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__label__wiki	0.568116	0.568116	Darfield’s Third World Water Problem Teamster / August 28, 2012 Some say New Zealand’s water is third world We are appalled that people in the Darfield area are still suffering from outbreaks of gastro-enteric diseases (potentially deadly E.coli, and Campylobacter) that would mimic those experienced in third world countries. The Selwyn District Council needs to “wake up to its responsibility” and address its recurring water issues, a medical officer of health says. The criticism follows a gastroenteritis outbreak in Darfield that has struck down 128 residents. By this evening there had been 22 confirmed cases of campylobacter, a bacteria that causes vomiting and diarrhoea. E. coli was found in the town’s drinking water supply and a boil-water notice was issued on August 17. It was lifted four days later… more here Some of the contamination is being blamed on intensified farming. Water, especially the Waimakariri river, became grossly contaminated with animal faeces after heavy rainfall. Inadequate chlorination resulted in water that was not safe to drink. Darfield is the third Selwyn community to be issued with a boil-water notice this year. But it’s not just the Selwyn district that is affected by sub-standard drinking water, other regions have the same problems too. 20% of Kiwis drinking unsafe water A report compiled in June 2010 revealed that one in five people in New Zealand has unsafe, or unregistered drinking water that has not been classified. The report, which is bound to promote further ‘NZ is third world‘ criticism, was released by the Ministry of Health after a 2008-2009 review of drinking water showed that quality in New Zealand was deteriorating. Paul Gorman in the Press commented on the report, saying About 849,000 people, or 20 per cent of Kiwis, were supplied with water that either failed to meet bacteriological standards or had not been classified because sources were unregistered. That was a rise from 712,000 New Zealanders in the corresponding 2007-08 period. Unacceptable levels of E. coli were in water supplied to 93,000 people, down from 118,000 the previous year. However, 247,000 people received water that did not comply bacteriologically with standards because sampling was too infrequent to show compliance. That was up from 194,000 people in the 2007-08 period…more here But E.coli monitoring of 125 water supplies, mostly on camping grounds and Marae, had stopped whilst the number of water borne illnesses had doubled over the previous period. Schools/Early Childhood Centres, Hospitals Have Shocking Results Shockingly, Only a fifth of schools and early childhood centres have water that is fit to drink – 118 out of the 597 sampled. Some educational establishments had installed UV treatment and filtration to kill bacteria, but higher levels of UV were needed to destroy protozoan parasites and some viruses. The stats were slightly better for hospitals with around 50% having clean water. Five out of twelve hospitals and health services failed the tests. The important issues raised by the review are: Overall compliance has fallen by 3% in population terms during 2008/9. Approximately 80% of New Zealanders have bacteriologically-compliant drinking-water and protozoal-compliance was achieved in supplies serving 63% of the population. Of the 68 large supplies (ie. serving 10,000 or more people), four did not achieve bacteriological compliance and 18 did not achieve protozoal compliance in the survey year. Five of the hospital/health services with their own water supplies were bacteriologically non-compliant during 2008/9. Monitoring programmes need to be established for the supplies serving Aotea Health and Great Barrier Community Health. Waiheke Health Trust and Princess Margaret Hospital need to review/implement their corrective action procedures. The cause of the E. coli transgression in the Te Puia Springs Hospital and Village supply needs to be investigated and remedied. The improvement in compliance of school supplies has continued, with 20% of schools complying in 2008/9. Some water suppliers could avoid the need to undertake monitoring for P2 heavy metals by sampling to show the metals arise from the plumbosolvency of the water, and are not present in the water supplied to the consumer. DWAs can advise on the protocol required. Monitoring for E. coli ceased in a further 125 water supplies during the 2008/9 period. During 2008/9, the number of LA-run zones in which bacteriological transgressions were not followed up with adequate corrective action remains high at 32. This needs attention. Bacteriological compliance was lost in 160 zones, including three LA-run zones, between 2007/8 and 2008/9. Zones recorded as compliant but served by one or more treatment plants that did not comply bacteriologically because of excessive E. coli transgressions warrant further investigation. Discrepancies between the results of bacteriological monitoring by the water supplier and bacteriological surveillance by the DWA occurred in only six zones during 2008/9. Thinking of taking your family to live in the area? We say give it a miss until they get this mess sorted out. If you want to assist in third world development there are other places more deserving of your time. Other posts that may interest you Residents want Shannon’s “third world” water drinking water cleaned up : “Residents in Shannon, a small settlement between Palmerston North and Wellington, are suffering the effects of a drinking water supply contaminated with giardia, cryptosporidium and possibly E. coli (a potentially fatal organism associated with faecal contamination) and other enteric ‘bug’s and they have had enough. They’ve told Horowhenua District Council that they want action, and they want it now… more For more about water quality in 100% Pure New Zealand click here. August 28, 2012 in New Zealand. Tags: '100% Pure' myth, 100% Pure, Darfield, Darfield quake, Drinking water standards in New Zealand, New Zealand is third world, Selwyn, Third World, Waimakariri river, water quality in New Zealand Another 100% Pure NZ Fail – E. coli Alert Issued for Kawerau Town Water Supply Another 100% Pure Fail – Another Town Put on Boil Water Notice Visiting Christchurch? Don’t Drink the Water. No Seriously. It’s Untreated and There’s No Accountability ← Migrant Tales – Adele’s Story, Kids Falling Light Years Behind “Severe” Quake Strikes Near Haast, West Coast → 3 thoughts on “Darfield’s Third World Water Problem” I don’t know that these two infestations are ‘third world’ . I checked and it seems all first world countries are at risk and have outbreaks of this disease. Germany had about 9 people die due to E.coli which they tracked back to cucumbers from Spain last may 2011. Spain is not a third world country. I than checked whether these diseases were in all first world countries and they are. They are caught through an animal or bird faeces with the disease getting in to the water supply through rivers etc E2NZ says: Firstly these are not “infestations” but contaminated drinking water supplies that have been inadequately chlorinated. Secondly, although these pathogens are present all over the world, what separates the best countries from the worst are basics such as well funded public sanitation and potable water supplies. Darfield was the largest town in the country to still rely on septic tanks and boulder holes with no reticulated sewerage system, Humphrey said. The health board had asked the council to upgrade the region’s water systems as a priority Darfield is the third Selwyn community to be issued with a boil-water notice this year. Residents on the Malvern Hills rural water scheme were given the same warning in March and rural Glentunnel residents were warned three weeks ago. In 2008, the Selwyn township of Springston suffered a gastroenteritis outbreak. Davey said a reticulated sewerage system would cost about $10,000 per household. http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/7571455/Apology-for-Darfield-gastro-outbreak carpentaro says: I know that drinking “roof water” is quite common. I can’t imagine all that ends up coming off of roof runoff being good to ingest. The vision of birds flying over and landing and then hanging out for a while come to mind. And the tanks that the water is stored in. These are all “untested” unless the owner/ocupant wants to know.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1243
__label__cc	0.57511	0.42489	Born in New Orleans and entering the throes of the comedy scene by way of LA and NY, Sean Patton is a self-proclaimed “gypsy” in the sense that he lives everywhere and manages to amalgamate comedy from across the US and make it relatable, regardless of where in the States he is. “People can relate to what I’m talking about … Read More Krystyna Hutchinson is a comedian, writer, and actor, and is most commonly known as the other half to the comedic duo Sorry About Last Night… (alongside Corinne Fisher), co-host of Podcast “Guys We’ve Fcked,” and the co-author of Fcked: Being Sexually Explorative and Self-Confident in a World That’s Screwed (2017). Stand Up History After graduating from Marymount Manhattan College with … Read More Improvised Shark Tank One of the sharks on Shark Tank once said, “A brilliant idea doesn’t guarantee a successful invention. Real magic comes from a brilliant idea combined with willpower, tenacity, and a willingness to make mistakes.” So when collaborating comedians Kendall Keener and Kathryn Marie Whisler threw out an idea to their partner, Matt Vida, suggesting they do a … Read More Image courtesy of : (Getty Images) “I am your Nordstrom Rack version of Oprah today.” Yes, Phoebe Robinson loves Billy Joel and is fully obsessed with U2, and she taught Oprah the word “peen,” which you will know about her if you have been a fan of Two Dope Queens, the podcast she started in her Brooklyn apartment, which is now an HBO show. Phoebe is from … Read More The Truth About Janeane Garafolo She whirled and twirled to My Sherona in the 7-11 and folded the f**k out of shirts at the GAP in Reality Bites. She also poignantly and incredibly captured the angst of a young woman afraid she would be delivered a life sentence after taking an AIDS test in the diner scene in that movie—a moment anyone who lived through … Read More Open Mic Thursday - Laughing Buddha Weekend Warm-Up Comedy, The Best Stand Up Comedy in NYC!, and more!, NO TWO DRINK MINIMUM - Exclusive Special Show!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1245
__label__cc	0.718292	0.281708	Call Now: 1-855-244-9159 - Need help planning a cruise? Our cruise partners have access to unpublished fares. Powered by Seahub. Cape Liberty Scarlet Lady Victoria B.C. Coco Cay Cruise Features Cruise Planning Norwegian Encore Cruise Review by DB \| Dec 3, 2019 Scroll down to watch our complete Norwegian Encore Ship Tour and Review where we go deck-by-deck exploring the ship! The Princess and I have just returned from three very action packed days cruising on the brand new Norwegian Encore. Of course, we made the most of every minute testing out all the ship has to offer. From the new dining, to onboard activities, and signature entertainment, we were certainly busy. Now that we are back, we share every minute of this christening cruise in our signature, day-by-day Norwegian Encore Cruise Review. Powered by Cruiseline.com Norwegian Encore Cruise Review – Ship Overview Norwegian Encore is the final ship in Norwegian Cruise Line’s most successful class of ships, the Breakaway-Plus class. We have sailed on two of her sister ships and were able to see how NCL has refined and improved these vessels with each iteration. It is the little touches that set Norwegian Encore apart, such as slight design and decor changes, to places like the Local, the Observation Lounge, or the Speedway. Maybe it’s just us, but the Observation Lounge felt a bit more luxurious. We thought the Local felt a bit more open as well, and we enjoyed the new viewing area for the racetrack. While a bit more refined, Norwegian Encore is still home to many familiar favorites for families and thriller seekers alike. These attractions include waterslides, two pools, a kids aquapark, and the Waterfront promenade. We love that this class of ship has plenty to offer all types of travelers. Of course, Norwegian Encore is a new ship that boasts a few unique features of her own too. One of our favorite additions is the brand-new Italian restaurant, Onda by Scarpetta. We both agreed that the food was more upscale and tastier than the line’s previous La Cucina. Onda might just be our favorite Norwegian Cruise Line restaurant. We felt it compared to Italian restaurants in Boston’s North End, and even foodies felt that it lived up to Scarpetta restaurants on land. Another addition to this ship is the Galaxy Pavilion on Deck 17. This indoor amusement park features several interactive virtual reality experiences. First debuting on Norwegian Joy, this rendition on Norwegian Encore offers several unique experiences not found on her older sister. Also debuting for the first time at sea is the show Kinky Boots. I was fortunate enough to see the West End production with NCL last winter, and this shortened version is very comparable. The Princess agreed that this show ranks as one of the top signature shows on a cruise ship. Related Post: Sneak Peek of Norwegian Encore The main theater on Norwegian Encore is also home to the popular show, Choir of Man. This show which first debuted on Norwegian Escape is a fun, lighthearted, and engaging performance. Cruisers even get the chance to go up on stage to have a beer with the cast before the show. With so much to do, see, and eat on Norwegian Encore, we only touched the surface in our three days on the ship. We hope to hop back onboard soon for a full week of excitement. Norwegian Encore Cruise Review – Day 1 The Usual Boarding Routine We flew down to Florida the night before our inaugural cruise to ensure that we would not encounter any travel issues. We stayed about 10 minutes from the cruise port at the Intercontinental Miami. With a busy three days ahead of us, we had a low key evening at the hotel. The pre-cruise documentation for this trip indicated that we could check-in starting at 10 am. Of course, this was our plan all along as we are usually among the first individuals at the terminal. That was not the case this morning though. We were greeted by several fellow travelers who were already being dropped off at the terminal as well when we arrived shortly after 9:30 am. Related Post: Best Places to Stay Near Miami, FL Cruise Port Still, the check-in and security processes were quick and efficient. We were in the waiting area with our Welcome Aboard photo taken and a Group 3 boarding pass in no time. Around 10:30 am, the first groups were escorted onboard the ship. Our group was called by 10:45 am. Before our typical photo (and now video) tour of the ship, we checked-in with our media contact in the library to receive our Welcome package with a schedule that had our next three days planned out for us to accomplish as much as possible. We were not going to miss a beat! This short cruise stopped at NCL’s private island in the Bahamas, Great Stirrup Cay. We were informed that Norwegian Cruise Line was offering free shore excursions on the island, so we stopped at the Shore Excursions desk to sign up for an available slot to test out the new zip line course. Surprisingly, a good number of the times were already booked up. As luck would have it, our room was ready, so we were able to drop off our luggage in our cabin before we set off to explore the ship. We also took some quick but mandatory photos and video before we messed things up over the next few days. Time to See (Some) of Norwegian Encore We ventured up to Deck 20 mid-ship to see the new and improved Vibe Beach Club. This private club was open for all cruisers to explore this voyage. Expanded to two decks, this much larger space has a bar, additional hot tubs, lots of lounge chairs, and a water feature on the top deck. We continued our tour of the upper decks including the pool deck, Galaxy Pavilion, Speedway, laser tag, and other adjacent areas for the next hour or so. All guests were to be ushered off the ship for the christening ceremony starting around 3:30 pm. Given this shortened time frame, muster was scheduled for 2 pm today. Knowing that our remaining two days were already booked, we decided to squeeze in lunch at the new American Diner to test out the food options. We were not alone as there was about a 15 minute wait to be seated at the venue. Given the wait time, we ended up rushing through our lunch before muster. We did get to sample a few of the starters, as well as the chicken sandwich. I enjoyed the lobster roll sliders the most and found the carrot cake to be sweet perfection. Overall, we thought the food was average for a casual specialty dining venue. Part of us missed the Margaritaville at Sea that is found on other ships in this class, including Escape and Bliss. The muster alarm was sounding already as we were walking through the casino on our way to the station (the Local). Luckily, we were not the last ones to arrive. Muster felt drawn out with some additional detailed explanations that are not typically included in this safety drill. The cruise director wrapped up the drill a bit after 2:30 pm. It was then back to our room to unpack and make a quick costume change for the evening’s festivities. Walking the Blue Carpet for Norwegian Encore’s Christening Our paperwork indicated that we would be called to exit the ship starting around 3:30 pm. Not one to miss a party, the Princess and I were changed and ready just in time. Set up outside the ship were a number of bars, light snacks, performers, and plenty of selfie-stations. We strolled some of this area for about 20 minutes popping into a few of the spots for a quick photo-op. The area was a bit crowded, so we went inside to claim some seats for the main celebration. Given the set up of seating, we opted to stake claim in the balcony. I made a few runs out for water and snacks as we still had about 45 minutes until the ceremony began. Oh, and what a show it was from beginning to end! It started with pieces from the ship’s signature productions Choir of Man and Kinky Boots. There was also a changing of the guard between outgoing president Andy Stuart and incoming head Harry Sommer. Of course, the show kicked into high gear with a performance by the ship’s Godmother, Kelly Clarkson. She had the entire audience on their feet while she played some of her top hits for about 30 minutes. The Princess was in heaven! Running into some of our friends from Porthole Cruise after the performance, we grabbed a round of drinks outside before heading back onboard the ship for dinner. A Long Night Back Onboard Our dinner reservation was for 8 pm at Cagney’s tonight. Although, all restaurants were serving a set inaugural menu which consisted of a surf and turf or fish as the main entree. For the most part, the food quality was on point for NCL, with the filet well prepared and the grilled lobster tail lightly seasoned. Unfortunately, they were not able to accommodate an alternate selection for the Princess so she ended up with just a salad and dessert. Dinner lasted a solid 90+ minutes, and we were outside just as the ship began to sail away to an impressive fireworks display. The whirlwind of a day was getting to us, and while we debated going to bed, we opted for a drink at the Sugarcane Mojito bar. As we were enjoying our drinks, some of the media team and other influencers came by and convinced us to head over to the Cellars wine bar. We chatted it up until about midnight when we decided it was time to call it a night. Tomorrow was bound to be an equally long day. A Jam-Packed Morning on the Ship The Princess set the alarm for 6:30 am, and it hit me like a ton of bricks. Perhaps, I cannot eat and drink all night like I used to when I was younger. Still, we had work to do this morning. So, I headed out to grab photos and videos. While the Princess got ready, I spent about two hours on decks 6-8 grabbing plenty of photos and videos of these normally busy areas. Grabbing two coffees at Starbucks, I was back to the room later than expected. Hopping into the shower and changing up for the day, we opted to skip the Haven tour scheduled for 9 am to allow for more time to acquire necessary photos and videos. There was no time for breakfast either. Our group of travelers had a reserved spot for the race track at 10 am. We arrived a few minutes late and were assigned to the second group of racers. The entire preparatory process, from the orientation, to safety briefing, and getting suited up in the car takes about 15-20 minutes. The race itself lasts about 8 minutes. While this new course features 10 turns with some points even extending over the side of the ship, we both found this track more manageable than the one on Bliss. Perhaps we were all too busy capturing the experience, or were too nice, but no one passed anybody. So, it was a rather uneventful race. We feel the go karts are a great addition to cruise ships. For $15 a person, we could justify paying for a ride or two on a regular cruise. Next up was laser tag at 11 am, which is located behind the race track. This new course is themed after the Lost City of Atlantis. For $9.95, you can play one 10-minute game. When we sailed on Bliss, the entrance fee included two shorter games. We liked that setup a bit better. The 10 minutes seemed too long, and everyone was getting tired by the end. Still, our team remained victorious with 8 kills! Wait, Is it Only Noon? Next up on the checklist was lunch. Our group was hosted for the Taste of Encore in the Manhattan Room. This 6 course tasting menu featured items from several specialty restaurants found on the ship. It is customary to eat six courses for lunch, right? We were fortunate to dine with the company’s CMO, as well as make some new friends in the process. Not to mention, the food was phenomenal. While all the specialty restaurants are great, most of them are priced a la carte, so the costs can add up quickly if you want to try everything. We always recommend a Norwegian Cruise Line specialty dining package. Depending on the length of your cruise, this package costs $22-25 per person, per dinner. That is well worth it! Related Post: Complete Review of Norwegian Cruise Line’s Specialty Dining Package Among the standout dishes at lunch were the dumplings from Food Republic and both the tuna and ravioli from Onda. Of course, you can never go wrong with the Pit Master from Q Texas Smokehouse as an entree and desserts from the Bake Shop. This extended lunch lasted a full two hours. With some free time now, our hope was to test out some attractions in the Galaxy Pavilion. As our luck would have it, the venue was closed for a private event. Packing in More of Norwegian Encore Well, back to exploring more of the ship. First, we scooted into the Garden Café to peek at the Seafood Extravaganza lunch. There was a wide selection of items, from broiled and grilled lobster tail, crab legs, stone crab claws, and seafood inspired entrees. Too bad I was already so full as there was plenty I wanted to sample. During our travels, we made a pit stop at the onboard store to purchase our customary cruise ship ornament and t-shirt. Luckily, both were in stock and easy to find. With our purchases in tow, we made a loop around the Waterfront which put us right at the Malting’s Whiskey Bar around 3:30 pm for our next scheduled activity. This special cocktail class was hosted by the team at Broken Shaker in Miami. Part of NCL’s commitment to sustainability is a partnership with this innovative bar brand. This company looks for ways to re-purpose food items that would typically be discarded, such as fruit rinds, skins, and even day old croissants. While it sounds a bit questionable, the cocktail they crafted with a watermelon rind was crisp, clean, and something I could drink all day long. Later in the cruise, we sampled another two of these sustainable drinks. Our dinner this evening was 6:30 pm, giving us just enough time to squeeze in an hour at the Galaxy Pavilion following the cocktail class. Not all of the attractions were open, but we were able to sample two of the dark ride simulators, the hand gliding, the Descendant game, and the Jurassic Escape ride. We particular enjoyed the dark ride simulators. These attractions in the Galaxy Pavilion start at $8 an experience with several packages available.There is also an escape room that is set to open in this location. Finishing up a little after 5 pm, we headed down for our second round of lattes from Starbucks. We were going to need the caffeine if we planned to make it through the night. Dinner and a Show with Friends Sipping coffee and doing some social media, we both fought off the drowsiness to change up for dinner. Our reservation was for 6:30 pm at the new Italian restaurant, Onda. We were one of only a few of the content creators who were able to test out this restaurant. Another nice benefit was the ability to dine with friends Steve and Angela, the amazing team behind FoodieChats. As they were the true experts, we decided to split a bunch of the starters and desserts to give everyone the opportunity to try different items. Dinner was phenomenal. Perhaps the best Norwegian Cruise Line dinner to date! Among the standout dishes that our table ordered were the burrata and grilled octopus appetizers, the homemade pasta, and the veal Milanese entree. Oh, and you can not pass on dessert either. Finishing dinner by about 8:30 pm, we had show reservations for Kinky Boots at 10 pm. With some time to kill, we stepped into the District Brew House for a drink. We ran into a few other influencer friends and chatted for the next 45 minutes or so before heading to the show. Several sections of the theater were reserved for different groups, so we had to sit closer than we normally do for a cruise production show. We both really enjoyed the close to 2 hour performance. The cast was great, and the audience was certainly game for the story which touches on inclusion and being true to yourself. With the show ending around midnight, and another 6:30 am alarm set, we retired to our cabin for evening. A Successful Tendering Experience Similar to the previous day, I was up and out the door slightly after 6:30 am. Today’s photo and video tour included some of the outdoor decks, the Observation Lounge, and a few restaurants. The ship was scheduled to begin tender service to Great Stirrup Cay at 8 am, so these venues were again mostly empty. We found out late the night before that we had to make tender ticket reservations in advance. Luckily, I was able to get us on Group 2 when I inquired at Guest Services this morning. Of course, we were not ready when they called the Group 2 tender (early) at 7:50 am. I had just returned to the cabin with coffees and gigabytes of photos and videos. We made it down to the theater closer to 8:30 am. Our timing was impeccable though, as we walked right on a tender and were over to the island just before 9 am. The only good thing about tendering is being able to snag some great photos of the ship on your way to the island. Touring the Updated Private Island It had been over 2 years since we last visited Great Stirrup Cay, so it was time to explore. To begin, we headed all the way east along the coastline and eventually worked our way back toward the new Villa area. Along the way, we stopped for plenty of photos and videos. Most of the main island looked the same to us with a few new additions. Among the additions was a sizable zip line and ropes course that recently opened. We had booked a 1:30 pm time slot to check out the course, but we ended up canceling for a bit of relaxation instead. Also brand new to the island is Silver Cove. This exclusive retreat area is reserved for those staying in the Haven or for guests who purchase one of the villas. Our media team had an oceanfront studio villa reserved that we could use as our home base throughout the day. It took us about 90 minutes to walk our way across the entire island exploring every inch along the way. Once at Silver Cove, we were able to take a tour of a one bedroom villa, as well as the the private lagoon beach and restaurant area. Some Time to Actually Relax on the Trip While the cruise line is still working out all of the details, such as adding a new entrance, these luxury facilities are certainly an upgrade to the typical cabanas or day beds you find on other private islands. Dynamic prices start at $299 for villas that hold up to 6 people. The best part is that these villas come with A/C and a private bathroom. Between touring the area and enjoying some of the amenities, we stayed at Silver Cove for about an hour. Next on our agenda was testing out some of the new food options. Along with the buffet and Abaco Taco, Great Stirrup Cay now has a food truck. So, we ended up doing a mini food tour of the island, stopping to sample a few small items from each of these locations. For the most part, the island’s food was certainly an improvement from our last visit. We were back all the way near the beginning of the island by 1 pm. Finally, a chance to relax. We did just that, with a frozen drink in hand. Instead of lounging beach-side, we found a table with an umbrella and some shade for the Princess. One Last Night Onboard Norwegian Encore After a conversation with a fellow New Englander went longer than expected, we caught a tender back to the ship around 2:45 pm. It was relatively empty which allowed us to score more photos of the ship from varying angles. Back onboard, we had a few more venues to checkout. Among them were the kids area on deck 5, some of the remaining restaurants, and the Thermal Suite. However, by the time we got to the Thermal Suite, it was packed. So, we did the next best thing… As if we did not eat enough on the island, the Princess insisted on something from Coco’s. This indulgent venue is as Instagrammable as it is delicious! We suggest you reserve some space in your tummy for a treat (or two) during your cruise. Our dinner was not until 8 pm tonight, so we used the rest of the afternoon to begin organizing content and packing. Changing up for dinner, we met another cruise colleague and his wife for drinks at 7:15 pm. Time flew by as we sipped sustainable cocktails on the Waterfront. We arrived to Q Texas Smokehouse for dinner right at 8 pm. We sat with another content creator who we met this trip and had an enjoyable time conversing about travel. With another 10 pm show time tonight, we wanted to ensure we had enough time to get to the theater for Choir of Man. This was our third time dining at Q, and it did not disappoint. We ordered some of our favorites including the Deviled Eggs, Chili, Smoked Sausage, and of course the Banana Mason Jar. As dinner was wrapping up around 9 pm, the venue’s resident performer, Camille Rae, began singing. We stayed for a few songs, and dessert, before heading to the theater around 9:30 pm. This was our first time watching Choir of Man, but we had heard great things about the show. Part of the pre-show entertainment is heading on stage to grab a beer and mingle with the choir. I thought this was a nice touch and made the show feel more authentic and interactive. We both enjoyed the performance; perhaps, I liked it more than the Princess though. Overall, it is a fun and energetic show, and has found the perfect second home on Norwegian Encore. The show ended just after 11 pm. This gave us time to poke our heads into the Cavern Club to see the Beatles tribute band playing in the venue. This set was based on the “later years” from the Beatles. After a few songs, we were on to Malting’s Whiskey bar to meet up with some of the social media group. A few rounds of drinks and conversations later, we didn’t retire until after 1 am. In 5 short hours, we had to be up again. Recap of Our Cruise Review of Norwegian Encore Norwegian Cruise Line certainly saved the best for last. Tying up some loose ends from other vessels in the class, Norwegian Encore will appeal to all types of cruisers. For those who have sailed on ships of similar size from NCL or competitor brands, you might feel that the décor and ambiance of the indoor spaces are a bit more sophisticated on Norwegian Encore. For families, there are a plethora of activities on the ship. Admittedly, many of the new additions are up-charges, such as laser tag, the Speedway, and the Galaxy Pavilion. We do recommend budgeting for these add-ons when planning your cruise as they are certainly fun for all ages. If you time your cruise purchase correctly, you can probably score some nice perks like a free premium beverage package and a specialty dining package. That way, you can use the savings to splurge on some of the onboard activities. The pool deck on Norwegian Encore is similar to Norwegian Bliss. Thankfully, it is spacious and open with plenty of seating unlike some of its other predecessors. Unfortunately though, the Spice H2O adults only area has been removed on Norwegian Encore. This has been replaced with the Galaxy Pavilion and Laser Tag course above it. For those seeking some adult-only space, the up-charge Vibe Beach Club might be your only option. While it is nice, and now 2 levels, we can see how this might be upsetting to some cruisers. We also wonder how the omission of Spice H2O will affect the crowds in the outdoor public areas on those sunny, Caribbean sea days. We have to say that dining was fabulous on Norwegian Encore and wish we could have dined at more of the specialty venues. Along with sampling the new Onda, we enjoyed our third round at Q Texas Smokehouse, as well as a sampling of bites from venues including the Food Republic and Le Bistro with the Taste of Encore lunch. Onda is a worthy addition to the ship, and a venue we would certainly return to on a future sailing on Norwegian Encore. The only negative was that our cruise was too short to do everything. It looks like we will need to book another trip to really test out ALL that Norwegian Encore offers. Do you have a cruise booked on Norwegian Encore? What features on the ship are you looking forward to the most? Drop us an anchor below with your feedback on the newest vessel in the Norwegian Cruise Line fleet. Disclaimer: We were guests of Norwegian Cruise Line on this three day inaugural cruise. However, all of the opinions expressed here are our own, and we were not compensated for this review. Mandy on December 4, 2019 at 12:46 pm Removing Spice to ‘provide’ two at-cost venues designed to add cost to family groups seems inconveniently calculating, We’ll stay with the stayed Celebrity, Princess and HAL lines hoping they will upgrade quality of experience for their guests and educational and recreational experiences for all ages. Joe on December 5, 2019 at 8:39 pm Sailing on Encore in February to celebrate my 60th Birthday, traveling as a solo for the first time and looking forward to it. I thank you for your in depth and informative review ….especially about Onda, which I had planned on skipping until I read your review of the food there and also I noticed you mentioned the North End…being an Italian from Boston I’m a hard marker when it comes to Italian food, especially on a cruise ship but your review has me curious now. My main concern is all the up-charges for just about all of the “selling points” of the ship and that those attractions can’t be pre-booked, so it creates the picture of the doors opening up for Black Friday at Macy’s to get to the Social. Due to this situation alone I purchased early boarding, so we’ll see how that plays out. To put a period of the extra cash for all the extra charges, I’m figuring about an additional $2000 on top of the fare. Still keeping an open mind though! 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__label__cc	0.528454	0.471546	by Rolaika Mcfarlane National Gluten-Free Day: Everything You Need to Know About Gluten It’s hard to remember a time where almost every product in the grocery store wasn’t plastered with the words “gluten-free” on the front. While recently we’ve seen many people opt for gluten-free options to lose weight, boost energy, or simply feel better since those who suffer from Celiac disease or are sensitive to gluten benefit the most from the surge in gluten-free products currently available on the market. In celebration of National Gluten-Free Day, Eco18 has done some research into the health concerns of gluten and whether or not switching to a non-gluten diet is right for you. First things first, what the heck is gluten? Gluten is a general name for the proteins found in wheat (wheatberries, durum, emmer, semolina, spelt, farina, farro, graham, KAMUT® khorasan wheat, and einkorn), rye, barley, and triticale – a cross between wheat and rye. Gluten helps foods maintain their shape, acting as the glue that holds food together. Gluten can be found in many types of foods, even ones that we commonly would not expect. While many people (celebs included!) have jumped on the “gluten-free bandwagon” for less serious health concerns, this doesn’t make much sense to Dr. Daniel A. Leffler, director of clinical research at the Celiac Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. According to Dr. Daniel A. Leffler, who is also an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, “people who are sensitive to gluten may feel better, but a larger portion will derive no significant benefit from the practice. They’ll simply waste their money, because these products are expensive.” However, a gluten-free diet is a must for those who suffer from Celiac disease. Celiac disease is a serious autoimmune disease that occurs in genetically predisposed people where the ingestion of gluten leads to damage in the small intestine. Celiac disease is hereditary, meaning that it runs in families. People with a first-degree relative with Celiac disease (parent, child, sibling) have a 1 in 10 risk of developing celiac disease. The disease can develop at any age after people start eating foods or medicines that contain gluten. Left untreated, Celiac disease can lead to additional serious health problems. People with Celiac disease can’t tolerate gluten, not even small amounts. Just 50 milligrams of the protein—about the amount in one small crouton—is enough to cause trouble. In people with Celiac disease, gluten triggers an immune response that damages the lining of the small intestine. This can interfere with the absorption of nutrients from food, cause a host of symptoms, and lead to other problems like osteoporosis, infertility, nerve damage, and seizures. A related condition called gluten sensitivity or non-celiac gluten sensitivity can generate symptoms similar to celiac disease but without the intestinal damage. Thinking about going gluten-free? Avoiding gluten means more than giving up traditional bread, cereals, pasta, and pizza. Gluten also lurks in many other products, including sauce found in frozen vegetables, soy sauce, some foods made with “natural flavorings,” vitamin and mineral supplements, some medications, and even toothpaste (who knew!) This makes following a gluten-free diet extremely challenging. If you’re determined to go gluten-free, it’s important to know that it can set you up for some nutritional deficiencies. Fortified breads and cereals have become a major source of B vitamins in the U.S. Although bread made with white rice, tapioca, and other gluten-free flours are becoming more common; they are generally not fortified with vitamins. Whole wheat is also a major source of dietary fiber, which the bowels need to work properly. According to Dr. Leffler “the average American diet is deficient in fiber if you take away whole wheat the problem gets worse.” It’s possible to get the fiber you need from other grains, such as brown rice or quinoa, or from fruits, vegetables, and beans, but you’ll need to make the effort. The bottom line. We are increasingly hearing about gluten-free diets even though only about one percent of the population has Celiac disease. While gluten has been linked to belly bloating, weight gain and a host of other issues, current thinking is that maybe gluten is not to blame, but it could be the hybridization of modern wheat. So, instead of opting for a gluten-free diet, start incorporating ancient grains like KAMUT® into your diet and a realistic workout routine into your daily regimen for a healthier lifestyle. Raw Organic Dry Kamut Berries Grain in a Bowl There have been a series of over 30 publications of scientific studies comparing diets of KAMUT khorasan wheat and modern wheat to people suffering from chronic ailments such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, irritable bowel syndrome, and non-alcoholic fatty liver syndrome. The results are very consistent and show the lowering of cholesterol, especially LDL cholesterol, blood sugar, insulin, insulin resistance while increasing antioxidant capacity, Mg, Ca and Zn in the blood by diets of ancient wheat compared to diets of modern wheat. But the largest and most consistent result was the increase of anti-inflammatory markers, which were in the range of 25-40% with a diet of ancient wheat compared to modern wheat. (See Kamut.com for a list of papers and summaries) Although Khorasan is a variety of wheat and contains gluten, people who suffer from celiac disease should absolutely avoid wheat and products containing gluten. However, for most people with non-celiac wheat sensitivities (up to 20% of the population), it’s not necessary to avoid the consumption of ancient grains. Actually, many people with sensitivities to modern wheat report being able to eat KAMUT khorasan wheat with no difficulty and that it is thus an excellent alternative to modern wheat (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308814614019748). Below, we’ve curated a list of gluten-free snacks for those with Celiac disease and gluten sensitivity. CHOMPS Free Range Turkey Jerky Snack Sticks Gluten-free, low in fat, and packed with 10 grams of protein, these convenient jerky sticks will keep you full on the fly. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07F3Y7B54/?linkCode=xm2&tag=bp_links-20&ascsubtag=[artid\|2089.g.2179[src\|[ch\|[lt\| Enjoy Life Gluten-Free Crunchy Cookies A tasty gluten-free snack for those with a sweet tooth, we love these crunchy cookies by health food brand Enjoy Life also included flavors such as chocolate chip, vanilla honey graham, double chocolate, and sugar crisp mini cookies. Yum! https://www.bestproducts.com/eats/food/g2179/gluten-free-foods-snacks-and-meals/?slide=2 Perfect Bar Original Refrigerated Protein Bar Gluten-free, packed with up to 17 grams of whole-food protein, and absolutely delicious, these Perfect Bars are almost too perfect to be true. The ingredient list includes healthy fruits, veggies, seeds, and heart-healthy oils. Simple Mills Fine Ground Sea Salt Almond Flour Crackers Do your waistline a favor: Toss out those cheese crackers drenched in saturated fat and pick up a box of these wholesome gluten-free Simple Mills crackers instead. They’re made with simple, whole ingredients like almond flour, sunflower seeds, and flax seeds, and they come in yummy flavors, including Farmhouse Cheddar and Fine Ground Sea Salt. https://www.amazon.com/Simple-Mills-Naturally-Gluten-Free-Crackers/dp/B075WXXNFB/?th=1&tag=bp_links-20&ascsubtag=[artid\|2089.g.2179[src\|[ch\|[lt\| Quinn Classic Sea Salt Pretzels These yummy gluten-free pretzels from Quinn are made with better-for-you ingredients, including whole grain sorghum flour, organic wildflower blossom honey, and apple cider vinegar. https://www.amazon.com/Quinn-Snacks-Classic-Pretzels-Count/dp/B075V4M3Y6?&tag=bp_links-20&ascsubtag=[artid\|2089.g.2179[src\|[ch\|[lt\| We hope one of these options works for you! Which of these snacks will you be adding to your cart the next time you go grocery shopping? Rolaika Mcfarlane	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1250
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It's free to register here to get Book file PDF In Mendels Mirror: Philosophical Reflections on Biology Pocket Guide. Despite these brief remarks, a full account of why we concentrate so much on genes has to wait for another occasion. The story goes much deeper: into epistemological, ontological, anthropological, ethical, as well as historical matters. However, the aim here is simply to make explicit in which sense interactionism goes together with the increase of genetic diseases. The answer is: genes are increasingly taken to be easily tractable causes necessary conditions or probabilistic causes of diseases. Even though the interactionist consensus does not assume that there is a dichotomous partitioning between innate and acquired traits, as illustrated above, it does assume that there is a continuum of traits with two poles: ranging from monogenetic diseases, such as Huntington chorea or phenylketonuria, to largely acquired impairments, such as the loss of an arm due to a car accident. In between these poles, the realm of complexity reigns: many genes interact with each other and with environmental factors in complex ways. Scientific progress in this area is still quite tentative. If we sort diseases along this simple continuum, we already refuse to take part in any debates that ask whether genes are in principle more determining than other factors. Debates over whether genes act as informational, or programming, or have any other property that makes them special, vivid until today in philosophy of biology, become pointless from this perspective. First of all, whether genes are more determining than other factors depends on the case in point and is a matter of degree. Second, the interactionist consensus i. Third, nobody in medicine is interested in an answer to in-principle debates. The patients as well as the physicians want to know where on the continuum a disease resides and whether it is possible to prevent it, but they do not want an answer to one of the in-principle debates. This is understandable, since only the former questions touch the issue of fatalism, an important issue, if prevention is one of your goals. In-principle debates only tackle philosophical in-house problems about ontology, causation, information, and so on: important topics, certainly, but not for the patient or physician. In addition to the continuum, and partly constituting it, the interactionist consensus rests on a further nondichotomizing way of putting the issue: genes have specific norms of reaction that differ in various ways, defining the kind of determination at issue. It has a flat form. A hypothetical flat norm of reaction Kitcher , p. Such a flat norm of reaction shows that changes in the value of the environmental variable horizontal axis do not make a difference to the level of expression of a trait vertical axis , given a specific genotype. Deterministic themes Kitcher , p. A flat norm of reaction means that the level of expression for a trait is constant across all the measured environments. The other kinds of genetic determination also express kinds of constancy. As Kitcher , p. An example should suffice to illustrate why mentioning these kinds of genetic determination is important. With this, he wants, as everybody today, to escape the charge of ignoring nurture. In order to illustrate explicitly why he does so is intriguing. Fukuyama not only assumes the determinist theme c , but he also changes, in between, the explanandum. He started with the individual level of development of the token trait height and ends with talking about the interindividual level of differences in the expression of this trait as a type. This change, inscribed in any move from a developmental context to norms of reaction, is not illegitimate, but it is important to make clear what the move means, since it includes not only a change from an individual to an interindividual level, but also a change of explanandum , and thus a change in the type of answer, and probably a change in the concept of causation involved e. Finally, the move includes a change of perspective—from looking at the complex developmental process to looking at simple correlations between genotypes and phenotypes. It is a change to a perspective that black-boxes the developmental process. When we do not have means to understand the complex actual developmental process, we look at the termini only, as Kitcher , p. In order to investigate genotype—phenotype correlations, plotting a norm of reaction, despite its simplifying nature, is nonetheless fruitful, at least for practical contexts such as medicine, as, for instance, Lewontin , pp. The concept of norms of reaction shows, as the simple continuum view already did, that the nature—nurture issue is a matter of degree and that the answers depend on the case in point. In-principle debates are out of place. A norm of reaction also allows us to clearly distinguish between the different kinds of genetic determination depicted by Kitcher, something we could not do if we only had a simple continuum. Knowing the norm of reaction for a trait, given a specific gene, is thus much more informative than locating a disease at a certain position on the simple continuum. In addition, a norm of reaction clearly shows how society determines whether a trait is considered as innate i. Each genotype has a specific and context-dependent norm of reaction, specific for each gene and dependent on a given range of environments. Philip S. Kitcher \| ekevibukuw.gq Extrapolation to and thus prediction of the expression of the trait in environments not covered in the norm of reaction is not possible. This point, stressed already by Hogben and pushed again forcefully by Lewontin , adds another dimension to the case dependency already evident in the continuum view. There simply is no general answer to whether genes or environmental factors are more important. It depends not only on the trait but also on the environments considered. Whether a gene determines in one of the above-mentioned ways a specific trait depends on the environments we single out for consideration. Since it will always be hard to epistemically single out the most relevant environments, the value of a norm of reaction is limited, as Kitcher , pp. Since it is our society that determines which environments are available at all for consideration, our society strongly influences whether a trait is considered as genetically determined or not. As long as we do not provide equal education, for instance, we will not be able to make a reliable statement about the development of individuals in such an equal environment. Last but not least, that norms of reaction can take different shapes illustrates that genetic determination does not always support fatalism. Something can be genetically determined, even if it can be prevented from occurring. Phenylketonuria PKU seems to be the single most often-cited example for this in the literature on genetic determinism. It is conventionally treated as a monogenetic disorder. As Huntington chorea, it is at the hereditary extreme of the continuum of traits, with severe effects on neural development, among other things. Even if the case of PKU shows that no fatalism is implied in our talk of genetic diseases, the just-given picture of PKU is still a simplified one. There is a considerable amount of clinical heterogeneity i. The more knowledge we get, the more complex the picture of the etiology and nature of PKU becomes. However, the point I want to make here is independent of these complications, since the simple as well as the complex picture support the point about the difference between genetic determination and fatalism, and that is the important point in this article. In addition, the complex picture seems not to disturb the bias towards geneticization. There is a gene, the PAH gene, at which mutations correlated with PKU have been identified; there is relative developmental stability over a specific range of environments; and the physiological mechanism is understood quite well. Be that as it may, PKU is a telling example for this study, since it shows how society enters the connection between genetic determination and fatalism. In a possible world that does, contrary to our world, not allow for any environment without phenylalanine, PKU would probably have a flat norm of reaction. Download options! 3-D fibrous assemblies: properties, applications and modeling of three-dimensional textile structures; Mysticism and the Mid-Century Novel! It would be a fatal destiny. However, the following also holds, and that is the important aspect. If we currently regard a genetic disease, or such Mendelian traits as sex or blood group, as having a flat norm of reaction, we might ignore a socially possible world, in which a different set of environments would destroy the flatness of the norm of reaction and allow modification of the trait. The untried possible worlds are always bountiful. If they are untried, we should not forget to ask who gains by leaving them untried. The important conclusion from considering norms of reaction as part of our interactionist consensus is thus: whatever the scientific, and often mere statistical, measure with which we try to express that environment does not influence a trait be it Mendelian segregation, a flat norm of reaction, positive predictive value, penetrance, heritability, expressivity, concordance rate, etc. It is dependent on the environments considered in the measure. Which environments are considered is a choice, and the choice depends on which environments are considered as practically possible and desirable in this world. It depends on our socially determined preferences about how the world should look, especially with respect to war, crime, poverty, education, and so on. It is time to summarize the account of interactionism given here: a rigid genetic determinism has largely been replaced by an interactionist consensus. This consensus nonetheless embraces the above-mentioned deterministic themes, i. The innate—acquired distinction appears in a nondichotomous, nongeneralizing, and nonfatalistic manner: first, there is no dichotomous partitioning of traits but a continuum of traits, ranging from genetic diseases to acquired traits; second, where we put a trait along this axis cannot be generalized since it depends on the environments considered; finally, if a disease such as PKU is considered as a genetic disease, it does not imply fatalism. In sum, there is no simple dichotomy between innate and acquired traits in our contemporary interactionist concept of genetic determination. At the level of causal factors rather than traits , however, we have a very clearcut partitioning, as the concept of norms of reaction shows, which depends on the exclusive and exhaustive distinction between genetic factors on the one hand and nongenetic factors on the other. As mentioned in the beginning, the nongenetic factors include everything except DNA i. The interactionist consensus, with its three conceptual levels i. This is also mirrored in the practical context of treatment of diseases as well as in our folk concept of innateness. The innate—acquired distinction is quite tenacious, at least in medicine. Taking the latter for granted, it is not clear at least not to me why drugs count as biologized treatment and why environmental treatments do not. The boundary between the second and third kinds of treatment drugs and environmental intervention, respectively is fuzzy. The boundary between the first, i. Giving someone a pill is surely a different treatment than introducing a diet, as in the case of the genetic disorder PKU, and it certainly makes a difference for our vision of health whether we choose the second or the third kind of treatment, but what exactly accounts for the difference between them seems to be not very clear, at least not to me. Olympics. Ayahuasca Medicine: The Shamanic World of Amazonian Sacred Plant Healing? The Jewel in the Crown (The Raj Quartet, Book 1). Super Colon Saves the Day!. Dissociation in Traumatized Children and Adolescents: Theory and Clinical Interventions. In Mendel's Mirror: Philosophical Reflections on Biology - Philip Kitcher - Google книги. The difference between giving a pill and keeping a diet on the one hand and eliminating the respective allele on the other hand, is, however, very clear: one is eliminating bits of DNA, the other is eliminating or changing the usual consequences of these hereditary factors by changing other factors. The clearcut dichotomous distinction between factors, which we found already inscribed in the norms of reaction, is thus reappearing in the context of treatment. Furthermore, it is also constitutive for the concept of innateness, a concept that has recently been at issue in a vivid debate in the philosophy of biology. Each of the finalists of these candidates refers to only one aspect of the complex and fuzzy folk concept of innateness, e. I cannot go into the details of the debate. Space would not suffice to do so, and it is not necessary for the purpose of this article. I thus regard the following as a good approximation of the folk concept of innateness:. X is innate if and only if it is present at the moment of birth or, if that is not the case, at least inevitably appearing during development at a certain age, relative to a given range of environments , and does so because of causal factors present at the moment of conception. The exclusion of acquired diseases is part of the folk concept of innateness, and this is the important point for this article. Their example is the acquisition of the bacterium Clostridium difficile C. Wendler , pp. Humans normally get clostridia via nutrition, without negative effects. When, however, sick people are treated with antibiotics, then C. Usually, the reaction to such an example is that such infectious dispositions should be excluded from being innate, even though they are, relative to a specific set of environments, inevitably acquired during development. Certainly, this folk concept has a history and could be further questioned philosophically. The brief account just given will neither satisfy the historian nor the usual demands of philosophers with enough perseverance for infinite conceptual analysis. Many aspects of the situation I described were certainly different in the past and are certainly different in many other contexts in which the innate—acquired distinction is used as well. However, I merely claim that there are contexts in which there is such a clear division: the conceptual context of the interactionist consensus, the practical context of treatment, and the conceptual context of the folk concept of innateness. This holds even if there are other contexts where there is no such division. Philosophers, on the other hand, would object that the above reconstruction fails. Given the reconstruction, we still can, in fact, count the possession of C. Our interactionist consensus enables us to see that it is always genes with stress on the plural and environmental factors that are involved in the development of a specific trait. Thus, the acquisition of C. If we had different genes, e. I cannot here offer a final solution to whether we should, or how we could, consistently distinguish between innate and acquired diseases, given our interactionist consensus. As already mentioned in Part 1, such a solution would require a clear account of what causation in developmental contexts means and whether the individual is the level of analysis that we should concentrate on. The tentative reconstruction of the folk concept of innateness was merely intended to show that we intuitively want the definition of innateness to reflect a rigid innate—acquired distinction. In other words, our implicit assumption seems to be that there are two kinds of diseases: innate and acquired ones. This is not in contradiction to the continuum view. On the contrary, it is the foundation for it, defining the poles of the nondichotomous distinction. The continuum view only adds the realm of complexity for the cases in between the two extremes. In other words, we want to distinguish between diseases such as PKU and things like car accidents, despite the interactionist consensus. And we accept that there are myriads of cases that are hard to classify. In other words, we accept that the bipolar distinction between innate and acquired is vague. We accept this as we accept that the bipolar distinction between white and black is vague, i. In Mendel's Mirror: Philosophical Reflections on Biology The practical context has shown that we assume there are two kinds of treatments and thus two kinds of causal factors; the two conceptual contexts have shown that, based on the exclusive distinction of causal factors i. The bipolar scheme does, however, not assume two exclusive groups of diseases, since, if pressed, we admit the continuum of traits, despite the bipolar framing. All this shows the deep entrenchment of the innate—acquired distinction. However, this entrenchment certainly did not prevent philosophers from criticizing the distinction. Let us thus enter the minefield of whether one should use the innate—acquired distinction. What follows will not do away with the pitfalls in this minefield, but it will provide a specific perspective for dealing with it and some preliminary arguments in the direction of this perspective. Constructive interactionists or transinteractionists like Oyama , , want to establish a true causal parity of the factors involved in development. It is important to be very clear about what is actually criticized by a call for causal parity. There are two ways of giving causal priority to genes that are strawman-like, since nobody actually believes in the respective priority. The first strawman-like claim is that genes control or determine as necessary and sufficient conditions the occurrence of a certain trait. This claim addresses the level of ontogenetic development. Part 1 illustrated that a denial of this is part of the interactionist consensus. The second strawman-like claim addresses the level of phylogenetic evolution: the claim that genes are the only hereditary elements in life i. Nobody believes in this either. We know that cells and other organic matter as well as behavior or culture is equally transmitted down the generations, and the evidence for epigenetic inheritance reinforces this point of view. This claim is related to the evolutionary and to the developmental level but distinct from and independent of the first two ways of alleged prioritizing. I will neither discuss the pros and cons, nor take sides. It is an in-principle debate, and, as stated above, whichever side we choose in these debates, it would not make a difference for the kinds of determination at issue here. I want to focus on something narrower: whether we have to get rid of a bipolar partitioning to prevent prioritizing of genes as it is actually practiced in the contemporary hunt for disease genes. This goal requires analyzing whether the bipolar partitioning between genes and environment, which is at the basis of and inscribed in the interactionist consensus, violates causal parity. According to Johnston , p. Consequently, the environment, with which the organisms interact, starts outside of them. Kitcher, in other words, assumes a truly exhaustive and exclusive gene—environment distinction, i. Either something is an environmental factor or it is a genetic factor. Nothing can be both and there is no third option. Given this, the organism seems to disappear as a separate causal agency. The organism becomes a mere effect and thus appears only as an explanandum but not as part of the explanans. Given all this, Johnston surely has a point, at least according to our folk ontology for most entities of the biotic world, since these organisms are key agents in the developmental and evolutionary processes. However, Johnston merely excludes his enemy by definition. Whether genes interact with the environment depends on how you conceptualize environment, but defining it either way does not settle the issue of whether it makes sense to partition developmental factors dichotomously. Furthermore, partitioning life into genetic and environmental factors does not lead to organisms as mere effects, since an effect can certainly be a cause for something else e. Fausto-Sterling provides an example of a different route. She also criticizes gene—environment interaction as ill-guided. She does so by comparing it with a similar atomistic view in neurology: it is the developmental system itself replacing the category of organism that causes something, as it is the neuronal net, and not a specific neuron or some neurons somewhere in the brain, that causes something in the brain. This is what Oyama , p. The responses of singular neurons depend on the responses of others. However, all these pleas against atomism simply lead back to the problem of black-boxing the complex web of actual interactions during development. The atomism exists only in the simplified picture that we use and often have to use, due to the lack of anything else, and with which we obtain knowledge about the norm of reaction. Law Of Segregation and Independent Assortment The distributed set of participants in the complex developmental process is black-boxed in the search for knowledge about the norm of reaction. However, having such knowledge, which is knowledge about what makes a difference for prevention, is quite useful, even if knowledge about the complex developmental processes, black-boxed as they are, is still missing. Trying to prevent something demands different tools than trying to understand complex holistic development. Well, this does not require it; other issues such as those standard in medicine or health care, might well. The developmental systems theory perspective might thus turn out to be quite useless for the pragmatics that define the clinical context of medicine and health care. First, it is not clear that we would always be equipped with better norms of reactions if we knew the whole complex developmental story. It might further our knowledge about norms of reaction, but it might also fail to do so. Second, in medicine, we often do not want to wait, if we can get some decent knowledge by black-boxing. If we admit that black-boxing can be useful, as Oyama , pp. The following tentative arguments, certainly in need of further elaboration, shall provide a first approximation of a limited pragmatic defense of the innate—acquired distinction in medicine. These arguments are independent of the critique just discussed. Even if it were correct that the bipolar distinction leads to simplifications of the causal picture of development, this cannot prove that this simplification is necessarily something we should despise. Simplicity is an epistemic value, and in the clinical context it might well be that it pays to accept some simplicity to have some handles for prevention and treatment. The question I thus focus on is in which sense the concept of the norm of reaction, and the underlying bipolar partitioning of causes, helps us to see that not everything is fatalistically determined by genes, despite its causally simplifying nature. The first argument, an epistemic argument, relates to knowledge about specific diseases. Without ever distinguishing in a precise way between genetic and environmental factors, it would be hard to see, for instance, that the genetic disease PKU is genetically determined in a nonfatalistic sense, i. We could not see, at least not as easily as we pretend to, the difference between a flat norm of reaction and a punctuated one, if we were not to use the distinction between genetic and environmental factors. If we want to prevent a disease and intelligently vary the environment, then we might find a preventive effect of one of the environments, i. Thus, from the pragmatic point of view, holding genes constant and varying other factors is not a case of giving genes priority. The bipolar partitioning of factors inscribed in the concept of the norm of reaction is therefore quite helpful, if we want to stress the importance of environment, e. This argument is similar to an early argument from Lehrman Lorenz black-boxed development and concentrated on developmental stability. Finding stability is, however, according to Lehrman, less informative than finding difference, e. Even though he criticizes the distinction between innate and acquired traits, the distinction between innate and acquired factors i. The innate—acquired distinction thus has epistemic value in finding environmental factors that prevent diseases. Even though Lehrman , p. However, he uses it only at the level of factors and criticizes it at the level of processes maturation versus learning and of traits innate versus learned , and so do I. The second argument refers to the context of classification of diseases. Does the innate—acquired distinction have a heuristic value for this endeavor? When you erase a bipolar distinction from a system of classification, you create a more inclusive set of things. This creates two problems. First, given our contemporary bias towards declaring more and more diseases as genetic, the elimination of the polarity will certainly further this tendency. The innate—acquired distinction constantly pulls against the contemporary bias towards calling diseases genetic. Second, erasing distinctions increases rather than decreases trivialization. The more general, i. In other words, the more you include in a class, the less it means when an element is included. You lose depth of vision, indeed you might even literally see less. Certainly, to keep the distinction, as a bipolar but nondichotomous one, should not deter us from trying to fill out the space between the poles with ever finer categories. The third argument says that historically the distinction was necessary to keep those very factors on the table that the critics of the distinction want to give parity to. When, at the beginning of the 20th century, American anthropology was in the process of becoming an academic discipline, Alfred L. Kroeber, one of the famous students of Franz Boas, used the opposition between nature and nurture in the form of heredity versus culture, to reach for anthropology disciplinary identity and autonomy from genetics, evolutionary theory, as well as psychology. He did so by creating an epistemic object—culture—that, as he thought, only anthropologists are able to study properly. His making of culture as a new epistemic object was similar to the making of genes, which were postulated in the beginning of genetics as hypothetical entities and epistemic objects that can only by studied by genetics, then the new primus inter pares among the biological disciplines. Decoupling nature from culture means in this case that culture can change without a correlated change in the innate characteristics of individuals. Culture can and did historically take off, so to say. 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__label__cc	0.644306	0.355694	NTSB Animation of Asiana Flight 214 accident sequence Enviado hace 5 años NTSB animation with voiceover showing the Asiana 214 approach and accident sequence. (www.youtube.com) Más... Daniel Baker 97 comentarios de miembros Publicar mi comentario → Ken Lane hace 5 años 37 What a crock to blame Boeing or manuals! Find a lowly student pilot who has not learned the concept of being on speed, on power with a stable descent rate on glide path even in severe clear and I'll point you to an instructor who needs to lose his tickets. It does not matter whether it's a 152 or a 777. The same rule applies. The airplane doesn't care if you're a non-solo student or have 30,000 hours in heavy iron. These guys were unstable at least seven miles out and they continued, not acting until a half-mile from the threshold. They failed to make it do what they needed to do. They should have been hand-flying and were overdependent upon automation. They over-corrected for excessive error, made several large changes in succession and made themselves even more unstable. In the end, that bird did exactly what it was designed to do... no power, no speed... no fly! Responder ↓•Permalink•Report Dolf Brouwers hace 5 años 3 Exactly !!!!! The trust in automation by new pilots is scary..... Many incidents and accidents the last years show a terrible situation... My instructor (100 years ago) once said : fly the ..... Plane, don't let it fly you !!! Responder ↓•Permalink•Parent•Report Herman Kanter hace 5 años 3 My thoughts exactly. Is the cockpit management problem about the person in the right seat not assertive enough to tell the person in the left seat, "we are going around while we still can!" I suppose one could argue that if the ILS was operational and given how much some airlines apparently depend on automation, this accident would not have happened, however this accident occurred during VFR conditions and the ability to land a plane using visual references is still a piloting requirement. preacher1 hace 5 años 5 See below, old man. I've already vented. LOL. Like I said, if you can't fly it, move aside and let somebody that can. And Zumwalt is just a lap dog. He was a former airline pilot and said the manuals were complicated but I'll bet he never gave up a run and voluntarily asked for more training. Al Lemke hace 5 años 2 Pride goeth before the crash! Ken Lane hace 5 años 3 Yeah, but you're an old pilot about put out to pastor. Can your word be trusted? James Farnsworth hace 5 años 1 [This poster has been suspended.] Ouch lol. I just told him he was get n to laid back now days... THRUSTT hace 5 años 2 He's in his Bengay years... Elevator and throttle--------- just 2 moving parts-----if you can,t handle that , walk and chew bubble gum. RECOR10 hace 5 años 8 Chhhhhht....uh...ladies and gentlemen, this is Captain Obvious, I would like to welcome you to this investigation... In defense of everybody and softening up just a tad, it is not right to penalize and blame a whole industry, including Asiana, for the actions of a couple of dummies that crashed a perfectly good airplane on a clear day. Personal Status overrode CRM and should not have, yet while very aware of it, you'll find no reference to it in the NTSB report. PC? Why the PM did not monitor airspeed/altitude, especially since he was in the instructor role, we'll never know. My personal opinion is that he was intimidated because he was younger in age and less total time and deferred/gave into, the PF, who was senior status wise. But again, why did he not monitor the approach? The FACTS have to be recognized and verbalized. If there is a problem after the flight, get out the recording and THEN rectify appropriately and if necessary complement the good actions. jwmson hace 5 años 13 One has to understand how the airplane and its systems function before you take off with a load of passengers and crew. The airline will try to blame Boeing, but I cannot accept that. The NTSB did too but you can see my feelings below. If you can't fly the thing, step aside and let somebody in that can. mike oxlong hace 5 años 1 boeing has been building great airplanes LONG before asiana even though of flying a paper airplane. incompetent asian pilots wrecked a perfectly good Boeing 777.... For once we definitely agree. Scott Hawthorn hace 5 años -2 "incompetent asian pilots wrecked a perfectly good Boeing 777...." Racist or xenophobic remark! Maybe not intentional. It was some French guys that killed everybody on board the AF447 A-330. joel wiley hace 5 años 3 Mike Oxlong may or may not be a racist and/or xenophobe. In his comment however, the pilots being Korean are 'Asian', failed to demonstrate minimal competency in landing under VFR conditions, causing irreparable damage to the airframe of the B777. I find it hard to construe xenophobic racism from those facts. Was the inclusion of 'perfectly good' that tipped the scales for you? In addition, this article is talking about Asiana 214, not the stupid Frenchies that flew 447 into the water. It should be noted that this has not happened again, with any airline so we must have had some crappy Korean pilots in the pointy end. smoki hace 5 años 5 Any half wit knows, at least they should know, that when you get behind an airplane on final approach the last thing you should ever rely on is pushing buttons, twisting knobs and flipping switches (turning yourself into a systems monitor) as if a heavy jet behemoth flying machine is to be treated like a video game. All that &$% gets shoved aside and ignored in such a situation while getting a firm grip with one hand on the primary flight control and the throttles in the other hand, look out the window if visual while crosschecking back inside the instrumentation (needles, speed, Altitude, ROD), requesting assistance from the NFP if necessary and drive the airplane to the desired approach path with positive control inputs while correcting as necessary and keeping the airplane at or near the desired approach speed. Of immense help is to quickly compute the desired altitude (DME x 300) if unsure of where the airplane should be in altitude until the optical landing aid (if available) is acquired. The absolute last thing any driver should ever do is let the airplane get low and slow. That's drummed into ab initio pilots from day one. If unable to get the airplane to the desired flight path and at or near the desired approach speed by the time the airplane reaches short final, inside a half mile, there's only one viable alternative, i.e. push the throttles forward and TAKE IT AROUND. I don't care what nationality, race, color or creed the pilots happen to be, that has absolutely nothing to do with anything. Their full and undivided attention to detail during an approach to land all the way to touchdown and roll out is all that matters, period! If the pilot is not fully trained and knowledgeable on all the systems available in the airplane he is operating, then he should be taken off the line and put in remedial training until he is current and thoroughly familiar with those systems and can demonstrate a satisfactory level of knowledge in simulation as well as the judgement needed to shuck all the bells and whistles aside and fly the airplane by hand when the bells and whistles are too slow to catch up as was almost certainly the case in this accident. Asian culture being what it is, some will argue that CRM is not always compatible to which my response is: BS, culture should never take precedence over safety (CRM) in the cockpit of a modern heavy jet transport. tom treutlein hace 5 años 1 Very true. Bottom line pilots didn't know how to fly the aircraft and were so puckered twidling knobs they didn't understand they never considered trying to fly it themselves. I can agree with your comment about culture not taking precedence over CRM, but you have to be very familiar with Korean culture to understand that it does and can. For what it's worth, here's the link to the full NTSB report: http://www.ntsb.gov/news/events/2014/asiana214/abstract.html PhotoFinish hace 5 años 4 The was an example of amateurish piloting. Just about everything they could've messed up, they did mess up. PF was clearly incompetent. PM did not do anything about it until it was way too late to save the plane and the lives and bodies of the passengers aboard. Shameful really. Donald Allen hace 5 años 3 If the 777 auto-throttle is too complicated and the documentation inadequate, why aren't 777s falling out of the sky regularly? The simple fact is that, despite the apologist Zumwalt, these guys were* incompetent. Auto-throttle in final approach is not a set-it-and-forget it proposition. If you set your car's cruise control to 60 and inadvertently touch the brake and the speed dropped to 50, would you intervene? Of course you would (I'm speaking of the 30% of drivers who aren't on the phone or texting). As Cox said, when you fly a visual approach, you have to look out the window. Plus all the indications of the results of the unskilled flying that took place were on the panel. But they had to look at it. What this guy was looking at -- clearly not the runway or the panel -- is a mystery to me. sparkie624 hace 5 años 3 LOL... How much more could the crew be blamed. They say all crashes have more than one cause. I do agree.. My list below of the 3 reasons. 1.) Pilot Flying 2.) Pilot Not Flying 3.) Observer I agree with that but as I said above, the onus is really on PNF/PM/FO or whatever you want to call him. He was the one that should have taken control or at least been minding the store, being as he was instructor. David Stark hace 5 años 2 It seems pretty obvious that the PIC was flying the computer rather than the airplane. Dee Lowry hace 5 años 2 What's frightening is that they couldn't accomplish a fundamental VFR approach and landing! Hands on...Fly airplane. De Crockett hace 5 años 2 More diplomatic political correctness from Washington DC. jet4ang hace 5 años 2 I agree with Ken. As a student, the basics of landing were taught over and over. Why blame Boeing. Those features are there to HELP the pilot fly, not fly for the pilot. Owen Merrick hace 5 años 2 Not enough actual flying happening here...elementary flying skills not apparent. PAPI, throttles, stick n'rudder...what else was required? Dependant on automation, but they didn't even know how that worked. How common is this? I figure not very, but I wonder sometimes. No shame in hand-flying, folks...good practice. From the report, the link to which Preacher1 thankfully provided: "Reduced design complexity and enhanced training on the airplane’s autoflight system. The PF had an inaccurate understanding of how the Boeing 777 A/P and A/T systems interact to control airspeed in FLCH SPD mode,...." Is it just me, or does that imply that the PF did not know how to fly the 777 at the time? That's kinda what it says, and the fact that he only had about 40 hrs in type, that could be correct but it makes no mention about the PM/FO, who was instructor and fully qualified on the 777. It just calls it pilot error due to lack of speed and altitude. If PM was qualified as instructor, he should have known all about the AT mode and it shouldn't have ben a big deal. I still say it was a culture/status thing, the instructor being intimidated by or yielding to the PF, who was his senior, as far as age and total time; hence any shot at CRM was out the window. I can see PF not wanting to lose face by making a go round or giving the plane to the PM for landing. Yeah, the PF was very new in type and transitioning to Boeing equipment from Airbus kit (A320). Meanwhile, the PM was his first trip as an instructor. He was too timid in correcting and/or taking over. At the same time PF just hadn't had enough time actually flying a plane without automation (ILS). He just seemed to have no clue what he was doing. Classic example of the difference of rote memorization vs. practical skills. These guys would've benefited from actually flying Cessnas (without automation) for training and for fun. Can't believe they didn't abort the approach and go around to try again. They were too. Too low. At one point before disengaging the AP, when the plane was already too high, FLCH was engaged and the plane started climbing to 3,000 (the go around altitude that had just been set). Too bad they didn't let the plane actually go to 3,000. Well, certainly not defending them but civilian aviation in S. Korea is practically non existent. Airspace is controlled by the military, as tight if not tighter than China. That's how it was back in the day when I was over there in USAF and Expats that have been over there recently say it's still the same. Even flying an aero club C150, there was no recreational flying. You filed a plan, whether it was 1000' or 10,000' and then had to wait for permission to execute, sometimes 2-3 hours, and God help you if you deviated from it or you would be an escorted guest of a couple of F-4's, back to base. That said, most of those pilots took their training over here and the only flying they do is big iron while working, nothing in between; if they are senior in time, those basic flying skills may be bad rusty. 40 hrs. In type for this a/c and airline means about 5 take offs and landings. Not much for a crotchety oldPIC. sharon bias hace 5 años 2 I'm not a pilot, yet the animation made total sense to me. The critical control items were clear and understandable. As with any mechanical item, if you don't learn and follow the instructions, you end up with bad results. Killing people is the ultimate bad result. Anyone know what happened to those pilots? Maybe they're flying for Ryanair now. Makes for a seemingly funny joke. But in reslutythese 2 would never get to the inside of a Ryanair flight deck. Their hiring is too competitive. Retention is equally competitive. These guys know they don't have what it takes, so would never candidate themselves. Had they applied, they wouldn't have made the cut. They certainly wouldn't have passedteir check rides. And they wouldn't be called back, has they ever flown with the airline. There's a reason why Ryanair has never had an accident and fatalities, while the Korean airlines combined have had many. And it's not Ryanair that disregards safety. Apparently, it's the Korean carriers that let other things interfere with the safety of the plane and passengers (repeatedly). Errrr, I just saw on Twitter that two Ryanair planes were damaged in a ground collision in London this morning. Very different cultures. Ryanair keeps the pilots on their toes. The pilots know they can be fired easily for deficient performance. OTOH Asiana and Korean (and similar-minded airlines) don't fail their pilots on check rides because it's too shameful for the pilots. The results speak for themselves. The first airline has never killed a passenger. The second bunch have lost many planes and killed many passengers. On the serious side, last I heard, they had a desk job with Asiana, but Asiana was just holding onto them pending lawsuits and this final report, so who knows now. iflyfsx hace 5 años 3 It's not that complicated. They crashed because the crew was not qualified to fly the airplane. Regardless of how many hours they had on it. The airline is responsible for putting an unqualified crew in charge of the airplane and passengers. If any of this were Boeing's fault, why aren't airplanes falling out of the sky every day? SFO has one landing or take-off every minute, on average. The 777 is a very common visitor to SFO. i.e., many other 777s landed at the same place in the very same conditions (good weather, no ILS). But somehow, this was the only flight that crashed. 777 is the second easiest plane ive ever flown. Besides, autopilot or not, ILS or not, any "pilot" that is not 100% aware of speed and altitude during descent is not really a pilot. Anyone can read those two, and know weather you are about to stall. Don't need computers to tell you that. Hell, even if you are set on auto-land, you should monitor. gmcmanus hace 5 años 1 FSX must be fun huh Mike? bettiem hace 5 años 1 I'm a mere passenger and all I've ever flown is MS Flight Simulator on my PC but even I know that thrust equals altitude (all else being equal). That animation was weird to watch with the throttle indicator staying down at idle while all the dithering was happening. In a normal decent/approach the is in the idle position. It automatically disconnects 2 seconds after landing. If are set up with the approach f you are set up with the approuch ! ₩ ,* Disregard the above post. What I wanted to say is ...In a normal decent/approach Auto/Throttle is setting is a idle. It automatically disconnects 2 seconds after landing. If you are set up with the approach the aircraft will begin a slow accelaration down the slope with the engines at idle. If your approach speed is de-stabalised, that's when your flaps come in. If you're coming in to fast...then put flaps at 15...it adds enough drag to recover your speed. Too low, Too slow...fundamentals of flying will tell you to Power-Up, Flaps up and nose up and go around before it's too lal 7-10 seconds for the engines to spool up. That's alot of time as "Asiana" showed the world how not to fly an airplane. The pilots eneptness to initiate a recovery is totally unacceptable. Spool up time is totally dependent on engines, but I had a DAL Captain tell me that a 777 will spool to about 75% power in 5-7 seconds and that was enough to get a goround started. 2-3 seconds in that environment can cover an eternity. LOL. Both the 777 and 767 have options on engines from all 3 major mfgs. Preacher...so true. Again it depends on weight and other factors but the point that I was trying to make was. The're not pilots. What does it tell you when you can't fly a hands ONl...VFR landingl ???? You know, the report has officially identified the cause, as was known from about day 1 or shortly thereafter, that cause being pilot error, being low speed, hence low altitude. What it did not say was WHY? I still think culture/status had something to do with it, supplanting any hint of CRM. I think our NTSB knew all that but failed to mention it, wanting to be PC and not offend a good ally. Well, if they are to be impartial, they should have called a spaded a spade. "Spaded" is a good description of their landing technique! I want to add one more thought to my previous comments. It is pretty shocking to me that the PF and perhaps the PM didn't understand the 777 auto-flight system. I am trained in physics and have an advanced degree in mathematics. To get that degree, I had to demonstrate that I understood concepts far more complex than those required to operate a 777 auto-pilot. I demonstrated that in written examinations. How did these guys get certified to take responsibility for the lives of hundreds of innocents without having conclusively demonstrated that they knew what they were doing? Which they demonstrated they did not by crashing a perfectly good airplane in daylight in good weather. Either the written exams were not well crafted, or the requirements for passing were too lenient. There's clearly a major hole here in the training and pilot certification process used by Asiana and the South Korean aviation authorities. And there's a problem with the FAA, too, since they allowed these people to fly into our airspace and use our airports. Well, to rehash a little from last year, foreign airlines are certified and operate under part 129, and U.S. flag carriers operate under part 121, which are a tad more stringent but also put more onus on the FAA as well. In all probability, the PM had an understanding of the 777 as he was certified as instructor, albeit was his first flight as instructor. You would have to understand the Korean culture of status and respect for seniors to you. Regardless of what should have happened in the cockpit, the PF was senior in age and total time to his instructor, hence the PM said nothing to him, even though he only had 40 hours in type. In this particular case, PM should have been monitoring airspeed and altitude, regardless of AT mode.Blind led the blind and they all went into the ditch.(seawall) As an added not, our illustrious NTSB had to be PC and not mention that culture thing. Calling it Pilot Error and not saying why is about like a coroner saying that a jumpers cause of death was that sudden stop at the end of the fall. We need to get off the fence these days and call a spade a spade. I agree with your comments, but they do not address the fact, and it is a fact, that the PF did not understand how to use key aspects of the 777 automated flight system. You can't have on-the-job training in a situation like this, with a plane-load of people. Even if the PM did know the system, introducing a level of indirection can be dangerous due to communication problems, as in this flight (e.g., the PM didn't know the PF had set FLCH mode erroneously, because it wasn't called out). It can also introduce dangerous time delays, as it did in this flight. The PM eventually did the right thing -- decided to go around and applied full power -- the key word being eventually (= too late in this case). Couple of things; PF was a senior multi thousand hour pilot. He just did not have that much time in a 777. That is not a uncommon practice. You can only learn so much in the classroom or in the SIM until you have to have hands on experience. You look at any airline captain and they all walked the same road to get those 4 bars. Where I really see the problem here is that Asiana did what they were supposed to by sending a check captain/instructor on the flight. Actually, the Onus is on him, as he should have been monitoring everything and taken control or corrected things when they started going sour, but for whatever reason, he didn't. And I still say it was the status thing that killed any chance of CRM as it should have been. But PF was allowed to fly an airplane when he did not understand some basic things about the automation. This could have been established by testing and clearly wasn't. Also, he had to have known that he hadn't absorbed all the details of the auto-flight system, so you would think that a multi-thousand-hour pilot, knowing how important airspeed is in the last stages of flight, would have had his hand on the throttles. You would have also thought that a multi-thousand-hour pilot would have looked out the windscreen and seen that he was too low. I also don't understand pulling the nose up in response to someone else saying "too low". My understanding of the basics of flying the final approach (I am not a licensed pilot and know just enough to be dangerous; but I have received instruction at the Boeing Air Canada flight-training center) is that you control altitude with power. Pulling the nose up risks a stall very close to the ground. I don't dispute your theory about Korean culture; I think you are right and that it did play an important role in this crash (I hesitate to call it an accident, because the screw-ups were so egregious). But I believe that if Asiana had done a better job of separating the wheat from the chaff, the culture thing would not have been an issue, because someone with sufficient skill would have landed the plane in routine conditions (daylight, good weather, except the ILS was out). Addendum: I was in the jump-seat of a Gulfstream G4 some years ago, being flown by an old, non-bold pilot. This guy was a great source of common sense. He always manually flew his final approaches. Why? Because if something went wrong, he didn't want to waste precious seconds disengaging the auto-pilot and getting acclimated to the airplane. We were flying into Hanscom Field in Massachusetts at night (the same Hanscom where Lewis Katz' Gulfstream crashed almost a month ago). The ILS was out. Not a problem for this guy. He was an actual pilot, not a button-pusher. The co-pilot also showed me how he constructed a "virtual ILS", using the GPS system. There is a rumor floating around that Asiana passed him on the test rather than fail him, in order that he not be disgraced. Are you suggesting that reality may be the ultimate check pilot? They need Respect 2.1 installed in their piloting system. Culture can play a very crucial rule in the cockpit ! Lets not kid ourselves....even in our Western culture its not always simple as a copilot to question the captain. In Eastern cultures like the Korean, the captain is the absolute boss ! Chris B hace 5 años 1 Thank you for posting. Frankly scary lack of attentiveness to the reality of the scenario unfolding. Think it would be good for people used to working solo to have a second set of eyes as your own cross check. And being a Boeing, that second set of eyes, being the airbus computer (HAL?) was not there. LOL. You know, what makes the whole ting even more weird, and I haven't never flown on, but that dude had several thousand hours in a 747 I believe. The avionics setup is similar. You'd think he would have known that, UNLESS, they just both panicked at having to do a manual approach. Funny thing though, Asiana and many other foreign flag airlines were in SFO before and after. That was not the first day the ILS was out nor the last. Maybe they were just a couple of dummies. Senior Captain. It don't matter that he can't fly the plane good. He's senior. New instructor intimidated by seniority wouldn't say anything. They all went into the ground. Granted long flight but I can't see where they should be tired with a relief crew and really don't think fatigue played a factor. I actually lay more at the PM;s feet because he should have been monitoring all that crap. 777 is not certified for 1 man operation, yet the only callout was about sink rate from the guy in the jump seat. During the NTSB Hearings, the pilot had been "very concerned" about attempting a visual approach without instrument landing aids, which were not in operation. The Cockpit Equipment was designed to offer pilots choices so that they could fly the plane, with warnings when conditions warrant. "Pilot Automation" is to aid the pilot NOT to replace the pilot. By the way the 2/3 passengers were expelled from the aircraft. They weren't wearing a simple safety item called a seatbelt. He was concerned because he was being a spectator and not a pilot I guess they do not teach GPS approaches in Korea. GPS---? 100 mile visibility---and you need gps? I!m surprised he didn't land at LAX! If his concern was the ILS was out, then he could fly an LPV. If any commercial pilot doesn't know by this date they need to retire. ken young hace 5 años 1 Is that true? Some of the PAX were not using the restraints? Yes. They faild to wear the seatbealt. Very unfortunate. That's what they said. I think 2 of the 3 killed weren't wearing them. Door got the 3rd one but she may have been unrestrained as well. Michael Fuquay hace 5 años 1 While I do not believe the ATC has any burden to bear in this case, one has to wonder that the ATCs that watch the radar and see these guys coming in continually day in and day out, they get used to seeing the planes approaching certain fixes/points at certain altitudes and certain speeds. I would've thought something would've flagged somebody upstairs on final. Martin Haisman hace 5 años 0 Its ATC responsibility to separate and manage traffic and not use guesswork and confuse pilots. Just to take the piss out of Auzzies - yeh, na , yeh, na... It is part of ATC's job to give out low ALT alerts in most cases. The crash of the Eastern 747 in FL help to pave the way for it. jst1592 hace 5 años 1 While true that ATC's job is to give low alt. alerts, it IS NOT their job to fly the airplane. The flight was cleared for a visual approach. If ATC's "job" was to monitor the approach, they would have and then therefore known and advised that the flight was way above the appropriate G/P. ATC controls traffic. Pilots are supposed to fly airplanes. And, Eastern Airlines never crashed a 747 in Florida. It was flight 401, and a L-1011. All that said, it is the Flight Crews responsibility to actually fly the airplane. This accident, simply, should have never happened. Pilots are supposed to fly airplanes. They did not fly the airplane. Aviators are supposed to know the rules...Airspeed and Altitude. Lose either, you make the news. Anybody that cant hand fly, or monitor a coupled Visual Approach, is not a pilot. And its not just with airplanes now days. We got cars that hit the brakes for you and much more. Automation or automatic control, is the use of various control systems for operating equipment such as machinery, processes in factories, boilers and heat treating ovens, switching in telephone networks, steering and stabilization of ships, aircraft and other applications with minimal or reduced human intervention. Some processes have been completely automated. The biggest benefit of automation is that it saves labor, however, it is also used to save energy and materials and to improve quality, accuracy and precision. The term automation, inspired by the earlier word automatic (coming from automaton), was not widely used before 1947, when General Motors established the automation department.[1] It was during this time that industry was rapidly adopting feedback controllers, which were introduced in the 1930s.[2] Automation has been achieved by various means including mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, electrical, electronic and computers, usually in combination. Complicated systems, such as modern factories, airplanes and ships typically use all these combined techniques. And I still will not trust any "driver" of a car in front of me! :) Turn signal usage still appears to be optional, because they don't know where they are going. Automation cannot think for itself...unless that's a good thing. Automation is supposed to assist, not drive. See Airbus accidents. My daughter drives a manual transmission car. Automation is great, right up until the point that it's actually in complete control. I guess I don't care, I'm old enough to be retired from flying, and drones transport everyone/everything. Again, see Airbus "logic". I also realize that automation never fails...or is improperly applied. It's a tool to be used as assistance, not to be completely trusted. The BP oil spill was automated too. With "minimal" human intervention. I think i covered what you are saying in my 1st reply above. At that point it was Not the job of ATC to call out a alert. As to my reference to Eastern Airlines 401 did crash but it was an L-1011 as you said. And in that case had the rules we now have for ATC to call out an alert when the aircraft is below MVA that crash probably would not have happened.In that crash and this one both crews ran out of ALT and power to recover. And as a 777 Capt i know the airplane very well and i and others at our airline don't see to have a problem with the AT's hold mode. NTSB Member Sumwalt was an Airbus pilot and it seems he thinks Boeing has a bad set up. I am not arguing with you at all. My point was, and is, that the folks flying should be doing the actual "flying". This did not occur in this instance. I agree with you completely. I see no fault with the A/P system. As you have said, it seems to work just fine. My issue is, and will continue to be, that the Auto-Mode, needs to be monitored and verified as to "what" it is doing. This accident was a result of "not flying" the airplane. I use Auto Flight systems daily. I also make sure it does what it is supposed to, and not rely upon it to actually do my job. In this accident, it's clear that nobody was "minding the store". To think that a 777 could actually be involved in such an accident in this manner, is unfathomable. But it did. And my argument is, it happened due to a lack of basic simple airmanship. They could not fly a Visual Approach. With all due respect James, I believe you will agree with that statement. At least in the U.S., we all learned to fly at first in some sort of dated C-150! I'm not trying to pick a fight here, and I visit this site daily, the "blame game" is wholly upon the flight crew. They did not fly the thing. Was not try n to argue with ya. I agree 100% they screwed the pooch. And after watching the 400+ min NTSB meeting on the UPS crash it will have the same outcome as this. Just will not get the press good or bad since it was not full of passengers. I ride in a jump seat an Avg of 2 flights a month and as soon as the gear go up its full auto till thay hit MDA on landing so pilots get landing skills now days not flying. I hear you. It somehow appears we are arguing over the same things we agree upon, which makes no sense. I think we are both just p/d over the entire events and are trying to make sense of it. The UPS accident is very much the same, I agree. I haven't seen as much on the UPS accident, but seems very similar. Thanks for the discourse and debate, and be well! Thank you James! Just wondering if pressing the "FLCH SPD" would have been appropriate during an approach on other Boeing airliners or if this works differently on the B-777? And, does dis-engaging the A/P and A/T during a visual approach procedure differ among other airline policies? If yes, why is this so? "The magenta people" strike again. Basic airmanship - know your aeroplane, airspeed... NASA introduced the crew loop and CRM in 1979 so there is absolutely no excuse for a crew and especially training captain to ignore basic principles and procedures. Thousands of rotations and hours completed by pilots of the 777 knowing their aeroplane and flying it. Then four front seat passengers ruin it. Every aeroplane has its intricacies and that is why we have training inclusive of CRM and human factors, which they obviously lacked. This appeared to be a total breakdown in approach protocol. In that approach protocol calls for one to land with one's aircraft in one piece, I am forced to agree with you. Yes. Wheels down...Safely. That would be what is known as 'a good thing'. All kidding aside, based on the report it appears the flight crew failed to not only monitor and check but also failed to communicate and follow procedures. Gene spanos hace 5 años 1 There are old pilots....there are bold pilots but there are no Old and Bold pilots. the 777 is so easy to fly i have trouble imaging this crew being so stupidly retarded to screw up a simple visual approach. I don't know how stupid they are. Maybe they are geniuses at landing with all the computers. But that's not the point. They have to be able to fly the airplane under any conditions. If the airline does not provide the necessary training or enforce high standards, and decent working conditions, they have a big chunk of the responsibility, too. charlie samoilow hace 5 años 0 Just fly the plane…..its that simple. Yeah; sad part is that if they would've, we all wouldn't be having this conversation. El Thirtynine hace 5 años 0 There weren't any pilots on board, only incompetent systems operators. Jake Wythe hace 5 años -2 (Duplicate Squawk Submitted) NTSB Finds Pilot Error Caused Asiana Crash in 2013 The National Transportation Safety Board said that the flight crew that crashed a Boeing 777 aircraft against the sea wall at San Francisco International Airport was to blame for the accident that killed three people and left more than 180 injured. The Asiana pilots, according to the NTSB, missed multiple cues that they had done something wrong in the seconds before the crash that occurred the morning of July 6, 2013. http://www.frequentbusinesstraveler.com/2014/06/ntsb-finds-pilot-error-caused-asiana-crash-in-2013/ Yeah but if you look at the report, you'll see they also drug Boeing into this party, saying there AT system and FDS was too complicated and not easily understood per their training manuals. How come no other 777 driver or airline has come forward complaining about them. All they have done is set Boeing up to be sued when, in actuality, if they hadn't built such a damn good airplane there would have been more than 3 killed by those bumbling buffoons in the pointy end. They at least determined that 2 of those 3 weren't strapped in. And Zumwalt is an idiot. He may be a former airline pilot but if he didn't understand the system, he shouldn't have flown it. s2v8377 hace 5 años 0 Animation of Asiana Flight 214 accident sequence The National Transportation Safety Board will meet to determine the probable cause of the July 2013 crash of Asiana Airlines flight 214 in California. On July 6, at about 11:28 a.m. (PDT), the Boeing 777, was on approach to runway 28L at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, California when it struck the seawall at the end of the runway. Three of the 291 passengers on board flight 214 died and over 180 other passengers and crewmembers were injured. The airplane was destroyed by impact forces and a postcrash fire. http://www.ntsb.gov/news/events/2014/asiana214/presentations.html Shadowstarz hace 5 años -1 Pilots blamed for Asiana crash (CNN) - Pilots botched the approach and landing of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 in San Francisco nearly a year ago, causing a crash that killed three people and injured 187 others, U.S. safety investigators concluded on Tuesday. But the National Transportation Safety Board also found that crew training and the complexities of a key flight system on the Boeing 777 and how it was described in operating manuals contributed to the July 6 disaster. http://m.click2houston.com/news/Pilots-blamed-for-Asiana-crash/26638700 Shadowstarz hace 5 años 1 I don't see how this is a duplicate squawk. It may be related to the same issue, but it's a different article. They combine articles from the same time short period when the subject matter is the same. In this case, the report on the accident.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1259
__label__cc	0.662818	0.337182	Puskas Arena Estadío Do Dragão to host the ESSMA Summit 2019 by essmasummit ESSMA Summit 2019 The fifth ESSMA Summit will be organised from 22 to 23 January 2019 at Estadío Do Dragão, home of FC Porto. This must-attend stadium industry event is organised by ESSMA in partnership with European Leagues and ECA (European Club Association). The two-day Summit will include keynote presentations with top European clubs, an extensive Stadium Tour, a visit to the museum and in-depth seminars with topics focused on our six expert areas: Safety & Security, Fan Experience & Hospitality, Pitch Management, Construction & Development, Operations & Ticketing and Sustainability & SMART. The ESSMA Summit is a fantastic event to broaden your network in the stadium industry and to link-up with European colleagues in a unique setting. About Estádio do Dragão Estádio do Dragão, home of FC Porto, opened in 2003 and has a 50,033-seats capacity. The stadium is part of a larger sports complex of 3,000 m2 including conference halls, malls, restaurants, parking and pools. In 2004, they hosted the Euro 2004 opening match and the stadium was the stage of FC Porto’s journey towards European victory, in the 2003/2004 season. The ecologic stadium has unique advantages that, supported by green areas and the restructure of surrounding accesses to the sports complex, residential, and commercial areas, turned it into a new centre of Porto. In 2017, Estádio do Dragão was distinguished with the EDP Energy and Environment Award of 2017 for service buildings. The award is aimed at companies that focus on the energy efficiency of their facilities, environmental sustainability, training of employees and the implementation of behavioural measures. More info about Estádio do Dragão About the ESSMA Summit The ESSMA Summit is the must-attend stadium industry event. It is a great opportunity to broaden your network in the stadium industry and offers participants a unique setting to link-up with European colleagues to learn and share ideas and qualitative content. In 2018, we hosted 375 delegates from 31 countries in Aviva Stadium (Dublin, Ireland). More info about the ESSMA Summit ESSMA Summit 2019, host venue Huawei & Mott Macdonald added to the sponsorlist of ESSMA Summit 2020 Pitagone signed in as a sponsor for the ESSMA Summit 2020 d&b audiotechnik joins the ESSMA Summit 2020 as a sponsor GrassMaster Solutions joins the sponsor list of the ESSMA Summit 2020 ESSMA Stadium Partner 24/7 Software joins the sponsor list of the ESSMA Summit 2020 ESSMA is built around 3 pillars: Workshops and Events, Business Intelligence and Strategic Support. Visit essma.eu Huawei & Mott Macdonald added to the sponsorlist of ESSMA Summit 2020 17/01/2020 Pitagone signed in as a sponsor for the ESSMA Summit 2020 17/01/2020 d&b audiotechnik joins the ESSMA Summit 2020 as a sponsor 06/01/2020 ESSMA Summit Team © 2019 ESSMA – All rights reserved We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. By continuing to browse the site, you agree to our use of cookies.OkMore	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1261
__label__wiki	0.625264	0.625264	Author Archives: erikjw1980 News Writing & Photography: Out with the Old, In with the New The feature below, headlined “Downtown Beachwood Block Demolished for CVS Pharmacy” when published in August 2015, covered the past, present and future of the historic downtown Beachwood following years of dilapidation at the hands of lazy property owners, resulting in the taking of most of the main corner away for a franchise, which by then was almost a welcome change from the eyesore it had become. News Writing: Reporting on the Rebuild The following article, headlined “New Seaside Park Funtown Pier Plans Revealed” when published in February 2015, highlighted an oceanfront amusement pier owners plans to recover from Hurricane Sandy and the subsequent fire that destroyed all that stood on the site, in 2012 and 2013, respectively. The details and depth of the piece provided the only insight in the new plans, which were widely shared due to its regional name recognition and associated interest. News Writing: Marking the Passing of a Local Official The following article, originally headlined “Tom Miserendino, Beachwood Fire Chief & Councilman, 1944 – 2015” when published in June 2015, pulled together archival elements from the fire company and Riverside Signal, plus area leaders’ comments, to honor the passing of a local luminary. News Writing & Photography: Land Saved! Touring & Presenting its History The feature below, headlined “FIRST LOOK: 775-Acre County Open Land Buy at Berkeley/Beachwood Border” when published in September 2015, took readers on the first tour of a unique tract of land purchased for open space preservation after decades of worried uncertainty by local residents on its fate. It also had the opportunity to take advantage of an early 2009 tour I had taken with planners for the site, using its photos, plus the submitted images of ATV riders, by an adjacent resident, who had been causing him concern on the site. Area historian Steven J. Baeli also submitted archival articles from the early 20th century that were used to piece together its past, forming a full picture to readers. Weekday Workings @ JSHN Through 2016 and 2017, I was responsible for content creation in various formats for Jersey Shore Hurricane News, both its website and social media properties. Some samples of these can be found below (above photo from JSHN Contributor, Jennifer Khordi, a personal favorite): News Writing & Photography: Building a Playground, Honoring a Fallen Patrolman The following feature, headlined “Playground Built, Dedicated in Memory of Ptl. Jay Marles” when it was published in August 2015, combined photo coverage of the all-volunteer effort to build and name a new Ocean Gate Borough playground after a borough officer who was killed nearly five years earlier. Then as now, it was the sole coverage for the fantastic event and helped boost readership toward the 150k+ per week numbers in subsequent weeks. JSHN Waves from the Past – Haunted Mansion, Long Branch Pier, 1978 – 1987 The following is an example of the regional history features often created for Jersey Shore Hurricane’s website, JSHN.org, and shared across social media. Above is an archived photograph I recreated into a pseudo-1980s videogame graphic to evoke the era. Welcome to JSHN’s Waves from the Past, a browse through shore history’s dustbin of dog-eared and digitized postcards, snapshots, video clips and more. Today we peek into the history of an instantly popular subject, a famous-to-infamous “dark ride” of the Jersey Shore that spooked and excited many before its untimely demise at the hand of “Lucifer’s flames” in 1987: the Haunted Mansion of the Long Branch Pier.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1265
__label__wiki	0.654018	0.654018	N. Terzi, D. Orlikowski, C. Fermanian, M. Lejaille, L. Falaize, A. Louis, J-C. Raphael, B. Fauroux, F. Lofaso European Respiratory Journal 2008 31: 93-98; DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00094707 N. Terzi D. Orlikowski C. Fermanian M. Lejaille L. Falaize A. Louis J-C. Raphael B. Fauroux F. Lofaso Inspiratory muscle strength monitoring is crucial in patients with neuromuscular disorders. The sniff nasal inspiratory pressure (SNIP) and maximal inspiratory pressure (PI,max) are usually measured. The present study investigated whether the test yielding the best value at baseline continued to yield the best value during follow-up. The present study included 25 patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and 61 with myotonic muscular dystrophy (MMD). SNIP and PI,max were measured at baseline and then annually. At baseline, SNIP was lower than PI,max in 20 (80%) DMD patients and 32 (52%) MMD patients. During follow-up in DMD patients, changes in the best method always occurred from SNIP to PI,max. In MMD patients, when SNIP was better than PI,max at baseline, SNIP was usually (88%) better during follow-up, whereas a better PI,max than SNIP at baseline was frequently (50%) followed by a shift to SNIP. Maximal inspiratory pressure may be sufficient for monitoring inspiratory muscle function in Duchenne muscular dystrophy adults. In myotonic muscular dystrophy, the marked variability in the test yielding the best value at baseline indicates a need for performance of both tests at baseline. However, when sniff nasal inspiratory pressure measurement yields the best value at baseline, using sniff nasal inspiratory pressure alone during follow-up may be appropriate. Maximal inspiratory pressure sniff pressure Respiratory pump failure is one of the main causes of death in patients with neuromuscular disorders. Therefore, respiratory muscle strength must be monitored closely in order to evaluate the risk of respiratory failure. The static maximal mouth pressure measured during a maximal inspiratory effort that is sustained for ≥1 s against an occluded airway is the most widely used parameter for assessing inspiratory muscle strength 1. However, this static maximal inspiratory pressure (PI,max) manoeuvre is difficult to perform, and the extent to which low values reflect inspiratory muscle weakness and/or poor motivation or coordination of the patient cannot be determined. Moreover, several independent variables, such as technical factors (most notably the type of mouthpiece used) and the time allowed for learning the manoeuvre, may lead to variations across laboratories 2, 3. Sniffing is a natural effort that many patients find easier to perform than static efforts, and sniff nasal inspiratory pressure (SNIP) is a recently suggested alternative to PI,max 4, 5. In patients with neuromuscular disorders, each of these two volitional tests has its own advantages and disadvantages, such that the two tests are complementary rather than interchangeable 6–8. Since patients require distinctive skills and features to perform well on both of these volitional techniques 4, it was hypothesised that the test yielding the highest value at baseline for each patient continues to yield the highest value during follow-up and, therefore, could be used alone during follow-up. This hypothesis was evaluated in two of the most common chronic neuromuscular diseases: Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a disease confined to the skeletal muscle; and Steinert myotonic muscular dystrophy (MMD), which is characterised by a slower progression of muscle weakness than in DMD patients and frequent central nervous system involvement, responsible for cognitive impairment. The present study was approved by the appropriate ethics committee (Ambroise Paré Teaching Hospital, Paris, France) and informed consent was obtained from all study participants. Patients were recruited between January 2002 and December 2005 during routine follow-up visits at the Raymond Poincaré Teaching Hospital (Garches, France). Consecutive patients who had a diagnosis of DMD or MMD with at least a baseline visit and one follow-up visit 1 yr later were included in the study. In all study participants, the neuromuscular disease had been diagnosed ≥10 yrs before study inclusion. None of the patients had performed the SNIP or PI,max manoeuvre prior to the study. Patients were included if they had been clinically stable for ≥1 month. Noninvasive positive pressure ventilation was started when necessary according to international recommendations 9. Experimental protocol All pulmonary function tests were performed by the same experienced technicians in a single session for each patient at each visit. Patients were allowed time to recover fully between tests. Spirometry was performed in the sitting and supine positions. PI,max, SNIP and maximal expiratory pressure were recorded with the patient seated with PI,max and SNIP measured in random order. At each visit, spirometric variables and lung volumes were measured using the Vmax 229 SensorMedics system (SensorMedics, Anaheim, CA, USA) according to standard guidelines 10. The best of three reproducible values was recorded. Results were expressed as a percentage of published values 10. Respiratory muscle testing PI,max and SNIP were measured from functional residual capacity in a standard manner, as previously described elsewhere 4. PI,max is an isometric manoeuvre and SNIP a quasi-isometric one 2, 5. PI,max was measured using a flanged mouthpiece with the manoeuvres repeated at least three times or until two identical readings were obtained 3. Once the operator was satisfied, the maximum value of three manoeuvres that varied by <20% was recorded 3. SNIP was measured during ≥10 and ≤20 maximal sniffs in a standard manner, according to previously described methods 5. Briefly, the plug used to obstruct the nostril was an eartip designed for recording auditory evoked potentials (Eartips, 13 mm; Nicolet Biomedical Inc., Madison, WI, USA). The plug was connected to a pressure transducer via a catheter, which was as short as possible. Air leakage was detected by obstructing the other nostril during an inspiratory manoeuvre and, when present, was eliminated by adding earplug wax. Detailed instructions as to how to perform the sniff manoeuvre were not given, as they were found to be unnecessary and possibly counterproductive in an earlier study 4. Patients were encouraged vigorously during all test manoeuvres. All pressure signals were measured using a differential pressure transducer (Validyne, Northridge, CA, USA), amplified by a carrier amplifier (Validyne) and passed through an analogue–digital board to a computer running AcqKnowledge software (Biopac Systems, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA, USA), which provided visual feedback to improve sniff efficiency. The signal was digitised at 100 Hz. Patients received strong verbal encouragement in addition to the visual feedback, as suggested in a previous study 11. The best values of PI,max and SNIP, expressed in cmH2O, were recorded. Data from the DMD and MMD groups were compared using unpaired nonparametric Mann–Whitney U-tests. Changes in PI,max, SNIP and vital capacity (VC) in both populations were assessed using paired Wilcoxon tests. The method, between SNIP and PI,max, that gave the highest value was considered the best method for the patient. Agreement between SNIP and PI,max was evaluated by constructing Bland–Altman plots 12. Bias was represented by the mean differences between SNIP and PI,max. Upper and lower limits of agreement were defined as the 2.5 and 97.5% limits of the distribution of the differences. Precision (the ability to reproduce the same measurement) was represented by the interval (bias±sd), where the sd was that of the distribution of differences. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses were performed in order to evaluate whether SNIP being better than PI,max was associated with the diagnosis (DMD or MMD) and/or the severity of respiratory muscle weakness. A p-value of <0.05 was considered significant. The present study included 86 patients, 25 with DMD and 61 with MMD. All patients made two visits (representing 1 yr of follow-up), 63 three visits (2 yrs of follow-up), 29 four visits (3 yrs of follow-up) and four five visits (4 yrs of follow-up). Table 1⇓ reports the main patient characteristics at baseline; 16 patients used noninvasive mechanical ventilation. VC, SNIP and PI,max each differed significantly between DMD and MMD patients (Mann–Whitney test; p<0.0001). A single DMD patient had a VC >40% predicted, whereas only two MMD patients had VC <40% pred. Patient characteristics at baseline(BL) and at the second visit 1 yr later Figures 1a⇓ and b show Bland–Altman plots of the difference between PI,max and SNIP against the mean for each population. The bias (mean difference between SNIP and PI,max) in MMD patients at baseline was 1.2. The upper and lower limits of agreement were -29.5 and 32.0, and the precision limits were -14.1 and 16.6. The bias for DMD patients at baseline was -4.0. The upper and lower limits of agreement were -15.4 and 7.4, and the precision limits were -9.7 and 1.7. In summary, the limits of agreement were larger in MMD patients than in DMD patients. PI,max was better than SNIP in 20 (80%) of the 25 DMD patients and 30 (49%) of the 61 MMD patients. Bland–Altman plots showing the difference between sniff inspiratory nasal pressure (SNIP) and maximal static inspiratory pressure (PI,max) plotted against the mean of these two variables in a, c) Steinert myotonic muscular dystrophy patients (n = 61) and b, d) Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients (n = 25) at baseline (a, b) and visit 2 (c, d). -----: mean; ·······: ±2sd. The univariate logistic regression analyses performed to identify factors associated with better SNIP than PI,max at baseline showed correlations with VC and diagnosis (MMD or DMD) (p = 0.02 and 0.004, respectively). However, on multivariate logistic regression, only a diagnosis of MMD was significantly associated with SNIP being better than PI,max (p = 0.03). Changes over the first year Table 1⇑ reports the main patient characteristics at the second visit. Mechanical ventilation was started during follow-up in 16 MMD and six DMD patients (table 1⇑). VC, SNIP and PI,max each remained significantly different between MMD and DMD patients (p<0.0001; Mann–Whitney test). VC, SNIP and PI,max were significantly lower at the second visit in DMD patients (p<0.0015, 0.03 and 0.01, respectively; Wilcoxon test) but not in MMD patients (p = 0.09, 0.06 and 0.18, respectively; table 2⇓). Baseline and visit 2 cross-tabulation Figures 1c⇑ and d show Bland–Altman plots of the difference between PI,max and SNIP against the mean for each population. The bias for MMD patients at visit 2 was 7.4. The upper and lower limits of agreement were -23.9 and 38.8, and the precision limits were -8.2 and 23.1. The bias for DMD patients at visit 2 was -5.0. The upper and lower limits of agreement were -20.0 and 10.0, and the precision limits were -12.5 and 2.5. SNIP was less than PI,max in 23 (92%) of the 25 DMD patients and 19 (31%) of the 61 MMD patients. In summary, the limits of agreement remained larger at visit 2 in MMD patients than in DMD patients. In addition, although PI,max remained better than SNIP in DMD patients (compared with baseline, the percentage of patients for whom PI,max was best increased from 80 to 88% of the DMD population), the number of MMD patient for whom PI,max was better than SNIP decreased from 30 (49%) to 19 (31%). In order to further evaluate changes in the best method (PI,max or SNIP) between the baseline visit and visit 2, a contingency table was built with two variables (baseline and visit 2; table 2⇑). In the 20 DMD patients with PI,max as the best method at baseline, PI,max was still the best method after 1 yr. Of the five DMD patients with SNIP as the best method at baseline, three changed to PI,max being the best method after 1 yr. The best method changed between baseline and visit 2 in 15 of the 30 MMD patients with PI,max as the best method at baseline and in four of the 31 MMD patients with SNIP as the best method at baseline. Long-term follow-up Since follow-up duration varied between patients, the best method (PI,max or SNIP) at baseline was crossed with the method that was most often best at subsequent visits (table 3⇓). In the 17 DMD patients with PI,max as the best method at baseline, PI,max remained the best method throughout follow-up. In contrast, both DMD patients with SNIP as the best method at baseline switched to PI,max being the best method during follow-up. Of the 20 MMD patients with PI,max as the best method at baseline, nine switched to SNIP during follow-up; of the 24 MMD patients with SNIP as the best method at baseline, only one switched to PI,max. Baseline and subsequent visit cross-tabulation The present study comparing PI,max and SNIP in patients with two of the most common chronic neuromuscular diseases showed that the test yielding the best value at baseline was usually PI,max in DMD patients, whereas a more balanced distribution was seen in MMD patients. The best test changed significantly more often (30%) in patients with MMD than in those with DMD (12%). The frequency of switching from one test to the other differed according to which test yielded the best value at baseline. Thus, when PI,max was better than SNIP at baseline in DMD patients (80%), PI,max remained better (100%) during follow-up. In contrast, when SNIP was better than PI,max at baseline in DMD patients, a switch to PI,max was often seen during follow-up. In MMD patients, when SNIP was better than PI,max at baseline (51%), SNIP usually (88%) remained better at the second visit; whereas when PI,max was better than SNIP at baseline, a switch was often (50%) noted at the second visit. The severity of respiratory function impairment differed between the two groups. However, it is well known that hypercapnia and a need for mechanical ventilation do not occur at the same level of restrictive disease in MMD patients as in DMD patients 13–16. The need and reasons for monitoring respiratory function in the two populations in the present study were roughly similar, despite the difference in respiratory muscle function. PI,max is the most widely used volitional test for evaluating inspiratory muscle strength 4. However, many patients with neuromuscular disease find the PI,max manoeuvre difficult to perform. In addition, air leaks around the mouthpiece may be difficult to eliminate. The sniff test relies on a natural effort that most patients find easier to perform than the PI,max manoeuvre 17. SNIP is a more pleasant technique than PI,max for most patients 6, 18, 19 and it does not raise the leak problems with a mouthpiece sometimes observed in neuromuscular patients. SNIP may carry less risk of fatigue, as the manoeuvre is shorter than PI,max, which requires a sustained peak pressure for ≥1 s. Predicted normal values adjusted for age and sex are available in the literature for both adults and children 5, 19–21. Based on these normative values, it is generally considered that a SNIP of <-70 cmH2O in males or <-60 cmH2O in females is unlikely to be associated with inspiratory muscle weakness 4, 20, 22. SNIP reflects the oesophageal pressure decrease during the sniff manoeuvre, which accurately reflects inspiratory muscle strength in normal individuals 5. However, SNIP may underestimate inspiratory muscle strength in specific populations, such as individuals with nasal obstruction 21 and patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (since sniff is a short manoeuvre and transmission of oesophageal pressure to the nose is reduced in these patients 23). Underestimation probably occurred in patients with severe neuromuscular disease who were unable to produce an initial negative transnasal pressure of 10–15 cmH2O, a necessary condition for collapsing the unplugged nostril valve 24. In order to obtain this negative transnasal pressure, the patient must produce an oesophageal pressure swing of >10–15 cmH2O, which depends on inspiratory peak flow and on nostril resistance when the valve is not collapsed. In addition, SNIP is generated in a ballistic manoeuvre during which the inspiratory muscles shorten to a greater extent and at a higher speed than during the PI,max manoeuvre, which is a more sustained isometric effort. Given both the force–velocity and force–length relationships of striated muscle, SNIP should be <PI,max, as pressure generation falls when the operating length of the muscle decreases and when the velocity of muscle shortening increases. Accordingly, PI,max was >SNIP in patients with severe neuromuscular disease 7, 25. The present results are in agreement with these previous studies; muscle weakness was more severe in the DMD group than in the MMD group, and PI,max yielded the best value at baseline in most DMD patients, whereas a more balanced distribution was noted in the MMD patients. Sniffing is more natural than the PI,max manoeuvre, a fact believed to explain the higher SNIP than PI,max in normal individuals 6 and patients with limited respiratory muscle weakness 7, 25, such as those in the present MMD group. In addition, the SNIP is measured from the peak pressure, whereas PI,max is the mean pressure sustained over 1 s, which includes an early pressure peak followed by a decline to a lower sustained pressure. Thus, the nature of the predominant effect influences the SNIP relative to the PI,max. Finally, due to the differences in the type of effort and pattern of muscle activation between the two manoeuvres, SNIP and PI,max probably reflect different aspects of inspiratory muscle function. A more sustained manoeuvre may achieve greater inspiratory muscle activation in patients with more severe weakness. In addition to the severity of respiratory muscle weakness, a number of other factors may contribute to the difference between the DMD and MMD groups regarding the method producing the best value. Logistic regression analysis was performed to look for factors associated with a better SNIP than PI,max at baseline. When VC and diagnosis were entered in a univariate analysis, correlations were observed with both factors (p = 0.02 and 0.004, respectively). However, when these factors were combined in an multivariate logistic regression analysis, only diagnosis was significantly associated with SNIP being better than PI,max (p = 0.03). PI,max and SNIP are both volitional methods that require cooperation and motivation from the patient. The greater variability in the patients with MMD may be ascribable to lack of motivation and poor coordination. MMD is an autosomal dominant multisystemic disorder that often involves the brain and results in cognitive impairment 26, thereby possibly increasing the variability in volitional manoeuvres. Interestingly, the considerable variability in the MMD group regarding the best test was observed only when PI,max was better at baseline, suggesting that the ability to perform SNIP properly persisted over time. Conversely, some of the MMD patients who were unable to perform SNIP properly at baseline learnt the manoeuvre during follow-up. The ability to perform PI,max, a more difficult and less natural manoeuvre than SNIP, was lost over time in some patients. Cognitive tests were not performed, and thus it was not possible to assess possible relationships between variability in the best test and cognitive impairment. In order to assess the hypothesis that a better SNIP than PI,max is more likely to occur in patients with mild rather than severe muscle weakness, Nicot et al. 27, a group from a paediatric pulmonary department with extensive experience in respiratory muscle function testing in neuromuscular patients, were asked to compare SNIP and PI,max in 15 DMD children with VC >40% pred. SNIP was better than PI,max in eight patients, a proportion similar to that seen in the current MMD population. This finding supports the present hypothesis. In conclusion, these two volitional tests are not interchangeable in patients with chronic neuromuscular disorders 6–8. Nevertheless, the use of sniff nasal inspiratory pressure measurement has only been suggested for monitoring patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 18, 28. In the present adult patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, the maximal inspiratory pressure manoeuvre generally yielded the best value at baseline, and maximal inspiratory pressure assessment remained the best test in most patients during follow-up. Thus, maximal inspiratory pressure measurement alone may be sufficient in this adult population. In patients with myotonic muscular dystrophy, in contrast, the marked variability in the test yielding the best value at baseline indicates a need for performing both tests at baseline. During follow-up, when sniff nasal inspiratory pressure measurement yielded the best value at baseline, sniff nasal inspiratory pressure remained best during follow-up. Therefore, using sniff nasal inspiratory pressure measurement alone during follow-up may be appropriate in this subpopulation provided vital capacity remains >40% pred. Nevertheless, maximal inspiratory pressure and sniff nasal inspiratory pressure manoeuvres should both be performed when the patient shows poor cooperation or difficulty in understanding and/or performing the manoeuvre. Received July 25, 2007. Accepted September 7, 2007. Black LF, Hyatt RE. Maximal static respiratory pressures in generalized neuromuscular disease. Am Rev Respir Dis 1971;103:641–650. American Thoracic Society, European Respiratory Society. ATS/ERS statement on respiratory muscle testing. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2002;166:518–624. Héritier F, Rahm F, Pasche P, Fitting JW. Sniff nasal pressure. A noninvasive assessment of inspiratory muscle strength. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1994;150:1678–1683. Stefanutti D, Benoist MR, Scheinmann P, Chaussain M, Fitting JW. 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__label__wiki	0.642002	0.642002	Peruvian ceviche Disputed[1][2][3][4][5](see text). Dish details Course served Main course, appetizer Serving temperature Cold; cooked or raw (marinated) Main ingredient(s) Fish, lemon, onion, chilli pepper Ceviche[6] (also spelled cebiche or seviche)[7][8] is a seafood dish popular in the coastal regions of the Americas, especially Central and South America.[3] The dish is typically made from fresh raw fish marinated in citrus juices such as lemon or lime and spiced with chilli peppers. Additional seasonings such as onion, salt, coriander/cilantro, and pepper may also be added. Ceviche is usually accompanied by side dishes that complement its flavors such as sweet potato, lettuce, corn, or avocado.[9][10][11] As the dish is not cooked with heat, it must be prepared fresh to minimize the risk of food poisoning.[12] The origin of ceviche is disputed. Possible origin sites for the dish include the western coast of north-central South America,[1] or in Central America.[3][4] Other coastal societies such as the Polynesian islands of the south Pacific are also attributed the invention of the plate.[13] The Spanish, who brought from Europe citrus fruits such as lime,[14] could have also originated the plate with roots in Moorish cuisine.[11] However, the most likely origin of the plate lies in the area of present-day Peru.[2][5] Along with an archaeological record that suggests the consumption of a food similar to ceviche nearly 2000 years ago,[9] historians believe the predecessor to the dish was brought to Peru by Moorish women from Granada who accompanied the Spanish conquistadors and colonizers, and this dish eventually evolved into what now is considered ceviche.[5][15] Peruvian chef Gastón Acurio further explains that the dominant position that Lima held through four centuries as the capital of the Viceroyalty of Peru allowed for popular plates such as ceviche to be brought to other Spanish colonies in the region, and that in time they became a part of local cuisine by incorporating regional flavors and styles.[16] Today, ceviche is a popular international dish prepared in a variety of ways throughout the Americas reaching the United States in the 1980s.[2] The greatest variety of ceviches are found in Peru, Ecuador, and Chile; but other distinctly unique styles can also be found in coastal Guatemala, Mexico, Argentina, the Caribbean, and several other nations.[2][9] 2 Origin 3 Preparation 4.1 South America 4.2 Central America and The Caribbean 4.3 Asia and Oceania 5 Potential health risks The origin of the name of the dish is also disputed. One hypothesis suggests that the common Spanish word for the dish, "cebiche," has its origin in the Latin word cibus,[3] which translates to English as "food for men and animals."[17] Another hypothesis, supported by the Royal Spanish Academy, is that the name might derive from the Spanish-Arabic word assukkabáǧ, which itself derives from the Arabic word sakbāj (سكباج meaning: meat cooked in vinegar).[6][18] Further hypotheses base the origin of the term on escabeche, Spanish for pickle, or that it is simply a variation of the word siwichi, the traditional Quechua name for the dish.[12] The name of the dish may be spelled variously as cebiche, ceviche, or seviche based on regional location;[3] all three spelling variations are accepted by the Royal Spanish Academy (Spanish: Real Academia Española, RAE),[6][7][8] the official institution responsible for regulating the Spanish language. Despite this, other local terms, such as cerbiche and serviche, are still used as variations to name the plate.[11] In regards to the origin of the plate, there exists various explanations. According to some historic sources from Peru, ceviche would have originated among the Moche, a coastal civilization that flourished in the area of current-day northern Peru nearly 500 years ago.[9][19] The Moche apparently used the fermented juice from the local Banana passionfruit.[20] Recent investigations further show that during the Inca Empire, fish were marinated with the use of chicha, an Andean fermented beverage. Different chronicles also report that along the Peruvian coast, prior to the arrival of Europeans, fish was consumed with salt and ají.[19] Furthermore, this theory proposes that the natives simply switched to the citrus fruits brought by the Spanish colonists, but the main concepts of the plate remain essentially the same.[21] The invention of the dish is also attributed to places ranging from Central America to the Polynesian islands in the South Pacific.[1][3][4][13] In Ecuador, it is believed Ceviche could have also had its origins with its coastal civilizations as both Peru and Ecuador have shared cultural heritages (such as the Inca empire) and a large variety of fish and shellfish.[21] In Mexico, according to the book "Mexico One Plate At A Time," despite the dish has been a part of traditional Mexican coastal cuisine for centuries, ceviche is not native to Mexico.[14] It is also believed that the Spanish, who brought from Europe citrus fruits such as lime,[14] could have originated the plate in Spain with roots in Moorish cuisine.[11] Nevertheless, most historians agree that ceviche originated during colonial times in the area of present-day Peru.[2][5] They propose that the predecessor to the plate was brought to Peru by Moorish women from Granada who accompanied the Spaniards, and this dish eventually evolved into what nowadays is considered ceviche.[5][15] Peruvian chef Gastón Acurio further explains that the dominant position that Lima held through four centuries as the capital of the Viceroyalty of Peru allowed for popular plates such as ceviche to be brought to other Spanish colonies in the region, and that in time they became a part of local cuisine by incorporating regional flavors and styles.[16] Ceviche is marinated in a citrus-based mixture, with lemons and limes being the most commonly used. In addition to adding flavor, the citric acid causes the proteins in the seafood to become denatured. Traditional style ceviche was marinated for about 3 hours. Modern-style ceviche, created by Peruvian chef Dario Matsufuji in the 1970s, usually has a very short marinating period. With the appropriate fish, it can marinate in the time it takes to mix the ingredients, serve, and carry the ceviche to the table. Ecuadorian ceviche, made of shrimp, lemon and tomato sauce Ceviche from Costa Rica Most Latin American countries have given ceviche its own touch of individuality by adding its own particular garnishes. In Peru, ceviche has been declared to be part of Peru's "national heritage" and has even had a holiday declared in its honor.[22] The classic Peruvian ceviche is composed of chunks of raw fish, marinated in freshly squeezed key lime or bitter orange (naranja agria) juice, with sliced onions, chili, salt and pepper. Corvina or Cebo (sea bass) was the fish traditionally used. The mixture was traditionally marinated for several hours and served at room temperature with chunks of corn-on-the-cob, and slices of cooked sweet potato. Regional or contemporary variations include garlic, minced Peruvian ají limo, or the Andean chilli rocoto, toasted corn or "cancha" and yuyo (seaweed). A specialty of Trujillo is ceviche prepared from shark (tollo or tojo). Lenguado (sole) is often used in Lima. The modern version of Peruvian ceviche, which is similar to the method used in making Japanese sashimi, consists of fish marinated for a few minutes and served promptly. It was created by the now deceased Peruvian-Japanese chef Dario Matsufuji, during the 1970s. Many Peruvian cevicherías serve a small glass of the marinade (as an appetizer) along with the fish, which is called leche de tigre or leche de pantera. In Ecuador, shrimp ceviche tends to be made with tomato sauce for a tangy taste. The Manabí style, made with lime juice, salt and the juice provided by the shrimp itself is very popular. Occasionally, ceviche is made with various types of local shellfish, such as black clam, oysters, spondilus, barnacles (percebes), among others. It is served in a bowl with toasted corn kernels as a side dish (fried green plantains or thinly sliced plantains (plantain chips) called "chifles" and pop corn are also typical ceviche side dishes). Sea bass, octopus and crab ceviches are also common in Ecuador. In all ceviches, lime juice and salt are ubiquitous ingredients. It is also served in a large crystal bowl with the guests helping themselves by spearing it with toothpicks.[citation needed] In Chile, ceviche is often made with fillets of halibut or Patagonian toothfish,[23] and marinated in lime and grapefruit juices, as well as finely minced garlic and red chilli peppers[24] and often fresh mint and cilantro are added.[25] In Mexico and other parts of Central America, it is served in cocktail cups with tostadas, or as a tostada topping and taco filling. Shrimp, octopus, squid, tuna, and mackerel are popular bases for Mexican ceviche. The marinade ingredients include salt, lime, onion, chile, avocado, and coriander (known as cilantro in the Americas). Tomatoes are often added to the preparation. According to the book "Mexico One Plate At A Time," even though the dish has been a part of traditional Mexican coastal cuisine for centuries, ceviche is not a dish native to Mexico.[14] Despite this, Mexican ceviche has developed its own distinct styles that make it unique from the other variations available.[14] In El Salvador, the ceviche tradition is very strong. One of the most exotic ceviche recipes is "Ceviche de Concha Negra" known in Mexico as Pata de Mula "the Black Clam." It is dark, almost black, with a distinct look and flavor. The ceviche is prepared with Lime juice, onion, yerba buena, salt, pepper,tomato, Worcester sauce, and sometimes picante (any kind of hot sauce or any kind of hot pepper) as desired. In Costa Rica, the dish includes marinated fish, lime juice, salt, ground black pepper, finely minced onions, cilantro and finely minced peppers. It is usually served in a cocktail glass with a lettuce leaf and soda crackers on the side, as in Mexico. Popular condiments are tomato ketchup and tabasco sauce. The fish is typically tilapia or corvina, although mahi-mahi, shark and marlin are also popular. In Panama, ceviche is prepared with lemon juice, chopped onion, celery, habanero pepper, and sea salt. Ceviche de corvina (white sea bass) is very popular and is served as an appetizer in most local restaurants. It is also commonly prepared with octopus, shrimp, and squid, or served with little pastry shells called "canastitas." In Cuba, ceviche is often made using mahi-mahi prepared with lime juice, salt, onion, green pepper, habanero pepper, and a touch of allspice. Squid and tuna are also popular. In The Bahamas and south Florida, a conch ceviche known as 'conch salad' is very popular. It is prepared by marinating diced fresh conch in lime with chopped onions, celery, and bell pepper. Diced pequin pepper and/or scotch bonnet pepper is often added for spice. In south Florida, it is common to encounter a variation to which tomato juice has been added. In the Philippines, kinilaw or kilawin is raw fish cubed and marinated in vinegar or Calamansi juice along with garlic, onions, ginger, tomato and various peppers. In Sarawak, Malaysia, the indigenous Melanau fishermen have a similar dish they call 'Umai'. This comprises thinly sliced raw fish, marinated with ‘assam paya’ (a very sour fruit of a wild palm), onions, chillis and salt. It is traditionally eaten with baked sago pellets. In Hawaii and other parts of Polynesia, a dish that may be classified as a type of ceviche is created using the raw harvested meat of crabs, lobsters, or shrimp, which is shredded in its raw state then combined with Hawaiian chilli peppers, lime juice, Hawaiian sea salt, a small amount of soy sauce, tender limukohu sea weed, and chopped roasted Kukui nuts (candlenuts, commonly known as Poke). In Fiji, ceviche is prepared with lemon or lime juice, mixed with coconut cream and diced tomato, onion, chili and chopped parsley, served in a coconut shell. It is a traditional Fijian i Taukei dish, called kokoda (pronounced ko-kon-dah), in the Bau vernacular where the white fish variety is the preferred ingredient for the i Taukei salad, which is very much like the Tahiti E'ia ota, only that modern Tahitians prefer the red fish variety like tuna, where sashimi grade is used for their salad. Unlike the seafood tartars of Europe and the Americas, the Fijian i Taukei white fish ho'ota sasalu ni waitui hei na waidranu as it is known in the Cakaudrove-Vanua vernacular isn't diced but is presented and preferred to be around 2 cm to an inch cubed. Much like the Hawaii poke, the Cakaudrove-Vanua versions of the Fijian i Taukei ho'ota includes other shellfish and fish varieties, hotai a iha, hotai a huhusau, hotai a haihoso, hotai a galeo, hotai a sici, hotai a ura, hotai a urara, hotai a vonu, as mere examples of the array. Potential health risks Aside from contaminants, raw seafood can also be the vector for various pathogens, viral, bacterial, as well as larger parasitic creatures.[26] According to the 2009 Food Code published by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), specific microbial hazards in ceviche include: Anisakis simplex, Diphyllobothrium spp., Pseudoterranova decipiens, and Vibrio parahaemolyticus.[27] Anisakiasis is a zoonotic disease caused by the ingestion of larval nematodes in raw seafood dishes such as ceviche.[28] The Latin American cholera outbreaks in the 1990s have been attributed to the consumption of raw cholera-infested seafood that was eaten as ceviche.[29] Other studies concluded that the lack of sanitary food supply conditions, including "unwashed fruit and vegetables, contaminated food and ice from street vendors, contaminated drinking water, and contaminated crab meat transported in luggage" caused the epidemic.[30] The American Dietetic Association urges women to avoid ceviche during pregnancy.[31] Escabeche, cooked, rather than raw, fish in an acidic marinade Kelaguen ^ a b c "History of Ceviche, Seviche, or Cebiche". http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/CevicheNotes.htm. 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Peru p. 78 ^ a b Meyer and Vann, The Appetizer Atlas: A World of Small Bites, p. 140 ^ a b c d e Bayless, Mexico One Plate At A Time p. 11 ^ a b "Mito, Leyenda y Folklore en la Gastronomía Peruana VI". http://www.historiacocina.com/paises/articulos/peru/cebiche.html. Retrieved 2010-08-09. ^ a b Revolución de los gustos en el Perú pp. 80-81 ^ "Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid: cibus". http://www.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/lookit.pl?latin=cibus. Retrieved 2010-08-09. ^ Hans Wehr, Arabic-English Dictionary. Otto Harrassowitz KG: 1994. Page 486 ^ a b Zapata Acha. Diccionario de gastronomía peruana tradicional. Lima, Perú. ISBN 9972-54-155-X. ^ El País.com, 19.9.2008 ^ a b http://www.weblogtheworld.com/countries/southern-america/ecuadorian-ceviche/ ^ http://www.livinginperu.com/news/12547 ^ "Chilean Ceviche". http://www.gourmetmexicanrecipes.com/MexicanRecipes/ChileanCeviche.htm. Retrieved 2010-08-09. ^ "Chilean Ceviche". http://www.thegutsygourmet.net/ceviche.html. 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Euned. http://books.google.com/books?id=icY2kM6bn-gC. "Revolución de los gustos en el Perú". Américas (General Secretariat of the Organization of American States). 2006-06. http://books.google.com/books?id=lBtkuboN5vgC&pg=PA81&dq=origen+ceviche+mexico#v=onepage&q&f=false. Media related to Ceviche at Wikimedia Commons Uncooked fish dishes Chilean cuisine Colombian cuisine Costa Rican cuisine Panamanian cuisine Philippine cuisine Ceviche — mit Mais Ceviche (auch Cebiche oder Seviche) ist ein Gericht, das – ursprünglich aus Peru stammend – mittlerweile in ganz Lateinamerika weit verbreitet ist … Deutsch Wikipedia Ceviche — m. Variante ortográfica de «cebiche». * * * ceviche. m. Am. cebiche. * * * El Ceviche es un plato típico de la gastronomía del Perú, probablemente el más representativo de este país y el más difundido internacionalmente. Se le encuentra en todos… … Enciclopedia Universal ceviche — ● ceviche nom masculin Plat de poisson cru mariné dans du jus de citron. (Cuisine du Pérou.) … Encyclopédie Universelle ceviche — → cebiche … Diccionario panhispánico de dudas ceviche — m. Am. cebiche … Diccionario de la lengua española ceviche — [sə vē′chā΄, sə vē′chē΄] n. [Sp] SEVICHE … English World dictionary Ceviche — Le céviche est le nom de divers plats de communs sur toute la côte pacifique de l Amérique latine. L appellation regroupe différentes variations autour d un concept commun de marinade de fruit de mer servie froide. Les principales variations sont … Wikipédia en Français ceviche — {{＃}}{{LM C08087}}{{〓}} {{［}}ceviche{{］}} ‹ce·vi·che› {{《}}▍ s.m.{{》}} Comida americana que se prepara con pescado o marisco crudos en pequeños trozos, adobados con zumo de limón y condimentos picantes: • En Chile comí un ceviche muy rico.{{○}} … Diccionario de uso del español actual con sinónimos y antónimos ceviche — /seuh vee chay, chee/, n. an appetizer of small pieces of raw fish marinated in lime or lemon juice, often with onions, peppers, and spices. 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US: ℞-only Pharmacokinetic data 15–20% (by mouth)[2] 9–33%[2] Elimination half-life Kidney (62–90% as unchanged drug) 2-Amino-1,9-dihydro-9-((2-hydroxyethoxy)methyl)-3H-purin-6-one 59277-89-3 Y PubChem CID PubChem SID IUPHAR/BPS DB00787 Y 1945 Y X4HES1O11F C06810 N CHEBI:2453 Y ChEMBL184 Y PDB ligand AC2 (PDBe, RCSB PDB) CompTox Dashboard (EPA) DTXSID1022556 ECHA InfoCard Chemical and physical data Molar mass 225.208 g·mol−1 3D model (JSmol) Interactive image 256.5 °C (493.7 °F) O=C2/N=C(\Nc1n(cnc12)COCCO)N InChI=1S/C8H11N5O3/c9-8-11-6-5(7(15)12-8)10-3-13(6)4-16-2-1-14/h3,14H,1-2,4H2,(H3,9,11,12,15) Y Key:MKUXAQIIEYXACX-UHFFFAOYSA-N Y (verify) Aciclovir (ACV), also known as acyclovir, is an antiviral medication.[3] It is primarily used for the treatment of herpes simplex virus infections, chickenpox, and shingles.[4] Other uses include prevention of cytomegalovirus infections following transplant and severe complications of Epstein-Barr virus infection.[4][5] It can be taken by mouth, applied as a cream, or injected.[4] Common side effects include nausea and diarrhea.[4] Potentially serious side effects include kidney problems and low platelets.[4] Greater care is recommended in those with poor liver or kidney function.[4] It is generally considered safe for use in pregnancy with no harm having been observed.[4][6] It appears to be safe during breastfeeding.[7][8] Aciclovir is a nucleoside analogue that mimics guanosine.[4] It works by decreasing the production of the virus's DNA.[4] Aciclovir was patented in 1974, and approved for medical use in 1981.[9] It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines, the safest and most effective medicines needed in a health system.[10] It is available as a generic medication and is marketed under many brand names worldwide.[1] The wholesale cost as of 2014 to 2016 was between US$0.03 and US$0.12 for a typical dose by mouth.[11][12] The cost of a typical course of treatment in the United States is less than US$25.[7] In 2016 it was the 195th most prescribed medication in the United States with more than 3 million prescriptions.[13] 1 Medical use 1.1 Pregnancy 2 Adverse effects 2.1 Systemic therapy 2.2 Topical therapy 3 Drug interactions 4 Detection in biological fluids 5 Mechanism of action 5.1 Resistance 5.2 Microbiology 6 Pharmacokinetics 8 Society and culture 8.1 Names 8.2 Cost Medical use[edit] 400 mg pills of aciclovir Aciclovir is used for the treatment of herpes simplex virus (HSV) and varicella zoster virus infections, including:[2][14][15] Genital herpes simplex (treatment and prevention) Neonatal herpes simplex Herpes simplex labialis (cold sores) Acute chickenpox in immunocompromised patients Herpes simplex encephalitis Acute mucocutaneous HSV infections in immunocompromised patients Herpes of the eye and herpes simplex blepharitis (a chronic (long-term) form of herpes eye infection) Prevention of herpes viruses in immunocompromised people (such as people undergoing cancer chemotherapy)[16] Its effectiveness in treating Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infections is less clear.[4] It has not been found to be useful for infectious mononucleosis due to EBV.[17] Aciclovir taken by mouth does not appear to decrease the risk of pain after shingles.[18] In those with herpes of the eye, aciclovir may be more effective and safer than idoxuridine.[19] It is not clear if aciclovir eye drops are more effective than brivudine eye drops.[19] Intravenous aciclovir is effective to treat severe medical conditions caused by different species of the herpes virus family, including severe localized infections of herpes virus, severe genital herpes, chickenpox and herpetic encephalitis. It is also effective in systemic or traumatic herpes infections, eczema herpeticum and herpes simplex meningitis. Reviews of research dating from the 1980s show there is some effect in reducing the number and duration of lesions if aciclovir is applied at an early stage of an outbreak.[20] Research shows effectiveness of topical aciclovir in both the early and late stages of the outbreak as well as improving methodologically and in terms of statistical certainty from previous studies.[21] Aciclovir trials show that this agent has no role in preventing HIV transmission, but it can help slow HIV disease progression in people not taking anti-retroviral therapy (ART). This finding emphasizes the importance of testing simple, inexpensive non-ART strategies, such as aciclovir and cotrimoxazole, in people with HIV.[22] Pregnancy[edit] Classified as a Category B Drug,[23] the CDC and others have declared that during severe recurrent or first episodes of genital herpes, aciclovir may be used.[24] For severe HSV infections (especially disseminated HSV), IV aciclovir may also be used.[25] Studies in mice, rabbits and rats (with doses more than 10 times the equivalent of that used in humans) given during organogenesis have failed to demonstrate birth defects.[26] Studies in rats in which they were given the equivalent to 63 times the standard steady-state humans concentrations of the drug[Note 1] on day 10 of gestation showed head and tail anomalies.[26] Aciclovir is recommended by the CDC for treatment of varicella during pregnancy, especially during the second and third trimesters[27] Aciclovir is excreted in the breast milk, therefore it is recommended that caution should be used in breast-feeding women. It has been shown in limited test studies that the nursing infant is exposed to approximately 0.3 mg/kg/day following oral administration of aciclovir to the mother. If nursing mothers have herpetic lesions near or on the breast, breast-feeding should be avoided.[23][28] Adverse effects[edit] Systemic therapy[edit] Common adverse drug reactions (≥1% of patients) associated with systemic aciclovir therapy (oral or IV) include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, encephalopathy (with IV use only), injection site reactions (with IV use only) and headache. In high doses, hallucinations have been reported. Infrequent adverse effects (0.1–1% of patients) include agitation, vertigo, confusion, dizziness, oedema, arthralgia, sore throat, constipation, abdominal pain, hair loss, rash and weakness. Rare adverse effects (<0.1% of patients) include coma, seizures, neutropenia, leukopenia, crystalluria, anorexia, fatigue, hepatitis, Stevens–Johnson syndrome, toxic epidermal necrolysis, thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura and anaphylaxis.[14] Intravenous aciclovir may cause reversible nephrotoxicity in up to 5% to 10% of patients because of precipitation of aciclovir crystals in the kidney. Aciclovir crystalline nephropathy is more common when aciclovir is given as a rapid infusion and in patients with dehydration and preexisting renal impairment. Adequate hydration, a slower rate of infusion, and dosing based on renal function may reduce this risk.[29][30][31] The aciclovir metabolite 9-carboxymethoxymethylguanine (9-CMMG) has been shown to play a role in neurological adverse events, particularly in older people and those with reduced renal function.[32][33] Topical therapy[edit] Aciclovir topical cream is commonly associated (≥1% of patients) with: dry or flaking skin or transient stinging/burning sensations. Infrequent adverse effects include erythema or itch.[14] When applied to the eye, aciclovir is commonly associated (≥1% of patients) with transient mild stinging. Infrequently (0.1–1% of patients), ophthalmic aciclovir is associated with superficial punctate keratitis or allergic reactions.[14] Drug interactions[edit] Ketoconazole: In-vitro replication studies have found a synergistic, dose-dependent antiviral activity against HSV-1 and HSV-2 when given with aciclovir. However, this effect has not been clinically established and more studies need to be done to evaluate the true potential of this synergy.[34] Probenecid: Reports of increased half life of aciclovir, as well as decreased urinary excretion and renal clearance have been shown in studies where probenecid is given simultaneously with aciclovir.[23] Interferon: Synergistic effects when administered with aciclovir and caution should be taken when administering aciclovir to patients receiving IV interferon.[35] Zidovudine: Although administered often with aciclovir in HIV patients, neurotoxicity has been reported in at least one patient who presented with extreme drowsiness and lethargy 30–60 days after receiving IV aciclovir; symptoms resolved when aciclovir was discontinued.[36] Detection in biological fluids[edit] Aciclovir may be quantitated in plasma or serum to monitor for drug accumulation in patients with renal dysfunction or to confirm a diagnosis of poisoning in acute overdose victims.[37] Mechanism of action[edit] Structures of guanosine and aciclovir compared Aciclovir is converted by viral thymidine kinase to aciclovir monophosphate, which is then converted by host cell kinases to aciclovir triphosphate (ACV-TP).[26] ACV-TP, in turn, competitively inhibits and inactivates HSV-specified DNA polymerases preventing further viral DNA synthesis without affecting the normal cellular processes.[26][38][39] Resistance[edit] Resistance to aciclovir is rare in people with healthy immune systems, but is more common (up to 10%) in people with immunodeficiencies on chronic antiviral prophylaxis (transplant recipients, people with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome due to HIV infection). Mechanisms of resistance in HSV include deficient viral thymidine kinase; and mutations to viral thymidine kinase or DNA polymerase, altering substrate sensitivity.[40][41] Microbiology[edit] Varicella zoster virus-produced plaques in monolayers of MRC5 cells. When the virus was reproducing each well contained different amounts of the antiviral drug aciclovir. By counting the plaques (holes formed by the virus in the layer of cells) the potency of the aciclovir to the virus was calculated. Aciclovir is active against most species in the herpesvirus family. In descending order of activity:[42][43] Herpes simplex virus type I (HSV-1) Herpes simplex virus type II (HSV-2) Varicella zoster virus (VZV) Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) Cytomegalovirus (CMV) – least activity Pharmacokinetics[edit] Aciclovir is poorly water-soluble and has poor oral bioavailability (15–30%), hence intravenous administration is necessary if high concentrations are required. When orally administered, peak plasma concentration occurs after 1–2 hours. Aciclovir has a high distribution rate; protein binding is reported to range from 9 to 33%.[44] The elimination half-life (t1/2) of aciclovir depends according to age group; neonates have a t1/2 of 4 hours, children 1–12 years have a t1/2 of 2–3 hours whereas adults have a t1/2 of 3 hours.[2] Aciclovir was seen as the start of a new era in antiviral therapy, as it is extremely selective and low in cytotoxicity.[3] Since discovery in mid 1970s, it has been used as an effective drug for the treatment of infections caused by most known species of the herpesvirus family, including herpes simplex and varicella zoster viruses. Nucleosides isolated from a Caribbean sponge, Cryptotethya crypta, were the basis for the synthesis of aciclovir.[45][46][47] It was codiscovered by Howard Schaeffer following his work with Robert Vince, S. Bittner and S. Gurwara on the adenosine analog acycloadenosine which showed promising antiviral activity.[48] Later, Schaeffer joined Burroughs Wellcome and continued the development of aciclovir with pharmacologist Gertrude B. Elion.[49] A U.S. patent on aciclovir listing Schaeffer as inventor was issued in 1979.[50] Vince later went on to invent abacavir, an nRTI drug for HIV patients.[51] Elion was awarded the 1988 Nobel Prize in Medicine, partly for the development of aciclovir. In 2009, acyclovir in combination with hydrocortisone cream, marketed as Xerese, was approved in the United States for the early treatment of recurrent herpes labialis (cold sores) to reduce the likelihood of ulcerative cold sores and to shorten the lesion healing time in adults and children (six years of age and older).[52][53] Society and culture[edit] Names[edit] Aciclovir is the International Nonproprietary Name (INN) and British Approved Name (BAN) while acyclovir is the United States Adopted Name (USAN) and former British Approved Name.[citation needed] It was originally marketed as Zovirax; patents expired in the 1990s and since then it is generic and is marketed under many brand names worldwide.[1] Cost[edit] The wholesale cost for a 400 mg tablet in March 2016, was between US$0.03 and US$0.12 per dose.[11][12] ^ Subject to the same conditions as before ^ a b c "Aciclovir". Drugs.com. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. 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__label__wiki	0.619455	0.619455	Steller's jay species of bird found in western North America Find sources: "Steller's jay" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (June 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Steller's jay in Flagstaff, Arizona, with white head-markings typical of eastern-variety birds (C. s. macrolopha) Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1] Order: Passeriformes Family: Corvidae Genus: Cyanocitta C. stelleri Binomial name Cyanocitta stelleri (Gmelin, 1788)[2] The Steller's jay (Cyanocitta stelleri) is a jay native to western North America, closely related to the blue jay found in the rest of the continent, but with a black head and upper body. It is also known as the long-crested jay, mountain jay, and pine jay. It is the only crested jay west of the Rocky Mountains. It is also sometimes colloquially called a "blue jay" in the Pacific Northwest, but is distinct from the blue jay (C. cristata) of eastern North America. 2 Phylogeny 3 Habitat 4 Diet 6 Vocalizations 8 Provincial bird Description[edit] Adults along the Pacific Coast have blue streaks on their black crests. Steller's jay is about 30–34 cm (12–13 in) long and weighs about 100–140 g (3.5–4.9 oz). Steller's jay shows a great deal of regional variation throughout its range. Blackish-brown-headed birds from the north gradually become bluer-headed farther south.[3] The Steller's jay has a more slender bill and longer legs than the blue jay and has a much more pronounced crest.[4]:69 It is also somewhat larger. The head is blackish-brown, black, or dark blue, depending on the latitude of the bird, with lighter streaks on the forehead. This dark coloring gives way from the shoulders and lower breast to silvery blue. The primaries and tail are a rich blue with darker barring. Birds in the eastern part of its range along the Great Divide have white markings on the head, especially over the eyes; birds further west have light blue markers and birds in the far west along the Pacific Coast have small, very faint, or no white or light markings at all. Phylogeny[edit] Steller's jay (Cyanocitta stelleri) is one of two species in the genus Cyanocitta, the other species being the blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata); because the two species sometimes interbreed naturally where their ranges overlap in the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains, their status as distinct species has been contested. There are 17 subspecies of Steller's jays ranging from Alaska to Nicaragua, with 8 found north of Mexico, often with areas of low or non-existent presence of the species separating the subspecies. At least some of the variation in the species is due to different degrees of hybridization between Steller's jays (C. stelleri) and blue jays (C. cristata) . To name a few:[5] C. s. macrolopha (central and southern Rockies) C. s. stelleri (Pacific coast from Alaska to southwestern British Columbia) C. s. carlottae, the largest subspecies (Queen Charlotte Islands). The genus Cyanocitta is part of the passerine family Corvidae, which consists of the crows, ravens, rooks, jackdaws, jays, magpies, treepies, choughs, and nutcrackers. Habitat[edit] Western-variety Steller's jay, with all-dark head, in Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. The Steller's jay occurs in most of the forested areas of western North America as far east as the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains from southern Alaska in the north to northern Nicaragua[5] completely replacing the blue jay prevalent on the rest of the continent in those areas. Its density is lower in the central Rocky Mountain region (Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and eastern Utah) plus the desert or scrubland areas of the Great Basin (e.g. Nevada, western Utah, southern Arizona and parts of California). Some hybridization with the blue jay in eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains, especially Colorado, has been reported. It is also found in Mexico occurring through the interior highlands in northwestern Mexico as well as patchy populations in the rest of Mexico. The jay is also found in Mexico's interior highlands from Chihuahua and Sonora in the northwest southward to Jalisco, as well as other patchy populations found throughout Mexico. Jays are also found in south-central Guatemala, northern El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua.[3] Although the Steller's jay primarily lives in coniferous forests it can be found in other types of forests as well. They can be found from low to moderate elevations, and on rare occasions to as high as the tree line. Steller's jays are common in residential and agricultural areas with nearby forests.[6] Diet[edit] Steller's jays are omnivorous and can be social with humans. Steller's jays are omnivores; their diet is about two-thirds plant matter and one-third animal matter. They gather food both from the ground and from trees. The Steller's jay's diet includes a wide range of seeds, nuts, berries and other fruit. They also eat many types of invertebrates, small rodents, eggs, and nestlings such as those of the marbled murrelet. There are some accounts of them eating small reptiles, both snakes and lizards.[6] Acorns and conifer seeds are staples during the non-breeding season; these are often cached in the ground or in trees for later consumption. They exploit human-provided food sources, frequently scavenging picnics and camp sites, where it competes with the Canada jay. Steller's jays will visit feeders and prefer black-oil sunflower seeds, white striped sunflower seeds, cracked corn, shelled raw peanuts, and are especially attracted to whole raw peanuts. Suet is also consumed but mostly in the winter season. Breeding[edit] Jays breed in monogamous pairs.[7] The clutch is usually incubated entirely by the female for about 16 days.[8] The male feeds the female during this time. Though they are known to be loud, during nesting they are quiet in order to not attract attention.[9] The nest is usually in a conifer but is sometimes built in a hollow in a tree. Similar in construction to the blue jay's nest, it tends to be a bit larger (25 to 43 cm (9.8 to 16.9 in)), using a number of natural materials or scavenged trash, often mixed with mud. Between two and six eggs are laid during breeding season. The eggs are oval in shape with a somewhat glossy surface. The background colour of the egg shell tends to be pale variations of greenish-blue with brown- or olive-coloured speckles. Vocalizations[edit] Like other jays, the Steller's jay has numerous and variable vocalizations. One common call is a harsh SHACK-Sheck-sheck-sheck-sheck-sheck series; another skreeka! skreeka! call sounds almost exactly like an old-fashioned pump handle; yet another is a soft, breathy hoodle hoodle whistle. Its alarm call is a harsh, nasal wah. Some calls are sex-specific: females produce a rattling sound, while males make a high-pitched gleep gleep. The Steller's jay also is a noted mimic: It can imitate the vocalizations of many species of birds, other animals, and sounds of non-animal origin. It often will imitate the calls from birds of prey such as the red-tailed hawk, red-shouldered hawk, and osprey, causing other birds to seek cover and flee feeding areas.[5][6] Etymology[edit] This bird is named after the German naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller, the first European to record them in 1741[10][11]. Johann Friedrich Gmelin formally named the species after Steller in the 13th edition of Systema Naturae (first published in 1788). Provincial bird[edit] The Steller's jay is the provincial bird of the Canadian province of British Columbia.[12] ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Cyanocitta stelleri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013. old-form url ^ "Cyanocitta stelleri". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-08-13. ^ a b Walker, L. E.; Pyle, P.; Patten, M. A.; Green, E.; Davison, W.; Muehter, V. R. (2016). Rodewald, P. G. (ed.). "Steller's Jay (Cyanocitta stelleri)". The Birds of North America Online. Ithaca, New York: Cornell Lab of Ornithology. doi:10.2173/bna.343. Retrieved 2019-08-13. ^ Madge, S.; Burn, H. (1994). Crows and Jays: A Guide to the Crows, Jays and Magpies of the World. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin. ^ a b c "Steller's Jay Cyanocitta stelleri". National Geographic. Retrieved 6 June 2013. ^ a b c "Steller's Jay". Seattle Audubon Society. Retrieved 6 June 2013. ^ Gabriel, P. O.; Black, J. M. (July 2012). "Reproduction in Steller's Jays (Cyanocitta stelleri): individual characteristics and behavioral strategies". The Auk. 129 (3): 377–386. doi:10.1525/auk.2012.11234. JSTOR 10.1525/auk.2012.11234. ^ Tweit, R. C. (2005). "Steller's Jay". Texas Breeding Bird Atlas. Texas A&M. Retrieved 6 June 2013. ^ Kaufman, K. "Steller's Jay". Audubon Society. Retrieved 2019-08-13. ^ "Steller's Jay". Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. The Birds of North America Online. Cornell University. 2013. Retrieved 6 June 2013. ^ Evans, Howard Ensign (1986). Halpern, Daniel (ed.). Antæus on Nature. London, UK: Collins Harvill. p. 24. ^ "B.C. Symbols - Province of British Columbia". gov.bc.ca. Government of British Columbia. Retrieved 2019-08-13. Goodwin, D. (1976). Crows of the World. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press. Greene, E.; Davison, W.; Davison, W.; Muehter, V.R. (1998). "Steller's jay - Cyanocitta stelleri". The Birds of North America. No. 343. Wikispecies has information related to Cyanocitta stelleri "Steller's jay". Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. Species Account. Cornell University. "Steller's jay media". Internet Bird Collection. Steller's jay photo gallery at VIREO (Drexel University) Wikimedia Commons has media related to Steller's jay. Extant species of family Corvidae Subclass: Neornithes Superorder: Neognathae Family Corvidae Choughs Pyrrhocorax Alpine chough (P. graculus) Red-billed chough (P. pyrrhocorax) Treepies Crypsirina Hooded treepie (C. cucullata) Black racket-tailed treepie (C. temia) Dendrocitta Andaman treepie (D. bayleyi) Bornean treepie (D. cinerascens) Grey treepie (D. formosae) Black-faced treepie (D. frontalis) White-bellied treepie (D. leucogastra) Sumatran treepie (D. occipitalis) Rufous treepie (D. vagabunda) Platysmurus Black magpie (P. leucopterus) Bornean black magpie (P. l. aterrimus) Temnurus Ratchet-tailed treepie (T. temnurus) Common green magpie (C. chinensis) Indochinese green magpie (C. hypoleuca) Bornean green magpie (C. jefferyi) Javan green magpie (C. thalassina) Urocissa Taiwan blue magpie (U. caerulea) Red-billed blue magpie (U. erythrorhyncha) Yellow-billed blue magpie (U. flavirostris) Sri Lanka blue magpie (U. ornata) White-winged magpie (U. whiteheadi) Old World jays Garrulus Eurasian jay (G. glandarius) Lanceolated jay (G. lanceolatus) Lidth's jay (G. lidthi) Podoces (Ground jays) Biddulph's ground jay (P. biddulphi) Henderson's ground jay (P. hendersoni) Pander's ground jay (P. panderi) Persian ground jay (P. pleskei) Ptilostomus Piapiac (P. afer) Stresemann's bushcrow Zavattariornis Stresemann's bushcrow (Z. stresemanni) Family Corvidae (continued) Nucifraga Spotted nutcracker (N. caryocatactes) Clark's nutcracker (N. columbiana) Holarctic Black-billed magpie (P. hudsonia) Yellow-billed magpie (P. nuttalli) Eurasian magpie (P. pica) Oriental magpie (P. sericea) Maghreb magpie (P. mauritanica) Asir magpie (P. asirensis) Black-rumped magpie (P. bottanensis) True crows (crows, ravens, jackdaws and rooks) Australian and Melanesian species Little crow (C. bennetti) Australian raven (C. coronoides) Bismarck crow (C. insularis) Brown-headed crow (C. fuscicapillus) Bougainville crow (C. meeki) Little raven (C. mellori) New Caledonian crow (C. moneduloides) Torresian crow (C. orru) Forest raven (C. tasmanicus) Grey crow (C. tristis) Long-billed crow (C. validus) White-billed crow (C. woodfordi) Pacific island species Hawaiian crow (C. hawaiiensis) Mariana crow (C. kubaryi) Tropical Asian species Daurian jackdaw (C. dauuricus) Slender-billed crow (C. enca) Flores crow (C. florensis) Large-billed crow (C. macrorhynchos) Eastern jungle crow (C. levaillantii) Indian jungle crow (C. culminatus) House crow (C. splendens) Collared crow (C. torquatus) Piping crow (C. typicus) Banggai crow (C. unicolor) Violet crow (C. violaceus) Eurasian and North African species Mesopotamian crow (C. capellanus) Hooded crow (C. cornix) Carrion crow (C. corone) Rook (C. frugilegus) Jackdaw (C. monedula) Eastern carrion crow (C. orientalis) Fan-tailed raven (C. rhipidurus) Brown-necked raven (C. ruficollis) Holarctic species Common raven (C. corax) North and Central American species American crow (C. brachyrhynchos) Northwestern crow (C. caurinus) Chihuahuan raven (C. cryptoleucus) Tamaulipas crow (C. imparatus) Jamaican crow (C. jamaicensis) White-necked crow (C. leucognaphalus) Cuban crow (C. nasicus) Fish crow (C. ossifragus) Palm crow (C. palmarum) Sinaloan crow (C. sinaloae) Tropical African species White-necked raven (C. albicollis) Pied crow (C. albus) Cape crow (C. capensis) Thick-billed raven (C. crassirostris) Somali crow (C. edithae) Azure-winged Cyanopica Iberian magpie (C. cooki) Azure-winged magpie (C. cyanus) Grey jays Perisoreus Canada jay (P. canadensis) Siberian jay (P. infaustus) Sichuan jay (P. internigrans) New World jays Aphelocoma (Scrub jays) California scrub jay (A. californica) Island scrub jay (A. insularis) Woodhouse's scrub jay (A. woodhouseii) Florida scrub jay (A. coerulescens) Transvolcanic jay (A. ultramarina) Unicolored jay (A. unicolor) Mexican jay (A. wollweberi) Calocitta (Magpie-Jays) Black-throated magpie-jay (C. colliei) White-throated Magpie-jay (C. formosa) Cyanocitta Blue jay (C. cristata) Steller's jay (C. stelleri) Cyanocorax Black-chested jay (C. affinis) Purplish-backed jay (C. beecheii) Azure jay (C. caeruleus) Cayenne jay (C. cayanus) Plush-crested jay (C. chrysops) Curl-crested jay (C. cristatellus) Purplish jay (C. cyanomelas) White-naped jay (C. cyanopogon) Tufted jay (C. dickeyi) Azure-naped jay (C. heilprini) Bushy-crested jay (C. melanocyaneus) Brown jay (C. morio) White-tailed jay (C. mystacalis) San Blas jay (C. sanblasianus) Violaceous jay (C. violaceus) Green jay (C. ynca) Yucatan jay (C. yucatanicus) Cyanolyca Silvery-throated jay (C. argentigula) Black-collared jay (C. armillata) Azure-hooded jay (C. cucullata) White-throated jay (C. mirabilis) Dwarf jay (C. nana) Beautiful jay (C. pulchra) Black-throated jay (C. pumilo) Turquoise jay (C. turcosa) White-collared jay (C. viridicyana) Gymnorhinus Pinyon jay (G. cyanocephalus) Taxon identifiers Wikidata: Q838749 Wikispecies: Cyanocitta stelleri ABA: stejay ADW: Cyanocitta_stelleri Avibase: 2225D685AF4DB1D5 BirdLife: 22705614 eBird: stejay EoL: 856044 Euring: 15340 GNAB: stellers-jay IBC: stellers-jay-cyanocitta-stelleri iNaturalist: 8234 IRMNG: 10195562 IUCN: 22705614 NCBI: 114083 Neotropical: stejay TSA: 5523 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steller%27s_jay&oldid=933069897" Native birds of Alaska Native birds of Western Canada Native birds of the Western United States Birds of the U.S. Rio Grande Valleys Fauna of the California chaparral and woodlands Provincial symbols of British Columbia Fauna of the San Francisco Bay Area Birds described in 1788 Taxa named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin Cite iucn maint	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1272
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__label__cc	0.502114	0.497886	✓ Ash Dunford ✓ Ash Dunford's Likes ✓ Ash Dunford's Friends ✓ Ash Dunford's Groups January Official Active … Moderator Interest List ✓ Ash Dunford's Discussions Her (Ash and Temp) Started this discussion. Last reply by ✓ Ash Dunford Sep 3, 2019. 2 Replies 0 Likes Promises. What exactly defines a promise? People who barely even knew you often promised things that they couldn't give.But, the one promise Ash would never recover from, was the promise Tate made…Continue Best Intentions (Ash and Carmen) Started this discussion. Last reply by ✓ Carmen J. McMillan Oct 2, 2019. 3 Replies 0 Likes It'd been a week since Ash had last saw Annika, and only a day since he'd last seen Carmen.…Continue Street-Wise (Ash and Zenith) Started Jun 30, 2019 0 Replies 0 Likes Ash found himself captured by the painting he currently stared…Continue Writing On The Wall (Ash and Lucius) COMPLETE Started this discussion. Last reply by ✓ Ash Dunford Jan 9. 10 Replies 0 Likes "How do you feel today mr Dunford?" the short blonde with…Continue Profile Code - Ha-joon Sae Ash Dunford name. Ash Dunford nicknames. Coming soon species. Human age. 25 Years Old date of birth. 19th of September occupation. Forensic Pathologist face claim. Nico Tortorella residence. Evermore, CO. hometown. Birmingham Detroit status. taken by Lucius Wright family. Tate and Joseline Dunford (Parents) height. 6’ 0” hair. Dark Brown eyes. Dark Brown Self-reliant-Loyal-Dedicated Closed-off-Volatile-Obsessive status. Accepting threads rp style. Forum,pc, chat plotting. Comments, in box, pc rp length. Multi-para time zone. GMT - 4 TWO HUMANS WALK INTO A BAR Ha-joon TO THE BAR Arwyn SUMMERTIME MADNESS ➤ Plotting ✎ Ongoing ✗ Dead “ Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning how to dance in the rain.” — Vivian Greene Electric-Shock-Drones FLYING SPHERE DRONES --» MOBILE ADAPTABILITY-- » HIGH VOLTAGE SHOCKS-- » Blinding / Stunning / Deafening Device EMITS BRIGHT LIGHTS-- » HIGH PITCHED NOISE-- » EFFECTIVE FOR 60 SECONDS-- » Diamond-Edged Blades/ Whip/ Arrows ABLE TO CUT ANY SURFACE-- » INCLUDING SUPERNATURAL SKIN -- » Ash Dunford wasn’t your typical newborn. In fact, his story was unlike any others around the bustling city of Birmingham Detroit. Ash had came into the world kicking and screaming, raising hell the moment his lungs filled with air. His biological parents were nothing short of piss poor idiots. They were both strung out on drugs and alcoholics. His father had been in prison for murder the day Ash was born, and his mother was wanted by the police also, for harboring a fugitive aka his father, and withholding information from the police. After Ash was placed in the nursery of the hospital though, his biological mother ripped her IV’s and heart monitor cords away from her sore body before fleeing the hospital with Ash. She dropped him off on a ship in a wooden crate. The ship was loaded with stolen goods Ash’s mother assuming she’d get to go with him and make a new life for herself and her son. That wasn’t what happened however, sadly, right after she loaded Ash onto the ship in a wooden crate, she’d been sprayed with maze, and tasered, taken into police custody, and for some reason, not mentioning that she had loaded a newborn baby onto that ship. She thought it would keep him safe, or at least out of the foster system. And, she knew someone would find him and take him in either way. She was right, it would keep him out of the system. But, what she didn’t know was that the last time she’d looked into that chocolate gaze of Ash’s would literally be the last time. Ash, a newborn baby, laid in that wooden crate for hours, kicking and screaming at the cold that enveloped his small body, and hungry. He’d managed to make a scene even as a newborn, and drew in the attention of the man who was your average tall dark and mysterious. Tate Dunford was notoriously known in the small town of Birmingham for his wolf pack, and because he’d also led a mafia of his own. He ran one of the most vicious packs around the United States, and people feared him, cowering at just the mere mention of his name. The first week or two of having Ash in his possession, were long, confusing draining days for Tate. Tate knew how to handle the situation, and he did so with grace, but raising a child wasn’t his cup of tea. However, Ash had begun to grow on him, finding his way to a soft spot in Tate's heart, that everyone around Tate had assumed closed up years ago. Tate had only been on the ship, to retrieve what belonged to him. He was part of an illegal trading system. Coins, drugs, weapons, you name it, Tate had it. There’d been crates and crates full of money on the ship as well. It was only by a small miracle that Tate even heard Ash’s small high pitched cries over the ships engine. Tate realized that taking in a newborn like this, may be a mistake, considering the way he had found him. He had no idea if the newborn would even survive through the night after having laid in the crate freezing for hours. After he finished his dealings on the ship, and returned back to his home with the small child who needed much more time and attention than a man like Tate could offer. Tate began second guessing, but Tate couldn’t bring himself into giving Ash up though. For some reason, Tate found a whole world behind Ash’s eyes, and decided he’d keep him and train him to someday be exactly like Tate himself.While Ash was only a human, and Tate a Therian, Tate felt that there was so much he could teach him. Tate’s pack had welcomed Ash into their lives as well, with open arms. And for a while, Tate fathered the child like any loving father would. Having a village of people / Therians to help. He had given him a beautiful home, his last name, and all the money a child would need for their future. At just the tender age of five, when it was time for Ash to start school, Tate decided to invest a little more into Ash’s future, leaving Ash’s name on his will, which would give Ash everything he’d ever want and need when Tate was no longer around. Though most of the money Tate had, was from illegal business, it was enough to assure that Ash would be wealthy.Ash was well known by his teachers even on his first day of school. All the adults in Ash’s hometown, despised Tate Dunford. He was known as a drug dealer, a thief, and had even went to prison years ago for murder that got ruled out as self defense. The teachers turned their nose up at Ash, but it somehow gave Ash the drive he needed to go through school at the top of his class. Each year that passed, Ash became smarter, and among his peers, he was sort of an Alpha himself. People tended to follow Ash’s lead, the way that Tate’s pack followed him. Ash however, never knew that the man who’d been caring for him, was of supernatural status. It was the year of Ash’s 12th birthday when things had changed. Tate was meant to do some pretty dark bidding with those in his pack.Tate found this as an issue though, and he couldn’t take Ash along, nor could he leave him home by himself as young as he was. Ash begged to differ, suggesting that Tate hired a babysitter. Tate gave in after a hot meal was shared between father and son. It took Tate a week to find the perfect one. Joseline was a tall blonde with intense blue eyes who’d had a career in dancing,which was only a better word for what she really did; stripping. But Joseline was one of Tate’s favorite flings; a woman Tate had known for many years, and despite the kind of job she had, Tate knew how well she was with her own daughter before her daughter was killed in a car accident. Joseline had agreed to pack her things and reside in Tate’s home while he was gone on a ‘business trip’. Tate’s real plans however, hadn’t been revealed to Ash right away, and little did Ash know, he could be bidding his father-figure farewell forever. Tate and his pack were at war with a pack of rogue species, mostly that of Valkyr’ who’d been draining innocents of their blood, and leaving a line of bodies piled along the city streets, turning their small town into a nightmare. People were terrified and riddled with fear, so much that it became a ghost town. People were too afraid to even step on their front porches, and the body count seemed to get higher at night time.Tate and the leader of the Valkyr’ mafia had also been at war over illegal business, so it was all in all, mafia business had consumed Tate’s life, and it just happened to be that it was between a bunch of supernaturals, and he somehow felt guilt-stricken to think he may not make it home, back to the little boy he had raised so far. Ash had grown used to Tate and became attached to the man who’d rescued him from a ship meant to sail away into what could have been a pretty terrible life for the small boy. In time, Tate had began to mold Ash, as all the Therians of Tate’s pack did with their own children, raising them to be just like their fathers. Illegal trading and drug trafficking was the way of living for them, and it paid their bills. Due to the ring leader of the Valkyr gang having more connections than Tate and his Therians, making it hard for any of them to be imployed. Above all, Tate just wanted Ash to be part of his world,plus it assured that Tate wouldn’t be leaving Ash in the dark about things. At least most things. Ash knew about Therians by the time he was old enough to form sentences, and when Tate first explained it to him, Ash laughed hysterically until he cried in fear. But, he learned in time, that they were no different than himself, and that over half the people he had been looking at like his own family, were part of a pack that his father ran.And they weren’t bad people, well, except for all the illegal bidding they did, from selling drugs and weapons, to hiring hit-man's or committing murders themselves. Ash somehow found this dark world he was being raised in, thrilling. Ash became some-what obsessed with learning more about the supernatural world though, which posed a threat, but they decided to narrow it down to him being young.The night before Tate had planned to leave and handle some ‘business’ with the Valkyr leader of the Valkyr mafia he decided to sit Ash down, and finally fill him in on things he hadn’t before. “Son, there’s so much you need to know, and i’m deeply sorry for waiting until now to tell you. The truth is, there’s not only Therians, wolves like me and the rest of the pack. There’s Valkyr’ and other species you’ve never even seen. These Valkyr’ have posed a huge threat to our city though, and I have to deal with it before things get worse. There’s a very slim chance that .. that I won’t make it back to you” Tate expressed, shedding tears for the first time in years as he held a heart broken Ash.Ash’s dark gaze fixed on his father’s broken one. “Dad, I love you. No matter what happens. But, please come back home, you’re all I have” Ash expressed, and for the first time, addressing Tate as his father, feeling his heart sink to the back of his chest, thinking his father may just not make it back from this. “I've showed you how to deal with the money, so you know what to do, should there be people knocking at the door. You know the rules, and you know we don’t do hand-outs or front to people. You know how to work a gun now yes?” Take questioned, and Ash grinned, giving his father the nod of his head. “I’ll handle business and hold down the fort while you’re gone” Ash then said, hoping this would motivate Tate to do what he needed to do to stay alive. Tate had taught Ash all the illegal ways of a mafia leader as well, hoping when he was old enough that he’d fall in line to be the next leader and take over for Tate. The loyalty that came with all that Ash had learned so far, had earned him respect from those older and younger than him.Scheduled to leave, Tate had left two of his pack members behind to watch over Ash and make sure nothing happened, but also to help Ash handle his fathers drug business.The morning had come for Tate to leave and Ash had woke at almost 6 a.m where the dark sky had just began to lighten up a little. Ash wandered to Tate’s bedroom hesitantly, not wanting to say goodbye when he knew it could be for good, only to find a made up bed, Joseline’s sleeping frame, and a note on Tate’s beside table. Not waking Joseline, Ash picked the note up and exited the bedroom, with one of the most terrifying feelings blazing in the pit of his stomach. “Dear Ash, I’m sorry to tell you goodbye like this. In case it is goodbye. I didn’t have the heart to look into your eyes and tell you that it may be the last time I can say I love you. I've left the information with Joseline that you’ll need in case something happens to me, remember everything I've taught you, and never stray to far from who we are. The world don’t have but one place for people like us” Ash gritted his teeth and fell backwards onto his bed, sobbing. Joseline had woken nearly an hour later, finding Ash crumbled up in the corner of his bedroom, rocking back and forth. Sitting down beside him, the tall, fit blonde placed a hand on Ash’s shoulder, and hesitantly, Ash leaned over laying his head on her. “He won’t be back will he?” Ash asked with saddened eyes. “I think he will surprise us either way” she spoke with a cool confidence that Ash lacked himself. But Ash didn’t know just how close this woman had been to his father. Though she had been nothing more than a human herself, she knew everything about Tate. How he led a Therian pack, how he was the leader of a mafia gang, and how he did illegal deals with people from different countries, or sometimes even right here in his home town. She also knew about Tate’s time in prison for murder, and the twist to all of that, was that the person Tate had murdered, was Joseline’s ex husband, who was responsible for the death of Josline’s daughter. Joseline and Tate had been sleeping together for years, and Jose was loyal to him to the very end. Ash had came in and became a new chance for both Joseline and Tate when Tate found him abandoned on that ship. Joseline sat with Ash for a few hours, explaining as much as she could about herself, some of what she had told Ash, not even his father had mentioned. But, Ash sat there calm and collected. Like a sponge, he soaked up the knowledge he now had of both Joseline and his father. “Why is it so important for me to do bad things?” Ash blurted out, wondering why he needed to be like those he had been raised around. Joseline laughed, amused. “Well Ash. We all come from a certain background, and with that distinction, there’s not much room for people like us to do anything outside of what we’ve been raised to do. When kids are brought into dark families, those kids are already looked down upon by society, it’s just safer to live their family name and legacy” she explained. Ash decided to let it go, and carry on his father’s legacy. Every night, Joseline eased Ash to sleep with a bedtime story about a Raven.“A distinct black shape, tumbling in the updrafts of a mountain crag - a raven at play. The 'grokking' call of a Raven is one of the most evocative sounds of Britain's uplands. The raven is probably the world's most intelligent and playful bird. In the world of myth, it is a bird of paradox, and something of a dark clown. Its association with playful intelligence is perhaps exceeded by its image as a bird of death. Its harsh call, and its presence in remote wild places and at scenes of death, has earned it a reputation as a bird of ill-omen. After all, the old collective noun for a group of ravens is an 'unkindness'. Yet there is so much more to the raven.” and by the time she’d read those words aloud, Ash was asleep; each and every night. The Raven had became something of great interest to the young boy. A month had passed, and nothing from his father had indicated he was dead, until a knock at the door sent both Joseline and Ash both running. What they found on the other side was that of nightmares. A cardboard box wrapped up with a note stuck to the top, for Ash “Don’t be as foolish as your father” it read, and Joseline gasped before he even opened it. They both had a feeling that nothing good laid on the inside of that box. Opening it, Ash immediately threw up, seeing Tate’s decapitated head. It meant that yes, Tate was dead. Joseline was next in line, but this was something she decided to hide from Ash. The Therian’s who’d been left behind to guard Tate’s house over night, had also been found dead just inches away from the home. Joseline immediately felt the urge to flee, leaving Tate, a 12 year old boy to fend for himself, but not until she’d given him all he would need to start a new life, far away from this place, that would only have him dead if he chose to stay and take over his father’s name and what came with being a Dunford. Ash now had complete control over everything Tate Dunford had owned, making him one of the wealthiest citizens in their hometown, at just age 12. Ash wasn’t much less stubborn than the recently deceased himself. Tate had after all taught Ash all that he knew, and among those many lessons came the one that would change Ash forever. Never run. And, Ash didn’t run. Instead, he stayed for years after that, moving in with a few of the Therians from his father’s pack, who’d became his next family. Therians raising a human, meant that Ash had become just as wicked as those that Tate Dunford had led around the city once upon a time, and he now lived a very volatile life. Together, they held a beautiful ceremony to bury Tate. Ash said his dreadful goodbye, and decided from that day forward, he’d help the Therians from his father’s pack with whatever they needed. Whether it was revenge for Tate’s death, or just simply doing illegal business. At age 16, four years after Tate’s death, Ash had mastered the illegal art of trafficking; he became the next notorious Dunford in Birmingham, Detroit, posing a threat to those with much higher rank than Ash himself. The only thing that ever saved his ass was his last name. Tate may have not been Ash’s biological father, and he may have been dead and gone now, but his ways were still was still etched in the minds of those he’d shaken up. Ash walked around invincible for a while, and practically became numb to the impact it would have on his future.Ash continued his schooling, and while he was no longer top of his class due to how he had to make a living at just a young age, he still graduated. Mostly, the teachers and staff of the school wanted rid of him. So they were happy to hand him his 12th grade graduation certificate on his 18th birthday, just two years after the young boy had found himself numb to the illegal business he’d became consumed by. Years had passed since his ‘fathers’ death, and he hadn’t heard a word from Joseline. Things had began piling up, causing Ash to soon crash with the reality he’d made for himself. He had enough money to do anything he wanted, but decided to indulge in the party life. From drugs to prostitutes, men and women both, Ash was never lonely, nor sober.The Therians who had taken over Tate and Joselines job of raising him, decided to take Ash out for a celebration. They figured after everything he’d been through, and the fact that Ash was bringing in enough drug feigns for them to have roofs over their heads, that they owed him a little something. It was during this celebration that a realization spun each of them inside out, rattling them to their bones. The pack of Therians had treated Ash to a strip club, the very one Joseline worked in, and supplied him with drinks all night. While Ash was half way drunk, a group of leather wearing ass-hats approached Ash and the pack of Therians. The one who appeared to be their leader, snickered as he looked Ash over. “We didn’t think you’d stay so long, Dunford. You’re doing the family business well” he stated, before he looked to those standing behind him ‘his followers’. The Therians all stood protectively around Ash, Ash couldn’t fight his way out of a wet paper bag due to how intoxicated he was.But, he knew enough to know that these men were bad news, and he heard what the leader of them had said. “You knew Tate?” Ash’s drunken slur rung out. The male stepped towards him, smirking. “Knew him? I killed him. And after that, I sent you and your whore of a mommy, a nice little gift” he snarled out wickedly. This had caused war. Ash and the Therians walked out, luring those who’d just admitted to killing Tate, out of the strip club. One of the men had Joseline, dragging her by her hair, scraping her skin against the concrete as she kicked and flailed in an attempt to get away. Joseline worked as a stripper, with the stage name of Raven. She’d only used the name out of remembrance for Ash.She’d been somewhat like a mother to him, and the name Raven would forever remain a blissful memory of Ash’s childhood. “Raven.. Tell Ash goodbye” the man spoke darkly, and pulled Joseline up to her feet, still with his fingers entangled through her hair. The Valkyr didn’t even give her time to speak however, before flashing a sharp set of k-9 like fangs, and killing Joseline with ease. Valkyr’ had roamed freely in Ash’s hometown, and this was the result of rogues. The Therians lunged forward the moment they killed the blonde stripper. Better known as Joseline or Raven, Ash’s babysitter / mother figure. Ash had sobered up in the midst of the war going on around him, the Therians had managed to take most of the Valkyr’s out, only a few remaining alive, and able to flee before they died too. Ash crumbled to his knees beside Joseline’s dead body, holding her as he sobbed. Looking her over, Ash smiled through the tears as he saw the tattoo on her rib cage representing a Raven with Ash and Tate’s name in the style of Old English. It had seemed like only yesterday when they’d buried Tate, and now Joseline had joined him. The Therians and Ash again put together a beautiful ceremony, joining Tate and Joseline side by side on a beautiful mountain side where a stream of water trickled down the rarest tree that grew out of a rock. It was one of the places Joseline had told Ash she met his father at to hang out or spend time together. Ash had lost himself when he lost Tate, then watched Joseline die right before him. And, even though an investigation was held for each of their deaths, the local PD covered it up, claiming they were mauled by animals, at least that was the case for Joseline. They had decided to close his father’s case all together and not even investigate. Between the mafia leader, and the one in charge of the Valkyr’s in Detroit, Ash had come to realize, it was the same man all along. A group of species had rebelled and went rogue, fleeing the city in Colorado known as Evermore.The next year went by painfully slow. Ash and the Therians all seemed to be closed off to everything. Humanity had left the Therians, and eventually, they’d posed a threat to Ash who was nothing more than human. But,, not wanting to hurt him, they had told him to leave, to go live his life while he still could. Ash did just that after a teary goodbye to them. Ash’s interest in supernaturals grew to an alarming rate after having to leave the only family he felt that he had left.. In fact, he’d became obsessed with them, but felt a dark hatred flowed through his veins that scared him. Ash started college with some of the money Tate had left to him, and eventually bought himself a nice car. After what had happened to Tate and Joseline, Ash only had one desire, and that was to give families closure on how their loved ones died. Plus for a little while, it distracted him from the hatred he felt for the supernatural world. A dark world in which he didn’t know much about except for how things went in his hometown, where rogues roamed freely and done as they pleased.With that, Ash spent the time necessary to be a forensic pathologist. He’d earned his bachelor’s degree, a medical degree and went through the extensive additional education and training needed in forensic pathology, and a one-year residency. In all, Ash spent five years of his life learning and training, becoming one of the best forensic pathologist’s at age 24. It was when he had finished his one year residency in the program, that the darkness swallowed him whole. Ash wanted them all dead, all immortals, anything without a heartbeat with the appearance of a human being, he had even lost love for the Therian’s, since they’d became so hostile that Ash had no choice but to get away from the only family he had ever known. The obsessive nature he once feared had returned, and with his urge to kill, he knew he either needed to leave his hometown, or risk the chance of dying in a crossfire between himself and the supernaturals.Ash chose the latter. He’d learned just enough from being raised by Therians to know what Valkyr’s weaknesses were and ended up slaying a few of them, with the help of a few loyal friends he still had in his hometown. Initially, it had caused one hell of a slaughter though, leaving those Ash still considered loyal minions, dead. Ash had nothing left here now and needed to escape, remembering the story of the Eternal City, leading Ash right to Colorado, with just the clothes on his back, and a duffel bag, holding prized possessions of Tate and Joselines, including Tate’s will with Ash’s name on it, a few bank cards that tied him to all the money he’d ever need, his cell phone and a change of clothes.Ash had settled in quite nicely in a small studio sized apartment the day he arrived to the Eternal City, wondering just what all mischief he could get himself involved in, in the new city. To celebrate starting over, Ash ended up getting a tattoo of a Raven on one side of his ribs, and a wolf on the other side, both tattoo’s were to remember the only two people he’d ever had as parents. Forever he would live in his father’s name, and keep the memories they had made, alive. Even if Tate had fathered Ash in ways that children shouldn’t be parented, he loved Tate and Tate had loved him. Now that he was in a new city, he needed new contacts, having the itch to return to old habits, remembering just how notorious he’d became in his old city for drug trafficking, and walking around invincible for knowing everything he needed to know, to be the next in line ahead of his fathers mafia.While Ash began doing some digging, he’d also found out quite a few other interesting facts. Evermore apparently had tons of different species he never even knew about, lurking in every corner, and like a feign, he craved information about them so badly, that he’d began stalking them, one by one finding out just enough to make his apartment, a creepy shrine to the supernatural world. Articles and facts plastered to his walls, along with pictures of those he had managed force information out of by poison’s lethal to those without a heartbeat, plastered beside the information they gave to him. Ash needed to get himself employed now that he lived a new life, in a new city. But, the wait was long and painful, and while he waited, Ash had began selling drugs once again; competing with the few well known drug lords he knew of here in the new city. It was only a couple weeks later after the human moved to Colorado, that ECPD called him in for his expertise, and that day, Ash became employed as a forensic pathologist. Feeling as though it was a new chance, Ash found himself able to smile again. Though, not everything was as pretty as it seemed. Deep down, Ash Dunford was a dark, twisted up person, who needed a new light shed on many different aspects of his life. For now though, who knows? Ash was ready to see how his new life unfolded. Ready to take on any challenge tossed at him. HA-JOON SAE Ha-joon and I met in Ash's favorite bar, where women had spent their time gawking at them both and throwing their numbers at Ash and Ha-joon. Right away, Ash felt comfortable around Ha-joon due to the fact that he's a human just like Ash himself, wronged by the supernatural world. The more they talk, the more Ash hopes to build a friendship with him, and he hopes that after their time ends, that they'll be able to keep in touch. Ash has grown a sense of protectiveness to the human, and would likely always have his back now that he knows him well enough to know he likes him. Lucius Wright Called to a crime scene, Ash intended on doing his job and leaving. That was until Lucius showed up, grieving over the deceased. The two of them exchanged a few sarcastic comments, before Ash slyly wieseled his way into getting this sexy Celestial to buy him a drink. Ash isn't sure what's going to happen, and never plans for the future, but he does know he's enjoying every second with Lucius, and he without a doubt wants him in ways he shouldn't . SOMETHING GOES HERE. code by wearestardust @ supersuits, modified by Finn Dhampir✓ Eleanora Riley Nordstroem replied to ✓ Ash Dunford's discussion Show Me Something Different (Eleanora & Ash) "“I guess someone raised knowing about the supernatural and being one takes for granted how much they get taught by their family” she commented thoughtfully, humans, however, were purposely kept in the dark and it wasn’t easy for…" Human✓ Ash Dunford replied to ✓ Ash Dunford's discussion Writing On The Wall (Ash and Lucius) ""Well, it seems like tonight's your lucky night. I have all the time in the world to listen" he stated, and flashed a smirk in the male's direction, finding himself all too intrigued by this man. Ash had also been someone to…" Human✓ Ash Dunford commented on ✓ Sariah Amelie Holloway ~Admin~'s group January Official Active List "In 2019, Ash's year was pretty rocky. He began his year on the wrong foot, especially when he stepped into Eleanora's garden to snoop around. When she approached him with a weapon trained on him, he threw his hands up, and dropped part of…" Human✓ Ash Dunford joined ✓ Sariah Amelie Holloway ~Admin~'s group January Official Active List This OAL is going to be a little different, as it's now the end of the year, to confirm you are active leave a 1 para rundown of what your character did in 2019 and what they hope to do in 2020! Include a gif that matches the story if you'd like!Deadline: 10/01/2020 00:00See More Valkyr✓ Javier Cohen left a comment for ✓ Ash Dunford "Dear Ash, Merry Christmas. I hope you enjoy these presents + the chocolates. I look forward to continue to roleplay with you. -Javier " Celestial✓ Lucius Wright left a comment for ✓ Ash Dunford "To the human who never wants to leave. I do have to say for you to stay around me for this long means you are a keeper at the point. Merry Christmas - Your star ps. saved the best gif for your eyes only. " Celestial✓ Lucius Wright replied to ✓ Ash Dunford's discussion Writing On The Wall (Ash and Lucius) "Most people who meet the star can't read or know what he will do so it's was just Ash. it was how he betrayed himself in the courtroom which made Lucis so dangerous in making his case. No one could not take him down no matter what they do…" Human✓ Ash Dunford replied to ✓ Javier Cohen's discussion One Night To Remember, Forever (Ash & Javier) "Ash couldn't believe how quickly the year had passed. Now with Christmas just around the corner, he struggled to find something appropriate for the people he saw fit of receiving a gift. He could easily just wrap himself in a bow, but that…" Human✓ Ash Dunford replied to ✓ Ash Dunford's discussion Show Me Something Different (Eleanora & Ash) ""Or he's a drug addict on the low" Ash added to her reasons of why the dog may have liked him so much and realized his joke was of poor taste. Chuckling, he glanced at her nervously, figuring he had just pissed her off all over…" "Our new forum is up! Here you go ;] Click Here -Javi <3 " Human✓ Ash Dunford commented on ✓ Sariah Amelie Holloway ~Admin~'s group December Official Active List "I confirm I am active as the role of Ash Dunford, my faction is Human RP Proof" "Seeing the exchange between Ash and her pup she narrowed her eyes for a moment “And he doesn’t like many people, especially ones who lurk in our garden so either he sees something in you or you’ve hidden dog treats in your…" Human✓ Ash Dunford replied to ✓ Javier Cohen's discussion Where the Friendship Begins. (Ash & Javier Only) "Ash was a curious man by nature. His entire apartment was a shrine to the supernatural world, facts, and news paper clippings. He had definitely became your typical freak. He had never taken anyone back to his place, and he was afraid of doing so…" ""Fine" he said in response, and shook his head. She was pretty ruthless. But, given how they had met, she was well within her rights to be arrogant. Ash sighed, she made a lot of good points, especially when she said there was a difference…" "“Hey you said it first, I was just judging your choice of words” she responded matter of factly when he asked her why she said ‘like me’ and then shrugged unapologetically “Yeah well there is a difference between what…" Do you understand that your application must be approved via a species form submission to be a valid site character? You need to be a member of Eternal City RP to add comments! Join Eternal City RP At 9:38 on December 25, 2019, Valkyr✓ Javier Cohen said… Dear Ash, Merry Christmas. I hope you enjoy these presents + the chocolates. I look forward to continue to roleplay with you. -Javier Celestial✓ Lucius Wright said… To the human who never wants to leave. I do have to say for you to stay around me for this long means you are a keeper at the point. - Your star ps. saved the best gif for your eyes only. Our new forum is up! Here you go ;] -Javi <3 At 12:53 on September 16, 2019, Heya Ash. The time has come! I have finally finished off our thread for us. :3 ~Javier. At 5:04 on April 26, 2019, Human✓ Ha-joon Sae said… Thank you for adding me. Let's me know if you want to plot ^^ Valkyr✓ Cecilia Laterza replied to ✓ Ophelia Dreyvalian ~Admin~'s discussion Saving Me (Open to Ophelia and Cecilia)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1279
__label__wiki	0.509208	0.509208	Tag: chugai No Comments on Roche acquires Chugai Pharmaceutical controlling stake, expanding in Japan, the world’s second largest pharmaceutical market Japan’s pharmaceutical market is approx. US$ 80 billion – US$ 120 billion, approx. 10% of the global pharmaceutical market by Gerhard Fasol Roche acquires Chugai: Roche KK merges into Chugai in a carefully structured process, with Chugai the surviving company Roche acquires Chugai in a series of carefully crafted transactions, to expand in the world’s second largest pharmaceutical market, Japan. Japan’s pharmaceutical market size is estimated at YEN 8000 – 1,200 billion (US$ 80 billion – US$ 120 billion), depending on the source and methods of estimation, corresponding to about 10% of the global pharmaceutical markets. Growth of Japan’s pharmaceutical markets are about 2% per year, thus expected to grow to about US$ 130 billion by 2018. Different studies give different estimates for the size of Japan’s pharmaceutical market. Roche acquires Chugai. First stage. December 2001/October 2002. Roche acquires 50.1% of Chugai and merges Nippon Roche KK into Chugai In 2001, Roche and Chugai agreed for Roche to acquire 50.1% of Chugai for YEN 155 – 198 billion (US$ 1.23 – 1.58 billion). Basic agreement was signed in December 2001. The merger of Nippon Roche into Chugai, which Chugai the surviving company and the full start of the alliance was in October 2002. Chugai maintains autonomous management, and listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Roche and Chugai entered into a double licensing agreement, where Roche licenses products from Chugai for international distribution, and vv Chugai licenses products from Roche for distribution in Japan: Chugai has first refusal rights to develop and sell Roche products in Japan Roche has first refusal rights to develop and sell Chugai products in Japan, with some territorial exceptions Also agreed were limits on Roche’s shareholding in Chugai: 1 Oct 2002 – 30 Sept 2007: maximum shareholding 50.1% from 1 Oct 2012: Roche will cooperate to maintain Chugai’s stock market listing in Japan Roche acquires Chugai. Second stage. 2008 Roche increases share holding in Chugai to 59.9% Roche acquires Chugai. Third stage: Roche currently holds 61.62% of Chugai Although there have been press reports speculating that Roche plans to acquire all of Chugai, currently Roche holds 61.62% of Chugai. Chugai Pharmaceutical Company Ltd (中外製薬株式会社) Chugai Pharmaceutical Company Ltd is (中外製薬株式会社) listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Code 4519. Market cap is YEN 2,360 billion (approx. US$ 24 billion) as of 26 May 2017. Chugai employs 7245 people as of 31 December 2016, achieving sales/revenues of YEN 492 billion (approx. US$ 5 billion). Chugai was founded on 10 March 1925, and established in the current form on 8 March 1943. Roche in Japan 1899: Roche is the first Western pharmaceutical company to start business in Japan, establishes a network of sales representatives 1904: Karl Rhode Company becomes distributor of Roche in Japan 7 July 1924: Roche incorporates a subsidiary in Japan, Roche Gomeikaisha 1924-1939: Dr Alice Keller, Head of Roche Japan 1932: Nippon Roche KK founded 2001/2002: Roche acquires 50.1% of Chugai, merges Nippon Roche KK into Chugai. Chugai is the surviving company, and remains under autonomous management and listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Copyright (c) 2017 Eurotechnology Japan KK All Rights Reserved Tags chugai, roche, 中外, 中外製薬株式会社	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1282
__label__cc	0.693433	0.306567	Southern Africa Region and Selected Countries Food Security & Nutrition (11) Apply Food Security & Nutrition filter Labor & Time Use (17) Apply Labor & Time Use filter Sustainable Agriculture & Rural Livelihoods (97) Apply Sustainable Agriculture & Rural Livelihoods filter Agricultural Inputs & Farm Management (55) Apply Agricultural Inputs & Farm Management filter Agricultural Productivity, Yield, & Constraints (49) Apply Agricultural Productivity, Yield, & Constraints filter Environment & Climate Change (20) Apply Environment & Climate Change filter Market & Value Chain Analysis (45) Apply Market & Value Chain Analysis filter Technology Adoption (20) Apply Technology Adoption filter Literature Review (15) Apply Literature Review filter South Asia Region and Selected Countries (12) Apply South Asia Region and Selected Countries filter (-) Remove Southern Africa Region and Selected Countries filter Southern Africa Region and Selected Countries LSMS & LSMS-ISA (15) Apply LSMS & LSMS-ISA filter Economic Growth and Poverty in Ethiopia In this brief, we report on measures of economic growth, poverty and agricultural activity in Ethiopia. For each category of measure, we first describe different measurement approaches and present available time series data on selected indicators. We then use data from the sources listed below to discuss associations within and between these categories between 1994 and 2017. Polygynous Households and Intrahousehold Decision-Making: Evidence and Policy Implications from Mali and Tanzania A large and growing body of scholarship now suggests that many household outcomes, including children’s education and nutrition, are associated with a wife’s bargaining power and control over household decision-making. In turn, bargaining power in a household is theorized to be driven by a wife’s financial and human capital assets – in particular the degree to which these assets contribute to household productivity and/or to the wife’s exit options. This paper draws on the detailed Farmer First dataset in Tanzania and Mali to examine husband and wife reports of a wife’s share of decision-making authority in polygynous households, where multiple wives jointly contribute to household productivity, and where exit options for any single wife may be less credible. We find that both husbands and wives assign less authority to the wife in polygynous households relative to monogamous households. We also find that a wife’s assets are not as strongly associated with decision-making authority in polygynous versus monogamous contexts. Finally, we find that responses to questions on spousal authority vary significantly by spouse in both polygynous and monogamous households, suggesting interventions based on the response of a single spouse may incorrectly inform policies and programs. Digital Financial Services & Gender: An Analysis of Correlates of Awareness, Adoption, and Use In this report we analyze three waves nationally-representative household survey data from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Nigeria, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, and Indonesia to explore sociodemographic and economic factors associated with mobile money adoption, awareness, and use across countries and over time. Our findings indicate that to realize the potential of digital financial services to reach currently unbanked populations and increase financial inclusion, particular attention needs to be paid to barriers faced by women in accessing mobile money. While policies and interventions to promote education, employment, phone ownership, and having a bank account may broadly help to increase mobile money adoption and use, potentially bringing in currently unbanked populations, specific policies targeting women may be needed to close current gender gaps. Tracking Smallholder Farm Households According to AGRA's 2017 Africa Agriculture Status Report, smallholder farmers make up to about 70% of the population in Africa. The report finds that 500 million smallholder farms around the world provide livelihoods for more than 2 billion people and produce about 80% of the food in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. Many development interventions and policies therefore target smallholder farm households with the goals of increasing their productivity and promoting agricultural transformation. Of particular interest for agricultural transformation is the degree to which smallholder farm households are commercializating their agricultural outputs, and diversifying their income sources away from agriculture. In this project, EPAR uses data from the World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study - Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA) to analyze and compare characteristics of smallholder farm households at different levels of crop commercialization and reliance on farm income, and to evaluate implications of using different criteria for defining "smallholder" households for conclusions on trends in agricultural transformation for those households. AGRA Agrica Agriculture Status Report 2017, Presentation Slides Review of Land Tenure Technologies and Indicators Land tenure refers to a set of land rights and land governance institutions which can be informal (customary, traditional) or formal (legally recognized), that define relationships between people and land and natural resources (FAO, 2002). These land relationships may include, but are not limited to, rights to use land for cultivation and production, rights to control how land should be used including for cultivation, resource extraction, conservation, or construction, and rights to transfer – through sale, gift, or inheritance – those land use and control rights (FAO, 2002). In this project, we review 38 land tenure technologies currently being applied to support land tenure security across the globe, and calculate summary statistics for indicators of land tenure in Tanzania and Ethiopia. Technical Report - Land Tenure Technologies, Summary Profiles - Land Tenure Technologies, Results Coding - Land Tenure Technologies, Research Brief - Plot Ownership Summary Statistics for Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Tanzania, Research Brief - Land Tenure Indicator Summary Statistics for Ethiopia and Tanzania Economic Benefits of Empowering Women in Agriculture: Assumptions and Evidence A growing body of evidence suggests that empowering women may lead to economic benefits (The World Bank, 2011; Duflo, 2012; Kabeer & Natali, 2013). Little work, however, focuses specifically on the potential impacts of women’s empowerment in agricultural settings. Through a comprehensive review of literature this report considers how prioritizing women’s empowerment in agriculture might lead to economic benefits. With an intentionally narrow focus on economic empowerment, we draw on the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI)’s indicators of women’s empowerment in agriculture to consider the potential economic rewards to increasing women’s control over agricultural productive resources (including their own time and labor), over agricultural production decisions, and over agricultural income. While we recognize that there may be quantifiable benefits of improving women’s empowerment in and of itself, we focus on potential longer-term economic benefits of improvements in these empowerment measures. Technical Report, Results Coding Husband and Wife Perspectives on Farm Household Decision-making Authority and Evidence on Intra-household Accord in Rural Tanzania We use OLS and logistic regression to investigate variation in husband and wife perspectives on the division of authority over agriculture-related decisions within households in rural Tanzania. Using original data from husbands and wives (interviewed separately) in 1,851 Tanzanian households, the analysis examines differences in the wife’s authority over 13 household and farming decisions. The study finds that the level of decision-making authority allocated to wives by their husbands, and the authority allocated by wives to themselves, both vary significantly across households. In addition to commonly considered assets such as women’s age and education, in rural agricultural households women’s health and labour activities also appear to matter for perceptions of authority. We also find husbands and wives interviewed separately frequently disagree with each other over who holds authority over key farming, family, and livelihood decisions. Further, the results of OLS and logistic regression suggest that even after controlling for various individual, household, and regional characteristics, husband and wife claims to decision-making authority continue to vary systematically by decision – suggesting decision characteristics themselves also matter. The absence of spousal agreement over the allocation of authority (i.e., a lack of “intrahousehold accord”) over different farm and household decisions is problematic for interventions seeking to use survey data to develop and inform strategies for reducing gender inequalities or empowering women in rural agricultural households. Findings provide policy and program insights into when studies interviewing only a single spouse or considering only a single decision may inaccurately characterize intra-household decision-making dynamics.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1286
__label__cc	0.589815	0.410185	Bernal Gallery: SUSTAINED VISIONS Start Date: 11/1/2018 Start Time: 10:00 AM End Date: 11/1/2018 End Time: 5:00 PM SUSTAINED VISIONS. Featuring work by Fred Borcherdt, Bailey Doogan, Tom Philabaum, Barbara Rogers and Jim Waid. Oct. 29-Dec. 7. The exhibit combines five iconic artists from the Tucson area, who have received national and international acclaim. Their work is included in art collections and museums across the United States. Reception: Nov. 1, 5-7 p.m. Selected work by all artists also on display in the Extension Gallery, Tucson International Airport through Jan. 24. West Campus - Center for the Arts	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1288
__label__cc	0.558684	0.441316	Tag Archives: Application Dolphin Zero is a Browser for the Privacy-Conscious Need to clandestinely browse the web? We all do from time to time, but if manually clearing browsing data takes too much effort, there’s Dolphin Zero, an app for Android from the creators of Dolphin Browser. Essentially a stripped-down version of Dolphin with a focus on privacy, Dolphin Zero does not retain the information internet browsers typically do; things like history, form data, passwords, and cookies are deleted automatically. To further protect from unwanted data collection, the built-in search function directs queries to the privacy-conscious DuckDuckGo, and “Do Not Track” flags are enabled by default. Assuming you have a device running Android 2.2 or later, Dolphin Zero can be downloaded for free from the Play Store. Google Play Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dolphin.browser.zero Koush Releases AllCast App To Google Play, Brings Local Video Casting To Many Devices Android developer Koushik Dutta, of CyanogenMod and ClockWorkMod fame, announced today the arrival of his new AllCast application onto Google Play. Previously in beta, the app allows local media content to be pushed to a wealth of popular devices, like new Xbox consoles, Roku 3, and Apple TV. Google’s Chromecast remains unsupported in the app due to Google’s continuing developer limitations, which have been documented quite publicly since the HDMI dongle’s release this past summer. Koush could only say that he “hopes” Chromecast support will arrive some day. Here is the full list of currently compatible devices: Xbox 360, Xbox One Samsung Smart TVs Panasonic Smart TVs Google TV (Logitech Revue, etc) DLNA Renderers The app does not require root access and is free on the Play Store, with a $4.99 in-app purchase to unlock the “premium” version, which removes ads along with some casting limitations. Go grab it! Download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koushikdutta.cast Applications, News [New App] News+ We’re coming up on the 6-month anniversary of the shutdown of Google Reader; and while some people might still be a little jaded about losing the beloved service, most have moved on to one of the many alternatives that popped up to replace it. Several great feed aggregators exist, many offering innovative improvements over Reader, but their mobile apps may not fit your needs. The developer of gReader, noinnion, intends to solve that with the release of News+, a feature-rich and very customizable news reader app with support for several services. Development on News+ started over 6 months ago, around the same time gReader added support for Feedly. Users of gReader should feel right at home with the new app since many of its features can be found in both. News+ includes podcast support, text-to-speech, notifications, multiple viewing modes, offline reading, 2-way sync, and even a Tasker plugin. The interface is both phone and tablet optimized, and it shares Night Mode and many of the same themes with its predecessor. Widgets aren’t currently available, but they will be coming with a future update. News+ was designed to enable reading content from all of your news aggregators and Read Later services. The only service included out-of-the-box is Google News, but additional extensions can be installed from the Play Store or sideloaded to gain access to many other sources. There is also an API on Github for building extensions, so we’ll surely see more options in the future. Aside from the mysterious absence of Feedly, the list of extensions is already pretty good: Google News (included) InoReader (Play Store) BazQux Reader (Play Store) Tiny Tiny RSS (Play Store) FeedBin (Play Store) NewsBlur (Play Store) Pocket (Play Store) SubReader (sideload) Reedah (sideload) CommaFeed (sideload via Github) Google Reader API Clones (sideload via Github) You can pick up News+ free on the Play Store, and it’s even open-source on Github, but an unlock key is required to remove the ads and enable all of the features. Without the premium key you’ll be limited to a single extension (in addition to Google News) and you won’t have podcast support or the Voice Reading mode. Of course, paying for the unlock key will also help to fund future development. If you like gReader but want to try out one of the other services out there, you should definitely give News+ a try! Download: News+ Download: News+ Premium [New App] LEGO® Building Instructions LEGO licenses out a new video game every other week these days, but let us not forget that this brand still consists of more than adorable animated characters acting out our favorite movie scenes. These are building blocks, and if you still want to spend hours meticulously crafting a plastic masterpiece at home, LEGO is just as eager as ever to make that happen. The company has now provided instructions for building the LEGO TECHNIC Hot Rod or Rally Racer in a convenient, and free, app format. The app lets you pick which of the two cars you wish to build, pan around, zoom in as needed, and view animations to confirm if you’re doing things correctly. But – and this is a big ‘but’ – you will need a tablet to make use of this visual aid, and not just any tablet, you need an older one. LEGO® Building Instructions is in continuous development to ensure its availability on a wide range of devices. Currently the app is optimized for the following devices: ● Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 ● Nexus 7 first generation That’s right, LEGO says you need either an original Nexus 7 or a Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 tablet in order to use the app. Though, on the other hand, we’ve found that there may be some wiggle room here, as one of us has an aging Galaxy Tab 8.9 that’s also supported. Yay? Download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lego.buildinginstructions [New App] Belt.io There are a lot of ways to get text from your computer to your Android device, but perhaps none of them are quite so simple as the new Belt.io app and service. Simply install the app on your phone and you can send text and links from the web service after signing up. Naturally Belt.io also offers browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox, so you don’t even have to go to the website to use the service. The browser extensions also tie in with the Android app, sending any selected link or text directly to your Android phone and giving it an optional notification as well. In an excellent example of a developer using the UI tools available, the app uses Android’s expanded notifications to allow users to open a link directly, copy text immediately to the clipboard, or share it via the standard share menu. The Belt.io website includes a basic invite function that lets you share with friends, but it’s only using email addresses at the time being – a tie-in with Google+ and Facebook would make it a lot more useful. Text clipped to your Belt.io account is visible across all devices and browsers, and there’s an app available on iOS as well. (We have analytics, folks – we know that a considerable number of you are reading this on an iPad.) One final note: I don’t see any mention of security or encryption on the Belt.io site or app description, so your password might be the only thing protecting the text you send. It’s probably a good idea not to send sensitive information on Belt.io, at least for the time being. Download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.belt.android [New App] Android Device Manager Google rolled out the Android Device Manager a few months ago, but for whatever reason, there was no matching Android app. That changes today as Google has finally gotten around to releasing one. The app contains all the functionality from the website in a mobile-friendly package and it is, of course, free. The Android Device Manager lets you track, lock, ring, and wipe any of the Android devices on your account. The web version works fine on Android devices through the browser, but a native app is still a preferable experience. The UI scales to both tablets and phones, and there is a handy drop down menu for switching accounts. It’s also much faster than the mobile web. The Android app is obviously only of use if you have more than one Android device, like a phone and a tablet. But if you ever misplace one of them, you’ll be happy to have the ADM app at the ready. In yet another sign that Google has a sense of humor, if you locate the device you are running the app on, it says “in your hand.” Oh, Google. Download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.adm [New App] Quip Traditionally word processors have tasked themselves with producing nice, printable documents. Mobile versions have followed up with the unenviable task of replicating this functionality on much smaller screens. Quip throws this entire concept out of the window, instead creating a writing experience built for the ground up for mobile devices. The team released an alpha version over the summer, but it was little more than a demo of the iOS version of the app. Now the full version is available, and it looks right at home on Android devices. If Google Docs could be thought of as a word processor with collaborative features added on, Quip feels like the opposite. Rather than emphasizing documents, the app focuses on people by putting conversation threads front and center. Once a thread is open, users can swipe over to the shared document. The text and images within adapt to the size of the screen they’re being viewed on, both reducing how much control you have over them and how much time you have to waste setting them up. But since Quip claims to be a word processor, not a social platform, its shortcomings are difficult to ignore. It lacks the functionality that can be found in Google Drive, Quickoffice, or OfficeSuite. It’s also arguably less functional than note-taking apps like Evernote and Springpad. Yet it’s attractive, and if you collaborate with others often on largely simplistic documents, it may just be worth a go. • Real-time, collaborative editing • Messaging – Every document has a chat thread • Offline – Edit anywhere, even on an airplane • Folders – Share with your family or team • Checklists – Interactive, shared lists • Diffs – Every edit is in a document news feed • Presence – See who’s online, what they’re up to • @mentions – Link to people and documents • Notifications – Know when a doc is opened • Read receipts – Check who’s read your edits • Inbox – See what you haven’t read Download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.quip.quip	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1289
__label__wiki	0.56783	0.56783	Verified by vibration Exo-eclipse in x-ray vision - illustration only Chandra image of HD 189733. The source in the middle is the main star and the source in the lower right is the faint companion star. The source at the bottom of the image is a background object not contained in the HD 189733 system. The exoplanet itself cannot be seen in the Chandra image, as the transits involve measuring small decreases in X-ray emission from the main star. The authors estimate that the percentage decrease in X-ray light during the transits is about three times greater than the corresponding decrease in optical light. This tells them that the region blocking X-rays from the star is substantially larger than the region blocking optical light from the star, helping to determine the size of the planet's atmosphere. The extended atmosphere implied by these results is shown by the light blue color around the planet. Recent observations of HD 189733b with the Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed that the lower atmosphere of the planet has a deep blue color, due to the preferential scattering of blue light by silicate particles in its atmosphere. For about a decade astronomers have known that ultraviolet and X-ray radiation from the main star in HD 189733 are evaporating the atmosphere of its closely orbiting planet over time. The authors of the new study estimate that HD 189733b is losing between 100 million and 600 million kilograms per second. This rate is about 25% to 65% higher than it would be if the planet's atmosphere were not extended. At a distance of just 63 light years, HD 189733b is the closest hot Jupiter to Earth, which makes it a prime target for astronomers who want to learn more about this type of exoplanet and the atmosphere around it. Chandra was used to make observations of six transits by HD 189733b and the team also used archival data from XMM-Newton for one transit. These results are available online and will appear in a future issue of The Astrophysical Journal. X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/K.Poppenhaeger et al; Illustration: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss hd189733_xray This is an artist's concept of the star HD 3651 as it is orbited by a close-in Saturn-mass planetary companion and the distant brown dwarf companion discovered by Spitzer infrared photographs. Brown Dwarf Companion Twelve Exoplanet discoveries from Kepler that are less than twice the size of Earth and reside in the habitable zone of their host star. The sizes of the exoplanets are represented by the size of e... Kepler's Greatest Hits What does an extremely young planetary system look like? The answer depends on your point of view. This diagram shows how such a system appears when viewed from different directions. Observing Young Stars: Hitting the 'Sweet Spot' Five years ago today, on March 6, 2009, NASA's Kepler Space Telescope rocketed into the night skies above Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida to find planets around other stars, called exop... Kepler Marks Five Years in Space Twice as big in volume as the Earth, HD 40307 g straddles the line between "Super-Earth" and "mini-Neptune" and scientists aren't sure if it has a rocky surface or one that's buried beneath thick l... Experience the Gravity of a Super Earth This image captured by the SOFI instrument on ESOs New Technology Telescope at the La Silla Observatory shows the free-floating planet CFBDSIR J214947.2-040308.9 in infrared light. The free-floating planet CFBDSIR J214947.2-040308.9 (annotated) The conception illustration depicts how solar pressure can be used to balance NASA's Kepler spacecraft, keeping the telescope stable enough to continue monitoring distant stars in search of transit... Kepler's Second Light: How K2 Will Work Astronomers were surprised to see these data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope in January 2013, showing a huge eruption of dust around a star called NGC 2547-ID8. In this plot, infrared brightnes... Witnessing a Planetary Wreckage This artist's concept illustrates Kepler-47, the first transiting circumbinary system -- multiple planets orbiting two suns – 4,900 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Cygnus. Sharing the Light of Two Suns This composite image shows an exoplanet (the red spot on the lower left), orbiting the brown dwarf 2M1207 (centre). 2M1207b is the first exoplanet directly imaged and the first discovered orbiting ... 2M1207b - First image of an exoplanet This artists concept contrasts our familiar Earth with the exceptionally strange planet known as 55 Cancri e. Earth and Super-Earth This artist's animation flies through the Kepler-20 star system, where NASA's Kepler mission discovered the first Earth-size planets around a star beyond our own. Kepler-20e -- The Smallest Exoplanet (Artist's Concept) Planets, including those like our own Earth, form from epic collisions between asteroids and even bigger bodies, called proto-planets. Sometimes the colliding bodies are ground to dust, and sometim... Building Planets Through Collisions (Artist's Concept) This artist's concept shows a hypothetical "rejuvenated" planet -- a gas giant that has reclaimed its youthful infrared glow. Hypothetical 'Rejuvenated' Planets (Artist's Concept) A possible newfound planet spins through a clearing in a nearby star's dusty, planet-forming disc. Out of the Dust, A Planet is Born From the first three years of Kepler data, more than 3,500 potential worlds have emerged. Residential Candidates This artist's concept shows the Kepler spacecraft. Kepler in Space (Artist Concept) This video is a trailer of the upcoming TESS mission. TESS Mission Trailer This artist's concept shows the closest known planetary system to our own-Epsilon Eridani. Observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope show that the system hosts two asteroid belts, in additio... Double the Rubble This image from NASA's Kepler spacecraft shows the telescope's field of view taken in a new demonstration mode in late October. A new mission concept, dubbed K2, would continue Kepler's search for ... NASA Kepler's Second Light	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1294
__label__wiki	0.584306	0.584306	« A Spiritual Tour through the New Science of the Omniverse \| Main \| Was scientist Edward Teller "in the loop" on Black Goo predatory offplanet AI Artificial Intelligence? » Order a copy today: http://amzn.to/1LQoTpo. The Omniverse: Ground-Breaking Book Confirms Existence of the Omniverse, Advanced Alien Technology & Secret Inhabited Colony on Mars Meticulously researched and written by futurist Alfred Lambremont Webre, ‘The Omniverse: Transdimensional Intelligence, Time Travel, the Afterlife, and the Secret Colony on Mars’ is the first book in history to formally publish iron-clad evidence that defines the existence of the Omniverse - the dimensional ecology of all the Universes in the Multiverse, plus the Intelligent Civilization of Souls, Spiritual Beings and God (Source) in the Spiritual Dimensions. Not only that but, in doing so, Webre is able to unequivocally prove the existence of an inhabited colony on Mars, extraterrestrials with advanced technology, the secret findings of NASA’s Mars Rover and more. Vancouver, BC – Every few hundred years, a maverick steps forward to change the course of history, science and possibly the world, forever. Circa 3500 BC it was Sumerian astronomers first defining the Universe. In 1895 it was William James coining the term “Multiverse”. Now, as 2015 draws to a close, Canada’s Alfred Lambremont Webre is stepping in to formally define the “Omniverse” - the dimensional ecology of all the Universes in the Multiverse, plus the Intelligent Civilization of Souls, Spiritual Beings and God (Source) in the Spiritual Dimensions. Webre’s vehicle to share such a bold revelation is his new book, which lays out hundreds of articles of proof to scientifically define and share the evidence establishing that the Omniverse – which contains both our Universe and the Multiverse – goes beyond speculation to formally exist. ‘The Omniverse: Transdimensional Intelligence, Time Travel, the Afterlife, and the Secret Colony on Mars’ could be the most important book brought to market in over a century. A tour through the new science of the Omniverse, its spiritual and physical dimensions, and its incalculable intelligent civilizations • Reveals the key travel and communication technologies of the Omniverse: time travel, teleportation, and telepathy • Unveils newly disclosed state secrets about these technologies, about the findings of the NASA Mars rover missions, and about a secret colony and life on Mars • Explains through science how souls are holographic fragments of God and how they help create planets, solar systems, galaxies, and universes in the multiverse We are all citizens of the Omniverse, the overarching matrix of energy, spirit, and intelligence that encompasses all that exists: all universes within the multiverse as well as the spiritual dimensions centered on the divine Source that many call God. In this scientific guide to the Omniverse, Alfred Lambremont Webre reveals startling replicable evidence about extraterrestrial and extra-universal life, the intelligent civilizations created by souls in the afterlife, top-secret alien technology, and the existence of a secret base as well as life on Mars. The author explains how our souls are holographic fragments of God/Source and how souls and Source are co-creating planets and galaxies as virtual realities for soul development. He addresses Grey alien control over soul reincarnation and also sheds light on the presence of invisible hyperdimensional controllers known as the Archons, who feed off negative energy. Revealing the key technologies of the Omniverse, the author explains how hyperdimensional civilizations communicate telepathically, teleport interdimensionally, and travel through time. He unveils newly disclosed state secrets about government possession of these technologies, the findings of the NASA Mars rover missions, and the secret Mars colony whose permanent security personnel is age-reversed and shot back through time to their specific space-time origin points--with their memories blocked. Integrating science and spirituality, this map of the dimensions of the Omniverse sounds the call for scientific inquiry into the holographic origins of the soul, the potential of time travel, and our role as divine co-creators with Source. “This truly is the first and possibly only book out there to not just formally define the Omniverse, but provide evidence to prove it actually exists,” explains Webre, a prolific author and pundit for the national media. “And it’s a holistic publication, providing a new hypothesis of reality that integrates science and spirituality in a way the modern world will both understand and appreciate.” Continuing, “By exploring the Omniverse, we open up a plethora of opportunities to brainstorm the possible futures for humanity, as well as cut back to the core of things like the soul’s role in creation. It’s going to answer more questions in the next decade than have been answered without this knowledge in the past century. I guarantee it.” The volume was currently the #1-selling Amazon pre-order on the subject of Mars. ‘The Omniverse: Transdimensional Intelligence, Time Travel, the Afterlife, and the Secret Colony on Mars’, from Bear & Company For more information, visit the author’s official website: http://www.exopolitics.com Alfred Lambremont Webre, MEd, JD - Alfred's contributions to the development of a positive future for Earth and our living community in the dimensional ecology have included the Development of Exopolitics in his book Exopolitics: Politics, Government and Law In the Universe (2005 Universebooks.com and the Mapping of the Omniverse in his Dec. 2015 book The Omniverse (Inner Traditions/Bear & Co.) both available on Amazon. Alfred is a graduate of Georgetown Preparatory School in Classics, Yale University in Industrial Administration Honors and Yale Law School in international law and was a Fulbright Scholar in international economic integration in Uruguay. He has taught economics at Yale University and the Bill of Rights at the University of Texas. Alfred was general counsel to the New York City Environmental Protection Administration, a futurist at Stanford Research Institute (where he directed the proposed 1977 Carter White House extraterrestrial communication study), and was a NGO delegate to the United Nations and the UNISPACE conference. He was also a an Administrator of the Brownsville Community Health Center in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas as well as a Judge on the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal. Alfred has been active in public broadcasting in the United States (WBAI-FM) and Canada (Vancouver Coop Radio); public interest counter intelligence (Assassination Information Bureau); deconstruction of the Transhumanist Agenda; the peaceful uses of outer space (Institute for Cooperation in Space); Life on Mars (Mars Anomaly Research Society); multidimensional online education (Omniversity in development); and news (NewsInsideOut.com; Exopolitics.com). Alfred’s investigative journalism has been featured on CBC, CBS, CNN, TruTV, PressTV, and other mainstream TV networks. Author contact information: Email: [email protected] / To request media review copies of THE OMNIVERSE: Inner Traditions/Bear & Co. / Blythe Bates / [email protected] 23 November 2015 \| Permalink	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1295
__label__cc	0.658378	0.341622	CSRE 131C: Trauma, healing, and empowerment in Asian America (ASNAMST 131) This course will look at the ways in which Asian Americans are affected by the legacy of war, occupation and colonialism through themes of home, displacement, community, roots, identity, and inter-generational trauma. The approach is integrative, including scholarly investigation, embodied practice, and creative approach. This self-reflective process uses narrative, oral and written, as a means of becoming whole and healing personal, historical, and collective wounds. Terms: Win \| Units: 3-5 \| UG Reqs: WAY-CE, WAY-ED Instructors: Murphy-Shigematsu, S. (PI) CSRE 131C \| 3-5 units \| UG Reqs: WAY-CE, WAY-ED \| Class # 43844 \| Section 01 \| Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit \| SEM \| Students enrolled: 4 01/04/2016 - 03/11/2016 Thu 1:30 PM - 4:20 PM with Murphy-Shigematsu, S. (PI) CSRE 138: Medical Ethics in a Global World: Examining Race, Difference and Power in the Research Enterprise (ANTHRO 138, ANTHRO 238) This course will explore historical as well as current market transformations of medical ethics in different global contexts. We will examine various aspects of the research enterprise, its knowledge-generating and life-saving goals, as well as the societal, cultural, and political influences that make medical research a site of brokering in need of oversight and emergent ethics.nThis seminar will provide students with tools to explore and critically assess the various technical, social, and ethical positions of researchers, as well as the role of the state, the media, and certain publics in shaping scientific research agendas. We will also examine how structural violence, poverty, global standing, and issues of citizenship also influence issues of consent and just science and medicine. Terms: Aut \| Units: 5 \| UG Reqs: WAY-ED, WAY-ER Instructors: Fullwiley, D. (PI) ; Chahim, D. (TA) CSRE 138 \| 5 units \| UG Reqs: WAY-ED, WAY-ER \| Class # 30353 \| Section 01 \| Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) \| SEM \| Students enrolled: 1 09/21/2015 - 12/04/2015 Mon, Wed 1:30 PM - 2:50 PM at 380-381T with Fullwiley, D. (PI); Chahim, D. (TA) Instructors: Fullwiley, D. (PI); Chahim, D. (TA) CSRE 141: Gentrification (URBANST 141) Neighborhoods in the Bay Area and around the world are undergoing a transformation known as gentrification. Middle- and upper-income people are moving into what were once low-income areas, and housing costs are on the rise. Tensions between ¿newcomers¿ and ¿old timers,¿ who are often separated by race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation, can erupt; high rents may force long-time residents to leave. In this class we will move beyond simplistic media depictions to explore the complex history, nature, causes and consequences of this process. Students will learn through readings, films, class discussions, and engagement with a local community organization Terms: Spr \| Units: 5 \| UG Reqs: WAY-ED, WAY-SI Instructors: Kahan, M. (PI) CSRE 141 \| 5 units \| UG Reqs: WAY-ED, WAY-SI \| Class # 57927 \| Section 01 \| Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) \| SEM \| Students enrolled: 3 03/28/2016 - 06/01/2016 Mon, Wed 3:30 PM - 5:20 PM at 50-51B with Kahan, M. (PI) CSRE 144: Transforming Self and Systems: Crossing Borders of Race, Nation, Gender, Sexuality, and Class (ASNAMST 144, FEMGEN 144X) Exploration of crossing borders within ourselves, and between us and them, based on a belief that understanding the self leads to understanding others. How personal identity struggles have meaning beyond the individual, how self healing can lead to community healing, how the personal is political, and how artistic self expression based in self understanding can address social issues. The tensions of victimization and agency, contemplation and action, humanities and science, embracing knowledge that comes from the heart as well as the mind. Studies are founded in synergistic consciousness as movement toward meaning, balance, connectedness, and wholeness. Engaging these questions through group process, journaling, reading, drama, creative writing, and storytelling. Study is academic and self-reflective, with an emphasis on developing and presenting creative works in various media that express identity development across borders. Terms: Aut \| Units: 5 \| UG Reqs: WAY-CE, WAY-ED CSRE 144 \| 5 units \| UG Reqs: WAY-CE, WAY-ED \| Class # 15248 \| Section 01 \| Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit \| SEM \| Students enrolled: 9 09/21/2015 - 12/04/2015 Thu 1:30 PM - 4:20 PM at 200-015 with Murphy-Shigematsu, S. (PI) CSRE 145B: The African Atlantic (AFRICAAM 148, AFRICAST 145B, COMPLIT 145B, COMPLIT 345B, FRENCH 145B, FRENCH 345B) This course explores the central place Africa holds in prose writing emerging during early and modern periods of globalization across the Atlantic, including the middle passage, exploration and colonialism, black internationalism, decolonization, immigration, and diasporic return. We will begin with Equiano's Interesting Narrative (1789), a touchstone for the Atlantic prose tradition, and study how writers crossing the Atlantic have continued to depict Africa in later centuries: to dramatize scenes of departure and arrival in stories of self-making or new citizenship, to evoke histories of racial unity or examine psychic and social fragmentation, to imagine new national communities or question their norms and borders. Our readings will be selected from English, French, Portuguese and Spanish-language traditions. And we will pay close attention to genres of prose fiction (Conrad, Condé, Olinto), epic and prose poetry (Césaire, Walcott), theoretical reflection (Gilroy, Glissant, Mudimbe, Benitez-Rojo), and literary autobiography (Barack Obama, Saidiya Hartman). Terms: Spr \| Units: 3-5 \| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED Instructors: Ikoku, A. (PI) CSRE 145B \| 3-5 units \| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED \| Class # 44554 \| Section 01 \| Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit \| SEM 03/28/2016 - 06/01/2016 Wed 1:30 PM - 4:20 PM at 200-032 with Ikoku, A. (PI) CSRE 146J: Studies in Ethnomusicology: Listening to the Local: Music Ethnography of the Bay Area (MUSIC 146J, MUSIC 246J) An introduction to music ethnography through student research on musical life in the Bay Area. Focus is on the intersections of music, social life, and cultural practice by engaging with people as they perform music and culture in situ. Techniques taught include participant-observation, interviewing and oral history, writing fieldnotes, recording, transcription, analysis, and ethnographic writing. Pre-/corequisite (for music majors): MUSIC 22. (WIM at 4 units only.) Terms: Spr \| Units: 3-5 \| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED Instructors: Schultz, A. (PI) CSRE 146J \| 3-5 units \| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED \| Class # 58788 \| Section 01 \| Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) \| SEM \| Students enrolled: 2 03/28/2016 - 06/01/2016 Tue, Thu 10:30 AM - 11:50 AM at Braun102 with Schultz, A. (PI) CSRE 146S: Asian American Culture and Community (AMSTUD 146, ASNAMST 146S, COMPLIT 146) This course introduces students to the histories of Asians in America, specifically as these histories are part of a broader Asia-US-Pacific history that characterized the 20th century and now the 21st. We will combine readings in history, literature, sociology, with community-based learning.nnThe course takes place over two quarters. The first quarter focuses on gaining knowledge of Asian America and discussion key topics that students wish to focus on collaboratively. During this first quarter we also learn about community-based learning, set up teams and projects, and develop relationships with community organizations. The second quarter students work with student liaisons (senior students who have experience in service learning) and complete their work with the community¿there are no formal class meetings this second quarter. Service Learning Course (certified by Haas Center). Course can be repeated once. Last offered: Winter 2015 \| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-ED, WAY-SI \| Repeatable for credit CSRE 147J: Studies in Music, Media, and Popular Culture: The Soul Tradition in African American Music (AFRICAAM 19, AMSTUD 147J, MUSIC 147J, MUSIC 247J) The African American tradition of soul music from its origins in blues, gospel, and jazz to its influence on today's r&b, hip hop, and dance music. Style such as rhythm and blues, Motown, Southern soul, funk, Philadelphia soul, disco, Chicago house, Detroit techno, trip hop, and neo-soul. Soul's cultural influence and global reach; its interaction with politics, gender, place, technology, and the economy. Pre-/corequisite (for music majors): MUSIC 22. (WIM at 4 units only.) CSRE 147L: Studies in Music, Media, and Popular Culture: Latin American Music and Globalization (CHILATST 147L, MUSIC 147L, MUSIC 247L) Focuses on vernacular music of Latin America and the Caribbean, including Mexico, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Peru, Brazil, Colombia, and Argentina. Musical examples discussed in relation to: globalization, migration, colonialism, nationalism, diaspora, indigeneity, politics, religion, dance, ethnicity, and gender. How music reflects and shapes cultures, identities, and social structures. Genres addressed: bachata, bossa nova, cumbia, forro, ranchero, reggaeton, rock, salsa, tango, and others. Seminar, guest performances, reading, listening, and analysis. Pre-/corequisite (for music majors): MUSIC 22. (WIM at 4 units only.) Terms: Aut \| Units: 3-4 \| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-ED \| Repeatable for credit Instructors: Kronengold, C. (PI) ; Schultz, A. (PI) CSRE 147L \| 3-4 units \| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-ED \| Class # 31528 \| Section 01 \| Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit \| SEM \| Students enrolled: 3 09/21/2015 - 12/04/2015 Tue, Thu 10:30 AM - 11:50 AM at Braun102 with Kronengold, C. (PI); Schultz, A. (PI) Instructors: Kronengold, C. (PI); Schultz, A. (PI) CSRE 148: Comparative Ethnic Conflict (SOC 148, SOC 248) Causes and consequences of racial and ethnic conflict, including nationalist movements, ethnic genocide, civil war, ethnic separatism, politics, indigenous peoples' movements, and minority rights movements around the world. Last offered: Winter 2013 \| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-ED, WAY-SI « prev \| Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 \| next »	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1297
__label__wiki	0.751194	0.751194	A blog about London and its history… Treasures of London – The (new) Design Museum… The Design Museum’s new home in Kensington finally opened this week and it’s already been getting some rave reviews, hence why, despite its freshness, we thought we’d mention it in our Treasures of London feature. The museum, which moved to its new premises after 25 years in Shad Thames, now occupies the former Commonwealth Institute building, which dates from 1962 and was designed by Robert Matthew. The building has recently undergone a £83 million makeover with the interiors designed by architect John Pawson. The new museum has three times the space of the previous premises and features the only collection in the UK devoted exclusively to contemporary design and architecture. At the heart of the building is the Designer Maker User exhibition which, as the museum’s first free permanent display, occupies the top floor of the museum, and includes more than 1,000 items of 20th and 21st century design. At its entrance can be found a wall featuring more than 200 items from 25 countries nominated by the general public including a Bible, Coca-Cola can and a £5 banknote. Inside, the Designer section focuses on the thought-processes of designers and features a full-sized production of a gerberette used in the Richard Rogers-designed Centre Pompidou in Paris as well as models and images of the works of the late architect Zaha Hadid, David Mellor’s traffic lights, Kinneir and Calvert’s British road signage system and a full scale prototype for a new London Tube train designed by PriestmanGoode as well as Moulton bicycles and London Underground maps. The Maker section, meanwhile, traces the evolution of manufacturing from Thonet bentwood cafe chairs and Model T Ford cars to robotic arms and 3D printing and includes objects at different stages of production – from tennis balls to the London 2012 Olympic Torch. And in the User section, visitors will be led to explore the interaction between the consumer and brands that have become household names – Braun, Sony, Apple and Olivetti – as well as the impact of design on politics, fashion and music. Displays in the latter part include Gucci tennis shoes, the fashions of Vivienne Westwood and Christian Louboutin and the pioneering magazine The Face. As many as 500,000 people are expected to visit the museum in its first year. Along with permanent displays, also unveiled this week was the new exhibition, Fear and Love, featuring 11 new installations by world leading designers. They include The Pan-European Living Room by architecture practice OMA, Room Tone by fashion designer Hussein Chalayan, Pittsburgh-based designer Madeline Gannon’s “mechanical creature” Mimus, and a series of death masks called Vespers created using 3D printing technology Neri Oxman. And running until 19th February is the Beazley Designs of the Year, a celebration of design that promotes or delivers change, enables access, extends design practice or captures the spirit of the year past. Categories include architecture, digital, fashion, graphics, product and transport. WHERE: The Design Museum, 224-238 Kensington High Street, Kensington (nearest Tube stations are Kensington High Street. Earl’s Court and Holland Park); WHEN: 10am to 6pm daily; COST: free (admission charges to special exhibitions); WEBSITE: http://designmuseum.org PICTURES: Top – Gravity; Middle – Gareth Gardner; Bottom – Helene Binet. Courtesy The Design Museum. Posted in Kensington, Museums, News, Treasures of London, Twentieth century \| Tagged Commonwealth Institute Building, Design Museum, Designer Maker User, Fear and Love, Kensington, Shad Thames, Treasures of London \| 1 Comment » This Week in London – The Boat Race; Designs of the Year; Heckling Hitler; and Victorian-era homelessness… • The 161st Boat Race is on this weekend and will once more see Oxford and Cambridge rowing crews battling it out in their annual contest on the Thames. The day’s schedule of festivities kicks off at noon at Bishop’s Park near the race’s starting point just west of Putney Bridge and at Furnivall Gardens near Hammersmith Bridge but the main highlights don’t take place until late in the afternoon – the Newton Women’s Boat Race at 4.50pm and the main event, the BNY Mellon Boat Race, at 5.50pm. The race runs along the Thames from Putney Bridge through to Chiswick Bridge with plenty of vantage points along the way. The tally currently sits at 78 to Oxford and 81 to Cambridge. For more information, including where to watch, head to http://theboatraces.org/. • Prospective “Designs of the Year” are on display at the Design Museum in Shad Thames ahead of the announcement of awards in May and June. With the awards – handed out in six categories – now in their eighth year, the 76 designs on display include Google’s self-driving car, the Frank Gehry-designed Foundation Louis Vuitton in Paris and Asif Kahn’s experimental architectural installation Megafaces which debuted at the Sochi Olympics as well as Norwegian banknotes, a billboard that cleans pollutants from the air and a book printed without ink. Runs until 23rd August. Admission charge applies. For more, see www.designmuseum.org/exhibitions/designs-of-the-year-2015. • On Now: Heckling Hitler: World War II in Cartoon and Comic Art. Showing at the Cartoon Museum in Bloomsbury, this exhibition explores how World War II unfolded through the eyes of British cartoonists. It features more than 120 original drawings and printed ephemera and while the focus is largely on those contained newspapers and magazines, the exhibition does include some sample materials from books, aerial leaflets, artwork from The Dandy and The Beano, postcards and overseas propaganda publications as well as some unpublished cartoons drawn in prisoner-of-war camps and by civilians at home (the latter on scrap paper from the Ministry of Food), and even a rare pin cushion featuring Hitler and Mussolini. Among the artists whose works are featured are ‘Fougasse’ (creator of Ministry of Information posters reminding the public that ‘Careless Talk Costs Lives’), William Heath Robinson and Joe Lee. The exhibition runs until 12th July. Admission charge applies. For more, see www.cartoonmuseum.org/exhibitions/current-exhibitions/heckling-hitler. • On Now: Homes of the Homeless: Seeking Shelter in Victorian London. This exhibition at the Geffrye Museum in Shoreditch explores the places inhabited by London’s poor during the 19th and 20th centuries and brings them to life through paintings, photographs and objects as well as the retelling of personal stories and reports. Starting in the 1840s, the exhibition charts the problems faced by London’s poor and examines the dirty and cramped conditions of lodging houses, workhouses and refuges where they took shelter along with, for those even less fortunate, the streets where they slept rough before moving on to some of the housing solutions designed specifically to help the poor. Runs until 12th July. Admission charge applies. Running alongside the exhibition is a free display, Home and Hope – a collaborative exhibition with the New Horizon Youth Centre which explores the experience of young homeless people in London today. For more, see www.geffrye-museum.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions-and-displays/homes-of-the-homeless/. Send all items for inclusion to exploringlondon@gmail.com Posted in Bloomsbury, Chiswick, Events, Hammersmith, Museums, News, Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race, Putney, Shoreditch, The Thames, Twentieth century \| Tagged Bishop's Park, Bloomsbury, Cartoon Museum, Chiswick Bridge, Design Museum, Designs of the Year, Furnivall Gardens, Geffrye Museum, Hammersmith Bridge, Heckling Hitler: World War II in Cartoon and Comic Art, Homes of the Homeless: Seeking Shelter in Victorian London, Oxford and Cambridge, Putney Bridge, Shad Thames, Shoreditch, The Boat Race, The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race, The Thames \| Leave a Comment » Treasures of London – K2 telephone kiosk at the Design Museum… This version of the iconic British ‘institution’ – the red phone box – was designed by architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in 1924 (you may know him as the designer of the Battersea Power Station). Formally known as the K2 telephone kiosk, Scott’s design was selected after a competition organised by the Royal Fine Art Commission (there’s a wooden prototype of Scott’s K2 located under the entrance to the Royal Academy of Arts in Piccadilly – the location where it was originally positioned). The design featured a classical-looking dome (said to have been influenced by the work of architect Sir John Soane) which featured the royal crest of King George V (done in perforation, so it also provided ventilation). The phone box was made in cast iron and painted red (Scott had apparently suggested silver). From 1926 onwards, around 1,700 of the K2s – which weighed more than a ton – were deployed around London (very few were ever erected outside the city). The surviving K2s – there are said to be slightly more than 200 – are now listed buildings. The telephone box is a part of the Design Museum’s permanent collection which is currently held in two locations but from 2015 will be housed in a new purpose-built museum in High Street Kensington. The box, which will be displayed on the museum’s top floor which will be dedicated to the display of 20th century artefacts, is currently featured in a special exhibition, Design Museum Collection: Extraordinary Stories About Ordinary Things, which runs at the museum’s current premises until January, 2015. To further explore the Design Museum’s collection, you can download a free Design Museum Collection App for iPad app via iTunes. WHERE: Design Museum, 28 Shad Thames (nearest Tube stations are London Bridge and Tower Bridge); WHEN: 10am to 5.45pm daily (last admission 5.15pm); COST: £11.85 adults/£10.70 concessions/£7.50 students (children under 12 are free); WEBSITE: www.designmuseum.org Posted in George V, John Soane, Kensington, Piccadilly, Treasures of London, Twentieth century \| Tagged Design Museum, John Soane, K2 telephone kiosk, King George V, Piccadilly, Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Fine Art Commission, Shad Thames, Sir Giles Gilbert Scott \| 1 Comment » LondonLife – A snapshot in time at the soon-to-be Design Museum… A selection of objects chosen by leading designers and architects including Sir Terence Conran, Sir Paul Smith, Zaha Hadid, and Norman Foster were buried within the foundations of the soon-to-be Design Museum in Kensington High Street earlier this month. The objects, which included everything from a miniature model of an 1949 Wish Bone Chair to an iPhone, a Cylinder Line Coffee Pot, a tin of anchovies and Tube maps, were placed within a time capsule which was buried as part of a ground-breaking ceremony for the new museum. Designed by John Pawson, the new Design Museum will be based within the converted interior of the former Commonwealth Institute Building. Expected to open in 2015, it will have three times as much space as the existing premises in Shad Thames, south east London. For more, see http://designmuseum.org. PICTURE: Dominic French. 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__label__wiki	0.579256	0.579256	New Betting Platform Tour Welcome to the new BetAmerica Tips to Get Started Major Horse Races 2020 Kentucky Derby Road to the Kentucky Derby 2019 Breeders’ Cup Championships 2019 Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series Thoroughbred Tracks Harness Racing Betting Harness Racing Tracks Quarter Horse Tracks Greyhound Racing Tracks How to Read Program BARN Radio About BARN NCAA Tournament Bracket Casino Hold’em Poker Hand Rankings 25 Terms and Definitions to Know in Poker New Promos Wager Rewards Bet Info BetAmerica App Betting Platform Tutorials RacingWire SportsWire Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Berth Available in KPMG Champions Juvenile Stakes This weekend is going to be a big one in terms of “Win and You’re In” prep races for the 2018 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (gr. I) at Churchill Downs. The attention of North American racing fans will be primarily focused on Sunday’s Summer Stakes (gr. I) at Woodbine, but given the impressive history of success by foreign raiders in the Juvenile Turf, it could pay to keep an eye on Saturday’s KPMG Champions Juvenile Stakes (Eng-II) at Leopardstown, a one-mile event that has attracted nine starters. Three of them will represent the barn of trainer Aidan O’Brien, who has won the Juvenile Turf on four occasions since 2011. Based on form to date and Racing Post Ratings, #1 Broome might be the best of the trio considering his sixth-place finish in the Acomb Stakes (Eng-II) at York last month. But the up-and-coming last-out maiden winners #8 Sydney Opera House and #9 Western Australia, both sons of Australia, are steadily improving and could be poised to step up on Saturday. Furthermore, O’Brien’s runners are far from the only promising horses entered in the Juvenile Stakes. The favorite is actually expected to be #5 Madhmoon, who had no difficulty defeating Sydney Opera House by 2 ¾ lengths in a maiden race over this course and distance on August 16th. Trained by Kevin Prendergast, the son of Dawn Approach will seek to bring his record to a perfect 2-for-2 on Saturday. #6 Masaff, a maiden winner at the Curragh three months ago for trainer Dermot Weld, looms as another major player, while #7 Pythion was quite gallant in securing a dead-heat victory going a mile at Leopardstown on July 26th, his lone start to date. Returning on short rest for trainer Joseph O’Brien is #4 Cosmic Horizon, who found the third time to be the charm on September 3rd at Roscommon, breaking his maiden after two previous defeats. He’s coming back in less than two weeks, but the son of Excelebration seems to be on the rise and might improve once again. #3 Copia Verborum, fourth behind Cosmic Horizon on September 3rd, will be among the longshots in the wagering along with #2 Channel Stuffer, a 0-for-3 maiden who finished seventh against the well-regarded Ten Sovereigns in a six-furlong sprint at the Curragh last time out. The KPMG Champions Juvenile Stakes is the third race of the day at Leopardstown, with a post time of 11:25 a.m. Eastern. Later events on the stakes-packed card include the Coolmore Fastnet Rock Matron Stakes (Ire-I) and the QIPCO Irish Champion Stakes (Ire-I). By Keeler Johnson\|September 13th, 2018\|Categories: Breeders' Cup, Horses, International, Races, RacingWire, Thoroughbreds\|Tags: Aidan O'Brien, Breeders Cup, Breeders' Cup Challenge, Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf, Broome, Channel Stuffer, Copia Verborum, Cosmic Horizon, Dermot Weld, International, Joseph O'Brien, Kevin Prendergast, KPMG Champions Juvenile Stakes, Leopardstown, Madhmoon, Masaff, Pythion, Sydney Opera House, Western Australia, Win and You're In\| Most Viewed Extra Pages 2019-20 Road to the Kentucky Derby BA Radio Network < Go to BetAmerica.com – Claim Your Signup Bonus Now!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1300
__label__wiki	0.968523	0.968523	Police in Pakistan say they are seeking to arrest PM Imran Khan's nephew for taking part in a violent protest at a hospital in which three patients died. Lahore police raided Hassan Niazi's residence and say he may now be hiding. Mr Niazi was among several hundred lawyers who ransacked a city hospital in a dispute with doctors. Riot police had to be called in to restore order. Images of lawyers – in suits and ties – assaulting staff and damaging property prompted shock and condemnation. Photos and videos of Hassan Niazi were widely shared on social media, as people lined up to criticise the lawyers. Mr Niazi has admitted taking part in the violence at Lahore's Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) and said on Twitter he regretted it. From his uncle, who tweets often, there has been no mention of the furore over his family's link to Wednesday's violence. Mr Khan's nephew is prominent in footage of the attack, and can be seen participating in physical assaults as well as an arson attack in which a police van was set on fire. Patients die as lawyers ransack Lahore hospital The lawyer and human rights activist was held soon afterwards by police and was seen being escorted out of the area. So there was surprise when his name did not appear in the police report listing those lawyers facing court action in connection with the violence. The authorities have not explained what happened after he was detained, but a spokesman for the city's police chief said Mr Niazi had been identified through video footage and was now being sought. "His residence in Lahore was raided by the police last night and also this morning to arrest him, but he was not found there and has possibly gone into hiding," the spokesman, Waseem Butt, told BBC Urdu's Shahzad Malik. Many are questioning this account. Some wonder whether he was freed because he is related to the prime minister. Opposition politicians are demanding Mr Niazi's immediate arrest. More than 80 lawyers were arrested over the hospital attack, and 46 have been remanded in custody. Lawyers called a nationwide strike on Friday, angry at police treatment of their colleagues in Lahore. But headlines, editorials and social media outrage suggested they were out of step with others in the country. One article in Dawn newspaper described the attack as "a stain on our collective humanitRead More – Source Key committee passes Trump impeachment charges Iran nuclear deal: Tehran to develop centrifuges for uranium enrichment By admin September 5, 2019 Enjoy more of Scotlands great outdoors with a staycation this spring By admin July 25, 2018 Scotch Whisky gets protected legal recognition from New Zealand By admin November 11, 2018	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1301
__label__wiki	0.566794	0.566794	Carolina Pineda Martinez: Compliance folks aren’t the ‘Bonus Prevention Department’ Carolina Pineda Martinez The real world isn’t just good guys and bad guys. There’s a story behind every compliance problem, and even though it may not excuse anyone’s behavior, it should be a reminder that people just like us make mistakes — sometimes really big mistakes. That was the point of a unique event Fordham University hosted on March 22. Alice BrightSky, Senior Director of the Corporate Compliance LLM and MSL program, assembled a panel with Rashmi Airan, a Columbia Law grad and former practicing attorney who was convicted of conspiracy to commit bank fraud. Also on the panel was Richard Bistrong, a contributing editor of the FCPA Blog. He’s a former sales executive in the security and defense industry convicted of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Joining them were Serina Vash, a former prosecutor and current executive director of NYU Law School’s program on corporate compliance and enforcement, and William McMurry of the FBI. On the surface, there seemed to be two distinct sides of this panel — those who committed a crime and did the time, and those who stood for justice. But during the discussion, we in the audience learned that people don’t simply decide to commit crimes of this scale. Instead, for Airan and Bistrong and many others, it’s often a series of small bad choices that eventually produce a profoundly bad result. Airan and Bistrong share similar backgrounds. Both were successful and charging up the corporate and professional ladders. Both had families and were planning for a bright future. They saw themselves as strong and independent high achievers, looking out for themselves. At the critical moment, though, both lacked ethical guidance, internally and externally. Both disregarded the right path for the wrong one so they could achieve “success.” As Bistrong said, to him the compliance folks were the “Bonus Prevention Department.” One particular lesson Bistrong drew from his experience is that organizations often forget about or ignore those who deliver results from remote locations. There’s often no bond between headquarters and the field, even though the hinterlands are where the business usually grows. One byproduct of the drive for success for those in remote locations is that just when their ethical values are being challenged, they also start to think that asking for help from colleagues or family members is a sign of weakness. It became clear from listening to Airan and Bistrong and the two other panelists that organizations need to make consistent efforts to be closer to their employees. More personal, human-to-human concern and contact is what’s needed. Those in the field and in other high-pressure roles need to be seen by the compliance folks as colleagues who need support and encouragement. In other words, organizations and their compliance groups need to shed the concept of the Bonus Prevention Department by remembering the unique challenges that every person faces — not only as an employee but as a parent, as a son or daughter, and as a member of a community. Carolina Pineda Martinez, pictured above, is pursuing her LLM (May 2017) in Corporate Compliance at Fordham University School of Law. She holds a law degree from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia. She was previously Legal Manager and International Trade Counsel for Latin America at Procter & Gamble Colombia. She can be reached via LinkedIn here and by email here. Post Tags: behavioral science, Fordham Law School, Richard Bistrong Um9iZXJ0byBCYXV6w6E= Good post, Carolina. I think compliance folks must do a better job in showing salespeople, "field managers" and other result-driven employees that compliance does not work against productivity. Unfortunately, this is not often a self-evident truth, or one supported by market practices. Calvert Duffy Well said Carolina. I once worked at an organisation where staff greeted me with the words "what's it like working for the most hated department in the (global) company?" I laughed and replied "I used to be a regulator. This is going to be easy!" Eventually that person became my greatest ally and advocate in the company because we worked with the business by getting off our backsides and 'walking around'. I use the acronym GOYA or Get Off Your Ass! It's good advice for management & great advice for compliance folk. 2ears and 1 mouth- use in that proportion. Felix P. Nater, CSC Timely post, Carolina. Compliance is larger than mandatory conduct in adhering to laws and regulations. It is about fostering a culture of personal accountability. Without appreciating a higher sense of accountability, compliance becomes an effort in futility. Recently, following a sensituve review of a Client's business practices the CEO asked me to present training on ethical leadership and responsible conduct. He felt clarification of culpability started with understanding ethical conduct. Compliance is not a substitution for accountable behavior! Ethical conduct is an organizational responsibility and your last sentence nails it for me in terms of competing interests and unintentional consequences.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1303
__label__wiki	0.810657	0.810657	Interagency team studies geospatial preparedness By GCN Staff An interagency team is developing a comprehensive national strategy for delivering geospatial data to emergency responders. The Federal Emergency Management Agency formed the team in February because geospatial technology is critical to response and recovery efforts in natural and manmade disasters, said Susan Kalweit, who heads the Interagency Geospatial Preparedness Team. “Regardless of what causes the incident, the kinds of response and recovery are basically the same,” Kalweit said. Geospatial technology addresses the universally important questions of where the disaster happened and how responders can get to it. The team will assess the needs and existing capabilities of federal, state and local agencies, Kalweit said. Its capabilities assessment will leverage work being done for the Geospatial One-Stop Portal program, one of the 25 e-government initiatives, and the National Imaging and Mapping Agency’s 133 Cities project, she said. The assessments will take eight or nine months, but those may not be contiguous months, Kalweit said. Hurricane, wildfire and flooding seasons have started or will begin soon, and workshops the interagency team plans to hold in each of the 10 FEMA regions may have to wait until the threats of natural disasters have abated. The team is reaching out to state and local governments through the National States Geographic Information Council. Kalweit, who was deputy chief of NIMA’s North America and Homeland Security Division, is working at FEMA on detail until February. Connect with the GCN staff on Twitter @GCNtech.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1304
__label__wiki	0.989311	0.989311	Who will be the next Army CIO? With Sorenson's retirement, speculation begins about a successor By Amber Corrin With the retirement of Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Sorenson as Army chief information officer, the military IT community is now wondering who will fill the formidable shoes he leaves behind. Sorenson spent more than 37 years in the service, with three of those years in the CIO office. Mike Krieger, Sorenson’s deputy since July 2008, is now filling in as acting Army CIO, while Maj. Gen. Mark Bowman, currently Army director for architecture, operations, networks and space, takes on the deputy job. Related coverage: Army CIO retires quietly Army takes on acquisition, cyberspace and culture An inside source familiar with the CIO office, speaking on background, indicated that Bowman is in the running for Sorenson’s former post, as is Maj. Gen. Susan Lawrence, who in September stepped down as commander of the Army Network Enterprise Technology Command/9th Signal Command in Fort Huachuca, Ariz. Sorenson, a longtime proponent of advancing military IT capabilities who has been instrumental in building the Defense Department’s Global Information Grid, marked his retirement in a ceremony Nov. 4. Though little was made public of his retirement, the ceremony included about 400 guests and was presided over by Gen. Peter Chiarelli, the Army vice chief of staff, according to Margaret McBride, CIO/G-6 public affairs officer. “Sorenson thanked the Army for the opportunity to serve and the CIO/G-6 organization for their commitment to deliver the finest [command, control, communications and computers]/IT network capabilities to soldiers,” McBride said in a statement. “We have come a long way to reshape the network enterprise strategy,” Sorenson said, according to the statement. “And I believe the CIO/G-6 is on the cusp of delivering significant network capabilities to the warfighter through all our enterprise initiatives.” The new Army CIO will be selected by the secretary of defense and/or secretary of the Army, and will face Senate confirmation -- which could take several months, and which the interim CIO and deputy are prepared for, according to the inside source. Amber Corrin is a former staff writer for FCW and Defense Systems.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1305
__label__wiki	0.609155	0.609155	Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed, in short order, to re-arrange your reality. —Simon Schama This June, the Figge Art Museum will present a comprehensive installation by Quad Cities artist Steve Banks. Like an archaeologist digging through layers of pop culture ash, Banks uncovers iconic examples of high and low art which he then rearranges and re-covers in complex and entertaining constructions. In a visual mash-up of the familiar icons of art history and the TV shows, comic books and movies of his youth, Banks’s constructions acknowledge, for better and worse, the mass media’s headlock-like influence on our tastes. Through his use of pungent color schemes and a distinct iconographic style, Banks creates a palimpsest of personal memories revealing through its layers a wry social commentary. The exhibition’s title, Pop Culture Palimpsest, refers to Medieval manuscripts in which one text or image is effaced and replaced by a new one, leaving a trace of the original and a record of layered information. Incorporating overlapping layers of painted, collaged, and carved elements, Banks’s constructions are the artist’s attempt to assert his identity against the mass media’s barrage on our senses. As Banks has stated, our “search for identity often turns into commentaries about how we miraculously form meaningful… interpersonal relationships while our souls… bob haplessly on an isolating sea of cultural white noise.” Read the artist's blog to learn more, and view progress photos of his artwork. Steve Banks' website On view June 9-September 2, 2018 Image Credit: Steve Banks, Mystaphorical Parfait, mixed media on canvas, Courtesy of the artist 4th Floor Gallery Artist Steve Banks returns to Thursdays at the Figge to speak about his completed exhibition, Pop Culture Palimpsest. Rose Frantzen: Portrait of Maquoketa and the Storytelling Tree	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1311
__label__cc	0.715519	0.284481	TRIAL SITES Florence eBinders SPONSORS/CROS Florence eTMF Florence eHub Florence Events CFR Part 11 ICH GCP R2 Guide to eRegulatory eClinical Solutions Overview Trial Site Portals Florence Adds Seasoned CRO Executive Insights, News Blake Adams2019-08-02T11:43:47-04:00 Florence, the company that advances clinical trials with software, continues expansive growth. The most recent member to join the Florence family is Ty Quinn, who will be taking on the role of Vice President and General Manager for Contract Research Organizations (CROs) and Sponsors. “Florence has realized an increasing presence of CRO and Sponsor [...] Florence Adds Seasoned CRO ExecutiveBlake Adams2019-08-02T11:43:47-04:00 Florence Welcomes Steve Chamberlain to Advisory Board Atlanta, GA, April 3, 2019 (Newswire.com) - Florence, the company that advances clinical trials with software, welcomes healthcare IT industry veteran, Steve Chamberlain to its Advisory Network. Chamberlain, who also made an undisclosed investment in Florence, brings experience driving growth at disruptive companies including WebMD and Mana Health. “A business thrives based on the drive [...] Florence Welcomes Steve Chamberlain to Advisory BoardBlake Adams2020-01-06T12:18:13-05:00 Florence and SignalPath Announce Strategic Partnership ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 19, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- At the Summit for Clinical Ops Executives (SCOPE), Florence and SignalPath announced a strategic partnership to optimize clinical research operations through the integration of their industry leading offerings. The partnership allows for a seamless experience for mutual customers of SignalPath's clinical trial management system (CTMS) and Florence's regulatory document management software (eRegulatory). The [...] Florence and SignalPath Announce Strategic PartnershipBlake Adams2019-09-06T20:24:13-04:00 Thank you for a great 2018! clinical trials, eRegulatory, Insights, News What a great year at Florence! As we look back and celebrate all that has happened this year on our mission to advance research, we thank you for being a part of the Florence family. We are excited to share some of our highlights with you. Over 2,500 Research Teams added in 2018! Research [...] Thank you for a great 2018!Blake Adams2019-08-02T15:47:21-04:00 Florence Named to Top 100 Places to Work in Atlanta Atlanta, GA, September 10, 2018 (Newswire) - Florence, a fast-growing Atlanta based company building software that advances clinical research, has been named one of the top 100 Best Places to Work in 2018 by the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Florence was named the #11 best place to work in the small business category. “This honor is a testament to our team,” [...] Florence Named to Top 100 Places to Work in AtlantaBlake Adams2019-08-02T15:51:10-04:00 Over 3,000 Researchers now in Florence eBinders Florence Team2019-08-02T15:55:07-04:00 During the second quarter of 2018 over 3,000 researchers worked inside of Florence solutions across Florence eBinders, Florence eHub, and Florence eTMF. Florence's 3,000 researchers come from all over the world: US, EU, Asia and Central America, with the highest concentration in the US. 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Founded in 2015, Florence partnered with innovative clinical trial sites with the [...] 2,000 Research Sites Now Active in Florence eBinders Over 600 StudiesBlake Adams2019-08-02T16:01:11-04:00 Cancer Research Is Accelerating, but We Can Do Better clinical trials, Insights, News, Study Startup Ryan Jones2019-08-02T16:04:03-04:00 The rate of cancer death has been decreasing, and people are living longer with cancer than ever before. Approximately 64% of US patients diagnosed with cancer in 2005 have lived 10 years or more beyond diagnosis, up from 35% for those diagnosed in 1975. — American Society of Clinical Oncology Cancer Advances Report, 2018. 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__label__wiki	0.745013	0.745013	First Round Review Track and Facilitate Your Engineers’ Flow States In This Simple Way Get The Review delivered Tweet Share Post Save Many business leaders hesitate when you ask them to share their biggest mistake. Not Cynthia Maxwell. She keeps hers front of mind. In fact, she turned it into a management tool that she uses every day. Back when Maxwell was the Director of Engineering at Yahoo!, she was tasked with building a brand-new, multi-platform messaging product. It was the type of big, ambitious project engineers want to sink their teeth into — and she easily recruited one of her former coworkers from Apple. Then, one day, after a few months, he told Maxwell he was returning to Apple. There had to have been a red flag, so she stepped back to examine the broader context: Her team was building a flagship application, and carefully integrating stakeholders in design, engineering and leadership. She was deeply plugged into precise metrics like scrolling speeds, crash rates and memory usage. Eventually though, she realized the problem was less about the work itself, and more about how her people were feeling about doing the work. If she only had a clearer line of sight into how they were feeling, she could have responded better and earlier — and perhaps retained that talented programmer. Resolved to never again lose a great developer unnecessarily, Maxwell turned her engineer’s mind to the gaps in her management tooling. She was missing a way to turn emotion into data, and she found it in an unexpectedly fuzzy place: the age-old concept of flow. In this exclusive interview, Maxwell, who’s held engineering management roles at Slack, Apple, Yahoo! and Pinterest, explains how she built a concrete evaluative framework around flow. She shares the simple graph that has become one of the most powerful resources in her management toolkit. And she describes how anxiety and boredom creep into a team, and how managers can supportively nudge engineers back into the ideal state of flow. Why Flow is a Must-Have, Not a Nice-to-Have As she grew from one management role to the next — leading interns and architects alike — Maxwell had always cared about her engineers’ feelings toward their work. But she kept bumping up against the limits of conversation. “No matter how strong your toolkit is for effective one-on-ones, not everyone will open up right away,” she says. I've been at three companies that scaled 5x while I was there. At that speed, a "slow boat" to trust won’t cut it. You have to teleport to it. She needed a way to assess job satisfaction quickly and candidly. First, though, she had to find a framework for more clearly defining satisfaction. The tools in her work life — from NPS to qualitative satisfaction surveys — didn’t quite capture it for her. In looking for an answer, her mind would shift to her off hours as a yoga aficionado and DJ, during which she’d experienced firsthand the power of flow. Indeed, the term is often associated with artists and athletes, who are understood to do their best work when they’re “in the zone.” Gamers, too, might intuitively understand flow; it has been applied to game design for years, where deep user engagement is the benchmark of success. But how to channel this as a manager? “My goal is to try to create what Csikszentmihalyi, the psychologist who defined flow, calls ‘autotelic jobs,’” says Maxwell. “I have a quote of his here: ‘The more a job inherently resembles a game — with variety, appropriate and flexible challenges, clear goals, and immediate feedback — the more enjoyable it will be regardless of the worker’s level of development.’” Maxwell had experienced flow at work, too, so she knew it was possible. “I can recall a few times where I thought to myself, ‘If I won the lottery tomorrow, I would still come into work.’ That’s flow,” she says. “Truth is, it doesn’t have to be the lottery. It can be an offer from another company, the call of launching a startup or any number of professional gravitational pulls. It’s about basic retention. That’s how vital it is to help your team members experience — and create — a sense of flow in their work.” To Grasp Flow, Graph Flow The immersive, pleasurable state of flow is hard enough to describe, let alone generate and track. “As a manager, I wanted to find ways to recreate those moments for my team,” says Maxwell. Around that time, she took the Search Inside Yourself training, based on Google’s Chade-Meng Tan’s popular course. On the second day, during a discussion of flow, she saw a deceptively simple X-Y graph, and things began to click. She’s since adopted, added to and iterated on it to fit her needs as a manager and to use in 1:1s she has run members of her team: At its most basic, the process is simple: during 1:1s, Maxwell asks her reports to mark the above graph to indicate where they are professionally. The version her team sees is stripped down to just its X- and Y-axis descriptors and the “flow beam.” Terms included above, like “apathy” and “boredom,” are just for her reference. Using them in conversations would drain some of the objective, quantitative value from the exercise. Instead her reports see this more simple version of the chart: Maxwell’s job is to help guide her team into that effortlessly productive state, where skill and challenge meet: flow. New tools are rarely completely comfortable right out of the gate (this one was no exception), but it did resonate with the engineers on her team. “It sounds silly, but the familiarity of the axes and slope helps. It feels as much an equation to solve as an emotional state to plot,” says Maxwell. She’s found that extroverts discuss with curiosity and introverts like the boundaries that the graph sets. “It suits both personality types. Externalizing a question that has a lot of importance into something non-threatening like a graph works for both extroverts and introverts.” It was also better for Maxwell. Where she was once digging fruitlessly for nuggets of candor in 1:1s, she suddenly had data, collected periodically, that led her to insights. “I realized that sussing out your team’s satisfaction doesn’t have to be a gut feeling. You can actually capture a moment in time, track it over sessions and get a sense of the trajectory of one’s flow. It helped me calibrate when I needed to be concerned and tweak the direction of a person’s course of work.” This is not a performance evaluation. This is a performing evaluation. The question is: how I can get you more into your work, not get more work out of you? And that means also adjusting how she manages. “It’s not a secret. I tell my team this is a tool for two-way evaluation. As your manager, my goal is to keep you in a flow state. This exercise shows me how I’m doing,” says Maxwell. “It’s not only about how my team is doing, but what I’m doing to support them. I tell my reports: ‘I want to be able to ask you how you feel about your work periodically, so that I better understand how to support you in an ongoing way.’” What Makes This Flow Graph Stick Even simple tools benefit from best practices, and Maxwell has developed a few to help her get the most out of this experience with each report: THE TOOLS: Maxwell uses Google Sheets, for a couple of reasons. Thanks to its easy version control, she can quickly glance at each person’s history to see how their marks have moved. When meeting with remote employees over video, it also helps her simulate the experience of using this tool in-person together. She can see what they’re doing in real time. THE TIMING: For optimal results, Maxwell likes to randomize when she asks her team members for their input. When you ask, and at what intervals, is somewhat up to your intuition. You’ll want to at the end of a big project, for example, or following a particularly grueling sprint. While it might be tempting to simply make this a weekly task, Maxwell cautions against it. “Let’s say I’m an engineer doing this every week, and I don’t see my dot moving. I might start to infer something really negative, and think, ‘Oh, forget this job.’” It can take a little while to get back into the flow zone once you leave it; often it takes moving to a new project, which then needs time to ramp up. “I wouldn't want someone to jump to a conclusion because they weren’t moving quickly enough, and start to be too hard on themselves.” She likes a cadence on the order of every two weeks. For new hires, she waits three weeks to first roll out the graph, to give them time to complete onboarding and start getting up to speed on a project. THE PROCESS: Maxwell typically saves this exercise for the end of a one-on-one, once her report has had a chance to bring up whatever issues they brought to the meeting. “In the last ten minutes, I’ll ask them to fill it out. Once they’ve placed their mark, we talk about it.” Her prompt is typically a simple, high-level question. “It’s usually something like, ‘How do you feel about the work that you're doing right now?’" She asks team members to consider the time period since they last completed the exercise. She’ll wait until they plot a point before they discuss. She’ll have the digital version of the last few completed exercises on her computer, so she can pull in context and discuss trends, as needed. Cynthia Maxwell How To Spot and Spark Flow Ideally, Maxwell wants to see all her reports land on the “beam,” that diagonal where skill and challenge match. “People should feel like they know more this month than they did last month, so they're moving to the right all the time. Meanwhile, they should feel like the tasks you're giving them are bigger and more important, growing more challenging at the same pace as that move rightward.” But realistically, achieving and maintaining flow is a necessarily dynamic process. “You want to push your team just a little bit into anxiety and hope that they move back into flow over time.” There are the rare people who can stay right in the middle of the graph indefinitely. “And that’s cool, as long as long as you keep pushing them out of their comfort zone.” But the vast majority of paths will look more like a staircase — up from the “flow zone” and over back into it, over and over again. The secret is not to let people get too far out into the anxious or bored states. A little is a good sign of growth. Too much and you risk losing them. Perhaps more important than recognizing flow, then, is recognizing its absence. Typically, engineers who fall out of flow will land in one of three common ruts: Apathy — Low Skill and Low Challenge Maxwell looks for one big red flag to spot this one: a consistent failure to chime into the conversation. An apathetic team member offers no suggestions about product features or team processes. They don’t share an opinion of job candidates, and try to avoid weighing in on ideas when asked. “It's almost as though they're hoping they don't get called on,” she says. “They're not being challenged, and they don't care.” Managers at larger companies in particular may need to look out for one specific type of apathetic employee: “Rester Vesters” or people who just phone it in until their stock options fully vest. Anxiety — Low Skill and High Challenge When someone is pushed to tackle challenges their skill set can’t accommodate — or at a pace that isn’t feasible — anxiety is an understandable outcome. Maxwell urges leaders to keep an ear out for telltale anxiety-based phrases, and know how to translate them. “Listen for things like, ‘Oh, this is a speculative fix,’ or ‘I wouldn't normally do things this way, but given the time constraints…,’” she says. “People who are feeling anxiety might also start blaming others for not meeting a deadline. Or they may say, ‘I have too much on my plate right now.’" Boredom — High Skill and Low Challenge “Usually people will fall into boredom because their skillset has increased. They've taken a leap forward, they’ve learned a lot. Maybe they just shipped something or conquered an obstacle, and now they don't feel like they're being challenged,” says Maxwell. A bored engineer is usually executing the same tasks again and again, finishing them quickly and then spinning their wheels waiting for a new assignment. “Boredom might manifest as resentment over how projects are being assigned across the team,” says Maxwell. Keep an eye out, too, for anyone who creates unnecessary projects, or over-engineers simple problems, just to flex underused muscles. “If you see an increase in exotic, latest-and-greatest libraries entering your codebase, you might have a bored team.” Between The Extremes Of course, human emotion — like human workplaces — is complex, and people will likely spend some portion of their time moving between states. Those periods of transition, as someone moves out of flow in one direction or another, can be particularly impactful times to guide employees back toward flow: Doubt — From Flow Toward Anxiety When someone takes on greater challenges, without expanding their skill set to meet them, it’s logical that they would begin to experience self-doubt. In these cases the person suspects they’re lacking the skills to achieve the task. They might start to take offense to otherwise harmless code reviews. Or get stuck in analysis paralysis. They might spend a lot of time seeking advice from senior developers. Left unchecked, the danger is that doubt becomes infectious. Engineers in this state may begin to not only doubt the value of the project but their leadership team, too. “They may begin to think, ‘Are they making good decisions? Have they put us in an unreasonable timeline? Are they asking us to do something that's just not possible?’" says Maxwell. When you see reports plotting themselves on the graph in this direction, encourage them to speak up about any concerns they’re having. Simply acknowledging those feelings of doubt can be the fastest way to move back into flow. “One good rule of thumb is think smaller. That means breaking a task into smaller parts to build up confidence. Or celebrating smaller wins than you would otherwise,” says Maxwell. “If that fails, they may need some scaffolding. Get the person in a pair-programming situation so the world doesn’t feel like it’s resting only on their shoulders. As the person regains confidence, introduce more independent work.” Nostalgia — From Flow Toward Boredom The move toward boredom typically follows a period of skill-building; the engineer no longer feels challenged because they’ve grown. Falling out of flow in that direction is often marked by feelings of nostalgia. “They want to recreate what it felt like to be in flow, and they don't know exactly how,” says Maxwell. There’s a hopefulness to this moment, though. A person experiencing nostalgia doesn’t want to be bored; they want to recapture the feeling of learning and growing. And that’s prime material for a manager looking to coax that engineer back into a productive state. “Help them identify what they’re nostalgic for. For example, is it the size of the team, or the ambition of the project?” Work with them to recreate the conditions they’re missing, while they’re still fresh in their mind. The best managers will use every tool at their disposal to understand what’s going on within their teams, including, of course, their own observations. But while looks are famously deceiving, quantitative assessments are more concrete. In many cases, giving your team an objective way to articulate dissatisfaction is the only way to uncover important trends. Observe the Flow Framework in Action Maxwell appreciates that fellow veteran managers might be reluctant to employ a graph to initiate a conversation about flow. After all, it took experiences like the following for her to roll out the system to all of her engineers and interns in earnest. But once she did, it caught signals that she had missed — or worse, misinterpreted. Maxwell recalls an engineer she recently worked with, who, by all appearances, seemed deeply engaged in his work. As an engineer for a startup known for rapid releases, he rarely had any downtime. And he was great at his job, always ready with a status update. Surely, he had achieved flow. “He was actually always in the boredom state, maybe even apathy,” says Maxwell. “It turns out he wanted a complete career change. From an external view, he was in flow. People thought, ‘That guy's on, he knows everything. He's right there.’ But internally, the passion was wavering for what he was doing.” Without that engineer’s self-reporting during one-on-ones — using a clear, safe framework for sharing it — Maxwell might never have realized she wasn’t supporting him the right way. “I worked with him for a long time and I don't think I ever would've been able to get to it,” she said. “After that conversation, I helped create projects for him to build muscles outside of typical software engineering — ones that focused on release quality, and user experience metrics and reporting. These were the areas where he showed natural drive and interest. Here are a few more memorable cases from Maxwell — and the lessons each one taught her about nudging her team back into flow. CASE STUDY #1: The Anxiety-Prone Newbie Maxwell has learned some of her most important lessons from interns, whose short-term engagements offer a compressed overview of how the flow matrix can play out. In one case, she onboarded an intern with a strong iOS background who wanted to take on a big project right away. “He had a plethora of projects to pick from, and landed on a pretty ambitious one. That immediately put him into the anxiety state, because he had gone past his depth a little bit.” To counter that trend, Maxwell found and assigned a mentor to direct — and, as needed, step in to handle — the bulk of coding. As a result, the intern spent most of the summer in a flow state. But as the internship neared its end, it looked like he wouldn’t be able to complete the project — and anxiety returned. “He was interested in continuing to work during the school year, though. So I said, ‘Okay, what if we cut the rest of the project in half? You can do half now and the other half during the school year.’ That alleviation of anxiety got him right back into flow. He was able to complete the first half effectively, without being clouded by pressure.” The lesson for Maxwell was that conditions aren’t fixed. Managers can — and should — tweak things like magnitude of task, support, timeline, etc. if it can help move their reports back into flow. CASE STUDY #2: The Steady Climber Other times, though, Maxwell has seen reports demonstrate an intuitive understanding of how to stay in flow — and her job has been to let them do just that. She recalls another intern who began cautiously, and expressed an interest in building his fledgling iOS skills. Handed a relatively small project for the summer, he completed it in two weeks. “So I assigned him new projects. ‘Okay, well, prototype this new keyboard experience.’ Done, still in the flow. I couldn't find anything big enough, that would make sense for an intern to do, that would knock him out of flow state.” Perhaps needless to say, Maxwell ultimately made that intern a full-time job offer. “His approach was to be a little bit more conservative, and as a result, he was moderating himself in the flow state. I was never able to kick him out of it,” she says. “There were large, ambitious projects that were going to launch around the time he joined full-time. By starting on the ground floor, he got the opportunity to experience the full scope — and responsibility — of seeing it from start to finish. This got him out of his comfort zone — and growing.” Your goal is to keep each report moving rightward along that “flow beam.” Most engineers will need an occasional push into anxiety to do that, but some may be able to follow a clean line. As long as you’re pushing each person in the way they need, you’re doing your job. CASE STUDY #3: The Bored Bug Fixer This one is actually an aggregate, a common trajectory that Maxwell has seen seasoned engineers fall into again and again. Almost every newly hired developer starts in anxiety, following the information overload of onboarding, then settles into flow as they dig into a project. As projects get ready to ship, though, developers are at increasing risk of boredom. “This is particularly concerning for projects where 80% of development is ‘greenfield’ joy and 20% is aggravating bug-fixing and convergence. The trick is to make that last 20% as painless as possible,” says Maxwell. “I’ve seen a lot of people sink into boredom, sometimes deep boredom, as they move out of the creative phase of a launch and into cleanup,” says Maxwell. “It’s dangerous to keep someone picking off a bug list for too long.” If you observe a developer following this particular path, it’s time to ask why they’re lingering in the final stage of that project. “Was there something wrong in the architecture that’s causing it to be so riddled with bugs? Is there scope creep that you need to wrestle?” says Maxwell. “Get the thing shipped so you can get your engineers into their next project, or the V2 of that project, and back into flow.” How It All Flows Together Try out this flow framework personally and pilot it with your team. Ask your reports to identify the point on the graph that most resonates with how they are feeling about their work. Consider taking the last ten minutes of 1:1s to have the conversation — and have each team member mark the graph digitally. That’ll allow you to track trends. Experiment to get the right cadence with your team, but start with every few weeks and around milestones, such as kickoffs or releases. Keep an eye out for movement outside of the “flow beam” into areas such as anxiety or boredom — or intermediate stations, doubt and nostalgia. Don’t panic if that happens. Most employees naturally move in and out of flow. Your job is to be as an accurate of a radar as possible — and to guide them back into their flow state. “In short measure, the flow framework sparked conversations I’m sure I’d never had otherwise. Over my 18 months using it, it’s advanced careers, triggered promotions, facilitated transfers and improved retention,” says Maxwell. “But that’s not what I’m most proud of. In one of the engagement surveys that I last sent, 100% of my team said they felt like they were involved with decisions about their work and part of the team. That, to me, is what it’s all about. If a simple graph helps, it’s a no-brainer.” Photography by Bonnie Rae Mills. First Round TalentAccess exclusive opportunities at the startups in our community MagazinesManifestoBooksFirst Round Capital	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1335
__label__wiki	0.700438	0.700438	Category: The Press at California State University Fresno New book, ‘Stranger in the Mirror,’ explores landscape of the self In his latest book “Stranger in the Mirror,” Dr. Robert V. Levine offers a provocative, wide-ranging and entertaining tour of the most personal and consequential of all landscapes: the entity we call our self. Who are we? Where is the boundary between ourselves and everything else? Are we all multiple personalities? And how can we control who we become? A Q&A with Robert Levine, author of ‘Stranger in the Mirror’ January 22, 2018 .Reading time 17 minutes. UPDATE: Fresno State’s national and state flags were posted at half-staff on Tuesday, July 2, in honor of Dr. Robert “Bob” Levine, a professor emeritus from the Department of Psychology and a renowned social psychologist who published five books, most recently “Stranger in the Mirror: The Scientific Search for the Self.” Dr. Levine died on June 22 after a sudden illness. Inside is an interview with Levine published in January 2018 regarding his final book… Christopher Atamian to speak on ‘Fifty Years of Armenian Literature in France’ Author and translator Christopher Atamian will present a lecture entitled “Fifty Years of Armenian Literature in France: A Zenith of Diasporan Writing” at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 8, in the University Business Center, Alice Peters Auditorium, Room 191 on the Fresno State campus. “Fifty Years of Armenian Literature in France” was published as Volume 6 in the Armenian Series of The Press at California State University, Fresno in 2016. This is the first presentation in the Armenian Studies Program 2017 Fall Lecture series, which is supported by the Leon S. Peters Foundation. New books are flying off The Press August 11, 2017 .Reading time 10 minutes. Watch out for hot books! The Press at California State University, Fresno has published as many new volumes in the past year as it usually does in three and a half years. Since last fall, The Press — a university press operated by the College of Arts and Humanities at Fresno State — has published six new books. Founded in 1982, The Press has published 56 volumes — in its history, an average of 1.7 per year. New book by folk musician Evo Bluestein chronicles ‘Road to Sweet’s Mill’ July 6, 2017 .Reading time 5 minutes. Evo Bluestein, a longtime folk musician and music educator in the Fresno area, has published a book called “Road to Sweet’s Mill: The West Coast Folk Music Revival in the 1960s and ’70s.” The book, published by The Press at California State University Fresno, provides a rare glimpse into a regional folk subculture of the […] New forensic linguistics textbook is the first of its kind Gerald R. McMenamin, a professor emeritus from the Department of Linguistics at Fresno State, has written a course book that is the first of its kind. “Introducción a la Lingüística Forense” is a textbook for college courses in forensic linguistics – the application of linguistic concepts, methods and insights to the forensic context of law, […] Music of America Concert Series: Evo Bluestein and Friends April 22 A concert by local musician Evo Bluestein and friends will launch a new Music of America Concert Series at Fresno State. The concert will coincide with Earth Day, at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 22, in Wahlberg Recital Hall. Performers will include Bluestein, Terry Barrett, Barry Shultz, Patricia Wells-Solarzano and Agustin Lira, Two for the Road and The Gilly Girls. […] Weaving tapestries with her words ~ By Lisa Maria Boyles, The College of Arts and Humanities Good writers pay attention to details. Even when they’re doing something else, they watch to see how some tiny element may fit into a story later. They’re always taking mental notes, listening with their heart and mind, thinking how their own and other’s experiences […] Armenian Series at Fresno State publishes ‘Fifty Years of Armenian Literature in France’ October 19, 2016 .Reading time 3 minutes. Armenian Studies Program Director Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian announced that Krikor Beledian’s “Fifty Years of Armenian Literature in France” has been published by the Armenian Series of The Press, at California State University, Fresno. Translated from the original French into English by Christopher Atamian, “Fifty Years of Armenian Literature in France” is a groundbreaking study of the […] Second volume of ‘My Name is Armen’ to publish in November October 4, 2016 .Reading time 4 minutes. 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__label__wiki	0.699761	0.699761	Mobiles News iPhone 4 Reportedly Survives Even After Spending a Year at the Bottom of a Lake By Tasneem Akolawala \| Updated: 30 November 2016 12:17 IST Photo Credit: Buzzfeed Guntrum's iPhone 4 had fell into the lake in March 2015 An engineer found it after the lake's water was drained After drying it in rice, the phone switched back on easily Apart from this year's iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, all the previous generation iPhones were not officially water resistant. However, in an interesting turn of events, a 2010-released iPhone 4 reportedly managed to survive underwater for about a year and even turned on after being dried. iPhone 4 owner Michael Guntrum went ice fishing in March 2015. His iPhone fell at the bottom of the Kyle Lake in Pennsylvania due to a minor slip up from his end. He told Buzzfeed, "We were having negative-25-degree weather, so me and two buddies went ice fishing. We were sitting in our portable shanty, and I got a bite on my rod. I laid the phone on my lap, and it slipped off. Instead of landing flat in the snow, it hit its edge and rolled into the hole. I caught the fish - it was a blue gill - but it wasn't worth it." In September 2015, the Kyle Lake was drained due to structural deficiencies in the dam, and mechanical engineer Daniel Kalgren decided to take his metal detector and search for all things shiny in the empty lake. He chanced upon Guntrum's iPhone 4, and decided to wipe it and keep it in rice to see if it still works. Surely, after two days, the phone sprang back to life, albeit with signs of visible damage. The display of the iPhone 4 had suffered a lot, but it was still in working condition and usable. Kalgren managed to get in touch with Guntrum to tell him that his phone had been recovered alive from the depths of the lake. This bizarre survival was attributed to the tough case made by OtterBox used by Guntrum on his iPhone, and is reported to be largely responsible from preventing the water from causing much damage. "I'm an Apple person, and this adds to the reasons why I only buy Apple devices. It's pretty impressive it still works," Kalgren told the publication. It's one thing to have a device underperform its advertised abilities, but to withstand water pressure (not to mention the icy temperature) at the bottom of the lake? Goodwill points to Apple and OtterBox for that. Display3.50-inch Processorone-core Front Camera0.3-megapixel Rear Camera5-megapixel RAM512MB Storage8GB Battery Capacity1420mAh OSiOS 6.1.3 Resolution640x960 pixels iPhone 4 available in India again, but Apple won't call it a 'relaunch' iPhone 5c to compete with 'affordable' iPhone 4 and 4S in India: Analysts iOS 7: First impressions More Apple mobilesApple mobiles price in India Further reading: Apple, iPhone 4, iPhone 4 Water Resistance, OtterBox, Mobiles, iPhone 4 Water Damage Tasneem Akolawala Email Tasneem When not expelling tech wisdom, Tasneem feeds on good stories that strike on all those emotional chords. She loves road trips, a good laugh, and interesting people. She binges on movies, sitcoms, food, books, and DIY videos. More Reliance Jio Said to File Complaint With Competition Commission Against Rivals Delphi, Mobileye to Use Intel Chip for Self-Driving Car System MESSAGE Tasneem Akolawala	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1348
__label__wiki	0.827757	0.827757	School Closings (WJAC) Explore Jefferson DuBois PSU Sports Weekly Circulars Home / A & E / John Stamos pleads no contest to DUI John Stamos pleads no contest to DUI Posted on Tuesday, November 24, 2015 by CNN in A & E, Features Actor John Stamos entered a no contest plea Tuesday to one misdemeanor count of driving under the influence of a drug, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said. The 52-year-old actor known for his roles on “Full House” and “ER” did not appear in court. He entered the plea through his attorney and was immediately sentenced to three years of summary probation, Deputy District Attorney Daniel Novey said. A spokesman at the district attorney’s office declined to elaborate on the kind of substance involved because it was not discussed in court. Pleading no contest means the defendant neither disputes or admits to the charges while allowing the court to treat the plea as a criminal conviction. Stamos was ordered to enter a three-month education class for first-time DUI offenders, two hours of drug and alcohol addiction counseling and to provide proof of attendance at 52 meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous/Substance Abuse meetings utilizing the 12-step program. Stamos was arrested on June 12 in Beverly Hills after police received reports that he was driving erratically. Paramedics transported him to a hospital and determined that he’d been driving under the influence, police said at the time. Stamos currently stars in the new Fox series “Grandfathered.” 4 ways we can display hidden biases in everyday life Champions League: Lionel Messi magic as Barcelona routs Roma Concerned about vaccine safety? Here are the facts Adam Scott: How to silence the doubters SLIDESHOW: Clearfield National Night Out Rihanna to accept Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at MTV VMAs gantdaily.com © 2014 GantDaily.com. All rights reserved. Do NOT follow this link or you will be banned from the site! About \| Contact \| Privacy Policy \| Terms & Cond	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1350
__label__wiki	0.613545	0.613545	FOX 61 TV Schedule Autos CT Home MRR WEATHER WATCH: Snow expected for Saturday afternoon AMBER ALERT – Share to help find missing 1-year-old What’s on your Winter #CTBucketList? Posted 10:09 AM, November 22, 2019, by Tribune Media Wire SALT LAKE CITY – A judge is considering whether to strike down a portion of Utah's lewdness statute dealing with topless women. Tilli Buchanan is facing three misdemeanor charges of lewdness involving a child stemming from an incident in her home. The West Valley City woman was doing insulation work with her husband and they were stripping off itchy clothing when her stepchildren saw her. That ultimately led to the criminal charges being leveled against her earlier this year. Buchanan's attorney argues she did nothing wrong. "If we are to lose this, she’s on the sex registry with child rapists and things of that nature. The magnitude of the penalty on this is enormous," Buchanan's attorney, Randy Richards told KSTU. On Tuesday, her attorney and the ACLU of Utah asked for the case to be dismissed and a portion of Utah's lewdness statute to be struck down citing a recent ruling by the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that found anti-topless laws discriminated against women. Buchanan left court saying she felt "hopeful" that Judge Kara Pettit would side with her. "Especially with, given it was in the privacy of my own home, my husband was right next to me, in the exact same manner that I was and he’s not being prosecuted," she told reporters. The ACLU of Utah has also intervened in the case on Buchanan's behalf. In court on Tuesday, ACLU staff attorney Leah Farrell argued that a particular portion of Utah's lewdness statute discriminates against women. "There’s part of it that says this part of a woman is found inherently obscene and this part of a man isn’t," she told reporters outside court. "That really sets up an unequal and unfair dichotomy. And Tilli’s case is something none of us would expect to happen." The ACLU cited the "Free the Nipple" ruling that found anti-topless ordinances violated the 14th Amendment right of equal protection under the law. The ruling, which generated headlines nationwide, has slowly started to be utilized in Utah. Attorneys with clients facing lewdness charges are citing it. KSTU recently documented a group of women in St. George who went topless and faced no criminal repercussions from local authorities. West Valley City prosecutors argued to the judge that the "Free the Nipple" ruling was much more narrow than the ACLU would like it to be. They also insisted that the legislature has a right to make laws based on a morality. "We see our job is to represent the laws of the state of Utah and we’ve made our argument that’s now on the record," chief West Valley City prosecutor Ryan Robinson told reporters as they left court. "We’re looking forward to seeing what the judge decides." Judge Pettit said she expected to issue a ruling within a couple of months. Topics: children, sex offender, Utah Body camera video shows State Police shoot, kill 19-year-old in West Haven Missing 11 year-old girl from Springfield found Read the Dulos case search warrants: What do you think? Division of Criminal Justice will investigate Trooper-involved shooting, not State Police detectives Snow arrives in Fairfield County, immediately causes traffic problems on I-95 Crowds turn out for the 4th annual Women’s March, and 2020 election issues are front and center Deaf man sues Pornhub claiming lack of closed captions is discrimination Family of slain Utah woman says school didn’t protect her Teacher accused of kidnapping student with autism says she was trying to help the upset child Body found in freezer during welfare check at Utah retirement community Why it is important for trans people to remain visible Former Old Lyme TV personality sentenced to 3 years in prison; sued by child molestation victim Andrew Yang’s wife reveals she was sexually assaulted by her OB-GYN while pregnant Jewett City mother convicted of driving to Pennsylvania to have sex with 14-year-old boy Mother charged in ‘horrific’ deaths of children found hanging from dog lead in Pennsylvania basement Man allegedly held teen boy captive as sex slave in New York City apartment Pantsless sex offender tries to break into couple’s home through doggy door EXCLUSIVE: Mother of slain Bethel woman calls out justice system for failing to deliver justice Toothbrush punctures 5-year-old Utah girl’s throat after she falls while brushing her teeth • 285 Broad St. Hartford, CT 06115 • Copyright © 2020, WTIC	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1351
__label__cc	0.729248	0.270752	QALYs/$ are more intuitive than $/QALYs Cross-posted to the effective altruism forum. Cost-effectiveness estimates are often expressed in $/QALYs instead of QALYs/$. But QALYs/$ are preferable because they are more intuitive. To avoid small numbers, we can renormalise to QALYs/$10,000, or something similar. Cost-effectiveness estimates are often expressed in $/QALYs. Four examples: GiveWell, “Errors in DCP2 cost-effectiveness estimate for deworming”:1 Eventually, we were able to obtain the spreadsheet that was used to generate the $3.41/DALY estimate. That spreadsheet contains five separate errors that, when corrected, shift the estimated cost effectiveness of deworming from $3.41 to $326.43. We came to this conclusion a year after learning that the DCP2’s published cost-effectiveness estimate for schistosomiasis treatment – another kind of deworming – contained a crucial typo: the published figure was $3.36-$6.92 per DALY, but the correct figure is $336-$692 per DALY. (This figure appears, correctly, on page 46 of the DCP2.) DCP3, “Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health”: Michael Dickens, “Charities I would like to see”: This would cost about $5 per rat per month plus an opportunity cost of maybe $500 per month for the time spent, which works out to another $5 per rat per month. Thus creating 1 rat QALYs costs $120 per year, which is $240 per human QALYs per year. Deworming treatments cost about $30 per DALY. Thus a rat farm looks like a fairly expensive way of producing utility. GiveWell, “Mass Distribution of Long-Lasting Insecticide-Treated Nets (LLINs)” uses cost per life saved: LLIN distribution is one of the most cost-effective ways to save lives that we’ve seen. Our best guess estimate comes out to about $3,000 per equivalent under-5 year old life saved (or, excluding developmental impacts, $7,500 per life saved) using the total cost per net in the countries we expect AMF to work over the next few years. QALYs/$ are preferable to $/QALYs As long as we compare opportunities to do good by looking at the ratio of their cost-effectiveness, $/QALYs is equivelent to QALYs/$. However, even if we know that we ought to be using ratios of cost-effectiveness, our System 1 may sometimes implicitly be using differences (subtractions) of cost-effetiveness. This can lead to problems when using $/QALYs which are entirely avoided if we use QALYs/$. Suppose we have 20 charities - whose cost-effectiveness follows a log-normal distribution. I have plotted bar graphs of these values expressed in $/QALYs and in QALYs/$. Looking at this graph, we are immediately attracted to the right-hand side. That’s where the big, visible differences in bar height are. So we feel that the high-hand side is where most of the action is. We may have the intuition that most of the gains are to be had by switching away from from charities like , , and , in favour of charities like , and . This is because we would implicitly be using differneces instead of ratios. In reality, of course, what’s crucial is the left-hand side of the graph. Charity produces about 9 times more value than charity , while charity is only 1.5 times better than charity . If we had used QALYs/$, this would have been easier to see. Here, the importance of picking the best charity (rather than a merely good one) stands out visually. When we use QALYs/$, both products and subtractions give us the correct result. That is why QALYs/$ are preferable. Small numbers One potential problem with using QALYs/$ is that we end up with very small numbers. Small numbers can be unintuitive. It’s hard to picture 0.05 and 0.1 of something, and easy to picture 20 and 10 of something. But this problem can easily be solved by multiplying the small numbers by a large constant. This is what we did with the Oxford Prioritisation Project, and it’s also what Toby Ord does in “The moral imperative towards cost-effectiveness”. By the way, this exact phenomenon is well documented in the domain of car fuel efficiency. See “The MPG Illusion”, Science Vol. 320, Issue 5883, pp. 1593-1594, DOI: 10.1126/science.1154983. Bastian Stern also has posts explaining how $/QALYs create problems when we use arithmetic means, and when we look at proportional improvements between charities. This is not suprising, since arithmetic means and proportions are essentially based on subtraction. Wherever possible, we should stop using $/QALYs and use QALYs/$10,000, or something similar. Of course, there are also many examples of people correctly using QALYs/$. See for instance “The moral imperative towards cost-effectiveness”, or chapter 3 of “Doing Good Better”. ↩ ← Self-locating beliefs vs loss of discriminating power Why ain't causal decision theorists rich? Some speculations →	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1352
__label__wiki	0.54231	0.54231	By fred, In Music, Movies and TV, Photography I’ve been waaaaiting for this event to happen since they joined Laneway 2014 (and I couldn’t come to that). I heard about this band over a year ago from my friend Poy who was super obsessed with them (and of course, to Lauren). When I listened to their music, it was weird at first because I’m not really used to listening synthpop, and I’ve never heard of the genre until this band. But overtime I grew to love their music, and I eventually became a fan. And it is so crazy that they came here in the Philippines and performed live, and also had an after party where they have a DJ set. Super cool, but we were not able to go because we didn’t have tickets (which was limited only). But regardless of that, I was never this excited for a band perform since the Paramore concert I attended over a year ago. But I will start this blog ranting, because this has to be said. The line from the concert. Some had to sit on the floor, waiting. Although I was excited going to the concert, I got very frustrated with Vybe Productions, the organizers of the concert. It was poorly organized that I can list so many things that went wrong with that concert (or pre-concert): The concert that was suppose to start at 8pm, started an hour late. It would’ve been okay if it was 15-30 minutes, but an hour was too much and even went beyond “Filipino” time. The Gold ticket holders were able to enter the concert hall first, which left all the VIP ticket holders (including me) to wait outside for sooo long, and was never allowed to enter the venue until the start of the concert, which brings me to my next point. The front-act bands started playing while most of the VIP peeps are still outside. That was really annoying because we were also looking forward for the front-act bands (which are also really good). Lots of “special/privileged” people (apparently more ‘important’ than the VIPs) were let inside the concert hall, cutting from those people who were waiting for hours to get in. I think those were some friends of the organizers, or those secret “Super VIP” we don’t know. It was really infuriating to see them just cut in the line just because they know someone from the organizers, and we VIP holders, who waited for so many hours sitting on the floor, were not even catered. And I heard a lot of bad things happened also during the after party were some girls dancing inappropriately in front of the band. We weren’t there so we could not really tell anything about it, but if it did really happen, then that was totally shameful. That’s the end of the rant, and I’m pretty sure I’m not attending any Vybe produced concerts any time soon if they don’t get their shit together. GOING BACK TO MY EXCITEMENT. Oh yeah, the concert was heavenly awesome. I really liked the front-acts too. The first one was Brisom but I never got a chance to hear them play because they started while we’re still outside. I heard they’re good, and it’s such a waste to not able to hear/see them perform. I like the second band who played though, and I’ll probably follow them now. They are called Autotelic, and their music is somewhat comparable to Two Door Cinema Club / Bloc Party -ish music, and I really like it. You can listen to them on Spotify, and they’ve got only 4 music I think there. But it’s still good. Brisom Autotelic That keytar chick from Autotelic is hot After 6 songs played by the two front-act bands, the crowd was starting to go crazy. They’re here, and they’re playing. Lauren is so cute. Iain and Martin are so cool. And I was not disappointed because the band played all of their songs from The Bones of What You Believe album, and some of their new songs including the single from the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 movie “Dead Air”. Totally awesome! Lauren, Iain, and Martin didn’t fail to give us a wonderful performance. I remember just singing loudly with them, and I had so much fun. And Lauren is so cute when she talks, and then turns into a total bad-ass when she sings. That night was really unforgettable. Lauren is <3 ..and if I recover, will you be my comfort… These group of guys in front of us were soo in love with them I was really happy when they performed Gun, Recover, and The Mother We Share. My head was spinning because I could not control the headbanging whilst jamming with them. It was really crazy. Here is the set list from that night: We Sink (I called it when I was guessing what they’re opening song will be.) Get Away Science/Visions Under the Tide The Mother We Share —– ENCORE —– You Caught the Light By The Throat I hope they’re coming back because I cannot wait to watch them again, and hopefully meet them up close and personal. But overall, that was a really awesome night! They totally made my 2014 worthwhile. 🙂 # autotelic, band, brisom, chvrches, philippines, vybe, vybe productions Ruby will make me rich Making life decisions is so not rainbows and unicorns erwinbear Reply naa jd nay VVIP. example ana nila kay mga guest sa artists/bands. ang sayop sa vybe tngali ato kay dapat naa na clay separate nga agiaNan autotelic hot chick is a keyboardist using a keytar, cool kaayo her name is Kai Honasan ^_^ Fred Baa Reply Oh, yeah keytar diay. I remember na. Lagi, sayop jud nila, pero naa jud gold ticket holders lang pero they’re cutting in because they know someone from Vybe. That was really annoying. Govinda Reply HUUUUUUUYYY. KANINDOT SA IMONG PHOTOS. Samuka bitaw sa Vybe, thanks sa imo blog, will spread! CHVRCHES IS LOVE AND IS FOREVER. Haha!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1354
__label__cc	0.664992	0.335008	Home > GCSE > Chemistry > Chemistry Revision Chemistry Revision C1 Unit 1 Created by: Ticklemonster Atoms, Elements And Compounds The periodic table is a list of all the elements. There are around 100 elements and every substance is made of them. An element is made of one type of atom. The type of atom is represented by chemical symbols such as Na for the atom of sodium. Elements are arranged in columns called groups, according to their properties. Atoms have a nucleus that is surrounded by electrons. Compounds are a combination of two or more elements that have joined together. An atom has a nucleus made up of two types of particle called protons and neutrons. Protons have a positive charge and neutrons have no charge. The nucleus is surrounded by electrons which are negatively charged. An atom has no charge overall as there are the same number of electrons as there are protons so they are equal but opposite in charge. The atomic number of an element is the number of protons it has (protons=electrons so is also number of electrons). The mass number is the total number of particles in the nucleus of the atom (protons and neutrons). The Arrangement Of Electrons In Atoms Each electron in an atom is in an energy level otherwise known as a shell. The first shell can hold two electrons. The second can hold eight. Electrons 'fill up' the first shell first before working their way up through the rest of the shells. Elements in the same group on the periodic table have the same number of electrons in their highest level. Group 1 elements have one electron in their highest level. Group 1(alkali) elements include lithium, sodium and potassium. They react quickly with water and oxygen. Group 0 (noble gases) elements include helium. They are unreactive and have very stable arrangements of electrons. Forming Bonds When different elements combine they form a compound. When a metal reacts with a non metal they form an ion. Metal atoms lose one or more electrons to form positively charged ions. Non metal atoms gain one or more electrons to form negatively charged ions. The oppositely charged ions attract each other strongly meaning the compound has ionic bonds. The chemical formula of an ionic compound shows the simplest ratio of ions in the compound. NaCI shows that there is an equal number of sodium and chloride ions. When non metals combine they form covalent bonds and molecules are formed. H2O shows that a water molecule containing two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. Chemical Equations In chemical reactions the atoms in the reactants re-arrange themselves to form new substances/products. In a chemical reaction atoms are not created or destroyed. The number and type of atoms stays the same before and after the reaction. Mass of products=mass of reactants Word equations give the name of the reactants and products. Symbol equations give the numbers and types of atom. Symbol equations should always be balanced. The number of each type of atom should be the same on either side of the equation. Limestone And Its Uses Limestone is quarried because it has many uses. It is used for building by mixing it with calcium oxide to make cement. The cement can then be mixed with sand, aggregate and water to make concrete. Limestone is mainly calcium carbonate CaCO3. When it is heated strongly it decomposes to make calcium oxide and carbon dioxide. This is done inside lime kilns and the type of reaction is called thermal decomposition. Reactions Of Carbonates Metal carbonates react in similar ways when heated or reacted with acids. Metal carbonates decompose to form metl oxide and carbon dioxide when heated strongly. All carbonates react with acids to produce salt, water and carbon dioxide. Limestone is damaged by acid rain because the calcium carbonate reacts with the acid in the rain. Limewater (calcium hydroxide solution) is used to test for carbon dioxide. The limewater turns cloudy because it reacts with carbon dioxide to form calcium carbonate. The Limestone Reaction Cycle 1. When calcium carbonate is heated it produces carbon dioxide and calcium oxide. 2. When water is added to the calcium oxide, calcium hydroxide is produced. 3. When more water is added calcium hydroxide solution is produced. 4. The solution reacts with carbon dioxide to produce calcium carbonate. Cement is made of limestone mixed with clay then heated in a kiln. Mortar is made of cement, sand and water mixed together. It is used to hold bricks and blocks together in a building. Concrete is made of cement, aggregate, sand and water mixed together. Limestone Issues We depend on limestone for building materials, and cement and concrete are also used for building. Quarrying limestone can have negative impacts on the environment and economy. More employement opportunities for local people, more customers and trade for local business and improved roads. Dust and noise, more traffic and loss of habitats for wildlife. Extracting Metals An ore is a rock that contains enough of a metal or a metal compound to make it worth extracting the metal. Iron And Steels Many ores used to produce iron contain iron oxide. Using caron, iron oxide is reduced at high temperatures in a blast furnace. The cast iron produced contains 96% iron and is hard and brittle. Removing all the impurities like carbon creates pure iron but it is too soft for many uses. Iron is mostly used to make steels which are alloys of iron. They are a mixture of iron with carbon and other elements. Alloys can be made so that they have specific uses. The amounts of carbon and other elements are adjusted when making steels. Low carbon steels are easily shaped and high carbon steels are hard. Stainless steels contain larger amounts of other metals to resist corrosion. Aluminium And Titanium Aluminium is resistant to corrosion and has a low density. It is more reactive than carbon so it cannot be reduced by carbon. Aluminium oxide has to be extracted by electrolysis which requires large amounts of electricity and heat so is expensive to extract. Pure aluminium is not very strong but aluminium alloys are stronger and harder. Titanium is resistant to corrosion and has a low density. It is very strong and is not above carbon in the reactivity series. Titanium oxide can be reduced by carbon but it makes it very brittle. Titanium is extracted as an ore which takes several stages and is very expensive. Extracting Copper Copper is extracted from copper rich ores by smelting, where it is heated strongly in a furnace. Smelting produces impure copper which is then purified by electrolysis. These two processes require a lot of heat and electricity. Copper rich ores are a limited resource. Phytomining uses plants to absorb copper compounds from the ground. The plants are then burned to produce ash from which the copper can be extracted. Bioleaching uses bacteria to produce solution containing copper compounds. The copper is either displaced by something such as scrap iron or is extracted by electrolysis from the compound. Useful Metals Transition metals are in the centre block of the periodic table and are all metals. They are good conductors of both heat and electricity. They are strong but can be bent into shape so are useful for vehicles, buildings, pipes and wires. Copper is a good conductor of heat, doesn't react with water and can bend but is hard enough to keep it's shape. Therefore it is useful for pipes and wires. Most of the metals we use are not pure elements because they are too soft and are easily bent. Metallic Issues Mining for metal ores produces large amounts of waste material and effects large areas of the environment. Recycling metals saves energy and resources. Also less fossil fuel is needed to provide the energy to extract the metal from its ore. Steel girders are used in many buildings for construction. Although this makes the building strong it also has drawbacks such as pollution. Fuels From Crude Oil Crude oil contains many different compounds. They boil at different temperatures and burn under different conditions. Crude oil has to be seperated by fractional distillation. You can seperate a mixture of liquids using distillation and from crude oil it can produce liquids that boil within different temperature ranges. These liquids are called fractions. Most compounds in crude oil are hydrocarbons, and many of them are alkanes. Alkanes contain as many hydrogen atoms as possible in each molecule and so are called saturated hydrocarbons. The formula for alkanes is Cn H2n+2. Molecules are represented in different ways- a molecular formula shows the number of each type of atom in the molecule and displayed formula shows how the atoms are bonded together. Fractional Distillation Crude oil is seperated into fractions using this process. The boiling point of the different hydrocarbons depends on the size of the molecule- the larger the molecule the higher the boiling point. The oil is vaporised before it enters the fractional distillation column. Inside the column, the vapours more up, getting cooler as they get higher. The hydrocarbons condense when they reach the level that is their boiling point. The hydrocarbons with the smallest molecules and lowest boiling points condense at the top.The hydrocarbons with the largest molecules and highest boiling points condense at the bottom. Fractions with low boiling ranges have a low viscosity so are runny liquids and are very flammable. They burn with clean flames so don't produce much smoke so are useful for fuels. Burning Fuels When pure hydrocarbons burn completely they are oxidised to form carbon dioxide and water. Incomplete combustion may produce carbon monoxide. Carbon and some unburnt hydrocarbons may also be produced, causing solid particles that contain soot and particulates, Fossil fuels contain sulfur compounds, When the fuel burns sulfur dioxide is produced. This causes acid rain. When fuels burn, high temperatures cause oxygen and nitrogen in the aire to combine creating nitrogen oxides that also cause acid rain. Cleaner Fuels Burning any fuel that contains carbon produces carbon dioxide. It is a greenhouse gas that causes global warming. Incomplete combustion of fuels produces carbon monoxide. It can also cause tiny solid particulates that cause global dimming. Burning fuels causes sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides. They produce acid rain. Pollutants can be removed from waste gases after the fuel is burned. Sulfur can be removed from fuels before they are sold and then burned so that less sulfur dioxide is produced. Biofuels are made from plant or animal products and are renewable. Biodiesel can be made from vegetable oils extracted from plants: It makes small carbon dioxide levels because the carbon dioxide given of when it burns was taken from the atmosphere by the plants as they grew. However the plants grown use large areas of farmland. Ethanol is made from sufar cane or beet and is a biofuel. It is liquid and can be stored. It can be mixed with petrol. Hydrogen can be used as a fuel and it only produces water when burned. However as it is a gas it takes up a large volume and so is difficult to store in the quantities needed for combustion in engines. It can be produced from water by electrolysis but this needs a large amount of energy. Cracking Hydrocarbons Large hydrocarbon molecules can be broken down into smaller molecules by cracking. You can either heat a mixture of hydrocarbon vapours and steam to a very high temperature or you can pass hydrocarbon vapours over a hot catalyst. During cracking thermal decomposition reactions produce a mixture of smaller molecules. Some are alkanes with are saturated hydrocarbons. They are more useful as fuels because they are smaller molecules. Some smaller hydrocarbon molecules are called alkenes. They are unsaturated hydrocarbons because they contain fewer hydrogen atoms in comparison to carbon atoms than alkanes. They have a double bond between two carbon atoms. They react with bromine water making it clear. Making Polymers From Alkenes Plastics are made from large molecules called polymers. Polymers are made from lots of small molecules joined together called monomers. The reaction to make a polymer is called polymerisation. For example, lots of ethene monomers can join to make polyethene. In the reaction the double bond in each monomer becomes a single bond. Many plastics we use such as for bags are made from alkenes. New And Useful Polymers Polymers are designed for particular uses such as for packaging, clothing and medical applications. Polymer dental fillings are now being used aswell as light sensitive polymers used in plasters to make them easy to remove. Hydrogels are polymers that can trap water and are used for dressing wounds. An example of a smart polymer is shape memory polymers that change back to their original shape when conditions are changed. Fibres for clothing can be coated in polymers to make them waterproof and breathable. Plastic used for drinks bottles can be recycled to make polyester fibre for clothing, pillows and duvets. Plastic Waste Many polymers are not biodegradable. Plastic rubbish gets everywhere and harms wildlife aswell as taking up space with landfill sites. Biodegradable plastics are becoming more used. Microorganisms can break down biodegradable plastics. Biodegradable plastics can be made from plant material for things such as food packaging. Some plastics can be recycled but it is time consuming to sort the plastics. Its formula is C2H6O. It can be produced by fermentation of sugar from plants using yeast. Enzymes in the yeast cause the sugar to convert to ethanol and carbon dioxide. It can also be made by the hydration of ethene. Ethene is reacted with steam at a high temperature with a catalyst. The ethene is obtained from crude oil by cracking. When produced by fermentation it uses renewable resources. However the ethanol produced must be seperated from the solution by fractional distillation. When produced from ethene it uses a non renewable resource. However the reaction can run continuously and produces pure ethanol but requires high temperature. Extracting Vegetable Oil Seeds, nuts and fruits are rich in vegetable oils which can be extracted by crushing and pressing then followed by removing water and impurities. Some oils are extracted by distilling the plant material mixed with water which produces a mixture of oil and water which are seperated. Vegetable oils give us lots of energy and important nutrients. They can be used as fuels because of the amount of energy they release when burned. They are used to make biofuels such as diesel. The molecules in veg oils have hydrocarbon chains. Those with double bonds are unsaturated. If there are several double bonds in each molecule they become polyunsaturated. They react with bromine water turning it colourless. Cooking With Vegetable Oils The boiling point of veg oils is higher than water so food is cooked at high temperatures in oil as it cooks faster. It also changes the colour and flavour of the food. Some oil is absorbed so the energy content of the food increases. Unsaturated oils can react with hydrogen so the double bonds become single. This is called hydrogenation and is done at around 60 degrees with a nickel catalyst. The hydrogenated oils have higher melting points are they are saturated. The reaction is also called hardening as they are hard at room temperature so are used for spreads. Everyday Emulsions Oil and water don't mix but if we shake them together, tiny droplets form that can be slow to seperate. This mixture is called an emulsion. They are opaque and thicker than oil and water. Their texture, appearance and ability to stick and coat solids is improved. They are used as milk, cream, salad dressings and ice cream. Emulsifiers are substances that help stop the oil and water seperating. They keep the emulsion stable. Emulsifier molecules have a hydrophilic head that loves water. They have a hydrophobic tail that hats water. Vegetable oils are high in energy and contain important nutrients. Some unsaturated fats are supposed to be better than saturated, Animal fats and hydrogenated oils contain saturated fats and have been linked to heart disease. Emulsifiers stop oil and water seperating and makes food creamier. It also means food tastes better and is less obvious that it is high in fat so can be tempting to eat more. Read full cards now See similar resources Combine this resource with others Use this set No comments have yet been made GCSE revision » Are you ready for your A level exams? » C1 Cgp is wrong » To what extent am I screwed? » How many exams have you got in June? » If all your exams started tomorrow, how screwed would you be? » What have you done for each of your subjects? » When there's a will, there's a way » A Level students,how many exam do you have in June? » How confident are you feeling about your exams? » Similar Chemistry resources: See all Chemistry resources »See all C1 Unit 1 resources »	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1358
__label__cc	0.529248	0.470752	New Rolls-Royce Cullinan Black Badge At the Geneva Motor Show in March 2016, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars presented Black Badge; a permanent Bespoke family of motor cars that defined the taste patterns of an emerging generation of super-luxury consumer. These unapologetic and highly dynamic products responded to those who refused to be defined by traditional codes of luxury and did much to attract new customers to the marque, reassured by Rolls-Royce’s fluency in their bold aesthetic and uncompromising lifestyle requirements. This highly successful alter ego is codified by the mathematical symbol that represents a potential infinity, which is placed discreetly within the motor car’s interior. This marking, known also as the lemniscate, was applied to Sir Malcolm Campbell’s record-breaking Rolls-Royce-powered Blue Bird K3 hydroplane, denoting that it belonged to an insurance class reserved for boats with unlimited and therefore infinite engine power. Rolls-Royce Motor Cars selected this hallmark for Black Badge to reflect its own unrelenting pursuit of power. Rolls-Royce debuted Black Badge with Wraith and Ghost in 2016 followed by Dawn in 2017. Today, the family is completed with the introduction of Black Badge Cullinan: the darkest and most urban statement of Black Badge yet. Created to satisfy overwhelming demand from younger, more adventurous clients, Cullinan in its silver badge guise, was launched to global acclaim in 2018, immediately becoming the world’s pinnacle super-luxury SUV. Combining luxury in its purest form with genuine practicality and off-road capability, Cullinan unequivocally delivered on the promise of an experience that is Effortless, Everywhere. The Rolls-Royce of SUVs did much to reach a new group of clients looking for unfettered access to the world’s wildest places and most enriching experiences. Yet, within this group exists a subset of individuals who seek to subvert the motor car’s domineering presence by permanently cloaking it in the night. Cullinan has conquered the world’s wildest reaches. Now it is time for Black Badge Cullinan to conquer new urban frontiers. While clients can draw on the marque’s 44,000 ‘ready to wear’ paint options or commission an entirely individual Bespoke hue, it is anticipated that many will opt for Black Badge’s signature Black. Multiple layers of paint and lacquer are meticulously applied and hand-polished 10 times at the Home of Rolls-Royce in Goodwood, West Sussex, representing the most comprehensive surface finish process ever applied to a solid paint colour. The depth and intensity of Black Badge Cullinan’s coachwork serves as the perfect canvas upon which to throw a contrasting hand-painted Coachline into stark relief. On the prow of the motor car lies the defining expression of Black Badge. The Spirit of Ecstasy mascot, which has taken many forms throughout the marque’s history, is presented in high gloss black chrome. For the first time this finish extends onto its mounting plate, creating the darkest Black Badge yet. This transformation pervades the other symbols of Black Badge. The ‘Double R’ badge on the front, flanks and aft invert to become silver-on-black, while chrome surfaces such as the front grille surround, side frame finishers, boot handle, boot trim, lower air inlet finisher and exhaust pipes are darkened. While they appear black, the vertical grille bars remain polished, reflecting the blackened surfaces that surround them to add a frisson of movement that hints at the motor car’s dynamic intent. The overall effect artfully simplifies and enlarges the motor car’s exterior design graphics, emphasising its imposing proportions and confident stance. This is further dramatised by all-new 22-inch forged alloy wheels, reserved exclusively for Black Badge Cullinan. Designed in the Black Badge house style, the gear-like graphic emphasises the model’s vast reserves of power while also recalling an infinitely occurring lemniscate. The gloss black and polished design also creates the perfect stage for the marque’s first ever coloured brake caliper. The high gloss Red paint has been specifically developed to withstand the rigours of elevated temperatures generated by the motor car’s uprated braking system while still offering a perfectly smooth finish befitting of Rolls-Royce. Ordinarily, great efforts are expelled to distance occupants from a Rolls-Royce’s mechanical function. However, the marque’s Colour and Trim experts gently sensationalised the engineering substance of Black Badge, seamlessly blending superlative comfort, bold aesthetics, advanced materials and precise, meticulous craftsmanship. This ethos is perfectly embodied by Black Badge Cullinan’s Technical Carbon veneer. In the spirit of Sir Henry Royce’s founding philosophy, “When it does not exist, design it”, a collaboration between the marque’s designers, engineers and craftspeople saw the creation of a new luxury material. Inspired by masterpieces of urban architecture, a naked-weave carbon-fibre finish has been developed to create highly accurate repeating geometrical shapes that produce a powerful three-dimensional effect. Each leaf of Technical Carbon is finished with six coats of lacquer before being left to cure for 72 hours then hand-polished to Rolls-Royce’s hallmark mirror finish. This process takes 21 days and is only deemed complete once every piece is inspected by a craftsperson to ensure complete reflective uniformity across each of the 23 pieces within the car. Starlight Headliner has joined historical Rolls-Royce iconography such as the Spirit of Ecstasy, Pantheon Grille and ‘Double R’ monogram. Its presence in Black Badge Cullinan intensifies the cabin’s ambience by casting a low light over the lavish leather seats. Presented in fine Black leather, handwoven with 1344 fibre optic lights, it is a true reflection of the sky at night and incorporates eight brilliant white shooting stars that dart at random predominantly over the front occupants, subtly acknowledging the motor car’s owner-driver appeal. Reflecting the marque’s Bespoke philosophy, Black Badge Cullinan benefits from a near-infinitely configurable interior colour palette. Black Badge clients often use interior space as a stage to create dramatic high contrast colourways, so for Cullinan Rolls-Royce’s Colour and Trim designers created a bold new leather colour, Forge Yellow, to offer as part of the brand’s curated collection. As with all leather colours, this can be commissioned for the motor car’s Viewing Suite or incorporated into the design of a highly Bespoke Recreation Module tailored to the client’s exacting specification. A final touch completes the interior seating: the Infinity lemniscate motif is embroidered into the fold-down rear arm-rest as an elegant reminder of the power contained within. This simple but potent symbol is also incorporated in the illuminated treadplates and engraved on the brushed and darkened steel clock case. Red-tipped clock hands and instrument display needles also serve as a discreet reminder of the motor car’s dynamic prowess. Black Badge is far more than an aesthetic treatment. In creating this class of motor car, it was of vital importance for Rolls-Royce to conceive a meticulously considered dynamic personality that perfectly harmonised with the motor car’s remarkable visual identity. Indeed, the exceptionally high expectations of the marque’s clients defined a rigorous testing protocol lasting more than three years to ensure that Black Badge Cullinan was relevant to their needs. Key to the visceral thrill of Black Badge Cullinan is the Architecture of Luxury, Rolls-Royce’s proprietary all-aluminium architecture that debuted with Phantom. The sub-structure not only delivers extraordinary body stiffness but its flexibility and scalability allowed Cullinan to be fitted with all-wheel drive and four-wheel steering in its silver badged guise. These dynamic features have been comprehensively exploited and re-engineered for Black Badge while retaining the peerless quality of ride that has driven Rolls-Royce’s success. The Architecture of Luxury has been engineered to meet size and weight requirements of different propulsion systems. When the driver presses the ‘Low’ button situated on the gear selection stalk, they unlock Black Badge Cullinan’s full suite of technologies. This is asserted by the proud amplification of the motor car’s 6.75-litre twin-turbocharged V12 through an entirely new exhaust system, announcing its arrival with a deep, authoritative basso profundo. It was deemed unnecessary to make changes to the engine’s ample internal capacity, however the flexibility of the twin-turbo V12 has been exploited to generate an extra 29PS creating a total output of 600PS. The sense of a single, infinite gear has also been sensationalised with the addition of a further 50NM of torque, bringing the total to a 900NM. Black Badge Cullinan benefits from a Bespoke transmission and throttle treatment that creates a sense of urgency without ever undermining its Rolls-Royce peerage. The drive-train, ZF 8-speed gear box and both front and rear steered axles work collaboratively to adjust the levels of engagement depending on throttle and steering inputs. Changes to suspension components and settings add to the suite of dynamic technologies that ensure an appropriate balance between dynamism and refinement. The result is an extremely well-mannered tourer at low speeds and a vivid driver’s device when pressed. To bolster confidence when exploiting Cullinan’s alter ego, the braking bite point has been raised and pedal travel decreased. Redesigned brake disc ventilation also allows consistency in these changes while braking at elevated temperatures. Black Badge Cullinan is now available to commission.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1361
__label__cc	0.705018	0.294982	Board index ‹ Clones Communities and Discussion Groups ‹ Clones Level Designers particle help Share level design tips, problems, and solutions by cpunks » Wed Mar 16, 2011 6:59 pm I made a particle collecting map but if a clone dies and the particle drops in the water it stays in the water and makes it impossible to recapture. What am I doing wrong? Is there a way to make the particle reset automatically if it gets unreachable like that? cpunks Re: particle help by tom » Wed Mar 16, 2011 7:33 pm There is a game mode option for Procure the Particle game mode (see Level Settings->Game Mode Options->Lost Particle Stays Lost) that controls if the particle is re-spawned if it falls off the map. So if you have water, lava, or acid, then make sure that there is no land below it so that the lost particle can fall through and fall off the map, and then it will respawn. If the particle gets trapped in the water, then it's trapped for good. I would say this is a bug. We'll fix it for the next version. by CCX » Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:01 pm tom wrote: If the particle gets trapped in the water, then it's trapped for good. I would say this is a bug. We'll fix it for the next version. Technically, it's only trapped for good if the terrain at bottom of the water cannot be removed to allow the particle to drop further down. So it would be somewhat of a behavior change if the particle respawns based on being in water (either as soon as it hits water, or as soon as it stops dropping but is still inside water), though probably no levels are depending on the current behavior, so it's probably a good change. There are also other hazards to consider as well in general, making it likely that the game might not always be able to cover all such situations. Thus it might be worthwhile to also consider an "admin failsafe" option where the admin can explicit issue a command during the match to reset all dropped particles. [edit: I guess another solution would be to add a new type of object that can eat dropped particles, and then together with the respawn option, it would solve the problem w/o admin intervention, in cases where it's too tricky otherwise for the game to try to detect the need to respawn] As a temporary workaround, if you can't simply have the water be at the bottom of the level and make use of the respawn option, you might still be able to fix the current situation by making the bottom of your pool of water be a "bridge" contraption (those floors that can automatically set to open and close on regular intervals), instead of regular terrain that may not be destroyed. Then the particle will eventually fall off the bridge and out of the water the next time the bridge opens itself. It may be a little sketchy aesthetically but should be a workable solution for now, and you can further try to cover up the aesthetics by overlaying some background image over the bridge so the players don't see the actual bridge object. Clones Junior by rt » Wed Mar 16, 2011 9:16 pm A heuristic for the respawn-water-particles method would be to check the position of the particle to ensure that it hasn't moved for a while (~1s ?) and then check if it's contained by a water trap. Although.. i think i like CCX's suggestion to make a particle-eater trap (or enable a particle trigger mode for the proxy trap) because the level designer can then control exactly when the particle should be reset. @cpunks - you should download and install the Clones Multiplayer Jam Level Pack (http://clonesgame.com/node/1096). The "Touchdown" map is a multiplayer Procure The Particle map which you can examine in the level editor. The game mode options are set to allow particle tunneling (hand off) and there is a clone spawn trigger at the bottom of the map which creates a new Light Clone when a clone jumps into a block from underneath, like Mario Return to Clones Level Designers	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1367
__label__cc	0.652316	0.347684	Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes Forums › Off Topic T3-M4 NicWester NoomiZ wrote: » The droid may not be legendary-level of Revan, but aside from Bastila and Meetra Surik, T3-M4 comes closest. Guy, I hate to break it to you, but the majority of Star Wars fans don't even know who Revan is. You'll probably "No True Scotsman" those fans, but that's fine, you're wrong. Ceterum censeo Patientia esse meliat. Madpup I find it funny that CG's "Game Changers" have released recent videos such as "How to Get T3-M4 on IOS" and "Marguee Overload". At some point this company needs to take a step back and stop thinking about how they can milk an extra $100K this month from the players, but instead think about how they can actually improve their game. Stop adding new characters every week, stop updating game modes no one asked you to touch, and instead fix the bugs and refine the rewards for the Sith raid like we have been asking you to do for the past 4 months. Rebel_yell This just isn't a big deal. I will change my mind if they put the character in platoons before it's released to iOS NoomiZ July 26, 2018 2:22PM edited July 2018 Rebel_yell wrote: » You wanna take a bet on that? Be ready to be disappointed XD Its light side tb next time, of course T3 will be in the platoons, and I don’t want to be that guy, but I wouldn’t put it past EA to not push T3 out for Apple until after that TB SoonerJBD wrote: » Gorem wrote: » Ephran wrote: » Another marque release? Why not make him release like R2 and BB8? Oh because this makes you more money somehow? And whats up with his kit names, no Droid renewable shield? No Droid shockarm? Its like it was chosen by someone who just loaded the game and looked at the first names of a couple random feats and a repair kit, with no actual though put into it about T3 unique gear. And he really should be more old rep based and not droid based Why the heck would a droid the vast majority of people have never heard of be considered Legendary? The only other Droid worthy of that title is 3PO. A vast majority has never heard of? I want what your having smoked. That's a bold claim to make.I mean I know a vast majority does know T3-M4 and how he played a vital role in both games and inbetween and before and after. T3-M4 is the reason Revan and the Exile exist, he helped both of them do a lot, if not for T3, Surik would never have escaped peragus, if not for T3.... I mean, he's more legendary then BB8, a droid in a movie I will never watch because of how terrible Disney star wars is. I still know of him because we are star wars fans are we not? T3-M4 is a legendary droid in the star wars universe. How's it my fault that you who are in the minority don't read up about star wars lore? We have the Sith Trium raid, so you are raiding up against something that really early on in the star wars universe nearly ended the force's existence forever? Or about a being who could kill an entire planet because it can eat the force? T3 embodies the legendary title so much more then bb8 even if you did watch the movies, bb8 is new, hasn't done much, t3 was apart of jedi civil wars and multiple wars and was around for years doing things. I loved both KOTOR games. Still play them on Steam. T3-M4 is not legendary. Not even remotely close. There one and only one character from the KOTOR games that could qualify as legendary, and that is Revan, who is likely to be our next legendary or heroic character release. Please... please... please... go play the games again. T3-M4 not a legendary toon? You are kidding right. He is instrumental in the game and important in the Revan book. The droid may not be legendary-level of Revan, but aside from Bastila and Meetra Surik, T3-M4 comes closest. I am literally playing through KOTOR2 right now and have been for the past several days. I simply think your concept of “legendary” does not in any way match the standard for legendary toon releases in this game. We have two “hero’s journey” characters, Jedi Rey and Commander Luke Skywalker. Those are the protagonists of the original trilogy and the new trilogy. We have “legendary” events for: - Grand Master Yoda - Emperor Palpatine - Grand Admiral Thrawn - R2-D2 - BB-8 All of those characters are central to multiple movies in the franchise or, in Thrawn’s case, both multiple books AND the multi-season animated series. Hundreds of millions of people watched the movies. Rebels had 75 episodes, and tens of millions of people watched at least some of the show. As I said, I love the KOTOR games, and I also loved The Old Republic MMO, which I played for the first couple of years from launch. But those games are simply not as high-profile in the Star Wars lore and aren’t even officially part of the canon. KOTOR sold less than 5 million units. Even if you get past the fact that a supporting character from a game that a pretty small percentage of the fan base actually played would have a hard time being characterized in the same legendary tier as Yoda or Palpatine, you have the total blandness of T3 as a character. HK-47 was more “legendary” than him because he had a great personality and fun dialogue. T3 was an ultra-generic R2 rip-off. He has none of the personality of R2 or BB-8. He has none of the great dialogue of HK-47. He is boring. K2-SO is more legendary than T3. T3 is probably the most boring party member in KOTOR. There is no scenario in which he meets the standard of “legendary” as it pertains to Galaxy of Heroes. Barhebraeus NicWester wrote: » 1) How do you define a "fan"? 2) On the basis of what actual data is your statement made? 3) So what? Believe what you want, but I bet everyone who is familiar with Legends knows who Revan and T3-M4 are. Google a bit and see what the most popular Legends characters are, Revan most of the time ending up in the top 5 or even number 1. But anyways... I didn’t meat Legendary as in this game but in general. I think you can totally justify Revan as a legendary character. But not T3. Not even close. BubbaFett wrote: » Barhebraeus wrote: » HJoci30 wrote: » I dont know what is the problem with this. It came early for android, a 3* worthles(for now) character. If you are a whale you will get it after it goes to ios. Im not, I dont care. I have to say, that who is whining abut this is an ***. Also you shuold read, check the thing you are whining about! There is the internet you know. Early access, not exlusive! It’s not just about early access, it’s about fostering an imbalance in GP, which is an essential competitive feature of the game. And exclusive early access IS exclusive. Methinks you’re the one that needs to read more carefully. GP is a useless metric, especially in this situation..... The character, left at 3 without gear and levelling gives you a whopping 450 or so more GP that is good for absolutely nothing..... Do I think it's fair that us Android users get a toon first?..... No.... Is this toon a game changer or giving us any advantage?..... Also no..... Trust me, you guys aren't missing out on anything worth fussing about..... Incorrect. For higher GP guilds with members willing to spend, it's not uncommon to find 7* newly-released characters. And GP is NOT a useless metric, since it bears upon essential, competitive aspects of the game (TW rewards, TB deployment, platooning, etc.) ... and can potentially grant players a competitive advantage. And that's the point: even if the GP-based advantage is only potential, it reflects a biased/unfair treatment of the crossplatform playerbase. Ephran You do realize that probably 99% of Star Wars fans didn't play KOTOR, right? I only know of Revan because of his cultish following. It's a 15 year old game that's no longer any level of canon. He played a "vital" roll in a few games. I didn't know the Triumvirate when they first came out, I had to look them up. Also I will never consider anything someone says after saying "I'M A REAL STAR WARS FAN BUT I'M NEVER GOING TO WATCH ANY OF THE MOVIES AGAIN." BubbaFett Anyone willing to spend that kind of money to get a POS toon to 7* and gear it up, can simply go buy a cheap $50 android tablet to unlock it now..... at the end of the day though, the tablet would be worth more than the toon..... MonkeyBones wrote: » I honestly feel bad for the devs because this forum is so dang toxic. People need to relax. Who cares that android gets it early? It isn't a meta breaking character. You're not going to miss out on Revan because of this. Everyone will be able to access the character in time. For 90% of us the character will end up sitting in the roster at 3 stars gear 4 until it becomes farmable anyways. The playerbase just looks at any reason to throw a hissy fit because we think we are entitled to way more than we are. It's a real pain to come to these forums sometimes. Ugh ... don't be that guy. Dude, just look at your comments in this topic and tell me I'm wrong. Sure, the devs make a lot of mistakes and seem out of touch at what we want at times, but complaining about this is ridiculous. There is nothing worth complaining about here. This is correct. Complaints and feedback are a pointless waste of time. There's one thing that CG cares about... Only money... Wait wait wait wait, a COMPANY only cares about MONEY?!?! WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT? I know, right? Most companies are smart enough to balance their need for income with customer satisfaction, realizing that happy customers tend to spend more money than those who feel ignored, taken advantage of and mislead. But I'm just a previously p2p launch player who has been f2p for almost a year - what do I know? So they get literally no money from annoying you, so of course they don't care about you. benjammin KorrinX wrote: » A quick reminder that we do not officially support third party emulators and to use them at your own risk. We cannot provide you technical assistance if you have issues when using an emulator on a PC. Linking devices is totally fine though. There's a button in the settings menu that walks you through the details of how to Iink devices together. As I suspected - so how are iOS players supposed to get this character? Is my money not worth the same to you as an Android players? It's not the Android players' money they are getting in exchange for the exclusive release - I'm sure it's Google's money. benjammin wrote: » Just like K2so when R1 was out. It'll be added to farm soon enough. T3-M4 not a legendary toon? You are kidding right. The droid may not be legendary-level. You contradicted yourself in one post. The legendary characters we have so far are Emp, Yoda, R2, Thrawn and BB8. Emp and Yoda are two of the most powerful character in the entire series with the former being the primary mover and shaker across the first two trilogies. R2 is one of the most beloved characters in all of fiction and instrumental to the plots of 8 or the 10 movies. BB-8 has been a main character of 2 movies and is Disney's attempt at making their own R2. Thrawn is inarguably the most popular EU character and has been reintroduced into the canon as a fantastic character in Rebels. T3 is a robot on treads. The next legendary droid deserves to be 3PO, saying T3 should be legendary is ridiculous, so ridiculous that you yourself pointed out that he's not on the level of a legendary, like Revan. If you define a fan as anything other than someone who enjoys Star Wars, you're wrong. Fan is derived from the word, fanatic. Which in light of recent upheaval certainly fits. lol Hellsteeth30 Two primary rules of business. 1. Make a good product 2. Treat your customers as though you like them. Guess which one is not being followed. Hey, it's still better than MSF Reading is a skill - they used to get money from me, quite regularly. And many others. It's the silliness with the HSith raid and lack of communication, follow up and ignoring player feedback that has caused many PAYING customers to cease being so. Many of us have provided feedback, while we were still paying customers - for over two and half years. My point is simply that they don't care about customer (player) experience or feedback any more - whether you are paying or not. Many of us wisened up to that MO when it became painfully obvious...almost exactly 1 year ago. Coincidentally (?), that's about the same time certain CG/EA developers and team members started to leave/step back and new people came on staff. I'll let others figure out who left and who arrived when the model for the game shifted from "let's build a great game together!" to "you'll give us your money and you'll like the changes/we know better than you". NicolasRage These are events sponsored by Android. Apple could do it if they wanted. But they don't care. NicolasRage wrote: » Yes, yes, that's already been amply covered in this thread. But the issue isn't about Google sponsoring a timed exclusive and Apple not, it's about EA/CG making the decision to, in the end, treat the equal crossplatform playerbase on unequal terms. another_bug117 Does Google know that the exclusive period they paid for is being actively mitigated on the forums of the game? Do they know gamechangers are making videos about active work arounds? I think exclusively making a toon is bad but it has happened and it should not be allowed to be actively circumvented in the open after CG and EA took a monetary gift to make it exclusive. another_bug117 wrote: » Google doesn't care.... The whole point of the promotion is to reward Android users, incentive people to purchase android devices and, most importantly, create Google Play accounts, which they will have to do even on an emulator..... I am pretty sure if they knew that CG was actively promoting the work around they would care. You said you stopped paying a year ago, which was long before the Sith raid, so that's a moot point for you. The had quite a bit of feedback and back and forth from what I remember about a year ago, so what was it exactly that made you stop paying money for this game? A year ago was when people were being babies about all the Phoenix events and Thrawn. I don't blame the devs for not responding all that much to all these truly childish accusations that always get thrown at them. Seriously, "here's a free character" "BUT WHAT ABOUT THE SITH RAID" my gosh people if they haven't answered you by now they won't answer you when you're acting like a 3 year old. Don't care about toons until they are farmable so it makes no difference to me either way. I run an emulator on my macbook pro and I have the droid on my iPad I am leaving him in the corner and am not gonna upgrade him for now so it did not make much of a difference apart from the few speed mods I got from the event and I tried the droid with my JTR team with bb8 and R2 and I liked the droid. MntMan I'd consider myself a star wars fan. Old enough to see Return of the Jedi in theaters as a kid. Have seen/own all of the movies (barring Solo ownage). I have a 6 year old and a 4 year old all whom have seen all of the movies as well and most of the Star Wars Rebels. Just got Netflix so Clone Wars are in the queue. I have a jedi consular type costume I wear for Halloween when I trick or treat with the kids and my daughter dressed up as Vadar last year for Halloween as her favorite character. So I'm thinking I fall under the category of "fan". Additionally I played KOTOR ages ago when it came out. Played it twice for different outcomes if I recall and in fact dusted it off a few months ago to see if my 6 year was interested, but the start up was so boring it never caught on for him or I. Maybe when he's older and can read on his own. Anyways if it wasn't for this game and forum I would not recall that Revan was the main character or much about him at all. He doesn't get me excited in any way and I find it comical how crazy fanatical people are about a video game character. I mean at least in the movies an actor/actress can portray emotion and you can be drawn to them or hate them based on the acting/portrayal. Even cartoons have an element to it. But a video game? Please. If I never pressed the X button I'd never hear what they had to say next. Not the same flow and sometimes the storyline goes on and on too long. Snooze. Skip. X button, x button, next. I mean I remember at the time the game seemed fun, but I'd rather see Porkins released than Revan. So I don't really get the Revan obsession. It's almost like a bunch of hipsters hanging around trying to see how much more hipster they can be. "I only listen to it on my hi-fi while wearing my goat hair knit cardigan after applying pomade to my curly mustache and adjusting my monocle. Man am I hungry. i could use some GMO free range kimchi served on an aluminum lunch tray while drinking a quadruple IPA out of a mason jar. Yum. That IPA has a hint of **** and horse blanket." All joking aside it's cool people like the content. I never begrudge anyone their fun. I myself like a nice horse blanekty IPA served in a mason jar. I just don't get the crazy attachment and I certainly don't think all fans know KOTOR or it's lore. I think with most things it's based on your age and what you were exposed to at critical points of life. As for TS-M4 I don't recall him at all. Hardly think he's legendary material. In fact if no one told me I would have thought it was Wall-E. Revan on the other hand. Even I agree that he deserves legendary status if for no other reason than the cult following he has. I'm an iOs user. Took me 5 minutes to download an emulator on my PC, get TS-M4 and head back to my iPhone to watch him sit in storage as a three star until such time CG makes it farmable. Olddumper to bad the game is broken would love to see it. Well, I'm glad I avoided this thread after I made that post, sheesh guys, calm down Did many people wake up on the wrong side of the bed this past week? x3 Can't just have fun anymore can we. So people love T3, so people wish it was legendary, so what? Why you gotta be like this. There is many many people who love Kotor and everything about it still after 15years, that should be a celebrated thing, a good thing, it shows how good star wars can be and how much it can mean to people. No need to fight about it	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1370
__label__wiki	0.704949	0.704949	Save game system... Re: Save game system... Post by thebruce » October 15th, 2018, 7:01 am Oh man, woolfe, you respond to objective commentary about what can and cannot be stated or defined with "lie to yourself", or "if you tell yourself it's okay", or if "you believe something doesn't make it true". We are doing nothing of the sort, of any of the above. We're providing an objective definition of cheating that does not rely in the slightest on one's own personal opinion, whereas you are attempting to draw an arbitrary line where you believe it should be that not everyone agrees with. No sir, "scumming" any game mechanic is not cheating. noblesse listed a few other mechanics that many consider abuse, or an exploit -- but not objectively cheating as they are mechanics provided by the game. Once again the issue comes down to our different perspective on the nature of the save system: Is it a "game mechanic" in that it's considered a viable function for use within the game however one sees fit, because the game doesn't care for whatever reason you use it? - You say that if you're using it to bypass an aspect of the game you don't like which is behind this elusive "gameplay wall", then you're objectively cheating. - We say that because the game makes no distinction about whether using a save and restore is cheating or not, then you're not cheating the game by its own standards. Yes, as soon as someone who's save-scummed compares their game playthrough with yours assuming you didn't, you could say they're cheating by your standards (just as they can say they didn't cheat by their standards) - because that's a subjective standard that can't be enforced by any shared authority -- the game doesn't make that distinction. I really don't care if you think it's cheating by your standards. Whatever. Play how you like. I DO care (for your sake and for those you label) when you attempt to classify anyone who plays differently than you (that's all it is according to the game) - using a game mechanic it does not consider as cheating - as a cheater. Save Scumming is not cheating - objectively. It's not a belief. It's not an opinion. Unless the game provides an achievement where save scumming disqualifies you, or the game CALLS save scumming cheating, it's not cheating. Unless you're playing by 3rd party rules in a contest or competition or general buddy-bragging-rights where one person has 'broken a rule' of fair play, it's not cheating. Making excessive use of a game-providing mechanism towards a positive outcome is not cheating. It may not be an outcome the creators had forseen, and it may get "fixed" in later patch or update. Until then, it's not cheating. The game defines what is cheating the game - not you. I don't know how else this can be explained for you. So once again, I state my suggestion for save system style: * Since the game was developed with a pseudo-checkpoint style mechanic and a combat system that's all-or-nothing for every single encounter, if inXile were to add an ironman mode that makes save capability even more rare if not disabled entirely, then a RUN mechanic must be provided in combat either universally (though that could drastically alter current game difficulty), or enabled only for this Ironman mode. Post by Ricks » October 15th, 2018, 7:59 am The SaveStones are the biggest shit ever invented. I've mentioned it elsewhere and will repeat it here. - They do NOT give the game depth. - They do NOT make you consider "should I attack or not?" Instead they make you quit the game so the game creates a save spot and then reload it. Even when the reload takes 3 minutes I rather quit/reloaded it than risking to repeat whole sections, battles, puzzles again. Total shit design! My suggestion for a patch: - Add "Save Anywhere" - Convert all SaveStones to 1-time-experience stones or remove them altogether Post by Gizmo » October 15th, 2018, 1:29 pm thebruce wrote: ↑ I disagree. It is a function to load the past saved game, but once in the game, it is an outside feature that is not usually part of the gameplay. Exceptions exist, like Prince of Persia:Sands of Time; where if the player fails, they might be able to reload the moment —in-game, and repeat until they succeed, but at some point they have to accept it. Actually exiting the game to reload a past saved state is not part of playing the game; not any game that I know of... and I know of a few that try to discourage that sort of thing; one of these titles would simply refuse reload for half an hour. _noblesse_oblige_ Post by _noblesse_oblige_ » October 15th, 2018, 6:37 pm Woolfe wrote: ↑ _noblesse_oblige_ wrote: ↑ I suppose that's one way to look at it, but I still have a desire for longer games which do not allow unlimited save/restore. Various Rogue-likes that I have played are much longer than 10 hours and have only one save slot to restore from. (And for them, "ironman" means something else - it means not being able to go back up dungeon levels, so that you're always forced to go down into deeper, deadlier levels - no level scumming. And, it can also mean not getting any artifacts.) So, at least some Rogue-likes cater to my tastes and the projected length of game play has nothing to do with it. Yeah and they are the games that work with that sort of gameplay. But that is known from the outset. Right. And I'm saying it is okay to make some games like that. Not every new game which comes along has to have unlimited save-restore. People who don't like games which only have a single save slot will know it from the outset and can choose to shop elsewhere. Similar to my Dominions series example earlier - gamers can see what they're getting from the outset and most run far, far away. And the reason the games have 90+% ratings on Steam is because the people who decided the games weren't for them mostly avoiding purchasing them or writing reviews of them. It's okay to make games which cater to a specific audience - it actually can work out. You just have to know your audience, something inXile clearly didn't know. I play those games occasionally, and like you I enjoy them. But I don't want every game to be that, and most of those games today have a way around the ironman mode, allowing you the choice. The only difference is which it defaults to. I'm not arguing that every game need to have only a single save slot. I am arguing that some should be without unlimited save/restore though. You and I don't have to play the same games with different options or modes. We can simply have different games to play. Seriously, what's wrong with that? People who want to have an easier way to play the same games that I do remind me a lot like dealing with younger siblings, growing up. "But, Mom, I want to do what he's doing!". Then, you get told to accommodate your younger sibling by watering down whatever you're doing to be inclusive. BT1 had "heal scumming" by using Badhr Kilnfest during intra-party combat. No random encounters could occur during that time and the party members could just defend each round while the bard song healed them round after round. In this case, it was usually referred to as the "healing exploit". One could also argue that repeatedly grinding the 396 Berserkers in Harkyn's 3 was XP scumming. If you want to call abuse, utilization of exploits, or scumming as "cheating", then where do you draw the line? An exploit is an exploit, devs screw up. You think they intended the healing exploit to work that way? No, or it wouldn't be an exploit, pretty much by definition. I don't know the Berserker xp scumming issue, If it was some bug that constantly recreated those berserkers when everyone else got permanently removed, then yeah, but if it was just the most efficient xp gathering, then no cause the game was presumably meant to include a degree of grind. Life isn't black and white, we accept some things, but there is a reason we keep coming up with different terms for these things? Rather than just accepting that it is the gameplay. But, would you call it cheating? or your child decided to break their arm during a real time game and you rushed out leaving it running, and returned to find all your work gone(Yeah that actually happend to me ). Ow! Indeed... he handled it awesomely the crazy little ratbag , was super proud of him Sounds brave. Just don't show him an 8-page argument about save games on an Internet forum - that might actually make him cry. cmibl<enter> Post by thebruce » October 15th, 2018, 7:20 pm Gizmo wrote: ↑ You're describing this arbitarary "gameplay wall", and I gave examples of the exact same functionality, just disguised differently - and none of them being labeled or considered cheating in the slightest. So what's the difference? An abirtrary line where someone says "Because you hit the escape button, or Ctrl-S, or F10, you're no longer 'in the game'", as opposed to touching a waypoint, an object, or talking to an NPC, each providing the exact same functionality. It's arbitrary, and if the game doesn't recognize any of it as cheating, then it's not cheating the game. Certainly not to the level of using a 3rd party editor to alter game save data. That's the point I'm making. Can save anywhere be abused or exploited towards a positive result? Sure, just like scumming the berserker fight for XP, and other likely-unintended strategies. But it ain't objectively cheating the game. Savin a past load is not equatable to editing your save file. If it's cheating, it's because someone's deciding to call it cheating by a subjective standard. Post by Gizmo » October 15th, 2018, 11:25 pm The line is where the player realizes that something has happened that they wish had not, and they are willing to forcibly undo the consequences to cheat a more satisfactory outcome. This... in a game genre that prizes consequence. Reloading is NOT a feature of gameplay, unless the game has ended abruptly (with PC death). Neither should it be encouraged because (as you should well know ) developers listen and learn, and the consequence of this [behavior] being accepted, is to not design any RPGs that offend or in any way inconvenience the player—or they will reload. That means that the stories can never be anything but an unctuous ego-trip of a tale where the PC (of course) did everything right, and where nothing beyond their control ever did them any permanent harm [which would include socially damaged NPC relationships, and fawningly servile game mechanics that only serve as empowerment fantasy]. Do you remember Plancescape had a printer's shop; run by a man named Pen? It had quests, but if the Nameless One was sharp with him, then Pen was sharp right back at him, and permanently kicked him out; this would never happen in a game like that suggested above. Something else that would never happen, is to have a major failure be a setup for another story path after the player [seemingly] ruins the obviously good one. The Witcher was notable for presenting campaign altering decisions whose effects were not obvious until many hours later in the game. This was done deliberately so that the player would not simply reload their game once they found out about the consequence of their actions. I find the notion that reloading is just another action in the game-play to be—downright bizarre... but is does remind me of a post I read once, where a guy meta-gamed as a mentally disturbed psychotic woman in Fallout 2, who would often fantasize about killing everyone in town, only to wake up from the daydream after [reloading]. The line is where the player realizes that something has happened that they wish had not, and they are willing to forcibly undo the consequences to cheat a more satisfactory outcome. How you definitively differentiate having to leave the game to run an errand, and returning from the last save point, and deciding to arbitrarily reload from the last save point to try something again? The game does not care. The game does not know. Only you do. It's subjectively cheating. The game does not define it as cheating. It's not cheating the game. This... in a game genre that prizes consequence. Reloading is NOT a feature of gameplay, unless the game has ended abruptly (with PC death). But why? By your definition that's cheating. The game has ended your playthrough, you have to start from the beginning. If you reload your last save point you're "forcibly undoing the consequences to cheat a more satisfactory outcome." ...is to not design any RPGs that offend or in any way inconvenience the player—or they will reload. I would call that designing the game for least frustration, not trying to deter cheating. Trying to deter cheating would be adding DRM, or encryption to game data. Changing the save game mechnism between a few different styles cannot be about defining what is or isn't cheating if it's not explicitly labeled as such, it's always about minimizing the frustration of a playthrough - a save system that's balanced to the design of the gameplay. I find the notion that reloading is just another action in the game-play to be—downright bizarre... I would too if it were as commonplace and frivolous as other gameplay mechanics. But games can include game state jumping in a whole smorgasboard of manners, whether masked as an in-play mechanism or in a form of meta menu. The functionality is exactly the same, and the only difference is which keypress, or the option's visual packaging. And I've never seen saving and restoring referred to in a game expicitly as cheating. You haven't addressed the difference between reloading a save game and editing a save game's data. I fear for anyone who equates the two! Post by Gizmo » October 16th, 2018, 11:28 am This becomes cheating if it is meant to bypass the decided outcome of the game. RPG engines are designed to evaluate when to say 'no'. The limitations of the character, and the circumstances of the events they are in, indicate failure or or success by the PC, but the player who abuses the reload feature (labeled almost ubiquitously as "save-scumming") intends to circumvent the unfavorable outcome by repeatedly re-doing the situation until it they get their desired outcome. It's like playing a perpetual Groundhog's Day on demand—and while that might be a good RPG premise in itself for a one-off (specialty) RPG title/ or adventure, it is not a good foundation for all RPG games, or games in general. Because this means that the game cannot deliver (nor enforce) any outcome other than the player's own preferred result—or they will stop the game, and reload it. That is not frustration free design, this is example of "Why we cannot have nice things". A system that allows a margin of character error (ie. always with some element of risk—because that's life), can be abused by the player who resents their PC's ever failing at anything—for any reason, and who will reload until their PC —didn't— fail, or until their own patience does. This applies to skill use, to conversations, to "random" loot drops, even to combat actions—in those games naive enough to allow per action saves in combat. This is not frustration free design, this is a design frustration caused by the player's own abuse of the system; making the design moot, by refusing to accept the game's evaluated results. This leads to the developers changing future systems to be less vulnerable to player tampering; ie. to use skill thresholds instead of the more versatile, and plausible percentile system... The elimination of PC error or misfortune as outcome options. That is the ideal truth, but in practice very few will hold to their PC's fate in a 40 hour game. There are ironman options for that; the Witcher 2 IRRC even alters the game's content for those who would play Geralt with permadeath enabled. To your question, it is not cheating to save the game, and resume it later, the distinction is when this becomes baby-stepping one's every move, intent on utilizing the save game option as a means to direct one's path through the experience. For example, to force the outcome that their PC never loses in a casino; to never fail at pick-pocketing; to never fail to get their perceived best outcome. I would call that designing the game for least frustration, not trying to deter cheating. It makes one wonder if others give any thought at all to why the fail states exist in the games? ~But of course they open the lock first time—why frustrate the player with having to attempt it twice? ~What insolence to even dare implement jammed locks?—or to have the NPC refuse to buy the player's rusty/ruined equipment—or to take permanent offense at their prior actions. Why should the enemies ever manage to hit them in combat?—or their PC ever miss? That needs a distinction? This becomes cheating if it is meant to bypass the decided outcome of the game. Who determines that? The game? Do you tell the game WHY you're saving and quitting? WHY you're reloading a save game? No? Then it's subjective, it's entirely judged by yourself. The game doesn't care. It doesn't tell you you're cheating if you restore from a past save. It's objectively not cheating. You can consider it cheating for your own playthrough if you like, but it's not cheating the game. No one has refuted that yet. but the player who abuses the reload feature (labeled almost ubiquitously as "save-scumming") intends to circumvent the unfavorable outcome by repeatedly re-doing the situation until it they get their desired outcome. It's like playing a perpetual Groundhog's Day on demand—and while that might be a good RPG premise in itself for a one-off (specialty) RPG title/ or adventure, it is not a good foundation for all RPG games, or games in general. No one said it couldn't be considered exploiting. Just like grinding the berserker battle for hug XP. Or making use of other unintended/unexpected/missed game 'loopholes' for a dramatically positive outcome. But it's not cheating. Not until the game makes it not possible (without using external means, like game save editing) or calling it out as cheating (like "cheat codes"). Sure, developers have adjusted game functions everywhere from save mechanics to who knows what, in order to make a 'more fun' game for more people. See my cited Halo example earlier. There aren't cheat codes. But there are toggleable skulls to make the game harder; there isn't save anywhere but rather checkpoints, and loads of them; there are achievements to deter cheating (hacks, 3rd party editors, network sniffers, etc) for bragging rights; they run competitions where they set additional rules by which everyone must abide - and if found to be cheating (ie, breaking one of the common rules applicable to all participants), there is a common authority that can enforce it and deny a win. To your question, it is not cheating to save the game, and resume it later, the distinction is when this becomes baby-stepping one's every move If the game would consider that cheating, then I would agree. I'd see that either played out by a save mechanic that limits saves to some degree, or an achievement that's forfeited if using a the save mechanic in a detectable way. If the game allows it, it's not cheating the game. The game cannot sense player intent, it can only detect player actions. So it can only draw the line where actions are concerned, not intent. Sure, and that's part of the design decisions the game creators have to make. Save mechanic plays a HUGE role in how frustrating their game will be depending on what sort of content gets perma-locked from player access by their own actions. If an action locks the door on pocket change, not a big deal. If an action locks the door on completing the main plotline - BIG DEAL! Depending, of course, on what sort of save system they've incorporated into the game - whether by meta menus or in-gameplay assets. How much do you frustrate the player? Where's the line to be drawn that will get them to desire a 3rd party tool to do what you won't let them do? The save mechanic is something the developers have control over - most players will take advantage of that before they resort to external editors and hacks. Developers have to understand that. If it's easier to reload a past checkpoint and continue on, they'll do that because it's less work than going out to find a hack to make the change they want to see to continue on. Every player plays until the frustration grows too much and bumps them into the next realm of desperation. The game defines what it allows the player to do, and whether that requirement is too much to take to resort to external means to accomplish the positive outcome. If you don't want them hacking your game, reduce the frustration. That could be with a smorgasboard of options, difficulty tweaks, or a beneficial save mechanic. Who knows. It's a developer's nightmare trying to provide a game that fits the trendy culture and satisfies the diehards. But none of it is cheating the game until the game says "you're cheating", or you intentionally deceive the game (ie, use means it does not provide in order to achieve a favourable outcome). That needs a distinction? :shock: Asbolutely, if you want to claim that the former is just as much objectively cheating at the game as the latter. No one has to. It's self evident. Yeaaah...right. And no one cheats their diet by eating snacks... after all it's up to them to judge if it can even be called cheating, or if it's just exploiting their access to the pantry. And who cares if they DO? (Not their diet.......but it's still cheating it.) But what's your point? This is where you are wrong. It doesn't matter if the game can or cannot "sense" that the player is bypassing the rules—they are still doing it; and doing it whether or they acknowledge it as such. Players used to take advantage of software's use of removable disk storage to indirectly alter the game's recorded data. They would swap between two (or more) disks as the game was using them (because they could). They did this in order duplicate items; some they shouldn't have two of. They did this to cheat the death of their PCs. You would have it that if the player found any means to an advantage that the designer did not anticipate, and forbid, that it is not a form of cheating—even when the behavior is done expressly to cheat. That's like giving a blind magician (or street hustler) a set of clear cups to perform the Cups & Balls trick—or not mentioning it if he had picked them himself. He would still be doing his trick with the assumption that the cups were opaque; and you would let him—am I right? ***Incidentally Pen & Teller did a masterful performance with clear cups : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8osRaFTtgHo How much do you frustrate the player? Where's the line to be drawn that will get them to desire a 3rd party tool to do what you won't let them do? The save mechanic is something the developers have control over - most players will take advantage of that before they resort to external editors and hacks. Developers have to understand that. And this is truly a shame; that they either weakly accept it, or pay the expense to design protections into their game—all because a portion of players cannot be trusted to partake of the game without cheating it. They should not be allowed access to any content they arrived at through cheating; but it shouldn't be a matter of enforcing this, they should police themselves, and of course feel that it was unearned—and undeserved. (But they don't, and that is their own failing.) Aside: This is the main issue against respec options BTW... in that the player passes certain challenges with capable characters, only to continue on past those challenges with respeced PCs that might never have had the skills they used previously to succeed——and there are those who would [but of course] not consider that to be cheating; despite having a party of fighters who won a close and hard fought battle to reach their destination... only to suddenly have never been warriors, and —always— were professional cat burglars, or computer specialists~nerds that wouldn't have stood a chance in the fights along the way to get there; and they have no doubt kept the money and equipment they looted as warriors. If you don't want them hacking your game, reduce the frustration. No. You design the game from the outset to not trust the player for anything; to repeatedly sum-total the character stats throughout the game, to count equipment instances—and their origins (if the best armor in the game is somewhere they haven't been yet, then they can't have come by it). You dynamically generate password/solutions rather than use hard coded ones. Use frequent crc checks of sensitive areas in RAM, and on-disk file storage... and enough of these that it would be like separating salt from sugar in a mixed cup of both. (Not worth the trouble to untangle.) That could be with a smorgasboard of options, difficulty tweaks, or a beneficial save mechanic. No. That is an absurd compromise that doesn't need to be—it is their game, they can build it they intend it to be; not with option fever. The best choice is to make the game offer one intended (and well polished) experience with a few justified options, not make an attempt to have it be everything to everyone through myriad options. That's nuts, and self demeaning. Who knows. It's a developer's nightmare trying to provide a game that fits the trendy culture and satisfies the diehards. They should choose one and forget the others; one cannot please them both—and for the sake of the selected, one shouldn't try. This is not what we got with BT4, WL2, FO3&4.... or if it is, then 'we' the fanbase, were not the selected. You haven't addressed the difference between reloading a save game and editing a save game's data. And I don't intend to; there is no argument here... You should instinctively know the difference, it is self evident. Post by Woolfe » October 17th, 2018, 11:35 pm Nope, I'm done with this. I had clearly misread the situation, I thought we were having a serious discussion with a goodly amount of tongue in cheek but apparently you were taking it way more seriously than I realised. So I am out of the discussion. I do not want to cause offence and apologise to anyone who was offended. I have given ample reasons for people to make up their minds, simply repeating the same stuff in different ways is not only futile, but A) not something I am interested in, and B) apparently causing you at least to be concerned that I am trolling. My stance is the same and nothing you have said has been able to change my mind. Thank you for the time you devoted to it. Well in this case, because I backed it and want to play the game I backed. Nothing, except why should I miss out, or you miss out? When you could so easily accomodate both. There are options that I have pointed out several times. But you refuse to countenance them. Not much else I can say. <Snip Heal scuming/Cheating/exploit discussion> Sorry see above, but I am done on this topic. No one has to. :? It's self evident. :? Clearly not, because there is no universal agreement, and no shared authority that explicitly defines it as cheating. You know, like "cheat codes". Yeaaah...right. And no one cheats their diet by eating snacks... If THEY defined their diet, then THEY are cheating THEMSELVES. If they are given a diet by someone else who enforces the rules, then yes, they are then cheating the agreed-upon diet. It doesn't matter if the game can or cannot "sense" that the player is bypassing the rules—they are still doing it; and doing it whether or they acknowledge it as such. What makes you, who says someone is cheating by using a mechanic that is not objectively defined as such, right while someone who uses it believing it's not cheating, wrong? If the game doesn't say it's cheating, only YOU are. By your own authority. That's textbook subjectivity. Players used to take advantage of software's use of removable disk storage to indirectly alter the game's recorded data. They would swap between two (or more) disks as the game was using them (because they could). They did this in order duplicate items; some they shouldn't have two of. They did this to cheat the death of their PCs. Sure, they cheated because they were using an external process to alter game data which the game itself did not provide. But perhaps you might say it wasn't cheating because the game's manner of reading data allowed for that to occur. Okay, then it falls back into exploit territory - taking advantage of an intentended loophole for positive outcome. Perhaps devs could either find a way to thwart that exploit in a future update, or just call it out as cheating. There, cheating the game. You would have it that if the player found any means to an advantage that the designer did not anticipate, and forbid, that it is not a form of cheating—even when the behavior is done expressly to cheat. Exploit, abuse, happens all the time. And typically if an exploit is patched, or at the very least called out, it's retroactively considered cheating. Many exploits are not blocked. So is it cheating? Depends who you talk to - meaning, it's cheating to people who consider it cheating - not objectively by the game. Some would classify that as developer oversight, error, ignorance, mistake... Which means sure, the creators can denounce it as cheating; there, defined. Which is another reason I think the trend is towards achievements - much easier to positively reward actions towards a reward rather than thwart game-progressing actions and pre-emptively define "cheating" by classifying all unpredicted exploits. Is someone who runs above the top row of blocks in Super Mario cheating? Nope. They found an exploit and are taking advantage of it. The game doesn't care. Of course people competing will care - because now there's a shared context and a rule would be set to define certain actions as cheating. But it's not cheating the game. Editing a save game in Super Mario to put the player in the last world and level would be objectively cheating because it's deceiving the game itself. Who makes them feel guilty about it? Another player? Psssh, who cares about other players. They may be fine "cheating" by another player's standards. If the game defines their action as cheating, then they are cheating the game. Cheat codes. Breaking game mechanics with external, 3rd party methods; intentional deception of the game. Aside: This is the main issue against respec options BTW... in that the player passes certain challenges with capable characters, only to continue on past those challenges with respeced PCs that might never have had the skills they used previously to succeed——and there are those who would [but of course] not consider that to be cheating And it's not cheating if the game allows the player to do it without calling it out as cheating. Some players won't because they impose their own standards on the gameplay which for them would consider respeccing cheating. But if the game doesn't, then it's not. That's a whole lot of work, and current gaming trends very much seem to disagree. DRM felt the pressure. Gaming feels the pressure too. Encryption feels the pressure. People will always find a way around roadblocks. The only way is to make finding the way around much more work than moving forward as intended. You can put so much work into cutting off hacks, but it'll never succeed. You'd find much more success in making hacking not worth the time (and naturally that means it's better for everyone all around - players find more value in playing the way you intend them to, and you find more value as a dev not trying to pre-emptively thwart any and every way around your intended design) No. That is an absurd compromise that doesn't need to be—it is their game, they can build it they intend it to be; not with option fever. It's not one or the other. It's a balance. I'm not a fan of "option fever". There's a limit. Obviously there's a limit. A game with ZERO options is ludicrous. Options are all about balancing player satisfaction with creator vision. The best choice is to make the game offer one intended (and well polished) experience with a few justified options, not make an attempt to have it be everything to everyone through myriad options. That's nuts, and self demeaning. I implied nothing of the sort. I don't disagree. But their target demographic is up to them to choose. If they choose a wider demographic, then the harder it'll be to find a balance for player satisfaction. The thinner the demographic, the tighter the expectations, and the less significant that balance smorgasboard will be. "Self evident" is not objective. One person's self-evident is another person's "free country". Cheating is not, and cannot, be arbitrary and subjective. There is a very objective and clear difference between the act of loading a game as saved by said game, and the act of externally editing a saved game's data before loading it. And I'm flabbergasted if anyone can't understand that. Okay, then I'm not sure what point you were trying to prove, since really my main point in our exchanges was the objective definition of "cheating". I'd too love if that topic would end! But it appears gizmo has taken over, so you're safely out... =P To be clear, since you and noblesse focused in a slightly different direction, I am for having save options, as you. My only input to that issue was my suggestion for altering not only the save mechanic by choice (ie, save anywhere vs ironman) but adjusting another core gameplay element so that such an "ironman/hardcore" more would be reasonable. I wouldn't think a developer would create a hardcore-only style game! At least without considering its difficulty (or providing difficulty options) I think multiple save mechanics can indeed exist in a single game, but the selected style can dramatically alter the game's feel depending on how it's implemented. So maybe I fall somewhere between you two. :P Post by Woolfe » October 18th, 2018, 6:44 pm So maybe I fall somewhere between you two. I was just starting to become aware that you were mixing that in to the previous conversation, when I cut it. IMO it probably helped confuse the discussion more than anything else. I was discussing Save mode, and only save mode, and how the choice of save mode should not impact on the Gameplay difficulty when the Devs are designing the game. Ie they build the game to the difficulty they believe it should be if they were playing from start to scratch with no interuptions In regards to saving, Ironman generally refers to a lack of ability to make multiple saves. IE You cannot reload within the game. Of course there are always variations(key checkpoints that sort of thing), but the general theme of "can't avoid game failures by reloading" is the goal. That said, an Ironman mode could well include other difficulty elements as well. For example the removal of a function, more strict adherence to rulesets etc. All of these things are possible, but that is a discussion outside the Ironman save functionality, and as such I was not addressing it. Difficulty options (including Ironman) exist in many different forms. Battletech for example has a good implementation of difficulty options. Battletech Difficulty Settigns wrote: Campaign Options - Can only be set at the start of a new game, and cannot be changed. Ironman Mode. Your campaign is limited to a single save game slot that automatically updates as you progress. Run out of funds or fail a Priority Mission and it’s game over! Unequipped ‘Mechs – enable this to make ‘Mechs completed out of ‘Mech parts start empty instead of with a stock loadout. Parts for ‘Mech Assembly – increase the number of ‘Mech parts that must be salvaged to assemble a new ‘Mech. This setting is intended for veterans and those seeking a significant challenge. In game difficulty - Can be set at anytime. Lethality – when enabled, MechWarriors that are disabled in combat will always be killed. ‘Mech Destruction – when enabled, ‘Mechs disabled from Center Torso destruction are permanently lost. This setting is intended for veterans and those seeking a significant challenge. No Rare Salvage – when enabled, + and ++ items are no longer generated as salvage results (but remain purchasable in stores). MechWarrior Progression – adjust the amount of experience that MechWarriors gain after each mission. Advanced MechWarriors – increase or decrease the frequency of more powerful MechWarriors appearing in Hiring Halls in later parts of the game. Enemy Force Strength – increase or decrease the baseline strength of the enemy forces you’ll face in procedural contracts. Contract Payment – increase or decrease the amount of C-Bills paid by procedural contracts across the game. Salvage – increase or decrease the amount of salvage you may obtain from negotiation on procedural contracts. As you can see, Ironman in Battletech covers the saving function primarily but also makes it so that a priority mission fail is a loss, as well as running out of funds, because you can no longer reload to make a different choice. But in addition there are other options that can have differing affects on the gameplay. Mech Destruction for example, changes how you fight significantly as you not only potentially lose your own mechs, but it decreases the potential for new mechs if you core their centre torso(a very common way of killing a mech). Lethality as well. Suddenly those head hits become a lot more concerning. Parts for Mech assembly, is also a big change, as it takes a lot longer to "acquire" a mech from salvage alone. Which slows your mech growth. This is an example of a well done set of difficulty options. But these are seperate to the base game. The base game was built at X difficulty. Everyone played the same difficulty whether they were good or bad. Many of us found the base game relatively easy, so these options ramped the difficulty for us. The new Xcom did something similar(Its been a while since I played it as I found it boring after the first campaign). They had an "Ironman" option, which again was primarily associated with the save function, whilst also having a number of other difficulty options that allowed more granular difficulty. The point I am trying to make, is that generally the term "Ironman" in regards to gaming, tends to refer primarily to the "Save" function, though some variation exists. Okay, then we're agreed on that. Because my point was that yes, while developers build a game the way they'd like it to be played (keeping in mind the base save system they're intending - especially for the case of BT4 which has no selectible alternatives only in-game decisions), the save system being designed does impact design decisions for other core - non-dynamic - gameplay elements. Choosing a difficulty is basically batch-altering in-game mechanics (in most games this particular option doesn't change the save mechanic) like enemy strength, speed, PC attributes, chances, resources, etc. I agree, having an explicit "ironman mode" (even if it's placed as the most extreme difficulty) typically means restricting the save mechanic to some more 'extreme' degree. In the context of BT4, I firmly believe that an Ironman mode option wouldn't work because the lack of ability to run from an encounter without losing the game makes the game virtually unplayable. With the save points, if you die you don't start the game over, you start from your last save point. If there are no savepoints, I believe the combat design to be FAR too "ironman" for reason. But hey, maybe someone would love that level of do-or-die for a lengthy RPG. Maybe there should be an Ironman-Extreme :P At the very least, that level of ironman would absolutely not be in more in line with the "AG-only save" style 'ironman' mode akin to BT1 that initially raised this theoretical gameplay concept for BT4. In BT1 you could run from encounters. The difficulty was in resource management - which BT4 greatly lacks in regards to combat. Bigly lacks. Bigly. If BT4 gets ironman mode without save stones, it must enable Run. To be in line with BT1, and to be reasonably extreme in difficulty. ;P	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1371
__label__cc	0.665507	0.334493	Brand new iPhone for brand new iOS? Thread starter tigert07 tigert07 Is it completely crazy to suggest that there will not be an iPhone 5S, but rather a completely new iPhone? They spent so much effort on making a statement that this is the first major software overhaul since the introduction of the iPhone. A completely new iPhone would help sell this new experience. Thoughts? ethereal45 If it were really going to be such a statement, I think it would be been a bigger impact to release both at the same time. I would think we see a 5S vs. an iPhone 6. I would love for this to be true. http://crave.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/iphone-6-will-have-4-8-inch-screen-analyst-says-50011449/ Don't think they'll skip the 5s but a 4.8" iPhone 6 early 2014 would be great. hovscorpion12 I hope so. Otherwise it's a waste. Don't get me wrong. IOS 7 looks amazing on the iPhone 5, but push a 4.5" or hopefully 4.8". Perfect	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1374
__label__cc	0.580418	0.419582	Boy Scout with Downs Syndrome article By Farrar, March 18, 2018 in The Chat Board Alice 7,238 Edited March 21, 2018 by Alice ChocolateReign 28,508 Yes, and BSA isnâ€™t a public school program so they absolutely donâ€™t apply to BSA. BSA falls under ADA. ADA requires â€œreasonableâ€ accommodations. I am not sure they actually fall under the scope of the ADA. It gets a little confusing as the BSA claims to be private when it suits them but also wants to be treated like a public organization. I would assume that community groups using a school space are paying for it. I have rented school rooms for a variety of political, youth and community groups. We paid a fee and were certainly not covered by 504. A church can rent a high school gym, doesnâ€™t make the church subject to all of the provisions of the fair labor standards. Correct. I am involved with a sports group that rents public facilities via contract, and we frequently run into people wanting to challenge a decision under 504 or Title IX. Usually those wouldn't be applicable anyway, but the issue is closed completely as we are 100% private. This is my understanding of the ADA: Private/public isn't relevant to ADA. Requirements for compliance are based solely on the size of the employer and apply to for profit, not for profit and government organizations with fifteen or more employees. The ADA is very specific when it comes to accommodations of physical space and very general when it comes to programming accommodations. This is all ADA says regarding access to programs such as BSA: (b) Opportunity to participate. Notwithstanding the existence of separate or different programs or activities provided in accordance with this subpart, a public accommodation shall not deny an individual with a disability an opportunity to participate in such programs or activities that are not separate or different. Â§ 36.302 Modifications in policies, practices, or procedures. (a) General. A public accommodation shall make reasonable modifications in policies, practices, or procedures, when the modifications are necessary to afford goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations to individuals with disabilities, unless the public accommodation can demonstrate that making the modifications would fundamentally alter the nature of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations. 36.303 Auxiliary aids and services. (a) General. A public accommodation shall take those steps that may be necessary to ensure that no individual with a disability is excluded, denied services, segregated or otherwise treated differently than other individuals because of the absence of auxiliary aids and services, unless the public accommodation can demonstrate that taking those steps would fundamentally alter the nature of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations. https://www.ada.gov/regs2010/titleIII_2010/titleIII_2010_regulations.htm In our area, after school programs like scouts don't pay, or at least they don't pay market rents. It's possible that the law is different for an organization that contracts at a market rate. Actually it is a bit trickier than that, and yes, whether an organization (and associated facilities, if any) is truly private can (not always) matter, especially when it is an organization based on membership. The Boy Scouts are a nonprofit volunteer organization and has generally been held to not be a public accommodation. Title III: Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability by Public Accommodations and in Commercial Facilities This title prohibits private places of public accommodation from discriminating against individuals with disabilities. Examples of public accommodations include privately-owned, leased or operated facilities like hotels, restaurants, retail merchants, doctorâ€™s offices, golf courses, private schools, day care centers, health clubs, sports stadiums, movie theaters, and so on. This title sets the minimum standards for accessibility for alterations and new construction of facilities. It also requires public accommodations to remove barriers in existing buildings where it is easy to do so without much difficulty or expense. This title directs businesses to make "reasonable modifications" to their usual ways of doing things when serving people with disabilities. It also requires that they take steps necessary to communicate effectively with customers with vision, hearing, and speech disabilities. This title is regulated and enforced by the U.S. Department of Justice. https://adata.org/learn-about-ada Maus 1,613 I've been checking the local papers and news stations, following this story, because we are also in the Utah National Parks Council, and my aspie son is also in scouts. (I'm a den leader in cub scouts.) It's the Associated Press who is reporting that "the national organization voided every merit badge he had earned," not the family. In their lawsuit, they are suing only "for blocking his son from becoming an Eagle Scout and revoking some of his merit badges." I saw one quote this morning (which I can't find again) where the dad is supposed to have said that National "effectively took away" his badges, which isn't the same as actually taking them away. Revoking them doesn't even seem likely logistically. National got back to him in 24 hours. There's no way they challenged all 22 badges in 24 hours. That would require tracking down and interviewing all 22 Merit Badge counselors, many of whom probably aren't in scouts anymore. (Otherwise, how would they even know he hadn't done every badge as written?) National says they did not take away any badges in their newsroom post. They also said it in a eZine for adult BSA leaders that I got in my inbox just this morning: "Logan is still registered as a Boy Scout, and the merit badges he earned are still listed in the BSAâ€™s advancement records." What I suspect really happened is that he was missing some of the badges required on the eagle path, as outlined in Margaret's post. (For instance, maybe he hasn't done Swimming or Hiking or Cycling, and has instead substituted something else from the required list, but from an unrelated category. National probably told them those substitutions don't count as required badges (they'd still count as electives), and Dad probably took that as saying they were revoking them. When his dad was interviewed on KSL, Utah's main news radio station, what he said there was, â€œWhen National (BSA) was contacted about possible alternates, we were told that for Star Life Eagle Ranks, there are no alternates. The young man must do the requirements as written, including leadership responsibilities.â€ I can see Mom and Dad taking that as meaning you must do each Merit Badge exactly as written, but National actually meaning you have to meet all the rank requirements. From the eZine: Loganâ€™s story raised some questions about this line from Page 79 of the Guide to Advancement: â€œAlternatives are not available for the Star, Life, and Eagle rank requirements. Scouts may request approval for alternative merit badges, but the other requirements for those three ranks must be fulfilled as written.â€ That's a whole different thing, having nothing to do with Merit Badges. I know, because my Aspie son is heading for Star, that one of the requirements for that rank is serving for four months in some kind of youth leadership position, such as as a Den Chief, or Patrol Leader. The wording of what National is supposed to have told this boy's dad suggests he hasn't met the leadership requirement. The Scout would be able (most likely) to earn the Sports mb. However, it is not an Eagle-required mb, so alternative requirements are not available. I could see how the Sports mb could be earned doing adaptive skiing whilst still following the requirements. However the sport must be okayed by the mb counselor, NOT mom and dad, in advance. There are 2-3 Eagle-required mb options in several categories. BECAUSE they are Eagle-requireds, there are alternative requirements IF the Scout has been identified as needing those. So, the boy can do Swimming OR Hiking OR Cycling. So, a boy who could not pass the Swimming mb, could hand cycle (for example). If a boy earns all three of those, they roll to electives. Only the Eagle-requireds have alternative requirements. If a boy is terrified of dogs (for example) there are not alternative requirements to get around taking care of the dog. He simply chooses another mb to do as an elective. Here is the list of Eagle-required mbs: Citizenship in the Community Citizenship in the Nation Citizenship in the World Emergency Preparedness OR Lifesaving* Environmental Science OR Sustainability* Personal Management Swimming OR Hiking OR Cycling* Cooking, and All of those have alternative requirements allowed. Edited March 22, 2018 by Maus Heigh Ho 8,312 LocationPlanet Earth Of course, none of us know the whole story. I think that it's important to note that every individual with Down syndrome is unique, and the accommodations they need are unique as well. So, the fact that a set of accommodations has worked for one person with Down syndrome, or many people with Down syndrome, doesn't tell us whether or not that set of accommodations is appropriate for Logan. For example, people have mentioned hand cycles as the way that BSA accommodates people with physical disabilities, but a hand cycle is an accommodation that works for a very small subset of people with physical disabilities. I can't think of a single student that I've worked with who would benefit from that particular accommodation, and I have worked with many students with physical disabilities. As far as your argument that not everyone chooses to get Eagle, or follows through and gets it, legally there's a distinction between not getting something because you made a choice, and not getting it because it's inaccessible or because you're discriminated against for your membership in a protected class. A hand cycle is not 'the' way, its 'a' way. In this case I described, its what the lad's physicians recommended due to his particular disability, after the Scoutmaster showed the mom several possibilities that Paraolympians used. Its not up to the volunters or paid employees of BSA to interpret the medical needs..they can't replace the lad's physician team. The volunteers in the lad's unit may suggest ideas for the lad and parent to discuss, but its up to the family to decide what's appropriate. A different scout may need a three wheeler or a quad, or different gearing..up to them to figure out what works for the area they live in, just as it is to a family of a nondisabled scout. The BSA is not a public school .. it doesn't have teams at the local level with lists of accomodations, equipment to loan, and expert PT and OT available for free. The family has to do some of the legwork, and in cases like this one, where no one local is able to make suggestions, it sounds as if National may be able to offer some. Edited March 22, 2018 by Heigh Ho Margaret in CO 20,606 It was me who used the hand cycle as an example. I used it because that WAS one way one of our Scouts could participate. You're right--BSA volunteers are not in the position to make those choices. Those choices are made with the boy, the parents, the doctor, and the Council, all working together.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1380
__label__wiki	0.725613	0.725613	No Introductions Necessary Vampire Weekend’s Big Step Al Bello/Getty Images Floyd Mayweather vs. Robert Guerrero by Jay Caspian Kang on May 7, 2013 Every girl at that fight has got her ass hanging out of the bottom of her dress. It’s not a bad thing in theory, but Jesus Christ, have some decency.” I was in Las Vegas for the second time in as many years to watch Floyd Mayweather fight, and for the second time in as many years my cab driver was talking about the relative ass coverage at the MGM Grand and the mayhem unleashed by a “specific element” at the NBA All-Star Game on the hardworking residents of Las Vegas. This always seems to happen to me. Eight years ago, I remember being driven to the airport here by a cabbie who talked with great anger and passion about the “monkeys on the USA Olympic team” and their habit of “chucking up shots like they were spears.” I do not know why racist cab drivers feel so comfortable talking out their prejudices with me. I suppose there are two possibilities: One, they are simply projecting whatever racist thoughts they have about me onto another group and projecting the whole ugly thing into the backseats of their cabs. Or maybe they have met one or two Asian persons who also did not like the “specific element” at the NBA All-Star Game and now assume that all Asians are brothers in bigotry. I shrugged and stared out the window. When you’re driving in from the airport, the Strip looks like an outpost colony on Tatooine, which, I suppose, it sort of is. Only from up close do you see the sick organization in all that lit chaos. If you stand, say, in front of the Hard Rock Cafe on Las Vegas Boulevard and look up at all the tourists spilling out of Paris, you’ll swear that the people and all the flashing lights and the crotch rock blaring at Diablo’s bar across the street are all interconnected in an organic way — some fucked-up Leaves of Grass moment or an acid trip where all the tracers and flashing squares of light cohere into one pulsing mass that convinces you of some life truth, quickly forgotten. The cab driver dropped me off in front of the MGM Grand. I considered stiffing him on the tip, but the rules of etiquette won out, as they almost always do. For the next hour, I rehearsed in my head what I should have said to the cab driver. This is old habit. I no longer believe that there’s much value in yelling at racist cab drivers, but I suppose there’s still part of me that rejects this older, more sober self who comes up with rationalizations like, “If I make them feel like special racists, they win.” A few hours later, while eating lunch in a casino food court, I overheard a large, sunburned man in a tank top (the official civic mammal of Las Vegas) say something about the “element” at Mayweather fights and how all the booing that had gone on at the weigh-in was proof that boxing had gotten over Floyd and his “Money” act. “Nobody wants to watch that shit over and over again,” he explained through a mouthful of pizza. A black couple sat down at a nearby table and the sunburned man clammed up. Then, of course, he changed the subject. The racists weren’t the only ones feeling weary in Las Vegas. Nearly everyone I talked to about the fight predicted a snoozer. At the sportsbook at the MGM Grand, the line for “The Fight Will Not Go a Full 10 Rounds” swung from -150 to +225 in a matter of a few days, indicating the betting public’s belief that the fight would end without a knockout. Like all of Floyd’s fights since he beat De La Hoya on Cinco de Mayo in 2007, the outcome of Mayweather-Guerrero felt preordained: Guerrero would come out aggressive and Floyd would quickly figure him out. The next seven or eight or nine rounds would be an exercise in ritual humiliation. This expectation, in fact, has become so ubiquitous that any deviation from the “Floyd figures it out” narrative immediately turns that fight into a “classic.” Last year, I watched Miguel Cotto occasionally rough up Floyd Mayweather in four or five rounds of their 12-round bout. Like the rest of the audience at the MGM, I felt thrilled at having watched a close, competitive fight. But when I got home and watched the fight on TV, I realized that things really hadn’t been all that close and what I had been cheering was the faint possibility that Floyd might make the sort of mistake Floyd never makes. It made me wonder if Floyd might simply be too good for the rest of boxing and if the sport actually benefits from having such an unbeatable, peerless champion. All around Vegas on Friday night, the weekend betters, the fight fanatics, and the craps dealers were all saying the same thing: Floyd was great, for sure, but maybe Floyd’s greatness had gotten a bit boring. Consider boxing’s logline: A kid from nothing comes up through the ranks, shocks the world, and then sits fat and lazy on the top of the sport until the next kid from nothing comes up through the ranks to shock the world. This is admittedly a good story, and like all great stories it can be replicated over and over. The health of boxing relies on the refresh rate — nobody likes a champion once he’s been champion for too long. Fans start to gripe about handpicked opponents and boring fights. Alarmists declare the sport dead. Only in boxing is a champion considered greater for losing and then coming back to win a title than for simply never losing in the first place — the downward swing and the redemption reminds the fans of the young man they fell in love with. Variations of this redemption happen in other sports, but a champion who loses his title faces a specific type of humiliation that might not befall athletes in team sports. When it’s all over, you’re either sprawled out on your back or standing half-naked in the ring while the announcer tells the world that you have lost. Boxing’s problem in 2013 is that the champions do not lose. Both Wladimir Klitschko and Floyd Mayweather fought this Saturday and both, as expected, won. Klitschko stayed a stranger, as he has for most of his 13-year stay at the top of the heavyweight division. After a close first two rounds, Floyd did exactly what everyone expected him to do: He figured out Robert Guerrero and put him through 30 minutes of eye-popping, yet reserved, dominance. I am speaking here as someone interested in the business of boxing and its constant search for a crossover star. Were I writing as a boxing fan, I would say that in a perfect world, Floyd Mayweather’s ring intelligence alone would make for massive pay-per-view numbers. When you watch Floyd calmly standing in the center of the ring as the crazed, hungry opponent hurls himself forward, trying to subjugate the champ’s intelligence through sheer force of will, you start losing track of superlatives with which to describe him. Floyd Mayweather is a boxing genius. This cannot be disputed. But people do not buy pay-per-view fights to watch a chess master dominate a high school champion. And given that Floyd Mayweather signed a six-fight contract with Showtime/CBS in the neighborhood of $200 million, it’s worth asking: If the next Floyd Mayweather fight turns out like this Floyd Mayweather fight, with legions of fans booing and Floyd having to explain, once again, why he did not go for the knockout, what will the pay-per-view numbers look like for fight no. 3? No. 4? How many times can we watch the master work on his own terms? When will we start asking for blood? In the past, Floyd has counteracted his lack of ring vulnerability and knockout power with a heavy serving of self-promotion. This worked in the early days of HBO’s 24/7 series because Floyd provided the charismatic, brash foil to Oscar De La Hoya’s timid, calculated, and mega self-conscious reserve. That charm turned into “Money,” boxing’s undefeatable villain. But how long is the life span of the sports antihero? Showtime’s All Access series, which has been described by several people as “24/7 with Common,” felt scattered and slightly aimless in the buildup to Saturday’s fight. There were flashes of “Money,” but for the most part, Floyd seemed to be moving himself into a more mature, relatable iteration. There were scenes that showed him watching movies with his daughter, biking around Las Vegas with his fiancée. The problem wasn’t that these scenes felt inauthentic per se, but more that they clashed so starkly with the extant (and police) record. How do you reintroduce someone who has already been introduced in countless fight-hype shows? What can you say about Floyd that hasn’t been said a million times before? Floyd Mayweather is one of the greatest technical fighters of all time and one of the most brilliant athletes of his era. But “Money May” was the one who put the butts in the seats. Everything about a Mayweather production is meticulous and bordering on perfection. Saturday night was no different, and if Showtime and Golden Boy Productions can be criticized for a lack of creativity in matchmaking and promotion, they should be commended for putting on a beautiful show. Mayweather’s gold snakeskin shorts were the best possible shorts. His ring entrance, which featured a hyped Weezy yelling out “Easy Money!,” was the best possible ring entrance. And Floyd himself showed up in a condition that would put a 25-year-old fighter to shame. I won’t pretend to know the real Floyd Mayweather who hides behind his various personae, but it’s my belief that he shows up mostly in these small, perfect details on fight night. Robert Guerrero, on the other hand, was sheriff of his very own shit show. Surrounded by a massive posse in his corner, Guerrero looked grim and slightly unfocused. His father and trainer, Ruben Guerrero, pranced around the ring, soaking in the moment. In the week leading up to the fight, Ruben Guerrero had diverted much of the attention away from his son by challenging Floyd Mayweather Sr. to a fight. The whole thing was about as stupid and sad as it sounds, and it debased the Guerrero family’s deep Christian message. Guerrero is your standard-issue evangelical Christian athlete who starts off every interview by thanking God and giving him all the glory. I have no problem with Guerrero’s choice to proselytize, nor did I have a problem with the “God Is Great” T-shirt that he wore into the ring (except I would ask for a better font next time), but I also believe that invoking God in interview after interview and promoting yourself as a fighter through Christian media networks demands a higher standard of behavior. Guerrero, who was arrested after he tried to bring a gun onto a plane at JFK airport, and his father, who went on every radio show that would have him to talk up a “parking lot” fight between himself and the 60-year-old Mayweather Sr., fell far below that standard. If nothing else, all the carping and gun-smuggling distracted attention away from the more inspirational story of Guerrero’s dedication to his wife throughout her battle with cancer. When the opening bell rang, the deep, rational thinker met the evangelical in the center of the ring. The first two rounds were close — I ended up giving both to Guerrero, mostly because I thought he did some decent work in the clinches. By the middle of the third round, Floyd found his distance and started up what would become the fight’s main pattern: Guerrero would move forward cautiously while Floyd waited, sometimes with his hands down by his side. When he sensed the slightest break in Guerrero’s defense, Floyd would unload power shots straight into Guerrero’s head. The accuracy of these punches is stunning to behold in person — you can actually see Floyd’s fist snake through Guerrero’s arms and find its home on his chin. With growing reluctance, Guerrero would keep inching forward until he got Floyd near the ropes, at which point Floyd would calmly duck and spin back toward the center of the ring. That same sequence played itself out over and over again. And because Guerrero never adjusted, Floyd never did either. There comes a time in every technical domination that you wish the winning fighter would just open up and drop the chump so you can go home and say you watched a good fight. On Saturday night, this moment came as early as the sixth round. The rest of the fight brought a few more moments of brilliance from Floyd, but it also proved frustrating to all but the most ardent fight fans. By the 10th round, several spectators at the MGM Garden Arena had started booing, including one stalwart young man who kept screaming “Boooo-ring! Booooo-ring!” at both fighters. The fact that everyone on press row could so clearly hear the displeasure of what sounded like a teenage boy should tell you all you need to know about the lack of crowd noise Saturday night. It felt, at times, like the crowd you’d find at an opera — bursts of applause for the occasional brilliant moment, but mostly just bored appreciation. After ring announcer Jimmy Lennon Jr. gave the inevitable news — Mayweather by unanimous decision — there was none of the excited talk that follows most boxing matches. No conspiracy theories, no rehashes of powerful punches, no speculation about future fights. In the tunnels leading out of the arena, I plodded toward the exit alongside an older media-mogul type and a stunning woman in a dress that looked like it had been sewn together with feathers from an oil spill. “You know,” the media-mogul type explained to his younger companion, “not every boxing match can be a good one. Sometimes these things happen, but what’s more important is that you’re beautiful and it’s still only 10:30, which means we will have plenty of time to turn the night around.” This article originally referred to scenes of Floyd Mayweather biking with his wife; in fact, the woman in the video is his fiancée. Filed Under: General topics, Money, Series More General topics DivaRank! 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__label__wiki	0.682747	0.682747	Karl-Anthony and Cauley-Stein: Kentucky’s Two-Headed Monster Is the Future of the NBA They’re big, they’re skilled, and they’re NBA-bound. by Andrew Sharp on March 6, 2015 On Tuesday night, a senior forward for Georgia named Nemanja Djurisic was playing the biggest game of his career, carving up an undefeated Kentucky team. He was scoring inside, he was scoring outside, and the toughest frontline in the country had no real answer. He had 18 points after a layup with 6:04 left. Then Willie Cauley-Stein switched onto him for the final six minutes. Djurisic didn’t score again. A four-point Georgia lead turned into an eight-point win for a Kentucky team that looks as unbeatable as ever. Of course, while Cauley-Stein was erasing Georgia’s star on one end, Karl-Anthony Towns was doing whatever he wanted on the other. That helped. He was almost a one-man offense down the stretch — 11 points in the final eight minutes — and the Georgia frontline was as helpless as everyone else has been all year. Towns is Godzilla and college basketball is Tokyo. Do you realize how unfair it is to put these two together on the same team? As I hovered over my laptop Wednesday afternoon watching a replay of Georgia-Kentucky, I physically winced when I imagined college kids trying to do anything against these guys. And this was one of their worst games of the season! This is the biggest reason Kentucky is undefeated. In addition to talent all over the roster, they have built-in trump cards on offense AND defense whenever a game gets tight. Earlier this year, Ricky O’Donnell compared them to Al Horford and Joakim Noah, and that sounds about right. But that’s in college. Let’s talk NBA. Danny Chau is writing about foreign prodigies, which means it’s officially time to start thinking about the draft. As Chris Ryan said to me yesterday, “When someone starts talking about release points, then you know it is truly spring.” Here we are. It’s March, and the draft conversation begins in Lexington this year. College basketball has had a rough year, entertainment-wise, so I feel like we’re underplaying how great Karl-Anthony Towns can be. He can do pretty much anything you could ever want from a big man, and this year at Kentucky he’s only scratching the surface. His frame is stronger and sturdier than most people his size, especially at his age, but he’s also more explosive than just about any big man in college. He’s got touch around the rim, good footwork, and can hit a jumper. When I start talking about Towns, I feel like I run into the same problem talking about Anthony Davis this year — there can be only so much hyperbole. It all starts to feel a little ridiculous. Then you watch Davis and Towns play, and the cycle starts all over again. Did you see that Davis had 39, 13, and eight blocks on Wednesday? Well, Godzilla is doing this: His stats from this year don’t really matter — 9.6 ppg, 6.5 rpg, 2.3 bpg. All his numbers are deflated by playing fewer minutes (20.5 mpg) while surrounded by an embarrassment of riches on the Kentucky roster. He’ll be measured against Jahlil Okafor (17.8 ppg, 9.4 rpg, 1.4 bpg) come June, but the numbers are misleading. For one thing, stretch those stats out across 40 minutes: Okafor: 23.1 ppg, 12.2 rpg, 1.8 bpg Towns: 18.8 ppg, 12.8 rpg, 4.4 bpg It’s pretty much dead even. What you lose in scoring with Towns you get back on the defensive side. And Towns’s offense is improving as the year goes. He’s shooting nearly 80 effing percent from the field in his last four games, and whether it’s a close win against LSU or surviving in Athens, he’s got a knack for coming up big when things get tight.1 But where the Okafor-Towns comparison really gets lopsided is when you remove college basketball from the equation. There was also the time when Calipari was fretting over his freshman’s maturity right as Towns was sneaking behind him to photobomb the interview like a young Chris Bosh. Probably the best moment of the college basketball season so far. Towns fits perfectly with where the NBA is going. Post-up power forwards have turned into the NBA’s version of running backs. They will never disappear, and a potentially great one (like Okafor) will always help. But you can get by without one, and honestly, you might be better off. That’s what makes this draft interesting. Fifteen years ago, Okafor-Towns would have made for a great draft debate. In 2015, it just won’t. Or at least it shouldn’t. Towns can be the centerpiece of an offense one day, but he’ll also anchor a defense. He’s good enough at the rim to let a coach go small to space the floor around him with shooters. He doesn’t have the freakish guard skills of Anthony Davis, but that’s the wrong comparison. Think of the Orlando version of Dwight Howard, but with better free throw shooting and the ability to hit a face-up jumper. Building your team around a low-post scorer with defensive questions is fine, but it requires an all-in investment. It consumes the identity of your offense, and you still have to find help down low on defense. And most of the best teams in the NBA are going in the other direction. This is the problem that’s been vexing the Kings for as long as they’ve had Boogie Cousins. This problem would not exist with Towns. The other big man in Lexington is just as interesting. Willie Cauley-Stein Cauley-Stein is the superstar who exists to debunk all the most obvious Kentucky myths. He was not a McDonald’s All American. He was not a top-25 recruit. He was never a one-and-done candidate. When he was pegged as a potential lottery pick after last year’s tournament run, he decided to come back for his junior year. In some ways, he’s the anti-Towns. Where Towns’s superstardom was preordained since he was 16 years old,2 Cauley-Stein was a question mark. To plenty of people around the NBA, he probably still is. To people around college basketball, he is something else: the best example in years of why it sometimes pays to come back to school. Right around when Calipari took over coaching the Dominican national team to recruit Towns, because Calipari is the fucking best. Watching him last year was like seeing JaVale McGee’s Looper. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov5CyG-6Tfs He had zero offensive polish, not much more poise, and there may not be official stats to support this, but it felt like he fouled someone every five seconds. He was still really good, of course. His length alone made him great on defense. And he was athletic, and he could dunk. Cauley-Stein was a big reason Kentucky made that tournament run until he got hurt. Had he gone to the NBA last season, there was a chance he would have developed into a dependable pro starter. Someone in the lottery would’ve taken that bet. But it would’ve been a long shot. Big men like Cauley-Stein disappoint all the time. Most NBA teams — especially lottery teams — don’t have the patience or practice time to weed out players’ worst habits, so those problems fester and keep them from hitting the next level. Eventually, one team gives up trying to get the most out of all that potential, the player moves on to another team, and the cycle repeats itself. Cauley-Stein flipped the script. He came back to school, he’s playing under control, and he has transformed from a decent but misfired weapon into a finely tuned instrument of torture. “His growth from last year to this year is amazing,” Calipari told The Advocate-Messenger recently. “And a lot of it becomes that confidence and his mentality — his mental toughness, his ability to push through when it’s not going great, his ability to push through comfort levels, to practice and go hard when he doesn’t feel like doing those things.” Fellow coach Frank Martin added: “He broke my heart when he didn’t come to Kansas State. It’s unfortunate, I take the job at South Carolina and I have to play against him every year. It’s unbelievable how confident he has become, a multi-dimensional player … We all forget he’s a junior already. Some of his ups and downs as a freshman are in the rear view mirror. You’re starting to see the grown man Willie go out there and play.” Celebrating maturity and the virtues of college basketball makes me feel like Billy Packer, but in Cauley-Stein’s case, it seems true. It’s not that he’s a different player, he’s just a much smarter version of the player everyone hoped he could be.3 Now it makes more sense to dream about what will happen in the NBA. Per that same Advocate-Messenger article, Calipari began reading with Cauley-Stein to get him more interested in school. Together, they’ve recently read The Energy Bus, God Never Blinks, and The Secret. I’ve never wanted to do anything as much I want to join John Calipari’s book club. That is DeAndre Jordan’s shot chart for the season. In other words, aside from end-of-quarter 3s, he has taken one shot outside the paint. For the entire season. This could be Cauley-Stein’s future. Jordan is dominating for the Clippers, and I’m not sure he has a single offensive skill beyond setting screens and rolling to the hoop for massive finishes. The full description of his game could be boiled down to five words: “Dunks, defense, rebounds, and DUNKS.” He is great at exactly three things, and that’s good enough to make him valuable to any team in the NBA.4 He also went pro after his freshman year, which makes him a decent counterpoint to Cauley-Stein’s stay-in-school Billy Packer fable. Thanks in large part to Chris Paul lobs, all of Jordan’s raw talent eventually turned into real weapons. And he got paid while he developed. Cauley-Stein is great at the same three things. He can finish lobs, he can rebound, and he’s so quick and long that strength is irrelevant. He can guard anyone, and he helps the whole defense. Watch him challenge this first jumper, then recover to destroy this kid’s hopes and dreams: There are signs that he might be developing a face-up jumper too. That’s a wrinkle Jordan has never had. If the jumper comes together, it would obviously make Cauley-Stein even more attractive in June. But whether the jumper develops or not, just watch Jordan, or look at someone like Tyson Chander, and it’s hard to bother worrying about the offense. The most serious questions facing Cauley-Stein were related to maturity and basketball IQ, and both of those questions have been answered this year. Once it’s time to start freaking out about the draft, Cauley-Stein’s value will tell you a lot about what the NBA prioritizes right now. DeAndre Jordan fell to the 35th pick in 2008. Cauley-Stein won’t get past 10, and may not get past five. The NBA’s Big New Buzzword Wingspan. Upside. Motor. These are our older members of the draft cliché family. Right now, in 2015, we are witnessing the birth of another. RIM PROTECTOR. Rim protector. You have probably heard this term casually thrown around with increasing frequency over the past few years, but it’s about to hit upside territory in June.5 Is he 6-foot-10 or bigger? Can he walk? “Well let me tell you,” Jay Bilas says to himself in the mirror. “One of the things they love about him is he could be an elite rim protector at the next level.” Most buzzwords are at least 60 percent bullshit — lookin’ at you, motor — but rim protector makes sense. Look at what Jordan has been doing for the Clippers. Look at Chandler’s career. Look at the article Kirk Goldsberry wrote on Rudy Gobert earlier this week. Gobert is averaging seven points per game and he’s been one of the breakout players of the season. When Cleveland gave up two first-round picks for Timofey Mozgov, it looked like a last act of desperation in a lost season. Now it looks like the smartest trade of the year. Rim protectors are becoming the must-have accessory. If you have a center who can protect the paint all by himself, that gives a coach and GM twice as much flexibility with the rest of the lineup. Maybe they go big with a second low-post scorer (like Zach Randolph next to Marc Gasol in Memphis); maybe they go small, to play faster and space the hell out of everyone (like Draymond Green next to Andrew Bogut in Golden State). Either way, this means a job that used to belong to two players can be done with one … if you have the right one. Kentucky has two. If you want to know why Calipari’s team looks so impossible, there’s at least one very simple answer: This is a college basketball team anchored by two big men who will one day anchor NBA defenses all by themselves. Yes, the rise in rim protector obsession will absolutely lead to all kinds of teams drafting their very own JaVale McGees or talking themselves into younger players who aren’t quite that good. This would be the Larry Sanders problem. But all that is beside the point today. Both of Kentucky’s big men are for real, and hyphenated, and spectacular. Cauley-Stein is quick enough to cover insane amounts of ground on defense and stick with college players half his size, and he’s long enough to bother every shot within 10 feet. Karl-Anthony is big enough to ruin shots at the rim, and his offense is somehow dominant and raw at the same time. Seven-footers always have value, but given where the NBA is going, guys like these will be priceless. That’s what’s coming in June. Until then, they’re college basketball’s problem. Charles Bertram/Lexington Herald-Leader/TNS via Getty Images	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1388
__label__cc	0.645978	0.354022	In the year 2000 in Zagreb Andreja Kulunčić launched the project Nama: 1908 Employees, 15 Department Stores, designed as a public awareness raising campaign about the difficult situation faced by the formerly prominent Nama department store chain. Since the early 2000s when it went bankrupt, to date, Nama was reduced to only two department stores in Zagreb. After an interview with trade union representatives, workers and sales personnel, Kulunčić designed a number of public posters featuring the real Nama employees Branka Stanić, Biserka Kenenarić and Barbara Kovačević whose economic security was brought into question, and whose portraits on the posters warned about the serious state of affairs within the company. Happy Labour Day! The fight continues! From the Citizens to Their City economies of knowledge imagining futures social system Hands, Sheets, Broom: Statistical Yearbook Katerina Duda On 12 and 13 December, on a stall in Jadran Square in Rijeka, Duda will present passers-by with Rijeka tourism in figures, using the Korzo area as a background for data visualisation. Statistical Yearbook will tell us if tourism in Rijeka is on the rise, which services are used to advertise private accommodation and what proportion of advertising relies on Airbnb.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1405
__label__wiki	0.775862	0.775862	Home HOMEOPATHY Regulatory System Regulatory System CONCEPTS AND PRINCIPLES Causation of Diseases Concept of Surgical diseases in Homeopathy Susceptibility. 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Homeopathy care for Monsoon ailments Sunstroke & Summer Emergencies HOMEOPATHY APPROACH TO COMMON AILMENTS Lifestyle Disorder Management of Kidney Stone Bronchial Asthma Seasonal Diarrhoea Diabetes Mellitus and Homeopathic Approach Mouth Ulcers (Stomatitis) COMMONLY USED MEDICINAL PLANTS International Council for Homeopathy Global Homeopathy Foundation (GHF) Homeopathy in India is regulated through the Homeopathy Central Council Act, 1973. The system was brought into India by the missionaries and travelers even during the life time of Dr Hahnemann. But, the earliest evidence of official patronage received to system was through a Romanian, Dr. John Martin Honigberger. Dr. Honigberger arrived at Lahore in 1829 - 30, and later in 1839 was invited to treat the Maharaja Ranjit Singh of Punjab, who happened to be seriously ill. Subsequently, his success on the treatment and prevention of cholera epidemics gave him the name Cholera doctor. This made the system popular amongst the public in Calcutta. Gradually its fame spread across the country. The year 1867 Banaras Homoeopathic Hospital was established with Shri Loke Nath Moitra, as Physician In-charge. In August 1869 a homoeopathic charitable dispensary was started at Allahabad with Shri Priya Nath Bose as the Physician In-charge of the dispensary. In 1870, the Maharaja of Jaipur sent for Dr. Salazar of Calcutta for the treatment of his cataract. From this time onwards, homoeopathy spread not only in Bengal, but also to other parts of India. Homoeopathic treatment proved to be highly effective in practice and its fame spread rapidly with the opening of several dispensaries in the second half of the nineteenth century. This necessitated the need to regulate the system and thus the process of its recognition by the Government of India was started. In April 1937, Md. Ghias –ud-idin, M.L.A. moved a resolution in the Legislative Assembly of Bengal for its recognition. The resolution was passed and forwarded to the State Governments for its implementation and Bengal became the first province in India to constitute a Homoeopathic State Faculty in 1943. After independence and formation of National Government, on 17th February, 1948 Shri Satish Chandra Samanta, M.P. (West Bengal) moved a resolution which runs as follows: “This Assembly is of opinion that homoeopathic system of treatment be recognized by the Indian Union and that a General Council and a State Faculty of Homoeopathic Medicine be established at once”. This resolution was unanimously adopted and subsequently the Government appointed a Homoeopathic Enquiry Committee in 1948. The Committee submitted its report in 1949. In 1952, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, the then Union Health Minister appointed a Homoeopathic Ad-hoc Committee which functioned up to 1954. In 1954 Government constituted a Homoeopathic Advisory Committee. In 1956, this Advisory Committee was taken over by the Minister of Health and Secretary in the Ministry of Health became its first Chairman. Govt. of India appointed Dr. K. G. Saxena as first Honorary Homoeopathic Advisor in 1962. This Advisory Committee also recommended the constitution of a Central Council of Homoeopathy. A special panel of Planning Commission of Indian Systems of Medicine and Homoeopathy endorsed this recommendation in 1952, 1956 and 1966. The Central Council of Health comprising of the State Health Ministers recommended in 1965 that the Central Council of Indian Systems of Medicine may be set up as early as possible to lay down and regulate the standards of education, examination and practice in Ayurveda, Unani and Homoeopathy. The Central Council of Health, therefore, constituted a Sub-Committee in October, 1967 with Pandit Shiv Sharma the Chairman to look into the details of the proposed legislation. Accordingly, the Bill for Indian Medicine and Homoeopathy Central Council was introduced in the Rajya Sabha on 17-12-1968. A joint Committee of Parliament considered the Bill. The exponents of Homoeopathy and also the experts of the three systems of Indian Medicine, viz., Ayurveda, Unani and Siddha represented before the committee that the basic concepts of Indian Medicine were different from the fundamentals of Homoeopathy and, therefore, a separate Council of Homoeopathy was needed. For the proper growth and development of all the four systems, the Committee recommended two separate independent Central Councils, one for all the three systems of Indian Medicine and the other for Homoeopathy. The Committee amended the Bill suitably so as to make provisions for a composite Central Council for the three Indian Systems deleting references to Homoeopathy. The Committee also recommended for preparation of a separate Bill for Homoeopathy and drafted a Bill on similar lines for introduction in Parliament. On the basis of these, The Homoeopathic Central Council Bill was drafted and was introduced in the Rajya Sabha on 3rd April, 1972. Subsequently th bill was passed by the Lok Sabha and on 19th December, 1973, the President of India gave his consent to the bill. Thus Homeopathy Central Council Act came into existence in 1973. PUBLISHED BY : Zahid CREATED / VALIDATED BY : Dr. Eswara Das LAST UPDATED ON : May 11, 2016 Khanna Eye Centre, Vikas Marg Khanna Eye Centre, Model Town Narang Eye Institute Narang Eye Hospital The Punjab Health System Corporation Mata Chanan Devi Hospital World Brain Centreand Research Institute PrimusSuperspecialtyHospital Khadija National Hospital Ocular Graft-versus-host Disease	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1406
__label__wiki	0.551869	0.551869	Richard Stutman March 27, 2014 March 27, 2014 hereandsphere BOSTON SCHOOLS : $ 975 MILLION FY 2015 BUDGET APPROVED ^ bringing Boston Schools quietly but hugely onto a change path : Superintendent John McDonough The Boston School Department’s new fiscal year budget was approved last night — unanimously. Superintendent John McDonough now has $ 975,000,000 to allocate — a four percent increase from last year, thanks, as McDonough said at the meeting, to Mayor Walsh’s “generosity” — to the education of some 57,000 children. You might suppose that a unanimous budget approval would have been quick and easy. It wasn’t. The vote came only after three and a half hours of what Committee Chairman O’Neill called “public comment.” Almost all of this commentary was testified by more or less the same advocacy groups — Boston Truth, Citizens for Public Schools — that have been fighting the entirety of school reforms that Massachusetts has instituted since the Bill Weld years. Charter schools, MCAS, “testing fatigue,” even the race card : all were adduced by a good 30 or so teachers, parents, and advocates seeking — “begging,” aid one witness — full funding for a school system that is making what McDonough called “difficult trade offs.” The Committee listened respectfully to every witness, many of them reading from prepared statements; a few read the same statement from the same yellow-green sheet of paper. For several months now, I have been listening to these citizens saying pretty much the same thing at rally after rally; I suspect the School Committee has heard it far more than that. Yet the seven committee members were more than ready to accord each witness full graciousness, despite the chants and shouts of a protest going on outside the hearing room, a protest loud enough that it was often hard to hear the speakers. ^ the unease was momentary : Chairman Michael O’Neill I doubt that the protest made a favorable impression upon the Committee members. Chairman O’Neill showed his unease. But John McDonough didn’t move an eyelash. Boston Teachers Union president Richard Stutman at in the second row of the audience, a grin upon his face… There was other testimony, including from Councillor Tito Jackson, who opposed the Department;s plan to use the T for transporting students. But the Principal of the Jackson-Mann school in Allston approved the plan, even as he noted how strange it felt that one of his teacher staff was in the room testifying against it. Parents, two officers of the NAACP, and two school bus drivers testified against McDonough’s T Plan, which envisions 7th and 8th grade students and contemplates 6th graders too. The most convincing witnesses cited safety concerns — convincing because the T isn’t safe in many Boston neighborhoods. Only because McDonough’s staff researchers presented the Plan’s basis as thoroughly as possible were the Committee’s many questions answered. A compromise was added by Chairman O’Neill ; that the Plan be subject to a safety review to be presented to the Committee in 60 days. Thus amended, the plan was adopted unanimously. Many in the audience did not like it one bit. It soon became apparent that that vote was the big one. The room fell quiet, and there was actually much less to-do on the Budget Vote itself. Committee members made brief comments and then came the unanimous vote. After which John McDonough summed up the night’s doings. In his voice so quiet, almost without affect, as if there were no passions involved, just dry statistics, he spoke huge policy momentum in a few eloquent sentences: “For months we have heard from you,” he said. “At hearings we have heard parents’ concerns. You get it. I applaud the involvement of so many passionate parents and teachers. “This isn’t about charter schools or standard schools. it’s about making all schools better. Am I happy with this budget ? No, i am not. I wish i could present a different budget. in the end, there is only so much revenue. Trade-offs have to be made. We have to close the achievement gap. McDonough concluded : “This is NOT a budget cut ! Thanks to the generosity of Mayor Walsh, we have a four percent increase, whole other city departments are getting only one percent.” Neither McDonough nor anyone else in the room mentioned that almost all of that four percent is slated to pay teachers’ pay raises negotiated in the last union bargain. Obviously not everyone drawing upon the $ 975 million budget is begging. McDonough is determined to make big changes . I suspect that the teachers union contract is high on the list of changes he seeks. He seems to have the full confidence of the School Committee to do that and more. It will not be simple or quick. It can’t be. Listed prominently in McDonough’s Memorandum — handed out to all at the hearing — is this “priority” item : “extending hiring autonomy to all schools to hire qualified, diverse candidates early, with $ 6.1 million supporting the success of our early hiring initiative and an additional $ 400,000 to support hiring diversity.” Even Richard Stutman can’t stop this. it’s in the current teacher contract. Boston is also under court order to increase the diversity of its schools staff. Yet Stutman has his troops, and they are getting the bulk of the budget’s additional $ 37 million. even as support staff positions are being cut in some schools. This must change, but even larger changes are coming. Testing will increase; school competition too. Employers insist. So does an overwhelming majority of Massachusetts voters and probably a big majority of Boston voters too. —- Mike Freedberg / Here and Sphere UPDATED 03/27/14 at 3.3 PM BOSTON SCHOOLS : IS FUNDING EVERYTHING, SCHOOL POLICY NOTHING ? ^ stalling on charter schools, ostensibly because the Federal $$$ aren’t coming : St Senator Sonia Chang-Diaz —- —- — It pains me to read news recently that the chief reason why Massachusetts got busy creating charter schools was that 250,000,000 Federal dollars was at stake. I had thought that the creation of charters — schools privately run but publicly funded — was a matter of policy, not purchase. But now we read that bills in the legislature to expand the number of charter schools allowed is stalling, not because the policy has changed but because the Federal dollars aren’t there any more. At the outset of President Obama’s first term, the education bureaucracy was all het up about “race to the top” and such like programs to improve student achievement. Money was gushing, and so were expectations. Now the money is heaving dry, and expectations have taken a skeptical swerve. The talk now is of “taking resources away from standard schoolS,” not of “improving achievement.” You would think that “Taking resources away from standard schools” is teacher-speak for : the teachers’ union’s next contract won’t have a pay raise equal to raises granted the latest police or Firemen’s union contract. Right now, it doesn’t mean that. Mayor Walsh has added 39.6 million dollars to this year’s Boston Public Schools budget. Most of it will go to fund teachers’ pay raises. There will some millions left over. So, what does the phrase “taking resources away” mean now ? Probably just that the increased dollars won’t be coming from Washington. they’ll be raised locally. And that means that some other local aid funded need will have to make do with less. Such is indeed the talk. In the Governor election going on in Massachusetts right now, all the talk is of local aid : increasing it; releasing 100 million dollars of it already collected but held; increasing it again. Candidates running for the State legislature or Senate all talk of local aid needs. The Department of Children & Families is in crisis; State transportation repairs and service upgrades cry out for attention; drivers’ licences for undocumented immigrants must be done. All these get mentioned ; but the big talk is, local aid, local aid, more local aid. You hear it whether the speaker is a Democrat or a Republican. Local aid now; the other matters can wait. But education can’t wait. kids grow up. They graduate from grade to grade. Time delayed cannot be made good. Charter school waiting lists grow bigger, and the once ready Federal money river no longer flows into them. Thus we hear more of the same old arguments that were adduced at the outset for why charter schools shouldn’t be : they winnow their students, eliminating those with discipline problems and unwillingness to adapt; they don’t serve English language learners; they expel kids who don’t shape up academically; they impose rigid discipline. And so they do. Charter schools were meant to be an alternative to standard public schools, not simply public schools with a new name. If charter schools do not do the job they were intended to do — significantly improve student achievement — they shouldn’t be funded, whether the Federal money is at hand or not. And if charter schools do do what they were intended as, they should be funded regardless of money from Washington. Meanwhile, to look at how rapidly enrollment has climbed, it seems that charter schools have been a smashing success : Legislation to increase the number of charters being stalled now — the chief staller being Boston State senator Sonia Chang-Diaz, who serves on the senate Education Committee — those that do exist are kind of on their own, to prove their worth. Charter parents will have to speak out; to organize. Democrats for Education Reform, the local chapter of a nationwide group deployed to power up the alternative-schools constituency, will have to get talking. My own strong belief is that education in America needed badly to reshape itself enormously, to conform to the new workplace, new jobs, new technology and new communities of competitive collaboration. If schools exist to do anything, it’s to prepare students for the jobs of tomorrow (and for citizenship : but that’s a more traditional matter and doesn’t require an entire re-think). The best way to get schools shaped for that end is to try out many different shapes — school day lengths, curriculum choices, and out-of-school after-work — and see which one or ones meet the challenge. Charters, partnerships, collaborations, and, yes, standard public schools all have a seat at this particular table, and all should be set upon the task. Did I mention curricula ? The battle is raging already to reject the national education establishment’s “common core” as being too difficult for children to master and too narrowly tested. Myself, having read through the “common core proposal, I find it a trope, a slice of common sense. Every society with schools at all has had a common core curriculum; it’s how that society prepares its children for the jobs it offers. this was as true of Rome in year 300 A.D. as of western Europe in year 1090 A.D. and 1500 A.D., and it was the basis of the New England School Law of 1634. Children must learn a common basic curriculum in order to do the jobs that will need to hire them; and to be good citizens. Is it difficult ? It always was. Life, too, is difficult. Tears come to one’s eyes as well as joy. Kids can manage. They really can. as for testing, well : every job that a student is given as an employee is a test, believe me. So don’t complain; just do it. And please, don’t use lack of money as an excuse not to. Time for Liam Kerr, Richard Stutman, Citizens for Public Schools, and Stand For Children to loosen up, set the past behind,and re-imagine the teaching of knowledge to children grasping at it. As for teacher pay and standard school budgets, in Boston these look paid for — this year. After that, a lot depends on who the next School Superintendent will be. The “search committee” is already on it, but for me, the best choice is John McDonough, the current “interim superintendent,’ who says he doesn’t want to be considered for the permanent job : but whom all sides respect and who can therefore best steer “standard Boston public schools,” troubled schools as well, into the next phase, alongside charters as they are and all manner of experimental school set-ups that innovators may successfully propose — as they surely will, and should. BOSTON MAYOR RACE : FORUM AT BOSTON TEACHERS UNION ^ the lineup. next came the interrogation. Most of the candidate Forums of this campaign for Mayor have taken place at churches, conference centers, theaters, auditoria — public gathering places. Not so with the Forum called by the Boston Teachers’ Union (BTU). This one took place in their union hall and had the feeling more of an interrogation than a debate. The BTU feels threatened by developments in public education and advocacies for school change, and it made plain that it strongly disagrees with the direction and purposes, charter schools especially. BTU President Richard Stutman read portions of a 10-page manifesto — which in a printed handout was available on a literature table — of opposition to charter schools and to school reform by “corporate executives, entrepreneurs or philanthropists.” The union hall was full — of teachers, especially the union’s activists, and they knew exactly what they wanted to hear. And not to hear. Not surprisingly, some of the eleven candidates on hand — Dan Conley was the absent — told the BTU gathering what it wanted to hear and were loudly cheered and applauded. Quite the surprise was that John Connolly, who pointedly advocates school “transformation — his word — by corporate executives, entrepreneurs, and philanthropists (and by the Mayor), told the gathering exactly that, in well exampled detail. He gave reasons and stated goals, and he did not waver. He was received in almost total silence. ^ John Connolly stood his ground. David Bernstein — Boston’s premier political reporter (full disclosure: we both wrote for the Boston Phoenix), moderated. Being a playful and even ironic sort, he asked each candidate questions that would be hardest for them to answer; then picked out others of the eleven to give, he hoped, a competing view. It worked at first, but eventually the candidates began to interrupt, or to veer a response toward their agenda . Bernstein tried to cut off such manipulation but was not always successful. As he called upon the eleven in random order, occasionally he forgot one or two. Candidates had to raise their hands to be recognized. The entire 90 minute event looked very much like a teacher and his class; appropriate, I suppose, for a Forum presented for teachers. Still, many issues were raised : charter schools, the longer school day, arts and music, standardized testing (the MCAS), school kids’ health, parent involvement, diversity, students for whom English is a learned language, transportation, school construction and renovation. The diversity of responses was strong and plain to hear. Rob Consalvo told the activists exactly what they wanted to hear, on every issue — charter schools too, of course — and passionately. as passionately was he cheered. ^ Rob Consalvo : the BTU agenda is his agenda (photo taken at a previous Forum) John Barros outlined school reforms and problems with the detail and insight that he has gathered as a member of Boston’s school committee. particularly true was his observation that the public school system has been asked to do what so many of society’s systems have failed to do and that this is unfair to the schools. Barros thanked charter schools for finding new and innovative methods which the regular public schools have then adopted. Charles Clemons, who opposes more charter schools, noted that Boston people today are 56 % of color, and, noting that diversity in the BTU has failed to meet 1975 goals, asked, “how many of the people in this room look like Boston ?” Bill Walczak did not mention casinos even once. He affirmed his work in connecting the charter school that he created to the city’s health system and saw that as a model for all Boston schools. Marty Walsh, who sits on the board of a charter school, passionately defended the school’s role in creating “best practices” for the entire system to adopt. He rejected the BTU’s assertion that elimination of difficult students is systemic to charter schools. Walsh called for a program of school construction and for a meaningful longer school day. Mike Ross insisted that standardized testing is crucial to assuring that students will acquire core knowledge, and he called for the establishment of a city technology high school, noting that google.com did not open a Boston office because it doubted being able to fill even entry-level jobs with Boston high school graduates. David Wyatt made no attempt to get an answer in if not called upon and, when called upon, said little — he the Stoic; but he did support charter schools for bringing competition into education, and he endorsed standardized testing. Charlotte Golar-Richie was occasionally overlooked but, when she interrupted to speak, supported an arts and music longer school day. As for charter schools, she found them useful but did not find a need to increase their number. John Connolly’s points have already been noted. Felix G. Arroyo reminded the crowd that he is the husband, brother, and son of Boston public school teachers. He emphasized the language diversity, at home, that challenges so many Boston students in the classroom. He also saw an immediate need for arts, music, and crafts in the longer school day, noting how important crafts classes were to him. ^ Felix G. Arroyo and John Barros : articulate and knowledgeable, and not uncritically so, on public school concerns Charles Yancey came late but made his time count. He called for the building of high schools which, he ranted, had been called for for years but nothing done. He would enforce a 1994 city ordinance granting school parents three days’ leave to visit their children’s schools and reminded the crowd of his mother, Alice Yancey, and how passionate she was about making sure that her son studied and learned. And so it went. There was the beginning of a conversation about the City’s hugest and most intractable system. But only a beginning; with eleven hopefuls on hand, the school conversation stands at the sorting-out stage. Just as does the Primary itself. That the conversation is just beginning was obvious from the many issues that were not discussed : school assignment reform (and transportation costs), teacher pay, funding school reforms, even the assaults, by students, sad to say, that afflict teachers almost daily. Some of these issues were discussed after the Forum as teachers and various newsies (including me) conversed in small groups. ^ teachers were eager to converse with newsies and the candidates after the formal Forum The BTU knows that it is losing the battle of public opinion about school reform. It wants badly to be heard — respectfully but forcefully. I hear the BTU. I have long experience of politics involving Boston schools, and I have nothing but respect for the energy, the poise, the courage of teachers who on every school day face exactly what John Barros said : the problems of society dropped at the school door for teachers and principals to deal with even as they try to perform their teaching mission : the teaching of knowledge. Any school reform that does not find a central mission for the teachers, and pay accordingly, and that does not accord the teachers the last word on creating a curriculum and a classroom format is a reform that begins on the wrong foot. Any reform that seeks to downplay the teacher solidarity that a Union assures them is no reform at all. How can school transformation be a good thing if its first strike is to the one security that teachers, often overwhelmed by school problems, can count on ? Let us seek to make teachers’ jobs easier, not harder. That said, I do not agree with the BTU’s position that charter schools detract from the public schools. No matter what format and curriculum the teachers decide (and I hope it is they who decide), charter schools offer a useful “but look here.” Useful because not even teachers know all that needs be learned about what works to educate. All of the above needs be said, and often. But right now there is voting to be done. So how will the BTU teachers vote ? They are not stupid. They knew who was pandering, who was seeking common ground, and who was confident of him or herself. By no means should Consalvo, who was so noisily cheered, assume that the teacher activists are in his corner. My impression of their cheering — and not only for him — was for the statement, not the candidate. The teachers have a pretty solid idea of who is likely to win and who isn’t. After the Forum, I spoke to several, and they were quite clear about that being a factor in their vote on Primary day. ^ Marty Walsh found friends at a union gathering hours after being slammed as a unionist by the Herald. —- Michael Freedberg / Here and Sphere	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1414
__label__wiki	0.593491	0.593491	The Libri of Aleister Crowley The Confessions of Aleister Crowley Bookmark this page on these social networks Any other man but myself would have made a ladder to fame out of the success of this winter. I had no such idea. I had been thoroughly disillusioned, not only by the original trance of sorrow which had struck me between wind and water in 1897, but by the experience of my travels. The natives of Hawaii were not worrying about Sophocles; Chogo Ri would be there when the last echo of Napoleon's glory had died away. I was more than ever convinced that to take an interest in the affairs of this world, one must turn one's back on truth. Buddhism might be right or wrong in saying that nothing is worth while; but anyhow there could be no doubt that the conventional standards of value were simply comic. If anything were worth while, it could only be discovered by turning one's back resolutely on temporal things. In accordance with Eckenstein's puritanical ideas of propriety, no communications about the expedition had been made to the newspapers. Ultimately, in the sheer interests of science, a paragraph had been permitted to appear in The Times. It contained thirty-two lines and seventeen misstatements of fact! I myself had been interviewed by a French journalist and the report of my remarks bore no discoverable relation with them. I am perhaps unduly sensitive about such stupidities. I ought perhaps to rely on time to sweep away the rubbish into the dustbin of oblivion and set the truth upon her throne; but yet, the evidence of history smiles grimly. What do we really know of the rights and wrongs of the struggle between Rome and Carthage! What do we know even of Buddhism and Christianity but that the most authentic accounts of their origins are intrinsically absurd! “What is truth?” said jesting Pilate. But, personally, I fail to see the joke. I went through life at this time with a kind of cynical bonhomie; nothing was really any particular good, so I might as well do what was expected of me. I wrote even of Buddhism with a certain detached disenchantment, as may be seen by reference to my Summa Spes, which I published separately (twelve copies contain the portrait of me by Haweis and Coles, subsequently reproduced in volume II of the vellum edition of my Collected Works) and sent to some of my friends in Paris on my departure for England. After Rodin, the most important of these friends was Marcel Schwob. Eugène Carrière I met only once. He had just recovered from an operation for cancer of the throat, and I remember principally his remark, calm to the point of casual indifference, “if it comes back, I shall kill myself.” Fritz {341} Thäulow I saw several times. He was rather a new type to me; a jolly, bearded senior on whom life had left no scars. He believed in his art and in his family; enjoyed everything, worried about nothing — it was not at all one's idea of a great artist. I had already got it into my mind that the life of the artist must be a sequence of pungent pangs either of pleasure or pain; that his nature obliged him to regard commonplace circumstances rather as the average man regards deep sleep. But Thäulow lived every line of his life; he had somehow attained that supreme philosophy which contemplates all things alike with cheerful calm. Marcel Schwob excited my unbounded admiration. He was admittedly the finest French scholar of English. His style glittered with the superb simplicity and silken satire which compels me to regard Anatole France as his pupil. He had translated Hamlet and Macbeth for Sara Bernhardt with astonishing spiritual fidelity to the soul of Shakespeare. His Vies Imaginaires might have served as the model for Le Puits de Sante Claire, and his Île des Diurnales is as brilliantly bitter as anything that Swift ever wrote. He lived on the Ile St. Louis in a delightful flat, rich with the suggestion of the East (emphasized by a Chinese servant he had picked up after the exhibition of 1900), yet he suffered as few men suffer. Part of his crucifixion was rather ridiculous. It was suspected that he was more or less a Jew, and he was constantly aware that he did not enjoy the position in French literature to which his genius entitled him. His wife was one of the most beautiful women on whom I had ever laid eyes; an exquisite siren with a smile hat left La Gioconda standing, and a voice which would have burst the ropes that bound Ulysses to his mast. But she had been an actress, and this duchess and that countess did not call. It galled. The real tragedy of the man was that he was tortured by chronic constipation. It killed him soon after. Even after all these years I glow with boyish pleasure to recall his gracious, unassuming acquiescence in my impertinent existence and his acknowledgement of my Alice, An Adultery as a “little masterpiece”. My sonnet on Rodin begins “Here is a man”, which Marcel Schwob very properly translated, “Un homme”. I took the draft to Rodin's studio. One of the men present was highly indignant. “Who is this Marcel Schwob,” He exclaimed, “to pretend to translate from this English? The veriest schoolboy would know that 'here is a man' should be turned into 'Voici un homme'.” This is the sort of thing one meets at every turn. The man was perfectly friendly, well educated and familiar with literature; yet he was capable of such supreme stupidity. The moral is that when an acknowledge master does something that seems at first sight peculiar, the proper attitude is one of reverent eagerness to understand the meaning of his action. This critic made as ass of himself by lack of imagination. He should have know that “Voci un homme” would have sprung instantly into Schwob's mind as the obvious {342} and adequate rendering. His rejection of it argues deep consideration; and the man might have learnt a valuable lesson by putting himself in Schwob's place, trying to follow the workings of his mind, and finally discovering the considerations which determine his judgment. I quote this case rather than grosser examples which I recall, because it is so simple and non-controversial, yet involves such important principles. Schwob's version stands before a background of the history of literature. It would be easy to write a long and interesting essay on the factors of the problem. Occasionally he came to see Kelly in his studio. His conversation was full of the most intensely interesting, because impersonally intimate, details about men of letters. He told us at first hand the tragedy of Meredith's life, the mystery of his birth, and his father's attempts to establish a marriage with would have entitled him to a place in the peerage; the romance of Vittoria; and the intrigue of Diana of the Crossways. He traced the influence of the master's locomotor ataxia upon his life, his character and his creatures. He explained how the long years of suffering had deformed Meredith's disposition and led him to disgrace himself by refusing to head the petition for Oscar Wilde's release. He told us the true story of Salome. The character of Wilde was simple. He was a perfectly normal man; but, like so many Irish, suffered from being a snob. In Dublin, Sir William Wilde was somebody in society; but when Oscar reached Oxford, he discovered that a medical knighthood, so far from being a distinction, was little better than a badge of servility. A family even of commoners could afford to sneer at his acceptance of a trumpery honour at the hands of a Hanoverian hausfrau. Wilde could not bear to be despised by brainless dukes, so he had sought hegemony in the hierarchy by the only means available, as a socially sensitive swineherd might aspire to the papacy. He determined to become the high priest of the cult which already conferred a kind of aristocracy upon the undergraduate, though it had not yet been organized and boosted. That was the result of his “martyrdom”, which accounts for most of the loathsome creatures that jostle one too frequently in 1929. “The Law is a Hass”! Wilde had denied his nature in the interests of social ambition, and the success of his scheme drove him to adopt every affectation as a sign of superiority. Outside the English system of caste, he might have been a contented cornchandler. Within it, he found himself obliged to affect to be sexually stirred by Maeterlinck, Flaubert, Gustave Moreau, and even the most sacred character of Scripture. He degraded the Sphinx by representing her as a sexual monster. He interpreted the relations between Christ and John, between Paul and Timothy, in the light of his own perverse imagination. When I say perverse, I do not mean to use the word in the psychopathic sense. Wilde's only perversity was that he was not true to himself. Without {343} knowing it, he had adopted the standards of the English middle class, and thought to become distinguished by the simple process of outraging them. As one is said to be able to invoke the devil by reciting the Lord's Prayer backwards, so Wilde thought to set up a new morality by reciting George R. Sims backwards. He naively accepted the cockney idea that Paris is a very wicked place, and proposed to petrify the puritans by writing a play in French. His difficulty was that his French was that of a schoolboy turned tourist; so he struggled to write Salome on the pretence that he was sexually excited by The Temptation of St. Anthony, Moreau's pictures in the Luxembourg and the style of Pelléas and Mélisande. But the performance was pitiful; and it was Marcel Schwob who re-wrote his puerile dialogue in French. At one of Marcel Schwob's afternoons I met Arnold Bennett, very ill at ease to find himself in Paris in polite society. He must have had a perfectly lovely time; everything was alike a source of innocent wonder. He was very much pleased by the generous measure of respect which he received on all hands simply for being a novelist. His speech and his appearance attracted no insult from literary circles in Paris. At the time I had only read one of his books — The Grand Babylon Hotel; Which I thought, and still think, somewhere near his high-water mark. I told him how much I admired it and was surprised to find that I had apparently said the wrong thing. But Kelly explained that he took himself seriously as a serious novelist, on the strength of having complied some books of reference on life in Shropshire or Straffordshire or some such place. I don't know which is which, thank God; I do not understand the system of classification of indexing, so I cannot turn up the symptoms of a dying Doultonware artist if I want to. But then I don't. Marcel Schwob gave me an introduction to William Ernest Henley, who invited me to lunch with him in his house near Woking. My sonnet on Rodin's bust of Henley describes the man and the interview rather than the sculpture. Cloistered seclusion of the galleried pines Is mine today; these groves are fit for Pan — O rich with Bacchus frenzy and his wine's Atonement for the infinite woes of man! And here his mighty and reverend high priest Bade me good cheer, an eager acolyte, Poured the high wine, unveiled the mystic feast … Roast lamb and an excellent Chablis which had been sent to him by Lord Northcliffe — thus does the poet transfigure conceptions apparently commonplace. I was much touched by Henley's kindness in inviting me. I have never lost {344} the childlike humility which characterized all truly great men. Modesty is its parody. I had to wait some little while before he came down. When he did so, he was obviously suffering severe physical distress. Like Marcel Schwob himself, he was a martyr to constipation. He told me that the first half of every day was a long and painful struggle to overcome the devastating agony of his body. Only three weeks later he died. He was engaged in various tremendous literary tasks and yet he could give up a day to welcome a young and unknown writer! I could not pretend to myself that so great a man could feel any real interest in me. It never occurred to me that he might have read anything of mine and thought it promising. I took, and take, his action for sheer human kindness. I probably behaved with my usual gaucherie. The presence of anyone whom I really respect always awakes my congenital shyness, always overawes me. Henley's famous poem (which Frank Harris regards as “the bombast of Antient Pistol”) appealed intensely to my deepest feeling about man's place in the universe; that he is a Titan overwhelmed by the gods but not surrendering. And the form or the poem is superb. It is in line with all the great English expressions of the essential English spirit, a certain blindness, brutality and arrogance, no doubt, as in “Rule Britannia”, “Boadicea”, “The Garb of Old Gaul”, “The British Grenadiers”, “Hearts of Oak”, “Toll for the Brave”, “Ye Mariners of England”, et hoc genus omne; but with all that, indomitable courage to be, to do and to suffer as fate may demand. I never thought much of the rest of Henley's verse, distinguished as it is for vigour and depth of observation. It simply does not come within my definition of poetry, which is this: A poem is a series of words so arranged that the combination of meaning, rhythm and rime produces the definitely magical effect of exalting the soul to divine ecstasy. Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Machen share this view. Henley's poem conforms with this criterion. I told him what I was doing about Rodin. His view was that the sonnet had been worked out and he advised me to try the Shakespearian sonnet or quatorzain. I immediately attempted the form in the train that evening and produced the quatorzain on himself from which I have quoted above. I recognized at once that the quatorzain was in fact much better suited to my rugged sincerity than the suavity of the Italian form, so I composed a number of poems in the new mode. In fact, I fell in love with it. I invented improvements by the introduction of anapaests wherever the storm of the metre might be maddened to typhoon by so doing, and it may be that history will yet say that Clouds without Water, a story told in quatorzains, as Alice in sonnets, is my supreme lyrical masterpiece. At least I have not died without the joy of knowing that no less a lover of literature than the world-famous Shakespearian Lecturer, Dr. Louis Umfraville Wilkinson, has dared to confess publicly that Clouds without Water is {345} “the most tremendous and the most real love poem since Shakespeare's sonnets” in the famous essay “A Plea for Better Morals”. But I anticipate. Clouds without Water came four years later. I am still sitting sleepily in the twilight in Europe; after my day's labour three years long in the blazing sun of the great world. I spent many of my evenings at a little restaurant called the Chat blanc in the rue d'Odessa, where was “an upper room furnished” and consecrated informally to a sort of international clique of writer, painters, sculptors, students and their friends. It has been described with accurate vigour in the introduction to Snowdrops from a Curate's Garden. I quote the passage. His evenings were spent in that witty and high-thinking informal club that met nightly at the restaurant Au Chien Rouge, whose members are so honoured in the world of art. There he met C— the brilliant but debauched sculptor, caustic of wit, though genial to his friends; N—, the great painter, whose royal sense of light made his canvases into a harmonious dream: he also the sweet friend of Bacchus, who filled him with a glow and melody of colour and thought. There too, were D— and L—, the one poet and philosopher, the other painter and — I fear — pederast. Twins in thought, the two were invincible in argument as they were supreme in their respective arts. Often have I sat, a privileged listener, while D—'s cold acumen and L—'s superb indignation, expressed in fiery swords of speech, would drive some luckless driveller from the room. Or at times they would hold down their victim, a bird fascinated by a snake, while they pitilessly exposed his follies to the delighted crowd. Again, a third, pompous and self-confident, would be led on by them, seemingly in full sympathy, to make an exhibition of himself, visible and hideous to all eyes but his own. L—, his eager face like a silver moon starting from a thundercloud, his hair, would pierce the very soul of the debate and kindle it with magick joy or freeze it with scorn implacable. D—, his expression noble and commanding, yet sly, as if ever ready to laugh at the intricacies of his own intellect, sat next him, his deep and wondrous eyes lit with strange light, while with words like burning flames of steel he shore asunder the sophistries of one and the complacencies of another. They were feared, these two! There also did he meet the well-known ethicist, I—, fair as a boy, with boy's gold locks curling about his Grecian head; I—, the pure and subtle-minded student, whose lively humour and sparkling sarcasm were as froth upon the deep and terrible waters of his polished irony. It was a pity that he drank. There the great surgeon and true gentleman, in spite of his exaggerated respect for the memory of Queen Victoria, J—, would join in with his ripe and generous {346} wit. Handsome as a god, with yet a spice of devil's laughter lurking there, he would sit and enjoy the treasures of the conversation, adding at the proper interval his own rich quota of scholarly jest. Needless to say, so brilliant a galaxy attracted all the false lights of the time. T—, the braggart, the mediocre painter, the lusty soi-disant maquereau of marchionesses, would seek admission (which was in theory denied to none). But the cutting wit of C— drove him headlong, as if by the cherubin, from the gates of the garden of Eden. G—, the famous society painter, came one night and was literally hounded out of the room by a swift and pitiless attack on the part of D— and the young ethicist. A bullet-headed Yankee, rashly supporting him, shared the same fate and ever after sat in solitary disgrace downstairs, like a shipped hound outside its master's door. A fool reveals himself, though he talk but of greasing gimlets, in such a fierce light as beat upon the Chien Rouge. Nor could any fool live long in that light. It turned him inside out; it revealed him even to himself as a leper and an outcast; and he could not stand it. In such a circle humbug could not live. Men of high intellectual distinction, passing through Paris, were constant visitors at the Chien Rouge. As guests they were treated with high honour; but woe to the best of them if some chance word let fall led D— or L— to suspect that he had a weak spot somewhere. When this happened, nothing could save him: he was rent and cast to the carrion beasts for a prey. How often have I seen some literary or pictorial Pentheus, impious and self-sufficient as he, disguise himself (with a tremor of fear) in his noblest artistic attire, as the foolish king in the Bassara of the Maenads! How often have I seen Dionysus — or some god — discover the cheat and give him over to those high priests of dialectic, D— and L—, to be ravaged and stripped amid the gleeful shrieks of the wit- intoxicated crowd! But once the victim was upon the altar, once he rose from his chair, then what a silence fell! Frozen with the icy contempt of the assembly, the wretch would slink down the room with a sacred grin on his face, and not until he had faced that cruel ordeal, more terrible (even to a callous fool) than an actual whipping would have been, not until the door had closed behind him would the silence break as someone exclaimed “My God, what a worm!” and led the conversation to some more savoury subject. On the other hand there was B—, a popular painter, upon whom the whole Dog pounced as one man, to destroy him. But when they saw that his popular painting was not he, that he had a true heart and an honest ambition, how quickly were the swords beaten into absinthes and the spears into tournedos! {347} S—, again, with a face like a portrait by Rembrandt, a man of no great intellect, but making no pretence thereto, how he was loved for his jolly humour, his broad smile, his inimitable stories! Yet it must not be suppose that the average man, however sincere, had much of a welcome there. Without intention to wound, he was yet hurt — the arrows of wit shot over his head and he could never feel at home. I am perhaps the one exception. Without a ghost of talent, even in my own profession — medicine — I had no claim whatever to the hospitality of the Dog. But being perfectly unobtrusive, I dare say I was easy to tolerate, perhaps even of the same value as a background is to a picture, a mere patch of neutral colour, yet serving to harmonize the whole. Certainly nothing but my silence saved me. The remark a few pages back about Hall Caine and Meredith would have caused my instant execution, by the most painful, if the least prolonged, of deaths. Ay! no society, since men gathered together, was ever so easy to approach, to seat oneself among, to slip away from or to be hurled in derision from their midst! Dreaded as they were by the charlatan, no set of men could have been more genial, more fraternal. United by a bond of mutual respect, even where they differed — of mutual respect, I say, by no means of mutual admiration, for it was the sincere artistry that they adored, not the technical skill of achievement — they formed a noble and harmonious group, the like of which has perhaps never yet been seen1). Another description may be found in the opening chapters of W. S. Maughams The Magician. The reader will wonder how this gentleman could have got there, but here my tale is tangled. Gerald Kelly's elder sister, Rose, had been for some years the widow of a Major Skerrett, and one of her best friends was a woman as beautiful and fascinating as herself, who was the wife of an English solicitor connected with the British Embassy, named Maugham. W. S. was this man's younger brother. Maugham claimed to have ambitions to become a man of letters and his incapacity was so obvious that I am afraid we were cruel enough to make him the butt of our wit when he visited the Cat Blanc. There is this excuse for us, that his earliest work was vamped over, his plagiarisms were beyond belief for impudence. When — to parody the outburst of the heavy mother in Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest — he “contracted an alliance with a tabloid and married into a pill-box”, we thought that all was over. But no! he went around the world, and set to {348} work with his powers of observation to help an imagination which had by no become original and vigorous. He turned out some first-class work; and, what is in some ways better, work on the right side. He castigates the herd of many swine feeding which we call society — as it is now late to drive their devils back into the Jews, where they are terrible congested. But in 1902 we were right to chivy him! It had leaked out that our luckless victim had taken a medical degree and J. W. Morrice2) used to torment the poor fellow, whose distress was accentuated by his being a confirmed stammerer, by ringing the changes on this disgraceful episode of his career. Morrice was invariably mellow drunk all day and all night. He would look up from his crème de menthe and oeufs sur le plat, clear his throat and tell Maugham with grave importance that he would like to consult him on a matter concerning the welfare of art and artists. “What would you do if —” and after repeating himself in a hundred ways so as to prolong the rigmarole to the utmost, he would wind up by confessing to the premonitory symptoms of some comic an repulsive malady. It was really needlessly cruel, for, bar his pretensions to literature, there is not an ounce of harm in Maugham, any more than there is in a packet of sterilized cotton wool. Even the pretence is after all a perfectly harmless affectation. But Maugham suffered terribly under the lash of universal contempt and did his best to revenge himself by drawing portraits, as unpleasant as petty spite could make them, of some of his tormentors. His literary method, when it transcends plain scissors and paste, is the shirt-cuff method of Arnold Bennett. I must thank him for recording some of my actual repartees. The man he most hated was Roderic O'Conor. This man was intimate with Gauguin, Van Gogh and Cézanne. In my opinion history will class him near them as a painter. I do not think he has many superiors in art alive today. But very few people have seen his pictures. His contempt for the world goes beyond that of Balzac and Baudelaire. He cannot be bothered to give a show. He will turn rudely from his door a friendly journalist bent on making him famous and rich. Also, he is a cad. To O'Conor, Maugham was not even funny. He was like a bed bug, on which a sensitive man refuses to stamp because of the smell and the squashiness. I have never felt thus. To me the least of human beings, nay, less than they, have a place in my heart. “Everything that lives is holy.” I can hardly bring myself to resent even the vilest and most offensive creatures. I have never been able to bear malice; I have never been able to understand how other people can do so. When I have been attacked, I have always looked at {349} the matter impersonally. When I am publicly accused of stealing the towers of Notre Dame, I enjoy the joke thoroughly. I can't believe that anything can hurt me. It would hurt my pride to admit it, I suppose. When a newspaper prints three columns, identifying me with Jack the Ripper, it never occurs to me that anyone in his senses would believe such rubbish. I imagine that my integrity is universally patient as sunrise; I can't realize that I shall suffer in the estimation of anyone, or that (say) it will interfere with the sale of my books. I have never been able to analyse this mental attitude at all adequately, but part of it certainly derives from the fact that I have never lost my innocence. I sometimes wonder whether it may not prove a defect in my philosophical system that I am unable to believe in the existence of evil. There is of course the appearance of evil due to ignorance, bad judgment and so on; but my major premiss is “Every man and every woman is a star.”; and I always conceive the problem of progress as depending merely on enlightenment. I do not believe in original sin except in this sense that “The word of Sin is Restriction.”; and our normal conscious selves are inevitably restricted by the categories of space, time and causality, which are essential conditions of the manifestation of separate individualities. But I cannot get it into my head that any single human being can be really hostile to another. I regard all such passions as the symptoms of a definite deformity of nature produced by its inadequacy to deal with its environment. Just as a stick appears bent when thrust partly under water, so does a man's will apparently deviate when the refractive index of his environment deceives his vision. I do not know whether it is fair to say that I am callous, whether the long torture of my patient silent struggle against the tyrants of my boyhood case-hardened me against the world. I do not know how far the habit of concentration and the peculiar selective action of my memory has deadened my sensibilities, for I am as indifferent to most impressions as the holiest hermit could desire. I have become almost incapable of registering conscious impressions unless they pass the censor as having legitimate business with me. Of course a not dissimilar state of abstractedness is common enough in men whose lives are devoted to study, by the time they are fifty; but in me these tendencies were already bearing fruit long before I was thirty. The Montparnesse quarter was of course full of people who took their trumpery love affairs very seriously. But the English colony was riddled with English hypocrisy. I remember giving the manuscript of Alice to Kelly and a girl named Sybil Muggins3) to read, and they agreed that no really nice woman would have kissed a man so early as the thirteenth day of his wooing. I must confess to having been taken a little aback, especially as Sybil Muggins was Haweis's mistress. A few days back, moreover, Haweis having gone to {350} Brussels for a week, she switched over to Kelly. What dreadful days those were! They worked themselves up into such a state that Kelly actually proposed to marry Sybil, and his sister bustled over post haste to prevent it by threatening that his allowance would be stopped if he did anything so foolish. I had of course no sympathy whatever for the fatuity of the young people, but I have always felt with Shelley that parental tyranny is the most indefensible kind. I was brought up in the other service; but I knew from the first that the Devil was my natural master and captain and friend. I saw that he was in the right, and that the world cringed to his conqueror only through fear. I prayed secretly to him; and he comforted me, and saved me from having my spirit broken in this house of children's tears. I promised him my soul, and swore an oath that I would stand up for him in this world and stand by him in the next. (Solemnly) That promise and that oath made a man of me. From this day this house is his home; and no child shall cry in it; this hearth is his altar; and no soul shall ever cower over it in the dark evenings and be afraid. (G.B.Shaw, The Devil's Disciple.) I offered to make Kelly an allowance equal to what he was receiving, which rather took the wind out of the sails of the old wooden three-deckers in Camberwell vicarage. The gesture was sufficient. The threat was withdrawn; Gerald on his side had cooled off sufficiently to see the folly of throwing himself away on a half-caste. To me the joke as obvious. I could already love without attachment so far as physical desire was concerned. There are one or two small errors in my subsequent life and they are due to my failure to extend this principle to other types of attachment. I have tried to set myself up against fate and save those who were predestined to be lost, to keep on trusting people after I knew perfectly well that they were false; and I have paid heavily for my chivalry and generosity. I still think these defects in some way preferable to sterner sense and virtue, and yet I know that I am wrong from every point of view. It does not do ultimate good to anyone concerned to shut one's eyes to the facts or to try to dodge one's creditors. {351} Previous \| The Confessions of Aleister Crowley \| Next C. Paul Bartlett, N.J.W.Morrice, D.Crowley, L.Kelly, I.Heward Bell, J. Ivor Back, I. One Kite, G?, B. Penrhyn Stanlaws, S. One Root. This amiable and worthy colonist occupied a studio on the Quai des Grands Augustins (now, I suppose, called Quai Maréchal Fous-le-Camp), most conveniently situated over the apartment of an excellent midwofe: though I never heard that he had occasion to avail himself of her services. Query “Meugins”. 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__label__wiki	0.757295	0.757295	About Illinois PIRG Our team of researchers uncovers the facts; our staff bring our findings to the public, through the media as well as one-on-one interactions; and our advocates bring the voice of the public to the halls of power on behalf of consumers. Illinois PIRG is a consumer group that stands up to powerful interests whenever they threaten our health and safety, our financial security or our right to fully participate in our democratic society. Using the time-tested tools of investigative research, media exposés, grassroots organizing, advocacy and litigation, Illinois PIRG stands up to powerful interests and delivers concrete results. When consumers are cheated or the voices of ordinary citizens are drowned out by special interest lobbyists, Illinois PIRG speaks up and takes action. 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__label__cc	0.660909	0.339091	Back to Northernrailway.co.uk Improved Journeys Better Stations New Trains Better Travel Northern’s Better Stations programme is taking shape Northern’s Better Stations programme is taking shape. And work on the first station began today – at Eccleston Park, near Prescot. And work on the first station began today – at Eccleston Park, near Prescot. A new ticket vending machine will be installed at the station, along with new signage. Sharon Keith, Regional Director for Northern, said: “Eccleston Park is the first location to benefit from our Better Stations programme, which will see improvements at the majority of our stations during the next three years. “We have recently completed a trial phase at four stations – where we tested some of the potential facilities we will roll out – but Eccleston Park is the site of the first formal work to be carried out as part of the programme.” Sharon added: “This is the first step on a long, but exciting, modernisation journey for Northern and our customers, which will not only see improvements at stations, but also new trains, refurbished trains and 2,000 extra services – all by 2020.” Better Stations is a three-year plan which will see combinations of improvements such as new or refurbished shelters and waiting rooms, new tickets vending machines, modern customers information systems, improved seating, better lighting and more accessibility features. New and Upgraded Trains	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1424
__label__wiki	0.815195	0.815195	India orders antitrust probe of Amazon, Walmart's Flipkart Aditya Kalra, Aditi Shah NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India ordered an investigation of Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) and Walmart’s (WMT.N) Flipkart on Monday over alleged violations of competition law in the latest setback for U.S. e-commerce giants operating in the country. FILE PHOTO: People move past a hoarding of Amazon India outside a metro rail station in New Delhi, India, October 23, 2019. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis/File Photo The Competition Commission of India (CCI) said it was ordering a wider probe following a review of allegations that Amazon and Flipkart were promoting some “preferred sellers” and in turn hurting business for other, smaller sellers. Flipkart is “fully compliant” with all laws and is currently reviewing the CCI order, Senior Vice President Rajneesh Kumar said. Amazon said: “We welcome the opportunity to address allegations made about Amazon; we are confident in our compliance, and will cooperate fully with the CCI.” Amazon boss Jeff Bezos is expected to visit India for potential meetings with government officials this week. The complaint against the two companies was filed by Delhi Vyapar Mahasangh, a group representing small- and medium-sized businesses. They alleged that several of Amazon and Flipkart’s preferred sellers were affiliated with, or controlled by, the companies themselves, either directly or indirectly. In its 11-page order, the CCI noted four alleged anti-competitive practices: exclusive launch of mobile phones by the e-commerce firms, promoting preferred sellers on their websites, deep discounting practices and prioritising some seller listings over others. “Exclusive launch (of mobile phones) coupled with preferential treatment to a few sellers and the discounting practices create an ecosystem that may lead to an appreciable adverse effect on competition,” the order said. The CCI said its investigation unit should complete the probe within 60 days, but typically such cases have taken far longer. Walmart in 2018 invested $16 billion to buy a majority stake in India’s Flipkart, its biggest ever deal. The CCI probe will be the latest setback for the U.S. companies that were last year hit with more stringent foreign investment rules. Some of the allegations reviewed by the CCI have been long levelled against both companies. Indian brick-and-mortar traders allege Amazon and Flipkart violate the country’s foreign investment rules and burn billions of dollars to offer steep discounts that hurt smaller traders. The two companies say they are in compliance with all rules. In a recent study, the CCI said India’s was the fastest growing e-commerce market with revenue this year expected to reach $120 billion, triple its size in 2017. “The e-commerce sector is plagued with several issues, any adverse action by the CCI could scuttle the growth of the sector,” said Ram Kumar Poornachandran, competition law lead at law firm TT&A. Reporting by Aditya Kalra and Aditi Shah in New Delhi; Editing by Louise Heavens and Jason Neely	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1425
__label__wiki	0.986617	0.986617	Newsom Appoints Dalesandro to Fresno County Judgeship 3 Big Ways That the US Will Change Over the Next Decade Bay Area Woman Takes to the Sky in Search of Her Stolen Dog Turning to Turkey’s Tryptophan to Boost Mood? Not so Fast Leading White Democrats Court Black Votes; Some Find Trouble US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, center, walks to a secure area of the Capitol. (AP/Patrick Semansky) US Diplomat Acknowledges Ukraine Aid Tied to Investigation WASHINGTON — “I now do recall.” With that stunning reversal, diplomat Gordon Sondland handed House impeachment investigators another key piece of corroborating testimony Tuesday. He acknowledged what Democrats contend was a clear quid pro quo, pushed by President Donald Trump and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, with Ukraine. “I said that resumption of U.S. aid would likely not occur until Ukraine provided the public anti-corruption statement that we had been discussing for many weeks.” — US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland Sondland, in an addendum to his sworn earlier testimony, said that military assistance to the East European ally was being withheld until Ukraine’s new president agreed to release a statement about fighting corruption as Trump wanted. Sondland said he was the one who carried the message to a Ukrainian official on the sidelines of a conference in Warsaw with Vice President Mike Pence. “I said that resumption of U.S. aid would likely not occur until Ukraine provided the public anti-corruption statement that we had been discussing for many weeks,” Sondland recalled. His three-page update, tucked beneath hundreds of pages of sworn testimony from Sondland and former Ukraine Special Envoy Kurt Volker, was released by House investigators as Democrats prepared to push the closed-door sessions to public hearings as soon as next week. Late Tuesday, Sondland flew to Portland, Oregon, and was met by a small group of protesters at Portland International Airport. “I didn’t change my testimony, but I can’t answer any questions,” Sondland told reporters. He didn’t elaborate. The House Panels Conducting the Inquiry Are Releasing the Word-by-Word Transcripts Trump has denied any quid pro quo, but Democrats say there is a singular narrative developing since the president’s July 25 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy when he first asked for “a favor.” That request, which sparked the impeachment inquiry, included a public investigation into Ukrainian activities by Democratic former Vice President Joe Biden and his son and Trump’s allegations of Ukrainian interference in the 2016 U.S. election. Related Story: Do We Need to Worry About a Government Shutdown During Impeachment? On Wednesday, the State Department’s third-ranking official is expected to tell Congress that political considerations were behind the agency’s refusal to deliver a robust defense of the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. People familiar with the matter say David Hale plans to tell congressional impeachment investigators on Wednesday that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and other senior officials determined that defending Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch would hurt the effort to free up U.S. military assistance to Ukraine. The people familiar with the matter were not authorized to discuss Hale’s appearance publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the chairman of the Intelligence Committee, said the House panels conducting the inquiry are releasing the word-by-word transcripts of the past weeks’ closed-door hearings so the American public can decide for themselves. “This is about more than just one call,” Schiff wrote Tuesday in an op-ed in USA Today. “We now know that the call was just one piece of a larger operation to redirect our foreign policy to benefit Donald Trump’s personal and political interests, not the national interest.” Pushing back, White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham issued a statement saying the transcripts “show there is even less evidence for this illegitimate impeachment sham than previously thought.” FILE – In this Oct. 3, 2019 file photo, Kurt Volker, a former special envoy to Ukraine, is leaving after a closed-door interview with House investigators, at the Capitol in Washington. House investigators are releasing more transcripts Tuesday in the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump with hundreds of pages of testimony from two top diplomats dealing with Ukraine. Kurt Volker, the former special envoy to Ukraine, and Gordan Sondland, the U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, both testified about Trump’s interest in pursuing investigations of Joe Biden and Democrats as the White House withheld military aide to the East European ally. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) Sondland Testified That He Spoke With Secretary of State Mike Pompeo About Giuliani In the transcripts and accompanying cache of text messages, U.S. diplomats are shown trying to navigate the demands of Trump and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, who they soon learn is running a back-channel U.S. foreign policy on Ukraine. “It kept getting more insidious,” Sondland told investigators, as the “timeline went on.” Sondland testified that he spoke with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about Giuliani, “and Pompeo rolled his eyes and said: ‘Yes, it’s something we have to deal with.'” In his revised testimony, Sondland, a wealthy businessman who donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration, says his memory was refreshed by the opening statements of two other inquiry witnesses, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, William Taylor, and Tim Morrison, a European expert at the National Security Council. The ambassador initially testified on Oct. 17 that he did not “recall taking part in any effort to encourage an investigation into the Bidens.” He told investigators he didn’t know that the Ukraine firm Burisma, that Trump wanted Ukraine to investigate, was linked to Joe Biden’s son Hunter. But in the weeks since a May visit to Kyiv for Zelenskiy’s inauguration, Sondland and the other diplomats had been heavily involved in Ukraine policy and in text messages about what Trump wanted as they came to realize the military assistance was being withheld. Volker and Sondland both testified they were disappointed after briefing Trump at the White House about the new leader of the young democracy who was vowing to fight corruption. Trump Told the Diplomats to Work With Giuliani on Ukraine Issues At a pivotal May 23 meeting, Trump “went on and on and on about how Ukraine is a disaster and they’re bad people,” Sondland testified. “It was Mr. Giuliani who said: If it doesn’t say Burisma and 2016, it’s not credible, because what are they hiding?” — Kurt Volker, a former special envoy to Ukraine Trump holds an alternative view, pushed by Giuliani, that it was Ukraine, not Russia, that interfered in the 2016 elections in the U.S., a theory counter to U.S. intelligence findings. “‘They tried to take me down.’ He kept saying that over and over,” Sondland recalled Trump saying. Trump told the diplomats to work with Giuliani on Ukraine issues. Over the time that followed, Volker and Sondland proposed to Zelenskiy’s top aide, Andriy Yermak, that they a draft statement to be issued by Ukraine on potential interference with the U.S. political process. At Giuliani’s urging, that statement needed to have an “insert at end with 2 key items:” Burisma and the 2016 U.S. elections. “It was Mr. Giuliani who said: If it doesn’t say Burisma and 2016, it’s not credible, because what are they hiding?” Volker testified. Pressed by investigators, Sondland testified that it would be improper for the U.S. to prompt Ukraine to investigate the Biden family. “It doesn’t sound good.” The statement was never issued, as Ukraine refused it. Volker said he told Yermak it was “not a good idea.” President Donald Trump speaks to reporters upon arrival at the White House in Washington, Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) Trump Says the Probe Is Illegitimate Questions swirled after a government whistleblower’s August complaint about Trump’s phone call with Zelenskiy. By September, Sondland also told investigators, Trump was in a “bad mood” and nearly hung up on him when the ambassador asked what it was he wanted from Ukraine. “I want nothing. I want no quid pro quo,” Trump said, according to Sondland. “I want Zelenskiy to do the right thing.” Related Story: Border Wall, Impeachment Battle Imperil Budget Progress As House investigators released more transcripts Tuesday, they also announced they want to hear from Trump’s acting chief of staff and a top aide to Pence, reaching to the highest levels of the White House. Pence spokeswoman Katie Waldman said the vice president was unaware of the “brief pull-aside conversation” that Sondland reported having with Yermak. She also said Pence was unaware of the ongoing back-and-forth over the statement, and that it never came up during his meeting with Zelenskiy. At a closed-door lunch Tuesday, Pence told Senate Republicans the funds were being withheld over concerns that the Europeans weren’t contributing enough aid and issues of corruption in Ukraine, according to a person familiar with the meeting but unauthorized to discuss it and granted anonymity. Trump says the probe is illegitimate and the administration has resumed its efforts to block the inquiry as two more White House officials, an energy adviser and a budget official, declined to appear Tuesday before investigators, even after one received a subpoena. The White House Has Instructed Its Officials Not to Comply With the Impeachment Inquiry Meanwhile, investigators said they wanted to hear on Friday from Trump’s acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney. They contend his news conference last month amounted to “nothing less than a televised confession” of Trump’s efforts to have Ukraine investigate Democrats and Biden as the White House was blocking military funding. The White House has instructed its officials not to comply with the impeachment inquiry being led by House Democrats. Mulvaney is not expected to appear. Trump says he did nothing wrong, and Mulvaney later tried to walk back his remarks. Republicans have been unable to deliver a unified argument against the impeachment probe, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday he’s “pretty sure” how it all will end. McConnell said he believes Trump will stay in the White House. “I don’t think there’s any question it would not lead to a removal,” he said. A top Trump ally, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told reporters he doesn’t plan to read the transcripts, calling the whole inquiry “bunch of B.S.” Sondland closed his addendum to the House investigators saying he may have had a second call with Trump, but has been unable to obtain phone records and “cannot specifically recall” if that was the case. DemocratsGordon SondlandimpeachmentPresident Donald Trumpquid pro quoRudy GiulianitestimonyUkraine After Deadly Mexico Ambush, Stories of Bravery and Horror Erdogan: Turkey Captures Slain IS Leader Al-Baghdadi’s Wife	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1426
__label__cc	0.699631	0.300369	About Hard Rock Daddy HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 8/18/18 August 22, 2018 by AW Leave a Comment Every Tuesday on HardRockDaddy.com. The HRD Radio Report digs deeper into the weekly Active Rock charts, providing commentary, reviews, recommendations and predictions. It also features opinion pieces on chart action and the music business in general. The following is the Active Rock Mediabase Chart for the week ending 8/18/18. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart: CHART CHART ARTIST SONG TITLE RADIO POSITION POSITION SPINS THIS WEEK LAST WEEK 1 1 GHOST “Rats” 1692 2 2 HALESTORM “Uncomfortable” 1639 3 3 FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH “Sham Pain” 1586 4 5 BREAKING BENJAMIN “Torn In Two” 1461 5 7 THREE DAYS GRACE “Infra-Red” 1436 6 4 FROM ASHES TO NEW “Crazy” 1314 7 6 GODSMACK “Bulletproof” 1227 8 8 POP EVIL “A Crime To Remember” 1208 9 9 BADFLOWER “Ghost” 1181 10 10 GRETA VAN FLEET “When The Curtain Falls” 1141 11 12 NOTHING MORE “Just Say When” 888 12 13 BAD WOLVES (f. DIAMANTE) “Hear Me Now” 879 13 17 SLASH F/MYLES KENNEDY “Driving Rain” 827 14 15 IN THIS MOMENT (f. Rob Halford) “Black Wedding” 795 15 18 ASKING ALEXANDRIA “Alone In A Room” 683 16 20 TWENTY ONE PILOTS “Jumpsuit” 589 17 16 ESCAPE THE FATE “Broken Heart” 544 18 11 ALICE IN CHAINS “The One You Know” 522 19 19 SEETHER “Against The Wall” 499 20 0 DISTURBED “Are You Ready” 458 21 24 GRANDSON “Blood/Water” 431 22 22 SKINDRED “That’s My Jam” 406 23 14 FOO FIGHTERS “The Line” 397 24 21 LIKE A STORM “The Devil Inside” 390 25 23 10 YEARS “Burnout” 386 26 25 THRICE “The Grey” 379 27 27 THE GLORIOUS SONS “S.O.S.” 339 28 28 BEARTOOTH “Disease” 315 29 26 THE RECORD COMPANY “Life To Fix” 303 30 33 SHIM “Hallelujah” 286 31 29 MOTIONLESS IN WHITE “Voices” 276 32 30 FOZZY “Burn Me Out” 271 33 32 KULICK “Ghost” 261 34 31 LEDGER “Not Dead Yet” 251 35 36 IMAGINE DRAGONS “Natural” 227 36 34 NONPOINT “Chaos And Earthquakes” 201 37 46 SHINEDOWN “Get Up” 195 38 35 THE STRUTS “Body Talks” 187 39 37 DEAD GIRLS ACADEMY “No Way Out” 158 40 48 BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE “Letting You Go” 139 41 38 THEORY OF A DEADMAN “Wicked Game” 137 42 40 LIVE “Love Lounge” 134 43 43 UNDEROATH “ihateit” 132 44 41 ADELITAS WAY “Still Hungry” 119 45 42 KOBRA AND THE LOTUS “Velvet Roses” 112 46 47 PARKWAY DRIVE “Prey” 89 47 45 AMITY AFFLICTION “Feels Like I’m Dying” 89 48 44 ROYAL BLISS “Devil With Angel Eyes” 89 49 58 JONATHAN DAVIS “Basic Needs” 85 50 63 PRETTY VICIOUS “Move” 72 PUBLISHER’S PICK OF THE WEEK (By Adam Waldman) RED SUN RISING – “Veins” One of the best, most unique sounding, bands of the modern rock era is back with their latest single, “Veins.” This high-energy track is in the same musical vein as Foo Fighters in that it combines infectious melodies, dynamic changes, and just the right amount of edge to keep things heavy. Pat Gerasia’s drumming is the fuel that keeps the engine humming on a song that inspires involuntary toe-tapping and head-bobbing. This lays the foundation for the distinct vocal style of Mike Protich, who is always memorable. Making “Veins” shine even more than usual are the sweet vocal harmonies that gives the song an arena rock vibe from the glory days of the ’70s and ’80s. Even though Red Sun Rising’s sound is instantly recognizable on Active Rock radio today, you can tell that the band has been influenced by Cheap Trick. The influence is somewhat subtle, but you hear it when you know its there. If history is any indicator of the future, it won’t be surprising if “Veins” eventually battles for the top of the chart in the coming months. PUBLISHER’S PREDICTIONS (By Adam Waldman) The end of Ghost’s lengthy run at the top will end next week. Based on the current trend, it looks like Halestorm has the inside track to top the chart next week, but Five Finger Death Punch is still within striking distance should they gain momentum this week. From the looks of things, Halestorm, FFDP, Breaking Benjamin, and Three Days Grace will be in the top 4 next week and into September. HRD SPIN CONTROL (by Adam Waldman and Jon Loveless) Each week, we will share the songs that we think should be added to rotations, alongside the songs that we feel should be dropped from rotations, either because they are a bad fit for the format, or because they have run their course and it’s time for a new single from the artist. SPIN IT… ROYAL TUSK – “Aftermath” THE LAZYS – “Little Miss Crazy” AVATAR – “The King Welcomes You To Avatarland” STONE HORSES – “End Of The World” ARMORED DAWN – “Sail Away” WILSON – “Like A Baller” MONSTER TRUCK – “Evolution” Twenty One Pilots – “Jumpsuit” Imagine Dragons – “Natural” Grandson – “Blood/Water” Theory Of A Deadman – “Wicked Game” Kulick – “Ghost” Glorious Sons – “S.O.S.” Foo Fighters – “The Line” Escape The Fate – “Broken Heart” THE BREAKDOWN (by Jon Loveless) NOTABLE CHART MOVEMENT No new songs in the Top 10 this week… The only new entry in the Top 20 is also the week’s highest debuting song, as radio welcomes Disturbed back with open arms (and balloons … and a cake)… The only “new” arrival in the Top 30 is a song from Shim that was already there before slipping slightly last week, a pattern that’s been happening for around two months now… New to the Top 40 this week are format staples Shinedown and Bullet For My Valentine… The only other debuts in the published chart this week are found in the final two spots as Jonathan Davis arrives with a shockingly long song (6+ minutes) to receive airplay and punk/pop-punk newcomers Pretty Vicious make their bow. THREE UP & THREE DOWN Shinedown – “Get Up” Greta Van Fleet – “When The Curtain Falls” Slash f. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators – “Driving Rain” Alice In Chains – “The One You Know” TRENDS AND OBSERVATIONS Steadily narrowing playlists across the genre give more and more influence to the few stations left that aren’t strictly slaves to the chart. Two of the three songs debuting this week received over 80% of their spins from non-terrestrial (i.e. satellite or digital) stations. In turn, the reactive (rather than proactive) approach followed by the majority of stations today means that the odds of them eventually adding those songs just went up significantly. You might think that traditional radio would want to have more influence, not less, over a format they’ve chosen to participate in, but in 2018, that is clearly not the case. 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__label__cc	0.690047	0.309953	HarlemGal Inc. Living and loving life in Harlem HarlemGal’s Bio Tag Archives: museum mile Spanish Harlem museums participate in Museum Mile Festival Jun 2, 2011 @ 7:00 By HarlemGal If you have never visited some of the wonderful museums in Spanish Harlem, such as El Museo del Barrio, Museum of the City of New York (MCNY) and its newest member-the Museum of African Art, well now is your opportunity…and for FREE! On June 14, El Museo del Barrio, MCNY, and the Museum of African Art will participate in the annual Museum Mile Festival. One day a year, nine of New York City’s museums, all ones that call Fifth Avenue home, collectively open their doors from 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. for free to New Yorkers and visitors for a mile-long block party and visual art celebration. This traffic-free, celebration fills the street and sidewalks of Fifth Avenue from 82nd to 105th street, the mile designated as Museum Mile. The Museum for African Art is the newest member to Museum Mile and is slated to open in September 2011. However, they will have a table out front. So be sure to stop by at Fifth Avenue and 105th Street. Posted in art and culture, Community, education, Events, Free!, Harlem, New York, New York City, NYC Tagged 105th Street, El Museo del Barrio, museum mile, Museum of African Art, Museum of the City of New York, Spanish Harlem Experience the three C’s in Spanish Harlem Jun 30, 2010 @ 7:30 I recently had the opportunity to experience the three C’s at the Museum of the City of New York located at 103rd and Fifth Avenue in Spanish Harlem. What do I mean by the three C’s? I am talking about Cars, Culture, and the City, the first exhibition to explore the Big Apple’s century-long relationship with the automobile. I was fortunate enough to see Cars, Culture, and The City at the beginning of the week (June 28), along with a one time special event at the Museum called Designing Women. (See slide show of the exhibit below!) The special event was about how female designers at General Motors (GM) have had a critical impact on car design. Christine Park, one of the lead designers at GM, gave an in-depth demo on how they sketch at the company. It was very impressive to see Park sketch especially when she created an initial sketch of a car right before the audience’s eyes and then revealed what the final product looked like in real form. Pure talent comes to mind when thinking about Park. And it was interesting to see that talent; however, the actual exhibition at the Museum about cars and its connection to New York City was much more fascinating. Call me biased, but I am a New Yorker and I enjoy learning about the ‘Greatest City in the World!’ Cars, Culture and The City explains in visual detail how the automobile entered the Big Apple in the early 1900’s, the introduction of automobile shows, which are still in existence today in NYC I believe at the Javits Center, cars designed in New York, futuristic design, NY films and cars, and the car challenges of New York. There is so much to see and learn at this exhibit. I found the entire exhibit fascinating and it caused several ah-ha moments for me. My favorite portion of the exhibit was the compilation shown high up on a white wall of all the amazing movies that have featured New York City and the car. The looped video showed films and television, such as Solid Gold Cadillac, Midnight Cowboy, Taxi Driver, The Godfather, Vanilla Sky, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Seinfeld, Saturday Night Fever, When Harry Met Sally, and much more. If you like history, cars, Hollywood films, sketching or would like to experience a museum on Museum Mile that is not crowded or expensive ($10 bucks a visit), then go see Cars, Culture and The City exhibit in Spanish Harlem at the Museum of the City of New York. 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__label__wiki	0.626568	0.626568	Why does Brian Gerrish support child abusers? A question for our readers: How many convicted paedophiles are you friendly with? We were lounging about HQ the other day when someone idly raised this question. There was a long silence, as we all mentally went through our lists of friends. Finally, we each shook our heads. The answer was zero. None of us had even knowingly been pals, on Facebook or in real life, with a paedophile. We’d never even met one, that we knew of. Compare and contrast this with many of the Hoaxtead mobsters we’ve run into over the past three years. Their lives seem to be brimming over with child abusers, sexual and otherwise. Brian Gerrish and Carol Stadler In July 2015, for instance, one of our readers pointed out that Brian Gerrish, self-appointed bingo caller in his very own newsroom cosplay adventure, had at least one child abuser on his Facebook friends list. Carol Stadler, a co-defendant with Marie Black in “an ‘utterly depraved’ sex abuse ring which used children as sexual playthings” in Norwich, was found guilty of assault causing actual bodily harm, but was cleared of nine other charges, including serious sexual assaults. Given Brian Gerrish’s continual claims that he is an advocate for children’s rights, this seems an odd choice. Granted, Brian has more than 4,000 Facebook friends, and one assumes that he is not close personal friends with each and every one. So perhaps Ms Stadler slipped through without his noticing. Fair enough. Could happen to anyone, right? The trial and death of Martin Smith How, though, to explain Gerrish’s impassioned defence of Martin Smith, a TV hypnotist who was convicted of grooming and sexually abusing a young girl for nine years, starting when she was about seven years old? In 2010, Mr Smith was tried in Manchester Crown Court, where it was learned that he would hit, bully, and attempt to hypnotise the girl to ensure she complied with his wishes. He forced the child to touch him intimately, and began raping her from the age of 13. Three years later, when she reported him to police, he denied the allegations strenuously, and fled the country with his partner and two children, whilst on bail. Two years later, following his extradition back to the UK, Mr Smith’s partner, Lianne Smith, murdered her two youngest children rather than have them fall into the hands of social services. She was tried in Spain, found guilty, and sentenced to 30 years in prison. The jury found Mr Smith guilty of 11 counts of rape, attempted rape, indecency with a child, and indecent assault. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison, but in 2012 was found hanged in his cell. Despite (or perhaps because of) the court’s ruling of Mr Smith’s guilt, Brian Gerrish remained convinced that he had been stitched up: Martin was convicted on the uncorroborated word of his step daughter, [name redacted], in a trial which was mismanaged by a vile Judge Irwin, quite happy it seemed, for at least one jury member to sleep through vital evidence. No corroborative witnesses, no forensic evidence and a defence barrister who kept the whole issue of why Martin and Lianne ran to Spain out of his defence. That crucial fact left the jury with no conclusion to draw, other than that Martin was running away from [the victim’s] allegations. Pause on this for a moment. We must wonder whether Brian would have claimed the same, had the Hampstead SRA hoax ever made it to criminal court? In the Hampstead case, Brian was quite happy to base his judgement of guilt on having met Abe and Ella, and having spoken on the phone to one of the children. It would have been perfectly fine with him, it seems, if RD had been “convicted on the uncorroborated word of two children…with no corroborative witnesses, no forensic evidence….” Somehow, though, when it comes to real paedophiles, Brian suddenly becomes much more forgiving. In an article written following Mr Smith’s trial, Brian claims that he could tell from the outset that the court would be biased: Suspicion as to bias in the conduct of this public hearing began on day one, when members of the public were confined to the rear left-hand public seating of the Court, where they were unable to see the full Court or Jury…. Yes, clearly the Court was discriminating against the defendant, because it deliberately arranged the position of the public gallery so as to obstruct Brian’s view. Cue the social services bashing And of course, social services bashing entered into the equation. According to Brian: In October 2007, Lianne obtained a promotion as Staffordshire Director of Children’s Services. Within a month, Martin was suddenly accused of sexual assault by an adult female close to the family. With no corroborating evidence of any kind, Martin was not charged, but was bailed unconditionally until January 2008, and Social Services were informed. They quickly began to take an unhealthy interest in the couple’s young daughter Rebecca. Referring to Children’s Services, friendly colleagues warned Lianne that “these men are very clever”. Their predictions proved to be correct, as Children’s Services began to hunt Martin and Lianne Smith for custody of their daughter Rebecca. The family fled to Spain, where Martin was later arrested. Because yes, it’s completely unreasonable that when a man is charged with a long history of child sexual abuse, other children in his care might become a concern for social services. In fact, as far as Brian is concerned, Mr Smith’s trial and conviction weren’t really about his being a paedophile at all—it was all just part and parcel of the Evil State’s Evil Plan to snatch the couple’s children. Apparently. It’s all becoming so much clearer to us now: a person can get away with any crime against children they wish, so long as they’re sure to shout the special code words: “Help! I’m a whistle-blower! They’re stitching me up so they can steal my children!” Repeat as needed, and every jelly-brained troofer in the UK will charge to your defence. Guaranteed. Photo by Kat Jayne on Pexels.com 03/06/2018 in Assorted knobheads. Tags: Brian Gerrish, child abuse, child protection, paedophiles, videos Sean of SGT Report supports a self-confessed child abuser Brian Harvey, Bill Maloney, and the imaginary tattoos Gerrish friends with convicted child abuser ← Belinda says Sabine ‘relieved’, ‘cheerful’ in prison Why was one child favoured as poster child for the hoax? → 95 thoughts on “Why does Brian Gerrish support child abusers?” Nice digging! And good spot on the inconsistency between Gerrish’s views on the witnesses against Martin Smith and the (cough cough) witnesses against the Hampstead community (i.e. the known child abusers Abe Christie and Ella Draper/Gareeva). Interesting post EC.. and don’t forget Gerrish and Charles Howeson were Co-Directors of ‘Bailey Energy Management Limited’ at one time as well. He tweeted about me last time I mentioned that fact. https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/charles-howeson-face-trial-over-1159470 What’s the Truther position on Charles Howeson (Gerrish’s old naval commander)? Is he an innocent whistleblower, railroaded into prison by the Forces of Evil? Or given his social status, is he just another proof that the Forces of Evil permeate the ruling classes? Or both? Vive le Hoaxtead says: Kane Slater’s back and he’s as moronic as ever; I’m unaware of any truther mentioning him, although Gerrish did a UKC report on him, not once mentioning his association with him. A retrial? They’re totally deluded. Difficult to understand how this mob can cherry pick which claims they believe and which they don’t. All very well for Gerrish to say a jury fell asleep (there were 11 others) but did he bother to attend the trial?. As so often happens people tend to form their views on media reports which can give scant details or recount the nuances of evidence given, rather they just report the more sensational aspects. # reminded of this during the recent Magistrate’s Court hearing in Oz of a high profile church figure now headed for 2 trial for alleged abuse. I’ve read on Twitter & elsewhere high praise for a journalist who wrote a damning book that partly led to this trial yet at the end of the hearing the Magistrate (who battled with defense counsel several times) threw out all the claims in the journalist’s book and described them in very uncomplimentary terms as basically rubbish. They were the worst accusations. The charges laid, two, were “mild” and yet I still hear in private discussions people talking about who have no idea that these charges were thrown out. All based on scant media reports. Gerrish & The Mob © (™) may claim to care about kids but what in the Helll do they do about the approx 4 million in the UK living in poverty (let alone pensioners) and the tens of thousands of kids who die daily in the Third World?. Their shenanigans also use up valued resources on top. I don’t expect them to be able to solve these problems but they ignore them and I believe it’s up to us to help in any way we can. But they suck the oxygen out of these tragedies by promoting their sexual deviant satanic fantasies. What goes on in their minds? Why are they so fixated on a hoax when it’s been proved to be hogwash- they want it to be true don’t they? “Publicly naming cannibals”. Madness. Actually DeVine Bar, victims in cases like this are guaranteed life anonymity you drongo. Needs a retrial ? It never had a trial, the Police don’t waste time on crackpot stories. It had enough of a Police investigation to establish what was going on (a bitter custody battle gone insane) and passed it to the social services and family court. A full two weeks was spent by the court concluding that it was a hoax begun as a cynical attempt to attack an estranged partner over child access that was exploded through internet halfwits hot on the trail of ‘another’ Pizzagate decided to pronounce judgement on and became a nightmare for the school (staff, parents and teachers) and the church. I’ll wager the keyboard crusaders cared little for the victims of their eTerror campaigns and stalking innocent people. No. Because those ignorant thugs ‘believed the children’ and took that as excuse to levy death threats and spread unfounded malicious rumours. The more I discover the angrier this makes me. The people causing this trouble are just too stupid and ridden in self righteous hubris to back down at this point in the game. On another note I had a jacket potato for my supper, mmmmmmm. Because they are stupid and lack critical thinking skills. They react on a gut instinct level and dismiss the parts that go against what they demand fit with their apocalyptic vision of the world, of a fight against genuine demons. Forget trying to talk sense into them, it’s beyond their fragile intellects. You can’t have a retrial when there was no criminal trial to begin with. And the custody decision was appealed in July 2015. The appeal was rejected. Someone should have a word with police in Kane’s part of Canada. Toronto, I believe. a few interesting snippets about the Martin Smith case according to the Mail, Smith’s partner Lianne Smith, who admitted suffocating their two young children to death after MS’s arrest, worked as an energy healer http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1365285/TV-hypnotist-Martin-Smith-jailed-sexually-abusing-young-girl.html According to Psychic News, in addition to his work as a hypnotist, Martin Smith was working as a psychic medium Psychic News Saturday 29th May 2010 Issue Number 4058 70p ● A SELF-STYLED ‘medium’has been charged with sixrapes, one attempted rape andsix offences of gross indecencybetween 1995 and 2005.Martin Smith, 45, appearedbriefly before Carlisle magistrates on Wednesday 19th May and spoke only to confirm his nameand address. He was remandedin custody. Smith’s now defunct but still accessible web page claims thathe “travelled to Stansted Hall inLondon [sic] which is the UKCentre for Psychic Studies [sic]to train and understand [his]abilities more.” Enquiries by Psychic News have revealed thatthis information is false and thatat no time was Martin Smith astudent at Stansted Hall. A claim made by the Daily Mail that Smith “became a paid-up member of the Spiritualists ’National Union” is similarly false. SNU sources have con-firmed to PN that Smith was granted provisional membership in 2006 but never achieved full Class B membership. According to his website Smith has worked as a platform medium and given private read-ings. In 2006 he appeared in an episode of the TV programme Most Haunted. In a tragic twist it has emerged that Smith is the father of the two young children found dead in a Spanish hotel room last week. Police were called to the Hotel Miramar on Tuesday 18th Mayand subsequently discovered thebodies of Rebecca, 5, and eleven-month-old Daniel. Their mother, Lianne Smith, 43, is now incustody. According to SpanishJudge Fernandez, she has admitted “asphyxiating them by putting plastic bags over their heads” http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Q9fd9yAE6UsJ:www.spiritualistsociety.com/downloads/psychicnews29may2010.pdf+&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=safari Lianne Smith was sentenced to 30 years in jail for murdering the two children according to the BBC “Lianne Smith met Mr Smith in North Tyneside in 1992, while she was going through a divorce. They lived together in a caravan in Northumberland with her daughter and son from the earlier marriage. Later they moved to Cumbria where she worked at the county council’s children’s services department. The couple, who were not married, briefly moved to Lichfield in Staffordshire and then left for Spain in 2007 with Rebecca, after Lianne Smith’s eldest daughter accused Martin Smith of sexual abuse. Following his extradition, he was convicted of rape, sentenced to 16 years and in January was found hanged in his cell.” http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-18690909 The sexual abuse of children, psychics, hypnotists, energy healers, I’m definitely detecting a theme here. And Ella demonstrated how much she cares about her kids… by not bothering to turn up! It’s pretty clear from the start of this video (and from the video description) that Debs has been at the funny fags again: “…PS: can I have some money for a new computer, please?” 28:34 – “So keep on ignoring me, coz I’m just a silly woman from the underclass of Britain. I’m a liar and I’m mad.” 3 “killer interviews” with…er…Tere Joyce. Colour me underwhelmed Oh Gawd, what an image: She just can’t stop herself, can she? No filter whatsoever. #Wedger LOL, check this out: This is the video in question. It’s an old phone call between Matt Taylor and Abe & Ella and I don’t recall hearing it before, tbh: In it Abe hilariously bigs up Drifloud, Toothless Get Ruthless and Code 2222 and at 19:45 he gets really pissed off when Matt tells him he’s been taping him! 15:24 – “Barrack Obama is a mind control sex slave.” 😂 TSMM has put Cat’s ‘Troll’ video on his channel. Interesting comments under it too. It seems TSMM may have had an Elm Guest House video removed as well which he’s not happy about. Cat is sitting on “something juicy” (snigger) and is still working on her WikiPaedo page too.. Nice find, Jake. Good to know that one of TTSMM’s videos was taken down. Even YouTube gets it right sometimes 🙂 Neelu’s latest episode of ‘Comedy Hour with the Queen of Zog’ now up: ‘At the Common Law Court’, Glastonbury, 03.06.18 As you can probably tell from the title, this is utter bollocks. In fact it’s blessing in disguise that the sound keeps cutting out. Wow I hadn’t read that and I subscribe to Psychic News (well I would wouldn’t I being a ghost ?). Every religion has it’s share of nutters and I ‘m afraid Spiritualism does as well. That video was excellent, Tinribs. I don’t recall ever hearing that one before either. I say “excellent” as it’s more proof of them colluding to spread their hoax online at the time. Abe mentions this call was not long after Abe and Ella’s “World Beyond Belief” interview, so we can date it to Summer 2015, as their WBB interview was in June 2015. Sheeeit, Princess Neelu of Zogistan is visiting our little Somerset town. Put out the bunting peasants, dance with joy in the streets!!! It’s actually Druids this weekend… their annual shindig, lovely people. Anyone know what she’s up to in Glasto? 3:20/-5:08 – “The skies are covered in chemtrails, because obviously they don’t want us to let the angels help us here today.” And they still didn’t put her in the back and take her away? Hopelessly behind, now. SIGH Great article, above, and also the prior expose on ‘Fresh Start’ agenda. Most excellent! That’s the one I want to talk about (sorry). I’m skeptical that Fresh Start people would really be unconditionally welcoming of any & every victim narrative that anyone might wish to spew at them. My experience has been that, despite what they say, such people aren’t willing to extend the generosity of their professed unconditional belief offers, if their very own loved ones turn out to be the target of some victim claimant’s slander & defamation. Trine Day publisher Kris Millegan, who seems willing to publish slander & libel about…well…anyone else’s loved ones – (anyone at all) – for an example. Millegan wasn’t very receptive to my confronting him with the intriguing possibility that his (Millegan’s) very own much revered father would have been an excellent candidate for the Secret Director of the alleged (but imaginary) CIA Monarch program. Millegan’s father was a retired CIA agent (retired, eh? likely story…), who possessed knowledge of nefarious secret CIA operations involving American citizens, according to Millegan. His father then moved the family to the other side of the country and took up a secondary career in the public school system. But if that was really a “cover”, it would have afforded Millegan’s father access to children, and/or access to many other people with even more access to children, whom Millegan senior could have been evaluating as likely prospects for Monarch program rape, torture and mind-control programming. You see. Why, dear old dad might even have been the guy doing all of the child-raping & torturing, himself! Surprisingly, Mr “no conspiracy hypothesis is impossible” Kris Millegan, was downright hostile to THAT one. 🙂 If it wouldn’t be so blatantly hypocritical, and a profound violation of my personal ethics, I’d truly love to concoct and publish the most horrendous conspiranoid slanders about many, many infamous conspiranoid’s loved ones – ones that infamously don’t give a sh*t about slandering & defaming anyone else’s family members or friends. Nice of her to let the powers that be know that she currently isn’t at home. It’ll give them plenty of time to set up their energy beam weapons whilst she’s out. I guess the facts that Ronald Bernard is a neo-Nazi dirtbag and his “Bank of Joy” is just another Prosperity-Ponzi scheme are points in his favour from her perspective. Vauxhall Vince says: Good opportunity for the bailiffs to pop round and repossess her house too, lol. There’s a part 2 now. It’s one of the speakers. So a court and jury saw fit to convict Martin Smith of being a paedophile and sentence him to 16 years in prison. Yet Brian Gerrish somehow thinks he knows better than all of those people, he was shocked and saddened to hear of Smith’s death and had thought Smith was a nice man. Isn’t there a saying about judging a man by the company he keeps? I remember this story about a mother killing her two children whilst in Spain but i didn’t know about the other side of the story involving her partner Martin Smith. A interesting post EC. Well Debs, if the cap fits. Angie must be getting desperate since her last fling with an American man and has now had to resort to hunting down innocent refuse collectors. I’m not surprised that they drove away quickly. Cat certainly chooses who she can be forgiving of. Would she let an opponent of hers off the hook by saying “to err is human”? I think not. That video’s already come down! I’m thinking Taylor got spooked when he realised that his privately shared phone call had been plastered all over the place by Angie, Devine, Pike et al (good to have friends you can trust, isn’t it): But don’t worry – we’ve saved a copy here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vsMZwXtUPhVFfP_87UIwQLd8u6mlctHI Damn, I was too late as the video is now unavailable. Ah nice work Scarlet. I had only just commented on how i was too late to view the video as it was now unavailable. I should have known you’d have that covered. What is it about these people? Some bloke comes along out of the blue, this time “Ronald Bernard” and makes sensational claims and they just believe it?. No proof of anything, no evidence, nada, zip, nought but as long as it involves people eating babies to somehow gain super powers, they just accept everything he says. And they think we are odd. Oh FFS – “an American network”. Someone with a YouTube channel. Hardly NBC. The bin men in Oldcastle have standards. “Victims who acquired porn habits”. Still lusting after Rupert. Eggs'n'Bacon says: Another set of hearings at the ‘Common Law Court’. In a field, as no-one will let them hold same in a building. There is more detail on Quatloos. https://www.quatloos.com/Q-Forum/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=11592&sid=2df07ed7b09f83812fa92706f13460b7&start=1260 Wow, their website has every conspiracy known to man. Seems to be a fixation on JFK as well. How do they square up all the conflicting JFK & 9/11 conspiracies? Random moments… This Satanist was in a queue in Iceland. No rituals. I had a chicken. It was dead, ready cooked. There was a baby in front of me. I looked at the baby, the baby looked at me. I did not eat the baby. I purchased a bag of Jelly Babies, £2.00 in Iceland. Oldcastle, cleaning up the trash Satanic style. That video looks like it could be a recurring wet dream of Big Schnozz John Patterson’s except it’s a bin lorry that unsuspecting individuals are being thrown into rather than a wood chipper. Jeez she is really losing it, just keeps repeating herself over and over, seems to have forgotten what she said only a minute ago Robert White is going to get his houses back and bankruptcy overturned (nope) Council taxes are going to returned (nope) Because no one from the councils etc didn’t turn up they are all guilty LOL (like they care what a bunch of losers and lowlifes meeting in a tent in a field think or do) Bit of a downsize from their earlier meeting, nice grand old building etc to a tent in a field… (cause nothing says legitimate judicial proceedings like a tent!!!) So her fake crying that I had destroyed her evidence was just her lying…….. and enough for her mate hoaxgirl to strike my channel, get rid of all my awkward comments….. and revealling videos of the manipulation carried out from Belindas highgate hub, in tangent with Brian Gerrish to run the narrative, now rebranding as Fresh Start Foundation, to feed victims to their chosen quack therapists…… enough to justify…… her mate, I meant to say……. just call us all babyeaters or pedoprotectors and voila, people can do hateful things to any one of us………….and feel righteous…….as they issue death threats on her behalf………..or Belindas. Was the baby “Algjört rassgat”? It’s still playing for me, unless it’s been put back up in the last few hours. Funny that freemen often address real cases against them by failing to turn up then saying it doesn’t count – but when they’re prosecuting non-attendance means that the defendant is automatically guilty. Fotlers are absolutely imminue to irony -want no part of the statuory system but claim benefit, record court hearings but ban recording in their own courts. The video is back on Youtube again now. Most strange. Yes, it is back up for me again now as well JB but it was down earlier. Putting some extra effort into reporting videos, Well, as it’s back up….. I guess if Matt is collared for breaching the restraining order, Angie can clock up another win for her list of killer arrests, sectionings and takedowns of the competition. Martin Jury says: Robert ‘Crab Bait’ White has been one of the chief cheerleaders for the Fisher Price Play Court™ was asked on Facebook how many of the court’s judgements had been enforced. After trying to claim that HH Lord Chief Justice Jock Smith had successfully enforced his ‘commercial liens’ he eventually admitted the number was zero. This because they needed to attract more people. That’s true enough I suppose but I fear ‘more people’ actually means 60,000,000 more. A little bit of background which may explain Bobby’s sudden love of common law and Magnum cartridge… “A van driver left a young motorcyclist with serious injuries after causing a head-on smash by driving on the wrong side of the road. Jacob Brown was flung off his Honda motorbike, which became lodged in Robert White’s Citroen Berlingo van. The 20-year-old victim suffered a fractured sternum and left arm, a bleed on the brain and internal injuries. He fears his injuries and ongoing effects could put paid to his ambition to become a firefighter or to join the military. White, of Park Road, Sheerness, was jailed for 16 months and banned from driving for two years after admitting causing serious injury by dangerous driving and failing to provide a specimen. Maidstone Crown Court heard Mr Brown was riding along Queenborough Road, Halfway, on May 3 when he could see the van coming towards him. Prosecutor Anna Arnone said: “He tried to take avoiding action. The only way he could do it was to head across the wrong side of the road. Unfortunately, the van also switched direction and there was a head-on collision.” Mr Brown was thrown from the motorcycle. He remembers his head hitting the windscreen of the van. The air ambulance was called and he was flown to hospital. Miss Arnone said White appeared to have been drinking. He failed a roadside breath test and refused to comply with the procedure at the police station. The 56-year-old appeared in court without a lawyer and represented himself. “I can’t see the point,” he said. “I have got no excuses. I have done it, and that’s it.”” http://www.kentonline.co.uk/sheerness/news/driver-jailed-over-bikers-horror-44094/ £2.00 per bag? Outrageous… Two bags for a quid in Heron Foods… You have to live int’north mind you. Not sure if you guys are familiar with the Steve Wright Show but listen to ‘Barry from Watford’ from 6:28 to 7:33 here and tell me it’s not Matt Taylor and Abe 😂 Maybe this is why Matt calls himself “the daddy”, hehe. You did say “her mate” 🙂 And she’s not any more, apparently. They’ve had some kind of fallout, as per Angie tradition 😀 My guess is now he realises we have a copy of it anyway, there’s nothing to be gained from removing it from his channel, so has put it back up again. I always did find Neelu in tents. Oh Gawd, Debs has been on again: What happened to her vow never to darken YouTube’s doorstep again? Er…neither, Angie. Final answer 10:11 – “So yeah – issue a fatwa against me, Kill me if you want” 😮 So how come it was her mate that reported my channel for copyright on one of Angies vids ? where she was chatting shit about me, with Heather ? I only put a minute up, edited under ‘fair use’, meanwhile her mate sent me 3 warnings of legal action and over the past week I’ve had others from 2 people also either her mates or belindas. McGoofy’s really starting to vary his death threat repertoire: …Or unless you’re a Christian who purports to follow the Bible. Eh, Malky? Wildcat abuse is always available? 😂 It was actually God talking Angie but he’s bloody ancient now and a bit on the blind side. He was trying to target Oldcastle in Ireland but was off target. He tells me there’s some harpie there he’s furious with because she keeps taking his & his son’s names in vain. What exactly is a lighting strike? Is that when the workers at the bulb factory stage a walkout? More evidence that lie detectors are totally accurate, never wrong….. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5800695/Man-travelled-year-6491-says-hes-stuck-2018-PASSED-lie-detector-test.html That was very amusing! I think I saw that on a card in a phone box in Edinburgh once…. Well, I was born at 2pm daylight.. so I’m ok thanks. The girl can only hope, but as she turned her back on witchcraft, there is no chance of me being struck….. even tho prune face Heather and sneaky naima are linking up all their orgonites and spiritual dynamite tools and weapons, to no avail………. there isn’t just a massive purple umbrella to shield good people from their vile attacks, but mirrors to reflect back any bad wishes, curses or prayers…….when people try to command God……they will catch some just reward…….. just by fluke, a few days ago, my tv ariel on the mansion, provided for my services, went off, temporarily……. if they don’t think I’m well protected, well….do your worst, bwitches…… I still havn’t even, really started 🙂 Pingback: Blacklist CSA & Family/Child Protection Groups. Shocking links to paedophiles! FSF Directors have… – The Real Fresh Start Foundation I can see the headlines now, Satanist eats jelly babies. Typical headline of the Sunday Sport. margaretjervis says: While you are right to say Gerrish and the other fruit loops ‘cherry pick’ cases they want to use to support their cause, it is the case that innocent people may be persuaded to support – and misguidedly welcome the support of – the ‘conspiracy theorists’. And yes the Marie Black case had no more ‘real evidence’ than Hoaxtead – and strangely included ‘ritual abuse’ allegations (murdered baby/drinking blood) that the prosecution decided not to rely on – even though there was nothing to differentiate this evidentially from the evidence relied on to convict – which was a progressive narrative through foster carer suggestion and inducements with children who had been ‘alienated’ from their mother and relatives (the majority of whom were acquitted at trial). There was no physical evidence. No independent witness evidence. Just the foster care diaries re times past (ie no contemporaneous evidence) and video interviews with leading questions and suggestion of vulnerable children who were induced to fantasise via carrot and stick and fantasy ‘reenactments’. The defence were not permitted to adduce expert evidence as to the unreliability of the this process which echoed – both in process and the nature of the ‘claims’ the notorious McMartin/Kelly Michaels/Shieldfield cases in methods of production and unreliability. Desperate people may readily be persuaded as to ‘conspiracies’ etc when the reality is more mundane – but no less – and I would venture – even more chilling concerning the potential injustice of the criminal justice system. So while you are entitled to castigate Marie Black in the terms of her conviction, (she maintains her innocence) I would be wary of using it as a stick to beat the ‘mob’ with. There are plenty of appalling child abuse cases that are real, but Marie Black is not a good example. Thank you for this, Margaret. I’ll be doing a post on the dangers of accepting what one reads in the papers (or hears online for that matter) using this very interesting info. Pingback: Not always black & white: On guilt by association \| HOAXTEAD RESEARCH	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1432
__label__cc	0.627274	0.372726	PAUL DRAPER - DO YOU BELIEVE IN MAGIC? Paul Draper is one of the nations leading mentalists. Performing a hundred or more shows each year for every type of audience including colleges, corporate clients, casinos, cruise ships, fairs, festivals, amusement parks, high schools, comedy clubs, private parties and more. A magician and Anthropologist - he does a sophisticated performance that will blow the minds of everyone, all ages. Paul grew up in Holladay and has offered to present his second performance at his old elementary school (now the Holladay City Offices). Tickets are limited. Available January 6th, at Holladay City Hall reception. Limit 4 per customer. Paul Draper acts as your guide to the secrets of human nature and wonders of the universe, breaking the laws of physics and defying the rules of reality. Become an expert in persuasion and deception as he demonstrates how to determine who has something to hide. Watch in disbelief as he bends metal and minds at will. Draper will make you laugh, gasp, and question the world as you know it. His award-winning, internationally acclaimed show Mysteries of the Mind combines magic, music, and mentalism to create custom experiences unique to each new audience. "Paul Draper is my favorite guest on our program. I love what he does!" - Mark Steines, Entertainment Tonight "Paul Draper was great, seriously wonderful. I want to dig through the magical literature to find out how he accomplishes everything he does. I look forward to seeing another one of his shows soon."- J.J. Abrams Paul Draper is a Comedy Mind-Reader who appears on A&E, HBO Comedy Fest at Caesar's Palace, Hallmark, Travel, HGTV and shows like Hell’s Kitchen, Pawn Stars, Ghost Adventures, Mindfreak, and House Hunters. He has appeared with David Copperfield, Lance Burton, and Teller of Penn & Teller on the History Channel and hosted documentaries on Steven Spielberg’s Poltergeist. In Vegas, he's headlined for casinos including the Orleans Casino and Planet Hollywood and served for seven years as house magician at the Venetian. The International Magicians Society awarded Draper the Merlin Award for World’s Best Corporate Performer. Draper performs Off-Broadway, at Yale, USC, Apple, YPO, the Magic Castle in Hollywood, and London's Magic Circle. Beyond his shows and lectures, Draper is frequently called upon as an expert in medical anthropology. With the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness, Draper studies Native American ghost dancers, South American cannibals, and spiritualists. Paul Draper returns January 23, 7:00 pm Seating is limited. Free tickets available at city hall. MentalMysteries.com HOLLADAY JOURNAL 2019 performance Seasoned Performer, Paul Draper returns home to do a FREE show Jan 17, 2019 12:20PM ● By Lindsey Baxter, Holladay Journal World renowned magician Paul Draper returns to his hometown to do free show Feb 21, 2019 12:02PM ● By Lindsey Baxter, Holladay Journal Paul Draper Mentalist Demo 2	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1434
__label__wiki	0.553561	0.553561	KPMG in the UK › ‘Fintech 100’ – Announcing the world’s leading... ‘Fintech 100’ – Announcing the world’s leading fintech innovators for 2015 ‘Fintech 100’ – Announcing the world’s leading... China fintech on the rise as ZhongAn tops listtop fintech companies closes 31 October; Overall fintech investment expected to jump 66% to over US$20bn in 2015. Also on home.kpmg China fintech on the rise as ZhongAn tops list Overall fintech investment expected to jump 66% to over US$20bn in 2015 UK’s Funding Circle and Atom Bank appear in 50 Established Innovators; and twelve UK startups pegged among 50 Emerging Stars Fintech Innovators, a collaboration between fintech investment firm, H2 Ventures and KPMG Fintech, today announced the world’s leading fintech innovators, publishing its Fintech 100 list. The Fintech 100 includes the leading 50 Establishedfintech companies across the globe, and the most intriguing 50 ‘Emerging Stars’– exciting new fintechs with bold, disruptive and potentially game-changingideas. These companies areusing technology to the best advantage, driving disruption within the financialservices industry, as well as enabling incumbent financial institutions tocapitalise on new technology - to deliver an enhanced customer experience,launch new products and services to generate growth, allow them to better manage risks and to improve their operating efficiency. Featuring on the 50 Established Innovators list are UKpeer-to-peer lending platform Funding Circle (5th position), new digital Atom Bank (8th), iZettle (27th) a mobile payments company, eToro (34), a trading marketplace, Nutmeg (42), the online investmentservice and TransferWise (46) a peer-to-peer money transfer service. 12 fintech startups from the UK’s fast growing fintecheco-system feature on the 50 Emerging Stars list the most of any country. The full list is Bankable, Ebury, Elliptic,GoCardless, GoHenry, Osper, Property Partner, Revolut, Salary Finance,SyndicateRoom, The Currency Cloud and Yoyo Wallet. The rise of Chinese fintechs is a standout this year,with Shanghai-based ZhongAn taking the top spot in the 50 EstablishedInnovators list, and Qufengi fourth. Last year WeCash was the onlyrepresentative from China to appear on the list. This year there are sevenChinese companies in the Fintech 100, reflecting increased venture capitallevels and interest in China’s fintech sector. The UKhas six firms in total in the Established List. Globally, fintech financing has jumped six-fold over the past three years with over US$20 billion estimated to be reached in 2015, a 66% increase on 2014 (US$12 billion). TheFintech 100 includes 40 companies from The Americas (40%), 20 companies from the EMEA 20%), 18 companies from the UK (18%), 22 companies from Asia-Pacific region 22%), including 10 from Australia and NZ (10%). Warren Mead, Global co-lead of KPMG’s Fintech practice added: “The UK is clearly a leading centre for fintech but with the rise of Chinese firms that position is not guaranteed. The good news is the UK is currently home to more emerging fintech companies on the list than anywhere else. In a fast moving sector, it will be interesting to track how many breakout over the next 12 months. “The speed and energy with which fintech innovation is impacting financial services is gathering global momentum on many measures. This year’s reportunderscores the international nature of fintech, with the broad geographicdiversity of the fintech companies featured. It is the Fintech 100 companiesthat are pushing the frontier of new products, services, technology andbusiness models in financial services. Those within the financial servicessector who ignore the innovations of the Fintech 100 cohort do so at their peril.” Toby Heap, H2 Ventures, commented: “In an industry that will soon be irrevocably changed by the disruptive effect of innovation, the companies doing fintech best are those most likely to succeed. Already, some of the world’s major financial centres are equally becoming known as centres for fintech innovation: London and New York, and more recently Sydney. “This year’s Fintech 100 highlights the truly global nature of fintech innovation,with startups from 20 countries on the list. Many of these companies have an X-factor that has captured our attention – exciting new fintechs with bold,disruptive and potentially game-changing ideas.” Key highlights from the Fintech 100 report include: 1. Funding boom – The Fintech 100 companies have collectively raised in excess of US$10 billion. 2.Fintech is now truly a global sector – The list is comprised of 40 US companies, 20 from EMEA, 18 from the UK and 22 from ASPAC. 3. China fintech leads the world – Zhong An, a Chinese company, tops this year’s list, and there are 7 Chinese fintech companies on the list. 4. Australia is punching above its weight – Australia’s Society One and Prospa appear in the top 50 Established fintechs; and there are seven Australian companies in the Emerging Stars list. 5. Payments is most at risk of disruption - Fintech growth in payments, currencies and transactions sees this segment now representing 25% of the Fintech 100, a substantial uplift on last year. 6. Insurance finds its fintech footing - The top two companies on the list are insurance fintechs (with 7 overall, compared to none last year). 7. Shift from disruptors to enablers – There are 25 ‘enablers’ (i.e. service providers to financial institutions) on the list this year, compared to 7 last year. The Top 10 companies in the Fintech 100 for 2015 are: 1. ZhongAn (China) 2. Oscar (USA) 3. Wealthfront (USA) 4. Qufenqi (China) 5. Funding Circle (UK) 6. Kreditech (Germany) 7. Avant (USA) 8. Atom Bank (UK) 9. Klarna (Sweden) 10. OurCrowd (Israel) Emerging stars list This year ten fintech companies from the emerging list will be invited to attend a KPMG & Matchi Fintech Summit in London on February 10-11th to pitch their ideas to some of the world’s leading financial institutions, venture capital funds and investors. They will also receive professional services support from KPMG, plus membership and discounted deal-success rates with Matchi, the online fintech match-making platform. The ten companies will be announced in advance of the Summit. The ‘Fintech 100’ was selected following extensive global research and analysis based on data relating to five factors: 1. Total capital raised 2. Rate of capital raising 3. Geographic & sector diversity 4. Consumer & marketplace traction 5. X-factor: degree of product, service and business model innovation (a subjective measure that is applied only with respect to companies appearing on the 50 Emerging Stars list) The full report can be found at www.fintechinnovators.com About Fintech Innovators Fintech Innovators was formed by H2 Ventures, in collaboration with KPMG, and publishes information on the world’s most successful, exciting and high impact new companies reshaping the financial services industry using new technologies. About H2 Ventures H2 Ventures is one of the emerging thought leaders in fintech venture capital investment around the world. Founded by brothers Ben and Toby Heap, and based in Sydney, Australia, it invests alongside entrepreneurs and other investors in early stage fintech ventures. H2 Ventures is the manager of the H2 Accelerator - Australia's only dedicated fintech accelerator - and operates out of Sydney's dynamic new fintech hub, Stone & Chalk. About KPMG’s Global Fintech Practice KPMG’s Financial Services practice has launched the global fintech practice in order to leverage international investment activity and capability development in fintech across KPMG member firms. Warren Mead and Ian Pollari, partners with KPMG in the UK and KPMG in Australia respectively, have been appointed as global co-leads of the practice, along with a leadership team including partners from countries including the U.S., U.K., Israel, China & Hong Kong, India and Australia. Erfan Hussain, Interim Head of Press Office M: + 44 (0)7768 043447 E: Erfan.hussain@kpmg.co.uk Follow us on twitter: @kpmguk KPMG Press Office: +44 (0)207 694 8773 From the Fintech 100 report include: Funding boom – The Fintech 100 companies have collectively raised in excess of US$10 billion. Fintech is now truly a global sector – The list is comprised of 40 US companies, 20 from EMEA, 18 from the UK and 22 from ASPAC. China fintech leads the world – Zhong An, a Chinese company, tops this year’s list, and there are 7 Chinese fintech companies on the list. Australia is punching above its weight – Australia’s Society One and Prospa appear in the top 50 Established fintechs; and there are seven Australian companies in the Emerging Stars list. Payments is most at risk of disruption – Fintech growth in payments, currencies and transactions sees this segment now representing 25% of the Fintech 100, a substantial uplift on last year. Insurance finds its fintech footing – The top two companies on the list are insurance fintechs (with 7 overall, compared to none last year). Shift from disruptors to enablers – There are 25 ‘enablers’ (i.e. service providers to financial institutions) on the list this year, compared to 7 last year. ZhongAn (China) Oscar (USA) Wealthfront (USA) Qufenqi (China) Funding Circle (UK) Kreditech (Germany) Avant (USA) Atom Bank (UK) Klarna (Sweden) OurCrowd (Israel) This year ten fintech companies from the emerging list will be invited to attend a KPMG International & Matchi Fintech Summit in London on February 10-11th to pitch their ideas to some of the world’s leading financial institutions, venture capital funds and investors. They will also receive professional services support from KPMG firms, plus membership and discounted deal-success rates with Matchi, the online fintech match-making platform. The ‘Fintech 100’ was selected following extensive global research and analysis based on data relating to five factors: Total capital raised Rate of capital raising Geographic & sector diversity Consumer & marketplace traction X-factor: degree of product, service and business model innovation (a subjective measure that is applied only with respect to companies appearing on the 50 Emerging Stars list). The full report can be found at www.fintechinnovators.com. Fintech Innovators was formed by H2 Ventures, in collaboration with KPMG International’s global fintech practice, and publishes information on the world’s most successful, exciting and high impact new companies reshaping the financial services industry using new technologies. H2 Ventures is one of the emerging thought leaders in fintech venture capital investment around the world. 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__label__cc	0.604145	0.395855	Stories Contribute Travel Deals About Downloat the free Hornet App Follow Hornet This Nervous Mom’s Letter to the Cast of ‘Kinky Boots’ Will Make You Smile and Cry Written by Alexander Kacala on January 31, 2018 Be first to like this. One of our favorite musicals currently on Broadway is Kinky Boots. Its story of love and acceptance is a much-needed narrative right now that’s making an impact offstage too. One mom, for example, didn’t know too much about the musical other than it’s all about drag queens, but she took her 10-year-old daughter to see it anyway. She left so moved by the show that she wrote a letter to the cast, and orchestrator Stephen Oremus (who won a Tony Award for his work) posted it on his Instagram account. In the letter, the mom explained that she tried a website that suggests Broadway shows at random, and when the site told her to see Kinky Boots, she was quite anxious about the choice. RELATED \| Cyndi Lauper Releases Reimagined, Emotional Track From ‘Kinky Boots’ She begins her letter telling the cast, “The entire bus ride into the city I was thinking, ‘Would this be appropriate? Am I making a mistake? The show is about drag queens. How am I going to explain this to my daughter?'” As she quickly found out, the show is quite suitable — and needed — for audiences of all ages. “For the next few hours my child was mesmerized,” the mother wrote. “As the cast sang the final number, I had tears streaming down my face. Not only was this an appropriate show for my daughter, it was the best show for my daughter to see.” “In a world where kids are bullied every day, the message of your show is to celebrate what makes us different and unique. I cannot imagine a better message to send to my daughter than one of acceptance and tolerance.” “(Yes, I did have to answer a number of questions on the bus ride home — much to the chagrin of the elderly woman sitting across from us — but it was totally worth it.)” No, we’re not crying right now — you’re crying right now. Read the entire letter to the Kinky Boots cast: This letter is so beautiful and a powerful reminder of the power of theatre. @kinkybootsbway- Raising You Up since 2013. ❤️ A post shared by Stephen Oremus (@steoremus) on Jan 26, 2018 at 8:38pm PST Broadway drag queens musicals Read more stories by just signing up or Download the App to read the latest stories Sign Up For More Stories Get to read unlimited stories for free when you sign up	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1440
__label__wiki	0.732996	0.732996	Archives for posts with tag: obscene For a Good Time, Call . . . *** Two New York Jewesses (Lauren Miller and Ari Graynor) start their own phone sex service in this lightweight but basically enjoyable chick flick. The film is plenty nasty, but in a matter-of-fact way that may leave male viewers wanting something harder-edged and rowdier, as at heart this is a film about female friendship and sisterhood. Miller and Graynor are fine in the leads, as is high-energy Justin Long as the obligatory stereotypical gay guy friend. Viewers may wish, however, that the grubby cameos by Seth Rogen and Kevin Smith had been expanded into full-fledged supporting roles, as the movie verges dangerously on an estrogen overdose. Ideological Content Analysis indicates that For a Good Time, Call . . . is: 7. Multiculturalist/pro-miscegenation. New York City appears as an orderly multiracial metropolis. Admiring references are made to a “Peruvian boy” and “hot Asian guys.” Dark-colored dildos (one named Earl) make more than one appearance. 6. Pro-drug. Katie (Graynor) and Lauren (Miller) both smoke marijuana. While hard drinking results in foolish behavior, vomiting, and increased risk of rape (which receives somewhat irreverent mention), more responsible imbibing carries no consequences. 5. Anti-Christian. Krissy (Sugar Lyn Beard), a promising phone sex hiree, turns out to be an undercover Christian missionary who tries to shame the callers into repentance. “We’re Jews,” Katie proclaims defiantly as she and Lauren give Krissy her walking papers. Jesse and Katie, both living it up at a debauched college party, are revealed to have met in a religious studies class. 4. Anti-family. “It’s not so bad being alone.” Lauren’s parents keep her finances under surveillance, and Katie speaks dismissively of their controlling anal retention: “Your rich parents from Long Island, they cut your sandwich into cute little four squares until you went to prep school.” Katie, after first expressing a sentimental wish to retain her grandmother’s furnishings in their apartment, later decides, “Fuck Grandma. Can I get us that new couch?” A jailed dyke complains of phone sex being “more depressing than the macaroni necklace my kid sends me.” 3. Pro-gay/pro-castration, extolling the sensitive, effeminized man, particularly in the characters of wimpy phone sex aficionado Sean (Mark Webber) and homosexual Jesse (Justin Long), who proves that a girl’s best friend is the man who never wants to have sex with her – something, in short, like an unusually well-behaved dog. 2. Capitalist/corporate. “You ladies are living some fucked-up version of the American Dream.” For a Good Time, Call . . . thus celebrates the entrepreneurial spirit. That it characterizes business as whoring might be construed as a criticism if not for the fact that this film champions the slut ideal. In a crude instance of product placement, Jesse compliments Lauren by telling her, “You’re like a Subway gift card.” The integrity of meritocracy is dealt a blow, however, when a job opening is said to have been filled through nepotism. 1.Feminist/pro-slut. Roach spray works in place of Mace, the implication being that men are predatory, noxious insects. One reference is made to venereal disease, but women mostly discuss their anatomy without an ounce of shame. “I’m a slut,” Lauren reflects after her first phone sex. “Is it okay I’m a slut?” “Yeah,” Katie approves, “a slut that made $800 in one night.” Sexual inexperience is a source of shame for Katie, whom Lauren insults as an “insecure virgin”. Also, “We should probably, like, have sex before we live together.” Ironically, however, the film also illustrates the destructive outcomes of feminism in its portrait of a generation of disenfranchised men who, owing to the personally scabrous, unfeminine, and biologically contaminated nature of the women around them, prefer the safety of sanitary remote stimulation to physical interaction with them. Tags alcohol, American dream, analysis, anti-Christian, anti-family, Ari Graynor, capitalism, capitalist, chick flick, Christianity, cinema, comedy, critique, depravity, dildo, dirty, drugs, entrepreneur, female bonding, feminism, feminist, film, For a Good Time Call . . ., gay, grandmother, Jew, Jewish, Jewry, Jews, Judaism, Justin Long, Kevin Smith, Lauren Miller, lesbian, lesbianism, Mark Webber, materialism, meritocracy, miscegenation, movies, multiculturalism, multiculturalist, nasty, New York, obscene, obscenity, perversion, pervert, phone sex, pro-castration, pro-drug, pro-gay, pro-miscegenation, product placement, prostiution, rape, raunchy, review, roommate, Seth Rogen, sex, sex comedy, slut, Subway, Sugar Lyn Beard, virgin, virginity, wimp	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1447
__label__cc	0.724255	0.275745	Home » ICT4D Blog » rafael_sanchez_guerra Other tags: carlos_jesus_olivan, dgpcgencat, jid2019, josep_armengol, laura_sune, rafael_sanchez_guerra Regional planning and citizen participation Chairs: Laura Suñé. Sub-directora general de Participació Ciutadana de la Generalitat de Catalunya Regional planning guidelines in Euskadi Rafael Sanchez Guerra. Tècnic del Govern Basc When one mainstreams citizen participation in policy-making (e.g. regional planning), participation is not something that is added somewhere in the project, but that is taken into account in all key points during the deployment of the project. Sometimes as a one time thing (e.g. a participatory processes), sometimes as a structural thing (e.g. advisory councils). Doing participation processes during the design of a political instrument may seem as it slows down things, but in reality it provides useful information and legitimacy that, afterwards, is less conflict, better instruments and, thus, policies that run smoother and faster. It is important to disclose all processes, to adapt language and concepts to the different target groups that one is addressing, be sure that everyone understands each other, have flexibility to adapt to different timings. Master regional plana of the Generalitat de Catalunya Josep Armengol. Sub-director general d’Acció Territorial i de l’Hàbitat Urbà de la Generalitat de Catalunya Trust between different actors — especially between the Administration and the citizens — is a must. There is no way things will work in the future (or in the present) without increasing levels of trust. Indeed, oftentimes participation is not as much about policy-making but as trust-building. Initially, master plans in regional planning were regulated by the law. Thus, departments used to follow the regulation strictly, and implement participation processes where the law had put them. But it did not work. Citizen platforms would appear regardless of the regulated spaces for citizen participation. One also would doubt about whether citizen organizations were really democratic themselves, whether they represented many people or none, etc. Honest, flexible, ad-hoc participation processes came to improve this two-ways lack of trust. Participation has been rich in their contributions, in reducing conflict, in being able to tell who wants to build for the common good and who wants to destroy and who wants to make the public good work for one’s own private interest. Participation is now introduced at the very beginning of the process. It is not an information session, but a diagnosis and design session. Participation is open where decision-making is still open: it is crucial to match expectations with reality. Mapping actors correctly is also very important to gather all the different realities and views upon a given topic. Regional planning strategy in Aragón (EOTA) Carlos Jesús Oliván. Cap de Servei de Participació del Govern d’Aragó LAAAB methodology, based on an open and collaborative design of public policies, as in a lab. Using design thinking during the design of policies and also of participatory processes. For the regional planning strategy, participation sessions were turned into workshops, where real proposals had to be designed, not just stated. Besides, “real people” endorse or sponsor all proposals, so that one can come back to them for more details, etc. The return phase is crucial, and one has to clearly explain what proposals were accepted and put into practice, and which ones were not, and why. Participation processes are about building trust. Sometimes they may not be very productive in terms of content, but they are productive in terms of building citizenship.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1451
__label__cc	0.712806	0.287194	July 31, 2019 HIGH PITCHED FREQUENCY KEY D SHARP SACRAL & SOLAR PLEXUS CHAKRAS By In5D on July 31, 2019 in Energy Updates with 0 Comments by Gregg Prescott, M.S. Founder, Webmaster, & Editor, In5D.com Today’s High Pitched Frequencies D Sharp: (Also called D#, E Flat Major, or E♭ Major, the cusp of D and E) D= Sacral, “I feel”, Venus, sensuality, tenderness, spontaneity and E= Solar Plexus, “I do”, the Sun, confidence, optimism.) The key of love, of devotion, of intimate conversation with God (Creator/Source). You can find the D Sharp at the 6:00 minute marker of the video below: KEEP LISTENING TO YOUR GUT! For the 3rd day in a row and for the 6th time in the past 8 days, today’s high pitched frequency (HPF) is in the key of D Sharp (D#), which is a “cusp” frequency that is one half step above a D Major (sacral chakra, “I FEEL”) and one half step below the E Major (solar plexus, “I DO”). This is not surprising and makes perfect sense with the incoming solar energies! The “key of love” is coming in to heal with its “Goddess of Love” energies combined with the Sun’s healing light in order to transmute ALL chakras with this specific high pitched frequency. “I feel” and “I do” are the mantras of these two cusping frequencies which interact between the solar plexus and sacral chakras. If you get a “gut feeling” about something today, then chances are, it’s spot on as your physiological reaction may be trying to tell you something. While the sacral chakra is associated with water, the solar plexus is associated with fire. There is a playful dance between these two chakras as the sacral chakra relates to our desires, emotions, sensuality, sexuality, and pleasure while the solar plexus relates to emotions, establishing healthy boundaries, and experiencing pleasure. As you can see, a delicate balance is needed between these two as it would be relatively easy to overindulge, which would either take your chakras out of alignment or possible block one or both. The following is Chopin’s Grande Valse Brillante Op. 18 E♭ Major (D Sharp): TRIVIA: Felix Mendelssohn, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, John Field, and Friedrich Kalkbrenner each wrote one piano concerto in A-flat (Mendelssohn’s being for two pianos); they had the horns and trumpet tuned to E-flat (D Sharp). wiki Always look at these high pitched frequencies from every perspective because there’s a specific reason why we’re receiving them, which side (if any) is more predominant, the particular key they’re in, which chakra and/or planet is being represented, etc… In other words, it’s much more than just a noise inside your head! As always, these high pitched frequencies are also working on higher, etheric levels, giving you the galactic downloads you need at this particular time. You don’t necessarily need to physically hear them to know what they’re doing. We’re ALL receiving benefits from these high pitched frequencies whether you hear them or not! What is a high pitched frequency? Every day, people are hearing high pitched frequencies that are not associated with tinnitus or a Vitamin D deficiency. Until recently, many of us were not sure what they exactly meant. As a musician, I can easily find the octave of the frequencies I hear on my guitar. Every note has its own unique frequency. Royal Rife knew this and built a machine that would use frequencies to address terminal illnesses. These high pitched frequencies that we’re all hearing boil down to energy vibration. How to personally read these frequencies Chances are, these frequencies are helping to transmute both past life and present situations and traumas. They are also showing us how the collective is picking up empathic stress from global situations that subconsciously affect the collective psyche. You can also look into how these frequencies are affecting you by noticing which ear you’re predominantly hearing these frequencies. Most of the time, it’s not a predominant ear, but sometimes, is distinctively louder! In QHHT, the left side represents your past while the right side is the present. You can also look at it from a different perspective: the left side is the Divine Feminine while the right side is the Divine Masculine. These high pitched frequencies carry information on a multidimensional level and while these frequencies are helping the collective, they are also helping the individuals who seek further meaning into why they’re hearing these specific frequencies RIGHT NOW! More than ever, it’s important to STAY GROUNDED, especially through times of despair. Beyond 3D There’s a specific reason WHY we’re hearing the high pitched frequencies that we’re hearing. They all contain messages within messages (the root note and the notes that comprise the chord) and each has a corresponding chakra energy center associated with it. On a higher level, our guides are giving us messages through these frequencies, but we need to be able to decipher what each sound is and how these high pitched frequencies play into our daily lives. I’ve also been looking at the Hermetic meanings of each chakra. You can use this chart as a reference: Past life or present life transmutations? When you’re hearing high pitched frequencies, take note of which side of your head that these frequencies are predominantly louder. In QHHT, the left side of your body represents your past life and your right side is your current life. You may be hearing a louder high pitched frequency in your left ear and are transmuting some past life trauma. OR, you may be hearing louder high pitched frequencies in your right ear and are working on current life issues. Divine messages You can also look at the left and right hand side of your body as either the Divine Feminine (left side) and the Divine Masculine (right side). You may be receiving messages from an angel or archangel when you hear a predominant high pitched frequency sound in either ear. It could also represent either a masculine or feminine energy that is in your past or present life. Encoded messages Here is an example of the frequencies that I’m charting: For three days in a row, the key of D was the predominant high pitched frequency. According to the above chart: D Major: The key of triumph, of Hallelujahs, of war-cries, of victory-rejoicing. Thus, the inviting symphonies, the marches, holiday songs and heaven-rejoicing choruses are set in this key. The interpretation of this and how it applies to us right now can be viewed as overcoming a lot of strife, not only here in our 3rd dimensional reality but also in the aethers. As above, so below. For more on this topic along with the specific meaning of each key, please read High Pitched Frequencies And What They Mean. Please note: Our Facebook views have been severely throttled. Please subscribe to In5D to receive either our daily our weekly emails so you don’t miss a thing! Sending you all infinite LOVE and Light! Click here for more articles by Gregg Prescott! Gregg Prescott, M.S. is the founder and editor of In5D, Zentasia, and BodyMindSoulSpirit. You can find his In5D Radio shows on the In5D Youtube channel. He is a visionary, author, a transformational speaker, and promotes spiritual, metaphysical and esoteric conferences in the United States through In5dEvents. His love and faith for humanity motivates him to work in humanity’s best interests 12-15+ hours a day, 365 days a year. Please like and follow In5D on Facebook and Twitter! Tags: 2019 HIGH PITCHED FREQUENCY KEY D SHARP SACRAL & SOLAR PLEXUS CHAKRAS, July 31	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1466
__label__wiki	0.822681	0.822681	McKinsey's catastrophic part in the CBA – Bankwest takedown By Evan Jones \| 14 July 2018, 1:00pm \| comments Like the Commonwealth Bank, McKinsey & Co have a lot to answer for, but won't be getting asked any questions at the Royal Commission (Image supplied) The McKinsey firm appears to develop academic theories for banks to use in clinical trials on their customers. Dr Evan Jones reports. McKinsey is a household word that has acquired generic status for its product — like Hoover and Panadol. Here is a super-self-confident firm that implies super competence. Your firm is in the doldrums? Whatever its industry, we go in, transform its character and put it on the rails to a glorious future. Such is its self-confidence, McKinsey openly publicises its wares in its bulletins and articles on the web. Thus, in the Autumn 2009 issue of its Quarterly, there are two articles of interest — ‘Understanding the bad bank’ and ‘The hunt for banking capital’. McKinsey and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia These articles are of interest because of their chronological and substantive proximity to the explosive event surrounding the Commonwealth Bank (CBA) takeover of Bankwest in December 2008 — the subsequent CBA foreclosure of around 900 Bankwest commercial property borrowers. Then CBA Chief Counsel David Cohen claims that the CBA belatedly discovered, after their hasty purchase, that these loans were all underwater — thanks to lousy Bankwest procedures exposed by the GFC. Foreclosed Bankwest borrowers who have gone public deny the claim — with supportive evidence. Lacking disclosure by the CBA, Bankwest victims have had to speculate on the CBA’s modus operandi. The Banking Royal Commission, supposed to get to the bottom of things, has so far declined to do so. McKinsey offers us two plausible possibilities. First, separate out the bad parts of the portfolio into a “bad bank” — whether held internally or externally. McKinsey had especially in mind the toxic derivatives packages manufactured and acquired in massive quantities by its major Trans-Atlantic banking clientele, but it included purported troubled business customers in the mix. Claims the McKinsey “bad bank” article: 'Into the bad pile go the illiquid and risky securities that are the bane of the banking system, along with other troubled assets such as nonperforming loans. For good measure, the bank can toss in non-strategic assets from businesses it wants to exit, or assets it simply no longer wants to own as it seeks to lessen risk and deleverage the balance sheet.' Understanding the bad bank \| McKinsey & Company https://t.co/uzRRV0r3tA — Suyash Sengar (@suyash_sengar) February 11, 2017 Second (a possibility already raised by Bankwest victims), rationalise your capital needs to increase the bank’s capital adequacy ratios. The object was to keep the investors and ratings agencies happy, rather than having them desert you. The CBA's Bankwest borrower takedown can be interpreted via both of these scenarios. First, the CBA created a “bad bank” of commercial property loans but its separation took the form of ready dismantling of this loan book. The process was labeled Project Magellan and it was built on fraud. The CBAs involvement in Storm Financial was also added to the “bad bank”. Second, the bank increased its capital to risk-weighted assets ratio by diminishing the denominator in the equation — that of the risk-weighted assets. Were senior CBA executives apprised of the latest McKinsey fashions? Better still, they brought them in-house in the person of Ian Narev. Narev joined McKinsey in 1998, after a stellar achievement at university and working in corporate law, specialising in mergers and acquisitions. The CBA website noted: 'He joined McKinsey New York as a consultant in the firm’s financial institutions practice working in strategy and organizational change engagements for four of the United States’ ten largest financial institutions.' Narev was hired by CBA from McKinsey New Zealand Asia in May 2007. He had never worked in a bank but was claimed to be an expert in 'strategy and organizational change engagements'. Narev spent the next 18 months as “Group Head of Strategy”, from which position he oversaw the takeover of Bankwest. After the takeover, Narev became head of “Group Executive, Business and Private Banking”. Narev became CBA CEO in December 2011 after the retirement of Ralph Norris. Is it not highly probable that Narev and his underlings (including Jon Sutton, installed at Bankwest) applied, seemingly uncritically, the ideas then fashionable at his old consulting hothouse? Failed $CBA #CEO & #mckinsey consultant Ian Narev bangs on about trust. Despite the fact nobody believes him. #corpgov #auspol #notrust pic.twitter.com/p6CuCNzmZN — Rogue (@isCommBankRogue) September 1, 2017 McKinsey’s spotty record McKinsey acquired a less than favourable reputation when its close association was disclosed with the spectacular failure that was Enron. Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling was himself ex-McKinsey. In 2002, the New Yorker’s Malcolm Gladwell penned a long exposé of Enron’s McKinsey-led indulgence of the “talented” individual. Enron followed McKinsey’s pressure to “hire and reward the smartest people”, which turned out to be mostly people straight out of prestigious business schools. However (Gladwell): '… the link between, say, I.Q. and job performance is distinctly underwhelming.… What I.Q. doesn't pick up is effectiveness at common-sense sorts of things, especially working with people …' Which would include working productively, not merely with fellow employees, but with clients, not least business borrowers. Gladwell cites psychologists to the effect that for organisations to function properly requires an intangible understanding simply labeled “tacit knowledge”. McKinsey’s grand transformations are some distance from the subtle implications for organisational coherence, integrity and effectiveness of tacit knowledge. An article on McKinsey in Business Week in July 2002, ‘Inside McKinsey’ (behind a paywall since taken over by Bloomberg), noted: '… many of the intellectual underpinnings of Enron's transformation from pipeline company [utility] to trading colossus [qualitatively distinct financial corporation] can be traced directly to McKinsey thinking.' That article also cites a partner at another consulting firm (here’s the crux): "McKinsey seems to have partners who develop academic theories and then run clinical trials on their clients." .@McKinsey, #NHS dismantlers and self proclaimed 'thought leaders' were the architects of the notorious Enron scandle http://t.co/mlyxBxAZSN — Andrew Cooper (@AndrewzCooper) November 20, 2014 Enron wasn’t McKinsey’s only large scale failure. At that time, there was Swissair, Kmart, Global Crossing all filing for bankruptcy after implementing bad advice. Some McKinsey hotshots left the company to create their own startups during the dot-com boom and failed spectacularly. A review of a 2013 book on McKinsey by Duff McDonald appearing in the Sydney Morning Herald notes: 'It often goes unmentioned but McKinsey has indeed offered some of the worst advice in the annals of business. Enron? Check. Time Warner's merger with AOL? Check. General Motors' poor strategy against the Japanese auto makers? Check. It told AT&T in 1980 that it expected the market for mobile phones in the U.S. by 2000 would amount to only 900,000 subscribers. It turned out to be 109 million. The list goes on.' The McDonald reviewer also notes: 'You can’t get fired for hiring McKinsey & Co.' Or, indeed, for bringing them into the fold, as per Ian Narev. The CBA and McKinsey’s Narev Narev as CEO presided over a succession of scandals — not least those involving Commonwealth Financial Planning, Comminsure and large-scale money laundering. The adverse fall out for various categories of customers has been immense. When questioned in hearings or in the media, Narev was wooden, often with an absurd grin. He was either completely out of his depth or playing dumb. Yet this was a man feted in the media as leading the CBA successfully into a new age. A gushing editorial in the AFR in June 2012 has it that: 'Mr Narev's life experiences [marked by family tragedies] have clearly helped mould his character. Former CBA chairman John Schubert noted that what impressed him most when the New Zealand-born Mr Narev first joined the bank was the combination of his intelligence and his ability to empathise and care about people.' As for empathy and care, there is no evidence whatsoever — on the contrary. Narev was forced out of CBA in April 2018. Ultimately, he has been a scapegoat for collective responsibility for successive crimes. With respect to the Bankwest customer takedown, Ralph Norris as CEO until late 2011 is the man formally responsible. Yet this vastly over-paid and over-rated man has been allowed to disappear from view in the questioning of the Storm Financial fiasco and the large scale foreclosure process. Corporate Criminal CBA CEO Ian Narev & the Bankwest three #CSR David Cohen & Ralph Norris. Bankest fraud =$8 billion pic.twitter.com/afoTj9ZDjh — Rogue (@isCommBankRogue) August 30, 2015 McKinsey opens its bank account with the NAB It turns out that McKinsey has been a not uncommon port of call for Australian bank management seeking to give their company some new zest. McKinsey Australia was established in 1962 by Sir Roderick Carnegie (employed at McKinsey while completing his Harvard MBA). With the banks, the relationship begins as early as 1967 when the NAB calls in McKinsey. In late 1968, the bank followed McKinsey’s recommendations to de-centralise operations. The position of regional manager was created to be a local source of dynamism and each branch was turned into a profit centre. The concept of a “delegated lending authority” was invented, whereby lending managers acquired discretion regarding their loan book up to a certain limit. If a DLA for a loan proposition was determined as within the most solid category – “Category A”, with an acceptable loan to valuation ratio – then it did not have to be submitted for evaluation by superiors. Some loan managers started to fudge the figures, in particular the value of customer assets, to bring the proposition into Category A and proceed without higher approval. Other deceptions could be practiced, such as the means by which guarantees were obtained. Regional managers became complicit in the rorts. Quantum limits of branch manager DLAs were increased during the 1970s and multiplied dramatically during the 1980s. Thus, the upper limit for branch manager discretion went from $10,000 in 1968 to $1 million in 1988. CEO Nobby Clark’s instruction to those on the front line was to get out there and “lend lend lend”. An important instance of where a branch manager exercised local discretion liberally led to the 1987 Nobile case against the NAB, where the court decided for the joint parental guarantors against the bank. Rather than being sacked, the manager was hidden from view in made-up positions to keep the lid on the bank’s dysfunctional procedures. The worst manifestation of this schema in operation is that of the fraud committed against Ned & Joy Somerset at NAB Toowoomba Branch Queensland in the mid-1980s. The branch manager, in several steps, arbitrarily increased the market value of a worthless strawberry farm from $210,000 in January 1984 to $575,000 in January 1985 to facilitate the farm’s sale to the hapless Somersets. The story is outlined comprehensively here. In this case, the NAB got away with the crime. In principle decentralised discretion and DLAs were good ideas, but contemporaneously the culture was being debased, facilitated by lending manager status and remuneration being linked to the manager’s loan book. Moreover, many lending managers did not have the skills to deal with the extravagant loan limits delegated to them by the late 1980s. The "tacit knowledge" factor was in abeyance. The system was belatedly revised in the early 1990s, with much greater central control established over local lending discretion. Nevertheless, by the late 1980s, the NAB had become addicted to corrupt practices. The bank claimed a reputation for ensuring credit quality, but its approach to “risk management” was to act as if (correctly) any losses through litigation by aggrieved customers would be sufficiently rare as to be of marginal significance for its unrepentant agenda. Sir Roderick Carnegie (Image via ABC The Business, 2 April 2013) Rod Carnegie was interviewed by the AFRs BOSS magazine in July 2000. Carnegie saw only successes. Thus for the NAB consultancy (not named), we hear: 'New practices that significantly improved the competitive performance and the profit level of all the branches were built into each of them.' Not quite. Even though McKinsey was involved with the NAB in the late 1980s, nobody was monitoring the parlous outcomes of the 1967 McKinsey initiatives that Carnegie was still celebrating decades later. During the 1980s, the ANZ was another guinea pig for McKinsey-inspired decentralisation, with then CEO Will Bailey convinced of its merits. With the rush of blood in intemperate lending during this period, Bailey had the occasion during the early 1990s recession to rue the loss of central control. McKinsey resurgent in bank land In the late 1980s, McKinsey also advised the NAB on jettisoning its stockbroking subsidiary AC Goode (successful) and on its errant Custom Credit finance subsidiary (unsaveable). In 1992, Westpac brought in McKinsey to save it from collapse. In 1993, newly hired Bob Joss continued with McKinsey in what looked like a re-run of McKinsey’s revamping of Joss’ old bank, Wells Fargo. McKinsey’s assistance in reconstructing Westpac appears to be the only clear cut case of a success for McKinsey in Australian bank land. In late 2001 the NAB, under the benighted Frank Cicutto, brought in McKinsey again. This time to oversee a major restructuring in dismantling structures that had been put in place by previous CEO Don Argus. McKinsey had helped Argus in his global ambitions, not least advising him on acquisitions in Michigan and Ireland. Now McKinsey was advising on how to fix up the mess that it had helped create. The change, under the rubric “positioning for growth”, was expected to result in a retrenchment of up to 5,000 full time staff. A key thrust was to be “a heavier focus on cross-selling of financial services”. Ah yes, a root cause of customer rip-offs down the track. Simultaneously, the NAB hired Mark Steyn, who had spent years at McKinsey lookalike Booz Allen Hamilton 'specialising in large-scale business transformation in the financial services sector'. More of the same. We also learn that Steyn had previously advised the NAB on the roll out of a new banking platform for the Clydesdale and Yorkshire UK subsidiaries. And what a comprehensive disaster that turned out to be. RGL Management has accused Clydesdale Bank & NAB of acting fraudulently & dishonestly in their selling of Tailored Business Loans (TBLs) to small businesses & individuals who have since suffered alleged collective financial losses of £1bn. Read more: https://t.co/DjfSKBkGez pic.twitter.com/KhLzJkaeqV — RGL Management (@RGL_Management) July 6, 2018 Cicutto thought that 9/11, the catastrophe occurring two months prior to the McKinsey-led initiative, would induce a global recession. He arbitrarily directed that the plug be pulled on loans to select sectors, with much pain for businesses therein. This mentality of management by whimsy was evidently conducive to having McKinsey turn the place upside down. As it turned out, the McKinsey endeavours resulted in a retrenchment quantum of 3,000 and (nominal) savings of $370 million per annum. But this clean lines stuff didn’t prevent Cicutto from hiring a bunch of rogue traders from CBA who proceeded to lose a comparable sum on crazy foreign exchange trading — trashing once again the NABs reputation. Goodbye Frank Cicutto and positioning for growth. Where was McKinsey when the going got tough? McKinsey also advised Westpac again in 2002, on “reducing bureaucracy and duplication”, resulting in the retrenchment of 200 middle managers. The CBA joins the McKinsey bandwagon In May 2003, the CBA hired McKinsey in an ongoing “benchmarking” exercise to cut costs and appeal to investors. In essence, CEO David Murray was cleansing the bank of its public ownership cobwebs, complementing the massive branch closure process of the previous decade. The ambition was to cut another 600 staff from the retail banking division, with $500 million in new savings. For the five financial years from 1998 to 2002, CBA had retrenched 6,200 staff, of a Big Four total for the period of 26,300. A Finance Sector Union spokesperson was not amused, claiming that no consultation had taken place, yet Murray had proselytised how much he valued staff and their input from “the front-end”. On the contrary, central command was driving the rationalisation. The purported orientation to “customer service” was all about flogging the package of financial products now created under the CBAs wing following the acquisition of Colonial Mutual in 2000. By late 2003, the CBA project was being known as “Which New Bank”. Ironically, a Macquarie Research Equities review claimed that all this slavish cost-cutting and retrenchment was evidently not attractive to investor sentiment — the latter was more attuned to revenue growth. Moreover, with massive branch closures and large scale staff retrenchment, how was the bank going to assertively cross-sell more products without depending more on third party brokers, which puts the customers at arm’s length? An interview with Ian Andrews of Commonwealth Bank of Australia \| McKinsey & Company https://t.co/VKeggy9QT9 #Banking — Nick M. \| ニック (@marxnd) July 19, 2016 The ANZ returns to the McKinsey fold The ANZ also called in McKinsey in mid-2003 — this time for another push for decentralisation. Decentralisation was anew to be the path to vigorous growth, linking staff rewards to staff satisfaction, customer service, etc. The insider motivation came from a former head of strategy, who just happened to be previously a McKinsey principal. But how were these objectives to be measured? We learn that, while the devolved units had considerable autonomy, it was dependent on their performance and that to be gauged by revenue gained. What happened to customer service and staff satisfaction? To repeat an outsider’s evaluation noted above: But where is the monitoring, feedback and adjustment of strategies according to experience? There is an ongoing disconnect between bank management rhetoric (all about customer service) and contrary outcomes. Certainly, there has been a profit bonanza for the Big Four, with net profit on equity consistently around 15 per cent on a growing revenue base. Even so, are these profits a product of McKinsey-driven rationalisation? By the mid-2000s bank senior management were thinking that perhaps the huge ongoing consultancy bill wasn’t worth the candle. Was its extraordinary growth a matter of fashion rather than hard-headed rationality, indeed common sense? Meanwhile, the customer casualties over these decades when the banks were calling in McKinsey and comparable consultants have been on a monumental scale. McKinsey et al have pushed transformational change, ensuring ongoing institutional churn. Yet malpractice against customers has become a constant. Who amongst all these drivers of transformational change is going to assume the mea culpa and take the rap? Oh look, crooked $CBA CEO Ian Narev's previous employer #mckinsey in corruption probe in SA. Root source of evil? https://t.co/D7OLFADo8K — Rogue (@isCommBankRogue) October 18, 2017 Dr Evan Jones is a retired political economist. How #McKinsey convinced #Enron they had to win the "War For Talent" but gave scant advice how to #implement pic.twitter.com/D3qfv3Dk21 — Jay Siegel (@JSiegel88) August 28, 2016 Get your facts right. Subscribe to IA. CRIME FINANCE McKinsey & Co McKinsey Dr Evan Jones Evan Jones Ian Narev CBA Commonwealth Bank NAB Ralph Norris David Cohen Recent articles by Dr Evan Jones Liberals lack of regional development has worsened the water crisis 9 November 2019, 3:30pm While Australia struggles with a national water crisis, the LNP struggles with the ... Fairfax, the Israel lobby and unchallenged propaganda 3 March 2019, 1:30pm Dr Evan Jones discusses the way Australian media frequently channels an unashamedly ... The neoliberalist downfall of energy and the NBN 21 December 2018, 11:00am Dr Evan Jones continues his examination of the effects of neoliberal economic ... view all 92 articles by Dr Evan Jones	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1467
__label__wiki	0.629241	0.629241	The death of science journalism in Australia By Noel Wauchope \| 24 July 2013, 7:18pm \| comments As the mainstream media struggles – particularly newspapers – the loss of journalists is a worrying trend; Noel Wauchope explains why she is most concerned about the loss of qualified science journalists. The respected David Marr survived the cuts at Fairfax. 1,900 others weren't so lucky. (Image courtesy theglobalmail.org) INVESTIGATIVE journalists would do well to investigate what is happening to science news writing in Australia. Australian media has never been an enthusiastic employer of scientifically informed journalists. They've been few and far between in the Australian press. Perhaps because their area of interest is not considered "sexy"? Within the last few months, there's been an exodus of journalists from the Australian media. Amongst the departures — science journalists. There is a resource, for journalists in general, called the Australian Science Media Centre (AuSMC). Sounds really good, doesn't it? But more about that later. Where does this leave science writing? I knew that quality science journalism in Australia was dwindling. It took the most recent pro-nuclear advertorial in the Fairfax media to really wake me up to this. John Watson, 'Senior writer' at Fairfax Media, wrote an article entitled, Want to kill fewer people? Go nuclear. To be fair to John Watson, his article is easily interpreted by the average reader.Readable, not believable. He starts off – rather unwisely – with the time honoured denigration of those who prefer anti-nuclear opinions: '...a pitchfork-waving mob who demand we have nothing to do with nuclear power, while relying on other energy sources that all kill more people.' The article is full of bald and incorrect generalisations: 'Nuclear power is the safest source of energy by a long way. Solar power causes five to 10 times as many deaths.' Watson misrepresents statements from the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation Panel (UNSCEAR), and the World Health Organisation (WHO). The Japanesed public has fallen out of love with nuclear power after the Fukushima disaster (Image courtesy EPA/KIMIMASA MAYAMA) UNSCEAR 's brief unofficial preliminary report has now been taken down from their website. Both these recent reports stated that there should be an expected rise in cancer amongst women who were exposed to Fukushima radiation as children. He minimises the problem of storing nuclear waste and sidesteps the core question of the economics of the nuclear fuel cycle. He implies that nuclear power is cheap,without exactly saying so. Why have The Age, Sydney Morning Herald and others sunk to this level of sloppy journalism? Apart from the obvious fact they don't want to offend their corporate backers, this kind of writing is symptomatic of what happens when you get rid of your qualified dedicated science journalists. Amongst the plethora of Fairfax journalists encouraged to depart their jobs were science editor Deborah Smith, health editor Julie Robotham, health correspondent Mark Metherell and environment reporter Rossyln Beeby. That's Fairfax. But what about the Murdoch media? The Murdoch media never had much of a problem in its coverage of science. The Australian blithely publishes science articles written by journalists who are clearly far from expert in the field of science. This has been documented by Tim Lambert with his article, The Australian's War on Science. In it he goes about scrutinising, in depth, writers such as Maurice Newman and Graham Lloyd. The Columbia Journalism Review describes the situation: There is growing evidence that the existence of SMCs is also encouraging news organizations to downgrade science reporters. Recently the newspaper The Australian sacked its science reporter, Leigh Dayton. The reason she was given by the editors was “they could rely on the supply of press releases from the Australian SMC so that their general reporters could write the science news”. [Ed: Leigh Dayton denies having said this and we are currently endeavouring to check with the author of the Columbia Journalism Review paper as to the veracity or otherwise of the above statement.] This brings me back to the Australian Science Media Centre. It seems like a good idea and it's a not-for-profit project. It does raise the question: is it wise to get rid of real science journalists and depend on a centralised body which may well undermine science journalism? A large empirical study was undertaken recently by Andy Williams of Cardiff University in the UK. It confirmed that science PR is increasing while independent science journalism is decreasing. The development of science media centres (SMCs) has been problematic as far as coverage of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The use of SMCs around the world has assisted the nuclear industry. It has seemingly got Tepco and others out of paying huge compensation to those impacted by the disaster. The independent scientist was squeezed out of the media long ago. These days, you are more likely to read work by pro-industry journalists that don't have a grip on the full impact of nuclear disasters. An article at nuclear-news.net provides a number of references revealing how experts from SMCs have downplayed the seriousness of the nuclear disaster. I note that the "experts" writing about ionising radiation and health were nuclear engineers — not radiation biologists. 'I just wanted to introduce you to this side of the science “debate” and how the science is corrupted and biased without independent scientists to keep a check and balance. I was surprised to see the Australian SMC coming out in strength to ignore the plight of the children of Fukushima and save the nuclear industry from a well deserved collapse.' I'm not alone when it comes to lamenting the reduction of science journalists in the Australian media. The subject's discussed eloquently by Melissa Sweet and Leigh Dayton at Crikey in a piece called: From the perfect job to an endangered species: the demise of science journalism and why it matters. Australia's Science Media Centre says it is dedicated to: '...helping scientists work effectively with the news media'. Yes, it's a not-for-profit funded by various reputable organisations. They include the CSIRO, the South Australian, New South Wales, and Victoria Governments, Australia Pacific LNG, News Limited, BHP Billiton and a number of universities. I repeat, it does sound good. Yet how do general journalists scrutinise and distinguish between what is an independent science story and what is a pro business story? How easy might it be for general journalists to be discouraged from covering certain topics? In Australia, many industries already release media statements that are easily included in an article by a general journalist. If the subject is complex – the health effects of Fukushima radiation – it is all too easy to go to the science media centre and get a comforting article from a nuclear engineer. Just as has happened in Japan and the UK. MEDIA SCIENCE Andy Williams anti-nuclear Australia Pacific LNG Australian Science Media Centre BHP Billiton Crikey Deborah Smith Fairfax Media Fukushima disaster Graham Lloyd Recent articles by MatthewDonovan Transporting nuclear wastes across Australia in the age of bushfires 8 January 2020, 3:30pm Considering Australia's current bushfire crisis, Noel Wauchope questions the logic ... Australia is the great 'white' hope for the global nuclear industry 19 November 2019, 11:00am The global nuclear industry is in crisis but that doesn't stop the pro-nuclear ... Seven reasons why small modular nuclear reactors are a bad idea for Australia 17 August 2019, 12:00pm There are several reasons why it would be a bad idea for Australia to jump aboard ... view all 56 articles by MatthewDonovan	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1468
__label__wiki	0.807888	0.807888	Raid box office collection day 4: Ajay Devgn film earns Rs 47.27 crore Raid box office collection day 4: Starring Ajay Devgn, Ileana D'Cruz, and Saurabh Shukla, Raid has minted Rs 47.27 crore at the box office. Its success is another proof that Indian audiences are hungry for issue-based movies. By: Express Web Desk \| New Delhi \| Updated: March 20, 2018 1:05:45 pm Raid box office collection day 4: Ajay Devgn film maintains strong hold at the box office. Ajay Devgn’s latest film Raid has had a superb opening weekend. It earned Rs 41.01 crore, becoming the second highest opening film at the box office this year after Padmaavat. Now, the Saurabh Shukla starrer has started its weekday test but it seems the film has nothing to worry about. According to trade analyst Taran Adarsh, the film has maintained a strong hold at the box office despite Monday being a weekday and working day. The film managed to earn Rs 6.26 crore on Monday, taking the total collection to Rs 47.27 crore. Taran Adarsh wrote, “#Raid is SUPER-STRONG on Mon… An indicator that the film will sustain very well on weekdays… Current trending suggests ₹ 64 cr [+/-] Week 1, which is EXCELLENT for a non-masala film… Fri 10.04 cr, Sat 13.86 cr, Sun 17.11 cr, Mon 6.26 cr. Total: ₹ 47.27 cr. India biz.” Raid’s success is another proof that Indian audiences are hungry for issue-based movies and it is not just masala films that taste success. Starring Ileana D’Cruz and Saurabh Shukla apart from Ajay, Raid is based on an honest officer working in the Income Tax Department. The film dramatises the real-life events of the 1980s and it seems the people are loving the stern, hard-working Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer Amay Patnaik played by Ajay Devgn. Indian Express film critic Shubhra Gupta wrote, “Raid had potential, but it comes off overlong and tepid. And where is the city of Lucknow? What we get is same-old flashes of historic buildings in all their crumbling glory, as a backdrop to drab songs, but no sign of the vibrant, living culture of the place this film is supposedly set in.” #Raid is SUPER-STRONG on Mon… An indicator that the film will sustain very well on weekdays… Current trending suggests ₹ 64 cr [+/-] Week 1, which is EXCELLENT for a non-masala film… Fri 10.04 cr, Sat 13.86 cr, Sun 17.11 cr, Mon 6.26 cr. Total: ₹ 47.27 cr. India biz. — taran adarsh (@taran_adarsh) March 20, 2018 It is clear that Raj Kumar Gupta, who debuted with critically-acclaimed Aamir in 2008, has not lost his touch, and he still has the ability to handle sensitive subjects in a deft manner.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1469
__label__cc	0.505227	0.494773	Indie Mac User A blog for Geeks, ran by Geeks !!! Podcasts & Events 50 Years Legal (2017): DVD Review Posted on April 5, 2018 April 7, 2018 by indiemacuser Directed and written by Simon Napier-Bell, created to coincide with the 50 anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality, this is an engaging but informative journey through LGBT history in UK since 1967 and how changes in politics and social attitudes, for better or worse, have evolved over the subsequent decades. Originally aired on SKY TV last year this insightful documentary is being released on DVD & VOD on 19th May 2018 by Pecadillo Pictures. The documentary features interviews with a veritable who’s who of leading LGBT activists and cultural commentators from across the generations, discussing topics such as homophobia, acceptance, diversity and gender identity. There are personal accounts from actors such as Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Derek Jacobi, singers such Sir Elton John, Marc Almond (Soft Cell), and Olly Alexander (Years & Years), and comedians such as Matt Lucas and Zoe Lyons. Transgender activists such as Jake Graf and Paris Lees offer honest reflection alongside journalists such as Matthew Todd and Matthew Parris and politicians such as Lord Michael Cashman. 50 Years Legal is both a celebration of battles won and lives lived – in Simon Napier-Bell’s own words, “My original idea for 50 Years Legal was to interview a cross-section of people – both celebrities and ordinary folk – about gay life since decriminalisation in the 60s, then edit it into a chatty piece of entertainment. Within a day of starting I realised it was impossible. The resulting programme would be at least four hours long and I’d only been asked to make a 90-minute film. Instead, I would have to stick to one central theme and follow it closely. And because the Sexual Offences act of 1967 was only a partial decriminalisation, and for many gays made things worse rather than better, the film became the fight for equal rights. My first surprise was the activist streak I found in nearly everyone I talked to, even those in whom I’d never before observed it. And as the interviews progressed I began to feel I’d been a rather lazy gay these last fifty years. Perhaps I should have done more to help. On the other hand, as person after person stressed that activism need involve little more than just being openly gay and uncowed, I felt better. At least I’d always been that! The progress that’s been made from the very partial decriminalisation of 1967, until 2017 when gay marriage was made legal, to today’s openness in discussing transsexual matters, is amazing. In the 70s and 80s, gays could still be prosecuted for exchanging phone numbers or having sex in a hotel bedroom. Today, in law at least, there is complete equality with straight life. And the film charts that progress. It was achieved by a blend of arts and activism. Both Stephen Fry and Michael Cashman make the point that while marching and protesting in public were important, it was always the arts that led the political agenda. Whether it was Peter Finch and Murray Head with the first screen kiss, Quentin Crisp with his breathtaking flamboyance, or Tom Robinson’s passionately angry ‘Glad to be Gay’, it was always artists that broke the ice. The work of political activists was to convert the public’s increasing acceptance into law before it could backslide. The overwhelming conclusion of the film is that it’s not so much tolerance that overcomes prejudice as familiarity. Letting everyone live their life the way they want to without feeling the need to interfere. (But with laws in place just in case.) Fortunately, we’re almost there”. This documentary is a brief yet highly informative look at the past 50 years of LGBT rights in the UK. At 90 mins this documentary finds the perfect balance of ‘showbiz’ interviews and interviews from key politicians/activists who helped bring in key legalisation and changes. A must watch !!!! 4/5 Order your copy now here. Check out our previous LGBT related articles; Horror and the LGBT community Pride Review (2014) Posted in Film, Reviews Tagged 50 Years Legal, Derek Ja, documentary, dvd, Elton John, gay, Gay Rights, ian mckellen, Jake Graf, john hurt, LGBT, Lord Michael Cashman, Marc Almond, matt lucas, Matthew Parris, Matthew Todd, Olly Alexander, Paris Lees, Pecadillo Pictures, Peter Tatchell, Quentin Crisp, review, reviews, Simon Napier-Bell, Sir Derek Jacobi, Sir Elton John, Sir Ian McKellan, Soft Cell, Stephen Fry, Stonewall, The Naked Civil Servant, Tom Robinson, Zoe Lyons ← Short Trips Review: The Turn of the Screw Audio Review: Blake’s 7 – Crossfire Part 3 → One thought on “50 Years Legal (2017): DVD Review” This is a very uncritical review. While I enjoyed and admired the content, the presentation was amateurish and frankly shoddy. While the interviews were fine, I think every film clip shown was extremely poor quality, fuzzy and – worst of all – most clips were in the wrong aspect ratio, with 4:3 material stretched to 16:9 instead of being zoomed or masked. Surely getting this right should be absolutely basic for a professional broadcast editor? View indiemacuser’s profile on Facebook View indiemacuser’s profile on Twitter View indiemacuser’s profile on Instagram View indiemacuser’s profile on YouTube View indiemacuser’s profile on Google+ 2019 at IndieMacUser saw our best year EVER in terms of views and visitors, but also our largest ever growth year on year! Thanks to all our supporters 🤙🤙🤙🤙 Here’s to 2020 !!!! #happynewyear2020 #happynewyear	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1470
__label__wiki	0.61658	0.61658	Marin Perez Good Adds Android, iPhone Support The mobile messaging service will help businesses handle the looming consumerization of the enterprise smartphone space, Good Technology said. In order to help businesses handle the proliferation of employee-owned smartphones, Good Technology said Monday it is adding Android and iPhone support for its Good for Enterprise mobile messaging service. The company said it expects enterprises to see a major influx of employees wanting to get their smartphones on the corporate network, and this consumerization of IT can lead to cost savings and productivity gains but also represents security risks. Good is hoping to address those concerns with its Good for Enterprise apps, which provide enterprise-grade messaging capabilities on a wide variety of devices. The app securely connects handsets with Microsoft Exchange servers and Lotus Domino infrastructures. Good's Android and iPhone apps can be downloaded from the platform's respective app stores for free but end users must have a Good client access license before being able to access corporate e-mail. Good now supports nearly every major mobile platform, and it plans to add support for more operating systems in 2010. Good said its customers are seeing increasing demand for iPhone support, and the iPhone 3GS has features like true Exchange policy support and hardware encryption that make it a good corporate citizen. While some would still like the device to be able to multitask and have stronger app provisioning capabilities, Good said businesses in multiple industries are eager to support the touchscreen device. Good said it expects companies to see a very large demand for Android-powered smartphones in 2010 because manufacturers like HTC, LG Electronics, Motorola, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson have shown support for the Linux-based OS. Android 2.0 boosted the enterprise features of the OS, and Good said it expects Google to continue to incorporate more enterprise-friendly services over the next year.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1471
__label__cc	0.6813	0.3187	By The Editor The Latest September 22, 2019 When Negotiation Is Impossible and War Is Unnecessary Amir Taheri’s article at Gatestone, “When Negotiation Is Impossible and War Is Unnecessary,” fits the excellent and intriguing title: Will the attacks on Saudi oil installations last week upset the status quo that has taken shape in the past 17 months, that is to say, since President Donald Trump withdrew the US from the “Iran nuke deal” concocted by Barack Obama? The headline-grabbing sensationalism of the attacks, largely attributed to the Islamic Republic of Iran but denied by the mullahs, may suggest “yes” as an answer. A closer look, however, might suggest a more nuanced reply. It is likely that whoever planned the attacks was more interested in testing the waters, seeing how far it was possible to go in provocation without making a crushing response inevitable, rather than a serious attempt at upsetting the status quo. However, first, let us see what we mean by the new status quo, which has replaced the one created by Obama in his final years in office. Under the Obama status quo, Iran put large chunks of its economic, trade and even military policies under direct or indirect control of the so-called P5+1 group in exchange for a free hand to pursue its “exporting revolution” agenda in the Middle East and developing longer-range missiles for future extension of its influence in the region and beyond. The mullahs could swallow the humiliation of partial foreign tutelage because the Obama deal contained a sunset clause under which the restrictions imposed on the Islamic Republic would lapse after five, 10, 15 or 25 years’ time. What Trump wants is a new “deal” in which restrictions imposed on the Islamic Republic continue forever while halting Iran’s missiles development project, not affected by the Obama “deal”, is woven into the ensemble. Such a situation would allow the mullahs to prolong their rule but would make it harder to “export” revolution while making a mockery of their claim of creating “the new Islamic civilization” for humanity. Read more: Gatestone Image credit: www.gatestoneinstitute.org. Foreign/Defense Policy Previous articleIran’s Attack on Saudi Arabia Reveals Our Foreign Policy Muddle Next articleHow the Government Made You Fat	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1480
__label__cc	0.605092	0.394908	2015 Online Issues Exchange Club Freshfields Kiawah Cares Council and Civic News Kiawah Town Council The unofficial minutes of Kiawah’s monthly Town Council. Seabrook Town Council The unofficial minutes of Seabrook’s monthly Town Council. Letters To The Editor and Op-Eds Kiawah Arts Council Offers January Programs Kiawah Marathon Runs Into Its 37th Year Letter To The Editor: Don’t Pave Our Paradise I do not understand how 387 people can decide the fate of an island that is not their own. Over 1,000 supporters on Facebook. Hundreds and hundreds of paper petitions and hundreds of online petition signatures. We have talked to so many people that are appalled at what Kiawah is doing. Rampant destruction of fertile farmland, loss of local jobs, disrespect for a way of life that has existed long before Kiawah came along. “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot,” Joni Mitchell, “Big Yellow Taxi.” This classic song may have well been written for the town of Kiawah and the fate of the Rosebank Farm produce stand. What will be gone is not just a vegetable stand by the side of the road. The stand represents a way of life that is vanishing all too quickly. It represents responsible stewardship of the land, an example that we could leave for future generations to follow. It is a farm that provides real jobs and real food for the people of the Lowcountry, grown by the people of the Lowcountry. It is waking up in the dark, long days, demanding work, sweat, disappointments and the hard-earned fruits of one’s labor. We need to understand the real value of our agricultural land and what it will provide—fresh, healthy produce. It wasn’t that long ago that Daniel Island was almost all farmland, and look at it now. Is that Johns Island in five years? If we eliminate all of the treasures that make this the most wonderful place to live, who will want to come? As you take the beautiful drive to Rosebank, the changes along the way can be seen. The development seems fast-paced and without the infrastructure to support it. Rosebank owner Sidi Limehouse has been a voice of reason, conservation, preservation and common sense. He has not been shy about his opposition to developing the fragile area on Kiawah Island, known as Capt. Sam’s Spit. It seems mean-spirited to rush the closing of a business to suit the political wishes of a town government. Very few people are aware of the generosity of Sidi Limehouse. There are more healthy people today because of him. His philanthropy extends beyond writing checks to organizations. His kindness extends to the forgotten members of our society—those living in poverty, the hungry and the underserved in our community. Sidi has always responded to the needs of the less fortunate. The produce he donates to these groups has kept them alive, healthy and out of the public support system. To cut off this priceless source of healthy food in order to build a municipal complex for Kiawah on Johns Island seems unnecessary. Is there not another place available? It is another example of overdevelopment at a huge cost to all of us. It will cost us a way of life that is a part of our culture and the history of our islands— farming the land and generosity of the spirit. We will look at that building complex, shake our heads and remember a sweet past—fresh fruits and vegetables, beautiful wildflowers and the simple pleasures once provided. We know you can’t stop progress, or what some people think is progress, but it will be a sad day for all of us when that big white tent comes down. Yes, Kiawah let Rosebank stay on the property till Dec.31, even though they had a lease that extend until April 2015. How kind of them to try and protect their reputations after the public outcry regarding closing the stand before Christmas. We don’t understand the actions of the town council of Kiawah Island but I do know that they are highly resented in the rest of the surrounding areas. We are writing to let the people on Kiawah Island know how the rest of us feel. Kiawah cares…. About Kiawah. Thank you for your consideration, Jill Levy, Jacki Baer, A DiSCust Bohicket Marina Charleston Waterkeeper Kiawah Cares Facebook SCDOT Winter Weather Resources Sea Islands Chamber of Commerce Tidelines – Seabrook Island's Community Blog Town of Kiawah Island Town of Seabrook Island Waterkeeper Swim Guide Welcome to Kiawah Wildlife at Kiawah Island Eye News SIP Magazine Island Connection Facebook Island Connection Twitter Kiawah Island Tide Chart Seabrook Island Tide Chart Kiawah Island Weather Seabrook Island Weather Kiawah Island Sandcastle Webcam Kiawah Weather Kiawah Town Council Seabrook Town Council	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1484
__label__cc	0.503546	0.496454	Stereowiping and the Zimmerman Teletravesty According to ABC News today, this is a picture of George Zimmerman's head taken two minutes after the shooting. I cannot, of course, vouch for its authenticity. It was a bad day for The Narrative. And that raises broader questions. At George Zimmerman's bond hearing, according to the New York Times: As part of his effort to win Mr. Zimmerman’s release on bond, Mr. O’Mara challenged the prosecution’s case, going through the state’s probable cause affidavit line by line, turning the bail hearing into what appeared to be a foretaste of the trial. He aggressively questioned a state investigator, Dale Gilbreath, about the accusation that Mr. Zimmerman had racially profiled Mr. Martin, and he demanded to know what evidence the state had for the statement that “Zimmerman confronted Martin and a struggle ensued.” “Do you know who started the fight?” Mr. O’Mara asked Mr. Gilbreath. “Do I know?” Mr. Gilbreath said. “No.” Mr. O’Mara then asked Mr. Gilbreath if the state had any evidence to contradict Mr. Zimmerman’s statement to the police that he had been making his way back to his car when he was punched by Mr. Martin. ... Mr. Gilbreath responded, “No.” On the other hand, the prosecution hinted that it was sandbagging evidence against Zimmerman, which seems plausible. Meanwhile ABC News posted online what it claims is a photo of the back of Zimmerman's head shortly after the shooting. Now they tell us. As I've pointed out for weeks, the Trayvon Martin story is mostly interesting for what it shows us about what's wrong with the media. As an individual story, Martin-Zimmerman is more or less the same depressing Stuff Happens as occurs hundreds of times per year across this huge country. The main difference, in this case, was that the press initially got wrong the race of the shooter and thought it had, for once, its Great White Defendant. Determining fault justly in each of these cases depends upon small details of who did what to whom first, details that shouldn't be assumed a priori to Fit the Narrative. For example, in the 2010 case of plainclothes law enforcement officers killing an 18-year-old violist while "debriefing" in a parking lot I've walked through hundreds of times, I initially smelled a rat because the official spokesman the morning after the shooting implied that the parking lot was a drug-trafficking hot spot. I knew that's not true, and that raised obvious questions about what else the cops were distorting. But, here's the thing: two years later, I still don't know what exactly happened in the last ten seconds of that young man's life. Unfortunate decisions were made, but I don't know the precise chain of events, much less how to allocate fault. At least, that case didn't disappear down the memory hole due to citizen activism (no thanks to the press, which showed minimal interest in challenging law enforcement's version of the story). That the Martin-Zimmerman story was foretold so accurately a quarter of a century ago in the most famous book by the most famous journalist since Mencken only underlines that lesson: most of the journalists who have huffed and puffed this local small-time tragedy have personally read Bonfire of the Vanities. Deep down, they almost get the joke of what they're doing ... but they can't help themselves. By any objective standard, the prestige press has shamed itself by its repeated distortions of the facts to make them fit its desires for a tale of White Privilege, Innocent Black Victimization, and Stereotyping. (Of course, by controlling the narrative, there will be virtually no accountability.) As I've mentioned before, when the press decides to go all in on a race story, they seem to pick ones that unravel into travesties at a higher than random rate. This story began to fall apart the moment George Zimmerman's picture was printed. The central mechanism that leads the press astray is its War to Wipe Out Stereotypes, to wipe clean the collective mind, to render the blank slate as blank as possible. The fundamental problem of journalism, in the minds of the more elevated sort of journalist, is that its readers can notice patterns for themselves. We can abbreviate this War to Wipe Out Stereotypes to stereowiping. There are several reasons for why the prestige press is so fundamentalist in its fervor to stereowipe. The first, of course, is money: Man Bites Dog stories are more profitable than vice-versa. Another is class: "Two-Headed Calf Is Born" stories are always popular, but they're not very exalted. The press wants to have their cake and eat it, too by pretending that they are dealing with the massively important issue of white-on-black street violence or the lacrosse players raping black hookers epidemic or whatever is the latest two-headed calf story to come down the pike. The third is ideology: learning from the news is evil. The fourth is the sheer will to power. That raises a final question about the Zimmerman Fiasco that probably can't be definitely answered, but is worth thinking about: why now? Why the frenzy to take a run-of-the-mill bit of bad news and get it so badly wrong? I suspect Obama's re-election run plays into it in various complicated ways. But, I suspect something that hasn't been mentioned much is a technological change brought about by cell phone videos and Youtube. The last two or three years have seen a flood of footage posted online by amateurs of Blacks Behaving Badly (much of it, indeed, posted by those behaving badly themselves). I don't see much statistical evidence that African-Americans are behaving worse than in the past, but, wow, there sure is a huge amount of video that has gotten past the national news gatekeepers to the public. If you've read a half dozen James Q. Wilson social science books since the mid-1970s, none of this behavior will come as a big surprise, although it still is pretty fascinating to watch. But if you get your world view from The News, it's hard to know whether you should believe trusted, authoritative media sources or your lying eyes. The Trayvesty, therefore, would be media's attempt to strike back, to put the genie back in the bottle, to get the National Conversation on Race back on its well-worn tracks where it belongs. My old articles are archived at iSteve.com -- Steve Sailer By Steve Sailer on 4/20/2012 Labels: crime "Deep down, they almost get the joke of what they're doing ... but they can't help themselves." Not sure I agree with this statement, Steve. Today's "journalists" are not the journalists of days gone by. They've gone to mediocre schools and bad schools, and even if they've a degree in journalism from schools which, in the past, were known as great journalism schools (Columbia and Univ. of Texas to name two), that is now meaningless considering the pap that passes as coursework. In addition, many have "communication" majors, which...well, you know... Journalism is dead. Reporting, fair reporting, thorough reporting, investigative reporting...all dead. We talk a lot about IQ on this site. Think the people who pass as "journalists" are high IQ. Nope. Not_even_close. "I suspect Obama's re-election run plays into it in various complicated ways." I agree here, but I've decided that the MSM pundits and anchors and reporters don't even much like Obama anymore. However, they are lost without a romance. They were teenyboppers in love with love and now that the bloom is off the rose, they know they don't love him at all, know he was never what they imagined him to be, but they loved the euphoria of BEiNG in love and remain lost without that feeling. They also know they can never recapture that feeling until someone else comes along to once again fulfill their fantasies. Until that someone does appear, they'll take Barry, but it will never be the same. If they were sandbagging evidence why did they go in with such a pathetic Probable Cause Affidavit? They run the risk of the defense convincing the judge to throw the case out because of the egregious affidavit. I wish I could say, "iSteve is wrong; the world is not the way he portrays it in this post." But I'm not confident that he's wrong... I don't know if I'd assume any of these 20- and 30-somethings writing copy for the Times et al. have read Bonfire of the Vanities. At best they saw the movie. Surprisingly, the MSM (can't recall which network) is covering the gang rape of the retarded girl in South Africa. I saw an interview this morning with a female South African reporter. Seems the story was originally driven by social media and youtube and internet talk so I guess the press in South Africa felt they had to cover it. rightsaidfred said... Don't forget that liberalism requires a lot of posturing and demonstrating one has the correct values. What better subject than a White vigilante hunting down and killing a total innocent? Value demonstrating gold! As for the lack of veracity, bleh. How much audience does big media lose by telling a total lie? WWE and The Onion for all pretty soon. Great article Steve! Right on across the board. Chief Seattle said... The MSM is morphing the Zimmerman story into a gun-control narrative. There's a feature in the New Yorker on historical gun control that frequently references the Zimmerman case, and I've seen a couple of "Stand your ground" articles in the newspaper this week. Not so many blacks marching or fist pumping or having the talk with their kids lately. Can the prosecution sandbag the defense? Isn't that grounds for a mistrial? free gummerman said... Here is a wicked conspiracy theory. Maybe some--though not all--in the media whipped up frenzy to lure black demagoguery into a trap. Maybe some in the media really knew much more about what happened on that night than they let on but gave the impression of a 'white racist' killing a 'sweet innocent black lad' in order to whip up black rage. But just when 'black leaders' are noisiest and most obnoxious, other pieces of the puzzle are released to embarrass them. The liberal media may be anti-conservative, they're not too crazy about black demagogues like Al Sharpton and New Black Panthers Party either. So, this becomes a kind of win-win for the lib media. In the first act, they put 'white racist America' on the defensive by turning the narrative into white-on-black profiling-and-violence story. And in doing so, the media whips up wild negro frenzy. But just when blacks are screaming loudest about poor poor Trayvon, the media releases information that pulls the rug out of the 'saintly black victim' narrative. Thus, white conservatives were put on the defensive, and then, black demagogues were embarrassed. Not bad for the mostly liberal white/Jewish/gay media. The Trayvesty has already been a huge success for the MSM blowhards who endlessly promote the Big Lie of White Privilege. I work for da guvmint, and most of my colleagues are black (and heavily female). The juvenile, irresponsible press coverage so far has reinforced the grievances of the "permanently oppressed" people of color and helped engorge the malignant chips on their collective shoulders. Facts don't matta. For "justice" to be done, Zimmerman needs to be found guilty just as surely as OJ needed to be found not guilty. According to The Narrative, Whitey is always and everywhere at fault. The saintly colored folks have such a sense of their own righteousness at this point that they believe the media has been lying the whole time in order to protect Zimmerman and make Trayvon look bad, instead of the other way around. I haven't spoken to any white MSNBC-watching liberals about the case (out of concern over my blood pressure), but my guess based on the last 5-10 years of lefty conspiracy theory lunacy is that they are possibly even more deluded than black folks at this point. Why now? Why not? The sad truth is that The Narrative is never going to end, unless the PC equivalent of the Berlin Wall falls. Can any of us even imagine that happening? -THRIPSHAW don't need a weatherman to know media blows said... "I don't see much statistical evidence that African-Americans are behaving worse than in the past, but, wow, there sure is a huge amount of video that has gotten past the national news gatekeepers to the public." If we just look at the overall crime stats, maybe not, but the nature of black violence has gotten truly wild in the past yrs. There used to be riots and lootings on occasion, but now there's like continual low-level looting(called flash mobs)happening all over America. I think lots of dumb blacks watch it, think it's fun, and join in, and it just spreads and spreads. And the 'youtube' aspects of violence makes a lot of thugs behave like they're stars in a movie. It's not just crime for gain but as a kind of reality TV show. In many cases, blacks seem to be 'acting up', like the world is watching. Also, section 8 housing policies spread blacks all over, and it's having some dire impact. Wall Street spread toxic derivatives all around. (Obama wants to spread the wealth around, and Wall Street wants to spread the risk around. And HUD wants to spread the Negroes around.)Anyway, these toxic Negrovatives are causing havoc in some communities that used to be peaceful when there were only few blacks. Also, as blacks spread around more and communicate more, they all be sharing the message, 'white folks be a bunch of pussyass easy targets', and so the violence gets wilder and more brazen each year. IN all these videos, blacks see punkass white victims cowering and getting haplessly beaten up by blacks who be having a grand time. And I think the presidency of Obama made some black kids think they's got the power and they can do anything cuz one of their own is in the white house. There's also the element of porn and sports. After yrs of black thuggery narcissism in football and basketball, an entire generation of blacks grew up thinking they should act like Mike Tyson. Ali was a punk but not really a thug in real life. But whole bunch of black athlete stars are openly thugs 24/7. Also, the rise of interracial porn and quasi-porn pop culture emboldened black thugs even more. White women used to be the most carefully guarded treasure of white men, but white men have pretty much surrendered their rights to their own women. So, black guys see white guys as pussy and white women as their fruit. As for black girls, they be all jealous and shit and wanna beat up white bitches. There is also the point that getting it WRONG sells. To the mostly White and female consumers of media. Who in turn HATE HATE HATE the wrong sort of White person. Male. Fat. Icky. AKA "Beta Male" in every respect. The dog that is not barking: White women are never featured as villains in "profiling" and other "racist" acts. Funny. Their readers/audience don't like seeing themselves as villains. Pounding the Propaganda line that "White guys = evil, Black youth = good, oppressed" fits into Nice White Ladydom(tm) Steve Sailer, because it allows as you've noted extensively moral status games over others. Like the eternal talent contests in reality shows that infest TV. If you're paying attention to the death sentence of a convicted black murderer that was overruled by a black North Carolina judge on the grounds of racism, there's a Derbyshire element involved. The perp, Marcus Reymond Robinson, convinced 17-year-old Erik Tornblom, who was white, to give him and his friend a ride (i.e., to be a Good Samaritan). He then pulled a gun on him, forced him to drive into an empty field, stole $27, and shot him in the head, killing him. The judge based his ruling on the 2009 Racial Justice Act, passed by a Democratic controlled legislature and signed by a Dem governor, Bev Perdue. Republicans, who now control the NC legislature, have already tried to overturn the law, but have been vetoed by Perdue. However, from a Dem persepctive the timing couldn't be worse. There's a governor's race in NC this year, and Obama narrowly won NC in 2008. Jeffery said... It won't wind up being some "mixed up accident". Even ol' Steve seemed a bit weepy eyed and desirous of assuming shared blame between Trayvon and Zimmerman. Nah. I bet it doesn't turn out that way. "A man charged with a hate crime in Oak Park this week told police he was so upset about the Trayvon Martin case that he beat up a man because he was white, authorities said. Alton L. Hayes III, 18, of Oak Park, and a 15-year-old Chicagoan — both black — walked up behind the 19-year-old victim and pinned his arms to his side early Tuesday, police said. Hayes then picked up a large tree branch, pointed it at the man and said, 'Empty your pockets, white boy.'” Thank you,media. zip pah di do dah zip pah di yay, I'm gonna beat up a honkey today. "Most Popular Cities: Detroit Nation's Least Popular, Seattle Tops List." Both Democratic, so why the difference? They're far from getting the joke or even from realizing that it is a joke. But I agree, they can't help themselves. Romney Trails Obama Big Time With Small Donors. President Obama ended March with a 10:1 cash advantage over Mitt Romney, powered largely by a dominant edge with small donors, a dynamic that’s cropped up throughout the campaign. Romney can't connect with ordnary people. Looks like the election is finished. The trouble is, Steve, every two-bit, sht-assed, jumped up newspaperman who's come from a 'liberal' famil, went to a 'liberal' college' and does 'liberal' things, in his heart thinks he's some sort of tin-god Atticus Finch (mainly by sitting behind a keyboard), andboy, does he revel in his ne moment of glory when it finally comes around. As the Italians say "Christ only passes once past your window." Anonymous said... 4/20/12 8:36 PM "Today's "journalists" are not the journalists of days gone by." Walter Duranty "Stand your ground" law Should be "Lie on the ground" law with someone on top of you smacking your head against the sidewalk Anonymous said...4/20/12 8:48 PM "If they were sandbagging evidence why did they go in with such a pathetic Probable Cause Affidavit? They run the risk of the defense convincing the judge to throw the case out because of the egregious affidavit." Crazy like a fox. What're the odds they can finish the trial and get a jury verdict on, or shortly before, the first Monday in November? It would help if they timed the riots just right. Drunk Idiot said... "That the Martin-Zimmerman story was foretold so accurately a quarter of a century ago in the most famous book by the most famous journalist since Mencken only underlines that lesson: most of the journalists who have huffed and puffed this local small-time tragedy have personally read Bonfire of the Vanities. Deep down, they almost get the joke of what they're doing ... but they can't help themselves." To echo the sentiments of a couple other commenters, it's highly unlikely that most of today's journalists would have read Bonfire of the Vanities. TV news production has been dominated by 25-30 year old single girls for the last decade plus. Print journalism isn't much different -- especially in the age of downsized newsrooms, where the push is go young and female in order to make newspapers "hip" and relevant to young people (or maybe because young female journos can be hired on the cheap). In today's media, the "old-timers" are Gen X greybeards like Jake Tapper and David Gregory, who head up political news divisions for two of the big three major networks. Tapper and Gregory would have been in their early to mid-teens (say, between freshman & junior year in high school) when Bonfire of the Vanities came out. It's highly doubtful that even those two elder statesmen read it, given how young they would have been at the time of its publication and high point of relevance in the zeitgeist. Maybe the doddering old man who does Face the Nation on CBS would have read it, but it's a good bet that most other Mainstream Media journos haven't (and maybe haven't even heard of it, or its author). Most have probably read plenty of chick lit though, along with lots of trendy bestsellers like the Gladwell collection, Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs and Dave Eggers' stuff. I think Romney wins because of Obama's racial posturing. The last time around, Obama had large numbers of small donors with names like Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. It wouldn't be surprising if these Disney characters (and many more) renew their support in 2012 via Obama's non-existent donation screening system. In order for the narrative to change you need a Big Event. The narrative remains the one set by the last Big Event until a new Big Event comes along. The Germans will always have to live under the shame of the Nazis until they do something Big to start a new narrative, like fight and win a war as the Good Guys. The last Big Event is still firehoses being put on civil rights activists, so that is still the narrative. You will need something like the way the Boston massacre set the narrative for the America revolution, say, a large mob of blacks killing half a dozen or more whites to count as a Big Event to change the narrative. The so-called 10-1 cash advantage is a cash-on-hand number, not a March 2012 fund-raising number. The March numbers were $54m for Obama to $27m for Romney - in the middle of a GOP primary where Romney's opponents are also getting donations. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/04/20/MNU21O6TBF.DTL&type=politics Once the primaries are settled, then we'll have a true apples-to-apples fund-raising comparison between Romney and Obama. Just off the top of my head, I'd guess that that's a reflection of the Evangelicals' dismay with Romney's coronation by the Elites [largely brought about by the Elites' complicity in the destruction of Sarah Palin]. The Evangelicals are [or have been] the masters of the $10/$15/$20 contributions [made by the millions]. W.LindsayWheeler said... It is none of your reasons. Journalists, from the beginning, have always been demogogues. Journalism has always been demogogery! Paul A. Rahe notes in his book Against Throne and Altar that Needham Marchmont can be called the first journalist. But Needham Marchmont was not about "Truth-telling" but skewing the aristocracy and the church to make them look bad. He promoted his pet project and attacked the institutions of his day. As an atheist, he was filled with hate and rage. The first journalist is also the paradigm of journalism. It is nothing but demogoguery with a pen. As the Spartans said, "There is no soothfast art in speech". One should never trust speech, especially in a country that no longer teaches virtue! What a joke. It is the Power of the Pen to incite and to activate. That is demogoguery and journalists know they have the power. The power to bring about their ideology into reality. elvisd said... Is it just me, or does Zimmerman look more..uh, tanned... now than in his earlier photos? If he managed to find time for a few hours in the sun between the incident and his arrest, I'd say that was as wise of a legal strategy as any. "(In) the 2010 case of plainclothes law enforcement officers killing an 18-year-old violist while "debriefing" in a parking lot I've walked through hundreds of times, I initially smelled a rat because the official spokesman the morning after the shooting implied that the parking lot was a drug-trafficking hot spot. I knew that's not true, and that raised obvious questions about what else the cops were distorting." Speaking of Malcolm Gladwell, in his Tipping Point intro, Gladwell talks about how AIDS was spread in America by one gay French Canadian flight attendant. But he also describes a heterosexual from East St. Louis, Missouri who was an early carrier of HIV virus and who spread HIV/AIDS to his female lovers/baby mamas. Problem is, East St. Louis isn't in Missouri. It's across the river in Illinois. And it's notorious for its astronomical levels of disfunction and urban decay, so we're not talking about some totally obscure hamlet. What's more, anybody who's ever been to St. Louis, or who's ever even seen a picture of the St. Louis arch, would know that St. Louis is on the western banks of the mighty Mississippi River -- across the river from East St. Louis Illinois. And anybody knows even basic, 5th grade geography would know that the Mississippi River defines the borders of the states it flows through. That may seem like a trivial oversight, but it says something about Gladwell (and his editors). He didn't know where East St. Louis was, but rather than look it up, he apparently just assumed that it was in Missouri (a logical assumption perhaps, unless you're familiar with geography and know that anything "east" of St. Louis would have to be across the river and in another state). Given Gladwell's position and notoriety, that's pretty sloppy. And it also raises an important question: if he's that cavalier about checking something as mundane and easy to verify as the location of East St. Louis, what other oversights is he making? Is he that careless across the board? Is he making connections and drawing conclusions using similarly sloppy research/reasoning? Gladwell didn't deliberately get the the location of East St. Louis wrong. So he wasn't intentionally trying to peddle a false narrative. But he got something wrong that he wouldn't have gotten wrong, had he been just a bit more conscientious. And while it may seem like a minor detail (though it wouldn't be a minor detail if some blogger from SoCal incorrectly placed Newark in New York), it ultimately serves to undermine his credibility to some degree. But, I suspect something that hasn't been mentioned much is a technological change brought about by cell phone videos and Youtube. Nothing like watching Worldstar Hiphop to put things in perspective. [enter username here] said... On "getting the joke"--in a certain insular way, I'm sure many of them are attuned to the sensationalist/messianic tendencies of the profession. But as you say, it doesn't matter if individual press men get it or not because the aggregate bias of the enterprise is moralistic fabulism. 1) Because it's just plain easier--facts are finite and take some degree of effort to obtain, but "journalism" is elastic and can be generated now at an industrial rate. 2) Most of them ain't paid very well for their level of schooling/socialization (Bonfire again) and are constantly looking for that one break to leap a few millimeters nearer to the status of a Woodward-Bernstein or Diane Sawyer/Couric, take your pick. It's not just* ideological, it's more of a visceral thing. btw I'm unclear on your meaning with "sandbagging" there but I've typically heard it of athletes running slow or variously underplaying either for advantage in a disjunct future scenario or just temporarily to protect themselves, not in a legal sense of walking the defense into a trap as other comments seemed to take it. Henry Canaday said... Another reason for what you call ‘stereowiping’ is that the vast majority of highly paid newspaper journalists, and in TV grotesquely overpaid on-air talent, are still white, while the supporting technical staff, paid decently but not lavishly, now includes a large number of blacks and Hispanics. In TV especially, relative pay scales are the effect of brutal economics, in which moderately competent, attractive and very ambitious people climb into top spots that must be rewarded very well, as the on-air people are the ‘brand,’ no matter how silly they may seem to many people. But how do the stars and presenters justify their often 1-percent incomes and privileges to their co-workers on a daily basis? They have to work with these people, solicit their help and generally have the same attitude toward co-workers that we all have to people we deal with on daily basis: the desire to get along and be friends. So the stars tilt their stories in ways that favor the ethnic groups from which many of their less-favored co-workers now come. The fact that these co-workers come from the functional and well-behaving sections of their ethnic communities probably makes stereowiping more believable to the story tellers. So it is, in a way, one of the oldest human stories: it is hardest to be honest with your friends. That's the part that always amazes me--racial arson is one thing if you're little old Sharpton with nothing to lose, it's quite another if you're actually in command of a national party. Does Axelrod's team really think it can pull this off at that scale? How in the hell does this help in the swing states ("disproportionally" stocked with non-collegiate whites, as Mickey Kaus noted years ago)? Another triple-bank-shot that the WH brain trust feels is just easy-peasy, or they've convinced themselves as much. John Carr said... Can someone clarify something for me. On numerous sites reference is made to Zimmerman apologizing but I didn't hear him use that word. In Ireland we would draw a distinction between an apology, that carries with it an implicit admission of deliberate wrongdoing, and an expression of sorrow/regret that would be appropriate in the case of an honest mistake or in the case of a justifiable if unfortunate act. Does/should the same distinction apply in the case of American English or am I simply being hopelessly naive in expecting too much? After all the standard of English, not to mention the standard of evidence, in the affidavit left much to be desired. steve, i just ran into the must vile site feminist.us. a bunch of raving anti-white chicks go crazy there. it's nuts. it seems most work at colleges or teach young kids and show off there blogs about educating white boys about "white privilege", etc. someone needs to expose these fanatics. The comment about Seattle and Detroit both being Democratic is probably not sincere. Many conservatives including Rush Limbaugh like to attribute the urban pathologies of black inner cities to party affiliation rather than race. We heard this during the Katrina disaster. The media needed to comment on a situation in which the viewers saw black people on their TV screens behaving badly. It looked like the white people evacuated in good order while the black people stayed behind to loot. That's a simplification of course but that was what it looked like. So the narrative arose that it wasn't race that was the problem but rather party affiliation. You would hear Limbaugh attribute the chaos to the poor leadership of the Democratic Party. This is a cute way to get in some digs at the opposition. And you don't have to worry that the Democrats will answer back that it isn't their party's policies but rather the race of their constituents. Don't be deceived. No one is really expected to believe that. It's just a ploy to avoid discussing race. You hear much the same on Bill O'Reilly show. He will glibly assert that there is no race-poverty connection because blacks who have college degrees and are married before they have kids do just fine. He implies (without actually saying it) that if blacks just stayed in school longer they would be as rich as white folks. He conveniently overlooks the fact that blacks don't do well in school. O'Reilly and the press in general need these kind of comforting arguments so that they don't have to face the really depressing reality of black behavior. When a central city passes some point where blacks reach some level of concentration - it is doomed. Seattle is a white city. Detroit is a black city. No one anywhere has a solution for Detroit. Once blacks are in the majority things go downhill fast. Government job programs and stimulus spending can't reverse the effects of too many blacks. Sanford Florida, where George and Trayvon live, is approaching 50% black. The white and Hispanic residents will be nervous. They see their neighborhood slipping away from them. 24 hours to fill every day said... There's a lot of market-driven selection here. It's rare to find a perfect, sturdy GWD but until one comes along you can still do with a fair number of Great Black Victims (see Edric Kennedy-Macfoy now across the pond). Esp. with an expansive concept of racism it's statistically no sweat to keep the press (and increasingly the police & courts) busy-looking with a stream of tidy manageable units of anti-racist justice. In multi-million conurbations there will inevitably be at least a few every week, no matter how many schoolroom sermons and "museums of tolerance" we fund. That's just the numbers game, whether we're talking hate crimes or people dying from cola overdose or Toyotas "accelerating out of control." If the newspapers encouraged people to look at those things proportionately it would sort of defeat the point of bringing them up in the first place, right? i think Steve hits one thing on it's head about this Trayvon thing. Regular black on white violence, rape. Is so predictable and depressing it just probably doesn't sell. I know I can only read so many of those articles about blacks raping elderly women and the like. This gets the juices flowing. The left loves to use to show off their morality and we love pointing out the double standards. Laz said... What's "Bonfire of the Vanities"? lol. Just kidding, you may continue. Jeff W. said... I have this two-party theory: the Diversity Party and the White Loser Party. The Diversity Party is made up of ethnic groups that don't much like each other; what unites them is their hatred of the Bad White Man. The Diversity Party's agents in the media are always looking (desperately) for a Bad White Man. @ anon Today's "journalists" are not the journalists of days gone by The NYT covered up the crimes of the Bolshiviks, and in the sixties, editors altered field reporters filed stories so much many didn't recognize them when they read them in the paper. What's changed? It seems that w/ the internets we can expose their lies, but they are lying just as they have always done. I think they have more hegemony but other than that not much has changed. DCThrowback said... Great work as usual Steve. Stellar read. Wolfe's less popular but (I think) equally effective "Ambush at Ft. Bragg" worth a read to see media narrative creation in action. Here's a good review and some further links. I'm not sure that Bonfire of the Vanities grants any kind of dumbness immunity to the reader. The last time someone brought it up at my favourite leftist site, the munchkin replied, (and I paraphrase): 'I read Bonfire of the Vanities, and all I came away with was the impression that the author really hates black people.' Gilbert Pinfold. The Martin/Zimmerman media narrative was part of an attempt to energize Obama's base for the election. It has been a success, at least among black folks (like the "Anonymous" above, I work with a lot of black people, many of whom fervently believe that Al Sharpton Speaks Truth to Power), and has the added benefit of allowing the gun issue to be brought up again by the Brady Bunch. The National Geographic cable TV channel aired a program the other night on "10 Things You Don't Know About Mormons." Why now? I think you will see some energetic attempts to make Mormonism the focus of the election, unless the media can come up with a good October surprise. peterike said... "Romney trails Obama Big Time with Small Donors." It's fraud, not "ordinary people." Fraud served straight up and cold, thanks to zero security checks on the website to donate to the O. Read all about it: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/04/dubious-donations-illustrated-illegal-contributor-edition.php As to the question of "why now?" I think that's hugely important. Wasn't this whole Zimmerman story a month old before it suddenly exploded onto every media outlet simultaneously? What happened there? Who gave the marching orders? Who decided that THIS case was going to be "the one" (to borrow a phrase)? I would not be at all surprised to learn that the White House, fearing that black voter turnout would be down significantly for the election, decided they needed to goose up the hood. So they looked around for any "white guy shoots black guy" story, thought they had a perfect case -- Zimmerman? how much whiter can you get! -- not to mention the shootee was a yout, and they put out the word that it was flood-the-zone time. Hasn't turned out quite the way they planned (more sloppy advance work, a hallmark of Team Obama), but it's still juicing up the black vote because you can juice up the black vote with pretty much anything. But it may reverb on them badly. In any case, I really think this whole thing was driven from the White House. It's just too coincidental that every media outlet in the country suddenly noticed it simultaneously. I don't think you have the MSM's motivations right. I'm really don't know for sure what they are myself — even though I worked at big newspapers for 15 years (honest discussions of race were not common) — but your reasons are not convincing. My best guess would be the smartest folks in the MSM, the ones who have looked at the evidence and still behave as they do, believe that simple honestly about even the most easily proved factual differences between groups will lead to logically defensible but morally uncomfortable things — sterilizing stupid or violent people, different laws for those of different ability — or to routine castigation of and discrimination against groups defined as less able (and even against members of those groups who are wildly able). My guess is that they see two belief systems that can exist: "Everyone is equal and can be expected to perform thus" and "Some groups are inferior and thus deserve to be victimized at my whim." Thus they struggle to promote the first, even when the facts contradict it, and to sell the idea that the second idea is the one that humans naturally hold and that we must constantly guard against backsliding toward it. (They, of course, get nice ego boosts from appointing themselves as the guardians of our new enlightenment and occasionally sacrificing people to uphold it.) They do not see a steady equilibrium possible for a view that accepts facts while being just: "Groups vary in a lot of ways so you shouldn't expect equal aggregate performance but members of groups vary so much that you should judge each individual you meet as an individual." And, frankly, I'm not sure I blame anyone who doubts that's a viable candidate for a long-term opinion. It's a reasonably sophisticated take on how normal distribution works, demanding that people discard the notion that someone is X in favor of the notion that there's a differing probability that someone is X. Most people simply aren't smart enough to hold that. As for the first commentator, who disparages the intellects of journalists, he's wrong by any reasonable standard. Journals are not as bright, in aggregate, as university physicists, but they are collectively brighter than you could possibly expect for a position that pays so little (because it's seen as an interesting and desirable job) and they are certainly brighter than they ever have been in the past (because the implosion of the industry has made it all the more selective). That's not to say that I think they apply that IQ effectively to seeing and describing the world accurately. I think the sort of person who goes into journalism is even more predisposed than average to let preconceived (and inaccurate) a priori views influence his interpretation of events, but the problem isn't stupidity. On a tangent: 'SWPL: Humanitarian Intervention' http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/4987/stuff-white-people-like-n.135-humanitarian-interve This deserves a large audience. The media is nowhere close to getting the "joke." If they knew the Narrative was fictitious, they'd heavily vet stories that seem to fit the narrative too well. Instead, they take black whore drug addicts at their word; trust dim, white-hating affirmative action third raters like Guttman and Toure, or Tourey or whatever, to be honest and fair-minded. Hell, in the recent shootings in France, they couldn't predict that there was a decent chance the killer wasn't a French right-winger, or even French. Over in "Just One Minute"'s comments, it looks like somebody ID'd DeeDee, the girlfriend Trayvon was talking to just prior to the confrontation. I wouldn't be surprised if that part of the Crump/Sharpton/Elite Media narrative now falls apart, too. It is amazing how I called this thing so early in the game.One thing never discussed is the cell phone. Martin was supposedly on the cell talking to his girlfriend. Well sir,George states clearly that Martin had his hands in his waistband;he doesnt mnention a phone. Ipso fatso,there was no phone. The girl made it up,after being induced to make it up by the scum from Change.Org,the Obama lovers.The guys who gave the "Young Trayvon" pic to the press. But if there was a phone,wouldnt the police have easily been able to ID Martin with it? Surely if the police called the girl,and told her there was a dead black male resembling Martins desciption who had the phone and just called her,she would fairly quickly put 2 and 2 together and suggest a possible name. The take away from this,tho,is that we shouldnt "stereotype" blacks as violent. And lets hope George is convicted...so the blacks wont take to the streets and brutally beat,stomp,paralyze and kill random strangers who had nothing to do with the case. (NOTE: Shouldnt we take a page from the Brits and pass a law saying that anyone convicted of taking part in any riotous behavior shall lose ALL welfare benefits,for a lifetime? EBT, welfare,Foo stamps etc.?) Lastly, I do think the bluff of the riot is a bit overstated. I would think--tho i could be totally wrong--that most blacks can see what happened and know darn well Trayvon was a thug looking for trouble.Is he really worth rioting for? Or is a riot a FUN thing that young blacks cant wait to get into? Are there ANY grown-up blacks who are worried about this-knowing how violent the young generation can be? 'The Trayvesty' good one Sailer! Congrats on your neologism, Steve. How many have you come up with so far? From Google search results: "Jason swallowed, choking down his fury. 'I hate him.' He knelt... stereowiping his eyes with his hand, refusing to cry. His mom knelt beside him and put her arm around his shoulder. 'We can fix it.'" Ah, yes, we can fix it. As a Catholic,I have to say theres something a bit weirdly religous about that pic. What do you think of the Wagist analysis suggesting two confrontations. Seems plausible to me and just adds to the sense that Zimmerman made some poor choices, even if he didn't attack Martin. As a friend of mine keeps pointing out to me, if Zimmerman was "stalking" Martin, Martin probably had a right of retaliation under the stand your ground law. here's some guardian guy claiming greek mathematicians are africans (blacks) .. wtf "The second story involves one of the few black mathematicians whom white mathematicians acknowledge as great – or, I should say, "black American mathematicians", since obviously Euclid, Eratosthenes and other African mathematicians outshone Europe's brightest stars for millennia. His name was David Blackwell." http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/apr/12/black-mathematicians-john-derbyshire-fields-medal so bizzare Steve. . . I was curious how the liberals would react to the photo of Zimmerman's bloody head so I went to feministing and found a link to www.talkleft.com which has a great analysis. .. Amazingly it is very pro Zimmerman. Check it out. PatinOK "The last two or three years have seen a flood of footage posted online by amateurs of Blacks Behaving Badly (much of it, indeed, posted by those behaving badly themselves). I don't see much statistical evidence that African-Americans are behaving worse than in the past, but, wow, there sure is a huge amount of video that has gotten past the national news gatekeepers to the public. " Whites of today forget that the purpose of Jim Crow was to protect whites from blacks behaving badly. The purpose of the so-called Civil Rights Movement was to redistribute white wealth in the public sector to blacks. If blacks were able to create sufficient taxable wealth, they could build their own communities from the ground up, but since they can't, they insist on settling close to whites so they can demand housing, public services, government jobs, and welfare. And with federally mandated integration came skyrocketing rates of black on white violence in schools, on streets, in shopping venues, and on public transportation. Motor City Madman said... This is OT, but the talk of Trayvon riots motivated a couple of us to do a little urban archealogy. Check out this army video from the 1967 Detroit riots. At about 9:00 into the film you see an aerial view of a high school (Southwestern High / Foch Jr. High) from a Bell Huey. The army is deployed across the street (Fairview St.) from the high school on the football field. The school is bounded by Fairview, Goethe, Beniteau and Charlevoix so you can find it on a map. The chopper flies above Fairview and circles above the school so you can get a good look at how the neighborhood was in 1967. Now take a look at the neighborhood in 2012 using google maps street level. Google 3076 Fairview St. to see the school today, and take a walk around the block up Fairview to Goethe, then Beniteau. The neighborhood has been sterilized. Back to the Army video, go to 13:00 and the chopper is flying over Tyme Furniture, a burnt store on Grand River Avenue at Lysander St. Grand River is the large diagonal street running in front of Tyme Furniture that makes it a triangular block. Go to Google Maps again at 4506 Grand River Avenue. You can't even walk around that triangular block these days because Lysander St. doesn't intersect Grand River anymore. There's an empty field there. In fact there is an empty field everywhere! The neighborhood has vanished along with Lysander St. The disappearance of Detroit is on a scale unprecedented in human history. Snippet said... The answer to the question, "Why now?" is simply, "Opportunity knocked." Or so they thought.... Liberals hate armed citizens and the growing popularity of conealed carry laws is infuriating to them. Their disappointment that more innocent people are not being killed is palpable. As is their disappointment that welfare reform didn't result in massive increases in poverty. They thought they finally had that incident that could be spotlighted to prove how horrible these laws are and exploited to the hilt. First glitch: Whitey McWhiterthansnow turned to be a latino. Awwwkward. The invention of the new race "White Latino" (Is our president a "White Black"?) confused, rather than salvaged the narrative. Watch 9:35 of video. Mulatto supremacism in action. Overeem, product of black father and white mother, destroys a caucasian Arab and then kisses his blonde girlfriend as the world cheers. Obama whupped all the white boys and mulattos like Overeem are whupping caucasian boys and conquering more white girls. The real racial problem is not the IQ gap but the MQ--muscle quotient--gap. Overeem recently totally pussified Brock Lesnar. The Trayvon-Zimmerman fight must have been similar. Pitiful. Lower class whites used to be bulwark against blacks but I see this breaking down all over. Belmonters carefully choose mates according to brains and character while Fishtowners impulsively choose mates according to muscle and sexuality, and Fishtowners have become far more uninhibited due to crossover hiphop and pop libertarianism. Also interracist taboos are not only gone but interracism is openly celebrated. Also, with section8 housing, fishtowns are flooded with blacks. Even as whites fear black crime, they are turned on by black masterfulness and impulsively flocking to Negroes for worship and sex. Among young whites, I see it all around. And with family breakdown, kids are not restrained parents, who are btw, just as trashy. The samizdat of the internet prevented the media from confecting another Emmett Till legend. Plus, the facts themselves weren't as neat a fit as would have been preferred. They'll keep trying until they can get a good one though. The whole episode leaves a very bad taste as it shows the extensive propaganda apparatus that went into action: the constant hyping and around-the-clock reportage, the inflammatory rabble-rousing, the goading of the idiot college students to march, the black churches who had hoodie Sundays along with their liberal white counterparts who jumped on the bandwagon, the race hustlers who tap-danced their way into the spotlight, the splicing of the tape, the sheer dishonesty of it all is just a mind-blower. It shows that campaigns like this aren't just spontaneous occurrences but are cynical manipulations of the public. Conatus said... James Q. Wilson said, "Black men commit murders at a rate about eight times greater than that for white men." It needs to be re-emphasized that James Q. Wilson used victim reports to confirm his crime stat numbers. His numbers are from a neutral, individual, disinterested source. Are these statistical disparities the result of police bias? Do the police target more blacks and therefore arrest more blacks? Professor Wilson would say, no, they are not. Why? Because the more recent numbers are confirmed by the reports of victims, not police. Using the results of the National Crime Victimization Survey, which measures the response merely of victims of crime, Wilson says, "Regardless of whether the victim is black or white, there are no significant differences between victim reports and police arrests." G Joubert said... You must've missed the part about 200 years of slavery followed by 100 years of Jim Crow. Those are the wrongs attempting to be righted in the modern era, however ham-handedly. "If you're paying attention to the death sentence of a convicted black murderer that was overruled by a black North Carolina judge on the grounds of racism" i saw the story, but i didn't know who the judge was. north carolina is a great state and i enjoyed living there. beverley perdue is not that well liked, and probably will not be re-elected. Anon claims Romney trails with small donors. I wonder if those small donors are illegal withdrawals from stolen credit card numbers and or overseas donors? Also, why are you not looking at the doggie scandals? If dogs could vote I am sure Obama would promise to stop eating them :-) I see cable TV news only at the gym, and I had to crack up how hispanic Zimmerman looked at his hearing! Did his lawyer have him put on some brown makeup? LOL! How's this "white hispanic" thing gonna fly? "The Trayvesty, therefore, would be media's attempt to strike back, to put the genie back in the bottle, to get the National Conversation on Race back on its well-worn tracks where it belongs." I was thinking this. I think the flash mobs in particular are causing concern about random black violence among otherwise liberal whites, and I think there is fear among the media/elites/etc. that such whites (and other non-blacks) will begin to understand and even sympathize with some of those redneck/flyover territory views (self-defense and so one). Ya know, I've come to the conclusion that upon learning the supposedly black-and-white moral struggles of the recent past, like civil rights and the Vietnam war, people try to convince themselves they were or would have been firmly on the "right" side had they been there. In reality, most people were confused or ambivalent, and always will be in such times. My favorite examples of "stereowiping" always come from black websites themselves. They try, but they just can't seem to get it done. That's why I like going to sites like NewsOne when stories like this happen. You get to read articles like this: http://newsone.com/2003634/zimmerman-bail/ The story itself is bad enough, but the comments are great. Half of the comments are people complaining that the media portrays blacks as violent. The other half are black people threatening to beat up any white people who have the nerve to disagree with them. It's really amazing. It happens pretty much every single time on sites like this. But nobody seems to connect the dots and realize WHY people might think blacks are more violent. TontoBubbaGoldstein said... "Trayvesty"....Sweet! I'm just waiting for Martin's cache of burglary tools to show up. Probably next to the Skittles and Tea that he presumably placed somewhere before jumping Zimmerman... "In Ireland we would draw a distinction between an apology, that carries with it an implicit admission of deliberate wrongdoing, and an expression of sorrow/regret that would be appropriate in the case of an honest mistake or in the case of a justifiable if unfortunate act. Does/should the same distinction apply in the case of American English or am I simply being hopelessly naive in expecting too much?" You are expecting too much from Americans' command of English. Grasping subtle distinctions between near-synonyms is for tea-drinkers. If you'd like to know about the intelligence of Media-Pravda's goons, George Orwell nailed it: "At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question." Precisely, "assumed" - which is exactly how Media-Pravda's servile obsequious drones go on expecting people to go on swallowing and parroting Media-Pravda's (and indeed our ruling political & public sector unions class's)Multi-Culti-Diversity Fairytal Narrative. These scribblers are not lacking in intelligence, they'e merely lacking in spine sufficient to face facts and to call a spade a spade, instead of avoiding calling a spade anything except a spade by endless deployment of euphemisms and evasions and diversions (such as the West is responsible for resurgent Islamic jihadism and sharia-creep, and whites' innate and ineradcable racism is responsible for all the evils that blacks and Third Worlders inflict upon themselve and others). Not one genuine boat-rocker, let alone a single genuine reformer, in the whole diseased off-course vessel of Media-Pravda (or in Big Central Control Of Micromanaging Everything Into Compliance Government either). By the way, long before he wrote 'The Bonfire Of The Vanities' Tom Wolfe nailed the white/Western Civilization surrender to fear of even the threat of black (and now Moslem and Mexican immigrant) violence in his incisively prescient 'Mau-Mauing The Flak Catchers.' What has been our Media-Pravda's and Big Nanny State's response to constantly ramped-up NAM Mau-Mauing threat-blackmail? You guessed it: based on the Eloi ruling class's sterile nonsense (of which "stereowiping" is but one tiny facet) that all problems flow from economics but never from culture or from innate racial-cultural shortcomings, the response has been nothing more than to continue to shake-down the productive middle class to throw more money (that has not yet been earned and that comes now from Chinese credit and at Moslem whim) at social engineering "solutions" that solve nothing and only worsen and further strengthen the NAM menace's power, that only hasten the decline of the West. considering he's a Likud stooge where is the problem? @Steve Sailer: What is the original source of the skittles and ice tea story? If it was from testimony, who would have provided it? If it was from material evidence, is it plausible that Martin still had both in his pockets after a struggle? However implausible, was it in any of the police reports? "Is it just me, or does Zimmerman look more..uh, tanned" I have a different little angle concerning the media rage myself: Zimmerman was a neighborhood voluntary "watchman", who had a gun license. It was a gated-community, but not a particularily wealthy one. He was not employed by the development, as 4 shifts of security at merely $10.00 per hour would cost $240 per day. $1680 a week for mere labor, with insurance for one armed guard, a little subdivision would probably have to invest at least $2000-a-week to afford one (I bet thats a far lowball estimate also, the insurance for a carry permit probably makes that higher). Thats an extra $20 if the place has 50 houses each week. $80 on your rent in a four week month, and $100 in a five week month. Homes are still to expensive now. I think this is a precedental kind of "shaming" that some high up in the food chain in the MSM would like to inflict upon the public's mind. Note to middle class from MSM: Unless your development is from a non-CRA bank, that disavows Sec 8 and HUD from getting its foot in the door before ground was broke on the first house, and you cant afford 24/7 armed paid security guards: we dont intend for you to be able to shield yourself from diversity. In fact, we intend for you to recieve its blessing. Volunteering half-hispanic whites abetted by gun permits and enabled to use the guns via "stand your ground laws" if challenged, is not something the elites want whites to be able to do. If Zimmerman had a security guard's uniform, and shot the kid for suckerpunching him, the media would have had a much harder time convincing even the left-leaning of the public. Further note to lower middle and middle class whites in little gated developments that we disagree with the legality of (you need to be rich); Dont you even think about getting together, building a little corrugated metal building about subdivided by a few rooms, and getting a stay-at-home-mom or two teaching certificates so you can build little 100-student Christian day schools, so that an aggregation of homeshool friendly moms can teach your kids in middle class developments, that furhter shield your kids from diversity. Only the wealthy or other religions should be able to do that (Cough....Muslim, Cough....Jewish). You Christians are supposed to send your kids to have their lives enriched at the same school D'Quique (pronounced "De-Quick") attends. Thats racist, anti-semitic, xenophobic, misogynist, class-biased, bigoted, heteronomitive, fascistic, authoritarianism, and several other bad things if you even think about doing so. Thats what I think that deep down, some of the white establishment journalist are offended by the most. Honest. They wouldn't care to know Trayvon Mathews and wouldn't enjoy one minute of a hour's conversation with him. Hell, if they were given the temporary power to bring him back from the dead like Jesus did for Lazarus, they wouldn't do it if they could keep it secret. The photojournalism alone (Mathews kiddie pic used almost exclusively, vs. the tattooed, gold toothed 6 foot 2 inch wanna-be tough-guy-hot-town-balla he presented himself as vs. a old mug shot of Zimmerman, before he became the preppy-looking-volunteer type. "i think Steve hits one thing on it's head about this Trayvon thing. Regular black on white violence, rape. Is so predictable and depressing it just probably doesn't sell." I disagree. If white lynchings of blacks and white pogroms against Jews happened all the time in the US, do you think the media would say, "it's just another dog bites man story, and so we'll ignore it"? Trayvon story was favored by media not because it's a 'man bites dog' story but because liberals wanna believe it is the 'dog bites man' story based on their fantasies of PC imbibed from PBS propaganda and public education. It's like this. If media were to cover African wildlife... Media Reality: Lion King the movie. Real Reality(ignored by media): http://youtu.be/10QFwZdloGQ "Can someone clarify something for me. On numerous sites reference is made to Zimmerman apologizing but I didn't hear him use that word. In Ireland we would draw a distinction between an apology,' GZ said he was sorry for their loss of a son. That was not an apology for having shot the son, but yes, you'd never know it by the headline writers and by the use of the word "apology" which, admittedly, is used sloppily by us Americans. One can be sorry w/out "apologizing". "Anon claims Romney trails with small donors. I wonder if those small donors are illegal withdrawals from stolen credit card numbers and or overseas donors?" Obama's been the presumptive Dem nominee for 3.5 years. Romney's been the presumptive GOP nominee for about, what, 27 minutes? Sheesh, give him some time. Republicans used to outperform Democrats among small donors by about 2-1. The George W. Bush years - 2 amnesty putsches, the housing bubble, the wars (which really started hurting him around 2006), the Dubai ports scandal, Harriet Miers, more and more tax cuts for the rich - seems to have done it in. But if Romney gets it right he'll regain that advantage. Republicans voters are hungry for a victory. Looks like whimmerman shot down some comments. "He conveniently overlooks the fact that blacks don't do well in school. "O'Reilly and the press in general need these kind of comforting arguments so that they don't have to face the really depressing reality of black behavior." People who went to college in the Sixties and after, unless they are hard science majors, still believe in the blank slate. O'Reilly is one of those, a believer that culture and parenting are the greatest shapers of achieving or lack of achieving. If you pinned him down, like most people of his ilk, he'd surely say that he knows that people have different talents, differing IQs, but he believes that all people can achieve if only they are surrounded by a culture that fosters achievement. He often points out frequently that we've spent a fortune on anti-poverty programs, and he's the only one I've ever seen on tv who has pointed out that studies have shown that Head Start results in only temporary gains; thus, yes, he does bang the drum of parental responsibility and he does point out the futility of government programs, but I suspect the harsher truths of HBD haven't occurred to him. Steve, you really should post something on the murderer in NC whose death sentence was just commuted under the state's Racial Justice Act. Black murderer. Black judge who commuted his sentence. The Derbyshirean element of a white teenager trying to be the good Samaritan to two black thugs. A Racial Justice Act passed by Dem politicians that freed him based not on proof of discrimination in his particular case, but based on alleged statistical data. There's a political angle, too, as it could potentially effect the election outcomes in NC, Florida, and Virginia - all of which went Obama in 2008. You should also read the comments at the CNN website, where the commenters are being particularly blunt. For those interested in both the media coverage of the GZ/TM incident and in analyses of the whole thing, visit The WAgist and The Last Refuge. These guys ought to go to work for the defense. Thats racist, anti-semitic, xenophobic, misogynist, class-biased, bigoted, heteronomitive, fascistic, authoritarianism, and several other bad things if you even think about doing so. And illiberal. Mind you, modern liberals themselves have no shortage of illiberal fascistoid tendencies when their beliefs are challenged ... maybe the media whitened him? Interesting about that Newsone link is their headline relying on "epic fail" from the suburban white geek lexicon. you're killing it today, stevo. Knocking it out the park. I like it that you finally have addressed a WHY question concerning The Narrative. It's nice to have it pointed out. But at some point, we have to go deeper, no? Here is my rebuttal: culture and and status-seeking behavior and money and fear are the drivers of the media adherence to The Narrative. Journos calculate and triangulate and calibrate in order to march in line with The Narrative. Culture is the guide that leads the way. That culture was born of elite college educations. That culture was molded by self-interest, primarily. Those who have wish to keep it, and they have the power to manipulate society by manipulating the culture. They do it by use of their monies to pay for academics, activists and writers to create a critical of ideology, ideology favorable to themselves, rich people. Over the decades, they funded academics, activists and writers whose personal leanings were toward a social-left orientation, as opposed to an economic left orientation. These social leftists were fed by plutocrats via philanthropical foundations, e.g., ford, rockefeller and getty foundations. See Dr Roelofs' THE MASK OF PLURALISM. Also, those at the top were pro-pluralism/multiculti because such had the effect of weakening middle class unity, and thus allowing those at the top to have their way. Such pseudoleftism, social leftism, was adopted by the rich, and of course many of those in the middle adopt the stances of the rich in order to attain a higher social status. Also, the media is owned and funded by those at the top. Hence, the pro-pluralism approach is de rigeur in part because if you fail to toe the line (not tow the line!), you will be put in a bad way, as they used to say. So high salaries for media management make people fear for their jobs if they fail to be pro-pluralist. DCS said... The case for 2nd degree murder has a bigger hole than the one in Titanic. The case is a dog, but the special prosecutor was merely playing to the liberal hamster class and race baiters like Sharpton, Spike Lee and Jesse Jackson. Who could have guessed that Obama would make an ass of himself by opening his mouth? What would his teleprompter do? Wow - it's becoming increasingly difficult on these threads to get the phrase "Scots-Irish"* past Komment Kontrol. Makes one wonder what percentage of all submitted comments actually make it through to the blog itself. *Apparently we're supposed to employ all sorts of bizarre euphemisms for the Scots-Irish, such as "liberal", "Walter Duranty", "Pravda" and "George Orwell"?!? The expository & stylistic sands keep shifting so quickly around here that I can't keep it all straight anymore. The really ominous undertow in this series of comments is that the MSM may decide to knowingly tell major lies in the service of the Narrative. If circumstances conspire to prove them wrong,in a manner that cannot be glossed over, they can always issue a "correction", and sometimes a meaningless "apology". By then, the damage is done, anyway. The art of this is to keep doing it in such a skillful manner that credibility is not destroyed. Do the Zimmermans really have the resources to sue them? Who does? Goebbels understood all of this 80 years ago; but he would still have been impressed. Your negro sexual fetishism truly is pitful, Andrei. Give it a rest. No one needs to hear it. "As a friend of mine keeps pointing out to me, if Zimmerman was "stalking" Martin, Martin probably had a right of retaliation under the stand your ground law." We're in big trouble in this country if, having your suspicions aroused about a stranger on your street, you can't follow at a distance for a bit without that being called "stalking." BTW, that is not the definition of stalking in my state. In order for the narrative to change you need a Big Event. The narrative remains the one set by the last Big Event until a new Big Event comes along." Some events seem to punch a hole in the narrative, but only for a brief time. Immediately after the Rodney King Riots in LA, news outlets inadvertantly gave voice to whites saying exactly what a lot of whites really think - why the hell are black people so violent and dangerous? They quickly regrouped and put a stop to any such unapproved thoughts. A similar thing happened in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, with all the footage of BBBs in New Orleans, a lot of people had their eyes opened. I don't think this was the intention of the news media. It was just the case that they necessarily thrive on the images they can broadcast, and they had nothing else to show. The internet, of course, is beginning to challenge the lock that the establishment media has on "the narrative". Overeem isn't good. He's a cheater. He got caught for steroids recently. The recent revelations about DeeDee brought up an angle I hadn't considered. That the Crump/Sharpton playbook is to get (1) an arrest and (2) a trial. While a "guilty" verdict would be nice, an acquittal will do. Because clearing the "probable cause" hurdle opens the way for the Martin family's lawyers to bring a civil suit on Wrongful Death grounds. A la Goldman family in the OJ Simpson case. For deep-pockets defendants, let's nominate the town of Sanford and the community association. Ka-ching! So... is this just the fevered musings of some right-wing-bloggers? Or is there something to this scenario? To my knowledge, the mainstream media hasn't uttered a peep about the potential use of this strategy by their teammates. Assuming this is a possible motivator of Crump, Sharpton, et al.: Thanks, Mainstream Media! "Overeem isn't good. He's a cheater. He got caught for steroids recently." Not really cuz steroid use is so prevalent in sports, big and small. So, he was doing what almost everyone's doing. Chael Sonnen almost beat the invincible Anderson Silva but it turned out he used banned drugs too. "Most have probably read plenty of chick lit though, along with lots of trendy bestsellers like the Gladwell collection." Are you saying the Gladwell collection isn't chick lit? "I think the sort of person who goes into journalism is even more predisposed than average to let preconceived (and inaccurate) a priori views influence his interpretation of events, but the problem isn't stupidity." Sure it is. Because political correctness makes you stupid. Here's the link to The Conservative Treehouse's post, claiming that DeeDee's contribution to the Team Trayvon Narrative is falling to pieces. If this guy is right, and the stage has now been set for a civil wrongful death lawsuit, it may not matter much. Truth gets its boots on, but so what, it's already payday. "Overeem isn't good. He's a cheater. He got caught for steroids recently" The fact remains that the champions in the fast growing sport of Mixed Martial Arts are disproportionately black. The 2 most dominant champions in the UFC are both black: Anderson Silva of Brazil and Jon Jones of the USA. Actually, in just a few hours Jon Jones will defend his Light Heavyweight title against his toughest challenger yet, former champion Rashad Evans who is also black. On riots: IMHO that's a road that ends badly for the MSM and black rioters in any area that hasn't disarmed itself. America 1992 is not America 2006 (Katrina) and that is not America 2012. Gun sales are through the roof, so who's buying these guns? Brady and the rest of the pro - be a victim crowd would have you think that one guy is buying 20 guns and sitting on them. Repeatedly. While LA, Philly, Detroit, chicago, Portland, Oakland and the rest riot, I imagine there will be a different story if blacks try that shit in white areas where there is an armed populace. Not that the MsM would spin it as anything other than noble negors being gunned down for being IWB (innocent while black), but seeing people fighting back is going to be an eye opener for your typical SWPL who just had his head kicked around by Danfernee and the other youfs. Stereotypes the press isn't warring against, but rather, tacitly supporting: White hillbillies (too many to list) WASPs (too many to list) Arabs (though this one took a hit on 9/11) East Asians The independent and self-reliant (survivalist wackos, militia terrorists, etc.) Russians, Serbs It's more like the Who-whom War Against Western Civilization, Stereotype Readjustment Campaign. The first, of course, is money: Man Bites Dog stories are more profitable than vice-versa. You can say "Man Bites Dog" on the air. That's the litmus test. Can you say "Blacks commit 6x more violent crime than Whites" on the air? No. Ergo, it's not a "Man Bites Dog" statement. Your friend should lay off the dope. He's dumb enough without it. Okay, I flubbed the grammer on the "Man Bites Dog" point. But it's obvious. Anyone can whip out the stats on Man-on-Dog crime vs. Dog-on-Man crime, and no one will blink an eye. You can't do that for race. The Color of Crime is controversial. "You can't say that!" Wow, those CNN comments are good. It's like they've all been through race realism 101, or something. Beecher Asbury said... Where is Truth on this post? He was playing a leading role in the other iSteve Trayvon posts, but I haven't seen him on this one. I'd like to see his take on that bloody photo. One of Half Sigma's commenters discusses the Who? Whom? pathos of the kulak with the starring role: Posted by: PA \| April 21, 2012 at 09:23 PM One thing in particular must be extremely hard on Zimmerman. By all appearances, he was a sincere liberal who reached out to help blacks. Being a race realist or racist in his position would at least grant you the psychological comfort of understanding that you are unjustly persecuted by evil men. But Zimmerman is being crucified by his heroes, the liberal establishment, all the way up to the president, whom he doubtlessly admired. He may be like small-time Communists who were falsely accused of counterrevolutionary sabotage in Moscow show trials. That's gotta hurt. Is Klitschko still champ? Shouldn't one of those Black studs go knock him out for a few mil? A lot of YKWs seem to have a homo-crush on Black athletes. Sorry, Mr. Anon Journo. I spent too much time as a TA correcting JO101 papers at a major private institution with an accredited journalism program to buy the "smart journo" meme. Noun and verb agreement was downright Kennedyesque. My constant refrain has been thus: if you're a Wealthy East Coast Scots-Irish, you send your intelligent progeny to Harvard or Yale to be doctors, lawyers or corporate robber barons; you send your less intellectually-gifted children to journalism school. That isn't consistent with the facts: Segregation: big gov't trampling Freedom of Association in the name of... Integration: big gov't trampling Freedom of Association in the name of... More power is what the gov't is after here. Apparently they don't give a shit whose ox is being gored, as long as they get a pretext for more and more power. Truth said... My take on that bloody photo is the same measured, logical take as I have had on the rest of the Trey-Mart threads: It indicates that there was some sort of trauma to the back of his head. Nothing more, nothing less. "The disappearance of Detroit is on a scale unprecedented in human history." The urbanist Spiro Kostof compared it to the fall of Rome (the city, not the empire) in the 500s, after the aqueducts were cut. It doesn't take long for for unoccupied buildings (unless well built) to burn or collapse. Cennbeorc I would like a response to the following, please. I'm a late-twenty-something guy; I'm not a racist, having been raised like most others in my cohort to treat all individuals equally courteously. Jim Crow was a long time ago, and nobody I know has any relation to any of that. Say I follow the Trayvon Martin case, see how the narrators attempt to portray the flawed human personality that was Martin as a purified martyr, a saintly soul totally blameless and comprehensively victimized by his murderous assailant. The one was blameless; the other was incarnate evil. It later turns out, despite the narrators' good-natured deceitfulness, that the facts were more complicated, more earthy less ethereal. Now say I'm concurrently reading a history of America, say I'm reading a history of the 1960s, say Nixonland. In that book I recognize the same Manichean narrative: good vs. evil. White politicians in the 1960s who criticized black behavior are condemned by history, etc. Here's my point: as a twenty-something guy who wasn't around in the 60s, the experience of the Trayvon case is going to affect my reading of Nixonland. I can't help it. I'm going to guess that the urban riots of the 1960s maybe had two human parties, despite the official narrative--that whites and blacks were complicit to various extents and not that whites were the bad guys full stop. Now I'm not going to question the Civil Rights Act or anything like that. It's unreal to me how African Americans were effectively forbidden to vote until two decades before I was born. But, for example, I'm going to pause before I dismiss Nixon as a racist for campaigning on the issues of law and order. helene edwards said... the pro - be a victim crowd would have you think that one guy is buying 20 guns and sitting on them. Repeatedly. OK, but I do have an Italian friend who owned one gun in 1996 and has eight now. OklahomaRichard said... Why the odd details in Zimmerman's "Sorry" statement. The "sorry about the loss of your son" made sense. But then to me he got kind of off topic and irrelevant and I thought maybe he was winging it or nervous, because then he said he had thought Trayvon was just a bit younger than Zimmerman himself, and Zimmerman had not known Trayvon was unarmed. The statement was puzzling. If you are in a fight for your life, you will not care if your opponent is a bit younger than yourself or if he's a juvenile or if he's eighty-five. And if your opponent is attempting to crack open your skull against the cement, you'll do what you must to make him stop, regardless of his being armed or not. "Oh, you're not armed? Then by all means crack open my head like a hard-boiled egg." Turns out, Trayvon's parents had been interviewed on a morning show and said they would like to know from Zimmerman if he knew Trayvon was a minor and unarmed. So Zimmerman specifically answered the questions that the parents said they wanted answered. He "went there" because the parents said they wanted him to go there. Zimmerman has blood on his head and media has egg on its face. "It's fucking c---" ?? Now, it's fucking cool. "My take on that bloody photo is the same measured, logical take as I have had on the rest of the Trey-Mart threads:" How do we know the immodest TRUTH's comments are measured and logical? Because he says they are. That's how. Hey, that's good enough for me... (Now there will undoubtedly be his silly, obnoxious reply). "How do we know the immodest TRUTH's comments are measured and logical? Because he says they are. That's how. Hey, that's good enough for me... (Now there will undoubtedly be his silly, obnoxious reply)." Was Socrates immodest? Plato? Confucius?... http://youtu.be/hioSFBCYZUI Libyans vs blacks. 4/25/12 NY Post article reveals Zimmerman has black roots. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/george_zimmerman_prelude_to_shooting_KnrkzId9fbXMspvRx3Q4hJ The rules don't apply in NYC Nobody Knows Nuthin' The Female Hitler Shortage & other great moments i... The Ted Nugent Threat & other stuff I'm not going ... Daily Mail: "Why has children's party restaurant C... Dueling headlines Unz: Chinese Scandals v. American Incidents How good is the best woman at golf? Can you raise your IQ thru mental exercise? Pitcher Jamie Moyer wins at 49 The Forgotten Minority Is there anything left to say about racial profili... 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__label__wiki	0.800876	0.800876	Events Hype Hangs Out With Richard Durand Hype Hangs Out With Richard Durand The Dutchman started his DJing career in 2005. That very same year, he was personally recommended by trance forefather, Tiësto. It immediately placed him in the DJ Magazine Top 100 DJs pool. But not for nothing though – Richard Durand has the skillset to prove it. In the past few years, he has produced several remixes including Tiësto’s singles (Lethal Industry, Flight 643, Break My Fall) and reworks of The Prodigy’s “Smack My Bitch Up” and Snow Patrol’s “Chasing Cars”. It made international DJs such as Armin van Buuren, Paul van Dyk, Ferry Corsten, and Eddie Halliwell sit up and listen, and landed him into their playlists. In 2008, he was given the opportunity to work on remixing Fragma’s “Toca’s Miracle” and Armin van Buuren’s “In And Out Of Love”: [youtube id=”KkT7-SGZucw” width=”600″ height=”350″] Barely a year later, he remixed Art of Trance’s “Madagascar”. and also produced his debut artiste album, “Always The Sun” on Magik Muzik/Black Hole Recordings. Richard Durand’s album spawned three successful singles, “Into Something”, “Always The Sun”, and “No Way Home”. Since then, he has been playing at gigs all across Europe, America, and Asia, as well as huge festival appearance at two Global Gathering events, Ultra Music Festival, and as part of the “In Search Of Sunrise” tour: [youtube id=”N-AX1A6aeCU” width=”600″ height=”350″] He also made a stop-0ff in Malaysia in December 2010 where he played at the epic year end Godskitchen Boombox. And this year (more like, in about four days), Richard Durand will return once again to play at Music Conference Asia 2012. And here comes the surprise; our team at Hype was lucky enough to have had the opportunity to hang out with Richard Durand before he packs up and takes off to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia! In an exclusive interview, we dug deep into the mind of the Dutchman: When it comes to EDM, “non believers” carry with them a bad perception of the scene (e.g. drugs). Now, how would you, as a thriving international DJ try to change that? “I think that everyone at the forefront of the scene such as DJs, producers and promoters have a responsibility to act as role models. By the process of positive publicity and educational debate and information, hopefully we can improve people’s outlook towards such negative matters and instead focus on responsible behaviour.” How has trance changed from the time that you started out until now? “Producers have evolved and multiplied with production techniques now more complex, but at the same time, the advances in technology have made many of these techniques automatic and computerized, making production in general open to the masses. This probably explains the growth in the global scene – there have been places that I’ve visited to perform that I would never imagined a few years ago having dedicated trance club night or festival.” Who is the one DJ or producers (or a few DJs or producers) that you would like to share the stage with? “I’ve been lucky enough to remix the likes of Tiesto and Armin van Buuren already. If I had to pick another name from the trance scene, maybe someone like Ferry Corsten would be cool to work with?” Who are your inspirations or rather, where do you get your inspirations from? “I don’t listen to any music in my spare time these days as I prefer to chill out. So my main inspiration comes from my experience and moods; hence I often write a lot of music while travelling to events all over the world – I find that the different cultures and things you feel while in a foreign and faraway country can provide the perfect inspiration to make music.” Name the top 5 tunes (predicted or current) of 2012. Or top 5 tunes that you love dropping. “Some favourite tracks of my sets at present include Richard Durand “Trancefusion”, Richard Durand & Bobina “Last Train To Moscow”, Evanescence “My Immortal” (Richard Durand Rework), Shogun “Skyfire”, and Nicky Romero “WTF”.” Credits go to Global Sound Masters for being wonderful and arranging this for us. See you this Saturday, Richard Durand! For more information on Richard Durand, visit his official website, Facebook page, or follow his Twitter account. Global Sound Masters MC Asia 2012 Music Conference Asia 2012 Richard Durand Previous articleCoachella 2012: Celebs Spotted On Weekend 2 Next articleMegan Fox Is Pregnant! Eats, sleeps, & breathes music, but drinks mostly coffee & okay, some wine - sometimes, a little too much. A little too obsessed with the number seven, is deathly afraid of horror movies, believes that she writes better than she speaks, & currently feeling a little strange writing a profile about herself. Richard Durand’s In Search Of Sunrise Tour Comes To Malaysia Hype’s Exclusive: Interview With DJ Henrix World War Z: A”live” At Sunway Lagoon World War Z: “Z” For “Zombie” Can’t Get Enough Of “Before You Exit” Hype’s Exclusive: Interview With Cosmic Gate	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1491
__label__wiki	0.532267	0.532267	Events Announcements TIO Concert Tour: Khalil Fong To Perform In Malaysia In March 2020 TIO Concert Tour: Khalil Fong To Perform In Malaysia In March 2020 Khalil Fong (方大同) is set to bring his “TIO Concert Tour” (方大同TIO灵心之子巡迴演唱会) to Malaysia next year. Mark your calendars music lovers cause the Hong Kong-based American singer-songwriter will be performing at Resorts World Genting in March 2020. The last time local fans saw him live was back in 2012. Source: ESPLANADE Since his debut in 2005, Fong has released 9 studio albums and 5 live albums. Throughout his career, the artist has also picked up numerous awards including Best Male Vocalist at the 28th Golden Melody Awards. If you’ve been to Fong’s show before then you’ll know that his performances are a fusion of Asian and Western influences. During his concert in Singapore earlier in February, Fong explained that because he’s usually quiet and introverted, he tends to wear something bold and loud to balance things out. No doubt when the performer returns to Malaysia, fans will get to hear a mixture of familiar favourites mixed with some new material. Brought to you by MIC Entertainment Group, the details to Khalil Fong’s “TIO Concert Tour” in Malaysia are as follows: Date: 7th March 2020 (Saturday) Venue: Arena of Stars, Resorts World Genting Ticketing: TBA Stay tuned to this space for more info. Khalil Fong Khalil Fong Malaysia 方大同 Previous articleShawn Mendes Shares Photo With BLACKPINK; Fans Express Wish For A Collab Project Next articleHow To Buy A House In Malaysia? 5 Ways Madam Loan Can Help You Usually awkward & quiet, but gets talkative once the conversation revolves around movies, TV shows, music, and entertainment. (Contact: [email protected])	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1492
__label__wiki	0.876072	0.876072	Ahead of January 26, Families Await Reunion As 26 Move Out of Jail By KL News Network on January 11, 2020 Kashmir Latest News, Web Exclusive by Umar Mukhtar SRINAGAR: Neighbours and relatives of Rafiq Ahmad Bhat of Gulzarpora village in Pulwama had come to congratulate his family on his release. Bhat is one of the 26 individuals whose detention under Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act (PSA) was revoked by the government on Monday. However, Bhat is yet to reach home. His family said they could not make any contacts with him after they got the information about his release. Bhat was arrested in the second week of August. Initially, he was lodged in the Central Jail at Srinagar and then shifted to Agra Jail in Uttar Pradesh. The official spokesman on Monday broke the news of releasing the largest group of persons detained in August. “The government today revoked detention warrants in respect of 26 persons detained under the provisions of Jammu Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978,” the official statement reads. The statement listed the release gazette. Not all the persons announced to be released have reached home. “He (Rafiq) was booked in a stone-pelting case and was also charged for being an instigator,” said his brother Bashir Ahmad. “Nobody has conveyed us about his release. We heard it from our neighbours who have seen it in the newspapers.” Of the 26 persons whose PSA’s was revoked, 13 hail from South Kashmir, 12 from the North and one from Central Kashmir’s Srinagar district. The list includes two lawyers: Abdul Salam Rather, the president of the Baramulla Bar Association from the Central Jail, Srinagar, and Nazir Ahmad Ronga, former president of the J&K High Court Bar Association, Kashmir, from jail in UP. Rather, a senior Baramulla lawyer, whose last and the only direct connection with politics was his unsuccessful contest in 1977 assembly elections at the peak of Janta Party government,. However, he directly drove to a close relative’s home to mourn his death, whose funeral prayers he had missed while in jail. Son-in-Law of his sister, he had died in December. The lawyer, who has been heading the Bar in Baramulla for a long time, was arrested on August 5 and booked under PSA. His grounds of detention, according to Rather, accused him of being vocal against the abrogation of 370 and 35A. He was driven directly to Central Jail, Srinagar. “Jail is not like an MLA hostel,” Rather said when asked about the life in jail for more than 160 days he spent there. “Jail is just a jail.” Unlike Rather, the Rongas’ in Srinagar do still not know about their lawyer head of the family. Ronga’s is yet to reach home. Police had arrested Ronga on August 9 under PSA. His grounds of detention, according to reports appearing the media, suggested that he was accused of calling for poll boycott, and was instrumental in mobilizing the people. Initially, Ronga was held at Central Jail Srinagar and then shifted to Ambedkar Nagar Jail in Uttar Pradesh, along with the Kashmir Bar Association president, Mian Abdul Qayoom, who reportedly is unwell. Humair Ahmad, Ronga’s son, told Kashmir Life that they have read about his release in the news reports but there is no official communication to them. “I tried to reach SSP Srinagar and DC Srinagar but there was no response from them,” he alleged. However, the release of 26 individuals is seen as the first significant development in Kashmir. Most of these people, seemingly, had least or no political connections. Earlier, the authorities set free a number of political workers in phased manners. Though, there are around 25 politicians still detained. Ram Madhav, BJP general secretary has recently stated that they may be released in next few weeks. “Majority of the leaders are free now,” Madhav was quoted saying in Jammu on the sidelines of an event. “About 20-25 of them are still in detention. I am hopeful that they will be set free by the end of this month or maybe next few weeks.” The official statement listed the detainees who were freed as Rouf Ahmad Dar, Aadil Ahmad Lone, Umar Gull, Showkat Ahmad Shah (Pampore), Tanveer Ahmad Bhat, Mohammad Umer Dar, Mudasir Ahmad Tantray, Shabir Ahmad Lone, Zahoor Ahmad Mir (Rafiabad), Rameez Ahmad Hajam, Rafiq Ahmad Bhat, Shabir Ahmad Wani (Awantipora), Mohammad Imran Dar (Pattan), Muzafar Ahmad Dar, Fayaz Ahmad Naikoo, Shahnawaz Ahmad Dar, Mohammad Maqbool Yatoo (Sopore), Mohammad Arif Lone (Pahalgam), Ishfaq Ahmad Ganie, Mudasir Maqbool Teli (Anantnag), Shabir Ahmad Bhat, Nawaz Ahmad Haroo, Sadam Hussain Haroo (Kulgam), Javid Kalas (Shopian). Weary Voyages Rafiabad got the maximum number of detained political activists freed in the list. These included Zahoor Ahmad Mir, reported to be the nephew of Mohammad Dilawar Mir. Authorities had arrested around 5000 people in anticipation of August 5, when the Jammu and Kashmir’s special status was binned and the erstwhile state was bifurcated into two union territories (UT). The MHA informed the parliament, early December, that a total of 3509 individuals were detained post-August 5. Of them, 234 were held in various jails across UP and 27 were kept in Haryana jails. In Jammu and Kashmir, 3248 prisoners were jailed, the government response said. Article 35A Article 370 of the Indian Constitution Jails in Kashmir Jammu and Kashmir Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act kashmir Political prisoners Previous ArticleKashmir’s economy suffers losses up to Rs 18,000 cr since August 5: Report Next Article January 26 functions: Div Com reviews arrangements KL News Network	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1497
__label__wiki	0.767003	0.767003	An epidural cooling catheter protects the spinal cord against ischemic injury in pigs Atsuo Mori, Toshihiko Ueda, Takashi Hachiya, Nobuyuki Kabei, Hideyuki Okano, Ryohei Yozu, Tatsuumi Sasaki Background. Using swine, we investigated whether epidural placement of a cooling catheter rather than infusing iced saline solution could protect the spinal cord from ischemia during aortic surgery. Methods. We divided 14 domestic pigs into two groups of 7 each. Each underwent epidural catheter placement preceding 30 minutes of aortic cross-clamping distal to the origin of the left subclavian artery. In group 1, cold water was circulated continuously through the lumen of the catheter connected to an external unit. In group 2, animals received catheter placement without cooling. Spinal cord somatosensory evoked potentials were recorded. Neurologic status involving hind limbs was graded sequentially after surgery. Results. At aortic cross-clamping, spinal temperature in group 1 (31.7° ± 0.6°C) was significantly lower than in group 2 (37.8° ± 0.4°C; p < 0.0001). No significant elevation of intrathecal pressure accompanied cooling with the catheter (group 1, 8.1 ± 1.7 mm Hg; group 2, 8.0 ± 1.5 mm Hg). Mean duration of total loss of potentials was significantly shorter in group 1 (7.4 ± 3.8 minutes) than group 2 (19.7 ± 7.3 minutes; p = 0.0002). Pigs in group 1 exhibited better hind limb function recovery (mean Tarlov score, 4.7 ± 0.5) than group 2 (0.6 ± 0.8; p = 0.0017). Group 1 showed normal histologic characteristics, whereas group 2 showed loss of motor neurons in the ventral horns. Conclusions. Epidural cooling catheter without iced saline infusion can cool the spinal cord without elevating intrathecal pressure, protecting the cord against ischemia. Published - 2005 Nov Spinal Cord Ischemia Subclavian Artery Recovery of Function Motor Neurons Mori, A., Ueda, T., Hachiya, T., Kabei, N., Okano, H., Yozu, R., & Sasaki, T. (2005). An epidural cooling catheter protects the spinal cord against ischemic injury in pigs. Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 80(5), 1829-1833. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.04.031 An epidural cooling catheter protects the spinal cord against ischemic injury in pigs. / Mori, Atsuo; Ueda, Toshihiko; Hachiya, Takashi; Kabei, Nobuyuki; Okano, Hideyuki; Yozu, Ryohei; Sasaki, Tatsuumi. In: Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol. 80, No. 5, 11.2005, p. 1829-1833. Mori, A, Ueda, T, Hachiya, T, Kabei, N, Okano, H, Yozu, R & Sasaki, T 2005, 'An epidural cooling catheter protects the spinal cord against ischemic injury in pigs', Annals of Thoracic Surgery, vol. 80, no. 5, pp. 1829-1833. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.04.031 Mori A, Ueda T, Hachiya T, Kabei N, Okano H, Yozu R et al. An epidural cooling catheter protects the spinal cord against ischemic injury in pigs. Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 2005 Nov;80(5):1829-1833. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.04.031 Mori, Atsuo ; Ueda, Toshihiko ; Hachiya, Takashi ; Kabei, Nobuyuki ; Okano, Hideyuki ; Yozu, Ryohei ; Sasaki, Tatsuumi. / An epidural cooling catheter protects the spinal cord against ischemic injury in pigs. In: Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 2005 ; Vol. 80, No. 5. pp. 1829-1833. @article{0840c40cd02e49c7a66ee23b18211e3d, title = "An epidural cooling catheter protects the spinal cord against ischemic injury in pigs", abstract = "Background. Using swine, we investigated whether epidural placement of a cooling catheter rather than infusing iced saline solution could protect the spinal cord from ischemia during aortic surgery. Methods. We divided 14 domestic pigs into two groups of 7 each. Each underwent epidural catheter placement preceding 30 minutes of aortic cross-clamping distal to the origin of the left subclavian artery. In group 1, cold water was circulated continuously through the lumen of the catheter connected to an external unit. In group 2, animals received catheter placement without cooling. Spinal cord somatosensory evoked potentials were recorded. Neurologic status involving hind limbs was graded sequentially after surgery. Results. At aortic cross-clamping, spinal temperature in group 1 (31.7° ± 0.6°C) was significantly lower than in group 2 (37.8° ± 0.4°C; p < 0.0001). No significant elevation of intrathecal pressure accompanied cooling with the catheter (group 1, 8.1 ± 1.7 mm Hg; group 2, 8.0 ± 1.5 mm Hg). Mean duration of total loss of potentials was significantly shorter in group 1 (7.4 ± 3.8 minutes) than group 2 (19.7 ± 7.3 minutes; p = 0.0002). Pigs in group 1 exhibited better hind limb function recovery (mean Tarlov score, 4.7 ± 0.5) than group 2 (0.6 ± 0.8; p = 0.0017). Group 1 showed normal histologic characteristics, whereas group 2 showed loss of motor neurons in the ventral horns. Conclusions. Epidural cooling catheter without iced saline infusion can cool the spinal cord without elevating intrathecal pressure, protecting the cord against ischemia.", author = "Atsuo Mori and Toshihiko Ueda and Takashi Hachiya and Nobuyuki Kabei and Hideyuki Okano and Ryohei Yozu and Tatsuumi Sasaki", T1 - An epidural cooling catheter protects the spinal cord against ischemic injury in pigs AU - Mori, Atsuo AU - Ueda, Toshihiko AU - Hachiya, Takashi AU - Kabei, Nobuyuki AU - Yozu, Ryohei AU - Sasaki, Tatsuumi N2 - Background. Using swine, we investigated whether epidural placement of a cooling catheter rather than infusing iced saline solution could protect the spinal cord from ischemia during aortic surgery. Methods. We divided 14 domestic pigs into two groups of 7 each. Each underwent epidural catheter placement preceding 30 minutes of aortic cross-clamping distal to the origin of the left subclavian artery. In group 1, cold water was circulated continuously through the lumen of the catheter connected to an external unit. In group 2, animals received catheter placement without cooling. Spinal cord somatosensory evoked potentials were recorded. Neurologic status involving hind limbs was graded sequentially after surgery. Results. At aortic cross-clamping, spinal temperature in group 1 (31.7° ± 0.6°C) was significantly lower than in group 2 (37.8° ± 0.4°C; p < 0.0001). No significant elevation of intrathecal pressure accompanied cooling with the catheter (group 1, 8.1 ± 1.7 mm Hg; group 2, 8.0 ± 1.5 mm Hg). Mean duration of total loss of potentials was significantly shorter in group 1 (7.4 ± 3.8 minutes) than group 2 (19.7 ± 7.3 minutes; p = 0.0002). Pigs in group 1 exhibited better hind limb function recovery (mean Tarlov score, 4.7 ± 0.5) than group 2 (0.6 ± 0.8; p = 0.0017). Group 1 showed normal histologic characteristics, whereas group 2 showed loss of motor neurons in the ventral horns. Conclusions. Epidural cooling catheter without iced saline infusion can cool the spinal cord without elevating intrathecal pressure, protecting the cord against ischemia. AB - Background. Using swine, we investigated whether epidural placement of a cooling catheter rather than infusing iced saline solution could protect the spinal cord from ischemia during aortic surgery. Methods. We divided 14 domestic pigs into two groups of 7 each. Each underwent epidural catheter placement preceding 30 minutes of aortic cross-clamping distal to the origin of the left subclavian artery. In group 1, cold water was circulated continuously through the lumen of the catheter connected to an external unit. In group 2, animals received catheter placement without cooling. Spinal cord somatosensory evoked potentials were recorded. Neurologic status involving hind limbs was graded sequentially after surgery. Results. At aortic cross-clamping, spinal temperature in group 1 (31.7° ± 0.6°C) was significantly lower than in group 2 (37.8° ± 0.4°C; p < 0.0001). No significant elevation of intrathecal pressure accompanied cooling with the catheter (group 1, 8.1 ± 1.7 mm Hg; group 2, 8.0 ± 1.5 mm Hg). Mean duration of total loss of potentials was significantly shorter in group 1 (7.4 ± 3.8 minutes) than group 2 (19.7 ± 7.3 minutes; p = 0.0002). Pigs in group 1 exhibited better hind limb function recovery (mean Tarlov score, 4.7 ± 0.5) than group 2 (0.6 ± 0.8; p = 0.0017). Group 1 showed normal histologic characteristics, whereas group 2 showed loss of motor neurons in the ventral horns. Conclusions. Epidural cooling catheter without iced saline infusion can cool the spinal cord without elevating intrathecal pressure, protecting the cord against ischemia.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1503
__label__cc	0.661273	0.338727	James Primosch, composer Score Excerpts Bio + photo Blog: Secret Geometry Tag: Dark the Star “Dark the Star” at Florida State March 2, 2018 jamesprimoschLeave a comment About a year ago, a performance of my song cycle for baritone and chamber ensemble, Dark the Star, was scheduled for performance at the Florida State University New Music Festival. Evan Jones, the soloist came down with a terrific case of laryngitis, and the performance had to be cancelled. I’m delighted that the performance has at last been re-scheduled, and Evan will be singing the piece, with most of the same players from last year, on a faculty recital at FSU this Friday, March 2. I heard a rehearsal of the instrumentalists last year, and the performance is going to be fantastic. Here’s the lineup: Evan T. Jones, baritone Deborah Bish, clarinet Gregory Sauer, cello Heidi Williams, piano Jacob Kight, percussion Keith Dodson, conductor The concert takes place at FSU’s Opperman Music Hall at 7:30. There are a couple of ways you can get to know the piece. Check out an earlier post, including a program note here. You can listen to the superb Bridge recording by baritone William Sharp, the 21st Century Consort, and conductor Christopher Kendall: and you can look at the score, published by Theodore Presser Co. here. Order the CD that includes Dark the Star, plus three other vocal works of mine, at the Bridge website. Tagged Bridge Records, Dark the Star, Evan Jones, Florida State University, Theodore Presser Co. January 27, 2017 January 27, 2017 jamesprimoschLeave a comment My Dark the Star for baritone and chamber ensemble was selected to be performed at the Florida State University Festival of New music next week. Here are the details: Thursday, February 2, 2017, 7:30 pm: Dark the Star Greg Sauer, cello Peter Soroka, percussion Alexander Jimenez, conductor Opperman Music Hall A great deal of music is packed into the three days of the Festival – go to the Festival website for more information. Special guest performers for the Festival include the Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo, and violinist Monica Germino. The featured composer is Louis Andriessen. I’ve never met Andriessen, but I played his 1963 work Registers for piano at the 1977 Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition in Rotterdam. This graphic score is very different from the later music for which he is principally known, with its influences from minimalism and Stravinsky. You can get some sense of what the score looks like in this video, though the image is quite reduced in size. (A shame the performer in the video is not identified.) Heidi Williams, the pianist for the performance of Dark the Star, is in the midst of a big CD project with soprano Mary Mackenzie, including quite a lot of my vocal music. I will linger in Florida after the Festival to attend a recording session for my Three Folk Hymns with Mary and Heidi. (Mary just gave a wonderful performance at a Collegium Institute event at Penn, along with pianist Eric Sedgwick.) Here’s the first movement of Dark the Star in the Bridge recording made by the forces for whom the piece was written: William Sharp, the 21st Century Consort, and Christopher Kendall, conductor. Tagged 21st Century Consort, Bridge Records, Christopher Kendall, Dark the Star, Florida State University Festival of New Music, Heidi Williams, Louis Andriessen, Mary Mackenzie Music Amid Catastrophe November 9, 2016 November 26, 2016 jamesprimoschLeave a comment The deeply frightening election nightmare that has descended leaves little room to talk about artistic matters. And yet, I feel I would be remiss if I did not express my thanks for the recent performances of my music in the past several days. Cantori New York and the French ensemble Musicatreize gave two vivid performances of my Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus in New York City this past weekend. The combined choirs mastered the intricate layering of the piece, with its settings of both the Latin Ordinary of the Mass and Denise Levertov poems that reflect on the liturgical texts. I felt the singers had internalized the gestures of the piece and projected them to the listeners with authority and nuance. Overlapping with the Cantori concerts were performances of my Dark the Star with Baritone Tom Meglioranza and the New York New Music Ensemble This was an astonishing performance; Tom had memorized the piece, a 20-minute work that sets Rilke, Susan Stewart, and a verse from the psalms. Beauty of sound, precision, powerful affect – Tom’s singing had it all. The instrumentalists – Jean Kopperud, clarinet; Stephen Gosling, piano; Chris Finckel, cello; and Daniel Druckman, percussion, with conductor Eduardo Leandro – were no less eloquent. Here are YouTube links for the pieces: the Mass as performed by The Crossing and Dark the Star with William Sharp and the 21st Century Consort, Christopher Kendall conductor. Although I was in New York and could not attend, I was happy to learn that mezzo Kristin Gornstein performed one of my Three Folk Hymns this past Sunday as part of her recital at St. Thomas Church in Whitemarsh, not far outside Philadelphia. Her pianist was Derrick Goff. Kristin was very impressive when I heard her give the premiere of Steve Mackey’s Madrigal for voice and percussion at Tanglewood in 2015, and I am delighted she has taken up my music. In addition to these performances, I want to report that pianist Youmee Kim has recorded my Pure Contraption, Absolute Gift for Centaur Records as part of an album of American piano music. Youmee was a member of the consortium that commissioned the piece, and it is wonderful to have this elegantly performed document of that project. I am not yet finding the album online; Centaur advises checking Arkiv Music or HB Direct for its products, and I expect the disc will be available soon. Tagged Absolute Gift, Cantori New York, Dark the Star, Kristin Gornstein, Mark Shapiro, Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus, Musicatreize, New York New Music Ensemble, Pure Contraption, Thomas Meglioranza, Youmee Kim “Dark the Star” in Philadelphia and New York October 29, 2016 jamesprimoschLeave a comment Poetry of Rilke and Susan Stewart, plus a verse from Psalm 116 – these are the texts I set in Dark the Star, a 2008 work for baritone, clarinet, cello, piano and percussion. The New York New Music Ensemble with soloist Thomas Meglioranza (at left) will perform the piece twice in early November. Here are the details: the first performance is in Philadelphia on Sunday, November 6 at 2 pm. The free concert will be in Rose Recital Hall, on the 4th floor of Fisher-Bennett Hall, located on the southeast corner of 34th and Walnut on the University of Pennsylvania campus. (Make sure your clock is set correctly, as Eastern Standard Time returns that weekend!) NYNME will repeat the program in New York the next day, November 7. The New York performance is at 8:30 pm, at the Tenri Cultural Center, 43a West 13th Street. Music by Melinda Wagner, Mario Davidovsky, and Augusta Read Thomas will round out the program. I’ve been fortunate to work with the extraordinary musicians of NYNME for over 20 years. The rapport among these players is near telepathic, and their performances are electrifying. Here is my program note on Dark the Star: Composing this cycle of songs began with my discovery of three poems in Susan Stewart’s collection Columbarium that I knew I must set to music. The deep, dreamlike wisdom of these poems haunted me, just as I had experienced with Susan’s poem “Cinder” that had served as the fulcrum of my song cycle Holy the Firm. Eventually, texts by Rilke and an earlier setting I had done of a psalm verse were drawn into the gravitational orbit of Susan’s poems. I ordered the texts in a nearly symmetrical pattern, with two texts set a second time in versions that shadow their first readings. This is partly for the sake of the formal design, but, more importantly, to re-examine the poems in the penumbra of what comes before. Rounding the cycle in this way reflects not only the circles and repetitions in Susan Stewart’s texts, but also the way in which, as Rilke writes, the things we have let go of yet encircle us. The work was composed for William Sharp and the 21st Century Consort, who gave the premiere, with Christopher Kendall conducting. Sample the Bridge recording of the piece on YouTube, with the forces for whom the piece was written: Tagged Augusta Read Thomas, Dark the Star, Mario Davidovsky, Melinda Wagner, New York New Music Ensemble, Rilke, Rose Recital Hall, Susan Stewart, Tenri Cultural Institute “Psalm” in Oakland September 25, 2015 jamesprimoschLeave a comment I just heard about an upcoming performance, too late for it to make it into the latest edition of my e-newsletter. (You can see the newsletter here, and sign up for future editions here.) Ensemble for These Times has programmed my From Psalm 116 for a concert at noon on October 29, 2015 at Laney College in Oakland, CA. Nanette McGuiness will sing, with Dale Tsang at the piano. From Psalm 116 was written for an AIDS Quilt Songbook concert given in Philadelphia a number of years ago by Orchestra 2001. The text is in Latin, and translates as “Precious in the eyes of God is the death of His beloved”. I later incorporated the piece into the song cycle Dark the Star, the work that was done at Tanglewood this past summer. Here is a You Tube clip from the Bridge recording of Dark the Star, with William Sharp, baritone and the 21st Century Consort, Christopher Kendall conducting. Tagged Dale Tsang, Dark the Star, Ensemble for These Times, From Psalm 116, Laney College, Nanette McGuiness August 4, 2015 jamesprimoschLeave a comment You may have noticed the link at the end of the recent NY Times review of the Tanglewood performance of my Dark the Star – it takes you to a YouTube posting of a track from the Bridge recording of the piece. The recording is by William Sharp, baritone, the 21st Century Consort, and Christopher Kendall, conductor. You really should pick up a copy of the disc (there are links to do that at the Bridge website), but if you disdain physical media (and paying artists for their work!) and want to hear the piece from the beginning, go here. Dark the Star consists of nine movements played without pause, which means the separate videos for each track of the piece interrupt the flow in disconcerting ways, sometimes in mid-phrase – another reason to spring for the physical disc. The pieces from the Sacred Songs cd featuring soprano Susan Narucki are also on YouTube – here’s the first track from the cycle Holy the Firm. Another way of listening to my work is to visit the audio excerpts link above. I’ve just posted two items: – under solo voice, you can find the recent premiere of Shadow Memory, with soprano Lisa Williamson and pianist Rami Sarieddine, recorded at SongFest this past June. The piece is on a text by Susan Orlean. – under instrumental, you’ll find the Oboe Quartet I wrote for Peggy Pearson and the Apple Hill Quartet, this taken from their performance at St. Paul’s in Brookline, MA this past spring. And, yes, I was thinking of this title when I titled this post, though not of the book’s content. Tagged 21st Century Consort, Apple Hill Quartet, Bridge Records, Christopher Kendall, Dark the Star, Lisa Williamson, New York Times, Peggy Pearson, Rami Sarieddine, Sacred Songs, Shadow Memory, Susan Narucki, Susan Orlean, William Sharp Back from Tanglewood July 29, 2015 July 29, 2015 jamesprimosch4 Comments There is so much to say about the recently ended Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music that I have been having trouble getting started with a blog post about it all. This won’t be a complete report, just a beginning. I hope to have more to say in subsequent posts – though I really need to get back to the violin and piano piece I am working on for the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society. My own Dark the Star was performed on the Friday, July 24 program, and magnificently so. The piece is scored for baritone, clarinet, cello, piano, and percussion, but there were two superb young baritones among the Fellows – Dimitri Katotakis and Davone Tines – so the renowned baritone Sanford Sylvan, coach for the performance, devised a division of labor where the two singers alternated, sometimes even dividing up the text for a single song. I’m not going to alter the score to include two singers, but what Sandy worked out was uncannily effective. The texts for the piece are full of shadows and doubles; plus, in two cases I set the same text twice, so the double-soloist strategy made organic sense. For one phrase near the end, Davone and Dimitri sang in unison to devastating effect. The instrumentalists were superb: Ethan Young, cello; John Diodati, clarinet; Joseph Kelly, percussion; and Pierre-André Doucet, piano. The distinguished pianist Stephen Drury conducted. Dark the Star opened a well-considered program devised by John Harbison, with threads of connection among the pieces both in terms of form and expression. There was an ecumenical flavor established by including pieces with Christian, Jewish, and Buddhist roots. Sacred song, broadly defined, occupied the first half. My piece was followed by Dallapiccola’s Concerto per la notte di Natale dell’anno 1956, with a 17-piece chamber orchestra conducted by John Harbison and the brilliant Suzanne Rigden as soprano soloist. Intimate and piercingly intense by turns, the piece sets two medieval texts by Jacopone da Todi, along with an instrumental prologue, intermezzo, and epilogue. After intermission, Dark the Star‘s formal strategy of relatively short songs played without pause was echoed in the premiere of Harbison’s Seven Poems of Lorine Niedecker – in this case truly short songs, or perhaps a single song making use of several poems – played continuously and running about 7 minutes. Harbison is able to find fresh piano textures with unobtrusive and economical means, and the vocal writing is equally engaging. Soprano Sarah Tuttle was the appealing soloist, accompanied by veteran pianist Ursula Oppens. (There were several touching instances on the festival when veteran performers handed on their commitment to new music by performing alongside their more junior colleagues, including new works by Michael Gandolfi (Dawn Upshaw with singers Nola Richardson, Alison Wahl, and Zoe Band) and Yehudi Wyner (Lucy Shelton with mezzos Paulina Villareal and Quinn Middleman.)) The closing work on the program was also a set of miniatures, this time instrumental movements for a mixed chamber ensemble: Gerald Levinson’s Here of amazing most now, originally written for an Orchestra 2001 concert in honor of George Crumb on his seventieth birthday. Though not part of the composition, it worked well to have the instrumentalists speak the various haiku or poetic fragments that serve as epigraphs for each movement of the piece. New works by Helen Grime (a vibrant duet for clarinet and trumpet called Embrace) and a quartet for clarinet and piano trio by Shulamit Ran entitled (in Hebrew) Birkat Haderekh (“Blessing for the Road”) rounded out the second half. There was a sense of tenderness in the Ran, not the most common affect in new music concerts. Here are a few pictures. At the dress rehearsal for Dark the Star in Ozawa Hall – Davone Tines: Dimitri Katotakis: Ethan Young: and the band: time for bows: after the show: “Team Baritone” – that’s Sanford Sylvan with my two soloists: Tagged Dark the Star, Davone Tines, Dimitri Katotakis, John Harbison, Sanford Sylvan, Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music NY Times on “Dark the Star” July 27, 2015 jamesprimoschLeave a comment More to come soon on the 2015 Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music, but for now, a link to a Times review, including mention of my Dark the Star. Tagged Dark the Star, New York Times, Tanglewood, Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music “Dark”-ness Approaching Tanglewood The July 24th Tanglewood performance of Dark the Star, my song cycle for baritone and chamber ensemble, is just a week away. It’s part of an attractive program, with music by Luigi Dallapiccola, John Harbison, Helen Grime, Shulamit Ran, and Gerald Levinson. The Harbison, Grime and Ran pieces are premieres. I’ll be there starting earlier in the week, so as to attend rehearsals of my piece and to catch several of the other concerts in the Contemporary Festival, as well as some of the regular programs. Highlights for me in the latter category include Paul Lewis playing the last three Beethoven sonatas and Michael Tilson Thomas conducting Mahler 5. Dark the Star sets texts in English by Susan Stewart, in German by Rilke, and in Latin from Psalm 116, with the title for the cycle borrowed from one of Susan’s poems. Here’s my program note on the piece: Composing this cycle of songs began with my discovery of three poems in Susan Stewart’s collection Columbarium that I knew I must set to music. The deep, dreamlike wisdom of these poems haunted me, just as I had experienced with Susan’s poem “Cinder” that had served as the fulcrum of my song cycle Holy the Firm. Eventually, texts by Rilke and an earlier setting I had done of a psalm verse were drawn into the gravitational orbit of Susan’s poems. I ordered the texts in a nearly symmetrical pattern, with two texts set a second time in versions that shadow their first readings. This is partly for the sake of the formal design, but, more importantly, to re-examine the poems in the penumbra of what comes before. Rounding the cycle in this way reflects not only the circles and repetitions in Susan Stewart’s texts, but also the way in which, as Rilke writes, the things we have let go of yet encircle us. Tagged Dark the Star, Rilke, Susan Stewart, Tanglewood, Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music View @james_primosch’s profile on Twitter Click here to sign up for my once-in-a-while newsletter with information on performances, recordings, and more James Primosch links No Extra Notes podcast Scores and CDs on Amazon.com Theodore Presser Co. profile This site is based on Wordpress’ Affinity theme. Custom design by Willa Rohrer. Photography by Willa Rohrer and Scott Spitzer.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1509
__label__cc	0.74243	0.25757	Jason Pramas A Home in the Digital World cycle advocacy GETTING TO BIKE Urban multimodal network needed to make bicycles a viable alternative in the ’burbs BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS The following column was written as commentary for the June 2017 episode of the Beyond Boston monthly video news digest — produced by the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism and several area public access television stations. It’s aimed at suburbanites, but fun for the whole Boston area family. There are many merits to backing legislation, regulations, and customs that make it easier for people to use bicycles to get around. Improving individual health by getting more people more exercise, improving public health and global warming prospects by reducing carbon emissions, and relieving traffic congestion to name just a few. And over the last four decades, many communities have created bike lanes and bike paths, installed bike racks, and limited certain streets to pedestrians and bikes for those very reasons. The problem is that the societal benefits that come with an expanding bike culture are unevenly distributed. In the car-centered suburbs — meaning most of the US — using a bike as a primary transportation mode is more difficult and significantly more dangerous than it is in many cities. And the distances people have to pedal to get to jobs or shop are longer — stopping more people from getting out of their cars and onto bikes day to day. Ameliorating that situation will require better regional planning with an eye toward creating bigger, better public transportation networks that link to bicycle infrastructure in their “last mile.” Then building bike lanes from the network hubs where buses, trains, and trolleys converge. Out to the neighborhoods where people live. It will also require a change in thinking by millions of people who are used to jumping into their cars anytime they need to go anywhere. Be it 100 miles or, all too often, only a few blocks away. Such a change means that people will need a pretty big incentive to begin to do things differently. So here’s one important incentive: life is easier when you don’t have to rely on a car to get around. In cities like Boston, more and more people are riding their bikes to subway stops or bus stops in the morning, parking them there, taking the T to work, and reversing those steps in the evening. Many others ride their bikes all the way to work — moving much faster on average than the cars stuck in traffic around them. Still more use our growing rental bike system, Hubway. From my perspective, living and working in the city spares me the expense of a car. And, more importantly, I don’t need to own one to get around. I live a couple of blocks from four bus lines, and a 10-minute walk from two T stops. With a bike, that 10 minutes plus any wait time becomes two or three minutes. And skipping the T and biking across town takes 20 to 30 minutes. Even in busy traffic. When it’s time to shop, one can either use a bike equipped with a basket or trailer. Or take a bus or train both ways. Or walk or bike to the nearest market and take a cab back, if buying heavy stuff. Or take a cab both ways. Or use a car sharing service like Zipcar to rent cars and vans by the hour. Myself and fellow urbanites have all these options, and more, because Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, and Brookline all have dense public transportation networks — augmented by quasi-public and private transit options. And a fast-growing separate bicycle infrastructure. Businesses and public services cluster around transportation hubs; so there’s much more for me to do much closer to home than when I lived in the suburbs. In general, this means that I have more leisure time in the city than many people in the suburbs do because I’m commuting less — and I have more money in my pocket because I don’t have to own a car to get around. I’m also not sitting in traffic for big chunks of my day — so my life is that much less stressful (understanding that every form of transportation has its own problems). Best of all, I can take comfort in the fact that my “carbon footprint” is very small. The amount of carbon that’s burned in the form of oil and natural gas to allow me to be a modern person in an advanced industrial society is much lower than someone who has to own a car. True, housing prices are higher in the city than the ’burbs, but the difference is definitely offset by cheaper transportation costs. And having more free time is invaluable. My point here is simple. More folks need to get behind policies that make an urban multimodal transportation network possible for the vast majority of US residents — instead of just a minority of Americans in mostly coastal cities. That’s going to require large numbers of people to be more aware that life with bikes and public transit is easier and better in some important respects than life in the current suburban car culture. And that’s why I’m recounting my daily transportation experience here. So that you all think it over, and consider joining advocacy coalitions like MassBike in backing policies that improve transportation options in your city or town. And then help fight for more money to vastly expand our public transportation system. Two reforms which will, in tandem, transform suburban biking from a recreational activity, sport, or idiosyncratic form of commuting into a commonplace. This article was produced in collaboration with the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism as part of its ongoing Vicious Cycle series. Learn more about the project and how you can contribute at binjonline.org, and share your stories about cycling in Greater Boston at facebook.com/binjnetwork Apparent Horizon is syndicated by the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism. Jason Pramas is BINJ’s network director, and executive editor and associate publisher of DigBoston. Copyright 2017 Jason Pramas. Licensed for use by the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism and media outlets in its network. 21-06-2017 Jason Apparent Horizon, Writing Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Beacon Street, bike lanes, bikes, biking, BINJ, Boston, Boston Cyclists Union, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Cambridge, Cambridge Street, Center for Community Innovation in Berkeley, covered lanes, crash not accident, crashnotaccident, cycle advocacy, cycling, Greater Boston, Joe Lavins, Kylie Obermeier, LivableStreets Alliance, Mass Ave, peanutabout, Porter Square, Redbones, SOMERVILLE, State House, Vicious Cycle, WalkBoston UTC: 2020-01-18 21:13 EST: 2020-01-18 16:13 the latest from DigBoston's @jasonpramas… FATE OF THE CITY: What Mayor Walsh’s annual address didn’t say about global warming https://buff.ly/2QTjdFm #globalwarming #climatechange #Boston #Massachusetts #politics #environment #StateoftheCity #criticism #bospoli #mapoli Long live @DigBoston and all who keep her. https://twitter.com/bostondotcom/status/1215061425145643008 … the latest from DigBoston's @jasonpramas… A NOTE ON THE CURRENT ANTI-WAR PROTESTS: Following the US assassination of a high-ranking Iranian commander https://buff.ly/2T6l1fM #politics #democracy #antiwar #peace #activism #protest #Iran #Trump #strategy #Boston #USA #mapoli BOSTON: IT SUCKS LESS THAN DETROIT. A look at the Hub’s points of relative pride. The latest from DigBoston's @jasonpramas for our special "What's Right with Boston?" issue. https://buff.ly/2QlfWye #Boston #Massachusetts #politics #economy #history #mapoli #bospoli #criticism On September 9, 1972, five year old me sat down to watch this after just starting first grade and thought: "Wow, 2020 is really far in the future!" https://youtu.be/EDcRz0YS-as?fbclid=IwAR26J6WqYDpOXig77X_T97Jj7LXCnck8aKeFA70A9aB6dGyQWEKPnrEfnP4 … #thefutureisnow #thefutureisthen Reykjavik weather forecast from Weather2 © 2020 - Jason Pramas, all rights reserved (unless otherwise indicated)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1512
__label__wiki	0.509826	0.509826	It Might Soon be Cool to Jailbreak Your Consoles Filed to:EFF It's totally cool to "jailbreak" an iPhone to get around its DRM. Apple may not like that, but the courts say otherwise, so it has to abide. Video game consoles? Less cool. But that could soon change. The reason the iPhone is exempt is because a few years back the Electronic Frontier Foundation successfully lobbied for its exemption from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. It is now asking for the same courtesy to be extended towards other "smartphones, electronic tablets, and video game consoles", which would mean owners of such devices would be free to "run operating systems and applications from any source, not just those approved by the manufacturer". Jailbreaking of course already happens across all video game consoles, but if the EFF can win an exemption for them from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, then this act won't be undertaken under the threat of lawsuits from the various platform holders, such as those that erupted in the wake of this year's PS3 Jailbreak affair. PlayStation Hacker Geohot Settles with Sony Computer Entertainment America Hacker George "Geohot" Hotz, the man who Sony accused of cracking the PlayStation 3 security, has… Indeed, the fallout from that mess is mentioned repeatedly by the EFF in its case, along with various claims that Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo's hardware protection measures are anti-competitive and are not in themselves a means to pirate games. It also gives big shot-outs to awesome sites like WiiBrew. Could the EFF succeed? Who knows. After its success with the iPhone you can't say it doesn't stand a chance! If you'd like to read the EFF's full case, you can check it out here. EFF Seeks to Widen Exemptions Won in Last DMCA Rulemaking [EFF, via Boing Boing]	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1527
__label__cc	0.525137	0.474863	Brother of San Bernardino Terror Attack Gunman Pleads Guilty in Marriage Fraud Case Posted 12:24 PM, January 10, 2017, by Los Angeles Times Syed Raheel Farook, left, is released on bail at the Riverside Federal Courthouse in April 2016. (Credit: Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) Syed Raheel Farook, whose younger brother was one of the two terrorists who killed 14 people at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino in December 2015, pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to conspiracy to commit a crime in relation to a marriage fraud case for which he was charged months after the attack. FBI agents arrested Farook; his wife, Tatiana Farook; and her sister, Mariya Chernykh, in April on charges of marriage fraud. The charges stemmed from Chernykh’s marriage to Enrique Marquez, who was charged with buying weapons used by Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, in the Dec. 2, 2015, attack. Chernykh is a Russian citizen, and prosecutors said she married Marquez to obtain legal U.S. residency, even though the two did not live together and never actually had a marriage ceremony. Syed Raheel Farook and his wife, Tatiana, helped the couple plan and execute the fraud, prosecutors said. Click here to read the full story on LATimes.com. San Bernardino Shooter’s Brother, 2 Others Arrested on Marriage Fraud Charges FBI Executes Search Warrant at Corona Home of San Bernardino Gunman Syed Farook’s Brother, Records Show Family Members Remove Items From Redlands Home of San Bernardino Shooters Topics: San Bernardino, Syed Raheel Farook, Syed Rizwan Farook, Tashfeen Malik KTLA 5 News on Instagram Man Sought After Allegedly Shooting, Injuring Relative During Fight in Ventura 2 Men Charged With Murder of Anaheim Man Who Was Gunned Down in San Bernardino Victims Honored at Memorial 4 Years After San Bernardino Terror Attack New York Judge Tosses Paul Manafort’s State Fraud Charges Over Double Jeopardy Concerns Supreme Court Rejects Call for New Trial in Case of ‘Serial’ Podcast Subject Adnan Syed Man Found Guilty of Killing His Disabled Sons by Driving Off Port of L.A. Dock to Collect Life Insurance Local News Politics San Diego County Rep. Duncan Hunter to Quit After the Holidays Following Conviction San Diego County Rep. Duncan Hunter Pleads Guilty to Misusing Campaign Funds, Faces 5 Years in Prison College Admissions Scam: Del Mar Executive Gets 6 Months in Prison for Paying $450K to Get Kids Into USC 27-Year-Old Ohio Mom Gets Consecutive Life Sentences After Pleading Guilty to Killing Young Sons Singer R. Kelly Charged with Paying Bribe for Fake ID Before Marrying Aaliyah College Admissions Scam: Lori Loughlin, Other Parents Indicted on New Bribery Charge Man Arrested in Thanksgiving Day Killing of 25-Year-Old CSU San Bernardino Student at Motel 2 Sentenced in 1996 Attempted Murder Case in Compton That Led to Wrongful Conviction of Man	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1528
__label__cc	0.721504	0.278496	Mi Yodeya Mi Yodeya Meta Quadrant based layout for the Yerushalmi If one goes through the citations in the Milon Even Shoshan, one might see references to words from the Yerushalmi with attribution like this: Please zoom in and look at the entry for pileish, on the last line of the right column of page 1298. The reference is to ירושלמי סוכה נג ד The amud is "dalet". I had it explained to me that an early printing of the Yerushalmi was in 4 columns so the citation for amud is to the particular column. However, I vaguely recall a Yerushalmi in which there were quadrants on the page. I don't know if I am remembering some version of the text described in this question, or it there is another layout of the Yerushalmi using quadrants which specifically explains the aleph-dalet amud references. Does anyone know of a quadrant based layout specifically for the Yerushalmi? writing-printing talmud-yerushalmi Al Berko rosendsrosends The reference to ammud gimmel usually refers to pages with more than one column per page. – mevaqesh Feb 19 '15 at 16:20 The reference is to the pages of the Venice printing of the Talmud Yerushalmi (5283/1523). Each folio is divided into four columns, two on each side of the page, and these are the numbers of the amud (1 and 2 on the front, 3 and 4 on the back). The sentence quoted from page 53d (Sukka, chapter 3, law 6) appears in the middle of the left column of this page. Below is a picture of a newer, clearer typeset maintaining the original Venice pagination. b ab a @Oliver Interestingly the division into columns is off by a few words – b a Dec 5 '18 at 20:46 Part of the reason I only wrote “pagination” ;) (hope still useful) – Oliver Dec 5 '18 at 21:03 Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged writing-printing talmud-yerushalmi . Like any library, Mi Yodeya offers tons of great information, but does not offer personalized, professional advice, and does not take the place of seeking such advice from your rabbi. Where to buy a shas/talmud in one volume? Why Did Talmud Bavli decide to differ from Talmud Yerushalmi by starting on page 2? Talmud Yerushalmi: comparing paginations Talmud Yerushalmi Halachot Rashi on Yerushalmi Zohar vs. Yerushalmi Are there any good commentaries on Yerushalmi? Does any Jewish group follow Yerushalmi only? Is there a special hadran on Yerushalmi? Why no Yerushalmi on the end of Shabbat? Rashi quoting Yerushalmi on Kodshim Mi Yodeya works best with JavaScript enabled	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1532
__label__cc	0.551627	0.448373	Category Archives: Class The Issue of Mr. O’Dell Documentary about the life and work of Jack O’Dell, veteran African-American civil rights activist. Directed and produced by Rami Katz New Film Reveals Life of Civil Rights Activist Jack O’Dell President’s Award, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival ’18 Best International Short: Baltimore International Black Film Festival ’18 Honourable Mention, Documentary Short: Roxbury International Film Festival ’18 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival ’18 Freep Film Festival ’18 DOXA Documentary Film Festival ’18 Roxbury International Film Festival ’18 Rhode Island International Film Festival ’18 Montreal International Black Film Festival ’18 Baltimore International Black Film Festival ’18 St. Louis International Film Festival ’18 North Carolina Black Film Festival ’18 Educational Distributor (US): Cinema Guild store.cinemaguild.com/nontheatrical/product/2581.html “[A] personal and humanizing portrait” – Pat Mullen, POV Magazine povmagazine.com/articles/view/review-the-issue-of-mr.-odell “As a viewer, I was left wanting more.” – Esther Sun, Discorder Magazine citr.ca/discorder/may-2018/doxa-2018-the-issue-of-mr-odell/ “O’Dell shares his insightful outlook on past and present race relations in the United States, augmented beautifully with the stark and poignant imagery” – Danielle Piper, The Georgia Straight straight.com/movies/1069136/doxa-2018-review-issue-mr-odell “Filmmaker Rami Katz combines archival material with beautifully shot footage of O’Dell in conversation to weave the story of a man who has fought his whole life for justice.” – Ljudmila Petrovic, Sad Mag sadmag.ca/blog/2018/4/24/preview-belinda-and-the-issue-of-mr-odell-at-doxa Facebook page: facebook.com/theissueofmrodell Website: ramihkatz.com/theissueofmrodell Posted by Labor Film Database on December 22, 2018 in Blacks, Class, Collective Bargaining, Communism/Socialism, Discrimination: Racism, Sexism, etc, Documentary, Organizing, Working Class Nae Passaran 1h 36min \| Documentary, Animation, History \| 4 March 2018 (UK) Director: Felipe Bustos Sierra Writer: Felipe Bustos Sierra Stars: Bob Fulton, Stuart Barrie, John Keenan \| In a Scottish town in 1974, factory workers refuse to carry out repairs on warplane engines in an act of solidarity against the violent military coup in Chile. Four years pass before the engines, left to rust in factory yard, mysteriously disappear in the middle of the night. Posted by Labor Film Database on December 22, 2018 in Class, Documentary, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts WILD MOUSE [WILDE MAUS] A music critic in midlife crisis seeks revenge on the boss who fired him in this satirical seriocomedy, the directorial debut of actor Josef Hader (THE BONEMAN, STEFAN ZWEIG: FAREWELL TO EUROPE). Unwilling to come clean about his termination, Georg (Hader) pretends to go to work each day, but instead hangs out in Vienna’s Prater amusement park, where he befriends ride operator Erich (Georg Friedrich), previously his childhood tormentor. Georg becomes increasingly attracted to Erich’s Romanian girlfriend Nicoletta (Crina Semciuc), more alienated from his therapist wife, Johanna (Pia Hierzegger) and more aggressive in his stealth harassment of his ex-boss (Jörg Hartmann). Official Selection, 2017 Berlin Film Festival. DIR/SCR Josef Hader; PROD Veit Heiduschka, Michael Katz. Austria/Germany, 2017, color, 103 min. In German and Italian with English subtitles. NOT RATED Genre: Dark comedy Posted by Labor Film Database on March 7, 2018 in Cities-Urban, Class, Comedy, Communications, Drama, Philosophy, White Collar The Workers Cup (2016) United Kingdom (Director: Adam Sobel) — Inside Qatar’s labor camps, African and Asian migrant workers building the facilities of the 2022 World Cup compete in a football tournament of their own. World Premiere. DAY ONE Posted by Labor Film Database on December 18, 2016 in Blacks, Class, Documentary, Global Economy, Immigrants/Immigration, Migrant workers Evelyn Williams Directed by Anne Lewis, USA, Appalshop,1995 (28 minutes) https://store.appalshop.org/shop/appalshop-films/evelyn-williams/ Evelyn Williams is a portrait of a woman who is many things: a coal miner’s daughter and wife; a domestic worker and mother of nine; a college student in her 50s and community organizer; an Appalachian African American. Above all, she is a woman whose awareness of class and race oppression has led her to a lifetime of activism. Now in her 80s, she is battling to save her land in eastern Kentucky from destruction by a large oil and gas firm. With humor, eloquence, and at times anger, Evelyn tells her story. Her family came to eastern Kentucky in 1922 when she was six years old. She remembers the Klan burning a cross on the mountain and describes the sense of powerlessness that followed a lynching for which the murderers were never arrested. She married a coal miner and later moved to West Virginia where her daughters were able to attend college.While her husband worked in the mines and helped organize the union, she cleaned the homes of coal company bosses. When the mines mechanized and laid off workers, the family moved to Brooklyn, N.Y. where Evelyn studied at the New School for Social Research and became active in efforts to improve her community. Her commitment to fight for justice and equality was deepened when her son was killed in Vietnam and the U.S. military misinformed and mistreated the family. Following retirement in the early 70′s, Evelyn and her husband returned to a piece of family land in Kentucky. Most recently, she has been a leader of a grassroots effort by Kentuckians for the Commonwealth to end oil and gas company use of the broadform deed to drill on surface owners’ land without their permission. In explaining her determination to preserve her land, she recalls her grandfather, an ex-slave, who said, “Take care of the land. Take care of the land. As long as you have land, you have a belonging.” The program portrays a fascinating and dynamic personality whose keen sense of communal and family history influences her determination. Through her story, Evelyn makes important connections between civil rights, women’s rights, and environmental concerns. Posted by Labor Film Database on December 6, 2015 in Class, Documentary, Environment, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Women, Working Class Resistencia: The Fight for the Aguan Valley Director: Jesse Freeston Writers: Diego Briceño-Orduz (story), Jesse Freeston me@jessefreeston.com http://resistenciathefilm.com/ In 2009, the first coup d’etat in a generation in Central America overthrows the elected president of Honduras. A nation-wide movement, known simply as The Resistance, rises in opposition. Resistencia: The Fight for the Aguan Valley centers on the most daring wing of the movement, the farmers of the Aguan. Not satisfied with just marching and blocking highways, 2000 landless families take possession of the palm oil plantations of Miguel Facusse, the country’s largest landowner and a key player in the coup. The camera follows three farmers over four years as they build their new communities on occupied land, in the face of the regime’s violent response, while waiting for the elections The Resistance hopes will restore the national democratic project. Posted by Labor Film Database on December 6, 2015 in Class, Documentary, Farm & Food, Organizing, Politics, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts Sunder Nagri (Beautiful City) (2003) Director: Rahul Roy English (subtitled), 78 min, 2003, India http://magiclanternmovies.in/film/city-beautiful Sunder Nagri (Beautiful City) is a small working class colony on the margins of India’s capital city, Delhi. Most families residing here come from a community of weavers. The last ten years have seen a gradual disintegration of the handloom tradition of this community under the globalisation regime. The families have to cope with change as well as reinvent themselves to eke out a living. Radha and Bal Krishan are at a critical point in their relationship. Bal Krishan is underemployed and constantly cheated. They are in disagreement about Radha going out to work. However, through all their ups and downs they retain the ability to laugh.Shakuntla and Hira Lal hardly communicate. They live under one roof with their children but are locked in their own sense of personal tragedies. Producer: Rahul Roy Camera: Rahul Roy Editing: Reena Mohan Sound: Asheesh Pandya Rahul is a noted documentary filmmaker who has widely worked on the issues of labor and gender in India. His film The City Beautiful masterfully depicts the life of two families in an Indian working-class colony, focussing on the decline of traditional handloom industry because of globalization. His recent work The Factory (2015) is about the struggle of Maruti automobile workers in New Delhi. For more than two years, 147 workers from the Maruti Suzuki plant were kept behind bars without bail or any charge sheet being presented to the defence counsel. Rahul has followed their crisis and struggle from 2013 to 2015. Read more about the film in this Indian Express piece. Director contact info: rahulroy63@gmail.com Posted by Labor Film Database on November 11, 2015 in Class, Documentary, Global Economy, Manufacturing, Technology, Textile Industry, Women, Working Class	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1541
__label__cc	0.742494	0.257506	Book Review, Random November 11, 2018 by Chaz Westworld isn’t your typical amusement park. Intended for rich vacationers, the futuristic park — which is looked after by robotic “hosts” — allows its visitors to live out their fantasies through artificial consciousness. No matter how illicit the fantasy may be, there are no consequences for the park’s guests, allowing for any wish to be indulged. – Synopsis AI has come a long way in recent years. We now have smartphone companions that help us achieve simple tasks, and some robotics teams are creating fascinating machines that are downright eerie. Elon Musk has said that his greatest worry/fear is that we will create AI that will eventually replace us. (Or destroy depending on how you look at it.) That may sound crazy at first, but if you really think about it and look at the evidence, Elon Musk is absolutely correct. He has compared the way that AI will look to us as the way that we look at ants now: If ants come in our way, we will eliminate them without a second though, but we will mostly ignore them. On the other hand, the wide access to all of the world’s knowledge has greatly improved the human’s quality of life. AI could continue to bring even greater knowledge, at improved speeds, directly to us in the future and aid us in many ways. AI can succeed at living longer while human bodies will eventually fail. If you had the opportunity to upload your consciousness into the “cloud” and “live” forever, would you? Westworld does to me what I look for in all great works of entertainment: It makes me feel. What I really look for in form of entertainment whether it be books, TV shows, movies, or video games, is to have the writing be done so well that it hits me with some emotional impact. There are a few scenes that stand out to me in Westworld. (With most of them being in the second half of Season 2.) It is hard to not get choked up when you feel the pain of a loved one being taken away from you, or by seeing a mother just trying to defend her daughter at all costs. The show is written so well that character’s backstories culminate into these amazing climaxes of human emotion. The beauty behind Westworld, is that these emotions come from artificially created stories and people. The real question is: Does that make it any less real? The Truman Show Delusion One of my all time favorite films, The Truman Show, has a physiological syndrome named after it for people who believe that they are acting out their life as a reality show. Good afternoon, good evening, and good night! When I start to go down the AI rabbit hole, I always come to this delusion again. Westworld also makes me think about this delusion. In a park full of AI robots, and the guests can’t even tell who is real, what makes us think that real life would be any different? I could by typing this for only AI to read it and interact with me on what I am writing. Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality? If you look at some of my old posts (Please don’t though. They are even worse than current posts…) you’ll see that I have an obsession with soundtracks from all forms of entertainment as well. I had to add a section here about how awesome Ramin Djawadi did in creating the soundtrack for this show. It blew me away the entire time, and I am consistently listening to it on spotify. Check out this rendition of The Rolling Stone’s Paint it Black: My Takeaway Westworld is one of the best stories that I have experienced, and some of the scenes are shot so beautifully, it reminds me of a work of art. You can tell a lot of care was put into setting up virtually everything about this show. Go check it out. book blogger Books hbo review science fiction scifi soundtrack tv shows westworld Writing Seveneves 40 thoughts on “Westworld” brunchingbookworms says: LOVE this programme, but I still haven’t finished season 2. I love the way this is filmed especially the opening sequence it’s amazing! I loved the season 1 of Westworld. Season 2 was a little disappointing and slow in terms of the stories. Although, the plots were bang on. I am planning to watch the old 1973 one since a very long time as it was created by one of my favorite author Michael Crichton. Thanks for bringing up the music. Martin Schell says: Season 2 descended into a blood bath. I gave up after the first couple episodes. This happens with various TV series that start with popularity so high the producers can’t resist a sequel, then the writers lack imagination or impose various bizarre twists onto the plot. Or in this case, just more mayhem. The opening sequence was very cool but also unrealistic. I don’t think this level of AI could be made like sewing a sweater, which is basically how the AI is shown being built. You wouldn’t go muscle by muscle, but rather something more holistic like the way DNA actually works in living embryos. Martie says: Very nicely done. I remember seeing the movie, one night when there was nothing else on. I was pleasantly surprised. But I have not watched the series. I will check it out. Thanks. 😊 I watched the original movie with Yul Brynner, and compared the two. All scary and enjoyable. mycrazyobsessionofbooks16 says: Sounds really interesting, especially since it might actually happen. Who knows. “AS” is a real thing and it’s developing every second. Nice Truman Show reference. Keep on going. Noggy says: This is one of my favorite TV shows at the moment. It manages to entertain while touching upon many themes regarding philosophy and ethics. And the visuals are simply stunning … even when season 2 had some issues with pacing, it was impossible for me to look away. Love your post. Jaimie Engle says: Agreed. I think West world has some of the best pacing on television I’ve ever seen. It’s brilliantly written, scary as hell, and so close to real that it makes me second-guess everyone around me. Great post. merveleeconsultancy says: Hi Chaz. Thanks for this. I am at a bad place in my life suffering with depression after I was made a victim for the past 4+ years. At least I know one person who knows I exist. I am living in a world where some getting away with horrendous crimes. Keep me in your thoughts. Isabell W. says: I really liked your review! I have a friend that’s always raving about Westworld and now I understand a little bit why. XD mattsmoderninterweblog says: Good post. Have you checked out Julian Jaynes and his theory of the bicameral mind? If not you should definitely check it out. That was the pop-science of the day that helped influence Michael Crichton on the original story. Westworld is really well done and I loved the music for it. I need to check out season two for more of those emotional moments though. Fantastic review! penciledmargins says: I really like entertainment that makes me feel and think as well. John Gray, the philosopher and economist, destroyed Kurzweil’s transhumanist idea of uploading our mind into the cloud in his newest book. Love the show overall (though Season 2 was a bit disappointing) but its consistently one of the best acted, most thought provoking shows on television. And I adore the score! Shantall Elizabeth says: I absolutely love the show, the acting is so good and the cinematography is some of the best I’ve seen. I am having a bit of withdrawal waiting for season three. And as for the Truman Show Thing, I was a kid when I watched that movie and for a week straight I was convinced that my parents were not my real people and that I was being filmed. Marissa Sese says: Such a great show! Yorgos KC says: “Westworld does to me what I look for in all great works of entertainment: It makes me feel.” Loved this. Never heard of the show, but your post has certainly intrigued me! 😁🤓 Sue Young says: The original ‘Westworld’ movie had a huge impact on me, when I first saw it at age 11 or something. I was never quite the same again! Great post. Thank you. Elaina Deva Proffitt says: I have a friend who is an Actor in Westworld and was in The Revenant also is Native American. marietoday says: Westworld is phenomenal! I think nearly every moment of it is a masterful work of art. I haven’t watched the second season yet – I’m almost scared to because the first season blew me away. I’m glad to see you give Ramin Djawadi a shout out – the more I listen to his work, the more I think he is a genius. The piano covers used on Westworld are entrancing. Shatarupa Dhar says: I have just started with Season 2 now. And I can’t wait to read the book, watch the movies. And only with Westworld did I discover the musical genius Ramin Djawadi. And I’m wondering now … Was I even alive? Haha! A.H. says: I loved the show – very thoughtful, philosophical and the music so apt for each of the scenes. Okan Özdemir says: Truman show was about media not acting out people as show hosts. Good relevancy on the overall abstractions patricknelson750 says: Is it just my imagination or are the human’s the real bad guys in Westworld? carolynmcb says: I wanted to watch Westworld, but haven’t yet. The whole premise fascinates me. I watch The Truman Show about once a year, and I always wonder what the knowledge that one has grown up and lived for other’s media consumption would do to a person’s psyche. It makes for an interesting mental exercise while I walk the dog. I adore many of Ramin Djawadi’s pieces, he’s a brilliant man. You should go read his thoughts behind his works on his blogs. I think you might enjoy it. Anyway, thanks for another thought-provoking blog piece! That was amazing and nicely brought out…it is true that these advancement ni machine intelligence will surely give a boon to or effieciency but will also distrupt human dignity and safety… I have also covered many points regarding artificial intelligence…kindly read share and give ur opinion. https://auntknow.com/artificial-intelligence/ theworldwanderer says: I really enjoyed season one still did not put myself to watch season two but this makes me want to watch it sooner then later jobethbrady says: I especially liked the rendition of Paint it Black. I haven’t watched Westworld. Antenna TV and slow internet make it unlikely I will, but it would be something I’d love to check out. glennsellnow says: This is a good post! Also, thanks for liking a post on my blog! Loved the show! Leise Leise says: There’s also an intriguing connection with what you discuss here, especially re. The Truman Show, and certain metaphysical paradigms which posit this world to be a dream or Illusion; also the Gnostic concept of reality (such as we think we know it) as “fallen” or false Creation. tmclark2015 says: Such a great show! excitedly waiting for new episodes!!!! 😃 lovelyartsclub says: Great programme – thanks for the write up. I always find the classical/ piano compositions of contemporary songs to be really effective and jarring. Gives you that juxtaposition of unease / familiarity that makes me think of Freud’s concept of the ‘uncanny’ and ‘uncanny valley’ when it comes AI! TheCaffeinatedReader says: I’d been hearing Westworld discussed a lot but always as ‘oh it’s a great show’ which I mean fair enough but I want to know why people think it’s great, reading this, I might have to give it a watch 🙂 valinparis says: AI, Emotional Impact, The Truman Show Delusion, Musci, and My Takeaway. These points of interest are my points of interest, therefore leading me to another try of Westworld. I have a problem with programs that have gratuitous violence. A friend told me that Westworld was another Game of Thrones with not just the plot and characters keeping a watcher riveted, but the sex and violence poured in to grab the attention of those who don’t revel in the characters. Thanks for giving me your insight to the show. Major kudos. trinitygrau says: I am a bit of a soundtrack junkie myself, so it’s always good to find someone who enjoys it too. Great review! I’ve not seen the show, I watched the film when the show first came out. & I loved the Truman show too. & I’m not an AI, (as far as I know, the disclaimer’s because I’ve seen the original (director’s cut) of Bladerunner. It’s more a rabbit warren than just a rabbit hole). Lovely review! Quite agree about the beauty of the soundtrack, I like to listen to it (especially the Heart Shaped Box orchestral versions from season 2) while working or studying and it just elevates me to some other plane. Also, if you haven’t already, check out Person of Interest (a series from the same creator), it is also a series on AI that is arguably better than Westworld. Nika says: This looks like a fascinating read!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1548
__label__wiki	0.85603	0.85603	ASK A DESIGNER: For spring, window treatments with flair 0 0 Friday, May 11, 2018 Edit this post This undated photo provided by Betsy Burnham shows a bedroom designed by Burnham. To create a stylish but tailored look in this bedroom, interior designer Burnham used a shade in the same crisp white shade as the walls. (Sarah Dorio/Betsy Burnham via AP) By MELISSA RAYWORTH, AP Even the simplest window treatments have an important role to play in the look of a room. “They really soften and furnish a space much more than most people imagine,” says interior designer Betsy Burnham of Los Angeles. Yet she often has to reassure people that drapes, curtains or other window treatments don’t have to be fussy. “It can be tailored, simple panels done in great fabrics and the simplest of hardware,” she says. With spring finally arriving, we’ve asked Burnham and two other interior designers — Florida-based Maggie Cruz and New York-based Deborah Martin — for advice on what’s trending in window design. How can homeowners preserve their privacy while letting in the sunlight and enjoying their view all spring and summer? SIMPLE CAN BE POWERFUL “We’re seeing a trend more toward minimalizing what’s happening around the window,” says Cruz. Her clients are increasingly seeking functional items like simple shades, perhaps softened with a lightweight drapery. “The hardware,” she says, “is just enough to maybe play with the color of the metal.” Burnham loves that kind of simplicity: “I like to use the thinnest rod I can that will support the weight of the curtain,” she says. Ideally, that’s just 1-inch thick. “For support brackets, I like them always to be horizontal so you can’t see them. They’re behind the rod. It’s really minimal, and yet it’s drapery.” Martin says her clients are also embracing soft organic fabrics and natural fibers like woven woods and raffia shades, perhaps looking for “more of a high-touch, tactile element for our homes as we try to disengage from high tech.” MAXIMALISM STILL HAS FANS Martin is also working with clients who are bringing more color and glamour into their furnishings and window design: “Color, color, color,” she says, “is the No. 1 trend.” Taking their cue from the fashion industry, many of her clients in New York are embracing bold, graphic patterns, and in some cases “shimmery, glittery and even sequined fabrics.” She is also seeing soft velvets, popular for several years as sofa upholstery, now being used for stationary drapery panels that serve as columns of color to frame a window. Burnham is also seeing some of this embrace of bold patterns, though the look is less overtly glamorous. “I think that we’re done with the urban farmhouse,” she says. “Maximalism is coming back to a certain degree. In L.A., it’s not about glitz and glam, but it’s about pattern. And it can be a pattern that’s reminiscent of your grandmother’s cottage in the country or it can be a pattern that’s more geometric and tailored.” TECHNOLOGY HAS ITS PLACE All three designers see the growing popularity of remote-controlled motorized shades, which have become less expensive and less complicated to install. Cruz says her clients love them “just for the ease and functionality.” Martin sees the same trend in Manhattan: “If you live in a high-rise in the city,” she says, “and you have walls of windows, who is going to take the time to raise and lower all those shades” every morning and evening? NEW TWISTS ON CLASSICS Cruz has been using a lot of wooden plantation shutters for clients, but they are “updated and modern,” she says. Because these shutters have wide louvers, they let in lots of light and don’t obscure the view when open. Many are designed with a hidden tilt bar, she says, so the horizontal line of the shutters isn’t cut so obviously by a vertical bar of wood. Wooden shutters, Cruz says, “add to the millwork of the house.” Martin, who uses this type of wooden shutter in some rooms in her own home, agrees: “They’re architectural and functional,” she says, “and they just add so much to a room, almost like wood moldings.” Another new twist on traditional style: In her dining room, Burnham has leopard-print draperies in a casual cotton fabric. “They’re not heavy or fancy,” she says, “and they’re funky in a way that it’s not taking itself too seriously.” Whether you’re most comfortable with minimalist Roman shades or leopard-print draperies, Burnham does suggest taking time in choosing new window designs for your home. “This is a much more complicated category of design” than selecting a side table or rug, she says. “There are a lot of things to consider, and people do make mistakes” if they design their windows without a lot of thought. “They hang their rods too low or too high, so that you walk into the room and you know something is a just little bit off.” EDITOR’S NOTE - Melissa Rayworth writes about lifestyles topics for The Associated Press. 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__label__cc	0.564039	0.435961	LEVENT HILLS BY DAMAC PROPERTIES In a joint venture between Turkish Company, Levent Hills, and the Middle East’s leading luxury real estate developer, DAMAC Properties, this regeneration project will transform the Kağithane and Şişli districts of Istanbul into a stunning new mixed-use development offering a world-class lifestyle. DAMAC PROPERTIES ISTANBUL WONDER OF THE WORLD VISIT DAMAC PROPERTIES AN INCREDIBLE DESTINATION Istanbul has such a broad appeal due to its distinctive blend of influences from both Asia and Europe – the city has been associated with major events in political, religious and art history for more than 2,000 years. SPECTACULAR SCENERY With its strategic location on the Bosphorus peninsula between the Balkans and Anatolia, the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, Istanbul has it all – from beautiful beaches and lush forests, to rugged mountains and a rich variety of architecture. WATER, WATER, EVERYWHERE The Boğaziçi, or Bosphorus, connects the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara and is a natural divide between the continents of Europe and Asia, which gives Istanbul its unique setting and singular character. THE VISION AND INSPIRATION BEHIND THE PROJECT DESIGN With a site that covers half a million square metres, the Levent Hills project spans the Kağithane and Şişli districts, which are part of a huge area of regeneration. The site has a rich history, comprising multiple characteristics that will create the perfect opportunity to build distinctive ‘clusters’ within this significant mixed-use development. DAMAC Properties brings its long-established reputation for creating iconic buildings and master developments to Istanbul and Levent Hills with a collection of luxury residences, complemented by world-class shopping, dining and entertainment. Turkish food is varied and flavourful due to the European and Asian influences but the country is possibly most famous for its traditional Turkish coffee – so much so that it’s on UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage List. The first ‘coffee shop’ in Istanbul was established in 1555. WELCOME TO THE PAST, THE PRESENT AND Istanbul is most certainly a city of contrasts, with a colourful history and a skyline built up over many centuries. Levent Hills brings the future to this part of the world, with luxurious accommodation and world-class amenities. LEVENT HILLS VIEWS Overlooking iconic landmarks Breathtaking views Delicious cuisines / Dine on an impressive choice of cuisines Exquisite dining experiences Picture-perfect setting Love to hear about our project? Fill out the form and we'll be in touch soon! © Copyright 2020 LEVENTHILLS.COM	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1559
__label__cc	0.725393	0.274607	SCIART-L March 2014 Protecting birds from hitting windows Barbara Gleason <[log in to unmask]> Tue, 4 Mar 2014 16:53:15 -0800 Hey all... I used to work on the GNSI Journal and newsletters and a year ago my husband and I opened a Wild Birds Unlimited store here in Eugene. It has been a very fun and intense learning experience, of course, but interacting with the people who come in has been really great. It is true that the UV Window Alerts DO work. Here's why: birds can see into the ultraviolet range and these have a UV coating on them that makes them glow when birds see them. The company that makes them is here in Oregon, in Bend and they're great to deal with. In our store, we sell lots of them and I now buy them by the dozen since they do work well and so many people have issues like this. My husband, Dan, is an ornithologist, as well, so the store's mission of course is right up our alley, and he's been able to make a difference locally in our increased visibility here to help do lots of bird education. Some other recent research impacts one's decision on how to protect birds from window strikes, too, and that is research (I think done in PA) that showed that birds will try to fly between parachute cord (that 1/4" diam. greenish nylon cord) when it's hung in front of windows to deflect birds from striking them, as long as it's not wider apart than 4 1/25" apart. So, what that means, is that you should place things you want birds to regard so as to change their minds about flying through a space no less than 4" apart ideally. When the researchers placed the parachute cords 3.5" apart they were 100% able to deflect birds; at 4.25" they were only 80% effective at keeping birds from striking the windows beyond. So, if you choose to use the stickers, make sure to pace them fairly close together! Barbara Gleason ( '< * -"-.,,.-"-.,,.-"-.,,.-"-.,,.-"-.,,.-"-.,,.-"— / ) ) //" " Wild Birds Unlimited of Eugene 2510 Willamette Street, Eugene, OR 97405 www.facebook.com/eugenewbu www.eugene.wbu.com On Mar 3, 2014, at 10:00 PM, SCIART-L automatic digest system wrote: > There is 1 message totaling 246 lines in this issue. > Topics of the day: > 1. TAN: Hummingbird problem > Need to leave or subscribe to the Sciart-L listserv? Follow the instructions at > http://www.gnsi.org/resources/reviews/gnsi-sciart-l-listserv > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 18:44:35 -0500 > From: "Barry K. MacKay" <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: TAN: Hummingbird problem > Yes, but as is true of the "hawk silhouettes" what works is anything that is > on the window. Ordinary paper snowflakes work just as well as ones that > reflect ultraviolet, IF they are on the outside of the window (I've > experimented with them on the inside; that's better than nothing, but of > course I see the whole problem as the ideal reason for not washing my > windows, a policy I sometimes regret when I try to take photos through the > glass, but hey, I'd rather have the birds safe.) > The use of the hawk/falcon shape has an interesting history. > It was Konrad Lorenz who did the research that showed that something roughly > that shape...a cross sort of like the Christian cross with a short length > above the crossbar, and a longer one behind, but with corners rounded, could > elicit two different responses from newly hatched Greylag Geese if moved > above them. > Moved blunt end forward, it resembled the silhouette of a hawk...especially > an accipiter....the genus that mostly eats birds...in that the short, > rounded end was like the head, the longer trailing end like the tail, while > the crossbar was the wings. When they saw that the goslings, who would not > yet ever have encountered a real hawk, nevertheless took instinctive actions > to avoid detection. > But moved the opposite way, the long part became the head and neck of an > adult goose, the rounded rear the shorter end of a goose in flight, and the > goslings acted normally. > Thus the reaction was judged innate, and hard-wired, in response to the > appropriate stimulus. > Even if the concept were valid for hummers and other birds, not just geese, > the fact that the silhouette does not move blunt end forward would negate > the effect. Any shape would do, and if you have young children getting them > to make paper carnations will work, for example. > Anyway, lots of good devices out there as well, but one word of caution: > If using any kind of netting make sure it is taut and tight...not slack, as > that can lead to entanglement. > Barry > Barry Kent MacKay > Bird Artist, Illustrator > Studio: (905)-472-9731 > http://www.barrykentmackay.ca > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sarah > Sent: March-03-14 5:05 PM > Subject: Re: [SCIART] TAN: Hummingbird problem > I use these and it has made a difference. http://tinyurl.com/poohz88 Sally > On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Chris Gralapp <[log in to unmask]> >> Bruce, thanks for this--I did marvel that two of our three hummers >> were able to fly again after being stunned--and it makes perfect sense >> that their lightness can be their salvation. Altho, at the speeds >> that they zoom around, pure physics would dictate that even a light >> little body at these speeds would have a force large enough to sustain >> injury. They are remarkably resilient. >> Yes, they are precious little gems! we have mostly Anna's and >> Ruby-throateds, and occasionally Allen's. I know when Spring has come >> when they do their dive-bombing dance complete with a shriek and the >> end of the swoop. I was interested to learn that the shriek is >> produced by their feathers and not a vocalization. >> Chris >> On 3/3/2014 11:07 AM, Bruce Bartrug wrote: >> Something on the outside usually helps, as it breaks the continuity of >> the window. We've used falcon silhouettes and see-through maple >> leaves, as indicated above. These are mostly effective but not >> entirely. Chickadees feed directly underneath the falcons, for >> example, and doves being chased by accipiters kill themselves on >> windows with either. The only sure (almost >> sure?) thing is strands of something very obvious strung across the >> window on the outside. A screen, for example :). Some have used >> colored yarn, spaced to alert birds but able to be seen through from > indoors. >> Hummers usually only knock themselves out as they are so light weight. >> I retrieved a couple from the floor inside a birding lodge in Ecuador > once. >> They were fighting one another (if hummingbirds were the size of >> crows, it wouldn't be safe to go into the woods) and flew through on >> open door and into the window on the inside. They recovered after a >> short while and one tiny little jewel sat on my thumb for several >> minutes, even allowing me to carefully stroke his nape. Precious little > beasts. >> Best of luck, >> b >> On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Patricia Savage >> <[log in to unmask]> >>> I don't know if this is an option, but I don't wash my windows close >>> to the feeders very often anymore and that has really cut down on the >>> bird strikes. Maybe find a way to dirty them up? >>> Cheers, >>> Patricia Savage >>> Mayapple Studio >>> 919-859-2789 (h), 919-438-6766 (m) >>> www.psavageart.com >>> Join me on Facebook >>> On 3/3/14 11:53 AM, Chris Gralapp wrote: >>> I have a most distressing problem--I just installed a big, brand new >>> bay window, and have had three hummingbirds hit it. I think it >>> reflects the sky and the mountains, and the mirror effect deceives >>> the little guys to fly into it. I moved my feeder about ten feet >>> away, to keep them on the other side of the yard, if possible, but >>> they still hit the window. It's just heartbreaking. >>> I know there are decals for deterring bird strikes--any suggestions >>> for the most effective? >>> Chris >>> Chris Gralapp, MA, CMI >>> Medical/Scientific Illustration >>> 415.454.6567 >>> [log in to unmask] >>> chrisgralapp.com >>> ________________________________________________ >>> Need to leave or subscribe to the Sciart-L listserv? Follow the >>> instructions at >>> http://www.gnsi.org/resources/reviews/gnsi-sciart-l-listserv >> Bruce Bartrug >> Nobleboro, Maine, USA >> [log in to unmask] >> www.brucebartrug.com >> The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but >> because of those who look on and do nothing. - Albert Einstein >> ________________________________________________ >> Need to leave or subscribe to the Sciart-L listserv? 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__label__wiki	0.92763	0.92763	Home » NEWS FORUM » You are reading » The best 50 films of 2019: Odd, rich, startlingly varied. And brilliant Sachira De Silva The best 50 films of 2019: Odd, rich, startlingly varied. And brilliant2019-12-09T22:32:04+00:00 NEWS FORUM Oh look, it’s that person again. “I haven’t been to the cinema for years as there’s never anything good on.” “Really? Did you not enjoy Marriage Story or If Beale Street Could Talk or Midsommar?” “I didn’t see them. I never got to the cinema because there’s never anything good on.” Those people. The debate that defined the year in film kicked off when Martin Scorsese asserted that Marvel’s superhero films weren’t really cinema. The director of The Irishman never fully backed away from that statement, but, in an opinion piece for the New York Times, he later intimated that his real beef was the shrinking range of alternatives in mainstream cinemas. There’s some truth in that. Readers who do not live within range of a specialist movie house may have struggled to see some of the titles below on the big screen. (I am going to take a punt and assert that this is the first occasion The Irish Times’s films of the year have featured two successive Colombian submissions for the best foreign film Oscar in the top 10.) But nobody who has paid proper attention can reasonably claim that there were not — for those who look in the right places — a startling variety of brilliant films in cinemas this year. The oddness and richness of our top 50 speaks noisily of the medium’s resilience. There wasn’t much argument over our movie of the year. Alejandro Landes’s Monos, a breakout at Sundance, kicked up memories of Apocalypse Now and Lord of the Flies with its tale of young warriors isolated on a remote (yes, Colombian) mountainside. With television in the apparent ascendant, Landes’s film — scored brilliantly by young legend Mica Levi — confirms that cinematic values remain worth defending. It could start a movement. Not everybody got on board with Ari Aster’s Midsommar, folk horror of the most extreme hue, when it emerged (a few weeks late) in early July. But if gifs and memes are any measure of resonance then — recall all those social media riffs on Florence Pugh’s flowery triumph — the freaky, sexy feature has really set in. And, yes, it was supposed to be funny in places. Second place for Noah Baumbach’s magnificent Marriage Story, following Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver as they split bitterly, speaks to that director finding the perfect balance between his comic and dramatic instincts. It also reminds us of Netflix’s apparently unstoppable advance on cinema. Three films from the streamer make it into our list and, unlike in previous years, no Jesuitical sophistry was required to justify their place in a chart of best cinema releases. Marriage Story, The Two Popes and The Irishman all played for several weeks in Irish movie houses before emerging on the streaming service. Netflix do not report figures. So we can’t tell for certain if this blitz of awards releases is making any money for the giant, but anecdotal evidence suggests The Irishman has packed out Irish screens. It will need to go some to make a dent on its rumoured $160 million budget. The Jesuits were called in to offer justification for our inclusion of Alex Ross Perry’s Her Smell in the top five. What can we say? We saw it in a cinema. It was possible for Irish people to pay money and do the same. Nonetheless, Her Smell has, infuriatingly, been largely a streaming pleasure here. Don’t miss it. Elisabeth Moss is transcendent as an awkward pop star in a film that makes extraordinary use of call-and-response dialogue. The streaming revolution now gets such films in places they would hitherto have struggled to reach. What else? Well, Avengers: Endgame became the highest-grossing film of all time, but neither it nor any other non-cinema (© M Scorsese) made it into our list. Todd Phillips’s Joker was deliberately finessed into controversy, but, though we enjoyed the ride, it didn’t make the cut either. There was so much else that qualified as the right kind of strange: Yorgos Lanthimos’s deservedly award-winning The Favourite, Joe Talbot’s meditative The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Claire Denis’s bonkers High Life, László Nemes’s novelistic Sunset. Pedro Almodóvar delivered a late masterpiece in Pain & Glory. Nadine Labaki gave us a humanist masterpiece in Capernaum. Go to the cinema. There are good things on. Don’t listen to that person. « Tesco considers sale of Thai and Malaysian operations COMBANK »	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1568
__label__wiki	0.575458	0.575458	Mostly sunny. High 34F. Winds ENE at 5 to 10 mph.. A few passing clouds. Low 18F. Winds ESE at 5 to 10 mph. Obituary: Annie Lou Bishop March 10, 1923 ~ January 12, 2020 Annie Lou Bishop, 96, of Buhl, died peacefully on January 12, 2020 following a brief illness. Annie Lou was born on March 10, 1923 in Buhl, to William Ray Raedels and Vada (Spainhower) Raedels. She grew up in the Buhl and Castleford areas and graduated from Castleford High School in 1941. After attending Business College in Twin Falls, she worked as a secretary and bookkeeper for several companies in the area and for a time in Malta. She married John B. MacKay in November of 1946 and was an excellent mother to their four children. She was widowed in 1977 and continued working as a medical secretary in Buhl and Twin Falls until her retirement. She married Jack V. Bishop in August of 1998 and they had over 15 happy years together until his death in 2014. She enjoyed going to senior dances, playing pinochle, was a talented needleworker, and was an active member of the Buhl First Presbyterian Church. She was known for her kindness and caring for other people. She is survived by her children, Patricia (Mike) Boomhower of Seattle, Vada (Bob) Repta, of Champaign Illinois, Douglas MacKay of Buhl, and stepdaughter Gloria (Tom) Fleming of Buhl; ten grandchildren, Shane (Dalia) MacKay, Andrew Boomhower, Peter Boomhower, Stephen Repta, Janna (Doug) McDannald, Guy Repta, Tom (Heather) Fleming, Jr., Tim (Lori) Fleming, Ted Fleming, and Todd Fleming; and seven great-grandchildren, Eulalia, Timothy and Tacy MacKay, Jonathan Repta, Olivia McDannald, and Kaitlyn and Emily Fleming. She leaves behind many loving nieces, nephews, and cousins. She was preceded in death by her parents; brother, William Raedels; first husband, John MacKay, Sr.; son, John MacKay, Jr.; and her second husband, Jack Bishop. A funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m. Thursday, January 16, 2020 at First Presbyterian Church, with a viewing one hour prior to service, 516 Main Street, Buhl. Interment will be a private family service at the Filer Cemetery. The family wishes to thank all of her friends and relatives for their love and support over the years, and to Hospice Visions for their excellent care. Memorials may be made to the Buhl First Presbyterian Church, PO Box 53, Buhl, ID 83316, or to Hospice Visions online at https://www.hospicevisions.org/donate.php. Memories and condolences may be shared with the family on Annie’s memorial webpage at www.farmerfuneralchapel.com To send flowers to the family of Annie Bishop, please visit Tribute Store. SAVE on your first 3 months! Join today MSVM Group LLC - Ad from 2020-01-12 PEOPLE FOR PETS MVHS INC - Ad from 2020-01-17 People For Pets Mvhs Inc P.o. Box 1163, Twin Falls, ID 83303 TWIN FALLS COUNTY CLERK - Ad from 2020-01-16 J & L Roofing of Idaho, INC. - Ad from 2020-01-15 J & L Roofing of Idaho, Inc. 4496 N 2000 E FILER, Twin Falls, ID 83328 Coldwell Banker – Deb Clough - Ad from 2020-01-18 Deb Clough Coldwell Banker Tomlinson Group 1411 Falls Ave E, Unit 1202, Twin Falls, ID 83301 Cap Ed Credit Union - Ad from 2020-01-12 Cap Ed Credit Union CENTURY STADIUM 5 - Ad from 2020-01-17 Century Stadium 5 464 East 5th Street North, Burley, ID 83318 Super Realty of Idaho-TEAM TOBIASON - Ad from 2020-01-18 SUPER REALTY OF IDAHO, BROKER STAN TOBIASON 1290 N. College Rd., Suite A, Twin Falls, ID 83301	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1573
__label__wiki	0.722315	0.722315	Find a Tech Job Find a Telecommute Job Some Montana Businesses remote \| ok FlexJobs VirtualVocations Friday Five: August 24, 2018 By Alexandria Klapmeier \| August 24, 2018 Check out these five stories from across Montana that highlight entrepreneurship, the high tech sector, and everything else that makes Montana great! Brennan’s Wave, Missoula 1. River Surfing: Clark Fork Cleanup, Brennan’s Wave Put Missoula on the Top While Missoula has many endearing features, one of the town’s most popular is the Clark Fork River that runs through downtown. After years of work and restoration, the Clark Fork is putting Missoula on the map. In June of 2006, Brennan’s Wave, a whitewater park on the Clark Fork River, was dedicated at Caras Park. The underwater concrete structure creates waves for boaters and surfers. The structure is named after Brennan Gauth, a local kayaker and teacher who died while paddling in Chile. Two years later, the Milltown Dam was breached after a long cleanup process. To learn more about Missoula’s wave, click here to read more from the Missoulian. 2. Distilleries: Slip in a Sip of Summer Before the Fall Rush Mea Andrews, a former reporter with the Missoulian, gives readers the lowdown on the Missoula area distillery scene. Andrews profiles four distilleries, including the Lolo Creek Distillery, The Montana Distillery, Montgomery Distillery, and Rattlesnake Creek Distillers. The newest distillery in the Missoula area is the Lolo Creek Distillery above the Lolo Creek Steak House. Andrews writes the distillery has seen a steady flow of traffic and repeat customers. Soon, the outdoor firepit will be available. For more information about the Missoula area distilleries, click here. 3. Gianforte’s Teleworking Bill Eyes Rural Workers, Extends Federal Pilot Program Last week, President Donald Trump signed a teleworking bill aimed to bring national wage workers to rural Montana, allowing them to work from nearly any location. The bill extends a program at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, which has expanded its teleworking workforce that allows employees to live anywhere in the country. According to the Missoula Current, the teleworkers saved taxpayers roughly $77 million last year. Gianforte introduced the bill last November, and now it will extend the teleworking pilot program for three years. “This bill is designed to help federal agencies allow workers to work remotely, telecommuting,” Gianforte said in the Missoula Current article. “It’s a way to bring some of these jobs to Montana, because we all want to live in the most beautiful place.” Click here to read the full Missoula Current article, click here. 4. Missoula Tech Companies Receive Workforce Training Grants for 88 New Jobs Two high-tech companies in Missoula received workforce training grants from the Department of Commerce that will train an estimated 88 new, full-time jobs. [perfectpullquote align=”right” bordertop=”false” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]“Job creation and workforce training go hand in hand.”[/perfectpullquote] The Advanced Technology Group (ATG) and ClassPass were awarded Primary Sector Workforce Training Grants. ClassPass, a tech company that developed an app to allow members to try various fitness experiences without having only one gym membership, will receive up to $116, 388 to train an estimated 78 new employees. ATG will receive up to $50,000 to train an estimated 10 new employees. “Job creation and workforce training go hand in hand,” said Commerce Director Pam Haxby-Cote in a statement. “By doing both, Montana’s small businesses are growing, creating opportunities, and investing in their employees’ success all at the same time.” To read the full Missoulian story, click here. 5. Bestselling Singer-songwriter Jewel to Share the Stage on Lake Koocanusa with Flathead Musician On Aug. 24, Grammy-award winning singer Jewel will play at The Bowl at the Abayance Bay Marina on Lake Koocanusa in Rexford. Jewel will be joined on stage by Halladay Quist, a Creston native. Quist played in her brother’s band for a decade before embarking on her own solo musical tour. The venue hopes to host around 1, 500 people. There are VIP tables, reserved seating or general admission seating on the grass. Doors will open at 4:30 p.m. with Quist taking the stage at 7 p.m. and Jewel playing at 8 p.m. For more information about the show, click here. Posted in Friday Five, Montana Community Subscribe to Make Montana Home Like what you see? Sign up to get our latest articles via email! Friday Five: September 27, 2019 Friday Five: Sept. 20, 2019 Q + A: SoFi Friday Five: September 6, 2019 © 2020 Make Montana Home \| Website by English Creek Studio	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1574
__label__cc	0.596039	0.403961	About UsView Children Our WorkView Children Perennial Crops Ecological Intensification Ecosphere Studies The Land Report News & EventsView Children Prairie Festival 2019 Perennial Grain International Research Meeting Join UsView Children Land Institute Merchandise Transforming Agriculture, Perennially Sustainable Agriculture Means Sustaining More Young Farmers Publication: Triple Pundit Author: Tina Casey Aside from connecting directly with working farmers, General Mills cultivation of the next generation includes partnering with students and researchers at the University of Minnesota on projects related to farming, food innovation, business networking and sustainable agriculture. In particular, the UMN connection involves General Mills in the school’s Forever Green sustainable agriculture initiative with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The initiative aims to develop crops and systems that support soil health, water supply and other natural resources in Minnesota while driving economic development. One crop to come out of the program is a perennial grain called Kernza®. Kernza is a relative of annual wheat. With roots of up to 10 feet deep, it has significant advantages over its annual cousin in terms of soil health, water resources, and carbon sequestration. As a perennial, Kernza can also aid in wildlife habitat — all necessary ingredients for sustainable agriculture. To ice the cake, Kernza requires less tilling and soil disruption, leading to less expense for the farmer. Last year, General Mills announced that its Cascadian Farm brand would partner with The Land Institute to help commercialize organic Kernza, along with a supporting donation of $500,000 to the Forever Green program. Back to All < Previous Next > Share On: Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Select other ways to share The Land Institute The Land Institute is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Salina, Kansas, that was founded in 1976. The Land Institute’s work, led by a team of plant breeders and ecologists in multiple partnerships worldwide, is focused on developing perennial grains, pulses and oilseed bearing plants to be grown in ecologically intensified, diverse crop mixtures known as perennial polycultures. The Institute’s goal is to create an agriculture system that mimics natural systems in order to produce ample food and reduce or eliminate the negative impacts of industrial agriculture. 2440 E Water Well Rd Salina, Kansas 67401 Get The Scoop, our regular update.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1578
__label__wiki	0.97704	0.97704	Apple reveals triple-camera iPhone; $5 monthly streaming TV undercuts Disney By Stephen Nellis and Noel Randewich CUPERTINO, Calif. (Reuters) – Apple Inc <AAPL.O> caught up with hardware rivals on Tuesday by revealing a triple-camera iPhone, and it rolled out a streaming TV service priced at $5 a month, undercutting Disney and Netflix. The announcements came at the company’s biggest marketing event, where it unveils its top products for the year ahead, and showcased an aggressive Apple ready to battle on price. The long-awaited Apple TV+ streaming television service will be available in over 100 countries, starting in November. The service will not be available in China when it launches, nor will the Apple Arcade video game subscription. Buyers of an iPhone, iPad or Mac will get a free year of streaming TV, potentially drawing hundreds of millions of viewers to the service. That catapults the new service into a rarified group of companies. “I think the pricing on the Apple TV service was definitely a positive surprise,” said Michael James, managing director of equity trading at Wedbush Securities in Los Angeles. “That’s why you’re seeing the hammering in some of the other video service-related names like Netflix, Amazon and Roku. Clearly, that was a positive that people were happy to hear.” There was no bundle with Apple Music or other services as some analysts had expected. But Ben Bajarin, an analyst with Creative Strategies, said the TV service, a $5 a month “Arcade” gaming service and the base model iPhone 11, seem designed to draw in users for the longer term. “We weren’t expecting Apple Arcade and particularly Apple TV to be priced as aggressively as they were,” Bajarin said. “They know once consumers get into their ecosystem, they don’t leave.” Apple said its new iPhone 11 will come with two back cameras, including an ultra wide-angle lens and the next generation of microchips, the A13. Prices start at $699, down from last year’s new iPhone that started at $749. The more expensive iPhone 11 Pro will have three cameras on the back – wide angle, telephoto and ultra-wide. It can create videos with all three back cameras and the front camera at the same time and starts at $999. The iPhone 11 Pro Max with a bigger screen starts at $1,099. The new phones are available to order Friday and will start shipping Sept. 20. Rivals including Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd <005930.KS> already sell phones with three cameras on the back. While Apple once tested the upper limits of what consumers would pay for a phone, it is now giving ground on prices, even making older models available at significant discounts to the latest technology. “Consumers absolutely still care about cameras. That’s why it was surprising over the last couple of years that Samsung and Huawei got the jump on Apple,” said Patrick Moorhead, an analyst with Moor Insights & Strategy. “Apple was playing a bit of catch up, but Apple did bring their game, particularly on the video side of the camera, where I do think they’ll have the leg up.” Analysts expect Apple will sell around 200 million iPhones in the next year, in addition to other devices, and while many of those will be in China, it ensures at least tens of millions of potential viewers for the subscription service. Hal Eddins, chief economist for Apple shareholder Capital Investment Counsel, said Apple’s lower priced iPhones “aren’t exciting on the surface, but the low streaming price may suck in some new subscribers.” Apple shares gained 0.8%. CROWDED FIELD With streaming content, Apple is entering a crowded field dominated by Netflix Inc <NFLX.O>. (Graphic: https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/editorcharts/APPLE-IPHONE-TV/0H001QMFV89M/index.html) Walt Disney Co <DIS.N> will launch on Nov. 12 a $7-per-month service that will contain that firm’s iconic children’s content. Apple is also trying to beat HBO Max with its hit shows like “Game of Thrones,” “Friends” and “The Sopranos.” Apple’s challenge is to persuade consumers that its family of devices, from its set-top box to phones, are the best one-stop place to watch shows. “The roll-out of new subscription-based services by Apple paves the way for the introduction of new business models akin to the all-you-can-eat bundles like Amazon Prime,” said Paolo Pescatore, analyst with PP Foresight. “In the future we might even see users pay for a service bundle and receive a new iPhone every year.” Apple also unveiled an updated watch, the Series 5, with an always-on display, starting at $399, while keeping the older Series 3 starting at $199. Moorhead said the older model would drive “tremendous” business. Apple said the seventh generation of the iPad will start at $329 and be available to order starting Tuesday and in stores on Sept. 30. (Reporting by Stephen Nellis and Noel Randewich; Additional reporting by Caroline Valetkevitch and Lisa Richwine; Editing by Peter Henderson, Lisa Shumaker, Nick Zieminski and Cynthia Osterman) Related Topics:Updated	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1594
__label__wiki	0.945975	0.945975	Follow live coverage as Wisconsin Badgers take on No. 15 Michigan State Spartans Spectrum Brands looks to sell Rayovac battery and appliances businesses From the 2018 year in review: Highs and lows of the past 12 months in the Madison area series Judy Newman \| Wisconsin State Journal Rayovac production associate Tanya Jones sorts materials in the Portage plant in this August 2016 photo. Portage, where the company's hearing aid batteries are made, is one of two Rayovac battery plants in Wisconsin. NOAH VERNAU, PORTAGE DAILY REGISTER Rayovac electro-mechanical maintenance worker Tony Raymond checks machinery in the cell assembly area of the Portage plant in August 2016. Rayovac has been manufacturing batteries in Portage in 1964. Spectrum Brands headquarters, 3001 Deming Way, Middleton. STATE JOURNAL ARCHIVES Spectrum Brands headquarters, which include Rayovac, Remington and Cutter, in Madison, Wis., shown Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012, will be moving to nearby Middleton, Wis. M.P. King-State Journal (Published on 1/20/12) Spectrum Brands plans to move from its current headquarters, at 601 Rayovac Drive in Madison, to a new building along Deming Way in Middleton by the end of 2013. (Published on 02/01/2012) Spectrum Brands plans to move from its headquarters, above, on Madison’s West Side to a new building along Deming Way in Middleton. Spectrum includes the Rayovac, Remington and Cutter brands. The region wins regardless of which local community the company settles in. Middleton-based Spectrum Brands Holdings said Wednesday it will “explore strategic options” for selling its batteries and appliances businesses in 2018, a move that could sell off the Rayovac battery business that started in Madison more than 100 years ago and was the legacy core of the global consumer products company that Spectrum Brands has become. If that happens, a lot of jobs could be affected, in one way or another. Spectrum Brands, with 18,000 employees worldwide, has 1,200 employees in Wisconsin: 670 at its Middleton headquarters, including 400 in the batteries and appliances division, and more than 500, in total, at two battery plants. Spectrum Brands spokesman Dave Prichard said it’s too soon to speculate about the potential impact on jobs. “We don’t have a contract with a buyer; we are in exploratory discussions. The impact might vary depending on who the buyer is,” Prichard said. He said, though, employees in Middleton may be among those affected. “There, potentially, could be (an impact), but it’s premature to be able to comment on that with any specificity.” Tom Pyle, the Madison-area businessman credited with recharging Rayovac in the 1980s and early 1990s when he and his then-wife, Judy, were majority owners, said he hopes the business stays in the state. “If it is sold, I would hope that … whoever buys it has a headquarters in Wisconsin,” Pyle said. Sales of the division’s products — including batteries, shavers and George Foreman grills — are steady but slow, Spectrum Brands said. Executive chairman David Maura said the company can pump money instead into the “faster-growing and higher-margin” divisions it has acquired since 2005: pest and weed sprays, pet supplies, auto care products, locks and plumbing products. “We believe this strategy is aligned with investors’ interests and will drive shareholder value to the next level,” Maura said. “With greatly increased financial flexibility from these planned divestitures, we intend to reduce debt, reinvest in our core businesses both organically and through acquisitions, and repurchase shares.” Prichard said the Spectrum Brands board voted in late 2017 to look into the possibility of selling the division. “We have received multiple inquiries from prospective buyers and are in active discussions with several,” CEO Andreas Rouvé said. “Given their attractiveness and upside potential, we believe these businesses can have accelerated success in the hands of new owners.” Wall Street reacted favorably to the news. Spectrum Brands stock closed Wednesday at $118.94 a share, up $9.58, or 8.8 percent, from its close Tuesday at $109.36. At least two research analysts applauded the move in notes issued Wednesday. Such a sale “should improve (sales) margins and sharpen focus,” analyst Joseph Altobello, of Raymond James, titled a research note. Please call 800-362-8333 to upgrade your subscription. Please sign up or log in to view more. No credit card required. The strategy is “long overdue,” headlined a note by Ian Zaffino, of Oppenheimer & Co. The global batteries and appliances division brought in just under $2 billion for the 2017 fiscal year, or 40 percent of Spectrum Brands’ $5 billion revenue in fiscal 2017. Starting with financial results for the fiscal 2018 first quarter that ended Dec. 31, that division will be reclassified as held for sale and reported as discontinued operations. Long history in Madison Rayovac got its start as the French Battery Co., founded in Madison in 1906. In its early years, there were two battery plants in Madison and later, the company added factories in cities including Appleton and Wonewoc. Those plants eventually closed; the last battery manufacturing in Madison ended in 1998. Rayovac has two remaining factories in Wisconsin. In Fennimore, nearly 300 employees make AA and AAA alkaline batteries. In Portage, 225 employees produce hearing aid batteries. In fact, even as Spectrum Brands announced the prospect of selling the battery business, the company said it is introducing a new line of hearing aid batteries, called PRO LINE Advanced, that will last longer and be easier to handle. They will be made in Portage. It wasn’t until the early 2000s that Rayovac diversified into other industries, beyond batteries and flashlights. The company bought Remington Products, with electric shavers and hair care appliances, in 2003, then added United Industries Corp., a lawn care and pet supplies company, in 2005 and changed its name to Spectrum Brands. The George Foreman and Black & Decker small kitchen appliances were acquired in 2010, hardware businesses came on board in 2012 and 2014, and Armored AutoGroup joined Spectrum Brands in 2015. The company, housed for decades on Madison’s West Side, moved into new offices at 3001 Deming Way, Middleton, in 2013 and the building was expanded by 30,000 square feet last year. Spectrum Brands stock is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange, but its majority owner, HRG Group, a publicly traded New York diversified portfolio holding group, owns 59.6 percent of the shares, according to a December 2017 filing with federal regulators. Raymond James analyst Altobello said he thinks the batteries and appliances divisions could sell for $3.1 billion to $3.5 billion, and parts would likely go to separate buyers, possibly competitors or private equity investors. “I think Rayovac has kept up in terms of technology, but it’s a tough industry to differentiate,” Altobello said. Oppenheimer’s Zaffino said he thinks the deal could bring Spectrum Brands $2.9 billion to $3.2 billion and will let management “focus growth efforts on its better businesses.” Pyle, chairman of The Pyle Group, said he is not interested in buying back the company. Spectrum’s Prichard said the division is valuable to the company. “Everyone is very mindful of the long, long history of Rayovac and the battery business in Madison ... and its steady contribution to the company’s growth,” he said. Prichard said there’s no timetable for a decision on the possible sale. Contact Judy Newman at jdnewman@madison.com with tips and story suggestions. Spectrum Brands Holdings Andreas Rouvé David Maura Consumer Products Companies Rayovac Batteries Remington Appliances Capital W: Plug in to Wisconsin politics Subscribe to our Politics email! You'll get a weekly recap of the goings-on at the State Capitol, delivered free to your inbox every Friday. Judy Newman is a business reporter for the Wisconsin State Journal. Follow Judy Newman \| Wisconsin State Journal More in 2018 year in review: Highs and lows of the past 12 months in the Madison area (1 of 47) He's running: Madison Mayor Paul Soglin joins Democratic field to challenge Gov. Scott Walker Photos: Battery maker Rayovac through the years Middleton-based Spectrum Brands, parent company of Rayovac batteries and Remington shavers, has been a mainstay in the Madison area since 1906… Madison Wisconsin Business News Rayovac/Spectrum Brands timeline Spectrum Brands annual profit dips but stock climbs The Middleton consumer products company reported its fiscal fourth-quarter and year-end earnings on Thursday. Federal judge orders Spectrum Brands to pay $1.9 million fine The ruling stems from a case involving a defective Black & Decker coffeemaker carafe. Spectrum Brands is expanding into China A major Chinese e-commerce company is providing the platform. Spectrum Brands selling Rayovac battery business to Energizer Holdings for $2B The Rayovac battery business that started in Madison more than 100 years ago was the legacy core of the global consumer products company that Spectrum Brands has become. Spectrum Brands combining with top shareholder HRG in $10B deal Holding company HRG, based in New York, owns about 59 percent of Spectrum, according to FactSet. Regulators clear the way for Energizer to buy Spectrum Brands' car maintenance products The acquisition is a $1.25 billion cash and stock deal. Badger Sports	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1596
__label__cc	0.696541	0.303459	Posts Tagged ‘Lanterns On The Lake’ Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week Posted: November 14, 2015 in Alternative, Americana, Electronic, Folk, Garage, Indie, Music, Post Punk, Psychedelic, Punk, Rock Tags: Bernard lakes, Big Pink, Lanterns On The Lake, Menace Beach, Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Pretty Vicious, Rare Monk, So Pitted, Sunflower Bean, Tindersticks A perfect ten (count ’em) rounded up for you this week, all fresh and emerging blinking into the daylight. Or something like that… Menace Beach – Holidays Are Heavy The Big Pink – High Times So Pitted – Rot In Hell The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Hell Pretty Vicious – Are You Ready For Me Rare Monk – California Sunflower Bean – Wall Watcher Lanterns On The Lake – Through The Cellar Door The Bernard Lakes – Motorway The Tindersticks – Hey Lucinda Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week Posted: August 30, 2015 in Alternative, Ambient, Americana, Folk, Garage, Indie, Music, Psychedelic, Punk, Rock Tags: Alien Hand Syndrome, Heaters, Lanterns On The Lake, Laura Stevenson, Low, Mantles, Moses Sumney, Nai Harvest A day late, but surely none the worse for all that, our collection of some of the best tracks from last week. Low – Lies The Mantles – Doorframe Laura Stevenson – Torch Song Lanterns On The Lake – Faultiness Heaters – Gum Drop Nai Harvest – Ain’t That Enough (Teenage Fanclub cover) Alien Hand Syndrome – Something In The Way (Nirvana cover) Moses Sumney – Pleas The Return Of Lanterns On The Lake Posted: June 18, 2013 in Acoustic, Ambient, Folk, Indie, Music, Pop Tags: Lanterns On The Lake Another Tale From Another English Town heralds the return of the dreamy, haunting folk of Lanterns On The Lake and is taken from their forthcoming new album Until The Colours Run, that will see a release via Bella Union. It is typically beautiful, cinematic and orchestral, with strings and vocals that rise and fall as though they were swelling waves, but the lyrics are sharper than previously, with more bite, and reflect the hard times with a nod to harder ones still to come. It is majestic stuff. “Its getting hard to breathe round here, to think round here, and we’ve been sold a thousand lies this year” Have a listen. Watch the video. Immerse yourself. No Direction Home Festival: A Review Posted: June 15, 2012 in Acoustic, Alternative, Ambient, Americana, Country, Electronic, Folk, Indie, Metal, Music, Pop, Psychedelic, Punk, Rock Tags: Andrew Bird, Austra, Beth Jeans Houghton & The Hooves Of Destiny, Cold Specks, Cornshed Sisters, Crookes, Django Django, Euros Childs, Father John Misty, Gruff Rhys, Lanterns On The Lake, Liz Green, Low Anthem, Martin Carthy, Moon Duo, Other Lives, Phosphorescent, Pyramids, Richard Hawley, Slow Club, Tiny Ruins, Trembling Bells, Unthanks, Wave Pictures, Wet Nuns No Direction Home Festival \|\| Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire \|\| 8-10 June 2012 The omens were not good for the inaugural No Direction Home music festival, setting out in heavy rain that only got heavier as the traffic got slower the further north I went. However, despite the slate grey skies and constant brake lights of the M1, a journey of over 5 hours was rewarded on arrival by a break in the weather than unbelievably lasted for the whole three days. No Direction Home is a new “little brother” venture from those behind the End of the Road Festival (those who read MM even semi-regularly will know what a fantastic event that is) and so felt very familiar from the moment we set foot in the main arena. Familiar food stalls, the Rough Trade tent, the book tent, the cinema tent and more had all been transplanted wholesale to just south of Sheffield. Likewise the music line-up was the same mix as the End of the Road – predominantly Americana, folk (both freak and traditional), country, indie and a smattering of some ultra-heavy psychedelic rock over two main stages and a small, intimate café stage by the lake. Indeed many of the performers (perhaps slightly too many) were equally familiar as End of the Road veterans: The Low Anthem, Gruff Rhys, Richard Hawley, Django Django, Other Lives, Dirty Three, The Unthanks. In fact our opening set came from another EotR alumni, Lanterns on the Lake, their heavy, ethereal, ambient tinged folk a perfect atmospheric companion to the sullen, overcast skies and heavy clouds, whilst in the somewhat optimistically named Electric Dust Bowl Big Top, Wet Nuns flailed away with a punishing set of hardcore riffing and gravelly vocals – furiously competing with the elements outside. It took Django Django to brighten the mood; their good-natured approach and twangy electro-krautrock pop lifting collective spirits. A huge improvement on when we saw them at EotR in 2010, now they ooze confidence and are happy to let the songs from their excellent debut album stand up for themselves; Life’s A Beach, Waveforms, Skies Over Cairo, Wor and standout single Default all being highlights. Finally as the night set in fully, The Low Anthem took the stage as the night’s main attraction. As they did at the EotR, they soon captured and then captivated the audience with their haunting and melancholic brand of folk holding everyone rapt as they performed one stunning song after another. There was just time to catch a set from Canadian electro-rockers Austra to finish the night – and a perfect illustration of the eclectic reach of the festival. Not something we are likely to listen to at home, but live an astonishingly powerful and captivating spectacle with three front women dynamically weaving repetitive musical patterns in a manner akin to Siouxsie Sioux fronting Can. Having gone to bed chanting the Woodstock refrain of “No rain, no rain” to myself I was rewarded on Saturday both with a dry start and a sweetly enchanting set of pastoral folk from Tiny Ruins, fresh from their recent tour support with the Handsome Family. Highlight being the surreal, but true tale of the Brazilian priest Fr. Carli who tried to fly using 1,000 helium balloons…some pieces of him were never recovered. Next up was quirky singer-songwriter Liz Green who sadly failed to sparkle as we’d hoped, and seemed a little daunted by the gravitas of the main stage, so it was back to the big top for Tyne & Wear’s Cornshed Sisters whose traditional finger-in-the-ear choral folk songs were much appreciated and provided a calming, bewitching effect over the audience. Emerging, blinking and slightly dazed for Euros Childs it took a few songs for me to realise what an thoroughly excellent songwriter he is (for that genuinely is his real name), and for the last twenty years or or so he has been performing his own brand of slightly unhinged psych-pop laced with black humour and waspish wit. With Cavendish Hall he provided one of the songs of the weekend and one of those lovely ‘discovery’ moments of a new artist you know you’re going to enjoy for a long, long time to come. Next up was Mrs Mackerel’s fave and one of the most individual performers of the weekend in anti-pop, anti-folk, anti-conventionalist Beth Jeans Houghton with her Hooves of Destiny. Opening with the galloping, infectious Atlas and running through many of the highlights of their excellent debut Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose (Dodecahedron, The Barely Skinny Tree, Lilliput, Harlequin and Sweet Tooth Bird) as well as non-album cuts like the barber-shop drenched harmonies of Honeycomb, the irreverent Shampoo (“looks like cum, smells like flowers, I use shampoo in the shower“) and Your Holes, it was the most delightfully unique set of the weekend and demonstrates that the independent spirit of indie pop is alive and well in BJH’s hands. Other Lives followed with a set of wonderfully melodramatic orchestral folk rock that somehow reminded me of The Waterboys crossed with Radiohead and was every bit as good as that combination sounds ridiculous. Gruff Rhys was exactly as you would have expected – unconventional and predictably unpredictable, expertly mixing the glam rock stomp of In A House With No Mirrors with the gently psych-whimsy of Candylion and the melancholic pop of Lonesome Words. There was no such variety with the swirling headfuck of Moon Duo’s powerfully propulsive heavy-psych that suffered slightly from a muddy sound and their seeming insistence for playing in complete darkness on stage. They were followed by the equally pulverising Pyramids whose crunchy guitar riffs, slashing rhythms and howled vocals played out like an adrenalin fuelled Hawkwind on speed. Headlining the main stage was arch whistler Andrew Bird and despite his over-fussiness (no pictures, no family members, constant irritated gesturing to the soundman) he pleased the crowd with a set of winsome folk and some quite impressive violin manoeuvres. The sun shone. Some of the thick mud dried up, a bit, and the wonderfully uncompromising Trembling Bells kicked off the day with a set of traditional British folk underpinned with the occasional ferocious onslaught of psychedelic pyrotechnics that was as bruising as it was soothing. The much-admired Cold Specks brought authentically sorrowful tales of the delta flavoured with a soulful taste of the Mississippi to the main stage, so authentic in fact you almost expected to see a paddle steamer on the adjacent lake. They were followed by a fabulously entertaining set of quirky and surreal indie rock from The Wave Pictures and back inside the big top local boys The Crookes charged up the crowd with a fizzing, high energy set of guitar pop. By now the crowd was gathering to pay homage to folk legend Martin Carthy who introduced each song with a conversational air and as though he had all the time in the world. Exuding bonhomie, he ran through a selection of traditional and classic folk songs and demonstrated why he is universally revered by fellow musicians as one of the best acoustic guitarists around. A pleasure to watch. And on the back of that came the unexpected highlight of the weekend. While ex-Fleet Foxes drummer Joshua Tillman, aka Father John Misty’s album Fear Fun has gradually been growing on me over the past few weeks, to hear him play it live made it obvious what an outstanding set of songs they are. Just one man and his guitar, it was dark night of the soul stuff, visceral, bawdy, and confrontational. In between he was ironic, self-deprecating and slightly sarcastic and it quickly became one of those rare occasions where the audience become transfixed by what is being placed before them. Fun Times In Babylon, Only Son Of The Ladies’ Man, Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings, Nancy From Now On, Writing A Novel – each song greeted with more rapture than the last and as he finished with the stunning Now I’m Learning To Love The War and Every Man Needs A Companion the entire tent breathed a collective sigh and then erupted. It was worth the ticket price on its own. Back outside Slow Club entertained with their jolly mix of folk and indie pop, and the sweet voices of The Unthanks accompanied by the Brighouse and Rastrick Band provided the perfect accompaniment to the setting sun over the lake. And finally, despite a broken leg (which precipitated a much appreciated parody of the famed Nirvana-at-Reading style entrance in a wheelchair), local hero Richard Hawley delivered a festival closing set perfectly in keeping with the mood. His velveteen vocals cloaking the bitter sting and melancholy of his lyrics while the 60s tinged psychedelic guitar of his latest album Standing At The Sky’s Edge weaved intricate patterns in the cool night air. And so it was time to fight the pop-up tent and go home, one amongst 3,000 satisfied punters. No Direction Home succeeded in keeping the intimacy that makes The End of the Road so special and had many memorable performances that will linger long in the memory. Tickets are already on sale for next year (click here) and we’re hoping with a year under their belt, they will go with a slightly more original and bolder line-up. If so, we will be there again! Download Euros Childs – Cavendish Hall mp3 (from Ends) Download Cold Specks – Holland mp3 (from I Predict A Graceful Expulsion) Download Father John Misty & Phosphorescent – I Would Love You mp3 Download The Wave Pictures – I Love You Like A Madman mp3 (from Instant Coffee Baby) Download Andrew Bird – If I Needed You mp3 (Townes Van Zandt cover) Download The Crookes – Backstreet Lovers mp3 (from Dreams Of Another Day) Download our full Festival mixtape here. No Direction Home Festival: Free Mix Posted: June 8, 2012 in Acoustic, Alternative, Ambient, Americana, Country, Electronic, Folk, Garage, Indie, Music, Pop, Psychedelic, Punk, Rock Tags: Austra, Cornshed Sisters, David Thomas Broughton, Django Django, Father John Misty, Joe Gideon & The Shark, Lanterns On The Lake, Low Anthem, Mikal Cronin, Moon Duo, Other Lives, Peter Wolf Crier, Slow Club, Spectrals, Tiny Ruins, Veronica Falls, Wave Pictures, Wet Nuns, Woodpigeon, Zulu Winter As you read this I will probably still be speeding northwards through the torrential rain on the M1 heading for Sherwood Forest and the inaugural No Direction Home music festival. Having spent the last two years happily enjoying the fantastic End of the Road festival, my plans were scuppered for a hat-trick by a sneaky move in dates making it clash with our first overseas family holiday in years to the beaches of Spain. Thankfully, the same folk are behind this one so despite the rotten weather forecast, hopes are high for another fantastic event and judging by the line-up, we should be in for a treat. Friday night will be headlined by The Low Anthem, Saturday by Andrew Bird and Sunday by Richard Hawley. In between times we will have the pleasure of sets from Beth Jeans Houghton & The Hooves of Destiny, Other Lives, Moon Duo, Lanterns On The Lake, The Wave Pictures, Wet Nuns, Father John Misty, Mikal Cronin and Spectrals. Best of all though will be discovering those artists and bands that we’ve not come across before and who turn out to be jaw-droppingly good. Here is a free mix just to give you a taste of what we’ll be enjoying over the weekend, or if you fancy snapping up one of the last few tickets you can get one here. Look out for a full review next week. Download Father John Misty – Nancy From Now On mp3 (from Fear Fun) Download Spectrals – Chip A Tooth (Spoil A Smile) mp3 (from A Spectrals Extended Play EP) Download The Low Anthem – Charlie Darwin mp3 (from O My God, Charlie Darwin) Download The Low Anthem – This God Damn House mp3 (from What The Crow Brings) Download David Thomas Broughton – Nature mp3 (from Outbreeding) Download David Thomas Broughton – Walking Over You mp3 (from The Complete Guide To Insufficiency) Download Lanterns On The Lake – You’re Almost There mp3 (from Gracious Tide, Take Me Home) Download Slow Club – Beginners mp3 (from Paradise) Download Django Django – Love’s Dart mp3 (from Storm / Love’s Dart 7″) Download The Cornshed Sisters – Nowhere Man mp3 (from Mojo Presents – Yellow Submarine Resurfaces) Download Peter Wolf Crier – Crutch & Cane mp3 (from Inter-Be) Download Zulu Winter – Lets Move Back To Front mp3 (from Language) Download Woodpigeon – I Live A Lot of Places mp3 (from Treasury Library Canada) Download Wet Nuns – Heavens Below mp3 (from Heavens Below 7″) Download Tiny Ruins – The Death Of A Russian mp3 (from Some Were Meant For Sea) Download The Wave Pictures –Stay Here And Take Care Of The Chickens mp3 (from Long Black Cars) Download Veronica Falls – Bad Feeling mp3 (from Veronica Falls) Download Austra – Lose it mp3 (from Feel It Break) Download Joe Gideon & The Shark – True Nature mp3 (from Harum Scarum) It’s Valentines Day… Posted: February 14, 2012 in Acoustic, Alternative, Ambient, Americana, Electronic, Folk, Indie, Music, Pop, Psychedelic, Rock Tags: Besnard Lakes, Chromatics, Exlovers, Field Music, Ingrid Michaelson, John Grant, John McCauley, Lanterns On The Lake, Lia Ices, Smoke Fairies, Th' Faith Healers It’s Valentines Day. Love it or hate it, you can’t deny it. I will, of course, effortlessly be showing Mrs M just what a lucky catch I was. And for the rest of you, by way of a massively contrived link, let us cover you with love too. Here is a tasty little mix of covers we’ve picked up to follow on from yesterday’s Bad Moon Rising post, just don’t expect them to be all loved-up now will you. First up is a sublime cover of Neil Young’s classic Hey Hey My My (Into The Black) by the Chromatics (who have also done great versions of I’m On Fire and Running Up That Hill), simply titled Into The Black it is from forthcoming album Kill For Love. Download The Chromatics – Into The Black mp3 (from Kill For Love) Download The Chromatics – I’m On Fire mp3 (from Studio Sketches) Wicked Game by Chris Isaak is an enormously popular song to cover – the latest is by melodic indie-popsters the Exlovers. Download Exlovers – Wicked Game mp3 (Chris Isaak cover) We also have Besnard Lakes taking on Syd Barrett’s Love You and John Grant’s version of the Beatles Two Of Us from the Let It Be album. We have another from the recent Mojo cover disc of Leonard Cohen reworkings – this time Field Music’s Suzanne. We have more Neil Young in the shape of Alabama from the Smoke Fairies and we have George Harrison’s Long Long Long by Lanterns On The Lake and Floyd’s Wish You Were Here by Lia Ices. Download Besnard Lakes – Love You mp3 (Syd Barrett Cover) Download John Grant – Two Of Us mp3 (Beatles Cover) Download Field Music – Suzanne mp3 (Leonard Cohen Cover) Download The Smoke Fairies – Alabama mp3 (Neil Young Cover) Download Lanterns On The Lake – Long Long Long mp3 (George Harrison Cover) Download Lia Ices – Wish You Were Here mp3 (Pink Floyd Cover) Our third Neil Young cover comes courtesy of Deer Tick’s John McCauley (via Rollo & Grady) and is his typically gruff take on Out On The Weekend. Download John McCauley – Out On The Weekend mp3 (Neil Young Cover, Rollo & Grady Session) Conversations with our friend Ronan of Oxford’s local music paper Nightshift this weekend bought to mind the gone, but not forgotten, krautrock inspired indie of the wonderful Th’ Faith Healers. This is their suitably noisy cover of Abba’s S.O.S. from one of their many Peel Sessions. Download Th’ Faith Healers – S.O.S. mp3 (from The Peel Sessions) And finally on this day of love and romance we leave you to your candlelight and roses, or to your tissues and bitterness with Ingrid Michaelson’s cover of Radiohead’s Creep! Download Ingrid Michaelson – Creep mp3 (Radiohead Cover) Mad Mackerel’s Albums Of The Year: Part 1 (50-31) Posted: December 29, 2011 in Alternative, Blues, Country, Folk, Garage, Gothic, Indie, Industrial, Music, Psychedelic, Punk, Rock Tags: Blessed Feathers, Country Mice, Jeff The Brotherhood, Jessica Lea Mayfield, Jolie Holland, Lanterns On The Lake, Lonesome Wyatt & The Holy Spooks, LONG, Low Anthem, Lydia Lunch & Big Sexy Noise, Natural Child, Other Lives, Pack A.D., Siskiyou, Smith Westerns, The Men, Ty Segall, William Elliott Whitmore, Wire, Wye Oak So, as the New Year approaches, here are our favourite albums of 2011 for your consideration. Feel free to dispute, argue, or otherwise put us right because, if nothing else, music is as about as subjective topic as it is possible to get. Some of these may not be the “best” albums of the year as far as the critics are concerned, but that matters not, as they were the ones we enjoyed listening to most – give them a try, you might feel the same. 50 Jessica Lea Mayfield – Tell Me Download Jessica Lea Mayfield – Our Hearts Are Wrong mp3 (from Tell Me) 49 Ty Segall – Goodbye Bread Download Ty Segall – You Make The Sun Fry mp3 (from Goodbye Bread) 48 Wire – Red Barked Trees Download Wire – Two Minutes mp3 (from Red Barked Trees) 47 Blessed Feathers – From the Mouths of the Middle Class Download Blessed Feathers – Stinging Nettle, Honeysuckle mp3 (from From The Mouths Of The Middle Class) Download Blessed Feathers – By Song Through The Americas mp3 (from From The Mouths Of The Middle Class) 46 The Men – Leave Home Download The Men – Bataille mp3 (from Leave Home) 45 Lanterns On The Lake – Gracious Tide, Take Me Home 44 The Pack A.D. – Unpersons Download The Pack A.D. – Sirens mp3 (from Unpersons) 43 The Low Anthem – Smart Flesh 42 Other Lives – Tamer Animals 41 Country Mice – Twister Download Country Mice – Morning Son mp3 (from Twister) 40 Siskiyou – Keep Away The Dead Download Siskiyou – Twigs And Stones mp3 (from Keep Away The Dead) 39 The Smith Westerns – Dye It Blonde Download The Smith Westerns – All Die Young mp3 (from Dye It Blonde) 38 Jolie Holland – Pint Of Blood 37 Lydia Lunch & Big Sexy Noise – Trust The Witch Download Lydia Lunch & The Big Sexy Noise – Where You Gonna Run mp3 (from Trust The Witch) 36 Lonesome Wyatt & The Holy Spooks – Heartsick 35 Wye Oak – Civilian Download Wye Oak – Civilian mp3 (from Civilian) 34 Jeff The Brotherhood – We Are The Champions 33 William Elliott Whitmore – Field Songs Download William Elliott Whitmore – Bury Your Burdens In The Ground mp3 (from Field Songs) 32 Natural Child – 1971 Download Natural Child – Hard Workin Man mp3 (from 1971) 31 LONG – American Primitive Download LONG – Shoot Your Dog mp3 (from American Primitive) MM’s 2011 Top Ten Series: No 9 Mrs Mackerel Posted: December 24, 2011 in Alternative, Blues, Country, Folk, Indie, Music, Pop, Psychedelic, Punk, Rock, Soul Tags: Cave Singers, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Henry's Funeral Shoe, Hurray For The Riff Raff, Hyde & Beast, Lanterns On The Lake, Laura Marling, Lovely Eggs, Middle Brother, National, Okkervil River, Roadside Graves, Top Ten of 2011, Wooden Wand, Wye Oak Our final Top Ten selection comes courtesy of the lovely, and ever radiant, Mrs Mackerel. Over to you girl! It’s been a great musical year. But such a plethora of riches always presents a problem – what’s a girl to choose? Fortunately some fine contributions in the preceding week means most bases are covered. Live gigs, although few and far between this year, have been rich in quality, and particularly finger-picking good on the guitar front. A fine ensemble of gig friends too, thank you. Without further ado, here’s my humble opinion. And remember kids this is just my opinion, you can try this at home too. 10. Hyde & the Beast – You Will be Lonely Boom-shacker, boom-shacker. Bit of cowboy guitars. An up-tempo beat coupled with the “you’re dumped” message. Still if you’ve got to do it, do it with a smile on your face and a guitar in your hand, I say. Boom-shacker, boom-shacker. 9. The National – Think You Can Wait Nice bit of backing from the wonderful Sharon Van Etten, coupled with the mellifluous vocal of Matt Berninger. Trademark National: understated brilliance. 8. Lanterns on the Lake – Ships in the Rain Another great thing to come from Sunderland. Catch up please. Atmosphere, ethereal vocals, beautiful lyrics. Til we meet again, girls. 7. Henry’s Funeral Shoe – Dog Scratched Ear Widespread Mackerel popularity for this song amongst family and friends. Yep, we know a good guitar riff when we hear one: hard core. Looking for joy when there’s none to find? Plenty here. 6. Wye Oak – Civilian A January contender for my top ten, so a stayer. A fantastic piece of drumming that builds and builds; to be played loud on speakers not headphones, she insists in a bossy tone that MM knows only too well… Breathy vocals adds atmosphere to the intensity. 5. Wooden Wand – No Hayride Directed to this by daughter sprat, and how right she is. The pared back simplicity of the guitar lends itself so well to the lyrics. Prolific output – does this man ever sleep? Download Wooden Wand – No Hayride mp3 (from Archives Vol 3) 4. The Cave Singers – Haystacks How do I love the Cave Singers? Oh let me count the ways. Storming harmonica coupled with such an irresistible tempo, I challenge you not to be out of your seat and dancing. These boys got rhythm in bucket loads and talent to match. But they’re not yours, they’re mine. Glad we cleared that one up. 3. Hurray for the Riff Raff – Too Much of a Good Thing A great big old fashioned waltz of a song, throw in a sprinkling of mariachi pipes, a helping of accordion and the tender vocals of Alynda Lee Segarra. Lifetime top ten tune for me this one. 2. Middle Brother – Portland Shared a cigarette for breakfast? More than one I reckon. John McCauley of Deer Tick has a voice that was made for this song. One for the road, sung in chorus, gives me the warmest, fuzzy feeling all over. Stick me on a greyhound bus with Middle Brother playing to the open road and I reckon I’d be a happy girl. Just about the best darned cover (yes, I know but don’t care) I ever heard. Pure magic. 1. Laura Marling – Night After Night A photo finish for me amongst the top five. Yin and yang songs. This song is wuthering, if you get my gist but hey, that’s just me. There’s so much here from the opening guitar sequence that makes me think of a boat rowing out to sea, to the subtle finale with a flamenco flourish. Lyrical dexterity, passion, sadness, regret. The incomparable Laura Marling take a bow. Goddammit Janet: missed it first time round Grinderman – Palaces of Montezuma The theatre of this song is almost vintage Bowie. A great big banquet of lyrical genius and the funkiest rhythm to match. Bloody marvellous. Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros – Janglin From the happy-go-lucky intro to swinging, swaying finger-clicking goodness of the rest of the tune. Click your heels and away you go. Download Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – Janglin mp3 (from From Below) And Okkervil River. Missed all together. MM and I are fools. I have told him this repeatedly while hitting him with a large branch. Joking. Sort of. Download Okkervil River – For Real mp3 (from Black Sheep Boy) School Run Anthems 2011 The Lovely Eggs – Don’t Look at Me (I Don’t Like It) We sang and did the actions. The car bounced and shimmied its way to school. Nothing like a bit of 21st century punk to get you going in the morning. Roadside Graves – Jail Don’t want to work today. Just want to lay in bed. Couldn’t have put it better myself. Download The Roadside Graves – Jail (Simplefolk UK Radio Live Session) mp3 Actually no guilt attached to this choice at all. Great voice. Great song, sniff. MM’s 2011 Top Ten Series: No 5 Barry-Sean Posted: December 20, 2011 in Alternative, Blues, Country, Folk, Indie, Music, Rock, Rock & Roll Tags: Cage The Elephant, Decemberists, Deer Tick, Ha Ha Tonka, Lanterns On The Lake, Mr Plow, Richmond Fontaine, Roadside Graves, Sissy & The Blisters, Tom Williams & The Boat, Top Ten of 2011, Twilight Hotel, Walkmen, Whalers Next to share their favourites of the year is part man part canine Barry-Sean… What a fantastic year for music this has been for me. I don’t just mean for music that has been produced this year but more about the music that I’ve discovered from previous years (or, more accurately in most cases, music that has been discovered for me). And, because I’ve spent a lot of time going backwards and forwards to London on the train, I’ve had loads of listening time. Hurrah! So here we go. Here’s my top ten songs of 2011. 10. Sissy & The Blisters – Let Her Go When MM first introduced me to Sissy & The Blisters, I wasn’t too fussed. But they’ve grown on me over the past few months. Let Her Go starts off sounding like the Editors covering Placebo. But it does remain a truly S&tB song throughout and has a wonderfully catchy chorus. A great start to my top 10, I think. 9. Tom Williams & The Boat – See My Evil My favourite track from the fantastic Too Slow, released early in the year. It’s an album that’s so good I could have easily included at least one more track from it in my top ten songs of the year. But no, let’s keep things varied. Tom Williams & The Boat produce some pretty dark songs and this one bounds from one grim situation to another with a vocal that flicks between contempt and resignation accompanied by a tortured but catchy guitar riff. Pure brilliance! Download Tom Williams & The Boat – See My Evil mp3 (from Too Slow) 8. Roadside Graves – Double Feature I’m well behind the mackerel shoal in getting to love the Roadside Graves. While the other mackerels were waxing lyrical about songs like Far And Wide and Liv Tyler, I just wasn’t getting it. And then Double Feature came along and it was like having a bucket of water thrown over my head. Suddenly everything made sense and I understood what all the fuss was about. Double Feature is from the concept album We Can Take Care of Ourselves and feels like a story … its just I’m not really sure what its about. But it builds beautifully and transported me to a drive-in on a middle-America summer evening. Atmospheric and tuneful with a great pace and vocals. If you’ve not listened to Roadside Graves before, please do try this first … then go and buy the album. Download The Roadside Graves – Double Feature mp3 (from We Can Take Care Of Ourselves) 7. Cage the Elephant – Shake Me Down Another band I didn’t really ‘get’ but Shake Me Down from the album Thank You Happy Birthday caught my attention and held it from the opening chords. And I’ve carried on playing regularly since I first heard it in March. I couldn’t tell you what musical genre this track fits into but its somewhere between rock and Americana. I’m just not sure where. Download Cage The Elephant – Shake Me Down mp3 (from Thank You Happy Birthday) 6. Deer Tick – The Bump I love Deer Tick. They’re a really talented bunch of chaps who can switch between songs about the painful side of love (listen to Ashamed from their War Elephant album) to rollocking, lets-just-have-a-beer-and-party singalongs. The Bump falls well and truly into the latter category. Any song that can make me smile and stamp my foot along to it every time I hear it has got to be worth a place in my top ten, hasn’t it? 5. Ha Ha Tonka – Usual Suspects I’m not really a ‘fun song’ sort of bloke but from the opening, jangly chords I fell in love with this. It’s just three and a half minutes of fun and it never fails to give me that feel-good feeling. If you’re ever a bit down in the mouth, this is sure to pick you up. Download Ha Ha Tonka – Usual Suspects mp3 (from Death Of A Decade) Pure atmosphere … a bit like a modern day Ocean Rain (for younger readers that’s an Echo & The Bunnymen track from their sublime album of the same name). This songs meanders gently along with breathy, haunting vocals that takes you to a place where you can almost feel the creak of wood beneath your feet and feel the rain on your face. Beautiful. 3. Richmond Fontaine – Lost in the Trees Now we’re into the really serious stuff. This track has been on so many of playlists this year and I’ve never tired of it. A dark tale of a party in the woods that goes badly wrong. The backing riff is as moody as the lyrics and, sorry to namedrop the Bunnymen again, brings to mind the brilliant Do It Clean. To be honest the only reason this isn’t at number one is because I couldn’t make my mind up between my top three songs of the year and not all of them can be number one. It is a great, great track though. 2. The Decemberists – January Hymn Again, this could have been number one (but equally could have been number three) but just got pipped at the post. January Hymn is a beautiful, atmospheric song that tells of a fella who goes out clearing his drive of snow on a snowy day. He thinks of his love who has left him and all the things he should have said before she left. You’d expect the Decemberists to come up with quality tunes and lyrics but this is so good you can picture the scenes as Colin Meloy sings them. Genius. Twilight Hotel – Mahogany Veneer A moody (and slightly sad) road trip as Twilight Hotel take us across America, visiting some of the places you wanted necessarily want to see, New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina being a great example. The entire song conjures up so many images in the mind to a backdrop of a melancholic melody. I do love story songs and this has become one of my favourites. Not necessarily for the story itself but for the intelligent way Twilight Hotel have matched lyrics with tune and brought them together to create a dark, dark journey. Bubbling Under Young the Giant – My Body A thumping, foot-tapping tune that seems to push the buttons of the fellas in our office more than the ladies. Great tune … enough said. Lovely Eggs – Don’t Look At Me (I Don’t Like It) This got in my head back at the start of autumn and just stayed there. Daft lyrics set to a late seventies punky tune with a distinctive and quite addictive vocal. Great fun. Mr Plow – Typhus Not such great fun but you’ve got to love a song about a killer disease haven’t you? If you’re mad enough not to want to listen to this all the way through … just about everyone dies in the end! Don’t listen to this is if you’re feeling low though, eh? Download Mr Plow – Typhus mp3 (from Joyful In Song We Are) Missed it! The Whalers – That Rabbit If this had been a 2011 song, it would have been top five. I love this. Download The Whalers – That Rabbit mp3 (from How The Ship Goes Down) Walkmen – Juveniles This would have been my number two if it had been this year. It conjures up memories of sitting on a Friday evening train on the way back from London and marvelling at the Berkshire countryside in early spring. For me, this tune will always remind me of the coming of lighter evenings and warmer days. Download The Walkmen – Juveniles mp3 (from Lisbon) White Buffalo – Black and Blue And this would have been my number one. Brilliant lyrics that starts with the storyteller’s girlfriend storming out after a row. The storyteller goes on to reflect on the downside of being in love. I‘m not going to say anything else. Just that if you only listen to one of the songs I’ve talked about here, please make it this one. Okkervil River – John Allyn Smith Sails Aaaaah, Okkervil River. Why didn’t I know about you before this year? These guys were one of my highlights of End of the Road 2011. This is another dark tale but without the moody tune to go with it. There’s also a brilliant cameo by a well-known tune towards the end of the song that I absolutely love. Modest Mouse – Doin’ the Cockroach I love Modest Mouse and I think this is as good as the brilliant Float On. It might be an acquired taste, I don’t know, but it has dominated my playlists for much of the year and I truly wish it hadn’t taken me so long to get past the aforementioned Float On and into some of MM’s other tunes. Ray Wylie Hubbard – Choctaw Bingo And lastly, a song from way, way back that seems to have passed me by. Shame on me and shame for me. I’ve put the Ray Wylie Hubbard version here but I love the live version by James McMurtry & The Heartless Bastards too. Its eight and a half minutes of roister-doistering, foot-stomping that will have you hooked as quickly as the crystal meth that Uncle Slayton cooks up. Great story, great song, glad its in my ITunes collection. Siskiyou – Revolution Blues My favourite Neil Young tune covered perfectly. Perhaps even more tortured and paranoid than the original vocal, Siskiyou have really done the brilliance of Revolution Blues proud. Black Keys – Ummm Oh Yeah (Dearest) This is a standout track from an outstanding album of Buddy Holly covers. I was brought up on Buddy Holly and have come to love his music almost as much as my dad loves it. I could have easily picked out half a dozen tracks from the sublime Rave On Buddy Holly album but Ummm Oh Yeah (Dearest) is my favourite Buddy Holly original so this is the one I’m putting forward in my favourite covers of the year. More Truck Festival Pictures Posted: July 31, 2011 in Alternative, Country, Electronic, Folk, Indie, Music, Psychedelic, Rock Tags: Admiral Fallow, Alessi's Ark, Caitlin Rose, Cashier No. 9, Chad Valley, Drag The River, Duke And The King, Edwyn Collins, John Grant, Johnny Flynn, Jonquil, Justin Townes Earle, Lanterns On The Lake, Little Fish, Pete And The Pirates, Tunng MM wasn’t the only one snapping pictures from Truck Festival this year. Here are a selection from Moo, our own mini Mad Mackerel. 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__label__wiki	0.576103	0.576103	New study shows link between maternal age and emergency delivery by Oslo University An increased risk of emergency operative delivery is linked with increasing maternal age, suggests a new study published today in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. The study used a sample of 169,583 low risk, first-time mothers in Norway, to examine the association between maternal age and emergency operative delivery, which include emergency caesarean section and operative vaginal delivery (forceps or ventouse). The paper also examined other risk factors for emergency c-section and operative vaginal delivery. These included; in-labour indications (fetal distress and dystocia), birth weight of over 4000g, gestational age of 42 or more weeks, induction of labour and epidural use. Results show that women over 40 years old had a 22.4% emergency caesarean section rate and 23.7% operative vaginal delivery rate, compared with 6.7% and 13% respectively in women aged between 20 – 24 and 8.4% and 16.2% respectively in women aged between 25 – 29. Dystocia and fetal distress were the main indication for emergency operative delivery among women in the cohort, with the risk increasing with increased maternal age. Epidural use was associated with a significant increase in emergency operative delivery and this was greater in older mothers. In women aged 20-24 years, the difference in rate of emergency caesarean section between women who had an epidural and those who did not was 5.9%, this figure rose to 12.9% in women over 40 years old. High birth weight, gestational age of 42 weeks or more and induction of labour were also each associated with a greater risk of emergency operative delivery and all of these factors increased with rising maternal age. The authors of the study conclude that the absolute increase in risk, taking into account all contributing factors, was greater in older than younger women for emergency operative delivery. They also emphasise the importance of careful attention needed when managing older mothers who may need interventions during labour. Lina Herstad, from the Norwegian Resource Centre for Women's Health and co-author of the study said: "Previous research around advanced maternal age has mainly focused on high risk pregnancies. However, most women of advanced maternal age are healthy, of higher socioeconomically status and are low-risk. "Our results show that the proportion of operative deliveries increased substantially with maternal age in a low-risk, first time mother cohort. These findings are particularly helpful for both healthcare professionals and women of advanced maternal age in decisions regarding the optimal mode of delivery. "Further research is needed to look at interventions and operative deliveries across all age groups, taking into account other factors which may have an impact, such as rising obesity rates." Mike Marsh, BJOG Deputy Editor-in-chief said: "There is existing evidence of an increase in obstetrical interventions in labour in advanced maternal age, for example induction of labour, use of oxytocin and use of epidural. These interventions may be partly responsible for the increase in emergency operative delivery seen in advanced maternal age. "This study is interesting as it focuses on low-risk pregnancies only so it is able to examine the role of other contributing factors in the risk of emergency operative delivery across the maternal age range." Mode of delivery following a perineal tear and recurrence rate in subsequent pregnancies More information: dx.doi.org/10.1111/1471-0528.12962 Journal information: BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Provided by Oslo University Citation: New study shows link between maternal age and emergency delivery (2014, August 11) retrieved 18 January 2020 from https://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-08-link-maternal-age-emergency-delivery.html Study suggests demographic factors can predict risk of operative births in UK women Younger mothers and older mothers are at higher risk of adverse delivery outcomes Women with a fear of childbirth endure a longer labor: research In the UK, signs of severe maternal sepsis should be regarded as an obstetric emergency Almost two-thirds of women who attempt natural delivery after a c-section are successful Algorithm can predict gestational diabetes using nutritional and lifestyle changes When pregnant moms are stressed out, babies' brains suffer Recurrent miscarriage: Diabetes drug could lead to new treatment Step toward 'ink' development for 3-D printing a bioprosthetic ovary Technique is almost 86 percent effective in preventing maternal death from hemorrhaging	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1600
__label__cc	0.643713	0.356287	Mississippi Genealogy is being developed as a genealogical and historical resource for your personal use. It contains information and records for Mississippi ancestry, family history, and genealogy. Specifically, it provides sources for birth records, death records, marriage records, census records, tax records, court records, and military records. It also provides some historical details about different times and people in Mississippi history. The search on the right side will search all of the Mississippi Genealogy website, but will not search the data linked to from our offsite data pages. Mississippi Biographies Biography of James Lusk Alcorn Biography of Don Manuel Gayoso de Lemos Biography of Pierre le Moyne de Iberville History of Mississippi The Origin Of Certain Place Names In The State Of Mississippi The contribution, of which this paper forms a part was prepared for publication as a bulletin of the U. S. Geological Survey under the title of The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. Alcorn’s Administration James L. Alcorn presided as Governor of Mississippi during the Reconstruction period. This article should be read in context of the generation it was written in, and deference given by the obvious proclivities of the author, Dunbar Rowland. Advent of the Flag The United States flag was first raised in the Natchez district, at the mouth of Bayou Pierre, by a little guard of American soldiers, on the evening of February 22, 1797, the birthday of George Washington, and in the last fortnight of his administration as president. It had required eight years of war and diplomacy under his unwavering and steadfast leadership, to unfurl the flag at Detroit and Natchez. Mississippi History With most of the recent additions made to the site centered around the history of Mississippi, I have developed a page where you will find an outline of Mississippi history as it occurs on this website. Early Mississippi Forts Forts were a crucial requirement for French and English settlement in the United States. The fort buildings themselves were often constructed before a town building would be created. Any movement west was normally foretold by the construction of a fort in the area. This section of our site showcases the history of many of the early forts which were constructed in Mississippi. Plantation Life in Mississippi Before War A pleasing picture of plantation life in Mississippi before the Civil War, and an attempt to preserve something of the manners, customs and deeds of that time. As in many Southern writings soon after the Civil War, the history of the “Old South” which included slavery is often painted as an idyllic setting rather then a realistic portrait of that time. That is true in this portrayal we bring to you. Please realize that the latitude with which a writer has is expansive, and this author took such liberties to heart, as he readily admits. The Catholic Church In Mississippi During Colonial Times Early in Mississippi colonial history, the Catholic Church sent missionaries to the various Indian tribes of Mississippi to preach to the natives. These missionaries were largely unsuccessful in converting the tribesmen to Christian religion. This article introduces the reader to the early missionaries and discusses their successes and failures. The Clinton Riot 1875, the second year of the administration of Adelbert Ames as the Carpetbag Charlatan of a mongrel governmental mixture, was made notorious by the outbreak of race wars over the State, in which freedmen were arrayed against freemen Mississippi Counties, Cities and Towns, 1891 A brief visit to each county as known in 1891. Each county lists some historical facts, Person of Interest, Business, Churches, Secret Societies of the town. In the years since this was written many of the county lines have changes, some no longer exist. American Domain The prompt cession of western lands to the United States by Virginia and more northern states simplified the problem of asserting American jurisdiction in the northwest. But in the southwest the refusal of Georgia to adopt this policy complicated the problem. It was doubtful under the articles of confederation whether the United States congress had a right to treat regarding Indian boundaries in the wilderness claimed by any one of the states. This was one of the most vexatious questions of that day. Georgia was uncompromising in claiming exclusive domain back to the Mississippi. and did all she could in assertion of a power to sell the land without regard to the Indian title. Early Agricultural Organizations of Mississippi Provides a brief overview of the early history of the State Grange, Farmers’ Alliance, Agricultural Wheel, State Horticultural Society, Mississippi Valley Cotton Planters’ Association, and Southern Cotton Association. History of Agriculture in Mississippi Provides an overview of agriculture in Mississippi from the French settlement of the Natchez until 1900. Military History of Mississippi The Battle of Tupelo, or Harrisburg, July 14th, 1863 After the Confederate victory at the battle of Brice’s Crossroads, the supply lines for William T. Sherman’s armies in Georgia became increasingly vulnerable. District commander, Cadwallader C. Washburn dispatched a force under General Andrew J. Smith to deal with Confederate cavalier, Nathan Bedford Forrest. The Battle of Tupelo was a Union victory over Confederate forces in northern Mississippi which ensured the safety of William T. Sherman’s supply lines. Battle of Brice’s Cross Roads, Or Tishomingo Creek, June 2nd to 12th, 1864 The Battle of Brice’s Crossroads was fought on June 10, 1864, near Baldwyn in Lee County, Mississippi, during the American Civil War. It pitted a 4,787-man contingent led by Confederate Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest against an 7,900-strong Union force led by Brigadier General Samuel D. Sturgis. The battle ended in a rout of the Union forces and cemented Forrest’s reputation as one of the great cavalrymen. Native American Battles 1541 Battle of Alabamo 1736 Battle of Ackia Lawrence County, Mississippi Genealogy I am the new host for Lawrence County, Mississippi, MSGenWeb, AHGP, and ALHN websites. 1850 Lawrence County, Mississippi Census I have began a full transcription of the 1850 census for Lawrence County, Mississippi. You can keep up with the transcription status on my genealogy research blog. Neighboring States Mississippi Genealogy 1 Comment 1850 Census Finally I found some time this weekend to place online the 1850 census for Lawrence County, Mississippi. This census provides information on residents of Lawrence County, Mississippi during 1850. The 1850 census was the first census to provide names of all members of the household, prior to this census, only… Mississippi Genealogy No Comments Lawrence County Welcome to Lawrence County, Mississippi Genealogy! My name is Dennis Partridge and I am the host for Lawrence County, MSGenWeb. If you have any information that you would like to contribute to our site such as family Bible records, cemetery records, land records, deeds, wills, marriages, obituaries, old newspaper articles,… Ruth Denson Death Certificate Transcription The following death certificate transcription was forwarded to Madison County, ALGenWeb by Jeanne Hicks. State of Mississippi Mississippi State of Department of Health Vital Records Registration District No 557 File No 1070 Primary Registration District No 8987 Place of Death: Silver Creek, Lawrence County, Mississippi Full Name: Mrs Ruth Denson… Robert A. Cole Death Certificate Transcription The following death certificate transcription was forwarded to Madison County, ALGenWeb by Jeanne Hicks. State of Mississippi Mississippi State of Department of Health Vital Records Standard Certificate of Death State File No 4340 State of Mississippi Registrar’s No 19 Place of Death: Monticello, Lawrence County, Mississippi Inside or Outside City?… James J Denson Death Certificate Transcription State of Mississippi Mississippi State of Department of Health Vital Records Place of Death: Silver Creek, Lawrence County, Mississippi Registration District No 557 File No 12781 Primary Registration District No 4449 Full Name: Jas J Denson Veteran: Not Male White widowed Birth date of deceased: 29 Feb 1836 Date… Family of William H. Bowen William Bowen was born in North Carolina about 1794. William was a merchant while living in 1850 in Lawrence County, Mississippi, and a druggist while residing in Jefferson County, Mississippi in 1860. He married Eliza K. ? and had at least the following children, all born in South Carolina: John… Mt Olive Church Of Christ Cemetery Mississippi Genealogy 1 Comment Lawrence County Bogue Chitto, Lawrence County, Mississippi This information is taken from photographs made by Nancy Kossum and Marie Alexander Kossum in 1994. The photos are very clear; however, a few stones are weathered and did not photograph sharply. This information is transcribed as correctly as possible. If it was not entirely… Mount Moriah Cemetery, Silver Creek, Mississippi Mount Moriah Cemetery, Silver Creek, Mississippi The following cemetery photograph was taken in the 1930’s by J. Howard Pennington. Transcribed on the back of the photo is the following: Click on the thumbnail photo above to see a larger version. J. Howard Pennington was the grandfather of Gerald Pennington who… 1870 Lawrence County Census Monticello P. O. P 173-180 FN Name Age Sex Race Occupation Value R. E. Personal Place of Birth 1/1 Learey Spewis ? W 2/2 Nairne Wm. ? W 3/3 Moore Mary B 4/4 Block Catherine W 5/5 Bloom Sibley W 6/6 Blount Finsey B 7/7 Dillion Dillard W W… 12th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry 12th Infantry Regiment was assembled at Corinth, Mississippi, in May, 1861. The men were from the counties of Hinds, Adams, Lawrence, Copiah, Warren, Panola, Claiborne, Yazoo, Jefferson, Holmes, and Calhoun. Ordered to Virginia, it was assigned to General Rodes’, Featherston’s, Posey’s, and Harris’ Brigade. 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__label__wiki	0.695208	0.695208	Arts & Academics Join The Campus The Middlebury Campus Middlebury College's only student-run newspaper. We're on break! We'll be back with regular coverage in mid-January. Women’s Lacrosse: Champions Again Chris Wraight By HEATHER BOEHM The women’s lacrosse team earned another piece of hardware last weekend when they became the Nescac champions for the ninth time. Despite cruising past Trinity and Bowdoin in the regular season without breaking a sweat, the two rivals came out with nothing to lose and gave the Panthers a run for their money. But the Panthers fared well under pressure and toppled their rivals. Middlebury skated past Trinity 16–13 on Saturday, May 5, in the semifinals, followed by a championship win over Bowdoin on Sunday, May 6. Last year in the conference tournament, the Panthers did not fare as well, falling to Colby in the second round. During this year’s regular season, Middlebury fans watched as the Mules once again took the women down in a regular-season matchup, 14–12. The women were prepared to avenge that loss in a game with higher stakes, but they didn’t have to worry about the pesky Mules because they were knocked out by Amherst in the quarterfinal to end a down season for Colby. Although the Panthers had beaten Trinity handily 14–8 in the regular season, anything can happen in a conference tournament. The heightened pressure of qualifying for NCAA’s invigorates an underdog and creates a lack of security. On top of that, they were the top seed. “There definitely is a lot of pressure being the No. 1 seed in the tournament as well as hosting,” Zecca said. “After losing in the semis last year and watching two other teams compete for the championship on our own field, we knew there was nothing stopping us from getting there this year. No. 6 Trinity upset No. 3 Tufts in the quarterfinals, so we knew that they [were capable of pulling off an upset].” The Panthers were reminded of this lesson this weekend when they had a tight matchup with the Bantams, once again coming from behind in the second half to win 16–13. The Panthers had some trouble getting off to a strong start throughout the season but seemed to overcome this weakness in the conference playoffs. The hosts punched first, swatting three goals past the Bantam goalie within two minutes of play when Hollis Perticone ’18 scored her 29th goal of the season. She was quickly followed by Erin Nicholas ’21, as well as Emma McDonagh ’19, who would go on to score three more goals. The hosts needed to be more than a second-half team because they couldn’t afford to put so much pressure on themselves in the final stanza given the high postseason stakes. The Bantams were able to sneak two more goals by Julia Keith ’20 to narrow the margin until Casey O’Neill ’19 found the back of the cage. With a score of 4–2, Trinity continued to climb back, adding one more tally to their total at the 21-minute mark. With about 20 minutes left to go in the period, the visitors would go on to outscore the hosts 5–3, claiming the 8–7 advantage as the teams headed into halftime. Middlebury was not concerned with this one-goal deficit, as they had dug themselves out of much deeper holes earlier in the season. They were a second-half team and would prove it today, with their home crowd behind them. The Panthers did not win the race to the scoreboard this time. The Bantams found openings in the Middlebury defense and capitalized on their quick breaks. After the visitors continued to increase their total to a 10–7 lead, Emily Barnard ’20 found Georgia Carroll ’18 to bring it back to a two-goal game. The visitors continued to preserve their edge, climbing to 12 goals. Sara DiCenso ’19 and Jenna McNicholas ’19 hammered two shots past the Bantam goalie in between the two visitor goals. After feeling the sting of another Bantam goal, something clicked for the Panthers. Middlebury picked up four goals within the next six minutes of play. Kate Zecca ’20 was the first of the four, exploiting a perfectly executed pass from Carroll. The Panthers were now confident at a 14–12 lead and could not let their margin be ripped from their hands. In the final 10 minutes, the hosts allowed only one Trinity ball to enter their cage, while nailing two more shots past the Trinity goalie. Once again, Keith and Kate Furber ’19 split time between the poles, with Keith making three integral saves in the first half and Furber making one in the final stanza to bring the Panthers to victory. It was all smiles on Kohn Field when the last whistle blew to finalize the score of 16–13. They were on to the final and were ready for a fight. “Overall, our team felt really confident about facing Bowdoin again in the championship,” Zecca said. “Though we played them earlier in the year, it was in the very beginning of the season. We knew they had been able to develop and better their play since we last saw them, so we knew that this game couldn’t be taken lightly.” On Sunday, the Panthers had nothing left to lose and planned on leaving everything on the field. They took the field with confidence, knowing they had defeated Bowdoin by 10 goals earlier in the season. From time to time, this confidence did waver, as the women remained neck and neck throughout the game. The first half kept fans at the edge of their seats, as both teams had a response for each goal scored. Bowdoin tallied the first goal as Allison Williams snuck a shot in after the first five minutes. Hannah Hirchfield’s goal was then sandwiched in between two Middlebury goals, one from McDonagh and one from Grace Getman ’21. Bowdoin increased their lead by two in the next five minutes. With under ten minutes to go, Kirsten Murphy ’21 showed up once again to toss a goal in the hosts’ direction. Carroll contributed her share, following the freshman, just before the Polar Bears were able to knock one more back. Then, McDonagh knotted the score 5-5 to finish out the period. Once again, the pressure fell on the Polar Bears with the sound of the second-half whistle. Middlebury was now infamous for its second-half runs. But the visitors were the first to earn a goal. Three minutes later, we heard from McNicholas, who kept her team in the game. This momentum was followed by Perticone and Zecca, making the score 8–5. The Polar Bears were willing to leave it all on the field as they fought back to a tie game. With a little more than five minutes to go, the Panthers found their lungs to preserve their one-goal lead. McDonagh and Carroll were able to slap back two more shots to secure the trophy for Middlebury. The Panthers’ defense once again played a major role in their victory. The seniors led the stats, knowing this would be their final conference tournament. Evie Keating ’18 grabbed three ground balls and forced two turnovers, while Perticone helped her out with seven draw controls and another two turnovers. Susana Baker ’19 contributed her share with three turnovers and three ground balls. Keith and Furber showed up where they needed to. In the first period, Keith prevented three balls from netting the cage. In her second-half appearance, Furber made a tremendous effort with eight stops. The fourth-ranked Panthers will host their regional this weekend. They will play the winner of Babson and Castleton on Sunday, May 13, and are preparing by focusing on the fine points of their game, according to Zecca. “In both the [conference] semifinal and championship, we have had to come back from three- to four-goal deficits,” said Zecca. “Although we have come out on top in those close games, it would be undoubtedly better for us to come out strong and prove that we are playing to win for a full 60 minutes. “We are confident that we have what it takes to make it all the way to the Final Four,” Zecca added. “We just need to play the way we know we can.” Open letter on staff wages College increases wages for some entry-level staff positions following calls for higher pay The skinniest college in America This is a f***ing emergency, Middlebury MiddKids of Instagram Tweets by middcampus WINTER SPORTS RECAPS Field hockey captures third consecutive national championship title FALL SPORTS WIND DOWN WINTER SPORTS ARE HERE Roll Pants: Exploring school spirit at Middlebury As popularity increases, YouPower strives for inclusion through spin Sports recaps: Nov. 14 Sports recap: November 7, 2019 Sports Recap: October 31, 2019	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0015.json.gz/line1610
__label__wiki	0.881303	0.881303	Friends log-in Join us, become a Friend Mills Archive Friends log-in Join us, become a friend Gems of the Archive Adopt a Collection Modern Milling Quern to Computer (5) Images & documents (81,954) Mills (11,971) People (64,964) Library (3,447) Features & articles (36) Glossary (2,557) Aims and intentions The work of the Archive Collections policy The Library and Research Centre High-resolution images Family and Mill History Donating your collection in your lifetime Friends of the Mills Archive Archive Patrons Heritage Partners & Corporate Friends Help save your industrial heritage! Mill writing Newsletter: Mill Memories Year/month archive Our Roller Flour Mill Archive and Library Other Mill Material Donations and Fees Main contacts & directions Contact our family history team Book a reading room appointment Website problems? Mill people database Frank W. Gregory (1917-1998) A Milling Hero Restoration of Nutley Mill November 02nd 2014 by Elizabeth Trout Click here for more information on Nutley Mill. Nutley Post Mill is always quoted as the first mill restoration project that Frank was involved with. In 1969, it was the last open trestle post mill in Sussex and one of only five in England. It was in a parlous state and Rex Wailes refused to go inside it because the woodworm had eaten away at it. Tony Shaw, a local headmaster was instrumental in forming the Uckfield Preservation Trust that leased the mill from Lady Castle Stewart in order to restore it. According to a newspaper article that appeared in 1979, Ken Hamlin contacted Tony Shaw to tell him about the scale model of Nutley that he was making. As a result of this, he was asked to become the Works Manager on the restoration of the real mill. The final member of the main restoration team was Frank who had been brought in as “a leading expert on windmills in the South-East”. However, throughout the restoration, these three were ably assisted by volunteers from SIAS, especially Brian Pike. A restoration appeal was launched in June 1969 with Lady Castle Stewart agreeing to match every £1 raised up to £500. Frank gave talks to different groups in aid of the appeal. Although there was a steering committee, according to Bob Bonnett, not much was written down to record the different stages of the restoration. However, Frank kept a copy of the original sketches, reports on the state of the timbers and schedules of work that he and Ken Hamlin had produced. Martin Brunnarius in his book The Windmills of Sussex (1979) says that Frank was responsible for setting out and fitting some of the main timbers and the trestle. Frank received a letter dated 22 September 1969 in which the writer notes that the oak for the trestle had been delivered and, “the consensus of opinion seems to be that it is good stuff and work has already started on it”. However, six months later, a scarcity of oak or elm stopped work. A friend of Frank’s, Tom Sparkes of Sanco Trading, took it upon himself to contact the BBC in the hope that they would do a feature on the mill that might bring forward a sponsor for the remaining wood. There is no mention as to whether Nutley appeared on a BBC programme. Frank’s practice of recording precise measurements was useful for solving problems of construction or mechanics during restorations. A progress report to the Uckfield & District Preservation Trust in June 1970 reported how the team had rectified a serious problem in the crown tree, an irreplaceable key timber, by opening up the beam to take a steel joist, packing it with scraps of timber and pouring in a large quantity of glue to set the whole; the beam and the glue had been provided free. Frank’s part was to take on the arduous and tricky job of cutting a groove 8 inches deep by 3 inches wide and 10 feet long into the oak crown tree using only a broad chisel. Rodney de Little remembers Sidney Ashdown recalling an occasion when he and Frank had another problem to solve at Nutley. Frank was so precise in his measurements that he was convinced that there would be “enough room between the cross tree and the post to the depth of a penny”. Frank was right. Sidney Ashdown sent a couple of letters to Frank arranging to work on the stones in November 1971 and again in July 1972 to work on the bedstone. An article in a local newspaper appeared describing the Nutley restoration; Frank was photographed lifting the floorboards with a chisel and mallet. Nutley Mill was restored in just three years between 1969 and 1972 mainly by members of the Nutley Preservation Trust; they even worked when there was snow on the ground. Costs were kept to a minimum because little was spent on professional advice and most of the labour was provided by volunteers; ultimately the restoration cost about £10,000. It was practical restoration involving a high quality of workmanship. Mr F. Child of Crowborough wrote to Ken Hamlin on 1st May 1970: By the way, Mr Ashdown was staggered and most impressed with what you and the boys have achieved at Nutley; his standard is high and you seem to have passed. By April 1972, the restoration of Nutley had been recognised nationally as a resounding success, gaining an Architectural Heritage Award. Some of the work involved would have daunted professional millwrights. The fact that this was the first restoration where all the work was done by amateurs makes it even more remarkable that it was completed within just three years. By the end of 1972, Nutley was able to grind corn again. However, once restored, the structure and fabric of a mill has to be maintained and repaired. Working parties that had met every weekend to restore the mill were eventually reduced to twice a month, especially before open days. In January 1973, the sweeps had to be replaced and donations were received that exceeded the £50 target. It was hoped that they would be erected by the Easter open day. However, the sweeps were of an unusual spring-type; with no pattern to copy, mill experts had lent photographs and sketches of other mills and these were used to design the sail frames and intricate mechanism to control them. In October 1979, Tom Evans wrote to Frank regarding the deterioration of the tail wheel due to the cogs being removed but not replaced. It was agreed that Tom would organise the repairs and Tony Turner subsequently replaced all 112 wooden cogs. The Friends of Nutley Mill was formed in 1973 to maintain the mill and show visitors around. Frank regularly acted as a guide to various school parties and local groups including SIAS and the Brighton & Hove Junior Chamber of Commerce. He had his own set of keys, so that he could come and go as he pleased; Ken Hamlin was concerned that mill enthusiasts might arrive and find no one available to show them round. Frank agreed to become a Trustee for Nutley Windmill when the licence was renewed in 1983. He also wrote a guide booklet in 1987. Lady Castle Stewart handed the mill and land over to the Uckfield & District Preservation Society in 1995. Bob Bonnett evaluates Frank’s contribution at Nutley: Without Frank’s enthusiasm and expert help this would not have been possible nor achieved. He remained in close contact with us in life and, in death, some of his ashes were scattered at the mill. Nutley Mill is one of only five mills of this type in the country and now the only one working. 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__label__wiki	0.654963	0.654963	Bill on death penalty drafted, unclear on action on past sentences: AG Shakoor Attorney General (AG) Azima Shakoor stated on Thursday that the government’s bill on implementing death penalty would be made public early in the coming week. Speaking at a press conference in Velaanaage, Shakoor confirmed that the AG’s office had completed drafting the bill, which was now in the final stages of discussion. She confirmed that the bill would be made public on the office’s website in the coming week, stating the matter “is very much connected to public sentiments and a large number of people feel this matter needs a fast solution”. Saying that “it was a pity” that three weeks had passed in the drafting stage, Shakoor said that unlike most other bills, the death penalty implementation bill was going through processes of in-depth research and further discussions among a high-level group appointed by the government. According to Shakoor, the research took much longer than the state had expected, adding that the AG office had included the legal systems of Medina, Egypt and America in its research. “I would like to point out that the death penalty is still implemented in over 50 countries across the world even today. Not all of these are even Islamic states. Nor is murder the only crime for which the sentence is given. For example, some countries sentence people to death for being caught trying to bring in narcotics to the country. We are considering all of these points and have made a comparative legal assessment,” Shakoor explained. Other crimes besides murder which are punishable by death according to Islamic Sharia include apostasy, adultery, sodomy, rape and high treason. “We need to conduct an academic exercise since we are trying to do this through a rather weak penal code,” Shakoor said. “If this can be done before the penal code pending in parliament is passed, it might be best to include this as part of that code. Right now, we have drafted this with the thought that if the penal code gets passed up front, then this can be passed as a separate act on death penalty.” Shakoor said that the bill was important as the current practice was to charge murder convicts under Article 88 of the existing penal code. Article 88 of the Penal Code states that disobedience to order is a crime, while Article 88(c) details that if the result of violating the article leads to a death, the case should be dealt with according to Islamic Sharia. Shakoor provided details of the drafted bill, stating it would be looking at the investigation stages, prosecution stages, sentencing and the implementation of sentences. “The act looks into deciding on the number of judges who will sit on the sentencing panel. Furthermore it considers the rights of the family, the rights of the murder victim, the rights of the victim’s family, the final rights of the convict during sentencing,” Shakoor stated. Responding to a question regarding how those sentenced to death prior to the bill being ratified would be dealt with, Shakoor said “it is difficult to give a straightforward answer as the final discussions on the bill have not yet been completed.” “We too believe that answers to that must come to light through how this bill is composed. However, I believe that a solution must be provided even for past cases. So the act will be drafted to reflect that. You can see for yourselves once the bill is made public,” Shakoor replied. “When an act is passed which explicitly spells out implementation [of the death penalty], then I believe the benefits of it must be carried to even past cases.” Among a number of other cases, a young couple charged with the murder of lawyer Ahmed Najeeb were sentenced to death by the Criminal Court in July, a few days after the UN Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) asked the Maldivian state to enact legislation to officially abolish the death penalty. The statement said “the state itself has admitted that capital punishment does not deter crime.” UN Special Representative calls for abolition of degrading and capital punishment against children Maldives UN team calls for abolition of death penalty, flogging No-confidence motion delayed after Attorney General calls in sick The politicisation of life, death and faith Parliament notifies Gasim of case to remove him from JSC UN Special Rapporteur criticises “arbitrary” appointment of judges in Nasheed trial Posted on November 1, 2012 Author Mariyath MohamedCategories PoliticsTags Attorney General, Azima Shakoor, capital punishment, death penalty, maldives, maldives news, minivan, minivan news 11 thoughts on “Bill on death penalty drafted, unclear on action on past sentences: AG Shakoor” Majeed says: 88(c) details that if the result of violating the article leads to a death, the case should be dealt with according to Islamic Sharia. Question is ; Is Islamic Sharia incomplete? Hashim Amla says: And you trust the judiciary to get it right? 100% of the time? LipService says: "Shakoor said that unlike most other bills, the death penalty implementation bill was going through processes of in-depth research and further discussions among a high-level group appointed by the government." So Azima Shakoor admits that bills are being drafted and submitted to Majlis with no research at all? Only as dreamt up by Kutti Nasheed, I suppose. ha ha haaa says: Spinning a yarn for Nasheed's head....Noose gets tighter! MFBI says: An 11 year old minor conceives on an island. How about implementing some new rules on child abuse? What kind of sentence does the guy who 'poked' her deserve? Death penalty discussions are political to get the government through the elections. After that, the idea would be dropped and crime would resurface again. What a joke! Wives and Concubines says: Why stop at the death penalty? How about chopping off limbs of thieves and stoning adulterers? If just the death penalty is implemented and the rest is ignored conveniently, it is more evidence that this is being done by political parties, especially adhaalath to just try and get more votes, power and money which they can then spend on booze and prostitutes in bangkok. ToxicT says: Dodgy judiciary + Death Penalty +recipe for disaster (although that depends on who is looking at it of course) Bit obvious innit? So predictable (as usual) Brawn vs brain, clearly. ali rasheed says: What if Maumoon and Isthafa have to pay for their criminal acts? Would the death sentence still be implemented? Dhivehi Hanguraama says: An ineffective judiciary only means that more people shal be garrotted or hanged. This is not problematic at all and, indeed, shall be of a great benefit in bringing morality back to this nation of miscrants, deviants and harlots. The more people that hang by the noose, the more shall the MalDeviant fear death. The consideration of his prospects in the afterlife may but compel him to increase his virtue and faith. More importantly, the consideration of this prospect might prompt our harlots to stop being harlots and also turn towards virtue. From virtuous wombs does virtuous offspring spring forth. Implement the death penalty. Implement virtue. Alhamdulillaah. HassanK says: Talk about walking before you can crawl. There isn't even a half decent legal system with an evidence law let alone the fact that there isn't capable and non-corrupt legal experts. All everyone wants is death penalty. No one seem to care how the laws are weak and lawyers and judges are either retarded or corrupted. So they don't care that the conviction is reached through completely un-Islamic system but they want Islamic punishment at the end. Maldivians are too smart in their own heat for their own good. Barbarian says: What about chopping limbs and hands????? 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