from anyone. To my mind, that is not an acceptable solution, at any rate in these days of compulsory insurance. I would, therefore, allow the appeal and hold that the damages (now agreed) be divided half-and-half. SALMON LJ: I need not recite the facts which have been so lucidly stated by Lord Denning MR. I entirely agree with all he says about the responsibility of a learner-driver in criminal law. I also agree that a learner-driver is responsible and owes a duty in civil law towards persons on or near the highway to drive with the same degree of skill and care as that of the reasonably competent and experienced driver. The duty in civil law springs from the relationship which the driver, by driving on the highway, has created between himself and persons likely to suffer damage by his bad driving. This is not a special relationship. Nor, in my respectful view, is it affected by whether or not the driver is insured. On grounds of public policy, neither this criminal nor civil responsibility is affected by the fact that the driver in question may be a learner, infirm or drunk. The onus, of course, lies on anyone claiming damages to establish a breach of duty and that it has caused the damages which he claims. Any driver normally owes exactly the same duty to a passenger in his car as he does to the general public, namely to drive with reasonable care and skill in all the relevant circumstances. As a rule, the drivers personal idiosyncracy is not a relevant circumstance. In the absence of a special relationship what is reasonable care and skill is measured by the standard of competence usually achieved by the ordinary driver. In my judgment, however, there may be special facts creating a special relationship which displaces this standard or even negatives any duty, although the onus would certainly be on the driver to establish such facts. With minor reservations I respectfully agree with and adopt the reasoning and conclusions of Sir Owen Dixon in his judgment in Insurance Comr v Joyce. I do not however agree that the mere fact that the driver has, to the knowledge of his passenger, lost a limb or an eye or is deaf can affect the duty which he owes the passenger to drive safely. It is well known that many drivers suffering from such disabilities drive with no less skill and competence than the ordinary man. The position, however, is totally different when, to the knowledge of the passenger, the driver is so drunk as to be incapable of driving safely. Quite apart from being negligent, a passenger who accepts a lift in such circumstances clearly cannot expect the driver to drive other than dangerously. The duty of care springs from relationship. The special relationship which the passenger has created by accepting a lift in the circumstances postulated surely cannot entitle him to expect the driver to discharge a duty of care or skill which ex hypothesi the passenger knows the driver is incapable of discharging. Accordingly in such circumstances, no duty is owed by the driver to the passenger to drive safely, and therefore no question of volenti non fit injuria can arise. The alternative view is that if there is a duty owed to the passenger to drive safely, the passenger by accepting a lift has clearly assumed the risk of the driver failing to discharge that duty. What the passenger has done goes far beyond establishing mere scienter. If it does not establish volens, it is perhaps difficult to imagine what can. Such a case seems to me to be quite different from Smith v Baker & Sons and Slater v Clay Cross Co Ltd. Like Sir Owen Dixon, I prefer to rest on the special relationship between the parties displacing the prima facie duty on the driver to drive safely rather than on the ground of volenti non fit injuria. Whichever view is preferable, it follows that, in spite of the very great respect I have for any judgment of Lord Asquith, I do not accept that Dann v Hamilton was correctly decided. Although Sir Owen Dixons judgment was delivered in 1948, I cannot think of anything which has happened since which makes it any less convincing now than it was then. I should like to make it plain that I am not suggesting that whenever a passenger accepts a lift knowing that the driver has had a few drinks, this displaces the prima facie duty ordinarily resting on a driver, let alone that it establishes volenti non fit injuria. Indeed, Sir Owen Dixon dissented in Joyces case, because he did not agree that the evidence was capable of establishing that the plaintiff passenger knew that the driver was so drunk as to be incapable of exercising ordinary care and skill. In practice it would be rare indeed that such a defence could be established. There are no authorities which bear directly on the duty owed by a learner-driver to his instructor. I have dealt on the authorities concerning the relationship between a drunken driver and his passenger because to some extent there is an analogy between those two classes of case. But the analogy is by no means exact. The drunken driver is in sole charge of the car. His condition may be such that the passenger knows that it is impossible for him to drive with any care or skill. On the other hand, the learner-driver and his instructor are jointly in charge of the car. The instructor is entitled to expect the learner to pay attention to what he is told, perhaps to take exceptional care, and certainly to do his best. The instructor, in most cases such as the present, knows, however, that the learner has practically no driving experience or skill and that, for the lack of this experience and skill, the learner will almost certainly make mistakes which may well injure the instructor unless he takes adequate steps to correct them. To my mind, therefore, the relationship is usually such that the beginner does not owe the instructor a duty to drive with the skill and competence to be expected of an experienced driver. The instructor knows that the learner does not possess such skill and competence. The alternative way of putting the case is that the instructor voluntarily agrees to run the risk of injury resulting from the learners lack of skill and experience. The point may be tested in this way: suppose that the instructor is paid for the lessons he gives and there is a contract governing the relationship between the parties, but the contract is silent about the duty owed by the learner to the instructor. It is well settled that the law will not imply any term into such a contract unless it is necessary to do so for the purpose of giving to the contract ordinary business efficacy. Could it really be said that in order to give this contract ordinary business efficacy, it is necessary to imply a term that the learner owed the instructor a duty to drive with the degree of skill and competence which both parties know that he does not possess? If the law were to imply such a term, far from it giving the contract business efficacy, it would, in my view, only make both itself and the contract look absurd. Nor can I think that even when there is no payment and no contract, the special relationship between the parties can as a rule impose any such duty on the learner. Indeed such a duty is excluded by that relationship. If, however, the learner, for example, refuses to obey instructions or suddenly accelerates to a high speed or pays no attention to what he is doing and as a result the instructor is injured, then, in my view, the learner is in breach of duty and liable to the instructor in damages. The duty is still the duty to use reasonable care and skill in all the relevant circumstances. What is reasonable depends, however, on the special relationship existing between the learner and his instructor. This relationship, in my view, makes the learners known lack of skill and experience a highly relevant circumstance. I do not think that the learner is usually liable to his instructor if an accident occurs as a result of some mistake which any prudent beginner doing his best can be expected to make. I recognise that, on this view, cases in which a driving instructor is injured whilst his pupil is driving may raise difficult questions of fact and degree. Equally difficult questions of fact and degree are, however, being assessed and decided in our courts every day. The law lays down principles but not a rule of thumb for deciding issues arising out of any special relationship between the parties. A rule of thumb, if it existed, might no doubt remove difficulties, but could hardly produce justice either in practice or in theory. It does not appear to me to be incongruous that a learner is responsible for acts or omissions in criminal law and indeed to the public at large in civil law and yet is not necessarily responsible for such acts or omissions to his instructor. The learner has no special relationship with the public. The learner is certainly not liable to his instructor if his responsibility is excluded by contract. I can see no reason why, in the absence of contract, the same result should not follow from the special relationship between the parties. For the reasons I have stated, I would, but for one factor, agree with the learned judges decision in favour of the defendant, Mrs Weston. I have, however, come to the conclusion, not without doubt, that this appeal should be allowed. Mr Nettleship when he gave evidence was asked: Q Was there any mention made of what the position would be if you were involved in an accident? A I had checked with Mr. and Mrs. Weston regarding insurance, and I was assured that they had fully comprehensive insurance, which covered me as a passenger in the event of an accident. Mrs Weston agreed, when she gave evidence, that this assurance had been given before Mr Nettleship undertook to teach her. In my view this evidence completely disposes of any possible defence of volenti non fit injuria. Moreover, this assurance seems to me to be an integral part of the relationship between the parties. In Hedley Byrne & Co Ltd v Heller & Partners Ltd, the House of Lords decided that the relationship which there existed between the parties would have imposed a duty of care on the defendants in giving the plaintiffs information but for the fact that the defendants gave the information without responsibility. This disclaimer of responsibility was held to colour the whole relationship between the parties by negativing any duty of care on the part of the defendants. Much the same result followed when a passenger accepted a lift in a car which exhibited a notice stating: Warning. Passengers travelling in this vehicle do so at their own risk: Bennett v Tugwell. This case is perhaps the converse of the cases of Hedley Byrne and Bennett v Tugwell. On the whole, I consider, although with some doubt, that the assurance given to Mr Nettleship altered the nature of the relationship which would have existed between the parties but for the assurance. The assurance resulted in a relationship under which Mrs Weston accepted responsibility for any injury which Mr Nettleship might suffer as a result of any failure on her part to exercise the ordinary drivers standards of reasonable care and skill. As for contributory negligence, I agree with Lord Denning MR that the learned judges finding on this issue should not be disturbed. Mrs Weston had only twice before the occasion in question sat at the wheel of a car. She was very careful and did her best, but she could not even change gear. Mr Nettleship did this for her. All she did, under his instruction, was to depress and release the clutch pedal, apply the foot brake, use the accelerator, and attempt to steer as directed. Mr Nettleship manipulated the gear lever, applied the hand brake and on occasion had to take hold of the steering wheel to correct her errors. At the time of the accident the car was travelling only at 4 miles per hour. At this pace, it could be stopped almost instantaneously by the hand brake. If, when Mr Nettleship saw her driving straight at the lamp-post about 20 feet away, he had applied the hand brake a little more quickly, no accident would have occurred. This was a natural inference which the learned judge was in my view entitled to draw, and which indeed I would have drawn myself, whatever the instructor or his friend, the learner, may have said to the contrary. In my view, neither was guilty of any serious negligence, but both were at fault and equally to blame. She panicked as beginners sometimes do, and he did not react as quickly as he should have done. This was the learned judges conclusion and I can find no reason for disagreeing with it. I would accordingly allow the appeal and order that judgment should be entered for Mr Nettleship for half the amount of the agreed damages. MEGAW LJ: The relevant facts have already been stated. The important question of principle which arises is whether, because of Mr Nettleships knowledge that Mrs Weston was not an experienced driver, the standard of care which was owed to him by her was lower than would otherwise have been the case. In Insurance Comr v Joyce ((1948) 77 CLR 39 at 56, 60), Dixon J stated persuasively the view that there is, or may be, a particular relation between the driver of a vehicle and his passenger resulting in a variation of the standard of duty owed by the driver. He said ((1948) 77 CLR at 56): The case of a passenger in a car differs from that of a pedestrian not in the kind of degree of danger which may come from any want of care or skill in driving but in the fact that the former has come into a more particular relation with the driver of the car. It is because that relation may vary that the standard of duty or of care is not necessarily the same in every case [The gratuitous passenger may expect prima facie the same care and skill on the part of the driver as is ordinarily demanded in the management of a car.] Unusual conditions may exist which are apparent to him or of which he may be informed and they may affect the application of the standard of care that is due. If a man accepts a lift from a car driver he knows to have lost a limb or an eye or to be deaf, he cannot complain if he does not exhibit the skill and competence of a driver who suffers from no defect. He summarised the same principle in these words ((1948) 77 CLR at 59): It appears to me that the circumstances in which the defendant accepts the plaintiff as a passenger and in which the plaintiff accepts the accommodation in the conveyance should determine the measure of duty Theoretically, the principle as thus expounded is attractive. But, with very great respect, I venture to think that the theoretical attraction should yield to practical considerations. As I see it, if this doctrine of varying standards were to be accepted as part of the law on these facts, it could not logically be confined to the duty of care owed by learner-drivers. There is no reason, in logic, why it should not operate in a much wider sphere. The disadvantages of the resulting unpredictability, uncertainty and, indeed, impossibility of arriving at fair and consistent decisions outweigh the advantages. The certainty of a general standard is preferable to the vagaries of a fluctuating standard. As a first example of what is involved, consider the converse case: the standard of care (including skill) owed not by the driver to the passenger, but by the passenger instructor to the learnerdriver. Surely the same principle of varying standards, if it is a good principle, must be available also to the passenger, if he is sued by the driver for alleged breach of the duty of care in supervising the learnerdriver. On this doctrine, the standard of care, or skill, owed by the instructor, vis--vis the driver, may vary according to the knowledge which the learner-driver had, at some moment of time, as to the skill and experience of the particular instructor. Indeed, if logic is to prevail, it would not necessarily be the knowledge of the driver which would be the criterion. It would be the expectation which the driver reasonably entertained of the instructors skill and experience, if that reasonable expectation were grater than the actuality. Thus, if the learner-driver knew that the instructor had never tried his hand previously even at amateur instructing, or if, as may be the present case, the driver knew that the instructors experience was confined to two cases of amateur instructing some years previously, there would, under this doctrine, surely be a lower standard than if the driver knew or reasonably supposed that the instructor was a professional or that he had had substantial experience in the recent past. But what that standard would be, and how it would or should be assessed, I know not. For one has thus cut oneself adrift from the standard of the competent and experienced instructor, which up to now the law has required without regard to the particular personal skill, experience, physical characteristics or temperament of the individual instructor, and without regard to a third partys knowledge or assessment of those qualities or characteristics. Again, when one considers the requisite standard of care of the learnerdriver, if this doctrine were to apply, would not logic irresistibly demand that there should be something more than a mere, single, conventional, standard applicable to anyone who falls into the category of learnerdriver, ie of anyone who has not yet qualified for (or perhaps obtained) a full licence? That standard itself would necessarily vary over a wide range, not merely with the actual progress of the learner, but also with the passengers knowledge of that progress; or, rather, if the passenger has in fact over-estimated the drivers progress, it would vary with the passengers reasonable assessment of that progress at the relevant time. The relevant time would not necessarily be the moment of the accident. The question what is the relevant time? would itself have to be resolved by reference to some principle. The instructors reasonable assessment of the skill and competence of the driver (and also the drivers assessment of the instructors skill and competence) might alter drastically between the start of the first lesson and the start of a later lesson, or even in the course of one particular spell of driving. I suppose the principle would have to be that the relevant time is the last moment when the plaintiff (whether instructor or driver) could reasonably have refused to continue as passenger or driver in the light of his then knowledge. That factor in itself would introduce yet another element of difficulty, uncertainty and, I believe, serious anomaly. I for my part, with all respect, do not think that our legal process could successfully or satisfactorily cope with the task of fairly assessing, or applying to the facts of a particular case, such varying standards, depending on such complex and elusive factors, including the assessment by the court, not merely of a particular persons actual skill or experience, but also of another persons knowledge or assessment of that skill or experience at a particular moment of time. Again, if the principle of varying standards is to be accepted, why should it operate, in the field of driving motor vehicles, only up to the stage of the driver qualifying for a full licence? And why should it be limited to the quality of inexperience? If the passenger knows that his driver suffers from some relevant defect, physical or temperamental, which could reasonably be expected to affect the quality of his driving, why should not the same doctrine of varying standards apply? Dixon J thought it should apply. Logically there can be no distinction. If the passenger knows that his driver, though holding a full driving licence, is blind in one eye or has the habit of taking corners too fast, and if an accident happens which is attributable wholly or partly to that physical or that temperamental defect, why should not some lower standard apply vis-vis the fully informed passenger, if standards are to vary? Why should the doctrine, if it be part of the law, be limited to cases involving the driving of motor cars? Suppose that to the knowledge of the patient a young surgeon, whom the patient has chosen to operate on him, has only just qualified. If the operation goes wrong because of the surgeons inexperience, is there a defence on the basis that the standard of skill and care was lower than the standard of a competent and experienced surgeon? Does the young, newly-qualified, solicitor owe a lower standard of skill and care, when the client chooses to instruct him with knowledge of his inexperience? True, these last two examples may fall within the sphere of contract; and a contract may have express terms which deal with the question, or it may have implied terms. But in relationships such as are involved in this case, I see no good reason why a different term should be implied where there is a contract from the term which the law should attach where there is, or may be, no contract. Of course, there may be a difference - not because of any technical distinction between cases which fall within the law of tort and those which fall within the law of contract - but because the very factor or factors which create the contractual relationship may be relevant on the question of the implication of terms. Thus, if it is a contract because of consideration consisting of the promise of payment, that very fact may be relevant. I do not say that it is relevant. I do say that it may be relevant. Or the amount or the circumstances of the payment may be relevant. That is not a question which arises here, and I think that it would be unwise to consider it hypothetically. In my judgment, in cases such as the present it is preferable that there should be a reasonably certain and reasonably ascertainable standard of care, even if on occasion that may appear to work hardly against an inexperienced driver, or his insurers. The standard of care required by the law is the standard of the competent and experienced driver; and this is so, as defining the drivers duty towards a passenger who knows of his inexperience, as much as towards a member of the public outside the car; and as much in civil as in criminal proceedings. It is not a valid argument against such a principle that it attributes tortious liability to one who may not be morally blameworthy. For tortious liability has in many cases ceased to be based on moral blameworthiness. For example, there is no doubt whatever that if Mrs Weston had knocked down a pedestrian on the pavement when the accident occurred, she would have been liable to the pedestrian. Yet so far as any moral blame is concerned, no different considerations would apply in respect of the pedestrian from those which apply in respect of Mr Nettleship. In criminal law also, the inexperience of the driver is wholly irrelevant. In the phrase commonly used in directions to juries in charges of causing death by dangerous driving, the driver may be guilty even though the jury think that he was doing his incompetent best: see R v Evans ([1962] 3 All ER 1086 at 1088, [1963] 1 QB 412 at 418) and R v Scammell. There can be no doubt that in criminal law, further, it is no answer to a charge of driving without due care and attention that the driver was inexperienced or lacking in skill: see McCrone v Riding. In the present case, indeed, there was a conviction for that offence. If the criminal law demands of an inexperienced driver the standard of care and competence of an experienced driver, why should it be wrong or unjust or impolitic for the civil law to require that standard, even vis--vis an injured passenger who knew of the drivers inexperience? Different considerations may, indeed, exist when a passenger has accepted a lift from a driver whom the passenger knows to be likely, through drink or drugs, to drive unsafely. There may in such cases sometimes be an element of aiding and abetting a criminal offence; or, if the facts fall short of aiding and abetting, the passengers mere assent to benefit from the commission of a criminal offence may involve questions of turpis causa. For myself, with great respect, I doubt the correctness on its facts of the decision in Dann v Hamilton. But the present case involves no such problem. It is submitted on behalf of Mrs Weston that even if the standard of care be, as I think it is, the same for a learner-driver vis--vis a passenger as it is vis--vis a member of the public outside the car, yet in this case the doctrine of volenti non fit injuria applies and provides a defence. If there were special facts and circumstances which showed that the passenger not merely was aware of, but accepted for himself the risk of injury caused by the drivers lack of skill or experience, that doctrine would provide a defence. But the mere fact that the passenger knows of the driverss inexperience is not enough. In the present case, so far from there being such special facts and circumstances, the indications are all the other way. I have no doubt that the proper inference of fact to be drawn from the care which Mr Nettleship took to investigate the comprehensiveness of Mr Westons insurance policy is that he would have declined to undertake the task of teaching Mrs Weston if he had been told: If you are injured as a result of Mrs Westons lack of skill or experience, you will have to bear your loss without remedy against anyone. That is not a case of volenti non fit injuria. On the question of contributory negligence, with all respect to Lord Denning MR and Salmon LJ and to the learned judge, I find myself unable, having read and re-read the evidence, to see in what respect Mr Nettleship fell below the standard of care and skill of a competent instructor supervising a learner-driver. There is no conceivable reason why, having regard to what he had seen of Mrs Westons driving during the three lessons, he should not have permitted her to undertake the manoeuvre which she undertook, at the time and place where she undertook it. From the first warning of trouble to the collision with the lamp-post, on the uncontradicted evidence of distance and speed, the time which elapsed could not have exceeded three seconds. Only one wheel of the car went over the kerb, and that by a matter of inches only. The suggestion that Mr Nettleship could and should have switched off the ignition, as well as using his hands on the brake and the steering wheel during those three seconds, is, I venture to think, quite unrealistic. Apart altogether from the well known factor of thinking time, any sudden or dramatic action in such circumstances may well accentuate the panic and thus actually increase the danger. In short, I can see nothing done by him which he ought not to have done, and nothing left undone by him which he ought to have done. Moreover, Mrs Weston herself said, in examination-in-chief, that Mr Nettleship did all he could to stop the vehicle before it crashed. Where, as here, the only participants and the only eye witnesses say that the plaintiff did all he could, how can that evidence be overridden? I would allow the appeal in full and hold that Mr Nettleship is entitled to the whole of the agreed amount of damages. Devoir de prudence Qualité des soins Terme contractuel Documents similaires à Nettleship v Weston [1971] 3 Aer 581 - CA Lori Oberson, Legal Guardian for Brian Musselman, an Incapacitated Person Kimberlee Musselman, Individually and as the Natural Mother of Devon Musselman, a Minor, Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross-Appellants v. 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__label__wiki	0.515656	0.515656	Browse games 13903 Game Portals GameFabrique All Games - Newest Mario - Contra Dragon Ball Games Rayman Games Doom - Tekken Eroge Games Fighter Ace a game by Microsoft Editor Rating: 8/10, based on 1 review User Rating: 9.0/10 - 2 votes See also: Flying Games "AI, R.I.P." So long, AI. Thanks to Microsoft's Fighter Ace, flight sim pilots won’t have it so easy any more. Darwinism has truly reached the gaming community, and now only the strong will survive. Enemies possess real, not artificial intelligence in this online-only World War II aerial combat simulation. Actually, the game doesn’t require much human intelligence beyond an attitude, but the simple kill-or-be-killed philosophy goes a long way when dogfighting with potentially over 100 real opponents in the same arena. This type of game does not just "support" multiplay, it pretty much defines its future. VR-1 developed Fighter Ace for Microsoft based on the popular ideas in the more gameplay-savvy WarBirds and Air Warrior III online sims (Air Warrior III even supports a successful microphone transmission system). Some argue that Fighter Ace is too young to be out of beta. But Microsoft has billed it as a premium game (requiring a subscription fee to play, $1.95 daily or $19.95 monthly) on the Internet Gaming Zone. The Zone also features many free games such as board games, card games, racing games, and first-person titles such as Jedi Knight (CD is required for some games). Also, players can launch most any game that supports IPX in the ZoneLAN area. Fighter Ace pilots can choose to fly any of sixteen familiar World War II fighter aircraft including the P-51 Mustang, P-38 Lightning, Spitfire, BF-109, and Yak-9. Cadets begin in either team and free-for-all boot camp arenas. The goal is to advance far enough in rank to leave the boot camp arena and fly in officers’ club arenas as 2nd Lieutenant or above. This is achieved by racking up kills without being killed. Realistic and arcade arenas allow users to set difficulty. I crashed about ten times before getting airborne in realistic mode. When I finally got off the ground, I was promptly returned to earth by an enemy ace. For a brief moment, I wished I that I could take out my frustration on some brain-dead AI. But soon I was back in the air and racking up kills of my own. I noticed that the buildings around the airports "blowed up real good" so I couldn’t help but wonder if there were any plans to incorporate air-to-ground warfare (against enemy vehicles, airfields, ships, etc). I see lots of potential for an online game like this especially when bandwidth broadens. I can imagine squadrons of Messerschmitts scrambling to attack B-17 bombers. Further, I fantasize of future online games that might be based on modern aircraft and weapons. Some problems I encountered were that many of the skilled officers insisted on stalking newbies in the boot camp arenas. This practice is highly discouraging to new players, and there should be a way of keeping them out. Also, on the occasions that I downed an enemy, he would soon try and take revenge on me for my transgression. That’s fine until you’ve played for an hour and have many enemies singling you out for vengeance. Truces were routinely made in team play, but due to the large number of players coming and going, the agreements were impossible to enforce. I too often encountered the "Server Too Busy" error in my browser when trying to access the Zone website. The dreaded internet latency or lag was minimal, although there were occasions when I swear that my guns were scoring hits that never registered. One must take care when approaching an enemy airfield, because the anti-aircraft guns spray rounds in the same predictable bubble every time. They never miss. One tactic is to lure an enemy into the kill area of a friendly base until he is crippled by anti-aircraft fire, then turn and attack. Damaged planes lose engine power and must return to base and come to a complete stop to be repaired. Despite all the fun, after an hour of rigorous gameplay against about fifty opponents, my interest began to wane. I yearned for strategy, missions, teamwork, etc. I started looking over my shoulders nervously to see if there was a line of kids standing behind me waiting to play. I instinctively looked for a slot to insert quarters. In other words, the gameplay smacked of the arcade genre. I was genuinely surprised at the quality of the graphics. I expected the graphics to be trimmed back to make Internet gameplay as smooth as possible. I could not have been more wrong. The planes were beautifully modeled, and the sky and terrain were more dazzling than I could have imagined for an online game. I saw debris on collisions, long smoke trails, nice explosions, shadows, and distant tracer fire. On the negative side, polygonal sierras popped up on the horizon, and those rascally pixels checkered the terrain as planes approached ground level. Aircraft and text tags bled through mountains to my dismay. Most sims seem to have problems in these areas. I would have appreciated puffs of flak from the anti-aircraft guns rather than the streaking fire that riveted my plane. All the sounds I heard were of exceptional quality. The engine modulation, ricochets, and Doppler flybys were equal to those of any boxed game. Annoyances include the limited number of sounds and the fact that the same sounds were heard in all planes. More sound variety and the ability for users to add custom sounds on their machines would be nice enhancements. I kept looking for the typical wire-bound manual. Of course, due to the deliberate simplicity of the game’s design, none is needed. Plenty of online help is available from the Zone website. Even the occasional weekend warrior can log on and start racking up kills after a glance at the online keyboard map. If you’re tired of being cussed out by cowardly strangers in Quake 2, Fighter Ace will be a refreshing multiplayer experience because of the Zone’s neat method of preventing abuse of players. Although sim players tend to be more genteel than action game players, offensive cussers, spammers, and pranksters can be called to account by a systems operator. Sysops are volunteers who make themselves available to help people with problems or mediate disputes. They even have the authority to eject players from game rooms if necessary. To speak privately with a sysop, simply ask one to join you in a game room. This ensures an atmosphere in which children and adults alike can get what they came for -- fun. The minimum requirements to play Fighter Ace are: Pentium 75 MHz or higher, Windows 95 or Windows NT, 16 MB RAM, 9.5 MB available hard disk space, SVGA 256-color monitor, 28.8Kbps Internet access, Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.02 or later and a mouse. For better performance and improved gameplay, Microsoft recommends a Pentium 133MHz or higher microprocessor, 32 MB RAM, PCI or VESA Video Adapter, Windows 95-compatible sound card, speakers or headphones, and a joystick with throttle and rudder. What excites me the most is the potential that Fighter Aceholds. Online gaming has a bright future ahead when the Internet bandwidth arrives. Imagine 3Dfx and force feedback-supported games over ADSL or cable modems. For the present, if Microsoft doesn’t either drop the price or add some complexity, they may have trouble with customer retention. Unless the game is expanded, there will be no unofficial Fighter Ace web pages, no Fighter Ace squadron meets, no bragging about Case’s Ladder rankings, and no enthusiasm to maintain longevity. Are there plans to add new aircraft, arenas, and possibly missions in the future? I hope so. Currently, Microsoft is maintaining radio silence on any upcoming features. I’m sure going to miss all the fancy store boxes. reggie posted a review Download Fighter Ace Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10 PC compatible Operating systems: Windows 10/Windows 8/Windows 7/2000/Vista/WinXP Snapshots and Media PC Screenshots Other Games by Microsoft Age of Empires II: Age of Kings GameFabrique 2008-2020	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1330
__label__wiki	0.538287	0.538287	Miyamoto: There May Be DLC For Pikmin 3 DLC may be incoming for upcoming Wii U flagship title. Posted By Pramath \| On 23rd, Jul. 2013 Under News Nintendo seems to have fully jumped aboard the DLC bandwagon. The famously online averse company first offered DLC with New Super Mario Bros. 2, and then much more successfully with Fire Emblem Awakening this year. Now, Miyamoto is talking about how there may be planned DLC for the upcoming Wii U flagship game, Pikmin 3, in the future. In a new interview on the game, which features some of the top talent at Nintendo, including not just Miyamoto, but also Iwata, and Itoi, the brain behind Nintendo’s near mythical Earthbound series, Miyamoto let slip that the team is looking at DLC possibilities for the title. “”So, now that it is possible… by using the internet, we think we want to add new missions and maps to the game little by little.” Pikmin 3 would be the latest in an increasingly growing line of Nintendo developed games to receive post launch support in the form of paid DLC. Pikmin 3 is a Wii U exclusive title that is a sequel to Pikmin and Pikmin 2 on the Gamecube. It is the first title in the series in a decade, and it launches in North America in August, having already launched in Europe in Japan. Stay tuned to GamingBolt for more coverage of the game. Tagged With: Miyamoto, Nintendo, pikmin 3, wii u Pikmin 3 Developer: Nintendo EAD	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1331
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__label__cc	0.678395	0.321605	U.S. House to launch Trump impeachment inquiry over Ukraine controversy By webfact, September 24, 2019 in World News bristolboy 16,063 1 hour ago, JHolmesJr said: "Shenanigans" reported tirelessly by an exposed and biased Jeff Zucker controlled CNN. Shenanigans unearthed in a one-sided, secretive star chamber buried deep in some basement on the Hill. Shenanigans presented as truth without allowing the accused any counsel, or legal rights, or opportunity to cross-examine, or present witnesses that counter any inaccuracies. Yeahhhh, that'll work gangbusters. Ya got a problem with grand juries? That's how they work. These proceedings are the equivalent of a grand jury. The trial takes place in the Senate. Crazy Alex 752 3 hours ago, Longcut said: Treaty 106-16 Joe Biden was a member of the U.S. Senate and then signed by then-President Bill Clinton. A comprehensive treaty agreement that allows cooperation between both the United States and Ukraine in the investigation and prosecution of crimes. It appears President Trump was following the law to the letter when it comes to unearthing the long-standing corruption that has swirled in Ukraine and allegedly involves powerful Democrats like Joe Biden and others. “To the Senate of the United States: With a view to receiving the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification, I transmit herewith the Treaty Between the United States of America and Ukraine on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters with Annex, signed at Kiev on July 22, 1998. I transmit also, for the information of the Senate, an exchange of notes which was signed on September 30, 1999, which provides for its provisional application, as well as the report of the Department of State with respect to the Treaty. The Treaty is one of a series of modern mutual legal assistance treaties being negotiated by the United States in order to counter criminal activities more effectively. The Treaty should be an effective tool to assist in the prosecution of a wide variety of crimes, including drug trafficking offenses. The Treaty is self-executing. It provides for a broad range of cooperation in criminal matters. Mutual assistance available under the Treaty includes: taking of testimony or statements of persons; providing documents, records, and articles of evidence; serving documents; locating or identifying persons; transferring persons in custody for testimony or other purposes; executing requests for searches and seizures; assisting in proceedings related to restraint, confiscation, forfeiture of assets, restitution, and collection of fines; and any other form of assistance not prohibited by the laws of the requested state. I recommend that the Senate give early and favorable consideration to the Treaty and give its advice and consent to ratification.” WILLIAM J. CLINTON. That's great news. Obviously, it applies to president Trump as well, given Biden literally bragged about extorting Ukraine. Of course, his crack addict son getting a cush job shortly after Biden being put in charge of relations with Ukraine makes it even more suspicious. The fact that an investigation into Burisma was in progress when Biden extorted Ukraine makes an investigation absolutely mandatory. And now that a diplomat has gone on record to say he was ignored when he sounded the alarm on these shenanigans? What rational person would NOT think a criminal investigation should be held? 13 minutes ago, JHolmesJr said: They will have to wait at least till the G7 summit ends....so they can include "Doral Gate" in the articles. So like, maybe November 2020 That's another favorite of mine. They'll find so many scandals along the way, impeachment will have to be pushed further and further out when they wake up each day and find something to be outraged over. I think a simple fact will continue to make impeachment unlikely: the minute an impeachment vote is held, Democrats lose control of the narrative. They can't afford to let that happen. metisdead 7,470 Off topic posts and the off topic replies have been removed. This topic is not about the recent tiff between Tulsi Gabbard and Hillary Clinton. A post with insulting comments to another member has been removed. Edit: Some more off topic posts and troll posts have been removed. Edited October 19, 2019 by metisdead jany123 1,350 Location:Phuket 4 hours ago, TopDeadSenter said: This video should be a sticky on top of every Ukraine related thread. THIS is corruption, 100% blatant and obvious. In what way did joe Biden personally or illicitly benefit from this action? in what way was it dishonest or criminal? Biden’s actions were not hidden away on a secret server, but done in public (obvious... as you point out) and in line with US and allied partners foreign policy. He ticks none of the boxes the trump, on the other hand, well..... ding ding ding! Winner winner chicken dinner, and we all know what the prize is. Ment-peach-‘im “In general, corruption is a form of dishonesty or criminal activity undertaken by a person or organization entrusted with a position of authority, often to acquire illicit benefit, or, abuse of entrusted power for one's private gain.” Corruption - Wikipedia JHolmesJr 8,792 18 minutes ago, jany123 said: ohhh yeahhh.....we're about to find about about all that from a guy called John Durham. All this whistleblower stuff is just a shield to deflect that %^$%storm coming down the pike. Corruption is being discussed here more specifically: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1129421-us-diplomat-told-congress-he-raised-red-flag-about-biden-and-ukraine-source/ Edited October 19, 2019 by JHolmesJr 52 minutes ago, Crazy Alex said: Except that it's not a fact that the Burisma investigation was in progress when Shokin was fired. The only person claiming that is Shokin. His deputy says so and sources from the Ukraine parliament say so. What is indisputable is that Shokin was dragging his feet in going after corrupt oligarchs. Not that he was entirely lacking in zeal. When some of deputies were being investigated for their inexplicable possession of valuable jewels, Shokin prosecuted the prosecutors investigating them. He also went after Ukraine's most prominent ant-corruption NGO. He was and is a lowlife. 2 minutes ago, bristolboy said: So, we have conflicting stories as to whether an investigation was in progress by the Ukrainians. I see an easy solution to clearing this up- a US investigation. And given that a US diplomat has stepped forward to say it was the Obama regime who orchestrated the firing of Shokin, a US investigation is no longer an option but a NECESSITY. https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/16/top-diplomat-testified-that-obama-admin-not-international-community-orchestrated-ukraine-prosecutors-firing/ stevenl 20,166 Diving member Location:Rawai/Kata 6 minutes ago, Crazy Alex said: First of all, I don't believe this to be true. Secondly, it is not important in the context of an inquiry into Trump's illegal activities. This is just deflecting. Except that the stories backing the version you prefer are very thinly sourced and depends on the testimony of Victor Shokin. And are you seriously contending that the Obama administration orchestrated the firing of Shokin to help Hunter Biden? As for Lutsenko, he took office in May of 2016. So he really didn't have the time to develop a track record before the end of the Obama adminstration? But he sure did during the Trump administration. And yet Trump, who claims that his motivation for his actions vis-a-vis Ukraine were motivated by concerns about corruption, did nothing in regard to Lutsenko. A post in violation of fair use policy has been removed: 14) You will not post any copyrighted material except as fair use laws apply (as in the case of news articles). Please only post a link, the headline and the first three sentences. He benefited from the action by protecting his son's employer from an ongoing investigation. It appears he also protected Hillary Clinton as well as other apparent shady dealings in the Ukraine, including but not limited to: Regards HRC... sure... whatever... investigate her again and again if it makes you feel good, but why are you bringing up Hillary in relation to my post about Biden? It is unrelated now ... if we can get back to Biden’s actions... how did removing a prosecutor that was universally seen as corrupt, help joe Biden, who was acting in plain sight, in line with public US policy how was Biden’s actions dishonest? what illicit gain was made? il·lic·it /i(l)ˈlisit/ forbidden by law, rules, or custom. https://www.google.co.th/search?q=illicit&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-th&client=safari are you saying that the corrupt prosecutor whom was removed from office, was over zealously investigating Biden’s sons employer, and would have corruptly found against Biden, and that this potentially negative finding was circumvented following the appointment of an honest prosecutor? I reject your premise that Shokin was universally seen as corrupt. In fact, it appears it was the Obama regime that was behind the firing the whole time. Furthermore, a bunch of corrupt governments all saying some other guy is corrupt isn't very impressive. As far as illicit: I don't recall using the term. Thus, I am puzzled as to your attention to it in context of a response to me. As for the "are you saying" line? I'm saying what I said, not what you'd like to say I said. RideJocky 900 Of course. Anything anyone else has ever done is deflection. The ONLY thing that matters is whether we can get Trump. 12 minutes ago, RideJocky said: Well, in an investigation into Trump it is trump that matters. Sure you pick up the pieces on the side, but that should not distract from the focus. And possible wrongdoings of others are no excuse.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1342
__label__wiki	0.868383	0.868383	Lifeforce - Limited Edition Steelbook Désolé, ce produit est en rupture de stock Nos autres clients ont acheté à la place Exclusivité Zavvi: Steelbook La Belle et la Bête (Live) – 4K Ultra HD (Blu-ray 2D Inclus) IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE, THE TERROR BEGINS. When a space shuttle crew finds a mysterious spacecraft containing three human-looking creatures in a state of suspended animation, they bring them back to Earth for further investigation. It's only then that scientists discover that they are in fact a race of space vampires that feed off people's life-force rather than their blood. So when they escape and run amok in London, the consequences are apocalyptic - and the shuttle crew's only survivor (Steve Railsback) seems to be the only man who can stop them. Based on Colin Wilson’s novel ‘The Space Vampires’, co-written by Dan O’Bannon (Alien, Return of the Living Dead) and directed by Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Poltergeist), this lively sci-fi horror romp has a stellar cast including Peter Firth, Frank Finlay and Patrick Stewart - although it's Mathilda May's appearance as a naked female alien that attracts most attention to this day. 2-Disc Blu-ray Special Edition Special Features: Limited Edition SteelBookTM packaging High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation of both the Theatrical and Director’s Cuts Optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Audio commentary with director Tobe Hooper Audio commentary with Academy Award-winning visual effects artist Douglas Smith, moderated by filmmaker and scholar Howard S. Berger Audio commentary with make-up effects artist Nick Maley Cannon Fodder: The Making of Lifeforce - An epic UK-exclusive look at the genesis, production and release of Lifeforce featuring interviews with Hooper, producer Michael J. Kagan, editor John Grover, actors Aubrey Morris and Nicholas Ball, makeup artist Sandra Exelby, screenwriter Michael Armstrong, sound designer Vernon Messenger, artistic designers Tom Adams and Douglas Smith and effects artist John Schoonraad. Cast & Crew Retrospective with star Steve Railsback, Hooper, Mathilda May and more! Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film, a new interview with Oscar-winning visual effects artist John Dykstra by Calum Waddell, illustrated with original archive stills and posters And more to be announced! Awards and Reviews: “One part Alien-esque science fiction, one part supernatural thriller and one part Dawn of the Dead” - Horror talk “An absolute hoot” - flickfeast “An entertaining and fun slice of sci-fi/horror action” - Horror Chronicles Cast and Crew: Starring Steve Railsback, Mathilda May, Peter Firth Steve Railsback, Mathilda May, Peter Firth Langue des Sous-Titres:	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1347
__label__wiki	0.527517	0.527517	The Cowboy and the Indians (September 15, 1949) Released on September 15, 1949: (running time 70 minutes) Rancher Gene Autry helps capture outlaws that are robbing the American Indian tribesmen near his ranch. Produced by Armand Schaefer Directed by John English Written by Dwight Cummins and Dorothy Yost The Actors: Gene Autry (Gene Autry), Sheila Ryan (Doctor Nan), Frank Richards (Smiley Martin, trading post merchant), Hank Patterson (ranch hand Tom), Jay Silverheels (Lakohna), Chief Yowlachie (Chief Long Arrow), Claudia Drake (Lucy Broken Arm), Georgie Nokes (Rona, Chief Long Arrow's grandson), Charles Stevens (Broken Arm), Alex Frazer (Fred, Martin's buyer), Clayton Moore (henchman Luke), Gilbert Alonzo (Indian), Jose Alvarado (Lucy Broken Arm's son José), Ray Beltram (henchman), Iron Eyes Cody (Indian farmer), Romere Darling (Indian woman), Roy Gordon (man in Washington), Felipa Gomez (Indian woman), Frank Lackteen (Joe Blue Eagle), Nolan Leary (Sheriff), Harry Mackin (Bob Collins, reporter), Frankie Marvin (Frank), Maudie Prickett (school teacher Ms. Summers), Charles Quigley (Henderson), Lee Roberts (henchman Joe), Sandy Sanders (guitarist, Bar B ranch hand), Shooting Star (Indian), Jack Tornek (man with the Sheriff), Dan White (farmer) Free Download of the classic movie The Cowboy and the Indians The-Cowboy-and-the-Indians-1949.mp4 (610mb - 720x526) The-Cowboy-and-the-Indians-1949-720p.mp4 (1.3gb - 986x720) From the First Thanksgiving to 1949 Christmas I remember Thanksgiving season when I was in my first years of school . . . . Making turkeys with different colors of construction paper, creating paper chains by gluing strips of colored paper into loops, singing songs about taking a horse and sleigh over the river and through the woods to Grandmother’s house, and learning stories about the first European settlers in America. During each autumn after the hard work of harvesting the crops that had grown all summer, the early settlements in America would celebrate with a feast that included their Native American Indian neighbors who had roamed the land for thousands of years before the arrival of us Europeans. Without the help and aid of their Native American neighbors the first European settlers might not have survived to build the nations that we now call America. This Christmas story takes place in 1949, the year it was filmed, and in a powerful way shows how much our relationship to the Native Americans had changed from those early years. As the story opens Gene Autry has purchased a ranch near an Indian village and he discovers that the trading post merchant and a handful of his henchmen are robbing the local Indian’s of their livestock and cheating them outrageously when trading with them. When he catches a couple of henchmen killing the sheep from an Indian family he fights them and takes them to the local Sheriff . . . But the henchmen lie to the Sheriff about killing the family’s sheep, and the merchant, Smiley Martin arrives and tells the Sheriff that his henchmen were not trying to kill the sheep, but to purchase the wool from them. Smiley tells the Sheriff that he can’t trust the word of an Indian - They will lie and cheat the white man any chance they get. Gene Autry must confront the bigotry and prejudice in good folk in addition to the dastardly deeds of the outlaws, and as Christmas approaches it doesn’t look like it will be a good holiday for his neighbors, the Native Americans, who are trying to survive the winter. The Singing Cowboy has a bigger job than he may be able to handle as he tries to help his Indian neighbors this Christmas. Pop a big bowl of white kernel popcorn with plenty of warm melted butter drizzled over it and enjoy the show. Claudia Drake and José Alvarado Alex Frazer Chief Yowlachie and Gene Autry Chief Yowlachie Clayton Moore and Charles Stevens Clayton Moore and Lee Roberts Frank Lackteen and Gene Autry Frank Richards and Alex Frazer Frank Richards, Charles Stevens and Claudia Drake Frank Richards as Smiley Martin Gene Autry and Chief Yowlachie Gene Autry and Clayton Moore Gene Autry and Hank Peterson Gene Autry singing Georgie Nokes Georgie Nokes and Gene Autry Hank Patterson and Gene Autry Jay Silverheels and Gene Autry Jay Silverheels and Sheila Ryan José Alvarado and Claudia Drake Nolan Leary and Gene Autry Sheila Ryan and Jay Silverheels Sheila Ryan and Maudie Prickett Sheila Ryan	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1349
__label__cc	0.624927	0.375073	Marketing Week’s shortlist revealed The shortlist for Marketing Week’s Engage Awards 2013 has been revealed and field marketing agency Gekko are once again in contention with their experiential work with Freeview. Gekko are delighted to have been shortlisted for this prestigious award in the Experiential and Events category. Gekko’s entry focussed on the Control the Choir roadshow that visited leading shopping centres in the run up to Christmas 2013. Aimed at driving advocacy and sales of Freeview+ products, the experiential activity featured a stage modelled as a Freeview+ set-top box. A professional quartet sang live Christmas carols to get visitors in the Christmas spirit. To generate fun and engagement, Freeview put shoppers in control by giving them a giant remote control with which they could pause, rewind (sing backwards!) and record the choir and in doing so highlighting some the benefits of Freeview+. The campaign generated some fantastic publicity with special appearances from Denise van Outen and Out of the Blue from Britain’s Got Talent at the launch event at Leadenhall. All will be revealed at the Engage Awards ceremony on Tuesday 21st May being held at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London. Field of brand marketing dreams Marketing Week’s panel of experts discusses the role of technology when utilising field and experiential marketing. My Ly, senior marketing manager at YO! Sushi (MY) James Coad, marketing manager at ASUS (JC) Hena Chandarana, shopper marketing controller at United Biscuits (HC) James Chambers, retail marketing manager, Freeview (JCh) Sara Trechman, marketing manager EMEA Glanbia Performance Nutrition (ST) Marketing Week (MW): How are you using field or experiential marketing? Hena Chandarana (HC): Last year’s Oddities biscuit launch is a good example of the connection between driving trial and sales. It was one of our most successful launches – achieving the fastest retail distribution for any product (79 per cent in five weeks) – driven significantly by field and experiential activity through our shopper marketing and activation agency Dialogue. We’ll be doing much more sampling this year to launch new flavours. Sara Trechman (ST): Experiential will be crucial for our brands BSN and Optimum Nutrition. We plan our events around Europe’s biggest shows such as the public Body Power Expo at The NEC, Birmingham in May. We will also be at rugby events where players can sample the product and get sports nutrition advice. James Coad: (JC): We’ve had several different campaigns and all of them tie in with our above-the-line campaigns. This will be the same tactic in 2013. We are running a ‘slacklining’ experience (the art of balancing on a strip of webbing tied between two anchor points, similar to a tightrope) in Bluewater, which iD Experiential designed. It features people doing incredible things with our laptops. My Ly (ML): We’ve always had lots of fun with field marketing. The brand lends itself to people to dressing up as geisha girls, sumos and quirky Japanese game show hosts. Field marketing will also be an important part of our local marketing strategy. We use YO! Sushi sumos to give away free miso soup vouchers redeemable at the nearest restaurant. We can create a buzz, engagement and fun while tapping into the quirkiness of Japan and our brand personality. MW: How does field marketing fit into the marketing mix for your brand? ST: We spend around 25 per cent of our total marketing budget on experiential and this is growing every year. James Chambers (JCh): Within our category, one of the challenges is the misinformation and confusion over how products and services differ. There is a need to educate as well as entertain, so experiential activity plays an important role in engaging directly with our audience. If you want to truly connect with your consumers in person, a creative, integrated approach is needed that joins up with the above-the-line activity, social and in-store. Our latest experiential roadshow ‘Control the Choir’ was a concept created and executed by field marketing agency Gekko and House PR to promote the Freeview+ service in the run-up to Christmas. JC: It’s important for ASUS to engage and educate consumers on the brand itself. High-value technology products must be demonstrated so consumers see as much of our range as possible and the fundamental differences between them. The difference can be as simple as showing the benefits of a tablet for casual media consumption or a high-end laptop while creating an immersive experience that brings the brand to life. ML: It’s a core part of our local and national marketing. It enables us to try new things and, crucially, engage our own restaurant teams in the marketing campaigns as much as our customers. HC: Field marketing and experiential have been invaluable in disrupting shopper behaviour in-store. Oddities is a snack product merchandised in the cracker aisle – not a natural place for most shoppers to look for bagged savoury snacks. To drive trial and purchase, we prioritise sampling in or near stores, because it is most effective when people are already in buying mode. We also used experiential to bring Oddities’ fun nature to life at supermarket head offices and at trade shows. MW: How important is data collection? JC: We don’t focus our data collection on generating sales as we want to create brand awareness in the UK. When we do gather data it tends to be focused on how the experience has influenced that awareness. The data we collect measures consumers’ perception before and after the experience. By using a similar approach at each event we can see growth in brand attribution over time. ML: YO! Sushi has market intelligence systems tracking every promotion at an individual redemption level. Field and experiential marketing shouldn’t be restricted to return on investment. Brands need to be brave enough for ideas to fail occasionally, otherwise we become overly cautious, predictable and ultimately a boring shadow of the brand that captured people’s imaginations in 1997, when it was founded. HC: Understanding return on investment is important, so we work closely with retailers and their data agencies to understand the effect on store sales where activity takes place in the immediate, short and medium term. ST: This is crucial for us. We have people on our stands capturing data on iPads and handheld terminals and this information feeds into our CRM programme. We see peaks in sales around public shows. We also carry out surveys before, during and after events to gather views on the brands. JCh: Data collection allows us to gather information about individuals to enhance subsequent engagement and to assess the effect of a campaign. However, if the data collection process is onerous, it can quickly compromise a positive brand experience. For Control the Choir, Gekko provided a team of six brand ambassadors who were on hand to discuss Freeview+ with shoppers, answer any questions, encourage them to enter a free prize draw and capture their details on tablet devices. We spoke with 67,000 consumers over four weekends. MW: How do you measure the activity? Can you track the people engaging with a branded experience? HC: The closer your activity is to the decision-making point, the more effective it is. When we did sampling with Oddities we could track our activity precisely from retailer take-up to sales. JCh: We’re not about the hard sell, but creating empathy and understanding of the brand. It’s the uplift in positive sentiment that we look for. The Summer of Sport campaign in 2012 is an example of how we measure such an effect. After the activity, Freeview jumped from 20th to 14th in the YouGov Brand Index bi-annual league table. ST: We track sales through our website and work with e-retailers, who know when we will be at an event and carry out experiential activity, and they report on sales numbers. Social media is also important to assess the conversations people are having about our brands. ML: We can track everything efficiently and effectively but sometimes we may choose not to. For example, we’d rather let people dance with a life-size Ramen [noodle] pot because it brightens up their day without always feeling like we need to thrust a leaflet into someone’s hand and demand an email address or postcode. JC: It can be difficult to track return on investment as we don’t sell direct. We therefore measure the activity with the customer engagement from brand ambassadors who will be effective in communicating the brand along with marketing collateral delivered. MW: How are you using technology to enhance users’ experiences? ML: During our sumo-themed miso soup promotion, we used Twitter on location to ask local businesses to tweet us if they wanted us to pop into their offices with free goodies. We were instantly bombarded with requests. This meant we could engage with people in a fun way and move around the area visiting local businesses once the peak traffic had died down at the high traffic commuter locations where we started. For the businesses that we couldn’t get to, we followed up their request with a visit the next day. JC: We want the focus to be on our products with ‘hands-on’ demos with consumers. Last November, we activated a two-week nationwide roadshow targeting students to promote our ZenBook laptop. The concept was that the ZenBook provides a stress-free working environment. Our experiential stand allowed consumers to tweet to receive mugs of herbal tea, while interacting with the laptops. JCh: When creating an experiential campaign, it must be rooted in certain fundamentals: the location, the people and the activity itself. We’re using technology to ensure that the engagement we have with consumers is as seamless as possible, while fully integrated. Gekko’s brand ambassadors utilised tablets for quick and easy data capture, which could then be used to inform the promotional activity occurring in-store. Brand ambassadors were also able to ‘click & reserve’ products for our customers. MW: What other new techniques are evolving in field marketing? HC: It’s often less about ‘new techniques’ evolving and more about understanding what works really well from a sales perspective, while still building the right amount of brand story into your activity. It’s interesting to leverage retailer data to understand shoppers and connect with the right ones at the right touchpoints, for example issuing coupons at the till. JC: Mobile will continue to be a key trend. Experiential is uniquely placed to capitalise on this because it provides useful experiences for consumers and takes advantage of the increasingly sophisticated, networked technology that consumers carry around in their pockets. There is also an ongoing trend towards more photo and content sharing sites that are becoming increasingly popular. ML: With the growing importance of social media, there will be a stronger partnership and integrated approach between this and field or experiential marketing as brands continue to experiment and test ideas. MW: How do you make sure that what you do has a lasting effect? ML: By doing it regularly, constantly innovating as well as surprising, delighting and rewarding customers and ensuring it is always part of our thinking and strategy for every campaign. JC: The experience element will have a lasting effect if we ensure the product is the focus but it ties in with a great experience that will stick in consumers’ minds. Shoppers remember if they go shopping for a pair of jeans and end up slacklining across Bluewater. HC: With the Oddities campaign we used the right prompts and messaging in-store to give the brand the best possible visibility in the aisle and in secondary siting. We also used online sampling and blogger engagement to ensure the brand was introduced to people who do not frequently go physically shopping. A repeat campaign this year will ensure we build on this. JCh: Creativity, fun and imagination must be at the heart of a campaign to achieve that initial engagement. If the activity isn’t interesting, consumers won’t take part. Once you have their interest, effective and efficient integration across all possible touchpoints will foster a lasting effect. Christmas campaigns can be the most challenging with the added stress of the season. With Control the Choir, our priority first and foremost was to create a fun way to distract them and alleviate that stress. It was a form of escapism. The ability to pause and rewind a live choir with a giant, novelty remote was a head-turner and a unique experience. MW: What will your challenges be this year? JC: As a technology brand, our market is evolving rapidly. This year we are seeing a focus on touch products including tablets and touchscreen laptops together with the already launched Windows 8. Our challenge is that people will need to get ‘hands-on’ to differentiate our touch experience from the competition. Another challenge is always how to get consumers engaging with the product. We cannot hand out hundreds of laptops therefore any experience must really relate to the product. JCh: Shopping is still a family activity and people genuinely want engagement and entertainment. The challenge for brands is to offer something creative and interactive without becoming too hung up on traditional forms of measurement. ST: We want to replicate in the UK the growth we are seeing in markets such as Germany. Experiential activity will help us achieve this. ML: One of our challenges is to address the misperception that YO! Sushi serves only raw fish and cold rice. We will trial simplified point of sale materials to help new customers feel less intimidated about trying our sushi for the first time. There will be a quick visual guide explaining our four simple steps to dining at one of our restaurants. See more at: http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/trends/field-of-brand-marketing-dreams/4005923.article The radio digital switch-over – a marathon not a sprint Daniel Todaro, managing director of Gekko, takes a look at the challenges ahead as the nation prepares for the digital radio switch-over – from public awareness campaigns, to ensuring the auto-mobile industry is backing the plan. In late 2012 the Government announced its commitment to turning off the FM signal. They have also insisted that the analogue switch-off would not happen until digital listening reached 50%; slightly delaying the process from the original expectations to beyond the 2015 target date. Nevertheless, the benefits of DAB have been compared to the switch over from AM to FM as the preferred medium; digital radio offers greater choice to the listener with better reception and superior sound quality. From the public’s perspective, reactions have ranged from sheer embrace, indifference to outright resistance with the digital listening figure currently standing at 31.3%. However, even though the move away from FM signal is proving a slower process than anticipated, Digital Radio UK has gone to great effort to get the ball rolling with a national communications campaign to boost public awareness. Now with government backing, the switch-over will no doubt prove a success. It can be argued that the slow response from the public towards the radio switch-over is down to the fact that people simply don’t quite ‘get’ digital radio. However, given the learnings of the TV switch-over, this isn’t such a difficult obstacle to overcome for DAB. People didn’t understand the TV process either; at first many viewers questioned why anyone would need more than five channels and was their television really not going to work after the change? But through teams of highly trained specialists offering in-store advice and demonstrations, experts manning a call centre for extra support, and a national marketing campaign, the public were able to understand and embrace the process successfully. ‘D Love’, the digital radio ads airing currently on the BBC, aim to follow in the same footsteps as many the mascots which advocated new services to TV viewers, such as Digit Al and ITV digital’s ‘monkey’. Executing this campaign undoubtedly has got the ball rolling to spread information about the radio switch-over. It’s vital to have an advertising and marketing campaign in 2013 to reach as many radio listeners as possible, educating them about the imminent changes ahead. This also applies to brands that can also push the cause forward. For example, radio manufacturers and retailers also need to be encouraged to champion the switch-over and aid that point of realisation amongst the public, underpinned by the D Love character and messaging. Automotive marques have a large opportunity here too in getting on board early with the digital switch-over. It was recently announced that BMW is to now offer DAB radio as standard across its entire range from January 2013. The car manufacturer is also offering owners of older BMWs the chance to upgrade their vehicles with a new digital radio. It cannot be understated what a significant move this is for the digital radio switch-over movement considering the previous reluctance of brands to drive the switch-over campaign; largely due to a fear of alienating consumers. To have BMW on board at this early stage is a serious coup for Digital Radio UK and its senior marketers, who surely played a crucial role in recruiting the car-maker. This move will further promote digital radio and potentially drive a whole generation of car owners that will only know DAB, in turn applying the technology to their homes. The triumph of the TV switch-over proves that while change is unsettling and the outcome unknown, in this context it’s a positive and proves that the public can embrace new systems if correctly guided. Yes, some people don’t like change, but the radio switch-over will successfully take place when more than the 31.3% listening figure exceeds 50%; this is evident after the slow insistence to adapt to digital TV. Today people can’t get enough of pausing and rewinding shows, on demand, and even 3D TV. Through effective advertising, shop floor training and raising public awareness, we can say from previous experience with the TV switch-over that the model works. And so, with a renewed emphasis and investment from the authorities, the digital radio switch-over can be galvanised into further action to push DAB radio forward for a successful switch-over ahead of the planned 2015 deadline. Read more: http://mediatel.co.uk/radio/news/2013/02/25/the-radio-digital-switch-over-a-marathon-not-a-sprint/	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1354
__label__cc	0.519073	0.480927	PERSONS FROM PORLOCK Third Programme, 30 September 1963 22.00 Written and produced by Louis MacNeice The story of a painter with Jon Rollason and Elizabeth Morgan Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company Norman Wynne is in ' Alfie ' at the Duchess Theatre, London Second broadcast Persons from Porlock was Louis MacNeice 's last work for radio. It was originally broadcast at the end of August, a few days before his death. Unknown: Jon Rollason Unknown: Norman Wynne Unknown: Louis MacNeice Hank: Jon Rollason Sarah: Elizabeth Morgan Peter: Peter Claughton Mervyn: Norman Wynne Mother: Mary O'Farrell Maggie: Margaret Gordon Donald: Tom Watson Bailiff: Charles Leno Doctor: Kenneth Hyde The Person: William Eedle Third Programme is a radio service which began broadcasting on 29 September 1946 and ended on 29 September 1967. Feedback about PERSONS FROM PORLOCK, Third Programme, 22.00, 30 September 1963 Please leave this link here so we can find the programme you're referring to: http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/1541670a4b4044418e1e22a4366e3a21	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1355
__label__cc	0.629243	0.370757	Mapping the world, one organic vertex at a time GeoHipster Interviewees 2020 GeoHipster Calendar Darren Mottolini: “Not just creating pretty maps that still require interpretation” March 28, 2017 December 8, 2019 by GeoHipster Team, posted in Geohipsters, Interviews Darren Mottolini is a Business Development and Research Manager — WA (Western Australia) at CRCSI (Cooperative Research Council for Spatial Information) Darren has worked in the spatial information sector for over 16 years – working within the private sector, government, and now academia, identifying and enabling businesses to use data and information to meet specific needs, and consulting on the best use of spatial data and tools in the on-line service delivery space. He comes recently from Western Australia’s Landgate (Land Agency) as the manager of the Shared Location Information Platform (SLIP) Program – the State’s core infrastructure for location information. Within the spatial community, Darren has chaired committees for the Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute and the Intergovernmental Committee for Surveying and Mapping. He has open data and start-up community experience, he is a past recipient of the of the Young Spatial Professional of the Year Award (WA), and currently heads up Research Management focussing on collaborative research opportunities. Darren was interviewed for GeoHipster by Alex Leith. Q: How did you end up in geospatial? A: Quite by accident. I graduated in the IT systems field picking up programming and network design jobs. I took a job at a company called ER Mapper as one of their technical analyst, which was my first foray into geo. From there I quickly transferred from behind the computer to in front of it branching out into solutions design and picking up up my geo skills from workshops, single units and conferences. Haven’t looked back since. Q: You are ‘Sir Darren of Rabble’ on Twitter, is there a story there? A: No story really. In Australia under a certain Prime Minister, he re-introduced Dames and Knights, and so a bunch of us changed our handles to Sir and Dame so and so. Rabble comes from my involvement in Perth coordinating GeoRabble events. Since then the moniker has grown on me so it has stuck. Q: How’s the GeoCommunity in Perth? A: Perth is a strange place. One, we are very isolated, with the closest main city four hours’ flight away. Two, everyone knows everyone so getting together is easy and organising events (such as a Georabble) picks up on everyone’s network. WA/Perth is still quite mining-focused, yet if you look across the state there are significant challenges. Biodiversity in the State’s agriculture and mining areas poses challenges, not only to understand the ecosystems but also to manage it. Also, due to the vast size of WA (which is 33% of Australia equalling about 4x the size of Texas, or covering more area than Western Europe) mapping and adding knowledge is a continual challenge for a population which is roughly around 2.5 million statewide. Q: You used to work in the Western Australian state government, what was the technology stack like there and were there benefits in being forced to rebuild twice?! (After Google end-of-lifed Google Earth Engine…) A: What I learnt from working in government (8 years) is that the stigma of government workers is nowhere to be seen. There is so much that happens behind the scenes that the public at large and private sector simply don’t see. Most of the stigma is due to spending public funds and the accountability that has to go with it yet if you understand the system, you can make it work. Managing a technology stack for the state’s Shared Location Information Platform (SLIP — the State Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)) had its challenges, yet the reward of making a difference, from concept to execution, rather than simply selling software or consulting on short projects, is what really kept me in government. Depending on the government agency, there is a lot of legacy systems which are used to manage the fundamental data within the state. Due to this, simply pulling a new dataset together, its impact on live systems etc. requires testing and creative design in order to respond to the industry need. Yet, all in all, managing SLIP, rebuilding it under Google Maps Engine, the demise of GME proved tiring for me and lacked new learning hence why I jumped at the chance to join a user-focused research organisation which really aligns to my take of technology that the consumers and suppliers needs are first, the technology is second. Q: You are currently working at CRCSI, can you explain what the CRCSI is and what you do there? A: The CRC (Cooperative Research Centre) for Spatial Information is a collaborative research body delving into the challenges facing both Australia and New Zealand. The research that the CRCSI conducts is user-driven, that is, our partners lead and sponsor the projects and we coordinate the research for them. It was this fact that attracted me to the CRCSI, being that it is not research for the sake of research, that it had a need founded in our users that could not be solved through traditional and pre-existing means. My role is to coordinate and ensure that our partners benefit from the research (i.e., they can use it) as well as brokering new research projects. Q: CRCSI’s government funding ends soon, how’s it looking for the future? A: It is looking good. One of the strengths of the CRCSI is that our partners are engaged and that our research is delivering benefits. As our government (federal) funding only accounts for a portion of our operation budget, we have already generated new partnerships and projects that will ensure Australia and New Zealand have a peak Spatial Information research body that is also an advocate for increasing the wealth of the industry by exploring emerging sectors and their needs for spatial knowledge. Q: What can you tell me about the 2026 Agenda project? A: The 2026Agenda (https://2026agenda.com/) is a joint initiative between the CRCSI and the Spatial Industries Business Association (SIBA) to put in place measurable and accountable actions that will drive towards greater awareness of spatial methods, data, and tech with new and emerging industries. As an industry we always say that ~80% of all data is spatial, but what does this really mean? The roadmap being generated will seek to ensure that the spatial sector is recognised as a proactive underpinning element to the Australian digital economy. Q: What about some of the other projects CRCSI is working on? A: How long have you got? As I remain partner-focused, it allows me to delve into all the projects the CRCSI is working on. My background is in SDIs, so the research we are conducting here is to explore how spatial processes can be delivered through the semantic technology area (Web 3.0). By doing this, achieving true automation — that is easily repeatable, shareable workflows that are facilitated through machine to machine understanding — aims to generate new tech that recognises spatial as a commodity anyone can plug into. For me it means that is a real opportunity for spatial to play its role in leading analytics processes that derive knowledge to assist decision making — not just creating pretty maps that still require interpretation. Another area that piques my interest is the adaptation of spatial in the health sector. Taking 3D stereophotogrammetry to mapping faces for example has the potential to assist practitioners in detecting facial anomalies which could be signs of genetic diseases. The same principles are being applied to burns management for the debriding process. In the agriculture space, assisting land managers with spatial data and query tools that draw on a massive historical earth observation imagery archive means that for the first time people can manage change over time by understanding the impacts of change. Finally, the positioning research: ubiquitous 2cm accuracy is near-real-time from multi GNSS — it sounds easy yet the maths behind this level of research and its potential benefits to all those who want high accuracy data that is placed in its correct location when overlapped has massive potential. We are starting to see the benefits of this positioning research with the move to GDA2020 (Australia’s new datum), real time precision agriculture through remote controlled farm tractors, and the move to dynamic datums in the future. Q: On your LinkedIn profile you mention Edward de Bono. What’s he got to do with anything?! A: HA! I’m a strategist, it’s what I enjoy. Facilitation, consultancy and strategy development requires a person to think in different mindsets and assist others to think differently so that you can develop a rounded strategy. Edward de Bono developed a suite of ‘thinking tools’ that are well utilised globally. The ‘six thinking hats’ are an example of one of this developed tools. (see: http://www.debonothinkingsystems.com/tools/6hats.htm ). I use these constantly to help me engage, facilitate thought leadership sessions, and develop strategies that work to the needs of the target user groups. Would never leave home without them. 🙂 Q: I assume that means you like lateral thinking, do you have a favourite riddle or, failing that, favourite dad joke? A: Ask my kids, I am not a joke teller, not even dad jokes. Riddle me this though, when you get asked a question, how best do you question the questioner back? If you ask any of my staff (when I had staff), I always get them to learn through seeing if they can answer their own question. It is a lateral thinking exercise that I feel builds the best staff, increases their confidence and success, means you work yourself out of a job. Q: What do you do in your free time that is not geo-related? A: Isn’t everything geo-related? Camping, cycling, running are my favourite things to do. Of course, I track my cycling and running tracks, look for camping spots, and everything you can do around them. Having a geo focus to these activities usually sees me always looking towards a map. Q: And finally, what do you do in your free time that makes you a geohipster? A: Coffee! Maybe it’s my Italian heritage, yet it is the first machine I turn on in the morning, it is how I generally conduct my meetings, it is what gets me through the day. That, and a desire to care for the environment, a love of local music, and generally the wearing of Chuck Taylor shoes with no care to how my hair looks. 🙂 Tagged Alex Leith, Darren Mottolini, interview Kristen Grady: “If you’re on the ground, look up, and if you’re in the sky, look down” March 20, 2017 December 8, 2019 by atanas, posted in Geohipsters, Interviews Kristen Grady Kristen Grady is a GIS Specialist at NYC Emergency Management and has over ten years of experience working in GIS. Prior to working at NYCEM she spent about six years working in academia trying really hard – but eventually failing – to avoid working a 9-5 office job. (Although saving the city from the apocalypse turned out to be a pretty cool job, so it’s OK). She’s loved airplanes even longer than geography and hopes to combine her two passions into an actual paying job someday. But for now, she makes maps and writes python code by day and stares at her airplane emergency card collection by night, which currently stands at an impressive 139. (And yes, they all very clearly read “PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE FROM AIRCRAFT.” She says she’s sorry!) Find her on Twitter and LinkedIn. Kristen was interviewed for GeoHipster by Atanas Entchev. Q: How did you get into GIS? A: I think it happened about six or seven miles up, somewhere near where the troposphere meets the stratosphere. I was flying from New York to California in June 2006 — my first time flying jetBlue — and I had never seen a live flight-tracker map before. I was enthralled! It was a perfectly clear day all the way across the country, and my 8 megapixel camera was pointed out the window for the entire six-hour flight. I’d take a picture of something neat on the ground and then immediately snap a photo of the map. When I got back to New York a few days later I sat with these photos and Google Earth, which I had just downloaded for the very first time, and spent hours trying to figure out what was in my photos… A few months later, my Weather and Climate instructor was giving a lecture on remote sensing. He was going through slides of satellite images and having us guess what they were of. I knew them all! At the time I was a philosophy major, but I immediately went and switched my major to geography. The next semester, while taking the required geo-technologies course for the geography major I finally got to play with desktop GIS software and made some (pretty terrible) maps. But I knew that this was what I wanted to do. Someone in the geography department back then had made a comment that geography was a perfect discipline for “someone with ADD” because the variety of projects and aspects of GIS that you could focus on were truly infinite. That sealed the deal for me. Geography and mapmaking were always passions of mine. I had my face buried in atlases and had been making pretty intricate maps since I was a kid, like this one that I made at age eleven. But I took a very circuitous route through college, losing myself about a hundred times, before finally taking that life-changing jetBlue flight that reminded that, at my core, I was born to be a geographer. So after seven long years in undergrad, I finally got that geography degree, and found GIS, and I’m so glad I did! Q: You have a Master of Science degree in Geographic Information Science. What is the one most important (or most valuable) thing you got out of your course of study? A: I graduated with a B.A. in 2008, probably the worst year in recent history to start looking for a “real” job. So I ended up mashing together some part-time GIS research jobs and continued taking graduate-level GIS and cartography courses for fun. This eventually led me into a PhD program, which I was in for two and a half years before deciding to call it quits with a Masters. (A story for another time!) So unlike in an undergrad program, where you’re essentially just learning how to use tools (at least in my experience), in a graduate program you are also being taught how to think critically about those tools, as well as how to think critically about the disciplines of GIS and geography themselves. You have to think about the consequences of your analyses, the ethics of your maps, the ethics of your tools. You have to think about things like the effects of aggregation, the cultural implications of using a certain color on a map… Then there’s learning about different geographic “paradigms” and critical geographies, such as feminist geography or Marxist geography… I had no idea while I was in undergrad that there was such a rich philosophy of geography. I feel lucky to have been exposed to that. Having that experience at the graduate level has definitely made me a better, more critical map-maker. Q: You work for NYC Emergency Management. Is your job stressful? Last week Amazon S3 went down because of a typo. If you make a typo lives are at stake. Do you ever think about that? Does it stress you? A: Oh totally. I put a lot of pressure on myself because I am a perfectionist. But the paradox of working in emergency management, where your maps and your data really ought to be showing the most correct information, is that when sht hits the fan, there is rarely any time to go over everything in painstaking detail. It is not my nature to work this way at all* so it’s been an interesting challenge for me. There is always a struggle between balancing the quality of your work and being efficient. This is why I try to automate things using Python and by using map templates that I created a while back. This way we can spend more time on making sure the map and data are accurate and less time on things like creating a layout from scratch, or worse, creating an Esri scale bar from scratch (it’s the worst!). I have actually written a Python script that automates that process for us. Hooray! Q: I interned for Manhattan Borough President’s Office in 1992. We used MapInfo then. Have things changed in NYC? What technology do you use these days? A: The GIS Division at NYCEM is definitely an Esri shop but lately we’ve started exploring some other geo-tech as well, like Carto, Fulcrum, and Tableau. Our app dev folks are currently transitioning from the now obsolete ArcGIS API for Silverlight to Esri’s Web AppBuilder. And one of them tells me that he has started using some open source JavaScript technologies like REACT and NODE to rebuild our ailing Data Catalog application, which was originally created in Microsoft Access and contains about a zillion VB scripts. We’re also slowly starting to explore ArcGIS Pro, which we think may hold some promise. Perhaps it will lead to fewer frustrations (and expletives) than our good friend ArcMap. As for the rest of the city, I think it varies. My sense is that it is largely Esri-based. But I am familiar with a few agencies that are moving toward open source technologies, like DoITT, who I believe is using QGIS for their desktop mapping. A colleague of mine at DOHMH uses R, D3, Leaflet, and PostGIS for her mapping projects, and DCP’s new Capital Planning Division has just used all open source technology to create their Facilities Explorer, which I love and was just released to the public. Q: Tell us about a cool project you work on right now. A: As I’ve said, things happen really fast in emergency management. A typical work day for me is pretty calm and laid back… until of course, something happens. One of the big ideas last year in the Public Safety Data Development Center (the group I work in within NYCEM GIS) was to create a dataset that answers the question, “What is there?” Meaning, if there is a sudden event, such as a building collapse or an explosion, we immediately want to know all of the facilities that exist in the affected location. Is there a hospital there? A nursing home? A restaurant? A school? We used to do this by adding a bunch of datasets one by one — that we had to think of off the top of our head — to an ArcMap document. But that is both inefficient and prone to oversight (like forgetting a dataset, for example). Answering this question sounds easy enough (“Why not just use Google?!”) but what is so challenging is bringing all of these disparate datasets, most from different sources and with very different schemas, together into one dataset. The City of New York cannot simply rely on Google’s databases alone for its spatial awareness. We cannot verify the accuracy of their data. Many of us worked on this project, but my job was to write an ETL in Python that would extract as many datasets as we could (currently 23, but eventually 50 or more) from our database, transform them — perform selections, map the fields, etc. — and then load them into one singular dataset. We still have a long way to go, but at least now, we can pull in this one dataset, which we call “Facilities Master,” select all the points that fall inside a building or within a given radius, and know an awful lot about the facilities in an area, with just a few mouse clicks. And this way you don’t have to think too much, which is always my goal. Plan and prepare when times are calm (think!), and then respond quickly when things get hectic (do!). Q: You are a Pythonista. What advice will you give to someone who is just getting started with Python in GIS? A: Wow. What a great word, Pythonista. Can I use that on my resume?! Ed: Yes. Learning to code can follow a totally different path for everyone and really depends on your learning style. Some people can start copy/pasting other people’s code right away and fairly quickly manage to build something new that actually works. This approach didn’t work for me. I wasn’t easily able to break through the wall that stood between me wanting to learn to code and unshackling code from abstraction, and so I was a little paralyzed at first. But now I know that in order to learn code, you have to just start writing it and stop pussyfooting. You have to have faith that all those neural connections that you’re creating in your brain will eventually result in some pretty spectacular “eureka!” moments. As for the more practical aspect of learning to code, you need simply to start out by learning the basics (variables, lists, conditional statements, loops, etc.), and then start playing. If you aren’t able to take a class, there are a million online code-learning sites, most of which are free. Once you know some really basic stuff and have learned what a module is, play around with the Python turtle module, which was originally created to help kids learn to code. It’s a great way to make really cool things happen pretty quickly, and it’s included in the Python Standard Library. If you want to write scripts and create tools for ArcGIS, you’ll need to learn ArcPy, the Python site package that lets you interact with ArcGIS. Esri has pretty good documentation on how to use arcpy, and GIS Stack Exchange is also a great arcpy resource. Here are a few rules I think the budding Python coder should follow: Know that coding requires incredible self initiative and self learning. Learn how to ask the right questions and become a master Googler. GIS Stack Exchange is indispensable, but users and moderators will publicly shame you if you haven’t done your homework before posting a question. I love that. Errors are learning tools, you’ll never stop getting them, and they will only get more complicated over time. Accept them. When you’re comfortable, learn about debugging and error handling. Pleeeeease comment your code. You will forget what you have written if you haven’t looked at your script in two weeks. More importantly, if someone else has to read it, explanations in a human language are key. Don’t be lazy. Don’t write sloppy code. Include script headers. Q: Enough about work. What do you do for fun? Being a Brooklynite, whatever it is surely must be hipster, no? A: Brooklyn is a pretty special place to live. It is also very hipster. One of my favorite things to do, and fortunately for my budget and my liver I don’t do this too often, is try to find really good craft cocktails. There are some amazing ones to be found in this borough, but obviously also in Manhattan. I have not yet ventured to the other three boroughs in search of craft cocktails, but I should! One of my favs in Manhattan is Amor Y Amargo. They are the standard to which I hold all other craft cocktail bars. A place I love to go to in Brooklyn is Blueprint. They also have incredible bar snacks. Yum! When I’m not consuming spirits, I am doing much healthier things like snowboarding, taking pictures, hanging with any number of my enormously huge family, including my two little nephews whom I adore, seeking out some top-of-the-line self-serve froyo with my other half, or geeking out hard on airplanes… Q: You also like airplanes. How did you develop that passion (for it is a passion, right)? Tell us more about it. A: I could spend hours answering this question! There are so many amazing spatial things going on with airplanes. But to be honest with you, I’m not really sure why I became enamored with them as a kid. I’d give anything to go back to early 1991 and ask that 8-year old girl, who just found out that she was going to be flying Continental Airlines from Newark, New Jersey to Orlando, Florida, why she instantly became so obsessed with them (and with the airline itself). I think there are a few things going on. For one, I just think the airplane is a beautiful machine. But it’s also a symbol of escape, adventure, and change, and I have always liked all of those things. Also, the airplane affords anyone lucky enough to sit in a window seat an incredible and rare view of the surface of the Earth, which is a pretty spectacular experience for anyone who loves geography, although I didn’t have that particular experience until I was a bit older. My initial obsession mainly involved planespotting, which is at its most basic simply identifying aircraft types and airline liveries. As I’ve gotten older and as technology has allowed for easy access to all kinds of flight-related goodies, the passion has evolved into an actual hobby. An #avgeek session for me might include using multiple flight-tracking apps (Flightaware, PlaneFinder, Flightradar24) and live ATC feeds to track a single flight or multiple flights that satisfy certain criteria. Sometimes I like to freak people out by “planestalking” them. (I actually coined the term Planestalker in the Urban Dictionary, and as of the time of this writing, it has 4 likes! ha!) Recently, I was planestalking my cousin’s flight from EWR to DEN, and it made a go-around in DEN. They were only feet off the ground before they aborted their landing due to wind and flew around to land on another runway. Nowadays you can go to Flightaware and just download a KML file of your flight. I sent him a picture of his go-around, and he thought it was hysterical (but also pretty cool!). Some of my favorite airplane “games” or challenges are trying to catch and then follow my pilot talking to ATC from one feed to the next (e.g. from Ground to Tower or from Departure to ARTCC), or predicting where an airplane overhead is coming from or going to and which runway it either took off from or is about to land on (which I am a total expert at predicting, btw!). I had a lot of fun making an animated map of some “Flights over Queens!” a few years ago, but unfortunately it got a little (irreparably) messed up when Carto switched from Editor to Builder. Even more recently, I’ve developed an affection for aviation-related maps, like VFR sectional charts, arrival and departure procedures, and IFR Enroute High Altitude charts. I mean, talk about not being able to make a mistake! And having to think critically about the implications of your cartographic choices! Who makes these wonderful maps?! I am convinced that they are made by sweet little garden gnomes, working tirelessly in the night, running their maps from tree to tree… There is just so much magic, and a bit of mystery, in flying… it’s fun to uncover it all. Q: Do you consider yourself a geohipster? Why / why not? A: You know, at first I didn’t think I was at all, but then I realized that maybe I was a little bit when I was completely unable to answer the first question in the interview — which is a pretty simple and straightforward question: “How did you get into GIS?” — without launching myself into a paralyzing debate on my feelings on the word “GIS.” Did I want to be associated with such a contentious word, what seems now to be a target for people who don’t want to be boxed in and who instead feel that they are part of something bigger than GIS, something geospatial? Just the fact that I was freaking out about the connotation of a word, in a very academic way… that must be somewhat geohipster, no? (Fortunately for the geohipster readership, I decided to scrap the eight-page essay that accompanied that manic thought spiral and instead tell you all a nice little story about flying… hee) Q: On closing, any words of wisdom for our global readership? A: I wish I could take credit for this perfectly succinct and beautiful advice that I’m about to give, but I can’t, as it was offered as a suggestion to me by my partner when I read this question to him out loud… “If you’re on the ground, look up, and if you’re in the sky, look down.” It’s exactly what would have taken me multiple paragraphs to articulate, but he did it in just one sentence. He knows me so well. I think I’ll just leave it at that. Tagged interview, Kristen Grady Jim Hughes: “Having the US federal government involved in FOSS4G is great!” Jim Hughes is a mathematician at Commonwealth Computer Research, Inc. in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is a core committer for GeoMesa which leverages Accumulo and other distributed database systems to provide distributed computation and query engines. He is a LocationTech committer for GeoMesa, JTS, and SFCurve, and serves as a mentor for other LocationTech projects. He serves on the LocationTech Project Management Committee and Steering Committee. Through work with LocationTech and OSGeo projects like GeoTools and GeoServer, he works to build end-to-end solutions for big spatio-temporal problems. He holds a PhD in algebraic topology from the University of Virginia. Jim was interviewed for GeoHipster by Todd Barr. Q: Your background is that of a mathematician. How did you find geospatial, or did it find you? A: Geospatial definitely found me! I started at CCRi in the summer of 2012. That fall, I was working on the code base that eventually became GeoMesa, our Hadoop-based open-source geospatial database. I liked the project enough that I requested to work on it more, and after a few other rotations, I made it back to the project and have been working on it ever since. During my time with GeoMesa, I’ve had a chance to participate in the OSGeo and LocationTech open source communities at code sprints, and also to attend conferences like FOSS4G NA. The conferences and code sprints have been a great way to learn the eco-system while meeting a bunch of great people! Q: One of your projects is GeoMESA, one of geospatial’s first real applications to deal with Big Data. How did it evolve? Was it a grouping of client requests, or something created in house? A: CCRi focuses on solving interesting data science and machine learning problems. A customer asked us to transition one of our spatio-temporal analytics from a single server infrastructure to the cloud. We had been using PostGIS for our geospatial data management and processing, and we asked if that (or an analogue) was available in the cloud. When the customer said that the only database was Accumulo, and that it didn’t do geospatial, we wrote the code to make it do just that. After a few months, we realized that this software was a compelling product on its own. From there, GeoMesa has evolved in response to direct use cases. Q: Most of us in the geo community have ideas about what we want to bring to market. From your experience on GeoMESA, do you have any lessons learned or warnings for those of us who want to do this? A: Have great documentation and demos! Standing up a distributed database is tough, and adding software to that can be challenging. We’ve used a simple ‘quickstart’ project to show how to use the GeoTools DataStore API to write and read with GeoMesa. The documentation also explains how to set up GeoServer. When sample code and docs aren’t enough, be ready to respond to questions from users. We field questions on mailing lists, Gitter, and Stack Overflow. From those questions, you can get a sense of what folks are using your product for. Recently, I had some great questions about one of GeoMesa’s less well-known features. Those questions can drive simplification of deployments and improvements to documentation. If users can see what they are getting, see it work for them, and get help along the way, they are going to be happy. Q: Over the past few years there has been an increased presence of the federal government at FOSS4G. What is your take on the adoption of open source spatial technologies both widely across the federal government and with your clients? A: Having the US federal government involved is great! At that level of government, they have ‘big data’ and a vision to fund and drive innovative work for storing and processing the data. NGA and other agencies are definitely ‘getting it’ by funding and fostering open source technologies. When our work can be shared publicly, many organizations benefit; everyone can get the same code up, running, and working together to achieve more than what we were able to previously. Q: As you sit on the board of LocationTech, who recently announced LocationCon, is this the first move of LocationTech to finally leave the shadows and become a driving force in the FOSS4G community? A: I’d say that LocationTech has been moving forward the geospatial software community for a few years now. Some of that has admittedly been ‘behind the scenes’…As the logistic organizer for FOSS4G NA 2015 and 2016, they increased inclusivity for women at the conferences through both a code of conduct and a scholarship program. Also, behind the scenes, LocationTech reviews its projects’ dependencies. Through that process, LocationTech projects like uDig, GeoMesa, and GeoGig have had lots of GeoTools code reviewed and, in a number places, those project teams have worked with the GeoTools team to clarify licensing and clean up code. In 2016 and 2017 GeoMesa, GeoTrellis, and GeoGig all completed incubation. These projects represent complex libraries and products which address several areas of innovation in geospatial software. On the basic library level, Spatial4J was the first project to incubate, and JTS is close to graduating. Those two projects are libraries that are widely used: Spatial4J came out of Lucene’s spatial indexing needs, and JTS has been foundational to a number of Java projects. LocationTech is home to basic libraries (like JTS, Spatial4J, and SFCurve) and complex products such as GeoMesa, GeoTrellis, and GeoGig. Q: CCRi is known for their “Friday afternoon parking lot BBQ.” What is your favorite style of barbeque? A: Finally, an easy question! I am a big fan of pulled pork and pork ribs. For sauce, I favor spicy and sweet options over vinegar and mustard-based ones. Q: How do you define a “geohipster” and do you consider yourself one? A: I suppose a ‘geohipster’ is a geo-/gis- professional or enthusiast who is up on the new trendy, cool technologies (perhaps bearded and wearing plaid?) in the geo-domain. I’ve been working on big-geo and streaming geo data for the few years, so if that’s en vogue, then sure, I can be a ‘geohipster’. From my interest in many of the low-level libraries and the math/geometry behind the field, the moniker ‘geonerd’ might be better. Tagged Jim Hughes, Todd Barr SUPPORT GEOHIPSTER OpenCage: an easy, open, worldwide, affordable, geocoding API Buy our 2020 Calendar! 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__label__cc	0.712005	0.287995	Secluded Beaches in Texas Pet Friendly Bed and Breakfast in Sussex County, Delaware Dog Swimming Beaches in Portland, Oregon by Christina Stephens What Florida Beaches are Closest to Disney? Florida RV Parks Near I-10 Walking Trails for Dogs in Maine Beaches That Are Not Too Far From Washington, D.C. Beaches and Portland aren’t exactly synonymous, but the characteristic image of the Pacific Northwest as gray, misty and evergreen disintegrates into wild roses, balmy temperatures and cool watering holes during summer. When temperatures rise about 80 degrees, the local and their pooches head to one of many swimming beaches in the Portland area. Sauvie Island Sauvie Island, 20 minutes northeast of downtown Portland, is a small farming island favored by locals during summer. Its long, sandy beaches draw hoards of adults, children and dogs. Both of Sauvie Island’s public beaches, Walton and Collins, are dog-friendly, though dogs must be leashed at all times. It’s important to note, for the modest or not-so-modest crowd, that Collins Beach is clothing-optional. Parking permits are required at all Sauvie Island beaches and available at Sauvie Island General Store at the base of the Sauvie Island Bridge. Kelly Point Kelly Point Park, on the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in north Portland, is a quiet area for a quick dip with your pup. Compared with Sauvie Island, it’s smaller and nearly desolate. Kelly Point’s sandy beaches are a reasonable choice for pet owners looking to settle into a novel while their buddy relaxes near the water. Unfortunately, this northern peninsula doesn’t come equipped with doggie bags, so be sure to bring plenty of your own. Sellwood Riverfront On the eastern side of the Willamette River, Sellwood Riverfront Park boasts a 1.5-acre off-leash dog area, although leashed dogs are permitted throughout the park. Sellwood Riverfront is a social spot for pups. On a summer day, this southeast Portland park provides plenty of other dogs for your buddy to play with. Be sure to check the water when you arrive: It’s usually laden with pieces of driftwood just waiting to be used in your next game of fetch. Thousand Acres Thousand Acres is a huge off-leash dog park just east of Portland. The Sandy River Delta, where the Columbia and Sandy Rivers merge, provides stunning views of Mount Hood for two-legged visitors and miles of greenery, smells and cool water for their four-legged companions. Some pet owners even refer to it as “Doggie Disneyland." While it won’t get to romp with Mickey, your dog can enjoy a frolic in the Columbia River. It might seem as if you’re in unadulterated nature at Thousand Acres, but cleaning up after your pet is still required. You’ll find plastic bag dispensers in the parking lot for your convenience. City of Portland: Kelly Point Park Bring Fido: Sellwood Riverfront Park Sauvie Island Community Association: Questions & Answers Sauvie Island Community Association: Beaches Christina Stephens is a writer from Portland, Ore. whose main areas of focus are pets and animals, travel and literature. A veterinary assistant, she taught English in South Korea and holds a BA in English with cum laude honors from Portland State University. Pet-Friendly Beaches Near Tampa, Florida Beaches Around Dallas Dog-Friendly Beaches on the Florida Panhandle Beaches Near Ann Arbor, Michigan	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1360
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__label__cc	0.696381	0.303619	Designing alloys for resource efficiency (DARE)- a manufacturing approach Lead Research Organisation: University of Sheffield Department Name: Materials Science and Engineering The manufacturing and processing of metals to form components is one of the largest industrial sectors and accounts for 46% of all manufactured value, with an economic value to the EEA of Euro 1.3 trillion annually. Material security concerns the access to raw materials to ensure military and economic sufficiency. We will face major future challenges as key elements will be increasingly in short supply with consequent price volatility ("the ticking time bomb"). Equally, many materials rely on strategic elements for which supply is not guaranteed, with rare earth elements being the prime example (central to the performance of magnesium alloys). Metals production consumes about 5% of global energy use and is responsible for an annual emission of over 2Gton of CO2, so efficiency in manufacture can produce significant reductions in environmental impact. The recent report "Material Security: Ensuring resource availability for the UK economy" from the TSB noted "the importance of material security has increased due to limited short-term availability of some raw materials, widespread large increases in raw material prices, oligopolistic industry structures and dependence on a limited number of sometimes politically unstable countries as sources of key materials". Furthermore, "The issue of sustainability has attained unprecedented prominence on both national and international agendas, occupying the minds of businesses and governments as never before... Resource efficiency has a key role to play in mitigating wider issues such as depletion of resources, environmental impact and materials security, and it also contributes significantly to the low-carbon economy." Addressing resource efficiency in metals production and use requires that new metal alloys be developed specifically to reduce reliance on strategic and scarce elements, for recycling and for disruptive manufacturing technologies that minimise waste. The size of the problem is too large to be undertaken by the traditional matrix experiment. Rather, a wide range of state-of-the-art modelling, experimental and processing skills needs to be brought together to target resource efficiency in metallic systems. In the DARE approach we use basic science to come to an understanding of the role of strategically important elements, to design new alloys with greater resource efficiency and to optimise the processing route for the new alloys to give supply chain compression. Unique to the DARE approach is to bring manufacturing into the centre of the alloy design paradigm. The combined themes will tackle key metal alloys, including ultra-high strength, low alloy and nanostructured steel (e.g. for a resource efficient approach to vehicle light weighting to give reduced automotive emissions); titanium alloys and titanium aluminides (e.g. for aerospace applications) and Mg alloys (e.g. in automotive and military applications, for example, cast gear box casings). The research team and their ten industrial partners will deliver actual materials and implementation into industry, moving the resource efficiency agenda from the sphere of policy into the real economy. We will support the growth of the high-value UK speciality metals manufacturing industry by developing and exploiting the DARE approach to the design of alloys that improve the resource efficiency and flexibility with regard to fluctuating material availability of the UK manufacturing economy, addressing the EPSRC grand challenges in transitioning to a low-carbon society. This will help existing UK world-leading industries to expand and manufacture for the future. DARE has three main pathways to impact: (i) engaging key stakeholders; (ii) maximising research impact and (iii) delivering highly skilled people. (i) Engaging key stakeholders: The research team and their industrial partners will deliver actual materials and implementation into industry, moving the resource efficiency agenda from the sphere of policy into the real economy. The approach taken in this project will have generic applicability to most metal alloys and will therefore impact a wide range of industrial sectors, including manufacturing, transport, energy, healthcare technologies and defence. The grant is strongly supported by a wide range of industrial sponsors, namely Rolls-Royce, Firth Rixson, Messier-Bugatti-Dowty, TIMET, Magnesium Elektron, Siemens, Tata Steel, Sheffield Forgemasters and Arcelor Mittal. Members of these companies have agreed to join our Strategic Advisory Board, which will facilitate the exchange of knowledge from us to industry, but also allow us to receive insight into future challenges faced by industry. We will involve Fusion-IP at UoS and Imperial Innovations (LSE:IVO, Imperial's £285m technology commercialisation office) for exploitation of our research. (ii) Maximising research impact The topic of resource efficiency and sustainability will not be a short-term hype, but rather a subject that will have ever increasing importance. This project will greatly advance knowledge and we will seek to publicise EPSRC sponsorship of this critical topic within the wider political debate. We will go much further than publishing in high impact journals by organizing symposia at international conferences, and disseminate our knowledge through the dedicated website and specific workshops on focused topics aimed particularly at industry. In addition, we will address public engagement in a creative manner, e.g. through Headstart Summer Schools, Science and Engineering Taster Days for widening participation, the first Sheffield Festival of Sciene and Engineering (2013), the Cheltenham Science Festival etc. We will promote resource efficiency through our work with the media, for example, our bespoke videos of manufacturing. We will get involved in the Centres for Innovative Manufacturing Network events, work with the Catapult Centres (in particular the AMRC, AFRC and MTC, where we have existing collaborations) and already are working with our Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) on sustainability. (iii) Delivering highly skilled people. We have a long and proud track record in training the next generation scientists and engineers in metallurgy (including the Sheffield-Manchester Advanced Metallic Systems CDT) the demand for which continues to outstrip supply. At all levels, we will develop and broaden the skills-base of participants and equip them to be future leaders in the increasingly important and challenging field of resource efficiency and sustainability. We will also develop the skills of at least 6 PhD students committed to this project by the Universities and Industrial partners who will work alongside the PDRAs. Sep 14 - Mar 20 EP/L025213/1 W Mark Rainforth Environmental Engineering (25%) Manufacturing (25%) Materials Processing (50%) Manufacturing Machine & Plant (25%) Waste Minimisation (25%) University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (Lead Research Organisation) Tata Steel Europe (Collaboration) Weir Pumps Ltd (Collaboration) Timet UK Ltd, United Kingdom (Collaboration, Project Partner) Rolls Royce Group Plc (Collaboration) Magnesium Elektron, Salford, United Kingdom (Collaboration) Primetals technologies ltd (Collaboration) ArcelorMittal, United Kingdom (Collaboration, Project Partner) Siemens Public Limited Company, United Kingdom (Project Partner) Sheffield Forgemasters Engineering Ltd, United Kingdom (Project Partner) Tata Steel UK, United Kingdom (Project Partner) Magnesium Elektron Ltd, United Kingdom (Project Partner) Firth Rixson Limited, United Kingdom (Project Partner) Rolls-Royce plc, United Kingdom (Project Partner) Messier-Dowty Ltd, United Kingdom (Project Partner) W Mark Rainforth (Principal Investigator) Bradley Peter Wynne (Co-Investigator) David Dye (Co-Investigator) http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8756-3513 Russell Goodall (Co-Investigator) Anthony Thomas Paxton (Co-Investigator) Mark Van Schilfgaarde (Co-Investigator) Martin Jackson (Co-Investigator) http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9553-1239 Fionn Patrick Dunne (Co-Investigator) Iain Todd (Co-Investigator) http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0217-1658 Pedro Rivera (Co-Investigator) \|< < 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 > >\| Qian F (2016) Characterisation of L21-ordered Ni2TiAl precipitates in Fe Mn maraging steels in Materials Characterization Gong P (2017) Characterisation of strain-induced precipitation behaviour in microalloyed steels during thermomechanical controlled processing in Materials Characterization Vora P (2017) Customised Alloy Blends for In-Situ Al339 Alloy Formation Using Anchorless Selective Laser Melting in Technologies Pham MS (2019) Damage-tolerant architected materials inspired by crystal microstructure. in Nature Knowles AJ (2017) Data on a Laves phase intermetallic matrix composite in situ toughened by ductile precipitates. in Data in brief Knowles AJ (2018) Data on a new beta titanium alloy system reinforced with superlattice intermetallic precipitates. in Data in brief Jiang J (2016) Deformation compatibility in a single crystalline Ni superalloy. in Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences Gao J (2018) Deformation mechanisms in a metastable beta titanium twinning induced plasticity alloy with high yield strength and high strain hardening rate in Acta Materialia Tammas-Williams S (2017) Design for additive manufacturing with site-specific properties in metals and alloys in Scripta Materialia Smith C (2016) Dimensional accuracy of Electron Beam Melting (EBM) additive manufacture with regard to weight optimized truss structures in Journal of Materials Processing Technology Description For magnesium alloys, we have established the limits of the various strengthening mechanisms (e.g. precipitation, solid solution hardening etc) on the strength of the alloy. This will allow us to design new alloy compositions. We have invented a new magnesium alloy that shows both high strength and high ductility. We have demonstrated the origin of the "Rare Earth" texture in a rare earth containing magnesium alloy. We have invented a new high strength steel that is strengthened by nanoprecipitates. We have designed a new "lean maraging steel" via computer calculations and have validated this alloy through making the material. We have invented a new metastable beta alloy that shows both high yield strength and high work hardening rate. We have produced atomistic calculations of defects in pure Mg alloys and will progress onto the effect of Ca additions. Exploitation Route The work on magnesium alloys will be transferred to Magnesium Elektron The work on steels will be used by Tata Steel Europe Sectors Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology,Transport URL http://www.darealloys.org Description A new high strength steel has been invented, which is based on nanoprecipitation. This has been subject to a company patent. The laboratory based processing has been upscaled to plant trials and the product which is now a commercial product. New magnesium alloys developed by us are being trialed by Magnesium Elektron. Additive repair of gas turbine components has been developed at Sheffield and is being taken up by Rolls-Royce. Sector Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology,Transport Impact Types Economic Description MAPP Title Questaal Description Questaal (www.questaal.org) is a large-scale software project, supported by EPSRC to investigate materials properties, such as optical properties. This software is public domain. Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure Impact The software has been a key tool in this project. It is written for a wide user base. We will hold a hands-on workshop in the spring of 2017, and engage in various kinds of public relations to encourage others to use it. URL http://www.questaal.org Description ArcelorMittal Organisation ArcelorMittal Country Luxembourg PI Contribution A new method of measuring martensite transformation has been devised. This allows large samples to be measured and then their microstructure subsequently investigated. Collaborator Contribution Sponsorship of the PhD project. Supply of steel materials for the project. Impact A new dilatometer has been constructed. Description Magnesium Elektron Ltd Organisation Magnesium Elektron PI Contribution We are designing new Rare Earth free magnesium alloys which are being trialled by Magnesium Elektron. Collaborator Contribution The partner has provided considerable intellectual property into the design of alloys. The partner has prepared trial alloys for the DARE partnership to investigate. Impact Two publications have resulted from the collaboration with Magnesium Elektron. Description Primetals Organisation Primetals technologies ltd Country Unknown PI Contribution Development of new processing routes that could be applicable to plant builders. Collaborator Contribution Contribution of intellectual property. Provision of materials. Impact Publications in preparation. Description Rolls-Royce Organisation Rolls Royce Group Plc PI Contribution We are developing new alloy variants that will be useable in gas turbine engines. We have an extensive programme in additive repair of alloys used in gas turbine engines. We have an extensive programme of additive layer manufacturing titanium and Ni base superalloy components. We are exploring new Co free stellite alloys for nuclear power based activities. Collaborator Contribution The supply of considerable intellectual property to the project. A considerable cash contribution to the research. Supply of materials and powders. Impact A significant number of publications have resulted. Full scale components have been manufactured and tested. Significant advances have been made in the understanding of process optimisation in additive manufacturing. Description Tata Steel Organisation Tata Steel Europe PI Contribution Development of new high strength steels for light weighting in the automotive sector Development of thermomechanical process routes for steels New models of thermomechanical processing of steels Collaborator Contribution Provision of expert knowledge Provision of trial steels in cast and wrought form Access to research facilities Impact Introduction of new steels for automotive sector- a steel has been patented. New on-line process models Description Tata steel - DARE PI Contribution Development of TWIP steels for plate mill processing Collaborator Contribution Trial TWIP steel processing (2016), at 60kg scale. Impact Steel plate for blast testing and verification of scale-up Description Timet UK Ltd Organisation Timet UK Ltd PI Contribution Development of variants of Ti-6Al-4V (Ti64) Designing new metastable beta titanium alloys with high yield stregth and high work hardening rate. Developing understanding of TRIP and TWIP effects in beta titanium alloys Collaborator Contribution Provision of material Intellectual property Impact Publications have been produced. Upscaling of experimental materials will take place. Description WEIR Group Research Programme into Bulk Metallic Glasses Organisation Weir Pumps Ltd PI Contribution We are designing novel low cost Alloys for WEIR based on crystallised metallic glasses. We perform the calculations and experiments they have the problem space that we are seeking to work in. etc. Collaborator Contribution Presently the research is fully funded by WEIR and an RA is associated with the project and DARE. The interaction is driving development of novel alloys and processes for manufacture of highly wear resistant but low cost materials for mining, milling and other aggressive environments Impact none yet Description 3D Printing & Additive Manufacturing Conference Nottingham 2016 - Talk Results and Impact Iain Todd gave the talk: "AM in Sheffield" One of the worlds leading knowledge transfer events focused solely on the production of end-use components using additive 'layer-based' technologies. The event was attended by over 300 delegates from around the globe and attracted world-class academic and industrial speakers. URL http://www.3dprinting.lighting/event/additive-manufacturing-conference-nottingham-2016/ Description Alloy Design - A Resource Efficient Approach Results and Impact DARE one day symposium to explain how the programme aims to contribute towards alloy design, specifically looking at how alloy design can be accomplished with a view to resource-efficiency and the low-carbon economy. Speakers commented that they received a good level of feedback and questions at the end of their presentations; feedback included that the day included an interesting selection of presentations. URL http://darealloys.org/category/events/ Description Alloys for Additive Manufacturing Workshop - Keynote Results and Impact Iain Todd gave the keynote: "Manipulating metastability: a route to novel alloys for AM". In this workshop, the focus was on materials, in particular metals, alloys and metal-based composites for AM, i.e. materials that are optimised for use in AM processes, and on materials by AM, i.e. materials that can be synthesised only or only cost-effectively by AM. The entire process chain from alloy design and powder making to processing and post-processing was addressed. Both academic as well as industrial researchers participated in the workshop. URL http://www.mpie.de/3549192/AAM-conferences Description Annual Symoposium Results and Impact Annual conference presenting the achievements of DARE Description BBC World Service "Steel" Programme Results and Impact Professor Mark Rainforth participated in the BBC world service 'Forum' programme, with the discussion topic of steels (www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p030mb9q). This was broadcast via the BBC World Service worldwide and is still available on the BBC website. URL http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p030mb9q Description Conference Results and Impact A workshop that featured keynote speakers on the topic of resource efficiency in metals manufacturing Description Cutting edge alloys for resource efficiency Results and Impact An introductory press release to provide a short overview of the Project and its aims and to promote the Project's Inaugural Workshop in September 2015. URL http://www.darealloys.org/news Description DARE Creativity@Home Workshop Results and Impact A one day workshop for members of the DARE research group to review the project's research themes, key milestones and end goals to identify new research opportunities; to further develop and demonstrate collaborative working between PI's and early career researchers; to develop innovative ideas around Impact and Advocacy. At the end of the day the group had developed an outline action plan and a set of new ideas; the research group will cerate working parties to further develop these ideas. Description DARE Creativity@home - Roadmapping workshop Results and Impact Members of the DARE management team met at Lancaster University to discuss project outcomes to date, future direction of DARE and potential future research projects. Description DARE Creativity@home - PDRA Training Results and Impact A bespoke training day developed and provided by Blueberry Training for PDRAs within DARE was held at Lancaster University; this involved training in outreach and public engagement plus exercises based on presenting research ideas and drafting proposals. Description DARE Newsletters Results and Impact The newsletters update the target audience of the DARE programme's research activities, any successful outcomes and events. URL http://darealloys.org/category/nltr/ Description DARE Project X - 1st Panel Results and Impact PDRAs within DARE have been given the opportunity to apply for money from the grant for consumables, travel and other eligible expenses to manage and carry out a mini research project linked to the aims and objectives of DARE. There were 5 participants who presented their research ideas to the first panel of management team and strategic advisory board members; following feedback from the panel the PDRAs then submitted a 2 page proposal for review and approval from the panel. The first mini projects will start late March/early April. Description DARE videos and YouTube channel Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) Results and Impact Two short videos explaining the research being carried out by the DARE programme; the channel was created to host these and future outreach videos. URL https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcVvNraszzh7L6FSL5OikKA Description DARE website Results and Impact This is a professional facing website focusing on dissemination of the different research themes within the project Designing Alloys for Resource Efficiency - DARE and the results obtained from our research. The website is/will also be used for the following: - to advertise events the Project has organised/participated in or which are linked to the research themes of the project and may be of interest to followers; - disseminate information about the Project partners, researchers and industry partners; - as a tool to share knowledge between partners and Advisory Board members; - disseminate media articles etc. related to our research. We are monitoring the number of visitors to the website which, are steadily increasing each month, and are about the level we would expect at this stage of the Project. Description Development and evaluation of first prototype of an app linked to resource efficiency(RE) and life cycle assessment (LCA) Results and Impact Collaboration between EPSRC funded projects DARE & SUbST and the Advanced Resource Efficiency Centre, University of Sheffield, to adapt some of the techniques from SCEnAT and disseminate LCA knowledge to a wider audience as part of our outreach activities. The first prototype of an app has been developed to apply the LCA methodology to three everyday objects incorporating some of the research data from two of the DARE work streams: "High strength steels for lighter road vehicles" and "Magnesium alloys that are less dependent on rare earths". Members of the general public are being asked to evaluate the first prototype through the use of ipads before further development of the app which will be available to schools and the general public via certain websites. Description International Conference on Electron Beam Additive Manufacturing - Keynote Results and Impact Iain Todd gave the keynote: "Electron Beam Additive Manufacturing: Can we rewrite the rule book". The conference aimed to discuss specific challenges and opportunities offered by the electron beam. It brought together researchers and industrial users to accomplish improvements in this technology. The conference included topics on powder manufacturing and recovery, process observation and control, processing and properties of all kind of metallic or intermetallic alloys, and secondary and finishing operations as well as modelling and simulation. URL http://additivemanufacturing.com/2016/01/13/ebam-2016-1st-international-conference-on-electron-beam-... Description Interview on Radio Sheffield Results and Impact Interviewed by Radio Sheffield about resource efficient manufacturing of steel Description Manchester workshop Results and Impact A workshop to tell the community of the equipment already received in the Henry Royce Institute and to obtain feedback from the community on the strategy going forward. Description Market research with schools and colleges Results and Impact Market Research was carried out with schools in the form of an online survey regarding the app that DARE is co-developing around LCA; this enabled us to develop a mailing list of schools willing to try out the final product before it's official launch, details of how the subject is taught in schools to help with the final design and the tools used to teach this subject. Description Materials Life Cycle Analysis Workshop Results and Impact This event was co-hosted by DARE and focused on the current and future trends of Life Cycle Analysis (LCA), particularly in the materials supply chain. The presentations were followed by a breakout session; the feedback from this session introduced some exciting new ideas and concepts, and delegates agreed that future events should take pace to move forward with some of the ideas which arose. URL http://darealloys.org/category/pr/ Description Materials Research Exchange Results and Impact Attendance at a two day event to promote research activities within the programme and to evaluate the first stage of an outreach tool/app based around Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Resource Efficiency. Information from this was used to develop the next stage of the app for the Pint of Science Festival. In addition to meeting potential new collaborators we also met other academics interested in LCA who may find the tool useful as part of their teaching or who gave details of potential content for the app. Description Pint of Science Festival 2018 Results and Impact Testing and evaluation of the second pilot stage of an outreach tool to disseminate LCA knowledge to a wider audience; the audience included professional trainers and members from industry who provided valuable feedback around the content to be included in the final development stages of the app. Description STEM for Britain Poster Exhibition Results and Impact Sam Tammas-Williams, an early-career researcher in Additive Layer Manufacturing with the DARE programme was selected to present a poster at the recently held final of the STEM for Britain competition, Westminster; he presented and discussed his research to parliamentarians and members of EPSRC. Description Widening Participation Open Day session Results and Impact 32 students on the Unviersity of Sheffield's Widening Participation schemes were invited into the department on the 3rd March 2016, and shown various aspects of materials science and engineering by Dr Russell Goodall and colleagues. One of these activities used the mechanical properties of chocolate to describe some of the challenges associated with alloy desgn.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1365
__label__wiki	0.719591	0.719591	Everything you need to live well Watch: John Boyega In Disney’s Trailer For ‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ By Michael Bamidele 27 August 2019 \| 4:12 pm Disney has released a trailer for “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker,” which is the final instalment of the franchise’s latest trilogy. The trailer premiered at the Disney’s D23 Expo, the official fan club for The Walt Disney Company. The trailer opens with footage from all nine Star Wars films. A voiceover from Luke declares that there have been “a thousand generations, but this is your fight.” Rey, Poe, and Finn (John Boyega) are preparing for the biggest fight of their life. Battleships tear through the skies, as Rey and Kylo Ren meet in the middle of a war-torn planet, ready to fight. The most interesting scene in the trailer: Rey is wielding a red, double-sided lightsaber. Her hood and red lightsaber hint at the possibility of her going to the dark side, as both are typically associated with the Sith, which are enemies of the Jedi. One scene shows Rey fighting against Kylo Ren, the main antagonist of the film, atop a ship. In another shot, dozens of Star Destroyer ships can be seen in formation, possibly preparing for battle. J.J. Abrams is back in the director’s chair, picking up where he left off after directing “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” The upcoming film follows the Rian Johnson-directed “Star Wars: The Last Jedi.” For British-Nigerian actor John Boyega who plays Finn, there are speculations that he may not reprise the role again in any future projects. In an interview with MTV, when asked about his future as the character, he said: “Honestly, the bottom of my heart, I don’t think I am. I don’t think I am. I really do feel that way.” He also added that: “Honestly, no, seriously, I just – this is really that movie, I think everyone doesn’t believe it, but this is that war that just ends everything. So, I’m just like, wow, you know?” “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” releases on December 20 (U.S release). Watch the trailer of “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”: DisneyJohn BoyegaStar WarsStar Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker Odd News Pornography Greets Commuters At Sweden Bus Stop 1 day ago 0 What's New "Sugar Rush" Is back, NFVCB Lifts Ban What's New Celine Dion's Mother, Therese Tanguay Dion Dies At 92 More Spotlight Juliet “Love from Julez” Olanipekun: The Modern African Woman Temilade Openiyi: The Musical Rebel The Rise And Rise Of Paybac iBoro Chimamanda Adichie Is First Nigerian, Youngest African to Get UN Foundation’s Global Leadership Award Adejumoke Aderounmu: Creating Art One Step At A Time TG Omori: Beating The Odds And Shooting For The Stars 5 Ways Alcohol Is Affecting Your Body "I Didn't Actually Want A Marriage"- Oprah Winfrey On Why She Never Married "Peruzzi Is Not Signed To DMW" - Golden Boy Entertainment Owner The Rock's Father, Rocky Johnson Is Dead Yoruba Names For Girls And Their Meaning Why We Banned "Sugar Rush" - National Film And Video Censors Board Music Watch The Jonas Brothers Go "Pantless" With Their Wives In New Video Music Eminem Releases Surprise Album "Music to Be Murdered By" Music Watch: Fireboy DML Drops Visuals For "Need You" Off LGT Album Music Watch: Kizz Daniel In New Music Video "Jaho" Music Wizkid deserves celebration 10 years after ‘Holla at your Boy’ Music Again, Seun Kuti Blows Egypt 80 To Coachella Film Joseph: A Captivating Story Of One Man's Journey To Self-Discovery Film Oscar Nominees Emerge As Awards Row Rages Over Female Exclusion Film Oke Set To Release New Movie, Cookie Spot Film How Joaquin Phoenix Lost Weight For "Joker" Role Film Nigerian Film Production To Excel In 2020, Maduekwe Assures Film Star-Studded 'Breaking Point' Hits Cinemas In 2020 More Literature Guardian Arts Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: A decade of literature,politics and cultural activism Guardian Arts Akpata descendants unveil book on family tree Guardian Arts At book presentation, Obasanjo admonishes Nigerians to celebrate, value their culture Guardian Arts Chief Isaac Delano: The memory of a great legacy Guardian Arts After Melody Of Stones, PEN Nigeria in Silver Lining Guardian Arts From Dafinone, It’s trilogy of poetry collection	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1366
__label__wiki	0.654555	0.654555	My Life Story – The Lexington, London (24th July 2019) Suzie London July 26, 2019 GigsReviews ReviewsGigs I have to be completely honest: I do not remember My Life Story in their 90’s Brit Pop heyday. Research tells me they were pioneering in their way- serving up lush orchestral epic tales fleshed out with playfully sharp and witty lyrics on songs like ‘Strumpet’ and ‘The King of Kissingdom’. So tonight’s gig at London’s Lexington was going to be a very interesting education indeed. You can tell straight away the fans who have stuck by this band for 20 odd years or so are present and correct and are bristling with anticipation to sample not only a slice of their 90’s youth but also a product of their own generosity: the band’s new album ‘World Citizen’ (out Sept 6th) was fan-funded and made available from the band’s own website after the sorry demise of Pledgemusic . Fans can order packages of the album in various formats there. Not only that, the band had also played gigs in fans houses to raise funds. So it is DIY fan power all the way, and you can sense the love and investment that has gone into this new music. Such is the dedicated and loyal following of My Life Story. Aside from the die-hards, some of whom were clearly reliving their 90’s past with Louise Wener hairdos in cute tees and jeans, feather boas and tiaras, there was also an interesting mix of much older live music lovers and much younger types who, I expect, were wanting to see what all the fuss was about. The ‘World Citizen’ press release refers to frontman Jake Shillingford as sharp suited- and indeed he did not disappoint as he walked onstage to much cheering and applause. Witty too, as he punctuated the set with lots of funny observations and addresses to the crowd and individuals in it. Love was clearly in the room and a flamboyant, high-kicking Shillingford led the audience onto a fun ride back into the past and the future too with songs from the forthcoming album. The old favourites such as the saucy ‘Strumpet’ and ‘It’s a Girl Thing’ had the fans in excited frenzy although Shillingford thanked them too for being patient with the live try-out of the new songs from the album ‘The Rose The Sun’, ‘Telescope Moonlight Boy’, ‘Broken’, ‘World Citizen’ and ‘#No Filter’. Just as well these new songs have ‘legs’, as it were, as they went down well with this music hungry audience. The first single from the new album ‘Taking On The World’ had a really great reception: a strong radio track if ever there was one, brimming with air punching optimism and whose empowering message is much needed in this screwed up world (which in itself inspired the creation of ‘World Citizen’.) Ever the old favourite, it seems, is ‘12 Reasons Why I Love Her’ where the crowd went super wild – dancing up and down and loudly bellowing the countdown in the song. This, in a nutshell, was a sweaty unapologetic energetic ‘love-in’ of both nostalgia and the ‘old days’ but, importantly also acknowledging the present and future. Which means, thankfully, the band have a whole lot more to offer it’s world citizens. To the uninitiated: this band is a revelation of clever lyrics, wonderfully orchestrated singalong tunes, playful audience interaction and above all, a musical testament to the loyalty and energy from a dedicated and loyal fan base who know what they love. And you know what? There is nothing at all shabby about that. Details on the band and further tour dates HERE The Rose The Sun Telescope Moonlight Boy Girl A, Girl B, Boy C The King Of Kissingdom Funny Ha Ha It’s A Girl Thing Taking On The World You Can’t Uneat The Apple #No Filter Previous ArticleDiana Bidéa releases New Single “Make Me Hate You” Next ArticleDavid Ellis Releases Americana-Infused Folk Single ‘Baby She Roam’ On 18 July 2019 Suzie London Field Music – Phase One, Liverpool (9th January 2020) Halestorm (+ New Years Day and In This Moment) @ Motorpoint Arena Nottingham – 25/11/2019 The Libertines close 2019 with a bang – 18th December Lucy Spraggan – The Devil’s Arse Cave, Castleton (13th December 2019) Project Blackbird – The Flying Circus, Newark, UK (14th December 2019)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1375
__label__cc	0.738332	0.261668	SIGN THE PLEDGE #GirlsToo Visit Girls Inc. #GirlsToo is a national campaign to shift the deeply entrenched norms that lead to sexual harassment and violence in our society, and to create a culture where all girls and young people grow up safe, respected, and valued. Starting Today: Join the movement today to end sexual harassment and violence among young people and build a safer, more equitable society. Sexual harassment and violence is an epidemic and it starts at a young age. #MeToo brought the issue mainstream. Let’s address the root cause. 1 in 4 Girls Experiences sexual abuse or sexual assault by the age of 18 7 in 10 Girls Are sexually harassed at some point in high school SIGNED THE #GIRLSTOO PLEDGE AND COUNTING! There is strength in numbers. Show your commitment to end sexual harassment and violence among youth by signing the pledge. Together, with your support, we can create a culture where everyone is respected and valued. Have you already signed? Learn More about the #GirlsToo movement. Read the pledge agreements below to see how you can make an impact against sexual harassment and violence. I believe that every person deserves to be treated with dignity and respect. I commit to changing the ways our culture perpetuates violence against women and girls. I will respect others and honor their right to say no. I will not accept sexual harassment and violence as part of growing up. I will reflect on my own beliefs and behaviors related to gender and sex and challenge others to do the same. I will take action to prevent and respond to sexual harassment and violence and support survivors. THANKS FOR SIGNING! Because we want every single person to know about this movement. Take a moment to share this pledge with your friends and family as well as on Facebook and Twitter so that together we can make a powerful difference in the lives of girls and young women. THANKS FOR SIGNING THE #GIRLSTOO PLEDGE! Why share now? Take a moment to share this pledge with your friends and family as well as on Facebook and Twitter. We want to lift up your voice and your story — so that together we can make a powerful difference in the lives of girls and young women. Learn how to prevent sexual harassment and violence and what you can do to change the culture and fulfill the #GirlsToo pledge with our Conversation Guides, Tips, and Tool Kits. You can help us create a world where all girls grow up safe, respected, and valued. Get support and information from conversation guides, toolkits and tips. Stay up-to-date with the important work and impact of the #GirlsToo campaign. Call 800-656-HOPE(4673) Get help now by connecting with a trained staff member from RAINN and you will be routed to a sexual assault service provider in your area. Inspiring all girls to be strong, smart, and bold girlsinc.org ©2020 Girls Inc. 120 Wall Street, New York, NY 10005-39021 ∙ girlstoo@girlsinc.org	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1377
__label__cc	0.651295	0.348705	more NO!…NO’s!… ways to look behind the curtain of DPRK live PICKINGS from my NORTH KOREAN DIARY 11.–21. April 2011 ...only a few running cars Highways like frontline airstrips Highway roadside traffic The NO!…NO’S! of our two guides are an everyday occurrence. I don’t work with hidden movie or photo cameras, my shooting activity is open but my focus I keep obscured by not looking through the finder. Shooting from the hip Since the guides don’t allow stops on the highway or in cities without prior permission from the central travel office in Pyongyang I shoot from the hip. Army road block I take photos or movie from all types of angles. My “luck“ is that roads and highways are often in poor condition and we roll by comfortably at 40-60 km, perfect to take snapshots. Highway bikers - much more common than cars Just as regular as pedestrians and bikes are oxen carts on the highway. Man and ox - regular highway traffic Broken down trucks on the roadside I see sometimes more often than cars driving. Head transport on the highway Driving overland on the highway from Pyongyang to Wonsan on the East coast, a distance of about 200 km, I count 25 oncoming cars while on our side I see 11 vehicles in need of repair. The most modern trucks I have seen in North Korea A NO! NO! shot. North Korean soldiers wait for the blow-out to be fixed Hitch-hikers in the tunnels are a special experience. Hitch-hikers are extremely rare The NO!…NO’S! are an attempt to hide the harsh living conditions of the North Koreans and erase them from the travelers eye. Crossing the railway tracks, our driver has to slow down... - In the background behind the biker people are walking on the tracks. This is very common specially in the morning and evening hours. Rail tracks offer the shortest link to the next destination. Trains ran not very often and when they approach the people on the tracks they honk early. Our guides allowed the driver to make an unplanned stop only in a very remote area but even there Tung Hui followed me, stood in front of my camera to prevent me from taking pictures. Woman transporting coal to the city As a western tour operator, stationed in Beijing and in the North Korean tourist business for over 10 years, said to me: “We all know that the view KIM JONG IL’S dictatorship imposes on us does not reflect everyday life in DPRK.” But there are ways… …to look behind the curtain. A moment to himself Pushing uphill Pulling wood along the highway Filed under Democratic People's Republic of Korea, DPRK, Kim Jong Il, NO...NO'S!, Nord Korea, North Korea, Pickings, Pyonyang Tagged with air, blow-out, DPRK, front, NO...NO'S, strip North Korea is indeed FRAGILE Loggers loading stems on carburator truck “deja vu“ PICKINGS from my NORTH KOREAN DIARY 11.–21. April 2011 Childhood memories appear from behind the couch. Korea takes me back to the 1950s. While for me it evokes nostalgic feelings, for North Koreans it represents decades of retardation ending in horrific poverty of today. To them it is a real tragedy. The military has wooden carburator trucks too It was in the spring of 1950 – I spent so many months of my childhood in the hills of South Germany that I became almost a native, speaking the local dialect – I was kneeling beside Franz who was fixing the wooden carburator of his tractor at the farmhouse, waiting to go to the forest with him and his brother Hans… . Sixty-one years later in April 2011, hiking in the woods of Mt Myohyang 150 km Loggers in Mt Myohyang north of Pyongyang, I was taking photos of “deja vu“, six forest workers, uploading stems when back in 1950, there were two men who did the job and an infant watching… . I came across many wood carburators on the highways we traveled, giving weight to my observation that North Korea suffers a severe transportation problem and energy shortage. The “Holzvergaser“ trucks A mysterious fragrance contrasted by a dreadful reality dating to the 1950s and 1960s of the former USSR often broke down on the highway. I did not see gas stations in the cities nor on the highways. When our driver got gasoline, he dropped us together with one guide on the roadside and left for 15 minutes to fill up his tank. We were not allowed to be present at government gas stations, neither in Pyongyang nor in any other city. “Holzvergaser“ truck on a side road we have no access Gasoline shortage was clearly evident where ever we traveled on the East and West Coast. Transportation means for the lower level of the population are in a precarious state, 1950s UDSSR-made vehicles. Wooden carburator, military truck Filed under Democratic People's Republic of Korea, DPRK, Nord Korea, North Korea, Pickings, Pyonyang, UDSSR Tagged with carburator, couch, deja vu, dialect, gasoline, Holzvergaser, Myohyang, USSR The SNAKE in the GRASS tricky PICKINGS from my NORTH KOREAN DIARY 11.–21. April 2011 KIM IL SUNG at the Grand People's Study House It’s NOT a lie! No, I don’t say they lie at me. It is a different frame of mind, sometimes it is an anxious state of mind that dictates them and their actions, other times it looks like utter confusion or just paranoia in hiding. It is the dictum of “The Eternal President“ KIM IL SUNG – the only statesman on earth who remains President even after his death in 1994 that is of utmost importance. KIM IL SUNG – The Eternal President He and his son KIM JONG IL, called “My Dear Leader“, are telling Right from Wrong, Good from Bad. They decide what is real and what has to be banned, who is sent to the university or to the work camp, to the labor camp or to the gulag. KIM IL SUNG and KIM JONG IL have a six-decade grip on power. KIM IL SUNG with local guide in the entrance of the Grand People's Study House All in the Family - KIM IL SUNG “The Eternal President" and his son KIM YONG IL, called “My Dear Leader" Our two “permanent“ guides work under the spell of this government-mind-set, they tell me that the local shops are closed when they are open, that people don’t like to make contact with a foreigner when in fact they wish just that. They change our itinerary every day but if we want to make an additional stop, it’s impossible. This gentle local guide liked my questions, Agricultural University, Wonsan area They make me feel like a disobedient child who doesn’t quite get it when I keep asking questions or like a snake in the grass when I make photos of simple life events. Fear is guiding the system. The world of DPRK is under a delusion. The hinge joint is the personality cult. My guess is that “Big Brother“ will tell them. China holds the key to the future of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Filed under China, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, DPRK, fear, Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il, Nord Korea, North Korea, Pickings Tagged with China, delusion, DPRK, KIM IL SUNG, Kim Jong Il, My Dear Leader, Paekdu, Paekdusan, paranoia, The Eternal President sudden snow in DPRK mountains white PICKINGS from my NORTH KOREAN DIARY 11.–21. April 2011 Ominous silence SUDDENLY THERE was an eerie silence in our car, nobody talked any more, not even breathing I heard. eerie silence On our way to Wonsan on the East Coast of North Korea, we had run into a snowstorm and within 5 minutes everything had turned white. The driver, glued to the steering wheel, changed gears driving more slowly but to me it felt much more like swimming. I had checked the tyres before we had left Pyongyang, they had no tread. There was no oncoming traffic. Broken down truck Only a broken down truck was blocking the opposite lane in the tunnel. No emergency road box, no road service either. If we would get stuck we would be stuck till the weather would change. After we had put on our coats, the car heating was barely sufficient. I figured out that 5 more minutes of heavy snowfall and we would be mired in layers of sludge and ice. sudden snow Seeking shelter in the tunnel It was a good time to make some photos, our two guides were tuned out there for a moment. People were heading to the tunnel not to take cover but to cross to the other side. The tunnel on the photo was 4km long. It had light – the only one of the many tunnels we passed through – but only for 2 or 3 minutes then there was a power cut. The people walking in the tunnel were difficult to detect, some had stopped in the middle of the road… . People heading for the tunnel Filed under Democratic People's Republic of Korea, DPRK, Nord Korea, North Korea, Pickings, Pyonyang FAST HAIRCUT in a Cooperative Farm The tools: 1 comb and 1 scissors SURPRISE PICKINGS from my NORTH KOREAN DIARY 11.–21. April 2011 My hairdresser at the Cooperative Model-Farm A visit at a hairdresser is a travel experience to me I’m always looking forward to. I enjoy the special attention that comes with a hair cut or a shaving. There is also a difference in style from country to country. Hair Salon, Cooperative Farm, Wonsan area, North Korea. AFTER SEVERAL UNSUCCESSFUL attempts to get a haircut in Pyongyang, I got one at a Cooperative Model-Farm in the Wonsan area on the East Coast of North Korea. Tong Hui, our female guide told me I could get a haircut at the hotel in Pyongyang but I wanted one in the City, a local one. She refused. Due to the fact that I could not leave the hotel in Pyongyang (nor in any other City we stayed overnight) and was not allowed to go for a walk on my own I saw no possibility to find a local hairdresser. I told Tong Hui that I could move freely in China and could go to the hairdresser as I wished. She was sort of surprised. She wore Chinese cloths and had a Chinese handbag but could not grasp how worlds apart China and North Korea are. I don’t know if my China-remark helped. North Korea exists like a hermit. In our interconnected world it looks like a proto-hermit country, totally sealed up to the outside world and tightly controlled within. But where there are people there is flexibility! Two days later, my guide Tong Hui surprised me with a haircut offer in a very special location! Haircut in progress She was elated when she received the Go-ahead! from the woman in charge at the Cooperative Farm and even made some photos in the salon herself. She was in charge of the hairdressing salon at the Cooperative Farm in the Wonsan area It was the first haircut she had organized for a foreigner 250km outside of the hotel in Pyongyang. She took good care, asked me if I felt satisfied and instructed the hairdresser girl. Yes, I had not expected that! On the way out, the hair salon had a romantic bar The salon had a romantic bar with liquor, beer, candies and dried fruit from the Cooperative Farm. Ursula bought some dried fruit, they tasted delicious. One of my "permanent" guides together with the local guide are waiting at the bar. Who has an eye on whom? The Guides on me or the guides on each other? Filed under Democratic People's Republic of Korea, DPRK, Nord Korea, North Korea, Pickings, Pyonyang Tagged with Cooperative Farm, East Coast, Haircut, hairdresser, Wonsan NO!…NO’s!… recorded! FORBIDDEN PICKINGS from my NORTH KOREAN DIARY 11.–21. April 2011 Every day it happened several times that I was reprimanded or hindered in taking photos or shooting a video. Sometimes it was physically made impossible by our guides to take pictures or – when they did not succeed – they tried to interfere, stood in my way and blocked my view. To shoot a farmworker woman in Mount Kuwol area - "No! No! It is NOT allowed!" To get me in line, they also threatened me openly that everything would be confiscated at the airport on my departure. I knew that this could be the case since it had happened to another traveler at Pyongyang railway station upon his arrival by train from Beijing. He had taken photos in the train and somebody had informed against him. All his shots were deleted by a security official when he passed the exit checkpoint at the railway station in Pyongyang. I felt inevitably reminded of the former Sovietunion where we had traveled in the 1960s extensively by car and two times with the Trans-Siberian-Railway, once on our way to Japan in 1969 and the second time in 1987 from Zurich through the Sovietunion, Mongolia to China till Hongkong. Photos of the locomotive with the red star of the Trans-Sib-Train, shots of the typically wooden houses and their backyards, of people and countryside, just about everything got me in trouble in Russia at that time. Time has not only not changed in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Actually it is worse than I initially thought. Controls were tight and severe restrictions were imposed. I could not leave the Hotel in Pyongyang on my own and not in any other City we traveled to. I could never freely walk the streets of Pyongyang, Sariwon, Kaesong, Wonsan or any other place we visited. In Sariwon, two girls dancing to the singing and clapping of their parents were told to stop when the local guide noticed that I was filming. In Pyongyang we tried to go by tram or bus, but though we insisted, we couldn’t even get close to public transport. Public transport like tram or bus in Pyongyang was out of reach for us. Friendshipstores were the only shops foreigners could enter and buy goods – with one exception. In Wonsan City, though my guide tried to hinder me I went in a local cloth shop and bought some tights for my wife. Unofficial contact with people in the street or countryside was cut immediatly. Only with a good portion of “Zivilcourage” I could get my way… sometimes. Drinkingwater turned into a state secret But often I could not like this picture shows in the streets of Pyongyang at a little kiosk where I wanted to buy a cup of drinking water like everybody else. Most trivial undertakings turned suddenly into state secrets. Filed under BEIJING-PYONGYANG RAILWAY, China, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, DPRK, Nord Korea, North Korea	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1379
__label__cc	0.528639	0.471361	Home — Essay Samples — Health — Anxiety — The brain function that underlies anxiety and depression is inherited This essay has been submitted by a student. This is not an example of the work written by professional essay writers. The brain function that underlies anxiety and depression is inherited Category: Health, Science Subcategory: Mental health, Biology Topic: Anxiety, Brain, Depression Print Download now Pssst… we can write an original essay just for you. Any subject. Any type of essay. We’ll even meet a 3-hour deadline. 121 writers online The brain function that underlies anxiety and depression is inherited, a new study finds — but there is still plenty of space for experience and environment to reduce the risk of a full-blown mental disorder. The research focused on rhesus monkeys. Like humans, some young rhesus monkeys have what’s called an “anxious temperament.” Expose them to a mildly stressful situation, like being in a room with a stranger, and the monkeys will stop moving and stop vocalizing while their stress hormones skyrocket. Extremely shy children do the same, said Dr. Ned Kalin, a psychiatrist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Kalin and his colleagues scanned the brains of young monkeys, anxious and not, and found three brain regions associated with anxiety that also showed evidence of heritability. About 30 percent of the variation in early anxiety is explained by family history, the researchers reported Monday (July 6) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Early temperament Anxiety and depression are widespread disorders. According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), about 18 percent of U.S. adults have experienced an anxiety disorder in the past year, and about 7 percent have had a major depressive episode. The average age of onset for anxiety disorders is 11. [7 Thoughts That Are Bad for You]Kids with extremely anxious temperaments are at a 50 percent risk of developing a mental disorder later in life, Kalin told Live Science. He and his colleagues are trying to figure out the brain basis of this temperament, in hopes of developing early interventions that can nudge kids away from anxiety and depression. The researchers used PET scanning to image the brains of 592 young rhesus monkeys at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center. These monkeys are raised in pairs at the center and vary in their levels of anxiety, Kalin said. During the scanning, a stranger entered the room and did not make eye contact with the monkey. This is a mildly stressful scenario for the monkeys, enabling the researchers to watch what happens in the animals” brains during an anxiety-inducing encounter.(Animal rights activists and others have criticized and even tried to stop Kalin’s work with rhesus monkeys, though at least one petition against his research has erroneously suggested that Kalin subjected the monkeys to extreme stress and solitary confinement, according to the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s response to the petition.) Anxious brains Because the researchers know exactly how all the monkeys in their colony are related, they were able to trace the inheritance of anxious behaviors through the family tree. They found that 35 percent of the variation in anxiety could be explained by the genes passed down by mom and dad. But the researchers took this finding one step further. They looked at specific brain regions that activated during stressful situations, and then matched those up with brain regions whose structure and function were inherited in the same pattern as the anxiety. They found that structure did not seem to affect an anxious temperament. But the function of three brain regions was both heritable and involved in anxiety. The first, the orbitofrontal cortex, sits behind the forehead and is the most evolutionarily advanced part of the brain, Kalin said. The next was the amygdala, an almond-shaped region deep in the middle of the brain that is involved in fear and emotion. The third was the limbic system, which sits at the very base of the brainstem and is a part of even the most primitive reptile brains. “What we find is more activity” in the anxious brains, Kalin said. It’s as if the parts of the brain that have evolved to deal with normal threats have gone supercritical, responding to mild threats as if they were major, he explained. “We believe that our study shows that the overactivity of that system is inherited from our parents,” Kalin said. This overactivity may then leave a person vulnerable to developing depression and anxiety later. But given that nearly 70 percent of the variation in risk of these disorders is not genetic, there is a lot of hope for treatment and intervention, Kalin said. “This now focuses us on very early childhood, to be thinking about alterations in brain function in children and ideally to be developing ideas that are new about what we can do to help kids that have this brain overactivity,” Kalin said. The next step is to continue using rhesus monkeys to understand the brain systems and molecular interactions that lead to hyperactive fear regions, he said. The researchers are also following young children over a period of years, scanning their brains to determine what makes the difference between the half of anxious-temperament children who develop a mental disorder and the half who don’t. A separate line of research has already found that a secure attachment to a caregiver helps prevent later mental disorders for extremely shy kids. “These are very serious illnesses that are common and affect lots and lots of the population,” Kalin said. “We need to understand better what causes them, what the genetic underpinnings are and come up with new treatments to reduce suffering and hopefully do this early in life.” Remember: This is just a sample from a fellow student. Your time is important. Let us write you an essay from scratch 100% plagiarism free Sources and citations are provided Cite this Essay To export a reference to this article please select a referencing style below: GradesFixer. 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__label__cc	0.634962	0.365038	Hazard Lights Random thoughts that attempt to shed light into the world of venture capital and entrepreneurship from Chip Hazard, General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners. mobile developers Fired Up By a Flybridge Family Reunion January 27, 2017 January 27, 2017 Chip Hazard1 Comment Last week there was an interesting piece of news in the tech world when Firebase/Google acquired the Fabric product line and team from Twitter. Over 20+ years in the venture industry and hundreds of companies, this was a first for me: two companies we had invested in merged post their respective acquisitions by larger players. While it was unusual, nothing could make me happier than to see Crashlytics, which was acquired by Twitter in 2013, and Firebase, which was acquired by Google in 2014, join forces and continue the missions they held from their founding, and our original seed investments, of improving the lives and effectiveness of mobile developers. Huge congrats to Andrew, James, Jeff and Wayne and many thanks to both Twitter and Google for their support of both companies and allowing them to deliver on their common goals. Rewind the clock to 2011. At the time my core investment focus was on developer-driven cloud platforms and an insight that companies that went to market with products that delighted developers could achieve significant adoption and break down many of the barriers seen by companies that focused on more traditional enterprise sales models. Within this broader theme (that also led to our investments in companies such as MongoDB, Stormpath and Apiary), it was clear at that time that the mobile developer was the new rock-star and thought leader and that most new application development spend was for mobile apps. But while mobile developers were leading the way, it was still too hard and technically challenging to quickly and easily get high quality apps into the market. Over the next year, this thesis led us to make seed investments behind two phenomenal teams. Both companies started out focused on very different markets – Crashlytics on crash reporting and Firebase on a platform to allow developers to easily build serverless back-end platforms. But both had a common goal of creating innovative technologies to help developers create amazing apps. It’s always interesting to look back on your investment successes to see what if any common traits they shared. For Firebase and Crashlytics, there were many: Founded by young, passionate entrepreneurs[i] who had strong technology backgrounds, startup experience and an innate understanding of their target customer who were Creating platforms that addressed large and expanding markets with a Special “developer first” approach to working with the developer community that led to rapid adoption of their platforms which led them to Blow away their seed round metrics within less than a year and in turn raise Series A Rounds led by their initial investors and ultimately to being Acquired by leading technology companies less than a year after Series A rounds and these Acquirers provided significant incremental resources, let the teams run independently and continue to innovate under their own brands post the acquisitions I could not be more proud of both of these teams. With millions of apps and hundreds of thousands of developers now using their technologies, what each has built is exceptional and I am 100% sure, will only get better as they join forces. [i] It should also be noted in this time of anti-immigrant sentiment that in each company one of founders was born outside the US Enterprise IT, Uncategorized, Venture CapitalEnterprise IT, entrepreneurship, mobile developers Chip Hazard I'm a venture capitalist and general partner at Flybridge Capital Partners, an early-stage investment firm focused on technology companies, and an Investment Partners with XFactor Ventures. I was formerly at Greylock Partners, and reside in Boston with my wife and 4 children. Venture Investor’s Playbook: The Recap Announcing XFactor Ventures 2: Female Founders investing in the next generation of female founders The AI Paradox Applied AI: Beyond The Algorithms Female founders: Digging into the 2018 investment numbers XFactor Ventures	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1390
__label__wiki	0.592234	0.592234	SolaSpot 1500s Shine On Heartbreaker’s 40th Anniversary Tour Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers’ 40th Anniversary Tour has been thrilling TP fans across the USA since April, and the show’s beautiful visuals are the handiwork of Lighting Designer / Director Stanley Green and co-visual designer Kevin Cassidy. To augment his potent arena lighting package, Green specified 30 High End Systems SolaSpot 1500s as the ‘workhorse’ hard edge fixtures for the tour. Green prepared a total of six complete lighting and set designs for the 40th Anniversary Tour for Tom to choose from. He comments, “Our technical director Kevin Cassidy had lots of creative input, and was instrumental in bringing it all together. Also, Tom asked for some things which changed the original look somewhat. I'm using 30 SolaSpot 1500s sprinkled throughout the rig; in fact there are 1500s on every single truss. They are my work horse hard edge fixture for this tour. I use some as specials on the down stage trusses in lieu of follow spots - they are bright and crisp, brighter in fact than most follow spots we get from that distance.” The SolaSpot 1500s also serve as the LD’s main back light fixture. Green comments, “The 1500’s brightness holds up against every other fixture in the rig. I wanted an all LED rig to help reduce the heat on Tom, yet I needed punch to use in front of the big bright LED wall upstage. The SolaSpots are kicking ass. I can use gobos without losing a ton of light. I even use one to back light Mike Campbell during a big solo, and follow him manually, as they’re bright enough to look like a truss spot. I love the indigo Highlighter LEDs as well; I use them as an in-between song wash. The SolaSpots can all be in their preset positions, yet the indigo LEDs are bright enough to bathe the stage in that nice UV light. I also like to use their framing capabilities with my front fixtures. They’re perfect for framing off band gear like pianos, amps, etc., and for putting a nice strong light on the players.” Green first became aware of SolaSpot 1500s on a 2016 Mudcrutch tour. “Touring with Tom’s original band Mudcrutch, we played small theaters and clubs across the country. I spec’d a small floor package of lights, and used house stage lighting each day. Several of the theaters had 1500s, and I fell in love. I said, ‘those are LED?’ I had been looking for a good hard edge LED fixture for a while, and I couldn't believe these were LED - they were SO bright and white!” In closing, Green points out the reliability of the 1500s has been spot on, commenting “I have had every light working on every show and through two weeks of rehearsals prior to the tour.” Lighting equipment for the 40th Anniversary Tour is supplied through VER, with Kevin Forster managing the account rep duties. Joining Green on the lighting crew are Technical Director / Co-visual director Kevin Cassidy, power technician Armando (Mondo) Figueroa, head automation tech Oscar Canales, Blake (Flash) Rogers, and Austin Tower. An ETC Company, High End Systems is a leading manufacturer of automated lighting and control systems for the entertainment industry. For more information on High End Systems, visit www.highend.com. Subscribe to our Newsletter and other News	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1394
__label__wiki	0.586275	0.586275	"Their arts classes are extraordinary and the academic program is strong as well." -- Feedback from parent Classical Chinese dance is one of the most comprehensive dance systems in the world. Through systematic training in dance fundamentals, flexibility, technical skills, and the unique element of shen yun, (or ‘bearing’), students come to master this exceptional classical form of art while exploring China’s cultural heritage. Our Chinese dance program is well-known in the bay area and many students have won numerous awards in national or world competitions in Chinese Dance. The Chinese dance faculty at high school of the arts all graduated from top Chinese dance institutes in Classical Chinese dance or Ethnic Dance degrees and are experienced dance educators. Chinese Dance Curriculum Dance Fundamentals I-IV Bearing and Form I-IV Dance Fundamentals teaches the building blocks of dance which include flexibility, posture, and strength. The students will learn the basic concepts and terminologies and develop a command of the fundamental techniques and dance movements. Students will train in the form of barre exercises, floor and center routines, and practicing technical skills. Establishing a solid foundation will enable students to perform the various techniques and movements of classical Chinese dance. UC Approved: I-IV Bearing, called "Shen Yun" (身韻) in Chinese, is one of the major components of classical Chinese dance. Bearing is a technique used for expressing specific inner feelings through form, or postures and movements in dance combinations and barre practice. Designed to train dancers to grasp the “feeling” or inner essence of Chinese dance, its system of routines emphasizes the coordination of breath, physical movement, and spirit, striking a balance between the physical and the spiritual. UC Approved: I-IV UC Honors: IV Tumbling skills are widely used in Classical Chinese Dance to enhance characterization and presentation. Students will train and learn to safely perform various acrobatic skills from entry-level, which include handstands, cartwheels, and walkovers, to advanced concepts such as aerial skills, flips, and combinations. This course relies on the students' practice to develop the strength and technique necessary to execute the more challenging flips properly. Ethnic/Folk Dance Chinese Ethnic/Folk Dances focus on learning the characteristics of the ethnic dances of the Chinese northeastern Yang Ge (秧歌) dance and the folk dances of the Han, Tibetan, and Mongolian ethnic groups. By developing a solid command of these folk dances’ moves and styles and learning the different bearing and rhythms, students can grasp the sincerity, humor, passion, values, and diversity that are demonstrated in these folk dances. The students will also learn to express through dance the belief that humankind is an integral part of nature – a belief widely held by many Eastern ethnicities and by the Chinese people in particular. Students rehearse group dances with choreographers several times during the week. They learn proper spacing on a stage, different formations, various transitions, and train their expression. At the end of every school year, a dance recital is held. Flexibility is the foundation of classical Chinese dance fundamentals. Without a high degree of mastery in flexibility, dancers cannot execute many basic movements much less the more advanced jumps and aerial techniques. Therefore flexibility is trained most intensely in the first few years of a dancer's education. Chinese Dance Conservatory Faculty Ms. Fengxuan Cao In addition to serving as assistant principal, Ms. Cao teaches dance at High School of the Arts. She graduated from Beijing Dance Academy, the leading dance college in China, in 1997. Before she came to High School of the Arts, she was a choreographer with the Shen Yun Performing Arts Company. Mr. Mike Lai Mr. Lai graduated from Fei Tian Academy of the Arts in New York, and received a degree in Dance Pedagogy from Fei Tian College. He trained and performed with the world-renowned dance group Shen Yun for 5 years. He is an experienced choreographer and teacher of Classical Chinese Dance. Ms. Caroline Sercombe Ms. Sercombe obtained a B.F.A. from Fei Tian College. She toured around the world as a principal dancer with Shen Yun for 8 years, and in 2012, she won the bronze award in NTDTV’s Classical Chinese Dance competition in the Junior Female Division. She has taught dance for 4 years. full Faculty list Ready to join our community? Get in touch! Sign up for our newsletter: Email address:	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1395
__label__wiki	0.766391	0.766391	Private sector to be principal driver of India’s growth: Niti Aayog Vice Chair New York, July 18 (IANS) "The government has no intention at all of being the main driver of growth in the country" and this role will be taken up by the private sector, according to India’s Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar. The Indian government will give the private sector the space and the incentives to carry out this nation-building role, he said on Wednesday at the India Investment seminar at India’s consulate-general here. He said that during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first term a lot of the foundational work on the economy had been done with the focus on inclusion and now the consensus in the government is for accelerated growth, he said. India is on the cusp of a major transformation over the next five year, Kumar said. "You will see a decade plus of sustained high growth". This cannot be achieved by the public sector alone and the private sector has to play a key role as a massive amount of investment is required, he said. For the first time, invitation has gone out to the private sector to invest in the railways, he said giving an example. The government is willing to take its investments below 50 percent in what are now public sector undertakings, he said. Among the sectors that require attention to spur growth, he listed agriculture, mining, textiles and leather and mobility as well as the exports sector, which, he said, has suffered. India has to make better use of external demand and spur exports through small and medium enterprises while creating better opportunities for "Make in India", he said. He emphasised the role of the small and medium sector, which is where there was "the hunger" for growth. In agriculture, there have hardly been any investments and they were needed to shift to different kinds of crops and expand agroindustries, he said. Answering an audience question about water scarcity, he linked the problem — as well as the solution – to agriculture. At the moment about 90 percent of the water is consumed by agriculture, which utilises it for crops like rice, wheat and sugar cane of which there is an excess production, he said. If there is a shift to horticulture, with the processing needed for it, water could be freed up for other uses, he said. He said that moving agriculture labour out of agriculture while making India an agricultural exporter is another avenue for growth. Asked by an entrepreneur why he should invest in India, Kumar said that he would straight away have access to a huge market and he will be able to get the smartest brains anywhere and partner with the savviest entrepreneurs. Live my roles between ‘action’ and ‘cut’: Jisshu I have no political aspirations: Mammootty Dec retail inflation sky-rockets to 7.35% as food prices surge (Lead) Deadline extended for IndiGo to replace P&W engines Fuel prices cut for second straight day on Monday Sensex, Nifty rise to fresh record high Nilekani defends Infosys concealing whistleblowers’ complaints Shapoorji, Daruvala may take legal action against InGovern ‘Mid-size enterprises neglected under MSME ministry’ IFIN recovers Rs 1,379 cr loan; gross NPA at 97% Task force on Infra to hold final meet on Monday FinMin may use more CMBs in FY21 to meet debt obligations Fuel prices fall on Sunday after rise for three days FAA-EASA to test 737Max from Jan 15; India to take a call… Lamborghini sales highest in South India ITPCL debt structuring suffers due to TN utility arrears	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1396
__label__cc	0.7162	0.2838	Historical Society of South Australia Promoting South Australian history Journal & Newsletter Keain Medal Kindred Organisations History Trust Sir Ross Smith Lecture Posted on September 18, 2019 by heinje The History Trust of South Australia and the Epic Flight Centenary Committee invite you to a special Talking History and book launch Anzac & Aviator: The remarkable story of Sir Ross Smith and the 1919 England to Australia air race Thursday 3 October, 5.00pm for a 5.30pm start. Join us to celebrate the launch of the highly-anticipated Sir Ross Smith biography by respected First World War researcher and author Michael Molkentin. Anzac & Aviator In the smouldering aftermath of the First World War a young Australian pilot and his crew prepare to attempt the inconceivable: a flight, halfway around the globe, from England to Australia. The 18,000 kilometre odyssey will take 28 days and test these men and their twin-engine biplane to the limit. It is a trans-continental feat that will change the world and bring the air age to Australia. It will also prove to be the culminating act in the extraordinary and tragically brief life of its commander, Captain Sir Ross Smith. Raised on a remote sheep station in the dying days of Australia’s colonial frontier, there was little in Ross Smith’s childhood that suggested a future as one of the world’s great pioneering aviators. He went to war in 1914, serving with the light horse at Gallipoli and in the Sinai before volunteering for the fledgling Australian Flying Corps. In a new dimension of warfare, Ross Smith survived two gruelling years of aerial combat over Palestine to emerge as one of the most skilled and highly decorated Australian pilots of the war. In 1919 he was a pilot on the first ever mission to survey an air route from Cairo to the East Indies, before gaining international fame as the winner of the government’s £10,000 prize for leading the first aircrew to fly from England to Australia. His attempt to exceed this by circumnavigating the world by air in 1922 would end in disaster. Drawing on the rich and extensive collection of Ross Smith’s private papers, Anzac & Aviator tells, for the first time, the gripping story of a remarkable aviator, the extraordinary times in which he lived and the air race that changed the world. ‘He was courageous. He was ambitious. He was skilled. He was visionary. He could be ruthless. He was someone born of a new nation. But he was of a time now long past. And yet in the language of a later generation it could be said he had the “right stuff” . . . Michael Molkentin captures [Ross Smith] brilliantly.’ – Andy Thomas, NASA Astronaut (Retired) ‘Standing with Lindbergh, Earhart and Kingsford Smith as one of the greatest pioneers of the air, Sir Ross Smith’s life is brilliantly captured in this compelling biography.’ – Richard Champion de Crespigny AM, bestselling author and captain of QF32. For this special Talking History event, Michael Molkentin will be in conversation with Epic Flight Centenary Ambassador Lainie Anderson. Thursday 3 October 2019, 5.00pm for a 5.30pm start. Doors open at 5pm. Parking available on Torrens Parade Ground, off Victoria Drive. Light refreshments served before the lecture. This free public lecture is part of the History Trust’s Talking History series. ← October Meeting Lecture – Sir Ross Smith November Meeting → Archives Select Month December 2019 November 2019 October 2019 September 2019 August 2019 July 2019 June 2019 May 2019 April 2019 February 2019 December 2018 November 2018 October 2018 Walking tour – ‘Town Hall Square’ ACE Seminar: The Rohingya Centenary of Darwin Landing Feminism and Democracy The Greatest Air Race documentary	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1399
__label__cc	0.568151	0.431849	Combination of solid-phase affinity capture on magnetic beads and mass spectrometry to study non-covalent interactions: Example of minor groove binding drugs Gitta Schlosser, Károly Vékey, Antonio Malorni, Gabriella Pocsfalvi Eötvös Loránd University A simple and novel approach was developed to detect non-covalent interactions. It is based on combination of solid-phase affinity capture with matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOFMS). One of the interacting molecules is bound to magnetic beads and is incubated with the target molecules in solution. The complex bound on the solid support is removed from the solution and transferred for MALDI analysis. Mass spectrometry is used only to detect the target compound, which is far more straightforward than detecting the intact non-covalent complex. To demonstrate the applicability of the method, an AT-rich oligonucleotide (5′- CCCCCAATTCCCCC-3′) and its complementary biotinylated sequence (5′-biotin-GGGGGAATTGGGGG-3′) were hybridized and immobilized to paramagnetic particles by streptavidin-biotin interaction. The immobilized duplex oligonucleotide was reacted with minor groove binding drugs, Netropsin, Distamycin A, Hoechst 33258 and 4′,6-diamidino-2-phenyl-indole. The resulting DNA-drug complex bound to the particles was separated and analyzed by linear MALDI-TOFMS after washing. Drugs were selectively detected in the spectra. Relative binding strengths were also estimated using competitive complexation. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.2193 Netropsin Bisbenzimidazole Complexation stallimycin indole Schlosser, G., Vékey, K., Malorni, A., & Pocsfalvi, G. (2005). Combination of solid-phase affinity capture on magnetic beads and mass spectrometry to study non-covalent interactions: Example of minor groove binding drugs. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 19(22), 3307-3314. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.2193 Combination of solid-phase affinity capture on magnetic beads and mass spectrometry to study non-covalent interactions : Example of minor groove binding drugs. / Schlosser, Gitta; Vékey, Károly; Malorni, Antonio; Pocsfalvi, Gabriella. In: Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, Vol. 19, No. 22, 2005, p. 3307-3314. Schlosser, G, Vékey, K, Malorni, A & Pocsfalvi, G 2005, 'Combination of solid-phase affinity capture on magnetic beads and mass spectrometry to study non-covalent interactions: Example of minor groove binding drugs', Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, vol. 19, no. 22, pp. 3307-3314. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.2193 Schlosser G, Vékey K, Malorni A, Pocsfalvi G. Combination of solid-phase affinity capture on magnetic beads and mass spectrometry to study non-covalent interactions: Example of minor groove binding drugs. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 2005;19(22):3307-3314. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.2193 Schlosser, Gitta ; Vékey, Károly ; Malorni, Antonio ; Pocsfalvi, Gabriella. / Combination of solid-phase affinity capture on magnetic beads and mass spectrometry to study non-covalent interactions : Example of minor groove binding drugs. In: Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 2005 ; Vol. 19, No. 22. pp. 3307-3314. @article{b48a2e082c544d0ab9c33fc8afce1c6f, title = "Combination of solid-phase affinity capture on magnetic beads and mass spectrometry to study non-covalent interactions: Example of minor groove binding drugs", abstract = "A simple and novel approach was developed to detect non-covalent interactions. 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__label__wiki	0.731117	0.731117	Rupert Quaintance trial update: Day 4 Yes, we’re back to referring to the trial by Rupert’s real name, as it seems the court listings have done the same. As always, we ask that no one speculate about the outcome of the trial in the comments section. We appreciate everyone’s cooperation! Cross-examination of defendant, part 2 On the fourth day of Rupert Quaintance’s trial on multiple counts of harassment causing fear of violence, court resumed at 10:15 a.m. with Rupert still in the witness stand, being cross-examined by Martyn Bowyer for the prosecution. Noting that he would not be leaving the topic of the other Hampstead “activists” completely, Mr Bowyer took up where he left off yesterday. “When did you discover that Angela Power-Disney was, as you put it, ‘dangerous’?” he asked. “I’ll have to think about that”, Rupert said. Mr Bowyer asked whether the realisation came before or after Rupert’s visit to Lanzarote. On reflection, Rupert said it was about halfway through the second week there. “I decided she was a meddler”, he said. “She manipulates people, especially when they’re frightened”. Mr Bowyer confirmed with Rupert that his travels had taken him from the United States to Italy, then Holland, then Lanzarote, and finally the UK, where he had arrived on 9 August 2016. He pointed out that the Excel document found on Rupert’s hard drive, containing the names of Christ Church Primary School parents, had been created on 30 July 2016, so this must have occurred while Rupert was in Lanzarote. “You accepted yesterday that one source for this document could have been Angela Power-Disney”, he said. Rupert agreed that this was possible, but said he was not certain. Mr Bowyer asked whether Sabine McNeill could be characterised as another “activist”, and Rupert agreed that she could. Mr Bowyer suggested that Rupert might not have found Sabine as “dangerous” as Angela, and that he might not have had so many concerns about her”. Again, Rupert agreed. Mr Bowyer noted that the second list of parents’ names had been found on the HampsteadChristChurch.com site, which had been accessed several times by someone using Rupert’s laptop. The link to that site had been sent by Sabine on 31 March 2016, before Rupert left the United States. He asked whether Rupert had seen this site prior to Sabine sending it to him. “It’s hard to say”, said Rupert. “I can’t remember”. Mr Bowyer said that on 31 March, Sabine had sent a Skype message with a link to the site, and that Rupert had already stated that he “believed he would have looked at it”. He asked whether Rupert had read about the multiple addresses alleged to belong to the father in the case. Rupert said he might have bookmarked it and saved it for later. Asked when he had realised that the Hampstead case might not have been all he initially believed, Rupert said, “I came to that determination around my second week in Italy”. He said he had gained more clarity, and the case “took on a different tone to me”. Mr Bowyer asked Rupert why, if he was no longer interested in Hampstead, he had continued to save documents sent to him about the case: “If someone was sending lies to you, which were of no interest to you, why save them?” he asked. Rupert replied, “I didn’t want to be accused of being a fraud. I wanted to show that I did my work”. Turning to the American Freedom Radio broadcast, Mr Bowyer asked Rupert who he’d been referring to in the part of the broadcast where he said, “I don’t want to kill them, I just want to beat them up really bad”. “The people who’d been causing me to fear violence”, Rupert said. “But had anyone been violent toward you?” Mr Bowyer asked, noting that the reference to beating people up had been immediately followed by Rupert saying, “They’ve been physical, why shouldn’t people get physical with them?” Mr Bowyer contended that this reference was not to Rupert’s trolls online, but to the people of Hampstead, who had supposedly “been physical” in abusing children. “This is a reference to the parents, isn’t it?” he asked. “No one in the list of parents had been physical with you, so why would you say this?” He further pointed out that Rupert had made that broadcast during his sojourn in Holland, immediately prior to coming to the UK. “Your attitude toward Hampstead had not changed one iota”, he said. Rupert said he could “understand why you think I was ready for a row—I was just trying to puff myself up”. Mr Bowyer said that when Rupert had referred in his YouTube video to “kicking down doors and taking blood samples”, this could only refer to the parents, as it would make no sense to “take blood samples” from any other party. “That was off the cuff”, Rupert said. “I never thought it would be repeated”. Referring to the Facebook post in which Rupert showed himself at the school, Mr Bowyer asked, “Regarding the comments from your friend Clay, is ‘biscuit’ slang for ‘gun’?” Rupert said that it is, especially in the hiphop world. “So when Clay posted ‘is that a biscuit in your pocket?’ did you think he meant gun?” “My initial inclination was to delete that comment”, Rupert said, adding that on second thought he had decided not to censor his friend’s comment. “Was Clay asking ‘are you armed?'” Mr Bowyer asked, “asking ‘has it been necessary to carry a gun’?” Rupert said that that was the way he’d understood it. “Why did you choose to respond ‘knife?’?” Rupert said that at the end of the Facebook conversation, he had said, “Haha, no no no”. “At some point even Clay suggested that it might be a good idea to remove the post, didn’t he?” Mr Bowyer asked. “No, I said that”, Rupert said. “I don’t think Clay would say to take it down”. Referring to his arrest on 13 September, Rupert said that pre- and post-arrest he felt like two different people. “I was really relieved after the harassment stopped”. Mr Bowyer asked Rupert to explain what was going through his mind during the week between posting the Facebook post and his arrest: “You still wanted to satisfy the people who’d brought you over here, but was it all over for you?” Rupert said that the morning before he was arrested, he felt he’d overstayed his welcome. “I was exploring getting a plane ticket,” he said. “My final findings were inconclusive”. “When were you planning to announce you had no evidence” to support the Hampstead allegations?” “As soon as I left”. “Did you actually put anything else up about the Hampstead case after 5 September?” “I don’t remember”. Mr Bowyer said, “So no report, no video, no Twitter post saying it was a dead story?” “I didn’t want to be between the two sides, with one wanting me to investigate”, Rupert said. “You received donations from people like Angela Power-Disney, Sabine McNeill, and others”, Mr Bowyer said. “So your trip was partly funded by them?” Rupert agreed that this was true. “On the other hand, you had the people who vilified you—so you had twice the reason to say ‘I’ve done my best, it’s time to move on”. That would have satisfied both sides, wouldn’t it?” Mr Bowyer asked. Rupert said he had not considered that. Turning to the original YouTube video, Mr Bowyer asked how it happened that Rupert had completely ignored the negative feedback he’d received on it. Rupert said that when he makes videos, he glances at the comments, but doesn’t dwell on them; and so in this case he went back a year later and checked. Referring to videos which Angela made with Rupert, secretly recording them and then putting them up without his permission, Mr Bowyer asked whether Rupert was aware of these. “Yes, I asked her to take them down”, he said. “Did you ask YouTube to take them down?” Rupert said he had not. Mr Bowyer asked Rupert, “Are you a reasonable man?” “Yes, but I’m naïve, and I learn the hard way”, he responded. Mr Bowyer asked whether Rupert accepted that he had played some part in the distress suffered by the witnesses in this trial. “No”, Rupert said. “None at all?” “I guess, if you look at it in a certain way, I just feel picked on and and pinned down”, Rupert said. “I do feel guilt and remorse for what has befallen me”. “So no remorse?” “I’ve been paid back ten-fold”, Rupert said. “I don’t want to accept responsibility, that’s just adding more to my emotional pile”. Mr Bowyer asked, “Do YouTubers enjoy attention?” Rupert agreed they did. “So you enjoyed the attention of this extremely divisive situation, including the abuse?” “At first, yes”, Rupert said. “But once I realised how deep I was in, no”. Mr Bowyer said, “I submit that you enjoyed it. You came to this country armed with a list of names”. “That sounds so nefarious”, Rupert said. Mr Bowyer pointed out that to take another person’s blood against their will would require violence. “Put a certain way”, Rupert replied. “I submit that you wanted to beat them up pretty bad right before you left Holland for the UK, and that after that you came to the school and left a message on Facebook that you were armed, which you didn’t remove”, Mr Bowyer said. At this point, Rupert could be heard sniffling. Mr Bowyer stated that his cross-examination was done. Defence response Referring to the Facebook post, Mr Stevens noted that it ended with a comment from Leo Gallagher, not Rupert’s friend Clay. He asked Rupert whether his response “no, no” was an answer to a question from Mr Gallagher, or from Clay. Both, Rupert said. “I thought [Leo] was referring to someone who’d been killed by the police. Mr Stevens stated that the response had been posted on 7 September 2016. Judge’s questions for defendant Judge Griffith asked Rupert whether he had had any part in reposting his first Hampstead video in February 2016. Rupert replied that he had not. Judge Griffith said, “You said you had been told that ‘they’d be waiting for me’ when you arrived in the UK. How did they know when you would be getting off the plane?” Rupert said he didn’t know. “How did they know where you were [in London]?” Mr Griffith asked. Rupert said that he had done a video in the back garden of the house where he was staying in Erith, and some people had identified its location from local landmarks visible in the video. Rupert said, “There were some strange events”, such as people knocking on the door early in the morning or calling the house where he was staying and hanging up. He attributed this behaviour to those who had been harassing him online. Judge Griffith noted that on Rupert’s Facebook account, someone named “Roger Flutterby” had said, “You look like a creepy knuckle-scraping twat”, and asked whether this was typical of the abuse Rupert had suffered. “I’d say that was light”, Rupert said. The judge asked Rupert whether he had any screen shots of death threats he had received. “Yes, but I don’t have them with me”, Rupert said. Admissions, part 2 Further to the Admissions which were put on the record yesterday, a set of admissions was given to the jury today. It was agreed between the parties that Rupert had been a target of online abuse; that his address had been published without his permission; that Rupert had complained about this to the police; and that a person who identified himself to police as a Satanist had been asked and had agreed to stop directing angry posts online at Rupert. Character references Mr Stevens, defence, read out the contents of four character references for the defendant, in which he was described as “kind-hearted and empathetic” with a “wonderful soul”. One reference said he has a strong work ethic, having been employed nearly five years; another said he exhibits compassion and empathy, and the last one characterised him as kind and respectful. This was the end of the evidence, for both prosecution and defence. Legal directions Judge Griffith gave the jury legal directions, emphasizing that the prosecution must prove the defendant’s guilt, and that it was not up to Rupert to prove his innocence. He reviewed the Harassment Act, noting that the phrase “a course of conduct” must be differentiated from a series of unrelated acts. The course of conduct must be aimed at an individual, so the jury must consider whether this includes the named people in this case, most obviously the parents. The judge explained that the course of conduct must cause the victims to fear that violence might be used against them. In this case, he said, some of the witnesses had expressed fear for their children. The judge said it would be up to the jury to decide whether the witnesses’ fear had been for themselves, or for their children. The next step, he said, would be to determine whether Rupert knew, or ought to have known, the effect his course of conduct would have. “It’s not enough for him to say, ‘I didn’t think about it'” he said. Considering whether he ought to have known, the jury must decide whether a reasonable man would have known the effect of his course of conduct. In this case, there are three possible verdicts: guilty, not guilty, or guilty of a lesser charge, to whit, simple harassment. Simple harassment is harassment in which there is no fear of violence, but rather “alarm or distress”. Given the character references provided, and the fact that Rupert by his own admission has only been in trouble with the law over a minor cannabis charge long ago, Judge Griffith said that he must be treated as a “person of good character”. This factor must be taken into account, and the jury must consider whether it makes it less likely that Rupert committed the offences with which he has been charged. Prosecution summing up In his summing up for the prosecution, Mr Bowyer asked, “Are we sure that the defendant’s actions constituted a course of conduct?” He said that a course of conduct is loosely defined in the legislation, so the jury would need to determine the actual number of acts which constitute it: is it two? three? 16? 136? “It’s up to you”, he said. He also noted that there is no need to define the amount of time between the acts: “It could be once per week, once per month, once per year”. The time frame in question here is between February 2015 and September 2016, and it may be suggested that he posted the video in 2015 but no one saw them until a year later. It’s up to the jury to decide whether this matters, he said. The prosecution is certain beyond doubt that Rupert’s behaviour constituted a course of conduct, Mr Bowyer said. Regarding whether the witnesses felt distressed, it’s clear that they did. “They had fears for themselves, for their children”, Mr Bowyer said, referring to one witness’ need to install CCTV around the home, while another mentioned having to travel home a different way each time to avoid being followed and attacked. Rupert’s behaviour was “designed to cause alarm and distress to the witnesses when he posted the American Freedom Radio broadcast, Mr Bowyer said. “Did he intend to cause alarm and distress? It is enough if the intended victims were parents of the children at the heart of the investigation”, Mr Bowyer said. “It’s important to know that he had their names on an Excel spreadsheet, and that he had access to another list”. As to whether Rupert “knew or ought to have known”, he said, “it may be that, being possessed of all the facts, an impartial bystander would have known that as a parent at the school [a witness] might have felt very much under suspicion. Would the average man have known that [the witness] would feel harassed under such circumstances?” Mr Bowyer noted that this jury brings together 12 people of different ages, sexes, and ethnicities who will come together and decide what a reasonable man would think. “No one is suggesting that the witnesses in this case were not in fear of violence”, he said. As to whether the fear of violence was for themselves or their children, he pointed out, “If you feared your child was in danger, who would you put between your child and their attacker?” Any parent would do that without stopping to think, he said. As to whether the jury can be sure that the defendant knew or ought to have known that his course of conduct would cause fear, “how could he possibly not have realised?” Mr Bowyer asked. “It’s likely that you’ll leave this court in a state of shock that images of children aged eight and nine could be spread across the internet”, Mr Bowyer said. “You’ll be in shock that it is so easy for people hiding behind a keyboard to cause such distress to innocent people”. This shock does not necessarily mean that Rupert is guilty, he said, noting that Rupert himself had described the internet as being like the wild west. That was a place where there was very little law, and a great deal of lawlessness. “We must try to police the internet”, he said. “In Western movies, if you’re a John Wayne figure on the Oregon Trail, fighting the redskins and robbing wagon trains, normally a sheriff comes along” and deals with the situation. The prosecution doesn’t suggest that Rupert was not subject to abuse: “When you say provocative things, you’ll provoke a response”. Rupert stated that the abuse he suffered had affected every part of his daily life; but how did it affect the four witnesses? The YouTube video Rupert posted was seen by a number of witnesses. It starts off with Rupert saying he “believes the children”—that he felt doors needed to be kicked down and blood samples taken. This was posted about a month before Mrs Justice Pauffley’s ruling, but that did not seem to dull his interest. Everyone in the public gallery here today is free to say they think the jury got it wrong when this case is finished. However, no one is entitled to embark upon a campaign against the jury or against anyone they perceived as supporting the jury’s decision. No one is entitled to threaten to kick down doors or take blood samples, as this would cause alarm and fear. Rupert claimed that he didn’t think about the video for a full year. He knew that the court had found the allegations against the witnesses to be unfounded, so why did he choose to become so close to other activists in the case? Was he sucked in? Was this just a way to get a few more likes on Facebook or YouTube? “Did Rupert consider himself a reasonable man?” Mr Bowyer asked. He was funded by many activists; why had he come to the UK armed with a hard drive with a list of names? Did he know they would fear him? Why did he travel to Lanzarote to meet with one of the most vocal campaigners, whom he described as “considerably dangerous”? In March 2016, Sabine sent him a link with a list of names. If, before he came to the UK, he considered that Hampstead was a dead story, why did he not delete that file? It was, Mr Bowyer said, because he intended to continue his campaign. Try as he might to dress it up, what Rupert did was harassment. He made that tirade on American Freedom Radio whilst he was in Holland, right before his trip to the UK. He says it was for the trolls, but the lie comes in the assertion after the threat to “beat them up real bad”: “they’re being physical, why shouldn’t people get physical with them?” On the first day of the school term, in what Rupert called a coincidence, he showed his “defiant face” on Facebook. Anyone looking at that post might assume that he had a knife. But why say knife? Why not just say no, no problem, I wasn’t armed? Mr Bowyer pointed out that Rupert said he thought he should remove the post…but he didn’t. There is a difference between a closed Facebook conversation where amusing conversations about “biscuits” may take place amongst friends, and public pages, where anyone can see him standing outside the school, using weapons terminology. This was undoubtedly a course of conduct, Mr Bowyer said. A reasonable person would realise that the witnesses would fear him. It is not a defence to say, “I am a publicity seeker”, or “I have two different personas, but I don’t think through what I am doing”. Being online is no defence of the “wild west” on the internet. The reason we have a jury like you is to say, “enough is enough”. Defence summing up Summing up the case for the defence, Mr Stevens said, “This is not just about threats. It’s really about Rupert making threats of violence, and you must think very hard about whether that’s what he’s done—dispassionately, objectively”. Is it fair, or is there a danger that what he did was mischaracterised? If it’s viewed through the lens of cynicism, that’s just not fair. It is not in dispute that a number of individual posts on the internet were, for the witnesses, very difficult, Mr Stevens said. But where does Rupert fit into the picture? The fact that the witnesses felt emotional and broken by the posts they saw should not colour the jury’s consideration of the evidence. Mr Stevens said it is different to distinguish the feelings resulting from Rupert’s behaviour from the rest of the campaign, carried out by others. “People were accused of significant child abuse, which was unfounded. Names and details were put online. Rupert did not do that, so don’t allow him to be the fall guy for all of this”, Mr Stevens said. “You may feel that it’s not one man’s campaign, but one man’s commentary, and no more than that. There is a grave danger of his position being unfairly elevated”. Mr Stevens urged the jury to be dispassionate, objective, and careful. He said the case is not nearly as straightforward as the prosecution says it is. “The defendant does not need to prove his innocence”, he stressed. “You have to be sure, as you are responsible for determining these things”. Mr Stevens said that the prosecution has failed to meet some evidentiary hurdles. For example, it is important to be satisfied that Rupert’s behaviour was a course of conduct. “The law doesn’t define a course of conduct, it’s a matter of judgement”, he said. He asked whether the evidential connections between the video, the American Freedom Radio broadcast, and the Facebook post have been overstated. “These must be scrutinised with great care”. In fact, Mr Stevens said, three of the four witnesses only saw two of the three pieces of evidence. Looking at the Facebook post, Mr Stevens said that Rupert was said to have been acting out a threat. “But is that fair? There were more than 18 months between the original YouTube video and the Facebook post, yet the prosecution would have you believe that he was making good on a threat. Really? Where are the kicked down doors?” There is no suggestion that Rupert was at the school on the day the photo was posted. He didn’t talk to anyone. “So he was not making good on a threat”, Mr Stevens said. Rupert was the victim of online abuse, so he was simply saying to his detractors, “I’m here”, he said. “He was not defiant against the parents—he was not accusing them. What we need to look at is the evidence, which is not as connected as it’s made out to be”. Regarding the American Freedom Radio broadcast, Mr Stevens said, Rupert said, “I just want to beat them up pretty good”. “But who? Is it really the parents? What characterised that response is its rambling nature; this snippet comes from a show that was over an hour long”. “There’s a theory about Mr Quaintance”, Mr Stevens said, “that he’s a bad guy. You may think that’s unfair”. He emphasised the importance of not over-inflating Rupert’s words. “In context, is this not a case where provocation and hyperbolic language” are used? Rupert accepts that he made all the internet posts in evidence, “but is it fair to accept that they were calculated to cause alarm and distress?” Mr Stevens asked. “This could be dangerous, considering the character evidence given”. “The evidential hurdles are not passed when you look at events dispassionately”, Mr Stevens said. “Don’t let him be the fall guy”. As far as Section 4 of the Harassment Act, “we must accept that witnesses heard and saw material online that definitely caused fear of violence. But there is a distinction between how that material was received, and the intent of the person who put it up”. Mr Stevens noted that in some cases, witnesses had not actually seen material on “two distinct occasions”, and he emphasised the need for the jury to “scrutinise with care” the evidence put before them. One witness described being fearful about her child, but said nothing about herself; this is a distinction, Mr Stevens said. “This is an evidential hurdle that the prosecution has failed to pass”. “Only when you get past the evidential hurdles do you get to what the defendant knew or ought to have known, so is it really fair to say he knew or ought to have known?” Mr Stevens asked. He urged the jury to scrutinise the evidence with extra care, noting that it could be subject to misinterpretation. He suggested that because Rupert was in a heightened emotional state when he made the material, he might have used emotive language. “You might say something that sounds like that”, he said. “But would you mean it?” He said that the language in this case has been injected with criminality: “it’s a turn of phrase, and it might be unfair to take it literally”. He urged the jury to approach the language Rupert used with extreme care, especially considering that “this was at the infancy of his personal investigation, and he had no knowledge of any evidence in the case”. Rupert didn’t have access to the lists of names at the time when he made the video, Mr Stevens said, so how could he have intended the message of the video to be directed toward the witnesses? “Does he know or ought he to know that the witnesses were looking at the video?” he asked. “There has been no evidence of any communication between Rupert and any of the individuals listed on the indictment, so how could he have threatened them?” Mr Stevens stated that the witnesses were hypervigilant, and said that any fair-minded person would do the same in the circumstances. “But is it fair to conclude that the defendant would know that?” This was not a case where Rupert targeted individuals, he said; the witnesses were not his intended audience. He asked the jury to go through the evidence with care, as he said this case has been inappropriately characterised. “There is a danger that he has been made a fall guy for something bigger”, Mr Stevens said. “Don’t allow that to mischaracterise what he’s been accused of”. Stating that Rupert’s actions were not calculated to cause alarm and distress, Mr Stevens said that “people were left emotionally damaged. This is shocking and appalling, but it’s not Rupert’s fault”. Court adjourned for the day, and will resume at 10 a.m. Tuesday following the bank holiday; Judge Griffith said he would then replay the video evidence for the jury, and give them their instructions before they make their deliberations. It’s hoped that a verdict will be reached that day. Our reporter will be there, and will bring you all the details. 24/08/2017 in Legal news. Tags: criminal charges, harassment, trial Rupert Quaintance appeal quashed The Gospel According to Angela (as told by her loyal servant Nina) ← ****** * ********** trial update: Day 3 Intermission: Charlotte Ward dishes dirt on Hoaxtead mob → 158 thoughts on “Rupert Quaintance trial update: Day 4” Once again, thank you EC and Reporter. Ethel Aardvark says: Danke sehr, EC 🙂 And thanks a bundly to your intrepid reporter! DAVE SHOULDN'T RUN, HE SHOULD WOBBLE. says: These comedians really need to work on some new material. Bring back Patrick Cullinanne! HAT TRICK!!! 😀 Hooray for “hyper-vigilant” parents! With respect to this case, hyper-vigilant = heroic, in my opinion. Biting my tongue so bloomin hard…… All I can say is that many of us that were here during the entire event might have quite a different recollection of how ALL of them were acting, one supported by the written evidence of their own posts such as APD’s and mad moo’s continual (and continuing) naming of the children, in defiance of the courts ruling (hopefully thats well back from the line, I wrote several things, then on second thoughts rewrote and deleted some things) Hehe, I’d love to see the look on Angie’s face when she reads today’s update. I’ve sent her the link 🙂 Thank you so much to Mr. Coyote for keeping us all abreast of the shenanigans. A triple whammy, SSFS. Excellent! This Mr. Bowyer chappie sounds highly competent. Kudos to him. DragonsandKungFu says: As I am already 1/1 tonight on Spidey-sense alone, I cannot and will not be able to use my powers to comment on the case, so…. Don’t You Even go There. Sir Henry Rawlinson says: My my, what pretty pictures they paint… I pose the following in the form of rhetorical questions in reflection and comment upon the contemporaneous reports I have just read.. Factually, Rupert is on trial in respect of his own actions and their impact on certain individuals, not for some bigger or other thing – which we might reasonably hope will eventually result in others facing the dock for their part. The successful prosecution of Quaintance will not remedy all that has been done wrong with respect to the Hampstead hoax by a long chalk. Therefore the argument that this trial is somehow about scapegoating him for some bigger thing is entirely vacuous. “As far as Section 4 of the Harassment Act, ‘we must accept that witnesses heard and saw material online that definitely caused fear of violence. But there is a distinction between how that material was received, and the intent of the person who put it up’.” Is there really? If you fire a bullet in the air near a crowd, it may not be your specific intent for it to strike and injure someone in that crowd when it returns to earth. But as that is a likely consequence of a high velocity projectile returning to earth in a crowded place, you reasonably ought to know that there is a high probability of that consequence when you send it up there! The action is therefore wilfully reckless. Similarly, get into the driving seat of a car drunk, and you may not intend to kill a pedestrian; but would the law consider your ‘intentions’ if you did? As much as it has been relevant in certain past judgements under this act, is “intent” part of the charges or all that relevant here? As far as I am aware the matter of ‘intent’ was, in the past, raised in relation to parties other than those specifically targeted being jointly and severally affected by proven harassment, and seeking remedy in their own right… The question being who was the target? However, I believe it has been reported and proven that Rupert actually held records which effectively specified the witnesses as targets. …How he obtained those records or who he obtained them from might be relevant to some other action, but in relation to this, matters such as APD being ‘dangerous’ are just a complete distraction. If she was so relevant why wasn’t she called or even charged? And at this stage, she isn’t on trial for anything; Rupert is! “The counts, under the Protection from Harassment Act (1997), claim that: Rupert engaged in a course of conduct which caused each of five witnesses to fear that violence would be used against him or her; ” ‘We must accept that witnesses heard and saw material online that definitely caused fear of violence.’ say the defence? Indeed so… “and that Rupert knew or ought to know that his conduct would cause the witnesses to fear that violence would be used against them; and that Rupert ought to know that his course of conduct would cause the witnesses to fear that violence would be used against them if a reasonable person in possession of the same information would think that this course of conduct would cause the other to fear this on that occasion.” It’s a little unfortunate that the prosecution had not informed themselves as to the true nature of a “biscuit knife” – which, factually, is a weapon sold in the USA, specifically branded as such that even carries a ‘tag line’ very similar to the exact turn of phrase used by Rupert’s associate. – And also that they hadn’t researched the phrase “sharp ham”. But, objectively, what possible purpose can there be in encroaching upon the boundaries of a school at its first day of term (i.e. when the people you have actually documented as ‘targets’ are likely to be there) taking an adversarial stance against that school – as was his stated position at the time – giving the clear impression of being armed (whether he actually was or not is irrelevant) and stating your ‘defiance’? Objectively – what effect, what consequence, can reasonably be expected from such an action? i.e. in general is it not accepted in law that behaving in any threatening and/or aggressive manner is something that may well be expected to cause a reasonable person to fear violence? Then there is the matter of the time and the place… With respect to Rupert’s claims to be a ‘journalist’ researching a case; I will happily call him a deluded fraud. But having donned that mantle can he really escape responsibility for the records he kept and knowing what happened when (i.e. when the school went back – common knowledge)? – The school certainly wasn’t closed that day! I do not speculate as to the answers to those questions and urge that no-one else does; merely that we each reflect privately upon them. Tuesday will be interesting! I do believe that the mention of the digestive treat implied by an acquaintence, has been correctly adressed by the prosecution. That would be also my initial thought if someone implied, that I may have a digestive treat in my own pocket. On a lighter note. Yes well, it may well be a moot point… The main point being that he gave the impression of being armed. It just strikes me as too coincidental that when prompted with the word “biscuit” Rupert’s ‘word association engine’ responds “knife”, not gun; and also that this friend’s prompt was pretty-much the tag line for the specific branded item… Additionally, “sharp ham” also appears to be a knife reference. Against that there is Rupert’s claim that this was all an ‘in joke’? I’ll avoid expressing my opinion on that claim ’till after the verdict. I know, my friend, I know. Deflection I believe, US vs. UK Culture. One implies, the other deflects to what is acceptable knowing a small part of the UK laws. Excellent reporting again. Shall button it as I don’t want to spoil things at a critical moment. I had to laugh that Mr. Bowyer kept mixing up Power-Disney and Disney-Power. Wonder what she would have thought of that? Think you’re doing Disney-Power’s job for her there Angiewatch. As a “Journalist” shouldn’t she be doing her own research? Jelly Shouldn't Run says: Translation: “If you don’t like my 9/11 videos, that’s proof that it was an inside job; and if you don’t like my Hampstead videos, that proves that everyone in England is a baby-munching nonce. QED.” # Daft old butt-hurt bints… The Vintage Video Revival club says: “Attached you will find the photo depicting me with a swastika tattoo, implying that I am a Nazi on this post, published by Hoaxtead Research” Hmmm. I rather think it’s YOU who exposed YOURSELF as a Jew-hating Holocaust-denying neo-Nazi, Sabine. Remember…? (Go to 34:11) Wrecka still has her `petition’ up, some more suckers joined it 😦 Some of the comments there make me wonder how the people responsible manage to dress themselves in the morning- one poster claims to be a law student, yet supports wrecka….. I dont see a bright future ahead of her in the law industry if that’s the level of preparation she is putting into any cases she may get in the future… https://www.change.org/p/lord-chief-justice-stop-this-financial-rape?utm_content=petition&utm_medium=email&utm_source=campaigns_digest&utm_campaign=124815&sfmc_tk=8qKV3%2f8%2fFmqupIoZ%2bENm8LoTYaRXMa0vniIh6kLxvQ6l%2fWuO8u%2bzEIjFeH7rrzlQ&j=124815&sfmc_sub=524442458&l=32_HTML&u=24209635&mid=7259882&jb=2765 Qantloos has one of its people (notorial dissent » Fri Aug 25, 2017 4:38 am ) made a beautiful summation on their thread of her losses http://www.quatloos.com/Q-Forum/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=11145&start=960 “So as I see it she now has an arrest for trespass, or whatever they are calling it, that she has to answer for, and then another arrest warrant for skipping the last hearing. So I would say that the first three were civil and the last 1/2 are criminal. She is really racking them up at this point.” plus the costs- started at 5K, now over 75K and rising fast…. and with the lost value of the house with its history and at a forced sale to boot- she’s coming close to probably losing the entire value of the house and now likely to end up in the slammer to boot- all because of her inability to not be a silly tosser and do things correctly… Raymond Throatwobbler-Mangrove says: “Dear Commanders…” WTF, Sabine? LOL, have a word with yourself, luv! THEY’RE having internal breakdowns? LOL, whatever, Mad Moo 😀 Does anyone here know how you find out the location of someone from their facebook account? I don’t mean if they give it out on a public page. I’m not interested in finding out where someone lives either. It dawned on me a few weeks ago why someone thinks I live in Brighton. “…that Rupert had complained about this to the police; and that a person who identified himself to police as a Satanist had been cautioned…” I am unsure if this is a reporting error, but this is factually incorrect of what transpired. I am the Satanist who was subject to complaint by RQ to the police for alleged harrassment. The police initially contacted EC asking for me to contact them. I sent e-mails, and these were lost by the police e-mail spam systems. I had another chase by EC to me, so I rang the police, and they then found the e-mails. The e-mails denied I was harrassing, and I listed my defences such as prevention of crime. I asked for examples of allegedly harrassing posts, none which was provided. I never met any police representatives in person, all contact was mainly by e-mail, with one telephone call to confirm they had found the e-mails. I was warned off from posting further content against RQ, and I backed off. I did not agree, did not accept, would never have accepted any “caution”, which is a legal alternative to charges and is an official record against someone. Had any official caution been offered as an alternative to charges, I would have rejected, run this into court. I am not particularly bothered about any court case, I would have defeated it, but would have been concerned if in order to try and prove a case, computers were taken, and this would have been fatal to my business where all my data, and the business systems I personally coded, such as accounts, are stored. I would not have given RQ an inch to play the victim card via an official caution of one of his critics in court. Not happy. SV. This needs to be told to the prosecution as Ruperts lawyer has committed perjury and it could affect the outcome of the jury’s decision. A jury hearing that a trial built around a case of alleged SRA being told a Satanist had been cautioned could very well base their judgement on this, especially if they are religious. I observe, if this is true of what the jury and court has been told, it could have a significant impact on the eventual outcome. Please refer this to whoever needs to be told. EC can contact me on Twitter, if I need to take further action. I think the problem stems from my reporting, SV. I’m very sorry–I was using the word “cautioned” in the colloquial, not the legal sense. I checked my notes and there’s nothing about a police caution, so I’ll change my wording on the blog. I’m really sorry to have caused you any distress. It’s just that I have another email address which I don’t use much and I found 3 messages stating I was located in Brighton twice and Hove once. Of course I’m in neither. I then realised that one of the people that has a problem with me has a “friend” that is in to all this hacking and thought he might have done something to get that information. Won’t say too much more as the delightful David Conaghan reads my comments on here and passes information on. I heard the Defence Barrister say you had a Caution on several occasions. I did wonder if you had accepted one and thought it a bit strange. It wasn’t challenged by the Prosecution, so I thought it must be accurate. I think the Judge should know what the Barrister said as fact, is not fact before the Jury go out to deliberate. As an example, if an individual lives in Lands End, and the server for their e-mail or internet is based in Paris, then an application that is reporting on the location of the individual will report back that they are based in Paris. Perhaps the Defence Barrister could sum up the bit about the Caution again and perhaps he could explain what a Caution is to the Jury as some might know and some might not. For clarification, I think that the powers to be needs to be informed that I never was offered or agreed a caution. Nor did I admit anything criminal, nor did I even get told of what content I was supposed to have allegedly been accused of posting. I am going to post now some e-mail exchanges with certain information redacted. Subject: RQ (SEMI REDACTED). From: POLICE E_MAIL (REDACTED) Date: Wed, March 1, 2017 9:34 pm To: MY EMAIL (REDACTED) Read Receipt: Requested [ Send Read Receipt Now ] Options: View Full Header \| Print \| Download this as a file \| View as HTML I am a police officer working for Met Police. RQ (SEMI REDACTED) has put in a complaint of harassment. He has provided some screen shots from Twitter and You tube and there is a mention of you. I would like to speak to you and anyone else involved in this matter. Please email me or call me on POLICE TEL (REDACTED) POLICE OFFICER DEALING (REDACTED) Subject: RE: RQ (SEMI REDACTED). From: POLICE E-MAIL (REDACTED) Date: Mon, March 6, 2017 7:45 pm To: MY E-MAIL (REDACTED) Read Receipt: Sent Options: View Full Header \| Print \| Download this as a file Mr Hind, Thank you for your email – I have reviewed the content. I will not be taking any further action and will close the report, however can you and others on Hoaxtead Research blog refrain from posting or talking about him on any of the social media platforms. POLICE OFFICER DEALING NAME (REDACTED) My understanding of what I heard was that you had been Cautioned because of a Twitter exchange between you and the defendant. The problem lies in what CAUTION/ED means. Imo the Jury could take this 2 ways. 1. You had accepted a Criminal Caution. 2. You had been “told off”. It’s not clear. Subject: Re: RQ (SEMI-REDACTED). From: MY E-MAIL (REDACTED) Date: Thu, March 2, 2017 11:04 am To: POLICE E-MAIL (REDACTED) Hi POLICE OFFICER NAME (REDACTED) EDIT NOTE: RQ REPLACES NAME OF PERSON MAKING COMPLAINT Thanks for your e-mail. Anything I have posted out on Hampstead SRA Hoax and RQ (EDIT) via Twitter, Facebook, WordPress and YouTube are under names satanicviews, views_s and of course James Hind. The accounts are as follows: LISTS 4 PERSONAL SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS (REDACTED) I do not use any other accounts but these. I used to be involved with List616 which was discontinued middle of last year, since Gray Faction of the Satanic Temple is fighting against SRA which I work with. RQ (EDIT) has blocked me on Twitter and Facebook, I cannot remember how long that has been, but it has been a long time. All actions and postings that I have made is designed to destroy the hoax, defend and protect the lives, families and homes of Hampstead residents, families, children plus the same to Satanists and defending my religion. I was very alarmed and concerned with postings and things RQ (EDIT) said that suggested to me he might attack people with a gang of people, abduct children, break down doors and harm people and property. He said things that suggested he might have a sexual interest in children and that he was a fanatic and dangerous. Despite my anxiety over what RQ (EDIT) was saying and doing I posted with one eye on terms and condtions of social media, plus our law, plus not to undermine the good work of Hoaxtead. I will have to see screen shots of any individual postings that RQ (EDIT) is referring to with regards to his allegations of harrassment by me, I am confident that I have been within the law on anything I have posted. I take full ownership for anything posted under the above four named Even before RQ (EDIT) arrived in the UK I identified him as a person who could reignite the hoax under the orchestration of Angela Power Disney. I put in a major effort to argue that there was no SRA, that this was a fiction, offering rational arguments, sources, satire and clear warnings this would get him into legal trouble. I cannot see how RQ (EDIT) can argue he has been harrassed when he deliberately talked and acted to provoke people. I cannot allow people like this to run around using my religion as a vehicle to dishonestly say and do things that harm others for personal gain, the lives, families and homes of Satanists as well as those accused of being Satanists are at stake. I will take what ever actions I have to either to mitigate or defend the innocent and those that are Satanists from fanatics like RQ (EDIT). RQ (EDIT) was not interested in the truth, he did not have to come to the UK to see there was no SRA in Hampstead. RQ (EDIT) is a psychopath who manipulates and deceives for his own ends, he is a dangerous fellow. I and others provided RQ (EDIT) with all the sources he needed to see the SRA was a hoax in Hampstead. He was not being a journalist, he was totally obsessed that SRA was happening in Hampstead, he was not being balanced and objective. From day one he was determined that RD (FATHER OF P&Q EDIT) was guility of the dishonest things he was accused of. It was frustrating to see all my efforts to convince RQ (EDIT) to not pursue this SRA hoax fail, that he came to the UK paid for by other Satan Hunters. I tried to get him stopped at the UK border with complaints to the Immigration, and also whilst he was here. The things he said resulted in my making police aware of him, of which there will be Tweets about on my Twitter account. Defeating the Hampstead SRA hoax requires an information counter-campaign which requires answering any of the claims of Satan Hunters on social media by giving the other side of the story. Also, this requires a challenge to the character and intentions of many dishonest fanatical and dangerous people who will play the system and victim card for all they can. Everything a Satan Hunter puts out has to be challenged, otherwise the hoax spreads, and it will take just one mentally ill person to act upon it, people then die. James Hind Yes, I was speaking of the reporting of the agreed-upon admissions, Babs. While my note-taking is pretty accurate, I can’t claim to capture 100% of what’s said, so it’s quite possible that I missed Mr Stevens saying the word “caution” in other contexts than the Admissions. To be fair, his speechifying was rather…extensive, shall we say, and repetitive. The version I posted last night is really the highlights. Daughter of the Blade says: i forget, who’s play was it to make it be the doug mesner videos? or was that something the neighbor did on his own? The word “caution” should never have been used, if this was in fact used in this court hearing, because a jury will take this as if someone had been guilty of X, and accepted guilt of X, and it will have a significant effect on jury outcomes if they have a misleading misunderstanding of a statement made to them. Babs, I commented above to SV that the word “caution” did not appear in the section of the trial where they read the second set of Admissions. Admissions are, by their nature, material that has been agreed upon by both sides. sock account? sounds fairly sane of you get yourself a vpn if you’re worried. Thought for the day,well perhaps a few seconds anyway: If a merest grain of conscious effort shown by members here to exercise due restraint from reactive/reckless “wiseacring” were to have been manifested by the hoaxmob this blog would almost certainly never have been born let alone closing in rapidly on a million views. Oh he definitely said “CAUTION/ED” at least twice. I would expect some on the Jury know what a Police Caution is and others would think it is just a “telling off”, don’t do that again type of thing and that’s that. That clarification is valued SV… I must admit, even at this stage, I having read EC’s reports and first-hand accounts from others who were in court, am highly dissatisfied with the accuracy of what appears to have been developed as narrative. And I’m somewhat overcome by the pungent smell of rodent. If one was building a continent water tank one wouldn’t build unnecessary weak spots into it, nor would one deliberately signpost them for the benefit of vandals. As an aside, I’m currently listening to a somewhat tongue-in-cheek/sceptical/cynical account of gangstalking type activity in the US… That is, ‘where a group or individual spend large amounts of money to stalk or harass another group or individual’. Clearly an issue if you’re an ordinary, innocent citizen, living a quiet life when you suddenly become a genuine ‘T.I.’; targeted by malicious nutcases! One would reasonably hope in these circumstances that to be protected from harassment it would be sufficient for one’s name or other details to appear on a list of targeted individuals and subsequently subjected to harassment by holder(s) of that list; I would see no relevance in at what stage a copy of that list was picked up by a particular member of the stalking group or who supplied it. Let’s suppose an Islamic terrorist entered the country armed with a list of ‘targets’ they had obtained a few days previously en-route to the UK, having previously made a generic threat to the safety and security of UK residents… What relevance is there (in terms of their victims actually being targeted) in the timing of those people becoming the point of specific focus for an attack? Or as another example, if you were an anarchist-type based in say Newcastle and part of an organisation or movement which had among its aims the disruption of democracy and the work of parliament, and you travelled to London with the specific intention of harassing ‘an MP’, does it matter at what point your ‘handlers’ within that organisation provide you with the list of specific MPs you are to target? Realistically, it is – in terms of any useful function of legislation – enough that an individual with capacity obtains a list of ‘T.I.s’ and acts upon it to actually cause those individuals fear. Any deficiency in that respect would render the relevant legislation impotent and unfit for purpose; it’s really just that simple. I think it’s highly relevant that long before Rupert entered the UK people were contacting the authorities urging them to turn him away at customs because even then, they were placed in a state of alarm at the prospect of what he might do; he was reported as a terror threat. – There is no doubt that people contacted UKBA urging them to turn him away because he intended entering it with the specific stated intention of terrorising a community; why did they fail us? Again, can you imagine anyone of eastern descent issuing a threat to ‘kick down doors’ at any point and then being able to breeze into the country unfettered? I would also observe that the middle-aged people ‘of good character’ that I know of and would considered as such will generally have work and study records extending a decade or two and have absolutely no criminal record of any kind… Something more than having managed to hold down a job for five out of thirty-eight years! There is a video on Youtube that pre-dates Quaintance’s entry to the UK entitled “this thing is Rupert Quaintance” which is actually a better indicator of his character and general conduct. – A long way from the part played of the sniffling preppy twit in his SJW glasses painting pictures in the dock! Character? Most reasonable people, by that stage in their life, will have partners and families and be productive, responsible members of society… “Pot” won’t be their self-declared “problem” and I’m sure very few men approaching 40 will have filmed themselves dressing and acting like a rather educationally-challenged teenage thug as a record of the ‘lovely’ life with ‘delightful’ friends they lead… For that person also to be going about pretending to be something they are not, with no credible career or profession behind them; all of that strikes me as a long way from exhibiting ‘good character’! Quite the opposite, it’s the way of a disreputable and dishonest failure. FALSE FLAG ALERT ! Something’s going down soon. Adverts appeared on this Crisis Actor’s timeline but she has numerous identities and appears as a new person at many events : gatecrashing the Glastonbury Festival. appearing as a drug addled Hippy at Glastonbury Court, Moderator at the Flat Earth conference..real identity believed to be Faigil Yentl Finkelstein…a Zionist Mossad dis-information agent I think this issue needs to be raised with the judge before Tuesday… In my view any reference to a person’s religion is potentially prejudicial as this is both a separate and irrelevant thing in respect of any actions. Religious bias is a common if unfortunate fact of life, and I wonder if the individual in question would have so freely highlighted that someone was a Jew or a Catholic or a militant Protestant without fear of censure? Indeed, I wonder if this mention is even lawful? Equally well there seems to be a legitimate point to protest in the inaccurate claim that James was “cautioned” – that being really quite a specific thing in legal terms, which any lawyer ought to know. We now have two people who have reported hearing that and thus it is corroborated. Yes, she quite clearly restates the nasty and very old blood libel against Jews in this video: the idea that Jews kidnap and murder Christian babies and then use their blood in their “rituals”. It’s utterly ludicrous and has been discredited many, many times, but for some reason anti-Semitic people just keep reviving it. I don’t think it’s unfair to label someone who continues to promote this lie as an anti-Semite. I’ll see whether this can be raised with the court. Words “Satanist” and “caution” are loaded with emotional and legal significance. Firstly, “Satanist”, there is a difference between saying an “individual was warned” as opposed to a “Satanist was warned” in a highly emotional and controversial disproven SRA context. I have a reasonable knowledge of UK law, and I am unaware of any other meaning for “caution” other than a procedure used as an alternative to charges, where the law has been broken, where guilt is admitted of the law is broken, and where the individual accepts the caution, and in all three points I deny. I would imagine James has a right to email a letter of complaint to the court and follow up with a copy delivered by recorded post or by hand. Although I am unhappy about what seems to have been said, I am keen that no reader here, any victims, the media or any individual who matters in this court case are mislead, or acts upon misleading information. I have placed upon public record here everything I feel needs to be posted on this matter, and if I have to take any further action, then EC can contact me via Twitter, and I will act accordingly. All that needs to happen is the court offcials or CPS makes a public clarification, so that jury makes decisions without any misunderstandings. The police have all the material on record to put any potential error or misunderstanding right, if CPS and police talk to each other. I also stress, I am in all deeds and decisions, mindful that the Satan Hunters would love to do to me what they are doing to RD and other victims. SV, I messaged you on Twitter. I think you have every right to be aggrieved James. It’s a fact that for most of us the term ‘Satanist’ (rightly or wrongly) conjures up fearful and largely pejorative images. However, whether individuals like it or not, it is a recognised religion, and your basic human right to practice it. – We are not talking about anything that is outside the boundaries of the law after all. Relative to the events Rupert complained of, the religion you embrace is of no consequence or importance. Further, there is an obligation upon the state (the court being a state institution) to maintain neutrality and impartiality between religions and as between religious and non religious forms of belief. Article 9 ECHR – Freedom of thought, conscience and religion; “1. Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief, in worship, teaching, practice and observance. 2. Freedom to manifest one’s religion or beliefs shall be subject only to such limitations as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society in the interests of public safety, for the protection of public order, health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.” Given that the comments came from an educated man who ought to know better, the comment as to your religion can only reasonably be viewed as an attempt to throw you and your actions into an unfairly negative light; that would appear to be a breach of your article 9(1) rights. – And yes, I agree that the phrase ‘cautioned’ or ‘given a caution’ in relation to interaction with the police has quite a specific meaning. Shasta says: The crowd in America that were reporting about RQ, easily available on Google, I will not post the link in deference to the court, seem to have forgotten about him, even though they said they would keep people updated. Some untruths on there about what actually happened. EC please delete if inappropriate at this time, thank you. Confuseddotcom says: There are sites that you can use to input say a username and find out more information, or a real name if the person knows that and work out the correct one. It really depends how much information one person knows about that person already. Sites like “pipl” i have personally used in the past amongst many other such as family heritage type sites. Also just a specific google search of a persons username or full name can bring up details depending on how much information is on the internet about that person. For example I know what cars Dave Shurter has purchased in the past based on internet searches, same with Lift The veil. Obviously if people are professionals with all their business information for networking, or history of their company, there will be more info. All Abraham Christies company details are online such as his Cash for Gold and Hemp businesses along with dates of operation. And I'll Remember says: Absolutely SV. When I read this (fantastic – thank you!) report, the mention of a ‘satanist’ certainly stood out to me – it would anyone. Couple that with ‘caution’, and the mind can conjure up a scenario. Beliefs are, I believe, a protected characteristic. Protected rights in law, for people to be treated equally. Do people need to know specifics about any person who holds protected characteristic? We all do have beliefs, physical abilities, sexualities, etc. Not sure why a belief was important to highlight – but for being sensational. https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/equality-act/protected-characteristics Reverend Bruce Howard says: Isn’t David in with the Neelu crowd? Ps. Sir Henry said it better! I just had to say something – as well as ‘grr’. There are other issues on a seperate note that I made aware to someone last night and I believe they have forwarded that information onto EC. I won’t go into details but it may be very important or of no importance whatsoever. Christ, Baby H’s parents must be delighted with the information Angie’s sharing about them with the World! Oh and there’s another court hearing coming up, so it’s still contempt. She really is f*cking pond scum to be making comparisons like this, imo 😮 Thanks for feedback. Both the Clerk of the Court and Steve Martin has been e-mailed. This is the limit of my intervention, because I am putting my safety at risk from the Satan Hunters. There is a problem that government and police e-mail servers seem to think my e-mails are spam and dump them in the spam file, so if anyone please could contact these people to let them know my e-mails have been sent, that would be appreciated. Sis of the Sabre says: Huh??? Yes he has the hots for Dolly the sister of Neelu. He’s a Top Grass, so he needs to be grassed up himself. You’ve got no loyalty David Conaghan and I don’t do Judas’. Plenty more I could say here but I’m not like you. Wow! Just wow! And really wow! Not got a clue what’s out there then but nothing of great interest to anyone I wouldn’t think. a sock account is basically a fake account. i was asking if a fake account was made in order to report the violent pictures and comments. just felt like i remembered someone giving a reason for why it was the videos of doug mesner, i just dont remember why but i know they arent the same person Oh now that’s made my day! 😀 I’m sure those spectacles are really for females. Not sure if I’m allowed to say that yet. Innit Matey Peeps says: Thought it had been “forensically proven” that this blog is run by Ricky Dearman with help from the CIA and based in Washington DC. LOL You’re boring Angela, zzzzzzzzzzzzz. Yannis who hates our guts and can barely speak English? Damnmit – you got us, Detective Disney. Come on, EC (aka Yannis) – ‘fess up! 😀 would you mind giving me links? i can’t find the sharp ham connection, aside from kitchen knives, and the biscuit knives i have found look like roller razors, sorta like a paint roller, but they dont look like they could cut a person..if he was going to try with that he’s stupid LOL, I know what a sock account is but thanks. Erm…not sure I can speak Yannistardian fluently enough to be convincing! 😆 I’m no fan of Yannis, but really Angela, really? He’s not intelligent enough to run this Blog, not in a million years, never. Pardon my ignorance, DoTB, but why would you need a sock account to report inappropriate content on Facebook? Anyone can report Facebook posts and it’s completely anonymous. “Is that is?” The screenshots in full: Rev O'Lucian says: Spiny’s an Atheist (not a Satanist). Everyone knows that. facebook doesn’t always take things down right away. it seemed to be a constant complaint in certain groups, that people would report accounts for inappropriate pictures of children or sexual comments regarding them, only to be told it doesn’t violate community standards. i was wondering if you used sock accounts because apparently bombarding them with multiple reports is more likely to get it removed By the way, well said to ‘Bollocks’, whoever you are 😀 Did they really bring up “Paul Bonacci”? A man with convictions for abusing a child. King didn’t turn up for the court case as he was in prison so the settlement was by default iirc. “PAUL BONACCI – convicted at age 21 of molesting a 9 year old boy on three occaisions, Bonacci had a novel albeit offensive rationalization. He claimed that he had Multiple Personality Disorder, and that one of his alters was gay and therefore a child molestor! When the gay guy inside him took over, he would make Paul molest little boys, he said. Bonacci was diagnosed as MPD by the prison psychiatrist, after Bonacci related a pathetic life history of chronic negligence and abuse by older boys and men. Subsequently, Bonacci would relate ever more elaborate tales of victimization in child porn, prostitution and satanic abuse rings, to various interviewers. He also confessed to involvement in kidnapping missing 12 year old Johnny Gosch from Des Moines when he himself was 15, and subsequently raping the boy repeatedly on a rural property just outside the city limits. Bonacci was also interviewed by Dr Judianne Densen-Gerber, a self-professed expert on Ritual Abuse and MPD, while still in prison. She declared him a genuine MPD with “an extraordinary memory for detail”, which is interesting considering that episodic amnesia and problematic memory recall is supposed to be a necessary symptom of MPD. “Meeting with Paul, I have spoken to several of his personalities. Three psychiatrists who have examined him concurred in the diagnosis of Multiple Personality Disorder, brought on by horrible, traumatic abuse when he was a child. My first act with respect to representing Paul Bonacci was to have him write down everything he could remember, about individuals who had abused him, from his earliest boyhood. An excerpt from what he wrote appears in Chapter 10. In that document and in Paul’s letters, his handwriting will vary, depending on which personality is in control. Bonacci was sentenced to five years in prison in 1989, for molesting a young boy for whom he was baby-sitting. Apparently one of Paul’s homosexual personalities was in control of him during the incident, in which he briefly put his hand on the outside of the young boy’s pants, an activity stopped when a remorse-stricken Paul reasserted control…” – The Franklin Cover-Up Despite being a convicted child molestor and confessing to participation in kidnapping & rape of a younger boy, Bonacci is called a hero & martyr by Satanic Ritual Abuse & Mind Control conspiracy theorists.” http://www.dysgenics.com/2014/04/10/children-murdered-molested-raped-by-ritual-abuse-victim-claimants-advocates/ “Gunderson then described a conversation he had with a witness, Paul Bonacci, from an alleged satanic-ritual abuse case in Nebraska that was detailed by former Nebraska state Sen. John DeCamp (1992), who was also a speaker at this conference. The grand jury of Lincoln described this case as an attack by DeCamp “for personal political gain and possible revenge” (Dorr 1991, p. 1), a “smear campaign,” and a “carefully crafted hoax” (United Press International, September 18, 1990). The grand jury jailed one and indicted two others (including Bonacci) for perjury, and was so critical of DeCamp that he sued the grand jury for ridicule, though he quickly lost (Dorr 1991). ” http://www.csicop.org/si/show/conspiracy_theories_and_paranoia_notes_from_a_mind-control_conference/&gt If I was in that jury and heard this I would think it meant a formal caution. The Brief is playing a clever trick by saying this. just an example from two different sites. “Dolly” and “Top Grass”? You have already said enough! Although I thought she had moved onto greener pastures. Well done indeed SSFS. I wish i had the same results from Facebook with the posts of Araya Soma’s that i reported. Nice use of those info-resources! 🙂 Why does Sabine always feel the need the to mention being a baby during the bombing of Dresden? How is that supposed to help her in any way? Nicked them all from you. 🙂 The bombing of Dresden gave Sabine a sore bottom; her baby bum problem probably psychologically turned her mind inside out. When Abraham Christie and Ella Draper started talking about plastic willies and bums, it all came back to Sabine and made her regress to a former anal stage in her development. I am sure Freud and Jung would find Sabine and other Satan Hunters a fascinating subject of study. Thanks again for the excellent reporting of the court proceedings, greatly appreciated. Columbo eat your heart out: It is as I feared, they all have a hidden jelly baby army #jellybabygate Speaking of U-turns, it wasn’t that long ago that APD was citing Yannis as her “reliable source” that this blog is run by convicted paedophiles. Another apology owed by Angie, methinks. I’m going to suggest we not hold our breaths. 😉 She’s just stirring it. Not that I’m bothered, Yannis does enough stirring of the pot. Even if Yannis was connected to this Blog, and Mrs.Disney-Power?? People don’t have to agree with your nonsense, that does not make anyone a Troll. The guy talking, who appears to be the leader of said army (even though – spoiler alert – he betrays them towards the end of the video), incorrectly calls them Jelly Beans instead of Jelly Babies. Now, as any fule kno, yer Jelly Bean is a whole different proposition to yer Jelly Baby: Not a problem though, Ethel, as long as they don’t put this woman in charge of the Jelly Bean army: Keep talking, Angie. Hehe… 😉 Next on Dave... says: LOL, check out the title. You just know this is gonna be an entertaining one 😀 Roger Flutterby says: Speaking of creepy knuckle-scraping twats! 9:53 – “I’m sure that the Devil-lovers will cheer. But I’m not quite sure how long they’ll keep cheering, you know. Eventually, those cheers are going to turn into gasps and cries of anguish, I believe, if I have anything to do with it.” He’s such a charmer, isn’t he. God must be so proud of him. Bless Lawful Suspect No. 94 says: We’re “eating our own” and “tearing each other apart”, are we? I must have missed that, lol. Dave Ja Vu says: Sounds like Shurter’s been mistreating his dogs again and it’s making them ill. Poor little buggers 😦 Seems the drone pilots who’ve been spying on Neelu’s house fancied a change 😀 ‘If she [APD] was so relevant why wasn’t she called’…bears thinking about. She’s not relevant to what Rupert did… “The bad big girl did it and ran away” line? A bit sad! Rupert’s a middle-aged man, not a child! She ought to be facing the courts, but she’s not Rupert’s mummy – she’s another fucking nutcase! I had forgotten than Evan Harrington actually gave citations to the Franklin Grand Jury findings, wherein DeCamp’s masterminding of the whole affair was fingered. (I’ve surely forgotten more than I can claim to know, about everything. Scary thought…) We should dig those out and publicize them, somehow. Yes. I’m wondering if we’ll even be allowed to comment on that particular issue when the trial is over. Simply google the term “sharp ham” complete with quotation marks as I suggested yesterday; you seem on the right track already. If you look at the previous thread you will find the “biscuit knife” advertisement. It’s made by a company called Boker, and marketed under the particular tag line “That’s one tough biscuit in your pocket”. – Then consider the exchange the took place as it has been reported. @Babs I spent a little bit of time earlier looking into your concerns. It’s important that if you do not want someone to have your IP address not to connect on Facebook Messenger of a similar chat style messenger as they can get your IP from that as soon as you connect. The same with responding to emails, they can also get your IP from the message header text. This will be an approximate location, similar to how when you access a website they target you with adverts mentioning your rough location. A persons real identity and details can only be legal obtained through a court order as your ISP protects that information. It’s not something to really worry about too much to be honest, it can be useful for blocking people from a page, site or blog etc. Be careful leaving comments on blogs and sites you do not trust as the site owner should be able to view your IP address, WordPress even has settings for that. http://ask-leo.com/getting_all_worked_up_over_ip_tracing.html WTF?? @ 1:19 Dave should consider a career move as a QEG door-to-door salesman with that patter. Is Sharter sure his friend didn’t say “I can hear a drone”, and he was actually refering to the boring noise coming from the other end of his phone? AP, the DG of MI (but keep that on the QT) says: In light of Mr. Coyote’s sterling work this week, I want you all to know that I have recommended him for a pay rise. But Mum’s the word – they’re watching us. LOLOL! ROFL!! Yes, Angela, thanks for filling us in… with the nonsense from your head. Jake Blake. Oh man! I wanna hear the gossip. That’s like being given an ice cream and someone snatching it just as you are about to bite into it.lol “MY INCORRIGIBLE COMMITMENT TO TELLING THE TRUTH” @JS Do you mean the court records? https://docslide.us/documents/paul-bonacci-court-transcripts-from-larry-king-lawsuit.html http://law.justia.com/cases/nebraska/court-of-appeals/1993/a-91-836-8.html There’s a few more bits here I think. https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/search/search.action?na=&se=&sm=&flr=&ercode=&dateBrowse=&govAuthBrowse=&collection=&historical=false&st=content%3A%22lawrence+E.+King%22&psh=&sbh=&tfh=&originalSearch=&fromState=advSearch&sb=re&ps=10&sb=re&ps=10 Damn ,thats low. OH…..Wait! Its APD! Normal service resumes! Keep talking, Angie ? Like me? Any Crime Unit in the UK, Ireland, Spain, Timbukto, Outer Mongolia, everywhere, watch one of Angela’s videos for more than 5 minutes and then pray to the Lord for it all to stop. In one of her videos, I think with Hetty B, she manages to make more defamatory claims than all the rest of the hoaxers put together. The only way she hasn’t had a knock on the door is….. Anyone wanna pay for business advice from a known scammer? Hello? Sergeant Sirius Crook-Hunter of the Marrakesh Fraud Squad says: Oh Christ, is she at it again? 😮 Its the way she tells em. FTW project? Surely its the WTF project ! Since when was Yannis a Solicitor? Puh! Uhm! I’d like to know what crime she thinks the Police would be interested in investigating on this blog? If she wants to report a crime, why doesn’t she come over to London and go into a Met. Police Station and make a report? I am growing increasingly concerned about Teflon in all this.Its one thing to be a submissive,sidekick pushover who nods and agrees with everthing his grossly unpleasant misses spews out,but allowing her to use his head as a culture in which to grow a giant mushroom just makes him look a proper twat frankly. Oh, I’m sure we’re all open minded enough to support gender neutrality where appropriate and don’t want to get too bogged down in stereotypes… I must admit though to being a little puzzled as to why he wasn’t wearing his more typical attire? Pantomime… Don’t ya just love it? He looks happy at least. I still haven’t forgiven him for killing that giant spider. I rather like him, he has nice lips. Whoops, the white guy. A Young Tom Hardy. EVERYBODY Love him lol I knew things in Greece were tough but… I honestly didn’t realise Yannis lived in a motor-caravan, let alone that he hired such expensive and inappropriate drivers! – If he fired them, would the salary he saved not pay for a permanent site? I dont know about that, googling Anonymous posts has you posting some pretty wild stuff…….. If you really wanted to hide your IP, then using a free or paid proxy will hide it from the website you are posting to I sometimes use it to bypass bans on the woo sites, many who hand them out like candy for not accepting their viewpoint, or even just as a way of raising cash (GLP, I’m looking in your direction here lol) Great parody.. Excuse my ignorance but what’s the gag with the second GIF? What am I missing? Caravans? Drivers? Once again I feel I’m missing something. That’s two gags that have gone over my head now. Man, I’m on the special bus tonight. Either that or I’m still asleep and all this is a dream. 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__label__cc	0.599605	0.400395	Tom Dunn: Profiteering from children’s pain Abraham Christie and Ella Draper have pretty much exhausted their welcome with their former UK co-conspirators. It’s all just a bit much, facing arrest, police cautions, trials, and even prison time, for two people who can’t even be arsed to come home and face the music. However, of late Abe and Ella have been tapping into the larger and seemingly more lucrative U.S. conspiritainment market, which conveniently enough, caters to those who suffer from a combination of paranoia, ignorance, repressed sexual sadism, and hyper-religiosity. Clearly the perfect audience for what Abe and Ella are selling. Previous ventures—such as Ella’s ill-fated interviews with professional chin-wobbler Nathan Stolpman, in which she admitted she’d made up some of what she’d forced her children to say on camera—have not always gone to their satisfaction, and so we wonder how they will feel about the latest American who’s trying to co-opt their story for his own gain. Thomas Dunn, who has recently released a spate of videos in which he not only displays his stunning ignorance of the facts of the Hampstead SRA hoax, but adds his own bizarre religious overlay, is a case in point. We’re sure his spewing of delusional videos is just fine and dandy with Abe and Ella, who have no problem with people exploiting RD’s children for YouTube hits. However, Dunn has gone several steps further, applying that good old American entrepreneurial spirit to create something which he calls the “Legendary Campaign”. Campaign for what? He doesn’t say. But never mind. Visitors to his “Legendary Store” can fork over big bucks to acquire their choice of Hampstead paraphernalia, guaranteed to make them feel as though they are doing something to combat child sexual abuse: Yes, folks, it’s “Agent Provocateur Cosplay Time” at the OK Corral! You, too, can pretend you care by splashing out for this top-of-the-line “Hampstead Justice” kit. Batman cape and mask not included. Leaving aside what sort of “justice”, exactly, a group of lunatic-fringe Americans can hope to agitate for across the Atlantic, even if they manage to dress up as crime-fighting super-agents, we have a few questions for Dunn. How many sexually abused children, or adult sexual abuse survivors, will be directly aided by the money raised from these products? Has Dunn set up a registered charity through which any monies received will be appropriately distributed to assist victims of child sexual abuse? In his videos, Dunn claims that if Hoaxtead Research writers will not identify themselves, they must have some sort of “vested interest” in the alleged cult. Is Dunn aware that the writer for this blog has identified herself, and has publicly declared her interest? What is Dunn’s “vested interest” in selling t-shirts, banners, wristbands, films, buttons, stickers, and drop cards which make use of this story? Why is Dunn, a self-proclaimed evangelical/fundamentalist Christian, choosing to believe a woman who belongs to a cult run by someone who calls herself “Supreme Master”, and who subjected her children to this person’s teachings? Is Dunn aware that Abraham Christie has had an estimated 50+ criminal charges against him, at least 35 of which resulted in guilty verdicts and prison time? Is Dunn aware that Abraham Christie beat RD’s children severely enough that they both had bruises and contusions in the videos they made, as well as a ruptured eardrum from a fist to the head? Is Dunn thoroughly stupid, unbelievably gullible, stupendously greedy, or a mixture of the three? Tell you what, Tom: we at Hoaxtead Research are also interested in “Justice for Hampstead”, and we’ve decided to take you up on your “Join us or die!” challenge, and join you in your campaign. Herewith our poster. Hope you like it! 08/10/2018 in Assorted knobheads. Tags: conspiracy theories, scam, troofers, videos Coached, led, and prompted: The evidence in the videos Hampstead SRA hoax timeline, updated (again) ← Wesley Hall’s ‘cannabis retreat’ squat: True or false? Thomas Dunn’s ultimatum: ‘Join us or die, okay?’ → 111 thoughts on “Tom Dunn: Profiteering from children’s pain” Another hick wanting to be Alex jones. These days even Alex jones doesn’t want to be Alex jones. Overpriced crap ? I doubt he’s sold much, or ever will. The Sra scene isn’t exactly full of go getters with cash to splash, they’re mostly welfare lock ins who’re potless. If the t shirts were xxxxl and $5 each he might shift a dozen. Heathcliff says: A storm is coming, Hail the troopers, No flesh shall be spared. Tom Dunce. He looks like a bum. a raggardy bum. The prick’s got two new Hampstead videos up. He seems top be on a mission to make himself look like as big a twat as possible: Comment from under the second video: “Agitator kit”? “Agent Provocateur kit”? “False Flag” and “Deep State” kits would be nice too. This is me. having mobile phone issues due to multiple log ins on several devices. pain in butt Who is tom dunn ? what has tom dunn ? They’re all ‘i need to move out of my mom’s basement and i’m hoping this’ll pay the deposit on a one bed rental appartment’ kits. look at the guy, he’s a broke ass stiff. Raggedy bum? No thank you – I’ve already got one 🙂 https://drive.google.com/open?id=10I9TG9a64xiX_BrGEqsn8ZahBQJP7lVW Thou shall not cut thy skin nor make tattoos upon it in honor of the dead. Excellent questions, EC. If I may be bold so as to add one… 10. Is Dunn aware that Abraham admitted to hitting the children or that he uploaded a recording of himself coaching them to shout “Kill the baby, kill the baby” over and over again? 11: Does he actually give a fuck? A cash cow is a cash cow – why question it? Right, Tommy? Pitifully few the summers left to her, many will she dwell under the grey ceilings of man’s justice forsaking God’s canopy. Ill spent her frail days and lost as dust. It’s all about prayer, and poking the bear. Aww, Malcolm’s upset that EDL and Britain First thugs aren’t allowed to go around spouting race hate speech and committing contempt of court. Bless Great post today by the way, EC. When it comes to bears, he and I are polar opposites and I don’t like to panda to him. Ghost of Sam. says: It’s so pathetic the way these creeps dodge up their t-shirts and mugs, so easy with free on-line photo programs but it does exhibit an extremely creepy habit among these sick fanatics. I guess they sit and watch those US Evangelical pastors who rake in $Millions every year and travel in private jets hoping to score the same success. I’d say don’t give up your day job My Dunny but it’s doubtful he’s employable. I can’t imagine what goes through Ella’s head as she faces years of loneliness having conspired to accuse her own children of participating in unspeakable acts. Or APD’s for that matter. Every day she creates new evidence to show her part in a wicked and determined harassment campaign. I hope they throw away the key. The bear faced cheek of it. Yeah, it’s a load of Pooh in my opinion. I’ll be monetizing myself. with the plush toy hoax-teddy bear. just £14.99 and every penny goes to buying famous five style adventures and gin. She’s not seen her kids in four years. as there’s two of them it’s actually eight years. She actually has 3 kids, so that’s 12 years 😮 Rupert thought he’d crack the case as he got off in paddington but he wasn’t grizzly enough. and as for the shit becki claims she did in the woods ? White Coat Man says: Re-uploaded for your delectation: For people filled with indignant righteousness they are totally ignorant of the law. I had to educate someone the other day that brought up a favourite theme for these gutter snipes who hyperventilate about “Tommy Robinson”. They repeated the same nonsense he and his core followers have: that the BBC and other media outlets had reported on the trial just as he was so he was being singled out. Yes they had except… ..it was mid-trial that the Judge ordered a restriction on reporting as more charges were laid against some accused which meant a separate trial would take place and it was the Prosecutor who urged a reporting ban during the current trial to ensure a fair trial after a team of police had spent 100s of hours working on the case. The professional media took note and obeyed the law. Not one of them stops to think that the police had done all the hard work and had carefully encouraged claimants to come forward and wished to ensure they went through as little stress as possible. And then along comes the creepy Robinson urged on by the gormless twits like Olgivy. Robinson who didn’t have a clue there was even a trial happening until he read about it from previous reports and unlike a professional journalist turns up live streaming to 100,000s of viewers without checking if there was a restriction. And then when the law shows it can work and the smallest detail gets his conviction thrown out they still moan. These alleged “patriots” scream to people like Theresa May to “free fil-in-a name-here” yet their patriotism doesn’t extend to an understanding of the Separation of Powers. Robinson has announced he has sacked his lawyers (claiming they were “working for the other side”) and participated in a video filmed within the Old Bailey precinct during his last hearing which apparently has been drawn to the attention of the Attorney General’s office which would seem a tad unwise during a case involving alleged contempt. If he is convicted and jailed I hope there are some new reality TV programs screened to help soothe his time at Her Majesties Pleasure. During his last stint he claimed authorities tortured him by putting him in solitary confinement and refusing him a TV set. On release he claimed the only thing that kept him sane was watching episodes of The Bachelor. Go figure. # TRIGGER MOMENT: Apparently they had to hose down the steps of the Old Bailey after Robinson’s supporters had departed (usually for a booze-up at the nearest pub). Several had tossed feaces inside the door. Olgivy?. I would like to know how much El Coyote charges for those Mossad / GCHQ Controlled-Opposition kits. As someone with similar facial pilosity and (lack of) hair styling, this is all an embarrassment. The eerie thing is there is a bear 🐻 in Hampstead heath. He did witness goings on. He related tales of touching a plastic willy and white stuff coming out. Just google bo selects the bear. From what I remember of reading Joe Orton’s diaries, there used to be any number of bears hanging around Hampstead Heath. There’s the secret double o seven kit, the famous MI5 kit, the cover up conspiracy coven kid’s pack and a series of t shirts and hand made plastic willies. my personal favourite is the McDonald’s babyque burger. Here’s a point. the original claims (since retracted) had McDonalds and starbucks (american owned) just as implicated as the church and the school. why doesn’t ratweasle the wizard dunn name and shame the billion dollar corporations involved in the so called baby slaughter satanic coven ? because he’s a pussy. he wouldn’t dare. too kentucky dried chicken. “The Bible should guide us…” – really? But Jehovah endorses child murder… http://www.evilbible.com/evil-bible-home-page/god-is-not-pro-life/ He looked slightly better back in 2016 when Angela first interviewed him: https://youtu.be/hiHk-LmhEZ4 I note he was hawking “Detestable” back then, too. I give those away for free! 🙂 Oh, do let him come over. I think the experience would be good for him. 🙂 An annual event that happens every year. I had a bit of a giggle about this… Yes they did, they did indeed jail them lawfully (Jailed U Lawfully) Why a spellcheck is a good thing LOL Probably got a couple more she doesn’t even know about. Had to laugh at this video title. And when I say laugh, I mean cry. It should be called ‘How to pluck made-up facts from your own fudge tunnel and find painfully contrived ways to connect them to Satanic child abuse’. Blimey, she actually admits that she gets all her information from the top results on a Google search! Nothing here about the thorough checks, double-checks and cross-referencing that I’m sure she carries out to ensure that said information is correct before spreading it all over the internet. Hey, stop laughing – it could happen! Cat talking about an LGBT person at 4:27: “I would kill him.” That foul sagging sack of piss and lard couldn’t best a cockroach, lest a man. Misery shall be her lot. Good spot, Steve! Och no, I didnae 😮 says: She probably stopped counting after five; a condition known as Selvester syndrome. Dunn. I am watching you with many eyes. You seek to harass and malign the innocent. Are you so pure as to cast such venal accusations on the word of two so unfit the court took children into care and so cowardly they fled the country. What knows thou in thy head most bald and with vulgar locks as clean as a beshitted donkey’s tail. Know that your judges surround you and gaze with merciless steel ardour. I chuckled at that one too, lol. So good of him to clarify what ‘annual’ means 😂 He has edited and selectively abridged portions of the statements on his pawny pitiful website. The vile conconcting bespoiler of truth and victimiser of children. Those who Lie for money 💵 have scant defence for those who tell the truth for free. And then there was this travesty of an interview with Ella Draper, featuring both Thomas and his lapdog Jared Chrestman: https://www.youtube.com /watch?v=ulxAkKta8ek He deletes dissenting comments from his YT videos too. Another great researcher has turned up on Dunn’s latest video to educate everyone. Apparently, the Hampstead case involves a Catholic church and she’s proven that the children were telling the truth through gut feeling, which…er…she has qualifications in. Or something. Cat Scot would be so proud… Last I heard the church of England was still protestant. But what would an uneducated slob who lives with mom and is probably still a virgin know about England ? He couldn’t even afford a one way ticket here, which is all he’d need as he’d return freight. Gawd, he has some weird followers. Tom Dunn appears on a guest in the interesting youtube conspiracy channel NYSTV, which I have mentioned here before, alongside David Carrico, who I have also mentioned previously. At 2.23 minutes in he claims to be the cousin of the late Ryan Dunn of Jackass fame. A few seconds later he claims that his father and Ryan’s father were cousins. It would be interesting to find out whether either of these claims are true or a deluded fantasy. It could be that he was jealous of the success of his relative and is making some sad, pathetic attempt at fame himself, all built on a foundation of abusing children (as he has done with the Hampstead children) and falsely accusing innocent people. Tom Dunn also appears in this NYSTV video titled “David Carrico Deliverance Ministry Satanic Ritual Abuse Dissociative Identity Disorder 11-20-2017” NYSTV apparently made a documentary in 2017 (and i use the word “documentary loosely”) called Dark Covenant – Secret of Secrets that, from the trailer, appears to surpass even Sun Sea and Satanism in terms of evidence-free, deluded accusations. There are plenty of videos of reviews of Dark Covenant all over youtube but I cannot find the actual film there, (I think you have to watch it via the NYSTV website). The trailer is here From initial perusal there would appear to be the now, bog standard, MO of the exploitation of mentally ill and otherwise vulnerable people going on. Unsurprisingly NYSTV is a purveyor of bizarre merchandising products including T-shirts and mugs and the usual stuff https://teespring.com/stores/nystv-wear while I’m here David and Donna Carrico are definitely people worthy of further research and exposure by anyone researching the religious grifts, the satanic panic, cults, the manipulation and exploitation of vulnerable people and conspiracy theories. The Carricos are into CTs regarding chemtails, reptilians, SRA and multiple other bonkers subjects. https://web.archive.org/web/20180313044638/www.ritualabusefree.org/AboutUs.htm Their links page recommends the odious grifters S.M.A.R.T. as a resource and their recommended counsellors look interesting Dr. Mary Jo Schneller Christian Counseling Network St. Louis Peniel Drug & Alcohol Residential Treatment Center 315 Lemay Ferry Rd., Suite 132, Office Phone:314-729-0481 E-mail: TELEX1@aol.com Disassociative Disorders-Survivors of Trauma-Grief Recovery-Consultations-Seminars Eileen Aveni, MSW, ACSW, BCD Office Voicemail: 734-973-2055 Disassociative Disorders-Survivors of Trauma-Grief Recovery-Consultations-Seminars https://web.archive.org/web/20180307021802/http://www.ritualabusefree.org:80/Links.htm Carrico and NYSTV’s video “The False Memory Syndrome Foundation Exposed w David Carrico 3-30-2017” David Carrico seems to have made some enemies within the US Christian conspiracy theorist movement https://web.archive.org/web/20170702192516/www.beaconoftruth.com/carrico.htm Please note that there is a David Carrico listed on IMDB, the founder of Valparaiso Pictures, who is definitely not the same person. Invites me for a coffee, then sends me a death threat. She should ask that hit man school for her money back. Of course the pitiful coward runs and hides. He’s not going to last Long at this stage. He’s just a tourist four years too late and trying to sell his junk products posing as a ‘warrior’. Sad old man. Google waingro for his Hollywood double That moron diligence has made an appearance too, talking utter bollocks as always: Riiight, whatever you say, Neelu. Sigh… “More superior” 🙄 Of course that’s not how Dunny tells it. He opens this pile-of-shite Hampstead video by saying, “Where’s the trolls at? The trolls left and haven’t come back.” Still, at least one person liked that video… Blimey, he really pushes his merchandise in that one! I think I’ve found Abe’s ideal woman 😂 (From Private Eye) “…youtube conspiracy channel NYSTV…” – is that where I’m seeing videos from 2017 with Greg Reid as a ‘guest’? Reid is as old-school as I am, but on the other side of the SRA coin of course. Despite all the nutty things Greg Reid has espoused, I’d still be disappointed if he endorsed/supported pizzagate/pedogate crapola – because he really does know better. For awhile, he was doing some good awareness work on male CSA victims (he claims to be one). That’s been an easy thing to discuss in my homo community, but it must have taken real cajones to talk openly about that in HIS community, so I had to give him some respect for that. Is that Carrico, with the white hair? He’s totally full of sht, eh? 🙂 Ralph Underwager never wrote articles for Paidika, although he & his wife did get suckered into doing an interview which was published therein. A totally slanderous fantasy he spouts about Ken Lanning also, Lanning never made such statements. Can’t stand to hear more 🙂 Cip Clips should start selling ‘Truther Industrial Complex’ t shirts. I’d buy one! It was interesting listening to Tom talk about how his grandad, who as an Evangelical fanatic, drove some of their relations away from religion. I feel just the same about Tom. Also, I bet Tom hasn’t seen this: This is what is so odd about this campaign. In Ohio there’s apparently a thriving Satanic community. There’s the ‘New Church of Satan’ in Cleveland amongst others. The state is becoming more tolerant and people are now allowed to practice Satanism in Ohio prisons. The states that surround Ohio also have many Satanic organisations. (I know this ‘cos I googled.) Why isn’t he taking them on? Why is his focus a small suburb of London thousands of miles away? It has to be (a) fear of direct confrontation (b) Hampstead will make him money or (c) both of these. I don’t buy that God told him to do it because I KNOW that God wouldn’t want him to bother innocent people. So come on Tom. Make a statement about why you’re not tackling Satanism in your own back yard? Why aren’t you selling t shirts that say ‘NO TO SATANISM IN OHIO PRISONS’. Not frightened are you? A very useful documentary here that explains how YouTube monitor uploaded videos: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p06l3yyp/pls-like-series-2-4-kids Or it could be satire, it’s so difficult to say. To these fanatics the lure of the blond haired well spoken children is a siren song of much power, the ultimate SRA marketing tool. Matt Taylor put it best in his video when he said they will never get a chance like this again. Christie must be kicking himself for telling his brother in law. Losing custody of the kids lost him his big earner. Actually there’s a pretty extensive rant about Satanism and the Satanic Temple in his Legendary video (go to 23:59). So…2nd century Christians were also (falsely, no doubt) accused of engaging in incestuous orgies, either during or following Eucharist ceremony feasts. There’s no definitive explanation for this specific slander, but we can make an educated guess… After Marcionites publicly published Paul’s epistles, (in various adulterated forms), any educated Roman could read for themselves this shocking accusation-remonstration – from one of their religion’s acknowledged founders, against members of his own ‘church’ community: 1 Corinthians, Chapter 5-1: “It is commonly reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife” (!) How convenient for anyone wishing to slander early Christians, that Paul had left a blunt and permanent record that his own followers were, supposedly, literal motherfckers. Ok take your point. Haven’t watched it all. Has he met Lucien Greaves yet? Seems to me loads of people join this Satanic church to take the piss out of Trump and people like Tom. I doubt any sacrificing goes on. Except for jelly babies. Anyway, while I’ve been You Tubeing I found something that made me change my mind. Tom is right! Gottle O'Gear says: Three meals a day and free accommodation for several months I believe. 🙂 Cat – this is not how proper research is done. And we’re not going to tell you how to do it…… I think a reminder of some basic Biblical rules and regs might be in order here: Perpetrators, Angela? Not alleged perpetrators? And you’re saying it’s ok for you to publicly name the two Hampstead children? Has the law changed, then? Personally, I’m holding out for the Illuminati kit. Don’t forget the year on bail, that was fun too. Nope. She’s either got it or she doesn’t. And she doesn’t. “On this week’s OUT OF THE BAG…LIVE on https://healingoracle.ch/healing-oracle-radio In the first 2 hours I will be talking LIVE to Angela Power-Disney. In her own words ‘I am Anglo-Irish, living in rural Ireland on and off for 30 years, full time raising my children for 16 years. A world traveller, 49 homes including 7 countries, 3 continents!! I am a survivor/overcomer of child sexual abuse which does NOT define my life………I love acting, writing, literature, theatre, comedy, life and JESUS!’ I hope to discuss many subjects with Angela including An Garda Siochana, Cultural integration in Ireland, Globalism, Paedophile rings and Satanism, MK ultra and generational abuse and Jesuits and the Baby H case! So much that we may need more than one show! We hope to share some poetry and as Angela says….’Some love and laughter and life; because without it we would sink under the horror!'” http://outofthebagradio.weebly.com/blog/blog-sean-maguire-angela-power-disney-music-from-rebellion-festival-9pm-irish-time-wednesday-10102018 Thanks as always, SR. Much to think about here! SR? See, I told you not to look after Sam’s cat while he was out, EC. “My fight against child abuse” from the woman whose interference in every case has ended in tears for her “clients”. When was the Elm Guest House Inquiry?. Weaselwatch says: She can’t even do a Scotland NOT “Scotland Yard” search in the little box. Copy paste the terms in the parentheses Catriona Selvester aka Cat Scot aka CalamiTcat aka Wildcat ( Scotland -“Scotland Yard” ) Gawd almighty. Watching that was painful. My teeth feel all metallic like I have been to the dentist or been chewing tin foil again. Someone tell her she can set up alerts and not even have to bother with the little folders. https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/4815696?hl=en Don’t tell her other search methods are available. The first page of Google results is all a pedestrian mind like that can handle. I also shouldn’t type without me spectacles on, LOL. As I watched, all I could think was, “Well, at least she’s got something to keep her busy”. Basketweaving might be a more productive alternative though. It wouldn’t bother me except she describes herself as a researcher. Chuffing heck, I put more effort into finding new dishcloths. You should make some hoaxtead hd jpegs available to download and people can just get their own mugs, t shirts, jigsaws and bumper stickers printed at a service provider of their choosing. I’d suggest poison pen letter templates with the letterhead ti saw people having to staple it on. Do nuts 🔩 anyone ? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HAYJek3jDCQ Now you see it… Now you don’t… Ooh blimey, it’s a double! How is it that my parents and Holger-Dansk relatives killed Nazis, yet courts today frown upon the activity? They’re crushing an expression of my traditional culture. I barely made it through that video’s Dunny Man’s sections let alone watch one of the real thing’s endless diatribes so I must pass on this challenge. He want’s “trolls” to go on and “debate” him doesn’t he?. Sociopaths enjoy “debating” their critics as they enjoy inflicting pain especially when they are filled with righteous indignation. He & Power-Disney are welcome to each other. Pingback: Thomas Dunn’s ultimatum: ‘Join us or die, okay?’ \| HOAXTEAD RESEARCH These fanatics who falsely claim they are “child abuse campaigners” don’t give a fig about real children. There are millions living in poverty in the USA & UK. Over 30,000 die every day in Third World countries from preventable diseases. These filthy minded creeps just indulge in their perverted fantasies and try and make money off children. They are cheap hucksters and no better than the millionaire “Evangelical” grifters selling a pathway to God and conning desperate folk into sending them their cash in exchange for “Salvation”. They’re just at the bottom of the heap as Youtube has given them an outlet. Just as vile and dishonest though. If there is a Heaven & Hell they just may meet The Devil they are so obsessed with one day. Unfortunately your experience with Greg Read is par for the course. It is normal and usual for people you imagine might be allies to demonstrate connections and alliances to the opposing team. Although I cannot comment on Greg Read as I do not know him or know of him I have experienced this kind of situation many times. One of the reasons that I used cached links if at all possible, even when linking to an apparently friendly, allied website or blog is because I find it very difficult to trust because I have been burned so many times in this respect. For me a good example is Ralph Underwager. He died some time ago but because of his brilliant critique of one of Sinason’s books I imagined that he was in the category of ally. Nothing could be further from the truth. Ralph Underwager was an extremely dodgy person and defending him is unhelpful in my opinion. He was an example of how sinister forces control the opposition by becoming the opposition. Political jujitsu if you like. The important thing to bear in mind is that the various False Memory associations and societies internationally have nothing to do with him and, from my informal contact with the BFMS, I understand that they want nothing to do with him whatsoever and definitely do not consider him to have ever been an ally. Primary source material here https://web.archive.org/web/20180131184844/https://spotlightonabuse.wordpress.com/category/ralph-underwager/ When someone like Underwager gets involved in activism for a cause it is a disaster later on and people who oppose the whole idea of false memories, even though they have been proven to exist, wave Underwager’s ghost around to discredit perfectly honourable organisations working around issues of false memories. We should all be alert to the potential for these kind of infiltrators within our struggles. The issue of parallel power structures is highly relevant here in my opinion. Parallel power structures can exist within activist movements, just as they do within nation states. Pingback: Are we giving undue attention to nonentities? \| HOAXTEAD RESEARCH Pingback: The Hampstead Satanic Ritual Abuse Hoax: To the USA and Back \| Bartholomew's Notes	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1408
__label__wiki	0.640011	0.640011	National Center on Improving Literacy For Parents & Families For Schools & Districts For State Agencies Resource Repository Improving Literacy Briefs State of Dyslexia Implementation Toolkits Literacy Skill Checklist Learning Literacy Glossary State Agencies › Our Work in the Field Our Work in the Field: Idaho NCIL staff and expert coaches are working with several state education agencies and the local education agencies they identify to provide intensive technical assistance. Our work with Idaho State Department of Education, Department of Special Education focuses on supporting school systems to effectively teach essential literacy content to all students, including students with or at risk for literacy-related disabilities. 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__label__wiki	0.786884	0.786884	Phone: +41 (44) 586 45 00 E-Mail: info@insubricahistorica.ch Connecting the missing and hidden historical facts in Ticino and northern Lombardy and Piedmont regions PhD – Ekaterina Rues PhD – Raphael Rues SS-Obergruppenführer Conti: native of Lugano and fierce opponent of Crystal Meth drug in the Third Reich Written by Raphael Rues on March 11, 2018 Insubrica Historica learned about Leonardo Conti (1900-1945) while reading the monumental work of Robert Jay Lifton called “The Nazi Doctors”, an essential study related to human genocide in the field of jewish survivors and doctor perpetrators. The book was written by Lifton, and at first sight, it was not that easy to grasp, going beyond a simple description of the facts, analysing the psychological component of the nazi doctors involved in the genocide. A sort of “anatomy of human destructiveness”, if we paraphrase a famous title used in Erich Fromm’s book. What is interesting about Leonardo Conti is that he was from the Insubria region, being born in Lugano, more precisely in Castello Monteggio, on 24 August 1900, as Leonardo Ambrogio Giorgio Giovanni Conti. Our attentive reader will remember another personality from Lugano Joseph Mainoni who was a general under Napoleon. If we look for similarities between two men, it is possible to confirm that Leonardo Conti was by far more extreme “butcher” than Mainoni. Conti’s mother Anna born Pauli (according to some sources her first name was Nanna) – later a convinced Nazi party member – divorced quickly moving back to Germany in 1903, together with her second son, Silvio Carlo Paolo Clement Conti (1893-1938). Conti grew up in South Berlin around Schönenfeld, keeping the name of his father Silvio, a post service director, working in Lugano, who remarried having four children. Most likely, Leonardo Conti had never learned Italian or the dialect of the Insubrica region, and he had no contact during and after the war with his father in Lugano. Leonardo Conti went to school in Berlin, studied at the University in Berlin and Erlangen, north of Nuremberg. Already in early years and as a student, he was involved in extremists actions, participating in few Freikorps. In 1925, Conti married a noble lady, Elfriede Freiin von Meerscheidt-Hullessem (1902-2002) who gave birth to a son and two daughters. Conti, Leonardo – Doctor, Germany *24.08.1900-06.10.1945+The “Reich Health Leader” (“Reichsgesundheitsführer”) Leonardo Conti in conversation with his Italian guest Dr. Petragnani – 1941- Photographer: Erich Engel Vintage property of ullstein bild (Photo by Erich Engel/ullstein bild via Getty Images) Leonardo Conti became in 1944 an “SS-Obergruppenführer” (equivalent to a lieutenant general – three-star general), inferior only to Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945). Conti had been already from 1939 “Reichsgesundheitsführer” (in English: Reich Health Leader) and State Secretary in the Interior Ministry. Despite being promoted to a SS-Obergruppenführer, his influence diminished considerably in 1944, and he resigned from his position as a “Reichsgesundheitsführer” on 16 August 1944. According to Lifton, despite being a technocrat, Conti was among few Nazi leaders who pushed extensively forward forced sterilisation programs and involuntary euthanasia. Unfortunately, his huge involvement with Jewish genocide was not put on trial because he hanged himself on 6 October 1945 before the Nuremberg trail. IH has decided to write about Leonardo Conti, not only because he was from the Insubrica region but because of his standpoint on drugs in the Third Reich. What follows below has a direct connection to the content of a German book, appeared in 2015 and entitled: “Der Totale Rausch – Drogen im Dritten Reich”. The book is written by Norman Ohler putting emphasis on the consumption of drugs during the Nazi regime. As a matter of fact, Ohler’s book brings up a different aspect of Conti’s personality. It’s interesting to note how Conti appears to be, from the one side, a fiercest opponent of the drug use in the Third Reich (specifically of Pervitin) and, from the other side, an active ideological inspirer of a massive extermination of Jews and war prisoneers. During the early stages of Second World War in Germany, methamphetamine was sold in a tablet form under the brand Pervitin, produced by the Berlin-based Temmler pharmaceutical company. Pervitin was used extensively by all branches of the combined Wehrmacht armed forces and was popular in particular with Luftwaffe pilots for its performance-enhancing stimulant effects inducing extended wakefulness. Ohler doesn’t sustain and document too much his argument, but he makes reference to Pervitin as being the additive that most allowed German army to lead famous “Blitz-krieg” as a rapid offensive in 1940 against France. Conti was successful as in 1941 he was promoted to a “Reichsmeldestelle für Suchtgiftbekämpfung” responsible to register all German soldiers being drug-addicted but also to prevent any addiction, not only related to drugs. Always according to Ohler, the Nazi regime changed radically their permissive approach on drug consumption in 1943, even if being on the verge of losing the conflict with Soviet Russia. By the end of the war, there were at least twenty-four “Meldestelle” (Contact Points), all distributed throughout the Third Reich, engaged in controlling the abuse of drug substances. The Third Reich was somehow consequent in the fight against drugs, as Pervitin (which, in fact, was a predecessor of Crystal Meth) became indeed, by the end of the war, “Mangelware” (meaning in English: scarce commodity). F. Maggi, “Un medico ticinese alla corte di Hitler”, Armando Dadò Editore, Locarno, 1999 N. Ohler, “Der Totale Rausch – Drogen im Dritten Reich“, Kiepenhauer&Witsch, Köln, 2015 R.J. Lifton, “The Nazi Doctors”, Basic Books, News York 1986 Aldo Battaglia, Eco di Locarno, “La brutalità di un ticinese alla corte di Adolf Hitler”, 12.11.1988, special edition Saturday. Dr. Conti der Schweizer Nazi, Antifa.ch In 2017 I started volunteering and contributing to Insubrica Historica. My main focus is to research the heritage of Southern Switzerland and northern Lombardy and Piedmont regions. Bogdan Gajdukivsky – la “Primula” Ucraina della Resistenza Italiana: storia di una ricerca Omaggio ad un maestro: Giacomo Domingo Candolfi Gianni Varrone, l’ingegnere e direttore tecnico ticinese di Ferdinand Porsche Antenna ticinesi dei Verbanisti anche su Facebook ! Konrad Adenauer in Ticino: prima a Porza e poi Ascona Adriana Candolfi on Feedback on Baveno presentation 6.9.2019 Carlos Alberto Remonda on Napoleon general from Onsernone, Ticino: Carlo Francesco Remonda Raphael Rues on Giuseppe Garibaldi: revolutionary hero of two worlds in Locarno marco fuchs on Giuseppe Garibaldi: revolutionary hero of two worlds in Locarno Stay in touch with us on the following social networks Insubrica Historica (IH) is a registered publication in the catalog of the Swiss National Library (Helveticat): ISSN 2624-523X. Insubrica Historica (IH) is a registered trademark (72051/2018) at Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property. Copyright © 2016-2019 Insubrica Historica.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1422
__label__cc	0.563997	0.436003	What Is an Introvert? Quotes August 17, 2015 July 12, 2018 Why being in the ‘outer world’ exhausts introverts {Quote of the Week} by Jenn Granneman If you’re an introvert, you probably feel like crawling into a deep dark hole for a while after a busy weekend. While extroverted friends are still riding the high of hanging out, you’re going into recovery mode. What most people don’t understand is that social activities, small talk, and busy environments—basically anything that removes us introverts from our inner world—eventually drains us. In this thoughtful quote, Dr. Marti Olsen Laney, author of The Hidden Gifts of the Introverted Child: Helping Your Child Thrive in an Extroverted World , explains the exhausting mental shift that occurs when introverts must interact with the outer world: Give this some thought: Everything an innie does in the outside world requires energy and gives little or no energy in return. Add to this the fact that innies also have to expend extra fuel to keep their internal stimulation turned down so that they can shift to an external focus. Extroverts, on the other hand, go into the outside world and bask in its vitality. They are already focused externally so it doesn’t require a shift. This difference has a huge impact on how innies and outies experience socializing and, in turn, how they are perceived. Hiding in a deep dark hole (a.k.a. being alone in your own bedroom, or whatever recharging activity you prefer) isn’t anti-social. Not only does it return you to your preferred internal world of ideas and feelings, but it’s also a must to stay happy and energized. What’s your personality type? Take this free, quick test from our partner Personality Hacker. Jenn Granneman Jenn Granneman is the founder of IntrovertDear.com and the author of The Secret Lives of Introverts: Inside Our Hidden World. Jenn is a contributor to Psychology Today, HuffPost, Susan Cain’s Quiet Revolution, Upworthy, The Mighty, The Muse, Motherly, and a number of other outlets. She has appeared on the BBC and in Buzzfeed and Glamour magazine. Jenn started Introvert, Dear because she wanted to write about what it was like being an introvert living in an extrovert's world. Now she's on a mission: to let introverts everywhere know it's okay to be who they are. If You Relate to These 10 Signs, You're Probably an 'Extroverted' Introvert 12 Things Introverts Absolutely Need in Life to Be Happy Will I Be Single Forever? 6 Introvert Dating Struggles 10 Secrets of the INFJ, the Rarest Personality Type in the World Why Is Writing Easier Than Speaking for Introverts? Here's the Science 7 Reasons Introverts Should Try Solo Travel at Least Once 21 Signs You're an INFJ, the Rarest Personality Type Introvert/Extrovert Test {Fast Easy Quiz} What’s a Highly Sensitive Person? Copyright 2019 Introvert, Dear \| Privacy Policy and Affiliate Disclosures All rights reserved. No part of this site may be reproduced in whole or in part in any manner without the permission of the copyright owner.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1423
__label__wiki	0.581174	0.581174	Powerful Senate Judiciary Chairman to Feds: Tell Me Why, Exactly, Are You Exerting Executive Privilege Over Fannie & Freddie and Profit Sweep Documents? It’s well-known among federal agencies that when Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley puts them in his sights for some malfeasance, they are in for a bad time of it. He is relentless. He is tenacious. And he just sent letters to Attorney General Eric Holder and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew demanding to know why the government invoked executive privilege in refusing to turn over documents regarding the Third Amendment Sweep. Sen. Grassley is the very powerful Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and in his letters, he wastes no time is making clear the answers he wants: “Fannie and Freddie shareholders sued in July 2013. According to the New York Times, in the course of litigation, the DOJ has imposed broad assertions of privilege on 669 documents it may otherwise be required to produce. Of these documents, executive privilege is listed as the reason for withholding 45 of them. “… The taxpayer has a right to know what has transpired. But, instead of transparency, there appears to be an invocation of executive privilege. If true, this is cause for concern. “Accordingly, please provide the following: “1. Has the President personally invoked executive privilege over documents related to the Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Treasury Third Amendment agreement? If so, when? If not, why are DOJ attorneys citing that privilege as a reason to withhold those documents? “2. Does the Third Amendment cause a breach of any of FHFA’s statutory duties to ensure that each regulated entity operates in a safe and sound manner? Please explain. “3. During the negotiation of the Third Amendment between Treasury and FHFA, did DOJ communicate with any of the entities involved regarding its legality? If so, please describe those communications in detail. “4. Under what legal authority was the Third Amendment authorized? “5. Prior to litigation, did DOJ discuss with Treasury and/or FHFA the need to assert privileges, including executive privilege, over certain documents?” Sen. Grassley notes that he expects the answers by April 20. Sen. Grassley is very careful to do a full examination of the issues so that once he does get involved he is on solid footing in demanding answers and diligent in his follow-up. Here’s what New York Times reporter Gretchen Morgenson, herself showing the doggedness that is a hallmark of the Times’ reporters, wrote in her article about Sen Grassley’s letter: “The government’s decision to divert all of Fannie’s and Freddie’s earnings was unexpected when it was announced. As conservator, F.H.F.A. was supposed to oversee the companies with an eye to stabilizing them and conserving their assets. Redirecting their profits to the Treasury has prevented the companies from building up a larger capital cushion to absorb future losses, should they arise. “The shares of both companies have continued to trade publicly since they entered conservatorship. As the companies recovered and their earnings ballooned, some shareholders contended that sweeping the profits into the Treasury was an improper taking by the government of private property. Several shareholders sued the government. The Obama administration has responded by fighting document requests and demanding an unusual degree of confidentiality over material relating to the decision. “In one such case, lawyers for the Justice Department defending against a lawsuit brought by Fairholme Fund, a mutual fund company and a Fannie and Freddie shareholder, have made extensive claims of privilege on documents surrounding the profit sweep. “Logs filed in the case in mid-January listed 231 Treasury documents in which the government cited various privileges. Presidential privilege was cited in 38 of those items and in seven documents involving F.H.F.A., the conservator.” We know we’re not the only ones looking forward to seeing the government’s response to Sen. Grassley. As is also well-known among the agencies, those who ignore his request do so at their own peril. We’re glad to see such a forthright and powerful Senator stand up for shareholder and taxpayer rights. Treasury Department: Fannie, Freddie Bailout Wasn’t A Loan Charles Grassley Questions Diversion of Fannie and Freddie Earnings More Congressional Oversight of Administration’s Secrecy is Needed What Do You Get When You Claim Conservatorship But Act Like A Receivership?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1424
__label__cc	0.582891	0.417109	GET MORE HOTEL-ADDICT IN YOUR INBOX Sign up to get hotel news and reviews delivered to your mailbox! Cocktails & cuisine Airstream trailer hotels? It’s so crazy it just might work! We’ve decided to call these ‘tow-tels.’ Doug Wallace Editor and publisher of TravelRight.Today, Doug Wallace is a habitué of hip hotels worldwide. Current clients include the London Telegraph, Fairmont Magazine, Trivago.ca and Today’s Bride. The first one was built in 1929 and the appeal has never worn off. The iconic Airstream trailer has become a bona fide paean to aluminum. Now employed as food trucks, guest rooms or bunkies, vintage Airstreams continue to trend, with the company still making money hand over fist, selling five times as many trailers as it did 10 years ago. Enter the hospitality industry who are nothing if not industrious. While some hotels have a trailer out back or in a courtyard to rent along with their regular rooms, these select few go whole hog. Six Airstream trailers have been refitted to house guests on the roof of a concrete parkade in Melbourne, Australia./Photo courtesy of Notel Notel, Melbourne, Australia Up above the world so high, taking over the roof of a concrete parkade in the middle of Melbourne, the Notel is a world unto itself. Six 31-foot Airstream trailers have been refitted beyond your wildest dreams. Modern minimalism at its most glam, this ‘hotel’ is like a music video set waiting for the count-in. Each trailer features queen beds, premium organic bamboo linen, a minibar and a virtual concierge via the iPad to help you get the most out of Melbourne’s superb dining and entertaining scenes. The Notel has single-handedly invented urban glamping. Or, you know, ‘toteling.’ El Cosmico houses bohos and nomads in this art mecca in Texas./Photo courtesy of El Cosmico El Cosmico, Marfa, Texas This campground in Marfa, an international art mecca in the Texas southwest, considers itself an “exit from the world of urgency,” taking its inspiration from a long, storied American history of nomads and bohemians. Luckily, you’re in no hurry. No Airstreams here: Vintage Vagabond, Kozy Coach and Imperial Mansion trailers in four different size categories are sparse and cozy, restored with marine-varnished birch interiors and a hodgepodge of furnishings collected from around the world. Each one has a different combo of camp amenities for cooking, dining, sleeping and bathing. Trailers merely scratch the surface here: The campground also offers a string of teepees, safari tents and yurts. Seriously, they had us at wood-fired Dutch hot tub. Shooting Star RV Resort is a former drive-in movie theater. Now, it’s a kitschy cool Airstream trailer resort in Utah./Photo courtesy of Shooting Star RV Resort Shooting Star RV Resort, Escalante, Utah For those looking for kitschy fun, Shooting Star is a campground that used to be a drive-in movie theater. There are nine Airstreams to rent, each one designed to resemble the dressing-room trailers for Hollywood stars. And not just any star, specific ones for certain movies: Marilyn Monroe’s trailer when she filmed Some Like It Hot, Elvis Presley’s trailer when he filmed Blue Hawaii, Robert Redford’s trailer for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid… you get the picture. The movie theme carries on via vintage cars that you can hop into to watch classic movies on the old drive-in screen. This is beyond old school and more of a step back in time. The surrounding natural beauty of Utah is the icing on the cake. AutoCamp is set in a grove of Redwood trees 90 minutes from San Francisco./Photo courtesy of Aubrie Pick AutoCamp, Guerneville, California Set in a grove of California redwood trees 90 minutes north of San Francisco in the thick of the Sonoma wine country, AutoCamp is more glamping than camping for sure. Vintage Airstreams feature queen beds, flat-screen TVs, incredible spa-inspired bathrooms and boutique hotel linens. Some have big bathtubs. The jewel in the crown is the mid-century modern clubhouse with indoor fire pit. Cruiser-style bikes are provided for getting around the campgrounds. The nearby Russian River amplifies the fun in the form of swimming and canoeing. There are two other locations in Yosemite and Santa Barbara. Ten vintage Airstreams have been refurbed to reflect the year they were made in this retro resort in France./Photo courtesy of Bel Repayre Airstream and Retro Trailer Park Bel Repayre Airstream and Retro Trailer Park, Manses, France Ten vintage Airstreams have been restored to their original form, each from the year it was constructed, at this peaceful camp in a non-touristy part of southern France. Expect retro dishware, mod accessories, maybe even an eight-track player. With views of the surrounding Pyrenees Mountains, guests can relax or enjoy hiking, biking, swimming, canoeing, horseback riding, climbing, festivals, underground caves, medieval churches and more than a few castles. The website is particularly boastful of the camp’s Canadian red cedar hot tub. One trailer has been turned into a food truck and another into a bar. Belly up. If you like quirky hotels, these ones may have you whistling a happy tune! Show Comments2 2 thoughts on “Airstream trailer hotels? 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__label__wiki	0.67626	0.67626	by Gregory Sullivan — Sunday, August 03, 2008, 10:33 AM EDT The Internet Is For Pr0n. Pay Up Since very few people on the visible side of the pornography industry are wearing any clothes, it seems like it would be a very casual business. But it's about as organized and avaricious as any business on the Internet, and it's getting angry. Many pornographers have banded together and formed the PAK Group, a sort of naked RIAA or MPAA, and they're preparing an onslaught of litigation on anybody they can find that's pirating their intellectual property and making a buck on it. ...styled after the ever-so-popular YouTube, there are now hundreds of these sites offering free streaming video complete with search engines, indexed content, tagging, and in some cases even a download option. Much of their content, however, is pirated. “The use of stolen content had become so pervasive that I couldn't surf the adult Internet without running into stolen copies of our images,” said Tucker in an interview with industry periodical XBIZ. “Not only did this really put a damper on my late-night porn surfing, but it upset me to no end. Instead of enjoying adult entertainment, I started using those late-night hours to document thieves.” The problem with tubes is synonymous with the copyright difficulties that YouTube occasionally finds itself in; except in the tubes’ case, there are no real challengers – until now. This, combined with the numerous porn-only BitTorrent trackers and the copious amounts of porn available on Usenet and other P2P networks, prompted [porn industry spokesman]Tucker and his group into action. If there's ever been a funnier phrase in an interview than: "Not only did this really put a damper on my late-night porn surfing, but it upset me to no end," I haven't seen it. But I wouldn't go touting myself as big fans of the approach the RIAA has taken to chasing after copyright infringers if I was the PAK. That's the most hated name on the Internet, and your best customers might get turned off and tell you to "go have sex with yourself." Just not that politely. Tags: Internet Via: DailyTech	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1430
__label__wiki	0.907405	0.907405	Australia Maps Victoria Maps Melbourne Maps Melbourne - Through the Years Melbourne Streets Icons of Melbourne Melbourne Panoramas Melbourne Postcards Filter by: All Products Australia Maps Australians At War Bourke Street City Baths Collins Street Elizabeth Street Exhibition Building Exhibition Street Fish Market Flinders Street Flinders Street Station GPO King Street Lonsdale Street Melbourne 1800-1820 Melbourne 1820-1840 Melbourne 1840-1860 Melbourne 1860-1880 Melbourne 1880-1900 Melbourne 1901-1920 Melbourne 1921-1940 Melbourne Maps Melbourne Panoramas Melbourne Royal Mint Melbourne Town Hall Melbourne Vessels Parliament House Princes Bridge Princess Theatre Russell Street Scots' Church Spring Street St Kilda Road St Patrick's Cathedral St Paul's Cathedral Swanston Street The Block Arcade Treasury Building Victoria Maps William Street Windsor (Grand) Hotel Yarra "Lonely Lady" from $8.00 "Lonely Lady" Sad photo of an old unknown hulk in Hobson's Bay. 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__label__wiki	0.915427	0.915427	Gina Breeze - Crystal Black EP Music Singles The next release on Get Up Recordings comes from Manchester’s Gina Breeze. The Crystal Black EP is her sophomore effort for the label and the DJ / producer is giving it her all straight from the underground with no signs of slowing down. The EP contains two original tracks and two remixes, one from NYC’s Michael Magnan and the other from label co-owner W. Jeremy. Early in her career, Gina Breeze held a DJ residency at the legendary SpeedQueen night club in Manchester. Her love of house music blossomed and Gina gained great support culminating in an invitation to play on the G-Stage at the world-famous Glastonbury Festival, as well as invitations to play at the ever-growing Parklife Festival and the Mixmag Residents arena at Creamfields. In 2013, Gina won the Parklife Festival Producer Competition with a track called “Don’t Stop”. The track was chosen by three heavy hitters of house music – Heidi, Eats Everything, and Jackmaster – which added confidence to this new music producer. The track was snapped up by Layers, an Italian record label who are focusing on infectious house beats. “Don’t Stop” received support from Him_Self_Her & Kerri Chandler. In 2015, still producing under “MissB”, Gina had her first EP released with NYC’s Get Up Recordings. This saw a remix from label boss Christy Love and a dark techno rework from Dr. Sleep. After recently playing her debut at Manchester’s finest HomoElectric at Antwerp Mansion, Gina is now proud to be part of the HomoElectric team. The Crystal Black EP jumps off with techy-rhythmic future stealth “Crystal Black”, with a remix courtesy of Michael Magnan. If you live in New York City and dwell amongst the downtown music / fashion scene, chances are you’ve heard of Michael Magnan. The DJ / producer / artist has been turning out parties for what seems like ages and infusing hit songs with his signature brand of musical swag. Magnan fuses art, music, and fashion together on his popular blog Wickephobica and with his involvement in the collective House of Ladosha. He is also one-half of the DJ / production duo Fatherhood along with Physical Therapy. His take on “Crystal Black” features his signature runway sub-bass driven beats. The second track on the EP, called “Disco Hoe”, is a heavy drum and kick techno jam with a remix from W. Jeremy. This NYC-based DJ / producer is co-owner of Get Up Recordings with such artists on the roster as Honey Dijon, Tedd Patterson, Kim Ann Foxman, Quentin Harris, Discodromo, Brodanse, and Vin Sol. He has produced under the moniker House of Stank with label partner Christy Love as well as independently as W. Jeremy with releases on Trax, Good For You, Kid Recordings, and Rebel Eye. His translation of “Disco Hoe” comes way of a house groove and keeps true to the unique changing structure of the original. Label and Artist Links: www.getuprecordings.com www.ginabreeze.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1441
__label__cc	0.527451	0.472549	Toward the way forward: building an emergency mental health system for Israel Merritt D. Schreiber1 Israel Journal of Health Policy Research volume 4, Article number: 47 (2015) Cite this article A number of related changes have evolved over the past 25 years: the development of a truly national disaster mental health service in Israel; progress in the science of risk, resilience and evidence base care for those suffering from traumatic stress related disorders; and the development of conceptual models of population level disaster mental health response in the context of emergency management systems such as the Incident Command System. In a recent IJHPR article, Bodas, et al. report on the dynamic history of disaster mental health response in Israel, which informed by the all too numerous real world events affecting the region. What is most striking is that the system now in place reflects true “lessons learned” in that problems and issues identified in incidents informed deliberative planning, and the current system reflects many iterations of “lessons observed and learned”. There appears to be commitment across sectors of government in Israel that the mental health consequences of disasters and terrorism are important and a priority. This is advanced thinking and sound policy. As the system in Israel continues to evolve, additional possibilities are offered for further consideration, based on the author’s US-centric experience, to advance emergency response systems in Israel, the Middle East and around the world. The recent IJHPR paper by Bodas and colleagues [1] provides a detailed overview of Israel’s national efforts to develop an emergency mental health system, in light of a series of armed conflicts and terror attacks. Since it began in the 1980’s, the emergency mental health system in Israel has evidenced considerable change and growth in terms of service delivery settings, coordination, payor/funding mechanisms, scope of services and levels of care. These authors describe in detail how these changes have been influenced by real world events, including the threat of ballistic missile attack involving chemical weapons during the first Gulf War. Other changes were seemingly influenced by changes in organizational structures, distribution of responsibility between local communities and various components of the national government. In its current formation, the system appears to provide a multi-tiered response, focused on on-site services by local teams, support centers that provide services to those presenting, and resilience promotion activities via NGOs and other settings. This commentary will consider the following aspects of the evolution of the emergency mental health system in Israel: process of change, funding, models and range of services, locations, and timing. What is particularly fascinating to a non-Israeli reader is how the model has been significantly influenced by numerous real world events and how those responsible for the emergency mental health system have adopted a true “lessons learned” approach. For example, following the deployment of the Iron Dome missile defense system, a reduction in direct help seeking was observed, alongside an increase in so called “hotline” use. This required training of the call takers to identify those at higher risk for serious psychological consequences, and such training was then duly provided. Indeed, among numerous innovations, perhaps the most notable is the process innovation of adapting the national emergency mental health system following large scale events. In many countries, there are “after action” reports and/or large scale recommendations for change. Yet the impact of these after action reports and commission reports is often hard to see in larger countries. Some of the changes in Israel reported by Bodas and colleagues have been sustained and others determined to be less so, so that this candid report is also strikingly refreshing and perhaps unique. In Israel, there seems to be deliberative planning that takes into account issues that truly become lessons learned that produce change and not merely ‘lessons observed’. Once the emergency mental health planners in the United States and elsewhere recognized the need to go beyond single session debriefing for trauma victims and to include longer, evidence based, interventions (such as Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), the need to secure special funding for these services became evident. Timely trauma care can provide substantial benefits to the individual, their families and society as a whole, as been observed with timely care for depression in the United States [2]. However, the planners identified that current insurance protocols made financial access to care an additional burden on families, preventing timely use of trauma care . In Israel, the funding scheme for disasters has evolved over time to increasingly make access to care possible through novel partnerships with the single payer health insurance system, NGOs and other partners. In the United States, since the late 1970s, a novel federal disaster mental health program provides financial support to states following a presidentially declared disaster and is known as the Crisis Counseling Program. However, this program does not typically provide for professional care and those needing professional care after a disaster still face significant financial burdens. Following 9/11, an extension of the Crisis Counseling program called “Enhanced CCP Services”, and more recently the “Specialized Crisis Counseling Services Program”, has expanded on the original non-professional services model and provided a larger array of services. Research on these expanded CCP services found beneficial effects [3], and suggested their broader expansion [4], http://www.phe.gov/Preparedness/legal/boards/nprsb/Documents/nsbs-dmhreport-final.pdf). It is not year clear to what extent the US Affordability Care Act (ACA) will also address financial barriers to trauma care. In the US, the major NGO providing disaster mental health services, the American Red Cross, does not typically provide definitive care and services are restricting to 2 crisis intervention sessions and up to 2 follow up sessions. Solving the payer issue to facilitate access to evidence based care remains a challenge. The article by Bodas and colleagues describes various changes over time in the provision of types and levels of care. For example, in the 1980’s, before research on the lack of salutatory effects of single session debriefing became known, that approach was widely utilized, along with undefined “mental health aid”. Following these findings, other approaches, including notably CBT, have been increasingly deployed. What is not clear however is the extent to which even more recent findings of meta-analyses [5] and consensus reports [6] have been incorporated. These have found, for example, that Prolonged Exposure CBT has the best evidence of outcome [6] in adults and in the case of children, Trauma Focused CBT [7, 8] has the best evidence of outcome. In fact, the provision of services of any kind to children are not mentioned in the Bodas et al. paper and because children may be the single highest risk age group [3], there is a need to urgently address the needs specifically of children. Interestingly, novel disaster models for services to children have been developed in Israel, but it is not clear if they are being used in the model currently employed [9] and it is unclear whether a national strategy for the needs of children is operative. Another known population with significant natural resilience, but also elevated risk, is the responder population. It is not clear from the Bodas et al. article how they are served in the Israeli emergency mental health system—either in services provided by the Home Front Command or elsewhere. This may be a gap requiring further work. In the US, a model known as ‘Anticipate. Plan. and Deter: building responder resilience’ is one example of a model for providing a comprehensive, stepped care approach to responders and health care workers in particular (https://iab.gov/Uploads/IAB%20Stress-Related%20Mental%20Health%20Issues%20White%20Paper.pdf, http://www.cdms.uci.edu/PDF/resilience-workshop.03222012.pdf, [10]). Although the article describes many changes in the programs, many of these appear structural and locational. Beyond the description of use of CBT and non use of Benzodiazepines, it was not clear exactly what type of CBT is being offered, when it is offered, how providers are trained in these models, how this training is funded and if children are also being served with CBTs. It is not clear exactly what type of CBT is being offered, how providers are trained in these models, how this training is funded and if children are being served. The range of services appears comprehensive, but the article is lacking in sufficient detail to permit further conclusions. For example, the word “resilience” is used frequently to describe program elements and in the “current model” it refers to “on-going efforts to promote public resilience during routine times through resilience centers and other NGOs”. However there is no specific operationalization provided on exactly what “efforts to promote public resilience” means, if it has evidence of effectiveness, and how it is delivered and to whom. Further, care is described as being provide in a “stigma free” manner, but how is this determined? “Stigma free” is most likely a goal, not a current outcome. Rates of utilization, compared to population level estimates of new incidence or point prevalence of post disaster disorders are not presented, so it is not clear to what extent services are achieving population level “reach” to those at risk. Available epidemiological reviews suggest that between 30–40 % of the population can be at risk for a disorder following a disaster. Often times these outcomes reflect comorbid presentations of PTSD plus another disorder such as depression. However, most of the services seem directed to “anxiety” or distress, not clinical depression or PTSD. The latter can be part of the outcome trajectories for some persons experiencing trauma, including young children, as our diagnosistic systems increasingly recognizes changes in the expression of PTSD in children 6 and under (http://www.apa.org/pi/families/resources/task-force/child-trauma.aspx). In addition, there is a phenomenon that can be separate from anxiety disorders including PTSD and is known as traumatic grief [11–24]. In children, this can present similarly to PTSD but requires fundamental changes in the way care is provided. Since many of the real world events that Israel has experienced also involve traumatic loss of loved ones, it is not clear from the article to what extent a response to traumatic loss and grief have been included in services provided. The foci of the evolution of services appear to be related to location of services, with the exception of the addition of tele-health services when the threat of injury while seeking mental health care became a further barrier. More information on these exciting efforts that are “resilience” focused, i.e. pre-event and “public” focused is needed. Indeed, emerging efforts in the United States and elsewhere have begun to focus on models of stepped care which involve early evidence-based mental health triage, brief acute phase intervention for those at risk, with symptoms and desiring care followed by reassessment and then provision of a full course of Trauma Focused CBT, in the case of children for example. In the disaster and terrorism situation, an example of this approach is the so-called “National Children’s Disaster Mental Health Concept of Operations [25–27]. Rather than a “one time, one size fits all” approach, this model allows for allocation of limited professional mental health resources to those at greatest risk using a “floating triage algorithm [28, 29]), provision of timely care (which has evidence of being differentially effective, [30, 31] and access to moderate or longer term care if still required to complete the stepped care continuum. Location of care Given the unique nature of the threats encountered and the population distribution coupled with surge demands in hospital emergency departments, the Israeli emergency mental health program has evidenced great changes in locations of care—all informed by lessons learned from real world events. Innovations such as co-locating services with hospital emergency departments were attempted, but then modified or discontinued. Since the observation that many high-risk individuals are present in hospital ED’s, it is not clear whether the discontinuation of the use of these the modified ED sites has been beneficial. It is also unclear why ambulances were seemingly used to transport individuals with primary anxiety unless they also were physically injured and required ambulance transport. This may reflect Israel-specific cultural or organizational considerations. Despite changes over time, the basic model seems to a variant of a stand-alone mental health clinic. referred to as “resilience centers” or by some other terms, they represent largely stand alone clinical settings. One wonders to what extent the inclusion of other settings such as primary care, schools, shelters, work settings and among responders of various types have been included and whether adequate attention has been given to coordination between these settings. Although tele-health is mentioned, other innovations in disaster mental health might be considered to further improve access to care and population level “reach”, which remains elusive in the US [32] and apparently in Israel as well. These include the use of Internet based interventions [33] and other interventions for definitive clinical depression and PTSD, which already exist. Provision of care either in the home via tele-health or Internet based interventions or in more routine “disaster systems of care” [26, 34] would further extend the reach that has been so challenging in disasters. The system of disaster mental health in Israel has demonstrated considerable growth and evolution in the last 25 years and reflects collaborations across many different levels and partners. At its most important, the article by Bodas et al. outlines a national commitment and recognition of the psychological impact of chronic conflict and terrorism. The emergency mental health program has evidenced multiple changes and demonstrates an aggressive “lessons learned” process. Challenges such as timing, service delivery settings, models of care, payor/funding and coordination issues were reviewed. As the program moves forward into the future, recommendations include broader inclusion of “disaster systems of care” [26, 27] to include re-engaging the emergency medical system and hospitals, schools, child care, disaster relief, first responders, and emergency management across all sectors of government. Recommendations also include an increasing focus on populations beyond an exclusive focus on symptomatic individuals, to sub-populations including all children impacted by conflict, those with prior trauma or mental health history, traumatic exposure, communities vs individuals, and responders broadly conceived. 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__label__cc	0.679206	0.320794	Innovations on a shoestring: a study of a collaborative community-based Aboriginal mental health service model in rural Canada Marion A Maar1, Barbara Erskine2, Lorrilee McGregor3,4, Tricia L Larose1, Mariette E Sutherland3, Douglas Graham5, Marjory Shawande2 & Tammy Gordon5 Collaborative, culturally safe services that integrate clinical approaches with traditional Aboriginal healing have been hailed as promising approaches to ameliorate the high rates of mental health problems in Aboriginal communities in Canada. Overcoming significant financial and human resources barriers, a mental health team in northern Ontario is beginning to realize this ideal. We studied the strategies, strengths and challenges related to collaborative Aboriginal mental health care. A participatory action research approach was employed to evaluate the Knaw Chi Ge Win services and their place in the broader mental health system. Qualitative methods were used as the primary source of data collection and included document review, ethnographic interviews with 15 providers and 23 clients; and 3 focus groups with community workers and managers. The Knaw Chi Ge Win model is an innovative, community-based Aboriginal mental health care model that has led to various improvements in care in a challenging rural, high needs environment. Formal opportunities to share information, shared protocols and ongoing education support this model of collaborative care. Positive outcomes associated with this model include improved quality of care, cultural safety, and integration of traditional Aboriginal healing with clinical approaches. Ongoing challenges include chronic lack of resources, health information and the still cursory understanding of Aboriginal healing and outcomes. This model can serve to inform collaborative care in other rural and Indigenous mental health systems. Further research into traditional Aboriginal approaches to mental health is needed to continue advances in collaborative practice in a clinical setting. Research shows a significantly higher prevalence of mental illness, particularly depression, suicide and addictions in Aboriginal communities when compared with the broader Canadian population[1]. Interventions to improve Aboriginal mental health must be informed, not only by the people within these communities, but also by the colonial history that has contributed to this poor health profile. Multi-generational marginalization, power disparities and governmental assimilation practices and in particular the residential school systems subjected generations of Aboriginal people in Canada to physical, mental, spiritual and sexual abuse and eroded family relationships; furthermore, loss of language, land, culture and traditional economies have had devastating impacts on the social determinants of health [2–4]. This connection between colonial forces and mental illness and addictions is supported by an increasing body of literature [3, 5–10]. Research in other countries with a colonial history, such as New Zealand, Australia and the USA show very similar patterns of mental health issues among Indigenous populations [11–13]. Despite high rates of mental health problems, there is no national Aboriginal mental health strategy in Canada. A few fragmented national services do exist, accessible only to a relatively small proportion of Aboriginal people, dependant on their legal status and place of residence. These services include community-based paraprofessional addictions services, regional treatment centres and short term clinical treatment for crisis intervention consisting of coverage for up to 10 treatment sessions [14, 15]. These programs do not provide the range and quality of services required to address the complexity of mental health problems in Aboriginal communities; consequently there are serious gaps in services. Crises, particularly in rural and remote communities, are not uncommon. In turn, 'outside' interventions may be parachuted into communities, following local emergencies such as community violence or youth suicide waves. However, they are often rejected by Aboriginal people, because these services are essentially value laden, lack cultural safety and "have shallow histories in aboriginal communities"[16]. Clearly, a community-driven approach is essential to achieve community acceptance and to organize the scarce resources in a way that supports the development of local systems of care[17]. Collaborative and culturally competent services that integrate clinical as well as traditional Aboriginal healing services have been identified as promising approaches for Aboriginal mental health services for some time [18]. Yet, barriers to realize this ideal are substantial. Recruiting mental health professionals to rural and remote areas where many Aboriginal communities are located is difficult and without a national strategy, funds are lacking. Furthermore, a commitment to interprofessional education is a prerequisite for an integrated approach. Nevertheless, over the past decade First Nations (Indigenous communities) in the Manitoulin District in Northern Ontario, Canada have created an integrated community-based mental health services system by successfully pooling resources and developing collaborative programs. Prior to this research, anecdotal evidence suggested that this new and evolving collaborative approach to Aboriginal community mental health showed indications of positive outcomes such as: (1) improved access to a range of mental health services in a rural environment, (2) increasing continuity of care, (3) improved cultural safety, (4) integration of clinical and traditional Aboriginal services, and (5) a stable mental health team with low attrition rates. Our study was designed to go beyond the anecdotal evidence to identify critical components and outcomes of this model. We focused on three research questions: How is collaborative mental health care provided in this northern Aboriginal context? What strategies support interdisciplinary collaboration and service integration? And, what are the strengths and challenges related to this model? Participatory Action Research We used a participatory action approach; as such, the project was designed to be highly collaborative, relevant and empowering for stakeholders[19]. A steering committee consisting of Aboriginal elders, community members and local decision makers was formed to oversee the research process. Academic researchers, community-based researchers, and local stakeholders collaborated closely during all phases of the research. For example, the steering committee collaborated on research questions, advised on implementation of the project, provided a cultural perspective for the interpretation of findings and reviewed the final research report. The Knaw Chi Ge Win Team (i.e. the core mental health team) provided technical advice and valuable background information that informed our methods. To address the research questions, we used qualitative research methods to analyze and triangulate multiple sources of information, including program documents as well as ethnographic interviews and focus groups with clients and service providers. We reviewed annual mental health program reports, service data, and past program proposals from 2004 to 2007. These documents served to substantiate and triangulate information obtained from interviews and focus groups. Ethnographic Interviews and Focus Groups with Service Providers The key informant interviews were conducted with the Knaw Chi Ge Win team, visiting mental health consultants, therapists and social workers in the mainstream service system, and tribal police. Focus group participants included First Nations community administrators and community-based health workers. A total of 31 key informants participated (see Table 1). Interviews and focus groups were conducted and audio recorded by the principal investigator (MAM) and community-based researchers (LM and MES). Table 1 Interview and Focus Group Breakdown Ethnographic Interviews with Aboriginal Clients A client interview protocol was developed that ensured safe, ethical and standardized client interviews. Clients who received services in the past two years were eligible to participate in the research. Potential participants were randomly contacted by administrative staff and over 85% of those invited agreed to participate. Participants were offered a small monetary compensation for their time and travel expenses. Ethnographic interviews were conducted with clients, documenting their experience with the mental health services until thematic saturation was reached. Questions were focused on the perceived level of care and cultural safety, access and barriers to care as well as overall satisfaction with services. 23 client interviews were conducted by experienced community-based Aboriginal researchers (LM and MES). Sessions were audio recorded. The Knaw Chi Ge Win team was available to provide follow up counseling services if necessary. Method of Analysis Interviewers completed summary sheets for each client interview and identified key themes in client responses. The audio recordings of interviews and focus group were transcribed by a single research assistant (TLL) to ensure consistency. Transcripts were analyzed using the qualitative analysis software NVivo 7 [20]. We conducted a thematic analysis of the experience of clients and providers with the local mental health services [21]. Emerging themes related to the central research questions and participants' experiences were identified and coded using in vivo coding when possible. The coding system was verified though "member checking" by comparing the identified themes with the interviewers' summary sheets. Discrepancies were discussed and resolved during follow up meetings. An interactive presentation of draft findings to the steering committee and the mental health team served as a further level of verification [22]. The First Nations in the Manitoulin District have made significant strides in building community research capacity and engaging in research partnerships with university-based researchers [23, 24]. In agreement with the local research ethics guidelines, ethics review was obtained from the Manitoulin Aboriginal Research Review Committee and the research concept was approved by local First Nations leaders and health boards[25]. The four principles of OCAP [26], namely: First Nations ownership, control, access and possession of research conducted in their communities were adapted to fit the context of this study. With respect to ownership and control, our approach emphasized consensus in all aspects of the research process rather than a power relationship between community and university stakeholders. Access to research results was created in the form of research reports and community and staff presentation prior to wider publications. The stakeholders agreed that in order to maximize client and provider confidentiality, raw interview and focus group data was only to be held in the possession of the university based researchers and not at local organizations. The interpretation of OCAP in this study was strongly influenced by longstanding respect based relationship between the community stakeholders and the lead researchers. Overview of the Service Model The Knaw Chi Ge Win service system we studied is located on Manitoulin Island in Northern Ontario. Communities on this large rural island include seven First Nations communities. First Nations people account for over 1/3 of the approximately 13,000 local residents and the island's population density is 2.8 people per square kilometer[27]. Family physician services are available in several of the larger communities. Most specialized services however are located in the nearest urban centre, at a driving distance of 1.5 to 3 hours from island communities. Knaw Chi Ge Win services are coordinated by two regional Aboriginal health organizations. The first organization, Mnaamodzawin Health Services (MHS) is a regional provider of First Nations community health services. The second one, Noojmowin Teg Health Access Centre (NT) is a regional provider of interdisciplinary primary care services. Both organizations have a distinct emphasis on community-based Aboriginal approaches to care and share a home office (see Figure 1 and Figure 2). Service integration, such as common intake, case coordination and seamless services without waiting periods or administrative barriers was a common goal and was initiated with the formation of an interdisciplinary mental health care group, named the Knaw Chi Ge Win (New Beginnings) team. The Share Office Building. Arbor used for Traditional Aboriginal Healing Services. Knaw Chi Ge Win Services The Knaw Chi Ge Win Team is a core of providers with expertise in psychology, mental health nursing, long-term care, social work and traditional Aboriginal medicine and healing. Clients can access services by referral or self-referral. In addition to the core services, visiting specialist consultant services are provided by psychiatrists and traditional Aboriginal healers, accessed by referral from the core team. Table 2 provides a list of the composition of staff and contract services. Mental health services are provided within an holistic Aboriginal framework that acknowledges the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of health as well as historical, socioeconomic and cultural influences[28]. The core team's home office is centrally located within the region and services can be accessed at the main office, in community clinics located in seven First Nation communities, or through home visits. This model of service provision improves access to mental health services compared with a model where clients travel to a central location to receive services. It also increases privacy for clients. As one participant explained, clients often know their local community clinic staff personally and are uncomfortable accessing mental health services there: "I always felt...walking in the building it's like [staff might say]: 'Oh, I wonder what's she in here for'." (Client #2). Table 2 Composition of Core Team and Contract Consultants Collaboration with Visiting Consultants The services provided by the Knaw Chi Ge Win team are enhanced by integrated specialized services by visiting consultants, in particular psychiatric services and traditional healing services. There are no internal administrative barriers to access these consultant services, and clients are placed on a list for the next visit (waiting periods are up to one month) based on recommendation of team members. In order to encourage collaborative practice with the Knaw Chi Ge Win team, consultants are compensated based on an hourly rate rather than a fee for service structure. Psychiatric services are offered on a monthly basis and client care is shared with the team to ensure continuity of care and follow up after the consult. Team members attend sessions with their clients and regularly consult in person with the psychiatrist. Consultant notes are completed for primary care physicians in nearby clinics to further improve continuity of care. To ensure that cultural protocols related to traditional healing were upheld, in depth consultations with communities were required to determine the method of compensation for the traditional Aboriginal healers. Today, the services of healers are also compensated under a consultant contract. The traditional coordinator is the Knaw Chi Ge Win team member who normally attends traditional healing sessions with clients and shares their care. The traditional coordinator has a background in both nursing as well as traditional approaches to healing and maintains client charts, monitors herbal medicines, and coordinates follow up such as clinical mental health and primary care. The traditional coordinator assesses, in collaboration with the healer, if clients require clinical mental health services and refers when necessary. Traditional services are in high demand by community members, as such, there is not sufficient time for the healer to review cases with mental health workers although this is perceived as desirable. Coordination with other Care Providers in the Region For clients with chronic mental illnesses the visiting psychiatrist and the Knaw Chi Ge Win case manager collaborate with the primary care physician. The case manager updates physicians on treatments. Collaboration between other team members and physicians is limited, on an ad hoc basis, and often based on established personal relationships between providers. Ad hoc collaboration occurs usually when clients are admitted to emergency services. The collaboration with private practice therapists who provide short term counseling services under coverage by Health Canada's First Nations and Inuit Health Branch (FNIHB) crisis counseling program consist solely of referrals[14]. Collaboration with First Nations community-based paraprofessionals varies and depends on each worker's background, job expectations and, most importantly, the client's comfort with receiving care from their local mental health worker. Collaborative practice includes prevention program development as well as client services that support the daily management of clients with serious mental illness (SMI) and clients who access traditional medicine. An increased level of integration in direct client services is desired by many paraprofessional workers. Figure 3 provides a map of the major collaborative care relationships maintained by the Knaw Chi Ge Win team. Conceptual Map of the Shared Care Network of the Knaw Chi Ge Win Team. (attached as separate files) Regional Planning and Networking The Knaw Chi Ge Win team also focuses on the development of a mental health care system in the region. Formal networks, such as a district wide networking group bringing together addictions and mental health service providers, have been created. These networks also serve to connect Aboriginal and mainstream agencies to advance coordination of care. They also provide a forum for advocacy for Aboriginal mental health issues, and the establishment of working relationships with acute care providers and the social services sector. A regional strategic planning process for mental health has also been implemented. Strategies that Support Interprofessional Collaboration To function well in interprofessional teams, health care professionals must overcome barriers such as professional rivalry and negative stereotypes and thus require specialized training [29–31]. Similarly, interprofessional collaboration within the Knaw Chi Ge Win team required planning and nurturing. The shared home office space is an important enabling component as it creates an environment where providers have frequent face-to-face contact. In addition, Knaw Chi Ge Win providers developed strategies and activities to support collaboration and facilitate a continuum of care. We describe these below. Weekly intake meetings The core mental health team members review new client cases at weekly intake meetings and assign clients to the most suitable mental health provider(s) while peer feedback and support is strongly encouraged. (Clients are informed and provide written consent that their information is shared within the team). Services coordinated at that time may include mental health counseling, psychiatry services, traditional healing services and referrals to long-term care providers or nurse practitioners. This team approach to intake facilitates a holistic approach to care and a rapid response for clients who require urgent care and multiple services. Furthermore, new team members learn about the local mental health system, communities and Aboriginal culture, as well as common mental health issues and effective treatment approaches. Peer Supervision and Informal Case Consultation Clinical supervision is a key component of mental health practice [32], but it poses challenges in a rural, multi-disciplinary environment with limited resources. Consequently, the Knaw Chi Ge Win team has opted for a peer supervision process, consisting of ad hoc informal case reviews and consultations with colleagues. To invite peer supervision, providers maintain an open door policy and informal consultations are quite common among the Knaw Chi Ge Win team. Workers have recently initiated client case presentations as a tool for peer supervision and interprofessional education. These presentations demonstrate the response of various professionals to difficult client situations. Providers report positive outcomes and the following quote shows high levels of satisfaction associated with the peer supervision model: We've been able to learn together, figure out what's working for us and what's not working. And when things go wrong, we can sit down and discuss it pretty quickly and easily... We're able to work it through it I think. We have a retreat every year that helps us gather our thoughts and make plans for the next year and assess how this past year went.... So, we're constantly engaging in a review process. Consistent with the Knaw Chi Ge Win model, peer supervision is commonly used in multi-disciplinary teams with experienced providers; however this model tends to support established, site-specific norms and may not challenge workers sufficiently. Providers are therefore considering case audits and more direct supervision of new workers. The mental health nurse case manager, a core team member, provides case management for geriatric clients and clients with SMI. The case manager monitors clients' medications and condition at least once per month, and sometimes as often as once per week. The case manager collaborates with the visiting psychiatrist in person during monthly visits and via fax for the remainder of the month. The psychiatrist informs local primary physicians through progress notes. The case manager also works with community-based paraprofessional workers to enhance acceptance of clients with SMI at the community level, to ensure monitoring, and to coordinate other essential services such as housing or job searching. Further case management has not been implemented due to lack of resources. Priority clients for future case management are high risk clients and those who have multiple re-admissions to the program. The development of a collaborative case management model that suits the Knaw Chi Ge Win model for mental health is important since a cookie cutter approach would not be appropriate for this service environment. Strategies that Support Integration of Western and Aboriginal Approaches to Mental Health We found that the strategies that promote interprofessional collaboration also generally supported an increased understanding between clinical and traditional Aboriginal providers. However, clinical and traditional approaches are based on two distinct medical systems, values sets and philosophies and they are not always easily reconcilable. An in depth understanding of both systems is required for successful integration. The level of integration between clinical and traditional Aboriginal services has progressed significantly within this team from working in a co-operative, multidisciplinary fashion and mainly interacting through referrals which described services in early 2000[33]. Since then, the Knaw Chi Ge Win team developed additional strategies that, as this research suggests, provided the foundation for greater levels of integration between clinical and traditional services including shared intake, case coordination and case collaboration: the development of traditional healing protocols and ongoing capacity building for traditional healing. Traditional Aboriginal Healing Protocols Traditional Aboriginal healing has been practiced for thousands of years in Aboriginal communities, however providing traditional medicine integrated in a clinical setting is a ground breaking practice. Although Aboriginal healers are exempted from governmental regulation in Ontario [34], the health boards decided that guidelines for the provision of traditional healing in a clinical setting based on local Aboriginal culture and values were necessary for successful collaboration. Traditional healing protocols were therefore established based on extensive consultations with Aboriginal community members. As part of this protocol, healers are screened for their area of expertise and their community recognition as an Aboriginal healer and are expected to follow the culturally-based code of conduct[23]. The protocols have arguably served to unveil some of the mystique that traditional medicine often embodies for clinically trained professionals and thus advances integrated practice. As a result, clinicians reported high comfort levels referring to traditional healers and other traditional providers: I always ask clients within the first or second visit if they would like to see a traditional healer, I always ask them that, I make it a point. (Clinician #1) I think the Traditional program is very important for the continuum of mental health care. (Clinician #2) Although many clinicians also revealed that they need to gain a better understanding of traditional healing in order to move towards more profound levels of integration: We need to be working more with the traditional models... when a person defines that that's the way that they want to go....I think we can, [but] it's a difficult fit, it's like... oil and vinegar, those are two similar concepts. You're trying to fit in something that just is not really well understood. (Clinician #3) I think with traditional healers we can [develop] more of a mechanism where we could talk about particular clients and do case managements or some sort of case collaboration or shared care...With elders, I think, it would be valuable to discuss more general things like, what's happening in their community, what trends do they see...How's it different then the way they think it could be?.What role can we play... have them understand what we try and do with people...A meeting of the minds with elders from time to time! (Clinician #4) Ongoing Capacity Building and Education In order to sustain collaborative community-based care that integrates both clinical and Aboriginal approaches, extensive education and capacity building targeted at the Knaw Chi Ge Win team as well as community-based workers, clients, and communities as a whole was required. The main areas of capacity building include: (1) to enhance cultural understanding through exposure to traditional Aboriginal teachings, and opportunities to participate in cultural events and traditional medicine practices; (2) ongoing professional development in the area of Aboriginal mental health for professionals and paraprofessional providers; and (3) building capacity with clients and communities to manage their illness and adopt healthy behaviours[26]. Benefits of Aboriginal Community-based Collaborative Care Our research shows that the Knaw Chi Ge Win collaborative care model has resulted in several benefits: improved illness care and cultural safety, managed wait times, and reduction in professional isolation. Improved Quality of Illness Management The quality of services has been enhanced for Aboriginal clients in many ways. Although health outcome data were not yet systematically collected, our research suggests that the overall local management of SMI has greatly improved. In-house program statistics show that prior to implementation of this model, 3-4 clients per year had acute care admission to psychiatric hospitals, with frequent recidivism. With the advent of collaborative care, this number was reduced to 0-1 clients per year. Providers explain that clients are more stable and care is more effectively handled locally with this service approach, which they believe explains this reduction in acute care admissions. A mental health worker illustrated why acute admission rates have been reduced with the following case scenario: Our approach, it's based upon building capacity in the client to the highest level they can manage themselves...NOT doing it for them... You may walk someone through something the first time and then the second time, they want to do as much as they can. As a result you have individuals who are, managing things a lot more than they ever did in the past... There's a client who is schizophrenic [and], used to be in and out of a psychiatric facility every [few] weeks, back and forth, and back and forth... What's going on here? The psychiatrist believed that the community-based paraprofessional workers could support the client... [but] there was miscommunication there, and unrealistic expectations... So, Knaw Chi Ge Win team members, connected with the long term care program...and decided who was going to do what with the client. There were also housing issues that needed to be looked after, financial issues... the team could connect with the appropriate people [at the community] who could share this load. Other indicators of quality in this service environment include the clients' right to choose clinical or traditional approaches without judgment from providers, or receiving care in their Aboriginal language. For example, many geriatric clients who access mental health services prefer to speak their Aboriginal language. Prior to the development of the collaborative services, mental health services were provided by English speaking providers. Now, the team strives to have at least one Aboriginal staff member fluent in Aboriginal language(s) involved in care for geriatric clients. In addition, an estimated 30 - 40 percent of geriatric clients request traditional healing services and information about Aboriginal herbal medicines is openly shared in this service environment. This is particularly significant since research elsewhere shows that the vast majority of clients will conceal the use of traditional medicine from clinical staff[35]. Privacy is another important consideration for many clients who access community-based care in small rural communities, where client anonymity associated with large urban centres does not exist and mental health services are often stigmatized. Clients felt that the services provided by the Knaw Chi Ge Win team were completely confidential. A client explains: I phone all over for the Knaw Chi Ge Win team. If [my regular worker] isn't there, then I'm looking for [another team member]. I find them! They're more trusted... maybe it's because they don't live here and they're not part of our family they don't know me [personally]. I don't know how I'd feel if I had to go speak to the [paraprofessional] worker in my community if I had a drug and alcohol problem...with, the relationships we have in the community...You can't counsel your own family. (Client #8) Further evidence of quality services are the high levels of client satisfaction: "One of the counsellors told me to start keeping a journal of my thoughts, of my feelings so I did that for about a year. When I looked back on it I could see my attitude changing day to day in my writings."(Client #7) "They helped me control myself in that sense, I guess. Because [before I received services] I couldn't talk to anybody. I was pretty messed up. I guess I... started coming out of my shell and that was a while ago. So now I'm just open and honest. I tell it the way it is and that's just the way I am now. Have my self-esteem, courage. I was scared to do anything, go anywhere, talk to anybody. Be me. So they taught me lots."(Client #11) "It definitely helped me, even just having someone to talk to, that you could be confident with; that you could speak out and say what you really felt and know it wasn't going anywhere... For me it takes a lot to get my trust after everything that's happened to me in my life. The emotional things I've been through in my life. It's very hard for me to trust somebody, to 100% tell them how I really feel, and [my Knaw Chi Ge Win worker] was that one person I could do that with." (Client #3) "If I ever needed to talk to anybody or needed help... we have the resources [at Mnaamodzawin] that I can phone...I would phone [the intake worker] right away if it ever came to that. But right now everything is good." (Client #13) "I think everything was done really well. I was really comfortable talking with the counsellor, and when my husband went to talk to the counsellor too, he thought: "I don't think I'm going to take [mental health services]!", But then at the end of it all he was the one who did most of the talking, he said, he found it really good and it was helpful to him because there was a lot of things that he had to work out and he didn't know how to deal with it. So I think that he really liked the counsellor and so does my daughter." (Client #12) Well Managed Wait Times for Mental Health Services Keeping wait times to a minimum is a priority for the team and clients. Our research revealed that normal response time for urgent care is less than a week, whereas less urgent counseling is normally provided within 3 to 4 weeks. Wait times for traditional healing are longer, often 4 weeks or more, and access to psychiatric services may be several months for new clients. However, these specialized services were not accessible at all prior to the development of integrated services. Due to limited resources, approximately 40 percent of all clients who seek services through Knaw Chi Ge Win are however referred to private providers who operate under the FNIHB short term counseling program. Cultural awareness, competence, sensitivity and safety have specific meanings that are debated in the academic literature[36]. However these distinctions are less important to clients who seek good, appropriate and respectful care for themselves. To learn about local definition of cultural issues in mental health care we focused on eliciting clients' and providers' personal concepts of appropriate approaches for mental health services for Aboriginal people. Clients and providers generally believed that culturally appropriate care means providing a safe environment for clients to present concerns without judgment from providers. Participants articulated that a cultural focus should go beyond offering traditional healing services. Of great importance to many was provider acceptance of clients' beliefs, religions, backgrounds, and history, and a focus on building on the strengths of Aboriginal people. This local definition is very much in line with the concept of cultural safety, which originates with the Maori People of New Zealand[37], and also describes a concept that goes beyond cultural competence and focuses on provider self-reflection and understanding of power differentials as well as the central notion that it is the client who defines "safe services"[38] One participant explained this eloquently: As an Aboriginal person I would say meeting people at their level means culturally competent care. Sometimes people assume that we all believe in traditional [Aboriginal] approaches but that's not necessarily so. A lot of our young people...are enmeshed in the main stream approaches so you have to meet them at their level. Yes, [often] they're very interested in learning about their traditional ways; or they're interested in some mainstream approaches. So you have to meet them...wherever they're at. Also culturally competent care means RE-building (emphasis by participant) their capacity [to heal]... We all have that capacity, it just needs to be RE-built. Versus saying," we need to build it" - No! Everybody has that innate strength in them to take care of themselves and we just need to help them in the right direction. (Participant) Aboriginal clients consistently described high levels of cultural safety within the Knaw Chi Ge Win team members, regardless of the ethnicity of the provider(s). Clients saw this as a feature of the Knaw Chi Ge Win services which, in their experience, clearly differs from mainstream approaches. Many participants explained that the Knaw Chi Ge Win providers understand Aboriginal issues and are open to Aboriginal world views and healing practices. One client stated: "Living on the reserve is a different way of life...a different way of thinking. Maybe some needs are different. A lot of people I talked to in the past who were counsellors that hadn't worked for Mnaamodzawin or Noojmowin. - they didn't understand certain things that seems like it's a part of your life when you're on the reserve. It's a different way of thinking. A different way the whole community deals with things. These two [Knaw Chi Ge Win] counsellors understand that; it's not even an issue."(Client #2) Providers echoed this sentiment and explained that the cultural training they had received had taught them about cultural norms and experiences that could be easily misinterpreted and medicalized by less experienced clinical providers: The every day experience of people in the communities, how these communities work, we understand that. We understand something about the culture... appreciate the fact that when clients talk about ceremonies, we have an idea what they're talking about, when they talk about spirituality, when they talk about spirits, when they talk about dreams, when they talk about different concepts that are really important in their culture. We understand what they're communicating to us... and what that experience might mean for them... Not that I have a great understanding of it, but, learning bit by bit, the client's cultural world view. We hear about the four directions and the four colours...and the meanings of balance in this world view and that's different than what you're getting in a non-native, euro-centric world view. [As a mental health professional] you got to understand that there are differences and you got to appreciate that. The people who come for the service, they are adhering to that world view to one degree or another and you got to figure out to what degree! (Knaw Chi Ge Win Team Member) However, clients did express concern about the larger network of service providers in the region, many of whom are perceived as not taking traditional approaches and Aboriginal world views seriously. Consequently, a repeatedly identified issue was the need for more Aboriginal workers at all tiers of service provision. Furthermore, despite the fact that non-Aboriginal core team members are regarded as highly culturally competent, some Aboriginal clients felt much less comfortable with non-Aboriginal than with Aboriginal providers. The clients' life experiences with racism and discrimination appear to be a determining factor. One participant explained this as follows: By sending someone to a counsellor who is non-native that puts the playing field where one person is an expert and one is below that - it creates that idea of when you were in school, teachers were non-native, doctors are non-native, everybody is non-native. I don't see that as a way to bring back personal power to a person. (Participant) In contrast, a fair number of clients are not comfortable seeking help for mental health issues from community members, and therefore welcome a provider who is not from their community. These clients felt quite comfortable with non-Aboriginal providers as an alternative, while still others professed no preference regarding the ethnicity of their provider within the Knaw Chi Ge Win team. The collaborative care approach allows the team to be responsive to these diverse comfort levels of clients. Benefits for Service Providers Providers see the collaborative practice as a positive and desirable work environment which reduces professional isolation. Providers felt very supported in their work and able to draw on other interdisciplinary team members when necessary, as evidenced in this quote: Ah, the support!...Basically, the communication is, is just tremendous. I've never worked with a bunch of people where we sit down and talk so much and discuss cases...It's really a benefit not only to everyone as a group to know, how things are going, but, it certainly benefits myself because, they've got the skills that I don't have and what I have I can augment a little bit on their side too. So I think, the shared care model as far as I'm concerned is the only way to go. (Knaw Chi Ge Win Team member) Clinical as well as traditional service approaches are explicitly respected by all team members. Providers felt that this model had increased their confidence dealing with complex cases, and improved their professional abilities and their ability to ensure cultural safety. New care providers felt that the integration model allows them to work at full capacity soon after they are hired, because existing staff act as mentors during the weekly intake meetings and through informal consultations. The collaborative model has thus contributed to the creation of a relatively stable mental health team in a challenging, resource-scarce service environment. Ongoing Challenges While there are many benefits associated with this model of care, significant challenges still remain to maintain this model of care and to expend the services to a level of care that meets the needs of the community. Chronic Under-funding of Aboriginal Mental Health Services Severe funding constraints for Aboriginal mental health programs make it difficult to recruit and retain experienced qualified professional providers. Funding is often short term and inadequate to attract mental health professionals with sufficient qualifications. The mental health team cannot meet the increasing demands for services (e.g.: 8% increase in 2007). As a result, about 40% of clients must be referred to 'outside' providers for short term counseling under FNIHB's crisis counseling program and this rate will likely increase. There is no collaborative care with these providers once clients are referred out and while outcomes are therefore unknown, the ideal of holistic care is certainly not realized. Additional services in psychiatry, child psychiatry and traditional medicine are needed to meet community needs. Prevention activities for children, youth and parents are also urgently required. In order to expand integration, more time and resources are required for program development and reflection. Providers generally believed there is great potential: When I get a chance to listen to what [the healer] has to say, I can hear what his perspective is. People think it's so far apart but I never see it that way, I always think there are so many possible meeting points, when I listen to him speak it's like: Okay! I'm with you on this and this...I think there is all sorts of potential, for more collaboration and more integration if we had the time to work on exactly that... And I think that's true for discussions with elders, you know, I wish we could have some process by which we regularly engaged in that because I'll bet you that there would be more convergence than divergence. That's just the way I see it. (Knaw Chi Ge Win team member). Recruitment of Mental Health Professionals Clients value experienced workers and the fact that many of the core team members have been employed with their organizations for many years. However, when positions need to be filled, recruitment of experienced workers is difficult. There is a need for long-term strategies to mentor and recruit Aboriginal students into mental health careers; funds to cover travel costs for student placements are also required. Lack of Community Mental Health and Consistent Mental Health Services Data Reliable mental health status and service data are required to evaluate services and track outcomes. Ongoing systematic data collection is necessary, including: (1) client service data and client satisfaction questionnaires, (2) client outcome data, including changes in client behaviours, symptoms and family situation, (3) local emergency use and hospitalization data in the Manitoulin district, and (4) health status data. In addition, research is necessary to develop an Aboriginal approach to mental health service evaluation. Existing outcome indicators are based on clinical approaches in mainstream populations and do not take into account Aboriginal understandings of healing or the multi-generational effects of colonization on mental health [39]. Using a collaborative community-based mental health care approach, the Knaw Chi Ge Win team has developed successful strategies to overcome many barriers to Aboriginal mental health service provision in a rural complex care environment. Their approach offers an efficient use of sparse resources and maximizes their clients' access to specialized services and continuity of care. This approach has also facilitated significant progress in the integration of traditional Aboriginal healing methods with counseling services in a clinical setting. Despite the numerous benefits, additional resources are required to develop further specialized and preventative services to address complex intergenerational community mental health issues. While we do not suggest that the Knaw Chi Ge Win model should be transplanted into Indigenous mental health systems worldwide, the strategies for collaboration we describe are promising practices and may be adapted to other rural and Indigenous systems. Further research into traditional Aboriginal approaches to mental health and their integration with clinical approach is needed to provide a knowledge base to advance integration beyond the regional level. 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We thank the many people and agencies who contributed to this project including the community steering committee, clients and the mental health team for providing guidance throughout this project. We thank reviewers of earlier drafts of this manuscript including Pamela Williamson, Glenn Hallett and Lisa Boesch, and; we thank the anonymous reviewers. Funding for this project was received from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-term Care, Grant # 05160/2006/C. Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Laurentian University, 935 Ramsey Lake Road, P3E 2C6, Sudbury, ON, Canada Marion A Maar & Tricia L Larose Noojmowin Teg Health Centre, Aundeck Omni Kaning, Little Current, Postal Bag 2002, Hwy 540, 48 Hillside Rd., P0P 1K0, Ontario, Canada & Marjory Shawande Community Based Research, General Delivery Birch Island, P0P 1A0, Canada Lorrilee McGregor & Mariette E Sutherland Laurentian University, School of Rural and Northern Health, 935 Ramsey Lake Road, P3E 2C6, Sudbury, ON, Canada Mnaamodzawin Health Services Inc, Aundeck Omni Kaning, Little Current, Postal Bag 2002, Hwy 540, 48 Hillside Rd., P0P 1K0, Ontario, Canada Douglas Graham & Tammy Gordon Search for Marion A Maar in: Search for Barbara Erskine in: Search for Lorrilee McGregor in: Search for Tricia L Larose in: Search for Mariette E Sutherland in: Search for Douglas Graham in: Search for Marjory Shawande in: Search for Tammy Gordon in: Correspondence to Marion A Maar. MAM participated in the conception, design and coordination of the study, conducted interviews and drafted the manuscript. BE, DG, TG, MS participated in the conception, design of the study and helped to draft the manuscript. LM and MES conducted interviews and helped to draft the manuscript. TLL participated in the data analysis and helped to draft the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Maar, M.A., Erskine, B., McGregor, L. et al. Innovations on a shoestring: a study of a collaborative community-based Aboriginal mental health service model in rural Canada. Int J Ment Health Syst 3, 27 (2009) doi:10.1186/1752-4458-3-27	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1444
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__label__wiki	0.540233	0.540233	Scripts and Grooves The Blog of LaBudde Special Collections and the Marr Sound Archives UMKC Libraries The Echoes of Long-Bell Posted on March 28, 2017 by Hannah Mayer This Jingle for the Long-Bell Lumber Co. was recorded exactly 65 years ago today, on March 28 1952: Long-Bell Lumber Company The recording is fascinating and rather unusual for its time because of its utilization of tape delay to imitate the sound of a ringing bell via the human voice. Recorded by local studio forerunner, Vic Damon, the recording highlights all of the home improvement products sold at the retail store at the Gregory and Wornall intersection in Kansas City, MO. Damon is pictured here in his studio with record cutting lathes. The radio announcement is certainly unique because of its technique. However, it is also interesting because of its significance to the Long-Bell Lumber Co. and the Robert Alexander Long legacy in the Kansas City area. In 1956, just four years after Damon recorded the radio announcement, the once prominent Long-Bell Lumber Co. was absorbed by the International Paper Corporation. The timeline of the Long-Bell Lumber Company runs a tumultuous course where the success and wealth of the company were challenged. What started off as a booming enterprise eventually declined and faced several challenges from internal conflicts, litigation, and the Great Depression. Local historian Lenore K. Bradley referred to the early success of the Long-Bell Lumber Co. as the “Gilded Age” in her biography of Long, and it was certainly that. Long spared little expense in the creation of the ornate structures he left behind. Remnants of R. A. Long’s affluence are dispersed throughout the Kansas City area. Landmarks included in his legacy are Liberty Memorial, Longview Farm, and the Kansas City Museum. View of the west side of Corinthian Hall, now the Kansas City Museum. For additional photos, check out R.A. Long’s City and Country Homes Photo Album Bradely, Lenore K. Robert Alexander Long: A Lumberman of the Gilded Age. (Durham, NC: Forest History Society, 1989). R.A. Long’s City and Country Homes Photo Album. LaBudde Special Collections, UMKC. Vic Damon Collection. LaBudde Special Collections, UMKC. This entry was posted in Collections, Historical Sound, Kansas City, Marr Sound Archives, Uncategorized, Vic Damon by Hannah Mayer. Bookmark the permalink. Time limit is exhausted. Please reload CAPTCHA. × = sixty three	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1449
__label__cc	0.746485	0.253515	PRWeek’s Hall of Femme Honors Trailblazing Women in Communications It is 2017, and the gender wage and opportunity gap remains a major topic of discussion. Workplace inequality was an oft discussed topic at PR Week’s Hall of Femme event, that I had the pleasure of attending last week at the Dream Downtown Hotel. This jam-packed event acted as a catalyst for learning, discussion and as a platform to honor the wonderful women in PR who are working tirelessly to shake up the status quo. Two honorees mentioned that as it currently stands women would not receive equal pay until well into the 22nd century. The percentage of female CEOs on the Fortune 500 list has remained low and stagnant hovering around 4%. PRWeek is doing something great to call attention to these issues and highlight the work of women helping to change it with its Hall of Femme event. The event featured a panel of male executives, who talked about some initiatives at their respective companies aimed to help bridge the gender gap, including a fourth trimester program that allowed returning mothers flexibility in the workplace. The men also spoke about efforts they are taking to review their payrolls, leading them to discover large wage discrepancies by gender. A panelist brought light to a source contributing to the prolonged gender pay gap. When new employees enter his workplace, they are given a salary of 10-15% of their previous salary rather than one that matches current coworkers at his firm. With this logic, if a woman was paid unfairly at her previous job, then it would continue throughout her career. The event continued with a SheQuality panel of six women. They spoke about their insights garnered from experience and resulting advice. One panelist stressed the importance of negotiating for yourself as a woman. Another added, “Ask for money,” and everyone shared a laugh. The multifacetedness of diversity in the workplace was discussed alongside the importance of bringing your whole self to work. A common theme among the panelist was to support other women rather than see them as competitors. The event wrapped with an an awards ceremony honoring nine breakthrough women in the PR industry. The honorees included: Barby Siegel, CEO, Zeno Group Catherine Hernandez-Blades, SVP of Corp Comms, Aflac Kathy Bloomgarden, CEO, Ruder Finn Kimberly Goode, SVP of External Affairs, Blue Shield of California Margery Kraus, Founder and Executive Chairman, APCO Worldwide Marian Salzman, CEO, Havas PR North America Melissa Waggener Zorkin, Founder and CEO, WE Communications Pam Wickham, VP of Corp Affairs and COO, Raytheon Renee Wilson, President, PR Council Each gave a short speech that extended the conversation after receiving awards. One gave insight into just how global a problem gender inequality is the workplace citing that her multilingual, overqualified coworkers in the Netherlands were often advised to pour tea for their male counterparts. The event was a great learning opportunity for me individually and a great opportunity for industry professionals to connect, learn and share experiences. Shout out to Wyng for being a proud sponsor of Hall of Femme. Though the fight for gender parity is not even close to over, thanks to these amazing women, PRWeek, and women across the globe, the fight for gender parity is being brought to the forefront.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1450
__label__cc	0.669237	0.330763	Hear It From Locals [ No Land Is Foreign Hereafter ] MUSCAT, OMAN CEBU, PHILLIPINES CORREGIDOR ISLAND, PHILLIPINES SINGAPORE BY ASWATHI SINGAPORE BY JEVGENIA ULLEUNGDO ISLAND, SOUTH KOREA KIGALI, RWANDA EUROPE (A – L) PLOVDIV, BULGARIA MAKARSKA, CROATIA SENJ, CROATIA SIBENIK, CROATIA HRADEC KRÁLOVÉ, CZECH REPUBLIC SETOMAA, ESTONIA TARTU, ESTONIA ROVANIEMI, LAPLAND TBILISI BY QUJI TBILISI BY BAIA PALATINATE REGION,GERMANY ISCHIA, ITALY PRISTINA, KOSOVO EUROPE (M-Z) ZEBBUG, GOZO SKOPJE, MACEDONIA AURLAND, NORWAY BODØ, NORWAY LONGYEARBYEN, SVALBARD THE LOFOTEN ISLANDS, NORWAY TROMSØ, NORWAY FUNCHAL, MADEIRA ISLANDS LIPTOVSKY, SLOVAKIA IDRIJA, SLOVENIA KOPER, SLOVENIA SALAMANCA, SPAIN GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN MALMO, SWEDEN ALKMAAR, THE NETHERLANDS HUDDERSFIELD, WEST YORKSHIRE NORWICH, ENGLAND SQUAMISH, BRITISH COLUMBIA VANCOUVER BY PATRICK VANCOUVER BY JUSTINE NUUK, GREENLAND COCOA BEACH, FLORIDA PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLAVANIA MELBOURNE BY CATHY MELBOURNE BY LORELLE MOUNT MAUNGANUI, NEW ZEALAND BE A LOCAL Italy's Hidden Treasure - Ischia ! JOIN US IN AN INTERVIEW WITH NATALIYA MELNYCHUK FROM ISCHIA, ITALY! Nataliya Melnychuk is a passionate photographer, a mother and a local of the island of Ischia for almost 17 years. She knows this incredible island that most of us have never heard of inside out and tries her best to show the world true Ischia through her lens. Her love for the place she breathes in can be seen through her pictures. She also runs a blog on Instagram by the name of Natischia77 which will tell you a great deal about this picturesque Italian island. Not very far away from Rome, the capital city of Italy and situated only around 30 km off the coast of city of Naples lies the beautiful island of Ischia. With a coastline of 34 kms, this island is located on the northern end of Gulf of Naples in the Tyrrhenian Sea. Ischia is Italy’s treasure trove which is now slowly coming into limelight. This volcanic island is popular for its therapeutic hot water springs, ancient historic sites and unrivalled landscape. Maronti beach is one of the largest beaches on the island. Please tell us something about Ischia. The island of Ischia comprises of six main towns or commune : Ischia Porto & Ischia Ponte, Forio, Casamicciola, Lacco Ameno, Serrara Fontana and Baran. The largest town on this island is also called Ischia making it a little confusing for the tourists. It is divided in to two parts, Ischia Porto and Ischia Ponte. Ischia Porto is the main town of Ischia located in the north east of the island. It was once a volcanic crater which filled with water forming a lake over the years. It’s a good place to stay for its beaches and piano bars. Also, it is easy to reach the other parts of the island from Ischia Porto. Ischia Ponte can be reached by a bus from Ischia Porto within minutes. A hub for food joints and cafes, Ischia Ponte has a relaxed atmosphere. Forio is the busiest commune of Ischia located in the west of the island and on the slopes of Mount Epomeo. It attracts all sorts of visitors for its beaches and welcoming atmosphere. Casamicciola Terme town, located on the northern coast, near Lacco Ameno was rebuilt after the devastation caused by the earthquake in 1883. Lacco Ameno is also a great resort town in the north of Ischia, most famous for its archaeological museum – Museo Archeologico di Pithecusae and Fungo, a rock standing in the waters of the bay shaped in the form of a mushroom. Serrara and Fontana are mountain villages and smallest town of Ischia. Located at the highest point of the island, Mount Epomeo, these villages provide an excellent view of the entire island. Sant’Angelo is a popular fishing village and most famous district of Serrara Fontana. Located on the southern coast of Ischia, it’s a narrow isthmus that ends in a huge rock. Barano in the south of Ischia is the second largest town in Ischia and is very famous for its Maronti beach. Maronti is also the largest spiaggia in Ischia. Image Source : World Atlas When is the best time to visit Ischia? The best time to visit the island of Ischia is certainly from March to October. In the winter months there is also the possibility of seeing it with more calm and freshness. In the warm season you go to the sea, in the thermal parks, gardens with rare plants. How to reach Ischia? If arriving by plane at Fiumicino Airport take the Leonardo Express to reach the station Rome Termini where the trains to Naples depart from. If arriving by plane at Capdichino airport reach the Molo Beverello port or Porto di Massa. Both hydrofoils and ferries leave from there. Hydrofoils take around 45 mins and ferries around an hour and a half. If arriving by train at the Central Station-Piazza Garibaldi, head to the Molo Beverello port. If arriving at the Napoli Mergellina station it is easier to head to the Mergellina terminal from where you can take hydrofoils (Lines Lauro) to reach Ischia in only around 35 minutes. If arriving by car reach the Pozzuoli port from where ferries take only an hour to reach Ischia and transport you with your car to the island of Ischia. Naples Port Which is the most convenient and favoured transport of Ischia? The bus runs all over the island, passing from the port of Ischia in the left CS direction and right SD, making a tour of the island. A ride like this takes about an hour. Buses can take you to almost all the touristy places in Ischia and tickets can be bought at bars or shops or even on board. The ticket for a single trip costs € 1.50, you can buy a subscription for 1 week or longer. Meanwhile there is the TAXI service or the car rental, motorcycles and boats. To get to the island from Naples, Pozzuoli, Procida, Capri and Sorrento by ferry check the maritime timetable here. Ischia Porto is where most ferry services arrive and departs from on the island. You can find there all sorts of transports like large ferries, hydrofoils, yachts and fishing boats. What are the top three must visit places in Ischia? For the first 3 places to visit I would name: The Aragonese castle : The Aragonese Castle, also known as Castel Sant’Angelo is a mysterious medieval castle steeped in history. Situated on the northern end of Gulf of Naples, this castle is joined to the village of Ischia Ponte by a 220 m (720 ft) long stone bridge. Visit the Holy Mother of God Church and the Assunta Cathedral inside it. The castle also houses macabre also called ‘death chairs’ which belonged to the nuns of the Poor Clares convent. It is said that the nuns there practiced an unusual burial practice in which bodies of dead nuns were left on the chairs to decompose. They had holes in them which collected the fluids produced during the process. Aragonese Castle connected to Ischia with the stone bridge Poseidon thermal park : The island of Ischia is home to more than hundreds of thermal pools. However, the largest of these thermal pools is the Poseidon thermal park in the bay of Citara in Forio. With over twenty swimming and bathing pools of varied temperatures, tourists are spoilt for choice in Poseidon. The volcanic origin of these springs have a calming effect on the skin and treats ailments. Note it doesn’t stay open all year, it opens only from March to October. To reach there by bus take the number 2 bus which stops in Forio, Lacco Ameno, Casamicciola and Ischia Porto. Poseidon Thermal Park, Ischia La Mortella gardens : If you want to spend a day in the natural beauty of flora grown on a rocky and volcanic island, head to La Mortella in Forio. The winner of the “Best Italian Garden Award”, this subtropical and mediterranean garden took more than half a century for being shaped the way it is today. Designed by Russell Page and made by Susana Walton, the wife of the popular composer Sir William Walton, with artistic sense and love, La Mortella is a popular garden in Ischia and whole of Italy. The Walton’s bought a land in Ischia in the Le Mortelle area which was abundantly blessed with myrtle (Mortelle in Italian) bushes, hence the garden was named as La Mortella. They also lived there in a house built on the side of the volcanic hill which today is called William Walton Museum. It also includes a concert hall. During the year there are three different concert seasons: in Spring and in Autumn the chamber music recitals are held while in Summer the Festival of Youth Orchestras with symphonic concerts take place. Greek Theatre, La Mortella Gardens, Ischia © LaMortella.org What are the best day trips for nature, culture and history from Ischia? Like a day trip I would recommend a tour of the island by sea or land. By Sea : In a time span of a day there is a possibility to visit the nearby islands: Capri, Procida, Amalfi Coast. Capri is a small Italian island located at the southern end of Gulf of Naples. It is quite popular among the tourists. Ferry time between Capri and Ischia is around an hour. Capri, Campania, Italy Procida is the smallest island in the Gulf of Naples. Spread across an area of 4 square kilometre this island can be reached from Ischia in an easy twenty minutes by ferry. The top attraction in Procida is the 15th century walled city, Terra Murrata. Take an EAVBUS or rent a bicycle and explore Procida’s medieval castles, charming beaches (spiaggia), quaint coffee shops and patisseries. Procida, Campania, Italy Amalfi Coast stretches for around fifty kilometres and boasts quite a few picturesque towns. The most popular towns to stay in are Positano and Sorrento. Located about one and an half hour from Naples and two hours ferry ride from Ischia, Amalfi Coast is one of the most sought after destination in Italy and is flocked by tourists all year round just as the major cities like Rome, Venice and Milan are. Amalfi Coast, Campania, Italy By Land : Amidst spectacular flora and fauna, take a trek from Serrara Fontana to Mount Epomeo. Mount Epomeo is the highest point ( 789 meters above sea level) on the island of Ischia. It’s steep at times but worth the effort since the view from the summit is incredible. At the top you can also find a rock church and hermitage of San Nicola and a restaurant. Among the many trails from where you can start your ascent to the top, the one which starts at Fontana is most famous. Climb to Mount Epomeo, Ischia You can also visit the Saracen towers of Forio built in the 16th century as sighting and defensive towers against Saracen pirates. Torrione Tower of Forio, Ischia What is the most celebrated holiday of the year in Ischia? Like the feasts, I would name the feast of Santa Restituta in Lacco Ameno, San Vito in Forio and Sant’Anna in Ischia Ponte held on July 26th each year. What is the most loved local food of Ischia? Is it a vegetarian friendly island? The first and foremost food to taste is Coniglio all’Ischitana i.e. Ischian style rabbit stew. Another popular local dish is La Zingara sandwich (panini) made with mozzarella of buffalo and local vegetables like cherry tomatoes, artichokes, aubergines, lemons etc. Also try pizza, seafood, fresh local fish dishes, grilled meat and various types of appetizers there. I would say that in every restaurant there is the possibility of finding vegetarian food. Outside a restaurant in Ischia Where to head for shopping in Ischia? The most popular place with plethora of shopping choices is Via Roma in Ischia Porto. Also Corso Vittoria Colonna which begins when Via Roma ends. They have plenty of fashion boutiques and stores. However, if you are looking for something traditional, head to the village of Ischia Ponte. For luxury shopping try Sant’ Angelo. In spring, on the larger squares, they often make flea markets on Sundays, at Christmas time – Christmas markets. Via Roma, Ischia Which is the local craft or souvenir of Ischia? For souvenirs I would recommend the Rucolino and Limoncello made by Ischia Sapori which is the island’s one and only liqueur factory. Rucolino is the locally famous Italian liquor (argula – flavoured) made from herbs grown in the island while Limoncello is made from the lemons grown in the organic orchard of Ischia Sapori. You can also buy magnets of various types, hand-painted hand-crafted ceramics, Ischia terracotta whistles, organic soaps, creams based on Ischian thermal water, local lemons, white and red wine produced in the best cellars of the island, spices and smells for cooking etc. Serpico Biocosmetics, Ischia Which are the best streets of Ischia worthy of taking a stroll on? For a pleasant walk I would recommend Ischia Ponte towards the castle, Via Roma in Ischia Porto or Corso Angelo Rizzoli with the Fungo in Lacco Ameno. Lacco Ameno, Ischia Forio is the busiest and second largest town in Ischia based on the slopes of Mount Epomeo. The center of Forio is beautiful with a breathtaking sunset near the church of Soccorso and is known for its bars and tree lined boulevards. The small charming, characteristic and romantic village of Sant ‘ Angelo, Casamicciola seafront and Piazza Marina. Seafront of Casamicciola Alley in Casamicciola Can you suggest a place from where one can get the best view of Ischia? Since Ischia is made up of a number of towns I would like to give you the best places to view each of them – From the Aragonese Castle, the view of the village of Ischia Ponte is very beautiful. View of Ischia Ponte from the Aragonese Castle From the height of the area of San Montano you can admire the whole of Lacco Ameno. From Mount Epomeo you can see a large part of the island, in particular Forio. From the viewpoint of Serrara Fontana opens up a wonderful view of the village of Sant’Angelo. Serrara Fontana, Ischia Would you suggest any shows in Ischia to drama, music or art lovers? For the shows in the summer they do the folkloristic parade with period costumes for the feast of San Alessandro in August, cine festival in July, motorcycle rally in October, gathering of motorcycles and vintage cars in different periods, music concerts classical at the La Mortella gardens, concerts of modern music on the stage of the Negombo thermal park, numerous photographic exhibitions at the Aragonese castle etc Would you recommend any local apps for food, transport or hidden gems in Ischia? As an app for transport, I would recommend Ischia Capri Procida Timetable for transport and timetables by sea. Also, on Google there are all suggestions on bus schedules, car, motorcycle and boat rentals, the best restaurants and hotels. Do you want to give any suggestion/tip to tourists coming to Ischia? Points to note: In very hot summer climate the siesta exists and often all the premises are closed from 13.00 to 17.30-18.00. Some bathing establishments ask for a season ticket or to get place on the beds in 1 row you have to go early in the morning, after 9.30 – 10.00 it can all be occupied especially in July – August. It is not welcome to walk to the city center in a beach costume and without a pareo or cover-up. You do not enter public rooms with a bare chest. IF YOU ARE TRAVELLING TO ISCHIA OR WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT NATALIYA’S TRAVEL EXPERIENCES THEN BE SURE TO FOLLOW HER ON INSTAGRAM Pingback: ISCHIA, ITALY - Hear It From Locals At Hear It From Locals, we aim to bridge the gap between wanderers and locals, which are two interchangeable roles of same us. Sometimes be a local and help the wanderers while most other times be a wanderer and take help from the locals. Join the Hear It From Locals community ! Get your FREE Ultimate Travel Interviews for your travel needs delivered directly to your mailbox !! Recommended straight by the locals. JUMP ON THE BANDWAGON !! 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__label__cc	0.649728	0.350272	Planetary Alignments in the Garden of Love Posted on May 18, 2015 by Joanna Today’s post follows on from the photos of a ship that flew overhead here on April 26th that you can read about in the previous post. This ship appeared three days after a very high frequency light-wave snuck in quietly through the ‘back door’, so to speak, and energies on and around this planet have continued to intensify since then. At an individual level, everything in our beings that is not aligned in Love is getting a deeper shake out, so those energies can be perceived, blessed and released, to reveal more of our higher dimensional Essence. In the collective, the same shake out can be seen happening around the globe, and the energies of shifting consciousness responding to it. On a planetary level, the shakedowns/ups (earthquakes and eruptions) have continued since the late April light-wave came through and the kundalini energy flowed from Tibet to Peru; those energies are still in a shifting/settling process, and indeed are intensifying. I’ll explain why below, in terms of planetary alignments, the return of the ‘Venus energy’ and re-fusion of the Divine Feminine, in merge with the grounding of the Divine Masculine. This is all enacting through the higher octaves/ frequency waveforms of the inner planets of the Solar System and their communications with Earth (and us, and all Life on Earth). To recap briefly, the ship that appeared on April 26th ‘called’ me outside to look at the Moon and Venus (see photos in previous post). It appeared directly above Venus, then flew south-east above the house. They appeared as blueish-skinned human-carian (birdlike) hybrid people, and on checking a skymap online, I found the Moon was at that moment directly in front of (occulting) the star Aldebaran, alpha star of the Taurus constellation. Aldebaran and the Hyades, in the Taurus constellation, Hubble telescope, photo courtesy NASA. For a few days prior to that visit, the Hyades constellation, which sits in Taurus between the Pleiades and Orion, had been drawing my focus as having a role in the current Shift here on Earth. The Hyades, with Aldebaran at the tip, sit in the face of the Bull, echoing the V-shaped horns on top of the head of Taurus (the connection will become apparent below). Our star brothers and sisters of Aldebaran and Alpha Centauri (from Centaurus, meaning ‘new bull’) are both here with the Ashtar Command and closely connected with my Twin Flame, Ashura&I, and the lightship Shem Arua. ‘V’ is for Vega, and the first federation in this galaxy (the Federation of Lyra), V also stands for the Hyades star cluster (the horns of Taurus the Bull), for Venus, the Ashtar Command, and the wings on the helmet of the astrological symbol for Mercury, swiftest, closest planet to the Sun, catalyst and messenger of the gods. As we are nearing a significant planetary alignment on May 28th, involving Venus right-angled to Mercury, and Mercury to Saturn aligned through the space between the Earth and its Moon to the Sun, we’re reminded to focus into the higher octaves (frequencies) of the tones of the souls we know as planets, the ‘music of the spheres’. Sound, tones, are multidimensional vibrations, shapers of form. The Earth, in 3D, has a sound frequency to which all life here is inherently attuned, known as the Schumann Resonance, of approximately 8hz – which also happens to be the frequency of the DNA’s double helix: melatonin and pinoline have been observed to induce replication of DNA at the frequency of 8hz (with hertz being the measure of frequencies in cycles per second). When a sound is emitted, all its multiples sound at the same moment, in what I hear as an ‘exponential unfoldment’. This is why 432hz (as a higher multiple of 8; 8×54, where 54 is a 9, number of completion of a cycle, angelic frequencies, and the Fibonacci spiral form) is understood/felt as a frequency that harmonizes our body, mind and emotional energies with nature, Earth’s nature. Every planet is a body of consciousness emitting a base tone, in constant exponential unfoldment, and our free will focus attunes us to/with particular octaves within that unfoldment. When we have planets meeting in linear and right angled positions relative to the Sun, the light-hub of our solar system, they produce combined specific tones across dimensions. These tones (shaping energies) are experienced distinctly in 3D, 4D, 5D etc. Focus engages energies, and how centered we are in relation to our heart’s zero point, our core, determines how we experience those energies, in every given moment. Astrological and alchemical symbols depict the shaping function of celestial, planetary and elemental tones in a way we can ‘read’ in 3D. Since Mercury is a catalyst, and Venus will be right-angled to Mercury (while also aligned directly to both Uranus and Neptune, but we’ll focus with the inner planet tonal shaping partnerships for this post), let’s feel into the octaves of their connection. Their symbols both connect the unity field (circle) on the cross (of matter, the four elements). Mercury, like Venus, is historically considered a feminine energy, and its ‘winged helmet’ can also be seen/felt as the (lunar) crescent or Bow of the Mother. Yet Mercury’s symbol is also the sign of the constellation Taurus, the Bull, atop the cross of matter. If you’re new to this site, you can read about the Shem Arua and the ‘Ashura/Arnap’ archives for a deeper sensing of the Ascended Bull/Divine Masculine energy adding a ‘cosmic push’ to Gaia’s Shift. Ashura defined his fleet-name ‘Arnap’ as ‘one who steers through the Bow’, which has the double layer of steering, meaning to guide, and steers, meaning male cows/bulls. The Taurus constellation, like Centaurus (and others like Aquila) contain many stars and planets that were colonized and controlled by factions of Carian origin and/or their reptilian/mantid creations. In Taurus, this was mostly a flow from Orion, into the Hyades, Pleiades, Atlas and others. Many of those systems are now clear of the domination of control-oriented beings. Some are fully ascended into 5D+ states, and the ‘steers’ who align and flow through the Bow (as one with the divine feminine rather than in dominance/separation energies) are beings of Universal Love, in service to Source. Carian groups of both energies have interacted with – are interwoven with – the development of humanity on Earth and throughout this galaxy. The second Horus is a Carian of Light, through whom many bright lights of love streamed their energies to lift the planet and human genome/helix from the control factions thousands of years ago. Feel also into Krishna’s energy, the blue-skinned Cowherd who wears a peacock feather. The tones of his flute were golden, the resurrecting light frequencies. He represents another inflow of love, compassion, peace and freedom to Earth 3000 years before Jesus Immanuel Sananda’s incarnation as the ‘divine shepherd’. The connection of the Taurean bull/cow energy with Venus, is represented in the Pleiadian-Venusian Hathors. Ancient astrologers designated Venus the ‘ruling planet’ of Taurus (where a ‘ruling’ planet shows a close affinity/resonance of energies). Egyptian cow goddess ‘Hathor”, Luxor Museum, Egypt. In Egypt, Hathor was symbolized as a cow, or as a woman with a cow’s head, and was their goddess of love, women and music. ‘Hathor’ means ‘house of Horus’, and she was regarded as the mother and/or wife of Horus. In other words, Carian beings birthed through the ‘cow’ energy (Taurus), which came to Venus (planet of love, femininity, the arts/music)…and to Earth. Column depicting a Hathor being at Sedinga, Egypt. Through a Venusian soul aspect, Hanamaya: Venus did not ascend in one ‘clean sweep’. We went from 3D to 4D, then dropped back, before going 4D to 5D. Venus and Gaia are closely linked, and many Venusians were on or around Maldek when that planet was destroyed and became the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Ashura/Arnap had a ship called the Meri’Ashar (Mary’s Star) in which part of our soul energy was housed in a creation crystal, in merge with two dear twin souls, Raiba and Tee’nah. I was in form on board a ship close to Maldek, the Butterfly, that was lost along with much of the Federation fleet. Many of us then incarnated onto Earth; the influences can be felt in the Mu (Lemurian) and Atlantean civilizations. Why is this relevant now? Because the reintegration of Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine energies that lifted and unified Venus is teaming with Mercury in late May to trigger an acceleration of Earth’s return to wholeness. From a mythological view, we could say the split/broken feminine is reuniting, with Mercury’s ignition – and Mercury’s energy is an androgyne fusion of the bull/masculine with Venus/feminine, both male and female flows in One. This is the deeper meaning of ‘mercurial’, which in duality/the split ego, is felt as changeable, unpredictable, tricky, but which in higher octaves (dimensions) is felt as a quicksilver flow of balance, merge, fusion. Feel the difference? Let’s add one more symbol into this picture, that of the dwarf planet Ceres. Ceres is actually the largest remnant of Maldek, orbiting in the asteroid belt, recently reclassified as a planet. Some have already begun speaking of the ‘harvest’ energies this year, linked with the tetrad of blood moons that concludes in September 2015. Ceres’ symbol is the feminine sickle of harvest, the crescent of the scythe on the cross. Ceres is the name of the ancient Roman grain goddess, mother goddess of the harvest, depicted holding sheaves of wheat, and with grain in her hair, or a crescent/bow-shaped head-dress. The ancient Greeks called her Demeter, whose daughter was Persephone. In the myth, Persephone was stolen by the god of the dead, Hades, and made queen of the underworld. As Demeter, overcome by grief and rage, took her grace from the land, crops were ravaged and harvests failed. The world was dying. The other gods petitioned Hades to return Persephone to her mother, and they agreed to a compromise, where Persephone would return to the surface world/Demeter each Spring, then descend to Hades, through the wheel of the seasons. This myth has several layers of meaning, but for our present focus, look again at the symbol of the planet Ceres/Demeter. Do you see the sign of Venus, with a piece ‘missing’, broken out of it? It represents the split of the feminine energy in Venus before it ascended and re-unified, which was mirrored darkly in the destruction of Maldek, and the splitting off of Ceres. Ceres’ symbol represents Venus’s pre-ascension state. Earth is now re-unifying its feminine, the stolen innocence of the daughter energy returning to the Mother. The circle of Life will be (IS becoming) whole again, as the crossbar is raised. So feel now, wherever the ‘daughter’ is oppressed on this planet, the impact of a flood of the ascended, unified Venus energy means, teamed with the androgyne male/female balancer Mercury, igniting a big release of ‘karma’ as it aligns with Saturn through the space between Earth and Moon. I’ll speak more of the inner/outer dynamics of these alignments in the next post. For now, here are a few photos I took on the night of May 13th, of star family projecting as three Orbs, symbolizing the coming alignment. I took these shots facing north, with Mercury sitting low on the horizon. Mercury is the bright dot of light at the lower right, just above the treetops. In the first photo, the Orbs sat in an almost horizontal straight line but quite faint, in the upper left of the frame. May 13, three Orbs align, upper left, Mercury above the trees lower right. The Orbs then moved above Mercury and flashed brighter. The three orbs position themselves above Mercury. The Orbs moved into a triangulating format to the left of Mercury. Orbs triangulating, angled to Mercury. Two of the Orbs went into a vertical alignment above Mercury, just before it sank behind the treeline. You can see the upper Orb beginning to morph or ‘re-shape’ its light-form. Two orbs in vertical alignment with Mercury, forming a line of three. Okay, I was just asked to enlarge the upper (morphing) Orb. Here it is, with contrast enhanced. Open your heart, and feel the presence there. In the left foreground is a woman’s head and upper body, bare-breasted, her face turned in profile, looking ‘into’ the Orb. Behind her are a baby’s face, and the two white wings of a bird behind it. The deep-angled wings signify an ibis or eagle (they can also be read as two crystal pyramids of white light). This is a deeper knowing, of Venus, Mercury, Earth’s pyramid builders, fusion, INfusion, and how star family work in confluence with the higher octaves of planetary and celestial alignments to flow themselves in through the space between. The next post will go deeper into this, including what the ‘space between’ is, and what it means in our individual and collective journey into higher frequencies. Readers of Heart Star posts may be aware that Ashtar is remembered in Earth myths as Djehuti/Thoth (represented as the ibis in ancient Egypt). Thoth was known to the Greeks as Hermes Trismegistus, Mercury to the Romans. He was also the first Horus (that name was applied to several beings) or Hor-Ur, which simply translates as ‘Hour Far Away’, one who came from far away (distant or ancient times)…ancient even to the ancient Egyptians. In the Egyptian myths, there appear to be contradictions, where Isis (who has Venus connections) in the older stories was the wife of the elder Horus, and in later stories the wife of Osiris, and mother of Horus. However, they are both true, of different ‘Horuses’. Earlier in this post, I described Horus the son as a Carian being. This is true, but there is more. The complete Horus is a shimura (in the ancient world, depicted as simurgh or gryphon – leonine, carian and angelic merged being), hence all those energies could stream/speak/act through him. Enlarging the second Orb from the above photo, midway between the Isis/Thoth orb and Mercury, is a face with a lightning strike on its forehead/right eye. Ah, the resonances – like Harry Potter, Horus the son of Isis and Osiris was the original ‘boy who lived’….who lost one of his eyes to Set and was blinded, until Thoth magically made him a new one. (Myths are metaphors; the Eyes of Horus were said to be the Sun and Moon, so this myth is a memory of a battle over stellar/planetary portals). Isis and Ashtar (Im’mara and Ash’Ta’Hor) are Twin Flames, and Isis has a beautiful ship named the Sophia/White Phoenix. Feel the energy in this image below, of Isis in her Angelic form, within the double helix/golden twin spiral of the Caduceus – the feminine Venus-Mercury energy (deeply connected with Sirius) in the resurrecting golden light. The planetary alignment of May 28 is a doorway for this energy. Feel it in your heart, your soul, and anchor it with the light-grid of Gaia, into every strand of your DNA. Feel the Venus Rose bloom within your body, which is a temple, and is also your Garden of Love, your Eden of original innocence/inner sense, which you are restoring to wholeness….and as you do so, you send that vibration into the human collective, to all life on Gaia. It’s so beautiful to see how everything in higher frequencies flows through to 3D. This week while looking for pictures of Ceres, I came across the one below, of a statue of her, in a place I had just been reading about. The state of Vermont in the USA has been taken to court by Monsanto (genetic engineering agricultural megacorporation) and sued hundreds of millions of dollars for passing a law that requires labelling of GMO foods. Vermont is a ‘test case’ that will have a big effect – and there atop the Vermont State Capitol Building stands Ceres, holding her sheaves of grain. Statue of Ceres/Demeter on top of the Vermont State Capitol Building. The Mother of all good Grain is about to get a boost, dear friends, as the trapped, sliced, diced daughter (such as; genetic manipulation of grain) rises again from the land of the dead. This time she’s not going back, because that’s what ascension IS….rising out of the death cycle that in 3D gets mistakenly called the ‘life cycle’. The true Life Circle has no end, is not finite, does not age, wither, dis-ease, or require pesticides. May the Divine Horn of Plenty flow again in Mother’s arms. One last thing, on April 28th, a few days after the Shifting of the Earth’s kundalini/spiritual hub from Tibet to Peru, accompanied by the activation of a volcano in Chile, the sky went completely white here for one day, covered in milky white from horizon to horizon. The whiteness was in front of the Sun, but above the level of the clouds, as later in the day clouds floated by underneath it. I’ve never seen anything like it; it felt like a releasing of ‘Mother’s Milk’ and shall we say, a higher frequency streaming from our Milky Way’s central Sun. Fill your inner garden with roses, cover the Earth in roses (the Venus spiral), opening to receive the arrows of Divine Love. Namaste ❤ The path of the orbit of Venus over a 5 year period. Love and gratitude to all who align with Source Mercy and compassion to those in resistance to Source Peace, peace, peace to all Life, I Am-We Are One Love All that lives is a spark of the imperishable fire, the Eternal Flame Trusting in the flow of Source, we breathe Rose into the spiral Resurrecting the garden of Love withIN. Nua Asera Du (We Love You, in leonine Arua tones) This entry was posted in Aldebaran & Hyadeans, Alpha Centaurians, Angels, Arnap/Ashura, Ascension, Ashtar, Ashtar Command, Dimensions, Gaia, Intergalactic Confederation, Isis & Sesherat, Jesus Immanuel Sananda, Lightships, Lyrans, Mythology, Orbs, Pleiadians, Sirians, Twin Flames & Twin Souls, Venusians and tagged alchemy, Aldebaran, aliens, Alpha Centaurians, ancient Egypt, angels, Aquila, Arnap/Ashura, ascension, Ashtar, Ashtar Command, Atlantis, blue avians, carians, Centaurus, Ceres, Demeter, Divine Feminine, ETs, ETVs, Gaia, gods, Hades, Hathor, Hermes, higher dimensions, Horus, Hyades, Isis, Krishna, Lemuria, leonine beings, lightships, Maldek, Mercury, mythology, orbs, Persephone, planetary alignments, Pleiadians, Schumann Resonance, Sirian High Council, Sirians, Taurus, Thoth, UFOs, Venus, Venus Rose, Venusians by Joanna. Bookmark the permalink. 6 thoughts on “Planetary Alignments in the Garden of Love” sixtina on May 18, 2015 at 4:44 pm said: Dear Love wanted to share this post of mine with you, reflecting the rose energy and also galactic family, love your channels thank you Aum Hu LAST NIGHT I WAS AWOKEN BY A VERY RUDE TEXT BY AN EX OF MINE, AND MINE IS NOT TO JUDGE HIM OR ANYONE, AND SO AT 3 O CLOCK I MADE COOFFEE HAD A BITE AND I SAID THERE MUST BE A GOOD REASON I AWOKE SO I FELT LIKE GOING OUT, I KNEW IT WAS CLOUDY SO IT WAS AND STILL I LOOKED UP FOR STARS, AND THERE A STRONG FLASHING WHITE STARSHIP UNDER THE CLOUDLAYER, FLASHING A FEW TIMES AND SHOT ACROSS THE SKY, ANOTHER ONE FOLLOWED AND ANOTHER, LOOKING LIKE STARS AT FIRST, LOL, SO FAST THE STARSHIPS FLEW AND I AM OVERJOYED, SO SHOWING GUIDANCE OF STAYING NEUTRAL, STAYING OPEN, AND EVEN IF THERE ARE CLOUDS GOING WITHOUT ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT HOW OUR GALACTIC FAMILY MANIFESTS, SO GLORIOUS SO LOVING ❤ AND ALSO WE WERE SHOWM A HUGE PORTAL OPENING WITHIN INNER EARTH, THE CENTRAL SUNSOL, LADY-MASTERS ANGELS GA LACTICS ARE SENDING WHAT LOOKS LIKE HUGE ETHERIC RED LIGHT ROSES, ROSE RAY ENERGY, ROSE PASSION LOVE ASHQ RIGHT INTO THE CORE ALL OVER GAIA SO MOMENTOUS, THIS LOVEENERGY IS SO STRONG SO COMPELLING WE AS HU MANS MAY GET SAD OR HAVE RE GRETS FOR NOT HAVING GIVEN ENOUGH LOVE OR HELPED OR FORGIVEN ENOUGH HOWEVER WE ALL DO OUR BEST AT ANY GIVEN M-OM-ENT AND THIS LOVE IS SO STRONG IT IS LIKE A TSUNAMI WAVES UPON WAVES WASHING AWAY ALL TRAUMA TEARS REGRETS BATHING US IN ROSE SMELL ROSE FREQUENCY GOLDEN ROSE GALAXY BLISS OF THE MOST SUBTLE PERVASIVE INTENSE AND SOOTHING WAY WORDS COME SHORT FOR WHAT WE SEE ALL LOVE BLISS STREAMS FLOW EMBRACE WE ARE SO DEEPLY LOVED CREATRIXELIXIR THROUGH CHRYSONNYA SIXTINA AUM ASHQ HU Unlike · Comment · Share Joanna Fay on May 19, 2015 at 1:50 am said: Hello Dear Star Sixtina, great to hear of/feel your connectings with star family, and that you are IN and embracing the stream of the Rose….’subtle, pervasive, intense and soothing’…and so it IS. The intensity will keep increasing, so breathe deep and stay relaxed, anchored, in equilibrium. Much Love, heart to heart, thank you for BEing Love! Your Sister, Joanna. ❤ ❤ ❤ messagia on May 20, 2015 at 6:05 am said: Reblogged this on The World is Changing. Thank you dear SiStar, love and hugs to you ❤ ❤ ❤ Bareld on May 20, 2015 at 8:58 pm said: Thank you for another beautiful new blog, feeling many familiar stuff we have spoken of. Love and Light IS. Heart IS. Truth IS. About my ship the Butterfly. The Butterfly was destroyed in the Maldek war and I was captain of this ship, which was part of, as it was then called, the Sananda Fleet, trying to save the planet from utter destruction, by not so positively influenced forces. Also Venusians were in the rescue attempt. In the attempt much of that fleet was destroyed, also the planet Maldek itself. JIS often speaks of the heroic role of souls who died in that attempt to save the planet. Note to the Bull energies and more: As the Egyptians gave the first meaning to the Cow/Bees (Taurus) energies, who symbol of the Alpha and the Tau, or Taw, which passed later on to the Hebrews/Semetic peoples, as in cow sacrifice, the alpha, we come to the significance of the meaning of the word Tau, or later transformed, in Greek Omega. The Tau, the Mark or X, was the ending of the Hebrew alphabet. Egyptians knew it meant both, death and rebirth, the cow, alpha, the sacrifice… and Bee, a new soul, birth. It Hebrew times lots revolved around cow sacrifice. In Christianity, through JIS, Jesus Immanuel Sananda, it became the Lamb, or the sacrificing energy of the Lamb, who also died on the cross, the Tau, or the X. Both signify the same, or both are therefore connected as being from the same source, ergo, being Source. ;)) But, the end, meaning the destruction, also means the alpha, the new beginning, new heaven, which in Egypt was already shown in through the birthing of the Bees, or new souls, birthing from the Bow (horns of the Taurus), or the Bow form, as being the feminine birthing energies, the IC, or Immaculate Conception. Ergo, the Alpha and the Tau are the never-ending cycle of rebirth and ending of live, the destroyer and the creator! When we flow with the 8, the infinite number, true center, the unending core flow, which only lies within our hearts and flow with the golden frequency, 432 Hz, or one of its fractals, we see will also see Venus, its number 54, as the multiplying factor, the catalyst. 8 times 54 is 432 Hz.The Mayans made many calculations on this number, 52 (sometimes 54). Quetzalcoatl or Kukumatz was known to be linked to Venus, the Rose, the Virginal energies of the Ceres fruit basked. The number of the golden cycle of the Earth is the 432 HZ, (432 is connected as a fractal of the radius of the Sun, which is 432,000 miles (695,000 km’s), the number of the precession cycle (wobble of Earth), which is 2160 years approximately, which is then connected to the radius of Earth to the Moon, 216,000 miles,The moon measures about 2160 miles (3476 km) across. So with 432,000/216000 = 2. This number signifies the unity between masculine (sun) and feminine (moon), ergo, the divine unity, twin flames, being harmonious as one. Also, 54 divided by 2, is 27, 2+7 making the 9 again. Angelical and divine connection. So the Rose is the catalysts for Love. My advice if you want to love, use the Rose, connected to the Higher Heart and Love of the immaculate kind! Much love to all in here and reading all of Joanna’s lovely blogposts, Bareld Thank you for sharing all the above info…which leads perfectly into the next post here, in so many ways….which will be looking/feeling more into the full alignments of Venus on May 28….on a right angle – Venus-Mercury-Neptune and Venus-Sun-Uranus…..and the Venusian connection of Rose and Butterfly, Namaste 🙂 xxx	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1464
__label__wiki	0.781636	0.781636	College of Chiropractic (x) Fit Fest 2015 Students, Events Students and faculty working at the NWHSU table during Fit Fest 2015. Human Performance Center Director Tim Stark photo bombing a picture of two students at Fit Fest 2015. Students working at the NWHSU table during Fit Fest 2015. NWHSU student in a Bod Pod at Minneapolis-St. Paul Magazine's Fit Fest, held at the University of Minnesota (2015). Banners at Fit Fest NWHSU banners at Fit Fest at Minneapolis-St. Paul Magazine's Fit Fest, held at the University of Minnesota (2015). College of Chiropractic students at Fit Fest College of Chiropractic students at the Northwestern Health Sciences University table at Minneapolis-St. Paul Magazine's Fit Fest, held at the University of Minnesota (2015). College of Chiropractic student at Fit Fest A College of Chiropractic student is giving an adjustment to someone at the Northwestern Health Sciences University table at Minneapolis-St. Paul Magazine's Fit Fest, held at the University of Minnesota (2015). Barb Gosse, Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine Programs faculty member with one of her students, examining a man at Minneapolis-St. Paul Magazine's Fit Fest, held at the University of Minnesota (2015). Northwestern Health Sciences University tables at Minneapolis-St. Paul Magazine's Fit Fest, held at the University of Minnesota (2015). Massage Therapy students at Fit Fest Massage Therapy students giving massages to people at Minneapolis-St. Paul Magazine's Fit Fest, held at the University of Minnesota (2015). Barb Gosse at Fit Gest Barb Gosse, Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine Programs faculty member with students at Minneapolis-St. Paul Magazine's Fit Fest, held at the University of Minnesota (2015). NWHSU tables at Fit Fest College of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine faculty member Barb Gosse (L) and others at the NWHSU table at Fit Fest 2015. On the monitor behind the table is a photo of School of Massage Therapy faculty member Joanie Holst demonstrating a massage technique to students.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1470
__label__wiki	0.542312	0.542312	Severn Trent PLC Severn Trent Water Draft Determination for AMP7 Fonte : UK Regulatory (RNS & others) Titolo : Severn Trent Plc (SVT) Quotazione : 2583.0 19.0 (0.74%) @ 17:35 Quotazione Severn Trent Grafico Grafico Azioni Severn Trent (LSE:SVT) 1 Anno : Da Gen 2019 a Gen 2020 TIDMSVT Severn Trent Water receives Draft Determination for AMP7 Severn Trent Water Draft Determination This morning we are pleased to have received our Draft Determination from Ofwat which confirmed our fast-track status for the business plan period 2020 to 2025. The highlights of our plan include: -- Our commitment to becoming the most socially purposeful company in the sector; -- A bill reduction of c.5%, providing our customers the lowest bills in England for another five years; -- A broad set of performance commitments that will deliver more for our customers and the environment; -- Investment of GBP6.4 billion across the period contributing to real RCV growth of 3.4%; -- Approval of GBP156 million of additional investment through our innovative real options mechanism. We will respond to Ofwat by 24 May 2019 and look forward to continued constructive dialogue until the Final Determination on 11 December 2019. Updated data tables have been made available on our website. See: www.stwater.co.uk/regulatory-library/2020-2025-submission-documents/ Hafren Dyfrdwy Our Welsh business, Hafren Dyfrdwy, submitted its updated business plan on 29 March 2019 and we look forward to receiving its Draft Determination on 18 July 2019. 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__label__cc	0.718171	0.281829	friday feast: inscape or escape? February 15, 2008 July 2, 2018 ~ jama “No doubt my poetry errs on the side of oddness. I hope in time to have a more balanced and Miltonic style. But as air, melody, is what strikes me most of all in music and design in painting, so design, pattern or what I am in the habit of calling ‘inscape’ is what I above all aim at in poetry. Now it is the virtue of design, pattern, or inscape to be distinctive and it is the vice of distinctiveness to become queer. This vice I cannot have escaped.” ~ Gerard Manley Hopkins (in a letter to Robert Bridges, February 15, 1879) Like E.E. Cummings, Gerard Manley Hopkins is known for his innovation with poetic form. But with Hopkins there is quite a different inner music, played on taut strings of repression and anguish. Hopkins started out wanting to be a painter, but soon decided that such a pursuit was “too passionate” for someone seeking an ecclesiastical life. He destroyed his early poems for the same reason. As a Jesuit priest, he didn’t paint, but sketched, composed music, wrote sermons and other religious pieces, and eventually was led right back to poetry. This conflict between his artistic longings and his devotion to religion resulted in a life of abject misery. He decided never to publish his poems, since to do so would be a function of ego rather than humility. Though he never waivered in his faith, he also never felt worthy of it. Why did such a promising, sensitive young man, who began writing poetry as a boy and who clearly possessed a keen interest in art, opt for a life of such agonizing denial and submission? While studying at Oxford, Hopkins became greatly disturbed by the discovery of his homoerotic tendencies. This motivated him to seek an ascetic life, and he eventually converted to Catholicism. Did he seek refuge in religion? Despite the austerity of his regulated existence, Hopkins’ poetry reveals a man unwilling to conform to prevailing standards. Traditional verse was far too tame, so he experimented with diction, meter, and rhythm. He used archaic words (or coined his own), preferring the older rhythms of Anglo-Saxon poetry. Influenced also by the aural patterns of Welsh literature, he skillfully incorporated alliteration, assonance, and onomatopoeia. His “sprung rhythm” enabled him to escape the constraints of the more predictable “running rhythm” utilized by his contemporaries. “The Windhover” is my favorite Hopkins poem, and he considered it to be his best work. While an artist might have painted a landscape, Hopkins word-painted an inscape, the movement and music of which perfectly replicates a single moment when a bird rebuffs a big wind. Just as the Romantic poets before him looked to nature for spirituality, Hopkins saw the miracle of the divine in the falcon. With every reading, I am amazed anew at the sheer beauty of the language. In the space of this magnificent poem, one senses a soul hovering between heaven and earth, riding the air under the rein of God, then finally breaking free. THE WINDHOVER by Gerard Manley Hopkins To Christ Our Lord I caught this morning morning’s minion, king- dom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, & striding High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing, As a skate’s heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl & gliding Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding Stirred for a bird, — the achieve of, the mastery of the thing! Brute beauty & valour & act, oh, air, pride, plume, here Buckle! AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion Times told lovelier, more dangerous, o my chevalier! No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion Shine, & blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, & gash gold-vermillion. (composed in 1877, first published in 1918) This week’s Poetry Friday Roundup is at HipWriterMama. Posted in poetry friday, Uncategorized gerard manley hopkins < Previous soup of the day: jessie’s mountain by kerry madden Next > thought for the week 18 thoughts on “friday feast: inscape or escape?” saralholmes says: This is one that I have to read multiple times to get anywhere near the fullness of meaning that GMH has packed into this poem. But I adore his “odd” sprung rhythms and his unconventional grammar–and his passion. I’m so glad we studied this one in school–far from cheapening the experience, it gave me an idea about the meaning of the words and metaphors that was sadly lacking when I first read it…This one really pays re-reading. That last was from me, Charlotte… liz_scanlon says: Mercy, I am all out of breath… Thanks for sharing a bit of his life’s story – I have always thought his poetry very joyous, if a bit strange, but in this light, it grieves me to think that he created such passionate wordplay in denial and restraint, thought himself unworthy of his own art, and that God may have found the whole thing unseemly and unsuitable. Hopkins’ poetry does indeed reveal a man unwilling to conform to prevailing standards, and I wished he had been born just a little later… I imagine he and Walt Whitman might have brought out the best in each other. jamarattigan says: His stuff is definitely better read aloud, but you need to take a deep breath! I’ve only really begun to understand more of this poem since learning about his life. Sure, I knew he was a religious man, but never realized how unhappy he was. They say now that he was probably manic-depressive. Do you remember John Boy reciting this in the “Waltons?” Re: TadMack says: He’s viewed as paving the way for free verse poets like Whitman. Definitely ahead of his time. Considering how repressed the Victorians were, Hopkins was indeed very daring to assert his own style. kellyrfineman says: I am nearly certain that he tried to “correct” his homosexual tendencies by seeking an ascetic life (just as many men with pedophiliac tendencies have entered the priesthood in hopes of diminishing them, some of them with really horrific headline-catching outcomes). I love and need poems like this, that FORCE slow and careful reading. It’s so dense, it seems almost to be pushing against language rather than slipping meaning into it. I think you’re right. He never really got over his self-loathing, and it’s amazing to me that such beautiful, powerful poetry came from such a dark soul. You’re absolutely right about “dense.” I’ve been reading this poem off and on for over 30 years, and I still don’t understand everything. writerjenn says: I agree with writer2b, but what also struck me about this poem was the meter. It’s so strong an element and relates so well to the poem’s tone and subject. Absolutely right. He breaks out of established sing-song, to replicate the thing itself, rather than merely describe it from a distance. I do love this one, but Pied Beauty is my all-time favorite GM Hopkins. laurasalas says: And thanks for the background on Hopkins. I didn’t know much of that. Favorite lines: A very different person lived inside of Hopkins. Without his poetry, we might never have suspected that a man living a cloistered, drab, submissive existence could be capable of lines like these. If his friend, Robert Bridges, hadn’t published Hopkins’ poetry posthumously, the world would have been at a loss!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1477
__label__wiki	0.550822	0.550822	Kinoshita’s portrayal of wartime internal exile: “Shônen-ki” (1951) Kinoshita Keisuke shot two movies between “Carmen Goes Home” (1951) and its sequel “Carmen’s Pure Love” (1952). The historically more important one, is “Shônen-ki,” called in English “Boyhood” (by Janus-Criterion-Hulu”, “A Record of Youth,” and just “Youth.” (The other was the incoherent “Fireworks Over the Sea.”) I found the patriotic music difficult to bear in Konoshita’s 1951 “Boyhood (Shônen-ki), even if its intent was ironic (about which I’m not entirely sure, though I think it was, though I think it was; against that is the rarity of Kinoshita being on the side of a father rather than a son). I wanted to identify with the liberal scholar father (Ryû Chichû), but Kinoshita portrayed him as self-centered, which is also the critical view of the more fascist of his son Ichirô (Ishihama Akira, a decade before dying agonizingly in Shinoda’s “Hara-kiri”). Ichirô was 16 when the war ended, restive in the countryside, to which he had resisted going when the rest of the family evacuated Tokyo, but he eventually rejoined them there after Japan’s surrender. Ichirô remains dubious about his father’s patriotism, though his father tries to explain that, not knowing at what moment he/they may be killed by US bombs, he wants to spend all his waking time reading. BoyhoodIshiamaIshihamaJapanese cinemaKinoshitamilitarismRyûStephen O. MurrayWWII Previous Post“Carmen Falls in Love” (1952)Next PostKinoshita’s “Fireworks Over the Sea” (1951)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1481
__label__wiki	0.773171	0.773171	Jason Harris Promotions About Jason Harris Promotions Clients (updated 6/16/2019) Links (updated 10/26/2017) Tag Archives: Lita Ford Pictures from Terror Con, Part 2 By Jason Harris Musician Cherie Currie. Jim Dyer of Fenham Publishing. Naomi Grossman (An American Horror Story) Michael Jai-White (Arrow, Spawn) Author Stacey Longo with Captain Jack Sparrow. The fun-loving Dee Wallace (E.T., Critters) Me and Kane Hodder. Musician Lita Ford Butch Patrick (The Munsters) Pat Priest (The Munsters) Author Stacey Longo having a scream at Terror Con. A scorpion at Terror Con. There will be one more entry with pictures from Terror Con tomorrow. By dudley228 • Posted in Conventions, Jason Harris, Pictures • Tagged An American Horror Story, Arrow, Butch Patrick, Captain Jack Sparrow, Cherie Currie, Dee Wallace, Fenham Publishing, Frankenberry, Jason Harris, Jim Dyer, Kane Hodder, Lita Ford, Michael Jai-Whie, Naomi Grossman, Pat Priest, scorpion, Spawn, Stacey Longo, Terror Con, The Munsters TerrorCon, a New Convention for Horror Fans New England is getting its second horror convention, TerrorCon, with the first one being Rock & Shock, which will be holding its eleventh convention this October. TerrorCon, which takes place in Rhode Island in June, isn’t the only new horror convention debuting in New England this year. Connecticut Horrorfest debuts in August. TerrorCon is the brainchild of Steven Perry, director of operations for Altered Reality, who has brought conventions to fans of comics, movies, and pop culture. These conventions are Southcoast Toy and Comic Show and Rhode Island Comic Con. Perry had been thinking of his newest one, TerrorCon, for about a year, he said. Rhode Island didn’t have a big horror type show, Perry said. “We wanted to bring that to the people of Rhode Island.” Perry thinks the organizers of Rock & Shock do a great job so he decided to have his new convention take place in June so as not to interfere with Rock & Shock. He didn’t want to step on anyones toes, he said. “Everyone’s happy and friends remain friends. It keeps everyone friendly with everyone. We believe that everyone should work together. There’s no need for shows to stumble.” Perry isn’t sticking to only New England to organize shows. His company is in the process of organizing shows for New Jersey and Colorado, which should be starting up in 2015, he said. He can’t say what those shows will be since they are not fully developed, which is the reason he hasn’t announced them yet. “Right now, they will both me similar to Rhode Island Comic Con.” If you couldn’t guess from the different line-ups for Perry’s shows, they always try to do a theme, he said. They plan their guests around whatever theme they decide to do. Whatever guests they choose and book for the event, they are sure to tell the fans about who is coming. They have lists of guests for the next two years, he said. “We like to keep the fans enticed and let them know what’s going on all the time. Something new pops up with us, we put it up for everybody to know,” Perry said about constantly updating the convention websites. Perry was asked last November why they were announcing guests for this year’s convention when the 2013 one just ended. He responded with, “Why keep it a secret? We want them to know and get excited about it. We want the fans to make plans to come out to the show.” Here is just some of the guests coming to TerrorCon: David Giuntoli (Grimm), Linda Blair (The Exorcist), Michael Biehn (The Terminator, Planet Terror), Dee Snider (Twisted Sister, The Celebrity Apprentice), Lita Ford, Cherie Currie, Michael Jai-Whie (Spawn, Arrow, Fast and the Furious 7, The Dark Knight), Nicholas Brendon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Criminal Minds), Josh Stewart (Grimm, Criminal Minds, The Dark Knight Rises), Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th: Part 7, 8 and 10, Hatchet), Lew Temple (The Walking Dead) and Dee Wallace (ET, The Howling). Perry started organizing conventions with the Southcoast Toy and Comic Show, which was held in a VFW hall, seven years ago. That first show had about 300 people in attendance, he said. It’s a far cry from the 22,000 people who attended the first Rhode Island Comic Con when they thought the attendance would be around 10,000 and the 30,000 people they had for the second Rhode Island Comic Con. He’s expecting between 10,000 and 15,000 people to attend TerrorCon, which is a safe number in the mind of Perry. “The horror market is a little more of a niche market so we don’t expect a large audience,” Perry said. His vision for Southcoast was t bring a reasonable size show that would be community based, Perry said. He wanted something for the fans in that area to be able to look forward to every season or twice a year. Another thing he wanted to do was bring in celebrities that people don’t always have a chance to meet, he said. Perry said that TerrorCon will be the same size of the original Rhode Island Comic Con plus an extra ballroom. “TerrorCon will not just be horror. It will be horror themed, paranormal, all mixed together.” TerrorCon takes place June 7 and 8 at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence, RI. By dudley228 • Posted in Conventions • Tagged Arrow, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Cherie Currie, Criminal Minds, David Giuntoli, Dee Snider, Dee Wallace, E.T., Fast and the Furious 7, Friday the 13th, Grimm, Hatchet, Josh Stewart, Kane Hodder, Lew Temple, Linda Blair, Lita Ford, Michael Biehn, Michael Jai-Whie, Nicholas Brendon, Planet Terror, Rhode Island Comic Con, Rhode Island Convention Center, Southcoast Toy and Comic show, Spawn, TerrorCon, The Celebrity Apprentice, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, THE EXORCIST, The Howling, The Terminator, The Walking Dead, Twisted Sister Books & Boos ConnectiCon New England Authors Expo Rock & Shock Super Megafest TerrorCon Vermont Comic Con Anthocon Enfield Zombie Walk Haunted happenings Hebron Harvest Fair Internet Show Publishing/Book news Readings/signings Rock and Shock Submission Opportunity	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1482
__label__cc	0.716255	0.283745	Physiological analysis of mutants indicates involvement of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae GPI-anchored protein gp115 in morphogenesis and cell separation. L Popolo, M Vai, E Gatti, S Porello, P Bonfante, R Balestrini, L Alberghina L Popolo Dipartimento di Fisiologia e Biochimica Generali, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy. M Vai E Gatti S Porello P Bonfante R Balestrini L Alberghina DOI: 10.1128/jb.175.7.1879-1885.1993 This paper reports a phenotypic characterization of ggp1 mutants. The cloned GGP1 (GAS1) gene, which encodes a major GPI-anchored glycoprotein (gp115) of Saccharomyces cerevisiae of unknown function, was used to direct the inactivation of the chromosomal gene in haploid and diploid strains by gene replacement. The analysis of the null mutants reveals a reduction in the growth rate of 15 to 40%. Cells are round, with more than one bud, and extensively vacuolized. In the stationary phase, mutant cells are very large, arrest with a high percentage of budded cells (about 54 and 70% for haploid and diploid null mutants, respectively, in comparison with about 10 to 13% for control cells), and have reduced viability. The observed phenotype suggests defects in cell separation. Flow cytometric analysis of DNA reveals an increase in the fraction of cells in the G2+M+G1* compartment during exponential growth. Conjugation and sporulation are not affected. The exocellular location of gp115 led us to examine cell wall properties. Cell wall and septum ultrastructure of abnormally budded cells was analyzed by electron microscopy analysis, and no appreciable differences from wild-type cells were found. Microscopic analysis revealed an increase in chitin content and delocalization. In comparison with control cells, ggp1 null mutants are shown to be resistant to Zymolyase during the exponential growth phase. A fivefold overexpression of gp115 does not bring about any effects on cell growth parameters and cell wall properties. Journal of Bacteriology Apr 1993, 175 (7) 1879-1885; DOI: 10.1128/jb.175.7.1879-1885.1993 You are going to email the following Physiological analysis of mutants indicates involvement of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae GPI-anchored protein gp115 in morphogenesis and cell separation.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1483
__label__wiki	0.650614	0.650614	AccuWeather and Spotify Launch "Climatune", Combining Weather and Listening Data to Reveal Perfect Playlists AccuWeather, the global leader in weather information and digital media, announced it has partnered with the music streaming service, Spotify, on a new site titled Climatune. Climatune was created by AccuWeather and Spotify to give music fans around the world insights into how the weather around them affects the music they listen to everyday, providing the perfect musical score for any weather. Through a yearlong study comparing 85 billion anonymized streams on Spotify in over 900 cities nationwide, AccuWeather and Spotify analyzed the impact weather has on the music people listen to. Conclusions included: * Sunny days typically encourage listening to happier and higher-energy music. * Rainy days bring lower-energy, sadder-sounding music with more acoustic vs. electronic sounds. * Snowy days encourage more instrumental music. However, there are variations in weather/listening behavior based on location. For example, in the U.S.: * New York City and Philadelphia listeners are the most affected by bad weather; with residents of these cities substantially changing their listening when it rains. * Chicagoans get excited by the rain and stream happier music. * Miami and Seattle listeners buck the trend and listen to more energetic music on cloudy days. * San Franciscans, on the other hand, seem saddest on cloudy days. * Houston responds the most strongly to rain, with acoustic listening increasing by 121 percent when it rains. "There is a clear connection between what's in the skies and what's on users' play queues," said Spotify data researcher, Ian Anderson. "For almost all of the major cities around the world that we studied, sunny days translate to higher streams of happier-sounding music," said Anderson. "Sunny weather has an even bigger impact in Europe." "AccuWeather is pleased to partner with Spotify, combining the power of AccuWeather's comprehensive global weather data and music," said Steven Smith, President of Digital Media at AccuWeather. "Climatune is another innovative, engaging way that AccuWeather personalizes the weather so people can improve their lives." Climatune provides Spotify users with music playlists based on the weather in that user's area, and the moods which fellow local music listeners experience during weather conditions, such as sun, clouds, rain, wind, and snow. The Climatune site is available here. AccuWeather gathers the best and most comprehensive weather data to deliver forecasts with Superior Accuracy™. Forecasts are pinpointed for every location on Earth and extend further ahead than any other source. With the most complete global real-time and historical data, most robust database of forecast models, most advanced forecast engine globally, patented proprietary technology, and comprehensive validation results, AccuWeather is the most accurate weather company worldwide. AccuWeather saves lives, protects property, and helps customers and the public prosper. AccuWeather Enterprise Solutions' D3 Analytics takes the most complete global real-time and historical weather database correlated with customized data sets by client using proprietary statistical analytics and predictive modeling. AccuWeather uses its Superior Accuracy to make predictions for logistics, sales planning, inventory control, and more, providing the most actionable, customized data driven decisions for businesses, partnering with the world's leading brands. Visit www.AccuWeather.com/EnterpriseSolutions for additional information.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1486
__label__cc	0.699796	0.300204	KFOR / Media Center / Archive / News / 2016 / MNBG-E WELCOMES NEW KFOR COMMANDER MNBG-E WELCOMES NEW KFOR COMMANDER Pristina, Kosovo. U.S. Army Col. Ros L. Gammon IV, commander of Multinational Battle Group-East, and senior leaders welcomed Kosovo Force Commanding General, Maj. Gen. Giovanni Fungo, to Camp Bondsteel, Kosovo. The occasion marks KFOR Commander’s first official visit to the U.S. lead camp since he assumed authority of KFOR in a ceremony on Camp Film City, Sept. 1, 2016. During his visit, new KFOR Commander has received by Col. Gammon an update and general overview about current operations and to lay out his vision for KFOR during his mandate. Maj General Fungo, alongside key members of the MNBG-E, toured Camp Bondsteel while meeting with Soldiers and leaders from the Southern Command Post and Liaison Monitoring Team. KFOR Commander praised the professionalism of the US contingent that contributes significantly in maintaining a safe and secure environment and freedom of movement throughout Kosovo.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1489
__label__cc	0.73897	0.26103	Alienation, education and obfuscation: a report from a House of Commons Seminar – 27 June 2012 This week I was fortunate to be able to present my work with alienated children and their families at a seminar at the House of Commons which was sponsored by Andrew Selous MP and Chaired by the High Court Judge Sir Paul Coleridge. The key presenter for the event was Professor Nick Bala from Canada who has written and published widely on the issue of differentiation in cases of alienation and I was privileged to be able to present my work both in front of him and other mental health and legal professionals working in the field. Also presenting was Dr Mark Berelowitz, a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at the Royal Free Hospital. The event was organised as a follow up to a seminar held two years ago in which Professor Nick Bala presented some of his research findings and his work in contributing to the understanding of the field of high conflict divorce and separation and alienation. I attended that seminar in 2010 and took much of what Professor Bala said then and more recently and shaped this into my practice with families. It was, therefore, a significant event for me, in that I had the opportunity to demonstrate how his work on differentiation, can be translated into a model of work for the UK. I am delighted to be able to say that the response to my presentation was extremely positive, both from the Professor himself and other professionals who attended the seminar. There was a great deal of interest at the event on the issue of alienation and also on the issue of court management of cases where alienation occurs. Andrew Selous was very encouraging in his support of change within the court system and Sir Paul Coleridge spoke in a very determined manner about the way in which the ‘three strikes and you are out’ approach is essential. His comments on intractable cases were unequivocal, they are damaging to children. I was encouraged by both his understanding of the ways in which there are similar features in the cases and the reality that strong court management and enforcement are key tools in the prevention and cure of the issue. Professor Bala was incredibly lucid in his presentation, not only about the issue of alienation but about its impact and about the way in which it arises. He was explicit about the roots of alienation, which is not that mothers are more likely to alienate, because it is a fact that fathers do it too. The root cause of the alienation reaction, no matter what route it takes to become fully establised, is the residence and contact model of post separation legislation that dominates our culture in the UK. He was also very critical of the delay in our courts and the lack of co-ordinated enforcement strategies. He also discussed the problem of the feminist academics who wrongly interpret data from overseas to prevent a more egalitarian model of post separation support being introduced in this country. The residence and contact model of support is, of course, the critical point at which power and control over children is established when a family separates. Tying it neatly into the receipt of Child Benefit was a tactically brilliant way of ensuring that mothers had first dibs on who has power because that benefit is still paid overwhelmingly to the mother. Another clever tactic, built into the language of post separation legislation is the whole concept of custody and access, now called variously care and contact, primary carer and non resident parent. Although soon to be abolished, the terms residence and contact will, without doubt, continue to be used as labels to stick on parents and, because the primary and none primary carer model will still be denoted through the receipt of Child Benefit, the problem of who has power will continue. In cases where alienation is present the issue of power is key. Whether alienation arises because of unresolved conflict between two parents or whether it arises because of deliberate and determined actions on the part of one parent against the other, it is always the case that children who are alienated have parents who are struggling over the power to be or not to be a parent in their lives. Alienation is a reaction that strikes children who are elevated to the position of adult in a family system, they are children who have been invested with too much power. Sometimes the power is handed to the child because parents cannot stop fighting and the child has to take control and manage the conflict through withdrawal, sometimes it is because children have been given power by one parent acting against the other. Whatever the cause the problem is that the power that the parents once had in the family system has been misdirected to the child and the whole concept of residence and contact, placing one parent in control over the other is, without doubt, a contributing factor to this problem. So much of what Professor Bala says makes sense and I will write in more detail about his thinking later. I have done a great deal of work in the two years since I last heard him speak, in translating his differentiation model into a model for work in the UK and for me, the event allowed me to both share my practice and hear more about his progress and his thinking. To that end I felt privileged and honored to be considered good enough to do that and it has encouraged us to be bold in plans to commence a research programme with colleagues and evaluate the model we use at CSF further so that we can contribute to the field both internationally and at home. There was of course a resistance to what was a really interesting and positive event, where the issue of parental alienation felt accepted and acknowledged and we were able to think about the issues in a supportive environment. The resistence came, as it often does, in the guise of CAFCASS, this time the Chair of CAFCASS Baroness Tyler who when challenged about the lack of training and awareness and the unskilled approach used by Family Court Practitioners told us that it is not the case that CAFCASS do not understand this issue, in fact it is the case that there are far more residence orders given to fathers these days and CAFCASS recommend residence orders for fathers and mothers on a more or less equal basis. Given that Professor Bala was explicit in his presentation about the problem of residence and contact being a major contributor to the problem of alienation,her comment missed the point completely but what Baroness Tyler also failed to tell us was how she comes to know that her staff are recommending residence orders equally, a ‘fact’ that she stated so confidently and so breezily. We know, for example, that there are no records kept of who gets residence in the family courts and so it cannot be from there that she garners her knowledge. The only other way she could be so definite and so unequivocal about the issue of who gets residence was if CAFCASS are keeping records of what is being recommended by their workers, something I very much doubt. But you can bet I will be following it up with a letter both to the Baroness herself and her head of service Anthony Douglas. Apart from that short deviation (when all in the room appeared to stare in astonished disbelief, both at the lack of understanding of the root of the problem and the breath taking arrogance so common to the upper echelons of CAFCASS), the event demonstrated that the issue of alienation is increasingly being accepted, as is the need for the kind of court management that will prevent it. It was, I hope, the first of many more opportunities to educate and inform and who knows, one day we might even pierce the fog of the obfuscation that appears to be the order of the day in the management of CAFCASS. Professor Bala told us that alienation damages children and that intervention is critical. He spoke of his interest and support of the Australian model and the importance for the UK of moving and modernising our understanding of the separated family and its needs. Strong court management, strong enforcement and swift intervention. If Sir Paul Coleridge has his way, those who deliberately misinterpret orders will have three chances before they are out. Perhaps the government might consider applying that approach to CAFCASS itself leaving the rest of us to get on and do the work that we know makes the difference for children. Previous Why gender matters: balancing support for mothers and fathers after family separation Next Therapeutic support for alienated parents – limited places Cityman says: Thanks from all the children & alienated parents who due to the good work of knowledgeable people may see the end of this scourge. John Denbigh says: Well done Karen for taking this valuable opportunity to raise awareness of alienation. Your point that “alienation is a reaction that strikes children who are ….. invested with too much power “ is very valid one but it is not just the conflict between the parents that invests that power in them but more the very damaging approach by Cafcass and the Courts of determining matters on the basis of children’s purported ‘wishes and feelings, contrary to case law that establishes quite rightly that their welfare interests should be the key determinant. The wishes and feelings approach simply places children right in the middle of parental conflict, divides their loyalties and burdens them with taking decisions that they are too young to take and understand the long term implications of, as well as empowering the mother to alienate. I personally see it as one of the most damaging aspects of the system, a view I know Paul Coleridge shares. As for for Baroness Tyler’s claims that ‘these days CAFCASS recommend residence orders for fathers and mothers on a more or less equal basis’ that is just astounding . We will be doing a lot more work around this issue for sure and yes, the issue of wishes and feelings was raised alongside the issue of residence and contact as a problem in elevating children to the place of poower over parents..again the Baroness breezed by the issue with breathtaking disregard…she’s on CAFCASS message but way off the mark when it comes to the real world. K Re ‘wishes and feelings’ issues why is it that Cafcass and judges act on the ‘alleged’ wishes of an alienated child to keep them away from a parent .The child would not have the same power conferred if he/she expressed a wish to stay away from school.! Well done Karen, I congratulate you on a stirling valiant effort to educate those not in the know about PAS and that includes Cafcass. I found it enlightening and most interesting. Let us hope that some urgently needed governmental recognition comes from it and soon. On a personal note I today met with the new Cafcass Guardian who has been appointed since I won my appeal in the courts of justice in London, she seems to be more reasonable than the last one, (mind you thats not hard to do). I battle on after 4 years struggling to get justice for my boy. They will never break my love for my son, never! missingmybabies says: Hi Paul, is there any chance that i can email you concerning my own situation. Well done karen, it is a pleasure to read your aticles… If only I had this level of information four years ago when the topic was taboo in the courts and in the legal circles.. the general advice was then “don’t mention parental alienation.. the courts do not recognise it and it will weaken your case”… Today, it feels like we are moving on for new cases but how miight we repair the damage already done ??? Jeff Bull says: To briefly echo Phil’s comment, as recently as a year ago I too was being told not to mention the words ‘Parental Alienation’ as not only would it weaken my case, but make me appear ‘bitter and twisted’ and need of psychological help. I did mention it, and I was treated as though I was from another planet! Court proceedings reached their usual conclusion, leaving me to hope that when my daughter, who has become completely alienated not just from me, but also her elder sisters and entire paternal family, is older she will see through the subversion, seek out the truth, and re-establish the relationships that have been denied her. I won’t hold my breath! I have just entered into ‘discussion’ with her school over the issue of who should be the contacts on her ‘data sheet’ and in my last email to them briefly referred to ‘Parental Alienation’ to counter some ill informed comments that they had made previously. It will be interesting to read their response to see if they are now any better informed of this issue. Likewise, I wish the articles that Karen has written recently, and thus the information, had been more widely available several years ago, as then the only references were those from work in USA/Canada which not even my own solictor `would take seriously, even though what was happening to my daughter should have been obvious anyway. Keep up the good work Karen, and I hope for sake of the many children in this country that are being deprived of important childhood relationships and emotionally scarred as a result, that politicians and those that have it within their powers to change things sit up and listen to what you say, and do change things, sooner rather than later. I just want to pass a comment about the wishes and feelings reports undertaken by CAFCASS. My son’s children were interviewed by CAFCASS only in the home of their mother. My son requested an interview with the children at his own home but this was refused. The outcome was that the eldest boy asked for Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday until 12 with his dad every week. The obvious difficulty here was that mum would not get a weekend with him which would have needed to be addressed. However, it was not addressed and no account was therefore taken of his wishes and feelings. The youngest boy (8) said that he wanted things to remain the same. However, this morning he asked for extra time with his dad as there is a summer fayre on. My son gently said to the youngest that he had ‘told the man’ that he wanted things to stay the same. My grandson replied that he wished there were eight days in the week, four with mum and four with dad. I think that makes a complete nonsense of the wishes and feelings reports that CAFCASS undertook, as I assume that mum had primed the youngest as to what he should say. The eldest has a mind of his own. However,the good thing is that my son and his ex. are now in ‘amicable’ contact with each other and that she has agreed to extra time for this morning.. I think the difficulty with 50/50 shared care all along has been with the overnight stays. This is one of the reason why I have always been in favour of 50/50 shared care by default although I appreciate that this is not a view held by all. suewhitcombe says: Having been fortunate enough to attend this seminar, I found much of what was said both encouraging and thought-provoking. I’d like to congratulate Karen on her work – which just seems so “sensible”, obvious and common-sense for anyone who is aware of children’s needs and psychological development. I was encouraged too by the insistence of Sir Paul Coleridge that alienation is now very much accepted as a reality. However, my enthusiasm is somewhat dampened by what I have found to be the reality. Outside of London, and the higher courts, “Parental Alienation” is still most definitely a no-no – raise its spectre at your peril. It is most certainly not accepted by many district judges and its existence by the majority of magistrates, which deal with many applications for contact and residence in the first instance, is simply not acknowledged. CAFCASS too seem to have little understanding – with “wishes and feelings” rarely appropriately investigated. Their focus on the immediate perceived well-being of a child with a total disregard for appropriate timely emotional development, smacks of “don’t rock the boat”. Any parent knows that “rocking the boat” is an essential part of parenting. We negotiate and police rules and boundaries, and sometime we enforce that which our child may not “like” for the sake of their well-being – taking medication, eating healthy foods, attending school, limiting games console use. Until PA is fully explained to and understood by all the personnel involved with family law, throughout the country, I fear that we remain a long way off providing the best outcomes for those families in its grip. My reservations notwithstanding, the sooner Karen’s work is researched and validated, disseminated and made more widely available, the better – a real hope at last for children and conflicting families. Gary Pickering says: Karen, I also congratulate you. My daughter is 20 moths old. I haven’t seen her for over 6 months because of an implacably hostile mum. She is being deprived not only of the love of a dedicated dad and wider family but the chance to grow and learn more than she will otherwise. I do see this as a form of abuse when one parent is able to deprive a child who cannot speak for herself one of the most fundamental needs of us all. The love of a parent. She is an obvious candidate for PAS and I hope the wonderful work you are doing may go some way to reduce its impact. I hope one day she will thank you, For now I say it for both of us. Karen this hits a raw nerve just yesterday i met for the first of supposedly 6 fortnightly visits before our next court appearance, and clearly you can see we wont be getting as many visits before court in the first week of August, and had i of not acted by chasing up these arranged meeting through the core services at the beginning of June and again the end of June i feel we would of had non before the next court appearance. Now on to Cafcass my children’s guardian to me has been quite hostile and i couldn’t quite understand why but still i tried to have her investigate why my son is saying hateful things about me i have repeatedly asked her to look into his way of thinking but is was like talking to a brick wall, in fact in her own words she said “Name has demanded that she has contact with me” so from this i get the impression that for unknown reasons my daughter has tried to be persuaded not to have contact with her me, in all my dealings with the Guardian the tone of her voice is negative towards me. When the judge asked me what i thought about appointing a cafcass guardian to the children i expressed that i would rather protect the children from court arena but do feel they need a say in what happens within their contact with dad so i agreed to allow one to be granted by the courts. In my first contact with the court reporter before cafcass got became Guardian in the telephone call i stated that i don’t feel cafcass had in the past put my children first and think the courts are bias towards the mother and so do not have much confidence in the outcome of any order made this first report had nothing in their that i said about how the children felt after the last order in 2009 and how angry the children felt about the last cafcass worker lying to them and getting their hopes up about coming to live with dad. When i met the guardian in February she couldn’t find any risk with me so in her report she made one up saying im emotional which of course i was and justifiably so, all she put was that she recommends contact via core children services and that risk (if any) is manageable, i went along with her recommendation for my sons sake as he was expressing classic Alienation and i have lost count how many times i have asked about my son and if she had persuaded him to join us on visits as ordered by the courts, it seams all my aspirations are falling on deaf ears. i wrote to the court and expressed how unhappy i am with the guardian and the time delays arranging our contacts which core children services say it was down to cafcass as its them that set out the provisions and conditions of each parties 81 days we had to wait and had i of not got involved it would of been another two week before our first visit, the judge sent my email to cafcass that contained my disapproval of such delay and asked how my daughter must be feeling about this delay she rang me Thursday just gone and was no different and offered no apology for the delays and was quite short with me to be frank. I met my daughter yesterday at core children services and to be quite honest the place is like a prison a total lack of thing for children to do boring walls and so quiet you could hear a pin drop we had two people listening and making notes on everything we said and right at the beginning we hit an issue where i have been given a form for my daughter to sign from the social services so i could be given her case file to see what provisions have been put in place to help my daughter with her problems she is experiencing in and out of school she has been put on a ABC (acceptable behavior contract) after being arrested by the police for shop lifting among other things like criminal damage, anti social behavior. when this was brought to my attention in late (sept 2011) i informed the local authorities in her town and they then intervened to help her. so just to make it clear i reported my daughters behavior to children in need and they made a referral to the SS for her, but this is where i’m allowed no further, since the mother was informed i reported our child she has again blocked any contact me and my daughter had, any info i try to get about what is being done for her i’m refused, i’m a father with PR for both children but when it comes to all the authorities ie: police, school, council us dads may well not exist. I witnessed my child entering problem relationships and a downward slope in respect of how she is conducting herself and was compelled to act in her best interests and yet the child living under the mothers nose done nothing to help her the mother/daughter relationship is sour and always have been my daughter hang out on the streets just to stay away from her mum as she is not respected by her this has also rose yesterday when we got chatting about their guardian in my daughters words “we hate her” i replied “sorry” as my daughter speaks very quietly she said louder “me and bro hates her but mom likes her” the “but mom likes her” was said in the most disrespected way almost like they hate it that mum likes her but she knows why as and is the reason we are having to go through the core services to get to see each other this bit of info that was openly given to me by daughter tells me the reason Tom is refusing to cooperate with this guardian and i totally understand where he is coming from i think i would be the same if i take myself back to when i was 13 and faced with their problems i think i would say what mum wants to hear just for an easy life. so you see Karen i’m lost as to what to do now i have another visit in two weeks which i will be going too but as my daughter is 15 next month she is of an age where she can walk into a solicitors office and ask to have representation for our case to get the justice that she and bro deserves. The thing is is there doing reports about how contact went but its such an informal and foreign place contact is not going as natural as it should my daughter is a shadow of her real self and is so quiet in there i just know she wanted to tell me so much but was prepped before i went in she was confused about what she could say and not. this is killing me i can tell ya to watch my little girl struggle with it all i just wanted to put my arms around her and reassure her everything is going to be ok, and i just want to see my son to say i don’t care about what he has said i still love and miss him. upon leaving i spoke to the man doing the report and i said i thought it went as well as it could of gone, but he said well i did have to say on two occasions for the convo to change these were: the signature i asked from my daughter and in a normal surrounding she would of been happy to sign it for dad but she said she didn’t know if she was allowed too and looked at the watchers for an answer who then said they don’t think it is appropriate, even though i was granted by the court all info on file about her but the council needs the child to agree to it for them to release the files to me, and the other was about their guardian but my daughter prompted me for the question by what she said about her so naturally i asked her and how i see it my children should be able to talk to his/her parent about anything they want to talk about anything as long as the child feels comfortable doing so and it was the child initiating the topic. a day has now passed an im sitting here wondering how my daughter felt about the visit and i feel so very sorry for her that she was made to feel she couldn’t talk about things she clearly was dying to tell me but was made to feel shut up and suppressed. i really need help on this because i feel my children best interests are being ignored and denied them their fundamental right to have a meaningful relationship with their daddy. i will leave you with a quote from my children in mid July 2009 on a staying contact over summer “dad we are glad you are our daddy you are the best daddy in the whole universe” this made me cry happy rears to hear these few words :~) kids i love you always Dad xxx Thanks Karen and friends for listening! When the judge consulted you over the appointment of a guardian, you should have responded by saying you didn’t want one. Why do you think your children should ‘have a say in what happens within contact with dad’ when they are the subject of legal dispute? This is simply over-empowering the child, a causative factor in alienation, as Karen continually points out. All a guardian does in a case like yours is add greater weight to the negativity you are already having to contend with. Guardians contribute nothing but trouble in alienation cases. The voice of an alienated or part-alienated child doesn’t need strengthening because it articulates the case of the favoured parent. God Bless you Karen, keep up the good work, you’re a beacon of hope to so many. Mr. Notright says: Excellent work Karen, for questioning and exposing the dishonesty of Baroness Tyler. Anyone who has been through the courts will know exactly what you are talking about when you say that child benefit and residency set up a power imbalance that paves the way for, and even encourages, one parent to engage in ‘divorce poison’. Not until child benefit is split will we be able to prevent all that poison from brewing in the first place. Child benefit and child maintenance arrangements in their present form are the biggest obstacle in preventing parents from coming to a fair and amicable agreement regarding meaningful contact with their children. If this issue was properly addressed, applications through the Family Court would fall away leaving only the most embittered parents having to resort to court hearings to settle contact arrangements. Mum-minus-daughter says: I consider the (personally witnessed) obfuscation of CAFCASS is a problem of the duality of their role. From my case because of the strong attention to ‘child’s wishes’ I consider that the guardians become too easily emotionally enmeshed with the alienating parent and resident child. They then become a mere mouthpiece for the child. Or rather I should say that because that child has been brainwashed by their resident parent CAFCASS actually end up reinforcing NOT what the child wants but the alienating parent. This creates a 2 against 1 situation in court not a 3 way debate as it should be. A problem for not just for the rejected parent but the Judge too. Yes, it is important to listen to what the ‘child’s’ wishes are but from then on, on a secondary level, most important, CAFCASS need to engage their brains and EVALUATE what they’ve heard. As Court appointed ‘child experts’, they should be not just acting as parrots in Court but stating that regardless of what the child has said – what they consider is IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE CHILD. This far, in my case, despite expert reports confirming alienation by Dad, CAFCASS turn up to Court without a view. “The child says she is happy with Dad the way she is and doesn’t ever want anything to do with Mum.” An other other problem is that the slow and softly, softly approach of instating first CAFCASS, then psychiatric specialists is way too time consuming. 19 months from Court appointment to reports in my case! Also the current Court system currently does not account for the problems in dealing with a personality disordered or narcissistic alienating parent. If this was identified much earlier there would not be the slow ‘war of attrition’ whereby directives or orders are given out and then broken. And so onto the next suggestion, to be repeated. The new plans by Government to instruct mediation at the onset before Court concern me in this respect. You cannot reason with a person with BPD, so mediation would just create delay. My solution?… Early fast tracked psychiatric intervention, with child and family experts like Karen, for children whose wishes are extreme would help greatly reduce the current long waiting time which in turn leads to greater entrenchment of the child. Along with early Court ordered contact and the 3 strikes idea I consider this would go a long way to speeding up these miserably long and damaging cases like mine, reduce the amount of costly Court cases and ultimately reduce the damage to the poor children involved. Thus far, enlisting experts such as Karen is prohibitive to many parents as I believe they are generally privately funded (as in my case). If Government/Family Courts rubber-stamped state-funded early introduction of psychologists/psychiatrists for extreme cases, yes it would cost the state money initially, but long term save ridiculous costs associated with protracted and repeat visits to state funded Court, Judges, CAFCASS guardians and lawyers etc. And even longer term, this would potentially save NHS costs of psychiatric treatment for children who grow up with mental health problems due to the damage and abuse they suffered in the ‘poison years’. Rietta says: Well Said. I am experience the same problem as you. Fathers alienate children too. Caffcass makes the problem far worse by giving in to their ‘wishes and feelings’ when they are too young to understand what they are saying or what is involved, and afterwards Caffcass do not follow up nor give a damn what happens to the child and the emotional damage that’s been caused by all the trauma. Please could you get in touch with me. Thank you Hi Rietta – happy to get in touch with you. Not sure how to provide you contact details away from the public arena of the blog. Any ideas? MMD Hi Thank you for replying, please could you get in touch through this e-mail rietta118@gmail.com. Rietta Alastair Patterson says: It is all about the child benefit. The legal connection that the social care agencies desperately cover up is disability. The key concept from the Framework of Children in Need and their Families is called parental capacity. This is the impairment of function, from disability, that adversely affects the day to day activity of giving the care to the child it would be reasonable to expect a parent to give a similar child. The local authority child care provision is connected to the national child care provision through disability in the Department of Work and Pensions Carers Service. The CSA was intended to replace child benefit, not just for separated parents. The ethos of the Children Act 1989 was that equality in the workplace was to be matched by equality in the home. The CSA was intended as the draconian sanction for fathers who refused to meet their child care responsibilities. It was not the statutory presumption of shared parenting it was the statutory requirement for shared parenting. Makes you sick, doesn’t it. The other side of parental alienation is impaired parental capacity for, “ensuring the child’s requirements for secure, stable and affectionate relationships with significant adults,” (Framework for Assessment of Children in Need and their Families 2.12). This should be assessed as a form of domestic violence by applying the Sturge Glaser criteria, but of course, never is. Social workers help and encourage mothers to alienate children rather than recognise parental capacity as a form of disability in integrating local and national care and welfare services to the child. Parental alienation is the device used to protect the child benefit as the gateway benefit for women. I don’t mean to hog this blog but Karen’s scepticism on Baroness Tyler’s easy statistics caught my eye. We have been pursuing CAFCASS on their lack of any statistics and this FOI may be of interest, http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/cafcass_statistics/new. In my view, the child’s wishes and feelings are the key to alienation. The child is inappropriately empowered and the subtle nuance’s of alienation make it clear how that power should be exercised. Sir Paul, to his great credit, took on board the advice of Dr Hamish Cameron on taking the child’s wishes and feelings. Sir Paul was expected to act as a judge, not a favourite uncle. Certainly in my own case I recognised it and withdrew. As Sir Nicholas Wall emphasises, it is the lifetime relationship that is important not next weeks contact. I am a great admirer of the family judiciary, but I do spend a lot of time on my own. I have now had the opportunity to examine Professor Bala’s work. The processes described in, http://www.crvawc.ca/documents/Family%20Court%20Review%20-%20Jaffe%20et%20al.pdf are identical with what was intended in the Framework for Assessment of Children in Need and their Families. The UK versions of Professor Bala’s work currently exist, for example, Cleaver, H., Nicholson, D., Tarr, S. and Cleaver, D. (2007) Child Protection, Domestic Violence and Parental Substance Misuse: Family Experiences and Effective Practice. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Cleaver, H. and Nicholson, D. (2007) Parental Learning Disability and Children’s Needs: Family Experiences and Effective Practice. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Cleaver, H., Unell, I. and Aldgate, A. (2010) Children’s Needs – Parenting Capacity: The impact of parental mental illness, learning disability, problem alcohol and drug use, and domestic violence on children’s safety and development. 2nd Edition. London: The Stationery Office. The underlying methodology is called “Assertive Outreach”. In current practice this deals with the serious social problems of the “impact of …mental illness, learning disability, problem alcohol and drug use”. The role of CAFCASS is to remove the “parent” and “domestic violence” processes, as described by Professor Bala, from the Assertive Outreach methodology and introduce false allegations as the vehicle for protracted children’s proceedings and parental alienation. Leave a Reply to Rietta Cancel reply	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1493
__label__wiki	0.554942	0.554942	08/11/2015 25/03/2016 Books, Education, Feature, Health, History, Life, Non-fiction, Review, Society, Writing AfricaAidsAmericanAnimalsAuthenticBelgian CongoBio-logicalCardiac TransplantCDCCharles DarwinChildrenChocolateEbolaEducationalEnemyEnglishEpidemicEuropeanFacultyFort DetrickFrench ScientistsGodHollandInvestigationJournalismKing LeopoldLaboratoriesLiberiaLinkedInManipulateMarburgMedicalMicro-surgeryNetherlandsPhilippinesPublicationRepublic of GuineaRockefeller FoundationSierra LeoneSovietTechnicianTheoryTransplantationsTruthUgandaVaccinesVirusWarfareWHOZaire Be Strong Professor Johan Van Dongen: A Scientist’s Ordeal After Revealing Aids And Ebola Are Medical Crimes “A lot has happened but I am safe for now, for no reasons I have been removed from LinkedIN social platform, losing almost all my contacts which I have build up in no time,” said Professor Johan Van Dongen, after I managed to get him in Holland. This is the punishment meted out to the Dutch professor, Johan Van Dongen, formally at Microsurgical Educational Institute in Holland, for revealing to the world that the Ebola virus is human made and tested on black skinned people in Uganda and Zaire in Africa, in order to find vaccines against it for military defending purposes. It will be recalled that on October 10, 2014, Diplomatic Aspects Newspaper’s journalist, Joel Savage, published the theory about the origin of Ebola in Africa, by Professor Johan Van Dongen, which research dates back as far as 1972. The professor wouldn’t like to tell me those against him for speaking the truth, but we all know. Without his knowledge I decided to publish this article. This is the kind of world we live in, world that one instantly becomes an enemy for speaking the truth. In that publication, the Dutch Micro-Surgeon, Johan Van Dongen challenged Belgium’s professor Van der Groen’s over his claims that Ebola was invented in the 1960’s in Fort Detrick. How did he know that? Dongen asked. Was it because he knew Marburg virus experiments have been carried out in the former Belgian Congo, now Zaire, in Africa? “ Vaccines which have been made by American, English, German and French scientists within the Yellow Fever Research Institute in Uganda, funded by the English Government and the Rockefeller Foundation, where also the with Marburg virus contaminated green monkeys came from” He added. “I can’t live with this crime for the rest of my life. I’ve lost my job, my house and they stopped selling my book four years ago. The only thing I have strongly behind me is my wife,” says Professor Dongen. One thing people who like to cover up scandals and truth have failed to realize is, “It’s not everyone who is ready to join them in living that life of dishonesty and lies. Whatever a man sows that’s what he shall reap. I consider Professor Johan Van Dongen a hero. I don’t think those making his life miserable for speaking the truth are genuine people. They are people far from God and truth, the reason they promote evil in the society. Good people don’t punish people for speaking the truth. That’s the same experience I am facing ever since I came to Belgium fourteen years ago, because I don’t praise their chocolate and waffles, instead, I speak about the heinous crime committed in Africa; crimes which they have praised, applauded by building statues, naming streets after the criminal King Leopold II, and the cowardly acts of most of their journalists that twist facts and cover up the truth. For the benefit of building a healthy nation and for the sake of our children in the future, every faithful person on earth, should stand firm and support Professor Johan Van Dongen. As for me, if I die today, I will be happy to go down happily in my grave, because I’ve made them uncomfortable, by changing the landscape of journalism in Europe. They have secretly banned all my books in Belgium, but they can’t touch my soul, because that belongs to God. NB. BELOW IS THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE WHICH HAS BEEN TAKEN AWAY FROM THE WEB WITHOUT ANY TRACE; AFTER PUBLICATION AT DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS NEWSPAPER. Professor Johan Van Dongen’s Authentic Theory On The Origin Of The Deadly Ebola Virus “The virus is human made and tested on black skinned people in Uganda and Zaire in Africa, in order to find vaccines against it for military defending purposes.”-Professor Johan Van Dongen. Whenever there is epidemic or research on the origin of something, scientists come out with different theories that many aren’t accurate. We must ask ourselves, why is Darwin’s theory about human evolution now sits in a center of controversy? Today there are scientific facts proving Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution is far from the truth. Since the outbreak of the deadly Ebola this year in Liberia, Sierra Leone and the Republic of Guinea, in West Africa, various inconsistent theories over the origin of the deadly virus are appearing in the newspaper daily. Holland’s professor Johan Van Dongen of Microsurgical Educational Institute in Holland shares his theories about the origin of Aids and Ebola, which his initial research began in 1972. “How did the Soviets manage to get the Marburg virus only a few months after the outbreak in Marburg during the Cold War and lying behind the Iron Curtain? And how could there be an Ebola outbreak in Belgrade, also lying behind the Iron Curtain, at the same time happening in Marburg? “Asked Johan Van Dongen, the former Dutch Bio-technician, Micro/surgeon and coordinator of the National and International Experimental Course in Microsurgery and the author of ‘Pleidooi voor de Aap’-The truth behind Aids and other virus infections. According to him, there are other strange data about the investigation of Ebola as a biological weapon in the United States. Because the American biological warfare effort was terminated only 2 years after the first Marburg outbreak which means they stopped in 1969. Since the discovery of MARV on the 22th August 1967 the virus is first identified on 20th November of the same year, three months after the outbreak had begun. The successful isolation of the virus were first reported to the scientific community at the Fourth Congreso Latinamericano de Microbiologia in Lima, Peru on the 26th of November 1967, six days after the identification, So if Ebola came from laboratories of the US Army then, what is the connection of the presence of US Army and World Health Organization WHO and the Centers for Disease Control CDC facilities in the Philippines? How is it possible that people from the World Health Organization examined Ebola contaminated pigs and a worker in a pig farm in Bulacan, before the outbreak in Reston in 1976? It is only the WHO and some elements of the US Army in the Philippines that have the capability to transport, spread and identify the Marburg virus in the early sixties. So who carried out the transport throughout the United States in the sixties? Asked Dongen. The Dutch Micro-Surgeon challenges the Belgium’s professor Van der Groen’s claims that Ebola was invented in the 1960’s in Fort Detrick. How did he know that? Dongen asks. Was it because he knew Marburg virus experiments have been carried out in the former Belgian Congo, now Zaire, in Africa? Vaccines which have been made by American, English, German and French scientists within the Yellow Fever Research Institute in Uganda, funded by the English Government and the Rockefeller Foundation, where also the with Marburg virus contaminated green monkeys came from? How is it possible that, following after the Fourth Congreso Latinamericano de Microbiologia in Lima, Peru on the 26th of November 1967, an article in German language could be published in; Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift on 22 December 1967? And one of the least but not the least question is: If Ebola came from laboratories of the US Army then; what is the connection of the presence of the US Army, the World Health Organization WHO and the Centers for Disease Control CDC in Ebola facilities in the Philippines in the sixties and seventies? Firstly, as the Marburg virus before the outbreak in 1967 has not existed then, how is it possible that worldwide everybody works with the Marburg virus without Leve1-4 laboratories, and secondly how could they act without legal permission or official guidelines as I stated: It is noteworthy to remember the signing of the Geneva accord by Nixon in 1970? According to all the aforementioned tracks, namely; involvement of national military, medical and pharmacological institutes, track of the green monkeys, the outbreak of MARV in 1967, its discovery, its detection and isolation as well as to publish about the virus at the Fourth Congreso Latinamericano de Microbiologia in Lima, Peru on the 26th of November 1967, only six days after the identification, then it is almost impossible that all those things happened within such a short notice of time. In fact it is not possible and I think not even one single black skinned person in the most isolated part of Africa does believe that. Whatever the Marburg or Ebola virus may be it must be created long before its first outbreak in 1967. The virus is human made and tested on black skinned people in Uganda and Zaire in Africa in order to find vaccines against it for military defending purposes. Professor Johan Van Dongen is a Dutch Micro-Surgeon at Micro-Surgical Educational Institute. From 1989 to 1997, he served at Maastrcht, Holland, writing and publishing of the “Manual of Microsurgery on the Laboratory Rat,” as a senior lecturer and co-organizer of the course of micro-surgery. Besides this function he worked especially on the development of Alternatives in Animal Surgery in order to diminish the use of animals. Therefore he developed the “Anastomosis Simulator” and the “Artificial Rat” (Kunstrat) For these inventions in the field of Alternatives in Animal Experiments he received the “Price Alternatives for Animal Experiments” from the “Ministry of Health” of the Dutch Government at the Annual Congress of Animal Technicians Under his administration at the Departments of General Surgery and Immunology, Johan Van Dongen at the Maastricht University As an all round experimental microsurgeon Johan van Dongen carried out thousands of heart-, kidney-, liver-, small bowell and Islets of Langerhans transplantation, as well as vessel-, nerves-, testes-, stomach- and spleen transplantation for immunological investigation of rejection. Furthermore he developed tissue suspensions and vaccines in order to manipulate the immunity of animals. In 1977 He presented a new cardiac transplantation model, the so called “Extra Corporeal Cardiac Transplantation Technique”, in order to manipulate the graft extensively because of the subcutaneous position, at the Transplantation Society Meeting Helsinsinki Finland. At the same congress he also presented a new Cardiac Transplant Technique with Portal Venous Outlet and Local Per-fusion. From October 1981 till May 1983 he organizes a National Courses in Microsurgery at the Department of Experimental Microsurgery at the Bio-medical Center Medical Faculty Maastricht the Netherlands. During the above mentioned period he also organizes Courses in Microsurgery at the Universities of: Stuttgart, Heidelberg and Mannheim Germany, University of Aarhus Denmark as well as the University of Mexico City Mexico. Furthermore, Johan van Dongen gives technical assistance in the completion of sixty three Theses in the field of Immunology, Anatomy,Surgery,Biochemistry, Microbiology, Pathology, Physiology and Animal Technology. Professor Johan Van Dongen is the author of “Aids de grootste misdaad in de medische geschiedenis”. (Aids the Greatest Crime in Medical History) “Pleidooi voor de aap”. (Pleaded for the Ape) and Manual of Microsurgery on the Laboratory Rat. http://www.shout-africa.com/bottom-story/opinion-origins-of-aids-a-new-view-on-the-origin-of-the-world-wide-aids-problem Photo: Johan Van Dongen, the Dutch Micro/surgeon and coordinator of the National and International Experimental Course in Microsurgery. http://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Medical-History-Against-Mankind-ebook/dp/B016W89W1G 31/10/2015 15/08/2016 Health, History, Life, Social problems, Society, Writing 7 Comments AidsAmericaBelgiumBiologicalBlackBornBrothersCareCheapColourContaminationCrimeDestructionEbolaExperimentFriendsGermanyGhostHappyHateHollandKing Leopold IILabourLoveMassMountainPrayRacismSistersStepsSuicideSuspectUncle Tom's CabinVaccineWarfare Poem Of Awareness: When You Are Born Black The Bible says God created Man in his own image But many don’t see the black man in God’s image, so When you are born black, you are a victim of slavery and Apartheid When you are born black, you are victim of racism and discrimination When you are born black, don’t trust World Health Organization and Center for Diseases Control and Prevention When you are born black, you a weapon of mass destruction When you are born black, Belgium will give you Ebola When you are born black, Holland will give you AIDS When you are born black, your home is Uncle Tom’s Cabin When you are born black, contaminated vaccine is your gift When you are born black, Germany will use you for an experiment When you are born black, flee from the ghost of King Leopold II When you are born black, America will use you for biological warfare When you are born black, many will see you as a suspect, so stop committing crime When you are born black, you will be a victim of cheap labour When you are born black, pray without ceasing, because you’ve got a high mountain to climb When you born black show love and care to your fellow brothers and sisters When you are born black, watch your steps, because many hate you When you are black, pray to meet good friends who don’t care about colour Because they will make you happy without contemplating of committing suicide. 02/08/2015 21/07/2016 Books, Education, Feature, Health, History, Life, Non-fiction, Psychology, Review, Social problems, Society African leadersAidsCitizensCommunitiesDeborah MalacEbolaEllen Johnson SirleafFamiliesGenetically engineeredGuineaJoel SavageJournalistsLiberiaMano River BasinMedical CrimeMilitaryMoneyPeter Jan GraafPoliticalPowerSecond World WarSierra LeoneTarik JasarevicTolbert NyenswahUN MissionUN Secretary-GeneralUS AmbassadorVirusWarfareWest AfricaWorld Health Organization The Persistent Threat Of Ebola In West Africa: An Open Letter To President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Of Liberia The helpless President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: Is she scared to tell the American government of the medical crime committed in her country against Liberian citizens? By Johan Van Dongen (Dutch Scientist & Micro-Surgeon) The World Health Organization (WHO) declared on Saturday, July 31, 2015, that Liberia’s devastating 14-month Ebola outbreak, which killed more than 4,700 people, is over in the West African country. The WHO declares: “It has been 42 days since the last confirmed Ebola victim in Liberia was buried. That is twice the 21-day incubation period for the disease to emerge in an infected individual. A national ceremony is planned for Monday.” But why do outbreaks persist in neighboring Guinea and Sierra Leone? And why did WHO cautioned that this reality creates: “A high risk that infected people may cross into Liberia over the region’s exceptionally porous borders?” This is very strange because we know by now that the Ebola virus which was discovered in Liberia is totally different from the one which caused the previous outbreaks in Sierra Leone and Guinea! And when they cross the borders they only could insert the contaminated virus with that specific virus and not the newly appeared virus which contaminated the 17-year-old boy! So, if anyone thinks the Ebola outbreak in Mano River Basin is something that is a trifle, please let me confidently state to you that the ongoing disaster is far from being something to put on back-burner. This is the time for all residents in the badly affected Ebola countries to unite to fight those who developed the man-made viruses! World Health Organisation spokesperson, Tarik Jasarevic has now officially informed journalists on what many had suspected was the fearful realization that the new outbreak of Ebola in Liberia, with an index case of a 17 years old schoolboy, was not really ‘new’ after all. The outbreak never really ended in Liberia, something the World Health Organization knew that all along. “We’re proud of what we collectively managed to do but we need to remain vigilant,” said Peter Jan Graaff, the United Nations Secretary-General, acting as a special representative and head of the U.N. Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER). The virus is not yet out of the region and as long as the virus is in the region all of us are still potentially at risk.” On Saturday, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, toured health centers in Monrovia, embracing and taking group photos with health workers. She was accompanied by U.S. Ambassador Deborah Malac, the Associated Press reported. But President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, how long do you want to wait? Is it not about time to open your eyes and stop embracing WHO and other political, military and medical celebrities, who knew and know that the Ebola and Aids viruses were developed in the bio-medical warfare scene before, during and after the Second World War? Is quietness not a form of stupidity, when many African leaders, including you, do not recognize the real scientific described origin of Aids and Ebola? Are your citizens not more important than power and money? Are you not aware of the fear and uncertainty you’ve placed your citizens into? What about the future, families, communities, your country, and its economy? How long will you continue to believe in liars and people like Peter Jan Graaff from the WHO, who declared that Liberians are Ebola free? And when he stated that the transition to Ebola-free status was a “monumental achievement,” then President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf , you must read my book “Aids and Ebola the greatest crime in medical history against mankind,” and articles on the blog of the Ghanaian investigative journalist, author, and writer Joel Savage. Yes! President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, you must do that, because the complete scientifically development of Aids and Ebola viruses are well explained in the book, to bring out the truth and stop the Africans claiming Aids and Ebola are curses from God. Africans don’t deserve any punishment or curse from God, than those who developed the viruses and planted in Africa. Tolbert Nyenswah Tolbert Nyenswah, who led Liberia’s much-criticized response to the disease, said late Thursday that finally ridding the country of Ebola was vindication for leadership that had taken such a beating during the darkest hours of the epidemic when critics complained about slow steps taken to halt the spread of the deadly virus. “Today, the same people (critics) are using us as a success story,” Nyenswah said. In Washington, the White House on Saturday congratulated Liberia on the achievement, but cautioned that: “(we) must not let down our guard until the entire region reaches and stays at zero Ebola cases.” That statement alone confirms Liberia is still not free from Ebola. The U.S. military, which was quick to respond to the crisis, built 11 clinics across Liberia, many by contract and trained 1,500 health workers. Yet by the time the work was completed in late December, the disease was on the decline. Last month, The New York Times reported that only 28 Ebola patients were treated at clinics built by the U.S. military, but President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, they only treated 28 patients for the record, and to ask why does Liberia need thousand soldiers to take care of only 28 patients in the neighbourhood of diamond and gold mines? Peter Jan Graaff from the WHO The WHO spokesman Peter Jan Graaff has now confirmed that: “Genetic studies of the virus in the ‘latest’ outbreak in Liberia is identical to the one that used to kill in Liberia few months back and which is the same virus that continues to kill in both Sierra Leone and Guinea.” But that is a lie President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf! Because none, (I repeat, NONE) of the Liberians now with new Ebola infection in Liberia ever traveled to Sierra Leone or Guinea. It means the virus has been right inside Liberia quietly all this time. Whether new or old virus, they were all genetically engineered in laboratories. The WHO Spokesman is now saying the infection of the 17 years old boy was likely acquired from a ‘non-identified transmission within the community’ or from a survivor still carrying the infection in other body fluids long after the blood tested negative for the virus. But there is also another possibility, so fearful to contemplate that the virus has now modified itself so much, genetically engineered by men of course, so that it can delay the onset of symptoms in those it infected. What do I mean by ‘delay the onset of symptoms?’ Let me explain. Viruses can exist for stated periods in humans before they start manifesting sickness in the infected human. For example, the HIV virus can exist for years in a person before it causes the manifestation of clinical signs of HIV-AIDS. Now, prior to this Outbreak, Ebola was known to manifest symptoms within 2 to 21 days of infection. This particular MRU outbreak had an average of 9 days between infection and symptoms. So, if it is now suspected to be scenario for ‘new index case’ of a teenage boy in Liberia, this MRU Ebola virus is now with the ability to exist for more than 21 days in a human before it manifests symptoms of Ebola sickness, then I can easily say we have a major situation on our hands in the MRU basin, to say the words from Tolbert Nyenswah. Add to this, if the huge number of survivors living in MRU basin are possible carriers of the dreadful Ebola virus in body fluids like male semen or in the placenta of the foetus in wombs, we might have a serious nightmare unfolding in the Mano River Union basin also in the future. http://www.amazon.com/AIDS-AND-EBOLA-Greatest-Medical-ebook/dp/B00QZCYMSS	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1500
__label__wiki	0.719823	0.719823	Dunkirk : A Film Review Director, Christopher Nolan. Produced by Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas.Written by Christopher Nolan. Cast, Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard, James D’Arcy, Barry Keoghan, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy. Music by Hans Zimmer. Cinematography Hoyte van Hoytema. Edited by Lee Smith. Production companies, Syncopy Inc. Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures Duration, 1hr 46mins. Country, United Kingdom. Cert. 12a Reality is a different thing A Narrow Sea. Every fully formed war film is required to adhere to the history formed beforehand without too much movement to alternative disparate views unless it is to provoke an alteration in the mindset held in perpetuity. Very clearly Christopher Nolan in firstly conceiving of this depiction of the Dunkirk evacuation is steadfastly complicit in the narrative of heroic proportions in its fullest conception, delivered and spun as a decisive turning point of the Second World War in the sounds of Churchill shaping the morale of the soldiers families sacrificed, lost at war and not returning these 300,000 upwards of 350,000 perhaps, of the troops, massed on the foreshore of Dunkerque – the French seaport in N France: site of the evacuation of a British expeditionary force, generally taken as 330,000 men who were under German fire May 29–June 4, 1940 have long been memorized in the accounts of the conflict of nations. The French were to suffer long after under their occupied lands and Great Britain had been fending for itself without the American assistance which culminated in the D-Day landings and bombing raids where frequent across the British aisles. The Warships and Fleet of the Navy were constructed by the efforts of one nation to be a seafaring warrior invincible force or as its motto pronounces – “Si vis pacem, para bellum” (Latin); “If you wish for peace, prepare for war” Seagoing vessels were the materials of war in the face of a stranded army of the numbers reaching 400,000. A city population. A measure, in only small proportion, of the military engaged in the War. Yet it was of unconscionable, irrational and unparelleled significance for a relatively small and diverse nation like Great Britain and Northern Ireland to believe it had come to this. So early in the War a catastrophe had been encountered and seen off albeit at great cost. Here in Northern Ireland mortar shells and aircraft where made and ships repaired, sent out again to the battle for freedom. Other nations sent their battleships. The troops stranded were of all ranks and former occupations. So we’re the masters of the little armada across the channel. Virtue is requisitioned for the parade of heroics on the screen. The Everyman character of a South coast pleasure craft boatman in the shape of Mark Rylance who plays a key role in framing the ordinary understanding of militarism. Set against the other roles of Army Colonel Whose men are ranged along the beach of Dunkirk, all 400,000 of them, against the fleets force of around 50,000 to 70,000 there is a conflict of man management ranged along the stretch of the Mole jutting out from the port into deep waters. The draft of low and high water, as Kenneth Branagh playing the shoreline commander, advises his Army counterpart of the realities and nearness of danger, in some 21 feet, while both witness and are part of the shearing of piers structure in parts in the strange of heavy bombardment by German fighter planes targeting them and the prone beach. This is a Theatre of breathtaking life taking jeopardy and multi stories of bravery weave in and out against the backdrop of a constantly returning sky and ceaselessly flowing tides. On the tides of men journeys are taken as the conditions present. Ships, even Hospital Ships are no safe heaven, some even becoming victims of the constant barrage from above. The Royal Marines are also in close proximity as agents of the Navy and Infantry which is summed up in their motto – “Per Mare, Per Terram” (Latin); “By Sea, By Land” Royal Marines. As this was a conflict with opportunist pilots of the Luftwaffe targeting the beachheads and any approaching or leaving vessels the strength of the Spitfires and the training of British pilots was a key element and behind the visors of three Spitfires feature some of the dramatic air dogfights and in a suitably masterful expedious treatment the Tom Hardy we relate to is a standout hero of invincible acuity. He brings hindsight – the Directors fashioned role relating writers conceited backward motioned nod to the British Bulldog and delivers in waves. Whether he is a victim of the deep or survives is for you to find out. The role of the Infantry is very interesting in the whole composite of War. They are the masses and in this film they are the victims alive or dead. Captain of the tiny Moonstone vessel Mark Rylance ponders this axiom in the spoils of War. The spent shellshocked men who live and will survive to march on Remembrance Sunday remembering their comrades and even families bombed in uderground railway stations or their homes. The indivisible invisible death toll mere memory. Mark Rylance has reflected on it to his youngest son, the eldest having flown a Hurricane. He puts the imparted knowledge of his son into full speed dial at the helm of his boat in the face of danger the nearer they are to France. Recreating History In the recently broadcast Reith Lecture choreographed by the indulgent Sue Lawley, Hillary Mantell strifes gallantly to address the consciousness of raw History by telling us in mild self adulation that she ‘got the reformation done in two pages.’ History is as you navigate it and the preposterously Catholic hating or hurtfully damaging, telling of the brush strokes of Cromwellian liquidity was moderately annoying in the books themselves. They are big selling books with hierarchical hubris and English conceit pressed and sold in vast blocks of paper. The film Dunkirk has a backdrop in which Historical advisor Joshua Levine states “Everything that’s celebrated about World War II – in Britain, in the United States and …. is about the preservation of freedom”. So Christopher Nolan is caught finely balancing too much glorification of the spirit delivering the evacuation and the enormity of the catastrophic losses and effect on moral brought about by the cornering of 400,000 British, French, Belgian and Canadian troops. Taking the participation of the removal commanders, with Kenneth Branagh prominent as the British Naval Commander who strides the border in Dunkirk between land and sea with the knowledge the tidal difference is 21 feet between tides and the majority of the time it has a shallow draft beach which is suitable over long periods to land small craft only and evacuate as many as possible. 26 miles separate England and France. Stories overlap in this multilayered film as many incidents are followed as they occur in long passages over a week say with the troops stranded for over a week, the Spitfires in action in just a day and in rough seas the boat crossing over 12 hours passage. Factual portrayal While Writer, Director, Producer, has set aside using CGI and has mounted a three tiered plot interweave it has in all three elements large gaps un-filled. The beach warfare may be suitable, but not in my mind, for a younger audience, the darker, weather beaten, weakened force who have trekked to this staging post to find it is not an established escape route, are themselves embattled and are by the fact 16 groups of Infantry form a bastion of defense all around Dunkirk, this element does not feature. It also for my viewing begun with a shaky start as a more film school prologue in its arrival of a group of soldiers and they have not yet reached the Infantry line and the soldiers on that line practically stand up in the face of gunfire from an unseen enemy. There is no enemy seen, even in the Messerschmidt’s our on the ground. So it lacks credibility on those counts in my mind. On the sea there are several things despite the magnitude of the production which the production designer has dropped in some unaccountable scenes of a small flotilla seen at a critical point as if Enid Blyton like, the Famous Five have arrived and the very, very, heavy densely packed seas are a tokenistic gestural vision. Even the lack of Warships is noticeable. The French, Belgian, Dutch, English vessels which lifted 95% of the survivors were unaccounted for visually. The weather also played a part in the sky as well as the beaches and the cloud cover was much heavier. The Spitfire combat sorties were much bigger. Two squadrons each time with air time of no greater than just around an hour came to 24 Spitfires. A group of fighter planes no matter how effective and startling they convey the rawness of the or mission fell well below actual events and in more were conducted in more compact and hostile weather windows. We see instead a trio of planes in most action. Every sequence is differently approached. For the filming of the air battles it is the vastness of panoramas IMAX is deployed. Very little us of CGI or underpinning digital effects is utilised. In doing this the audience is pulled into the action in as realistic a way as Cinema can provide in the comfort of a movie theatre. Primarily it is a world away from actual events and due to its familiarity as a feature of the British inherent spirit long embraced, it is harder to suspend the immersion and maintain viscerally the connections sought through the screen. Very little can be faulted in the enormous logistical planning and forming of each time cycle with its fast interweaving edit by Lee Smith. Cinematography by Hoyle van Hoytema. Special effects supervisor Scott Fisher co-ordinating a legion of extras as stunt men – the credit roll shows a vast number of participants – in perilous uniform motion diving from ships, climbing ropes, ditching from planes boats and bridges, along with the onrush of cascades of water within confined below decks, tilting sinking footholds and the rip of explosions behind in from and on top of the many deployed in scenes of hugely impressive action sequences. The onward beat of the several lucky strikes, unlucky strike conveyed the bitter irony of the arbitrary nature of victim and survivor. Medals are despatched with notes and worn in memorial and posthumously by the few who saved the many and sacrificed unfathomable courage and their psyche to the destructive violations of war. Ever town has its memorial and each is related to particular events formed under the broad church of what is know as World War II. For the task the technique of IMAX utilised before in The Dark Knight, along with those that followed, Inception, Interstellar, gave creative credibility to scenes with a tautness, fixity, and tension unnerving absorbent. Cockpit scenes in particular are key to this connectivity of motion, while scenes skip from the burning oil slicks of sinking ships with men floating every which way and submerging, bouncing on the rough seas, some atrophied corpses not suitable in either imaged or perceived form for young audiences given the determination of the production to convey the brutal ‘nature’ of war. Wide shots of static Spitfire with the pilot maneuvering to which we are quickly returned as cockpit scenes sometimes in submersion tanks take on a screen wide frame of the pilot working out what to do next. Natures is life’s balance and the removal from of life artificially through abhorrent actions and resulting tragedy is very difficult to absorb even cinematically. It has the effect of being voyeuristic and removed while done in the name of ‘informative entertainment’ drawing you into a consumption of a false concoction of a historical unfathomable, except for those who were present, even then their memory has sent the worst of the experiences to the depths of their minds beyond everyday retrieval but instantly recalled. I went away recalling the pacing of the frames as in beats of five, five, for around particular scenes the jeopardy is quickly drawn in, five, five then as the science became more intense closing in on conclusion, it became three, three, and over it built a factory of sound echoing and firing around the walls of the cinema ramped up indecorously by the overly absurd music of Hans Zimmer. I was put off by much of the score for reasons put down below. The pilots I reference in Primary Roles below. Primary roles Mark Rylance is the common denominator I take, in firstly describing the cadence of this Movie epic. It has no restful reflective moments. Except one or two in the reading of text on the way home and on arrival – in England where apparent insults and majorly mistaken guilty bitterness of a survivor who is processing his survival it is already a case of wrong interpretation as reflection begins. Mark Rylance as Mr Dawson, is for me a key entry to this film and it’s construct. He is an acknowledged master of the stage an fully versed in directorial tasks. It is his stage presence he relies on here. He is not concealing his nature but immediately strikes you as what he projects. A man in his late fifties, a pleasure craft boatman in Weymouth Harbour with a 19 year old son Peter, very neatly played by Tom Glynn-Carney sidestepping the more ‘deliberate’ style of Rylance, creating his own in what is a confined environment of the boat, to assist and share the short journey across the sea to Dunkirk. The boat is a mini theatre like a stage inviting into its world stranded soldiers, airmen, and important amongst them it the battle worn unarmed character played by Cillian Murphy. As Moonstone leaves Weymouth Peter’s friend George leaps on board and he is determined to have a role. He is played by the very young Barry Keoghan expertly in shy reservation once on board this haphazard cause. Young Barry (George) has gathered in a number of recent roles and a while back appeared in ’71’. He also has a presence in the Irish TV drama, ‘Love/Hate’ so is no stranger to creating a self image of the role he takes on here with brilliance again, as with Peters role, a measured layered performance. The boat also brings out the claustrophobic mind adopted in war situations. Adaptability is no stranger to tight situations and Cillian Murphy majorly fails to adapt having gone through one version of hell. This is why the boat is symbolic of the drift of war violent and subdued at the mercy of outside things off stage and on it. To be apart of an ‘orchestra’ scored and conducted by US/UK citizen Christopher Nolan, it is proper to set aside the small tokens of acting currency and rely on firmer and clearly understood portrayal of the person within the event. Multiple viewpoints are used in the intrinsic three act memorial to a time which has fastened onto the British psyche for better or worse. Despair is kept hidden and remorse and memorial elevated so the bulldog spirit can be called upon as is the root and knot of the Dunkirk spirit. Nolan has through necessity found a way to inter weave the various components of the evacuation by segmenting Infantry, Naval, Airborne sequences in a series of set pieces. In the very beginning, Fionn Whitehead playing Tommy as the young soldier having made it to Dunkirk with a few of his comrades, on arrival on the beach he is without a regiment and he encounters another loner, Aueurin Barnard as Gibson, busily burying a soldier in sand. For the story of the Infantry men Nolan takes this ‘model’ soldier to interpret the trap of the beach and he takes his story to other places, sometimes confined, sometimes alone again and it mixes claustrophobic environments with, proximity, close proximity to death. Attempts at leaving are thwarted several times and likewise onboard frigates there is no certainty of escape. One scene relatively short on dialogue like most of the film, a conversation on escape routes from below deck. Every vessel hold has a submarine type door locking and compartmenting zones of the ship. Escape hatches are needed in and are sometimes the only means of escape. The frenzy of the moment of survival is sharply hit like a tuning fork alarm reverberating under water heightening enclosure. The RAF despatched fighter planes, Spitfire’s for brief combat sorties and our introduction is into the cockpit of plane where their base controller (sounding a lot like a muffled Michael Caine – playing Commander Maurice Michelwaite?) briefs them on the fuel carried. The pilots are Collins, the youngest, played by Jack Lowden. Tom Hardy plays Farrier and he is small enough and physically and mentally well cast as the rest bust leader of the squadron. His fixity to objects was a talisman. Every loft of the head, hand, adjustment was noticed and noted as precise as would be required. Bring in Luftwaffe planes as tailgaters and every manoeuvre can be your last one. Over the boats and over frigates targeted by the Luftwaffe planes the planes would dogfight with witnesses in the boats below. The pontoon built on the rocky breakwater known as the mole jutting even further out into the Channel was another site of claustrophobic warfare as hordes of troops packed onto its whole length in readiness when summoned to embark upon a moored vessel. Farrier overfly this as do the bombing German planes and the random hits are arbitrarily the bringer of fate. Historical drama, be it costume drama – along the lines of a Wolf Hall and the Elizabethan fairy cake dalliances are designed to serve up an expected version. This too as a Historical drama has to conform to the widely held perspective, looking backwardly into a dark history as the narrative and direction takes on itself the tones and words of a dark perilous fate, while viscerally discharging, with a roll of the dice, sacrifice in the lives of men under semi directional bombs and mortars. Scenes of carnage on a scale unprecedented in military warfare are captured and sent into the history books as events with casualties living and dead. Key to Reading the Film Mark Rylance is for me a key entry to this film and it’s construct. He is an acknowledged master of the stage an fully versed in directorial tasks. It is his stage presence he relies on in not concealing his nature but immediately strikes you as what he projects. A man in his late fifties, a pleasure craft boatman in Weymouth Barbour with a son to assist and share the short journey across the sea to Dunkirk. To b apart of an orchestra scored and conducted by US/UK citizen Chrstopher Nolan it is proper to set aside the small tokens of acting currency and rely on firmer and clearly understood portrayal of the person within the event. Multiple viewpoints are used in the intrinsic three act memorial to a time which has fastened onto the British psyche for better or worse. Despair is kept hidden and remorse and memorial elevated so the bulldog spirit can be called upon as is the root and knot of the Dunkirk spirit. Mark Rylance has created many roles but in taking on in Peter Kominsky’s TV movie the role of The Government Inspector I’m afraid he was beaten to the delivery of the punch in my view as it was more brilliantly played (on The National Theatre Olivier stage) by Rik Mayall who was compellingly brilliant and I revisited it as it was an astounding production a number of times now less enthralling then when first encountered. So the BFG is not on Rik’s roster. Sound sculpting There is in view of the broad brush strokes of epic film making, without for long periods any dialogue other than formal outbursts and acknowledgement, recognition, signaling, an overtly simple reliance on the auditory experience. Mixed into the cocktail of petrol laden sound of mechanical collapse and engine expulsions are the over layered raw sounds from the music repertoire. With no hint of irony, Germans don’t do irony, Hans Zimmer adulterates firstly Edward Elgars Nimrod whose whole metre is one toxically balanced on the hatred of loss and final judgement. The Enigma Variation is very crudely deployed for popular audience consumption and it stigmatises otherwise photographically infusing moments. A relentless barrage of gut and wire (the violin is such a beast) is suffused into a digitised melancholy savagely corrupted as ‘experience of wars corruption’ inset as a pedal of connective minor scales and frivolous tinkering on a carefully realised piece of adored music. It would not work in its unadulterated form neither would it convey appropriately the sense it sets out to project. It irritates and diminishes the whole. Elgar had originated the piece as one of a combination of pieces illustriously, industriously, as epigraphs of people and characterises live’s with a humanistic majesty lasting way beyond this removal. It’s like being at a wake in a parallel universe. Hans Zimmer uses with similar ignorance and brutal thievery, Tomaso Albinoni’s Adagio for Strings. It has been done to near extinction by such as Yamashta, Dolby and less adequately by any number of chill baroque artists. Along with Pachabel (not used) Elgar is noted in credits while Albinoni is not. The adulteration is just as bad. In sequences of resolving the events just experienced, the music overlayering of the adagio, is sequentially interrupted in an almost loop version, before, until, until, sic, its resurrection, in an uplifting deliverance of the denouement familiar to a great number. It is another irony that Tomas Albinoni, Vienna 1671-1751, was unknown to the 20th century music world until a sonata was discovered in the ruins of a library the Allies bombed in Dresden in World War II. An Italian, Remus Giazotto, created from it the piece we now know, which itself must have and does in his arrangement, alter the baroque melody within. It takes on a Vivaldi like distinction he may have eschewed (probably accounting for musicologist’s turning their cloth ears away from it). The discovery lead to the recovery in the annals of his place in music history of several other pieces and I have a 1995 EMI edition of Concertos and Sonatas illustrated with a painting in The Louvre, Titelseite, En couverture: “Concert”. It has three sets of performers, Orchestre de Chambre Toulouse, Würtembergisches Kammerorchester and The English Chamber Orchestra. Engineered at Abbey Road. So it covers as a legacy of music a singularly liberal and wide history of our listening. For Sale. The figures of Christopher Nolan films in net income are staggering and they are redefining the way epic films are made. No longer are the heights of usual event films such as Star Wars able to conform to raised expectations and never make it to the award ceremonies with any advancing clamour. The Dark Knight Trilogy was a series of inventive leaps of imagination utilising a Mercedes SUV mounted crane, its equivalent being a water based catamaran with the nimble fast throttle needed to deploy its 26 feet long telescoped IMAX camera at sea level and over and above action. The reconstruction brought in adapted gaint replica ships, as minesweepers readapted for example to be destroyers, and within the Moonstone the bulk of wide screen hand held camera filming required a lot of planning and effort so as to not prolong the shoot to levels of exhaustion. Rain and the elements of offshore winds and tidal surges conducted their own manners on actors who took on the sense of the drama as well as many Dunkirk residents as extras whose place in the work added for many a real sense of historical unfolding events that preceded them. Craft of every kind were sequestered and today if not sold already their is a 1926 sailing barge, 86 feet long called Xylonite which took on a role of conveyance but it will cost you £450,000 to acquire and its second hand. It is in the Limehouse basin. There is no doubting the production achievement of this task of portraying the unimaginable scale and magnitude of the event we refer to as Dunkirk. The expansive far reaching form of the film is searching through depiction of real events the sequence and efforts put in place for the evacuation of around 400,000 troops by the assorted allies of French, Belgian, Dutch, English sea going vessels and the armada of small boats here represented totemically by the Moostone which forms a fulcrum of balancing fate and tragedy. Christopher Nolan is primarily an auteur of the kind which imagines juxtaposed conflicting memory and alternative viewpoints. From the time we see one of the principal actors, Kenneth Branagh as the Colonel set onto land or a pontoon as the person in total command of the evacuation it is apparent this drama is to be bold and as accurately conveyed as is possible. Even with the mastery of a legion of production elements and the brilliance of the interweave which is at levels rarely seen in Cinema and indeed heightened by the distinction, literally brought to the screen – very clear and apparent as not digitized in the broad sweeping cinematography as whole coastlines and sky is evident in its presence before your eyes, also expanded by IMAX delivery of which I’ve put in quite a few notes on how it is achieved, the whole composition is a reach towards a reality we never visited nor are even capable of receiving. The drama is not Shakesperian, Becktettian, Millar or Welles in its heft for our perception of an unreachable truth but a very dogged attempt with severe limitations in providing an immersive experience in recognition of the act of courageous determined bravery and the cowardice of war in confronting the reality of a failure in ourselves which brought mankind to this. Repeatedly. One thing I see rewarding in this is the shock of War and the fact this is rated as a 12a. Parents should be aware it has not received this from a softened projection of War but because it has not relied on bloody scenes of shock value maiming and un implied violent acts. Instead it is very clearly a violence in the aftermath of explosions where drownings, disappearances, loss of ships. planes, troops shown in the grave moment of loss and the suffering is very potent. Seeing men floating in boiling oil and submerging to avoid that burning fate of death as given the choice between it or drowning it is I believe a purpose of Nolan to convey to the young – don’t become involved in war. In fact don’t sanction others to go to war. As Colonel Branagh directs the only ‘joke’ or lighthearted banter of the film to a group of arriving small vessel rescuers it’s a biter/sweet moment which falls on a worn path lacking insisive alacrity. It is a mere indication of the impossible transposition of viewer into this scenario as being hidden from view in immense proportions. Far from providing it with gravitas it spells other voids. When another conversation between D’Arcy commanding the Infantry and Branagh takes sight of ships, the growling lipless KB summons an element of facial relief and the result is pale when you take account of – the lack of scope for KB – the dramatic intent. Somehow it is vexed and awkward despite its purposeful conveyance. That is not to deride anyone on the score of the portrayal but to fasten onto the point that drama has to be segmented much more incisively and rawly to be drama. We learn through this film but it is primarily not its function to be valued but to be taken on the tide of other versions, other war films as entry to the complexities of conflict. Others – recently Churchill, previously The Imitation Game, came at the subject in oblique abstractions with sole events making up around ssixty seventy percent of the storyband the wider bigger scale providing context and connection. The smaller stories are here but the big connective pieces are not – the prologue, the aftermath, the embedded centre and the enemies viewpoint. It’s understably complex and this is a bold and excellent attempt but it certainy underscores the brutality of the whole event. To make a donation to the blog which some respondents have kindly suggested they would like to contribute towards it I add the link to the PayPal donations page I have set up. THIS NOT A WIDGET JUST THE LINK ICON! 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__label__cc	0.743445	0.256555	Internal solitary waves in Upper Lake Constance Type of Publication: Journal article URI (citable link): http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-276831 Author: Preusse, Martina; Peeters, Frank Published in: Hydrobiologia ; 731 (2013), 1. - pp. 65-80. - ISSN 0018-8158. - eISSN 1573-5117 DOI (citable link): https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10750-013-1592-8 The conceptual hypothesis that internal solitary waves (ISWs) in lakes are generated at fronts of basin-scale internal waves, propagate until they break at the terminal boundary and extend over the lake width in cross-propagation direction is tested using temperature and current profiles measured in Upper Lake Constance. Trains of ISWs of depression propagate in close association with the front of a Kelvin wave at almost constant phase speed from the main basin of Upper Lake Constance to the western shore of a sub-basin, Lake Überlingen. The trough of the ISWs extends over the entire basin width in narrow Lake Überlingen but not in the wider main basin. A substantial part of the ISWs propagating towards the western terminal boundary did not return, suggesting wave-energy loss due to wave breaking. Close to the shorelines parallel to their propagation direction the amplitudes of the ISWs are diminished. Temperature inversions suggest that wave breaking is occurring at these boundaries, but also in the open water where breaking events extend along the width of the ISW front. The heterogeneity of ISW breaking suggests that the associated mixing and vertical fluxes of plankton and nutrients across the thermocline are highly variable in space and time. Subject (DDC): 570 Biosciences, Biology Keywords: Internal waves, Solitary waves, Wave breaking, Mixing Link to License: Terms of use Bibliography of Konstanz: Yes Name: Preusse_276831.pdf Size: 2.1 MiB Checksum: MD5:1ebfd32c3b3d087e305e7e4d8024e87f PREUSSE, Martina, Frank PEETERS, 2013. Internal solitary waves in Upper Lake Constance. In: Hydrobiologia. 731(1), pp. 65-80. ISSN 0018-8158. eISSN 1573-5117. 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__label__wiki	0.961035	0.961035	'Living With Yourself' Creator Says Miles' Double Will 'Bring Out the Best in Him' John Russell, TVInsider.com Two heads are better than one, right? Perhaps not. In Netflix's pitch-dark comedy Living With Yourself, Paul Rudd stars as Miles, a guy who has basically given up on life. He's failing at his job as a branding consultant, his marriage is faltering, and he's not even trying to work on the novel he's always wanted to write. Feeling like he's hit rock bottom, Miles jumps at the chance to become a better version of himself via a mysterious spa treatment. What he doesn't know is that the spa actually clones superior versions of its clients and kills the world-weary originals. But thanks to a major snafu, Miles survives the process and has to face life with a seemingly perfect doppelgänger (Rudd and Rudd, above; he plays both roles). "At first, it only brings even more self-doubt," creator Timothy Greenberg says of Miles' unique predicament. "But it eventually forces him to rise to the challenge. "He's got the perfect opponent — literally himself — and [this interaction] will ultimately bring out the best in him." Living With Yourself, Series Premiere, Friday, October 18, Netflix Google News Feed Syndicate - Streaming 'AGT: The Champions': What makes Howie Mandel cringe in the competition? Mandel, along with fellow judge Alesha Dixon and host Terry Crews, tease what's in store for the second season of the NBC spinoff. Alex Trebek has rehearsed final 'Jeopardy' show in his head, knows what he'll say "Jeopardy" host Alex Trebek doesn't need more than half a minute to end his tenure on the TV series. "I've kind of, in my mind, rehearsed it already." Worth Watching: HBO has a 'New Pope,' the 'Good Doctor' triangle, college football championship And don't miss the latest E! reality series 'Meet the Frasers.' Worth Watching: Recalling the 'McCarthy' Era, 'Manifest' returns, three hours of 'Bachelor' And don't miss a new episode of 'America's Got Talent: The Champions.' Looking back at 30 years of 'The Simpsons' Look back at the 30 years of "The Simpsons," America's longest-running scripted primetime TV series. What's Coming and Going From Hulu in January 2020 There are tons of options to check out, from 'Shrill' to the Golden Globes. Sneak peek at 'Fargo,' 'Mrs. America,' 'Devs' and more Plus, catch a glimpse of Jeff Bridges in 'The Old Man.' Oscar nominations 2020: 'The Irishman,' 'Marriage Story' and more make the list Check the full list of nominees for this year's 92nd Academy Awards. 2020 Preview: 'Self Made' EP on the Challenges Madam C.J. Walker Faced 'Sarah had a natural sense of how to market herself and her product,' exec producer Janine Sherman Barrois says. Wheels for You Activate your digital subscription © Copyright 2020 The Journal Times, 212 Fourth St. Racine, WI \| Terms of Use \| Privacy Policy	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1519
__label__cc	0.717991	0.282009	Tag Archives: Agenda Do Black people deserve reparations? #ADOS June 13, 2019 by Kushite Prince Posted in Battling White Supremacy, Posts. Tagged ADOS, Agenda, Black agenda, Chattel slavery, Dred Scott, Oppression, Racial oppression, Racist System, Racist whites, Reparations, Slavery, We built this country Agenda 21: Will there be a dystopian society by 2030? Local Government Implementation of Agenda 21 The local government implementation of Agenda 21 was prepared by ICLEI for the Earth Council’s Rio+5 Forum (April 13-19, 1997 — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), for the 5th Session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development, and for the UN General Assembly’s “Earth Summit+5” Special Session. United Nations plot to depopulate 95% of the world by 2030 Agenda 21 was United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Division for Sustainable Development and was apparently developed as a means of restructuring the world population to lessen environmental impact and achieve an improved quality of life. One of the main ways of achieving this, however, is through encouraged and direct depopulation. As the UN put it: “comprehensive plan of action to be taken globally, nationally and locally by organizations of the United Nations system, government, and major groups, in every area in which humans have impact on the environment.” Although the language used in the original 70-page report that the UN published on Agenda 21 is vague and open to interpretation, as well as plausible deniability, the intentions in certain sections are clear. Depopulation to lessen environmental impact and stop overpopulation leading to instability. While this sounds like a positive thing in some aspects, mere policy changes at governmental level alone cannot create an environment where big enough changes can come about in a short space of time. Global epidemic: Huge scale depopulation in short time To achieve such huge scale depopulation with a relatively short deadline the actions were taken would have to be drastic. Either a world war, global epidemic or some kind of widespread starvation caused by massive crop failures would be the only likely ways of achieving this. The idea also raises the question of which 5% of the global population would be saved? Would these be those strong and hardy enough to survive the conditions placed on the earth that would kill off the remaining 95%, or perhaps the survivors would be chosen selectively from the elite and wealthy? And those who wake up to this evil reality will be imprisoned in FEMA camps before their death. Is this what they are built for? Whether such a plan could ever actually be successful is another matter. Plans of this size and scope would require the collusion and agreement of at least every first world government in the world, not to mention that the number of resources and effort that would have to go into keeping something like this covered up would be astronomical. http://www.un.org/esa/agenda21/natlinfo/wssd/summarypublication.pdf Posted in Symbolism & Secret Societies. Tagged 2030, 5G, Agenda, Agenda 21, Be prepared, Big Brother, Biometric, Biometric facial recognition, Bioterrorism, Biowarfare, Birth defects, Black Children, Black Community, Black consciousness, Black Survival, Blueprint, Brazil, Bureacratic control, Camera surveillance, Cameras everywhere, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Close observation, Code of laws, Corrupt system, corruption, Database, Deadly plot, Debt slaves, Demonic, Demonic people, Depopulation, Developing countries, Draconian, Drones, Dystopian, Dystopian future, Earth Summit, Educate the children, Education, Educational video, Elite groups, Energy, Environment, Epidemic, European culture, Evil people, Extreme changes, Facial recognition, FEMA, FEMA camps, Finances, Forced vaccinations, Futuristic, Futuristic society, Global problem, Global slaves, Global takeover, Greedy people, Harsh reality, Horrible future, Hunger Games, Inspection, Law Enforcement, Local government, Major plans, Mass surveillance, Military, Nations, New Age, New Slavery, New World Order, No Borders, No privacy, No Rights, Not conspiracy theory, Oppression, Oppressive societal control, Orwellian, Orwellian society, Poison in food, Police State, Poor people, Population, Population Control, Powerful politicians, Protect the children, Racial oppression, Racist Cops, Racist System, Racist whites, Real agenda, Recording device, Rich people, Rio de Janeiro, Robots everywhere, Satanic people, Satanic plot, Satanism, Save the babies, Scary agenda, Scary future, Science, Security systems, Self Defense, Self Preservation, Sheeple, Slavery, Stock up on canned goods, Stock up on guns, Stock up on water, Surveillance, Survival skills, Sustainable development, Technology, Terrorism, Terrorist, The Future, Totalitarian, Totalitarian control, United Nations, Unpleasant future, Vaccines, Wage slaves, Water, We Need to prepare, Will you be a Slave, World population, Zero tolerance Janelle Monae has lost her mind! May 27, 2018 by Kushite Prince Posted in Homosexual Agenda. Tagged Agenda, Black Actress, Coonery, Degradation, Degrading portrayal, Dirty Computer, Gay Agenda, Gay culture, Gay lovers, Gender confusion, Gender Fluid, Gender identity, Gender issues, Genderqueer, Hidden agenda, Homosexual, Janelle Monae, Lesbian, Music video, Pansexual, Pynk, Sexual confusion, Singer, Songwriter, Tessa Thompson, Vagina pants Is being transphobic a bad thing?(More sexual confusion) Are you transphobic? You might be. If you’re a heterosexual man and you’re not attracted to transgender women….then you are transphobic? Sounds ridiculous right? But that’s what these European social scientists are trying to teach the masses. Last week there was a lot of talk on social media about washed up R&B singer Ginuwine. I saw washed up because he is currently on the UK reality show Celebrity Big Brother. In the video(above) is shows an exchange between Ginuwine and transgender “woman” India Willoughby. India asked him whether he would date “her”. Ginuwine said “Not if you told me you was trans”. India then tried to kiss Ginuwine on the cheek and he pulled away. And the militant transgender community went haywire! They are saying he’s transphobic because he didn’t want to kiss a man. This is a clear sign of insanity! He has every right to reject India. The funny thing is there’s all this talk about sexual harassment against women. All these famous men are being accused of sexual advances against women. But where are these women from the #Metoo movement? Why aren’t they defending Ginuwine? You can’t have it both ways. Wrong is wrong. I want you to take a good look at this picture(above). Look at all these damn symbols. Why are there so many gender and sexual orientation symbols? Third gender? Pangender? Genderqueer? What the hell is a demigirl? They’re just making up terms now. And the mindless sheep are just going along with it. I’m going to make this plain. There are only TWO genders. I repeat TWO. All this nonsense about third genders and ten different sexual orientations is absolute rubbish! Nothing but gibberish from these demonic people in the media. They use all these big words to confuse everyone. I call it articulate nonsense. Nothing but uneducated fools. This is not the way of African people. This is anti-life and anti-nature. It goes against the ways of our ancestors. This is not good for the black community. This is European pseudoscience garbage! And should be rejected anytime you see it. This picture(above) is the Gender Unicorn. This is a carton character that teaches children about the gender identity. You’ll notice on the chart that it says “sex assigned at birth” Assigned?? You are born a boy or girl. You are NOT assigned a gender! And this is the sick agenda at hand. They want to start confusing children at a very early age. The next generation will see transgender people as just a normal lifestyle. They’ve already normalized homosexuals and lesbian. So transgenders are the next logical step. There is a concerted effort to make sexual perversion seen as normal. We must protect black children from this onslaught on their young minds. In African culture we understand the importance of masculine and feminine energy. We know that in Maat there has to be balance. Men are seen as the provider,protector and comforter to his woman and children. The women are valued as great mothers,teachers and being great spiritual figures. But this wicked European culture wants to destroy all of that. They want to create chaos and destroy the natural order of things. And to do that they must create confusion so they people can not get in tune with nature and their natural selves. They want to annihilate the divine masculine and feminine principles. And we can’t allow that to happen. I love this video(above). It’s a video clip of R&B singer Bobby Brown putting some homosexual in check! It looks like an old reality show from a few years ago. Say what you want about Brown but I give him major props for this. He was about to beat give this man a serious beating. And I can’t say I blame him. These homosexuals think they’re so funny making advances at straight men. But they wont be laughing after their teeth get punched in. And the media wants all black men to be seen as soft and feminine. This is a clear attack on black manhood. And the #Metoo movement is supporting a double standard. If it’s wrong for a man to make unwanted sexual advances to a woman…then it should be wrong for a transgender person or gay man to make unwanted sexual advances towards a straight man. What is so complicated about that? The definition of transphobic is a “person with an irrational fear or hostility towards people who are transgender,or who otherwise transgress traditional gender norms”. Well I’m not afraid of them. I just prefer to date real women. I’m attracted to women that were born women. I love the way women walk,talk and smell. I love the softness of their bodies. Does that make me a bad person? I have a right to like what I want. Here’s the truth about this agenda. These sick social scientists want to disrupt nature. They know that they’re only two genders. But they want to change the definition of everything. These transgender “women” want to be seen as real women. And they are offended if you don’t view them as such. Well that’s too bad. They can’t change reality. If you’re born a man you can change your penis to a vagina and get breast implants…..but biologically you’re still a man. And I don’t care what any so-called sexual psychologist,therapist or celebrity has to say about it. If that makes me transphobic…..then so be it. Posted in Homosexual Agenda. Tagged African spirituality, Agenda, Agender, Anti-Black, Anti-life, Anti-nature, Big Brother, Bisexual, Black Celebrities, Black Community, Black consciousness, Black Men, Black mothers, Black people, Black Women, Bobby Brown, Brainwashing, Brainwashing children, Butch, Celebrities, Celebrity, Concerted effort, Confused people, Create chaos, Demiboy, Demigirl, Demonic people, Divine Feminine Principle, Divine Masculine, Epicene, Eurocentric standards, European culture, Europeans, Femme, Gender, Gender confusion, Gender Fluid, Gender identity, Gender roles, Gender Unicorn, Genderqueer, Ginuwine, Good video, Gross behavior, Heterosexual, Heterosexual men, Homosexual, India Willoughby, Lesbians, Maat, Metoo, Metoo Movement, Mothers, Natural order, Nature, Neutrois, Normalization, Pangender, Perversion, Perverted Society, Protector, Provider, Pseudoscience, Queer, R&B singer, Real women, Reality show, Sexual advances, Sexual confusion, Sexual deviants, Sexual harasssment, Sexual perversion, Sexual psychologist, Sexual therapist, Singer, Social scientists, Spirituality, Therapist, Third gender, Traditional gender roles, Transgender, Transgender community, Transgender gender, UK Reality show, White folks, Wicked system, Young minds Degenerate Sexual Practices of Europeans(Sexbots and Animals) The sexual degeneracy of Europeans goes way back to Greek and Roman times. I’ve done a lot of research on what Europeans did back then. And through white supremacy they want all races to see the world through their eyes. Homosexuality,lesbianism,pedophilia and bestiality are nothing new to their culture. But theses are not the ways of African people. Black people should reject all of these sick practices. They are anti-life and go against nature. It is disrespectful to your ancestors to engage in any of this depraved behavior. We are totally different than them. Their ways are not our ways. Make sure your children know this. We are hue-mans and they are mankind(kind of man) That’s why over the years they have subtly been pushing these sexual practices in the media. I have seen these practices in television sitcoms,commercials and motion picture films. Also many of these white social scientists are pushing the idea of transhumanism. Basically transhumanism is the belief that mankind has reached the limits of evolution. And the only way mankind can keep evolving is through science and technology. You see many Europeans believe they evolved from monkeys and apes. Most black people know this is a silly theory. Most black people in a Creator or a higher spiritual Being. We have the power of melanin and dominant genetics on our side. Our melanin gives us the power to reach a higher spiritual level than Europeans. Since they have a lack of melanin they can not ascend to a higher realm of consciousness. White people have reached their physical and mental limitations. Which is why they keep searching for the next big thing to turn them on sexually. Africans believe in working with mother nature and the ecosystem. Europeans see nature has something to be controlled or dominated. But this is why they are building sexbots. What type of man or woman would have sex with a robot? They would have to be a very lonely and pitiful person. This is why there is such a disconnect to hue-manity. All this obsession with cellphones,iPads,iPods and computers has gotten way out of hand. All I know is that anyone that attempts to have sex with an animal or robot is very sick! I say attempt because this behavior is anti-sexual. Sex is between a man and woman. There is NO other definition of sex. Don’t let these white social scientists mislead you into thinking otherwise. This is abnormal,perverted,immoral and deviant! Nothing but pure debauchery! These are very sexually confused people. But this is the type of depraved and disgusting practices these Europeans are pushing on the masses. Be sure to check out the two videos(above) and let me know what you think. But stay vigilant and always be aware of this wicked demonic system. Posted in Battling White Supremacy. Tagged Abnormal, African people, Agenda, Albino mutants, Anti-life, Anti-nature, Anti-sexual, Barbarians, Bestiality, Black people, Cellphones, Commercials, Consciousness, Debauchery, Degenerates, Demonic, Demonic system, Deviants, Disgraceful, Disgusting, Dogs, Ecosystem, Eurocentric, European culture, European standards, Genetics, Goes against nature, Graphic nature, Greek culture, Gross, Gross behavior, Hollywood Films, Hollywood propaganda, Homosexuals, Hue-Man, Human nature, Immoral, Informative video, Ipads, iPods, Kind of man, Kissing Dogs, Lesbians, Mankind, Mans Best Friend, Melanin, Mutants, Pedophilia, Perversion, Perverted Society, Robot lover, Robot sex, Robots, Roman culture, Science, Sex, Sex with animals, Sex with Dogs, Sexbots, Sexual confusion, Sexual deviants, Sexual perversion, Sexual practice, Sexuality, Sick agenda, Sick behavior, Social scientists, Technology, Television, Transhumanism, White folks, White Men, White people, White women, Youtube The Interracial Madness-Sexuality in TV and Film(Part 2 of 3) Film historian Charles Woods talks in this video about interracial sex/love in Hollywood films. Woods says in Hollywood there is always a “3D Effect” when interracial relationships are involved. The three D’s are denigration,devastation, and destruction. Woods is exactly right. This is something they do in Hollywood films a lot. Another common theme is the black men and women are always separated from each other. They do this by not casting another black person of the opposite sex. Back in 1930 the Motion Picture Code was created. It was called The Hays Code. The picture(above) is some of the guidelines. Of course you can see that number four is no miscegenation(race mixing). Naturally times have changed so it’s been revised. The powers that be realize that promoting interracial sex can be used against black people. So of course the list seems very outdated at the present time. Here’s the complete list: http://www.artsreformation.com/a001/hays-code.html Of course we are all familiar with the show Scandal. Scandal has beautiful actress Kerry Washington caught in a white boy-love triangle. And even when an episode had her former black boyfriend show up…conveniently they could not see eye to eye. What’s amazing is that the show is written by Shonda Rhimes…a black woman no less. But of course Shonda has to be down with the interracial propaganda if she wants to continue working in Hollywood. On the hit show Supergirl,actor Mehcad Brooks is caught in a white girl-love triangle. Supergirl is played by actress Melissa Benoist. Brooks plays James Olsen who has a girlfriend played by Jenna Tatum. But he has feelings for Supergirl also. Where are the black actresses on the show? There are….ZERO! No surprise right? This way the white girls have no competition with black women. In keeping with the superhero theme,there is also the show The Flash. Where we find actress Candice Patton. She’s biracial but never mind that at the moment. She plays a character who has a white boyfiend. But she is feeling conflicted because she’s starting to have feelings for another man. YEP! You guessed it..another white guy. Who writes this stuff?? One of the first films I remember that caused a lot of controversy was Spike Lee’s Jungle Fever(1991). It starred Wesley Snipes who cheated on his biracial wife with a white woman. Average looking actress Annabella Sciorra played the mistress. It was a big deal I guess at the time because the story ine centered on race a lot. But nowadays the racial issue is hardly brought up. I guess this is an attempt to normalize interracial relationships by ignoring race altogether. The film A Bronx Tale(1993) had an interracial relationship starring Taral Hicks. Her character falls in love with an Italian boy played by Lillo Brancato. There were a lot of these type of these films in the nineties. The film Corrina,Corrina(1994) starred Whoopi Goldberg who falls for actor Ray Liotta. This was just one of many films where Whoopi is paired with a white man. If you include this film,Jungle Fever,A Bronx Tale and The Bodyguard with Whitney Houston…the nineties had a lot of interracial films. I think the nineties was the decade they really started pushing much of the interracial propaganda. The film Save the Last Dance(2001) starred actor Sean Patrick Thomas and actress Julia Stiles. It was about an out of town white teenage girl coping with the death of her mother. She and her father move to Chicago and she falls in love with a black teenager(Thomas). The film was a huge hit back in 2001. It grossed over $130 million. I think that’s one of the reasons we saw such an increase of these type of relationships in films. In the drama film O(2001) Julia Stiles stars again in an interracial relationship. This time with actor Mekhi Phifer. The film is a loose modern adaption of William Shakespeare’s Othello. This film also perpetuates a lot of negative stereotypes. In the clip(above) Phifer’s character has sex with her then when she says stop…he continues anyway. So basically he rapes her. Then if that wasn’t enough he chokes her to death afterwards. So we have a black man that is a rapist and murderder. That’s racist Hollywood for you. They even have interracial couples in horror films. In the film Texas Chainsaw 3D(2103),singer /actor Trey Songz was in a sex scene with actress Tania Raymonde. Trey is a horrible actor and should stick to singing. The film was a total waste of a hour and thirty minutes. I guess the message of the film was just because a crazy lunatic with a chainsaw is killing people…doesn’t mean you can’t find the time to get your “swirl on”. Actor Blair Underwood played the boyfriend of actress Julia Louis-Dreyfuss on the sitcom The New Adventures of Old Christine(2006-2010). I remember meeting Underwood over fifteen years ago at a black rodeo in Burbank,Ca. Underwood was a real cool brother. I remember there a lot of black women around him trying to get his attention. I know many black women see him as a sex symbol. I’m sure many of them are not too fond of seeing him in these roles with non black women. On the drama Private Practice(2007-2013) Taye Diggs was a relationship with actress Kate Walsh. I guess Taye is the go to interracial black guy in Hollywood. Kind of like how Zoe Saldana is always linked with white guys in films. But it kind of makes sense when you think about it. Since Taye likes pale-skinned flat assed white girls in real life,it only makes sense that he always gets the phone call for these roles. And Zoe is married to a white guy in real life too. See the pattern? On the television show Parenthood(2010-2015)actress Joy Bryant played the wife to actor Dax Shepard. Isn’t this a perfect picture? This is what they want for black people. This is another way to promote the false belief that race mixing will end racism. That mixed babies will heal all the wounds.That somehow just having sex with whites will wash away hundreds of years of slavery,rape,lynchings and genocide. I covered this once before. https://kushiteprince.wordpress.com/2015/09/09/mixed-babies-will-end-racism-who-believes-this-nonsense/ Part 3 is next! The conclusion! Posted in Battling White Supremacy, Posts. 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__label__cc	0.614188	0.385812	Don’t Count Hurricane Ana Out Yet. Posted by Kim Steutermann Rogers on October 19, 2014 October 19, 2014 View from the lanai on the morning of Hurricane Ana’s visit. Still calm. The seven words people on Kauai fear the most: The hurricane is going south of Hawaii. When I got off a whale research boat on Friday, my phone pinged and chirped and downloaded a few dozen emails in an effort to sync itself with my land-based world: News about a hospitalized uncle, a pregnant friend who was still pregnant, a package that needed delivering on behalf of the folks working to save Hawaiian Monk Seals, and Hurricane Ana’s forecasted southerly track. Earlier in the week, while Ana was still approaching the Hawaiian Island chain from the southeast, I asked my husband to prepare for the hurricane. He pushed in the six chairs that surround a table on our lanai. I heard the scrape of wood on the tiled floor as each of the six chairs moved a couple inches into their new “hurricane-proof” spot. But when Ana made her final approach for the Main Hawaiian Islands and it looked like she’d go south of the chain that starts in the southeast with Big Island and ends in the northwest with Kauai, my husband charged up his cordless drill. He pulled out a tin of screws. He readied the plywood for window covering. And he found some rope to tie down the table and chairs. “Are you nervous about the storm?” the captain of the research vessel had asked me while we were in the middle of the channel between the islands of Kauai and Niihau where we were hoping to find some high-priority whale species—beaked whales, false killer whales, pilot whales, perhaps, even, sperm whales—which we would photograph, biopsy, and, if possible, tag with satellite devices. All in an effort to learn more about these deep-water species of odontocetes. Things like their residency patterns, social organization, population sizes, and genetics. “Yes. And no,” I said. Twenty-one years ago, another hurricane was predicted to go south of the Islands. She passed below Big Island and Maui and the cluster of Molokai and Lanai and, even, Oahu. But when she got below Kauai, she made a dogleg right. I didn’t live here then. But I’ve heard plenty of stories about `Iniki and her 170-mph winds, and ever since, people on Kauai take hurricanes—especially those tracking south of the islands—seriously. Friday, we started our day early, just as the sky lightened. The privately-owned island of Niihau appeared out of a wash of pink and violet and a starburst of clouds hovered over the rock islet, Lehua, to Niihau’s north. The winds usually dictate our movements on the water. It’s much easier to do this work when the winds are light—spot animals, photograph them, biopsy them, and satellite tag them. On typical trade wind days—with winds coming out of the northeast—we search for the lee, a swath of water protected from wind by Kauai’s interior mountains. We motor along, scanning the water for whales, until we hit a wind line and zig and zag our way up and down the calmer leeward waters—usually southwest of the island. But by mid-morning on Friday, we stopped hitting wind lines. And kept going north. And west. Until I could see the peaks of Makana at the eastern end of Napali Coast in the distance. Lehua and Niihau lined up to our south. It was a little strange to think how beautiful things were some 40 kilometers off Kauai’s coast while several hundred miles away at the other end of the chain, Ana was powering by Big Island, generating pounding surf and flooding rains. While calm, it didn’t result in a great day for finding whales. We only encountered rough-toothed dolphins, which themselves proved too elusive to do more than photograph. The rain has picked up as I’ve written this and, I suspect, will continue. Ana keeps skirting our shores, albeit slowed as a face-off with a strong westerly shear tries to push her our way. Thankfully for Kauai, a ridge in the skies above us is preventing that. In the next few days, after Ana has passed us, she’s expected to round the western edge of this ridge and head for the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaiian Island chain doesn’t end with Kauai but keeps going northwest another 1,000 miles with a string of islands, islets and atolls, all a part of the conveyor belt of the Hawaiian archipelago. At one time, these islands, islets, and atolls all stood over the hot spot in the earth’s crust that continues building Big Island. Today, these areas are home to 7,000 species of flora and fauna. Nearly 100% of Laysan albatrosses nest in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Thankfully, they haven’t quite returned for the season. Some 85% of Hawaiian Monk Seals reside in these waters. And almost 100% of Hawaii’s population of Green sea turtles migrate to these kupuna, older, islands to nest. What’s more there are birds and plants found in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and nowhere else in the world, including the Nihoa finch, Nihoa millerbird, Laysan finch, and Laysan duck. Along with the Laysan sedge, Nihoa carnation, and Nihoa fan palm. So, while the local media will shut down its 24/7 coverage of Hurricane Ana and evacuation shelters will close and schools and businesses will re-open, Ana’s potential for devastation won’t end when she passes south of Kauai, and I’ll still be on alert. Hopefully, Weather Underground and NOAA will continue their coverage of Hurricane Ana even once she passes the Main Hawaiian Islands. To learn more about the research in which I participated, visit Cascadia Research Collective’s website. cascadia research collectivehurricanehurricane anainikikauainorthwestern hawaiian islandswhales Previous Post September in the Rear View. Next Post How Cool Is That: Laysan Albatrosses Return. Hob Osterlund says: Mahalo, Kim. This is a great reminder that all the critters can use our blessings as `Ana passes. I hope those fledging Newellʻs chicks in the mountains have seen the worst of the wind. Let’s hope they stay out of Ana’s way at sea, too, Hob. CATHERINE LINN says: You’ve been on my mind, Kim, But when the news said Ana was moving to the south, I thought you were going to be fine. Your article has indicated how “locals” always know their surroundings best and know how to protect themselves. Thanks for this … I’ve found it most informative as I’ve never lived in hurricane areas. My expertise is limited to desert winds and earthquakes. While at sea, I’ve never been in a hurricane except when we skirted the wake of one off the coast of Caba San Lucas more than thirty years ago. Shall I say it was memorable!!! I’ll keep my gaze fixed on Ana for a few more days. 🙂 Thanks, Catherine. You might have had a more exciting hurricane experience than I’ve ever had! Bob Wright says: A fine essay, very moving. Diane Simkin Demeter says: Dear Kim, It is really wonderful that you are part of an effort to keep track of whales, albatross, and other creatures in Hawaii. You are an inspiration. I read that Ana veered away from the islands and that you are safe. Thank goodness. Your husband sounds resourceful and certainly the plywood would have done the trick. What an interesting life you lead.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1543
__label__wiki	0.698592	0.698592	Share this page by e-mail. Email address of the sender Email address of the recipient Name of the recipient Attach a message The fields marked with the red dot must be filled out The item has been sent. Leica photography – the big picture since 1949 Discover LFI Magazine The Magazine for Leica M Photography Discover M Magazine Discover S Magazine Joseph Michael Lopez – New York at its Core Article: PREVIOUS \| NEXT Joseph Michael Lopez explored his home town for the first time using digital and in colour, for the new permanent exhibition, New York at its Core, at the Museum of the City of New York. The curators spent five years working on the exhibition that reveals the four hundred year history of the east coast metropolis. The exhibition is divided into three segments – Lopez’s photographs are found in Future City Lab, the section dealing with the prospects for development in New York. In his Neighborhood Spotlights series, the Leica photographer presents the particular challenges for the individual city districts, adding a human touch to the maps, drafts and statistics shown in the exhibition. Further information can be found at: www.mcny.org. © Rachel Elizabeth Seed Joseph Michael Lopez Joseph Michael Lopez was born in New York City in 1973. In search of a universal form of communication, Lopez’s admiration turned to film. To prepare for a career in film-making, he decided first to try and understand individual pictures, before working with 24 images per second. His self-taught photography gave rise to a unique imagery. At the end of the nineties he worked as a cameraman on Bruce Weber’s film ‘Chop Suey’. In 2009, without any formal degree but based on his portfolio, Lopez was accepted to do a Master’s in Photography at Columbia University, New York. Back in New York City, Lopez began to focus on analogue Street Photography in black and white. www.josephmlopez.com Sander Houtkruijer – Film photography LFI 1/2017 - The new LFI is here! Name of recipient: Email of recipient: Attach a message: The fields marked with the red dot must be filled out! via mail Mail STAY UP TO DATE WITH THE LFI NEWS CHANELS: GET THE LFI APP:	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1545
__label__wiki	0.887749	0.887749	LEFT WING LOONS See other LEFT WING LOONS Articles Title: Giuliani Promises ... ‘Evidence’ of Obama AdminisTraTion InTerference --- in Ukraine Source: theepochtimes.com URL Source: https://www.theepochtimes.com/giuli ... aine_3167053.html#comment_open Author: Zachary Stieber Post Date: 2019-12-06 14:55:37 by BorisY Keywords: huTus mau maus devilcraTs, huTus mau maus devilcraTs, huTus mau maus devilcraTs Giuliani Promises ‘Evidence’ of Obama Administration Interference in Ukraine By Zachary Stieber President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani promised “evidence” that former Vice President Joe Biden and other Obama administration officials “contributed to the increased level of corruption in Ukraine in 2014 and 2016.” Giuliani made the statement as he travels in Ukraine, meeting with lawmakers who have said that Biden’s son Hunter Biden obtained money stolen from Ukranian taxpayers. Giuliani said that the House Democrat’s impeachment inquiry “is a FARCE” in part because Trump conversation with Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky about uncovering corruption in the country “was based on compelling evidence of criminal conduct by then VP Biden, in 2016, that has not been resolved and until it is will be a major obstacle to the US assisting Ukraine with its anti-corruption reforms.” “The American people will learn that Biden & other Obama administration officials, contributed to the increased level of corruption in Ukraine between 2014 to 2016. This evidence will all be released very soon,” he added on Dec. 5. Giuliani on Friday issued several more statements, including one claiming that “the Accounts Chamber in Ukraine found an alleged misuse of $5.3B in U.S. funds during the Obama administration while Biden was ‘Point Man.’ Obama embassy urged Ukrainian police NOT to investigate!” “Much of the $5.3B in US Aid Ukraine reported as misused was given to the embassy’s favored NGO’s. At the time Yovanovitch, witness for the Witchunt, was the Amb. That embassy directed the police not to investigate,” he said in another message, referring to former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch. He accused President Barack Obama of forgetting about article 2, section 3 of the U.S. Constitution. The comments came as Giuliani met with Andriy Telizhenko, a Ukranian political consultant who used to advise the deputy prime minister, Ukranian lawmaker Andriy Derkach, and other current and former Ukranian officials, including former prosecutor general Viktor Shokin, who was ousted after Biden pressured Ukranian leadership in 2016. Biden bragged at a Council of Foreign Relations event last year that he forced Shokin out. “I looked at them and said: I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money. Well, son of a [expletive]. He got fired,” he said. Shokin was probing Burisma, an employer of Biden’s son Hunter Biden, when he resigned. His replacement closed the case, which is under review by Ukraine’s current top prosecutor. Telizhenko told One America News recently: “There’s a big story happening here in America NOT being told by the mass media on what really happened behind the scenes starting from the prosecutor’s office in Ukraine with an investigation to Burisma case and Hunter Biden.” Telizhenko said on Twitter that Giuliani left Ukraine on Dec. 6. Giuliani made the allegations against the Obama administration hours before House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), asked about the lawyer at a CNN town hall, said that she doesn’t “have time to keep track” of him. “But I do think it is further indication of the arrogance of it all, that every authority has said there is no truth to the rumor that the Ukrainians were instrumental in interfering in our election,” she said. She then criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin, who she said welcomes what’s happening. “Putin makes a joke of it. He says, ‘Oh, they’re blaming it on Ukraine, they took it off of me.’ But all roads lead to Putin. This is about Putin, right from Putin, in Russia, in Moscow, Putin’s desk, the disruption of our elections but not only ours. They want to undermine democracy all around the world. In Africa, in Europe, in the United States, to undermine democracy.” Follow Zachary on Twitter: @zackstieber Team burisma quarterback hunTer biden headcoach cornhole vindmar head official charley #1. To: BorisY (#0) That wouldn't surprise me in the least especially when you think back and remember how many times the Dumbassocrats have claimed (lied) that regime was lily white and suffered no scandals... Vegetarians eat vegetables. Beware of humanitarians! CZ82 posted on 2019-12-07 9:23:56 ET (1 image) Reply Trace Private Reply Giuliani promises This Giuliani? "What Giuliani actually accomplished was to shut down decades-old, home-grown, primarily Italian- American criminal syndicates, setting the stage for foreign-born (primarily Jewish) gangsters—mainly from Russia but also including many from Israel (Giuliani’s favourite foreign nation)—to take over the operations previously controlled by the Italian groups. New York tabloids entertained their readers with exciting stories about the famed “Five Families” of the Mafia as Giuliani and his prosecutors from the U.S. attorney’s office in New York launched a showy campaign against alleged Mafia figures, ultimately sending an assortment of high-ranking old men “bosses” off to prison. " https://web.archive.org/web/20191207154923/http://sostohumanity.blogspot.com/2016/11/ Judas Goat posted on 2019-12-07 10:53:37 ET Reply Trace Private Reply	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1546
__label__cc	0.620367	0.379633	Home » About » Blogs Stanford Libraries Blog Digital Library Blog Human Rights Lecture Series: Drone Warfare? Tomorrow, July 17th, at 7:30 PM, Professor James Cavallaro, Director, International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic, at Stanford, will speak on "Drone Warfare? Civilian Harms and the Legal, Strategic, and Ethical Challenges," at CEMEX Auditorium, Knight Management Center. He has done fieldwork on drone warfare in Pakistan, and has worked with Central American refugees and activists in Mexico, Chile, and Brazil. With the explosive growth in scientific publishing, access to scientific research papers and data has become an increasingly complex affair. Stanford's Forum on the Future of Scientific Publishing on June 27 brought together a diverse group of stakeholders to exchange information about open access to manuscripts and big data. The Forum was held in response to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) memorandum directing expanded public access to the results of government-funded research. The February 2013 memo requires federal agencies sponsoring more than $100 million in annual research expenditures "to develop plans to make the published results of federally funded research freely available to the public within one year of publication... Such results include peer-reviewed publications and digital data." Furthermore, the memo states that data repositories could be maintained either by the federal government or “scholarly and professional associations, publishers and libraries.” The memo directed federal agencies to provide the OSTP with their draft policies by August 22. Media Lab prepares for relocation to Redwood City by Hannah Frost The Stanford Media Preservation Lab (SMPL) – the unit responsible for digitization and preservation of Stanford University Libraries' (SUL) extensive holdings of sound recordings and moving images -- is busy this summer preparing for our new home at 425 Broadway in Redwood City. SMPL is one of several SUL divisions relocating from our current occupancies at 1450-1454 Page Mill Road at the behest of the University. Over 50 pieces of film, audio, video playback and treatment equipment -- nearly 1 ton of gear -- plus the desks of SMPL's four staff will be moved over Labor Day weekend (August 31 – September 2, 2013). In preparation for the move, normal lab operations will begin to wind down in early August. The work to reconfigure, cable and re-install the equipment will take 2-4 weeks. We expect to resume regular levels of services and productivity by October 1. The Ginsberg Archives: Bill Morgan in Conversation with Hilton Obenzinger by Christopher Matson Bill Morgan, biographer and personal archivist to Allen Ginsberg, will be speaking this Friday at the Stanford Humanities Center. Update by Abraham Tewolde Following on from his first post a few weeks ago, our Stanford University Libraries 1st-generation intern Abraham Tewolde updates us on the work he has been doing recently at the Archive of Recorded Sound. Be sure to watch out for further updates between now and the end of Abraham's internship in mid-August. Fourth of July fun facts from the Census Bureau Did you know there were 56 signers to the Declaration of Independence? You can read more about them and other Independence Day facts in this Fourth of July Facts for Features from the United States Census Bureau. SDR Deposit of the Week: Preserving Virtual Worlds and more in SearchWorks Stanford Digital Repository Some of the latest work underway in Digital Library Systems and Services involves adding digital collections to SearchWorks. Last week saw the addition of five new collections to SearchWorks, all created and deposited to the Stanford Digital Repository using the Self-Deposit web application. Of the five, we’re highlighting Preserving Virtual Worlds, a collection produced by curator Henry Lowood and a team of collaborators in a multi-institution project funded by the Library of Congress. Original software, gameplay samples, technical documentation, web sites, and other contextual information for games like SimCity, DOOM, and Star Raiders are archived for the ages. Henry’s blog announcement sums up the project and collection nicely. UX Challenge: Unique library branch microsites and uniform "At a Glance" pages Early in our user research process for the new library website, faculty and students asked us to present easy to find and consistent information about Stanford's 25 branch, auxiliary, and coordinate libraries. With such a large and complex system of locations, it was important to users, they told us, that hours, location information and basic policies were presented to them in a consistent and highly accessible format. Born digital CIDR Digital library architecture Digital medieval manuscripts	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1547
__label__cc	0.538221	0.461779	Volleyball works to repeat winning season LAUREN IRWIN Preseason practices have begun for Loyola University’s women’s volleyball team as they gear up for their next chance to take the Southern States Athletic Conference title. The Wolfpack took second place in the SSAC’s Western conference, and held the most wins since 2007 in the 2010-2011 season, with a record of 25–14. With no graduating seniors and at least four new freshmen joining the team, the Loyola volleyball program has high hopes for the upcoming season. The program is striving to progress further into the conference by working on avoiding injuries, deepening the roster and working on strengthening fundamentals, according to Coach Tommy Harold. “We are also working on strengthening the team’s dynamic,” said Kaki Johnson, defensive player and philosophy senior. The girls’ team is getting excited for the upcoming season, Harold said. Right now the team is scrimmaging, mixing up teams and keeping track of who is winning – ultimately, testing which women are earning their keep as starters. Harold said, “The spring is a great time to work on skills, though often when we start to see progress, it is time to ship the players off for summer.” Preseason practices will halt in May and begin again in August. “I am looking forward to having a fun season, since it’ll be my last,” said Johnson. “I just want to play my best and make memories with the girls.” Lauren Irwin can be reached at Men’s and women’s basketball end Spring Hill games in victory Vikings pull off the upset against Saints Paige Franckiewicz advocates for women’s sports on campus Archbishop Rummel caps perfect season with state championship win over Catholic High, 14-10 New hires find family atmosphere in Wolf Pack athletic department Loyola Jesuits cheer on the New Orleans Saints Coach Hollowell earns 100th win New Orleans Saints linebacker defends public attorneys Basketball player feels at home on small campus $450 million Superdome renovations approved	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1553
__label__wiki	0.592273	0.592273	Home › Politics › Cameroon’s Election 2018: What Outcome In The Incumbent’s Worst-Case Scenario? Cameroon’s Election 2018: What Outcome In The Incumbent’s Worst-Case Scenario? By Lloney on October 4, 2018 • ( 0 ) In a rudimentary simulation assuming an abysmal performance across the country for Cameroon’s ruling party, CPDM/RDPC, at the polls on the 7th October 2018, it is possible to estimate the gains and losses spanning the political field with the following prognostications: • A 50% vote share in the Centre region against the current field of the other 8 would be a “must achieve” for the incumbent. Below 50% in the Centre the arithmetic quickly becomes very tricky for the ruling party. • In this scenario where the regime’s vote in the Centre is under pressure for a massive reversal, it would need to hold its ground in the Extreme North at about 35%. Below which the outcome of the poll may not be favourable. • The South which has the least number of registered voters is the third leg of the tripod on which the regime stands. It would need to shore its vote at about 40% to retain overall lead in the event of a continuum of sub-optimal results in the rest of the regions. • Victory in these three regions, and perhaps par in all but NW, SW and Western Regions where a rout is predicted, could still guarantee an overall victory for the regime of about 26% in the poll. Expect the regime to throw everything at these three regions to get out the vote. • No prizes are awarded for saying a coalition would defeat the regime. The question remains, which coalition? Independently, Mr. Libii would split the home vote for the ruling party – but by how much is a crucial question which will determine if the regime survives the poll. While coalitions have been sought and are still being sought – one such coalition involving Mr. Libii but without him as leader, may not work out so well as it may serve simply to galvanise the home base for the ruling party. On the other hand, a coalition with Mr. Libii at the helm, may be off-putting for those in the regions, who are voting to take power from Cameroon’s current political elite hailing mainly from the Centre region. It also a no-brainer that Mr. Osih and Mr. Muna are taking votes from each other and ostensibly, a coalition between the two would stand to reason, yet, from the simulation, would not win either the poll as they each or both need a coalition with francophone candidate(s) to keep their vote-share and broaden their appeal. A strong showing for Prof. Kamto at home is necessary to boost his chances. Like the incumbent, Prof. Kamto needs his voters to come out without reservation. One curiosity of the registration stats is in the Western and North Western Regions where the Male/Female proportion show more Females being registered than males. Noteworthy that in certain regions e.g. Littoral the Male/Female proportion varies up to 35% above the 1.01 Male/Female proportion in in the population at large. But, on polling day, it is generally known that women are crucial in bringing out the vote and this may in turn make all the difference. The simulation reveals Prof. Kamto’s chances improve over a struggling incumbent if say the Extreme North vote for the incumbent sags to 30% versus an incremental 3% outturn in the West Region by supporters of Prof. Kamto will tilt the outcome in favour of the Renaissance Movement. Given the crowds seen in his recent rallies, both in the Extreme North and the West, this is entirely within a stretch of imagination. Prof. Kamto may therefore, given the right circumstances, emerge the last man standing in this poll, and without need for a coalition. The troubles in the NW/SW regions have rendered the two regions near irrelevant and almost certainly floored the candidatures of both Mr. Osih and Mr. Muna. From the simulation, there’s no credible Anglophone path to power except of course in a late coalition which leaves an Anglophone as its leader. The situation is quite a paradox because the regions’ troubles, began as a protest contra the marginalisation of its peoples. But in a perverse turn of events the troubles have led to one of the biggest marginalisation of all – being denied a credible chance at the presidency or having a stake in the process or outcome because, bizarrely, this quick and dirty simulation reveals, the fewer the Anglophone participation in the election the better the chances for the incumbent! Reactions to the exercise reported in this article are entirely predictable. First are those who would scoff, point wagging fingers and level accusations of mischief making. There are others who would shrug, ask why the fuss, as the outcome of the poll is inevitable, a foregone conclusion. The last cluster of critique would come from those who choose to dismiss it for lack of sophistry. True there are many different ways this could be done with a range sophisticated tools which, take on board many different variables to build machine learning models etc. Nevertheless, the driver for the exercise was the simple question, “What If?” and trying to answer this has been an eye opener for a key contention that an opposition party could not win without a coalition. The simulation captured here shows that the possibility does indeed exist and everything is up for play, if the players are ready and the field is fair. Overall Poll Result Projected Performance Projected Participation By Lloney E. Monono, UK. ‹ Revisiting Orwell’s Farm, Amba Farm. One Piece Of History In A Loop › Categories: Politics Tags: Cameroon; Elections; Presidential Elections; CPDM; RDPC; MRC; CRM; The Addis Agenda One Piece Of History In A Loop Revisiting Orwell’s Farm, Amba Farm. Peace In Cameroon – You’ll Never Know What You’ve Got Till It’s Gone. Of Bulbs, Bubbles and Bitcoin	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1559
__label__wiki	0.530603	0.530603	Tech Bytes - Daily Digest Check out daily for a digest of useful articles on technology, governance and leadership. Follow me on Twitter @kannagoldsun Daily Tech Digest - October 31, 2019 What the Google vs. IBM debate over quantum supremacy means The debate is over what it means when you run an actual quantum computer, such as Sycamore, and compare it to a simulation of that quantum computer inside of a classical, electronic computer. Quantum simulation software, such as Microsoft's LIQUi\|⟩ program, allows a traditional computer to represent a quantum computer in ordinary circuitry, by translating quantum mechanics into mathematical structures, known as matrices of complex numbers (numbers that incorporate both real and imaginary numbers). With simulations, it's possible to compare how long it takes real quantum circuits to produce a given computation, and how long the same computation takes a classical computer to reproduce, by running the matrix math that resembles the functions of the quantum circuit. Google and IBM are both looking at such simulations, and they're taking different views as to what the comparison means. Google's point is that Sycamore is a device that does the work it takes millions of conventional processors to simulate. Why organizations feel vulnerable to insider attacks A full 43% of the respondents cited phishing attacks that trick employees into sharing sensitive company information. Some 24% pointed to weak passwords, 15% referred to spear-phishing attacks targeted to specific individuals, and 15% cited orphaned accounts. Data leakage or theft is always a concern for security professionals both from outside and inside the company. Asked which type of data is most vulnerable to insider attacks, 63% of the respondents pointed to customer data, 55% to intellectual property, and 52% to financial data. ... Insider attacks pose enough of a concern that most organizations do have certain tools in place to deal with them. Some 68% of those surveyed said they feel anywhere from moderately to extremely vulnerable to insider attacks. While 49% said they feel they have the right controls to prevent an insider attack, 28% said they do not, and 23% said they were not sure. Most of the respondents use some type of analytics to determine insider threats with 32% relying on activity management and summary reports, 29% on user behavior analytics, 28% on data access and movement analytics, and 14% on predictive analytics. North Korean malware detected in India's Kudankulam nuclear facility The Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) admitted yesterday that one of the computers at its Kudankulam nuclear power plant (KKNPP) had been attacked by malware. The malware, however, did not affect the critical internal network of the plant, NPCIL claimed, but the company only confirmed the attack following strong denials. "Identification of malware in NPCIL system is correct," A.K. Nema, Associate Director and Appellate Authority, NPCIL, belated admitted in a statement. "The matter was conveyed by CERT-In [Indian Computer Emergency Response Team] when it was noticed by them on 4 September 2019," he added. According to Nema, the matter was investigated by DAE cyber security specialists, who found that the compromised computer was connected to the internet and was being used only for administrative work only. He also added the virus infection was isolated from the critical internal network of the plant. A day earlier, KKNPP senior official R Ramdoss had rejected social media reports, which claimed that domain controller-level access at KKNPP has been compromised. Four principles for security metrics Metrics come into their own when they act first as a tool to help people understand what’s going on, what you need to do to improve, then how to track progress and measure success. Start by creating one metric per process – then, if this metric goes out of tolerance, you’ll have a clear idea of how to address this. For example, “number of high severity vulnerabilities” is not easily actionable. If this goes beyond your tolerance what action do you take? It’s affected by multiple processes as well as circumstances beyond your control. As metrics are developed and you get new views on what your data is telling you, you’ll likely uncover things that are slipping between the cracks of existing processes. If you have a metric that tracks the current status of a given process, but you require several projects to deal with legacy issues that existed before the process was created/updated, there is no harm in splitting that historical data out and tracking those remediation projects separately. This will help you avoid the situation where your metric confuses good current performance with past problems that are now under management via a different – and possibly longer term – process. The 10+ Most Important Job Skills Every Company Will Be Looking For In 2020 There's no shortage of information and data, but individuals with the ability to discern what information is trustworthy among the abundant mix of misinformation such as fakes news, deep fakes, propaganda, and more will be critical to an organization's success. Critical thinking doesn’t imply being negative; it’s about being able to objectively evaluate information and how it should be used or even if it should be trusted by an organization. Employees who are open-minded, yet able to judge the quality of information inundating us will be valued. ... Technical skills will be required by employees doing just about every job since digital tools will be commonplace as the 4th industrial revolution impacts every industry. Artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, virtual and augmented reality, robotics, blockchain, and more will become a part of every worker's everyday experience, whether the workplace is a factory or law firm. So, not only do people need to be comfortable around these tools, they will need to develop skills to work with them. How schools can better protect themselves against cyberattacks Schools often are more vulnerable to cyberattacks in comparison with larger companies and enterprises, and for a variety of reasons. Many school districts may have only one or two IT people to serve the entire district, so the staffers are spread thin. Budget constraints have affected many schools, limiting the amount of money they can spend on security solutions. Most schools likely have the necessary security set up on individual computers and even the overall network. But comprehensive perimeter protection may not be in place, potentially leading to data breaches and malware hosted on the school's website. Young students don't necessarily have the skills or training to adequately identify phishing emails and other threats, so such attacks are often more successful. The number of tablets and other devices issued by schools has increased in recent years and because of that, students may use those devices on outside networks that aren't secure, thereby raising the risk of infection. Even in the face of budget constraints and other limitations, schools should have adequate security measures in place to protect themselves, their data, and their students from security threats. AI’s ‘most wanted’: Which skills are adopters most urgently seeking? When we compare companies with relatively little AI experience (they’ve built five or fewer production systems) with those possessing extensive AI experience (they’ve built 20 or more production systems), we observe an interesting shift in “most wanted” roles (see chart). Early on, AI researchers are the most sought-after, with about a third of the less-experienced rating them a top-two needed role. Business leaders rank near the bottom. By the time adopters have become highly experienced at building AI solutions, business leaders have bubbled to the top, and AI researchers have sunk almost to the bottom. What can we make of this curious flip? Many companies embarking on AI initiatives may feel they need to hire AI superstars—researchers with advanced degrees who can invent new AI algorithms and techniques—to spearhead their efforts.2 By the time organizations have amassed a lot of AI experience, they may have filled their ranks with enough of these brilliant experts. At that stage, they’re eager to find business leaders who can play the crucial “translator” role: figuring out what the results from AI systems mean, and how they should factor into business decisions and actions. The Role of CIO and How It is Being Rewritten Digitization spurs new priorities – alongside a full slate of historical departmental responsibilities. In enterprise tech speak, leverage simply means using tools, systems or techniques to convert relatively small effort into significantly greater output. Digital transformation won't fit nicely alongside traditional management processes or cleanly under one leader’s org chart. IT leaders have to get more. More out of themselves, their teams and their dollars to succeed in the new enterprise era. One industry survey shares that at least 84% of top CIOs are now responsible for areas outside of traditional IT. The most common areas are innovation and transformation. Further research reveals that 95% of CIOs expect digitization to change or remix their job. Regardless of where or how new responsibilities intersect business and technology, IT will have a key role to play. Yet, without suitable systems leverage, the CIO position is challenging. How else can they handle the burden of IT consumerization, mobile workforces, big-data challenges, shadow IT and cost management. AI capabilities power global IoT adoption AIoT is defined as decision making aided by AI technologies in conjunction with connected IoT sensor, system or product data. AI technologies include deep learning, machine learning, natural language processing, voice recognition and image analysis. According to the survey, 34% of respondents said increasing revenue is the top goal for using AIoT. Improving the ability to innovate (17.5%), offering customers new digital services (14.3%) and decreasing operational costs (11.1%) were all key goals. Intel Americas chief data scientist Melvin Greer says AI and IoT are no longer separate technologies. “AI closes the loop in an IoT environment where IoT devices gather or create data, and AI helps automate important choices and actions based on that data,” explains Greer. “Today, most organisations using IoT are only at the first ‘visibility’ phase where they can start to see what’s going on through IoT assets. But they’re moving toward the reliability, efficiency and production phases, which are more sophisticated and require stronger AI capabilities.” Defense Innovation Board unveils AI ethics principles for the Pentagon Applied Inventions cofounder and computer theorist Danny Hillis and board members agreed to amend the draft document to say the governable principle should include “avoid unintended harm and disruption and for human disengagement of deployed systems.” The report, Hillis said, should be explicit and unambiguous that AI systems used by the military should come with an off switch for a human to press in case things go wrong. “I think this was the most problematical aspect about them because they’re capable of exhibiting and evolving forms of behavior that are very difficult for the designer to predict, and sometimes those forms of behavior are actually kind of self preserving forms of behavior that can get a bit out of sync with the intent and goals of the designer, and so I think that’s one of the most dangerous potential aspects about them,” he said. The Defense Innovation Board is chaired by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and members include MIT CSAIL director Daniela Rus, Hayden Planetarium director Neil deGrasse Tyson, LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, Code for America director Jennifer Pahlka, and Aspen Institute director Walter Isaacson. 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__label__wiki	0.806367	0.806367	WWE Universe RevPro AJPW Last Word on Pro Wrestling WALTER – Others Perform, He Kills Moritz Risch The Austrian born wXw Academy head coach is making international waves since his last US tour in 2017. The following lines are trying to get a look at the Chopmonster from Vienna and the history of the international success of the man they call WALTER. The “Ringgeneral” was trained by Michael Kovac, Tatsuhito Kataiwa and Tomohiro Ishii. These names, especially the last one, are widely known. Ishii is considered one of the best in the world today. Ishii has won the Wrestling Observer award for “best Brawler” each of the last four years. Walter debuted in 2005. He is the first and only wrestler to sign a working contract with wXw. Which makes him the only wrestler in Europe who is permanently employed by one company. In 2007 WALTER wrestled in Japan for ZERO1, he was then known under the name of “Gha-cha-ping“. He debuted in the US in 2010 when he wrestled for CZW during the partnership between CZW and wXw. WALTER and Karsten Beck lost a Tag Team match against Tommy End (Aleister Black) and Zack Sabre Jr. during the “Walking on Pins and Needles” event. That even was headlined by a “Barefoot Thumbtacks Death Match” between JC Bailey and Thumbtack Jack. One year later, he returned to Japan for three BJW events. Amongst other matches, WALTER faced Daisuke Sekimoto and teamed with DJ Hyde against Abdullah Kobayashi. Another eight matches in Japan were contested in 2012. In one of those, WALTER competed for the BJW Strong World Heavyweight Title, but lost to Yoshihito Sasaki. RevPro UK was founded in 2012. On one of the first ever event cards of this young promotion, Walter faced El Generico in Sittingbourne Kent, England. He competed three times for Revolution Pro that year. During the “World Triangle League 2013″, which was a jointed show between wXw, CZW and BJW, the “Ringgeneral” had a very watchable 23:35-minute match with Daisuke Sekimoto. PROGRESS introduced him to their crowd during the Super Strongstyle 16 tournament in 2015. This started a connection between the British company and wXw that is still ongoing. It led to many partner shows and will likely lead to many more. Another four matches for PROGRESS were fought in 2016. He faced Chris Hero, a man who heavily influenced wXw in their evolution to the product and presentation of today. WALTER also returned to RevPro during their “Angle vs Sabre” event where he came up short against Big Damo. 2017 – The Breakthrough PROGRESS booked the RINGKAMPF member for 12 more dates. He won the Atlas Title from Matt Riddle in a three-way that also included fellow RINGKAMPF member Timothy Thatcher in September. The RINGKAMPF team challenged for the PROGRESS Tag Team belts three-times in that year, although unsuccessfully. He made his EVOLVE debut when he defended his Altlas title against Fred Yehi. His other matches for EVOLVE in 2017 were against Matt Riddle, Keith Lee for the WWN Title and a four-way match with Riddle, Lee and Tracy Williams. He had two matches for BEYOND against David Starr and Donovan Dijak. Then, WALTER debuted for PWG. He had his first showing in Reseda at BOLA 2017 where he lost to Keith Lee in a first-round match. One day later he was part of a classic multi-man tag match. He returned at All Star Weekend 13 for both nights. He lost to Ricochet on the first show. WALTER defeated Zach Sabre Jr. one day later in a highly praised 5-Star match (Meltzer rating). The fans loved him at that point and his chops were echoing through the American Legion Post #308. 2018 – Domination After losing to Travis Banks via Count-Out in a PROGRESS World Title match at Super Strongstyle 16, WALTER vacated his Atlas title to get another title shot. He has won all of seven matches in PROGRESS this year and is on his way to another title. The feud with Sekimoto was brought to EVOLVE 102 when RINGKAMPF faced Sekimoto & Munenori Sawa. This year, he also faced Nick Gage, ZSJ, Catch Point etc. in EVOLVE. In the 2016 formed promotion DEFIANT, WALTER became the number 1 contender for Travis Banks Internet title by winning two matches against David Starr. The title match itself ended in a draw. During the Wrestlemania weekend, he had a match that got a lot of attention afterwards, a match which is considered one of the best of the whole weekend: WALTER vs PCO. Pierre Carl Ouellet had an outstanding match with the man from Austria at “Joey Janela´s Spring Break 2.” One day before, he had a shoot-style match with Tom Lawler at Matt Riddle´s Bloodsport show. Both shows were organized by Gamechanger Wrestling (GCW). He Also wrestled for Fight Club: PRO, ATTACK! and RIPTIDE Wrestling this year. In PWG, RINGKAMPF challenged for the Tag Team belts in January against the Chosen Bros but came up short. Then, at All Star Weekend 14 in April, after defeating Violence Unlimited (Brody King & Tyler Bateman) with Timothy Thatcher, WALTER challenged for the PWG World Title at Night two. The Ringgeneral captured the Title from Keith Lee in a three-way match that also included Jonah Rock. WALTER is scheduled to defend his title against Sammy Guevara on Friday, May 25th at PWG “Bask In His Glory” and he is set to make his OTT debut on Saturday, June 2nd. 2018 seems to shape up to one of the most successful years for WALTER and despite being heavily demanded internationally he still has his main focus on wXw and growing his home promotion. And maybe, as a result of his international success, we will see a match against his former coach Tomohiro Ishii at some point in the future. Ringkamf Tomohiro Ishii Previous articleUnited Kingdom Championship Tournament: Meet the First Eight Competitors Next articleRonda Rousey Wins House Show Debut I´ve been a wrestling fan for over 10 years now. Wrestling has given me so much in my life, so now i want to try to give something back and support the sport that i love. Also interested in Volleyball. Being active in sports journalism has always been a goal of mine, so let´s do this :) KENTA Announced for ROH SuperCard of Honor 2020 Star Gazing: Jungle Kyona United Front: British Wrestling Shows Support For Every Australian Koala First Wrestlers Named for Mark Hitchcock Memorial Super Show Taz Signs Multi-Year Deal with AEW Will Ospreay Announced for ROH SuperCard of Honor XIV The NXT UK Recap (1/16/20)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1579
__label__wiki	0.67465	0.67465	Late Soviet Village People, Institutions, and Things between the socialist cult of urbanity and ruralisation of urban life styles LSV Conferences News and Conferences Ekaterina Emeliantseva Koller participated at the Swiss National Conference “Schweizer Geschichtstage” at the University of Zurich. https://www.geschichtstage.ch/panel/76/money-and-shortness-of-money-in-the-soviet-union-after-1945 Panel: Money and shortness of money in the Soviet Union after 1945 Raum KO2-F-172 Convener: Ekaterina Emeliantseva Koller, U of Zurich Papers: Ekaterina Emeliantseva Koller, U of Zurich: Money and other things in the late Soviet village Kirsten Bönker, U of Bielefelde: »…but in those times we were all equal«. Post-Soviet representations of poverty, wealth, and equality in the late Soviet Union Ksenia Tatarchenko, U of Geneva: “Soviet Innovation as a Cash Machine”: Studying the case of the scientific industrial association “Torch” (1965-1970) Comment: Alexey Tikhomirov A panel report was written by Barbara Martin and pictures taken by Florian Wiedemann on behalf of infoclio.ch As well, infoclio.ch conducted an interview with Ekaterina Emeliantseva Koller. Panel description The significance of money that should eventually disappear in Communism remained ambivalent through the whole Soviet period. The Soviet criticism of “bourgeois” consumption and social inequality based on purchasing power goes back to the formation period of the early Soviet state but it received special attention during the final decades of the Soviet Union vis-à-vis the rising living standard of Soviet citizens and the ideological challenges of global consumerism. With the emerging of mass consumer society after WWII, when consumption possibilities became an asset in ideological rivalry of Cold War superpowers, the new “Soviet Way of Life” was meant to demonstrate the superiority of state Socialism not only in a moral sense but in material terms too. Higher salaries and pensions, low living costs and taxes, higher purchasing power counted in this race as much as arms and space technology. For the material wellbeing, the available money to spend, and better consumption options should play cohesive roles for the fabric of late Soviet society. In practice, the emerging consumerism has led to a greater stratification of Soviet society and inequality. Such phenomena as fartsovka – illegal trade with much sought after foreign consumer items that were unavailable in state shops but could be acquired by foreign tourists – brought about a situation when various segments of Soviet society were engaged in illegal activities and the boundaries between legally and illegally acquired material wealth became blurred. With the introduction of money economy during the 1960s in rural areas, when collective farm workers began to receive a salary in money and not any more in kind, material inequality between rural and urban population and the experiences of cash shortages in rural areas became even more obvious. The process of social differentiation of late Soviet society in view of new consumption promises and practices was accompanied by the criticism of consumerist attitudes not only by party and state officials but by Soviet intellectuals of various ideological background, from anti-modernist nationalist “Village prose” authors to cultural pessimists among Soviet film directors. The aim of the panel is to balance the ambivalences of ideological programme and consumerism criticism against new practices and to discuss one of the central issues of late Soviet society: the quality of the simultaneous integrative and disintegrative dynamics within the societal texture. Drawing on different conceptualizations of money – as object of practices and discourses and as a “vibrant matter” (Bennett) – speakers will address the following issues: 1.What kind of images and meanings of wellbeing, poverty and wealth did new consumer practices and discourses manifest? Is it possible to discern thereby specifically “Soviet” aspects? 2.How did the modes of socialising change in the process of emerging late Soviet consumer society? What kind of new practices did emerge with different kinds of money use (cash and credit)? How were the experiences of inclusion or exclusion and inequality manifest in those practices? 3.What is the significance of new consumption practices and experiences for the discussion of cohesion and disintegration of late Soviet society? Abstract: Money and other things in the late Soviet village Ekaterina Emeliantseva Koller, U of Zurich This paper will look at rural subjectivities in the late Soviet period by focusing on villagers’ attitudes towards money. Soviet citizens in rural areas, especially agricultural workers of collective farms, became involved into money economy with the reforms during the Brezhnev era. It was only since 1966, when they were paid in money for their work and not in kind, as used to be the case in previous decades. The process of change in rural economy was accompanied by shifts in social stratification and the emergence of new consumption practices. While in some regions, villagers could generate monetary surpluses, others did suffer from chronic lack of cash. Even in prosperous areas, the rural everyday rarely did live up to programmatic promises of new life in “urbanized” villages. Although the gap in living standards between rural and urban areas grew bigger, new consumer practices acquired specific creative forms in rural areas. To address the social implications of this process, I will engage material perspective and challenge the narrative of disintegration of late Soviet society and people’s growing disbelief into the state. The aim of the contribution is to discuss the complexity of late Soviet experience with its volatile and contingent participation in and distance to the political regime through the lens of cash and its substitutes, such as bread or vodka, and the ability of those “vibrant things” (Bennett) to reorganize spaces and narratives, to shape relations and affect subjectivities in face-to-face rural communities. Abstract: »…but in those times we were all equal«. Post-Soviet representations of poverty, wealth, and equality in the late Soviet Union Kirsten Bönker, U of Bielefeld Soviet propaganda painted a picture of an egalitarian, ”humane” and “warm” socialist society whereas the disdained stereotype of capitalism suggested social relations that were dominated by materialism, egoism, and money. Against this backdrop, the perestroika reforms brought about a harsh state of social disintegration for many people. Based on 42 oral history interviews, the paper explores the attitudes of former Soviet citizens towards money. It analyses how the respondents retrospectively assessed the social order of the late Soviet society regarding socio-cultural distinctions. It highlights the respondents’ classifications with which they (de-)legitimized Soviet values and social attributions. In doing so, the paper also analyses Soviet money practices that represented socio-cultural distinctions. Many interviewees deplored the lost equality that had allegedly characterized the Soviet society and complained about the fact that only money seems to determine the post-Soviet social order. From a comparative perspective on Soviet and post-Soviet times, Soviet money practices offered reliability and predictability of living conditions in an environment of less consumer choice than today. Many people perceived the Soviet social, cultural and economic framework as having provided comparatively greater security in everyday life. Therefore, the paper addresses three questions: What kind of classifications and narrative strategies establish the comparative representations about poverty and wealth in the late Soviet Union and the current Russian society? Which narratives help to embed new self-representations into the experiences of radical societal changes? In what respect do the interviewees’ narratives about »poor« and »rich« reflect former Soviet habits of dealing with money? Abstract: “Soviet Innovation as a Cash Machine”: Studying the case of the scientific industrial association “Torch” (1965-1970) Ksenia Tatarchenko, U of Geneva If cash was scarce in the Soviet Union, make-do solutions were many. This paper combines the approaches from history of science and innovation studies with economic history to study the brief existence of the scientific industrial association “Torch.” This organization was created in the Novosibirsk Science City to facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration and the professional integration of young scientists. This firm, organized under the auspices of the local Komsomol organization during the late 1960s, effectively generated millions of benefice, redistributed in cash as salary payments and not accounted for by the state planning structures. At the same time, the flow of money also transformed the social fabric of the Siberian science-city by financing its many unique cultural and social initiatives. “Torch’s” dramatic success was predicate on several conditions beyond the city’s concentration of human resources: a creative interpretation of the Soviet labor regime; the special legal status of the Komsomol accounts, namely the possibility to turn credits into cash; and the support of local authorities. Effectively a cash machine operating on a large scale, the eventual downfall of the firm was unavoidable, and its accounts were frozen in 1972. The paper argues that reconstructing the brief history of “Torch” is not simply an exercise in rescuing a strange illustration, a curious exception to the Soviet experience. Rather, the transgressive arrangements of the firm provide crucial insights into the normal. The case of “Torch” helps both to better understand the everyday operation of the Soviet moral economy of scientific expertise and to elucidate the difficult question of knowledge transfer under the plan. This case study challenges received narratives about the very notion of innovation in Socialist economy and opens new avenues for considering present-day capitalist knowledge economies. 12. August 2019 27. August 2019 by latesovietvillage Front Picture: Arsen’ev, Vsevolod: Nostal’giia. Provintsial’naia Rossiia. Fotoal’bom, Moscow 2012, p. 57. Picuture on the site “Research Project”: Udina, S. A.: Kolybel’ moia – Leshukon’e. Sbornik biografii i avtobiografii chlenov Leshukonskogo zemliachestva v Arkhangel’ske, Arkhangel’sk 2013, p. 305.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1580
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__label__wiki	0.591683	0.591683	Quiz: Is Your Vocabulary Actually Good?: HowStuffWorks Is Your Vocabulary Actually Good? AVG SCORE: 60% 1.2K PLAYS Image: ozgurdonmaz/E+/Getty Images Sometimes just using one word incorrectly can ruin that good impression you're trying to make. To ensure that doesn't happen, you'll want to take this quiz and recall all the tricks and tips for using the correct word properly. You don't want an embarrassing moment like asking your host, "Can I use the restroom?" and the host answers, "I don't know, can you?" In this instance, you should have used "may" instead of "can" because "can" implies whether it is physically possible, while "may" means you want permission. It's all about having a solid command of the language to express yourself confidently and accurately. Since many words are learned from context, other people may use a word loosely. Therefore, the precision of the definition might allude you. In this quiz you'll see a few of these vocabulary questions where you need the precise definition, as well as queries that ask you to find the best word to use in a sentence. Since the English language is constantly changing with new words and updated definitions, you'll want to take this quiz to see if you know the latest and greatest vocabulary words. We don't want to harassment you, but you really should take this quiz. When you talk about the "enormity" of the situation, what are you talking about? Huge, enormous in a negative way. Profoundly immoral or evil. Normal, as in common. A & B There are two meanings. One definition is that enormity means great or extreme in seriousness. The other means a grave crime or sin. When you think of "principle" what do you think of? The head supervisor of a school. A truth or belief. First in its class. When you're talking about principle as a noun it means a fundamental truth or belief. As an adjective, principle means first or foremost. Although it sounds the same, when spelled as principal, this word means the top supervisor of a school. What's the correct definition of "redundant"? Unnecessarily excessive Although most people think redundant means repeated, if actually means unnecessarily and excessively repeated. Another way to express it is, "It's like beating a dead horse." "She assured me the house would not flood.” What's wrong with this sentence? Substitute "assured" for "insured" Substitute "assured" for "ensured" Substitute "house" for "apartment" It's a little complex, but when you "assure" someone, you are promising or telling that person someone something will definitely (or will not) happen. Whereas "ensure" means to make sure of or make preparations for an occurrence." While "insure" has to do with actual insurance policies. What does "irregardless" mean? Without regard Irregardless is listed in the dictionary since it has become a common term, however it's opposite of the word you may think you're using. Regardless means without regard. So irregardless means without, without regard. It's a double negative which means regard. "She practiced speaking English by reading the passage allowed." What's wrong with this sentence? Replace "passage" with "package" Replace "allowed" with "aloud" Replace "her" with "him" No change needed The word "allowed" means to get permission, whereas "aloud" means to say it loudly and audibly; not silently or in a whisper, which is how someone might practice a language. What does "irony" mean? Something that is funny Contrary to what you are expecting You need to get wrinkles out of your clothes. You are lacking iron in your diet. It means contrary to what you're expecting. So, for example, the Titanic was touted as being unsinkable, then it sank. That's ironic. When you say "It's a travesty." what are you trying to convey? It's a tragedy or something unfortunate. Someone has traveled too long. It's a mockery or parody. It's a fine performance. It doesn’t mean anything bad happened. It means someone is mocking or a making a parody of something. Take Weird Al Yankovic, his music is a silly parody of popular songs. "He was almost a half mile further down the road than she was.” How would you correct this sentence? I wouldn't. It's fine as is. Substitute "along" for "down" Substitute "farther" for "further" Substitute "mile" for "lap" The word "farther" is used to talk about a difference that can be measured. Whereas "further" refers to something that can't be measured or is abstract. For instance, “The crisis was bound to do further damage in the years to come." Which of these is the correct usage for "ultimate" as an adjective? Tricky, tricky. A sacrifice A final demand The last item of a list The tallest You have to know your parts of speech in order to answer this correctly. You could substitute the word "ultimate" for "finally" as in "At the store we need eggs, milk, juice, and ultimately, butter.” As a noun, it means the best. "There are less and less fish in the sea." What changes would you make to this sentence? Substitute "fish" for "fishes" Substitute "sea" for "river" Substitute "less and less" with "fewer and fewer" Fine as is. Use fewer when referring to items you can count, like "fewer fish" or "fewer dollars." Use "less" when referring to items you can't count, like "less sand" or "less air." You may not use "peruse" very much, but if you do, which one is the correct meaning? To have a conversation To skim or browse To observe in depth To ignore When you peruse something, you are actually taking a very close look at it. It's not a glance, it's more of a study. "I can't wait to eat desert, I don't even want to finish my dinner." How would you change this sentence to correct it? Replace "desert" with "dessert" Replace "can't" with "can" There is nothing wrong with the sentence. Replace "eat" with "polish" If you ever get mixed up with which word is a barren land and which is a sweet treat, just remember that desserts are so sweet they have an extra "s". "I was averse to paying $4 a bottle for plain, old tap water." How would you correct this sentence? It is correct as is. Substitute "adverse" for "averse" Substitute "ol'" for "old" Substitute "tap water" for "grapefruit juice" It's fine as is, since averse describes feeling of dislike or opposition. If you chose to substitute averse with "adverse" you would be wrong since adverse means harmful or unfavorable. Are you "bemused" with this quiz? What exactly does that mean? Even though it looks almost identical to the word amused, that's not what it means. If you are bemused then you are actually confused. "I was so mad, I was literally seeing red." How would you correct this sentence? Take out the word "literally" Change "red" to "blue" Change "mad" to "happy" Change "I" to "me" Only use this vocabulary word when it describes what is actually happening ‘in a literal manner’. When you're mad, you don't actually see red. It's an exaggeration. So the word "literally" is being used incorrectly. If you take that word out, the sentence is correct. "The prize drawing is designed to illicit survey responses." How would you change this sentence. Substitute "sweepstakes" for "prize drawing" Substitute "elicit" for "illicit" Keep as is. Take out the word "survey" "Elicit" means to draw out or coax and is the correct word to use in the above sentence. "Illicit" means illegal or unlawful, If you're "compelled" to do something, what does that mean? You are scared about the situation. You are upset about the situation. You are forced or obligated to do something. You are doing something voluntarily by choice. Although most people use it to substitute for the word "yearn' or "crave" it really means "forced" or "obligated" Here's an example: "After reaching the age of 18, he was compelled by law to register for the army." “She decided to wear a historical costume for the Renaissance fair." How would you correct this sentence? Replace "historical" with "historic" Replace "Renaissance fair" with "Shakespearean play" The sentence is fine as is. Replace "wear" with "parade" Historic means “famous,” whereas historical means “related to history.” So this sentence is correct just as written. No changes needed. This one includes the archaic meaning. What does "terrific" mean? Causing terror Causing lethargy Fantastic, good When people say they feel terrific, they mean to say they feel fantastic. But the archaic meaning is horrific or to inspire fear. An example of something terrific is a vampire. You see blood and fangs and it inspires fear and terror. It's a slight difference, but if you want to use the word "nauseous" correctly, you should know what it really means. Which one is right? To cause feelings of illness To feel ill To vomit To faint You're not quite ill, yet. That's what "nauseous" means. If you actually feel sick then you are nauseated. Two words describe two different stages of sickness. This one is the bane of our existence. What does "effect" really mean? An event that causes a change To cause something to change To infect someone with a disease To detect a characteristic or trait Because "affect" and "effect" get mixed up all the time, most people use "impact" to make sure the idea is conveyed properly. But if you're a stickler for good grammar, remember it this way: If it’s a noun, it’s an effect. If it’s a verb, it’s an affect. "How did you loose your phone and your keys?" How would you change this sentence to make it correct? It's fine as is. Replace "phone" with "cell" Add "fob" after "key" to make it "key fob" Replace "loose" with "lose" It's easy to confuse loose and lose because they sound similar. However, "loose" means that something is not firmly or tightly held in place. Whereas "lose" means being unable to find something, or no longer possessing it. You better not be "disinterested" in this quiz. What does that word really mean? Disinterested means neutral. In other words you don’t care either way about something. If you're bored, you are uninterested. We do hope you care about this quiz! "Although we were going to town, we didn't have to dress nicely and could wear our everyday shoes." How would you change this sentence? Substitute "town for "the mall" Substitute "Although" for "However" Substitute "everyday shoes" for "every day shoes" Don't change a thing. Leave as is, since "everyday" means commonplace or normal, whereas "every day" means just that, each and every day. When you think of "chronic," what should come to mind? Over a long period of time Chronic conditions and diseases are called chronic because they won’t go away and not because they’re overly severe and painful. "I wanted to complement your staff on the excellent service I received." How would you correct this sentence? Substitute "was given" for "received" Substitute "staff" for "members of your staff" Substitute "compliment" for "complement" Leave as is. Compliment means to say something nice. Whereas complement means added to, enhanced, improved, completed or brought close to perfection. Are you using "i.e." properly? What does it actually mean? Admittedly, this is confusing. So we'll spell it out. The initials "i.e." mean in other words. When you use "i.e." you’re about to state the same information in different words. Just to add to your knowledge, we are looking for the common and the historical definition. What does "decimate" mean? To destroy or annihilate, and decipher To destroy or annihilate, and decide To destroy or annihilate, and destroy one in every ten To destroy or annihilate, and declare Today decimate means to kill, destroy or remove a large percentage or a remove a part of something. In historical times, to decimate was to kill one in every ten of a group of soldiers or others, as a punishment for the whole group. What's your best guess on this one? What does "panacea" mean? A cure A cure for a lot of things A kind of bread A disease A mother's kiss on a skinned knee, on a feverish forehead or on any bumps or bruises is a panacea for whatever ails a toddler. It means it can cure a lot of things, not just a single, particular problem. How do you define "plethora"? More than is needed Less than is needed A lot of something but it's needed If you were criticizing the bureaucracy of the government, you might say there is a plethora of committees and subcommittees, meaning there are more committees than necessary to create and monitor laws. For this one, it's the precision of the definition. What does "defective" mean? That something is broken or missing pieces That something is broken That something is unwieldy Something is slow-moving. Thanks to Amazon reviews, people are using this word incorrectly by saying their product was defective because it was missing a screw or other part. The product may work perfectly once the missing piece has been restored, therefore the product was NOT defective. What does "unwieldy" mean? Difficult to carry or move because of its size, shape, or weight A system or bureaucracy that is too big or badly organized to function efficiently A large and scary weapon If you don't use a word often, you might be a bit foggy recalling the precise definition. Use unwieldy to describe an unproductive system or a hard-to-transport item. When you think of "obsolete," what comes to mind? Someone who is inconsolable Someone who is obsessed Not produced, used, or needed Old, out of date The literal definition of obsolete is an item that it isn’t produced, needed or used anymore. Obsolete is kind of the next step after old and out of date, when it's no longer produced. "I use course sandpaper to remove large imperfections in the wood." How would you change this sentence to make it logical? Replace "course" with "coarse" Replace "imperfections" with "perfections" Replace "wood" with "board" These two words sound similar and are spelled almost the same, with only one letter that is different. But it makes a big difference because "coarse" means rough as in an uneven surface that is unpleasant to touch. Whereas "course" has many meanings including a meal, a track, a direction or route. Try Your Best to Pass This Vocabulary Quiz 90s Vocabulary Quiz Do You Have an Ivy League Vocabulary? What Is Your Brain Actually Good At? Test Your Vocabulary and We'll Guess Where in the US You Live! Are You Brainy Enough to Pass This Vocabulary Quiz? How Robust Is Your High School Vocabulary? The Challenging Vocabulary Test How Much General Knowledge Do You Have? '60s Vocabulary Quiz	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1584
__label__cc	0.63859	0.36141	Friday, January 17 Home & Garden The Rare Finds Gift Guide: Max Poglia Knives Danny Agnew, provided by \|on December 1, 2019 Photo: Inside Hook When it comes to holiday gifting, there are times where you just feel the need to swing for the fences. Perhaps you’ve got a big client that you’re very much “looking forward to continuing business with in the coming year.” Perhaps you’ve got a significant other who has resigned you to a doghouse you’d like to emerge from sooner rather than later. Perhaps you’ve just had a helluva year (or several) and money just ain’t no object. Any way you slice it, you’re in need of a true showstopper of a gift. Not only something of truly superlative quality, but something with a story — something the recipient can crow about whenever someone invariably inquires “damn, where did you get that??“ And thus we bring you the Rare Finds Gift Guide, a handy compendium of holiday swag for just about any type of person on your list (or, perhaps, if you’re just in the market for yourself — no judgement). This installment concerns Max Poglia, the Brazilian-born bladesmith creating some of the handsomest cutting instruments we’ve ever seen. What Makes It So Darn Special? At InsideHook, we get more than our fair share of knives coming through HQ. Pocket knives, chef’s knives, survival knives — you name it, and our managing editor Mike Conklin has likely toyed with it in that idle, offhand way that makes you think that he’s one day going to lose a finger. We would be hard pressed, however, to find you a collection of cutting instruments more drop dead gorgeous than the ones produced by Brooklyn’s Max Poglia. As a child in his native Brazil, Max developed an affinity for old school craftsmanship and well-worn tools around his grandfather’s hardware store. After kicking around the globe, he eventually fell in love with New York, where he began to put that affinity into practice, experimenting with bygone techniques and old materials in his Williamsburg studio. Before long, a vacation took Poglia back down to Brazil, where just such materials were to be found in abundance. Forgotten agricultural tools (predominantly plow discs) made of old carbon steel would become his blades, while reclaimed natural woods and animal horn/bone (a byproduct of Brazil’s rich Gaucho culture) would become his handles. We strive to embody quality, utility and sustainability on all fronts, and are proud of our devotion to ethical and sustainable processes. We’re committed to preserving the history & uniqueness of our materials and practices. Max Poglia, Founder and Designer of Poglia Deal: The Smart Coffee Table That Chills Beer Is $500 Off Matthew McConaughey and Wild Turkey Built an Off-Grid Cabin in... Deal: One of the Best American-Made Cast-Iron Sales Is... Each blade is hand-drawn and cut by eye, then forged by a second-generation Brazilian blacksmith. The result is a craggy, weathered look, with marks and abrasions (and the occasional serial number) nodding to its prior life as a tool of the fields. No two are ever alike, and because the steel isn’t stainless, this patina is meant to grow as one uses it. Similarly, Poglia notes that because the handles are crafted from organic material that “breathes” and reacts to changes in temperature and weather, they too will develop a completely unique character. “We don’t have total control over how they’ll age over time.” he says. “That’s the beauty of our process.” Throw in bits of recycled brass (and Poglia’s formidable design acumen), and you’ve got beautiful knives of every type that fall at the exact intersection of rugged and refined. Poglia likes to call them “functional art,” and we agree — these are heirloom pieces meant to be used with love, held onto and passed down for the next generation to try. And what’s better than a gift that keeps on giving? Who’s It For? Poglia has many different blades for many different purposes — from pocket to cheese to steak — but suffice it to say that you’re thinking of someone who appreciates elegant design, old-world craftsmanship and/or receiving copious compliments from their dinner guests. Anything Else Worth Mentioning? In addition to his badass knifeware, Poglia also proffers a variety of handsome homewares (this bar set and these candle holders being our favorites) as well as a line of artfully weathered leather bags — any of which would also make a killer gift. Ok So What’s the Damage? Again, Poglia’s got a range of cutlery and thus a range of prices, but even the smallest of his blades will run you a couple hundred bucks. A small price to pay, however, for something that will last a lifetime (perhaps to be gifted again some time down the line to your giftee’s progeny) and only gets better with age. GIFT HERE See the Rest of the Rare Finds: The post The Rare Finds Gift Guide: Max Poglia Knives appeared first on InsideHook.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1591
__label__wiki	0.50311	0.50311	JOHN 5 & THE CREATURES Wants You to “Crank It” while “Living With Ghosts” in Music Video for Upcoming Release “Invasion” JOHN 5 and The Creatures – comprised of world-renowned guitarist JOHN 5, bassist Ian Ross and drummer Logan Miles Nix – have launched another music video from their forthcoming full-length album, Invasion, for a two-part track entitled “Crank It – Living With Ghosts”. The trippy video for this mind-boggling, hypnotic jam begins as a fluorescent, glow-in-the-dark extravaganza, transitioning with the music to something altogether more sinister. Check out the video and track now via this link: http://smarturl.it/crankitj5 The video for “Crank It – Living With Ghosts” is directed by Israel Perez and features costumes and masks made by Forgotten Saints LA and Scott Blake’s Yordreem Creations. The video was produced by Nicole Hatley, with art direction by Cody Varona. JOHN 5 says about the video: “This video begins with total acid-trip rave party for “Crank It”, and the second portion of the song, “Living With Ghosts”, is the come down. This video depicts all of the things you secretly want when you go to a party – craziness, indulgence. It’s full of everything you could want – guitars, tits and monsters!” The launch of “Crank It – Living With Ghosts” closely follows the release of the first single cut from Invasion, entitled “Zoinks!” The full video – featuring an innovative blend of classic 2D hand drawn animation, 3D computer generated imagery and a live action performance – can be viewed here: http://smarturl.it/zoinksJ5Creatures Just like 2017’s Season of the Witch, Invasion – produced and mixed by Barry Pointer and scheduled for release during the summer of 2019 – will be entirely released via a series of music videos. With “Zoinks!” and “Crank It – Living With Ghosts” now out in the wild, JOHN 5 plans to reveal his next music video for “I Am John 5” (an official sequel to “Zoinks!”) on March 1. Details on further music videos are coming soon. JOHN 5 and The Creatures will kick off their North American Invasion Tour on February 26 in Mesa, AZ. Select dates of the tour – specifically the shows in Mesa, AZ, Hollywood, CA, Anaheim, CA and Sacramento, CA – will feature very special, high-caliber mystery guests to be announced very soon! The tour will feature support from blues-rock guitarist Jared James Nichols. Tickets and VIP packages are available now via www.john-5.com/store. JOHN 5 and The Creatures Invasion tour dates: 2/26 – Mesa, AZ @ Club Red 2/28 – Albuquerque, NM @ Launch Pad 3/1 – Lubbock, TX @ Jake’s 3/2 – San Antonio, TX @ Rock Box 3/3 – Houston, TX @ Scout Bar 3/5 – Austin, TX @ Come and Take It Live 3/6 – Dallas, TX @ Trees 3/7 – Oklahoma City, OK @ 89th Street 3/9 – Indianapolis, IN @ HiFi 3/10 – Akron, OH @ Empire Concert Club 3/12 – Sellersville, PA @ Sellersville Theater 3/13 – New York, NY @ Iridium 3/14 – Poughkeepsie, NY @ The Loft at The Chance 3/15 – Teaneck, NJ @ Debonair Music Hall 3/16 – Hampton Beach, NH @ Wally’s 3/17 – Lebanon, NH @ Lebanon Opera House 3/18 – New Bedford, MA @ Vault at Greasy Luck 3/20 – Quebec City, QC @ L’Anti Bar & Spectacles 3/21 – Montreal, QC @ Piranha Bar 3/22 – Ottawa, ON @ The Brass Monkey 3/23 – Toronto, ON @ Lee’s Palace 3/24 – London, ON @ Rum Runners 3/26 – Thunder Bay, ON @ Crocks 3/27 – Winnipeg, MB @ Pyramid Cabaret 3/28 – Regina, SK @ The Exchange 3/29 – Calgary, AB @ Dickens Pub 3/30 – Edmonton, AB @ The Starlite Room 3/31 – Vancouver, BC @The Rickshaw Theatre 4/2 – Seattle, WA @ Crocodile Cafe 4/3 – Portland, OR @ Star Theater 4/4 – Redding, CA @ The Dip 4/5 – Sacramento, CA @ Holy Diver 4/6 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Whisky 4/7 – Anaheim, CA @ The Parish @ Huose of Blues 4/11 – Las Vegas, NV @ Count’s Vamp’d 4/14 – San Diego, CA @ Brick By Brick About JOHN 5: JOHN 5 has worked with a varied range of artists, performing as guitarist for some of the biggest headlining rock bands in the world such as Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson, as well as playing session with Paul Stanley, Rod Stewart, Lynyrd Skynyrd and more. Slash has called JOHN 5, “one of the most mind-blowing guitarists around” and Rob Zombie has dubbed him “a fucking shredder”. JOHN 5 has released seven solo albums to date, as well as a remix album, and has written music for the likes of Avril Lavigne, Garbage, Ricky Martin and others. JOHN 5 and The Creatures is: JOHN 5 – guitars Ian Ross – bass Logan Miles Nix – drums JOHN 5 online: www.john-5.com www.facebook.com/John5official www.twitter.com/john5guitarist www.instagram.com/john5official “Midnight Thoughts” are What is Keeping SET IT OFF Up at Night in Music Video for Upcoming Release “Midnight” via Fearless Records WE ARE SCIENTISTS to Support SNOW PATROL on Upcoming Tour! 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__label__wiki	0.544707	0.544707	Home / Interdisciplinary Studies / Women’s Studies / Isabel Allende A Literary Companion Isabel Allende quantity SKU: 9780786471270 Categories: Interdisciplinary Studies, Latino & Latin American Studies, Literature, Women’s Studies Isabel Allende—“la Famosa” to her fellow Chileans—is the world’s most widely read Spanish language author. Her career coincides with the emergence of multiculturalism and global feminism, and her powerfully honest, revelatory works touch the pulse points of humankind. Her bravura study of the interwoven roles of women in family history opens the minds of outsiders to the sufferings of women and their children during years of social and political nightmare. This reference work provides an introduction to Allende’s life as well as a guided overview of her body of work. Designed for the fan and scholar alike, this text features an alphabetized, fully-annotated listing of major terms in the Allende canon, including fictional characters, motifs, historical events and themes. A comprehensive index is included. Mary Ellen Snodgrass is an award-winning author of English and Latin textbooks and reference works for 35 years. She taught at Hickory High School and Lenoir Rhyne University for 23 years. She focuses on women’s and world literature and history and general research topics, including epidemics, the history of money, clothing, food, and dance. Mary Ellen Snodgrass Format: softcover (7 x 10) Bibliographic Info: glossary, appendices, bibliography, index Series: McFarland Literary Companions Acknowledgments vi Preface 1 Introduction 3 Chronology of Allende’s Life and Works 5 Allende Genealogy 27 Isabel Allende: A Literary Companion 29 Glossary 305 Appendix A: Historical Timeline from the Allende Canon 310 Appendix B: Writing and Research Topics 315 Bibliography 321 Index 339 Book Reviews & Awards “an expertly crafted study guide and tribute to the works of Isabel Allende. The entries are rich in relevant historical detail, insightful literary criticism, and reflections on Allende’s place among contemporary writers of serious fiction. Snodgrass provides her readers with engaging essays on specific Allende writings…an erudite, affectionate, and wonderfully rich treatment of Isabel Allende and her work”—Booklist; “engrossing…superb, innovative…highly recommended”—Choice. Sexual Abuse, Shonda and Concealment in Orthodox Jewish Communities Hermione Granger Saves the World Latino & Latin American Studies American Indian Studies Asian & Asian American Studies The Moral Narratives of Hayao Miyazaki $19.99 Chasing Immortality in World Religions $35.00 You're viewing: Isabel Allende $49.95	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1610
__label__cc	0.742469	0.257531	Anti-bullying law may have unintended consequences Posted by Thomas Mitchell \| Jun 18, 2015 \| Opinion \| 0 \| In his latest book, “The Rule of Nobody: Saving America from Dead Laws and Senseless Bureaucracy,” Philip K. Howard writes about how American lawmakers have abandoned all pretext of common sense and letting people just work things out. For any ill that could possibly befall anyone, there has to be a law. “America has succumbed to its own intermediate goal. Purging official discretion, not advancing the public good, has become the goal of the Rule of Law,” Howard contends. “Better to prevent a bad choice, even at the cost of banning all good choices. Unquestioned assumptions are the most powerful forces in human affairs. If people assume something is right or wrong, they’ll act on it even to the point of self-destruction. … Americans seem content to pile society high with detailed regulations as long as they succeed in preventing anyone with responsibility from actually making a decision.” A near-perfect illustration of this observation comes to us courtesy of the late, unlamented Nevada legislative session in the form of Senate Bill 504, described by its backers as an anti-bullying bill, one which Gov. Brian Sandoval has already signed into law. Yes, there have been problems with school officials being less than aggressive in curbing bullying of fragile school children, in a very few cases leading to tragic outcomes, such as suicide. But SB504 is a sweeping, all-encompassing, detailed dictation to public school officials of precisely how every imaginable offensive word, gesture or facial expression must be handled and how quickly. It leaves little to discretion or judgment. If it is perceived by the most super-sensitive or supercilious child to be an affront, it must be confronted and dealt with, without fail. Among the myriad things this law deems to be bullying are “taunting, name-calling, belittling, mocking or use of put-downs or demeaning humor regarding the actual or perceived race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability of a person, sex or any other distinguishing characteristic or background of a person …” One of the law’s unintended consequences, at least we hope it was unintended, appears to be a prohibition of gender segregation — as in restrooms, locker rooms and showers. The law prohibits “blocking access” to “any property or facility of a school” on the basis of any of the aforementioned categories, which include sex, gender identity or expression or any other distinguishing characteristic. Can’t block access to the girls’ showers just because he is not a girl. Nevada’s Supreme Court has long held that laws are to be interpreted according the plain meaning of their texts. “If the Legislature’s intention is apparent from the face of the statute, there is no room for construction, and this court will give the statute its plain meaning. …” a 2012 ruling declared. “Statutes should be read as a whole, so as not to render superfluous words or phrases or make provisions nugatory.” No matter how ludicrous. A legal analysis of the law by the Alliance Defending Freedom makes much of the fact the law will force school officials to make student bathrooms and shower facilities available to students who identify with a gender other than their biological gender. But it also claims the law violates the First Amendment guarantee of free speech. “While SB504 does not impose criminal sanctions, it subjects students to permanent expulsion and teachers and administrators to employment termination and loss of their licenses (and thus livelihood) if they ‘tolerate’ or fail to immediately report an allegation of bullying,” the Alliance reports. “Rather than maintain the bright lines of Nevada’s pre-SB504 anti-bullying law, SB504 ventures into the uncharted realm of punishing verbal and nonverbal behavior, including ‘gestures.’ “Vagueness in a law carrying severe sanctions may violate basic notions of due process when it fails to provide the kind of notice that will enable ordinary people to understand what conduct it prohibits or when it may authorize and even encourage arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement.” The law demands the resolution of any complaint of bullying within 72 hours, certainly carrying implications for due process, fairness, thoroughness and, most importantly, justice. School officials under this law could be tied up refereeing petty disputes among children instead of teaching them civil behavior and civics and reading and math. Lawmakers should have left well enough alone and let responsible adults handle things. The law of unintended consequences always prevails. Thomas Mitchell is a longtime Nevada newspaper columnist. You may email him at thomasmnv@yahoo.com. He also blogs at http://4thst8.wordpress.com/. PreviousHelping seniors learn new technology NextFinally, some common sense compromise from the BLM on grazing Margin tax is killing jobs Absurdly trivial conflicts escalate to tragedy Modifications to Endangered Species Act Overdue You too can spot wildfires from the comfort of home Real Estate of Reno Sparks For more in-depth coverage of the Silver State, visit TheCompleteNevada.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1612
__label__wiki	0.584014	0.584014	Anime Thoughts Anime End of Year Over Views Dub Impressions 30 Day Anime Challenge Sakuracon Anime Review Index Mecha March Seasonal Anime Impressions Innominate Anime Podcast OWLS Post Jon’s Creator Showcase Live Action Media Live Action Television Live action adaptation Non Anime Cartoons Animesque My Favorite Cliché Posted on September 17, 2017 September 17, 2017 by Scott If there is one thing that I don’t understand, it’s why people automatically claim that clichés are bad. Yes, there are bad cases of it. Especially when you watch another isekai video game anime and see where all the tropes are going without any creativity behind it all. It’s all about the execution. There are some reasons why clichés exist. They are a part of an established formula that works and captures the audiences’ mind. It all starts with something new and innovative that really blows the audiences’ mind followed by people copying the idea to the point where a certain story element becomes common place. Thus, a cliché/trope is born. Still, like I said before, a cliché isn’t bad. I mean, I am about to tell you my favorite one, right? Yeah, I finally got to that. Introduction paragraphs are tough. It’s such a small thing, but my favorite cliché is the group comes back together toward the end of movies or a tv series. Sometimes it’s at the very end, sometimes it’s when the group finally confronts the final villain together. I’m not sure if that makes sense to normal people. The best way I can explain it is after going through a huge ordeal and has that whole “adventure continues” feel to it. Whether or not the thing continues doesn’t matter, it’s the fact that heroes are continuing that matters. Or it can be used differently. Especially in the case of an origin story. In that case, that’s when the hero group finally joins together to realize what each person can do together. Now that is a cliché as old as time, but I love it to death. It doesn’t matter where it comes from either. It can be anime, movie, a tv show, a book, or whatever media out there that does something like this, I will always like to see my main hero group join together. I feel like I can talk about my favorite examples of this for ages, but I’m going to try to not to. The easiest example that I can think of is at the end of the Avengers movie when all of the heroes stand together to confront Loki. No, not the famous rotation show, the one where Loki said he wanted that drink now. Then there is that fun sequence from the movie A Man from Uncle(I love this movie)when the main three people are finally given their code name and the camera pans on them in a certain direction (like they didn’t want to). Focusing more on anime, the best sequence that can fully encapsulate this is at the end of the badly named Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie (good movie though). After the end credits, there is a scene where section 9 is sitting outside in full gear watching sakura blossoms. Then, the major gets the call that section 9 has been approved, so they roll out. Equally awesome and hilarious at the same time and even more powerful since Section 9 was separated for most of the movie. For my last example, there are the final moments of Samurai 7. Knowing that not many of them are going to come out alive, all seven of them fight to save the village. It was so full of awesome and sadness at the same time, which is why it was so powerful. So no, after all this, I don’t think that clichés are inherently bad. I also don’t think that it’s clear black and white either, it’s a spectrum scale of grey. This is why I don’t understand those characters that go “that’s so cliché” like it’s a bad thing. (Thinking of that one character from Your Lie in April). Just because a show goes a typical or corny route, doesn’t mean that it’s doing it in a bad way. As long as the show commits to doing clichés and executes them well, then it doesn’t matter if the show isn’t original. As an anime fan, I know that I’ve seen many shows that have done similar tropes, arcs, plots, and character types, but I liked all of them anyway because there was something special about them. For my final thoughts, don’t lie to me and say that you don’t have a favorite cliché. I bet everyone has one. If you don’t, that’s okay too I suppose. So what’s your favorite cliché? Posted in Anime ThoughtsTagged A Man Called Uncle, Anime, Avengers, Ghost in the Shell, Movies, My Favorite Cliche, Samurai 7, TV Series (OWLS Post) Rie Kiriyama’s Loss and Recovery Rediscovering a Momentary Favorite 11 thoughts on “My Favorite Cliché” I wouldn’t say there’s a particular cliché I like but I love examinations and deconstructions of well known collections of tropes ( Edgar Wirght films, Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun, One Punch Man, Ouran, Gintama, etc.). They’re not necessarily just parodies (although most of them are), but they blatantly show why a cliché is so overused and/or effective in storytelling. But yeah, they’re usually just fun to watch/read/etc. I think clichés are only bad when multiple are played so straight that you’d be able to say exactly what happens just from reading a list of clichés that appear. Every work of fiction will include at least a couple of clichés not matter how hard you try to get rid of them. I like that too and most of those series/movie/things. Yes, exactly. Thank you for reading! Karandi says: My favourite cliche is the damaged character slowly being healed by their encounters with others (which kind of explains my love of Natsume and March Comes in Like a Lion). I don’t like instant healing, or total recovery, but that slowly finding strength and resolve through meeting others is a cliche I can really get behind. In honesty though, cliches don’t bother me except when they are used as a substitute for good writing. Using a trope without understanding why it works or how to use it leaves me feeling pretty indifferent to annoyed by it whereas another show might do the exact same thing but work it so much better into their story. Awesome, that’s a good one too. Also, yes this. When cliches are used without any understanding behind them, then the product feels so manufactured and fake. Yuck. Lethargic Ramblings says: I’m actually a very big fan of this cliche myself, particularly when it involves the group coming together to talk on a group of villains in on each final gauntlet of epic battles. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood and Hunter x Hunter (2011) both did this extremely well and are two of my go-to examples of how awesome this can be. I also agree that cliches aren’t inherently bad, and think it’s absurd to say otherwise. It’s not about uniqueness, its execution, and if a “cliche” idea is executed in the best way possible, it’s totally fine. As for my favourite cliche, I’m not sure if this “counts”, but I always tend to favour the whole underdog story where the protagonist starts out completely useless and grows into someone amazing by the end. I’m especially a big fan of this when a romance is involved too, particularly if said romance ends up being the driving force behind the characters self improvement and growth. Take on a group of villains in a final gauntlet of epic battles* My phone messed up my typing haha. Ahneemeh says: I have TONS of favorite cliches! I actually have a whole list soon-to-be-published as a blog! (Self-ad: you should check it out later) I like the tsundere cliche, the happy ending cliche, the each-villain0is-stronger-than-the-last cliche… What I really love about this blog though is that you pointed out that people normally hear the word cliche and be like “Oh! Yabai!” I really wish that mentality will change >_< Oh, sounds fun! And yeah, more people need need to have this mindset, but it’s never going to happen completely because they can be abused to death and back. Hollywood does it all the time. Pop Culture Literary says: What a fun trope to pick! I think that my favorite example of this particular one is Digimon. Pick a season, any season, and the party of adventurers always splits up throughout the narrative, only to come join forces once more to face the final boss (or, as often happens in the first two seasons, come back together multiple times to face smaller bosses). As for my own favorite cliche, I’m a sucker for school festival episodes where characters learn a great deal about one another and themselves through random crisis that they must solve together. Oh, that one is fun as well. Can you name some examples? Sure! This happens in Cardcaptor Sakura, D.N. 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__label__cc	0.708464	0.291536	Grant Number: 5R01TW010654-03 Interpret this number Primary Investigator: Maziak, Wasim Organization: Florida International University Project Title: Translating Evidence and Building Capacity to Support Waterpipe Control in the Eastern Mediterranean Abstract: In the past decade waterpipe smoking (WP; hookah) has become the No. 1 tobacco use method among youth in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR), yet evidence-based solutions to the WP epidemic continue to lag behind. This is mainly due to 2 factors; 1) the mismatch of policy solutions derived from cigarettes to local tobacco use methods such as the WP; and 2) the lack of understanding of local tobacco control (TC) policy environment and challenges to implementation. On the other hand, the WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) ratified by most countries in the EMR provides an opportunity to address WP smoking in the region. Supported by program TOBAC since its beginning in 2002, our team at the Syrian Center for Tobacco Studies (SCTS) has been on the forefront of characterizing the WP epidemic and its health and addictive properties. Such groundwork has prepared us to plan for the next stage of translating evidence into policy to support EMR efforts to control the WP epidemic. Given the widespread misperceptions that WP is less harmful and addictive than cigarettes, and the value of health warning labels (HWLs) in communicating smoking-related risks, the development of HWLs is a priority for WP control. Developing HWLs for the WP however, requires their adaptation to its unique multi-part context comprised of tobacco, device and charcoal, while implementation of WP-HWLs requires an understanding of the local policy environment, and strong national partnerships. Building on our ongoing collaboration with Lebanon (American University of Beirut) and Tunisia (University of Tunis), we want to assist these countries in developing and implementing effective HWLs for the WP and in building their national capacity in TC policy research. We will apply a mixed method approach to develop and test HWLs with the involvement of members of the target population comprised mostly of young adults (18-25 years). We will also study the structure and functioning of local health systems in Tunisia and Lebanon, so we can propose a clear roadmap for the implementation of WP-HWLs, and establish partnerships among researchers and policymakers than can facilitate such implementation. This application represents our team’s continuing leadership in responding to the WP epidemic, and in strengthening TC capacity in the EMR. It will help Tunisia and Lebanon, and perhaps other countries develop effective HWLs for WP, and equip them with the means to implement them successfully.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0007.json.gz/line1617
__label__wiki	0.588688	0.588688	Helveticosaurus: the small-headed, long-armed Triassic marine reptile that just wants to be your friend :( Helveticosaurus zollingeri, one of those strange Triassic marine reptiles that no-one ever talks about, wrestling in a coastal swamp. Not everything about being a marine tetrapod takes place in the sea. The fossil record is full of fascinating, relatively well-represented species that, on paper, seem like they should be widely known and featured in all sorts of palaeontological media, and yet in reality are almost entirely overlooked in popular literature, documentaries and games. Triassic marine reptiles are definitely among these animals. Many are distinctive, unusual and well-researched species that are just as interesting (if not more so) than many more familiar Triassic animals, and yet their popular coverage is frequently dire: even their Wikipedia pages are little more than footnotes. In interests of trying to correct this injustice even a little, it's time to talk about a Triassic marine reptile with a criminally poor popular coverage/deserved interest ratio: Helveticosaurus zollingeri. Discovered in Middle Triassic rocks of Switzerland in 1933 and described some years later (Peyer 1955), this small-headed, long-armed marine reptile represents a unique anatomical experiment among aquatic tetrapods: a sort of lizard-seal thing with a skull from an '80s supernatural horror film. Its basic bauplan is well demonstrated thanks to a mostly complete and reasonably preserved holotype, missing only the end of the tail and some parts of the limbs. Alas, some especially informative aspects of its anatomy are poorly represented, including the skull, distal limbs and pelvis. Though all are present, they are disarticulated and difficult to interpret. Additional Helveticosaurus specimens are known (Kuhn-Schnyder 1974), but are not as well preserved or complete as the holotype and don't add much to our knowledge of this species (Rieppel 1989). Though attracting reasonable scientific interest in the last half century, much about its lifestyle and evolutionary relationships remain unexplored or contentious. The Helveticosaurus zollingeri holotype, as illustrated by Kuhn-Schnyder (1974). Although a little jumbled, a good portion of the skeleton is preserved. It's unfortunate the skull is such a mess. Check out Wikipedia for a photo of the actual specimen. Much of our modern take on this animal has been informed by Olivier Rieppel's 1989 paper on its anatomy and function, and the following overview is largely based on this assessment. Helveticosaurus was a small-headed creature with a short neck, long body and a tail of unknown length. The preserved portion of the tail comprises large, well developed vertebrae and it doesn't seem unreasonable to assume it was much longer when complete. If we had a more secure idea of the phylogenetic position of Helveticosaurus we might take a stab at estimating the tail length, but this doesn't seem possible at the moment. Tail proportions are not the only issue confusing predictions of the overall body length of this animal. When preparing this post I found that the total length estimates of Helveticosaurus provided in modern papers are at odds with measurements of skeletal elements within the holotype, to the effect that we might be significantly underestimating its overall size. Recent papers give a total predicted length of c. 2 m for the holotype animal (e.g. Rieppel 1989; Cheng et al. 2014), while also reporting that the lower jaw of the same specimen is 250 mm long, and the humerus as 205 mm (Rieppel 1989; Cheng et al. 2014). Even just eyeballing images of the holotype suggests some sort of miscalculation here: there's no way the entire animal - including the missing tail - is just 10 times the length of these bones. Using a line drawing of the holotype from Khun-Schnyder (1974) and the reported mandible and humerus measurements, I found that 2.1 - 2.8 m better describes the length of the preserved skeleton (see calculations in the image below, note that the reported 45 mm difference between the humerus and mandible length is not obvious in the drawing I used, resulting in two different body length estimates. Scaling from photos or illustrations is not a substitute for measuring actual specimens). This is back-of-the-envelope stuff, but it's enough to convince me that Helveticosaurus wasn't a 2 m long animal. I wonder if the figures reported by Khun-Schnyder (1974) are more plausible: he reported a 2.5 m length for the preserved holotype skeleton, and an estimated total length of 3.6 m. That would add another metre onto the holotype, which seems quite plausible - maybe even conservative - to me. Just how big was Helveticosaurus? It's hard to say without a complete specimen, but the individual represented by the holotype skeleton clearly exceeded the oft-cited 2 m body length. Perhaps other published estimates of 3.6 m are more reasonable? One of the most interesting features of Helveticosaurus is its short, c. 25 cm long skull. Alas, the best Helveticosaurus skull remains we have look as if they were hit by a truck before fossilisation: scattered, broken, and with many unidentifiable parts (Rieppel 1989). Enough is known to allow for a tentative reconstruction but a confident picture of the face of Helveticosaurus awaits better preserved material. The front of the upper jaw was abbreviated, blunt and tall, creating a skull profile that might have been somewhat box-like in lateral aspect. The orbital and temporal regions are poorly known, but they seem to hint at the presence of an upper and lower temporal fenestrae and a large eye socket. A number of oversize conical teeth line each jaw. The exact number of teeth is unknown, but a notable feature is the large 'canine' in the upper jaw. Neither the size of the temporal region or the lower jaw (the latter being one of the best preserved cranial elements) imply an especially large set of jaw muscles, though the mandible has an expanded retroarticular process - a prong of bone at the back of the jaw associated with opening the mouth. This likely has implications for the feeding style of Helveticosaurus, although I'm unaware of any studies into its function. The aberrant size of the Helveticosaurus skull is peculiar for a marine reptile lacking a long neck, and perhaps only challenged in proportion by the Triassic marine vacuum cleaner Atopodentatus (Cheng et al. 2014). Distinct anatomy make it clear that these animals were very different ecologically however, and it's possible that their diminutive skulls reflect very different adaptive regimes. Tentative Helveticosaurus skull reconstruction, from Rieppel (1989). The jaws remain the best known elements, and some question exists over the arrangement of the rest of the skull. Scale bar represents 50 mm. The body of Helveticosaurus is similar, at least superficially, to many other Triassic marine reptiles, especially early sauropterygians. It's torso was long, with well-developed and high-spined vertebrae, stout ribs and an extensive set of gastralia (belly ribs). Differentiation between the vertebral spines at the front and back of the body hint at some functional distinction, perhaps related to larger muscles associated with the shoulder region (Rieppel 1989). As is assumed for plesiosaurs, the combination of stout ribs and gastralia likely reduced the flexibility of the torso and may have improved swimming efficiency. The tail, so much as it is known, bears the same high neural spines as the trunk vertebrae, as well as caudal ribs. These features indicate it was likely well-muscled for use in sculling propulsion, although the chevrons are not particularly large. Assuming these anchored the caudofemoralis muscle, as they do in most reptiles, I wonder if this indicates diminished musculature associated with hindlimb retraction. After the peculiar head, the forelimbs of Helveticosaurus are perhaps its most unusual feature. They anchored to an atypically well-developed pectoral girdle which - unlike most marine reptiles - has a long, robust scapula. Marine reptile shoulder blades are often extremely reduced, little more than bony nubbins that create a shoulder joint. But here, the scapulae are long enough to create a deep, U-shaped shoulder girdle that would not look out of place on a terrestrial animal (Rieppel 1989). The forelimb itself is proportionally elongate, both with respect to the body and in comparison to the hindlimb. It's exact length remains uncertain because the bones of the hand are scattered, but the major limb bones are each 10% longer than their counterparts in the hindlimb. The humerus in particular is very long for a marine reptile, and maintains hallmarks of functionality beyond just being the top of an stiffened flipper (Rieppel 1989). The fingers are hyperphalangic (i.e. they have an enhanced number of finger bones) in a fashion typical of marine tetrapods, and - in contrast to several Helveticosaurus palaeoartistic reconstructions (all five of them that exist) - they lack claws. The arrangement of the fingers requires some reconstruction but their slender bones and arrangement in the holotype implies more of a broad, rounded paddle than a narrow ichthyosaur or plesiosaur-like flipper. Helveticosaurus forelimb, as illustrated by Rieppel (1989). Some ribs and gastralia have been removed for clarity. Note the elongate scapulae and long forelimb elements - this is not a typical marine reptile arm. Scale bar represents 100 mm. The hindlimb shares some general characteristics with the forelimb - relatively elongate limb bones for a marine form, hyperphalangy, spreading, unclawed digits - but is shorter, noticeably more gracile and probably more cartilaginous than the forelimb. The pelvis is poorly known, but it also appears to have been at least partly cartilaginous, the joints of the pelvic bones being insufficient to contact one another around the hip joint without some additional skeletal material (Rieppel 1989). These features imply that the hindlimb was structurally weaker than the forelimb. How might this mix of anatomies have functioned? A qualified assessment by Rieppel (1989) makes some sensible interpretations of Helveticosaurus locomotion. On the whole, the animal is mostly adapted for life in water, with aquatic adaptations being especially obvious on the limbs, pelvis and tail. Although the tail is missing, its robust, high-spined and complex vertebrae are consistent with features of sculling animals and we might envisage Helveticosaurus propelling itself with powerful motions of its tail when swimming, akin to marine iguanas or crocodylians. The weak pelvis and hindlimb indicate the rear limbs contributed less to propulsion. Rieppel proposes that, like swimming lizards, they may have been pulled against the body when swimming save for the occasional action to help with steering or thrust. The forelimbs were evidently strong and likely useful in swimming, though the configuration of the shoulder girdle does not imply any rigid kinematics for underwater flight in the manner of a penguin or turtle. They might have functioned more like the foreflippers of otariid seals (the eared seal group: sealions, fur seals etc.) in providing some thrust, but also playing important roles in steering and breaking (Rieppel 1989). While the shoulder girdle does not seem optimised for powerful downstrokes, the large size of the arm, and implied articulation of at least some parts of the limb (see below), suggest it was a dynamic steering aid. Helveticosaurus may have been quite an agile swimmer. But where Helvetiosaurus becomes especially interesting is out of the water. Even in the Middle Triassic many marine reptiles had wholly committed themselves to aquatic lifestyles, but Helveticosaurus appears to have remained some terrestrial capabilities. Why it did this remains uncertain: did it still lay eggs? Did it have a complex life history involving both land and sea phases? Did it live in settings where periodic escapes from the sea were advantageous? We don't have insights into any of this yet, but we can predict how Helveticosaurus might have moved around on land. Supporting limbs during terrestrial gaits is not simply a matter of having strong limb bones, it's also necessary to have a robust and stable limb girdle. For shoulders, this requires support and control exerted by muscles attached to the torso and neck, as well as having a big enough scapula for these to act on. The robust shoulder girdle of Helveticosaurus seems to meet these criteria. It not only provides space for the necessary muscle to support and move the forelimb on land but also - with particular reference to the relatively big scapula - is sufficiently developed to brace the shoulder against the body skeleton (Rieppel 1989). The length and robustness of the forelimb is also notable, as are the retention of humeral features associated with flexing the lower limb. Marine reptile limbs are often immobile south of the shoulder or hip, and readers with good memories might recall that this makes terrestrial locomotion difficult. The articulations of the Helveticosaurus limb are not well preserved - they seem to have been highly cartilaginous - so we don't know the full extent of its forelimb mobility, but muscle attachment scars hint at abilities to flex the wrist and fingers (Rieppel 1989). Any flexible jointing would enhance its terrestrial potential, so this is another tick in the box for relatively proficient land locomotion. The hindlimb, in being less developed and more cartilaginous, probably contributed little to terrestrial locomotion. Helveticosaurus may have therefore crawled and flopped around more like a seal than a lizard, using its arms to drag and push itself around, maybe occassionally assisted by its legs and thrashing motions of the tail to propel itself faster. It must have been pretty neat to see a reptile move like this: a sort of creeping, lolopping reptile-mermaid topped off with the face of the Engineer from Hellraiser. When Helveticosaurus collide. In the image illustrating this article, I've assumed that the terrestrial capabilities of Helveticosaurus were sufficient to bring them into terrestrial coastal habitats, perhaps for mating, nesting or some other reason. We have no evidence of this happening, but analogous behaviours are seen today in turtles and seals, some of which travel kilometres inland despite their limited terrestrial abilities. Maybe some Mesozoic marine reptiles did the same. We can't go this far into discussion of Helveticosaurus without questioning its ecology. I'm not aware of any analyses that address this issue, so this paragraph is shot from the hip based on what others have said about its functional morphology and a basic form-function reading of Helveticosaurus anatomy - take it with an appropriate pinch of salt. As already noted, the skull of Helveticosaurus is too poorly preserved to say much about specifics of foraging, but its long, slender teeth clearly betray a predatory lifestyle. Worn tooth tips indicate that it did not eat entirely soft, fleshy prey, but the teeth are not robust enough to suggest a tough diet. I'm aware that a similar suite of dental features occur in pterosaurs that are assumed to small fish, squid and other diminutive swimming creatures (Ősi 2010), and I wonder if a similar diet might apply here. The skull of Helveticosaurus is also too small to suggest it routinely ate large prey, though I guess scavenging carcasses is difficult to rule out. The enlarged retroarticular process is of interest because such features are often seen in suction feeders - aquatic animals which rapidly open their mouths to suck up prey within a pressure gradient. Short faces often characterise suction feeders too, but we need knowledge of other anatomies - such as the bones of the throat - to reliably infer such foraging strategies (Motani et al. 2014). We also have to acknowledge that a short jaw and specifics of the posterior mandible can be related to other functions. A small head capable of fitting between rocks and other obstacles would be useful if Helveticosaurus sought benthic or demersal prey, for instance. The combination of a swimming tail and large limbs may have made Helveticosaurus relatively agile, a useful trait when chasing small prey. In all, I wonder if the seal analogy applied to some aspects of Helveticosaurus anatomy and locomotion might extend to its lifestyle. It would be great to see this looked into with a dedicated study. Bringing this post back to firmer scientific ground, it's finally time to ask: just what the heck is Helveticosaurus? Initially interpreted as a placodont (Peyer 1955), Helveticosaurus has since jumped all over the reptile tree as different teams use different approaches to resolve its placement. There are probably several reasons for our inability to pin down the evolutionary home of Helveticosaurus. Firstly, the anatomy of Helveticosaurus confuses character distribution in phylogenetic trees, it having features of enough groups to scramble easy reading of homologies and convergences (Ezcurra et al. 2014). This makes Helveticosaurus very sensitive to taxon and character choices used in our evolutionary calculations, and prone to shifting in position dramatically from one cladogram to the next (e.g. Chen et al. 2014). Helveticosaurus is far from the only marine reptile to present such a problem, and there are debates among researchers about how to deal with what some regard as a problematic amount of convergence between aquatic Mesozoic reptiles (see, for recent takes, Chen et al. 2014 vs. Scheyer et al. 2017). A third issue concerns the ongoing controversy over the origins of marine reptiles generally. The relationships of even well-supported groups like ichthyosauromorphs, turtles and sauropterygians to other reptiles remain contested, and these clades have major 'pull' in phylogenies when they move about, hauling possible relatives like Helveticosaurus around as tree topologies change. We don't know of any species quite like Helveticosaurus, but the Triassic diapsid Eusaurosphargis dalsassoi - here represented by an excellent fossil of a juvenile skeleton - has been recovered as a near relative in several recent analyses. Intriguingly, it also seems well adapted for terrestrial locomotion, implying that such abilities may have been common to their branch of marine reptile evolution. Image from Scheyer et al. (2017). Perhaps for this reason, it's not uncommon to see many authors sidestepping classifying Helveticosaurus altogether, instead simply labelling it an 'enigmatic diapsid' and moving on. But others have tackled the issue more head on and, while it would be premature to say we know what Helveticosaurus is, some clarity is emerging about which branch of reptile evolution it belongs to (even if the position of that branch is a more open question). The placodont affinity for Helveticosaurus has been questioned on grounds of very limited shared anatomies (Sues 1987; Rieppel 1989) and this identification has not been supported in recent analyses. Other ideas - a tentative interpretation as some sort of archosauromorph (Rieppel 1989; Naish 2004) or a near relative of lepidosaurs (Chen et al. 2014) - have also not found much traction. But a large number of authors have recovered Helveticosaurus as a close relative of Sauropterygia (Müller 2004; Bickelmann et al. 2009; Li et al. 2011, 2014; Neenan et al. 2013; Chen et al. 2014; Scheyer et al. 2017), and it's looking like this is the best horse to back concerning the phylogenetic position of this historically enigmatic animal. Alas, this is not the neat end of the story we might think it is, as the origins of Sauropterygia itself remain poorly understood. In at least some analyses Helveticosaurus and Sauropterygia is part of a marine reptile 'superclade', a huge, unnamed group containing ichthyosaurs, sauropterygians and a number of Triassic lineages that have long struggled to find homes. Another Swiss Triassic reptile, the possibly mostly terrestrial Eusaurosphargis dalsassoi (above), has been postulated as a close relative of Helveticosaurus several times (e.g. Scheyer et al. 2017). Sauropterygians are deeply nested in this 'superclade' and the position of the terrestrially-enabled Helveticosaurus and Eusaurosphargis is interesting with respect to the evolution of aquatic lifestyles in Triassic marine reptiles. Given that more rootward lineages in the 'superclade' are entirely aquatic forms, might genera like Helveticosaurus and Eusaurosphargis represent animals that returned to land from swimming ancestors, or are they representatives of a more basic semiaquatic ancestral bauplan that remains underrepresented in other lineages? At the risk of ending on an old palaeontological cliche, we need more specimens, more data and more investigations to answer these questions. It turns out that marine reptiles are a pretty fun group, I think you'll be seeing more art and reading more about them here in the coming months. If all goes to plan, we'll be walking (or not) with plesiosaurs and meeting some giant ichthyosaurs before too long. Enjoy monthly insights into palaeoart, fossil animal biology and occasional reviews of palaeo media? Support this blog for $1 a month and get free stuff! This blog is sponsored through Patreon, the site where you can help online content creators make a living. If you enjoy my content, please consider donating $1 a month to help fund my work. $1 might seem a meaningless amount, but if every reader pitched that amount I could work on these articles and their artwork full time. 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Itâ€™s no surprise companies are mobilizing to address this growing need.â€ Modern Systems also announced that it had entered into an amendment to its existing loan agreement with Comerica Bank to: increase the non-formula revolving line up to the amount of $2 million backed by guarantees; increase the borrowing base revolving line amount up to $1.5 million upon the closing of the ATERAS merger; and extend the loan maturity date to December 31, 2015. The amendment has a financial covenant for a minimum liquidity ratio effective upon the close of the ATERAS merger. Modern Systems’ obligations under the Amendment are secured by a security interest in BluePhoenixâ€™s copyrights, trademarks and patents. The remaining substantive provisions of the credit facility are not materially changed by this amendment. â€œThe new financing terms will help stabilize the company through the merger and lay the foundation for growth,â€ says Bell. â€œWeâ€™re fortunate to have a partner like Comerica, who recognizes the needs of our niche and believes in our ability to serve them.â€ About Modern Systems Corporation Modern Systems Corporation, an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of BluePhoenix Solutions Ltd. (NASDAQ: BPHX), is a leading provider of legacy modernization services. The Modern Systems portfolio includes a comprehensive suite of tools and services for incremental modernization of legacy systems. Leveraging over 20 years of best-practice domain expertise, Modern Systems works closely with customers to minimize risk and provide a clear path from legacy platforms like COBOL, Natural/Adabas and others to modern solutions like SQL, DB2, Java and more. Modern Systems customers come from diverse industries and vertical markets such as automotive, banking and financial services, insurance, manufacturing, and retail. Modern Systems has six offices in the USA, UK, Italy, Romania, and Israel. Rick Oppedisano, Vice President of Global R&D and Marketing, Modern Systems This press release may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Forward-looking statements are based on Modern Systems’ management’s beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to Modern Systems’ management. All statements other than statements of historical facts are â€œforward-looking statementsâ€ for purposes of these provisions, including those relating to future events or our future financial performance and financial guidance. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as â€œmay,â€ â€œmight,â€ â€œwill,â€ â€œshould,â€ â€œexpect,â€ â€œplan,â€ â€œanticipate,â€ â€œproject,â€ â€œbelieve,â€ â€œestimate,â€ â€œpredict,â€ â€œpotential,â€ â€œintendâ€ or â€œcontinue,â€ the negative of terms like these or other comparable terminology, and other words or terms of similar meaning in connection with any discussion of future operating or financial performance. These statements are only predictions. All forward-looking statements included in this document are based on information available to Modern Systems on the date hereof, and Modern Systems assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. Any or all forward-looking statements in this document may turn out to be wrong. Actual events or results may differ materially. Forward-looking statements can be affected by inaccurate assumptions Modern Systems might make or by known or unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors. These risks and uncertainties include but are not limited to: the risk that the businesses may not be combined successfully or in a timely and cost-efficient manner; the possibility that the transaction will not close, including, but not limited to, due to the failure to obtain shareholder approval or the failure to obtain any required governmental or third-party approval; and the risk that business disruption relating to the merger may be greater than expected; and such other risks and uncertainties as identified in Modern Systems’ most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and other reports filed by it with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC. All names and trademarks are their ownersâ€™ property. Where You Can Find More Information This press release may be deemed to be solicitation material in respect of the proposed merger with ATERAS. This press release should not be read alone, but should instead be read in conjunction with the other information regarding the companies and the proposed merger with ATERAS that will be contained in, or incorporated by reference into, the proxy statement that Modern Systems will be filing in connection with shareholder approval of the proposed merger with ATERAS, as well as in the Forms 10-K, Forms 10-Q and other filings that Modern Systems makes with the SEC. The proxy statement will be mailed or otherwise made available to our shareholders, and shareholders and investors will be able to obtain the proxy statement free of charge when it becomes available at www.sec.gov and http://modernsystems.com/about-us/investor-info/. INVESTORS AND SHAREHOLDERS ARE URGED TO READ THE PROXY STATEMENT REGARDING THE PROPOSED TRANSACTION AND ANY OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION. Modern Systems’ directors and executive officers and other persons may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies in respect of the proposed transaction. Information regarding Modern Systems’ directors and executive officers is available in its proxy statement filed with the SEC by us on November 22, 2013. Other information regarding the participants in the proxy solicitation and a description of their direct and indirect interests, by security holdings or otherwise, will be contained in the proxy statement and other relevant materials regarding the proposed merger with ATERAS to be filed with the SEC (when they become available). These documents can be obtained free of charge from the sources indicated above. 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